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A Fredericksburg chicken-processing plant that employs more than 600 people will close in March.
BC Natural Chicken, 2609 Route 22, will close on or shortly after March 14, according to a news release from Maryland-based Perdue Farms, BC's parent company.
BC employs about 650 employees, said Julie DeYoung, a spokeswoman for Perdue Farms. That made it the 10th largest employer in Lebanon County, according to the state Department of Labor and Industry.
Perdue is consolidating production from the BC -- which stands for Booth Creek -- plant to modernized plants with the capability and capacity to better serve customers for its Coleman and customer-owned organic and no-antibiotics-ever brands, the release said.
"As we increased our focus on premium brands and products, we freed up capacity across our supply chain, which lead us to look at how we could align our assets to more efficiently serve all of our customers," Lester Gray, senior vice president of operations for Perdue Foods, said in the release.
"When we looked at our long-term needs, it became clear that the BCNC plant would require significant and costly upgrades, and even then, we would not overcome the age and physical limitations of the facility," Gray said.SEE ALSO: Corbett issues statement on closing of BC Natural Chicken
In addition to the Fredericksburg plant closure, the lease for a distribution center in Denver, Lancaster County, that serves the BC plant will not be renewed.
Perdue will offer all affected employees the opportunity to transfer to other Perdue facilities. The closest Perdue facilities are in Delaware, DeYoung said.
"We value the skills and dedication of the BCNC associates, and hope as many as possible will stay with us," Gray said.
Employees who choose not to transfer will be offered severance packages, including extended benefits coverage. DeYoung said Perdue is still negotiating with unions over details of severance packages.
Perdue Farms will also work with other employers and agencies to place as many individuals as possible within the community, the release said.
No decisions have been made on the future of the BC building, DeYoung said.
"We're still exploring our options on the building," she said.
BC Natural Chicken, which produces organic and antibiotic-free chickens, is a subsidiary of Coleman Natural Foods. FPP Family Investments, Perdue Farms' parent company, purchased Coleman Natural Foods in 2011.
As of 2011, BC Natural Chicken contracted with more than 80 farmers in Pennsylvania, with an annual production of more than 145 million live pounds, according to a 2011 article in Lancaster Farming.
The closure of the BC plant will have no impact on the Perdue's organic live production in Pennsylvania, according to the release. Perdue will continue organic chicken production with the same local farmers, USDA-certified organic feed ingredient suppliers and organic feed manufacturing, and local hatchery, the release stated.
The company plans to work with its other Pennsylvania growers to transition them to organic production. Perdue Farms is also contracting with Pennsylvania farmers as it develops a breeder operation in the state.
"These moves are part of an ongoing strategy to focus on premium brands and products in the USDA Process Verified All-Vegetarian Fed, No-Antibiotics-Ever, and Organic segments, while increasing efficiencies in an ever-more competitive marketplace," said Perdue Chairman Jim Perdue.
The BC plant is just one part of Fredericksburg's relatively large chicken heritage. It has been home to multiple chicken-processing plants for at least 40 years.
In addition to BC, Fredericksburg is currently also home to two other chicken plants -- Hain Pure Protein and Bell and Evans.
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I noticed that when my roommates feed their puppy, the puppy will take a mouth full of the kibble (but not chew or swallow it), then walk away from his bowl, and drop the kibble on the ground. He will then walk around and eat each individual piece of kibble that he drops across the ground.
The kibble literally gets spread all across the room, and he wanders around eating all the individual pieces until it's all gone.
Why does the puppy do this? I'm not really concerned, because he eventually eats it all. I'm just curious as to what causes this behavior. | 2021-01-27T07:39:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704821253.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210127055122-20210127085122-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.974296 | 126 | {
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JAN. 16, 9:58am: The Pirates have officially announced the signing of Kang to a four-year contract with a club option for a fifth season.
JAN. 12: The Pirates and Korean infielder Jung-ho Kang have agreed to terms on a four-year deal with a fifth-year option, reports Jim Bowden of ESPN and MLB Network Radio (Twitter links). Kang’s contract, which is still pending a physical, will guarantee him about $16MM, according to Bowden. Kang is represented by Octagon’s Alan Nero.
Kang’s former club, the Nexen Heroes of the Korea Baseball Organization, announced recently that the 2014 KBO MVP was flying to Pittsburgh to take a physical this week, and Nero himself told reporters last week that he expected an agreement to be reached with the club this week. Kang had reportedly been seeking about $5MM per year on a four-year deal, so it appears that Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington and his staff were able to talk Kang and Nero down a bit.
The 27-year-old Kang (28 in April) is coming off an incredible season with the Heroes in which he batted .356/.459/.739 batting line and 40 home runs in 117 games between the regular season and the playoffs. Though KBO is notoriously hitter-friendly, those numbers still garnered quite a bit of attention from big league clubs, even though some were clearly skeptical, as Pittsburgh’s $5,002,015 winning bid for the negotiation rights was relatively modest.
MLBTR’s Charlie Wilmoth recently penned an international profile on Kang, noting that Dan Szymborski, who created the ZiPS projection system, likened the KBO to a hitter-friendly version of Double-A. Within that profile, Charlie notes that an MLB international scouting director to whom MLBTR’s Tim Dierkes spoke opined that Kang possessed no plus tools, merely raw power that wouldn’t translate to games in the Majors.
On the other side of the coin, however, some scouts do think that Kang can be a regular in the Majors. ESPN’s Keith Law ranked Kang 15th among free agents this offseason, noting that he’d start Kang at shortstop and give him every opportunity to prove he belongs. Likewise, former MLB and KBO pitcher Ryan Sadowski, now with Global Sporting Integration, said that he feels Kang can absolutely be a regular player and hit about 20 homers per season at the big league level when he spoke with Jeff Todd on the MLBTR Podcast.
It’s unclear exactly how Kang will fit into the Pirates’ plans. He could supplant Jordy Mercer as the club’s starting shortstop, but Mercer is coming off a solid enough season that he could make a case to start in spite of Kang’s arrival. Kang has said that his preference is to play third base if he has to move off shortstop, per Jeeho Yoo of Korea’s Yonhap News Agency (Twitter link), as he’s more familiar with that position. However, Josh Harrison appears locked in at third coming off a brilliant season in which he was one of the National League’s most valuable players. Kang could bounce around the diamond in a role similar to the one that Harrison filled for much of 2014 and settle into a permanent spot in the event of an injury to one of Pittsburgh’s infielders or regression from Mercer or Harrison. | 2017-07-20T12:43:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423183.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170720121902-20170720141902-00084.warc.gz | en | 0.971333 | 722 | {
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The most obvious makeup blunders are the ones to do with the skin. Foundation streaks, irregular toning, wrong foundation tone, open pores, redness around the nose, over-powdering, oily T-zone glistening – makeup blunders can make or break an outfit. Celebrity makeup artist and beauty brand founder, Napoleon Perdis, swears by applying primer to fix all these blunders. “No to primer is a crime! It’s been my career-long mantra as it helps finesse your foundation, helping your skin to stay flawless for longer,” says Perdis.
Listed below are the top ten best primers for skin that will help combat dry skin. They will give your skin the flawlessness you desire!
Best Primers For Dry Skin
Following 10 are the top Primers for Dry Skin.
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The Clinique Superprimer Face Primer works to control dry skin. If you have dry skin with a tendency to flake, then this product is perfect as it has an oil base and helps smooth out the skin. It doesn’t dry the skin further or cause an acne break out.
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This product will give you just the right amount of colour. It never fades and brightens one’s eyes up. It is waterproof and smudge proof and stays on for more than twelve hours. Also, the quantity needed for application each time is also very little, so it lasts for a long time.
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This product is best used before applying the foundation and blusher and makes the skin look terrific.This face primer for dry skin has an oil free base and is perfect for all skin types. It moisturizes and hydrates the skin without making it look greasy. It gives your skin the perfect base and keeps the skin moisturized and clean.
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This product is the one of the best primers for dry skin. Only a tiny amount is needed to cover the whole face and it has an oil-free base that works to give the skin a smooth texture. It helps control excessive drying up of naturally dry skin and helps retain the makeup for much longer. It can be mixed with a concealer to make a good eyeshadow base.
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If you want an even matte look for your face, then this primer for dry skin is for you. It keeps the makeup on evenly and for much longer than usual. It gives a glow to the skin when used and makes the face feel soft and smooth. The SPF factor is 50-so no need to apply additional sun protection.
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This one is on the expensive side, but worth every penny. The Chanel Le Blanc De Chanel Sheer Illuminating Base adds radiance to the skin while hydrating and smoothening it. Look out for that dewy look.
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This primer helps eliminate eyeshadow creasing. It blends perfectly into your eyelid. It keeps your eyeshadow in place and enhances the colours.
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It is lightweight and translucent and is applied before using the foundation. It evens out the skin tone and helps conceal pores. It gives the skin a matte and glowy finish. A sure head turner!
[ Read: How To Do Light Makeup? ]
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The Revlon PhotoReady Primerhas the benefits of a primer and a serum topped with stabilized vitamin C. It reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It gradually smoothens out the skin, helps conceal pores and makes the skin look great. Only a very little quantity is needed per application and it helps repair damaged skin too. Good value for your money indeed.
[ Read: Loreal Blushes Available In India ]
So, worry no more about those pesky skin issues. Pick any of these primers to give your dry skin the pampering it deserves!
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Kuwait protesters defy government ban
- Article by: HUSSAIN AL-QATARI
- Associated Press
- January 6, 2013 - 12:26 PM
KUWAIT CITY - Riot police in Kuwait have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse more than 1,000 anti-government protesters, defying strict rules limiting political demonstrations in the Gulf nation.
Kuwaiti authorities have said rallies must receive written permission as part of efforts to quell growing unrest over last month's parliamentary elections.
But organizers of Sunday's protest used social media to mobilize crowds.
Opposition groups have accused Kuwait's ruler of overstepping his powers by changing voting rules that appeared to favor government critics, which span from Islamist factions and pro-reform liberals. They now seek to bring down the new parliament dominated by pro-government lawmakers.
Kuwaiti rights activist Mohammed Al-Humaidi says several protesters were arrested. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
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In an effort to provide better quality clip art images and photos, we are excited to announce the launch of our new site clipartstockphoto.com with an emphasis on premium quality and well constructed graphics for professional graphic designers.
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Home burglarized near Grow Avenue
A home near Grow Avenue was burglarized late last week.
According to police documents, someone broke into a storage area attached to a Gideon Lane home and stole outdoor and camping gear that was valued at $700.
The renter of the property discovered the latch to the storage door had been unscrewed and broken into after returning from work Thursday, Feb. 13.
A padlock that had locked the door shut hung from the other end of the unscrewed latch.
Since the door leading into the house through the storage area was locked from the inside, the thief was unable to enter the home, police reported.
Police searched the forested area around the house and did not find any evidence nor shoe impressions. Officers also conducted an area canvas and spoke with a neighbor across the street.
The neighbor told police she had been home most of the day, but had not been watching closely. She did not see anyone near the house, aside from two teenage girls at Gideon Park.
The thief stole two presorted tool kits, both black in color and valued at approximately $40 each. Also stolen were a Jumpstart battery station valued at $150, a box of camping equipment, two REI camping chairs (green and grey), one Coleman camping tent (a cabin-style model valued at $200), two fishing poles valued at $50 total and one green fishing net with aluminum handle valued at $20. | 2016-07-28T14:29:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257828283.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071028-00102-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970679 | 323 | {
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- Represented a client before the Department of Energy regarding energy efficiency standards for consumer products, including counseling on requirements for certifying products and defending against alleged non-compliance.
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- Counseled a client in a multimillion-dollar judicial Clean Air Act enforcement matter brought by the Department of Justice and EPA.
- Filed voluntary self-disclosures with the EPA related to potential non-compliance related to the Clean Air Act and advised clients regarding the corrective action requirements of EPA’s Audit Policy.
- Served as senior EPA counsel in Juliana v. United States, which involved claims that the government had violated the U.S. Constitution for failing to combat climate change.
- Provided legal advice to the EPA on petitions relating to Title V operating permits.
- Provided legal review of the President’s Executive Order on energy independence.
Chemicals and Pesticides
- Counseled multiple companies regarding regulatory requirements for adding antimicrobial protection to consumer goods.
- Advised companies bringing sanitizer and disinfectant products to market for the first time on compliance with EPA and FDA regulations.
- Defended a client against an EPA enforcement action alleging unauthorized import of consumer goods that made public health claims. Negotiated a novel resolution with federal regulators.
- Filed a voluntary disclosure of potential Toxic Substances Control Act non-compliance related to PCBs.
- Served as the Registered Agent for a company regulated by the EPA’s pesticide program.
- Developed the legal grounds for the EPA’s action addressing a petition to revoke tolerances for chlorpyrifos.
- Provided legal advice and support for new EPA rules issued under the updated Toxic Substances Control Act.
- Served as the lead EPA staff attorney for the re-registration of older pesticides and the agency’s initiative to complete this process by a statutory deadline. | 2021-03-08T19:14:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178385389.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20210308174330-20210308204330-00143.warc.gz | en | 0.923811 | 416 | {
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How to set up the solar street light project construction budget
now more and more use of solar energy street lamp, solar street lighting project is the dominant direction of the new rural construction of lighting, solar road lights 丨 丨 solar street lamps quotation price 丨 solar street lamps, solar street lamps city transformation also most use solar street lighting, such as green energy-saving environmental protection lighting is more and more get the attention of people. The LED lamps and lanterns, solar street light with high efficiency, green and energy saving, environmental protection, simple installation and other advantages, is now widely used in road lighting.
the day under the control of intelligent controller solar street lamps, solar panels, after the illuminate of sunshine, absorb the solar energy into electrical energy, solar energy battery components in charge during the day and night battery power LED light source, lighting function. In we buy solar street light, however, also deal with solar street light budget preparation. Below small make up is introduced:
1, the equipment budget. Need to buy solar street lamps enterprises should consider the product itself is the budget, such as buying illuminant parts, lamp posts, cable and solar panels require a lot of cost, through these aspects one by one count, solar street light the budget for the product itself can be finished in a short time. The current market sales more hot solar street lamp, mainly for the integration of sales, if meet the requirements for large customers, these lights also reduce the cost of sales, the number of before the budget, the demand side should also communicate with suppliers to determine.
2, construction budget. In addition to the solar street light products of the budget, also need to consider the cost of construction, we such as construction time, number of employees, salary, and tools applied to the construction process of the components, and so on, will produce a large number of economic consumption. So only from the Angle of the budget preparation of solar street light, the demand side before preparation, should be combined with actual situation carries on the detailed division of labor, so find out the most perfect budget. | 2023-02-05T21:08:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500288.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205193202-20230205223202-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.914228 | 428 | {
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This article is from TOS Vol. 3, No. 4. The full contents of the issue are listed here.
Capitalism and the Moral High Ground
Economists from Adam Smith to Ludwig von Mises to Henry Hazlitt to Thomas Sowell have elucidated the general mechanics of a free market and demonstrated the unassailable practicality of capitalism. They have shown how freer markets provide better and cheaper health care, cleaner air and water, safer automobiles and airplanes, ample food and energy, better and cheaper schools, and so on. But their arguments have not convinced the world to embrace capitalism. On the contrary, people today are condemning the system of private property as loudly as ever.
According to Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA), Americans must abandon “this simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it.”1 Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), addressing oil company CEOs, openly threatens to socialize their industry: “Guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing. . . . all of your companies.”2 Philosopher Noam Chomsky insists that “putting people in charge of their own assets breaks down the solidarity that comes from doing something together, and diminishes the sense that people have responsibility for each other.”3
All such assaults on free markets and property rights proceed from the recognition of the fact that these key elements of capitalism enable selfishness. As Karl Marx explained: “The right of man to property is the right to enjoy his possessions and dispose of the same arbitrarily, without regard for other men, independently from society, the right of selfishness.”4 And as President-elect Barack Obama intimates, who would dare “to make a virtue out of selfishness”?5
How do so-called advocates of capitalism respond to accusations of its inherent selfishness? Some, such as George Gilder, simply deny it. Selfishness is not the essence of capitalism, writes Gilder, “Altruism is the essence of capitalism. . . . Capitalism begins with giving. . . . The deepest truths of capitalism are faith, hope, and love.”6 This, of course, is ridiculous. Capitalism begins not with giving but with producing—and then moves on to keeping, using, and trading the product of one’s efforts for other values in the marketplace. Nor is capitalism based on faith or hope; rather, it is based on reason and long-term planning, which are the means by which businessmen succeed and grow rich. And although love is certainly essential to capitalism, the relevant object of love in this context is money. Capitalism is the system of the selfish pursuit of profit, and to deny this, as Gilder does, is to abuse the meaning of words.
Other “defenders” of capitalism, such as Michael Novak, attempt to reconcile its selfish nature with conventional morality:
While recognizing that no system of political economy can escape the ravages of human sinfulness, [capitalism] has attempted to set in place a system which renders sinful tendencies as productive of good as possible. While basing itself on something less than perfect virtue, reasoned self-interest, it has attempted to draw from self-interest its most creative potential. It is a system designed for sinners, in the hope of achieving as much moral good as individuals and communities can generate under conditions of ample liberty.7
So, by freeing sinners to pursue their reasoned self-interest, capitalism taps into the creative potential of these depraved souls and thereby achieves moral good. This, too, is absurd. To concede the immorality of a social system is to concede the argument for it. The attempt to defend capitalism on the grounds that it is morally bad (or, at best, neutral) but economically good is precisely what has failed the aforementioned economists.
The practicality of capitalism is insufficient grounds for its defense against those who assert its immorality. We who wish to advocate capitalism must do so on moral grounds. The moral grounds on which we must advocate capitalism, however, are not those of conventional wisdom.
Capitalism enables everyone to act in a consistently self-interested manner. Rather than shying away from this unassailable fact, we must embrace and emphasize it. We must do so not on the pragmatic grounds that doing so will work to defend capitalism (which it will), but on the principled grounds that the selfishness-enabling characteristic of capitalism is, in fact, what makes it the only moral social system on earth.
To see why this is so, let us begin by observing how capitalism enables economic selfishness and what this means in practice.
Under genuine capitalism—not the mongrel system operative in America today, but pure, unregulated, laissez-faire capitalism—the government prohibits citizens from using physical force against each other, and the Constitution prohibits the government from using force against citizens except in retaliation against those who initiate its use. Thus everyone is fully free to act on his own judgment for his own sake.
Consider the activities of a bank under capitalism. If an individual or corporation chooses to create a bank, he or it is free to establish the policy that the bank will offer loans only to individuals and businesses the bank regards as creditworthy. The government may not force the bank to lend money to those it regards as unable to repay a loan or as too risky for business. Nor may the government dictate or limit the interest rates or other terms or conditions that the bank chooses to offer. The government may not force the bank to do anything, because under capitalism, the government is forbidden to initiate force against citizens or businesses.
The bank owner or owners are free to decide how they will run their business at every step and turn; free to open new branches, to purchase other banks, to purchase insurance companies, and to expand or diversify their bank in countless other ways. They are free to maximize their profits and to grow and thrive and prosper to the best of their ability. The only thing they are not free to do is to use physical force or fraud (indirect force) against people, because, under capitalism, physical force is banned from social relationships.8
If the bank employs rational policies and succeeds, its success is good for the bank, good for its owners, and good for its customers. If the bank engages in irrational policies—if, for instance, its risk-assessment procedures are such that it regularly lends money to people who cannot repay their loans—the bank suffers negative financial consequences. If its policies lead the bank to failure, it may not seek a bailout from the government; nor may the government offer to “rescue” the bank. Under capitalism, bankers and banks, like all individuals and businesses, are responsible for the consequences of their decisions, whether good or bad, profitable or not. Consequently, under capitalism, if a bank fails, it files bankruptcy or offers itself for sale on the cheap or goes out of business; its owners suffer losses; and its customers find other means through which to save or borrow money. Under capitalism, everyone is free to benefit from his rational choices and actions, and no one may force others to suffer the consequences of his irrational decisions.
Capitalism encourages rationality in the marketplace. Those who act in a rationally self-interested manner tend to succeed, and those who do succeed are free to enjoy the fruits of their rationality.
Consider the case of an automaker. Under capitalism, an automaker is free to manufacture and market cars in whatever way it sees fit, and the company is free to succeed or to fail accordingly. The government may not force the company to sell a particular kind of car, nor force it to pay its employees a particular minimum or maximum wage, nor force it to contract with a particular vendor, nor a union, nor anyone else. The automaker is free to make all such decisions according to its own judgment (i.e., the judgment of its owners). If the automaker uses good judgment and succeeds, it is free to keep, use, and dispose of its profits. If it uses poor judgment and fails—or if its competitors outperform it such that it cannot remain profitable—the automaker may file for bankruptcy or offer itself for sale or close its doors. But it may not seek a bailout from the government. Under capitalism, individuals and corporations legally own not only their profits but also their problems, and the government is prohibited from intervening in the marketplace.
As to unions, under capitalism, individuals are free to band together and to stipulate that members of their group will work only on certain terms and under certain conditions. But such groups may not force others to contract with them, nor may the government employ such force on their behalf. Under capitalism, everyone is free to set his own terms and conditions of contract; no one may infringe on the freedom of others to set theirs; everyone is equally free to be fully selfish.
Capitalism is the system of mutual self-interest and mutual non-interference. Everyone who wishes to live well and prosper is free to do so to the best of his effort and ability; no one may stop another from pursuing his values or goals.
Consider a real-estate development company. Under capitalism, the company is free to build condominiums or pharmaceutical plants or whatever else it wants to build, and its owners are free to use and dispose of their profits according to their own judgment. But if the company needs to acquire real estate on which to build, it may acquire that property only from willing sellers. If, by mutual consent to mutual advantage, it can acquire the property from those who own it, the company is free to develop that property. If, however, the owners of the property in question do not want to sell it to the development company, the company may not force them to “sell”—nor may it enlist the government to do so. The company may increase its offer or change its plans or proceed peacefully in another manner, but it may not resort to coercion because, under capitalism, coercion is forbidden.
Capitalism is the system of private property and voluntary exchange. Those who are willing to interact peacefully with others are free to produce, trade, and prosper accordingly. Those who wish to use force against their fellow men are precluded from doing so—and punished if they try.
Under capitalism, the initiation of physical force is barred from human relationships; citizens delegate the use of retaliatory force to the government, which may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use; and those who initiate force against others are met with force by the law.9 This arrangement leaves everyone free to act on his own judgment for his own sake as a matter of principle. This is what makes capitalism the system of selfishness—and this is what distinguishes capitalism from all other social systems.
Consider the alternative systems in this regard. Under communism, the government forces individuals and businesses to act against their judgment for the sake of the “workers” or the “community”; hence the term “communism” (e.g., the USSR). Under socialism, the government forces individuals and businesses to act against their judgment for the sake of the “collective” or “society”; hence the term “socialism” (e.g., present-day Sweden). Under theocracy, the government forces individuals and businesses to act against their judgment in obedience to “God’s will”—or whatever His earthly “representatives” deem His will to be; hence the term “theocracy,” which means literally “rule by God” (e.g., present-day Iran). Under fascism, the government forces individuals and businesses to act against their judgment for the sake of the “nation,” the “race,” the “people,” the “elderly,” the “poor,” or some other “group”; hence the term “fascism,” which means literally “group-ism” (e.g., Mussolini’s Italy).
Under capitalism (which has yet to exist),10 the government is forbidden from forcing individuals or businesses to act against their judgment. In a capitalist society, everyone is legally free to act on his own judgment for his own sake. The government serves only to protect individuals and businesses from physical force by banning it from social relationships and by using retaliatory force as necessary against those who initiate its use.
America today is a motley mixture of all of the above. Our federal, state, and local governments force citizens to act against their judgment in myriad ways: for the sake of the community (e.g., the Community Reinvestment Act, which forces banks to lend money to unqualified borrowers); for the sake of the workers (e.g., the United Auto Workers union, whose demands the government forces on automakers and other businesses); for the sake of society (e.g., Social Security, through which the government forces some citizens to fund the retirement of others); for the sake of “God” (e.g., faith-based initiatives, through which the government forces Americans to fund “God’s” earthly agents); for the sake of the nation (e.g., the Federal Trade Commission, through which the government forces businesses not to be too successful because too much business success allegedly would harm consumers); for the sake of race (e.g., affirmative action laws, through which the government forces businesses and schools to hire or admit people on the basis of genetic lineage); for the sake of the people (e.g., eminent domain laws, through which the government forces property owners to relinquish their homes, businesses, and land for so-called public purposes); for the sake of the elderly (e.g., Medicare, through which the government forces younger Americans to fund the health care of older Americans); for the sake of the poor (e.g., Medicaid, through which the government forces working Americans to fund the health care of allegedly destitute Americans); and for the sake of the group in general (e.g., the Food and Drug Administration, through which the government forces doctors, patients, drugmakers, food producers, and consumers to act against their judgment on the grounds that the group’s judgment, as represented by the “experts” at the FDA, is better for everyone). Granted, this list barely scratches the surface, but it indicates the enormity of government coercion against Americans today.
Despite all this force, however, Americans are, in some respects, still free to act on their judgment for their own sake: free to choose their careers, their hobbies, and their residences—providing that their choices do not “harm” the “environment”; free to marry their lovers—unless their lovers happen to share their gender; free to have an abortion—unless doing so would involve intact dilation and extraction; free to speak their minds—except with respect to certain kinds of political speech, broadcasting, and advertising; free to keep, use, and dispose of their earnings—except the large percentage taken by federal, state, and local governments via taxation; and free to offer employment to whomever they choose—except would-be immigrants from countries that have reached their quotas for emigration to the land of waning liberty.
In short, Americans are partially forced to act against their judgment and partially free to act in accordance with their judgment.
What is the moral status of this arrangement? The arrangement is immoral—immoral because, insofar as the government forces people to act against their judgment, it impedes their ability to live fully as human beings.
Man lives by acting on his rational judgment. In order to survive and prosper, he must observe reality, integrate his observations into concepts, identify causal relationships, form principles about the kind of actions that are good and bad for his life, and act on his best judgment. This is true in every area of human life and observable at every stage of human history.
Man’s rational judgment is the means by which he learned to make tools for hunting and fishing, to lash together branches and build shelters, to make and control fire, and to shape and bake bricks. It is the means by which he grasped the nature of plants and soil, developed irrigation systems, discovered the principles of agriculture, and proceeded to mass-produce food. It is the means by which he discovered the chemical elements of the earth, the principles of chemistry, and how to produce plastics, medicines, energy, and countless other life-serving values based on that knowledge. It is the means by which he learned about wings and flight, discovered the principles of aerodynamics, and proceeded to build and fly jumbo jets. It is the means by which he discovered the need for money and credit, the principles of banking, and how to evaluate borrowers and assess risk. It is the means by which he learned how to manufacture and market automobiles, how to manage employees, and how to assess their worth in the context of a corporation. And it is the means by which he discovered the need of private property, voluntary trade, and a government that protects each individual’s right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
Reason is man’s basic means of living, and reason is an attribute of the individual. Although individuals can work together in groups—and can do so to great benefit—the fact remains that only individuals can think, because only individuals have minds. Excepting the mentally retarded, each individual’s own mind is his own basic means of living, and each individual is faced with the alternative of choosing to use his mind or not. If he chooses to think, he can live and prosper. If he chooses not to think, he either dies or survives parasitically on the efforts of those who do choose to think. Either way, reason is man’s basic means of living, and if an individual is to live as a human being, rather than as a parasite, he must think rationally and act accordingly.11
So the crucial question in the realm of politics is: What can stop an individual from acting on his rational judgment? There is only one thing that can stop an individual from acting on his judgment: other people. And there is only one means by which they can do it: physical force. Physical force used against a person stops him from employing his basic means of living: the judgment of his mind.
If a man judges that he should build a house, he is free to do so—unless another person, group, or government forcibly stops him from doing so. If a woman judges that she should start a business in her home, she is free to do so—unless another person, group, or government forcibly stops her from doing so. If a banker judges that he should withhold loans from those with insufficient income or poor credit, or if an automaker judges that he should refrain from hiring employees at rates that will drive him out of business, or if an individual judges that he should accept employment at an entry-level rate offered by an employer, or if a property owner judges that he should retain his property, the individuals or owners in question are free to act on their own judgment—unless a person, group, or government forcibly stops them from doing so.
Because an individual’s judgment is his basic means of living, physical force, to the extent that it is used against him, causes him to lead a less than human life. This fact gives rise to man’s need of a principle that precludes people, groups, and governments from using force against individuals. That principle is the principle of individual rights.
The principle of individual rights is the recognition of the fact that in order to live fully as a human being, an individual must be fully free to act on his own judgment for his own sake.12 If recognized and upheld, however, this principle would enable everyone to act consistently selfishly as a matter of principle—and this possibility runs counter to conventional morality.
This brings us to the crux of the battle for capitalism.
If human beings are to act on their rational judgment, they must be free to act on it. Capitalism is the social system that recognizes this fact and upholds the principle of individual rights. But according to the dominant morality today, altruism, the individual does not and cannot have a right to act on his own judgment for his own sake, because the individual has a “duty” to sacrifice his judgment and thus his life for the sake of others.
Altruism holds that being moral consists not in being selfish but in being selfless, not in self-interestedly pursuing and protecting one’s life-serving values but in self-sacrificially serving others. (“Alter” is Latin for “other”; “altruism” means “other-ism.”) And because pushers of altruism frequently equivocate on the meaning of the concept of “service,” it is crucial for advocates of capitalism to grasp the actual meaning of this concept as it relates to altruism.
Altruism does not call merely for “serving” others; it calls for self-sacrificially serving others. Otherwise, Michael Dell would have to be considered more altruistic than Mother Teresa. Why? Because Michael Dell serves millions more people than Mother Teresa ever did. The difference, of course, is in the way he serves people. Whereas Mother Teresa “served” people by exchanging her time and effort for nothing, Michael Dell serves people by trading with them—by exchanging value for value to mutual advantage—an exchange in which both sides gain.
Trading value for value is not the same thing as giving up values for nothing. There is a black-and-white difference between pursuing values and giving them up, between achieving values and relinquishing them, between exchanging a lesser value for a greater one and vice versa.
A sacrifice is not “any choice or action that precludes some other choice or action.” A sacrifice is the surrender of a greater value for the sake of a lesser value or a non-value.13
For example, if a parent forgoes a game of golf with his friend in order to spend the morning preparing for his son’s birthday party that afternoon, he has not committed a sacrifice. If his son’s party means more to his life than does the game of golf, then the sacrifice would be to forgo the preparation and play the game.
Similarly, if a student knows that his education is more important to his life than is a night on the town with his friends, then staying home to study for a crucial exam, against the urgings of his buddies, does not constitute a sacrifice. The sacrifice would be to forgo his judgment, hit the town, and botch the exam.
Likewise, if a man wants to become a banker because he is fascinated by the profession and thinks he will love that career, and if he forgoes his second choice, a career in law, in order to create a bank, then he has not committed a sacrifice. He has pursued the greater of the two values. If however, he decides to quit banking and become a bureaucrat on the grounds that selfless “public service” is the “right thing to do,” then he has committed a sacrifice. He has abandoned what he regards as his ideal career in order to selflessly serve others—and, consequently, he will lead a less happy life.
Life requires that we regularly forgo lesser values for the sake of greater ones. But these are gains, not sacrifices. A sacrifice consists in giving up something that is more important to one’s life for the sake of something that is less important (or non-important) to one’s life. A sacrifice results in a personal loss.
Whereas capitalism is the politics of self-interest and personal gain, altruism is the ethics of self-sacrifice and personal loss. And altruism does not countenance self-interest or personal gain. This is not a caricature of altruism; it is the essence of the morality. As philosophy professor Peter Singer, an arch advocate of altruism, writes: “To the extent that [people] are motivated by the prospect of obtaining a reward or avoiding a punishment, they are not acting altruistically. . . .”14 As philosophy professor Thomas Nagel, another advocate of altruism, explains, altruism entails “a willingness to act in consideration of the interests of other persons, without the need of ulterior motives”—“ulterior motives” meaning: personal gains.15 And as the philosopher Ayn Rand, the arch opponent of altruism, succinctly put it: “The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.”16
On the principle of altruism, a banker has no right to withhold a mortgage loan from someone on the selfish grounds that providing the loan would result in a loss; it is not moral to be “motivated by the prospect of obtaining a reward or avoiding a punishment”; it is wrong to selfishly pursue profit. He must serve others “without the need of ulterior motives”; he must self-sacrificially serve others—in this case, those who want to own a home.
Likewise, on the principle of altruism, an automaker has no right to pay employees an hourly rate that makes selfish sense for the business; it is wrong to establish terms and conditions with the “ulterior motive” of making money or remaining viable. The automaker must self-sacrificially serve others—such as union workers.
Nor on the principle of altruism does a property owner have a right to keep, use, and dispose of his belongings. If others—such as a real-estate development company whose proposed project would lead to higher tax revenues for the municipality—need the property owner’s property, he has no right to withhold it for his selfish interests. According to altruism, he must “act in consideration of the interests of other persons”; he must sacrifice himself, his judgment, his property for the sake of others—in this case, the community-minded development company and the community it aims to “help.”
Altruism, the morality that forbids people to act in a self-interested manner, is entirely incompatible with capitalism, the system that enables and encourages everyone to act in a consistently self-interested manner. Acceptance of the altruistic premise that being moral consists in self-sacrificially serving others is what gives rise to and supports the various forms of statism—communism, socialism, theocracy, fascism—and it is what is driving America toward tyranny today.
The good news for lovers of liberty is that altruism is false. There are no facts that give rise to the notion that one should self-sacrificially serve others, which is why no one has ever presented such facts. Consequently, adherence to altruism is irrational. There is no reason to sacrifice, which is why no one has ever given a reason. As Ayn Rand pointed out:
There is one word—a single word—which can blast the morality of altruism out of existence and which it cannot withstand—the word: “Why?” Why must man live for the sake of others? Why must he be a sacrificial animal? Why is that the good? There is no earthly reason for it—and, ladies and gentlemen, in the whole history of philosophy no earthly reason has ever been given.17
Of course, alleged reasons have been given, but not legitimate ones. And those who wish to advocate capitalism need to understand why the alleged reasons are illegitimate. Here they are, along with the reasons why they are not reasons:
1. “You should sacrifice because God (or some other voice from another dimension) says so.”
This is not a reason—certainly not an earthly one. At best, it is an appeal to authority—that is, to the “authorities” who claim to speak for God. Just because a preacher or a book makes a claim does not mean the claim is true. The Bible claims, among other things, that a bush spoke. More fundamentally, this non-reason is an arbitrary claim because there is no evidence for the existence of a god. But even those who believe in a god can recognize the fallacy of appealing to an authority.
2. “You should sacrifice because that’s the general consensus.”
This is not a reason but an appeal to the masses. Matters of truth and morality are not determined by consensus. That slavery should be legal used to be the general consensus in America, and is still the consensus in parts of Africa. That did not and does not make it so. Nor does consensus legitimize the notion that you or anyone else should sacrifice or be sacrificed.
3. “You should sacrifice because other people need the benefit of your sacrifice.”
This is an appeal to pity. Even if other people did need the benefit of your sacrifice, it would not follow that this is a reason to sacrifice. More importantly, however, the notion that people need the benefit of your sacrifice is false. What people need is to produce values and to trade them with others who produce values. And to do so, they and others must be free to produce and trade according to their own judgment. This, not human sacrifice, is what human life requires.18
4. “You should sacrifice because if you don’t, you will be beaten, or fined, or thrown in jail, or in some other way physically assaulted.”
The threat of force is not a reason; it is the opposite of a reason. If the force wielders could offer a reason why you should sacrifice, then they would not have to use force; they could use persuasion instead of coercion.
5. “You should sacrifice because, well, when you wise up or grow up you’ll see that you should.”
This is not a reason, but a personal attack and an insult. It says, in effect, “If you don’t see the virtue of sacrifice, then you’re stupid or childish”—as if demanding a reason in support of a moral conviction could indicate a lack of intelligence or maturity.
6. “You should sacrifice because only a miscreant or a scoundrel would challenge this established fact.”
This kind of claim assumes that you regard others’ opinions of you as more important than your own judgment of truth. It is also an example of what Ayn Rand called “The Argument from Intimidation”: the attempt to substitute psychological pressure for rational argument.19 Like the personal attack, it is an attempt to avoid having to present a rational case for a position for which no rational case can be made.
Such are the “reasons” offered in support of the claim that you should sacrifice. Far from being reasons, each is a textbook logical fallacy.
There is no reason to sacrifice—but there is a reason to act in a self-interested manner: your life and happiness depend on it. And there is a reason to advocate a social system that enables you and everyone else to act in a self-interested manner: your life and happiness—and the lives and happiness of all your loved ones—depend on it. Reasons do not get any better than these.
Advocates of capitalism must come to see that self-sacrifice is not moral but evil—evil because it is irrational and anti-life. Man’s life does not require that he give up the values on which his life depends. It requires the opposite. It requires that he pursue and protect his life-serving values. And it requires a social system that enables him to do so. Human life requires capitalism: the social system of universal selfishness and prosperity. And if we are to defend capitalism, we must repudiate the morality of self-sacrifice and embrace the morality of self-interest: rational egoism.
Rational egoism calls not for self-sacrifice but for rational self-interest (the only kind of self-interest there is). It calls for everyone to pursue his life-serving values while respecting the rights of others to do the same.
Egoism does not call for “doing whatever one pleases” or “doing whatever one feels like doing” or “stabbing others in the back to get what one wants.” Those are caricatures of egoism perpetrated by pushers of altruism who seek to equate egoism with hedonism and subjectivism. Egoism does not hold pleasure or feelings as the standard of value. It holds man’s life as the standard of value—and reason as man’s basic means of living.20
According to rational egoism, that which promotes man’s life is good, and that which harms or destroys man’s life is evil. There are several highly developed principles involved in this morality—including the supreme value of reason; the crucial need of purposeful goals and self-esteem; and the virtues of productiveness, independence, honesty, integrity, justice, and pride.21 But the key political principle of rational egoism is the principle of individual rights.
Whereas egoism identifies the fact that people must think rationally and act accordingly in order to live and prosper, the principle of individual rights identifies the fact that if people are to act in accordance with their judgment, they must be free to do so. Whereas altruism underlies and supports statism, egoism underlies and supports capitalism.
As the politics of self-interest, capitalism cannot be defended with the ethics of self-sacrifice—nor can it be defended apart from a moral foundation (e.g., via libertarianism or mere economics). We who wish to advocate capitalism must advocate it explicitly on moral grounds. We must unabashedly explain to our allies and potential allies (i.e., people who are willing to think) that human life requires rationally self-interested action; that each individual has a moral right to act on his own judgment for his own sake, so long as he does not violate the same rights of others; that capitalism is moral because it enables everyone to act in a rationally self-interested manner; and that a mixed economy—in which no one’s rights are fully protected, and everyone’s rights are partially violated—is immoral because it precludes people from acting fully as human life requires.
We who wish to advocate capitalism must take the moral high ground—which is ours by logical right—and we must never cede an inch to those who claim that self-sacrifice is a virtue. It is not. Self-interest is a virtue. Indeed, acting in one’s rational self-interest while respecting the rights of others to do the same is the basic requirement of human life. And capitalism is the only social system that fully legalizes it. Grounds do not get more moral than that.
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Acknowledgment: I wish to thank Alan Germani for his helpful suggestions on an earlier draft and for editing this article.
1 “Redistribution of Wealth,” YouTube video, accessed November 30, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJyS1WJNisM.
2 “Maxine Waters threatens to nationalize U.S. oil industries,” YouTube video, accessed November 30, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaY3LhJ-IQ.
3 Quoted in Pete Du Pont, “Socialism’s Last Redoubt,” Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2005, http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110006296.
4 Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question,” in Karl Marx: Selected Writings, 2nd ed., edited by David McLellan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 60.
5 “Selfishness: Obama Wages New Attack On Those Who Don’t Want Higher Taxes,” YouTube video, accessed November 30, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Th4UvADxc.
6 George Gilder, “Moral Sources of Capitalism,” in The Essential Neoconservative Reader, edited by Mark Gerson (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 155, 152, 159.
7 Michael Novak, “From the Spirit of Democratic Capitalism,” in Essential Neoconservative Reader, p. 127.
8 Cf. Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: Signet, 1967), p. 19. For elaboration on how fraud and other forms of indirect force constitute physical force, see Craig Biddle, Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Richmond: Glen Allen Press, 2002), pp. 104–112.
9 Cf. Ayn Rand, “Textbook of Americanism,” in The Ayn Rand Column, 2nd ed. (New Milford, CT: Second Renaissance Books, 1998), p. 86.
10 The closest system to capitalism was that of late 19th-century America, which, consequently, was an era of unparalleled innovation and economic growth.
11 Cf. Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual (New York: Signet, 1963), p. 120; and The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Signet, 1962), pp. 22–23.
12 Cf. For the New Intellectual, p. 182; and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p. 17.
13 Cf. The Virtue of Selfishness, p. 50.
14 Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 56.
15 Thomas Nagel, The Possibility of Altruism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), p. 79.
16 Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Signet, 1982), p. 61.
17 Ibid., pp. 61–62.
18 As to the very few people who are genuinely incapacitated and thus unable to support themselves by any means—such as those who are severely mentally retarded—what they need is not the alleged benefits of people’s sacrifices, but the actual benefits of people’s freedom to think and produce such that they can afford to offer charity, if they so choose.
19 See The Virtue of Selfishness, p. 162.
20 For the scientific derivation of this principle, see The Virtue of Selfishness, pp. 13–18; and Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, pp. 43–52.
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It's my Anniversary today - hubby and I have been married for 26 years.
"What's that?" he asked "glass, tin, copper???"
"No, it's My Mind's Eye Paper" I said, but he didn't fall for it
I made this picture board to stand on the table tonight,
as we eat a celebration meal that, right now, I am slaving over!!
I started with the plastic stand below, which was in a perfume box set
that someone got for Christmas.
I have a nice collection of odd boxes and packages all ready to upcycle!
The first thing I did with this was to cover the plastic with some 'kraft'
Then I cut a piece of cream card,
and inked and distressed the edges.
This formed the base for my
I inked and distressed a couple of sheets of Prima Botanical DP, and added them, along with some cream lace, pearls, blooms, and a heart.
Look at me?
Can you tell, that even back then I wasn't a girly girl?
No amount of persuading could get me into a meringue with a flowing train!
Shoes - now they are another matter altogether. I LOVED these white, satin heels.
I digress ;-) The frame - this was made by cutting up an old soap powder box and wrapping it with gardener's twine. You need the cardboard to be quite stiff to withstand all that wrapping!
I love this twine, the cheaper the better, so you get the lovely whispy bits.
I'm seriously thinking about using it, in some way, to tie up my Christmas presents this year.
Finally, I added a cream bow with a silver, glitter heart.
I made the 'Love' ticket on my comp and punched it with a McGills Ticket Punch.
I did stamp 'Amour' just above my bow,
but it got covered up when I added the key charm on a piece of twine.
I think there's just room for me to go back and stamp it again, a little higher.
DP - Prima Botanical. Pearls, blooms, stickles glitter, cream ruffled ribbon, cream lace.
Gardener's Twine. Key Charm. McGills Ticket Punch.
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The average salary for Registered Nurses in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metro area is approximately $81,350 per year (or $39.11 per hour) as of May 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
On average, RNs in the Houston area about 5% more than the national average salary for nurses, at $77,460. Additionally, they make 9.1% more than the average for Texas overall, at $74,540.
Houston RN Salaries Compared to Other Major Metro Areas
Houston is ranked as the 7th most populous metro area in the United States in terms of nurse employment. Texas also has a score of 92 on the cost of living index, which makes it the 13th most affordable state. As a result, the average RN salary in Houston ($81,350) is lower than many of the other major metros for nurse employment. This is especially true among those with higher cost of living such as New York City ($93,280), San Francisco ($138,000), Los Angeles ($106,190), and Boston ($96,510).
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|Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX||54,780||$81,350|
|New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA||174,210||$93,280|
|Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL||54,020||$69,920|
|Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX||60,620||$76,740|
|Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA||111,780||$106,190|
|Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI||41,640||$84,400|
Career Outlook for Nurses in Houston
The state of Texas has about 219,330 RNs overall, with a 17% job outlook increase. Houston is one of the most populous metropolitans in the United States. So, there is a large amount of nurses in the area. Licensed Practical and Vocational Nurses (LPN/LVN) have a slightly smaller, but still substantial growth projection of almost 11%. However, Nurse Practitioners (NPs) have an astounding 32% expected projected growth rate.
Other Healthcare Professions Compared to Registered Nurse Salary in Houston
At $84,960 average annual salary, registered nurses in the Houston area tend to earn about 42% more than licensed practical / vocational nurses ($48,960), and roughly a third less than nurse practitioners ($125,810). Meanwhile, dental hygienists in Houston typically earn average at a $77,640 salary. However, there are far more RN positions in Houston than other professions in the healthcare field. So, the opportunity in terms of both employment and job availability is highest for RNs.
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Pretty Pastels ~ the Sorbet Trend Sweet Enough to Eat
Posted on June 23 2020
Today we're talking the trend that just won't go away (thankfully cause we love it!) - PASTELS! Think soft sorbet pinks and icy blues.. colours sweet enough to eat!
If you're a little less bold with your wardrobe styling and love sticking to basic combos, fear not! Styling an on-trend pastel knit is easier than you think! And is best worn over lighter, plain colours like neutral nudes, bright whites and blue denims.
We love letting our pastel pieces do the talking, so start with easy basics like a white cami and your fave blue jeans. Then the fun part! Layer on your pastel cardigan for the ultimate on trend boho styling.
Pastel styling is also a classic spring staple, so rest assured your sweet winter knit will carry you through to the next season. Here's a few of our fave pastel knits, online now, and how we're wearing them.
6 Pastel Knits Your Wardrobe Needs
This on trend cropped cardigan is effortlessly easy to style. We recommend pairing it with a light denim or white jean. Leave unbuttoned with a white cami and add a delicate necklace to finish the simple yet stylish look.
This unique knit maxi skirt is a great day to night boho option. Pair the skirt with a vintage printed tee and cropped denim jacket to add edge to your look.
The boho inspo is endless! Be sure to follow us for all our latest loves in bohemian styling, boheme-trends and blogger updates.
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The WellBeing Centre is placed centrally within Saltburn, close to Saltburn Station with easy access for a regular train services to and from Darlington. Northern Rail time-tables from Darlington can be found here or http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/slb/details.html
Bus stops for regular services to the villages in East Cleveland, Guisborough, Redcar, Marske and Middlesbrough are situated directly opposite the Centre.
Saltburn is also easily accessible by road.
The Well Being Centre is ideally placed to enjoy the local countryside, sandy beaches and surf, carefully planted Italian gardens and a winding valley with its miniature railway, iron coloured stream and spring garlic aroma.
From Secrets by Freya North
"Venturing up and down the sloping streets on recent days, she'd been surprised at the diversity. From the iron awnings and dusty glass along Milton Street and Dundas Street, harking back a little forlornly to their Victorian heyday..."
Tel: 01287 204400
The WellBeing Centre is a registered provider and part of the BUPA Health and WellBeing Therapist Network for Counselling. If you are a BUPA member and require counselling then just get in touch.
To make an appointment for an initial assessment or for further information ring the centre on;
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I have been so excited to announce my newest sponsor - Emily Reiter of Anna Delores Photography! Emily is an LA based photographer focusing on antique, vintage-styled photos. When I first looked at her Etsy shop, I immediately knew her prints were amazing for home decor! Each of her pieces can be perfectly styled in so many different spaces from your bedroom to your home office and appeal to everyone!
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According to this news seems like coffee and coke together are again about to become a real thing. According to reports the new Coca Cola plus coffee option is rolling out around the world.
That’s right, Coke with a coffee twist. Reports say that the drink’s initial launches in places like Australia, Italy, and Thailand have been profitable and that it will be now be launched in 25 countries by the end of the year. According to CNN, the new drink will “tastes a bit like coffee candy, as sweet as regular Coca-Cola, with an added coffee kick.” Sounds awesome and, of course, a little bit of coffee never hurt anyone. It’s more caffeinated than a regular Coke which also gives a little boost of caffeine so it may help you push through those sleepy mornings at work.
This particular combination – coffee and Coke, isn’t new actually. In 2006, after the launch of a Coke energy drink, a Coke coffee drink was not far behind Coca Cola Blak. Sadly at that time it couldn’t a success. While the product performed well elsewhere in the world, in the US the recipe did not impress and the production only lasted a few years. But now, Coke and coffee are here again, reunited with Coca-Cola Plus Coffee.
Javier Meza, Coca-Cola’s global chief marketing officer of sparkling beverages, told CNN Business he “believes that there’s going to be a space for a Coca-Cola With Coffee” here at home, while another spokesperson told CNN they’re “optimistic about the potential for the beverage” here — so hopefully we’ll be seeing it sooner rather than later. More ways to ingest caffeine are always welcome, especially in the US of A. | 2019-06-25T19:45:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999946.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625192953-20190625214953-00225.warc.gz | en | 0.953774 | 377 | {
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Frog serenade foiled
Amphibians raise their pitch to counter traffic noise.
Frogs in the Australian metropolis of Melbourne are having trouble getting together to mate, and the culprit is traffic noise, according to Kirsten Parris, an ecologist at the University of Melbourne. One species of frog is even changing the pitch of its love song to be heard above the roar of the road, she reported on 20 August at the International Congress of Ecology in Brisbane, Australia.
Parris visited many urban ponds and pools inhabited by frogs, measuring traffic noise, which is, unfortunately, at the same low frequencies as many frog mating calls. For a frog such as the onomatopoeic 'pobblebonk' (Limnodynastes dumerilii), she found that a call that could originally be heard by a female 800 metres away may only carry 98 metres above 60 decibels of traffic noise, an average value for Melbourne.
Parris suggests that installing noise barriers at strategic points around a road could help urban frogs to hear each other. Creating habitats where they thrive — such as ponds with sloping rather than steep sides — would also make sense, she adds. "Cities provide some of the last habitat for a range of frog species around the world. So if we only worry about conserving frogs and their habitats outside cities, some of these frogs may well go extinct."
"Some frog species," she says, "are very sensitive to environmental changes", but "others are quite adaptable and can persist in urban habitats if we gave them a bit of help".
However, Kris Kaiser, an ecology graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has also looked at the effects of anthropogenic noise on amphibians, sounds a note of caution on the subject of these amphibians' adaptability: "Frogs, unlike birds, are thought to have the frequency of their calls somewhat constrained by their anatomy."
"There is often a relationship between body size and frequency of call," she says, so the creatures' ability to compensate for traffic noise may be limited.
Glenn Cunnington, a biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, says he's also heard frogs shifting the pitch of their calls in response to noise pollution. But, he says, "direct mortality and habitat loss likely represent greater threats to these species in urban environments".
"I don't think anyone is arguing that noise is the number-one cause of amphibian declines," says Kaiser, "but I think it has been underrepresented in the literature, and I think it is a threat that will continue to grow as humans continue to fragment the landscape".
- Parris, K. M., Velik-Lord, M. & North, J. M. A. Ecol. Soc. 14, 25 (2009).
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Mawu Budding writers in African Teen Authors Initiative
Malawi Writers Union (Mawu) Budding Writers Desk has stepped in with an African Teen Authors Book Initiative which seeks to select two best short stories to be part of an anthology.
The desk’s chairperson Mirriam Juliet Neba said on Wednesday this was part of encouraging budding writers to be creative and vibrant in their writing.
“We want two short stories to be in an anthology of African Teen Authors Book Initiative. We are going to select two best short stories written by teenagers in the country,” Neba said.
She said that the main purpose is to promote pan -African system, knowledge and cohesion and also localise the vision premised onletting Africa tell her own stories.
“Interested participants can to send their short stories to email@example.com. The words should be 1,500. This is open to only teenagers,” Neba said.
She said that the whole project stems from the desk receiving a collaboration proposal from African Teen Authors Book Initiative (Atabi) based in South Africa.
“We agreed that Mawu should develop a Malawi national teen writing platform which will be called Mawu Teen Authors Book Initiative that will promote writing and reading of African stories by Malawian teenagers,” Neba said.
She said the founder of Atabi has a publishing company known as KwaziThina Publishers which made Mawu Budding Desk to be partners.
“The agreement is also that they will help in providing books for the reading campaign which the desk is yet to introduce in primary schools with the hope of extending it to secondary schools,” Neba said.
She said that since the writers’ body is a membership based organisation, this privilege
would be for budding writers who have paid their membership fees.
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Brad Pitt: LAX Departure After Producers Guild Awards!
Brad Pitt is all smiles while arriving for a departing flight at LAX Airport on Sunday (January 19) in Los Angeles.
“She’s very special,” Brad shared to E! while walking the carpet at the ceremony about his 12 Years a Slave co-star Lupita Nyong’o. “Very special young lady. We’re going to see great things from her.”
FYI: Brad is wearing Vans.
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The new cast includes the singer and guitarist from a rock band and the sister of previous cast member Lauren Conrad. Tessa brings best friend Raquel to Kyndra's barbecue, where they're both unwanted guests. Meanwhile, Jessica reveals her relationship with Cameron, but she's not the only one interested in him.
Rocky throws a birthday party for Tessa's sweet 16. She supplies the help of Tessa's best friend Chase to throw her the most amazing party.
The Summer Obsession -- 8 AM, Sugarcult -- Do It Alone, Open Air Stereo -- Highest Heights, The Fray
-- Look After You, Goo Goo Dolls
-- Stay With You, Angels & Airwaves -- The Adventure
Kyndra and Cami crash Rocky's Christmas party, and Cameron gets defensive about his relationship with Jessica.
Songs: Kaci Brown -- Instigator, The All-American Rejects -- Move Along, Natasha Bedingfield -- Unwritten
Breanna tries to mend her friendship with Raquel; Chase helps Kelan pursue long-time crush Lexie by setting up a double date.
Rocky and Cameron tag along with Tessa for her modeling gig in San Diego, where she and Cameron have a fling.
Songs: The Fray -- All At Once, The Summer Obsession -- Disappear, Bowling for Soup -- Girl All the Bad Guys Want, James Blunt -- High, Everybody Else -- Meat Market
Songs: Blue October -- Hate Me
Songs: The Summer Obsession -- 8 AM, Fall Out Boy -- Dance, Dance, The All-American Rejects -- Dirty Little Secret, P!nk -- Long Way To Happy
Songs: Dashboard Confessional -- Currents, The All-American Rejects -- Stab My Back
Songs: Everybody Else -- I Gotta Run, The All-American Rejects -- It Ends Tonight, +44 -- When Your Heart Stops Beating
Songs: Everybody Else -- I Gotta Run, +44 -- When Your Heart Stops Beating
It's Spring Break time, which for the Laguna Beachers means a trip to Cabo. The usual Cabo drama occurs when Kyndra and Tyler hook up again.
Songs: Jet -- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Gym Class Heroes -- The Queen and I, The All-American Rejects -- Top of the World
Songs: Paramore -- Pressure, Dashboard Confessional -- Rooftops and Invitations, The Killers -- When You Were Young
Songs: Cartel -- Say Anything (Else), Everybody Else -- Without You
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The domination of Britain’s Big Five commercial broadcasters (Thames, LWT, Granada, Central and Yorkshire) in the ITV landscape could be undermined following a proposal to create an independent scheduler with sole responsibility for network programming.
The new scheduling supremo, expected to be in the newly created job early next year, will commission about 2,700 hours of networked shows a year worth about £500 million (about $1 billion).
Currently, the Big Five producers have a corner on most of the primetime slots for themselves, while small and medium sized stations (like HTV, Anglia or Tyne Tees) have to scramble for remaining crumbs of airtime.
The proposal is contained in a document published Feb. 15 by the regulating Independent Television Commission, which invites bids for new 10-year ITV franchises, slated to begin in 1993. Applications have to be submitted by May 15 and a decision will be published by the end of October, per the ITC. Franchises will be awarded via competitive tender to the highest sealed bid, but a lower bid can be accepted in “exceptional circumstances.”
Creation of an independent central scheduling office should, in theory, benefit indie producers and medium to small ITV broadcasters who now will be able to pitch their shows on equal footing with the Big Five.
“It’s a real watershed for the commercial ITV network,” commented Fred Hasson of the Independent Program Producers Assn., which has lobbied the Office of Fair Trading for a change to the networking rules.
Could it benefit the bigs?
Clive Leach, head of Yorkshire TV, said the new proposals could, in fact, work to the benefit of the Big Five. “In my view we have more problems with the present system in not being able to get all our good projects onto the screen because of production ‘quotas’ for each company,” he said. “The new system could benefit the big producers, as happened in the U.S.”
The ITC envisages creating a clear separation between the scheduler (who will have so-called “executive” powers for commissioning and deciding the schedule) and a policy-making body of the 16 ITV companies. It suggests setting up a separate company wholly owned by the ITV companies with “appropriately skilled and qualified staff employed specifically for the purpose” of creating a competitive schedule.
Leach said the the new post of central scheduler would carry immense influence and power. “But what a rotten job. He only needs one flop and the ITV companies would tear him apart.”
Indie producers, who in 1993 will be entitled to access to 25% of airtime, will be able to pitch their proposals directly to the central scheduler as well as to regional broadcasters.
Agreement on networking leaves just one key issue in the franchise process still to be determined. This relates to the size of stakes indie producers will be allowed to take in new ITV franchises. According to sources at the Home Office, the limit is likely to be set at 15%.
Tom Gutteridge, whose Mentorn Film is part of a three-pronged ITV bid with record label Polygram and the Palace Group, said he could live with the 15% figure if the rumors proved correct. Indie producers had asked the Home Office for a 20% ceiling in line with cross media ownership laws. | 2016-08-28T15:05:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982939917.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200859-00248-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954776 | 710 | {
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Online Advertising Causes 'Mouse Rage Syndrome'
Yes, there is an actual medical ailment called "mouse rage syndrome," The term was coined by the Social Issues Research Centre in the United Kingdom which recently conducted a study of 2,500 web users who were found to exhibit negative cardiac function, profuse sweating, altered immune and nervous system function and, yes, "mouse rage" defined as furious clicking and bashing of the mouse.
Guess what causes the syndrome? Fat Flash sites, poorly designed sites, bad navigation, pop ups, banner ads, unnecessary graphics and just about everything else our industry foists upon the helpless public who only want quick access to the relevant information they need and have no need for "site loading..." bullshit or sites that look great in a presentation but perform like a turtle crossing the road when launched. Wake up and smell the consumer, people. We want them to be our frinds. Not our enemies. Make nice. | 2019-10-20T00:33:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986700560.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20191020001515-20191020025015-00482.warc.gz | en | 0.949749 | 192 | {
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All five volumes in the history of French Line’s Normandie, at an amazing 20% discount.
In these five volumes, the reader can follow the entire history of this liner, from concept, through design. From construction to launch. From finishing to trials. And then the triumphant maiden voyage!
This was to be the greatest floating Art Deco masterpiece ever assembled, with work from every famous French artist and decorator from this period. The company and the nation were determined to make Normandie represent the best of France.
Normandie‘s full history
The five successful years of her commercial life are detailed in these beautifully illustrated and published books.
Internment, fire and salvage
Following the events of September 1939, Normandie was laid up at New York, pending the outcome of the situation in Europe. Once America had entered the war, plans were drawn up for the best use of Normandie – aircraft carrier, aircraft transporter, hospital ship, troopship. Finally conversion work to a troopship was started, but following a series of incompetent decisions and careless workmen, tragically she caught fire and rolled over at her pier.
Too badly damaged to be worth trying to save, the decision was taken to undertake the largest salvage operation to date. After months of dangerous work by divers and salvage crews, she was righted, and then towed off to be scrapped.
A marvellous resource (the full Normandie set) – I wish this had been available years ago! John Maxtone-Graham
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700+ pages, 2,600+ photographs and three throwout deck plans.
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Qantas partner Air France is offering new "buy-up" meals in premium economy on long flights like Paris-Singapore.
It's the latest airline to pick up on the trend of charging extra to get decent food in the "middle class" between back-of-the-bus economy and business class.
On Air France, you can choose between "Une Selection Lenôtre", a special French-themed meal from the Lenôtre culinary institute, "Fresh from the sea" seafood plates from Océan, "A green touch to complement the blue sky" organic meals, and Italian specialties "A taste of dolce vita".
(Just try explaining that you've preordered that in French when you're asked 'chicken ou beef?'...)
Note that the new upgraded menus are only available from Paris -- Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports -- and you'll need to order them in advance. The extra charges range from 12€ to 28€ (A$14-34), and can be booked via the "Manage my bookings" section of the Air France website up to 24 hours before departure.
Qantas passengers travelling in "Premium Voyageur" on Air France are best off ringing the local Air France number -- in Australia or worldwide -- to pick their meals.
Fortunately for the gourmand business traveller whose budgets or travel policies doesn't allow full business class travel, this is just the latest in decent food coming to premium economy.
Qantas joint-venture partner British Airways has just this year started swapping business class main courses onto its World Traveller Plus premium economy trays, replacing the previous economy mains.
Hungry for more on inflight food? Check out some of this year's Australian Business Traveller Food Week:
- Virgin Australia's celebrity chef Luke Mangan reveals how he thinks up meals and makes sure they'll work on the plane
- Ordering your business class meal before your flight with Singapore Airlines' Book The Cook
- Bringing an airline's home cuisine specialties onto worldwide flights with Asiana, Lufthansa and LAN
- Four course meals on three hour flights: the best "medium-haul" food in the sky
- Qantas' Rockpool consultant Terry Higgins shows how menus get from a chef's brain to your tray table — and shares a recipe for the surprisingly popular business class snapper with coconut milk and garam masala
- Dr Ron Georgiou, Malaysia Airlines' wine consultant, on the best wines to choose in the air
- Cutlery, crockery, salt and pepper shakers...the story behind everything else on your business class meal tray
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So many things scream the season’s color–from love to Christmas, to a deep Bourdeaux, or that red MAC that stains your glass. Red has it’s way of capturing times that mean so much. That’s why when I found out the color of the 2017 fall/winter season was red, I raised my glass and rummaged through my closet.
Red isn’t really one of those colors I own a lot of. In fact, I always thought it was too extreme or too bold for me. But the fun part about the color is that there are so many different hues, and with that, so many different ways to spice it up.
I always aim to not look like everyone else; it’s something my mom taught me as a young girl. Why blend in when you can stand out? I pulled out the few items of red that I own to inspire you to challenge yourself–maybe hit up a consignment shop or two–and embrace this color.
I first found these red Rich & Skinny jeans; I’ve owned them for several years now. I usually wear them with a denim button down, but I decided to look for something else in my closet. I paired my red jeans with this vintage, cold shoulder flannel top from LF. Unfortunately, this is a one of a kind top, so I couldn’t find one similar, but I did find this red cold shoulder flannel on Poshmark. This outfit screams Oregon Christmas to me; the colors are fun and not something you wear everyday, plus who doesn’t love a little gold jewelry to accent your look?
My second outfit is an easy and popular look right now. If you can’t tell by now, I love plaid! This red and black plaid sweater dress was another vintage item from LF, but there are so many places selling plaid dresses right now. I think this one from Forever 21 is super cute, and I even love the white tee underneath for a simple, casual look. Modcloth also has a really cute plaid sweater dress. I love the chic, effortless look this provides; put on a black choker, tights/leggings (or even go bare!), and some cute black boots and you’re set.
My last outfit is probably my favorite because it encompasses red suede ankle platform booties! These Dolce Vita shoes are so fun and retro–and will for sure be in use until the snow comes! I decided to go with a simple look only because I really want to show off the shoes here. I have on some Old Navy skinny jeans and a sheer off-white blouse; that’s all it takes for a little winter date night outfit. I couldn’t find a similar blouse to mine, but Poshmark has a ton of sheer blouses!
Moral of the story: red’s in, but you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to wear the “it” color. Look through your closet, or better yet, support your local consignment shops for a different, fun red look. Also, don’t forget I sell my clothes regularly on Poshmark, so make sure to check out my closet too.
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Continuing around, a single slide in this travel trailer provides a u-shaped dinette with corner overhead cabinets.
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At the front, there is a walk around queen bed with overhead cabinets above the head of the bed and wardrobes over nightstands at each side, and more!
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Digital Signage Market Statistics
Digital signage solutions comprise various benefits to different sectors. It provides engaging platforms to perform their objectives, mainly exhibiting information and advertising. It includes business establishments, education, banking, corporate and communications, healthcare, religion, restaurants, and manufacturing. Moreover, clear and direct communication strategies with the assistance of digital signage directly impact internal operations.
As technology improves, further innovations are being developed to indulge with the modernization. The statistics have proven the relevance of signage solutions. According to MVix digital signage, the adoption of LED display signs is on a steady rise, which is why the global digital signage market’s anticipated peak at $29.8 billion by 2024. It induces a greater appeal compared to planned purchases.
Since visuals are proven to transmit information efficiently, it was revealed that the digital signage-end users expect themselves to increase their allotted budget to spend with the said continuing method. New and acquired displays would be utilized for content production and distribution.
Reasons for Growing Popularity
Modern solutions have surpassed the traditional manifestation of goals and objectives. It effortlessly accelerates through time. Finally, here are the primary reasons why digital signage tools have increased their popularity among industries. Do note that the window displays have a wide range of usage for several sectors.
Promotes Brand Image
Digital signage solutions develop brand awareness for its high-grade users. It enables themselves to come up with creative ideas in executing their image and tone. Most industries prefer hiring graphic editors and signage experts to use it most functionally, considering that the brand’s imperfect manifestation would lead to audiences perceiving a wrong impression of their products and services.
Also, the portrayal of a business establishment’s image influences the potential customer’s trust towards them. If they find the content engaging and concise, it will boost their confidence to purchase what the business offers. Presenting the content with the latest technology is also an advantage. There is a term called branding in today’s era, where various sectors use certain elements to associate it with their reputation. The most successful ones end up being the most recognizable among the public.
While more and more prefer using digital signage, some marketers expand their usage to provide additional information and address concerns. Meaning, they involve social platforms to generate reputation and recruit consumers for loyalty and exclusive programs, such as Facebook, Instagram, TripAdvisor, and more.
Enhanced Consumer Experience
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That is why many users include digital signage with their marketing operations—it sends direct messages at the right time, products and services are presented, personalization and customizations are accommodated. With that said, digital window displays encourage the public to utilize the new and creative services. Digital tools could transmit data to shape what’s on screens, why, and where. It becomes a requirement in performing marketing.
Of course, the cost of marketing is on top priority. While LED window displays are proven to enhance customer experience, it also comes less expensive than year-old marketing methods. Numerous companies are experiencing the cost-effectiveness of these signs compared to multiple static signage – where the owners have to produce content one after another.
The value of a digital signage device has decreased in recent years. Due to the growing demand in the market, the less expensive choice will always be more competitive. Purchasing media players back then was an investment compared in the present times.
This method would also come insufficient and would not last long, considering the overall expense of printing various displays. The elements of traditional materials would fade off. But the digital window displays compromise permanent solutions, making it worth the fund. Graphics in modern signage could be altered, and it would not need various accessories.
Scalability of Maintenance
The benefits of technology continually expand, considering it is tied with development. Adding users’ progression and literacy, the harnessing of its power and influence is worth striving for.
The software and interface enable users to access media players and intelligent systems, including the connection between long-distanced corporations. The scalability of digital signage is extensive to the point it can manage limitless deployment and maintenance.
Different sectors that optimize led display signs would allow themselves to access and manage multiple servers simultaneously. Smart-planning and real-time updates would keep them aligned with the delivery system. Meaning, indulging with the influence requires constant exploration of the digital tools.
The industry is evolving from a direct broadcasting system to a narrowcasting of content and reportage. The electronic medium is already stepping up beyond the targeted objectives, which is more than communication and presentation of ideas.
Digital signage is an active marketing tool that businesses incorporate to boost traffic and increase sales. Meaning, the visuals’ retention would receive a significant amount of views by the audience on the platform.
Like traditional signage, if the area is busy and there is heavy traffic, the chances of drawing passersby towards the establishment is high. The utilization of engaging and creative content is recommended, especially if the goal is to communicate with the individual.
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Before Saturday, TV On The Radio were high up on my list of bands to finally see. So, I had probably what you could call “unfairly high hopes” going in. I left very pleased, which isn’t too much of a surprise.
Tunde Adebimpe showcased tremendous energy, complemented by the sturdy grace of Kyp Malone and of course, the notable presence of Dave Sitek. The band’s material is transcribed with a different feeling than recorded. It’s adjusted to a fine point live where you can distinguish the bands’ emotions, and how it impacts their playing.
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5 actors, 3 from Germany and 2 from the United States, 2 Austrian video artists and the GTA team are going cross-country in a tricked out bus, playing Johnny Appleseed with the play Start Up, written especially for ROAD THEATER USA by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Germany’s most produced contemporary German playwright. With a combination of the filmed “reality” of the tour and the theatrical “fiction” of the play, the audience is treated to an ever-changing performance event.Start Up is an intelligent comedy which deals playfully with US and German stereotypes, pioneer romanticism and cinematic myths. The play paints a portrait of an absurd, comic clash of cultures in a US small town. Young Germans, Rob and Micha, try to find their fortunes as they journey to the west. They have a business idea: selling cultural imports from Old Europe. Real theater. The concept is pretty shaky for a business plan and the negotiations with the pragmatic real estate owner Ike are just as shaky, since Ike has his own agenda. The two women of the quintet, however, Rob’s girlfriend Kati and Ike’s daughter Liz, both get what they want: one settles down and one moves on.
The theater company German Theater Abroad (GTA) has been traveling between both sides of the Atlantic for the last 11 years and is the “most important organ of German-US theatrical exchange” (American Theatre Magazine, 2006). Contemporary plays form the core of the work with artists from different countries. GTA turned heads in Manhattan with the festival STADTTHEATER NEW YORK in 2006, now the company is setting off on its biggest trip ever. The journey will take the troupe from New York through 16 states over 7 weeks. They will cover 6,000 miles and perform in 24 cities until they reach Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.
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So it has occurred to me that some of your husbands, boyfriends, or family may say the same about you. It also occurred to me that a public list of suggested gift ideas would help everyone out since Mother's Day (and my birthday) are coming quickly.
If none of the following appeal to you or seem quite right for your gift-ee...you cannot go wrong with a gift card to a favorite store or restaurant. Not sure what store or restaurant are their favorites? Check the bank statement and see where they go the most...even if its Wal Mart or Target...it will at least be something they will use!
Here's another tip, if you want to buy something for them to wrap up, check their closet for a favorite clothing or shoe brand.
Still not sure...what gal wouldn't LOVE a day at the salon or spa for some pampering? Think massage, manicure, pedicure, or ALL 3!
Okay, here's my list of some favorite things...no particular order just as they come to me.
- Circle E Candles in Bird of Paradise or Sierra Wind
- Starbucks gift card (gc)
- Shoe Station gc
- a spa package at a nice spa like the Grand Hotel or NouVeau
- gc for a manicure &/or pedicure to Amy's Nails on Knollwood
- a Southern Living subscription
- Bath & Body works gc or gift set
- Goldie brand Lip Gloss from Bath & Body Works
- Look Ma New Hands lotion from B&B Works
- a trip to the beach
- a trip to the New Orleans Zoo
- some original art by a local artist
- Pottery Barn gc
- Williams Sonoma gc
- Sam's gc
- something with a monogram or my name on it
- a large carry all tote from LL Bean (or is it Lands End?)...heck Ballard Designs has cute ones too
- concert tickets for Diana Krall
- a shopping trip...for me not groceries or diapers
- luxuriously high thread count cotton sheets in cream/ivory
- nice thick new towels in cream/ivory/white
- a day fishing/or crabbing
- a deep sea 1/2 day fishing trip
- a dinner at a nice restaurant...without my precious children
- a trip with the kids to the Audubon Zoo
- a hammock or hammock "chair" swing
- a Kirkland's gc
- gc to Michael's or Hobby Lobby for picture framing
- some pieces of my stemware pattern
- a family portrait at a good photographer...one that does not do $9.99 packages
- jewelry of the diamond kind...a small cross or some solitaire earrings or necklace
- I like pearl jewelry too
- heck, I like jewelry that is "real" of the non-turning colors when you perspire kind
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Chinatown, London, May 2006
I'm sitting on the steps of the feng shui pagoda, hoping I've got the right day. Behind me is a large, long, redbrick building; an ugly thing with an underground car park beneath it and a line of boarded-up shop fronts on its lower level. The shop fronts all have notices stuck on them announcing their closure. Each notice bears a logo that reads "Rosewheel".
My phone rings.
"Hello," says a voice. "Is that Paul?"
"Yes," I say. "Is that Jabez?"
As I speak, I see a Chinese man approaching me. Jabez puts away his phone and shakes my hand. He points to the redbrick building behind me. "This is the one," he says. "Let me show you."
This building is called Sandringham Court, and it's the reason I'm here. Jabez walks me around the building, showing me the ex-shops. There was the Golden Gate Chinese Grocer's. There was Chinatown's only fresh fish shop, its only Chinese jewellery shop and its only Chinese kitchen utensil shop. They were run by independent traders, all of whom have now been evicted from the building by the company whose logo is on those signs: Rosewheel.
Built in 1985, Sandringham Court was taken over by Rosewheel when its previous - Chinese - owners went bust. Rosewheel is not Chinese and appears to have no previous connections with Chinatown. Some residents say they had never heard of it until the shopkeepers received their eviction notices in spring 2005.
None of them wanted to move, but they had little choice. Rosewheel had plans: Sandringham Court was to be demolished and replaced by a spanking new Chinese-themed shopping mall known as the "Chinatown Gateway". The shopkeepers were told they were welcome to apply for floor space in the mall. Unfortunately, their rents would be at least double what they were before.
The company then took upon itself the role of saviour of Chinatown. The Chinatown Gateway, said the company's founder, Robert Bourne, would be "110% Chinese-focused". Rosewheel would arrest the "decline of Chinatown" with an "exciting retail development" - "a showcase for the cultural heritage and economic power of China", which would attract "new customers and opportunities". It would feature "100 shops, restaurants and concessions in an innovative setting". It would be good news for Chinatown and its Chinese people, he said.
Many in the local Chinese community are furious about Rosewheel's evictions, and its self-appointed role as the saviour of Chinatown. But what has probably angered them most is what Rosewheel wants to do to the pagoda I have been sitting on. The pagoda is not just a pretty piece of street furniture. Its positioning is said to affect the feng shui, and thus the fate, of Chinatown itself. But Rosewheel intends to annex the pagoda as part of the Chinatown Gateway. Which may or may not affect the feng shui.
The company wants to enclose part of the street on which the pagoda sits, demolish it and rebuild it as the centrepiece of its mall. It is also rumoured, according to Jabez, to want to fence in what is currently a publicly accessible colonnade on Charing Cross Road, and possibly also enclose the adjacent Newport Court, transforming it from a public road to a private covered walkway. The fear is that the public streets of Chinatown are to be privatised.
Jabez Lam is the founder of the Save Chinatown Campaign. "It's not just going on in Chinatown," he says. "It's all over the country. The high streets, the loss of character: whether it's in London, or in the country, whether it's an ethnic or a village community, independent people are being driven out. In this case, it is about a minority community that has made an investment of 50 years. Money, time, blood and sweat have been put in to build this place."
This, he says, is what makes people here really angry; that their hard work is being not only overlooked, but piggybacked on. "It's the work that the Chinese communities did that has made this place desirable now, and that's why the property developers want to come. More than 70% of Chinese businesses here are rented. Think what will happen if developments like this start to push those rents up. This would be the end of Chinatown as we know it."
"In Camberwell, recently," he adds, "the council were evicting black businesses from their shops, and there was an outcry. They had an inquiry headed by Lord Herman Ouseley, who used to run the Commission for Racial Equality, and his report concluded that what they were doing was the equivalent of ethnic cleansing. So I ask you, what is this? The same thing is happening here. Small Chinese business owners are being pushed out by the council and a rich developer."
Trying to get an answer from Rosewheel doesn't get me very far. Its website has a message declaring that it is "currently being updated". I check with Companies House, but it has no phone, fax or email for the company, just a postal address. I discover that Rosewheel was incorporated in 2003, just before it bought the 200-year lease on this building. It appears to have no other projects, and no stated previous history. Its accounts are overdue.
I telephone Westminster city council five times. Eventually I am told that it has no contact details for the company. Then I discover that Robert Bourne, Rosewheel's founder, is a multimillionaire property developer, known for his closeness to the government. He has multiple business interests: as well as being a director of more than 50 other companies, he was also involved in a failed bid to buy the Millennium Dome and turn it into "London's silicon valley". He's not a man, though, who seems to want to shout about it. All my efforts to talk to someone from Rosewheel are in vain.
Jabez wants to show me something. He walks me around the corner to Gerrard Street, where he points to a dingy staircase. To one side is a red plaque with gold Chinese lettering on it. "This used to be a brothel," he says with a slight smile. "Now it is a family club. Most of the people in Chinatown came from Hong Kong and the New Territories, where there are five major surnames. When they got to London, they formed their own clubs - five clubs for the five surnames. This is one of them. All of this took decades to build up, but it could be uprooted in a day. This is what makes Chinatown, not the golden dragons. This can't be replaced."
What's happening in Chinatown is, in one sense, happening all over the UK, as supermarkets advance and local boozers are swallowed up by PubCos. Yet it is more, too. What's happening in Chinatown is an act of enclosure. And it is not the only one.
Urban public space is at the heart of city and town life. It is the essence of public freedom: a place to rally, to protest, to sit and contemplate, to smoke or talk or watch the stars. No matter what happens in the shops and cafes, the offices and houses, the existence of public space means there is always somewhere to go to express yourself or simply to escape.
Yet this, too, is under assault. From parks to pedestrian streets, squares to market places, public spaces are being bought up and closed down, often with little consultation or publicity. In towns and cities all over England, what was once public is now private. It is effectively owned by corporations, which set the standards of behaviour. These standards are the standards that are most congenial to their aim - getting you to buy things. So there will be no begging, no being homeless, no wearing hoodies. There will be no busking, and often there will be no sitting either, except in designated areas. You will eat and drink where you are told to. You will not skateboard or cycle or behave "inappropriately". And as for political demonstrations - don't even think about it.
Throughout history, urban space has been a source of danger to those in authority, a place where dissidents gather. So, for a cash-strapped local authority, handing over control of public streets can seem like a boon. Private companies provide security guards to police them and keep them tidy. It saves money and time.
The battle Jabez is fighting may be much bigger than he knows. But the good news for him is that he may have allies he doesn't even know about.
Liverpool, April 2006
The place is a mass of cranes and concrete; at its centre, a gaping hole. Collapsing buildings around the edge are hung with giant banners reading, "Requisitioned for the Paradise Project".
"By what right?" asks Don. "That's the key question. And who's asking it?"
Donald Lee and I are in central Liverpool, walking the boundaries of the biggest retail development in Europe - the Paradise Project. The walk takes 40 minutes, which gives some idea of its size. What's happening here is a familiar story: a vast shopping centre being carved out of a city; a shopping centre that will be filled with chain stores, chain restaurants, chain cinemas. But again, this is different.
Liverpool is not short of shopping space already. The retail centre of the sixth-largest city in England is a grey wilderness of underpasses and branches of H&M (a typical example of the mess created in the 60s by planners and architects who believed that they, too, were creating paradise). But in the years since it was built, the growth of out-of-town retail parks has sucked shoppers away. Paradise, its advocates say, will re-establish Liverpool as a "premier retail destination".
Architecturally, the Paradise Project will certainly be an improvement on what went before: something the city council, and the developer it is working with, is trumpeting from the roof-tops. What they are less keen to trumpet is that Paradise requires the first privatisation of a city centre anywhere in England.
Liverpool city council has sanctioned the corporate enclosure of the 42-acre city-centre site, which encompasses 34 streets and a public park. The development company Grosvenor, owned by the Duke of Westminster, the country's third-richest man, has been given a 250-year lease on this area. Grosvenor, with the enthusiastic blessing of the council, is putting into practice the kind of massive, consumer-focused re-engineering of the landscape previously seen only in private malls such as Bluewater.
At the centre of the development, on Paradise Street, will be a 280,000 sq ft John Lewis department store together with "a host of major high-street names" comprising 1.6m sq ft of new shopping space. Nearby Hanover Street will be a "lifestyle-focused district with an eclectic atmosphere", while South John Street will be the "family-orientated district". Then there is Chavasse Park. Previously a publicly accessible green space, the park is now a giant hole in the ground. This will be filled with a 2,000-space car park with a new landscaped park put back on top of it.
This is not a development that will allow the area's own character to evolve over time. Its character has been predetermined by architects, marketing specialists and planners. No room is left for responsiveness to people and locality. This is not about those things. It is about money, and in that sense it has already been a great success.
This is the way the deal works. The city council gets an expensive, flashy renovation of a rundown area, costing almost £1bn, for which it has to pay virtually nothing. In return, it must give up - or rather the public must give up - its rights to it.
Don Lee is from the Open Spaces Society, a campaign group founded in 1865 to protect common land and public rights of way, and he is not happy. "In Des Moines, in Iowa," he says, "there is a network of underground tunnels and walkways. You can only access them with a password, and only people who can afford to pay for it get a password. It's absolutely true. It's the ultimate privatisation of public space. What is happening in Liverpool is a step towards this kind of thing. You think that sounds extreme? Come back in 10 years, and see where we are."
The thing that bothers Don, apart from the Paradise Project itself, is that no one else in Liverpool seems to care. Perhaps no one in Liverpool: Don is from Manchester. About the only other significant opposition to the Paradise Project comes from the place where we're headed now - Quiggins.
Quiggins is a three-storey shopping centre. A Liverpool institution, it's a chaos of clothes shops for teenage goths, secondhand clothes, furniture and books. It's about to be demolished to make way for Paradise. Quiggins' founders, brothers John and Peter Tierney, set up the centre 18 years ago as a conscious attempt to keep alternative culture alive in an increasingly corporate city centre. They kept rents deliberately low, and provided a space for creative talent to flourish. The city council says it will find Quiggins another home, but the brothers are not satisfied. "Quiggins is committed to Liverpool's cultural industry and has been since its formation..." they write on their website. "It houses 45 local businesses, employing 25 local people, all helping to recycle within our local economy." It doesn't matter much what the brothers say, though. Quiggins has already had a compulsory purchase order issued against it.
In the noisy, wholefood cafe on Quiggins' third floor, Don and I sit down to talk. "It took me a long time, and a lot of correspondence with the developers and the council, before they finally admitted what was happening with this project," he says. "There was a very low-key public announcement - you had to know where to look to find it - that they were removing the rights of way from 33 streets in the city centre. It took a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, but I finally got them to admit to me that they were replacing these rights of way with something called 'public realm agreements.' " He looks at me with raised eyebrows.
"Well, I'd never heard of these things, so I kept pressing them, and it turned out that these 'public realm agreements' would give the public very limited access to the streets, on Grosvenor's terms." They would be within their rights, Don tells me, to begin access half an hour before the shops opened and end it half an hour after they closed. There would be nothing to say that they had to allow you in outside those times. "Remember, these are streets - this is not some private shopping centre. Yet now you will have no right to use them unless you're shopping. While the public are winning new rights of access in the countryside, they're having these rights taken away in towns and cities."
After I meet Don, I go to Liverpool's city council, to meet councillor Peter Mullen. Mullen is responsible for maintenance and repair in the city centre, and he is an enthusiast for the Paradise Project. He's an affable Scouser who takes pride in his city and believes the project will improve it. He waxes lyrical about the money it will bring in and how it will allow Liverpool to compete for shoppers with Manchester and Chester. What Grosvenor is doing, he says, is emphatically not privatisation of the streets; it's more a kind of clean-up.
"Grosvenor will employ its own security people and they will patrol the streets, but that will be in addition to the police," Mullen says. "They will take responsibility for maintenance and repair, and I'm quite pleased that that's the case... For the pedestrian going into the district, the shopper going into the shops, you really won't notice the difference. It's not as if the security guards are going to stop and search people."
Will the abolition of public rights of way prevent public access? "I'm assured that they will not," Mullen replies, but he doesn't sound certain. He says there will be 24-hour shopping some days, so it won't be in Grosvenor's interests to prevent access. "People going about their lawful business have nothing to worry about," he says. So will Grosvenor be preventing people from wearing hoodies on their streets, as Bluewater does? "I don't think they'll be allowed to do that." But, again, he doesn't seem sure. He's a nice guy, Peter Mullen, but what he tells me is not reassuring.
What's happening in Liverpool city centre might sound like an isolated case. It isn't. One of the things that Mullen was keen to tell me, in fact, was that Paradise-style arrangements were "nothing new". He was right: they are becoming increasingly common all over the country.
In 2006 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) produced a landmark report on precisely this subject. What Kind Of World Are We Building? examined the growing private ownership and management of the public realm, and showed that places such as Paradise - "over-controlled, sterile places which lack connection to the reality and diversity of the local environment" - are proliferating. In London, the Broadgate Centre, adjacent to Liverpool Street station, is a 30-acre site owned and managed by development company Broadgate Estates. The Broadgate Centre is patrolled 24 hours a day by private security, and is aimed specifically at attracting "high-earning people". Also in London, 70 acres of land in the King's Cross redevelopment area has been farmed out to Argent Developments, which hopes to control, brand and market the public spaces as prime destinations for visitors.
Then there are Business Improvement Districts - or Bids. Bids are a way to get more private finance into urban areas, and councils all over the country are adopting them. A tax is raised from local businesses and spent on improving the local environment. In return, the businesses decide what the environment looks like. But Bids are also a means of homogenising and controlling that environment: focusing it on consumption and taking the day-to-day running of it away from publicly accountable authorities.
The RICS report quotes one city-centre Bid manager, who "made it clear that he is keen to encourage more high-earning shoppers and fewer less affluent customers. 'High margins come with ABC1s, low margins with C2DEs,' he said. 'My job is to create an environment which will bring in more ABC1s.' " This job frequently involves, for example, moving homeless people out of Bid areas for fear that they will deter shoppers.
Seen in its wider context, said RICS, this was starting to look like the beginning of "a quiet revolution in land ownership, replicating Victorian patterns". Our urban streets are becoming "malls without walls", a trend that has been evident in the US for decades. The end result, suggests RICS, could be very unfortunate indeed: "Today's developers are more concerned with the principles of the shopping mall than with creating places able to stand the test of time... This is because they are too narrowly focused simply on creating places that would generate maximum returns in terms of shopping and spending... The drive towards creating a place purely as a consumer product contradicts the creation of that sense of place, as the aim of property-led regeneration is higher property prices and higher rents, out of reach of local residents and local shopkeepers."
What is happening in Paradise looks like a clear indication of where many more of our urban public spaces may be heading: not just clone towns, but private clone towns.
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The health risks of being obese are certainly well known by now diabetes, heart disease, stroke and hypertension, to name a few. But the dangers are even greater for pregnant women and particularly for their developing babies. A new analysis, published Feb. 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, documents a wider than expected range of birth defects that are more likely to plague babies born to obese women.
Led by Katherine Stothard at Newcastle University in Great Britain, the researchers reviewed 18 earlier studies of maternal weight and congenital abnormalities. Compared with women who maintained the recommended body mass index (BMI) of between 18.5 and 26, women who were obese defined as having a BMI of 29 or greater before pregnancy were more than twice as likely to have an infant with spina bifida, nearly twice as likely to have a baby with other neural-tube defects, and more vulnerable to giving birth to babies with heart problems, cleft palate or cleft lip, abnormal rectum or anus development, and hydrocephaly, a condition in which excess spinal fluid builds up in the brain. While the risk of birth defects in obese women has been known, "I wouldn't have predicted the range of birth defects found to be increased when we looked at maternal obesity," says Judith Rankin, an epidemiologist and one of the authors of the study. (See the best and worst moms of all time.)
Earlier studies, including surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had documented the greater risk of neural-tube defects and kidney problems in children of obese moms. But the new study serves as a warning to both doctors and patients that a mother-to-be's extra pounds should be considered a more powerful and far-reaching risk factor during pregnancy. While there are no conclusive explanations yet, researchers have three theories about why maternal obesity may lead to congenital abnormalities. First, many obese women may also have undiagnosed diabetes, which can lead to abnormal development of a fetus. Second, these moms may be eating a diet that is not as nutritionally sound as that of normal-weight women; obese women are more likely to be missing key nutrients, like folic acid, that are needed to prevent birth defects such as neural-tube abnormalities. "Levels of these nutrients might be lower in these moms, or if they are taking supplements, they may not be at levels that are adequate," says Dr. Sina Haeri, a fellow in maternal and fetal medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, who authored a study on obesity in pregnant teens.
Finally, says Rankin, the issue may be one of screening: because ultrasound monitoring of obese patients is much more difficult than the monitoring of thinner women, it could lead to more missed cases of deformities like neural-tube defects. "We know that it is much harder to get good visibility of the fetus in scanning women who are obese, and more babies may be born with spina bifida and other abnormalities in these women," says Rankin. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From A to Z.")
The study highlights the need for both doctors and patients to be aware of the added risk that maternal obesity places on the developing baby. Doctors should not only advise women who are planning a family to try to maintain their recommended weight, but also ensure that those who are already pregnant receive proper nutrition and thorough ultrasound screening. "It's important to remember that these adverse effects only affect a low percentage of obese women," says Rankin. "But there are certain things that could be put into place to protect women and their babies if they are thinking of having a family." | 2017-11-19T04:42:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805362.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119042717-20171119062717-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.974379 | 743 | {
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Eurocare 3: Palliative Care in the UK, Wales and Catalonia, Spain
But old age will often lead into multiple pathologies, especially as individuals become frailer towards the end of life. The challenge for services is to address each specific condition, and the complexity of the whole within the unique well-being experience of the individual. This palliative stage of care can be difficult to get right. Unless this is achieved then the prospect of a ‘good-death’ is unlikely, leaving the possibility that as they approach their last day’s individuals may experience isolation, distress, pain and discomfort.
Palliative Care in Wales and Catalonia, Spain
Fortunately the UK with its network of hospices and specialist practitioners is frequently ranked ‘best in world’ for palliative care. However variability exists and complaints to the Ombudsman about fundamentals of care for the old and frail in hospital, formed the basis of a critical report (Care and Compassion?), in 2011. The Welsh Government is sponsoring The Palliative Care Wales network to promote best practice. However in 2014 Ann Clwyd caused controversy by slating the standard of care given to her husband. So let’s take a look at an area of Spain which has an exemplary approach to palliative care.
Catalonia is in the north-east corner of Spain and is bordered to the north by the Pyrenees and France and to the east by the Mediterranean. It is home to the magnificent city of Barcelona and the autonomous community has a population of around 7.5 million people. It has considerable freedom to decide its own health and social priorities.
The first programme of palliative care in Catalonia was developed in 1985 for patients in terminal stages of cancer. This was expanded in 1989 into the Societat Catalano Balear de Cures Paliatives (SCBCP – Catalonian-Balearic Palliative Care Society). This publicly funded programme drew upon a multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals, some trained in the UK. In 1990, this became a WHO pilot palliative care programme, under which palliative care teams were created in the region.
The objectives were to develop research, promote ethical conduct, disseminate best practice and to raise public awareness. Above all, to ensure that people in end-stage illness, were comfortable and compassionately cared for in a skilled manner.
Today, Catalonia is well served by this programme which reaches around 80% of cancer patients and 50% of patients with other long-term and life-limiting conditions. It is supported at senior levels in academia and civic society and it networks through palliative care teams into primary care, acute hospitals, long term care-centres, nursing homes and domiciliary home care. It offers an excellent model of multi-disciplinary, principled and person-centred best-practice.
For more detail about palliative care in Catalonia please see;
For information about Palliative Care Wales and practice guidelines see;
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Steven Universe, A Song of Ice and Fire, and Avatar the Last Airbender. All of them very different stories, with very different worlds. However, characters of unrelated narratives can secretly be the same exact person. This is the case with the way that Jasper, Cersei, and Azula share so many traits. So much of their personality, lives, and personal histories intersect in interesting ways, in terms of Hierarchy, Bad Parents, Personality, and Tragedy.
Cersei, Azula, and Jasper are from cultures with birth focused hierarchies. Azula is the fire princess and one of the highest ranking members of the Fire Nation. Jasper was raised in the Beta Nursery and was the most powerful gem made there. Cersei was born to one of Westeros’s most powerful families. They all have and are given power. Each in turn uses it to control and abuse subordinates.
During the show’s run, Princess Azula is second to only her father, Fire Lord Ozai in terms of power. She is highly esteemed both for her rank and skill in firebending. She becomes everything a Fire Princess should be, right down to the classicism. She uses her position of power to intimidate and scare others into her bidding, such as Ty Lee.
“There you are, filthy peasant!”—Azula to Katara.
Quartz and gem General Jasper is one of the most powerful gems in the series. Her role in the gem hierarchy is as a soldier. She is highly valued for how ‘perfect’ she is. And like Azula, she completely embraces her role and perceived dominance to others. As she said in crack the whip: “Fighting is my life.” Jasper has no conception, no idea about having a life where she doesn’t dominate or control someone else. Jasper is even seen rounding up corrupted gems and forming an ‘army’. Jasper takes no time to question the role she plays in her relationships.
During the events of A Feast For Crows, Cersei is the Lady of Casterly Rock, the only daughter of Tywin Lanister, and only child of his in a position to inherit. She was born into the feudal hierarchy as one of its most powerful people, even before Jaime gave up his claim and Tyrion was stripped of his. She has the luxuries and benefits mined from the smallfolk given to her by her status, and she completely buys into it.
Cersei, Jasper and Azula are all certainly abusers within their stories, but were abused by the heads of their hierarchies. While this is not meant to excuse their actions, it explains their tendencies, and the painfully realistic way in which these narratives examined the continuation of the abuse cycle.
Azula was raised by Fire Lord Ozai, one of the worst fathers ever. Under his influence, she grew up without having any of the emotional parenting she needed. Worse still is that Ozai was the only parental figure of her family that ‘accepted’ her. Her own mom had trouble loving her. (Oh Ursa, another terrible parent, but in a different way.) Ursa gave most, if not of, her love to Zuko. Her uncle Iroh thought she was inherently “crazy.” (Come on Iroh. You’re better than that). Ozai was really the only one that raised her. As such, she lacked any balance growing up.
Jasper, on the other hand, was raised by gem society. She was conscripted into the army the day she was born. She’s a literal child soldier, which could be argued for Azula as well. This society made Jasper to be a general and nothing more.
“When a gem is made, it’s for a reason. They burst out of the ground already knowing what they’re supposed to be, and then… that’s what they are. Forever.”—Rose
Cersei was born to Tywin, who is probably also one of the worst fathers ever. Worse still, for the better part of the series, her societal position was validated by toxic people in her life like Qyburn. (Oh Qyburn. You deserve a post of your own.) She’d never been challenged or had the need to change and reflect, though the events of A Dance with Dragons may be taking her in a different direction.
Azula, Cersei, and Jasper were formed by their experiences, how others treated them, and who they were born to to become the people they are.
“I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing. So you had to struggle and connive and claw your way to power. But true power…the divine right to rule…is something you’re born with.” —Azula to Long Feng
Being raised so similarly, is not very surprising Jasper, Cersei, and Azula share several character traits. The most obvious and subject of these paragraphs would be their need for dominance in their relationships. And oh boy, do they have dominance issues.
Consider Jasper first. Jasper feels nothing wrong when controlling or taking over others. She is constantly fighting someone or something for power. A good example of this is in “Crack the Whip”, where Jasper uses two corrupted Jaspers to terrorize the crystal gems. Or “Lost at Sea“, where she tries to re-fuse with Lapis so Jasper can have the power of Malachite (The stone of positive transformation, healthy love, and growth! Their fusion is ironic.) again. Everything this fiery gem does lets her assert her dominance. From belittling Amethyst, to forcibly fusing with the corrupted [what I’ll assume is an] Ocean Jasper, Jasper has a pattern of power tripping, and deriving pleasure from it.
Azula is much the same in that she is also dominating in everything. We can see this is how she treats her ‘friends’ Mai and Ty Lee. Ty Lee had finally found herself as a circus performer. Then Azula showed up to recruit her to catch the Avatar. Ty Lee kindly declines because she’s finally happy where she is. Then during one of her performances Azula uses her influence to make it so difficult and deadly for Ty Lee that she has no choice but to join Azula. (Fortunately Mai joins without coercion. She does it just because she’s got nothing better to do. She’s the Daria of the series.) Azula needs to dominate show up again in The Beach episode, The Beach(effective title, not very creative, but effective). Even something like a simple game of feet beach Volley Ball turns into a match of dominance. She even goes so far as to exploit the girl with the pigtails’ leg injury. Azula shows her intensity again when talking to a Fire Nation boy and talking about how they’ll be married and become unstoppable together.
The lioness Cersei. Oh lord, Cersei. Let’s see, her entire treatment of Sansa, her abuse to her brother Tyrion, complacency in Qyburn’s terrible experiments and torture (that poor Bard. Too pure for this world), abuse of Tommen, abuse of Margaery, murder of her husband, abuse of Bran, her treatment of small-folk, ageism, all her attempts to subvert the valonqar prophecy (murder, encouragement of murder), and probably a few other things I’ve forgotten or are too small to mention. All of these, examples of her abuse and attempts to dominate everyone in every freaking thing. It’s a challenge to find someone she hasn’t abused, and if we do, they all are usually because people she doesn’t abuse have more power than she does.
Loneliness and Mental Breakdown
This compulsive need for dominance from these these has lead all of them being incredibly lonely, and lacking the self awareness and reflection to know why they are lonely. These relationships end terribly because they hold so close to their dominance and role in the hierarchy. It’s said that its lonely at the top, and Azula, Jasper, and and Cersei serves as examples for that maxim.
Azula’s loneliness is apparent by the series’s finale. She has no friends, family, mentors, and has dismissed pretty much everyone from her court. Her final battle is frenzied, tense, and a bit pitiful. She is so insecure in her power. She uses this insecurity to fuel her fire. Ultimately when subdued, she quickly has a complete mental breakdown. Tears stream down her face as she contorts and yells. She even blasts blue fire from her mouth with in a desperate attempt to do something.
Loneliness in Jasper’s case is more subtle. In season 3’s episode “Earthlings,” Jasper slowly grows more desperate and manic. Her ‘army’ abandons her and the corrupted gem (probably an Ocean Jasper) she had forced to fuse with her runs away. This causes the Ocean Jasper’s corruption to spread to Jasper. As such, she slowly grow more and more manic. Before anything else happens, she starts to reveal some depth. “Nobody I fuse with ever wants to stay,” she explains, followed by a creepy laugh. (Oh Jasper, so close to realizing why your actions are so so wrong, but still too far to realize. Why? Was a question you never bothered to ask.)
This shows that on some level this restless Gem is lonely, and like Azula is too self-conceited and ignorant of why. Jasper then maniacally laughs and refuses Steven’s attempts at help. She talks about how she’s constantly fighting. A blueish corruption, the same color as the ocean Jasper, spreads. Spikes and spots spread over her as she grows more manic, her voice cracks and sounds like knife through heart, until she becomes fully corrupted; becoming a literal monster.
The ever lonesome Cersei grows ever more isolated as she descends further and further desperate. By the end most of her allies are stripped from her. The ultimate climax of her arc is her walk of “atonement”. She is stripped naked and objectified by the whole of king’s landing. The beauty and respect she once had crumbles away, largely due to her internalized misogyny. Crap is thrown and at and her blood seeps out of her feet. The only difference is now she has a new knight/zombie Clegor as her own Kingsguard and Qyburn the mad scientist. (So more than nothing, but not much.) Even her twin Jaime abandons her, burning her letter when she had requested his help.
These moments in Cersei’s, Azula’s and Jasper’s show desperation, destruction, and a complete mental breakdown. In these last moments they’re so pitiful, they’ve hit rock bottom, and seemingly have no way of getting out, and as such act like cornered animals.
What is interesting to note is how Jasper, Cersei, and Azula are slowly unraveled and revealed. All of them are initially seen as strong, intimidating adversaries. But as their stories develop, they grow less and less stable, until they become desperate. Despite being in positions of power, despite their influence, despite their status, they are all their own worst enemies.
Characters like these three become interesting thematically. They are perpetrators of abuse and violence and come from perpetrators of abuse and violence. Cersei; Tywin, The Diamonds; Jasper, Ozai; Azula, all of them are born to these abusive people and regimes. They have no means of recourse, and lack any sense of self awareness or guide to help them. Jaime at least had Ser Arthur Dayne, who taught him away from Tywin, Zuko had Uncle Iroh, who taught him away from Ozai, without these men, would Jaime and Zuko have ever considered changing? Jasper might have Steven to help her, but she may or may not be beyond saving, only time will tell. (Seriously Crewniverse. Where are you going with her?)
These characters show us how important teaching and learning about how to treat people is important. Equally important is self awareness and understanding how you affect others. Otherwise breaking the cycle of abuse is nearly impossible. The main theme of these character can be boiled down to one thing: tragedy the cause of one’s suffering by the one’s own actions.
Design and Other Tidbits
Another interesting tidbit is how Jasper, Cersei and Azula are associated with the color red. Cersei wears red becasue its her house color, Azula because she is of the Fire Nation, and Jasper because she based off of a Jasper stone. There are interesting psychological effects that occur when someone sees the color red. The color red is passionate, exciting, and intense. You’ll see this color in marketing to invoke excitement and emotion. These design choices only add to what we know about Jasper, Cersei and Azula. They are dominating and intense, and their designs complement their characters. On a more meta level, the color excites the viewer subconsciously.
Also interesting is how green to blue fire shows up for these characters. The blue flames in the background as Jasper and Lapis form Malachite, Cersei and the green wildfire while she burns the tower of the hand, Azula and her blue flames.
It’s so interesting that these very different characters could be so similar. Despite being from different authors, from different time periods, they all maintain some level of mirroring. It’s funny how different people can be so alike to one another, even though they don’t even exist in that same universe. Or more, it’s because they were all created in this universe. Because they all showcase the same pattern of tragedy. Food for thought. | 2021-04-14T05:27:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038076819.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20210414034544-20210414064544-00415.warc.gz | en | 0.975352 | 2,936 | {
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Suffolk FA Under-18s go top with victory
Suffolk FA Under-18s secured a well-fought 2-0 victory over their Hertfordshire FA counterparts at The County Ground in Letchworth.
Goals from Hadleigh United’s George Mrozek and AFC Sudbury’s James Axcell ensured three points that sent Suffolk to the summit of the East Anglian Counties Championship alongside Essex FA.
Suffolk were indebted to Haverhill Rovers goalkeeper James Philp for saving a penalty in the first minute, before an improved second-half display saw Mrozek (64 minutes) and substitute Axcell (66 minutes) wrapped up victory.
Suffolk FA: James Philp (Haverhill Rovers), Ryan Yallop (Bury Town), William Gardner (Bury Town), James Baughurst (AFC Sudbury), Tyler French (AFC Sudbury), Stefano Mallardo (AFC Sudbury), Luke Mallett (Braintree Town), Wayne Blackman (AFC Sudbury), Cruise Nyadzayo (Lowestoft Town), Ollie Dunlop (AFC Sudbury), George Mrozek (Hadleigh Utd). Used subs: Dan Knight (Hadleigh Utd), James Axcell (AFC Sudbury), Rhys Shulver (Haverhill Rovers). Unused sub: Lawrence Healey (Haverhill Rovers). | 2018-06-22T13:05:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864482.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622123642-20180622143642-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.821198 | 303 | {
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Long time no update. I've been working for about 3 weeks on this project now. I've even purchased a domain to host the game. I'm happy progress is being made but i now have to keep my motivation up and work some more. So here are a few characters I've made using the Male Character creation screen from my game. I still have to add quite a few things like skin color and weapon changes.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Well I've decided to do some street fighter 4 dedication art. Since I've been working a lot in Zbrush lately, I decided it would be the best medium to use. Everyone can probably take a guess on who this character is!! Of course, its the CRIMSON VIPER!!! Stay tuned for the whole image :)
And here is a bull skull i did very quickly. I am still not done but i sketched this in an hour or less. Base mesh is from 3DS MAX.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Well I was not expecting this, but it does make me feel good knowing my teachers liked my film. For a long time I didn't like my film because I thought it was too simple. But it just goes to show that simple is sometimes best. I want to thank all my friends from my 3D course because without them, I would have NEVER gotten this done.
Keep it real :)
Well it is the end of my 3rd year at Algonquin College and I am pretty happy with what I have accomplished. I have learned a tremendous amount in what I find to be such a small time frame. Enough about me, and onto the film.
This is the story of two fish who wonders what keeps happening to their missing fish friends. Hope you enjoy it :)
Sunday, May 2, 2010
This is my Demo Reel I've managed to get done. I've finished school and I am pretty happy with what I have gotten done. Now not everything I have is in this demo, but the most important things are in there. Hope you all like it :) | 2018-10-21T16:30:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514162.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20181021161035-20181021182535-00121.warc.gz | en | 0.983366 | 444 | {
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Helsing's Fire Review
- Unique, clever light-based puzzle gameplay.
- Amusing dialogue and animations.
- Clear, colorful artwork.
- Easy difficulty progression.
- Earlier levels can feel repetitive until advanced challenges kick in.
Helsing's Fire just oozes with style and a fun atmosphere that continues the whole way through, while the unique gameplay is almost an exciting bonus to enjoy!
- Full Review
- App Store Info
Van Helsing is a name that has become synonymous with horror stories and in particular as a vampire hunter thanks to the character's origins in Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's somewhat appropriate that the Dutch doctor should be revived by Amsterdam based developers Ratloop for Clickgamer's latest puzzling title, Helsing's Fire.
In order to defeat the invading horde of Dracula's monstrous regiment you'll have to illuminate and subsequently dispatch them with color-coded tonics. It's an ingenious gameplay mechanic that's immediately intuitive and at the same time incredibly complex to master. Each monster has unique traits that need to be exploited to successfully cleanse areas, ranging from shields to becoming invisible; and if the puzzle elements weren't enough, you'll have a chance to take on 'bosses' that can maneuver, adding an action gameplay twist.
The artwork is fantastic, with clear simple designs and fascinating use of light and shadow. Helsing's Fire isn't without humor either, with Abraham and his partner Raffton dropping the occasional one-liner and bumping fists after a job well-done. After each area is cleared a Survival mode is unlocked and pits you against the clock and waves of baddies to eliminate.
Helsing's Fire is simply addictive and outrageously fun to play; well worth picking up if you're after a genuinely unique and amusing puzzling experience.
DescriptionWhen the implacable Professor Helsing and his assistant Raffton travel to The Shadow Blight, they'll need every weapon at their disposal to defeat Dracula's vampire horde. In this captivating, dark Gothic puzzle-adventure, use Dr. Helsing's powerful torch and tonics to save the world from the demonic uprising!
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
This is no ordinary game! Helsing's Fire is recognized around the world as one of the App Store's premier puzzle games; full of charm and challenge.
IGF 2011 - Best Mobile Game Finalist
IGF 2011 - Excellence in Design Honorable Mention
IGF 2011 - Excellence in Visual Art Honorable Mention
SlideToPlay - The 50 Best iPhone Games of 2010 (#7)
TouchArcade - Best iPod Touch and iPhone Games (Puzzle)
AppAdvice - The Very Best iPhone Games of 2010 (Puzzle)
TheAppera - Best iPhone Games 2010
TouchGen - Editor's Choice Awards (Puzzle Runner-up)
... Helsing's Fire is one of those puzzle games that does something completely original and is unbelievably entertaining.
... With its insidious wit and gothic charm, Helsing's Fire is a joyously original instant classic that iPhone owners should buy immediately.
... It's one of the most unique games I've ever played and is a true App Store gem. Surely only a creature of darkness would let this one slip by them.
... Helsing's Fire reinvents the puzzle yet again with some light and dark dynamics I guarantee you have NOT seen yet. Prepare to be enthralled!
... This is a game that would absolutely only work on the iOS platform, and it's hands-down one of the best games on the App Store. It gets my highest recommendation.
Helsing's Fire features a brand-new puzzle mechanic never before seen: use the touch-screen to position Helsing's torch to illuminate different combinations of monsters, then destroy them in the correct order using Raffton's supply of different tonics. The quick, rewarding puzzles make it a perfect game for brief play-sessions, but you'll always want to play 'just one more level'!
A HUGE, DARK UNIVERSE
With puzzles set across four worlds, with 30 different levels in each world, all featuring fifteen different monster types including four bosses, Helsing's Fire provides an incredibly
rich, deep, and varied game experience. And because on replays puzzles are re-generated randomly, the game will always be fresh!
The Victorian theme, Gothic setting, and engaging characters make Helsing's Fire one of the most appealing story-oriented puzzle games released. Add to that the distinct minimalist style of the character portraits, the incredible dynamic lighting of the shadows cast by your moving torch, and an original soundtrack, and it's clear that Helsing's Fire presents an epic experience. Designed just for the iPhone, this is high-quality mobile gaming at its finest.
MULTIPLE MODES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
As if the 120 distinct levels weren't enough, Helsing's Fire also comes with additional Endless Survival and Online Bounty modes, for the bravest of the brave! And when you've stood against the horde as long as you can, you can post your scores on the fully-integrated Crystal leaderboards, earning achievements for your accomplishments and claiming bragging rights from your friends.
Dracula must be stopped. Raffton, take the tonics: it's time to head into the Blight!
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Based on extensive research, Shen Therapies has developed a strict treatment protocol that enables us to support IVF and IUI cycles, greatly enhancing the chances of achieving a successful pregnancy.
Depending on the type of cycle, 5 or 6 acupuncture treatments are recommended and administered at specific times. Herbal and nutritional products can also be administered (optional) to further enhance the chances of success.
For more information on our treatment protocol please contact the clinic on 07 3279 5697 or email email@example.com.
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I have recently purchased a residential property in the ROI. The property was previously vacant, and I have spent a significant amount of money in preparing the property for first letting. Is there tax relief available on this expenditure or is not allowed as pre-letting?
The Finance Act 207 introduced a new tax deduction for pre-letting expenses of a revenue nature incurred on a residential property, such as insurance, repairs and mortgage interest before the property is first let out. The pre-letting expenses are now given as a deduction against rental income from that property in the first year it is let out.
This tax deduction is to act as an incentive to owners of vacant residential properties. The conditions of the relief are as follows: The property in question must have been vacant for a period of at least 12 months prior to its first letting during the period 25 December 2017 and 31 December 2021. The expenditure must have been incurred in the 12 months before the property was let out and a cap of €5,000 per vacant property applies. There will be a clawback: Where the landlord ceases to let the property as residential premises or sells the property within 4 years of the first letting, this tax deduction will be clawed back in the year the property ceases to be let by the landlord.
The advice above is specific to the facts surrounding the questions posed. Neither PKF-FPM nor the contributors accept any liability for any direct or indirect loss arising from any reliance placed on replies.
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Consistency is key with a healthy and happy pet, so it’s worth investing in a durable cat or dog bed that they will use for a long time. Or maybe you're getting ready for the arrival of a new puppy or dog into your home? If that's the case, there are more than a few essentials you'll be needing. We have a great selection of pet bedding for you to choose from. | 2020-08-14T01:29:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739134.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200814011517-20200814041517-00016.warc.gz | en | 0.968177 | 119 | {
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During Apple's shareholder meeting today, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said that Apple is considering new product categories. "Obviously, we're looking at new categories. We don't talk about them, but we're looking at them."
Rumors of an upcoming iWatch are running rampant and this could be the very category that Cook was thinking of when he made those comments. There have also been rumors of an Apple-built TV, though these have yet to prove to be true. Apple has missed analyst predictions numerous times when it comes to releasing an iTV.
In other Apple news, Cook believes Apple will move into the new "spaceship" headquarters in 2016. | 2014-12-20T15:07:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769981.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00126-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978515 | 137 | {
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I truly dislike doing the laundry. I am that person who waits until the hamper is full, and then I finally and begrudgingly haul it down two flights of stairs to process it through the washer and dryer. Too often it ends up in the dryer for a day, requiring it to have to be fluffed again to de-wrinkle the load. Then I fold it all and haul it back upstairs, where it sits neatly folded in the laundry basket for several more days. When I need the laundry basket again, I finally put the last of the clean clothes away and start the process all over again. Like I said, I dislike doing the laundry! Why? BECAUSE IT IS NEVER REALLY FINISHED. It just goes on, and on, and on … wash, rinse, repeat. The same goes for housework, grocery shopping, cooking … there is no such thing as job satisfaction with any of that nonsense!
Before Jesus came, the people of Israel had the same problem with all of their ritual sacrifices and offerings. Just as they would complete one, it needed to be repeated. Remember the time when Jesus turned over the money lenders’ tables at the Temple in Jerusalem? They had set up shop to provide animals for the yearly altar sacrifices that were part of the annual pilgrimage to the Temple. Making these offerings was something that was never really finished … wash, rinse, repeat every year.
Jesus did more than turn over the tables … he turned over the world. He replaced the priests and their offering systems. He replaced the offering. He became the once and for all sacrifice that never needs repeating, because he is the holy, incorrupt, innocent, and ultimate sacrifice for our sins:
Hebrews 7 (Common English Bible)
23 The others who became priests are numerous because death prevented them from continuing to serve. 24 In contrast, he holds the office of priest permanently because he continues to serve forever. 25 This is why he can completely save those who are approaching God through him, because he always lives to speak with God for them.
The supremacy of Christ as the mediator for our sins is cleanly laid out in this chapter. What a marvelous gift! He is the only one who can save us, and he lives to speak with God for us. What do you wish he would say about you right now? What intercession do you need Jesus to make on your behalf as he and his father are chatting today?
26 It’s appropriate for us to have this kind of high priest: holy, innocent, incorrupt, separate from sinners, and raised high above the heavens. 27 He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day like the other high priests, first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people. He did this once for all when he offered himself. 28 The Law appoints people who are prone to weakness as high priests, but the content of the solemn pledge, which came after the Law, appointed a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Jesus is the one and done, the end all, the be all, and the real deal. When he sacrificed himself for the sins of the world, the need for us to keep repeating the same useless burnt offerings to cleanse our sins ended forever. The only offering we need to make now is our repentance.
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Le Grand Moulin
From $904 / night
- 7 bedrooms
- 3 bathrooms
- Sleeps 17
Description from the manager
Le Grand Moulin is a stunning converted watermill in the Dordogne. The property has been the subject of extensive renovation in recent years, and now boasts 7 large bedrooms and 4 bathrooms (3 ensuite) in the main house. While retaining original features and rustic charm, it also offers every modern convenience. It has a separate self-contained apartment, sleeping 2 or 3, that may be let in addition to the main property, but is never let separately.
It is an ideal holiday home for families and groups in search of tranquillity and privacy while being in easy reach of the wealth of interest that the Dordogne has to offer.
Set in its own grounds ...Read more
Le Grand Moulin
Pomport, Aquitaine, France
Additional Location Information
Le Grand Moulin straddles the River Gardonette, a tributary of the River Dordogne. It offers tranquillity and privacy, and yet is only a few kms from the villages of Cuneges and Pomport.
Its 32 acres offers a high degree of diversity: carefully manicured lawns flanked by mature borders, meadowland, a small vineyard, paddock and woodland. Surrounded entirely by beautiful countryside, it is a haven for wildlife including wild boar, deer, hares, and birds of prey. The terraces and verandas offer the perfect spot from which to view these delights.
Green rolling countryside, old stone farmhouses and barns, fields of sunflowers, vineyards, rivers, grand chateaux, castles in ruins, bastide towns of cobbled streets with fountains, little squares, cafes, derelict old pigeonnieres and pre-historic sites. The list is endless and you really need to come to experience it all for yourself!
Last updated on February 18, 2015
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Pool / Spa
- Private outdoor pool (heated)
- Private outdoor pool (unheated)
- Pet friendly - no
- Smoking allowed - ask
- Suitable for children - ask
- Suitable for the elderly - ask
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Only titanium grade 5(Ti6al4v) High strength, light weight, no rust With material report
Use hot forging to reach high strength. The strength of the root the bolt head will be enhanced after a secondary heating. Therefore it is not easy to break. And also wrench is not easy slipped.
High accuracy of geometric tolerance The surface roughness of products in general Indicates Ra 0.4
Rolled thread for better fatigue resistance and to avoid galling. And also rolling threads are plastic deformation that does not break the structure, so it does not damage the strength of the material.
Use high grade PVD color, which is more bright than anodized color, and also keeps color forever, no fade. Now, gold, black, blue, rainbow, purple, charcoal supplied.
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You may refer our earlier posts on TestComplete
In this post, we will give you an overview of TestComplete IDE (Integrated development Environment), so that you can familiarize yourself with the tool. And use all the features provided to make your automation a great success. TestComplete IDE contains different panels for various purposes.
Project Explorer – used to explore the contents of the project suite or the project. Basic contents of this Panel are
- Project Suite
- Project Items (Scripts, events, stores)
- Keyword Tests
- Name Mapping
- Tested Apps
- Log Results
These are discussed in more detail in TestComplete Basics.
Code Explorer – displays the scripts used in the projects and unit and project metrics.
Object Browser – Displays all the objects identified from the processes that are currently running. Objects are being displayed in this panel in form of tree structure to easily identify the hierarchy. Each process corresponds to an application.
By default TestComplete shows all the processes that are currently running on machine. This can be filtered out to show only those processes on which you are going to work. for example if you have to work on a web application, you just need the process for internet explorer to be there. remove all other unnecessary processes by conducting the filter.
In Process tree by mouse right click, you get a menu with different options to perform.
- Refresh – Refresh Process tree
- Map Object – add the object into Name Mapping
- Map Child Object – add child object into Name Mapping
- Show Object in Name Mapping Editor
- Store Object – add object in Store
- Highlight on Screen – highlights the selected object on the application
- Add Process to TestedApps
Main Workspace – All the coding and action is done in this area.
Result Logs – displays project execution result Logs.
Project Variables – this panel contains list of all the variables used in the project.
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Tony Roma’s Signs Breakthrough Licensing Agreement with Ruprecht Company, Bringing Restaurant Quality Products to US Retail
Agreement ensures fans will continue to enjoy Tony Roma’s world-famous ribs and BBQ products at home
ORLANDO, Fla. – May 10, 2017 – Romacorp, Inc., parent company of Tony Roma’s, announces the company’s newest licensing deal with Ruprecht Company, the oldest and most renowned operating meat processor and food manufacturer in the Chicago area. Ruprecht has been providing center-of-the-plate protein items to the country’s finest food service and retail establishments for more than 140 years, and has been a trusted supplier partner to Tony Roma’s restaurants for more than a decade. This new agreement makes it possible for rib and BBQ fanatics to enjoy Tony Roma’s restaurant quality ribs and BBQ meats in their homes for any occasion.
“By leveraging Ruprecht’s restaurant quality meats and working in cooperation with Tony Roma’s award-winning culinary team, Tony Roma’s ribs and BBQ meats sold in US retail channels will taste just like the world-class product sold in Tony Roma’s restaurants around the world,” said Stephen K. Judge, President and Chief Executive Officer of Romacorp, Inc. “We are excited to work with Walter Sommers and his team and leverage their sous vide cooking method, ensuring Tony Roma’s retail products will be produced without preservatives, retain greater nutritional content, and be the best tasting and safest product possible for our customers and their families.”
Ruprecht Company uses Sous Vide technology, a cooking method which retains food’s natural moisture, flavor, aroma, and nutritional content, produces meat tender enough to cut with a fork, and results in a longer shelf life product without the use of artificial preservatives and chemicals. The company operates with extremely high standards of safety and sanitation delivered through a newly constructed state-of-the-art processing facility. In addition, the use of sous vide technology improves product quality and consumer safety by pasteurizing the meat at precise temperatures and vacuum-sealing the product, ensuring the best tasting and safest product possible.
“Ruprecht Company is thrilled to be working with such an iconic global brand to bring Tony Roma’s great flavors into retail,” said Walter Sommers, President of Ruprecht Company. “We have been a prime supplier to Tony Roma’s for almost 15 years, and we are looking forward to bringing exciting new items and Tony Roma’s classics to retail shelves across the country.”
This is the latest in a string of transformational announcements for Tony Roma’s as it celebrates its 45th birthday, an incredible milestone unmatched by any American casual dining restaurant chain. Recent Tony Roma’s announcements include new licensing deals in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, renewed US restaurant growth with new development and franchise agreements in Tennessee and West Palm Beach, Florida, accelerated international restaurant growth with new development agreements in Spain, Nicaragua and Bolivia, and the launch of Tony Roma’s new global prototype restaurant in Orlando, Florida. With restaurants in more than 30 countries on five continents around the world, Tony Roma’s is the world’s largest casual dining chain specializing in ribs.
About Romacorp, Inc.
Romacorp, Inc., is the parent company of Tony Roma’s restaurants, the world’s largest casual dining concept specializing in ribs. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Romacorp, Inc. has more than 150 restaurant locations in more than 30 countries and is one of the most globally recognizable names in the industry. The first Tony Roma’s restaurant opened 45 years ago in North Miami, Florida. Tony Roma’s is also proud to partner with the Make-A-Wish Foundation (www.cnfl.wish.org), one of the world’s leading children’s charities, in an effort to help grant the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses across Central and Northern Florida. For more information about Romacorp, Inc. and Tony Roma’s, visit www.tonyromas.com.
Please visit www.tonyromasfranchise.com or call (866) 981-0586 for information about Tony Roma’s franchising opportunities.
Broad Street Licensing Group is Romacorp’s licensing agent for the Tony Roma’s brand and helped facilitate this agreement. For information about retail sales licensing opportunities with the Tony Roma’s brand, contact Bill Cross, SVP, Broad Street Licensing Group at (973) 655-0598.
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An event in the framework of the XIV Culture Week.
Aquae is an itinerary designed to highlight and reconnect the works connected to water collected in the Museum of Roman Civilization.
10.30 am - 12.00 pm
Free admission, subject to availability. Groups will be organzied on site.
No booking is required
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Based in Newlands the Life In Motion studio is the perfect space to reach your movement goals. Using free weights and bodyweight exercises all 30min sessions are tailored to your ability and designed to offer you maximum support and accountability.
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This variety of T. baileyi produces several pups on the old bloom spike. Grows easily and produces large clumps.
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Remember that You are Dust and to Dust You Shall Return
Wednesday morning at 6 am my alarm woke me from warm, senseless sleep to face a cold, rainy, and intimidating day. I delayed the call for minutes, wanting to lose myself again in wondrous sleep. I finally pulled myself out of bed, dressed, prepared coffee, and set out for Mass.
Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance. It is a day of measuring how short you fall from Christ and from your Christ-self. It is a day of the dreadful reminder that one day you, and everything that you have done as yourself, will die, and all that will be left is the work that God has done through you. That same sense of judgment is writ large for society. It can be a day to measure how far we are from the kingdom of heaven on Earth, and to cry aloud our repentance, to mourn our faults, and to renew our endeavor to enable that kingdom.
Of course I wasn’t aware of any of that as I stumbled toward the church. I was thinking of how I had finally taught my cat what it’s like to be woken up by being trampled on. I was thinking of how I had beaten the sun up. I was thinking of how, as a Quaker, I should have considered that this was a needless ritual I could perform anytime and that I should go back to bed and rest up before the day’s big action. As I finally arrived and settled in, however, I knew that I had done the right thing. I felt somewhat awkward, like an impostor, but I had done the research. I knew that the ash smearing was sacramental, not a sacrament, and therefore open to anyone, not just Catholics. I didn’t take communion, can remember nothing of the homily, and left with only the priest’s clipped, accented voice in my ear: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
The weight of that statement followed me as I walked to the coffee shop to begin my vegan Lent. I noticed the flicking of eyes to my forehead, where the ashen cross lay. I biked to Center City Philadelphia, found my destination at Friends Center, and settled into contemplation, aided by a crumpled copy of Psalm 88. The words of isolation I found there, the words of grief and darkness and helplessness, struck such a chord with me that I began rewriting them to form a song. As people began to gather in preparation for an Earth Quaker Action Team event, for which I had volunteered to be a police liaison, I finally connected the messages I had received that morning.
The Earth right now is in a state of desolation. Our civilization, the one we were born into, exterminates six dozen species a day, desertifies and deforests thousands of square miles a year, exploits every natural resource it can reach to the point of collapse, and manages to favor only a select few of its human inhabitants, leaving the wreckage for the unfortunate ones who remain. If Christ’s arrival at the Pentecost was to signal the redemption of humanity, as classical Quakerism teaches, we have certainly strayed far from our task of redeeming Eden.
This distance hurts us, though it has hurt hundreds of indigenous communities far more. Living in the city of Philadelphia, I get virtually no reminder of what Eden might have been like. I live out of cycle, unaware of countless rhythms around me that I might otherwise notice. I am insulated from knowing how species interact with each other. I am constantly distracted by noise and pollution. Entire histories go up in flames or under a bulldozer blade while I enjoy the benefits of a recovering economy. There is no natural process here that is untouched by humanity.
Sometimes that’s not always a bad thing. A feral cat displays as much vigor for life as a lynx. Exotic, introduced, non-native species push their roots through asphalt and concrete to break the spell of a human-dominated environment. The mundane horror of death, found every day in roadkill and discarded chicken bones, reminds us of our life without God as much as it reminds us of the intricate and marvelous mechanisms that surround death in nature. There is still much for us to learn, even in the unnatural pallor of the city. Moreover, we humans are remarkable and wonderful creatures, capable of forming bonds to Eden—though we live far from it—replicating it in our interactions with each other, and speaking of it as food for our dreams.
This is the situation of most of the members of Earth Quaker Action Team, who dedicate their efforts to save the mountains of Appalachia and the people who depend on them for their history, livelihood, and spiritual nourishment. After an unexpected victory last year, in which PNC Bank agreed to cease funding companies whose main source of revenue was mountaintop removal, EQAT decided to press its advantage and call for a complete sector exclusion policy that would prevent any PNC money from funding mountaintop removal. Our action was to take place at the Philadelphia International Flower Show, a beloved local event, sponsored by PNC Bank. Members who were willing to risk arrest would cordon off a section surrounding PNC’s display pavilion, declaring it a “Flower Crime Scene.” The expectation was that we would be arrested quickly, in the meantime embarrassing PNC and reaching out to the 250,000 visitors who regularly attend the event.
It suddenly occurred to me, sitting in that room, preparing to deal with an incredibly uncomfortable role for me, that all prophecy began in such a way. In the Old Testament, there are several examples of God getting angry about the mistreatment of the land and the poor. Prophets would do incredibly risky and strange things that would have terrified anyone who was sane. My mild discomfort at having to be loud and defend my viewpoints against people who felt we were being obnoxious and crazy, not to mention dealing with the police, is small potatoes next to Ezekiel lying on his side for 430 days, but it’s a start. Our protest ended up taking most of the day. At the end, a dozen security personnel stood around a determined few who still held banners and spoke loudly, effectively blocking all visitation to the PNC display. No one was arrested but dozens showed support and the protest made news as PNC dropped its sponsorship of the Flower Show for unrelated reasons. However, PNC still finances mountaintop removal coal mining.
There has been a good deal written recently about prophecy, and particularly about how the call for repentance is one rooted in love for the ones being called out. I do agree with that, but I would add that the love extends not only to what still exists but to that which has been forever lost to possibility, and to those who bear the burden of being next on the chopping block of our civilization. We mourn for our environment and the disruption of our human communities because we love them. We mourn for and repent our benefit from the atrocities that pass by unknown to us. We pray for the repentance of the powerful, not only for their souls and well-being, but also with the full knowledge that their work will return to dust, and when it does, countless others may pay the price.
These are the times we live in. We are in constant isolation from God and from our task. The source of that isolation is multifaceted and cannot be readily determined, but as our closeness to our leadings grows, it is harder to isolate us. The more we build our Eden together, the more stable our lives become. The more we engage our Christ-selves, the more natural they seem, and the more we pay attention to repentance, the easier it seems to engage the problems before us. God continues to lead us as in the days of the Old Testament. Let us pray for continued and deepened acts of prophecy, and the melting of the hearts of the powerful. Let us examine what our lives and our faith will have meant when we return to dust. | 2022-11-26T15:13:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446708010.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126144448-20221126174448-00175.warc.gz | en | 0.974844 | 1,671 | {
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While basic chocolate brownies will never disappoint a crowd, it’s a treat to bake up a batch of something different. With a box of store-bought mix, a couple of quick stir-ins and a fantastic topper, you can take fresh-baked brownies from good to glorious!
Before You Start
When you’re hacking a boxed mix, you may not need to stir in the ingredients called for on the box, such as eggs, water or oil. To avoid adding too much liquid or cracking one too many eggs, read through the recipe first to make sure the instructions are clear.
Stir in a Fall Taste Twist
With the addition of pumpkin pie spice and canned pumpkin purée, we’ve transformed our Compliments Chewy Fudge Brownie Mix into super delicious Pumpkin Spice Fudge Brownies. The warming flavours of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg amp up the chocolate batter, while pumpkin purée replaces the oil and water called for on the box. This recipe hack gives you dense, satisfying brownies with a hint of sweet spice—the ideal treat on a crisp fall day.
Add a Fun Topping
Whether you’re changing up a boxed mix or not, it’s easy to add a twist to brownies. All it takes is a sprinkle of something tasty on top. You can choose whatever flavour or texture suits you and complements the chocolatey goodness underneath. After spreading the batter evenly in the prepared pan, try adding one of these creative toppers and bake as directed.
- Nutty: 1 cup (250 mL) whole pecans
- Gooey: 1 cup (250 mL) mini marshmallows
- Crunchy: ½ cup (125 mL) pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
- Fruity: ½ cup (125 mL) dried cranberries
Go ahead and combine any of the tasty toppers above. Our Pumpkin Spice Fudge Brownies recipe has four more delicious options, so check them out and experiment.
Tips for Baking Amazing Brownies
No matter what kind of brownies you like, there are some handy tricks for making a really good batch. These helpful hints will give your brownies the edge at parties, bake sales and potlucks.
How to Grease or Line the Pan
- With oil or shortening: Use a pastry or silicone brush to paint the bottom and sides of the pan with an even layer.
- With parchment paper: Cut the paper to fit the length of your pan, plus enough overhang to go up the sides. Remove the parchment and lightly grease the pan to help hold the paper in place. Press the paper back in, folding in the corners for a tight fit.
- With foil: Turn the pan upside down. Lay the foil over top, leaving about 2 inches (5 cm) extra on each side. Fold any excess around the corners to fit the shape of the pan and then carefully remove the foil to retain its shape. Turn the pan right side up and place the foil liner inside. Lightly grease the foil to prevent any sticking (unless it’s non-stick).
How to Test for Doneness
The clean toothpick test is great for cakes, but it may leave you with overcooked brownies. Watch for a nice crust on top and firm edges that pull away easily from the sides of the pan. Test the centre with a toothpick; it should come out with a few moist crumbs clinging.
A Cut Above
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For years, the gambling industry has been told bitcoin is the future but, as yet, there has been little substance to match the hype. CalvinAyre.com aim to bring simplicity and accessibility to world they feel is not being utilized simply through the understandable fear of the unknown.
The top line benefits should catch the eye enough to at least help betting operators read further: no chargebacks (the blockchain is an immutable ledger) and VERY low (less than a cent) transaction fees.
But here’s the bit that you may not know: Bitcoin in its original format (Bitcoin SV) is way more than a payment system, it benefits players, regulators, content providers and operators. The CalvinAyre.com Bitcoin for Gambling resource page offers detail on the what, why and how of bitcoin integration.
BSV also offers ‘provably fair’ gaming. How so? By recording game data on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. By writing slot spins or hand histories to the public ledger, recording the random seed that created them, players can then access these seeds and use the game’s algorithm, either provided on the operators site or a third party providers, to recreate the results for themselves.
But isn’t bitcoin all ‘black market’ and ‘dark web’? In a lot of instances, yes, but not with BSV. How so? Due to BSV’s commitment to follow laws and regulations, which all Bitcoin SV businesses subscribe to. BSV is an immutable ledger so every transaction and piece of data stored is transparent. Private does not mean anonymous. | 2023-12-09T16:10:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100912.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209134916-20231209164916-00300.warc.gz | en | 0.917148 | 330 | {
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INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS & RELATED ARTICLES
"Craft is what enables you to be successful
when you're not inspired." - Brian Eno
Pitchfork JANUARY 8, 2014 - by Mike Powell
HAROLD BUDD: WIND IN LONELY FENCES 1970-2011
Harold Budd's music exists in that misty place between ambient, new age, and minimalist composition, where everything is gentle and nothing lasts for long. Over the past forty-plus years, he's released about thirty albums. Some are solo, some are collaborative; some are studio and some are live; some are improvised and some are structured. He famously worked with Brian Eno on the second of Eno's landmark "Ambient" series (Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror), and less famously made an album with the Scottish dream-pop band the Cocteau Twins, neither of which have any immediate common ground other than the fact that Harold Budd plays keyboard on them.
Despite the variety of Budd's collaborations and circumstances, his music has always had a quietly recognisable style: intimate and intuitive; fragile but warm; seductive but just a little bit mysterious, like the soft tinkling of a presence in the next room. (In a 2005 interview with the UK paper The Independent, he joked that his music tended to feel slow and searching because he usually recorded it drunk.)
Wind In Lonely Fences is a 2xCD retrospective compiled by All Saints Records and released alongside three vinyl reissues of older Budd albums (The Serpent (In Quicksilver)), Abandoned Cities, and Through The Hill) and a seven-album box set called Buddbox. I'm writing about Wind here not only because it's the most convenient inroad to Budd's career, but because it's an ambitious project in its own right: with as many albums as Budd has to choose from and no responsibility to things like radio hits, the job of the compiler becomes an unusually creative one.
Starting with 1970's The Oak Of The Golden Dreams, Wind moves chronologically, ending with a track from his 2011 album In The Mist. Progression is obvious, especially early on. Dreams, which was improvised on an old Buchla modular synth, has more in common with the dense ragas of Terry Riley than anything Budd composed in the '80s, and even 1978's Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim - from one of my favourite Budd albums, The Pavilion Of Dreams - shows a willingness to indulge in vast, almost jazzy pieces of music that he'd give up within a few years. (A sap at heart, I wilt at the sound of an erotically played saxophone.)
Budd's music got smaller and more peaceful, but also more opaque, culminating in the work he's best known for: The Plateaux Of Mirror and The Pearl (also with Eno and his protégé, Daniel Lanois). Soft, sparkling but always just beyond the edge of discernible pattern, Budd's pieces with Eno are like keyholes to dark rooms that Budd - in his reserve - never lets you into. It's this tension - between gentleness and threat, between intimacy and uncertainty, between the thrill of a hint and the human desire to see the whole picture - that makes them seductive on first listen but so easy to play on subsequent ones. Also worth noting is a track from Budd's 1981 album The Serpent (In Quicksilver), which at twenty minutes long barely constitutes an album, but is my favorite Budd release right now - a series of miniatures less high-minded and delicate than his Eno collaborations, but earthier and more generous too, tapping into a history of jazz, Americana, and even country music that he rarely touched again.
The second half of Wind is spottier than the first - the textures less rich, the mood less sustained. "Soft pedal," an airy, meandering piano technique of Budd's own division, is supplemented by even more reverb, which can be as much of a crutch as an aid. And while I've had my swings of passionate involvement with the Cocteau Twins, Budd's collaborations with both the full band and with guitarist Robin Guthrie have never really held my attention. (Guthrie's guitar sound - somehow both chilly but indistinct - has always sounded best to me when set against the sturdy backbeat of a drum machine. Against Budd he sometimes sounds like water cut with water.)
Even Budd's less interesting pieces have a toughness to them that I find surprising and unexpected. Having held myself off from making nature metaphors in a review about low-key instrumental music until now, I'll make one: the icicle: small but sharp, seemingly transparent but impossible to see through, delicate but chilly to the touch. Wind doesn't measure up to Budd's best albums and can't, but that's not what it was meant to do. It's a primer to a composer too often cited as a footnote and too modest to correct the record. | 2019-01-21T12:07:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583792338.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190121111139-20190121133139-00614.warc.gz | en | 0.968832 | 1,042 | {
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The skyrocketing cost of rent
has created an exodus — or expulsion — of artists from San Francisco
to the East Bay that hasn’t been stemmed for nearly two decades now.
However, painter Christopher Brown, whose reputation as an artist
blossomed in the Bay Area during the mid-1980s, was one of the lucky
ones who years ago chose Oakland (when he was a graduate student at UC
Davis) and later Berkeley, where he has lived and worked for three decades.
Brown presciently seized the opportunity to partner with fellow artist
Catherine Alden, a sculptor, to build his home and studio in an industrial
section of Berkeley called Ocean View.
Ceramicist Peter Voulkos worked on his sculptures in a loft close by,
but the area was otherwise desolate; today’s vibrant shops, galleries and
restaurants on nearby Fourth Street would have been inconceivable.
“Catherine had purchased an empty lot and we designed a pair of
condominiums together,” Brown says. “It was easy. I gave my drawings
to an architect who made it buildable.”
Brown had been teaching at UC Berkeley and had saved enough not
only to pay for his half of the 6,000-square-foot property but also the
construction costs, which all came to an affordable $350,000.
A Painter’s Place
The two-story 5,500-square-foot live/work wood-frame building they
created suited them perfectly. Their asymmetrical units were conjoined
and had two floors each, “but I had more of the top floor because I
needed light and she needed most of the stable ground floor for her
sculptures,” Brown says.
The industrial zoning allowed leeway in choice of materials, and
low-maintenance corrugated galvanized-steel cladding for the exterior
was a top pick — well ahead of the current vogue — because “steel was
cheap then, and it was beautiful,” Brown says. To complement it, the front
door was painted a cheerful red.
They also kept interior details basic until they could afford improvements. Plywood floors were eventually covered with spruce planks and,
to save money, Brown built himself much-needed kitchen cabinets and
shelving for books.
His roughly square-shaped main floor upstairs was divided equally for
living and working.
“Both sections were about 20 by 40 feet on each side of the stairs com-ing up from my street-level 500-square-foot storage space,” Brown says. A
kitchen and small living space with a loft bedroom took up one side, and,
FIGURATIVE ARTIST CHRISTOPHER
BROWN SKETCHED HIMSELF A
DREAM HOME AND THEN BUILT IT.
BY ZAHID SARDAR PHOTOGRAPHS BY CESAR RUBIO
In what was originally designed as his painting studio
with high clerestory windows and ribbon skylights,
Bay Area artist Christopher Brown now has a home
office that sometimes doubles as a party space. A
corner slit window was created to allow the artist
to slip stretched canvases, on their way to galleries,
exhibitions or clients, directly onto a waiting truck.
Two self-revelatory oil canvases he has kept are
“Me and Marie,” 2005, a pastoral self-portrait with a
former girlfriend, and “Cat Listening to the Radio,”
1996, derived from a USA Today advertisement, of a
cartoonish cat that he painted during an extended
stay in New York. The carpet in the painting resembles the Turkish carpet from Woven Legends on the
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‘Light Up’ is part of a new Songwall collaboration project between the UK 🇬🇧 and South Korea 🇰🇷. The project features Songwall artist ‘Anne-Marie Allen’ and Korean artist ‘Nayul’ (12dal).
The song is part of a project in response to the effects of COVID19. The narrative and meaning behind it is:
“Recovering the direction of life and the self. Overcoming them together, in days when many things are being lost.”
Also, January 20th is the exact anniversary of the first confirmed Corona19 case in South Korea.
Artwork is so important to capture the vibe and sentiment of a song release. The single cover takes the imagery from Songwall’s iconic shot of Anne-Marie in the studio whilst recording her vocals and looking up to the #light
‘Light Up’ is officially being released in South Korea on Wednesday, 20th January 2021. It will also be exclusively available to listen on Songwall.
This Songwall project is an exciting new journey in a time when the musical landscape has been bleak for many independent artists in both the UK and around the world.
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all tied up bodysuit
Sometimes it's nice being a little tied down. The neckline on this saucy number reveals just enough cleavage to compensate for the delicate bow at the back. Kind of like when you say you're busy, but you're not. It's everything sugar, spice, and maybe a little bit of nice.
Fabric & Care
This bodysuit is made from 6 Recycled Water Bottles!
87% recycled polyester 13% spandex
Machine wash cold, hang dry
-Thong bottom for no visible panty lines
-No side seams for reduced irritation
How It Works
Finally a bodysuit that makes bathroom breaks a breeze! We understand this might take a few minute to wrap your head around, and here's how it works:
Our snap is strategically placed at the low back for each access and comfort
2. Pull Down
the built-in thong is sewn at the sides, and stretchy enough to pull out and over your bum
3. Sit & Pee
Gently pull the lace thong forward, and comfortably sit on the toilet and get down to biznass
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Buffalo has figured out a way to speed up its USB hard drives with what it's calling Turbo USB, making its MiniStation (pictured above left) and DriveStation USB drives 60% faster than any others on the market. The company says this exclusive Turbo USB tech works equally well on Macs and PCs, and accelerates data transfers by "up to 60% faster than competing products."
Buffalo is shipping its MiniStation with Turbo USB at the end of August, priced at $99.99 for an 80GB drive, $119.99 for 120GB, $149.99 for 160GB, and $219.99 for the 250GB. The DriveStation with Turbo USB will be available in early September, priced at $129.99 for the 320GB drive, $169.99 for 500GB, $339.99 for 750GB, and $499.99 for 1TB.
The company didn't say how it's done, but If these drives can actually deliver that 60% data transfer speedup, this would be a great deal, because these prices are comparable to other drives with the same capacities. [Buffalo] | 2019-06-17T08:55:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998462.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617083027-20190617105027-00052.warc.gz | en | 0.956728 | 234 | {
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Only one month until Christmas, which means the time for Feuerzangenbowle has arrived. Around here this delicious punch is pretty popular and I consume it every year with great joy. It's a magical drink and has everything a great punch needs: spices, rum and fire!
This punch is basically a mulled wine enhanced with rum and sugar that are brought together by fire. German Wikipedia tells me that the origins of this punch lie in the 19th century but doesn't provide any sources for this claim.
The Feuerzangenbowle has been made quite popular by the equally named book and movie Die Feuerzangenbowle, which is quite entertaining, at least if you are German. And somehow it became a tradition around here to watch this movie and share a pot of Feuerzangenbowle with your friends. Even without the movie, gathering around a punchbowl and partaking in this magical drink is something you have to try at least once.
Making a whole pot of Feuerzangenbowle isn't very difficult and I found a pretty solid recipe that you can use if you want to try it yourself. The only thing missing from this recipe are four pieces of star anise. Almost in all of the English recipes I found there was no star anise, but allspice or ginger were used instead. Well if you want to try the original, try it with star anise.
The most important ingredient in this punch is the wine. Use a dry red wine that goes well with the sweetness this punch has. But ultimately it comes down to personal taste and since you use a lot of spices and some citrus you can turn almost any wine into a tasty punch. I used a Merlot in my recipe, but have successfully made this punch with different wines in the past.
What if you don't want a whole bowl of Feuerzangenbowle? If you just want your quick fix or share a glass with someone else? No problem, I got you covered. Preparing just a glass or two is as easy as making a lot of it. It is obviously better to let the ingredients infuse for a while, but there are some shortcuts you can take, like using a bit more juice instead of zest. This is also a great way to try different flavor combinations, so you can find a recipe you like before make a large pot of it.
Pour the wine into a pan and heat gently. Add the orange juice, lemon juice, clove, star anise, and cinnamon. Let the mixture infuse for a minute or two. Stir in the sugar and rum. Heat until everything is nice and hot, being careful not to let the mixture boil. Fine strain everything into a heat proof glass or mug, place an absinthe spoon over the glass and put a sugar cube on top. Slowly pour over more overproof rum until the sugar cube is completely soaked. Ignite and let the sugar melt into the wine. Extinguish the flame before drinking and make sure the rim of your glass/mug isn't too hot.
Well, what can I say about this magical punch? A great mixture between sweetness, wine and spices. Topped with a healthy portion of rum and caramelized sugar. It warms you from the inside and the outside. Be sure to either use a very strong rum (above 70% ABV / 140 Proof) or heat up your rum beforehand, otherwise the sugar will not caramelize and just dissolve. And believe me when I say that you want the sugar to caramelize.
I love this classic punch. Whenever fire is involved you can be sure to quickly grab the attention of your guests or friends. But even just making a glass or two, there is something nice and calming about it as you stare into the flame. And the fire isn't just there for show. Adding rum and letting the sugar caramelize really adds some bold flavors to this spin on a classic mulled wine.
If I sounded a bit too excited while writing about this punch, the reason is probably that I had two cups of this magical drink before writing. And this won't be the last time this year that I enjoy it. Maybe I'll share some pictures on my Twitter account when I make a large bowl as it always looks impressive.
If you decide to try Feuerzangenbowle yourself feel free to leave a comment with your impressions or leave a link to some pictures. I want to end this post with a quote from the book Die Feuerzangenbowle.
Eine Feuerzangenbowle ist keine Bowle. Sie ist ein Mittelding zwischen Gesöff und Hexerei. [...] Weich und warm hüllt sie die Seele ein, nimmt die Erdenschwere hinweg und löst alles auf in Dunst und Nebel. – Heinrich Spoerl
Title image via pixabay.
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How to Get Your Indiana Driver's License
Applying for an Indiana driver's license is an exciting time in any teen's life. It is one of the first milestones that you will encounter as you get older. Getting your driver's license includes several steps that are outlined below. Even though the process is not as simple as it is for adults, it is not overly complicated if you know what to expect before you go to the license office.
The Probationary Driver's License in Indiana
If you're under 21 when you apply for your Indiana driver's license, you will start off with what is called a probationary license. To be granted a probationary license, you will need to meet the different age requirements that the state of Indiana has, and have had your learner's permit for 180 days. If you're under 18 years of age, you will also need to have a parent or guardian sign a financial liability form and submit a log of all of your supervised driving (more on that below).
A financial liability form is a form that states the signing adult is also responsible for any damage or injury that is incurred as a result of an accident when the minor is driving.
The age requirements that go along with a probationary license are as follows:
- You must be 16 years and three months old and have successfully completed a driver education program that is approved by the State of Indiana.
- If you are at least 16 years and 270 days old, you do not need to complete a driver's ed program
Exams and Tests Needed
There are a few tests that you may be required to take before you get your Indiana driver's license. These different tests are listed below, along with some information about each exam or test you will be taking.
- Knowledge test–Indiana residents who are applying for a driver's license will probably have already taken the knowledge test when they applied for their learner's permit. If you've already taken it and do not have any points on your probationary license, you will not be required to retake it. If you have just moved to Indiana and want to get an Indiana driver's license, you will be required to take the knowledge test again. Another reason you might have to retake the knowledge exam is if your permit/license has been expired for over 180 days. Appointments are not necessary to take the knowledge test unless you have special needs of some kind. Get to the license office at least an hour before it closes so you have time to take the exam without rushing.
- Basic vision test–Another simple test you will be required to take is a basic vision test. This test is designed to make sure that you can see the traffic signs and roadways accurately. If you don't pass the vision test you will not be issued a license. You should seek additional health care from an eye doctor if you have trouble seeing accurately during the exam.
- Driving skills test–You will also need to take a driving skills test before you are given your driver's license. Be sure to schedule an appointment to take the driving skills test, and get to the office at least 15 minutes before your appointment begins.
There are several things to know about concerning your driving skills test.
- Bring your parent or guardian, or another individual that has a valid driver's license.
- The only one allowed in the car with you while you take the driving skills test is the certified examiner.
- Make sure you have your valid learner's permit in your purse or wallet.
- The vehicle you are taking the exam in has to be road-legal and in clean, safe condition.
- The vehicle you are using to take the exam needs to be registered properly. You will need to show the registration and proof of insurance to the examiner.
- If you are using a rental vehicle to take the driving skills test, you will need to be listed on the rental contract from the rental agency as an authorized driver.
If you don't pass the driving skills examination, you will need to wait 14 days before taking the exam again. If you fail three times while you have your permit, you will not be able to take the exam for two months from the date of the last failed test.
Important Documentation Needed
- During the time that you have your learner's permit, you will need to complete a minimum of 50 hours of supervised driving with either a licensed instructor or a parent who is at least 25 years old and has a valid Indiana driver's license. 10 of the 50 hours need to be nighttime driving. The person riding with you needs to be related by marriage, legal status, or blood. If you are married and your spouse is 21 years old with a valid license, they can be your accompanying driver.
- If you are under 18, a licensed driver education instructor who works under the supervision of a state-approved school that does driver training can ride in the car with you. If you are over 18, the licensed driver who accompanies you must be at least 25 years old with a current, valid Indiana driver's license or if you are married, your spouse needs to be at least 21 years old with a current driver's license.
- Make sure to log your practice time in a log of supervised driving and give it to the license office when you apply for your driver's license. If there is a G restriction on your learner's permit the 10 hours of nighttime driving are not required, but you will still have to complete and log a total of 50 hours.
Restrictions for the Probationary Driver's License
Once you have your probationary driver's license, there are some restrictions that you must adhere to. These restrictions are listed below.
- You cannot use any type of phone or communication device while you are driving unless you are calling 911.
- No driving between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. for a minimum of 6 months (180 days) after you have obtained your probationary license. Additionally, drivers younger than 18 years old are not allowed to drive between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. You are also not allowed to drive after 11:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday or before 5:00 a.m. Monday through Friday.
- If you are driving back and forth to work, you are attending a religious or school-related event, or you are accompanied by an adult who is at least 25 years of age who has a valid driver's license, you are allowed to drive at any time. You may also drive with a spouse as long as the spouse is at least 21 years old and has a valid driver's license with full driving privileges.
- Drivers with a probationary license may not drive with any passengers for at least 6 months after obtaining their probationary license, unless the passenger is a licensed driver who is at least 25 years old and sitting in the front seat (or it can be your spouse if they are at least 21 years old and have a valid, full-privilege license). However, you are allowed to drive your siblings, spouse, child, or stepchild during the allowed hours without another licensed driver in the car.
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The all-ages horse simulation game Horses 3D has sharp graphics and sound among authentic scenarios on the Nintendo 3DS.
- Experience the thrill of being a horse stable manager and rider, all in stunning 3D.
- Build unique relationships with 16 realistic horses.
- Personalize your unique riding experience with accessories for your horse and avatar.
- Train your horses through four equestrian disciplines; then compete in races and go on fun rides.
- Unlock exclusive content through interconnectivity with the Imagine Town virtual world.
Players interact with horses from 16 different breeds in authentic situations that yield rewards, fun challenges, and memorable caretaking experiences, especially for younger players. Double digit aged girls are the obvious target, but the lessons, content, and simple gameplay open opportunities for all ages.
The simulation beings with player choices of horse breed, which includes Akhai-Teke, Appaloosa, Hanoverian, Mustang, English thoroughbred, Arabian thoroughbred, quarter horse, and French saddlebred. All the characters are female and players can choose male or female when customizing their horse – no performance differences between the two.
Players also choose their player name, horse name, favorite color, favorite music style, and favorite equestrian sport before heading off to the races…and show jumping, cross-country riding, equestrian vaulting plus many other activities.
For horse health, players mainly must keep their horse watered/feed, which covers overall horse mood, and out of the red, namely the horse stamina status icon, located in the upper left, green. Red means low health so just slow the pace by pressing down on the left analog stick, which also controls direction. Use the Y button to speed up works well, but it would be nice to be able to hold down on the Y button for the same effect. Players must press the button each time to increase from a trot to a full gallop for races.
Riders don’t have to worry about their health like the horse, but do have some basic social elements that factor into the gameplay. These elements include base relationships like a best friend named Janet, Mister Wilson, and manager Elizabeth – a boss who is sometimes cross. As these relationships progress, the game reveals reasoning behind actions and requests so players get a deeper experience than “go fetch this”-type tasks without understanding the logic behind the requests.
The strong graphics, featuring the option 3D feature, infuse the game with a nice sense of exploration and adventure. Wind effects and tangible textures provide an appealing look. The only real visual snafu is some horses’ tails movements in full animation, which resembles a beaver’s tail at times. The sound effects enhance the environmental experiences amid many free roaming situations where player make several choices with helpful visual aids.
Instructions and dialogue require considerable text reading though the game is fairly intuitive with helpful icons and light beams showing progression points, so players can whip through missions rather quickly. Related tasks like hoof care, currying, washing, feeding, grooming, and bathing have nice variety and rewarding results. More button use than the touch controls might not showcase the 3DS touch capabilities, but keeps the screen clear for more player enjoyment.
Training the horses involves stunt riding, jumping, and dressage while other activities include forest patrols, horseback tours, and four racing types. Players can pause the action at any time to check horse status, access the diary, check inventory, reference guides, and view the achievements list.
Game developers offer a nice balance of primary, online interactivity, secondary activities including the overall precious gem collecting featuring 50 total and special rewards for every 10 gems found. Card collecting provides some nice variety as well. Buy cards with coins and exchange cards using the StreetPass feature. Card exchanges expand the game with more unlockables like new content, special events, and horses.
Review: Horses 3D
Where to Buy: Amazon.com and other stores
Price: $29.99 (SRP)
What I Like: simulation experience especially horse caretaking, smooth/simple controls, 3D graphic enhancements, helpful icons, sound effects
What Needs Improvement: expand social elements (e.g. incorporate mysteries to solve, etc.), make some tasks better related to overall rider/horse development
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A truce on
Upper atmospheric temperatures recorded over the past 20 years contradict
surface observations that indicate a century of increased warming. Many
scientists have cited this discrepancy as evidence that one or the other
temperature recordings must be faulty. The report, Reconciling Observations
of Global Temperature Change, concludes, however, that both data sets
are real, indicating a more complex relationship between the surface and
upper atmospheric layers.
Climate modelers have declared a truce
to embrace their differences. Although the debate on climate change is
not resolved, a recent report recognizes that the spectrum of opinions
on the issue may share a great deal of common ground.
“We can conclude with a high level of confidence that the surface
temperature is indeed rising,” says climatologist John M. Wallace of the
University of Washington in Seattle. He is chair of the panel of scientists
that wrote a report released Jan. 12 by the National Research Council,
part of the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy had asked the
panel members to examine the apparent conflict between temperature recordings
at the surface and the upper atmosphere. Perhaps the most surprising outcome
of the consensus report was the diverse list of panel members and reviewers:
more than 20 people known in the community for their differing opinions
on global warming.
Satellites, such as this polar orbiter,
and weather balloons are indicating
little warming in the lower to mid-troposphere,
challenging scientists to
rethink the relationship between
the upper atmosphere and Earth's
warming surface. Courtesy
of the National Research Council and NOAA.
The assumption that one or the other data set is incorrect can be put
aside, says Thomas C. Peterson, chief of the scientific services division
of the National Climate Data Center for NOAA. “It’s time to incorporate
both of them to really make sense of what is happening.”
In the past 20 years the average surface temperature over the globe
increased by 0.25 to 0.4 degrees Celsius, raising the estimated warming
during the last century to 0.4 to 0.8 degrees Celsius, according to the
If this warming is a result of greenhouse gases, a similar warming
should be occurring in the upper atmosphere. But since 1979, satellite
and balloon-borne instruments, such as radiosondes, have shown temperatures
have risen very little, 0.2 degrees Celsius at most, in the lower to mid-troposphere
— the atmospheric layer extending about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Earth’s
It may be that the warming of the surface is not a result of greenhouse
gases but a result of the ocean releasing stored heat, says meteorologist
Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of
the reviewers of the report. “For this to be a greenhouse effect it is
crucial for warming to occur in the atmosphere,” he says.
Although uncertainties may exist as large as the disparity in temperature,
human and natural forcings may also be affecting the atmosphere’s vertical
profile. Human induced ozone depletion, from the use of chlorofluorocarbons,
cools the lower stratosphere and this cooling may extend low enough into
the troposphere to influence the satellite data.
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 may have had longer-lived influences
in the atmosphere than previously thought as a result of residual cooling
of the ocean. Another influence perhaps may be that an El Niño response
in the lower atmosphere is amplified in the vertical, says research meteorologist
Dian Gaffen of NOAA.
“The vertical structure of the atmosphere is not as tightly linked
as conventional wisdom would have it,” says John R. Christy, professor
of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “Vertical
structure, temperature structure, of the atmosphere is just one of the
things in climate models needing improvement.” Are climate models useless
for telling us about how the climate system works? No, he says: “It’s just
that here’s a set of observations that haven’t been well replicated. It
gives us a bit of skepticism about other aspects of climate modeling and
their ability to predict century time scales.”
The report stresses the need to account for the uncertainties in the
surface, satellite and radiosonde data. “We make a strong recommendation
for an improved monitoring system,” Gaffen says. Such a system should include
better measurements of “ozone, water vapor, clouds and aerosols, all of
which have the potential to cause surface and lower to mid-tropospheric
temperatures to change relative to one another,” according to the report.
Wallace is excited about future possibilities for models. “We need
to improve the quality of the observations,” he says. There is a need for
redundancy in the data and continuity of the satellite observations. Twenty
years does not provide a long enough sampling period.
“Even surface data can’t be taken for granted,” he adds, indicating
a needed improvement in the quality control of the data as some surface
stations are moved or shut down.
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global climate change and narrowing the discrepancy between the surface,
satellite and radiosonde data sets will pose no small challenge.
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A lot of people have been asking me how Bracket Meme Bot works, so I decided to write up how I came up with the algorithm and some of the important decisions I had to make along the way.
Yesterday Jake Rodkin tweeted the following at me:
What Jake was referring to is the "bracket meme" that is going around Twitter. It's March, so basketball tournament brackets are a thing, but somebody posted a bracket of 16 different Disney movies and of course, tons of people started arguing about which would win and eventually making their own brackets for other categories. Jake later said he was specifically inspired by this hilarious tweet from Claire Hummel:
Anyway! I thought about the format of the meme. Well, the part where you draw text on an empty bracket image is easy enough. The challenge is in figuring out how to get a list of 16 things that are all related in some way where it would make sense to pit one against another. You could just pick random stuff and put it in there and it might be funny, but it wouldn't prompt really interesting conversations, and wouldn't be that similar to the original meme.
When it comes to "things that are related to other things", there are two sources that I usually go to: ConceptNet and Wikipedia.
ConceptNet is very wide-ranging and pulls from a bunch of different data sources including Wikipedia itself. You might think this would be a natural choice, but ConceptNet, as you might expect, is more about general concepts like "gloom" and "razorfish" and "pencil" than it is about hyper-specific pop culture stuff. Whereas Wikipedia is replete with pop culture, and that's kind of key to this whole thing.
So, Wikipedia it is!
In order to get the data, we need to define the algorithm that identifies it.
My first thought was to look at Wikipedia's famous "Lists". Like, there is a List of Walt Disney Animation Studios films, and there are tables of data in there that I could presumably grab stuff from. But if we look at other lists, they're not formatted in a consistent way at all. Some lists are tables, some are bullet points, some are lists of lists. And if there's no consistent semantic structure to the data, then there's no way for us to get it.
Fortunately, Wikipedia has another, better defined way of categorizing things: via the aptly-named Category. The Category system is basically just tagging: if you have an article on Marie Curie, you might file her in the 20th century physicists category and the women physicists category. (Curie is actually in 3 or 4 dozen different categories!)
So the first step of our algorithm is:
But wait... Marie Curie herself is a Category!! Which makes some sense. Her category contains movies about her life, places named after her, her relatives, and so on. But it wouldn't make sense to have a "Marie Curie" bracket where you pit her children against movies against the Curie Institute in Warsaw.
What want is lists of things like: Disney films, soccer players, buildings in NYC, and cat breeds. What do all those things have in common? Well: they all have a plural noun in them. We can use a part of speech tagger, which is a kind of program where you give it a word and it tells you its best guess at the part of speech for that word. We'll get to the technical bit in the next section, but for now, our algorithm looks like this:
And of course, we only want categories with at least 16 things in them. If you look at a Category page, you'll see it contains both "Subcategories" and "Pages". We only care about "Pages" so:
Well, now we have to actually get those pages and put them on an image, so:
This is a good start and probably the best we can do before we sit down to actually code the thing.
So, technically speaking, how do we tell a computer to get this information?
I have written in the past about how to query Wikipedia like a database, and I originally tried to use that method for this bot (since I never rewrite code if I can just copy-paste it). So I started playing around with DBPedia, but it turns out that DBPedia doesn't have a way to just... grab a random category.
I then looked at the other major option for getting data from Wikipedia, which is using the MediaWiki API. (MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia, and you can use this API on any wiki that runs on MediaWiki, not just Wikipedia.)
The API Query documentation has this useful table:
|Page type||Example||Used in the given page(s)||Which pages have it||List all in the wiki|
Okay, maybe it could be a little clearer. I had to kind of squint at it for five minutes to understand what it means. Eventually I figured out that if we want to query for "all Categories in the wiki" we need to use this
list=allcategories query, and if we want to know what pages are in a Category, we use the
So how does this stack up to our algorithm? The first thing we want to do is "grab a random Wikipedia Category", so let's see what that
allcategories thing can do.
If we go to the allcategories documentation, it becomes clear pretty quickly that:
So our proposed algorithm is incompatible with the software we have at hand. At this point we have two options:
HERE IS WHERE A VAST MAJORITY OF ENGINEERS COMPLETELY SCREW UP!
See, as engineers, we are trained to think that if something doesn't work as we intend it to, well by golly we can fix the tech so that it does work the way we intend it to. So our instinct tells us that the software not working the way we want it to is a bug. We are inclined to write new tech that matches the algorithm we wrote in our head.
This is entitlement. "The design vision I had in my head for this system is correct, therefore I will implement the software to my vision." When people like me talk about technology built with a "colonialist mindset", most techies' eyes will glaze over, but this is a big part of what we mean when we say it. It is the same mindset where a colonizer lands on foreign soil and says, "My god, look at these savages, living in a way completely different from my own mental model. This is a bug and I am here to fix it."
What if, instead of bending the world to our will, we work with and around the world as it is? This seems like a high-minded thing to consider when the decision in front of us is "do I write new code or figure out another way around the problem" but hear me out: all of your moral values as a person come into play in literally every action you take. So you might as well be aware of them.
So back to the screw-up.
The screw-up decision here would be to write some kind of Wikipedia parser or scraper that maybe downloads a Wikipedia dump and then can pre-filter everything by our requirements and then do everything exactly the way we envisioned it originally.
The right decision here, and I mean "correct" or "just", is to simply change our brilliant initial design and move on. It will probably change the outcome of the project and what it looks like. This is okay.
So we refine our algorithm. Since we can't grab a "random" category, but we can search for categories that start with a sequence of characters, maybe we can pick a random letter and then search for categories that start with that letter.
Unfortunately this means if we ask for 500 categories (the max the API returns) that start with "B" with at least 16 members, we end up with an alphabetical list that starts at "B'z album covers" and ends at "B-Class Indian districts articles". You can see the result of the query here.
So asking for the first letter will just give us a small subset of categories that start with that letter. What if, instead we picked 3 random letters and searched for those? Well the problem here is that most combinations would be like "qqz" and not give us any results.
The solution I ended up picking was to grab a random English word and then search for the first three letters of that word. That way we'd be guaranteed valid sets of letter triplets, and we'd even be biased in favor of the more common ones.
Our new algorithm:
So if I grab the word "horse" and then do the second step of the algorithm with "hor", we get this result, 500 categories starting with "Horace Mann School alumni" and ending in "Horticulturists and gardeners".
Here are the technical steps:
nns(a plural noun)
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Today's inspiration comes from DT Elizabeth:
This is what Elizabeth said about her layout:
"I really wanted the elements of this page to speak for themselves which is cool since there are a lot of things out there now that can take the place of a photo. I felt like putting a photo would have taken away from my layout. What a fun challenge!"
For more information on this Sketch with Stash challenge #9 click HERE.
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We are traveling – again. Actually, we are on the road more months of the year than we are at home.
I have some thoughts I want Blog about, but so far they are not coming together.
So today, I am just “phoning it in”. Just another cute lass in a short plaid skirt.
If you happen to have her number, please pass it along to me. I am positive she has my number.
Enjoy the weekend. Until next time.
Red writes Consensual Spanking, one of the few spanking Blogs that directly links spanking with sex. [Take the poll] It’s a very rare F/M Blog that freely admits that spanking is sexy. A tip of the hat to Red.
Becall and I have always used spanking as a form of sexual foreplay. It’s good to see another couple come out and admit that they share the same sort play. Ditto and kudo’s to Ken & Cora.
To be sure there are other F/M Blogs that share that the male is aroused by spanking, but then goes on to say that orgasm is denied. We do that too to each other. We tease one another, spanking and rubbing, spanking and rubbing, but always stopping the rubbing before it gets too far along. We continue this for a long time – maybe 5-10 minutes.
I would say she is asking for a paddling.How many men have the balls to do something like this?
Today’s Blog will be off topic. It’s Sex Ed 101. I thought it important to remind our readers of this basic fact.
Some have it good, others are more of a one horse affair.
You need to be in good shape or those little darlings can wear you out.
Isn’t she cute?
How could I think of spanking her?
What is the fascination with school girl clothing? I had little contact with short plaid skirts when I was in school. They were worn by the girls that went to the Catholic HS, but I seldom saw them. They could have been on another planet.
At a party we attended some years back, the girls, women in their forties, decided on their own, to wear school girl outfits. What a delightful surprise for the men! Sizes went size 4 to 14 and everyone of them looked cute. In between spankings, the girls flashed their panties, much like the lass above. I guess there is just something about wearing such outfits that brings out the extreme flirt in a woman. An evening to remember.
Bless the women who make life fun!
This will no doubt show up on many Blogs. A well written discussion.
I saw this picture on WTF and could not resist posting it here.
Now stop thinking about popping her delectable bottom with your paddle. Stop it I say.
Just so you know, women dressed in short plaid skirts are not my only apparel fetish. I also like women in panty girdles. This lass does not need a girdle, but she sure looks good to me in it.
Becall has one much like this. Brought it into the marriage. Sadly it shrunk and she can no longer wiggle into it. Becall was a size 6/7 when we married and like this lass, did not really need a girdle.
I have always liked the small concentrated red circle on her bottom the paddle makes when she has on Lyrca.
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The term “frozen conflict,” often used about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is misleading, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in remarks to the U.N. Security Council Open Debate on Conflicts in Europe last week.
Guterres mentioned that until peace agreements are signed and implemented, the risk of renewed violence remains, as we saw last April in Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus.
The April escalation altered the long-held myth about the “frozen” nature of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The ramifications of the clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani military forces along the Line of Contact (LoC) at the start of April 2016 also demonstrated that the status quo has already changed. Due to the successful counter-attack of the Azerbaijani armed forces in response to the provocation of the Armenian Armed Forces, some strategic heights that had been under occupation were retaken for the first time since a ceasefire agreement in 1994.
The four-day war brought renewed dynamism to international mediation efforts, underlining the necessity of genuine conflict resolution efforts to prevent the resumption of a full-scale war. The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Vienna and Saint Petersburg, and the ceasefire on the line of contact has largely held.
After the April escalation, the line of contact between the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan around Nagorno-Karabakh became the most militarized area in the whole post-Soviet space. Immediately after the escalation, Armenia pushed forward with delivery of new weapons and sophisticated equipment from Russia, based on the $200 million military loan agreement from July 2015. The Armenian military received Russia-made Iskander-M ballistic missile systems, part of which was demonstrated at the Independence Day military parade in Yerevan on Sept. 21, 2016.
Aside from the April escalation, ceasefire violations have always been fairly commonplace along the LoC. Dozens of people die every year as a result of ceasefire violations. The most recent one took place on Feb. 25, 2017 at midnight, when the Armenian Armed Forces’ military units made an attempt to penetrate into the positions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in different directions with the aim of carrying out a large-scale provocation on the frontline and trying to seize advantageous positions in the Khojavand-Fizuli direction of the front.
In this situation, any failure in the renewed peace negotiations risks causing a new round of escalations. Such a failure might also leave resort to military power as the only viable option for Azerbaijan in regard to the restoration of its territorial integrity, the violation of which has been affirmed by numerous international documents, including U.N. Security Council resolutions.
These resolutions demand the immediate cessation of hostilities and the complete and unconditional withdrawal of all occupying forces from Azerbaijani territories. But despite the legally binding nature of Security Council resolutions, they still remain only on paper. However, the U.N. Security Council is endowed with sufficient power to apply sanctions on member states thawt do not execute its resolutions. One of the main reasons for the lack of effectiveness of the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, lies in its inability and unwillingness in some cases to ensure the implementation of its resolutions. This failure not only undermines the credibility of the U.N., it also threatens international peace and security.
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I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER Each 30-minute episode of “I Survived a Serial Killer” documents the harrowing, heroic stories of one or more survivors of the same serial killers. Told from the survivors’ point of view, the series highlights the strength and perseverance of regular people encountering and overcoming pure evil. Interviews with those closest to the cases will round out the stories of these unimaginable crimes.
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Expanding over 12-episodes series, viewers will hear from survivors of killers including Andrew Urdiales, Richard Beasley (AKA The Craigslist Killer), Angel Resendiz (AKA The Railway Killer) and David Parker Ray (AKA The Toy Box Killer.)
This summer, A&E delves into the stories behind some of the most notorious serial killers of our time. On August 15, Invisible Monsters: Serial Killers in America, for the first time, weaves together the stories of Bundy, Gacy, Dahmer, The Green River Killer and BTK to explore how these killers were able to claim hundreds of victims while hiding in plain sight.
Following on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, at 9:30 P.M ET/PT on A&E ‘I Survived a Serial Killer’ explores the stories of victims who fought back and lived to tell their stories.
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I follow Paul Thurrot’s various Windows information outlets at least weekly, if not more often than that (SuperSite, WinInfo, Windows Weekly, and so forth). This morning I came across an extremely interesting item from his reporting at the TechEd event currently underway in New Orleans. It’s from his Short Takes for the week of June 14 and runs with the title “Whither Windows 7 SP1?”
Despite earlier announcements this week at TechEd from various Microsoft noteworthies that the SP1 beta would be made available on or before the end of July, 2010, Thurrot reports that “…now this date, which was ‘GA+1,’ or one year after the general availability of Windows 7 and [Windows Server 2008]R2, is out of date.” He then goes on to say that “In fact, SP1 could be shipping a lot later than originally planned and won’t even make it in time for the end of 2010.”
That’s pretty interesting, and when taken with Microsoft’s recent “message of import” about Windows 7 SP1 — namely, that there’s no real reason to wait for SP1 to get the adoption process underway — makes the kind of crazy sense I’ve learned to grant some credence when it comes to decoding the often-ineffable work of the spinmeisters in Redmond. Not only does this help to make a virtue of a necessity, it also lets them protect their revenue projections for 2010, even if SP1 slips into the next calendar year.
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Last year, analyst Gary Smith proclaimed that a "working" electronic system level (ESL) flow had finally arrived. At the recent Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS 2014), a panel of ESL experts took a detailed look at the requirements, challenges, and opportunities for ESL flows.
Topics included ESL power simulation, SoC and software validation, emulation, interconnect verification, and lowering ESL costs with cloud computing. Smith was the chairman and moderator for the panel. The following panelists (shown left to right in photo below) gave brief presentations, followed by a Q&A session with workshop attendees.
In a presentation titled "The Heart of ESL," Swan related how he worked with Smith to analyze the evolution of the today's "complete" ESL flow. Initially, the flow included the architect's workbench, a software virtual prototype, and a silicon virtual prototype. But power information wasn't getting back to the architect, and hardware designers couldn't meet their power budgets.
The hardware designers added accelerators, GPUs, and NPUs, and the flow added more refined virtual prototypes. This worked, but now the software virtual prototype model was wrong. Software developers discovered that they really needed hardware-based tools for acceleration and emulation. Finally, the flow was reshuffled once again so that firmware engineers could write hypervisors and schedulers.
The ESL flow is still a work in progress. "One problem with the flow is that we have no behavioral standards for SystemC," Smith said. "The architect is taken out of the flow early in the process. We need a behavioral SystemC standard so we can push the design up through the architect again."
Saving Power Upfront
Matter (Docea) emphasized the importance of making power decisions at the electronic system level. "For many years power was an afterthought, and performance and cost were number one," he said. "But we found that you can make the biggest impact during early exploration."
It's important to validate thermal and power mitigation schemes, Matter said. He showed a solution that captures a thermal model with an Excel-based tool, generates a compact thermal model, sets up a simulation environment, and provides a results dashboard. "We found a way we can generate compact thermal models, couple them with existing power models, and run realistic dynamic use cases with co-simulation of a virtual platform. We are running actual software," he said.
Klein (Mentor) presented two scenarios for executing and debugging drivers using emulation. One approach is to place the entire design in the emulator, which provides high accuracy but very slow execution. The other approach is to run a fast instruction-set simulator on a Linux workstation. This is very fast, but may not be accurate enough for some verification tasks.
Software developers often want to use JTAG debugging, but this is "slow, intrusive, and expensive" according to Klein. An alternative called "trace-based debug" extracts information from the processor and replays it after the emulation run, providing a response time up to 100MHz.
As the number of IP blocks per SoC design continues to rise, the challenge shifts from creating the blocks to integrating them, according to Schirrmeister (Cadence). In 2017, he said, SoCs may have an average of 180 IP blocks with more than 80% re-use. Software will be distributed across cores, and more than 60% of the effort will be in software.
System-level integration poses a number of requirements, Schirrmeister said. Given challenges such as multi-core cache concurrency, complex use cases need to be verified in simulation and emulation. While virtualization continues to be a hot topic, in-circuit emulation - where the emulator is physically connected to rate adapters and boards - is still necessary. But not everything can be abstracted to a high level. Today, the interconnect has become so complex that it is verified at the register-transfer level (RTL).
Sehgal (Intel) noted that emulators cost millions of dollars, and could potentially be shared with a number of people in a cloud computing environment. An EDA company could rent tools by the hour rather than selling licenses. But how will vendors recover their R&D costs? Further, Sehgal noted, while EDA tools are in private clouds at several large companies, a complete EDA flow Is not available in public clouds. "One tool is not enough. The whole flow needs to be there."
Takeaways from Panel Discussion
Fewer designs are constrained by power
Up to 2011, the number of gates used in a design was restricted by power. By 2014 we came up with enough fixes in the power area so we could use a higher percentage of the gates. We went from about one-third to about 80% of the gates we were given. It's a major breakthrough. (Gary Smith)
Emulation cycles are the cheapest cycles you can run
This is absolutely right, if you do it on a cycle basis. But there is a barrier to entry - the price. In 1999 Cadence started QuickCycles, which is essentially a private cloud. The emulators are in a datacenter and they are accessible through a network. (Schirrmeister)
Help wanted - ESL expertise is missing
A lot of design centers are small. They don't have the resources to do the ESL flow that's being talked about today. They have their staff of RTL coders and their staff of software coders, and they don't have engineers to dedicate to TLM or SystemC. (Swan)
The value is in the connection
The role of emulation has changed and evolved, and one thing I would not like to see is for it to become a walled garden where it seals in all its value only for itself. Emulation becomes more valuable when it interconnects and plays well with others. (Matter)
Emulation or FPGA-based prototyping?
We have fast compile speeds for getting designs into the [emulation] box. That's why emulation is so much better than FPGA prototyping when you have to massage the RTL. Some customers map stable portions of the design into FPGA boards and connect them to the emulator, because that's where the RTL that is just a couple of weeks old can be compiled very quickly. (Schirrmeister)
Public clouds still problematic for EDA
We have projects today where we are hosting emulation for customers, but it's a 1-1 connection. We have seen two challenges for the Amazon [public cloud] model. One is that the security issue is really difficult. Another thing is that the amount of verification data that needs to be synchronized is huge. (Schirrmeister)
ESL standards are still needed
At the ESL level, we need definitions for models. Then we need to look at the parameterization of models, then characterization. You need stimulus - what drives the model? Is it timed or untimed? I don't believe standards are a way to solve everything, but there's an emerging role for standards. (Matter)
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This magnificent gun was captured by the British after the siege of Alexandria during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801, and has been here since it was transported to Horse Guards Parade in 1802.
The barrel was made by Murad, the Chief Gunner’s son, in 1524.
The embossed details on the barrel itself are wonderful but those on the carriage are even better, although the carriage was made much later by none other than J&E Hall, of Dartford in Kent. I’d rather not have known that.
The inscription on the barrel reads:
The Solomon of the age the Great Sultan Commander of the dragon guns (to be made) When they breathe roaring like thunder. May the enemy’s forts be raised (sic) to the ground. Year of Hegira 931
Egypt was conquered by the Turks in 1517, and this gun certainly was used at the decisive Battle of Mohacs in Hungary, when a combined force of Hungarians and Serbians was wiped out and left the way open to Vienna, which was very nearly taken as well.
The big cork that was rammed into the gun’s mouth by the British is eloquently symbolic of the changeable fortunes of history. Shortly after Alexandria Britain began its inexorable rise to world domination and the Turkish Empire began its slow decline to sick man of Europe status until Ataturk eventually rode over the horizon and did some serious major surgery on what was left of it to create the Turkish Republic we know and love today. | 2017-07-25T12:33:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549425193.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170725122451-20170725142451-00451.warc.gz | en | 0.984222 | 318 | {
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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(September 30, 2011)
DOVER, Del.—To hear Dale Earnhardt Jr. tell it, the pressure of being in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup doesn't compare with the stress of trying to get into NASCAR's 10-race playoff.
Earnhardt didn't secure his Chase spot until Sept. 10, in the final race of the regular season at Richmond. Of the 10 drivers to qualify on points, he was 10th, and after getting collected in a Lap 8 wreck at Richmond, Earnhardt's place in the Chase was in doubt until the final fourth of the race.
"I feel more comfortable now that I got making the Chase behind me, and I can just concentrate on ‘Hey, how good can I do in the Chase?'" Earnhardt said Friday at Dover International Speedway. "So I feel a little bit less pressure, I guess.
"I'm sure it would be quite different if I was leading the points right now—the pressure would be pretty high. But at the time, I feel pretty good and pretty comfortable and a lot less pressure now than I did the last five or six races leading up to the Chase. There was a lot of pressure there."
Whether Earnhardt can ramp up the pressure by finishing well at Dover is an open question, given his mixed results at the one-mile concrete track. Earnhardt finished third in the 2007 Chase race at the Monster Mile but hasn't posted a result better than 12th since then.
"Yeah, this track has been good at times and bad at times for me," Earnhardt said. "I like asphalt better than I like concrete. Concrete is just not as good a surface, in my opinion. As high-banked and as fast as this place is, it was the only way they could really put something down that would survive. Once the concrete ages a couple of years, it's got joints in it.
"It's kind of like a wooden deck. It starts to sort of get bumps in it because of that. If you ever drove down I-77 towards Statesville (N.C.), you will remember how that patch of road used to be. And that's about exactly how it feels. It gets them little joints in it, and you just hop around the racetrack all the way around there, and that's the way it goes."
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Take a look at the best value hotels in Cabarete.
Extreme Hotel is an eco-friendly, three-pearl resort with tons of on-site activities that focus on fitness, adventure, and extreme sports. With an on-site kite school and endlessly windy conditions, an on-site half-pipe, outdoor yoga studio, cross-fit gym, and a full-size trapeze with available circus lessons, this is not the place where vacationers come to spend their days lounging by the pool. There’s a small beachfront bar and restaurant that uses ingredients from the hotel’s on-site permaculture garden in nearly all of its daily changing menu items. The 19 guest rooms are bare-bones, with simple wood furniture, white bedding, and teeny tiny bathrooms. The hotel’s motto “live by the sun” not only implies action-packed days outdoors, but also touches on the need to restrict electricity usage -- which means there’s no air-conditioning. Directly next door is Kite Beach Hotel Cabarete, with fewer amenities and lower rates.
Though it’s by no means luxurious, the three-and-a-half pearl Velero Beach Resort is one of the nicest hotels in Cabarete. Its cliffside location affords awesome ocean views and is the perfect spot for sunsets. The 50 guest rooms are spacious and bright, with large bathrooms and oceanfront balconies. Although a bit small, the hotel’s gorgeous, mosaic-tile infinity pool is surrounded by pillow-topped day beds and slightly worn lounge chairs. Victor’s, the on-site restaurant, serves international cuisine with a focus on fresh Dominican seafood. Velero is within walking distance of downtown Cabarete, and a full service grocery store, but is secluded enough to remain quiet at night. A major downside is the hotel’s tiny beach, which is subject to rough waters and lots of wind. Travelers who would prefer to be directly on Cabarete Beach should check out the nearby Kite Beach Hotel or Hotel Villa Taina.
A three-pearl beachfront property subject to some major wind, Kite Beach Hotel is the ideal spot for kite boarders and windsurf enthusiasts. The on-site kite school is the perfect place for amateurs to learn the sport, or for pros to brush up on their skills. It’s definitely more of a kite surfer crash pad than a family-friendly resort, and the constantly whipping wind makes it hard to enjoy the beach, pool, or restaurant areas without getting pelted by sand. There are a wide range of room options, including budget studios and multi-bedroom apartments, but the no-frills decor could use some updating -- or at least a visit from an interior designer. For those who want to relax, consider Natura Cabanas for a calmer beach and cute bungalows (though expect pricier rates).
Coconut Palms Resort is a mid-range hotel located on a secluded hilltop about five minutes from downtown Cabarete, and a good 10-minute walk to Playa Encuentro. The resort is composed of 50 apartments, most of which have full kitchens, living rooms, and huge balconies overlooking the ocean, but they need a little TLC. There’s a free-form pool with a volleyball net and a poolside bar. The Palm Room, the hotel’s open-air restaurant, has steep prices for mediocre food and breakfast isn't included. Guests looking for something a bit more modern that's closer to the action should check out the Millennium Resort, a newer hotel that's right on the beach with more expensive nightly rates.
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The US singer Madonna has left the African state of Malawi after getting legal approval to adopt a one-year-old boy called David.
Madonna has visited several orphanages while in Malawi
Journalists who watched her leave were unable to approach her plane to see whether the child was with her.
A judge at a high court in Lilongwe approved the official application filed by the star, who will share custody with her husband Guy Ritchie.
No official statement has been released by the London-based singer.
She and her husband were kept waiting at the airport for what one army officer said was immigration clearance, without elaborating.
Benston Kilembe, Malawi's director of child welfare services, said earlier that the celebrity couple had "followed the normal processes".
The boy's father, Yohame Banda, said he had met Madonna and Ritchie at the court as part of the formalities.
"They are a lovely couple," said Mr Banda.
"She asked me many questions. She and her husband seem happy with David. I am happy for him.
"Madonna promised me that as the child grows she will bring him back to visit."
On Wednesday, Mr Banda told reporters that his wife Marita had died a month after the baby's birth from related complications.
Since then the child had been cared for at the Home of Hope Orphan Care Centre in Mchinji, a village near the border with Zambia.
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Removal of the foreskin of the penis is done for both religious and medical reasons. Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis Medical evidence supports the fact that male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection among heterosexual men . Circumcision in general is associated with reduced rates of cancer causing forms of HPV viruses and also reduces the risk of both Urinary Tract Infections and cancer of the penis. Circumcision does not appear to have a negative impact on sexual function .
INDICATIONS FOR CIRCUMCISION :-:
- Tight foreskin (Phimosis) – when the foreskin is too tight to be pulled back over the head of the penis (glans); this can sometimes cause pain when the penis is erect and, in rare cases,even passing urine may be difficult
- Recurrent Balanoposthitis :- – where the foreskin and head of the penis become inflamed and infected
- Paraphimosis – where the foreskin cannot be returned to its original position after being pulled back, causing the head of the penis to become swollen and painful, in which case immediate treatment is needed to avoid serious complications, such as restricted blood flow to the penis
- Balanitis xerotica obliterans – a medical condition that causes phimosis and, in some cases, also affects the head of the penis, which can become scarred and inflamed
- Cancer of the prepuce – a very rare type of cancer that can occur in adult men, where a red patch, wart-like growth, or ulcer appears on the end of penis or under the foreskin
This can be done in both adults as well as in children. In most cases it will require only a local anaesthesia for adults, Children may sometime need General Anaesthesia . Circumcision is a relatively simple procedure. The foreskin is removed, just behind the head of the penis using a scalpel or surgical scissors. Any bleeding can be cauterised and the remaining edges of skin will be sutured together using dissolvable stitches. Patients can go back home the same day.
When you’re discharged from hospital, you’ll be given advice about your activitiesand recovery time, including when you can drive, return to work and have sex.
It will take at least 10 days for the penis to heal after circumcision. You are advised to take at least one week off work to recover. You should avoid having sex for at least four weeks after circumcision.
For about three to four days after your operation, you are likely to experience some discomfort and swelling around the head of the penis.You will be given a course of Antibiotics and pain killers after the procedure.
Applying antiseptic ointment around the tip of your penis will stop it sticking to your underwear. Wearing light, loose-fitting clothes for a few days after your operation will also help to avoid irritation to your penis while it heals.
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FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH
In this special edition of Research Roundup, we profile one of the researchers of the University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus.
Spotlight on Research
MILAD ESKANDARI, PH.D., is an Assistant Professor, Soybean Breeding & Genetics, with the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus. He has been involved in soybean breeding research ever since he attended the University of Guelph in 2007 for his Ph.D. His interest in plant breeding led him to Guelph and the lab of Dr. Istvan Rajcan due to its strong and interesting research programs. At the time, the lab itself was the appeal, not the specific crop. However, Eskandari is now happy that he works on soybeans because he sees it as one of the major field crops across the world, including Canada, because it has a variety of important uses for both food and industrial applications.
In order to develop new superior soybeans adapted to Ontario, Eskandari and his colleagues at Ridgetown make more than 100 different bi-parental crosses annually among their elite soybeans and new soybean genotypes. The crosses have been designed to establish breeding populations that are segregating for important agronomic and seed quality traits, including seed yield, protein, oil, and soybean cyst nematode (SCN) resistance.
Eskandari works on increasing the genetic potential of seed yield, protein, and oil contents of soybeans through the accumulation and/or rearrangement of favourable genes. He uses both phenotypic and genotypic selections in developing new soybean cultivars. Breeding materials are evaluated for their performances in the fields at different locations in different years to select for the best lines with the highest stability across the different environments in southwestern Ontario.
To speed up the selection process, marker assisted selection (MAS) is used for those traits that have reliable genetic markers (for example, SCN). Researchers have recently developed several molecular markers for yield, protein, and oil, which can be used in MAS in the Ridgetown program.
The traits of interest being developed by the soybean breeding program fall into two categories: always important traits and market-driven traits.
The Ridgetown program has been one of the “key providers” of new soybean cultivars to soybean producers in Ontario by providing high yielding and high protein food-grade soybeans. Increasing the yield and protein content of seeds in new soybean food quality cultivars are always a very important aspect of the program and Eskandari and his colleagues continuously work on improving them to the benefit of Ontario farmers and the Ontario soybean industry.
Developing soybeans with resistance to damaging pests in Ontario, such as SCN and phytophthora root rot, are also important to maintaining profitable soybean production in Ontario. The program has made very good progress in the past few years in developing soybean cultivars with SCN trait and now most of the soybeans they develop offer SCN resistance.
However, researchers are becoming too dependent on one specific source of SCN resistance, and this creates the risk of SCN populations overcoming this resistance. In a currently established project, Eskandari is trying to accumulate new SCN genes in soybeans and hopes that the breeding of these new resistance genes into high yielding soybean varieties will help preserve resistance before the nematodes adapt.
In respect to market-driven traits, in collaboration with Ontario soybean producers and exporters, researchers at Ridgetown try to gather as much information as possible about market opportunities for Ontario soybeans in order to establish their breeding priorities. As an example, due to increasing demand for soybean-derived food products with high isoflavones, they have already started to elevate isoflavones content in their superior food-grade soybeans.
Current technology also allows soybean oil to be converted into materials that can be used in different industrial sectors such as automotive, furniture, cosmetic, and plastic products. In the Ridgetown program, important progress has been made in breeding soybeans with modified fatty acids which can be used for industrial applications. By developing high-yielding, high-oil soybeans with increased oleic and/or linoleic acid contents, Eskandari hopes to improve soybean oil content and create varieties that are more suitable for industrial uses. • | 2023-09-24T06:07:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506623.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924055210-20230924085210-00164.warc.gz | en | 0.948283 | 924 | {
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Cities Skylines Garbage Disposal Guide – Landfills, Sewers, Incinerators, Traffic Issues
Garbage disposal in Cities Skylines appears to be a much bigger issue than it is in real life. Perhaps it’s done to create global awareness of how important a proper garbage disposal system is to a society, but whatever the reasons behind it are is irrelevant.
In order to tackle this troublesome issue, you’ll need to have a good know how of the service buildings that take care of garbage disposal in the game, what their purposes are, and how you can get the healthiest and best output out of them.
Cities Skylines Garbage Disposal
We have got the tips for you to do that in this guide. First up, let’s take a look at the most basic garbage building: the Landfills.
Landfills are basically large areas of land where you will be able to toss garbage out. However, they come in the form of a City Service ‘building’, and are the most basic garbage disposal buildings in the game.
Each Landfill will have its own number of garbage trucks that will go around to regions which are connected to the landfill via roads, collect garbage, come back, and dump it into the landfill.
However, you have to be very careful with landfills, since they have a limited capacity.
Once they are filled up, landfills can be emptied out. This consumes a surprisingly large amount of time, so you might want to consider emptying them when they are 80% full instead of 100%.
Landfills generally have a very low upkeep cost. However, they produce a lot of ground pollution, reduce the value of the land where they are placed, and can cause sickness to citizens living near them.
Incinerators are advanced garbage disposal buildings that have a dual purpose. Firstly, the act as your regular garbage disposal service building, dispatching garbage trucks to areas they are connected to.
However, instead of accumulating the garbage, Incinerators will burn it to produce electricity. Pretty handy, right? The downside to this is that Incinerators produce a lot of noise and air pollution, which means you’ll have to place them far away from the main city.
Also, Incinerators tend to have a fewer number of trucks as compared to landfills, and a much higher upkeep cost. Despite these downsides, placing a few Incinerators in your city will almost completely get rid of the garbage issues, which is an annoyingly serious problem in Cities Skylines.
You should only replace landfills with Incinerators only when your population reaches around 20,000 and have a profit of more than $15,000. This way, you’ll be able to utilize the upkeep cost of the Incinerators, and have enough garbage to produce a decent amount of electricity from these buildings.
A major problem in Cities Skylines with garbage trucks and other service buildings is traffic.
If you do not manage your roads properly, there will be major traffic jams to address. Garbage Disposal trucks will face issues as well if your roads are not designed well.
The best technique to tackle this issue is to create a six-lane, two-way ring road that travels around your main city and also your industrial zones. After that, connect these two ring roads to each other, and connect the industrial zone separately to the highway (for industrial trucks), and the city separately to the highway as well.
This is going to be an expensive investment, but it will pay off a great deal later on when your population rises.
The most important part comes next: connect an isolated two-lane, two-way road to your main city’s ring road, and one to your industrial zone’s ring road. These roads should be far away from the main regions, because it is here you will be placing your landfills and incinerators.
This way, your city will be isolated from the garbage’s land and air pollution, and your trucks will have easy access to various parts of your city through the ring road. As a result, they won’t get mixed up with ambulances, police vehicles, or any other service vehicle in the game.
Placement of Garbage Disposal Buildings
Sometimes you’ll be completely out of options, in which case you’ll have to place your landfills and incinerators next to your residential buildings. This is a very bad idea.
Instead, you should choose to make the sacrifice of bulldozing a building or two to make an extended road that runs out of the city, and place your garbage disposal buildings there.
This is because landfills will create a lot of ground pollution, and incinerators will create a lot of air pollution.
Both of these near cities will make your citizens extremely sick. In my first playthrough, with a population of 75,000, even 5 hospitals in a single district wasn’t enough to keep my citizens healthy because of this reason.
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The Sandbox and its token SAND is a Play to Earn game. This platform runs by its community participants. It has its financial ecosystem based on its blockchain network, and the sign of the token is SAND.
Participants must create their VOXEL. Almost all of us are familiar with PIXEL, a graphic output in computer science on a two-dimensional surface. Still, when it comes to space, and we add another dimension, the outcome will be three-dimensional graphical data that is now VOXEL.
SAND is the token users employ throughout The Sandbox ecosystem as the basis for transactions and interactions. It is an ERC-20 utility token built on the Ethereum blockchain. There is a finite supply of 3,000,000,000 SAND.
The Sandbox Metaverse is a virtual complex of LANDS, which are parts of the world owned by players to create and monetize experiences. There will only ever be 166,464 LANDS available to host games, build multiplayer experiences, make housing, or offer social experiences to the community.
Sandbox and its Marketplace
The Sandbox’s marketplace is where users can purchase tokens such as ASSETs, LANDs, and GEMs. Voxel artists can upload their ASSETs to the market, converting NFTs.
The Sandbox is a (Metaverse) world where players can build and monetize their gaming on the Ethereum blockchain. Players in The Sandbox can sell virtual land (the LAND token) and transact with SAND, the main utility token.
The Marketplace launched on the 30th March 2021 for the first time. Interested people can see created NFTs listed for sale in the Sandbox Marketplace. The Marketplace gets 5% of the total value of the sold NFTs as the cost of the provided service, which will go to approved NFT artists to create and deliver high-quality NFTs to the Marketplace, and the rest 95% goes to the creators who have created sold NFT(s).
Greener Than Ever!
According to their MEDIUM, The Sandbox will switch to Polygon’s Layer 2, reducing the carbon footprint of NFTs by up to 99% and partnering with Offsetra and Nori on carbon offsetting working with WeForest to help reforestation efforts across the globe.
This summer, the Sandbox announced a partnership with Polygon and is migrating to a new eco-friendly NFT layer two technical solutions that will consume up to a hundred times less energy than Ethereum.
The Sandbox has begun acquiring carbon credits for reversing emissions with carbon removals through blockchain-based platforms, such as Offsetra and Nori, providing transparency on the compensation. In addition, The Sandbox also purchased 200 tonnes of nature-based CO2 offsets from Offsetra in 2021. You can visit The Sandbox’s profile page to view the impact and proof of certification.
The Sandbox has renewed its partnership collaboration with WeForest, a forest restoration charity. It previously partnered within 2014 to plant nearly 9,000 Mangrove trees in Madagascar. The Sandbox commits that for every hectare users buy virtual LANDS in The Sandbox, 1% of proceeds goes to WeForest to protect and restore forests in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Brazil. The Sandbox will engage with other nature protection foundations in its ongoing efforts to make a real impact in the physical world.
The Sandbox has launched the beta for its Marketplace, allowing artists from the Artist Fund to monetize their NFTs. The Sandbox has pledged to reduce the number of minted NFT copies while improving the technical functionality of the Marketplace.
And the most recent event says that The Animoca Brands subsidiary and The Sandbox announced the firm had made multiple partnerships in Hong Kong.
How to Buy Land on Sandbox?
According to the Sandbox Medium Community, users must set a wallet up, buy adequate SAND to the set wallet, and transfer enough TOKENS to their SANDBOX account, and now they can check the Sandbox map and but land for themselves on the Sandbox.
How to Play?
At first glance, The Sandbox looks like other “sandboxy” open world games like Minecraft or Roblox. Players meet in virtual worlds, reshape the landscape, build and organize themselves. The Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) add a new dimension to the gameplay. According to the Play-2-Earn principle, players can win SAND tokens by completing tasks. SAND is still the currency to buy LAND. These are NFTs that represent land in the virtual world.
To play the players need a compatible with web wallets like Google Chrome, the Brave browser is also a good choice. It is not necessary to own SAND to get started. However, you will need some Ethereum for the gas charges. Our tutorial on The Sandbox game should help you get started easily.
At first glance, The Sandbox looks like other VR open-world games like Minecraft or Roblox. Players meet in virtual worlds, reshape the landscape, build and organize themselves. The Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) add a new dimension to the gameplay. According to the Play-2-Earn principle, players can win SAND tokens by completing tasks. SAND is still the currency to buy LAND. These are NFTs that represent land in the virtual world.
Players need a web wallet on reliable and secure browsers like “Google Chrome” or “Brave browser” are excellent options. It is not necessary to own SAND to get started. However, you will need some Ethereum for the gas charges. Our tutorial on The Sandbox game should help you get started quickly.
Interested players must set up a web wallet such as Metamask, Venly (Arkane), or Bitski, and definitely, they must care about security apprehensions. (It is highly recommended that download the wallet program from the official website)
Players must connect their wallet with the game and enter their email address and chosen username.
No users are one click away from having a created account.
The personal dashboard will appear now, and users must create an important avatar and even make necessary changes like changing email addresses.
They must have deposited an adequate amount of $SAND. It could be rewards of an accomplished game, or even they can purchase from exchanges that have $SAND to sell like Binance, Simplex, Uniswap, or MetaMask.
Now players have everything they need to enter the world of The Sandbox. Initially, only the Alpha Launch is available. In the center of The Sandbox, the Social Hubs will appear. These social Hubs are where the players meet, exchange their thoughts, and arrange to go on adventures together. With the help of portals, players can travel to different worlds in the Sandbox METAVERSE. To gain access, plyers might need some more $SNADs.
LAND is an NFT based on a blockchain game. The owned NFTs are proof of land ownership in the game world. Users need LAND to create their worlds and provide their games.
The most important partners of the Sandbox:
- RollerCoaster Tycoon
- Guild of Guardians
- The Walking Dead
- Square Enix
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Care Bears
- Shaun the Sheep
And probably more associates in the future!
A virtual world in which its participants drive the environment.
The Sandbox lets players design, share and even sell virtual world assets—the Sandbox built on the Ethereum network, the leading blockchain platform for decentralized projects. The Sandbox metaverse attempts to change the dynamics of the gaming market by rewarding creators of user-generated content for the value they produce.
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The Rust Programming Language
in the words of its practitioners.
Rust is a systems programming language that is perhaps most notable for being memory safe without garbage collection. It was designed to solve problems observed maintaining the millions of lines of C++ in the Firefox web browser. It is fast, reliable, and runs on most anything, and its enthusiasts are exceptionally enthusiastic about its potential.
On December 29, 2016, Steve Klabnik, author of The Rust Book and member of the Rust core team, blogged, "Rust is more than safety", saying that memory safety alone is not convincing for some prospective Rust users. This catalyzed a blogsplosion the likes of which Rustaceans had never seen (and Rustaceans love blogging), where Rust's creators and users offered their opinions about what makes Rust so exciting.
This is a summary of that.
In this initial post, Steve claims that "Rust is most well-known for its features around writing low-level code in a safer way than its predecessors. But it’s also a lot more than that." He suggests that Rust brings established modern programming language theory to the domain of systems programming, emphasizing a slogan from Rust's creator, Graydon Hoare:
Technology from the past
come to save the future from itself
The rediscovery and application of old, reliable, and sometimes forgotten technology is one of the themes the name "Rust" evokes. Rust applies some established techniques from academia to industry. Steve doesn't elaborate, but two obvious examples are that Rust includes algebraic data types, common in the ML family of languages, and in Rust known as "enums"; and traits, which enable polymorphism similar to Haskell's type classes, but fairly unlike C++ classes and templates.
How Rust innovates the greatest is by statically tracking ownership and lifetimes of all variables and their references. The ownership system enables Rust to automatically deallocate and run destructors on all values immediately when they go out of scope, and prevents values from being accessed after they are destroyed. It is what makes Rust memory safe and thread safe, and why it doesn't need a GC to accomplish that.
And that's cool. But, as Steve goes on to say, "your marketing should be focused on what problems your product solves for the consumer". Being memory safe (i.e. "not crashing") is nice, but many programmers of languages with garbage collectors enjoy that comfort today, and some C and C++ programmers are dismissive of the value of memory safety, possibly believing they have a handle on the matters of memory management and concurrency.
So in response to Steve's post there were a number of opinions expressed about Rust, and about the importance of "safety". In this response, Graydon Hoare, Rust's erstwhile creator, reminds us that "safety in the systems space is Rust's raison d'être. Especially safe concurrency."
Graydon has strong words for C++ programmers who deny the importance of memory safety:
When someone says they "don't have safety problems" in C++, I am astonished: a statement that must be made in ignorance, if not outright negligence. The fact of the matter is that the further down the software stack one goes, the worse the safety situation gets. Our engineering discipline has this dirty secret, but it is not so secret anymore: every day the world stumbles forward on creaky, malfunctioning, vulnerable, error-prone systems software and every day the toll in human misery increases. Billions of dollars, countless lives lost. Can one really say "I don't have safety problems" in systems programming?"
He asserts that "Rust's success in raising the bar for safe, concurrent systems programming — in ways that the niche finds usable, performant and compatible — cannot (imo) be overstated. That is its purpose, and that has been its great success."
The fireflower in the title is a metaphor drawn from Super Mario Bros. In the game, when Mario eats a Fire Flower, he becomes Fire Mario, a fireball-throwing badass. In the metaphor, which Dave attributes to Samuel Hulick, one wants your users (Mario) to feel like Fire Mario when they use your product (Fire Flowers).
And Dave's point is that safety is the Fire Flower that enables Rust developers to be Fire Mario.
He then goes on to talk about the superpowers the Rust Fire Flower gives to Rust Fire Marios:
So what's badass about programming in Rust? I think it's being a systems programmer. There's nothing a systems programmer can't do: write an OS from scratch; drive micro-controllers; outcompete the fastest software in a crowded category; it's all within reach.
But for most programmers, the prospect of writing C or C++ code — and certainly the thought of actually shipping it — is so terrifying we don't usually even waste much time considering it.
This is why I believe hack without fear resonates: safety clears one of the biggest obstacles preventing people from seeing themselves as systems programmers.
Steve is into the "fearless" theme and suggests that being fearless makes you Fire Mario, whereas safety remains just the Fire Flower: "I’m not saying that we get rid of fire flowers. I’m saying that we focus on 'Rust makes you Fire Mario', not 'Rust is made of fire flowers', when talking to people about Rust." (But "Rust is made of fire flowers" sounds amazing, right? I don't think that can be disputed.)
He drives the point home:
I think one of Rust’s greatest potentials ... is bringing a ton of new people into systems programming. But my point is this: “memory safety without garbage collection” doesn’t speak to that at all. That is, memory safety without garbage collection is the mechanism of how that’s accomplished, but it’s not the accomplishment itself. It’s the Fire Flower, not Fire Mario.
I’d like to make sure we’re talking about being Fire Mario, rather than being Fire Flower enthusiasts.
Well, that wasn't the end of it, just the end of what I've summarized. Here are some others' thoughts on the subject:
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Volume 4 #4 Saving Money on Auto Insurance • FDR Client Reminders Reading the Fine Print • Inspiring Thoughts Save Money on Home Improvements • Spare Change
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may be available for student drivers with good grades or college students in the household that live on campus for most of the year. Your insurance company may also offer you a multipolicy discount if you purchase both auto and homeowners coverage.
Saving money on
ar insurance is one of the most common bills that most households are required to pay. According to InsuranceUSA.com, an online insurance marketplace, car insurance is the most widely purchased type of insurance coverage because automobile drivers are required to have car insurance almost everywhere. Below are some tips that may help you save on this expense.
Consider raising your deductible. A deductible is the amount of money that you have to pay out-of-pocket before the insurance company pays the claim. According to the web site of the Insurance Information Institute (www.iii.org), increasing your deductible from $200 to $500 could reduce your collision and comprehensive by 15-30%. Opting for a $1,000 deductible can save you approximately 40%. If you choose to do this, you should have the deductible on hand if you have a claim. InsuranceUSA.com defines comprehensive as insurance that “covers damages that are caused to your vehicle through vandalism, natural cause, hit and run, or hitting an animal.” Collision insurance “pertains to the coverage you receive for accidents, where you actually collide with or hit a vehicle while you are driving.” Know the value of your vehicle. Some drivers choose to drop collision and/or comprehensive insurance once a car depreciates to a certain value. InsuranceUSA.com recommends dropping collision; also known as
liability-only insurance, when the market value of the vehicle is below $2,000. In the event of an accident, your insurance company will only pay what the cash value of the vehicle is at that time. If your car is worth less than your deductible and your collision premium, you could be paying more for insurance than necessary. Realize that having liability-only coverage also means that the insurance company only pays for the damages of the other parties involved if you are at fault. Damages for your car will not be covered. To help you make a decision, visit Kelley Blue Book’s web site at www.kbb.com to check the market value of your vehicle. Also, consult your insurance company before dropping any coverage so you are complying with the laws in your state.
Drive safely. Numerous at-fault claims and traffic violations may increase your insurance rates. You may help avoid the likelihood of an accident by driving defensively and obeying traffic laws. Stay safe by adhering to road signs, driving the speed limit, and resisting the urge to talk on a cell phone while driving. Many insurance companies offer discounts if a policyholder has maintained a clean driving record for a specific amount of time.
What to do in an accident: Here are some tips provided by Erie Insurance Group (www.erieinsurance.com) to help you remain calm and gather the necessary information in the event of a car accident. A detailed and accurate report can help you expedite your claim for repair costs. •
The first priority is to make sure your vehicle is safely off the road and check to see if any parties are injured. If so, contact emergency personnel immediately.
Always call the police even if there is minor vehicle damage. A police report can help speed up the claims process.
Although car accidents are stressful situations, remain calm and do not discuss who is at fault. You will have an opportunity to talk to your insurance agent about the details. Exchange information with the other driver(s), which would include names, phone numbers, addresses, license plate numbers, and the make and model of each car.
You may also want to record information such as date, time, location, and weather conditions. Most cell phones come equipped with a camera, so consider taking picture at the scene. In case of an accident, Erie recommends keeping a disposable camera along with a notepad in your glove box.
Take advantage of all discounts. You may qualify for car insurance discounts for a variety of reasons. Mention to your insurance company if your vehicle has features such as air bags, anti-lock brakes, and anti-theft devices. Keep track of how often you use your vehicle. If your mileage is lower than average, you may receive a discount. Younger drivers usually cost more to insure. Discounts
Client Reminders Client Web Site Update FDR recently upgraded our back office systems in order to be able to respond more quickly to client requests. You may have noticed that our client web site was down for several days during this transition. It is now back up, and if you haven’t done so already, you will need to create a new username and password in order to be able to view your account information online. Go to www. freedomdebtrelief.com and click on the tab “Current Clients.” Then, near the bottom of the page under the heading “Existing Client Login for Account Information” click on the button, “Click Here.” Enter your e-mail address, and then follow the instructions to create a password and validate your information. You will now be able to view this information online!
American Consumers Union We have recently partnered with the consumer advocacy group, American Consumers Union, in order to provide additional support to our clients with respect to creditor harassment. All FDR clients are automatically given membership into the American Consumers Union, and are given the full use and support of the advocacy group, at no additional charge. This is a terrific benefit for our clients, and we are happy to be able to provide this service to our clients at our expense. You can visit them online at www.myacu.org.
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As you strive to settle your debts, most of you have made a commitment to rely on cash instead of credit cards. After you complete your debt negotiation program, you will probably want to re-establish your credit. As you probably know, credit cards can cause serious financial problems if they are not used properly. Periodically, this column will discuss a credit card issue and give you tips on responsible credit card use. This month’s topic is the importance of the fine print in credit card agreements.
hen applying for a credit card, most people disregard the small type that details the provisions of the agreement. Many applicants will simply sign their name, stating that they agree to the terms. Although this fine print may be long and tedious to read, we suggest that you review a credit card agreement in its entirety. This task may prevent future problems or you may decide that this is not the right credit card for you. Below are some key points that you may want to focus on as you read the fine print.
Don’t be fooled by low teaser rates and extremely high credit limits. When you receive a credit card solicitation in the mail, the envelope may read that you are pre-approved for a low interest rate of 2.9% and a credit limit up to $25,000. This impressive offer may persuade some people to immediately complete and sign the application without reading the small print. First of all, consider most verbiage on envelopes of credit card offers to be advertisements intended to entice you to open the mail and apply. If you look closely, you may find that there are several asterisks printed by these grandiose statements. The fine print may state that you may not be “pre-approved” and that your credit limit and interest rate will be based on your credit history.
Don’t make the credit card companies richer by incurring fees. Consumer Action, a non-profit consumer advocate group, reports that credit card fees cost cardholders approximately $13 billion every year. Avoid late fees by reading the fine print to find out the grace period and due date for your payment. Some companies state that a bill is also due by a certain time on the due date. For example, if your bill is due by noon, you could incur a late fee if the credit card company receives your payment at the end of the day. We do not recommend that you keep a high
balance on your credit card because of the negative effects of debt and you also run the risk of obtaining an over-the-limit fee. A late payment could also allow a credit card company to impose a late fee in addition to an over-thelimit fee. Reading the fine print may also alert consumers to the fact that credit card companies may charge a no-balance fee if you pay off your balance in full or apply an inactivity charge if your account has been inactive for a certain period of time. Credit card companies also charge fees for cash advances and balance transfers.
Understand universal default. All of a sudden, an unsuspecting cardholder may receive their monthly credit card statement and be shocked to discover that their interest rate increased dramatically. This action, known as universal default, could have occurred for a number of reasons. If a credit card company reviews your credit report and senses that you may become a potential credit risk, they have a right to drastically raise your interest rate. You may have been late or missed a payment with this particular creditor or a totally different credit card company. Let’s suppose that you are current with this credit card account, but the card issuer raises your rate because your credit report shows that you have taken on too much debt or have had many recent inquires. Much controversy has surrounded the issue of universal default. Many consumer advocates want banks to ban this practice. In 2007, Citibank was the first credit card company that put an end to universal default. Also, legislators have outlawed this practice in the state of New York last summer. As you can see, progress is being made and perhaps universal default will not exist in the future. However, a survey conducted by Consumer Action indicates that nearly half of U.S. banks use universal default, enabling them to legally raise credit cardholders’ interest rates as high as 40%. Reading the fine print in your credit card agreement will indicate whether your credit card company enforces universal default.
Inspiring Thoughts Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. ~Margaret Young
any people think that if they had more money they would be happier. You may have thought that if you won the lottery or received a significant pay increase that you would be more content. More money may allow you to live a more comfortable lifestyle, but it may not necessarily buy happiness. You may have heard stories on the news about people who won millions in the lottery and were broke within a year. Some television programs also feature biographies about famous people who squander their entire fortune. These examples may seem extreme, but the same concept may apply when people receive a raise from their employer. Many individuals increase their standard of living instead of paying down debt or creating an emergency fund. Once we acquired the amount of money that we thought would make us happier, it does not seem to be enough and we want more. At one time, we may have thought that if we buy a nicer car or charged that new state-of-the-art television that we would be content. After the novelty wore off, we may regret the extravagant purchase and feel anything but happy.
Why is this? According to an article by Laura Rowley, author of the book Money & Happiness (2005), “Scientists have found that while a certain amount of money does indeed make us happy, once basic needs are met, happiness doesn’t continue to rise in direct proportion to income.” Also, Forbes Magazine indicates that lottery winners return to their previous level of happiness after five years. As you strive to settle your debts, you may yearn for more money so you can move past this situation. We are not suggesting that your debt was incurred due to extravagant purchases. If you encountered debt as a result of extenuating circumstances, additional income would certainly come in handy to pay those unexpected bills. However, spending a lot of time wishing we had something else may delay our goal of financial freedom. If we dwell on the fact that we are in debt, this can create unhappiness. We can not change the past and we have to realize that there are very few lottery winners. As hard as it may be, making the most of our current situation may make us less stressed and give us hope for the future. efficient products when selecting heating and cooling systems, windows, insulation, and wall and roof assemblies. Visit Energy Star’s web site at www.energystar.com for more information. You may also contact your utility company to see if you qualify for the Weatherization Assistance Program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), this program helps low-income families reduce their energy bills by making their home more energy efficient.
f you are a homeowner, you probably realize that your dwelling requires frequent upkeep and various repairs. As you strive to settle your debts, spending money on costly home improvements may not be an option. Yet, there may be some ways that you can save money and still perform necessary upgrades to your home.
Learn to do-it-yourself. Although you may have to hire a professional for some complicated projects, you may be able to tackle some tasks yourself. A wealth of informational resources exist to teach you how to do home improvement jobs such as cleaning your gutters, painting, and installing a ceiling fan. Visit your local bookstore or library to find a comprehensive guide on do-it-yourself home improvements. The Internet and television are also great sources. DIY Network brings you such cable shows as “DIY to the Rescue” and “DIY Be Your Own Contractor.” You can also visit their information-packed web site located at www. diynet.com. This site features a wide array of doit-yourself projects, with topics that range from home improvements to decorating. Home Depot also offers free Do-It-Herself Workshops, Weekly Clinics, and Kids Workshops. Visit www.homedepotclinics.com to register at a Home Depot near you.
Obtain several bids. If you do need to hire a professional, obtain bids from various companies and contractors. When you compare prices, you may find that costs can vary greatly among companies. Before you make a decision based on cost, ask for references on the person or business that you plan to hire. Also, verify that they have insurance coverage. These precautions may prevent you from becoming a victim of a home improvement scam.
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Get Involved. Habitat for Humanity builds new homes and renovates old homes for low-income families. This organization is always looking for volunteers to help with their building projects. Each work site is supervised by a professional that trains and assists the volunteers. You may consider volunteering for your local Habitat for Humanity branch. In addition to helping your community, you may also learn new skills that may help you with your own home. Visit their web site located at www.habitat.org for more information and to search for a local division in your area.
••• Many homeowners have the desire to beautify their surroundings. At this point in your debt settlement program, you may not be able to finance every project on your list. Keep in mind that you do not have to complete every home improvement job at once. Choose the necessary things first and finish each task as your budget allows. Good luck on your home improvement endeavors and enjoy the end results.
using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers are barred from calling consumers on their cell phones without their consent.
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You do not have to register your cell phone number. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers should not be concerned that their cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketers in the near future despite the recent claims made in emails circulating on the Internet. It is also not necessary to register cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry to be protected from most telemarketing calls to cell phones. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit telemarketers from
Experian Consumer Direct poll shows that more than half of Americans feel the federal economic stimulus package is a short-term solution for the troubled economy, while 32% feel the package will cause more Americans to reinvest in the economy. When asked how consumers plan to use their rebate check from the federal economic stimulus package, 19% said they would pay o a debt, 16% said they would pay utility bills, and 10% said they would apply the proceeds toward home repairs.
New research conďŹ rms identity fraud is declining. The 2008 Identity Fraud Survey Report, released by Javelin Strategy & Research (www.javelinstrategy. com), conďŹ rms that identity fraud is declining in most parts of the United States, and that thieves are turning to unexpected channels to commit fraud. This year’s report reinforces a three-year trend that criminals mostly obtain the majority of information from stolen personal belongings, and through telephone calls, rather than online. Access through mail and telephone transactions
grew from 3% in 2006 to 40% in 2007. Here are some other interesting ďŹ ndings in the report: •
California and Illinois are among ďŹ ve states whose residents are most at risk for identity fraud.
Young adults who fall victim to fraud are most likely to purchase ID fraud insurance and sign up for fraud alerts. Older adults who fall victim often react by no longer sending bill payments and checks through unsecured mailboxes.
Over the past three years, overall fraud declined, while the cost per consumer rose. This cost is deďŹ ned by the total out-of-pocket expense consumers incur when falling victim to ID fraud. The cost per consumer in 2007 averaged $691, an increase of 25%, over the $554 recorded in 2006.
Haggling may help you save money. A national study by Consumer Reports reveals that haggling over the cost of goods and services is not only alive and well, but can be successful in many cases. More than 90% of shoppers who tried to negotiate a better deal on goods and services including furniture, electronics and appliances, oor and demonstration models, and medical bills got one, according to a new survey conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center.
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I know that I've discussed my frustration with the way that skeptics are treated in film and television. It's obnoxious and misleading, but from a storytelling perspective, I get it. Even I would prefer the film in which the skeptic who doubts aliens or magic is wrong - aliens and magic are cool.
What really bothers me, however, is how vegetarians and environmentalists are portrayed. They are always shown to be self-righteous and smug, they are always hypocritical and annoying. Perhaps these people really do exist in real life, but I've never met anyone who is environmentally conscious or vegetarian (which is a highly environmentally friendly lifestyle) for anything other than good motives.
I was watching the not-so-great movie Baby Mama the other night. Tina Fey's character worked for a highly exaggerated caricature of Whole Foods. At one point she went on a date to a raw food/vegan restaurant. They made comical faces at the yeast balls and seaweed they were served. Then after some hilariously awkward conversation, it turned out that, despite working for a company that was environmentally friendly, healthy and natural, she still liked to eat meat. Of course she does! Just because the company is full of obnoxious hypocrites, that doesn't mean that Tina Fey's character is a hypocrite. She loves to eat meat!
It may seem like a harmless stereotype, an easy joke that does no real damage, but I think that it is a real problem. It is important to point out that "environmentalism", and everything that entails, is a good thing. Climate change due to human activity is a scientifically established fact. Recycling and renewable energy are positive actions. Likewise, it is a fact that factory farms are a significant polluter and eating a meat-free diet is better for the environment than changing from a Hummer to a Prius. However you feel about the suffering of animals, most people value human life and comfort, and climate change affects us all. My point here is not that everyone should become vegetarian or reduce their energy and plastic consumption - I obviously do think that they should - but that we should not treat those who do those things as assholes or objects of ridicule.
I honestly do not know where the trope of the self-righteous vegan originated. As I said above, perhaps these people are real, but I can't understand that attitude and I seriously doubt that it makes up a large portion of the vegan/vegetarian population. At the core of this stereotype (I think) is the idea that vegans and vegetarians are hypocrites. The idea that they really do love to eat meat just like the rest of us, but they abstain in some kind of absurd and impotent protest. Not to speak for all vegetarians, but I don't abstain from meat for my sake. I do it for the animals. However much I might like the way a hamburger tastes, I don't eat it because of the animal that lived a miserable life and died for the sake of a cheap sandwich.
The point of all of this is not to be preachy. The point is that I am tired of seeing good deeds and noble aspirations mocked so easily and carelessly.
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Pathfinders will participate in a three-day InStep for Life Challenge at the International Pathfinder Camporee to be held in Oshkosh, Wis., August 11-16. The registration deadline is May 31 (limit: 2,000 people), so don't delay, and join the many Pathfinder clubs that are getting in shape now.
This video will tell you more about it, including all about day two, which will include the "Muscular Challenge" with sit-ups, push-ups and burpees. What's a "burpee?" Watch the video and find out! Learn MORE and sign up. Pathfinder Clubs, sign up NOW, before this challenge is full!
Life Talk Radio (LTR) ownership will be retained by the NAD
, as decided after a very positive discussion of the Adventist Media Center Board of Trustees on Apr. 28.
John Geli, who has successfully managed the operations and programming for several years, has been appointed as manager/director. John will be working with Adventist affiliate member station managers to fine tune the operations of LTR.
LTR is a satellite radio programming resource currently providing Christ centered programming 24 hours a day to over 100 affiliate stations across North America and internationally. If you are interested in affiliating your current or future station with LTR, contact: 800-775-HOPE (4673). Listen Live and learn more
Katia Reinert has just successfully defended her dissertation to earn her Ph.D. in Nursing
from Johns Hopkins University. For her dissertation she examined the role of religious involvement as protective factors for mental and physical health outcomes among survivors of child abuse, neglect and witnessed abuse in the home.
"Forgiveness, gratitude, spirituality and positive religious coping were noted to reduce the negative health outcomes among Adventists who had a history of trauma," she said.
"On the other hand, negative religious coping was linked with worse physical health outcomes, particularly among women..." MORE
[Photo: Reinert with her advisor, Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell]
Dr. Vinita Sauder has accepted the invitation to serve as Union College's next president.
She is currently Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Southern Adventist University.
The appointment will fill the position soon to be vacated by John Wagner when he retires in June. Wagner joined Union College for a third time in 2011 to help complete the $14.5 million Our Promising Future
campaign and build the new Krueger Center for Science and Mathematics. MORE
A memorial service for pastor and evangelist Don Gray has been rescheduled
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Category: Question of the Week
Beatles: Hard Day’s Night thru Rubber Soul
Stones: Beggars Banquet thru Exile
Kinks: early crud rock days
In general I prefer rockers’ early years.
Beatles: Hard to choose, but I still like the later years, White Album through Let it Be.
Stones: Gotta agree with Steven, although I think the period from Goats’ Head Soup thru Black and Blue had its moments.
Kinks: I’m partial to the early 70’s with those guys, Lola through Schoolboys in Disgrace. Soap Opera is a fave of mine, unlike about 99.9% of Kinks fans. Don’t have much use for Preservation Act II, though.
Beatles: Rubber Soul & Revolver
Stones: the Decca years
Kinks: Anglocentric Ray (see my friend, dead end st, autumn almanac, wonderboy – are those the “exiled” years?)
…I think of criticism as part of the intelligent conversation a culture has with itself about itself, but I probably spend too much time thinking about the works I consider good or important rather than experiencing them. I like the Beatles Rubber Soul and Revolver, the Rolling Stones 1960s work (though I have a special fondness for the Some Girls album, which coincided with my moving to New York), and I like early Kinks. However, sometimes, I wonder if there is anything between and beyond baby boomer nostalgia for ’60s popular music and contemporary market-driven hype, which can parallel (and exploit/inspire) indie buzz.
Do most critics matter to the general public, or only to other music critics? How many new writers are able to gather an audience, or manifest cultural authority? (Does that have as much to do with one’s work, or the venue in which one’s work appears?) How much work celebrated ten years ago is still listened to and discussed today? Are we able, really, to recognize the Beatles, Stones, or Kinks of today?
In my neighborhood, we said fuck the Beatles and the Stones. The Kinks and the Who were the only British bands we allowed to invade.
My least favorite phase of the Kinks was when my uncle took me to see them in ’72. Ray was drunk, my uncle was drunk, and I was not drunk.
Harsh. Where did you grow up, in a suburban supermax?
For me, Let It Bleed, Hey Jude and for the Kinks it’s too hard to say, despite the self-placed visual, so I would just go with the era of personal awareness and go with Preservation on through Low Budget.
Thank god for freeform and college radio stations. The latter were particularly imperative during the consultant-laden ’80s.
beatles – while revolver (uk version) might be my favorite of the beatles albums as a whole, “ticket to ride” (which i might often claim as my fave beatles song) is such a stand out track on the soundtrack to HELP – and for that matter, both of their live-action movies had great soundtracks, therefore, one could say, great soundtrack albums… and MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR also had its fine points but more important, stands to remind us that the phrase “death cab for cutie” is a silly refrain for a song and an even more useless name for a band.
stones – again, another band with an eclectic and voluminous catalog. exile on main street however is easily my fave and i’m with the masses when i cite my fave stones period as the let it bleed, beggars banquet, sticky fingers period as the band’s finest hours. i didn’t start to get bored with their output until about dirty work, the recording of which i was present for and witnessed a distinct lack of BAND activity on that record.
kinks – a band that can do no wrong for my ears. while their early work delights me with memories of my family driving from our home town beach town to another beach town 3 hours away for summer vacations (“who’ll be the next in line” was a hit during that period i remember – one of my most vivid memories)… the melancholy 70s period was the soundtrack to my high school years. FACE TO FACE, however memorializes that time when the light bulb in my head declared “RAY DAVIES IS GENIUS”
none of my friends particularly cares for GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT but i kind of once in a while really really enjoy “destroyer” and you can’t top “better things” as a classic Ray Davies melody
any aspiring songwriter or band who doesn’t study any of these three exemplary bands with the best songwriters pop music has ever presented us is looking down the wrong path…
i certainly love beggars banquet-let it bleed-exile (not sticky fingers, tho’, half of which i have no use for), but I’m more consistently stunned by their progression pre-Satanic Majesties Request than I am by their progression post-SMR. “Mothers Little Helper,” “19th Nervous Breakdown,” “Have You seen Your Mother Baby,” “Ruby Tuesday,” Aftermath, Between the Buttons… it rarely gets better than that, for me. May have something to do with the fact that Through the Past Darkly was the first LP I ever remember loving as a kid.
I don’t know the arc of the Kinks career well enough, but I have a feeling it’s a similar thing: i love something else and village green LPs, but the stuff that i return to most frequently isn’t the early-early hits, but those showing early signs of “progression”: “Sunny Afternoon,” “See My Friends,” “Well Respected Man,” that sort of thing.
Incidentally, my favourite hair years for all three of these bands is ’66.
Badly worded, that. What I mean to say about the Kinks is you have Something Else and Village Green as one sort of landmark of what they progressed into, and then you have the early-early hits, all full of bile and energy. What I tend to like best is the period in-between.
As for The Beatles, I would say Rubber Soul thru the White Album is my favorite epoch. Just looking at how the music changed in those four records over the course of 3 years is astounding. I also think that for a group that is in the Hall of Fame and is incredibly influential amongst other musicians, The Band’s first two albums (for the unitiated, they would be Music from Big Pink and The Band)are woefully underappreciated. They represent my favorite part of their musical genre, although their stuff with Dylan was also very moving and grounded at the same time.
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LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP (LLP)
A Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is a partnership of at least two persons or body corporates (company or LLP), where all the partners generally have limited personal liabilities. Thus, an LLP is half-way between a partnership and a limited company. LLP was made available to combine the flexibility of partnerships with the protection of limited liability. Partners are generally personally liable for the debts and losses of LLP that are incurred because of their own wrongful actions. However, partners are not liable for debts and losses that are incurred by other partners’ wrongdoings. A Limited Liability Partnership is a separate legal entity from its owners/ partners, thus it can sue or be sued under its own name. In Singapore, an LLP can own properties in its name. There are no limits to the number of partners allowed. Profits are taxed at the individual partner’s income tax rates or at the corporate tax rate for corporate partners.
The Advantages of a Limited Liability Partnership
- Easy and fast to set up.
- Fewer formalities, procedures, regulatory duties, and statutory requirements to adhere to in comparison to a company.
- Each partner’s liability is limited to the amount of money he/she has given or promised to the LLP.
- Partners are not personally liable for the wrongful actions of other partners.
- Compared to sole-proprietorship and partnership, LLP has the increased ability to raise funds due to its multiple partners.
- Investors may be attracted to join as silent partners due to its limited liability characteristic.
- An LLP can exist perpetually.
The Disadvantages of a Limited Liability Partnership
- LLPs must comply with more formalities and procedures in comparison to sole-proprietorships or partnerships.
- As LLP is a fairly new business organization, some of its legal and tax requirements have not been fully determined.
- At least 2 partners. Partners can be individuals who are at least 18 years old and/or body corporate (company or LLP).
- At least one manager who is a resident of Singapore and at least 18 years old.
- An undischarged bankrupt needs an approval from the court or Official Assignee before he/she is allowed to manage a business.
- One time registration.
- LLP is required to lodge an annual declaration of solvency, stating whether the business is able or unable to meet its financial obligations during the normal course of business.
- The registration fee is $150.00 and the business name application fee is $15.00.
Cessation of Business
- By Partners or Creditors – voluntary winding up.
- By the High Court – mandatory winding up.
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Good things take time — especially in recruiting. The wait for quality hires is stressful for recruiters, who generally want to fill openings sooner rather than later. On average, it takes 24 days to fill a job. This lengthy process can drain a company's resources, which is why some employers jump the gun by making quick hires instead of good ones.
Recruiters that prioritize time to hire do it for the sake of making immediate placements. They'll either conduct quick job searches or partner with staffing agencies to expedite that process for short-term gain. Unfortunately, fast hires do little to help long-term retention or build organizational continuity.
A strong foundation comes from hiring quality employees. Finding a balance between quality of hire and time to hire when deciding how to measure the effectiveness of a recruitment and selection process enables you to build a team with lasting viability.
Suitability Over Speed
Diamonds in the rough are rare, which is especially true when it comes to recruiting talent that will make your company shine. Research from 2018 found that 73% of employers struggled to find skilled candidates and that 45% worried they wouldn't find enough qualified candidates (Source: Manpower 2018 Talent Shortage Survey).
High-quality recruitment takes dedicated and focused research on a candidate's past; recruiters then use that information to determine what prospects can bring to your company's future. When recruiters prioritize speed over substance, that big-picture vision gets lost in the shuffle. As a result, you lose the intricacy and detail that a thorough candidate search provides.
A fast hire is great if the person ends up being both a good fit for the job and the company culture, but that's not always guaranteed. This is why the "time to hire" metric, as currently defined, won't tell that story. Instead, you should measure the speed with which you onboard a quality hire rather than any hire.
This shift in mindset offers internal and external advantages. Within the company, it gives stakeholders and current employees the peace of mind that qualified team members surround them. From the outside, a commitment to efficient, high-quality recruitment assures potential candidates that they'll be put in a position to succeed.
It's Time to Hire for Quality
Fully implementing quality-of-hire measurements isn't without its own challenges. While connecting with quality employees is the priority, recruiters have their own benchmarks for bringing in top talent promptly. Staffing agents can help narrow the field and put recruiters in touch with candidates who might look great on paper, but it's an inexact science.
To find the right balance between time to hire and quality of hire, enact the following three strategies:
1. Embrace new tools. The role of technology in recruitment is simple — it does what human recruiters can do faster and with fewer errors. Staffing agencies manually scour résumés in an attempt to bring a company a set number of qualified candidates. Software and recruitment technology, however, take that process one step further.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning show the potential for the use of technology in recruitment and selection. AI-powered recruiting platforms swiftly mine through hundreds — and sometimes thousands — of candidates and assess them based on background, years of experience, and other distinguishing characteristics.
Studies show that recruiters who disregard AI and automation spend more resources yet accomplish less in their recruiting. Quality hires will show themselves quicker with the integration of technology in the recruitment and selection process.
2. Leave no stone unturned. Employment seekers are told to treat the search like an actual job. Hiring quality employees requires that same level of diligence from recruiters who wish to bring in the best candidates in a short amount of time.
Technology helps identify candidates with the necessary surface-level qualifiers. But a focus on quality-of-hire measures requires recruiters to go beyond those accolades and attributes and get to know candidates on a deeper level.
Make a point to do additional research about candidates. See what their names bring up in a Google search and seek input from previous employers to answer any questions or fill any gaps you might have. These extra steps will decrease your time to hire, bringing qualified candidates to the surface quicker while weeding out unqualified applicants.
3. Ditch the general approach. About 31% of job seekers expect personalized messaging from potential employers. The fact that nearly a third of all candidates want customized messaging should provide all the incentive you need to provide it.
Expedite your time to hire and improve the quality of your candidates by creating a consistent, relevant, and valuable message for each applicant. After the initial interaction, continue to tailor each corresponding engagement to the specific applicant. Think of candidates like customers — the sooner you can customize your offerings to their particular tastes, the quicker you can bring them into the fold.
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