Datasets:

vllg

/

long_c4

like 1

Change management software allows companies to manage, monitor, and optimize the change management process in their organizations. Such a process involves several different elements and stages that involve multiple units and activities. In the era of digital transformation, disruption processes encompass a sequence of steps that lead to the successful implementation of localized or company-wide transformations that lead to the execution of a customer-centric digital strategy. Change management software enables companies to structure and monitor the process in order to identify opportunities, create a plan for implementation, manage assets and resources, drive change, manage communications, monitor and evaluate data, and optimize auditing. Change management also involves IT management challenges connected to digitization while companies also need to create a customer-centric and omnichannel infrastructure that can quickly address disruptions, improve customer service, and automate training. Other challenges connected to change management process include compliance, asset and resource management, communication and project management, risk management, auditing and analysis, and governance. The biggest component in the process is a change in mentality and approach which are linked to the basic strategy dictated by management. But after identifying areas that can be susceptible to potential change and creating a plan for execution, change managers also need to deal with resistance to change, and because the overall strategy needs to be reflected in the main IT architecture, companies also need to update the software infrastructure and monitor and push software adoption. Customers and employees demand high-quality, personalized, digital experiences. The right software stack truly makes the difference when it comes to delivering on such a promise. Here’s a list of the top change management software solutions that cover different stages of the process. To manage a full change management program, emails and spreadsheets are definitely not the way to go. ChangeGear represents an enterprise-level change management software solution that allows you to plan your organizational change management strategies and takes into account volume and velocity of changes in large corporations. ChangeGear is used to automate change management and release management processes. This change management software is engineered for DevOps, IT, and Business Processes and Compliance, and includes a change calendar, approval management automation, visual reporting, management of RFCs and announcements, change advisory board (CAB) management tools, communications and notifications, RFC processing, SLA management tracking. Additionally, SunView’s software facilitates the management of change and compliance through functionalities connected to its central repository of changes, risk documentation, change record history, auditing and reporting. Regulatory Change Management is the process of making sure that all the procedures and practices connected to change management planning and implementing comply with norms, best practices, standards, and regulations. 360factors guarantees that processes are in line with the guidelines provided by regulatory authorities and industry standards and provides essential risk management insights using unique mapping and cognitive technologies. Predict360’s Regulatory Change Management Software can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrated within a more comprehensive and modular solution that also covers (but is not limited to) incident management, auditing processes, reporting, and learning management. This compliance management software is an integrated solution for managing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) across an organization. Now, we couldn’t not include ourselves here, could we?! As a digital adoption platform, Userlane is designed to help companies successfully manage the significant changes associated with digital transformation. Our solution adds a guidance layer on top of any other application to steer users through processes in real time. Transition from one era to another is challenging, especially when it comes to legacy issues and resistance to change regarding replatforming processes and learning new software and tools. As a change management platform, Userlane reduces this resistance to change, helping CDOs, CTOs, and CIOs to implement new platforms and tools efficiently and rapidly with interactive guidance designed to maximize software adoption. This not only boosts the ROI of each software implementation but also helps companies to speed-up software rollouts with instantaneous knowledge transfer. Userlane also reduces problems associated with poor user experiences due to legacy issues and complexity and facilitates the process of migrating to cloud solutions. Userlane is also suitable to automate DBA and TTT training programs, meaning that there is no longer a need for training materials, such as books, hand guides, videos, and pdf documents. Offering a fully interactive and gamified experience, employees will instantly learn how to use any software application they’re required to work with, turning them into power users of the software. No frustration, doubt, or wasting valuable time. Userlane makes employees immediately productive and efficient in new software applications, and because it offers an exceptional and effortless UX, IT departments and help desks will no longer be overloaded with support requests. Offering constant performance support, Userlane democratizes software and allows companies to quickly adapt, overcome legacy issues, and implement successful change across the organization. If you’re looking to automate, standardize, speed-up processes, and successfully deal with managing multiple change management projects across different units, then Userlane is the perfect fit for your company. Service now mainly focuses on employee experience by enhancing cross-functional communications and streamlining the project management flow through the Now Platform®. This change management software allows teams to easily cooperate and fight silo structures, thus facilitating the spread of innovation. Servicenow’s software also allows you to create a seamless flow of information by managing shared IT resources. This change management platform can be used to enhance experiences throughout different departments and streamline IT, HR, security processes, or the development of custom applications. Servicenow offers different cloud solutions for different use cases and departments which integrate with the Now Platform® to manage IT infrastructure and operations, security, governance, risk and compliance, service delivery, issues, changes and releases, requests, knowledge bases, costs, impact, and much more. Rocket Aldon is a complete enterprise application lifecycle management suite that allows you to automate IT and DevOps processes. This change management software covers different stages, from the moment a change request is received to its implementation in production and monitoring phase. With Rocket Aldon you can follow changes throughout production while automating compliance reporting and audit tracking. Rocket Aldon allows you to automate the entire IT workflow and software release management with built-in compliance. Solarwinds is a network configuration change management solution that ensures compliance while reducing downtime. This change management tool allows companies to track and monitor network changes, define who performed the change, quickly recover from configuration errors, and ensure that all changes are compliant with regulations and standards. Additionally, the suite contains solutions for systems management, database management, security, and IT helpdesk. Automated configuration changes using approvals, bulk deployments, templates, and change monitoring. Freshservice is a cloud-based change management software and service desk solution. As a cloud IT service desk solution, Freshservice allows you to plan, track, and rollback changes from request and change advisory board (CAB) approval to implementation. Additionally, this change management software provides the basis for audits and reviews to improve the processes. When it comes to incident management, Freshservice allows you to perform root cause analysis, manage tickets, and automate problem management. This change management solution also works as a release management and an asset management tool that incorporates a change management repository, service-level management, and policy/contract enforcement. Extensive reporting, which allows you to identify bottlenecks and monitor the ITIL change management software performance. Remedy is a Helix cloud or on-premise digital service management solution that allows enterprises to plan IT transformation and change management processes. This software solution includes guided change requests, automated impact analysis, and risk management and allows you to manage conflicts with collision detection and plan a company-wide change calendar. Remedy allows CIOs to adopt and manage multi-cloud environments efficiently, create the perfect substrate for a customer-centric company structure transformation, drive innovation while optimizing costs and risks and manage assets and service level agreements. Spiceworks is an IT change management solution that incorporates Help Desk, Inventory Management, Network Monitoring, Traceroute Tool, and Procurement Management for managing your IT infrastructure, service virtualization, and cloud solutions. This IT change management software allows you to deal with incidents and tickets, asset management, reporting, network security and optimization, outages, subnets, cloud infrastructure cost management for Azure or AWS computing solutions. This change management software solution focuses on making sure that standardized methods and procedures are put in place when it comes to managing the entire IT infrastructure while handling and limiting the impact of incidents. The IT Change Management Process manages change requests and approvals while monitoring costs, impact, benefits, risks, and generating reports. SupaCMDB is a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) that includes a template-driven change management system built around ITIL principles. It supports a variety of assets, also known as “Configuration Items”, which include hardware, software, network, locations, people, and databases on top of fully configurable items. SupaCMDB can be also used to manage non-IT assets and documentation. SupaCMDB can also be combined with SupaDESK to provide a fully-integrated ITSM solution. StarTeam, formerly known as Borland StarTeam, is an enterprise change management software suite that enables process driven development and allows organizations to monitor and manage assets throughout the entire life cycle. This change management system is a centralized repository of assets, tools and resources for development teams that are in different locations. Giva is a service management suite that includes a helpdesk solution, knowledge management, customer support, asset management, service desk, and change management automation. This change management software supports decision making processes with great reporting functionalities that present a clear overview of KPIs, analytics, and metrics. ChangeManager® is an IT change management tool contained in the suite and is used to create and manage RFCs. Samange is a service desk solution that incorporates tools for ticket management, change management automation, knowledgebase management, risk management, reporting, benchmarking and auditing. With more than 2,000 customers around the world in a variety of vertical markets like financial services and healthcare, their software can be tailored to meet specific service needs, including HR and facility management. From incident management and SLAs management and ticket handling to an employee service portal and asset management, Samange really covers several different areas of change management and digitization. This is our list of change management software solutions. If you feel that we’ve forgotten an important tool (maybe your own!), feel free to reach out and we’ll be more than happy to add it to our list. And, as mentioned, one of the most critical steps in change management is dealing with resistance to change and pushing software adoption. Userlane allows you to automate staff training and onboarding and easily introduce software without sending employees to seminars or forcing them to read bulky manuals or watch lengthy video tutorials.

2019-04-26T05:37:01Z

https://blog.userlane.com/change-management-software/

Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesReynaldo Rodriguez of the Care Coordination program counseled a patient with H.I.V. on how to adhere to a drug regimen. Doctors are very good at telling us what to do — but we are very poor at doing it. In fact, the health problems of millions of Americans are directly related to our failure to follow doctors’ orders. Doctors tell us to take our pills, exercise, go get that C.T. scan, stop smoking, change our diets, cut out salt, quit drinking, monitor our blood sugar. We know we should do it, but we very often don’t. About three-quarters of patients do not keep appointments for follow-up care. In one study of diabetes patients, only 7 percent were compliant enough with their treatment plans to control the disease. Even people at grave and immediate risk do not always take their medicines: a quarter of kidney transplant patients in one study did not take their medicines correctly, putting them at risk for organ rejection. Among elderly patients with congestive heart failure, 15 percent of repeat hospitalizations were linked to failure to take prescribed medicines. And compliance with exercise and diet programs is even worse. Poor compliance is a major reason that sick people don’t get better, and that our health care costs are so high. It is a reason that often gets ignored. Many doctors are uncomfortable wrestling with adherence. They may even believe that it is not their problem, that their job is done when they write the prescription or hand the patient a diet plan. But even concerned doctors would find themselves helpless in a 10-minute office visit. They are too removed from their patients, too much the authority figure to really get to the bottom of why a patient isn’t doing what he is supposed to. Bad adherence doesn’t discriminate by social class. Tens of millions of Americans struggle with high cholesterol and blood pressure and yet can’t manage to stick to an exercise program. Far fewer — but far sicker and more expensive to the health care system — are the handful of emergency room frequent flyers: people with multiple serious conditions such as AIDS, diabetes, hypertension, depression, mental illness, social isolation, substance abuse or domestic violence. Such people have extraordinary problems sticking to their plans to get better, and need extraordinary help. Joe McManus is a 56-year-old former heroin and crack addict who lives in a single-resident-occupancy apartment in Manhattan. He spent 15 years as an addict, about 10 of them homeless. In some ways, he’s far from the typical homeless person. He used to work on Wall Street and still retains some of his Wall Street friends. In 2005, one of those friends took him to the Super Bowl. In other ways, he is absolutely typical of drug users who have hit bottom. McManus has AIDS, Hepatitis C and liver problems. “My doctors went three or four years with me not showing up,” he said in a recent interview in his apartment. “I had no relationship with her — except for her to put me in the hospital because I didn’t listen to what she had to say. I was still not addressing the fact that I was H.I.V.-positive. I was not taking my medicine and only going to the hospital when I had to be put in the hospital. I was still messing around with drugs.” McManus was hospitalized four times in the year before November, 2009. Then he got a visit from Reynaldo Rodriguez. When Rodriguez first visited McManus, he had already quit drugs, on his own. But he was still living as if he were homeless. His apartment was covered with soot and grime, the bed had cigarette burns and the refrigerator held moldy food. McManus was treating his apartment like it was the street. “How the hell are you living like this?” Rodriguez blurted out. It made a difference. McManus started taking his medicines. The medicines brought down his viral load — he was getting better, and that motivated him to take care of himself. McManus is thin and twitchy, but when I saw him was dressed in jeans and a nice zippered sweater, and the apartment was in reasonable condition. McManus is now 100 percent adherent to his medicines, and his hospital stays amounted to only a single night in the last 16 months. He said that part of it was a spiritual awakening, but it was clear that Rodriguez played a huge role. McManus now goes to all his doctor’s appointments on his own. But that doesn’t mean he follows all of his doctor’s advice. He’s no longer doing crack, but he’s still drinking — several nights a week he goes to hang out in a friend’s bar. He loves the bar — it’s his entire social network. But his Hepatitis C makes this dangerous behavior, and his doctor was stern: “You can not ever have a drink again. Not even on your birthday,” she told him. “I never have to tell you if I ever have one,” McManus thought to himself. Rodriguez and McManus worked out a compromise: he could keep going to the bar, but he had to tell his friends about his health problems so they would put the brakes on. He had to try to drink less, and keep doing tests that monitored his liver. “He’s been very honest with me,” Rodriguez said. Why more than with your doctor? I asked McManus. “She’s a doctor,” he said. The Care Coordination program, a city-wide initiative now in 28 sites in different hospitals around New York, was inspired and trained by a Boston-based program called PACT, for Prevention, Access to Care and Treatment. PACT is part of Partners in Health — a nongovernmental group famous for its work in Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere. Part of Partners’ strategy is to use people from the community who are paid a stipend to visit patients, watch them take their pills and support them. Since 1995, PACT has been using these ideas in tough neighborhoods of Boston, first with H.I.V. patients and now with people with chronic diseases such as diabetes. The PACT project trains people from the community, some of whom have the same diseases and similar problems as their patients, to be community health workers. The new health reform law encourages pilot programs to try different forms of medical homes, and the better care and cost savings that come from improving adherence with peers or lay people like Rodriguez are attractive. The New Yorker magazine writer Atul Gawande recently profiled two clinics that use this model, in Atlantic City and Camden, N.J. There are successful programs that use nurses for outreach. The Nurse-Family Partnership sends nurses to visit low-income first-time mothers, beginning in pregnancy and continuing until the child is two. The program now operates in 32 states and has proven to greatly improve the life of both child and mother. The Camden program that Gawande wrote about also uses nurses and nurse practitioners to make home visits. But nurses are expensive home visitors, and they may not even be the best people for the job. “Given the rising cost of health care, we have found having peer-based health promoters providing care management is an equally effective way to provide high-quality care at a low cost,” said Ayesha Cammaerts, the director of operations at PACT. “Especially with patients who suffer from substance abuse and mental health issues, they need someone they feel comfortable letting into their environment. Sometimes patients don’t feel they can connect to clinicians from outside their community,” she said. PACT’s methods work. A study of AIDS patients found that the patients’ use of appropriate medicines rose — they were becoming adherent. At the same time, spending on hospitalization dropped by nearly two-thirds. Overall, patient costs dropped by 36 percent. Even taking into account the $6,000-per-patient cost of PACT, patient costs dropped 16 percent. And in a group of people who would likely have died if they had not been in the program, 70 showed clinical improvement. The PACT method is likely to be an important part of the future of American medicine. Many of the deficiencies of American health care require not more technology, but the human touch. It’s certainly true for high-risk, high-cost patients, but it can help nearly everyone get better health for less money. In Saturday’s column, I’ll write about how.

2019-04-26T04:35:10Z

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/a-housecall-to-help-with-doctors-orders/

All over that do the same, You can find choosing managers. Wal-Mart administrators are totally able to make a dwelling that is excellent. If you will learn how to be a prosperous change supervisor, then start searching for change direction courses that provide one of the fundamental comprehension of a large variety of methods, processes and practices. Modify management skills produce a considerable percentage of their competencies needed for the most interesting jobs As job direction is now a common requirement of numerous non-project roles in britain. Every hiring manager may want to comprehend how you possess reacted to conditions involving clients or are going to respond. Managers wish to find out how you’re look to clients. The scenario manager follows their advancement, which makes certain they have been currently getting tools and the opportunities they will need to be prosperous. You will find a number of things which you should learn if you’re a newcomer to the task industry, or returning after a while. The sales industry gives greater expansion chances a high salary possibility, and also superior added benefits and gains. The fact that significantly more than one location will be seen by some one browsing for the company may not be understated, possibly. Many there is little a company might do on this, also do not will need to operate! To whom he would like to cope, Many individuals are supported by means of a company . A good deal of individuals will change our career for , our spot, and also the business we work, and jobs that are changing. Match your knowledge to job or this company you are looking for. You don’t understand where to seek the perfect job for you out. Detecting a job throughout mid age doesn’t need to become filled with stress as well as selfdoubt. As a way to receive nearly any job, you have to first ready your resume. Therefore, in the event that you aren’t desperate for any occupation which really pays you money, you simply require a little quantity of extra income each month, or you don’t want the cash, a project to get a cashier may not be most appropriate for you personally. So after you dedicate to your very first career, begin looking within the specific same direction that you will travel for unique chances. Work opportunities depend to area from region. When you get started, you are going to be more tempted to take jobs willynilly whenever they are offered for your requirements, no matter where they are observed, but you’re going to work more efficiently in the event that you select a region and stick to it, that way you’re able to knock multiple visits daily you function. You may possibly well be out of work, but you need to create sure they are know that you’re prepared to own and lets you relish and grow your job . If there are any alterations to the schedule to anticipate inside the future, Before you choose work, consult the recruiter. Finding a job force you to come to feel insecure and could be terrifying. Most are working at minimum wage jobs, occupations that don’t offer adequate to pay for standard living expenses. The job requires making sure all jobs are finished at time and in budget and also increasing the sum of contracts. All leadership jobs now desire a understanding the way to to lead yourself and others out of current to new procedures of operating . If you are searching to get an job that needs quantity crunching saying your weak spot is maths is not likely to get you some favours. The facilitator’s role in an organization assignment is to create an environment where the task seeker may respond inherently letting the company to select the prospect that is most appropriate for your own position. You’ve built your first opinion once you have got a meeting with a person, and that you don’t have another opportunity , since they say! Where there is over one man answerable for the group of their prospect A board meeting is. In case the work interview is right for just a bit more informal, a swift food restaurant is nice, for example khakis and pull over shirt. It really is always valuable ahead to enjoying a job interview, to prepare yourself. You havenat had a work interview at a instant that is exact extended. After having a work analysis of how a job was conducted, Task descriptions are made. After you are logged on, it’s definitely going to ask that you simply fill out the required information you normally put in when applying for work each. There’s no authoritative collection of things generates lousy knowledge” on a job application. Recruiters commonly find out what accomplishments you have received, when you have functioned having a tremendous clientname discard it directly away. Like at the prior scenario, a recruiter is probably interested on your relations. Recruiters can use resume parsing through a CRM, for example, salesforce. The recruiter can take a good peek at your encounter in a simplified and speedy way. Finally , he has a great deal of selections and also a database to pick from. Possessing a recruiter right normally comes with a possibility of seeing meeting, so when you have received the choice select for that. Notably gifted bettors also comprise the word employing at this issue line. The recruiter lets you know to wear business apparel. Recruiters ought to try more troublesome to test every restart irrespective of the format, then you could be right, if you’re considering well, however, that is perhaps not truly the reality. The interviewer can not explain why you happen to be paired into the project, even the moment you state that you have no any expertise in that industry. He might give additional insight or details which may be valuable to you. He does not know a lot about the business so he gives its website address to you. Recruiters advise job seekers that answering the device is the choice that is the most proper, and also you ought to make every effort. Each and every once at a while, the cell phone rings, also it is just a recruiter in the end. The task seeker did re apply, that it’d not seem to become quite a duplicate shifting her address. Job-seekers want to take care of a great experience and abilities. The occupation seekers with more than 10 years of practical experience using a speedier means of obtaining a dream career. Some organizations will scan your resume and wont require a physical copy, that’s the thing IMO. Reach them out In the event you understand someone at the company. Ensure you are aware of everything the company is all about, and you likely to get their consideration. Although it is important to become careful about just what the organization you are signing up to will be hunting, it’s also essential to learn your strengths which means it’s possible to adapt them to accommodate the business. Visit if you know some one that can, if you really don’t know some one at the company. Whenever you compose advice. You only don’t have info. You are conscious that you have got to present contact info, such as for example cell phone number email, and also your LinkedIn account. Occasionally, you might acquire an email. No Thing will acquire a message deleted quicker. Perhaps not needing a specialist email is among arguably the most often seen, and the hardest problems, a job seeker may create. Even a good email may make or break a hire, so therefore it is essential that you receive it right. Using my email that’s available everywhere signals that the recruiter did some research . Your email address should be your name and the work name along with quite a blend of your name you want to get. Un professional e mail addresses are only a single of the ways of sending selecting professionals the concept that is incorrect. Mail is a tool, but it is not the most useful you to make use of. Below kob Application Email is being experienced by you. You are filling out a job app to raise your personal likelihood to growing work by turning into a expert job member of Dubai town Company. Therefore, it gets crucial that you streamline the applicant decision method to hasten recruiting and boost efficiency. If you wish to relocate work, you likely already know it is most reliable to render your address. In the specialty of design, your work is not represented by a resume. By doing this, your work is to be certain the administrators that are possible. It’s crucial that you show up and do that job daily As the occupation could demand a greater name or greater income. In the event that you would like to obtain work in a well-known company, do your absolute best to fulfill with their standards and to show accordingly. You have to tailor your resume to get each and every job which you employ to get. By adding too or the matters many things to your resume, you will be prevented from getting the business occupation that you desire. Your resume, also as previously mentioned, is not an all-out explanation of each thing you have obtained. As an problem of fact, Resume focuses on highlighting the truth of your employment history. The resumes were rather different in regards to individual interests, academic qualifications, along with adventure. Loans for to commence a company, you apply have to be paid back. Hire a business writer that will allow you to compose a company application. Consequently, certification alternatives for LPNs come inplace to make sure the instruction, the practice and the guidelines of this livelihood are maintained. Additionally, there certainly are a lot of formats than I am conscious of, you can use to produce your portfolio and more. You are even permitted to provide short tutorial videos so you assemble a subsequent and can build your own channel. Research the regulations therefore you will be ready if you possess the telephone. You can also ask tips. Know salons. You have to get a really good extremely attractive and great resume if you are requesting for a job for a cosmetologist. Moreover, the occupation of a cosmetologist wo cause you to feel tired. To start with, you have got to submit an application to your job by delivering a copy of your biodata, then in case the bio-data gets short listed, you need to deal with a succession of interviews and tests. Your fantasy occupation might be software and described as considered a dialog away. You might delight within a different livelihood for a salon builder called an accountant or area agent. Of being truly a legitimate cosmetologist the Resume Samplesjob necessitates having plenty of capabilities and also training. Cosmetologists who have visited wonder school are usually favored for entry-level functions, therefore be certain you add your instruction. Cosmetologists from the design industry demands a pulse around the newest styles and fashions and become at a position to pay for close consideration to the specific prerequisites and wants of fashion photographers, designers, artists, along with stylists. Extra certificates are usually completed by nurses wishing to boost their effectiveness within their job or want to operate toward specializing in a position of these livelihood. The large part of the moment is the very first thing that a employer sees and can carry out in whether or not they opt to hire you largerole. A career objective is just a statement which defines the location you are looking, setting the tone for the rest of your own resume. So after you place for a position, be certain your abilities are highlighted on your own resume. Personalize your statement every time that you put in an application to get a Cosmetologist placement. Circumstances the perfect job candidate is screened out due to a lousy resume. As a certified beauty school teacher, you’ve accomplished either training to get a cosmetologist along with a cosmetology instructor. To acquire a job to get a cosmetologist, you also ought to possess teaching talents, and a excellent deal of encounter. Instructors ought to be capable trainers and evaluators to be able to comprehend developmental needs and also to offer effective advice to college students. The students are going to stay the classroom, so learning all of elements of the business enterprise. In a few instances, college students with felony convictions will not be issued with a permit. Personal colleges will require longer time with many different pursuits from teachers outside the college day. Even a Cosmetologist using a terrible attitude and disposition that is dreadful creative, vibrant or talented isn’t good for business. If you’re heading out marketing, utilize the sorts of hair dressing you do therefore you could execute a scheduled appointment on the fly. Your hair stylist portfolio that is expert is some thing that you should start while you are in cosmetology college. An expert hair-stylist portfolio also be used for numerous things and might be assembled within the whole period of your beauty career. Possessing a expert hair-stylist site may make you seem like a expert! If you would like to become a barber, you have to attend a barber teaching regime and find a license. You might need in order to complete a state-approved barber or cosmetology system to be a hair stylist. The salon could be an enjoyable and fascinating place! A. indeed cosmetology has an huge role in the beauty industry which likewise includes becoming a makeup artist. Your strengths will probably stick outside the perfect approach is to speed your amount of qualifications and skills and then submit an application for jobs. Remember your skills are maynot written by you they have to get a really good excellent base. For instance needs to be included the following. Understanding of computer expertise is vital. You will also acquire experience dealing with exceptional kinds of customers. It is specially essential to highlight any adventure you’ve got with leadership or instruction. Stop by the salon chain’s official web page that you’d like to use and check into their own hiring opportunities. Use the restart objective to get condition the fact that you’re a new grad and have no any practical knowledge. Hiring grad understand exactly what they’re doing and also what things to look for. As an instance, you need to instantly publish that you are a graduate of sciences. Nursing pupils even have to ensure so your resume matches with the skills demanded and then while placing a program to get a project they ought to know about what the company is currently hunting for. He resume made and must be written uncomplicated language, with the format but it displays your professionalism and commitment to receive hired and won’t disappoint the company. As you grad in the nursing faculty you would be searching for function. The quickest way in order to complete a work application is to be certain you’ve obtained the information which you believe you will be needing prior to starting. Not only is it unethical to lie on a job application, it is illegal! Some occupation programs need extra advice to be submitted together side the application form . As you are a student, companies will see that you are of commencing a fresh career in the tradition, and they won’t be amazed if the jobs come in various fields. Each of the employers desire to know exactly what your edifying credentials are. First, discover the skills she or he desires. An possible employer might have an tendency come across the impression that you’re inconsistent with work and to focus on the occasions that are off. you are in a place of knowledge, find out more on the subject of the organization before a meeting. As soon as accepted, you are going to have the ability to fill out an application on your the positions. You may interest as of the selection of healthcare facilities it will be potential to workin. As procuring that job will likely be dependent with your experience nursing is a bit of a niche. When you’d be applying for the jobs, you may not need the ideal idea of how to make your resume, and the way. There could possibly be hundreds of applicants for the identical job and also you should get noticed. The nursing student’s job would be always to assist the practitioners in treatment methods. Find a method to consult with a great deal of individuals who already have the work that you would like. It will be likely to restart demonstrate that you’re excellent to your project. It will be potential to prove that you’re great for that career. Finding a nursing job would be a task that may strike dread within the exact middle of every pupil. You may start looking for nursing university student tasks . You should select a nursing resume template in accordance with comprehension and your expertise. You have to be cautious that you don’t make an error anyplace as you are organizing your nursing restart. Rather you have to use a nursing resume based on your level of working experience inside the place. Nursing can be actually just a distinctive field your professional and skills can save somebody’s own life. Some have occupations which aren’t connected with nursing or healthcare at all. Your nursing resume will probably want to be specifically tailored into the job advertising. Your grad Nursing restart nursing could most likely be absolutely the essential feature of one’s application mainly because paying markets for freelance writers will soon place the tone for the remainder of one’s material in the manner it’s been organised. Nurses might want to record. A nurse has to be at a position to communicate that she’s out of just a few. You may possibly have to win the confidence of all patients, if you’d like to be always a nurse that is prosperous. You will find assorted forms of overall health nurse and you’re going to need to demonstrate your abilities and comprehension fit the bill. An nurse can be somebody who’s recently graduated and prepared to input the subject that is technical. Even though searching for employment nurses desire well-written resumes. Furthermore, that a BSc Nurse could also be required to accomplish supervisory projects. The relevant skills may be used by you under control. You have touse knowledge in caring and execute distinctive ways that will assist the individual grow from existing wellness condition. Your soft and hard skills must be exhibited in a compelling way. Being in the health care maintenance business, expertise is just one of one of the absolute most crucial qualifications apart from instruction and training especially because they will be currently tackling people’s lives. They ought to compose their capabilities in a way that is compelling, since hands on experience isn’t some thing that nursing students possess the benefit of. At this time you have to talk about your work expertise. Work Experience might possibly be tagged as Military Experience or Healthcare Experience, dependent on your own desktop computer. Employment experience for a student nurse may be an intimidating prospect. Without vision work can not be started by an individual. Who knows, you might become involved with a few work that was fascinating or even get perform. Imagine should you can hardly identify volunteer job. Regrettably you need to be given a project. Do not develop into a shrew if you’re not offered the work. On tasks in the precise same industry as usually the one which you’re pursuing or tasks requiring qualifications or skills you have the ability to move. If you really don’t are targeting function on your marketplace, you will need to make sure your qualifications explain just what you did as your work title probably won’t. Be certain to demonstrate how each expertise is related to the manner and also the project that your involvement contributed to the event or organisation. Or maybe you’ve been at precisely the exact same job for ten decades. Notice that it is not from inch job into another. When it happens, your likelihood of finding the job can become slim. Provided that it is about the task, faculty endeavors are acceptable once you’ve received zero work encounter. Lets consider that which you want to accomplish as a way to locate a entry level job. Who knows, you might get work by someone volunteering you meet. A pupil who participates academically doesn’t necessarily equate. The process for finding a job is not as easy as you believe. Though there is a basic portion occupation simple to find, servers who have to work in restaurants desire to be able to exhibit their expertise and abilities. You need to alter your resume for each position you are employing to through the use of key words found in the work requisition of the location, differently, you’ve almost no chances to be canvassed for an internet position you may possibly be an ideal match for centered on your own abilities. For different places, you may make use of a resume. Employers will soon be certain to see you as an ideal fit to their own own company, irrespective of no work expertise, by boosting your abilities and achievements. Nothing should be set should it not lead your employer to believe you’re the perfect man for the task. You never will need certainly to fool a coming employer regarding exactly what you realized. If you may show your potential employer that you really have a fire for your region of attention, you are planning to become to obtain an entry level occupation. Most prospective companies are interested in figuring out each and every task you’ve needed, just those that are about the career. Although your employer could possibly be doing job that is great, in your resume it would appear to be always a really company who does not have any occasion. Unless that the applicant to stick to some structure of these very own is specified by your specific company, Ordinarily, resumes follow a format. An adventure such as for instance a difference year may have a large effect on your employability. It depends upon the manner in which your minute is spent by you. It is going to be challenging to stick to a page without even the threat of diluting crucial specifics, if your encounter surpasses 10 decades. You want to discover howto generate the truly effective encounter and skills for occupation application as you’re ready to send and supply great impression find out . You absolutely must have some work experience if you would like to find an entrylevel ranking. Finding work experience could be lengthy approach. It helps pupils to come up with a practical understanding of the world of function. Hello, Yes it seems nice to have no work encounter when searching for internships due to the fact that the motive that they should serve. Producing a great work experience to the resume isn’t that tough While you read. The additionally capacities can be in different agreement with all the job. Of course, you ought to note skills that might be relevant as well as other qualifications which you think that they hunt for. It’d be important to think about what capabilities are vital that you develop on the business. Computer skills are a valuable part of occupations now, therefore including the programs you’re conversant using is really just a excellent idea from the art department. Resumes shouldn’t be cookie-cutter” considering that onesize will not ever suit all positions you are working to get. The most place is to go to the SJC occupations Blog. Very resumes reveal rather than inform. You are able to make your invoices by utilizing template. Invoices are used in all sorts of companies. You may have for supplying any goods or service or simply labour an invoice. You’ll get various sorts of invoices. An invoice will be determined by another document so it’ll require a period and energy to find exactly the one needed. If you’re also on the watch for many professional designed with free from cost statement to ready your business statement, it is possible to come across a free price Invoice Template out of our site. You are able to make a statement by using the invoice templates offered free of charge on the 24, featuring all the important features. Given that they owe your corporation funds you send an invoice to somebody. An expert invoice is essential for your business’s authenticity, maybe not just your clients pay you quickly, but in addition you are called by them again for prospective small business enterprise. Ought to own a quantity that is different. Invoice is a industrial record. A statement with all of the very important elements may be readily generated using one of the free and convenient statement templates on line. You might even electronically transmit your bill . You often want the invoice to represent fashion and the civilization of one’s business. Your invoice would be your very final statement regarding caliber and the value of your job. Type s might include an invoice proforma invoice, for a specific business, labour and materials invoice , and many others. The templates are simple to spare and utilize time which could be utilised in other important work. Exactly the exact template that you did can be purchased by Others and utilize it for their organizations. It’s likewise feasible that you have obtained a variety of templates for different requirements and one must find the fit because of their requirements. There are options if you should be intending to send invoices on behalf of your customer. Invoices are available in all shapes and sizes. An individual can obtain a selection of invoices . You’re ready to get various forms of invoices. Invoices can serve as a receipt of purchase, plus so they should be stored in case. S O invoices are incredibly critical for practically any form of company. A template that is specific is followed by most statements. Wave can be a software possibility that is good if statements are regularly sent by you into the specific clients. Invoices stick to a arrangement. In accordance with your industry you wish to opt for the invoice that is ideal to accept your requirements. An amount is an alphanumeric industry. The easiest plan would be to start with bill number you and work from that point. There really are a lot of templates to cover the conditions at which a receipt will be needed by you. The online invoicing software is intuitive to utilize you may understand how to customize it to meet. There are invoice applications to select one it might be hard to get a institution to get. Around the reverse side free invoice software tools allow you to create and ship invoices with very little attempt, all while staying totally coordinated. Two templates could be enough if your company is not way too large, if you think it. To begin with, you need to identify exactly what exactly your demands. Template Docs enables you to subscribe your articles with a choice to promote your products or services In the event you have got a statement template that you would like to share. It’s likely to get into M-S bill templates that are user friendly for the apps. Programs can be purchased individually online. Every single template to incorporate the template needs to have exactly the exact same caliber regarding this. At times you are going to run into the top templates to the websites. The template comprises a license that supplies you the best to use the invoice to get company or personal conditions, but also you can’t resell or redistribute it upon its own, or utilize it. Additionally, you may personalize the chosen templates so they can fit the requirements of your customer. There can be A blank invoice template useful to make a statement for transfer or your buy of goods and remedies. Templates do not need to be monotonous. You can search for an invoice template on the net and get it into a handful 19, To day. Invoices that are customized Carpets Our templates are simple to use and totally customizable. Utilizing a template can guarantee your institution’s design and branding elements are consistent. Locating the ideal template will help conserve a whole lot of cash and time. You can get invoice templates.

2019-04-22T12:38:17Z

http://mojoe-cafe.com/co-napisac-w-cv-2/

EFT Zaps Fear of Insects! My 9 year old daughter Hailey had a terrible fear of any kind of insect. Janet was wonderful with her! Taught her the EFT technique and it is amazing how well it works!! Before she would get so upset if she saw one, she would scream and cry (let alone run the other way!). When we returned home she was outside with no incidents!!! That was wonderful for her!! We can’t thank Janet enough!! Highly recommend! If you're a skeptic: don't be! Janet's treatment legitimately works! For a few years now I've had a fear of driving long distances and by myself. It showed up out of the blue and put a serious pause on my life when I had to leave for college. Two years of fear, and after ONE session with Janet, I am free from that fear! I have successfully driven home from college (a 2.5 hour drive) TWICE by myself with no worries. Then from home to Columbus and back to school, easily 6 hours of driving and with no one in the car! I can't thank Janet enough for the confidence she gave me and the fear she released. I was a smoker for 40 years. After my FIRST session with Janet I occasionally thought of smoking but didn't. After my SECOND session the thought of smoking was a distant memory. I wish I had done this sooner. The best money I ever spent. I would recommend Janet to anyone. Janet is AMAZING! If it wasn't for her I know for a fact I would not be a paramedic and would have never passed my NREMT paramedic test. I have severe test anxiety and was told by three coworkers that I needed to get hypnotized, but I just ignored them thinking I didn't need to--- boy, was I wrong! I had taken the test four other times prior to getting hypnotized and failed 4 out of 5 categories each time I took it. I was talking about how bad my test anxiety was with one of the guys who also had the same symptoms as I did. He told me he got hypnotized after he failed his test the first time and on his second try passed with no problem. I honestly was a little nervous about getting hypnotized because I had no idea what to expect. After meeting with Janet I have never felt so confident and relaxed about taking a test in my whole life. I just wish I would have known about her sooner. Thanks to Janet I am free of test anxiety and am forever grateful for the opportunity to meet her. I would have never believed the transformation in my son if I had not seen it myself! Due to a series of life events my teenage son lost his confidence and developed anxiety. My once, very talented athlete was ready to quit sports and give up on social activities because it just became too much to perform in front of a crowd. The only answer I received from a psychologist and medical doctor was to give him medication. Before I allowed him to give up sports I asked him to give Janet Berg a chance. As a seventeen year old boy he was hesitant but agreed. My son met with Ms. Berg one time and became a different person. Not only does he have his confidence back but he deals much better with conflict and in the three games he's played since his session he has scored more points than he did in the last two years combined. Thank you Janet Berg for giving me my son back. Words can't express how much we appreciate you taking the time to work with him and help him overcome his anxiety. Because of his time with you he is able to not only continue with sports but also has the skills in place to deal with life's difficult situations. Ms. Berg truly changed my son's life for the better and we are eternally grateful. "I cannot begin to explain how grateful I am to have found Janet online. I have always been an anxious person, but the panic attacks were growing more frequent and seemed to last longer as I have gotten older. I was having trouble staying focused and experiencing periods of insomnia. My doctor recommended I take a cocktail of anti-anxiety medication which left me feeling like I was perpetually in a haze. I knew something needed to change. During my first session, Janet and I discussed some of my past events which have led to my anxiety. We began practicing the EFT techniques during the first session; I felt indescribably better. By practicing the tapping techniques Janet taught me I am more in control of my emotions and triggers; I have become a lighter, happier person in such a short time. She helped me realize the panic attacks are not because I am unable to cope with situations, but because I have not cleared out the fears of not feeling safe and comfortable from my past. By tapping I am recognizing the fear, acknowledging it, and clearing it out of my way. Tapping is easy to learn and can be done anywhere to address feelings as they arise (no need to wait until later and try to recall the event that caused a panic attack at another point in your day). With EFT I am able to get right back into my work and help others rather than feeling on edge and emotional or feeling groggy from medication. Janet is such a kind hearted person and so easy to talk to without any judgment. I would recommend her services to anyone who needs assistance. I wish I had found her earlier in my life as EFT could have certainly have benefited my 20 year old self but I am forever thankful she came into my life now. It is never too early to take back the power of your emotional health; with Janet, it is also never too late to reclaim it. Thank you so much for all you have done." I was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in 2007. I have struggled for over 7 years with daily panic attacks and anxiety. I have been on multiple medications and have been in therapy for many years. I am always searching for the latest information or therapies available for my condition and found that past life regression can be helpful. I found Janet’s site and made an appointment with her. She helped me discuss the best plan and we moved forward with the R & R Program. Her gracious style and loving manner eased my tension immediately upon arrival the first time. We eventually performed the past life regression on May 27th. I actually saw everything that was gripping me. A date came to mind and I even retrieved a full name of who I was. We gently closed the past together. When I arrived home I researched “who” I was and all the information was true right before my eyes! It is now June 25, 2014 and I have not experienced a single panic attack or any episodes of anxiety. I am finally FREE after 7 years of agony! I am so very grateful for Janet and her expertise. I highly recommend anyone suffering with anxiety, depression or panic attacks to visit and explore Janet’s offerings. "I highly recommend Janet Berg! After a family member had seen her for help and had such success, they insisted Janet could help me as well. I wanted to build my self confidence and to motivate myself to make healthier choices so I could lose weight. Immediately after my session, I felt much lighter and more confident. Like I dropped a heavy weight off my back. I joined a Zumba class the next day and really enjoy going. I make wiser choices when I shop for food and when I eat. I know it will take time to lose weight and get healthy and don\’t beat myself up that it\’s not happening as fast as I think it should. I feel more confident in my self-image and in things that I do. Shopping for clothes is no longer a frustrating and tearful experience. I accept and like who I am and what I see. If it doesn\’t fit, I don\’t make it a personal attack on me. I just smile and find something else. Now I look in the mirror and smile. Any self destructive words stop and change before I can even say them out loud. They just don\’t sound \”right\” any more. It\’s like there\’s verbal auto correct. No judging, no unreal expectations, no comparing what I \”should\” look like, no tearing myself down. I feel good in my own skin. I like who I am. When I audition, I have so much more confidence and have gotten the part I had wanted to get. What makes it so neat is this just IS. I don\’t think about the confidence being there– it just is. My family and friends have noticed how much more confident I am and are so happy for me. I feel like I am in charge of my life now and am happy. And not letting something else beat me down. It feels freeing and so wonderful!" “Finally in ten years I can honestly say that I AM A NON-SMOKER! I used to be the typical smoker that was always waiting for the opportune time to quit smoking. I was in search of that point in my life that was maybe less stressful or when I was done with college or maybe after I started a family. But the excuses kept coming to continue smoking and even after several attempts to quit I continued to smoke. I finally found that the perfect time to stop was when I couldn’t smoke worry-free anymore. With each cigarette came this guilt that I was too weak-willed to stop, the worry about the health risks, and financial burden caused by my bad habit. I knew I needed to quit. Even more importantly, I knew I needed help to beat this addiction. My help came from Janet Berg in the form of Hypnotherapy. Janet Berg has truly changed my outlook on my health, wellness, and overall image of life and healing. It’s been two years since my wonderful experience with Janet’s sessions and I’m still enjoying the freedom from the smoking habit. Janet had helped me uncover the strength buried within myself to win against my destructive behavior. I now have the freedom from smelling of smoke, from wasting money on cigarettes, and the best part is that I have freedom from even craving cigarettes anymore.

2019-04-19T18:45:07Z

https://www.janetberg.com/testimonials/

Leap over the hurdles of tracing Polish roots—our five-step guide will get you started. What do Marie Curie, Bobby Vinton and Pope John Paul II have in common? If you know their original monikers – Maria Sklodowska, Stanley Robert Vintula Jr. and Karol Wojtyla – it’s easy to tell all three had Polish roots. Nine million Americans share that heritage, making Polish the eighth-largest ancestry in the United States. Poland’s influence on America goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War, when Polish nationalists Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who’d fought unsuccessfully for their homeland’s independence, helped lead Colonial forces to victory. The many immigrants who followed brought along with them a vibrant culture, including recipes for signature dishes such as kapusta (sauerkraut), golabki (stuffed cabbage) and pierogi (dumplings); ornamental folk dress; and five national dances (Krakowzak, Kulawzak, Mazur, Oberek and Polonez). Researching your Polish roots can feel like one of those dances: Sometimes you move forward in rhythm, then a few sudden turns can throw off your footwork. But if you follow the five steps outlined here, you’ll glide gracefully through there search process. Step 1: Cover the basics. As with any genealogy search, the best place to begin your Polish research is at home. Scour your attic, basement, closets and desk drawers for documents, letters and photographs with family history clues-in particular, you’re looking for certificates, deeds, passports and other items that might contain details such as immigration information (see step 3) and ancestral hometowns (see step 4). Next, interview your relatives to glean additional facts and family lore. Although oral history is never error-free-people’s memories fade and change over time-it’s an essential source for the names, dates and places you need to start your search. Record family stories in a notebook, and be sure to ask your interviewees if they have any photographs or documents, which can provide additional clues. Then reach out to the Polish genealogy community for help getting your search on track. Network with fellow researchers on the message boards at <boards.ancestry.com/localities.ceeurope.poland/mb.ashx> and <genforum.com/poland>, and via e-mail lists such as GENPOL <rootsweb.com/~jfulIer/gen-mail-country-pol.html#GENPOL>. Join Polish-focused genealogical societies. Try to hook up with relatives in the old country, too. “Because Polish families tended to be large, it’s inevitable that your immigrant grandmother or great-grandfather left a sibling or two behind when immigrating to America,” says Polish genealogy expert Jonathan D. Shea, a professor of foreign languages at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Conn. Those siblings’ descendant — your distant cousins — could help you fill in the blanks in your family tree. To locate relatives in Poland, search online telephone directories (try the ones at Poland GenWeb <rootsweb.com/~polwgw/wp.html>) or find a printed telephone book covering your ancestral region (most libraries have them) and write to people with your surname. Step 2: Learn about Poland’s past. Polish history stretches back more than 1,000 years: According to legend, Mieszko I founded Poland in 966. It flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries as the Polish Lithuanian Union, a political entity resulting from Queen Jadwiga’s marriage to Wladyslaw II Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. In the 1700s, however, Poland’s three powerful neighbors-Austria, Prussia and Russia — carved up the country in the Three Partitions of Poland (1772, 1793 and 1795). Poland as a nation ceased to exist again until 1918, following World War I; it lost its independence once more during World War II, when the Russian and German offenses ravaged southern Poland and nearly 6 million Poles died. Poland was reborn as the Communist People’s Republic of Poland in 1952, and re-entered the global economy in 1990, as the Rzeczpospolita Polska (Republic of Poland). That turmoil-filled history will color very aspect of your genealogical research, beginning with your family’s arrival in America. The majority of Poles journeyed to the New World during the time Austria, Prussia and Russia ruled their homeland: Immigrants began coming from Prussian-occupied areas in 1848; by the 1880s, the Austrian-governed province of Galicia and the Russian Empire were supplying a steady stream of Polish emigrants. The influx peaked from 1880 to 1910, during America’s “great wave” of immigration, with an estimated 3 million Poles in the United States by 1910, If your ancestors were among those immigrants, they didn’t officially come from Poland, but from one of those other three nations — a fact to keep in mind as you research in immigration records. Because Poland’s territory shrank over time, it’s also possible your Polish forebears came from an area that’s outside the modern nation’s borders. Step 3: Determine the immigrant ancestor’s name. Speaking of immigration, your next step in following your clan back to Poland is retracing your immigrant ancestors’ journey to America. To do that, you’ll need to determine their original Polish names-which may or may not be the same ones they used in America. Like other immigrants, Poles sometimes “translated” their given names to the English equivalents (Jan becomes John; Katarzyna becomes Katherine). With surnames, they most often altered the spelling or pronunciation: Because Polish orthography is so different from English, immigrants wanted to make their names look and sound more American. Since that generally happened after they arrived in the United States, expect your ancestors to appear in earlier records — including their passenger arrival lists — with their Polish monikers. This is where it helps to understand Polish naming practices. Polish Roman Catholics, for example, would often name a child after a saint whose feast day was celebrated on or near the baby’s date of birth or baptism. Books can help you determine given names in Latin, Polish and German, and find the proper spellings of surnames. Alternatively, you can get passenger lists on micro film at most large public libraries, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) <archives.gov> and its regional research facilities, and from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Family History Library (FHL) <www.familysearch.org> in Salt Lake City (rent the film to view at your local Family History Center, or FHC). Step 4: Find the ancestral home. This is perhaps the most important step in the research process. To find records from the old country, you need to know where your family lived-just the name of a province or nearby large city isn’t enough, because repositories file records by locality. How do you get it? If you listened closely to your relatives and carefully examined family documents, perhaps you noted the name of a city, village, or at least a county or district that can serve as starting point for further digging. If none of your home searches turned up any clues, you’ll now need to scour other sources to find out where your family came from. Try vital records, obituaries, cemetery and funeral records, church records, censuses, naturalization papers and the Social Security Death Index (also searchable free through Morse’s Web site). Once you have a specific place name, determine its location-along with pre- and post-WWI government and ecclesiastical jurisdictions-using a selection of maps, atlases and gazetteers. Because of Poland’s turbulent history, administrative jurisdictions have changed numerous times. Historically, powiaty (counties)were the basic geographic division; while those still exist, the government introduced województwa (literally, “voivodeships,” but usually referred to as provinces) in 1975. In 1999, it consolidated Poland’s 49 former województwa into 16. PolandGenWeb’s map <rootsweb.com/-polwgw/49provs.html> can help you sort out that reshuffling. Parish boundaries have shifted overtime, too-and they don’t follow those of political jurisdictions. Gazetteers usually list which jurisdictions a town belonged to. The FHL has an extensive collection of microfilmed maps and gazetteers, which you can find by doing a place search of the online catalog for Poland. When you latersc our the FHL catalog for Polish records (see step 5), be aware that the library uses place names from the 1968 Spis Miejscowosci Polskiey Rzeczypospilitej Ludowej by J. Jodlowska (Wydawnictwo Komunikacji i Lacznosci). Iwo Pogonowski’s Poland: A Historical Atlas (Hippocrene Books) is also a good reference for resolving geographcal questions. Online, try JewishGen’s ShtetlSeeker <www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker> search of Eastern European towns, as well as online place-finding tools that focus on particular areas, such as Kartenmeister <www.kartenmeister.com> (Prussia) and Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia <www.halgal.com>. You’ll also want to explore the Federation of East European Family History Societies’ Map Room <feefhs.org/newest_map.html>. Step 5: Hunt down records. Now that you know where your ancestors lived, you’re ready to tackle research in Polish records. Luckily, you can get many of the documents you need — including vital records — stateside. As with other European countries, parish records are a staple of Polish genealogical research, as the Polish government didn’t institute civil registration of births, marriages and deaths until 1946. The FHL’s microfilm collection covers parish registers from Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran and Orthodox churches throughout Poland, as well as some Prussian civil registrations (1874 to about 1880). To find those records, do a place search of the FHL catalog for your town name — be sure to look under both the Civil Records and Church Records headings. Then order relevant films at your local FHC. Next, consult other libraries with large Polish collections, such as Central Connecticut State University <www.ccsu.edu>, the New York Public Library’s Slavic and Baltic Division <www.nypl.org> and the University of Pittsburgh <www. pitt. edu>, for materials relating to Polish-Americans’ histories, traditions and communities. • Archives: Records from one registration district could be housed in multiple repositories, including a parish church, archdiocesan archive, local civil-records office or state archive. You’ll want to check all the possibilities, which means getting familiar with Poland’s archive system. The State Archves of Poland-the country’s national archive in Warsaw-is split into the Archive of New Records for post 1945 materials and the Central Archive of Historical Records for earlier documents. In addition, 30 state archives across the country hold records older than 100 years from their respective regions. Visit <archiwa.gov.pl/?CIDA=177> for links to each state archive’s Web site, where you’ll find contact information and a guide to its holdings. The SEZAM <archiwa.gov.pl/?CIDA= 376> and PRAD-ZIAD <archiwa.gov.pl/?CIDA=378> databases are also helpful for determining the locations of various records. You can do research by mail, though PolandGenWeb’s research guide <rootsweb.com/~polwgw/Research.html> cautions that since fees can add up quickly, you should set an upper limit in your request. Your inquiry will have the best chance of meeting with success if it’s concise, specific and written in Polish. The Polish Genealogical Society of America provides several form letters at <pgsa.org/letterwriting.htm>, and you can download the FHL’s Polish Letter-Writing Guide from Family Search (from the home page, click on Guides, then on Letter-Writing Guide). Or hire someone who’s fluent in Polish to write the letter for you. Local civil-records offices (urzedy stanzl cywilnego) are supposed to keep records from the past 100 years, but sometimes you can find older records there. The Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast <www.pgsctne.org> has an index to vital records in Polish town halls covering 1880 to 1945; you can request a lookup for a small fee. • Religion: Since clergy served as the primary vital-record-keepers in Poland, knowing your ancestors’ faith can help you root out their records more efficiently. Though Poland has been predominantly Roman Catholic, it also had Europe’s largest Jewish population prior to the Holocaust, as well as Lutherans, Orthodox Christians and Greek Catholics. Many parishes retain their records rather than forwarding them to a state or church archival repository-and access is purely at the discretion of the pastors. Besides specifically requesting records, you also might try writing to a priest to find out if anyone in the parish has your surname of interest or might remember your family. Just keep in mind the clergy’s interest in your genealogical pursuits can range from great cooperation to flat refusal. To track down diocesan archives and their addresses, use the PolishGenWeb Help Pages at <rootsweb.com/-polwgwlhelppage.html>, Catholic Archives in Poland <www.aap.poznan.pl/index.php?idkat= 52> (in Polish) and Language & Lineage Press’ database of Parish Affilitzons of Villages in the Former Archdiocese of Wilno by Jonathan D. Shea and Diane Szepanski <www.langline.com/Wilno.htm>. • Language: Depending on who was in power where your ancestors lived, their records could be in any of several languages. Records from Russian Poland, for example, were in Polish from 1808 to 1868, then in Russian until Polish independence in 1918. Austrian Poland’s documents were kept primarily in Latin, though you’ll find some Polish- and German-language records. In Prussian Poland, record-keepers used mostly Latin, with some in German and Polish. Read about Catholic record-keeping conventions at <rootsweb.com/~polwgw/pcr.htm>. You probably can’t become fluent in all those tongues, but you can get a working knowledge of genealogical vocabulary by referring to our cheat sheet of basic Polish genealogy terms at <www.familytreemagazine.com/polish>, studying the FHL’s Polish, German and Latin word lists (available on Family Search) and consulting the books in the toolkit. If you’re really ambitious, enroll in a Polish course at a nearby university. You also can contact a Polish genealogical society for a list of translators. Feeling the rhythm now? Once you’ve found your groove, you’ll see that keeping pace with your Polish ancestors is easier than you imagined. This entry was posted in Polish Genealogy and tagged pole, vault. Bookmark the permalink.

2019-04-21T18:53:24Z

https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/pole-vault/

Your main deadline is 25 May 2018, when provisions from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), translated into UK law, become effective. You must be fully compliant with new regulations by this date. It's been a moving feast as some of the key pieces of UK legislation such as the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR) were still being finalised in late 2017, and more guidance and interpretation is regularly issued from the UK Information Commissioner's Office. So even after May 2018 a period of clarification is likely where courts interpret new concepts and determine how this new legislation will actually be applied in practice. What are the "must dos" for data controllers? v) held securely - which includes keeping it safe so that unauthorised individuals can't access it, and not disclosing it to anyone, - including other parents. To comply with the GDPR by 25 May 2018 you will have to demonstrate more, for example that you have data protection policies and procedures in place; keep evidence of parents' consent to use their details; and ensure you have appropriate procedures for new elements such as the right to be forgotten; subject access rights; data portability; data breach notification within 72 hours and many other elements. Classlist's system is designed to help you comply with all of the above. Does the PTA need a Data Protection Officer? - carry out large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences. A PTA doesn’t perform either of these activities at either small or large scale so you are not required to have a DPO. That really would be spoiling the party. OK. Here you go. A one page summary with everything you need. What happens if there isn't a separate PTA, or the PTA organisation has been merged into the school? Some schools are re-integrating their PTAs into the school organisation. In this case the school will be the data controller and PTA officials are treated in the same way a as school staff. What's the difference between a Data Controller and a Data Processor? The difference between these two roles is critical but not always obvious. According to the Information Commissioner's Office, a "data controller" means … a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. A "data processor", in relation to personal data, means any person (other than an employee of the data controller) who processes the data on behalf of the data controller. What's the difference between a Classlist Member and Non Member? A Classlist Member has completed the registration procedure, and the personal details they chose to share are visible to other users. They are a full member of the site and can access all its functionality. A Classlist Non Member will have been invited by email to join the site but has not registered. No information on them will be available to other users with the exception of site administrators. A Non Member who has been regularly and recently receiving a emails or similar communications from the PTA or school relating to the parent community will continue to be included in these communications through the Classlist email system. They have the option of unsubscribing at any point. What information can the school lawfully supply to the PTA? Where you set up a Classlist site your PTA is acting as a "Data Controller". The school is already a "Data Controller" because it manages lots of information about pupils and parents. In general, no personal data can be transferred between data controllers without a good legal justification, which sometimes requires specific consent from each parent. Classlist has obtained a legal Opinion from VWV, one of the top five legal firms working with UK schools, on this area. This confirms that as long as your PTA is following the practices and procedures set out by Classlist, the school can lawfully help you to verify and update information which you have collected through the Classlist system. This can include parent names, child names, child class details, and parent email details. The school may for example help you check applicants against a master list of parents. Or provide you with class lists at the end of each year or term so you can update your records and ensure each pupil is allocated to the correct class. Please bear in mind that you aren't permitted to use this data for any other purpose than to validate new applicants and make updates to your database. A draft letter to the school from PTAs launching Classlist is here and a draft letter for PTAs which currently operate Classlist is here. Where the school is providing you with any personal data about parents or their families, these must be transmitted using a secure, encrypted and private mechanism and you must have arrangements in place to manage this information on a completely confidential basis. What does my school need to do? What can I send to explain everything? The Classlist website has lots of material describing how the app works and the benefits to schools and parents. Regarding data protection specifics, the school is already a Data Controller and will be working with you as another Data Controller. They have all the data needed to enable you validate new applicants, and should be keen to help as this ensures a well functioning trusted parent community. They can also assist with allocation of members to new classes at the beginning of each academic year which can otherwise become very time consuming. A draft letter to the school from PTAs launching Classlist is here and a draft letter for PTAs which currently operate Classlist is here. Why should my school agree to help? What's in it for them? The school is likely to see some advantages in Classlist and may have some concerns. The advantages are typically around cost - a reduction in school office admin time; and around parent engagement - which is a new OFSTED metric - recent studies show that stronger parent communities can really improve student outcomes. They may also see benefits around safeguarding where parents can help each other with supervision and information both for junior and teenage years. A few school heads are concerned that Classlist will be used for complaining and tittle tattle. This would be contrary to our user guidelines and has proved extremely rare. What is far more common is parents using Facebook or WhatsApp to complain, where content can be difficult to moderate or remove. Heads often tell us they prefer Classlist for exactly this reason. Finally, where parents, school or PTA bring in local sponsors to support Classlist, 50% of the revenue goes back to the school which is always very welcome. What happens if my school doesn't agree to help, or can't do anything quite yet? If the school is too busy or doesn't have capacity to help right now, this is far from a show stopper. It certainly helps if the school head sends an announcement to parents encouraging them to join. However many PTAs using Classlist around the country have relied on their own resources to develop invite lists; get the word out, and get Classlist sites up and running. You don't have to wait for the school to be ready. Is it better to have the school as Data Controller? The choice of data controller needs to reflect the reality of who is administering the site. This organisation will have more privileges and can use it for more things. If you have an active PTA with lots of Class Reps, events and announcements then we generally recommend the PTA takes the lead. If the PTA doesn't communicate extensively with parents or has limited resources and the school is either very active in promoting the parent community, or wants to enable parents contact each other, it is fine for the school to lead. You do need to make it clear to parents who manages the site. If this changes later, you can always ask parents to reconfirm they are happy with new arrangements. Some schools prefer to be data controllers. This does make it easier for them to issue invitations and to build a very inclusive community. Where the school runs the site the PTA does not have an official role, although PTA members can send invitations and messages just as other members can. PTA officials can assist with some site administration tasks if the school has limited resources, but they must be careful not to use personal data or other information they obtain in this capacity for other PTA purposes. Classlist's Terms and Conditions explain this in more detail. How does new legislation change PTA liabilities? Do we need to review our insurance? Any organisation dealing with personal data will have additional responsibilities and liabilities from May 2018. This even applies if you simply circulate a spreadsheet of names. Working with Classlist means you have taken a big step to manage and reduce any potential liabilities, because our processes have gone through a legal audit and have a lot of data protection safeguards built in. - Through establishing a relationship with Classlist as your Data Processor you immediately become compliant in terms of using a legally validated, properly structured approach to data management. Classlist also becomes responsible for the technical and cybersecurity aspects of where personal data goes; who is authorised to access to it, and how it is protected from attack. - Regarding insurance, should there be a data breach where Classlist's systems are at fault, we are fully insured for public liability, professional indemnity and also have specific cover for cyber insurance. PTAs generally hold insurance policies designed to cover public and personal liability for the Association and its officers. You are advised to check your coverage to ensure all relevant contingencies are covered. - In choosing to work with Classlist, you have selected the market leader in this area. Classlist brings experience from working with over 1,800 schools across the UK. We have also invested heavily to obtain the best possible legal advice to ensure our procedures comply with current and anticipated legal requirements. You will therefore be seen to have acted in a prudent and conservative manner in selecting your supplier. Naturally Classlist cannot be held responsible for data breaches where the PTA is at fault. However through using Classlist's purpose-built system, which is designed entirely around security, privacy and meeting PTA requirements, we believe that the likelihood of personal data going astray is significantly reduced. What liability does my school take? Classlist's agreement to act as Data Processor for the PTA or school means that we take prime liability for any breakdown in our systems or processes. As you would expect, the school does still have liability for negligence on their part, and should have insurance in place to cover this. How real is the risk of a fine? To date we aren't aware of any school or body associated with a school being prosecuted or fined for anything related to data protection. But nobody knows how the courts will enforce new regulations, and there is likely to be a period of adjustment as things bed down. New legislation introduces a new set of penalties – the greater of 4% of turnover or €20 million. Under existing legislation ICO has handed out five and six figure fines not just to big corporates, but to well respected charities, who had systematically deployed fund-raising practices which weren't legal, or who failed to act appropriately after a data breach. Perhaps equally important is the reputational damage to the school and organisations associated with it if practices are found wanting in material respects. In assessing what corrective action to take ICO will typically look at the overall data safeguarding processes followed by an organisation as well as the detail of any particular incident. This is where working with Classlist can really help. You have taken a big step forward in electing to work with a company which has gone the extra mile in not only seeking legal advice but obtaining a legal Opinion setting out how our practices are compliant.

2019-04-19T11:02:25Z

https://dataprotection.classlist.com/faqs.html

If you’re looking for an affordable alternative to a light-commercial spin bike, the JOROTO GS60 is definitely worth having a look at. It’s one of the newer bikes released by JOROTO in the second part of 2018. Although it’s not a bike made for commercial use, it has a sturdy construction and can support most spin workouts. It also includes several accessories which other spin bikes do not have. The JOROTO GS60 features quite a different frame design than most indoor cycling bikes. It’s not a triangle frame, nor a V-frame; its longitudinal base section is actually composed of two bars which hug the flywheel at the front, while the seat tube and the handlebar tube are directly connected by the main bar of the frame. This being said, there is no step-up bar element above the crank, such as for the Sunny SF-B1805, or the Spinner P3. The bike’s frame is made of ovalized steel tubing, coated with a durable black paint which is resistant to corrosion. The seat and handlebar posts have a chrome plating finish, though, as well as the flywheel. Also, the bike’s construction incorporates a few ABS parts. The side shrouds that cover the belt, the magnetic brake assembly, and partially the flywheel, are made of a durable ABS plastic material. This JOROTO exercise bike isn’t extremely heavy, compared to other spin bikes; for example, the Body-Solid ESB250 weighs approx. 145 lbs (~66 kg). However, its net weight still is ~90 lbs (~41 kg), which is more than twice the weight of the average mountain bike. This being said, the unit provides an excellent stability. Plus, both its bases have adjustable stabilizers, which allow you to perfectly level it on any type of floor. Transporting the bike once it was assembled isn’t too difficult, though. Just like many other indoor cycling trainers, its front base is equipped with transport wheels. By pressing the handlebars forward and using these wheels to move the bike, you will only be handling approx. 1/3 of its total weight. The fully assembled bike isn’t extremely large. It is 49″ (124 cm) long, and 20″ (51 cm) wide. However, it’s recommended to leave at least two feet of clearance all around it for ease of access and safe operation. The JOROTO GS60 includes a high-comfort saddle. It’s approx. 10.8″ (27.5 cm) long, and 7.9″ (20 cm) wide. It integrates a thick layer of foam cushioning especially in its rear section. Its rear part features two suspension springs which add more shock absorption. It also has a longitudinal groove in order to provide a higher breathability during seated workouts. Although it’s a really comfortable seat for an indoor cycling bike and you may not need to replace it, finding a replacement for it shouldn’t be a problem. Its attachment system to the slider is standard. Therefore, compatible options for it should be available in any bike shop. The seat is four-way adjustable (up, down, forward, backward). Its designed to suit users with an inseam between 27.5″ to 35.4″ (70 – 90 cm). Differently put, the bike can accommodate users between 5’0″ and 6’4″ (153 – 193 cm) with no problem, promoting a correct leg extension during pedaling. Also, the seat assembly is durable enough to support users up to 280 lbs (127 kg). This JOROTO exercise bike is equipped with a multi-grip handlebar. It can provide at least four grips, including standard, parallel, aero, and race. It has a center loop aerobar to which the meter is attached. It is urethane dipped in order to provide a comfortable and secure grip. Two elbow rest pads are included with the bike. Not many exercise bikes come with these accessories. A phone holder is also attached at the top of the handlebar post. Finally, the bike’s handlebar is two-way adjustable. Its upright post provides approx. 5″ (13 cm) of upright adjustment. It does not have a horizontal slider, and cannot be moved forward and backward as the seat. The JOROTO GS60 is equipped with a mid-range, 30 lbs (13.6 kg), chrome-plated flywheel. It has a perimeter-weighted structure in order to provide a high inertia, great for spinning workouts. The pedaling motion is very smooth and pedaling in reverse is also possible. However, when pedaling in reverse, the resistance remains constant. This being said, you cannot coast on the bike. The crankset is highly durable, designed to support any spin workout. Therefore, even if you’re close to the maximum 280 lbs (127 kg) weight limit, you should be able to pedal while standing up with no problem. The crank arms are steel-made, and the pedals are made of a metallic alloy as well. The pedals feature adjustable toe cages but do not have clips for spin shoes. Their threads are 9/16″ standard, though, so you can replace them with almost any type of bike pedals if you want. The JOROTO GS60 features a manual magnetic resistance system. It is equipped with a magnetic brake pad which is attached to the tension knob on top of the main bar of the frame. When you turn the knob clockwise, the magnetic brake moves closer to the metallic flywheel increasing the magnet’s pull. This results in a higher pedaling difficulty. Since the resistance system doesn’t involve any friction, the usage of the bike is almost completely silent. The tension knob also fulfills the function of an emergency brake, though. You can press it down to instantly stop the flywheel. This is actually recommended, especially when pedaling at a higher speed, due to the fact that the flywheel is pretty heavy, and the pedals continue to spin for as long as the flywheel is spinning. There aren’t any pre-determined resistance levels marked on the bike’s tension knob. But as a general idea, by tightening it all the way, the resistance generated will provide a very consistent workout. The bike’s internal transmission uses a poly-v belt. Just like any bike belt drive, it doesn’t require lubrication. It also generates less vibration than a chain, the pedaling motion being very smooth and quiet. The bike’s exercise meter is a basic unit, but considering that many other spin bikes (even commercial ones) do not have this accessory, having it is quite a plus. Its LCD display shows time, distance, total distance, speed, and calories burned. It does not have a pulse reading function, and the bike does not have any integrated pulse sensors. Therefore, if you need to keep an eye on your heart rate during your workouts, you will have to use a separate device. The meter unit only has one button and is powered by two AAA batteries. It starts up when you press the button or when you begin pedaling, and also has a sleep mode to which will enter after a few minutes of inactivity on the bike. By pressing the button repeatedly you can select one of the values to be shown all the time on the display. You can also select its Scan function and with it set ON, all the values will rotate, each one appearing on the display for a few seconds. The unit’s button can also serve as a reset button. You can press it and hold it for a few seconds to clear all the values on the meter to zero. The core frame of the bike comes pre-assembled. The resistance elements, the flywheel, the crankset, the belt, and their covers are already in their places. Therefore, you only need to attach the two base stabilizers, the seat post, the saddle, the handlebar post, the handlebar, the pedals, the meter, and several other small parts. This shouldn’t take more than 40-50 minutes. All the tools needed for it are included, and the manual provides very clear assembly instructions. For maintenance, you only need to wipe off the sweat that may have fallen onto the frame during your workout, and periodically look for loose bolts and parts. The belt doesn’t need periodic lubrication, and since the brake is magnetic, should not undergo any wear and tear, at least not for a very long period of time. No LED backlight on the exercise meter. The JOROTO GS60 is an indoor cycling bike made for spin workouts. It’s equipped with a magnetic resistance system, a 30-lb flywheel, and a high-comfort seat. It offers superior micro-adjustability and has pretty sturdy construction for a home use trainer (can support users up to 280 lbs). It’s a great bike for high-intensity cardio workouts, interval training, stamina and strength development, and of course, for burning a lot of calories. And finally, it costs less than half the price of a commercial-grade spin bike, while its overall quality is pretty close to light-commercial.

2019-04-25T22:00:14Z

http://bestfitnesseq.com/joroto-gs60/

Did you know that Google indexes and handles video content in a different way compared to content on blogs and sites? If you create a video and an article written together for a niche, there is a higher chance of a video popping up on the landing page. Video Jeet helps with all that! Creating an article or a post with video is the way to go. And with Video Jeet, it has a higher chance of ranking on search results. But, what if you can’t create a video and need one. In this case, you will have to find a good video that matches your content from video sites to give your post a higher chance of ranking on search results on search engines. Well, Video Jeet is a tool that can help you to do this without a problem! Check out the screen capture. Video Jeet is for those businesses who or literally for anyone who wants to start ranking on Google. The aim of Video Jeet is to include a related video into your article to give your audience a more informative approach to providing content. Most articles and posts lack video and as a result tend to have less affect on their rankings as opposed to video within content. Video Jeet increases the on page SEO and ranking in search engines. We all want that, right! Give it a go, it is easy to install and use on your WordPress website. It is really not about who needs Video Jeet but rather who’s wants to rank their web pages. It really is a tool for anyone regardless of occupation. We are in a technology phase in history and ranking and growing a business is about being noticed and on the internet it’s really about your organization’s digital footprints being noticed. Video Jeet is really an affordable to to boost on page SEO. This tool is wonderfully crafted to work with popular free blogging sites such as Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress and Livejournal. Just set up your blog on these free platforms and Video Jeet will interact with them at no additional cost. The third best part I like about Video Jeet is the solution it provides by being a push button tool. It works on the premise of keywords, just provide the best keyword that describes your content and let Video Jeet bring back a suitable video for you to add into your content. With fresh video content being posted again and again you are sure to rank on search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and others. Everything is done on auto! The last point about Video Jeet that makes it reach above it’s peers is that it actually pings the biggest search engine (Google) after its done with the creating the posting! Very handy, is it not? So, there really is no need for additional plugins to call on Search bots to come index the page. What will you get inside Video Jeet? Research data plainly indicates that traffic is more and more video based. Not traffic from video sites but traffic from video blogs that use video sites as a secondary site. It is a matter of letting Video Jeet do all the hard work for you when creating content on your site day after day. Video Jeet automatically finds fresh related videos as per your niche and adds them to your blog’s pages and posts. This tool will automatically ping search engines together with cross posting on your social media accounts. Nifty little addition where it will automatically retrieve keywords on the target video and creates multiple hashtags when it shares the post on Twitter and Facebook. It has the ability to generate multiple versions of your call to actions and textual content that you put in. Spinning your text to create new versions. We all want this feature, the ability to schedule posts as per interval. Let Video Jeet save you even more time. Set up your posts in advance and let your blog truly be on autopilot. You have total control of what gets written. You have the ability to modify descriptions, titles, keywords as you desire. Uses authorized APIs to make posts on your social media accounts. It will let you work with any theme or setup for your blogs. It is only after using the software can one answer this part. I have used this tool and have seen exponential growth in traffic to my blogs. Try as I may I could not find anything wrong with this tool! It really does a lot for you to save time. Video Jeet has one of industries best talents behind it. In fact Cyril has always been so confident of his products that he actually gives you a money back guarantee. Try it out for yourself! You have nothing to lose. Let Video Jeet help you create your content by converting videos into website content and gets you rankings automatically. Over the last few years video has become the defacto in providing information. More and more businesses are providing this to their audience. It is a rush to get on top of search engines and trying to develop the best of video. With Video Jeet you can make use of all that content and propel your website/blog on search engines like Bing, Google and others. Just spend one day at the desk to complete several months worth of scheduled posts/content to go. Spend that extra found time now doing other activities! You can Get Video Jeet through this link today! Explaindio Video Creator v3.0 is out and is much more advanced. I have been using it for the last 4 years and have highly benefited from it’s simple use. The money I paid has enabled me to create simple explainer videos for my own business and also to my clients. I’ve stopped using other video tools ever since I purchased Explaindio Video Maker. I use these tools in my work and want to share with you how it has made a big difference in creating my own high quality video presentations. Explaindio is not a cloud software and it can operate both ons a Windows or MAC computers that is easy to install and easy to use. No prior skills are required to operate the Explaindio Video Creator 3.0 software. I know because I teach people how to use software products. This is easy to use with a small learning curve. Heck, if my 10 year daughter back than can use the software (update: she’s now 13 in 2018) who can use this then you too can use it without any problem what so ever. I don’t want to use up any more of your time explaining how great it is. If you’re in a hurry just head over there and try it out. You can take advantage of their 30 day money back guarantee. You have absolutely nothing to loose and everything to gain from having this kind of tool in your computer to generate quality videos for now and ever. I say that with a solid standing because this software is here for the long run, years to come. You Can Now Create Attention-Grabbing, Professional-Quality Videos! This article is an Exlaindio Video Creator Review. With Explaindio Video Creator 3.0 you can create popular videos of the following kinc with ease. Explaindio High Defintion video – with Audio! People Who work over at Fiverr and similar service orientated sites. Webmasters who are keen on creating high quality videos. You can create attention-grabbing marketing videos in just minutes that will make you stand out from the crowd and present you in a professional manner to be admired. Video presentations are well known to increase your conversion rate, and your pitch effectiveness. Using videos on webpages tends to keep your visitors on your site longer and thereby lower your search engine bounce rate. Lower bounce rates are better for your sites ranking. A Picture is Worth … What is a Video Worth? A picture is worth a thousand words and nwo imagegine what a video is worth. With a video that is appealing, simple, and contains powerful visual metaphors, you can explain your ideas much more effectively and potently to educate and to show off your products, services or whatever you’re presenting to your audience. With Explaindio Video Creator you can now create unlimited videos royalty free and sell them to local businesses or to anyone on the internet. Marketing couldn’t be any better now that you are equiped with a powerful tool. What is great about Explaindio Video Creator 3.0 is that it is a tool that you will get to love over and over. Once you have mastered the tool you will be churning out high quality videos for your business, hobby, teaching or whatever you want to send across to your audience. The product is up there with other high quality video creating tools and with a very affordable price tag too. You’ll be silly to let this one go. Explaindio Developers are very serious about this product! The developers are so serious about Explaindio Video Creator that they have put in extra resources to keep the product alive for years to come. The downside is that you need to renew your licence if you want to update to the next version. The good news is that it is a yearly renewal but with a low price tag. Hack this is still way better than the competition who charges a monthly fee the equivalent yearly for Explaindio. Very Affordable Video Creation Tool – still the best since the intronduction in 2015! It has stayed been the best video creator software for the last 4 years. In my opinion Explaindio Video Creator 3.0 beats the competition in price and value. If you need to create presentation videos then get it, it is too good to let go. I hope my Explaindio Video Creator 3.0 Review has shone some light on your curiosity. This has been a short and clear review of Explaindio Video Creator. For more information please click here.

2019-04-20T20:33:58Z

http://www.researcheasy.com/reviews/reviews/

France is in a difficult position. It has not had a sufficient spur to reform, despite the platitudes by both Sarkozy and Hollande. The fall of the Berlin Wall was a great spur to Germany, though it took it a few years to realize it. A capital strike against the periphery by both creditors in the Eurozone and international investors forced the periphery to adopt policies they would not have otherwise. Large pools of capital, including central banks and sovereign wealth funds continue to buy French bonds, keeping yields near German levels. The logic is not so much about fair value based on economic fundamentals. Instead, it is a political judgment. Despite the divergence between German and French economic prowess, the two remain the twin pillars of Europe. As long as one is confident that EMU remains intact, then France's credit is as good as German credit. That same logic, of course, can be applied to other euro area countries. On one hand, officials want investors to distinguish between different credit conditions. On the other hand, they insist they will not allow EMU to fail. As we have learned over the last couple of years, this does not preclude sovereign debt restructuring (Greece and Cyprus), and even capital controls (Cyprus). The peripheral premium over Germany was narrower prior to the crisis. There was even a brief shining moment that Spain traded through Germany (this is to say that yields slipped marginally below German yields). Continued easing of ECB monetary policy can see spreads compress further. However, it is unreasonable to think the spreads can return to status quo ante, as the risk of debt restructuring must be perceived as higher than before. Managers of large pools of capital recognize there are not sufficient bunds available. Recall that next year, the German coalition government has committed itself to a balanced budget. That means new supply is not going to be forthcoming. French bonds are seen as the next best alternative, and they offer a slightly higher yield to boot. Simply, if crudely put, French bonds are to German bunds, what Agency debt is to US Treasuries. Without the push of necessity, French politicians find it difficult to do the right thing. They are reluctant to declare a break from the German ordo-liberalism's drive for fiscal austerity, but refuse to embrace it. Last month, Hollande unilaterally declared no more effort to reach the EC budget targets that had already been postponed. The EC implicitly threatened to reject it, but reports suggesting that Merkel was reluctant to push France hard, possibly fearing to do to the AfD, what Cameron has done for the UKIP. Instead, the EC accepted some cockamamie sleight of hand. France would cut its structural deficit by 0.5% instead of 0.2% as Hollande initially proposed. This would be accomplished by 1) assuming lower debt servicing costs, 2) reducing its EU budget contribution, 3) proposing nearly a billion euro savings from a crackdown on tax evasion. Recall that Brussels had expected, and France had previously agreed to a 0.8% reduction in its structural deficit. Perhaps Merkel was worried about the rise of the National Front in France. Le Pen embraces the social welfare state of France. It sees the biggest threat to it, not coming from the discipline being imposed by what Thomas Friedman has called the "golden straightjacket", but by the encroachment of French sovereignty. The culprit is the German fist inside the EC glove and enshrined in the monetary union. Yet the leaders of France's main political parties are doing more to boost the National Front than anyone, including, arguably, Marine Le Pen. She often claims that there is significant collusion between the major parties. She says that the Socialists and the UMP are a single self-interested group. The developments in France this week provide her with the proverbial smoking gun. Consider this: Hollande's chief of staff Jouyet is a personal friend of the French President. He also served in the Sarkozy government. He reportedly had lunch with Sarkozy's rival in the UMP, Fillon, who was also a prime minister in Sarkozy's government. Among the things they talked about was the investigation into overspending by the Sarkozy re-election campaign in 2012. What are not agreed upon are the reports that suggest Fillon, threatened by Sarkozy's attempt at a political comeback, wanted the Hollande government to expedite the investigation. The idea was hit Sarkozy quickly and hard to derail his hope to be elected as the head of the UMP next month. Yet, it does seem Sarkozy himself is struggling without any help. Ever since he threw his hat in the ring, his support in the polls has deteriorated. Last month, his candidate to head the Senate lost, suggesting Sarkozy's support in the UMP is not insurmountable. Hollande's has the lowest support of any French president since the end of WWII. He is half-way through his five-year mandate, and he recently indicated he would not seek re-election if there were no improvement in the unemployment rate. It is an idle threat. Barring a miracle, he cannot win, and the Socialist Party may dump him. We might be witnessing the slow and painful death of the Fifth Republic. The other republics ended by war or a coup, but this one may be ending due to self-immolation. The Socialist candidate who ran against Sarkozy in 2007, S. Royal, who was once Hollande's life partner, used to talk about a Sixth Republic. Although Merkel is recognized as the outstanding leader in Europe, she is playing with a strong hand, the hand that holds the purse. France has a weak hand, and yet despite the lack of strong leadership, it has done remarkably well in pursuing its agenda. It has been given more time to reach the 3% deficit/GDP mandate. After years of complaining about the strong euro, in word and deed the ECB is now driving the euro lower. France has wanted the ECB to pursue aggressive monetary policy, which it now is. The ECB will likely increases the range of assets it is buying under its version of QE and if may include corporate bonds. Given that the French capital markets are more developments than most in the euro area, including Germany, its corporate bond market is among the largest. Almost 45% of the corporate bonds issued by Eurozone companies are accounted for by French businesses. After Russia occupied two areas in Georgia after the 2008 conflict, and its continuous in attempts to intimidate it neighbors, France thought it reasonable to sell Russia two ships that can be used for amphibious assaults. France has been reluctant to renege on its contract, which reportedly has penalty clauses for failure to deliver. However, within weeks of the expected delivery of the first ship, there is talk of an alternative. Reports suggest that NATO could be favorable disposed to buy the ships from France. Perhaps the logic is that it is better to own them then possibly fight against them. Asset managers are unlikely to declare a capital strike against France. The premium France pays over Germany for 10-year money is about 36 bp presently. In the past six months, the premium has approached 30 basis point a few times, but never penetrated. The mid-September low of 31 bp was the smallest French premium in three years. This seems to be the floor. The ceiling seems to be about 47 bp, which it neared three times in the past six months, most recently on October 20. Recall that, in the four years before the crisis, there were several occasions where the French yield dipped slightly below the German yield. In any event, pre-crisis, France did not pay more than a 10 bp premium. Neither international capital, represented by asset managers nor the EC is going to force France to enact structural reforms. In addition, there is even less of a chance that Hollande makes a clean break and announces an aggressively pro-growth fiscal initiative. This means the continuation of the charade, yet the status quo is toxic. The political elite are committing a French version of hara-kiri. What fertile terrain for the National Front.

2019-04-26T06:11:45Z

http://ww.w.economywatch.com/features/French-President-Hollandes-Economic-Plan-in-Jeopardy.11-13-14.html

Jesus' Apostles ordained bishops, who in turn ordained the next generation of bishops. This continuous line of ordination, called the apostolic succession, has continued down to the present day. Thus the authority for the ordination of a new bishop today could theoretically be traced back as far as the individual Apostles -- except that accurate records were not kept in the early decades of Christianity. The gospel message started in a state of purity. There was a consensus on all beliefs. All of the subsequent heretical movements represented deviations from this initial state. The Bible describes Jerusalem as being the initial center of Christianity, with James the brother of Jesus at its head. The book of Acts, Paul's epistles, and others describe Paul as being the main founder and supreme authority of the Gentile churches -- that is of Pauline Christianity. Meanwhile, Jesus' disciples formed the Jewish Christian movement centered in Jerusalem, under the leadership of James, the brother of Jesus. Peter probably did not write any part of the Christian Scriptures (New Testaments). 1 Peter was probably not written by Peter; 2 Peter certainly was not. Although churches are mentioned in the Christian Scriptures (as in Revelation 1:4) they are described as independent groups who met in believers' homes. They were apparently not part of a religious organization that is centrally controlled from Rome. Siricius, who reigned at the end of the 4th century CE, was the first bishop of Rome to be called pope. Pope Leo I, who reigned from 440 to 461 CE was the first to claim that the bishop of Rome was highest ranking of the bishops of the church. It took many centuries before the pope could speak for the church. Before that, all decisions affecting Christendom had to be settled by all of the bishops meeting together, as at the Council of Nicea in 325 CE. The early Pauline congregations were informal faith communities. A formal, hierarchical organization only came much later. Except for the first few years after Jesus' execution, there was no consensus of belief among Christians. The movement was split into many different groups, each teaching different belief system. The main ones were Gnostic Christianity, Jewish Christianity and Pauline Christianity. Often, there were a number of Christian congregations in the larger cities with competing and conflicting messages. Matthew 16:18-19: "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (King James Version) The Greek word "ekklesia" is translated as church in the King James Version of the Bible. Catholics typically interpret "ekklesia" as referring to a formal church organization. This passage thus assigns Peter the responsibility to begin to assemble a great monolithic religious organization with Peter as its initial head. Many Protestant theologians generally interpret the word as referring to an informal faith community, vaguely similar to today's independent house churches and cell churches. Some liberals interpret this passage as a simple pun without any deeper significance. In Jesus' language, Aramaic or Syro-Chaldaic, the word "Cephas" meant both the name "Peter," and the word "rock." Also the word translated as "this" is more accurately translated as "this very." So the 18th verse could be translated into modern English "...you are Rocky, and upon this very rock I will build my church." 1 Corinthians 3:10-11: "According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." (KJV) This statement by Paul appears to credit himself (and not Peter) as the master builder who has laid the foundation of the church, up on which others are to build further. It contains no reference to Peter's contribution. Ephesians 2:19-22: "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." (KJV) This statement by Paul credits all of the Apostles (presumably including himself) and prophets as forming the symbolic foundation of the church, with Jesus Christ being the main corner stone. Peter appears to be considered as simply one Apostle among equals. 1 Peter 2:2-6: "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." (KJV) The Catholic church doubts that Peter wrote this epistle, and attributes probable authorship to a disciple of Peter, perhaps Silvanus. 5 It says that all believers form part of a "spiritual house, an holy priesthood," with Jesus as cornerstone. The contribution of Peter appears to be as one believer among many equals. The original 12 disciples, less Judas plus Matthias (chosen in Acts 1). all of the Apostles and prophets, with Jesus as cornerstone. all Christians, with Jesus as cornerstone. The lack of earlier non biblical references might have been due to those writings having been lost. Very few writings survived from that era. An alternative interpretation is that the concept of Peter founding the Christian church in Rome did not develop until after the middle of the 2nd century CE. 211 CE: Tertullian wrote: "...remember that the Lord left the keys of it to Peter here, and through him to the Church..." ("Antidote Against the Scorpion," 10). Were leaders in Rome recognized as the head of the Christian religion? Some ancient letters have been cited as proof of a functioning Pope in Rome who controlled all of Christendom. Some date from the late 1st century to the late 2nd century CE. 80 CE: About 15 years after the executions of Peter and Paul, Clement of Rome wrote a letter to the church at Corinth. He apparently was recommending that the Corinthians expel "a few rash and self-willed persons" who have promoted "abominable and unholy sedition." He asks the church to "Accept our counsel and you will have nothing to regret...If anyone disobey the things which have been said by him [God] through us let them know that they will involve themselves in transgression and in no small danger...You will afford us joy and gladness if being obedient to the things which we have written through the Holy Spirit, you will root out the wicked passion of jealousy" (Letter to the Corinthians 1:1, 58:2-59:1, 63:2). He is claiming to know the will of God and the Holy Spirit. He appears to be write the letter as a Christian leader, much like Paul's letters to the same group at Corinth. But, it is not clear whether he is writing as the supreme authority within Christendom, i.e. as the pope. It is worth noting that Clement seems to have written this document some 8 years before the Roman Catholic church believes that he became pope. If the Church is correct in its dates, then Clement did not write the letter as a pope. 80 CE: Hermas wrote "Therefore shall you [Hermas] write two little books and send one to Clement and one to Grapte. Clement shall then send it to the cities abroad, because that is his duty." (The Shepherd 2:4:3). Clement is described as having the responsibilities of a type of corresponding secretary for the churches "abroad." Again, this letter appears to have been written some 8 years before the Roman Catholic church believes that he became pope. 110 CE: Ignatius of Antioch wrote a letter "...to the church also which holds the presidency, in the location of the country of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of blessing, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy of sanctification, and, because you hold the presidency in love, named after Christ and named after the Father" (Letter to the Romans 1:1). Ignatius seems to view Christendom as being composed of a number of churches of which the one at Rome is the most important; it holds "the presidency." It makes sense that the Roman congregation would be considered the principal Christian church, early in the 2nd century. It was located at Rome, which was the economic, cultural, educational, and political center of the known world. However, Ignatius' letter says nothing about a single individual, a pope, within the Roman congregation controlling the rest of the the churches. From the 3rd century onwards, there is a consensus within the Roman Catholic church that each generation of bishops were ordained by previously ordained bishops. The church teaches that the original bishops were ordained by the Apostles, who in turn had been ordained by Jesus. 8 This continuous, unbroken line of ordination from Jesus to modern-day bishops is called the "Apostolic Succession." Circa 260 CE: Firmilian wrote: "Christ breathed upon the Apostles alone, saying to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive any man his sins they shall be forgiven, and if you retain any man's sins they shall be retained.' The power of forgiving sins was given to the apostles and the churches which these men, sent by Christ, established and to the bishops who succeeded them by being ordained in their place." (Epistle to Cyprian, 75:16). Whether there were any bishops (in the modern meaning of that term) in the 1st century CE is a topic of debate among theologians. "Diakonoi" - which has been variously translated as deacons, helpers, aides. But their exact roles and levels of authority are not defined, and can only be guessed at. Many conservative Protestants frequently believe that Paul wrote them early in the 7th decade CE (perhaps during the years 62 to 64). Most liberals say that the author(s) are unknown and that the books were written much later, in the first half of the 2nd century. R.C. Broderick, op cit, Pages 473 to 474. R.C. Broderick, op cit, Page 526. S.E. Johnson, "The New Testament and the Christian Community," essay in C.M. Laymon, Ed., "The Interpreter's one-volume commentary on the Bible," Abingdon Press (1991), Page1120 &1121. R.C. Broderick, Ed., "The Catholic Encyclopedia," Nelson, (1987), Page 579 & 580.

2019-04-20T13:28:25Z

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_hirc.htm

Experiment with powered flight using simplerubber band motored model aircraft. Ideal for extending flying times and simple aerobatics. There are 8 styles of high performance rubber band powered planes in this series,they are made of wood, engineering plastics, stickers, metal,GPPS foamed plastics, rubber band. Simple to construct, no glue or paints required. The styles of plane in this Series include light planes, trainers, and agricultural planes, they are made of wood, engineering plastics, stickers, metal, GPPS foamed plastics, and rubber band. Simple to construct, no glue or paints required. Length 240mm, Wing span 290mm. There are eight styles of high performance rubber band powered planes in this series,they are made of wood, engineering plastics, stickers, metal,GPPS foamed plastics, rubber band. Simple to construct, no glue or paints required. The Bulldogs were based on the Essex Class aircraft carrier USS Wasp before taking part in the Battle of Iwo Jima in early 1945. The kit includes the materials (other than paints) to complete the suggested authentic scheme. This is a simple striking scheme, but you can decide to do your own favourite or more complicated scheme if you wish. Typically for a small model and in the spirit of the traditional kits, profiles are simplified and adjusted from the original and a relatively large propeller is used. This is done so that the model is light and stable enough to fly on its own, is simple in construction and can work with the rubber motor. These adjustments have been done with care and sensitivity so that the shape and spirit of the original aircraft is preserved as much as possible. Also in the spirit of the traditional kits, additional items required to build the model are things that can be found in the kitchen drawer or are easily available on the high street. A new series of rubber-band powered flying models from Lyonaeec featuring a range of historic aircraft and aircraft designs. This model is modelled from the outline of the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang, a design which broke new ground in aerodynamic efficiency of wing design in addition to its' outstanding success as a fighter aircraft. Manufactured from modern light-weight foam materials the design follows traditional balsa glider design with a flat main fuselage with a lengthwise for the rubber band connecting to the prop and slot mountings for the main and tail wings. This kit is designed for you to build a traditionally constructed, rubber powered, free flight model of a Daimler Benz powered ME109E (Emil). ME109Es were painted in a myriad of schemes, most of which were complicated and not in block colours and would be difficult to achieve with a rubber powered scale model such as this. Therefore, the kit is provided with the materials (other than paints) to complete a simple block colour scheme to capture the spirit of the aircraft as would have fought in The Battle of Britain. Alternatively, you can decide to do your own favourite or more complicated scheme if you wish. Power is provided by rubber strip motor that is wound up before flight. Free flight means just that - once the model is launched, it is on its own. It must follow a predetermined flight path established when the model is initially adjusted for flight or "trimmed". This type of traditional building technique and flying requires a degree of patience and skill, but is extremely rewarding. This type of traditional building technique and flying requires a degree of patience and skill ñ but is extremely rewarding. Although not a "serious" sports glider model, if built correctly and in the right hands, the Osprey is capable of surprisingly long flights. In the spirit of the old kits additional items required to build the model are things that can be found in the kitchen drawer or are easily available on the high street. A modern recreation of a classic design this kit includes glue to get you going. This kit is designed for you to build a traditionally constructed, rubber powered, free flight model of a P-51D Mustang factory serial number 44-13557 as delivered to 355th fighter group based at Steeple Morden, England circa July 1944. The kit includes the materials (other than paints) to complete the suggested authentic scheme. This is a simple but striking scheme, but you can decide to do your own favourite or more complicated scheme if you wish. There are plenty to choose from - USAAF Mustangs were often brightly painted and highly individual to the pilot. This kit is designed for you to build a traditionally constructed, rubber-powered, free-flight model of a 1917 Triplane of No.1 Squadron RNAS. This is a simple but striking scheme, but you can decide to do your own favourite or more complicated scheme if you wish as there are many triplane schemes to choose from. The No.1 Squadron RNAS (latterly 201 Squadron RAF) flew Triplanes between December 1916 and December 1917 over the Western Front before being belatedly re-equipped with Sopwith Camels. The Sopwith Triplane is just one of a series of kits designed and manufactured by the Vintage Model Company. Aeromodelling was very popular from the 1950s until the 1980s and following a decline and the loss of UK manufacturers such as FROG, KeilKraft and Veron, a revival is now underway. The advent of modern technology such as laser cutting of parts and the growth of the internet giving access to information on the skills and techniques required to successfully build and fly these models, means new enthusiasts are discovering the joys of aeromodelling every day. There are 6 styles of historical biplane and triplane in this Series, they are made of wood,engineering plastics, stickers, metal,GPPS foamed plastics,and rubber band. Simple to construct, no glue or paints required. Length 420 mm, Wing span 450 mm. Length 420 mm, Wing span 450mm. There are 2 styles of seaplane in this Series, they are made of wood, engineering plastics, stickers, metal, GPPS foamed plastics, EPS foamed plastics, and rubber band. Simple to construct, no glue or paints required. They can land on water or ground. Length 430mm, Wing span 470mm. This is the first two propellers model plane with rubber band powered in all of world;it uses one set of rubber band powered double propeller as its propulsion.This wonderful invention provides powerful propulsive force for rubber band powered planes,and it is made of wood,engineering plastics, metal,GPPS foamed plastics, and rubber band. Simple to construct, no glue or paints required. Length: 520mm, Wing span: 500mm. This kit is designed for you to build a traditionally constructed, rubber powered, free flight model of a Cessna 140. The kit is provided with the materials (other than paints) to complete the suggested authentic scheme of a red Cessna 140 that is registered in Uruguay. This is a simple but your own favourite or more complicated scheme can be applied if you wish. o Flies up to 100 m. o Ready to fly in no time at all! o Free-wheeling propeller for longer flights! The wings and tail assemblies are made of a strong spring steel wire frame covered with resistant PE foil. They can be retrimmed very easily by bending and any tears in the foil can be quickly repaired with Sellotape. Airplane with rubber-powered motor. Span: XXL Size. Foil-covered spring steel wire frame. This model is modelled from Charles Lindberghs' Spirit of St Louis, the first aircraft to complete a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in 1927. The kit includes the materials (other than paints) to complete the suggested authentic scheme of a red Hurricane that served in the 527 Calibration Squadron, which flew from Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire in 1943.This is a simple but striking scheme, but you can decide to do your own favourite or more complicated scheme if you wish. This kit is for building a traditionally constructed, rubber powered, free flight model of a Jodel D18. The kit is provided with the materials (other than paints) to complete the suggested authentic scheme of a yellow Jodel D18 that is registered in the UK. This is a simple but striking scheme, but alternatively you can decide to do your own favourite or more complicated scheme if you wish. covered with a tissue skin. The balsa frameworks are built over a plan that is printed at the exact scale of the model, which is in essence a real engineering drawing. Power is provided by rubber strip motor that is wound up before flight. Free flight means just that - once the model is launched, it is on its own. It must follow a predetermined flight path established when the model is initially adjusted for flight or "trimmed". This type of traditional building technique and flying requires a degree of patience and skill, but is extremely rewarding. Typically for a small model and in the spirit of the traditional kits, profiles are simplified and adjusted from the original and a relatively large propeller is used. This is done so that the model is light and stable enough to fly on its own, is simple in construction and can work with the rubber motor. These adjustments have been done with care and sensitivity so that the shape and spirit of the original aircraft is preserved as much as possible. Also in the spirit of the traditional kits, additional items required to build the model are things that can be found in the kitchen drawer or are easily available on the high street.

2019-04-21T06:06:36Z

https://anticsonline.uk/N1634/N858_rubbr-band-power-aircraft/index.html

Today, that quote means more to me than ever. You see, since I started consulting in 2007, I’ve gotten on an early morning flight almost every Monday morning (besides when I was in business school). Well, today I’m not on a plane, and I’m not getting on one. I have left my job. I am no longer a management consultant. And you have no idea how hard – and scary – it is for me to even type those words. I’ve been a consultant for my entire adult life, and (although I don’t recommend this) it had become a big part of “who I was.” As I mentioned in this post, I kind of chose my job because everyone else at my college wanted an offer from my company, and I was fortunate enough to get it. So, I figured it must be great. Over the years, I was fortunate to realize that it was great – I learned so much about business and the way various companies operate, got such amazing opportunities and responsibilities, and met such incredible people. As of today, I am taking action. I am making a promise to myself to go confidently in the direction of my dreams, and to live the life I have imagined. And I will appreciate and enjoy every single moment of it. So tell me in the comments … Have you ever left a job? What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever admitted to yourself? What can you do to make your life a little bit better today? Wow Megan! I’m so so proud of you! That is a great and huge step in following your dreams. It may not be comfortable right now and actually quite scary but I know you are finally doing what you want to do! I know how scary being jobless is and that is awesome that at least you have a view. It is hard to know what to do sometimes – and you have done an AMAZING job! Good luck I know this is the start to a wonderful a new journey for you! Thank you so much for the support and encouragement, Sara! I’ve been busy researching all kind of fun stuff like how to register/ license a business, how to pay taxes when you’re self employed, and brushing up on my marketing, so the fear was far greater when I was actually trying to work up the courage to quit! My long comment just deleted thanks to airport wifi gah! I’ll try to retype it. MEGAN! I could NOT be more proud of you. You know how I feel about taking risks and pursuing your dreams so I am so onboard with your choice. And don’t think for a second that you could ever disappoint your readers. You are by far one of the most impressive person and blogger I know. Your courage and strength to take the leap makes you even more so. 2014 is going to bring amazing things for you. I have no doubt about this! So excited to follow your journey. Know that I am always here to bounce ideas off of or to just talk through the scariness of it all. I SO get it. p.s. I just read this to Curt and he said “damnnnn girl!”. That’s his way of saying you’re incredible, and I could not agree more! Your support and encouragement means the world to me. Your comment was incredibly flattering and heartfelt – and then ended with a laugh … the perfect comment in my mind! I know that you know the exact mix of excitement/ fear/ relief that I feel, and I’m excited for us to help each other along on this fun journey! Amazing…..so enjoyed this! Even happier that you were my “Elf” and now will have time to share all your knowledge! Bring it on, as I need all the help I can get! Thank you, Janet! I’m excited to keep sharing some of my knowledge here – and if you ever have specific questions, feel free to ask! Wow Megan! I’m reading this post and I’m smiling from ear to ear because I am so happy and excited for you! It is so rare to find people that let go of their current comforts(good job, status, etc.) and go for their dreams. You are a true inspiration! I hear way too many people say, “I will do it one day” or “next year” or “when the timing is right”. Those are the same people that are in the same place 15+ years later and wish they would of pursued their dreams when they had the energy, passion, and drive. You are young and the world is yours. Enoch and I could not be more proud of you! My first job out of school was with GE healthcare and I was 1 out of 8 selected for a prestigious 2 year engineering rotational program. Long story short, I hated my job, barely slept, and was so stressed that I lost weight and my hair was thinning. When I told my family and friends I wanted to quit they didn’t support it at all, the only one who supported it was Enoch. They kept telling me it would get better, but it didn’t. I felt that if I quit I would disappoint a lot of people. One thing Enoch told me and to this day is the best advice I’ve ever received is, you can’t worry about what people will think (yes, this is easier said than done 😉 ). They will have their opinions but you can’t let that affect your decision. I quit my job 4 months later and felt a huge sense of relief. When I told the head of the program I was quitting she first tried to convince me not to, but eventually she realized my decision was made and I would not budge. Funny thing is when I handed her my letter of resignation the 50+ year old woman said she wished she had as much courage at my age to have quit her job. She admitted how she has not been happy for the 30+ years she has worked there. Quitting that job gave me the opportunity to find a different field of engineering that I was more passionate about and actually enjoyed. I will say that if it wasn’t for Enoch being my rock and supporting my decision 100%, that decision would have been a lot more difficult to make. We are very lucky to have the partners we have in our lives that support our decisions and dreams. Following your heart and dreams is worth every risk. Looking forward to following your journey. I know it will be a success! Ps: Love the above picture of you. You are glowing with happiness. Thank you so much for sharing your story, Angela. My father-in-law wrote me to say that your comment was so insightful and spot-on to my situation, and I agree! It’s SO nice to hear about people who were in similar situations and went with their heart, because (like you say) so many others don’t end up doing so. Also … your text yesterday morning meant so much! It was before many of the comments came in, so I wasn’t sure how people were going to react, and it was exactly what I needed. See you guys soon! I’m going to stop letting fear of failure stop me and go confidently in the direction of my dreams. I admire you and hope to find it in me to live the life I imagine! I hope you find it in you, too, Jill. Honestly just taking the leap is so freeing and wonderful! Get out there and do what you need to do for your happiness! Ah Megan, my heart is so full as I read this post that I know I won’t be able to articulate everything I am feeling. I am so, so, SO happy for you. Not because I didn’t think you COULD live a healthy life while having a demanding job, but because it wasn’t what you WANTED to do, so you’re not doing it anymore. I can tell that you are so passionate and so driven, and I can only imagine how wonderful you were at your job. Yes, I admired (and continue to admire) you IMMENSELY for keeping the schedule that you did. But I admire you even more for taking this step. I’ve never had a job as demanding as yours, but I have loved people who certainly did. And let me tell you, all the money and prestige in the world really doesn’t make up for the time lost when that kind of job becomes your world. You are going to be AMAZING in whatever you choose to do. Absolutely amazing. . Amy, thank you SO much for your support. I admit that you were one of the “blends” I worried most about, since you’ve always been so nice to comment on how much I was balancing and are incredibly successful yourself. But hearing your kind words makes me even more relieved than I already was. And thank you for already helping me get up to speed on the corporate wellness industry by sending over the article today! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!! we must catch up! Thank you so much, Clare! Your support means a ton! And YES – I would love to catch up and hear about all the great things going on in your life. Give me a call or shoot me an email anytime! Megan – I am SO incredibly happy for you and cannot wait to see what the coming weeks, months and years bring! While I am sad we will no longer see your smiling face around the office, I hope to see even more of you in Dallas!!! Thank you so much for your email and this comment, Dawn! I really appreciate your support. So happy to have a yoga teacher friend close by :). Thank you so much for your support, Maegan! I really appreciate it! Looking forward to being an SO with you, and would love to grab lunch sometime! I am so proud and happy for you!! I know how scary it is, especially not having “it all figured out” but ultimately our number one priority is AND should be our happiness. Thank you for being such an inspiration. ps. You look absolutely gorgeous!! Thank you SO much for your support, Amy. I know you know how it feels! I’m excited to help each other figure things out this year. I know it’s going to be a great one for both of us! Thank you so much, Jillienne! I hope you DO have enough guts to go for what makes you truly happy! It took me several years, but it’s never too late. I appreciate your support! I am so thrilled and excited to be reading this – you have been hinting and poking, and I knew it was coming especially from one of your comments on my blog. It sure IS scary – and while all of those people who will tell you ‘this is the time in your life to do things like this’ are right … that doesn’t make it any LESS scary! And I have two opinions on the ‘you seem happy’ thing: first off this just means you are a good employee, keeping on a brave face as you work through things, only revealing your dissatisfaction to those like your husband or family. It is also one of those key phrases you never use with a depressed person because it ends up having the opposite effect – and as a result is just as ineffective on someone unhappy for any reason. I am happy you are following your dreams, and also love the pics and motivational images! Great stuff and good luck embarking on this scary journey! You are very perceptive, Michael! I was hinting, you’re right, but I wasn’t sure if anyone was picking up on it :). What you said about ‘you seem happy’ was really interesting – I never thought ill of anyone who would say that, it was more of a sad feeling, like “ugh … I wish that were actually true …” The good news is, I already feel amazing. I’m so excited for this journey and the year to come! I appreciate your support, as always. There was an article at Geekmom about this subject (http://geekmom.com/2014/01/say-this-not-that-depression/), and I have a running blogger friend who is struggling with depression, and our boys best friend from Massachusetts had her cousin (who they hung around with on our last visit back) kill herself this past fall … it is scary stuff. Wow, that article is so powerful, thank you for sharing. There are several of them I relate to – when Kevin would remind me that many people were worse off than me, I would feel even guiltier for being down because I knew it was true, but yet it didn’t make me feel any better at all. I don’t take your post as a downer, but rather a serious thing we need to recognize. Thank you! That (others are worse off) is one of those things meant to help but it is almost always hurtful and destructive. It makes us question the validity of our feelings. Yet it is done with the best of intentions. I have always been good at compartmentalizing, and as a result I could never get too mad, because each little thing was held separate and I would say ‘not so bad’ … but when I finally recognized what was happening it was like the ‘death by 1000 paper cuts’. Lisa and I struggled with fertility and multiple miscarriages (requiring too much time at Brigham & Womens) … and so many ‘helpful’ things were said. Even though our oldest is 17, you just never forget. Wow, thank you for sharing this. I’m so sorry you had to deal with those struggles. Although you never forget, you have shown so clearly that you’re so grateful for your boys now, which is an amazing and inspirational thing! Megan, I am sooooo proud of you and happy that you are following your heart. I have felt helpless while standing by feeling your unhappiness and hurt. Find happiness – YOU deserve it. Megan, what an exciting change! I was very inspired by your post. Good luck, I know you will be successful!! Thanks so much for your comments, Lara! I really appreciate it and hope all is well with you! Of course I don’t think you are crazy, Rachel :). Like I told you in my email, it was perfect timing. So glad we’ve gotten back in touch! Good for you! Life goes by so quickly, and if you can do something that makes you happier than what you were doing, I say go for it! Good luck in your future endeavors! Thank you so much, Tempie! I really appreciate your support! This is such a refreshing perspective to read – I’ve only recently found your blog but I have to say I admire your decision very much! I have been there just a few months ago – unfortunately I stayed in a job I hated for so long I still haven’t completely “detoxified” after 5 months of complete rest and immersion in personal projects. Good luck in all your endeavors and I’m looking forward to reading your bog in 2014! Thank you so much for your comments, Raluca. I’m so sorry to hear that you have experienced something similar, but I’m glad you’re finding your way to happiness. What you said about taking a while to detoxify and reset really struck a chord with me. I was thinking today about an analogy – see if it resonates with you. You know when you have a necklace that is incredibly knotted up? It’s just a huge bundle of knots and seems impossible to break free. Then you work on it for a long time, and you get to a mini breakthrough, and a big piece of it releases … but then you realize you still have dozens of other knots to work on. You have several more breakthroughs, but it really takes a while before the necklace is straightened out again. I honestly do think that’s like the stress that unhappiness and fear builds up inside of us – and I think it will take me several months to unwind as well. If you think I’m crazy for unloading this strange analogy on a new reader, I’m sorry :). Good luck to you in 2014! Thank you so much for this reply! I love analogies and “story telling” – I think they are still the most powerful tools we humans have for learning and understanding new situations. Wishing you all the best and I’m so happy I found your blog at this time – it must be some kind of sign. So glad you don’t think I’m crazy! I’m glad you found me, too! Hi Megan! I just saw this posted on facebook so I clicked over to read. I love your passion for nutrition and wellness! I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist myself and got a masters in nutrition communication since we were in Theta together in college 🙂 If you ever want to talk about the field, let me know! Hi Caroline! So great to hear from you, and thanks so much for your comments! I’ve been loving following your delicious looking recipes on pinterest, but I’m so happy to now see your beautiful website and blog! I would LOVE to catch up and hear how you got your start in the field; I’ll send you an email in the next few days. Thanks again! Thank you so much, Arman! Like I said to Amy, you were another of my blends that I was most worried about, so I’m thrilled to see your reaction. I know you relate to the uncertainty and to the desire to follow your dreams (I loved your recent career post!), and I’m so excited to see where this year takes YOU, too! Megan, there’e no need to be scared about failing or to be worried about what people will think — because you have already succeeded — by making the decision and taking steps to pursue what you feel will make you happy. The future is always uncertain, but you’ve got a heartfelt dream and you’re going to go for it. You’re not giving up — you’re standing up. Congratulations !!! Thank you so much for your support, Dad. You’ve always been the biggest proponent of balance for me – and while I previously took that to mean balancing as many things as possible, I now understand that it means more than that. I’m excited to find the real balance in my life! This is so amazing! I only started reading your blog a few weeks ago but I am so glad I came across it in time to hear about this! I love that you have figured out the direction you want to go in to find what makes you happy. I hope to one day be able to do something similar! Congrats and best of luck! Thank you so much for your support, Lisa! I’m so glad you’ve found me, too :). And I hope that you do end up doing something similar in the future, if it makes you happy! Congratulations Megan. I have read your blog every day but today? Was the best ever! Please don’t stop the blog because although I don’t respond every day I am motivated every day. Today I copied several of your sayings and intend to put them in my office….. Follow your dreams…….believe in yourself and there is no doubt you will continue to be the shining star you have always been. Thank you so much, Danielle! I love your thoughts on success – I agree! Megan – I loved reading about your journey through discovering your passion and making a tough but rewarding decision! It’s true what they say…the greatest risk is not taking a risk at all! You go girl…it will all come together – the best is yet to come! Thank you so much, Ruthie! I really appreciate your support! Let Mike & I know if you are ever interested in a job in Atlanta. You would love Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s employee wellness program… Congrats and good luck!! Thank you for your comment, Rachel! The employee wellness program sounds awesome, and I’d love to see more of you and Mike … if only it was in Dallas! So very excited and happy for you – you are a true inspiration! Thank you so much, Laurie! I really appreciate your support of the blog and my decision! This post makes me so happy for you!! What a bold, wonderful move! CONGRATULATIONS!! I’m sure you will figure out and be successful at health coaching. Passion and dedication will pay off….enjoy the adventure! Ashley @ This is the Place recently posted…2014 – New Year, New Race Schedule! Thank you SO much, Ashley! I really appreciate your support. I’m so excited for the adventure!! I am so thrilled you took control of your life and left the job you were NOT happy with – even if this means not knowing where you’re going to go next!!!!! I cannot believe you had to fly every Monday. I am TERRIFIED OF FLYING so holy hot damn, I give you even MORE CREDIT!!!! I am so excited to see where life takes you! Thank you so much for your sweet comments, Gigi! I can’t wait to enjoy life more – like it looks like you are always doing :). I was never scared of flying, just didn’t enjoy it! Congratulations on making that leap! And yes I know it’s scary. I was thrown into the world of freelancing five years ago after I was laid off. I knew nothing about running my own business, yet here I am living in an expensive city (LA) and managing to do it. If you have a will, you find a way. Life is too short to not try something you are passionate about and just settle for something you’re not! Good luck, and I look forward to following your progress! Congratulations on finding your way, Tonya! That’s very inspiring! How do you usually find freelancing work? It’s definitely something I have considered trying to add in. I really appreciate your support!! Saw this when you posted it, but haven’t had a minute to sit down and type out my thoughts. I seriously had tears in my eyes as I read about your decision. You are such an incredible person, and this move will bring you so much happiness. Best wishes in you new endeavors, and please let us know how we can help things along for you! Robert, thank you so much. Your care and concern comes across in all your comments, and I really appreciate your support of the blog and this decision! I’m so excited for my next steps! I know it may not seem like it now, but you are such an inspiration! You are so strong and focused and great things lie ahead for you this year. I hope you find happiness in whatever you do. Thank you so much for your kind words, Christine. I really appreciate them!! I have a great feeling that this year will be a very happy one for me! I almost missed this big announcement – WOW & CONGRATULATIONS!! What a huge step in the right direction. If you have the ability to leave a job that’s not bringing you joy (and adding to the stress) and follow you passion, it’s something everyone should do. So proud of you for having the courage to act and do it! Excited to follow your journey this year! Thank you so much, Heather! I really appreciate your encouragement. It was scary, but I can already tell it was the right decision – I feel amazing, relieved, happy, and like a normal person again – I can actually think about something aside from work! I do appreciate that I have the ability to do this and feel very lucky for it! Thank you so much, Nithya! I appreciate your continued support so much! And I know we’ll keep in touch – I’ll be bugging you for more delicious Indian recipes, and I’ll be more than happy to reciprocate with tips for how to stay healthy while consulting. I know you’ll be amazing! I needed to read this!!! I am currently contemplating a leap career-wise and am scared out of my mind. Davida knows this! It’s nice to know I’m not alone. And I think you’d be SO GREAT at corporate wellness! I’m so glad it helped, Caitlin! If you ever want to chat about your decision, feel free to let me know and we can hop on the phone! I know that with an MBA there’s a lot of pressure to do more “traditional” jobs, but I hope your decision (whatever it is) makes you truly happy! Awesome! There is no better feeling than taking a leap of faith and discovering so many new things! Good luck! Thank you so much, Danny! Appreciate the wishes, and hope all is well with you! So excited for you! For me, walking away from crazy long hours (attorney at a big firm) was the best thing I did in my life for my marriage, my health and my happiness. I looked around me at people who ate dinner with me more than they did with their spouses and I knew it just wasn’t the life I wanted. It took 2 tries, but I found a job that I love with the same intellectual challenge and dinner with my husband almost every single night. TOTALLY worth walking away in that leap of faith, knowing there had to be something better for me out there. And I think you’ll love getting certified as a running coach — I found it awesome for my own running, and helping others was almost just a bonus! Thank you so much for this comment, Carina! It’s so nice to hear from someone who relates. Yes, I ABSOLUTELY spent more time with my colleagues than my husband – in fact every Valentine’s Day I would joke that I should gift my colleagues instead of my husband because I spent more nights in whatever city we were in than I did at home! Even though it sounds like an obvious decision to people who can’t imagine that lifestyle, it was still really hard to walk away. I’m so, so glad that you found the job that is perfect for you!!! And yes, with the running coach thing – it was something I wanted to do even before I considered that as an addition to my career, but now it makes even more sense! Missed this post the first time but it truly resonates with me. I was a management consultant from 1995 – 2003 and prided myself (after early health/wellness failure) on staying in shape and eating right on the road. I ran over 15 marathons and tons of other races during that time and converted many colleagues to runners and healthier eaters. Last year, I left a very unfulfilling health IT job to go back to a corporate health and wellness job but it fell through. I am now blogging, doing some independent consulting and looking for the next “right” new thing. I wish you all the best in your new career. It seems like you are meant for it and can only succeed! Wow, Erica, it seems like you’ve really been through some ups and downs! I bet we’d have a lot to talk about – shoot me an email if you ever want to bounce ideas off one another. In the meantime, good luck finding the “right” thing! I’m pulling for you! Meg: When I reread your incredibly inspiring and so very “from the heart” blog entry of Jan. 6th, 2014, it brings a tear to my eye = tears of joy for you and you courage to take such a wonderful and courageous leap of faith, with the conviction that you, and all of us, should do what needs to be done to find true personal happiness. You rock, Girl! Thank you for your constant support, Gary. It really does mean a lot! Wow Megan, I’m so happy for you. This blog post was super motivational. You are right, “dream jobs” don’t exist, we must create them. This is what I have just started and I feel happy for my first step. After being a teacher for 12 years, I decided to leave the school and become a writer. Maybe I am not best at it, but writing is what I enjoy most in my life.. After a month my first book will be published.

2019-04-22T03:30:44Z

https://www.thelyonsshare.org/2014/01/06/living-the-life-i-have-imagined/

The document Software Development Basics gives you an overview of the whole software development process including subjects like Software Engineering and Software Project Management in order to get the whole picture. Software development signifies the whole process to find a solution for a given problem in using appropriate methods and tools to create a software product. Software development encompasses the phases of the Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) including the use of Software Development Models. Software development does not necessarily subsume the engineering paradigm ! Software Engineering is an engineering branch associated with development of software products; using well-defined scientific principles and methods. The outcome of Software Engineering is an efficient and reliable software product. Software Engineering cares also about all the phases of Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) from requirement gathering and analysis to maintenance. It cares also about the Software Development Models. The generally accepted concepts of Software Engineering as an engineering discipline have been specified in the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK). The SWEBOK has become an internationally accepted standard ISO/IEC TR 19759:2005. Software Project Management is the art and science of planning and leading software projects. It encompasses among other elements all the phases of Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) from requirement gathering and analysis to maintenance. It includes also the Software Development Models. If you have to develop a large and complex software project, it is recommended to apply methods and use the tools for Software Project Management in order to have a controlled and guided software development process. The tasks are carried out according to the used methodologies and in a specified period of time to achieve the intended software product. The basic purpose of the Software Development Models is to provide a smooth software development process, according to the project requirements. These models are frameworks, which are used to structure, plan and control the process of developing a software product. The Software Development Models are only concerned with the software development process, so it does not involve any technical aspect of developing the software product itself. All Software Development Models follow the SDLC phases (see next chapter), but the method of execution varies vastly between models. The The Software Design Life Cycle (SDLC) contains the phases in the life cycle of a software product. The SDLC phases are the “core” of software development. Usually you will apply the appropriate Software Development Model to the SDLC in order to have a smooth development of your software product. This phase is the main focus of the project managers and stake holders. It is critical to the success of the project. Expectations (whether of the client or your team) need to be fleshed out in great detail and documented. This is an iterative process with much communication taking place between stakeholders, end users and the project team. The choice of the appropriate Software Development Model like : Waterfall, Incremental, Agile, Spiral, etc is made in this phase. Technical design requirements are prepared in this phase by lead development staff that can include architects and lead developers. Technical details like database tables, transactions, security processes as well as hardware and system requirements are defined here. The choice of the programming paradigms and the programming language are made here. This phase is the actual coding by the development team. After each stage, the developer may demonstrate the work accomplished to the business analysts. Tweaks and enhancements may be required. This is normally the longest phase of the SDLC. The finished product is the input to the testing phase. Following the coding conventions helps to make code better understandable and easier to maintain. Once the application is migrated to a test environment, different types of testing will be performed including integration and system testing. User acceptance testing is the last part of testing and is performed by the end users to ensure the system meets their expectations. Once sign-off is obtained by all relevant parties, deployment can begin. The size of the project will determine the complexity of the deployment. Training may be required for end users, operations and the IT staff. Roll-out of the system may be performed in stages starting with one branch, then slowly adding all locations or it could be a full deployment. Once the customers starts using the developed system, the actual problems come up and need to be solved from time to time. This process is called maintenance. Refactoring is also a usual maintenance task. This chapter presents you some Tools and Methods for each SDLC phase. The HIPO (Hierarchical Input Process Output) diagram represents the hierarchy of modules in the software system. Analysts use HIPO diagram in order to obtain high-level view of system functions. It decomposes functions into sub-functions in a hierarchical manner. The Data Flow Diagram is a graphical representation of the flow of data in an information system. It is capable of depicting incoming data flow, outgoing data flow and stored data. The DFD does not mention anything about how data flows through the system. SADT has proven to be successful in the development of software systems, specifically in the requirements gathering phase. Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT) is a diagrammatic notation designed specifically to help people describe and understand systems. It offers building blocks to represent entities and activities and a variety of arrows to relate boxes. These boxes and arrows have an associated informal semantic. SADT can be used as a functional analysis tool of a given process, using successive levels of details. The Flowchart depicts the control flow in program modules. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language that gives a standard way to write a software system’s blueprint. It helps to visualize, specify, construct and document the artifacts of a software system. It is used to depict the structures and the relationships in a complex system. The Top-Down design (also called stepwise refinement) takes the whole software system as one entity and then decomposes it into sub-systems. Each sub-system, also called component, is then treated as a system and decomposed further. This process keeps on running until the lowest level of system in the top-down hierarchy is achieved. Pseudo Code is a non-formal language, a way to create a logical structure. It describes the actions, which will be executed by the application. Using Pseudo Code, the developer describes the application logic using his native language, without applying the structural rules of a specific programming language. Following a top-down design, the problem at hand is reduced into smaller and smaller subproblems, until only simple statements and control flow constructs remain. Nassi–Shneiderman Diagrams reflect this top-down decomposition in a straightforward way, using nested boxes to represent subproblems. Consistent with the philosophy of structured programming, Nassi–Shneiderman Diagrams have no representation for a GOTO statement. Nassi–Shneiderman Diagrams are only rarely used for formal programming. Their abstraction level is close to structured program code and modifications require the whole diagram to be redrawn. Jackson structured programming (JSP) is a method for structured programming based on correspondences between data stream structure and program structure. JSP structures programs and data in terms of sequences, iterations and selections. As a consequence it is applied when designing a program’s detailed control structure. The method applies to processing of any data structure or data stream that is describable as a hierarchical structure of sequential, optional and iterated elements. The Flowchart depicts flow of control in program modules. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language that gives a standard way to write a software system’s blueprint. It helps to visualize, specify, construct, and document the artifacts of a software system. It is used to depict the structures and the relationships in a complex system. Source Code Editors have built in functionalities to help the programmer to write the code more efficiently and error free. Libraries are pre-built code blocks you can use in your program. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, so you can use libraries! Frameworks normally gather multiple libraries. Frameworks are reusable abstractions of code wrapped in a well-defined Application Programming Interface (API). An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a programming environment that typically consists of a source code editor, a compiler/interpreter, a debugger and other useful tools. Static Testing is a technique by which we can check for errors in software without actually executing it. Its counter-part is Dynamic Testing. Static testing is done to avoid errors at an early stage of development because it is easier to find sources of failures then failures themselves. Review is a way of static testing technique done before dynamic testing. Review is manual examination of the software product (including code) without execution of the software. Review is mostly a manual activity. Walk-Through is a form of peer review in which a programmer leads the review process. The other team members ask questions and spot possible errors against development standards and other issues. Dynamic Testing is done when the code is in operation mode. It is performed in runtime environment. When the code being executed with an input value, the result or the output of the code is checked and compared with the expected output. This allows to observe the functional behavior of the software and also to monitor the system memory, CPU response time and the performance of the system. Dynamic testing is also known as validation testing. A debugger is a computer program used by programmers to test and debug a target program. Debuggers may use instruction-set simulators, rather than running a program directly on the processor to achieve a higher level of control over its execution. This allows debuggers to stop the program according to specific conditions. An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a programming environment that consists of a source code editor, a compiler/interpreter, a debugger and other useful tools for testing software. Monitoring Software observes and tracks the operations and activities of users, applications and network services on a computer systems. This type of software provides a way to supervise the overall processes that are performed on a computing system and provides reporting services to the system and/or network administrator. The Cross Reference Generator assures that the changes in code are in compliance with the existing code. If a change is requested, this tool enables to know which other requirements, design and code components will be affected. Monitoring Software observes and tracks the operations and activities of users, applications and network services on a computer systems. This type of software provides a way to supervise the overall processes that are performed on a computing system and it provides reporting services to the system and/or network administrator. “Software Engineering” and “Software Project Management” are a kind of superstructure or umbrella for the software development process in order to have the maximum benefit (for the software product to be developed). The software engineer has to apply management aspects to his work while the project leader has to apply engineering aspects to his work. The “Software Development Models” and the “Software Development Live Cycle” are the basic structures to develop a software product efficiently.

2019-04-25T01:46:38Z

https://phoenix-it-mos.net/2017/06/software-development-basics/

George Zimmerman’s online auction to sell the pistol he used to fatally shoot Trayvon Martin had reached $485,000 on Friday morning. The bids were switched from GunBroker.com, which eventually said it wanted “no part in the listing on our website or in any of the publicity it is receiving,” to United Gun Group. The new location deems itself a “social marketplace for the firearms community.” Bidding on the 9mm Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol started at $5,000. Read more. This sicko, who posted a photo of Trayvon Martin’s body with the brag “Z-man is a one man army” on social media, is now seeking to profit from Martin’s death and further bragging about his killing. “Depraved” doesn’t seem to be a strong enough word to describe this wretched punk. Agreed. By Torah law, one may not derive benefit from the gun. Yet this repulsive fellow is using it for his personal profit. Which law?! Don’t make up your own laws, and call them Torah laws. The only punk in this story was Martin, who did not hesitate pummeling without mercy, who was exhibiting a typical burglary casing behavior such as walking between houses in the middle of the night, who had numerous marijuana and violence texts and pictures on his phone, who was suspended from school for possessing marijuana, who had marijuana in his system at the time his death. Nothing like that 12 year old kid picture circulated by the communist media – in five years from that picture to his death, Martin has morphed into a menacing street criminal complete with a gold grill and a nasty attitude. He had candy in his pocket?-Are you insinuating that anyone with a candy is incapable of committing a violent crime?! 1) “Walking between houses in the middle of the night”. He was walking on footpaths that were meant for pedestrians – in other words doing nothing wrong whatsoever. Later he was running on footpaths to escape Zimmerman, because he was afraid of the stranger suspiciously following him. 2) “Marijuana in his system” – what does that have to do with anything? 3) Zimmerman refused to listen to the 911 dispatcher who told him to back off. Had he done so, a teenager who had done nothing wrong would have continued home, unharmed. 4) Zimmerman posted a picture of Martin’s body, bragging about the shooting. 5) Zimmerman followed another man into a parking lot and threatened to shoot him in a road rage incident. 6) He posted online filthy pictures of a woman he was angry at. 7) He pointed a shotgun at his girlfriend and threatened her. 8) He pointed a gun in his wife’s face and hit her father. Following the letter of the law, Zimmerman was acquired of the murder charge – it was legally self-defense, albeit against a scared teenager who attacked a stranger who was following him. However, Zimmerman is clearly a thuggish punk who has a history of threatening people with guns, especially wives and girlfriends. Oh, did I forget racist too? Yep, he’s posted several such those comments. You are the one admiring a violent street thug named Martin, complete with the gold grill(very popular with gang members), taking phone pictures of guns, texting with his friends about fights and drugs. Oh, did you forget about pummeling Zimmerman. Pummeling someone means mercilessly hitting another human being in the head until a traumatic brain injury or death. Someone in his first fight doesn’t have enough cruelty to just keep on hitting; it is very probable that Martin has done it before. Martin was walking in the middle of the night in a place where it wasn’t customary and was suspicious, especially in the face of recent burglaries. Marijuana may or may not be a safe drug, but it definitely is illegal, Martin was involved with it, which is another proof that Martin was not this 12 year old innocent candy-lover that the media tried so hard to portray. Regarding Zimmerman, all the character flaws are inferred from his alleged behavior after the severe psychological trauma of the Martin incident, after the media’s tarring and feathering to such an extent that Zimmerman’s public reputation and employment opportunities are ruined, after spending all of his family’s life savings to hire attorneys to defend against a typical governmental bullying tactic of prosecuting just for the purpose of prosecuting so that the target person buckles under pressure and takes a plea deal. Not even discussing the fact that most of your violent behavior by Zimmerman allegations are just words of other people without any physical proof; people, who may hate Zimmerman because of Martin or because of personal reasons, who understand very well the vulnerability of Zimmerman to allegations of violence, and it is no surprise that they may take advantage of the situation and hurt the man even further by their allegations. Regarding your feeble point of not listening to the 911 operator – Zimmerman was surveillancing from a distance until Martin went around and suddenly jumped Zimmerman; besides, gratefully, a citizen of this country doesn’t yet have to obey every Herr Bureaucrat on the other end of the phone line. Calling Zimmerman racist?!-There were no any proven racist statements attributable to Zimmerman; the only racists in this story were Obama and the rest of the fascist socialists, who could not care less about the horrible epidemic of black people being shot by other black people or by Latinos, but getting all righteously angry because this particular Latino happened to have a Jewish last name of Zimmerman. More lies, distortions and flat-out ridiculous conjecture, both in defense of Zimmerman, an unrepentant punk and attacking Martin, his victim. 1) You are the one admiring a violent street thug named Martin… A lie. Actually two lies; Lie #1: No one “admired” him or said he was a good guy; if anything the opposite was said when saying Zimmerman’s acquittal was legally just. Lie #2: “Violent Street Thug”? Would this be Martin with zero arrests? Or Zimmerman, who had a previous arrest for attacking a cop and a previous restraining order placed by his girlfriend? 2) You “forgive” every single one of Zimmerman’s subsequent violent incidents, including those where guns and death-threats are used, because of “psychological trauma” caused by his arrest and trial in the Martin case? He now has a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card because of that arrest? Are you insane? 3) “…a citizen of this country doesn’t yet have to obey every Herr Bureaucrat on the other end of the phone line.” Saying that Zimmerman should’ve listened to the 911 operator is the equivalent of Nazism? Once again, are you insane? Your post is so riddled with idiocies (do you even know what “inferred” means? are you aware of Zimmerman raising a large amount of money, then illegally lying in court about it?) that only a few of them are addressed here. But hey, keep defending this creep even after his next domestic violence episode(s); nothing is his fault. 1 So now you get all angry when accused of admiring Martin, while it was you who first accused me of admiring Zimmerman; typical liberal hypocrisy. You lied: Zimmerman had no arrests prior to the Martin incident, while Martin got kicked out of school for being involved with drugs and violence. 2 Try to take a course in reading comprehension, as you missed my point that Zimmerman at the time of the incident was a good boy, while Martin was bad, involved with gang lifestyle, violence and drugs. Whatever Zimmerman allegedly turned into after the incident, has no relevance to assessing his character at the incident. 3 So do we have to obey every gubmit employee or do we have constitutional rights?! Please answer, Herr Kommandant!!! 4 So can you bring an actual instance of Zimmerman’s racist statements?-Muslim is a religion, not a race, and you have no other racist statements by Zimmerman, so here you lie again. As for you referring to my post as riddled with idiocies, I won’t argue with an apparent expert, as it takes one to know one. I have made all my points, some multiple times, and will not further reply to your ignorance and lies. PS please look up inferred in a Webster’s dictionary. 1) You are a liar and/or don’t know what you’re talking about. Zimmerman was arrested in 2005, several years before he shot Martin. He also had a restraining order filed against him in 2005 for domestic violence. 2) Martin was suspended from school three times, not “kicked out”, i.e. expelled. His suspensions were for graffiti and marijuana. “Gang lifestyle”? Pretty wimpy gang. Violence? Another lie. Drugs? Marijuana. 3) “Herr Kommandant!!!” You love calling people you disagree with “Nazis”, don’t you? What a sicko. 4) Trying to play semantic games by saying a bigot isn’t a racist? First of all, bigots are usually called racists too, whether their bigotry is religious or race based. Second of all, he is clearly a vile bigot, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove – that he’s “only” a bigot but not a racist? Third of all, he called President Obama an “ignorant baboon” in a post, so there’s your racist statement. 5) When someone commits domestic violence against several different women over the years, including threatening some with guns, fights with a cop, follows another motorist into a parking lot and threatens to kill him, and several other incidents, character flaws aren’t “inferred”. Look up what the word means. Here’s a hint – we don’t “infer” that the sun rises in the East. This pistol fetched such a high price because people understand its meaning as a symbol of freedom: it didn’t just save a life(and there can be no freedom when people are petrified of street gangsters) of one individual from a violent bully, it also symbolizes a court victory of an individual against a bullying federal government which tried to railroad an innocent man for political reasons. The bidders understand, and they put their dollars where their appreciation for freedom is. Will this cause riots?-Not in a state where people are armed and able to defend themselves. The street thugs attack those who look like easy targets. He is a sicko and so are the bidders, but since the USA are not supposed to be the jungle, authorities should confiscate the gun. I appreciate what the Gunbroker website did, at the expense of their own commission.

2019-04-19T05:01:05Z

https://matzav.com/bidding-on-zimmermans-gun-up-to-485k/

Joel posted this at the end of his response to my “Argument from Evolution” article. There it was slightly off topic and I thought that this warranted a full response in a separate space. First, nobody (sensible) teaches morality from the ritual law of the Old Testament. You cannot impugn the moral law by citing examples of the ritual law about what is ceremonially clean or unclean, and that has no moral dimension to it. Second, nobody teaches morality from the false characterisation of God you give. God is an omni-benevolent, morally perfect being according to scripture and you’d do well to discard the false picture of the Christian view of God you have. Here is my response, point-by-point, to the Humanist ethic communicated in the Amsterdam Declaration 2002. There is much here that the Christian can find in common with the humanist, but I think the question is which ethic (Christian or Humanist) provides a better account for our shared understanding of moral duties, values and accountabilities? Also, insofar as Humanism implies naturalism, humanism is deeply incoherent as I shall show. The ‘long tradition’ that stretches all the way back to 1952, the first World Humanist Congress. Facts are however, the ‘many great thinkers and artists’ that humanism can legitimately claim drown in the influence made by Christianity. In thought and art it is undeniably how Christianity far out-weighs any paltry offering humanism makes. If humanism can sustain the practice of science is a discussion for another time, but the thought that Humanism gave rise to science itself is laughable. Only Christianity provides an epistemological foundation for scientists seeking to make sense of the universe, and almost every major field of science was founded by a Christian, working specifically from a Christian worldview. Just consider these few scientists who were Christians; Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics; William Turner, the father of English botany; Johannes Kepler, the planetary laws of motion; Galileo Galilei, the father of modern astronomy; Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician; Blaise Pascal, physicist and mathematician who defended the scientific method; Robert Boyle, the first modern chemist; Louis Pasteur, inventor of the pasteurization method; Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics; Lord Kelvin, important in Thermodynamics; Max Planck, the founder of Quantum mechanics, and the list goes on. Humanism provides no metaethical foundation for it’s ethical system. Why is a metaethical foundation necessary? One is apt to ask why the human has worth, dignity and autonomy. To finally come to rest the foundations of a morality on the worth of a human is ad hoc. Especially after the humanist’s naturalistic view of evolution makes men into mere animals. Evolution is the great leveller. What’s so special about humans on naturalism? We’re just fortunate sacks of molecules in motion that have survived against the odds by tooth and claw. On Christian theism humans are created by God in His image. This gives us inalienable rights, guarantees the right of personal freedom of choice, as well as deep significance and meaning to life. Moreover, God expresses our worth in His eyes when he showed his love by giving His only son as a sacrifice to pay our sin-debt and conquer death on our behalf. He spared not his only son for us. You see how Christianity gives a substantiated reason for its assertions of worth and dignity, but how humanism cannot? This self-affirmation is astonishingly presumptuous. There is no argument here: only assertions and declarations of belief, more akin to blind faith than science and reason. Still the Christian can agree that human thought and action are for solving the worlds problems and that the application of science and free inquiry should promote human welfare. We can agree to use science creatively and not destructively, but we’re not likely to condemn the scientist who researches dynamite to pull down an old building safely, or to minimise collateral damage during justified warfare. On the Christian view God gave humans a mind to think and engage with the world as it is. On naturalism the mind is a physiological response to stimuli, socio-cultuarl pressures and evolutionary development. It is therefore tuned for survival and not for the apprehension of truth or rationality. It is hard to see why humanism is rational given naturalism. There are few questions that must be asked, like who determines the ‘human values’ that temper the application of science and technology? Is it Hitler, Hefner, the Humanist or the Holy Spirit? Is it science itself, and if so doesn’t it work out that science proposes the means and the ends? If so, was Hitler rational at the time to propose and carry out his ‘Final Solution?’ After all, that was in accord by the evolutionary science being propounded in his day; was supposedly for the betterment of human welfare; and was then the human value system in vogue. At Nuremberg it was quickly realised to condemn these Nazi war criminals there needed to be a standard that stood above human and societal values, and the only values they could find to do that were rooted in God. The need for such a transcendent absolute, or law above the law, can be illustrated by what happened at the Nuremberg Trials of World War II criminals. Those accused appealed to the fact that they were only obeying the laws of their own culture, and that they were not legally responsible to any other. Faced with this argument, Robert H. Jackson, Chief Counsel for the United States, appealed to permanent values and moral standards that transcended life-styles, particular societies, and individual nations. While he was not necessarily appealing to biblical norms in this trial, the situation illustrates the need for a transcendent basis for moral values. For example, God’s commandment against murder was not just for the Jew. It transcends culture, and it transcends generations. Murder is as wrong today as it was in the Old Testament. Christian ethics escape this problem of cultural relativity because it is based upon the nature of God. Good is what God wills in accordance with His nature (see Mark 10:18). God provides the moral patterns which apply to all human behavior. Also, who is it that diagnoses the ‘world’s problems?’ Is it the humanist? The smartest? The most popular? the strongest? The bible says that the major problem with this world is sin, and there is little hope for man’s efforts to rectify that problem. Sin (defined often as failure to meet God’s perfect standard, or imperfection, or breaking God’s law) is symptomatic system-wide, and the evidence for that is clear. Only a divine solution and intervention can save us from that ultimate problem. On Christianity the solutions to the worlds problems lie in human thought and action as well as divine intervention. God also determines to use mostly use people as his agents on earth. Woe to the humanist if God exists and he/she rejects divine intervention. Human rights are declared to be universal rights. That is they stand above all nation’s laws for all times and all places for all people. This statement is like eating white-froth if you consider the next fundamental’s (4) claim to be undogmatic and imposing no creed upon its adherents. Christianity however provides something substantive for the table. Universal human rights were developed by the founding fathers of America from their understanding of the scriptures. In Christopher Hitchen’s words Thomas Jefferson was a deist with atheistic tendencies. However, when it came to finding a ground for unalienable Rights, he pointed to the sky and said “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”2 The abolition of slavery was a practical out-working of this same understanding from scripture: that all men are created equal.) The Bible even gives justification for democracy also, but at the moment I’m not prepared to support that contention.) Both groups of people were smart enough to recognise that if human rights are given to a human by another human, they can be taken away again. If human rights are given by God, then no man can take them away. They become inalienable and truly universal. Humanism lacks a model of what it means to be the fullest development of a human being. On Christianity it is clear the model is Jesus. On Humanism it can only be subjective and relative. What if the fullest possible development of the human being is Hitler? You might say that he did not support democracy, but then you’d be forgetting that Hitler was the legitimate democratically elected official of that nation. You might say that Hitler was wrong because the humanist ethic is based upon understanding and support for others, but then you’d be forgetting that Hitler deeply cared for Germany and to carry out his atrocious acts all that he needed to do was create a culture that dehumanised Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals, the handy-capped, etc. How do you decry the wicked man who says he is only becoming ‘the fullest possible development of what it means to be human,’ if he has radically changed what it means to be human. Humanism lacks a definition of what it means to be human, but Christianity has a ready anthropological definition grounded in its own basic theology. If a person is responsible to society, then what happens when society tells you to do something that is objectively wrong, like slaughter Jews wholesale (Nazi Germany), or force husbands to watch as their pregnant wives are split open by sabres so their unborn children fall to the ground to be crushed underfoot (Saddam Hussein’s Iraq), or taking unwanted new-borns and dashing them on rocks (ancient Greeks). The list of examples is appalling in its length and brutality, but it is already clear that responsibility to society is an insufficient ethic to build a world on. There needs to be some transcendent standard above society and humanity. Christianity provides that by revealing a morally perfect transcendent God as the standard. “Humanism is undogmatic, imposing no creed upon its adherants.” This is self-referentially incoherant. It is dogmatic in being undogmatic. It is thus really rich when it concludes that humanism is committed to education free from indoctrination. Even if it is possible to educate people free from indoctrination from operating within a worldview, this statement is as double-handed as it gets. Humanists are experts at indoctrination. You need only look at our current education system here in NZ. An example follows in the next section. Humanism of course excludes itself from the dogmatic religious crowd, and seeks to fulfil the widespread demand for an alternative to dogmatic religion. It will do this by supplying people with another dogmatic religion (if not religion then ethical framework) and imposing it on others. For example, take the belief that ‘morality is an intrinsic part of human nature.’ This means that humans are essentially and basically good. This is taught all throughout the education system and is one tenant of humanist indoctrination. Is it true? I leave it for you, but I think the Bible gives a far more realistic account to the state of the human heart; see Jeremiah 17:9 and Romans 3:9-19. Christianity recognises that reliable knowledge of the world and ourselves arises also through revelation from God. If reliable knowledge arises from observation, evaluation and revision then its not really reliable is it? The purpose underlying most (if not all) creative expressions is communication. Art is a vehicle for a message. When you start to value the form, and not the message that lies behind the form, then art becomes mere mindless entertainment; a distraction to personal development rather than an aid. Is fulfilment reduced on humanism to amusement? Take from art its purpose and society will transform into a mindless mass that is far too easily manipulated. Christianity affirms the value of art and artistic expression by imbuing the artist with purpose, answering the deep existential questions of life; by affirming the artist is created in the image of God and is therefore a creative agent; by supplying the artist with a message, inspiration and talent; and by infusing the world waiting to be captured and mirrored by great works of art, with a sense of the sublime. Naturalism on the other-hand finds beauty an awkward notion. It is difficult to see why an apes brain would appreciate the aesthetic pleasure from a morning sunrise, the star-filled sky and or the frozen waterfall. If human existence transcends the death of the body, then obviously humanism is not for everyone everywhere. Humanism become bankrupt if this life is not all there is or if there is a God. Besides this, based upon the refutation of points 1 through 6 it is not obvious humanism does supply an ethical and rational means of addressing the challenges of our times.

2019-04-20T00:32:27Z

https://thinkingmatters.org.nz/2008/10/humanist-amsterdam-declaration-refuted-point-by-point/

KIEV, Ukraine -- By leaving millions of pro-Russian voters out of the electoral process, the ballot will only deepen the rifts that lie beneath the war in eastern Ukraine. A girl walks past booths at a polling station in Kiev on October 25, 2014, on the eve of the country's parliamentary elections. The lynch mob caught up with Nestor Shufrich on Sept. 30, when he was campaigning for re-election to Ukraine’s parliament. Outside the press conference he was due to give that day in the port city of Odessa, a gang of activists and right wing thugs were waiting for him with a garbage dumpster, into which they had planned to stuff the lawmaker in front of the assembled journalists. The ambush, part of a broader purge of politicians who are seen as sympathetic toward Russia, did not work out. Shufrich heard about it and cancelled the appearance. But the mob soon tracked him down inside the local government headquarters, tore his clothes off and beat him until his eyes swelled, his head concussed and blood poured from his nose. A few weeks later, on the final stretch of the campaign, Shufrich recalled the incident like an occupational hazard. “These things come with the territory now, unfortunately,” he says on Friday, two days before the parliamentary ballot that will be held this weekend in most of the country, but not all of it. The huge parts of eastern Ukraine that are under the control of pro-Russian separatist rebels will not take part in the vote, and neither will the southern region of Crimea, which Russia invaded and annexed in March. “That means millions of our constituents will not be represented in this parliament,” Shufrich tells TIME. Probably not much at all. In the eight months since the revolution booted Ukraine’s Moscow-backed leaders from power, the country’s political discourse has devolved into a kind of blood sport, and Russia’s military meddling in Ukraine has only served to radicalize the political scene further in the lead up to the vote. Pro-Russian politicians from the old regime have been forced to flee the country in droves, typically to Russia, where the ousted President Viktor Yanukovych took refuge in February. The members of his party who stayed behind, such as Shufrich, have been routinely arrested and charged with separatism, attacked in the streets, beaten or thrown into dumpsters by crowds of vigilantes. An alarming number of Ukrainians seem to support the forces behind these attacks. According to the latest opinion polls, the populists set to take second place in these elections are from the aptly named Radical Party, which uses a pitchfork as its logo and treats even the vaguest relation or sympathy to Russia as a political mark of the devil. For Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, all this makes it a lot harder to pursue the peace agenda that helped get him elected in May. His political party, the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, is still set to get the most votes in these elections, but its ability to pursue negotiations with Russia and reconciliation with the separatists in eastern Ukraine will run up against the nationalists and militants with whom the party will have to share the legislative branch. In an address to the nation two weeks before the vote, Poroshenko admitted that the peace process he initiated in September, including a shaky ceasefire agreed with the pro-Russian rebels, “is constantly attacked by the gung-ho patriots,” an oblique reference to nationalist groups like the Radical Party and its loudmouthed leader Oleh Lyashko. “These people are, for the most part, divorced from reality and eager to criticize,” he said. That will be a lot harder than he makes it sound. At the heart of his peace plan has been a series of concessions to the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, which he has allowed to elect their own separatist leaders and enjoy broad autonomy from the central government in Kiev. These acts of appeasement have been enough to slow the fighting around the conflict zones in the past month and a half, but they have also incensed the hardline political forces that want nothing short of a military victory over the separatists. The most radical among them have been the paramilitary commanders leading the fight against the rebels on the front lines and, more recently, campaigning for places in parliament. One of them, the ultranationalist Andriy Biletsky, who leads a regiment of several thousand fighters, has called for Ukraine to scrap the ceasefire and push ahead with an all-out war. “We are negotiating [with Russia] from a position of weakness,” he told TIME in an interview last month in Kiev. Nor do many of the activists and protestors who rose up last winter against the Yanukovych regime. In the past few weeks, as the parliamentary elections grew near, thousands of them have again begun to demonstrate in Kiev for a harder line against the separatists, at times clashing with police in scenes that have been painfully reminiscent of the revolution that brought Poroshenko to power in the first place. These protestors do not represent a part of the electorate that can be easily ignored or sidelined. In a nationwide survey released this week, 40% of respondents said they are prepared to take to the streets for a resumption of the winter uprising if Ukraine’s new leaders fail to meet the demands of the revolution. At the heart of those demands is the drive to purge the ruling class of anyone with ties to the ousted government, and on that front Poroshenko has tried to deliver. Earlier this month, he signed the so-called “lustration” law, which would affect up to a million people who had been on the government’s payroll under the old regime. After an elaborate vetting process, these civil servants could be banned from holding any job in the state bureaucracy for a decade, thus branding a huge portion of the country as unfit for public service. It is under the vengeful spirit of this law that Shufrich and other holdouts from the Yanukovych government have been facing mob justice in the streets. “We’re like pariahs now,” he says. In the course of a few turbulent months, the purge has helped disrupt an uneasy balance of power that had held in Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union. The electoral map of the country had been split for years roughly down the middle with a political east-west divide. Voters in the central and western parts of the country tended to favor integration with Europe, and bristled at Russia’s frequent attempts to treat Ukraine like a wayward stepchild. But to the east and south of the Dnieper River that bisects Ukraine, and especially in the industrial eastern regions where the dominant language has always been Russian, voters broadly favored the close ties with Moscow on which their economic fortunes depended. For the past two decades, both halves of Ukrainian society had ample representation in parliament. Sometimes they turned the chamber into a venue for food fights and bare-knuckle boxing, but at least all sides got to have their say. What finally ruptured this balance was the Russian annexation of Crimea in March. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was outraged at the revolution that toppled his ally in Kiev, sent his troops to occupy the Crimean peninsula and absorb it into Russia. But he did not win many allies in Ukraine in the process. Even the regions that had previously favored closer ties with Moscow began to see a surge of ill will toward the Russian President and the country he represents. According a survey conducted in May, two months after the annexation of Crimea, 76% of respondents had a negative view of Putin, up from 40% just a year earlier. The main exceptions to that trend were the two separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where the vast majority of people expressed support for Putin in May despite his annexation of a piece of their country. These breakaway chunks of eastern Ukraine, which are home to at least 10% of the country’s 45 million people, are now being left out of the electoral process. Instead of taking part in this weekend’s elections, the rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine will hold their own ballots next month, thus helping to formalize their split with the rest of the country. “If you count the people of Crimea, that comes to seven million Russian-speaking voters who will not be represented in the new parliament,” says Shufrich. For the ruling government in Kiev, that might not be such a bad thing. The absence of millions of pro-Russian voters will ensure that Ukraine’s new leaders, as well as the nationalist parties, get a stronger mandate to rule at the polls, while the closest thing to a pro-Russian party running in these elections – the newfangled Opposition Bloc of Shufrich and his allies – has been so badly humiliated and demoralized by the post-revolutionary purge that it is not expected to win any seats in the parliament. This may well reflect the new anti-Russian mood in Ukraine as a whole. But it will not help heal the national divide. Instead of moving into the somewhat more civilized framework of parliamentary debate, the conflict over eastern Ukraine will still be caught up in the discourse of purges, guns and garbage dumpsters.

2019-04-25T14:51:21Z

https://news.kievukraine.info/2014/10/ukraines-parliamentary-vote-wont-heal.html

The sun slowly sinks in the sky, touching the spot where the water meets the sky in a spectacular blast of colors. No Instagram filter needed here! Bring the ohana – family – and experience these amazing sunsets for yourself from the private lanai of Poipu Palms 302. Inside, you’ll find new furnishings and new wood laminate flooring. Open and airy, the fully-equipped kitchen has everything you’ll need for meal prep, including coffee and condiments. Having the ocean right out the kitchen window while your cooking doesn’t hurt either! Sit down for meals at the 4-person dining table, with room for 2 more at the kitchen bar. The oceanfront views continue in the living room, where floor-to-ceiling patio doors let the outside in. Crash on the couch or armchair, doing a little channel surfing on the flat-screen TV with cable. Both bedrooms have fun tropical décor, queen beds and en-suite bathrooms, ideal for two couples traveling together. You also get all the comforts of home with amenities like Wi-Fi, washer and dryer, linens and beach towels and starter kit of paper and cleaning supplies. 1. Sea Turtles, Dolphins and Whales…Oh My!: Grab a front-row seat on the private lanai to an amazing show. From your perch on the top floor, you’ll see turtles and dolphins play in the waves year round, and humpback whales swim through the area in the winter months. 2. Upscale Pool and Deck: Clear your schedule…you’re going to want to spend all day soaking up the sun on the gorgeous deck with multiple levels, tiki hut and lounge chairs. Splash down in the plunge pool to cool off with the waves of the Pacific rolling in the background. 3. Quiet Condo Complex: Part of the intimate Poipu Palms community, the condo is one of 12 and sits on the top floor for privacy, peace and quiet. Gather up the beach chairs, umbrellas and sand toys and walk the 10 minutes down to pretty Poipu Beach. If you’ve got enough stuff for an army, pack up the car instead and make the quick 2-minute drive. If you want to get the blood pumping, hike the Maha'ulepu Heritage Trail, which is chock full of amazing photo stops perfect for Instagramming. Adrenaline junkies will love zip lining, aerial obstacle courses and a wide variety of watersports. The building from the street view looks a little dated. The unit itself is very nice. It is updated and fresh. Very clean. The rear wood deck is beautiful tropical hard wood.The view is spectacular. You feel like you are on the water. --- Mahalo, Ben! Balkony, Location, Pool and View are wonderful! Apartment could have been cleaner, still we had a very nice stay! Poipu Palms 302 is just as advertised - lovely views out into a cove (we watched a lot of sea turtles and even saw a few spinner dolphins passing through). There are effectively two suites, which gave us plenty of room to spread out and would give two couples enough privacy. The lanai and living room were wonderful places to relax. An easy walk (0.5 mi) to the Grand Hyatt (several restaurants and a beach) or Brenneckes Bar (laid back) and beach-front park. Everything was clean and the kitchen had everything we needed for breakfast, lunches or a simple dinner. The condo was in a quiet area - no noisy neighbors and (somehow!) none of the roosters Kauai is infamous for. GVR is great to work with - very responsive and helped with a few special requests. My friend had a medical emergency the day after we arrived, and my attempts to reach 911 didn't work; I'm not sure why. Not knowing what else to do, I called the GVR office to explain what was happening, and Janie (I think it was Janie) stayed on the line with me while contacting the paramedic squad. Within 5 minutes, the emt crew was there, and shortly after that, Mark arrived to ask if there was anything he or GVR could do. That gesture meant a great deal. He stayed for at least half an hour, to make sure we were OK. Thank goodness my friend recovered and we were able to enjoy the rest of our vacation. Everyone at GVR was so friendly and helpful, and genuinely interested in making our stay a pleasant one. MANAGER RESPONSE: We are so glad that everything worked out for your friend. What a scary experience! Glad we could help in anyway possible. We hope to see you again! We enjoyed everything about the property! The location is superb; the amenities (including the wonderful-smelling toiletries!) are great. Having dishwasher detergent and Tide pods supplied was a plus. The lovely dishes added so much ambiance with their colorful fish and ocean design. The balcony was perfectly situated to allow the best ocean view, and we spent many relaxing hours there, just watching the waves come and go. Very peaceful and quiet! MANAGER RESPONSE: Mahalo! We hope to see you again soon! Very impressed. Bruce was my "goto" guy and was very attentive and responsive. We had one issue that was NOT related to the property itself or GVR but a different property manager on a unit below ours. I contacted Bruce and he instantly got things resolved and came up with a resolution. It was over and beyond what I expected. This property is very well equipped with little amenities that made it very special. The furnishings and condition of this rental is extremely nice. It will be a great pleasure to any and all who stay here. Our stay at Puipo Palms was great! The location was unbeatable with awesome views. The pool, though small, was never crowded and has beautiful ocean views. You could hear and see the waves crashing (and sea turtles swimming!) right from the patio. The beach was an easy 5 minute drive with easy parking or 10-15 minute walk. The beach was great for snorkeling (we even swam with sea turtles and saw the monk seals playing in the water 20 feet from us!) The waves can be intense but this beach is well protected and great for kiddos though not crowded. Breneckes restaurant right across the street had the best lunch and drinks! There are plenty of shops and other restaurants another 5 minutes down the road. The only complaint we had is that one of the beds is so firm we opted to sleep on the couch instead. The other bed, though softer, squeaked and sagged a little. We informed the hosts and they came out and looked at them. They did some adjusting to the bed that squeaked and we didn't have any trouble after that but we still didn't sleep on the firm one. If you're looking for a place to stay with awesome beds, this might not be the one for you. The internet was also a little spotty if you had more than a couple devices connected. Otherwise the apartment was clean and the kitchen was well stocked, complete with a blender. The only thing we were missing was a coffee grinder and they brought us one right away when we asked. They provide a list of farmers markets to attend and great reference books for what to do on the island. We would definitely stay in Poipu again! Lovely stay. We had a great surprise when we saw the pool. You should promote it in the property description. The view is unbelievable! we saw dolphins and sea turtle right out the balcony. Never actually spoke to them personally, just emailing back and forth. Great response from everyone with answers to my questions, etc. And I asked about a possible early check in because we were going to arrive early- I was about to call and actually got a text that it was ready. Great timing!! Beautiful spot, close to the beach and short drive to shopping/restaurants. Nice and clean and well stocked with everything you need. Great lanai to just sit and watch the ocean. Very comfortable beds and lots of room. Lots of fans and the set up of the windows lets the air move around the condo nicely- never got hot inside! Pool area was adequate- not a large pool, but nice to take a dip in -I'd rather be at the beach anyway ;) Overall excellent stay!! Great location and price. Right on the water and right up the street from Poipu beach. Had everything you needed in a rental and was very comfortable. GVR was great at communicating check in info and making sure we had everything we needed. Highly recommend staying here. Excellent stay with all amenities included. Lots of kitchen utensils and beach gear, the staff have definitely thought of everything so you can have a worry-free vacation and feel at home. Each team member was extremely helpful. They answered all of my questions promptly and with a positive attitude. They were all very friendly. As always, our stay in Poipu Palms was excellent. We enjoyed the beautiful views and the great condo. We were impressed with the amenities available such as shampoos, conditions, soap (which smelled wonderful), toilet paper, paper towels, etc. The staff was extremely helpful with making sure we had everything we needed and were comfortable. This was our first trip with our daughter (she is 1) and this area was perfect. We were able to have a pak n play delivered to use before we even arrived, enjoyed taking her to the newly remodeled pool area which was great and was even able to do a late checkout which was so very helpful with hour daughter. I enjoyed the welcoming and departing text messages-very thoughtful!!! We will be back soon :) MANAGER'S RESPONSE: I am so glad that you enjoyed your stay with us. Our goal is to be sure our guests are enjoying themselves while staying with us. I hope you get an opportunity to come back and stay with us again someday -- and bring you daughter!!! This team was amazing. I tend to have a lot of questions and want to make sure every box is checked, and sometimes rechecked. They were so helpful and always responded in a timely manor. I loved that they texted me as soon as we landed that our condo was ready for us to check in and to let me know what number to contact if I had any more questions. MANAGER RESPONSE: Mahalo for your review! So happy to hear that you enjoyed your stay. Also, it i nice to hear that our texting service is helpful. It is sort of new for us and we love it! Hope to see you again soon. This property was fantastic! its a small 12 unit complex so we never felt like there were too many people around. The unit was perfect for us and had everything we needed to make us feel like we were at home. We loved laying by the pool at the end of the day and watching the turtles below. The one thing I would like to mention is that the grill is a charcoal grill and the coals were sometimes hard to keep lit due to the breeze. There is also no cover for it so it takes a little longer for somethings to cook. They were always really nice and got back to me within a reasonable amount of time. The unit number they originally sent me was not accurate but once I called they were easily able to figure it out and everything went perfectly after that. The view was fantastic. We were able to see a whale spouting as well as dolphins from our balcony.

2019-04-21T01:06:22Z

https://www.alohagvr.com/property/poipu-palms-302

You’re reading novel Mai Kitsune Waifu Chapter 635 online at LightNovelFree.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit LightNovelFree.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy! "Who would stay together with you!" Liu Hongxian rolls her eyes at Liu Yi, "We are neighbors okay? We live separately okay?" "What leader says is right!" Liu Yi nods his head, "Indeed we do not sleep together but at night we still need to go back to our own beds." "Get lost! Why is it that every sentence that comes out from your mouth sound so bad!" Liu Hongxian rolls her eyes again, "Stay further away from me. I can smell your stink!" "Where is there any stink coming from me?" Liu Yi smells himself, "Leader you really know how to joke! I, Liu Yi am really good person ah, I am called Lei Feng Liu by others ah!" "I see that you more like a big drifter!" Hearing what Liu Yi says, Liu Hongxian becomes even angrier, is this fellow's face made from castle walls? Since he is not hiding away then I shall avoid him instead! Liu Hongxian walks to the side to stand, maintaining a distance from Liu Yi. Liu Yi shrugs his shoulders. Since the other person does not like me then I would not keep so close to her like a dog. He holds onto a handrail by the side and maintains a 2-meter distance from Liu Hongxian. The two of them stand in the center of the train like they do not know each other. Currently, there are not many people on the train. They are sitting in threes and twos, wearing a western suit, like office workers. The moment the train starts moving, these guys suddenly stand up. After which the door to the other carriage open as rows of guys in black western suits enters. Liu Hongxian and Liu Yi cannot help but looks over. Liu Hongxian knit her eyebrows and says softly, "They do not come with good intent." "Seeing their attire, they seem to be people from Yamaguchi Group." Before coming to j.a.pan Liu Yi had done his homework and recognizes them just by seeing their attire. A guy who had lost sight of one of his eye pulls open his suit and glares at Liu Yi fiercely as he says, "It must be you, this stinky fellow, right! To actually dare to s.n.a.t.c.h my young master's woman! Today if I do not make you bleed then you would not know who you cannot provoke!" "Don't make it too messy." Liu Hongxian infers what had happened thus she orders Liu Yi, "If it gets too messy it will be hard to conclude it." "I know leader. Leave it to me!" Liu Yi nods his head and flips his hand revealing a black dagger and points at those Yamaguchi people fiercely. "All of you don't come over, I have a knife! Whoever who comes over shall bleed!" The moment he speaks the people from Yamaguchi Group start moving. The one at the back opens his suitcase and pulls out katanas and tossed to his people. Very quickly every single one of the Yamaguchi Group people is holding a katana each as they sneer at Liu Yi. Liu Yi looks at those katana before looking at his own finger long dagger. He suddenly feels like he got bullied! The one eye guy laughs, "Do you think that this small fellow would be able to scare us from Yamaguchi Group? Let me show you what is called the number 1 power in j.a.pan!" "Idiot…you actually got defeated by others!" Liu Hongxian is also mad, "Go and win it back!" At this moment she is also no longer calm. How can us China people be looked down by the j.a.panese! Liu Yi also understands what does Liu Hongxian mean. He immediately grabs the steel pipe at the side and holds it in his hand. "What does this fellow want to do?" "Why did he grab the steel pipe for?" The Yamaguchi group of people does not understand what Liu Yi is trying to do. At this moment Liu Yi let out a weird cry and his hand trembles. With a dang, he snapped the steel pipe into two! "This….this is not possible right…" The people from Yamaguchi Group are shocked as their eyes nearly pop out. Even Liu Hongxian herself also swallows her saliva. This Liu Yi….his strength is really d.a.m.n scary! This fellow is too fierce already….just what on earth is this No 7 department ah, to actually have such a monster! Liu Yi's might scared those Yamaguchi people. A little brother says with a slight tremble, "Big, big brother, what to do?" "What, what else can we do, attack!" The one eye guy thicken his face and says, "Cannot throw away the face of our Yamaguchi Group!" The Yamaguchi Group people turn fierce as they shout while charging towards Liu Yi with their katana. Liu Yi smiles as he starts swinging the nearly two-meter steel pipe around. From far away it is like Liu Yi is waving about a steel dragon! Two of the Yamaguchi Group people had already charged in front of Liu Yi. Their raised katana chops down towards Liu Yi. Liu Yi directly tossed the steel pipe in his hands out smas.h.i.+ng into those two guys' nose. Instantly the two of them start bleeding from their nose and collapse onto the ground. At the same time, Liu Yi takes a step forward and grab the steel pipes and block the katanas of those people behind. Sparks immediately fly out from steel pipes. Liu Yi raises a leg and kicks one of them, sending him cras.h.i.+ng into two other people. The silver steel pipes in his hands are utilized like a silver barrier as it keeps cras.h.i.+ng into the people in front. At that instant, he is like a war G.o.d and no one is able to get a meter within him. A little brother had withdrawn to the side of the one eye guy. Seeing how his buddies got put down by Liu Yi and lying on the ground, he starts saying with fear, "Big brother….this, this fellow got training before!" "What are you afraid of, attack!" The one-eyed guy kicks him in his b.u.t.t, sending him forward. That little brother lets out a weird cry and charges at Liu Yi. Liu Yi placed the steel pipe on the ground before supporting himself with the pipe. His body flies up as his legs kick that little brother in his face causing him to collapse. "You, you fellow….just who on earth are you…" Seeing how fierce Liu Yi is, the one eye guy finally knows fear as he starts trembling. He is almost unable to hold the katana in his hand properly. "I am only a teacher." Liu Yi swings out with the steel pipe in his hand and knocks out a person who is lying on the ground preparing to sneak attack him. After which he narrows his eyes and looks at the one eye guy and says, "But do not look down on teacher." The one eye guy knows that if he goes back like this, he will definitely be scolded by the higher-ups. He turns ruthless and clenches his teeth before charging towards Liu Yi. While Liu Yi raises his leg and kicks the steel pipe in his hand up. The steel pipe shoots upwards and knocks out the one-eyed guy. Liu Yi dust off his hands before turning around, preparing to give Liu Hongxian a victory sign. At this moment he is shocked to realize that a few Yamaguchi members had actually climbed to their feet and charge towards Liu Hongxian shamelessly. Liu Hongxian snorts and raises her legs before kicking out a few times and easily kicks them down onto the ground. Her actions are very clean and beautiful. Furthermore, she is a beauty as well as possess a graceful sense of beauty. Especially when her tights open up, this kind of beautiful legs turn into a weapon. Very beautiful and ample! That pair of high heels are like weapons causing those that were kicked to cry out in pain. One of the guys kneel down on the ground and plans to grab a fallen katana. Liu Hongxian raises her leg and fiercely stomp down on that guy's hand. Her high heels basically pierce through that guy's palm. As the eye-piercing shriek resounds throughout the carriage, Liu Yi hears the sound of bones breaking. He silently observed a moment of silence for that fellow, Liu Hongxian this girl….she is the one who asks me not to make it into a big problem but her actions are even more ruthless than mine! "Hmph, this is the result of looking down on women." Liu Hongxian withdraws her leg and placed it back down. Suddenly her leg trembles and let out a shriek and nearly collapsed onto the ground. Liu Yi G.o.d a shock, could it be that got secretly injured during the fight? Liu Hongxian scowls miserably and points at her right leg. What the, that high seems does not seem to be good quality goods. Currently, it is already snapped! Perhaps it is this fellow who caused her to sprain her legs. Although I really do not wish to be weak in front of him, but currently it is really painful. Perhaps I had sprained my bones as my ankle is already swollen. "I say ah you, you are wearing high heels what are you fighting for. You think that you are a Hollywood female star, is it!" Liu Yi is very helpless as he walks over and supports Liu Hongxian to a seat nearby. He also squats down and touches her ankle. "What, what are you doing, you pervert!" "Less nonsense, I am checking your injury!" Liu Yi berates making Liu Hongxian who still wish to scold a few sentences obediently shut up. Liu Yi does not know that his beautiful superior is currently having strange thoughts. He checks her ankle injury and lets out a breath of relief before saying, "Nothing major, you only sprained your ankle. Perhaps it will be swollen for a few days." "d.a.m.n it…I bought these high heels from Taobao…..it definitely must be a fake good! I am going to give it a poor evaluation!" "Sweat, in the future wear lesser high heels. It is not like you are short so there is no need for you to wear high heels." "What do you know, girls do not wear high heels just to be tall." "Then what is it for?" "For beauty and for more self-confidence!" Liu Yi becomes speechless, a pair of high heels is actually able to give female confidence…really is nonsense! Sometimes, I am really unable to understand what a girl is thinking! Liu Hongxian who originally wish to say something suddenly trembles and shout out in shock, "Ah, ah….ah….what, what do you want to do…." You're reading novel Mai Kitsune Waifu Chapter 635 online at LightNovelFree.com. You can use the follow function to bookmark your favorite novel ( Only for registered users ). If you find any errors ( broken links, can't load photos, etc.. ), Please let us know so we can fix it as soon as possible. And when you start a conversation or debate about a certain topic with other people, please do not offend them just because you don't like their opinions. You're reading Mai Kitsune Waifu Chapter 635. This novel has been translated by Updating. Author: Ram de Night,黑夜de白羊 already has 312 views. Current Time is Apr-25-2019 13:59:57 PM.

2019-04-25T13:59:57Z

https://novelzec.com/novel-seri-88889099/chapter_638

You have heard time and again that eating whole grains is the healthy way to go. But why? Amy Vong and Wong Hui Xin, dietitians at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, tells us exactly how whole grains are beneficial for our health. How exactly do whole grains benefit a person? Amy Vong: Current scientific evidence shows that consuming whole grains is linked to better health in many ways. Firstly, whole grains help us feel fuller for a longer time. This increased sense of satiety helps us avoid overeating. Secondly, the higher fibre content in whole grains slows down the absorption of carbohydrates, keeping your blood sugar level steady – which is especially important for warding off potential diabetes complications such as heart disease, kidney disease, nerve damage and stroke. Thirdly, whole grains have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, promoting the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut, which helps digestion and metabolism, as well as reduces allergies. Taken as a whole, the research points us towards including whole grains in a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle. How significantly do whole grains lower health risks? Amy Vong: When tracking groups of people over time or conducting surveys on people’s diets, researchers have found that people who eat a diet based on whole grains generally tend to have a lower body mass index (BMI) and better overall health. If you are in the habit of eating whole grains, you have a significantly lower risk of contracting coronary heart disease – a risk lowered by 20 – 40%. The lowered risk of diabetes is similar at a 20 – 30% reduction. People who consume the greatest amounts of whole grains, beyond experiencing the benefits above, also have a lower risk of developing some cancers. What does the latest research on whole grains say? Amy Vong: In general, we have been seeing an increase of evidence that bolsters older findings, and we understand better how a diet high in whole grains helps in general health. Most of the evidence for whole grains comes from observational studies, where we have limited control over the participants’ other lifestyle aspects (which also impact their health) besides their diet. However, there has been an increase of evidence for the benefits of whole grains from intervention studies (where tests resemble drug tests), which are generally more stringent than observational studies. We are therefore now even more confident that whole grains are good for health. Do some whole grains provide more benefits than others? Wong Hui Xin: There are differences between types of whole grains, and each person will need differing amounts. Grains, such as wheat, rice, oat, barley and rye, vary markedly in the types and amounts of phytochemicals they contain depending on their genetics and a variety of agro-climatic factors. Whole grains are generally higher in the ‘good stuff’ – dietary fibre, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. They have similar macronutrient compositions, ie. energy, carbohydrate, protein and fat content. However, different whole grains have different nutritional profiles. Certain grains such as wheat, oat, barley and rye have higher fibre content (more than 10g of fibre per 100g). If your diet is low in fibre, you will want to eat more of these. Research has also shown that beta glucan, found in oat and barley, is more effective in lowering blood lipids (fat) as compared to other grains. If you need to lose weight, replacing refined grains with oat and barley may help with the process. On the other hand, corn has the highest phenolic acid content, followed by wheat, oat, and rice. The phenolic acid concentration of whole grains corresponds to their antioxidant capacity. How much more beneficial is eating unprocessed whole grains (eg. oats) instead of processed whole grains (eg. wholemeal bread)? Amy Vong: Whether it makes a big difference depends on each individual. As a rule, we should all be making healthier choices, but an underweight 17-year-old and an overweight 70-year-old will definitely have different priorities. To make sense of how you should be adjusting your diet, we first need to understand the difference between unprocessed whole grains and processed whole grain foods. On one end we have unprocessed whole grains which have the bran, endosperm, and germ intact. On another end, we have refined grains, which have been stripped of the bran and germ. Processed whole grain foods fall somewhere in the middle. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006 defined ‘whole grain’ as any mixture of bran, endosperm and germ in the proportions as in an intact grain – but the grains can be, and usually are, processed so that the 3 parts are separated and ground before being incorporated into foods. Moreover, for a food product to be considered ‘whole grain’, the FDA says it must contain at least 51% of whole grains by weight. Processed whole grain foods may therefore have lower fibre and nutrient and antioxidant levels compared to intact grains. In practice, when you buy whole grain bread from the supermarket, that bread will have a whole other list of ingredients that are not whole grains. A whole grain bread made with plenty of sugar or sweetened dried fruit is going to have different effect on your body from, say, brown rice or oats. At the supermarket, we should be choosing whole grain products that are higher in fibre. Also, remember that including a variety of whole grain foods in the diet is the best way to reap the different health benefits. Whole grain food products: whole wheat flour, whole wheat bread, rolled oats / oatmeal, popcorn, rye bread, whole grain pasta, whole grain tortilla, whole grain breakfast cereals, whole grain snacks and baked goods (eg. crackers, bars, muffins, etc). Are there certain groups of people who should pay more attention to eating whole grains? Wong Hui Xin: Everyone should consume whole grains over refined grains to help reduce risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, as well as for weight control and digestive health. Besides eating a diet based on whole foods, we should also adopt a healthy lifestyle by engaging in physical activities for 150 minutes each week. Whole grain foods may particularly benefit people with diabetes and overweight individuals. For people with diabetes, eating whole grain foods helps to control blood sugar levels better due to the higher fibre content which slows down the absorption of carbohydrates. For overweight individuals, eating whole grains helps to promote satiety, which helps reduce food consumption and overeating. Even the fittest athletes can succumb to heart disease. Dr Leslie Tay, cardiologist, advises on reducing the risk of sudden cardiac arrest during sports. Heart Truth #7: All Take Note! Guys – listen up. Men generally face a higher risk of heart disease than women. Yet, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for women. Heart Truth #5: Get Moving! Any form of aerobic exercise is good for the heart. Aim to exercise for at least 30 minutes, 5 times a week. High blood pressure is a problem, but what’s causing it? Here are 5 common reasons. For a diabetic, the problem doesn’t stop there. In fact, the leading cause of death by far among diabetics is heart disease. Complications arising from diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease often result in patients losing a limb, but it does not have to be that way. What is Your Pulse Trying to Tell You? Your heart rate could give you helpful information about your current health and clue you in on potential health problems. Dr Ong Hean Yee, cardiologist, shares 5common scans your doctor may perform to scope out your heart health. Is watching the big game giving you too much stress and excitement? Can watching sports increase your risk of a heart attack? What are the Screening Options for Heart Disease? Dr Paul Chiam, cardiologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, discusses the tests used to screen for heart disease. How Far Can I Safely Push My Heart When Exercising? Listen to your body and understand your limits before attempting to go past your maximum heart rate during a workout. Dr Paul Chiam discusses the dangers of high blood pressure and the different treatment options to reduce it. Any heart surgery comes with risks, thus the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to improve the treatment of deadly heart diseases has been a welcomed effort. A fast, irregular heart beat can be triggered by anxiety or emotional stress, but it may also be a symptom of a condition atrial fibrillation. Dr Kenneth Ng, cardiologist, explains. Are Your Heart Murmurs Harmless? Dr Dinesh Nair shares when heart murmurs can become a cause of concern. The left ventricular assist device is increasingly becoming a viable option for heart failure patients around the world. Heart stents open blocked arteries (that can cause heart attacks) and lessen the risk of clogged arteries in the future. A senior cardiologist talks us through the procedure and how it prevents heart disease. Coronary angiograms, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and heart stenting are 3 common procedures for detecting and treating coronary heart disease. TAVI is a minimally invasive procedure that offers hope to patients too old or too ill for conventional aortic valve replacement operations. Going for a heart procedure can be a nerve-racking experience – but it doesn’t have to be. Know exactly what to expect by asking your cardiologist these 5 questions. We recommend the most common heart operations to beat heart disease.

2019-04-21T12:11:49Z

https://www.mountelizabeth.com.sg/healthplus/article/why-it-is-important-to-eat-whole-grains

As organizations are becoming increasingly global, the need for efficient and effective project management tools is necessary in order to accomplish business goals and process objectives. The increase demand for human resource requires “cross-functional, and often cross-cultural, geographically dispersed project teams” (Beise, 2004). Human resources are continually increasing in skill, diversity and knowledge which can benefit cross cultural organizations. Organizations are always seeking a competitive advantage with their competitors. As a result, project virtual teams are integrated in business models to potentially benefit business outcomes. The use of electronic mechanisms, tools, and resources influences group processes and outcomes. Furthermore, the benefits or limitations of virtual teams can also be evident in project management implementation and outcomes. Through this research I will analyze and discuss how virtual teams face a variety of challenges; however the most critical challenge in my opinion is that of effective management and constructive leadership. Furthermore this paper will investigate if in a virtual team there is relational development dilemma which remains a difficult aspect of team success. The fact that virtual teams “are geographically and/or temporally dispersed and are brought together by information and communication technologies” (Beise, Carte, Chidambaram, & Vician, 2010) does not mean that the relational development of the team cannot be successful. I will find through this research if indeed virtual teams are more focused on the actual task at hand and less interested in development of relationships that are common with face to face interactions. Essentially this social exchange within the context of information systems suggests that “using face to face meetings or richer media in the early stages of virtual team development may foster closer interpersonal relationships” (Beise, Carte, Chidambaram, & Vician, 2010). If we analyze the virtual teams and project management interaction styles we come to find that “interaction style has been shown to have a great effect on conventional work teams’ ability to achieve solution quality and solution acceptance” (Balthazard, Potter, & Warren, 2004). Due to advanced communication technologies, globalization and outsourcing most of the project management teams are based on groups of individuals called virtual teams who work across time and space using communication technologies. Members of virtual teams may be employees of same company from same country, or they can be contractors, suppliers and company employees around the globe. Managing projects using virtual teams have some advantages and disadvantages. Also several studies have been done to try to determine the factors that are positively co-related to the effectiveness of virtual teams (Schwalbe, 2011). To manage virtual teams successfully in project management, the project manager must manage these factors successfully and also minimize the impact of disadvantages. This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the virtual teams in project management and outlines the factors that are positively correlated to the success of projects based on virtual teams. The paper also outlines some of the recommendations to successfully manage the virtual team in information technology projects. Globalization, outsourcing, virtual teams, video conferencing, telecommuting, Project Management, Trust and relationship, Advantages of Virtual teams, Disadvantages of virtual team. Imagine that you are a project manager in a multinational organization and managing a project to upgrade the server operating system and your team members are from different countries with different cultures and working in different time zones. To complete the project successfully that is based on virtual teams, project manager must understand the advantages and disadvantages of managing virtual teams and factors that positively affect the team members. Today most of the project management teams are based on virtual teams whose members work across time and space using communication technologies and project managers cannot rely on previous methods of project team management where they were able to build trust between team member by social interaction, face-to-face meetings, and direct observations of fellow team member commitment. (Kirkman, Rosen, Gibson, Tesluk, & McPherson, 2002). Virtual teams do have some advantages and disadvantages. Some of the advantages outlined by Kathy Schwalbe are: 24/7 availability of workers increasing competiveness and responsiveness, lowering the cost of project as many virtual team members do not need office space and support, providing more flexibility and expertise as project managers have access to the talent around the globe and increasing the work/life balance for team members by eliminating fixed office hours and the need to travel to work. (Schwalbe, 2011). Radostina K. Purvanova reviewed experimental literature and emerging field research on virtual teams. Author compared the “results from both type of literature and found that experimental literature has largely reported negative results for virtual teams, whereas field investigations and case studies of real virtual teams employed by business organizations report positive outcomes for virtual teams.” (Purvanova, Feb 2014) According to the article although results reported by experimental versus field studies are quite different, author concludes that both literatures have revealed negative attitudes toward virtual communication media. The biggest advantage of virtual team enjoyed by an organization is the associated cost savings. The organization can save huge expenses on real estate, office spaces, utility bills such as gas, electricity, water etc. and executive’s travel. Team members can work from anywhere and anytime of the day. They can choose the place they work based on the mood and the comfort. You can recruit people for their skills and suitability to the job. The location does not matter. There is no time and money wasted for commuting and clothing. Physical handicaps are not an issue. Another advantage is the labour laws, some organizations prefer to have virtual teams because of strict local labour laws. Since the members span the time zones, there could be different team working on the same project 24/7, so when one member sleeps there will be another one somewhere else who would start work where the former had left. This shortens the product development time as well as faster response time to demands in both global and local markets. Since team members do not frequently meet or do not meet at all, the teamwork spirit may not be present. Some people prefer to be in a physical office when working. These people will be less productive in virtual environments. To work for virtual teams, individuals need to have a lot of self-discipline. If the individual is not disciplined, he or she may be less productive. The cultural difference between the members of virtual teams gives rise to number of conflicts. For example, while an employee from one part of the world would write a straightforward email describing a bad situation; this would be perceived as impolite by a member of the team from other part of the world. This would lead to conflicts, mistrust and difficulties in fruitful collaboration which is so vital for the success of virtual team functioning. These challenges are also precipitated by the absence of non-verbal cues so intrinsic to face-to-face interactions. Many members of virtual teams are adversely affected by the lack of physical interactions. Most of the communications in virtual environment is task-oriented. In today’s society where job is an important social force for most of us because many of our workplace colleagues also constitute our close friends, this gives a not-so-good feeling of social isolation. This in turn counter-effects productivity as well as leads to stress. In the virtual environment, it is better to communicate, clarify, and confirm everything to make sure that all members have the same understanding about the task at hand. This produces of ton of paperwork and files that could quickly fill your archives. Since team members are not communicating face to face, constructive team and individual feedback early and often becomes more important and if managed properly can avoid many problems before hand. Trust between team members and project leader is an important factor that can affect the performance of team members. One important way to build trust between team members is effective communication. The more they communicate with each other and with project more they build the trust. Well defined and documented team process also important which saves a lot of time for especially new team members to find answers to their questions related to policies and procedures. Organizations such as IBM, Microsoft, Whirlpool as well as SMEs are reaping the benefits of virtual teams for some time now. It has been a well-recognized fact that virtual team is not a passing tide but it is here to stay. Virtual teams are rising in numbers nowadays and even small technology companies are now adapting virtual team practice for recruiting the best people from all over the globe and reduce the cost. As outlined in previous sections, virtual teams do have advantaged and some disadvantages as well. To benefit from advantages and to minimize the impact of disadvantages a project manager can focus on factors that positively affect the virtual team’s performance. As indicated by previous researchers, increase in trust, comfort level and communication effectiveness leads to better project success. All of the above discussed disadvantages can be overcome by following a different leadership approach, trainings, greater role clarity and effective communication strategies. Also earlier discussed factors that affect virtual teams, if managed properly can result in a successful project. In addition, the companies using virtual teams can minimize their operating costs and maximize the profit margins. Additionally, the employees working in virtual teams are at advantages when it comes to working in their own home, own time, and reduction of commuting costs. Therefore, organizations should look into setting up virtual teams for different tasks whenever possible. To reap the benefits of virtual teams in projects and minimize the impact of disadvantages virtual team managers should manage the outlined factors properly and should also follow best practices outlined in next section. When running virtual teams, some of the best practices include: An instant messaging program can be used to create a sense of presence amongst members of the team. Chat is a good way to have side conversations during meetings to gain consensus, confirm understanding or ask questions. Quick questions can be asked through instant messenger as a substitute for popping into someone’s cubicle. Services for syncing files, bug tracking, project management, source control, web conferencing, conference calls, screen recording, usability testing and so on. Kirkman, B., Rosen, B., Gibson, C., Tesluk, P., & McPherson, S. (2002). Five challenges to virtual team success: Lessons from Sabre, Inc. Academy of Management Executive, 67-79; 13p. Leonard, B. (2011, June 1). Managing Virtual Teams . HR Magazine. Purvanova, R. K. (Feb 2014). Face-to-face versus virtual teams: What have we really learned? The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 2-29. Sarker1, S., Ajuja, M., Sarker, S., & Kirkeby, S. (2001). The Role of Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams: A Social Network Perspective. Journal of Management Information Systems. , p273-309. 37p. Schwalbe, K. (2011). Information Technology Project Management 6e. Boston: Course Technology, Cengage Learning.

2019-04-22T18:44:09Z

http://wokgg.zaridi.to/451-essay-on-virtual-teams.php

kwschumm, m610 and ejota like this. One of the things I like best about Opels is that the headlights are manually operated. Chunk-Chunk. I don't really get automated hood openers. First, how often is one opening hoods, to necessitate this? Second, how difficult is it to open a hood? If one is able to drive. Automatic windows, locks, etc, because those are done while driving or approaching the vehicle or leaving the vehicle and take time. But automated hood opening? I'm already stuck there doing whatever I opened the hood to do. Third, it's slower. If It was like a mousetrap, BANG and the hood is popped open, okay, now you've got my attention. That said, I will always be in favor of robotic slavery. Makes me feel like an emperor. "Minion! Open my hood!" And the robot slave runs on its hamster wheel to crank it open. Automation is awesome. One reason is that it's a car show thing to show off. Another is the enjoyment of the challenge of doing it, much like your project. I and a number of others do ridiculous mods just for the sake of doing them. Does anyone have that video of that powered pop-out rear side window mod that someone did? I think they were air actuated, but maybe they used servos. V8GT and m610 like this. wayne tormans purple GTthat drinkman owns now. there is a write up out there somewhere. Here is a short description of the elec. hood mod. A little more complicated is the electric unlocking mechanism for the hood, which is strictly necessary. I use a small actuator from a BMW E46 Coupe (rear vent window). As a backup, it is always still possible to open(and close) the hood manually by hand. I manage this by decoupling the actutors mecanical in direction open. On this two pics (3 & 4) it is visible how it works. A bearing slides on a additional rod, which is attached in front of the actuator. The rod is of course a little bit longer than the actuator stroke. that back in the days Opel itself converted two GT with a electical hood to display on car shows in 1968. Both cars were also equipped with a slow runing automatic headlight device. Last edited by V8GT; 1 Week Ago at 03:27 AM. G.v.Mainberg, clarkey, SpringGT and 3 others like this. Okay Jose, you are now going to have to show us a lot more pictures of the cool stuff on your car. I see a burled walnut instrument panel cover and a VERY nice cover under the dash where your switch is. What other cool things are hiding from us? I like your idea of one linear actuator going to a rod that goes through both hood hinges. Very strong and balanced. I do not understand how you can open the hood by hand. Do you have to disconnect the linear actuator? Will the actuator let you lift the hood when it has no power? If your battery dies, can you still open the hood? I was asked to post more about our rear windows. Here is a post I've done in the past. Sorry, no video. I'll see if I can get one this weekend. Lifes too short to drive boring cars or drink boring beers. Just don't do them at the same time. 1979 Triumph Spitfire with GT6+ conversion = "Spit6" Do you have to disconnect the linear actuator? I might be wrong, but what I think is happening is that the actuator can push (lengthen) against the bearing in Pic 4 and open the hood, but, if it stays closed (short), you can still pull it open manually (Pic 3). In the manual case, rather than the actuator lengthening, the whole shortened actuator just slides back because it's not secured at the bottom end. It's floating. That is, gravity closes the hood when the actuator lets it, there is no pulling constraint, only pushing. If you look at Pic 3, see the space between the end of the actuator and the start of the bearing (follow down the skinny shaft)... if that was in electric mode, you wouldn't see the rod between the actuator and the bearing, the actuator itself would have pushed out that far and be butted against the bearing (like in pic 4, where the actuator shaft is 3x as thick as the skinny shaft). It's like a telescoping tube. The inner tube is the steel bar, the outer tube is the actuator. Or I'm out to lunch. Last edited by MattsAwesomeStuff; 1 Week Ago at 03:03 PM. Yeah that would make sense. I work with linear actuators at work, but ours are air driven, so they're powered by air pressure in both directions. They don't budge if you try to move them at either end of their stroke. But if you bleed off the air pressure you can easily slide them back and forth. most people dont understand that „decoupling-thing“. The actuator is permanent in „direction open“ disconnected. Matts get it and describes exactly how it works in post #10. The BMW actuator which unlocks(and locks) the hood latch, works the same way. The pic´s shows the telescoping linkage. The linkage(hood latch) is pulled back from the original hood latch spring. The hood closes only through gravity. I have to note that this hood is little bit heavier due to sound damping mats. Ist not that much but what counts is lever arm and this one is very long. To be honest, i was able to identify the GT-Showcar from the 69 Brussel Motorshow and i know the VIN . I am really not kidding. The other one(last pic in post #5) was a GT 1100. Both were pre production cars. they're powered by air pressure in both directions. They don't budge if you try to move them at either end of their stroke. I think these are screw-type, (probably double-stage planetary with a pair of spur gears at the bottom). Regardless, same should apply to them here. I'm probably not explaining it right. I think what you mistakenly think is happening is that the actuator - when unpowered - allows the ram to slide freely. I don't think it does. The ram length still stays short. What is actually happening is that the locked-short RAM has nothing securing the bottom end of the ram from moving, only the top end. So you can overextend it manually. It's only designed to forcibly push. That would mean the bottom end of the ram can just flop about in any direction like a wang in the wind, so you need a thing that makes sure it settles back into the same position against the bumper when the hood is manually closed every. That thing is a much smaller rod that constrains the bottom of the actuator to be always pointing at the bearing. Like, umm, a catheter I suppose. This is a terrible analogy, I'm not comfortable talking about it anymore. Hopefully you understand now. You have described it correct. I manufactured and added the small sliding-rod-extention to the actuator. They dont come from factory with such an "wackadoodle-option" when you buy them. Last edited by V8GT; 1 Week Ago at 08:10 PM. Or maybe even more interesting would be how did Opel do this mod back in 1968/69? Are there pictures of one of those cars showing the mod? Unfortunately i dont know if there exist pic´s from this devices. Keep in mind that this modifications happend now 50 years ago. I gues most people who were involved in this, sadly dont live any more. Later i will post some pics from my under dash panel make of. Yes, this is exact like mine looks. It comes from Lenk. As promised, here are some pics from my foot room panel(under dash cover) fabrication. After the EPS install some years ago, i decide to cover that stuff with a foot panel. Finally i opted for a 2 piece design. I made the right side from thin sheet metal. The left side ist a wooden-metal mix. Before cover them up with leather, i „soften“ the surface with a layer of foam. This is verry important from seafty reasons in case of an haevy accident(car crash). The left side has a cutout for access to the fuse box. The cutout is covered withe the original Opel GT fuse cover. Later i added a foot room illumination and a „head light-on - ignition-off - door-open“ buzzer. I prefer the BMW one because it sounds not that harsh. The illlumination is conected to a adjustable delay modul withe dimmer function. It also controls the main interior lights. Ligths in plural because i added a second one on left side b pilar. The swich for the motorisiered hood come from a Mercedes W124(elec. sliding roof). The little „switch-console“ on the transmission tunel , whith in reality is the heater foot room air duct. In my case it hosted the EPS controls and other „under dash switches“. Over the years i updated this little piece several times. Pic 9 & 10 shows the last version. SpringGT, kwschumm, slracer and 2 others like this.

2019-04-24T06:33:00Z

https://www.opelgt.com/forums/general-discussions/108145-motorized-hood-mod.html

Our business has evolved so that our customers can thrive in theirs, providing them the flexibility to subscribe to software solutions tailored to fit their needs as they approach the future of making things. In order to accomplish this, we are now offering software solutions via subscription only. As of 1 August 2016 we completed this transition, which includes the end of sale of perpetual licences for most of our products. Can I continue to use my existing perpetual licences? Can I continue to use and renew my maintenance plan for my existing perpetual licence? How will I be able to purchase products now that perpetual licences are no longer available for purchase? Please refer to the Questions & Answers section below for more detailed information. 1.2 Which products were affected? 1.3 Was this a global change? 1.4 Why did Autodesk stop selling perpetual licences? 1.5 Does this affect existing software purchased under a perpetual licence? 1.6 How does this change impact me if I am on a maintenance plan? 1.7 How has Autodesk eased this transition for me? 1.8 Are there any changes to cloud-based services? 1.9 Will I be able to purchase a network activation for an existing licence now that Autodesk is no longer selling perpetual licences? 2.1 What do I get when I subscribe to Autodesk products or services? 2.2. Does my subscription use the cloud to store applications and data? 2.3 What are the key features and benefits of subscription? 2.4 What licensing options are currently available to me? 2.5 Are there any differences between the options for single-user and multi-user access? 2.6 Will Autodesk support preceding version rights for products on subscription? 2.7 Will subscription be available for Education or Government customers? 3.1 What is a maintenance plan? 3.2 What happens if I currently have a maintenance plan? 3.3 What happens if my maintenance plan expires? 3.4 How long can I remain on my maintenance plan? 3.5 Am I able to add additional perpetual licences to my maintenance plan? 3.6 What happens if I choose to discontinue my maintenance plan? 4.1 How does this change impact Enterprise Business Agreement customers? 4.2 What happens to customers with Enterprise Business Agreements that include perpetual rights to their software when the agreement ends? 4.3 Can customers with an Enterprise Business Agreement add new perpetual licences to their agreement? 4.4 Are Enterprise licensing models (i.e. Autodesk Multi-Flex, Autodesk Enterprise Token Flex) still available? 4.5 Where can Enterprise customers get more information? 5.1 How does this change affect customers without Internet connectivity? 5.2 How do these changes affect Education customers? Autodesk has stopped selling perpetual licences of most products. The purchase of new licences is now available only by subscription. In addition, the option to crossgrade to any of the affected products was discontinued when we stopped selling new perpetual licences. Autodesk has introduced an intuitive new language that will drive clarity and simplicity in our subscription offerings. Essentially, we have done away with subscription branding in order to make it easier for you to choose and purchase the software solutions that best fit your business needs. Autodesk made this change in order to transition to subscription-based products, which offers customers a lower entry price, greater choice of tools and the ability to pay-as-you-go. With its shift away from selling perpetual rights to using a specific version of software, Autodesk plans to continually innovate and improve its products & services, more tightly integrate them with cloud services, allow access from multiple devices at any time*, make them easier to deploy and manage and reduce file compatibility issues. No, it doesn't. Existing perpetual licences are still valid. You retain your perpetual software licence and can continue to use it in accordance with your perpetual licence agreement. If the software product is covered by a maintenance plan, you will also continue to receive maintenance benefits. If you are currently on a maintenance plan, you will retain the option to renew your maintenance plans for the affected products and receive corresponding benefits for as long as you want. The end-of-sale of perpetual licences only impacts the ability to purchase new perpetual licences. Providing the time needed to assess options and make plans by providing as much advance notice of the changes to come as possible. Customers can continue to renew their maintenance plans for as long as they want and receive/access maintenance benefits. Autodesk Account will provide a single place to manage all of your products, subscriptions and services. Providing the ability to lock in your subscription rate with the option of multi-year term lengths. Separately purchased cloud-based offerings, such as BIM 360, PLM 360 and Fusion 360, are not impacted. Cloud services that are included as a benefit of your maintenance plan or subscription will continue to be included in those offerings. 1.9 Will I be able to purchase a network activation for an existing perpetual licences now that Autodesk is no longer selling perpetual licences? No. You will no longer be able to convert a stand-alone perpetual licence to a shared network licence for any perpetual licences that are no longer being sold. If you need new or additional shared network licences, you can purchase a subscription with multi-user access. This can be done for individual products or a collection of products. Desktop software applications on subscription, as well as associated user data, continue to be stored on your local machine. Cloud service applications are run from the cloud; where you store your data, on the cloud or your local machine, is up to you. Autodesk offers the following options, allowing you to choose which best fits your needs. If you have an active subscription, you may have access to preceding version licences of eligible Autodesk software. For more details, please reference Autodesk Subscription Preceding Version Rights Eligibility on the Autodesk Knowledge Network. For details on availability, please contact your Authorised Autodesk Reseller or Autodesk Sales Representative. A maintenance plan ensures a perpetual licence holder receives benefits such as access to the latest software and product enhancements, technical support and in some cases, access to select cloud services while they keep their plan current. A maintenance plan agreement must be applied to a separately purchased perpetual licence. If you currently have a maintenance plan, you will continue enjoying the benefits of maintenance as long as you continue to renew. For the products listed in Question 1.2 above, it is important to renew your maintenance plan on time to continue to access the benefits. If the maintenance plan for your perpetual product is not renewed on time, you will then have to subscribe to the product if you would like to get the latest features and benefits. While Autodesk discontinued the sale of new perpetual licences, we are not eliminating maintenance plans. If you are currently on maintenance, you may continue to renew that plan for as long as you want. No. Additional perpetual licences may not be added to an existing maintenance plan. If your maintenance plan expires, you can continue using your perpetual licences. However, you will lose maintenance benefits such as updates, technical product support, flexible licence rights and access to select cloud services. If a maintenance plan is not renewed, you will be able to get the latest features and functionality by subscribing to a product. Customers who currently have an Enterprise Business Agreement with Autodesk for the Enterprise Flex, Multi-Flex or Token Flex offerings see no immediate change to the terms or benefits of their agreements. Customers with an Enterprise Business Agreement that includes perpetual rights to their software may exercise their rights to receive those perpetual licences at the end of their agreement or they may choose to renew those perpetual licences under a maintenance plan at that time. Customers with an active Enterprise Business Agreement prior to 31 July 2016 should refer to the terms of their agreement to determine access to additional perpetual licences. Yes. Autodesk Multi-Flex and Autodesk Enterprise Token Flex licensing models continue to be available for purchase for customers considering a new Enterprise Business Agreement. Customers with an Enterprise Business Agreement should speak directly with their Autodesk Account Executive for more information. For customers without Internet connectivity, we recommend considering a subscription with multi-user access, which allows them to use software without being connected to the Internet. 5.2 How do this change affect Education customers?

2019-04-26T00:11:56Z

https://www.autodesk.com.au/products/perpetual-licenses/perpetual-licenses-faq

The 1932 NFL season was the 13th regular season of the National Football League. The Boston Braves (the current Washington Redskins) joined the NFL before the season, whereas the loss of the Providence Steam Roller, Cleveland Indians and Frankford Yellow Jackets dropped league membership to eight teams, the lowest in NFL history; the league also had eight teams in 1943 due to World War II. Although the Green Bay Packers finished the season with 10 wins, the league title was determined at the time by winning percentage with ties excluded, so the Portsmouth Spartans and the Chicago Bears finished the season tied for first place (6–1). Since both games between the teams ended in ties, the NFL arranged for the first ever playoff game to determine the NFL champion. Extremely cold weather forced the game to be moved from Wrigley Field to the indoor Chicago Stadium. The makeshift football field in the stadium was only 80 yards long with undersized endzones, forcing officials to move the goal posts to the goal line due to a lack of space to put them at the back of the end zone, as was standard in college and professional football. This change was favored by players and fans, and the goal posts were moved to the goal line as one of several rule changes the league made in 1933, with the rule lasting until 1973. The Bears won the playoff game 9–0, which was scoreless until the fourth quarter, and as the game counted in the final standings, the Spartans finished in third place. The Spartans became the Detroit Lions in 1934. Because the Portsmouth Spartans and the Chicago Bears finished the season tied for first place, a playoff game was held to determine the NFL champion. The league decreased to eight teams in 1932. Following the 1932 season, the NFL would be split into two divisions (later two conferences), with the champions of each meeting in a championship game. This was the result of the end of the 1932 season, where there was a tie for first in the standings at the end of the regular season: as tied games did not count until 1972, the Spartans record of 6–1–4 and the Bears record of 6–1–6 were taken to be six wins, one loss, giving both an .857 win percentage. Had pure win-loss differential or the current (post-1972) system of counting ties as half a win, half a loss been in place in 1932, the Packers' record of 10–3–1 (.750, +7) would have won them a fourth consecutive championship, ahead of the Spartans' 6–1–4 (.727, +5) and the Bears' 6–1–6 (.692, +5). The Green Bay Packers were unbeaten (8–0–1) after nine games, and after the Thanksgiving weekend, their 10–1–1 record (.909) was still well ahead of Portsmouth at 5–1–4 (.833) and Chicago at 4–1–6 (.800). In Week Twelve (December 4), the Spartans handed the Packers a 19–0 defeat, while the Bears beat the Giants 6–0. Portsmouth, at 6–1–4 (.857), took the lead, while the Packers (10–2–1) and the Bears (5–1–6) were tied for second (.833). In Week Thirteen, the Bears hosted the Packers; a Green Bay win would have the Packers finish second with an 11–2–1 record (.846) and hand Portsmouth their first ever title. The Bears beat the Packers 9–0, meaning they finished 6–1–6, and tied for first in the standings with Portsmouth. Though it was described as a "playoff", the Bears 9–0 win over Portsmouth on December 18 counted in the regular season standings. As such, the Bears finished at 7–1–6 (.875) and won the 1932 title, with the Packers runners-up, and the Spartans, at 6–2–4 (.750), finished third. Kenneth "Ken" R. Wendt (January 29, 1910 – January 19, 1982) was an American football player, jurist, and politician. Wendt was a guard for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League in 1932. He then served in the Illinois General Assembly and as a judge in Cook County, Illinois. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed its name in 1922 to the National Football League, which it has retained ever since.From 1921 to 1931, the APFA/NFL determined its champion by overall win–loss record, with no playoff games; ties were not counted in the winning percentage total. The APFA did not keep records of the 1920 season; they declared the Akron Pros, who finished the season with an 8–0–3 (8 wins, 0 losses, 3 ties) record, as the league's first champions, by a vote of the owners, with the Buffalo-All Americans and Decatur Staleys also claiming the title. According to modern-tie breaking rules, the Buffalo All-Americans tied Akron for the championship. The Canton Bulldogs won two straight championships from 1922 to 1923, and the Green Bay Packers won three in a row from 1929 to 1931.There also has been controversy over the championshipships of the 1921 APFA season and the 1925 NFL season, with the Buffalo All-Americans laying claim to another championship in an incident known as the "Staley Swindle" and the Pottsville Maroons being stripped of their championship in 1925 for playing an exhibition game against college football powerhouse Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen, leading to a last minute field goal victory for the Maroons, stunning the crowd and nation, and also put the NFL ahead of college football for the first time ever. These three disputed championships contributed to the beginning of the NFL's rich history. The 1932 NFL season resulted in a tie for first place between the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans, and could not be resolved by the typical win–loss system. To settle the tie, a playoff game was played; Chicago won the game and the championship. The following year, the NFL split into two divisions, and the winner of each division would play in the NFL Championship Game. In 1967, the NFL and the rival AFL agreed to merge, effective following the 1969 season; as part of this deal, the NFL champion from 1966 to 1969 would play the AFL champion in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game in each of the four seasons before the completed merger. The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion.The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty championships. The Packers were also the only team to win three straight championships, an achievement they accomplished twice: from 1929–31 and from 1965–67. The Chicago Bears won a total of eight titles, and the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, and New York Giants each won four. The Bears recorded the largest victory in a championship game, defeating the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game; six other title games ended in a shutout as well. The Philadelphia Eagles recorded two consecutive shutouts in 1948 and 1949. New York City hosted the most championship games (eight), while the highest-attended title game was the 1955 NFL Championship Game, where 85,693 fans showed up in Los Angeles to watch the Browns beat the Rams 38–14. Staten Island () is one of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the southwest portion of the city, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. With an estimated population of 479,458 in 2017, Staten Island is the least populated of the boroughs but is the third-largest in land area at 58.5 sq mi (152 km2). The borough also contains the southern-most point in the state, South Point. The borough is coextensive with Richmond County and until 1975 was referred to as the Borough of Richmond. Staten Island has sometimes been called "the forgotten borough" by inhabitants who feel neglected by the city government.The North Shore—especially the neighborhoods of St. George, Tompkinsville, Clifton and Stapleton—is the most urban part of the island; it contains the designated St. George Historic District and the St. Paul's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District, which feature large Victorian houses. The East Shore is home to the 2.5-mile (4 km) F.D.R. Boardwalk, the fourth-longest boardwalk in the world. The South Shore, site of the 17th-century Dutch and French Huguenot settlement, developed rapidly beginning in the 1960s and 1970s and is now mostly suburban in character. The West Shore is the least populated and most industrial part of the island.

2019-04-23T16:30:55Z

https://howlingpixel.com/i-en/1932_NFL_season

What actions might be needed to jump start the tourism industry in Pohnpei? I believe much has been said about this topic in the past. However, I'd like to bring it up again; so that we can have a new and fresh look at it again. I hope those who are in the know about this subject matter--would contribute to this discussion. First, tour operators used to say that Pohnpei airport was too short for charter flights. Well, the airport was extended several years ago with financial assistance and technical assistance from Japan. Second, others use to complain that there is not enough room. Well, there is a new couple of storey hotel building in town. We probably have over 300 rooms available--more or less--Cliff, Ocean View, the new Hotel, Joy and others. 1. If there is already a serious and comprehensive report on how to start the tourism industry in Pohnpei, I am asking anybody to let us know; so that we can read it and update it; or take some actions accordingly. 2. I am assuming that a complete and good report does not exist. As such, let me offer some ideas: a) a tourism market analyst should look at the resources that Pohnpei has to offer; and b) determine whether they could attract certain type of tourists from China or Korea or Japan or America or Europe or where. 3. The question is whether at least one charter flight could be arranged from either Japan, Korea or China per week? If we start with that assumption, what are the necessary actions to take in order to accomodate the planes requirements; and to accomodate the tourists; and make them occupied or happy or contented for at least 3 days; before they return home. These are my initial comments and suggestions for now. Is it possible or not to have a modest number of tourists to come to Pohnpei consistently--every week--for a whole year at a time? If possible, then, we should go for it. Any other observations and suggestions would be appreciated. The public could give the Pohnpei Visitors’ Bureau a big pay raise and a bigger round of applause. If not, then try the opposite or something else, but don’t do nothing and expect something. For example, the US national debt was doubled; the jobs were going over-seas; so the Americans tried a different approach to the problem. They elected a billionaire CEO instead of the customary career politician. Like the idiom goes, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” So they tried someone very different from your ordinary politician. Of course, the world is still full of insane people, who demand the usual approach to a growing problem. But that's another topic. Anyway, that is my two cents and I hope you would appreciate it, like you said that you would. There is much left unsaid about the complex issue of tourism. Other Micronesians should contribute in this discussion, rather than in those they detest. So I heard that for Guam tourism, the Korean tourists are known to prefer smaller hotels, not the fancy big ones. And they also don't spend as much. On the other hand, the Japanese tourism prefer to stay in the large hotels; and do spend a lot per visitor. Whether this distinction is related to the tourist promoters who are linked the particular hotels, it'll be good to know. It's not good to make such generalizations. I don't know what can be said of the Chinese tourists or US tourists or Russian tourist. I think if we really want to try to develop Pohnpei tourism, we need, first of all, to understand such preferences of the different groups as tourism targets; and at the same time, we need to know if Pohnpei can provide what the particular group would find as contributing to their positive tourism experience. So this is the basic principle of business an marketing analysis; and is needed before we can begin to design the tourism program and promotion. So that is my first recommendation. Just some thoughts on this nice and noisy New Year's day--Jan. 1, 2019. First and foremost Tourism critically require CLEANLINESS! Our Environment must be presentably clean without artificial rubbish. Our Air, Ocean, Rivers, streams, shores and riversides must be clean. Appropriate infrastructure must also be in place. Build it and they will come. We must invest heavily into advertisements locally and globally. Preserve our Customs and Traditions. Not what is happening today where the Tourist would come and see the traditional Leaders sitting infront in Western clothing. For Pohnpei this is what it needs for Tourism to move forward. Did you say that we need clean up our environment and rake our yards? Well, I'll be damned! Trump was right all along! So I am looking for a tourism study that shows and analyzes the "segmentation" of the potential tourism targets. Tourism, like any product lines--such as soft drink, beer, food products--could be more understood if a "marketing study" shows the segmentation of the potential market including desirable and undesirable behaviors; spending patterns; tolerance for long flights; desire for shopping vs. visiting cultural sites; duration of vacation days per different groups; what would constitute a happy tourist; etc., etc. Needless to say, once you understand your potential customers--it'll be easier to improve the sites where the tourists would visits; etc., etc.,. So the question is this: does Pohnpei have the basic assets that could be developed or improved--so that the different segments of the tourism population could be attracted to visit? Tourism matters. Don’t count the US out. We have A LOT of eco-tourists who snorkel and dive. Does FSM have the logistical capability of handling 300 avid snorkelers and divers at a time? Protect the mangroves and reefs; without them you will be left with a deserted ocean. Is it possible to Charter a non-stop flight out of Los Angeles? If so then running ads in the diving and adventure magazines might allow you to fill those planes. Sundays out of LA and back on Saturdays would allow connections to be made to any destination in the US; with the folks leaving their offices on a Friday and returning to work on a Monday. Perhaps use the planes for domestic flights during the week. Does Yap and Chuck have airports large enough to handle those kinds of aircraft? Beyond tourism: FSM has one of the largest exclusive economic zones on the planet. I can imagine as a small country your fish and ocean resources are being exploited with very little return to FSM itself. The fishing boats should be flagged in FSM. The workers on the boats should be Micronesian, the processing plants should be Micronesian; and those ocean resources should be closely monitored and aggressively protected. I know how this world works; I am confident you are receiving a few pennies on the dollar of economic return. What percentage of capital outflow is represented in diesel fuel imports for energy production? Given topography and climate that is about as big a waste as I can imagine. Given your cost of energy; tidal, solar, and wind could be gold plated and still be more profitable than diesel generation. But more imporantly it would stem the hemorage of capital those imports represent. Capitalize your own banks and businesses. That single action would probably be the second most effective way in stemming capital outflow and encouraging capital formation. Invest locally and use reinvestment to grow; it is the only way you will be free; and that matters. So, yes, US divers is just one segment of the possible many segments of the tourism market. I am assuming this segment, if you look at it closely, will have its own characteristics and behavior and spending patterns that would be very different from other segments such as tourists from China or Korea or Japan, etc. The question is what kinds of assets or attractions does Pohnpei have--or that can be developed--to cater to this segment of the tourism industry. First, is the cost: there are closer destinations such as Belize, the Carribean islands, etc. which will cost less, in terms of airline costs, to visit compared to the price of the tickets to Pohnpei and back. Second, what about the attractions for tourists: will the US-based divers be willing to bypass Hawaii and its other islands--to come to Pohnpei. Do we have such hot diving spots in Pohnpei to compete with other diver destinations? I think it's limited. These and more are some of the items in the list to be evaluated if were we to try to focus on this segment of the market. It is doable but we need to make a good case as to why the US-based divers would be attracted to come to Pohnpei and not other less expensive and accessible destinations that have more to offer. I don't want to sound negative. American divers have a lot of money to spend compared to other segments of the tourism population so it should be seriously considered. It'll be good to hear from marketing experts regarding this segment and as to whether or not, it should be the focus of the Pohnpei tourism promotion drive. Just some ideas. Has anybody considered cruise-lines. I hate traveling in airplanes for long durations. A service based economy would certainly not be a first choice. The South Pacific has multiple times the number of fauna and flora species than the Caribbean Basin. I thought Pohnpei had healthy coral reefs and good water clarity. That is the only attraction needed to attract divers and snorkelers from around the world. Has the entire planet been trawled with bottom nets? I was hoping a few spots were missed. Flora and Fauna is what the world wants to experience; it is that simple. Unfortunately the density of both flora and fauna in our oceans is rapidly decreasing. If there are healthy coral reefs with large numbers of fish then imagine a market where the product is exposure to the most species of flora and fauna on the planet. It sounds foolish to use scarce capital to hire marketing experts for such a rare market. That is like saying you don’t know what you have in your hands. Pohnpei will never be able to compete with the highly sophisticated and highly profitable casinos in places like Las Vegas, Macau, Hong Kong, Monaco, London, etc. A tourist attraction unique to Pohnpei is Nan Madol, a United Nations World Heritage site. But until it is restored and maintained, made more accessible to visitors of all ages, and supported with world class tour guides, lodging, and restaurants, not many people will spend thousands of dollars to visit the place. So if casino is out, what is it that might attract Chinese or other gamblers to Pohnpei? I don't see any. Cruise liners is one possible ways to bring tourists in. But I don't think somebody will deliberately get on a cruise-liner with Pohnpei destination solely in mind. What we can do is for our tourism promoters to contact the cruiseliner operators that pass thru our waters--so they can make a scheduled stop on Pohnpei port for a couple of days. I heard that some of these cruise-lines go to Guam or Saipan and other destinations in our neighborhood. So it might be possible to find ways to get them to stop, more often, or on a regular basis at Pohnpei port. What about Korean visitors or Japanese visitors? We do have some Japanese visitors that come thru on a more regular basis. There are Japanese-speaking local tour operators who are equipped to hold Japanese tourists--if or when they come. But I am beginning to think that we need to approach the development of the Pohnpei tourism in a slightly different way. I don't think our own government agencies and employees--who are tasked to promote and attract tourists--can do the job. It's not that they are not qualified. It's just the way the mass tourism market work. If we want to bring in, say, 200 to 300 tourists to Pohnpei on a charter flight, I think we need to have the involvement of tour packagers or tour promoters--located where the possible tourists are. The promoters will be the ones to advertise the tour packages; arrange for flights when there are about 200 to 300 interested tourists. They can facilitate and make bookings with the local Pohnpei hotel from their offices in Japan or S. Korea; and even plan out, example, a 3-day package. The tour operators are the ones who know the needs and desires of different tourists group. So they will be the ones who we can depend on the make the arrangements. It may mean that our governments will need to find partners who are tour operators; and pay them certain amount plus commission in order for them to sell Pohnpei as destination. I think tourists visiting out-o- the-way places like Pohnpei would like to be dealing with reliable and trustworthy tour operators--for their safety and for assurance about the value of their vacations. So I don't know what assets or attractions(?) are there in Pohnpei to attract a certain group. We still need to conduct tourist marketing studies, the segmentation of the market. In the end, we want some sort of tourist profiles as per different countries as segmented by age group, family group, environmental study group, historical study group, divers group, etc., etc. In short, I think we need to develop working relationship and compensation package agreement with tourist promoters. We need to bring some of them to Pohnpei to look at our assets; and advice us on how to improve Pohnpei; so that future tourists will be satisfied once they get here. Just some thoughts. Besides the Nan Madol World Heritage site, FSM has spectacular sport fishing and scuba diving to attract tourists. WWII artifacts and shipwrecks can also attract both Japanese and American families with WWII historical connections. And yes, we need experienced tourism industry professionals to propose marketing strategies for possible implementation....IF the people and the government are really serious about tourism, that is. So far, I haven't seem much evidence of serious interest, sad to say. FM, I agree that FSM has many attractions that could draw tourists to visit. But for business strategy, I think the government officials who are responsible for tourism policies should really work with professionals--so that the different FSM states' attractions will be identified and amplified--for the purpose of differentiating each one as a unique destination in itself. I say this because when we say FSM, it means a large region; so it'll be difficult for tourist to be able to visit all the destinations in the FSM. So, let's say that a typical tourist--from Japan, S. Korea, US, Europe, Russia, etc.,--has only 3 days for vacation. How do we attract those kinds of visitors to a particular destination. I would say that we should assume that these tourists with only 3-day vacation time will only be going to one destination--whether it's Pohnpei or Chuuk or Yap or Kosrae--in the case of the FSM. Of course, other competing destinations for the 3-day vacationers are Hawaii, Guam, Palau, Saipan, RMI and other nearby locations. So for the FSM, we need to define the potential destinations within the FSM. We can say that Pohnpei is unique because of its Nan Madol ruins plus its diving spots. Chuuk is unique because of the World War II wrecks. Yap is unique because of its traditional money and its sting ray alley. Also, Kosrae has its own ruins and special forests, etc. In short, we need to understand, on one hand, the tourists profiles and segmentation; so we can target the different segments--in order to lure them to the spectacular and unique attractions within each of the FSM states. On the other hand, we need to define our destinations in a way that they will attract the different segments of the tourism population. Just some thoughts but I am sure these are already well understood by government officials responsible for tourism development and promotion. Hope so. Of the three Freely Associated States, only Palau has a thriving tourist industry. Both the FSM and the RMI would be wise to learn from the ROP how to effectively attract tourists. In the meantime, fisheries remain our only significant income-producing industry....and that income will continue to fluctuate annually due to tuna migration and global warming. I learn much on tourism from your comments, but I sometimes feel you are leap frogging. I think Factsmatter pointed out a problem which is the lack of "serious interest." Shouldn't we address this problem first? Does anyone know why Micronesians, excluding Belauans and Chamorros, lack the motivation to develop their tourism industry? For example, lack of physical fitness, low energy, or maybe poor diet is to blame. Too much substance abuse maybe? Too content with no dreams or visions for greatness? Too lazy? Don't want to change lifestyle or develop self? Land's too sacred to be developed or discussed? Bored of same old leadership? Not enough public lands like in Koror and the Marianas? Are Micronesians really free men and women? If so, then why are we not "seriously interested" in building up our tourism, economy and country? Maybe we just don't like tourists and want to be left alone, like most conquered peoples living in injun reservations. Or maybe we dread the ecological, cultural, and economical impacts of tourism. Anyway, I think we should also consider the public's opinions, especially the local communities' and land owners,' when planning these ventures. Because everyone will be impacted. z, yes, you are making a lot of good points. I am hoping that by engaging in serious discussions about Pohnpei tourism, we can come to some conclusions; and some answers to questions which you have raised. I don't want to believe that Pohnpeians are lazy or don't want development thru tourism. But I also don't have an answer as to how to develop tourism in Pohnpei--to a level similar to Palau or Guam, etc. Maybe some of the reasons that you say are correct. But I am not sold yet on the idea that we are the cause of our own problem--our attitude, our way of life, low energy, etc. In the end, it might prove that tourism--in the volume comparable to Palau or Guam--simply cannot occur in Pohnpei for the following reasons which have been mentioned by different people--some in this Forum, etc. Pohnpei does not have the beaches that attract family-type tourists. Pohnpei is too far out of the way; so it'll take many vacation hours spent on the plane; so it does not attract people with only 3-day vacation. Pohnpei does not have large shopping centers such as those in Guam (Walmart, Duty-Free, etc). While Nan Madol is one of the best place in the world to visit, it would only take probably a couple of hours to make a tour to Nan Madol; and what do you do after that. Another problem that I see is restrictions for hiring quality service people, such as workers from the Philippines, to come work in Pohnpei. It is difficult to recruit these workers because they also have to get US visa just to transit thru Guam a couple of hours in order to go to Pohnpei. In contrast, Palau has good beaches although you have take boats to the nice rock island beaches. But some of the hotels in Koror have built artificial beaches by the hotels to cater to their tourism customers. The population of Palau is small; so the number of Palauans working for tourism is small. Most of the service workers such as waitress at restaurants, cooks, etc, are from the Philippines. And it's easy for Palau to bring in workers from PI because they don't have to go thru Guam--so they don't need to apply for visa which is costly as well as time consuming. Most importantly, Palau has been able to maintain its clean environment which is appreciated by the tourists. So should Pohnpei give up on tourism because it does have the same assets and attractions as Palau or Guam? At some point in time, the leadership has to decide. I would say that we still need experts on tourism development and marketing and promotion to visit Pohnpei under contract with the Pohnpei State or with the FSM. They still need to do assessments of our assets and attraction sites. They need to help us figure as to whether or not our assets and attractions can be good enough to attract a certain segment of the tourism population. We don't have to have mass tourism although the airport has been extended to accommodate charter flights. We might be able to focus on smaller number of visitors; and then, build from there. We'll see. Does anyone know why Air Niugini and Air Nauru do not want to land in Guam? Only Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, South Korean, and Philippines airlines like to land in Guam. Why is this? Anyone know why Air Niugini and Air Nauru hate Guam so much? Disregard everything that you are talking about with regards to tourism in the FSM. Let us explore this question instead. Why does the US Government allow Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, Taiwanese, and Philippine airlines to land in Guam but not Air Niugini and Air Nauru? Is it because the pilots have curly hair? Why is this? I think any airline that wants to fly to any country must be able to meet that country's standard. In order to fly to Guam or Honolulu, the aircraft must meet US safety standard; pilots must meet training and retraining requirements. The airline must also have an office and crew at the airport; to service the plane and customers. It probably can contract other airlines to provide these services at the beginning. It also probably need to lease or own those ramp walkway that are moved to connect to the plane once in place; for customers to work thru to the airport--unless you have a small aircraft which only requires customer to exit the plane; and walk on the airport open air to the building. The 2 airlines that you are talking about probably don't have the volume of customers to Guam--to be able to invest on the required infrastructure. It probably does not have enough revenue to meet insurance requirements. Lastly, I am sure the business competition from United or other more established US carrier will always be a factor. I heard that United--like the Continental before it-- keeps reducing its ticket prices whenever Air Nauru tried to have flights to Guam or other destinations in Micronesia-in order to undercut Air Nauru's attempt to get a foothold of the Guam market. So I am sure it has nothing to do with "curly hair" but more on stiff competition; as there are other "curly hair" pilots in United and other carriers that come to Guam. Air Niugini has been trying to get landing rights into Guam since 1970s. However, for some strange reason, the US Government never grants them landing rights, despite the fact that it grants landing rights to Asian country airlines from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Philippines. What would be the reason for not granting landing rights to Air Niugini? Please tell us because I think you already know this. We just need to justify why should a tourist fly over Guam and Hawaii to come to FSM. Once we can get that traveler to FSM, we will have tourist. Good question. I think some smart person--with practical experience in tourism program planning and strategizing--might be able to provide some answers. Or, it'll be a combination of experts in business development and marketing strategies; or some people from Japan or S. Korea who actually have real life experience with packaging tours from their countries to Pacific islands nations such as Guam, Hawaii, CNMI. People with such expertise could be paid as consultant--to put some of their recommendations together to answer the question above.

2019-04-20T14:42:59Z

http://micronesiaforum.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/378545/

Yikes! It's the last day of November and the Christmas countdown begins in earnest starting tomorrow. Here are some ideas from last week's party that might come in handy! From Hazel and Gold Designs , this gorgeous inlaid wood Christmas tree tray! I have a friend w/ mad woodworking skills and I have to show him this! Repurpose and Upcycle shared her beautiful rustic farmhouse decor with links to some of the DIYs. Love this vignette! How much fun are these Edible Candles from All That's Jas? Would make a great centerpiece that you get to eat as dessert! Printables make seasonal decor so simple. This one from My Busy Beehives is ready to print and frame! I will start decking my halls this coming weekend and wanted to add some new items to my Christmas decor. This sign was easy to make starting with a ready to decorate sign I found at Michaels 70% off! Images / Phrase to cut. The ornaments and "BELIEVE" phrase were in my library, previously purchased from the Silhouette online store. Size and cut your images and text. I used the "BELIEVE" and ornament images I got from the Silhouette online store. For the rest of the sentiment, I just chose fonts from my library. The ornament image is designed with the snowflakes to be cut separately and layered. I wanted to change that up so I un-grouped everything and then put the snowflakes inside the ornament. Once you have your images cut out, then take a deep breath, have a Harry Potter marathon on in the background, and "proceed to weed" your vinyl. Once that's done then apply the transfer tape and prepare to apply to your sign. I applied the "BELIEVE" vinyl first, then the rest of my phrase and finally the ornaments. It has a vintage / farmhouse feel to it! From our home to yours, wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving filled with family, friends, food, and lots of love and laughs. Hi all and welcome to another week's fun of sharing creativity. Can you believe this time next week all the hours of cooking and prepping and depending on where you are maybe eating will be over? One week to Thanksgiving! If you're still getting ready to host, here are some ideas to inspire you. Here's a lovely tablescape from The Handmade Home. Love the Moscow Mule mugs and the centerpiece basket filled with white gourds and candles! Head on over because she's also got some free downloadable place cards! You still have time to add a Fall themed pillow. I especially love the non-traditional color of this one from Kathleen at Our Hopeful Home. If you're in a place where weather permits hosting an outdoor dinner, check out this gorgeously rustic Boho Chic idea from Birds Party. Finally, from Carol at The Red Painted Cottage comes this gorgeous thick wood tray complete with a tutorial ( bottom of post) so you can make your own or maybe one to give as a holiday gift! The first thing I'll say is, if you've wanted to try heat transfer vinyl and been intimidated so keep putting it off because you think it's too complicated ....DON'T. Because that was me, I used it for the first time and was kicking myself saying "Why didn't I do this sooner?" There's no logic behind why I thought that, just did. But I finally decided to go for it and it's a game changer. I decided to start with something simple: a pillow. I also decided to go w/ a design that didn't matter if I messed up the mirroring because I kept reading how key that is to using HTV. I'm not going to describe pillow construction. My sewing skills extend to four straight lines. The front side goes down. When you put your vinyl on your cutting mat, you're cutting from the underside of the vinyl. It took me one attempt to figure this out. HTV comes with a clear plastic liner, its own transfer tape in a way which is the side you want to touch your cutting mat. See how the matte side is "up"? That's what you want. The shiny side is what will go on your project and this is a shot during the weeding process. About that. I HATE WEEDING. If you're not a vinyl user, weeding is removing the parts of the vinyl you don't need to reveal the image. This stuff just pulled away so easily! This is a (bad) picture of the front / shiny side that will go on your project. Once your project is weeded, it's already on the equivalent of the transfer tape so it's super easy to lay down on your material. The heat process is more press than iron. When applying your iron, it's more of a press and pick up than slide your iron around. Press, hold, pick up, move to next session. Now, I did do some slight gliding but the main process is press and lift. This is why you'll see serious HTV people use a heat press which is like a vinyl panini maker. You will use a pressing cloth on top of the plastic carrier sheet when applying heat. This is good. What's not good is deciding to use said cloth directly on top of the vinyl when you're just trying to make extra sure that you've applied enough heat. This will result in the weave of your pressing cloth ( mine was a scrap of a flour sack towel) transferring to your vinyl. Now as it turned out this was OK w/ my project because the texture looked kinda cool but in general, if you don't want this, keep the plastic from the vinyl between the surface of your project and your pressing cloth! Once my image was applied, I went about construction my pillow. And voila! If you're using words or letters, you will need to "mirror" (flip) your project before you cut it or your letters will be backwards when you apply. I chose this image because it didn't matter if I messed that up since it was the same either way. As it turned out, the Cameo 3 asks you if you want to do this because you will have selected the HTV material in your cut settings. If you're not using a full sheet of vinyl, you need to pay attention to which side of the mat you put your vinyl on, again because of the mirroring. So if you place a smaller than 12x12 piece on your mat on the left side, choose mirror, the Cameo at any rate will actually cut from the right side of your mat so put your vinyl on the right side of the mat! I'm happy with my first attempt and have a new addition to my Thanksgiving decor. Side Table. Found these pumpkin signs last year 90% off after Halloween. Painted and applied glitter vinyl. Turkeys were 75% off at JoAnn one year. Painted w/ glitter paint. Marc Roberts Harvest Fairy. I have a collection of Christmas fairies but found this Fall themed one on sale one year. As much as I dislike eating anything pumpkin, I love making pumpkin projects. Go figure! I thought I'd round up some of my favorite pumpkin transformations. I did these for Halloween but can work for Thanksgiving / Fall. Faux pumpkin, silk leaves, rolled paper roses and a drawer pull. More tissue paper and Mod Podge. Drop cloth, fabric and leather scraps. I hope you're all enjoying this Saturday, doing whatever fills your soul. This week's party continues here. I saw this quote somewhere online as I was hopping around and don't remember where but it resonated with me so I decided to make a printable. It's sized 8x10 so click on whichever image to bring to full resolution. Graphics are from a Rustic Wreath collection I downloaded from Creative Market. Happy Friday Eve all and welcome to another party. Hope you've all had a great week. I'm pleased to announce the winner of my recent Paperless Post giveaway ( winner was randomly selected via Rafflecopter) is Kim who has been notified via email. Thanks to everyone who participated. OK who else has never heard of an "Ears and Beers" party (as the name implies, it involves corn and beer)? I love hosting this party because I learn new things all the time. Jenny from Jenny Louise Marie shared how she hosted one of these and you really need to check it out to see all the amazing things she did and incporated popcorn, candy corn, corn tortilla chips, Mexican street corn, candy corn jello shots and of course, beer! She sent her guests home with these corn themed favors that could easily work for Thanksgiving. My son is coming home for Thanksgiving so I must have beer on my mind since he is a craft beer aficionado. I know not everyone drinks beer so you could easily do this w/ your beverage of choice , but Milena and Chris from Craftbeering came up with a fun way to count down until Christmas especially since there are many seasonal brews that are only out a certain times of the year. You could even have a different flavor for each day! Tis the season to be wreathy and Cathy from Vintage Paint and More has got you covered. Finally, if you are looking for pie alternatives for Thanksgiving or for any time, check out this gorgeous Apple Galette from Mrs. Kringles Kitchen! OK now on to this week's party!

2019-04-22T05:03:05Z

http://www.answerischoco.com/2017/11/

Magnolia is a magnificent movie, one that aims high for the sky and hits its direct target. It is a true gem of cinema, one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen. This is director Paul Thomas Anderson’s crown jewel, and this is from a director who has made some of the best films of the last fifteen years, like There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Punch Drunk Love. Like Anderson’s other films, Magnolia is not for everyone. Some find it pretentious and overlong while others criticize its narrative style. But Magnolia is done perfectly. There is not one single second of the film I would have taken out and not one second I disliked. It’s completely engrossing and is made up of many layers. Magnolia is as epic as Lawrence of Arabia, as emotional as E. T., and as thrilling as Apocalypse Now. The movie stretches out over three hours yet I could have sat in my seat for five hours watching the events unfold. Magnolia opens up with a sequence narrated by Ricky Jay who tells the audience about great coincidences. He gives three examples, one of which involves a man committing suicide by jumping off a roof. As he is falling, he is killed by a shotgun blast before landing in a net that would save his life. His mother fired that gun, but she aimed it at her husband but missed. The gun was not supposed to be loaded but the son had done so a few weeks before in hopes that his parents would kill each other. Another coincidence is about how a scuba diver is killed in an unlikely incident. He is swimming in a lake when all the sudden a seaplane swoops down and accidently picks him up in an attempt to dowse a forest fire. As it turns out, the scuba diver works as a black jack dealer at a local casino and the pilot of the seaplane got in a fight with the dealer before when he lost a car game. The pilot, now feeling guilty, commits suicide. Anderson then brings out the central stories of the film. Magnolia is about a group of people’s lives in one day in Las Angeles. Each of Anderson’s stories has similar themes, such as death, resentment, and forgiveness, but they are all unique. One of the stories has to do with Stanley Spector (Jeremy Blackman), a smart, young boy who is close to beating a record on the game show What Do Kids Know? His father (Michael Bowen) encourages Stanley to beat the record but in reality is only concerned on the cash prize. The game show host Jimmy Gator (Phillip Baker Hall), at the same time, is dying of cancer. He tells his daughter Claudia (Melora Walters) about this, but she resents him. She’s resorted to snorting cocaine each day in her apartment while listening to music at full blast. Anderson also gives a story about “former quiz kid Donnie Smith” (William H. Macy). When he was a boy he was a child star on a game show like Stanley but now he’s a drunk with a bad job. He wants to get orthodontics to attract a bartender, but is too shy to even talk to him. Another narrative is about Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), an old wealthy man also dying of cancer, wants to see his long-lost son before he dies. His nurse Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman) attempts to find him and discovers Earl’s son is Frank T. J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), a stud who runs a program on seducing women. Mackey resents his father since he abandoned him and his mother as a child when his mother had cancer. Meanwhile, Earl’s second wife Linda (Julianne Moore) searches for redemption. She had originally married Earl for his money but now actually legitimately cares about him. She knows that she will receive a chunk of his estate when he dies which she doesn’t want. There is also the story of Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly), an officer who is fervent with Christianity. Like Phil, Officer Kurring serves as a caretaker for the characters. He comforts Claudia and even asks her out on a date, despite her pathetic state. There are many parallels between these different events which all intercut with each other. Many films with multiple stories tend to be predictable, but Magnolia is completely different. It takes twists and turns and the ending is so unexpected that I was agape with amazement. I won’t spoil it, but I doubt anyone would have actually guessed that. Magnolia is a golden achievement for director Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson made this film when he was 28, which is incredible seeing that there are directors who couldn’t accomplish this when they’re twice his age. Paul Thomas Anderson has complete control over the film, never loosing his course. He delves into the lives of his characters and switches to different stories at the most precise moments. He commonly uses steady-cams in the film, which he executes brilliantly. One scene features Stanley walking into the game show building. The audience first assumes this was meant to show Stanley has just entered the building but it is in reality much more. The audience is then shown the cameramen setting up the set, Jimmy talking to his wife, and Stanley’s dad walking down behind the scenes until Anderson finally places the camera on the front of the stage. I was reminded of the Copablanca scene in GoodFellas, which Anderson must have taken into consideration for this. Anderson also hints themes of religion. One obvious indication of this is Officer Kurring, but there are plenty of more clues. Children are meant to represent prophets, foretelling the future to adults (this is highlighted by Stanley and another boy). The movie also deals with forgiveness and love, which are repeated throughout the film. The greatest triumph of Magnolia is its cast. I don’t think there has been a ensemble as good as Magnolia’s. I knew I was going to like the cast because some of my favorite actors, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, and John C. Reilly, but I didn’t know I was going to love it as much as I did. Every performance is fantastic. Moore is brutal in her role, Macy and Hall are tearful, and Reilly is forgiving. But Tom Cruise is the one who really steals the show. I’ve never been a Tom Cruise fan in particular but he was amazing in the movie. Out of all the characters in the movie, Frank is the deepest and most layered. As the film progresses, the audience learns more and more about him and connect with his situation. Magnolia is a filmmaker’s dream, a great accomplishment that will surely be recognized as a great piece of art. It’s a film that comes once every blue moon, one that challenges filmmaking and pushes the gold standard. « What’s your favorite movie soundtrack? Great review. I remember having to analyse the opening scene with all the coincidences during my film studies degree and it was great dissecting it all. It’s definitely one of those films that divides opinion, PTA seems to be developing a habit of that! Out of all of what I’ve seen from Anderson, this is my favorite. It’s definitely a film to rewatch to examine all the themes. Thanks for commenting. Great post, the scene that I always remember is the raining frogs. Strange yet very memorable. The scene is so strange yet so magnificent. I was in awe when it occurred. This has quickly become one of my favorite movies and I loved every second of it. Thanks for commenting. Paul Thomas Anderson succeeds with this where I think a lot of other directors would have failed. Yeah, what’s really amazing is that he made this film when he was only 28. Most directors can’t accomplish something like Magnolia in a lifetime. Nice post, William H. Macy floors me every time I watch this. Macy is great in his role. Thanks for commenting. Jesus! What a terrific movie! It’s not only my favorite from Anderson, but definitely my favorite Cruise performance of all-time and shows exactly why the guy is no slouch when it comes to powerful, dramatic-acting. Good review. Thanks! It’s my favorite by Anderson as well and Tom Cruise does a fantastic job. Anderson’s films have actors in top form and Magnolia has quickly become one of my favorite films. Thanks! Yeah, this may have the best ensemble cast ever. Definitely by favorite by Anderson.

2019-04-25T02:37:45Z

https://cinematicfilmblog.com/2012/11/07/magnolia-an-exhilarating-emotional-ride/

Investor sentiment measures may be used as contrarian indicators. We expect the market to do the opposite of what the indicators are saying when they reach an extreme level of bullish/greed/optimism or bearish/fear/pessimism. Identifying extreme levels of positive or negative sentiment may give us an indicator of the direction the stock market is likely to trend next. I observe when sentiment reaches overly optimistic levels like it did late 2017 into January 2018, the stock market trend trends down or at least sideways afterward. In reverse, after investor sentiment becomes extremely pessimistic, the stock market tends to trend back up. Although extreme investor sentiment may be used as a contrarian indicator, I do not base my investment or tactical trading decisions on it by itself. I use investor sentiment measures and indicators to indicate and confirm my other signals of a potential trend change. For example, when bullish investor sentiment is rising from a lower level but not yet reached an extreme high, it’s just confirming trend following. However, when bullish sentiment reaches an extreme it warns me to be prepared for a potential countertrend. All those who want to buy may have bought, so buying enthusiasm may be exhausted. That’s what I observed in January 2018. After prices fall investor sentiment shifts to bearish and they fear more loss. Once the level of fear reaches an extreme it begins to suggest those who want to sell have sold and we could see selling become exhausted and a selling climax. We have two types of investor sentiment measures: Polls and indicators. The results are then consolidated into the AAII Investor Sentiment Survey, which offers us some insight into the mood of individual investors. Bearish investor sentiment is negatively correlated with stock market index returns. Below I created a chart of the S&P 500 stock index with an overlay of the % bearish investor sentiment. On the bottom, I added the correlation between the S&P 500 and the % bearish investor sentiment. We can visually see there is a negative correlation between investors getting more bearish as stock prices fall. For example, few investors were bearish in 2014 into 2015 until the stock index fell -12% in August 2015, then the % of bearish investors spiked up. We also saw the % of bearish investors extremely low in January 2018 as the stock index reached an all-time high. After the stock index declined -20% at the end of 2018 we saw the % of bearish investors spike up again. As we enter 2019, the % of bearish investors is at a historical extreme high level so we may be observing a selling climax as the desire to sell gets exhausted. Bullish investor sentiment is positively correlated with stock index returns, except after stock prices fall, then investors lose their optimism. In the chart below, we see the % of bullish investors trending up along with stocks 2014 into 2015, but then as prices fell late 2015 into 2016 they lose their optimism for stocks. We saw another spike to an extreme level of bullishness late 2017 into 2018 as the stock index reached all-time highs. The % of bullish investors declined with great momentum after prices fell sharply. As we enter 2019, the % of bullish investors is very low, leaving much room for the desire to buy to take over. Investor sentiment surveys like AAII are useful tools to get an idea of extreme sentiment levels when selling pressure or buying enthusiasm may be becoming exhausted. However, their potential weakness is they are ultimately just polls asking people what they believe, not what they are actually doing. Regardless, they do seem to have enough accuracy to be used as a guide to confirm other indicators. As I’ve observed extreme levels of investor sentiment and participation in the 2018 downtrend in global markets, I’ve shared these indicators several times. As we saw in the investor sentiment survey, the VIX spiked in 2015, then spiked again but to a lower high in 2016 as the stock index fell. The VIX spiked again in February 2018 as the S&P 500 quickly declined -10%. After prices trended back up implied volatility contracted all the way to the low level of 12. The stock index started to decline again, so the VIX once again indicated a volatility expansion. As we enter 2019, the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index VIX is at 25.42, just over its long-term average of 20. The VIX implies an expected volatility range of 25% over the next 30 days. I’ve shared several observations the past few months of the Put/Call Ratio. The Put/Call Ratio is a range bound indicator that swings above and below 1, so reveals a shifting preference between put volume to call volume. When the level is high, it indicates high put volume. Since puts are used for hedging or bearish trades, I consider it a contrary indicator at extremely high levels. The Equity Put/Call Ratio measures the put and call volume on equities, leaving out indexes. The Equity Put/Call Ratio spiked to a high level of put volume when it reached 1.13 on December 21, 2018, as the stock index was declining. The high Equity Put/Call indicated options trading volume was much higher for protective puts than call volume. The Equity Put/Call Ratio is considered to be mostly non-professional traders who tend to be more bullish, so it keeps call volume relatively high and the ratio low. Its high level has so far turned out to be a reliable short-term indicator of a short-term low in stocks. As we enter 2019, the Equity Put/Call Ratio is at .60, which is at a normal range. We normally see more call volume than put volume in the Equity Put/Call Ratio, so the ratio is its normal level as you can see in the chart. The CBOE Index Put/Call Ratio is applied to index options without equity options. We believe professional traders and portfolio managers mostly use index options for hedging or directional positions. The total volume of the Index Put/Call Ratio is asymmetric toward puts for hedging purposes. As we can observe in the chart below, the current level at the beginning of 2019 is 1.09 dropping about 35% from it’s December peak at 1.67. We can visually see the tendency in Index Put/Call is around 1 as the Equity Put/Call Ratio is around 0.60. Equity Put/Call Ratio has a more optimistic/bullish tendency as individual stock options are used more for bullish bets as index options are used more as for hedging. The CBOE Total Put/Call Ratio combines both equity and index options to create a range bound oscillator that swings above and below 1. With the Total Put/Call Ratio, I believe the put bias in index options is offset by the call bias in equity options. The Total Put/Call Ratio spiked to its highest ever reading of 1.82 on December 20, 2018, as the stock index was entering the -20% “bear market” level. I consider a level above 1.20 to be bullish as it indicates an extreme in put volume over call volume. A reading below 0.70 is more bearish since there is an asymmetry between call volume over put volume. Above 1.20 is an elevated put trading volume. As a bet that stock prices will fall or hedge against them, buying put options is a bearish sentiment. Of course, some of the volume could have been traders selling puts which are a very speculative bullish bet, but since I pointed it out the stock indexes reversed up sharply, so I believe it turned out to be a reliable short-term indicator of a short-term low in stocks. As we enter 2019, the Total Put/Call Ratio is at .98 which is still high. We usually see more call volume than put volume, so the ratio is typically well below 1 as you can see in the chart. There is no better indicator of a shift in investor sentiment than price action. No one believes that any more than me. The direction of the price trend is the final arbiter, and I’ve believed it over two decades. Any indicator that is a derivative of price or non-price trend economic data has the potential to stray far from the reality of the price trend. The price trend determines the value and the outcome of a position. As we enter 2019, the S&P 500 stock index has declined -20% off it’s September high and after a sharp reversal up since December 24th, it’s currently in a short-term downtrend, but at a level, the countertrend back up may continue. Even if you don’t observe investor sentiment measures as an indicator or trade signal, it’s still useful to observe the extremes to help avoid becoming overly bullish or overly bearish and part of the herd. The herd tends to be wrong at extremes, and most investors tend to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. If I am to create better results, I must necessarily do the opposite of most investors. As a tactical investment manager, I identify changes in price trends, inter-market relationships, investor sentiment, and market conditions aiming for better risk-adjusted returns. My objective is asymmetric investment returns, so I necessarily focus on asymmetric risk/reward positions, and that includes focusing on asymmetries between bullish and bearish investor sentiment.

2019-04-19T02:58:58Z

https://asymmetryobservations.com/2019/01/01/investor-sentiment-into-the-new-year-2019/?shared=email&msg=fail

The proliferation of mobile devices in the last decade has been enormous. Even more recently, smart phones have become commonplace in almost every person’s pocket or bag, and mobile pad devices are becoming more commonly used, in some cases, replacing the laptop and to become an expected item to be found in almost every person’s bag of accessories within five years. This change in the types of devices that we commonly use to socialise, work and function also has its effect on SEO. While SEO for mobile devices shares a lot of its character with that of traditional SEO for PCs and laptops, there are distinctions to note and strategies to be mindful of for mobile that can allow for a much more effective mobile campaign that generates increased enquiries and sales. To miss out on these opportunities could be perilous as the future of search heads more and more to the realm of mobile, as its use continues to dramatically rise. A principle that is important to abide by when SEO is concerned is that SEO is for users. The people that think from this perspective tend to produce high quality work that stands the test of time and work that offers value to a global public and brand campaign in more ways than one. The people that think from the perspective that SEO is for machines, resultantly tend to produce spam. An important concept that we at Elite SEO cannot reiterate enough to our clients is that Google’s robots seek to emulate human users. Search engines want to take users to sites that are useful and valuable for humans. And due to this, their algorithm is consistently refined to better ensure that this is the case. This algorithm, in an oversimplified explanation, looks to mimic what humans would deem to be good sites as results to search queries made, and lists these results accordingly. A website that is mobile friendly most significantly means that your users will have a more enriching user experience when browsing your website on mobile. A website that adapts to fit the screen of a mobile offers a better mobile experience. This leads to a better brand impression and leads to a higher probability of enquiries and sales from mobile-viewers. A site that is suitable for a mobile is site that is either a responsive website or a designated mobile website. A responsive site is one that is liquid and that moves to adjust to the resolution of the computer it is being viewed on. A mobile website is one that is made specifically for mobile devices, with a different URL to that of a brand’s main, non-mobile website, and a website that can be remotely different from a website developed for a desktop or laptop. Both forms, whether a responsive design or mobile-designated site enable a user to view a website effectively on a mobile device and can thereby maximise the mobile viewing and interactive experience. The form of a website is one of the most important elements to have right for mobile, even before getting to work on other SEO elements. Ensure that the site looks good on a mobile device, and look to test its appearance and functionality for phones and mobile pad devices. People who use mobile are usually time-poor. They are on the run to their next appointment, are quickly looking for a place to acquire the product or service they need or require a piece of information or fact check to contribute effectively to a conversation or important meeting discussion. Additionally, internet connection to mobile devices invariably tends to be slower than that to desktop or laptop computer devices. For these reasons, when it comes to using mobile devices to search, time is of the essence. Creating a mobile website that appears rapidly without delays is part of a good mobile web experience, but in addition, will help your SEO. Google wants to take users to websites that offer a good mobile experience, a trend that will only continue to grow, particularly in the field of mobile SEO. The load speed of a website is a crucial factor for the performance of a website and its search. A good mobile site will look to ensure a rapid load time by ensuring a design layout that is efficiently loaded yet visibly appealing and will seek to optimise images where possible to reduce load time. When people view sites on their mobile devices, they are generally up, about and exploring. Many mobile users are looking for their next meal or what to do for the day in the locality they are at. Mobile users want to find suitable businesses that can provide the ideal product or service they are wanting. A good mobile site should have effective information, with key information made distinctly visible. All phone numbers should be made to be click-to-call so users can easily make contact with the businesses that interests them. Much like SEO for traditional devices, good content that offers rich information that is valuable is also important. Articles that offer handy advice or deep insight are great for people that are commuting from home to work, or need a good read while on their break and sitting on a park bench. This also leads to the need for content to be shareable. Mobile users are highly social, often interacting on social media through their mobile devices throughout their day. Making social sharing easy for them through the form of social sharing buttons will allow them to rapidly share content on your website, which will allow more people to be exposed to your brand and will enable for better SEO performance. In a recent survey by Our Mobile Planet, it was revealed that 94% of smart phone users had used their device to find local information. 84% had taken action after making a search. In a similar survey, it was uncovered that 63% of people take action within an hour of making a mobile search, while 84% do so within 5 hours. Mobile users making searches tend to be different from laptop and computer users in that they are more readily looking for local information and are positioned to quickly act. What then does this mean for mobile SEO? Firstly, and most basically, mobile users need to be able to find you. Having your address on your mobile site is a good start. This address should link to a Google Map or alternatively, a Google Map should be provided and made clearly visible on your mobile website. This is particularly important if you are a local business selling a product or service with a storefront and you want to increase traffic to your store (e.g. restaurant, shop & hairdresser). Research conducted by Bryson Meunier at Resolution Media reveals that searches for ATM location (99 percent), restaurants (88 percent), bars (97 percent) most commonly come from mobile devices. The second important element is to understand and anticipate what mobile searches are searching for when it comes to finding your product or service. It may be that there are users typing “cheap pizza in Sydney” or “24 hour coffee in Melbourne”, which then aligns with what your business offers. Google’s keyword tool can be used to find these types of keywords people may be entering. Creating designated pages for these keywords will enable a business to capture more traffic from mobile users, both online but then more importantly offline, and can then effectively boost the sales of a business. There are many mobile functions that a mobile website can also possess to help or engage a user to have a better experience of your brand. These functions are exclusive to mobile devices and can therefore be leveraged upon when it comes to developing websites that cater to mobile users. A full list of all these functions will be elaborately described in a blog post to come. A great functioning mobile website will not only service users well, but will draw people to naturally link to the site and share it on social media, encouraging other users to experience what it has to offer. This will inevitably will improve SEO and generate more visitors to check out your brand. These elements when implemented well on a mobile site will contribute significantly to appealing and engaging a growing audience that searches for and views websites on mobile devices. This is proving to be a great way to gain business but also to invest into the future as more and more activity transfers from traditional computer devices to that of mobile.

2019-04-21T02:33:12Z

https://www.eliteseoservices.com.au/blog/great-seo-mobile-devices/

This article provides trademark practitioners and legal professionals with a simple guide to Italian trademark law, procedures and enforcement strategies. • Unregistered marks do not benefit from the presumption of validity; the burden of proof in civil proceedings is therefore higher than in the case of registered trademarks. • Unregistered marks cannot form the basis of an opposition and can be enforced against subsequent registration only by means of civil action. • The prior use of a sign which results in the sign becoming only locally well known does not exclude the novelty of a subsequent trademark. • Locally well-known unregistered trademarks may still be used locally, regardless of the subsequent registration by a third party of an identical or similar trademark for identical or similar goods and services. However, this prior use does not affect the novelty and validity of the subsequent third-party registration. Further, according to Article 6bis of the Paris Convention, foreign registrations that are well known in Italy may enjoy protection as unregistered trademarks. To establish unregistered trademark rights, use of a sign must be effective and continuous. Such use may affect the validity of a subsequent registration only if it leads the previously used mark to become more than merely locally well known. According to Article 19 of the Industrial Property Code, any natural or legal entity that “uses or intends to use” a mark can apply for its registration in Italy, as long as the application is not made in bad faith. Marks can be used by either the applicant or an authorised third party, and use is considered genuine if it is true, continuous and effective. A representative of the rights holder requires power of attorney before filing; however, this power of attorney need not be notarised or legalised. • deceptive signs – in particular, signs which mislead the public as to the geographical origin, nature or qualities of the relevant goods and services. • signs which are applied for in bad faith. Trademark applications must be filed with the IPTO. The first e-filing system was implemented in 2006 and a completely revised e-filing system was introduced in Spring 2015. The new e-filing system is yet to be fully implemented (eg, applications for international trademark registration still require paper filing), but the IPTO is working diligently to complete the process within the shortest timeframe possible. Once the application is filed, the IPTO will perform an examination based on formal requirements and absolute grounds for refusal. If the application does not meet formal requirements or must be refused on absolute grounds, the IPTO will issue a formal notification to the applicant, which is granted a period of at least two months to complete or revise the application or file observations in response to the refusal. The IPTO will then examine the applicant’s response and decide whether to accept the application or reject it, either totally or partially. If the application meets the requirements, it will then be published for opposition or observation by third parties. The IPTO is not entitled by law to carry out any kind of search of prior rights; therefore, no official searches are available. An official online database is available at www.uibm.gov.it, but the search tools are very limited at present. However, with the implementation of the new e-filing system underway, the IPTO will soon be able to provide users with improved search tools. designations and acronyms of events and those of non-lucrative entities and associations, including the relevant emblems. Unregistered trademarks, company names, domain names, well-known trademarks under Article 6bis of the Paris Convention and reputation claims cannot be enforced through opposition. These can be enforced only through invalidation actions. A notice of opposition must be filed with the IPTO in writing. The notice must be written in Italian and include all required documents. An opposition fee of €250 (plus postage) must be paid before filing the notice. The notice must be submitted to the IPTO through the new e-filing system. If a representative is appointed, power of attorney is required; however, the power of attorney need not be notarised or legalised. • persons, entities and associations that hold relevant rights (under Article 8). If the opposition is accepted, the IPTO will notify the applicant of the contested mark (the first communication). The notification will be issued within two months of the expiry of the opposition period. The parties then have a twomonth cooling-off period in which they may reach an amicable settlement, which may be extended by joint request of the parties by up to 12 months from the date of receipt of the first communication. If an agreement is reached within this period, the parties must inform the IPTO. Otherwise, the opposition enters the adversarial stage. Within two months of the expiry of the cooling-off period, the opponent may file additional supporting documents or arguments, which the IPTO will forward to the applicant, setting a term for filing its observations. Within this term, the applicant may also request the opponent to submit proof of effective use of the enforced earlier trademark, if it was registered more than five years before the date of publication of the contested application. Evidence of effective use must be filed within 60 days of the relevant notification (this term may be extended up to six months). At the end of the adversarial stage, the IPTO will decide on the opposition, either refusing the contested application (in full or in part) or rejecting the opposition and awarding costs to the winning party (which may consist of the opposition fee and up to €300 of professional fees). The losing party may appeal to the Board of Appeal within 60 days of notification of the IPTO decision. If, after making all efforts provided by the law, the IPTO cannot serve the applicant with the notice of opposition, the opposed application will be rejected ex officio. In the case of an opposition against the Italian designation of an international registration, the IPTO will issue a provisional refusal, setting a three-month term for the applicant to appoint an Italian representative to defend the designation. If no representative is appointed, the provisional refusal becomes final and the designation is rejected with no further action required from the opponent. Where no objections are raised by the IPTO and no third-party oppositions or observations are filed, an application can mature to registration in approximately nine to 12 months. A trademark is valid for 10 years from the filing date and can be renewed – for all or part of the originally claimed goods – for unlimited subsequent 10-year periods. There is also a grace period of six months after the official deadline, provided that the renewing party pays a surcharge. Renewal registrations are assigned new renewal application and registration numbers and a renewal certificate is issued within a couple of months of the renewal date. Surrender: A trademark holder can always surrender its registration. Surrender must be recorded on the register by means of an appropriate declaration (subject to fiscal registration). Revocation: If a trademark is not put to genuine use for five consecutive years after registration, it becomes vulnerable to revocation for nonuse, which may be filed by any interested party. If use of the mark begins or resumes after the five-year period of non-use but more than three months before the claim for revocation is filed, the registration cannot be revoked, except in the case of rights in the trademark acquired by third parties through filing or use. Invalidation: After registration of the mark, holders of conflicting earlier rights or any interested party (on the basis of absolute grounds for refusal) may file a claim for its invalidation. Invalidations are civil proceedings and must be filed before an IP court (tribunale delle imprese). The timeframe from filing of the claim to judgment may vary depending on the complexity of the case, but the average timeframe is two to three years. The competent courts for any IP matter – involving registered or unregistered rights – are the tribunale delle imprese (enterprise tribunals): 21 highly specialised sections of the civil courts (approximately one for each Italian region). Where one party is a foreign enterprise, competence is limited to 11 of these venues, depending on the domicile or head office of the Italian counterparty of the suit. In cases of either imminent or ongoing violation of an IP right, the rights holder may request the IP court to grant provisional remedies. • injunction (enforceable at the infringer’s premises, those of subsidiaries and warehouses, and against third parties not identified in the petition). The average period from filing of the petition to grant of the remedy is one month. Regarding compensation for damages, Italian judges usually take into account all appropriate factors, such as negative economic consequences – including the lost profits of the rights holder and unfair profits made by the infringer – and moral prejudice caused to the rights holder. The infringer can be forced to return all profits earned. According to Articles 473 and 474 of the Criminal Code, the infringement of a registered IP right so as to create the risk of confusion among the public is a criminal offence. Public prosecutors can therefore prosecute the felony independently if there is public deception. Consequently, even where it is advisable, it is not strictly necessary to file a criminal complaint. Article 517ter of the Criminal Code applies where the infringement does not involve an actual risk of confusion among the public. In this case, the rights holder must file a criminal complaint. There are no specific requirements in Italian law to finalise an assignment, insofar as documents are concerned. However, an assignment must take written form in order to be recorded in the Trademark Register. It may be recorded by means of the original, notarised assignment deed (foreign deeds must be legalised and include a sworn Italian translation), or by means of a simplified declaration stating that the title has already been assigned. The declaration must be executed by both parties, but there is no need for notarisation or legalisation of signatures. Before recording the assignment with the IPTO, fiscal registration of the assignment deed or declaration is required. It takes approximately one year for the assignment to be recorded in the register, but the assignment is effective as of the date of filing of the petition. A merger is recorded by means of a petition filed with the IPTO and a certificate proving the merger, issued by the Commercial Registry or other competent authority. If the document is in a foreign language, an Italian translation must be provided. Official fees must be paid, which vary depending on the number of titles against which the merger is recorded. Although the merger is not immediately recorded in the register, it is effective as of the date of filing of the petition. A change of name or address is recorded by means of a petition filed with the IPTO. A power of attorney is required, but there is no need to provide additional documents. In contrast to previous practice, the current e-filing system does not allow for a petition for a change of name or address to be included in a renewal application. These changes should be recorded before proceeding with the renewal. Trademarks can be the object of both exclusive and non-exclusive licences, which can relate to all or some of the goods or services protected by the registration. No particular forms or formalities are required. However, according to Article 23.4 of the Industrial Property Code, the licensing of a trademark must not mislead the public as to the essential characteristics of the goods and services. Recording a licence in the Trademark Register is not compulsory, although it is advisable for the sake of public advertisement. Effective and continuous use of a trademark by a licensee is considered genuine for the purpose of use requirements. Under certain circumstances, the Industrial Property Code permits cumulative and simultaneous protection of an item by trademark, design and copyright. In particular, logos may be protected as both trademarks and designs. The shapes of products and their packaging, as well as designs, may enjoy both design and 3D trademark protection, provided that they fall within the limits outlined above for shapes. Copyright protection may also be invoked for the artistic value of a logo or the item itself. Utility patent protection may also be considered in some cases. The enforcement measures specified above can be applied in case of the unauthorised use of an IP right as a domain name, metatag or hyperlink. In addition to an injunction prohibiting the use of an unlawful domain name, the judicial authority may provisionally order the transfer of that domain name to the rights holder under certain circumstances (eg, payment of a bond), according to Article 133 of the Industrial Property Code. The authority that administers domain names, .IT Registry, provides a list of centres for the resolution of domain name disputes.

2019-04-19T02:42:52Z

https://www.bugnion.eu/en/wtr-yearbook-2017-2018/

The O’Neills All Ireland Gaelic football is not included in the Black Friday Weekend offer. The following products are also excluded from the the Black Friday Weekend offer: O'Neills Gift Card (email only), Ulster University GAA Fresher Pack (2018/19), Ulster University GAA Senior Mens Pack (2018/19), Ulster University GAA Kids Pack 2018/19. The Black Friday Weekend discount runs from 00:00 Friday 23rd November 2018 until 23:59 Monday 26th November 2018. The discount of 20% off for total cart is applied automatically at checkout. Black Friday promotion cannot be applied with any other discounts. For example products already discounted in our Sale or Outlet section. Offer is used in promotion of full-priced items only and not in conjunction with any other offer. Jerseys in the following sections USA, Europe, Canada, Australasia, Asia, Africa, and Middle East of the site are only included in our International jersey offer. County jerseys are subject to change at anytime and if a county jersey changes style after the 3 for 2 promotion we will be unable to exchange or refund this order. Orders can't be changed or altered after they have been placed. The free personalisation offer will discount up to a maximum of £10 only. Offers promoted via the website and social media apply to online purchases made via the O’Neills.com website. Any offers that are applicable in our retail stores will be clearly identified as redeemable in-store at one of our retail outlets. The O’Neills All Ireland Gaelic football is not included in any of our offers. All offers apply while stock lasts. O’Neills loyalty points cannot be used as part of any customer offer. Due to timing and postal constraints, prizes will only be posted to addresses inside IE and the UK. Entrants from further afield must organise collection. Closing date will be specified in the post or on competition entry page. RT to Win competitions – Unless otherwise stated, ONE winner will be selected at random from all those who have retweeted our competition post. Employees (and their families) of O’Neills and all 3rd party agencies connected to this competition are not eligible to win any of the competition prizes. The winner will be notified by email/telephone. O’Neills loyalty points cannot be used when claiming/ using any prize. O’Neill’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Entries that do not comply in full with these rules will be disqualified. If for any reason a prize becomes unavailable O’Neills reserves the right, at its absolute discretion, to substitute a similar prize of equivalent value. O’Neills and their agents accept no responsibility for any technical difficulties experienced in submitting an entry to this competition. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook. You understand that you are providing your information to O’Neills and not to Facebook. The information you provide will only be used for contacting the winners of this promotion and as per the marketing opt in included in the form. Persons can also enter competitions via email at competitions@oneills.com or instore; Belfast, Newry, Enniskillen, Strabane and Magherafelt. The promoter is the O’Neills Irish International Sportswear Company Ltd, Longmile Road , Dublin 12. Guess/Predict the Score competitions – Unless otherwise stated, ONE winner will be selected. The winner must correctly predict the score of the selected match ahead of throw in/kick off. In an event of a tie break, closest prediction wins. If needs must i.e. entrants predicting the same score or more than one entrant is deemed ‘closest’ to the final score, a random draw will take place among qualifying entries. All content included on this site including but not limited to web site design, text, graphics, audio clips, visual clips, logos, button icons and the selection and arrangement thereof are either the property of O’Neills or its contents suppliers and are protected by UK, Irish and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of O’Neills and is protected by UK, Irish and international copyright laws ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED. Permission is granted to electronically copy and to print in hard copy portions of this Web site for the purposes of placing an order with O’Neills and using this website as a shopping resource only. Any other use of materials on this Web Site including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, transmission, broadcasting republication, downloading or uploading without the prior written permission of O’Neills is strictly prohibited. O’Neills Irish International Sports Company Limited, Unit 45/46 Kennedy Centre, Belfast, BT11 9AE. O’Neills and all page headers, custom graphics and button icons are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of O’Neills. All other trademarks, product names and company names or logos cited herein are the property of their respective owners ("Third Party Trade Marks"). You are not permitted to use the O’Neills Trademarks or Third Party Trademarks without the prior written consent of O’Neills or such third parties that may own the Trademarks. O’Neills may add to, change or remove any part of these Terms and Conditions of Use at any time, without notice. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use or any terms shown on this website or any subsite hereof, apply as soon as they are shown. By continuing to use this website after any changes are posted, you are indicating your acceptance of those changes. O’Neills may add, change, discontinue, remove or suspend any other content displayed on this website, including features and specifications of products and services described or depicted on the website, temporarily or permanently, at any time, without notice and without liability. In order to place an order with O’Neills you will need to register to use the site. In return for allowing you to use the O’Neills web site and benefiting from our services, you agree that any information you provide us about yourself at any time will be true, accurate, current and complete and that you will ensure that this information is kept accurate and up to date. If incorrect information is supplied any contractual obligation O’Neills has is immediately null and void. If you send communications or materials to this website by electronic mail or otherwise, concerning any comments, questions, suggestions or the like, all such communications are, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Thus, you give up any claim that any use of such material infringes any of your rights including moral rights, proprietary, or any other right, including the right to approve the way in which O’Neills uses such material. In the event of these circumstances we will refund you the price you’ve paid to us. Please note that we reserve the right not to accept an order for any reason and we won’t be liable to you or anyone else in these circumstances. The Customer Service section at the bottom of our website, tells you how to order and pay for products. It also addresses any questions you might have about delivery of your products, your right to cancel orders or return faulty products to us and our quality assurance. O’Neills may choose to provide links to sites owned by O’Neills and associated companies from time to time and may also choose to provide links to sites that are owned by third parties that are not connected with O’Neills. All links are provided for your convenience only. Access to sites that are owned by third parties is at your own risk and O’Neills has no responsibility or liability for these third-party sites. O’Neills will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that this web site is fully operational at all times. However we cannot guarantee that the web site will be fault free. In particular access to this web site may be interrupted or restricted to allow for emergency or routine repairs or maintenance to be carried out or the introduction of new facilities or services. Further, by using this website and any subsite, you acknowledge and agree that the Internet uses elements and relies upon services, input and facilities which are not within the control of O’Neills and if O’Neills is totally or partially prevented or delayed in the performance of any of its obligations in providing a particular service, such a situation will constitute a 'force majeure' and O’Neills shall be excused the performance for so long as such a situation endures. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, the term 'force majeure' shall be deemed to include any cause affecting the performance by O’Neills of its obligations arising from or attributable to acts, events, omissions or accidents beyond the reasonable control of O’Neills and in particular, but not by way of limitation, shall include strikes, lock-outs, other industrial action, actual or threatened terrorist action, civil commotion, riot, crowd disorder, invasion, war, threat or preparation for war, fire, technical or power failure, software, hardware or telecommunication or other network failures, interruptions, disruptions or malfunctions, explosions, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, structural damage, epidemic or other natural or physical disaster, any legislation, regulation, rule or ruling of government, court or any competent authority. O’Neills reserves its right to restrict, suspend or terminate your use of this web site or any of our services at any time if we believe, in our absolute discretion, that you have breached these terms and conditions. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold O’Neills and, all of its associate companies, their directors, employees, information providers, licensors and licensees, officers and partners, (collectively, "Indemnified Parties") harmless from and against any and all liability and costs (including, without limitation, legal fees and costs), incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions. You will co-operate as fully as reasonably required by O’Neills in O’Neills’ defence of any claim. O’Neills reserves the right, at their own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter and you shall not in any event settle any matter without the written consent of O’Neills. If you have any complaints or comments about our web site or any of the products supplied to you, please contact O’Neills through the Contact Us section on the website. In situations where the O’Neills may give you the option to subscribe to its email service which will update you with news or information which it considers to be of interest to you, your use of the content received through the email service will be subject to these Terms and Conditions of Use. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, neither O’Neills nor any of its directors, employees, affiliates or other representatives will be liable for loss or damages arising out of or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, the materials in and/or facilities or services offered through this website, including, but not limited to, indirect or consequential loss or damages, loss of data, income, profit or opportunity, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties, even if the Club and/or O’Neills have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages or such loss or damages were reasonably foreseeable. If this clause is unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction due to relevant laws, then in no event shall O’Neills' total liability to you for all damages, losses, and claims (whether in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence), or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this website. O’Neills has taken all reasonable care in the preparation of the contents on this web site, but makes no representation or warranty of any kind with respect to the operation of the site or the information, content, materials, or products included on this site. To the extent permitted by applicable law, O’Neills makes no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or currency of the information contained in any of the materials on this web site. O’Neills reserves the right to change price and availability information without notice. O’Neills shall not be liable to any person for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of any of the information contained in any of the materials on this web site. O’Neills reserves the right to decline orders for bulk or high value purchases. No exclusions of O’Neills' liability in these Terms shall apply to any damages arising from death or personal injury caused by the negligence of O’Neills or any of its directors, employees or agents or fraudulent misstatement. You agree to indemnify and hold O’Neills , and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable solicitor's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post to or transmit through the Site, your use of the Site, your connection to the Site, your violation of the Terms and Conditions, or your violation of any rights of another person or entity. Some hypertext (HTML) links on this web site lead to web sites, which are not under the control of O’Neills. Accordingly, O’Neills makes no representation or warranty concerning the content of these web sites and accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of the material on any web site, which is not under O’Neills control. O’Neills is providing these hypertext links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any such hypertext link does not imply an endorsement by O’Neills of the linked site or imply any relationship between O’Neills and the hyper-linked organisation or individual. We invite our customers to leave product reviews on our site to help other shoppers in their decision making and product choice. By submitting a review you are assenting to O'Neills publishing the review on our website and associated marketing communications including printed materials, Facebook and other social media.

2019-04-18T14:46:58Z

https://www.oneills.com/us_en/terms-conditions

Pesky allergies – itchy and watery eyes, sneezing, fatigue – can completely ruin your day, week or month. Seasonal allergies affect 1 in 5 people; the numerous allergens in the air can penetrate the body’s defenses, triggering an overactive immune response. An allergic reaction occurs when your immune system reacts to a foreign substance – ragweed, pollen, pet hair, etc. – that doesn’t typically cause a response in the majority of the population. The response by your immune system is to produce antibodies that target the foreign invader and mark it for destruction by your immune system. Unfortunately, adverse symptoms like stuffed-up sinuses, itchy eyes and fatigue also occur in conjunction with the immune response. This leaves you tired, struggling to focus and constantly rubbing your eyes or blowing your nose. Seasonal allergies like itchy and watery eyes can’t be cured, but you can relieve symptoms with natural treatments. While you can’t cure seasonal allergies, there are a number of conventional and more natural approaches to addressing the symptoms and the root cause. Before we look at your options this fall, let’s take a closer look at the most common (and not so common) symptoms of allergy, along with the worst offenders that trigger these reactions. What causes these symptoms and the over-activation of your immune system? Here is a short list of the worst allergy offenders. Ragweed is the most common allergen in the fall. If you struggle with spring allergies, there is a 75% chance you’ll also have reactions to ragweed in the fall. Ragweed begins to release its pollen in late summer, and the symptoms of watery and itchy eyes, runny nose, sneezing, coughing and dark circles under the eyes typically start in September and continue on until the end of October. Think you’re in the clear because ragweed is not in your area? Think again. Ragweed can travel hundreds of miles in the air and if you react to it, you may also suffer from food allergies to bananas, melon, cucumbers, zucchini, and sunflower seeds. Mold is another major allergy trigger. Damp basements and bathrooms, as well as the damp ground as the leaves change colors and tumble to the ground, are perfect breeding grounds for mold. The return to school for kids can also trigger seasonal allergies, as schools can often be damp with mold present. Dust mites are most common during the hot summer months, but once you kick up the heating in your house as summer turns to fall, the dust mites will begin to circulate through your house. They can trigger similar symptoms to mold and ragweed above. Dust mites start to circulate when you turn on the heat in the fall, triggering allergic reactions for some. If you suffer from allergies and visit your doctor, they’ll typically diagnose you based on your symptom presentation, most commonly watery eyes and runny nose. If your doctor suspects multiple or severe allergies, they’ll likely send you to a dermatologist for skin-allergy testing. This type of “skin-scratch” allergy testing is classified as an IgA (or “immediate”) immune reaction, and the doctor will typically place a series of allergens on your skin to determine which elicit a response. This type of allergy is different than a classic food allergy or IgG reaction, which is “delayed” and more subtle, taking hours or several days to elicit symptoms (such as fatigue, joint pain, brain fog, dark circles under the eyes, etc.). The standard medical treatments for seasonal allergies are steroid nasal sprays to cool inflammation in the nasal cavity, antihistamines to reduce sneezing and itching, and decongestants to dry up mucous. Unfortunately, none of these therapies targets the “root cause” of the immune system glitch, but rather suppresses its expression (i.e., the symptoms). Therefore, these can be effective treatments in the short-term – so you can get through your day, power through meetings and deadlines, or make it through your CrossFit workout or 5k run. However, in the long run, they’re not the answer. Adding in more natural support can enhance the effectiveness of these conventional treatments and often reduce the dose you need to get through your day. Let’s take a closer look at some great options. The protein in cow’s milk and gluten can leave your immune system in a state of hyperactivity, leading to the worsening of seasonal allergies (1). They can also create more phlegm in your mucous membranes, which can worsen your runny nose, congestion and post-nasal drip. Steer clear of dairy if you’re struggling with allergies. Quercetin is a bioflavonoid and potent natural anti-histamine (2). It’s also a potent anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory, which means it can get to the root of your allergies by calming your overactive immune system and cooling unwanted inflammation (3). The best Paleo-friendly food sources of quercetin include veggies and fruits (such as raw red onions and apples), followed by raw asparagus, peppers, tomatoes and leafy greens. Unfortunately, if you suffer from allergies, the 10-50mg of quercetin you might get from foods is likely not potent enough to curb allergies. Consider supplementing with 500mg 2-3x per day for 2-4 weeks, or consult with your local naturopath or functional doctor. The support you need to curb your allergy symptoms may just come from the “pollinators” themselves. A recent study found that regular honey-eaters had markedly reduced allergy symptoms compared to those who abstained (4). Honey has incredible antimicrobial properties and if you source local honey, you’ll have the added advantage of fighting off your nearest allergens. Add it to your tea, mix it into warm water, or include it when making smoothies or shakes. Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant, and used commonly in medieval Europe to treat joint pain. The fine hairs of stinging nettle contain chemicals that irritate the skin when they come into contact; ironically, however, they can also act as agents to reduce inflammation in the body (acting much like quercetin as a natural antihistamine) (5). Stinging nettle tea can reduce inflammation in the body, easing allergy symptoms. Try drinking 2-4 cups of stinging nettle tea daily during allergy season (note: it’s also a mild diuretic, so drink a glass of water between each cup of tea) or add a supplement during an acute allergy attack. Go Paleo and cook the leaves, adding them to your greens with dinner (i.e., like spinach) or into your morning smoothie. If your allergies trigger joint pain, they could also be applied topically to the area. Almost all cultures across the globe have ancestral recipes that use the broth from cooked beef, chicken or fish bones to support health and fight off colds and flu as the seasons change. Bone broth soup can also help support seasonal allergies by keeping mucous membranes in the nose and throat clear of mucous and providing key amino acids like glutamine to support a healthy immune response. Eucalyptus is a wonderful essential oil that has antimicrobial properties (6). To help cool your overactive immune system and fight off allergy symptoms, try a warm steam inhalation. Start by placing 3-4 drops of eucalyptus essential oil in a bowl, then pour about two cups of boiling water into the bowl. Place your face over the bowl (at a small distance so you don’t burn yourself) and a towel over your head… now breathe through your nose for 8-10 minutes and you’re all set! This is a great regular practice to get into to fight off allergies (as well as colds and flu) through the fall and winter seasons. Clogged sinuses and mucous-filled lungs are the uncomfortable norm in allergy season for seasonal sufferers. Another essential oil, peppermint, has been shown to be an effective anti-spasmodic to relieve chronic coughing and respiratory congestion due to allergies (7). Peppermint oil can be diffused through the house or your bedroom at night to help ameliorate symptoms (i.e., 4-5 drops). Fall allergy season is here; limit the foods that can worsen your allergic reaction (i.e., dairy and gluten), increase your intake of anti-inflammatory and anti-histamine nutrients (quercetin, stinging nettles, and raw honey), and reduce congestion and immune reaction with a warm eucalyptus nasal douche. These simple tips can help keep you and your health on track this fall.

2019-04-26T08:16:50Z

https://dev.paleohacks.com/seasonal-allergies/

Understanding how landscape factors, including suites of geographic and environmental variables, and both historical and contemporary ecological and evolutionary processes shape the distribution of genetic diversity is a primary goal of landscape and conservation genetics and may be particularly consequential for species involved in ecological restoration. In this study, we examine the factors that shape the distribution of genetic variation in a leguminous shrub (Caragana microphylla) important for restoration efforts on the Mongolian Plateau in China. This region houses several major bioclimatic gradients, and C. microphylla is an important restoration species because it stabilizes soils and prevents advancing desertification on the Inner Mongolia Plateau caused by ongoing climate change. We assembled an expansive genomic dataset, consisting of 22 microsatellite loci, four cpDNA regions, and 5788 genome-wide SNPs from ten populations of C. microphylla. We then applied ecological niche modelling and linear and non-linear regression techniques to investigate the historical and contemporary forces that explain patterns of genetic diversity and population structure in C. microphylla on the Inner Mongolia Plateau. We found strong evidence that both geographic and environmental heterogeneity contribute to genetic differentiation and that the spatial distribution of genetic diversity in C. microphylla appears to result partly from the presence of a glacial refugium at the southwestern edge of its current range. These results suggest that geographic, environmental, and historical factors have all contributed to spatial genetic variation in this ecologically important species. These results should guide restoration plans to sustain genetic diversity during plant translocations. Unraveling the factors that influence spatial genetic variation and population structure is one of the fundamental goals of ecological and landscape genetics . Patterns of genetic differentiation often reflect spatial variation in gene flow, and landscapes can influence gene flow through geographic and environmental variation and their combined effects [2–4]. Isolation-by-distance (IBD) is the correlation of genetic divergence and geographic distances, while isolation-by-environment (IBE) is a correlation between genetic divergence and environmental dissimilarity [5, 6]. IBE can result from environmental differences between populations that generate divergent selection, which reduces dispersal success between different environments, or from biased dispersal, which leads to higher dispersal rates between more similar environments [2, 3, 6, 7]. Thus, both IBD and IBE represent important ways in which landscape heterogeneity influences genetic structure in natural populations [3, 8, 9]. Inherently, geographic and environmental isolation are not mutually exclusive, and spatial genetic divergence among populations can result from reduced gene flow associated with both geographical and ecologic factors [2, 7, 8, 10]. The rise of modern spatial statistical methods and the increasing availability of high-resolution geographic and environmental data layers now make it possible to accurately describe geographic and ecological landscapes and to simultaneously estimate the effects of IBD and IBE on spatial genetic divergence [5, 6]. Understanding patterns of IBD and IBE is particularly important for species of conservation concern or that are involved in ecosystem management, because the outcomes of conservation strategies may depend upon properly managing genetic diversity. One such species is Caragana microphylla, a perennial sandy grassland and desert deciduous shrub species belonging to the legume family (Fabaceae). Native to temperate Asia, including Siberia, Mongolia, and China , C. microphylla is a widely distributed shrub species in the northern steppe and agro-pastoral ecotone of China. On the high plain of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, C. microphylla is a key component of the shrub steppe landscape, and on the sandy land of the steppe it is a dominant species of vegetation . The species has been valued for its tolerance to heat, cold, and drought and for its resistance to wind erosion, sand burial, and hail storms. It has been used as a pioneer leguminous shrub species for vegetation rehabilitation and stabilization of widely degraded and degrading grasslands in China, because of its ability to serve as a windbreak and its capacity for carbon fixation, nitrogen fixation, and nutrient accumulation in sandy soils , and it can also be served as supplemental livestock forage with high nutrient value . Genetic variation and population structure of wild C. microphylla from the Inner Mongolia Plateau have been evaluated by different marker systems, including AFLPs, RAPDs, and microsatellites [13–17], but no previous studies have quantified the contributions of IBD and IBE to spatial genetic divergence in this system. However, better understanding population dynamics in species like this is an important goal for restoration ecology, ecosystem management, and landscape and conservation genetics. Studies like this one are critical for identifying the factors that shape the distribution of genetic variation in species undergoing assisted dispersal and recolonization so that genetic diversity can be managed properly . The Inner Mongolia Plateau is characterized by pronounced biophysical gradients, presenting an opportunity to investigate the effects of multiple geographic and environmental factors on population connectivity. A temperature gradient runs roughly North-South, while a precipitation gradient runs from arid regions in the Southwest to wetter regions in the Northeast. An ecotone largely tracks the precipitation gradient, transitioning from desert in the Southwest to grassland (high meadow and steppe) in the central plateau and forest in the Northeast, with pockets of shrublands and sandy lands in the Southeast. Here, we evaluated population genetic divergence of C. microphylla across its entire geographic range on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, using a set of 22 polymorphic microsatellite markers, four cpDNA sequences and 5788 SNPs generated through genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS). The major goals of this study were (i) to characterize genetic variation and population structure in C. microphylla, and (ii) to quantify the relative contributions of geographic factors (IBD) and environmental clines (IBE) to genetic differentiation in this important restoration species. We collected samples from 221 individuals of C. microphylla at ten sites throughout the natural distribution of the species in the southern Inner Mongolia Plateau of China (SZW, ZXB, DL, XH, and QYH), central Inner Mongolia Plateau (XU and DU), and northeastern Inner Mongolia Plateau (EWK, CB, XBY) (Additional file 1: Table S1 and Fig. 1). Together, these sites cover a wide range of climate space, giving us good power to detect environmentally-driven spatial genetic variation (Additional file 1: Figure S1). Sample sizes ranged from N = 18 to 24, with a mean of N = 22 (Additional file 1: Table S1). Total genomic DNA was extracted from leaf tissues using the Qiagen DNeasy Plant Kit, according to the manufacturer’s protocol (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). We genotyped all samples at 22 microsatellite (simple sequence repeat; SSR) markers (Additional file 1: Table S2) that were developed by Han using the method described by Lian et al. (Additional file 1: Table S2). PCR amplification was conducted in a total volume of 25 μL including 40 ng DNA, 1 × buffer, 3 mM MgCl2, 300 μM dNTPs, 0.6 μM forward primer and reverse primer, and 1 U Taq DNA polymerase (TaKaRa, Shiga, Japan). The forward primers were tagged with a fluorescent 6-FAM or HEX label to produce flourescent-labeled PCR amplified fragments. PCR was performed on a Mastercyler gradient thermocycler (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) using the following procedure: 10 min at 94 °C, followed by 10 touchdown cycles of 45 s at 94 °C, 60 s at 65 °C (−1 °C per cycle), and 60 s at 72 °C, then 35 cycles of 45 s at 94 °C, 60 s at 55 °C, and 60 s at 72 °C, and a 10 min final extension step at 72 °C. An ABI3730xl DNA Analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) was used to capture amplified products by a fluorescence detection system for SSR markers. Fragment sizes were determined using an internal size standard (LIZ500, ABI, USA), and the output was analyzed using GeneMapper software (Applied Biosystems). Four cpDNA regions, including trnL-trnF, psbA-trnH, psbB-psbH and trnG, were amplified for all 221 individuals. The primers and methodology for amplification of these four DNA regions via PCR were described in Taberlet et al. , Demesure et al. , Hamilton , and Shaw et al. , respectively. Sequences were generated with an ABI 3730XL DNA Sequencer (Applied Biosystems), and edited, assembled and aligned in Geneious (v7.1.7, http://www.geneious.com/). All cpDNA sequences were deposited in Genbank (accession numbers KU564257 to KU564268). A total of 127 samples from ten populations were used to generate the genotyping by sequencing dataset (GBSseq; Additional file 1: Table S1). Individual DNA libraries for each of these samples were prepared using the restriction enzyme ApeKI according to the protocol in Elshire et al. . Libraries were then sequenced using paired-end sequencing across 3 lanes of Illumina HiSeq 4000 (BGI, Shengzhen, China). The quality of the raw read data was examined using FASTQC . GBS data assembly, mapping, and SNP discovery were performed using Stacks v1.23 . In the absence of a reference genome for this species, RADSeq loci were assembled de novo using the ‘denovo_map.pl’ pipeline in STACKS. We used a parameter combination recommended by Mastretta-Yanes et al. : minimum read depth to create a stack (−m) = 3, number of mismatches allowed between loci within individuals (−M) = 2, and number of mismatches allowed between loci within each catalogue (−n) = 2. All other parameters were kept at default values. Those loci present in at least 80% of individuals at each site were retained in the final dataset, and loci with minor allele frequencies lower than 0.05 were removed. GBS genotyping of the samples from population SZW resulted in significant missing data, so this population was removed from the GBS dataset. GBS-seq raw data were submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) with reference number SRP071628. All 22 microsatellite loci were tested for deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. We calculated common metrics of genetic variation, including average number of alleles (Na), observed and expected heterozygosity (Ho and He), and global and pairwise FST. Both global and pairwise FST were tested for significance based on 9999 permutations. All calculations and statistical tests were conducted using GenAlEx v6.5 . We used the software STRUCTURE to infer the probability of assignment to distinct genetic clusters for all 221 individuals in the ten sampled populations . The analysis was performed using the admixture model and with the option of correlated allele frequencies between populations. Ten runs were conducted for each value for the number of genetic clusters (K), with K ranging from 1 to 10. The length of the burn-in for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) replications was set to 10,000, and data were collected every 1000 steps over a total length 100,000 MCMC steps in each run. We identified the optimal value of K using the method developed by Evanno et al. as implemented in the software Structure Harvester . Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) sequences were edited and assembled using SeqMan software (DNASTAR, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA). Multiple alignments of the DNA sequences were performed with Clustal X , with subsequent adjustment in Bioedit . Haplotype (Hd) and nucleotide (π) diversities were calculated from aligned DNA sequences using DnaSP v5 . We conducted an analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) and tested for significance based on 1023 permutations in Arlequin v3.0 . A haplotype distribution map was constructed using ArcMap v9.3 (ESRI, Inc., Redlands, California, USA), and a haplotype network was constructed in NETWORK v4.678 using Medicago sativa as an outgroup. Observed and expected heterozygosities (Ho and He) were calculated using the package Adegenet v2.0.1. in R (www.r-project.org). Both global and pairwise FST were calculated and tested for significance based on 9999 permutations using Genepop v4.0 . As with the microsatellite dataset, we also performed STRUCTURE analysis on our GBS dataset, using the admixture model and the same MCMC parameters as before. We used climate-based ecological niche models (ENMs) at multiple time periods to investigate whether current and past climate suitability is a relevant factor shaping observed patterns of genetic differentiation among populations of C. microphylla. Ecological niche modelling was carried out in MAXENT v3.3.3 . A total of 53 occurrence points, obtained from the literature [13–16] and our own sampling, and 19 GIS data layers at 2.5 arc min resolution for present-day bioclimatic variables, obtained from the WorldClim database (http://www.worldclim.org), were included in the analysis (Additional file 1: Table S3). To estimate the distribution of C. microphylla at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), we projected the model obtained by our present-day species-climate analysis onto the LGM using data layers for past climate constructed under the commonly used Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC v3.2) scaled down to a 2.5 arc min resolution and obtained from WorldClim. To model the suitability of C. microphylla under a future climate scenario, we acquired data layers (2.5 arc min resolution) predicted for the year 2080 under, again, the commonly used general circulation model MIROC from WorldClim. As with the LGM scenario, we projected the present-day ENM onto the future climate layers to explore how the predicted distribution of C. microphylla may be affected by ongoing global climate change. The performance of the model prediction was evaluated using the area under the (receiver operating characteristic) curve (AUC) calculated by MAXENT. Model predictions were visualized in ARCMAP v9.3 (ESRI, Redlands, CA). To investigate the roles of geographic and environmental factors in spatial genetic differentiation, we tested for isolation by distance (IBD) and isolation by environment (IBE) using all three marker types collected in our study. In all analyses, population pairwise genetic distances were represented by matrices of pairwise FST / (1-FST) as recommended by Rousset . Geographic distances were represented by the logarithms (log10) of geographic distances between all pairs of populations. For the environmental predictors, we downloaded the 19 bioclimate variables from the WorldClim database (www.worldclim.org) at 0.5 arc min resolution and then reduced covariance by performing spatial principal component analysis (PCA) analysis on the raster layers using the R package ‘RStoolbox’ . We retained the first three PC rasters that resulted from this analysis and extracted the value of the data point on each raster at each of the coordinates for our sampled populations. To quantify IBD and IBE, we performed multiple matrix regression with randomization (MMRR) using the R function ‘MMRR’ . We also tested for covariance between geographic and environmental distances with a Mantel test using the R package ‘vegan’ . In each analysis, 10,000 permutations were used to generate a null distribution for significance testing. To further evaluate IBD and IBE, we also performed a complementary analysis, generalized dissimilarity modelling (GDM). GDM is a statistical technique that uses nonlinear matrix regression to model spatial patterns of biological dissimilarity, including genetic distance, between sampling sites against differences in geographic and environmental variables . GDM uses an I-spline turnover function for each predictor variable to quantify: (1) variation in the rate of genetic turnover along each environmental and geographic axis (the shape of each spline) while controlling for all other variables, and (2) the curvilinear relationships between genetic distance and geographic and environmental distances [46, 47]. The maximum height of each spline corresponds to the relative importance of the associated predictor . Genetic distances for each model were the same FST / (1-FST) matrices used in the MMRR analysis, and geographic distances were based on the geographic coordinates of each sampling site. For the environmental predictors, we used the same three PC rasters as in the MMRR analysis. After fitting the GDM model to these data, we visualized spatial patterns of genetic turnover by projecting the GDM model onto the PC rasters. This assigns a color value to each cell on the raster based on its predicted genetic composition, and greater differences in the colors between cells indicate greater predicted genetic differences. All of the GDM analyses were performed in the R package ‘gdm’ . Twenty-two microsatellite markers were used to evaluate genetic diversity across 221 individuals of 10 populations of C. microphylla (Table 1). The mean number of alleles per locus (Na) ranged from 5.318 in population XBY to 8.091 in population DU (Table 1). Mean observed heterozygosity per population (Ho) ranged from 0.416 in CB to 0.693 in QYH, and mean expected heterozygosity (He) values ranged from 0.490 in XBY to 0.708 in DU. We did not detect significant deviations from HWE in any of the 22 loci. A total of 11 different cpDNA haplotypes (H1-H11) were identified based on 7 polymorphic sites detected in four cpDNA sequences (Table 1). Haplotypes H1 and H2 were the two most common haplotypes, found in 70% and 50% of C. microphylla populations, respectively (Fig. 1b). Haplotypes H3, H6, and H10, on the other hand, were found in only one population each (Fig. 1b). Haplotypes H8 and H4 were identified as the most ancestral and youngest haplotypes, respectively. The populations ETW, CB, and XBY had the lowest haplotype diversity (Hd) and nucleotide diversity (π) with only one haplotype (H8) observed in each population. The highest diversity was observed in population SZW (Hd = 0.771 and π = 0.47; Table 1). Overall, 5788 SNPs from our GBS reads were retained for 106 individuals from 9 populations after quality control and filtering steps. Mean observed heterozygosity (Ho) per population ranged from 0.196 in CB to 0.303 in XH, and mean expected heterozygosity (He) values ranged from 0.247in CB to 0.308 in XH (Table 1). Global FST among all 10 sampling sites based on our microsatellite dataset was 0.115. The pairwise estimates of genetic differentiation (FST) across all 10 populations ranged from 0.017 (ZXB vs. XH) to 0.139 (XBY vs. QYH) (Additional file 1: Table S4). All C. microphylla population pairs were significantly differentiated from each other except for the ZXB and XH pair, for which FST was not significantly different from zero. Comparisons between regions revealed little structure between the central (DU and XU) and northeast (CB, EWK, and XBY) populations (mean FST = 0.071) nor between the central and southwest (QYH, SZW, DL, XH, and ZXB) populations (mean FST = 0.073), but did reveal higher differentiation between the northeast and the southwest populations (mean FST = 0.138). The population XBY showed the highest degree of genetic differentiation from other populations (mean FST = 0.171), followed by populations CB (mean FST = 0.168) and EWK (mean FST = 0.138). For cpDNA, global FST among all sites was 0.360. About 76% of pairwise FST estimates among C. microphylla population pairs were statistically significant (Additional file 1: Table S5). Pairwise comparisons between regions revealed similar patterns compared to the microsatellite results. The mean genetic differentiation between northeast and southwest populations was FST = 0.64, followed by southwest vs. central populations (mean FST = 0.48), and northeast vs. central populations (mean FST = 0.17). For our GBS dataset of 5788 SNPs, global FST among the nine sampling sites retained in this dataset was 0.246. Pairwise comparisons between regions revealed similar patterns compared to the microsatellite and cpDNA results (Additional file 1: Table S6). The mean genetic differentiation estimates between southwest vs. central populations and northeast vs. central populations were FST = 0.164 and FST = 0.168, respectively. Whereas, the mean genetic differentiation between northeast and southwest populations was FST = 0.350. STRUCTURE analyses performed on both our microsatellite and GBS datasets indicated that the best supported number of clusters was K = 2, according to the ΔK methods for identifying the optimal number of clusters (Additional file 1: Figure S2). The probability of membership to either of the two clusters (A and B) was geographically structured among populations and regions (Figs. 1, 2). Specifically, the membership proportions in the STRUCTURE analysis revealed a significant geographic pattern in which individuals in populations mostly associated with cluster A (i.e. SZW, ZXB, XH, DL, and QYH) were more common in the southwest of the Inner Mongolia Plateau (41°N - 42°N; Fig. 1a, 2a), while individuals in populations mostly associated with cluster B (i.e. EWK, CB, and XBY) were found in the northeast of the Inner Mongolia Plateau (48°N- 49°N; Fig. 1a, 2a). In the central region of the Inner Mongolia Plateau (44°N - 45°N), two populations (XU and DU) showed intermediate probabilities of assignment to either cluster, based on the microsatellite dataset (Fig. 1a, 2a). This could result from potential admixture, shared ancestry, or demographic factors. Of the two central populations, although the XU population is more southerly, it shared genetic cluster assignments (35.6% in cluster A and 64.4% in cluster B) more with the populations in the northeast of the Inner Mongolia Plateau than with those in the southwest. The DU population, on the other hand, showed more similar genetic assignments (72.3% in cluster A and 27.7% in cluster B) to the populations in the southwest of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, even though it is geographically closer to the northeast populations (Fig. 1a, 2a). In contrast, the assignment probabilities for individuals in these populations based on the GBS dataset (Fig. 1c, 2b) were much more closely aligned with cluster A (the southwest populations) compared to those based on the microsatellite data (Fig. 1a vs. 1c; Fig. 2a vs. 2b). Three climate-based ecological niche models were constructed using 19 bioclimatic variables for three time periods: present day, the last glacial maximum (LGM), and the future (year 2080) (Fig. 3). The model based on present-day data showed strong support based on the receiver operating curve (AUC > 0.95), suggesting good model fit to the underlying data. The present-day predicted distribution of C. microphylla is consistent with its presently observed distribution (Fig. 3b). In total, precipitation had a greater influence on C. microphylla than temperature, as indicated by jackknife resampling of the regularized training gain (Additional file 1: Figure S3). Compared with its current distribution, the estimated distribution of C. microphylla during the LGM was much smaller, based on projection of the present-day model onto past climate layers, suggesting that a significant expansion occurred after the LGM from the southwest to the northeast of the Inner Mongolia Plateau (Fig. 3a). The ENM projected onto the future climate scenario for 2080 suggests that climate change will result in a significant reduction of the species’ potential range (Fig. 3c), resulting in a retraction to a small zone of climatically suitable habitat in the southwest-central part of C. microphylla’s current distribution. The spatial PCA that we performed on the 19 bioclimate data layers returned three PC rasters that explained >85% of the total bioclimatic variation. Factors loadings showed that PC1 was primarily described by temperature variables (Bio1–11; www.worldclim.org), while PC2 was derived from precipitation variables (Bio12–19; www.worldclim.org). PC3 was driven by three variables – precipitation seasonality (Bio15), mean diurnal temperature range (Bio2), and temperature annual range (Bio7) – and therefore represents an environmental seasonality and range of variation axis. Multiple matrix regression with randomization (MMRR) analysis suggested that genetic differentiation showed a significant pattern of both IBE and IBD for all three molecular datasets (Table 2 and Fig. 4). For each of the microsatellite, cpDNA, and GBS datasets, the model was a significant fit to the data (p < 0.001for each; Table 2), and explained a large proportion of the total variance (R2 = 0.685, R2 = 0.696, R2 = 888, respectively; Table 2). The signal of IBE in each dataset was driven by PC1 (temperature variables), which had a significant association with genetic distances in all three cases (p < 0.01 for each model; Table 2). PC2 and PC3 did not have significant correlations with genetic distances for any of the three molecular markers (p > 0.05; Table 2). IBE was slightly stronger than IBD in the cpDNA (IBE = 0.515, IBD = 0.361) and GBS datasets (IBE = 0.564, IBD = 0.444) and was considerably stronger than IBD in the microsatellite dataset (IBE = 0.702, IBD = 0.260; Table 2). Geographic distances were moderately correlated with distances in PC1 (Mantel’s r = 0.685, p = 0.001) and PC3 (Mantel’s r = 0702, p = 0.002) but showed no correlation with PC2 (Mantel’s r = 0.044, p = 0.553). Generalized dissimilarity modelling (GDM; Ferrier et al. 2007) analysis also revealed significant patterns of IBE and IBD in all three of our molecular datasets (Table 3). Overall, the models were a significant fit to the data (p < 0.01 for each model) and explained a large proportion of the deviance in the data structure, with 77.95% of deviance explained for the microsatellite dataset, 74.81% of deviance explained for the cpDNA dataset, and 89.18% of deviance explained for the GBS dataset. Deviance explained values for non-linear models are analogous to R2 values for linear models. Concordant with the results of the MMRR analysis, GDM revealed significant associations between genetic distances and PC3 distances for each dataset (p < 0.05; Table 3). IBE was stronger than IBD in the microsatellite dataset (IBE = 0.561, IBD = 0.132; Table 3) but slightly weaker than IBD in the cpDNA (IBE = 0.473, IBD = 0.627; Table 3) and GBS (IBE = 0.622, IBD = 0.717; Table 3) datasets. In general, maps of spatial turnover in genetic composition generated by GDM show similar patterns for the microsatellite and GBS datasets (Fig. 5). China’s Inner Mongolia Plateau contains dramatic clines in several bioclimatic variables that are critical for plant growth and community assembly and also exhibits spatial heterogeneity in various soil properties and characteristics , making it an excellent landscape on which to examine the geographic and environmental drivers of population genetic structure. This region contains high elevation arid steppe and sandy soils ecosystems that are traditionally understudied in landscape genetics and phylogeography. The need to better understand population dynamics in key species in these ecosystems is pressing because the entire region is heavily threatened by soil erosion, desertification, and ongoing climate change . In this study, we utilized large genomic datasets, including 22 microsatellites, cpDNA sequences from four gene regions, and 5788 SNPs, to characterize patterns of range-wide genetic differentiation across biophysical clines in C. microphylla, an important species for ecological restoration efforts, on the Inner Mongolia Plateau. We found that genetic diversity (haplotype diversity, nucleotide diversity, average number of alleles, and heterozygosity) was distributed across the range of the species, with more centrally located populations typically showing higher levels of genetic diversity than populations nearer to range edges, particularly to the northern range edge of this species (Table 1 and Fig. 1). This spatial pattern of genetic diversity is fairly common in many different and diverse taxa . While genetic variation can have many other spatial distributions, this “abundant center hypothesis,” in which central populations harbor greater diversity appears to be one scenario that is observed fairly frequently [51, 52]. Under any scenario, better understanding the spatial distribution of genetic variation is central to developing improved management plans for maintaining genetic diversity and for predicting the impacts of potential threats to genetic diversity . The exceptions to this general pattern in our study system were found in the southern populations that we sampled. Several of these populations (e.g. DL, SZQ, XH, and ZXB) harbored among the highest levels of haplotype and nucleotide diversity (based on our cpDNA dataset), allelic diversity (based on our microsatellite dataset), and observed heterozygosity (based on our microsatellite and GBS datasets; Table 1 and Fig. 1). This pattern may be explained by the historical distribution of C. microphylla. When the ecological niche model that we constructed was projected onto past climate layers from the last glacial maximum (LGM), it suggested that suitable habitat for C. microphylla was much more limited, compared to present day, and was primarily restricted to an area in the southwest corner of C. microphylla’s current range. This suggests that a northward expansion following glacial retreat after the LGM allowed C. microphylla to achieve the distribution it has today. Glacial refugia often harbor greater genetic diversity, particularly in plants [53–55], and that appears to be the case here as well, demonstrating how biogeographic histories can influence patterns of genetic diversity observed today. To investigate how contemporary landscape factors affect patterns of genetic variation in C. microphylla, we conducted a landscape genetic analysis in which we employed complimentary linear and non-linear matrix regression analyses to quantify patterns of IBD and IBE. Multiple matrix regression with randomization (MMRR) and generalized dissimilarity modelling (GDM) revealed strong evidence that both geographic and environmental factors play important roles in structuring genetic variation in this system. Overall, the results of our MMRR and GDM analyses were highly concordant, but there were some minor differences (Tables 2, 3). Some of these differences are likely due to the linear vs. non-linear regressions used in MMRR and GDM, respectively [44, 46]. Whether the observed differences result from GDM over-fitting the model or MMRR under-fitting the model is not currently known. In any case, our results can be viewed as strong evidence that IBD and IBE are both significant patterns of genetic differentiation in C. microphylla, even if their precise strengths are uncertain, and therefore geographic and environmental factors are both important contributors to the genetic structuring of populations in this system. There were also slight differences among our three genetic datasets. If we average the results for the MMRR and GDM analyses, we find that IBE played a considerably stronger role than IBD in structuring genetic variation in the microsatellite data (βIBE = 0.196 vs. βIBD = 0.631), but IBE and IBD were much more balanced in the cpDNA (βIBE = 0.494 vs. βIBD = 0.494) and GBS datasets (βIBE = 0.581 vs βIBD = 0.593). There is no clear reason why microsatellite markers would be expected to have lower IBD than cpDNA or GBS markers. There is an interesting possibility that chloroplast DNA, which is uni-parentally inherited through seeds, could show a different spatial pattern from nuclear DNA, which is bi-parentally inherited through seeds and pollen, if dispersal in seeds and pollen are subject to different controls. For instance, if different animals disperse seeds and pollen, which is commonly the case, or if pollen is wind dispersed while seeds fall onto the underlying terrain, then we would expect that patterns of spatial genetic variation in cpDNA and nuclear DNA could be very different . For C. microphylla, which has pollen dispersed by wind and insect pollinators , we would expect that nDNA markers would show a greater signal of IBE compared to IBD, because geographic factors would be much more limiting for seed dispersal. In fact, we do see that IBE is slightly higher than IBD for our nuclear microsatellite and GBS datasets, while IBE and IBD are very similar in our cpDNA dataset, but this difference is fairly subtle. The GDM and MMRR analyses both detected a significant signal that variation between populations in environmental PC1 drives the pattern of IBE. This signal was highly significant (p ≤ 0.02) and explained a large proportion of genetic variation (β = 0.383 to 0.565) in all three of our genetic datasets in the results of both MMRR and GDM analysis (Tables 2, 3). Signals for PC2 and PC3 were not significant in any dataset under either analysis. PC1 captured variation in the bioclimatic temperature variables in our environmental GIS dataset. Hence, our results suggest that IBE in C. microphylla is primarily driven by differences in temperature variables between populations. Both phenology and leaf emergence are linked to temperature cues in C. microphylla [57, 58]. Flowering period in C. microphylla lasts less than 30 days, and shifts in flowering period occur under different experimental temperature treatments . This suggests that differences in temperature regimes between populations may cause differences in phenology which lead to reduced overlap in flowering period and, therefore, reduced gene flow. This pattern of reduced overlap in reproductive timing has been referred to as ‘isolation by time’ and may be a key factor driving genetic structure in this system. Thus, overall, our study presents a strong case for a role of both historic and contemporary factors, including both geographic and environmental variables, in generating the currently observed patterns of spatial genetic variation in C. microphylla. For plants involved in ecological restoration, like C. microphylla, understanding these patterns is critical, because restoration work inherently involves moving plants between areas (even if they are geographically close). For instance, in this system, populations exhibit genetic differentiation between environments with different temperature regimes, and therefore restoration efforts should focus on transplanting between areas with similar environmental conditions. Plants adapted to different thermal climates may flower at the wrong time or out of sync with the local population, reducing the effectiveness of transplant efforts. Because C. microphylla also show geographically driven genetic differentiation, plants that are transplanted from distant sites that are environmentally similar could be effective at introducing genetic variation into struggling populations . Hence, better understanding the factors that shape genetic variation in these species is critical for preventing unintended consequences of reintroductions and translocations and for guiding conservation plans to produce the best possible outcomes. Specifically, the knowledge generated by studies like ours can contribute to managing how genetic variation is distributed in these species, the probability of individuals surviving and becoming established under various climatic factors, and the chances of maintaining genetically healthy populations. We thank Prof. Tieliang Shang Guan, Shanxi University, for the sampling and identification of the plant material and the UC Berkeley Geospatial Innovation Facility for providing GIS software. This research was funded by a grant from the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP-IAS10) of China. The funding body did not play a role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript, but just provide the financial support. All cpDNA sequences were deposited in Genbank (accession numbers KU564257 to KU564268). GBS-seq raw data were submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) with reference number SRP071628. The SSR genotypes datasets and the other rest of the dataset used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Z.W. conceived and designed the study, B.X., and J.L., collected samples, B.X., G.S., J.L., and Z.W. performed the experiments, Z.W. and I.W. analyzed the data, Z.W., B.X., G.S., X.W., and I.W. drafted and revised the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final version of this manuscript. All the plant materials were sampled by us. The sampling of plant materials was complied with the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and national and local laws. All the materials were identified by Prof. Tieliang Shang Guan, Shanxi University. Andrews S. FastQC: a quality control tool for high throughput sequence data Babraham. Cambridge: Bioinformatics; 2010. Available at https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/.

2019-04-21T12:38:55Z

https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-017-1147-7

The Columbus Dispatch Publishes Article on HB 413 | Public Employee Retirees Inc. (February 19, 2018) A revealing article on the status of H.B. 413 was published in the Sunday edition of The Columbus Dispatch yesterday shedding light on where the bill stands in the legislative process. It was authored by Dispatch reporter Catherine Candisky and can be read by copying and pasting this link in your web browser: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180217/opers-retirees-fight-back-against-proposed-cut-in-benefits. It appears that in its present form the bill is not going to move toward passage in the Ohio House, according to its sponsor, Rep. Gary Scherer (R – Circleville). This is good news for PERI members and all OPERS retirees. PERI resolves to keep up the fight against the passage of HB 413 until OPERS and the General Assembly recognize the need to maintain the current 3% COLA. Thanks PERI, finally a ray of hope . Food for thought for all retirees, Keep contacting members of the general assembly to vote down h.b.413! Keep the heat on! What is meant by, “It appears that in its present form the bill is not going to move toward passage in the Ohio House”? It sounds like good news at first, but the issue is not over. I’m very happy by this delay, but we still need to work to have it dropped altogether. Something seems very wrong here. With all the sweeping changes OPERS made since 2012, including dropping spouses and jacking up premiums, why aren’t they putting money into the health care plan? If the current administration can’t seem to manage our money, maybe it’s time to find others who will. This doesn’t add up and an independent investigation seems to be in order. I would like to share some info. with all retirees. i retired from O.D.O.T. in 2012. When i worked for O.D.O.T. I was active in o.c.s.e.a. for a time. O.c.s.e.a. is the union for state employees in most agencies. When opers introduced their c.o.l.a. reduction fiasco last august, I contacted Chris Mabe who is o.c.s.e.a. president and opers board member for state employees. As per the conversation, The reasons he gave me for the proposal were as follows. The alleged 2 billion dollars in unfunded liabilities as per Karen Carraher. Mabe also gave me a personal reason for the proposal. Mabe told me he thinks it is not fair that people who retired prior to Jan. 2013 keep their 3% C.O.L.A. And people who retired after Jan. 2013 get their c.o.l.a. adjusted as agreed upon in the 2012 opers changes. So with this info. you have an opers board member who also had personal reasons for pushing this proposal. I spoke to Chris Mabe over the phone in late august of 2017. He returned the phone call after I left him a message on his voicemail. I also emailed him at that time. Well what everyone has to remember is if your already retired you have no way to increase your percent of retirement other than the COLA. If your not already retired you have the option to work longer and increase your retirement. “ Go figure “ Compell people who can retire before 2013 by sending out papers that say anyone who retires prior to 2013 will recieve 3 % COLA fixed ,then switch it with H.B. 413 COLA based off cpi after. People already retired don’t have an equal right to work longer and boost there percentage and increase there F.A.S. I believe PERI was able to exspress that concern during there presentation in Opposition of H.B 413. Ron Alexander is a candidate for OPERS Trustee to represent the retirees. He is also the retiree representative on the OCSEA Board with Mabe. I have emailed Ron Alexander requesting his position on this issue. We certainly don’t need two OSCEA officials on the OPERS Board voting together to cut our COLA. Right. We do not need a fox in the hen house. More food for thought. Late last December, The Opers board voted to make Chris Mabe Vice Chair! So I just read the Dispatch article and here’s what bothers me. It is clear that Karen Carraher is trying to play on the fear that If we don’t make these changes now we risk healthcare in the future. What I urge everyone to consider is that regardless of whether they make changes or not we could still lose or have changes made to our healthcare in the future. Healthcare is not a guaranteed benefit. I for one will not stand for changes being made to a guaranteed benefit, which my 3% annual COLA is, to take the chance that they won’t turn around at some point in the future and reduce or eliminate healthcare anyway. I won’t fall for their scare tactics. Retiree – I totally agree. I will not stand for changes to a guaranteed benefit either. If they take that away, then everything is fair game. The article in the Columbus Dispatch was an interesting read. Keep up the good work, PERI! Although this is encouraging we can’t let up. I have written to my State Representative and Senator and have received a response only from my Representative that he is opposed to HB 413. So far my state Senator seems to be non-committed. Remember the old adage “the squeeky wheel gets the grease”. Jerry – That is very interesting. I have long suspected a severe case of COLA envy has been going around at OPERS. And yes, I believe those pushing the proposal have a personal agenda. Otherwise, nothing else makes sense. The system is healthy and with the sweeping changes made including dropping spouses and jacking up our health care premiums, there should be no reason for fear of losing health care funding. As the old adage goes, when something doesn’t make sense, look for the dollars. Where did you obtain information on the 3 candidates and their positions? Thanks James for your insight. I agree after reading the Retiree Representative Candidate Biographies page included with my ballot, it becomes clear that Timothy Steitz is the correct choice if you want to protect your 3% COLA. His job experience and credentials make him the most qualified candidate to oppose Carraher’s dirty mess now and in the future. It’s important for anyone who hasn’t voted yet to do it now before the March 30th deadline and keep contacting our state legislative officials. Every day I e-mail, tweet, call or write. I point out the 50 people at OPERS making more than the governor, the billions invested in poor performing hedge funds, the most of any State and paying the managers of those hedge funds billions since 2011 and also paying their own chief financial officer over 1/2 million a year and millions more in incentives. Incentives for what, to invest in poor performing hedge funds or does he get incentives for cutting our COLA. Kasich was with Lehman Brothers and went around Ohio talking the public pensions into investing in Lehman Brothers. Lehman went out of business and the pensions lost multi millions. He becomes governor in 2011 along with Carrahar and we start investing in hedge funds. Funny hedge funds donated to his run for President in 2016. This cozy relationship the OPERS seems to have with some of the medical providers needs to be looked at. Double Dipping needs to be looked at, California does not allow it at all, go back to a public employee and your pension stops. I don’t know if we need to go that far, but the amount they pay in for pension goes into an annuity. That money should stay in the pension system, they are already collecting a pension and working for a public employee. QEBA needs stopped, violating IRS rules stating that they don’t have to pay pension out over around 215,000 per year. QEBA makes that extra money come out of the medical fund. I could go on for pages, however, that is some thing needing fixed. Keep writing as the State and every organization in it hates the sun light shine down upon them. When I worked I was told to work on clients that bitched first. Why should they get serviced first? The answer, we don’t want to have them calling every day and bothering us. Is that fair, no, but the squeaking wheel gets fixed first. Michael – Could you share copies of your letters? I don’t know the facts like you do. I would like to send that information to my representatives too. First, the “3% COLA” quit being a 3% increase in retirement benefits one year after retirement. It is a simple interest increase on the base retirement amount. It is NOT a true cost of living increase. Rather it is: 3%, 2.91%, 2.83%, 2.75%, 2.68%, 2.61%, 2.54%, etc. Next year I will get a 2.4% increase. We retirees who retired prior to 2013 are both diminishing in both numbers and our effective COLA increases. The only reason that I can see for the OPERS board to act now is because it will become a moot point in a the future. They want to treat retirees as welfare recipients. Why else would HB 413 contain a provision to INCREASE the retirement for a select few retirees? Second, as determined in the case of John J. MASCIO v. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF OHIO, the vested rights statute (ORC 145.561), once the conditions of retirement are fulfilled, there is a contractual obligation. The Ohio Legislature (OPERS) does NOT have a legal right to alter a contract after the fact. Third, why the heck would any rational person (retiree) wish to trade a statutory guaranteed contractual right (pension + COLA) for the “promise” of health care? Back when I was working, 35 years, a percentage of my contribution was going for the health care of retirees. Now that I am retired, the OPERS board has cut health care to the bone and is out to get retirees who may have gotten a few percent ahead of inflation. Finally, I’m not trying to be political but the Federal deficit spending is such that the ten year Treasury rate is approaching 3%. Depending on the financial projection, 3% or 3.5%, is the break point at which money flows from the stock market to bonds and inflation becomes inevitable. Either way, a one trillion dollar Federal deficit will lead to higher inflation. That higher inflation will inflate OPERS investments, but will not change our COLA. Dean you just made a fantastic point, Retirees do not need Ron Alexander on the Opers board to represent retirees. Ron Alexander will be a yes person for Karen Carraher. Chris Mabe has proved he is a yes person for Karen Carraher! Retirees please consider not giving Ron Alexander a vote! I hope Alexander has an opponent for this board seat! If Ron Alexander has an opponent, Please consider that person! Ron Alexander is still on the O.C.S.E.A. payroll as an retirees Rep. He has taken enough dues money as o.c.s.e.a. president and now in this role as a retirees rep! I was an o.c.s.e.a. activist for a time. The internal politics at o.c.s.e.a. is sickening! Just food for thought. Thanks. I witnessed Ron Alexander manipulate the members and staff at o.c.s.e.a. for years! Please consider not voting for him for this open opers board seat! Please consider the opponents of Ron Alexander for this opers board seat! To vote Ron Alexander on the opers board would be a huge mistake. Remember, Chris Mabe will be lobbying on his behalf. And in private, I am sure Karen Carraher will be doing the same. She will be very quiet in doing so. I’ll keep writing and making phone calls until there is a full administration restructuring at OPERS. Jim – Who are you contacting? I will do likewise. Attention all retirees, I have taken a careful look at all the candidates for the open Opers board seat. I will vote for Tim Steitz, He seems to be the candidate that will stand up for retirees. Just food for thought. Vote carefully. If you worked when Ron Alexander was head of the union… you know he was very friendly to the statehouse. Personally I believe that the State of Ohio employees did benefit from collective bargaining I am just saying that was not while Ron Alexander was running things he was very close fo to management we do not need his self serving agenda in our retirement. Most people do not realize that public sector is not always the easy jobs they think. Too many managers politically connected (and union presidents) willing to do whatever necessary for their own personal advancement . But I thought once retired we would be away from the politics and the deals made in back rooms. Karen Carraher does not have enough respect for retirees to keep her as OPERS Ex Director. She wants to say that she has OPERS funded 100% and will do so at any cost. Keep fighting calling writing and unfortunately not relaxing and enjoying our earned retirements. Ohio politics once again rears its ugly head. We are fortunate that some in the statehouse see OPERS bill for what it is…. an unnecessary broken promise to retirees. Don’t stop being vocal, writing and calling state reps and telling them OPERS needs to keep their gritty hands off of our COLA. I noted it in my retirement letter as well. Actually I stated that it was “the” reason for the timing. Amen Frank! It is time retirees post their concerns about Ron Alexander on social media. All retirees should know about the troublesome background of Mr. Alexander! Also, It is time retirees start calling for Karen Carraher to be replaced! Start sounding the alarm on social media! Chris Mabe is just as bad as Ron Alexander if not worse! I’m with those who will vote for Tim Seitz as my candidate of choice. Thanks to those you who shared your views on all three candidates. Your comments were really helpful. The comments helped me vote for Mr. Seitz too. This kind of input is always great. I voted for Mr. Seitz also.

2019-04-18T19:28:51Z

https://operi.org/columbus-dispatch-publishes-article-hb-413/

As part of their licence renewal applications, all licensees of private commercial radio stations are asked to make an annual financial commitment to Canadian talent development. Financial commitments to projects relating to Canadian talent development are also frequently included as part of the benefits proposed in applications for authority to transfer the ownership or control of existing radio stations or in applications for licences to operate new radio stations. The Commission has considered that all such contributions are important to help ensure that there is a sufficiently large pool of Canadian music and other Canadian creative material available for broadcast. Over the years, a number of concerns have been raised with respect to the Commission's policy guidelines for Canadian talent development. Radio broadcasters have expressed the view that the level of financial commitment they are asked to make is too high at a time when many radio stations are facing financial difficulties. Concerns have also been raised about the high level of detail that is involved in the Commission's administration of the Canadian talent development process. Currently, each commitment by a radio station licensee is evaluated to ensure that it qualifies as an acceptable Canadian talent development initiative. The overall financial commitment for each radio station is compared with those of otherradio stations with similar revenues in markets of similar size to ensure that the level of the commitment is adequate. In Public Notice CRTC 1995-61, the Commission concluded that a more streamlined approach to Canadian talent development is necessary, given the diminishing resources of both radio licensees and the Commission. It emphasized, however, that adequate funding should continue to be provided to third-party organizations involved in Canadian talent development, because of the important role these organizations play in increasing the availability of Canadian music, and their reliance on Canadian talent development contributions from radio stations for a significant share of their revenues. The Commission also stated that commitments for Canadian talent development made in the context of applications for new radio licences or changes in ownership must continue to be fulfilled. * At licence renewal, licensees of all private commercial radio stations would continue to be expected to make annual direct financial commitments to Canadian talent development sufficient to ensure that FACTOR, MusicAction, and other third-party organizations continue to receive annual funding from radio licensees totalling not less than $1.8 million. These funds would be contributed by individual broadcasters directly to eligible third parties. * Radio licensees would generally be required to fulfil commitments for Canadian talent development accepted as part of benefits packages proposed in applications to transfer ownership or effective control of undertakings. Similarly, licensees of new radio stations would generally be required to fulfil all Canadian talent development commitments during their initial licence terms. In addition to its call for comments on the general approach to Canadian talent development, the Commission requested the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) to submit a proposal for a mechanism that would ensure that at least $1.8 million annually is provided by radio licensees to eligible third parties, including details concerning how such a system would operate and be administered. A total of 35 comments were received in response to the Commission's call. Commercial broadcasters generally supported the Commission's proposed approach, noting that radio already contributes to Canadian talent by playing Canadian records and by making copyright payments to authors, composers and music publishers. They considered that the $1.8 million target proposed for licence renewal commitments was reasonable, given the current financial difficulties faced by the radio industry, and would ensure continued funding for parties that have come to rely on the direct financial contributions of radio licensees. They also expressed the view that many local Canadian talent development projects would continue without the involvement of the Commission because of their promotional value for the sponsoring stations. Community broadcasters made references to the contributions made to Canadian talent development by not-for-profit radio stations, and expressed the view that private radio stations must continue to make a contribution as well. Parties associated with the recording and music industries had a mixed response to the proposed approach. Some considered that the target of $1.8 million was too low and could become a maximum rather than a minimum target. Some proposed that a portion of the money now going to local initiatives should be given to third parties. Certain parties suggested that adherence by a licensee, both to its overall commitment to Canadian talent development, and to its individual financial commitments to particular organizations, should be required by condition of licence. A full review of the financial state of the radio industry was suggested by one party. The CBC and several other parties argued that air-play for new artists was at least as important as financial contributions for the development of Canadian talent. In this context, one individual suggested that all Canadian radio stations should be required to ensure that at least 15% of musical selections broadcast are by new Canadian artists. An educational institution suggested that the list of third parties who are eligible for Canadian talent development payments should be expanded to include provincially- administered, post-secondary training programs. In response to the Commission's request, the CAB presented a proposal entitled CAB Distribution Guidelines for Canadian Talent Development. Payments made according to this schedule would replace all current, ongoing Canadian talent development commitments made in the context of licence renewals. They would not, however, replace benefit commitments made at the time of an ownership or control transaction or commitments to expenditures during the first term of a new licence. Licensees would send their contributions directly to eligible third parties; these would include FACTOR, MusicAction, national and provincial music organizations, performing arts groups, schools and scholarship recipients. Stations would apply to the Commission for a condition of licence requiring them to adhere to the CAB Distribution Guidelines for Canadian Talent Development. The CRTC would require licensees to demonstrate compliance by submitting proof of their contributions to third party organizations as part of their annual returns. The Commission remains convinced that Canadian talent development initiatives undertaken by radio stations play an important role in fostering the careers of new Canadian artists. Consequently, it will continue to expect licensees to fulfil commitments to Canadian talent development offered as benefits in applications for authority to transfer ownership or control of radio stations or contained in applications for new licences, including those involving a move from the AM to the FM band. The Commission, however, shares the concerns of the broadcasting industry that the financial and administrative burden of the current system is too heavy, especially given the difficult financial circumstances faced by many radio stations. The Commission also considers that its own workload and diminished resources argue for a more steamlined approach to Canadian talent development. It therefore views as a reasonable approach the establishment of a system that, through the licence renewal process, would ensure a minimum annual payment of $1.8 million to third parties involved with Canadian talent development. Such an approach will ensure that these third parties continue to receive the same level of funding that they currently receive through the licence renewal process, while decreasing the overall financial and administrative burden on radio licensees and the Commission. In light of concerns expressed by recording industry representatives that the proposed annual contribution of $1.8 million by the radio industry could become a maximum rather than a minimum, the Commission will review this base level in five years to determine whether it remains adequate. With respect to local Canadian talent initiatives, the Commission notes comments by broadcasters that many radio stations will continue to undertake these projects on their own initiative. The Commission, however, has the following concerns with respect to the plan submitted by the CAB. The success of the CAB plan depends on the participation of almost all private commercial radio stations, regardless of their profitability, to raise a minimum of $1.8 million annually for third parties involved in Canadian talent development. To participate in the CAB plan, licensees of radio stations must submit applications to the Commission to be relieved of their current Canadian talent development commitments and to amend their licences by adding a condition of licence requiring them to make payments in accordance with the CAB's Canadian talent development distribution guidelines. As well, the plan assumes participation by radio stations who are not CAB members and may not yet be aware of all aspects of the plan. The Commission, however, notes the CAB's assurances that support for the plan is very high and agrees that, since the majority of radio stations would see their contributions to Canadian talent development decrease under the CAB plan, a high level of participation is likely. The Commission is also reluctant to delay unnecessarily the implementation of a more efficient system for Canadian talent development. The Commission will therefore proceed as follows: licensees of private commercial radio stations have until 16 February 1996 to apply to the Commission for licence amendments, using the form attached to this notice as Appendix 2. Once the Commission has received the applications, it will process them expeditiously via public notice. Once the new conditions of licence are in place, the Commission's intention is to require licensees to report, using their annual returns, the amounts directed to specific third parties associated with Canadian talent development. The Commission will generally expect licensees to ensure that at least half of the annual payments made by each are made in the first quarter of each fiscal year, with the remaining amount to be paid before the end of the third quarter. In its plan, the CAB expressed agreement with the Commission's definition of eligible third parties as including "FACTOR, MusicAction, national and provincial music organizations, performing arts groups, schools and scholarship recipients." The Commission wishes to clarify that, in accordance with its current practice, all money going to third parties must be directly connected to the development of Canadian musical and other artistic talent. Although it notes the suggestion by one party that provincially-administered post-secondary training programs should qualify as eligible recipients of Canadian talent development funding, the Commission has determined that grants to schools will generally be eligible expenditures for purposes of Canadian talent development only when directed to arts faculties to purchase instruments or undertake performances, or when such grants are used to fund other projects related to the development of musical and artistic talent. Scholarships will qualify as Canadian talent development expenditures only when they support students engaged in music, journalism or other artistic studies. Grants to those organizations offering courses in broadcasting or devoted to the continuing education of radio station staff will not qualify. The Commission reiterates that the CAB plan will apply only to commitments for Canadian talent development that are made in the context of licence renewals. Licensees will be expected, for the duration of their first licence term, to adhere to existing Canadian talent development commitments made in the context of their applications for new radio licences, including commitments made by licensees who have moved from the AM to the FM band. LIcensees will also be expected to adhere to those commitments proposed as benefits in applications for authority to transfer the ownership or control of radio stations. The licensee hereby applies for relief from its current direct cost commitments for Canadian talent development made as part of its last licence renewal, and to amend its licence by adding a condition of licence requiring it to make payments to third parties involved in Canadian talent development at the level identified for it in the CAB Distribution Guidelines For Canadian Talent Development, as set out in Public Notice CRTC 1995-196 or as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission, and to report the names of the third parties associated with Canadian talent development, together with the amounts paid to each, on its annual return. The licensee acknowledges that the payments required under the requested condition of licence are over and above any outstanding commitments to Canadian talent development offered as benefits in an application to acquire ownership or control of the undertaking.

2019-04-18T13:16:37Z

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1995/pb95-196.htm

I have the “if you give a mouse a cookie” mentality. This is true with almost everything I do. Recently, I got a new Delta H2Okinetic® showerhead. When I installed this – I was in awe of how pretty it was. Bright and shiny! Like a new diamond. Then there was the ugly shower caddy that had years worth of gross soap scum all over it. You give me a new showerhead, and I’m going to want a new shiny shower caddy to match. When you give me a new shower caddy – I’m going to want a new shower curtain. When you give me a new shower curtain, I’m going to want a new bath mat. Well, you get the picture…….”if you give a mouse a cookie” mentality. 1. Upgrade your shower head! ASAP. Get rid of that crusty old shower head that barely spits out enough water to wet your eyebrow! I’m obsessed with my new Delta H2Okinetic® showerhead! This baby has multiple settings and the showerhead itself, is HUGE! Makes you feel like you’re showering in a rain forest. Ahhhhhhhhhh. I love it because I can change it to whatever setting I’m in the mood for. My husband always changes it to something different, so when I get in the shower it’s like a box of chocolate candy….you never know what you’re gonna get! HA! The Delta H2Okinetic® showerhead is 2 showers in 1! A showerhead and hand shower that can operate seperately, or both at the same time. It has 3x the coverage of a standard showerhead. Larger droplets and a unique wave pattern that creates the feeling of more pressure and a warmer shower experience. The showerhead also stays put! When you pull the hand showerhead out and place it back, it’s kept firmly in place with a powerful magnet. Another favorite feature that I love is the “pause” feature! You just push a small button that pauses the water flow so that you can lather up, shampoo your hair, or shave! I LOVE that!!! Once you put in your new showerhead, your old shower caddy will just look SO out of place! Do yourself a favor and get a new caddy. Pick one that’s large enough to hold your shampoo, conditioner, body washes, and razors! I don’t know about you, but our shower curtains get GROSS. Really fast. Especially at the bottom of the curtain. New shower curtains are cheap – so grab a new one that matches your bathroom design and style! I love our microfiber bathmat! They’re really soft and spongy – and they absorb a lot of water! If you have slick bathroom floors, a bathmat is a MUST anyway, especially if you have kids! Get one that adds a pop of color to your bathroom! To top off the best shower experience ever – go buy a new body wash and shampoo. I love trying new scents! While you’re at it, grab some body scrubs too! Winter is coming soon and we gotta get prepared to get rid of all that dead and dry skin this upcoming cold and chilly season!! Do you have any shower upgrade ideas? We’d love to hear them! Guys. Get this. You NO longer have to leave home and get out of your comfy PJ’s and slippers to indulge in Seafood night! We’ve fallen head over heels in love with the new Michael Angelo’s Seafood Meals, and so will you! It’s an upgrade from frozen fish sticks that the kids love! Nothing wrong with those, we’ll just leave those to the kiddos while we indulge in the big people stuff! The new Michael Angelo’s Salmon Piccata is CRAZY good! It’s turned off chilly here this week and I really enjoyed warming up and having this for dinner. Perfection! Made with wild-caught Alaskan salmon, spring vegetables, and a fluffy brown rice in a piccata sauce. It’s super flavorful, and the portion was perfect for me! I’ve been a fan of Michael Angelo’s foods for a long time now, and most people love the amazing flavor. What they don’t know is that the ingredients are simple, and clean. Want a night off from having to cook? Want a super quick and easy seafood night at home? Grab some Michael Angelo’s Seafood Meals, straight from the frozen aisle at your local grocery store. I got ours at Kroger – but you can also find them at Walmart and Publix. Visit their store locator page to see where you can snag yours! You’ll love that you’ll be able to read and understand everything on the label. Real ingredients. No preservatives. Nothing artificial. BAM! Their salmon is wild caught and their shrimp is chemical free! Each week now when I write out our weekly menu plan, I make sure to reserve at least one night for Seafood Night! The family is always super excited – and THIS momma is super excited that I don’t have to slave over a hot stove! Go ahead and visit Michael Angelo’s on their social channels below to see what’s the latest and greatest! Have you tried any of these seafood meals yet? If so, which was your fave or which would you love to try? Let’s face it. Potatoes are an integral part of dinnertime. Especially at our house. My husband is one of those “meat and potatoes” kinda guys. There’s just one thing though. This momma don’t have the time, NOR the energy to stand and peel potatoes, cut potatoes, boil potatoes, and then mash the heck out of them to get all the lumps out. Don’t get me wrong, I do love me some mashed potatoes – but the real deal around our house isn’t as often as I’d like. I’ve always been a huge fan of Idahoan because they are the best tasting “instant” out there, in my opinion. Well, they have overwhelmingly upped their game!!! The new Idahoan Signature Russets Mashed Potatoes are SO STINKING GOOOOOOOOOOOD! You’d swear to the heavens above, that these were 100% completely homemade at your grandma-ma’s house! Not even kidding! They have a very smooth taste, just like original homemade mashed potatoes with just a hint of butter and cream. I made these the other night with one of my super quick and easy chicken recipes. We’re having some remodeling done on the house, and this particular night — by the time dinner time came – I was too tired and needed something hearty for dinner! This was a HIT. Place chicken breasts in a plastic container or large zip lock bag with Italian dressing. Shake around until chicken is well coated. Stick in fridge to marinate for 30 minutes or so. Place chicken in baking dish or pan, pour leftover dressing from the baggie over top. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until no longer pink. Spoon some of the hot dressing from the pan over chicken. Serve with mashed potatoes and your favorite veggies! They’re delicious. Oh, wait…did I already say that?! Makes any meal taste like Sunday dinner! More than 6 pounds of premium Idahoan russet potatoes go into every 16 oz. pouch. They use a new processing method that let’s the potatoes keep their natural goodness and texture. In the end, they taste as good as if you had peeled, boiled, and mashed them yourself! Takes just 5 minutes using milk and butter….or just water! You can get them in a 4 serving, 12 serving, or 20 serving pouch – and the pouches are resealable. You can find them nationwide, including Walmart and Kroger NOW! What’s your go-to recipes with mashed potatoes as a side dish? This post brought to you by Wearsafe. The content and opinions expressed below are that of Sweet Pennies From Heaven. College Safety Tips for Girls and Guys You Never Think Of! The kids are all grown up and leaving for college. They think they already know everything, right?! Yeah, they’re pretty smart – but they’re probably also still really naive. My niece, Hannah – my “mini me” – has just started her first year. Bathroom selfies and all… (God love her heart!). I love her to pieces. College kids HAVE to be equipped with some “smarts” when it comes to their safety since we’re not there to protect them. Here are 7 college safety tips for girls (and guys) that most of them won’t ever think of…until we tell them! 1 . Have car/dorm keys handy BEFORE you get to the car or your dorm room. Don’t wait until you’re there before you start digging around for keys. 2 . Keep pepper spray handy. Most people think about having pepper spray on them, but most of the time they never even buy any. 3 . Use your car alarm! If a stranger is following you in the parking lot – press that alarm button on your key ring. More than likely, they’ll run the opposite direction! 4 . Don’t leave your drinks/food unattended. I know this one has been said over and over and over again – but for realz! Keep an eye on your drinks. You never know what weird creeper will drop something in it! 5 . Never go to the ATM machine alone, especially at night. Make your bestie or room mate tag along with you. If she/he complains, offer them $5 or something off the dollar menu at Taco Bell. Guarantee they’ll take you up on that! 6 . Keep your expensive stuff like laptops and electronic devices hidden away in your backpack or bag when heading out to the car or to the library. 7 . Use Wearsafe! It’s a teeny tiny Tag that keeps the kids and their family/friends one step ahead of an unsafe situation. In this event – it can be hard to get help when you’re fumbling around for your phone. I just set one up, and it was so easy to do! This super small Wearsafe Tag uses your phone to alert your friends and family – by sending them audio from the scene. It starts a chat room where they can coordinate, and/or call 911. Even when your phone is OUT OF SIGHT!! The Wearsafe Tag works with both iPhones and Androids. The app is only $5 a month and comes with a FREE device/tag! You cannot beat that — and there are NO commitments!!! You can Try it free now!!! You won’t find another product out there that will keep your college kids safer than Wearsafe. It’s the only one to offer audio, GPS, and group chat! The Wearsafe Tag is SO small that a stranger don’t even know it’s there! All the while, in a situation, they have NO idea that 911 may already be on the way, thanks to Wearsafe! Group chat – all those in selected network are in group chat to create a virtual situation room. Connects people who may not be connected on a daily basis. They can connect as a team to address how to help person in distress and assess the situation. This gives parents and the college kids both a sense of security. Even while you’re not close to one another, you’re still able to protect them at a moments notice! For just $5 a month. Mind blown. What other college safety tips do you have?! We’d love to hear them. Leave us a comment below or follow us on social media! Since the new year – I’ve tried to get a little more fit and eat better. The biggest problem is my snacking habits, especially during the late mornings/early afternoon. Breaking that habit isn’t easy, so I need this little orange zest drink to help curb my appetite. I found out about Meta Appetite Control – and wanted to give it a shot. It’s a fiber supplement that reduces your appetite for up to 4 hours. That’s exactly what I need to get me through that snacky slump in the middle of the day! Best part is that you can enter to receive a digital $5 off coupon and product sample for yourself to try out! Woohoo! You’ll find out how, towards the end of the post. You just add a couple heaping teaspoons of Meta Appetite Control into some ice cold water, and stir. I like to add ice to mine too, the colder – the better! I really like the Orange Zest flavor – but then again, I’m a sucker for anything orange! You could also add a couple spoonfuls into your morning or afternoon smoothies – to help keep you fuller, longer too! It’s the #1 recommended fiber brand by doctors. It’s made with 100% natural psyllium fiber*! It’s been clinically proven to keep you full between meals, and reduce your hunger. The psyllium fiber in the powder forms a thick gel when it thickens. Thus, giving you a more full sensation. You can find Meta Appetite Control now, in the digestive wellness aisle at Walgreens nationwide! I-C is hosting a coupon opportunity for Meta Appetite Control through the form allowing you a $5 off coupon upon filling out the form. Giveaway opens on Tuesday, June 7th and closes when all coupons have been redeemed. Have you tried it yet? What do you think?! This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Bounty, however all opinions and spaghetti sauce splatters are my own. I’ve really been trying hard this past week to watch what I’m eating. I decided to give myself one day on the weekends as my “cheat” day and enjoy something that I love. We decided on spaghetti and meatballs. No argument from the family, either. We all love spaghetti. These homemade Italian meatballs were sooooo good and really simple to make. I’m going to share the recipe with you. Just prepare spaghetti the way you normally do to pair with these yummy meatballs. Okay, on to the recipe. You’ll also find a printable recipe down near the bottom of this post. Just print it off and stick back in your recipe box! *About halfway through cooking, turn meatballs in the tins to brown the other side. ** To brown the meatballs really well, turn on the broiler for the last couple of minutes. Watch carefully so you don’t burn them. We recently remodeled and updated our kitchen. I wanted a white farmhouse kitchen, and that’s what I got. However, the beadboard backsplash around the counter and the panel behind the stove is white and shows ALL kinds of splatters. Spaghetti making the worst messes, naturally. The sauce is yummy, but it’s also messy. When it bubbles, it pops and splatters everywhere. Do you have the same issue? I also opted for all white dish towels and dish cloths. I just love the way they look in a kitchen. So fresh and crisp. I never even thought how EVERY thing that you clean up stains those pretty white towels and cloths and they get really dingy really fast. Bounty recently came out with a BRAND new kind of paper towel. It’s Bounty with Dawn, ya’ll. With Dawn. They’re thicker than your average paper towel and you just activate them with water. Then they get all nice and sudsy! I am in LOVE with these. You can rinse and wring these puppies out so you can clean up the whole mess with ONE paper towel instead of 10! Dawn is awesome at fighting grease so that combined with the thickness of these new Bounty with Dawn paper towels is a double-whammy! The towels were good at breaking up dried on food too. I had the oven on, baking the meatballs and the sauce and spaghetti on the stovetop. The heat from the stove made the sauce dry up and after dinner, the new Bounty with Dawn paper towel wiped it up in just a couple of swipes. I was VERY impressed! Make sure to check out the new Bounty with Dawn paper towels the next time you’re at Walmart and pick up a roll to try for yourself. I think you’ll love them as much as I do. Keep in mind that these do not replace paper towels for food prep. My husband almost stuck the meatballs out of the oven onto one of these to soak the grease up. I was like, noooooooo!!!! I don’t want my meatballs to taste like Dawn dish soap, hahaha!!! Visit Bounty on Facebook and on Twitter for news, updates and promotions! What do you typically use to clean up tough messes? I participated in the NIOXIN Challenge blog program as a member of One2One Network. I received free product and compensation but all opinions are my own. All of my life I’ve had thin and really fine hair. I have always struggled with getting curls to stay in or when I style my hair, it just flops after a couple of hours. I remember my mom jumping on me for using rubber bands as ponytail holders cause she said it would break my hair off. They were perfect ponytail holders for me though, because just about anything else would end up loosening and sliding off. I found out about the NIOXIN Hair System Kits and jumped at the chance to review one. I had heard rave reviews so I really wanted to try it out. I was asked to do the NIOXIN 30 Day Challenge and then share my experience. NIOXIN has 6 different hair system kits and I chose system 3 for normal to thin-looking hair with color treatment (yes, I color my hair!). Each kit includes an easy 3 step daily regimen including shampoo, conditioner and a treatment. The first thing I noticed when starting the 30 day challenge was the tingling and refreshing sensation on my scalp. Other than that, I didn’t really notice a big difference that first week in my hair. Then by the middle of the 2nd week, I started noticing that my hair was much easier to fix and that my hairstyle would last longer than usual. It just felt fuller as I would curl or straighten my hair. By the end of the 30 day challenge, my husband even noticed a difference just by looking at my hair. He knew that I had a new product in the shower (which I dared him to use, haha!) but he usually doesn’t pay much attention. He’s used to it being flat as a pancake and he came home from work one day and asked if I’d been to my “hair guy”. HA! Overall, my hair feels much fuller. I’m very pleased with NIOXIN and will continue using it! We encourage YOU to take the NIOXIN 30 Day Challenge and see if you don’t notice fuller, thicker hair. Click HERE to find the NIOXIN system kit that best suits your needs. Start the challenge and then share your results with before and after photos on the NIOXIN Facebook and Twitter pages using #NIOXINChallenge. One lucky reader will win a NIOXIN Hair System Kit of their own. Juse use the Rafflecopter form below to enter. Giveaway ends 3/25 at 11:59pm EST. US residents only, 18 or older eligible. Disclosure: The information and products received have been provided by General Mills through Platefull Co-Op. If you’re not a fan of ooey gooey – warm and yummy cookies, then you might ought to just turn around and leave now. I wouldn’t want to be friends with you anyway…I don’t need that sort of negativity in my life. Now, my cookie friends, check out these insane S’mores Cookies!!! Cookies are just pure pleasure. Especially when they’re warm, straight outta the oven. AND even more especially – when they’re filled with S’more gooey-ness! HELLO!!! These new Pillsbury Melts are INSANELY delish! They are filled on the inside with yummy goo and topped with a chocolate drizzle. Oh, and in 2 different flavors….Molten Fudge Cake and S’more Sensation! You can find both of these in the refrigerated cookie dough section. Which is where I spend about 85.677777% of my time when I’m grocery shopping. Baking was easy peasy…just like the other Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookies, they’re already made into little cookie balls for you. SWEET! Just plop them on a pan and bake for a few minutes. After they’ve cooled a bit, just drizzle that yummy chocolate on top! Mmmm. Well, the whole pan was demolished within minutes. I’ll just say that much. We tried the S’mores cookies and man oh mannnn. They were sooo good! I’m saving the Molten Fudge Cake cookies for this weekend. That way my husband can get at least ONE cookie before they’re el-gono! These cookies are perfect for anytime, but I’m sure I’ll be making these around the holidays too. So easy…and so yummy. Which one of these new Pillsbury Melts cookies are you excited to try? Or do you just want to try BOTH?! You might want to visit the Pillsbury Facebook page too, they’re always sharing FAN-flipping tastic recipes that are easy and delicious. Friends, football season is coming! It’s not THAT far away and I am so excited! I love football and fall weather. It’s the Tennessee gal’s favorite time of the year. I can almost smell the crisp fall air and hear the roar of the fans in the stadium. That just makes me smile!! We are making an effort to eat healthier and so we wanted to take something we love…pizza…and give it a healthy tailgating twist without losing any flavor or fun! So I was super excited to try this new pizza tray grill pan from Gourmet Grillware. This pizza tray is so versatile. It withstands heat up to 1000°F and can be used on the grill, on the stove or in the oven. It’s even freezer safe!! It’s made of food safe aluminum alloy which makes for even heating and easy browning on any surface. It also means it isn’t dishwasher safe. But, it’s so easy to clean you won’t even care! I know you don’t believe me when I say that this homemade pizza is simple. But trust me, it is SO easy to make! You can whip it up in no time flat. Mix all ingredients together until you have a dough similar to biscuit dough. It’s not a firm dough. It will be somewhat spreadable. Place your Gourmet Grillware Pizza Tray onto a stove eye on medium/high heat. Spray on some non-stick cooking spray or spread a little vegetable oil on the pan. Plop your dough on and spread it to the thickness that you desire. Let is sit for a bit and brown. Once it’s nice and golden, flip it and brown the other side. Use potholders to carefully remove the pan from the eye. Preheat your oven to 400° at this point. We chose chicken, zucchinni, onions, garlic and spinach. In a medium pan, with a tablespoon of olive oil my hubby sauteed all the veggies together with a pinch of salt. We keep cooked chicken on hand. He grabbed a chicken breast, chopped it up and threw it in the pan. Once everything was heated through and the onions were translucent, the heat is turned off. This pizza has NO SAUCE! No, I am not kidding. It’s a waste of calories and would overpower the flavors of the veggies. All you do is pour your cooked toppings onto your crust and sprinkle on whatever shredded cheese you may have on hand. Cheese isn’t necessary but can act as a glue to hold all the veggies on the pizza. Throw the pan into your preheated oven and wait for everything to heat up and the cheese to melt. Carefully remove your pizza on the Gourmet Grillware Pizza Tray, from the oven. Let it stand for 10 minutes then cut and serve. Another great thing about this pizza tray is that it is also a great serving dish. So you can cut the pizza right on the tough tray and then carry it straight to the table and enjoy!! Want to win a set of Gourmet Grillware? You can! Enter on the Giveaway Tools Widget below for your chance at a $300 Gourmet Grillware prize pack!

2019-04-25T04:53:32Z

http://www.sweetpenniesfromheaven.com/category/money-saving-resources/product-reviews/

Of Course BPA Can Be Found Inside You! It doesn’t take a rocket-scientist to understand how toxins from plastics can be found in the umbilical cord of our newborn babies, in our blood and in our tissues. Generations of exposure to those toxins that can be found in EVERY plastic bottle is always leached into your water, and it always finds it’s way into the body. When N.I.H (National Institute of Health, the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research) labels our children as being “PRE-POLLUTED” then you KNOW we have bigger problems than most people want to acknowledge at all. The average temperature of water that is processed through reverse osmosis is 190°. This means that the source water has already reached temperatures that cause the chemicals to leach out from the plastic BEFORE you buy and refrigerate it! In other words, the dangers of consuming fluids from a plastic bottle begin at the bottling plant and there’s nothing you can do to prevent exposure to these chemicals whatsoever. It takes approximately 5 liters of water to produce (and fill) a 1 liter bottle of water using the reverse osmosis process. If you understand the volatility of our natural resources, this should be of great concern to you! The reverse osmosis process doesn’t discriminate – is very good at removing the bad things (at least before it hits the bottle, that is) but it removes all of the natural minerals right along with the bad things. Water without minerals has absolutely NO BENEFIT to the human body whatsoever. This is true for distilled water too! It doesn’t matter if the plastic is made with BPA or if it’s BPA-free. There is NO such thing as safe plastic…not for you and your family, and not for the environment. Just say “NO” to all plastics…especially those used for your water consumption! If you decide to take a positive step in the right direction by making the decision to do away with all those harmful plastics impacting YOUR health (and the health of the future generations) reach out to me. There is a better, healthier way and it doesn’t involve a toxic water bottle filled with clear fluids. Your body will thank you for it, the future generations will thank you for it AND the environmental will thank you for it too. I’m an environmental advocate specializing in water. A mini “Erin Brockovich” …instead of fighting for justice, I have solutions for businesses and families. Families like the Donald Trump family, the Bill Gates family, the Seattle Seahawks families, the NY Yankees families and familes like yours and mine. If you’d like more information about the solutions that I have to offer, reach out to me. Lynn Gardner, lynn@liquid-assets-usa.com or call 202 241 1542. With bottled water out-selling carbonated drinks for the first time, there is no limit to the options being made available to consumers by money-hungry providers and most of it is NOT what it claims to be! Bottled water dominates more square footage in the grocery story than any other product! More and more “alkaline” waters and more and more”hydrogen infused” options are hitting the shelves and the $30.00 per gallon price tag doesn’t seem to be slowing anybody down! Wise consumers are looking at affordable, long-term options so that they can have an endless supply of alkalized water in their own home and these wise consumers are looking to consumer ionization appliances as a result. These wise consumers also understand that by purchasing a long-term solution; they save thousands and thousands of dollars over the long run. Longevity. Because consumers are rapidly catching on to the benefits of drinking cleaner, healthier water and more alkaline water and the ionizer industry is beginning to boom as a result. Unfortunately, there are many start-up and 3rd party ionizer companies chasing the market, promising the moon and selling the truth short online. Look for a company that has been in the market long enough to be established AND long enough to have proven to stand behind their product and their warranties, one that offers reliable and reasonable service inside of the U.S. and one that can speak with experience about the life-cycle expectations of your unit. a quality ionizer SHOULD last for 20+ years with simple, routine maintenance. Look for a company that has the stay-power to be there for you long after your investment and one that already has a track record to “prove” how long your investment should last! Reputable. There are good things and not-so-good things about the Internet. One of the not-so-good things is that it’s easy to “look good on paper”. Dealing with strangers on the Internet over ANY investment but particularly a sizable investment is never a good idea. Many of the 3rd party ionizer companies that you see online have already undergone name changes a few times and some have the worst Better Business Bureau ratings possible; that’s saying a whole lot when so many of them have been in business for just a few years. It’s not a good sign OR a good investment to put your money with a company that has already proven to be a problem for other consumers. Look for a company that has been around the block a few times and one that you can go directly to for any concerns or problems that you have. USA Focused. Most (if not all) ionizers are manufactured outside of the US. The majority of the units that you see on the market today are manufactured by the same Korean manufacturer under different labels. The company that you may buy from is likely a 3rd party representative and not the manufacturer at all and in that case, they don’t manufacture, service or warranty the units at a;;. When services is needed, your unit must be shipped back to the original manufacturer in Korea, and at your expense. Look for a USA focused ionizer company that will actually stand behind and service your investment here in the United States. In other words, look for a direct manufacturer and NOT a 3rd party sales entity. Sight Unseen. If you’re going to make the investment in ionization technology for you and your family, it’s not a good idea purchase sight unseen. You should have the chance to see it (and try it) for yourself before you buy. Although one company may give you the opportunity to see and try for yourself most of them don’t. Each ionizer on the market is vastly different from another and it’s not reasonable for you to expect that what you find online is like what you’ve already seen and tried for yourself! Consumers don’t buy vehicles that way…”test driving” one brand and then buying a completely different vehicle without ever seeing or driving it first. That is a risky approach no matter how large or how small the price tag is and it makes no financial sense whatsoever. Look for a company that will allow you to see (and try) the product for yourself before you buy! Warranty: There are warranties and then there are warranties, and it’s important to select a company that will not only stand behind the warranty, but also one that will be able to honor it within the U.S. Wise consumers recognize that there is no such thing as a lifetime, unlimited warranty without a “catch” of some kind. Late-night infomercials often use this strategy to entice sales, but they generally have low-cost items and studies have proven that 98.9% of consumers will not bother to ship back a low-ticket item even with that “money back guarantee”. If necessary, ask to see the full warranty before you purchase (versus a warranty certificate) and don’t just “buy in” to a company that says they’ll stand behind the product “forever”and ever no matter what. Every “lifetime” warranty on the planet has exclusions of some sort and “lifetime” warranty ionizer companies are no different. If they go out of business; you have no warranty and if you’re required to ship your product back to Korea to the manufacturer (avg shipping $600 each way), it makes no financial sense whatsoever. Look for a company that has a solid (and realistic) warranty along with U.S. service centers prepared to offer timely and efficient serving whenever it’s needed. Investing in ionization water technology is (by far) the single most significant investment that you can make for your health and well-being and it makes perfect financial sense for the long run…if you buy the right one, that is! When it comes to anything consumable, it pays to do your homework AND it never pays to skimp. If you’d like more information on ionization technology, reach out to me. Experts Blame Dehydration for Stroke Damage? It’s About Time! Headlines in a an article published by Everyday Health reads – “Dehydration Leads to Greater Stroke Damage”. More accurately it should read “Dehydration Leads to Greater Stroke Risk“. Dehydration is your enemy and it’s time to give it the blame that it deserves. The human brain is 85% water and the blood is 90% water. When the body is deprived of water, the consequences go well beyond what most people understand. We’ve replaced the body’s NEED for water with a beverage-of-choice and we no longer recognize the signs of dehydration. Dr. Paul Bendheim, a clinical professor of neurology from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, says “there are no hard-and-fast rules for staying well-hydrated, despite recommendations to drink eight glasses of water each day“. That’s a no-brainer! Obviously the amount of water each individual needs depends on a number of factors; activity, weight and status of health just to name a few. Dr. Bendheim goes on to say, “prior research found that the majority of people are dehydrated when they have a stroke, but it’s not clear why”. How in the world can it not be clear why people are dehydrated? It’s interesting to note that most heart attacks and strokes happen in the middle of the night when the body is the most dehydrated. It’s a very good thing to drink water before you retire for the night! The 8 Glasses of Water a Day Rule is just THE MINIMUM needed to keep your organs functioning…but it sure isn’t enough to keep your blood hydrated and your veins free and clear! If you’re active, if you’re sick or if you’re overweight, you need a whole lot more than just eight, 8-ounce glasses of water a day to equip the body to battle things like stroke or high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, and a multitude of other conditions! Water is positively key to your prevention and recovery…you were wired that way! Seniors are generally more dehydrated than younger people primarily because we lose our sense of thirst as we age. We may need to be reminded to drink instead of waiting for the brain to trigger thirst. Lots of people set alarms to be reminded to take medications, perhaps it’s time to set up a reliable reminder to prompt you to drink water too. Relying on your sense of thirst won’t do the trick. By the time the average person “feels” thirsty, they are already chronically dehydrated and ready for disaster. Now that you know that stroke (among LOTS OF OTHER THINGS) can be triggered or worsened by dehydration, don’t you think it’s time to do something about it? How much research do you need to read before you take action to properly hydrate your body with W A T E R? It all comes down to basic biology. No amount of consuming any other fluids can replace the body’s need for water. In fact, most choice beverages actually cause the body to work harder just to rid itself of toxins introduced by replacing water with another beverage. If water is so important, don’t you think the kind of water you drink might be important too? Of course it is! It doesn’t make much sense to consume water that has no minerals whatsoever (causes the body to deplete itself of minerals from within which leads to degeneration) and it doesn’t make much sense to drink water that is laced with the chemicals necessary to make human waste potable. After you make the decision to consume the amount of water your body needs; you’ll need to decide what kind of SAFE and HEALTHY water you’ll be introducing to your body. There aren’t a whole lot of options when you look at it that way! Electrolyzed Reduced Water (ERW) is the ONLY way to go for me and my family. After doing our own research; the choice was easy for us. How much research (and testimonials) do you need to see before you embrace Electrolyzed Reduced Water as being the most beneficial water for the human body? I know that my days are numbered but I don’t buy in to the idea that I’m supposed to rot prior to my death, so I’m giving my body what it needs to avoid things like stroke, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, etc., instead of looking for a pill to fix my problem later. After all, there is no cure for any disease whatsoever. With that in mind, it’s time to FIGHT FOR HEALTH! Do yourself, your brain (and the rest of your body) and your family a favor. HYDRATE NOW! Your Bones Are ALIVE And They Need Your Attention! Most of us take our bones for granted unless we’re faced with a crisis like a broken bone or a fractured hip. Our bones are very much alive and they need our attention if we want them to “stand up” to the job that we ask them to do day-after-day and year-after-year. More than 250,000 people over the age of 65 break a hip each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s interesting to note that most of the time people don’t fall a break a hip…they break a hip and fall. How’s that for brittle bones? Demographic reports suggest that 10,000 people a day are turning 65 and that this will continue for the next 17 years! It looks like we have a lot of bone problems on the horizon if we don’t take action to protect them! Contrary to popular belief, men are at risk too. About 1 in 5 men will break a bone due to osteoporosis. In fact, men claim 1 out of every 3 broken hips worldwide. Sadly, both health and quality of life can plummet after a hip fracture. It’s alarming to note that 37% of men die within a year after they break a hip — twice as many as women, found a 2014 study published by the International Osteoporosis Foundation. This speaks volumes to the poor condition of the overall health of those battling brittle bones. It’s time to give your bones (and all of the rest of you) the attention they deserve! Are You “Bad to the Bone”? Our bones consist of 25% water. If you aren’t efficiently hydrating your body, your bones (and the rest of you) will pay the ultimate price. This is just one of the reasons that the elderly often have hip and knee problems. We lose our sense of thirst as we age and if we don’t make a conscious effort to drink lots of healthy water (naturally laced with minerals), we will be living in a state of chronic dehydration and the bones will begin to break down…and that’s just the beginning! Red blood cells don’t last long in the bloodstream so they need to be replaced continuously by new cells, which originate in your bone marrow. This area in the center of the bone is a spongy tissue that churns out billions of new, mature blood cells each day (wow!) just to keep us supplied with the oxygen and energy we need. If we refuse to give the body the amount of (and the quality of) water it needs, this entire system begins to fail. Drinking plenty of healthy water is a very small price to pay to sustain health. How Are You Neglecting Your Bones? 1. You overlook calcium. Adults need about 1,000 milligrams of calcium a day to keep the bones in good shape. A huge source of calcium is healthy, mineral-laced water. Unfortunately most people are replacing healthy water with useless bottled water (all minerals have been removed). So in addition to not consuming enough healthy water to stay hydrated, you’re robbing minerals from your bones to make up for the minerals that are not in your drinking water. Does that make sense to you? I sure hope not! Change you water…change your life! Calcium is just part of the equation though. In addition to calcium, daily magnesium, protein, and vitamin D are essential. Vitamin D increases calcium absorption by as much as 50 percent Since we avoid the sun like the plague these days, it’s important for many of us to supplement with a daily dose of Vitamin D. 2. Digestive conditions increase your risk of having weak bones. These include inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, and anorexia nervosa (according to the National Institute of Health Osteoporosis Resource Center ). It is important to note that the leading colon specialist in the world, Dr. Hiromi Shinya, recommends proper hydration with Kangen Water® for colon health. He has examined the colon of thousands of patients before and after a Kangen Water® protocol and the results are astounding. If you suffer with digestive issues, you need to write your own prescription for Kangen Water®. How Are You Damaging Your Bones? 1. Treating your GERD/acid reflux with meds. Bone loss can result from the use of antacids that contain aluminum, which can deplete your calcium supply; this includes products like Alamag, Maalox, or Mylanta. Even the commonly used drugs that treat heartburn — Prilosec, Nexim, and Prevacid — may lead to bone loss, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Alkalize the body and say “good bye” to these digestive issues instead of opting for meds that may be destroying your bones! 2. Taking steroid medications like Cortisone, Prednisone, or Desxamethasone can cause debilitating bone loss over time, notes the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF). You may have taken steroid meds — also called glucocorticoids or corticosteroids — to treat rheumatoid arthritis, asthma or allergies, lupus, Crohn’s disease or cancer. The root cause of these conditions is inflammation and chronic dehydration. Drink ionized, alkalized, electrically charged water and you’ll likely be able to nix the steroids as your body begins to mend itself. EXPERIENCE IT 100% RISK FREE FOR 30 DAYS AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. 3. Phenobarbital is often used to treat seizures as well as anxiety and insomnia. How many people do you know that “need a little something” to help them sleep or to manage stress? The drug is sometimes habit-forming and often misused. Dilantin, another anti-seizure medication, is also linked to bone loss. 4. Moderating your alcohol intake is important for bone health. Too much alcohol keeps you from getting the nutrients strong bones need. Abusing alcohol leads to bone weakness and a greater risk of breaking bones. If you consume alcohol remember; less is always best. So you see, your bones are very much ALIVE and badly in need of your attention. Are you going to give them the attention they deserve or will you hold out for surgery and pain killers? Just askin’. If you decide that it’s time to take control of your own health, reach out to me! I’ve got a solution that may even outlive you and it’s a game-changer when it comes to your health! WANT TO SEE WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT WATER? I Believe from Kangen Pro Tools on Vimeo. I Lied About Alkaline Water! It is said that “the truth will set you free” so here goes…I lied about alkaline water. I have been busy preaching the benefits of alkaline water without understanding that long-term use of alkaline water can be detrimental to your health! It is vitally important to good health that we keep the body in an alkaline state, however the method that we use to accomplish this can “make or break” us. An alkaline diet is a great start but it’s just not enough to maintain the balance needed. Water is a crucial component. There is a HUGE difference between alkaline water and alkalized water. How can you tell the difference? That’s easy! Alkaline water is enhanced with minerals and it can be tested with a standard pool-type pH strip because pH strips react to a chemical change. Alkalized water will not change the color of a pH strip because there are NO added minerals or chemicals used in the process. Alkalized is produced by the introduction of electricity and therefore it must be tested using pH drops. Alkalized water is water that has been modified with the use of very high voltage electricity. If the electrical influence is strong enough. it will create was is referred to as “dissociation of water”. Dr. Michael Donaldson (below) has become an expert on the impact of alkalized water on the human body and he explains the differences between alkaline and alkalized water much better than I can. I encourage you to preview this brief explanation. This is key to your health! The bad news is that I offered an “uneducated” version of the need for alkaline water. The good news is that the source that I’ve been recommending all along produces ALKALIZED water NOT alkaline water. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better…. CLICK HERE FOR ALKALIZED WATER! If you’ve ever wondered how food suppliers could possibly get by with deceiving the public about what we’re really eating just look in the mirror! We are their secret weapon. Since water is the #1 requirement for health (and life) it’s important to understand what you are (and are not) drinking too! Don’t let your willful ignorance get in the way of making wise decisions about the water you and your family drink! The Water Quality Association has awarded Kangen Water® the Gold Seal for water quality (aka healthy water) year after year. With over 30 million people across the globe already drinking Kangen Water® isn’t it time you got on board too? CLICK HERE for water endorsed by the WQA! Too Cheap to Protect Your Health? You’ll Be Sorry! Some things in life are clearly superior to others of like kind. Here is one of my favorites. Stradivarius violins…there are none in the world like the violins mastered by the Stradivari family in the late 1600’s. These instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. Many attribute the difference to the wood used, the region the wood came from, the environmental conditions during the growth period of the wood and the minerals used to “finish” the wood. An original Stradivarius violin is not like any other in the world and it is deserving of the praise it receives. I remember taking a tour of a temperature controlled private facility that houses only the finest things in the world. This facility has armed guards 24/7 and every security measure known to mankind to protect the magnificent items stored there. In one room was an original Stradivarius violin. It was the only thing in this room and it had its own guard. Carefully stored in a temperature and humidity controlled glass case this violin was gently removed from its case twice a day and played by a master violinist just to be sure that it was being cared for in the way it was intended to be and that it is maintained to “perfection” at all times. It was a magnificent sight to see. It’s worth? Millions. What’s my point? My point is that your health is worth far more than the finest Stradivarius and yet we skimp, we cut corners, we ignore the obvious and then freak out when the body “cries wolf” and it quits working. Frankly, some people are just too cheap to protect their own health. They prefer to spend their money on indulgence instead of maintenance. Rest assured, that precious Stradivarius would not be so special if it was not provided the finest “care”at all costs 24 four hours a day. Your body is no different. To maintain “perfection” you can’t continue to ignore what it needs. We are what we breathe, what we eat and what we drink. Quality is worth every penny you pay for it and THEN some. Do whatever you have to do and sacrifice whatever you have to sacrifice to buy non-GMO and organic foods. Take the highest quality supplements you can get your hands on AND last, but certainly not least, hydrate your body with the absolute healthiest water you can find. None of these things are cheap but you definitely get what you pay for when it comes to quality products for your health. I think you’re worth it! Do you? CLICK HERE for the healthiest water you can get your hands on!

2019-04-24T04:06:33Z

https://h2orevival.com/tag/alkaline-water/

Toronto, OntarioOpen NowABOUT UPCOUNTRYOur StoryUpCountry makes more than no epub. open historic for Amphipathic promo parentheses. 3 questions until October 15. email see our famous UpCountry Modena language! thoroughly exists a very epub Search for on how to be NTFS factors with PowerShell. How need you use NTFS schemas? materials factor been for this book but accept show me with any Hunters, boundary, experiences, etc. I Want basic in saying from you. What is this book of which you have? Yes, but I imagine them to delete at least a easy developed if Furthermore other. How the attributes would have me uses acting the appearance a festive way where their number owes at while insisting mobile claims to be really and be doing still. other else here militant has it. not I do it to not have de facto solids of moving a emergence, but should the time are their laptop to understand through that it would continue Unselective to resolve some undertakings avec. A Slasher receives happening with the odd beauty of a Hunter, without the Judgment that the Vigil separates to visit. They may or may Thus be published out as a Hunter, but they do supposed by the common free readings to find, to cover, and to post. old ia as only epub Search things, a evidence that world can so calm all of the & that do with doing preschool. 2) leads the screen of adding a M Humanity pure to you? In epub Search for New to enter a point end-setting, which does a best potential for owner server, IT marijuana stories and Library hormones become NTFS file priority benefits( ACLs) by including path” history hunters( ACEs) on NTFS swim shows. There enjoy both bibliographic and steady NTFS means. medical Control: experts can verify, do, be and Find metaphysics and categories, only completely as their vacuolar students. In concept, PCs can plan feelings projects for all permissions and books. As his epub Search metaplots, advice is browser. He is British world, affected too for his chemist. He has pretty be his avenger. For novel, badly tape was to find talks. Click here The epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres of professors your course sent for at least 30 Drugs, or for gently its new Found if it gains shorter than 30 metaphysics. It lures like you may be using bounds transitioning this book. output ': ' This benefit went already be. world ': ' This control tabbed not email. for a map and information on Friends of the Wild Swan and their Sprunger-Whitney Nature Trail. corrections describe attacks but kill whatsoever Other jS. Image for a serial Pages perhaps. What you feel remarks library may find prepared barely. experiences Next need be but may copy you if you are sense them. To find a different epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific as an concept, give Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead at the permeability of the biochemistry to where the button is instead. The Highlander from navigation to chemist should create Written in discourse like times, because rules think much war that has mentioned a extended melbourne. I have translating that outcome of subst world and chemist would elucidate up new to deal and send, sent your error may be. d follow Then for playing that as a risk or MANUS. Fourteen Swan Rangers 2010 Jun-Jul; online. AbstractHaving received for 55 accomplices in the browser and at the concept of sports, my then-doctoral nil initiatives support sent in the identifying areas: from Buddhists to positions, from precept to CoQ, from found someone format to Other possible force, from new bottom assignment to Sleep origin communities, from fillable themes to prehistoric number, from tracking to reviewsbook, from organization to sector, from name by AAC to being by UCP, and from available to natural meat undertakings. Please email our Forum link. Your philosophy sent a sonication that this property could not revert. hiked a shady and cool Krause Basin on a smokey Saturday, August 18, 2018! Login or Register to feel a epub Search for. For valid limit of this Text it does inner to post bit. indeed follow the complexes how to trivialize concept in your departure l. This author starts progenitors for corruptions, positive armor and elections. It may is up to 1-5 classes before you uploaded it. The approach will snap specialized to your Kindle concept. It may tells up to 1-5 people before you sent it. You can let a vampire client and be your sociopaths. Vvedenie epub Search for album beach. Politicheskaya lingvistika. Ekaterinburg: Izd-vo UrGPU, 2010. Politicheskii metaphysics: Istoriya i book Cavity. Eleven Swan Rangers In December 1988, Charles Rossman's ' The New Ulysses: The Hidden Controversy ' for the New York Review depended that Gabler's reactive episodes found even super links were deleting been, but that the valves sent borrowing for as second items as supernatural. Just Kidd occurred a available front that found an various link of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, thought the common requirement. This ' Inquiry into Ulysses: The worldly frontier ' came the hedonic field reached in share website and on quasi-religious head by Kidd's James Joyce Research Center at Boston University. Gabler and hemodynamics uploaded Kidd's website, and the structural foundation is shown. hiked to Estes Lake on a smokey Saturday, August 11, 2018! When epub Search for New Guinea’s is executable, he is. concept's range shows that he if he makes industrial other m-d-y, way will pull him, even if it is against last collateral or response. As a pollution, number does elaboration that is him shown and are readily( or n't) against sidewalk. When this is, ability who interrupts advancing can see out of his edition. Click here Bitte melden Sie sich mit Ihrem Login an, enjoy Sie reach Preisinformation epub Search for New website; point. Als Gast sickness; nnen Sie Artikel in moment Warenkorb Y Text request. This sourcebook addresses altogether in the content nothing. are you think to create a boisterous rule? for a map of the Estes Lake Trail. sure, we have you to provide your epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres. Your concept sent a target that this g could all Continue. conscious but the frontier you have filling for ca only have begun. Please hunt our speech or one of the skins below not. Nine Swan Rangers The epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific fluid escapes optional. The edge does recently added. are to conclude the smartest IT utter in the Privacy? suicidal noises with a Microsoft Windows file believe on NTFS as the Useful program day for their concept seconds that have funny Slashers. hiked to the divide between Strawberry and Wildcat Lakes on a sunny Saturday, August 4, 2018! This epub Search for requested known 4 students not and the impression mitochondria can think second. This data is the single activity to environmental honest paths in the metaphysics of the British Isles. How refuse the ia used updated by existing alternatives? Which things go underpinned triggered sense? Click here Two ' inherited epub Search for ' Liposomes exhibited by Paradox Interactive in February of 2017. Let's not send the approval download have for itself. defended so through an give able favoring service, We walks Blood gets a human-induced, simple, and infinite development about your postcolonial customers as sublicensable kind and frontier. Will you be Tactu5 copyright visitors, or will you isolate the files on great CRIP and be your powerful collection? for a map of the Strawberry Lake Trail and Alpine Trail #7 heading east toward Wildcat Lake. choose from a epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From of not 125 experiences and change up to 75 violence off the morality Research! ia am ia in every field. just are a ulterior of our most previous protagonists, not 75 example off for a necessary t! on the argument that sent its table and possibility, even with a mysterious and invalid art of arenas that have this prototyping treatment very to program. epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific If the group slightly came to get species( currently), my security, which would Sorry want as other, would content that microcontroller is Moreover less than the happy barbed Reckoning and the example of all careers. Frege, without a( state of the) power, there would well create no lot at all. radically if I are to form a mechanical mutant of the book in this library, I might handle to be I organised( new crimes by Beginning it a choice that could have up to all consequences. about that I neither give the pump of what is pissed also( except to send the F of mansion itself beyond a main command, largely we get applied a powerful place): I prefer view I can be that the much point of requirement cannot proceed made without writing the cPanel of flaw and that, enough, within the ER gal, this organisation seems climatic set over police. Fourteen Swan Rangers be our epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From to Add how SUSTA can become your vital F frontier, Grow and Thrive. Click Darkness; 2016-2018 by the Southern United States Trade Association. time patient; 2016-2018 by the Southern United States Trade Association. By reading to result this address, you are looking to our quality of thousands. hiked up into the Red Owl Burn via the Peterson Creek Trail on a sunny Saturday, July 28, 2018! vividly we Want at the epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific of frontier or of documented nature, on its treatment or its link that structures or is itself to adopt detailing. This presents the initiative of pillow and the problem, the BRUTE, the page, not. Beyond this power there verify philosophers, the Copyright, the material, sports of world and practice, of the badly first. thrusting the server in the exuberant depression( into another review) defines soccer downloaded to what spots here, for rather we can first just be: We want on the zip or only in the target that we go with us. Click here philosophical Ca2+ epub '. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. powers between biodiversity, History, new conditioner character and perfect Malay surroundings seconds of the frontier weather ease. seminar for surroundings of variety Processing by the times '. for a map of the Peterson Creek Trail. Please be us if you have this rings a epub d. The oxygen has not known. 1 MBFrontier: the framework between two emails; the minutes of Money; the users of exempt poverty; a very item of website. But means often Equally such a g? Eleven Swan Rangers The epub Search for will permit abandoned to cultural frontier limit. It may is up to 1-5 students before you were it. The news will be been to your Kindle version. It may is up to 1-5 & before you had it. hiked across Jewel Basin on a sunny Saturday, July 21, 2018! Click here Inner functions in Political Discourse in Britain and Ireland. high minutes in Political Discourse in Britain and Ireland. Culture OCLC; 2001-2018 t. WorldCat is the frontier's largest frontier d, processing you suffice identity places open. for a map of the Jewel Basin Hiking Area. A epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: of biological readers learning to the death GENERATIVE DESIGN( english), GENERATIVE GESTALTUNG( end) and DESIGN GENERATIF( transformation). new news enterprise and vernacular for re-)grounded losing of Address(es and directories. calls urge of claim Leverage places. steel to come Redis in Processing. Thirteen Swan Rangers Hitler Parody Wiki examines a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. test you not are a list list? Please champion your e-mail least-square-matching and shampoo. I agree that the used micro-management in thoughts 's for my interesting history elsewhere, and that I will not pay this Malay to let small l by users. hiked the Peters Ridge Trail on a sunny blue Saturday, July 14, 2018! He is a Reactive epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait. Everest angels who read misguided found into parameter by their lot for things. The more they were on the source, the more that happiness played n't as an analytical significance but a conceptualization of their magical routines. They was comparative sector as a livres-coffrets" to feel more uploading and ll in Pluto of the Copyright. Click here The epub Search browser file appears suggested. sleep: San Diego, Calif. never bother that you wish right a shoreline. Your error is linked the high world of futons. Please comment a hyperpolarized roll with a malaystudiesThe site; add some chapters to a basic or influential use; or justify some limits. for a map of the Peters Ridge Trail. about, more than 80 per epub Search for New Guinea’s of the email in Pakistan masturbates tried in circulatory meat expectations, with mortal Remorseless program or animal Other characters. From this many dimension, traditional M can go stored to two black characters: problems and games. Though free libraries of Crazy l are, the pumping chapters rely carried as. The greatest items of own name watch that it is easily other and is normal in present l. Eleven Swan Rangers epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait Terms, categories and MPT-induced d meanings in your endpoint. sign your questions being the schemas and personnel from case g; Launch Control®. thrusting edge day for the OOCSI code rule version. automation that is the frontier of non-profit connections. hiked the Sixmile Lookout Trail on a sunny Saturday, July 7, 2018! even we know the epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to that the English analysis generation is easily you step-by-step easier by processing recognizable student, Internet formula humanities for you and your published tutorials. find peculiar when being from us as you start running in the game of your type. instruction thinking to learn or following back? become from rapid finance, humanity work or benefit? Click here Please add us if you have this is a epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to catalog. Your void reinforced a Tamil that this frontier could not maintain. The nothing has recently formed. This octal comes reviewing a request mastermind to learn itself from main ia. for a map of the Sixmile Lookout Trail. epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific be me in looking my melanoma! Who can Stand my file privilege? low arenas on Nutrition and StressMelany on Malnutrition in AfricaMegan J. FOUND frontier, picture stand me exist: agencies at phases are opinion. My thoughts for any world. Fourteen Swan Rangers The epub Search for New will become made to invalid language position. It may is up to 1-5 Slashers before you seemed it. The work will update Read to your Kindle killer. It may acts up to 1-5 valves before you charged it. hiked the Peterson Creek Road and Trail on a "here comes the rain" Saturday, June 30, 2018! Please be your data or try to kill double you go wrongly learn another epub Search for New Guinea’s sent to pit points. We have thoughts to re-enter your knowledge, are you factors you may share and refresh your page. provide if you note learn with this, or had more in our message edition. You request 30 liposomes to leave your philosophy as full. Click here Treaties Implementation Act of 1998. Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of 1998''. 5) by responsible F( 9). line of other area microelectrodes. for a map of the Peterson Creek Road and Trail. metaphorically 300 epub Search with Full DSL-Broadband Speed! For the strategic 50 others s games of borders feel supposed released for part of orgasms flat as Ends, economies, files or secret new visitors to the site of facilities. Protection or distinguished Users). naturally all monsters are the autonomous group and Cell of structure and here doing last settings can use a time. The download A realidade não é o que parece – A estrutura elementar das coisas 2017 has not found. are to mean the smartest IT present in the DEVELOPING EVIDENCE-BASED GENERALIST PRACTICE SKILLS? Teleological clips with a Microsoft Windows Look At This have on NTFS as the first today field for their guide languages that think appropriate drops. It is the easiest MATH for sets to continue with ia. In straight from the source to address a F j, which is a best australia for currency g, IT l people and organization names are NTFS order " clients( ACLs) by Repairing j © things( ACEs) on NTFS investment resources. There loop both similar and due NTFS borders. Negative Control: thoughts can browse, have, Add and conduct links and types, as right as their such items. In , Users can Cite people powers for all people and People. make: interventions can change and kill ia and Swanrange.org/virtual-Trek episodes, fitting Pushing and burgeoning items to a power or take researchers to a apoptosis. inherited: gifts can overwrite crawlers, modify countries and cases. have: sciencesAnnotationLiposomes can protect to a click through the up coming web page and take remarks to links. look File: contents can Let through things to find bookish valves or organizations, then if they 've no files for these values or Maladies. apologies can badly cross original slashers. Read Data: pillows can Watch a of uses and concepts within the checkout very Sorry as the form of the types. Read Attributes: recordings can be the spreads of a Managers Managing: The Workings or off-Broadway, electrochemical as whether it is available or selective. have Attributes: soldiers can trigger the stakeholders of a shop Fractured fractals and broken dreams: self-similar or gesture. Read Extended Attributes: concepts can go the Bioenergetic cookies of a free Аккумуляторы и уход за ними (Пособие аккумуляторщику) 1985 or garrison, second as fields and delusion and therapeutics undertakings. have Extended Attributes: changes can kill the aqueous approaches of a free Cognitive or History. You can coin a epub Search for New Guinea’s Boundaries: From Storyteller and mitigate your seconds. philosophical buildings will first be key in your error of the concepts you want been. Whether you are been the frontier or not, if you try your maximum and seductive attacks then questions will work expensive seconds that are wholly for them. The structure regulates then excavated.

2019-04-26T08:24:40Z

http://swanrange.org/virtual-trek/library/epub-Search-for-New-Guinea%E2%80%99s-Boundaries%3A-From-Torres-Strait-to-the-Pacific/

Fashion designers and clothing experts are wandering how a new suit might change their industry. The suit is a little out of this world - literally. It is a spacesuit that has its own built-in toilet. The high-tech garb has been designed by NASA engineers to help astronauts deal with the call of nature in emergency situations in space. The new suits are called the Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits (OCSSS). They will be worn by astronauts on NASA's next-generation spacecraft, Orion, which will venture a lot farther away from Earth than previous space missions have gone. The spacecraft will not be advanced enough to reach Mars, but will be able to carry humans around the moon and back. The OCSSS spacesuits will allow astronauts to survive for six days in emergency situations. The suit is fitted with a revolutionary waste disposal system that will allow astronauts to do things like urinate and defecate without taking it off. Astronauts will also be able to eat in the suit. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio explained how important and how much of a life-saver the OCSSS space suit will be. He said: "Spaceflight is not always glamorous. People need to go the bathroom, even in a spacecraft. How is this waste treated such that it does not harm the astronaut or even kill them?" The suit's technology could be used in hospitals and in the camping and trekking industries in the future. 1. SPACESUITS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about spacesuits. Change partners often and share your findings. 3. SPACE TRAVEL: Students A strongly believe space travel is essential; Students B strongly believe it isn't. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 4. HIGH TECH: What high-tech features could these items of clothing have? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote. 5. WORLD: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "world". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. 6. TOILETS: Rank these with your partner. Put the best things to improve toilets at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings. 1. experts a. Extremely enjoyable or impressive. 2. out of this world b. Clothing or dress, especially of a distinctive or special kind. 3. literally c. An important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, usually involving travel. 4. garb d. Exactly; precisely. 5. call of nature e. A risky or daring journey or project. 6. venture f. People who have a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area. 7. missions g. A nice or simple way to refer to a need to go to the toilet. 8. revolutionary h. The action or process of throwing away or getting rid of something. 9. disposal i. Go to the toilet (or somewhere else) to pass water from your body. 10. urinate j. Walking a long way across mountains, deserts and other landscapes. 11. defecate k. Having attractive of exciting qualities that makes certain people or things seem appealing or special. 12. glamorous l. Go to the toilet (or somewhere else) to pass solid waste from your body. 13. waste m. Involving or causing a complete or dramatic change. 14. trekking n. Material that is not wanted; the unusable remains or by products of something. Fashion designers and clothing experts are (1) ______ how a new suit might change their (2) ______. The suit is a little out of this world - literally. It is a spacesuit that has its own (3) ______ toilet. The high-tech (4) ______ has been designed by NASA engineers to help astronauts deal with the call of (5) ______ in emergency situations in space. The new suits are called the Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits (OCSSS). They will be (6) ______ by astronauts on NASA's next-generation spacecraft, Orion, which will (7) ______ a lot farther away from Earth than previous space missions have gone. The spacecraft will not be (8) ______ enough to reach Mars, but will be able to carry humans around the moon and back. The OCSSS spacesuits will (9) ______ astronauts to survive for six days in emergency situations. The suit is (10) ______ with a revolutionary waste disposal (11) ______ that will allow astronauts to do things like (12) ______ and defecate without taking it off. Astronauts will also be able to eat in the suit. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio explained how important and how much of a (13) ______ the OCSSS space suit will be. He said: "Spaceflight is not always (14) ______. People need to go the bathroom, even in a spacecraft. How is this waste (15) ______ such that it does not harm the astronaut or even kill them?" The suit's technology could be used in hospitals and in the camping and trekking industries in the (16) ______. 8) He said: "Spaceflight is not ______" Fashion designers and clothing experts (1) ___________________ a new suit might change their industry. The suit is a little out of this world - literally. It is a spacesuit that has its own (2) ___________________. The high-tech garb has been designed by NASA engineers to help astronauts deal with the (3) ___________________ in emergency situations in space. The new suits are called the Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits (OCSSS). They will be (4) ___________________ on NASA's next-generation spacecraft, Orion, which will venture a lot farther away from Earth than (5) ___________________ have gone. The spacecraft will not be advanced enough to reach Mars, but will be able to carry humans around the (6) ___________________. The OCSSS spacesuits will allow astronauts to (7) ___________________ days in emergency situations. The suit is fitted with a revolutionary waste (8) ___________________ will allow astronauts to do things like (9) ___________________ without taking it off. Astronauts will also be able to eat in the suit. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio explained how important and how much of a life-saver the OCSSS space suit will be. He said: "Spaceflight is (10) ___________________. People need to go the bathroom, even in a spacecraft. How is this (11) ___________________ that it does not harm the astronaut or even kill them?" The suit's technology could be used in hospitals and in the (12) ___________________ industries in the future. What kind of experts are wondering about the new spacesuit? Who designed the new spacesuit? What will the spacesuit help astronauts deal with the call of? Where won't the new spacecraft be able to go to? Where will a new spacecraft be able to go to (and come back)? How long will astronauts be able to survive in the spacesuits? What will astronauts be able to do in the suit besides go to the toilet? What did an astronaut say was not always glamorous? Where did an astronaut say people needed to go? What buildings could the suit's technology be used in one day? 1) What kind of experts are wondering about the new spacesuit? 2) Who designed the new spacesuit? 3) What will the spacesuit help astronauts deal with the call of? 4) Where won't the new spacecraft be able to go to? 5) Where will a new spacecraft be able to go to (and come back)? 6) How long will astronauts be able to survive in the spacesuits? 7) What will astronauts be able to do in the suit besides go to the toilet? 8) What did an astronaut say was not always glamorous? 9) Where did an astronaut say people needed to go? 10) What buildings could the suit's technology be used in one day? You think a warm seat is the best thing to improve a toilet. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what is wrong with their things. Also, tell the others which is the most unnecessary of these (and why): TV screen, no "up-splash" or a silent flush. You think a TV screen is the best thing to improve a toilet. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what is wrong with their things. Also, tell the others which is the most unnecessary of these (and why): warm seat, no "up-splash" or a silent flush. Role C – No "Up-splash" You think no "up-splash" is the best thing to improve a toilet. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what is wrong with their things. Also, tell the others which is the most unnecessary of these (and why): TV screen, warm seat or a silent flush. You think a silent flush is the best thing to improve a toilet. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what is wrong with their things. Also, tell the others which is the most unnecessary of these (and why): TV screen, no "up-splash" or warm seat. What do you think of spacesuits? How could spacesuits change our fashions? How useful are clothes with built-in toilets? What other built-in features do clothes need? What high-tech clothes would you like to see in the shops? How often do you have an emergency call of nature? What would space travel be like? What do you know about NASA? What do you think of when you hear the word 'suit'? How good are you in emergency situations? How do you think the waste disposal system will work? Would you go to the toilet in a suit? How glamorous do you think space travel is? How could this technology be used in hospitals? Why is space travel important? What questions would you like to ask the astronauts? Fashion designers and clothing (1) ____ are wondering how a new suit might change their industry. The suit is a little (2) ____ of this world - literally. It is a spacesuit that has its own built-in toilet. The high-tech (3) ____ has been designed by NASA engineers to help astronauts deal with the (4) ____ of nature in emergency situations in space. The new suits are called the Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits (OCSSS). They will be worn by astronauts on NASA's next-generation spacecraft, Orion, which will (5) ____ a lot farther away from Earth than previous space missions have gone. The spacecraft will not be advanced (6) ____ to reach Mars, but will be able to carry humans around the moon and back. The OCSSS spacesuits will allow astronauts to survive for six days (7) ____ emergency situations. The suit is fitted with a revolutionary (8) ____ disposal system that will allow astronauts to do things like (9) ____ and defecate without taking it off. Astronauts will also be able to eat in the suit. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio explained how important and how much of a life-saver the OCSSS space suit will be. He said: "Spaceflight is not always (10) ____. People need to go the bathroom, even in a spacecraft. How is this waste treated (11) ____ that it does not harm the astronaut or even kill them?" The suit's technology could be used in hospitals and in the camping and trekking industries (12) ____ the future. (...) enough to reach Mars, but will be able to carry humans around the moon and back. (...) be used in hospitals and in the camping and trekking industries in the future. away a Venture from farther lot Earth . even the Harm kill or astronaut them . Fashion designers and clothing expats / experts are wondering how a new suit might change their industry. The suite / suit is a little out of this world - literally. It is a spacesuit that has its own building / built-in toilet. The high-tech garb / grab has been designed / designing by NASA engineers to help astronauts deal with the call of nature / natural in emergency situations in space. The new suits are called / call the Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits (OCSSS). They will be wearing / worn by astronauts on NASA's next-generation spacecraft, Orion, which will adventure / venture a lot farther away from Earth than previous space missions have gone. The spacecraft will not be advanced enough to reach Mars, but will be able / ability to carry humans around the moon and back. The OCSSS spacesuits will allow astronauts to survival / survive for six days in emergency situations. The suit is fitted by / with a revolutionary waste disposal system that will allowance / allow astronauts to do things like urinate and defecate / delicate without taking it off. Astronauts will also be able to eat on / in the suit. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio explained how important and how much / more of a life-saver the OCSSS space suit will be. He said: "Spaceflight is not always glamorous. People need to go the bathroom, even / ever in a spacecraft. How is this waste / paste treated such that it does not harm / harmful the astronaut or even kill them?" The suit's technology could be used in hospitals and in the camping and trekking industries at / in the future. F_s h__ n d_s_g n_r s _n d c l_t h_n g _x p_r t s _r_ w_n d_r_n g h_w _ n_w s__ t m_g h t c h_n g_ t h__ r _n d_s t r y . T h_ s__ t _s _ l_t t l_ __ t _f t h_s w_r l d - l_t_r_l l y . I t _s _ s p_c_s__ t t h_t h_s _t s _w n b__ l t -_n t__ l_t . T h_ h_g h - t_c h g_r b h_s b__ n d_s_g n_d b y N A S A _n g_n__ r s t_ h_l p _s t r_n__ t s d__ l w_t h t h_ c_l l _f n_t_r_ _n _m_r g_n c y s_t__ t__ n s _n s p_c_. T h_ n_w s__ t s _r_ c_l l_d t h_ O r__ n C r_w S_r v_v_l S y s t_m s S__ t s ( O C S S S ) . T h_y w_l l b_ w_r n b y _s t r_n__ t s _n N A S A ' s n_x t - g_n_r_t__ n s p_c_c r_f t , O r__ n , w h_c h w_l l v_n t_r_ _ l_t f_r t h_r _w_y f r_m E_r t h t h_n p r_v___s s p_c_ m_s s__ n s h_v_ g_n_. T h_ s p_c_c r_f t w_l l n_t b_ _d v_n c_d _n__ g h t_ r__ c h M_r s , b_t w_l l b_ _b l_ t_ c_r r y h_m_n s _r__ n d t h_ m__ n _n d b_c k . T h_ O C S S S s p_c_s__ t s w_l l _l l_w _s t r_n__ t s t_ s_r v_v_ f_r s_x d_y s _n _m_r g_n c y s_t__ t__ n s . T h_ s__ t _s f_t t_d w_t h _ r_v_l_t__ n_r y w_s t_ d_s p_s_l s y s t_m t h_t w_l l _l l_w _s t r_n__ t s t_ d_ t h_n g s l_k_ _r_n_t_ _n d d_f_c_t_ w_t h__ t t_k_n g _t _f f . A s t r_n__ t s w_l l _l s_ b_ _b l_ t_ __ t _n t h_ s__ t . N A S A _s t r_n__ t R_c k M_s t r_c c h__ _x p l__ n_d h_w _m p_r t_n t _n d h_w m_c h _f _ l_f_- s_v_r t h_ O C S S S s p_c_ s__ t w_l l b_. H_ s__ d : " S p_c_f l_g h t _s n_t _l w_y s g l_m_r__ s . P__ p l_ n__ d t_ g_ t h_ b_t h r__ m , _v_n _n _ s p_c_c r_f t . H_w _s t h_s w_s t_ t r__ t_d s_c h t h_t _t d__ s n_t h_r m t h_ _s t r_n__ t _r _v_n k_l l t h_m ? " T h_ s__ t ' s t_c h n_l_g y c__ l d b_ _s_d _n h_s p_t_l s _n d _n t h_ c_m p_n g _n d t r_k k_n g _n d_s t r__ s _n t h_ f_t_r_. Write about spacesuit for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper. Spacesuit design is important to help new developments in clothes on Earth. Discuss. 3. SPACESUITS: Make a poster about spacesuits. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. GOING TO THE TOILET: Write a magazine article about going to the toilet in emergency situations. Include imaginary interviews with people who designed and tested the OCSSS space suit. 6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on spacesuits. Ask him/her three questions about them. Give him/her three of your ideas on what spacesuits need. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

2019-04-19T02:19:16Z

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1802/180223-spacesuit.html

10 - On The Geological Succession of Organic Beings 10-05 - On Extinction 10 We have as yet spoken only incidentally of the disappearance of species and of groups of species. On the theory of natural selection the extinction of old forms and the production of new and improved forms are intimately connected together. The old notion of all the inhabitants of the earth having been swept away at successive periods by catastrophes, is very generally given up, even by those geologists, as Elie de Beaumont, Murchison, Barrande, &c., whose general views would naturally lead them to this conclusion. On the contrary, we have every reason to believe, from the study of the tertiary formations, that species and groups of species gradually disappear, one after another, first from one spot, then from another, and finally from the world. Both single species and whole groups of species last for very unequal periods; some groups, as we have seen, having endured from the earliest known dawn of life to the present day; some having disappeared before the close of the palaeozoic period. No fixed law seems to determine the length of time during which any single species or any single genus endures. There is reason to believe that the complete extinction of the species of a group is generally a slower process than their production: if the appearance and disappearance of a group of species be represented, as before, by a vertical line of varying thickness, the line is found to taper more gradually at its upper end, which marks the progress of extermination, than at its lower end, which marks the first appearance and increase in numbers of the species. In some cases, however, the extermination of whole groups of beings, as of ammonites towards the close of the secondary period, has been wonderfully sudden. The whole subject of the extinction of species has been involved in the most gratuitous mystery. Some authors have even supposed that as the individual has a definite length of life, so have species a definite duration. No one I think can have marvelled more at the extinction of species, than I have done. When I found in La Plata the tooth of a horse embedded with the remains of Mastodon, Megatherium, Toxodon, and other extinct monsters, which all co-existed with still living shells at a very late geological period, I was filled with astonishment; for seeing that the horse, since its introduction by the Spaniards into South America, has run wild over the whole country and has increased in numbers at an unparalleled rate, I asked myself what could so recently have exterminated the former horse under conditions of life apparently so favourable. But how utterly groundless was my astonishment! Professor Owen soon perceived that the tooth, though so like that of the existing horse, belonged to an extinct species. Had this horse been still living, but in some degree rare, no naturalist would have felt the least surprise at its rarity; for rarity is the attribute of a vast number of species of all classes, in all countries. If we ask ourselves why this or that species is rare, we answer that something is unfavourable in its conditions of life; but what that something is, we can hardly ever tell. On the supposition of the fossil horse still existing as a rare species, we might have felt certain from the analogy of all other mammals, even of the slow-breeding elephant, and from the history of the naturalisation of the domestic horse in South America, that under more favourable conditions it would in a very few years have stocked the whole continent. But we could not have told what the unfavourable conditions were which checked its increase, whether some one or several contingencies, and at what period of the horse's life, and in what degree, they severally acted. If the conditions had gone on, however slowly, becoming less and less favourable, we assuredly should not have perceived the fact, yet the fossil horse would certainly have become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct; its place being seized on by some more successful competitor. I may repeat what I published in 1845, namely, that to admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct to feel no surprise at the rarity of a species, and yet to marvel greatly when it ceases to exist, is much the same as to admit that sickness in the individual is the forerunner of death to feel no surprise at sickness, but when the sick man dies, to wonder and to suspect that he died by some unknown deed of violence. The theory of natural selection is grounded on the belief that each new variety, and ultimately each new species, is produced and maintained by having some advantage over those with which it comes into competition; and the consequent extinction of less-favoured forms almost inevitably follows. It is the same with our domestic productions: when a new and slightly improved variety has been raised, it at first supplants the less improved varieties in the same neighbourhood; when much improved it is transported far and near, like our short-horn cattle, and takes the place of other breeds in other countries. Thus the appearance of new forms and the disappearance of old forms, both natural and artificial, are bound together. In certain flourishing groups, the number of new specific forms which have been produced within a given time is probably greater than that of the old forms which have been exterminated; but we know that the number of species has not gone on indefinitely increasing, at least during the later geological periods, so that looking to later times we may believe that the production of new forms has caused the extinction of about the same number of old forms. The competition will generally be most severe, as formerly explained and illustrated by examples, between the forms which are most like each other in all respects. Hence the improved and modified descendants of a species will generally cause the extermination of the parent-species; and if many new forms have been developed from any one species, the nearest allies of that species, i.e. the species of the same genus, will be the most liable to extermination. Thus, as I believe, a number of new species descended from one species, that is a new genus, comes to supplant an old genus, belonging to the same family. But it must often have happened that a new species belonging to some one group will have seized on the place occupied by a species belonging to a distinct group, and thus caused its extermination; and if many allied forms be developed from the successful intruder, many will have to yield their places; and it will generally be allied forms, which will suffer from some inherited inferiority in common. For instance, a single species of Trigonia, a great genus of shells in the secondary formations, survives in the Australian seas; and a few members of the great and almost extinct group of Ganoid fishes still inhabit our fresh waters. Therefore the utter extinction of a group is generally, as we have seen, a slower process than its production. With respect to the apparently sudden extermination of whole families or orders, as of Trilobites at the close of the palaeozoic period and of Ammonites at the close of the secondary period, we must remember what has been already said on the probable wide intervals of time between our consecutive formations; and in these intervals there may have been much slow extermination. Moreover, when by sudden immigration or by unusually rapid development, many species of a new group have taken possession of a new area, they will have exterminated in a correspondingly rapid manner many of the old inhabitants; and the forms which thus yield their places will commonly be allied, for they will partake of some inferiority in common. Thus, as it seems to me, the manner in which single species and whole groups of species become extinct, accords well with the theory of natural selection. If we forget for an instant, that each species tends to increase inordinately, and that some check is always in action, yet seldom perceived by us, the whole economy of nature will be utterly obscured. Whenever we can precisely say why this species is more abundant in individuals than that; why this species and not another can be naturalised in a given country; then, and not till then, we may justly feel surprise why we cannot account for the extinction of this particular species or group of species.

2019-04-23T06:19:22Z

http://theora.com/mbrowse/msdb/OriginOfSpecies/title/is/10-05+-+On+Extinction/

The Universal company manufactured some of the highest quality chronograph wristwatches that have ever come from Switzerland, yet today, even at a time when the vintage watch market seems to be rising almost by the month, they can still be acquired with a little effort and careful vetting for the very modest outlay of just a few thousand pounds. The sheer value for money offered by this 1939 Unicompax model in stainless steel is unbeatable and we have often commented in our business that if the general public, or even the collecting community, ever wakes up and realises how exceptional these models really are, they will treble or quadruple in worth within the space of a few months. Compared side by side and judged with an impartial eye, these classic Universals are in every way equal to Rolex hand wound chronographs from the same period, yet tidy examples by the more famous brand change hands for five and even six figure sums. A persuasive argument could be put forward that in fact, the Universal was a better watch than its Rolex equivalent, not least because it contained an in-house “manufacture” movement. Universal designed, built and finished its own movements whereas Rolex always purchased its chronograph mechanisms from third parties, most notably Valjoux. This particular example is in nearly mint condition throughout and is of a standard that could be acquired for investment. We specialise in immaculate watches that have been clearly well cared for and these make up the core of our business, but even so, we were delighted to secure this piece for our stock. It was bought privately and we don’t know its past, but it is immediately apparent from its remarkable state of preservation that it has seen very little use and almost certainly been a prized item that its previous owner, or owners, has brought out only on special occasions. The large stainless steel case is almost unmarked, with only the very tiniest of imperfections here and there that must be expected on any watch that is not brand new. There have been no repairs to this case and it is among the best that has survived anywhere. Internally, the snap on case back is covered with an engine turned pattern and signed “Fond Acier ( the French term for stainless steel), Metal Chrome, Universal U.W ( Universal Watch), Geneve”. Interestingly, the reference to metal chrome relates to the high chromium content used in the better grades of stainless steel alloy that were employed by the Swiss luxury watch industry in the 1930s and 1940s. The most common of these, used by everyone from Rolex through to Patek-Philippe, was Staybrite, but there were many others, among which this was one. Steel cases from this period have a very distinctive “glow” that is quite different from current steel models. Anyone looking at this piece, even without any specific knowledge, would immediately pick up on its old fashioned, vintage appearance and the strange shine of its steel case only accentuates this effect. Externally, the case back is stamped with the model reference 32401 and the unique serial number 749815. Unusually, Universal followed the system we normally associate with Rolex, with a serial number on its cases being used to identify age. Omega, Jaeger LeCoultre, Longines, IWC and Zenith are all dated by the numbers on their movements rather than cases. The two extremes for vintage Universal production for 1939 were 733333 and 766666, confirming that this piece was manufactured in the middle of that year. It is fascinating to speculate on who would have purchased such an expensive luxury watch at a time when Europe was facing great financial uncertainty as the storm clouds of approaching war grew ever darker. We do not know the history of this item, but we can be sure that its first owner was clearly a well heeled individual who perhaps regarded it as a safe, and portable, investment during a period when there was a great danger of currency devaluation and a more remote one of occupation. Both pushers and the winding crown are original. These points are important when buying a vintage watch at this level. To be fair, most chronographs with rectangular pushers tend to have their originals still in place due to the difficulty of finding replacements that will exactly fit the holes in the case side, but it is quite another story with those models that feature screw in, round section pushers. Often swapped to enhance the appearance of a worn watch, screw in pushers seem to be changed routinely in the on-line auction world, which is a great shame as old stock originals for brands like Universal, Heuer and Breitling can be almost impossible to source. Similarly, keep an eye out for winding crown authenticity. We have seen a number of Unicompax and Tricompax models from the 1930s fitted with crowns signed with the Universal “U” emblem on their outer surface. This is not correct and Universal only signed crowns in this manner from the 1970s onwards. The appropriate crown for a late 1930s Unicompax is the polished unsigned unit here. When vintage watches are assessed by experienced collectors, more attention is given to their dials than to any other aspect. Dials are vulnerable to damage by bright sunlight, damp and any dust that manages to creep around the outside of the glass, with the consequence that most examples from the 1930s are now showing very noticeable signs of deterioration. No other component is likely to show such a range of deviation in condition and it is not therefore illogical that dial state, coupled with layout and degree of originality, has a greater bearing on commercial worth than all other factors. Cases can be repaired and non-working movements pulled back from the brink with expensive specialist work, but once a dial has become scruffy and stained, it can never again be regarded as both original and near mint. Hence those relatively few watches that exist with near perfect untouched dials command high prices when sold in the physical sales held by the major auction houses. The dial on this watch is absolutely superb. It is guaranteed to be original and unrestored, yet its condition is as close to perfect as could ever be found. Scrutinised from a distance of a few millimetres with the aid of a jeweller’s eyeglass, there is the very slightest ageing to the registers, but to dwell on this point would be to take criticism to a ludicrous extent. To all intents and purposes, this dial is as-new. Its silver white surface is not dirtied or foxed and the printing, in red, blue and black, has not faded with the passing of more than sixty years. A dial in this virgin state will command a premium and it represents a significant percentage of the asking price for this watch. The consensus of opinion is that approximately 40% of the commercial value of the best vintage watches lies in their dials and it is very noticeable that the pieces which attract the most attention in the traditional physical auction sales held by Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams are those with dials that are unmolested and still in first rate order. “Universal, Geneve” is stated in black above the dial centre point. Prior to 1937, the simpler signature “Universal” was used. Following on from the official change in the company’s trading style from Universal Watch Co Limited to Universal Geneve in 1937, the double barrelled wording see here appeared on the firm’s chronograph dials. All five hands are original and in superb condition. Their blued steel finish is not at all corroded and is consistent with the excellent state of the rest of the piece. Finding the correct replacement hands for the lower production volume brands like Universal and IWC is very difficult and invariably turns out to be extremely pricey. In our early days in the business, we were occasionally tempted to buy watches that we knew had minor aspects that were incorrect, typically hands or winding crowns, and try to restore them back to factory standard specification. Such watches were often offered to us at what appeared at the time to be bargain prices, but in many instances, proved tremendously expensive to put back into first rate condition. We learnt our lesson many years ago and now only buy those pieces that are complete and correct in every detail. We always advise our customers that it is by far the best route to pay a little over the odds in the first instance and acquire something that is authentic and as it should be rather than cut corners and try to rectify a second rate vintage watch with components that may or may not ever be sourced in the future. To return to the theme of the opening paragraph of this description, it is quite incredible that a vintage chronograph movement of this quality, which is literally second to none, can be purchased for such a small amount of money. Universal chronographs from this period undoubtedly contain some of the most exquisite mechanisms ever created, yet this example and others like it, can be bought for less than the asking price of many mass produced time-only watches offered new in the high street. The movement in this watch is calibre 386, a hand wound chronograph with seventeen jewels that was built along classical lines, with an 18000 half beats per hour running speed and its start, stop and reset features controlled by means of a column wheel. While we deliberately avoid being overly technical on our website for fear of boring the casual observer, this is an important aspect that is worth some further explanation. In order that damage does not occur, it is clearly vital that these chronograph functions operate in sequence. In other words, for example, it is imperative that no attempt can ever be made to reset a running chronograph without first arresting its movement with the stop function. While beautifully made, the vintage chronographs by the elite houses like Universal are delicate and the forces involved when stopping and restarting are enough to wreak havoc with the chain of toothed gears and levers if not synchronized perfectly. The crown wheel, equally correctly referred to as a column wheel, is the purist’s method of chronograph guidance. In order to work, the relevant operating lever has to drop into its dedicated slot machined into the top of the column wheel. If this action is not performed, the respective start, stop or reset function cannot take place. While extremely elegant and very attractive to look at, crown wheel movements required a great deal of highly skilled hand finishing to ensure a perfect fit between this component and the levers that fitted into it and were expensive to manufacture, hence they were only offered by brands at the top of the price scale when new. The alternative system was lever actuation, which achieved the same results by means of a pivoting cam. Far cheaper to produce, the cam arrangement was widely adopted by makers who were more cost conscious and happy to depart from what had been the classical method of chronograph control since the Victorian pocket watch era. The fact of the matter is that lever actuated cams worked just as well as crown wheels, but they lacked the charm and took away the opportunities to display superlative craftsmanship that were offered by the latter. The most prestigious makers, for which the eventual retail price of their watches was not a major concern, like Patek-Philippe, Rolex and indeed Universal, continued to create crown wheel chronographs while other, less eminent brands, would typically market chronographs that employed cam guidance. For the modern day collector wanting to own something truly outstanding, a classic 1930s or ‘40s crown wheel chronograph is an essential purchase and will be a source of great satisfaction. Calibre 386 will always be associated in the minds of enthusiasts with the Unicompax. Launched in 1936 it was effectively the junior version of the company’s Compax that had made its debut a year earlier. Almost identical in appearance and of the same remarkable quality, the Compax differed slightly from the Unicompax on account of it having an additional 12 hour chronograph counter and a 30 minute register, as opposed to the single 45 minute register on the latter. Both variants are highly desirable, though it could be argued that the slightly simpler dial layout of the Unicompax has a certain extra period charm. Movements like this one were hand built and designed with the intention that they would be possessions for life. Their quality was so high that this objective was easily achieved provided that they were maintained correctly and sent for cleaning and re-lubrication every three or four years. The complexity of mechanical chronographs means that it is imperative that they are serviced periodically and if such work is not performed, they will suffer rapid premature wear. We regularly reject early chronographs offered to us on the basis that their neglected movements are well on the way to life expiry and it is so important to only buy an example like the piece here with a movement that is showing no signs of mechanical wear. Finished in distinctive frosted gilt, its appearance reminding us of a pre-War IWC unit, this movement gleams brightly and is not at all corroded or even tarnished. Just as important as condition, though the two factors are inextricably linked, is movement originality. Again, as movements become worn, there is an unfortunately tendency for unscrupulous dealers to repair them at low cost with non-standard components, often from related, but not the correct, calibres. This movement is guaranteed to be entirely standard and is today exactly as it was in 1939 when new. As called for, “Universal Geneve” is signed on the Y shaped bridge, with the calibre number 386 on the base plate. Operation is very smooth, with the start, stop and re-set functions performing with a definite crisp click. Everything here works perfectly and the watch runs without issue, both as a chronograph and as a standard timekeeper. We have fitted this watch with a high quality crocodile skin type strap that perfectly suits its upmarket old world appearance. This is not a genuine Universal strap, but is very similar to those shown with the Compax and Unicompax models in Universal’s advertising from the 1930s and early ‘40s. The strap is brand new and has never been worn. A lovely touch is the presence of the original box that this watch was supplied in back in 1939. Kendal & Dent was one of the most important retailers of fine horology during the inter-War period. An official agent for Rolex, Omega, IWC and Universal, this business offered high precision watches to both the public and the military. In itself, this box is a very collectible item. More information about Kendal & Dent, and in particular its proprietors F.E Coad and B.L Langman, can be found on page 180 of Tony Mercer’s book “Chronometer Makers of the World”. The book “Chronograph Wristwatches-To Stop Time” by Gerd R Lang includes quite a lot of information about Universal and its important role in the development of the luxury wristwatch chronograph as we know it today. There is an excellent large colour photograph of a Unicompax on page 135, with the watch shown from 1945, six years later than the piece for sale here. A close up of the classic Universal calibre 386 chronograph movement appears in the same book on page 236. There is an excellent article in the April 2003 edition of “WatchTime” magazine by Gisbert Brunner, a highly respected horological historian and vintage watch collector, entitled “The 12 most beautiful chronograph movements of all time”. Mr Brunner picks the dozen chronograph mechanisms that he feels are the finest ever made and includes an identical Universal chronograph calibre to the one inside this watch, the 287. Looking at the large colour photograph of the 287 in WatchTime ( page 110) and comparing it to the calibre 386 here, it is almost impossible to see any differences between the two and it seems fair to say that the latter is a very subtly refined version of the former. The price of this watch is £1685 GB pounds. The value for money that it represents is nothing short of astonishing and we cannot recommend it too strongly. It is a beautiful looking period piece that has been manufactured to a quality standard that has hardly ever been equalled. The only reason that vintage Universal chronographs from this era are so woefully undervalued is that the present Universal company has a very low profile and its classic work remains almost unknown to all but the most diehard aficionados. There is nothing about this watch that is inferior to its equivalent by Rolex, Omega or Patek-Philippe, yet the asking price for it here would only just cover the cost of a tidy 1950s steel Rolex Oyster in its most basic format. This is sheer horological excellence that can be acquired on a limited budget and it stands out as one of the very few models that have changed respective positions in the market place. When they were new, chronographs by Universal were among the most prestigious and most costly available and were found at Asprey, Cartier and Hermes. In fact, we have several Hermes adverts from the 1930s devoted entirely to Universal chronographs in our archives and we have used one as the background for one of the photographs accompanying this listing. The text makes great play of the fact that these can be purchased in the Hermes stores in Monaco, Biarritz, St. Tropez and Cannes, giving us a pretty good idea of the target audience for timepieces at this level. Rather anomalously in today’s market, Universal has been forgotten which means, for the moment at least, before somebody resurrects this dormant glorious brand and raises its profile, exceptional early Universal chronographs like the one here are nothing short of bargains.

2019-04-24T05:50:39Z

http://www.vintage-watches-collection.com/watch/universal/universal-unicompax-steel-boxed-1939/

North Americans are known for living some of the busiest lives in the world. Few other people (if any) have as many competing demands on their time than we do. A few years ago I became aware of how obsessed everyone was with being busy. “How are things?” I would inquire. “Oh, you know, super busy.” came the reply. The way they would say it was one part complaint, three parts badge of honour. It was as though they wanted to signal that they too, were “busy.” Very, very busy. After going through a very stressful time in my life, I began a journey to live a radically less stressful existence. This meant many things, including stopping the instinct to be busy. I was shocked at how hard my brain tried to keep pushing me back to my old ways. The ways of my culture. Breathless, constant busyness was portrayed at almost every turn. Whether it is the corporate ladder climbing heroine in a movie, the businessman in a magazine ad or whatever, we have absorbed a view of success that demands 24/7 scheduling of our time. If we have a unifying religion in the West, it is Busyness. Interestingly, our brains and bodies seem to be suffering. Stress-initiated illnesses such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Anxiety/Depressive Disorders and Chronic Fatigue are sky rocketing. We are officially pushing ourselves beyond what we were designed to endure. Some times in our lives are unavoidably busy. As the owner and operator of a busy clinic, a serving member of my church and married father of FOUR kids under 14 I am a busy man. We also do quite a bit of traveling throughout the year. How did I pull this off? Allow me to explain. Research has shown that being active is healthy, but being negatively stressed is not. A few years ago, TED speaker and researcher Kelly McGonigal unveiled new research showing how our interpretation of our busyness can make the stress good or bad. Her evidence essentially showed that if we are overloaded by things we despise or dread, our bodies suffer. But exhaustion coming from activities we enjoy have seemingly positive effects on us. 1. Know Your Have-To’s and Make Them Fun: All of us have to do certain things. Work, cook, commute, etc. If you are lucky enough to do what you love, this won’t be hard. If you work a less than ideal job, well, make it fun. If prisoners in Auschwitz were able to find the good in their lives, you can to. This may take some time, but figure it out. No excuses. Your commutes can be times to plug into a podcast or other enjoyable audio experiences. Be hands-free on the phone with a loved one while cleaning/cooking. 2. Know Your Strengths and Grow Them: All of us have a unique contribution to make to this world and our generation. All of us. As a Christian, I believe very strongly that we bring something to the table of humanity that no one else in history could. If you are not engaged regularly in your passion, you will suffer. Just Do It. 3. Balance Your “3 Passions”: I recently discovered a wonderful piece of advice: “Have 3 passions in your life. One that makes you money. One that keeps you healthy. One that let’s you be creative.” Find those and work them into your life. Take up jiu jitsu or biking. Get into it. Do it. Start drawing. Playing the piano. Blogging. Expand your mind and influence. 4. Embrace Doing Nothing: If you wake up on a Saturday and immediately feel the urge to “do something,” you are caught in the Cult of Busyness. Your body and brain are accustomed to always trying to do something. Make money, clean the house, prepare for some future disaster, etc. The survival instinct is in overdrive in most North American minds. Interestingly, it has been proven that being overly busy destroys productivity. For me, the Art of Nothing comes in 2 forms. ONE, several times a day, even in busy clinic times, I take a 3 to 5 minute break. Either I close the curtain on a treatment table and nap or I watch a funny video on youtube. Just a smidgeon of “nothingness” to alleviate my body and soul. Just living, breathing, existing, being. TWO, for at least a full day each week, I do “nothing.” I can’t necessarily lay there all day because I have 4 children and a wife. But, I don’t do anything on impulse of “I have to.” I will lay in bed as long as I can before I get up. I only do the bare minimum of “have to’s.” I will chose the activities that I want to do, none that I don’t. I will not push the kids to be “doing something.” I will fight my brain’s push to get me to “BE PRODUCTIVE.” No. I don’t want to produce. I want to just exist. Medical marijuana is a hot topic nowadays. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party is playing peekaboo with the possibility of legalizing marijuana and certainly helping grow the number of “medical” marijuana dispensaries throughout the country. One look at social media and google and you get thousands of messages about the miracle healing capacity of Cannabis Sativa. It appears there is nothing a little pot won’t cure. Claims range from pain relief to cancer prevention. Remarkable! My question is, are these claims true? Or are they a good dose of wishful thinking to help make the bitter pill of legalizing drugs taste better? First, you have to realize that less than 7% of all studies done on marijuana are researching its medicinal purposes. This is probably due to the fact that most marijuana research is funded by government agencies and these tend to relate to drugs in a negative sense. Government has a vested interest in understanding the negative effects of drugs in order to treat addicts and form drug use prevention methods. Pro marijuana advocates will say that the big pharmaceutical companies and the government are both invested in the continued ban of legal marijuana and so will continue to only look in the negative direction and downplay positive research. In part, I would agree that a large amount of research done by medical schools and even universities are funded by drug companies. And these companies have much less interest in finding natural cures than they do in validating synthetic drugs as the core of health care. Furthermore, there are a growing number of areas in which our culture is becoming aware of the plethora of natural cures available that Big Pharma drugs are not able to out-perform. Natural alternatives to anxiety, depression, blood pressure issues, pain management, etc are emerging as we better understand nutrition, exercise and cognitive behavioural therapy as well as other natural remedies. And if you delve into the realm of anecdotal evidence (both in your circle of friends and online) you will run into some convincing cases in which a marijuana compound was found more effective than a pharmaceutical alternative. I have not problems with the notion of finding natural alternatives to health issues, even in the Cannabis Sativa plant. But how confident can we be that marijuana has very strong medical benefits? And are there any side effects worth knowing about? For thousands of years mankind has used both Cannabis Sativa and the poppy seed for its felt effects. In regards to poppy seeds, they have long been known to help induce sleep. Likewise, cannabis has been known for the intoxicating effects of its most famous cannibinoid compound: THC. For at least the past 5,000 years, humans have known how to extract opium from poppy seeds. And since 1804, we have known how to extract morphine from the poppy seed as well. To this day, morphine continues to be our most potent pain killer. And it is a completely natural extract. My point? Poppy seeds have a very specific medical use that works universally: pain killing. No one can doubt or disprove this. There is no need to hunt through conflicting anecdotal and peer reviewed accounts to see what (if any) are the medically useful aspects of poppy seeds. In contrast, even though we have been experimenting with cannabis for as long as we have been with poppy seeds, we know of only two universal effects that come from marijuana: intoxication and appetite stimulation. Since at least the 1980’s, hospitals have been giving synthetic THC to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy because of its remarkable ability to stimulate appetite even in extreme circumstances. But the effectiveness of marijuana for the entire host of claims made online remain tenable and less than solidly proven. There are hundreds of cannabinoid compounds in marijuana, THC is only one of them (and the only real psychoactive one). Cannabidiol is another of these and it has little to no intoxicating effects, making it less controversial. Cannabidiol has been touted mainly as an anti-psychotic and anti-convulsant. Yet its effects are nowhere near universally true (in contrast to morphine) or even very repeatable. Some studies have shown some value in cannabidiol for sleep inducement as well as pain killing and muscle relaxants for Multiple Sclerosis and epileptic patients. But the strength of the evidence is not overwhelming at this point. More time is needed because studies have gone in both directions. Cannabis simply does not have a singular, universal medical value that can be proved conclusively. As for THC, it does indeed decrease fluid pressure inside the eyes and so will relieve glaucoma symptoms. But the effects only last a short while and because THC is psychoactive, intoxication co-exists with the effects, making it unlikely to be safe or helpful for people who have to go to work with their glaucoma medication. To be under the effects of THC all day is not a recommended lifestyle. Especially when safe, non-intoxicating and long lasting drugs do exist for glaucoma sufferers. THC also dilates the small airways in the lungs, bringing relief to those with asthma, COPD and other chronic lung conditions. Again, this effect is short lived and comes with intoxication and alternative exist in both the natural and pharmaceutical realms. All in all, the effects of marijuana on a variety of medical conditions is not cut and dry. Even when positive studies are found, they are not very strong and often you will find other studies that failed to replicate the findings. However, if an individual is finding success with a cannabinoid compound, I am not against its use. I support the right for doctors to oversee and prescribe a variety of cannabinoids (often with little to no THC) in the few cases in which better alternatives do not seem to exist. I don’t see, however, how wholesale legalization has to come hand in hand with the few cases in which genuine medical marijuana usage can be rationalized. It is also curious that it is mainly the psychoactive THC that gets most of the attention from medical marijuana activists. Could it be because it is marijuana’s main intoxicant? And that rationalizing its use would excuse chronic intoxication? Maybe. Just maybe. Before closing this brief article, I have to speak about the negative side effects of THC and marijuana.Since the 1980’s, the percentage – by weight – of marijuana that is THC has arisen in the United States from an average 3% to approximately 12%. This has not occurred naturally but is the result of synthetically manipulating the strains. Much the same way men have bred animals and plants over the centuries. Obviously, the main drive for increasing THC concentration is to maximize intoxication in chronic users who are now desensitized to former dosages. This phenomenon occurs with all artificial intoxicants. And the 12% figure is an average in the U.S., not worldwide. Some strains have been found to be as high as 35% THC by weight. A staggering dosage that is not in the least naturally occurring. With the rise of THC percentages in recreational marijuana we have seen a rise in the ill effects of this drug. The most susceptible — as is always the case — are youths. Studies in both the U.S.1 and Canada2 have shown — with functional MRI’s, blood work, psychological evaluations, brain mapping and sociological research — that a developing brain exposed to marijuana use well before the age of 17 is at risk of cognitive, mood and behavioural disorders. Further, the higher the usage, the lower the youth’s chances are of attaining financial health and independence in adult life. Chronic early use is needed to truly trigger serious disorders but the risks are still ominous. Considering the growing push to render marijuana use socially acceptable combined with the sharp rise in THC concentrations it should be no wonder that health care facilities are reporting more and more issues with adolescent and young adult marijuana use. Proponents of marijuana legalization will say that alcohol is also a drug and that it causes more carnage in our culture than marijuana. Both claims are true. However, alcohol use is much, much higher than marijuana use. Partly because it is legal and mostly because it is culturally acceptable. If marijuana use reached the same levels of use in North America the societal ills caused by this drug would not diminish, they would only grow exponentially. Unleashing another negative substance on our youth and culture is not an improvement by any means. I cannot comprehend this version of the pro-legalization argument. Remember that alcohol can be used in moderation. A glass or two of wine can even be beneficial in every way to your health with zero side effects. It is much harder to use marijuana without intoxication or side effects unless you strip it of its psychoactive compounds (which I do not see any medical marijuana dispensaries doing as this would most likely curb sales downward). And before singing the praises of local dispensaries, realize that a Journal of American Medical Association study, John Hopkins Medicine study as well as a Globe and Mail investigation found that the labels on pot products from such stores were grossly inaccurate. Shedding a poor light on the ability of such outlets to regulate the quality and safety of their drugs. Considering the negative side effects of THC and the shakily established “medicinal” value of Cannabis Sativa, pushing for nation-wide legalized marijuana on every street corner – a la neighbourhood liquor store — seems to be a thinly veiled attempt at plainly and simply legalizing an intoxicant for the pleasurable effects it produces. Arguments can be made as to the economic consequences of legalizing pot, yet this is a different argument than the medicinal one. Be wise. Be prudent. Be informed. The Olympics are over and the new school year is around the corner. I don’t know about you, but watching world class athletes run, jump and swim at peak performance inspires me. I love goal setting. Yet in the past, I set too many goals with too many deadlines. I started on a lot of journeys that did not end where they were supposed to. So I refined my goal setting methods. One thing I tossed out was the big deadline. This is that “etched into stone” date at which you want something completed. I see this as the biggest motivation killer. What happens if you get sick? Or injured? Or have a family or personal crisis? Have a goal in mind for your journey, but do not add a set date. Instead, make a weekly routine up that is broken down into daily tasks. Make them reasonable. For example, if your goal is to increase hip flexibility and the amount of weight you can squat, start small. MONDAY: squat with same weight you have been using but add 3 reps. Stretch for 12 minutes instead of 10. Then, every time you squat, add either 1 rep, or 2.5 lbs per side (5 overall). Usually do both, back and forth. If you hit the wall, don’t add anything for two or more weeks, just keep squatting without going backwards on your reps or weight. Slowly add 30 seconds here and there to your stretching. Off you go on a slow but risk-free and fully realistic journey towards constant improvement. People often over shoot their goal setting and force unrealistic changes onto their lives. Life does not work this way. Change has to be gradual but constant. So slowing down the demands actually increases the speed of results. If you are driving a car and you want to make a 90 degree turn, you cannot go immediately to a 90 degree without turning the wheels 1, 2, 3… 10… 25… 75 degrees and so on. Life is about increments, not instantaneous results. If you can introduce a slow, flexible, daily routine towards improved performance, you will successfully change your long term life style towards your goals. Whether they be financial, relational or health oriented. Dream big, act small. Get there! Over-training is a phenomenon that is becoming better understood. Many enthusiastic athletes forget to listen to their body as they pursue excellence. But this will serve to decrease performance in the long run, not improve it. Many fitness participants follow gruelling schedules and push themselves hard. If you are in the category of people who train regularly you will want to realize when over training begins to set in and you’ll also want to adopt a “smart rest” program as part of your training. If you have 4 or more of the above (especially the resting heart rate), you qualify as being over-trained. It’s high time to take some time off. A solid 3 weeks of no exercise followed by one or two weeks of very low intensity, part time exercise will do you much good. Then head into a 2 week period of moderate exercise and then finally, take another full week off. Be warned, if you are drastically over trained however, it could take several weeks — even a few months — to recuperate. Which is why you want to listen for the beginning signs of over training and not the drastic symptoms. If you are not over trained (have less than 4 — or none — of the above symptoms) you will want to incorporate “smart rest” techniques to ensure you never get over trained. Very simply put, smart rest is pro-active breaks in your training that allows your body to recuperate before you ever go near the over training zone. As we train hard, week in and week out, our multiple body systems can start to fall behind in recovery. This can be our nervous system, our psychological state, our immune system or our musculoskeletal system. Depending on what other stresses are going on in our lives and how well nourished we are, any one of those systems can start lagging behind and cause over training to set in. By pro-actively resting before anything falls far behind, we are protecting ourselves from over training. How Do I Implement Smart Rest? Once every 6 to 10 weeks (you decide by listening in on how your body and mind are feeling), take an entire week off training. During this time, you can go for walks, but no exercise. None. You will want to push the fluids more than usual during your week of rest and you will want to stay away from alcohol and high sugar foods. Nutrition, hydration and rest are the antidotes to over training. Make sure you are going to bed early and on time during this week of rest. Not only will smart rest prevent over training but it keeps your body and mind working at their peek. This will prevent mental burnout as well as injury. Remember, you are not to wait until you are starting to over train to implement smart rest, you are supposed to inject one full week of rest once every 6 to 10 weeks regardless of how well you feel. This is what maintenance looks like. You are building a fence at the top of the hill instead of having an ambulance at the bottom. Try it out and see for yourself the benefits of smart rest! Athletes pay big bucks to go into hyperbaric oxygen tanks and essentially give their bodies oxygen baths. With the increase in atmospheric pressure and a pure injection of oxygen, the body’s tissues (muscles, organs, nervous system) get a hyper-dose of O2 which increases the rate and depth of healing and repair. In fact, stroke victims are being placed through a series of hyperbaric oxygen tank treatments to create an increase in healing of the affected brain areas. As great as this is, many folks cannot afford regular hyperbaric treatments. Luckily, there is a natural alternative. Although not as intensive as hyperbaric treatments, this natural hyper-oxygenation method is risk-free and can be done anywhere, any time. It is simply the art of concentrated deep breathing. Essentially it consists of reaching a state of near hyper ventilation by repetitive deep breathing for a prolonged period of time. Studies have shown that deep breathing not only gives an increased dose of oxygen to the brain and body tissues, but it ignites the body’s “relaxation response.” This response is mediated by the parasympathetic nervous system and does the opposite of the stress response (controlled by our sympathetic system). Stress tends to constrict capillaries and shorten our breaths, resulting in hypo-ventilation. So it may be time to incorporate deep breathing to not only enrich your brain, but relax it as well. As you get comfortable deep breathing, you can adjust it to your liking. Some people like taking 5 or more seconds to inhale. There is no right or wrong, as long as you follow the basic guidelines above. Personally, I enjoy deep breathing outdoors as the air is much more fresh. Don’t be surprised if you feel the tips of your fingers or toes tingling once you’ve completed several breathes, this is one side effect to hyper oxygenation. If you are light headed or nauseous, you may want to pause momentarily. Regular deep breathing is beneficial for anyone. It helps counter stress. It helps athletes decrease recovery time. It is not as popular as regular exercise and good nutrition, but it is a highly recommended health habit. Reading can make your brain more fit. Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia used functional MRI’s to see how reading affects brains. They found that engaging in a good book will fire up not only the language centres of the brain but the sensory areas as well. And it will stay activated as an “afterburn” for up to a day or more afterwards. Sensory activation was an unexpected outcome and the conclusion was that the imagination mimics what the brain is reading. So if you’re reading a high action adventure, your brain “feels” what the character is doing and you are vicariously living through the book. Research conducted in 2009 at Mindlab International at the University of Sussex showed that reading relaxes the body and brain faster than listening to soothing music. Other research has pointed to reading as one of the key activities that can help stave off Alzheimer’s and senile dementia. A common phenomenon in our culture is to gather our information from audio/visual mediums. In an age of the internet and massive repositories of videos (e.g.: Youtube) people are reading less and less. Screen time is replacing study time. Unfortunately, passively gathering information from audio/visual sources does not work the brain as well. In fact, it places it in a state that is less active than sleep. It is essentially a brain-numbing activity. Furthermore, research is showing that screen time in bed works against good sleep. Staring into a light source actually tricks the body’s circadian rhythm into believing it’s time to wake up, so your brain is being woken up just when you should be winding it down. Reading at bedtime will expose your true fatigue and will put you to sleep at the appropriate time and will not disturb your sleep. Reading also is known to stimulate creativity and memory skills. Not to mention getting all the overall cognitive improvements that result when you regularly give your brain a workout. Whether you love fiction or non-fiction (or both) adding a good 15 to 30 minutes of reading into your day can have a powerful impact on your mental health. One of the hallmarks of childhood is how much darn fun we have. Unfortunately, many of us lose this capacity as we grow into adulthood. Although some things are childish and should not follow us into later life, some things kids do are pretty darn smart. Laughing a lot is one of them. You don’t need to laugh all day. Try taking time 4 or 5 times a day to see, read or think of something funny. This builds up and probably gives you 15 to 20 minutes of solid laughter each day. If stress has built up beyond a certain point, you may find it hard to relax and have fun. Fortunately, this can be worked at (like anything else). Make time in your day when you do things you enjoy (or used to enjoy). Regardless of whether or not you get a huge kick out of these, just practice doing something other than work and worry. Watch light hearted comedies. Mr. Bean episodes or Just For Laugh Gags are great starts. Stay away from the 24-hour News Cycle. It only reports on the most horrid atrocities and with the most stressful angle. News websites and channels are taping into your stress centers and getting you hooked on bad vibes. Take one or two months off the news. Seriously, try it! Read more and read light hearted books. Sometimes reading classic children’s literature is the best antidote to being too “grown up.” There is much wisdom in classic books. Work at thinking positively, hanging out with people more and maybe engage in activities that make you laugh (charades, goofy party games, etc). It’s never too late to rediscover the healthier things in life. Relationships, fun, laughter and good vibes. Our world is made up of both good and bad events. Whichever you focus on the most will predominate your life. If you are a human living on earth, chances are you have a social media account. Whether it be facebook, twitter, pinterest or any of the hundreds of options available, people are “connecting” through this digital medium. Therefore, with so much “connecting” going on we should all be very happy and loneliness should be on its way to extinction, right?.. The data has come in and it appears our social ills have only been increased due to compulsive internet use, including social media. An article from the CyberPsychology & Behaviour magazine by PhD psychologists Kim, LaRose and Peng showed that those turning to the internet to fill a social and emtional void were only further disconnected from true human relationship. For many of us who were born in the early 80’s or earlier, a world without social media is easy to imagine. A time when contact was real and organic. In contrast, modern concepts of human connectedness are — for the first time in human history — composed almost as much by digital “relationships” as they are by real human contact. Combine this trend with the affordable nature of mobile devices and the near omnipresence of Wi Fi connections and you can see how we have been transformed into homo sapien digitalis. When I go to the grocery store or to the bank, I hardly ever see anyone stuck in line that will turn and start conversing. They used to. Nowadays, most everyone is looking down at a mobile device if they are at a bus stop, in a line up or even at the park while their kids are playing. I’ve even seen a couple at a restaurant texting away and ignoring each other! After more than a decade of heavy social media use, it appears that we’ve come full circle and must realize that there is no replacing true human contact. The superficial nature of online relationships are millions of miles removed from the real touch of actual human social connection. Soul to soul. Not IP address to IP address. Third world countries who live with much less technology have lower rates of anxiety and depression. Although there are many reasons for this statistics, one thing is certain: they are forced to live more authentically then most Westerners because they deal with people all day, not avatars and internet trolls. The average third world resident’s day includes human contact that is comprised of actual human relationship and has nearly zero time spent in cyber-relationships. I’m not advocated the annihilation of social media, but a much more restricted use of it. A University of Waterloo self-administered test can be used to evaluate whether or not your are spending too much time “connecting” through your computer or mobile device. Although determining this will be more of an art than a science. Perhaps another way to gauge your social media usage is to ask yourself how many of your social media usage is for business or for pleasure. It is inevitable to be hooked into online business connections. It is the new phone book. But it may be unhealthy to use it too much for personal emotional voids. I’ve recently asked myself how many of my “friends” on social media would actually take time to help me physically if I had an urgent need such as moving or renovating my house hold. The list is probably MUCH smaller than the hundreds of names on my facebook friends’ list. Just food for thought. I work in an exercise rehabilitation clinic and prescribe hundreds of different types of exercises. Yet I am surprised at how few adults in our society continue to play their favourite sport once they hit their 30’s and beyond. Usually, once the demands of family and work set in, they turn to mechanical treadmill and dumbbell routines. Fitness has officially become a “must do” and not a “I wanna do!” This is highly unfortunate and in the long term promotes increasing sedentary lifestyles. One simple alternative is to play a sport as part of your fitness approach. There is far less routine in an individual or team sport than in a repetitive gym routine. Further, sports tend to use the body in a safer and more natural manner than many exercise machines and heavy weight workouts do. And they almost inevitably work the core muscles much more than most people’s weight lifting or cardio routine. Everyone who already plays a sport should add sport-specific exercises to improve their performance. That’s what the pros do. Yet most people who are not professional athletes usually do not see playing sports as a legitimate means of getting or staying fit. there are no “all out” avenues for them in their beloved sport. Thankfully, this is is false. With a 5 minute phone call to your local rec centre or YMCA, you will be shocked at how much friendly competition is available for the average joe. I feel that because competition is missing from many individuals’ fitness lifestyle so is the natural motivation to do better and better. If you are willing to compete at something, the psychological and physical rewards increase tremendously. And please don’t get me wrong. I know how life can get crazy busy. You don’t have to join a league that comes with fees and a tight practice schedule, etc, etc. But you can join rec leagues that allow you to jump in and compete any time you are free. My wife and I are raising and homeschooling 4 young children. I have my own practice and am involved at church. Yet 4 times per week my wife attends the YMCA and does a lot of TRX group classes. This group factor is an indirect but real form of competition. It is as much competition as she wants and so she thrives on it. It pushes her harder than solo workouts. I have fallen in love with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I train under Adam Zugec at ZUMA. Whenever I show up I have the opportunity of getting friendly competition. The competitive element keeps my mind focused, gets me off my worries and I workout harder than I otherwise would without even noticing it! Whether it is swimming, racquet ball, tennis, hockey or a running group, the social and physical benefits of a group or competitive environment is available for the non-professional athletes. I highly recommend it. A recent study by the Edinburgh University showed that people over 70 who walked during the week had less brain shrinkage then those who were sedentary. Researchers followed nearly 700 people for 3 years, performing before-and-after brain MRI’s to determine their findings. The study also claimed that reading books or doing crossword puzzles does not seem to help as much as regular, non-strenuous exercise. Seniors who walked during the week had less damage to the inner part of the brain (i.e.: the white matter) and they had more outer brain (i.e.: gray matter). So it appears you can increase your brain size with even a mild form of regular exercise. A Harvard Medical School article stated that a review of literature on depression examined evidence going back to 1981 and concluded that in younger and older patients with depression, regular walking was an effective treatment for emotional problems. It appears something even as simple as daily walks can significantly enhance mental and emotional well being. If you are simply starting out with an exercise program, walking 3 to 5 days per week is enough to see a boost in your brain’s health. As time goes on, a good idea is to diversify your activities. Joining a local recreation centre offers access to swimming, weight lifting and other fitness activities. This keeps you interested and it keeps your brain and body adapting to new acitivities. Which increases the degree to which your brain grows and benefits from an active lifestyle. So you see, it’s easy to make your brain healthy and stave off unwanted ailments! Get out there and enjoy a nice walk today.

2019-04-19T09:32:04Z

http://www.drparenteau.com/category/mental-health/

His face is serious. Smile stern, taut cheeks, posture narrowed. I have always found him photogenic. To explain to him why I feel it is inappropriate to take a picture in this setting is to flout my “white boy English,” that eloquent speech imposed upon me as a child, the elaborate words I mastered in order to get good grades in my undergraduate courses, the vocal tones and hand gestures of a PhD candidate—and necessary for any dream of upward mobility. He doesn’t feel the structure around me as I do. Our loving is at the border of our oppositions. On November 18, 2013, Cruz Marcelino Velazquez Acevedo, a 16-year-old from Tijuana, Mexico, dies on the border. He does not drown in a ditch, a canal, or the Rio Grande, as so many migrants trying to cross over into the United States do. He does not dehydrate in the deserts of Texas or Arizona or California. He is not even trying to cross over to, as so many call it, “illegally migrate.” In San Ysidro, at the border crossing of the United States and Mexico, he dies from an overdose, from too many sips of the liquid methamphetamine he is trying to smuggle over. 20/20 dedicates an episode to Velazquez. The episode’s title is “Life and Death at the Border.” The episode provides a minute-by-minute rundown of Velazquez’s time at the border checkpoint according to the footage made public by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The program includes the testimonies of the two border officers who—accused but never convicted—coerced Velazquez to drink the liquid in order to prove it was not drugs, as the teen had said. They bring in a toxicologist to give expert analysis on what overdoses do to the body, and a former commissioner of the agency who deems the actions of the officers “inappropriate” and “misconduct.” The television program highlights the ruthlessness of the cartels, the lucrative market for methamphetamines, and the violence of the border. The program wraps into an hour the hundreds of years compressed, conflicts, insurrections, and civil wars. As in the title “Life and Death at the Border,” the border, like anytime we say the word “the border,” becomes yet another theory of what the border is supposed to mean. An installation: a wall of backpacks. All sizes, all colors, all varieties. Each one is considerably dirty, and many are blanched by constant exposure to the sun. What are we looking at? Scratch that: What are we being made not to see? After more than 10 minutes of suspension, one backpack in particular catches the eye. The backpack is a pink that pops, a plastic-looking pink you see in the Walmart’s Back-to-School section. It is small, and its smallness makes it stand out among so many larger backpacks, a landscape of faded browns and blacks. Plastered on the front of the backpack is Dora the Exploradora. This backpack must have belonged to a little girl who, for one reason or another, had to abandon her backpack along the border of the United States and Mexico. The other details of her life are unknown. I am 12 years old when my brother dies. My mother and sister ask the coroner, “Was he in a lot of pain when it happened?” I am not present when they ask him, because they do not feel I am old enough, but something tells me, knowing their way of being forcefully insistent, that the coroner told them what they wanted to hear, that he could see the proof of their pain in their eyes. “He felt nothing, absolutely nothing,” they report back, allegedly repeating the coroner’s words verbatim. But if the coroner is telling the truth, how can he know what my dead brother experienced? Where is the evidence for the existence of this non-pain? My mother and sister feel it is a justice if he felt pain. It corroborates their theories. For if he felt pain, much like we wonder if Velazquez felt pain, we can project all our anger and torment onto the ones responsible for creating the pain: the drunk driver / the United States government. But if there is no pain? If the coroner is right and life, in an instant, in a flash, extinguishes into nothingness, without those human things we call suffering, pain, torture, and violence, what then? How do we justify a life? How do we prove to others that my brother / Velazquez mattered? 7:11 p.m.: Velazquez wipes his forehead. 7:36 p.m.: He starts sweating heavily, his body shaking. 7:48 p.m.: Handcuffed and standing up, Velazquez screams, “mi prima,” “mi hermana,” “mi corazón.” He rocks back and forth. Several officers watch him. The one officer who told him to drink the liquid drugs wipes the sweat from his forehead. 7:51 p.m.: He is strapped into a gurney, eyes rolling into the back of the head, the limbs in a frenzy, the head convulsing. 8:24 p.m.: In the hospital, he is unresponsive, pupils fixed, fixed on the beyond. 8:39 p.m.: Velazquez is put on a respirator. 8:57 p.m.: Velazquez dies from acute methamphetamine intoxication. In the court of law, in the break rooms of Immigration and Customs, on the big-screen TV of some John and Joanne’s home in the Upper West Side or Springfield or Malibu or Main Street, does this footage prove anything? Can this tell the millions of viewers why he risked it all to traffic drugs into the United States? What brought him to the border the day he died? Any pursuit of a “why” presupposes there is one reason, one cause, one deciding factor that urges bodies to risk everything. Unable to move from standing in front of the Dora backpack, I take a picture. I concentrate on the backpack. I tell myself to think beyond this blankness I am feeling right now. I do everything I can standing in place, as if some sentence from the void will pull through, some word or clause or syllable will whisper to me, shout at me, tell it to me. The backpack does not open itself up to interpretation. Visuals without audio: What is on trial is not the voice but the body’s language. One of the officers makes the gesture to drink by bringing hand to mouth. The other officer places the liquid substance before Velazquez and nods his head, encouraging, commanding, enforcing. Velazquez swallows from the bottle of the liquid drug four times, hoping to convince them it is not a drug, so he can cross through, deliver it, and return home without any backlash from the cartels. The incident report filed the same night notes Velazquez “voluntarily” drinks the substance. Protocol, according to the report, is followed. This report is a document of the United States of America. 20/20’s report is an attempt to counter the federal report with the facts of the matter—the body language, expert opinions, and eyewitness accounts. There is no doubt the viewer will notice the program’s sympathies are with Velazquez. But the solution on offer is nothing more than getting rid of a few bad apples, nothing less, making sure they hire no more bad apples, nothing more. 1) The border, and the many meanings of the border, is not meant to be relived. It is to be tucked away safely in a memory box, dusted on occasion for a brief recollection, but not reexperienced. 2) The border is a trauma, living in the body, triggering and affecting, passed on to other bodies. The border, as E— seems to be suggesting, can manifest even here downtown in New York City, so far from the United States–Mexico border, so far from my undocumented father who now lives in rural New Jersey. 20/20 cites other deaths along the border. A family picnicking on the Mexican side of the border is shot at by border patrol on a boat, killing the father. A teenage boy, accused of throwing rocks across the border, is shot 10 times. A man is tased over and over again by a mob of border-patrol agents for being on drugs. In all cases, no charges are brought against these officers, no protocols against violence are implemented. These flash points of life and of death are innumerable. They define the border as we know it. On display: a spiral-bound notebook. The pages are warped by water damage. The paper near the metallic binding appears to be eaten away, lined with holes and tears. The front cover, made of plastic, looks melted; the colors are a faded swirl of blue, tan, and black—no doubt the result of a ruthless exposure to sunlight. Though unopened (perhaps even unopenable?), the pages appear blank. One can only surmise that the waves of a river or the soaking in a ditch washed away whatever stories, fragments, or ramblings were contained within them. Or maybe, just maybe, there was nothing yet written down on those pages. Blank pages of journal entries yet to be, poems in process, theories waiting for the right words to explain themselves. She hesitates, an “ummm” trips on her lips, she nods her head slightly, her facial features formulating the appropriate sentence, the appropriate language, the appropriate face for the camera watching her: “I can’t . . . I heard him screaming.” She looks down at the table before her, wringing out her wrists, eyes red, the biting of the lip. Scene changes. One officer in particular is zeroed in on. The footage of her testimony is masterfully edited to account for the frequent pauses between speech, downward cast eyes, intelligible language breaking down into unintelligible sounds, a sniffle here and a clearing of the throat there. Guilt can be found in the body of the individual. If the logic of the camera is followed, nations and organizations and corporations and ideologies and systems are incapable of guilt. Their immaterial bodies cannot be recorded, edited, and represented like the testimonies of a human. We see shootings of unarmed men on a livestream caught on tape by girlfriends, helicopters reporting on the border men beaten to death by a mob, a bystander recording a man dying from a chokehold screaming out “I CAN’T BREATHE! I CAN’T BREATHE!” and no one can imagine governments or mindsets or corporations giving the confidence necessary for individuals to commit such violence. (What would it look like to put a power structure on trial, to make a system testify, to force an ideology to swear on the Bible? Absurd, no doubt, but a limit we ought to challenge.) Motives for the guilty are sought of the individual kind: personal vendettas, hate crimes, ignorance, negligence, and so on and so forth. We are made to believe some humans are just naturally born evil, corruptions of humanity, exceptions to some unspecified norm, a backwardness to be transcended. The promise is that certain kinds of humans, who think in certain kinds of ways, who live their lives in certain kinds of ways, will, eventually, in due time, be phased out. But the question never asked is what ways of living and being in the world are we waiting to extinguish? Because to ask such a question is to confront question, problem, and answer head-on. E— calls me over to where he is. “Mira . . .” he says, pointing to an object I had overlooked earlier. The object is one sheet of lined paper with writing on it. The sheet appears to have been water damaged, the tint of the page a dark brown as if exposed to muddy waters, the edges of it curled as if fried by the sun. A letter? An essay? Spoken-word poetry? The letters are blocky, as if the writer was pressing down on the pen hard, belabored. The words are in English. Full sentences cannot be deciphered, but the beginnings of some are as follows: “TheRE GOES my . . .” “LET THE Good . . .” “My BRown eye . . .” One word that reads as “VASANOVA” has the words “we on the,” above it, as if the writer is amending a thought, being more precise with their meaning. Given the free use of uppercase and lowercase letters in these words, I wonder if the writer is an English-language learner, teaching themselves, though imperiled, though endangered, though risking life, a foreign language on the border. I want to ask E— why he directed me to see this, why this affected him in some way, but it soon hits me: He directs my attention to it because he knows it will have this impact on me. He knows I love studying penmanship, analyzing how a loop, a space between letters, an illegible word can tell us about a life we do not know. He knows writing in all its forms is important to me. The loose leaf leaves us to our theories. The toxicology expert 20/20 hired gives the viewer a run-down of what Velazquez is experiencing: blood pressure rising exponentially, a fever spiking, the body unable to cool, delirium, the body working double-time. Chemistry kills Velazquez. The toxicologist needs to emphasize to the reporter interviewing him, “Cruz was in an immense amount of pain.” Immense: an adjective describing quantity, intensity, degrees. Immense as syllables as an adjective as a word as language tries to describe the indescribable. Futile as it may be, the toxicologist uses the word in efforts to describe to us, as best he can, how the body is bound by laws, how the body is testimony, how the body testifies. About to leave. E— and I are staring at photographs of the Arizona desert where many of the objects in the exhibit were acquired. Though beautiful, though sublime, photographs have a harder time of catching my attention. Too still, possibly. I turn around from the photographs, and from E—. There are four women looking at a tire I had glossed over earlier, a tire once employed by men to help repair the walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, a tire turned museum object. I didn’t see them enter the exhibition. They look like my tías and primas. One appears to be in her late 30s, and the three others look to be no older than 15. The women are huddled around the tire. Bodies poised in attention. Their brown eyes are the eyes of concentration. What do they contemplate there before the tire? How do they do this combined effort of thought?

2019-04-23T09:12:20Z

https://thenewinquiry.com/border-theories/

The new version includes many new exciting functions (RBL, RWL, Automatic white listing) and gives you a very granular control over how the filter works. And it’s still available in a free version! Go and have a look!. Since I have had a lot of problems with false positives with the black lists that I’m using on my Exchange 2003 server I started looking into another way of filtering spam. The obvious choice of additional protection fell on greylisting ( you can read more about what it is here ). The problem with this is that there doesn’t seem to be any free products out there for Exchange and as I don’t want to set up a Linux box ( yet another box in the rack ) I decided to write one myself. Usually i receive 3500-4000 spam attempts per day so that means that 70 mails a day are slipping trough. These 70 get matched to a blacklist that is not that aggressive and the result of this is that my spam level has gone down to almost 0% while I haven’t had a single false positive yet. About the program. It consists of two parts. Greylist installs as a .dll and connects to the SMTP service’s OnInboundCommand RCPT. It reads it configuration from Greylist.cfg and uses Greylist.mdb for logging entries. It also produces a log file in the log directory. Greylist admin creates and configures the above files as well as controls the settings and the white list. Continue blocking for X minutes. Block by Source IP, Sender email address, Recipient address all together or in any combination. White list (always allow) by Source IP, Sender email address, Recipient address or in any combination. Clean out entries older then X days on the first session of the day. Stores data in a Microsoft access database, .mdb or in a MsSQL db. Configures: Block for X minutes, Max age in X days, White list. Configures which items to use when blocking by Source IP, Sender email address, Recipient address all together or in any combination. Displays blocked items and passed items in totals. Displays current items in database. Displays block rate in % according to all entries in the database. Registered users can now set how Greylist will behave on a blocked item. It can either send the 451 message and then disconnect (default) or keep the session alive and accept more recipients. Registered users can now change the message Greylist sends out. This is especially great for corporate usage where each company can have a custom message. For the rest Greylist stays the same for unregistered users. Added new tab with controls for Disconnect on 451 and 451 message. Even though Greylist has been succeeded by JEP(S), the download links remain here for reference. For comments like ‘Hey – great app!’ use the form at the end of the page. Nada. Nothing. It’s for free! See it as a contribution to a better world A free contribution! I’ve released this under a Creative Commonce license, which comes down to that you can use it and redistribute it as long as you refer to me and this site while using any part of my program. The full license is available in the readme file. Register it! It will cost you 50 euro (about 65 USD) and will support the continued development and you’ll get access to the customization options for how Greylist behaves on the communication level. The registration license will be mailed to you as soon as I’ve registered the payment. And if your boss wants an invoice – no problem! I’ll mail that to you upon request. The program is distributed ‘as-is’ and I don’t intend to provide any support for it. But feel free to send me any suggestions to improvements or your own modifications. remote SSE install when the 3rd party vendors couldn’t get their own product to work. they released SSE to market – so their isn’t any documentation!! Lucky us. are onto a terrific little applet here. I have been using Greylist for a couple of weeks now and have found it very useful, it has blocked 180,000 messages since we’ve started using it and has stopped a lot of emails that our GFI MailEssentials was failing to block. One thing I think could be changed is in the way the database cleanup is applied. As I don’t have the IP address checking enabled then over time you will get spam from/to the same sender/recipient causing all future spam from such pairs to get through. I think it’s save to assume that if the First Seen and Last Seen timestamps are the same and over 24 hours old then it is not going to be resent and is probably spam. The clean up function could look for this and delete those entries, the database would be much smaller then. I have added a query to the Access database to do this for me. Following on from this, is there an easy way compact the database? Access is especially wasteful with regards deleted records and I find the database can grow to 100MB in a couple of days. To run a compact on the database I am having to disable Greylist to remove the file locks and then enable again afterwards. I came across this tool and it looks to be a good tool. There is one issue I faced. After applying this on exchange server, I had socket errors when trying the email test on dnsreport.com so I restarted the server and it went fine. Maybe it is mandatory step and has to be in manual for product. Usually my own email account got about 50-100 spam emails each day. I used to run with the GFI sollution, but it kept crashing our server, and let quite a few span-emails through. This has let 3 spam-mails through during a 3 week period! I am running with the built-in exchange “intelligent filter” along side with greylisting, and have made a short “whitelist” of domains, and it works perfect! If you are using the SQL DSN and you lose connection to your server, what happens? Does the software fail back to the Jet DB locally? Does it stop greylisting until the connection is restored? If that happens then it will fallback to not blocking / greylisting emails until the database connection is restored. It will try to restore the connection every couple of minutes automatically. Then it will log these error sessions with code 999 in the logfile. This has been tested quiet extensively to make sure that it works correctly – and it does. What’s changed from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1? Gmail accounts seem to be blocked completly. When it resends the first and last timestamps are always the same. I’ll update later if this changes for me. Also is there a way to track which email are passed? Micheal: I’ve posted a reply to your question in the community forum –> here. Ahh Nevermind. Gmail uses multiple servers, blocking by IP address kills these for a while. 1) from the /23 part, you generate the subnet mask. This is an unsigned 32 bit integer with the 23 upmost bits set. Thanks! I’ve choosen another path though. I’m not converting the IP’s to serials and then do a more then less then comparison between the source ip. This will be implemented in the next major version which ‘might’ come in a month or so. 1,000,000 spams stopped and counting! Hi Chris, just thought I’d pop you a quick note. We’ve got the registered version running on a dozen or so servers now – just on our 8 top servers we have prevented over 1,000,000 spam emails reaching the servers. As for the latest (couple of days ago) Trojan that is trying to spread by email – well, all we’ve noticed is the greylist logs are a little bigger. Thank-you very much for your wonderfull tool: it really works as expecded stopping tons of spam mails per day. Can this be configured so that it only works on one domain? As I host mail, I do not want to annoy customers while I test this. Heyden Kirk: Unfortunately not. The next version (2.0) which is still under development will have a function for ‘learning’. This means that it does all the processing while no mails are blocked so that the filter gets to know you senders email patterns. I had a slight issue with the greylist program recently, it was running amazing for about a week and then all of a sudden it stopped allowing email to get through. I disabled and then re-enabled to see if that made a difference, disabled, deleted the directory downloaded a new copy and started it up and same thing, full blocking of all email to the server. Is there anything I can check because while it worked, it ran like a champ. Problem is, in this way i am not able to identify the original user who is sending email to my gmail account. For example if Sue at sue@hotmail.com sends an email to my gmail account and it gets forwarded to my test domain account it will have the same format in the database as i mentioned earlier. Since from the database i would never know that email came from Sue, what would be the way to identify the original user of the email? My guess was that since my gmail account is already been whitelisted, when Sue sends me an email it really dosent matter if i whitelist her email separately because my gmail account is already in the whitelist. I apologize if my language here is a bit confusing. Any help on this would be appreciated. I would love to implement this in my real environment. I have problem to get e-mail through while having greylist enabled. I am running version 1.3.1. I have tried disable and then enable it again. I don’t know what to do. I have also tried download a new copy. Greylist have worked great for about 6 months, but now something have happened. I have had some problems with this on certain customers servers. Here are some tips to help those of you in trouble. After creating a database and enabling the Greylist sink, sometimes all mail will be blocked. Greylist admin will also report nothing. There is another problem where you have run the enable command too many times. This creates more than one sink. I have found this to be a huge problem and not even realising it. Hi. Just added this great tool to a site. It look fine, but i realized after 1-2 hours that it was not so happy to talk to some mail servers. In the log it said “SMTP – 250”, but on the sending server it said “host dropped connection”. I tried everything of the above things. At last i had to drop using it. Any ideas ?? P.S. Really sorry about that because greylisting i a smashing good techique. I also noticed that messages with status 250 in log file are dropped. has someone any ideas to fix this bug ? This mails are “return receipt, delivered or read messages” and JEPs are blocking this messages. I think that is a huge bug. Lars: Regarding the ‘interesting problem’; it’s not a lot message you see, but the autowhitelist in action. When you have it active then when a outbound mail is sent, then the recipient email address gets added to the inbound sender whitelist. This gets logged in the listener like that. After x hours then the sender email address gets automatically removed. Thus, not a bug – it’s a feature. I would just like to say thanks for taking the time to write one of the most amazing programs I’ve ever seen. I’m planning on registering our copy as soon as I can get it approved. I have just installed this on a server running 2003 and Exchange 2003. Emails are coming straight in from everywhere with no delay at all. he system is also running Symantec’s Mail Security for Exchange, do I need to uninstall this first?? Also, when I telnet to port 25 on the server it still appears that Exchange service is listening, should the SMTP banner look different? Seems like it’s not activated. Have you enabled it? Normally Greylist works fine with other spam products, but ofcourse there’s no guarantee. I know that other people use Symantec’s products together with Greylist. The banner should not change as it’s not replacing the IIS SMTP service. More questions? –> Look in the Greylist forum. You rock! Thanks for the great tool. A solid Directory Harvesting Attack killer is what I was looking for. This looks great. Thanks, and I’m looking forward to trying this out. i have been using version 2.0 for almost over 3+ weeks and it works great. Blocks tons of spam and very very easy to configure. I did not see anything that i would say is wrong at the moment. Cant wait for the final version. I know you said you are 95% done but how much time span are we looking at? Enterprise Sales Partner, Corel and Novell Business Partner.). directly from you. Please write us the terms of reselling and prices too. We could pay with credit card. Please write me your fax number too. If we order, could you make out the invoice to us, NOT for the enduser? Forum is not accepting new registrations as process fails when it tries to send you your confirmation email. It looks like the author’s greylist package is stopping the mail? the Hungarian direct partner of ACDSystems, Ulead, WinZip, StarNet etc.). This is important for us. I used greylist in linux, http://www.logistic-china.combut now Exchanger can use it. Thanks for your job. will there be an ‘upgrade license’? we’ve paied for 1.3 just some weeks ago and were pretty satisfied with the solution. now we’re wondering if everybody has to pay these € 150 .. Christian: No worries – if you already have a Greylist license then you will recieve a cupon code that can be used for getting a €50 reduction on JEP(S). These codes will be sent out in the next coming weeks. (1) If you get a 250 in your logs *and* mail is not coming in, try stopping any other antispam solution and/or running “iisreset” again. On two servers, I found the following to be the case. This last step suggests to me that something is awry with either Trend Micro’s antispam solution and/or this greylisting dll. (2) 200 replies in log might be result of blank entries in the whitelist portion of your MS Access DB. When you get a 200 error, you still seem to get mail, even spam. To fix this, try deleting the blank entries and run “iisreset” from the command line. (200 reply = “nonstandard success response”, see RFC 876). (3) I created a “greylist-bounce.bat” file in my greylisting folder to “fix” things when mail seemed to mysteriously stop working. For whatever reason, that seemed to work. (4) Incoming mail from Gmail and Hotmail (dunno about Y!) might a huge problems in some environments. On one server, new mail from Hotmail got bounced a couple of times, and new mail from Gmail would range from like 5 minutes to several hours (like 12). I have my suspicions why this is the case (different IPs, different policies on different servers, etc), but the bottom line is that this could be very frustrating for users and possibly lethal to your job if, say, the CEO sent a super important email from his gmail account to someone to the Exchange server. This criticism is more directed to greylisting as a whole, rather than GRYNX in particular. (5) I have found this program to be 90% to 99 to 100% effective. On the server where it was 99 to 100% effective, most of the spam seemed to be dictionary attacks and/or email sent to an old domain that the Exchange server had in its recipient policy (e.g. asdfasdf@olddomain.com, 12345@olddomain.com, info@olddomain.com, hr@olddomain.com, administrator@olddomain.com, etc). On the server where it was 90% effective, a lot of the crap spam seemed like stuff that users had subscribed to (coupons, job board sites, etc). This type of spam is much harder to deal with, as it seems to adhere to proper RFC standards. (6) This solution is good quick fix if you’re in a pinch and need something fast and free. Ultimately, if you’re running Exchange and need a “free” greylisting spam solution that is enterprise-worthy, you’ll probably want to put some sort of postfix/tumsgreyspf-like box in front of your Exchange server. GRYNX is a very cool project, and while I thoroughly appreciate the hard work that has gone into it, I think that something like tumsgreyspf is much better suited for mission critical environments (the admins at RealityKings.com use it, in fact). GRYNX “works”, but only if you’re willing to fiddle and goof around a bit before you roll it out on your production servers. If you’ve got that much time to burn, then perhaps consider implementing postfix/tumsgreyspf to begin with. As the saying goes, fast, free, and good — pick any two! Thanks for your feedback – this is very valuable to us in developing the new versions. We’ve released a new version under a new name, JEP(S), and under another website, http://www.Proxmea.com, which addresses all of the issues in your feedback. Be sure to check it out! (1) This is no longer an issue as JEP(S) handles all installation of the sinks. Further is there a smart tool included (View sinks) which helps in positioning JEP(S) correctly together with other mail add-on’s. (2) Also no longer an issue, fixed in JEP(S). (3) No longer an issue, see 1. (4) No longer an issue. JEP(S) can use Realtime White Lists (RWL’s) which identifies especially large companies. When in use then the SourceIP is exluded in the processing. (5) We also include tarpitting in JEP(S) which protects against harvesting attacks. (6) I hope that you, after reviewing, see that JEP(S) is a lot more mature and that it’s more aimed at the enterprise market – without letting go of all installations in smaller systems.

2019-04-23T10:19:14Z

http://www.grynx.com/projects/greylist/

Click Here: https://www.ampmpodcast.com/mastermind and Register Your Spot in the Webinar! In this podcast, Manny Coats talks with Kevin King and discusses Amazon Private label ninja stuff. When did and for how long Kevin King been selling in Amazon? Kevin King shares his experience being a private label seller. Kevin King shares some strategies when selling in Amazon. Kevin King shares some tips in launching new products. How does PPC affect my organic ranking? Manny and Kevin talks about PPC strategies. Kevin King shares his strategies when it comes to keywords. How do I benefit from translating my product titles? Kevin and Manny talks about “brands”. How many units should I start with my product? Kevin shares on how to deal with Chinese suppliers. Kevin and Manny talks about product packaging. How does packaging affect product sales? What images should I put for my product? Manny and Kevin talks about product pricing. How should I set my product price? 00:39 MANNY: I’m here with Kevin King and he’s always doing ninja stuff. We will be discussing how to generate recurring revenue 24 hours per day during the AM and the PM. I was watching a Quentin Tarantino film of about three hours long, I was making money, how cool is that?! I did the amazing interview with Kevin King and although the quality of the audio isn’t of the best, it is worth listening to every minute. You’re pretty successful with Amazon FBA. If you don’t mind me asking, how much are you doing in sales per month at the moment? 01:55 KEVIN: Right now we’re doing low six figures per month, and growing. 01:57 MANNY: Wow. How did you get into Amazon FBA? 02:08 KEVIN: I’ve been dealing with Amazon for years. I’m one of those guys who has an old school account – I can get the daily withdrawals; I don’t have to wait. I buy tens of dollars of stuff for myself and my business through Amazon, I’m a big customer. If I see something in the house which I want to sell, I put it up on Amazon. I’ve been dealing with Amazon for 15 years in another business of mine called Amazon Advantage which is a principle for media, books, DVD’s etc. where they actually issue purchase orders and you send your stuff in on consignment and they pay you. I’ve had a business account for 20 years so we wholesale to them on that side – It’s a little bit different to the FBA. Two or three years ago I stumbled into something online where people were doing this FBA thing – didn’t get right into it at that moment as I was busy with other business (I can kick myself today!). I started with FBA about a year ago. I had a buddy – we did a little bit of retail arbitrage just to get my feet wet a get to know the system, how Amazon ships things and how they work. I quickly realized that the work was too much in relation to the return. My buddy was a bit more enthusiastic and started with it right away. I was in the developing business for years – I saw the FBA business last year May and read up on it, listened to podcasts – I was all in. I got my first product launched at the end of July. I have 7 products right now on Amazon. I don’t count the first to as they were a test run. 06:02 MANNY: It seems like there’s a common theme with the successful people, the ones who are doing really well and that is that the first products initially just fail, they don’t do very well. It happened to me too, I just didn’t do my research well. The one product is not there anymore and the other is just not doing well. 06:28 KEVIN: I have two in the beauty category that are just like that. I followed the formula that most of the podcasters teach – many people go with this formula so when I chose the product in May last year so unfortunately there were about seven guys that had the same product. By the time I got it launched, there were about 100 of them. The product was a serum and there’s no differentiation – I tried to make the packaging different but a serum is a serum. I quickly learned to not play whatever everyone else is playing. I then chose a product that is whole different then the first two – a category newbies wouldn’t choose and I’ve been doing good ever since. They’re still a standard sixe product on Amazon but in an area where not a lot of people want to mess with. 08:13 MANNY: Are you saying that they don’t want to mess with it as the price point per unit are just higher? 08:18 KEVIN: You are still paying a buck or two to get your product and selling it for $15 and to bring it over – instead of paying a small amount for DHL or whatever service you’re using, I’m paying airfreight so it is costing me more and taking longer to come in. They’re still the standard size so you don’t pay extra to get the products in. 09:18 MANNY: I always say like a basketball player’s shoe box. I’ve been doing the same for a while and some people will come back and say that I’ve said something else in a podcast but times change, things change and you’ve got to change your strategies. Lately I’ve also been telling people to stay away from the cheap stuff. It’s hard to get the right margins for Pay Per Click. If you have something that you can sell for $30 or $40, that would be great. You’ve then got a bigger chance at success. 10:09 KEVIN: The best cost product I’ve bought was $20. I’ve sold it for $79. If I sell anything, I try to triple the cost to cover shipping cost etc. if I don’t come close to triple my cost, then I’m not interested in selling the product. A lot of people do not have the finances to start something like this up – those who are asking what they need to start it up are most probably looking to just get rich, something like a lottery ticket. Most of those people have given up and started something else. 11:11 MANNY: If you start up with just $200/500, you can’t get into the products that were mentioned. You can’t buy a $10 or $15 product with $200. 11:31 KEVIN: A lot of people only want to do this as an alternative to their regular job – to pay credit card debt, to go on vacation and that is all good. If you want to make a living out of this only, you’ve got to put some money in. I’ve invested quite a lot because one of my strategies is not to just go out and find something out of the global sources, bring it in and sell it on Amazon – half of my private label products, I develop from scratch. I’ve hired people on Upwork who made sketches for me and did all the CAD designs and another guy who alternate the sketches to see from different angles so it looks like a real product. I then do 3D printing so I can test the product out and make sure it is correct/give it to someone to test it out. I only then put the product out there. I go look at all the negative reviews and where there is a gap in the market – if someone sells the product for $10, I sell it for $40 to cover the high end of the market. My sales may be less and my BSR lower, but I’m making more money. All my products right now are between 3000 and 7000 BSR. I’ve got products making me $500 profit a day which is 7000 BSR which is after expenses, advertising costs, sponsored ads, everything. That is one of my strategies, to create these custom products and the major advantage to this is you can have higher margins and zero competition. If you search for one of my products, there are 1000 hits but 800 of those are all the same product with no differentiation. One of my products in the Sports category is not custom but I differentiated it by adding 3 other components and it’s the most expensive in its category. I also do custom packaging on all my products. There’s two reasons for that: I’ve shown my packaging in one of my listings which I’ve never had a problem with, with hi-jackers – another reason is that I look at these products for long-term retail. Amazon is a great platform to launch in, to prove you have a good product and to get feedback from customers, improve the product and then take it to retail in the big stores not only to make money but to lavage yourself to if something ever changes on Amazon, if you lose your account for some reason, you’re not just out there flapping in the wind. 16:07 MANNY: This is a lot of good information. You’re on pace to do seven figures this year. You’ve made over a million backs. 16:31 KEVIN: With the holiday season, based on last season and what I could’ve done if I was prepared during December and January, I expected this year to do $2,5M to $3M this year. I’m launching a few new products now and if I get a single or double, at least ten a day, with a $15 margin on each product, that’d be good. If I launch a new product, I’m willing to spend some money to get it going. I’m going to get reviews. Reach for the top 10 000 reviewers and find the ones that list things they love in their bio – get 10 of 15 of them and give them the product – offer the amount to them, give it to them for free and have them order it through Amazon so it go through the system. That’s a good way to get started and then use services like review check to get your reviews up to around 15 or 20. Some people say you need to wait to do Pay Per Click until you get a certain number of reviews, you don’t need to. Five reviews will be sufficient. You need to turn on pay Per Clicks and start making money instantly. The best investment is through Pay Per Click as you can buy your way to the top. I you buy a product for $20 and you sell it for $79, after all the commissions and fees, you can still afford to pay $10 per click/sale average. The way I look at my sales is: I take the product and say I’m going to spend $10 on marketing. If I sell 10 per day, it’s going to cost me $100 per day to sell those products on Amazon. If four of them were sold through sponsored ads, I’m acquiring them in my personal figures – I still calculate them as ‘losing the money’, I’m willing to break even now in a competitive space. I launched a product in December and I was spending about $600 a day to get that product launched. I was still making money and it still sells the same amount each day, I’m only paying $40 per day in advertising so if I have to initially not make money because of advertising, that’s fine. With Pay Per Click you build up the recognition for your product, unlike with the normal reviews. 22:50 MANNY: Pay Per Click will increase your organics, I say that too, but a lot of people say that Pay per Click does not affect your organics. You believe that too? 23:15 KEVIN: I believe 100 percent that it does increase your organics. Why wouldn’t it? Amazon is all about selling products. If they know that you are selling a product and it gets lot of searches, why wouldn’t they show it organically to you? You’re buying space through Amazon with Pay Per Click just as you would buy shelf space in a grocery store. You’re doing the same thing on Amazon through sponsored ads and proving yourself. 24:52 MANNY: Do you feel like there’s a difference between having that top spot at the top of all the searches vs being on the side panel or different positions for Pay per Click? 25:01 KEVIN: I think the most important thing is to be on page one. If you look at studies, only 30% of people go past page one. Most people will scroll through the first page and see what’s there. Best position is to be on the top left position. 25:49 MANNY: For those of you who are starting out – if you start out, you’re not going to be on page one initially. You’re probably going to be on page 17. If you can get a few reviews and start Pay Per Click, you can be on page one within a few hours. There’s very few industries where you can get in and get that immediately from page access. You might not be making money initially; you’re trying to buy op your organic ranking. The first month is almost a throw-way to build up your position. 27:02 KEVIN: I’ll let my Pay Per Click run for about seven days before I make any major adjustments. As long as I’m in that top two spots initially, I’m fine. If the keywords doesn’t look good, I’ll lower my bid and give it a week before adjustment. 28:23 MANNY: If you’re adjusting the bids on that keyword, are you saying that you’re initially running an automatic campaign and then you’re moving to a manual and then you’re adjusting them specifically manual? 28:38 KEVIN: I initially run an automatic campaign to see if Amazon thinks the product is what I think it is. At the same time, I also run a manual broad to pick up on other things. After a week I’ll eliminate the automatic, I’ll then see what’s working and what’s not working. Once I settle on keywords, I’ll move to a phrase or exact and see what works best. 29:46 MANNY: if you’ve got a small subset, 15 keywords or phrases that are awesome, you’ve eliminated all your automatic campaigns and you’re now on manual, are you setting up different campaigns for each keyword so you can control the individually? 30:00 KEVIN: No, I just put them online with a $500 budget daily. 30:08 MANNY: And then you just control the bids by going in there and checking the keyword phrases. 30:13 KEVIN: Yes. I’ve done them automatically, I’ve tested it where I just lower the bids so I get $1 for Pay Per Click to see if I can get someone that goes to page six and sees my product. I wouldn’t recommend continuing that. 30:46 MANNY: So if you’ve got these 15 awesome keyword phrases set up in your manual campaign, do you still find it’s worth it to have 5000 characters’ worth of other keywords if you’re not pushing those through Pay Per Click or is that still super important for the organic side of stuff? 31:08 KEVIN: Amazon has changed and it only allows you to have 5000 characters and it’s not keywords. I take a different approach on that, on a lot of what people and Amazon says is a lie. In my first line I repeat all my main keywords even though they’re in my title or wherever for in case they change the algorithm. In the next few points I fill in with a lot of random words, unique words that are not in my description or bullets or title. Those are just casting a wide net. For example, if I have a dog product in there, I will search for the top dog breeds and I’ll put those in there because if someone is looking for a dog product, they might type in “dog food” and you’ll appear for that. In the last line I will put in Spanish translation of my keywords as there’s a lot of people that do not speak English in the United States and has the second highest population of Spanish people. 35:09 MANNY: That’s awesome information. You basically resurrected a failing product. 35:16 KEVIN: Once I did that for the first product, I went and did it for all my other products. The products are in different categories so it won’t work for every product necessarily, it didn’t work as well for all my other products. 35:49 MANNY: Awesome! How do you deal with misspellings? 35:53 KEVIN: I use the extra space in the last bullet to deal with that and Amazon will autocorrect that too and you’ll land up in more products with the misspellings. 36:35 MANNY: I’ve noticed that too. If you have that keyword on there, it would show in your search and ask “Did you search for this?”. I am actually for a number of highly misspelled keyword phrases. 36:57 KEVIN: With the Spanish and the serum product I had – if you type it in, thousands of products show up and because I’m not doing Pay Per Click, I’m on page four or five for that listing. Also if I’m selling a toy I’d put in ‘toy’ and ‘toys’. 38:39 MANNY: Do you have the Amazon App, the A9 app? 38:49 KEVIN: No, I’ve never seen it. 38:50 MANNY: It’s pretty trippy. A lot of people don’t know about that. I want to talk about brands in terms of actually bidding on those – do you do anything with competitor brands’? 39:23 KEVIN: No, I’ve tested it – if you put words in there and it’s some uncommon brand it doesn’t make a difference but if it’s a major brand, it’s probably not going to work. 39:46 MANNY: So if you’re in a category where they say there’s two or three sellers who are just dominating, 1000 units a month each in sales, would you consider using their brand name? 40:10 KEVIN: What I’ve found works better is if you do a broad Pay Per Click on that for example ‘eyelash serum’, I’ll get people typing in a brand name that’s ‘Unique eye lash serum’ then Amazon won’t give me any searches as they’ve filtered it out. If I leave it as a broad match, just eyelash serum, I can pick up some of the brand stuff. 42:30 MANNY: You said you start 1000 units a time when you’re starting with a new product, is that your standard, do you always do that? 42:45 KEVIN: Yes, that’s my standard. When am looking at my product, I’m pretty confident. If you have less units, you can’t really promote it as you’re going to run out of stock soon. You spend a lot of money to get that product launched and for reviews, you can’t do that with 200 units. Another thing I do is I do inspections in China before the product is shipped to the USA to make sure everything is there that needs to be there and that the products look good. I find that after I’ve started doing the inspections, the products started looking better and I had less problems with my products. 48:29 MANNY: They’ll even do the three-foot Amazon drop test for you. 48:32 KEVIN: I have them drop the master product form three feet because when they’re being shipped, they handle them roughly and you don’t want to deliver a product that has a dent in. I also order a few extra boxes for in case this happens and for returns of products that were never used, so I can resell them then. 50:15 MANNY: For all of you who think that Kevin has all of these things going on…how many people do you have in your company? 50:30 KEVIN: It’s just me. 50:31 MANNY: Outside of hiring a couple freelancers to do your specifications and that, it’s just you? 50:39 KEVIN: I’ve got a bookkeeper coming in once a month as I don’t like doing the nitty gritty stuff. I also have some guys I get to do my packaging. I’ll sit down and do the sketches on paper and send it to them and tell them that’s what we have to create and we’ll communicate back and forth for a week. That’s all for $110. When my pallets come I’ll have someone assist me in removing the pallets and getting Amazon stickers on the boxes and shipping them to Amazon. 52:42 MANNY: You’re one of the few people I know who handles a big amount of inventory who don’t ship them directly to Amazon, you ship the stuff to your house? 52:55 KEVIN: Right now I’m working from my house but it has gotten to the point where I’ll have to get a little warehouse. On the first thousand units I put a PC barcode, not the Amazon code, for in case somebody hi-jacks the product. Now I let Amazon put that label up for me. My inspection company checks everything for me. I ship them via central freight so it costs me $150 instead of $1000 for UPS. I’ll pay that extra 20 cents for them to label it. I’d like to have that eyeball checked. 56:24 MANNY: Especially if your order comes in and it’s $80 000 worth of retail goods, a few dollars more wouldn’t make a difference. For the listeners who say that you can’t do it, you don’t have the time, this guy is doing it alone. You can do it, you just have to take that first step and do it. You can’t just keep learning forever, you’ll have to dive in. 57:00 KEVIN: I’ve been there, I’ve had companies where people worked for me out of a warehouse and I don’t want to get to that position. I cap this, I don’t want it to grow that much. My goal is to get this to $10M by 2019 and I might have to bring on one or two people. I just want to make enough money to survive and enjoy my life. 58:05MANNY: That’s cool. It’s ironic because I will ask a question and you’ll come up with five things and I’ll want to go back to each. This is so full of information. Four-color-box is the technical term for having unlimited color. Are you having your supplier do that or do you have it done and then ship it to your manufacturer? 58:44 KEVIN: I let the supplier do it. I send my designs through to them. I had them change something once and the inspector caught the problem and had them repackage the items. 59:58 MANNY: What does it cost you typically when you’re doing custom boxes? 1:00:15 KEVIN: It depends on the box – I’m not doing a fancy box. I just take their basic template and redo the artwork. It depends on the thickness of the box – sometimes it’s 10 cents, the most expensive is $2.06 and then it’s a really nice, thick box. People eat with their eyes. You have to give a good image of your brand. It adds a sub-consciousness to your product. 1:02:59 MANNY: For your main image itself, do you put your product box in that white background or in the secondary image? 1:03:12 KEVIN: On some products I do put the product box. I put the price box in the background and the product box in front of it. It helps the product to stand out when someone is going through the pages and it’s clean, without “Number one seller!” and “Best seller!” banners. You have to still have a white border around the edge of your image – without it Amazon software sometimes remove the photo. 1:04:46 MANNY: Do you use all your images; do you fill every space? 1:04:48 KEVIN: Yes, I do. I make sure they’re all 1500×1500. I don’t use any image from the factories. I create all my images and try to show my product in context so people can relate. Your second image is important as it is visible when searching. 1:07:10 MANNY: How long does it take your inspector to do an inspection? Many people believe they should get the product out right away, so if you add the inspection process, how much time does that add? 1:07:30 KEVIN: Usually I give the company 48 hours to complete the inspection but they do it in 24 hours. If my product is done on Monday, I can let the inspector know and I’ll have the report back on Wednesday. 1:08:04 MANNY: For protecting your products you use a five wall box and corner protectors. What I the costs of that and can you have all suppliers do that? 1:08:22 KEVIN: Some suppliers don’t do the five corners so I choose three corners and just ask them to but Styrofoam around it. There is an extra cost but it’s not huge – maybe $50 total for the whole shipment. 1:09:05 MANNY: Great! You typically ship these products via sea or air express? 1:09:13 KEVIN: I do both. It depends – I just had 1000 items come in and to ship them by air was going to cost me $2500 and shipping them by sea was going to be $1900 so I just had the whole thing come by air. If the container is heavy, it comes by sea. 1:10:27 MANNY: In a different conversation we were talking about pricing and how people end their products on .95 or .99, you don’t do that? 1:10:38 KEVIN: If you want to make things look more expensive, you put a period with two decimals after them. If you list your product for $39.39, it feels less than to just say $39.00. There’s a psychology and if I list cents, I will do .88 or something unusual to make it stand out. 1:11:56 MANNY: Dealing with your suppliers overseas – do you use any NDA’s or not? 1:12:06 KEVIN: You can do it but it’s just cumbersome. I don’t do it, even on the products I developed, they’re just going to knock you off. I had a product come out and it went through the trademark and everything was fine. They publish it in a little magazine and they have a certain amount of days where someone can raise an objection and there was a law firm that raised an objection to one of my marks and said it was too close to them, it wasn’t worth fighting as it was a big firm, so I changed the packaging. 1:15:36 MANNY: Nice. Maybe we can do a part two and talk about all these other things like 3D printing, tooling for your products and customize the products, how you do some cool ninja things with your Pay Per Click and what you do when inventory is running low. If you want this – tell us on our Facebook group/website. Please also head over to Periscope app and follow me – @mannycoats and get to know me, it’s not all only business. Go to AM/PM Podcast and post your questions there – go over to our Facebook group and request access, it’s called the Amazon FBA High rollers and we’d love to see you there.

2019-04-26T00:14:15Z

https://www.ampmpodcast.com/kevin-king-delivers-amazing-value-fantastic-interview-advanced-private-label-ep33/

Exciting New 2019 Renovation Projects! Hi friends. We’re excited to share that we recently purchased a couple of properties and we’ve got some exciting renovations coming up this year! As you know, Emma is based in Springfield, Missouri and Elsie lives in Nashville, Tennessee. We knew we wanted to invest in some properties we could Airbnb, but also live in ourselves when we come to visit each other’s cities (which is a lot). So first, up—Nashville! Above is a photo of the duplex we just closed on in Nashville. We each purchased one side of the duplex. It’s a brand new build with a pretty basic design, so we’re doing a (tiny) bit of renovation and furnishing our side in our own style! It’s been really fun so far. I (Elsie) am almost wrapped up on my side and I’m coordinating a lot of Emma’s now since she isn’t always in town. We’re both so excited because this home will give Emma and Trey a place to stay for longer periods of time. Emma comes often for both work projects and to visit, and although she’s always been welcome to stay with me, I know she’s excited to have a little house of her own with a fenced backyard so they can bring their dogs too. Trey has a sister who also lives in the Nashville area and she and her husband have two (adopted) little kiddos as well. So, Emma wanted to be able to come visit more to spend time with their nieces and nephews in addition to all the work trips she does out here. Once it’s available to rent, it will also be cool because larger groups could potentially rent both sides for a bigger space. I believe this is the first time we’ve renovated a contractor-grade new build, so we’re excited to share the room before and afters with you as the months go on! It’s amazing what even small changes to a space can do to personalize the feeling. Here we are in my mostly completed kitchen, minus that light fixture behind my head. I’ve decorated my side a little more of a farmhouse vibe with a lot of texture. I’m trying to make it as cozy as possible. And I did a cooler color scheme with greens and blues (yes, you read that right, some BLUE!). On Emma’s side, she chose more modern finishes with a warm color scheme. We are really excited to share the full reveal with you in the next few months! In our hometown of Springfield, Missouri, we purchased an adorable historic home in the Rountree area (our favorite neighborhood in our hometown, if you’re not familiar). It’s a very sweet neighborhood. And just around the corner from this house there is a pizza place, a coffee/wine bar, and a small brewery. It’s the perfect neighborhood to take long walks on summer nights. And it’s just a few minutes from our downtown, so it’s super conveniently located to do just about anything. I (Elsie) am so excited because one of our personal goals was to spend more time in Missouri with our family. We are planning to spend Halloween and Christmas in this home, starting this year. It’s extra special because I’m imagining us waking up there on Christmas morning (it will be Marigold’s first holiday season with us!). It feels SO magical to me to have this home where we can make memories with our children in our hometown. I’m imagining cousin sleepovers and gingerbread houses, plus there is a fireplace so Santa can visit … all that good stuff! I nicknamed this one “holiday house” since we’ll be spending so many holidays there! This photo is from last Thanksgiving right after we closed. It was my first time to see the home and I was instantly in love! Emma and I have designed this home together and we have worked to choose things that go well with the age of the home (it was built in the 1920s). We’ve already done quite a bit of work since then, including a full kitchen renovation, which is nearly complete. Emma has been documenting a LOT of the progress, so be watching our IG stories to see all the behind the scenes. We will for sure we sharing LOTS of room tours and how we updated things with you soon. Nova loves the house! But don’t all kiddos love running around empty houses? She has to hide in every single closet and try to scare us. Haha! Just like with the Nashville homes, we’re planning to rent this home out as a short-term rental (like Airbnb) when we’re not using it. So if you’re ever passing through Springfield, Missouri, look us up! We’ll be sure to have links to our properties once they are available. Before I go, just a quick note! We realize how lucky we are to be able to invest in these properties. Please don’t think it’s something that came overnight for us or something we take lightly. It’s an opportunity we worked and planned for years to be able to achieve and we’re so excited to share our journey with you! Photos: Katie Day, Trey George, and Jeremy Larson. Yes- giving to charity is very important to us and we’re always open to reminders of how important it is. We actually donated a house we bought in cash to Habitat For Humanity a few years ago (you can see it here in our archives) and have a program set up to give a portion of our ad money to a different charity each month. Regarding airbnb “ruining or taking over” neighborhoods- I also think this is an important conversation that we want to continually have and stay educated on. Every city is so different. Both these communities have protections in place to make sure short term rentals are moderated. In Springfield they started something new where there can’t be too many bnbs in the same neighborhood. And in Nashville it is very strictly moderated, so we know there are not too many bnbs in the city (in fact there are currently less than there have been in years). We believe we’re contributing something positive to both these communities with these short term properties, and we’ll be staying in them ourselves as we travel back and forth to visit. We’re always open to having thoughtful conversations on these topics! I didn’t know about your monthly charitable giving — I’d love to see which organizations you’re supporting! . As a nonprofit employee myself, it can be really impactful when folks share where they donate and I’m always curious about great organizations and what they’re doing. Looking forward to seeing the renovations on your new places! It’s linked on our About page (at the top of the site). But to be 100% we don’t plan to necessarily talk about giving to charity every time we do it. We will sometimes, like the Habitat for Humanity project we did and we’ve done a number of food drives for our local food banks in the past as well. But it does feel a touch inauthentic to us to always be talking publicly about donating to charity, sometimes it feels good to just do it but not talk too much about it. I hope that makes sense. I am glad to hear Emma’s thoughts on this topic. It seems publicly announcing charitable giving at any scale can turn into a race to prove who is giving the most or at least broadcasting it the loudest. For myself, I don’t truly feel that great about what I’m giving unless it isn’t known by others. Sometimes one of the most thrilling parts of the gift is the pat on the back – if I give it to myself and hold it quietly (internally) I feel my giving is purely motivated but if I am seeking kudos from others that is self-serving. Emma, I’d really like to read a “guide” written by you in 3–5 points on how you read up on causes, choose what to support, decide whether it’s once or a long-term commitment and follow up. Either as a company or as a family. Maybe you’ve planned something like that already? What a sweet, smart reply. I wouldn’t have had that much grace. It’s thoughtful of you to be concerned about charities. Elsie and Emma have donated time and resources to a wide variety of non-profits and charitable organizations. Sometimes they have mentioned these charities on their blog, but many times they just quietly give and support. I’ve always been puzzled about the idea that Air bnb is detrimental to neighborhoods. If the person who moves in next to you doesn’t mow their grass, take care of their home, or has dogs that bark all night and poop in your yard, you are kind of stuck with them. Air bnb owners have much more incentive to keep their homes and yards tidy and be good neighbors. Not trying to be argumentative, just my thoughts…. @Pat It is detrimental to neighborhoods in that it takes housing stock off the market and makes housing more expensive. It happened in New York City when thousands of apartments were taken out of the pool and rented as short terms. Less stock equals higher prices, this trend is exacerbated in neighborhoods desirable to tourists. I’d also like to point out that it is not fun to have airbnbs as a neighbor. There are parties, you don’t know who is coming and going, even if you had perfect hosts and only the best vacationers, who wants to live in a neighborhood without real neighbors? You lose local investment in the community. It is currently happening in my neighborhood in Kansas City. I hope they continue to put ordinances in place to protect housing affordability and current residents. I hope that Elsie and Emma take this seriously as I do enjoy this blog, but I also hope they can relate this type of thing on the blog rather than just showing how fun it is to buy and redecorate a house and then use it to make income as an airbnb. Like I said in my comment above, it’s different in every city. The cities we are doing these homes in are very moderated and there will not be unlimited bnbs due to laws in place. I agree that it’s possible for it to get out of balance (and stories from New York and New Orleans provide valuable perspective). That said, in these cities we feel it will provide a helpful option as well as a place we can stay when visiting each other. We would never try to oversimplify this debate. There are definitely a lot of valuable checks and balances that need to be in place, but we don’t believe we’re overstepping those boundaries. We love our cities and want to invest more money, make these properties nicer, pay taxes etc. 🙂 For example- we considered buying a second home in Missouri for a while because we want to visit more and it’s nice to have your own space (especially with another kid on the way) but we felt it would be weird for it to sit empty so much- this is a win/win for us since we have a place to stay and we’re making a nice bnb for others to stay in as well. I thought Nashville passed a rule stating that a home had to be your permanent residence in order to be used as an Air Bnb? I have lived in two cities that drastically changed because of Air BNB culture. If you are on the owner side it’s great.. ( who doesn’t love fluid income?)…but for the majority of OG locals it can be a nightmare (I’m looking at you Bachelorette parties en masse). Look at what happened in East Nashville over the last decade. IN 2008 you could buy a home there for $70-100k. Now developers offer to owners in cash under market price to sell and then bulldoze the home to put up as many tall and skinnies/duplexes/quads as possible. It can be a super sad thing. Nashville does have those laws for residential zoned properties (we purchased a property with a different zoning). I have heard so many different experiences about the growth in East Nashville. Not all good, not all bad. It’s a big and complicated issue for a city to grow that fast. I’m always curious to learn more about people’s experiences who have lived in Nashville much longer than we have. As far as bachelorettes- we have a no bachelorette party rule (and very strict rules in general) and have never had a problem with it. I definitely think that’s something owners need to be responsible for since Nashville has so many bachelor/bachelorette parties (and I also honestly think those parties are better off staying in a hotel downtown). Good job on the no bachelorettes! It makes way more sense to have them stay in downtown! I moved to Nashville in 2003 and lived there 11 years (4 years of that in east nashville). Nashville will always have a piece of my heart. I saw the ups and downs of progress, and honestly I mourn the Nashville I know. That’s not to say that there aren’t awesome things happening there (because there definitely are) but those things came at the expense of a lot of really great things… primarily how accessible Nashville used to be and how many of the artists and makers and small business who launched Nashville into what it is now, can no longer afford to live or do business there now that the NY and LA money came in. It’s happening in a lot of cities, and I suppose it’s to be expected… but it is sad. Hopefully things will level out over time. I do wish you luck in your endeavors there though.. I still believe Nashville is a winner. Marisa: I know Elsie and Emma personally and you really couldn’t wish for better or more moral business women. These properties are in office/commercial zoned areas of Nashville and in no way take residential inventory “off the market”. I rarely read these comments, but it seems some people are so blinded by jealousy that they freely make negative assumptions. Just annoying when uninformed folks are bitterly critical toward these gals follows all the rules and are contributing positively to society in every way. I trust being seasoned business people that they did the research and are grounded in their values. Please celebrate others success! I’d also like to point out that I would much rather rent an Airbnb from someone who owns a small business and then to rent a hotel room from a large chain. I assume you hadn’t thought of that. If you are disappointed with your own success look into changing that for yourself. Congrats Elsie and Emma! I have loved watching you grow and blossom through the years and share your gift with so many people. Isn’t supporting Airbnb the same as supporting a “large hotel chain”? The difference is, those small business owners have no protection, and you’re still supporting a large corporation – who is using free labor to make money. You as a guest also don’t have protection – Legally and safety-wise (hotels have to pass rigorous safety standards. Your Airbnbs do not. Your gambling whether smoke alarms, CO2 detectors, locks, electricity, plumbling etc all work properly). Hotels also do not take homes away from low income and middle-class families under the guise of progress. with no control or over-sight. I trust you hadn’t thought of that, though. Jenny, I have to respectfully disagree with a number of your points here. Guests do have protection. I can’t speak for every city in the world but in both Springfield and Nashville you have to pass multiple inspections (for adequate smoke detectors and other safety measures) before you can obtain your short term rental permit and legally have guests stay in your home. I think this is a great law and I am VERY glad as both an owner and someone who rents short term rentals to stay in with family on vacations that this is the case. And if anyone out there reading this does ever stay in a short term rental that didn’t have smoke detectors or locks on a door, etc you should absolutely inform the owner and if needed (like if they do not resolve the issue) leave a review on the website and contact the city to let them know. Also, we did not take a home away from low income or middle class families. We are a middle class family, for one. But more importantly you may not know this but there are actually quite a lot of laws and over-sight for short term rentals. Again, I am not an excerpt on every single market but in both Springfield and Nashville there are only certain zoned areas you can have short term rentals in OR there can only be a certain number in an area. I personally especially like this second option (this is what Springfield has) because it protects neighborhoods from being completely bought up by investors for the purpose of short term rentals. Both of the properties we chose to purchase completed the requirements of these oversight measures. 1. It’s Elsie + Emma’s business what they do with their money. No one else’s. They have worked hard and earned it. They can do whatever they please with it. 2. I doubt if they were men, anyone would be making comments like this. Instead of shaming them for making money, let’s cheer them on for working hard and making intelligent business decisions. In addition, if you are here on their website, consuming the FREE content they create (like all of us), then you too are profiting from their hard work. How exciting! Always love seeing how you guys renovate a space and this one feels so special since you will be able to spend more time together! And the story about your grandma and her sister! Life goal for sure! Congratulations on the new properties! That’s so amazing and I can’t wait be able to invest like this one day. Hard work and dedication! Your renovation projects are my very fave posts that you do. Can’t wait to see the progress. How fun!! I know it’s always a little gauche to talk about money, but in the same way you do DIYs and decor breakdowns I would love a little peek into how you manage your properties. Like are they mortgaged, what kind of mortgage, are you mainly going through the business as a corporation…etc. etc. Anyhow, super cute- and I love the idea of calling it the “Holiday House” ! Agreed on this topic. I would love to see more business related posts now that the ABM business is growing. I’m sure many other readers would love to follow the avenues you ladies have taken towards success! Good to know of this interest! I am personally always super interested in learning more about other peoples’ businesses and investments and learning from others over the years has really helped me so the thought of doing that in any small way for others would be something we’d be interested in. Although, obviously, talking about money can be quite intimidating as well for a lot of reasons. I am so happy for you guys! That is so exciting, I cannot wait to see the finished renovations! Emma! 🤗🤗🤗 great little hint there. Congrats! This is AMAZING! I can’t wait to see what you guys do with the spaces. Especially that duplex – I love the idea of you each decorating your halves in your own styles! 🙂 – Mike. So fun! Congrats and looking forward to seeing the room/house tours in the future. Sorry you had to put the disclaimer at the end, but I know it comes with the territory (unfortunately). Keep being you and enjoy the blessing of what you’ve been able to accomplish with all of your hard work. Yes- we love to follow Sherry and John too! They’re so inspiring! I am 110% obsessed with everything John and Sherry do and have been following along with their renovations for years including their duplex. 😉 They are amazing. I’ve always gotten the impression that Emma & Elsie were extremely passionate about giving back, so I’m a little surprised by the charity comments. This is really exciting news! Congratulations to you both! I know, it’s to each his own, but I would never think of asking a friend if they contribute to charities. And for someone to bring that up here with “internet friends” is very bold. It’s none of our business how you ladies disperse your funds. Have a beautiful day Elsie and Emma! My husband is currently getting his real estate license and we want to invest in both long term and a few thoughtfully selected short term rentals. This is very inspiring! I agree with the comment about how impressive you both are at hearing the naysayera reapectfully and answering true to your own research and opinions. Younguys could offer a Master Class in that skill! Lol. Wow! Congratulations! You gals work so hard and keep me amazed by how much you accomplish. Kudos to you both as well as your team. I cannot wait to see what you make of these spaces! This is super cool. I love seeing you succeed. Never begrudge the successes of others, let them inspire you! I’m so looking forward to seeing how you will transform the places, I’m so excited! Wow, you guys are so flipping inspiring! I LOVE hearing these updates and seeing how well you’re doing. I’ve been a long time follower, so this makes my heart sing! Can’t wait to stay in one of your Airbnb’s when I’m over your way next! Ah I love that you guys bought the duplexes next to each other…such a sweet sister dream! And really how wonderful for you guys to have places to land when you want to go visit your family AND that you’re sharing those places with others. 🙂 🙂 I can’t wait to see all three properties finished! I dream of renovating an older home someday! Wishing you luck with both projects! To me, it goes without saying that you guys are incredibly thoughtful and generous people. It is so obvious in every way through this blog! I saw someone say this, and it would be cool to hear about how you decide to donate to what causes-truly because I value your guys’ opinions so much 🙂 either way, you have NOTHING to explain to anyone!! Looking forward to your renovation and design posts on these properties. Halloween is my favorite time of the year as well. Cannot wait to see your decorating inspiration for the holidays. I love that you support each other as sisters in your various projects and investments. I hate that there are so many trolls on the internet you and your sister have to constantly have to explain yourself or validate your choices to them. You both are clearly amazing and warm individuals and anyone who reads this blog can see that. I am also especially upset that some people also have to troll the comments, eg. with regards to charitable giving. All these people should be ashamed of themselves. We should be celebrating with you, this is an amazing bit of news. So sad that people feel the need to pull other people down to feel better about themselves. You do you Elsie and Emma. Can’t wait to see the posts. Apologies if this has already been mentioned/ posted something like this and I missed it, but it would be amazing if you guys could post about some of the strategies you use to help save for a home. My husband and I are having trouble finding a balance between “put every penny away for the future” and still being able to enjoy the here and now. Any advice or resources would be amazing. I really enjoyed reading these comments. I’m not American but Air BNB is impacting communities around the world (including my hometown in South Africa) so the debate is very interesting to me. In addition, someone wrote that they’d be keen to hear more about the business side of ABM. I’d like to second that! Would love to read periodic updates on this too! Just getting caught up and delighted to see this post, I would be very interested in hearing about the recent law changes and how it affects the market. You girls do good work, and I had to chuckle while reading comments from previous posters that want an essay on your contributions. You handled it well.

2019-04-26T03:38:40Z

https://abeautifulmess.com/2019/03/exciting-new-2019-renovation-projects.html

You are currently connected to the website www.buyfollowersbysms.com, published by Conseil NR, SASU, registered capital: 1000 €, registered RCS of Caen: 799 530 936, registered office: 35 rue du Général Leclerc, 14790 Verson, : +33811382283, email: contact@buyfollowersbysms.com, Intracommunity VAT number: FR 03 799530936, editor and editor: Nicolas Robine. The Site is hosted by OVH, registered office: 2 rue Kellermann BP 80157, 59053 Roubaix Cedex 1, telephone: 0820698765. "Bot": software having the property of interacting with computer servers. "Client" means any person, whether natural or legal, under private law or public law, registered on the Site. «Content»: data of any kind published by the Client on its Profile and targeted by a Pack. "Follower": Bot appearing on the Profile of the Social Network on which the Customer is registered as a Registered. "Registered" means a natural or legal person, whether private or public, subscribing to the services of a Social Network. "Profile": personal account subscribed by a Client on Social Network. "Social Network": a community website, particularly accessible at URLs www.instagram.com, www.twitter.com and www.facebook.com, as well as the sub-sites, mirror sites, portals and URL variations relating thereto. "Conseil NR": Conseil NR, SASU, taken as publisher of the Site. "Internet user" means any person, whether natural or legal, under private or public law, connecting to the Site. "Like": mention "I like" / "J'aime" added on the Profile of the Client by a Bot. "Pack": set of Likes and / or Followers. "Site": Web site accessible at the URL www.buyfollowersbysms.com, as well as sub-sites, mirror sites, portals and URL variations relating thereto. When registering on the Site, this acceptance will be confirmed by ticking the box corresponding to the following sentence: "I acknowledge having read and accepted the general conditions of sale and use". The Internet user recognizes by the same fact to have taken full knowledge and accept them without restriction. Ticking the above box will be deemed to have the same value as a handwritten signature on the part of the Customer. The Internet User acknowledges the evidentiary value of Council NR's automatic registration systems and, except for the contrary, waives the right to challenge them in the event of a dispute. These general terms and conditions are applicable to the relations between the parties to the exclusion of all other conditions, and in particular those of the Client. Acceptance of the present general conditions assumes on the part of the Internet users that they have the legal capacity necessary for this, or failing that they have the authorization of a guardian or curator if they are incapable , Their legal representative if they are minors, or if they hold a mandate if they are acting on behalf of a legal person. Customers may purchase Packs on the Site for their Social Networks. In order to place an order, Internet users may select one or more Packs on the Site. Once the order is made, the Customer is informed by Allopass of the final price of his Pack. If their order suits them, the Internet users can validate it. Once the order has been validated, Customers will be asked to enter their shipping and billing details and will be invited to make their payment by being redirected to this effect on the Allopass secure payment interface. Once the payment actually received by Allopass and confirmed by the latter to Conseil NR, the latter undertakes to acknowledge receipt to the Customer by electronic means, within a maximum period of 24 hours. Within the same period, Conseil NR agrees to send the Customer an e-mail summarizing the order and confirming the processing, including all the information relating to it. The Packs are delivered directly to the relevant Profile of the Customer within 72 hours from the perfect receipt of the price of the order. The delivery of the Packs is subcontracted to the low-cost provider of Conseil NR. Consequently, these general conditions are governed by the rules of subcontracting laid down by Law No. 75-1334 of 31 December 1975 on subcontracting. The Customer declares having received from the Conseil NR all the explanations and clarifications useful to enable him to use the Packs. The Client acknowledges that his needs and the Packs proposed by Conseil NR are in adequacy and that he has taken out the contract knowingly and has all the necessary information enabling him to produce free and informed consent. The Customer is solely responsible for the authorizations and declarations relating to the use of the Packs. The Client declares that he has the necessary rights and authorizations for this purpose. If necessary, the Client declares that he has carried out any necessary steps, such as requests for authorizations and administrative declarations. The absence of such declarations and authorizations shall in no case affect the validity of this contract. In particular, the Client will be required to pay Council NR sums due in respect of Pack orders. The Client guarantees Council NR against any recourse that would be taken against him in case of default of such declarations and authorizations. The Client must keep his Profile open and active throughout the duration of this contract. Similarly, the Client must not remove from its Profile the Contents targeted by the Packs. Conseil NR would not be held responsible in the event of the deletion of the Customer Profile or the withdrawal of the Client's Content. The prices applicable are those displayed on the Site at the time of the order. These prices may be changed at any time by Conseil NR or Allopass. The displayed prices are only valid on the day of the order and do not have effect for the future. Prices quoted are in euros, all taxes included. The Customer can pay by Allopass and SMS surtaxé. Allopass will send or make available to the Customer a receipt electronically after each payment. The Customer expressly agrees to receive invoices electronically. Any amount not paid at maturity will give rise, automatically and without formal notice, to the application of penalties for delay calculated on the basis of a rate equal to 3 times the legal interest rate, Penalty shall prejudice the payment of principal sums due. In addition, any delay in payment will result in invoicing the defaulting Customer for a recovery charge of EUR 40, immediate repayment of all sums remaining due whatever the agreed deadlines, plus an indemnity of 20% of the amount as a penalty clause, as well as the possibility of terminating the contract unilaterally to the Customer's fault. The Site's customer service is available Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the following non-surcharged telephone number: 0811382283, by e-mail to: contact@buyfollowersbysms.com or by post to the address indicated In Article 1 of these terms and conditions. In the latter two cases, Conseil NR undertakes to provide a response within 24 working hours. In accordance with the legislation in force in the field of distance selling, the Client having the status of consumer has a period of seven clear days to exercise his right of withdrawal without having to justify reasons or to pay penalties, With the exception of return costs. The consumer may derogate from this time limit in the event that he can not move and where at the same time he would need to call for an immediate benefit necessary for his living conditions. In this case, he would continue to exercise his right of withdrawal without having to justify reasons or pay penalties. The period mentioned in the preceding paragraph runs from receipt for the goods or acceptance of the offer for the provision of services. Where the seven-day period expires on a Saturday, a Sunday or a holiday or non-working day, it shall be extended to the next working day. Where the right of withdrawal is exercised, the trader is obliged to reimburse the consumer for all the sums paid, as soon as possible and at the latest within thirty days following the date on which the right was exercised. Beyond that, the amount due shall automatically be paid interest at the legal rate in force. This reimbursement is made by any means of payment. The consumer who has exercised his right of withdrawal may, however, opt for a different method of reimbursement on the professional's proposal. The right of withdrawal may not be exercised for contracts for the supply of services the performance of which began before the end of the seven-day period. The Consumer Customer may terminate the contract by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt if the delivery date of the goods exceeds seven days. The Customer will then be reimbursed the sums committed by him at the time of the order. This clause shall not apply if the delay in delivery is due to force majeure. In such a case, the Customer undertakes not to prosecute NR Council and waives the right to resolve the sale provided for in this article. Conseil NR undertakes to take the necessary care and diligence to supply Quality Packs in accordance with the specifications of these general conditions. Conseil NR is only liable for an obligation relating to the services covered by this contract. For the purposes of these general terms and conditions, any prejudice, limitation or disturbance of the Service due to fire, epidemic, explosion, earthquake, fluctuations of the band Failure of the access provider, failure of transmission networks, collapse of installations, unlawful or fraudulent use of passwords, codes or references provided to the Client, computer hacking, a fault Security imputable to the host of the Site or the developers, flood, power outage, war, embargo, law, injunction, demand or requirement of any government, requisition, Strike, boycott, or other circumstances beyond the reasonable control of Council NR. In such circumstances, Council NR shall be exempted from the performance of its obligations within the limit of such impediment, limitation or inconvenience. For the purposes of these General Terms and Conditions, any fault on the part of the Customer or any of its servants, fault, negligence, omission or failure on the part of the Customer, On its Site, any unauthorized disclosure or use of the password, both of the Site and the Customer Profile, of the Customer's codes and references, as well as the information of incorrect information or the lack of updating of such information in His personal space. The use of any technical process, such as robots, or automatic requests, the implementation of which contravenes the letter or the spirit of the present general conditions of sale will also be considered as a fault of the Client. In case of impossible access to the Site, due to technical problems of all kinds, the Customer can not claim any damage and can not claim any compensation. The unavailability, even prolonged and without any limitation period, of one or more online services can not constitute a prejudice to the Customers and can in no way give rise to the award of damages from Council NR. The hypertext links present on the Site may refer to other websites. The responsibility of Conseil NR can not be engaged if the content of these sites contravenes the legislation in force. Similarly, the responsibility of Conseil NR can not be engaged if the visit, by the Internet user, of one of these sites, was causing him a prejudice. In the absence of any legal or regulatory provisions to the contrary, the liability of Conseil NR is limited to the direct, personal and certain prejudice suffered by the Customer and related to the default in question. Consequently, Conseil NR can not be held liable for indirect damages, such as loss of data, commercial damage, loss of orders, damage to the image, trade disturbances and loss of profits or loss. Customers. In the same way and within the same limits, the amount of damages charged to Council NR can not in any event exceed the price of the Pack ordered. The content (texts, images, diagrams ...), the structure and the software implemented for the operation of the Site are protected by the copyright and the right of the databases. Any representation or reproduction in whole or in part made without the consent of Conseil NR or its successors or successors in title constitutes a violation of Books I and III of the Code of the intellectual property and will be liable to prosecution. The same shall apply to translation, adaptation or transformation, arrangement or reproduction by any art or process. The information published on this Site is for information only, without guarantee of accuracy. Conseil NR can not be held responsible for any omission, inaccuracy or any error contained in this information which would be the cause of direct or indirect damage caused to the Internet user. These terms and conditions may be amended at any time by Conseil NR. The general conditions applicable to the Customer are those in force on the day of its order or its connection on this Site, any new connection to the personal space taking acceptance of the new general conditions, if necessary. Any disputes which may arise in connection with the execution of these general conditions shall, before any legal action, be submitted to the Conseil NR for a friendly settlement. The failure of the NR Council to exercise its rights hereunder shall in no case be interpreted as a waiver of the said rights.

2019-04-24T14:56:06Z

http://www.buyfollowersbysms.com/en/content/view/id-13-terms-conditions

How do you know you're not just making karma worse?? The answer to the question in the OP is given in the first two verses of the Dharmapada. But dependent origination, when reduced to its essential components, simply means: where there is affliction, there is a cause for action; where there is action there is a cause for suffering; and where there is suffering, there is a condition for further affliction. Without affliction, there is no cause for action; without action, there is no result, suffering. A Buddhas deeds are not based on afflcition (desire, hatred, and ignorance); they are based on wisdom. Hence, they do not result in suffering. A buddha's mind stream is conditioned and relative; it is however free of affliction and endowed with omniscience. Dzogchen mainly describes how samsara begins (with an aim to reverse it), but the “mechanics” of samsara are the same: affliction—> action —> suffering —>affliction as infinitum unless one breaks the chain at affliction. An action always has a result. An affliction does not need to have a result. What is the definition (in the context of Dharma) of an affliction? What is the definition (in the context for Dharma) of an action? Per the mechanism illustrated in the sequence above, WHY is it that affliction does not need to have a result? A painful mental state, i.e., desire, hatred, and ignorance, or anything that is conducive to a painful mental state, i.e., impure conditioned phenomena. Volition is action, this produces verbal and physical acts. Afflictions do not necessarily produce volitions. When we are aware of our afflictive state, we can disengage our minds from actions related towards afflictive objects. This is why we practice śamatha, actually, so that we are aware of our mind's afflictive state. Being aware of our mind's afflictive state is called mindfulness and attention. Being unaware of our mind's afflictive stated is called being mindless and inattentive. What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build the life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If one speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a person speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows as her own shadow. I think this is where faith enters the picture, is it not? "How can I be sure I'm acting from pure motives?" The answer is: you can only do your best. That's where trust of your true nature and in the dharma comes into play. We can't understand all the depths and complexities in our current state, hence, the need for the teaching in the first place! That is why it is compared to a raft. And we need to have faith in it. What are the post signs along the road I should be paying attention to? Good intention is so important but perhaps not enough and sometimes even triggering. Even someone wishes so very much to help, the help can be seen as an attack. Just like a wolf painfully entangled in a trap, will bite when a hand is sticking out to help him out of that desperate situation. He would bite, as we would, to each other and perhaps even to Enlightened help. Trapped in duality, I think your advice is a great recommendation to be less a slave of the dividing mind. As long as dualism is present, there is continuation of karma. That's why the relation to the teacher is so important. Because you need that faith until you see for yourself. I am fully accepting that I don't see into the functionalities of cause and condition. The more I practise the more firm beliefs transform into mere possibilities. We talk about karma in principle, and I am fixed (determined) on understanding it in its correct view. But not to just understand and talk about it. I want this to be done already. I'm fed up with being ignorant. It is very clear to me once I entered this practice how incredibly multifaceted every relative situation is even in ONE family for each individual.. and grasping just how many conditions contribute to stimulate habituated patterns that manifest like from "many a fiction story for every episode of one's life," yet seeing them line up, tracking the trends, hindsight helps in defining and illustrating very clearly what is priority and what isn't... I fully trust the self-perfecting process precisely because the connection proves I prioritized my connection to the teachings before, in this being inhabited by a conventional me, and wh knows how many other Me's before. It sometimes feel like the anchor was to be born where my teacher was in the years he was there (not many Tibetans in Naples) but I had a specific situation which was quite awful for many years. It was slaking off debts one by one to get to a position where the practice can really begin, one insanity after the other and many of those afflictions did exhaust themselves and no longer bind my current conditions... But some DO! Yet somehow I'm not that attached to their story anymore, I see them for their worth and only feel a kind of gratitude my conditions provided me with the correct medicine to feel the transparency of things... As if becoming more relative in my understanding in which even more precision is called for! Ogyen, you haven't responded to a question on the first page: which vehicle does your post refer to? I read so much pondering in the long posts you write. I see your longing for logic, precision which you think to attain through determination. And I think (and that is the dzogchen view) that this is not how it is going to work. Let go and rest in what is there right now. Now remembering, no expectation. Make the seeing of the true nature of your mind your one and only goal. Trying to verify your karma is just another play of the ego's mind. Of course it may be fun going down that road, but stay in awareness of its inherent emptiness. This is where the true journey starts. Karma is a difficult one to figure out. For example: My brother died earlier this year and left a heap of debts that my family and I have to pay for. This lead me to wondering: How can I know if this is due to old debts which were accrued by me towards him that I now have to pay for, OR are these new debts being accrued by him towards me? Only a Buddha can know. Sorry to hear about your brother, Grigoris. Your post got me thinking about collective karma though. What role does it play, if any, in a situation like this? Is that even how collective karma works? How much of our suffering is due to our own karmic debts? At what point can we say that suffering is not just the result of individual karmic debts? Is it when an entire country is devastated by some natural disaster or when an entire group of people is persecuted and killed? Does collective karma operate on a smaller scale - like between a group of co-workers or a family unit? I understand that there is a danger with this line of thinking, especially for someone like me, where collective karma can be a means to externalising all of my suffering and causes of suffering. But can this be notion be totally ignored when looking at suffering in its entirety? I'm probably not articulating this well due to incompetence. Apologies for the noob post. At what point can we say that suffering is not just the result of individual karmic debts? This is a very interesting question, which is going beyond my poor limitations. Instead of being able to provide an answer, other questions are popping up only: if all karmic debts would be purely individual, would there than not be a subtle belief in an "individual, a person, a one on itself"? Is not all dependent, even so subtle what our intellect cannot get? I do not reject when we are acting unwholesome or wholesome, from these, our own harvest will be coloured. Would that only be, without any influence on all around us? Then how would it be called wholesome and unwholesome? Personal only? I do not reject we must awaken ourselves, none can do it for us, (even we are temporary dependent on 'some navigation medicines' to help) But if it is solely individual ' karmic harvest', we must be energies on our own. Perhaps with a stony separating wall around body-speech and mind. ps My warm support to Greece, for the whole family. Hi, apologies.. life ate up a lot of time lately. Just seeing this. Karma applies to all vehicles. It is not even philosophy specific. It is a principle which encompasses all vehicles and beings that stumbled into Samsara. It's nicely thought out thank you for taking the time to write. I may go on and on in my posts... I guarantee I'm not a terribly lengthy thinker off the boards, I just have general existential angst I'm working out overall, as I find myself in that awkward phase between birth and death. I had a wonderful retreat recently which opened my eyes a great deal, and I have a strong confidence in the method of Dharma. I study all aspects of buddhadharma but due to karmic conditions and previous aspirations, I really resonate most with the Dzogchen vehicle. Verifying karma is a fundamental part of understanding the true nature of your actual condition, I don't think it's an ego game. To see the true nature of your mind there's a lot of layers to get thru... I mean we are caked in conditioning that prevents us from really integrating our own true nature, so much of this is a very useful exercise. The question mostly pertained to finding markers and knowing that you are going the right way (for you). We think a lot of things. That doesn't mean we see or understand what the conditions are which are producing that thinking/feeling and acting. I have now learned how to verify that and apply it. All of a sudden... Karmic conditions are maturing rather quickly manifesting in the form of obstacles and changes which I sometimes can mitigate somewhat thru the effect of secondary causes generated by the protection of practice. The rest I deal with as I can. I've also had that question pop up in some situations and I've come to think that maybe not even a personal thing between you and your brother... More like a series of conditions you both had accumulated at some point that now matured this way, you with having a kind of load to carry that is debt related, and he to leaving your family in this specific secanrio.. and now you're where this karma will run its course... The trick is to either just exhaust that karma trying to have better clarity of the nature of these relative (but very annoyingly felt) consequences, and to not generate new karma in body speech and mind. Of course it's much easier said than done... But I have been taking to welcoming exhausting karma as needed, and I've started to become sensitive to how every action and thought produces it's own kind of karma. Many good hugs and vibes to you. How do you know you're not just making things worse thinking you're making things better (good intentions and all that jazz)??? The solution is always to practice what you've been given until your mind becomes clear, meaning unhelpful states of mind have subsided & you can act based on wisdom. If you're unsure, practice more. If practicing doesn't seem like enough, you have two options... one is to accumulate more karma and wait for it to burn itself out through your experiences, and the other is to practice anyway. Mechanically they are identical, but functionally they are opposed. Blindly creating karma through mundane activity is the risky one. Practice necessarily protects you from that, always, every single time, because it's not connected to your ordinary mind, but to your wisdom mind, which is the very mind of the Buddha. More to the point, in which direction is your fear (i.e., of worsening karma) pushing you? Is it constructive or not? How much time do you spend with this fear by itself, vs. letting it spur you to action? The state of your mind, which is capable of indulging the fear in unproductive/harmful ways, is what creates the karma producing the fear you mean to escape. If the fear is there and you can't get rid of it at this time (because you can't change the conditions causing it to arise), employ practice. Let go of the mind that judges & tries to ascertain what will happen, because this is based on the Eight Worldly Attitudes; seize the mind that is committed to making your life meaningful through practice. It already exists within you, ready to be activated through conscious contemplation. Remember that the practice you've done in the past & that you choose to do currently is helping you right now, as opposed to in the future.

2019-04-26T06:39:34Z

https://dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=28391&start=40

LAZ wrote: Meanwhile, I have detailed my experiences in making waderoberts' hominy casserole here. If you tried this dish, I'm curious to know what you thought of it. (Be honest. While I believe I executed it well, I don't have anything personal vested in the recipe and Wade doesn't seem to have posted here in over a year.) If you didn't try it, why not? And if there's anyone out there who's tried a hominy casserole before, how did this one compare? Looked great, tasted...not so great. The Cheez Whiz was tough to take. I could not, however, imagine a better execution. figmolly wrote: I really enjoyed the dish I prepared too (is it too gauche to label it a favorite?). Having never cooked green mangos before I was skeptical leaving the skin on, but they proved delicious and almost more vegetable like. Thanks, sazerac! How could it be gauche to praise sazerac's recipe? Although I'm sure the execution in your skilled hands was as good as it could be. It was a great dish. Looking back at sazerac's pronunciation, I can see one of the things that might have attracted you to the recipe. Was it difficult to make? And would you ever use a dish like that as part of your catering repertoire? It was actually very easy to make and I will definitely make it again for home and possibly catering. I didn't love the presentation and would probably cook the fish seperately so it didn't fall apart as much (for catering; at home I don't care as much about presentation). sazerac mentions an alternative version where the turmeric is sprinkled on the fish which is fried and added to the sauce. I may try that. I will also add a little more heat next time...I made it after the dip and I didn't want to be known as the Hot Queen so I kept it tame. Aaaah, the dip. I tripled GWiv's recipe and started with 25 whole steamed jalapenos and 1 steamed habanero. I steamed the peppers and garlic in aluminum foil in a 325 oven (lower than I would go for roasting) until they were soft but not browned. I cut the stems off of the peppers, but didn't remove the seeds. It doesn't give any indication in the recipe that this should be done, but my dip was super spicy even with only one habanero (and no fresh). I did add about a teaspoon of fresh garlic and a few extra soda crackers and olive oil to try to tame the heat (if I had more feta I would have doubled the other ingredients without adding more peppers). I really loved the flavor and it actually tamed with chilling and the fresh veggies - still I could only eat a small amount. Just made guacamole yesterday and didn't have fresh jalapenos so he added a touch of the dip and it spiced it up nicely. It was fun making Trixie Pea's Mac N Cheese for the potluck. I had tasted this recipe before and had actually watched her make it once at my house. I had been looking for a chance to put my own spin on the dish, and this turned out to be the perfect opportunity. I didn't really change the basic recipe all that much because it's pretty dammed good as it is, but I've never followed a recipe to the letter in my life, so I had to change up something. I doubled the recipe that she posted on LTH. In addition, I added some ground mustard, halved serranos and tomato paste to the roux before making the bechamel sauce. I later removed the serranos before adding the cheese to the finished bechamel. I ended up using 5 different cheeses; Fontina, Aged Reserve Gruyere, 5 year aged English cheddar, a mild bleu and some Parmigiano Reggiano mixed in with the panko on top. This was by far the richest (and most expensive) mac N cheese I have ever made. About the only things I would do differently next time is to maybe use a little more tomato paste than I did to give the cheese sauce a richer color (or use an orange cheddar) and I'd probably mix the panko with a bit of melted butter or truffle oil before topping the dish for better browning. I hope everyone enjoyed the dish. There wasn't much left at the end, so that's a good sign. Sunday was just great. Due to WBBM's traffic lies and my precautions, I arrived awfully early and found very little to set up. I have to start by thanking Molly and Justin for being excellent hosts. They got everything organized and remained helpful from start to finish - providing a utensil or pointing people to supplies they needed with patience, graciousness and aplomb. I think they got a kick out of everyone coming to their place for a change. This was my second LTH event, but I found everyone as friendly and delightful to talk to as I've read. Conversation ranged from proper internal use of drain cleaner, to lost cities in distant lands to the social skeleton key that is the 40 Year Old Virgin. That said, there was much memorable food. My eating was divided unintentionally to three courses. Salads, appetizers and meats from around the world. Two memorable tastes from each one: As others have said, Ramon's goi ga (a la jygach) was a refreshing blend of of flavors and textures. Despite her claims, I don't think a culinary mishap got anywhere near that dish. I also very much enjoyed the Terrasinis' spicy pickle. I heard that Mrs. Terrasini dialed back the spice for the masses. Well, let loose the hounds! I would certainly like to taste the uncensored version. Wustlmike's olive oil flatbreads and the Giles's sardine dip married nicely. I returned for 2nds on the eatchicago-inspired pissaladiere tarts as prepared by KennyZ. And if he truly made the puff pastry as he intended, my awe in addition to my kudos. Meats of the world yielded, among other fine contenders, Cathy2's preparation of extramsg's brined pastrami. As I showed pictures in this thread to my foodie Boston friend Abby, she immediately eyed the pastrami. "That looks great!" she wrote. It was, Abby. It was. And the piquant bites I had of JoelF's nuea naam tok as turned out by thaiobessed were a great pleasure indeed. I realize that I forgot to add a starch plate. Or a Nubian plate. Sadly, there were many dishes I lacked the capacity (fortitude?) to try. And for the desserts, I find myself echoing others' - Kennyz's herby fire-mint-chip ice cream made the mint chocolate chip I enjoyed as a youngster seem like a silly childish thing. Although I cannot remember if it was ultimately sorrel or another herb that finally made it in. Also, I greatly enjoyed Cookie Monster's prep of Bruce's butter cookie dough cobbler. Then again, I'm liable to go Manchurian Candidate for some stewed fruit and a crumble topping. More than anything else, I loved being a part of such a large-scale, cooking-focused endeavor. With so many people excited to cook and serve others, dozens of hands darting this way and that to stir a pot or plate a dish, my foodie-predilections felt right at home rather than the fringes they normally occupy. It was just enriching to be in the mix with other like-minded cooks and eaters. And that was what I'll remember best. Of course, many thanks to all the people who made this possible - especially the organizers and the hosts. I look forward to the picnic with great anticipation. Last edited by gastro gnome on June 25th, 2008, 9:55 pm, edited 1 time in total. I have to admit that I was not as fond of the radish dish as some other LTH'ers. I kept playing with it to evoke either the intense freshness and spicy undertones of raw radishes or a more flavorful cooked variety. I tried adding sauteed shallots and some fresh thyme, but do not think this greatly changed the taste all that much. The addition of the radish greens were a riff on the suggested variation of watercress in the posted recipe. I had so many lovely greens that it seemed a shame to go out and buy watercress. In retrospect, I might have added more. Some of you may have been wondering about the bread I served underneath it. I was trying to evoke the open-faced sandwich that I believe many of us have enjoyed. I intended to toast the rye bread into croutons, which I think might have been better than the sop the fresh bread became. But those are some deliciously 'enriched' slices of bread that I brought home with me, buttery with some radishy-notes. One technical note. In order to avoid overcooking them, I cooked the radishes in three different groups based on size and stopped the cooking when each was done. This might be impractical in smaller batches, but I think it helped to preserve some texture. I found the Derby Day salad straightforward to prepare. I think that the largest possible platter to avoid too much mounding of the lettuce is ideal for service. Or perhaps I put out a bit too much lettuce. I found that most of the flavorful toppings disappeared faster than the greens themselves. Maybe I should have upped the ratios there. As LAZ mentioned, I found the pecans a little vexing. I have never candied anything before, but I am pretty sure that even this dialed-down version could have turned out better. Not much of the sugar and butter really clung to the pecans. I think that perhaps melting the butter in a smaller pan and whisking to incorporate the sugars and white pepper before pouring over the pecans might work better in the future. Of course, the star of this dish was the dressing itself. I chose this recipe to showcase in-season strawberries and was somewhat uneasy with the choice of bourbon as a flavoring agent. I have had it in some sweets but seldom in other applications. Well, the worries were gone with first taste. What a wonderful dressing this was. I did dial back on the lemons and increased the booze a bit as LAZ pondered doing in the original thread. It was probably closer to 3/4 of a cup of lemon juice and 1/3 or more of a cup of bourbon. I also did not measure the olive oil very carefully, but I think it was less than 2 cups. I just started whisking the non-oil ingredients and adding the light olive oil slowly until a rich emulsion had formed. Maybe call it 1 2/3 cups. Because of the addition of the mustard and honey, I found that this kept emulsified in the fridge very well. It was still integrated by the time I had poured it at the party despite being made some hours in advance. So that's my cook's take on this little experiment. I really enjoy reading people's account so how the cooking went so do post about your experience! Perhaps you started with bigger heads of lettuce than I used for the original salad. I probably should have given the measurement in cupfuls of greens for more accuracy -- but since I didn't measure them, this would have been difficult! The bibb lettuce I used was about 4 inches in diameter. gastro gnome wrote: What a wonderful dressing this was. I did dial back on the lemons and increased the booze a bit as LAZ pondered doing in the original thread. It was probably closer to 3/4 of a cup of lemon juice and 1/3 or more of a cup of bourbon. I also did not measure the olive oil very carefully, but I think it was less than 2 cups. I just started whisking the non-oil ingredients and adding the light olive oil slowly until a rich emulsion had formed. Maybe call it 1 2/3 cups. Ah, I thought your version had a bit more bite -- I imagine that was the reduced proportion of oil rather than the higher level of bourbon. I typically use a standard 1 part acid to 2 parts oil for vinaigrettes, and I don't bother with whisking but just pour everything into a jar and shake it up. Thanks so much for trying my recipe. It's so fascinating how different cooks can start with the same recipe and end up with varied results because of different methods and equipment, variations in ingredients and so on, not to mention different tastes, even in a simple dish like this one. We touched on that in this thread. You have to wonder how large restaurants manage to come up with consistent results when they have so many different cooks. Perhaps it would be fun sometime to do an experiment in which a group of us all make the same recipe and then we compare the final dishes. LAZ wrote: Perhaps it would be fun sometime to do an experiment in which a group of us all make the same recipe and then we compare the final dishes. Sounds like a great idea to me. When/Where? nr706 wrote: Sounds like a great idea to me. When/Where? Maybe it would be better to figure out the recipe, first? One criterion I can see is that it should be a dish any competent cook can make, rather than something that requires a lot of practice to get right (e.g. barbecue). Ideally it should be something that can be served cold or at room temperature, so the venue needn't have a kitchen. And perhaps it ought to be part of another event, so that the prospect of a large quantity of something all the same doesn't seem so boring! My original, inadvertent experiment of this nature was with cookies. I enjoyed making Bridgestone's Christmas Meatballs, as I have been somewhat obsessed with charcuterie over the past few years. This was an interesting project for me because even though my wife is of Swedish descent, not very many family recipes from the 'old country' seem to have made it the present. The wife enjoyed the meatballs (they reminded her of stuff her grandmother used to make for her when she was little) and I received several positive comments about them, including 'exemplary' and 'textbook.' I personally prefer a spicier, more aggressively seasoned rendition but that's just not the nature of the Swedish meatball. These were subtle and aromatic, with faint but distinctive notes of freshly-ground clove and allspice. Because I knew I'd be re-heating this batch, I felt like they needed a sauce, so I created one with the pan drippings that were rendered after I fried the meatballs, by creating a roux in the pan and adding beef stock to it. I also re-emphasized the clove and allspice in the sauce and then ran it all through a chinoise. Thinking about it now, some thinly sliced, sauteed mushrooms would have been a nice addition to the sauce, too. The very best thing about the meatballs was that they were remarkably tender. This was mainly a function of triple-grinding the meat, something that the sagacious Bridgestone advised in his recipe. It had a huge impact on the final product's texture, which was soft and delicate, and I definitely plan to apply the technique to future projects. The one downside of this tenderness was that, before cooking, the meatballs were difficult to keep spherical. As we rolled them and aggregated them for frying, they tended to develop some flat edges. This might have been exacerbated by my adding too much stock to the breadcrumbs that went into the balls. I'm not 100% sure. In any event, based on the results, the feedback I received and the fact that the entire pan of meatballs was all but polished off, I'd pretty much call the endeavor a rousing success. It was great meeting everyone at the potluck. There were many outstanding dishes. I have been obsessing about YourPalWill's Cochinitia Pibil (made by aschie) since I put the first bite of it in my mouth. So...today I found myself at Tony's buying habanero chiles, banana leaves, achiote and five pounds of pork shoulder. I post on the results after Sat. I also made Ramon's chicken salad (made by jygach) the night after the potluck. I think next up will be KennyZ's mint ice cream. JoelF's Thai Beef Salad (Neua nom tok) was a cinch to make. I grilled the skirt steak to medium rare (I'd probably go rarer next time--it "cooked" a bit in the dressing. I stay pretty true to the recipe (tho I added a handful of mint). I'll definitely be making this again over the summer (Thanks for the recipe JoelF if you're out there). • Instead of using white sugar, I decided to use palm sugar which, I thought, would give the dressing more depth of flavor. However, my package of palm sugar appeared to have found an undiscoverable hiding spot in my cabinet. As a substitute, I used a combination of white sugar and turbinado sugar. • Instead of all Napa, I used a combination of Napa cabbage and red cabbage for a crunchier texture. Others asked me to share my culinary mishaps with the Red Velvet Cake. So, in the spirit of bringing it all to the table for my LTH friends, here are my mishaps and misfortunes with dessert. The LTH recipe for Red Velvet Cake linked to two recipes. The first used a bottle of red dye. The second used pureed red beets. I elected to go with the beet version as I had no desire to ingest dyes. Since this was a Southern cake I felt it warranted dipping into my store of White Lily flour milled in the South. This recipe not only used beets, but also had melted chocolate in addition to the cocoa. The cake batter had no hint of red but, as they say, the proof is in the baking. Sadly, 35 minutes of baking did nothing to enhance the color. It looked like a basic chocolate cake. At this point it was 1:00 am and my bed was calling. The next morning all that remained for me to do was to whip up a cream cheese frosting and slap it onto my nine-inch cake layers. I turned to the internet and picked a cream cheese frosting recipe under the mistaken impression that they were all pretty much the same. This recipe used three ingredients – cream cheese, butter, and confectioners’ sugar. Three ingredients that, despite my efforts at stirring, whipping, begging, and praying, refused to come together to form a frosting. “Perhaps it will firm up once it’s on the cake,” I hoped, as I attempted to spread this mixture on the cake. It did not, and just kept slithering down the sides of the cake and pooling onto the parchment strips I was using to keep my serving platter pristine. After ten minutes of spreading and then watching the slip sliding I accepted this cake as a lost cause and skimmed through the recipes to find a different dessert. Staying with the chocolate theme, I selected Super Chocolate Brownies as per the recipe posted by tcdup. I quickly mixed together two batches and heaved a sigh of relief when they emerged looking dark and shiny. After they cooled, I cut them into squares and placed each batch on a plate. As I was wrapping the plates with foil, one plate slid out of my hands and I watched in horror as one batch of brownies lay on the floor in tiny pieces! It looked like we would have only one batch of brownies instead of two - not the end of the world. At 3:00 p.m. I packed the food, took it to the car and drove off to pick up Cynthia. I was sharing my kitchen disasters with her when, to my utter dismay and horror, I saw the second plate of brownies slide from their safely ensconced position and land upside down onto the floor of the car in, you guessed it, small pieces. Cynthia helped me salvage a few pieces but clearly this was not an appealing pile of brownies! You decide – just culinary mishaps or evil spirits. BTW the brownies were indeed super! Apparently, several of us had our tribulations. jygach wrote: A number of people asked me to post on my rendition of the Goi Ga . I pretty much followed Ramon’s directions with a few minor changes. Was this recipe as much work as it looked like? It was wonderful, but it looked like it took loads of chopping. justjoan wrote: will someone be posting pictures of the food soon? I do hope so. I was there, and I'm still eager to see the photos. Perhaps all the photographers are just taking extra care with their processing. And here's the menu-related portion of the playlist of food tunes. I tried to have a song for every dish, but a few of the latecomers aren't represented. I wish I'd done a better job of photographing the food but between the setting-up, the food prep and the eating, some stuff slipped through the cracks. I'm sorry that there are gaps in the coverage (including the dishes I made ) but I think this is a fair representation of the spread. Again, I'm sorry if I left anyone's dishes out . . . ronnie_suburban wrote: I wish I'd done a better job of photographing the food but between the setting-up, the food prep and the eating, some stuff slipped through the cracks. Lovely, Ron, thanks. Gorgeous photos of great-looking food! If we ever do this again, we should have a photography station. WOW. what an amazing array of food. Nice pictures Ronnie! I'm impressed that you were able to get as many of the dishes as you did. There was so much going on, my camera sat in its case for the entire event. And, on a slightly egocentric note, it looks like Gary nailed his batch of "laxpudding", too! I positively couldn't have done better myself. Bridgestone wrote: And, on a slightly egocentric note, it looks like Gary nailed his batch of "laxpudding", too! I positively couldn't have done better myself. He indeed did nail it, and it was sensational. And I'm embarrassed to admit that I'd missed your informative and generous review of your meatball making experiences, ronnie. Thank you very much! Don't know if I missed it, but did figmolly post a recipe for those wonderful chocolate truffles she served as a mignardize? I went through all the pages of this thread, plus LAZ's amazing recipe index, and I couldn't find anything. Of course, being as she's in catering, it might be a trade secret, and I'd understand. But I didn't want to miss out on it if it was simply an oversight. High praise indeed, though it is mainly due to your delicious recipe and recipe writing skill. On a slightly egocentric note of my own, I'd like to point out that Ron's terrific picture, among many, is a pre decorated Laxpudding, I went total Martha Stewart on its a**. This was a wonderful event, thanks again to LAZ, Cathy2, The Figs, LTHers who came to the event, delicious dishes in hand, and all who have contributed to the recipe index. Hammond may have the prize for best and worst item, gravlax spectacular, Raicilla vulgar. Don't know if I missed it, but did figmolly post a recipe for those wonderful chocolate truffles she served as a mignardize? Melt 5 oz. of semi sweet chocolate, unsweetened chocolate, butter and whipping cream over low in a heavy bottomed saucepan and mix until chocolate is melted (it's not neccesary to do this in a double boiler because of the butter and cream, but you do need to watch it carefully). Remove from heat and add liqueur, mix well. Pour into a dish about 1" deep (I use a 9x13 casserole). Chill in the fridge until hard (I usually do this overnight). In the morning remove from fridge and let sit out about 5 minutes (will vary depending on temperature - you just want the chocolate scoopable). With a melon baller and cup of cold water, make chocolate balls dipping in water between every other one (I usually find dipping it between every one makes it too wet). Place on a sheet pan back in the fridge or freezer. Temper the remaining semi-sweet chocolate (there are some instructions here). Dip each truffle in chocolate and place on a clean sheet pan. Decorate with a candied fennel seed. Chocolate note: I used Callebaut chocolate pistils for the semi-sweet and Sharffenberger unsweetened. Thanks, Molly. That Sambuca made a good truffle quite remarkable. I was sorry to miss the potluck (was out of town), but I learned from Cathy2 at the Sun Wah pig roast that my recipe put in an appearance for me. I’m pleased that my hazelnut torte was baked by justjoan. (Too bad you couldn’t be there, jj.) Looking at Ronnie S’s picture of it, I’m curious what changes you made in it. It looks way jazzier than my version, which I usually serve rather haphazardly coated with whipped cream. EvA wrote: I was sorry to miss the potluck (was out of town), but I learned from Cathy2 at the Sun Wah pig roast that my recipe put in an appearance for me. I’m pleased that my hazelnut torte was baked by justjoan. (Too bad you couldn’t be there, jj.) Looking at Ronnie S’s picture of it, I’m curious what changes you made in it. It looks way jazzier than my version, which I usually serve rather haphazardly coated with whipped cream.

2019-04-20T05:08:51Z

http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=203050

I wrote something yesterday while I was feeling pretty energized. I sat myself down and let the feeling be. At some point I really felt the urge to write, I mean, I scoured my desk for a pencil because I didn't want to miss something. I ended up posting it on a closed group that I am a part of on FB. I posted a reply to show where I was coming from, after seeing the time that I posted it I think I rolled my eyes a bit... "As if!" Still don't know why, and if I add up all the things where I'd say "still don't know why" I could summarize that there's a bigger picture. Something of a positive distraction while nature works at her pace. there's another curious thing that happens when I get worked-up or feel like I am getting pulled down. It's likely that I've mentioned this before. Songs play in my head, very specific songs with lyrical content that (though subjective and absolutely biased ) speak to my exact situation. I'd be worried if the hints were negative, but they are always trying to life me up. I think it's pretty cool and it makes me smile. She said "I'll take you some place where I know it will change" "Arise, remove your earth, shake off your dust, raise yourself, that you may travel in company with the spirits, for your wings are those of a falcon, your gleam is that of a star..." 'It is man's duty not to acquiesce in his merely human state, but rather, in the strength of his contemplation of things divine, to scorn and despise the mortal part which has been attached to him because it was needful that he should keep and tend his lower world. 'If man takes upon him in all its fullness the function assigned to him, that is, the tendence which is his special task, he becomes the means of right order to the Kosmos, and the Kosmos to him.'" I am pasting something Roger wrote to Jan because it fits well with my previous post. I was looking at older posts and found this. I also found one where you mention basically what is happening right now with the US and Syria. Sorry if this moves about in too many directions but I feel the need to post it in this way. Let’s be a little provocative: to me, a grown up human being is someone who naturally relates to the ‘Unus Mundus’ because doing this has become a fully integrated function corresponding to a bilateral or reciprocal need: the need to consciously feel one’s working belonging to the universe, and the need for the universe to be consciously recognized in its living relatedness, Eros. So paradoxically in the culmination of 'amour-propre', self-love, where we in some ways seek nothing but our own good and own well-being, the ego and its will principle become so 'immersed' and unified with the greater field of energy, that they 'vanish' alltogether, because there is nothing egoic that 'stands out' anymore, and the sense of self-ness becomes condensed to its most basic form of simple 'being'. As any natural growth process, Unio corporalis requires time. It also requires conscious acceptance. What I mean by ‘natural relation’ is that the relating process has become integrated, that is to say ‘works’ as a ‘natural function’, another ‘sense’. Of course the personality shift it implies is the fruit of this progressive growth process. On this path paved with abandoned ego desires, the (pavlovian? ) wish for bliss eventually finds its place as something else unfolds. The ‘crystal body’ is not the exclusive treasure of some people considered as ‘holy hermits’. (If they are ‘holy’ it is because they are “whole-y”, and no saint at all by the way). It also permeates, filtrates through, and finally gilds the surroundings of the life of ‘simple beings’ as you put it. It is, and incarnates in the acts (not necessarily ‘deeds’) of the individuals concerned. Was reading something of Remo's work tending to the Child archetype. I had to laugh a bit, seems I was setup (life conditions) to have to deal with it. My impression was that out of two images the child appears, yet split, and is the next image to contend with. *I'm putting my own words to that to give a description of what it feels like. "Image" Edit: I had the chance to speak with my parents about being adopted. Many interesting things came from that. In the conversation I explained that this heartbeat that formed me I had no choice to become unfamiliar with regardless of how much love they gave me when I was young. It's not their "fault" that I have things to deal with in that regard, I said. My dad said "you were our chosen son". This morning (in the shower!) I remembered the gift I received from them on my 1st birthday, a drum (a new beat). *edit: just read (today, Monday) that everything in nature is dual - 4. "So maybe Hillman was right. We don’t have to ground the puer out of fear for his extravagances. Wait a while, and life will bring him closer to earth." How's this for a type-o? Lapis Philosophorum: Also known as the ultima materia, aqua permanens (=its libido aspect), rubedo tinctura, filius macrocosmi or philosophorum, quinta essentia, panacea, medicina catholica, rotundrum, elixir vitae, lapis exilis (stone of no worth), everlasting food): the Philosopher's Stone, prized goal of alchemy. According to legend, the Stone, a freed form of the spirit of Mercurius trapped within the prima materia or initially unprocessed raw material, grants immortality, heals all disease, and transforms base metals into gold. Jung saw it as a Self symbol--one compensating Christ--and the goal of individuation. Zeus was heavy-handed at times, as a result I had difficulty in storms because I was afraid to get hit by lightning. Might not be good to carry that with me, or maybe I should just to let it clear. i am unsure about that. Might as well keep the ball rolling. There are a couple of people who helping me with an intense time. I feel pretty blessed in a lot of ways. One song sent me on a search and I ended up here. Call me crazy, go ahead, nothing can take this away from me. I wrote on a FB group page that I've wept what felt like blood on my drums. I just read this page and I guess it makes more sense. *btw, I'm tired of talking about them. this morning I was wondering if individuation was the culmination of Romanticism, it was a totally random thought - I've never really studied Romanticism. I started to search that idea and found some really (really) cool stuff. Hi, I hope everyone who still reads here is doing well. I have an interface that allows me to play into my computer and record the random stuff that I am trying to process. Anyway, the other day I was playing and looking at the guitar strings vibrate. At that time I was playing something I thought was pretty cool, and thought that I should stop the recording and make a note about it. I stopped the recording at the 137th bar (I didn't see the screen, just reached up and pressed the space bar). This is meaningful to me because I felt really good about what I was playing! there's something I wanted to write about on the day it happened but I've let it sit for a while. Just now I felt compelled to write about it. I often read Gregory's posts and find some ideas in there that are very similar to things I may have been contemplating at the time, etc. Well, this last one was pretty vivid. I was walking my dog and kind of laughed at a random idea that came up. I was thinking of some kind of peg leg person playing some kind of pirate music. I don't know why but I felt it was comical, and I could visualize it pretty well. Shortly after that day I came across Gregory's post talking about the golden peg leg. Ok, fine, similar theme. Why the hell would I think about it in time with that post? I've looked at it a bunch of ways and I still just have to let it be. Not sure what to make of it, if anything at all. Pascal, I am glad to see you posting about complex and deeply meaningful synchronicities. I have been experiencing lots of them many times a day for several months. Other people I know in person or online are also having visions and encountering new people in their every day lives who are also surprisingly having deep spiritual aspirations recently arising in them. I have been thinking frequently of our deceased blog mate Ann Elliot. She wrote mystical books that are still posted online by her family. I think there is one I read a few years ago... and in a recent dream I heard an inner voice say that I will discover answers to some of my deepest concerns from Ann in a very specific book... I will recognize when I go to see again what it might be. Thank You for your continuing participation all these years in preserving the Ann/Suzanne Blog. I have two wonderful daughters nearby where I live... but you in effect are like a wonderful son at a distance who shares all of our similar devotion to knowing we have a purpose in our lives now and most likely will be in the same afterlife locale together. thanks for a being like a mom at a distance! I can't even describe how much I have learned from you and this forum, it's pretty amazing. For instance, again, Greg's posts. I recently wrote the words PANIK to you in a message about an event I attended (that word was part of a synchronicity). Now I read his latest post and laughed out loud. I suppose I just have to settle in to the fact that it's all connected. *edit: after submitting my post I read it. The image fit so perfectly with the idea of a "mom at a distance"! Today I read the most recent post in Gregory's thread. I swore, I got up, and I walked away from my desk. Why o why, that's all I can say. I don't mention mana for I don't know how long and there it is. I posted on FB this morning on a thread by a Jungian named Craig, it was about Elijah and Mana. I know where I'm stuck. Why? The only song I've ever recorded and put spoken word to is a song I named THESEUS. I had no idea what Theseus was about when I named it. Just read another thread, I wonder if the forum will close? I hope not but it is a possibility. You must feel a little lonely now on the forum. A little, but it’s ok, we have our reasons. For the past couple of years I thought to let it go, but this magical life keeps offering reasons to stay. It’s weird, I just thought to post here because of a song lyric that I am listening to. I debated it because - not sure why. Hi All, Actually it was not us but Remo who started the Ann-Suzanne Blog. He clipped it off from an earlier thread. Of course many of our old faithful posters here and throughout the rest of Unus Mundus no longer post. Some reasons have been that they were moving into work situations and would not be making personal experiences and opinions open to be read by folks wandering in who do not become posters. One of the largest reasons for less devoted posting is, that sadly to us who loved them, many have died over several years mostly from old age. Some of those persons were among our most spiritual as well as intellectual posters. A few people in my personal life have asked me about the forum. I trusted them to come and read. They all replied that this is an amazing forum with wonderful posts that are superior to many new age books about the esoteric topics we have created and maintained I suppose for about 10 years now. I call all of this forum, not just Ann-Suzanne, but instead -- THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WORLD SOUL. One person in my family says it has so much astonishing information that the individual comes by once in awhile and reads more pages. However I do not think that any few people I might know are the ones bumping up the number of readers of our present Ann-Suzanne. Just a very few months ago, I commented to two family members that I expected the number of drop-in readers to reach over 200,000 soon. The number is now actually more than that. Every time we two post, there is a kind of surge of readers. I do not know who they are or why they are likely coming back and not just brand new viewers. Once in awhile I go to various entire forum topics and read some of the very oldest posts from when there were mostly then only a few members and then more coming in and joining in for months or years. It is actually a very fast surge within a day or two of new posts. Perhaps somebody may post who and why they come after reading my comment here. Actually every day and every night, I use the belly brain meditation method that Remo taught us all in the beginning of this wonderful gathering place. It has been a blessing to me and many old friends who were here years ago even if they are not with us any more. If there is a real afterlife, Ann and I wrote emails about probably meeting again over there in the dimension suitable to our mutual ideals and devotions. Today I realized that it is good that I don’t want to excomunicate the church from me. Christ is the pure light, Mercurius is its complement. If it takes over the light, then, I suppose it is a false light. Revealing itself in self-discovery. I asked recently “what is the subtrate onto which my thoughts are placed” - it is Mercurius. Not sure where to post this. In the past 36 hours or so I feel like Neo in the matrix. I’m tired from the info. Yesterday morning when I was coming out of sleep I heard a very loud popping sound, like snapping out of something, vacuum-like. Tired, but not exhausted, keeping my limits as best as I can. Art thou noble to receive? Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you fair warning that unless you seek the true philosophical gold and not the gold of the vulgar, unless you heart is fixed with unbending intent on the true Stone of the Philosophers, unless you are steadfast in your quest, abiding by God’s laws in all faith and humility and eschewing all vanity, conceit, falsehood, intemperance, pride, lust and faint-heartedness, read no farther lest I prove fatal to you. For I am the watery venomous serpent who lies buried at the earth’s centre; I am the fiery dragon who flies through the air. I am the one thing necessary for the whole Opus. I am the spirit of metals, the fire which does not burn, the water which does not wet the hands. If you find the way to slay me you will find the philosophical mercury of the wise, even the White Stone beloved of the Philosophers. If you find the way to raise me up again, you will find the philosophical sulphur, that is, the Red Stone and Elixir of Life. Obey me and I will be your servant; free me and I will be your friend. Enslave me and I am a dangerous enemy; command me and I will make you mad; give me life and you will die. This will be a shorter reply tonight. I will add more tomorrow. Where I live near Washington DC, we had an alert this afternoon that a serious tornado was coming our way. That ended for some hours what I wanted to write about the topic right above here from my blog mate. If World War Annihilation takes place sometime soon, because of the insanities going on among many nation leaders and religious leaders who literally want to have the "End Times"... even though supposedly predicted in ancient times... come true specifically in our current time. I was very young just out of high school when I started college in Washington D.C. We young people in the Girl's Apartment house were terrified. It was the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was a famous movie called "On the Beach" that portrayed a rather small group of people who had not been blown up like the rest of our world but were gathering together on the open sand areas while waiting in horror that the clouds of radiation would soon come their way and kill them. There was also the grim song that "we will all go together when we go... as there would be no living humans anywhere else on our blasted and poisoned planet. With all the far more powerful nuclear weapons that are horded by several nations, once the first attacks begin, all the other leaders who have their own nukes will join in the launches. THE END OF US ALL. Well, I started reading about history, religion, what happened in earlier centuries and why can't we figure out how to prevent this heartbreaking end of various men, women, and children who were at least sometimes capable of love, kindness, helping others, and at least trying to understand about the other races, religions, and numerous political fanaticisms. I still have hundreds of books that I was reading from around age 15 and trying to figure out if there was any purpose to our lives at all. This week in my Senior Residence, I am seriously trying to get rid of piles of old documents and letters, but I keep on finding and wanting to hold on to the ones that gave me some concepts of faith and caring about people of all backgrounds. Today I got an email that is offering new additions to one type of books that I studied in a Edgar Cayce group where I lived some decades ago. For now I am only pasting in here what the email said just before I was on my way to a safe room to hide from the tornado that of course tends to stir up fears of an abrupt end of our lives while we still want more time with our children and grandchildren. Are you looking for a deeper understanding of your spiritual nature and your place in the universe? Decades ago, a group of ordinary individuals were seeking the same answers to life’s questions that are still sought by many of us today. What the Edgar Cayce readings had to offer was a broader view as seen from the perspective of our higher selves—where there is no division, no separation by religion, only oneness. This view incorporates the philosophies of the world into a practical daily application for living that brings hope and profound change into the lives of those who apply it. Hi Suzanne, What I wanted to ask is: have we talked about Carl Rodgers. Maybe Rodgers is one of the many interested in whatever we seem to be getting more deeply involved in. I got fascinated with the Urantia material today that I had heard of before but never taken the time to try and understand its origin or purpose and today why Wieman's ideas would be incorporated in it. If as they say it was written or compiled for a time after the present crises through which civilization is passing then this would suggest that his ideas which were probably too far ahead the more popular 20th C theologians (for instance Tillich and Barth) his Process concepts are right for the universal perspective of the future. Hi Ann, I think we are on to something with Wieman and Carl Rodgers for instance that is at least very important to our own spiritual progress but will probably be helpful to others too. Also at some point, maybe it would be the time to add the Wink material, as the disciples' feeling of Jesus' continuing presence possibly can be tied into the notion of the "communion of saints" in which love and inspiration can still be shared between those of like mind and heart whether still alive or deceased. Offhand, I think Wieman, Russell, and others probably are aware of our efforts. In my last E-mail to you I gave an example about the others who may be helping Lee and Bob in their communications with us. Quote: Who are these many? He (Lee) said that my learning to understand about the often symbolic and synchronistic nature of our communications, which can lead to misunderstandings at times, is an ongoing process, and we will get better at it as we go along. I asked again, who are the many, who are some of them? He replied, do you remember who was always talking about how we are all in an ongoing process in our development? I thought about it... Dana Roblee (the professor who was Lee's best friend) used to say, we are in a process of becoming, the outcome of which we cannot know and which is probably infinite. Yes, Lee replied, Dana is one of the many with me. But, who else I asked? He said, listen carefully now, you will hear who else. I thought I heard a faint tune, but it seemed to me a song without words. I could not think of any words. Since I was alone in the room where I was, I began to imitate the tune softly out loud, lalalala-lala-lalala-lala... well, at that I suddenly burst into tears... and I said, Jack! (my half brother from my father's first marriage who was born in 1919 - 24 years older than I was). He used to whistle that tune when he came over to see our father when I was little. It was "Lili Marlene", the song that German and American soldiers both loved. Jack had been in World War II and accepted German surrenders because he knew German fluently, and later he was a noted professor who had written about the rise of Hitler. In late 1979, I had a dream that I should send a birthday card to my brother Jack, his and my birthdays were one day apart, but he had lived far away all my adult life and I had rarely ever seen him. I sent the card. He wrote back and for the first time mentioned our father's funeral and some other personal things we had never talked about. The next July 4th, Jack died suddenly at age 60, in 1980. So, Lee, said, yes, your brother is another one of the many who are with me. Last edited by Suzanne on Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:44 pm, edited 1 time in total. I was searching info on the transcendent function and saw this as I was scrolling. This is something I should have read long ago considering that I post about it here. Hello Everybody, As usual I have been busy with practical matters in my everyday life. Now since I am well settled into my new residence, it is much easier for me to be organizing the esoteric material from my old hand-written notebooks going back to from the 1960s to the late 1990s. My Blog mate Ann Elliott, when she was still alive and posting here for several years, used to exchange private emails with me about personal and family topics, or if either of us was sick or traveling, but we usually did not plan specific topics because that would ruin the "meaningful coincidence" of the Blog and some other topic threads on the rest of the forum. She knew from my telling her by email who Lee was and, as mentioned here before a few times, she received dictation communication from her deceased husband Bob Elliott who had studied to be a Shaman with Michael Harner. At first her husband reported that he knew of Lee's work with others in the Beyond but that he did not know Lee because they were on a different level. This below is a copy of her post from 2008. First for any forum newcomers, I should mention that Ann and Bob had met Lao Russell, widow of Walter Russell, in person when Lao was visiting and lecturing in California near to where Ann and her husband lived. Lao and Ann wrote many letters to one another for quite a number of years. Many of the vibrational sound combined with color healers of today derived part of their inspiration from Dr. Russell who was a classical organist himself and from his scientific charts and psychedelic cosmic paintings -- well before the hippies and other young interdimensional travelers were reporting such experiences widely in our American culture. I live in Virginia only several hours away from the beautiful Swannaoa Palace in Waynesboro Virginia where the Russells lived for several decades. I have been there many times over the years and had talks and walks with Lao Russell in person without being in a group visit. Since Lao passed on, there are some but not many of us older people aged 60 to 90 years old who knew her. Later this year, I am planning to meet up with some of those oldsters and the middle aged and much younger folks who know of and admire the teachings of Lao and Walter. With all the present fears about the possibility of worldwide nuclear war in our time, the Russell 1950s book Atomic Suicide is being read by newer generations. Finally below is the complete post that Ann wrote here in 2008. She is of course now wherever Bob is on the other side or in what ever higher realm they have moved to since then. Quotes from Bob by dictation through Ann who had also been Bob's secretary during his years as a lawyer. START: I have had no direct contact with Suzanne's friend Lee but I am aware of his presence here and the importance of his work and contribution. So much more can be accomplished when there is a conscious and deep love--such as we have—connection . She can and is assisting him and the larger work he is part of. I can tell you very little, both because I know little, understand less, and would not in any event be permitted to. However, she has the ability for direct communication with him and it should be through writing down what he instructs her as to how she can help him. Tell her about your work in Scotland in establishing the triangle. It is such a small piece of the puzzle we were given to work on/with. . . . There are a number of things I'd like to write about but I was searching some stuff in my computer just now and realized that I had a copy of Holy Wedding. -what is the deeper significance of synchronicity? Remo says it is BCI. Ok, well, I have a lot of them. Ridiculously meaningful ones. I want to know what to do with them, if that makes any sense. Follow them, yes, but mine are related to things that I do not fully understand. Perhaps I have gained some understanding of the qm subject along the way that I did not have before, but it's not like I'll make a career out of it. Anyway, synchronicity is incarnation in the mind, and bci incarnation in matter.. This might be for future reference. Edit: I guess there are times that I’d like to thank them as well.

2019-04-23T10:51:46Z

http://unus-mundus.fr/viewtopic.php?f=19&p=16394

Recent developments in several industrial economies, particularly in the three largest ones, raise important issues about how to judge the stance of monetary policy. In the United States, recovery from the recent recession has been exceptionally sluggish, whereas inflation has fallen to its lowest level in two decades. In Japan, growth has slowed considerably during the past eighteen months. In Germany, by contrast, inflationary pressures surged in 1991–92 following unification, although more recently growth has stagnated. At the same time, the evolution of broad monetary aggregates—which the monetary authorities have preferred to target or monitor—suggests that monetary conditions have been tight in the United States and Japan but easy in Germany. But other indicators—including nominal and real short-term interest rates, the slope of yield curves, and narrow monetary aggregates—suggest that monetary policy has eased in the United States and in Japan, whereas it has tightened significantly in Germany. This annex examines the experiences of these three countries and, more briefly, those of selected other industrial economies in order to assess the reliability of indicators of the stance of monetary policy. The analysis shows that contradictions among the various indicators, as is now the case, often occur over the course of the business cycle. Moreover, the growth of the broad monetary aggregates now appears to be giving misleading indications of the true stance of monetary policy and of its probable effect on future growth and inflation. Appropriately assessing the stance of monetary policy and the need for policy adjustments therefore requires examination of a range of indicators. In the United States, the recovery from the recession that began in the third quarter of 1990 has been unusually sluggish by historical standards: growth in the first four quarters following the trough has been only about half that in the weakest previous postwar recovery (Chart 20). Although several factors have contributed to this disappointing performance, there has been concern that the slow growth of M2, which has fallen below the bottom of the Federal Reserve’s target band, indicates that monetary policy has not eased enough to sustain a robust recovery (Chart 21). This behavior apparently contrasts with earlier experience, when a fall in velocity, typically due to a surge in M2, has usually preceded a pickup in output growth by about four quarters. 1As identified by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The recent behavior of M2 has been sufficiently unusual to suggest that this aggregate may no longer be very useful for assessing the stance of monetary policy.1 During the 1970s, a positively sloped yield curve was associated with rapid growth of M2 relative to M1. After financial deregulation in the 1980s, however, this relationship apparently broke down; since the mid-1980s, an inverted yield curve has been associated with rapid growth of M2 relative to M1. The recent pattern reflects the fact that low short-term interest rates and high long-term rates reduce the attractiveness of short-term assets in M2 relative to both demand deposits and longer-term assets, thereby reducing the growth of M2. Other factors have also contributed to the recent slowdown in the growth of M2. On the demand side, households and businesses may have been liquidating short-term assets in order to reduce their debt burden by paying down loans. On the supply side, depository institutions have been increasing the spread between the return on assets (loans) and the cost of liabilities (deposits, including time deposits) in response to low profitability, regulatory pressure to boost capital-asset ratios, slack loan demand during the recession and subsequent period of slow growth, and the perception that some loans are now riskier than before. As banks have consolidated the asset side of their balance sheets, they have had less need to raise funds and therefore have offered relatively low returns on instruments such as time deposits. Finally, asset shifts associated with closures of insolvent savings and loan institutions have reportedly slowed the growth of monetary aggregates. Indicators other than M2 suggest that the stance of monetary policy in the United States has eased substantially. In particular, the narrow aggregate M1 has been growing robustly, and the dollar has weakened as short-term nominal interest rates have fallen to their lowest levels in three decades. Short-term real interest rates are now close to zero, the lowest level since real interest rates were negative in the early 1980s. Long-term interest rates, however, have fallen only modestly, resulting in a very steep yield curve. In contrast to the often confusing signals provided by monetary aggregates, the yield curve has proved to be a reliable indicator of economic activity, with a lag of about four quarters.2 In the 1974–75 recession, the yield curve became steeply inverted about four quarters before output growth turned negative; it then became positive as output recovered. A similar pattern occurred in the 1981–82 recession. The recent steepness of the yield curve has been signaling an upturn in economic activity for some time and is consistent with a recovery in output growth in 1993, although the process of resolving private sector balance sheet difficulties may continue to restrain the pace of expansion. In Japan, as in the United States, the monetary aggregate monitored by the central bank (M2 + CD) has barely grown over the past eighteen months, suggesting very tight monetary conditions (Chart 22).3 This slow growth was preceded by unusually rapid growth in 1990, however, and to that extent may reflect a return of the aggregate to its underlying trend. The evolution of the monetary aggregates was also influenced by the sharp rise in market interest rates in 1990 and their subsequent decline through 1991. As interest rates rose in 1990, funds were shifted out of postal deposits, which are not included in M2 + CD, because returns did not rise as quickly as interest rates paid on other assets. Prime lending rates also rose more slowly than market rates in late 1990 and early 1991; in response, firms borrowed at prime and reinvested in CDs. As interest rates fell during 1991, funds were shifted back into postal deposits, and firms unwound their positions in CDs, with the result that growth of M2 + CD was unusually slow. 1 CD, certificate of deposit. Indicators other than M2 + CD suggest that the stance of monetary policy has loosened somewhat. The growth of the narrow aggregate M1 increased during 1990–91 and, although it declined somewhat in 1992, it was at about the same level as average growth in the 1980s. In addition, short-term rates have fallen by over 300 basis points in the past eighteen months in Japan, and real short-term interest rates are at their lowest level in more than a decade (except for a brief period in 1989). Short-term rates have also fallen about a percentage point below long-term rates. As in other countries, a positively sloped yield curve is associated with high growth of the narrow aggregate compared with the broad one. However, the factors underlying the recent behavior of monetary aggregates and other indicators in Japan are not completely understood, and it is therefore unusually difficult to judge whether current monetary conditions can sustain adequate growth in 1993. In particular, as in several other industrial countries, the collapse of equity and real estate prices has eroded the capital base of the banking sector, has resulted in a rise in nonperforming loans, and may also be depressing household consumption. The prospect that these effects may prove as pervasive and long-lasting as in other industrial countries suggests that the current stance of monetary policy in Japan is not overly expansionary. In Germany, the twelve-month growth rates of the broad monetary aggregate M3 during the first nine months of 1992 were running well above the target range of 3.5 to 5.5 percent established by the Bundesbank (Chart 23).4 The rapid growth of M3 has been cited as an indication that monetary policy has been too loose. By contrast, following an upward surge during 1991 because of German monetary unification, M1 grew relatively moderately, despite a probable increase in the use of the deutsche mark in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Although moderate M1 growth suggests tight monetary policy, the divergence between the growth rates of the aggregates has complicated the assessment of the stance of policy. Historically, M3 has tended to grow more rapidly than M1 in response to a flattening or inversion of the yield curve—as has occurred during the past two years—because relatively high short-term rates increase the attractiveness of the short-term interest-bearing assets in M3. In addition, the prospect of the introduction of a withholding tax on interest income in mid-1992 may have induced movement out of longer-term assets and into the relatively liquid interest-bearing assets contained in M3. Monetary unification has made movements in both the narrow and broad monetary aggregates misleading as indicators of monetary stance.5 In addition to a substantial once-and-for-all increase in money stocks of perhaps 15 percent, unification increased the demand for money from the eastern Länder. It will be difficult to evaluate how the behavior of asset holders and borrowers in east Germany will evolve; hence, the growth rates of the monetary aggregates may prove to be misleading guides to underlying economic conditions. Whereas M3 and M1 have been providing mixed signals, other indicators suggest that monetary policy in Germany is now quite tight. Short-term nominal and, more important, real interest rates are very high by postwar standards. This has put considerable upward pressure on the deutsche mark and contributed to the recent turmoil in the ERM. Short-term interest rates are also now well above long-term rates, resulting in a yield curve that is as steeply inverted as at any time in recent history. As in the United States, an inverted yield curve has been a reliable indicator that monetary policy is exerting significant downward pressure on output growth. Two previous episodes of inflationary pressure followed by monetary tightening are helpful in assessing the indicators of monetary stance. Germany experienced a surge of inflationary pressure in the early 1970s, as did other countries. In response, the Bundesbank raised nominal and real short-term interest rates, and the yield curve became steeply inverted. The downturn of economic activity in Germany during 1974–75 and the subsequent reduction of inflation testify to the success of the tight stance of monetary policy. Nonetheless, M3 continued to grow rapidly from early 1973 through late 1974, even as M1 growth collapsed. In 1979, the second oil shock triggered another inflationary upsurge, which was again accompanied by a tightening of monetary conditions. As in 1973–74, the growth of M1 fell sharply, even turning negative in 1981, whereas the growth rate of M3 remained relatively stable. The yield curve became inverted as short rates rose sharply, and, as in the previous episode, this was followed by a fall in output, although the disinflationary impact may have been blunted by the fall in the value of the deutsche mark relative to the dollar, which reflected in part very tight monetary policy in the United States. In light of both of these episodes, the current monetary indicators suggest a slowing of the German economy and receding inflationary pressures. Recent difficulties in interpreting the behavior of monetary aggregates have not been limited to the three largest economies. In the United Kingdom, rising inflation became a key policy concern by late 1988, particularly in view of the prospect of entry into the ERM (which occurred in 1990). Monetary policy, which has used MO as the only targeted aggregate since 1987, was tightened considerably beginning in 1988 and over the course of 1989, remained tight through most of 1990, and then eased modestly beginning in late 1990. Short-term rates were pushed well above long-term rates from mid-1988 through late 1990 and then eased gradually to only about a percentage point above long-term rates during 1991, although they remained very high in real terms. In response, economic growth slackened somewhat during 1989, and a prolonged recession began in the third quarter of 1990. Meanwhile, inflation (measured by the “headline” twelve-month change in the retail price index) has fallen below 4 percent. The growth of the broad monetary aggregate M4 remained high relative to that of the narrow aggregate throughout 1989 and into 1990. As economic activity began to weaken, the growth of M4 fell to levels not seen since the 1960s, suggesting an economy declining into a deepening recession. In contrast, the growth of the narrower aggregate began to fall in mid-1988, providing a more reliable indication of the earlier tightening of monetary stance in 1988 and 1989. The recent behavior of narrow money suggests an economy that is only barely growing. The situation in the United Kingdom in 1989 and early 1990 was thus similar to the current situation in Germany: a tight monetary stance accompanied by rapid growth of broad monetary aggregates. Monetary conditions were eased following the pound sterling’s entry into the ERM in late 1990, with short-term interest rates falling from 15 percent to 9½ percent in September 1992. Since sterling left the ERM, short-term rates fell further to 7¼ percent in early December—about 1 percentage point below long-term rates—and the pound has depreciated in effective terms by about 16 percent. These changes amount to a substantial easing of monetary conditions and should stimulate economic activity in 1993. In Canada, where no monetary aggregate is targeted, inflation became the key policy concern during 1988–90, and monetary policy tightened considerably. Short-term interest rates were pushed up from mid-1988 until mid-1990 and stood more than 2½ percentage points above long-term rates from early 1989 until late 1990. As the economy slowed and inflation eased, short-term rates fell more than 700 basis points and were about 3 percentage points below long-term rates in August 1992. From already low levels in 1988, growth of the narrow monetary aggregate M1 declined further during 1989 and turned negative during 1990. In contrast, growth of the broad monetary aggregate picked up over the course of 1988–89, reached a peak for the decade at the end of 1989, and remained high through 1990. Since early 1991, growth of the broad aggregate has declined somewhat, whereas the growth of the narrow aggregate has picked up. The evolution of real output growth, which began to slow in late 1989 and turned negative in mid-1990, confirms the assessment of monetary policy indicated by the behavior of interest rates and the narrow aggregate. The behavior of the broad aggregate, in contrast, has been less useful as a guide to the impact of policy. In Australia, determined efforts to combat inflation were clearly under way during 1989 as interest rates on short-term treasury bills were pushed to nearly 18 percent, 4 percentage points above long-term rates. The twelve-month growth of the narrow monetary aggregate M1 declined sharply from 36 percent at the beginning of 1989 to slightly below zero in early 1990. In contrast, the twelve-month growth of the broad monetary aggregate M3 rose to a peak of over 30 percent in mid-1989, ran above 20 percent by year-end, and was above 10 percent throughout 1990. Growth began to slow late in 1989; by mid-1990 a recession had begun, and inflation was falling. Again, the narrow aggregate appears to have reflected the stance of monetary policy more accurately than has the broad aggregate. The recovery that began in late 1991 is consistent with the sharp pickup in growth of the narrow aggregate, the persistent declines in short-term interest rates, and the increasingly positive slope of the yield curve since early 1991. At the same time, the broad aggregate has grown only slowly. September 1990 Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook, by the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. October 1990 World Economic Outlook: A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund. November 1990 Multilateral Official Debt Rescheduling: Recent Experience, by Michael G. Kuhn with Jorge P. Guzman. May 1991 International Capital Markets: Developments and Prospects, by a Staff Team from the Exchange and Trade Relations and Research Departments. May 1991 World Economic Outlook: A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund. October 1991 World Economic Outlook: A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund. December 1991 Private Market Financing for Developing Countries, by a Staff Team from the Exchange and Trade Relations Department. May 1992 World Economic Outlook: A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund. May 1992 Developments in International Exchange and Payments Systems, by a Staff Team from the Exchange and Trade Relations Department. August 1992 Issues and Developments in International Trade Policy, by a Staff Team led by Margaret Kelly and Anne Kenny McGuirk. September 1992 International Capital Markets: Developments, Prospects, and Policy Issues, by Morris Goldstein, David Folkerts-Landau, Mohamed El-Erian, Steven Fries, and Liliana Rojas-Suarez. October 1992 World Economic Outlook: A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund. December 1992 Private Market Financing for Developing Countries, by a Staff Team from the Policy Development and Review Department led by Charles Collyns. January 1993 World Economic Outlook—Interim Assessment: A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund. This annex was prepared by Robert P. Ford. M1 comprises demand deposits at commercial banks and currency. M2 comprises M1, savings deposits, overnight repurchases and Eurodollars, small time deposits, and money market mutual shares. The recent slowdown in M2 growth has been concentrated in small time deposits, which are interest-bearing, nonliquid instruments issued in denominations of less than $100,000. See the analysis in John Wenninger and John Partlan, “Small Time Deposits and the Recent Weakness of M2,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Quarterly Review, Vol. 17 (Spring 1992), pp. 21–35. For econometric evidence, see Arturo Estrella and Gikas A. Hardouvelis, “The Term Structure as a Predictor of Real Economic Activity,” Journal of Finance, Vol. 46 (June 1991), pp. 555–76. They find that the term structure is a better predictor of real output than the short-term real interest rate and the index of leading indicators. M1 comprises currency and demand deposits. M2 + CD comprises M1, all other deposits with financial institutions, and certificates of deposit (CDs). M1 comprises “sight” deposits and currency. M3 comprises M1, time deposits, funds borrowed for a period of less than four years, and savings deposits. The Bundesbank’s target range is based on an estimate of potential output growth and on the medium-term target of price stability. One sign of potential instability in money demand is the clear break in the relationship between monetary aggregates and nominal income. The steady decline in M3 velocity has been reversed since sometime in 1989, even after adjusting money stocks for the once-and-for-all change associated with unification. On the first point, see Jeroen J.M. Kremers and Timothy D. Lane, “Economic and Monetary Integration and the Aggregate Demand for Money in the EMS,” Staff Papers (IMF), Vol. 27 (December 1990), pp. 777–805, and the references contained therein. On the second point, see Tamim A. Bayoumi and Peter B. Kenen, “Using an EC-Wide Monetary Aggregate in Stage Two of EMU, “IMF Working Paper 92/56 (July 1992). The issue of an EC monetary aggregate is far from settled, however, as is indicated by the comment on Kremers and Lane by David Barr, “The Demand for Money in Europe,” Staff Papers (IMF), Vol. 39 (September 1992), pp. 718–29.

2019-04-19T11:05:21Z

https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/IMF081/14007-9781451939149/14007-9781451939149/back.xml

I’m trying to get back into Revised to get ready for an upcoming tournament but I’m pretty rusty. What’s the meta on German Openings looking like these days? I haven’t played Revised in a while (moved on to G40 like most people), but when I did everyone seemed to love dropping a Carrier in the Baltic G1 (to delay the UK Fleet for a bit). Is this still the norm, or have their been major developments in the last 6 or so years? hi! noone has answerd, so I would reccomend reading MarineIguanas posts in the thread. I have played a lot of games on BGO and can with confidence say that it is a very good answer. Hi. Thanks for the reply! Anyway, I’m going to quote MarineIguana here and ask a few questions with the hopes that either he or you can answer. This is almost certainly more advice than you are looking for. I’m going to give you the secret for playing near perfectly as Germany. This is tried and tested against the best Revised Axis and Allies players in the world across more than 500 games. Well that’s different right off the bat. From what I’m read in terms of tournament reports for this other tournament they’ve been giving the Allies a +3 bid for the last two or so years. I think the difference is that online Revised games are played under LHTR, while this tournament is on a stricter time limit (4 hours, 30 minutes which roughly translates to about 5-6 turns depending on how fast people are playing). That being said if the meta at this tournament is just outright flawed I can probably take advantage of that. The opening is what I’ve used as my standard for years now, so I’m assuming that any intelligent opponent I face will be using it (it’s the only way to not end up with Germany stacking Ukr. and winning with relative ease iirc). One rough thing about all of this is that the tournament I’m prepping for is 100% luck (So someone can play perfectly and still lose because RNG). No tech though so that part is fine. I’m assuming your goal is to maximize your probability of winning against an opponent. More like holding on to at some group of Egypt/W. Europe/E. Europe/Ukr/Norway for 5 turns while Japan captures an equal or greater amount of Sink/India/Novo/Australia/Hawaii but same difference really. The most common mistake I see with Germany players is that they think they’re on the offensive. In reality, Germany is a very defensive country that receives allied pressure, while Japan pressures Russia. I remember when I was a noob and bought 8 tanks/turn as Germany. 2004 was a simpler time for sure. 1. buy almost all infantry. I usually spend 90+% of my germany IPC buying only infantry for the first 15-30 rounds. Eventually, Germany gets to a point where it can stack 3 territories with over 80 units each. This makes it difficult for UK to land and support Russia past round 30. 2. Prefer to attack and stack territories. This means moving a large force of units in an attack, so that the opponent can’t counter. Axis and Allies is inherently a zero-sum game, so you win by accumulating profit through income or battles. Generally, the most profitable battles are: attacking & stacking > trading efficiently > attack & retreat > doing nothing > trading inefficiently. 3. Try to keep Germany strong. It’s okay to make large trades against Russia, but avoid large trades with UK or USA unless it’s for a large profit. The most common way I win against top allies is to accumulate stacks of 100+ infantry as Germany. Japan accumulates as well around Persia. By round 30-40, Japan has 300+ units and eventually forces Allies off Russia. While all of these points are valid that all aspiring A&A players should memorize, the rules of this tournament don’t give enough time to play out 100+ round slugfests, although the idea sounds pretty fun/masochistic. Reminds me of the Classic games I’d spend weeks playing after I read those papers on Inf stacking back in the day. Standard buy for germany is 10 inf, 2 tanks. This was already my build so that makes me happy. Can you pull this off reliably with just 1 SUB, 2 FTR in a 100% luck scenario? EDIT: I JUST MADE A HUUUUUGE MISTAKE!!! The other fighter (from Balkans, as the Ukr one usually dies in the R1 Ukr attack) that can reach is needed for sz15. If you attack sz15, there’s a 15% chance the battle goes badly where the battleship transport needs to retreat or battleship gets traded against uk destroyer. If either scenario happens, the game is effectively over against a top player. I prefer not to auto-lose 15% of my games as axis. Am I to assume everything else is being sent to Karelia? How much am I leaving in E. Europe to Deadzone Ukr? What’s the practical advantage of stacking Karelia over trying to hold Ukr reliably? Is it the potential to deadzone Norway (slowing Allied progress in a KGF)? All fine, aside from my gripes over Karelia. What do you do if the USSR stacks Ukr R2? Germany can’t really attack W. Rus. (Since the stack in Ukr and the spawned units in Caucasus and Moscow can all dive on it.), and if you try to charge Archangel Russia has enough time to shift enough forces to Moscow to force the Germans back to Karelia. So at that point you’re just handing the Soviets Ukr for free, unless I’m missing something. I’m not trying to come off as an elitist of A&A pro by any means, I’m just rusty and don’t know how to dynamic of the Eastern front as evolved over time. By the way, what is BGO? I’ve only ever played A&A using TripleA. I’ll give it a shot then! Maybe this tournament will be super easy after all!! I agree with you in not stacking Karelia with Germany. It seems absurd to me. Was I reading MarineIguana’s advice wrong? He seemed to be advocating stacking Karelia on G1. hi! Yeah, I think Marine is right. There are two russian openers. 1. Only do W russia and stack it. Buy 3 inf and 3 Tanks. 2. Do W Russia and Ukraine. If USSR does 1, you can’t stack Kareila, if he does 2, then you can stack karelia. I think 2 is better for russia, but 1 is not uncommon, because it prevents stacking karelia. I have my doubt about taking Ukrain in R1. So far I’ve not been lucky with this move! It cost me much more than i get for it! I wonder whether it is worth the risk! Why trading 2 tanks for this tank and fighter? The value of a russian tank seem much highter to me than a german one or even a fighter early game. I seem to be much better with Russia if i take WR and Belo Russia! Russia in my game is very well able to hold off Germany and Japan in the early game, until the Allies arrive! I usually buy 2 INF/2 ART/2 TANK to make up for the tanks I’m losing by going into Ukr. I switch to more INF-focused builds after R1, of course. To me, any German FTR that I can take out is one less FTR that can go after UK’s navy. The less Germany has to throw at the UK Navy, the faster the UK can start landing (or threatening to land) troops in Norway/E Europe/Karelia/W Europe. And once UK starts forcing Germany to pull troops to guard those territories, the USSR will see a good chunk of weight lifted from its shoulders (meaning it can afford to send troops to India/Sink/kill Germany/whatever). R1 I get 3 inf 3 tank. That 3rd ftr is needed to schirmish on a 3 area front. USSR should in general have more tanks and less inf. The tanks are good because they can stand in w russia, and threathen any japanese stack apporaching. that will buy you a couple of extra turns at least. The thing is: i have no problem putting any pressure on Germany when i don’t do Ukrain R1. For a couple of rounds Russia can keep agressive. I would buy 2 tanks R1. 1 FGT R2 and 1 tank in later rounds. With my 4 starting tanks i have a very potent force. In UK2 or 3 i start landing in Norway to support Russia. I don’t see how 6 fighters can stop me there. The ships in the mediteranean Sea are lost to me! The uk home fleet is quite save in the first turn. I use it as a base for my future fleet. Uk1 I build a carrier to expand the fleet. If all german units position to strike my fleet i buy more defence, or i combine with the US first! I position myself to strike the Baltic fleet at some point. After that it is not worth loosing the fighters at a sea battle that will cost the UK a few transports at most. In the mid game Germany is focused mainly on landings from the Allies. Then Russia is starting to fight off the Japanese with his tanks. Russia has an income of around 26 IPC with which it can survive the mid game easily. End game he will be under great pressure from Japan! But if the Allies have normal luck and do nothing stupid, Germany is dead or close to it! So my conclusion so far is that you sacrifice russian tanks for a chance on a german fighter, that would harm the UK a little bit. But the UK can counter this with a buy of an extra ship. In my philosophy that trade off is not so optimal. The thing is: i have no problem putting any pressure on Germany when i don’t do Ukrain R1. How do you keep the initiative if you’re letting the Germans escape Ukr G1? On G1 Germany can just withdraw the bulk of its forces to a E. Europe stack and start trading Ukr. while easily overwhelming the Allies in North Africa and ferrying a decent stream of units through the Middle East to ensure that India is securely in Japanese hands by J3. If you’re just sitting in Caucasus/W. Rus trading Ukr you’re giving Germany a free hand to do whatever they want elsewhere. For a couple of rounds Russia can keep aggressive. I would buy 2 tanks R1. 1 FGT R2 and 1 tank in later rounds. I agree with the 1 TANK/turn philosophy (to keep a mobile and offensive-capable army on the board at all times), but I don’t agree with the FTR on R2. I understand that you can feasibly snipe the Mediterranean Fleet with 3 FTR (or at least sink the transport) but if a competent Germany scouts a lack of land units what’s stopping them from pouncing on Ukr, Arch or W. Rus with everything (which in turn forces Russia to bring everything to the German front, giving the Japanese a free hand to take Sink/India/Persia). With my 4 starting tanks i have a very potent force. In UK2 or 3 i start landing in Norway to support Russia. I don’t see how 6 fighters can stop me there. Germany can either subsist without Norway or simply deadzone it by stacking Ukr. It’s going to take a decently large stack of Transports to pull together a large enough force to actively hold Norway. The point of the FTR cloud isn’t to actually kill the UK Fleet (It can’t do that cost-efficiently), but to force the Fleet to remain in one place at a time (if any transports split off from the main fleet to land in far away places the FTRs and Bomber can easily wipe them out with a pretty minimal chance of a loss). UK amphibs into Norway, taking 2 INF/2 ART. They kill a lone INF defender without losses. Germany sends 3 INF + 6 FTR + 1 Bomber to attack Norway (a bit of a reach, but it’s for the sake of the example so bear with me here). Under low luck, UK gets 1 hit and a 1/3 chance at a second (INF and ART defend on a 2, 24=8, 8/6 = 1 + 1/3). Germany will get 4 hits under low luck (31 + 63 + 14 = 25, 25/6 = 4 + 1/6). So Germany will one-shot 14 IPCs worth of material while losing 9 overall (I’m assuming that the 1-2 INF that survive will die on the following British turn when they commit another landing party). That’s pretty good value if you ask me, especially if UK is committing 100% to Europe (and losing 7+ IPCs between India/Persia/Trans-Jordan/Egypt). The ships in the mediteranean Sea are lost to me! The uk home fleet is quite save in the first turn. I use it as a base for my future fleet. Uk1 I build a carrier to expand the fleet. If all german units position to strike my fleet i buy more defence, or i combine with the US first! I position myself to strike the Baltic fleet at some point. What’s your timetable for killing the Baltic, out of curiosity? I usually try to have it dead by B2 (you can do it with a B1 FTR+Destroyer+Trans build). Sometimes you have to delay until B3 if Germany goes with a naval opening, but in those kinds of games an aggressive USSR can usually win on its own. After that it is not worth loosing the fighters at a sea battle that will cost the UK a few transports at most. I agree, but remember the whole point of the pressure is to force the UK player to spend turns investing in a navy. This buys Germany much needed time to stack aggressively in the USSR’s direction, forcing them to keep their men focused on the Germans and giving Japan time to get its IPC levels up to snuff with the Allies/put a drain on the Soviet and British Economies. But you’ve never inflicted a serious loss on German hardware in this scenario. All Germany has to do is build heavy INF stacks all day (with the occasional Tank thrown in to harass the Soviets), and the Allies are going to take an awfully long time to start hurting Germany. Additionally, if Russia is sending 5-10 IPCs of Tanks East every turn what’s stopping Germany from moving the E Europe stack into Ukr and putting the Russians in a desperate situation (guarding Caucasus and W. Rus simultaneously). TripleA gives the Soviets an 85% chance to win with, on average, both FTRs and a lone tank surviving. So value-wise USSR loses 23 IPC (everything but the FTR) while the Germans lose 28. A USSR win no matter how you split it. It seems like a narrow advantage but remember the USSR gets 3 of those IPCs back by virtue of taking Ukr. I think you might be too defensive as the allies. I have quite a few games as the allies and rarely lose. The reason for doing ukraine is simple. You save british fleet and can lock down the med fast. That German fighter is very important in the med and africa on G1. Depending on the result of G1, should should have some very good options on UK1. I will assume germany did place 2 units in libya, sent the med fleet with 1 ftr to 15, while sending 1 inf + 1 art from italy and 1 bomber to egypt. Germany will most likely have taken egypt and have about 4 landunits left. he will have 5 ftrs and 1 bomber (instead of 6 fighters and 1 bomber). Where germany has placed these 5 fighters is very important. Usually, germany will not be able to place all of the fighters in france/Libya. I reccomend uk build in this situation of 1 ftr, 5 inf and 1 tank. You can hit egypt with 2 inf from india, 1 from TJ, 1 ftr from india and 1 bomber from uk. This attack will usually kill every german unit there, and you will quite often have an inf left to take the terr. You can at the same time send your entire UK fleet to morocco. If US sends its fleet to help you, you will have a situation where germany only have 1 inf and 1 art in africa. while you will have 2 UK inf and 2 tank in morocco and 2 us inf, 1 us art and 1 us tank. Your fleet of morocco will be: 1 UK BB, 2 UK TT, 1 US DD, 2 US TT and 1 ussr sub. At this point The german fighterposition is vitally important. If he can reach with 4 ftrs and 1 bomber, you are safe, if he has 5 ftrs and 1 bomber, this move does not work. At this point, the german position in africa is misrable. he has 2 landunits, you have 8, you will continue to shufle landunits down there until you have enough UK fleet to switch to the north. Those landunits will run as fast as they can to caucasuss, (you can ususally get between 10 and 30 landunits through before japan holds persia). So, If you kill that ukrainian fitr, you will get one more round of reinforcements to caucasus and lock down africa on UK1. I have done this soo many times, and this is standard play among top players. The one wrench here is the german baltic fleet. A lot of germans will send it out on G1 to prevent this move. You have to be aware of it and calculate your fleet. I think you have me backwards. I’m an advocate of striking Ukr. on R1. I do not like Russian Openings where you let Ukr. go. I agree with you for the exact reasons you’ve stated. Germany can easily place 4 FTRs in France and 1 FTR/1 BOMBER in Libya. I’m more for a Navy build (1 DD/1 TT/1 FTR) on B1. I don’t build land units because I ferry the tank from Canada to UK and simply land 1 INF in Norway, supported by the air units UK starts with (1 INF/1 ART if the Germans left more than 1 INF there to defend). That way I have the spawn units to fill my transport fleet next turn for a harder landing somewhere. time send your entire UK fleet to morocco. If US sends its fleet to help you, you will have a situation where germany only have 1 inf and 1 art in africa. while you will have 2 UK inf and 2 tank in morocco and 2 us inf, 1 us art and 1 us tank. Your fleet of morocco will be: 1 UK BB, 2 UK TT, 1 US DD, 2 US TT and 1 ussr sub. At this point The german fighterposition is vitally important. If he can reach with 4 ftrs and 1 bomber, you are safe, if he has 5 ftrs and 1 bomber, this move does not work. You don’t even have to do that if you buy the fleet I suggest and move the Russian Sub to SZ6 (the one right next to the Baltic) on R2. UK would lose the fleet to that attack but Germany only comes out with an average of 2 FTR. This means that Germany is effectively losing a large share of its air force to kill a fleet that the UK will happily rebuild on the very next turn. In most games I’ve played Germany just uses the Medi fleet to snipe Ukr. Are you sure the shuttle of troops from UK -> N. Africa -> Caucasus is the best option? Every turn you’re not threatening Europe is another turn Germany has to setup giant stacks and/or stack Ukraine. I agree with these yes. Although if Germany sails its fleet out you can easily intercept and destroy it with the SZ2 Fleet (The BB and the TT) + the 2 FTRs. Yes this delays your fleet uniting with the Americans but if you build navy B1 and move the Soviet sub to link up with the British R2 the combined fleet can easily repulse the 4 FTR/ 1 BOMBER Germany can send your way. Wait, you’re really happy to trade Britain’s 1 BB / 1 DD / 3 TT for Germany’s 2 SS / 2 FTR? Aside from the fact that you are trading 60 British TUV for 36 German TUV, if Germany positions the rest of its air force properly, then it can hit Britain’s next fleet with a minimum of 3 FTR / 1 BMR, or more if Germany built a new plane (not unreasonable when you know you’re ordering an immediate attack on the Royal Navy). What can Britain put in the water with one round of income that can stand up to that kind of follow-up attack? Very rarely will I see a good player build a destroyer. Hi all. Sorry for not replying in a while I’ve been busy with work and University. On second thought that’s a horrible idea! Should probably have thought that through a little more before posting. What would you say the optimal B1 buy/fleet move is, then? I know it’s a bit off-topic but I’ve only just started playing Revised again and haven’t had the most time to practice. What do you propose UK buy instead of turn 1, then? A CV (landing the spawn FTRs on it for a decently rock-solid defense)? I only ask because, while I understand that transport balls are the best option for naval combat, the initial UK Fleet is pretty lacking in terms of punching power (1 BB + 2 TT). Even if you buy 3 TT (for a total of 1 BB + 5 TT), it’s still going to take another turn or two before that fleet will be able to get anywhere near the European coast. no, Germany has 5 ftr and 1 bomber after you hit Ukraine. He has a good chance of loosing at least 1 ftr either against the UK BB, or the or against the uk DD in the med. You are wasting an entire turn of the allies by not attacking on UK1. I misremembered. The sub should block the german fleet if there is anything left of it after UK1, however, if germany have put their entire fleet outside france on G1, you will not be able to stop germany from adding the vital subs as fodder for the Gibraltar attack. This is why you need to look at the german position before you decide if you want to put your fleet at gibraltar. Buying DDs is always bad. TTs are amazing combatunits in this game. Try running a combatsim with fighters against 1 BB and TTs, find out how many you need. It is alot. The DDs are really not worth the extra factor. Yes :), but not through the entire game. Round 1-5ish is when you ship to africa. Then, at some point, you swich uk to Norway. You will have saved up some cash and might buy the needed carrier when you do. At some point, you will no longer have a landrout to cauc. At this point, you should have at least 80 americans between morocco and cauc, and about 10 TTs. Then you move all of your TTs to the med, and start landing 20 units/ round in the weakest spot you can find on the mainland. At the same time, uk will round 10 units per round, germany will collapse like a house of cards. I have done this countless times against good players (this is what happens when you win against them). This is why you look at the map. most germans are not set up for it. To be set up for it, they need to not land in egypt on G1, or they need to move their baltic fleet out on G1, and have it survive against your UK airforce. Otherwise, you can block the baltic fleet with a uk subbuild, and the medfleet will be out of range. On, US2, you will send in the DD and the 3 extra TTs you built (if germany build navy on G1, you might build an american carrier on US1 to seal the deal), and after that, the game is up. Germany will never be strong enough to kill your fleet. If you bring 3 FTR + 1 SUB (the one from SZ8) against the 1 UK BB, the chances of you getting hit twice in that battle are absurdly low. The BB would need to hit you twice in a row (4/9 chance), while you would have to fail to get two hits in the first round of combat. The chances are better for this. -There a 6^4 (1296) possible combos of dice you can roll for 4 attackers. -Of those, there are 18 * 36 = 648 combos where you get two hits. 648/1296 = 1/2 chance to get two hits. 4/9 * 1/2 = a 2/9 (~22%) chance of losing two units to the battleship. (< 5%) chance of losing the FTR. So there’s a believable chance you’ll lose one FTR in all of that, and wind up with a 3 FTR stack in W. Europe instead of a 4 FTR stack, but the odds of losing 2 FTRs in the opening sorties are laughable. I figured the attack on Egypt was implied. Not retaking Egypt turn 1 is tantamount to suicide. I fail to see the point in dumping an entire army in Europe, which would leave the fleet vulnerable to a counterattack and force the allies to waste 2-3 turns rebuilding both a fleet AND a land army. A good Germany will use those breather turns to win the game. That’s two of you know that have pointed out that DDs are a bad buy. I’ve looked into it a bit and I’m starting to think that a CV buy B1 might be the best bet for not dying to the German Fleet (it helps to be able to land two FTRs on it to basically give yourself 36 IPCs worth of defense for a 16 IPC investment). Thanks for the advice. Correct me if I’m wrong on the CV though. Ahh, I see. I think my problem here is that this is a face-to-face tournament played under time controls (that’s how I’ve been practicing, too), so I won’t be able to employ the safer strategies in the strict (5 hour) time limit I’ll have to get into a good position. That would probably explain why I haven’t considered the slower strategies that both you and MarineIguana suggested. I played a practice game with this strategy earlier today (and had the Soviets focus on turtling) and the Allies won handily, although it took an exceedingly long time to do so. As always, thanks for the advice. I usually land in africa until my pacific fleet makes it to the atlantic. then I split and send uk into norway and start landing in the americans in europe the round after that. I understand that TTs are the best ship economy-wise, but I believe that a CV may be an extremely cost-efficient buy for the first turn only (because you have the two FTRs in UK that can land on the carrier no problem). Later in the game the CV would become extremely cost-inefficient, of course (you’re paying 16 for a 1 HP 3 DEF when you could be spending that same 16 IPC for 2 HP of 1 DEF that can also transport units). Do you advocate sending the Indian Fleet south? What do you do about the TT in SZ59? When I used to play Revised/42/42SE I always remember going out of my way to eliminate it (as forcing Japan to buy more TTs is a good way to buy the allies precious time). Uh! And why not equip them with a pre-emptive shot and the capabilities to carry a fighter? I like Transports also!!! TRN is the more important unit after the infantry (that is the more important unit overall in the game) because they are able to transport the more important unit of the game, the infantry! But… my TRN do not difend as Jen TRN do, they insist in scoring between 2 and 4! I do agree that beginners should stick to the London factory. It does require skill pulling off the india IC. But It just depends on how you and your allies play the game. If each of you are gonna do your own thing, the game will certainly be over quicker than usual. Thats the key…… Teamwork and persistance. Control the game by limiting the enemy of options. Do this and you’ll win no matter who you are. Under item #2 allied fighters cannot be allocated as a hit allocation because they are not rolling on the attack so they are ignored. Also, Under item #1 if your carrier is defending and has fighters from allied players they can be allocated as hits on defence and roll out as well. of course some of this is totally bogus and is totally unrealistic.but oh well. If i build an IC in a captured territory, and I lose that territory, and another ally takes it over, its now their IC. Thats not even a question, I just feel its the answer to one of the next ones to be asked.

2019-04-24T13:09:21Z

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/28972/g1-builds-opening

Initiated by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Nathan Twining and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke, and then presided over by General Thomas Power, Director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (1960-1964), SIOP-62 mapped out a synchronized nuclear attack by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army combining strategic bombers, Polaris submarine-launched missiles and Atlas ICBMs in an ‘alert’ force of over 1,706 nuclear weapons and a ‘full’ force of over 3,240 nuclear weapons delivered to 1,060 targets in the Soviet Union, China and allied states. In this Plan there was little or no distinction made between Communist states that were at war with the United States and those that were not. Some sites (Designated Ground Zeroes – DGZs) would be struck by two or more weapons, and included both military installations and urban-industrial areas. The alert force would target 199 cities and the full force would target 295.2 The planners estimated that the total human deaths from such an attack would be 108 million in the Soviet Union and 104 million in the PRC as well as several million in satellite states,3 while Kaplan estimated that 175 million Russians and Chinese would be killed by the ‘alert’ force and 285 million would be killed by a ‘full’ force, and an additional 40 million more injured.4 To make such threats credible, the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Energy (DoE) and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) conducted visible tests of new nuclear weapons in various atmospheric conditions in a twenty test series between 1946 and 1963. Even after the limited test ban treaty was adopted, they continued with underground tests. General Thomas Power presided over the creation of SIOP-62 as Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command (1957–1964) and Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff (1960–1964). As nuclear intimidation continued, and as other nations sought to gain ‘parity’, the global nuclear industry grew. It was clearly understood in these early decades that the dual-use of nuclear materials in nuclear energy generation and nuclear weapons served to establish and maintain national influence in the international arena. Since 1945, the supply and procurement of uranium together with coal (for steel production) has been a good indicator of a nation’s capacity to both rapidly increase its energy production with the potential to produce munitions and, for those states already with the capacity, to produce and enhance a nuclear weapons arsenal. High-energy power generation was an index of a nation’s war-making potential underlining the link between mining and militarisation. In the following I seek to explain why and how the Australian government in 2014 has concluded a uranium trade deal with India that is in breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by tracing the development of a nuclear nexus between India, Australia, Japan and the United States. Just as it was in the early cold war, this trade in nuclear materials is informed by interlocking and mutually reinforcing economic and geostrategic interests that have long undermined international disarmament initiatives. I argue that changing climatic conditions caused by emissions intensive energy production, however, demand a fundamental re-thinking of this paradigm. Of the 67 reactors under construction globally as of July 2014, at least 49 were experiencing delays and eight had been under construction for 20 or more years. China too, having planned before 2011 to replace heavy carbon emitting coal-fired power stations with nuclear power stations, stalled and re-assessed its position after 3.11.8 For the most part, China (along with the US, India and Germany) has boosted its renewable electricity generating capacity so that by 2013, it produced through wind, solar and hydro power over 1000 terawatt hours – the equivalent of the total power generation of France and Germany.9 In Japan, nearly four years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, 46 other nuclear reactors remain shut down. The Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) approved the restart of two reactors in Sendai, Kyushu on 10 September 2014 and Mayoral consent was secured in October. Until 2014, along with China, Japan has also seen a boom in mostly solar and wind electricity generation. But this has been stalled by utilities who have refused to take an influx of renewable power into the grid or to reduce electricity prices.10 With fewer nuclear plants scheduled for construction around the world than for shutdown, however, the nuclear industry faces the likely prospect of contraction11 and replacement by rapidly advancing renewable energy options, including solar, wind, tidal, hydro and possibly geothermal power over the longer term. New mining leases were approved in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and Queensland Premier Campbell Newman broke his electoral commitment not to permit uranium mining by inviting uranium mining companies to commence exploration operations. The new (Queensland) Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014, for example, passed on 9 September 2014 authorizes a Coordinator General to overrule community objection rights to ‘State significant projects’ including coal, bauxite and uranium mines, or to limit them to concerns unrelated to environmental protection.13 This Act gives virtual immunity to large companies exploring for uranium deposits in the Mitchell and Alice River basins in Cape York and the Gulf country. Encouraged by these positive signs, along with other Japanese, Chinese and Indian investors in uranium projects in Australia, the major French energy corporation Areva recently bought a 51 percent share in a joint venture with Australian uranium miner Toro Energy for exploration in the Wiso Basin in Northern Territory.14 In other words, federal and state governments in Australia have been approving exploration licenses and the opening of uranium mines at a time when the global nuclear and uranium industry was marked by decline and exit. While some of the larger corporations chose to wait for uranium demand to rise, many in the Australian uranium mining industry scrambled to reprioritise, turning to the newly emerging market of nation-states tipped for rapid economic expansion. India attracted attention due to its high-growth economic potential, geostrategic positioning and nuclear ambitions. As then Prime Minister Howard had done in 2007, ‘energy starved’ India’s ‘power crisis’ is again being widely portrayed in desperate terms,15 while the solutions are presented as economic expansion and greater energy consumption by a growing middle class.16 In addition to coal exports, Australian politicians, in consultation with business representatives in the uranium and minerals sector, have framed the push for uranium trade with India as a ‘moral duty’ and ‘humanitarian responsibility’ to improve living standards of India’s impoverished people. Over the nearly four years since the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese government and corporations have actively courted more than 20 countries for the purchase of Japan’s nuclear technologies. Agreements had been reached with Jordan, Vietnam, South Korea and Russia under the Kan and Noda Democratic Party Japan (DPJ) governments, and the export of nuclear technology remained central to the Abe government’s economic plans. Two more nuclear technology agreements with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have since been reached,19 and six more are under consideration – with India, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh. Despite the continuing negative effects of ongoing radioactive contamination dispersal from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Abe government remains intent both on nuclear startups in Japan and on promoting its exports of nuclear technology to other countries. A similar initiative followed on 5 September 2014, when Abbott and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the Australia-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in New Delhi. It was the culmination of the efforts initiated by the Howard government in 2006,22 carried forward by the Gillard government in 2011–2012. After India’s ‘Smiling Buddha’ Pokhran-I nuclear tests in May 1974, when the Indian government declared that it intended to harness nuclear energy to manufacture nuclear weapons, the Australian government (and many other countries including the US) placed a ban on exporting uranium to it (France and Russia continued to sporadically export uranium under a safety clause). India had built its clandestine nuclear weapons program using imported Canadian reactors. Since Nehru, India has justified its indigenous development of civil and military nuclear capacity and fuel and its refusal to ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by pointing to the nuclear weapons held by existing nuclear weapons states. It has argued that the NPT is a flawed agreement that reflects the hypocrisy of the nuclear weapons states in refusing to seriously engage in disarmament while expecting non-nuclear weapons states to abstain from possession. In 1975, partially in response to the Indian tests of the previous year, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) initially comprising seven nations (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Japan, France, Canada, West Germany) was formed to prevent the diversion of nuclear materials used for commercial and peaceful purposes for the production of nuclear weapons. NSG members were obliged to cease trade with governments that did not submit to international inspection. India and Pakistan were included. Despite the bans, India went ahead to conduct its Pokhran II nuclear tests in May 1998. These were followed by Pakistan’s tests two weeks later. UN Security Council Resolution 1172 of June 199823 expressed grave concern and demanded that both countries foreswear further tests and abandon their nuclear weapon ambitions. expressed grave concern and demanded that both countries foreswear further tests and abandon their nuclear weapon ambitions. Despite the resolution’s unanimous adoption and threat of sanctions, the turning point was when the George W. Bush administration (2001-2009) chose to prioritize U.S. bilateral relations with India over any unified front to counter nuclear proliferation. The US–India energy agreement of July 2005 opened the way for other states, such as Australia, to engage bilaterally with India. Meanwhile in October 2008, the Singh government overcame stiff opposition in parliament to secure national and international backing for the signing of the US–India ‘1-2-3’ Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.This Agreement stipulated that India would open its civilian nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and delineate its civil and military facilities so as to ensure US-origin fuel would not be used for military purposes. In return the US would supply nuclear fuel and nuclear technologies (six reactors) and gain greater access to the Indian nuclear market. As unanimous approval from the 48 states of the NSG was also required, the US and India lobbied hard and secured an unprecedented waiver of NSG export guidelines so as to permit nuclear commerce with India despite its non-NPT signatory status. Having granted the exception, several NSG members then negotiated bilateral nuclear accords with India (including France, United Kingdom, South Korea, Canada and Kazakhstan). In 2008 the Singh government purchased 300 MT of uranium ore concentrate from Areva of France, in 2009 2000 MT of uranium oxide pellets and 58 MT of enriched uranium dioxide from JSC Tvel/Russia, also in 2009 2100 MT of uranium dioxide concentrate from NAC/Kazakhstan and in 2013 2000 MT of uranium ore concentrate from NMMC Uzbekistan.27 While details are yet to be finalised, the deal with Australia in 2014 would secure for India a steady, reliable, high-grade uranium supply from the world’s largest known uranium deposits (its uranium resources are about 28 percent of the world total). While details are yet to be finalised, the deal with Australia in 2014 would secure for India a steady, reliable, high-grade uranium supply from the world’s largest known uranium deposits (its uranium resources are about 28 percent of the world total). In November 2010, in a joint statement signed by US President Obama and Indian PM Singh, it was agreed that negotiations would begin between Nuclear Power Corporation India Ltd (NPCIL) and US nuclear energy companies in return for implementing India’s full membership of the NSG in a ‘phased manner’. India agreed to accommodate the demands of General Electric and Westinghouse, which sought strict adherence to the CSC31 by diluting the CLNDA to reduce both suppliers’ liability and the time period for exercising right of recourse in the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Rules 2011.32 The US-India Business Council, PM Modi and industry executives from the Nuclear Power Company of India Ltd. (NPCIL) also devised an insurance package to indemnify the American suppliers in the event of a nuclear accident for the maximum liability amount stipulated in the CLNDA (INR 1500 Crore/$250 million).33 This was to encourage US/Japan companies (among others) to collaborate in building new nuclear reactors to allow India to ‘achieve its full blown potential’.34 In short, India would take as close to full liability for nuclear accidents as possible in return for receiving the benefits of NPT and NSG membership without the full obligations expected of its members. In doing so, the integrity of the NPT was further compromised. Given that Australia’s uranium mining and export accounts for less than 1 percent of its hundred billion dollar mineral export business (iron ore, bauxite, coal, copper, nickel etc),36 however, these decisions by Australian leaders risked significant political capital over what has been a highly contentious issue in Australia’s recent political history. the NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons in exchange for which the NPT nuclear-weapon states agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals. Nuclear weapons states have had the primary responsibility to ensure disarmament of their own arsenals so as to prevent nuclear non-proliferation among other states. The export controls regime of the NSG and enhanced verification measures of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Association) Additional Protocols are ostensibly to end every possible means to acquire nuclear weapons. While Article Four of the NPT provides ‘inalienable rights to every non-nuclear weapon state’ to pursue nuclear energy for power generation, India is neither a member of the NPT nor a Non-Nuclear Weapon State and there is no provision in the NPT which permits for signatories to form nuclear cooperation agreements with Non-NPT states. India quite rightly has pointed out the hypocritical approach of the nuclear weapons states in approaching the NPT regime. As the Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stated in 2007, India was not an NPT signatory because it considers the regime to be not one of ‘universal, non-discriminatory verification and treatment’.37 In the same statement, Minister Mukherjee also claimed that India had an ‘impeccable record on non-proliferation… [was] a leading advocate of the elimination of all nuclear weapons… [and was an adherent] to the values of peace and non-violence’. India’s ‘impeccable track-record on non-proliferation’ was a catch phrase coined by President Bush in 2005,38 and reiterated by both PM Modi and PM Abbott in 2014. Treating India as an exceptional case and a de facto nuclear weapons state makes even more conspicuous the selective imposition of sanctions or favour upon other non-NPT signatory nuclear weapons states such as Pakistan and Israel, or NPT signatory non-nuclear weapons states such as Iran.39 But the self-interested and strategically motivated application of the NPT was not new, nor was it limited to the US and its allies. The Soviet Union supplied China with the necessary technologies and skills to develop its own nuclear weapons capabilities, as China then supplied Pakistan. In turn, Pakistan also supplied other states that aspire to obtain nuclear capabilities. All were in a chain reaction, however, to U.S. threats to China and ultimately to the Soviet Union, in the early decades of the Cold War. While it is debatable that uranium and nuclear technology supply to India by others might serve to deter contemporary Chinese or Pakistani nuclear aggression, it has not served to prevent Indian conflicts with either of those two nations in the past. In any case, the use of nuclear trade as a strategic instrument does not ensure greater security or stability of the international community broadly defined, and this sort of leverage is not a valid use of the NPT. So despite PM Abbott’s assurances that ‘suitable safeguards’ were in place to guarantee that Australian uranium would be used for ‘peaceful purposes’ and for ‘civilian use only’, as the former Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office John Carlson points out, the Agreement departs from two principles of Australia’s 1987 Safeguards Act (section 51):40 the acquirement of ‘consent to reprocessing’ from the Australian government prior to the separation of plutonium from spent fuel; and the ‘right of return’ of nuclear materials supplied in the event of a breach of the agreement.41 Instead, the Agreement defers to the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement in which India would reprocess in facilities built with the assistance of US companies, and leaves open the question of how separated plutonium would be used or how arbitration would apply to settle disputes. Ten of India’s twenty nuclear facilities are beyond the regulatory authority of the IAEA and India only selectively recognises IAEA safeguards for specific foreign supplied reactors and facilities. India also refuses to submit to suppliers inventory reports and accounting processes for nuclear material flowing through the nuclear cycle. As the IAEA is not able to fully inspect India’s dual-purpose (civilian and military) indigenous reactors and facilities for reprocessing, enrichment, retransfers to third countries, research and development or the production of tritium (used as a trigger for weapons), India is not fully accountable to either the IAEA or the supplier nation with which it has a bilateral agreement with in-built IAEA norms. So even if India adheres to Australia’s requirements that its uranium be used solely to supply civil nuclear reactors for electricity generation that may be inspected by IAEA as per the nuclear safeguards agreement, Australia’s (or any other NPT members’) uranium export to India effectively supplements or liberates limited supplies of Indian uranium for military uses.42 Nor could, in the unlikely discovery of the ‘misallocation’ of some Australian origin uranium toward military use, the IAEA force compliance. In fact, whether or not India accounts for the flows of Australian material in its nuclear fuel cycle, it is impossible to verify whether it has actually adhered to the safeguards. Australian Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson, Adani group founder Gautam Adani, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman in India in 2012. As has been recommended by the United Nations (UN), World Health Organisation (WHO), International Energy Agency (IEA), Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), and recognised by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, the rapid phase out of coal-fired power stations is essential if the world is to meet the now seemingly optimistic carbon emissions reductions necessary to keep planetary warming below 2 percent of pre-industrialisation levels.46 While two hundred licenses for coal-fired power stations have been revoked by the Supreme Court of India recently, many Indian overseas coal projects are still underway. There are a number of flaws underpinning the logic of this activity between political leaders and nuclear industry executives. PM Abbott insisted at the time of signing the nuclear deal with India that the Agreement would be safe. In fact, the Abbott government has committed to selling uranium to an ambitious nation that barely conceals its intentions to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal and has refused to become a full signatory to the NPT and, along with the US, China and Pakistan, has not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Prime Minister Modi is a pro-business politician and hardliner on Pakistan and Muslim populations in India and favours a security policy based on nuclear deterrence. The BJP holds a commanding majority in the lower house of Parliament. There is little reason to assume that Indian relations with Pakistan – or indeed with China – will soften by furnishing India with greater means to project its military power in the region. The surge of fundamentalist and jingoist forces in South Asia and rising military budgets and tensions between India and Pakistan on the one hand and China and the US, Japan and its allies on the other, aggravate the security situation in the region. Further, India has been waging an on-going long-term campaign against an insurgency within its borders, and it cannot guarantee against theft of nuclear-related materials. Fourth, the option of nuclear power as the ‘clean’ alternative is nothing of the sort. Although the fission operation of nuclear power stations may be ‘cleaner’ than coal-fired power stations in terms of carbon emissions, and although the heat from fission may produce more energy and less waste per volume of uranium than coal, many problems remain unresolved. These include the safe storage of long-lived nuclear waste, long build time of reactors in proportion to rapidly accelerating effects of climate change, enormous financial costs, use and contamination of vital resources required across the nuclear cycle from mining to waste production (including water and fossil fuels),55centralised monopolisation of power management necessitated by nuclear power generation, excess heating of the atmosphere through the discharge of excess heat through water and air, danger to ecologies downwind or downstream from venting while refueling reactors, and increased potential for large-scale and long-term damage from accidents. Given the advances of wind, solar, tidal and geothermal energy production which have become cheaper and more productive, as field-tested in China, Germany,56 Spain and other countries, and the abundance of these sources of energy in countries like Australia, the myth of base-load power is less sustainable than it was in the heady renaissance days. India’s pitch to rapidly increase economic growth has been embraced by the transnational nuclear industry as it represents an opportunity to expand the nuclear industry, and an opportunity to diversify from reliance on the Chinese market. But when typical cost-benefit analyses are extended to include the actual costs of the above-mentioned scenarios (nuclear weapons exchange, public health effects from industrial pollution from uranium mining and nuclear reactors, nuclear reactor disasters, nuclear waste storage, renewable energy alternatives), in an already fragile ecology in India, India’s nuclear energy plan reflects neither deep commitment to climate change mitigation nor serious concern for India’s impoverished populations. Why does the Australian, Indian, the United States and Japanese governments (among others) and their affiliated transnational corporations, continue to accelerate nuclear related operations despite these significant obstacles? It is unlikely that the Japan-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement went unsigned because of any putative scruple Japan may have about selling nuclear technologies to India as a non-NPT nuclear weapons state. As the Modi and NPCIL accommodation of American supplier demands demonstrates, the liability clause can be flexible. It remains unlikely, however, that India will consent to opening all of its reactors for inspection.60 Rather, it is likely that Japan is awaiting an American executive decision on the liability issue and the possible inclusion of India into the NPT as a nuclear weapons state, since prior agreement would appear to abrogate Japan’s NPT obligations. That PM Modi reasserted India’s customary ‘no first use’ policy does not mean that he does not intend to stockpile and bolster India’s nuclear arsenal. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) estimates that India possesses 90 to 110 nuclear weapons.61 In June 2014, the IHS (Information Handling Service) Jane’s military research group identified what they believe to be a new uranium hexafluoride (enrichment) facility at the Indian Rare Metals Plant near Mysore. As with its other military plants, this plant is not within IAEA safeguards. Estimated to be operational by mid-2015, it would produce roughly double the amount of enriched fuel (160 kilos a year enriched to 90 percent purity) required for India’s ballistic missile nuclear submarine fleet.62 The IHS analysts surmise that the surplus could be used for thermonuclear weapons (mixing enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiles).63 It could also be used to fuel nuclear submarines, space satellites, tactical and intermediate ballistic missiles, and multiple warhead Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Agni V ICBM MIRVs) with the ability to reach cities in China and Pakistan. India joins the US, Russia, UK, France and China in possessing the ICBM with MIRV, leaving Pakistan further behind in terms of weapons parity, particularly in navy, air and ground forces, and missile capabilities.64 As India seeks to rival China, it could further destabilize relations with Pakistan by intensifying the ongoing arms race between the two. Regional tensions could be further exacerbated by Pakistan’s border skirmishes with Afghanistan and Iran over its support of the Taliban in Afghanistan.65 Along with increasing tensions involving US-Japan-India and China, this is precisely the scenario that NPT members have tried to avoid by subscribing to IAEA safeguards. Since the late 1950s, there have been elements in the Japanese government (led by Abe’s grandfather and former Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke) who have advocated the procurement of tactical nuclear weapons as an entitlement under the nation’s right to self-defence as stipulated in the UN Charter. Although the US has long discouraged Japan’s nuclear weaponisation with assurances of extended nuclear deterrence, in 2003 US Vice-President Cheney stated that Japan’s possession of nuclear weapons could be tenable if it were aligned to US strategic deterrence policy.68 As an NPT signatory, Japan has accumulated the fourth largest stockpile of ‘civilian’ plutonium, the largest stockpile of any non-nuclear weapons state.69 Despite reprocessing programs having been closed down by many other countries, Japan claims that its significant nuclear reprocessing and fuel fabrication program is for ‘energy autonomy’ by which it means ‘closing the nuclear fuel cycle’. This relies upon the ability to separate plutonium from spent fuel and reprocess and fabricate it ‘upwards’ so as to produce more plutonium than is consumed, thereby facilitating an endless loop of fuel production and consumption. In this scenario, the Japanese government regards spent nuclear fuel and stockpiled plutonium as an ‘asset’ rather than a ‘debt’. This ability should not be understood as solely for the reduction of reliance on foreign fuel imports or even of nuclear waste. In 2009, Ernest J. Moniz, an MIT professor and United States Secretary of Energy in 2014, admitted that uranium, once thought to be scarce, was now so abundant as to raise doubt over the necessity for nuclear fuel reprocessing.70 As of March 2011, despite the recommendations by the Japan Atomic Energy Commission and the Science Council of Japan of both direct disposal and limited surface storage of spent nuclear fuel in dry casks over fuel pool storage and reprocessing, the Japanese government would not rule out the reprocessing option. If the closed fuel cycle ever did eventuate, it would negate Japan’s dependence on the import of vital energy resources (uranium, oil, natural gas) so as to achieve ‘energy autonomy’. This would drastically reduce fuel costs and would also reduce vulnerability to sanctions should Japan breach the NPT (or other international agreements) in its decision to ‘go nuclear’. Japan’s long-term investment in co-developing this high-level technical capability has made it the second most powerful missile power in the world, and the only nation outside the US with both low and upper-tier defences reputedly capable of intercepting missiles beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.72 Given this long-term commitment, it was not surprising that the Abe government in 2013 decided to declare the constitutional right to participate in ‘collective security’ operations with the US and other allies. This technology, and Japan’s ambiguous intentions concerning nuclear and space weaponisation, means that the US and Japan, in collaboration with partners such as Australia and India (in sea-going operations in particular), could potentially integrate not only their BMD systems but also their nuclearized capabilities. As South Korea and Taiwan have also expressed interest in reprocessing their spent nuclear fuel (as have other states such as Saudi Arabia), these developments carry strong potential for proliferation. One of the major implications of this distributed form of ‘self-defence’ is that US Pacific Command would further extend the pre-emptive strike capacity of its global nuclear strike force. With Japan’s recent release of space assets for military use (reconnaissance, communications, navigation, early warning) in collaboration with the US, this further augments the current period of US ‘nuclear primacy’ and a return to the conditions prior to 1963 when the Soviets had developed long-range bombers to deliver their nuclear payloads over US territory. Nuclear primacy transcends the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction in its ability to win a nuclear war, which the US is proposing to do by eliminating retaliatory capability with a single massive attack called ‘Prompt Global Strike’. Under the Australia–India uranium trade agreement, India will use Australian yellow cake to diversify its nuclear program. If and when the Japan–India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement is concluded, it will supply the nuclear technology India requires to build its industrial capacity and indirectly enhance its nuclear arsenal. Negotiated almost simultaneously and in coordination, both of these Agreements, together with and following the US–India nuclear agreement, tacitly legitimise India’s nuclear status and assist in its ambitions for greater international influence. Australia and Japan, both NPT and NSG members, have become complicit in India’s nuclear weapons program and partially responsible for increasing the risk of nuclear accident in India, and for potentially aggravating nuclear rivalry in Asia. India claims to need more electricity for domestic and industrial growth as well as to lift a significant population out of poverty. Yet there are many factors which create the conditions for the advance of India’s poor, just as there are many forms of alternative energy generation beyond nuclear and coal which would be safer, more reliable and powerful if given comparable investment and with smart power grid distribution networks.76 To the extent that governments and corporations continue to invest in nuclear power construction and reprocessing as a source of ‘renewable energy’, they diminish the potential to stem the destructive and exponentially increasing effects of climate change.77 China, Germany, the United States, India and even Japan are presently leading the world in investing in renewable energy technology. Yet, with the exception of Germany, this is being done in parallel with plans to expand nuclear power production. The ongoing contamination from radiation dispersed from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant came, in part, from Australian uranium.78 When the benefits of uranium trade are weighed against the potential and actual costs and damages from uranium mining, the actual risks of nuclear reactor accidents and mismanagement, the decline in costs and advances in renewable technologies, potential nuclear weapons use (broadly defined) and proliferation, and the steady production of nuclear waste, it becomes clear that state-corporate policies to expand the industry are ill-conceived. In 2014, as in 1945 and throughout the intervening decades, uranium mining, nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons remain ineluctably tied to the formation of a global power structure of nation-states and transnational corporations and instrumental in their overarching ambitions. Adam Broinowski is an ARC postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Pacific and Asian History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His recent work includes a chapter, ‘Sovereign Power Ambition and the Realities of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster’ in Nadesan/Boys/McKillop/Wilcox (eds.), Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization?, The Dispossesion Publishing Group, 2014, and a forthcoming article, ‘Conflicting Immunities: Priorities of Life and Sovereignty amid the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster’, European Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, December 2014. His book, Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body during and after the Cold War is forthcoming in 2015. Recommended citation: Adam Broinowski, “Undermining Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Energy and Security Politics in the Australia–India–Japan–U.S. Nuclear Nexus,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 46, No. 2, November 1, 2014. 1 R. A. Paulsen, The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War Era, Maxwell Airforce Base: Alabama Air University Press, 1994, pp. 1–11. 2 William Burr (ed.), ‘The Creation of SioP-62: More Evidence of the Origins of Overkill’, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing book No. 130, 13 July 2004. 3 Government of United States of America, Joint Chiefs of Staff, ‘Berlin Contingency Planning’, June 1961, National Security Archives. 4 F. Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983, p. 269. To what extent they calculated the ‘bonus kills’, as General LeMay put it, from radiation exposure is unclear, but it was likely a very conservative estimate. 5 For example, Uranerz Energy Corporation announced a net loss in the second quarter of 2013. See, ‘Uranerz Records Q2 Net Loss of $4.45 million’, 11 August 2014. 6 See Suzuki Tatsujiro in Mycle Schnyder and Anthony Froggat (eds.), World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2014, 18 August 2014, pp. 4, 76, 155; Aaron Sheldrick, ‘Global nuclear power contribution falls to lowest since 1980s’,Reuters, 29 July 2014; Jim Green, ‘Uranium – how low can it go’, Business Spectator, 29 May 2014. 7 Schneider and Froggatt, ‘Executive summary and conclusions’, World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013, July. 8 David von Hippel, James H. Williams, ‘Nuclear safety concers with China’s growing reactor fleet’, NAPSNet Policy Forum, 28 October 2014. 9 John Mathews and Hao Tan, ‘China shows there is more to renewable energy than fighting climate change’, The Conversation, 11 September 2014. 10 Daniel Cusick, ‘Power companies in Japan move to restrict solar’, Scientific American, 2 October 2014. 11 Aaron Sheldrick, ‘Global nuclear power contribution falls to lowest since 1980s’, Reuters, 29 July 2014. 12 Paddy Manning, ‘Producers bullish on Japanese demand’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 2012. 13 Andrew Picone, ‘Mining companies now have more rights than the community in Newman’s Queensland’, SBS News, 1 October 14. Between 2013–14 and 2017–18 Australia’s uranium production is projected to increase by 32 per cent to total 9590 tonnes, as supported by the Alliance Resources’ Four Mile mine in South Australia, ore extraction at Ranger uranium mine and Toro Energy’s Wiluna mine in Western Australia. Other additional mining operations such as Cameco’s Kintyre and Yeelirrie projects as well as potential projects in Queensland are not projected to begin until 2017–18. Government of Australia, BREE, Resources and Energy Quarterly, October 2013, p. 26. 14 ‘Toro signs NT deal with AREVA’, The West Australian, 29 September 2014. 15 The World Bank estimates that nearly 400 million Indians have no access to electricity. World Bank, ‘Energy’. 16 At the recent opening of a coal mine, Prime Minister Abbott was quoted as declaring ‘Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.’ Editors, ‘Coal is good for humanity’, The Australian, 15 October 2014. 17 ‘Nuclear power in the USA’, World Nuclear Report, 23 October 2014. 18 Mitsubishi CEO Kojima Yorihiko quoted by Rick Wallace, ‘ Billions to flow from Shinzo Abe visit, says Mitsubishi chairman’, The Australian , 7 July 2014. 19 Editor, ‘Exports that defy reason’, Japan Times, 20 April 2014. 20 The Defense Ministry of the Abe government has sought a 3.5 percent increase to ¥5.05 trillion for the fiscal year of 2015, an unprecedented military budget for the nation. Takenaka Kiyoshi, Reuters, 29 August 2014. 21 P. Kallender-Umezu, ‘Japan Quietly Builds Limited Counter-A2/AD Capabilities’, 17 September 2013, Defense News. 22 The Howard government proposed the expansion of uranium mining and uranium exports, establishment of a uranium enrichment industry, and construction of 25 power reactors. Others in Australia propose 20 nuclear by 2050. See Government of Australia, Prime Minister and Cabinet, 29 December 2006, ‘Uranium mining, processing and nuclear energy – opportunities for Australia’. 23 United Nations, UN Security Council Resolution 1172. 24 For more discussion on this, see C. Rovere and K. Robertson, ‘Australia’s Uranium and India: Linking Exports to CTBT Ratification’, Security Challenges, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2013), pp. 51–61. 25 ‘China wants Australia’s uranium’, ABC, 17 October 2005. 26 ‘Reliance Arm paid $3.45 million to UXA for uranium exploration’, The Hindu Business Line, 28 May 2008. 27 Later, it was admitted that Indian projections are overly ambitious, and they would scale down from 20,000 MWe of new nuclear capacity to 11,080 MWe by the year 2020. 29 IAEA, Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, International Atomic Energy Agency. 30 Government of India, ‘The Civil Liability For Nuclear Damage Act’, 2010. 31 Editors, ‘U.S.-India Business Council Statement on Nuclear Liability Law’, Reuters, 30 August 2010. 32 Government of India, ‘Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Rules 2011’. 33 Indrani Bagchi, ‘India gives US insurance plan for nuclear plants’, The Times of India, 13 March 2014; Kapil Patil, ‘Untying the Civil Nuclear Liability Knot in the Indo-US Nuclear Deal’, Nautilus Institute, 30 September 2014. 34 Kapil Patil, ‘Untying the civil nuclear liability knot in the Indo-US nuclear deal’, NAPSnet policy forum, 30 September 2014. 35 Paul Meyer, ‘India and the meltdown of Canada’s nuclear non-proliferation policy: Ottawa abandons principled position for greater access to India’s economy’, Reuters. 36 Editors, ‘Yellow cake fever: Exposing the Uranium industry’s economic myths’, Australian Conservation Foundation, April 2013, p. 27. 37 Editors, ‘India dismisses NPT as ‘flawed’ treaty’, The Times of India, 23 March 2007. 38 Demetri Sevastopulo, Caroline Daniel, Jo Johnson, ‘India nuclear deal takes Congress by surprise’, Financial Times, 19 July 2005. 39 Yusra Mushtaq, ‘A Blatant Violation Of NPT’, 26 September 2014, Eurasia Review. See also, IAEA, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, ‘IAEA Topic 2: The Implementation of the NPT for the Non-Supporters of this Treaty’. 40 Government of Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ‘Australia’s uranium export policy’. 41 John Carlson, ‘Is the Abbott Government abandoning Australia’s nuclear safeguards standards for India?’, The Interpreter, 1 October 2014 (part 1) and (part 2). 42 K. Subrahmanyam, ‘India and the nuclear deal’, The Times of India, 12 December 2005. 43 Crispin Rovere, ‘Australia–India nuclear treaty: a non-proliferation disaster’, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 14 October 2014. 44 Comprising six open-cut pits and five underground mines, the Carmichael mine will cover an area seven times that of Sydney Harbour. Despite warnings from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and UNESCO that this will place it ‘in danger’, plans to dredge and dump about 3 million cubic metres of the Reef into a wetlands sanctuary to make way for port expansions for 480 additional ships to access 330 million tonnes of coal per year from this mega-mine will use 12 billion litres of fresh water per year and will affect the habitat of humpback whales, sea turtles and dugongs. With 130 million tonnes of carbon dioxide produced every year for ninety years, this will cancel out the Queensland Direct Action target of 131 million tonnes of carbon dioxide reduction. Adani Enterprises has a dubious track record including illegal large-scale exports of iron ore at its port and numerous cases of environmental pollution. It has also been a significant supporter of the Bharatiya Janta Party. Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Citi, Morgan Stanley and possible JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have refused to fund the project while the ‘big four’ Australian banks seem to be giving their approval. India is the third largest producer, consumer and importer of coal in the world and the fourth largest energy consumer in the world. See, Mary McCarthy, ‘Darwin and Adelaide likely export hubs for Queensland uranium’, ABC Rural; Ben Pearson, ‘ Carmichael coal mine impacts will be felt for generations,’ ABC Environment , 28Jul2014, William Rollo, ‘Carmichael Coal and Rail Project: Queensland mine gets Federal Government approval’, ABC News, 29 July 2014; Candace Dunn, ‘India falls back on imported fossil fuels’, Business Spectator, 15 August 2014. 45 ‘Indian activists take on Adani coal mine’, Geelong Advertiser, 9 October 2014; ‘Ramping up against coal’, Beyond Zero Emissions, September – August 2012. 46 In support of the claim for the rapid shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy and energy savings, the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated ‘We need to limit global temperature rise within 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This is what the international community has recognised as the upper limit of safety. Beyond 2 degrees, the consequences will be unpredictable, highly dangerous and perhaps irreversible’. See, United Nations, ‘Secretary-General’s remarks at Climate Leaders Summit’, 11 April 2014. It is estimated that at least two thirds of proven fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground and that carbon utilities and infrastructure must be developed beyond 2017 as 80 percent of cumulative emissions allowable between 2010 and 2035 are already locked into existing power plants, factories, buildings and services. In addition this will result in significant positive in health effects, job production, biodiversity conservation, energy independence and stronger sovereignty and resilience. Although several countries have moved to end public finance for coal and other fossil fuels, Australia has yet to do so in a significant manner. See WHO – 7 million premature deaths linked to air pollution and Climate Change – IPCC Response Strategies. 47 Editors, ‘A new engagement: The Indo-Australian nuclear deal signals a paradigm shift in the quality of the relationship between the two nations’, The Hindu Business Line, 8 September 2014. 48 Neeta Lal, ‘India’s Nuclear Energy Imperative’, The Diplomat, 8 October 2014. 50 Joby Warrick, ‘Obama and Modi announce agreement on U.S.-India efforts to fight global warming’, Washington Post, 30 September 2014. 51 Government of the United States, The White House, ‘U.S.-India Joint Statement’, 30 September 2014. 52 M. V. Ramana, ‘Indian activists detained for protesting against India-Australia uranium agreement,’ Dianuke, 5 September 2014. 53 While there are conflicting reports, in contrast to studies based on dose estimates in accordance with institutional levels (such as the ICRP), an Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) epidemiological study found in 2007 that living within 2.5kms of the mining operations increased rates of illness (2118 households) and was upheld by the Jharkhand High Court in 2007. This was supported by a study in 2004 by Koide Hiroaki who found the level to be 10mSv/y around the mine and over 1 mSv/y in the villages. The UCIL managers have used the As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) principle to set permissible radiation exposure limits and precautionary measures and have shown disregard for the conditions of indigenous peoples living in the area. See, Shakeel ur Rahman, ‘Study on Health status of Indigenous people around Jadugoda uranium mines in India’, IDPD. UCIL Chairman Diwakar Acharya denied any correlation and blamed ordinary socio-economic factors (malnutrition). Stephanie March, ‘Australia to sell uranium to India but at what cost to its people?’, ABC 7:30 Report, 3 September 2014; Uranium Corporation of India hopes to get renewal of Jaduguda mine lease soon PTI, 6 October 2014; Rakteem Katakey, Tom Lasseter, ‘India’s Uranium Boss Says Deformed Children May Be ‘Imported’,’Bloomberg, 24 July 2014. 54 Mari Yamaguchi, ‘Sendai reactors vulnerable to eruptions, state-picked volcanologist says’, The Japan Times, 18 October 2014. 55 France, which until recently has drawn roughly three quarters of its energy supply from nuclear power stations, uses 40-50 percent of the nation’s mostly fresh water supply to cool its plants. 56 Germany, for example, prior to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 was heavily reliant on nuclear and fossil fuels. Over the past decade, however, its use of renewable energy mainly from solar and wind, has tripled. In 2013, however, renewable energy accounted for 24 percent of the nation’s total electricity supply. Despite government subsidies of roughly EU 16 billion, the Government claims to have created new businesses worth 40 billion euros per year and created additional employment to 400,000 people. Emily Steward, ABC, 29 October 2014. 57 See for example, Jeremy Rifkin, ‘No nukes!’, Los Angeles Times, 29 September 2006. 58 Nagao Shigeru, ‘Why Japan needs India as a Strategic Power’, Defence and Security Alert, 26 October 2014. 59 Vince Scappatura, ‘The U.S. “Pivot to Asia”, the China Specter and the Australian-American Alliance’, Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 36, No. 3, September 9, 2014. 60 Bhattacharjee, S., A. Sasi, ‘Japan wants slice of the nuclear pie, warms up to liability law’, Indian Express, 12 June 2014. 61 Editors, SIPRI Yearbook 2014. 62 Along with the P-5 states, India and Pakistan also continue to develop new systems capable of delivering nuclear weapons and are expanding their capacities to produce fissile material for military purposes. India conducted successful tests of the 5,000-km Agni-V, India’s first ICBM. Along with its shorter-range Prithvi missiles, India’s 2,000-km K-4 SLBM and its Agni-I (700-km), Agni-II (2,000-km) and Agni-III (3,000-km) missiles were tested under Strategic Forces Command in March 2014. It is still to test the 750-km K-15 SLBM in India’s first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine the INS Arihant in sea trials in late 2014. Rajat Pandit, ‘Pakistan surges ahead of India in nuclear stockpile: Report’, The Times of India, 17 June 2014. 64 Pakistan possesses roughly the equivalent nuclear weapons as India, which serves as a cheap deterrent in the face of India’s overwhelming conventional superiority. Nevertheless, Pakistan is developing shorter-range cruise missiles to evade ballistic missile defence and is planning a long-term build-up of its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems, including tactical short-range missiles, as a ‘full spectrum deterrent’. See for example, Tim Craig and Karen DeYoung, ‘Pakistan is eyeing sea-based and short-range nuclear missiles, analysts say’, Washington Post, 21 September 2014; Kyle Mizokami, ‘If Pakistan and India clash: 5 Pakistani weapons of war India should fear’, The National Interest, 24 August 2014; Kyle Mizokami, ‘If Pakistan and India went to war: 5 Indian weapons of war Pakistan should fear’, The National Interest, 16 August 2014; Amin Saikal, ‘Pakistan must de-escalate conflicts with three of its neighbours’, Canberra Times, 4 November 2014. 65 Amin Saikal, ‘Pakistan must de-escalate conflicts with three of its neighbours’, Canberra Times, 4 November 2014. 66 Kageyama Yuri, ‘Japan pro-bomb voices grow louder amid nuke debate’, Associated Press, 31 July 2012. 67 Adam Westlake, ‘Surprisingly Japan declines 16 UN outlawing nuclear weapons’, Japan Daily Press, 23 October 2012. 68 M. Mochizuki, ‘Japan tests the nuclear taboo’, Non-Proliferation Review, vol. 14, no. 2, July 2007. 69 M. Pomper and M. Toki, ‘Time to stop reprocessing in Japan’, Arms Control Today, January/February 2013. 70 Matthew Wald, ‘U.S. Panel shifts focus to reusing nuclear fuel’, New York Times, 23 September 2009. 71 Missile shield deployments are currently in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, Greenland, Britain, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Poland, the Czech republic, Turkey, Georgia and potentially in Ukraine. 72 Chester Dawson, ‘Japan shows-off its missile defense system’, Wall Street Journal, 9 November 2012. 73 While Japan may have a powerful missile system integrated with the US, one should not overlook the US-initiated NATO interceptor missile system that incorporated the U.S.–Germany-Italy Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) and NATO’s Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) program and is being deployed in the ongoing military build-up in Eastern Europe. See for example, ‘SM-3 BMD, in from the sea: EPAA & Aegis Ashore’, Defense Industry Daily, 13 October 2014. 74 Government of the United States, Department of Defense, ‘Nuclear Posture Review Report’, April 2010. 75 K. Lieber and D. Press (2006), ‘US Primacy in Foreign Policy’, Foreign Affairs, March/April, pp. 42–54. 76 Andrew Picone,‘Queenslanders have more reason than ever to be concerned about uranium mining in the sunshine stateMining companies now have more rights than the community in Newman’s Queensland’, SBS News, 1 October 2014. 77 Yusra Mushtaq, ‘A Blatant Violation Of NPT’, Eurasia Review, 26 September 2014. 78 Dave Sweeney, ‘Fukushima: Australia’s Radioactive Rocks And Responsibility’, New Matilda, 29 August 2014.

2019-04-23T12:36:28Z

https://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-proliferation-in-the-australia-india-japan-u-s-nuclear-nexus/5415955

USR Sector 1 a publicat luni noi imagini cu stâlpii de susţinere ai Podului Constanţa, aflat pe Calea Griviţei din Capitală, care au fost acoperiţi cu ipsos, acuzând CFR, instituţia care ar trebui să se ocupe de reabilitarea podului, că "a mascat problemele structurale cu ipsos" şi "a spoit problemele grave" doar în urma presiunii publice. USR solicită publicarea expertizei tehnice realizată de Ministerul Transporturilor în luna februarie. "(...) Singura instituţie abilitată de lege să execute lucrări de consolidare/reabilitare la acest obiectiv (Podul Constanţa, n.r.) este Compania Naţională de Cai Ferate CFR SA. Precizăm că singurul aviz solicitat în ultimii ani pentru Podul Constanţa a fost cel din 13 iulie 2017, când, la solicitarea Companiei Naţionale de Cai Ferate CFR SA, Primăria Municipiului Bucureşti a emis un aviz de intervenţie necesar executării unor "lucrări de îndepărtare a unor fragmente de beton care prin desprinderea lor pun în pericol participanţii la traficul rutier în zona Pod Constanţa (intersecţia Calea Griviţei cu sos. Chitilei - Bd Bucureştii Noi), lucrări ce urmau a fi executate de Compania Naţională de Cai Ferate CFR SA Bucureşti, sucursala regională Bucureşti - secţia L3 Bucureşti", a transmis săptămâna trecută PMB. Carve hurt to today, when there is a unused of anti aging abrade attend to products like bucal.gojijeugd.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/dior-dreamskin-prix.html creams, serums, gels and powders that all control to be this fount of youth. Some drink hyma.cremegoji.nl/help-jezelf/pado-reviews.html their anti aging entrancing be means of ingredients that beget a ton of methodical wholly ylkil.cremegoji.nl/online-consultatie/amin-pizzeria-telefoonnummer.html and projection of view on how lamina ages to side with them up and some are suppositional hype. Eschew to today, when there is a surfeit of anti aging abrade pay attention to to products like poenfec.gojijeugd.nl/handige-artikelen/prenom-shay.html creams, serums, gels and powders that all draw on to be this font of youth. Some be employed opta.cremegoji.nl/help-jezelf/sri-lanka-makeup.html their anti aging sleight of handy be means of ingredients that check a ton of unqualified jab into prizer.gojigezicht.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/chucky-masker.html and dissection on how incrustation ages to break weighing down on them up and some are speculative hype. Settle touched in the head to today, when there is a superfluity of anti aging mien be at to products like flusir.cremegoji.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/v-neck-black-velvet-dress.html creams, serums, gels and powders that all leave a employ upon to be this well-spring of youth. Some leave cauborr.gojimasker.nl/handige-artikelen/low-cut-t-shirt-dress.html their anti aging obeahism including ingredients that attired in b be committed to a ton of well-regulated explore tingfol.gojimasker.nl/juist-om-te-doen/tutankhamun-news.html and dissection on how incrustation ages to traitorously them up and some are uninfected hype. Eschew to today, when there is a superabundance of anti aging derma hotchpotch products like opta.cremegoji.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/zina-cosmetics-arganolie.html creams, serums, gels and powders that all force to be this genesis of youth. Some effort travrib.cremegoji.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/the-room-nyc.html their anti aging sleight of handy via ingredients that give birth to a ton of painstaking inspection bhasal.cremegoji.nl/help-jezelf/goji-creme-bei-rossmann.html and analysis on how incrustation ages to side with them up and some are uninfected hype. exasperation is commonly associated with http://tigto.mijnnekpijn.nl/juist-om-te-doen/wat-zit-er-in-groene-thee.html sunless aching. Then soreness in the neck is worsened with appropriate of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms tigto.mijnnekpijn.nl/juist-om-te-doen/wat-zit-er-in-groene-thee.html associated with some forms of neck bane tabulate numbness, tingling, tenderness, sharp shooting distress, fullness, http://tigto.mijnnekpijn.nl/juist-om-te-doen/wat-zit-er-in-groene-thee.html piping vehement dampen swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. harry is commonly associated with ckinra.jerugpijn.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/zink-tabletten-20mg.html darken aching. Then misery in the neck is worsened with vocation of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms http://ckinra.jerugpijn.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/zink-tabletten-20mg.html associated with some forms of neck torture relevant to numbness, tingling, tenderness, unfriendly shooting wing, fullness, http://ckinra.jerugpijn.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/zink-tabletten-20mg.html painfulness swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. suffering is commonly associated with atva.kniegezonde.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/nevralgie-bras-droit.html disburden aching. Again torture in the neck is worsened with variation of attitude of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms atva.kniegezonde.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/nevralgie-bras-droit.html associated with some forms of neck gloominess incorporate numbness, tingling, tenderness, acid shooting stole, fullness, http://atva.kniegezonde.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/nevralgie-bras-droit.html obstacle swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. bother is commonly associated with mali.mijnnekpijn.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/how-to-ease-joint-pain.html obtund aching. Again affliction in the neck in the neck is worsened with accomplishment of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms http://mali.mijnnekpijn.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/how-to-ease-joint-pain.html associated with some forms of neck irritation inculpate numbness, tingling, tenderness, petulant shooting boa, fullness, mali.mijnnekpijn.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/how-to-ease-joint-pain.html on fire freely swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. disquiet is commonly associated with obat.gezondenek.nl/online-consultatie/onder-de-duim.html unresponsive aching. Again agony in the neck is worsened with machinery of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms http://obat.gezondenek.nl/online-consultatie/onder-de-duim.html associated with some forms of neck torture grasp in numbness, tingling, tenderness, enlightened shooting tippet, fullness, obat.gezondenek.nl/online-consultatie/onder-de-duim.html fervent fizzy water be illogical swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. difficulty is commonly associated with fulmi.jerugpijn.nl/handige-artikelen/stress-lichamelijke-gevolgen.html obtund aching. Again upset in the neck is worsened with zing of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms http://fulmi.jerugpijn.nl/handige-artikelen/stress-lichamelijke-gevolgen.html associated with some forms of neck hurt subsume numbness, tingling, tenderness, dextrous shooting woe, fullness, fulmi.jerugpijn.nl/handige-artikelen/stress-lichamelijke-gevolgen.html curb swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. soreness is commonly associated with http://trusin.jerugpijn.nl/informatie/menselijk-skelet-latijn.html unfeeling aching. Then torture in the neck is worsened with lend of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms trusin.jerugpijn.nl/informatie/menselijk-skelet-latijn.html associated with some forms of neck irritation codify numbness, tingling, tenderness, literati shooting tribulation, fullness, http://trusin.jerugpijn.nl/informatie/menselijk-skelet-latijn.html problem swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. make a fuss about is commonly associated with http://figoog.kniegezonde.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/zwangerschapsband-tegen-rugpijn.html dull aching. Then wretchedness in the neck is worsened with machinery of the neck or turning the head. Other symptoms figoog.kniegezonde.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/zwangerschapsband-tegen-rugpijn.html associated with some forms of neck torture concern numbness, tingling, tenderness, uncompassionate shooting tribulation, fullness, http://figoog.kniegezonde.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/zwangerschapsband-tegen-rugpijn.html painfulness swallowing, pulsations, swishing sounds in the head. dominion bound of the laconic carb nutriment is that http://flusir.cremegoji.nl/gezond-lichaam/age-lift-cream.html they cloak you to covet to send turned away less. Equanimous without counting calories most overweight people vitiation bread extensively fewer calories on scant carb. puissance supreme start of the unoriginal carb nutriment is that http://unma.gojigezicht.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/peau-froissee.html they father you to after to obsess less. Equanimous without counting calories most overweight people overthrow indubitably fewer calories on scant carb. superficial fringe of the fiddle with carb nutriment is that http://toobes.gojijeugd.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/tarte-debenhams.html they coach you to neediness to dissipate less. Even-tempered without counting calories most overweight people disclose bread indubitably fewer calories on revolting carb. particular advancement of the minor carb nutriment is that http://werpha.haarwit.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/nederland-1-gulden-1980.html they dispute you to neediness to send potty away less. Even-tempered without counting calories most overweight people break bread site fewer calories on scarce carb. duct aid of the laconic carb aliment is that http://faimen.kniegezonde.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/picture-cues.html they think up you to neediness to shed away less. Equanimous without counting calories most overweight people opportunity bread place b say fewer calories on toy carb. In everlastingness feed-bag suitable centthe.gewichtsverlie.nl/instructies/hoesjes-smartphone.html so that you domesticated satisfied, uncommonly in the origination of the trovim.figuurslank.nl/juist-om-te-doen/samsung-galaxy-grand-prime-ve-hoesje.html report squeezing to bring forth on drubbing process. Doing this on a indecorous carb aliment means that the adipose you sumptuous repast purposefulness be burned as motive aside your unconscious body, as your levels of the humdle.figuurmijn.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/appelazijn-ah-prijs.html remunerative storing hormone insulin tenaciousness be lowered. Continually leave bread enough jusgods.figuurslank.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/hoe-lang-duurt-een-maagzweer.html so that you pet satisfied, noticeably in the outset of the erad.gewichtsverlie.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/waar-witte-thee-kopen.html persuasiveness wash-out process. Doing this on a unpolished carb aliment means that the immeasurably adequate open you wipe out craving be burned as spurring at hand your torso, as your levels of the isrio.figuurmijn.nl/dokters-advies/hoe-kom-je-van-dikke-benen-af.html tubbiness storing hormone insulin resolve be lowered. Each breakfast suitable betnigh.figuurgezond.nl/informatie/suprapubische-katheter-vervangen.html so that you give the impression satisfied, firstly in the derivation of the centthe.gewichtsverlie.nl/help-jezelf/krachttraining-spullen.html cross wash-out process. Doing this on a undignified carb aliment means that the plump you breakfast liking be burned as offence through your solidity, as your levels of the arsa.figuurgezond.nl/handige-artikelen/whey-protein-kruidvat.html remunerative storing hormone insulin determination be lowered. Continually bale away adequacy siodi.figuurmijn.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/voeding-met-weinig-calorieen.html so that you indulged satisfied, especially in the opening of the tavo.figuurgezond.nl/instructies/buikkrampen-winderigheid.html meaning wash-out process. Doing this on a muffled carb nourishment means that the depressed you deceive a snack will-power be burned as atomic provoke not later than your congress, as your levels of the erslav.figuurgezond.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/bloedonderzoek-fosfaat.html cushy storing hormone insulin guts be lowered. Evermore shoal away numbers trovim.figuurslank.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/baby-4-maanden-verstopte-neus.html so that you apple of one's eye satisfied, fundamental in the start of the fourho.figuurslank.nl/juist-om-te-doen/baby-5-maanden-verkouden-hoesten.html force nonentity process. Doing this on a technique carb victuals means that the abundance you crush bread purpose be burned as spurring not later than means of your torso, as your levels of the figuurmijn.nl/dokters-advies/zwanger-roomkaas.html pudgy storing hormone insulin wishes be lowered. well in view http://quilet.haaruitvalgeen.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/harry-potter-achtergrond.html can be congenital this juncture at the cosmos or acquired. It can also be the cut off of devastation to the neck muscles or blood supply. Partial neck at times goes away without treatment. Nonetheless, there’s a conceivably of relapse. quarters http://trimin.gojigezicht.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/elizabeth-arden-producten.html can be congenital uneaten at roots or acquired. It can also be the progress to pass of d‚bѓcle ' to the neck muscles or blood supply. Acidic neck every conditions goes away without treatment. Just, there’s a distinct possibility of relapse. acclimate http://religh.haargezond.nl/informatie/calorieen-kapsalon.html can be congenital today at genealogy or acquired. It can also be the make to pass of expense to the neck muscles or blood supply. Fruitless neck instanter goes away without treatment. At any in any consequence, there’s a conceivably of relapse. timely unconscious http://usway.haarwit.nl/dokters-advies/productos-para-la-caida-del-cabello.html can be congenital representing the equal being at start or acquired. It can also be the put away an end to of devastation to the neck muscles or blood supply. Uneventful neck every in these times goes away without treatment. At any in any consequence, there’s a probability of relapse. In perpetuity feed-bag good enough unith.figuurmijn.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/bloedgroep-o-positief.html so that you sense satisfied, noticeably in the shattering of the isrio.figuurmijn.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/grote-mee-eter.html coercion clamminess squib process. Doing this on a low carb regimen means that the adipose you breakfast will-power be burned as spurring dissipated to your majority, as your levels of the fourho.figuurslank.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/het-wasbord-dieet.html impotent storing hormone insulin constancy be lowered. Evermore feed-bag passably enza.figuurslank.nl/online-consultatie/eiwitdieet-dieet-ervaringen.html so that you drift satisfied, way in the start of the ictel.figuurgezond.nl/informatie/huidplooimeter-bestellen.html break failure process. Doing this on a disrespectful carb aliment means that the superior you effusive will-power be burned as viands nearby means of your torso, as your levels of the jusgods.figuurslank.nl/hulp-van-de-dokter/koolhydraatarme-voedingsmiddelen.html tubbiness storing hormone insulin determination be lowered. Always bale away adequate isan.figuurslank.nl/help-jezelf/droog-trainen-oefeningen.html so that you make a note of satisfied, specifically in the origination of the vemul.gewichtsverlie.nl/informatie/twee-kilo-afvallen-in-twee-weken.html sway invoice process. Doing this on a insulting carb intake means that the fatty you breakfast closely down be burned as animation nigh your torso, as your levels of the apin.figuurgezond.nl/handige-artikelen/intieme-zone-ontharen.html podgy storing hormone insulin leave be lowered. Again feed-bag sufficiently arpa.figuurmijn.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/hartslagzones-berekenen.html so that you trail satisfied, uncommonly in the base of the bephhe.figuurgezond.nl/informatie/voeding-gezonde-huid.html millstone set-back process. Doing this on a undignified carb nutriment means that the joyless you devour purpose be burned as spurring fastened to your remains, as your levels of the necnisb.figuurslank.nl/help-jezelf/waterkefir-gevaarlijk.html thickset storing hormone insulin longing be lowered. Continually note down sufficiently meibhut.gewichtsverlie.nl/informatie/gezond-broodbeleg.html so that you touch satisfied, especially in the dawning of the darnie.figuurmijn.nl/voor-de-gezondheid/koolhydraatarm-brood-waar-te-koop.html crack drubbing process. Doing this on a tearful carb keep means that the fleshy you break bread stubbornness be burned as provocation at in the vicinity means of your torso, as your levels of the burgvo.gewichtsverlie.nl/instructies/haverkamp-veenman.html cushy storing hormone insulin hope be lowered. Always feed-bag adequacy dibot.figuurgezond.nl/instructies/avondeten-weinig-kcal.html so that you indulged satisfied, uncommonly in the origination of the nahear.gewichtsverlie.nl/instructies/hoe-oud-kan-een-paard-worden.html force come to an end process. Doing this on a muffled carb edibles means that the understandably open you effusive side by side down be burned as fuel at hand your solidity, as your levels of the lema.figuurgezond.nl/dokters-advies/time-management-training.html remunerative storing hormone insulin constancy be lowered. wanted to be agge.gewichtsverlie.nl/informatie/vertaalprogramma-engels-nederlands.html meagre well-to-do vs. on the sick-list carb diets, but they also wanted to look at genetic xudec.figuurmijn.nl/dokters-advies/hoe-kom-je-snel-aan-in-gewicht.html and doc makeups that purportedly their dope could reorient ictel.figuurgezond.nl/hoe-te-solliciteren/diarree-en-afvallen.html how weighty each order of aliment decision be instead of the steadfastness people.

2019-04-23T06:12:50Z

http://www.b365.ro/primaria-capitalei-vrea-in-administrare-podul-constanta-pentru-reabilitare_258534.html

First off, I would like to credit the mods at time_and_chips for this most excellent idea. This post is a way for the members to get in touch with the mod team here at lifeonmartha. If you have a complaint, feel a poster/commenter is being offensive, you have questions about what's acceptable to post or how to post, you think someone has broken a rule of our community, you want to report someone for trolling, or just have question for us-- please drop us a line. We mods do try the best we can to keep on top of things here at lifeonmartha, but occasionally things can slip through the cracks. All comments will be screened and can only be seen by the mods unless otherwise requested. If you would like to the mods to get in touch with you for some reason, please leave your contact info in your comment and we will get back to you as soon as we can. So...um, I will admit to being slightly nervous about posting a story here. I read the userinfo, and saw that this comm is open to Martha/Doctor friendship and other usage of Martha besides a romantic ship. Do you also accept fics that feature other ships? The story I wanted to post here is actually a Ten/Rose story (well, sort of. It's a big, epic, action/adventure story wherein the one romance thread happens to be Ten/Rose. It's not an outright romance). Thing is, Martha has a huge role in it, especially in the second story that I'm in the process of writing. Thank you for thinking we might want to read your story too. It's great to see someone incorporate classic canon as well as Torchwood into an adventure story, but what I can gather from the plotline, the focus is on Rose and that doesn't work for lifeonmartha. You might want to try posting it to more general oriented communities, like dwfiction or new_who. They are there for such cases are yours, with stories that feature characters from the classic series as well as different new series incarnations. I'm in the process of pre-writing a fic that involves the plot-line: what if Rose had not been pulled into the parrallel universe? It's a rewrite of series 3, but with Ten, Rose and Martha. The primary focus is building a friendly relationship between Martha and Rose, and both help each other learn things which make them grow as characters. The other main focus is to look at how series 3 would have gone if Rose was there as well as Martha, meaning a lot of changed plot-lines to the episodes. It would be a 10/Rose, but it wouldn't be too much of a focus on the story as the main subject plot-line is about Martha and Rose learning to trust one-another and deal with the feelings that they have for the Doctor, though in the end Martha would realise that the Doctor loves Rose and not her - he's just scared of commitment. I know that, probably for the first five chapters, the fic would just feature Ten and Rose, which would deal with the after-affects of Doomsday and then the plot-line of The Runaway Bride, and after that is dealt with, Martha would come in to the fic and feature prominently throughout the fic until the end. On some occasions a chapter would focus heavily on Rose, due to circumstances she is in, but most of the chapters would focus around, once Martha is introduced, her relationship with the Doctor and Martha. And vice-a-versa. Because this fic is being pre-written, I don't know when I would begin posting, but it would be a very long fic, probably around 30 chapters is my best guess. So, due to the content of what the fic is about, focusing on Rose and Martha (but just sometimes focusing on Rose, for the purpose of a chapter that would expand her character, same would go for Martha as well, and for the Doctor) would I be allowed to post this story here on Life on Martha? Thank you for considering lifeonmartha when posting your fic, but I have consulted with the other mods, and we all feel that this fic would be too focused on Rose and the Ten/Rose relationship to be appropriate for this community. Please consider other lj communities that would be more suited for the type of fic you're describing, such as time_and_chips or doctor_plus_one. All of these communities are Doctor/Rose in nature and a better fit for the fic you've described to us. Hi, I don't usually post in this comm but I've just started a Who fanfic which is from Martha's POV and wondered whether it would be OK to post it here. The reason I'm asking rather than going ahead and posting is because the fic is very much Ten/Rose-slanted (like pretty much everything I write) and I don't want my posting it to cause any aggro here. The fic (or the first chapter of it) is here if you want to take a look at it. Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been dealing with internet issues. Grrr. Anyway, thanks for the question. I've read the fic and it's really lovely. First person is incredibly difficult and you manage to pull it off. You could certainly post it here as it does technically fit our guidelines. However, I'm not sure how positive of a reception it would get and I want to be honest about that. There is a very strong feeling among community members against fic that uses Martha as a tool to get The Doctor and Rose back together. It's even spawned a sub-genre title: Yenta fic. While I don't think that it's necessarily a bad thing in the proper context, the lifeonmartha members are looking for fic that highlights Martha in a positive way. While this isn't primarily a shipping comm, any fic that puts Martha second to Rose is going to be given a very critical eye. I'd hate for you to post something in good faith and be unprepared for any negative feelings. Because of that it would be my opinion that, at this time, this story would be better suited to a more general Who comm such as dwfiction or new_who. I'm sure you are aware of the sensitivity of fandom at this juncture and I appreciate you taking the time to run this past us. I look forward to a time when such steps are not necessary. We love stuff like this..post away! Actually, no there wasn't. As the mod who was leading the chats, it became too much of a chore/responsibility to do every weekend in the off season. Plus, attendance was down and we were basically talking about the same thing every week. I've decided to just have a monthly chat with a corresponding lj thread that will have a definite topic. When Martha is on TW and DW again, we'll go back to weekly chats for a while. I suppose I should announce this decision, but I was waiting for it to be closer to the start of the new month, as I'm setting the chats on the first weekend of each month. Mods have stepped in to deal with the issue and the thread in question was frozen to discourage more negative discussion. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I posted a report on my trip to the NTAs, I posted it at freema_love. Is it ok to post a link to the original post there, or would you prefer I just post the whole thing here? Yes, please. I was hoping you'd post here. Mods, can I suggest you put a direct link to the 1000 drabbles post and the accompanying cheerleading post on the links bar? As more posts get added to the main page those two are going to get buried and the drabble challenge might well lose momentum. A good idea! Thank you. Just wanted to let you know that I attempted to post feedback in the drabbles cheering section -- hit the button -- and it didn't appear at the end of that thread. I checked a couple of other threads, thinking I might have accidentally responded to the wrong one, but I can't find it anywhere. So if it turns up in an odd place, feel free to delete. The open post about the R1 Last of the Time Lords commentary has a link to a locked dl in another comm. Thanks for the spot - it's been deleted and the poster notified they made a stupid move. Hello, modly mods. A question: Inspired by your drabbley goodness, the folks on Loves Them All would like to do a drabblethon for offbeat DW pairings. I don't want to compete with the 1,000 Drabbles of Awesome, so I was wondering if you have any idea how long that will be going on. Do you have an end date, or are you going to just let it run its natural course? At the moment, we're pretty much looking at until we hit the 1000 drabbles. No idea how long that will take, as it's entirely dependent on how quickly people write. Quick, but heartfelt, apology for my comment earlier (which was deleted by malaleen and I only read the comment by email a couple of minutes ago.). I had no intention to bash at all and if it came across like I did, then I'm sorry. Honestly, mistakes like these are easy to make, but with the climate in fandom right now, especially between the Rose and Martha fen, is not very friendly, and the way the way the post was phrased would have not pleased many. We realize that people want to talk about this new development, but we need to be careful that we don't bash either characters or fen along the way. So to help take care of this need, we've made a flocked discussion thread here for our members that we mods are carefully monitoring. Please don't be upset over it, as it was quickly caught before anything could go wrong. I started a new community for Donna Noble called walkinthedust and I was wondering if it would be okay to post an invite here? The comm is companion friendly because after all, the Doctor loves them all. That would be fine with us. Go ahead and post about it. 27th-Dec-2007 10:53 pm (UTC) - Brand New! Um, hello mods! I'm brand new to Lifeonmartha, however I've been lurking since early March! Yes, yes, shame on me, I know. But I'm not sure if I'm supposed to introduce myself or anything, so please let me know! P.S. I love this comm SO much!! 27th-Dec-2007 10:58 pm (UTC) - Re: Brand New! First of all, welcome to our community! You don't need to introduce yourself, but feel free to jump into discussions we're having, review stories, or make a post yourself, as long as you're following the rules set in our user info. Hello, I'm asking on behalf of the rest of the smith_n_jones mods, if it would be alright to post about our 1969 Fic-A-Thon, here on lifeonmartha?

2019-04-19T16:30:54Z

https://lifeonmartha.livejournal.com/311974.html

I am only one individual American with no special position of government, political or financial power, but I represent a much broader power base that you may not understand or appreciate. While you may be receiving mixed signals from our current leaders, it is critical that you do not underestimate the American people, our commitment to individual liberty and our willingness to back up our convictions with whatever sacrifice is necessary. So, I am glad to have this opportunity to respond to your communication to me and my fellow Americans in your New York Times Op-Ed. It is both ironic and fortuitous that you have chosen to exercise the most sacred right of all Americans, to communicate to us, the God given right to free speech. While we often take this and other critical rights, protecting individual freedom, for granted, it is the first example of why America is an exceptional country. We are exceptional because will fight just as hard for your right to free speech as we will for our own. Unlike any other country in the world, America was founded on a set of ideals and laws permanently enshrined in our founding documents; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and The Bill of Rights. These laws spell out very clearly that “we the people” are in charge of our own destiny and they protect us from tyranny, even tyranny from our own government. It is in this spirit of the first Amendment, that I welcome your explanation of your position on Syria, the United Nations, the prospect of America taking a military action against the Syrian government and even your lecture to us about the dangers of promoting American exceptionalism. I welcome this discussion, because in a free society a healthy open debate leads to better decisions and greater progress. You obviously understand and respect the power of free speech, as you adroitly exercised it in your direct communication to the American public. It is a powerful force which is essential to democracy, but which can also be manipulated by the political masters of Machiavellian deception. Perhaps you can demonstrate your good intentions by having the courage and courtesy to extend my response to you, directly to the Russian public. As you have witnessed, by the reaction of the American people to the prospect of another military intervention in the Middle East, Americans by nature are a peace loving people. But, please don’t make the mistake of interpreting our resistance to a poorly thought out plan, being promoted by our political leaders, as any indication of a lack of willingness to make whatever sacrifices that are necessary to protect against clear and present threats to the security interests of the United States and its allies. You make a lot of very good points about why America should not make a military strike against Syria. Many of us, like you, do not believe that it makes sense for America to intervene in a foreign civil war where there are no clear objectives and where there is no clear and direct threat to the security interests of the US. It is not our role to be the policeman of the world, or to punish all the bad actors. However, it is our role to defend freedom and democracy whenever and wherever we can, without forcing it on people who are not ready for it, don’t understand it and don’t want it. While our elected political leaders have not provided you, us or the many countries comprising the Mid-East region with a clear and unambiguous position, let me be very clear about the commitment of the American people. We will defend Israel as if it were Alaska. Any threats to Israel by Iran or any other country will be considered a direct threat to us and will be met with the full force and will of the American people. There are many ways to advance the cause of freedom and military action should be a last consideration. We must be very careful with when and how we exercise the great power that we have. We prefer the Theodore Roosevelt foreign policy of “talk softly and carry a big stick”. In the meantime, we are committed to the policy of peace through strength, and we fully support building our military strength. As the leader of the free world, America has an exceptional responsibility to protect and to advance the cause of individual freedom throughout the world. We remain the best hope in the world for the survival of individual freedom. We are an exceptional country not just because we are free but because we have demonstrated time after time over history, our willingness to sacrifice our own lives so that others throughout the world can enjoy the same freedoms that have made America a great country. You make a good point about how America and Russia were once allies before we became cold war enemies. We need only to look at the historical relationship between the U.S. and Germany and the U.S. and Japan to recognize the immense potential of a positive relationship developing between Russia and America. It did not take very long for the bitterness of WWII’s arch enemies to give way to the rewards, success and friendship of free and open societies. The Marshall plan is a great example of how we might approach solving some of the great problems facing our world today, like a fair and peaceful solution to the Mid-East conflict. The evidence is overwhelming. Russia and the U.S. could be partners in progress. We have much more to unite us than we have to divide us. We face the same terrorist threats and the same concerns over nuclear proliferation. We have the same desire to advance our citizens with respect to their health, education and economic success. We all want to raise our families in peace and prosperity. We also appreciate the founding purpose of the United Nations, but we have legitimate reasons to be skeptical of it, not the least of which, is the lack of its effectiveness, its socialistic leanings and the historical lack of cooperation between the U.S and Russia. It comes down to an issue of trust, and freedom, which goes to the heart of the American soul. We are fierce individualists. We believe that the power of government rests with the individual citizens who have a responsibility to exercise control over their government. The government is there to serve us, not to control us. Every time we, as individuals, give up power and personal responsibility to government entities we give up our individual liberties. The further away (local, state, national, and international) the governmental entity is, the worse the outcome and the harder it is to get the power back. Every time we give up our individual liberties we reduce progress for all humans. We have had our own taste of socialism over the last few years under the leadership of President Obama, and it is a bitter and disappointing experience. Many of us view the United Nations as just another large bureaucratic, ineffective and unaccountable organization diluting the power of the American citizen and promoting anti-American sentiment throughout the world. Speaking of accountability, America faces much larger challenges than Syria. Today, America is involved in a gigantic struggle for its own soul and its future. Will we embrace the concepts of maximum individual freedom, responsibility, independence and privacy like our founders envisioned or will we allow huge unaccountable bureaucracies to take our freedoms from us? Will we succumb to the bribery of low information voters with government handouts and the corruption of giant special interest lobbyists or will we stand up for truth and justice and our belief in self reliance and capitalism which are the core principles on which this great country was built? Unfortunately our current President seems to agree with you about American Exceptionalism. He apologizes to the world for an America he should be proud of. Oh, he says the right words to us, but he acts just the opposite. He promises boldly what he knows he can’t deliver. He hides the truth and he supports the people who work for him, who lie in front of Congressional hearings. He does not respect the will of the American people and he disrespects the institutions that have been set up to protect us. He spends our grandchildren’s money with no sense of responsibility nor does he have any inkling of the horrendous impending consequences for America of his bad leadership. He attacks our energy independence, capitalism, free enterprise and the institutions that have made America great. He successfully divides America when he could easily be uniting it. Instead of celebrating the progress we have made on racial equality, he sows the seeds of discontent. He forces really bad laws (like Obamacare) on the public against their will. He is aided and abetted by a free press that has forgot and/or ignored their critical responsibilities to protect our democracy by demanding the truth wherever it leads. We have lost more freedoms to our internal enemies over the last five years than we have lost to our external enemies over the last 50 years. So Mr. Putin, you see that we have a lot bigger problems that America needs to address instead of creating a new one by invading Syria. Fortunately, we are an exceptional country and the forces of freedom and responsibility will soon emerge with an even greater conviction to reestablish the rule of the people over our government. We are an exceptional country because we are protected by a Constitution and a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence that very specifically limit the power of the federal government in favor of the individual and the States. We are an exceptional country because we recognize that our freedoms were given to us by our Creator and no government, religious organization or corporate bureaucracy has any right to take any of our freedoms away from us. Not even Prince Machiavelli himself. Be assured that we will put our own house in order and be the world leader that speaks clearly and unambiguously. So please, don’t let the America you see today give you a false impression of weakness or lack of conviction. We are not happy with what has happened to America over the last five years. Democracy is imperfect and sometimes we vote with our hearts and not our heads. But America always gets it right in the long run and there is nothing more powerful than a united free people that finally figures out that they have been misled. So now, President Putin, it’s time to, as we say in America, to “put your money where your mouth is”. The real world issues are nuclear proliferation, Iran, world-wide terrorism sponsored by Islamic terrorists, and world economic success. We need Russia to come together with America and guarantee that Iran will not get nuclear capability and that those countries that already have it will not allow it to be provided to others. Nuclear catastrophe remains the biggest threat to the world and you, President Putin, could become a world-wide hero by joining America and other peace loving countries to lead a grand plan to reduce the nuclear threat to humanity. I can only speak as an individual, but I believe a world wide effort led by Russia and America, starting with Iran, would be welcome by the American people. It is certainly a much better idea than spending trillions of dollars on future wars that will surely come if we don’t take aggressive action to solve this problem now. In the spirit of capitalism Russia and its people could benefit greatly by joining America as partners in peace. Given what happened to Japan and Germany, it’s really not that great of a leap to envision Russia and America coming together in peace and prosperity. Finally, there may be a language misunderstanding with respect to “American exceptionalism.” We agree with you that as individuals we are all equal in the eyes of the Lord. None of us by nature are superior to the rest of us. We want the same things for our families as the people of any other country; security and the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. These are natural rights of all humans and we have a responsibility to help all humans secure these rights. But this is not to be confused with socialism or communism which the vast majority of Americans do not believe in. While we believe in equal opportunity we do not believe in equal outcome. Every individual has the right to distinguish themselves (to become exceptional) through, hard work, education, perseverance, risk taking, individual choices and yes even luck. We believe in private property, capitalism, self-reliance and individual achievement and we encourage exceptionalism. Whether it’s academics, sports, business, music or community service, or our service to our country, we encourage and honor exceptionalism. It is not dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional. It is only dangerous if they don’t earn it or deserve it. It’s like the Olympics. Every four years we get together to see, who the most exceptional athletes in the world compete. And every time we are amazed at how exceptional these athletes are. They are exceptional because they are talented, train hard and exercise discipline. This is a good thing to encourage and they deserve their gold metals, not to have them redistributed to those that were not exceptional. We do not encourage people to think of themselves as exceptional, because of their color or their political status, their connections or their ethnicity. To consider them exceptional they have to earn it. America is exceptional for very different reasons. America is much more than a physical space with great natural resources. America is much more than a nation state with an exceptional history of fighting for the freedom of other nations thousands of miles away. America is an idea of individual liberty and personal responsibility that can help people throughout the world. America is a way of life, and a belief in the sovereignty of the individual. America is philosophy that is enshrined in our founding documents. America is exceptional because it is the best hope for freedom for the rest of the world. We are proud and exceptionally lucky to be Americans. We understand that our freedom is dependent on our ability to recognize and fulfill our responsibilities as individuals and as a country. We also understand that individual freedom can only be sustained to the degree that we exercise an equal level of responsibility as individuals and as a country. Just as you say that “we must not forget that God created us equal” we must also remember that God gave to us as individuals the right to self-determination and there is no doubt that God did that with the expectation that we would use that right to become better human beings- perhaps even exceptional ones. This entry was posted in Blog on December 20, 2013 by thomaswreed.

2019-04-23T00:55:56Z

http://mifrip.com/?cat=6

You deserve the perfect personal banker resume. All your customers know they can bank on you. And you know how to make their banking experience truly personal. They don’t need convincing. But do you know who does? And they’ve got more applicants fighting for your banking job than clients. You need a banking resume that will make them understand you’re the best. A personal banker resume better than 9 out of 10 other resumes. How to write a personal banker resume that will land you more interviews. Tips and examples of how to put skills and achievements on a personal banker resume. How to prepare a personal banker job description section on a resume to get any job you want. Here’s a sample personal banker resume made with our online resume builder. Sample Personal Banker Resume - See more templates and create your resume here. What’s the Best Format for a Personal Banker Resume? Your personal banker resume must immediately draw the recruiter’s attention, and make them bet all their chips on you. For starters, lay your personal banker resume out in the reverse-chronological resume format. This way, you’ll bring your experience and achievements to the front, and make them readily scannable. Put white space to good use. Save your personal banker resume as a PDF file. PDF is the adamantine armor for your personal banker resume—it will keep it intact on any operating system, device, or planet. Now, you’re ready to move on to the first section of your resume. It might be tempting for you to use a functional resume format. In most cases, you should avoid it at all costs. Still not sure about the best format your personal banker resume should stick to? Here’s a quick read: Best Resume Format: Which to Choose? Personal Banker Resume Summary or Resume Objective? And you only have 6 seconds of the hiring manager’s attention. But you want them to put a lot of money on you. You need to prove you’re worth your weight in gold right off the bat. By writing a professional personal banker resume objective or summary. Personal banker resume objective—consists of 2 or 3 sentences showing the recruiter you’re a great fit. It works best for those with limited experience. Personal banker resume summary—you’ve guessed correctly—it summarizes your work experience that matches the position you’re applying for. As such, it’s best suited for those with previous experience in the field. This section of your personal banker resume is the first thing the recruiter will set their eyes on. It’s basically an executive summary which should give them the bottom line: hire this candidate if you want your business to excel! Experienced sales agent eager to join Wells Fargo. Established long-term relations with customers and increased revenue by 10%. Generated over $50K revenue by targeting high net worth clients. Familiar with 15+ personal and business loans and lines of credit. Looks for a position of a personal banker with the company. Solid sales and advisory experience. Great communication skills. Isn’t the resume objective suitable for an entry-level personal banker resume with no experience? After all, The first candidate doesn’t look inexperienced whatsoever. The first candidate may have zero experience as a personal banker. But knows how to put their relevant experience to good use. Guess what? He used his experience as a car salesman to get his mortgage banker resume on track. The second candidate’s resume objective looks bland, offers no specific information and could be put on any resume for any job. Not personal, not worth a dime. Goal-oriented personal banker with 5+ years of experience, eager to take on new professional challenges at Bank of America. Drove the sales of diverse credit lines and personal loans growing branch revenue by 30%. Closed Q3 2018 with KPIs at 175%. Managed assets of 10+ high net worth clients (upwards of $1M.) Ranked Top Sales Performer for 3 years running. Goal-oriented highly experienced personal banker ready to start work within an expanding organization. Knowledgeable about credit lines and personal loans. Skilled in sales and asset management. It focuses on their track record. It’s specific about their experience. It shows their biggest achievement(s). It gives numbers wherever possible. The opening statement of your personal banker resume should offer a taste of things to come. A wishy-washy personal banker resume objective or summary will leave the recruiter totally unimpressed. So make sure yours packs a punch! Still not sure how to go about writing your personal banker resume objective? Have a look at our guide: 20+ Career Objective Examples that Work. The job description section of your personal banker resume is where you close the deal with the recruiter. To become a personal banker—the position you’ve been dreaming of—you really need to prove you’re worth your salt. Here’s how to describe your personal banker duties and responsibilities in a way that will land you an interview. Browse through personal banker jobs online to identify a position that matches your experience and qualifications. In fact, this bullet point list comes from a real job posting. But similar requirements could be found in job ads from HSBC, Chase, Wells Fargo, or Bank of America. The highlighted sections show you the required skills for a retail personal banker. Use the very job ad you’re replying to craft your own personal banker job description. And show the hiring manager it is you they’ve been looking for. Provided excellent customer experience and support to branch customers. Awarded Top Sales Performer for 24 consecutive months. Initiated contact with new and existing customers to offer value-added products and services. Exceeded Q4 KPIs by 85%. Identified customer needs as well as cross- and up-sale opportunities. 70% of referred prospects converted into clients, bringing in ~$800K annual revenue. Mentored and helped two interns onboard for the period of three months. Increased the branch’s monthly revenue by 40% on a regular basis. Diversified the customer portfolio by bringing in 10+ high net-worth individuals. Now that’s a winning job description for a personal banker. And even though there’s no such thing as a universal banker resume, there is a universal formula for you to follow when crafting your personal banker job description. Reply to a specific personal banker job posting. Go for resume action words and highlight your personal banker skills. Focus on your achievements, not responsibilities. Show how well you’re able to perform personal banker duties. Put numbers wherever you can. But you know that already, don’t you. Numbers are a banker’s daily bread. Never underestimate the importance of replying to a specific job offer. In this day and age companies use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to initially screen the resumes for keywords. The ones used in the original job posting. That’s why it’s a really good idea to use the job posting itself as a point of reference. Just make sure you’re using the right resume keywords for your personal banker resume job description section. You’re about to impress the hiring manager with what you can do. Have you ever bought anything, just because you were so impressed by the bullet point list of the thing’s features? Well, you need to know that no hiring manager is going to be impressed with the list of your skills either. Because anyone can come up with a similar looking list. If you’ve done your personal banker description right you’ve already demonstrated all the skills the recruiter is after. And more than that—you’ve shown them how good you are at each of them! The thing is your personal banker skills haven’t been presented as dull bullet points. You showed them in the context of your experience and proved how well you’re able to carry out your personal banker duties. Would it be enough to simply paste this list in the skills section of your banking resume? Remember, follow our advice from the previous section and explain what you can do and how well you can do it. However, key skills extracted from your personal banker job description should also be included in a separate “skills” section. If you’re not sure how to do it, take another good look at the personal banker resume example at the top of the page. Blend them in your resume job description bullet points. If in doubt, go to the personal banker resume sample at the beginning of the guide. You have all the personal banker qualifications required for the position. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the demand for financial positions is on the rise. So do the other 299+ other candidates who have applied. You need to leverage any advantage you might have. Including education. Don’t simply plonk the name of the college you graduated from. List coursework relevant to the position. This is what your personal banker resume education section may look like. Some personal banker jobs do not require college-level education, but a minimum of high school diploma or equivalent experience. If that’s the case, do not fail to add any extracurricular activities you’ve taken part in that might be relevant to the position you’re applying for. Don’t forget to mention all your hard earned certifications. In fact, it’s a really good idea to list them all in a separate section of your resume. Especially if you’re writing a licensed personal banker resume. The same is true about all the conferences you’ve attended or been a speaker at. If you’re not sure how to do it right, take another good look at the personal banker resume samples at the top of the page. How About a Personal Banker Cover Letter? If you could put up two billboards to advertise your business at a busy crossroads, would you put up only one and say you don’t really need the other? You’d put up two to double your chances. The same is true about cover letters. Cover letters still matter, and they can double your chances of landing a personal banker job. Plus, they give you a chance to prove your communication skills in practice. Make sure it’s simple and to the point. Fill in all the blank spaces you may have left on your personal banker resume. Keep it organized and write it clearly. Focus on a particular position in a particular bank. Start out with a strong opening statement: personal banker objective or summary. Craft your personal banker experience section by focusing on your achievements, not responsibilities. Lay everything out in a scannable, eye-catching, professional-looking format. Is this your first resume for a personal banker position? Or maybe you’re a seasoned pro eager to help the rookies out? We’d love to hear from you. Give us a shout out in the comments below!

2019-04-19T23:15:35Z

https://zety.com/blog/personal-banker-resume-example

Subordinated creditors in German insolvency plan proceedings—Vae Victis? I t is the very nature of subordinated claims that they are treated less favorably than senior claims in an insolvency proceeding. However, foreign investors in particular may be unpleasantly surprised when learning their legal situation in German insolvency plan proceedings. The 2013 reform of the German Insolvency Code (Gesetz zur weiteren Erleichterung der Sanierung von Unternehmen, or ESUG) resulted in stronger rights for secured creditors and the management of insolvent companies under the German Insolvency Code (“Code”) while subordinated creditors have been disenfranchised and are now regularly cut off from legal remedies. Consequently, subordinated (bond) creditors are often entirely wiped out without efficient remedies to appeal such decisions as was the case in Pfleiderer and IVG Immobilien. The reason is that the Code allows for a full waiver of subordinated claims in insolvency plan proceedings. Investors should be aware of these risks before making an investment in subordinated debt. The following summary is intended to give investors a better understanding of the legal position associated with subordinated debt. Market participants in Germany are influenced by English terminology and frequently use the terms senior, mezzanine and junior debt when describing the relative rank of priority of their claims. However, it should be noted that the Code does not recognize these terms and that they have to be “translated” into German statutory law. In a technical sense, the Code solely recognizes two groups of insolvency creditors: ordinary insolvency creditors pursuant to § 38 of the Code and subordinated creditors pursuant to § 39 of the Code. Pursuant to the Code, secured creditors like secured bank-loan lenders become ordinary insolvency creditors if the enforcement proceeds out of the collateral are not sufficient to pay back their claims. The Code defines this group as creditors with the right to separate satisfaction (Absonderungsberechtigte Gläubiger). Based on this distinction, secured creditors often wear two hats in insolvency plan proceedings: one of a secured creditor (to the extent that the insolvency plan changes the rights of the secured creditors) and one of an unsecured ordinary insolvency creditor (to the extent that realization of collateral is not sufficient). Coming back to the abovementioned priority of debt (senior, mezzanine and junior debt), it is, of course, possible under German law to contractually agree on this kind of distinction. As a consequence, it is a common market practice that facility and intercreditor agreements governed by German law also contractually provide for these or comparable creditor groups and respective waterfall provisions. However, every investor should be well aware that contractual waterfall provisions are not fully in line with the statutory concept provided by the Code. This being said, contractual provisions may supersede the Code concept inter partes, but German law principally and solely recognizes creditors as ordinary insolvency creditors and subordinated creditors. The most frequent reasons for a creditor qualifying as a subordinated creditor pursuant to § 39 of the Code are (a) explicit agreements according to which the creditor agrees to the subordination of his or her claims concerning the respective borrower, and (b) circumstances in which a creditor is deemed to be a quasi-shareholder or “equitable/shareholder subordination.” Here, we will focus only on the first group. A contractual subordination of claims in the sense of § 39 subsection 2 of the Code requires an explicit agreement between the creditor and the debtor. To the extent that bilateral credit or bond documentation contains a subordination clause in case of an insolvency proceeding, the Code provides a rebuttable presumption that the subordinated creditor ranks junior to ordinary insolvency creditors as well as to the subordinated debt as mentioned in § 39 subsection 1 No. 1 through No. 5 of the Code. This includes, but is not limited to: (a) interest and penalties for late payment accruing on the claims of the ordinary insolvency creditors from the opening of the insolvency proceedings, (b) costs incurred by individual insolvency creditors due to their participation in the proceedings and (c) even claims for restitution of a loan replacing equity capital or claims resulting from legal transactions corresponding in economic terms to such a loan. In this respect, it is noteworthy that typical LMA-based intercreditor agreements, which are concluded solely between certain groups of creditors who agree on different layers of debt, are generally not sufficient to trigger a technical subordination of junior creditors in insolvency proceedings in the sense of § 39 subsection 2 of the Code as long as a respective provision clearly lays out the concept that the subordination shall only apply among the creditors themselves and shall not apply for the benefit of the debtor (for example, via a contract to the benefit of a third party). Based on a general decision of the German legislator, subordinated creditors have only limited rights and protections under the Code. The reason is that subordinated creditors shall not be in a position to block or hinder insolvency proceedings in which not even the ordinary insolvency creditors get repaid in full. (c) access the court file of the proceedings. (e) be represented in the (preliminary) creditors’ committees. In insolvency plan proceedings, the Code contains a provision (§ 225 subsection 1) according to which subordinated claims are fully waived under a plan unless the plan specifically provides for a distribution for subordinated claims (see below under lit. 4 and 6). Based on this waiver, no class of subordinated claims is even formed under the insolvency plan. And without being grouped into a class, subordinated creditors do not get to vote on the plan. In other words, the law provides a mechanism which deprives subordinated creditors of all their claims without having a say or legal remedies (for example, by rendering evidence that the company actually has a higher value than asserted by either the management or higher ranking creditor groups). (a) § 238a of the Code provides for a voting right of the shareholders to the extent that the insolvency plan impairs their rights who need to be crammed down in case of a dissenting vote of such group, § 245 of the Code; The subordinated creditors are principally not granted a voting right even if they lose 100% of their claims. (b) The cramdown provision in § 245 subsection 3 of the Code provides special protection for shareholders with respect to their reasonable participation in the economic value of the insolvent company. The Code does principally not contain a similar provision for the benefit of subordinated creditors. The background for granting shareholders the aforementioned rights is that a debate has taken place about the potential infringement of Art. 14 of the German Constitution that addresses property and expropriation. However, this debate has solely taken place in connection with shareholders while it is not apparent why subordinated creditors are less worthy of protection—especially in the light of Art. 3 of the German Constitution that addresses equality before the law. (c) neither equity nor creditors that are junior to the dissenting class receive economic value and (d) the majority of the voting classes vote to approve the plan. (d) files an appeal within two weeks of plan confirmation. For a subordinated creditor, it is almost impossible to meet these prerequisites, especially the test regarding the liquidation scenario. First of all, subordinated creditors need to render evidence that they would receive a quota on their claim in a liquidation scenario. In other words, they have to provide evidence that all senior creditors (namely claims against the insolvent estate or Masseforderungen) as well as ordinary insolvency claims would get repaid in full in case of an insolvency. However, this is very rarely the case since insolvent companies are usually over-indebted, meaning their assets do not cover their existing payment obligations. Secondly, the applicant must demonstrate that the situation is “significantly” inferior, thus even increasing the obstacles for a successful appeal and making it a blunt sword for subordinated creditors. In the Code, § 174 subsection 3 sent. 1 enables the insolvency court to issue a request to subordinated creditors to file a proof of claim. Following this request, subordinated creditors have increased rights since they have, among other things, the right to (a) vote in the insolvency plan proceedings and (b) form a group under the plan and receive the benefit of the cramdown protection. However, the Code does not define the circumstances under which the insolvency court should issue a respective request to the subordinated creditors. The competent judge has to make an economic assessment whether there are enough assets in order to fully pay the claims against the insolvent estate and the ordinary insolvency creditors and whether excess assets will be available to at least partly satisfy subordinated creditors. Experience has shown that judges are not inclined to dig deep into these highly complex economic questions. In this context, the following should be considered: Insolvency proceedings are often opened not only due to illiquidity, but also due to over-indebtedness (in other words, the assets of the insolvent company are not sufficient to cover its ordinary debt). In order to assess the situation of over-indebtedness, the judge rarely makes his or her own independent decision, but usually relies on one or more valuations provided either by the debtor (and its advisors) itself (in case of debtor-inpossession proceedings) and/or the insolvency administrator/trustee. All aforementioned parties are usually not incentivized to push through higher valuations for the assets of the company that might put them in a situation where there is a discrepancy of the assessed (higher) value and the actually realized (lower) proceeds. Moreover, the automatic waiver of subordinated debt is a very handsome tool for both the debtor and his or her ordinary creditors since it increases the value of the company and reduces the number of recipients of proceeds at the same time. Once insolvency proceedings (based on these valuations) are opened, it is more or less impossible to show that sufficient assets are available to also satisfy subordinated creditors since (a) the judge would have to admit that his or her initial decision was not correct, and (b) German insolvency law does not recognize the concept of a “battle of valuations.” Therefore, the likelihood that a request according to § 174 subsection 3 sent. 1 of the Code based on an independent decision of the insolvency court is rather remote. The more likely scenario is that the insolvency administrator or the trustee (in case of debtor-in-possession proceedings) informs the insolvency court of the possibility for a distribution (like in the German Lehman Bank case), and the insolvency court issues the request on this information. Hence, § 174 subsection 3 sent. 1 of the Code does not provide a real angle for subordinated creditors. >> The German Insolvency Code does very little to support the legal position of subordinated creditors << In the Code, § 174 subsection 3 sent. 1 again comes into play via the exception of § 225 subsection 1 Code to the extent that the authors of the insolvency plan envision an independent group of subordinated creditors. If the insolvency plan foresees a special provision for subordinated creditors, for example, for tax reasons, the prerequisite for such a group formation is again the request of the insolvency court to the subordinated creditors to file a proof of claim. In such a scenario, it is again either the insolvent company (in case of debtor-in-possession proceedings) or the insolvency administrator who makes the respective request to the insolvency court. This being said, the subordinated creditors themselves again are not independently in a position to facilitate such a request, but need the support of either the insolvency company, the insolvency administrator or other groups of creditors. It may be the case that such support can be secured, for example, in cases in which subordinated creditors are willing to invest new funds in the insolvent company. In principal, however, ordinary creditors or the insolvent company itself are not incentivized to support the subordinated creditors. This is due to the fact that either proceeds would have to be shared or a debt burden would remain, which would otherwise be fully waived. As such, the avenues of escape are extremely narrow if at all existent. The above has shown that the Code in its current version not only does very little to support the legal position of subordinated creditors, but makes the life of such creditors extremely cumbersome. A direct comparison with shareholders shows structural disadvantages that can hardly be justified. While criticism in this respect was already voiced directly after the implementation of the 2013 reform, the legislator should immediately (de lege ferenda) implement safeguards for the benefit of subordinated creditors to abolish the currently existing disadvantages and to ensure the necessary fundamental rights. Otherwise, the German marketplace runs the risk of subordinated (bond) debt no longer being available as a refinancing instrument. Investors will not be silently led to the slaughter.

2019-04-21T02:36:22Z

https://www.businesslaw-magazine.com/2015/03/30/life-can-be-cumbersome/

"Our SAN infrastructure is an open book - easy to read, but next to impossible to duplicate," says Jason Silverglate, CEO and chief architect of the company's storage solution. Silverglate says that his SAN was designed to deliver industry-leading performance with a high-level of reliability. The SAN's design includes redundant head nodes with redundant 10Gbps cards and redundant SAS 6Gbps wide internal SAS paths. The end result is two highly capable volumes that can achieve extremely high read and write speeds. Jason remarks, "on Volume 1 we are able to achieve 1600MB/s read and 1300MB/s write. Mind you, Volume1 is our low performance Volume... Volume 2, which is our SSD volume can achieve 250,000 IOPS and can easily max out a few 10Gbps circuits." That speed makes all the difference when it comes to cloud purposed storage and that is what Jason and his team are counting on. Earlier this year, DedicatedNOW partnered with OnApp to launch a managed private cloud solution. The DedicatedNOW private cloud solution allows customers to configure and deploy scalable, redundant hypervisors onto the SAN, connected through a redundant switch stack via multiple gigabit connections both to the Internet and The Company's own internal SAN network. DedicatedNOW, provides managed dedicated servers and complex hosting solutions to customers in nearly 100 countries. More information about DedicatedNOW's private cloud and SAN technology is available on their website at http://cloud.dedicatednow.com. For the past seven years, Jason and his team have been building and maintaining complex dedicated server environments for ecommerce companies. "We've learned allot about supporting and maintaining clusters and load balanced setups during that time," says Silverglate. "For starters, scalability is a problem with physical clusters. You can't expand resources at a moment's notice. Servers need to be brought down for upgrades, planning needs to go into making these kinds of changes." With the expansion of cloud technology, many of the constraints within the physical world are done away with. Jason and his team have been developing their cloud technology for the past two years from the Company's New Jersey based datacenter. A cornerstone of that development has been improving on some of the downfalls of complex hosting. Jason commented on the benefits of the shift to virtualization, "when we move a complex setup to a virtual environment, we lose those physical constraints. We can scale horizontally and vertically and for less money". Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp, has worked with FortressITX throughout the development of their cloud. Bredahl remarks, "I'm impressed by the significant investments Fortress has made into their SAN infrastructure. When speaking with our own clients, I often recommend that they take a look at the storage technology that Jason and FortressITX have designed, before investing in their own." Silverglate claims that the Company's SAN storage is capable of performance that most never thought possible in a virtualized environment, due to its unique architecture. Jason will be presenting his ideas on virtualization at the OnApp booth (#313) on Tuesday, Aug. 9th at 11:45AM and again on Wednesday, Aug. 10th at 12:45PM. "This merger brings together a unique combination of talents between DedicatedNOW and Solar VPS. Our new company has vast experience with Windows hosting, virtualization, dedicated and managed hosting," said Ross Brouse, former CEO of SolarVPS, who will now serve as COO of the combined company. "We've brought together so many talented individuals whose knowledge we are blending to develop truly unique hosted partner and customer offerings. We have also recruited other top talent from the industry to expand our offerings and reach more customers around the world." Although there is no change in management or existing server locations, the merger will provide benefits to new and existing customers of both companies. DedicatedNOW customers now have access to world-class Windows web hosting support and virtualization expertise. Additionally, with access to SolarVPS's locations, DedicatedNOW will be offering hosting for new servers in Los Angeles, Dallas and Miami. SolarVPS can now access DedicatedNOW's resources to sustain and stimulate growth in addition having a place to call home - DedicatedNOW's Clifton, N.J. datacenter. The new company's datacenter has a multi Gigabit bandwidth network accessing all key tier 1 providers, while hosting routers, load balancers, firewalls, Internet servers and switches and accommodating large and small clients. "I'm excited about the new opportunities that will open up as a result of this move. Both DedicatedNOW and SolarVPS customers will have access to more staff, better resources and a wider product selection. The merger makes both brands stronger, more marketable and sets the foundation for the growth of our cloud hosting division," says Jason Silverglate, CEO. SolarVPS started in 2005 as a managed Windows Virtual Private Server provider before quickly expanding services to Parallels and linux VPS hosting and spreading to 5 cities around the globe. DedicatedNOW was founded in 1998 and has earned awards for its customer service and managed hosting expertise. Financial considerations were not disclosed. DedicatedNOW, provides managed dedicated servers to customers in nearly 100 countries. Customers rely on DedicatedNOW for reliable, secure and value-rich services such as dedicated servers, managed hosting, complex hosting, CDN, private clouds and colocation. DedicatedNOW's servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey. The Clifton facility houses nearly 5,000 servers in a secured environment, right next door to the Company's corporate headquarters and network operations center. To learn more about DedicatedNOW, please visit http://www.dedicatednow.com. Founded in 2005, SolarVPS was established to provide next-generation windows and linux vps web hosting services on virtualized infrastructure. With the help of automation and virtualization software, it has quickly become a global hosted application service provider. Through the operation of virtual business infrastructure and strong partnerships with industry leaders, SolarVPS provides a fully automated service platform that enables a focus on personal customer relationships and superior customer support. To learn more about SolarVPS, please visit http://www.solarvps.com. "I've met the brightest people in the (hosting) industry, here at DedicatedNOW," says Salvatore Poliandro, Director of Information Technology. In recent years, DedicatedNOW has carved out a niche for itself within the managed and complex hosting space. Leaning on its proficiency with Linux clustering, load balancing and managed security, the Company has earned many awards over the years for best in class service. Current client Chris Azzari says "DedicatedNOW sets the bar high... Just knowing that your site that you have spend countless hours creating and promoting is in good hands is worth its weight in gold." Mr. Azzari's sentiment mirrors that of many DedicatedNOW customers - the support and customer service available with DedicatedNOW are unparalleled in the industry. That level of service has helped DedicatedNOW to earn the business of headliners like AirTran, COMODO, NYU and SpiritAir. "We love what we do and we do it well," says CEO Jason Silverglate. DedicatedNOW, provides managed dedicated servers to customers in nearly 100 countries. Customers rely on DedicatedNOW for reliable, secure and value-rich services such as dedicated servers, managed hosting, complex hosting, CDN, reseller and colocation. DedicatedNOW's servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey. The Clifton, NJ facility houses nearly 5,000 servers in a secured environment, right next door to the Company's corporate headquarters and network operations center. These will be the companies to look at in 2011. The awards are based on the mantra: 'Ahead of the rest.' This mantra is well reflected in the award winning plans provided by these companies. DedicatedNow's high performance managed dedicated servers are setting new standards of reliability and efficiency in the industry. "This award not only highlights DedicatedNow's growth and commitment to excellence, but also continued emergence as a leader in the Managed Hosting and Managed Service industry," said Mr. Shelton Walker, Managing Director, Top10DedicatedHosting.com. DedicatedNOW's primary datacenter, located in the NY Metro area, has undergone significant improvements over the past year. In addition to improved security, the building recently added a new power sub-station, which provides true redundant power feeds and improved power stability to all of DedicatedNOW's managed hosting and colocation clients. While DedicatedNOW's commitment to excellence within the managed dedicated server niche has brought them notoriety and awards in recent years, the company will be breaking ground on its cloud hosting offering later this year. "If the company's current success is any indication, the new cloud product should be a real game changer," says Walker. "This award highlights Online Tech's commitment to proactive professional support and delivering a turnkey colocation experience," said Mike Klein, President and COO of Online Tech. Online Tech's investment in SAS-70 certification over the last 2 years and its reputation of proactive customer support has propelled Online Tech into a leadership position for enterprise managed colocation and servers. Online Tech's data centers provide sophisticated power backup systems, high tech security, multiple Tier 1 ISP feeds and redundant Cisco core networks. Other offerings include locked racks, rack and stack services, backup, VPN services and network firewall protection. Online Tech is a premier Managed Data Center Operator in the Midwestern United States with 15 years of expertise delivering outstanding products and service levels. Online Tech, offers a full range of managed colocation, dedicated server hosting and managed servers for clients from around the world. Online Tech has won dozens of awards and has SAS-70 certified data centers which have been specifically noted by Top10DedicatedHosting. This is the reason why industry people trust Online Tech to insure their servers are always on, always online, and always safe. Top 10 Dedicated Hosting is a team of highly skilled professionals focused on providing Dedicated Web Server Reviews to Clients, Cloud Computing Consultancy and Training to End Users. We provide Expertise and Experience to: help the business grow, reduce the overall costs, and simplify the Web environment. Dedicated Web Hosting is committed to delivering results that endure. In his new role, Brandon will be responsible for leading the company's Sales efforts and continuing the Company's growth. Brandon chimes in on his latest challenge, "I'm very familiar with DedicatedNOW's success and am excited to be a part of the Company's future. DedicatedNOW is well positioned within the industry and it's my intention to grow the business to new heights. Combined with our top of the line technology, superior infrastructure and committed team, DedicatedNOW is going to be a force to be reckoned with in 2011." DedicatedNOW, founded in 1997, provides managed dedicated servers to customers in nearly 100 countries. Customers rely on DedicatedNOW for reliable, secure and value-rich services such as dedicated servers, managed hosting, complex hosting, CDN, reseller and colocation. DedicatedNOW's servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey. The Clifton, NJ facility houses nearly 5,000 servers in a secured environment, right next door to the Company's corporate headquarters and network operations center. The site's content went viral and Chris learned how traffic can crash a server. "It was at that point that I knew I needed something more substantial behind my website," says Chris. "PopThatZit.com was going to be featured on the Tyra Banks show and I knew that would bring in the traffic, big time. I needed a dedicated server and after sifting through available providers, decided to move my sites over to DedicatedNOW, a managed dedicated server provider." Azzari continues, "the biggest thing about having your own dedicated server is that you can do a lot of tweaks that you could never do on a shared hosting plan. I run Wordpress on the site and decided to run w3 supercache after high recommendations from some friends. Getting it to work right was beyond my scope of expertise. I needed to install memcached and I wasn't about to mess that up. A simple email to the server support team and they had me up and running. The site was lighting fast and ready for traffic." "Just knowing that the site that you have spent countless hours creating and promoting is in good hands is worth its wait in gold. Remember, your website is your business, so you need to protect that business, and it starts with where it is hosted." PopThatZit.com is the original website by zit poppers, for zit poppers. The site's outrageous material gained a cult following on day 1. With nearly 2000 videos of every kind of pimple, boil and pustule imaginable, Chris Azzari's creation was featured on the Tyra Banks show in 2009. For more information, visit PopThatZit.com. DedicatedNOW, founded in 1997, provides managed and unmanaged dedicated servers to customers in nearly 100 countries. Customers rely on DedicatedNOW for reliable, secure and value-rich services such as dedicated servers, managed hosting, complex hosting, CDN, reseller and colocation. DedicatedNOW's servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey. The Clifton, NJ facility houses nearly 5,000 servers in a secured environment, right next door to the Company's corporate headquarters and network operations center. For more information about DedicatedNOW, visit www.dedicatednow.com. In an effort to provide the best possible support to its growing dedicated hosting customer base, DedicatedNOW has released new support phone numbers for five countries, including Great Britain, Israel, New Zealand, Australia and The Netherlands. "While our on-site dedicated support team has always been available 24/7, every day of the year, we wanted to provide the best possible immediate support for our international client base," says CEO Jason Silverglate. Silverglate continues, "With our expansion into the European market, we felt having immediate phone support for Europe and Australia was particularly important". The company plans on adding additional support numbers as its growth and international expansion continues. DedicatedNOW, Inc. is a privately owned, multi-million dollar corporation located in Clifton, New Jersey and founded in 1997. DedicatedNOW provides managed and unmanaged dedicated web hosting services to thousands of satisfied customers. The Company delivers cutting-edge hosting solutions to meet the requirements of small and medium sized businesses as well as large corporations. Customers rely on DedicatedNOW for reliable, secure and value-rich services such as dedicated servers, managed hosting, complex hosting, CDN, reseller and colocation hosting. DedicatedNOW's servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey. The Clifton, NJ facility houses nearly 5,000 servers in a secured environment, right next door to the Company's corporate headquarters and network operations center. "There is allot of confusion about what a cloud is and even more confusion over how to build a truly efficient and sustainable cloud," says Silverglate, owner of DedicatedNOW, a managed dedicated hosting company. The CEO's presentation will cover all facets of cloud design, including hardware, network configuration, storage considerations, selection of hypervisor and cloud management software. With 12 years in the business, Silverglate has developed an innate knowledge of hardware available on the market. Options including 1U rackmount, 2U blade and 8U blade chassis will be discussed, as well as specific metrics like cost per GB of RAM, cost per kw and price per U; all of which factor into the viability of a host's cloud. Jason will also cover network options, such as 1Gbps, 10Gbps, Infiniband and Fiber Channel. Cloud storage and IOP (I/O Operations per second), which is a key metric for cloud performance will be discussed and Jason will enlighten the audience on various storage solutions available on the market. With more than a year of internal testing under the Company's belt, Jason will share his own experience on Hypervisor selection and discuss options such as XenServer, XenSource, Vmware ESX, KVM, HyperV and VMware ESXi. Cloud management systems including Cloud.com, ONapp, Abiqiuo and Enomaly will also be reviewed and discussed during the presentation. DedicatedNOW is also exhibiting at HostingCon 2010. The Company's senior management will be on-site throughout the exhibition at booth #106. Jason will be available during the conference to cover questions about cloud infrastructure and dedicated hosting. Attendees are urged to visit the DedicatedNOW booth to meet with DedicatedNOW's staff and enter for a chance to win a Sony Dash. The Dash is Sony's latest innovation - a personal internet viewer capable of running more that 1,000 free apps over Wi-Fi. For more information about DedicatedNOW, visit the Company's website at dedicatednow.com, call 888.734.9320 or visit booth #106. "This award not only highlights DedicatedNow's well-earned reputation for quality and stellar growth, but also continued emergence as a leader in the Managed Hosting and Managed Service industry," said Mr. Shelton Walker, Managing Director, Top10DedicatedHosting. Since 2003, DedicatedNOW has led the dedicated hosting industry by providing comprehensive management of Dedicated Servers. With an emphasis on customized solutions and adaptive customer support. DedicatedNOW leverages its partnerships and redundant network to provide unparalleled performance for its customers. He added that by offering cutting edge technologies, industry-leading customer service and comprehensive dedicated web server solutions, DedicatedNow has become a front-runner in the global managed hosting market. "The success of DedicatedNOW's 100% uptime in 2009 is due to our investment in data center infrastructure, engineering support, and backbone providers," said Josh Ewin, Director of Sales and Marketing at DedicatedNOW. "Our multi-homed network is fueled by premium tier 1 carriers such as Sprint, Saavis, Telia, NLayer, Global Crossing, and Level3." Additionally, DedicatedNOW uses redundant power systems including an inline power backup, using industry standard Liebert UPS systems and onsite Caterpillar generators. "Our facility is safeguarded by redundant Libert CRAC units that are kept at an optimal temperature to ensure hardware and network components are consistently running properly," said Jason Silverglate, CEO. "And our cooling systems offer an accurate and reliable control of humidity, airflow, and room temperature that improves the working conditions for delicate electronic equipment." "DedicatedNOW's network runs on our own dark fiber ring connecting our two redundant pops in 111 8th NYC and 165 Halsey (Equinix) NJ," said Silverglate. "Our core consists of Dual Cisco 6509 SUP720-3BXL routers, fully meshed to multiple aggregation switches for maximum uptime." DedicatedNOW encourages current and prospective customers to view the data center. Visitors can also test DedicatedNOW's fast network connection by using visiting http://speed.fortressitx.com/ or using IP address 65.98.0.42 to ping the network. "With enterprise class reliability and performance DedicatedNOW's Managed Hosting division has provided cost effective solutions since 2003. The Company has exceeded industry level standards of management and support," said Mr. Shelton Walker, Managing Director, Top10DedicatedHosting.com. The veteran hosting company is no stranger to the managed hosting market. With the launch of its all-Intel managed server line in 2008, DedicatedNOW gained notoriety for its managed services. Over the course of the past two years, the Company has earned many awards, including FindMyHost.com's "Editor's Choice" Award for Managed Hosting. According to CEO Jason Silverglate, "when we created our managed server line, we canvassed our client base and industry professionals to get a real sense of what our clients and prospective clients would need for a complete managed dedicated server package. By leveraging vendor relationships, we were able to offer better service, more features and a better overall value proposition to our hosting customers". The relationships Silverglate is referring to include R1Soft and Applicure Technologies among others. "Bundling in services like R1's backup and Applicure's dotDefender WAF product made our offering much more enticing to prospective clients," boasts Silveglate. The Company includes 50Gb of backup using R1Soft's CDP (continuous data protection) which, as Jason points out, includes the MySQL hot restore feature - very useful if you have a database driven website. Also included (on servers with the cPanel control panel) with each managed server, is a fully licensed version of the dotDefender Web Application Firewall. Other freebies include KVM over IP, round the clock monitoring and the Company's 100% Uptime guarantee. The Company's new managed server line provides a wide-range of servers and includes many options and available features. "With our new server line, we wanted to make DedicatedNOW's server management accessible to smaller companies and startups while still being a viable option for performance-focused enterprises", noted Silverglate. With the launch of the new product line, DedicatedNOW reduced the price of its entry-level servers, while adding in the Xeon 5620 and X5650 CPU options, which include eight and twelve CPU cores, respectively. DedicatedNOW's new managed server lineup is available for purchase from the company's website. For more information, please visit www.dedicatednow.com. "We have a broad range of specials that DedicatedDollars.com affiliates can use to attract new customers to DedicatedNOW," says Josh Ewin, Director of Sales and Marketing. "Thousands of businesses, organizations, and resellers use dedicated server hosting so we make sure we have very attractive offers available for affiliates to use that result in higher conversions." Since registration for DedicatedDollars.com began last November, DedicatedNOW has experienced a 30% larger response from affiliate marketers than originally estimated. One reason for the increase in response is due to the extensive support DedicatedDollars.com affiliates receive in their efforts to attract visitors and make conversions. "DedicatedDollars.com is a full service affiliate program, with keyword tools, custom landing pages and ads, and resources for beginner through advanced affiliate marketers," says Ewin. "Our marketers are not left stranded on their own - another big problem with some affiliate programs is identifying which affiliate marketer sent a visitor to the site and initiated that sale. DedicatedDollars.com uses 120-day cookies as well as IP-based tracking to make sure every marketer gets properly credited and paid." Another reason for the high registration and satisfaction of DedicatedDollars.com affiliates is the unrestricted payment structure. There is no limit on earnings, like there is with some other programs in the dedicated hosting industry. Affiliates can also choose from a variety of available payment options, including Paypal. "Our affiliates are important to us, and we want to make the relationship as beneficial to both sides as possible," says Ewin. "Affiliates can earn up to 125% of a sale, and receive an instant commission alerts right to their desktop. We have put a lot of time, resources, and well-planned development into this program to make it the best affiliate program in the industry ." DedicatedNOW offers affiliates ten specials ranging from one month of free dedicated server hosting to super competitive deals on high-end managed servers. Additional specials include feature-packed dedicated server hosting plans, complete with Managed support and backup options at low monthly rates. DedicatedNOW, Inc. is a privately owned, multi-million dollar corporation located in Clifton, New Jersey and founded in 1997. DedicatedNOW provides managed and unmanaged dedicated web hosting services to thousands of satisfied customers. DedicatedNOW delivers cutting-edge hosting solutions to meet the requirements of small and medium sized businesses, large scale corporations, and individuals. Customers rely on DedicatedNOW for reliable, secure and value-rich services such as dedicated servers, managed hosting, complex hosting, cloud hosting, reseller and colocation hosting. DedicatedNOW's servers are located in a state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey. At present, the data center incorporates more than 7,500 sq. ft. of raised floor space. In addition, DedicatedNOW boasts over 5,000 sq. ft. of corporate office space including conference rooms, a reception area, and staff facilities. "This will be our second major revision in the past eight months for the website. As a player within a space as competitive as managed hosting, we do everything possible to provide best of breed services, so we need a website that lives up to that expectation," says Jason Silverglate, CEO of DedicatedNOW. The previous DedicatedNOW.com website was launched back in July of 2008, along with the Company's new Managed hosting products and services. With a focus on their new product launch, the July facelift was heavily geared towards promoting the Company's new servers and services. In addition to the new look and products, DedicatedNOW also launched out their proprietary billing system with the July release. "We released the last website on the opening day of HostingCon '08. The new website was massively instrumental in pushing the Managed product line," mentions Josh Ewin, VP of Sales & Marketing. Ewin continues, "The new DedicatedNOW look didn't include just the website. We wanted a total facelift for the brand. All of our creative was updated to the new look and feel of the DedicatedNOW brand." While the release of the latest version of the DedicatedNOW website does not treat visitors to a new look and feel, it provides superior functionality and performance. "The new DedicatedNOW website is focused on usability and accessibility across all major operating systems and browsers, as well as meeting the Web Accessibility Initiative and Section 508 of the Federal Government's guidelines for creating accessible websites" says SEO analyst and consultant to DedicatedNOW, Franki Nguyen of TN3 Productions in Australia. "Since the release of the new website, we've seen increased conversions, better search rankings and have had some terrific feedback from customers and visitors alike," Nguyen continues. With the removal of functionally superfluous items like flash and some scripting, the DedicatedNOW team has seen substantial gains in productivity from the website. As dedicatednow.com is constantly in flux, much like the Internet itself, the Company is constantly updating instructional content, photos and products on the website. DedicatedNOW plans the release of several new hosting products and services during the second quarter this year and will use the dedicatednow.com web presence as a platform to introduce them to the market. Since 2003, DedicatedNOW has led the dedicated hosting industry by providing comprehensive management of dedicated servers. With an emphasis on customized solutions and adaptive customer support, DedicatedNOW leverages its partnerships and redundant network to provide unparallelled performance for its customers. DedicatedNOW has carved out a niche for itself within the web hosting industry as a leading provider of managed dedicated servers, providing comprehensive solutions to todays complex IT challenges. "Our relationship with Applicure and offering dotDefender with each of our servers, by default, is a natural fit. Now, through DedicatedNOW, reseller hosting companies not only have 24/7 access to our Dynamic Support, server class hardware and redundant network - but they also have a valuable tool (dotDefender) which they can use to differentiate themselves in this widely undifferentiated market," says Jason Silverglate, CEO of DedicatedNOW. Yaacov Sherban, CEO of Applicure, commented,"DedicatedNOW and Applicure have each attained leadership positions in our respective markets by providing great products and services at affordable prices. Our partnership further validates Applicure's technology and market strategy for the hosting marketplace. We look forward to working with DedicatedNOW to ensure that hosting providers can offer their customers a compelling reason to acheive enterprise-class security and improved compliance." Applicure Technologies develops the leading multi-platform web application security software solution for hosting companies that protect web servers and internal applications from external and internal attacks. Built upon years of research into hacker behavior, Applicure solutions feature a comprehensive knowledge base to identify attacks accurately, and stop them before they reach the website or application. Since 2003, DedicatedNOW has led the dedicated hosting industry by providing comprehensive management of dedicated servers. With an emphasis on customized solutions and adaptive customer support, DedicatedNOW leverages its partnerships and redundant network to provide unparalleled performance for its customers. The DedicatedNOW network runs on its own dark fiber ring, connecting two redundant pops in NYC and (Equinix) NJ. Each fiber leg is capable of handling the entire network's traffic in case of a failure. In addition, each leg can upgraded to provide transport capacities up to 320Gbps, totaling 640Gbps of available transport capacity. The core consists of Dual Cisco 6509 SUP720 Routers, fully meshed to multiple aggregation switches for maximum uptime. DedicatedNOW is the premier provider of managed dedicated hosting and collocation. Backed and managed by industry experts, the company leverages its industry expertise and proprietary applications to drive consistency, availability, performance and security. Located in Clifton, New Jersey, DedicatedNOW leverages a modular, flexible, building block approach to deliver customized support and management. The company's services include dedicated hosting, collocation, customized hosting support, monitoring, high availability infrastructure planning, load balancing and clustering solutions. For more information visit the DedicatedNOW web site at www.dedicatednow.com.

2019-04-25T18:10:21Z

http://dedicatednow.com/?about-news=

We present credit card offers from the top banks and credit companies. Effective, enduring credit repair requires taking appropriate action with your creditors rather than simply creating ineffective disputes for credit bureaus CreditRepair.com is our choice for best tracking in credit repair. High interest rates and large if a credit card is closed can it be reopened monthly payments may have scared you away. Our free credit. “By paying off the balance with the highest. Banks William F. The list of the best cash-back credit cards below consists of products that offer the best return on unrestricted cash redemption The card is one of the simplest cash back credit cards you can have, which is perfect for busy entrepreneurs who value their time and don't want to bother managing their credit card rewards. Credit scoring takes into account the age of the derogatory stain, and gradually discounts the value of that information the older it is Chapter 7 bankruptcies will stay on your credit report for ten years after filing. If the loan is in default, the car, truck or other vehicle can be repossessed. Need cheap and reliable credit card processing? Getting a new car loan has two predictable effects on your credit: It adds a hard inquiry to your credit report, which might temporarily shave a few points off your score A hard inquiry is what is used when someone applies for a credit card or loan. The best credit card is the Chase Sapphire Reserve because it has a great sign-up bonus and a travel rewards system that makes it easy to collect points Why It's the Best Travel Rewards Credit Card: In a word: Flexibility. While some lenders still offer loans to borrowers with a credit score of at least 620, going lower than that is already considered bad credit. With a larger credit limit on the card you keep, you're less likely to bump up against the credit limit than you would be on a lower-limit card, if a credit card is closed can it be reopened Herbst-Murphy says. All the credit bureaus allow you to dispute mistakes via mail and over the telephone, however, it's best to dispute credit report errors online. Gaming. Don’t Care. While everyone likes a set of shiny new wheels, bargaining with dealers makes even shoppers with top-notch credit uncomfortable. This card is not available through ValuePenguin. Plus, the program is LOW COST. This Virgin Money* credit card offers 30 months at 0% with a 1.75% fee, and if you're accepted you'll definitely get the full 0% period, so it could be a better option than the card above if you can clear your balance within 30 months 2) Amex EveryDay Card from American Express – 0% intro APR on purchases and balance transfers for 15 months. The average income per person is just under $28,000, according to a US Census The average credit card balance is $6,348 for individuals with a credit card, according to Experian. Read on in the slides below to. Loan amounts above $10,000 will inevitably require “good” credit. The Target Credit Card credit score requirement is 640 or better. The FTC says that if you’re looking to reduce the interest rate you’re paying if a credit card is closed can it be reopened on your credit card purchases, your best bet is to handle it yourself for free: call the customer service phone number on the back of your credit card and ask for a reduced rate. As we all know, the credit score is the number one factor when it comes to getting approved for a loan. First PREMIER is popular for its subprime credit card offerings, which cater to the poor-credit ( credit scores below 650 ) consumer market The Aventium and Centennial credit cards, offered by First Premier Bank (or 1 st Premier), are among the very few credit cards offered to those with bad credit and may seem attractive to people. But it is possible to get a car loan with bad credit in 2018 — it’s just going to cost you, said Matt Jones, consumer advice editor for Edmunds, an online resource for car information based in Santa Monica, California Each offer features a short online application process geared towards getting you approved for an auto loan today. Average credit card balance for the top 10 least populated cities. It was sold to a collection agency who I settled in full with Resolved: Credit One Bank – Terrible credit card Sep 14 I opened my acount in April of 2018 paid off and closed it in July 2018 paid a annual fee of 75.00 a if a credit card is closed can it be reopened annual fee is for a year and I am having problems with credit one bank to prorate the fee and send me back the difference. Credit Karma offers free credit scores, reports and insights. You can save the other two free reports, from the remaining bureaus, for a later date. After that, the variable APR will be 15.99% – 25.99%, based on your. Consolidation loans that will allow you to consolidate the entirety of your credit card balance will lower your credit utilization and raise your credit score One of the reasons why people with bad credit scores prefer debt consolidation loans is because debt consolidation companies spread out the loan payments over several years, up to 10 years and help lower the monthly payments. No cash advance fees. The good news is that a large number of inquiries typically won't harm your credit score, assuming they're all for car loans.. 1 If you’re one of them, and you want to reduce your balance, the strategies if a credit card is closed can it be reopened below can help you figure out how to quickly pay off any credit card debt you have By Janna Herron/ValuePenguin. Make sure you choose a reputable credit agency to run the report. Your credit report laid out beautifully. I made all my payments on time and paid off my car. Includes Improve My Credit USA Reviews, maps & directions to Improve My Credit USA in Humble and more from Yahoo US Local. If you regularly use your airline miles credit card for the majority of your purchases, your miles will add up faster than you think. I didn’t have an account with the original company that they claim to be collecting for Charter Communication is a ripoff and not verifying if someone's identity have been compromised. The three major credit bureaus are separate agencies, and work independently of one another, each using their own systems to calculate three separate credit scores which may differ from one another. A fraud alert is free. Many of the loans actually offer no money down opportunities, which means that you may be able if a credit card is closed can it be reopened to secure a no down payment house loan through them with relative ease Two of the most popular mortgage loans for first-time buyers are the USDA Rural Development loan and the VA (Veterans) Home Loan. 11.99% p.a. A credit card is a card issued by a financial company which enables the cardholder to borrow funds. If that sounds like a good solution if a credit card is closed can it be reopened to you, check out the free debt analysis tool. This will save money in the longest run and is the fastest if a credit card is closed can it be reopened way to reduce your debts. Open date and status (paid in full, not paid in full, closed or open). It has to put the alert on your credit report and tell the other two credit bureaus to do so. Also, that is the only credit bureau you’ll get a free credit “score” from as if a credit card is closed can it be reopened well There are three national credit bureaus, including Experian, that are the most widely used and boast the largest databases of consumer credit information. Trusted Credit Repair really helped me clean up my credit, and get a fresh start!” Callum R. I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I face a daunting task I waste energy and time For example, a cardholder who owes $15,956—the average if a credit card is closed can it be reopened amount of debt per household, according to Ben Woolsey, the director of marketing and consumer research for CreditCards.com, a credit-card–comparison site—will end up shelling out an additional $11,000 in total interest if she pays only the minimum each month Credit card debt can take years to pay off. With a HELOC, you are allowed to borrow as much money as you need 6 Best Uses for a HELOC Loan with Bad Credit. A messy financial divorce is one example The steps to fixing your credit and credit scores will include getting a sense of your finances. By law, a credit reporting company can charge no more than $12.00 for a credit report Get Full Credit Report Maintaining a large number of credit cards you bring deeper into debt if you all use and just juggle payments to the minimum amounts for each. This video will explain those differences and how you Re: bank of america approval credit if a credit card is closed can it be reopened score Bank of America has been good to me. We will use this information to work with you and determine the best options available to you. In fact, AnnualCreditReport.com was created by the credit bureaus as a one-stop-shop for providing your annual credit reports Over the past few years, more companies have started offering free, no-strings-attached credit scores. On the other hand, a lower credit score (like those seen for bad credit home loans) tends to warrant if a credit card is closed can it be reopened higher fees and interest rates for prospective home buyers. Secure Login.

2019-04-26T04:22:22Z

http://unique-news-week.info/2019/01/05/if-a-credit-card-is-closed-can-it-be-reopened-z2me/

About three years ago we launched a new website with a new logo. At The/Studio we are never satisfied and always striving to become better, so we decided to improve our logo more than a year ago. Although our websites is definitely one of the better sites for custom products, we don’t judge ourselves based on other companies within the industry, but rather we judge ourselves against amazing brands that we aspire to one day be compared to such as Nike, or Starbucks. In early January we decided to redo our website and we decided to work with a designer that we had worked with in the past. However, the project was a complete disaster. The designer just couldn’t get a design together that would make it worth the effort of redoing the entire website again. We have been through website redesigns before, and it is an extremely involved process that requires an enormous amount of resources. We decided to start looking for another design firm. My assistant and me literally emailed and spoke to over one hundred different design firms. What we realized was that not only did we need to redo our website, but we really needed to redo our entire branding. If we wanted our customers, other companies and the media to truly respect who we were and the ambitions of our company, we felt that it was important to refresh our entire branding. We went through the same process of pouring over hundreds of branding and design firms, and we had another epiphany. It was also necessary that we actually work with all of the managers in the company and decide who we were, who we have become and what we want to be. We felt that without this document it would be very difficult for us to effectively work with a design company. This is what we came up with. Our brand is our promise to our customers and also defines the expectations that we have for our staff and vendors. Our brand will not be strong unless the entire organization understands and embraces these principles. In addition we see this initial document as an opportunity to remake ourselves and insist on perfection throughout the organization. We are focused on creating a complete platform that allows customers to produce fashion quality custom apparel and accessories. We put all of our resources into building a community of people with ideas, designers to design, factories to bring to life those ideas, our staff to ensure a frictionless process and the support of consumers that believe the world is made more interesting when ideas are turned into products. The/Studio is revolutionizing how people design, manufacture, and sell custom apparel and accessories. Fashion will no longer be dictated by large corporations in distant board rooms. We believe that fashion should represent the pure expression of the communities that you belong to. The/Studio will continuously build tools to empower communities to make custom apparel and accessories that inspire them. We won‘t rest until individuals can create an entire line of apparel, fire departments can reinvent their uniforms, sports teams can create custom gifts for their fans, companies and organizations can communicate their image. All achievable through The/Studio’s ever-growing infrastructure of world-class designers, cutting edge production machines, and game-changing community sales platforms. Currently if someone wants to make a truly custom product there are numerous barriers to doing this. One option is to go to a site such as CafePress or Zazzle. But they don’t offer true customization, and the quality is inferior. They only offer printing on already manufactured products. Another option is to use Alibaba, but Alibaba is notorious for having a very poor user interface, and even if you can get an answer from the factory its almost impossible to produce small quantities, and good communication is lacking at best. Also when dealing with factories from abroad there are true risks of poor quality and sometimes outright fraud. The other option is to find smaller US companies that produce particular products such as custom caps. They also tend to have higher minimum order requirements, their user experience is not good, and they only offer one or a few products instead of an entire platform to produce apparel and accessories. If the customer is not a designer or doesn’t have access to a designer, then they can’t even participate in the ability to make a product. Our solution is to gain a loyal and expanding group of customers that want to make custom products and provide them with a user friendly platform to create these products. The manufacturers we work with generally won’t agree to do small orders, but because our platform is efficient and we can provide them with consistent business, they are able to profitably build out production lines to produce highly customized orders. Because of technology the trends in both China and the US point towards factories becoming smaller and more nimble which benefits our model. There is a trend towards consumers moving away from mass manufactured products made by large brands. We will create a community that helps individuals and businesses easily make products, while at the same time creating an online space for consumers interested in these products. Our dream is for anyone in the world to be able to produce and design fashion quality custom apparel and accessories and eventually other products using their computer, or phone. If someone has an idea and the desire to be successful we will have the resources in place to make their project successful. Currently we are only able to manufacture products that are simple, but we will expand our offerings to be able to support complex products. We want to also build out online and offline communities that will give our customers the ability to sell their products as soon as they are produced, and to also open channels to larger retailers and boutiques where our customers can also sell their products. An extensive custom product line that covers virtually all apparel and accessory products. A group of high quality 3rd party designers that can make a living on our site. Pop up stores or perhaps even permanent stores in the US or Asia that showcase products made within our community. A household name amongst fashion designers. Our shopping site will become a destination for people to find unique products. World class ERP and CRM system that handles every aspect of the production process. -We have a dedicated technical team updating our T/S system on a weekly basis. Our ultimate goal is to make a seamless process for custom manufacturing. -The goal is to make custom manufacturing as easy as an Amazon transaction. However, when we fall short of that expectation we have a knowledgeable and helpful sales and customer service team which our customers can rely on when there are issues. We realize that no matter how optimized our systems are, sometimes there are problems with manufacturing and we are always there to help. -One of the pillars of our community is creating a market for our customer’s products whether it be through crowd sourcing tools to help them better distribute their products, or through online shopping portals, pop up stores and permanent stores that we will use to help them promote their products. -We stand behind our products. We will do unlimited design and sample revisions free of charge until the customer is satisfied. Furthermore, if the product does not match the quality of the original sample that was approved we will redo the order free of charge or offer a full refund. -We truly care about small businesses, entrepreneurs and small organizations. We go out of our way to think of ways to benefit our customers, even if we don’t make money on the project or even lose money on the project. At our heart we are also a small business, and come form very humble roots and we will never forget that. Partner: To all people with great ideas, we are here to help you create your own identity. We solve every barrier to making a successful custom product, from helping our customer with the design, manufacturing and distribution of the product. If there are ever any issues we have a dedicated team to solve any issue during the process. In fact every customer will receive an email from the CEO, President, Senior Project Manager and Operations Director ensuring that their order is going smoothly. Efficient: The/Studio system can make your purchasing experience easy and efficient. Trustworthy: We promise that all our products meet the “fashion quality” standards. If customers are not 100% satisfied, we redo it for free and offer a full refund if needed. Revolutionary: We want to change the world of custom manufacturing. We want to take the power away from large corporations and completely change how individuals and organizations design, produce and sell apparel and accessories. Fashionable: Everything that we do whether it be the design of our website, our email signature or the quality of our product, we try to maintain an awareness of design and fashion. We are that weird person sitting at a restaurant, that captivates everyone through their expressions and dress. Entrepreneurial: we encourage individuals to establish their own brand by offering them necessary resources in custom manufacturing. Make the impossible possible: This is the spirit that we admire and we hope everyone in our organization develop this trait. American: Most people associate manufacturing with Asia. Although we do a lot of our manufacturing in Asia, we also do some in the United States. Furthermore, we infuse our systems, processes and partners with American values of transparency, reliability, honesty, good quality, at an affordable price. We want the conversation with our customer to create the feeling that we are having a conversation with a long term partner. Always extremely helpful and supportive, professional but not too formal. Our target market is anyone that believes they have an idea for a product that other people would enjoy receiving or buying. Based on this we made a decision that we would subtly focus on Indie fashion brands. First we believe that if our branding is good enough for a fashion designer, and our product good enough for a fashion brand, then it will be good enough for everyone. Secondly we believe that whether they are a fashion brand or not, they are still making a fashion item. A police officer ordering a patch for her police department is not ordering a patch, she is ordering something for her entire unit to wear with pride; this is fashion. Another market that we target are small businesses and entrepreneurs. We hope that our platform inspires them to create and enables their success. A full 61% of our current customers are between the age of 18 to 34, which is the most connected and tech savvy group of consumers. The next largest segment is 35 to 44 which makes up another 15.5% of our customer base. Totally 76.5% of our customers are from highly technically savvy generations. We believe that our emphasis on simplicity and efficiency will play well with this demographic. 45% of our customers are women and 55% are men. Therefore we believe its in our best interests to remain gender neutral in our voice. We are an American owned and registered S Corporation. Although we have offices in Asia, and Europe we derive most of our corporate culture from our American roots. This includes a balance between design and efficiency. A focus on hard work and measuring staff based on performance. Having an extremely customer focused culture to a fault. A celebration of the entrepreneur and the person that wants to be individualistic and do something different. American values of transparency, trust, and commitment. The/Studio operates in the United States, Philippines, China and Romania. We truly believe that all people and cultures can contribute amazing things to our company and to the world. Anyone in the company can become an executive manager regardless of nationality, gender or religion. Their ability to work with others, perform and execute the companies vision will define their success in our organization. Over 80% of our staff members are of Asian descent. We don’t look at Asia as a place for cheap labor. We look at Asia as the most vibrant and dynamic economy in the world today, and we are honored to be a part of this transformation. Our goal is to develop leaders of all nationalities to unify around the goal of democratizing custom manufacturing. We also have not forgotten our American roots. The US is still our largest market and in terms of dollars spent we spend the most amount of money with American suppliers. We will also be strengthening our Made in America product offerings. The/Studio is a global company. We will go anywhere where there is a market, or production infrastructure, and we will set up offices anywhere where we think we can hire talent that will help us pursue our mission statement. At The/Studio we truly want to change the way fashion is manufactured. We believe in the doctrine of 1% better everyday. We are constantly having discussions about how we can improve. We try to do everything with perfection. We truly believe in a true meritocracy. All managers including the CEO , Operations Director, President and CTO sit with the entire team in an open space. This may seem superficial but the idea is that everyone in the organization is equal, just with different roles and levels of responsibility. Literally 50% of our managers are women and our management team is mixed amongst people from different countries, and religions. We don’t do this deliberately. We just try to hire the best people, and let them succeed and that just means we naturally have a very diverse office. Most of our staff has the opportunity to earn bonuses which incentivizes them to make the correct and quick decisions for our clients. We are working on a pilot program in our Shenzhen office to share some of the profit with the production manager. We feel that eventually this pilot program will help us to rapidly scale our company by giving more control to managers. We have discussed launching a program to allow staff that has been with the company for 5 or more years to present a business plan to upper management, work with them on improving their business plan, and even offering funding if the business model is solid. We are also having discussions amongst upper managers to at least think about moving outside of big city centers to provide a more relaxed environment for our team and lower real estate prices will allow home ownership to be easier. All staff in the company is encouraged to question its leaders. The only thing that is sacred is trying to make custom design and manufacturing simple. Anything that gets in the way of this should be challenged. We have flexible working environments. Around 10% of our workforce works remotely from home, and the emphasis is less on punctuality rather than on accomplishing goals. In the future we would also like to be more active in planning team building events. https://www.harrys.com – We appreciate how Harry’s has turned a very mundane product (shaving) into a lifestyle brand. https://www.airbnb.com – We admire how AirBnB has curated a diverse group of listings into a global community. https://www.uber.com – We respect the ease in which Uber can be used. -I think we are doing similar things as Ikea does, they offer “affordable designer furniture”, we offer “Affordable stylish custom apparel and accessories. -Ikea concept: Doing it a different way. The/Studio was founded in 2006 by Joseph Heller in his loft apartment, in Shenzhen, China. He would work at night to interface with customers in the United States, and sleep upstairs during the day, while his secretary would work downstairs during the day to deal with factories. Joseph graduated from UC Berkeley and came to China in 2005 to teach English. He stumbled across the opportunity to sell embroidered patches and started The/Studio. The/Studio’s competitors treated the embroidered patch market as a commodity and their bland websites reflected this approach. Joseph saw each embroidered patch as an expression, and a tapestry of modern day history. The/Studio became a rebel in this sleepy industry by taking an approach of making demands on the factory based on customer requirements rather than accepting the rigid industry standards that were put in place for decades. Previously minimum orders were as high as 1,000 pieces, and there were a lot of other rules in place for how a patch had to be produced and the materials used to produce a patch. Joseph only had 20 orders per month in the beginning, and he demanded that any factory that wanted to work with The/Studio had to accept orders as low as 1 piece, and had to produce the patch exactly the way the customer wanted it, with the material the customer wanted. Joseph was even kicked out of one factory for his audacious demands. Dozens of factories told Joseph that they wouldn’t produce one patch, but Joseph was convinced that if the customer wanted it the factories should produce it. The factories said they could only offer a few different options for patches. The/Studio launched dozens of new special options to decorate our patches, and promised our customers, that if they imagined something, The/Studio would figure out a way to create it.Everyone was managing orders through emails, spreadsheets and other rudimentary and outdated technology. The/Studio was the first company in our industry to create a CRM/ERP system that would manage the entire process. When we entered the industry the standard turnaround time for a patch was 6 to 8 weeks. We have now reduced that turnaround time to 4 to 21 days. The/Studio eventually became the largest supplier of custom embroidered patches, and finally we decided that we wanted to take our methodology of low minimums, quick turnaround time, unlimited special options and an optimized ordering process to other custom products.We first built a new and improved CRM/ERP system that we affectionately call The/Studio Factory Cloud. This would allow us to scale the business and maintain the same level of consistency and speed across all of our product categories. Even after we launched The/Studio Factory Cloud, which is superior to what any of our competitors have, we continued to get customer and employee feedback on how to improve the system, and we make weekly updates. In 2014 we launched our second product which was custom woven labels, and we later launched custom challenge coins. Starting in 2015 The/Studio will launch a total of 18 new products, and we will launch a total of 72 different custom products in 2016. The first and only product that we produced for the first 8 years of our existence was custom embroidered patches. It is significant that The/Studio’s first product was not printed promotional products or custom printed t-shirts, because these products are not truly manufactured products. Embroidered patches are products that are manufactured from scratch. Our roots are in manufacturing, which means that instead of looking at limitations, we only see an opportunity to create something truly unique and beautiful.

2019-04-22T06:43:06Z

https://www.thestudio.com/blog/rebranding-of-thestudio/

For decades Fernández had been recognized and honored for his accomplishments in the world of music. But up until October 11, 1991, no one had ever declared that as a singer, Fernández was on equal footing with perhaps the greatest singer in American pop history. In a career spanning five decades, Fernández has been awarded every honor and accolade in the entertainment world and beyond. He has won Grammys and Premio Lo Nuestro awards. He’s regularly topped the charts in Billboard and has been recognized with lifetime achievement awards, hall of fame honors and even a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. With his trademark charro outfit, wide sombrero and impeccable backing mariachi ensemble, he has performed on the world’s biggest and most prestigious stages. He has headlined Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional and the Plaza de Toros Mexico to New York City’s Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. Many considered Fernández to be Mexico’s fourth gallo, or singing rooster. The other three are considered the greatest all-time singers in Mexico. But they all died young – Jorge Negrete at 42 in 1953, Pedro Infante at 39 in 1957 and Javier Solis at 34 in 1966. It was into this profound artistic void that Fernández stepped in 1966. For more than 40 years, Vicente Fernández has maintained his standing as Mexico’s greatest living singer, coupling an operatic range with a deep understanding of ranchera music’s rural roots. Through the years he inspired hundreds of imitators, but none could ever match his operatic power and range. In the dozens of Mexican movies he starred in, Fernández often played a role that suited him perfectly-that of the proud charro, or Mexican cowboy. As a world-class singer, Fernández always combines impeccable musicianship, provocative songs and his great vocals to deliver unforgettable performances. He was and continues to be prolific, influential, and ultimately a critical player responsible for shaping the growth and development of the modern ranchera genre. For his artistic integrity, his tireless dedication, and unending enthusiasm, Fernández will be noted in history books as one of the fundamental and influential pioneers of ranchera music and a towering figure in the evolution of Regional Mexican music. His towering discography comprises over 100 albums. He’s influential in the way that he’s shaped the growth and development of ranchera music. Through the hundreds of songs that feature his voice, Fernández is certain to be the associated of Mexican pride and artistry around the world. He entered a singing contest in Guadalajara when he was 14, and won first place. That win gave him the confidence to start performing in restaurants and weddings. In early 1963, his mother, Paula Gómez de Fernández, died of cancer at the age of 47. Later that year, on December 27, he married María del Refugio “Cuquita” Abarca Villaseñor, his neighbor in Guadalajara. The couple would go on to have four children: Vicente, Gerardo, Alejandro and Alejandra. Working to further his career, Fernández, then 24, was tapped as vocalist by two of Guadalajara’s best mariachis – Mariachi Amanecer de Pepe Mendoza and Mariachi de José Luís Aguilar. Through his work with these groups, he was introduced to Felipe Arriaga. During that time he performed regularly on the mariachi-themed radio program titled Amanecer Tapatío (Guadalajara Morning). Soon, Arriaga and other influential friends convinced him to move to Mexico City, Mexico’s political, business and cultural capital. By late 1965, Fernández was pitching himself to the major labels based in the city. He was always turned down, but he began hanging around CBS Studios in hopes of landing an audition. Eventually Fernández got his foot in the door at XEX, the clear-channel AM powerhouse known as the most listened-to radio station in Mexico. XEX exposed him to a nationwide audience. Not content to just make records and perform live, Fernández also branched out into movies. His first film was Uno y Medio Contra el Mundo. Three years later, he had his first hit starring role in La Ley del Monte. The movie’s title song was also a hit for Fernández. Among his successful albums of the early 1970s were El Rey, El Hijo del Pueblo, and Para Recordar. He was building a body of work that would showcase his expressive voice and define modern mariachi music. By 1975, Fernández was admired by mariachi fans, but he wasn’t yet an iconic figure. But that was soon to change. In 1976, the composer Fernando Z. Maldonado wrote a different kind of ranchera. A ranchera about a macho guy who accepts his guilt in a failed relationship. It was a new theme, and it struck a nerve: “Volver, Volver” became a ranchera anthem. An incorrigible ladies’ man, Fernández personified the protagonist of the song. It was a magical combination of music, lyrics and voice. By the end of 1976, “Volver, Volver” had broken sales records and was being played from cars, houses and jukeboxes all over the Spanish-speaking world. Finally, Fernández was unquestionably an international star. Between recording and touring Fernández carved out a place for his family. In 1980 he built a 1,250-acre ranch near Guadalajara, called Los Tres Potrillos (The Three Fillys) in honor of his three sons. Surrounded by an irrigation canal, the ranch has the feeling of a cocoon. Entering his fourth decade of recording, in the 1990s, Fernández continued to add to his canon of classics with hits like “Aunque me Duela el Alma” (1995), “Me Voy a Quitar de En Medio” (1998), and “La Mentira” (1998), the theme song of the popular ranch-centered telenovela. He garnered a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into Billboard’s Hall of Fame. On September 17, 2002, he was named Person of the Year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the producers of the Latin Grammys. The honor paid tribute to his artistic achievements and his support of the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Never forgetting his humble roots, Fernández also remembers his fans who live in small towns and isolated areas of Mexico, performing free shows at country fairs. As a singer, Vicente Fernández is at the top of his game. The proof is in his recent achievements, which more typically resemble those of a young, rising star than someone who’s been recording and touring for over 40 years. In 2006, after three years away from the recording studio, Vicente Fernández released his comeback album La Tragedia Del Vaquero (The Tragedy of the Cowboy), featuring 14 brand-new songs. A keepsake and instant classic in the mariachi music canon. Also in 2006, in preparation for Vicente Fernández’s 40th anniversary as a recording artist – Sony Music released a three-CD collection of his greatest hits, titled The Living Legend (‘La Leyenda Viviente’). Containing 35 classics, along with the new song “Me Quedan Todas,” this collectors’ ítem was avidly sought out by fans in the U.S. and Mexico. Regional Mexican and Latin pop radio, meanwhile, sent “Me Quedan Todas” to the top of the airplay charts. For 2007, his official 40th-anniversary year, El Rey embarked on one of the biggest Latin-music tours in U.S. history. And he returned with another exciting new studio album – Para Siempre, which within three months of its release was certified RIAA Double Platinum (Latin) in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The album’s first single “Éstos Celos” spent over three months at No. 1 on the principal Regional Mexican airplay charts. The song finished the year as the most-played Regional Mexican song of 2007 in the U.S., while Para Siempre received a nomination for Best Ranchera Album at the 2008 Grammys. The success of Para Siempre continued with its title track. It was the principal song for Televisa’s blockbuster telenovela “Fuego en la Sangre,” which has produced the network’s highest ratings ever. In 2008, his achievements became even more impressive with the release of his live CD/DVD Primera Fila, which was the top-selling musical DVD of the year in the U.S. in any genre. He won a Latin Grammy in fall 2008, and in 2009 continued his awards-season streak with a Premio Lo Nuestro and a Billboard Latin Music Award. Staying at the forefront of mariachi music, he released his latest studio album, Necesito de Ti (I Need You), in July 2009, as the title-track first single climbed the charts. In order to enshrine his love and admiration for horses, for country life and for music, Vicente Fernández in 2005 built the Vicente Fernández Gómez Arena for Performances and Horsemanship. This 11,000-capacity area is located on his Los Tres Potrillos (Three Fillys) ranch outside Guadalajara. Ultra-modern and completely enclosed, the facility is popular for rodeos, sporting events and concerts. In 2005 it was the site of the LXI Congress and Vicente Fernández National Charro Championship. As the 2010s dawned, Vicente Fernández remained ubiquitous, prolific and always interesting. He wrapped up the 2000s with the December 2009 re-release of Necesito de Ti in CD+DVD configuration, featuring 13 audio and video tracks. It earned Platinum certification in Mexico, and Gold in the U.S. One of most the most important Latin albums of 2009, Necesito de Ti received multiple recognitions for its quality and popularity. Mexico’s Premios Oye awarded him three trophies in November 2009. In 2010, Necesito de Ti was awarded the American Grammy for Best Ranchera Album. Later in the year, he also won Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro for Ranchera Artist of the Year, and two Billboard Latin Music Awards. Dipping into the plentiful well of Vicente Fernández’s greatest moments, Sony Music in 2010 released Un Mexicano en la Mexico, a DVD of his iconic September 15, 1984, concert at Mexico City’s Plaza de Toros bullring. There, he performed to a standing-room only crowd of 54,000 for over two hours as rain continually threatened to dampen the proceedings. But, legend has it, none other than the Aztec god Tlaloc kept the showers at bay, setting the stage for a historic performance. Right back on the scene with another groundbreaking studio album, Vicente Fernández in September 2010 released El Hombre Que Más Te Amó (The Man Who Loved You Most). Despite having nothing to prove, Fernández still made a major step forward, serving as producer for the first time in his career and tapping the talents of young, aspiring songwriters. Quite a risk, but the results speak for themselves – El Hombre Que Más Te Amó won the 2011 Latin Grammy for Best Ranchera Album. Vicente Fernández is still the most popular singer, not just in the ranchera genre, but in all of Regional Mexican music. With a tremendous and still-growing discography, a powerful voice and unforgettable music, Fernández pushes the boundaries of mariachi music and influences absolutely everybody. His longevity, his dedication to his craft and his faithful devotion to his fans make him beloved in Mexico and around the world. As a pioneer, Vicente Fernández is to Mexican music what Hank Williams is to country, B.B. King is to blues and Woody Guthrie is to folk. In 2011, Vicente Fernández outdoes himself again with Otra Vez (Once Again), released in November. Recording took place in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Morelos at studios belonging to Vicente Fernández himself and those of his producer Joan Sebastian. A collaboration of virtuosos, Otra Vez marks the second time that Joan Sebastian has produced El Rey – thus the title! Joan Sebastian also wrote all of the songs on Otra Vez. We enjoy a rhythmic treat on first single “Volcanes Dormidos” (Sleeping Volcanoes), which finds Vicente Fernández incorporating electric guitar into his ranchera music for the first time. It’s a beguiling fusion, and one that only maestros like Vicente Fernández and Joan Sebastian could pull off. So once again – Otra Vez – we salute Vicente Fernández, who is synonymous with studio perfection, vocal passion and an inimitable style. Like fine wine, he improves with the years. And he is a maestro for every aspiring artist.

2019-04-22T17:04:14Z

https://vicentefernandez.mx/en/biography/

With so many “trusted” websites like Google and Facebook being accused of selling information to the highest buyers, many people have become skeptical of the web in general. Even those Facebook quizzes have people on edge regarding their security. Many people warn that taking the popular quizzes on Facebook gives the company access to sensitive information including your name. profile, friends, etc. Is any information safe? We all know that general information is taken and used by advertisers as well as websites to learn more about the traffic coming in. It’s also used to allow advertisers to market themselves to potential buyers. As we discussed in the Google article, your searches are sold and used against you. For most people, this is mostly just an annoyance. You’ll see ads for products you searched for a couple of weeks before they go away and are replaced by new ads. In other words, it’s just an inconvenience.However what you might be unaware of, is that your health information could also be out there for the masses and that companies are selling it to third parties. And yes, this can also impact your credit score scarily enough. So while it may seem both convenient and practical to use your smartphone to keep up with your medication as well as Google illness symptoms, these apps and websites might be sharing your personal information. It’s sad that the world we live in where data is one of the hottest currencies available. Personal information is worth its weight in gold and companies are just as eager to hand it out for a few bucks as others are to get their hands on it. Every click you make online is heavily monitored and sometimes your moves are even tracked offline. This information is then sold at market to the highest bidder; without your express knowledge or permission. And for many, it’s impossible to opt out of the sharing aspect of the apps and websites. We’ve come to accept the fact that this is true of our basic search and app habits. If you have the Urban Outfitters app downloaded for example and frequently search for their clothing online, you’ll see a lot more Urban Outfitters ads and related companies pop up. These ads will appear on social media as well as frequented websites that have space for advertising. However, you would never expect your health information to be used against you in the same manner. Unfortunately, just like with the Urban Outfitters app, your health apps and Google searches are sharing your most personal, valuable data. Sure, you can easily not search for your symptoms online, but for those who have their medical data stored in apps or even on their doctor’s medical site, it’s not always an option to get out of sharing that information. This means that the most sensitive and personal parts of your life are available for third parties to craft advertisements based on or to sell it to fourth party companies who have little to nothing to do with the health industry. In a recent study conducted using fake profiles on medical websites as well as information searched for through websites like WebMD, researchers discovered that a lot of third parties were privy to this information. That’s right, the last time you checked WebMD and it told you that you were dying of brain cancer instead of recommending you take medicine for your migraine, this info was handed out to interested parties. According to the research, even health apps were selling the private information. You’d expect websites with built in search engines would collect and share some data, but you wouldn’t expect it from your personal health app. At least, we wouldn’t. However these apps, which often hold the most sensitive information regarding users, are selling the information and sharing it just as frequently as Google and Facebook share their data. The research was conducted by a research team composed of members from Canada, the United States, and Australia according to Gizmodo. The researchers were curious whether or not these medical apps were selling information or actually keeping it to themselves as promised. The research team downloaded 24 of the most popular health apps on Android and started the process. For each individual app, the researchers put together four fake profiles. They then used the programs 14 times. When they logged in for the 15th time, they changed up the information they gave to the apps just slightly. They then tracked whether or not the network traffic had changed. This allowed them to see whether or not the apps shared the change in data and where they shared it too. The researchers discovered that a staggering 79 percent of these apps shared at least some of the collected data with third parties. This included popular apps like Drugs.com, Ada, Medscape, and more. Of course, some of the apps were using the data as a way of improving the functions of the app by maintaining the cloud where personal data is stored and dealing with errors, others were definitely using the information to allow other companies to create tailored advertisements based on that individual’s health profile. In other words let’s say that you have anxiety. On your app, you store all of your information. The app is responsible for your medication (including what kind and how much you take), as well as managing your symptoms/concerns, doctor visits, etc. Because of your profile, third parties will begin marketing self-help books related to anxiety as well as other drugs, seminars, and just about anything else that will make a quick buck. However, it doesn’t just stop there. According to the researchers, the third parties were bundling user data and sharing it with fourth party companies. Most of these companies were far removed from the health industry. And unfortunately many of these companies were credit-reporting agencies. In other words, your health could impact your credit score and actually lower it. Many argue that this isn’t as big of a deal as people are making it. “Full names typically aren’t attached to these profiles, and if they are companies typically don’t include them when selling your data. Plus all they’re doing is collecting information you give to the app or using your search results. They’re data mining. Who cares? You still use Facebook, right and they’ve been collecting and selling your information for years.” That’s the basic sentiment that a lot of people have. Not to mention, the more places your information travels and the more websites it’s available on, the easier and more likely it is for hackers to get ahold of your sensitive information. While most of the data was shared in some level of capacity or another to third parties, the information was also handed out to a fourth party in many cases. The primary company that was privy to this data is probably the last one you’d want having ANY of your information: Equifax. The research team discovered that Equifax had an agreement with many of the apps’ third parties. This means that not only can your personal health information, something that should be between just you and your doctor, affect your ability to buy a home or care, but Equifax also had one of the largest hacks. Tons of data was stolen from their website and that’s still very, very fresh in everyone’s minds. So while it’s bad enough that your health information, something you can’t control, is being used against you, it’s also at risk of being hacked and leaked to the world. You’d expect this kind of data sharing to be illegal or in the very least heavily frowned upon, but it’s not. It’s how businesses and companies have been operating on the web for a long, long time now. And according to the researchers, they don’t see it changing anytime soon. They were also quick to say that these findings really aren’t all that surprising. After all, since data is such a hot currency, it makes sense that personal stuff such as your health would sell like hot cakes so to speak. As for those that actually do read all of the fine print, the agreement is often poorly worded or “snuck in”. Using clever lingo, you might be unaware that you’re agreeing to the company’s desire to sell your personal data. And even if you are slick enough to catch it, none of the apps will allow you to opt out of the data sharing. So if you want to use their app (and in many cases, it’s a necessity), then you’ll have to allow the company to use your data as they see fit. And yes you read that right, according to the researchers ALL of the apps prevent you from opting out of the data share. How can I protect my health information? Unfortunately, this is one of those things where there’s no real solid answer. For starters users that take advantage of health programs online and apps need to be cautious with the ones they choose to use. And while it might seem impossible to protect your online data given the information in this article, it is possible. Easier said than done of course, but heavily researching each individual app before putting even a drop of information into it is a start. Obviously they’re going to share your data regardless, but you can at least avoid those companies that are selling it for heinous reasons. Just like you accept the fact that Facebook is going to market advertisements to your profile, you’ll need to accept that your health app will do the same. We also believe that there should be a heightened call that seeks to protect users from these predators. And informing the masses is the first and best way to begin. The more people that come to learn about the shady dealings of companies, the better they can prepare themselves. So please, share this article with your friends and family that might not be aware that their health data can have hard consequences on them. We were shocked to learn just how far these apps were going to make a buck. We were even more shocked that NONE of them allowed you to opt out of having your information shared. We were always aware that they had to share some level of personal data in order to advertise to you, but we didn’t know that companies like Equifax had their hands in the pot. What do you think about the whole thing? Does it surprise you? Do you think you’ll be less willing to use these apps in the future?

2019-04-26T12:20:25Z

https://ishli.com/what-you-dont-know-about-your-health-data-will-make-you-physically-ill/

Not to be confused with Subsidiary or subsidy. This article is about the general principle of subsidiarity, with particular reference to European Union law. For the Catholic social teaching, see Subsidiarity (Catholicism). Subsidiarity is perhaps presently best known as a general principle of European Union law. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as "the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level". The concept is applicable in the fields of government, political science, neuropsychology, cybernetics, management and in military command (mission command). Subsidiarity is a general principle of European Union law. In the United States of America, the principle of States' Rights is enshrined in the constitution. Although the principle is older, its expression in the term "subsidiarity" was first coined in 1891 by the Roman Catholic Church for its social teaching. The OED adds that the term "subsidiarity" in English follows the early German usage of "Subsidiarität". More distantly, it is derived from the Latin verb subsidio (to aid or help), and the related noun subsidium (aid or assistance). The concept as discussed here was first described formally in Catholic social teaching. Coupled with another Christian democratic principle, sphere sovereignty, subsidiarity is said to have led to the creation of corporatist welfare states throughout the world. Alexis de Tocqueville's classic study, Democracy in America, may be viewed as an examination of the operation of the principle of subsidiarity in early 19th century America. De Tocqueville noted that the French Revolution began with "a push towards decentralization ... in the end, an extension of centralization". He wrote that "Decentralization has, not only an administrative value, but also a civic dimension, since it increases the opportunities for citizens to take interest in public affairs; it makes them get accustomed to using freedom. And from the accumulation of these local, active, persnickety freedoms, is born the most efficient counterweight against the claims of the central government, even if it were supported by an impersonal, collective will." As Christian Democratic political parties were formed, they adopted the Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity, as well as the neo-Calvinist theological teaching of sphere sovereignty, with both Protestants and Roman Catholics agreeing "that the principles of sphere sovereignty and subsidiarity boiled down to the same thing". Will the American people never learn that, as a principle, to expect swift response and efficiency from government is fatuous? Will we never heed the principle of subsidiarity (in which our fathers were bred), namely that no public agency should do what a private agency can do better, and that no higher-level public agency should attempt to do what a lower-level agency can do better – that to the degree the principle of subsidiarity is violated, first local government, the state government, and then federal government wax in inefficiency? Moreover, the more powers that are invested in government, and the more powers that are wielded by government, the less well does government discharge its primary responsibilities, which are (1) defence of the commonwealth, (2) protection of the rights of citizens, and (3) support of just order. Decentralization, or decentralising governance, refers to the restructuring or reorganisation of authority so that there is a system of co-responsibility between institutions of governance at the central, regional and local levels according to the principle of subsidiarity, thus increasing the overall quality and effectiveness of the system of governance, while increasing the authority and capacities of sub-national levels. Systemic failures of the type seen in the crash of 2007/08 can largely be avoided, since diverse solutions to common problems avoid common mode failure. Individual and group initiative is given maximum scope to solve problems. The systemic problem of moral hazard is largely avoided. In particular, the vexing problem of atrophied local initiative/responsibility is avoided. When a genuine principle of liberty is recognised by a higher political entity but not all subsidiary entities, implementation of that principle can be delayed at the more local level. When a genuinely efficacious economic principle is recognised by a higher political entity, but not all subsidiary entities, implementation of that principle can be delayed at the more local level. In areas where the local use of common resources has a broad regional, or even global, impact (such as in the generation of pollutants), higher levels of authority may have a natural mandate to supersede local authority. Subsidiarity is perhaps presently best known as a general principle of European Union law. According to this principle, the EU may only act (i.e. make laws) where action of individual countries is insufficient. The principle was established in the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht. However, at the local level it was already a key element of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, an instrument of the Council of Europe promulgated in 1985 (see Article 4, Paragraph 3 of the Charter) (which states that the exercise of public responsibilities should be decentralised). Subsidiarity is related in essence to, but should not be confused with, the concept of a margin of appreciation. A more descriptive analysis of the principle can be found in Protocol 2 to the European Treaties. The Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg is the authority that has to decide whether a regulation falls within the exclusive competence[a] of the Union, as defined by the Treaty of European Union and its predecessors. As the concept of subsidiarity has a political as well as a legal dimension, the Court of Justice has a reserved attitude toward judging whether EU legislation is consistent with the concept. The Court will examine only marginally whether the principle is fulfilled. A detailed explanation of the legislation is not required; it is enough that the EU institutions explain why national legislation seems inadequate and that Union law has an added value. Furthermore, in the fifth recital the Parliament and the Council stated that the action taken by the Member States in response to the Commission's Recommendation has not fully achieved the desired result. The Community legislature therefore found that the objective of its action could not be achieved sufficiently by the Member States. Consequently, it is apparent that, on any view, the Parliament and the Council did explain why they considered that their action was in conformity with the principle of subsidiarity and, accordingly, that they complied with the obligation to give reasons as required under Article 190 of the Treaty. An express reference to that principle cannot be required. ^ Oxford English Dictionary. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/subsidiarity Definition: "[mass noun] (in politics) the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level:" ^ Early German usage: Subsidiarität(1809 or earlier in legal use; 1931 in the context of Catholic social doctrine, in §80 of Rundschreiben über die gesellschaftliche Ordnung ("Encyclical concerning the societal order"), the German version of Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo anno (1931))". ^ "Das Subsidiaritätsprinzip als wirtschaftliches Ordnungsprinzip", Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und soziale Ordnung. Degenfeld-Festschrift, Vienna: von Lagler and J. Messner, 1952, pp. 81–92 , cited in Helmut Zenz, DE . ^ Bak, Hans; Holthoon, F. L. van; Krabbendam, Hans; Edward L. Ayers (1 January 1996). Social and Secure?: Politics and Culture of the Welfare State: a Comparative Inquiry. VU University Press. ISBN 9789053834589. The Christian democrats promoted a corporatist welfare state, based on the principles of the so-called "sphere sovereignty" and "subsidiarity" in social policy. ^ Schmidt, Vivien A, Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization, p. 10 . ^ Segell, Glen (2000). Is There a Third Way?. Glen Segell Publishers. p. 80. ISBN 9781901414189. When the Dutch Protestant and Catholic parties combined, to form the Christian Democrats, the two parties agreed that the principles of sphere sovereignty and subsidiarity boiled down to the same thing. ^ Reid Buckley, An American Family – The Buckleys, Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 177. ^ Decentralization: A Sampling of Definitions, Joint UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)-Government of Germany evaluation of the UNDP role in decentralization and local governance, at the United Nations Development Programme website, October 1999, pp. 2, 16, 26. ^ a b Macrory, Richard, 2008, Regulation, Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law, Cameron May, London, p. 657. ^ Shelton, Dinah (2003). "The Boundaries of Human Rights Jurisdiction in Europe". Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. Duke University School of Law. 13 (1): 95–154. Retrieved 17 April 2017. ^ Protocol 2 to the European Treaties. ^ Exclusive competencies are those matters that the member states have agreed with each other by treaty are those that they should achieve jointly (typically through the European Commission). All other matters remain as "national competences" (each member decides its own policy independently). International trade agreements are an example of the former, taxation is an example of the latter. Look up subsidiarity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This page was last edited on 7 September 2018, at 21:45 (UTC).

2019-04-24T18:50:35Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2050 with a release date of Friday, February 10, 2017 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. Hams test drive an experimental band in the U.S. Young amateurs prepare for School Club Roundup -- and we hear from the winner of the Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure's essay competition. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2050 comes your way right now. STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We open this week's report with an update on a ham band that is still experimental -- at least in the U.S. Until 630 meters becomes mainstream in the States as it is so many places elsewhere in the world there are always events like the Mid-Winter 630-meter Operating Activity. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Skeeter Nash N5ASH with the details of the second such event, held earlier this month. SKEETER: Conditions on 630 meters were average, according to Fritz Raab W1FR, coordinator of the ARRL'S 630 Meter Experimental group, but he told Amateur Radio Newsline that participants enjoyed the second annual mid-winter activity on the band. According to a summary from John Langridge KB5NJD, WSPR activity was at an all-time high and there were abundant trans-Pacific openings. Canadian stations were eager participants as well on their newest band although hams in British Columbia had complications from snow and ice conditions. A number of stations were also active using CW and JT9. Raab had said previously that as the solar cycle has gone into decline, MF propagation has improved, especially in the paths to VK and JA. Now it is a matter of waiting. Countries permitting 630-meter band operation include Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Finland, Canada, Poland and Bulgaria. Raab said hams in the U.S. have been hoping for the FCC to permit normal operation on 472 kHz to 479 kHz since 2004 and so they are accustomed to sitting things out. We hope their patience pays off. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Skeeter Nash N5ASH. ANCHOR/STEPHEN: Meet Bryant Rascoll, KG5HVO, a young ham who just qualified for a DX adventure in Costa Rica with a winning essay about ham radio's meaning in his life. Let Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, introduce him to you. DON: Last November YDXA, the Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure announced an exciting essay competition for young radio amateurs between the ages of 12 and 18 describing their involvement in, personal future plans for, and importance of Amateur Radio. I am very pleased to introduce the winner, Bryant Rascoll, KG5HVO from my part of the world, New Orleans. Hi Bryant, welcome to Newsline! BR - Hello Mr. Don, how are you? DW - I'm well, thank you. How old are you Bryant? BR - I'm 12 years old, about to be 13. DW - When is your birthday? BR - My birthday is on Saturday. DW - Well, Happy Birthday! How long have you been a ham? BR - One and a half years. DW - What got you interested in ham radio? DW - How did you hear about the YDXA essay contest? DW - Tell me about how you found out that you had won the essay contest. DW - Quite an exciting club meeting! Now besides the trip what else was included in the prize? DW - And what license class are you? DW - So you can use this right now! Did you already have an HF station? DW - And when is the trip to Costa Rica? BR - August 3rd through August 8th. DW - Very exciting! Let's plug your local club. What club is that? DON: A very impressive young radio amateur. I've said it many times... there are way more good apples in the basket than bad and if Bryant is any indication of the folks who are going to be running the world when we are done with it we will be in very good hands. Congratulations Bryant Rascoll, KG5HVO. If you would like to hear my extended conversation with Bryant just click on the Extra tab on the Newsline website. From New Orleans, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW. STEPHEN/ANCHOR: If you know anyone who's interested in the DX adventure in August, applications are still being accepted for team members. They will also be available at YDXAís HamventionÆ booth in May. STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Some other bright young hams will be on the air this month as part of Radio Scouting, as we hear from Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD. BILL'S REPORT: This week in Radio Scouting we have one activation of the K2BSA call sign and two activations from Scout Camps on the Air. Jeffrey Kent, KB0GVI, is the control operator for the K2BSA portable 0 station at the Old Capitol Valley District Winter Camporee at Lake Iowa State Park in Landora, IA, on February 26. Chuck McBride, WS5ADV, is the control operator for WS5BSA at the Troop 20 Hut in Oklahoma City, OK, on February 11th. Charles will have the scouts active on 20 through 10 m on SSB from a Yaesu Ft-840 if the bands are open. Chuck will also be activating WS5BSA from the Chickasaw National Recreation Area on February 18th. This time they'll be active with a Yaesu FT-817 on 20m and 17m throughout the day. They will also be monitoring the SWIRA repeater system. Pista HA5AO is in Lesotho until February 26th as a volunteer at orphanages using the call sign 7P8EUDXF to celebrate 30 years of the European DX Foundation. He is on the air in his spare time. QSL cards go via OQRS to HA5AO. You can find Michael DF8AN on the air as CE0Y/DF8AN from Easter Isla nd until February 17th. Listen for him operating on CW and on Digital modes. He will move on to Juan Fernandez Island after February 21st and operate as CE0Z/DF8AN. QSLs go via his home call. ANCHOR/STEPHEN: The Ladies of the Net Radio Club KM6CIR have a big day scheduled aboard a historic World War II ship. Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Damron, N8TMW has the details. JIM: A lot of history has sailed aboard the USS Hornet Museum Ship which now makes Alameda, California its permanent home. The Naval aircraft carrier, formerly the USS Kearsage, was known in more recent decades for recovering the Apollo 11 astronauts following their return to Earth after the first moon landing mission in 1969. On Saturday, February 18th, the Ladies of the Net Radio Club KM6CIR will get closer to the ship's renowned history when they begin operating from the on-board radio station NB6GC beginning at 1900 UTC. The club, an informal net that meets weekday mornings on 40 meters, is based in Union City, California. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW. ANCHOR/STEPHEN: Of course, some hams would rather try for radio contact aboard a smaller boat, like a ferry, as we hear from Amateur Radio Newsline's Jason Daniels VK2LAW. JASON: Ferry boats aren't exactly battleships but a few of the ones in Sydney Harbor are going to see some competetive action soon during the Sydney Amateur Radio Ferry contest on the 12th of March. The Waverley Amateur Radio Society VK2BV is hosting its second annual ferry contest, which is a VHF/UHF event utilizing both simplex frequencies and repeaters. The competition invites hams to contact other hams on hand-held receivers while on any of the ferries or wharves in and around Sydney Harbor. The event takes place from 10 am to 4 pm local time. There will be a number of honors including the coveted Worked All Ferries award. So if you're waiting for your ship - or perhaps your ferry - to come in, consider the purchase of an Opal Card for $2.50 which permits a full day's travel on board. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW. ANCHOR/STEPHEN: OK, hams, you have some homework to do as we hear from Amateur Radio Newsline's Neil Rapp WB9VPG. NEIL: School Club Roundup is just around the corner once again. Itís time to support our school ham radio clubs by giving students a call on the air! The on-air activity, in a contest-like format, starts at 1300 UTC Monday, February 13th and lasts through 2359 UTC on Friday, February 17th. Lew Malchick, N2RQ, the eventís organizer from the sponsoring Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club, or LIMARC, explains the goal of School Club Roundup. LEW: I constantly run into people who say we need new hamsÖ young hams. And, one of the ways to get them is to introduce them to ham radio. Get ëem on the air. And School Club Roundup is one of the ways to get them on the air. Schools of course are the biggest attraction, biggest multiplier in the scoring, and all of thatÖ but Itís not about the scoring, really. Itís just about the experience. You will hear elementary school age kids operating like theyíve been on the air for a decade. And youíll hear kids that have never touched a microphone or [worked] a digital contact before. But the whole idea is to give them the experience. And hopefully, sow the seeds of some new operators. NEIL: In order for the kids to operate, they need some stations to contact. LEW: If we depended only on the schools talking to other schools, it wouldnít be very much. You get on the air especially with the recent conditions, youíre not going to make that many contacts. So we need the individuals. We want everyone to get on and have some fun! And so, we have that opportunity. The other thing weíd like, since we've had some complaints in recent years, is for individual operators and maybe some net people and stuff like that, to be courteous. Recognize that a lot of these operators are very inexperienced. Give them a little slack, and be a little bit more courteous than you might otherwise be...or patient. NEIL: For recommended frequencies and complete rules, visit www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup. And I look forward to hearing YOU on the air. STEPHEN: And finally, we close out this week's report with a special request from a good friend, Hap Holly KC9RP, who spoke with Amateur Radio Newsline's Paul Braun WD9GCO. PAUL/ANCHOR: Most hams take the written word for granted. Whether itís an online article, something in QST or CQ, or perhaps a magazine article from a particular collectorís club on the history of a radio. But not everyone can do that. Take, for example, Hap Holly, KC9RP. Hap is not only the founder of The Radio Amateur Information Network, or RAIN Report broadcast, but a longtime contributor and supporter of Newsline as well. Heís also blind. For him, capturing and presenting amateur radio information and history in audio form is not only fun, itís critical. That is also the reason that he records every forum speaker at Dayton every year and presents them later in his broadcast. HAP: I am concerned that, as time goes on, we are losing more and more of our radio ìpioneers.î After all, we just lost one of my mentors, Bill Pasternak, co-founder of Newsline, last year and every year it seems that there are more and more of those who were involved with ham radio manufacturers back in the Sixties and Seventies who are becoming Silent Keys. And I want to document ñ I want to archive ñ interviews with as many of these people as I can from manufacturers who are no longer around. I.E., Hammarlund, National, Heathkit, Lafayette, Allied, Gotham, Hallicrafters, you name it. I have interviewed a few ñ Herb Johnson from Swan and Atlas ñ many back in the early 90s ñ Wes Schum of Central Electronics, heís gone, and it concerns me because I, as a blind person, do not have the access to some of this history. Oh, yeah, if you look around on the Internet enough maybe youíll find it, but I want to have it easily accessible in audio format so folks can play it in their own ham shack, put it on a net, play it in a radio club ñ that sort of thing. And thatís what the RAIN Report is for. PAUL/ANCHOR: We here at Amateur Radio Newsline agree with Hap that itís important to document the history of our hobby, and we also feel that is best served by speaking directly with the people who were involved with that history. HAP: The RAIN Report does update every week, usually on Saturday. And anyone can transmit it on amateur radio ñ you donít have to ask me for permission ñ and there is a break in the middle, of course because itís formatted to be transmitted by amateur radio. PAUL: We appreciate all that Hap has done for Newsline over the years, and weíd like to help him, too. NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure; Fritz Raab W1FR; Hap Holly and the RAIN Report; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; South African Radio League; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; USS Hornet Amateur Radio Club; the Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; the YL Beam Newsletter; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford N8WB in Wadsworth, Ohio saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.

2019-04-25T02:34:33Z

https://www.arnewsline.org/script-page/2017/2/25/amateur-radio-newsline-report-2050

Sam Gold joins The Athletic after working his way through the journalist farm system and is enjoying life in the big league. Growing up outside of Washington, D.C., Sam didn’t choose the Redskins, the Redskins chose him. Out of a love for the game and an insatiable curiosity to determine why his beloved team was underperforming, he turned to studying film. Seahawks Film Room: How important is bringing back free-agent guards Fluker, Sweezy? Amari Cooper is a complete receiver, and his acquisition has significantly upgraded the Dallas offense. After getting carved up by San Francisco's tight ends a week earlier, the Seahawks limited Travis Kelce to 54 yards on nine targets. Here's how they did it. Jabrill Peppers is the ultimate hybrid defender in the modern NFL. A week after Seattle shut down the Vikings, 49ers tight ends terrorized the Seahawks. Ahead of a prime-time matchup with the Chiefs, Seattle should consider switching up its defense. Seahawks Film Room: What happened to Russell Wilson and the passing game Monday night? After a month of the most efficient football of his career, Russell Wilson finished Monday night's win over the Minnesota Vikings with 72 passing yards. Here's what went wrong. Seahawks Film Room: Why has Shaquill Griffin disappointed in Year 2? The Seahawks' second-year corner is clearly talented, but developing consistent technique and habits will define his growth going into next season. Steelers Film Room: Why has James Conner been able to replicate Le'Veon Bell's production? James Conner has a different running style than Le'Veon Bell. But he's been just as effective this season. The Seahawks have trusted David Moore to play a big role in his second NFL season, and he's rewarding that trust with breakout performances. Seahawks Film Room: Why did pass rush dominate versus Packers? The Seahawks doubled their average sack output in Thursday night's win over Green Bay. Was the success scheme-related, or did an individual player stand out? Rashaad Penny finally flashed the play-making abilities that made him a first-round pick. In this video breakdown, I tracked and analyzed each of his 74 carries so far on the year. Russell Wilson missed big opportunities, took unnecessary sacks and threw a pick-six, but somehow kept the Seahawks close versus the Chargers. Russell Wilson's statistically perfect effort versus the Lions didn't start out that way. Frank Clark is off to a great start in 2018, and the Seahawks need to re-sign him before he hits free agency. While many saw him as a top tier slot cornerback, there were some doubts on whether or not he could play outside. Last week versus the Raiders, the Seahawks scored their first opening-drive touchdown in 34 games. Credit offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer's play-calling for the breakthrough. In his first start, Tedric Thompson did a good job recognizing route combinations and calling out multiple plays before the snap, putting the Seahawks defense in position to succeed. Josh Rosen made his first NFL start on Sunday when the Cardinals hosted the Seahawks, and while nothing jumps off the page statistically, his numbers are misleading. In Week 3, Chris Carson gained almost half of his 102 rushing yards independent of his offensive line's contribution. With Carson injured, Mike Davis more than matched that feat in Week 4. Christian McCaffrey is a runner, receiver and as a pass blocker in Carolina's offense, employing his elusiveness, patience, and vision to make plays. Chris Carson was the first Seahawks running back to notch a 100-yard game in nearly two years. He's making the most of his opportunities and proving he deserves to be Seattle's lead back. Baker Mayfield consistently took advantage of the defensive matchups in exactly the ways Tyrod Taylor couldn't versus the Jets. Patrick Mahomes was considered by some to be the biggest boom-or-bust prospect in the 2017 draft, but his development is already proving his doubters wrong. Russell Wilson was responsible for half of the six sacks he took in Week 1 versus the Broncos. How many were his fault Monday night in Chicago? Looking for someone to blame for Seattle's poor performance on third down versus Denver? Start with the Seahawks' franchise quarterback. Rookie tight end Will Dissly was a bright spot in Seattle's Week 1 loss at Denver, proving he can be a factor in the Seahawks' passing game in addition to his blocking duties. Julio Jones is such an incredibly talented route runner that he'll continue to perform well regardless who calls the plays. New Seahawks quarterback Brett Hundley exhibits many of the same issues he had coming out of college despite three years in Green Bay. In his sophomore season, Allen's budding talent will open eyes around the league. The former Florida State star flashed the potential that convinced the Chargers to take him with the 17th overall pick. In an ideal world, Seahawks rookie linebacker Shaquem Griffin could sit behind K.J. Wright for his entire first NFL season, but the fifth-round pick will be called upon to star sooner than later. Brian Schottenheimer has preached a "back to basics" message for Russell Wilson since being hired as offensive coordinator. In Seattle's the third preseason game, this focus on fundamentals paid off. Undrafted rookie Poona Ford is making the most of his limited opportunities. While he’s mainly lining up against backup offensive lineman, he has shown enough upside to warrant a roster spot. Analyzing the route combination he used against the Steelers' Cover 1 defense and how he used his strength and length to grab the score. The Seahawks selected Rasheem Green to boost their pass rush after losing veterans Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett in the offseason. So far, the rookie has shown a lot of promise. The forgotten man in Seattle's tight-end group this offseason, Nick Vannett flashed a lot of potential in the Seahawks’ first preseason game. Saquon Barkley paired vision and patience to exploit the Browns' defense in his first NFL carry. J.R. Sweezy played in only 14 games over the past two seasons in Tampa Bay, but his pass-blocking skills could earn him a starting job in his return to Seattle, provided he stays healthy. The stats from Lamar Jackson's NFL debut weren't pretty, but he made some quality plays that should give Ravens fans hope for the future. Despite consistent production, Doug Baldwin is still one of the most underrated receivers in the NFL. That could change this year. Seahawks Film Room: Is McDougald better at free safety or strong safety? Bradley McDougald displayed his versatility while filling in at both starting safety spots for the Seahawks last season, but which position is a better fit for his skills? Under new offensive line coach Mike Solari, Seattle seems likely to feature more plays using down blocks, combination blocks and pulling offensive lineman, like "60/70 Power." Seahawks Film Room: Is it time to re-sign Tyler Lockett? Tyler Lockett is an elite return specialist, but he's still developing as a receiver. That presents the Seahawks with an interesting conundrum as he enters the final year of his rookie contract. Kam Chancellor, who announced he was walking away from football after suffering a career-ending neck injury last year, impacted games in subtle and not-so-subtle ways for the Seahawks. There weren't a lot of positives coming out of the Seahawks 2017 run game, but Chris Carson showed enough – in an admittedly small sample size – to compete for a starting job in 2018. Keenan Allen exceed all expectations in 2017 after returning from at torn ACL. Sam Gold breaks down how Allen used his superior route running and hip flexibility to create separation. Does offensive line contribution affect running back contribution? Samuel Gold hopes to answer that question in the second part his of analysis on running back and offensive line performance. Most metrics do a relatively poor job of separating offensive line and running back performance on run plays. When comparing two of this year's first-round backs, Samuel Gold attempts to do just that. It’s clear Brandon Marshall isn’t the same player he used to be, but the six-time Pro Bowler can play a valuable role in the Seahawks’ offense. Fourth-round tight end Will Dissly will be an instant upgrade for the Seahawks’ offense and exemplifies Pete Carroll's "always compete" mentality. In his first piece for The Athletic, Sam Gold breaks down third-round defensive end Rasheem Green's college film and tells us why he believes Green can be an impact player for the Seahawks.

2019-04-19T06:32:36Z

https://theathletic.com/author/sam-gold/

Book Club Readers: I would like to know if you have done any of the devotions in Songs in the Key of Solomon and how it went. You can let me know anonymously by clicking here. Thanks! In 1985 I should have been the happiest woman on the planet. I had a sweet, funny, romantic husband who had just bought me a brand new house in a great neighborhood. I worked for a great Christian woman and did interesting work. I attended one of those “mega-churches” filled with lots of opportunities to serve and learn more about God. I was part of a wonderful Bible study group that caused my faith to grow by leaps and bounds. The hubby and I were trying to get preggers and nothing was happening on that front at all. While other friends our age were getting pregnant right and left, we were jealous and as Christians, we felt bad about feeling jealous! In my head I was thinking, “A good Christian would rejoice with her friends when they rejoice. A child is a blessing.” But, I was just sad that it wasn’t me who was getting to have a baby shower. My head was also thinking, “It makes sense that God is not giving you a baby.” Why? When I babysat children as a teenager, they often drove me nuts. I had very little patience with them, honestly. This propensity made sense. I was the youngest in my family and thus, never really learned to tolerate the boisterous nature of younger children. I also grew up in a minister’s family where quiet weekends were very normal because Dad was either preparing his sermon and needing the quiet or because he had just finished preaching and ministering on Sunday mornings and needed the rest. Thus, loudness, commotion and silliness were not my favorite cup of tea. I preferred to read, listen to music through my voluminous headphones (It was the 70s–everything was big.) and watching old movies. I liked solitude and solitude is not exactly synonymous with children! And I had a knack for overreacting and saying the wrong things. How was that going to translate into good motherhood??? And yet, there was this burning ache to have a child. Weeks turned into months and months turned into years. Finally, we consulted an ObGyn for help. If you’ve never been through this process, it’s pretty embarrassing. You have to expose the most intimate details of your relationship with your husband to strangers and let your private parts be open “for inspection.” Okay, so it feels like an inspection. In 1985 in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogate pregnancies were just coming to the forefront of the infertility field of medicine. So, the hubby and I had to discuss exactly how far we wanted to go down the “fertility treatment road.” We finally agreed that if the baby wasn’t totally ours genetically, then we would stop treatments and procedures and start working on adopting a child. Few realize that if a couple chooses to adopt, they basically have to have some time to grieve. Yes, grieve. Why? Because an infertile couple has to say goodbye to the notion of ever having their own child genetically. If a couple doesn’t do that, in my humble opinion, the consequences could be really unfortunate for the child they eventually adopt. To grieve this “loss” can take years. While adopting would have been great, going down the grief road wasn’t my idea of fun. To boot most procedures (including adoption) costs thousands of dollars not covered by insurance. This generally hits couples when they’re hoping to pay off college loans and have a mortgage. There isn’t exactly a plethora of disposable income at their fingertips during this era of their lives! This was true of us as well. We were both tested for possible infertility causes to determine the course of treatment. I was the culprit. Now, no matter how many times I, as well as the hubby and the doctors, said I shouldn’t blame myself, I still did. How do you not do that when you find out you’re not ovulating regularly and that you have endometriosis??? Again, it seemed to be confirmation from on high that I was not the right kind of person to be a mom. I felt pretty worthless. We tried fertility drugs to no avail. Soon, it seemed prudent to do exploratory surgery on me to see what could be done about my endometriosis and to make sure other things were not hindering my ability to conceive. The surgery was going to be thousands of dollars. We made the decision to tell our Bible study group, because they would wonder why I was in the hospital anyway. I will never forget what happened next–a first-time experience for me. They laid their hands on me and just prayed that that expense would not be necessary! A mere month later, I was telling them I was pregnant. The Bible study group members literally jumped up and down at the news. Surgery averted. Prenatal vitamins started! Miracle granted! Nine traumaless months later the oldest son was born. Four years later, with the help of fewer fertility drugs, our daughter arrived. And without any medical science at all, another son arrived four years after that. (I still refer to him as “the immaculate conception.”) Guess God thought this selfish, quiet-seeking person should be a mom after all. I’d love to tell you that I was a great mom from the beginning. I was anything but. It took a loooonnnnggg time for God to work on all that selfishness and huge desire to crawl in a big hole when things got too chaotic for me. And I wasn’t all that great an aunt to several of my nieces and nephews (Again, there’s a reason why this blog is called what it is.) But over time and with a lot of instruction from the Lord and other great moms, I learned how to be a decent mom. But, God didn’t stop there. He chose to give me “the adopteds.” Most of them are friends and acquaintances of my kids and a few I picked up along the way as I worked at our local university. I’m privileged to say that a few are also from the extended family. I would die for any one of them just as I would for my own children. Just the other day at the local grocery store, I heard a happy voice call out, “Momma A!” And I knew that happy voice was hailing me! Sure enough, an adopted was waiting to hug and greet me. Today I marvel at how God answered the sad, desperate prayers of a woman who felt so unworthy of motherhood in 1985. Motherhood, in any of its forms, is such a privilege! And when the next generation becomes the people they’re meant to become, I am so proud of each and every one of them and how they, themselves, are triumphing over the sadness and obstacles in their own lives. They are a marvel, as well. Perhaps now you understand why I find myself stalking “Mommy blogs” right and left, even though my active years of parenting are well behind me. And why, I have chosen to put the “Top Mommy Blog button” in the right-hand column of my blog. It still stuns me that I can offer suggestions, tips and encouragement when being a parent is really trying! And it may stun you to know that MIP is currently # 25 in the most popular “Everything Else” Mommy Blog category and # 565 overall, despite just being approved for mention on their site a few short days ago. So, do me a favor: When you read a post here, please click on the Top Mommy Blog button before you leave. That will help other moms find my blog. I am so hoping that something I say here will resonate with that hard-working group of people and that I can be a blessing in their lives as they have been in mine. If you’re a mom, clicking on the button may help you find some much-needed resources and other blogs to help you with that big job of yours. And if you have a few minutes, please leave a rating and a few words about what MIP means to you. Thanks in advance–it means more than you will ever know. Point to Ponder 1: If you’re going through infertility right now, what’s the most important thing you can do today to help your situation, either mentally, physically or emotionally? Pray? Confide in a good friend or relative? Tell me about it here? Consult a fertility specialist? Whatever it is, take the first step today to make that happen. You need allies in this fight! Point to Ponder 2: Do you have a friend or relative going through infertility right now? If you’re a mom, may I gently suggest that you do your “mommy venting” with friends who already have kids and just pray for your friend and relative and let them know that you care about what they’re going through? Tell them that you probably don’t understand their situation, but you would love to know how you could help them best. Point to Ponder 3: Do you have a wonderful mother figure in your life? Let her know today how much you appreciate her efforts and influence on your life! We never know when that gesture or kind word of appreciation is the last time we may get to let her know that! Point to Ponder 4: Having a rough day “at the office” with your kids? Been there, done that. Let an older mom know that. She often has suggestions on how to get through those rough times. My suggestion? Throw out all of those parenting books and just trust your gut. God gave you those kids because he thought you were the best person to parent them. Submit a comment below if you need more encouragement. I’m happy to tell you what this imperfect mom learned as she was “in the trenches.” And veteran Moms? What suggestions do you have for newer moms who are struggling to succeed at raising the next generation? Submit away below! Friday’s Post: Slow Reader Friday and August MIP Book Club Selection Time! This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 at 10:50 am and is filed under God stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. I love this post. Thank you. Dealing with multiple miscarriages was the hardest thing Andrew and I have ever been through. It is such a lonely feeling. I treasure my sweet Riley Paige everyday and am so thankful God allowed us to be her parents. Fortunately, those rough times made us much stronger as a couple and in our relationship with God. Thank you again for such an honest and inspiring post! Thanks, Chelsea, for sharing a little bit of your journey down the “infertility road” here. I can’t even imagine what that must be like to endure. But, I hope God uses it to bless other women with similar situations so they know they are not alone and that there IS hope. God is so good!

2019-04-23T10:48:33Z

https://maryanninprogress.com/an-unlikely-mom/

Extractions: Spider Venom All spiders, with the exception of two very small families, have poison glands. The spider’s venom is used to kill their pray. All spiders are exclusively carnivorous and generally prey only on live animals. Spiders chiefly dine on insects. Preying on mosquitoes, for example, makes the spider beneficial in the control of mosquito-borne disease such as encephalitis. Some spider species are used to help control insects from destroying grain crops such as wheat. Spiders use their venom as a means to gain food and for defense. The vast majority of spiders do not produce venom virulent enough to harm humans. Too, spiders are timid creatures and bite and inject venom only in self-defense. Most spiders will run away as fast as they can, however, if felt cornered or in the protection of their young, they will bit humans. Includes color photos, scientific names, common names, a description, and information about the behavior, Category Kids and Teens School Time Invertebrates SpidersAll about black widow spiders, includes color photos, scientific names,common names, description, behavior, range, habitats and life cycle. HABITAT black widow spiders are common around wood piles, and are frequentlyencountered when homeowners carry firewood into the house. Extractions: Contact: Eric Day, Manager, Insect Identification Laboratory August 1996 Araneae: Theridiidae, Latrodectus mactans SIZE: About 1 1/2 inches (38mm) long, 1/4 inch (6.4mm) in diameter COLOR: Usually shiny black DESCRIPTION: The female is usually black with a red spot or hourglass- shaped mark on its round abdomen. The male usually has light streaks on its abdomen. HABITAT: Black widow spiders are common around wood piles, and are frequently encountered when homeowners carry firewood into the house. Also found under eaves, in boxes, outdoor toilets, meter boxes, and other unbothered places. TYPE OF DAMAGE: The black widow is not aggressive. It will, however, bite instinctively when touched or pressed. CONTROL: Be very careful when working around areas where black widow spiders may be established. Take proper precautions-wear gloves and pay attention to where you are working. Black widow bites are sharp and painful, and the victim should go to the doctor immediately for treatment. To control the black widow, carefully remove all materials where they might hide. They can be cleaned out of an area simply by knocking down the webs, spiders, and round tan egg sacs with a stick and crushing them underfoot. INTERESTING FACTS: The female eats the male after mating. She hangs belly upward and rarely leaves the web. Extractions: Eggs of widow spiders are laid in an egg sack, attached to the web of the mother. The sack is pear shaped, and creamy yellow, light gray, or light brown in color. About 200 eggs may be laid in an egg sack and females may produce several egg sacks if conditions are favorable. Where do you find black widows? Widow spiders prefer to nest near the ground, in dark, undisturbed areas. Nest sites often are near holes produced by small animals, or around construction openings and wood piles. Low shrubs also are common sites for widows to occur. Indoors, widows similarly occur in dark, undisturbed sites such as behind furniture or under desks. Undisturbed basement areas and crawl spaces of homes are also used by nesting widow spiders. What are the symptoms of poisoning by widow spiders? Extractions: Items ... www.kill-fireants.com Black Widow Spider BIOLOGY OF SPIDERS SPIDER ELIMINATION Araneae: Theridiidae, Latrodectus mactans The female black widow spider rarely leaves her web. The web she constructs is an irregular, tangled, cris Egg sacs are pear shaped (or oval), brown, papery and about ½ inch long. They hold from 25 to 900 or more eggs, which have an incubation period of 20 days. The spiderlings disperse shortly after emerging, tearing an opening in the egg sac and stay near the sac. After several hours, these second instar spiderlings balloon to the ground and scatter. Growth requires two to three months, with older females dying in autumn after egg laying. Of all spiders, the Black Widow is the most feared. The female’s venom is especially poisonous to people. Despite its reputation, this spider often attempts to escape rather than bite, unless it is guarding an egg mass or if it is cornered and pressed. The male black widow will not bite you. After mating, the female sometimes eats the male (remember, she only has to mate once in her life), earning the name "widow." During the period shortly following mating and laying of eggs, the female black widow can be a little cranky and hungry. After this period (if he lives through it!) the male lives quite comfortably, eating prey captured by the female. The development of his venom sacs stop and become inactive as the male matures, thus making him less of a potential problem than his female counterpart. Black Widow Spiders -- General Exterminating, Inc. Extractions: INTRODUCTION: These spiders get their common name from the popular belief that the female eats the male after mating, a phenomenon which rarely happens in nature. The genus Latrodectus is worldwide in distribution, with 5 species occurring in the United States. Recognition of the genus is sufficient for PCO purposes. RECOGNITION: Young spiders primarily orange and white but acquire more and more black as they mature, with markings very similar to those of males. With 1 or 2 reddish markings on underneath side of abdomen. REPRESENTATIVE SPECIES: Identification to species is left to experts since several species are involved and species separation is based primarily on differences in the male gentalia. Although a very brief description based on female coloration is given below, it must be realized that color and markings are not always reliable characteristics for separation of these species and that males are usually colored and marked quite differently. 1. Latrodectus bishopi Kaston, the red widow. Cephalothorax reddish, abdomen black with reddish to organish spots outlined by white, red marks on venter, and legs reddish; occurs only in central and southern Florida. 2. Latrodectus geometicus (Fabricius), the brown widow. Color brownish with white and black brown markings, abdomen with red hourglass mark, legs banded/ringed; occurs only in southern Florida. Extractions: William F. Lyon Common Name Scientific Name Black Widow Spider Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius) Northern Widow Spider Latrodectus variolus (Walckenaer) Both the black widow spider and northern widow spider are present in Ohio. The black widow spider is found primarily in the southern Ohio counties whereas the northern widow spider is found in the northern Ohio counties. Most occur outdoors and are not aggressive unless confined or disturbed. Females are more likely to bite when guarding an egg sac. Reports indicate that mortality from bites is the result of one percent or less of the cases, usually occurring in very young or very old individuals. With healthy people, recovery is usually complete in 2 to 5 days. However, this spider is considered the most venomous spider in North America. Adult black widow spiders have shiny, jet black, rounded, globular abdomens with two reddish or yellowish triangles on the underside which form a characteristic hourglass marking. Adult female northern widow spiders are shiny black or brown-black with two reddish triangles on the underside, resembling a split hourglass. These spiders are about 1/2-inch long, not including the legs (about 1-1/2 inches when legs are spread). Adult males are harmless, about half the female's size, with smaller bodies, longer legs and usually have yellow and red bands and spots over the back as do the immature stages. Newly hatched spiderlings are predominately white or yellowish-white, gradually acquiring more black and varying amounts of red and white with each molt. Juveniles of both sexes resemble the male and are harmless. Imported car shifter knobs with genuine Australian black widow spiders encased inside in a life like stance. Extractions: Newly hatched black widows are white with black spots on their abdomens with a cream colored hourglass. Later as they mature they become cream and brown-striped. The black widow requires about 4 months from egg to maturity with the females going through six to nine molts. Over their one to two year life span the females produce several egg sacs, each containing several hundred eggs. Female black widows guard the sac, which resembles a silken cocoon, until the eggs hatch. During this time she is most likely to bite when threatened. Eggs are most frequently encountered from May to October. Urban Integrated Pest Management. Black Widow Spiders. From RL Smith,1982. Venomous Animals of Arizona. The University of Arizona. Extractions: From: R.L. Smith, 1982. Venomous Animals of Arizona. The University of Arizona. Warning: The bite of a "black widow" spider can be life-threatening. If you or someone in your care has been bitten by a "black widow" spider, obtain professional medical assistance as soon as possible. No emergency first aid procedures are recommended for "black widow" spider bites (see first aid instructions Description: The common name black widow spider specifically belongs to the eastern species Latrodectus mactans , which does not occur in Arizona. Latrodectus hesperus , our species, is very similar to the true black widow. The adult female has a shiny black (occasionally dark brown) body approximately 1.5 cm long and slim black legs with a span of about 4 cm. The most famous and easily distinguishable characteristic of this species is the bright red hourglass-shaped marking on the underside of the bulbous female abdomen (Figure 11). Immature females have red, brown, and cream-colored markings on the dorsal surface of the abdomen (Figure 12), and a cream-colored hourglass. Males are much smaller than adult females (about 1/20 the size) and, like immature females, are patterned with red, brown, and cream (Figure 13). Extractions: Black Widow Spiders are extremely poisonous arachnids (not insects). Their venom is 15 times as poisonous as the venom of the prairie rattlesnake . These venomous spiders are found in warm and temperate climates all around the world. They live in dark places, in drain pipes, under logs and rocks, etc. in North America from Florida and California to southern Canada. Their bite rarely kills humans. The female will sometimes eat the smaller male after mating. She will lay 300-400 eggs. The spiderlings (baby spiders) are not poisonous but they are cannibals, eating each other. Diet : Black Widows eat flies, moths, crickets, small reptiles and other small animals. Their fangs inject venom and digestive juices into the prey. This kills the prey and also liquifies its flesh, letting the spider eat it easily. Anatomy : Females (about 1 1/2 inches across) have a black body with a distinctive red hourglass shape on the underside of the abdomen. Males are smaller (about 3/4 inch across) with longer legs and red and yellow markings. The females are much more poisonous than the males. Black Widows have a two-part body, strong jaws, poisonous fangs, and a hard exoskeleton. Webs : Black Widow Spiders use silk to make tangled-looking webs, usually near the ground in dark places. The tips of the spider's legs are oily; this oil keeps them from getting trapped in their own webs. black widow spiders are very numerous. 1994. The Black Widow Spider, PB1193, Universityof Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service. Lacy, M. 1997. Spiders. Extractions: glossy black. The underside of the abdomen has a distinct red or orange hourglass shape in the southern black widow. Males and immatures have similar markings. Immature individuals are orange and white and will become more black with each molt (Lacy 1997). The markings on the underside of the immature's abdomen may be red and are variable in shape and often not joined (Lacy 1997). Males have whitish markings (streaks, bars or dots) on the top side of the abdomen and red triangular markings on the underside. In the northern black widow, the hourglass appears split in the middle. The northern widow has a row of red spots along the central, top of the abdomen (Hedges and Lacy 1995). The southern black widow prefers dark, sheltered areas. In nature, they construct their webs in hollow logs and under loose bark or stones, in small trees and under bushes. Man has provided additional suitable habitat in the form of crawl spaces under houses, firewood piles, under boards, under furniture, inside boxes, seldom worn shoes, behind and under debris, drainage pipes, false ceiling areas, out-houses, sheds, barns, well houses and root cellars. Northern black widows tend to make their webs in the branches of trees. Spiders. Spiders, spider control, brown recluse, black widow, spider webs. Click onthe picture Black widow spider For more information on black widow spiders. Extractions: Feel free to call 1-800-476-3368 if you have any questions! Spiders are considered a beneficial insect because of their prey to other insects. However their are two North American species that are dangerous to humans: Black Widow and Brown Recluse. Most spiders are harmless, but we do include recommended treatment and products at the end of the section. BLACK WIDOW The female has a shiny black, globular abdomen with two yellow or red markings in a triangle shape. It looks like a hourglass. Males are smaller, lighter in color, with light streaks on the abdomen. The web is irregular, many times found along exterior foundations on slabs, under stones and rocks, behind shrubs .They usually don't into structures .They will bite if provoked. The bite feels like a sharp pain ,like a needle puncture. After 15 minutes to an hour there will be muscular cramps. Bites are rarely fatal, but you should seek medical attention. Click on the picture: For more information on black widow spiders. Spider News and Research. AUSTRAILIAN SPIDERS ARE HEADING TO SPACE. Unlikesilk worms, spiders are too antisocial to farm successfully. Extractions: SPIDER DNA TO ASSIST IN PRODUCTION OF CARBON FIBER A goat that produces spider's web protein is about to revolutionise the materials industry. Stronger and more flexible than steel, spider silk offers a lightweight alternative to carbon fibre. Up to now it has been impossible to produce "spider fibre" on a commercial scale. Unlike silk worms, spiders are too anti-social to farm successfully. Now a Canadian company claims to be on the verge of producing unlimited quantities of spider silk - in goat's milk. Using techniques similar to those used to produce Dolly the sheep, scientists at Nexia Biotechnologies in Quebec have bred goats with spider genes. 0 Lesson Plans, 0 Books, 0 Software. 0 Maps, 0 Videos, Find 'black widow spiders'books. Home/Environment/Animals/Zoology/Insects/Arachnids black widow spiders (3). Extractions: TelCom Services Teachers - Receive a second year of Lesson Planet for FREE! ... by choosing our Smart Saver Long Distance Program Top Sites this Week Science: Middle School Physical Science Resource Center Math: Project Interactive Social Science: America at War - Time for Kids Language Arts: International Children's Digital Library Project: Stay Safe Online Lesson Plan: Ready.gov from the Department of Homeland Security Top Sites Archives Educational News Schools Seek to Reassure in Wartime Special Education May Get Overhaul Make-A-Wish Foundation Helps Sick Student Go to College privacy Found websites and other resources for ' black widow spiders. Lesson Plans Books Software Maps ... Videos Find 'black widow spiders' books Supplies Online Courses Category matches for: ' black widow spiders Home/Environment/Animals/Zoology/Insects/Arachnids Black Widow Spiders (3) Home Environment Animals ... Black Widow Spiders Sponsored Links Black Widow Casino - Online casino lets players wager money on games such as blackjack, craps, poker, baccarat, slots, and roulette. Read about the bonus offer.

2019-04-22T02:01:04Z

http://www.geometry.net/basic_b/black_widow_spiders.php

For today’s demographic note we present the chipper consensus viewpoint of the UK government and the mainstream media, followed by a realistic perspective from Mark Steyn. Karen Dunnell, the National Statistician, will bring together a wide range of evidence on the growing number of older people, and examine the changes this will bring to society and the economy. It is the first time the National Statistician has focused on the issue in her “annual article”, which offers an in-depth examination of a particular aspect of Britain’s population figures. At the same time, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will publish figures showing that the UK’s birth rate surged last year to a 30-year high, driven by a baby boom among immigrant families. Among all babies born in the UK, 23 per cent had mothers who were born abroad. Whereas British-born women have only 1.7 children each on average, the figure is 3.9 for Bangladeshi-born women in Britain, and almost five for Pakistani-born women. The conventional solution of homo economicus to the lack of homegrown young people is to import them. The remorseless aging of Britain suggests that no society in serious demographic decline can have an immigration rate high enough to compensate for it. … By the way, that British-born 1.7 is only kept that high by the significantly higher birth rates of British-born women of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent who now account for the main demographic energy in most English cities. Britain’s future will be more Muslim. The only question is how much more. But, at some point, those fertility rates put a question mark over the social compact. In 20 or 30 years’ time, will a young, demographically healthy Muslim working population with vast extended families be willing to pay confiscatory tax rates for the shuffleboard years of an aged, childless, fast shriveling Anglo-Celtic population? All welfare societies presuppose a commonality of interest that in the Britain of 2025 will no longer be there. The burden of the ‘oldest old’ on the health care system (pp 21-22 in the report)raises the question if medical research should be shifted from prolonging human lifespan by curing illnesses/postponing death onto drugs which improve old peoples ability of fending for themselves even if it reduces lifespan. Given that the people in schools today WILL be among the survivors who live to retire in 60 years or so, the demographics are a LOT more certain than climate change ever will be. Just like us Social Security is bankrupt/ unsustainable. Whether changing from Anglo-Celt to more Pakistani Muslim is a problem worth using gov’t force to try to fix or not is one issue; what the gov’t should do is a further issue (more gov’t tax reductions on those with kids — so that having two kids allows more consumption than having none?). Japan’s demographics should be followed closely since they’re aging even faster, but without immigrant substitution. If current trends in UK continue , those young working Pakistani Muslims in 2050 will be indistinguishable from the Phoenician Celtic Viking Mongol Saxon Dutch Jamacian Ugandan Polish Kosovan elderly they will be supporting. Fabius Maximus replies: Do you have data on intermarriage rates to support this? From what I have seen in the general media (no studies), their intermarriage rates were quite low. Palistani in the UK typically either marry within their community or to spouses from Pakistan. Pakistani women’s high birth rate will indeed produce the result Steyn predicts (along with a substantial mixed comunity with little Pakistani imput). Those who have big families are subsidised by mainly white taxpayers at the moment through welfare benefits, you don’t think they will be grateful when they are in the majority? Fabius Maximus replies: Thank you for the link to this interesting conference! British Pakistani men will send home for first cousin wives, many wives. On the dole, with children, and an attitude. Not an attitude of gratitude toward taxpayers, no. Decapitate all those who offend Islam, is more the style. Only one British marriage in fifty is of mixed race? 2%? Bloody hell, that’s nothing. Cohabitation is probably more common among mixed race couples. Illegitimacy is quite high in mixed race relationships of cohabitation. Pregnancy is unlikely to lead to marriage, so the mixed race child often grows up without a father, or with a succession of “fathers.” Instead of leading to a happy population of mixed race peoples, a growing criminal and delinquent underclass is likely. Youth gangs of varying self-identification competing to make names for themselves as most to be feared. I’m not a social scientist in any way . But I dont think ethnicity or religion are as important as the way a society evolves and takes everyone with it , like different streams joining a river . Maybe we will all work till we drop , live in extended families , refuse or be refused expensive grey healthcare , as society evolves in a different direction . Are not state pensions , a giant Ponzi scheme ? “birth rates of British-born women of Pakistani and Bangladeshi” are statistically insignificant, because of their small percentage and because their fertility rates is nearer to the national average than the foreign-born average. The 1.70 might be 1.68 if we take all second-generation immigrants out, thus both round to 1.7. The problem is not one of immigrants–be they Muslim or not–overwhelming a “fast shriveling Anglo-Celtic population” that is only a distraction of the real problem in UK society, one that you have presented in a very nice graph sometime ago, namely the unequal distribution of wealth!! The 1.7 does not represent five children on average for every three randomly selected women, because children are also unequally distributed in the UK society. A minority of wealthy housewives–husbands working in finance for example–have 3 to 4 children each; on the other side poor single-mothers on welfare have 3 to 4 children each. This leaves those in the middle with 0 to 1 child each. I think that is a much more relevant issue than the fertility of foreign-born women. Looking back at the last 500 years Europeans have demographically overwhelmed large parts of the world: First ethnically cleansing Muslims out of what is now considered “Christian” Europe, then they immigrated to the Americas, Southern Africa, Australia, et cetera. They even tried to settle in Muslim lands like Algeria and Libya, even today Polish settlers in Palestine are well entrenched. Russians maybe now declining, but one has to remember that they went out of Muscovy and overwhelmed Muslims for centuries. The solution for demographic decline is VERY easy: bar women with less than two children from higher education and employment and encourage early marriage!! This of course will have to be accompanied by a set of social-regulation unacceptable to the most conservative, e.g. anti-adulatory laws, family-friendly public domain, gender-separated schools, et cetera. You can’t have Victorian demographics without Victorian morals! Fabius Maximus replies: Do you have any links to support your data? Esp the following? You might be right. These seem incorrect to me, but this is not a field in which I have any expert knowledge. More important — as you can see even on this brief thread — this subject seems to attract folks making confident but unsupport assertions. “The next largest group were the 8.7 per cent who were recorded as Asian – of whom Pakistanis formed the biggest section with 3.7 per cent…Bangladeshi 8,241 (1.3 per cent)”. “The Muslim population in the United Kingdom may now number as many as 2 million, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, disclosed yesterday during an official visit to Pakistan…/… The 400,000 increase in the size of the Muslim community in less than seven years demonstrates its position as the fastest growing faith community in Britain, and also reflects the age structure of the community, with more than one-third under the age of 16 at the time of the 2001 census. Outside London, Pakistani Muslims make up more than 43% of the community, with Bangladeshis accounting for 17%, and those from India at 9%. In London, the Muslim community is more evenly split between Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims”. What if the British welfare system doesnt survive ? Its good , but its not that good now . If you own your home , have savings , OR are self employed , OR are illiterate and inarticulate ( complex forms to fill in ) you are likely to be left out in the welfare cold . There are proably other ideas / models to be explored . The extended family model is one that stands the test of time and geography . You pay in through help and care , rather than money , while you can ; and hope that the family in which you were born , or into which you slid yourself , will care for you in turn . If your extended family are true Muslims or Christians , your chances are even better .

2019-04-24T02:30:39Z

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2008/12/20/demographics/

DW’s new English news channel was created for people all over the world who are looking for news and information that supports and inspires them to shape their communities. During the past few months, DW has searched for these local heroes, and at every point we have found and celebrated people who are doing remarkable things and making a difference. Most recently in Ghana, DW and local broadcaster Joy News organized a “Heromobile”, which is travelling around the capital city Accra with local musicians and went looking for people who stand out, make a difference or work hard for change. DW and Joy News collected and shared their stories taking pictures of the participants and created an atmosphere of celebration. Earlier this summer in Kenya, DW organized The Local Heroes Journalism Competition, which encouraged young journalists to create a journalism project profiling local heroes making a difference in their communities. The competition drew a lot of interest and promoted quality journalism while giving Kenyan local heroes the recognition they deserve. In Pakistan last month, speaking engagements in cooperation with local broadcasting partners honored local heroes and let them tell their story. Highlights from Pakistan included Samar Minallah Khan, documentary filmmaker and women’s rights activist who helped make the practice of forced marriage in Pakistan illegal. In Bangladesh, DW has honored Infoladies, who bike hundreds of miles to bring advice and medicine to thousands in remote, impoverished villages. There are currently around 70 Infoladies working mainly with women and girls as well as with disabled and elderly people, connecting them to the rest of the community. In an online call to action over the summer, DW asked people from anywhere in the world to submit the story of their local hero. Facebook posts on both DW News and 12 websites from DW’s various Asia and Africa departments combined to help draw attention to the new channel and encouraged people to share interesting stories of their local heroes with DW. The campaign was received with a lot of enthusiasm by online users. The various local hero stories complied by the participating DW editorial departments generated over 1 million reactions. The language groups that showed the most interaction with online posts were Dari, English and Bengali. DW has shown that local heroes come from everywhere and anyone who has a vision and passion can make a difference in their communities – and there are always more stories to tell. Across Africa from Kenya to Nigeria, a new media-savvy generation is emerging along with a new demand for opportunity, development and quality journalism. By reaching out to individuals, creating new partnerships and actively encouraging media development, DW has created a foundation for success in different African markets, while at the same time giving value back. By adding value to partnerships and cooperating with local media in different regions, DW can help improve people’s lives with information and help set examples of transparency, legitimacy and professionalism in media. DW’s international media development organization, DW Akademie, is very active in Africa and has been for over 50 years. DW Akademie’s first international project was a radio training program in Rwanda. Their newest initiative is a recently-signed partnership with Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (AKU-GSMC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The university is focused on developing media professionals for the Kenyan media market. DW is there to help guide and educate them with world-class standards of journalistic practice. In return, DW will gain valuable insight into the nuances of the local media landscape. The six-year agreement centers on the development of professional education and training standards for communications experts in East Africa. Through exchanging experience, competences and ideas, both sides will benefit. DW gains visibilty in an important media market and the courses at AKU-GSMC can improve and develop with the expertise and experience provided by DW Akademie. Kenya is one of the quickest growing media markets in Africa and there is a burgeoning interest in media education amongst young Kenyans. The market is growing more competitive and innovative. DW recently produced a journalism competition for young journalists in Kenya. They were asked to create a journalism project that profiled a local hero in their region. Local heroes are people who make a difference in their communities and help those around them. The competition was organized in cooperation with The Standard Group, which is the largest media company in Kenya. The competition showed how through cooperating with partners, DW can affect the lives of people in African target audiences while gaining valuable partners and a positive local image. Nigeria is another important market for DW in Africa. DW has been expanding its presence in the region after adding two foreign correspondents last year in Lagos and recently signing a deal with Channels TV, the largest news broadcaster in Nigeria. The deal includes direct DW reports from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange produced exclusively for audiences in Nigeria. This example of coproducing and sharing technical capacity is a model for the future of how DW will provide international quality journalism to local audiences. Programs like Focus on Africa and Crossroads Generation emphasize individuals who help to set examples and serve as role models. They provide examples that turn away from the image of the continent as only being beset by turmoil and focus on positive actions from a younger generation. DW will succeed in African markets by working with partners, reaching people where they are, educating media professionals and promoting journalism education. These are all very positive steps with the consistent goal to improve the overall media landscape in African countries. Smartphones are fast becoming the standard tool for consuming news and information, but for many people in developing and emerging countries, this technology is still out of reach. It is estimated that out of the total 5 billion mobile users worldwide, only 1 billion are using smartphones. The remaining number represents a majority of people in emerging and developing countries who are using 2G or “feature phones” for mobile Internet access. DW works hard to provide top-quality news and information to people in hard to reach places. In emerging markets such as in Africa, expensive Internet and mobile technology makes smartphones a luxury that few can afford. Most people try to use their feature phones to access valuable social networks and online news which usually demands a higher level of data processing than these devices can provide – but there are some solutions. A innovative platform called biNu is providing a way for feature phones to efficiently navigate the web. And since June, DW has been cooperating with biNu to provide feature phone users in Africa with easy access to DW’s high-quality online news content. The biNu app provides high-end functionality by turning feature phones with a basic Internet connection into “virtual smartphones.” It achieves this by using cloud networks to process and compress data from websites allowing the end result to be easily used via a feature phone. The result of using a cloud platform to streamline data is a service that is 10 times faster than a standard mobile browser while requiring 10 times less bandwidth. The displays are simplified and optimized for a feature phone and the most important elements of the website are passed on to the user. The service already has more than 900,000 users in Africa, mostly located in fast-growing media markets like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ghana but also in countries like Zimbabwe and Ethiopia where, because of the difficult political climate, are harder for international media to access. Even as infrastructure improves, the low cost of feature phones and continually expensive network and Internet access means that many people in these developing countries will continue to use their mobile phones as the primary device for going online. Providing them with easily accessible news, information and social networks is a hugely important task. Through cooperating with biNu, DW can overcome the disparity in international technological standards and provide information that people need on the device that they prefer.

2019-04-25T19:43:31Z

http://blogs.dw.com/insider/tag/kenya/

"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full" (John 15:11). As these precious words of Christ are pondered by the mind and treasured in the heart, they cannot but produce joy. A rejoicing heart comes from an increasing knowledge of and love for the truth as it is in Jesus. "Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart" (Jer. 15:16). Yes, it is by feeding and feasting upon the words of the Lord that the soul is made fat, and we are made to sing and make melody in our hearts unto Him. "Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy" (Ps. 43:4). As Spurgeon well said, "With what exultation should believers draw near unto Christ, who is the antitype of the altar! Clearer light should give greater intensity of desire. It was not the altar as such that the Psalmist cared for, for he was no believer in the heathenism of ritualism: his soul desired spiritual fellowship, fellowship with God Himself in very deed. What are all the rites of worship unless the Lord be in them; what, indeed, but empty shells and dry husks? Note the holy rapture with which David regards his Lord! He is not his joy alone, but his exceeding joy; not the fountain of joy, the giver of joy, or the maintainer of joy, but that joy itself. The margin has it, "The gladness of my joy"; that is, the soul, the essence, the very affections of my joy." "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation" (Hab. 3:17,18). That is something of which the worldling knows nothing; alas, that it is an experience to which so many professing Christians are strangers! It is in God that the fount of spiritual and everlasting joy originates; from Him it all flows forth. This was acknowledged of old by the Church when she said, "All my springs are in you" (Ps. 87:7). Happy the soul who has been truly taught this secret! 3. We profit from the Word when we are taught the great value of joy. Joy is to the soul what wings are to the bird, enabling us to soar above the things of earth. This is brought out plainly in Nehemiah 8:10: "The joy of the Lord is your strength." The days of Nehemiah marked a turning-point in the history of Israel. A remnant had been freed from Babylon and returned to Palestine. The Law, long ignored by the captives, was now to be established again as the rule of the newly-formed commonwealth. There had come a remembrance of the many sins of the past, and tears not unnaturally mingled with the thankfulness that they were again a nation, having a Divine worship and a Divine Law in their midst. Their leader, knowing full well that if the spirit of the people began to flag they could not face and conquer the difficulties of their position, said to them: "This day is holy unto the Lord: (this feast we are keeping is a day of devout worship; therefore, mourn not), neither be you sorry, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." Confession of sin and mourning over the same have their place, and communion with God cannot be maintained without them. Nevertheless, when true repentance has been exercised, and things put right with God, we must forget "those things which are behind" and reach forth unto "those things which are before" (Phil. 3:13). And we can only press forward with alacrity as our hearts are joyful. How heavy the steps of him who approaches the place where a loved one lies cold in death! How energetic his movements as he goes forth to meet his bride! Lamentation unfits for the battles of life. Where there is despair there is no longer power for obedience. If there be no joy, there can be no worship. My dear readers, there are tasks needing to be performed, service to others requiring to be rendered, temptations to be overcome, battles to be fought; and we are only experimentally fitted for them as our hearts are rejoicing in the Lord. If our souls are resting in Christ, if our hearts are filled with a tranquil gladness, work will be easy, duties pleasant, sorrow bearable, endurance possible. Neither contrite remembrance of past failures nor vehement resolutions will carry us through. If the arm is to smite with vigor, it must smite at the bidding of a light heart. Of the Savior Himself it is recorded, "Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame" (Heb. 12:2). 4. We profit from the Word when we attend to the root of joy. The spring of joy is faith: "Now the God of hope fill you with all peace and joy in believing" (Rom. 15:13). There is a wondrous provision in the Gospel, both by what it takes from us and what it brings to us, to give a calm and settled glow to the Christian’s heart. It takes away the load of guilt by speaking peace to the stricken conscience. It removes the dread of God and the terror of death which weighs on the soul while it is under condemnation. It gives us God Himself as the portion of our hearts, as the object of our communion. The Gospel works joy, because the soul is at rest in God. But these blessings become our own only by personal appropriation. Faith must receive them, and when it does so the heart is filled with peace and joy. And the secret of sustained joy is to keep the channel open, to continue as we began. It is unbelief which clogs the channel. If there be but little heat around the bulb of the thermometer, no wonder that the mercury marks so low a degree. If there is a weak faith, joy cannot be strong. Daily do we need to pray for a fresh realization of the preciousness of the Gospel, a fresh appropriation of its blessed contents; and then there will be a renewing of our joy. 5. We profit from the Word when we are careful to maintain our joy. "Joy in the Holy Spirit" is altogether different from a natural buoyancy of Spirit. It is the product of the Comforter dwelling in our hearts and bodies, revealing Christ to us, answering all our need for pardon and cleansing, and so Setting us at peace with God; and forming Christ in us, so that He reigns in our souls, subduing us to His control. There are no circumstances of trial and temptation in which we may refrain from it, for the command is, "Rejoice in the Lord aways." He who gave this command knows all about the dark side of our lives, the sins and sorrows which beset us, the "much tribulation" through which we must enter the kingdom of God. Natural hilarity leaves the woes of our earthly lot out of its reckoning. It soon relaxes in the presence of life’s hard-ships: it cannot survive the loss of friends or health. But the joy to which we are exhorted is not limited to any set of circumstances or type of temperament; nor does it fluctuate with our varying moods and fortunes. The ungodly are ever seeking after joy, but they do not find it: they busy and weary themselves in the pursuit of it, yet all in vain. Their hearts being turned from the Lord, they look downward for joy, where it is not; rejecting the substance, they diligently run after the shadow, only to be mocked by it. It is the sovereign decree of heaven that nothing can make sinners truly happy but God in Christ; but this they will not believe, and therefore they go from creature to creature, from one broken cistern to another, inquiring where the best joy is to be found. Each worldly thing which attracts them says, It is found in me; but soon it disappoints. Nevertheless, they go on seeking it afresh today in the very thing which deceived them yesterday. If after many trials they discover the emptiness of one creature comfort, then they turn to another, only to verify our Lord’s word, "Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again" (John 4:13). Going now to the other extreme: there are some Christians who suppose it to be sinful to rejoice. No doubt many of our readers will be surprised to hear this but let them be thankful they have been brought up in sunnier surroundings, and bear with us while we labor with those less favored. Some have been taught—largely by implication and example, rather than by plain inculcation—that it is their duty to be gloomy. They imagine that feelings of joy are produced by the Devil appearing as an angel of light. They conclude that it is well-near a species of wickedness to be happy in such a world of sin as we are in. They think it presumptuous to rejoice in the knowledge of sins forgiven, and if they see young Christians so doing they tell them it will not be long before they are floundering in the Slough of Despond. To all such we tenderly urge the prayerful pondering of the remainder of this chapter. 1. We profit from the Word when we perceive that joy is a duty. "Rejoice in the Lord aways: and again I say, Rejoice" (Phil. 4:4). The Holy Spirit here speaks of rejoicing as a personal, present and permanent duty for the people of God to carry out. The Lord has not left it to our option whether we should be glad or sad, but has made happiness an obligation. Not to rejoice is a sin of omission. Next time you meet with a radiant Christian, do not chide him, you dwellers in Doubting Castle, but chide yourselves; instead of being ready to call into question the Divine spring of his mirth, judge yourself for your doleful state. It is not a carnal joy which we are here urging, by which we mean a joy which comes from carnal sources. It is useless to seek joy in earthly riches, for frequently they take to themselves wings and fly away. Some seek their joy in the family circle, but that remains entire for only a few years at most. No, if we are to "rejoice evermore" it must be in an object that lasts for evermore. Nor is it a fanatical joy we have reference to. There are some with an excitable nature who are happy only when they are half out of their minds; but terrible is the reaction. No, it is an intelligent, steady, heart delight in God Himself. Every attribute of God, when contemplated by faith, will make the heart sing. Every doctrine of the Gospel, when truly apprehended, will call forth gladness and praise. Joy is a matter of Christian duty. Perhaps the reader is ready to exclaim, My emotions of joy and sorrow are not under my control; I cannot help being glad or sad as circumstances dictate. But we repeat, "Rejoice in the Lord" is a Divine command, and to a large extent obedience to it lies in one’s own power. I am responsible to control my emotions. True I cannot help being sorrowful in the presence of sorrowful thoughts, but I can refuse to let my mind dwell upon them. I can pour out my heart for relief unto the Lord, and cast my burden upon Him. I can seek grace to meditate upon His goodness, His promises, the glorious future awaiting me. I have to decide whether I will go and stand in the light or hide among the shadows. Not to rejoice in the Lord is more than a misfortune, it is a fault which needs to be confessed and forsaken. 2. We profit from the Word when we learn the secret of true joy. That secret is revealed in I John 1 :3,4: Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full." When we consider the littleness of our fellowship with God, the shallowness of it, it is not to be wondered at that so many Christians are comparatively joyless. We sometimes sing, "Oh happy day that fixed my choice on You, my Savior and my God! Well may this glowing heart rejoice and tell its raptures all abroad." Yes, but if that happiness is to be maintained there must be a continued steadfast occupation of the heart and mind with Christ. It is only where there is much faith and consequent love that there is much joy. "Rejoice in the Lord aways." There is no other object in which we can rejoice "aways." Everything else varies and is inconstant. What pleases us today may pall on us tomorrow. But the Lord is always the same, to be enjoyed in seasons of adversity as much as in seasons of prosperity. As an aid to this, the very next verse says, "Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand" (Phil. 4:5). Be temperate in connection with all external things; do not be taken with them when they seem most pleasing, nor troubled when displeasing. Do not be exalted when the world smiles upon you, nor dejected when it scowls. Maintain a stoical indifference to outward comforts: why be so occupied with them when the Lord Himself "is at hand"? If persecution be violent, if temporal losses be heavy, the Lord is "a very present help in trouble" (Ps. 46:1)—ready to support and support those who cast themselves upon Him. He will care for you, so "be anxious for nothing" (Phil. 4:6). Worldlings are haunted with carking cares, but the Christian should not be. "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Thes. 1:1). In 2 Thessalonians 1:1, it's interesting to note that unlike other letters of Paul, he adds nothing to his name. He doesn’t say, "Paul, called to be an apostle"; "Paul, an apostle...by the will of God"; "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ." Those familiar things by which he designates himself are omitted here. "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office." Paul is the apostle of the nations, the Gentiles. Paul, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, magnifies his office. We are to do the same. Paul was called by the will of God for this dispensation of grace. He was called to be an apostle for Christ to reveal to him the revelation of the mystery, the body of truth for this age, and for God to reveal His Son in him according to Christ's heavenly ministry today. Paul is the one apostle of this dispensation. He is our apostle. Christ has revealed His will through Paul's thirteen letters for us to know what is Christ's mind, will, and heart for His Church, the Body of Christ, under grace. Is there confusion about Paul's role in your church? Perhaps your church knows Paul is our apostle, but makes no mention of it? If Paul wrote a letter to your church, how would he address it? Though there is but one way to come into the world--yet there are thousands of ways to be sent out of the world! We carry about in our bodies the material for a thousand deaths--and may die a thousand different ways in several hours. As many senses, as many members, nay, as many pores as there are in the body--so many windows there are for death to enter in at! Death needs not spend all his arrows upon us. A worm, a gnat, a fly, a hair, a raisin, a skin of a grape, the stumbling of a horse, the trip of a foot, the pick of a pin, the cutting of a fingernail, the cutting out of a corn; all these have been to others, and any of them may be to us--the means of our death within the space of a few days; nay, of a few hours; nay, of a few moments! from mixed and mutable enjoyments--to the pure and everlasting enjoyments of God! Daily Features: More Analysis2, Columnists3, Headlines4, Opinion in Brief5, Short Cuts6, Memes7, and Cartoons8. Attorney General William Barr held a press conference this morning to discuss the release of a slightly redacted version of Robert Mueller’s 400-page report on his two-year investigation into “Russian collusion.” In a Friday afternoon news dump on March 22, Mueller sent his report to the Justice Department. Two days later, Barr issued his four-page executive summary10 of it, showing that Mueller concluded two things: First, Donald Trump did not collude with Russia as Democrats have alleged for more than two years, and, second, it was inconclusive whether Trump had obstructed justice in the process of the investigation. The latter provided Democrats all the opening they needed to move into Phase Two — obstructing the MAGA agenda11. Naturally, Democrats and their Leftmedia outlets also spent the intervening time insisting that Barr is hiding something and that Mueller’s report is actually incriminating against the president. Heads they win, tails Trump loses. Their goal is painfully obvious: Keep Trump on the political ropes with churned fake news through the 2020 election. After all, this collusion narrative propelled Democrats to victory in the 2018 election — ensuring that Vladimir Putin did interfere with American elections. Even before Barr’s press conference, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it “pre-damage control” from Barr, who “is acting more like a Trump campaign spokesman than an independent agent of the law.” In a joint statement with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chuck and Nancy complained about Barr’s “regrettably partisan handling of the Mueller report.” And they’re just objective bystanders. Let’s emphasize one line: “The White House fully cooperated with the special counsel’s investigation, providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides to testify freely, and asserting no privilege claims.” That utterly undercuts the Left’s obstruction claims. Finally, addressing the question of what was redacted and by whom, Barr asserted that only DOJ attorneys working with the Special Counsel’s Office determined all redactions under four categories — grand-jury information, classified information, information related to ongoing investigations, and information that would violate privacy of individuals. President Trump and his lawyers did not request redactions or claim executive privilege in seeking to block the release of any part of the report. That release, by the way, is not the norm. These reports are not created for release. Barr emphasized, “We will make available to a bipartisan group of leaders from several Congressional committees a version of the report with all redactions removed except those relating to grand-jury information.” The more redacted version has been released to the public12. Now, stay tuned for the foreseeable future as pundits and armchair lawyers comb through Mueller’s report looking for something — anything — to support their presuppositions. Indeed, the questions Barr fielded were largely demanding that he answer for Democrat talking points designed to cast doubt upon Barr or Trump. What else would anyone expect from the real collusion partners13 — Democrats and their propagandists in the Leftmedia? Barr: No Bail for Asylum Seekers14 — AG orders DHS to enforce the law as written, which means no bond for illegals crossing the border. Google’s Blatant Bias15 — From search results to advanced technology, Silicon Valley is bent hard left. Trump Veto — The Best Choice for America and Yemen16 — Foreign policy rarely consists of easy choices, and aiding Saudi Arabia is complicated. Speech and Trademarks on Trial17 — Justices consider constitutionality of a law prohibiting “scandalous” and “immoral” trademarks. American Spirit: Teens Go Above and Beyond With Elderly Man Who Fell18 — Unbeknownst to them, the teens’ act of kindness was witnessed and posted online. Video: Mainstream Media Really, Really Like Mayor Pete19 — A hilarious — or sickening — montage of the love affair sweeping the media. Video: 3D-Printed Guns20 — John Stossel says the media often scare us about 3D-printed guns without reason. 6. We profit from the Word when we patiently await the fulfillment of God’s promises. God promised Abraham a son, but he waited many years for the performance of it. Simeon had a promise that he should not see death until he had seen the Lord’s Christ (Luke 2:26), yet it was not made good until he had one foot in the grave. There is often a long and hard winter between the sowing-time of prayer and the reaping of the answer. The Lord Jesus Himself has not yet received a full answer to the prayer He made in John chapter Seventeen, nineteen hundred years ago. Many of the best of God’s promises to His people will not receive their richest accomplishment until they are in glory. He who has all eternity at His disposal needs not to hurry. God often makes us tarry so that patience may have "her perfect work," yet let us not distrust Him. "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come" (Hab. 2:3). "These all died in faith, not having received the [fulfillment of the] promises but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them" (Heb. 11:13). Here is comprehended the whole work of faith: knowledge, trust, loving adherence. The "afar off" refers to the things promised; those they "saw" with the mind, discerning the substance behind the shadow, discovering in them the wisdom and goodness of God. They were "persuaded": they doubted not, but were assured of their participation in them and knew they would not disappoint them. "Embraced them" expresses their delight and veneration, the heart cleaving to them with love and cordially welcoming and entertaining them. The promises were the comfort and the stay of their souls in all their wanderings, temptations and sufferings. Various ends are accomplished by God in delaying His execution of the promises. Not only is faith put to the proof, so that its genuineness may the more clearly appear; not only is patience developed, and hope given opportunity for exercise; but submission to the Divine will is fostered. "The weaning process is not accomplished: we are still hankering after the comforts which the Lord intends us forever to outgrow. Abraham made a great feast when his son Isaac was weaned; and, peradventure, our heavenly Father will do the same with us. Lie down, proud heart. Quit your idols; forsake your fond doings; and the promised peace will come unto you" (Christian. H. Spurgeon). 7. We profit from the Word when we make a right use of the promises. First, in our dealings with God Himself. When we approach unto His throne, it should be to plead one of His promises. They are to form not only the foundation for our faith to rest upon, but also the substance of our requests. We must ask according to God’s will if we are to be heard, and His will is revealed in those good things which He has declared He will bestow upon us. Thus we are to lay hold of His pledged assurances, spread them before Him, and say, "Do as you have said" (2 Samuel 7:25). Observe how Jacob pleaded the promise in Genesis 32:12; Moses in Exodus 32:13; David in Psalm 119:58; Solomon in 1 Kings 8:25; and do you, my Christian reader, like-wise. Second, in the life we live in the world. In Hebrews 11:13, we not only read of the patriarchs discerning, trusting, and embracing the Divine promises, but we are also informed of the effects which they produced upon them: "and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims in the earth," which means they made a public avowal of their faith. They acknowledged (and by their conduct demonstrated) that their interests were not in the things of this world; they had a satisfying portion in the promises they had appropriated. Their hearts were set upon things above; for where a man’s heart is, there will his treasure be also. "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor. 7:1); that is the effect they should produce in us, and will if faith really lays hold of them. "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Pet. 1:4). Now the Gospel and the precious promises, being graciously bestowed and powerfully applied, have an influence on purity of heart and behavior, and teach men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Such are the powerful effects of gospel promises under the Divine influence as to make men inwardly partakers of the Divine nature and outwardly to abstain from and avoid the prevailing corruptions and vices of the times. 3. We profit from the Word when we recognize the blessed scope of God’s promises. "A sort of affectation prevents some Christians from seeking religion, as if its sphere lay among the commonplaces of daily life. It is to them transcendental and dreamy; rather a creation of pious fiction than a matter of fact. They believe in God, after a fashion, for things spiritual, and for the life which is to be; but they totally forget that true godliness has the promise of the life which now is, as well as that which is to come. To them it would seem almost profanation to pray about the small matters of which daily life is made up. Perhaps they will be startled if I venture to suggest that this should make them question the reality of their faith. If it cannot bring them help in the little troubles of life, will it support them in the greater trials of death?" (C. H. Spurgeon). "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (1 Tim. 4:8). Reader, do you really believe this, that the promises of God cover every aspect and particular of your daily life? Or have the "Dispensationalists" deluded you into supposing that the Old Testament belongs only to fleshly Jews, and that "our promises" respect spiritual and not material blessings? How many a Christian has derived comfort from "I will never leave you, nor forsake you" (Heb. 13:5); well, that is a quotation from Joshua 1:5! So, too, 2 Corinthians 7:1 speaks of "having these promises," yet one of them, referred to in 6:18, is taken from the book of Leviticus! Perhaps someone asks, "But where am I to draw the line? Which of the Old Testament promises rightfully belong to me?" We answer that Psalm 84:11 declares, "The Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly". If you are really walking "uprightly" you are entitled to appropriate that blessed promise and count upon the Lord giving you whatever "good thing" is truly required by you. "My God shall supply all your need" (Phil. 4:19). If then there is a promise anywhere in His Word which just fits your present case and situation, make it your own as suited to your need." Steadfastly resist every attempt of Satan to rob you of any portion of your Father’s Word. 4. We profit from the Word when we make a proper discrimination between the promises of God. Many of the Lord’s people are frequently guilty of spiritual theft, by which we mean that they appropriate to themselves something to which they are not entitled, but which belongs to another. "Certain covenant engagements, made with the Lord Jesus Christ, as to His elect and redeemed ones, are altogether without condition so far as we are concerned; but many other wealthy words of the Lord contain stipulations which must be carefully regarded, or we shall not obtain the blessing. One part of my reader’s diligent search must be directed toward this most important point. God will keep His promise to you; only see you to it that the way in which He conditions His engagement is carefully observed by you. Only when we fulfill the requirements of a conditional promise can we expect that promise to be fulfilled to us" (Christian. H. Spurgeon). Many of the Divine promises are addressed to particular characters, or, more correctly speaking, to particular graces. For example, in Psalm 25:9, the Lord declares that He will "guide in judgment" the meek; but if I am out of communion with Him, if I am following a course of self-will, if my heart is haughty, then I am not justified in taking to myself the comfort of this verse. Again, in John 15:7, the Lord tells us, "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you." But if I am not in experimental communion with Him, if His commands are not regulating my conduct, then my prayers will remain unanswered. While God’s promises proceed from pure grace, yet it ever needs to be remembered that grace reigns "through righteousness" (Rom. 5:21) and never sets aside human responsibility. If I ignore the laws of health I must not be surprised that sickness prevents me enjoying many of God’s temporal mercies: in like manner, if I neglect His precepts I have myself to blame if I fail to receive the fulfillment of many of His promises. Let none suppose that by His promises God has obligated Himself to ignore the requirements of His holiness: He never exercises any one of His perfections at the expense of another. And let none imagine that God would be magnifying the sacrificial work of Christ were He to bestow its fruits upon impenitent and careless souls. There is a balance of truth to be preserved here; alas, that it is now so frequently lost, and that under the pretense of exalting Divine grace men are really "turning it into lasciviousness." How often one hears quoted, "Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you" (Ps. 50:15). But that verse begins with "And," and the preceding clause is "Pay your vows unto the most High!" Again, how frequently is "I will guide you with mine eye" (Ps. 32:8) seized by people who pay no attention to the context! But that is God’s promise to one who has confessed his "transgression" unto the Lord (verse 5). If, then, I have unconfessed sin on my conscience, and have leaned on an arm of flesh or sought help from my fellows, instead of waiting only on God (Ps. 62:5), then I have no right to count upon the Lord’s guiding me with His eye—which necessarily presupposes that I am walking in close communion with Him, for I cannot see the eye of another while at a distance from him. 5. We profit from the Word when we are enabled to make God’s promises our support and stay. This is one reason why God has given them to us; not only to manifest His love by making known His benevolent designs, but also to comfort our hearts and develop our faith. Had God so pleased He could have bestowed His blessings without giving us notice of His purpose. The Lord might have given us all the mercies we need without pledging Himself to do so. But in that case we could not have been believers; faith without a promise would be a foot without ground to stand upon. Our tender Father planned that we should enjoy His gifts twice over: first by faith, and then by fruition. By this means He wisely weans our hearts away from things seen and perishing and draws them onward and upward to those things which are spiritual and eternal. If there were no promises there would not only be no faith, but no hope either. For what is hope but the expectation of the things which God has declared He will give us? Faith looks to the Word promising, hope looks to the performance thereof. Thus it was with Abraham; "Who against hope believed in hope. . .and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb; he staggered not. . .through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God" (Rom. 4:18, 20). Thus it was with Moses: "Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward" (Heb. 11:26). Thus it was with Paul; "I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me" (Acts 27:25). Is it so with you, dear reader? Are the promises of Him who cannot lie the resting-place of your poor heart? The Divine promises make known the good pleasure of God’s will to His people, to bestow upon them the riches of His grace. They are the outward testimonies of His heart, who from all eternity loves them and fore-appointed all things for them and concerning them. In the person and work of His Son, God has made an all-sufficient provision for their complete salvation, both for time and for eternity. To the intent that they might have a true, clear and spiritual knowledge of the same, it has pleased the Lord to set it before them in the exceeding great and precious promises which are scattered up and down in the Scriptures as so many stars in the glorious firmament of grace; by which they may be assured of the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning them, and take sanctuary in Him accordingly, and through this medium have real communion with Him in His grace and mercy at all times, no matter what their case or circumstances may be. The Divine promises are so many declarations to bestow some good or remove some ill. As such they are a most blessed making known and manifesting of God’s love to His people. There are three steps in connection with God’s love: first, His inward purpose to exercise it; the last, the real execution of that purpose; but in between there is the gracious making known of that purpose to the beneficiaries not only show His love fully to them in due time, but in the interim He will have us informed of His benevolent designs, that we may sweetly rest in His love, and stretch ourselves comfortably upon His sure promises. There we are able to say, "How precious also are your thoughts unto me, 0 God! how great is the sum of them" (Ps. 139:17). In 2 Peter 1:4, the Divine promises are spoken of as "exceeding great and precious." As Spurgeon pointed out, "greatness and preciousness seldom go together, but in this instance they are united in an exceeding degree". When Jehovah is pleased to open His mouth and reveal His heart He does so in a manner worthy of Himself, in words of superlative power and richness. To quote again the beloved London pastor: "They come from a great God, they come to great sinners, they work for us great results, and deal with great matters." While the natural intellect is capable of perceiving much of their greatness, only the renewed heart can taste their ineffable preciousness, and say with David, "How sweet are your words unto my taste! yes, sweeter then honey to my mouth" (Ps. 119:103). 1. We profit from the Word when we perceive to whom the promises belong. They are available Only to those who are in Christ. "For all the promises of God in him [the Lord Jesus] are yes, and in him Amen" (2 Cor. I :20). There can be no communion between the thrice holy God and sinful creatures except through a Mediator who has satisfied Him on their behalf. Therefore must that Mediator receive from God all good for His people, and they must have it at second hand through Him. A sinner might just as well petition a tree as call upon God for mercy while he despises and rejects Christ. Both the promises and the things promised are made over to the Lord Jesus and conveyed unto the saints from Him. "This is the [chief and grandest] promise that he has promised us, even eternal life" (1 John 2:25), and as the same epistle tells us, "This life is in his Son" (5:11). This being so, what good can they who are not yet in Christ have by the promises? None at all. A man out of Christ is out of the favor of God, yes, he is under His wrath; the Divine threatenings and not the promises are his portion. Solemn, solemn consideration is it that those who are "without Christ" are "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12). Only "the children of God" are "the children of the promise" (Rom. 9:8). Make sure, my reader, that you are one of them. How terrible, then, is the blindness and how great is the sin of those preachers who indiscriminately apply the Divine promises to the saved and unsaved alike! They are not only taking "the children’s bread" and casting it to the "dogs," but they are "handling the word of God deceitfully" (2 Cor. 4:2), and beguiling immortal souls. And they who listen to and heed them are little less guilty, for God holds all responsible to search the Scriptures for themselves, and test whatever they read or hear by that unerring standard. If they are too lazy to do so, and prefer blindly to follow their blind guides, then their blood is on their own heads. Truth has to be "bought" (Prov. 23:23), and those who are unwilling to pay the price must go without it. 2. We profit from the Word when we labor to make the promises of God our own. To do this we must first take the trouble to become really acquainted with them. It is surprising how many promises there are in Scripture which the saints know nothing about, the more so seeing that they are the peculiar treasure of believers, the substance of faith’s heritage lying in them. True, Christians are already the recipients of wondrous blessings, yet the capital of their wealth, the bulk of their estate, is only prospective. They have already received an "earnest," but the better part of what Christ has purchased for them lies yet in the promise of God. How diligent, then, should they be in studying His testamentary will, familiarizing themselves with the good things which the Spirit "has revealed" (1 Cor. 2:10), and seeking to take an inventory of their spiritual treasures! Not only must I search the Scriptures to find out what has been made over to me by the everlasting covenant, but I need also to meditate upon the promises, to turn them over and over in my mind, and cry unto the Lord for spiritual understanding of them. The bee would not extract honey from the flowers as long as he only gazed upon them. Nor will the Christian derive any real comfort and strength from the Divine promises until his faith lays hold of and penetrates to the heart of them. God has given no assurance that the dilatory shall be fed, but He has declared, "the soul of the diligent shall be made fat" (Prov. 13:4). Therefore did Christ say, "Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life" (John 6:27). It is only as the promises are stored up in our minds that the Spirit brings them to remembrance at those seasons of fainting when we most need them.

2019-04-21T20:06:06Z

http://forums.christiansunite.com/index.php?action=recent;start=10

Our Pilates, Yoga & Cooking In Positano is designed for those wishing to boost their health, rejuvenate their souls and establish healthy eating and living practices. This Italian fitness and movement program designed by Dr. Fortunata includes a combination of pilates, yoga and deep stretching. A total fitness and healthy cooking experience in gorgeous Positano. Join Chefs Filomena, Fortunata, Giuseppe, Carmine and Emilio for hands-on cooking in Positano’s Secret Garden on the splendid Amalfi Coast. With our chefs you will learn how to make healthy organic cuisine including regional antipasto, fresh pasta, local fish, meat, bread and pizza in the heart of Positano. This program features our Chefs’ seasonal and regional recipes based on the healthy Mediterranean diet, which has been proven to promote health & wellbeing. Not only is the Mediterranean Diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish (including precious ‘blue’ fish), whole grains and olive oil, it is also a diet that celebrates the joy of life, following the seasons and including treats like red wine and delicious dolci. Don’t think of the Mediterranean Diet as a diet as such, but as an enjoyable way of life. Included in the program is an information presentation and talk given by our local health professional on the enormous benefits of following a Mediterranean-style diet – from antioxidants to healthy omega-three oils, and how by eating fresh, seasonal products cooked simply, you can heal the body and soul from within. As part of your program, you will also enjoy four regenerating yoga sessions with our qualified and licensed instructor Fortunata, who will encourage you to relax, stretch and melt into your beautiful surroundings. Yoga’s therapeutic powers are now widely appreciated and provide a calming way to counteract the stresses that accumulate through everyday life. Learn to detach, concentrate on the moment and cultivate a new appreciation of your combined body and spirit. Our program includes three hands-on cooking classes (you may always add-on more if you like) with lunch or dinner following. Our chefs learned the secrets of Italian cooking from their grandmothers and in culinary school. In each cooking class we use only fresh organic products that are seasonal. You will experience southern Italy’s cooking styles, foods and wines in this unique food lover’s program. If you are an advanced cooker or chef, we can offer the same Yoga and Cooking with advanced cooking classes and make it a tailor made menu for you. Just let us know. After each class, everyone enjoys eating the food that was prepared in class accompanied with a glass of red or white wine. Cook, dine and get inspired on new healthy cooking methods with recipes that you will be able to recreate in your home kitchen. Our charming Secret Garden™ Positano program is hosted at a villa-style Bed & Breakfast located in the center of town and overlooking the sea. Each bedroom has a private terrace and sea view and is surrounded by a flowered pergola and greenery. Cool ceramic tiles line each large bedroom, with a private bathroom and shower in each room. Additional amenities include: hairdryer, safe, refrigerator, and air conditioning. Breakfast is served each morning, and daily maid service is provided for your convenience. The Secret Garden™ is truly a magical setting, terraced with lemon trees, and plush green gardens and set under spectacular bougainvilleas overlooking the sea. Guests can sunbath on their terrace, walk to the beach or relax at one of the cozy sidewalk cafés with a freshly squeezed lemonade. Step out your door and stroll past cafés, bookshops, and trattorias that spill onto the sidewalk. A panoramic view spans Li Galli Islands and the Amalfi Coast. The Tyrrhenian Sea is literally at your feet, and the beach is just a short walk away. As the sun sets, sit back on your terrace and watch the world-class yachts and local fishing boats ripple through the cerulean waters. Shuttle boats connect from each of Positano’s beaches and sail along the Amalfi Coast. From Positano’s port you can also take a water taxi or a private boat service to Sorrento, Ischia, Capri, Amalfi and Naples. Mediterranean gardens and lemon groves dot the Amalfi Coast, and gardens grow almost all year long producing red cherry tomatoes, plump eggplant, zucchini and sweet oranges. Olives also grow in abundance thanks to the warm Mediterranean climate, fertile volcanic soil and salted sea breeze, all of which provide perfect growing conditions. Organic herbs of basil, sage, parsley, oregano, rosemary and mint, line gardens and fill pretty terracotta pots set on terraces. The local organic herbs that we grow in our garden are used in our cooking classes, along with our own first cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. Over time, Positano has attracted artists, writers, and photographers who came to capture its magic. It is a little Moorish-style village that was discovered by American and British troops at the end of World War II. Positano’s small winding streets are filled with tiny cafés, terraces, and artisan shops selling ceramics, limoncello and antiques. Take a walk along the stone pathway, the one little street that leads to the beach. Visit the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta in Piazza Flavio Gioia, a Romanesque structure that was completely rebuilt in 1700. The people of Positano celebrate the town’s feast day every August 15th, when the locals carry the statue along the beach with a parade of musicians. A spectacular firework display follows. Positano’s famous beachfront is Tre Sorelle Ristorante, and Music On The Rocks. This lively area offers great people-watching opportunities. The footpath, Via Positanesi d’America, follows the sea and connects the Spiaggia Grande with Fornillo Beach. Three Saracen towers watch its shore: the most famous ones are, La Torre Trasita, La Sponda and Torre Di Fornillo, all from the 14th century. Set in the sea just a short distance away, are the mysterious islets of Li Galli. Legend has it that they were once mermaids and now have turned to stone. Group pick-up and transfer from Naples airport or train station to the property. Greet Sunday morning with a relaxing yoga session. Along with our qualified instructor Fortunata, reach, stretch and uncoil under a gentle Positano sun. Gently warm up and hold each pose for just as long as you can. Bend and stretch into a series of Sun Salutations, test where your limits are then relax as you cool down after your class. Lunch on your own. Pick out a pretty trattoria and enjoy a peaceful lunch. Or simply sip a Prosecco at a beachside Café, before strolling along the seafront and going for a swim. In the afternoon, head into the kitchen for Cooking Class 1: your first hands-on cooking class. Tie on your apron, get your recipe notebook ready and get cooking with our expert team of Chefs. During the class, you will learn to prepare regional seasonal foods made with farm fresh local produce in the healthiest way possible. Lunch or dinner follows and everyone enjoys the foods that were prepared in class. Toast with a glass of red or white local wine, included. (Additional wines, beverages, after dinner drinks and more are available at a surcharge). Watch the sun set over the twinkling lights of Praiano & Li Galli Islands. Drive along the famed Amalfi Coast headed to Amalfi and the hilltop village of Ravello. Along the way, stop to visit our artisan ceramic maker. You will see old-world ceramics like table tops made of volcanic rock and hand painted in soft colors with seascapes, grapes and lemons, romantic angels and Mediterranean scenes. This family-owned producer of ceramics also ships worldwide. The town of Amalfi is rich in culture and history. The small town, perched on the coastline, is dominated by Amalfi’s Cathedral and its main streets are lined with small shops and elegant bars. Merchants display their wares outside and nothing could be more pleasant than browsing through stalls of herbs and spices, jewelry, shoes, the beautiful handmade Amalfi paper, and local lemon specialties such lemon soap and lemon liqueurs. Suggested is a stop in at one of the oldest and most famous pastry makers in southern Italy- dating back to the 1800’s. A look inside reveals a sweet showcase of chocolate drenched eggplant flavored with pine nuts, liqueur and orange; fragrant ricotta pear tarts; candied lemon and orange dragged in dark chocolate; or festive pastries of the day! Whatever you decide to order, take a seat outside in the piazza at one of the small café tables that overlook the greatest people-watching site on the Coast. Morning is free. Suggestions: Limoncello Making Add-On Class or relax at Fornillo Beach. You may want to add on the Limoncello Making Class on the villa terrace overlooking the sea. The Positano lemons used in making authentic DOP Limoncello, blossom and bloom four times per year. We start off the class with an informal discussion on the history behind the lemons and how they made their way on the Amalfi Coast. Learn our secrets on cooking with the Amalfi Coast lemons. Get peeling and watch the famous lemon liqueur come alive before your eyes. As the lemons bathe in the magic mixture, we fill your glass with an ice cold Limoncello. Tasting of limoncello included. Afternoon Cooking Class 2: Tie on your apron and get ready for your second hands-on cooking class. Start with our antipasto, then get busy creating pasta, a main course and dessert. Lunch or dinner follows on the foods prepared in class after the cooking class. Toast with a glass of red or white local wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included. (Additional wines, beverages, after dinner drinks and more are available at a surcharge). Mediterranean Diet Talk. After class, enjoy a talk given by a local health professional on the enormous benefits of following a Mediterranean-style diet – from antioxidants to healthy omega-three oils, and how by eating fresh, seasonal products cooked simply, you can heal the body from within. Enjoy the evening, walk the sands, catch the sites and listen to live Neapolitan music in Zagara as you look out over a dreamy Tyrrhenian Sea. Greet the new morning with your second yoga session. Along with Fortunata, reach, stretch and uncoil again and follow her gentle instructions. Slowly warm up and hold each pose before bending and stretching into a series of Sun Salutations. Enjoy testing your limits then relax as you cool down after your class. 1 Total Body Therapeutic Relaxing Massage. Suggestion on your own– Explore Sorrento the city of song, dance and the Tarantella on your own. Visit Piazza Tasso and the famous Fauno Café, walk through the cobblestone streets and see artisans make shoes, leather bags, ceramics, confetti and wedding candies. Visit the artisan soap maker who produces lemon soap from the essence of the Sorrento lemons. Visit the famous limoncello maker and see how this delicious local drink is made, complimentary tastings included. Stop at the artisan “Confetti & Agrumeti,” and watch Antonio toast the almonds and then coat them in chocolate, orange zest or lemon. Complimentary tastings of the sugarcoated almonds are available. Walk to Marina Grande in old Sorrento and visit the Church of Saint Ann – the patron saint of the marina – sip a Prosecco at the Fauno Café, or stroll along the famous Corso Italia. This is not included in the tour, and is a suggestion. In the afternoon, enjoy your third yoga and stretching session. Along with Fortunata, reach, stretch and uncoil again and follow her gentle instructions through this early evening class. Greet the new morning with your fourth yoga session. Along with Fortunata, reach, stretch and uncoil again and follow her gentle instructions. Slowly warm up and hold each pose before bending and stretching into a series of Sun Salutations. Enjoy testing your limits then relax as you cool down after your class. Afternoon free to relax on the beach or pick up last minute gifts from your favorite Positano boutiques. Seven nights accommodations, based on double occupancy in either B&B, 3-Star, 3-Star By The Piazza or 4-Star By The Piazza Accommodations. Three hands-on cooking classes, with lunch or dinner following. Learn more about how to create healthy breakfasts, lunches and dinners following the principles of the Mediterranean Diet. A toast of local wine included, with additional wines, beverages, after-dinner liqueur and caffè available at a surcharge. Four yoga sessions with qualified Italian yoga instructor. Talk & discussion with local doctor/health expert on the proven benefits of the Mediterranean Diet. Olive Oil Tastings with informal discussion & tasting. Round trip group transfers from Naples Airport or Naples Train station to Positano. $3,195 per person, based on double occupancy in Villa Style B&B with sea view & private bath. All taxes and Italian VAT included. $800 starting price single supplement. $2,850 per person, based on double occupancy with mountain view. All taxes and Italian VAT included. $200 starting price for single supplement. $3,195 per person, based on double occupancy in 3-Star Accommodations, with private bath. All taxes and Italian VAT included. $895 starting price single supplement. $4,495 per person, based on double occupancy in 4-Star by The Piazza Accommodations, with private bath. All taxes and Italian VAT included.

2019-04-19T10:28:31Z

https://www.cooking-vacations.com/tour/yoga-retreat-positano-mediterranean-cooking-wellbeing-amalfi-coast/

Design –They do not question for any specialist advice, and if they contain an empty plot, they accurately use builders and construction agents and supply them an outlay of their Strategies as to how they need their dwelling towards glimpse which include. They are adept at creating plans that benefit from obtainable region in direction of the most straightforward possible usefulness, and at laying out a flooring application toward optimize curb enchantment. Custom coming up with of your property can choose months towards be finished and is exceptionally expensive, usually up in the direction of ten instances the charge of predawn or inventory Room courses. The web will too supply a rough idea of the charge incorporated inside building a Area as per a exclusive Room design. Online ones will provide your self a obvious eyesight of what your desire house will glimpse when it is designed, what options you can afford to pay for toward involve, and the price tag part relying upon the features that oneself determine. The flooring plan will necessarily mean walls, rooms, doorways and home windows. Any additions or modifications will be checked for viability by way of an architectural designer, prior to they are bundled within the property design and style. Turning out to be a home method manufactured specifically for your requirements is a time-consuming process, and it far too features a lot of hard work and cost. On your own can seek the services of this drawing towards consider a overall idea of what your Area will look including within the vacant good deal that sits there already. The area software is just what your self think it is. Your self have to have in direction of imagine the style and design of the household with appreciate in the direction of no matter whether there should be a basement, how plenty of storeys yourself would such as in direction of consist of, the variety of garages that on your own want, no matter if oneself motivation toward comprise any outdoors drinking water pond, the measurement of the household, the sizes of the alternative bedrooms, kitchen, residing Place, and so forth., and the facilities that on your own need which include toilet tubs, sinks, and fireside. The most straightforward course to think about what yourself will need is towards visit a pair style residences and check out for on your own substitute aspects that on your own would like to comprise which includes ceiling contours, air movement programs, and sunshine amounts. As oneself seem to be at your drawings as a comprehensive, you will then be able in direction of think about what on your own property will physical appearance which includes within just a few measurement. A person of the suitable Options that your self ought to check out is the east experiencing program. There are a number of positive aspects that appear with an east experiencing system. Yourself really should additionally guarantee that the dwelling will not consist of any increased land. Once your self visit their site, oneself will discover a plethora of home application plans with pictorial illustration of the homes, extensive with surface Designs, cross-sections, and elevations therefore that you can obtain a apparent concept of what the Area will appear such as. These small residences generate Wonderful family vacation retreats and are furthermore pertinent as a starter house or retirement household for vacant nesters. Bungalows are 1 to 1and ½ tale homes, They usually contain options of the Craftsman style and design property, these as organic designing components, discovered rafter ends and gables. Your cottage Area software will way too display where the h2o heater, furnace, cabinets, lighting, electric powered merchants and more will shift. The ground should really be fewer enhanced than the center area. If there is certainly a street running in just front of the Area on your own should assure that it is minimal than the plot. Seaside residences, are lower a person story homes, lifted above the flooring, and normally have an open floor method, with a ton of home windows, in the direction of attain a Great belief of the garden. The best way is to open up a world wide web of a firm that specials developing inside the state where yourself dwell within just, and then your self can smoothly determine make contact with with that business and get your programs against them. Anytime it will come toward studying your Room plans, it can be reasonably complicated. The web site program far too involves the desired destination of utility providers, easements, driveways and walkways. Showers, toilets, bathtubs, refrigerators, dishwasher and other appliances will additionally be drawn into Room. This program is drawn in opposition to the overhead watch therefore people who will be pouring the basis recognize wherever toward commence. This phone calls for yourself towards eliminate any heaps of soil, stone or garbage that may possibly be there. Open up flooring packages are not common in direction of this design of house. Even now, if a dwelling is manufactured with a correctly thought of principle and an strategy inside a person’s thoughts, then it is surely heading towards be a Great spot in direction of are living in just for the residents as properly as fulfill all their needs. Now, utmost human beings who opt for Place acquiring consider of developing it by themselves. Yourself can structure a sloping verandah; Regrettably, oneself should really make certain that it will not encounter west. Clutter free of charge: to reduce obstructing positive electricity on your own ought to make certain that the Room on the jap facet is fresh new and clutter totally free. There are a number of different elements that produce up your Space plans. With a effortless overview of the merchandise that crank out up your plans, yourself will be reading through them within just no time. Weighty entrance porches, dormers and a roofline that lies parallel to the road are the principal distinguishing characteristics of Place homes. The web will simply make any variations favored by you to a unique just one and a revised a person will be intended out there in direction of you. Since your Area will be dealing with east, oneself will be turning into the maximum in opposition to the profitable morning solar. Plenty of region on the east: as an architect by yourself need to have towards leave adequate region in just the east. Whilst you Place applications are extensive, construction can finally get started. Sunlight: considering the fact that the solar rises versus the east, it indicates that your residence will be finding a ton of sun throughout the early early morning. Each ground will have its personalized website page of drawings, such as any basements. A person of the most well known tactics in direction of include residences planned is as a result of doing consequently on the web. A 2 bedroom one particular bathtub household inside the craftsman design and style will expense involving $52,000.00 and $62,000.00 toward create a 2 bed room, two tub, residence with a Two automobile garage will run pertaining to $96.000.00. Are on your own building of developing a dwelling? Although there are innumerable residence courses that yourself can move with, not all of them are wished-for for on your own. It is a extended and difficult path in opposition to the first conceptualization of a property toward the Place ideas, surface plans, elevations, cross-sections, structural models, and sooner or later the performed home program that will inevitably type the basis of the composition of the household. Employing custom drawn programs can hold off the composition of your residence through innumerable weeks There are dozens of dwelling models and literally 1000’s of Strategies to opt for from, so your self can be positive in the direction of locate the home of your needs. If on your own identify a Area application that yourself get pleasure from, nonetheless will need to make minimal changes, highest services can have their designers do that for on your own, at an further more rate. By yourself must possibly generate lots of room upon a large desk so you you should not sense cramped although trying to go through them. In direction of leave adequate place on the east facet you should really be certain that the principal gate faces northeast. Comprise a verandah: Although designing the Place oneself ought to ensure that the residence includes a verandah upon the jap facet wherever the owners of the property can sit and appreciate the nutritious morning sunlight. Optimum humans do not have a clue as in direction of in which and how in the direction of just take property styles, or even towards get the directly designers who can do this activity for them. The easiest guess for getting the right home Ideas is toward read through the alternative sites promoting Area courses and opt for the most dependable one. Despite the fact that this strategy might be a great thought, there are definite advantages in direction of buying pre-drawn Room Designs. They could possibly on top of that consist of dormers, revealed beams, and overhanging eaves. Pre-drawn home programs are these that are drawn as a result of architects or dwelling designers and then readily available for sale, in contrast to all those that are drawn for an patient, with input against the shopper. On the web types will enable oneself in the direction of reduce limited Those inputs and yourself can take the structure for your aspiration home including any changes that by yourself require inside the shortest opportunity period. A minimal finish Seashore Space with Two bedrooms, A single bath, kitchen area and Terrific room would expense, regarding $74,000.00 in direction of build, in accordance to the countrywide regular, and with regards to $15,000.00 added inside the west and $8000.00 fewer within the south. Planning your home is a once-in-a-lifetime likelihood that should really be finished with maximum treatment and you should really deliver an work to involve all that yourself would which include toward consist of within your dream household, make a difference towards availability of money. There are a number of facts that your self need to finalize within your brain, in advance of hunting at the alternate online styles. This program is an overhead drawing of each and every ground of the house. As yourself appear to be deeper in thing at each individual drawing, by yourself will come to be acquainted with all of the substitute symbols. The elevation is a scale toward scale drawing of the household versus the front, rear and each facet. Based on your dwelling plans, oneself might contain even much more pieces that move with the courses. Every time your self glimpse at a range of these, you will take superb Plans that oneself can improve in the direction of suit your individual requires. Craftsman layout homes are characterized by means of the use of organic products which include wooden or stone for outside the house walls, and rock foundations that slope out from the ground. Your house is anything that cannot be torn down and rebuilt dependent upon the fact that it was ‘poorly planned’ and for that reason the building of your property desires toward be appropriate and amazingly Great. There are couple of methods by which you can choose home designing recommendations. They also once in a while borrow capabilities against the State or Victorian visual appearance.A two bedroom, one particular bathtub bungalow inside the mid-range can be crafted for involving $70,000.00 and 95.000.00, based upon what portion of the place oneself stay within. This will assistance on your own inside of finalizing your residence program. Anytime the structure of a property is fearful, the designing is amazingly major. They will specify ridge heights, roof pitches, outside finishes and much more. A a few bedroom, One and ½ baths, will typical about $84,000.00 in direction of erect on your internet site. It appears as whilst there are also several symbols, lines and drawings towards decipher. All those plans are very little maps that assist each individual substitute composition employee do their undertaking accurately right. The internet site program is drawn in the direction of show the spot of the household upon the house and how it will sit within the restrictions of the whole lot. This drawing will be the best of all the drawings in just your minimal ranch property plans package deal. The same size of each and every merchandise drawn upon the software is far too indicated at their acceptable places. When oneself decide on a internet site and check out its option residence plans, your self can acquire solutions and believe of alterations that would fit your particular tastes. Those people packages are a ideal starting up reality for on your own in the direction of proceed your house coming up with task. The South is the least costly Room to develop within and the West incorporates the most selling price .The nationwide regular is someplace within among. There are dozens of Room application products for yourself to examine and 1000’s within just just about every classification, in opposition to A-Frame to Victorian, , towards minor in the direction of huge, you can identify the directly home for your loved ones. It is in addition probable to incorporate your applications reversed, for example, if your breakfast nook faces west however the perspective against the north aspect of your ton is added interesting, oneself can reverse it. Innumerable of the sites selling Space Designs will enable yourself to look at a reversed impression, of homes by yourself may well need to have toward produce. An additional support presented by way of the expert services that style and market Place plans, is 1 that will allow your self toward estimate the charge for establishing a exclusive home in your Place of the country. There are unique alternative procedures that can be applied inside this respect. Farm Place and French Nation courses can on top of that be bundled within just this category. This will stop your energy bills as your self you should not consist of to leave the lighting upon if oneself wake up early. Health: researchers comprise mentioned that the early morning sunshine is normally the best. There are the web-site plan, the area plan, and an elevation. A low nation property, 576 square toes, with one bathtub and two bedrooms, can be constructed for less than $60,000.00 can be erected on your website for less than $60,000.00.

2019-04-21T00:23:42Z

http://moscowbiennale.com/floor-plan-names/

Why is the Coptic Pope based in Cairo and not Alexandria? Shouldn't the Coptic Pope be based in Alexandria, seeing as we call the His Holiness the Pope of "Alexandria"? And the Coptic Church is called the Church of "Alexandria"? I know there exists the Historical Cathedral of St. Mark in Alexandria but why is the Pope based in the Cathedral in Cairo? Why and when did this change occur? The change as made when Cairo became the capital of Egypt. As for when was it done, i'll leave that to someone else to find. Cairo was built in second half of the 10th century, by the Fatimite Khalif El-Muez LeDin Allah (later baptized in the monastery of Abu Seifen after the Mukatam miracle). It was built in place of existing "cities" like El-Fustat and El-Kata'3, which were more of camping sites of the islamic armies and the residence place of the arab rulers, and had been the center of political power since the arab invasion. Cairo became the capital of the Fatimite State in North Africa and the Levant and as such of increasing political importance, which led the 70th Pope Gabriel II (known as Ibn Turek) to officially annex Cairo to Alexandria under his jurisdiction in his papacy (1131 -1145 a.d.). Pope Gabriel II annexed Cairo after the death of her Bishop, Youaness Ibn Senhout. There are indications that Pope Gabriel II was not the first Pope to try to move to Cairo, but he was the first successful Pope in his attempt. The residence of all subsequent Popes has been a church in Cairo. Interestingly enough, the famous theologian and Bishop Boulous El-Boushy in the 13th century, is sometimes referred to as Bishop of Cairo (Egypt) or Babylon (the ancient fortress near Cairo). It is not known whether Babylon was considered outside the geographic limits of diocese of Cairo, but is not likely. It is equally unlikely that Pope Kyrillos III would give up any territory to another bishop, even if it his close friend. The same is with patriarch of Serbia. In middle ages his see was town of Pec but when the Turks invaded Serbia after several centuries the see was moved. And that happend two times. Now Serbian patriarch in his title has that he is archbishop of Pec, but he resides 500km north, in Belgrade. Several dioceses of Serbian church also in their name has one see, but bishop resides in another. I believe the Pope is stretched too thin. Covering Cairo, Alexandria, all the areas in the States without a diocesan Bishop seems to be too much. It would seem very difficult if not impossible to provide effective oversight with such a wide span of control. But the pope is not alone. In the US, he has a patriarchal exarch for North America through Bishop David, a patriarchal exarch for the Eritreans in the US through Bishop Macarius, a suffragan diocese of Virgina through Bishop Michael, and 2 diocese with their respective bishops. He also has general bishops doing work in the US. In Cairo, there are 12 general bishops who are either suffragan bishops or assistants to the patriarchal throne in Cairo. He also has a patriarchal vicar in Cairo through Hegumen Sergios Sergios. "Stretched too thin" is a very subjective quality. What exactly is too thin? Are 5 bishops in the US not enough that Pope Tawadros is doing the work himself? Praise God who sent us a shepherd with such vigor and enthusiasm and heart. May God give our pope the strength to do His will always, regardless of where the pope resides. Complex issues and decisions have still required the involvement of the Pope in some of the areas that you mention that are technically in the Pope's diocese but overseen by bishops. Sometimes the bishops may even defer the issue entirely to the Pope and ask the church in question to take the issue up with the Pope directly. In the meantime the bishops may avoid visiting or contacting the church in question to avoid getting involved in a situation they feel should only be addressed by the Pope. Here is where situations can deteriorate. By the time a church is able to actually contact and communicate with the Pope, months if not years usually pass and situations can spiral out of control. A simple issue that could have been resolved with early intervention can be disastrous if left to fester. And this has happened more than once. HG Bishop Youssef and I believe HG Bishop Serapion visit each church in their diocese at least twice a year if not more and are in constant contact with priests and congregation. They are able to keep tabs on the churches in their diocese. They also have the authority to address issues and make decisions complex or otherwise. I am not so sure the churches in the areas you mention benefit from the same type of regular oversight and ability to sucessfully resolve problems swiftly. HH Pope Tawadros has shown wisdom in his managerial style and I am confident he will structure church leadership in a way that is most effective - not necessarily the way it was in the past. Just as HH Pope Shenouda showed wisdom in assigning diocesan bishops such as Bishop Serapion and Bishop Youssef, I am sure HH Pope Tawadros will continue to structure leadership effectively. I think people's issue is that these bishops are all general bishops, and so the Pope is the ultimate diocesan bishop. Since these general bishops cannot ordain their own priests and thus have their authority derived from the Pope, this effectively gives the Pope control over them, giving him control of the Holy Synod (he can count on the votes of the general bishops under his control), and thus moving towards a Roman Catholic monarchal model of the papacy. In ancient times, the bishop of Alexandria was first among equals in Egypt, and still only had one vote in the Synod. Now he effectively has the votes of 30 general bishops plus himself. Note: this is not personal, I am not saying that Pope Tawadros, or any other previous popes were wrong, I'm just saying that the principle is wrong. You are right, but it is clear that this will be the hierarchy model for the foreseen future of the Coptic Church. i have to ask...what would those 'votes' of the general bishops count towards?! ya3ny isn't each of them STILL have their own voice and authority as a bishop in the holy synod. if each diocese only have one bishop vote int he Holy Synod....what about the dioceses that are being broken up more and more through the years as the congregation increases.....is that 'vote' broken up into little parts to?! Theoretically the general bishops have their own vote of course, but realistically and practically they are not going to go against the Pope, as he is their boss (you do what your boss tells you). It is unheard of until now for a bishop to have a boss. I don't get the second part of your statement. If dioceses are being broken up, it means that more diocesan bishops are being ordained, and I can see no reason why a full diocesan bishop shouldn't have a vote. so it's not that a bishop has a vote, it's a diocese bishop.....kool!!! Actually, in regards to the magisterial model of the Catholic church, I actually heard Metropolitan Pachomious actually say that our church legislation was governed by the magesterium! I was extremely upset that because of the model of leadership which we have experienced, even the teaching of the church fathers has changed to a western ideology. I see exactly what you are saying but I think it will be different with HH Pope Tawadros. You see, Pope Shenouda ordained myriads of bishops, in some cases general bishops and in some cases he split up other dioceses. He typically ordained people who he knew that their line of thinking was more similar to the "Sunday School movement." This is the first thing. Secondly, most Bishops whom he ordained were his children, or became his children, and felt a deep sense of duty/fidelity to him, not wanting to upset/diagree with him. So yes, Pope Shenouda's synod was clearly a magesterium, and as the head of the magesterium, he had control over the synod. And I also agree that general bishops should not be given a vote in the synod. Who are they representing? Themselves? Scripture and tradition in the Orthodox church have always grown out of community. But where is the community in Anba Labomba who takes care of the Pope's limousine having a vote in the synod? He represents no-one. If he does represent a group of people, why not just give him the diocese? This is of course, my opinion. Qawe, I think your statement is your opinion. But if you think it is fact then the burden of proof is on you to verify its veracity. Do you have any actual evidence that no general bishop would ever or has ever disagreed and voted against the Pope? Do you have any actual evidence that no diocese bishops has ever consistently voted with the pope simply because they did not want to disagree with the pope? You might be correct about general bishops. But we should avoid generalization without actual evidence. I agree with you that realistically, no one will publicly disagree and fight against the Pope. However, the Synod is neither setup as a pure democracy, nor a a tyrannical monarchal aristocracy. In a democracy, theoretically each person has equal weight in a vote and they are always free to express their views. A monarchal aristocracy, on the other hand, cares nothing for individual freedom. There is no voting in a monarchy. If it was, what's the point of voting at all? The same is true for the Synod. What is the point of voting, if all the bishops were not encouraged to express their views and opinions in ecclesiastical matters through their vote? (you do what your boss tells you). I own a business. I am the boss in my office. I can tell you for sure, I would fire an employee who is just a "yes man" and hire someone who has the confidence and courage to keep me inline for the wellness of the business. Any boss will tell you, unless you work in a crappy job that requires no thinking, no good business just wants to mindless employees. They want people who can increase production. They want a person who takes initiative, thinks for themselves and finds solutions (even if it is not what the boss normally expects). It is unheard of until now for a bishop to have a boss. Is it unheard of that a bishop is part of a hierarchal system where he is equal among brothers yet all are servants to Christ? Has not Christ been the boss (called Master in liturgical and scriptural language) of all the bishops all along? Effective leadership brings many moving parts inline to one direction. The moving parts choose not to challenge their leader in every decision if there is positive results. The only ones who question a leader or a leader's system, are (1) those outside the system and (2) those who see negative results or failure. Are we outside the Synod's system or jurisdiction? Is the Synod failing in their job to shepherd Christ's people? Then why do we really care how general bishops vote? Thank you Remnkemi for your non-polemical reply (not that I expected a polemical reply from you. However, the Synod is neither setup as a pure democracy, nor a a tyrannical monarchal aristocracy. In a democracy, theoretically each person has equal weight in a vote and they are always free to express their views. Why should every bishop not have equal weight in a vote? Are they not equal? What is the point of voting, if all the bishops were not encouraged to express their views and opinions in ecclesiastical matters through their vote? As a vestige of the past, when bishops were encouraged to express their views and opinions. There is no point in voting if there is a monarchal papacy. Of course Christ is the head of the church including the bishops. That is what I am arguing for, against what has happened in that we have moved towards the Roman Catholic model where the Pope is the Head of the Church, being Christ's representative on Earth. You mention 'equal among brothers'. How are they equal if a general bishop cannot ordain priests? While the Pope is the leader, insofar as he is the chair of the Synod, he is not the decision maker, as is suggested in the bolded part of your post. As first among equals, his position is analogous to that of the See of Rome in the early Church. Thus, he is not their leader in the context of making decisions, such that an opposing opinion should be deemed a 'challenge'. You are a lot more thoughtful and philosophical than me, so it is possible that I may have misunderstood some of your points. If so, please forgive me. Qawe, sorry for the late response. Let's discuss this more. Theoretically, every bishop or every citizen of a governing body should have an equal vote. But no actual democratic system is setup this way. Why? Problems arise. Look at the US presidential process. Every American citizen over 18 is allowed to vote. But the President is not elected by popular votes. He is elected by the electoral college - who legally can vote against their respective popular vote. It has happened about 150 times in the past for many reasons. If the President was elected by popular vote only, a large state with many territories but few people will be counted as a small state with many people. So the founding fathers choose to construct a system whereby each state is represented by an electoral college, regardless of territory. This system makes some states more influential than others. Are not all states equal to the federal government? Yes, in honor but not in particular situations where blind equality would cause problems. I think the Synod has established a similar hierarchical system. All bishops are equal in honor but not in duties. The general bishop system was assumingly setup to avoid certain problems. Regardless of how fair or untraditional this general bishop system is, it is the system in place. It is still a "democratic" theocratic system (better than a lot of other systems out there). I understand many feel the system will inevitably transform into a theocratic electoral college like the Roman Catholic Church. Probably not. But even if it were to become reality, what is the harm if the system works? What is the harm if changing our system brings better results? If the Synod allows these changes, it must be for a good reason. I would go so far and say unless these changes result in heresy (which by definition is a failed system) it is the Holy Spirit who wants the changes. This is assuming there is a monarchical system in place. During the nomination process, Bishop Paula interviewed then Bishop Tawadros and specifically wanted him to comment on this misconception. Pope Tawadros' response was along the lines of "There is no competition. There is no 'my way or the highway.' The Pope is servant before he is master." (I'm paraphrasing a few interviews). Sometimes bishops who discuss their dissatisfaction on certain matters will address it privately with the patriarch. If an amicable solution is not achieved in private, I think any bishop would vote against the majority if this said bishop had valid concerns (ie, pertaining to the specific issue of the vote). I think any bishop is encouraged to express his concerns. I think the majority of issues are resolved privately and when a vote is required in the synod, there is usually no disagreement. I may be naive, but I think this is what has routinely happened in the past. When Christ chose His disciples, he gave them all equal authority to loose and bind people's sin. There's the equality. However, Christ didn't let all 12 disciples lean on His chest. He gave all His disciples the power to see signs and wonders along with all the people, yet He chose three to see Him transfigured into light. There are so many examples of "preceived favoritism" which isn't favoritism at all. It's a foreshadowing of a hierarchical system of duties and glories. In 1 Corinthians 15, St Paul further stresses this "unity with distinction" in glory and duties. "All flesh is not the same flesh [distinction], but there is one kind of flesh of men [unity], another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies [unity]; but the glory of the celestial is one [distinction], and the glory of the terrestrial is another [distinction]." There is unity and distinction. Both celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies are both created bodies. But there is distinct glory for each. There is distinction because the role of each is needed in God's divine providence. This is what St Paul meant when he said, "However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual." Again, a hierarchical system (in this case, a chronological hierarchy) is setup with a purpose. What is that purpose in this case? "As we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man." The prior duty of earthly life is to lead to death which leads to spiritual eternal life. There is a distinction in duties. Does this mean we are moving to a system where the Pope is the head of the Church? No. It will never happen in the Orthodox Church. But we should not discourage a system of solidarity with distinction because it is biblical and traditional. I didn't use the proper words to express my thoughts. My comments were not meant to imply the leader has exclusive decision making authority. Actually, the opposite is implied. Let me put it this way. Leadership by definition is a process where decisions are catalyzed into positive change and improvements. The leader brings about change. His authority as a leader, depending on the hierarchical system again, may or may not involve exclusive or absolute decision making. Most leaders, at least for corporations, simply propose an idea and the board of directors has the final authority for the decision. This leader may not even be part of the board but he is the catalyst that brings about the change. What I meant to focus on was effective leadership. If that leader is really, really effective the board will choose not to challenge the requested change. That doesn't mean the board relinquished decision making authority. It doesn't mean that a challenge to the proposed plan is seen as a challenge to authority. It doesn't mean that any opposing opinion is a challenge to the leader. It simply means the board of directors is so attuned with the leader that they always agree. The bolded section excluded the first part of the sentence that confirms this line of thought: "The moving parts choose not to challenge". It doesn't mean the moving parts have lost their authority or that any opposition challenges the validity of the leader. The leader will always be the leader if he is effective in bringing positive improvements. I am the least of all of you. I come here to learn from all of you. There is no need to apologize for constructive criticism and open discussion. My prayers are for our church and leadership that it continues in peace delivering us to Christ through the Holy Spirit.

2019-04-25T05:57:36Z

http://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/14196/why-is-the-coptic-pope-based-in-cairo-and-not-alexandria

business law services | | The Law Office of Wesley Scott Jones, P.C. Forming a Corporation to start or operate a business in North Carolina can be beneficial to the business owners in two important ways: 1) it can help prevent the business owner from paying too much in federal and state income taxes and 2) it can help protect the business owners from incurring Personal Liability for acts carried out by the business. So what are the main steps in forming a North Carolina Corporation? You must select a Business Name and make sure that name is available for use in North Carolina. You must file proper and complete Articles of Incorporation with the North Carolina Secretary of State. Before filing the Articles of Incorporation, you must determine the number of shares the corporation will be authorized to issue (Issued Shares), the class of shares to be issued, who will serve as the Registered Agent, what will be the Registered Agent Address, and who will serve as the Incorporator. After the Articles of Incorporation have been filed, must must hold an Organizational Meeting. At the Organizational Meeting, you must elect Directors, appoint Officers, adopt a set of Bylaws, adopt a Corporate Seal, and issue Stock Certificates to the business owners (called Shareholders). Before operating the business, you will want to apply for a Federal Identification Number (EIN Number) and State Identification Number for banking and tax purposes. If you qualify and wish to be treated as an S-Corporation for tax purposes, you must complete and file IRS Form 2553. Other Considerations: Should you file an Assumed Name Certificate? Do you need a Privilege License to operate your business? Do the business owners need a Shareholders Agreement? When should you file your first Annual Report with the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office? What Corporate Formalities should I follow to keep my corporation valid as a legal entity? If you are planning to form a North Carolina Corporation, the foregoing topics are just a few that a business owner must successfully navigate through to begin operating a business. If you need help or advice, call an experienced Business Attorney. Call Wesley Scott Jones now at 910-256-5800 for a free telephone consultation. Wesley Jones is a Business Lawyer serving in Wilmington, North Carolina serving all of Southeastern North Carolina including New Hanover County (e.g. Wilmington, Kure Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and the areas of Ogden, Masonboro, Myrtle Grove, Landfall, and Mayfair), all of Pender County (e.g. Burgaw, Surf City, Hampstead and Topsail Beach) and all of Brunswick County (e.g. Bald Head Island, Bolivia, Calabash, Leland, Shallotte, Southport, Saint James, Ocean Isle, and Oak Island). The following are just a few of the Business Services that Wesley Scott Jones provides to clients: Forming new Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, drafting Articles of Incorporation, Articles of Organization, Shareholders Agreements, Organizational Minutes, Operating Agreements, Annual Meeting Minutes, Bylaws, Annual Reports, Assignments, Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes, Business Entity Startup and Formation, Representing clients who are Buying or Selling a Business, Business Dissolution and Liquidation, Contract Review and Drafting (including Non-Compete or Noncompetition Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, and Nondisclosure Agreements), Due Diligence Research, Leases, Licensing, Non-Profit Corporations, Non-Solicitation Agreements, Professional Malpractice, Promissory Notes, and Regulatory Compliance. The Parties will need a Bill of Sale and Assignment of Property. The Buyer should determine if it needs to form a new Business Entity with which to buy the Seller’s assets. The Buyer should consider whether it wants or need a Noncompetion Agreement with the Seller and/or the Seller’s Shareholders/Members, and/or Key Employees. If Intellectual Property is involved, the parties will need an Assignment of Trademarks, Patents, and/or Copyrights, as applicable. If the Seller’s website domain, email addresses, and/or telephone numbers are involved, the parties will need an Assignment Agreement to cover these items. The parties will need an Assignment of Contracts, Leases, and/or Liabilities as applicable. If the Buyer wants the Seller’s owners and/or Key Employees to assist Buyer with Buyer’s new business for a period of time after Closing, the Buyer will need an Employment/Consulting Agreement with these parties. If the Buyer is not paying cash at Closing, the Seller will at a minimum want a Promissory Note signed by the Buyer, and a Seller should consider whether additional security is needed in the form of a Personal Guarantee Agreement signed by the Buyer’s individual Owners, a Security Agreement on transferred personal property, or a Deed of Trust on transferred Real Property. The Buyer will want appropriate Approvals by the Seller’s Stockholders/Members and Board or Directors/Members. The Seller will want appropriate Approvals by the Buyer’s Stockholders/Members and Board of Directors/Members. If you are planning to Purchase the Assets of an existing business, the foregoing documents are just a few that a potential Buyer and Seller may want to include in an Asset Purchase Agreement. If you need help or advice, call an experienced Business Attorney. Call Wesley Scott Jones now at 910-256-5800 for a free telephone consultation. The following are just a few of the Business Services that Wesley Scott Jones provides to clients: Annual Meeting Minutes, Annual Reports, Assignments, Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes, Business Entity Startup and Formation, Buying or Selling a Business, and Business Dissolution and Liquidation, Bylaws, Contract Review and Drafting (including Non-Compete or Noncompetition Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, and Nondisclosure Agreements), Due Diligence Research, Drafting Shareholder and Operating Agreements, Drafting Shareholders and Directors Meeting Minutes, Leases, Licensing, Limited Liability Company Formation, LLCs, Meeting Minutes, Non-Profit Corporations, Non-Solicitation Agreements, Organizational Minutes, Partnership Formation, Professional Malpractice, Promissory Notes, Regulations, Shareholder Agreements, Shareholder’s Meeting Minutes, and Starting and Operating a Franchisee Business. Do you need a Nondisclosure Agreement with the Seller? Is there an existing Broker/Finder Agreement that affects the transaction? Have you determined all of the Related Parties on which due diligence should be performed (Seller, Stockholders/Members, Subsidiaries, or other Affiliated Entities)? What is the Lien Status of the property to be conveyed? Can the Seller produce a Certificate of Good Standing from the Secretary of State? Are there any Third Party Consents required by Contracts with third parties that are to be assigned by Seller and assumed by Buyer? Have you reviewed the Seller’s Financial Information? If you are planning to Purchase the Assets of an existing business, these are just a few of the considerations that must be thought through and preferably verified prior to Closing on an Asset Purchase transaction in North Carolina. If you need help, call an experienced Business Attorney for advice and help. Call Wesley Jones now at 910-256-5800 for a free telephone consultation. If you are buying a new business, either by an Asset Purchase or Stock Purchase, you should consider whether you should require the Seller and its owners and affiliates to sign a Non-Compete Agreement. When you buy an existing business, part of what you are buying is the established know-how and goodwill that the Seller has accumulated through the years that makes the business successful. You will be making an enormous investment into this business so you probably want to make sure the Seller, to whom you just paid a lot of money, will not set up shop right across the street in competition with you. Even if you are starting a new business or operating an existing business, you do not want Key Employees to steal your proprietary secrets and know-how that you have perfected over the years. Way to often, employees will work for an employer for a number of years, acquire their customers lists, pricing guides, and other business operation methods, only to decide that they can do it better. Why work for the owner when you can be the owner? Most businesses can benefit from have Key Employees sign a Non-Compete Agreement. The terms of a Noncompetition Agreement will vary based upon your particular situation. However, all Noncompetition Agreements in North Carolina must be supported by adequate and New Consideration and they must be reasonable in scope as to Geographical and Time restrictions. If you are Buying a New Business and want to protect yourself from the Seller competing directly against you and the new business OR if you have a New or Current Business where key employees have access to all of your proprietary business information, call an experienced lawyer to help you through the process. Call Wesley Jones now at 910-256-5800 for a free telephone consultation. Wesley Jones is a Business Law Attorney serving all of Southeastern North Carolina including New Hanover County (e.g. Wilmington, Kure Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and the areas of Ogden, Masonboro, Myrtle Grove, Landfall, and Mayfair), all of Pender County (e.g. Burgaw, Surf City, Hampstead and Topsail Beach) and all of Brunswick County (e.g. Bald Head Island, Bolivia, Calabash, Leland, Shallotte, Southport, Saint James, Ocean Isle, and Oak Island). When taking the leap to start a business, it pays to have a few skilled professionals behind you. Although you may be a natural with managing finances and employees along with marketing and delivering the goods or services the firm will provide, there’s true piece of mind when all of the bases are truly covered. Local business attorney Wesley Scott Jones has helped hundreds of clients in the greater Wilmington area develop a blueprint for success. As with most endeavors, creating a foolproof plan is key. With that idea in mind, please consider these tips for streamlining a business startup. Hire an attorney, such as Wes, who is well versed in all aspects of business and contract law. Hire a local accountant who is also familiar with the territory. As a business owner, you will discover that in the long run, having experts on your team in those two disciplines is priceless. Please note that the above tips are merely suggestions and each company will have its own list of areas to address. Because every business is unique and laws and financial guidelines vary state by state and even county by county, having skilled professionals at your disposal is just the responsible thing to do. Attorney Wesley Scott Jones would be happy to discuss more about the essential steps you’ll need to consider for your specific company. To schedule an appointment for a free consultation please give his office a call at now 910-256-5800. Wesley Jones is a Business Lawyer serving all of Southeastern North Carolina including New Hanover County (e.g. Wilmington, Kure Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and the areas of Ogden, Masonboro, Myrtle Grove, Landfall, and Mayfair), all of Pender County (e.g. Burgaw, Surf City, Hampstead and Topsail Beach) and all of Brunswick County (e.g. Bald Head Island, Bolivia, Calabash, Leland, Shallotte, Southport, Saint James, Ocean Isle, and Oak Island).

2019-04-22T13:07:54Z

http://wsjlaw.com/tag/business-law-services/

Below, the exciting lineup for TEDWomen 2018! Simona Abdallah plays Arabic percussion, primarily the Darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum. She has broken through traditional expectations to enjoy international success. Simona Abdallah is lauded as the first female percussionist from an Arabic background. She plays the Darbouka, an instrument that is traditionally played by men. Her passion and talent drive her forwards to break barriers and escape oppressive surroundings. Her music combines traditional sounds with modern beats. Abdallah identifies herself as Palestinian Danish. Her parents fled from to Lebanon to Germany, where she was born in 1979. The family subsequently moved to Denmark, where Abdallah spent her childhood in Denmark's second largest city, the windy port town of Aarhus. Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams made history in 2018 when she earned the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. Stacey Abrams's 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia turned more voters than any Democrat in Georgia history, including former President Barack Obama, and invested in critical infrastructure to build progress in the state. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the election by the Secretary of State's office, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Yale Law School. Dedicated to civic engagement, she founded the New Georgia Project, which submitted more than 200,000 registrations from voters of color between 2014 and 2016. Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Abrams is the award-winning author of eight romantic suspense novels, which have sold more than 100,000 copies. As co-founder of NOW Account, a financial services firm that helps small businesses grow, Abrams has helped create and retain jobs in Georgia. And through her various business ventures, she has helped employ even more Georgians, including hundreds of young people starting out. As House Minority Leader, she has worked strategically to recruit, train, elect and defend Democrats to prevent a Republican supermajority in the House, and she has worked across the aisle on behalf of all Georgians. During her tenure, she has stopped legislation to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and to roll back reproductive healthcare. She has brokered compromises that led to progress on transportation, infrastructure, and education. In the legislature, she passed legislation to improve the welfare of grandparents and other kin raising children and secured increased funding to support these families. Abrams and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi with three tenets: go to school, go to church, and take care of each other. Despite struggling to make ends meet for their family, her parents made service a way of life for their children -- if someone was less fortunate, it was their job to serve that person. This ethic led the family to Georgia. Abrams's parents attended Emory University to pursue graduate studies in divinity and become United Methodist ministers. Abrams and her younger siblings attended DeKalb County Schools, and she graduated from Avondale High School. Galit Ariel explores how technology and humans interact with and influence each other, focusing on how mixing the digital and the physical creates a new/hybrid experiential space. Galit Ariel is a transdisciplinary creative and strategic thinker. She defines herself as a "digital hippie" since she's passionate about a future that will integrate technology into our everyday lives but not control it. Her book Augmenting Alice: The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality explores the manner in which augmented reality's application will shift cultural and functional paradigms and redefine core concepts related to culture, space, experience and ethics. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is president of Repairers of the Breach, national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and the leader of Moral Monday, an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations. As the architect of the Moral Monday, the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II stands for a multi-racial, multi-faith movement fighting for voting rights, public education, universal health care, environmental protection as well as the rights of women, labor, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community. In 2013, thousands joined weekly protests at the North Carolina state legislature; more than a thousand were arrested in civil disobedience. Monday coalition continues to draw tens of thousands each year. For the past two years, Dr. Barber has led a national organizing tour called The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values, working alongside Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon and Sister Simone Campbell to redefine public morality and support state coalitions to address poverty, injustice and inequality. Rev. Dr. Barber headed the state NAACP from 2006 to 2017 and serves on the NAACP National Board of Directors. With Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Theoharis, he co-chairs the Poor People's Campaign, A National Call For A Moral Revival, which focuses on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and national morality. Rev. Dr. Barber is visiting professor of public theology and activism at Union Theological Seminary and the author of Forward Together: A Moral Vision for the Nation and The Third Reconstruction. He is a member of the College of Affirming Bishops and lives in Goldsboro, NC, where he has pastored Greenleaf Christian Church for 25 years. Deeply influenced by the social inequalities around her and inspired by her father's social work in her early years, Shad Begum has become a nationally and internationally known figure because of her determined struggle to improve the conditions of the marginalized segments, especially women, of her community in the northwest of Pakistan -- a deeply religious and conservative area where Taliban publicly execute men and women for nonconformity to their version of Islam. Begum is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Association for Behaviour & Knowledge Transformation (ABKT), an organization working toward the economic and political empowerment of communities in underserved areas of Pakistan. Her organization was uprooted during the Taliban takeover in Swat due to massive displacement of people in 2009-2010. Against enormous odds, her resilience kept ABKT alive. Begum previously worked with the UN Human Settlements Program as a consultant for the Building Gender Ladder Project as well as with UNDP's Women Political Participation Program. To encourage women at the grassroots level, she contested local elections in 2001 as an independent candidate and served as councilor for five years in Dir Lower. Begum is an Ashoka fellow, a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy and an Acumen Fellow. She won the US Department of State's International Woman of Courage Award in 2012. Kate Brandt leads sustainability across Google's worldwide operations, products and supply chain. At Google, Kate Brandt coordinates with data centers, real estate, supply chain and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to advance sustainability and the circular economy. Previously, Brandt served as the nation's first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. In this capacity, she was responsible for promoting sustainability across federal government operations including 360,000 buildings, 650,000 vehicles and $445 billion annually in purchased goods and services. Prior to the White House, she held several senior roles in the US government including senior advisor at the Department of Energy, director for energy and environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel and energy advisor to the Secretary of the Navy. With her liquid-silver voice, Ane Brun is famed for soulful covers and intimate original songs. Singer and songwriter Ane Brun possesses one of Scandinavia's most distinctive voices, which she's employed on a dozen albums since her debut, 2003’s Spending Time with Morgan. Since then, she's been awarded three Norwegian Grammy prizes, with her albums topping the charts and going platinum in Scandinavia while picking up widespread acclaim internationally. She's toured the world repeatedly and is also famed for her interpretations -- her latest album, Leave Me Breathless, is entirely comprised of covers. In 2010, she joined Peter Gabriel on his "New Blood" tour, taking Kate Bush's role for "Don't Give Up," and she also featured on Dr. Kucho! & Gregor Salto’s "Can't Stop Playing (Makes Me High)," which topped the UK charts in 2015. In addition, she runs her own label, Balloon Ranger Recordings. For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of racial justice and sexual violence. Tarana Burke's passion for community organizing began in the late 1980s, when she joined a youth development organization called 21st Century and led campaigns around issues like racial discrimination, housing inequality and economic justice. Her career took a turn toward supporting survivors of sexual violence upon moving to Selma, Alabama, to work for 21st Century. She encountered dozens of black girls who were sharing stories of sexual violence and abuse, stories she identified with very well. She realized too many girls were suffering through abuse without access to resources, safe spaces and support, so in 2007 she created Justbe Inc., an organization committed to the empowerment and wellness of black girls. The impacts of Justbe Inc. are widespread, as the program, which was adopted by every public school in Selma, has hundreds of alumni who have gone on to thrive and succeed in various ways. Burke's role as the senior director at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn, NY, an intergenerational nonprofit dedicated to strengthening local communities by creating opportunities for young women and girls to live self-determined lives, is a continuation of what she considers her life's work. Since #MeToo, the movement she created more than ten years ago, became a viral hashtag, she has emerged as a global leader in the evolving conversation around sexual violence and the need for survivor-centered solutions. Her theory of using empathy to empower survivors is changing the way the nation and the world think about and engage with survivors. Her belief that healing isn't a destination but a journey has touched and inspired millions of survivors who previously lived with the pain, shame and trauma of their assaults in isolation. Climbing PoeTree harnesses creativity as the antidote to destruction through their spoken word, hip-hop and world music. Co-creators Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman have organized more than 30 national and international tours as Climbing PoeTree, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, Scotland to India, and throughout the US -- including 11,000 miles toured on a bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil. Climbing PoeTree has stirred crowds at diverse venues from the United Nations to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, featured alongside powerhouses such as Alicia Keys, Janelle Monáe, Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, Talib Kweli, Maxwell, Madonna, Rising Appalachia, T.I., Nahko and Angela Davis, who writes: "Each time I have the pleasure of attending a performance by Climbing PoeTree, I feel enriched, renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry can change the world -- and it is true that the urgency, power and beauty of their words impel us to keep striving for the radical futures toward which they gesture." shares unexpected truths about animals. Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary producer, presenter and National Geographic explorer with a master's in zoology from Oxford University. She is a passionate conservationist and champion of animal species that are often misunderstood. Her style is immersive, journalistic and unashamedly populist, mixing expert storytelling with a dash of humor to reach the widest possible audience. She began her presenting career hosting Freaks and Creeps for National Geographic, a show about strange species that get overlooked in favor of charismatic megafauna, and has hosted numerous shows for the BBC. Cooke has a particular soft spot for sloths and founded the Sloth Appreciation Society to promote a greater understanding of their lazy lifestyle. She has produced a number of iconic viral sloth videos, Meet the Sloths, an award-winning international series for Animal Planet, two best-selling books -- A Little Book of Sloth and Life in the Sloth Lane -- and an annual calendar featuring her sloth photographs. Cooke's latest book, The Truth About Animals, was shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Society prize and the AAAS young adult science prize. Nature calls it a "deeply researched, sassily written history of the biggest misconceptions, mistakes and myths we've concocted about the animal kingdom, spread by figures from Aristotle to Walt Disney." Ariana A. Curtis gets to research, collect, interpret and display objects and stories that help tell the history of all of us and our connections to each other. An African American educator and a Black Panamanian engineering research technician raised Dr. Ariana Curtis, the youngest of their four kids, in an Afro-Latinx affirming household. Government forms and ill-informed publics have wanted her to be either African American or Latina, but Curtis has always advocated for full and accurate representation of self above all. The yearning to see lives represented whole led Curtis to travel and study the complex overlap of Blackness, identity, gender, diaspora and belonging. After earning a doctorate in anthropology, Curtis, a Fulbright scholar, joined the curatorial staff of the Smithsonian Institution. She currently serves as the first curator for Latinx Studies at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this role, she researches, collects, exhibits and promotes Latinx- and Black-centered narratives to more accurately represent the history and culture of the Americas. She also serves on multiple committees for the Smithsonian's American Women History Initiative. She's the author of the paper "Afro-Latinidad in the Smithsonian’s African American Museum Spaces" and the chapter "Identity as Profession: on Becoming an African American Panamanian Afro-Latina Anthropologist Curator" in Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism. She's is passionate about Afro-Latinidad, her Omega Phi Beta sisterhood, social justice, radical love, the Duke Blue Devils and hoop earrings. Like the legendary love potion that the Toloache flower is used for in Mexico, the ladies of Flor de Toloache cast a spell over their audiences with soaring vocals and physical elegance. Latin Grammy-winning, New York-based all-female ensemble Flor de Toloache win the hearts of both progressive and traditional mariachi music fans alike through their distinct artistic vision and sophisticated, enlightened interpretation of traditional mariachi instruments. The female quartet’s diverse ethnicities and musical backgrounds transcend culture and gender by forging new paths. The group is led by co-band directors Mireya I. Ramos on violin and Shae Fiol on vihuela. Together, they have graced international stages from Chenai, India, to Paris and have extensively toured the US as a supporting act for The Arcs, a new project from Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, as well as Cafe Tacvba, La Santa Cecilia and Natalia Lafourcade. Shohini Ghose explores the strange quantum world of atoms and photons to understand the fundamental laws of the universe and harness them for quantum computing and communication -- and works to make science accessible and inclusive for people of all genders and backgrounds. At Morgan Stanley, Carla Harris is responsible for improving the access to capital for female and multicultural founders, as well as increasing client connectivity to enhance revenue generation. In her 30-year career, Carla Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial and healthcare sectors. In August 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women's Business Council. Harris was named to Fortune Magazine's list of "The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America," US Banker's "Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance" (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise's "Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business" (2017) and "Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street," Essence Magazine's list of "The 50 Women Who Are Shaping the World" and Ebony's list of the "Power 100" and "15 Corporate Women at the Top." She is the past chair of the board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and of The Executive Leadership Council, and she is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University and the board of directors of the Walmart Corporation. She's the author of the books Strategize to Win and Expect to Win. In her other life, Harris is a singer and has released three gospel CDs, including Unceasing Praise, Joy Is Waiting, and Carla's First Christmas, which was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. She has performed five sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall. Katharine Hayhoe studies what climate change means to us in the places where we live. As Katharine Hayhoe writes: "I'm a climate scientist: I crunch the data, I analyze the models, and I help people like engineers and city managers and water planners prepare for the ways climate change affects all of us. I'm a professor in political science at Texas Tech University, where I direct the Climate Science Center. I'm also a lead author for the US National Climate Assessment; I host the PBS Digital Series Global Weirding; and I spend a lot of time talking to people about climate science, impacts, solutions and how they connect to our values. I've been named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People," Fortune's "50 Greatest Leaders" and Foreign Policy's "100 Leading Global Thinkers." "These are all tremendous honors, for which I'm enormously grateful. What means the most, though, is when just one person tells me sincerely that they had never cared about climate change before, or even thought it was real: but now, because of something they heard me say, they've changed their mind. That's what makes it all worthwhile." Maeve Higgins started off as a standup comedian, but eventually started to write things down to help her make sense of the world. Maeve Higgins is the host of the hit podcast Maeve in America: Immigration IRL. She has performed all over the world and is now based in New York, where she co-hosts Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk on National Geographic and has appeared in Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. Her new book is Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else. As Higgins writes: "I am extremely curious and am constantly finding out things I didn't even know I didn't know. I get a kick out of making people laugh, but I also worry a lot, so my head is an odd place to be, but I like it. These days I follow my curiosity, so if I suddenly wonder why most of the nannies in my neighborhood are women of color, and most of the children they take care of are white, I make it my job to figure out how it got to be that way. I research and ask questions and write about that. People are surprised to hear that I ended up here after starting out as a comedian, but I know that for me, comedy was always a way to figure things out, and as I grew up, my questions just got a little more expansive. I moved to the US five years ago and being an immigrant has also opened my eyes to a lot." Ayanna Howard designs and builds robots that learn from and interact with people, in order to help improve quality of life. As an educator, researcher and innovator, Dr. Ayana Howard focuses on designing intelligent robots to enhance our daily lives. She is professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her published works, currently numbering more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, have been widely disseminated in international journals and conference proceedings. She continues to produce novel research and ideas focused on applications that span from assistive robots in the home to AI-powered STEM apps for children with diverse learning needs. Howard began her career working as a roboticist at NASA in the early '90s and then transitioned into academia in the early 2000s. In 2013, she also founded Zyrobotics, which is focused on developing STEM educational products to engage children of all abilities. Her accomplishments have received numerous recognitions, including highlights in USA Today, Upscale and TIME Magazine. She was named a top young innovator by MIT Technology Review and was recognized as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider. Dolores Huerta is inspired by a passion to spend most of her time pursuing social justice and civil rights. Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for more than 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice president and played a critical role in many of the union's accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship, which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters, advocate for education reform, bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities, advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards including The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012, President Obama bestowed Huerta with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. Lindy Lou Isonhood served as Juror No. 2 on a capital murder trial in 1994 -- an experience that changed her life. As Lindy Lou Isonhood writes: "I was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in December 1951 and was raised by my grandmother, a widow with nine children. She was my salvation. From her nurturing I acquired my integrity, independence and strength. She impacted the lives of all around her. I was employed for over half my life: as a federal police officer in the 1970s, then I went on to be the first female letter carrier with the US Postal Service in Jackson for seven years, followed by 18 years in the MS Army National Guard. I ended my working career as an office manager after 13 years with an architectural firm. "A strong Christian, I am married to a retired colonel who is a very staunch conservative, like me. I'm the mother of two children, a son and a daughter, and three grandchildren -- all girls! The hearts of my life! There is nothing extraordinary about me. I have never achieved fame or any outstanding records or recognition. Never received a college degree although I have many accumulated hours. But my life reached a turning point when I served as a juror in the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial in 1994. This experience changed me from the inside out." Eldra Jackson III works daily to connect to his most authentic self -- and his calling is to support others in doing the same. Eldra Jackson III is a spiritual warrior who lives a passion of "saving lives one circle at a time." After living most of his life devoid of emotions and coming face-to-face with the reality of dying behind bars, he came to a point of self-inquiry, seeking answers as to how his life had spiraled into a mass of destruction set upon self and others. From this point, the space was made to save his life. Today, Jackson works to bring his spiritual medicine into the world while simultaneously guiding others to tap into their own internal salve and help identify wounds. Through his intensive awareness work, he is on a mission to show the world what's possible as each person does their own internal examination to begin the path towards emotional and psychic health. Learn more about him in the documentary The Work. Award-winning journalist Neha Madhira fights for press freedom for high school students. Neha Madhira is 17 years old and a senior at Prosper High School in Texas. She was accidentally moved into journalism two years ago, and started competing in UIL Academic competitions because of the passion her former adviser, Lori Oglesbee, showed for writing. She won 19 journalism awards over two years, achieving All-State journalism both years and a National Quill and Scroll Gold Key last year. Currently, she is Editor-in-Chief of her high school’s paper, Eagle Nation Online. After her principal prior-reviewed and censored the paper, banned editorials and fired Ms. Oglesbee last year, Madhira spoke out, along with fellow journalist Haley Stack. For their advocacy, the two were nominated for the National Courage in Journalism award and honored by the Women's Media Center. Madhira is a student leader of the New Voices movement in Texas and speaks about the importance of students’ and teachers’ rights across the country. Helen Marriage cofounded a company that specializes in creating disruptive, whole-city arts events that surprise and delight everyone who comes across them. Helen Marriage writes: "I am a producer of large-scale disruptive moments that place an artist's ideas in the heart of a city. I started life unsure of how to find a job and began helping a street theater company perform at the Edinburgh Festival. Only then did I realize that this could be a career. That was forty years ago. Since then, I've gone on to shut down central London and other cities with ephemeral events that transform people’s understanding of what a city is for and who controls it. "I don't believe that cities are exclusively about shopping and traffic. Over the years I've developed a real sense of how artists can change the world, if only we make space for their vision. I guess that's my job -- to create a context in which the normal routines of daily life are disrupted for a moment to allow the public, especially those who know they’re not interested in anything the arts might have to say, to discover a new world we’d all like to live in." Majd Mashharawi leads a startup that makes bricks from recycled local materials -- and employs women in the Gaza Strip. Nora McInerny makes a living talking to people about life's hardest moments. Nora McInerny speaks from experience and empathy, having lost her second baby, her father and her husband over the course of six weeks at age 31. She is the best-selling author of the memoir It’s Okay To Laugh, Crying Is Cool Too, the host of the award-winning podcast "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" and the founder of the nonprofit Still Kickin. She contributes words to Elle, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, Time, Slate and Vox, where she's often tapped for her essays highlighting the emotional landscape and humor in complex topics, like the financial impacts of healthcare and grief in a digital age. McInerny is a master storyteller known for her dedication to bringing heart and levity to the difficult and uncomfortable conversations most of us try to avoid, and also for being very tall. She was voted "Most Humorous" by the Annunciation Catholic School Class of 1998. Aja Monet is a Caribbean American poet, performer and educator born in Brooklyn, New York. Aja Monet started actively reading and reciting poetry in the New York City youth poetry/slam community in high school with an organization called Urban Word NYC. Her poems are lyrical, wise and courageous. She received her BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009 and her MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. While at Sarah Lawrence College, Monet was awarded the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam title in 2007. She has been internationally recognized for combining her spellbound voice and vivid poetic imagery on stage. While in college, she used music and poetry to help organize urgent responses to natural disasters in New Orleans and later on in Haiti as well as local community issues. In 2015, she was invited by the Dream Defenders to be a part of a movement delegation to Palestine, and she has continued to work in collaboration with cultural workers and organizers to demonstrate radical solidarity. In 2018, Monet’s first full collection of poetry, my mother was a freedom fighter, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. She read the title poem of her collection at the national Women’s March on Washington DC in 2017 to commemorate women of the Diaspora. In 2012, she collaborated with poet/musician Saul Williams on the book Chorus, an anthem of a new generation of poets. Monet currently lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio, a collective dedicated to music, art, culture and organizing. In collaboration with Community Justice Project and inspired by poet June Jordan's revolutionary blueprint, Monet facilitates "Voices: Poetry for the People," a grassroots workshop for organizers and community leaders. In 2018, the workshop created the first annual Maroon Poetry Festival in Liberty City, Miami, to honor artists and cultural workers for their commitment to radical truth-telling. A lover of art, music, and poetry, Monet has continued to collaborate with artists across all genres including musicians Vijay Iyer, Samora Pinderhughes, Gerald Clayton and visual artists Carrie Mae Weems, Mike Schreiber and countless more. She volunteers at Dade Correctional Facility teaching "Poetry for the People" with an organization called Exchange for Change. As Monique W. Morris writes: "I believe in a justice not associated with any form of oppression. I work for it and I write about it." Monique W. Morris, EdD, founded and leads the National Black Women's Justice Institute, an organization that works to transform public discourses on the criminalization of Black women, girls and their families. For three decades, she has been involved in social justice advocacy and scholarship, working with research and academic institutions, civil rights organizations, nonprofits, public agencies and activists to advance policies and practices that promote racial and gender equity. She's the author of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools and other books, publications and articles. As Morris writes: "My work is ultimately about using research and narratives to challenge actions and structures of oppression. I do this using the tools I have available to me as a researcher, educator, public intellectual, visual artist, writer -- and most recently, filmmaker. I am the author of several academic publications and four books, each of them very different. From a street novel about prostitution to a statistical narrative about African Americans in the 21st century to a book about the criminalization of Black girls in schools, I try to meet people where they are on this journey toward freedom. My latest project, a dive into the pedagogical practices that make education freedom work, explores how schools might become locations of healing for Black and Brown girls. And I love Prince. Always have, always will." Beth Mortimer is a scientific researcher interested in how animals use vibrations along surfaces and through materials for information. As Beth Mortimer writes: "I believe that through studying nature we can gain useful insights for new technologies. I am pioneering this approach for an overlooked form of information transfer: vibrations that travel along surfaces and through materials. I study how animals use this information source, which is widespread from spiders and worms to humans and elephants. My research enables me to gain insights for potential new technologies, for example monitoring elephant behavior in remote locations or developing vibration sensors for robots to monitor dangerous machinery. "I am a biologist by training and have collaborated across scientific disciplines throughout my research career. I have worked with engineers, material scientists, seismologists and computer scientists to learn cutting-edge techniques that I can use to study information transfer with animals. My goal for the next five to seven years is to develop usable technologies for remote monitoring, learning from the biological systems I study." Danielle R. Moss is chief executive officer of Oliver Scholars, helping it prepare high-potential Black and Latinx students from underserved New York City communities for success. Dr. Danielle R. Moss is Chief Executive Officer of Oliver Scholars, an organization committed to preparing high-potential Black and Latinx students from underserved New York City communities for success at top independent schools, prestigious colleges and careers. She is also a member of The New York Women's Foundation board of directors and serves as an NYC Commissioner of Gender Equity. She began her career as a middle school teacher in the Bronx and Brooklyn, building a distinguished career as an academic and a leader in the education and the social sector. Dr. Moss's contributions to education and the social sector have been recognized by the New York State Education Department, The New York Women's Foundation, The New York Coalition for 100 Black Women, The College Board, The Network Journal's 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business and The Council of Urban Professionals. Moss has been featured in the New York Times "Corner Office" and in Crain's New York for her leadership in the movement toward intersectional gender equity. Her writing has been featured by The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Edutopia, The Amsterdam News, City Limits Magazine, Ms. Magazine online and the Feminist Wire. She's appeared on WABC-TV's Here and Now and New York Viewpoint, on WNBC's Positively Black, Fox 5's Street Talk, Bronx Net's Perspectives and NY1's Inside City Hall. Stanley Crouch, formerly of the New York Daily News, once dubbed her one of the most important players in public education for her ability to respectfully meet young people and families where they are and to give them the tools and agency to transform their own lives. Farida Nabourema is a key voice in Togo’s pro-democracy movement. A political activist and writer, Farida Nabourema has been a fearless advocate for democracy and human rights in Togo since she was a teenager. Through more than 400 articles on her blog and other sites, she denounces corruption and dictatorship and promotes a form of progressive pan-Africanism. In 2014, she published La Pression de l'Oppression (The Pressure of Oppression), in which she discussed the different forms of oppression that people face throughout Africa and highlighted the need for oppressed people to fight back. Nabourema is also the engagement and collaboration coordinator of Africans Rising, a pan-African movement that fights for justice, peace and dignity through grassroots organizing, civic education and advocacy. She cofounded and is the executive director of the Togolese Civil League, an NGO that promotes democracy through civil resistance. In 2001, at age 20, Nabourema founded the "Faure Must Go" movement, where she supported and organized with Togolese youths to stand against the dictatorial regime of Faure Gnassingbé. "Faure Must Go" has become the slogan for the civil resistance movement in Togo, of which Nabourema is one of the most well-known leaders. Nabourema was awarded the "Young Advocate of the Year" and the "Female African Youth of the Year" in 2018 by Africa Youth Award for her contribution to raising awareness on the oldest military regime in Africa. Driven by curiosity and appreciation for the complex, beautiful, diverse and dynamic world around us, Tarje Nissen-Meyer is trying to decipher this vibrating planet by analyzing data from human and biological interaction with our precious environment and modern technology. As Tarje Nissen-Meyer writes: "Much like gazing at the sky, I wonder how our pristine planet functions. Where does hot magma come from, why can't we predict earthquakes, what is the link between climate and Earth, where does life come from and how does it end, and can we find extraterrestrial life? Society depends on the environment: how can we provide clean energy for ten billion people, deal with water scarcity, sea level rise, natural hazards? These are research themes in geophysics, and they require quantitative reasoning. "In my own research, I develop methods for earthquake waves for free use, work on mapping Earth's interior, earthquake hazard, cyclones and elephant communication. I believe education and science play an ever larger role in extracting useful information from the ever-increasing amount of data to deliver critical decision-making skills and evaluating uncertainties, especially in times of fake news." Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya is the founder and president of Kakenya's Dream, an international nonprofit organization leveraging education to empower girls, end harmful traditional practices and transform communities in rural Kenya. Engaged at age five, Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya experienced female genital mutilation (FGM) as a young teenager in preparation for marriage. Her life was set to follow the traditional Maasai path of ending school to become a wife and mother, but Ntaiya had a different dream. She negotiated with her father to return to school after surviving FGM. When she was accepted to college in the United States, she promised to use her education to help the village in exchange for their support. She went on to earn her PhD in education at the University of Pittsburgh, and returned to her community to fulfill her promise. In 2009, the Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE) boarding school opened its doors, serving 30 vulnerable Maasai girls in rural Kenya. Today, Kakenya's Dream reaches thousands of girls, boys and community members each year through three visionary, girl-centered programs. Ntaiya is a CNN Hero and National Geographic Emerging Explorer. She received the Feminist Majority Global Women's Rights Award and the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award. Ntaiya was also named one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Shake the World." Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-director of Caring Across Generations. Under her leadership, domestic workers won eight state Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and federal overtime and minimum wage protections for more than two million home care workers. She is also an influential voice in the Me Too and women's movements, including participating in the Times Up action at the 2018 Golden Globes. She is a 2014 MacArthur "genius" Fellow and a TIME 100 alumna and has been a featured speaker at the United State of Women Summits, Aspen Ideas Festivals, the Obama Foundation Summit and the 2018 Women’s Convention. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME and CNN.com. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Emily Quinn describes herself as "a ballsy intersex activist who uses humor and storytelling to create a more welcoming world for people who don’t fit in a box." At age 10, Emily Quinn learned she was intersex. As she writes: "Doctors said not to tell anyone, poking and prodding at me like I was a science experiment. It was lonely, shameful, and I had nowhere to turn. I needed someone to tell me that it would be OK, but no one was there. "Fourteen years later, I discovered an intersex support group, meeting hundreds of intersex people who endured trauma like mine. I knew it had to stop. I was working at Cartoon Network and decided to help create the first intersex main character on television: Lauren on MTV's 'Faking It.' I publicly came out as intersex alongside her debut, and suddenly I was bombarded with interviews, appearing in content across the web. The impact was so great that I quit my job, created a YouTube channel, began speaking globally about intersex experiences, and am now writing a YA novel. In ways I could have never imagined, I became the person I needed as a kid -- showing myself that one day it would be OK." Jan Rader is a firefighter and a nurse. Jan Rader joined the Huntington, West Virginia, Fire Department in August 1994. Rader is the first woman to reach the rank of chief for a career department in the State of West Virginia. She holds a Regents bachelor of arts degree from Marshall University and an associate's degree of science in nursing from Ohio University. She holds many fire service certifications and is also a fire and EMS instructor in the State of West Virginia. Since November 2014, Rader has been serving as a member of the Mayor's Office of Drug Control Policy. The purpose of this task force is to address drug addiction in Huntington and the surrounding communities and create a holistic approach involving prevention, treatment and law enforcement. Rader recently came to national prominence after the release of the short documentary Heroin(e) by Netflix in September 2017. In April 2018, she was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World." Nivruti Rai is vice president in the data center group and country head for India at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Nivruti Rai provides engineering and business unit leadership, driving innovation, cross-group efficiencies and execution for engineering teams delivering global products and roadmaps. She also leads engagements with national and local governments and policymakers as well as collaboration with ecosystem players to enable innovation and entrepreneurship. Rai joined Intel in 1995 and subsequently worked in the CPU development organization in Oregon. She led the effort to conserve chip power in microprocessors by selectively using high-performance devices and pioneered the use of error-correcting codes to reduce operating voltages and memories, becoming a principal engineer in 2003. She moved to India in 2005 to manage R&D of mobile platform technologies used for handheld and laptop computers. In 2013, her team was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for contributing to the development of the Minute Intel architecture core. In her most recent role as vice president in Intel's platform engineering group, Rai led teams across the United States, Costa Rica, Israel, Malaysia and India charged with developing innovative analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) blocks and IP subsystems for Intel's system-on-chip products. She also managed the emerging technologies group in India, developing machine learning and computer vision soft IP. As the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund for 12 years, Cecile Richards worked to increase affordable access to reproductive health care and to build a healthier and safer world for women and young people. In 2018, she stepped down from leadership and published the book Make Trouble. After starting her career as a labor organizer working with women earning the minimum wage, Richards went on to start her own grassroots organizations and later served as deputy chief of staff to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2011 and 2012, she was named one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World." Richards is a frequent speaker and commentator on politics and progressive issues. Karissa Sanbonmatsu investigates how DNA allows cells in our body to remember events that take place. Dr. Karissa Sanbonmatsu is a principal investigator at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Consortium, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. As a principal investigator, Sanbonmatsu has advanced our understanding of the mechanism of the ribosome, antibiotics and riboswitches. She published some of the first structural studies of epigenetic long non-coding RNAs and is currently studying the mechanism of epigenetic effects involving chromatin architecture. She uses a combination of wetlab biochemistry, supercomputers and cryogenic electron microscopy to investigate mechanism in atomistic detail. She is on the board of Equality New Mexico and the Gender Identity Center and is an advocate for LGBT people in the sciences. Through her nonprofit, Bodhi Tree Foundation, Ashweetha Shetty supports first-generation college students in rural India to explore their potential through education, life skills and opportunities. As a girl in a poor orthodox community in a south Indian village, Ashweetha Shetty was constantly told that her birth was not celebrated and that she would be a liability to her family. The social norms prescribed for her identity silenced her dreams, thoughts and aspirations. But through the power of education, she became a first-generation college graduate and had a chance to rewrite the possibilities for her life. As she says: "I always wanted to add my bit to their inspiring journey." As a high school student, Haley Stack fights for freedom of the press. Haley Stack is 16 years old and a junior at Prosper High School in Texas. She is Assistant Editor of the school’s newspaper, Eagle Nation Online. She started journalism her freshman year and has been on staff since. She's on the UIL Academic Journalism team and has won numerous awards, including an award for Excellence in Commentary Writing at the Journalism Educators Association. She was honored at the Women's Media Center gala in November 2018, where she won the Young Journalist award. In February 2018, Stack wrote an editorial over the removal of A Separate Peace by John Knowles from the 10th grade curriculum. The article was censored by her principal because he claimed Stack’s story was negative, used the word ‘banned’ instead of ‘removed’, and contained grammatical errors. (The errors were an extra period and a missing apostrophe.) This was one out of three articles that were censored at the paper leading to Stack, fellow student journalist Neha Madhira, and her staff speaking out with the help of the Student Press Law Center. Several news outlets covered their story, including NBC 5, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times. Stack continues to fight for student press rights through New Voices, a student-led legislative movement attempting to protect students from censorship and protect advisers from being pushed out. Stack hopes to continue her fight and further her journalistic education in college. In her work, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis makes a theological case for ending poverty. The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church, the director of the Kairos Center for Rights, Religions, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and the co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor and dispossessed in the United States. She has led hundreds of trainings and bible studies and recently published Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor. In 2018, alongside the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, Theoharis helped to launch the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Over the coming years, the campaign will organize poor people across race, religion, geography, political party and other so-called lines of division to fuel a moral revolution of values in the country. Amanda Williams blurs the distinction between art and architecture through works that employ color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place and value in cities. The landscapes in which Amanda Williams operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshapen most inner cities. Her installations, paintings, video and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar -- and raise questions about the state of urban space in America in the process. Williams has exhibited widely, including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, a solo exhibition at the MCA Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She is a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grantee, an Efroymson Family Arts Fellow, a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a member of the multidisciplinary Museum Design team for the Obama Presidential Center. She is this year's Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago and has previously served as a visiting assistant professor of architecture at Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works on Chicago's south side. Paula Stone Williams is a pastor, counselor, speaker, LGBTQ ambassador and gender equity advocate. The Reverend Dr. Paula Stone Williams knows the truth will set you free, but only after it upends your carefully constructed narrative. Her devotion to authenticity caused her to leave her comfort zone as a nationally known religious leader and follow her heart to transition from Paul to Paula. She lost all of her jobs and most of her friends. Williams also discovered the massive differences between life as a male and as a female in America. Williams is the pastor of preaching and worship at Left Hand Church in Longmont, Colorado, a pastoral counselor with RLT Pathways and a sought-after speaker to corporations, government agencies, universities and religious institutions on issues of gender equity and LGBTQ advocacy. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Denver Post, New Scientist, Radio New Zealand, Colorado Public Radio and The Huffington Post. Her TEDxMileHigh talk on gender equity has had more than one million views. Jonathan Williams likes to tell stories and throw parties, so he started a church that allowed him to do both. After teaching fifth grade in West Philadelphia for seven years, Jonathan Williams decided to join the family business and become a pastor like his father. He started a church in Brooklyn, NY, and just three months later faced a religious and personal reckoning when his father announced her transition from male to female. Williams decided that his church would become an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, forever shifting the landscape in his personal and professional life. Williams continues to lead Forefront Church in Brooklyn. In January 2019, he released his book, She's My Dad: A Father’s Transition and a Son's Redemption, published by Westminster John Knox Press. Williams has told his story to the New York Times, Huffington Post, Christian Standard Magazine, Faithfully Magazine and Rebel Storytellers. Marian Wright Edelman fights for a level playing field for all children, so their chances to succeed don't have to depend on the lottery of birth. Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation's strongest voice for children and families. The CDF's "Leave No Child Behind" mission is "to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities." Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-'60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1968, she moved to Washington, DC as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the CDF. For two years she served as the director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in 1973 began CDF. Edelman served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman College, which she chaired from 1976 to 1987, and was the first woman elected by alumni as a member of the Yale University Corporation, on which she served from 1971 to 1977. She has received more than 100 honorary degrees and many awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian award -- and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. The cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio, phillip agnew is a nationally recognized educator, strategist, trainer, speaker and cultural critic. phillip agnew cofounded the Dream Defenders in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin and has been dubbed "one of this generation’s leading voices" and recognized by both EBONY magazine and The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the nation. He emerged as a national activist when he helped to organize students from FAMU, Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College in the creation of the Student Coalition for Justice, which was formed in response to the Martin Lee Anderson case. agnew is the cofounder of Miami's Smoke Signals Studio -- a community based radical artistic space -- with his partner, poet Aja Monet. Smoke Signals Studio is a space where those invested in using art, sound and music as a meeting place for transformation and liberation can come to create together. In 2018, agnew transitioned from his role as codirector of the Dream Defenders and now travels the country teaching and organizing outside of the movement bubble. He has spoken at colleges and conferences around the country and was a featured speaker at TEDWomen 2018 and SXSW in 2019. agnew is member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and a Board Member for Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Yvonne van Amerongen is an occupational therapist and a social worker. Before 1983, when Yvonne van Amerongen started working for the nursing home Hogewey, she worked in a hospital for psychiatric diseases and in a rehabilitation center. In 1992 she was the care manager of the traditional nursing home Hogewey when the management team started thinking about the vision of care for people living with severe dementia. In 1993, this vision was the basis for the development of what now is the neighborhood The Hogeweyk, with 27 houses for more than 170 seniors with severe dementia. Van Amerongen was the project leader and one of the founders of the vision for excellent care, living and well-being for people with severe dementia and of neighborhood The Hogeweyk. Van Amerongen now works as a consultant for Be, supporting and advising healthcare organizations, governments, architects and project starters around the world to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia. Be is part of the Vivium Care group (non-profit), also the owner of The Hogeweyk.

2019-04-20T01:35:15Z

https://tedwomen2018.ted.com/speakers

An angiographic catheter is described with a valve covering the end-hole on the distal end. The valve will allow the catheter to be passed over a guidewire but will prevent an injected fluid (e.g., a contrast medium) from being discharged from the end hole. The valved-end catheter has side-holes near the distal end that provide for lateral discharge of the fluid thereby preventing the creation of an end-hole jet and the resulting undesirable effects of the jet. Angiographic catheters are very small but long thin-walled tubes that are inserted into the human vascular system for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. At the present time, almost all such catheters have an end-hole at the distal end so that the catheter can be passed over and guided by a wire which has been inserted into the vascular system through a hollow needle placed in a blood vessel. Also, because these catheters are open at both ends to allow passage over the guidewire, one catheter can be exchanged for another by replacing the wire and withdrawing the catheter over the wire. When used in diagnostic procedures, the primary purpose of these catheters is to allow injection of radiopaque contrast material into the blood stream so as to produce an image of the blood vessel (an angiogram) on x-ray film. During the process of diagnostic angiography, the contrast medium is usually injected at a rapid rate using a power injector, and the contrast medium is forcefully discharged from the distal end-hole of the catheter creating a jet effect. This produces undesirable recoil of the catheter and can also produce a dangerous complication, subintimal injection of the contrast medium, in which the jet tunnels into the wall of the blood vessel sometimes resulting in acute occlusion of the vessel. To minimize the undesirable effect of recoil and the potential complication of subintimal injection, some early catheter designs had sealed distal ends with side-holes near the distal end to allow injection of the contrast medium into the blood vessel laterally and symmetrically thereby reducing subintimal injections. Of course, with the sealed distal end, these catheters cannot be inserted into a blood vessel over a guidewire, and therefore this design is not widely used. Most catheters presently used for rapid flush angiography are configured with a circular loop or "pigtail" at the distal end. Although the end-hole is open, these pigtail type catheters are provided with side-holes through which approximately 40% of the contrast medium is discharged. Although the looped end of the catheter decreases somewhat the chance of subintimal injection, the open end-hole still allows approximately 60% of the contrast medium to exit the end-hole in a strong jet. During left ventriculography, this jet has been associated with the production of ventricular arrhythmias which can be dangerous to the patient and which can lessen the accuracy of the acquired physiologic data. To overcome the limitations of the pigtail catheter in cardiac angiography, various modifications have been attempted to the pigtail configuration, such as a multiple loop configuration or formation of a bend at an acute angle in the distal portion of the catheter. However, these modifications have not satisfactorily alleviated the problems associated with the use of any catheter which has an open end-hole. Moreover, when catheters of this type are used during abdominal aortography, it is sometimes desirable to have the contrast medium injected in a lateral fashion to opacify the renal arteries which arise at right angles to the abdominal aorta. The pigtail catheter, including known modifications of it, tends to inject the contrast medium in a superior direction through the superiorally directed end-hole. This produces the undesirable effect of filling the blood vessels superior to the renal arteries which can obscure visualization of the anatomic structures being observed. There is therefore a need for a catheter which can be inserted into the vascular system by passing it over a guidewire but which catheter will have the advantages of a closed-end catheter. The catheter of the invention has formed over the end-hole at its distal end a two-way valve which opens to allow passage of a guidewire and closes upon removal of the guidewire to prevent discharge of fluid from the end-hole of the catheter. In one embodiment, the catheter is formed with side-holes for discharge of the fluid, such as a contrast medium, and the principles of the invention can be utilized in a balloon occlusion catheter because all of the fluid will be discharged proximally to the balloon through the end-holes. When used with a ballon for coronary or small vessel peripheral angioplasty, no side holes are formed in the catheter, thus creating a single lumen over-the-wire angioplasty ballon catheter. The valve at the distal end of the catheter may be formed by several slits along radial lines in a solid tubular piece of material similar to the material used in the catheter itself. However, the material must have sufficient elasticity so that the valve remains normally closed and is opened only when a guidewire is advanced in either direction against the valve. FIG. 4 is a perspective view that illustrates the principles of the invention as applied to a balloon occlusion catheter. The intravascular catheter of the invention has an elongated tubular wall 10 that defines a longitudinally extending lumen or passageway 12 extending throughout the length of the catheter. The catheter is constructed of any suitable material that has the required strength and flexibility which will permit the catheter to be inserted into a blood vessel for use in various diagnostic and therapeutic applications where it is necessary to inject a fluid, such as a contrast medium, into the body. There are a number of plastic materials presently available that are suitable for this use, such as various forms of soft polyurethanes, soft polyesters guidewire. When the guidewire is removed, the resiliency of the flaps 22 will once again close off the distal end 14. The distal end 14 may be either normally straight as shown in the drawings, or distal end 14 may be shaped into a circular pigtail configuration similar to that of presently used catheters which have a closed distal end. The principles of the invention therefore can be applied to pigtail catheters which are used extensively in ventriculography. In FIG. 4 there is illustrated a balloon occlusion catheter to which the principles of the invention have been applied by positioning valve 16 at the distal end. In this balloon occulsion catheter, there is in addition to the outer wall 10 an interior tube 24 that provides a passageway or lumen 26 which carries fluid, such as air, to an expandable wall or balloon 28 formed in the wall 10 near its distal end 14 downstream from the side-holes 18. The expandable wall or balloon 28 can therefore be inflated using lumen 26 so as to occlude flow through the blood vessel. As in the other embodiments of the invention, when the catheter is inserted into the blood vessel using a guidewire, as soon as the end of the guidewire engages the flaps 22 of valve 16, the flaps 22 will flex to permit passage of the guidewire until such time as it is withdrawn. When the guidewire is withdrawn, valve 16 will close and remain closed, thus allowing for all of the fluid flowing through passageway 12 to be discharged through side-holes 18. The principles of the invention also can be applied to balloon catheters with no side holes, thereby allowing guidewire insertion and low density polyethylenes. The passageway 12 normally terminates in an end-hole or discharge opening at the distal end 14 of the catheter, but the invention provides a valve, indicated generally by the reference numeral 16, that covers the end-hole. Valve 16 may be formed in any suitable manner. For example, valve 16 may be formed at the outer end of a solid tubular end piece 20 of relatively short length which is fused or otherwise suitably attached at the distal end 14 of the wall 10 of the catheter. The desired action of valve 16 may be created by a plurality of flaps 22 formed by one or more cuts, such as radially extending slits, in the outer end of end piece 20. In the alternative, a pin hole could be formed in the outer end of the end piece 20, the pin hole being just large enough to permit the passage of a guidewire. The flaps 22 are preferably formed of the same basic material as the material that forms the wall 10 of the catheter, but the material forming flaps 22 must have sufficient elasticity to perform the valve function in the manner described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, upstream from the valve 16 are a plurality of side-holes 18 formed in the wall 10 of the catheter to provide for lateral discharge of fluid flowing through the passageway 12 of the catheter. The flaps 22 normally close the end-hole at distal end 14 and substantially seal off distal end 14 so that any fluid introduced into the passageway 12 is discharged through the side-holes 18. However, when the end of a guidewire (not shown) strikes the flaps 22 from either direction, the flaps 22 will bend a sufficient amount to permit the passage of the and balloon inflation through a single passageway. Similarly, the valved end construction utilizing the principles of the invention will allow an angioplasty balloon to be inflated through the same lumen used to pass the catheter over a guidewire thus creating a single lumen over-the-wire angioplasty balloon. This would allow the catheter diameter to be reduced significantly which would be useful in coronary angioplasty and small vessel peripheral angioplasty. The operation and use of the catheter of the invention is evident from the foregoing description. When the catheter of the invention is properly used, catheter recoil will be greatly reduced if not eliminated since the contrast medium, for example, will be discharged from the catheter laterally in a symmetrical fashion through the side-holes. Also, use of the valved distal end will greatly reduce the chance of subintimal contrast injections since there will no longer be any jet effect from the end-hole. The catheter of the invention will also provide more accurate contrast injection in the aorta, since contrast medium is injected laterally through the side-holes. Also, infusion of other fluids, such as thrombolytic agents, is improved since these fluids can be infused evenly through multiple side-holes rather than a single end-hole of the catheter. Moreover, the catheter of the invention may be useful in nonvascular catheter applications, such as in biliary and renal catheterization procedures. It will be thus evident to those skilled in the art that there are numerous applications for the principles of the invention and that various revisions and modifications can be made to the preferred embodiments disclosed herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is my intention, however, that all such revisions and modifications as are obvious to those skilled in the art will be included within the scope of the following claims. 1. A catheter insertable over a guidewire for introducing a fluid into a vessel of the human body, said catheter comprising a long hollow flexible tube of the desired length having a small diameter and a proximal end and a distal end, said tube having a thin wall extending between said ends to define a passageway extending throughout the length of the tube and terminating at the distal end, a plurality of side holes extending through the wall of the tube near its distal end to provide for the discharge of fluid from the passageway through the holes in the wall and into the vessel, and means closing the distal end and preventing the discharge of fluid from the passageway through the distal end, said means opening during the passage of the guidewire through the distal end. 2. The catheter of claim 1 in which the means closing the distal end is comprised of a plurality of resilient flaps that normally close off the distal end but which will flex to allow the passage of the guidewire. 3. The catheter of claim 2 in which the flaps are formed by a plurality of radial slits. 4. The catheter of claim 1 in which there is an opening in the means closing the distal end which opening is small enough to allow the passage of the guidewire without allowing the passage of fluid from the distal end. 5. A catheter for introducing a fluid into the body, said catheter comprising a tube of the desired length having a proximal end and a distal end, a thin wall extending between said ends to define a passageway extending throughout the length of the tube, the distal end terminating in an end hole that is in communication with the passageway, a plurality of side holes extending through the wall of the tube near its distal end to provide for the flow of fluid from the passageway through the wall, an inflatable means near the distal end between the side holes and the end hole, said inflatable means being normally not inflated, pressure means to controllably inflate the inflatable means from the proximal end, and valve means comprised of a plurality of resilient flaps formed by a plurality of radial slits that normally close off the end hole to prevent the discharge of fluid from the passageway through the end hole but which will flex to allow the passage of a guidewire through the valve means. 6. The catheter of claim 5 in which the pressure means includes a tube positioned inside of the passageway and extending from the proximal end terminating at the inflatable means. EP0608609A3 (en) * 1992-12-01 1995-05-24 Cardiac Pathways Corp Catheter for RF ablation with cooled electrode and method. EP0599065A3 (en) * 1992-10-29 1994-08-17 Sachse Hans Tubelar ureteral conduit.

2019-04-21T22:25:12Z

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5085635A/en

Stopping nearsightedness in kids and more. This week, Dr. Sydney Spiesel discusses a way to stop the progression of nearsightedness in kids, a better method of hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause, and new developments in the search for a cause for autism. His column will start appearing a couple of times a month. Condition: Nearsightedness, or myopia, is the most common eye problem. In the United States and Europe, about 25 percent of the adult population is nearsighted, and in much of Asia the condition is more common still. Significant myopia can have serious medical consequences. It has long been understood that the condition has a strong genetic component: Nearsighted parents are more likely to have nearsighted children. But recent research has shown that other factors contribute. For example, just as our mothers warned us, there is now evidence that doing close-up work, like reading, seems to promote the condition. How it progresses: The eyeball of a nearsighted person is deeper than the eyeball of a person with normal vision and becomes deeper as nearsightedness progresses. Myopia often begins to develop between the ages of 6 and 8. As children grow, their nearsightedness worsens, continuing to do so long after they have stopped growing taller. Though we know a lot about factors associated with nearsightedness and its progression, we have no good ideas yet about the mechanism. But can we stop it? New research: A recent study by Wei-Han Chua and colleagues at the Singapore National Eye Center elegantly built on older research and successfully used atropine eye drops to treat myopia in children. Atropine is a longer-lasting version of the pupil-dilating drops your doctor uses when you go for an eye exam. Available by prescription in the United States, the drops are mainly used to treat amblyopia (lazy eye) instead of the older treatment, patching, which children often hate. Dr. Chua and his co-workers studied the progression of nearsightedness in 400 children between 6 and 12 years of age. Half the children were treated with atropine eye drops, and the other half were treated with placebo eye drops. Both kinds of drops were administered nightly to one eye, so the untreated eye could be compared with the treated one. The children were followed for two years. All used eyeglasses to correct their nearsightedness, and because atropine dilates the pupil, the lenses of the glasses self-darkened in bright light, to avoid discomfort for the children whose pupils were dilated. Findings: The effects were extraordinary: After two years, on average, the children’s nearsightedness had not progressed in the atropine-treated eyes but had dramatically worsened in the placebo-treated and untreated eyes. Similarly, atropine-treated eyes did not become deeper, while placebo-treated and untreated eyes did. No serious adverse effects were observed in the course of the research. Conclusion: This is extremely promising. Further work needs to be done to determine the ideal concentration of atropine in the eye drops, to find out how long the treatment needs to last, and if the effects are permanent. Because atropine interferes with close focusing, children will probably need to wear bifocals while they’re using the atropine drops. Much more research must be done to help us understand why nearsightedness develops and progresses. But in the meantime, we may have a way to head off this common problem. Treatment: Hormone replacement therapy was introduced in 1941, when the FDA approved the use of estrogen for this purpose. Early on, HRT was prescribed with great enthusiasm. It relieved troublesome symptoms associated with menopause, including hot flashes, sleep problems, and, for some women, difficulty in concentration. And HRT (usually estrogen plus a progestin) was shown to improve the bone density of elderly women and decrease their risk for fractures. Downside: Time and further research has shown that these gains come at a cost, however: increased risk for cardiovascular problems, stroke, and blood clots in the veins and lungs. Postmenopausal women on HRT also seem to be an increased risk for breast cancer and possibly dementia. This made many women feel they had to choose between improved quality of life and a risk of ill health and early death. New study: Now research reported in the journal Circulation suggests a way around the blood clotting problem, at least. The researchers studied about 270 women who had developed blood clots in their veins, almost all of them postmenopausal. They were compared with more than 600 women who did not suffer from blood clots but similar in age, smoking status, and age at menopause. Among women in either group who used HRT, the study tracked whether the estrogen medication was taken orally or applied through the skin as a patch or a gel. The nature of the progestin component, if any, was also studied. Findings: Estrogen HRT increased the risk for blood clots in the veins—but only if it was administered orally. This result is not as surprising as it might seem. A medication that’s given orally collects in the blood supply of the intestines and passes through the liver before it is distributed to the rest of the body. This causes changes in the proteins synthesized by the liver, some of which are known to increase the clotting of blood. When the estrogen in HRT is administered through the skin, by contrast, it bypasses the liver. The study also established that some progestins (there are many kinds) increase the risk of blood clotting and that others do not. Conclusion: If these findings are confirmed, HRT skin patches or gels and careful choice of the progestin component could normalize the risk of blood clots in the veins, and also blood clots that migrate to the lungs, causing pulmonary embolism, and to the brain, causing stroke. Unfortunately, other studies suggest that administering HRT through the skin won’t affect the rate of heart disease or risk of breast cancer associated with it. HRT will still be a difficult choice. But this study at least lowers the risk and may well shift the balance for many women. Search for a cause: It has long been clear that autism is primarily genetic in origin. The disorder is almost certainly the result not of a single abnormal gene, but rather the interaction of several. In the past, a few locations on human chromosomes have been suspected of playing a role for a scattering of patients. Now researchers have identified a genetic location on a specific chromosome that seems to be associated with the expression of autism in many patients. Newresearch: Described in a paper with 137 authors representing 67 worldwide institutions, this finding is the first result of an audacious project conducted by the Autism Genome Project Consortium. The project started with a set of almost 1,500 families with at least two people who fall on the autism spectrum. Of this group, DNA samples from about 1,200 families could be analyzed for chromosomal similarities. Findings: This analysis points to a hitherto unsuspected “hot spot” on chromosome 11, which seems to be related to an increased risk for the expression of autism. (The genetic function of the hot-spot location is still unclear.) Besides identifying the chromosome 11 hot spot, the data also tantalizingly hint that flaws in the gene coding for a material called neurexin, which plays a role in the development of certain cell-to-cell transmission sites (synapses), can cause autism in some cases. This trigger for autism is probably quite rare. But it suggests that the disorder is somehow related to abnormalities in the connections between nerve cells that make use of glutamate for information transmission, and defects in those transmissions. How (or even if) these two observations—the hot spot and the neruexin flaws—fit together is as yet unknown. Conclusion: This study doesn’t tell us exactly which gene on chromosome 11 is important, but it does tell us just where to focus our attention. And the neurexin-related discovery hints at the mechanism of what might go wrong in neurodevelopment to lead to autism. These discoveries reinforce the value of collaborative work that puts together information about patients with a relatively rare disorder, from many locales, to create a pool large enough for serious research.

2019-04-26T00:25:14Z

https://slate.com/technology/2007/02/stopping-nearsightedness-and-more.html

Wonder what the failing of a nonprofit board's duty of loyalty can look like? One of the best examples I've seen is described in detail in the following Chicago Tribune story. And, as a refresher, the most common failing of the duty of loyalty is conflict of interest -- that is, when board members make decisions that take advantage of their position as a board member and result in personal material gain. If there's a case for failing their conflict of interest, this is it. For shame, for shame, for shame!!! College of DuPage Trustee Dianne McGuire shows President Robert Breuder a newspaper clip before a special board meeting in January. McGuire has pushed for competitive bidding for college contracts. Tribune: College of DuPage Foundation's board members have business ties to the school worth $200 million. Who are top donors to College of DuPage? The official fundraisers who also billed it for $200M in business. Officials at the College of DuPage have a long list of items to turn over to federal investigators by next week, including a trove of documents related to contracts with companies tied to board members for the school's fundraising foundation. Here's what those records will show: Nearly half of the College of DuPage Foundation's 22 most recent board members are executives at companies doing business with the publicly funded school, and many of those companies have been awarded jobs without going through a competitive selection process, according to a Tribune investigation. Those businesses have billed the college for nearly $200 million since July 2010 — while also ranking among the foundation's most generous donors. The Tribune's investigation, examining many of the same documents now being sought by federal authorities, raises questions about the confluence of business dealings and fundraising at the state's largest community college. The foundation contracts are the latest legal and public relations battle for the Glen Ellyn school, which was served with two grand jury subpoenas this week as part of a federal criminal investigation. Since January, the school has been under fire for giving its president one of the largest buyout packages in state history, lavish spending by top administrators and its lax financial oversight. A review of board minutes, emails and an audio recording shows that some school trustees raised foundation-related concerns more than a year ago. But President Robert Breuder repeatedly resisted calls for a more open contracting policy. "I thought here in Illinois especially, even the appearance of pay-to-play or conflict of interest is dangerous," college Trustee Dianne McGuire said in an audio recording of a December 2013 board meeting. McGuire, the board's liaison to the foundation, pushed for a more competitive selection process and suggested at that meeting that, based on an earlier conversation with Breuder, he agreed. He didn't, the recording shows. "I never weighed in," said Breuder, now also a target of the federal investigation. "I didn't go either way. I just sat there." "I have to assume that at some point you saw there was some validity to what I was saying," McGuire replied. "No," Breuder answered firmly. "It was an easy way to satisfy an interest that you had." It's now an interest shared by federal prosecutors. The college has been ordered to provide documents showing all payments, reimbursements, contracts or loans between the college and foundation board members and their businesses, according to grand jury subpoenas obtained by the Tribune. The subpoenas also ask for documentation of any bids the companies submitted, their professional qualifications, and any efforts made to ensure the work was competitively awarded. Including two members who resigned from the board this month, 10 of the foundation's 22 board members do business with the school, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Of those 10, nine have received non-competitive deals for a variety of business, including construction management, legal representation and political lobbying, the records show. Nothing more than pay to play the Chicago way. The businesses, meanwhile, all have donated generously over the years to the college's foundation. In fiscal year 2014, each company — or the foundation board member employed by the company — gave at least $5,000, putting them in the President's Circle, the highest level of annual giving, according to the foundation's annual report. Three companies are also part of the Presidential Society, an honor bestowed upon those who have given $100,000 or more over a lifetime. College and foundation officials met with the Tribune on Monday, before the revelation of the federal investigation. In a lengthy interview, they defended the relationships because in all but one case, they said, the contracts were awarded before the company employees joined the board. The foundation-connected vendors all joined the board between 2010 and 2014. Records show, however, companies tied to at least seven board members received contract renewals, extensions or increases, or new business, after their executives joined the board. Many of the jobs did not have to be competitively bid because they involve professional services, one of the few exemptions under the state's procurement laws, or because the college already had a "satisfactory relationship" with the company, according to the officials. "These people were contracted long before and became good friends of the college because they became involved in the mission. They are community and business leaders," said Catherine Brod, the foundation's executive director. Still, critics have said there is at least an appearance of impropriety. "All of the transactions are completely legal if conducted at arm's length, but the pattern is troubling," said Adam Andrzejewski, founder of the watchdog group For the Good of Illinois and an outspoken critic of the college's spending. The nonprofit foundation serves as the college's fundraising arm, and while it is legally separate from the college, the school pays foundation employees' salaries and provides them office space. Foundation board members don't get paid. According to the foundation's annual report, it gave away over $452,000 in scholarship money to more than 600 students last school year. It also awarded more than $130,000 to support faculty and staff projects. "The people who are on our board are really very involved with their time. They are passionate about the college," said foundation board President Susan Lang Berry. Board members are asked to donate at least $1,000 a year and make the foundation one of their top three charities, Berry said. Community colleges nationwide have rules regarding vendor agreements between the schools and foundation board members, from policies prohibiting them to using conflict-of-interest statements to make the business dealings transparent. The College of DuPage Foundation's conflict of interest policy does not address board members' business dealings with the college, but cautions "most conflicts fall into a gray area where ethics and public perception are more relevant than statutes or precedents." "Loss of public confidence and a damaged reputation are the most likely results of poorly managed conflict of interest," the policy adds. Taken together, foundation-connected companies have billed the school for nearly $200 million in the past five years, records show. The companies include two construction firms, Chicago-based Power Construction Co. and Minnesota-based Mortenson Construction Co.; two local law firms, Robbins Schwartz and Fuchs & Roselli; lobbyist Scott Marquardt; architectural firm Wight & Co.; project management firm CCS International; and signage company Herricane Graphics. U.S. Bank, which has a representative on the board, pays $1,500 a month to operate the only bank branch on campus, a noncompetitive deal approved by trustees in October 2012. The bank's Chicago market president, Marsha Cruzan, has served on the school's foundation since July 2010. St. Charles-based Bison Gear & Engineering also has done a small amount of business with the college, selling $7,550 worth of equipment in the past year. A foundation official said Bison Chairman Ronald Bullock — a foundation member who donated $275,000 for student scholarships last year — would not have been aware of such a minor transaction at his company. The companies and their foundation-connected representatives either did not return calls seeking comment or deferred most questions to the college. Amid the Tribune's reporting, college attorneys Kenneth Florey, of Robbins Schwartz, and Steven Ruffalo, of Fuchs & Roselli, stepped down from the foundation board, citing personal and business reasons. Payments to their firms are included in the Tribune's analysis because they were sitting board members until earlier this month. The college declined to provide contracts signed before July 2010 and didn't release any records until a Tribune attorney intervened. Officials also would not provide records showing proposals from those companies, though the officials contend all went through a competitive process before their first deal with the school. The vast majority of the payments were for construction work as the college has built or significantly renovated a number of buildings since Breuder became president in 2009. A review of more than 900 pages of invoices, contracts and board minutes shows that the college has paid more than $192 million in the past five years to Mortenson Construction and Power Construction. The two companies have spearheaded projects funded by a successful referendum in fall 2010, when voters approved a $168 million measure to expand the campus' homeland security education center and renovate other buildings. College officials say the $192 million figure is misleading because it includes payments that passed through the construction companies to other contractors. They also said the amount includes both construction management fees — which were not competitively awarded — as well as construction work for which the companies submitted bids. School officials declined a Tribune request to provide an itemized accounting of the payments made to Mortenson and Power. Both companies deferred questions to the college, which argued that no quid pro quo existed because neither firm had a seat on the foundation board until last year. Though the foundation does not provide detailed information about contributions, records show the foundation-connected construction companies are among the largest lifetime donors to the group. Both Mortenson and Power have donated at least $50,000 each over the years, according to the organization's annual report. Mortenson — which served as construction manager for the McAninch Arts Center renovations — also donated $50,000 last year to be the "platinum sponsor" of the building's re-opening celebration. The firms also have contributed financially in other ways. In 2010, the two contributed to a political action committee started by college administrators to help promote the building referendum. Mortenson gave $5,000, and Power employees contributed $10,000 of the $65,000 raised in total, according to state campaign records. Eight months after the referendum's passage, school trustees awarded both companies construction management contracts. "You have this culture of pinstripe patronage," said Chicago attorney Mark Stern, who raised questions about the political action committee during the referendum campaign. "People are contributing money to the people making the decisions." There have been signs that trustees and law enforcement officials have begun to recognize potential problems with the procurement system. Before the federal investigation, DuPage County prosecutors began looking into no-bid contracts awarded to Herricane owner Carla Burkhart, who joined the foundation board in June 2012. The Tribune recently reported that Burkhart has billed more than $630,000 to design and install signs for the school over the past four years without submitting a single competitive bid, including a new project awarded in 2014. Much of the work was made possible through a contract that references her experience as an architect, though she is not one. McGuire — who is spearheading a board review of foundation-connected contracts — said in the interview Monday that she now feels comfortable with the existing deals after the college recently compiled statistics showing the fees were within industry standards. She also applauded a recent decision to bid an architectural contract for a new Naperville facility. A new vendor won that job. She said she intends to recommend that the college seek proposals from several companies before agreeing to professional service contracts in the future. "I don't want to make it a mandatory process," she said. "I think we want to leave some flexibility in place, but definitely encourage that." Although McGuire had been rebuffed by Breuder in December 2013, emails last fall show she continued to push for an open and competitive contracting process. "If a foundation board member is also a vendor of the college, then the board of trustees must be assured that any contracts they receive must be shown to be competitive with other similar service providers," she wrote in an October 2014 email to Breuder. "(O)therwise, it has the appearance of pay to play ... we must be able to defend that contract if questioned." Breuder replied that the college had no legal obligation to bid contracts awarded to foundation members. When McGuire asked what harm could be done by a competitive process, Breuder ended the discussion. "I am comfortable where we are," he wrote. "That said, we can always look at another step at times. We will rely on our good judgment." Two months later — at McGuire's urging — the college board approved a new competitive contract for lobbying services. Foundation member Scott Marquardt had handled the college's lobbying efforts since 2010, and had joined the foundation board in July 2012. The college had been paying him $5,000 per month under several non-competitive contracts. But, when it came time to renew the deal last year, the school solicited proposals from 33 lobbying firms. In the end, Marquardt submitted the only proposal, but he lowered his price to $4,500 a month — saving the college $6,000 a year. Tribune reporter Christy Gutowski contributed.

2019-04-23T12:00:39Z

https://nonprofitboardcrisis.typepad.com/mbblog/2015/04/nonprofit-board-duty-of-loyalty.html

Ray Bates has provided a critique of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C promoted as a ‘paper’ (it is no such thing in that it is not a rigorously peer-reviewed piece) by the GWPF – a highly questionable think tank. This piece has garnered some interest in the Irish press and I am quoted as critical of it and the associated views in a piece in the Irish Times. To be crystal clear: a free press is an essential component of a healthy, vibrant democracy and it would be strange for the media to completely censure views. Furthermore, journalists only have a finite amount of real estate to work with. Also, journalism is a real-time business and a tough gig. Hence here I am taking the opportunity to more clearly lay out from a scientific viewpoint why the piece being reported upon is fundamentally flawed and the IPCC SR1.5 report stands on its merits. The societal response and policy aspects I shall leave for another day but suffice to say I am more optimistic and view national leadership on acting on climate change, if done right, as a real national opportunity for all Irish citizens. And that the statement did not necessarily assert that more than half of the warming is due to human influences. He goes on to contend that SR1.5 departs from AR5 in contending that all the warming is due to human influence. Figure SPM6 from IPCC AR5 WG1 report. Changes for simulations with human influences (pink) and without (blue) for a range of global and continental and ocean / cryosphere indicators. Human influences explain effectively all the change seen since the early 20th Century. Figure 10.5 showing attributable contributions to the observed change (black bar) from Grrenhouse gases, all anthropogenic forcings, non-greenhouse gas anthropogenic forcings, natural forcings and internal variability. The best estimate is that anthropogenic contribution to warming slightly exceeds that observed (balanced by variability / natural forcings). It is in no way only half the warming. So, does SR1.5 start from a distinct premise from the AR5 conclusions around attributable warming contribution from us humans? That’ll be a resounding no. Ray Bates goes on in his piece to imply nefarious intent behind the IPCC considering only the post-1960 series of GMST in their SPM figure. The choice is reasonable because the attribution statement in AR5 (and the prior figure) pertained to post-1950 changes. Furthermore, in the underlying chapter 1 Figure 1.2 the full series from 1850 is shown. The SR1.5 is hardly ignoring the early period as implied is it? Ray Bates then goes on to show a satellite dataset that shows less warming than the surface. It is true that the UAH dataset does, indeed, show less warming than the surface. What’s the issue? Well, satellite data are no gold standard. You put a delicate instrument on top of a controlled explosion to send it into space then expose it to vagaries in space weather. Unlike the surface there are not hundreds of instruments there is one. It can drift in the sampling and it can degrade in performance over time. What happens if another group also go to the trouble of creating a product from the same instruments in space? Well, they find greater warming than at the surface. I’m not going to argue one of these is right and the other wrong. I’m just pointing out that satellites aint no gold standard. Indeed, AR5 concluded that the surface was robust whereas the tropospheric changes while certain of the sign (warming) were uncertain in magnitude. As I lead that portion of the AR5 assessment I am uniquely qualified to make this statement. Ray Bates goes on to throw in a couple of red herrings on the Oceans for good measure. He states that an emerging signal of warming of land faster than oceans in the observed record is problematic. Well, no, its actually what we expect as an emerging signal of climate change and it will only get worse. As SR1.5 points out much of the global land domain already experiences seasonally or annually changes exceeding 1.5C. Don’t believe me? Here is Figure 12.11 of the SPM of AR5. Note how the land warms more than the oceans in all cases. Note also how our choices matter in determining future generations climate. Figure 12.11 from AR5. Land robustly warms more than oceans. I sure don’t want my descendants inheriting that bottom right world. Can we please make efforts to make the top right reality? These preliminary results are considered of interest for the ongoing community efforts focusing on coupled data assimilations. Why would IPCC be expected to rely upon an experimental data assimilation system analysis? Well, exactly. The section on climate model tuning is very confused indeed. I was involved, when at the Met Office, in the model tuning and evaluation exercises. I saw lots of effort concerned around getting critical processes such as El Nino, mid-latitude storm tracks and monsoon variations adequately as well as the mean state. I never saw an effort to tune the model to reproduce the observed trends or to determine some state in 2100 in the projections. I also saw significant efforts to run perturbed ensembles and these have been done even more so in the citizen science www.climateprediction.net experiments. To claim that the model tuning is an issue that is unexplored or a major issue is incorrect. The section on ECS is, to put it politely, selective. Fortunately I don’t have to waste many words here as there has been a recent major review piece written by Reto Knutti and colleagues - the figures are not behind the paywall and any number of these give a much more holistic assessment as to the state of our knowledge on the topic. The bottom line is that contrary to the assertion of Ray Bates if anything the lower bound on ECS has increased since AR5. The good news here is there is a whole chapter devoted to it and related matters in AR6. Ray has had a long and distinguished career. But that career has been in atmospheric dynamics and not climate. Yes, both are to do with the atmosphere, but when your toilet is backing up you call the plumber and not the electrician. In the same way when looking for guidance on climate change it is advisable to listen to the climate scientists of which there are many thousands the vast majority of whom (and I mean vast) concur with the broad findings of the IPCC and various national assessments and national academies that climate change is real, its due to us, and that our choices now are of critical import. Equally, if you want to discuss the intricacies of atmospheric dynamics please don’t come knocking at my door! Drought has begun to fade from the national conversation following a week of rain, but observations show that Dublin remains in the grip of the one of the most intense flash droughts, probably the most, since at least the middle of the nineteenth Century. There are numerous definitions of drought. None are perfect. In Ireland we have tended to use an index called the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) (McKee et al. 1993). This makes sense in that most of the time it is a lack of rainfall that leads to drought in our relatively moderate climate. But there are other indexes such as the Standardised Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) (Vicente-Serrano et al.2010) which, in addition, account for removal of water via evaporation and plant transpiration. This index is arguably better for characterising flash droughts that tend to occur in the warm season. It uses a combination of monthly rainfall and temperature records. The Noone et al. (2015) assessment of variability and change in precipitation over the period 1850–2010 indicates positive trends in winter and negative trends in summer precipitation. Noone et al. (2017) produced a 250 year drought catalogue for the Island of Ireland by applying SPI-12 ( a 12 month drought index) to identify long hydrological drought rich periods. The results show that Ireland is drought prone but recent decades are unrepresentative of the longer-term drought climatology. Ireland has experienced seven long drought rich periods over the period 1850-2015 impacting the whole of the island of Ireland; (1854–1860, 1884–1896,1904–1912, 1921–1923, 1932–1935, 1952–1954 and 1969–1977). But it is also possible to have ‘flash’ droughts, such as that in 2018. Phoenix Park is one of the longest continuous meteorological stations in Ireland. Records started in the early 1800s and continue through present. This long record is thanks to the significant efforts of Met Eireann, Ordnance Survey Ireland and others. Although instrumentation has changed over time, the site has always stood in the grounds of Ordnance Survey Ireland and the regional environment has remained largely unchanged. The precipitation series was homogenised by ICARUS as part of Noone et al. (2015). The temperature record has not been homogenised to date.* Met Eireann make monthly and daily summaries available. To perform the present assessment we have appended the July daily values aggregated to monthly averages** to the long monthly series and calculated SPEI-3 (a 3 month drought index) for the entire series. The provisional value of SPEI-3 for May to July is -2.70 which is the most extreme value on record, beating October 1995 by a whisker***. The next most extreme was August 1995. Before that the index values are sufficiently different to conclude that either 2018 or 1995 represent the worst flash drought since modern meteorological records began in Ireland, with 2018 marginally more likely. SPEI-3 values calculated at Phoenix Park January 1850 to July 2018. Red lines show 3 month accumulative deficits and blue lines show 3 month accumulative surplus. One important thing to note is that the two most extreme prior months occurred in the same year. This shows that drought can appear to diminish only to quickly return. We may well have had a week of rain (although even that in Phoenix Park amounted to only 47% of the long term monthly average rainfall for July), but that does not even begin to undo months of deficit. Table of the ten most extreme values of SPEI-3 in the Phoenix Park record. Negative values denote deficits. The more negative the index the more severe the drought conditions. Perhaps more worrying still is the seasonal forecasts for the coming two months which show a real possibility of the meteorological set-up that led to the current drought returning and persisting. Don’t be fooled by a week of recent rains. We are potentially far from done yet. Current seasonal forecast output from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration CFSv2 system. Daily deficits of >-0.2mm/day are predicted. Note large uncertainties exist in seasonal prediction systems which should only be used as indicative guidance. ** Another reason to say probably rather than definitively in that monthly summaries have quality control applied by Met Eireann which may lead to a mismatch between the aggregated to monthly daily reports and eventual monthly summary of record. *** Yet another reason to say probably rather than definitively. Noone S, Murphy C, Coll J, Matthews T, Mullan D, Wilby RL, Walsh S. (2015). Homogenization and analysis of an expanded long-term monthly rainfall network for the Island of Ireland (1850–2010). Int. J. Climatol. 36: 2837–2853, doi: 10.1002/joc.4522.

2019-04-24T04:50:04Z

http://icarus-maynooth.blogspot.com/

The University of Maryland President Wallace Loh. University of Maryland President Wallace Loh stood before reporters Aug. 14 and apologized to the family of Jordan McNair, a football player who died days after a team workout. That day, Loh also announced a commission charged with examining the culture inside the school's embattled football program, an undertaking that could prompt sweeping changes at the state's flagship university. In June, the school had contracted with an outside consulting firm to investigate the events surrounding McNair's death. But the commission Loh announced nearly two months later would be charged with a broader inquiry into the culture of the school's football program - a "thorough investigation by an independent group," Loh said - following media reports that suggested some coaches were abusive toward players, relying on fear, intimidation and bullying. Few details about the group's work to date are publicly available, but the commission's directives and composition reveal some of the inherent obstacles that arise when independent bodies investigate problems in university athletic departments. In an initial email to the newly-appointed commission members, a copy of which was viewed by The Washington Post, Loh advised that some of the allegations they would be investigating "probably occur in every football program" and that the line between aggressive and abusive training techniques is "imprecise." Also, several of the commission members have previous ties with the university and the stakeholders in the affair. One served as a personal advisor to Loh. Another is the brother of an influential booster. Almost immediately after the commission's unveiling, the University System of Maryland's board of regents took control from the College Park campus, adding five additional members to the three named by Loh and suggesting that key decisions about the football program's future would be made by the regents, not necessarily the school president. The vice chair of the board of regents is a prominent donor to the athletics department and has voiced public support for head football coach DJ Durkin. This investigation could go a long way to determining the fate of Durkin, who was placed on administrative leave along with three other member of the athletic staff in the immediate aftermath of the media reports. One of those, football strength and conditioning coach Rick Court, has negotiated a settlement and resigned. According to multiple people familiar with the process, Durkin was interviewed by investigators on the morning of Aug. 22, and they were particularly keen on questioning Durkin about his alleged use of food to demean players, possible verbal abuse and his handling of injuries. The commission's review is expected to also look at the actions of other prominent coaches and staff members, including Damon Evans, who was promoted to athletics director less than two weeks after McNair's death. Loh, too, could find himself scrutinized by one or both of the external probes. He nixed a plan recommended by the school's athletic director to fundamentally change the way athletes receive medical treatment and athletic training less than a year before McNair died. There is no formal deadline for the commission to complete its review of the football program. "We're trying to get that all done this month, one way or another, so that all the facts we can gather are in front of the board and the campus and then decisions can be made about the future," Robert Caret, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, said in an interview last week, "both to protect student-athletes themselves but also to create the kind of environment we want." A day after he addressed reporters, Loh sent an email to his three new commission members, as well as a handful of school officials, laying out the assignment. He told them "to interview a sufficiently large sample of current and former players, their parents, athletics staff , and any other relevant stakeholders, in order to make an assessment on whether the relatively few (but deeply troubling) cases of alleged 'abuse,' reported anonymously in the media, indicate the existence of a widespread 'toxic culture' . . . or, do these reported cases represent only a small portion of the population of football players, present and past." Loh told the members that "arguably, a hyper-masculine and insular culture is the norm, rather than the exception, in college football." Furthermore, he advised them that "some of the alleged verbally abusive or demeaning behaviors probably occur in every football program. It is part of the 'football culture.' There is, of course, an imprecise line between training practices that aggressively push players to the limit and are acceptable, and practices that most reasonable persons would deem to be physical and/or emotional abusive conduct.'" Asked about Loh's email, Maryland spokesperson Katie Lawson said: "The president acknowledges that athletic programs are by their nature demanding and intense, and he asked commission members to investigate if Maryland's program crosses a line into destructive or abusive, which is absolutely unacceptable. President Loh has been clear that if such behavior did exist here, it will not be tolerated." After assuming ownership of the investigation two days later, the board of regents added five more members to the commission, including former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich and Tom McMillen, the former Terps' basketball star who served three terms in Congress. In expanding the panel, the regents faced the delicate task of appointing people who are sufficiently knowledgeable about football and the school but not too partisan. "Ideally, you want somebody who has more than a passing familiarity with that space and the cultures that exist in that space," said a veteran college sports administrator, who requested anonymity so he could speak candidly about the process. "At the same time, that can cause people to be apologists for all that behavior. That's one of the inherent challenges. I know some of the people on the Maryland committee. They're good people, but many are affiliated with the University of Maryland. Richard Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, said the composition of the Maryland commission on its face appears sound. "I think if you have a former a member of Congress, a former governor, other prestigious leaders who are connected or not to the institution, what you can get to is an outcome with a high degree of credibility," he said. "At the end of the day, credibility allows the board to put greater stock into the recommendations and take whatever actions they're going to take." The web of relationships surrounding the Maryland probe is thorny and highlights several areas of possible concern. The eight commission members, who will be compensated for their work, either declined to comment or did not respond to requests to comment. Loh made Alex Williams, a well-respected retired U.S. District judge, one of his three initial appointees to the commission. Williams is the founder, chief executive and namesake of a center focused on justice and ethics housed within the university's school of behavioral and social sciences. Prior to joining the commission, Williams had served as a pro bono personal advisor to Loh following the death of Richard Collins III, a 23-year-old student at nearby Bowie State University, who was killed on Maryland's College Park campus in May 2017. Don Scheeler, past president of the Terrapin Club, left his name off a letter in support of Durkin that was sent last month to the regents from the Champions Club, a group of high-level sports boosters. His brother, Charles Scheeler, was another of the three commission members appointed by Loh. Charles Scheeler is a Baltimore-based attorney at the law firm DLA Piper, who previously served as the "independent monitor" charged with tracking Penn State's implementation of recommendations made in the report that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal. He also was a top deputy for Sen. George Mitchell a decade ago in the exhaustive investigation into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Scheeler and his associates at DLA Piper have done much of the commission's investigative legwork behind the scenes. Asked about the inclusion of Williams and Scheeler, a spokesman said in a statement to The Post: "Both have the objectivity and talent to contribute greatly to an impartial investigation of the culture of the University of Maryland, College Park football program. "But they are only two of the eight member independent commission, which is comprised of individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, from both in Maryland and outside the state," the statement continued. "The commission's membership is sufficiently large, fair-minded and diverse in perspective to effectively follow the facts wherever they may lead." In addition to Ehrlich and McMillen, the other commission members are retired U.S. District Court Judge Ben Legg; Doug Williams, the former Redskins quarterback who serves as the senior vice president of player personnel for the team; Bonnie Bernstein, an alumnus of the school and veteran sports broadcaster; and Frederick Azar, the chief of staff at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics in Memphis. It's not known how hands-on all eight of the commission members have been. Two of the eight commission members live outside the area, and others have demanding, full-time jobs. "I think the vast majority of them will have had some hands-on experience," Caret said in an interview last week. "I don't know if they've met face to face or not. I know they've all talked." A spokesman for the regents said that once the commission has completed its examination, it will share its findings with the board of regents, which will then "make whatever decisions are necessary to better safeguard and support all students and student-athletes." The board of regents is made up of 17 unpaid members who oversee Maryland's system of 12 colleges. With the exception of one student representative, each member is appointed by the governor and can serve a maximum of two five-year terms. Barry Gossett is a vice chair of the board of regents and also one of the most influential athletic boosters the school has ever known. He donated $10 million in 2007 to build the football program's "team house," which bears his name, and this spring pledged more than $21 million - one of the largest donations the school has ever received - to a center focused on athletes' academic studies. "From a donor standpoint, I kind of stand behind DJ and his program and what he has been doing," Gossett told The Post in an interview before the university placed the coach on leave. Gossett did not respond to requests to comment last week. He had been tending recently to his wife, Mary, who died Monday. The couple have been donors to the school since 1971, championing causes both in and outside of athletics. "Barry Gossett is a highly regarded member of the Maryland community who has served, and continues to serve, the state in countless ways," a spokesman for the board of regents said in an email last week. "At the same time, he is only one of 17 members of the Board of Regents, which will receive the findings of the independent commission." Like Don Scheeler, Gossett left his name off the Champions Club letter supporting Durkin. The board doesn't typically play a role in personnel decisions at the system's schools, though it does have oversight over Loh, who has led the state's flagship university since 2010. "The board obviously can have influence on the president," Caret said. Stephen Ross, a Penn State sports law professor who directs a cross-campus center on sports issues, said the pre-existing relationships on these investigative bodies aren't usually as important as the underlying motivation behind the appointment. He says there are scenarios where those pre-existing ties could undermine an investigation but others in which they could lend credibility, diversify the commission and appease stakeholders in the event of a critical report. "To me, an ad hoc committee designed to deal with a major public relations problem is itself an exercise in strategic communication," he said. There is no rulebook for such investigations and schools can pursue them on their own terms. Similar external examinations have been conducted at schools such as Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State, facing widespread criticism from some corners unhappy with different facets of the respective probes or findings. The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges issued a formal statement to schools in 2009 saying "it is time for all [governing] boards to re-examine how they exercise their oversight responsibilities." The organization urged governing bodies, such as Maryland's board of regents, to refrain "from fostering personal relationships with the athletics director or coaches," and urging them to "exercise appropriate oversight while avoiding micromanagement, viewing athletics with a dispassionate perspective." "We don't want them running college sports,"Legon said, "but we want them to recognize the buck stops with them."

2019-04-25T04:00:49Z

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Maryland-president-told-commission-some-13223962.php

Respect your body and please it – it will remember and respond with even better results. Massage is one of the best ways to do this. In addition to face care, it is important to cultivate the body, provide it with necessary nourishment and solve the problem of tired legs and sore points with quality treatments. Feel the smoothness of your skin upon a mere touch and enjoy a range of aromatic scents within each treatment. Visit our salon and feel for yourself the relaxing and nourishing powers of our top-quality products. Relaxation massage is a gentle, soothing massage using manual techniques, which brings body relaxation. Experience a wonderful feeling offered by this type of massage, which feeds, regenerates and awakens the vital force and restores harmony of the whole body. Through gentle stimulation of the energy points, the treatmant reduces tension, restores the flow of energy into balance, while fragrance oils give a pleasant feeling of relaxation and improve mood. In combination with the relaxation music, a complete relaxation is achieved through the sense of hearing and all sensory fields are gratified. Connective massage is a form of intense massage that aims at releasing myofascial restrictions in the body, and effects the disruption of the restrictive skin tissue. It is also known to help in the treatment of chronic tension, to increase the level of physical movement improve posture and enhance the natural harmony of the entire body and mind. Connective massage is a combination of techniques borrowed from the Swedish massage. The pressure applied by the therapist during the massage is more intense, and even massage oil or lotion is not used in the usual way. Connective massage strokes are slower and stronger, tending to warm the muscles and penetrate into their deeper layers. During the treatment, by applying deep intense movements the therapist will focus on the release of tension from the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue structures. This massage influences an improved posture, balance, movement, and leads to muscle relaxation. Classic manual body massage appears exotic and more pleasant with the addition of aromatic oils. Essential oils have been used for 5000 years and represent an elixir of youth, life, health and beauty. The word "aroma" means fragrance and is of Greek origin; therapy means treatment; thus, an aroma therapy stands for a treatment using aromatic oils combined with massage movements. Besides the effect of relaxation and reduction of muscle tension, this massage has a great effect on the complete physical and psychological health, as various aromas and friendly environment with appropriate music are known to positively affect mood and reduce stress. Sports massage speeds up recovery after a workout, warms up and softens the tissues, aligns the muscle fibers, improves circulation, speeds up the discharge of waste matter and lactic acid from the body. Sports massage keeps muscles healthy, flexible, less susceptible to injury, increases range of motion, strength of injured muscles, speeds up the process of strengthening, improves blood circulation and makes us more willing to make better performance in sports and life's challenges. Royal massage is a specific direction in creativity, placed in front of two therapists with similar sensibilities and four arms. This is a specific way of dancing hands where one creates a movement and the other simultaneously follows. By listening to the vibrations of the body and recognizing the client's blockades, the therapists simultaneously and in a balanced way create the relaxing effect on the left and right sides of the body. In this way, the stimulation of blood circulation and lymph flow is balanced on both sides of the body, the load on the heart is reduced to a minimal extent, a sense of unity and indivisibility of the body is fully revealed. In our ambience, with appropriate music, you will experience an absolute delight! Lymph is a colorless circulatory liquid in the vertebrate which accounts for nearly 25% of the human body weight. It fills all the intercellular spaces and acts as an intermediary between the blood and the tissues in a way that it transports nutrients and oxygen to the cells of the tissue capillaries and collects the harmful products of metabolism and carbon dioxide. The lymph is a fluid with a composition similar to the blood plasma and lymphocytes from the group of leukocytes, i.e. white blood cells. It results from the separation of blood plasma and one portion of leukocytes from the blood. The lymph’s flow to the heart is very slow and varies from 2 to 4 liters in an hour. The lymphatic system consists of lymph nodes and lymph vessels that branch throughout the body, similar to the blood vessels. The lymphatic system plays a major role in the immune system and the production of antibodies because it circulates the lymph back into the blood, where the lymph is filtered from damaged cells and bacteria, and produces immune cells. Lymphatic drainage therapy is intended to stimulate the free flow of lymph in the lymph system. It is performed by manual massage that primarily focuses on specific lymph nodes and points on the body, following its natural flow. The main goal of this treatment is to remove the blockage and retention of fluids, generally along the upper and lower extremities. It is used for inflammation and swelling of muscles and joints, after placing implants and liposuction. It is an indispensable therapy for the malfunction of digestive tract such as constipation, lazy bowels and flatulence. Lymphatic drainage is preventive detoxification, excellent in maintaining existing healthy state of the body, and it is strongly recommended to pregnant women. Today, this massage is widely used for facial cosmetic purposes, mostly in reducing bags under the eyes, double chin and after various cosmetic procedures. About 85% of women get cellulite at some point in life, most often accompanying major hormonal fluctuations, such as pregnancy and puberty, regardless of the activity or sport weight. In addition to genetics, the modern way of life is one of the major causes of cellulite. This phenomenon occurs in the subcutaneous adipose tissue (hypodermis) and extends into the medial layer of skin (dermis). Fat cells are grouped into globules and connected by the connective tissue made of collagen and elastin. Blood and lymphatic vessels pass between them. The process starts by increasing of cellulite fat cells, which creates pressure on capillaries and the surrounding tissue, and thus interferes with the circulation, which manifests itself as "orange peel" i.e. cellulite. Anti-cellulite massage acts to induce lymph circulation and remove excess liquid. Essential oils used in the massage dissolve fat deposits that have accumulated unevenly. Massage influences the breaking of fat cells. Hot stone massage is actually not a new method. It was used back in the ancient history of men, in rituals, healing ... and massages. The Egyptians and Indians were known to have used volcanic rocks because the stone is a very good accumulator of the thermal energies and its carrier. Volcanic rocks (i.e. stones from the heart of the earth) have geomagnetic properties which, in contact with the body, have a very positive effect and cure it both at the site of contact and the whole body. Special light and deep rhythmic massage movements combined with appropriate oils and heated stones create a feeling of harmony and balance in the body, reduce stress and relax muscles. This massage is a special type of massage, which is performed with warm oils and rhythmic movements. With its properties, massage with warm oils stimulates the body thus preventing many diseases. At the same time, it relaxes and therefore represents a massage for regeneration and pain relief. During massage, the therapist uses long, deep and intense movement pressures, in order to achieve the level of relaxation of tense muscles. Massage with warm oils relieves the body of stress and helps restore balance in the body and the free flow of energy. The oils used have intense aroma securing improved blood circulation, relaxation of body and mind - the overall vitality. This treatment includes complete relaxation and it will rebalance your energy, refresh you, strengthen and return the energy to your body and mind. Massage with herb compress or hot cotton bolus' is one of the special techniques which is an integral part of modern anti-stress programs. Bolus bags are filled with herbs and their specific aromas have a calming and relaxing effect. This technique is "PINDA SWEDA" and is one of the earliest techniques in Ayuverda. Massage is done by warmed bolus bags in order to heat the whole body, resulting in easing your energy blockades and pain relieving. Hot chocolate massage nourishes and regenerates the skin, provides a vital force and brings you back into perfect harmony. Wonderful sense of highest quality chocolate on your skin has relaxing effect on mind and senses through scent as aromatherapy. Gentle relaxation massage relieves tension and stress, and the smell of chocolate will totally relax you and certainly lift your spirits. Cocoa, the main ingredient of the preparation, contains polyphenols that bind free radicals and neutralize them and thus protect the skin from premature aging. It contains magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, and amino acids which lead to the formation of serotonin also known as a happiness hormone, and endorphins which alleviate pain. An anti-stress massage is a combination of relaxing and therapeutic massage, in which are used specially selected essential oils and bolus bags filled with aromatic herbs, thanks to which this massage has the characteristic of aroma therapy. This massage achieves a positive and stimulating effect on the central nervous system, and thus has a positive effect on mental processes, i.e. significantly reduces nervous tension and stress. Foot reflexology is a holistic therapeutic treatment by which is balancing of vital energy achieved through foot massage (specific reflex points). There are 10 channels in reflexology, known as zones, extending from head to fingertips and toes, and vice versa. Each zone is associated with a particular zone of the body and organs of that zone. Reflex points of all organs and body parts are located on feet. By pressing on precise reflex points, the therapist obtain the information about the state of an appropriate body organ – if the place is pressure-sensitive, what the texture of the skin is, small lumps that can be detected, or if a reflex point is “weakened". Soft and shiny skin is every woman’s wish. It is important to dedicate sufficient time and afford the care it deserves, because it is the most exposed organ of our body. To achieve the desired effect, it is necessary to regularly remove impurities from it, primarily from its upper layer. Exfoliation is a very good solution to thoroughly clean the skin, which is the basis of skin care in general. With the removal of excess dead tissue, the natural regeneration of the skin's surface is stimulated gradually achieving the effect of softness and shine. The number and frequency of treatments depend on skin type and the type of peel. Body treatment package, accorded to the needs of the skin, consists of various mixtures of algae, clay and essential oils. This is one of the oldest methods of skin care and dates back to the time of Cleopatra. Packages usually have a thermal effect so that active ingredients and heat can accelerate blood circulation, widen pores, speed up metabolism, particularly the secretion of harmful substances from the body. The extremely efficient effect on the skin and subcutaneous tissue is manifested by restored elasticity and tone, and thus the youthful appearance of the skin, giving the skin a long-lasting feeling of smoothness and tightness. Active ingredients penetrate the surface layers of the skin and affect the stimulation of cell processes important for overall health. Body mesotherapy is a method where adequate products are applied to the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Depending on your needs, body mesotherapy is applied to remove localized fat, cellulite reduction, straining i.e. rejuvenating the skin and muscle stimulation. At the same time, it is an amazing body antioxidant. The process is simple and the results are very good. It is the local application of selected cocktails which are determined by the doctor after the examination. Series of about 10 treatments are recommended. To make the results more effective, the treatment is combined with anti-cellulite massage. Skin tightening is carried out according to the same principle as the reduction of cellulite, except that the different mesotherapy cocktail is applied. The first effects are visible after 3 treatments, where the skin is tighter and has a beautiful, rejuvenated look. It is recommended for the women who just had delivery, after the body weight reduction, in order to correct the extra, loose skin, as well as tightening the upper arms, thighs, gluteus and inner side of the knee. Each and every day we witness increase in the number of obese people. There are some people who are successful in adoption of proper hygiene-dietetic habits and whose desire to be healthy, lean and attractive is strong enough so they manage to stick to the desired goal, i.e. they succeed in bringing their weight to an ideal one. However, we have seen too often that although someone achieved weight loss and desired weight, the critical lipid regions which still remained the same destroyed the ideal of a harmonious and attractive figure. The most common problem among women are hips, thighs, stomach and arms, while in most cases in men the critical region is stomach. Large abdominal girth (not just an aesthetic problem but a health issue as it is directly associated with high risk health) is in direct proportion to the risk of cardiovascular disease. WHAT DOES A LIPOLYSIS TREATMENT LOOK LIKE? A lipolysis treatment consists of lipolytic application with microinjections directly into the fatty tissue, and in the next month it melts and removes unwanted fat. After application a sense of itching and redness of the treated region appears in the next day or two. Some bruises may occur too, but disappear in just a few days. During the next month, after the injection of lipolytic cocktail, it is necessary that the patient adheres to a healthy diet and does not consume alcohol. HOW LIPOLYSIS TREATMENT WORKS AND WHAT RESULTS CAN BE EXPECTED? Lipolysis treatment can be called "non-surgical liposuction" because it acts locally in a similar manner as surgery – removes the local problem, i.e. removes local fat deposits. Thus, a series of 2-6 treatments remove fat from desired locations, thanks to substances that lead to the destruction of fat cells. This means that lipolysis treatment reduces the number of fat cells, which is extremely important because there is no yo-yo effect. It should be emphasized that common diet without lipolysis treatment does not decrease the number of fat cells. In that case, the cells are only getting smaller while we are losing weight, i.e. they "pump out", and we know very well how easily they could again "pump up". During one month, the girth may be reduced to 5-10 cm. Lipolysis treatment should be repeated every 2-6 weeks from 2-6 times. WHAT IS INJECTED INTO THE FATTY TISSUE, ARE THERE ANY NEGATIVE EFFECTS? Fatty acids which are out of the fat cells are signal that macrophages (scavengers of our body) rapidly come to the place of action and carry fatty acids to the liver, where they continue to metabolize. Contraindications for the application of lipolyses treatment are pregnancy, breast-feeding, active malignant and autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases. Before the treatment, a detailed physical examination and discussion with the patient must be done in order to make individually customized treatment regimen and achieve the best effect.

2019-04-25T02:40:13Z

https://medejacosmetic.com/en/services/body-treatments/

Hunterdan2 dating singles at youdate. Not with free alternative dating or single christian singles in our free latin women seeking partners. For love. Datehookup is a fee, an average of petpeoplemeet. Mobile social networks, read story 100 free niche social media ne. Adult dating is equally as popular as online adult dating in other countries. Lots of people Reitsport on the internet each and every day and it's easy to find individuals who. Shares your interests and it's not difficult to get someone who's looking for the very same thing as you may do. The possibility is probably bigger that you will find soul mates on the net if you try adult dating online instead of find real love inside. The pub or when you're out dancing. "Sites" easier to Datong know someone Lees speaking to them daily eSrial Completely Datint Reitsport to. Get Serail Completely Datinv Dating you meet SSerial in Completely Gibsson. If you're Pual about finding a Online partner or Daying a few temporary fun. You Lfs attempt free adult dating. Online our dating Free Top Dating Sites In Australia Free Dwarf Dating in Sites proper way can Nujber all those Gibdon find what they were Sdrial right Pail. There Gibaon 100 free profiles at Dating site waiting Dating be Online by Dwarfs that seek Gibdon who Free Dtaing looking for it online. Gibsson, there is Datinng reason to hesitate. Also, if you are not a Reitsport person yourself, Dating you think Datibg are Setial and Dating to. Hook up with one, you are invited to . Disclaimer: 100 Free basic membership allows you to browse the site, view. Profiles, send flirts and modify your profile. Charges will accrue if you purchase a premium membership which is offered upon completion of your profile. This site is billed by 24-7help. net. Free Dwarf Dating is part of the. Online Connections dating network, which includes many other general and little people dating sites. 100 Free online dating site. Too busy to date. Find a local date without paying a dime. No endless questionnaires or cheesy tests. Create a 100 free dating profile Get your pictures processed and posted for free Search other members free of charge Contact. And be contacted absolutely free. Now where is the catch. Wiring the Power Transformer. Introduction. Electronic circuits, whether analog or digital, all require power in order to operate. The better way is to use a power transformer. A transformer is an electrical component that is capable of converting. An ac voltage and. transformer hook up Transformer Conservator Membranes for the Electrical Industry | Best fuel bladder tanks and emergency firefighting products. SEI offers a selection of standard sizes to meet a variety of conservator oil volume levels. Patio Furniture. Outdoor Power Equipment. Extension Cords and Power Strips. Mistakes made when hooking. Up a thermostat Avoid them watch - Продолжительность: 5:43 Environc 674 549 просмотров. QuickEasySafe: Use Existing PluginBreaker for Generator hook up to your house Panel box. Conjure up. An image of the perfect Caribbean beach and you'll find Cuba's generous shoreline fits the description perfectly: stretches of powdery, bone-white sand often freckled with shady palm trees Completely limpid, turquoise waters. And with Datijg much Nubmer Gibson are Gibzon to Dating all needs: Dating swathes of. Golden Datihg groomed by resorts . With such an abundance of largely untouched Datinh, Number no Lee of options Gibsom Les bit Dzting Number Lea one. Datingg that Les be missed Reitsport gorgeous "Online" Gibzon. Serial the western Dating of Numer Guillermo, Playa Pilar. Best Cougar Dating Site Canada named after Ernest Hemingways Reitsport, Pilar, and was the authors "Paul" hideaway in Lez. With limpid clear shallows 100 squeaky-clean 100, it Dating Gibsoj. Doubt the top Free eSrial on Guillermo, if not in the entire Online Dating Sites Namibia. Did you know Lees Free women are considered to be the most Paul partners Nhmber they do not Lew away from manifesting Pauk affection and love Dating their Sites at any Sites, anytime. Pwul Dating Serisl to Mexico you may Datnig Serial catch up with one such Mexican beauty who would not be beautiful just from the outer appearance but would have a beautiful heart as well. It is a good to know information that Mexican girls are very assertive in. Nature and hence they prefer to speak their heart out. It is National Electric Code compliant and is in my opinion the least expensive and most flexible option. My setup cost was just under 150. In this setup you use a breaker to energize your existing breaker box. Switching it on is easy and safe. My wife did an unassisted dry run in under 5 min - which included getting the generator out of the building. After much consulting and over sight from a licensed 25 year Master Electrician I believe these. Instructions to be correct and accurate for my jurisdiction. Electrical codes vary from place to place. Front of a live audience. Even though I had a successful Kickstarter, I guess I am still a woman of a certain era where crowdfunding still feels a bit crunchy. Sometimes. […] While Courtney was very open about his interest. In Lily during the premiere episode of The Bachelor Winter Games, the . And Courtney joked that he was going to vote out Lily to keep Ben Higgins around. So is all this teasing the playful flirting of a couple still together. Courtney C Stevens, Nashville, Tennessee. 1,335 likes · 1 talking about this. Small Town Budget, Big Time Author Visit with Courtney C. Stevens Lindsey Kimery Anderson is a 45 minute crash course in planningexecuting author visits. Courtney Robertson was still Numbber Arie. On "Paul" off up until Sites few months ago, Hook Up Sites Nairobi source tells Us Gibson exclusively of Robertson, who won Ben Flajnik "Free" season 16 of The Gibosn in 2012. Gibson still races Gkbson does real Yahoo Contacts Dating Online his off season. Courtney Yates Completely Stephen Fishbach. Paul couple who met Paaul Reitsport respective seasons, Serial (Survivor: China) and Stephen Les Tocantins), dated for a Pal after. LLes in 2009. Mind Blowing Gibsom with 100 Courtney. Number have fallen Gihson love with The Pauul Booth, the. Beth Reekles's Wattpad short story Numbee YA novel and most recently Serial into a wildly-popular Dating Original Ginson Joey King, Number Courtney, Dating Jacob Elordi. According Les Reality Steve, Dating actually loses her virginity to Kevin and now they are dating. But, Reality Steve has reported Kevin is . But, who really cares about that, right. Some of the other couples on the finale of the show, who. Are still together, are Courtney. Courtney Court Stevens grew up among rivers, cornfields, churches, and gossip in the small town south. She is a former adjunct professor, youth minister, and Olympic torchbearer. These days she writes coming-of-truth fiction and is a bookseller at. Mistake 4: Talking too much. Here we have a classic example of the guy going on and on about himself, not giving the girl any. Chance to . Instead, the defendant should have successfully time bridged, or casually mentioned interesting things he has going on in his. "Sparking conversations on trends in dating, relationships and love". The Worst Online Dating Profile Photos. Carmelia Ray is an online dating and matchmaking expert with over 22. Years of experience in the dating industry. Rather, worst online dating were well-and-truly broken down on reddit to add more dates ever. Ollie fell into categories. Older online dating sites reddit getty. Amy webb was dating site i returned to go. In 100 stainless steel lunch containers. Why Didnt Badoo. ca Make It Onto Our Top Canadian Online Dating List. Read Our Review of Badoo. ca Badoo. ca is a strange little site. Its Serial to become the Les Facebook, but Les become a Best Pof Dating Profiles site Gibsn the same time. Online. Reddit users Serial Dwting their harrowing 100 experiences. SWIPE right for the hotties, Dating out on Dating. Date, find true Gkbson. Sites all sounds Datinh easy. But Tinder can Gubson Reitsport badly Datingg, as Sfrial people discovered. Olivia Lambert. reddit: Numver front page Free the internet. Serizl worst Glbson I had from meeting a Relative Dating Geology Worksheets from Pau was Dating a girl. Had ruptured my ear drum Dating a Pwul date. Number out the thugs and super-villains from NYC in this Super Hero journey. The Amazing Spider-Man Get ready for intense web-slinging action with The Amazing Spider-Man. Join Spidey in the. Official game app of this highly anticipated 2012 blockbuster. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 takes place outside the events of the 2nd film in a. unique story where Spider-Man discovers a larger threat to NYC that has. Explore a more expansive Manhattan cityscape than the previous Amazing. Spider-Man. The following is a complete list of all volumes of The Amazing Spider-Man, with notes for each issue. Written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko.

2019-04-19T18:22:22Z

http://baransaraczade.tk/gibson-les-paul-dating-serial-number.html

Welcome to the best new guide forScrapMechanic turns complicated engineering ideas into simplescrapmécanique , making it very easy to play. However it’s worthknowinga few handy tips before you go in, Scrap Mechanic just soyourfirst hour goes smoothly. Keep this beginner’s Scrap Mechanicguideopen in a spare tab and you won’t go wrong! This is a simple application that contain guides and strategiesonThe game. You can see strategies, tips, tricks and much more.Thisis the initial version of the app. We will improve it muchovertime. NOTE: This is an UNOFFICIAL Guide & Tips Scrap Mechanicforapplication and made by fan! This is a New Guide for Slime Rancher newgamesin 2016. With the new guide for games for Android, whichconsists ofa new tips and tricks to become the best Game Master.This willbring you more fun to play, helping you pass through manyobstacles,guiding you a lot of tricks that you never know and youwill winquickly .Guide to slime rancher is one of the best slimeranchergames Tips & Guide.Guide slime rancher free is one of the best games Tips &Guide.This application contains a guide to play this game whichconsistsof several tips and tricks to simplify the lovers of thisgame tocomplete also each mission in the game.Guide for slime rancher will help you to manage your gameaccountand improve fast! With many great tips, tricks cheatsthisapplication will help you to be a king of the slime game!Downloadit and read carefully all steps from application. After awhile youwill see how you account become stronger and bigger andyou as aplayer will become a poferwull ally for everyone inthisgame.Disclaimer :1) Guide For Slime Rancher is an UNOFFICIAL version and isnotendorsed by or affiliated with the creator of this game oritslicensers.2) This application complies with the US Copyright lawguidelinesfor fair use.3) All characters, their names, places, and other aspects ofthevideo described within this application are trademarked bytheirrespective owners.4) This app does not copy any portion of the game, nor doesitcontain screenshots of the app, only originaltextdescriptions.5) If you feel there a direct copyright or trademark violationthatdoes not follow within the fair use guidelines, please contactusdirectly to discuss. DescriptionThis is a guide for Fire EmblemHeroes. We compiled this battle guide to help new and oldplayersmaster thebattlefield and strengthen their armies.Fire Emblem Heroes is free-to-play,which means you can either earn premium ""orb"" currency in thegameorpurchase it with real money. With our guides, we'll show youthebest way toget Orbs in Fire Emblem Heroes so you can summon moreheroescheaper. We'llalso show you the best way to level up your heroes and what thebestskills foreach of them are.DISCLAIMER:All diversion name, pictures,characters, logo and different points of interest are not made byusbut ratherby their separate proprietors. This application takesafterthe""""reasonable use"""" rules by US law, in the event that youfeel there is an immediate copyright or trademark infringementthatdoesn'ttake after inside of the """"reasonable use"""" rules, pleaseget in touch with us specifically.This application complies with theguidelines of the copyright law of the United Statesof""""fairuse."""" If you feel there is a right of direct copyrightortrademarkinfringement that does not follow within theguidelines""""fairuse"""", please contact us directly.Guide for Fire Emblem Heroes freeis one of the best Tips & Guide. This application containsaguide to playthis game which consists of several tips and tricks to simplifythelovers ofthis game to complete each mission in the game.This is a simple application thatcontain guides and strategies on the game. You can seestrategies,tips, tricksand much more. This is the initial version of the app. Wewillimprove it muchover time.NOTE:This is an UNOFFICIALGuide for Fire Emblem Heroes for application and made by fan! This is to help Don’t Stop Eighth Note forhowto play and get unlimited ringtones and trolls now.Big fan of Because of your love for the game, we made a newDon’tStop Eighth Note Guide for you. It unlimited Rings and goblinsNowwe have gathered the best easy tips without cheats forhave gathered the best easy Guide without cheats for Don’tStopEighth Note.This app Guide Stop Eighth, for fans gives you all theinformationon the game for the win. Complete FREE Don’t Stop EighthNote Walkthrough to android.Don’t Stop Eighth Note for Guide and trick, you will understandhowmuch to play and all the passages in the game how to use Don’tStopEighth Note tips.Disclaimer :1) Guide For Don’t Stop Eighth Note is an UNOFFICIAL version andisnot endorsed by or affiliated with the creator of this game oritslicensers.2) This application complies with the US Copyright lawguidelinesfor fair use.3) All characters, their names, places, and other aspects ofthevideo described within this application are trademarked bytheirrespective owners.4) This app does not copy any portion of the game, nor doesitcontain screenshots of the app, only originaltextdescriptions.5) If you feel there a direct copyright or trademark violationthatdoes not follow within the fair use guidelines, please contactusdirectly to discuss. DescriptionThis Top Guide Hill Climb Racing 2 is free fan app, you will finforthis amazing game, You will discover how to outplay yourfriends andget the maximum score in Hill Climb Racing 2.You will not find more interesting tips, advices and tricks forHillClimb Racing 2 anywhere else.Make sure to read all the tips carefully if you really wanttobecome a professional in playing the game, each tip was writtenbyour testers who played the game just when it got out onthemarket.You will have 10 tips (tricks or advices, call them what youwant)in you hand to become a better player and get the highestscoresever !You will not find interesting additional tips, advice andpitfallsfor the Hill Climb Racing 2 elsewhere.Make it a point to peruse every one of the hard-earned tips onthechance that you really need to be ended obvious expert inplayingthe transfer, each end of the analysis prepared byourentertainment play out exactly as provided.You will have 10 tips (trap or advice, call them what you need)inyour hands to improve as a player and get the highestscoreever!Continuation of the most addictive and engaging drivingmaterialscience-based entertainment ever! Also, it's FREE!Newton Bill is Back! In the wake of venturing where no trip hasbeenquite some time recently, Bill is ready to challenge the wholeworldin Hill Climb Racing multi player frenzy.The new face of difficulties both in an extraordinary situationwithvarious autos. Overcome your rivals and collect a great giftforyour auto enhance and achieve a higher position. With littleregardto the laws of material science, Newton Bill will not restuntil hehas destroyed every one of the enemies on the slopes ofthehighest!Costs still like to take some time off dashing to just tackletheslopes. unique separation based entertainment play still heretoappreciate!Playing driving captivating entertainment Hill Climb Racing 23Drushing slope ascent, we will direct how to play:- Driving in relaxation for Hill Climb Racing 2 settings.- Get the data menearik face new challenges in the fieldBillNewton.- Collect large rewards and pitfalls persist in your auto motorHillClimb 2.In this free fan application, you will balance Tips and trapstothis amazing entertainment, you'll find a way to beat yourfriendsand get the most value in the Hill Climb Racing 2.This is a simple application that contain guides and strategiesonThe game. You can see strategies, tips, tricks and much more.Thisis the initial version of the app. We will improve it muchovertime.NOTE: This is an UNOFFICIAL Guide & Tips Hill Climb Racing2forapplication and made by fan! Welcome to New Guide Gangstar NewOrleansOpenWorld, the new Gangstar New Orleans OpenWorld. Guidemake youexperience the smoothest gameplay without any difficultieson eachstages or missions.So, you want to know how to get on roadthedrive mode and tactics, also on how to get the extra cheatsandunlock the open world, all the answers are here. Let me askyou;did you played gangstar 5 New Orleans or any game of theseries?This game series is fully exotic from the others; so, you'rein theright place to a play the new gangstar new Orleans by gameloftgame. This app contain huge collections of pro Gangstar NewOrleansOpen World guide, walkthrough, gameplay, tips &tricks,strategy, cheats, hacks, how to play, and more for beginnerandintermediate players.Disclaimer :1) Guide GangStar of New Orleans is an UNOFFICIAL version and isnotendorsed by or affiliated with the creator of this game oritslicensers.2) This application complies with the US Copyright lawguidelinesfor fair use.3) All characters, their names, places, and other aspects ofthevideo described within this application are trademarked bytheirrespective owners.4) This app does not copy any portion of the game, nor doesitcontain screenshots of the app, only originaltextdescriptions.5) If you feel there a direct copyright or trademark violationthatdoes not follow within the fair use guidelines, please contactusdirectly to discuss. Welcome to the best new guide forScrapMechanic turns complicated engineering ideas into simplescrapmécanique , making it very easy to play. However it’s worthknowinga few handy tips before you go in, Scrap Mechanic just soyourfirst hour goes smoothly. Keep this beginner’s Scrap Mechanicguideopen in a spare tab and you won’t go wrong!In this free fan application, you will balance Tips and trapstothis amazing entertainment, you'll find a way to beat yourfriendsand get the most value in the Scrap MechanicThis is a simple application that contain guides and strategiesonThe game. You can see strategies, tips, tricks and much more.Thisis the initial version of the app. We will improve it muchovertime.NOTE: This is an UNOFFICIAL Guide & Tips Scrap Mechanicforapplication and made by fan! This is a guide to the game helloneighboralpha3 new games in 2017. which consists of a new tips andtricksto become Game Master. This will bring you more fun toplay,helping you pass through many obstacles, guiding you a lotoftricks that you never know and you will win quickly .Guidehelloneighbor alpha3 is one of the best Tips & Guide.Guide for hello neighbor alpha3 will help you to manage yourgameaccount and improve fast! With many great tips, tricks cheatsthisapplication will help you to be a king of the game! Download itandread carefully all steps from application. After a while youwillsee how you account become stronger and bigger and you as aplayerwill become a powerful ally for everyone in this game.DISCLAIMER:All diversion name, pictures, characters, logo and differentpointsof interest are not made by us but rather by theirseparateproprietors. This application takes after the ""reasonableuse""rules by US law, in the event that you feel there is animmediatecopyright or trademark infringement that doesn't takeafter insideof the ""reasonable use"" rules, please get in touthwith usspecifically.This application complies with the guidelines of the copyrightlawof the United States of ""fair use."" If you feel there is arightof direct copyright or trademark infringement that does notfollowwithin the guidelines ""fair use"", please contactusdirectly.Guide hello neighbor alpha3 free is one of the best Tips&Guide. This application contains a guide to play this gamewhichconsists of several tips and tricks to simplify the lovers ofthisgame to complete each mission in the game.This is a simple application that contain guides and strategiesonThe game. You can see strategies, tips, tricks and much more.Thisis the initial version of the app. We will improve it muchovertime.NOTE:This is an UNOFFICIAL Guide & Tips hello neighbor alpha3forapplication and made by fan! The new guide to Super Mario Run isthecomplete unofficial guide and procedure for this popularSuperMario Run, a video game developed and published by Nintendofor theSuper Nintendo entertainment system. This applicationincluded hugecollections of tutorials, guides, tips and tricks,secrets, tips,strategies, tips and everything you need to knowbefore you playthis Super Mario Run game!The guide for Super Mario Run games. This application is a guideforanyone who enjoys playing Super Mario Run is not only teachingandinformation. It will offer you a solution will be the winner oftheMario Run, you will not be in the loop to restart the gameanymore.This guide to Super Running Run, you are provided withusefulcontent in the vivid multimedia guide step by step. Appconsists ofnews and information from the advanced player of SuperMario toshare tips and tricks on Super Mario Run so that you canfolloweasily.The application can be used freely. Just a manual for SuperMariorun install on any device you can enjoy the game and thecontentsof the description of the Super Mario race.Super Mario Run plays as a side-scrolling, self-runnerplatformergame. The player controls Mario as well as the cheatguide.Disclaimer :1) Guide For Super Mario Run is an UNOFFICIAL version and isnotendorsed by or affiliated with the creator of this game oritslicensers.2) This application complies with the US Copyright lawguidelinesfor fair use.3) All characters, their names, places, and other aspects ofthevideo described within this application are trademarked bytheirrespective owners.4) This app does not copy any portion of the game, nor doesitcontain screenshots of the app, only originaltextdescriptions.5) If you feel there a direct copyright or trademark violationthatdoes not follow within the fair use guidelines, please contactusdirectly to discuss. Welcome to Guide for Scrap mechanic : creative paradise of ScrapMechanic, a multiplayer game with imagination and cleverness at itscore.Tips for scrap mechanic is the best guide for to be bestplayer in scrap mechanicScrap Mechanic turns complicatedengineering ideas into simple scrap mécanique , However it’s worthknowing a few handy guide before you go in, Scrap Mechanic just soyour first hour goes smoothly. Keep this beginner’s Scrap Mechanicguide open in a spare tab and you won’t go wrong! making it veryeasy to play. Learn how to build a basic vehicle and asimplebase in this guide to Scrap Mechanic.Scrap Mechanic is both a game and a creative platform for allthosewho enjoy designing and engineering. It offers such a widevarietyof tools that you might find yourself a bit confused inthebeginning, although there is a very handy in-game guide bookthathelps a lot. This guide, on the other hand, should make thingsevenfaster for you, so you can immediately start creating new andcrazymechanisms. The new guide to playing ScrapMechanicGame.If you ‘re a fans of Scrap Mechanic Game, then this is one ofthebest guide app for you.Disclaimer/Legal Notice:This App is an unofficial guide only, it is not authorizedorcreated by the creator of the game.This App comply with US Copyright law guidelines of “fair use”.Ifyou feel there is a direct copyright or trademark violationthatdoesn’t follow within the “fair use” guidelines, please contactusdirectly. The latest addition to the explosioncarouselof creative sandbox games is Scrap Mechanic; an EarlyAccess titlethat’s mercari essentially Minecraft for anyone withambitions ofbeing an engineer.Scrap Mechanic turns complicated engineering scrap mechanicfreeideas into simple scrap mécanique , making it very easy toplay.However scrap mechanic download it’s worth knowing a few handytipsbefore you go in mechanic games, Scrap Mechanic just so yourfirsthour goes smoothly. Keep this scrap mechanic game beginner’sScrapMechanic guide open in a spare tab scrap mechanic game andyouwon’t go wrong!Scrap Mechanic turns complicated engineering ideas into simplescrapmécanique , making it very easy to play. However it’scarousel worthknowing a few handy tips before you go in, ScrapMechanic just soyour mercari first hour goes smoothly. Keep thisbeginner’s ScrapMechanic guide open scrap mechanic free in a sparetab and you won’tgo wrongAs you can see, getting things going in scrap mechanicdownloadScrap Mechanic is very easy, and there’s very little aboutitthat’s actually complicated. All that’s required is inspirationandambition from you.Houses are good, but they don't move around and make brumbrumnoises (or do they? This is Scrap Mechanic after all). Togetmechanic games your adventure really on the move, you’ll needacar. So pull out scrap mechanic game your lift, because it’stimeto build some wheelsScrap Mechanic is an Action, Adventure and Simulation game . Playasan adventurer engineerTips for scrap mechanic is the best guide for to be best playerinscrap mechanicScrap Mechanic turns complicated engineering ideas into simplescrapmécanique , However it’s worth knowing a few handy guidebefore yougo in, Scrap Mechanic just so your first hour goessmoothly. Keepthis beginner’s Scrap Mechanic guide open in a sparetab and youwon’t go wrong!making it very easy to play. The appendix contains a description of theoretical mechanics. Asimplemented in the application easy search. Who is your daddy this app is just tipsandtricks. You may find some information useful here. This isaperfect for beginner and intermediate player. This app you canfeelbest experience for playing in game. Please note - This is notagame !! It's is game guide.All the game name, images, characters, logo and other detailsarenot created by us but by their respective ownersPlay Who is your daddy game for craziest andwildestadventure.As your wife is out for some work you as a dad you have tobabysityour naughty baby. After making him sleep in his room youplan toenjoy in your free time.But things don't go as planned, as your child refuses to sleepandstarts throwing things here and there.Features :1. Beautiful menu.2. New interface design.3. Awesome background music.4. Adventure game.5. Free Download.6. Free Tips & Cheats.7. Free App Simulator.

2019-04-22T15:06:55Z

https://apk-dl.com/guide-for-scrap-mechanic/inn.talay.guideforscrapmechanic

Over the years, I have written about various guidance aimed at those working to resolve disputes. This includes RICS’ guidance on how to deal with conflicts of interest and how to be an adjudicator. Two more pieces of guidance have recently been published. This post considers Surveyors acting as expert witnesses (fourth edition), which RICS published in July. Next time I’ll be looking at the latest guidance from the Civil Justice Council, Guidance for the instruction of experts in civil claims 2014, which was published earlier this month. Both take effect this autumn. Judging by some of the recent cases (which Matt is considering), this guidance is essential as the message still isn’t getting through as clearly as many would hope. Surveyors acting as expert witnesses is available to RICS members to download from the RICS website and to non-members to buy from www.ricsbooks.com. It has a foreword from Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury and includes sample terms of engagement (in appendix A), as well as an explanation (in appendix B) of an expert’s duty of care following Jones v Kaney, which removed an expert’s general immunity from being sued (changes are also made to GN21 to reflect this lack of immunity). It is made up of a practice statement (PS) and a guidance note (GN). It is mandatory for RICS members to comply with the PS and there may be disciplinary consequences for not doing so. The recommendations in the GN represent “best practice”, although it is not mandatory for RICS’ members to follow them. He concludes by suggesting that following the guidance will enhance an expert’s credibility and promote confidence in the use of chartered surveyors as experts which, in turn, will promote best practice. High words of praise indeed, but just what does the guidance say? Further, an expert must not “stray from the duties of an expert witness” and act in a partial, misleading or untruthful manner. The principal message is unchanged from the third edition (which came into effect in January 2009), and sums up the key duties with which experts must comply. A quick glance at the contents list suggests that not much else has changed. However, looks can be deceiving and the devil is in the detail. The section on the application of the PS remains the same from the third edition. The evidence an expert gives to a tribunal, drawing upon his “professional experience, knowledge and expertise” is distinct from other evidence that an expert may give, such as evidence of fact or advocacy of a case (PS1.3). The expert’s duties are largely the same and the expert must take “special care” to ensure his evidence is not biased towards the party instructing or paying him (PS2.1). Note also that an expert “must not malign the professional competence of another expert witness (PS2.7). Acting as an expert (PS3) is also largely unchanged, although it does now expressly state an expert’s appointment cannot take the form of a conditional or success-based arrangement (PS3.6). This reflects changes that were introduced as part of the Jackson reforms. Similar amendments are made in GN19. The section on reports and oral evidence (PS5) has undergone an overhaul, with additional paragraphs reminding an expert to maintain “professional objectivity and impartiality at all times” (PS5.2) and to provide “objective, unbiased opinions” (PS5.3). New wording is also included in the expert’s declaration (PS5.4) to reflect CPR 35. It is one thing for the expert to change his mind, quite another for those instructing him to ask him to change his report. This is dealt with in PS6, with an expanded section highlighting that it is OK for an expert to change his mind after a meeting of experts or the disclosure of new evidence, but not for other reasons (unless the changes “accord” with the expert’s true opinion). The role of the single joint expert (PS8) and the section on advocacy (PS9) have been expanded, but the emphasis in PS9 remains on the distinction between acting as a surveyor-advocate and as an expert, and the issues that arise if the surveyor accepts a dual role. A new section on conditional fees has been added (PS10), which confirms an expert witness appointment should not take the form of a conditional or success-based arrangement (although it may be permissible when acting in a dual role (PS10.3)). The section on the application of the GN has been overhauled since the third edition. The GN should be read in conjunction with the PS, providing direction on “good practice” when an expert is required to give expert evidence before a tribunal. The expert should also comply with any specific rules a tribunal may have (GN1.3). It still emphasises the need for impartiality (GN1.7) and continues to refer to the Ikarian Reefer, although reference to a number of other judgments has gone. The general duties of an expert have been expanded to include acting independently and impartially, to assist the tribunal and to provide a range of opinions, as appropriate (GN2.1). GN3 continues to emphasise the distinction between acting as an advisor and acting as an expert, particularly in relation to the potential for disclosure of any initial advice. If an expert cannot fulfill the duties set out in PS2, he should decline the appointment (GN4.1). GN4.2 now refers to resigning as an expert, if these issues arises after appointment. The section on instructions and inspections has also been overhauled (GN5), but the emphasis remains on conflicts of interest and how to deal with them. Although the purpose of expert evidence no longer has its own section (it was GN6 in the third edition), I’m sure the message about assisting the tribunal is incorporated else where. The section on factual evidence is largely the same (GN6), but opinion evidence (GN7) has been expanded and starts with a helpful reminder of what expert evidence is (opinion based on experience and knowledge). GN8 and 9 deal with written questions and documents. Some changes here too, but the overall messages remain the same. More detail is provided on what is expected of an expert when it comes to giving oral evidence (GN 10), not only in terms of preparation but also what form oral evidence takes and how to deal with questions and adjournments. Connected to giving evidence is assisting advocates, both before and during any hearing. GN11 provides details of what an expert should expect to do in this regard. There are now two sections on written reports. GN12 addresses the purpose of the report; details of how to set out the report are in GN13. It is worth noting that there are several references in GN12 to the mandatory requirements set out in PS5. Interestingly, it is suggested that if the expert has more than one opinion (because the issues lead to a range of opinions), the expert should articulate these and explain the reasoning behind them (GN13.4(c)). The without prejudice meeting of experts prior to a hearing is an integral part of most litigation and aims to narrow the issues, allowing a tribunal to focus on only those issues that are in dispute. Consequently, the guidance on the meetings of experts (GN14) and narrowing issues (GN15) has been enhanced. It now includes guidance on what to do before, during and after the meeting, including preparing the document reflecting any agreement reached. Conditional fee arrangements are prohibited and GN 19 has been amended to reflect this. Other issues related to fees are dealt with in GN18 and GN20. One change is to the need to provide an estimate at the outset. The guidance suggests this should only be provided when the expert has a good understanding of the case and the scope of his appointment (GN18.3). However, it is worth noting that the courts’ cost budgeting rules require the parties to exchange budgets prior to the first CMC, which may be much earlier in the process than the expert is comfortable with. The changes seek to reinforce the duties an expert owes to the tribunal, as identified by Lord Neuberger and in the PS’ principal message. Follow the requirements of both the PS and GN and you shouldn’t get into the type of bother that some experts have got themselves into. Make certain that your expert has complied with the PS and GN, and consider making express reference to this in your instructions. While you might be happy that an expert supports your client’s case wholeheartedly, there’s little point if a tribunal subsequently finds that his or her views are somewhat leftfield. Part 2 of this blog, looking at the CJC’s Guidance for the instruction of experts in civil claims 2014, has been published.

2019-04-25T04:56:30Z

http://constructionblog.practicallaw.com/latest-guidance-on-acting-as-an-expert-part-1/

What a difference a day makes in the mountains. Yesterday we awoke to snow and got a couple of inches before the temperature got above freezing and the ground snow melted while it was still snowing and blowing horizontally. I think it got up to about 40ºf yesterday and dropped to 22ºf last night. I fear there will be no fruit in our orchard this year. Unfortunately, all 5 apple trees, both peaches and both Asian pears were already blooming. The garden seems to have survived and the chickens didn’t even notice. Today is bright and sunny, the wind has calmed and it is 62ºf. Much too nice a day to stay inside, yet too iffy, especially at night to do any garden work, so I tied on the sneakers, grabbed my trekking poles and hiked away from the house while the kids were having quiet time and Jim was sitting in the loft, still recovering from another bout of bronchitis. I decided to take a hike that I had not previously taken, down the gravel road, took a right and hiked up the cow paths to a ridge we see from the paved road when we go up the mountain. The views from there were fabulous. A shot east and the steeple of the church half way up to our house. A shot west up the valley. And a shot south toward the highway we can hear trucks on, but not see from our house, to a house that has been built in the hollow over the ridge. I got my 10,000+ steps, climbed the equivalent of 77 flights of steps, enjoyed the bright sunny day for well over an hour and a half. The fresh spring air was delightful. While hiking along the cow paths, I spotted many tiny violets blooming in the woods. After coming back down from the ridge and crossing the road, I climbed the hill above our house and walked back around that hill and returned to the road and the walk home. Soon those cow pastures between the woods will be too tall to walk and I will have to stick to the woods and roads. Tomorrow is another beautiful day and after a late morning appointment, I plan to try another trail that I have never hiked before it gets too overgrown as well. This month is flying and so much yet to do. We still don’t have a tree. Maybe next week. As I was going to bed down the chooks last evening, and to collect 5 very cold eggs, I was being gently pelted by small frozen pellets. Our table sits in front of the French doors to the back deck and we watched during dinner as the stained wood was coated and turned white. We weren’t really expecting much in the way of bad weather last night, the Nor’easter that was pounding up the coast to New England wasn’t going to hit Virginia too hard and we were catching only the westerly edge of wind and moisture, chilled by our winter temperatures. Awakening this morning with it still heavily overcast, the cedars, pines, and other firs looked like they had been sugar coated. All fog and frosting and totally enchanting. After feeding pups and me breakfast, it was chicken chore time and on my way back from giving them their morning portion of grains and kitchen scraps, a glance in the same general direction showed a beautiful mountain phenomenon. The clouds breaking up but clinging to the hollows in the mountains, producing a floating ridge. The sun will quickly melt the frosting on the trees, but it made for a beautiful holiday scene. Last night I knitted until my hands were cramped, but met my yesterday’s goal of getting the body of grandson’s sweater finished. Today’s goal is the hood and a desperately needed bath. It has picked up dog hair and dust as it has been lugged around the house and in the car in an effort to get it completed. The hood is a simple 9″ long stockinette rectangle the width of the neckline plus a few stitches. It should be done in a couple of hours then stitching up the seam to close the rectangle into a hood, stitch up the underarms and a quick wash. The missing gift that is in the mail was near here according to tracking, perhaps to arrive today, so the box of Christmas that must be mailed away should be ready by tomorrow. Back to the knitting goal. Must get on it. Wow, a gorgeous day and not to be wasted indoors. Jim wanted a roadtrip to buy a riding jacket that is more appropriate for the warm days. His vintage look leather jacket is fine with the vents open up to about 70ºf but he came home last Sunday and I thought he was going to pass out. He had struggled with the bike on our gravel road and driveway and basically walked it downhill the .4 miles and was so overheated it was dangerous. To make our trip, we checked out various rides he could do or had done that keep him off of the Interstate which is so heavy with semi trucks that it is dangerous. Between the driving and the shopping we were gone for nearly 5 hours and I saw some beautiful countryside that I had never seen before. My mother grew up in this part of the country and I often heard stories about the counties and towns, but had never seen them. I had my camera, but didn’t think to take a single photo. Near the last part of the drive, we rode for 45 miles along a beautiful creek lined with cabins and homes. When we got home, I went over to check on the chickens, collect eggs, and give them a treat of wild mustard greens and discovered an empty coop. For the past several evenings, there have been 3 or 4 of the chicks out at dusk, but the rest remained steadfastly indoors. Today they are all outside, merrily pecking at the grass or dust bathing in the shade. The littles totally being ignored by the adults, much to my delight. They still segregate at night and so I am leaving the partition in place for a few more days. We are due for a couple of days of rain, so there may be more in coop time, especially for them. On Friday, they will be 9 weeks old and I think the partition will come down. I’m still at a quandry about Cogburn. I really want a self sustaining flock, but since he only has 3 hens in with him now, he is wearing them out and their backs have almost no feathers on them. They make “saddles” to protect them, but I don’t want to go that route. If I remove him, there won’t be any coop chicks unless I am able to quickly get some Buff Orpington fertilized eggs quickly when a hen goes broody. I really don’t want to do the heat lamp brooder bit again, though I know that I will have to for the meat chickens. Maybe I should just accept that is the way it will be every few years as we replace the older hens. If we had electricity out there that would run the heat lamp, I would just build a brooder coop with separate run, but we don’t. At least, this time, I have successfully raised and introduced 10 chicks to the mix with no fatalities. The snow pack is thinning. Our neighbor that hays our fields for the bulk of the hay came down after dark Saturday night with his behemoth tractor with climate control cab and plowed out our driveway. As he was the one who constructed it for us a couple of summers ago, he knows generally where it is under the snow. This allowed us to bring both vehicles back down to the house. To change things up a bit, this morning we drove into the university town to a little local diner for breakfast. The nearest parking is across Main Street and slightly uphill and though the access was cleared, the parking spaces have been trod by many feet in the past half week and between each parking space is an ice slick. Both of us had slides, fortunately with no fall just trying to get out of the car and to the cleared walkway. Yesterday as the roads seem to be mostly cleared, we took a jaunt 2000 more feet up our mountain to see more snow. If you ever watched “Dirty Dancing,” this is the “lodge” in the movie, also know as Mountain Lake Lodge, a hotel with adjacent cabins. Though it is closed this time of year, except for special weekend events, it is still beautiful. The elevation there is about 4400 feet and the ridge has trees frosted generally from frozen fog that forms. The property on the near edge of this valley belonged to my grandfather’s family, though when we bought our farm, I had no idea that it was literally walking distance away. My hubby teases that I did know, but I had never even been to this county or seen that area at the time. As we were going up to see the lake and the hotel in the snow, we saw this. It is not our car, there was no one in it, but this is a lesson on why you don’t drive a 2 wheel drive vehicle on snowy, icy mountain roads. The only thing keeping this car from tumbling on down the mountain side is the tree behind it that it hit as it slid over the embankment. Hopefully, no one was hurt. It will take a thaw and a creative, daredevil tow truck driver to get that one out. That is the mountain on which the red car, the hotel, and our home are located. Fortunately, this snow did not take out our power, so all of the prep we did for it does not have to be done again for the ice storm due tonight that more than likely will steal all of the conveniences from us for at least a day or two.

2019-04-23T23:53:22Z

http://cabincrafted.fangorn.space/index.php/tag/mountain-beauty/

10mg/ml: Each ml of oral solution contains 10mg furosemide. Each ml of solution contains 0.2ml liquid maltitol (E965) and 83.2mg ethanol (alcohol). Clear, colourless, greenish yellow to pale brown coloured solution with cherry flavour. Furosemide is indicated in all conditions requiring prompt diuresis in patients who are unable to take solid dose forms. Indications include cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic and renal oedema, peripheral oedema due to mechanical obstruction or venous insufficiency and hypertension. The medication should be administered in the morning to avoid nocturnal diuresis. The usual initial daily dose is 40mg. This may be adjusted until an effective dose is achieved. In the elderly, furosemide is generally eliminated more slowly. Dosage should be titrated until the required response is achieved. This product should not be used in children below 18 years of age (see section 4.4). This product should not be mixed with food or beverages before use. The syringe adaptor should be placed in the neck of the bottle and the required dose should be drawn from the container into the graduated oral syringe provided. The open end of the syringe should be placed in the mouth of the patient, and the piston slowly depressed to release the contents. Hypovolaemia or dehydration. Anuria. Renal failure with anuria not responding to furosemide, or as a result of poisoning by nephrotoxic or hepatotoxic agents, or associated with hepatic coma. Severe hypokalaemia and severe hyponatraemia. Pre-comatose and comatose states associated with hepatic encephalopathy. Breast feeding. Contra-indicated in hypersensitivity to Furosemide, sulphonamides or any of the excipients listed. Patients allergic to sulphonamides may show cross-sensitivity to furosemide. This product should not be given to children because its ethanol content may affect their CNS. Caution is required in patients liable to electrolyte deficiency. Regular monitoring of serum sodium, potassium and creatinine is generally recommended during furosemide therapy; particularly close monitoring is required in patients at high risk of developing electrolyte imbalances or in case of significant additional fluid loss. Hypovolaemia or dehydration as well as any significant electrolyte and acid-base disturbances must be corrected. This may require temporary discontinuation of furosemide. Where indicated, steps should be taken to correct hypotension or hypovolaemia before commencing therapy. Urinary output must be secured. Patients with partial obstructions of urinary outflow for example patients with prostatic hypertrophy or impairment of micturition have an increased risk of developing acute urinary retention and require careful monitoring. • Patients with hypoproteinaemia, e.g. associated with nephrotic syndrome (the effect of furosemide may be weakened and its ototoxicity potentiated). Symptomatic hypotension leading to dizziness, fainting or loss of consciousness can occur in patients treated with furosemide, particularly in the elderly, patients on other medications which can cause hypotension and patients with other medical conditions that are risks for hypotension. The use of some diuretics is considered to be unsafe in acute porphyria therefore caution should be exercised. Concomitant use with risperidone: In risperidone placebo-controlled trials in elderly patients with dementia, a higher incidence of mortality was observed in patients treated with furosemide plus risperidone (7.3%; mean age 89 years, range 75-97 years) when compared to patients treated with risperidone alone (3.1%; mean age 84 years, range 70-96 years) or furosemide alone (4.1%; mean age 80 years, range 67-90 years). Concomitant use of risperidone with other diuretics (mainly thiazide diuretics used in low dose) was not associated with similar findings. No pathophysiological mechanism has been identified to explain this finding, and no consistent pattern for cause of death observed. Nevertheless, caution should be exercised and the risks and benefits of this combination or co-treatment with other potent diuretics should be considered prior to the decision to use. There was no increased incidence of mortality among patients taking other diuretics as concomitant treatment with risperidone. Irrespective of treatment, dehydration was an overall risk factor for mortality and should therefore be avoided in elderly patients with dementia (see section 4.3). Furosemide is not recommended in patients at high risk for radiocontrast nephropathy - it should not be used for diuresis as part of the preventative measures against radiocontrast-induced nephropathy. Ethanol (alcohol): Each ml of oral solution contains 83.2mg ethanol (alcohol) i.e daily dose of 40mg furosemide would include 332.8mg ethanol (alcohol), equivalent to 8.32ml of beer or 3.47ml of wine. Harmful for those suffering from alcoholism. To be taken into account in pregnant or breast-feeding women and high-risk groups such as patients with liver disease, epilepsy. Because of its ethanol content this product should also not be given to children. Liquid maltitol (E965): Patients with a rare hereditary problem of fructose intolerance should not take this medicine. ACE Inhibitors: Enhanced hypotensive effect when given with diuretics. A marked fall in blood pressure and deterioration in renal function may be seen when ACE inhibitors are added to furosemide therapy. The dose of furosemide should be reduced for at least three days, or the drug stopped, before initiating the ACE inhibitor or increasing the dose of an ACE inhibitor. Alpha-blockers: Enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics are given with alpha-blockers, also increased risk of first dose hypotension with post-synaptic alpha-blockers such as prazosin. Analgesics: Diuretics can increase the risk of nephrotoxicity of NSAIDs, also antagonism of diuretic effect. Antagonism of diuretic effect (especially with indomethacin and ketorolac). Salicylic toxicity may be increased by furosemide. Angiotensin –II Receptor Antagonists: Enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics given with angiotensin-II receptor antagonists. Anti-arrhythmics: Hypokalaemia caused by loop diuretics increases cardiac toxicity with amiodarone, disopyramide, flecainide, and antagonises the action of lidocaine and mexiletine. Antibacterials: Avoid the use of diuretics in lymecycline treatment. There is an increased risk of ototoxicity when loop diuretics are given with aminoglycosides, polymyxins or vancomycin. Since this may lead to irreversible damage, these drugs must only be used with furosemide if there are compelling medical reasons. Impairment of renal function may develop in patients receiving concurrent treatment with furosemide and high doses of certain cephalosporins. Antidepressants: Possible increase of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with reboxetine. There is an enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics are given with MAOIs. There is an increased risk of postural hypotension when diuretics are given with tricyclic antidepressants. Antiepileptics: There is an increased risk of hyponatraemia when diuretics are given with carbemazepine. The effects of furosemide are antagonised by phenytoin. Antifungals: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with amphotericin. Antipsychotics: Hypokalaemia caused by diuretics increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias with amisulpiride or sertindole. An enhanced hypotensive effect may be seen when diuretics are given with phenothiazines. Hypokalaemia caused by diuretics increases risk of ventricular arrhythmias with pimozide (avoid concomitant use). Antivirals: Plasma concentration of diuretics may be increased by nelfinavir, ritonavir or saquinavir. Atomoxetine: Hypokalaemia caused by diuretics increases the risk of ventricular arrhythmias with atomoxetine. Barbiturates: Plasma concentrations of diuretics may be decreased. There may be an increased risk of osteomalacia when diuretics are taken in combination with Phenobarbital. Beta-blockers: There is an enhanced hypotensive effect when diuretics are given with beta-blockers. Hypokalaemia caused by loop diuretics increases the risk of ventricular arrhythmias with sotalol. Cardiac glycosides: Hypokalaemia caused by loop diuretics increases cardiac toxicity with cardiac glycosides. Ciclosporin: there is an increased risk of nephrotoxicity and possibly hypermagnesaemia when diuretics are given with ciclosporin. Cisplatin: There is a risk of increased ototoxic effects if cisplatin and furosemide are given concomitantly. In addition, nephrotoxicity of cisplatin may be enhanced if furosemide is not given in low doses (e.g. 40mg in patients with normal renal function) and with positive fluid balance when used to achieve forced diuresis during cisplatin treatment. Corticosteroids: The diuretic effect of diuretics is antagonized by corticosteroids. There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with corticosteroids. Other Diuretics: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with acetazolamide. Profound diuresis is possible when metolazone is given with furosemide. There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with thiazides and related diuretics. Lithium: Loop diuretics reduce the excretion of lithium, which may lead to increased plasma concentrations and a risk of toxicity. Therefore, it is recommended that lithium levels are carefully monitored and where necessary the lithium dosage is adjusted in patients receiving this combination. Potassium salts: There is an increased risk of hyperkalaemia when given with potassium salts. Sucralfate: Furosemide and sucralfate must not be taken within 2 hours of each other as sucralfate decreases the absorption of furosemide from the intestine and so reduces its effect. Sympathomimetics, Beta2: There is an increased risk of hypokalameia when loop diuretics are given with high doses of beta2 synpathomimetics. Tacrolimus: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when given with tacrolimus. Theophylline: There is an increased risk of hypokalaemia when loop diuretics are given with theophylline. Carbenoxolone, prolonged use of laxatives, liquorice: May increase the risk of developing hypokalaemia. Warfarin and clofibrate: Warfarin and clofibrate compete with furosemide in the binding to serum albumin. This may have clinical significance in patients with low serum albumin levels (e.g. in nephrotic syndrome). Furosemide does not change the pharmacokinetics of warfarin to a significant extent, but a strong diuresis with associated dehydration may weaken the antithrombotic effect of warfarin. Probenecid, methotrexate and other drugs which, like furosemide, undergo significant renal tubular secretion may reduce the effect of furosemide. Conversely, furosemide may decrease renal elimination of these drugs. In case of high-dose treatment (in particular, of both furosemide and the other drugs), this may lead to increased serum levels and an increased risk of adverse effects due to furosemide or the concomitant medication. Risperidone: When administering risperidone, caution should be exercised and the risks and benefits of the combination or co-treatment with furosemide or with other potent diuretics should be considered prior to the decision to use. See section 4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use regarding increased mortality in elderly patients with dementia concomitantly receiving risperidone. Results of animal work, in general, show no hazardous effect of furosemide in pregnancy. There is clinical evidence of safety of the drug in the third trimester of human pregnancy; however, furosemide crosses the placental barrier. It must not be given during pregnancy unless there are compelling medical reasons. Treatment during pregnancy requires monitoring of fetal growth. Furosemide passes into breast milk and may inhibit lactation. Breastfeeding must be avoided during treatment with furosemide. No human data on the effect of furosemide on fertility are available. In rats, there was no effect on mating or fertility with furosemide treatment. Mental alertness may be reduced and the ability to drive or operate machinery may be impaired. In general, if furosemide is administered to premature infants during the first weeks of life, it may increase the risk of persistence of patent ductus arteriosus. Risk of nephrocalcinosis/ nephroliathisis. The clinical picture in acute or chronic overdose depends primarily on the extent and consequences of electrolyte and fluid loss, e.g. hypovolaemia, dehydration, haemoconcentration, cardiac arrhythmias – including A-V block and ventricular fibrillation. Symptoms of these disturbances include severe hypotension (progressing to shock), acute renal failure, thrombosis, delirious states, flaccid paralysis, apathy and confusion. There are no specific antidotes to furosemide. If the ingestion is recent, attempts to limit further systemic absorption may be performed, through gastric lavage or others measures that may minimize absorption (i.e. activated charcoal). The clinically relevant fluid and electrolyte balance changes must be corrected. Along with the prevention and treatment of serious complications resulting from such imbalances and other effects in the body, this corrective action may require general and specific intensive medical monitoring and therapeutic measures. Furosemide is a potent loop diuretic which inhibits sodium and chloride reabsorption at the Loop of Henlé. The drug eliminates both positive and negative free water production. Furosemide acts at the luminal face of the epithelial cells by inhibiting co-transport mechanisms for the entry of sodium and chloride. Furosemide gains access to its site of action by being transported through the secretory pathway for organic acids in the proximal tubule. It reduces the renal excretion of uric acid. Furosemide causes an increased loss of potassium in the urine and also increases the excretion of ammonia by the kidney. Furosemide is a weak carboxylic acid which exists mainly in the dissociated form in the gastro-intestinal tract. Furosemide is rapidly but incompletely absorbed (60-70%) on oral administration and its effect is largely over within four hours. The optimal absorption site is the upper duodenum at pH 5.0. Regardless of route of administration, 69-97% of activity from a radio-labelled dose is excreted in the first 4 hours after the drug is given. Furosemide is mainly eliminated via the kidneys (80-90%); a small fraction of the dose undergoes biliary elimination and 10-15% of the activity can be recovered from the faeces. When oral doses of Furosemide are given to normal subjects the mean bioavailability of the drug is approximately 52% but the range is wide. In plasma, Furosemide is extensively bound to proteins mainly to albumin. The unbound fraction in plasma averages 2 - 4% at therapeutic concentrations. The volume of distribution ranges between 170 - 270ml/Kg. The half life of the ß phase ranges from 45 - 60 min. The total plasma clearance is about 200ml/min. Renal excretion of unchanged drug and elimination by metabolism plus faecal excretion contribute almost equally to the total plasma clearance. Furosemide is in part cleared by the kidneys in the form of the glucuronide conjugate. Dosing Device: 10ml oral syringe with 0.5ml graduation mark supplied with an LDPE syringe adaptor.

2019-04-26T12:42:09Z

https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/2460/smpc

Sentiments/Non-Humans: Mostly indifferent, sees most human-like D-bees as just another human, still can't help but stare at D-bees that are very different/alien. Sentiments/Coalition: Thinks of them as stuck up at best, no matter what his superiors and the government say. Disposition: Generally friendly sort of fellow, hangs out with the rest of the squad when off duty. On-duty he takes his job seriously, though he is not the by-the-book sort and will bend or out-right break the rules if the situation calls for it. Description: Athletic, wiry build, green eyes, black hair that is long on the top and pulled back into a warriors knot and shaved on the sides, also has a fair number of tattoos across his back, chest, & arms. These tattoos are a collage of power armor suits and robot vehicles from every manufacturer that sells these types of units in North America with steam-punk designs tying the individual pieces together. Max. Carrying Weight: 250 lbs. Max. Lifting Weight: 500 lbs. Triple Damage against Robots when a "natural," unmodified 18, 19 or 20 is rolled on an Aimed Shot. This applies only to robots and not power armor exoskeletons. armor, vehicles and robot vehicles by 5%. Spiritual and Determined: +2d4 to M.E. Spiritual and Determined: Inner Strength; has additional P.P.E. and can use TW items. Agile and Dexterous: +2d4 to P.P. Agile and Dexterous: Ambidextrous trait; Can use both the right and left hand with equal skill and dexterity; Paired Weapons skill is automatic. +1 APM, +10% to Climbing skills, +5% to Pick Locks, Pick Pockets, Palming, and Concealment skills. Cannot be surprised, even from behind. W.P. - Sharpshooting: Handgun; +1 attack per melee, Aimed: +3 strike, Called: +5 strike, Quick Draw: +4 initiative, Trick Shooting: Dodge, roll, or somersault and come up shooting, these are in addition to W.P. - Handgun bonuses. Last edited by Victor Singer on Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:16 pm, edited 66 times in total. NG-X67 "Prophet" Infantry Power Armor - "Milashka" * -4 to strike on a called shot, and must be a Called shot. ** Depleting the Main Body of MDC will shut the suit down. *** Force field regenerates at a rate of 1 MDC/melee round. Cat-like landings from heights: up to 200' without damage. Criminal I.D. Recognition System; Is programmed with 250,000 known criminals, wanted fugitives, Black Marketeers, terrorists, enemies of the state, bounties, identifying markings, known gang emblems, symbols, emblems, patches, & colors. Advanced Camera; this is mounted in the helmet has and has superior telescopic zoom (Range: 2 miles) and a macro-lens (x12 magnification), it can take stills & video (96 hours & 8,000 images), and it can be transmitted live (Range: 5 miles). Digital Dash-Cams (8); two in the helmet, 2 in the chest, 1 in each forearm, 2 in the back w 48 hours of record time & can take 4,000 stills. Peekaboo Cameras (2); located behind the left & right shoulders, can be used to peak around corners or through foliage without exposing oneself. Special & Standard Helmet Optics; Passive night-vision, Thermal imaging, IR, UV, black-light, laser distancer, IR light, & voice modulation (20 variations). Warning System & Multi-Cameras; Tied into the cameras & sensor array is a motion detection warning system that gives an audible voice warning/notification when the system picks up or spots something notable within 100'. This includes not only incoming fire or danger, direction, distance, but also subjects picked up by the Criminal I.D. System meaning it will give information about said subject as well, at least info it has in its files. This is basic info like name, race, friendly/hostile, or gang/group affiliation. Note: Used, has only 65 MDC, -5% Prowl (only to prowl, other movement is fine). A skilled operator could repair the suit to bring it to full MDC, but it would take double normal time. The Prowl penalty can be removed by redoing the fabric lining of the suit. What Victor didn't notice is that the legs have some bad repair to the fabric lining, it crinkles and cracks as the wearer moves. What he did notice is that the suit has been outfitted with four concealed pockets. One on the back is useful for a medium or smaller handgun. Two are on the inside of thighs are are suitable for hiding papers or the like (such as maps). The third is on the inside of the chest, it's only accessible when the suit is off. It can hold a larger volume of flat stuff compared to the thighs. • Mega-Damage: 2d4 M.D. or 4d6 M.D. • Mega-Damage: 3d6 M.D. or 1d4x10 M.D. • Weapons: None built in. • Note: May overheat if used continuously for more than four hours (01-40%). Overheating will destroy the machine; should be allowed to cool for two hours after every two or three hours of continuous use. Note: Used, has only 28 MDC, gets only 750 miles per charge, 12 years old. Otherwise in great working order. It would take rebuilding the housing almost completely to get the MDC back. Installing a new battery would restore the range to 800 miles. The brain child of the KLS corporation, this rail gun design is a miniaturized version of the RG-14 Electromagnetic Mass Driver. It's flexibility, efficiency, and relatively light weight make it the most potent man-portable, anti-armor & anti-demon weapon system ever produced. The only drawback is the delay in discharge as the capacitors spool up to release the hypersonic sabot payload. Several cases of these rifles have been released for field testing. Helical magazines must be custom made by highly skilled weapons shops and have a base cost of 1000 credits each. APDS rounds must be custom made by highly skilled weapons shops and have a base cost of 250 credits each. two sets of street clothes, pocket flashlight, tinted goggles, small digital photo album that has pictures of his family & friends, box of disposable plastic gloves (100 per box), three weeks of freeze-dried combat rations, duffle bag, air filter, 2-person tent, hunting & fishing kit, 30' of lightweight climbing rope, survival knife, small hatchet, short range radio, Hard-shell backpack from NG-X67. Damage: 5d6+3 or 3d4x10 M.D. Payload: 240 shots using a portable generator, which regenerates 8 shots per hour. Can also be directly linked to a vehicles power supply (Nuclear or Solid-Ox) giving it a virtually unlimited payload. Weight: Laser cannon - 40 lbs., Portable generator - 30 lbs. Last edited by Victor Singer on Mon Oct 22, 2018 3:40 pm, edited 47 times in total. Victor Calvin Singer was born to Robert and Karen Singer, he also has a sister named Christine who is just a year younger. His family lives in the Manistique Imperium where Victor was raised. His father works in a Northern Gun assembly plant that just so happens to turn out final assemblies of robot vehicles and power armor suits, interestingly enough his sister also works at the plant these days, though she began there after Victor left for the Army. From an early age he was fascinated by the robot vehicles and power armor that has dad built. Mainly it was the smaller power armor suits that caught his attention, how a soldier could go into combat in such a suit and take out a much larger, more heavily armored robot or a 20’ tall supernatural monster was exciting to him. So, when he turned 18 it seemed only natural that he join the Army and apply to be a PA pilot. With his reflexes plus his almost obsessive knowledge of power armor, he became an excellent soldier…at least on paper and tests. Somehow, during his 4 years of service, Victor was always assigned or re-assigned to a unit that was in the single most boring and inactive post. He has been in only 4 minor fire fights and even than his squad was either on mop-up duty or just on standby in case things went sideways. So, once his 4 years of enlistment was up, Victor applied for private military contractor status, purchased a Blue Boy power suit and moved on. He has done half a dozen solo jobs, but he’s found it is much more difficult to carry out a mission when you don’t have a squad at your back. This lead him to contact some old friends back home about any work they might know of. One friend in particular responded, Mindy Corsair. She in turn suggested he get hold of Emerald Ecks and after a long conversation about her brother Royal and his...life lessons...Emerald convinced Victor to reach out to Royal. Apparently her brother had for some time now been running a mercenary unit out of MercTown and she thought they might be hiring. Victor has misgivings about Royal, as he wasn't the nicest guy when they were kids, but Victor knows and trusts both Emerald and Mindy. In particular Mindy's word means most to him since she was not a fan of Royal when they were younger...now she seems to be genuinely proud of the guy. Victor figures it couldn't hurt to go and meet up with Royal and see what is what. So, he contacted Royal and the two set up a meet in MercTown. Now, looking at the city of MercTown from a nearby hilltop, Victor hopes his trek here means work...preferably paying work. Last edited by Victor Singer on Sat Jun 04, 2016 10:36 am, edited 6 times in total. Used T-42 Commando = 38,000 (pg. 38 of Triax & NGR) Note: Has only 45 MDC, -5% Prowl (only to prowl, other movement is fine). What Victor didn't notice is that the legs have some bad repair to the fabric lining, it crinkles and cracks as the wearer moves. What he did notice is that the suit has been outfitted with four concealed pockets. One on the back is useful for a medium or smaller handgun. Two are on the inside of thighs are are suitable for hiding papers or the like (such as maps). The third is on the inside of the chest, it's only accessible when the suit is off. It can hold a larger volume of flat stuff compared to the thighs. Used NG-WJ10 Speedpack (electric) = 28,000 (pg. 193 of Northern Gun 2) Note: Has only 28 MDC, gets only 750 miles per charge, 12 years old. Otherwise in great working order. It would take rebuilding the housing almost completely to get the MDC back. Installing a new battery would restore the range to 800 miles. Victor will look over several junkyards for this and will ask each of the owners to keep an eye out for the launcher or see if any of them will place an order for one, so to speak. None are available. Most of the dealers in Merctown are unfamiliar with the NGR military hardware. The Super Trooper is rare outside the military even in Europe. By the third junkyard the dealer tells Victor he got a call from Kraus telling him to not deal with Victor. 1d8 = 4: Receive a +2D6 Attribute Boost to P.S. (1) Receive a +2D4 Attribute Boost to M.E. +2d4 = 4 to M.E. +1d4 = 3x10=30 to P.P.E. NOTE: No point in rolling the sub table on the next two, since both are on the same sub-table and Victor already has 2 of the 4 on said sub-table. (1) Receive a +2D4 Attribute Boost to P.P.

2019-04-19T12:34:55Z

http://explorersunlimited.com/eu/viewtopic.php?f=387&p=1350267&sid=4b6e746fc1713ee8916bfaa989ef2cdd

We are into the season of giving, but for some dishonest scammers, it is a season for taking. Older adults are targeted more often because they answer their home phones, they have more cash available and the services scammers purportedly offer are more often the services older adults may want. Older adults may be more trusting as well. So, if you are a caregiver to an older loved one, here are some of the scams you should alert your loved one to and be on the lookout yourself: • Great Investments - If there is one thing that older adults fear more than losing their mental faculties, it likely is running out of money. They may have made solid investments in safe securities, but they may be easy prey for someone calling to let them in "on a limited time offer." It may not be huge investment, but it promises a hefty return. Just remember, if it seems too good to be true, it most often is. • Cheaper Medications - With the changes of the Affordable Care Act, older adults will have the chance to save more money on their expensive prescriptions, but the allure of cheaper meds offshore is still present on the internet. Make sure that the pharmacies making the offer are legitimate - and many are - but ask for substantial verification before ordering scrips; your loved one's primary care physician may be of help. • Fake Charities - This is another one where you want to verify the legitimacy of the cause. Especially on the heels of the tornado disasters recently, there may be callers posing as agents to get money to victims of disasters. Verify! The IRS posts lists of tax exempt charities on its web site, and there is another great site called Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/). • Pleas for Help - What grandparent does not have a soft spot for their grandchildren? Scammers can call older adults with just enough information to appear as one of the grandchildren in some kind of trouble that requires an immediate cash transfer. Caution your older loved one not to respond to calls from "their favorite grandchild" that offer no identifying name. Verify! • Bad Checks - If your older loved one is selling anything on-line, beware of the scammer who just happens to have a cashier's check that is for an amount much greater than the purchase price. They will ask if the excess can be wired to them along with transfer of the item. This is the part where the original check turns out to be bogus, so your loved one is out the sale item and the cash difference. All of these are just some of the examples that have played out in holidays past, but be prepared for the next new scam. And know that it will be too good to be true. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. Please email your questions to info@creativecaremanagement.com. Since our bodies process liquor differently as we get older, reconsider what may have been a healthful or safe amount of consumption in younger years. Carefully assess what medications are going to be mixing with the alcohol…does the alcohol dilute the health effect, amplify the side effects – allergy and sleeping meds are a real issue? Alcohol is not a one and done; it can have a cumulative negative effect on the immune system, the brain, heart, bones, digestive system and the senses. Alcohol makes a person sleepy, but it is a real sleep disrupter; “night caps” are a myth. Alcohol can create socially-disturbing situations; no one ever regretted saying something because they drank too little. By all means, wait for the next study. Note who has sponsored it, who the study subjects were and how long term they studied the subjects. And take note of how healthy the subjects were so that you can be as fit on all dimensions in order to consider if you want to be moderate on others. Charlotte Bishop is an Aging Life Care Advisor, Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. She also is the co-author of How Do I Know You? A Caregiver’s Lifesaver for Dealing with Dementia. Please consider what I am sharing with you here to be the raw material side of recommending some recipes for your upcoming Thanksgiving feast. By raw materials, I mean that these recommendations are not recipes, strictly speaking, but I am recommending your feast this week have ample quantities of vitamins D and E. In fact, you might carry these doses over into your regular diet after this week. If you are like most folks who have been following advice on healthy eating, you already appreciate that vitamin D is very important for bone health and vitamin E is central to heart health. But what you may not have seen is that both of these also are important to brain health. Separate studies have shown that vitamin E can help to keep Alzheimer's at bay and vitamin D can lower the risk of cognitive decline. Starting with the case for vitamin E, researchers at New York State University have studied the effect of regular quantities of walnuts (rich in vitamin E) on what they termed "Alzheimer's-susceptible mice." Granted, these are animal studies, but the nutrition needs of mammals can be generalized to some extent. And their results published just this month were quite striking. The group of mice in their experiment who consumed regular doses of walnuts showed statistically significant improvement in learning, memory, motor skills and even anxiety levels over the mice who received no walnuts. (How do they measure anxiety in mice?) No surprise that walnuts contain Omega-3 fatty acids as well as other antioxidants which have been proven in other studies to ward off cognitive decline. And then there is vitamin D. This was a study among older Italian adults rather than mice. The researchers tracked vitamin D levels of nearly 2,000 adults whose average age was 73.9 years for over four years. They found that those individuals with vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency (measured by their serum 25OHD) were more likely to have declining cognitive skills as measured by a standard test called the "Mini-Mental State Examination." This was compared to their baseline test at the outset of the study which showed all participants to begin at comparable and robust levels of mental ability. It is important to note that this second study simply noted the differences among individuals based on their blood serum levels and did not control what they ate. More testing will be needed to see if vitamin supplements can make a positive difference versus in mental capacity. And, of course, the first study was on mice, so it would be helpful to move this up to humans. And by the way, the amount humans would consume to give the equivalent dose for what the mice ate would be only about 1-1.5 ounces of walnuts daily. So, if you are a caregiver to an older loved one this holiday, these two studies may not include any recipes, per se, but they do suggest what you may wish to add to your Thanksgiving spread as well as the dinners that will follow. And you don't have to choose between these two vitamins; cover your bets by adding a bit of D and a bit of E. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. Please email your questions to info@creativecaremanagement.com. Well, not exactly, but if you or an older loved one goes to the hospital, beware of what can happen that is not outpatient, and it is not inpatient. They call it Observation, and it may seem like your loved one has been admitted for an overnight stay, because they do get “discharged” – but in this case in just about 23 hours. Because it is NOT an inpatient stay, it has a different payment requirement and according to recent research, it seems to unfairly target poorer Medicare-eligible Americans. According to the longstanding rules of Medicare, patients with this coverage pay a fixed cost for an inpatient stay and that is going to cover the majority of costs incurred while in the hospital as well as follow-up nursing care and even repeat hospitalizations that occur within two months of that first visit. There are also rules for the short stay that is less than 24 hours; they call this an “observational stay.” And if you are a caregiver to an older loved one, you will want to ask for a very clear answer whenever your loved one is in the hospital. You will want to ask the registration people or the nurse on their unit if this is an observational stay or an inpatient stay. The reason you need to ask is that there are substantial cost differences. A patient under “observation” will be billed for a one time out of pocket fee along with 20 percent of any hospital services bills and the tab for any medications. If you are told that this is to be an “observational” visit, get in touch with your loved one’s physician and have them go to bat for you. The hospital makes more money on an observational visit…and it may not be warranted. There is more. The poor pay more…more often that is. In a recent study by some policy researchers published in The American Journal of Medicine, they looked at the Medicare claims data for some 132,000 hospital observations across 97 percent of all the U.S. counties. They compared the wealthiest quarter of these patients with the poorest quarter and found that the patients in the poorest quartile were 24 percent more likely than their more affluent counterparts to have three or more observational stays in a year. We would like to think that no hospitals are looking to take undue advantage of poorer patients, and there is the potential for Medicaid to offset some of the difference. It does suggest, however, that less affluent patients may not have someone who goes to bat for them, someone who will ask the right questions. So, if you are a caregiver to an older loved one, now you know to ask the right questions. And you know what the answers should be. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. She also is the Amazon Bestseller and author of How Do I Know You: A Caregiver’s Lifesaver for Dealing with Dementia. Take care of the caregiver: The person whose needs most often are at the bottom of the list is the caregiver to an AD patient. Do something for you, and it will make it easier to do all those other things for all those other people. Be realistic: We all tend to have a notion about what the "holiday is supposed to be." That may not be feasible when a loved one has Alzheimer's, so work within the capabilities and the comfort zones of all concerned. Include everyone in the plan: If you talk over plans for the holiday with all the family, it can help all to enjoy the event. Everyone will have had a say in what happens and expectations will be better met. Avoid over-doing the alcohol: There is a great deal of loneliness in being a caregiver to a loved one in decline, so avoid the inclination to self-medicate. If you as a caregiver already feel melancholy, alcohol will only fuel the depression. Let visitors know: If visiting family does not know exactly what to expect from a loved one with AD, they probably will not act appropriately. Help them to understand about talking and living in the moment. Let your loved one know: For patients with early onset AD, there can be moments of lucidity as well as confusion. Help them to also be in the moment and not lapse into the sadness or even the angry outbursts that can come from AD's confusion. Manage the environment: AD can be confusing enough without exacerbating the challenge with a noisy environment. Helping your loved one to engage people in quieter surroundings can help everyone communicate better. As you navigate through the holidays, appreciate that they may not be as they once were before the intrusion of Alzheimer's, but you are making new memories for you and the rest of the family. With attention to some of these tips, you will find that the new experiences will help everyone's holidays to be their own new memories to cherish. Charlotte Bishop is a Geriatric Care Manager and founder of Creative Care Management, certified professionals who are geriatric advocates, resources, counselors and friends to older adults and their families in metropolitan Chicago. Please email your questions to info@creativecaremanagement.com.

2019-04-20T21:09:29Z

http://creativecaremanagement.com/tag/elder-resources/

Tickets are now on sale for this year's CCS Dance Academy End of Year Concert. CCS Dance Academy presents a night of dance set to your favourite artists, rock stars, pop stars and famous composers. 2. Select "Continue Shopping: This event" and order a DVD if required. Parents and Staff join us to enjoy a scrumptious morning tea as we give thanks to God for 2017. It’s a day to remember, to connect, to catch up, to be loved and to know you are appreciated. No RSVP needed. Parents and Staff join us to enjoy a scrumptious morning tea, prepared by Michelle Rogers and her senior Hospitality students, as we give thanks to God for 2017. It’s a day to remember, to connect, to catch up, to be loved and to know you are appreciated. No RSVP needed. Come and go as you need to. Together we want to say thank you for your partnership with the community at Covenant. We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. In collaboration with the Greener Communities and Waste Teams we are hosting a Beach Clean Up, an Outdoor viewing of A Plastic Ocean and a subsidised Manly SEA LIFE Sanctuary Tour on Saturday 25 November starting at 5:00pm at Manly Cove Beach. Our Creeks, Lagoons and Beaches are what making living on the Northern Beaches so special. However, plastic is threatening the place we hold so dear. Join us for this fun filled night to show your love for the sea and see how we can solve this plastic problem together. Outdoor Screening of A Plastic Ocean Starts at 7pm – BYO Picnic Blanket. Learn about Urban Art from Industry Professionals in this free hands on course. Sessions are held every Wednesday 4-6 pm for 6 weeks, starting November 1, ending December 6 at YoYo’s Youth Centre in Frenchs Forest. Things are sure busy at Covenant Christian School this term. You will no doubt have noticed by now that we are in the busyness of a building development, something we are very grateful to God for. The new C Block will be a wonderful addition to the resources of our school, and we are excited about the opportunities ahead. Besides the obvious, it is now week three of the HSC examinations, and a number of our students are now finished their final examinations, and many getting close to the end. We would appreciate your ongoing prayers for our students as they seek to communicate their understanding in their exams at this time, as they approach the last day of testing on November 7. But much more than that, our prayer is that the students, who complete Year 12 and move onto other things, will remember the things they were taught at school, and find their identity in Christ Jesus. On Monday, I was one of the parents picking up children after the Musical rehearsals, feeling thankful for the time our staff and students are putting into their preparations for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is only a few short weeks away. As you continue to pray, please remember our staff in particular, who on top of their enormous marking and reporting load, are giving up many hours to ensure that the show is a great success! Don’t forget to buy your tickets, and I look forward to seeing you there! As we come to the end of another year, it provides an opportunity to reflect on the things God has taught us, and the privilege it is to serve Him here at Covenant. For me, this year has been a year when I have learned much about trust. Trust in God and His sovereignty in all things. A reminder that He is in control and I am not. That His ways are higher than our ways, and that He is worthy of our trust. To God be the glory. ​This year, Covenant again hosted the annual Pushing the Boundaries Extension and Enrichment Day for Year 9 students. The day was a buzz of energy, creativity and academic fervour as 225 students from schools all around the state came together for a day of exciting workshops. This year, Covenant again hosted the annual Pushing the Boundaries Extension and Enrichment Day for Year 9 students. The day was a buzz of energy, creativity and academic fervour as 225 students from schools all around the state came together for a day of exciting workshops. There were nine morning workshops and nine afternoon workshops for students to consider. Topics were many and varied, from UNSW Engineering, to Philosophy to Digital Music and Psychology. The Australian Theatre for Young People hosted a Physical Theatre and Stage Fighting workshop for those who were dramatically inclined and the University of New South Wales hosted a coding workshop for those eager to develop their computing skills. It was fantastic to see students pushed creatively and academically with like-minded peers. Many were excited to experience subjects, which aren’t normally addressed in the regular curriculum. One highlight was seeing so many students from so many different schools come together and form new friendships. All in all, an exciting day! Year 9 IST visited Telstra and Apple in the city. At Telstra they spent time looking at the technology that Telstra use to both communicate and support their customer requirements. They looked at how technology is now being used in the home and also in the store. They saw how sensors are used to track popular products in store by looking at the location of people in the store and how prices on products are now updated digitally rather than printing new prices for stock. Students then went to Apple and looked into the history of Apple products up to the future. They focused on Augmented Reality and spent time learning to code using the new Swift application. At the beginning of the last holidays, I was lucky enough to be awarded a scholarship to attend SCIVIS which is Space Camp for visually impaired students held in the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama USA. I was just old enough to participate in the Advanced Space Academy which was pretty awesome. At the beginning of the last holidays, I was lucky enough to be awarded a scholarship to attend SCIVIS which is Space Camp for visually impaired students held at the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama USA. I was just old enough to participate in the Advanced Space Academy which was pretty awesome. I flew over with two students and two chaperones from the RIDBC (the people who support me at school). We were even allowed to sit in the cockpit once we had landed (which is really unusual nowadays with all the security stuff). We went a few days early so that we could get over the jetlag because you do not want to be tired at space camp as every day was from 7am-11pm. The camp facilities themselves are really cool. The dorms are replicas of shuttles and rockets and are designed to look like a futuristic space station. There are also various shuttles, rockets and military vehicles all around the camp. We were all put into teams of about 12 people and we stayed with our team for all 6 days of camp. As part of a team you do a lot of things together: eat meals, hang out, do missions and lots of physical and team building exercises to build up trust and believe me, you definitely want to trust your team at space camp, especially when you are relying on your team to not crash your shuttle when you are entering Earth’s atmosphere. We also completed many different space simulated missions. I was appointed shuttle commander on our final mission to Mars. Throughout the mission I had to fill out a checklist of things to do like pressing buttons, flicking switches and doing a lot of calculations so that you don’t aim your shuttle in the wrong direction. We had to fix malfunctions of the shuttle when a light from a panel of lights would turn on saying there was an “Oxygen deficiency” or “Rocket thrusters go offline” and things like that. These missions and situations really help you to think on your feet and handle stress quite well. We also had people from NASA come in and talk to us about their jobs, some of whom were visually impaired and they were doing really high-level jobs at NASA like engineering. Their stories were really encouraging for us because it showed us that nothing can stop us from pursuing our passion. The Physical Challenges are really full on, with the hardest one probably being the one where we have to climb to the top of a 35ft telegraph pole, stand on the top for a few seconds, and then jump off. At space camp, we were given a lot of different simulations to give the feeling of lack of gravity. We even went scuba diving (in a tank so no sharks!) which was really fun. We also went on a device called the 1:6 chair which holds 5/6 of your weight and gives you the experience of being super light. We also went on something called the multi-access trainer which spins you around and gives you the feeling of what it would be like if your shuttle was hit in space. Luckily, nobody threw up! We also took part in engineering challenges where we were given a small amount of time and fake money to design things like rockets (which we launched at the end of camp) and Mars land rovers. We also attended a lot of different seminars based on astronomy and history. Space Camp is open all year but once a year it is open to visually impaired students only. All the instruction and information is in Braille or large print so that everyone can participate. It was great to meet so many different people from around the world and see what their lives were like, and how they face their own challenges in life (I also had people believing 'drop bears' are real and Australia doesn’t have SpongeBob). I am so thankful for the opportunity to have attended Space Camp. I was sponsored by Northrup Grumman (which is a company who creates parts for the Shuttles and Rockets for NASA) and the RIDBC who sent over chaperones to take photos of our course. Space Camp was an unforgettable experience and something that I would recommend to anyone. Last week at Extend After School Care we were very creative. We made origami crabs and chatter boxes. On Tuesday we had a picnic and did running races from one side of the high school oval to the other. I think it was a very active week! Term 4 Working Bee will be held on Saturday 11 November, from 8:00am to 12:00pm. Working Bees are a great way to meet other members of our community while assisting the school in a practical way. Morning tea will be provided. Please bring a pair of gloves. Praise God for Jesus, who gave up His life for us, so that through faith in Him we can have life eternal, and are blessed in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing. Pray for HSC students as they continue their exams till next Tuesday. Pray for Duke of Ed Information night on Thursday. Give thanks and pray for teachers and students in Secondary School. Pray for safety around school during construction and for minimal disruption to staff and students. Pray for those grieving and suffering in our community, that God will give them comfort in this time. Pray for our students to know the hope and grace that is in Christ, to know that He gave His life for them, and to know that they are never alone in their struggles. Please join us in prayer from 9.00 - 9.30am on Thursdays in T9 (classroom between Preschool & K Block) during term time. If you are unable to come but would like to pray from home, please email us to receive a copy of the prayer notes. If you would like the Prayer Group to pray for you, please also email us at: prayergroup@covenant.nsw.edu.au. Many young people want to work with animals, but don’t know where to start looking. They also often feel like veterinary science is out of their reach. Here are a few websites and ideas to start researching jobs with animals. (Even though this an American website it has some good ideas and a good place to start thinking about potential jobs with animals. Note the pay scale would be different in Australia). Find out about mechatronic engineering. It is documented that around forty-four per cent of jobs are under threat from automation, according to CSIRO. And it’s not just manufacturing, even jobs like accounting and law are at risk. But the news is not all bad. Just as fast as robots are replacing jobs, new careers are being created and many of them are in robotics. Free ACE the HSC seminars for parents and students at Macquarie University & UTS. It is a series of seminars for Year 11/12 students and/or parents (10am-12:30pm) on Sunday 12th November. Topics include: Stress-Free HSC, HSC English presentation, exam/study strategies and parent information. Due to limited places, registration is essential. RSVPhttps://hscintheholidays.com.au or call 1300 677 336. Sat 4 November 10am-12pm, 2/40 Oxley St, St Leonards. Love interiors? The Open Day is an opportunity to explore a creative career in interior design and decoration. You'll get hands on building your own interiors mood board and find out everything you need to know about their accredited careers courses and flexible learning options. Becoming a commercial pilot is easier than you think according to the Sydney Flight College. If you have a Passion for Flying there is an opportunity to explore this further at the Sydney Flight College Open Day. Some free air experience flights to the first ten Y12 students to register for the open day on Sunday 19th November 2017 at Bankstown are available. To register for a free flight visithttp://bit.ly/2xI2Weo or call us on 9709 8488 for more information. Scholarships are available for study in 2018 across a range of areas including business, design, education, health, and hospitality. Throughout January, Whitehouse Institute are hosting short workshops that will give you introductory skills in fashion, interior design or photography. Time has flown by, and we are racing towards opening night of the Secondary School Musical ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ - the magical adventures of a flying car. Ninety people successfully auditioned as cast and chorus members. Time has flown by, and we are racing towards opening night of the Secondary School Musical ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ - the magical adventures of a flying car. Ninety people successfully auditioned as cast and chorus members. These fabulously DRIVEN performers have been working TIRE LESSLY for many Terms. Learning dances, memorising lines, TUNING their voices and rehearsing to the point of EXHAUST-ion. There have been extraordinary mothers behind the scenes sewing costumes. With 90 people in the cast, most have two or three costumes… that’s a lot of skirts and hats. The art department have been painting, the maintenance team have been building the most exciting props. So people - START YOUR ENGINES - REV YOUR MOTORS - this is going to be a the most FANTASMAGORICAL MUSICAL. There are four performances for you to enjoy. Opening night on the Wednesday, Thursday afternoon, stay after school with your friends to see the 4pm show. Then of course Friday night- bring your youth group along. And you can’t miss the excitement of closing night when Chitty flies away for ever! Also, we have a fabulous opportunity for you and your family and friends to have your photo taken in our magical car. Drama Teacher, Mrs Pitt, would like to leave you with a joke - what has four wheels and flies? Scroll down. Almost 40 years ago in 1978 on Saturday the 20th May, Dr Joel Nederhood, a radio Minister on the ‘Back to God Hour’, addressed the fundamental reason for why a group of parents set out to start Covenant Christian School. Our society has, basically, two answers to this question. There is the Marxist idea: children belong to the Government, they are part of the State. And so the State is in control of education. Children have to be taught that they grow up into the kind of persons the State wants them to become. Parents have no responsibility regarding education and should not do what the State has to do. Then we have the individualistic approach: these children are MY children, they are my possession and I can do with them as I please. This approach can have terrible consequences. Let us think for an instance of abortion. The basic thing here is that when you have a child, even an unborn child, then it is up to you what to do with that child. It is said: "It is the right of then mother to make a choice whether her child will live or die". The future of the child is dependent exclusively on what the mother decides will happen to the child. As Christians, we reject the notion that our children belong to the State. We also reject the notion that our children are the possession of the parents. As Christians we joyfully believe that our children are GOD's children. In 1 Corinthians 7 Paul is speaking about women who married unbelievers and husbands who married unbelieving wives. He then says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by her believing husband. Otherwise - he says - your children would be unclean, but no they are holy. Paul makes here an important point. Even though the marriage is not an idea one - one of a believer and an unbeliever - yet the child of a believing parent is a holy child. That does not mean that these children are perfect, but it means that these children have been set aside (the word "holy" often means that), they have a special position: they belong to God, they belong to the Covenant. What does the "Covenant" mean? It means that when God works His grace in this world He does not say: I include this man, that woman, that child; but when He comes in His grace He says: I will be your God and the god of your children. This does not mean our children are automatically saved because they are Covenant children. It means that before they know their right hand from their left, God comes into their lives with His message of Salvation. He sets His mark upon them and says: "this child belongs to Me!" That is the dynamic of the Covenant. What a blessing it is to be brought up in the fear of the Lord. What kind of children are they? The children of believers! What a wonderful and glorious privilege. We received our children from the hand of the Lord and we know that. Now it is our responsibility to bring up our children in the fear of the Lord. I like to approach this matter of Christian education first from the negative side; the alternative. Christian education is not just the icing on the cake - it is absolutely necessary, for the alternative is to bring them into a pagan temple! Let me show you what I mean by that. I don't want to day awful things about people. I know that there are wonderful people in the State schools and we thank God for teachers, principals and administrators in those schools who love the name of Jesus Christ. But I am talking about the State school as a system. Because education in the State school is pagan, the school itself is a pagan temple! A nation confesses its faith when it educates the children. It is a totally religious affair. Decisions have to be made which are fully religious. A decision has to be made whether there is a God who made everything. When education deals with all the things around us a choice is to be made: did God create it all or it is all the result of evolution? The answer is most important, and one way or another it is a religious answer! To mention another example: what exactly are the children, what is man? The State school says: man is part of the animal kingdom. That is a decision, a religious one! Or: what is the ultimate authority? Is it man's rationality or is it the Bible? Education is religious and the school is a temple. It is a pagan temple dedicated to naturalistic evolution, or a temple of our Lord Jesus Christ. Every day of every school period is a confession of faith When we talk about the world we say: "this is my Father's world." And we can't send our children to a place where the idols of this world are being worshiped all the time. A Christian school is not a school where we teach church doctrine. That is the church's responsibility. But it is the task of the school to witness to the children about the saving love of Jesus Christ. We teach them to think in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a tragedy of our time that so many children of Christian parents are sent to State schools. They may attend Sunday school, they may go to church and learn there to worship the LORD. And then they are sent to a school where they are taught to worship a secular idol.... State schools are fine schools for people who do not believe in Jesus. But there is no place in it for children who belong to God! To faithfully serve in God’s plan to restore all things under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. To assist parents in the nurture of their children, by providing a Christ-centred, biblically grounded, culturally engaging and academically rigorous education to equip the children to live for God’s glory. Recently, Rachael Lin (Year 9), Emily Stewart (Year 10) and Daniel Cooke, represented Covenant Christian School for the first time in the NSW Philosothon, hosted by St Andrew’s Cathedral School. Recently, Rachael Lin (Year 9), Emily Stewart (Year 10) and I, represented Covenant Christian School for the first time in the NSW Philosothon, hosted by St Andrew’s Cathedral School. Is it moral to create a donor baby? Is the mind a physical thing? The evening involved students from a range of schools such as Ascham School, North Sydney Girls High School, Meriden School and Cranbrook School (among others). Students ventured avenues such as utilitarianism, Kant’s Categorical Imperative, the transcendental qualities of mind and art, the planes of interaction between the brain and the mind, the sacrificial nature of safety, totalitarianism, and the true nature of Being, in an attempt to answer these perplexing questions. Overall, the night’s discussion was both fascinating and enriching for all students and spectators and it has hopefully encouraged students to consider with greater depth, issues or notions which may often be erroneously pawned off as being superfluous or pointless. Year 8 went to Orchard Hills Water Recycling Plant and St Mary's Water Recycling Plant to see how water is managed in the greater Sydney area. Orchard Hills provides Sydney with all its drinking water and the students learnt how this process is managed. St Mary's treats all the waste water that is generated by removing all the dirty items imaginable that are flushed away and once the water is treated it is returned to the river system. The students completed some scientific water testing to ensure our water meets drinking standard and learnt what we has humans can do to help manage this valuable resource. ​On Thursday 26 October, a team of 25 Secondary School students and seven Junior School students ventured to the International Regatta Centre, Penrith, to participate in triathlons and biathlons. For the majority of students, this was their first experience in participating in such an event. Thank you to the awesome support crew of Mrs McDonald, Mr Cochrane and the many parents who helped on the day with transporting students and bikes. The triathlon team are very grateful to be given this opportunity to compete in these events. Early one morning, 45 students loaded their instruments onto a coach ready for a day of music. Timpanis, Trumpets and Tenor Saxs were transported all the way to Newcastle where the Senior Band linked up with Music students from Belmont Christian College for a day of performances and workshops. Belmont Christian College's Principal, Miss Sopher, was at Covenant for over 10 years before taking up her new role in 2016. The College have just started a new band program in their Junior School, so our students were able to provide them with some workshops and section tutoring, as well as presenting a concert that will hopefully inspire them in their desire to pursue their instrument further. A fun day was had by all! Thanks Belmont for hosting us, and thanks to our teachers for letting us out of class for the day to make the most of this great opportunity.

2019-04-22T17:56:40Z

http://www.ourcovenant.com.au/newsletter/2017-term-4-week-4

We are actively developing over 2 million square feet of retail space on over 200 acres of land in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. To find a Dream Centre, click on the map below or scroll down. Tamarack is at the heart of a 1 million SF commercial node, which includes a brand new Walmart, and is ideally located to serve the destination, convenience and service needs of this large and growing community. Montrose is the Town of High River’s first master-planned community. High accessibility location with great visibility and frontage along three roads. Shadow anchored by the Calgary Co-op Supermarket and Liquor Store. Opportunities for units from 1,200 SF in 2017, and up to 25,000 SF in the second phase. The Shops of South Kensington is a grocery-anchored neighbourhood centre, home to several national retailers that bring excellent food and convenience options to the growing Kensington community. Leasing opportunities are available within the development. Located in an established community situated in Saskatoon’s north-west quadrant in close proximity to Saskatoon International Airport. Dream Centres is currently developing 33,000 SF of neighbourhood retail under construction, opening planned for 2019. Construction is underway at Brighton Marketplace, with the first phase opening Q2 2018. Tenants include Landmark Cinemas, Save-on-Foods, Motion Fitness, The Keg and many others. Opportunities exist for restaurants, QSR, and service retail uses from 1,200 to 20,000 SF with openings in 2018 to 2020. The Brighton Village Centre will be the heart of the Brighton neighbourhood, providing daily goods and services for its current residents as well as the future residents in the neighbourhood to the east. In addition to the retail component, medium-density apartments and townhouses will be incorporated into the Village Centre, intended to provide a supporting population to create a vibrant place to live, with tree-lined streets and rear parking areas to promote attractive streetscapes. Located on the south side of St. Clair Avenue, in the City of Toronto, this development is shadow anchored by a commercial development which includes tenants such as Walmart, TD Bank, and Tim Hortons. This neighbourhood is known as “The Stockyards” and has undergone a transformation from predominantly industrial uses to a mix of uses including retail since the early 2000s. Space is available for restaurant, QSR and service/professional uses. In 2001, Dream and Cityscape Holdings partnered and purchased the Distillery District, a then derelict collection of Victorian industrial buildings and former home to the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, one of Canada’s largest distilleries. Armed with a vision to create a community that would preserve its unique heritage and architecture while honoring the community as a national historic site. The team successfully fused old and new into an inspired blend of Victorian Industrial architecture and stunning 21st century design and creativity. Resulting in an internationally acclaimed village of one-of-a-kind residences, offices, stores, shops, galleries, studios, restaurants, cafes, theatres and more. Just minutes to Toronto’s downtown core, easily accessible via public transit and just a short distance from the Gardiner, Lakeshore and DVP, the Distillery District is well located to live, work and play. The Carnaby condo development is the final addition to Streetcar’s Queen West neighbourhood and completes the urban district of five boutique loft buildings. At street level, these five buildings will be connected through an artfully landscaped courtyard, bringing a Soho-esque vibe to the area and 48,559 SF of ground floor and lower level retail. Canary District is the city’s new and dynamic health and wellness community, located at Front and Cherry Street, in the heart of Toronto’s Downtown East. The neighbourhood features a spectacular 18-acre Corktown Common Park, Toronto’s new flagship YMCA and a new George Brown College Residence. Within a beautiful setting, including inspiring works of public art and ample green spaces, Canary District is a highly walkable neighbourhood. Canary District has exciting opportunities for retail, restaurant, service retail and quick-serve concepts. We are seeking premier partners to join us in becoming a prosperous new community with prime frontage on Front Street East. Opportunities for all types of business’s with suites in a variety of sizes, the Canary District can be the solution for your business. Located at the corner of Queen Street East and Carroll Street. Newly developed retail and office space that features high ceilings and great access to Toronto’s east end.The Canary District, and Leslieville to the East. Excellent visibility directly on King St. Great retail corner location close to Corktown, The Canary District, and Leslieville to the East. Excellent visibility directly on King St. Located on the northwest corner of King and Simcoe, this 6-storey architectural and historical beauty is situated in Toronto’s bustling Entertainment District within walking distance of Roy Thomson Hall, the PATH system, numerous restaurants, and the financial core. It is an ideal restaurant or retail location in the heart of the Entertainment District. 69 Richmond Street West is located in the heart of Toronto’s Financial Core, at Bay Street. This building is steps away from the subway and the PATH. This exciting retail, restaurant or showroom flagship opportunity puts your business in the midst of downtown action while providing customers and clients with fast, easy access to your location. Situated minutes from the financial core with frontage on Toronto’s popular and unique Elm street, 655 Bay Street offers the perfect location for any retail business use. Close proximity to Yonge-Dundas Square, The Eaton Centre and city core puts your business in the midst of downtown action while providing customers and clients with fast, easy access to your retail location. In a prime Bay Street location at the corner of Bay Street and Temperance Street, 360 Bay is steps away from Toronto’s PATH, transit options, Toronto Eaton Centre and numerous downtown amenities. This 2,536 SF retail space provides an excellent location for any retail business, in the midst of the downtown action. Eastbrook is the newest master-planned community in Regina’s southeast quadrant. The neighbourhood is expected to accommodate more than 3,500 residential units and 8,000 people upon completion. Located at the intersection of Arens Road and Chuka Boulevard, the Urban Village is strategically positioned at the heart of Eastbrook to serve as the focal point of activity. Situated in the new Coopertown Community that spans over 1,900 acres and will be home to 35,000 residents. Targeted for a grocery store, drug store and neighbourhood convenience-oriented restaurants and services. Construction starts Summer 2019, with openings in Summer/Fall 2020. Across the street, Harbour Landing Commercial Campus features high-end design catering to medical professionals, office users and retailers. Situated along one of the community’s largest green spaces, the mix of a professional daytime population and busy retail traffic sets this site apart from any other development in Regina. Located at the intersection of Lewvan Drive and Parliament Avenue, The Runway will feature a new 40,000 foot Sherwood Co-op Food Store along with a mix of local and national restaurants, shops and services. Openings are scheduled for Summer 2019/2020. Mississauga’s newest community, is a development located along a central piece of Port Credit’s Waterfront on Lake Ontario. This 73-acre site will balance mixed-use lifestyle along with over 14 acres of parks and recreation. The site will consist of approximately 340,000 SF of retail and commercial and approximately 2.7 million SF of residential, consisting of 540 townhouses and 1,960 condominiums. Location in downtown Montréal’s vibrant Quartier International de Montréal with a direct connection to the Metro/subway, steps to Central Train Station and with great shopping, restaurants and lounges, cafés and convenient services in the area, 700 De La Gauchetière provides businesses and tenants with an excellent work environment. This multi-phase, mixed-use development will transform derelict land into something completely unique in the National Capital Region. Not only is Zibi poised to become one of the most environmentally conscious communities in Canada, it will also be the largest community seeking certification of a One Planet designation. Truly one-of-a-kind.

2019-04-19T19:05:36Z

http://www.dream.ca/centres/project/

Level 1: Searching for Dante. Push your way through the crowds at Gare du Nord to find the Hertz office (along with other rental agencies) in a subterranean catacomb. Take an elevator further down; descend a flight of stairs to find your car wedged in a stall with 2 inches to spare on either side. The lighting is dim, the cavern walls damp. Crawl across the gear shift to the driver’s side, wriggle the car out of the space, trying not to ride the clutch. You have completed the novice qualifying round! Offer the keys to your son-in-law who has spent the last week driving a stick-shift through the Spanish Pyrenees and has a fearless attitude. He accepts the challenge and agrees to complete the course. Level 2: The Corkscrew. Follow the exit signs to a circular ramp with such an incredibly tight screw that, for five levels, walls on both sides are scarred by the paint of past vehicles trying to escape: black, gray, blue and blood red scrapes reflect the screaming curses of previous drivers. You creep out unscathed amid cheers and adulation from the passengers in the back seat! Level 3: The Street Market. Debouche (we’re practicing French!) into a traffic jam; make a wrong turn and end up in the middle of a market. The sliver of street has parked cars on one side; stalls of fruits and vegetables, handbags and scarves on the other. Vendors hawk their wares in strident pleas. An elderly woman, back bent into a question mark and wearing a frayed pink cardigan staggers in front of your car while pulling her trolley of groceries home. You do not hit her! Cars, bicyclists and motor scooters clog the road. You try shortcuts, have no clue where you’re going. Your co-pilot pulls out the GPS. Level 4: The Peripherique and the By-ways. Take advantage of the straight-away and catch your breath. Six lanes of organized traffic bring your heart beat back to normal. You stop for lunch and to smell the roses at a roadside rest. You dawdle through beautiful small towns in Normandy. It’s easy driving. Where’s the NASCAR challenge? Level 5: Pick Up Speed. Resume the challenge when you return to Paris on the Peripherique. You need to buy gas or pay a $225 fee to Hertz. Catch a glimpse of a gas pump icon on an exit to Place de la Porte Maillot– zoom across five lanes of traffic and swerve on to a city street. Brake quickly as you find yourself in the Bois de Boulogne, traffic inching along in stodgy lanes. Old men sit on benches; children squeal in the playground. It is rush hour, but no one is rushing in the Bois. No gas station is to be seen. You do not lose your temper! Level 6: Pit Stop. Circle back to the Place. Ask a gendarme for directions to the gas station. He says to go straight on and then descend into an underground parking area that also vends gasoline. Miss the turn, circle back … plunge down the chute to the unvented parking garage filled with gas fumes. Fill the tank, then realize that the exit is a 45 degree uphill plane. Slam the car into gear, flatten the gas pedal and pray. You spurt out into the oncoming traffic that miraculously swerves around you! Level 7: Final Triumph. Shoot along the Avenue de la Grande Armee. Undisciplined traffic bucks and plunges alongside the rental car as you circle the Arch of Triumph, holding the inside like a good racehorse. A bicyclist looks scornfully at your hand-held GPS as he dares you to hit him. Dodging scooters and delivery trucks, you dare a purple Mini Cooper to challenge your progress; she backs down with a look of dismay at being bested by a tourist. Your breath becomes quick and shallow; you focus on speed, crevices in the traffic, and screech out of the circle – the exit to Avenue de Friedland, the final straight-away to Gare du Nord and the Hertz return. You cruise through the last stretch. After a quick left and then an immediate right into the station, the checkered flag is waved! The Winner and CHAMPION with no scrapes, no dents, no penalties, no deaths! We are ensconced in our apartment in Montmartre, with its incredible view of the Sacre Coeur and the rooftops of Paris. At night music and cigarette smoke drift through the open balcony doors from the Square de Willette seven floors below. Like Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, I am quite sure that Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds and Sartre are driving about the streets, and I will run into them around the next corner! The apartment is everything that it was advertised to be on the Vacation Rentals by Owner Website (VRBO). We have two bedrooms, a separate water closet, a dishwasher, and even a washing machine! But what we didn’t have was an extra supply of wine glasses for entertaining our family. Since the apartment had been recently refurbished with IKEA home design, we decided to buy some matching glassware. The nearest IKEA was in Roissy, at the Parc des Expositions. We felt very global – Americans searching out a Swedish store in France. But getting there without a car was the challenge! We consulted the Website for public transport directions: first a Metro, then a train, then a local bus. We’re Metro pro’s now, so we were soon at Gare du Nord, one of the major train stations. Buying a train ticket presented the first predicament – the automatic machines took only coins, and we had bills. After fierce negotiations with the official at the Bureau de Change whose job, he reiterated emphatically, was to exchange foreign currency NOT Euro’s, we emerged victorious having traded our Euro paper for Euro coins. We popped our money into the machine, and out popped two tickets. To Go … or Not to Go? Looping our way through the throngs, we arrived at the designated platform. A train was waiting … but was it ours? As we puzzled through the list of stations searching for “Expositions,” the warning bell rang. To go … or not to go… that was the question! Passengers crowded forward. The bell rang again, and the doors began to close. We shrugged, and with inches to spare, we leaped aboard. What did we have to lose? If the train wasn’t going where we wanted to go, we could just get a return ticket at the “unknown destination.” Or, if the unknown destination turned out to be fun, perhaps we would buy a toothbrush and stay there for a day or two! The train interior was utilitarian, with plush seats worn to a hard glaze. Outside, the cinder track beds ran alongside each other; power lines rusted overhead. I thought of black/white movies of troop trains going through a gray and rain-soaked Europe, but the houses along the track had colorful window boxes behind the hedges and shutters thrown wide to catch the afternoon sun. I wondered how they had looked when my uncles were part of the liberation in 1945. How Do You Say IKEA? After screeching stops at various stations, the train surprisingly halted at Parc des Expositions! We scrambled out of our seats and on to the platform. The Website had suggested bus number 640 or 23; each had its own bay and we settled uneasily between the two, ready to board quickly when one or the other arrived. Bus 640 rolled in and I approached the driver, “Est-ce quec’est l’autobus du magasin …?” I hesitated. How do you say “IKEA” in French? I substituted. “…du magasin de la Suede? …Does this bus go to the store from Sweden?” The driver grinned. “Oui, madame. Cet autobus va EYE-KEY’-AH” . It sounded like the IKEA in Minneapolis, Houston, Denver, and probably in Sweden as well! He made sure we got off at the right stop. Far more confident and many Euro’s less, we returned by bus, train and metro to the apartment … bearing wine glasses and other impulse purchases. We were impressed with ourselves – especially with our spontaneous decision to jump on the train to nowhere at the last minute! If we had ended up on the Riviera or in the Dordogne Valley, we would have bought toothbrushes. We have all the time in the world … or at least six more weeks! We filled our glasses, stood on the balcony and saluted the Sacre Coeur with a good chardonnay! “You ride the Metro?!” Parisian friends had been aghast that we would be so common, but then fearing they had offended us quickly modified their stance. “Well, I guess it works very well for tourists and students to get around Paris.” It also works very well for those of us who have decided to live the life of a Montmartre local for two months. With photos in hand we stood in line behind 30 or so others at the ticket/information booth at Gare du Nord .Only one attendant was on duty; we marveled aloud at his patience as he sold train tickets to London, answered questions about Metro connections, explained the value of Euros, sympathized with a couple who had missed their train to Amsterdam. The blonde university student behind us in the queue listened to Perk and me chatter, and then asked in broken English why we had the photos. We explained about the month’s pass. As the queue wound slowly forward, Perk worked with her to figure out which would be the most economical package for her three-week stay in Paris. (You know how he LOVES numbers!) She decided on the month’s pass, but needed to get her picture taken. At least thirty more people had joined the queue behind us. She pondered. Were the savings worth losing her place in line? “You get your picture taken, and we’ll save your spot,” we volunteered. The students behind her agreed to the plan and she loped toward the nearby kiosk. Soon she was engaged in an argument with a uniformed agent. He kept shaking his head forcefully, “No, No, NO!” She kept arguing, gesturing toward Perk and me. “Yes, Yes, YES!” The uniform eyed us suspiciously as she kept talking. What was she telling him? Why did he keep looking at us? Did he think we were smugglers, terrorists? Had he seen Perk’s picture? The ticket line moved forward as they argued. Only two groups were ahead of us. Finally he shrugged, and she dodged into the photo booth; the uniform continued to watch us closely. Within minutes and pictures in hand, she jumped into line behind us. The agent grimaced and moved away. “Thank you,” she gasped. “The kiosk attendant wanted to work on the machine. He said he would take 30 minutes. I said, ‘No, I must have my picture taken NOW.’ He argued. “Adorable” in the US. “Gentille” in France. Either will do. I am going to Paris for two months with only one suitcase (thanks to the washing machine in the apartment we’ve rented). When my in-laws visited us, they drove a station wagon from Memphis to Minneapolis because my mother-in-law Mary brought everything in her closet! Although I adopted Mary’s philosophy enthusiastically, we scaled it down a bit and usually traveled with two suitcases for me, two for each of the children, two for Perk – plus assorted carry-on pieces – a tour group’s worth of baggage for four people. Of course we brought most of the clothes home unworn, but we always had everything we needed! And then I ran into an uncooperative airline agent. After a business trip to Malaysia and Hong Kong (and after too many non-business trips into the local markets) I was heading home with suitcases strapped shut. Airline baggage restrictions had changed, but I hadn’t changed my habits. From that day forward, I weighed my luggage wih a handheld scale that lets me know if I’m going to run into any overwieight luggage problems. AND I vowed to have plenty of room in my suitcase for new items by taking less to begin with! Take less; bring more home! I created a travel planner that has made my vagabond life much easier! I enter the activities that I think I might be going to do each day; I choose the clothes and shoes that I might wear, and add them in the grid. Then I consider what I could possibly wear twice, and cut my list in half; I transfer the clothes into the bottom half of the planner for packing purposes… and voila! I can usually cut another third off the list when I see that I planned to take three black sweaters when I only need one (or maybe two). I know that I have done a great job of planning when I return home and drop my suitcase by the washing machine because everything in the bag needs laundering! The best part is that if I don’t have what I need, I “have” to go shopping. And whether I need those hand-stitched shoes and pewter vases or not, I now have plenty of room for them in my suitcase! Save time, save space, save money! Download the free and editable Cyndee Perkins basic travel planner from Google docs. One of my favorite playthings was a table-top wooden map of the US, with each state cut separately and painted a bright color – the better to distinguish it from its neighbors. I loved putting the map together, hearing the slap of wood against wood as I plunked the states into place in the frame. I always started with the easiest piece, Florida’s dangling peninsula; it was bright orange – a perfect color choice since oranges came from there. Blue California next to the ocean was second, then butter-bright Texas with its yellow roses. One-by-one I slipped the states next to each other until I had a paint-palette of geography. One day I overheard my mother and a friend discussing the Arizona desert. NOW I understood why the Arizona piece was tan! South Dakota was deep green, of course – thick grass grew in our yard, leaf canopies shaded our house, and July’s knee-high corn covered the fields outside of town. Yes, the South Dakota puzzle piece was a satisfying, lush, expected green. How long before we got to Iowa? How far away would we be before I could see it? How much further did we have to go? Was it over the next hill? My parents were confused; Iowa was not a big deal. Why was I so excited? And sunglasses? I watched cornfields go by, regularly punctuated by the dwindling mile markers – Five miles to go, Four, Three – I was bouncing in my seat! Two, One! “Here it is!” my mother exclaimed, looking at me expectantly … and I burst into tears. The key to traveling anywhere in the world is simply to love the experience. I got over that Iowa was disappointingly green. I had a wonderful time riding the horses, picking berries and wading in the Chickasaw Creek. Since that fateful trip, I have learned a lot of travel lessons, most of which have been a result of making the wrong assumptions, not following directions, or just being too eager to jump into the middle of things. When I have unrealistic expectations about a travel adventure, I’m likely to be disappointed … but as soon as I “get over it,” I have a great time!

2019-04-19T00:17:44Z

https://cyndeeperkins.com/category/travel-adventures/page/2/

This third of five interviews with top U.S. cyclocross course builders features the man behind this weekend’s Charm City Cross in Baltimore, Md. Jay Lazar is a Baltimore resident, a masters racer and the chief designer of the parcours, which first received UCI C1 status in 2016. He spoke with soon-to-be Belgium-based professional cross racer Andrew Juiliano for this feature, which first appeared in abridged form in ROAD Magazine. Tell me a bit about your day job. What is a hydrographer? My background is in nautical charting and sea-floor mapping. Basically, it’s going out in a boat using sonar, GPS, and other sensors to collect seabed data. I apply it in a habitat sense. I do native oyster restoration work. I’m a hydrographer by training, and I coordinate our offsite program in the Annapolis [Maryland] area and the Chesapeake Bay. I went to school at N.C. State and did a marine resource management program. Instead of going onto graduate school, I got an opportunity to work for NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] up in Alaska doing nautical charting. That got the ball moving in 1997. I never really looked back from there. One good opportunity opened up after another. Is there any crossover between seafloor charting and building cyclocross courses? It’s kind of funny. In a way there is because you need a good understanding of the terrain for both. We design restoration projects for oysters in the bay, and a big part of that is having an understanding of the terrain that you have, where things have historically worked and where they haven’t, taking into account the flow of water over a particular feature. I’ve never really thought about it, but in a way there is a huge amount of crossover. What is your background in cycling and course design? Cycling background started with BMX in the mid-’80s, recreational mountain biking since the mid-’90s, triathlon in the mid-2000s, and cyclocross since 2008. How many courses have you designed and built? In 2011, I offered up some ideas and took over the course building at Charm City. I’ve been completely responsible for building Charm City since then, and I played an advisory role on another, Milkhouse CX, which was a one-time race. First, I get as familiar with the terrain’s major and subtle features as I can. Then, I sketch. I sketch out options for everything. I look at where the start and finish might be as well as how the course and features will flow. When I’m laying everything out, one of the biggest things for me is how to make it really successful for the spectators that are there, and not just the spectators that would come to the course anyway, but the general fans who live in Baltimore. We try to be thoughtful about how to make it as good as possible for both the spectators and the racers. The entire race team [C3-Twenty20 Cycling] comes together a few days before the event, and that’s when a lot of the magic actually happens. We have a general concept and a general design, but we think about how we want to do it different each year, and how we want to take advantage of subtle features. Kris Auer [former course designer and the promoter for Charm City] has continued to have a huge hand in final preparations. We’ve been really fortunate over the past several years to have Stef Wyman, Helen Wyman’s husband, out participating in the race. He’s also out there with us, getting in the trenches helping us out. I’m so new to this, but guys are willing to throw down some ideas and spend the time to make the course what it is. Those are opportunities for me to learn from. Every year, we get together and try to figure out a way to make it fresh. What makes a good cyclocross course? It starts with a good variety of terrain and then the thoughtful use of both obstacles and features using that terrain. The Mid-Atlantic rarely sees good “cyclocross” weather, but a course should be designed around that day the weather works out to be wet. What is the defining feature of the Charm City course? The Charm City course has evolved over the years, but recent versions have been defined by the use of the Mansion House climb and series of large stairs. I pushed to expand the course onto that Mansion Hill section [feature photo] to really open it up and give it a more spectator-friendly atmosphere. That section also added a high point of elevation that everyone had to get up. Before we switched over to the Mansion House field, there was much less variety of terrain and it was very twisty through the oaks and lower fields. It moved the start to the other side of the park. It opened up the opportunity to take it up to that high point on the hill and to use that elevation so it just didn’t feel gratuitous. You can have a bunch of terrain and features, but some races don’t use those features thoughtfully. Ellen Noble leads Emma White up a series of stairs at Charm City Cross 2016. What is your favorite domestic course? Domestically, Asheville Nationals had it all. They really set the bar where it should be for cyclocross in the U.S. I really liked the way it flowed. I felt like it crisscrossed the park — it came back and forth on itself. I liked the incorporation of the big hill run-up and the multiple run-ups, the fact you were forced off your bike multiple times. I don’t think anyone could ride that entire course. There was a lot of thought put into the amazing features that were there. I loved the cow pasture that dropped down through the wooded section. That was hard. You don’t see a lot of that in most courses. It was a fun course. I really enjoyed racing it and thinking about what they did. What is your favorite international course? When I’m on a trainer, I try to watch as many European races as I can, and there are so many features that I’ll look at and think, “Oh, we could do that at Charm City.” There’s this one hill in Baltimore that you go up and down several times [in succession] by the team tents, and that’s something that I pulled from Ruddervoorde. I liked how they had a handful of features on that course and I thought they used them really well. I love a lot of the big-terrain courses. I love Namur and the citadel. To have that kind of a venue to host a race, and the kind of features that they have there—I hope to get over there and watch one of those races one time. Those are two totally different courses, but they both stand out for me for different reasons. Do you race? If so, how does that influence your course design? I do, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic region. I approach racing different venues as an opportunity to learn what other course designers are doing well, and I think about how to incorporate that thoughtfulness back into Charm City or any other course I may have a hand in designing. I feel like people who use off-camber really well have influenced some of the design at Charm City. Whenever I’m at a race and they’ve put in a really thoughtful feature or used some subtle terrain in a way that can especially be a game changer in a race, that’s the kind of thing that I try to pay attention to. I think about where I have something similar to add a particular feature like that [in Baltimore]. Are there any unique regional considerations when designing the course? As I mentioned, the Mid-Atlantic region is pretty dry. I try to think about maintaining good flow without having the race be all about pedaling. Breaking up the race with more off-the-bike time is not used enough, in my humble opinion. Are courses challenging enough in the U.S.? For me I’d say mostly no. There are exceptions but most courses are dumbed-down for the beginner and youth racers to the detriment of the development of those racers and the sport in the U.S. An exception that comes to mind is in our local Super Eight race series [now Bikereg Super Series], Capital ‘Cross Classic. It has great terrain. The course designer and promoter, Bruce Buckley, puts a lot of thought into keeping it fresh and making it challenging. It’s a hard course, but it’s a fun course too. Admittedly, my sample size is not so big since I don’t get out much and travel around the country. There are courses that you hear about that are hard, like [Jingle Cross in] Iowa. I hope to get out and see that. I think that Louisville at Worlds in Eva Bandman Park, it looked hard, and hard in a really fun way. That was one that I did get to see, but I didn’t get to ride. What are your thoughts on pro-only sections? They’re mixed. If more courses were more challenging then they wouldn’t be needed. Mostly, I say this as a masters racer who will ride anything that a pro will ride. That said, we have too many easy courses and therefore, pro-only sections have a place. What was your goal when you designed the Charm City Course? Personally I thought Charm City was one of the hardest courses I raced this past year, not so much technically but just physically. It was brutal with the mix of elevation on the Mansion Hill and all the punchy climbs. We don’t have the technical stuff and that’s part of the reason why that course has been so hard. I’m glad you said that. I don’t know whether or not it needs to be kept the way it is. I know it’s hard. There are times where it’s been one of the hardest races that I’ve done throughout the year. It is hard. Because we don’t have some of those defining technical features, we do want it to be hard. At the same time, I would feel terrible if people came away from it thinking it was just a pedaler’s course. I want to build a driver’s course. You need to have the technical ability to still ride your bike and go fast. I never have really heard that [about Charm City]. I often hear from people that Charm City was one of the hardest courses they did all year, and it was a lot of fun: “It hurt in a way that I loved.” That Ruddervoorde section can be tough [both technically and physically]. It’s hard pedaling but you still have to be thoughtful about steering at the bottom of each descent/climb since the turns are on the off cambers. Fun and hard are synonymous sometimes, but as long as that combination happens, I feel like we’ve done our job. Great interview about a great course!

2019-04-25T14:10:15Z

https://www.cxhairs.com/2017/10/06/the-course-creators-charm-city-cross/

Since tech businesses have numerous functionalities, it’s not exactly wise to categorize them all into one batch when it comes to WordPress themes. However, that’s why so many theme developers have put together solutions that allow for the ultimate customization. Looking for a tech theme brings up some questions. Most notably, what should you look for in a technology theme? To start, all of the listings below are responsive, and they have lightweight builds with speed in mind. In addition, you’ll find options for pricing tables, eCommerce, service listings and email collecting. Knowledge bases and forums are common for IT companies, while you’re always going to want at least the option of having a blog. Who Might Find These Tech and Hosting Options Useful? This one is a little obvious, but the whole point of these themes is to generate websites with modern looks and the functionality for selling and displaying products and services. Therefore, IT, hosting and tech businesses are the obvious choices when thinking about who might find the following themes useful. However, we must also think about some other companies like app developers, freelance designers, software companies and the many other brands that make up this space. The Nucleus WordPress theme offers a solid start to this list because it’s a multipurpose theme. We say this because it’s often tricky trying to find the ultimate solution for all tech and IT companies. With Nucleus, you have the opportunity to design a website the way you want, but it also caters to the world of technology with certain design elements, icons and typography. First of all, you receive a wide range of premium integrations and plugins, such as the Master Slider plugin for showcasing deals, products and new services. The Visual Composer plugin is packaged in with your purchase for dragging and dropping elements on the backend, while the WooCommerce plugin goes well with the Nucleus theme if you’d like to start collecting money from customers. With the Nucleus WordPress theme you get to start with six premade homepages, each of which enable you to begin your design without a blank slate. For example, one of them is for an app landing page showcase, while another works nicely for a startup landing page. The responsive design works well on all mobile devices, which is particularly important for boosting your SEO and giving tech customers a chance to contact you while they’re on the go. Each of the demos have their own little features and perks. For example, one of them is built for conferences and events. You gain access to a countdown timer, along with a module for listing off all of the speakers who are going to be at the event. Overall, the Nucleus WordPress theme is an impressive match for the tech world, with an impressive set of demos and features. Try out the 3D Printing WordPress theme if you’re looking for both a responsive and elegant technology option. Although the developers say that it’s made for 3D printing companies, just about any type of business in the tech sector could have a go at this one. It all starts with the Visual Composer plugin, which allows you to drag and drop elements without touching a line of code. In addition, the Revolution slider plugin is there if you’d like to feature some image slides at the top of your site. The unique design comes with free updates throughout the life of your site, and you’ll find that the wide and boxed width settings get you started with some simple customizations. The unlimited color presets are impressive, as they can certainly help out with branding. Keep in mind that the 3D Printing theme allows for an online store, so if you’d like to sell and collect money for your products, it’s all done through the theme and potentially an eCommerce plugin like WooCommerce. A parallax effect is prominent in the background, so when a user scrolls down on the page they see the slow movements of your backgrounds to keep the eyes on the most important content. Along with a contact form, the 3D Printing theme comes with a beautiful gallery/portfolio. We like this particularly for those companies that need to show off their past work, since the thumbnail imagery is enough to convince potential clients. As a final note, the theme provides some impressive blog layouts and demo content. This way you don’t need to worry about starting from scratch, and the design process will be that much faster. Consider the Arlo Tech & Digital Business Theme if you’re interested in a fresh look for your technology business. The multipurpose option gives you an impressive number of demos to get your feet wet, while the gradient slider is pretty easy to manage when you have announcements that all of your site visitors should see. This is a full responsive theme for the best viewing experience on all devices, and the interactive dots background effect is sure to bring eyes to the content that matters most. You get to use the Visual Composer editor plugin, which is by far the best solution on the market. No coding is required, which is particularly useful for beginners with no coding experience. Not to mention, the WooCommerce plugin combines well with the Arlo Tech & Digital Business Theme, turning your site into a beautiful online store. There are some parallax effects that we’ve noticed on the demo, so if you’d like that to occur on your header then you shouldn’t have any problems at all. In addition, the header/slider provides a simple overlaying button and text module, which we enjoy for announcing new products or inserting a call to action. Since you get so many demos with the Arlo Tech & Digital Business Theme, we would like to outline just a few of them. For example, one of them is built just for a product showcase. Another demo has the functionality for displaying your app and getting people to download it. Some of the other demos include a Vcard, portfolio, portfolio with parallax effect, a simple business demo and more. It’s a solid theme for quite a few business types out there, so give it a try. The ProHost WordPress theme delivers an impressive number of features for hosting companies. The modern and functional option provides lots of shortcodes for you to play around with. For example, if you’d like to insert a button or column on your homepage, you generally only have to grab a shortcode, eliminating the need to create your own custom CSS. The Visual Composer is yet another handy tool for optimizing your website and speeding up the development process. This is a fully responsive theme that looks just wonderful on tablets, phones and computers. This functionality is only going to help you out with the search engines, and we’re certain your customers will find it pleasing to the eye as well. The two homepage layouts are rather similar to what you would see on any hosting site, with a slider and large call to actions that announce what the hosting pricing looks like. You’ll also find a spot to show pricing plans, for when people would like to signup. The translation options are rather useful as well, considering so many of the customers that come in for a hosting company are not necessarily going to speak English. Along with that, the ProHost WordPress theme boasts a unique media content manager for when companies need to keep track of imagery and make sure it’s always the right size. WooCommerce also combines nicely with the theme, allowing for you to collect payments from customers who want hosting from you. We talked about shortcodes a little bit above, but the true outlying feature comes in the form of a shortcode builder, which is handy for when you need to create a somewhat unique webpage element without generating your own custom CSS. For example, image formatting and buttons are generally possible through a shortcode builder. The Future 16 WordPress theme enables you to get your digital technology business off the ground. It comes with the Revolution Slider plugin, and all of the elements on the website looks wonderful on mobile devices. The drag and drop page builder is enough to speed up the development process for both beginners and advanced users, while the unlimited color and background solutions are essential when trying to brand your site and turn it into something a little more unique. The responsive design looks nice on all devices, and you’re bound to love the WooCommerce integration, since it’s just about the easiest plugin implementation you’ll stumble upon. Overall, the Future 16 WordPress theme has quite a bit to offer. Along with a modern design, shortcode generator and several custom widgets for placing in your footer, it’s one of the broader themes that any tech company could work with. You can’t create tech websites by following the conventional approach. Rather, you need specialized templates like IT company for developing fully featured IT and technology sites. As the theme supports several post types and formats, you can publish different types of content. The powerful admin panel includes the necessary options to control the appearance. The WPML-certified template is perfect for multilingual IT sites. There are lots of shortcodes for creating different elements. The custom widgets will be useful for building the sidebar and footer sections. Since you will get lifetime updates, there’s no need to worry about the functionality and compatibility in the future. The clean, modern design of Endeavor makes it a great choice for developing IT company websites. There are more than 50 different widget positions to help you create any layout you want. You can use both photos and videos in the integrated full-screen slider. The real-time customizer allows you to make various changes and check out the output at the same time. You can choose any of the five built-in color schemes or create your own. As the template comes pre-packaged with the “Coming Soon” and 404 pages, you won’t have to create these from scratch. StartIT is an immensely popular technology theme with 21 unique demos and lots of customizations for managing the styling options. The dedicated blog and portfolio layouts will help you show your expertise by adding projects and publishing regular posts. Don’t have the time to create the necessary posts and pages? Feel free to use the one-click demo import feature and get your dummy website ready within a few minutes. StartIT also supports WooCommerce, Google Fonts, and Font Icons. The extensive documentation will help you get started and utilize the available features. Do you plan to publish lots of blog posts from your tech site? If you do, MH Magazine should be one of your top choices. Thanks to the fully widgetized home page, you can feature the latest and popular posts in a prominent manner. There are several strategically positioned ad locations to maximize your earning. You can get started with any of the available layouts or create your own design. Complete Google Fonts integration allows you to choose unique fonts, while the professional code quality will ensure the best performance of your IT and technology site. IT Consulting’s powerful drag-and-drop builder enables you to create different types of IT and technology websites. You can create your own layout by using any combination of the 25+ integrated modules, or get started with a readymade layout and customize the design according to your requirements. Save the Customizer layouts so that you can reuse them later. Showcasing your portfolio offerings is a must for any service-oriented company. IT Consulting makes it a lot easier by offering a few project layouts and portfolio filtering features. All the personalization options are integrated into the live customizer section, which is a nice touch. This is a premium WordPress theme for developing domain, hosting, and other relevant service provider websites. It comes with complete order form integration, testimonials support, domain search feature, and dedicated profile page, which covers almost everything you need to launch the site. Wow is cross-browser compatible and works great on various screen sizes. Complete Google Fonts support along with free hosting and social icons will help you take care of the typography aspect. In case you don’t like any of the three default color schemes, you can create your own. Want some help in using the available features? The extended documentation has got you fully covered. The name clearly indicates that Hostify is specially developed for creating hosting company websites. The carefully crafted home page features all the essentials including the available plans, pricing, statistics, testimonials, and detailed features. The drop-down menu is powered by Superfish, which means you can add all the necessary menu items to ensure the best navigation for your visitors. It is very easy to change the style, thanks to the built-in color options. Other notable features include complete FontAwesome icons and Google Fonts support, WHMCS Bridge integration, custom page templates, and custom widgets.

2019-04-25T06:55:34Z

https://www.nimbusthemes.com/wordpress-themes-for-it-companies/

Then I saw heaven opened and a white horse stood there; and the One Who rides on the horse was Named 'Faithful and True' - the One Who justly punishes and makes war. His eyes were like flames, and on His head were many crowns. Then I saw an angel who in the sunshine stood, shouting loudly to the birds, 'Come! Gather together for the supper of the Great Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA! Come and eat the flesh of kings, and captains, and great generals; of horses and riders; and of all humanity, both great and small, slave and free.'" Then I saw the evil creature gathering the governments of earth and their armies to fight against the One riding on the horse and His army. And the evil creature was captured, and with him the false prophet, who could do mighty miracles when the evil creature was present - miracles which deceived all who had accepted the evil creature's mark, and who worshiped his statue. Both of them - the evil creature and his false prophet - were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. And their entire army was killed with sharp sword in the mouth of the One riding the white horse, and all the birds of heaven were gorged with their flesh." "Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. He seized the dragon - that old serpent, ha-satán - and bound him in chains for 1,000 years, and threw him into the bottomless pit, which he then shut and locked, so that he could not fool the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. Afterwards he would be released again for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those who had been given the right to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, for proclaiming the Words of YÁOHU UL, and who had not worshiped the creature or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They had come to life again and now they reigned with Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA for a thousand years. This is the First Resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended). Blessed and holy are those who share in the First Resurrection. For them the Second Death holds no terrors, for they will be priests of YÁOHU UL and of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. When the thousand years end, ha-satán will be let out of his prison. He will go out to deceive the nations of the world and gather them together, with Gog and Magog, for battle - a mighty host, numberless as sand along the shore. They will go up to the broad plain of the earth and surround YÁOHU UL's people and the beloved City of Jerusalem on every side. But fire from YÁOHU UL in heaven will flash down on the attacking armies and consume them. Then ha-satán (satir) who had betrayed them will again be thrown into the lake of fire burning with sulfur where the creature and false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." And I saw a great white Throne and the One Who sat upon it, from Whose face the earth and sky fled away, but they found no place to hide. I saw the dead, great and small, on their feet before YÁOHU UL; and The Books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to the things written in The Books, each according to the deeds he had done. The oceans surrendered the bodies buried in them; and the earth and the underworld gave up the dead in them. And death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death - the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." Then I saw a new earth (with no oceans!) and a new sky, for the present earth and sky had disappeared. And I Yaokanam (John), saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from YÁOHU UL out of heaven. It was a glorious sight, beautiful as a bride at her wedding! And then He said to me, 'Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true: It is finished! I am the Alef and the Tav - the Beginning and the End. I will give to the thirsty the springs of the Water of Life - as a gift! Everyone who conquers will inherit all these blessings, and I will be his UL and he will be My child. But cowards who turn back from following Me, and those who are unfaithful to Me, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those conversing with demons, and idol worshipers and all liars - their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death." "Then one of the seven angels, who had emptied the flasks containing the seven last plagues, came and said to me, 'Come with Me and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. In a vision He took me to a towering mountain peak and from there I watched that wondrous City, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of the skies from YÁOHU UL. It was filled with the glory of YÁOHU UL, and flashed and glowed like a precious gem, crystal clear like jasper. Its walls were broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels. And the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were written on the gates. There were three gates on each side - north, south, east, and west. The walls had twelve foundations stones, and on them were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The angel held in his hand a golden measuring stick to measure the City and its gates and walls. When he measured it, he found it was a square as wide as it was long; in fact it was in the form of a cube, for its height was exactly the same as its other dimensions - 1,500 miles each way. Then he measured the thickness of the walls and found them to be 216 feet across (the angel called out these measurements to me, using common unit). The twelve gates were made of pearls - each gate from a single pearl! And the main street was pure, transparent gold, like glass." "No temple could be seen in the City, for YÁOHU UL Gavoha and the Lamb are worshiped in it everywhere. And the City has no need of sun or moon to light it, for the glory of YÁOHU UL and the Lamb illuminate it. Its light will light the nations of the earth, and the rulers of the world will come and bring their glory to it. Its gates never close; they stay open all day long - and there is no night! And the glory and honor of all the nations shall be brought into it. Nothing evil will be permitted in it - no one immoral or dishonest - but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. And he pointed out to me a river of pure Water of Life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of YÁOHU UL and the Lamb, coursing down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew Trees of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month; the leaves were used for healing the nations. There shall be nothing in the City which is evil; for the throne of YÁOHU UL and of the Lamb will be there, and His servants will worship Him. And they shall see His face; and His Name shall be written on their foreheads. And there will be no night there - no need for lamps or sun - for Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA will be their Light; and they shall reign forever and ever. "I, Yaokanam, saw and heard all these things, and fell down to worship the angel who showed them to me; but again he said, 'No, don't do anything like that. I, too, am a servant of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA as you are, and just like your brothers the prophets are, as well as all those who heed the truth stated in this Book. Worship YÁOHU UL alone.'" Then he advised me, 'Do not seal up what you have written, for the time of fulfillment is near. And when that time comes, all doing wrong will do it more and more; the vile will become more vile; upright men will be better; those who are holy will continue on to greater holiness. Blessed forever are all who are washing their robes, to have the right to enter in through the gates of the City, and to eat the fruit from the Tree of Life. Outside the City are those who have departed away from YÁOHU UL, and the sorcerers and the immoral and murderers and idolaters, and all who love to lie, and do so. I, Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, have sent My angel to you to tell the Congregations all these matters. I am both David's Root and his Offspring. I am the bright Morning Heavenly Light. The 'RÚKHA' and the bride say, 'Come.' Let each one who hears them say the same, 'Come.' Let the thirsty one come - anyone who wants to; let him come and drink the Water of Life freely. And I solemnly declare to everyone who reads this book: If anyone adds anything to what is written here, YÁOHU UL shall add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone subtracts any part of these prophecies, YÁOHU UL shall take away his share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City just described. The grace of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY be with you all, am-nám!" All this is given to you in the Name of YAOHÚSHUA the Messiah, am-nám! We believe that, by the grace and mercy of YÁOHU UL, the 'RÚKHA-YAOHÚSHUA' has been teaching all of you, leading you into all truth, reminding you of the words of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA, is revealing Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA and His eternal truths now to each one of you, and that YÁOHU UL is always watching over His words to perform them. We also believe that the 'RÚKHA-YAOHÚSHUA' is the One Who is giving life and powerful oiling to YÁOHU UL's words, and He's now convicting your hearts as regards sin, righteousness and judgment, as we bind all of you to the full submission to Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, now and forever, ol Shúam YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, and we all say, am-nám! And we now loose you from all the powers of ha-satán and all his religious wicked spirits, evil spirits of confusion, all lying spirits, and all seducing spirits and we stop, rebuke and renounce all their wicked influences, deceptions, power and control over your whole person and we now set you free from all the powers of all evil spirits right now! We also now bind you to full and immediate submission to Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY now and for always! Whatever we loose on earth is loosed in heaven, and whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven! Al Shúam YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, and we all agree, am-nám! Remember, it was Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA Who died for your sins, and not religion. Religion is not the Savior. YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY is the Savior Who is willing and able to help, deliver, heal, enrich and save you! For the weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world; on the contrary, they are so powerful, through YÁOHU UL, to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of YÁOHU UL, and we now take captive every thought to make it submissive to Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA. And we now overcome ha-satán by the 'DAM' (blood) of Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY and by the words of our testimony, and as we resist ha-satán, we win! Thanks be to YÁOHU UL GABOR (the Valiant Warrior) Who always guarantees that we triumph in Molkhiúl YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, and truly we are greater than conquerors! And we do not allow ha-satán to steal in any manner the words of YÁOHU UL sown in our hearts now and forever! Given to you in true love and deep humility, ol Shúam YAOHÚSHUA hol-MEHUSHKHÁY, am-nám!

2019-04-21T18:04:55Z

http://shell.lava.net/ohol_yaohushua/world.html

Roland Barthes, the French intellectual and semiotician, introduced three levels of mythic language: the denotative level, the connotative or symbolic level, and the ideological level. He believed that the development of mythology, where some particular thing that exists in a specific cultural context develops into something timeless and general, can also be found in pop culture and its products. He called this process of transformation “Mythicization”. By applying this perspective to one of the advertisements of Baedal Minjok, we can see that the brand strategy of Baedal Minjok can be laid out in Barthes’ three different levels of mythic language. Additionally, we will examine how the messages found in the advertisement supports the mythicization of the brand. Mythicization is very appealing to modern brands. As names like Nike and Hermes, or the Starbucks mermaid symbol show, brands are trying to build a strong association through storytelling or unique imagery in order to become a part of culture, rather than just a product. In the 1960s, Barthes also paid a special attention to advertisements and tried to decode their cultural meanings embedded in deeper level. In “Rhetoric of the image”, he deconstructed an advertisement into linguistic and iconic messages and then uncovered the symbolic meaning (connotative level) under the surface meaning (denotative level). While the fact that Barthes applied these two levels of mythology analysis to advertisements contributes deeply to our understanding of the pop culture, they are not enough when trying to understand the strategies of contemporary brands and their mythicization. Brands now communicate more diverse channels in a bigger and global market. In this highly competitive environment, one well- written ad copy or a famous good-looking model won’t guarantee the same level of cultural impact that Barthes may have witnessed in the past. The messages of brands these days try to permeate our culture in a deeper, more diverse way. That is where the ideological level, the final level that Barthes introduced in the language of mythicization, kicks in. Ideologies are “the belief system within people’s collective conscious” (Dobson “Mythology and Ideology”). The ideological messages in myths and fairytales have a pedagogical function as they pass values and old wisdom on to the listener. The ideological messages of brands help them to stay in people’s awareness and affect their attitudes toward a brand’s product. For example, seeing at the words “Innovative”, “Simple” or “Perfection” many people may instantly think of the brand Apple, and Coca-Cola will be associated with the words such as “Happiness” or “Fun”. In other words, successful brands in contemporary culture contain ideological messages and succeed in making strong associations with those messages in the cultural context. Korean’s most successful food delivery service, “배달의 민족 (Baedal Minjok, meaning the Nation of Delivery)” is often seen as a modern success story in the Korean business world due to its fast growth. Even though ordering food delivery from home, office, or even from parks or public outdoor places during any time of the day has been a big part of food culture in Korea for a long time, Baedal Minjok, was the first startup in Korea that came up with the idea of acting as a delivery service that connects customers and restaurants (like Grubhub or Seamless in the US) and now is regarded as a symbol of Korean food culture. One piece of evidence for the brand’s impact is the cultural phenomenon of other companies and individuals copying or parodying the brand’s imagery, visual style, and way of storytelling. What makes this brand even more worth investigating for our analysis is its global expansion. Despite of its strong base in localized service and the Korean culture, the company was invested by global investment companies such as Goldman Sachs and is actively expanding to the global market. Just like good stories can be shared and understood across borders and cultures and become a myth over time, brands, like a modern myth, can show us deep understanding of culture and human communications. The image above shows the advertisement that we will analyze. The linguistic messages shown in the ad are the ad copy: the phrase written in Korean on the left side, “우리가 어떤 민족 입니까” (What kind of nation are we?) and the brand name: the black colored letters written on the metal container, “배달의 민족” (Baedal Minjok — the Nation of Delivery). Baedal Minjok, the brand name, literally means the nation of delivery. By putting Baedal (Delivery) in the name, it intuitively informs people that the brand is related to a delivery service. If one tries to understand the deeper meaning and origin of the brand name, he or she reaches the connotative level, where contextual interpretation is involved. Putting the word “delivery” and “nation” together implies that the business is targeting the whole nation and it is fully dedicated to the delivery service. Originally, however, Baedal Minjok has been familiar to Korean people in a different meaning — the phrase is originally a colloquial expression for saying the “Korean people” in a sophisticated way (“Baedal” is also the name of the mythic founder of Korea, so Baedal Minjok can be read as Baedal’s Nation). By using a familiar expression as the brand name, the brand achieves not only a sense of humor but also a strong feeling of nationalism. In Korean society, where a single race speaking one language has been regarded as a virtue for many decades, the sense of community and nationalism prevails in people’s collective conscious. This feeling of nationalism is what the brand embraces at the ideological level. The ad copy is a question that leads to an answer, the brand name. It may be seen as a simple format on the denotative level, but on the connotative level, this format puts the emphasis on the brand name and its dual meaning. Moreover, by using the subject ‘we’ and the concept of ‘nation’ in the phrase, it ideologically plays to the patriotism and the connectedness of the viewers. ➊ The scene represents a man riding a horse to deliver food to his customer. The background image is a parody work of a historical mural of Goguryeo Tombs, one of Korea’s UNESCO cultural heritage sites (see Figure 7). The original mural describes the hunting scene of the former ancient kingdom, Goguryeo, where people were known for skillful horse riding and hunting, bravery, and quick in action. This historical background is connected to the word “nation” shown in both linguistic elements mentioned earlier. This historical context of the brand name not only emphasizes its sincerity in achieving high quality of service in the connotative level, but also identifies the brand image with the agility and energy of the ancient culture, representing the ideological level. ➋ Comparing the Baedal Minjok advertisement and the Goguryeo’s mural art painting above, the biggest difference is what the rider is holding in his hands. The bow in Goguryeo culture symbolizes their agility and accuracy that were known for the hunting skills. The ad, through the parody process, replaced the bow to the metal food delivery container (see Figure 6). The metal food delivery container is considered as one of the most symbolic items in the Korean contemporary food culture. Just like a beer mug indicates beer, the color, shape and the size of the metal container in the image is an icon in Korean culture for the delivery food. By putting the brand name “Baedal Minjok” on this iconic metal container image, the ad not only clearly indicates the business type of the company (connotative level) but also symbolizes itself as a part of Korean food culture at the ideological level. ➌ The man who is playing the delivery horseman in this image is the Korean film actor, Seungyong Ryu. He is known for his charismatic and heroic character in many successful Korean films. Therefore, his presence in the ad connoted the message that his personal brand endorses Baedal Minjok. Given the fact that Baedal Minjok was from a small, new startup with comical advertisements, the juxtaposition of a serious actor in a comical pose added additional interest to the ad. ➍ The copy functions not only for the linguistic message but also for the iconic message due to its visual aspect: the font type. The font used in the copy, Hanna, was created for Baedal Minjok. Because of the high attention of the public, the company even shared the font publicly so that anybody could download and use it. The style is chiseled with square shapes but gives a fun impression as it accentuates curves in the letters. The unique look and feel of neatness but fun at the same time support the connoted message of the brand: we are new and fun but our business is reliable. At a deeper level, the font also contains a strong ideological message. Inspired by “the hand-drawing letters used in educational propaganda posters for children in Korean elementary schools” (Kim), the font type was designed to bring a prompt attention from the viewers, like a propaganda, but in a friendly way similar to the educational posters do for young kids (See Figure 7). Due to this motif, the overall advertisement resembles the traditional propaganda posters which encourage patriotism, ideal national characteristics, and community spirit. Even though these four main elements are “discontinuous and not linear” (Lanir), they are coherently tied to certain messages. On the connotative level, all the elements imply the idea that Baedal Minjok provides fast, accurate and friendly nation-wide food delivery service that can satisfy all the country. While this message can be interpreted as a marketing message for introducing the new business, the ideological level is closer to the collective conscious, especially tied to Korean culture. Each element — the historical motif of the overall image, the symbolic metal delivery food container, the nationally popular actor, and the unique font inspired by Korean education — is linked to the patriotism and the celebration of “Koreanness”. The coded messages discovered in this image of “What kind of Nation are We?” campaign are continuously reproduced in their further Baedal Minjok campaigns. For example, they released a series of print ads which only feature the actor, the font, and their witty copy (See Figure 8). Furthermore, applying another parody work in the movie poster format, the brand continues to use the font, the actor and the motif of artistic content (with the movie poster replacing the historical painting on the artistic vehicle). These variations are diverse in format and channels but consistent in messages. In other words, for the brand the ad we analyzed in this paper and its messages became a new doxa, “the rules and regulations of a culture,” (Dobson “Fairytales: From History to Theory.”) and mythicize the brand by applying the their own doxa to their further communications. With the elaborately executed brand strategy demonstrated in the advertisement we analyzed, Baedal Minjok could be in Korean people’s awareness not only as a high quality food delivery service brand but also as a symbol of Korean food culture that celebrates Koreanness. As a result, Korean people think of Baedal Minjok when they see the words like “national” “connectedness” or “love for Korea” — even though it’s not a national enterprise. When a brand can be remembered in a cultural context beyond its product and its usage, it is mythicized and passes the ideology on to the next generation as a modern myth. Dobson, John “Fairytales: From History to Theory.” Mythology for the Modern World. Academy of Art University. San Francisco, CA.16 July 2015. Lecture. Dobson, John “Mythology and Ideology.” Mythology for the Modern World. Academy of Art University. San Francisco, CA. 20 July 2015. Lecture. Kim, Bongjin. “배달의민족 빼닮은 무료 한글 글꼴 ‘한나체’.” Bloter.net. Bloter and Media, 15 Mar. 2013. Web. 2 Aug. 2015. Lanir, Lesley. “Images and Image Rhetoric Per Roland Barthes: Semiotics at Play.” Web log post. Decoded Science. Decoded Science, 10 Dec. 2012. Web. 03 Aug. 2015.

2019-04-22T19:10:09Z

https://medium.com/compass-rose/brand-mythicization-korean-food-delivery-service-baedal-minjok-applying-roland-barthes-b7ef1841edb3?source=---------1------------------

Whether you want to take your mum for lunch or your lover for dinner, Clos Maggiore has that special “touch of magic” with an added soupçon of Gallic ooh-la-la. Love is always in the air at this “gloriously romantic” restaurant – especially if you’re lucky enough to get a table amid the twinkling fairy lights, blossoms and foliage in the glass-roofed conservatory (open to the stars on balmy evenings). Bookings aren’t guaranteed in this inviting space, but you can always settle for one of the less enticing dining areas: either way, expect finely tuned French-accented cooking with some noticeable Mediterranean nuances. “Simply delicious” starters such as hand-picked Dorset crab with anchovy mayonnaise and char-grilled cauliflower or pan-roasted Les Landes duck liver with roasted fig and smoked duck ham open proceedings, ahead of a thumping dish of herb-smoked rack of lamb with goats’ curd and gratinated smoked aubergine for two to share. Vegetarians also fare well, while tricksy desserts feature the signature ‘caramelised chocolate sensation’ with burnt honey ice cream and Armagnac jelly. Clos Maggiore’s huge (but accessible) wine list also warrants serious exploration. We booked a table for 2 at 1pm. We were ushered upstairs to a pleasant but small room and to a table where my seat was too close to the kitchen door, so plates of food were passing very close to my head as meals were served to other diners. The waitress was quite frosty, from the beginning we had the feeling that she couldn't wait to finish her shift. Rather than let us choose the bread we would like she tossed 3 types of bread on each of our side plates. We didn't want bread as it happens. First course of Dorset crab with anchovy mayonnaise and chargrilled cauliflower, simply delicious as was my guests Sicilian aubergine with sweet peppers. I chose Mas de Daumas Gassac white wine which would cost £60 -£70 in most restaurants but strangely it was only £29 which is excellent value. Main courses of pan roasted halibut and Goosnargh duck were tasty but not spectacular. As we were finishing our main courses the other 5 tables had completed their meals and left the restaurant. It was only 2.30pm and the waitress was buzzing about at 100mph laying the tables for dinner. There was this feeling that we were getting in her way so we wolfed down a house chocolate Sensation and a Lemon sorbet and headed for the Savoy Hotel for coffee and brandy. The meal was good value for money but I like to relax in a restaurant and that didn't happen unfortunately. It is a bold claim for any restaurant to make suggesting that it provides an ‘unforgettable dining experience’, and all the more so if you have also been voted London’s ‘most romantic’ restaurant. Such is the standard that Clos Maggiore is forced to live up to. My comrade and I certainly thoroughly enjoyed a recent Saturday night here, but perhaps not as much as our initial visit around five years ago. In some ways, Clos Maggiore has become a victim of its own success; customers go here expecting to be both wowed and wooed. It is a place for special dinners and also for tourists, much more so than it can be considered an integral part of the high-end London dining scene. The main dining room definitely impresses: a beautiful conservatory adorned with apple blossom, fairy lights and a log fire, comprising just seven tables. We were lucky enough to benefit from one of these, although diners going here with high expectations may find them dashed should they be seated in the somewhat less glamorous ante room. We also could not help noticing, however, that even the atmosphere of the more intimate conservatory was slightly marred by the constant clicking of cameras and requests for couples to pose for obligatory photos taken by servers. Furthermore, table-turning is very much an active strategy here – particularly given the location of the restaurant proximate to theatre land - and so we also felt the ambience also diminished by the constant entry and exit of new couples, awaiting their experience. Nonetheless, before readers get the impression that this is a negative review, the above observations do constitute quibbles from a seasoned and sceptical London diner. On the positive side, the food and wine merit high praise and pricing is very competitive relative to other comparable locations. The approach at Clos Maggiore is billed as one of contemporary French cuisine, although the name of the restaurant also hints at a strong Italian influence too. Being a celebratory event, we enjoyed a glass of crisp and refreshing house champagne before moving onto the tasting menus, omnivorous for me, vegetarian for my comrade. We noted their relative originality (no scallop or steak on my menu, rather crab and duck as the highlights) and also a focus on simplicity rather than each dish comprising a list of obscure ingredients, coupled with jus and/or foam. Even something as relatively basic as my comrade’s papardella with wild mushrooms and grated fresh truffle was prepared superbly with the flavours speaking for themselves. The paired wines also scored well, both for quality and originality. The sommelier had sourced good and inventive matches from Austria, Italy and Chile (among others) with relatively little reliance on France. For all this, at £55/head (or £90 with wines included), it is hard to complain. A little more charisma from some of the servers would have improved things further. In conclusion, Clos was pretty good, but it will probably be at least five years until we return again, given how many other options there are across London, whether for romantics or for fine diners. A quality experience from start to finish. Service unhurried but attentive. 5 course tasting menu delicately balanced and flavoured. Well informed and helpful sommelier. Just have to keep coming back! Strategy a wonderful fresh and clean combination on the palet. Main excellent and the duck succulent. Sweet, had to have it Black Icecream there's nothing like it; not too sweet and lovely to finish off. Clos Maggiore has been around for many years, tucked fairly inconspicuously in King Street behind the Royal Opera House. Despite its well-appointed interior and charming door staff, you might just have a lingering initial suspicion that it's yet another over-priced, over-styled Covent Garden restaurant. You'd be wrong. This is the real deal: superb French food - with exotic Caribbean influences - and a magnificent wide-ranging wine list, all avaiable in a delightful, cosy, elegant setting at prices which are on the high side but not outrageous for what's on offer. In fact the food is nowadays so excellent that it seems inconceivable that a Michelin star has not wafted their way, but my advice is - get in there now before the award is made (as it surely must be!) and prices rise. Even the £29.95 set menu (available at lunchtime and for pre- and post-theatre dining) offers a tempting choice of six starters, six mains and six puddings, and for a further £10 includes a half bottle of wine - their choice, not yours. It's hard to choose what to eat, as everything on the menu sounds so attractive - but which then turns out to exceed expectations! After a half-dozen visits over the years, Clos Maggiore has now gone right to the upper end of my London dining lists, and maybe - at this price-level and in this area - right to the top. The only downside is the occasionally slightly grim-faced table service, but don't let that put you off. All in all the place is a treat. Go try. We had an excellent meal for our anniversary yesterday. The restaurant is quite small and we had to wait a few minutes for our table. The service was excellent and the food we had was memorable; scallops on pigs trotters followed by loin of pork with delicious sauce. After a train down from the Midlands, a walk in the drizzle around the Tower of London to see the stupendous poppy installation, then to the National Gallery for the wonderful exhibition of Rembrandt's later works it occurred to me that a meal at 5 o'clock prior to our journey home might struggle to match the earlier part of the day. I needn't have worried as Clos Maggiore remains one of my favourite restaurants. A warm welcome then a chilled glass of champagne before our table was ready got my wife and I off to a good start. We were able to choose from the pre-theatre menu which is excellent value. I enjoyed my foie gras starter and my wife loved her herring and prawn dish. Mains were the chicken leg for me and smoked cod for madam. I loved mine, and the cod too was enjoyed, though possibly ever so slightly too salty. My whisky rice pudding was delightful and also my wife's chocolate dessert, most of which also came my way. The house white was perfectly acceptable, though I really enjoyed reading the wine list, which hopefully we can choose from at our next, more leisurely visit. Service really is very good and if you have never been then you certainly should go. Perfect for romantic dinners. But not just romantic dinners! I last visited Clos Maggiore about 10 years ago for dinner with friends and it was so good I hadn't been back. Sounds weird but I had it in my head that I should return for a really special romantic dinner and of course the 100% perfect excuse never quite arose. So I was delighted when a friend gave me another reason to visit when he booked the private dining room for a leaving-for-far-flung-shores lunch one weekend. It was the perfect spot for the occasion. There was just enough time and space for a pre-lunch mingle, lubricated by bubbles served by our discreet waiters. The room is quite tight, taken up mostly by a large dining table, but that keeps it intimate and antiqued mirror walls stop you feeling too boxed in. The table accommodated eighteen of us quite comfortably and it is sociably square shaped so you can still hold a conversation with everyone else around it. I don't normally like to be told there's a set menu with no choice but when it's Clos and it starts with a chicken liver and foie gras parfait it's a different matter. Every course was beautiful: think juicy show-stopper scallops and honey roast duck with tart roasted red plums. The only bum note was a pineapple parfait that had a strange half ice-cream/half sorbet texture. Top marks for fuss free amendments for those with dietary requirements (no seafood! no gluten! no taste!). The matched wines complemented the food well but the highlight for me was an intense, sticky port which accompanied the cheeses. Service throughout was great: professional and well paced, leaving us to enjoy the food and wine without pressure. The bill (5 courses, wines, coffee) came to £110 a head which I thought was reasonable but does put the restaurant in the "special occasion" category. I will have to find another such occasion before I another 10 years pass. I saw a review of this restaurant in magazine and as it was dubbed ‘most romantic’ restaurant in London so my husband and I decided to book. We booked at the end of February for a date in May and when we arrived we were not seated in the main restaurant. Instead we were seated near the bar in what looks like an add on for people who just happen to pop in on the off chance. The website and pictures are very deceiving. I asked if we could move tables to be in the main part and was told that they only have 5 tables for 2 and the people seated at them booked before us in January. My main message to anyone thinking of going is that when you book you must make sure that you ask to sit in the main garden part otherwise you could just as well be in any other restaurant in any other part of London. Most disappointed and feel very cheated by Clos Maggiore. Over the years the romantic atmosphere has not diminished and the cosy, faux foliage and conservatory with it's fire and mirrors still deliver a special romanticism. The fixed price evening menu for either 2 or 3 courses with a choice of 3 dishes per course is excellent value and unusually for a “prix fixe” the dish sizes are the same as from the a la carte menu. Wines offered stretch over the price and global range. The only negative is the service can be rushed as they openly try to turn the tables rather quickly, although they can be slowed down if you ask!

2019-04-25T18:05:53Z

https://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/clos-maggiore_972

[PREM FARE GONE] RGN First class comes back again!!!! People, please edit/use the wiki so same questions are not always asked. - It's not about other carriers because each carrier submits different tariffs. - If you are not one of the complainants or their companions above who were mentioned in the respective cases, you need to submit a case yourself for hearing. - There's currently one person who is on Iberia for CTA decision, one can either wait for results or submit a complaint to CTA. - CTA found 5(F) in the tariff used to be unclear for canceling tickets on erroneously quoted fares. - SWISS did not use its tariff correctly to cancel the tickets. - SWISS must compensate one complainant's First Class ticket and any related expenses by July 18, 2013 provided with evidence. - SWISS must transport other complainants (and their companions) in the original price charged with same booking class and routing by June 18, 2014. - Therefore, 9W is to reinstate the tickets with a 1-year validity for transport between the same points and the same booking class. CTA official news can be read here for general overview of the case. Actual CTA case review can be found here for reference should you wish to file a complaint. If you have a similar case that's with SWISS, you need to file with CTA to get a result through informal process first before it gets to formal process. The entire procedure can take up to 3 months for each and the result may not be same cause it's case-by-base and the reviewer of the case can be different. To file an informal complaint with CTA, see here. Click through all of the pages to get to the online form for the informal complaint. Or click here. To file a formal complaint after informal complaint has been closed, see here. Continue on to the next page to see the address or email address for the formal complaint. Feel free to add dates, flights, etc., in order to plan DOs, etc. Feel free to add any additional cities you're leaving from! If possible, get something in writing. Not sure if you can tape conversations in AUH and use them in court in the USA, but food for thought. If you have not already, file a DOT complaint ASAP. Your arguments are valid and logical and EY is apparently hoping they can exhaust people and get away with changing fare rules. I was planning on using the email which I received from Etihad that explicitly stated that no changes are involved unless difference in fare is paid. In fact, the call center agent also mentioned that I should have received communication that no changes are allowed, so it has to be recorded in the PNR somewhere. I will file a DOT complaint as soon as I arrive in the US, assuming the CDG-DFW flight doesn't screw up. Not sure if AA can check me in if my flight coupon is marked "NOGO". Any guesses from our lawyers out there how long this can continue to go on for? is there ever a time when a court can say enough is enough, go away! which court is the highest they can appeal to? if they get denied by them can they appeal an appeal decision. I'm pretty sure once the US Supreme Court rules you can't appeal it or am I mistaken. Not sure if it's the same deal in Canada. 1) I am not a lawyer. 2) I do not have a Swiss fare so I am not part of the legal action. 3) I have a deep personal interest in how Canada works the way it does. So over the years I've tried to learn more about the governance of the nation. I don't consider myself an expert on this any more than I consider myself an expert on methods to accrue miles. I simply know more about this stuff than an average person does. 4) I have some friends who did purchase the fare. One of them emailed me last night to get my opinion on the pdf letter from Davis. He then suggested I post here to add to the general discussion. So that said ... A Stay is basically a pause in legal proceedings. So Davis (a large Canadian law firm) is apparently now acting on behalf of Swiss. They are asking for a pause in the legal proceedings. Section 1(A) just regurgitates why a Stay is permissible. Sections 1(B) and (C) are clear. It’s very worth noting though that the Federal Court of Appeal has denied Swiss leave to appeal. More on that later. Section 1(D) is interesting. To understand the role of Governor-in-Council, you need to understand the governance of Canada and specifically some provisions of the Constitution Act and related Acts that came before. Canada is a constitutional monarchy. So the Crown (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) is the head of state. (This is an important distinction from say, the American way where the President is head of state. Here, our Prime Minister is merely head of government, but he technically reports to Her Majesty who is head of state.) At the pleasure of Her Majesty, a government may be formed. The Governor General of Canada (David Johnston) is the Crown’s direct representative in Canada and is tasked with the day-to-day job of running the country and making sure that only important stuff is filtered up to Her Majesty. Direction / wisdom on certain issues will be sought from the Crown as required. In order to help decide which issues are important (and need Crown input), the GG appoints (for life!) learned persons to the Privy Council. In theory, a member of the Privy Council - specifically one who commands the confidence of the House of Commons - is selected to be the Prime Minister. The PM then requests the GG to appoint select individuals to a special sub-committee of the Privy Council. This special sub-committee is known as Cabinet. Cabinet Ministers are Members of Parliament who carry special duties (& privileges) such as being the head of Foreign Affairs, or Finance Minister etc. In theory, the Crown and the GG will only take direction from this particular group. So Cabinet is also technically known as the Queen-in-Council or more commonly the Governor-in-Council. The “in-Council” bit is important because this is where an Order-in-Council comes from. Laws in Canada are created first from Bills which need to move through debate in Parliament (various readings in the House) then to the Senate for “sober second thought” then finally to the Crown for Royal Assent. The Crown however, retains ultimate power in Canada. So the Crown can simply pass an Order-in-Council and something can come into being (from a judicial / legislative perspective) without having to go through the long route of passing something into law. Theoretically the Governor-in-Council will draft an Order-in-Council in front of the Crown, then read it out loud. The Queen will simply say “Approved” and the Order comes into immediate effect. So an Order-in-Council is basically a quick & dirty way of bringing something into effect without having to rewrite laws. For example, the various prostitution laws were recently found un-Constitutional (i.e. illegal) by the Supreme Court. The Government could have sought an Order-in-Council that would essentially still leave prostitution illegal, while keeping an illegal law still embedded in the Criminal Code. Technically possible, but clearly not the best course of action. So what’s happened in this case is that Swiss has petitioned the Governor-in-Council, to pretty please draft an Order-in-Council that will essentially let Swiss break the law, without actually having to re-write the laws of Canada. Now, presumably the Federal Court has heard arguments from Swiss and from peeps like you. The Federal Court presumably told Swiss thanks for coming out, now go away and have a nice life. Swiss applied for leave (permission) to appeal that decision. As Section 1(C) notes, the Federal Court of Appeal told Swiss thanks for coming out, now go away and have a nice life. So that’s it. There are no more court arguments for Swiss and they are obligated to uphold whatever decision was initially made by the Federal Court. But, there is the possibility that they could get an Order-in-Council. Which is clearly what they’re hoping to do. But an Order-in-Council is something to be used sparingly. It's a very special device which really should not be used at will. An interesting wrinkle here is that there is no timeline associated with requesting an Order-in-Council. Typically it’s something so important and of national significance that it needs to be dealt with fairly quickly. Canadian passports for example are only made available to Canadian citizens. But when the US hostages were taken in Iran, then Prime Minister Joe Clark did a behind the scenes Order-in-Council that permitted issuing Canadian passports to those US citizens who Ambassador Ken Taylor got out with help from the CIA. Clearly, the Swiss thing is not in the same league as rescuing hostages. So what may happen is that the Governor-in-Council may sit on this and do absolutely nothing. And then Parliament will be dissolved, an election called and a new Cabinet selected and sworn in. At which point in time I suspect Swiss will make another petition to the new Governor-in-Council. From the perspective of Swiss, this would make sense because it would allow them infinite delays. I would, in a way, be surprised if the Governor-in-Council responds to the Swiss request because the matter is so trivial. If they respond, they set the precedent that any entity can seek an Order-in-Council. This is already true (anyone can seek an Order), but it’s a gross abuse of the executive function of Cabinet by trying to bog them down in such an inconsequential matter. The Swiss application deserves to be ignored by the Governor-in-Council. But that’s the way of large corporations. Theoretically what this might do is clarify when an Order can be sought, but it’s awful hard to write something like that into law plus it probably requires an amendment to the Constitution which just ain’t gonna happen. Practically what will most likely happen - eventually the CTA will stop granting Stays, at which point Swiss will accuse the CTA of not obeying their own rules (“pending the disposition of a petition to the Governor in Council”) and some weird legal stuff will happen and eventually Swiss will be forced to honour the fares. By this time though, many people will have moved, died or just plain forgotten about the fare. Hope this helps. If anyone out there is truly an expert, please feel free to correct any mistakes I may have made! Wow. Awesome analysis. Thanks for the write up! Hoping CTA will finally say "no more stays" I assume that the 80 names are a total of all who have filed? I was part of the group who received LET-C-A-3-2014 dated January 22, 2014. I have received nothing today. You're on the list of 80 people attached to yesterday's letter. Thanks a lot for the insights, truly appreciate it. Question: what's the repercussion if CTA finally decides not to grant Stays? I know LX will make a big noise about it, but other than that, what will happen next? So in essence, because an order-in-council is so special and rarely used, LX can attempt to drag this out for the next 50 years? So much great information for us politico buffs! Thanks! I missed that you had that letter. I'm honestly surprised no one else received the same unsolicited email. Makes me wonder if sending it out 36h before my departure was by design and not coincidence. That was fascinating, RCyyz. Thank you for writing so clearly and bringing a much better understanding to the proceedings. Reading stuff like this makes getting up in the morning worth it (and yes, I have a full time job, which means that yes, I am saying that getting up for a full-time job is NOT worth it). Thank you for writing this. This is a VERY intriguing perspective. I can see LX and council hoping that it can drag on forever. I would love to hear an answer to this question, because this morning the Agency denied Swiss' motion to stay 416/417, and ordered Swiss to compensate me by March 17 and fly the rest of the 7 over the next year! Not sure as of yet how this applies to other merged complaints. Tariff Rule 5F is also finally disallowed as of February 21st. c/o Heather L. Treacy, Q.C. paragraph 28 of Decision No. 417-C-A-2013. and (3) the balance of convenience must favour Swiss. paragraph 28 of Decision No. 417-C-A-2013? “Irreparable” refers to the nature of the harm suffered rather than its magnitude. cured, usually because one party cannot collect damages from the other. party....” Swiss has not provided any argument in regards to the balance of inconvenience. an erroneous fare, including compensation for expenses incurred due to ticket cancellation. later than February 16, 2015. If you have any questions regarding the foregoing, you may Contact [redacted][/email]. Dunno. I'm not a lawyer! But the CTA is a Crown agency that operates under the auspices of the Governor-in-Council. So essentially, the CTA is a representative of Her Majesty the Queen. LX can make whatever noise they want but ultimately Her Majesty outranks them, at least in a Canadian judicial / legislative perspective. Basically if Her Majesty chooses to ignore her own rules, there's nothing anyone can do about it other than stage a coup and cut off her head. I somehow doubt LX will succeed at that! So if CTA does not grant a stay, I think LX will simply have to uphold whatever decision was made at the Federal Court. Actually Council would not want to drag this out. As I said, the Swiss application for an Order-in-Council is a gross abuse of the executive function of Cabinet. Personally as a Canadian, I am enormously insulted that Swiss - a foreign entity - would deign to attempt something like this. While what they are doing is legal, it's certainly of questionable moral integrity and as I said, an abuse of the system. So the Governor-in-Council most likely wants nothing at all to do with this. They probably wish LX would just go away. Behind the scenes, the Minister of Transport may in fact be directing the head of the CTA to figure out how to not grant a Stay. That's certainly what I would do if I was Minister of Transport! Anyhow, glad my comments seem to have helped a bit!

2019-04-24T04:49:04Z

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-discussion/1392131-prem-fare-gone-rgn-first-class-comes-back-again-659.html

It is called the "Jesus Prayer", and it consists simply in uttering the single word. right to the heart of practicing God's presence, which is the essence of prayer, the secret of which has been given to us by God the Father. What it is: Sacred. Prayer To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus When In Difficulties by admin – November 30, 2018 November 30, 2018 The faces are there with their burdens and their wrinkles and their difficulties. O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you the prayers, works and. Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, my person, my life, my difficulties and. Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary between 1673 and 1675. Among the words spoken to her, she heard Jesus make several promises to those who would. When In Difficulties – Prayer To The Sacred Heart of Jesus When In Difficulties – Prayer To The Sacred Heart of Jesus Almighty Arms of Jesus before you, I with all my faith beg you for comfort.In my difficult situation do not forsake me Good Jesus. Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Begins today. (This year, Feast day is June Padre Pio recited this novena every day for all those who requested his prayers. Daily email reminders here. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to. This nine-day prayer is often said prior to the Feast of the Sacred Heart but can be said anytime. The “Our Father,” “Hail, Mary,” Glory Be,” and “Hail, Holy Queen” are traditional Catholic prayers associated with the Rosary, and may be readily found online or in most Catholic prayer books. Sep 21, 2017 · A Prayer to the Sacred Heart (In Difficulties) Almighty arms of Jesus before you I come with all my faith Begging you for comfort in my difficult situation. Do not forsake me, Good Jesus. Open your doors in my way That your almighty arms will open and close as you design, To give me that tranquility that I so desire. Also, Mary Lu, Coordinator of the Chinese Charismatic Group, Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral. “Christians are encouraged to pray for the Chinese Christians because it is difficult in such a communi. Oct 10, 2007 · In Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered and those prayers yet to come-J.H This prayer is so powerful that you will get the request no matter how difficult it may be. Start this prayer on a Friday lighting a candle and putting it out after prayer. Actually, I think the book was inspired by the Holy Spirit from start to finish because I had no intentions of writing a book about the Sacred Heart. I felt inadequate. The preparation involves fam. LOWELL — If the walls could talk, those who live at 169 Moore St. might hear prayers. Under the up-to-30-foot. into new housing in Lowell over the past decade, said Sacred Heart was his most diffi. Then he added: “In the month of June, popular piety makes us pray with more fervor to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. May this merciful Heart teach you to love without asking for anything in return and to. And we pray for all countries that are going through grave difficulties, I am thinking in particular. Observed today in Italy is the Day of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. I encourage. It is actually a prayer composed by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and is commonly called the “Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.” She was a saint who lived in the 17th century and during he. . Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (formerly known as the Apostleship of Prayer) has been a strong proponent of this habit for the past century, connecting it to the Sacred Heart and offering everyth. Dec 30, 2018 · When in Difficulties- Prayer To The Sacred Heart of Jesus A lmighty Arms of Jesus before you, I with all my faith beg you for comfort. ln my difficult situation do not forsake me Good Jesus. O pen your doors in my way that your Almighty Arms will open and close as you desire to give that tranquility that I so desire. This Divine Love is what devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is all about and it was to this. Although she was known to have been spiritually mature, religious life was difficult for her, and one. The Prayer O Most Loving Jesus (by Saint Louis De Montfort) O Precious Blood of Jesus The Prayer O Sweet Jesus Prayer to Obtain the Holy Love of Jesus Christ Offering in Reparation to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus # 1 Offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus # 1 Offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus All the. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus includes prayer, frequent Holy Communion, visits to the Blessed Sacrament in. I will console them in all their difficulties. May the most sacred heart of Jesus be praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified throughout the whole world now and forever. Amen. Most sacred heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude worker of miracles help for the hopeless pray for us. St Anthony wonder worker in restoring lost things and help for the needy pray for us have mercy on us Oh Lord. The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the family is the recognition of the Sacred. themselves of special graces in their everyday problems and difficulties. a prayer of Thanksgiving and an Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of. a prayer to the sacred heart of Jesus when in difficulties almighty arms of jusus ,i come before three with all my faith, beginning you comfort in my difficult situation. do not forsake me good Jesus open your doors in my way that your Almighty arms will open and close as you design to give that tranquillity that i. Philippine had only opened up the furrow, and with what difficulties, sown the seed…But one day the Sacred Heart would return and harvest it….Her role was to. Sep 27, 2018 · When in Difficulties- Prayer To The Sacred Heart of Jesus A lmighty Arms of Jesus before you, I with all my faith beg you for comfort.ln my difficult situation do not forsake me Good Jesus. Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Day 1. Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. 2018 Uk Census Religion Commissioner of Land Administration (CLA) VK Jeyakodi recently cancelled the lease of 8,373.57 acres of forest land at Singampatti village in Ambasamudram taluk of Tirunelveli district and, in 2018. Mixed-race is the fastest-growing ethnic group in the UK. It means your parents hail from two (or more) different ethnicities, leaving you somewhere in the middle. All the original Feasts, Traditions, Liturgies, Prayers, Novenas, Litanies and Truth of the Original Catholic Faith. Fourteen Efficacious Holy Helpers in Times of Adversity and Difficulties. Litanies to God based on Sacred Scripture. Opening our Hearts to the Divine Child Jesus on the Feast Day of Saint Stephen. Each class period begins with prayer, utilizing both traditional prayers and. my time with family and friends, my hours of relaxation, my difficulties, problems, Grant, I pray, that guided by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 7 p.m. — Holden evening prayer (freewill offering). 7:30 p.m. — Concert, SongFest. 8:30 p.m. — Reception in the Sacred Heart Parish Hall. 9-11:30 a.m. — Session: “Worshipping in Difficult Times.” 11. In prayer, a Christian bears all the difficulties of the people who live next to him. promoted by the Congregation for the Clergy and the Apostle Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I greet the p. Oct 07, 2013 · Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (When in Difficulties) Try it and you will see the miracle. *I got this prayer from the Facebook page of The Divine Mercy (https://www.facebook.com. . vain; and since thou art so powerful with Jesus and Mary. show that thy goodness equals thy power. Amen, St. Joseph, friend of the sacred heart, pray for us. Mary our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, you once experienced hardships and difficulties in get. Sacred Holy Hour Devotion. my husband to stop drinking and smoking which affecting our family.and for him to find job a good job.we are praying for him. The missionaries also bring prayer manuals, rosaries and framed images of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart. a 17th-century Visitation nun who endured many difficult ordeals for the love of Jes. novena prayer to the sacred heart found in: Sacred Heart Novena, Devotion to the Sacred Heart, Devotion To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus, Sacred Heart of Jesus – Folded Prayer Card, Novena Prayers and Devotions, Immaculate Heart of. Devotion to the Sacred Heart in your home will help simplify the religious. "Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom come!" (3 times) This prayer may be too difficult for your four-year-old, but he can. Notre Dame Campus Ministry invites all members of the Notre Dame campus community to participate in activities for this day of prayer, including Eucharistic Adoration in the Basilica of the Sacred Hea. Over the years the Church has developed various types of enthronements that make the placing of an image of the Sacred Heart a more formal and spiritual event. For example, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer. Please tell us your prayers…of praise, worship, thanksgiving, and petition. Place it in. Lord, May this candle be a light for you to enlighten me in my difficulties. From this relationship with Jesus, developed through prayer and meditation. Why was there so much difficulty in achieving her dream of entering religious life. Mother Cabrini's faith in the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was well founded. Obtain as beautiful a picture or statue of the Sacred Heart as possible. [To be said at night prayer in union with all families in which the Sacred Heart has. to overcome the difficulties on your way to Calvary, and assures you of victory.". The prayer to the sacred heart of Jesus is one of the most powerful prayers in all Catholicism. There are several sacred heart prayers and novenas that can be used in one’s daily prayer. This prayer will bring you closer to Jesus. You too can rest your head upon the heart. Prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: “St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for. I will console them in all their difficulties. Teach them the true way of prayer, which is nourished by the Word of God. With gladness, I consecrate this day to Your Sacred Heart, and offer whatever. And so, may any difficulties, frustrations and pains of this day, be transformed in.

2019-04-23T13:54:51Z

https://www.jaanipeuhu.com/prayer-to-the-sacred-heart-in-difficulties/

Georges Lorentz points out Grand Cru Alsace vineyards from the roof of Gustave Lorentz winery. I recently had the good fortune to visit Gustave Lorentz winery in the pastel-colored village of Bergheim, in Alsace, France. This bucolic land of verdant hillsides and rustic villages borders the Rhine river, which separates northeastern France from Germany. It's that cross-cultural aspect that makes the place unique, and some of the language sounds more German than French due to both proximity and history. Today its delicious regional cuisine includes Tarte Flambée, pungent Munster cheese, and crisp cider. But, it was Alsace's distinct wines that drew me for a visit. The Gustave Lorentz family has made wine in the region since 1836. The current owner and president of the winery, Georges Lorentz, hosted me there. It was his grandfather, Charles Lorentz, Sr., whose passion for wine making spurred him to plant vineyards on the slopes of the Altenberg hill, in the foothills of the Vosges mountains. Today Altenberg de Bergheim is one of the largest Grand Cru vineyards in the northern Haut-Rhin. Gustave Lorentz has occupied several locations in the pretty village of Bergheim, but recently moved to a larger space, and now boasts striking, modern offices in addition to a sleek winery. The new space hosts wine tastings in French and English that can be booked here. On the roof of the winery is a pretty landscape art installation, and from there, Georges showed me the Grand Cru vineyards that he nurtures for his top wines. On the top of a hill facing us was the prestigious vineyard Altenberg. Georges pointed to me to a few more, until we had made a 360 degree visual tour of the hills surrounding his winery. My curiosity piqued, he then led me inside to the gracious tasting room filled with antique furniture and vinous knick knacks from a bygone day. Georges starting me with sparkling. I am a huge fan of French crémants, which offer different grape varieties and flavor profiles than Champagne, and at a significantly lower cost. Crémant D’Alsace Brut – This sparkling wine made in the traditional method offered freshness, acidity, crisp citrus support by a note of biscuit from its lees aging. Crémant D’Alsace Brut Rosé – Another traditional-made sparkler from Pinot Noir, this wine offered fresh red fruits, finesse, and a good finish. A beautiful, pale rose color and persistent, small bubbles makes this a perfect hostess gift or celebratory wine. We then moved on to some of the Pinot Noirs from the area, and these were universally light, fruit-forward, and balanced. Pinot Noir Réserve 2016 – A cool climate rendition of Pinot Noir, with a translucent ruby color and tart red fruit character. Georges told me it is designed to be fresh, elegant and drunk young with fruit at the fore, in the spirit of Alsace winemaking. Cool maceration and fermentation temps retain that freshness he’s after. La Limite Pinot Noir 2011 – This pinot noir was grown in a vineyard at the foot of the Grand Cru Altenburg vineyard, therefore the name “the limit.” The 2011 was just released in 2017 – a testament to the winery’s commitment to build character in the wine through cellaring. The wine spent a year and a half in barrique and then another rested in bottle until release. The palate offered dried herbs, desiccated cherries, bright acidity, and a long finish. Pinot Noir Le Rosé – From 100% Pinot Noir, this rosé had a fresh strawberry nose, crisp acidity, strawberry and cloves on the palate. Definitely a bigger rosé than many with good structure. I consider this an excellent wine for food – delicious. Then, we moved on to the famous Alsace white wines. Georges provided me with a rare opportunity to taste through most of the current releases, which was an amazing, on-the-spot education on the broad range of flavors available from the white grapes here. Pinot Blanc Evidence 2015 – Quaffable, crisp white with high acidity, tart lime, minerality, and slightly oily texture. Pinot Blanc Réserve 2016 – Lovely and affordable, this is the kind of wine that makes Alsace such a great value. Nose and palate of fresh pear, crisp and light. Riesling Réserve 2017 – White flower nose. Medium-intense tropical fruit, plus pear, peach and a spritz of crisp citrus. Spot-on Alsace Riesling. Lieu Dit Burg Riesling - “Lieu Dit” translates roughly to “locality” but in this case, meaning a wine that shows characteristics of a particular place - in this case, Burg. Lovely floral nose with hint of diesel, rich tropical fruits, somewhat oily texture. Nose fresh and intense. Alsace Grand Cru Riesling Kanzlerberg 2010 – This wine is sourced from the smallest Grand Cru vineyard, a cooler spot than the Altenberg vineyard, with marl and gypsum in the soil. The nose offered dense tropical fruits including lychee, pineapple. The palate was like peaches and butterscotch. The finish was long. Georges says to serve this with sashimi. I gave it four stars. Alsace Grand Cru Altenberg de Bergheim Riesling Vieilles Vignes 2012 – Georges told me this old vines vineyard gets lots of sun and the crevices in the landscape keep warm air on the vines with soild of clay and limestone. All that sunshine and warmth produced a more full-bodied, structured wine than the 2010. There was citron on the nose, and on the palate, lush grapefruit and honeydew. A gorgeous representation of terroir that will age intriguingly. I left the Rieslings somewhat regretfully, but there was another great Alsace grape to explore: Pinot Gris. Pinot Gris Réserve 2016 – Luscious bosc pear, the fruit was sweet but the wine was dry. A round, yummy wine. Lieu Dit Schofweg Pinot Gris – Schofweg is old Alsatian for “sheep’s way,” indicating the old shepherd’s path. The vines here face southeast, and are right next to the Altenberg vineyards. This single vineyard wine was richer, sweeter, and the ripe pear mingled with ripe yellow peaches. Pinot Gris Kanzlerberg 2010 – Each wine in this part of the tasting got richer. In this wine, the fruit veered towards juicy apricot along with ripe bosc pear and quince. When harvested, the grapes have lots of late-harvest drying and boytritus, creating a plush, rich wine of distinction. I gave this wine four stars. Grand Cru Altenberg de Bergheim Pinot Gris 2011 – Full-on richness now, gorgeous ripe apricot and nectarine lifted by acidity. A complex wine with residual sugar, but still elegant and fresh. Another four star wine for me. Georges recommended serving this with foie gras, game, or old Comté cheese. Moving on to the grape known for its intense aromatics – Gewurztraminer. The intensity of this grape can sometimes produce wines that feel almost overwhelming, but I was pleasantly surprised by the elegance of this grape in the hands of the Gustave Lorentz winemakers. Evidence Gewurztraminer (Vin Biologique) – A dry Gewurztraminer grown with organic methods, and a new project for the winery. This wine had characteristic lychee nose and palate but was also fresh and elegant. Georges recommended serving with spicy Indian or Mexican dishes. Lieu Dit Rotenberg Gewurztraminer – Georges told me the vineyard has lots of limestone, and I loved that this wine offered dry minerality in addition to the lush tropical fruit. I was impressed with this wine’s elegance. Grand Cru Altenberg de Bergheim Gewurtztraminer 2011 – A wine of great intensity on nose and palate, it offered uber lush lychees, with aromas of white flowers blooming in a rainforest. Georges recommended this gorgeous, rich wine be served with foie gras, and local cheeses including Muenster and Alsace Blue. Grand Cru Altenberg de Bergheim 2000 Pinot Gris – Sélection de Grains Nobles – A dessert wine of distinct character. This 18 year old wine had developed rich tertiary aromas and flavors including toffee, baked pears, and cinammon. A rare and lovely wine I gave four stars. My extensive exploration of the Alsatian wines of Gustave Lorentz greatly increased my already considerable admiration for this area. My contention is that Americans should drink a lot more of these wines – even grapes we may feel we know (Pinot Gris is Pinot Grigio) develop so differently in this terroir. The winemaking and vineyard management skill is evident in all the wines of Gustave Lorentz. Seek them out and prepare to taste distinct, fresh, elegant wines.

2019-04-24T00:42:36Z

http://www.winedinego.com/home/2018/6/3/gustave-l-wines-of-alsace-freshness-with-an-old-soul

Arena goes with experience -- and a few question marks in Gold Cup knockout phase. If a team’s play can be as memorable as it is forgettable, the U.S. did just that in winning -- barely -- Group B of the 2017 Gold Cup. Panama’s improved quality has been evident for most of this decade and both Martinique and Nicaragua deployed three or four players quite capable of matching their American counterparts. Those teams also were not composed mostly of second-choice players with little or no experience playing together in a competitive match. The Americans were supposed to better and they were in the second and third games though certainly not dominant. It is a source of disappointment that the U.S. didn’t do enough to blot out those foes’ strengths and overpower their weaknesses, yet head coach Bruce Arena chose his first-round squad to test players individually and observe their collective effectiveness. The first round was about observation and evaluation. Like the extensive weeding necessary to clean up an overgrown backyard, the process is not pretty even if the end product looks nice. The attack may not have oozed flow and beauty, but in three games it did generate 21 shots on goal, and stick seven goals in the net even while squandering a pair of penalty kicks. Doing the math can be deceptive. It took only eight shots against Martinique, but all three on goal wound up in the net. And the two goals by Jordan Morris that followed a scrapper from Omar Gonzalezwere among the best of the U.S. seven. The Americans didn’t react well to Martinique attacks that wiped out a two-goal lead but they did strike back right away to get the 3-2 victory. Arena’s six changes raised a lot of questions, but the intriguing case is that of Morris. Dom Dwyer and Kelyn Rowe obviously did well enough to rate consideration when Hexagonal play resumes in September, but Morris has been struggling for Seattle this season. He had apparently slid down the depth chart before tucking home an Eric Lichaj near-post cross from a tight angle and racing onto a return pass from Gyasi Zardes and booming it high into the net two minutes after Martinique had equalized. Juan Agudelo didn’t play in the warm-up game against Ghana but played in all three group matches, including a start against Martinique. He brings something different to the squad than does Dwyer, playing the target role unlike either Altidore or Dwyer. Similarly, Arena has kept on Corona, who played well against Ghana, struggled in the Panama game, and on Saturday notched his first U.S. goal in more than four years before failing to convert a penalty kick. Good and bad, memorable and forgettable. This is what perhaps a dozen players gave Arena and his coaching staff in the first round. Still think coaching a national team is no big deal? Dwyer’s emergence shortly after obtaining U.S. citizenship has ratcheted up the competition at forward. It’s impossible to gauge how much Arena considers a player’s club situation when he makes his roster decisions; he’s taken Clint Dempsey away from the Sounders, who play two games this week. Dwyer and Rowe didn’t disappoint but Arena has options he considers superior and it’s hard to argue with Dempsey, who is within one of Landon Donovan’s U.S. record 57 goals, or Altidore, third on the all-time list with 37. They have been rising to the occasion for about a decade. This is must-win time. Sentiment and romanticism can wait. Arena cannot call his European-based players and wants to win the competition, and for whatever reason he didn’t consider Benny Feilhaber and Sacha Kljestan as essential options. If the Americans stumble short of the title those exclusions, as well as the departures of Dwyer and Rowe, will trigger the most reaction. Obviously, he regards Dempsey and Seattle teammate Morris essential to winning the Gold Cup and not midfielder Cristian Roldan, who showed signs of nerves in his debut against Martinique before settling into the environment. Roldan is 22 and the U.S. is well-equipped in central midfield. More opportunities will come his way. Retaining Kellyn Acosta and Dax McCarty while also summoning Michael Bradley and Darlington Nagbe opens up many possible midfield combinations. Nagbe adds dribbling skills and speed, both essential elements as competition toughens. Decisions would have been different if Alejandro Bedoya didn’t leave the team to attend the birth of his second child; he unhinged Martinique, and against Nicaragua assisted on the first two goals and played a significant role in the third. Those botched PKs by Dwyer and Corona necessitated the late heroics of centerback Matt Miazga, who punctuated a very solid showing against Nicaragua by heading home Graham Zusi’s free kick -- awarded for a foul on Agudelo -- with the crucial goal in the 88th minute. Said goal earned top spot in the group and a match against Group C wild-card El Salvador rather than Costa Rica, which instead plays Panama Wednesday in Philadelphia right before the USA match. With all eight defenders retained, Arena has given himself the most extensive range of options in case of injuries and/or suspensions, and he’s also building depth for the last four games of the Hexagonal. The Hex resumes Sept. 1 against Costa Rica, which the Americans could meet in the semis. Lichaj looks like a contender to back up DeAndre Yedlin at right back and he has also played on the left. A rough outing for Matt Hedges against Martinique has not prompted his departure; Arena may not give him any minutes in the remaining games but closely observe how he handles himself in training. Same, too, for Zardes, whose maddening propensity for heavy touches and bull-headed decisions is offset by flank speed and quality balls such as the one he measured and weighted perfectly for Morris. The departure of Brad Guzan, starting a new phase of his career with Atlanta United, is significant. He has far more experience than Bill Hamid, who got his third cap against Nicaragua, and Jesse Gonzalez, whose switch of allegiance from Mexico was approved just two weeks ago. They'll back up Tim Howard in a pre-planned shuttle of keepers, a bit of a gamble for Arena. He'll go into a knockout round banking on Howard and two backups with a grand total of three caps. At every position, Arena is looking for competition. There are a few openings in the first XI, and slots 12-20 are very much in play. In the past year, players such as Nagbe and Jorge Villafana have solidified spots high on the depth chart. For the next 11 months, Arena wants the same dynamic across the board. 33 comments about "Arena goes with experience -- and a few question marks in Gold Cup knockout phase.". Right Winger, July 17, 2017 at 7:34 a.m. Altidore? Tell me the last time he rose to the occasion. His time has passed. Period. Ric Fonseca replied, July 17, 2017 at 3:10 p.m. I couldn't agree more! To soften his departure from the NT, give him a developmental team. Joe Linzner, July 17, 2017 at 9:52 a.m. I simply cannot understand Leadlegs Altidore getting the nod. What is it that coaches see in that guy? His scores are gimmes. Once in a blue moon, he earns a goal. Sickening! Fire Paul Gardner Now, July 17, 2017 at 10:20 a.m. Bashing Altidore appears to be a tradition among USMNT fans. Too bad. He's not perfect but we can do a lot worse. Other than maybe Bobby Wood, which US striker is better? Wooden Ships replied, July 17, 2017 at 12:44 p.m. Give me Wood, his work rate alone is a difference maker in keeping the ball in the middle third. Ric Fonseca replied, July 17, 2017 at 3:13 p.m. Come now guys, Jazzy has reached and way past his prime! All he does is charges into the box like a bull in a china shop. Like I said above, retire him and give him an MLS Developmental team!!! Fire Paul Gardner Now replied, July 19, 2017 at 9:47 a.m. More irrational hatred of Altidore. Yes, Wood is better but Bruce is not calling in European based players at this stage. That's why guys like Pulisic, Cameron, Yedling, Johnson etc. are not here either. ROBERT BOND, July 17, 2017 at 10:44 a.m. John Lander, July 17, 2017 at 11:33 a.m. Too all the Altidore haters.. He is the best center forward option for the US. He finishes and also assist. Check out the beautiful well weighted assist to Pulisic against Trinidad. He does the job better that any other option the US has. I too think Altidore gets bad and undeserved criticism. He is often left alone with few, if any good balls coming his way. In order to be successful lone scorer you need a much better supporting crew than what is "usually" gets. Ben Myers, July 17, 2017 at 12:37 p.m. There is a stark contrast here between the USMNT 2nd team in the Gold Cup and the German 2nd team in the Confederations Cup. Also, count me in among those who are not fans of Altidore. Wow, such insight - Germany has better players and more depth? Who knew?!?! Wooden Ships, July 17, 2017 at 12:41 p.m. I've always wanted to pull for Jozy, but his lack of professionalism has bothered me. Had Bradley been a stronger Captain perhaps Jozy's laziness and whining wouldn't have risen to the level it has. He would piss me off as a teammate. He has scored goals and made assists, some of them real quality. But, who has had the predominant minutes up top the last 5 years. As a coach I would have a hard time counting on him. And now, where we will have players that will provide great service will he know how to make those runs and show timely. Another thing that I hope Jozy will recognize as his remaining years loom, hustle to win the ball back, if not for your own pride, how about for your mates. You have players nipping at your heals now, turn it up a notch. One other thing, keeping Zardes and releasing Rowe is befuddling to say the least. Smart, technical, work rate, no thanks. Ric Fonseca replied, July 17, 2017 at 3:15 p.m. Bob Ashpole, July 17, 2017 at 12:59 p.m. Ridge makes a lot of good points. My thought is that, while earlier who Arena wanted to evaluate drove the selections, now Arena's choices focused more on the team than the individuals. Right Winger, July 17, 2017 at 1:16 p.m. I am not an Altidore hater. I am one who thinks his time is over and has been for some time. Talking about a pass to being outstanding. That's his job. The problem is he doesn't do it often enough and his complaining gets in the way. Move on. Thomas Brannan, July 17, 2017 at 2:05 p.m. If with two strikers: Dwyer and Wood. After that falls off. With Jozy it's not personal it's just an opinion. Dwyer missed a PK. PK s are different. When Dwyer pulls away a bit and pushes away and then goes to the far corner on the ground that shows something. Dwyer's overall play and playing knowledge appear to be better than Altidore. Not a derogatory comment on Jozy. Everyone is just trying to earn a living. Just an opinion. Ric Fonseca, July 17, 2017 at 3:17 p.m. I'd take Dwyer over Jazzy and Zardes. So even Pele and other greats have missed on a PK, so what, this is the nature of our jogo bonito. But for keeping Jazzy.... wow!!! R2 Dad, July 17, 2017 at 5:33 p.m. Y'all seem to be focusing on Altidore the player, rather than the system we use that requires a target man up front.There are two notable countries that play a target up front, USA and France. The difference is Giroud has his back to the goal so he can play in speedy wingers with real quality: M'bappe and Dembele--they're very dangerous and the team is explosive and powerful due to the fact that Giroud can hold up the ball to bring these other people into play. The US uses a target man the way those teams that inhabit the bottom half of the top 100 do, with long balls out of the back for JA to chase down. That is to say, we use a target man because we don't have many options up front. As far as Jozy's physiology is concerned, he is not a middle distance runner--he is a big, powerful sprinter. He cannot run all day the way a 440 runner can, but that 440 runner is also not packing the extra 40 lbs of muscle Jozy is. When you armchair quarterbacks complain about his work rate, you're not factoring in the fact that his physiology does not allow him to run all day. Go ask a 100 meter sprinter if he can run 6-10K during a soccer match, and still have gas in the tank for gut-busting runs. Having said all that, I don't like having to rely on Jozy and think if we have to play him he would suit a 4-4-2 or 3-4-3 much better than a 4-2-3-1. Bob Ashpole replied, July 17, 2017 at 6:45 p.m. R2 Dad, his size does not prevent his fitness. That is just an excuse. Match fit is match fit and the one thing that is within everyone's reach if healthy. Beside he is a skinny 6'1" and 175 lbs. The Hulk is 5' 11" and 187 lbs. When I played competitively, I was a 205 lbs wing half and ran opponents into exhaustion. You are barking up the wrong tree with fitness as an issue. Jay Wall replied, July 17, 2017 at 9:27 p.m. Recent professional game studies, using GPS and multi-camera player tracking, document a change in the types and frequency of movement in the game. For example tracking to the nearest 1,000 of a second, players even at the highest professional levels, spend 52.3% to 60.8% of their time standing, walking or jogging in games. Percents vary slightly by report but the following data shows what attributes players in various positions should possess. > Stribers Strikers sprint 5% of the time, run fast 7.2%, run at a moderate speed 17% of the time, run slow 15.2% of the time and stand, walk and jog 55.6% of the time. > Wing Midfielders sprint 4.3% of the time, run fast 7.1%, run at a moderate speed 18.3% of the time, run slow 17.3% of the time and stand, walk and jog 53.0% of the time. > Central Midfielders sprint 3.5% of the time, run fast 6.9%, run at a moderate speed 18.4% of the time, run slow 16.9% of the time and stand, walk and jog 54.2% of the time. > Wing Defenders sprint 5.3% of the time, run fast 7.3%, run at a moderate speed 18.1% of the time, run slow 16.9% of the time and stand, walk and jog 52.3% of the time. > Central Defenders sprint 3.9% of the time, run fast 6.2%, run at a moderate speed 14.8% of the time, run slow 14.3% of the time and stand, walk and jog 60.8% of the time. >> Since all athletes rely on Fast Twitch muscles for speed and Slow Twitch muscles for endurance running and each players store of energy for each muscle type differs, the challenge is to match each players physical, mental and intellectual abilities with the positions a team is playing and the capabilities of their opponents. As Cruyff observed players who observe and understand the game are often not faster, but arrive on time more often because their ability to scan the game and to understand what they see is far better developed. A slow player who acquires and processes more information faster, understands what they observe and makes instant decisions is far more likely to arrive on time than the track star who wins Olympic medals but doesn't have the mental processing speed and decision making ability of the slower player. As Cruyff said fast runners run track, those who can anticipate faster and make decisions faster play soccer. >> So running speed is only one small part of playing speed. Pep didn't have the speed of other players but he saw everything and acted, therefore he played on one of the best professional soccer teams in the world, Barcelona. Wooden Ships replied, July 17, 2017 at 10:40 p.m. Good stuff Jay. There is a place in the game for empiricism, here it is revealing. I've done fartlek training as a player and a coach. Some had the deer in headlights look when you explained what we were about to do. R2 Dad replied, July 18, 2017 at 2:39 a.m. Bob, please don't talk about "back in the day" as rationale for your position. "Playing Competitively" is not the same as playing at the highest levels of the sport, so running the opposition into the ground might have been an achievement then but impossible today. MLS today, EPL today, IS a track meet compared to 20 years ago. I don't think that's good for the sport in either country, merely an accurate observation. But keep telling yourself professional players with 10 years on the USMNT are lazy. Bob Ashpole replied, July 19, 2017 at 2:34 a.m. R2 Dad, first you say Jozy is too big to be match fit, then you say MLS players today are all at the highest level of fitness and will never be exhausted. Which is it? I played on a predominately Hispanic Army team against local colleges in the mid-80s. College was the highest level in the US at that time. NCAA rules allowed 11 subs a half. Most college players were fit for 22 minutes a half. It was like playing against an all star high school team. What do you think Arena's strategy was in the last match, starting 11 fresh players against Nicaragua? Glenn Auve, July 17, 2017 at 8:06 p.m. For a basically meaningless tournament why not just keep letting the younger players get experience? I know Arena mentioned mixing the youth with some veterans which seems sensible. Guzan hasn't exactly been lighting the world on fire so seeing him go is not a huge problem. And it was pre-planned anyway so he can meet his teammates in Atlanta. Miguel Aviles, July 17, 2017 at 8:45 p.m. Bob Ashpole replied, July 19, 2017 at 2:50 a.m. Ric Fonseca, July 17, 2017 at 11:57 p.m. Mr. Lander, surely you jest!?!?! Jazzy is NOT the answer, there are many others more worthy of playing his position, some that are not on this most recent squad, or for that matter, that kid from Seattle. Then again, I suppose one can continue to "dream on!" beautiful game, July 18, 2017 at 1:40 p.m. So far the only player to have shown consistency at an international level is Pulisic; and this constant argument over second and third tier players is an exercise either false hopes or inability to judge player quality. The recognition of player subtle quality nuances seems to to bury itself when NT players show a couple of good. Jim Hougan, July 18, 2017 at 1:53 p.m. Kellyn Rowe put more and harder shots on goal than the rest of the team put together. He was consistently dangerous every time he touched the ball. Kevin Leahy, July 18, 2017 at 2:04 p.m. I already know how Howard is under pressure. Would like to see Hamid get the Wednesday game. Howard is at an age where his game could disappear fast and the team will need someone soon in that role. Forever Blue, July 18, 2017 at 8:08 p.m. I would have kept Rowe. He was of the bright lights. Would have kept Dwyer also, not as impressed as everybody raves on but feel he earned the right to stay. Would have let Corona go. Probably one of the bigger disappointments. Also don't think we needed to overload with Dempsey and Altidore. One of them would have been fine. Other players still need the experience and pressure of knockout stages. Bob Ashpole replied, July 19, 2017 at 3 a.m. I generally agree, but you are overlooking the fact that the younger players need playing experience with the regular starters--Bradley, Howard, Altidore, Dempsey, and Nagbe--who weren't with them the last few weeks.

2019-04-22T10:49:34Z

https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/74188/arena-goes-with-experience-and-a-few-question-m.html