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The first piece of advice I got from the Samsung guy sitting beside me on the flight to Austin was to steer clear of all the free food at SXSW. Last year, he put on 15 pounds in a week he said. He also told me to hang out at the Driskill Hotel on 6th street. Thankfully, this advice was a lot easier to follow and I spent many fun and productive hours meeting VCs, reporters and startups in the Driskill foyer and cafe. Bumping into Robert Duvall was, of course, the grand finale.
I came to Austin from London where we had just launched Dublin Globe at the Irish Networks lunch with Ambassador Dan Mulhall. As I sat down for my first of many coffees at the Driskill, Tom Lyons texted from Dublin to say that Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz had just retweeted his article in Dublin Globe. I felt like taking a very long holiday, but too much fun awaited for that.
There was no shortage of star performers at Enterprise Ireland's booth at SXSW including one of the festival's most successful startups, Teamwork from Cork; companies representing the next wave of Irish innovation like Gramma Music, and young and inspiring investors like Illann Power. The booth also featured the most popular swag in the history of SXSW, our "You're a Total Legend" tote bags.
I was impressed at how well stocked with meetings the Irish companies were and how much value they all seemed to get out of the festival. EI organized a number of breakfasts, panels and evening events and then of course, there was the Taoiseach's address; the first by a sitting Head of State at SXSW, ever. All in all, the Irish invasion was a great success.
My purpose in Austin was to spread the gospel about Dublin as a great tech city and to get a feel for how other cities were promoting themselves and why. Everyone I met really liked the idea of the Dublin Startup Commissioner role, and talking about it was a great opener to a conversation about what I call the "3 forces of Dublin" - startups, multinationals and ecosystem - that together make us unique, innovative and give us a competitive advantage over other cities.
You see, neither Dublin, nor Ireland has a well-defined context in the SXSW "Interactive" view of the world but neither, to be fair, do most other cities. What cities like Detroit, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Austin itself do enjoy is the cachet of curiosity. People are eager to find out what's new in these cities for fear of missing out on something cool.
During one of those hours at the Driskill, I bumped into an American filmmaker who had worked in the global marketing team at Google in Dublin in 2012. She said she had been looking forward to learning about the lifestyle and culture of Dublin but was exposed to very little of that, not to mind our startups, during her year plus living here. Clearly, Dublin also has the cachet of curiosity. We just haven't figured out how to capitalize on it, at home or globally.
Curiosity is the big takeaway from my first tour of duty at SXSW. How, as a small but important global city we can leverage it, amplify it and capitalize on it to connect our great startups to the world, and connect the world to Dublin? Figuring this out will be a huge win for us all.


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This is a large (for the species) Allegheny Chinkapin, Castanea pumila. To my knowledge, this is the closest living native relative of the magnificent American Chestnut, which once had a ubiquitous presence throughout the southeast. The photo was taken in early May, when the distinctive white catkins characteristic of the genus were at their peak. Imagine, if you will, what it was like to stand atop a hill in the southern Appalachians over 100 years ago at this time of year and look across the viewscape. You would have seen a sea of white created by an expanse of mature chestnut trees. Now, we have this smaller species as a remnant, which I wish was planted more frequently. In addition to the showy Spring catkins, the tree produces small nuts in the Fall that make good wildlife mast. This tree is located within three miles of my house in Tallahassee, FL. Height is approximately 30 feet tall and diameter is 14 inches just below the main fork. I hereby nominate it for the American Grove Great American Tree Contest.

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Khao soi or khao soy is a Burmese-influenced dish served widely in northern Laos and northern Thailand. The name means "cut rice" in Thai, although it is possible that it is simply a corruption of the Burmese word for noodles which is just "khao swè" which may account for the variations.
Traditionally, the dough for the rice noodles is spread out on a cloth stretched over boiling water. After steaming the large sheet noodle is then rolled and cut with scissors. Lao khao soi is still made with the traditional noodles and in some markets in Luang Namtha and Muang Sing you can still see the vendors cutting the noodles. These traditional cut noodles can also be found in several places in northern Thailand.
Khao soi is very special. Sauce of ground pork and tomato layered on top pork broth. The soup is a fairly simple pork broth with medium wide rice noodles. The highlight is the pork tomato sauce that's poured on top of the bowl. And it's accompanied by fresh watercress leaves to balance the heaviness of the pork sauce. The watercress is commonly found Luang Prabang's highland cool wet climates. Though some watercress can be found in Vientiane, not much is available and the leaves are not as vibrant as the ones found in Luang Prabang.


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A number of tasty suggestions for toppings for bruschetta (Italian garlic toast) with complete recipes, photographs and preparation directions. Carolina's Italian Restaurant has been serving delicious Italian food in our family owned and operated place for more than 35 years. When individuals ask what nationality you are even if each your parents aren't Italian the only issue that you say is I am Italian. Yes, NYC is a 24/7 city, a mecca of higher art and culture and a paradise for the finance minded, but it also has many drawbacks. No. 4: When it comes to Portland's Italian restaurants, newer, flashier, Southeast-ier spots generally corner the buzz.
No matter whether it is a straightforward lunch at house, loved ones dinner or a huge workplace celebration, Carolina's Italian Restaurant can provide larger orders or make a pizza delivery run to your company or workplace at any time of the week. Had the greatest Brazillian food knowledge when I was doing interpretation in OH final year. For huge or modest events, formal or casual, business, fun or family gathering, Carolina's Italian Restaurant is the ideal option to enjoy big-party portions of your preferred hand-prepared Italian food and dishes. We loved these Italian stemless wine glasses so significantly we decided to get a handful of for our property.
Italian fare is Italian fare, given that neither New York or Chicago have any shortage of Italians, there is a lot to pick from. Salami, Soppresata, Prosciutto, Pepperoni and other cured meats continue to be a celebrated portion of Italian Food and cuisine right now. I like a lot of various cuisines, but I only like veggies, chicken, and lighter sea food. I am italian and absolutely everyone in my household has the exact same tattoo 'Ognora Famiglia' based on what area you are from this will translate a million diverse ways for my family members in south Italy it indicates forever family/ always family members.
Aside from all the great tattoo phrases contributed, I was hoping a person could give me a excellent word in Italian (up to six letters)that would suit the registration/custom plates on our Ferrari 360 Spider. Several of the tattoos above are mispelled, please speak to a native and Don't use google translator: italian is a complex language, the final results would be a disaster. This would be the literal translation but i am not positive if there is an equivalent expression that could be used in italian. We do not serve customers, we serve Loved ones at Genovese's Fine Italian Restaurant!
Even though the concentrate remains on Northwest ingredients, chef Jenn Louis has quietly moved the restaurant in yet another path – a sneaky-excellent undercover Italian restaurant. Use adjectives: If you're utilizing a food dish in your name, also consider making use of an adjective to describe the food dish that makes the name sound that much much more appealing to buyers. Pies became a well-known Italian Food, as they were easily prepared, seasoned and filled with numerous foods. U can place them together in english but reading it in italian may not make sense.


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In this creamy radish soup recipe, radishes are sautéed and pureed with potato, creating a velvety, healthy soup. Cooking radishes also tones down any bitterness, while leaving plenty of sweet, earthy flavors to enjoy. Using smaller radishes will give the soup a pretty pink hue, like the one pictured here, while larger radishes result in an almost white soup.
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VOA Director David Ensor, Burmese Parliament House Speaker, Thura Shwe Mann and VOA Burmese Service Chief Than Lwin Htun held preliminary talks in Burma's capital, Naypyitaw on Monday, June 4th 2012.
Burma, also known as Myanmar lived under a military dictatorship for decades- with enforced oppressive laws including the suppression of freedom of speech and expression. Recently, however, with the country's willingness to open its arms to changes, there are talks of press freedom in the country, and VOA is at the forefront in covering this Southeast Asian nation.
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Foreign missionaries who served in China ran the gamut of Christians, with differing views of their religion and differing ideas of how to spread it. When all foreign missionaries were forced to leave China in 1949 many thought their effort had been in vain. Yet some scholars predict that soon China will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world. Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contemporary phenomena that is Christianity in China.
Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E. P. Sanders, and no one has produced a clearer or more distinctive vision of that relationship as it was expressed in the figure of Paul the apostle.
In this now-classic work, E. P. Sanders argues against prevailing views regarding the Judaism of the Second Temple period.
Volume 3 of The Annotated Luther series presents five key writings that focus on Martin Luther's understanding of the gospel as it relates to church, sacraments, and worship. Included in the volume are: The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520); The German Mass and Order of the Liturgy (1526); That These Words of Christ, "This is my Body," etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics (1527); Concerning Rebaptism (1528), and On the Councils and the Church (1539).
In Goddess and God in the World, leading theologians Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow debate the nature of divinity, proposing a new method called embodied theology. They agree that the transcendent, omnipotent male God of traditional theology must be reimagined. Carol proposes that Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is in all being. Judith counters that God is an impersonal power of creativity that includes both good and evil. Rooting their views in experience and questioning each other, they offer a fruitful model of theological conversation across difference.
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"Authentic Native American Lingerie".
1. Go to the remnant bin at your local fabric store, look for scraps of ultra-suede. For an even more authentic look, use an old leather jacket or pants purchased at the goodwill. If you go that route, use a thimble! (I learned that the hard way!)
2. Use your snag's underpants as a pattern (you know you kept a pair, don't lie) or follow this tutorial. The tutorial is for a t-shirt bikini, so if you can't find ultra-suede you can sacrifice your old demockratees.
3. Use your scraps to make fringe. If you are feeling lazy, go to Walmart and buy a yard of it. (Pick up your snag a box of chocolates while you're there!)
Need something for that special guy?
Here's a video outlining the steps on how the make a cock-bag! Yes, an authentic, Native American, cock-bag! COCK-BAG! Prepare yourself for a mostly-naked white guy talking to the camera. Oh lawd, I've seen too much! Can't unsee! Can't unsee!
Yes, he did just say his Chief gave him his loin cloth before he passed away. Ain't that sweet? His
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Then, later you can use the left-over duct for role-playing games. Just remember, safe words don't work if you've taped your partner's mouth shut!
Anyway, I hope ya'll are able to get your mystical booty on this Valentine's Day.
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Pitcher and Catcher are reporting to camps throughout Major League Spring Training today, and imgross has a bold prediction for this year's AL Cy Young Award Winner:
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Australian CIOs are been urged to measure ICT energy usage and look at ways to reduce the IT power bill following the results of a sustainability survey.
Fujitsu's ICT Sustainability: Australian Benchmark 2014 report surveyed 200 Australian CIOs between March and August 2014. This was the first time the report had been conducted since 2012.
It found that Australia had an IT Sustainability Index score of 51.7. This was a slight improvement on the 2012 global report, which found that Australia had the second lowest IT Sustainability Index score of 50.1 compared to Canada (55.7), China (49.7), India (51.2), Japan (53.0), New Zealand (50.8), the United Kingdom (53.1) and the United States (57.3).
In comparison, New Zealand's IT Sustainability Index slipped from 50.8 to 39.3 in 2014. Fujitsu only conducted reports in Australia and NZ this year.
The Australian survey results show 39 per cent of respondents said ICT power consumption is not measured separately and they have no idea how much energy they are consuming.
Meanwhile, 37 per cent of the CIOs surveyed said they are told how much power ICT consumes and they get a separate power bill.
The remaining 24 per cent of respondents said that they are responsible for ICT power consumption.
To help CIOs get to grips with their ICT power bill, the report set out some tips.
- Use a power meter to test actual power consumption versus claimed consumption
- Have a separate ICT sustainability or Green IT budget
- Measure data centre power usage effectiveness (PUE)
- Work out ICT energy use per employee.
The report also contained some 'quick wins' to reduce energy consumption in the data centre.
- Install light sensors in data halls- don't pay for lighting 24/7 when staff are not there
- Install rack blanking panels and side brushes to improve rack airflow
- Use heat reflective paint on roofs to help cool the building down
- Use adjustable floor vents to improve cooling and air flows
- Repair any leaks in data halls – up to 30 per cent more energy is wasted through leaks.
Commenting on the report, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand head of sustainability Lee Stewart said that failure to see ICT sustainability improvements as key to reducing capital expenditure (CAPEX) and energy costs is missing the requirements for every area of business to produce savings.
"If you take only one thing from this resource, it is to isolate and understand your ICT energy usage. Treat it like cash in your business – measure, monitor and control it," he said in a statement.
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ONLY the second show since Yves Saint Laurent himself died in June last year, and Stefano Pilati is still designing very much with the master in mind.
Tonight's show was far from the scrum inside the Grand Palais last season. We were invited to the Palais de Tokyo in two groups so that everybody had a seat, thank you. The first audience included the likes of Claudia Schiffer and Catherine Deneuve who were then forced to leave by pushing through the crowd waiting to get in to the second show – nothing shuts a crowd up like a supermodel.
For YSL autumn/winter 2009-10, think of Steven Shainberg's 2002 film Secretary, take out the mental health disorder, add a little more sauce and a lot more money and you've just about got Pilati's muse.
It might be that you can do without leather dungarees or jackets that turned into shorts beneath – but the same idea recreated in fine pinstripe wool caught expertly to sit on the hips and worn with a crisp white shirt, whose sleeves fanned expertly at the shoulder or which boasted a burst of bowed cotton at the neck, was a different and far more alluring story.
The models' hair was scraped into leather-clad top knots above faces bare of make-up save for darkened eyebrows and the perfect YSL red lips. These women were to be looked at and not touched and you couldn't help but want to be them a little bit – in fact it felt very like the queue outside when we were shrinking into the shadows to let la Schiffer pass through.
A black leather swimsuit with a sweetheart neckline, worn with flesh-coloured fishnets, was nice to look at but labouring the point somewhat, but pinstripe blazer dresses and a stunning final tuxedo dresscoat had the definitive YSL sex appeal.
Three-quarter length culottes were tailored to built-in cummerbunds and worn with platformed court shoes with just enough cut out of the heel to prevent them from being wedges – and high enough to make running away impossible. They weren't torturous, but you had the feeling a woman in those shoes was right where her man might want her.
When perfectly tailored and belted wool office dresses, with subtly puffed shoulders, became too much of a good thing, Pilati gave us a little disco chic via an iridescent silver T-shirt dress and a single-shouldered gold version – and he updated YSL's famous transparent shirt by offering a sheer top of grey tulle with fans of white cotton at the shoulder.
Very slightly glittering tweed for futuristic tunic dresses with stiff high necks and full backs took things a step further out of the office, while tailored all-in-ones, satin dresses that took on a Forties silhouette and skirt suits whose jackets curved up to a point half way up the back were indicative of the style of aspirational dressing this season has often been lacking.
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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 00:52
Here's a little guide for a do it yourself bubbler, i picked up at another site. Cheap and easy to build, you cant go wrong really.
I cant post in the cloning section, so i'll put it here, allthough even a few outdoor growers might like to use one.
All you need,
1- Aquarium pump
2- Aquarium heater (optional if indoor in warm enviroment)
3- Sandwich box ( mine is 3 litres)
4- 2 Air stones
5- Some air line
6- Some neoprene plugs ( i use the gerdening kneeling mats you can buy from any garden store. They are made of the right material, and you can cut to the shape required. Its pictured in the last pictrue)
Apart from that, all you need is a stanley knife, or if you have one, a drill with a hole cutting attachment, to make the holes in the tubs lid.
You can see my tub filled with water, with the air stones in it, and the pump turned on. This is creating lots of oxygen for the roots of the cuttings, and is the only reason they wont drown in the water.
The only bit of diy you need to do, is the cutting of the holes in the lid, which doesnt have to be perfect, as mine certainly isnt. Especially if you are using a kneeling mat, and you can cut a piece to size for your holes.
I have put 8 in my lid. I could of got 12 if i had wanted, but i can allways make another one, as they are so cheap, and i wont often have too many cuttings on the go.
When you cut your neoprene plugs out of the mat, make a cut from the outside into the centre, on only one side. Then get a small screwdriver, or a nail, and push it through the middle of the plug, where the end of your cut starts. You just need to hollow out a little bit through the centre,so the plug doesnt squeeze the stem too tightly.
You can then use this access point to add and remove your cuttings from the plugs, without pulling the roots about.
I'm not sure if you can see my slits in the picture of the lid, but they are there. (I havnt hollowed out a bit in the middle yet in the picture). If you buy neoprene plugs from a gardening centre, they should allready have the slit made, but if not, you need to make your own.
Once you have cut the holes in the tub lid, and cut out your plugs, and made the slit. Your bubbler is ready to go, its as simple as that.
You should set your heater to 22 celcius. This is optional if you are indoors in a warm enviroment, or indeed outdoors in a warm enviroment. I am not using mine indoors, and things are fine. Warm temps do promote faster root growth, but they can also encourage bacteria and other nasties to thrive. Especially if using organic nutrients.
PH your water to 5.5-6.0. 5.8 is optimul, if you have a digital reader. I just have a liquid test kit, so can just get it between 5.5 and 6.0. Which is absolutly fine.
You can also add some rooting hormone to the water, i will be adding a tiny bit of canna trichoderma and root excelurator. And perhaps some alg a mic once they have shown some roots.
You should have the cuttings with the stem slightly submerged, about1-3 cm or so in the bubbling water, and you can leave alone then, and i'm promised i will have more clones than i know what to do with.
The same principal could be applied to grow just one or two large plants in a bubbler like this. Just make one or two larger holes, big enough to fit a net pot or two, you can buy from the pond section of a garden centre. Fill with clay balls or something, and away you go into a world of hydro.
I might give a one plant bubbler a go, at some point, but i want to get to grips with this bubbler first. My first clones for it wont be too long away, i'll let you know how i get on.
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Looking good mate, DWC/Bubbler systems are soooooo good !!!
I`ve not tried using a heater yet but it should be good in this system for clones as humidity will be increased...
Nice work !!
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This bubbler works like a dream. Just look at the difference of my cuttings. They look better now than they did when they were on the dam plant! They were all droopy when i put them in, and less than 24 hours later, they are all perked up and looking immaculate.
I only added 1/2ml of house and garden root excelurator to 2 litres of water. Seems they like it alot.
I think i will use this alot from now on. I should be getting much faster rooting. I'll let you know how they get on. Today is day 1.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 07 March 2008 at 00:10
bugger me, that's interesting
your gonna run out of space to grow Solidopc if u keep making all these successful clones lol
well done
get that sun on it :-)
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you'll have to excuse the ignorance but
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|Quote Reply Posted: 07 March 2008 at 01:24
Which part is it you dont understand? If you understand a bit about hydroponics, this is just a mini DWC, for cuttings, instead of one or two plants.
The stems are submerged in water, with the air pumps pumping oxygen into the water, to keep the cutting from drowning. Its a faster way to clone than with soil/rockwool.
Some people seem to get cuttings to root in plugs in 4-14 days. I'm yet to get a cutting to root in under 21 days. So i've made this bubbler to speed up the process.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 18 March 2008 at 17:58
How are they going now? I
Incidentally, I think I can just see from your pics that the bottom of the lunch-box has been made opaque with tape? Is this correct?
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|Quote Reply Posted: 31 March 2008 at 11:50
There's a similar guide in vol.4 issue 2 of Skunk magazine, for makling a bubbler closer out of a 5-10lt opaque container.
The main difference is that each clone is held in place with a collar of vinyl tubing - 12mm diameter, cut into 5cm lengths, then sliced down the side and curled into the holes in the top of the container (which are a little smaller), making an overlapping tube/cone which holds the stems.
I'd always thought about using a soft material, like the kneeling mats used in your version, but now I'm wondering if these hard collars might not work as well.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 31 March 2008 at 18:35
Here is a pic of some uk cheese roots in the bubbler. I stuck the heater in there, and set it at 24celcius, and the roots are flying out. They are allmost all rooted in some form or another, a few alot more than others.
The leafs of the cuttings are still green and look healthy, and all they have had in the bubbler water is root excelurator, which is a very low npk.
I'm toying with the idea of putting the two more advanced cuttings you can see, into a 10litre bubbler to share between them, and see if i can actually get them into flower.
I'm a little unsure how well my organic nutes will do in a hydro set up though. Anyone else ever used bio bizz in hydro?
Also, are the roots supposed to be a browny colour? The liquid of the bubbler with root excelurator and trichoderma makes the water brown. Is this the reason? They start off white when they are very small, then go a brown colour as they get bigger.
This doesnt appear to be doing them any harm. They are growing, and looking great. I've just never seen water roots before.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 31 March 2008 at 22:00
looking good solid, im quite sure the roots will go whatever colour the water is purely because they are sitting in it constantly, but once in soil they should grow white again, going on what ive seen with my mates hydro setup
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I am a student, a writer and I guess you could call me an artist (although I still don't know if I would call myself that quiet yet). Today marks two important things in my life. First, it is the last day of my semester abroad in Barcelona. I will be returning to start summer school promptly before my senior year. I have been a fan and researcher of graffiti and street art as long as I can remember. And thus, this marks the second important part of this day. Today is the day that I take to the streets, producing my own work for the world to see.
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If you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to ask.
Now about this piece, I call it "Is it obvious?" It stems from the idea of new love, first contact. When you meet someone new, before the flaws and the pettiness has all been exposed, there is a brief period where everything is perfect. A time where the new love you have just radiates off of you and shines through your soul. Yes, it may sound a little bit trite, but if you have that feeling you know what I am talking about that. This piece is about that feeling. I hung it off a balcony from a empty apartment using tape and yarn. I don't expect it will last for very long considering the materials, but it is also out of reach unless you really try to get at it.
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How will my ejaculations change after a vasectomy?
Your ejaculations will be pretty much the same as they were before your procedure. You won't emit blood or water or a puff of dust. You'll still produce ejaculatory fluid, and it's going to look and feel just like it did before the operation.
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Honda Amaze On Road Price in UluberiaChange
|On Road Price
|Ex Showroom Price
|RTO + Others
|Amaze E Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 6,58,588
|Rs. 5,93,000
Rs. 38,235.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 27,353
|Amaze S Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 7,44,709
|Rs. 6,73,000
Rs. 42,635.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 29,074
|Amaze E Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 8,22,548
|Rs. 7,05,000
|Rs. 80,000.00
|Rs. 37,548
|Amaze V Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 8,09,235
|Rs. 7,33,000
Rs. 45,935.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 30,300
|Amaze S CVT Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 8,40,950
|Rs. 7,63,000
Rs. 47,585.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 30,365
|Amaze VX Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 8,60,974
|Rs. 7,81,000
Rs. 48,575.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 31,399
|Amaze S Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 9,05,492
|Rs. 7,85,000
|Rs. 80,000.00
|Rs. 40,492
|Amaze Exclusive Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 8,74,970
|Rs. 7,94,000
Rs. 49,290.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 31,680
|Amaze Ace Edition Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 8,75,292
|Rs. 7,94,300
Rs. 49,307.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 31,685
|Amaze V CVT Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 9,06,188
|Rs. 8,23,000
Rs. 50,885.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 32,303
|Amaze V Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 9,72,200
|Rs. 8,45,000
|Rs. 84,500.00
|Rs. 42,700
|Amaze VX CVT Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 9,50,327
|Rs. 8,64,000
Rs. 53,140.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 33,187
|Amaze S CVT Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 9,94,936
|Rs. 8,65,000
|Rs. 86,500.00
|Rs. 43,436
|Amaze Ace Edition CVT Petrol (Petrol)
|Rs. 9,64,644
|Rs. 8,77,300
Rs. 53,872.00
Std. Accessories
Rs. 3,099
Other Charges
Rs. 636
|Rs. 33,472
|Amaze VX Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 10,26,767
|Rs. 8,93,000
|Rs. 89,300.00
|Rs. 44,467
|Amaze Exclusive Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 10,41,545
|Rs. 9,06,000
|Rs. 90,600.00
|Rs. 44,945
|Amaze Ace Edition Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 10,41,886
|Rs. 9,06,300
|Rs. 90,630.00
|Rs. 44,956
|Amaze V CVT Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 10,63,145
|Rs. 9,25,000
|Rs. 92,500.00
|Rs. 45,645
|Amaze VX CVT Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 11,09,753
|Rs. 9,66,000
|Rs. 96,600.00
|Rs. 47,153
|Amaze Ace Edition CVT Diesel (Diesel)
|Rs. 11,24,873
|Rs. 9,79,300
|Rs. 97,930.00
|Rs. 47,643
Honda Amaze Price in Uluberia
Honda Amaze price in Uluberia starts from Rs. 5.93 lakh (Ex-showroom) on 16th December 2019. Check on road price (Ex-showroom + RTO + Insurance) of all Amaze variants in Uluberia. Honda Amaze Automatic is starting at Rs. 7.63 lakh (Ex-showroom) whereas Honda Amaze Diesel starts from Rs. 7.05 lakh (Ex-showroom). Honda Amaze's top competitors are Maruti Swift Dzire (price starting at Rs. 5.83 lakh in Uluberia) and Maruti Swift (price starting at Rs. 5.14 lakh in Uluberia).
Price of Amaze Competitors
Maruti Dzire
Rs. 5.83 lakhSwift Dzire On Road Price Compare with Amaze
Maruti Baleno
Rs. 5.59 lakhBaleno On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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Rs. 5.53 lakhElite i20 On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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Rs. 5.99 lakhAspire 2018 On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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Rs. 5.14 lakhSwift On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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Rs. 8.20 lakhCiaz On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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Rs. 6.50 lakhVenue On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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Rs. 5.81 lakhXcent On Road Price Compare with Amaze
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- The Honda Amaze is the better car in the city, has a nice pleasing upmarket feel to its interiors and is spacious as well. The Ford Aspire, on the other hand, does offer the best value of the three and also features the best safety package. It does have a few misses in cabin quality, space and creature comforts. If safety is your paramount concern and you can do without some frills, then the Ford is your best bet. For more details check the following link: https://www.zigwheels.com/reviews-advice/reviews/sub4-metre-sedans-compared-ford-aspire-vs-honda-amaze-vs-maruti-suzuki-dzire/32914/ : By Zigwheels | 9 months ago
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- Amaze CVT is best undisputedly. Please note we are not a good judge to tell About Santro AMT . However many people in the market are missing an important missing link that Grand i10 would be much spacier than Santro in the same Hatchback segment with same features. However please note .Amaze isa practical family sedan a very good car to drive , road handling and dynamics are best with Amaze. In Fuel efficiency ivtek engines are better . Please note Santro old generation in 1000 cc version was never a fuel efficient as per observations and reports . To note a point a that if you really look at the size of the vehicle nothing to comment. If you wish to own a vehicle with long term value , utility and Best in segment features, Amaze would be your choice . : By Kesiraju | 11 months ago
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- The estimated maintenance cost of Honda Amaze petrol and diesel for 5 years is Rs. 30,267 and Rs. 50,509 respectively. Click on the link to get an idea about its service cost: https://bit.ly/2AxChCL : By Zigwheels | 1 year ago
- Till today I did not face any Issue. : By Naresh | 2 months ago
- 4900 in the second year : By ALFRED | 3 months ago
- Elite i20 is a good car, very good comfort level, good build quality materials used inside & outside of car but need to compromise with mileage of petrol i20. One thing is sure once you enter inside of car & drive it, you feel premium car like Audi driving experience. Performance wise car takes times to get pick up in 2nd gear, It easily go 60 - 100 km without any extra efforts very smoothly. Need to say if you are looking for premium class with good comfort can go blindly with i20 but mileage wise slightly slow compare to any Maruti vehicles... What else to say further.... As i have Elite i 20 Asta O Petrol 2017 model and driving busy Bangalore city traffic gets around 11 -12 km in city & highway around 16 - 18 km depends on driving pattern. You can easily get around 17 km with smooth driving on highway & 12 km in city with full time Ac. Even i gets same till now. Maintenance come around 5- 7 thousands with service interval 10000 km : By Vinay | 6 months ago
- Please test drive. I found Baleno to be best in comfort, power, drivability., mileageI20 was better in build quality & features. Amaze seemed under powered : By Jawahar | 5 months ago
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- The approximate Service Cost for Honda Amaze diesel and petrol for 5 year is Rs. 50,508 and Rs. Rs. 30,267 respectively. These are the estimated idea and the prices may vary based on the dealership and car's physical condition. For more details, we would suggest you check the user manual or get in touch with the nearest dealership. Click on the link to find out your nearest dealership: https://bit.ly/2tKBvN0 : By Zigwheels | 1 year ago
- Roughly around 5000 : By ALFRED | 3 months ago
- 10,000 kms or First service free chargeable around 3000/-. For 3 years it would be around Rs32000/- : By Kesiraju | 11 months ago
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Saxo Bank attracting new clients after Swiss currency surprise
Saxo Bank, the Danish based online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, is experiencing a fresh inflow of clients today in the aftermath of yesterday's significant changes in the Swiss currency crosses.
Steen Blaafalk, Global Head of Finance and Risk Operations, Saxo Bank A/S, said:
"We have seen an increased number of new clients this morning transferring their accounts from other brokers to Saxo after the Swiss situation has affected other players".
Saxo Bank has in general insignificant proprietary exposures to moves in the market – hereunder to Swiss currency crosses, and although a number of clients have lost money in yesterday's moves, others have profited.
A special team on Saxo's trading floor was working hard yesterday night to resolve the situation for clients having lost money in the Swiss currency crosses and working with the affected clients. Liquidity in the market was suddenly almost non-existent following the SNB announcement, and the team had to ensure and verify that all orders and execution requests were executed at reliable prices. For some clients this meant that their positions were stopped out.
Some of our clients affected in yesterday's events had their prices restated in a careful review of all transactions in accordance with industry practices. Due to the Swiss currency floor being removed, we experienced a significant number of stop outs in few minutes. There was very little liquidity in the market which caused a significant price gap. Our best execution policy mandates that we trade all orders in a fair and equitable manner.
Saxo Bank complies with our regulatory capital requirements.
Saxo Bank Group (Saxo) is a leading Fintech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment and delivering 'Banking-as-a-Service' to wholesale clients.
For 25 years, Saxo's mission has been to democratize investment and trading, enabling clients by facilitating their seamless access to global capital markets through technology and expertise.
As a fully licensed and regulated bank, Saxo enables its direct clients to trade multiple asset classes across global financial markets from one single margin account and across multiple devices. Additionally, Saxo provides wholesale institutional clients such as banks and brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services and trading technology, supporting the full value chain delivering Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS).
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Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Friday, 8-24-12 August 24, 2012Posted by The Space Show in Uncategorized.
Tags: age & science research, Apollo, Apollo mission polar orbit, Apollo university research projects, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, asteroids, astronaut training, bi-static radar, Cis-lunar economic development, climate change, cubesats, Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Earth imaging, Earth movement, Egyptian geology, GPS, ISS, lunar exploration, lunar ice, Lunar Landing Site Selection, lunar orbiter, lunar titanium, Mars analog desert research, Moon rocks, NanoSats, NASA risk averseness, Remote Sensing, Sahara Desert, sand-buried rivers and streams, Sea of Tranquility, Star Trek shuttle craft., UN space treaties
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Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Friday, 8-24-12
Guest: Dr. Farouk El-Baz. Topics: Apollo lunar landing site selection, lunar geology, Mars-desert analogs and more. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, https://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. We welcomed Dr. Farouk El-Baz to The Space Show. Please visit his website for lots more information on the topics we discussed, lots of great pictures, plus many additional important topics, www.faroudelbaz.com. We started our discussion with Dr. El-Baz having a Star Trek shuttle craft named in his honor. Its a great story you will enjoy hearing. From Star Trek, we got down to business and wanted to know about the Apollo lunar landing site selection process. Dr. El-Baz told us how they did it, especially given the absence of any real information about the lunar geology and surface. Three of the concerns he mentioned included the site being free of rocks, absolutely flat, and making sure the Lunar Lander would not sink in the lunar dust. What's more, Dr. El-Baz was 29 years old when he was in charge of doing this. As you will hear, age is an important part of this discussion in the second segment near the end of the program. I did ask Dr. El-Baz about selecting sites using Egyptian mythology as conspiracy theories suggest, plus his response to those who do not believe we ever went to the Moon. With the latter point, he had much to say about Moon rocks as proof of our lunar visits. His comments on Orion and mythology were very interesting. Another question asked him dealt with the shutting down of the program. NASA risk averseness was the top reason. Nels asked many questions about a possible Apollo polar orbit and lunar ice. Our guest had much to say about this, the sun angles needed for landing, lighting, and more. As we moved to lunar commerce, our guest talked about mining titanium and HE3 but not at this time. I asked Dr. El-Baz about the Apollo-Soyuz Test Flight (ASTF) and working with the Soviets, then we returned to the plausibility of lunar commerce at this time.
As we started the second segment, we talked about commercial ROI opportunities for cargo to the ISS by the private companies but he suggested everything else was more distant and would probably need testing & seeding by the government. I then asked him about his work studying deserts and using Earth deserts as analogs for studying Mars. Dr. El-Baz had much to say about deserts, Mars, about their formation by rivers that had dried up & were buried under sand and how they know that. We talked about Earth movement, especially the SaharaDesert, and the impact of natural geological events on climate change. Imaging satellites were discussed & I asked our guest if we would have been able to have today's knowledge were it not for the space program. Don't miss his fascinating answer. At another point in our discussion, Dr. El-Baz mentioned 126 separate university research projects during Apollo. The last listener question asked our guest about the extremely young age of the Apollo scientific & work force. Dr. El-Baz had much to say about this, said that the work could only have been done by people in their 20's and 30's. He said the older folks need to step aside and let the young people go forward, make the mistakes & solve the problems. In the end, age made a huge difference for the good of the Apollo program. Our guest also commented on our present day aging space & technology workforce.
Please post your comments/questions on the blog. If you want to email Dr. El-Baz, send your note to me & I will forward it to him.


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Date: Monday 4th November to Monday 11th November 2019
Location: The National Museum of the Royal Navy
Target Groups KS2 & 3
Price: £80 per 1.5 hour workshop and HMS – Hear My Story tour for up to 35 people
Using veteran case studies and our unique, multi-media Remembrance Kitbags' pupils interpret different types of primary evidence and develop historical enquiry skills to discover more about the experiences and personal stories of servicemen and women. Kitbags include artefacts, photographs and face to face interviews. The workshop includes a guided tour led by real life veterans and/or costumed volunteers.
Location: HMS Warrior 1860
How pirate arrre you? Find out in this hands on activity based session on a real ship. From handling a cutlass and flintlock pistol to role play and making a gruesome ship's biscuit, this session will bring to life a time when putrid pirates ruled the waves!
Price: Discovery visit to the Horrible Histories exhibition £4.50 per pupil + £50 per one hour workshop on HMS Warrior for up to 35 people
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Dates: 19th November – 29th November and 3rd December – 7th December
A perfect cross-curricular workshop at the most magical time of year, ideal for Key Stage 1. Travel back in time to experience all the sights and smells of Christmas past, with food, decorations and traditional toys. Pupils will get the opportunity to immerse themselves in life on board ship with role-play and dressing up. Finally, they will create their very own Christmas wish to take home, inspired by Victorian sailors.
Price: Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £50 per 1 hour workshop for up to 32 people
Location: HMS Warrior 1860
In this popular storytelling session pupils will learn key vocabulary to describe HMS Warrior by listening for pleasure and joining in with the repetition of key words and phrases. A fun and interactive workshop: dressing up, role play and the chance to try out a hammock are all included. Pupils will also make a replica ship's biscuit to take home.
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Location: National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth
How did the Royal Navy deal with famous pirates? Find out in this hands-on activity based session. From handling a real cutlass and flintlock pistol to role play, knot tying and a chance to see a real pirate flag, this session will bring to life what it was like to deal with Pirates.
Price: Discovery vist £4.50 per pupil + £50 per 1 hour workshop for up to 35 people
Location: Upper Gun Deck HMS Victory
From sailors to surgeons to marines and midshipmen uncover the lives of the real men who lived, worked and fought on HMS Victory. This hands-on investigative session will use 'Discovery chests' to help pupils learn more about the crew, revealing for the first time their names, what they did and how they lived on-board the ship. It is excellent for developing investigative and enquiry skills culminating with pupils presenting their findings to the 'ships company'
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Location: HMS Warrior 1860
Join the Victorian Navy and explore life on board the mighty HMS Warrior. Through a range of interactive activities pupils will find out what jobs sailors did as well as seeing first- hand what the living conditions were like for the crew. What did they eat? How did Victorian medicine help them stay healthy… or not?
Pupils will have the opportunity to try out a hammock, handle real artefacts and take part in role play and dressing up which will bring the past to life.
Price: Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £50 per 1 hour workshop for up to 35 people
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Who was Nelson? What was it like to sail with Nelson's Navy? In this activity -based session pupils explore the life of this famous man and will be 'trained' for a life at sea.
From object handling a life mask of Nelson, role -playing jobs on board, to investigating if diet then was healthier than today, pupils discover first-hand what life was like for sailors in the past.
Price: Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £50 per 1 hour workshop for up to 35 people (fully accessible)
History at NMRN
A unique opportunity to access archives not normally on public display. These sessions are tailored to suit students' requirements and can include topics such as Maritime exploration and the development of England; The Royal Navy and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; The Gallipoli Campaign; The First and Second World Wars; D-Day; the Falklands Conflict and modern conflict post 9/11.
Price: Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £80 per half day for up to 35 people
History at HMS Victory
Students have a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes and access the museum archives linked to HMS Victory, Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar. Through a series of investigative activities focused around these primary sources students will discover more about the ship, the battle and the men who served on board.
Price: Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £80 per half day for up to 30 people
Physical Education at Action Stations
Pupils work together in teams to complete different challenges that are scored to produce a winning team. There are a variety of challenges that can be adapted to the group – we will be happy to design a bespoke programme to suit.
All Key Stages
£8.00 per student.
A Discovery Visit is a teacher-led, self-guided visit to one attraction within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
£4.50 for 1 attraction, £6.50 for two attractions and £8.50 for three attractions per student.
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Tours are subject to availability and must be booked in advance. Please note that students must be accompanied by their group leader or teacher.
£15 per 1 hour tour (+ £4.50 per student admission charge) Maximum 15 students per tour.
A Discovery Visit is a teacher-led, self-guided visit to one attraction within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
£4.50 for 1 attraction, £6.50 for two attractions and £8.50 for three attractions per student.
History at the NMRN
This session allows students to explore and debate the wider issues and human stories behind slavery. Using artefacts and sources, students work together to explore both the rise and fall of the Slave Trade and the Royal Navy's role in it.
Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £50 per 1 hour workshop for up to 35 pupils
History/Geography and English at the NMRN
This hands-on investigative session uses 'Discovery Boxes' as children follow in the footsteps of the explorers like Drake and Hawkins. The session is excellent for developing children's natural inquisitiveness and enquiry skills.
Discovery visit £4.50 per pupil + £50 per 1 hour workshop for up to 35 pupils.
A Discovery Visit is a teacher-led, self-guided visit to one attraction within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
£4.50 for 1 attraction, £6.50 for two attractions and £8.50 for three attractions per student.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard has produced guidelines for teachers bringing pupils on education visits. It is the responsibility of group leaders to complete a full risk assessment prior to visiting and these guidelines do not replace your own assessment being undertaken.
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I am so looking forward to this next month.
Today I went back to my old teaching campus of Francis Close Hall, Uni of Glocs to talk about the creative process, writing stories and poems and working as an editor with my fellow Bright Young Thing Tyler Keevil, his bright and erudite students, and the talented Rebecca F. John. It was lovely to be talking about my next book, finally, out next spring!
I also discovered that Rebecca is a basher and Tyler and I are swoopers / leapers: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632571-swoopers-write-a-story-quickly-higgledy-piggledy-crinkum-crankum-any-which-way
I've a few bits and pieces coming up... out now, the Spring issue of The Lonely Crowd includes a new story from me called 'Looks Like Rain':
'When the woman was a girl she was afraid of the weather...' Read @Soozerama in our new issue.
I've also written an essay about the writing process which will be up on the TLC website soon.
In the next week or so the Lampeter Review Issue 13 Exit will be published and this includes a new poem from me, on the theme of exit called 'Yolk / White'.
Then I'm off to Istanbul for my ITEF fellowship and a bit of sightseeing 6-12 May and while I'm away the excellent Ink Sweat & Tears are publishing one of my poems (11 May).
All three of these publications and the people behind them are wonderful and supportive and worth supporting, so do!
I hope to see you at the Cardiff launch of The Lonely Crowd Spring Issue on 20 May.
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"What is the difference between a person who actively sells sex and a person who expects drinks or dinner if they are to eventually give someone sex at some point?" This question was posed on a twitter chat held during International Sex Worker Month (International Sex Worker Rights Day being March 3). The social media conversation had people from all over Africa giving their views on sex work and of course some real gems were released, with many citing religion, tradition and the need to uphold family values as reasons for disallowing the legalisation of sex work. One twitter user went as far as saying that if prostitution was legalised everyone would revert to it and there would be "no more marriages and babies". According to this man everyone wants to be a sex worker and everyone wants to be with a sex worker, it is just the pesky legal system holding us all back.
But amid the storm of statements one did stand out that had people questioning the automatic stigma attached to sex work: What makes sex work different from a woman or man who insists on material gain from someone who is sexually interested in them to monopolise their time? What is the difference between a woman/man who has a man/woman pay his or her bills or buy him or her gifts in return for an unspoken promise of sex and someone who just asks for the cash up-front? One could argue that the second group merely show more shrewd business sense, one being more of a long-term investment plan while the other is a quick turnaround profit.
The idea took me back to the days when clubbing was something I actually did and would often expect anyone trying to "court" me to buy me a drink. In hindsight I am not proud of it but at the time it was what it was, that was just the social contract put in place. To talk to the nice lady by the bar, buy her a drink. I also recalled a time when I would use the phrase "gosh slick you could at least take me out to dinner first" when someone said anything even remotely sexual. Granted that phrase was said in jest but at the end of the day it had a great deal of social connotation to it (I learnt it from the 90s movie Baby Geniuses, so go figure).
The fact is people accept things all the time due to the fact that the other person offers it in the hope that they will see them in nude at some point. This is just a fact of life. And tacit or explicit acceptance of whatever it is they are offering does mean that you have exchanged goods for sex. It truly is as simple as that. Of course there are other dimensions such as love, a long, lasting relationship and other such virtuous ideas sometimes attached to this but at the end of the day that is what has happened and is not that far outside the realms of what happens "out there".
This should cause one to question the stigma attached to sex work.
There are various arguments made against sex work that include the vulnerability of sex workers, the exploitative nature as well as the fact that they add to the moral decay of society and I for one agreed with many if not all of them. But this month pushed me out of my comfort zone and into the realm of interacting with sex workers and I have learned a few things.
The first is that there is an empowered element to sex work — often they set the boundaries for their interactions and can negotiate their own terms. Some sex workers actually enjoy their work. This all needs to be taken on a case-by-case basis. Not all sex workers want to be saved, not all despise their job and existence.
Sex work is also one of the world's oldest professions, and chances are you will know someone (if not multiple people) in your life who have been with a sex worker. Prostitution has been around for thousands of years and the world is still spinning, people still have families and the sun still rises. And the honest truth is whoever uses a sex worker is going to find miscellaneous sex anyway even if all sex workers disappeared.
So at the risk of inciting mass pitchfork gatherings and torches I challenge you to think about your situation and ask yourself, have you used sex to get something you want from your spouse, lover or some other person you have an amorous relationship with? Have you in some way demanded compensation for your time by using your sexuality, gotten a drink or possibly a gift of some sort or even a meal? Did you obtain this because of your shining personality? It might be time to have a look at these instances and check the prejudices you have.
Transactional sex is far more widespread than we would as a society care to admit.


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The NR4 looks for today's high-low price range to be narrower than
any of the prior 3 days. It is the narrowest of the four days.
For the following statistics, I used 1,200 stocks, starting from January 1990 to March 2013, but few stocks covered the entire range. All stocks had a minimum price of $5.
Since there were too many samples, I only used one of every 50.
There were two bear markets in the 2000s (as determined by the S&P 500 index), from 3/24/2000 to 10/10/2002 and 10/12/2007 to 3/6/2009.
Everything outside of those dates represents a bull market.
For each NR4, I found when the trend started and when it ended. To find the trend peak or valley, I found the lowest valley and highest peak within plus or minus 5 days
(11 days total) each, before the NR4 and the same peak/valley test after the NR4. The closest valley or peak before the NR4
is where the trend began. The closest peak or valley after the NR4 is where the trend ended. I compared the peak or valley to the average of the highest high and lowest low price of the
Nr7 pattern.
The 5-bar peak or valley number tends to find major turning points on the daily charts.
I measured performance from the day after the breakout (opening price) to the nearest trend peak or trend valley.
Table 1 lists failure rates, sorted by market condition and breakout direction along with the average rise or decline.
A failure occurs when the stock fails to move in the direction of the breakout more than 5%.
The failure rates may appear high, but that's typical for short-term patterns like the NR4.
Table 2 shows how often the measure rule works. Use the measure rule to estimate of how far price is likely to rise or drop.
To do this, measure from the high to the low in the pattern to get the height. Add the height to the high or subtract it from the low to get the target.
Table 3 shows the performance based on 23,203 trades using $10 commissions per trade ($20 round trip), starting with $10,000 per trade. No other adjustments were made for interest,
fees, slippage and so on.
Here's the setup.
For example, in a bull market after an upward breakout, the net gain was $89.20 for all trades. The method won 58% of the time and there were 5,937 winning
trades. The average gain of winning trades was $704.43.
Forty-two percent, or 4,383 trades were losers. They lost an average of $744.16.
The average hold time was 30 calendar days.
Notice how the gains and losses were pegged near 7%, which is how the test was setup.
The chart shown on the right illustrates the many narrow range 4 (NR4) patterns that can occur in a randomly selected stock. Shown
are all of the patterns on the daily scale. Each red dot represents the last day -- the narrowest --
of the four day pattern.
The thinking behind the pattern is that price volatility is a spring being wound, and the spring is the height of the
price bar. The smaller the height, the tighter the spring. The direction of the coming release cannot
accurately be predicted, but the move is sometimes a violent one.
volatility drops at completion of the pattern (meaning a short price bar appears) and within a day or two, price should make a large move,
either up or down.
The figure highlights the NR4 at A (that day ends the NR4). I show the pattern in the inset.
At B, price closes above the top of the four-day pattern, staging an upward breakout. Buy at the open the next day, at C.
In this case, price does not follow through and continue the upward move. Instead, the stop is near that shown by the horizontal red line. The open at D closes out the trade for a loss.
Not shown would be a profit target of 7% above the buy price (the stop is 7% below the buy price).
-- Thomas Bulkowski
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On May 25, the Women's Bar Association (WBA) of the District of Columbia honored Nancy Duff Campbell '68 as the 2010 WBA Woman Lawyer of the Year. Campbell, who is a founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), was recognized for over 40 years of women's legal rights advocacy.
After teaching law at Catholic University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center, Campbell helped turn the Women's Rights Project of the Center for Law and Social Policy into the NWLC in 1981. Campbell's biggest contributions have been to legislation that has benefited the rights of women and families. With Campbell's organization and leadership, the Coalition on Women and Taxes' analyses and advocacy led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which improved the tax treatment of single heads of households, increased the child care tax credit, and removed six million poor families from the tax rolls. The landmark cases in which Campbell has been counsel include: Haffer v. Temple University; Parents Without Partners v. Massinga, which established a legal right to state child support enforcement services without regard to income; and Califano v. Westcott, which established that unemployed women could receive public assistance benefits for their children.
Campbell, who is a fellow of the American Bar Association, has also received the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' lifetime achievement award and served on the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors.
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Work by U of M researchers on how we perceive wait times at transit stops and stations—and how to make those waits feel shorter—was highlighted today by The Atlantic.
The study compared transit riders' actual and self-estimated waiting times at 36 light rail, commuter rail, and bus rapid transit stations, bus transit centers, and curbside bus stops in the Twin Cities. It also explored how station and stop amenities—such as benches and shelters—affected perceived versus actual wait times. The project was led by Yingling Fan, Andrew Guthrie, and David Levinson and was funded by the Transitway Research Impacts Program.
Key findings:
- Waits at stops with no amenities are perceived as at least twice as long as they actually are
- Benches, shelters, and real-time departure information signs significantly reduce perceived waiting times
- The presence of a shelter—even a simple one—makes waits seem shorter
- The complete package of a bench, shelter, and real-time departure information signs nearly erases the waiting time misperception for transit
- Women waiting in surroundings they perceived as unsafe believe waits are dramatically longer than they really are
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