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"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back, it means that it's going to launch you into something great."
Our Skinny Gold Bar Necklace with an arrow stamp. Beautiful and simple with a lightly hammered and shiny finish.
Other symbols are the wave or heart stamp. You can also do up to one initial. Please leave in order notes if you want anything different than listed. If you want a name stamped, there will be an additional charge.
- Bar Length: 1 ½ inches long
- Bar Width: Less than 1/4" wide
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What is going on here? Another storefront closing on Main Street? Goodbye, Dick's Dock--13 years and several awards later, fresh seafood isn't enough to keep you alive in downtown Metuchen. Joining WOW and WILD RICE, DICK'S DOCK leaves yet another reminder of how dire the economy is these days. That's the reason they're closing, right, the economy?
There are plenty of great restaurants in town but the loss of any of them is a sad situation. With families budgeted tighter and tighter, dining out is one of the old pleasures we can't afford to do as often as we'd like. And with the proximity of Main Street to malls and chain restaurants on Route 1, is there too much competition for family-run real restaurants?But the District is still going to be built (someday!) and the Sportsplex is being built and the council has approved the building of an apartment complex on the old Dodge dealership lot. So somebody out there believes that more people are going to move and work out in Metuchen. Who is going to feed all these extra people?
Metuchen Matters wants to know--who is the culprit? Who is running the restaurants out of downtown Metuchen? Do events like Junebug and Cruise Nights help bring in enough customers or should the Chamber be working on new ways to help promote the businesses in town that are hanging by a thread (those we don't know about yet)?
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Studio S Women's Dinghy Black Square Sunglasses
Finish your fashion with perfect polish in these women's Dinghy square sunglasses from Studio S . Bold black plastic rims feel lightweight while lending a look with impact, with goldtone temple accents that deliver a luxurious touch. Gradient amber lenses heighten contrast for a clear view in sunny or cloudy conditions. Color: Black. Gender: Female. Age Group: Adult.
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“Belo Monte: After the Flood”—Canada Water Week Film Screening & Panel Discussion
DATE: Thursday, March 23rd
TIME: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: University of Victoria, Human and Social Development Building, room A240 (next to the Hickman Building)
Join us this Canada Water Week for a film screening and panel discussion exploring the effects of large-scale energy projects on communities in Brazil and Canada.
Directed by award-winning environmental documentarian Todd Southgate and produced in collaboration with Amazon Watch, International Rivers, and Cultures of Resistance, Belo Monte: After the Flood brings us to the shores of the Xingu River in the heart of the Amazon. There, we hear the stories of indigenous community members and their decades-long fight against the multi-billion-dollar Belo Monte hydroelectric project. Amidst government corruption, environmental degradation, and neglected mitigation measures, this film shows how community members have taken matters into their own hands to fight for the protection of their waterways.
Following the film, we’ll be joined by leading aboriginal law expert Merrell-Ann Phare (Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources & Member, FLOW), Michael Miltenberger (former MLA and Northwest Territories Minister of the Environment & Member, FLOW), and Michele-Lee Moore (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria & Founder, Water, Innovation, and Global Governance Lab). They will lead a discussion on how the struggles of Brazil’s indigenous peoples parallel those of First Nations here in Canada, and the opportunities present in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This event is being co-hosted by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and the Water, Innovation, and Global Governance (WIGG) Lab, based at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies.
RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated. Contact Dana Holtby at email@example.com or 250-721-7211.
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It takes a great deal of time and effort to plan a memorable wedding. There are many things to consider, such as choosing the perfect dress, finding a wedding venue and designing your wedding invitations. The ideas in this piece is meant to assist you every step of the way so that you get the most from your budget.
Make sure that transportation is taken care of at your wedding. For people without a ride, be sure a taxi or limo can bring them to their destination after the reception. This allows people to enjoy themselves and not have to worry about drinking and driving after the reception.
Brides who have sensitive skin can have a stress free wedding day by using skincare products that will give a glowing look without causing hives, irritation, or a breakout. Asking about a bridal spa treatment that contains skin soothing ingredients such as oatmeal proteins, sea salt and rose.
You will want a dance floor space in the room you rent for the wedding reception. There is nothing worse than being crammed like sardines while the people around you are trying to do the Mashed Potato, so move some tables and chairs to make the extra room you need to get your groove on!
You want to practice that wedding day aisle walk, especially if you plan to wear heels. If you fear turning your ankle awkwardly, think about flat heels instead. Wouldn’t you rather have mediocre-looking footwear than wearing something that could cause harm?
You could ask from any friend or family member that is capable of carrying your gear. Your assistant can also be useful when it comes to group shots and rounding up all the required family members.
Don’t leave your guests waiting while you, your new spouse and the wedding party have an hour long photo shoot. Try to take as many photos as you can before the ceremony begins. Pictures with the bride or groom and their respective parents can also be taken ahead of time, reducing the amount of time guests have to wait for your arrival at the reception.
If you wish to have a wedding cake that stands out and is a focal point in your reception, you may want to consider a matching piece of fabric. A pretty tablecloth made of textured fabric, velvet, shiny satin or a lace that matches the wedding dress are all nice choices.
If you can, it’s a good idea to have a cruise ship wedding with just your family and close friends. Your honeymoon will start right after the ceremony. Cruise companies often have special packages and rates regarding honeymoons and weddings on their ships.
If the couple likes to travel, find decorative elements that incorporate their love for it. For example, you could make your wedding invites or your save-the-date cards look as though they were vintage postcards or travel passes. Consider using a steamer trunk as an attractive, themed display for everything from wedding programs to party favors.
As an example, why not try a fusion menu with contemporary dishes that everyone enjoys? Include ethnic options for dessert, drinks, or even wedding favors that are edible.
Any children in your ceremony need to be dressed comfortably. Choose fabrics that are softer and loose-fitting, in order to maintain a high comfort level. If they are going to have new shoes, you should let them wear them a few times before the ceremony to break them in. This allows the kids time to focus on what they have to do instead of struggling with their outfits.
Dependent on the state where the wedding is to occur, certain popular flowers, such as those that bloom in your state, might not be easily available especially if they are not in season. Make contact with professionals who reside near your destination site to inquire which flowers are in bloom and available to use for your ceremony.
If your reception doesn’t include dinner, you can save money by reducing the number of tables and spending that money to rent furniture. Chaises, comfortable sectional pieces, and lounges can encourage more guest interaction. These plush seats give your guests a comfortable place to relax, while also creating separate areas throughout the venue where people can lounge around.
When you are planning a wedding at a destination, have consideration for your guests and what they have to plan for traveling. You may have guests who will make vacation plans around this day and they should have adequate time to prepare. Sending cards to save your date a minimum of eight months ahead of time permit your guests to make any arrangements necessary.
Try to plan some fun group activities that your guests can enjoy on your wedding day. Don’t just let everyone stand around tapping their feet, waiting for something to happen. Examples of activities could include a volleyball game, or a contest of who can get to know the most people prior to the wedding. Your guests will have fonder memories of your special day if it is an event filled with fun and entertaining interactive activities.
When you pick someone to take a video for a wedding, be sure you speak with a few different people and ask for examples of the work they’ve done. Sound quality and video editing are just as important as capturing the shot. You should always ask for not only a digital recording but also a hard copy on Blu Ray or DVD. You are spending a lot on this service and hard copies should not be something you do on your own. Look for a videographer who meets all technical requirements. Beyond that, listen to your heart.
Your wedding location is important when you are planning details like flowers. For example, a tall, complicated arrangement may get toppled over on a windy day. There may be a need for special items to keep your decorations tied down at outside venues.
No matter the size of the wedding, you need it to be perfect down to every detail. There are many months that you will prepare for this. What you have just read can save you both time and money.
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|The crisis of overproduction that has now ripped to the surface in the form of world financial crisis has been burrowing underground since the 1970s. One sign of its subterranean progress has been the shifts in the US federal deficit.
In the years of Reagan and Bush senior, the deficit soared. After a brief respite under Clinton, it soared again during the war years of Bush junior, culminating in the financial crash in late 2008. Obama’s massive bailout for the banks and $787bn stimulus package sent the deficit up to $1.4tr for the fiscal year ending in autumn 2009. The deficit for the year ending this autumn is projected to be $1.5tr.
The failure of Obama’s attempted neo-Keynesian strategy to rescue the economy has put wind in the sails of Republicans itching to make a frontal assault on the conditions of existence of the mass of workers in the US. With the advent of a Republican majority in Congress in November (whilst Democrats cling on to power in the Senate), the Obama administration is defensively watering down its Keynesian ambitions with pledges of fiscal prudence.
Ironically, now that mainstream Republicans are in a stronger position to dictate policy, some of the less bone-headed are starting to doubt whether a policy of slash and burn against government spending will really save capitalist America, and are casting nervous backward glances at the Tea Party fanatics who are pushing them on from behind.
Federal budget? What federal budget?
On the campaign trail, the Republican promise was a $100bn cut to the 2011 budget. Their seats in Congress assured, the Republicans sought to revise this figure down to $32bn this year and more later. But following a revolt of newly elected Tea Party enthusiasts, the Republicans changed tack again and, on 19 February, pushed through a bill sanctioning a $60bn cut to domestic programmes, foreign aid and military projects.
The fact that, nearly half way through the fiscal year, the USA has yet to adopt a formal budget is a startling indication of just how rudderless the most powerful and wealthy imperialist country on earth has become.
When the Republicans blocked Obama’s spending plans, Congress agreed on a fudge whereby existing spending levels would carry on till 4 March. At time of writing, there has been a further two-week extension, including an extra $4bn in cuts, due to expire on 18 March.
Maybe this Two-Week Plan for US capitalism will be fudged again, or maybe not. Either way, the government is due to hit its debt limit around late spring, at which point it will be unable to borrow any more money without the say-so of Congress. And looming beyond this, of course, is the question of next year’s budget, beginning 1 October!
Wisconsin today, Washington tomorrow?
To get a sense of what government breakdown could really entail at the grass-roots level, beyond all the rival posturing of the neo-Keynesians and the Tea Party barbarians in Washington, one need only look at what is happening in Wisconsin. In that state, what for Republicans on Capitol Hill has been so far largely a partisan exercise in Democrat-baiting now finds Governor Walker courting raw and open conflict with an unprecedented wave of popular outrage and resistance.
Walker’s Bill, which has now been passed through both Houses, strips from public-sector unions the right to engage in collective bargaining over wages, conditions and pensions. Walker has pressed on with this openly repressive law in spite of – or more accurately, because of – the reluctant agreement of the unions to accept as inevitable what amounts to a 7 percent cut in take-home pay as a result of hikes in pension and health contributions from employees. The only public-sector workers exempted from the pay cuts have been the police and fire unions, both of which backed the Republicans at the election.
In the campaign to kill Walker’s Bill, crowds of up to 25,000 surrounded the legislature in Madison, banging drums, bearing placards linking with the Egyptian revolution, pitching tents and unrolling sleeping bags for the long haul. Many schools were closed down when hundreds of teachers all phoned in sick. Protesters occupied the Capitol and besieged Walker’s office, screaming “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
Thousands of teachers, public-sector workers and students filled a square around the Capitol chanting “Kill the Bill”, denouncing Walker as a dictator and demanding his recall. Some of Walker’s coterie found that conducting a class offensive against the working class was not quite the ‘Tea Party’ they had banked on and were obliged to beg for police escorts to lead them out of the Capitol through jeering crowds.
Indeed, so great has been the public outcry that Democrat members of both the state’s legislative bodies, the Assembly and the Senate, felt impelled to exile themselves to neighbouring Illinois in an unsuccessful attempt to deprive Republicans of the quorums required for the passage of the enabling legislation.
This has led to the spectacle, in equal parts farcical and sinister, of the police being drafted in to help ‘persuade’ legislators to return to Madison and, in the governor’s phrase, “do their jobs” – ie, do a job on the working class. Walker ordered police to the home of Mark Miller, leader of the Democrat senate minority, to escort him back to Madison, but there was no answer.
This ‘principled stand’ by Democrats was eloquent testimony to the depth of popular anger aroused by Walker’s class assault, but could not conceal the hollowness of the challenge coming from this rival capitalist party. Obama’s supposed panacea of ‘cuts + growth’, or ‘Keynesianism lite’, is as full of holes as Ed Miliband and Brendan Barber’s pale imitation in Britain.
Like their UK counterparts, the Democrats like to pretend that a capitalist solution to the capitalist crisis is possible without the necessity for drastic cuts in the living standards of the masses. Whilst correctly pointing out that Governor Walker has himself exacerbated Wisconsin’s indebtedness by his earlier tax-cut profligacy, and making out a plausible case that the level of indebtedness is in any case not yet of an order as to require such deep cuts, the Democrats throw dust in workers’ eyes when they conclude from all this that Walker’s anti-worker agenda is simply an ideological vagary of the Republicans and loony Tea Party activists; simply a nightmare from which a pro-Democrat recall campaign could deliver everyone.
Organised labour has been prominent in the Wisconsin resistance, providing much of the backbone of the struggle. However, the unions suffer from their political association with the Democrats, as was evidenced by the suicidal policy of running up the white flag on the issue of the 7 percent wage cut, on the certifiable grounds that such a ‘magnanimous’ concession from the unions would be bound to make Walker ‘reconsider’ his hostility to collective bargaining.
The protesting mail-carrier from Madison who told the New York Times, “I don’t feel that you lose when you give something to gain something, that’s how democracy is supposed to work,” summed up in a nutshell the illusions that prevent opportunist unions from becoming fighting unions. (‘Unions debate what to give to save bargaining’ by Michael Cooper and Steven Greenhouse, 27 February 2011)
Conversely, the implacable cynicism of Walker’s response to the unions’ own goal – drily noting that their concessions on the 7 percent wage cut were “an interesting development, because a week ago they said that’s not acceptable” – should serve as a warning against entertaining any further such rose-tinted views of bourgeois democracy, red as it is in tooth and claw.
The bourgeoisie will come to regret having so unceremoniously pulled the rug out from under a whole history of class collaboration between opportunist unions and the capitalist bosses. The public-service tradition of relatively well paid, secure jobs with associated health guarantees and decent pensions, so roundly mocked by Walker and his Tea Party cronies, have helped form the material basis on which opportunism has flourished.
In destroying it, capitalism not only risks sparking major popular revolts like the one still rumbling on in Wisconsin, but also assisting in the disposal of those very reformist illusions that, for the moment, prevent those revolts from maturing into revolution.
> Theory: The crisis of overproduction and the price of oil - August 2004
> Marx against Keynes - Lalkar September 2009
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Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are powerful wireless communication systems. Bluetooth is considered to be the better option when it comes to transferring data from one device to another, provided that these devices are close to each other, and when the data transfer speed is not essential. Basically, Bluetooth is used by phones, printers, modems and headsets. On the other hand, Wi-Fi works much better for large networks, being capable of using much faster connections and having an improved wireless security.
The newest Bluetooth standards make use of three different protocols: the classic Bluetooth, the high speed Bluetooth and the low energy Bluetooth. One of the main goals that was achieved with the new Bluetooth 4.0 standard is less power consumption. Basically, the chips will use much less power when data is not transferred. Of course, when you will want to transfer data, the Bluetooth connection will become live, but it will only stay active and use the battery while you are using it. When the two devices communicate via Bluetooth, the battery loss is considered to be minimal.
Bluetooth allows you to make payments using a digital wallet, from one device to another, without using an Internet connection. This way all your data and personal information do not get on the net, staying private. Another huge improvement is related to the connection speed. With the 4.0 standard, the data can be transferred at speeds of up to 24 Mbps.
Bluetooth’s main competitor – Wi-Fi Direct – can create wireless connections without needing a router. Also, connecting to nearby devices through Wi-Fi is done in a jiffy. The device become an access point, allowing other Wi-Fi enabled devices to connect to it. Currently, Wi-Fi Direct can reach speeds of up to 250 Mbps.
The first conclusion is clear: when it comes to speed, Wi-Fi direct is ten times faster than Bluetooth. Wi-Fi direct is easily the best option when you want to transfer videos, for example.
When it comes to distance, tests run by the Data Alliance experts clearly show that Wi-Fi Direct covers an area that can easily reach 600 feet. Of course, this is the maximum theoretical range, and it may not be that big in real life situations. On the other hand, Bluetooth 4.0 has a range that is dependent on the device, but should exceed 200 feet for most devices. So here’s another win for Wi-Fi Direct.
Bluetooth 4.0 uses a special encryption system which protects the data that is being transferred, but Wi-Fi direct does exactly the same. Let’s say it’s a draw here.
When it comes to compatibility, both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi direct can connect to older devices. But when it comes to energy consumption, Bluetooth is a clear winner. If you are using a smartphone to do a lot of work, this very feature may be the decisive factor to consider when comparing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi direct.
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As we approach a year since our plant based and vegan delivery service began in Bangkok, we’re sharing our recipe for chickpea salad. This simple dish has been one of the most popular recipes this past tumultuous year.
We hope this filling, oil-free, and healthy dish will also become a staple in your kitchen as well. The recipe is great for people with dietary restrictions, can be used as an appetizer, and versatile enough to include other vegetables you may have on hand.
Remember if you find this recipe helpful to consider making a donation to Courageous Kitchen. For our friends and fans Bangkok based, you can order this dish from our menu, where you can also find our delivery schedule and other details.
Chickpea Salad Ingredients
Utensils: Mixing bowl, citrus squeezer (optional)
- 150g Cooked Chickpeas
- 80g Cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/4 Bell pepper, diced
- 1/2 Large shallot, diced
- 1/2 Japanese cucumber, diced
- 3-4 Cilantro stems, sliced
- Skin of a large chili, deseeded and sliced thin (optional)
Oil Free Thai Salad Dressing
- 2-3 Limes, squeezed
- 2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 Tsp CCV (Coconut cider vinegar)
- 1-2 Tsp Palm Sugar
- 1/2 Tsp Sea Salt
- 1 Tbsp Italian Herb Seasoning
- 1 Tbsp Black pepper, cracked (optional)
- 1 Tbsp Toasted Sesame Seeds
Chickpea Salad Instructions
- Chop and mix all of your ingredients in a mixing bowl and set aside.
- Mix all the liquids for your salad dressing. Finish it by dissolving in your palm sugar.
- Adjust to taste and serve by pouring over your salad. Mix well and enjoy.
Credit: This recipe was written and contributed by Panisha Chanwilai of Thai Plant Based Recipes’ Facebook Group.
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Great River Health Systems Recognizes Service Hero
July 14, 2010 –
Shanon McGraw, Information Systems, was recently named a Great River Health Systems EXCEL Service Hero.
Tiffany Wellington, Administration, nominated McGraw. "Shanon has been working very hard to get software installed for the medical-staff office. She is very friendly and, when talking on the telephone, I can hear the smile in her voice," Wellington wrote.
Great River Health Systems regularly recognizes employees who demonstrate actions that extend beyond routine, expected employee behavior. Criteria for the service hero award are based on the health systems' philosophy of care. EXCEL stands for Enthusiastically friendly, X-ceeding expectations, Caring and compassion, Energetic teamwork, and Leadership and professionalism.
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Woodward's evidence is from his own Plan of Attack and from the 9/11 Commission Report. Former counterterrorism director Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies provides corroboration that Rumsfeld was fixated on Iraq from the beginning. Clarke implies that driving Rumsfeld's focus was Wolfowitz:
On the morning of the 12th DOD's focus was already beginning to shift from al Qaeda. CIA was explicit now that al Qaeda was guilty of the attacks, but Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's deputy, was not yet persuaded. It was too sophisticated and complicated an operation, he said, for a terrorist group to have pulled off by itself, without a state sponsor--Iraq must have been helping them...This account is consistent with Woodward's, which recounts that on Sept. 15, "Bush rejected going after Iraq," but that on Nov. 21, Bush likely did ask Rumsfeld for contingency plans.
By the afternoon on Wednesday, Secretary Rumsfeld was talking about broadening the objectives of our response and "getting Iraq." Secretary Powell pushed back, urging a focus on al Qaeda...
Later in the day, Secretary Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq, which, he said, had better targets. At first I thought Rumsfeld was joking. But he was serious and the President did not reject out of hand the idea of attacking Iraq. Instead, he noted that what we needed to do with Iraq was change the government, not just hit it with more cruise missiles, as Rumsfeld had implied.
On the 12th and 13th the discussions wandered: what was our objective, who was the enemy, was our reaction to be a war on terrorism in general or al Qaeda in specific? If it was all terrorism we would fight, did we have to attack the anti-government forces in Colombia's jungles too? Gradually, the obvious prevailed: we would go to war with al Qaeda and the Taliban. The compromise consensus, however, was that the struggle against al Qaeda and the Taliban would be the first stage in a broader war on terrorism. It was also clear that there would be a second stage (pp 30-31).
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Hellllllloooooo!!!! Take a moment to go to Youtube Channel to check out my new video! Don’t forget to Like, comment and Subscribe!!! Pics of my finds below!!! Love Yall!!!!
Spring is definitely upon us. Crisp early mornings eventually leads into luke-warm afternoons. This is also when our wardrobe transitions and we have to be prepared for the un-even temperatures. We feel the light and airiness of spring but still want to dress weather appropriate (Well…most of us do..some need to slow down just bit…Im… Continue reading This Past Sunday…Spring Forward! (OOTD)
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Buying the outstanding jumper gould is important for you and we know it very well.
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The International Criminal Court says intermediaries have been in touch with a fugitive son of the late Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi, to discuss a possible surrender so he can face trial.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo also said Saturday the court has learned that mercenaries are trying to help Seif al-Islam Gadhafi flee to an African country.
Moreno-Ocampo said his office could order an interception of a plane trying to take him to another nation. Recent reports have said Seif al-Islam was traveling through the Sahara to a neighboring country.
The ICC has charged Seif al-Islam Gadhafi with crimes against humanity. He is accused of killing civilian protesters during the uprising against his father's regime.
On Saturday, the Reuters news service quoted Moreno-Ocampo as saying Seif al-Islam told intermediaries he is innocent of the charges.
In other news, NATO is preparing to wrap up its seven-month-old Libya mission on Monday.
NATO ministers approved a resolution Friday that will terminate the alliance's air campaign. NATO made its decision a day after the U.N. Security Council voted to cancel its mandate that established the mission.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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Soil nutrients are divided into two groups according to their demanded quantity by the plants. The macronutrients are those that are demanded in relatively high levels, such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and sulfur (S). The micronutrients, which are needed only in trace amounts, are iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), boron (B), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), chloride (Cl), sodium (Na), nickel (Ni), silicon (Si), cobalt (Co) and selenium (Se). They are also called 'essential mineral elements' or mineral nutrients. Any deficiency of a nutrient, no matter how small the amount needed, it will hold back plant development and manifest in visible signs on plants. Therefore proper fertilizing management and supplemental feeding of plants it's very important.
Often a lack of nutrients may seem like an attack of the disease. For example:
- Curling backwards of tomato leaves and purple coating on the reverse of leaves means a lack of phosphorus
- Bitter pits of fruits means calcium deficiency
- The appearance of yellow and green spots on tomato fruits means a lack of potassium
- Peak blight of vegetable fruits means calcium deficiency
- Cork creations on vegetable fruits means lack of boron
- Autumn red leaves of blueberries means lack of nitrogen
Preventive measures for nutrient disorders is accurate fertilization according to soil supply of nutrients and dosage of nutrients as plants required. To make your farm management profitable and worth of all your effort, it's necessary to make soil analysis and then fertilizing.
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Equities have been the star performers of 2023, delivering stellar returns to investors across the globe. The Indian stock market, in particular, has witnessed a record-breaking rally, with the BSE Sensex crossing 71,000 and the Nifty 21,000 for the first time in history. But as the year draws to a close, the question on everyone’s mind is: can equities continue their winning streak in 2024?
There are several factors that contributed to the equity boom in 2023, both domestic and global. Some of the key drivers are:
- Economic recovery: The global economy bounced back strongly from the pandemic-induced slowdown, thanks to the widespread vaccination and fiscal stimulus. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected the world economy to grow by 6.2 percent in 2023, the fastest pace since 1976. India, too, witnessed a robust recovery, with the GDP growth estimated at 9.5 percent for the fiscal year 2023-24, the highest among the major economies.
- Liquidity and low interest rates: The central banks around the world maintained an accommodative monetary policy stance, keeping the interest rates low and injecting liquidity into the financial system. This boosted the risk appetite of investors, who flocked to equities in search of higher returns. The US Federal Reserve, in particular, delayed its tapering and rate hike plans, despite the rising inflation pressures, which supported the global equity markets.
- Corporate earnings: The corporate sector showed resilience and profitability in the face of the pandemic challenges, posting impressive earnings growth across sectors and regions. The Indian corporate earnings, for instance, grew by 35 percent year-on-year in the September quarter, beating the expectations. The earnings growth was broad-based, with sectors such as IT, pharma, metals, consumer, and banking leading the way.
- Reforms and policy support: The governments and regulators also played a key role in supporting the equity markets, by announcing various reforms and policy measures to boost growth and investment. The Indian government, for example, announced several initiatives, such as the National Monetisation Pipeline, the Production-Linked Incentive scheme, the Bad Bank, the GST reforms, and the privatization of public sector enterprises, which improved the business sentiment and outlook.
What are the challenges and opportunities for equities in 2024?
While equities have enjoyed a phenomenal run in 2023, they may face some headwinds and uncertainties in 2024. Some of the potential challenges and opportunities are:
- Inflation and interest rates: The biggest risk for the equity markets in 2024 is the rising inflation, which may force the central banks to tighten their monetary policy sooner than expected. The US Fed, for instance, has indicated that it may start tapering its bond purchases in early 2024, and may hike the interest rates by mid-2024, depending on the inflation trajectory. This may trigger a sell-off in the equity markets, especially in the emerging markets, which are vulnerable to the capital outflows and currency depreciation.
- Geopolitical and regulatory risks: The equity markets may also face some geopolitical and regulatory risks, which may increase the volatility and uncertainty. The tensions between the US and China, the political instability in Afghanistan, the Iran nuclear deal, the Brexit negotiations, and the climate change issues are some of the geopolitical factors that may affect the global equity markets. The regulatory risks, such as the antitrust actions against the big tech companies, the tax reforms, the data privacy laws, and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) norms, may also have an impact on the equity valuations and performance.
- Sectoral and thematic opportunities: Despite the challenges, the equity markets may also offer some sectoral and thematic opportunities, which may outperform the broader market. The sectors that may benefit from the economic recovery, the digital transformation, the innovation, and the consumer demand are likely to do well in 2024. Some of the themes that may gain traction are the green energy, the electric vehicles, the healthcare, the fintech, the e-commerce, and the gaming.
How should investors position themselves for 2024?
The equity markets are expected to remain buoyant in 2024, but may also witness some corrections and consolidation, as the valuations are stretched and the expectations are high. Therefore, investors should adopt a balanced and diversified approach, and focus on the quality and growth aspects of the companies. Investors should also be prepared for the volatility and uncertainty, and have a long-term horizon and a disciplined strategy. Equities are still the best asset class for wealth creation, but investors should be realistic and prudent in their expectations and decisions.
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“Last Trek to Beirut – from breakthrough at Medjel Yaba to Beirut.”
The three Brigades of 54 Division held their positions to the south through the spring and early summer of 1918, and the stronghold of Medjel Yaba was taken in September of that year. The Brief Record documents the ruin of Sirisia taken by 163 Brigade on 19th September, with 600 prisoners and 11 guns taken.
Early October saw the Division advance to Haifa, continuing the march north to Beirut at the end of the month. My grandfather has noted in the margins of the Brief Record: “as the 161 Brigade ambulance had to remain at Haifa, a small number of men (self included) were detailed from 163 Ambulance (including me) with 2 MO’s to accompany the 161 Brigade from Haifa to Beirut.”
The Brief Record notes that 54 Division marched through Beirut on 31st October 1918, at the hour Turkish hostilities ceased.
All of the the following photographs were taken by Harry Belson, or with his camera, and captions, where present, are as noted by him.
The Turkish Light Railway crossing a hill stream. This was on the coast, the hills running right down to the sea, the road hewn a ledge out along the rock. The scenery was fine. I find this is the famous “Dog River”.
The coastal town now more commonly spelt “Juniya” or “Jounieh”. Modern photographs show how dramatically the townscape has changed in front of the distinctive hillside backdrop.
Arrival in Beirut marked the end of the War and the end of my grandfather’s long trek north through Egypt and Palestine. Another marginal note in the Brief Record reads: “54 Division – November – Embarked at Beirut & proceeded to Suez and then to Cairo to deal with rioting in Egypt.”
© Paul Barham, May 2018
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Hotel and Hospitality
Bartlett LLP has established a multi-disciplinary hotel and hospitality industry team to coordinate our broad range of experience serving clients in the hotel and restaurant (hospitality) industry.
Our group is well-equipped to handle the most sophisticated needs for our clients in all sectors of the hotel and restaurant industry including: serious personal injury cases, security violations, design and construction defects, motor vehicle claims, crime-related injuries, high value property loss, and contractual disputes.
Our attorneys have a proven track record representing major hotel chains as well as individually-owned properties including hotels, restaurants, bars and other businesses regarding dram shop and liquor liability issues. Through declaratory judgment actions and alternative resolution techniques including mediation and arbitration, we aggressively defend hospitality, dram shop, and liquor liability claims from pre-suit through trial and appeal.
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I posted a photo of this on Instagram the other day, and one of you lovely people who follow me was like “Recipe?” and I thought, you know what? Recipe. This one’s for you, Jennifer; you know who you are. Thank you.
I don’t need to stall just to think of something awesome to say about this little plate of food, because – brown as it may be – this little plate of food is already awesome. Why make anyone sit through words if they don’t need to? There’s no rule in life which states that I have to write x amount of words about anything.
So, here: recipe. Another one from the “Shannon loves a fast put-together in the summer” files. This time, it comes from Jamie Oliver: my newest chef obsession stemming from nowhere, so far as I can tell. I’ve avoided getting mixed up in Jamie Oliver for maybe 15 years, and now? Hooked. As Jamie would say, I’m gobsmacked.
More on that later; for now, we feast on this delightful mess of things. Found in Jamie O’s Food Escapes: Over 100 Recipes from the Great Food Regions of the World, it’s easily missed, hiding out on a page of random tapas suggestions. I do it a bit differently than he did: where his is laying solo on a plate (a great way to go, don’t get me wrong), I set mine on a bed of either regular or white bean hummus. An extra treat, to be sure, and it does double work of making the dish go further but also become more of a thing you set atop a slice of grilled bread (and I will squeeze in some grilled bread at every opportunity.)
If the idea of coating toasted pine nuts with honey, lemon, and fresh thyme and subsequently tossing them with artichokes and dumping them on a plate of hummus sounds weird to you, so be it. It’s weird amazing, and you’ll want this again and again. Also: takes like 4 minutes from start to finish – the perfect summer bite. You could even make this with my Persian watermelon salad from the other day and have yourself the best little summer snack meal on the planet.
Adapted (mostly in a measurements way; I like an extra sticky pine nut) from Food Escapes: Over 100 Recipes from the Great Food Regions of the World by Jamie Oliver. I have about 830 more recipes planned from this book, so you may as well settle in.
Sticky Pine Nuts and Artichokes
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- thick zest strips from 1/2 lemon (don’t even THINK about grating it)
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 10-ounce jar whole artichokes, drained (larger ones halved, if you wish)
- 2 to 3 tsp honey
- Pinch (or more) chile flake
- kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
- Baguette, sliced diagonally, for serving
- 3 Tbsp olive oil, for brushing bread
- Regular or white bean hummus, plain (no flavor varieties here), for serving
Make that spread:
Heat olive oil in a medium nonstick pan over medium heat. Add zest and fry for a few minutes until a little crisp and fragrant; add thyme and pine nuts, stirring and tossing constantly until the pine nuts begin to toast and everything smells like heaven.
Add artichokes to the pan of delicious; stir in honey, still over medium heat, until coated. Season with a little chile flake, salt and pepper and cook for a few minutes until artichokes have warmed through. Check seasoning and add more as needed; remove from heat.
Grill that bread:
Heat either your grill (you know, if you’re using it anyway) or a grill pan (easier) to medium high heat. Brush pan with a little olive oil, and brush both sides of bread slices. Grill a few minutes on each side until grill marks form; set aside to platter.
Spread however much hummus you want on a plate, dump all that artichoke pine nut mix in the middle, and serve warm with grilled bread alongside.
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FIRE SURROUNDS, CHESTERFIELD, DERBYSHIRE
Locally Manufactured Fireplaces and Fire Surrounds in Derbyshire
All of our fire surrounds are manufactured locally in Sheffield. They are all bespoke and made to the highest standard.
Why not call into our fireplace showroom in Chesterfield to view our range for yourself and speak to one of our experts?
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To the Journal editor:
The Armalite rifle configuration firearm has been around for over 50 years, the patent was purchased from Armalite by Colt which after some modifications was adopted by the U.S. military as the M-16, a select fire full auto capable firearm.
A semi automatic-only version was also made available to civilians as the AR15. Today, many manufacturers here and abroad make Armalite configuration firearms in calibers from 22LR rim fire on up.
Armalite configuration firearms have and continue to be used each year at the Camp Perry matches in Ohio. Camp Perry is perhaps the largest and oldest shooting competition in the U.S., which attracts shooters from around the world.
Armalite configuration rifles have and continue to be used for hunting by some throughout the U.S. The term AR15 is patented by Colt Firearms Co. just like Q Tip is patented by Johnson & Johnson.
Should you wish a hands-on experience with the evil AR rifle, visit the Negaunee Rod & Gun Club on June 22, I'm sure someone will accommodate you. Should you wish to shoot my black rifle, you must also shoot a shotgun (recommended by Vice President Joseph Biden) and drive my evil SUV as well.
One should do a bit of personal research to avoid spreading the disinformation of agenda driven persons and politicians.
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Everyone who has worked in or visited a building without air conditioning during a hot summer knows just how uncomfortable an experience it can be.
Hot, sweaty staff and customers struggle with concentration and there can be an increase in drowsiness and headaches. Productivity can go down while the number of sick days increase, but rectifying the situation may not be as simple as installing air conditioning.
Whilst this will certainly help solve issues with overheating, it is unlikely to deal with the quality of the internal air, unless some form of mechanical ventilation is also included.
With average person spending 80-90% of their time indoors, the quality of the air inside a building has a massive impact on their comfort and wellbeing – far more than the simple measure of temperature.
You’d be amazed at how poor the indoor air can be, caused by chemicals and pollutants created within occupied spaces
Missing the point
As an air conditioning manufacturer, we tend to see an increase in sales of smaller units in the summer as businesses that have previously made do without comfort cooling realise they need to find ways to stop their staff and customers overheating.
However, comfort in the workplace goes far beyond indoor temperature during a heat wave so we would always recommend looking at ventilation as well.
Unfortunately, many businesses that rush to install cooling to cope with the heat of the summer are reluctant to spend a little bit more on air quality and will therefore be missing the real point of occupant comfort.
When a building is built today, the proposed building is modelled on computer software taking into consideration solar gains from the orientation of the building and how air tight and insulated the building is. From this an overheating risk is calculated and to combat any overheating – a ventilation strategy is always the first port of call.
In an older building, the ventilation strategy could have simply of been to have openable windows. However if a cooling system is installed the windows should now be kept closed to avoid wasting energy and money, impacting on the amount of air that can move in and out of the building.
What many businesses will not realise though is that indoor air is often potentially more harmful than the outdoor air and as a result in changing the ventilation strategy, we can quickly see a build-up of chemicals and other pollutants, within the occupied spaces.
Not only can this poor air quality in an office environment reduce the wellbeing of employees, and affect performance, businesses may also be failing in their duty of care as an employer by placing their staff in an environment that could adversely impact their health.
Poor air quality damages health
The news has rightly been full of stories about poor air quality in our towns and cities, but the hidden danger to health of indoor air quality has simply not received as much exposure.
If employees are regularly complaining about headaches, sore, itchy eyes, drowsiness and lack of concentration then this is often a sign of poor quality indoor air.
This will not be solved simply with the addition of air conditioning because, whilst helping regulate indoor temperature to provide comfort to occupants, the air conditioning will do nothing about the build-up of chemicals and pollutants within our buildings.
It’s a well-known attribute of being human that we convert oxygen to carbon dioxide when we breathe and this build-up of CO2 can make internal spaces stuffy and unpleasant to be in. But we aren’t the only pollutant generator found inside buildings.
A not so popularly recognised substance classed as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) can cause health effects much worse than CO2.
These VOC’s come from many sources including aerosol sprays, cleaning and disinfectant products, air fresheners, electrical equipment such as printers and photocopiers, and even from perfumes and dry cleaned clothing!
All these things are very common in an office environment, making the need to remove internal air and replace it with fresh air a significant priority if you are trying to provide a comfortable and safe place for staff and customers.
The UK’s Health & Safety Executive found that 30-50% of newly constructed or renovated buildings showed at least some element of sick building syndrome (SBS) – a condition where otherwise healthy individuals experience symptoms of physical distress in the workplace. Up to 85% of the occupants within these classified ‘sick’ buildings experienced symptoms of SBS.
So how can we ensure that building occupants are provided with enough air at a comfortable temperature to be both productive and healthy, whilst using the least amount of energy possible?
Finding the right solution
This is where MVHR or Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery systems working in tandem with air conditioning can play such an effective role.
MVHR’s are specifically designed to deliver fresh air to a building whilst simultaneously extracting stale air in the most energy efficient way. They do this using advanced heat recovery technology.
As stale air is extracted from a building, up to 80% of the temperature of the outgoing air is recovered and transferred to the incoming fresh air, keeping the building at a comfortable temperature and helping reduce overall energy costs.
If the indoor air is 21°C for example, but the outdoor air is 27°C, then any incoming air needs to be cooled down to 21°C, which means the air conditioning needs to work harder and consume more energy.
With MVHR though, the incoming air into the building will be 22.3°C, by recovering some of temperature drop from the cooler outgoing air. This new air therefore needs less energy to bring it down to the desired temperature, saving energy needed to run the air conditioning.
Furthermore a MVHR equipped with a bypass damper will be able to bring in air direct from outside when the evening approaches and the outside temperature drops, providing cooling for free whenever it can. This can also be used as a ‘night purge’ where the unit is time clocked under certain conditions to replace all the air inside with cooler night time air to help combat the steady rise in temperature due to passive electrical equipment and give the air conditioning less heat to fight against in the morning.
Include a CO2 sensor to monitor the air quality inside to control the rate of ventilation, ensuring the quantity of air meets the requirements for the number of occupants present and further saving energy.
In the winter the heat may go away but the benefits of MVHR remain. If the indoor air is 21°C and the outdoor air is 2.5°C, by recovering the heat the MVHR will bring in new air at 17°C which again will give the heating system less work to do.
Two types of heat
The best systems are able to deal with both latent heat (moisture and humidity) and sensible heat (temperature) keeping them in balance to deliver a comfortable internal environment that reduces the likelihood of employees suffering from airborne illnesses.
When you consider the fact that 90% of business operating costs are staff related, small changes to the working environment can either help or hinder business growth and success.
Beyond the health implications associated with poor indoor air quality, ranging from respiratory problems, to discomfort and even time off work, it has been estimated that businesses can achieve an 11% increase in productivity thanks to the reduction of airborne pollutants and the delivery of fresh air to workstations.
Couple this with MVHR systems that have a thermal efficiency of 95% and businesses can save an additional 30% on overall running costs, deliver excellent energy efficiency, and provide a healthy environment for your building occupants.
Now that has to be worth looking at, doesn’t it?
Hern Yau, Ventilation Product Manager at Mitsubishi Electric
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Honfest 2014 is June 14-15!
Honfest’s hours are: Saturday 11am-10pm, Sunday 12-6pm.
The annual “Gathering of the Hons” will be Saturday June 14 at 4pm at Roland & 36th. (All of those dressed up will come together for a photo — what fun!)
Parking will be available for $5 at the garage at 41st & Keswick, thanks to Johns Hopkins University, who owns the lot. The $5 will go to charity.
So, what is Honfest?
Honfest is a fun event with live music, vendors, food, beer, shopping and activities. There are three stages with live entertainment going on throughout both days. There is a “Glamour Lounge where people get “hon’d up” with colorful eye shadow and beehive hairdos. There are contests for “Best Hon,” “L’il Miss Hon,” trivia, talent shows, and a whole lot of interesting adventures. (Visit their website for more details.)
Come to Hampden June 14 & 15 for fun, music, local restaurants, stores, artists, and more!
Photo courtesy of Sensual Shadows Photography via Flickr CCTags: 34th Street, 36th Street, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Hampden, Hampden houses, Honfest, Keswick
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The ACDA -10 STUDIO has the same performance as the wood or paint finished units that sell for 1,350.00.
Costs are managed by sealing the exterior finish with a moisture proof barrier. The side walls have been widened to allow for more gripping space to hold on to as you move the units around in your studio.
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All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check which will be paid for by Thera.
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Kickboxing star believes Conor McGregor is stuck at welterweight because of steroids
Joe Schilling is sticking to his guns about the growth of Conor McGregor's guns.
The Glory kickboxing star and training partner of Nate Diaz suggested that McGregor may be juicing in an interview shortly after it was announced that Diaz would be stepping in to fight the featherweight champion in UFC 196's main event.
Now that the rematch has been booked to headline the landmark UFC 200 event, Schilling hasn't changed his opinion on how Conor McGregor managed to pack on the pounds and move up to welterweight, despite a total lack of evidence that anything untoward is going on.
He told The MMA Underground that he believes McGregor is unable to drop down from 170 lbs because he's using banned substances.
"If we're going to talk about weight-gains and why he would want to stay at that weight class I don't think it's going to be that different when Nate talks about how you're on steroids."
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If you're in the midwest, you'll notice a big change in temperature when you wake this morning. It's gone from quite-warm to chilly-toes weather overnight.
I personally love the cooler weather (note: I did not say COLD weather!) and it must be in God's plans to give today a little nip in the air because today happens to be Stitch and Pitch Day - where during a Mets baseball game, there is a special event happening where folks will gather and knit or crochet scarves and hats to help Warm Up America.
How fun! I hope all who attend and participate in this great event have a stitching-good-time!
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By: Laura Kelton
WASHINGTON (AP/TheLoop) – The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to allow California to implement the first greenhouse gas standards on cars and trucks was appealed Thursday by auto dealers and business leaders.
This decision has allowed California to put in place a 2002 state pollution law setting tougher fuel efficiency requirements in cars and trucks by 2016.
California regulations have been in limbo for five years as they have tried to push tougher pollution control laws. While prior restraints involved the Bush administration, it seems now that The National Automobile Dealers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are stepping in the way as they have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to review the EPA’s decision.
President of Clean Air Watch, Frank O’Donnell said, “It’s very clear that the Chamber of Commerce and the auto dealers hope to flatten the tires of the California car standards.”
It seems that the appeal is directed to undermine President Obama’s future policies to curb global warming, such as regulations to set fuel efficiency in cars and trucks at 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.
California stands as a model in the movements toward a more green society. States that plan to follow suit in establishing greenhouse gas standards include:
- New Mexico
- New Jersey
- New York
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Motions on the petition to stop the law are due in October. This petition would allow auto dealers and the Chamber to request to block the order at a later date.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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The Chapels of Notre Dame, by Lawrence S. Cunningham, John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology, and Matt Cashore, senior university photographer at the University of Notre Dame, has been published by University of Notre Dame Press.
The book features a collection of some 200 full-color photographs taken by Cashore interspersed with Cunningham’s commentary on the theological, artistic, architectural, and historic dimensions of the 57 chapels embedded throughout Notre Dame’s campus. Ranging in focus from the storied Log Chapel on the south bank of St. Mary’s Lake, where Mass has been celebrated since 1831, to the sparsely adorned Flanner Hall chapel on that building’s second floor, where students and staff members often spend a few moments in quiet prayer, it provides a unique and intimate glimpse of faith as it is lived at Notre Dame.
“This beautiful book illustrates many of those places on our campus where the faith is performed in its formal worship as well as in its informal prayers and devotions,” says Notre Dame president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. “The chapels on the campus of Notre Dame are a visible testimony to our common Catholic faith; a lasting reminder of the generosity of our many benefactors; and an iconic tribute of that beauty coming from human hands as a reflection of the source of all beauty—God.”
The Patheos.com website selected The Chapels of Notre Dame as its August book club selection.
A book launch and signing for The Chapels of Notre Dame will be held September 21 at 3:30 p.m. in the lobby of Notre Dame’s Eck Visitor Center. The event is being sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President, the Department of Theology, and the University of Notre Dame Press and will include remarks by Cunningham and Notre Dame’s executive vice president, John Affleck-Graves.
Learn More >
- Department of Theology
- Lawrence S. Cunningham faculty page
- The Chapels of Notre Dame
- University of Notre Dame Press
Originally published at newsinfo.nd.edu.
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Released as part of the yearly Kahvi Collective compilation “Fields” in 2016. Download for free there:
Made in 120 minutes (excluding the final mixing process) as a challenge 🙂
Strange things happen… 😀
And it was SO MUCH fun making this happen! No destination, no compulsion, no sense. Just inside out.
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Week Six - Day Four
Why Study the Bible?
2 Peter 1:16-21 - For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone‘s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
In John 15, Jesus explained that abiding in him meant to have an understanding and practice of his words. The New Testament writers that followed expounded on this. Peter, as one of the 12 apostles, had the honor of being taught and discipled by Jesus. He was one of the two disciples who ran to see the empty tomb (John 20:3-9). Jesus called him the rock on which his church would be built (Matthew 16:18). Yet in this letter to the church, Peter says that Scripture is even better than his own eyewitness account because it comes directly from God. It is reliable to reveal truth, like a light shining in a dark place. What a precious gift he has given us! But we haven’t been given this gift without a purpose. Rather, as Peter goes on to warn his readers in chapter 2, false prophets and teachers will attempt to mislead the church with destructive heresy. In Ephesians 6:12, Paul reminds us that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” “Therefore,” Paul says, “put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground” (Ephesians 6:13a). Both Peter and Paul remind the church of the importance of being strongly rooted in God’s word (2 Peter 1:19, Ephesians 6:14-17), and Peter specifically warns the church to be on the ready for false teaching (1 Peter 5:8). God has given us his word not only as a reliable guide, but as a useful weapon in the battles we face.
- How has God's word been a gift to you?
- Research shows that studying the Bible 4 times per week is a turning point for many Christians in how it affects their life. Is studying the Bible a priority in your life?
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- How can you help others see his word as applicable in their life?
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If you name your child 'Thor', you're putting one heck of a weighty expectation on his life. Thankfully, in the case of Hafthor Júlíus Björnsson's parents, they were on the money.
Having already smashed one ancient strongman record earlier this year by lifting a 640kg tree on his way to becoming the World's Strongest Viking, the athlete and actor best known for his burly portrayal of Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane (he's the one with a sword longer than most national borders) set another Herculean feat at the Arnold Strongman Classic event.
After some "ups and downs" during the contest, dropping points in the deadlift event, Thor Björnsson took to the stage for the single-arm kettle bell toss. By throwing a 25kg (56lbs) some 5.9 metres into the air, he set a new (admittedly strange) record.
And if that doesn't seem like a very practical skill to have, here he is winning the 500kg timber carry event.
We also hear he's pretty handy with his thumbs.
You'll be able to see Thor return as The Mountain once season five of Game of Thrones starts up on 13 April.
(Images: Rex, Instagram)
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Editorial October 2017
First of all let me wish Happy Diwali to all of you and to all our Gujarati brothers sisters, Happy New year too! It’s that time of the year of Festivals, Family, and Food. Don’t forget the sweets – no festival is complete without these treats!
For the last few years, Aruna and I have been inviting all our friends who have young children on Diwali Day to our home to perform the Diwali Puja. The young children do puja while their parents sit back and watch. Our Pandit ji is an IT graduate Varun who not only performs a very authentic puja, but also explains the meaning of every ritual.
I hope you do not mind if I plug one of my books. Keeping in mind last year’s Diwali celebration at our home, I wrote a book We love Diwali, a children’s story book with pictures and a simple explanation of how Hindu, Jain and Sikh celebrate Diwali.
In India, unfortunately, family is not part of the festivals. These days, rather than celebrating festivals with Family, the trend is to go to an out of town vacation spot. And not even with the whole family, but just on their own. This major culture shift between Indians living in this country versus Indians living back home is very apparent.
I have mentioned this before, but we’ve see this upward trend in educating our children at Bal Vihar or children achieving top positions at spelling bee or young adults taking care of senior parents. I’m not the only one who has noticed this shift. Recently, I was watching a Bollywood film Beshumar Ishq. Similar to most Bollywood movies, this is also a love triangle. Half of the family members live in London and half live in Mumbai.
A major culture shift shows where London-born and raised Zumzum is more inclined with ancient Indian culture, where she prefers to visit the History of India in Rajasthan versus her Indian counterpart who wants to party in Goa.
Most of you who have read my column in the past know how passionate I feel about Hindu heritage and Indian culture in our youth so I can go and on on talking about those subjects, but let me stop here.
Finally, we hope all our readers in the Florida and Georgia region impacted by Hurricane Irma are safe and sound. Also, we’re sure most of you know the MyShadi Bridal Expo date changed to October 22 due to Hurricane Irma. We apologize any inconvenience caused. We hope to see you in Orlando then!
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Hypoglycaemia is a condition where there is an abnormal reduction of blood sugar and is a condition that diabetics are particularly at risk of developing. Hypoglycaemia is a potentially very dangerous condition and in severe cases can cause temporary or permanent heart and/or brain damage which can lead to seizures, coma or even death.
Hypoglycaemia is basically an excess or overdose of insulin in the body resulting in too much of the blood sugar being mooped up, as it were, and leaving the body short of the sugar that it requires to carry out its functions, and this situation can arise for a number of reasons:
1) An accidental overdose of insulin taken by a diabetic who requires insulin to manage his or her condition.
2) A lack food as, for example, a meal or snack which the body depends on to bring the blood sugar to its required level is skipped.
3) Drug use. Drugs can play some very funny tricks on the body and, especially in case of diabetics, new drugs should not be used without a clear idea of how the drug is going to impact on the body’s utilisation of insulin. Drugs should not be used unless a health care provider has approved the use of such drug. Drugs, in this context, include such stuff as vitamins and herbal supplements which can affect the body’s mechanisms in very subtle and unexpected ways.
4) The body may be forced to use an excessive amount of sugar due to illness, e.g. fever, or as a result of some otherwise mundane activity such as exercise. Certain ongoing or underlying medical conditions, such as diseases of the liver, kidneys, the adrenal, pituitary or thyroid glands will also make the body prone to excessive use of blood sugar.
Hypoglycaemia can be mild or severe and its onset can be pretty sudden giving some patients, e.g. those who are long term diabetics or those who suffer from diabetic neuropathy, or patients who are on medication for heart disease or high blood pressure very little or no notice.
The symptoms of hypoglycaemia are varied and they include shaking, sweating, anxiety attacks, irritability and restlessness. Apart from these, the patient may also exhibit personality/mood changes and other abnormal behaviours as well as an inability to concentrate. Other symptoms include dizziness, light-headedness or drowsiness, headaches, nightmares and/or insomnia, tingling in the hands, feet and tongue, slurred speech, unsteady gait and heart palpitations.
If you or anyone you know exhibits a combination of any of these symptoms, then a health care provider should be consulted immediately. In addition, persons who are undergoing a hypoglycaemic attack should not drive or use mechanical equipment as the negative effects of low blood sugar on concentration poses a great risk to themselves and others if they use such equipment.
If the attack is a mild or moderate one, the effects can be counteracted and the lost sugar replaced by consuming such high carbohydrate foods as fruit juices, milk, sugar candies, glucose tablets, etc. If one is prone to hypoglycaemia, and every diabetic patient ought to consider him or her self to fall within the class of those prone to the condition, it is wise to consult a health care provider ever before one is faced with the problem so as to ascertain the right types and amounts of carbohydrate that would be suitable in one’s case in the event of an attack.
If the condition is a severe one, then the sufferer, in the event of an attack, will almost certainly require the assistance of another person, and/or emergency medical attention, and it is wise to plan ahead. If the patient is unable to take food or liquids by mouth, then he or she will require the attention of competent medical personnel who can administer glucagon injection which will accelerate the breakdown of glycogen in the liver and cause an increase in blood sugar levels, or who will administer sugar directly into the blood by means of giving the patient glucose intravenously. Without immediate medical attention very adverse consequences, even death, can result.
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Restaurant Management Courses
What Is Restaurant Management?
Restaurant management refers to the process of making sure that a restaurant is run profitably, efficiently, and in compliance with the relevant health and safety regulations. Restaurant managers are therefore responsible for a wide variety of tasks relating to:
- Financial management (planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting)
- Marketing management (attracting new customers and retaining existing customers)
- HR management (hiring, training and supervising restaurant staff)
- Customer service management (ensuring customer satisfaction and resolving customer complaints)
- Health and safety compliance
- Quality control (making sure that food is properly prepared and presented)
Why Should You Study Restaurant Management?
You don’t need a formal qualification to work in restaurant management. However, a restaurant manager’s position comes with a high level of responsibility, and many of a restaurant manager’s duties are fairly advanced. For this reason, many employers prefer to hire managers with a good combination of formal training and experience.
Formal training in restaurant management will not only increase your likelihood of finding a job, but will also help you to work your way up to a senior management position more quickly.
Here is a brief description of what you can expect from a restaurant management course:
A restaurant management course will generally equip you with a sound theoretical foundation in restaurant and hospitality management, and will give you the opportunity to acquire relevant skills in HR management, financial management and customer service management.
A restaurant management course will teach you about:
- The duties of a restaurant manager
- The customer reception cycle
- Restaurant control structures
- Staff training and supervision
- Hygiene and food safety
- The principles of sound restaurant management
- The principles of sound customer service management
Depending on which restaurant management course you choose to study, you may also learn about business strategy and marketing management.
Restaurant Management Courses At Oxbridge Academy
You can study the following restaurant management course via distance learning at Oxbridge Academy:
This restaurant management course will equip you with the basic knowledge and skills that you need to pursue a career in restaurant management. By studying this course from home via distance learning, you will be able to work and gain experience while you study.
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Singer Irene Ntale is truly enjoying the New Year 2016 according to her latest pictures. The ‘Gyobera’ singer was seen dipping her kitone in waters of Dubai as enjoyed her holiday in the Middle East.
She later posted pictures on her wall with word holiday. Irene revealed her latest song by posting a title with “continue shining as they continue talking”.
Dip it low; Irene Ntale
“Holiday…Continue Shining as they continue talking…. Tekikusala, love you guys #teamntale #2016,”Irene posted.
Irene Ntale enjoying waters in Dubai
Who is Irene Ntale?
Irene Ntale is a Ugandan singer, songwriter and guitarist. She sings RnB, Reggae and Acoustic soul. She has been hosted on Focus on Africa (TV programme). She is the campaign ambassador for the Red Card to Drunk Driving campaign by Uganda Breweries Limited.
Irene Ntale doing a selfie during her holiday in Dubai
Early life and education
Irene Ntale was born on January 30, 1989 to Mr and Mrs George William Ntale. She started singing at school and in the church choir where she also learnt how to play the guitar. She went to Kitante primary school, Kitante Hill School for O-level and Makerere High, now Migadde College, for A-level. She did a bachelor of Procurement and Logistics Management degree at Kyambogo University.
Irene Ntale is in Dubai for holiday Music
She started singing at school and in the church choir where she also learnt how to play the guitar. She used to perform at shows, singing other artists songs, until she went to Swangz Avenue. Ntale has had hit songs since, like “Gyobera”, “Love letter” a collaboration with Bebe Cool, “Stay with me”, “Nkubukinze” and “Olindaba”.
The singer is set to release a new song
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Description: Deportation of Jews of Didimoticho and Alexandroupolis to Treblinka - Auschwitz by the Bulgarians.
Format: W62x H88mm
Rights: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Data Provider: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Provider: Judaica Europeana, Greece
Source: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Subject: Jewish Communities of Greece, synagogues, people, family photos, WWII
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E1: 41: Matrix Item / Product Variants (P41903/P410014/P4101E/P4101)
(Doc ID 1413991.1)
Last updated on MAY 25, 2021
Applies to:JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management - Version 8.9 and later
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Product Variants - Version 8.9 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
A product may be made available in several different variations. The system should support different product variations based on product attributes. The product variations could include flavor and packaging, or style and size. Each flavor, or size, is managed as a separate item but it shares the same business rules as its variations.
Enhancements introduced beginning with the 8.9 release provide a method to easily create and maintain different variations of the same product, simplified the order entry process for different variations of the same product and displays availability for different variations of the same product in a form that is better suited to multi-attribute items.
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In this Document
|Template Master (P410014)|
|Item Master (P4101)|
|Item Segment Selection (P410015)|
|Child Item Selection (P41902)|
|Item Branch Duplication - Batch Selection (R41826)|
|Purchasing and Receiving Matrix Items|
|Matrix Order Entry (P41092)|
|Selling and Shipping Matrix Items|
|Matrix Order Entry (P41902)|
|Inventory Transactions with Matrix Items|
|Inventory Inquiries with Matrix Items|
|Making Changes to Matrix Items|
|Matrix Maintenance (P41903)|
|Matrix Items (P4101E)|
|Frequently Asked Questions|
|Question 1: How are items maintained using when both matrix and non-matrix items are used? Is there a conversion program to convert regular items into matrix items?|
|Question 2: Unable to inquire on Matrix parent item via the Item Master (P4101) application. Why?|
|Question 3: What happens when transferring a quantity via P4113 from a branch that has matrix item to a branch that does not have the matrix item setup?|
|Question 4: Is it possible to use the matrix / segmented item template when creating and validating an item through the Item Master Inbound Transaction Process / R4101Z1I / P4101Z1?|
|Question 7: While performing Matrix Item Maintenance Segment Selection (P410015) and clicking the radio button for one of the segments, why are some of the Matrix Sequence Numbers (MISQ) highlighted in gray?|
|Question 8: When entering matrix items in P4210 it is expected the UOM will default from the P4210 processing option 7 "Override Transaction UOM". How does this work?|
|Question 9: Is it possible to define a Price Adjustment Detail (P4072) Record based on the Parent Segment of a Matrix Item rather than to have to create one adjustment record for every full item number?|
|Question 10: Is it possible to use a Matrix Item as a kit component so when the kit parent is entered, the Kit Selection window brings up Component Parent Items for a Matrix Component?|
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I'm Mikela Henry-Lowe and this blog will be displaying all my Art Work as I develop my skills into becoming a Professional Artist and Textile Designer. I'll be exploring a range of materials and various subject matter such as the human figure, landscapes and still life. Please leave a comment on the works you like.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
First idea for a final painitng Linked to Environments (Reflections Project)
Media Used: Acrylic Paint
This ended up being my development piece leading into my Final Paintings
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Discussion in 'Aquarium Stocking Questions' started by shiv234, Aug 5, 2017.
how tall should an angelfish tank be
I believe it's 16 inches bare minimum. Around 18 or more is best though.
Minimum is 16 inches for a regular finned , 20 for a veil
I've seen angelfish in an old public aquarium and they were huge, the tank was maybe 10' deep. After that experience I came to the conclusion that general hobbyist tanks are not even close in proper size. The deepest and widest you can fit in your home would be best, even then the angels will be stunted in growth.
You were probably seeing altum angels if it was a public aquarium, which are a separate species and I believe get taller than the type we have in the hobby, which are Pterophyllum scalare, not altum, which are rarer and very expensive.
Just to add a bit more, this is a listing for Altums If you read the description, it will tell you that Altums can grow to nearly 20".
I totally agree. I went to the Chicago aquarium, the angelfish were really large. I know here a 29 gal tank is supposed to be minimum, mention that in a German forum and you will be ripped apart. Nothing under 90 gal is acceptable and angelfish need to be kept in groups since they are social fish
That's way overdone, in my opinion, and I consider myself conservative as far as stockings go.
Well then its a good thing i am not a general hobbtist
IMO/IME ,I don't think Anglefish should be housed a 29g most recommend for them. I wouldn't put them in anything smaller then a 40g breeder.
A 20H is the minimum for a young angelfish (a half dollar sized one) but you should always stick around a fish's max size. A 29 is the minimum for a single/ pair of them with a bare bottom .
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A girl, a stranger, and a fight for justice in China
XIANGYANG, China – The young woman, new to the grind of Chinese factory life, knew the man who called himself Kalen only by the photo on his chat profile. It showed him with a pressed smile holding a paper cup in a swank skyscraper somewhere late at night.
Yu Chunyan and her friends didn’t know what to make of him. Some thought his eyes were shifty. Others said he looked handsome in a heroic sort of way.
Yu was among the doubters. The daughter of factory workers, Yu paid her way through college by working in factories herself. She and thousands of other students had toiled through the summer of 2016 assembling iPhones at a supplier for Apple Inc., but they hadn’t been paid their full wages.
Kalen was offering to help – and asking nothing in return.
This struck Yu as suspicious. If there was one thing she had learned in her 23 years it was this: “There’s no free lunch.”
Disputes like these often don’t go well for workers in China. But over the years, suicides and sweatshop scandals have pushed some companies, like Apple, to reconsider their approach to workplace fairness.
Today, a growing number of brands, including Apple, Nike Inc., Gap Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., and the H&M Group prioritize transparency and take public responsibility for conditions throughout their global supply chains. Labor rights groups like the one Kalen worked for, China Labor Watch, can play a useful watchdog role for these companies, by helping them understand what’s really going on at their suppliers.
But not everyone has embraced this new approach.
When China Labor Watch confronted Ivanka Trump’s brand with charges of labor abuses at its Chinese suppliers, her company refused to engage. It made no public effort to investigate the allegations: forced overtime, pay as low as $1 an hour, and crude verbal and physical abuse – including one incident in which a man was hit in the head with the sharp end of a high-heeled shoe.
Ivanka Trump, who still owns but no longer closely manages her namesake brand, stayed silent. Neither she nor her brand would comment for this story.
Unlike Apple, her brand doesn’t publish the identities of its manufacturers. In fact, its supply chains have only grown more opaque since the first daughter took on her White House role.
But as the summer of 2016 was ending, Yu Chunyan had no idea she was about to get an education in geopolitics and corporate social responsibility. She wanted one thing only: her wages. And she saw one way to get them: The stranger with the odd English name.
Kalen and China Labor Watch would link Yu not just to Apple, but ultimately, to the daughter of the President of the United States. Their intersecting stories highlight the contrasting approaches Apple and Ivanka Trump’s brand have taken to workplace fairness – and the impact those decisions have had on the ground in China.
It would take Yu more than a year to discover who Kalen really was.
NO HELP CAME
When Yu was still a baby, her parents went to work at a factory in one of the southern boomtowns of Guangdong province. As a child, she passed entire years without a visit from her mother or father.
This was an ordinary enough fate in China, and Yu grew up bouncing between her grandparents’ homes in central China’s Henan province.
The first extraordinary thing that happened to Yu was her high school entrance exam. She aced it, despite her middling grades, scoring even higher than the known overachievers in class.
The shock of her accomplishment gave Yu a soaring sense of her own potential. She raced to tell her mother.
“Oh,” was her mother’s stony response.
Yu’s test score opened the possibility, unsettling to her parents, that she would not marry young, produce grandchildren and start earning money for the family.
Her parents regarded aspiration warily: Excellence would only lead to inflated expectations. Just the sort of thing, her parents feared, that could crush a person. Better to remain where you are, bound by a certain, riskless horizon.
Yu did not agree. “As long as I want something, I will get it,” she decided.
Her parents let her stay in school, but if Yu wanted to go to college, she would have to pay her own way.
And so she did. She enrolled in a college in Henan province. Ultimately, she wanted to do something creative, like design; in the meantime factory jobs weren’t a bad way to make money.
In July 2016, Yu took her place on the assembly line at Jabil Inc.’s Green Point factory in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai. She spent her 12-hour shift snapping the back cover of the iPhone 7 into a mold and passing it down the line.
“It seems simple,” Yu said. “But if you work the whole day doing this your hands will be really tired. Normally, it’s a job for a man.”
Her group’s production quota kept going up, climbing from 2,000 to 50,000 units a day, Yu said. She got dizzy. Her hands hurt. She thought: “When will it be over?”
In August 2016, she quit, ignoring admonitions that her pay would be docked 500 yuan ($79, at today’s rates) for leaving early.
Yu made the 12-hour train trip back to school in Henan and on Sept. 10, her final paycheck hit her bank account. It was an ugly surprise. She was 1,100 yuan short of the 4,930 yuan she expected. Her salary was supposed to cover her tuition. Now it didn’t.
“I was furious,” she said. “I thought that no matter what I would get my money back.”
She called the factory and the labor broker who had gotten her the job only to be informed of a range of surprising fees, some legitimate, others not.
Yu called the labor union at Green Point for help. “Useless,” she said. She called the local labor bureau, but no one picked up.
On Chinese social media, Yu found a chorus of despair as other students – the children of farmers, factory and construction workers – vented on WeChat, QQ and Weibo about being stiffed.
“Everyone had an attitude like, ‘Well, it has nothing to do with me,’” said Zhuang Huaqian, an electrical engineering student at Hunan University of Technology, who spent the summer assembling iPhones in a moon suit of dust-free clothing.
The head of one of the labor brokers in the dispute, Ding Yan, said his company had done nothing wrong. “Wages are our bottom line. We will never underpay them,” he said. “I wouldn’t risk this brand.”
Frustrated, the students took their case to the press. A few articles appeared detailing their complaints, but Yu and another student said postings began to disappear. Were they being censored, they wondered?
The local government published an article on an official Weibo account that said authorities acted swiftly and more than 2,100 students had been repaid. The post included complaint hotlines workers could call.
Chen Jianbin, head of Wuxi’s labor security supervision unit, said his team had to sort through verbal contracts, informal intermediaries and fake complaints apparently lodged by people paid to smear competing labor agencies.
“We were trying our best to help,” said Chen. “Those students’ lives were not easy.”
But many students hadn’t gotten their money back.
Beneath their fury was growing desperation. Every lever of redress they had tried failed them. They had appealed for help to forces they thought they could believe in – society, the government – but no help came.
‘THE WORLD IS FULL OF GOOD PEOPLE’
There was, however, one guy, who did offer help. He called himself Kalen.
Kalen had worked in a phone factory himself, 13 years earlier, polishing cheap landline phones for a Chinese brand at a factory in Shenzhen. Back then, he didn’t realize he was being underpaid until he wandered into the office of a local labor rights group one day and learned that he wasn’t earning the legal minimum wage.
That knowledge electrified him. He devoured books about labor rights in the group’s reading room as he prepared his case. Two months later, he won 3,000 yuan in back pay through a local arbitration panel.
Kalen wondered how many other workers out there were like him, ignorant of their rights. He quit his factory job and dedicated himself to teaching workers how to use China’s laws to protect themselves.
Kalen brought his evidence-based approach to China Labor Watch, a group many of the students had never heard of before. He told them about the group’s past work with Apple suppliers and taught them how to calculate what they were owed. He admonished them to be honest as he gathered details about working hours and pay from over 200 workers.
“Seek truth from facts,” he wrote them on QQ.
In September, China Labor Watch asked Apple to intervene. The company sent a local team to investigate, reporting that 2,501 students had received back wages.
But many said they still hadn’t been fully paid.
When Kalen asked for a volunteer to write a letter to Apple, Yu was torn: Could she get kicked out of school for speaking out?
“It was so hard for me to make this money,” she said. “As long as there was a little bit of hope left I wanted to try.” She stayed up past midnight writing down everything that had happened.
On Sept. 28, Li emailed Yu’s letter to Apple.
Five days later, Apple wrote back: It had done further investigation and would ensure workers got paid for their day of training and extra work during meal breaks.
“Jabil invested hundreds of hours of staff time to contact approximately 17,000 employees,” Eric Austermann, Jabil’s vice-president of social and environmental responsibility wrote in an email to AP. “Although often lacking an email address, phone number, or other standard contact information, Jabil located all but about 5 percent of these employees, all of whom have been paid in full.”
The workers received over 2.7 million yuan ($426,000, at today’s rates), according to Jabil Green Point and an October 2017 email from Apple to China Labor Watch.
Apple declined to the comment on the case.
The students’ payments came in a few hundred or thousand yuan at a time. This was money for school, for food, a way to stay out of debt. By the end of October, Yu had gotten back everything she was owed.
She was impressed. She amended the letter she had written for Kalen, turning it into a testimonial and a statement of personal intent. China Labor Watch posted it on its website.
“Due to this experience, I am confident that the world is full of good people, people who make selfless contributions,” Yu wrote. “I wish to join a public interest organization. I wish to help others.”
But China was changing. Hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists had been swept up in a crackdown against perceived threats to the ruling Communist Party. Those with foreign ties, like China Labor Watch, were viewed with particular suspicion.
Yu had yet to grasp the perils of her growing idealism.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME
After Chinese New Year, Yu moved to Shanghai, a city she had only seen in pictures, to take a job at an interior design company. In March 2017, five months after she’d received her back pay from the factory, Yu reconnected with Kalen on WeChat.
Kalen told her China Labor Watch might need people to work undercover.
China Labor Watch was closing in on factories that made Ivanka Trump merchandise, including Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City Co.
But the thought of returning to the grind of factory life was more than she could stomach.
“I needed to push myself forward,” she said. She wanted to learn English, dress better, lose weight.
China Labor Watch ultimately sent two men to work undercover. The group obtained a video of a manager berating a worker for apparently arranging shoes in the wrong order.
“If I see them f—ing messed up again,” the manager yells, “I’ll beat you right here.” Another worker was left with blood dripping from his head after a manager hit him with the sharp end of a high heeled shoe, according to three eyewitnesses who spoke to the AP.
The Huajian Group, which runs the factory in Ganzhou, denied all the allegations as “completely not true to the facts, taken out of context, exaggerated.” In April, China Labor Watch laid out its initial findings in a letter to Ivanka Trump at the White House.
She did not respond.
Over the years, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Gap Inc., Target Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other companies took China Labor Watch seriously enough to respond to criticisms or meet Li in person, according to emails and meeting notes reviewed by AP. Walt Disney Co. severed its relationship with at least one supplier after China Labor Watch exposed poor working conditions.
“We did an investigation on Apple because Apple is a big American company,” Li said. “If Apple changes, the other companies will follow. Now Ivanka is the most famous person among all these companies. If she can change, the other companies will too.”
But that plan backfired.
At the end of May, three China Labor Watch investigators were arrested, accused of illegally using secret cameras and listening devices.
One of them was investigator Hua Haifeng. Police had warned Hua to drop the Huajian investigation, but he pushed ahead anyway, Li said.
A wiry man not easily moved to alarm, Hua seemed to accept fear as the cost of his decision to live his life as an expression of his values.
In more than a decade working on labor rights in China, Hua had helped thousands of workers get back money they were owed, all the while half-wondering when he’d be forced to stop.
Now that he had, Hua, 36, was cut off from his wife and two young children.
Inside the Ganzhou City Detention Center, Hua shared a toothbrush with strangers. Locked in a cell so crowded there weren’t enough wooden boards to sleep on, Hua stretched out at night on a concrete floor next to a bucket that served as the toilet for around 20 men. The men added water and soap, hoping the bubbles might somehow take the stench out of human waste. It didn’t work.
It was the first time in China Labor Watch’s 17-year history that its investigators had been arrested. Police raided the group’s Shenzhen office and carried away computers and documents, Li said.
From his office in New York, Li worked frantically to get the men out of jail. He was convinced the shift in fortune was due to the target of their inquiry: a brand owned by the daughter of the U.S. president. But he had no proof.
Ivanka Trump – and her brand – said nothing about the arrests.
WHERE IS KALEN?
Days after the arrest, Yu Chunyan took a new job at a design company in Shanghai, but something lingered from her experience at the Green Point factory. “I’d prefer work that can help more people,” she said.
She got a friend request from China Labor Watch’s Li Qiang. She messaged Kalen to check Li out.
Kalen never replied. She wondered what had happened to him.
On June 5, the U.S. State Department called for the immediate release of the three China Labor Watch investigators.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that other nations “have no right to interfere with our judicial sovereignty.” State-owned media reported that the trio had tried to steal trade secrets and sell them overseas.
Li Qiang wrote to Ivanka Trump at the White House on June 6, describing what he called “extreme working conditions” in her supply chain. “Your words and deeds can make a difference in these workers’ lives,” he wrote.
He got no reply.
Her brand has called its supply chain integrity “a top priority,” but also maintains that its suppliers are overseen by licensees – companies it contracts with to make tons of Ivanka Trump handbags, shoes and clothes.
The brand said its shoes had not been produced at the Huajian factory since March, though China Labor Watch obtained an April production schedule for nearly 1,000 pairs of Ivanka Trump shoes due in May.
In late June, after 30 days in jail, the three China Labor Watch investigators were released on bail. Hua carried his son in his arms as he walked out of a police station in Ganzhou.
Hua declined to be interviewed for this story. His lawyer said police ordered him not to speak with the media. His bail conditions dictated that he must check in weekly with police and cannot travel without permission. That, plus the cloud of criminal suspicion that clung to him in his small hometown, made it hard to get a job.
In July, Hua asked police for permission to take a family vacation in the Wudang mountains, three hours away. After articles came out in the foreign press quoting Hua, half a dozen plainclothes policemen appeared at a restaurant where Hua was having dinner with his family and tapped him on the shoulder. The next morning they escorted him home, leaving his wife, Deng Guilian, to wander through Taoist temples alone with the kids.
With her husband out of work, Deng got a job selling drinks and snacks at a local karaoke parlor from 6 p.m. until 2 a.m. After her shift, she heads to a nearby dormitory where she and a female co-worker share a bed with a Snoopy headboard.
She gets three days off a month to see her 4-year-old son, Bo Bo, and 7-year-old daughter, Chen Chen.
“They seem accustomed to not having their mom,” Deng said, flashing an uneasy smile.
Each Monday morning after dropping his kids at school, Hua makes the short drive past weedy lots and a factory spewing thick white smoke to check in with the local police in Nanzhang County.
At first they lectured him: Change careers. Don’t speak out. Live a normal life. Now, he usually just signs his name, his wife said, but it is clear that missteps can quickly draw the wrath of local authorities.
Police in Nanzhang County, Ganzhou city and Jiangxi province did not respond to requests for comment.
In October, Li Qiang again wrote to Ivanka Trump and her brand.
He said he got no response.
Ivanka Trump’s actions show “that she does not care about these workers who are making her products, and is only concerned with making profits,” Li said in an email. “As a public figure, she has the ability and resources to not only work on labor conditions at her own brand’s factories, but also to help improve labor conditions of the global supply chain as a whole. However, she did not use her influence to do these things.”
AN ORDINARY PERSON
Shortly after 6 p.m. on an October evening, Yu Chunyan left her office and walked through Shanghai’s former French Concession, the wealthy heart of China’s most prosperous city. She passed rows of thick plane trees, black against a darkening sky, and stepped into a discreet tea house.
Yu slid open the wooden door of a private room and peeked inside with a wide, nervous smile at the AP journalists she had agreed to meet. A chunky, colorless sweater hung off her body, and her stocking feet poked out of white sandals despite the cold.
Yu slipped off her shoes and took a seat at the sunken table, doing her best to avoid the list of fancy teas glowing from a scrollable iPad menu. She began to talk about Kalen, and pulled out her phone to flip to their exchanges on WeChat.
There, in his tiny profile photo, was a familiar face.
“Do you know him?” she asked, surprised.
AP had been writing about him for months.
Kalen was Hua Haifeng.
Yu had no idea that her Kalen was the same Hua Haifeng who had been arrested while investigating Ivanka Trump suppliers. She listened, still and silent, to news of interrogations and surveillance, his son’s sudden nightmares, the jail and the bucket of urine.
Her eyes welled. Elegant cakes lay untouched in front of her.
An hour later, she sent a WeChat message to Kalen.
“Do you have to take risks to work in your industry?” she asked.
Risks depend on politics, he wrote her, and the conditions of the country you live in. “From the beginning, I expected something like this could happen,” he told her. “So it’s not about bad luck. It was going to happen sooner or later.”
“If you had another chance, would you do the same thing?” she asked.
“Yes,” he answered. Hua told Yu that he had to live a life that embodied his values. He tried to be encouraging. “I am not saying that everyone has to pay that high a price.”
But Yu had a sense that Hua had run up against forces neither of them could fully grasp, much less defeat. In her mind, she was recalibrating the risks of idealism.
“I wouldn’t be able to do it,” Yu said.
In late November, she left Shanghai to go back and live with her parents.
“I want to be an ordinary person,” she said. “I don’t want to get involved with controversial things.”
Associated Press reporter Garance Burke in San Francisco and researchers Fu Ting and Chen Si in Shanghai contributed to this report.
Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Sonic World Adventure (ソニックワールドアドベンチャー,Sonikku Wārudo Adobenchā?) is a two chapter story that was published by ASCII Media Works (MediaWorks) and featured in an issue of their Japanese gaming magazine Dengeki Nintendo DS. The manga picks up where Sonic transforms into the Sonic the Werehog. It roughly follows the storyline of Sonic Unleashed and features Chip tagging along with Sonic, similar to the game.
The manga begins as Sonic is transforming into the Werehog due to Doctor Eggman infusing him with Dark Gaia gas. Eggman then begins to brag about having done so as to get revenge on Sonic for always spoiling his schemes. Sonic simply taunts the doctor, challenging him to try all he wants, but no matter how hard he will try, he will always stop him. He proceeds to escape by breaking a wall with his newly-elongated arms. As Sonic is falling, he realizes how strong he has become from the transformation and promises himself that he will thank Eggman later.
The manga skips the part in the game where Sonic finds Chip lying next to him, and the next part begins with Sonic and Chip walking together. Chip states he is hungry, and Sonic agrees to stop in the next village for food. Excited, Chip rushes ahead of Sonic, shouting that he wants ice cream.
Once at the village, they head to an ice cream vendor. Chip arrives before Sonic and is so eager for his ice cream that he accidentally destroys the vendor's cart. Sonic shows up shortly afterward, only to see Chip complaining about not having found any ice cream and the vendor in tears. Sonic has an idea Chip probably did something, but only tells Chip and the vendor he will do something about the broken cart.
Chip rushes off with Sonic (the latter not what you could call thrilled about that) to help him find parts to mend the cart. Chip goes about happily searching for materials but finds food instead. Sonic scolds Chip, telling him now is not the time to look for food as they need to fix the vendor's cart, but Chip goes ahead picking apples for his ice cream. Sonic continues to scold him, but Chip ignores him and finds a strawberry. Sonic angrily kicks Chip in the head and leaves.
He finds some Egg Fighters and defeats them per usual. Chip comes back, and noticing the robot parts lying on the ground, mentions that they have collected a decent amount of parts. Sonic agrees and they quickly head back to the village.
After repairing the vendor's ice cream cart, they show him the results. Because of the robot parts, the cart is now fully automated, even speaking to the customers. Chip flies up to the cart, glad to be the first customer since its repairs. The new cart greets him, then proceeds to shoot him. Sonic and the vendor run away, as the cart begins to chase them down and shoot them as well.
This chapter begins as Sonic finishes destroying a group of Egg Fighters. Chip informs him that it is almost nighttime and so he will turn in the Werehog again. As there are more Egg Fighters to defeat, Sonic quickly runs towards them and destroys them with Chip hanging onto him. Chip tells Sonic that his first impression of him was that he was scary but gentle; Sonic then has a flashback.
The flashback starts at the part of the game when Sonic first meets Chip, which the manga had skipped earlier. Sonic is falling from the sky and lands on the ground. He gets up, saying that now he knows what it is like to fall from space without Tails there to catch him (possibly a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog 2). Sonic looks around him and sees Chip laying on the ground, and asks him if he is okay. Chip, asleep, says that he cannot eat anymore and wakes up. He looks up at Sonic, who smiles down at him, but since he has turned into the Werehog, his mouth has grown wider and with more, larger fangs. His smile scares Chip, who hides behind a rock, saying he is not tasty. Sonic does not let that bother him too much, and introduces himself to Chip and asks for his name. Chip cannot remember his name and says something fell out of the sky and knocked him unconscious which is why he cannot remember. Sonic wonders if he hit him when he fell and assures Chip that someone in the area will probably recognize him. The sun begins to shine, which causes Sonic to turn back into his normal self. This amazes Chip, and he questions Sonic about how that happened. Sonic replies that he does not know, then tells Chip that they should start looking for his memories. Chip agrees, and the flashback ends.
Sonic notices the moon has come up at this point, and he has turned back into the Werehog. The group of Egg Fighters from before is still after him, and he easily defeats them with his new abilities.
Chip cheers for Sonic, then says that now they can look for his memories since it was all Sonic's fault they were missing in the first place. He continues, talking about ice cream, but Sonic seems upset about Chip having made such a big deal about everything being his fault.
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24+ Hairstyles For Your 40S. I think it's elegant, smart, and sexy. Latest hairstyles for 40s women in india | 2022;
If you wish to get the hairstyle you’ve seen so desirously being flaunted by your favorite celebrity, this is the moment for you. Hairstyles were short, soft, and neat, and almost always curled. Corporate parties are a perfect time to wear this style.
Women First Had Them In The 18Th Century And Later On During The '40S.
With the combo of a middle part and soft waves, the outcome looks voluminous and fuller. Blonde hair color ideas for young women; So go to your favorite salon and get.
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Lucile ball continued the hairstyle in the ’50s, at first gathering hair up on top, then a bit shorter with curls combed to the side, and finally shortening her hair. Nicknamed after the corkscrews pilots would take after shooting down an enemy airplane, victory rolls consisted of curling the bottoms of hair upward much like creating a 1960s flip and having both parts at the hairline curled toward each other. Here are stunning short hairstyles for women over 40 that you can mix and match for your new look!
If You Curl The Edges Towards The Inside, It Will Look Very Stylish And Sophisticated.
The lower part of the hair is razor sharp and has a feathered touch to it. It’s no longer about the trends and definitely not about. Fabulous hairstyles of samantha ruth prabhu;
In 1952, Salons Were Reporting 3 Out Of 5 Haircuts Were Being Cut Into The Poodle Clip.
Most women over 40 say that they are way more confident than they were a decade ago. Why the classic pompadour is popular. Cameron diaz is excited about aging after becoming a mother in her 40s i've got 50 or 60 years to go—i want to live to be 110, since i've.
Latest Hairstyles For 40S Women In India | 2022;
People in their 30s can be seen sporting those hairstyles. With that being said, your 40s is the best time to explore new hairstyles to express who you are! Make your hair poker straight and add volume to the top portion of the head.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW)--Riley County Police continue to investigate a fatal shooting that occurred Friday night in Manhattan.
Authorities report they arrived at 1840 Plymouth Dr. around 7 p.m. Friday and found 70-year-old Robert Potter dead at the scene.
Authorities arrested Martha Potter, 63, on a count of second degree murder.
Riley County Dispatch said Potter made her $150,000 bond just after 4 Saturday morning.
Dispatch also said Robert and Martha were married at one point.
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Before you light that candle, consider if you want the air inside your home to resemble the air around a combustion engine. Cause that’s exactly what studies say conventional candles can do to your inside air. Want to buy better brands to improve your indoor air quality? We can help! You’ve trusted Mamavation to bring you air quality topics like best & worst air purifiers, best & worst cookware, & best & worst organic mattresses, now join us as we explore the candle aisle, the best brands, and what to look out for.
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The EPA Told Us in 2001–Candles Can Be Problematic to Your Health.
In the case of candles, we can’t say that the Feds didn’t warn us of the dangers. They have. In fact, studies commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been pretty explicit in saying since 2001 that candle use could be a public health issue.
What’s the problem: mostly lead, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, and acrolein, but also black soot deposition (BSD), naphthalene, alkanes, wax esters, alkanoic and alkenoic acids, and alkenes.
“Burning an aromatherapy candle made of paraffin is similar to preparing a healthy drink of fresh-squeezed juice and adding a shot of gasoline,” says Eric Johnson of Candleworks, an Iowa City, Iowa-based company that specializes in wholesaling non-toxic aromatherapy candles. We thought that quote served as a great start.
But the EPA report was a bit more clear saying “burning several candles exceeded the EPA’s 10-6 increased risk for cancer for acetaldehyde and formaldehyde, and exceeded the RfC for acrolein.”
That is federal speak for “this is a problem and we know about it.”
This report goes on for 53 pages to warn you about the dangers of incense and candles to your indoor air quality. We’ve pulled this report from 2001 apart and added more of the recent research on candle use since then to this investigation and some worrying technology that has become recently popular. But stick around for the end where we go over all the most popular candle brands one by one and categorize them into bad, better, and best.
Type of Wax Best For Candles: Paraffin Wax, Soy Wax, Coconut Wax, Beeswax or Palm Oil Wax
The most important part of the candle is what it consists of and that is mostly the wax. The most popular choices are paraffin wax, soy wax, coconut wax, beeswax, & palm wax. Paraffin wax is by far the worst selection and is also the most prevalent material to use for candles in the United States. Here are your selections one by one.
Paraffin Wax: Paraffin wax is a by-product of the crude oil refinement process, so it’s not the friendliest material on our planet. It’s also believed to be quite toxic to your indoor air quality and to humans in general when inhaled. Here’s why you should avoid paraffin:
- In 1999, researchers found that the majority of emissions from paraffin candles consisted of organic compounds including alkanes, wax esters, alkanoic and alkenoic acids, and alkenes.
- More recent studies have linked paraffin wax candle burning to an increase of emissions of volatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in indoor air.
- The University of South Carolina produced a study about indoor air dangers of paraffin scented candles. The study claimed that paraffin scented candles emitted toxic chemicals like toluene and benzene into the air and frequently lighting many candles in an unventilated space could lead to problems, and may aggravate asthma, cause allergy-like symptoms, or irritate the respiratory tract. However, soy wax did not cause a problem with indoor air.
- In 2013, researchers in Poland found the air quality around paraffin candles is similar to air quality around a combustion engine
- The EPA found that burning several candles exceeded the EPA’s 10-6 increased risk for cancer for acetaldehyde and formaldehyde. It also exceeded the RfC for acrolein. That’s bad news.
Soy Wax: Soy wax comes in a variety of container candle blends. Most soy waxes are made from hydrogenated soybean oil. Others are considered “blends” and are blended with other vegetable oils (like coconut) and waxes (like palm wax and beeswax). As long as the blend is at least 51% soy, it’s considered a soy wax blend.
- If it’s soy, check whether it’s non-GMO soy used if you would like to avoid supporting large monoculture farming and toxic persistent pesticides.
- Soy was not found to be a problem for any indoor air quality as found by the EPA study, however paraffin was.
Beeswax: Beeswax is about as natural a product as you can find! The wax is excreted by the bees into “combs” to help incubate their larvae and keep them safe and snug. It’s naturally infused with honey, making it naturally sweet as a fragrance. The strength of the natural fragrance depends on the flowers or plants the bees were feeding on.
- It’s expensive because of what the tradeoff is. Basically, for every 1-2 pounds of wax produced, the bees lose production of around 6 pounds of honey.
- There can be a scarcity of beeswax and in order to be good stewards, it may be better to purchase an arrangement of non-toxic blends as well. But of course, this is your preference.
- Beeswax candles have a longer burn time than paraffin candles, so they last longer
- In the United States, current labeling laws only require a candle to be 51% beeswax to carry the beeswax label, so buyer beware if you want purity look for “100% beeswax”
Coconut Wax: Coconut oil is considered a carrier oil for use in making candles. It cannot exist alone in the world of candle making. Typically “blends” are used with coconut wax, beeswax, or soy wax & possibly fragrances or essential oils or other combos thereof.
- Coconut wax has a slower burn than soy wax & paraffin, so these candles last longer
- Completely natural from beginning to the end of the product for those of you who love natural
Palm Wax: Palm wax is produced by hydrogenating palm oils and is similar to soy wax in that it is made from natural oil. It’s also used in a unique way to produce a crystalline or “feathered” effect in the candles. Palm wax is often blended with soy wax to make it harder. It’s also excellent for use with pillars, votives, and tarts.
- It’s a loved ingredient because it’s efficient. According to organic farmers Riverford, oil palms can yield ‘up to ten times per hectare than rapeseed, soya beans or sunflowers’ and ‘on just 5 percent of the world’s vegetable-oil farmland, palms produce 38 percent of the world’s vegetable oil’.
- Palm oil comes with baggage, whereas endangered animals are brought to the brink of extinction, primal rainforests destroyed, farmers driven off their lands, and peat fires causing devastating air pollution throughout the entire region in places like Indonesia. Careful who supplies your palm oil!
- Just FYI there are better palm oil brands like Palm Done Right who (1) focus on no clear-cutting, burning, or planting in primal forest, (2) fair trade, and (3) community projects for farmworkers like medical facilities and schools. So more ethical palm does exist.
Wicks Can On Occasion Contain Lead & Badly Damage Air Quality in the Home For Children
Lead wicks used to be a big problem in the United States. Lead was commonly used as the core material to keep the wick standing straight when the surrounding wax began to melt and prevented it from falling over on itself and becoming extinguished. This made everyday homes toxic, especially to young children.
Lead was commonly used until 1974 when the industry decided to voluntarily ban lead wicks. However, not all brands followed that rule so after the EPA commissioned a study, it wasn’t officially banned until 2003 by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Therefore, brands saying they have “lead-free wicks” are simply complying with the ban and letting you know about it.
Today, you’ll only find lead in wicks that are coming from overseas from places like Mexico & China. It’s buyer beware from discount candles in bargain stores in terms of safety.
Today, lead wicks have been replaced by zinc or tin. If you want to avoid that, look for “100% cotton wicks” instead.
Synthetic Color Adds More Petroleum to Your Candle–And You Don’t Need All That Negativity In Your Life
I know these candles can look really pretty, but most of the time when you are seeing a colored candle, they are using petroleum by-products to do that coloring.
Why is that a problem? Well, whenever you burn fossil fuels, it turns the air inside your home to something else–something you don’t want–something similar to the air around a combustion engine.
The fewer petroleum products burning inside your home the better.
It is possible to color candles with natural colorants like kelp, annatto seeds, orange peel, paprika, and rosehips.
“Fragrance” Is Code For We Don’t Want To Tell You!
Fragrance is an area of the law where profits trump public health and disclosure.
According to the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act that is overseen by the Federal Drug Administration, all fragrances in candles are considered proprietary formulas, and they are not mandated to give you that information.
In other words, there is very little ingredients disclosure in the candle aisle. They can basically put whatever they want in there, including thousands of these chemicals, and you can’t compel them to tell you, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Synthetic fragrances are known to contain synthetic musks and phthalates that are detrimental to health. Especially, the phthalates, which are considered a hormone-disrupting chemical that is linked to infertility, weight gain, lowering the IQ of children, and cancers.
To make matters worse, having synthetic fragrances inside a wax formula can make the air quality worse. This is exactly what the EPA found. It seems like pretty much anytime anything made from fossil fuels burns, we are exposed to particulate matter and VOCs in the air from those chemical reactions. This is especially true with candles.
Soot Can Give You a Bad Day & Destroy Your Home
According to the EPA, the stronger smelling your candle, the more soot it could be producing. This soot is referred to as Black Soot Deposits (BSD) and can destroy your home. In fact, the EPA has tracked an increase in complaints from homeowners about soot since 1992.
“Most candle wax paraffin are saturated hydrocarbons that are solid at room temperature. Most fragrance oils are unsaturated hydrocarbons and are liquid at room temperature. The lower the carbon-to-hydrogen ratio, the less soot is produced by the flame. Therefore, waxes that have more fragrances in them produce more soot. In other words, candles labeled “super scented” and those that are soft to the touch are more likely to generate soot.”
When soot builds up in the air, it deposits on to surfaces all over the house but concentrates in four main areas: (1) randomly colliding with surfaces, (2) circulating through home air conditioning filters, (3) gaining enough mass to be subject to gravity and fall on surfaces, and (4) attracted to electrically charged surfaces such as freezers, television sets, computers, and vertical plastic blinds.
Acute health endpoints due to soot exposure have to do with asthma and allergy sufferers. They are more likely to have an acute attack.
The best way to reduce soot, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, is to keep your candle wicks cut shorter.
Essential Oils To Be Avoided Around Children
So now that I’ve completely freaked you out about the dangers of paraffin wax on air quality, I’m gonna go further and warn you about some natural ingredients you may not be worrying about–essential oils.
Most of the candles we are going to recommend to you are full of essential oils and they are mostly safe…unless you are around young children or pets. If you have a child or pets in the house, you need to adjust some of the choices of essential oils you are using.
This is not an entire list of what essential oils are bad for children, it’s only a list of essential oils that are dangerous to diffuse around children and have them breathe in. So this would be relevant for essential oils inside candles as well. There are other essential oils that you should not apply directly to their skin that you can find here.
- Nothing is safe for infants under 3 months. Essential oils are not safe for children under 3 months old. PERIOD.
- Peppermint: consists of up to 55% menthol and up to 10% 1,8-cineole. In children aged 1-3, studies showed 1,8-cineole and menthol can cause serious, yet non-fatal reactions. Keep watch till children are over 6 years old.
- Eucalyptus: Eucalyptus contains varying amounts of 1,8-cineole, with Eucalyptus globulus having up to 84%, Eucalyptus radiata having up to 65%, and Eucalyptus polybractea having up to 92%. The concern is seizures, however rare, but it’s expected that approximately 2% of children will experience one after extensive exposure.
- Rosemary: This oil is high in 1,8-cineole and can potentially cause respiration to slow in children. Avoid with children under 6.
- Marjarom (Spanish): This oil is high in 1,8-cineole and can potentially cause respiration to slow in children under 6 years old.
- Anise/Aniseed: avoid diffusing around children under 5 years old
- Fennel (bitter), Fennel (sweet): avoid diffusing around children under 5 years old
- Niaouli (cineole chemotype): avoid diffusing on children under 6 years old
Here are all the safe essential oils for children from John Hopkins like cedarwood, ginger, or sweet orange.
Essential Oils Fragrance to Avoid Around Dogs & Cats
Cats and dogs have an enhanced sense of smell, so using scents around them like in candles or diffusers can be overwhelming for them, depending on what type you are using. According to Veterinarians, this can cause shortness of breath, skin rashes, and even liver failure.
If you also diffuse essential oils, you should always keep your essential oils stored away from pets, but if they get into them, call your veterinary office or the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center.
Cats’ livers cannot metabolize some of the compounds in essential oils, which leaves them susceptible to toxicity. These animals have very different essential oils that bother them, so please pay close attention to each one.
For dogs avoid the following:
- Tea Tree
For cats avoid the following:
- Tea Tree
New “Natural” Scents Made Very Unnaturally–Synthetic Biology
Welcome to the new Frankenstein of genetically modified options that will eventually lead to your plate and your lungs without your permission. This new generation of GMOs is hitting the market without regulatory oversight or assessment for health and environmental risks right now. It’s called synthetic biology and you’ll likely never hear about it because the companies that make it are encouraging brands to call it “natural” and there’s nothing to stop them from doing that.
I repeat. The industry is purposely encouraging brands to lie about this ingredient and refer to it as “natural” even though it’s a new GMO technology. How do I know this? In 2018, I was at a Supply Side West in Las Vegas speaking on a panel and heard people from the industry strongly suggest not to tell anyone it’s GMO. I also heard testimony from other natural food & supplement suppliers who listened to panels at that same conference where they encouraged brands to basically lie about this ingredient and call it “natural.” Yes, seriously.
Do these people want to be quoted? No. I tried. I’m sure you know why.
Several of these new gene-editing techniques are being used to develop the new genetically engineered crops, animals, insects, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and even bioweapons. And the scariest thing about this technology is it’s virtually unregulated.
In addition to transferring genetic material between organisms, like traditional GMOs, DNA and biological components can be composed synthetically and existing organisms can be genetically “reprogrammed” to do something completely different.
In terms of candles, the easiest way to avoid synthetic biology is to look for 100% organic essential oils. As of now, these ingredients are marketed as “natural” to the brands, so it’s possible they would have no way of knowing they are purchasing scents made through synthetic biology. Because the USDA organic certification mandates suppliers to show proof up the chain of organic materials from farm to the bottle, you are safe because of that chain of custody. You would also be able to avoid sythetic biology if the brand had documents about that chain of custody from farm to bottle in a similar manner as organic, which some do.
Sadly, some of the most popular essential oils are in danger of becoming unpure. This is because most oils are a combination of chemical compounds mixed together, so if one of those chemicals are made from synthetic biology, you have an essential oil that is really no longer natural but it’s being marketed as such.
Most of the synthetic biology scents we couldn’t track. But we were able to track some: Limonene, citranellol, geraniol, menthol, perillyl alcohol, linalool, thujone, Farnesene, Amorphadiene, Artemisinic acid, Artemisinin, Bisabolol, Bisabolene, alphaSinensal, beta-Thujone, Camphor, Carveol, Carvone, Cineole, Citral, Citronellal, Cubebol, Geraniol, Limonene, Menthol, Menthone, Myrcene, Nootkatone, Nootkatol, Patchouli, Piperitone, Rose oxide, Sabinene, Steviol, Steviol glycoside (including Rebaudioside D or Rebaudioside M), Taxadiene, Thymol, and Valencene.
Here’s a list the most popular essential oils those ingredients find themselves inside:
- Clary Sage Oil
- Lavender Oil
- Citrus Oil
- Geranium Oil
- Bergamot Oil
- Mint Oil
- Frakencince Oil
- Tea Tree Oil
- Rose Oil
- Rosemary Oil
- Ylang Ylang Oil
- Grapefruit Oil
The greatest challenge of all this is there is no way to identify these components made of synthetic biology yet. So if you really want to avoid this mess, go organic…or at the very least, go traceable!
Mamavation’s Investigation of Candles
Mamavation looked at close to 90 different candle brands looking for ingredients made from petroleum, synthetic biology, or undisclosed fragrance ingredients.
We want to make sure your home doesn’t get filled up with toxins by other products accidentally, so please check out our air purifier investigation next for the best professional systems to clean your indoor air.
Not Our Favorite Candles
These brands are full of petroleum, including paraffin and synthetic “fragrance” which is also made from petroleum. These researchers may argue that the air quality around these candles could be similar to air around a combustion engine because they are made of paraffin.
- Anthropologie Candles
- Bath and Body Works Candles
- Better Homes & Garden Candles
- Chesapeake Bay Candle
- Cutter Citronella Candles (carbon monoxide warning)
- DW Home Candles
- Empire Candle Company (lead warning)
- Evergreen Candles (lead warning)
- Frazier Fir Thymes Candles
- Goose Creek Candles
- Homeworx by Harry Slatkin Candles
- Illume Candles
- Luminaria Candles
- Meyer’s Soy Candles
- MojiLife Candles
- Murphy’s Candles (carbon monoxide warning)
- Nest Candles
- Paddywax Candles
- Partylite Candles
- Red Leaf Home Candles
- Thymes Candles
- Tyler Candle Company
- Votivo Illume Candles (past lead warning)
- Yankee Candle
- Woodwick Candle
These brands were way better but not quite perfect yet. We found this category to contain better components–supposedly made without paraffin. Those claims are known to be iffy sometimes, so it’s possible some of these brands contain a small amount of paraffin to their blends. (We didn’t test them!) When it comes to fragrance, either they did not disclose fragrance ingredients at all or are containing synthetic blends of fragrance.
- Anecdote Candles
- Baum Designs Candles
- Birchhouse & Co Candles
- Boy Smells Candles
- Castleton Candles
- Cedar Street Candle Collection
- Country Scents Candles
- Farmhouse Candle Shop
- Follain Candles
- Growing Candle
- Hearth and Hand Candles
- Jen Luana Candles
- Kalamazoo Candle Company
- Laguna Candles
- Lake Erie Candle Company
- Life Cycle Candles
- Malicious Mermaid Candles
- Mecca Candle Co.
- Medeluca Candles
- Milkhouse Candle Company
- PF Candle Company
- Prosperity Candles
- Root Candles
- Sand + Frog Candles
- Scentsational Candles
- Solo Candles
- Sea Love Candles
- Swan Creek Candles
- The Candle Lab
- Voluspa Candles
- Wax & Oils Candles
- White Barn Candles
- Yoke Candles
This holiday we are recommending you try the seasonal Candles from Pure Haven. They are made from 100% organic peppermint essential oil, soy wax (non-gmo), & theobroma cacao (organic cocoa) seed butter.
Very simple, yet this product contains no petroleum byproducts and no ingredients made from synthetic biology. (Please note that this scent is too strong for children under 6 or around cats.)
These brands are not made from paraffin (petroleum) and unknown blends. They comprise of soy wax, beeswax, coconut wax, or palm wax. As for fragrance, they are either comprised of 100% essential oils or are 100% transparent in their fragrance ingredient label. All wicks are lead-free. Brands here could also have Made Safe Certification. (The brands with an * mean they are using organic essential oils, meaning we know the scents are not produced through synthetic biology.)
- A-Z Candles
- Abbot Candles
- B. Happy Candles
- Cellar Door Candles* (only found organic lavender essential oil)
- Coco by Stone Candles
- Edition 01 Candles
- Fontana Candles (Made Safe Certified)
- Goodlight Candles
- Grow Fragrance Candles
- Heart 2 Heart Candles
- Heretic Candles
- Milk & Honey Candles
- Mountain Rose Herbs Candles (only non-scented candles available)
- Nashville Wax Candles
- Neal’s Yard Remedies Organic Candles*
- Poofy Organics Candles* (uses some organic essential oils but not all)
- Pure Haven Candles* (uses some organic essential oils but not all)
- Pure Plant Candles
- Sunbeam Candles
- Terralite Candles
- The Grace Effect Candles
- Thistle Farms Candles
- Uma Candles
- Wild Beautiful & Free Candles
- Woodlot Candles
About the Author
Leah Segedie is a consumer watchdog, author, entrepreneur, environmental activist, and mother of three boys.
She wrote Green Enough: Eat Better, Live Cleaner, & Be Happier (All Without Driving Your Family Crazy!) in 2018. She’s consistently been featured in the media for the past 15 years in media outlets like ABC, CBS, CNN, Yahoo, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Ladies Home Journal, Shape Magazine, Fitness Magazine to name a few.
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Sompting death: Dudley Boakes charged with murdering wife
A 79-year-old man has appeared in court accused of murdering his wife.
Sandra Boakes, 70, was found with head injuries in Grasmere Avenue, Sompting, West Sussex, on 3 April and she died two days later at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
Dudley Boakes was initially charged with attempted murder but the Crown Prosecution Service later authorised a charge of murder.
Crawley magistrates remanded him to appear at Lewes Crown Court on Monday.
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Benoit is the EY UK&I Consulting Managing Partner and a member of the UK&I Executive. With over 25 years of consulting and industry experience, he works with a broad range of organizations to realize business and technology transformations.
Up until July 2020, he was the EY Global Energy Leader and before joining EY, Benoit worked as a Chief Information Officer and Managing Director of Strategy and Transformation for 9 years at a large global organization.
How Benoit is building a better working world
“I am a firm believer in putting people first and being truly inclusive on all levels inside and outside of the EY organization. I am passionate about creating truly unique and valuable experiences for EY people and their families.
By maintaining these values, I believe we will be able to provide long-term value for EY clients. Personally, I have helped businesses transform for the future and have proudly supported many clients to achieve more sustainable ways of working.”
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We don’t like clutter and what better reason to have a clear out than to help support people through the ‘roller coaster’ experience of dealing with a diagnosis of cancer.
We collect your old clothes in clothing banks – easily identifiable with our logo, which we operate in partnership with Recycling Solutions. They collect, sort and recycle your unwanted clothes, shoes, handbags and textiles and we receive a percentage of the recycled value.
We have banks all over the Yorkshire district – each one raising awareness about the charity and all of them helping to support those affected by a cancer diagnosis in your local community.
We urgently need new sites too – established recycling areas, community centres or business parks are ideal!
If you know of a possible site near you, please contact the Fundraising Team – 01274 202226 or e-mail:firstname.lastname@example.org
Other Ways To Help
We need you!
Become A Volunteer
Our team of volunteers are an invaluable part of our organisationApply Now to become a volunteer
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Due to the overwhelming amount of emails we are now receiving everyday, we are asking the public to please go over the information carefully that has just been recently updated on this website and this should enable most, to find the answers to whatever questions they may have.
With only so many hours in the day and with just two of us available to reply to your emails, we simply cannot keep up with the demands the public are now placing upon us.
Therefore, it will not be possible for us to answer your questions any longer, for we simply do not have the time and resources, to continue to play this role in the future.
All the information that one should require concerning the production and use of these extracts, can be found in the new texts available on the phoenixtears.ca website. This is the only website that Rick Simpson is associate with.
We do not provide or sell these extracts and we are not connected with any organisations or individuals who do, our only aim is to furnish you with the information and knowledge, which will allow you to produce this amazing medication yourself.
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by Kyle Boich
The word “deluxe” is defined in the dictionary as being the highest in quality, of special elegance, and sumptuousness. This definition easily goes hand in hand with Wayne Schultheis, better known as DeluXe. The Colorado native released a new album this past week, titled Pieces Left Behind. DeluXe was assisted by local artists Jasper Sezai Stone and Corey Steinki, together putting in countless hours over the past 6 months to provide our ears with some glitchy and funked out tunes.
Not only can this 8-track album finally be found on his soundcloud, but it also can be downloaded completely FREE of charge! Roughly a month ago, DeluXe released another free download for his remix of “Forever Lost”, originally by Pretty Lights. In all honesty, this was th first time I caught wind of him, and I am glad I did. His sound is rather unique and certainly pushing the envelope for electro soul.
From his bio, DeluXe has listed some musical inspiration and it comes as no surprise that the list consists of names like Pretty Lights, Gramatik and GRiZ. Thank to Finality Mastering, Pieces Left Behind gives off a high quality, crisp sound that is sure to make you get the funk down. After listening through the album a few times, the tracks “Retro Static” and “Finally Found” really stood out. Like static electricity, “Retro Static” will make your hair stand up, and the sampling gives off a vibe from the past. “Finally Found” is the closing track on the album and provides a more chilled out vibe backed by DeluXe’s phenomenal trumpet skills. If you the thought electro soul has been missing something, then DeluXe will surely provide the pieces that were left behind.
Funkadelphia Picks: “Finally Found” & “Retro Static”
Pretty Lights – “Forever Lost (DeluXe Remix)” — FREE Download!!
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Principles of Preserving Wealth The slideshow presentation that you would like to view is too large for your current screen resolution. Click here to view to view the slideshow at full resolution. Launch Presentation » Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Message Thank you! Oops! Related Content Does Your Portfolio Fit Your Retirement Lifestyle? Lifestyle considerations in creating your retirement portfolio. Is Term Life Insurance for You? Term insurance is the simplest form of life insurance. Here's how it works. U.S. Personal Savings Rate What can be learned from the savings rate?
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| < April >
|Normal Max/ High Temperature
|Min/ Low Temperature
|Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day)
|Average Sunlight per day
|Average Daylight per day
|Sunny (Cloudy) Daylight Hours
|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Great Falls, Montana in April is cool at 6.4 °C (43.52 °F).
- Afternoons can be mild with average high temperatures reaching 12.9 °C (55.2 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally slightly cold with an average low of -0.1 °C (31.8 °F).
- In April the range/ variation of daily average temperatures is 13 °C (23.4 °F).
- The weather in April is dry with intermittent rain, sleet or snow. A mere 35.8mm (1.4in) of fluid is deposited across an average of 8 days.
- The heavens above Great Falls, Montana are moderately sunny having on balance a pleasing 8:11 of gorgeous sunshine daily.
- The shortest day is 12:45 long and the longest day is 14:22 long with an average length of 13:34.
- There are approximately 5:11 per day when bright sunshine is absent due to cloud, haze or the sun being too low on the horizon to register.
- It is sunny approximately 61.2% of daylight hours and cloudy 38.8% of daylight hours.
Check the distance to and compare the Great Falls, Montana April averages with somewhere beginning with:
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Weather Trend Graph for April in Great Falls, Montana, Usa
Navigate to April Weather in Locations Surrounding Great Falls, Montana:
- Big Trout Lake, On, Canada - 332.1 kms (206.4 miles) NNW
- Lethbridge (Cda), Ab, Canada - 267.5 kms (166.2 miles) NNW
- Libby, Mt, Usa - 327.9 kms (203.7 miles) WNW
- Kalispell, Montana, Usa - 234.5 kms (145.7 miles) WNW
- Augusta, Mt, Usa - 71.9 kms (44.7 miles) SW
- Missoula, Mt, Usa - 214.7 kms (133.4 miles) WSW
- Helena, Mt, Usa - 109.3 kms (67.9 miles) SSW
- Dillon, Mt, Usa - 303.3 kms (188.5 miles) SSW
- Medicine Hat, Ab, Canada - 285.9 kms (177.7 miles) N
- Sachs Harbour, Nt, Canada - 215.2 kms (133.7 miles) NNE
- Manyberries, Alberta, Canada - 193.4 kms (120.2 miles) NNE
- Billings/ Logan, Mt, Usa - 286 kms (177.7 miles) SE
- Red Lodge, Mt, Usa - 302.9 kms (188.2 miles) SSE
- Livingston, Mt, Usa - 277.6 kms (172.5 miles) S
- Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, Usa - 284.5 kms (176.8 miles) S
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The Spring Step Sugarcane Shoe for Women is a fun and stylish maryjane shoe from the L'Artiste Collection by Spring Step and is all new for Fall 2013! Shoes from the L'Artiste Collection feature a combination of colorful leather details to deliver a unique look with a padded insole to keep your feet comfortable all day. The Sherbert has a flexible rubber outsole for rugged on-the-go use and an adjustable instep strap for your perfect fit. Heel height 2''. More colors available. Shown here in Camel Leather.
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It's understandable: for years the children have been the glue that binds, as well as a good excuse to deny any problems between you.
When you're bringing up kids you just blast on, day after day. There are few opportunities to stand back and think about your relationship, and before you know it small problems have become the elephant in the room, too big to talk about. Parents need to be able to take something for granted, and it's usually our partner.
Marriage crisis?Then suddenly the kids have gone and one of you - perhaps both of you - thinks, Is that all there is?
It's a crisis for many couples.
But a crisis can be hugely positive, an opportunity for growth, a chance to talk properly, perhaps for the first time in years. And without the kids the romance between you can blossom once again - although the chances are that after all this time it will need a bit of nurturing! There was a feature in The Independent this week about the romance of later-life weddings - in which I talked about my experience of marrying my partner after 37 years together (well, we wanted to be sure …!)
And here are a few tips I've picked up along the way:
How to rekindle the Spark
- Go on holiday. Just the two of you, no friends, no kids.
- Don't give up on sex. If you need a bit of a reminder Sex expert Suzi Godson's site is packed with good advice. So is relationship expert Andrew Marshall's. He's written a great book on keeping sex alive in long-term relationships, Make Love Like a Prairie Vole (prairie voles mate for life!).
- Do something new and challenging together. A bike ride? Ice skating? Tango lessons?
- Root out the old tunes and dance round the kitchen together.
- Suggest outings that are romantic to you - a walk in the moonlight, a concert, a boat on the river.
- Don't just flop in front of the telly every night. Have a game of poker, do the crossword, go to the pub.
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An Asian noodle wrapper that is paper thin, used to wrap meat, vegetables and other fillings, which are then deep-fried in the wrapper. They are sold in packages containing several dozen squares or rounds, which are approximately 8 inches across and found in Asian markets and in some supermarkets. The wrapper may be made of dough or rice paper, which is common in Vietnam as other Asian countries.
Spring Roll Wrapper Reviews
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Personalized Pet ID Tag - Personalized Pet Tag - Custom Pet ID Tag - Arrow Dog Name Tag - Dog ID Tag - Dog Collar Name Tag - Black Turquoise
Personalized Dog Tag. Pet ID tag shows off your personality with your custom style! Create a design that is Youniquely you!
Dog Tags are bone shaped and measure 1.5" x 1". High quality aluminum. Includes 2 styles of hooks for attaching to your pet's collar.
1 sided tags are a brushed silver on the back side. If you are ordering a 2 sided tag, the second side will be the same pattern, color(s) and font, however you can have different wording, such as "I'm chipped", "I'm deaf" or your address.
Personalized Pet ID Tags are made with a high quality heat transfer printing process for a vibrant, permanent, long lasting image that will not fade, peel or rub off.
Blessings, Julie - Owner/Designer of Joyful Moose Gift Products
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June 18, 2013
Columbia, Mo. —Kari Lane, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (MU SSON), has been selected as one of four 2013-2015 John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellows by the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE). In 2008, Lane was named an NHCGNE Patricia G. Archbold Scholar.
Lane specializes in adult acute care nursing and gerontological nursing. Her current research focuses on the hidden disability of hearing loss and interventions to help individuals with hearing impairment. One intervention Lane is currently researching is the use of a frequency modulator (FM) system in older adults with hearing loss.
“The Claire M. Fagin Fellows are highly skilled scholars deeply committed to improving health care for aging patients,” said Judith Fitzgerald Miller, MU SSON dean. “Dr. Lane’s research focus on hearing loss in older adults enhances quality of life for these individuals. I am pleased the Hartford Centers recognizes the value of her work.”
The NHCGNE will provide Lane with funding to support post-doctoral research training, mentorship, leadership and career development. The NHCGNE’s program, begun in 2000, is backed by the John A. Hartford Foundation and augmented with monies from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Mayday Fund. Claire M. Fagin Fellows are leaders who will shape the future care for older persons.
“This program contributes towards important recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the future of nursing that the nation provide more leadership training and opportunities for nurses and that we increase the number of doctorally prepared nurses,” said J. Taylor Harden, said NHCGNE executive director.
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Things I wanted to say but never did | Exhibition
Photography, Performance, Poetry, Multimedia and Installation.
A group exhibition showing the work of both emerging and established artists, all working in a range of mediums. The words, Things I Wanted To Say But Never Did, has elicited a response that is nostalgic, cathartic and deeply personal.
Join us for an opening night of disclosure, confession and performance at Contact Sheet on 4th September, 6pm.
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On Super Soul Sunday this Sunday, August 20, Author Shauna Niequist shares with Oprah Winfrey how faith helped her end her quest for perfection. Read our excerpt from Shauna's bestseller, Present Over Perfect.
Watch Shauna Niequist on Super Soul Sunday this Sunday, August 20 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
OPRAH: So what you realized is, is that you were in this constant push for perfection. And as you started to peel back the layers, what did you find underneath that struggle?
SHAUNA: I think I thought that work and hustling and being known as responsible would prove my worth. I think I was looking for a deep sense of value. Do I matter? Am I enough? Am I good enough? Am I smart enough? Am I working hard enough? And I was using work and busy-ness to kind of earn those things.
OPRAH: And when you realized that that's what you were doing, what was your next step?
SHAUNA: At that point, then it became a spiritual question. Right? Because as a Christian, theologically, I believe in unconditional love. I believe in my value. And the value of every human being. I believe that we're deeply loved and created on purpose. Every single one of us. That we don't have to earn or push or prove. And I knew that in my brain. I had known that all my life in my brain. But it did not bear out in the way that I lived. And so that was the next thing I had to shore up.
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Normally I would never mix bright orange with anything black so as to avoid looking like a Halloween reject… Not to mention my highschool colors were actually black and orange (Go Cadets!). However, I really liked the way this orange- or as I like to call it persimmon- looked with the black acid wash of these jeans and was only accented by adding bold gold accessories.
Sure, this look probably isn’t for everyone… or everyday (and no, I’m not wearing it to Thanksgiving dinner), but it brought out my inner hip hop loving fly girl and it kind of just made me want to dance– but what doesn’t? Wanna join my dance party? Here’s how to recreate the look:
1. Kain Scoop Neck Pocket Tank, $49.99, 2. Forever21 Skinny Acid Wash Jeans, $27.80, 3. Only Hearts Lace Bralette, $48, 4. Erica Anenberg Crystal Chunk Ring, $145, 5. Erica Anenberg True Gold Twosome Ring, $80, 6. Alexander McQueen Faithful Bootie, $787.99, 7. D&G Abigail 5 Row Necklace, $195
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Monthly Archive: January 2014
Red Heart has come out with an exciting new yarn called Reflective. Right now, it is pretty hard to come by. I happened to be in the right place at the right time and managed to get ahold of some….
Along with some other fantabulous designs, another of my hat patterns has been released in the My Mountain Hat Series. USA Peak is a fun hat that is easy to work up and a great way to support Team USA in…
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The Power Of Satan
Acts 26: 18: “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to
light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness
of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that
is in me”.
This is used to “prove” that a being called “Satan” keeps the whole world
in ignorance of the Gospel.
1. Verse 17 shows that the “they” and “them” referred to are the Gentiles.
Are we to think that the Jews were not under the “power of Satan”? At
the time Paul was writing there were very many sinful Jews, consciously
persecuting the Christians. So this verse cannot be referring to the entire
2. There is no specific indication here that “Satan” is a personal being.
1. There are some clear contrasts drawn here:-
To open their eyes
(They were blind).
To turn them from darkness
From the power of Satan (sin)
unto God (cp. 1 Jn.1: 5).
receive forgiveness of sins.
(Gentiles without inheritance by faith
among “the hope of Israel”)
them (the Jews) that had access to sanctification
by faith .
The Word of God is a light (Ps.119:105) and is associated with open
eyes (Ps.119:18). We are sanctified by the Word (Jn.17:17). We have seen
in our exposition of John 8: 44 that it is by the Word that the power
of Satan is overcome; i.e. Satan in the sense of the power our evil desires
have over our unregenerated heart. ‘Satan’ is therefore the antithesis
to the light of God’s word- it refers to the flesh, which is the opposition
of the Spirit word.
2. Ephesians 4:17-20, almost seems to directly allude back to this passage
in Acts 26:18; Ephesians 4:17-20; “This I say therefore, and testify in
the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity
of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the
blindness of their heart; Who being past feeling have given themselves
over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But
ye have not so learned Christ...”.
Being under the power of Satan is therefore a result of having an empty,
vain, fleshly mind (i.e. Satan - as evil desires in our mind -having full
power) and being ignorant, without understanding. Matthew 13:19 says that
Satan (cp. Mk 4:15) has power over a person because of their lack of understanding
of the Word. Ephesians 4:17-20, is saying the same thing as “the power
of Satan” defined in Acts 26:18. “To open their eyes” implies to have
the eyes of understanding opened (cp. Eph.1:18).
3. Acts 26:18 implies that it was “the power of Satan” that stopped the
Gentiles from sharing the inheritance of the Gospel which was preached
to the Jews in the promises (Gal. 3:8; Jn. 4:22). We have shown (“The
Jewish Satan”) that “Satan” is often connected with the Law and the
Jewish system. Maybe this is another example. Note too the allusions in
this verse to Isaiah 42: 6-7: “I...will...keep thee, and give thee for
a...light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners
from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house”.
This equates the power of Satan with a prison house, and the Law is likened
to a prison in Galatians 3: 23 and 4: 3.
There are allusions in Acts 26:18 to the Jews’ crucifixion of Jesus -
“this is your hour, and the power of darkness” (Lk. 22:53); “Satan” (the
Jews) hath desired to have you” (Lk. 22:31), Jesus warned the disciples
at the last supper.
The previous verse (Acts 26:17) shows Jesus strengthening Paul to be
brave in his mission to the Gentiles - “delivering thee from the people,
and from the Gentiles”. Jesus Himself, was “delivered to the Gentiles”
(see Lk.18: 32-33) for crucifixion by the Jews, and Mark 15:15 implies
Jesus was delivered to “the people”, too. The phrase “the people’ frequently
occurs in the crucifixion records. It is as if Jesus is saying, “I was
delivered to the Gentiles and (Jewish) people because of My preaching;
I am now commissioning you to preach, facing the same battle against (the
Jewish) Satan and man’s blindness to the Word of God, due to his love
of the flesh, as I did, but I will deliver you from the Gentiles and Jewish
people, rather than deliver you to them, as I was. You are going to spend
your life going through the same experiences as I faced in My last hours”.
Thus, in yet another way, we can understand how Paul could say, “I am
crucified with Christ” (Gal. 2: 20). This interpretation is confirmed
by our “Suggested Explanation” No. 3, of 2 Corinthians 12: 7.
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The e word. Enlightenment. It’s a pretty polarizing word. Many folks are getting rich off of selling the enlightenment experience. Others are using it as part of their blog’s title.. Ahem.
Brad Warner recently wrote a post titled ‘ What is Enlightenment?’ which resonated with me and I wanted to share some thoughts on. While I can attest to having a few ‘awareness’ experiences in my life, I don’t really hoot on about them, go off writing books like ‘The Secret’ or crafting pithy blog posts about how realized I am. I think there’s a fine balance between the humility that I hold my practice with combined with the strength that’s required to pursue being a functional Buddhist in today’s modern world. It truly is a balance- much like one can become that annoying person on the airplane that doesn’t shut up about their wife, kids, peanut farm for 20 hours non-stop or the glassy eyed stranger that doesn’t even smile or engage after you accidentally bump their table tray. There are some out there in the world that just get off on selling enlightenment and there are many that are just craving the possibility that comes with meeting an enlightened being.
The movie ‘Kumare’ really got to me as it was one of the most genuine portrayals of the spiritual seeker that I’ve seen in some time. The ability to see the perspective of what people were looking for when they chose to follow this learned man was a precious one for those who work in spiritual communities because it shines a light on the need for absolute care that has to be taken when individuals enter a spiritual center seeking – whatever it is they are seeking… answers, relief from suffering, community, meditation instruction or any of the reasons one walks through the door of a Buddhist/spiritual community.
So back to enlightenment. I think in many ways it’s seen as a goal. An attainment. Similar to how my Pentecostal family would herald when someone received the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues or rolled around on the floor or ran around the perimeter of the church. Sometimes the idea that it can take several zillion lifetimes for enlightenment is lost on us. We want it NOW, but we don’t even really know why.
Do go over to Brad’s site and read his post as it is a great read and worthy of discussion related to the topic of spiritual masters and spiritual seekers.
After being fully stoked over my chat with Miguel from Teenage Bottlerocket last week, I careened into a set of weekend talks from Nalandabodhi’s dear Lama Rabten who is visiting our local centre for this auspicious month of May and offering teachings on Lojong. It has been lovely and incredible to be together with my local sangha to study, practice and be present and also the dual opportunity for me to practice my French skills as there is translation from English to French for each talk.
So on my radar as a few items that made an impression lately:
- Check ins and being present from @Mindonly
- Day 219: The Banana Stand
- Pouzza Buddha image from their upcoming Montreal punk festival
- iMeditation – by David Allen McKeel
- The Unborn a blog post by 108 Zen Books is just wonderful. You must read it.
How to sit without the hope that some intense curiosity or vibrant joy will infiltrate, breaking our shell, opening us. If only to see that what we were intended for is no longer possible. And yet, what we are is immense in its possibilities.
- I have to thank dear Fitri for sharing this most meditative cake baking sequence that I’ve ever seen.
Last week while flipping through my RSS feeds to keep up to date on the goings on in the punk rock world, my beady little eagle eyes spotted a ‘Meditate and Destroy’ t-shirt on Miguel Chen, bass player for pop-power-punk group Teenage Bottlerocket.
Now I fangirl adore Teenage Bottlerocket. Hailing from Laramie, Wyoming, they are pure in your face, three chord harmonious, snotty punk that’s hooky, tight and just done ever so right.
I was really curious to find out more about Miguel’s connection with Buddhism so I dropped him a line and he was kind enough to answer some of my questions about how he discovered Buddhism, details on his personal practice and a bit of information on how BDSM figures into his life. He’s very open in both being a Buddhist and his participation in BDSM and I found it both interesting and important to find out more about his perspective on something that I quite honestly have not really read or heard many Buddhists speak of aside from that filthy Brad Warner fellow
How did you discover Buddhism? Describe the circumstances.How long have you been interested?
About 7 years ago we went on tour with The Epoxies. I was kind of going through a rough time in my life and their lead singer Roxy gave me a copy of ‘Dharma Punx’ by Noah Levine. At the time the book helped me relate to someone who had been through similar suffering to my own, but it wasn’t until a few years later when I revisited it that the Dharma really made it’s way into my daily life. When I revisited the book I was going through a really dark time, doing lots of drugs and generally being depressed. I knew that when I played shows and connected with people I wasn’t depressed, but that was only for an hour a day, I needed to find a way to be happy the rest of the day. And so I revisited Dharma Punx. This time around it made even more sense than before and it lead me to many other Buddhist authors including Tai Sheridan, Charlotte Joko Beck,Thich Nhat Hahn, Brad Warner, Lodro Rinzler and many others. Over the next few months I read every book on the subject I could get my hands on and my life really began to transform. I started meditating every morning and finally began to feel like I’d found what I was looking for.
What school of Buddhism do you follow?
My initial reaction is to say I relate most to Zen Buddhism. I believe in keeping things simple and Zen offers a lot of that. I basically sit every day, then spend the rest of my day trying to do my best. There’s not a lot more to it as it applies to my life, people are often surprised when I tell them that. For me, Buddhism boils down to realizing we are all connected, we all suffer, and we all want to be happy. Those simple lessons have had a major impact on my life. Noah Levine once said he considers himself and American Buddhist, a combination of several schools and I might agree with that. A lot of the schools that work in the East don’t translate so well into our day to day lives over here. I really like that. Maybe I’ll say I consider myself a Mexican-American Buddhist.
Are there any specific teachings that resonate with you?
I’ve read the Dhamapadda, The Art of Living, The Lotus Sutra etc, however I find the teaching I relate to the most is of course the 4 Noble Truths. I interpret them to be first that all living beings suffer. Secondly, the reason we suffer is attachment to a self and that this self creates differences in the way things are and the way we think they are. Third there is an end to suffering and that can be found by following the 8 fold path. When I’m asked about the 8 fold path I generally tell people it’s just about trying to do what is best for each situation we are presented with, and to focus on living now, not in the past or the future.
Do you have a teacher?
I wish! Again, there are not a lot of Buddhists in Wyoming, so finding a teacher has yet to happen. I do have some friends around the country I will talk to when I get the chance, but no formal teacher.
Do you have a meditation practice? How is that going for you being on the road touring?
Every single morning I wake up and sit on a cushion for 20-45 minutes. On tour it’s usually on the shorter end of that spectrum because we have so little free time. I will spend the first part of my meditation calming and clearing my mind, and the second part working on metta concentrations. I also wear a mala on my wrist that I will use to count my breaths or go through mantras whenever I get a free moment on tour.
You are open about being a member of the BDSM community and see a tie in (ha ha) between BDSM and Buddhism. How so?
As far as letting go of your ego and becoming truly present in the now, few things will get you there as quickly as being tied up and beat with a paddle. Nipple clamps are a great tool as well because they will put your focus on one thing and keep your mind from wandering. The feeling I get after a good BDSM session is very similar to the feeling I get after a good meditation. There is a lot of power in just being present, for whatever we are doing when we are doing it. BDSM allows me to let go of control, to just exist in one exact moment in time. It’s really very Zen-like for me!
In his book ‘Sex, Sin and Zen’ , Brad Warner wrote about some misgivings he had about BDSM but overall spoke to the responsibility involved with all who participate. He mentioned trauma and power exchange and how it’s can be somewhat similar to cult-like behaviour within some Buddhist communities. How would you respond to this?
I would say there is definitely potential for that sort of abuse of power, but I have never had experiences like that. When done properly BDSM is a good way for people to really connect. There is a big stigma over BDSM but I think really a lot more people might like it if they went in with an open mind. Again it’s all about giving yourself completely to the moment and if you are doing these activities with people you can trust to care for you it can be a very rewarding experience.
How do you relate to desire and attachment as a BDSM Buddhist?
All humans have desire and I believe that is okay. The problem becomes our attachment to it. If you can work on accepting things as they are over how you think they should be, then desire isn’t much of a problem. It’s okay to desire something as long as it doesn’t consume you and if you can’t have it, just let it go.
Do you feel that the Buddhist community is open enough about sexuality as a whole?
One thing that really stuck with me about Buddhism is that it’s not necessarily a religion. I forget who wrote it, but I once read something along the lines of “Don’t practice Buddhism to be a better Buddhist, practice Buddhism to be a better whatever you already are.” With that in mind there are Buddhists of all walks of life, some are monks who perhaps aren’t open enough about sexuality, others are Dominatrixes and punk rockers. My Buddhist friends tend to be pretty open, but that might be because they are also punks.
Is there anything you’d like to share relating to anything I haven’t asked? Advice. Questions.
I can’t really think of anything. Thanks for the interview. May we all be happy and free from suffering!
I am so very happy to share this information with you as it is quite exciting…
Tergar Montreal is delighted to present two teachings by H E Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche
- Path to Compassion: Essential Teachings on Training the Mind ~ August 9, 7 – 9 PM, August 10, 9 AM – 5 PM
In these turbulent times, it often seems that uncertainty and challenges surround us in every direction. Meditation is not meant to remove us from the world, but to open our hearts and minds to the beauty of what we already have. In this teaching, renowned Buddhist teacher Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche will share her insights in this journey, showing how we can generate compassion and train our mind even in the midst of our busy lives.
For more information on how to register, click here.
- Teaching and Empowerment of Yeshe Tsogyal ~ August 11, 9 AM – 5 PM
Yeshe Tsogyal was a direct incarnation of Dhatvishvari Vajra Yogini in the form of a woman. She was one of five dakini emanations of Vajra Yogini and, in essence, also a manifestation of Guru Rinpoche himself. She appeared to assist Guru Rinpoche in spreading the Vajrayana, especially the terma teachings, in the Snowy Land of Tibet. Yeshe Tsogyal is also considered an emanation of Arya Tara, Vajra Varahi, Prajnaparamita and Samantabhadri — all enlightened buddhas.
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H E Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche
Born as the eldest daughter of Kyabje Mindrolling Trichen Gyurme Künzang Wangyal – the 11th Mindrolling throne holder of the renowned Mindrolling lineage, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, as a Jetsünma within the Mindrolling lineage and a Tulku within the Kagyu lineage holds both the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions. Rinpoche speaks fluent English. For a full biography please see http://www.mjkr.org/biography.
Yesterday my friend Martin passed away. This is a photo which was on the dust jacket of a novel he had written. It was shared with me yesterday and I think it best personifies who he was. An intellectual. Deep. Probing. Don’t be fooled though. He had a laugh like lightening cracking through the night sky. It would shoot out and cut through any tension in a room. It was a generous and hearty laugh.
We came to know one another through Buddhist studies as he opened up his house to a rag tag crew of us to sit, study and discuss the dharma. Each week, he’d have us over for tea and cookies and for about 5 years, this was our regular way of being. I’m not sure of his interest in the dharma but he was deeply philosophical and a man who ‘rolled his own’ spirituality which I admired him for. I also admired him for his steadfast questioning of the teachings. He was to me, one of those people that questioned everything (and I mean everything).
He drove me nuts.
Oh the debates. Oh the roughness. It was like a wrestling match. I think he loved being able to dismantle and deconstruct what we were studying so that it wasn’t just blindly accepted and re-quoted. He forced me to explain why I felt the way I did. What experiences led me to the beliefs or assumptions I was making. All of this made me dig deeper, read more and truly explore what I was reading.
He was one of the best non-Buddhist, Buddhist teachers I’ve had.
Recently he had fallen ill. Quite suddenly. I’d come to know this from a friend and gave him a call. A bit week but in good spirits, we spoke for a short time and then radio silence until yesterday when I was reading over some teachings on the Bodhisattva Vow and thought of him. We had the great battle of the Hinayana vs. Mahayana once in our discussion group. A staunch “Hinayanaist”, Martin dug his heels in and there was no moving towards the territory of the “Mahayanaist regime”.
Reminded of this, I sent him an email thinking that maybe he’d prefer this to a call. It wasn’t long after that I had reconfigured an email address that I rarely use. I had removed it from my ipad last week as it kept re-retrieving messages from the server so I wanted to see if I could fix this somehow. It was then that I saw a flood of emails with his name as the subject from people I didn’t know. The first one being ‘Martin in the hospital’ and then moving towards yesterday morning with just his name as the subject and the body copy told me the news of his passing.
What continued to follow were emails with stories and photos. Tales of his great generosity. Students who mentioned how he built up their confidence in their writing or acting. Stories of his creativity and artistic flair. Emails piled up from around the world who came to know and love him. Mentions of his compassion. His wisdom.
Take a bow Martin. You were magnificent.
There’s been a few changes to the schedule of events / topics for Lama Rabten Tshering’s upcoming teachings in Montreal. Consult the poster for full details.
9:30a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Red Tape Parade vocalist Wauz Kenobi passed away last week after a battle with cancer. He was the founder of the Berlin chapter of Dharma Punx and left quite an impression on the German punk scene.
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Nairobi, Kenya. 16th April 2013 -- A cigarette vendor in one of the smoking zones in Nairobi. He spends hours at his stand and does not leave until late in the evening. He is physically challenged and says he has to make ends meet. -- Several years ago former City Council of Nairobi banned public smoking. Under the ban, those caught smoking in offices, bus stations, airports and sports venue would face a fine of 50,000 Kenya shillings (00; 375) or six months in prison.
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WestJet is known for their viral marketing videos, which come in a few different forms. Perhaps the two most popular varieties are their Christmas Miracle videos, as well as their April Fools’ videos, which seem to be an annual thing.
WestJet’s most popular video ever was their 2013 Christmas Miracle, which has almost 50 million views on YouTube. It’s brilliant in every way, and you can see how much effort went into it, how it caught people off guard, etc.
WestJet’s 2012 April Fools’ joke was pretty amazing as well, as they claimed to introduce child free cabins.
Yesterday WestJet published their last big “surprise” video, which I assume they’re hoping to make viral. However, I’m not sure it’ll be especially successful, because it’s just plain strange.
The surprise revolves around a WestJet flight from Toronto to Las Vegas, and is intended to celebrate that WestJet has been flying to Las Vegas for over 21 years, and has transported more passengers to Las Vegas than any other international airline.
So what they do is set up a massive lights display in the middle of Utah, so that passengers on one specific flight can see it as they approach Las Vegas. They spent months planning this, and crews spent a week on the ground in Utah installing all the lights, as the diameter of the lights was over one kilometer.
By doing this WestJet broke two Guinness World Records — the greatest light output in a projected image, and the largest circular projection. Boy, you really can create just about any category you want in order to break a world record.
Before I say more, here’s the video:
And here’s the behind the scenes video, which provides some much needed details about how this all worked:
On one hand the lights display itself is impressive, while on the other hand I find this whole thing to be a stretch. So WestJet spent (presumably) tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars to set up a lights display in the middle of the desert so that maybe three dozen people can see them? In practice I assume only people seated in the window seats on the left side had a clear view.
Then they had a pre-determined winner (based on the camera being on their face before they won) who would receive a $2,500 Las Vegas shopping spree, tickets to two shows, two nights at the Venetian, and a roundtrip flight from WestJet. Everyone else apparently got something as well, though they don’t say what it is.
While I’m a big fan of WestJet marketing in general, I think this one is just lost on me. What makes their Christmas Miracle videos so great is the social cause behind them, the delight across so many passengers, etc. The response reflects the effort they put in. This one, on the other hand…
What do you make of WestJet’s Las Vegas surprise?
(Tip of the hat to CP@YOW)
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Amazon Go has announced that it will be closing eight of its cashier-less Go convenience stores in the United States, signaling a shift in the company’s retail strategy. The closures will affect stores in California, Illinois, and New York.
The Go stores, which use a combination of cameras, sensors, and artificial intelligence to allow customers to pick up items and walk out without the need for cashiers or checkout lines, were seen as a major innovation when they were first introduced in 2018.
Here are 2 Best Points of Amazon Go: 8 of the Company’s Cashierless Stores to be Closed;
What has caused this decision?
In a statement, Amazon Go said that the decision to close the stores was based on several factors, including the need to focus on larger-format stores, which are better suited to offer a wider range of products and services.
“We constantly evaluate our store portfolio to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our customers, and as part of this process, we’ve decided to close a few stores,” the company said. “We remain committed to our vision of a future where customers don’t have to wait in line and can seamlessly shop for what they want when they want.”
The closure of the stores comes as Amazon Go continues to expand its physical retail presence, with plans to open several larger-format stores across the United States. These stores will reportedly offer a wider range of products and services, including groceries, household items, and electronics.
According to industry experts, the move to close the smaller Go stores is a reflection of Amazon’s broader retail strategy, which is focused on building a larger and more diverse brick-and-mortar presence.
“Amazon has always been about innovation, and the cashier-less Amazon Go stores were a big part of that,” said retail analyst Rebecca Thomson. “But as the company looks to expand its physical retail footprint, it makes sense to focus on larger-format stores that can offer a wider range of products and services.”
Despite the closure of the eight stores, Amazon remains committed to its cashier-less technology, which it has licensed to other retailers. The company has also been testing the technology in larger-format stores, such as its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, which offer a mix of traditional checkout lanes and cashier-less checkout options.
What is the future of cashier-less technology after this?
The closure of the Amazon Go stores has also raised questions about the viability of cashier-less technology in the retail industry. While the technology has been praised for its ability to reduce labor costs and improve customer experience, it has also faced criticism for its potential to exacerbate existing inequalities and privacy concerns.
Some experts have argued that the technology is still in its early stages and will likely continue to evolve as retailers experiment with new formats and use cases.
“Cashierless technology is still relatively new, and there’s a lot of room for experimentation and innovation,” said technology analyst Andrew Smith. “While the closure of these stores is certainly a setback, it’s not the end of the road for this technology, which has the potential to revolutionize the way we shop.”
In the wake of the closures, Amazon Go has said that it will work to find new roles for affected employees. The company has also said that it remains committed to its broader vision of a future where customers can seamlessly shop for what they want, when they want, without the need for traditional checkout lines or cashiers.
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Here are a couple of gems from my friends:
“Son: Mommy, does your name have any L’s like mine?
Mom: Let’s sound it out and see!
Son: Aim–ee… nope, no L’s.
Mom: Great job!
Son: So how about we call you “Lame-y”?
#middleschoolflashbacks” Read the rest of this entry
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I'll do all that in a bit, we'll create a whole separate thread for sign ups and what not. Region shouldn't be a problem since there's cross region now. Hopefully the lag isn't too bad... While we're still in the IC phase, please help me decide on the week that would be okay for people. I'll randomize the brackets later.
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What Are the Risk Factors for a Concussion?
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Dealing with the side effects or permanent damage from a concussion can severely impact your finances, as well as your physical and emotional well-being. You could be dealing with piling medical bills, high treatment costs, and lost wages from missed work. A traumatic brain injury lawyer from the Law Office of Todd W. Burris can help you recover the financial compensation you deserve after a brain injury that wasn’t your fault.
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Crossed as a sling bag on in your hand, this lovely patchwork bag of coloured leather effect strips is very comfortable and practical. Its square shape folds up, forming a zip-fastened front flap.
Patchwork of synthetic leather of strips embossed with solid colours red, green, black on ecru background
Flexible front that folds up forming flap on front
Measurements: 28 (l.) x 3 (w.) x 28 (w.) cm.
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Got there about 3pm every day. Very busy beach. Sand not great and pebbles when you enter the sea but great once you are in the sea. Had a few days with big waves but nothing too bad.
Own or manage this property? Claim your listing for free to respond to reviews, update your profile and much more.
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I can answer questions relating to coming out, relationships, dealing with men/women in romantic contexts and general anxieties about dating. I can also answer questions with self-confidence and presenting yourself well i.e. "love coaching" to make yourself as eligible as possible. I've also had a lot of examples when things have gone 'badly' and can advise how to make the best of things and get back on your feet.
Being openly bisexual I have experience in dealing with men and women and the nuances of being in relationships with both. I also am a bit of an old-fashioned romantic so have ideas and suggestions for dates and surprises, romantic etiquette and fun tailored to both men and women taken from my own experience (good & bad).
I've also had many interesting adventures in the dating world which have given me a bit of rounded perspective with things. And having graduated from Uni I too am experiencing a transition from college to 'real world' dating which shapes my view on things. I've gone from a sofa Romeo to a real one (matter of opional!) which has taught me much about applying oneself to romance.
University LGBT Society.
University and Masters graduate in Literature and Film Studies so I am well-read which gives me somewhat of a grounded 'academic' view on things. I've also read many books on Love, dating and related subjects. Likewise with movies. I'm also a bit of an old-fashioned nerd so am quite into a good date and know some hotspots in London, not to mention a good love poem which never went awry. Avid believer and reader of personal development materials so can help people with self-improvement or at least refer them to a useful book.
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Ashleigh Barty to play for Sydney title; Andreas Seppi makes men's final
Barty withstood 15 aces from Bertens in the 2-hour, 18-minute match to advance to her second consecutive final in Sydney.
"It's amazing -- it truly has been a phenomenal week of tennis," Barty said. "I feel like I've played great the whole week. I've had tough opponents every single round and I'm really excited to have another shot at the title."
Italian Andreas Seppi advanced to Saturday's men's final by beating Diego Schwartzman 7-6 (3), 6-4. Seppi beat top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals and will play in his first final since June 2015 in Germany.
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While I am a proud Irish man and I try to support as many Irish businesses as possible, I’ve always had an appreciation for the quality clothes and shoes that are made in Britain. When Nick at Loake Shoes Dublin on Wicklow St asked me would I like to collaborate with them, I knew it was an opportunity I couldn’t turn down.
I had always been familiar with Loake as I had seen their shoes featured on many of the magazines that I regularly read. Amazed by the apparent quality, I finally got a chance last December at the official store opening to look at these shoes. Let’s just say I wasn’t disappointed. They have an array of shoes to suit everyone’s taste and price points to suit most people’s budget.
Now to the most important bit! Which ones did I choose? If you follow me on social media, you’ll know that I chose the Brown Fearnley Brogue. It wasn’t an easy choice as the Navy Chelsea boots really took my fancy. Versatility won in the end as the brogues would go with a lot more items in my wardrobe. I have worn these a number of times since I’ve got them and I have to say that they are extremely comfortable and quite durable as they have survived unexpected trips where let’s just say you wouldn’t expect to wear your brogues (a trip to a cave!).
I was told by Nick that simple things like a regular polish and using a shoe horn will go a long way towards maintaining the life of the shoe. I was told that the back of the shoe is very much like the chassis of a car, if it’s bent or broken then it is pretty much useless. If the back of the shoe goes forward or bends, the rest of the shoe goes forward and puts it out of shape. I definitely learned something new that day!
This collaboration for me has been an experience. I have found out what it is like to own a high-quality pair of shoes and I won’t lie it’s something I could definitely get used to, as I found I took extra care of them. It goes to show that if you invest in something and look after it properly it is going to have a long life. Nick proved this as he said he has a pair of shoes older than the length of time some of his co-workers have been at the company. I also learned the importance of using a shoehorn. It is amazing how a piece of plastic can make a simple task of putting on a pair of shoes even easier while protecting the shoe at the same time. This is a lesson and a practice that all gentlemen should follow if they are not doing so already.
I would like to thank Nick for wanting to collaborate with me. Loake Shoemakers has been a brand I have admired for a long time, even more so when I found that they offer a repair service for your shoes. If you want to find out more about it click on this link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGNHcwO9zI
Do you own a pair of Loakes? How do you find them? Let me know in the comments below.
*This is not a sponsored post, I received the pair of shoes in exchange for this blog post and social media coverage.
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What is the first thing that your human mind imagines when you hear the word “dragon”? I’m curious… knowing that the existence of dragons is known to humans, even if the vast majority of humans have never seen any. So I wonder, do you share my views? To me it’s quite obvious that the most iconic part of a dragon is their eyes. They can tell so much about an individual’s characteristics, personality, mood and even intentions. Some of us can read each others’ minds if we’re tuned in and we’re looking into each other’s eyes. Different as our eyes may be (even among the same kin), all of us have dramatic, unique and very, very intense eyes (more so than humans, in my opinion).
This is why when I finally decided which dragons to honour with a trophy, I decided to begin by creating their eyes. I tried to be as faithful as possible, and even though it took me a while to tweak them until I was satisfied, I know it won’t do them justice. But that’s OK, right? If there was a way to reproduce real dragon eyes, they wouldn’t be so special anymore.
So I printed them on paper, then glued them to a glass dome and let it dry. You have to push the dome hard against the paper to avoid leaving air bubbles that would ruin the look once dried.I printed a bunch more just to experiment with.
An old steel dragon hailing from another plane. She's been living among humans for a while now, learning about them and using her artistic talent to make recreations of relevant draconic figures from her homeland. Her aim is to teach humans about her kin and learn about them in return.
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The descendants of David Stever and Martha May (Glunt) Miller held their biennial family reunion on June 24 in an outdoor pavilion at the Frankstown Township Memorial Park in Geeseytown, Hollidaysburg.
Thirty three people were in attendance. The reunion was organized by Darrell Miller, Sharon Moore and Sheryl Durbin, children of Robert D. and Lois I. Miller.
Elections were held for next reunion’s officers. Susan Lamertina and Abigail Ollinger were chosen as chairwomen.
The next reunion will be held in June 2020 at the same location.
Email information about family, class and company reunions to community
@altoonamirror.com. For more information, call Brenda Carberry, community news coordinator, at
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June 25, 2014, by Tara de Cozar
Research Showcase roundup part the second – including the winner!
Continuing with the Research Showcase roundup (the first one’s here). Next on my list of ‘ones to watch’ from an artistic flair perspective were (drum roll, etc)…
Beili Shao, Clinical Sciences, ‘Toxic sugar leads to ‘flooding’ in the brain’
Beili’s poster featured a picture of a dog in a raincoat, illustrating the blood/brain barrier. What’s not to like?
I also liked the way that the design of this poster took the reader on a very clear path through the information presented. She also wasn’t afraid to shy away from grim imagery – a well-placed gravestone clearly signposted the risks of too much sugar.
The purist in me isn’t too keen on the headline font, but that’s beyond picky really. Good poster all round.
Athina Meletiou (left), Chemical and Environmental Engineering,
‘Tuberculosis: it never went away’
Anastasios Stavrou, Medicine, ‘The scars of flu’
I’ve put these two together because I liked them for the same reasons. Minimal text, good use of images and a clear path through the information on the poster. Both of these were in my mind as potential winners for those reasons. I think people – whatever their prior knowledge – would come away from reading these with a real understanding of the research projects. And, after speaking to Anastasios, you also come away with the urge to get a flu jab.
Which brings us to the winner…
Julie Waldron, Engineering, ‘Human behaviour forecast’
Julie’s poster looks amazing. She went for a weather forecast concept and used this to track and predict human behaviour – information which could then be used to design better public spaces. I loved the image. Julie took photos of people moving around a public space and then developed a colour key to show where people relaxed, worked or lingered, and where they moved on quickly. It’s a very simple, clear and effective way of illustrating complex information over time. The top half of the poster gave you all the info you needed for a basic understanding of the research, while the text at the bottom – in an amount that wasn’t overwhelming to the eye – gave more detail if the reader wanted it.
Good concept, well thought out and executed. Top poster. Nice work Julie!
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Include Q&A sessions and other discussions as a perk for your membership sites. You can also organize paid Q&A sessions for your audiences with you or other experts associated with you.
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I have heard stories from my husband’s grandmother about how her grandfather was a Pony Express rider. There are very good records of who worked for the Pony Express and Charles Palmatier was not one of them. The obituary below proves that although the story was not totally accurate, there was definitely a grain of truth in it. This is the longest obituary I have ever found. Charley must have been a well-known and liked man in town.
Charles E. Palmatier. This photo ran with his obituary 7 June 1951 in The Ord Quiz, Ord, Nebraska, page 1 column 2 and page 2, columns 1, 2, 3 and 4. Digital images accessed 6 February 2015 at www.ordlibrary.org (The Ord Library Township Newspaper Archive).
C.E. Palmatier, Oldest Pioneer of All, Laid to Rest
Ord Resident Dies After Illness of 10 Days; Friends Mourn.
Charles Palmatier, Valley county pioneer and one of the county’s oldest and most highly respected citizens, passed away at the Ord Cooperative hospital early June 1st, at the age of 95 years, three months and twenty-three days. His death was the result of a stroke which he suffered May 23. He was born in New York state in 1856.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his beloved wife, Ettie, whom he married in 1884; three sons, Marshall of Wilmington, Calif., Edmund, of Boise, Ida, and Ellery of Chicago; four daughters, Stella Grindey, Loretta Frazier and Grace Rowe of Chicago and Alice Reed of North Hollywood, Calif.; eleven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, besides his many friends and acquaintances.
Mr. Palmatier came to Nebraska in 1878, homesteaded at Geranium in 1879. He was a mail carrier of the early days, and ran the post office at Geranium for 17 years. Leaving the farm in 1910, he was a resident of Ord until the time of his death . A man of absolute integrity, he will long be remembered by the old friends and neighbors who knew him best.
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C.E. Palmatier, Oldest Pioneer of All Laid to Rest
Ord Resident Dies After Illness of 10 Days; Friends Mourn.
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Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Rev. R.E. Daughelee officiating, with Hastings and Pearson in charge of arrangements. Lucille Tolen sang, with Mrs. Viola Kellison at the piano. The pall bearers were Elmer Zlomke, Don Dong, Wilbur Rogers, O.E. Patchen, Robert Noll, and M.B. Cummins. Mr. and Mrs. John Haskell had charge of the flowers. Burial was in Graceland cemetery.
Charles Palmatier was born in New York state, at Youngsville, Sullivan county, March 9, 1856, and first came to Nebraska in 1878. With him came a friend, John S. Wheeler, who once lived north of Elyria. They walked from Grand Island to St. Paul, and the next day got a job off-bearing brick in a brick yard owned by a man named Dory DeVry. This yard was located on the river near St. Paul.
Mr. Palmatier’s next job was working for Zach Leftwich in a mill on Spring Creek, He worked in the mill and also fed hogs. His first work at Ord was teaming in flour for S.S. Haskell, who at that time ran a store in the old Transit House, now located on the corner north of Hotel Ord, but then located about where the U.P. shops used to be.
It was a rather risky trip in those days. It took two days each way and camp was usually made over night near Scotia Junction. He stayed over night on some occasions with as much as $40 to $60 in his pocket, and that was a lot of money in those days. He ran quite a chance of being held up and relieved of it, but happened to be lucky.
It was not far from that time that Palmatier came to Valley county and filed on a homestead where he later located the post office of Geranium. As the law required residence on the land only a small part of the time, he got out and worked wherever he could to get money to live on. He was helping put up hay on the Calamus between the Skull and the Bloody when he got his first mail job.
Another man had the contract but he got Charley to do the carrying for him. She started carrying mail on horse back and carried it until the famous blizzard of 1880 hit on Oct. 15 and 16. His route was between Hartsuff and Fort Niobrara, a distance of 160 miles through the hills. He lost two horses in that blizzard and never went back to the job.
He would sometimes see as many as one hundred Indians on a single mail trip. Mostly they were peaceable, but a mail carrier can take no chances so he had little to do with them. One day he saw an Indian traveling to head him off, and tried to get past him, but got headed off. He asked the red man what he wanted and he answered “Tobac.”
It happened that Charley had brought a plug of chewing tobacco at the store. It was about an inch square and four inches long. He broke it in two across his knee and gave the Indian the smaller piece. He looked as though he would like to have the larger piece, but he did not get it.
While living in New York state Mr. Palmatier had taken a fancy to a girl somewhat younger than himself, and in 1881 he went back and persuaded Ettie Conklin to come back with him as his wife and make a home for him on his quarter section of land, which he had proved up on that year. They lived on the homestead and raised a large family of children.
Palmatier also carried mail for “Bill” W.H. Williams from St. Paul to Ord and on to St. Helena. He never had a chance to go to school, but nobody would believe it after visiting him. His mind was clear until the last, and he never was at loss for the answers for any questions friends asked him.
In the early ‘80s solon Pierson, a brother of Perry and uncle of Claence [sic], started the original Geranium post office. Later John Wolfe took it over and then it went to Herbert Losey. Mr. and Mrs. Palmatier got it from Losey and kept it for some time after the turn of the century, when it was discontinued with the coming of rural free delivery. Mrs. Palmatier had much of the work of taking care of the office while her husband was engaged in other work.
There was no salary connected with the office and he got only about $30 for the year’s work, which of course was not worth the trouble. After a while the post office closed at Manderson a few miles north and Geranium got the extra business. H.F. Rhodes was postmaster of the Manderson office.
Palmatier did any kind of work he could get in those days. He worked on the railroad between St. Paul and North Loup before the line was extended to Ord. He says that J.J. “Bud” Shirley case his first vote at the Palmatier house in Geranium. When Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Miller, still living in Burwell, were married at the Dies House in Ord, Charley was at the wedding.
He was one of the few men still living who knew how to build a sod house. He never belonged to any secret society, and did not believe in them. Geranium was on the wagon route from east to west, and people always planned to stop at the Palmatier home over night. They were always welcome. He lived to be the oldest living mail carrier, the oldest Quiz subscriber and probably the oldest living citizen in Valley county.
In 1910 Mr. Palmatier built a home in east Ord and the family has lived there since that time. In 1911 they made a visit to their old home in New York state. He was always a busy man, and had a fine garden at his home when death called him. The fine character of both Mr. and Mrs. Palmatier is shown by the loving care of their children for them.
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Let me start off with saying that neither of my parents are dead. I have had this fear lately about how I'm going to react when either one of my parents die. (Either when they die of old age or if they were to die from an accident of some sort) The mere thought of losing either one of them is devastating. I find that this is a touchy subject to bring up with either of them, but I have attempted it with my mom before. Her mother died when I was only 5, but her father is still alive. When I tried to ask her about how she dealt with her mother's death all she really responded with was: "Well, you try to do what that person would want you to do. You have to keep waking up every morning... life goes on." I honestly don't think that I am capable of such a thing. (My dad's mother died when I was about 8 years old. His father is still alive. I haven't asked him about how he handled his mom's death.) Not too long ago my dad was cleaning out our living room closet and happened to pull out a box filled with old photos from my mom's childhood and from even before she was born. I sat down and went through the box occasionally picking up an old photo of my mom and laughing with her about the photos of her as a child and teenager. My mom then joined me in digging through the photos and would every now and then pick up an old picture of her mother only to make a sad face and then quickly hide the photo beneath all the rest of the pictures. I wanted to ask her why she wouldn't just stop and choose to look at the photos, but I decided I should keep quiet. I imagine that it's still hard to think about her mother even years after her death. I can just picture myself going through old photos of my parents after they're gone and breaking down over the fact that they're gone forever. BTW, I'm atheist, so I believe that once a person dies... that's it. They're gone forever. All of their thoughts, ideas, dreams, memories, etc. are gone. ---------------------- Cliffs: Basically, how does a person keep waking up every day after one or both of their parents die?
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Geothermal Resources Council and Geothermal Energy Association Members Overwhelmingly Vote for Unification
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) and the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) are excited to announce their unification. Combining the GRC and GEA strengthens the voice of our industry with a single organization devoted to advancing the science, education, and development of renewable geothermal energy resources.
Members of both organizations voted on the decision to unify and the results were overwhelmingly in favor. They will benefit from an increased value for their dues and improved networking relationships as the geothermal community moves forward together.
The activities of the GEA will be transitioned into the GRC in early 2018. One of the key activities is already underway through the establishment of a special committee, the GRC Policy Committee. This committee will focus on educating and lobbying leaders at state and federal levels to expand their knowledge about the geothermal industry. The committee will also assist the geothermal community in its awareness of opportunities to expand renewable energy projects, building a stronger platform for the entire U.S. energy grid. All members are encouraged to join in this new effort.
Full News Release
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We are onto Day 5 of our ’10 Days of Giveaways’ over on our Instagram. Over the next 10 days, we are going to be featuring a wonderful experience every single day from a beautiful place in Ireland. We are going to be chatting all about the experience and what they offer and the idea behind it is that you get to see lots of wonderful places to explore on your doorstep.
Today is day 6 of our 10 days of giveaways. Today we are featuring Blarney Castle & Gardens in the beautiful village of Blarney, Co. Cork. We are also giving away a family pass to Blarney Castle & Gardens.
Blarney Castle was built over 600 years ago and has been attracting millions of visitors over the last few 100 years. One of Ireland’s greatest treasures. You can kiss the stone to get the gift of the gab or simply enjoy a walk in the beautiful, mature gardens. The gardens surrounding Blarney Castle are a hidden gem in Cork. Absolutely breathtaking.
To enter today’s competition just head over to our Instagram and enter. The competition will be live at 8pm tonight and the winner will be picked tomorrow night. Best of luck everyone.
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After making cut at Sony Open, Texan shut out on PGA Tour
Kite seeking answers
AUSTIN - Tom Kite finds himself in strange territory nowadays, visiting places he hasn't seen for years.
It'll be the weekend and he's not in a golf tournament. It'll be Sunday and he's not playing late. It'll be an early round in California or Florida or Georgia and he's marching to his ball, somewhere in the rough, often on the left side — the result of the dreaded hook.
"I've never fought the ball hooking," Kite said. "I'm hooking more than I have in my life."
It all began with such a buzz. Kite ended his 2004 season on the Champions Tour with a dozen consecutive Top 25 finishes, including a win in Minneapolis and Top 10s in the final three major championships of the year. Then he announced that he would be using a one-time exemption to play the PGA Tour in 2005.
He made the cut at the Sony Open. He has not made one since.
Six consecutive times, he had his weekends free. At the MCI Heritage in Hilton Head, he was disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard.
He's placed in the Top 25 in all three Champions Tour events he's played this year, but anyone who knows Kite understands that a tie for 19th in the MasterCard Championship or a tie for ninth at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am isn't what he's after.
"I've hit the ball poorly," Kite said Thursday at the FedEx Kinko's Classic. "From tee to green."
Kite spoke candidly and patiently Thursday with a pair of reporters in the media tent, a place he used to know well, when he was winning 19 times on the PGA Tour and seven tournaments on the Champions Tour. His record this season isn't what he wanted to talk about. But he knew he'd be asked to. Kite usually wields one of the most precise ball-striking games in golf, but this year, it's turned on him. He can't figure out why. Yet.
"It's been a bit of a surprise," he said. "It's been a big disappointment."
Kite spent some time this week with Dale Morgan, the head professional at Austin Country Club, where Kite has played golf since he was a boy learning to take dead aim with Harvey Penick. Morgan and Kite worked on posture. They were out on the range late that day.
"I've still got a lot of work to do," Kite said.
He said his length with the driver — Kite averages 280 yards off the tee — is plenty to play the longer courses on the PGA Tour. But something in his swing has been turning his normally razor-straight ball a little too far to the left. He's missing targets. On any tour, that's no good.
So he's making some changes. He put his old Titleist 990 irons back in the bag this week. Last year's fairway woods, too.
Effort is something Kite has in reserve. He's one of the hardest-working players on any tour, but for 55-year-old he's the exception. He's as competitive as he was when he was winning an individual college championship at Texas, when he was making pars at the windy 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach when everyone else was going backward.
"He's a tremendous competitor," said fellow Champions Tour player Doug Tewell.
Tewell had dinner at Kite's house Wednesday night. Dave Stockton was there, along with Curtis Strange, who's playing his rookie season on the Champions Tour. Kite said something to them about not hitting the ball well this year, but there wasn't a lot of talk about golf.
It was hunting instead, not the missed six cuts. It was fishing, not the hooks. It was Austin, not the early part of 1999, when Kite missed the cut in the first six tournaments of the PGA Tour season and eight of the first nine.
"It's tricky," his caddie, Sandy Jones, said of the season. "He's frustrated because he knows he should be playing better."
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Happy friday, wildflowers :)
Life has been beautiful (well, busy, but beautiful nonetheless). I don’t have a lot of time to write today, but here’s some magic in pictures.
Oh, and I bought a pair of birkenstocks this week (photographic proof after the cut). My whole family is making fun of me, but hey, I think they are super cute with the right outfit!! AND soooo comfy. So please, someone take my side on this? Where are all the birkenstock rockers?
Have an adventurous weekend, friends!
grilled veggies for dinner – summer is coming *heart eyes*
my first pair of birkenstocks – i’m slightly obsessed. anyone else?
VEGAN coconut pinkberry! it was delicious, and they had popping boba… basically this was made for me.
walking around town on my lunch break – soaking in the little things.
brunch at one of our fave local vegan spots – garden grille. love the ambiance here.
we’re on a grilled veggies kick.
so much love for my bff.
cherry season has arrived, so life is good.
when we bought this house 3 falls ago, I looked at joe and said “this tree better bloom pink.” come spring, low and behold. it still makes me so happy!
my sweet family – love these two.
i had a mini photoshoot with myself – because, why not?
elephant pants forever.
how to be a wildflower – this book, though. love my everlasting friend of the night.
vegan pho at work – tofu, veggies, and lemongrass ginger broth… drool.
if joe and I only went on coffee dates for the rest of our lives, I wouldn’t hate it.
fresh lilac straight from the backyard – the house is smelling fantastic.
we hung up the string lights! now the porch is perfect.
vegan funfetti birthday cake for my beautiful vegan momma!
new vegan marshmallows at trader joes – THEY ARE EVERYTHING.
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14kt Double Halo Cushion
Like your endless love, a circle of diamonds encompass the center stone of your choosing, making this halo style ring the perfect statement to give your bride-to-be.
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Kids can embellish their craft projects with our playful assortment of metallic colored googly eyes! Featuring a mix of different colors and sizes, these paste-on wiggle eyes can be applied using liquid glue, but glue dots can also be used to keep projects mess-free. Add this craft basic to popsicle stick puppets, drawings and more!
- Smallest eye measures about .3125 inches wide
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- Intended for ages 6 and up
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Susan Michel is the founder of Glen Eagle Advisors and has been a member of EO for eight years. Learn more about EO today!
Most people would define our business as Financial Services and more specifically a dual model Registered Investment Advisor and Broker Dealer. In reality, we are in the business of helping financially empowered clients, whether business owners, families or individual clients, to reach their hopes and goals.
How has EO helped you get through a specific business challenge?
When I started Glen Eagle Advisors, I wanted to build a company that was about values first. As a mother who raised four children while building my own book of business, I wanted other women and male advisors who were leaving the industry because they were told that one had to lean into work 110% or you shouldn’t be an advisor. I had successfully built an advisory business while pursuing a much different path; a path summarized by Glen Eagle’s strategic vision of Faith, Family and Firm … in that order! This centralized north star has made our advisors and employees better able to relate and advise our clients. I have found the discussions that I have had over time with my Forum are invaluable, especially on how to be true to our values and deal with employees that do not really live our values.
What were you looking for in an organization when you selected EO?
I was an educator before becoming a financial advisor. I then spent 13 years as an independent financial advisor before deciding to start Glen Eagle Advisors in 2002. While I was successful in building and growing Glen Eagle Advisors prior to joining EO, I always felt that my business education was basically self-taught. I sought and found that both the Forum experience and the learning events have exceeded my expectations.
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Traditional Locker With Optional Shoe Box Seating
Storage of shoes in a separate compartment in our traditional range maximizes functionality, and practicality is ensured with the incorporated bench seat
If you have any questions about any of our products, installation options, the installation process or if you are just looking for a quote, feel free to send us a message. Please include delivery address.
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Best Channel Manager for TUI Villas
List and manage vacation rentals automatically on TUI's holiday homes portal
TUI's international holiday-home platform counts with +300.000 private properties, holiday parks and complexes throughout Europe and beyondBOOK A DEMO
Why Rentals United is the best TUI Villas Channel Manager?
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- Listing creation: We create new properties on TUI Villas for you
- 2-Way Sync: a booking or cancellation updates calendar everywhere
- Full Connection: rates, availability and property information get updated
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|Service Release Date||2015|
|Headquarter Location||Düsseldorf, de|
|N of Rentals United properties connected|
|Minimum properties required||5|
|Pricing model||Commission based|
|Commission||15-18% on total booking amount|
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|Onboarding time||1-2 weeks|
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- Your rates, calendars and property info, including photos and amenities, will update automatically
- Receive a booking!
- Rentals United will send you a booking confirmation.
- TUI Villas send you the details about the booking, you need to arrange arrival details directly with the guest
- Payment: TUI Villas charges the guest and sends payments to property owners on the day of arrival
- Reviews: And after departure, TUI Villas will send your guest a review request.
Are the listings site's commissions included in your pricing?
No, they're not. Some listing sites add their commission on top of the prices you save. These channels want your net rates. Other channels will charge their commission from the prices you save. For the later, you have the possibility to mark your rates up to cover for their commission. We inform you in details how the channels work after you sign-up.
Are other connections included in your pricing?
Rentals United integrates with tech providers that help manage short-term rentals automatically. These providers include Property Management Systems, Payment Providers, Yield Managers and Operational Tools. In order to use them, you have to sign up and contract their services, and pay them separately.
What does your pricing include?
The Rentals United fee includes storing your property info, using the Channel Manager and all of our other tools: Guest Planner, Booking Engine, Guest Communication, Quality Checker, iCal sync and Multi-Calendar. There's no set-up fee: you will get training during the first month of signing up and larger accounts will get a Key Account Manager to help them grow.
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The look of timber without the challenges
NAV’s Enviroven™ Veneer collection of timber veneers is crafted from responsibly sourced reconstituted wood. It delivers the warmth and texture of solid timber in a lightweight durable and completely customisable form.
Enviroven™ Veneer is suitable for small to large residential and commercial applications including:
· Wall paneling
· Acoustic paneling
Available in a selection of colours, cuts, panel widths, and textures, including everything from natural wood grains to modern contemporary looks, Enviroven™ Veneer is both consistent and versatile. Supplied unfinished, you decide on the final look you wish to achieve.
Builders love working with Enviroven™ Veneer as it is lightweight, durable and can be laid on any substrate. It can also be supplied with matching machine-veneered edging for a simple, professional finish to a project.
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Car Automotive Standing Aid Cane
Are you pregnant, recovering from an injury or experiencing back pain and other related problems? This is what you need! Car Automotive Standing Aid Cane is an automotive safety tool that allows the user to easily sit or stand safely while entering or exiting their vehicle, offering support and protection from falls. It's like having a cane for your car! It fits securely into either the passenger or driver side of the door of almost all types of vehicles and provides optimal leverage. The Car Automotive Standing Aid Cane comes with three added safety features for automotive emergencies: a built-in window breaker. This solid mobility bar has a non-slip fitting grip and is a universal fit for all automobiles. It's perfect for the elderly, injured, or anyone who needs help getting in and out of cars.
Note: Ensure your vehicle has two bolts or screws attaching the striker to the door frame. If your vehicle has a light switch in the striker, be sure the Car Automotive Standing Aid Cane does not interfere with its operation. The weight capacity is 350 pounds.
- Automotive mobility safety tool that helps you get in and out of cars safely
- Car Automotive HandleFeatures a built-in window breaker.
- Car Handle Assist is perfect for the elderly, injured, or anyone who needs mobility assistance
- Easily slides into car door latch for optimal leverage
- Weight capacity is 350 pounds
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Help create healthy communities locally and globally with our Master of Public Health degree program.
Public and nonprofit institutions alike are now looking for managers with a strong foundation in business and finance to lead their teams. This specialization can help you learn how to apply business principles and practices in order to promote effectiveness and efficiency across a range of sectors. Coordinate and develop systems that create organizational change. Learn how to communicate in a way that motivates and inspires your team. Lead while shaping policy that can streamline and improve your organization.
This sequence represents the minimum time to completion. Time to completion will vary by student, depending on individual progress and credits transferred, if applicable. For a personalized estimate of your time to completion, call an enrollment advisor at 855-646-5286.
|Quarter||1||Course Code||MMPP 6117||Course||Foundations for Graduate Study||Credits||(3 cr.)|
|Quarter||1||Course Code||MMPP 6405||Course||Ethics and Social Justice||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||2||Course Code||MMPP 6111||Course||Leadership and Organizational Change||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||2||Course Code||MMPP 6112||Course||Governance and Public Policy||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||3||Course Code||MMPP 6280||Course||Policy and Politics in American Political Institutions||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||3||Course Code||MMPP 6281||Course||Program Evaluation||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||4||Course Code||MMPP 6282||Course||Public Policy and Finance||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||4||Course Code||MMPP 6480||Course||Applied Research and Evaluation Methods||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||5||Course Code||MMPP 6465||Course||Strategic Planning: Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coordination||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||5||Course Code||MMPP 6390||Course||Strategic Context of Public Management and Leadership||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||6||Course Code||MMPP 6392||Course||The Language of Leadership||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||6||Course Code||MMPP 6542||Course||Transformative Change in a Global Environment||Credits||(5 cr.)|
|Quarter||7||Course Code||MMPP 6910||Course||Capstone Seminar||Credits||(5 cr.)|
Students in this course are introduced to Walden University and to the requirements for successful participation in an online curriculum. They are provided a foundation for academic and professional success as a scholar-practitioner and social change agent. Topics include the relation of mission and vision to professional goals, development of the program of study, strategies for online success, introduction to the online library, and an introduction to critical thinking, professional writing, and academic integrity. Course assignments focus on the practical application of writing and critical-thinking skills and promote professional and academic excellence.
Ethics is a foundational element of leadership. Leaders face increasingly complex social and political challenges as they seek to meet the needs of diverse constituents. Students in this course explore ethics and social justice related to economic disparity, power, and privilege. Students use demographic data, current social trends, and themes to understand, analyze, and address ethical and social justice issues that impact service delivery in a global community.
Successful public sector organizations require high-caliber leaders who are accountable to multiple constituencies. A rapidly accelerating rate of change and blurring of organizational boundaries contribute to the need for leaders who are equipped to meet the challenge. Students taking this course explore the theoretical underpinnings of leadership and the important role of the leader in organizational change. By exploring leadership theory, current research, and practice within an area of public administration or nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations, students demonstrate their understanding of leadership in organizations that are increasingly complex in nature. Ethical dimensions, boundary-spanning functions, and how leaders influence positive social change are key factors of this course. Students draw on historical and current events, as well as their personal experiences, to examine the demands of leadership.
Democratic principles are the foundation of modern life. In this course, students are provided an overview of democratic governance in public administration, public policy, or nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations in modern society. Students will examine the theoretical underpinnings of democratic governance and public policy in their chosen area of specialization necessary for doctoral-level research. Students will review fundamental theories of governance, research current literature on a specialized topic, and apply best practices within the area of specialization. The emphasis is on the context in which public and nonprofit leaders function and the social institutions that influence public policy and guide administrative decision making.
Students in this course learn about the crafts of policymaking and policy analysis in the U.S. democratic system. They cover the policy process: setting agendas, using policy analysis tools, managing the political process, implementing policy, and providing evaluations and feedback. Students develop skills in policy and economic analyses as well as in determining the political feasibility of proposed policies. Regulation as a policy choice will be discussed. Students completing this course will enhance their abilities to develop alternatives and to assess strategies proposed to achieve certain policy objectives. Policy areas of interest to students form the foundation of this course and may include communications, immigration, social, transportation, housing, labor, arts, and environmental policies.
Students in this course are introduced to the tools used by policymakers and policy analysts to evaluate the impact of social programs. Topics include selecting programs to evaluate, crafting program descriptions, identifying stakeholders and their interests, developing logic models, framing evaluation questions, applying utilization-focused evaluation techniques, using quantitative and qualitative tools to complete formative and summative evaluations, and providing evaluation reports and feedback to decision makers. By the end of the course, each student will develop a program-evaluation design for a social program.
Students in this course cover microeconomic and macroeconomic models used in policy formulation and how public finance influences policy choices as well as implementation alternatives. Students examine tax policies and tax incentive models, budgeting, public/private models, market influences on policy, the impact of government expenditures on income redistribution, and economic considerations of welfare, food stamps, workers' compensation, and Social Security. Students also examine outsourcing of public programs.
Organizational credibility, community trust, and fundraising are increasingly dependent upon demonstration of program effectiveness and success. Students in this course are introduced to research and evaluation methods in the public and nonprofit sectors to learn ways to measure and assess a program's effectiveness and potential success as well as to address problems or issues in the field. Students examine the strengths, limitations, and threats to validity; models, quantitative metrics, and tools used to evaluate programs and policies; and legal and ethical issues associated with research and evaluation methods. Using these parameters and other concepts presented in the course, students critically evaluate sample research, consider ways to communicate results to an intended audience, and reflect on trends and challenges that could affect future program evaluation.
In an increasingly complex world, leaders and managers in public, private, and nonprofit organizations need to be strategic in planning and creating effective, collaborative programs and services. Students in this course explore the role and process of strategic planning with an emphasis on collaboration, cooperation, and coordination within and among organizations. Students apply these concepts to real-life situations and organizations.
Students in this course engage in collaborative study of the changing strategic context of public administration. Students apply a systems perspective to construct a public enterprise model of the public organization of their choice, as a way of understanding the strategic context for practical action and the stakeholder relations involved. This is an organization "mental model," which is similar to a traditional "business model," but which includes the three interrelated flows of money, knowledge, and influence. Emphasis in this course is on management and leading of the unknown—imagining and creating a future that works in a time of unprecedented and unpredictable change. Students apply strategic scenarios to organizational change for the public organization of special interest to them. Students also develop professional-action habits for pragmatic-action learning in the practice of public administration.
In today's complex environment, leaders engaged in shaping public policy must know how to use the emotional as well as the intellectual power of language to motivate, inspire, and competently manage their organizations. Dynamic leadership requires understanding and use of techniques that affect both conscious and unconscious influences on human behavior. Effective communication connects at many different levels. Students in this course receive both theoretical and practical information; demonstrate the necessary components for making such connections; and show why stories, symbols, and metaphors are essential elements in the language of leadership.
Students in this course are engaged in a collaborative study of the nature and methods of transformative change in the complex human systems of contemporary public organizations. Students explore and employ a pragmatic-action-learning process for studying the experience of transformative change in complex systems. They examine the dynamics of complex adaptive systems to gain an understanding of how large-scale and highly interrelated human systems change through self-organization. Students explore and apply appreciative inquiry and other selected methods of transformative change to a positive organizational-change situation of personal interest. They also have the opportunity to develop professional-action habits for pragmatic-action learning in the practice of public administration.
Students in this course have with an opportunity to integrate learning from courses in the program in a capstone project, defined as an applied project with a written paper or a research paper. Students may use the capstone to focus on governance, policy, or leadership and management in either the public or nonprofit sectors or take a cross-sector comparative perspective.
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I called my Congressman and spoke with the deputy Chief of Staff. They're going to look into this as this was not something he thought was right either.
What is the case is that, being a manufacturer, they cannot own a dealership or sell like a dealer in Texas. No vehicle manufacturer is allowed to own a dealership in Texas, according to Texas state law. (Texas is not the only state like this, BTW.) So Tesla can talk about their products in their stores (e.g., Houston) but have to refer you to their website for prices or anything sales related.
When you buy from them, the sales transaction essentially takes place in California where Tesla is based. Since you send them the money and a third party delivers the car to you, they have not violated the dealership law in Texas. Fortunately the law apparently does not prohibit them from providing service, so I expect that we'll see the service centers that have been promised.
What you want your state legislators to do is decide that the law is antiquated and should be amended to allow manufacturers to be able to sell like a dealer and/or own dealerships without having to provide franchises.
Due to the dealership law in Texas, having a Delivery Specialist on site handling the delivery prior to the completion of the sale has been construed as a dealer activity and has been disallowed. Another provision that needs changing is the one which essentially says that, other than the County Tax Assessor/Collector, only dealers can collect the sales tax on the sale of a vehicle. Tesla was including the sales tax in the MVPA, but the state has said that Tesla is not authorized to handle the tax on the sale, since they aren't a dealer. This means that, unless you can convince your bank to cover it, you will have to pay the 6.25% sales tax out of pocket along with the rest of the title, license and registration fees when you visit your County Tax office.
Last edited by dsm363; 2013-01-18 at 10:05 PM. Reason: fixed quote tag
Everything you said is accurate. By selling I mean Tesla can't directly sell you the car with a Texas tile and be involved in the same way a dealer can not have to jump through 1000 hoops.
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In the third episode of a special four-part series on the Indian Civil Services in changing times, President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research Yamini Aiyar and KP Krishnan talk about the fundamental challenges in the context of tremendous economic and social change.
Former civil servant Krishnan, who is also an honorary research professor at the Centre for Policy Research, and Aiyar build on their conversations from the first and second part and discuss some of the major criticisms of the civil services as well as aspects of reforms.
Krishnan takes up the questions over the lateral entry, the need for specialist knowledge in the public system and how best the civil services can ensure it keeps pace with times.
Follow the work of the Centre for Policy Research on Twitter or visit www.cprindia.org. You can listen to all the episodes of CPR’s India Speak podcasts here.
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There’s a Mazda dealer next to the Subaru dealer where we bought my wife’s Impreza. When I pulled in there were a bunch of people milling around these Miatas. There’s 2 rows of them. They had gone inside by the time my oil change was done, but I briefly checked out some of the cars. Some of them were pretty nicely modified.
Also, an oil change for a 2016 Subaru Impreza is $60 *after* a $10 coupon, because the dealer charges $40 for 0W20 synthetic oil which you can’t get most places, and then another something or other for filter and labor. My wife was kinda pissed when I told her that but I calmed her down by explaining that at least the oil change interval is 6,000 miles.
I’d shop around for other Subaru dealers but the only other one in town is another location of the same company. Oh well.
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