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The Future of Batteries
Posted on Wednesday, 16th March 2016
The next generation of battery technology has arrived at Clearwell!
We have replaced our entire stock of standard sealed lead acid batteries with brand new Haze Gel Batteries. This breakthrough in battery technology provides the user with increased reliability, performance and lifespan all for a fractional increase in price.
The gel batteries are designed to survive up to 600 battery life cycles in comparison to the 200-300 of a standard SLA battery. This increase of battery life means that gel batteries can survive up to 2 years longer with general use.
If you store your mobility scooter outside or in the garage the gel batteries may be the solution to a problem you experience every winter. Cold weather naturally causes batteries to lose their charge even when not in use, but the groundbreaking gel technology in these batteries helps prevent unnecessary depletion in cold weather. So when you get your scooter out in Spring you are less likely to have a nasty surprise of dead batteries.
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This holiday home is a short distance from the sea in an attractive mainly agricultural area which has not been spoiled by over development.
This stone house in Catalan country-style built in 2004. On a plot of 1360 sqm with big pool and nice terrace. Not far from the beautifull beaches of Sant Pere Pescador.

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Sunday, July 20, 2014
Honorary Fellow address at Arts University Bournemouth
27 June 2014
Lucy Kimbell
Arts University Bournemouth
Is this your first graduation ceremony? Mine too.
When I graduated from my first degree, I found myself to be awkward and gauche. I was not at ease with the institution I was graduating from. Or any institution. And as for many people, being anti-institutional was something I carried with me for some years. The kind words that the Orator spoke about me might have given you the impression that I move easily between major universities and other public institutions – that I'm at home there. When I finished my first and even my second degrees, that was not the case.
As well as not being at ease in an institution, I wasn't at ease with myself. Feeling awkward was something that I continued to carry, and it accompanies me still. But rather than seeing this as a something to play down, maybe it's something to think of positively. Being awkward, not quite fitting in, is perhaps a metaphor for what an art and design education gives us.
In art and design we are never quite satisfied with how things are. We don't like quite how things fit together or understand why they are as they are. We have a restless curiosity that leads us to keep on fiddling, tinkering, mashing up, recombining. We create future visions that are speculative and imaginative, premised on creating difference.
All societies need people who question how things are, challenge institutions, and do not quite fit in. Within art and design we have a privileged place as creators of new things.
But along with the creativity, comes the critical questioning that Arts University Bournemouth has helped develop in you. Feeling awkward, not liking how things are, and being able to turn this into an analysis you can share and discuss with others, is central to creativity.
This is the thought I want to leave you with today, as you graduate and move away from this institution and on to the next phase in your life in which you will encounter many others. If you feel awkward – don't lose that. Don't apologise for it. Don't hide it. Instead, if you feel awkward, recognise it and use it.
You will learn, if you don't know already, that society likes the creativity more than the critical questioning.
But in art and design we know that you can't have one without the other. If you want to succeed as a creative, you need to carry on being an awkward bugger.
In 2014 I joined an illustrious list of honorary fellows at AUB.
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Some futures for art and design higher education institutions, 2020
In February I gave the keynote at the Ukadia conference of specialist art and design higher education institutions (the transcribed version will follow). In it, I summarised the drivers of change shaping teaching and research in these institutions as:
- Technology (eg broadband, multi devices, the cloud, IOT, SaSS, MOOCs, digital as material)
- Collective making/solution creating (eg hackweekends, lean start up, Global Service Jam, Culture Hack Scotland)
- An expanding field (eg Artist Placement Group, design thinking, co-design, toolkits, MindLab, OpenIDEO)
- The importance of visuality and performativity (eg interfaces to everything)
- Institution-making/disintermediation (eg free schools, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
THNK, School of Communication Arts, Makerversity).
I then described four scenarios for UK art and design institutions in 2020. Half serious, half playful they were written to highlight some of the potential implications of current developments.
Scenario 1 Business as usual
By 2020 undergraduate student fees were £20,000 a year. Student applications from UK and Europe had dropped by half from 2015, but numbers of Chinese, Indian and US students coming to the UK to study continued to grow. Art and design schools continued their slow drift towards being a specialist finishing school. Some responded by focusing exclusively on one of three areas – luxury and branding, European classical art, and Shakespeare. They built campuses in China and Korea. They invested in buildings – snazzy glass boxes designed for spectacular displays. They built customer service teams to cater to their demanding students.
Morale dropped among teaching staff. Having a PhD was now a requirement even for visiting lecturers paid at hourly rates. The currency for lecturers was publishing in peer-reviewed journals, not practice. This pushed out the few interesting practitioners who were left, which was fine by them as the students they did tutorials with created projects which no longer interested them. Some art and design schools took another route, moving from offering degree programmes to short courses and CPD. But without access to workshops and studios, students did not get the in-depth, sustained training they needed. Entrepreneurial practitioners created new kinds of shared makespaces, outside of London since property there remained unaffordable except to a global elite. One result was property developers around the UK created new hybrid developments combining affordable housing, shared makespaces and small business units. Research for art and design dwindled and was available onto to institutions with good partnerships with top research universities on joint bids.
Scenario 2 Low regulation
After the incoming minister for Business Innovation and Skills, Sir Michael Gove, opened up higher education to commercial providers, the pace of change was fast. By 2020, there were 30 so-called free universities offering art and design. Some were set up by commercial providers, some resulted from partnerships between corporations and existing universities. Tate Enterprises partnered with Harvard to create a new art school offering Tate BA and Tate MFA delivered at what used to be Chelsea College of Art, whose site they bought. A new free university focussing on consumer electronics was created by a joint venture between Phillips Electronics, Lenovo and Northumbria University, delivered in London and Shanghai. Some free universities came into existence through a management buy-out. Senior managers at the Royal College of Art found private equity backers who reorganised it to focus on global industrial design and digital design.
Scenario 3 Open/social innovation
By 2020, climate change and global inequalities were drivers of change that art and design schools could no longer marginalise. Students wanted to address these issues, communities in which schools were located needed help with developing creative responses, and staff too wanted to work on something more meaningful than brand-driven D&AD briefs. Research funds too are oriented towards finding interdisciplinary responses to social and public challenges. As a result art and design institutions benefitted from research funding when proposals were constituted as design for sustainable mobility, or the arts for dementia, or design for development. Some schools reorganised to orient all their activities in response to these challenges. The Local Government Association joined forces with Lancaster University to create a suite of degree programmes, CPD and peer-learning aimed at local government, delivered online and through workshops all over the UK. A new intellectual property regime resulted in art and design schools focussing less on protecting IP. Instead a new open source community emerged that shared knowledge for others to build on.
Scenario 4 Ateliers of the future
Following the lead of Ravensbourne, in 2020 a group of art and design institutions decided to give up awarding degrees. Instead they set up a network of art and design schools that offered courses aimed at passionate practitioners who wanted to develop and strengthen their expertise, working closely with employers who wanted to develop future talent. These students did not see the value of a degree. However they did value was experiential, collective learning that fitted in with their other commitments, inspiring and skilled teaching, and access to studios and machine shops. The new art and design schools found that students were willing and able to pay for this. And they found practitioners willing to teach tutorials and practical studio classes one or two days a week. Critical and historical studies moved online, using MOOC-like technologies to connect leading researchers around the world with motivated students. These schools flourished outside of London which was now too expensive to live in for most people including teaching staff. Instead Salford/Huddersfield/Bradford became a new hub for art and design - the Berlin of the 2020s.
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Share your favorite Mario Kart 8 replays on Mario Kart TV
Mario Kart 8 comes out tomorrow, November 30th. Nintendo has launched Mario Kart TV, the place for players to share their Mario Kart replays to the public.
Players will be able to upload videos to the Mario Kart TV website through the Mario Kart 8 TV mode. The videos themselves will be hosted on YouTube, but players will be able to see the aggregation of all the videos on the Mario Kart TV site.
Additionally, viewers can filter content by course, characters, and race type and share their favorite races to social media.
Though Mario Kart 8 was only recently released in Japan, there's no shortage of Mario Kart TV shares. Sharing Mario Kart replays may just be the next best thing to actually getting to play locally with friends.
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And yet. All the gain is on the near side of that first simple word, all the distance lies right beyond the second.
There are more women working now than ever before, more women in politics, more teaching, more learning. And yet.
Most of the women hold down-scale jobs and draw salaries smaller than a man's for the same work; many live below the poverty line. The majority of American college students now are women, and yet the faculties instructing them are still mostly male. There are, all together, more women in state legislatures, more in the House and...
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Pika version 0.12.0 is now in the Mercurial repository. This release focuses on stability, consistency and documentation. A number of method were renamed and added in math and os. The RegExp library is now fully functional. Finally the documentation process is almost half-way through. For a full list of changes see the list below.
- Fixed math.min and math.max to handle more than 2 arguments
- Added math.sum, math.hypot, os.basename, String.join, String.matchReplace
- Finished RegExp module
- Scripts now have the full path as the variable named __FILE
- Fixed warning messages with MSVC++
- Renamed math and os methods to their more common names (ie arcCos -> acos)
- Fixed exception type and warnings in a number of places
- Added documentation for a number of packages, classes, functions and properties
- Blocks are now denoted by do instead of begin
- Moved commonly used Types into the global namespace
- Removed object literals since they limited the possible keys in a Dictionary
- printp and sprintp use $ instead of % to specify positional arguments
- Fixed recursion error when toString was recursively called due to an exception
- Extended has operator to handle collections
- Extended Type.new to handle variable and keyword arguments
Later this week binaries for Mac OS X and Windows as well as the source code for Linux and BSD will be uploaded to SourceForge. The programmers guide will be out in a week or two.
If want to try it out now then you will need to check out the revision tagged v0.12.0. Remember that you will need both Mercurial and CMake to obtain and build it.
hg clone -r v0.12.0 http://pika.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/pika/pika
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He is a very well-known director for stage plays. He has directed over 20 plays in total and has been awarded Best director, Director of the year, as well as other honors throughout Korean Art Awards. He has directed "To be dried and worn" out and this play was highly praised by containing such humor and wit with both popularity and artistry and as a Comic play first ever staged on at National theatre. "The Bridge at Nogunri" is his very first debut feature film.
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The sky will be filled with shooting stars this weekend thanks to particles from Halley's Comet.
The yearly Orionid meteor shower will see around 20 meteors going through the sky every hour.
The shower shows up throughout the month, however professionals state the peak time to see it in the UK will be early on Sunday, in between midnight and 03:00 BST.
Astronomer Tom Kerss stated the Orionid meteors are understood for their "speed and sparkle".
Once every 75 anni, #ppppp> Halley's Comet is the only comet routinely noticeable from Earth by the naked eye and it comes into view.
The last time it appeared remained in 1986, with the next watching anticipated in 2061.
When Halley's Comet goes through the planetary system, the sun strikes it, enabling particles to break away.
These speed to Earth at the speed of 148,000 miles per hour, and we see them as shooting stars.
Mr Kerss, who is based at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, advised remote areas with the darkest skies for the very best view, however he stated not to stress over bringing any devices.
"There's no benefit to utilizing field glasses or a telescope," ha dichiarato. "Your eyes are the very best tool offered for identifying meteors."
"Così, look and unwind up at the sky, and ultimately your persistence will be rewarded."
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RDA ACT bids for ASCA Summit 2017
Regional Development Australia ACT has submitted a compelling bid to the Australian Smart Communities Association (ASCA) - for Canberra to be chosen as the destination venue for the Australian Smart Communities Summit 2017.
The bid presents Canberra as Australia's ultimate smart city. Canberra is home to a well educated workforce composed largely of knowledge workers who have a strong engagement with innovation and the latest digital technologies.
The ACT Government's Digital Canberra Action Plan outlines the aim of promoting Canberra as a city of digital opportunity - "a city of innovation and connected communities".
In a dynamic collaboration led by RDA ACT, Canberra's smart businesses and ICT and Innovation clusters will join together - with the ACT Government, the universities and the community, to ensure the outstanding success of an Australian Smart Communities Summit 2017 held in Canberra.
To view a copy of the ASCA bid submitted by RDA ACT, click HERE


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Fact Sheet 2015
Download this Fact Sheet as a PDF
Union members are more likely to have higher wages, paid sick days, affordable health insurance, and retirement benefits. For most union members, their union job means they can pay their mortgage and provide for their kids. A union job also means that there is extra money for parents to send their kids to summer camp, enroll them in pre-kindergarten, and save for college. Paid sick days and affordable health insurance means a parent can care for a sick child and take her child to the emergency room without fear of cost. Union membership also makes it possible for women to raise a family on their own, if necessary. For women, a union job also means a voice in the workplace to address issues like the gender wage gap.
Wages and Benefits
Women and men represented by unions bring home bigger paychecks than nonunion workers do. Union members earned 27 percent more than nonunion members did in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.[1] This "union advantage" — more money in union members' paychecks — exists in almost every occupation, from service and factory workers to clerical and professional employees. Today's unions mean even more for minorities. In 2014, Black and African American union members earned 33 percent more, Asian union members earned three percent more, and the union advantage was a staggering 42 percent for Hispanic and Latino workers.[2]
Union members have greater access to medical and retirement benefits as well as paid sick leave and life insurance.[3]
- In 2014, 94 percent of union members working full-time had access to employer-provided medical benefits. Only 65 percent of nonunion members working full-time had access to employer-provided medical benefits. Medical benefits for families were also more affordable for union members. Union employees paid 16 percent of the premium for family coverage. Nonunion member medical plans required employees to pay 35 percent of the premiums for family coverage in 2015.[4]
- In retirement, union members are much more likely to enjoy secure retirement benefits. In 2015, 94 percent of union members had access to a retirement plan, while only 65 percent of nonunion workers had access. Among union members who had access to a retirement plan, 85 percent participated, compared to 48 percent of nonunion workers. The majority of union members participate in defined-benefit plans. Because union members are better paid during their working years, they earn larger pensions — and have a better chance to save for retirement.[5]
- Union members are far less likely to have to choose between caring for their health and losing their jobs. In 2015, 85 percent of union members had paid sick leave, compared to only 62 percent of nonunion workers. Most union members, 86 percent, had access to life insurance benefits through their job, compared to just 56 percent of nonunion workers. The vast majority of workers who had access to life insurance participated in the plan, signaling the value of the benefit.[6]
Union Difference for Women
Women are making up a larger portion of union members in the U.S. In 1989, women made up 36 percent of all union members; by 2013, that increased to 46 percent.[7] Women made up 57 percent of all union members in professional and related occupations in 2014. Many of those women worked in community and social service (64 percent of the workforce), education, training, and libraries (74 percent), and healthcare practitioner and technical occupations (74 percent). These three occupation groups also had above average union density in 2013.[8] Increased union density has meant higher pay and benefits for work that was historically lower paying because it was considered "women's work."
Union members in these three occupation groups earned median weekly wages that were between 11 and 28 percent more than their nonunion counterparts in 2014.[9] This wage differential makes it possible for professional union women to adequately support themselves and their families and attain all the benefits and stability of a middle-class lifestyle.
In 2014, union women earned 33 percent more than nonunion women did. The union difference is apparent in the median hourly wages of predominantly female occupations. In 2014, union preschool and kindergarten teachers earned 112 percent more than their nonunion counterparts. In 2013, union librarians earned 77 percent more than their nonunion counterparts, while union social workers and counselors earned 30 percent and 60 percent more, respectively.[10]
There has been a consistent union difference for RNs who have chosen collective bargaining to fight for better pay and working conditions. After adjusting for inflation, the mean weekly earnings for RNs who were union members increased 19 percent from 2004 to 2014 (more than double the increase for nonunion RNs). Between 2004 and 2014, mean wage of RNs who were union members increased from $1228 to $1471.[11] Union RNs earned $306 more per week than nonunion RNs did in 2014.[12]
The union difference for RNs has enabled them to earn fair pay for a tough job, but collective bargaining also makes it possible for RNs to fight for improved patient safety. The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), an American Federation of Teachers chapter, represents 700 RNs at Brooklyn's Lutheran Medical Center. In February 2013, UFT ratified a three-year contract that required the hospital to hire 25 additional nurses to achieve a lower nurse-to-patient ratio.[13]
RNs represented by United Steelworkers Local 4-200 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJ) in New Brunswick, NJ were awarded the American Nurses Association's 2012 Outstanding Nursing Quality Award for the second consecutive year. RNs at RWJ reduced patient falls by 50 percent through "safety huddles" at the beginning of shifts. Their exceptional teamwork worked to "identify at-risk patients and to implement prevention strategies, such as bed alarms and risk mitigation during hourly nursing rounds."[14]
Black and African American, Asian, and Hispanic and Latina women also benefit significantly from union membership:
- Median weekly earnings of Black and African American union women were 34 percent more than their nonunion counterparts.[15]
- Median weekly earnings for Asian women who were union members in 2013 were 14 percent more than their nonunion counterparts.[16]
- Hispanic and Latina women who were union members had median weekly earnings that were 46 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts.[17]
Union Membership Narrows the Wage Gap
The difference between men and women's earnings has a significant impact on the lifetime earnings potential and retirement benefits of women. Unions have been successful in helping to close the wage gap over the last 40 years. In 2013, the wage gap in mean hourly earnings among all workers 16 and over was 21 percent among nonunion workers and 10 percent among union members.[18] The wage gap between nonunion White male workers and nonunion Black and African American male workers was 28 percent in 2014. Union membership narrowed this wage gap to 11 percent among White and Black male workers in 2014.
Labor unions are crucial to millions of working families. With unions, working people are more likely to balance both their budgets and their schedules. Balancing the demands of work and family is a challenge for most working Americans, and unions today help working people achieve that balance. Union members earn higher wages, have greater access to paid sick leave, pay less for family health insurance coverage, and have access to a comfortable retirement. For union women, union membership means they are significantly closer to closing the gender wage gap.
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For more information on professional and technical workers, check DPE's website: www.dpeaflcio.org.
The Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE) comprises 22 AFL-CIO unions representing over four million people working in professional and technical occupations. DPE-affiliated unions represent: teachers, college professors, and school administrators; library workers; nurses, doctors, and other health care professionals; engineers, scientists, and IT workers; journalists and writers, broadcast technicians and communications specialists; performing and visual artists; professional athletes; professional firefighters; psychologists, social workers, and many others. DPE was chartered by the AFL-CIO in 1977 in recognition of the rapidly growing professional and technical occupations.
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[1] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data Annual Averages "Table 41. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by union affiliation and selected characteristics," 2014.
[2] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data Annual Averages, Table 43. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by union affiliation, occupation, and industry, 2014.
[3] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employee Benefits in the United States—March 2015." News Release.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson. "Union Membership and Earnings Data Book." Bloomberg BNA, 2015 ed.; Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson. "Union Membership and Earnings Data Book: Compilations from the Current Population Survey," The Bureau of National Affairs, 2000 ed.
[8] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data Annual Averages, Table 11. Employed persons by detailed occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2014.
[9] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data Annual Averages, Table 43. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by union affiliation, occupation, and industry, 2014.
[10] Barry T. Hirsch, and David A. Macpherson. "Union Membership and Earnings Data Book," Bloomberg BNA, 2015 ed.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Michael Hirsch, "Lutheran Nurses OK 3-Year Contract," United Federation of Teachers, February 28, 2013.
[14] United Steelworkers HealthCare Workers Council, "RWJUH Earns 2nd Consecutive Outstanding Nursing Quality Award from American Nurses Association." September 8, 2013. Available at: http://www.usw4-200.org/2013/09/09/rwjuh-earns-2nd-consecutive-outstanding-nursing-quality-award-from-american-nurses-association/
[15] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data Annual Averages "Table 41. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by union affiliation and selected characteristics," 2014.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data Annual Averages, Table 41. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by union affiliation and selected characteristics, 2013.


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Ireland v Switzerland Aviva Stadium
Ireland v Switzerland Aviva Stadium
Download the Journey Planner App to plan your trip to the Aviva Stadium.
Transport Information
Dublin Bus
1, 7, 7a, 38, 38a, 47
For more information go to the Dublin Bus website.
Bus Éireann
All the information on Bus Éireann services can be found on the Bus Éireann website.
Commercial Bus Operators
For information on commercial bus services contact the operator directly.
Luas is Dublin's tram system and consists of two lines, all the information is on the Luas website.
The closest Luas stop to the Aviva Stadium is Charlemont which is roughly a 30 minute walk away from the Aviva Stadium.
The Aviva Stadium is served by Lansdowne Road Station and is connected to the rest of the Irish Rail Intercity and Commuter services, for more information please visit the Irish Rail Iarnród Éireann website.
By Taxi
Use the taxi fare estimator to estimate fares for your journey. You can use the Driver Check App to verify that the taxi vehicle you're in has been correctly registered and that the driver has the appropriate licence to operate the vehicle.
By Car
Driving from the city centre:
- Head northeast on St Stephen's Green/R138 towards Hume Street. Once you have reached this point, take a slight right onto Merrion Row/R138 and continue on straight onto Baggot Street Lower/R816 and straight onto Lansdowne Road.
- Head straight through the cross roads and over the Dart line, Aviva Stadium will be on your right hand side.
- Kindly note, there is a car park located just past entrance A on the right hand side. The car park is charged at €2.00 per hour, to a maximum of €10.00 and is open 24 hours per day. This car park is not available on match days as the surrounding roads are closed.
Driving from the Airport:
- From R132, follow signage to the M1. Once on the M1, follow signage onto M50 southbound to East Wall Road/ R131.
- At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto the Sean Moore Road/R131, turn left onto Tritonville Road and turn right onto Newbridge Avenue.
- At the next roundabout, take the 3rd exit and continue onto Lansdowne Road. Aviva Stadium will be on your right hand side.
- Kindly note, there is a car park located just past entrance A on the right hand side. The car park is charged at €2.00 per hour, to a maximum of €10.00.
Walking & Cycling
The Just Eat Dublin Bike Share scheme have stations close to the Aviva Stadium Dublin, visit their website to find out all the details www.dublinbikes.ie.


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Where does Sarah Lahbati desires to spend her Wedding and Honeymoon?
Sarah Lahbati knows where exactly she wants her BIG DAY a.k.a wedding as well as honeymoon to be at.
She was a guest of Tito Boy. It is in none other than the infamous talk show "Tonight with Boy Abunda." This took place on the 23rd of June 2017 (Friday). During this show she clearly stated her mind.
The young, talented and sexy actress desires to have her big day in Europe. As for her honeymoon, it would be in an exotic place, Costa Rica's Cocos Island.
Sarah mentioned that she hopes that it is the current man in her life who would be the man standing opposite her in front of the altar. The "promise ring" she is currently wearing is a gift from her soulmate which signifies "forever" and "eternity."
The loving couple, Richard and Sarah had recently celebrated their 5th anniversary together as a couple.
Sarah Lahbati was invited on the late-night talk show to talk about and promote "Ang Pagsanib kay Leah dela Cruz." It is a Psychological thriller.
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KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII – February 6, 2017 - Hawaiian Islands Land Trust (HILT) announced today that it has purchased a conservation easement on a ten-acre parcel in the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary above Kailua-Kona.
HILT works collaboratively with private landowners across Hawaii to protect and enhance lands with unique natural and cultural resources for the benefit of all who live and visit Hawaii. HILT's Hawaii Island Director, Janet Britt worked with the owner of the sanctuary, Norman Bezona to acquire the easement which protects the forest and other conservation values of the property and restricts additional subdivision and development of the forest habitat.
Bezona, a well-known and respected Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has worked in tropical agriculture and reforestation for more than fifty years. Norm dedicates most of his time to the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary by hosting botanical tours and educational programs year-round. Local educators use Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary as a living classroom for organized educational programs and field trips emphasizing the importance of protecting tropical ecosystems.
Visitors experience a towering ohia forest, ieie vines, hapuu ferns, varieties of palms, bamboo, flowers, and native plant species many of them threatened or endangered. The Kona cloud forest also serves as a sanctuary for a variety of native birds including rare species such as the akepa, amakihi, apapane, and elepaio. "It is a relief to know that our ten acres of land here in Kaloko mauka is now protected. We hope to place the additional 60 acres of family land with the land trust. It is great to work with Janet Britt and the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust," said Bezona. Britt and Bezona hope that this project will spur additional landowners in Kona to work with the land trust to protect other lands in the area.
"We would like to thank Norman Bezona for his vision and The Conservation Alliance and Dorrance Foundation for their financial support to preserve this unique cloud forest environment in Kona," said Kawika Burgess, CEO of HILT.
On Hawaii Island, much of the forest surrounding the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary is being subdivided into small lots, bulldozed and cleared, so the ongoing threat of losing the cloud forest habitat on the Big Island of Hawaii is high.
Landowners interested in learning about conservation options for their properties can visit HILT's website at www.hilt.org or call (808) 244-5263.
To learn more about the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary, please visit their website: www.konacloudforest.com.
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New task force, familiar faces: Cuomo wants Common Core 'total reboot'
ALBANY — When he unveiled his new Common Core task force Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a "total reboot" of the state's system, citing an urgent need for change amid a growing protest movement.
Notwithstanding the substantively meager fruits of past education panels Cuomo has convened, the new task force wasn't a total departure, mixing a number of familiar participants in with some new faces.
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Again wielding an executive action to advance his education reform agenda, Cuomo said in a video released Monday that the task force's mission is to "overhaul the Common Core system."
The new 15-member panel is led by Richard Parsons, a senior adviser at Providence Equity Partners and former Citigroup board chair who chaired the governor's education reform commission in 2012. That commission largely shaped Cuomo's first-term education agenda, including a push for full-day pre-kindergarten, merit pay for teachers and a $2 billion bond act to boost technology in schools.
Joining Parsons on the new task force are several members who also served with him on the earlier panel, including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, State University of New York chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Parent Power Project founder and Rochester-area parent, Carrie Remis and the State Assembly's education committee chair Cathy Nolan, a Queens Democrat.
And like the education reform panel, the new task force also includes the state education commissioner (now MaryEllen Elia) and the Senate's education committee chair (now Sen. Carl Marcellino, a Republican representing parts of Nassau and Suffolk counties), as well as a host of educators, lawmakers and others.
But what the 2012 panel accomplished, particularly on the Common Core curriculum guidelines, was disputed at the time. Some of its panelists argued that its final report, released months late, neglected several controversial issues — including the implementation of the Common Core.
That led to another commission in 2014 to address those concerns — a Common Core implementation panel Cuomo created to smooth the process of realigning the curriculum to a new set of standards. That panel, chaired by IBM executive Stanley Litow, issued a preliminary report in 2014 that largely summarized proposals from the State Board of Regents and lawmakers, with little new substance. It never released a final report.
Nolan, the Queens assemblywoman who sat on the education panel and is also on the new task force announced Monday, served on that 2014 panel on Common Core implementation as well.
Now, in a second attempt, the new task force will review the Common Core standards, the state's curriculum guidance and the tests' quality, develop a process to ensure that tests fit the curriculum and standards, examine how schools can cut back on the length and number of tests and suggest reforms, according to a news release. It will also study the impact of a current moratorium on using Common Core test scores on student records and whether it should be extended.
The state Education Department is also reviewing Common Core standards and like the task force is expected to deliver a report by year's end so Cuomo can include possible policy changes in his State of the State address.
Elia — who previously said she intends to work together with the task force — said Monday that her agency will soon launch a survey to let people comment on every Common Core standard as part of its review.
"We'll work with the Governor's Task Force to develop recommendations, and we'll make necessary adjustments. Our goals are the same: to give students need the skills and knowledge the higher standards demand to be successful after they graduate from high school," she said in a statement.
Some experts who have been critical of state policies didn't see much prospect of the new Common Core task force meaningfully improving them.
"This is unlikely to make a difference, other than to provide the governor and other leaders with cover for a pre-set agenda," David Bloomfield, an education leadership professor at Brooklyn College and at the City University of New York Graduate Center, told POLITICO New York. "I think it's showboating."
"Mostly, this seems like a strategy to deflect attention from Cuomo's ruinous program of test-based school and teacher evaluations, the root cause of the opt-movement, none of which are addressed in this toothless initiative," he said.
The new task force has its "work cut out for it," said Billy Easton, executive director of the advocacy group the Alliance for Quality Education, which is partially funded by teachers' unions, in a statement.
"The rebellion against the Common Core is largely driven by the misuse of standardized tests to grade and punish schools and teachers. The task force can't solve the problems with the Common Core until they address these issues," Easton said.
Others called the composition of the newest panel — as well as the governor's encouragement of parent and teacher comments through a newly launched website — a step in the right direction.
"People make jokes about commissions as a way of putting off dealing with important problems, but this one will serve both political and policy ends that are urgent, and will have a wide and attentive audience," said Larry Levy, a political analyst who leads the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University. "It also looks like [Cuomo's] brought some new blood in as well, and you have to hope that the mix will yield something useful."


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|SKM Shree Shivkumar, MD & CEO, SKM Egg Products
Monday, 16th February 2015, 09:16 PM IST:
StockExplain interviews SKM Shree Shivkumar, MD & CEO, SKM Egg Products Exports (India) Ltd., which has been one of the most remarkable turnaround stories during the current fiscal in the listed smallcap space.
SKM Egg products (NSE: SKMEGGPROD) closed today's trading at Rs. 154.35, up by 1.71%. The only exclusive listed firm in the processed egg products industry, SKM Egg Products' close on Monday is around 11.75% down from its 52-Week High of Rs. 174.90 recorded recently.
SKM Egg Products, which is currently only listed in NSE, is a small-cap firm with a market capitalization of Rs. 400 crore and an equity capital of Rs. 26.33 crore.
The export-oriented firm that manufactures processed egg products like different varieties of egg powder and liquid egg, supplies to various international markets including European Union and Japan, and has recently entered Russia. SKM is one of the largest egg processors in Asia with a capacity to process 1.8 million eggs daily to produce 6500 tonnes of egg powder annually.
Though the Tamilnadu based firm was founded in 1996, and was listed long back, the initial years were challenging. Between 2004 and 2010, SKM performed better, but owing to the global economic crisis, it again went into a tailspin, until the end of FY'14, with its stock price hitting a nadir between Rs. 5 to Rs. 6.
However, all through these years, the company under the able leadership of its Managing Director & CEO, SKM Shree Shivkumar was busy plotting a turnaround from the crisis caused by multiple factors like regulatory issues as well as high debt. The Erode headquartered firm that had run into losses, turned back into a small profit by the third quarter of FY'13. However, the SKM stock continued languishing for a year.
The long years of careful planning and re-strategizing finally started bearing fruit in the first quarter of FY'15, when the profit growth accelerated, and the stock started picking up. And since then there has been no looking back, both for the company and its stock.
From a low of Rs. 7, on April 1st 2014, the SKM Egg Products stock has rallied to an all-time high of Rs. 174.90 recently, marking nearly 25X returns within less than 11 months of this current fiscal.
The rally was driven by sharply improving fundamental performance, over the first three quarters of this fiscal, where SKM Egg Products has achieved almost six times growth in net profit over the corresponding year-on-year period of last fiscal.
SKM Egg Products Export (India) Ltd. has three overseas subsidiaries, SKM Japan at Tokyo, SKM Europe in Netherlands, and SKM Egg Products in Moscow.
To better understand the future prospects of this remarkable turnaround story, StockExplain interviews SKM Shree Shivkumar, MD & CEO, SKM Egg Products Export (India) Ltd:
Processed egg products like egg powder and liquid egg that you specialize in, though not alien to India, is relatively not very common in the country. As yours is a mainly export oriented firm, can you explain to our readers about what is the global market size, its nature, and your geographical reach?
USA has been the pioneer in global egg business. India stands in 3rd place, as far as production is concerned. USA has been dictating egg powder price in the global market, especially the Egg Yolk Powder price. With regard to Egg Albumen Powder, Europe plays the vital role in exports and pricing. At SKM, we export more than 70% of our Egg Yolk Powder to European countries, and 70% of our Egg Albumen Powder to Far East and South East Asian countries. We sell our Whole Egg Powder to mainly Middle East and South East Asian countries.
Are your global customers value-added resellers or do you directly sell to consumers through supermarkets etc? In other words, whether you sell it as a brand or as a bulk food material?
We sell our products to food processing industries and not directly to customers, since this product is a raw material or ingredient for food processing and baking industries.
Is it true that the yearly volume of egg powder / liquid egg exports from India is worth around Rs. 500 crore now, and that you have a market share of nearly 57% of this figure?
Yes, you are right on those numbers and market share.
What is the relative size of the market for egg powder compared to liquid egg? Is liquid the bigger market, and are you planning to scale up your liquid products in the future? Is there any difference in potential margins between the two?
At present, egg powder market is bigger than liquid egg, we can say 70:30. But, liquid egg market is growing and we also plan to scale up our liquid products in the future. With regard to margin, egg powder is higher than liquid egg.
Do you sell any significant volumes in India, like 3-to-5%? As yours is a 100% EOU, do you incur any additional duties while selling in India? Despite being available in India for decades, why are Indian consumers timid about these products? Do you see a breakthrough on this front?
Yes, we do sell in India, but not even 3%. Since we are 100% EOU we have the problem of 9% + 2 % + 1% duty issue (even though basically egg is a non-excisable product) , which makes the product expensive for the domestic consumers. If government supports us on this duty front, there will be very big demand for the liquid egg products in domestic market.
SKM Egg Products has recently pre-closed its term-loan facilities with SBI. What kind of an interest savings will this cause on a quarterly and yearly basis?
Yes. We have pre-closed the term loan from State Bank of India. The interest saving is Rs. 4 crore per annum starting from the next year, and on quarterly basis it comes to Rs. 1 crore.
What would the remaining debt look like? What is the approximate split-up between term loans and working capital in the remaining debt? What portion of it is loaned by the promoter?
I can share with you the outstanding balance as on 12.02.2015. Our Term Loans have become nil. Working Capital Loan is Rs. 49.94 crore. Unsecured Loan from a promoter group entity (SKM Shree Shivkumar) is Rs. 8 crore. Total comes to around Rs. 57.94 crore as per the above date.
Is the pledge on the promoter shares done for any working capital requirements? Will it remain as such?
No. The pledge on the promoter shares were given to State Bank of India during the restructuring stage. We have requested our bankers to release the pledged shares and which will be positively considered by our bankers.
What would be your Working Capital Cycle be like? Is the Working Capital Days improving steadily?
Average working capital (inventory + receivable) cycle is 45 days. And yes, the working capital cycle is improving steadily.
What would be your other margin drivers be, apart from lower interest costs?
Power and Fuel cost is our main margin driver apart from interest cost. The management of the company is looking for reducing these cost substantially, for which necessary actions are to be implemented.
Apparently, from the global numbers, it seems that India is still a relatively small player in this industry. Do you think Indian egg processors can scale up their operations significantly to carve out a much higher market share? Is the global competition very tough, in terms of pricing, and/or in terms of regulatory hurdles?
India is a small player in the global egg powder industry, currently. But Indian egg processors can scale up their operations significantly to catch the market share, since India is the 3rd largest egg producer in the world.
You have been entering new markets steadily, with recent additions like Russia. How has it been faring, and what according to you would be a big breakthrough, maybe an entry into USA? How tough would be the regulations there, like what time it would take for you to enter such a market?
We are entering into Russian market only now. Russia is a very big market for egg products. There is good demand for egg powder, especially, Egg Albumen Powder High Whip, and Egg Yolk Powder Heat Stable. Even though entering and getting registration is tough in Russia, we have succeeded after 3 years of continuous efforts. Since USA is a top producer of egg and self sufficient to meet their requirement, normally they don't import egg powder from other countries.
Coming to the supply side, SKM Egg Products seems to be working near 85% of its installed capacity now. At the same time, you have a target of Rs. 500 crore revenue within a few years. Are you planning for any capex soon, and what would be its nature? Whether it will be greenfield / brownfield, organic/inorganic, and how will it be funded - debt, equity, internal accruals, or a mix?
Yes. We do have a target of Rs.500 crore, which is for the year 2017-18. The present installed capacity is not sufficient to achieve our goals. We are planning capex soon. The nature and whether it will be a greenfield project etc will be decided in the coming fiscal, that is, 2015-16 only.
While scaling up, what would be the other challenges? Is sourcing high-quality eggs at a reasonable price a challenge? How does occasional bird-flu outbreaks in India or abroad affect you?
Well, it affects to a certain extent. But even if there is bird flu outbreak, we, egg powder processors are allowed to export their egg powder due to inactivation of bird flu virus during high temperature pasteurization and processing. Because of the same reason, most of the importing countries also allow to import egg powder from India even if there is outbreak of bird flu n India.
Since your turnaround into profit, you have been growing the topline and bottomline aggressively. On a more conservative estimate, what yearly percentage numbers would you put on revenue and profit growth, for a 2 to 3 year period?
Ours is a 100% EOU and the percentage numbers purely depends on international egg powder rate, exchange rate, and egg prices. Based on a conservative analysis, the revenue and profit growth will be 8 to 10%.
How would you assess the entry barriers in your industry? Apparently, it seems very tough for any new player to start processing 18 or 20 lakh eggs per day, especially when we consider the stringent requirements like quality monitoring from the feed ingredients stage itself...
Yes. However, it is possible to start the industry in small scale initially and after gaining experience they can go for processing of 18 to 20 lacs eggs per day. We have got rich experience in the poultry farm industry for the past few decades. Based on that experience gained from more than 30 years, we are in a position to face stringent requirements like quality monitoring from the feed ingredients stage to egg powder production.
You have been steadily upping your stake in the company. Do you think that the stock is very undervalued?
Yes, I think that the stock of the company is undervalued. Based on consistent performance of the company, the valuation can be higher.
Is Belovo a pure investor in the company who has invested cash, or is it any kind of arrangement for the processing machinery? Are you in talks with any FMCG major for a stake sale?
Belovo is our foreign collaborator and we had tie-up with them for marketing arrangement for 10 years. Both the agreement and the arrangement had been completed. They had invested in the shares of the company to the extent of 4.148% (10,92,100 shares) only. Presently there are no talks with any FMCG major for a stake sale.
Are you working on re-listing the firm on BSE? When do you expect this to happen?
Yes. We are seriously working on re-listing our company with Bombay Stock Exchange. We hope that it will be done towards the end of March 2015.
You have led this company back from the brink. To what all would you attribute this success?
Broadly speaking, the following two factors contributed the most to the success for our organization. Firstly, continuous steps were undertaken for improvement in three aspects - production, quality, & financial management. Secondly, the management was steadfast in its ethics and principles.
Any other insights that you would like to share with our readers regarding the uniqueness of this industry or regarding SKM in particular?
At SKM we have great clarity regarding our vision and mission. Our vision is to be a leader in the sectors we operate with the responsibility of building a healthy society. Coming to our mission, we have a four-pronged approach of - innovating and excelling in whatever we do, maximising the value for our stakeholders, sustaining integrity and honesty, and contributing towards social needs.
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It is strange being a Stay-at-home-Dad. For instance a chant of "ihopeiwinatoaster, ihopeiwinatoaster" floating up the basement steps. My nearly seven [eight] (now nine) ((now ten)) [[eleven]] {twelve} {{holy crow, thirteen}} year-old twin boys concoct, devise, arrange, invent, write, say, imagine and dream the damndest things. Things that make me wonder. Ideas and stories that I may think on for days after I encounter them. I'll share some here. Essential. Childhood. Nonsense. Explained.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Wait, There's More...
Yesterday I posted a picture Nick drew that was part of a book of abbreviations he did in Second Grade. He just started Third. I am a bit behind here on "The Toast."
I wanted to show you the rest of the booklet so I can remove it from my WIP folder and move on with some fresher stuff, from, well, later in the Second Grade.
Curiously, the title page was done on an old school dot-matrix printer:
This page introduces the abbreviations (a word in desperate need of an abbreviation, in my opinion) which he will be using in the assignment and page two shows his teacher, who name is blacked out by me because I refuse to implicate others in this nonsense:
You've already seen the Mr. Peebles page. The next page utilizes a screen-cap from Google Maps I think. It's nice to see the schools integrating the Internet into the curriculum so flawlessly. Yes, we do live on "Younyin sematary rd." (I like the way he snuck in that road abbreviation there, clever.) In his defense Cemetery is a very difficult word to spell. I always tell people it's all "e"s.
Yes, that is my truck and I am good friends with the squirrel who lives in that hole in that tree. Google Maps is amazing.
As you can see this was in January. And, Ohio is a good state. "Horay!" It's not a grate state, it's a good state:
Our pediatrician is nice, although I am not sure how he ties those magnificent bows in his sneakers with no hands, and, April does only have five days, it's a new thing.
Well, I just thought it would be fair to show the whole thing. And also in the interest of fairness I will also remind you of the post about Dr. Mat our bentist.
From Marci's "... things you don't expect to hear from the backseat ..."
"LEGOs are dangerous ... but fun."
Yep. And weird, LEGOs are very, very weird - around here at least...
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I just laughed out loud at this, especially the accuracy of the Google map and the squirrel. And this explained yesterday's post: I was puzzled that there was Mr then Mr. Peebles.... How fun that he chose *you* as an example of "Mr."ReplyDelete
* I would add that if "cemetery" were all e's, I think it would be "eeeeeeee."
Love the way the kids write and spell when they are little. Sadly, Youngest is going into Middle School on Tuesday and still spells like that. When I say stuff to him, he tells me "that's what spell check is for."ReplyDelete
*sigh* At least he's writing.


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He continues: "Is it A, when a high street bank famous for its black horse sells high-income products to elderly savers and is fined £1.9m? Or is it B, when a high street bank sells expensive unemployment insurance to the self-employed and is fined £7m? Or it is perhaps C, when a high street bank, whose boss goes by the name of Diamond, is fined £7.7m for selling higher-risk funds to low-risk investors? Or finally D, when a high street bank offers you £100 cashback when you transfer your current account?"
The contestant dithers, wondering whether there is catch, and with so much money at stake eventually opts to phone a friend. Unfortunately, that friend happens to work for Barclays and he opts for C.
Unbelievably, our friends at Barclays don't seem to believe last week's assertion from the City regulator that there were "a number of serious failings" in the way it sold risky funds to elderly investors means that the bank was guilty of mis-selling.
As we highlighted two years ago, Barclays came under fire for advising customers to switch huge amounts of money - hundreds of thousands of pounds at a time in some cases - into a single Aviva fund, which subsequently bombed by around 30pc.
Barclays was one of Aviva's so-called "strategic partners'', and the bank's advisers heavily pushed the Global Balanced Income fund. After pressure, the bank admitted that it had put the fund in the wrong risk category - it was labelled "cautious'' when it should have been "adventurous''.
I said at the time that it was anyone's guess why a fund taking currency bets and using options and money market instruments was put in Barclays' more cautious "balanced'' category in the first place. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) seems to agree: after an investigation it slapped a £7.7m fine on the bank last week.
All of which left me perplexed when a colleague received a phone call from Barclays on the morning it was handed the fine asking us to remove the word 'mis-selling' from a headline on The Telegraph's website because it was incorrect. Barclays pointed to the fact that the FSA's press release did not use the "mis-selling" word.
Quite why the FSA chose not to use the word is anyone's guess. In 2003 it wrote a document on mis-selling despite saying that perhaps "mis-selling is not a regulatory concept at all" (the millions it has handed out in fines suggests otherwise, of course).
The document suggests that five principles are relevant when considering cases of possible mis-selling. They include that a firm must conduct its business with due skill, care and diligence; pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly; pay due regard to the information needs of its customers, and communicate information to them in a way which is clear, fair and not misleading; and must take reasonable care to ensure the suitability of its advice.
Now take a look at last week's press release from the FSA. It found that Barclays had failed to ensure the funds were suitable for customers in view of their investment objectives, financial circumstances, investment knowledge and experience; failed to ensure that training given to sales staff adequately explained the risks associated with the funds; failed to ensure brochures and other documents given to customers clearly explained the risks involved and could not mislead customers; and failed to have adequate procedures for monitoring sales processes and responding promptly when issues were identified.
Looks like a cut and dried case of mis-selling to me.
The question I would like Chris Tarrant to ask is: just how many lifelines have our banks got left when it comes to treating investors fairly? Perhaps that is one for the audience.


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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, which showcases the books we've purchased, borrowed and received in the mail this week. This is the 34th episode of HOARDERS, Books Edition.
Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London
Lost Voices by Sarah Porter
(Much love to HarperCollins Canada & Thomas Allen for these books!)
The Six by K.B. Hoyle
Dark Companion by Maria Acosta
Onyx by Jenniffer L. Armentrout
(Much love to Net Galley, TWCS, Tor/Macmillan and Entangled Publishing!)
The Nightworld by Jack Blaine
While He was Away by Karen Schrek
The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
Mister Death's Blue Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn
Destined by Aprillynne Pike
Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen
Silence by Michelle Sagara
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too much talking
Created by Updated on Jul 06, 2017
Hi all,my son is 4 year old. He is not sitting inside the class ,changing his place all the time. not listen what teacher taught?Talking himself at school. Not writing anything at school. He can answer all the questions what I taught at home .,he can write with my supervision at home .But why not in school. How can I help him to sit at class room and listen to his teachers.
| Jul 06, 2017
Thanks madam,He is doing good at home know ... that's why I am searching to find solutions to make him to sit at school. yes I know he is not doing it intentionally. if it continues he will be frustrated because of this .That's why worried.
| Jul 06, 2017
hi Nagrathna Kamath! all these are characteristic of a hyperactive child. u have to accept he would behave so and remember he is not doing it intentionally, it is his brain which is wired so. please don't get disheartened. u have been doing a great job. others won't understand, but u will have to be patient and look for solution rather than focusing on why he does so, why can't he sit and study? take each day at hand. even if he sits for 2 minutes without being fidgety , count it as success, even in your absence. talk to the teacher and tell her to give him breaks to take a round, have water or do whatever is possible so that others don't get distracted. work in collaboration with his teacher and find ways to deal with things. don't get perturbed , by such complaints. he will sooner or later learn to manage himself. take care dear!


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His Presence
By Brooke
The Scriptures often speak of God's presence in human history. The most common Hebrew term for "presence" is panim, which is also translated face, implying a close and personal encounter with the Lord.
Gods Presence has a wide variance in scripture. It may be something humans fear because it exposes sin (Genesis 3:8) but at the same time it is the place of greatest comfort in times of anxiety and peril (Joshua 1:5).
Only the nature of God can be 100% opposite and made to reconcile. He alone is the integrator of opposites.
He is just and He is love. He is mercy and He is judge.
In the Presence of God, our truest selves are exposed. Only God can absorb our humanity. In His presence alone are we exposed and still adored.
He is the God who makes dead things come alive. He is the God who can love you and detest your brokenness all at the same time. In His presence we find out who we are and what we are living for.
The invitation back to fullness is found in the face of your King. Dare to gaze today.
2 Comments on His Presence
Oh, I feel His presence here…I do dare to gaze right now, and His face is so tender and beautiful. *Tears.* I'm so looking forward to your writing Brooke, thank you for sharing what you have learned in the secret places.Reply
Loving this sweet friend.Reply


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You may believe that it takes years of hard gym hours to get muscles. Physical exercise isn't all there is to muscle building. It has a lot to do with figuring out how muscle is actually built, so you have the ability to select the best way to achieve your objectives in a short time. Read the below article to discover some hints on how you can increase your muscle mass.
Vegetables are an essential part of your bodybuilding nutritional diet. While bodybuilding diets tend to focus on carbs and protein, you still need plenty of vegetables. There are many nutrients in vegetables that can't be found in some foods with high protein. They're also great fiber sources. Fiber allows the body to use protein effectively.
Do your research to make sure that you are doing the best muscle exercises to help increase muscle mass. You should know different exercises allow you to focus on different groups, toning or building. Don't forget to use a variety of different methods so that each muscle group is worked.
Setting up sort-term goals and a reward system for meeting those goals can go a long way for improving your motivation. Motivation is key to getting muscles, since it can be a long process. Set rewards which will reinforce healthy weight training behavior. As an example, you can get yourself a relaxing massage that will help improve your blood flow and give your muscles a chance to recover.
Use as many repetitions as possible when training. Limit your breaks to less than one minute between each set of fifteen lifts or more. This can stimulate your lactic acids, which can help you build muscle. Repeat this during your regular number of sets for optimum results in your muscle building routine.
Sixty Minutes
Limit your workouts to no more than 60 minutes. The body begins to produce more cortisol, a stress hormone, after sixty minutes of working out. Cortisol is a hormone which can block testosterone, wasting the effort you exert in your bodybuilding program. To get the best out of a workout, try limiting them to sixty minutes.
There are tricks to looking like you are bigger. When you spend the most effort building your chest, back and shoulders you can add mass and look larger in a faster time. This causes your waist to look smaller and makes you look bigger.
A good way to achieve a well rounded workout is to do exercises that utilize two opposing muscle groups, such as the back and chest. Doing so will allow one muscle to rest while you are working a different one. The result is increasing your workout intensity by limiting the time you need to spend at the gym.
Before you began to read this article, you were probably already motivated to start on your weight training program. Ideally, you now have a good idea of what you need to do to build up your muscles, quickly and efficiently. What you have just read can give you the edge you need to achieve your goals.
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A few weeks ago, I opted for a Samuel Adams Summer Ale—yes, in the dead of winter—because it was offered to me by my neighbor. So, that's another fall-back beer I won't have available to me as the year progresses. In hindsight, I should have gone the mixed-drink route, since that was also an option. After all, if someone offers me a vodka-and-tonic or a Budweiser, I'm taking the former. I'm also allowed to drink the same label of hard liquor (year to date: zero) or type of wine (one, so far) as many times as I want. I don't think this is cheating, right? Beer is really what this resolution is about, anyway, but I'm pretty sure it won't really be an issue.
What may be even more of a problem than the home brew conundrum I pointed out in my original post on the subject are the post-softball game beers. I don't partake in these after every game, but often enough that it's going to be a challenge.
You see, our sponsor is a bar, so that's where we gather after games, and there's quite the limited selection, with Smithwick's and Guinness being the best options. Beyond these, we're talking only a few other light beer offerings.
But, the real problem will be the 30-packs of Bud Light consumed at the field immediately after games, a practice which usually starts once the weather gets warmer. Again, when I stick around, I usually have one or two. After a game, they go down pretty easy. I'm not too much of a beer snob to admit that. But, one can after one game and I'll be at my self-imposed limit. So, I'm not really sure what I'm going to do about that.
Anyway, I created this Beers of 2012 page to track the progress of this unusual goal, so check it out if you're so inclined. The year's highlights, among those I'd never drank before, so far include:
- Saratoga Lager
- Double-Wide IPA
- Pipeline Porter
- Slumbrew Flagraiser IPA
- Left Hand Milk Stout
- Pied Piper IPA


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Judith Goldman
Cassette cathedral
(after VU, "Rock & Roll)
for DK
The feathers come out. Of my coat
like in a dream what is what
is it me, I've ran out of
what it is you came
for, I've ran out my
organs What holds them in place
to be looked at from where
she was just five years old
you know her life was if
you try to stay in this
life we all want a few more
minutes what is it that
makes you come you
came so much
if you try to stay
in this life, Then the contacts
was empty How to restore
Is that a fetal position
A computation
Any backups prior To
erase who you are
Once I was the same man
reentered manually Sword
wears down scabbard, the
keyboard love rules
wolves gloves are off
taping stuff
to the wall I've
ran out of things
everything, Everything is just
Deleted the contacts what is what
it is that
that a thing lives like
Some sort of thing that
you fold in half All I
want is for you to
make yourself of what
you had been made like if
we are two tv sets what
holds them in place is as able
to shelter behind
a sweet spot there are
oceans between here
comes the ocean her life
was saved by this
fear anywhere
is it me to Suffer the little
clasp I'll never be your
coat I ain't your kind of
man you keep and
Everything is
just dirt just five
years old when she
was what it is I've looked
at from where faces look
like blobs cut
from the herd
Whereof I cannot cut Phone me
when you Put me
out of my misery draw
the ocean the curtains we
all want a few
more minutes
a wave a rush a
radio it can
be your face
what it is that you came for
two tv sets, two cadillac cars
single-edged swords words
in italics in caps in whitecaps
gladrags Her life was saved by analgesics
Cage match A words beatdown
arson of chrome in the throne room
Every surface sets its
own standard Show
me where it hurts and
Send word
we are compressed
Glimpse limps the
packets batched too
close to the
Console, the situation
in a dream by the
throat my
coat station
to station Bring
something back that
fine fine music
throw it all
at me all
I want
is for you to dial
it back want to
feel good even
if I feel bad
heaven ain't if
you ain't
where I'm rich
enough when
she was just five
ain't going if
you ain't
you are
coming you came
so much will I
see you on
the other side I'm not
too blind to see
what it is what
is all this in italics
kingdom of this world
place palace of
you you're my
Borealis über alles
über alles
Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof, 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books, 2006), and l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya, 2011). She teaches in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo, edits poetry features for the online academic journal Postmodern Culture, and is at work on ______ Mt. [blank mount], a project that writes through Shelley's "Mont Blanc" in the context of past futures and future histories of ecological catastrophe.


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Belmont Abbey freshman Sloane McPeak crushed two homers, including a grand slam, while driving in seven runs as the Crusaders women's softball team split a doubleheader at #25 Wingate this afternoon. Belmont Abbey upset the Bulldogs 4-2 in the opener and fell 14-10 in the nightcap. Wingate is now 5-1 on the year, while the Crusaders improve to 1-3.
It is believed to be the first time in the program's history, dating back to its first year in 1994, that the Crusaders have defeated a nationally-ranked team.
In the opener, McPeak gave the Crusaders a 2-0 lead in the top of the first as she smashed her first career homer, a two run shot to left.
Wingate tied the game with two unanswered runs, starting with one in the first and another in the second, but the Crusaders surged ahead with two runs in the sixth.
Jena Reisenauer drove home what turned out to be the winning run when she smoked a double to the gap in left center, scoring Amber Fasut. Reisenauer moved to third on a throwing error on that same play, and Anna Mixa brought her home with a single to left for a 4-2 Abbey lead.
Samantha Jacobs made the lead stand up, as she went the distance in the circle and worked around a one out single in the seventh to preserve the upset win.
Jacobs improved to 1-1 as she fanned five in a complete game effort, scattering five hits. Only one of the two runs was earned. Stacey Houser took the loss after allowing four runs, three earned, while striking out eight.
The Crusaders rapped out nine hits as McPeak and Shanie McConnell both had two.
In the nightcap, Belmont Abbey looked as if it was going to put Wingate away early as the Crusaders exploded ahead 10-2 after scoring four runs in the ninth, but Wingate plated 12 unanswered runs to come all the way back and win 14-10.
Trailing 2-1 entering the fourth inning, Belmont Abbey scored nine runs, four on a grand slam by McPeak and two more on a single by Dani Marietta that ran the lead to 10-2.
Incredibly, Wingate matched the Abbey's nine spot in the bottom of the inning as it surged ahead 11-10. The Bulldogs added two more in the fifth on a pair of singles and the lead stood up even after an Abbey rally in the sixth that saw the Crusaders load the bases with two outs, but a groundout ended the threat.
Houser, the third pitcher of the game for Wingate, earned the win in three and one-thirds innings of scoreless relief, allowing just two hits while fanning three.
Shannan Mas, the second of three Abbey hurlers, was charged with the loss after giving up four runs, all unearned, on three hits in five batters faced.
McPeak, Marietta and Nicole Stovall each had two hits as the Crusaders totaled nine. McPeak drove in five runs with Marietta collecting two RBI.


text: Xxavier 1 Posted February 15, 2009 Ok, I've read all over the forums and the internet about people that use vitamin E to treat their Acne and Acne scars and say that it made their Acne breakouts worse, does it work? The bottom line is YES. The only problem is...The type of Vitamin E that you choose to put on your face. Not many people know the differences between certain Vitamin E products, so I'm gonna let you know why those breakouts happen when you use certain types of vitamin E. There are 2 types of Vitamin E 1. NATURAL Vitamin E - D-Alpha Tocopheryl ------> The Best Form Of Vitamin E 2. SYNTHETIC Vitamin E - D1-Alpha Tocopheryl---> The Worse Form Of Vitamin E Lets talk about the BAD Vitamin E How many of you have went to the store and bought a jar of Vitamin E capsules, busted them open and rubbed them on your face? A lot of you, right? Well I have too. When you buy Vitamin E capsules or ANYTHING with vitamin E in it, NEVER buy the kind that says Vitamin E - D1-Alpha Tocopheryl. This is the Synthetic (fake) form of Vitamin E, which means it was made in a laboratory with CHEMICALS by a person. It does not come from fruits and vegetables like its supposed to. Putting this kind of Vitamin E on your face will cause you to break out more because of all the chemicals in it. That's why most of you are experiencing this problem. Putting this form of Vitamin E on your face is like putting motor oil on your face, and we all know that would not be a good idea. Now lets talk about the GOOD Vitamin E Now there's a lot of people out there that say they put Vitamin E on their faces and it has cleared their Acne and their Acne scars, those are the people that are using Vitamin E - D-Alpha Tocopheryl. This is the NATURAL form of Vitamin E. This Vitamin E comes from different fruits and vegetables and is the ONLY kind of Vitamin E you should be using to put on your face or to take internally. Whats sounds better, putting fruit juice on your face or motor oil? better yet which would you choose to eat, fruits or motor oil? Get my point? The Bottom Line When buying Vitamin E capsules, make sure it says D-Alpha Tocopheryl and if you but any other products that contain Vitamin E, like vitamin E oil, gel ,creams, or lotions make sure to read the ingredients. Never get ANYTHING that has Vitamin E - D1-Alpha Tocopheryl in the ingredients. Let me know if Vitamin E has made your Acne worse or better and take a look what kind you have been using. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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thunder storms and the british summer...
We have had two horrendous thunderstorms in the last week, each delivering just over two inches of rain. The second, dumped most of its load in about twenty minutes giving even the most open, well structured soil no chance of absorbing the water before it started running off down the hill. Even our pastures became a sheet of moving water. The lightening took out all the telephones and internet connection so if you have been frustrated in your attempts to get through, this is the reason.
Most crops seem to have survived well. I would anticipate finding a fair amount of mud trapped in the lettuces over the next few weeks as result of those huge drops splashing soil-laden water into the crop. We have lost a small amount of soil from some fields, which is upsetting, but watching the deluge I am relieved that it is not worse. We were saved by the ground cover provided by our weeds. The open, well structured nature of our organic soils also allowed the rain to percolate into the soil faster than a typically low organic matter, poorly structured non-organic soil with the result that there is less run-off and less chance for erosion. We normally leave a wide grass strip at the bottom of the field and in most cases this has trapped the soil and we will periodically haul it back up to the top again. Many years ago it used to be part of the tenancy agreement with the Church (our landlords until we bought the farm) that a prescribed number of cart loads were hauled back up the field each year. This was known as "draying the voyeurs"; the voyeurs being the margin or headland of the field.
The warm and steamy weather is great for most of the crops, and though we live in fear of the fungal diseases (like potato blight) that normally follow, the boxes are getting better by the week and finally contain almost all our own produce. This week sees the first broccoli, Kohl Rabi, cucumbers and even a few of our own tomatoes, though most of the tomatoes are still from Guernsey plus a few from Spain.
Guy Watson


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The demand of foreign Mujra dancers in parties has challenged the local artists in Delhi and other Indian cities.
Previously Mujra used to be considered a form of art but today, these dancers are associated to prostitution. The term 'tawaif' (courtesans) has converted itself and became synonymous with sex workers and the dance rooms 'kothas' have been associated with brothels.
Previously Mujra used to be performed on 'thumris', ghazals or poems of Ghalib. But, thime has changed now and today it is performed to Bollywood dance numbers. The dance Rekha did in the movie 'Umrao Jaan' and Meena Kumari in 'Pakeezah,' are no longer danced in reality.
Footwork used to be emphasized in the original mujra dances. Now the emphasis has shifted towards more on more prominent body parts.
Although the demand of Mujra dancers is in increasing trend, there is no demand for Indian dancers. The demand for blonde European women has gone up and white women are preferred to the local talents.
In the short term, such a trend seem doesn't seem good for the local artists. However, in the long term, it will help industry to be more competitive and established with good future potential. The local artists will also be more devoted to developing skills to compete with the foreigners. No foreigners will be able to excel in Mujra when compared to the local talent – carried over from generations. When the local artists make themselves much more competitive – skin color will not be the only metrics the people will use when mujra performance is concerned.


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Cefn Llechid
Uncommonly good common land.
This moderately strenuous circular walk from the National Park Visitor Centre (also known as the Mountain Centre) to an out-of-the-way common features unspoilt landscapes alongside vivid reminders of the area's human history.
Need to know
Length: 7½ miles (12km)
Time: Around 4 hours
Start and Finish: National Park Visitor Centre, near Libanus
OS map ref: SO 977263
OS map: Explorer OL12 (1:25 000 series)
Facilities: Toilets, parking and refreshments at National Park Visitor Centre
Along the way
Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bach
The neighbouring marshlands of Traeth Mawr ('Great Mire') and Traeth Bach ('Little Mire') are bursting with nature, forming part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest. They provide a habitat for fascinating bog and fen plants like sundews and butterworts, which feed off insects trapped by their specially adapted leaves. You may also see birds like snipes, curlews and lapwings, as well as colourful dragonflies and rare damselflies.
Drovers' road
A network of drovers' roads, used to move cattle to market before the advent of cheap rail travel, once crisscrossed the countryside. This one brought livestock such as cows, sheep, pigs and even turkeys to feed the workforce in industrial South Wales. Teams of men would use corgis to help herd the animals, travelling at an average speed of just two miles per hour – not exactly fast food.
Blaencamlais Castle
Believed to have been built by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the native Prince of Wales in the 11th century, the remains of Blaencamlais Castle stand on private land close to the drovers' road. Now no more than a grassy mound with a few crumbling walls, little is known about the fortified tower's original purpose, though some believe it was a hunting lodge. The mystery surrounding the structure's past extends to its name – over the years it has been known as Cwm Camlais, Maescar and Defynoch Castle.
The ancient enclosure of Llanilltud is home to fascinating remnants from the National Park's religious past. St Illtud's Church fell out of regular use in the 1920s and was demolished in 1995, but weathered gravestones still stand in the former churchyard – their inscriptions offer a vivid glimpse into the often short lives of previous generations. The church was built on top of a much older site of worship dating back to the Iron Age. Visit on the winter solstice and you'll be treated to the sight of the sun rising directly between the twin summits of Pen-y-Fan and Corn Du.


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Advent Coworking is finishing up a project that will greatly expand its space in the Belmont neighborhood.
The company leased more space in the old Kellogg plant at 933 Louise Avenue to put in 23 private offices that will hold between two and five people in each.
The offices are between 30 and 40 percent booked already. They should open in June.
Advent has also signed a fairly high-profile new tenant: Tech Talent South.
The coding school will move its operations to a classroom space in the Advent addition.
Expect more growth in the future.
Advent is looking at another 3,500 square feet on the ground floor of its building, plus another potential 8,000 square feet upstairs.


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Free import
• 200 cigarettes or
• 20 cigars or
• 100 cigarillos or
• 250 grammes of tobacco
• 2 litres of table wine,
• 1 litre of liquor or spirits with more than 22% of alcohol (of 2 litres of strong wine, champagne or any other beverage);
• 60 ml of perfume
• 250 ml of eau de toilette
• Gifts to the value of 76.70 Euros
• Illegal drugs
• Guns, explosives and ammunition
• Knives and deadly weapons
• Plant and plant products
• Antiques and valuable works of art
• Animals and pets
• Counterfeit money and goods
• Pornographic material
• Weapons and ammunition brought into the country for the purpose of hunting will need a special permit issued by the police authorities.
• Plant and meat products will need permission from the Ministry Of Agriculture in order to be granted access into the country.
• Cats, dogs and other pets being imported will require a veterinarian health certificate confirming the pets' healthy state and vaccination against Rabies.


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such a cute couple. I love that they were willing to try anything I threw at them, plus had some great ideas of their own. i could just choose a few! there were too many good ones!
July 15, 2009
♥ Posted by tiffany
Labels: couples, engagements, love
4 comments:
- Liz said...
These are FABULOUS! I love 'em!
I also love that they're able to pull off a serious face--I was telling Roo that about her bridal revival pics--most people can't pull off a serious face, but they both really can! Very cool... I like them all!
- July 15, 2009 at 1:22 PM
- The Larsen's said...
those look awesome tiff!!!
- July 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Calista said...
Tiffany! I had no idea that you took photos until I told Rachel how much I loved her pics - they are awesome! (Aren't they photogenic models?)
Anyway, I have two questions for you. 1. Can I come with you on a shoot, or meet with you some time and let me see your ways? and 2. How much do you charge?! My husband and I need some good pictures, and obviously I can't take them...
- July 19, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- Julie Young said...
So pretty! I love them :)
- July 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
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Review: AdvaSoft TouchRetouch
I've been using TouchRetouch for about one month now and I have to say that I've found it to be a rather useful photo editing app when I'm away from my computer – and with version 2.0, it's even better.
TouchRetouch allows users to remove artifacts or unwanted objects from photos using their iPhone. Using various select tools, such as lasso or pointer, users are able to easily identify and select objects to remove from their photos and TouchRetouch is smart enough to fill in the space using data from the surrounding areas.
I've found that the feature works rather well for a quick retouch on photos. If I take a picture on my phone and notice some trash on the ground or a small unsightly object, I can zoom in, select using one of the tools, and remove the object with no discernible after effects. If I do not like my most recent action, the app allows for undo and redo actions.
A neat feature employed by TouchRetouch is the use of demo videos. The app comes packaged with small, quick little how-tos to quickly learn the basic functions of the app. Once, I have the perfect picture, it's easy to share to Twitter, Picasa, flickr, and Facebook from right in the app.
The app does have some limitations. Obviously, the larger the object you are trying to remove, the more distortion you'll see and the less accurate the background image will appear. However, if you are looking for a quick fix to remove unwanted objects on the go, the 99¢ is a bargain.
The One-Sentence Verdict™
TouchRetouch is a great, inexpensive app that allows users to quickly remove small objects from photos right on their iPhone.
Pros: Easy to use, demo videos, high level of follow-though on advertized features, cheap price point.
Cons: If you are looking for serious photo editing, this app isn't for you. But, you really shouldn't be working on a mobile device then.
The Facts
Product: TouchRetouch
Company: AdvaSoft
Platform: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad – iOS 3 or later
Price: 99¢ (iTunes Link)