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Loch Raven Mondays at 6:00. Casual ride at Loch Raven. This is a no-drop ride so pace will be up to the group. Loch Raven is similar difficulty to Rosaryville or Fairland. Not tons of elevation, not really technical but there are a couple rock and root gardens. We need to be out by sunset; 8:15 this week. Time/distance will be whatever we can do. Please be ready to roll by 6:15. Parking on Seminary Ave near the intersection with Dulaney Valley Rd; if you're coming from the Beltway, go north on Dulaney, make a left on Seminary and park on the side of the road. These trails are pretty sensitive to water, ride is shine only and may have to be canceled if there is significant rain the day before. Waiver: Mountain biking is a risky sport, By signing up for this meetup you are agreeing to our waiver located here: http://www.meetup.com/MVD-Mountain-Bikers/pages/Standard_Waiver_for_Meetup_Rides/
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Clean up & Green up Day
The three kids who won the Smokey the Bear Region Poster Contest are; Oliver, Adin, and Peyton. This contest shows their understanding of wildfire prevention and the importance of environment and conservation. Each year this is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Forest Service and The National Federation Garden Clubs of Vermont. Each year Joyce Orgera, a member of the Newfane Garden Club sponsors this program for the Newbrook Elementary School students. Congratulation to all three students.
Important Baseball information
April 10, 2014
Dear NewBrook Families,
Baseball and softball are just around the corner! Games will begin sometime after April vacation. You will be hearing from your child's coach directly as soon as the teams have been decided. If for some reason you forgot to turn in your registration fee, please do so right away (Checks should be made payable to NewBrook Good Sports). We are fortunate to have coaches in place for all of the teams!
In order for baseball and softball season to get under way, we need to clean up the field and concession stand. We are organizing a field clean up day for Saturday, April 26th at 10:00 AM, with a rain date of Sunday, April 27st. PLEASE come and help out! We will need rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows, tools (hammers, nails, saws, etc.), trash bags and cleaning supplies (paper towels, bleach, sponges) to make this happen. Please consider donating a couple of hours of your time to get our field up and running for the first week of games. One of our largest projects will be to build a fence in front of the visitor's bench in order to protect the players on that side of the field, and if we are ambitious enough, a dugout to go with it. The more people we have, the quicker we will be done.
On this day we will also have an equipment swap, specifically for baseball and softball. If you have used cleats, baseball pants, bats, helmets, or batting gloves that are in good shape, you may bring them to swap. NewBrook Good Sports, however, will not be responsible for cleaning up any leftover items. If your item is not taken from the swap, please bring it home with you when you leave. Since we know how quickly kids grow, sometimes even before they have broken anything in, this is a great opportunity to save some money and get some decent equipment for the season.
Also, NewBrook Good Sports is MISSING a lot of uniforms. We need you to dig through your closets and look for soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball shirts. We are a non-profit organization and we cannot continue to keep buying shirts each year. We need these shirts back by Friday, April 25th at the latest! Please drop them off with Melanie Keiser in the office. Hope to see you on the 26th for field clean up!
The NewBrook PTO is also hosting a clean-up day on the 26th and will be providing lunch for all of the workers. If you would like to donate food for the lunch, please contact Sandy Stark at 365-7057 firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The entire NewBook School community would like to congratulate Mrs. Sperling for being awarded the Food Connect Teacher of the year! We are all very proud of her and I personally feel that they could not have picked a better person to give the award to. I would also like to thank the entire Farm to School team for the award and know it was a team effort. Thank you to Mrs. Sperling and the rest of the team for bringing the program to the school.
Mr. Pratt
This filtered water bottle station promotes healthy habits by drinking water throughout the school day. This system offers filtered, refrigerated water and it also keeps track of the plastic bottles that will not be disposed into landfills. Another effort from the students and staff at Newbrook school that shows that we are doing our part to be environmentally cautious. In the near future the Farm to School Committee will be selling water bottles as a fund raiser. Please stay tuned.
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The OECD has claimed that computers distract pupils, make them lazy thinkers and can even lower grades. Does the education industry agree?
UK schools spend £900m a year on technology, but according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), computers don't improve pupil results. Last September OECD released claims that computers distract children, make them lazy thinkers and, if used too frequently, can even lower academic standards. Its education eirector, Andreas Schleicher, says that technology has given schools too many false hopes. However, the 35,000 educators and technology buffs who turned up to the Bett show last week seemed to disagree.
Bett, formerly the British Education and Technology show, began in 1985 at the Barbican in London. As the use of technology in schools, colleges and universities grew so did the show's size, and in 2014 a record 35,044 visitors from 113 countries turned up over four days. Organisers expect to announce a similar number for this year's show, which was held at the Excel exhibition centre.
Seven hundred companies and organisations were also there exhibiting their work. That's large multinationals like Google, Apple and Microsoft, and plenty of small, one-product firms. Leading experts form education and technology gave speeches and held forums and seminars. Even the United Arab Emirates Government turned up to showcase its digital platform, which all of the country's schools are signed up to, and to recruit teachers and technology experts to go and work there.
Are computers in schools distracting pupils?
"Young people take qualifications in technology, so how can these be taken if technology is not used," says Stephen Diston, head of sciences at exam board OCR. "I suppose across the curriculum there is a danger that technology could become a distraction, but using technology in a range of contexts is exactly what young people will be doing for the rest of their working lives. So having experience of using technology in a language lab, or as a research tool in humanities, those are transferable skills that all students need. I'd be worried if the only time students saw a computer was in a computer science lesson."
Gareth James, the IET's head of education 5-19, thinks that if there is insufficient technology around young people as they grow up they will not be able to function in the modern world, because so much requires technological ability. James was at the Bett show promoting BBC: micro bit. The programmable computers allow kids to play games and design moving constructs. Prototypes have been sent out to some schools. The plan is to send one out to every Year 7 student in England and Wales.
Gaining practical technology skills
"Employers are telling us that young people are coming to them without the necessary practical technology skills for the jobs they have available," he says. "We also want young people to become effective creators of technology and using technology. How else will society be driven forward?"
So if the experts are telling us that we need more, not less, technology in schools, what exactly was the OECD going on about when they criticised the use of technology in education?
The impact of tech on test results
OECD examined the impact of school technology on test results all over the world. From these results, it found no noticeable improvements in reading, maths and science results. In some of the better performing systems, such as Shanghai in China and in South Korea, children and young people, on average, spent less than ten minutes a day online in school. In Sweden and Australia, the average was between 40 and 50 minutes a day, and yet, in both countries reading results were in decline. Spain, Denmark and Norway also had high daily Internet use but stagnating test results.
Schleicher is concerned that too much technology encourages children to look for ready made answers to enquiries, and can interfere with teacher-pupil interaction, which he thinks is necessary for young people to develop higher order thinking skills. Better basic skills help close the socio-economic achievement gap, he believes, not more access to technology.
Diston agrees that students need to be given the opportunity to develop the ability to write extended prose and that could suffer if they are typing on the computer all the time. He wonders though, that outside school, whether people actually do that much extended handwriting?
"Some people have the attitude that if information isn't there on the first three pages of Google then that information doesn't exist," he adds. "Developing research skills, using technology, how to select and utilise information to help enquiries is one of education's biggest challenges."
James believes that, far from hindering their ability to interact with each other and with adults, technology can actually help young people become more effective formal and informal communicators.
"You have to remember that young people are already innovative communicators, who can often help adults come up with new ways of connecting with the outside world," he says.
Tapping technology's potential to support learning
The OECD report shouldn't be entirely ignored, though. Look under the headlines and a more reasoned argument appears. It's not that technology is bad for children and young people, or has no positive impact on their learning; it's just that education systems haven't worked out best, how to tap that potential to support teaching and learning. Schleicher says that more thought and resource needs to go into this, and into training teachers, not just to use of technology, but to use technology towards learning goals.
"Technology is the only way to dramatically expand access to knowledge," he says. "Its impact on education delivery remains sub-optimal, because we may over-estimate the digital skills of both teachers and students, because of naive policy design and implementation strategies, because of a poor understanding of pedagogy, or because of the generally poor quality of educational software and courseware."
Getting the digital agenda right
Schleicher believes that education needs to get the digital agenda right.
"Provide educators with the sort of environment in which they can help young people develop 21st Century skills. Adding 21st Century technologies to 20th Century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teaching," he says.
Diston agrees. "It always comes down to the quality of teaching and technology should be viewed as one of the resources you use in the classroom," he notes.


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U.S. Senators Look to New Sanctions Against Iran for Missile Development
February 19, 2017- U.S. Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose further sanctions on Iran, accusing it of violating U.N. Security Council resolutions by testing ballistic missiles and acting to "destabilize" the Middle East, a U.S. senator said Sunday, Reuters reported.
"I think it is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what they've done outside the nuclear program," Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Munich Security Conference.
Graham said he and other Republicans would introduce measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions.
Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since an Iranian ballistic missile test that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to impose sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the country's Revolutionary Guards.
"Iran is a bad actor in the greatest sense of the word when it comes to the region. To Iran, I say, if you want us to treat you differently then stop building missiles, test-firing them in defiance of U.N. resolution and writing 'Death to Israel' on the missile. That's a mixed message," Graham said.
James Jones, a former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and President Barack Obama's first national security adviser, told a separate event in Munich that he remained convinced that sanctions had persuaded Iran to negotiate the 2015 landmark deal with six world powers to curb its nuclear program.
"The sanctions did work. Iran would never have come to the negotiating table without sanctions," Jones said. "This is a new form of response that if properly utilized can change behavior and get people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't do."
Senator Christopher Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the same panel there was nothing preventing Congress from imposing sanctions beyond those that were lifted as a result of the 2016 nuclear agreement with Iran.
Murphy, a Democrat, said had backed the nuclear deal in the explicit understanding that it would not prevent Congress from taking actions against Iran outside the nuclear issue.
"There's going to be a conversation about what the proportional response is," Murphy said, referring to Iran's missile test. "But I don't necessarily think there's going to be partisan division over whether or not we have the ability as a Congress to speak on issues outside of the nuclear agreement."


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Names in Anime
I've often wondered if people who speak Japanese have a leg up on those of us who don't when it comes to understanding the underlying ideas in an anime, as well as things like character roles and motivations, because of the inherent meaning in Japanese names that people who know the language readily pick up on but which is lost on those who don't know the language. Japanese names use kanji, which have inherent meanings separate from the name of a person or place. What information and understanding can be gleaned from names in anime? To find an answer to this question, I decided to start cataloguing names and what they could mean.
Because I am trying to come to an honest understanding of this idea, in addition to listing names that hold additional meaning, I will list names that are simply names. The names are listed by anime, and the anime are listed alphabetically. To keep this page from becoming too cluttered, the names themselves, as well as my thoughts on them, are linked to from the anime they come from.
I will freely admit right now that I know very little Japanese, so virtually all of my definitions come from the online Japanese dictionary Denshi Jisho. It may be hubris to try to comprehend and analyze the added meaning and understanding that names can bring to the anime they come from when I don't know Japanese, and there may be some things I overlook completely because I don't know Japanese, but I still feel that this is a worthwhile pursuit.
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Lawrence E. Mittin was born and grew up in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Larry went to college at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1990 with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Economics. After completing his undergraduate degree, Larry went to the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. While at Boalt, Larry worked in Washington D.C. in the United States Justice Department's Summer Honors Program.
Larry also spent a semester working as a judicial intern for U.S. District Court Judge Lowell Jensen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. After graduating from Boalt in 1993, Larry moved to Las Vegas to work as a law clerk for Chief Judge Lloyd George of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. As a law clerk, Larry assisted in the drafting of orders and trial memorandum and he participated in the conducting of hearings and trials. In 1994, Larry became a member of both the Nevada and California State Bars.
Upon completion of his year-long clerkship, Larry went to work as an insurance defense attorney in Las Vegas. Larry primarily defended automobile accidents and premise liability accidents. After a year and a half as an insurance defense attorney, Larry decided to start representing claimants in automobile accidents, insurance bad faith lawsuits, and medical malpractice cases. In September 1997 Larry joined our law offices and he practices primarily in the areas of automobile accidents, insurance bad faith, and premises liability.
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What to do About the Weather
Thunderstorms rolled through the area last night and it got me to thinking. For pilots concerned about safety and completing a mission, CAVU* meteorological conditions might be preferred. But the weather may have other ideas and missions get flown sometimes in spite of the weather. Sometimes those missions involve capturing images of aircraft.
Here is a recent image captured in clear air. It's actually pretty good, but that is more a function of the scenery and composition than how the aircraft plays against the setting. A cloudless sky would change the character of the image, reducing it in my opinion. Then remove the mountains? Well, if all you have is a beautiful shot of an aircraft against nothing but blue sky, one glance and the reader moves on to other things.
Unlike this situation. The ragged clouds appear nearly unbroken beyond the aircraft, but obviously there is a tear in the cover letting sun in on the ship and a strip of rugged ground. The white parts of the ship contrast against the shadowed mountain and the blues in the shadows contrast with the warmth of the sunlit elements. The skies are uncertain, the light is in motion. Five seconds from now the sun might be gone or the midground might be in shadow and the ridgeline in the light!
Here we have another example of a shot made with broken clouds overhead. This was a case of a deadline pushing me into the air when the weather looked un-promising (this mission was for a cover story in Aviation Week & Space Technology). The aircraft went out for a final check flight so I cooled my heels awaiting its return. (See below for an exciting event that occurred while I waited. I'm serious!) The sky seemed to offer nothing but gray opportunities. Still, I will create the best possible with what we have to work with.
Here's another shot. It's missing the mountainous background but for a cover image it is, of course, more useful — all this low-detail background gives the designer clear space to put the flag, story titles, indicia, and the like. With this kind of lemonade to be made, you sometimes wish for lemons!
When The Ground Doesn't Cooperate
They were practicing autorotations but as they neared the ground this time I could tell they were going too fast. So, as they were coming down my camera was coming up.
* CAVU means ceiling and visibility unlimited.
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I was looking back at the story I wrote, Through Sophie's Eyes. I realized it's strangely ironic that this story is somewhat unfolding in my real life right now. It doesn't have every detail, of course, but it's pretty damn close. Only the real life version may not have a happy ending. The ending is still pending. Why does everything have to be so complicated? It's a lot more simple than everyone makes it. You love somebody, they love you back, you take that chance and be together.
I know what I want but does he? I will sit here and question every single detail about every single thing that goes on. But I will never know the answers because he doesn't tell me anything. Give it time they say. See how it pans out they say. It will all work out the way it's suppose to they say. Patience may be a virtue but honestly how long can a person wait before they completely go mad.
All I know about the situation is that it's hard to find what me and this friend have. Everyone should be able to fall in love with their best friend. Now I am not saying I am IN love with my best friend but at this moment it's pretty damn close. But I don't think he feels the same way. He cares about me but he's "confused." Go figure.
Anyways back to my point about how everyone should fall in love with their best friend...here is why.
It's simple. Stating the obvious, they are your BEST FRIEND. You can talk to them about anything. They know you inside out. They accept you for who you are. They know your every flaw, every pet peeve, just every part of you and still stick around. They know how to deal with you. They know when your sad or happy. They know how to make you laugh. They know how to annoy you. They know when to fight with you or when to back off and leave you alone. They know how to work it out with you. They get you. They understand you. They encourage you, believe in you, and genuinely love you. I can go on and on and on but you get the point.
I want somebody to love. I want someone to be happy with. I want someone to laugh with and cry with. I want someone to fight with and make up with. Someone that will accept me for every inch of me. Someone to love unconditionally. I want to tell someone I love you without any hesitation. And I want them to feel the same way about me. I want a future, a family, and a messy but great life to share with someone. Where can I find that? I was hoping it was already here but again it's still pending.
Love is finding someone you can tolerate for the rest of your life.
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Why can't the different green energy camps get along?
Not such jolly green giants
The one thing that really annoys me about the various sectors involved in renewable energy production is the seemingly constant sniping at each other in some sort of trial of importance to prove who is the biggest and best big green giant.
The latest manifestation of this is 'More gas than wind' in Vol 3, #11 of E&T. William Knight quotes UK Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform statistics for 2006 which show that landfill gas made up 33.1 per cent of renewable energy use, compared with wind at 8.2 per cent. He then proceeds to make a facetious remark about wind turbines.
If Mr Knight had read a little further in the same report he would have found the following statement, which clarifies the difference between use and electricity production. "Eighty-nine per cent of the renewable energy produced in 2006 was transformed into electricity. This is an increase from 87 per cent in 2005 and 82 per cent in 2004.
"While biofuels appear to dominate the picture when fuel inputs are being measured, hydro electricity is a larger contributor when the output of electricity is being measured…
"This is because on an energy supplied basis hydro (and also wind, wave and solar) inputs are assumed to be equal to the electricity produced. For landfill gas, sewage sludge, municipal solid waste and other renewables a substantial proportion of the energy content of the input is lost in the process of conversion to electricity."
This is accompanied by a chart showing the electricity generated from the various renewable sectors for 2006, which gives a much more balanced view as the various renewable sector inputs to the UK energy mix. Readers can check the report themselves at http://stats.berr.gov.uk/energystats/ [new window].
I myself am involved in the hydro sector and it annoys me when large-scale hydro production is regularly excluded from renewable energy statistics, but I don't let this belittle the contributions of other renewable sectors.
Mr Knight's article is otherwise informative and useful. It is just spoiled by his over-egging the contribution made by landfill gas to the renewable mix.
Surely the various sectors in the renewable industry need to realise that they are all part of the same team and constant oneupship with each will only detracts from the positive story of more renewable energy production.
Sean Kelly MIET CEng, Kippen, Stirlingshire
The trouble with meat
'The Trouble with Meat' (Vol 3, #11) was interesting. The impact of meat production on the environment is an area worthy of examination in our modern society. I was, however, disappointed with the negative stance the article took on meat itself. It failed to mention that meat is a key ingredient in our diet, regardless of what vegans would have you believe.
It is a well-published fact that meat is the only available source of vitamin B12, key in the formation of blood and the operation of the nervous system.
While I would not condone the inhumane treatment of animals, it remains the case that, as with every other predatory organism on the planet, we need to harvest animals as part of our diet. Indeed, we at least have the courtesy to render unconscious and kill our animals prior to eating them, unlike the majority of other predators.
Arguing that we should reduce our meat intake on environmental grounds seems odd, considering that the most effective solution to reducting environmental impact is population control among humans. It seems many would prefer to focus on issues that already dominate the political landscape rather than looking at the root cause of the problem.
Jeff Hotchkiss, by email
'The Trouble with Meat' grossly simplifies a complex industry and could have been lifted directly from the propaganda output of a militant eco-vegetarian political organisation.
Meat from poultry and pigs that are largely grain fed is not differentiated from beef or lamb, much of whose diet is largely forage-based and where grain is used as an additive.
The propaganda says that the conversion ratio is 8:1. I would sack a farm manager who got results as poor as that. The conversion ratios of animals fed grain differs and can be as low as 2:1 for poultry. A high-yielding dairy cow might produce ten tonnes of milk per year from an input of 20 tonnes of grass and silage (which is mostly water) and three tonnes of cereal. Without the grain the output might reach six tonnes of milk. So the ratio is more like 4:3 but even that is misleading since the energy supplementation enables the cow to use the high protein in the grass.
Most of the UK is only suitable for growing grass. What are we supposed to do with this land other than keep cattle and sheep? And before anyone proposes all-grass systems, let it be stated that the supplementation by grain reduces the methane emission per kilo of milk and meat.
There are some serious flaws in the numbers thrown about without proper validation. In the 1990s, while trying to develop a cow breath sampling system, I identified that cows exhale dimethyl sulphide which is regarded as a counter to global warming, helping in cloud formation. Writing the report showed me the enormous leaps of faith on which climate models are based. No-one had previously identified this source, which could add 20 per cent to global emissions.
There are serious problems in livestock production, in animal welfare, in groundwater and atmospheric pollution. Many of the production issues can be ameliorated by engineering technology to improve management. It is axiomatic that pollution is a failure of efficiency of control. Unfortunately, the UK has systematically destroyed its research competence in this area and those of us left make a precarious existence as consultants.
Dr Toby Mottram CEng, Glasgow
It may be true that 8kg of grain is needed to produce 1kg of meat, but is that a good measure or a fair comparison? Meat has a much higher nutrient value than grain. One only has to consider the feeding habits of carnivorous and grazing animals. The thrust of the article is supported, but may I suggest a better comparison is the land area required to sustain one person given a various of dietary habits. I have little doubt meat will still be extravagant, but not by an 8:1 margin.
Alan Betts, by email
To click or not to click?
In 'Email's Worst Habits' (Vol 3, #9), Malcolm Etchells advises unsubscribing from unwanted newsletters and mailing lists. Other sources say you should never click on unsubscribe links because that will tell the sender that you actually exist. Who is correct?
Geoffrey Evans, Fellow, Digswell, Herts
Malcolm Etchells replies: "In terms of email management, my advice is to unsubscribe from email newsletters you don't want any more as long as you are 100 per cent certain that it is sent by a reputable company that will honour the unsubscribe request.
"The problem is where the user's email address may have been guessed or obtained by other means. In this case, I would recommend filtering the emails into the junk folder automatically. It is good practice to set up a free Web-based email account to use when an address is requested for subscription on Internet sites."
Maglev comes down to earth
In his enthusiastic support for Maglev, Dr Stephen Gergely (Vol 3, #10) suggests that such a system would offer immense advantages over the use of conventional steel wheel on rail by virtue of its inherent ability to control the horizontal forces on the maglev vehicle.
I am intrigued as to the means of securing such control following a catastrophic failure of the battery back-up power supply on the vehicle or of an uncontrolled de-levitation.
The prototype Maglev systems have landing skids to allow them to land safely in such an event. I assume that while the rate of deceleration achieved during such an emergency may be high in railway terms, it would not be so high as to be hazardous to standing passengers The implication of this being that the claimed advantage for the Maglev system may be somewhat less than expected, unless the approved safety case requires that all personnel on board be strapped in for the duration of the flight.
As the unfortunate events of 22 September 2006 proved, Maglev is not immune to unfortunate incidents, and how much worse would this have been if it had occurred on a developed system with many more vehicles on the guideway operating at the close headways propounded by Dr Gergely.
John Crickett MIET, Wells, Somerset
Happy birthday, Atomium
Pelle Neroth refers to the Brussels Atomium ('Food for Thought', Vol 3, #10) as "...the giant atom-shaped monument that defines the city". Define the city it may do: 'atom-shaped' it is not. The Atomium represents the body-centred-cubic (bcc) crystal lattice, something any student of metallurgy (such as myself) or crystallography would recognise.
The designer, André Waterkeyn, apparently based his design on the unit structure of iron which is a bcc lattice. The structure, built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World Fair and, recently refurbished, celebrates its 50th birthday this year.
Tim Feest, Farnborough, Hants
The famous equation stated by Einstein that equates energy and mass, shows the two are interchangeable concepts, but not in the way Jack Donald seems to envisage in his letter about teleportation (Vol 3, #10). Mass does not have 'radiation elements', in the way that the signal representing a television picture has certain well-characterised frequency components, and so cannot be reduced to them.
Most importantly though, and key to any scheme of teleportation, is that the information in an object, not the actual 'material'. Teleportation has already been achieved, though admittedly on a rather small scale, by the use of quantum-entangled photons, but it is not the photon itself that is transported rather the information about it (implicit in the two being quantum entangled). It's the information in an object that tells you what you must re-build, not the material of which it is constructed. The transmission of this information is relatively simple in the case of a single photon but to do so for a macroscopic object might be a tad trickier!


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CALMAC, a Fair Lawn, New Jersey-based manufacturer specializing in ice-based energy storage systems, has just published a case study describing how a leading bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Northern California used ice to decrease energy costs by 56%.
This bio-pharma company, which CALMAC is keeping confidential, had a facility condition assessment performed on its 235,000 square-foot mixed use industrial building in California and decided to redesign it to seek LEED Silver certification. The company also participated in the California Public Utilities Commission's Permanent Load Shift program, which offers cash incentives for energy storage and usage that shifts building cooling to off-peak hours. Building owners with eligible projects can receive $875 per kilowatt of cooling load shifted, CALMAC says.
The facility condition assessment showed that the bio-pharma company's pumps, most of its air handlers, and the chiller were all nearing the end of their lives. Plus, all the equipment sat on the roof — not ideal if an earthquake hit the area.
Following the Permanent Load Shift program guidelines, the San Jose-based firm Advanced Design Consultants performed a feasibility study for the bio-pharma company that featured a thermal energy storage system at ground level in an open lot, CALMAC reported.
CALMAC installed a new modular IceBank energy storage tanks next to the building housing the new chillers. Essentially the system works by freezing water during the night and then the thawed ice gets used for cooling during the daytime. CALMAC compares thermal energy storage to "a battery for a building's air-conditioning system."
Thousands of customers have installed the system, including DuPont, Kohl's, IBM, JC Penney, Marriott Hotels, McDonald's, Siemens, Trane, and Walmart, according to CALMAC. Last year, the Naval Post Graduate School's Integrated Multi-Physics Renewable Energy Laboratory (IMPREL) in Monterey, California, installed a CALMAC system that works with wind and solar.
Ice-based storage in general has grown popular. GAR Laboratories reported that using a storage system from Ice Energy reduced monthly electric bills from $571 to $117 for two of its buildings.
The bio-pharma that installed IceBank initially intended to save a third of the annual HVAC-related energy costs, Advanced Design Consultants vice president Lorenzo Rios Jr. told CALMAC. "The permanent load shift that the thermal energy storage system supplies equates to a decrease of 56% of energy costs compared to a baseline California Energy Code Title 24 chilled water plants minimum design during the summer months alone," the case study says. The total annual energy savings is projected to be 19,703 kilowatt hours.


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Autumn is my favourite season and I could not be happier that it's finally here! Although, sometimes it feels like the season is always short given the interruption from old man winter, which is why we must make the most of it while we still can. Some of the reasons I favour Autumn from other warmer seasons are because of the gorgeous change in scenery, the cool, crisp weather and the seasonal dishes and drinks (masala chai latte, anyone?) that follow with it. It's also the season I like to take advantage of the outdoors the most because once that four-letter word that starts with an "S" gets here; I will probably be off hibernating.
Let's focus on the present though, shall we? Spending time in nature and the outdoors in general is extremely beneficial. All of us need a break or two every now and then. I'm talking about an actual, physical break – one far away from your work site or desk. Going out and exploring in nature is a simple way to step away from reality for a few moments.
You can "find yourself". Getting lost in nature gives us so many opportunities to find ourselves again and again. If you're ever feeling blocked in any way, spending time in nature will teach you things. Most of the time you aren't even aware that you are learning, but the lessons always there.
Both your physical and mental health need it. In a more recent study, this year Standford University proved spending time in nature does wonders for mental health. While I could go into the science of it, I think it is pretty self-explanatory. Getting outside allows you to breathe in fresh air, get some light exercise and see/hear new things that are going on around your world.
Feeling stuck? There's a scenery for that. How much inspiration do you expect to get from the same four walls? Creativity peaks after you are really able to get away from it all and immerse yourself in nature. Inspiration is all around us. All you have to do is go out there and find it.
Today, make it your goal to leave yourself some time to focus on nature. Go for a walk or sit on a bench and take in the things happening around you. Enjoy this moment where you can find a more relaxed, and peaceful self.
If for some reason you absolutely can not get some time to go outside, then Do Nothing For 2 Minutes and thank me later 🙂
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Again, I've accidentally missed Astanga. I'm sitting with Vero in a tiny nook at the base of a 13 story temple. The walls are decorated with what could only be described as spiritual propaganda. A man on the street points to the chart on the wall and tells me I'm a Scorpio and I have a big sting. Ouch. I'm actually a really nice person, I hope you know.
Knowing very well that we don't actually want the future read from the lines in our palms, we are gaining a memorable experience with this kind man with turmeric coloured powder on his face. As he squints through his glasses he tells me of the good health I've had, am having and will have for my life spanning 78 years (strangely the same age my Shamanic experience revealed). He tells me I've been thinking too much but I will let go in 2017 and good fortune will come. I practice yoga and meditation (well, I'm in Rishikesh, the Yoga capital of the world after all?!). My last boyfriend was very bad for me, but my current boyfriend is very good for me (excuse me?). I will have 2 children (maybe I will eventually adopt monkeys in the jungle) and I am from Mars so I should wear red coral on my right ring finger -the one I broke in Barcelona. Red, fire. Get out of my life. Where is my moonstone?
Next up Vero. Lucky for her, she will live until she is 80. Thats a good 2 + 8 = one decade after me. The things you could do in a decade! She also had a bad ex boyfriend and her current boyfriend is good. She also will have 2 children. She also thinks too much, but she will have to wait until 2018 for her good fortune. We both travel well. Again, we're in Rishikesh, buddy.
Not so much enlightening as it was an enlightening experience.
It's not all bad that I missed Astanga. I had a great session at Hatha this morning and finally nailed my headstand to scorpion transition. Not only that, but I nailed my Warrior A pose. Man, that thing is harder than it looks! I was picked out to be picked on by the teacher. With my injury on my left ankle, I'm struggling to keep the outer edge of my foot down which is throwing my hips off, which is throwing my right knee out, which is rotating my right foot outward. This reminds me of the problem I have walking. I've started bringing so much consciousness to the way my foot makes a connection with the ground and the alignment of my knees and ankles that I'm tired. Breakfast please?? Raj stopped preparing special meals for me, and just made sure there is some sides I can eat, so I eat some fruit and sprouted mung beans.
I don't know if it was the beans, but I can hardly keep my eyes open in philosophy. We revise the five Yamas and Niyamas and he goes on and on about Brahmacharya, which he describes as celibacy. I feel he is focusing far too much on this one, almost like he can sense that someone has broken their celibacy. Well unfortunately there will be no more yogis to come to school if everyone is strictly celibate, but we get your point. Don't be wasteful with our energy, but lets keep up the human race.
Yoga Therapy is quickly becoming one of my favourite classes. We basically learn how to manipulate the body to release stress. It reminds me of Thai Massage and I'd love to start practicing it, so expect some Yoga Therapy sessions if I end up in your part of the world!
On my way out of class, I spot some wet monkeys out the window. Cute! I go check them out and then realise they are jumping from the high fence and diving straight into a water fountain. My future children! This is way too much. I call Vero over and we stare at these little guys swimming and wrestling in the water, chasing each other back up the fence and diving in again. So playful. If this doesn't bring a smile to your face, I don't know what does. I much prefer them this way, than walking into our bedroom unannounced. Lunch… salad. Hm.
On my way out for our break, I again serendipitously find myself on the back of a motorbike. I have to go pay my fees, and the one credit facility in Rishikesh is finally available today, so away we go. Finally, my training is paid for. I'm out of debt. Big warm thank you to everyone who has sent me birthday money to help fund the training. It has been an enlightening and transformative experience so far and will stay with me for a lifetime. I really can't think of a better present than my presence here and I feel so blessed for having the opportunity. I hope to keep spreading the love throughout this journey, and send so much love and gratitude to my family, longest and closest friends, circus tribe, and new friends. I want you to know you hold an eternal place in my heart.
My official birthday is not until November, so I'm keeping the Go Get Funding account open until December.
Help me reach my Not so Dirty Thirty Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh goal.


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My tweets throughout the marathon, um, tv-watching session. Automatically generated, but now it's finished I've gone through and fixed the times, which were out by an hour.
10:01:32 PM: Woah, exit poll way different from fivethirtyeight.com. Hope for the Lib Dems' sake it's not true.
10:05:00 PM: My ideal result: Lib-Lab coalition. Labour for 'umbilical' link to poor (as Guardian put it). Lib Dems to kick their arse on the dumb stuff.
10:07:09 PM: Looking like a long night. Thankfully I have a LOT of Haribo. Also ironing.
10:23:26 PM: @egwor Liveblog is somehow 15mins behind real-time. Also times are out by an hour. How odd.
10:46:26 PM: If they've given me false hope with this exit poll I am not going to be impressed.
10:56:34 PM: Have already eaten too much Haribo.
11:30:34 AM: Uh oh.
11:55:37 AM: World of Jeremy Paxman: Labour have been in power 13 years, so everything is their fault.
11:56:17 AM: Stop asking who's won! What a stupid question.
1:07:40 AM: Shiiiiiiit.
2:06:33 AM: Was thinking about going to bed, but when even Nick Robinson won't call it for the Tories…worth another hour, I think.
2:15:52 AM: The Haribo. I mourns it.
2:30:37 AM: This is chaotic.
3:45:23 AM: Conservative swing slowly creeping up. Apt.
3:46:53 AM: Holding out for the spectacular @DrEvanHarris, who's in recount. Nail-biting.
4:03:20 AM: Conservatives hold Stratford-on-Avon. Big shock. Entirely possible they put blue ribbon on bollard.
4:06:27 AM: 0.7% swing from Con to LD. After old expenses-tainted Conservative MP stood down. Oh man.
4:24:27 AM: Oh, shit. Cons gain Oxford West – @DrEvanHarris out. 176 votes! That's just bloody awful. Shit shit shit.
4:25:57 AM: Oh man it was the crazy Christian lady too.
4:49:37 AM: Right. Next general election, we form a rationalist army and descend on Oxford West. This has to be fixed.
5:04:04 AM: Oh god RT @big_ben_clock BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG
5:18:23 AM: Google Calendar just emailed to say I have no events scheduled today. Good job.
5:29:10 AM: Excellent use of 'gloaming' by David Dimbleby just now. Not bad at 05:30.
6:48:56 AM: Trying to stay up for Solihull result in solidarity with vote-counter @rug_mog. Struggling.
7:19:28 AM: Hey, Lorely Burt got Solihull. Nice.
7:29:07 AM: Ok nap time.
12:10:50 PM: Ok I'm back. What have I missed? The Smurfs aren't in charge, are they?
12:11:31 PM: David Dimbleby's still going. Kudos.
1:41:02 PM: #Radio2 just played The Winner Takes it All.
2:55:19 PM: #libdemrequirements 1) Electoral reform 2) All PMQs must end with 'I agree with Nick' 3) Bring back Firefly 4) Everyone gets a monkey.


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lucrezia-dominic1805 days ago
Warchild gig - WOW - best I've ever seen. Really cool to actually be there...
minkety2003 days ago
This was sooo good !! :D
HateMeAndIWillFollowYou2004 days ago
really dreading my bill coming in for the VIP ticket I bought for this gig, but just had to be there! Journey starts early tomorrow. Can't wait :)
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see u on tumblr unlucky guys like me :D <3
Frunde2005 days ago
Managed to get tickets on Thursday, how?!
JemmaCostin2006 days ago
It´s great that all proceeds from the show will go to War Child!
TeresaMuse2605972006 days ago
Got tickets - yeah! Can't wait to see the gig... the presale code worked ok - had some fun with the captcha codes but still managed to get tickets. Commiserations to those who didn't and enjoy the gig to those who did!...
minkety2011 days ago
Can't wait seeing them again in such a small venue!!! Got my ticket with Muse.mu pre-sale :)
?HysterMuserisation?2019 days ago
Damn, I had captcha entered before 9.01 and still didn't get a ticket! welldone to any fans who did have success.
museticalsuburbia2021 days ago
Got 2 standing tickets today but I was in on the dot of 9am and got an easy Captcha. Am sure they were flooded with peeps trying to get tickets. I'd tried O2 on Wed and wasted a frustrating hour yesterday. Wasn't hopeful for today but ..result !
denise31122021 days ago
Got a ticket with surprising ease, and they sold out in about five minutes! Ticketmaster have redeemed themselves from the pre-sale farce.
exospheria2021 days ago
I don't know if it's worth the stress of trying to get tickets tomorrow, strangely it's my mum who wants me to go for it more than I do :L Congratulations Muse, you got yourself a 44-year-old hardcore fan ;-)
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The Greenland cod (Gadus ogac), known variously as rock cod, ogac and uvac is a commercially harvested food fish.
In colour the Greenland cod is generally sombre, ranging from tan to brown to silvery. Its appearance is similar to that of other (Major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters) cod species; generally heavy-bodied, elongate, usually with a stout caudal peduncle. They can grow to a length of 80 cm.
They are bottom fishes inhabiting inshore waters and continental shelves, up to depths of 200 m. Their range covers the (Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs) Arctic Ocean and Northwest (The 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east) Atlantic Ocean from (A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union) Alaska to West (The largest island in the world; between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans; a self-governing province of Denmark) Greenland, then south along the (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian coast to the (An arm of the northwest Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Canada) Gulf of St. Lawrence and (An island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia) Cape Breton Island generally from 45 to 75 degrees N.
Their wholesome flesh is whitish and flaky but firmer and tougher and less desirable than that of the (One of the world's most important commercial fishes) Atlantic cod. The stock of Greenland cod has been strongly reduced in recent years.
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012
38 comments:
Love the Jacket!ReplyDelete
Your dress is lovely, perfect for the christmas party season!ReplyDelete
gorgeous outfit! :D xxReplyDelete
Love this dress, such a nice print! Enjoy your free time this christmas!! XReplyDelete
Love this outfit so much, the dress is gorgeous:)ReplyDelete
www.elstylediaries.blogspot.co.uk x
You always look super spectacular lady!ReplyDelete
You stunner you!!
So jealous of your jacket (mine was stolen a couple of weeks ago) have to venture back to Zara to buy a new one, my leather is like a second skin to me! :D
I remember the feeling of getting everything done for uni before crimbo being one of the best feelings ever so make sure you make the most of cheeka :D big loves.
love the print on the dress xReplyDelete
lovely dress, so stylish!! :)ReplyDelete
how beautiful is that dress, love how you've styled it too :) xxReplyDelete
Wow, you look incredible! I've just found your blog and really love it - followed!! This outfit is fab, so jealous of that dress. Nice job wintering it up!ReplyDelete
Totally know how you feel on the uni front, I've just finished for Christmas too, yay! Sadly I still have a magazine project to be doing over the hols. Boo! Where are you studying, if you don't mind me asking? Are you in third year too?
Laura at www.fashionparttimer.comReplies
Aww thanks so much for your lovely comment. Such a nice feeling knowing were done for Christmas...ohh good luck with your magazine project, don't work too hard over christmas :) ...I'm studying at Lincoln in my third year, the stress of dissertation on top of everything else is not fun. How about you?xxDelete
Yes it's such a nice feeling, especially now we only have one semester left eek! Do you have any idea what you want to do when you're finished? I'm in my final year of a journalism degree at Northumbria! Don't you just wish we could blog full time instead of this studying carry on? Haha! How long have you been doing this for? Seriously love your blog, you're gorge. How do you take your pics?xxDelete
I study marketing and advertising and love the PR and branding side of it..so I'd love to go into that for a fashion company...but the idea of finishing scares me, I don't want to go the big world yet I don't quite feel ready for it. I definitely agree blogging full time is definitely more appealing. I've only been blogging since October so relatively new to it compared to some people, how long have you been blogging for? Aww thankyou so much..coming from you though..your gorgeous girl!! I either rope my flatmates or boyfriend in to taking pictures or I have a cheap tripod that I use if no ones about :) xxDelete
Ooh a tripod, what a fab idea, I hadn't thought of that! Where did you get it from? When my loan comes in I'll have a to treat myself. Fashion PR would be awesome, would you move to big scary London for it? I think you'd be great at it! I really wanna make it as a writer but I'm such a northern girl and would be so scared to move to the capital. I've only been blogging for about 7 or 8 weeks so not very long at all. Really struggling to build up followers and stuff but I'm sure I'll get there! It's so much fun, I love it. How on earth have you got nearly 500 already?! SO amazing, you should be very proud of yourself xxDelete
I can't actually remember where I got it from..was some camera shop but it was only like £19.99, if your not after anything too professional then they are really reasonably priced. I've just been reading some of your posts and you sure can write, you have such a lovely way with your words. Yeaah I think I'd brave it to London, such a big move though..what a scary thought. Ahh where abouts are you from then? I have no idea how I've got so many followers it's really flattering, I remember when I only had 2 and one of them was me haha :) .. I think just commenting on posts you like and getting involved on twitter and stuff helps though :) You have yourself a lovely little blog though, you'll definitely be attracting in the followers! Just followed you on twitter so we can natter now and again :) xxDelete
Wow that is really cheap. I may even have a look on eBay! Aw thank you lovely that's so nice of you, I always worry I'm not serious enough for blogging as a lot of others seem to steer clear of sarcasm etc! Eek the big LDN, I know it's so scary. I'm from Berwick-upon-Tweed which is the most Northern town in England, but have lived in Newcastle for 3 years! So I really am northern!! Yay thank you, I just set up my Twitter yesterday so trying to build that up now. There's so many things to think about when you start blogging, I can't wait to get to the point where it all kind of runs itself and I can just focus on my writing! Do you find it's like that or do you still have to work on networking a lot?xxDelete
Sarcasm is right up my street haha...I think its nice when you read or see a blog thats different from others, so go with what you want to write :) ...ah that sounds lovely, I've got family up in Newcastle so up there quite often visiting, it's one of my favourite places. Yeah there really is, its so much fun setting everything up, I get excited when I do a new post. Yeah networkings a massive part I find I still have to work on that, twitter really helps with that lets you see what events are going on and just chat with all the other lovely bloggers :) xxDelete
great styling, love the whole outfit!ReplyDelete
new fan!
annie x
- Anonymous12 December 2012 at 20:59
This dress is amazing! I can't think of an outfit which would suit you better xoReplyDelete
Love your dres wish I had your wardrobe!.ReplyDelete
Super cute dress. Love your hairdo too (wish I could do the same but can't, as my hair is so layered ;p)ReplyDelete
I browsed your outfit posts and they are really nice. I like it when people put effort in taking real life style pics ^^
Will follow you on GFC ^^
x, Lara
I love the combo of this dress and leather jacket. Really edgy :) The JC's don't harm it either!ReplyDelete
GURL. this dress is super cute and love it with the coat xReplyDelete
You look SO nice! xReplyDelete
Love this outfit, you look gorgeous! XReplyDelete
Such a nice dress, I love the hemline and totally works for Winter to! xxReplyDelete
Cool high low dress! :) Your blog is absolutely fabulous-just became a member/follower of your blog. I hope you'll follow me back and we can keep in touch. Happy Blogging!!!ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous13 December 2012 at 00:09
That is a gorgeous dress. I really like the necklace too.ReplyDelete
this outfit is perfect i want it!! xxReplyDelete
Ah you look so cute, I'm in love with this look!ReplyDelete
Love this outfit and your Jeffrey Campbell's xxReplyDelete
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Maybe we can follow each other :) What do you think?! :)
You did an awesome job accessorising that dress for winter, a leather jacket and black tights and you are ready to go xxReplyDelete
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Love the print of this dress!ReplyDelete
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Love this! I adore high-lo hems, but I live in such a tiny little town (full of old people) that wearing them casually is virtually impossible :|ReplyDelete
Newest follower! :)
gorgeous dress new follower hun:) xReplyDelete


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Riyada plays the lead role in developing SMEs in Oman through their different programmes and coordinates with different ministries, corporates and other agencies to promote SMEs.
Khalifa Al Abri
CEO, Riyada – The Public Authority for SMEs Development
With regard to SMEs, Riyada established a fully operating service centre in 2013 providing consultation and advisory services to Omani SMEs in its headquarters in Ghala/Muscat. More Service Center locations have become operational in Salalah, Sur, and Sohar. These service centers are providing various services such as feasibility studies and the 'Entrepreneur Card' to benefit from government tenders. Riyada has also established a one-stop-shop accommodating services of the Ministry of Manpower, Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) and Public Authority for Manpower Registry (PAMR) to ease processing SME related service procedures. Riyada also helps SMEs to showcase their products by organising SME trade exhibitions like in the recently organised SME EXPO at the Oman International Exhibition Center that lasted five days and accomodated 140 SMEs.
For the Omani youth, a state-of-the-art incubator was completed in the headquarters stretching over two floors in the main building. The first batch of Omani entrepreneurs has already moved in and is operational. Riyada has also developed an Entrepreneur Award Programme where most successful Omani entrepreneurs are identified in a competitive selection process to present role models for Omani youth. Furthermore, Riyada has established a mentorship programme based on Prince's Trust Mentorship scheme from the UK to help entrepreneurs to excel in their endeavor.
To improve the state of affairs, various projects have been initiated and implemented as part of Saih al Shamekhat Symposium decisions. Riyada has involved numerous stakeholders to implement initiatives of different scope to improve the ecosystem and help SMEs grow. For instance, along with the Ministry of Civil Service and the Ministry of Finance, Riyada ensured 'Financial Security' for government employees so that they could pursue entrepreneurship by allowing them to establish and run their business while continuing to receive their salary for one year. Riyada and the Central Bank of Oman have increased credit facilities to SMEs by allocating 5 per cent of commercial loans to overcome the lack of financing in the SME sector. Riyada has also been collaborating with the Tender Board to allocate at least 10 percent of government tenders to SMEs. Furthermore, Riyada is working with the Public Authority for Radio and Television to promote the Culture of Entrepreneurship, the Ministry of Finance for accelerated payments to SMEs, the Al Raffd Fund to provide loans to Omani entrepreneurs, and the Ministry of Education for advance entrepreneurial curriculum in our schools. Last but not least, Riyada has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the Zubair Small Enterprise Center, and several Media and Press Agencies to help us create awareness for entrepreneurship in the public and promote the SME sector. There are many more multi-agent and cross-institutional projects that are ongoing or in the pipeline. However, they are beyond the scope of this brief article to be outlined in detail.
At the micro level, Riyada has recently completed its Corporate 2020 strategy. Riyada will be focusing on the improvement of the regulatory environment by policy propositions, be a key information provider to the SME ecosystem, streamline and coordinate SME related efforts and continue to drive entrepreneurial culture through media, exhibition and awards. Riyada is currently advancing its services on its online portal and expending its presence across social media and real-world SME ecosystem. Furthermore, Riyada will be adopting a life-cycle approach to SME development. In this context, it is planning to provide in the mid-and long term more customized services to medium size enterprises to help increase their productivity and employ more Omanis. Future services that are currently in development are the establishment of an Entrepreneur Assessment Tool and a SME Evaluation and Scoring system to identify the entrepreneurs and SMEs' strengths and weaknesses so Riyada can help them more effectively. Finally, Riyada is in talks with several regional and overseas stakeholders to bring best practices in SME development to Oman.