text:
Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins, Sao Paulo
- Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi
- Collect nights
Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins, Sao Paulofrom $64 CAD
- Standard Twin Room
- Standard Double Room
- Deluxe Suite
More great choices
What's around Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins, Sao Paulo
Top spots nearby
Recommended by this property
- Paulista Avenue (9-minute walk)
- Liberty Square (28-minute walk)
- Municipal Theatre of São Paulo (32-minute walk)
- Rua 25 de Marco (39-minute walk)
- Sala Sao Paulo Concert Hall (42-minute walk)
- Allianz Park (5.4 km)
- Anhembi Convention Center (6.6 km)
- Expo Center North (8 km)
- Transamerica Expo Center (10.9 km)
Getting around
- Sao Paulo (CGH-Congonhas) - 11 min drive
- Sao Paulo (GRU-Guarulhos - Governor Andre Franco Montoro Intl.) - 29 min drive
- Sao Paulo Hebraica-Reboucas Station - 7 min drive
- Sao Paulo Pinheiros Station - 8 min drive
- Sao Paulo Julio Prestes Station - 8 min drive
- Trianon-Masp Station - 13 min walk
- Brigadeiro Station - 17 min walk
- Oscar Freire Station - 24 min walk
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 112 rooms
- Check-in time 2 PM-5:30 AM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- One child (6 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Parents must have child's birth certificate and photo ID *
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Valet parking *
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Free buffet breakfast daily
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Sauna
- Business center
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Elevator
- Rooftop terrace
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 24-inch flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
Also popular with travellers from Canada
Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins, Sao Paulo's small print
Also known as
- Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins Hotel
- Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins Hotel Sao Paulo
- Hampton Park Hotel Sao Paulo Brazil
- Hampton Park Sao Paulo
- Hampton Park Hotel Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins Hotel
- Hampton Park Hotel Sao Paulo Brazil
- Hampton Park Sao Paulo Jardins
- Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins Hotel
- Hampton Park São Paulo Jardins Sao Paulo
Parents or a legal guardian traveling with children under 18 years must present the child's birth certificate and an identity card with photo (passport, for example) at the check-in. For international travels from Brazil, if just one of the parents is traveling with the child, she/he must present – in addition to the child's certificate of birth and identity card with photo – a letter authorizing the trip signed by the other parent with a notarial certification of signature. In case the parents or the legal guardian, as applicable, cannot or are unwilling to give this authorization, a judicial authorization is required. People who intend to travel to Brazil with children must consult with the Brazilian consulate before traveling for more information.
Optional extras
Valet parking costs BRL 13,65 per day
Rollaway beds are available for BRL 105 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Didn't find the right property?Continue searching for Sao Paulo, Brazil
Recent reviews
Very Good 8.0 From 455 reviews
This is a nice hotel with spacious rooms located in a high-class area of Sao Paulo. It has easy access to many cultural attractions in the city and close to two metro stations. There are many options of restaurants nearby.
I liked this hotel. Great location, walking distance from Av Paulista. Safe area and the staff is amazing. Will definitely return.
The hotel is a flat. Bedrooms are small, bathrooms are very small and unconformable.
This hotel is good if you are looking for a semi-comfortable place, with good breakfast and 15 minutes walking distance to main streets.
Is the description of this hotel not correct? Tell us


text:
Four Things That Boost Branding Your Business
There are over thirty million small business all looking to get a piece of the action. They might not all be in your field of work, but enough of them are to give you a lot of competition. So how do you ensure that your brand stands out in this tug of everyone clamouring for attention? Building ones identity is an overcrowded field might sound difficult, but with the following tips is very possible.
Be original
One of the biggest mistakes marketers do is getting names that are too common or will obviously be used by an uncreative competitor too. Make originally your ace in the pack. Go for something no one else has thought of or is aiming for. The whole point is for you to stand out rather than blend in to the background with the rest. Take Kanida Chey for example, hes made his name his brand. His name is a pretty unique and so rare that a google search would bring him at the top of the list. So go for the one thing in your business and others can't duplicate, and when they do it will be a total phony.
Be consistent
Clearly define and serve what your brand is supposed to provide. Building a strong brand realises on how reliable your quality and performance is each time a customer is served. Being consistent with your brand standards whether online or offline affects how people respond to you. If you choose to have social media platforms then ensure theres always a time set aside for you to reply to questions and post new services. Making people familiar with your brand name by constantly giving feedback ultimately sets you apart from the rest. It adds a personalised touch to your business.
Understanding Your Target Audience
Your business obviously has a certain group of people in mind which it aims to serve. So how well do you know and understand this target audience? How well do you understand their needs and wants? Can you speak their language without it sounding forced? These are among the factors you need to consider when dealing with your customers. Creating a message that is relevant and can easily be understood by your target audience is an opportune way to get them to connect with you. You need to be flexible and flow with their change of communication and demographic. This involves a lot of research and interaction with your audience to understand them better and give them what they need.
Its a pretty simple way to stand out from your competition. Give better value of goods or services you're offering compared to your competition. If offering a smaller price on the same goods and services others are offering eats into your profit then there are other ways to boost your value. You could start by getting a stronger and more personalised customer service system. People like being treated a certain way when they get services, get yourself a professional team of workers who will make the customer feel welcome. You can also offer better information guides, more appealing office or store ambience and many more. Just tap in to your creativity and see how much better you can make the experience for the customer that will make them want to come back for more.
Wrap up
Branding relies heavily on how creative and out of the box you can get. Once you get your brand going, people will expect the same brand standards that you started with. So remaining consistent with your services will keep them coming in for more. Don't forget to constantly manage your online traffic too. A lot of people prefer looking you up online before they actually come to your store or office.
Does your web designer know enough about SEO?
Search engine optimisation is an art, not a science. While you can try hard to boost your site's visibility on results pages after it is live, unless it has been designed with SEO in mind, you might be fighting a losing battle.
Here are a few tactics to use if you want to find out whether or not the web designer you are working with has a good grasp of SEO, or whether they might need a bit of help in this area.
Indexing issues
Search engines are changing all the time, offering new ways of displaying information to users and mixing up how results are organised.
However, proper indexing is still the main concern facing site owners who want to optimise effectively. If your web designer does not take this into account, you could be in trouble.
They need to know that Google and its contemporaries only index content which appears in easily accessible code. Think HTML and CSS, rather than more complex and impenetrable solutions like Flash and Javascript.
Unfortunate introductions
The homepage of your site needs to be a finely tuned mission statement for your business as a whole. But if a web designer is more interested in creating impressive design touches, rather than ensuring that there is enough content to achieve a solid search rank, then it might fail to gain traction.
Working with an agency like https://www.elevateuk.com/seo-services/, which offers professional SEO services in London, is a good way of avoiding designers with a lack of expertise. You can get a homepage that hooks visitors and also pleases the search algorithms.
Flawed URLs
Not all designers realise that the URLs of each page on a site can hold sway over whether or not they rank well on search engines. If you are being told that they are going to take the route of dynamic generation or use arcane session IDs to append each address, think twice about continuing this relationship.
The ideal URL will not only be consistent for all visitors and across all devices, but will also contain relevant keywords that will drive interest in the page itself and help search engines to work out what it has to offer. This is just one of the SEO basics that designers need to get right every time.
How to choose the right SEO Company
It is very tough to choose the right company to do the SEO job for your website and company. Now in that course, you will come across lots of false promises and conflicting information. Everyone will advise to hire them. They all will claim to have the ability to get you on the first page of search engine. You are ready to pay even a huge bill. After all, your business is a source of your living. But always remember that you can't take a chance to trust just anyone! Optimizing your website should be a top priority for you. Because your competitors continuously jumping on you over internet business with the help of proper SEO strategy.
Leading SEO Companies says that speedy innovations in the science of SEO results in focusing on bringing an improved outcome for search engine businesses. This means gratifying websites in order to provide the superior ranking with the best user experience.
Here Are Some Tips to Ensure That While Hiring An Seo Company
- Keyword Optimization of your website is an essential part of optimization. While considering hiring an SEO Company, you should optimize and analyze your keywords. Your SEO partner should take an interest in analyzing the keywords and should suggest better alternatives.
- An SEO company, like LinkHelpers Scottsdale Search Engine Optimization, should offer different charge points for all size of businesses. It should be able to successfully optimize websites from 1 to 1000 pages of search engine.
- The company should have a Linking Strategy. They should be able to perform and offer an innovative analysis of your website's linking structure. By this will be able to find ways to improve it.
- An effective SEO company should come up with a detailed report on how your website is performing. This is useful for you as well in assuring that whether it is really doing what it said it would.
- Providing high page rank is a promise made by almost every SEO Company. The company should precisely report ways of refining the Page Rank of the website. It should monitor search engine positioning. In an ideal world, this will take account of a thorough site analysis.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Coteau Kerveguen: Hotels
2.9km of Coteau Kerveguen
Surrounded by forested mountains in the village of Cilaos, Hotel les Chenets is 45 km from St Pierre Reunion Airport. It features an outdoor swimming pool, a sauna and hammam.
From 82.00EUR / Night
3.5km of Coteau Kerveguen
Set in a garden with a heated swimming pool, this hotel is located in mountainous Cilaos. The hotel offers a hot tub, a sauna and spacious rooms with a flat-screen TV.
From 80.00EUR / Night
3.8km of Coteau Kerveguen
Located 1200 metres high in a former volcanic village, this 4-star hotel offers an art gallery. Guests can taste local wines or visit L'Etang Salé Beach, 30 km away.
From 101.15EUR / Night
Chambres d'hôtes l'Orchidée Rose
6.7km of Coteau Kerveguen
Hôtel Restaurant l'Orchidée Rose is located in Hell-Bourg on Reunion Island, a 30-minute drive from Saint-Benoît. It features a traditional décor, a garden and a terrace with deck chairs and a view of the mountains.
From 65.50EUR / Night
11.3km of Coteau Kerveguen
Located in the South of the Réunion, this hotel is surrounded by mountains and greenery and features a restaurant and en suite accommodations. Breakfast is served daily and free Wi-Fi is available in common areas.
From 84.00EUR / Night
13.8km of Coteau Kerveguen
Located at the foot of Dimitile Mountain, Dimitile Hotel is a 17th century Creole house in La Réunion. It offers rooms with balconies and views of the valley and outdoor pool.
From 140.00EUR / Night
16.6km of Coteau Kerveguen
Located in Le Tampon, this hotel is 9 km from Saint-Pierre and 10 km from the beach. It offers an outdoor swimming pool, a hot tub and a terrace with sunbeds, parasols and free Wi-Fi access.
From 77.00EUR / Night
21.5km of Coteau Kerveguen
Set in a 150 hectare park on La Reunion island, Diana Dea Lodge is 9 Km from Sainte-Anne. This 4-star hotel features an infinity pool and a spa offering facials and massages. The rooms at Diana Dea Lodge feature panoramic views.
From 230.00EUR / Night
21.8km of Coteau Kerveguen
Set in La Roche Ecrite Nature Reserve and just 14 km from Saint-Denis is Auberge Val Fleuri. It offers free bicycle hire for exploring the 10-hectare park and relaxation facilities including a sauna and a hot tub.
From 140.00EUR / Night
21.9km of Coteau Kerveguen
Located a 10-minute drive from Etang-Salé Beach, Roseaux des Sables offers modern lodges with an outdoor swimming pool, terrace with deckchairs and a garden. A golf course is only a 5-minute drive away.
From 80.00EUR / Night


text:
Fonterra's $40 million Ferrier revealed
Fonterra has paid former chief executive Andrew Ferrier an $8.2 million golden handshake.
This was confirmed by outgoing chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden at today's annual report press conference in Auckland.
All up, Mr Ferrier would have grossed more than $40 million for his eight years with Fonterra.
Sir Henry told NBR ONLINE the $8.2 million payment is based on the company's performance, such as net profit, and had very little to do with the milk price.
"It's no different to any other organisation," he says.
The payout included a "wash-up" of short-term and long-term incentives.
"Over a number of years, they were all concertinaed and paid out when he left.
"It is a lot of money, and that's why I tried to front it. It'd be the first question I'd ask."
The dairy giant's annual report, released this morning, had revealed a single employee received a "cessation" payout of between $8.22 million and $8.23 million in the 2011-12 year.
Mr Ferrier, who left the company in September 2011, was paid an annual salary of about $5 million for his last two years.
Anika Forsman, who works for Fonterra's communications arm, Baldwin Boyle Group, had earlier said the co-operative's management could not be reached to confirm Mr Ferrier was the recipient.
The report's annual statement reveals almost 4000 Fonterra employees earned more than $100,000 – 3956 in 2011-12, compared to 3502 in 2010-11.
Employees paid more than $1 million is also up, from 20 (including one cessation payment) in 2010-11, to 26 (three cessation payments) in 2011-12.
In July, it was announced Mr Ferrier will chair the board of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.
The Canadian executive first came to New Zealand in 2002 from a career in the global sugar industry and led Fonterra through a formative decade before stepping down for newly appointed Dutch chief executive Theo Spierings.
Mr Ferrier became a New Zealand citizen in 2008. He will take up the three-year term at NZTE, starting in November, replacing incumbent Jon Mayson.


text:
Color:As Picture Size:Custom Size Overall Fit:True To Size
Jessica head wearing her prom dress made perfectly by MillyBridal!
Color:As Picture Size:Custom Size Overall Fit:True To Size
Stunning dress
I ordered this dress for my daughter's prom dance. I was a little worried that the dress was being ordered just a few weeks before the dance. The Customer Service Representative I spoke to told me she would order it as a rush, she assured me I would get it on time. I received it a day before the event as promised. It was beautiful and exceeded my expectatons. Love, Love, Love. Thanks to you all.
Millybridal UK has a very large selection of beautiful dresses to choose from. I had no problem making my selection. It would be nice if you had more of a variety of necklace and earring sets to choose from . Then us ladies could do all of our shopping at Millybridal UK.
My dress was wonderfull !!!!!!! It looked exactly like the picture except a little more poofy which was exactly how I wanted it. It fits true to size, my average dress size is a 3 and I got a 4 which is basically the exact same. It was a little hard to get on at first but I think that was more so because of my wide rib cage. The only negative of by the end of the dance the silver started to pop off on the too.
One of friends used to buy a dress from your site and the dress was very good. So I ordered my prom dress on your website and my dress is much better than I expected! Thank you a lot!
Hello ~ I LOVE THIS DRESS! I wore this dress for the party. THANK YOU Uk.millybridal.org! I have referred you to ALL of my friends!
Bought the dress for this year's party and it is so flattering and beautiful... Can not wait to wear it
I ordered this dress in the blue, it does look exactly,thanks.
I ordered this dress in fuchsia and I was satisfied that the model is exactement the picture and the fabric and finish are very nice.


text:
Have questions? We're here to help.
See our growing knowledge base for fast assistance.
Knowledge Base
We are constantly compiling FAQ, documentation & guides in our knowledge base so you can get answers quicker.
We respect your time and appreciate if you can search the Knowledge Base for an answer to your query.
Contact Support
Have a question that isn't answered in the Knowledge Base? That's ok – we can help you out directly.
Please click below to be taken to the support request form where a team member will help you as soon as possible.


text: Palm Beach Residence is an intriguing remodel of a family home achieved by Brooke Aitken Design and located in Australia. According to the architects, "this older style house directly located on Sydney's famous Palm Beach required an significant internal facelift. The house is used as a holiday home for up to 14 people and it was important to provide a relaxed beachy aesthetic that could cater for many people".When we asked Brooke for some photos of this delightful crib, we were pleasantly surprised to receive some pretty impressive details of the project. We were charmed by the small open plan living room enriched with interesting wooden artifacts and by the simple color palette. Clever shelving systems, an immaculate all-equipped kitchen, a vintage coffee table and a cozy lounge area make for a highly welcoming atmosphere. We believe you will find the details in the images below both intriguing and inspiring. Enjoy!


text:
The upcoming General Election on June 8 could have profound implications for community-led housing, and it's vital that our voice is heard by politicians at this important time. So the National CLT Network has launched a national lobbying campaign, in partnership with the Confederation of Cooperative Housing and the UK Cohousing Network, calling on parliamentary candidates to commit to supporting the future of the community-led housing movement.
We'd like to ask you to write to your local parliamentary candidates in support of our campaign, using the template below. The General Election is an important opportunity to build support for community-led housing among politicians of all parties, and to do that we need your help.
The Campaign Asks
The £300m Community Housing Fund has the potential to transform community-led housing sector in this country. However, the calling of the General Election has put its future at risk. We're now pressing all parties to maintain a commitment to the Fund for the full five-year period, as well as ensuring its design gives CLTs and community-led housing organisations the most effective support possible.
As you may know, Theresa May pledged to extend the Right to Buy this weekend, as part of a new expansion of social housing. While we're still waiting for further details on this policy in the Conservative Party manifesto, we need to make sure that CLTs are still protected from any such policy. Last year we won 'discretion' from the Voluntary Right to Buy for CLTs. However, because we know that that hasn't given CLTs the certainty they need, we're still pushing for CLTs to be completely excluded from the Voluntary Right and are now calling on candidates from all parties to ensure community-led housing groups aren't affected by the Right to Buy.
Write to your candidates in support of community-led housing:
We need you to be a local champion for community-led housing during the General Election campaign.
It takes less than five minutes to support our campaign. Just download the template email at the bottom of this page, and send it to all the candidates in your constituency. If you have more time, please ask candidates to meet with you to discuss our campaign, and the issues facing community-led housing. A full list of candidates (and contact details for many of them) by constituency can be found here.
Please then let us know when you have contacted your local candidates, by emailing us at: firstname.lastname@example.com .


text:
Home > Blog > Pod Kids Shoes
Get set to ace the new school term with the Pod 'Back to School' shoe collection!
This year we have selected our top picks to help make the annual schoolwear shop simple and stress-free.
Take a look at our handy style guide below to discover your child's perfect pair.
New to our children's shoe rand is the beautifully crafted Pod 'Kinder' collection featuring the scrumptious Kirsty and Kirk.


text:
In the face of the financial crisis of East Asia in 1997, Japan successfully pressed forth the Miyazawa Plan and other efficient rescue packages while the IMF and the World Bank failed to present effective programs. With its presence established, Japan kept playing a leading role in formulating the Chiang Mai Initiative which facilitated bilateral and regional economic cooperation in the area. Based on the analysis of this process, the book examines the ways in which East Asia has grappled with the regional integration of the economies of the area. The study focuses upon competing developmental models, the effects of FTA and EPA, the initiatives of ASEAN, investments and trades in the region. The contributors to the book then inquire what can be done in financial and monetary domains with a special attention paid to the effects of the depreciation of currencies and the consequences of the IMF emergency policies. The study also addresses the issues of productivity, problems of agrarian small states and difficulties of the socially weak in the region.
All prices are in Australian dollars.© The content of this web site is copyright. All rights reserved.


text:
NASHVILLE — Vanderbilt has dismissed four football players from the team and kicked them off campus while the Nashville police investigate whether a sex crime occurred in a campus dormitory.
The university's public affairs department announced Friday that the players — none of whom it named — were suspended from the team. The university issued another release Saturday indicating they were removed from the team and on interim suspension from the university "effective immediately, pending further investigation and/or a hearing."
University officials said the players could not return to campus without permission from the office of student conduct and academic integrity. A Nashville Police Department spokesman said Friday that Vanderbilt's decision was related to the police inquiry.


text:
Meet Our 2011 Student Peacemaker Winners
1st PLACE WINNERS – Trip with Witness for Peace in Latin America
Lauren Zalla is graduating from Duke University in 2012 with a degree in Cultural Anthropology and Global Health. She is interested in the intersections of gender, health, poverty and culture. She recently received an award from Davis Projects for Peace to implement a reusable sanitary pad manufacturing project in Haiti. In 2011, she traveled to Cuba with Witness for Peace on a law and human rights delegation, where she witnessed the effects of United States foreign policy on daily life in Havana.
Lauren Traugott-Campbell is a certificate student at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies. While pursuing her B.A. in International Studies from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she studied US policy and its effects in Latin America and communities in the Triangle. Since graduating, she has integrated this activism with a passion for documentary arts. She is currently interning at Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, NC and plans to continue pursuing documentary arts and oral history work in the South.


text:
About us
Computer Controls Group is an independent, privately held distribution and service enterprise. It is the equivalent for technical distribution of high-level electronic components, test and measurement instruments and systems in Switzerland since over 25 years. We offer highest technical competency and a vast variety of products to our customers, for all test-and-measurement as well as research-and-development needs. Computer Controls AG has been established in 1971 and is operating in its current form since 1991.
We are one of the leading distributors for electronic components, as well as test and measurement solutions in the swiss market. Our headquarter is based in Otelfingen near Zurich with a subsidiary in the Swiss Romande, Chavornay/Yverdon, and several sales offices to cover the Swiss market.
Besides Switzerland, we also cover the entire eastern european market with our HT-Eurep Group and a network of partner companies.
To HT-Eurep Landing Page
Products and Suppliers
Our product portfolio includes electronic components, test and measurement products and systems as well as test systems for data communication applications. We are proud to represent worldwide leading manufacturers such as Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent Technologies), EXFO, JTAG Technologies, Data I/O, Maxim or Silicon Labs or Supertex.
Our customer base comprises renowned companies from the mechatronics, medical, communication and the wide electronic market segments. We are also one of the leading test and measurement providers the for education segment.
Sales Territory
We are able to provide ideal service and support to our French speaking customers through our subsidiary in the Swiss Romande. In eastern europe our HT-Eurep Group and the network of partner companies offer a comprehensive product portfolio to serve our customers in this region.
To HT-Eurep Landing Page
What makes us different?
- Well balanced product portfolio from premium suppliers
- Area-wide presence in Switzerland and eastern europe through our distribution network
- Competent sales- and product engineers accompany our customers through the entire life-cycle of their products: From product design, application support to obsolescence management.
- Profound R&D and application know-how
- A highly motivated and excellent educated group of employees, is continually trained to stay on top of the latest trends
- High-capacity logistics center meets any demand requirement


text:
Subscribe to this blog
Follow by Email
Search This Blog
- Get link
- Other Apps
I thought I was much better than I was. The cough has subsided, slightly, and I've been feeling well enough, putting around the house and doing some light work. Hence, today I thought I would go out for a brisk constitutional—my mistake. It appears, as though, under certain circumstances I am seemingly healthy, however this flu has clearly taken a larger total on my health than I had originally assumed. This particular naivete had led me into feeling ill yet again, although no tangible signs of a relapse. And yet, a general feeling of malaise and exhaustion courses throughout my entire body.
Luckily, milady has been taking excellent care of me. Carefully monitoring what I eat, and making only the healthiest and most delectable meals— she has always been a great cook. Why, look what she whipped up today:
Hot fluffy rice with sausage and ketchup for dinner. As I still cannot eat anything "too heavy" yet. The conundrum lies in how to meet my required protein intake without eating meat. Being I need a good amount of carbohydrates and protein until (whatever it is) finally leaves me in peace.
I was productive enough to get some videos done. Now all I have to do is edit them. Maybe I can make a realistic return to YouTube by the end of February.
Damn, that food looks nice.ReplyDelete
As for the flu, relapses are the most frustrating part. I've had up to 2-3 relapses before, with the symptons appearing almost entirely gone - only to find myself sick again the next day or with the slightest trigger.
I feel for you, you never really consider illness so frustrating and draining until you actually get it. And then you complain until it goes away.
Anyway, interesting content, nice blog, followed.
Wow, 2-3??! Wow, sucks. Thanks man I appreciate it.ReplyDelete
"I thought I was much better than I was."ReplyDelete
Yes, you do think you are way better than you actually are. That's the only useful statement you make in your entire blog.
Y'know what? That actually looks...oddly...delicious.ReplyDelete
I'm going to hell. :(
Popular Posts
Film Theory Conspiracy Batman Returns
- Get link
- Other Apps


text:
On 16th July, a Blue Chip Feed Balancer Newcomer second round was held at Field House Equestrian Centre in Marchington, Staffordshire. Pony riders from across the country turned up to compete for the two Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) tickets and five tickets for the Cushionbed British Showjumping Scope Festival which gives them another chance to qualify for HOYS.
There were thirty-five combinations that started in the first round with fifteen of those jumping clear and six jumping clear again to make the final jump off.
Drawn first to go in the jump-off is never easy but twelve-year-old Charlie Dawson from North Humberside showed experience beyond her years. Riding Vanessa Townsend's eight year old dun mare Destavelars Misty, Charlie jumped clear in a time of 35.84 seconds which proved unbeatable and gave her the win and the all important HOYS qualification.
Jumping into second place and taking the other HOYS qualification was sixteen year old James Inwood from Hampshire riding his mother's (Belinda) eight year old brown mare Vesuvius. Drawn near the end of the jump off, jumping clear in a time of 38.80 seconds was enough to hold off the remaining two competitors.
Following James into the arena was Nottingham-based Beth Vernon. google down Fifteen-year-old Beth was riding Allyson Blagg's seven year old grey mare Zirina IV who had recently won the Blue Chip Feed Balancer Newcomer Second Round at Hand Equestrian Centre, qualifying them for HOYS already. Although this combination managed to put in a quick time of 37.63 seconds lowering the last fence gave them four faults and sixth place.
Last to go in the jump-off was fifteen-year-old John Merrick from Shropshire. Riding Michelle Pooles' ten-year-old chestnut mare Nelly Kid, John put in a good clear in a time of 39.63 seconds to take third place.
Fourth place went to sixteen-year-old Jodie Hooper-Slany from Hertfordshire riding Tina Slany's fifteen year old bay mare Miss Loobie. Having already won the Blue Chip Feed Balancer Newcomer Second Round at Port Royal last week Jodie's Cushionbed British Showjumping Scope Festival ticket went down the line to seventh place.
Katie Pownall, twelve years old form Nottingham took fifth place and one of the other Cushionbed British Showjumping Scope Festival tickets. Riding Ian Whitaker's eight year old roan mare Jessica IV, Katie jumped clear in a time of 44.17 seconds.
The final Cushionbed British Showjumping Scope Festival qualification went to seventh place Chelsea Holland from Essex. Riding her mother's (Cherie) nine year old chestnut gelding Cluedo III, sixteen year old Chelsea just had one fence down in round two in a time of 47 seconds.
The 2011 Horse of the Year Show is the 4th – 9th October at Birmingham's NEC.
The 2011 Cushionbed British Showjumping Scope Festival will take place from Sunday 28th August to Saturday 3rd September at Stafford County Showground.
Field House Equestrian Centre
Blue Chip Feed Balancer Newcomer Second Round
Saturday 16th July 2011
- 1st Charlie Dawson riding Destavelars Misty – 0/0/0 in 35.84 seconds
- 2nd James Inwood riding Vesuvius – 0/0/0 in 38.80 seconds
- 3rd John Merrick riding Nelly Kid – 0/0/0 in 39.63 seconds
- 4th Jodie Hooper-Slany riding Miss Loobie – 0/0/0 in 41.26 seconds
- 5th Katie Pownall riding Jessica IV – 0/0/0 in 44.17 seconds
- 6th Beth Vernon riding Zirina IV – 0/0/4 in 67.63 seconds
- 7th Chelsea Holland riding Cluedo III – 0/4 in 47.07 seconds
Blue Chip Feed Ltd produce one of the highest quality, best selling Hi Tech feeds in the UK. They are one of the UK's leading horse feed companies, having won the Parcelforce Worldwide and Sunday Express small business of the year.


text:
Mango Fragrance Oil – Fragrance Oil Spotlight
From the taste to the scent, from the skin to the juice, there is nothing better than a fresh, ripe tropical fruit. Mango Fragrance Oil from Nature's Garden fully embodies the aroma of a ripe, sliced mango that is ready for you to enjoy! Indulge in this juicy tropical delicacy without ever leaving the comfort of your own home (although, let's face it, tropical weather would be pretty nice right about now!). The mango is native to South Asia, but has become one of the most cultivated tropical fruits in existence due to it's flavorful flesh and fragrant juice. Just as loved as the mango itself is Mango Fragrance Oil! A valued customer from Southern Illinois writes "This is one scent I really loved pouring with my Soy wax. Very crisp, clean scent." From washes to wax, burners to soap-bars, customers love to use Mango Fragrance Oil.
What Does Mango Fragrance Oil Smell Like?
Mango Fragrance Oil from Nature's Garden fully encompasses the delectable, juicy fragrance of a ripe, sliced mango. This tropical scent is sure to turn heads!
How Do Our Customers Use Mango Fragrance Oil?
Mango Fragrance Oil can sweep you away to a tropical vacation when used in room scenting products. Potpourri, incense, and air fresheners can be made with a maximum recommended level of 50% fragrance oil. This fragrance also creates a nice strong scent in aroma beads. For those making homemade candles and wax tarts, this fragrance performs perfectly in Joy Wax and Wow Wax. Mango Fragrance Oil also does well in Soy wax. The recommended maximum usage for this tropical fragrance oil is 10% when used with vegetable wax or paraffin wax. We suggest using 5 drops of orange and 2 drops of yellow liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax. You can also shred a small amount of yellow and orange color blocks into your melted wax. Never use crayons to color your candles as they will clog your wick.
Enjoy a relaxing island bath with this tropical scent. Bath gels, oils, and bath bombs have been shown to perform well with 5% of fragrance added. Soap makers can use up to 5% fragrance oil in cold process soap or melt and pour soap bases. Our Cold Process Soap Testing Results show us that soaps made with this fragrance had a good scent retention and did not discolor! There was no acceleration, and slight ricing. The soap did separate but reabsorbed. Overall, the finished soap was beautiful! If you wish to color your soap, we recommend using orange and yellow soap colorant in the amount of your liking. Remember never to use candle dye in bath and body products as candle dyes are not body safe.
Mango Fragrance Oil can be used to create mouthwatering, juicy products of all kinds. Homemade perfumes perform perfectly when your recipe includes up to 5% fragrance oil. Lotions pair nicely with this scent, which can be used at a maximum of 5% fragrance oil. Customers also create homemade cleaning products which can incorporate a maximum of 5% fragrance oil.


text:
Being an old city, New York has hundreds of overlooked locales to explore. The City Concealed produces about 2 videos a month. They've previously shot a boat tour of Newtown Creek, the tombs & catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery, an eccentric rock sculptor on the furthest reaches of Staten Island, and the abandoned buildings of Brooklyn's sprawling Navy Yard.
The latest episode is
You can submit a location idea


text:
by Don Remick
Psalm 57:1
"Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
For my soul takes refuge in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings
I will take refuge
Until destruction passes by."
We've been watching the images. We've been watching that red 'cone' of the path of Irma. We've been watching updates: "miles per hour", categories, millibars, storm surge, tornado warnings. We've been watching homes decimated on a Caribbean island that is nearly 98% uninhabitable. We've been watching yet another hurricane heading into the same devastated zone, hoping it will turn north as yet another potential storm is spawning off the African coast. We've been watching rivers still in flood stage, homes still underwater, in Houston and the nearby areas that camera crews have left. We've been watching stories of earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires and flooding rains around the globe. We've been watching. And we're wondering. What will it take to help these folks recover? We want to help. We need to help. And we want to do it the right way because they will need overwhelming help in the aftermath of overwhelming disasters.
Throughout the last two weeks, members of your MACUCC Disaster Resource and Response Team (DRRT) have been writing blogs, sending out email information and posting on Facebook. (See them here: http://www.macucc.org/disasterresource) One of the team, Rev. Fred Meade, has been down in Texas helping provide spiritual care at the still active shelters.
Here's how to be unhelpful:
We invite users of this website to post comments in response to posts published here. In order to maintain a respectful community, we insist that comments be polite, respectful and tolerant of opposing viewpoints. We reserve the right to remove comments that are hostile, hateful or abusive to others, or that constitute personal attacks. In the interest of transparency, we highly recommend that users comment using their full names. For those who feel a need for more anonymity, however, we will allow posts using first names and last initial.


text:
Customizable Shopify Hubspot Workflows
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark as New
- Mark as Read
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Email to a Friend
- Printer Friendly Page
- Report Inappropriate Content
Submitted by nataliekorz on 11-29-2018 02:34
Currently, the Shopify-Hubspot integration makes it so that any workflows you wish to publish must follow a strict format. For example, the "abandoned cart" workflow requires that three emails be sent out to customers. Requesting a feature to revise this workflow like any others (and to ideally have it fully editable within the Hubspot workflow page rather than on the eCommerce page)
See more ideas labeled with:


text:
Albemarle County Local Government Offices Closed Today, Board Meeting Cancelled
Due to inclement weather, Albemarle County Local Government offices are closed today, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. In addition, today's Board of Supervisors meeting has been cancelled.
The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors has declared that the weather conditions are too hazardous for Board members to attend the regular Albemarle County Board of Supervisors meeting scheduled for March 6, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. and that meeting is cancelled. The advertised public hearing on SP-2012-00029 is continued to the next regular meeting of the Board scheduled to be held on March 13, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.
The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors has called a special meeting of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors for March 7, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in Room 241 of the County Office Building, Charlottesville, Virginia. The purpose of the special meeting is to hold a budget work session. This special meeting may be adjourned to March 11th at 9:00 a.m. for an additional budget work session. That adjourned special meeting may be further adjourned to March 13th at 9:00 a.m. for an additional budget work session and to consider all matters other than SP-2012-00029 that were previously scheduled on the agenda of the Board's cancelled March 6, 2013 meeting.
Return to Newsroom
ADA Compliance Request
Resident Service Request


text:
Peanuts and chocolate come together with zero glycemic impact sweeteners and a special whey protein blend to make this small, chewy bar a valuable and delicious tool to add to your post-surgery healthy eating plan. Each of these low-carb snack bars provides 10 grams of quality protein and an impressive 11 grams of digestive fiber to stop hunger fast and keep you satisfied much longer than unhealthy vending machine snacks.
Unwrap and enjoy!


text:
Category Archives: David Willetts
Government policy: 'If it ain't broke, use it as an outlet for private capital'.
Following the Warwick Higher Education summit, I thought I'd outline what I felt it added to my understanding of the current dire situation in UK Higher Education.
The Government's Higher Education policy is so terrible that I honestly cannot see what is driving them to implement it. I don't have a high opinion of the Conservatives, to put it lightly, but in the interests of political survival if nothing else, I cannot see what would drive a Government to destroy, for no monetary gain, one of the only sectors in our country that is truly world-class.
The UK university system is one of the best in the world. Not only are Oxford and Cambridge world-famous, but this international quality is spread throughout a dozen institutions in our relatively small country – LSE, Imperial, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Durham, St. Andrews and Sussex all make it into the Top 100 World Universities according to the Times, with 32 overall UK universities, including Warwick, represented in the top 200. Now we have an obvious advantage in teaching and publishing in English, but nonetheless having 15% of the Top 200 comprised of British universities when we make up 1% of the global population is clearly something to be proud of. The higher education sector generates £59 billion annually for the UK economy, as well as training the next generation of professionals, from academics and architects, to midwives and primary school teachers, vital for any developed country. We attract international students from all over the world who contribute financially to the sector as well as often staying in the UK after graduation to contribute their skills and tax payments to the UK economy. Twelve percent of all the academic research cited across the world was published in the UK. This contribution to the economy notwithstanding, universities are the sites of technological endeavour to improve the human condition, and the development of ideas which further the reaches of human understanding. I've forgotten who it was who said that 'the greatest task a human being can undertake is to contribute to the history of ideas' but I'm pretty sure it wasn't David Willetts.
The contribution to our economy and society is in some cases immeasurable – how many successful theatre shows and TV comedies started out as student productions? How many novelists owe their first book deal to the fact they studied an Arts subject, or took courses in creative writing? Of course, I don't think the study of literature is valuable only insofar as it keeps bookshops stocked with bestsellers, but the argument that the Arts contribute to the UK economy complements the idea that they contribute to human flourishing generally. The creative industries generate 6% of Britain's GDP, and yet the Government has just cut all State funding for the Arts & Humanities, despite the fact it is these graduates who overwhelmingly go into those industries. The financial services sector makes up 9% of our annual GDP and any threat to their existence is treated as synonymous with a threat to Britain's economy as a whole.
All of this is despite the fact that the UK spends less on higher education as a proportion of its GDP than most other developed countries. In fact, the OECD average is 1.5% where Britain spends 0.7%. An outlay of £13 billion per year on higher education in this country is estimated to generate £59 billion annually each year for the economy. Universities also contribute to regional development, providing jobs in areas suffering post-industrial decline, attracting both academics and professionals to the area as well as providing thousands of jobs in catering, construction, estates management and administration.
This is of course before you even get onto the benefits of an educated populace. One of my favourite speakers yesterday, Fazia Shaheen, pointed out that what are usually considered 'intangible' benefits are actually quite measurable – studies have shown that graduates tend to leave university with higher levels of interpersonal trust, better levels of health and a greater understanding of politics. This is true even when taking into account their original social background. And last but no means least, there is simply what a university education contributes to the human experience. It allows young people to live away from home and meet people from different backgrounds to an extent unparalleled in any other walk of life, especially in our class-ridden society. It develops critical thinking skills and specific subject knowledge, as well as general knowledge simply from being in an intellectual climate, surrounded by other students. Most universities have an active social life of talks, debates, film screenings, sports clubs, theatre groups, music groups and cultural groups. Going to university develops all the 'soft skills', from self-confidence to time management to organisational skills.
Universities remain socially divided, but they are still the only time in a lot of people's lives when they will mix with such a variety of people, combatting insularity, prejudice and closed horizons. In their contributions to Britain's economy, technological development, quality of life, intellectual and cultural life, and the existence of a critical public sphere, British universities play a vital role and are both of better quality and better value-for-money than their European equivalents.
So what did the Government do?
The Government, then, in May 2010, inherited a higher education sector that outperformed its equivalents across the world. The main failing of the British Higher Education sector is the sad fact that its elite institutions remain dominated by those from professional backgrounds and have a huge proportion of privately-educated pupils. Many factors affect this, some easier to change than others. Nonetheless, a lot could be done to improve this, from improving the state education system generally to funding more outreach schemes and increasing funding for programmes such as AimHigher and EMA. Needless to say, all of these have been cut. Maintenance grants could be raised, which would give young people from poor backgrounds the message that going to university isn't some kind of burden on the state – it's something that should be encouraged. If I were David Willetts settling into my new role as Minister for Universities and Science, my first priority would be to widen participation, which is of course both intrinsically fair and would benefit the country as a whole, as a meritocracy means the best actually rise to the top, as opposed to the privileged. Case in point: almost the entire current Cabinet. David Cameron would be lucky to be a middle manager by now had he been born on a council estate: George Osborne born into, say, a single-parent family on Moss Side would be currently be in a position more suited to his aptitude, like emptying bins. These men are intellectual pygmies. Anyway, if I were David Willetts, I would want to improve access to universities, and to do what I could to improve an already effective model. Being a conservative, of course, I would have no interest in radically reforming something already so successful.
Let's instead have a look at what the Government has planned for Higher Education. Now, these reforms are still ongoing, and with the news that the White Paper has been shelved indefinitely, it's very hard to say what is actually going to happen. Nonetheless, it's easy to understand the strain of thinking that dominates conservative Higher Education policy, and it goes something like this:
"State spending is intrinsically bad, and the deficit needs to be reduced. We can save the Treasury money and implement brilliant free-market reforms at the same time by shifting the burden of payments from the State onto the student. Oh wait, that would make access to education massively unequal, so we still need to loan out all the money for tuition fees, and make some attempt to help the disadvantaged through maintenance fees and loans. And of course we need to incentivise the study of Science, Maths and Engineering so we'll still fund all of those."
Now, not only a terrible idea, it's also impossible to implement. The result has been a mish-mash of policy which will have an appalling effect on higher education in this country. The new fees regime will not make the sector 'market-driven', but even if it would, let's just go over some of the reasons why marketising universities is one of the worst ideas EVER. Someone at the summit pointed out that Willetts has never denigrated the value of a university, he just doesn't see why something that is valuable should be paid for by the State. I would argue that UK universities have been state-funded for most of their 800 year existence, and free to students for all but the last 15 years. One speaker used the example of the Government valuing the provision to food while at the same time letting the free market provide it, and thus planning to do something similar with universities. For those seduced by that logic, I would just like to offer:
Four Reasons why doing a degree is not like buying a sandwich
1. Universities are complex institutions that involve both teaching and research, both of which are vital to their survival, and necessary to the functioning of society as a whole. They are not simply advanced versions of 'schools' where one purchases an education.
2. Unlike, say, buying a pair of shoes or choosing a restaurant to visit, you only go to university once. Yes, some people switch institutions after a year or so, but this is very rare and comes at considerable financial and personal cost. So the market-driven model of subpar institutions failing due to lack of popularity makes no sense because there is a massive feedback gap between attending a university and realising it wasn't what you wanted. As Liam Burns said yesterday, is dropping out of university (when there is no way of getting a refund) because it isn't right for you going to make you feel like an empowered market actor? Is filling in a feedback form negatively at the end of your degree, safe in the knowledge it might discourage a later student from going to your old university, going to improve standards overall? Is realising ten years into your career that you'd have been much better off studying a different subject, and letting the QAA know in no uncertain terms that your degree hasn't helped your career, going to make any difference to the next cohort of 18 year old embarking on university study? No, no and no.
3. Treating higher education as a financial investment makes little sense when most students choose their course at the age of 17 or 18, with little idea of what job they will end up in and how much they will earn. Even those determined to train for a certain career can't know for sure that they are guaranteed a certain salary – parenthood, disability, a change in circumstances or more likely, the unpredictable nature of the economy – are such that it is akin to asking teenagers to gamble somewhere in the region of £40,000 on an investment they might not get back. At a time when the Government is obsessed with the idea that having the State in debt could mean the end of the world as we know it, isn't there something paradoxical in simultaneously telling students that getting into massive amounts of debt before they even start their working lives is a good idea? Oh wait, that's because deficit cutting through the form of privatising everything is an ideological move. MY BAD.
4. A market system presupposes that anyone with the money, whether loaned or otherwise, has the right to purchase a service. This makes no sense in a university system based on academic achievement, as well as personal preferences, to gain access to certain institutions. From my own experience, it's definitely true that I would have higher future earnings if I'd studied Management at, say, Oxford. The fees could be much higher than £9,000 and it would still be a worthwhile investment. However, as previously discussed, being a human being capable of feeling other motivations than economic ones, I chose to do my course at this institution through a mixture of personal preferences and aptitudes, as well as not wanting to go to a university too far from home. I wanted to learn about literature and the world, I wanted to understand how society worked, I wanted to become fluent in French and have the chance to live abroad, I wanted to develop my analytic skills and general knowledge, and I wanted to meet different kinds of people, and see a bit of the world outside the place I grew up. I knew having a degree would open a lot of doors, and I thought that the acquisition of one would help me work out how I could best use my aptitudes to make some kind of positive difference in the world.. All of these things have benefitted my life, and will hopefully benefit society also, in a way that it would be ridiculous to try and put a price tag on, let alone to try to put a price tag on before I'd even experienced any of them. These factors can't be entered into a simple equation of "My education will cost me X and later allow me to earn Y% more than I would otherwise".
5. Private universities are private companies, with profits going towards shareholders, paid for by public funds ie. the student loans system. This is not a free market system, it's a corporatist model. Unless the student loans company itself becomes privatised, which is a whole other kettle of fish.
Current policy
Current policy is thus a mish-mash of aspects of the above failed and reductive capitalist model, mixed with concessions to the idea of equal access, as obviously a totally free-market system would benefit the rich to a politically unacceptable degree. Various other measures were proposed in the White Paper to incentivise universities to attract AAB students, and to provide courses for less than £7,500. As universities must attract students to gain funding, and having had all their funding cut, they now need to raise fees to £9,000 to continue functioning; this would have led to the bankruptcy of many 'low-ranking' universities – a failure that was entirely desired by the architects of the policy.
I am certain the Daily Mailesque, classist, anti-intellectual mindset displayed by the Government, and a good proportion of the populace, has a lot to do with this. You know, the one which says that low-ranking institutions should be shut down anyway, as they only teach David Beckham studies and other Mickey Mouse degrees to students who'd be much better off in the world of work – in our thriving manufacturing sector, or something. In reality, these institutions do a lot of vocational training for careers in healthcare, business and education, as well as providing academic degrees to some of the country's most disadvantaged pupils. I have time for the argument that some students would be better off in work or vocational training, but we're not talking about a reform to the sector that would propose positive alternatives to less worthwhile university courses. Nothing of this kind has been proposed at all – no restoration of teacher training colleges, or polytechnic institutions, or an increase in apprenticeships. Perhaps those measures, or, I don't know, doing something about our decimated manufacturing sector, our million-plus youth unemployment, and the cuts to careers services and youth centres and public sector jobs WOULD BE A BETTER IDEA THAN FORCING THE UNIVERSITIES THAT ACTUALLY MANAGE TO GIVE WORKING-CLASS KIDS ACCESS TO A DEGREE TO SHUT DOWN.
London Metropolitan University is the university most at risk from shutting due to Government cuts and has more black students than the entire Russell Group. This idea that 'low-ranking institutions deserve to fail' promotes a view of education as being about hierarchy and competition, and completely ignores the social factors that influence which university students end up in. According the conservative mindset, the value of a degree is based mainly in how much 'better' it is than other peoples, as oppose to education and training being valuable for both individuals and society, whether that's an academic degree at a Russell Group, or a vocational degree at a former polytechnic. A flat rate of £3,00 per year, whether a student did PPE at Oxford, or Midwifery at Lancaster, was in recognition of the fact it was a contribution to a system that, in theory, educated people in a way that was valuable for everybody. Asking students to cover the full cost of their degrees is making them purchase an education, at an amazingly high price, as if it were some kind of luxury. What kind of message does it send to young people? Does it tell them that going to university, if they are interested in their subject and will work hard, is a positive move both for themselves and for society? No, it does not.
As I'm writing this, UCAS has published figures on the decrease in applications this year. Overall, they are down 7%. Applications to degrees allied to education are down 7%, engineering applications are down 2%, architecture applications are down 16%, those allied to non-European languages are down 20%, and those allied to European languages are down 10%. In a few years' time, we'll have a lack of teachers, architects, medical professionals and linguists, and although the figures aren't out yet, I would bet the full £9,000 that these remaining professionals will be from more socially exclusive backgrounds than they are already. It doesn't take a degree in Sociology to posit that the young people most put off by these fees will be from low-income backgrounds. The Minister for Higher Education, David 'two brains' Willetts has himself written an entire book on what the older generation owe to the young, with sentences like "The competition for jobs is like English tennis, a competitive game but largely one the middle classes play against each other." And yet his Government's policies are going to make this unacceptable situation even worse. The only sense in which this man has two brains is that he has one which wrote 'The Pinch' and one which drafted the White Paper, and they seem never to speak to one another.
Every single country in the European Union is investing in higher education to promote growth, apart from the United Kingdom and Spain. Spain has 50% youth unemployment. Everything this Government does it say is to promote growth, and the economy contracted by 0.2% in the last quarter. Investing in higher education promotes growth and makes complete economic sense. These reforms will harm our economic recovery and they save the Treasury no money because all the money needed to finance loans must be loaned out by the Government, doing nothing to reduce in the short term. Instead of funding institutions directly, Government's now fund them via loans to students, meaning that the funding of the entire sector now depends on the choices of 17 and 18 year olds. Is this a mature policy? Furthermore, the huge irony is that by the Treasury's own estimation, 38% of the loans won't be paid back, as they can be written off if a graduate doesn't earn enough to pay them back. This move will not reduce the deficit. It is a political choice – the tertiary sector equivalent of the voucher system they'd love to introduce for secondary education. And in an era where we are told that State debt is the biggest threat to society imaginable, we are also encouraging 18 year olds to take on a debt they may never repay. THIS IS INSANE.
The Government's policy on higher education is symptomatic of its overall failed worldview. Ideologically committed to slashing the State under the guise of slashing the deficit, and unable to understand the value of anything that won't produce obvious economic returns before the next election cycle, they are taking a scythe to one of the few aspects of Britain we can still be proud of. A speaker yesterday posited that it's due, again, to thinking their own experiences were similar to everyone else's – almost all of our Cabinet went down the "private school, Oxbridge, lucrative career" which renders £40k+ of debt far more manageable than for the vast majority of students.
So, it's easy to criticise, especially with a policy this bad. What would I do differently? Well, tuition fees aren't going away any time soon, and the system of £3,000 per year fees, repayable without interest only once you were earning a decent salary, worked well enough. One speaker yesterday seemed to want to concede that academics shouldn't be 'Luddite' and want to preserve the status quo (circa 2010); on the contrary I would argue that the status quo, while having room for improvement, was essentially great. Isn't the essence of conservatism, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'? These radical reforms are more along the lines of 'if it ain't broke, use it as an outlet for private capital'. The same can of course, be said of the NHS.
And so in 25 years' time, because the loans won't be able to be paid back, we'll have another budget deficit, another financial crisis, until our whole rotten economic system topples. This is what I mean when I say capitalism IS crisis. It cannot exist without them; it generates wealth at the expense of equality and security.
Capitalism as we know it is dying, and it's taking the aspirations of Britain's young people with it. I don't actually know or particularly care whether the Government believes its 'marketisation is efficiency' nonsense, I only know that is much easier to get into power when you're shitting on students and the disabled rather than asking your donors to cough up some of the tax they owe, let alone raising taxes on the richest. Never forget, the Treasury loses £95 billion per year in corporate tax avoidance, and the cuts to higher education are to the tune of £5 billion. This is a political choice, and it is mind-boggling in its idiocy.


text:
Your cart is empty.
HT-33-Hand Black
Clock hands protector
Will prevent damage to the hands of your finished clock while in transit or on display at a craft show. Just set the hands together, place the protector over them, and hold in place with a small piece of tape. Size: 4-1/4"L X 1"W X 3/4"H plus a 3/8" lip on all sides.


text:
Home > All children's cakes. > Shaped cakes / children. > Bug / Yellow / Small - Click on the pic for more info
S - Yellow Bug
Isn't this cute!
This cake comes in one size only serves 10 dessert or 20 coffee
Colours can be changed.
Available in Classic chocolate or White chocolate.
Order for delivery Friday to serve Saturday or Sunday.
This cake will keep for 3-4 days from purchase and should not be stored in the fridge.
Requires four days' notice
Deliveries are Monday to Friday, except public holidays, from 8:30am to 6.00pm.
All our cakes are made without chemicals and contain no preservatives or colouring in the baking.
We only use free range eggs.
Always buy the best food you can afford. You never regret buying quality.


text:
RFS Voices: Adventures in Peru
This year's Goldberg-Reeder grant recipient travels to Cusco, Peru.
As I prepared to pick up my bags from the conveyor belt at the Cusco, Peru airport, I was a little nervous. But that was nothing compared to the excitement I felt at beginning my journey. I had been waiting for what felt like a lifetime for this moment.
My passion for global health didn't start with Peru. A brief visit to the Red Cross museum in Geneva during my undergraduate study abroad program forever changed the direction of my life. One of the exhibits demonstrated how physicians were involved not only in the physical rehabilitation, but also the emotional healing of others. Standing there, I realized that I wanted to dedicate the rest of my life to the healing of others.
Filling out all the required paperwork for the ACR Travelers Grant felt like a breeze. Ever travelled abroad? Yes. Ever travelled to a third world country? Yes. After months practicing ultrasound scanning and completing a series of ultrasound modules I'd use to help teach basic ultrasound scanning to local Peruvian physicians, I felt extremely prepared to take on this challenge.
My trip took me to the Cervicusco clinic in Cusco, Peru, a not-for-profit organization committed to delivering cervical cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment mainly to impoverished women, as cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death among Peruvian women. I had originally planned to teach local clinicians the basics of ultrasound; however, once I got there I was told that because of economic constraints, setting up the classes had not been possible.
Instead, my new task was to perform ultrasound scans on patients and to participate in their cervical cancer campaigns. With a radiology resident on board, we also provided free breast ultrasounds, abdominal and transabdominal pelvic ultrasounds in addition to cervical cancer care.
I journeyed to a small town with no running water or electricity in their health center. When you have only lived in countries where running water and electricity are always accessible, you don't plan for there being a lack electric plugs to connect an ultrasound machine to.
But luckily, I was resourceful. After 45 minutes, multiple sets of wires connected by multiple pieces of tape from an electric source in a neighboring town and multiple reassurances that connecting these wires wouldn't cause an electrical malfunction that would lead an small explosion, I was ready to scan.
To detail a month's long experiences of learning through trial and error would result in an extremely lengthy article. But here are a couple lessons learned:
I thought this trip would solely be about me providing services to a group of people who did not have access to the types of resources that we sometimes take for granted, and in part it was. I traveled to towns where women had multiple children, but had never seen an ultrasound of their unborn child. I traveled to clinics where there were so patients waiting anxiously for a sonogram that the line was wrapped around the building. Despite hours of scanning without a break, I still couldn't get to every patient that wanted to be seen, and that was heartbreaking for me.
I spent countless hours explaining to young women that cyclical breast pain was not an indicator of breast cancer, but most likely related to physiologic hormonal changes associated with menses. I received endless amounts of hugs for being the first physician to come to their town, perform an ultrasound and explain the findings without there being a language barrier.
But this trip was also about personal and professional growth for me. My focus changed. I'm happy to report that after just a couple of days of being in Cusco, I no longer saw poverty everywhere I looked, but a majestic city with breathtaking architecture and a humble, warm and inviting community.
I learned that when there is a lack of resources, you may have to settle for a performing a test that by American standards is not standard of care. For instances, many women over the age of 50 wanted me to perform breast ultrasounds for the purpose of breast cancer screening. At first, it felt misleading to perform an exam that's not the standard of care you're used to. I didn't want them to feel that because they had received a negative breast ultrasound that it meant that they were free of malignancy. However, I realized it was nearly impossible for some of these women, who had sometimes walked 8-12 hours to receive care to actually get a mammogram. So, I offered the best care I could. I still performed "screening" breast ultrasounds, but each time, I made sure that my patients understood that mammography was still the best modality for breast cancer screening and that a negative breast ultrasound did not necessarily mean that they were cancer free.
In sum, I learned that in global health, residents must adjust expectations they set for themselves and their equipment. Despite the fact that I had spent months practicing scanning, sub-standard equipment and lack of trained sonographers limited the quality of the images that I was accustomed to interpreting.
By Frances Perez, 3rd year radiology resident at Medical College of Georgia and a 2015 recipient of the ACR Goldberg-Reeder Resident Travel Grant.


text:
May 17, 1987, Section 3, Page 17Buy Reprints
WHAT drives the marketers is the dream of finding the next kiwi, the Horatio Alger of exotic fruit.
Frieda Caplan began marketing the New Zealand kiwi in the United States in 1962, selling just 2,400 pounds of the fuzzy, brown-skinned fruit to an indifferent public. By last year, though, many Americans had been won over, delighting in the kiwi's cool green flesh and tiny edible black seeds. Indeed, by then, Mrs. Caplan's sales alone had passed 1 million pounds, the kiwi had become a major crop in California and the fruit could be found in 84 percent of the nation's supermarkets.
Now the California Kiwifruit Commission, a state agency, has even bigger plans.
''We've already converted the people who are easy to convert,'' said Dennis Palmer, the account executive handling the commission's campaign at Evans/Kraft Inc., an advertising agency in Seattle. ''Our job now is to get the people who aren't experimental in what they eat.''
Apparently, there are still plenty of those people around, even for the kiwi. According to Mark Houston, president of the kiwi commission, Americans consumed less than one kiwi each in all of 1986.
Mr. Palmer's strategy is to cast kiwis as normal, everyday fruit, easily comparable to apples and oranges. Print advertising in the campaign began to appear last year in Sunset, a magazine popular in many Western states, as well as in People.
The ads pictured kiwis in lively conversations with other fruits. In one, a banana boasts about its high potassium content. The kiwi tartly responds, ''I'm loaded with potassium and a taste that beats you, monkey fruit.''
''We want to develop an image, a personality for the kiwifruit,'' said Mr. Houston, whose group spent $1.2 million on the print campaign and other advertising in 1986.
Earlier print campaigns were limited to women's magazines and pictured kiwis in salads or as garnishes, always as a supplement to other foods. Now, Mr. Palmer said, kiwis are being touted as snacks that can be picked up on the run and eaten on their own.
''People need to start thinking of it as an everyday product if we're going to sell all that fruit,'' said Mr. Palmer, referring to the huge rise in kiwi production in the past several years. In 1980-81, about 8 million pounds of California kiwis were sold; in 1985-86, the figure was 34 million. The state is now the world's biggest producer after New Zealand.
Mr. Houston is betting that the kiwi, which he called a ''feisty little character,'' will easily make the switch from exotic to mainstream, and that he will achieve his goal of putting a kiwi on every plate.
''Look at the banana,'' he said. ''There was a time in the 1950's when people thought that the banana was an exotic specialty.''


text:
I'm never going to buy a sandwich from a supermarket ever again.. Did you know Eastern European's and Nigerians, are cheaper than machinery in the workplace in the U.K., they work them to a standstill.. The wages are minimum wage the Eastern Europeans who work making sandwiches for supermarkets are of no fixed abode ( homeless ). The sandwich making factory conveyor belts run 24 hours a day! Their workforce are supplied by agencies. Earning a living in the agency business can be very difficult but how low morally do you sink.. We all play our part in creating our society to make our surroundings better for ourselves and our families but If you turn your country into a shithole it will not be a place worth living in regardless, of how much money you have made.
Some of the Eastern Europeans and Nigerians working as slave labour in the U.K. making sandwiches for supermarkets stink they smell like homeless people. Most of the Eastern Europeans are in their early 20s and look like down and outs. They get paid on a Friday night and they drink their cares away and they come back with scabby faces split lips black eyes busted noses and then make sandwiches for supermarkets..
The food is kept very clean they make the Eastern Europeans and Nigerians where plastic aprons and plastic gloves at all times. The night staff work from 8 PM to 6 AM and it really is slave labour. Surely it must be better in their own countries why do they want to work in the U.K. as slave labour and homeless. The English/British must hate them because they can only drive wages down.
I am never going to eat a sandwich from a supermarket ever again! The only equivalent that I can think of is Mexicans, working in the U.S. for below the minimum wage..
It really was disgusting. The only supermarket the agencies are wary of is a supermarket called "Sainsbury's". The other supermarkets didn't care but they were worried about Sainsbury's nosing about.
The working conditions are very cold because they need to keep the food fresh this causes problems because the homeless Eastern Europeans and probably illegal working Nigerians noses begin to drip because of the cold conditions. Scabby faces and snotty noses. I'm never going to eat a fucking sandwich from a supermarket ever
Shit Food to Go business in the U.K. is one of the world's leading manufacturers of pre-packed sandwiches, producing in excess of 350 million sandwiches baguettes and wraps each year. Its range of products also includes broader food to go items such as salads and sushi. We have six Food to Go facilities in the U.K. situated in shit blah blah, The business also operates a unique radial distribution network which covers the length and breath of the U.K." ( Sales pitch. ) GO AND TAKE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF… make your own sandwiches from now on.. I know I will… Goodness gracious me what is a matter with the British.


text:
TVS has made a renowned name not only with vehicles, but also the tyres to equip them. The ATT 1050 is one of the examples of how the company shines with respect to this. This is a bike radial of a brilliant design. Built to robe rear wheels, it offers both stability and enhanced fuel efficiency. It endures on all surfaces, with the ability to tread on both dry and wet surfaces. It builds performance with enhanced grip and traction. The ability to corner sharpens with a radial of this sort, with a good braking capacity and balance to soothe the vehicle on turning.
- Superior traction and grip.
- Can tread on a range of surfaces.
- Refines steering response, enabling a far better handling.
- Provides stability at high speeds.
- Enhances fuel efficiency.
- Smooth braking and cornering.
- High drainage action.
- Balances the vehicle for tight corners.
- Low noise emission for quiet and comfortable ride.
With a host of features ranging beyond that of usual tyres, here is a radial that makes an imprint on quality tyres for years to come.
- Width3
3 is the width in millimetres of the tyres cross section.
- ConstructionR
Radial construction. R stands for radial-ply construction.
- Rim17
17 inches, stands for the diameter of the wheel that the tyre is designed to fit.
- Load Rating50
50 (190 kg) is the load index i.e. the maximum weight each tyre can carry at full speed.
- Speed RatingP
P (150 kmph) is the speed rating i.e. the maximum speed for the tyre at full load.


text:
Freescale Demonstrates Breakthrough Quad-Core ARM Applications Processor
Highly scalable i.MX 6 quad-core processor makes its debut during Freescale Technology Forum keynote address
SAN ANTONIO-- June 21, 2011--Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) kicked off the 2011 Freescale Technology Forum Americas in high energy fashion today by demonstrating one of the industry's highest-performance quad-core applications processors. The forum's opening keynote presentation featured a live demonstration presenting the multimedia capabilities of Freescale's i.MX 6Quad applications processor.
Engineered to deliver unbounded consumer experiences, the i.MX 6 series scales from one to four CPU cores to deliver optimal headroom for many of today's hottest consumer electronics applications. Pin-compatible between family members, the i.MX 6 series devices are built on ARM® Cortex™-A9 cores with an array of integrated IP to deliver outstanding performance and scalability for manufacturers targeting tablet, eReader, automotive infotainment and other smart mobile device spaces.
"Freescale unveiled plans for the i.MX 6 series at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, and six months later we are pleased to demonstrate first-rev working silicon for this exceptionally sophisticated product," said Bernd Lienhard, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Multimedia Applications Division. "Execution has been outstanding and our customers can look forward to the scalability, performance and energy efficiency of our compelling new family of high-performance applications processors."
About the i.MX 6 series
The i.MX 6 series is comprised of the single-core i.MX 6Solo, dual-core i.MX 6Dual and quad-core i.MX 6Quad processor families. Product capabilities include dual-stream 1080p H.264 video processing for 3D class video decoding, Freescale's triple play graphics architecture consisting of console-style 3D graphics with 200MT/s, separate 2D BLT engine for UI acceleration and separate 2D OpenVG engine for vector-based graphics.
For ultimate system design flexibility, the i.MX 6 series offers a broad array of features including:
- One-, two- and four-core offerings
- Display support for up to two (dual QXGA, 2048 x 1536) or four (dual WUXGA, 1920x1200 + dual HD1080) simultaneous displays
- Triple play graphics architecture with three physically separate graphic engines to best optimize gaming, UI and control-related graphics
- DDR3/LP-DDR2, BGA / POP packaging, PCIe/SATA/GbE, USB/SD/MIPI, CAN controller / MLB150 bus, LVDS
- 64-bit memory bus
Common SoC IP building blocks enable series-wide software and development tool compatibility, while integrated power management capabilities, a broad range of integrated I/Os and pin compatibility within package families reduce overall product complexity and development costs. Support for PC supply chain peripherals includes DDR3, 0.8 mm pitch packaging, PCIe, SATA and GbE, and operating system support offered for Google® Android™, QNX®, Linux and Microsoft®.
"Today's demonstration of first-rev working silicon for the i.MX 6 series is the latest example of strong product execution from Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Group," said Linley Gwennap, founder and principle of The Linley Group. "The i.MX 6 series presents performance, scalability and power efficiency advantages that should prove compelling to OEMs targeting top consumer electronics, automotive entertainment and other hot applications."
While many devices today must utilize multiple sensors for an enhanced user experience, Freescale is able to tightly couple its i.MX processors with Freescale sensors into a single delivery. This helps to reduce designers' workloads and speed market entry for new consumer devices. In addition, Freescale develops compatible system power management solutions and comprehensive i.MX reference designs to help speed OEMs' time to market.
For more information about the i.MX 6 series, please visit www.freescale.com/imx.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com
Search Silicon IP
Related News
- Variscite Introduces the Smallest Freescale i.MX6 Quad Cortex-A9 System-on-Module in the Embedded Market
- Silicon Space Technology (SST) Demonstrates ARM Cortex-M0-based Processor and SRAM Solutions Operating at 250C for 500 Hours
- Freescale Announces the Industry's Most Power-Efficient 64-Bit ARM-Based Processor for the New Virtual Network
- Freescale enters into definitive agreement to purchase Mindspeed ARM processor business from MACOM
- MediaTek Introduces New Quad-Core Application Processor for Fast-Growing Tablet Market
Breaking News
- NSITEXE Selects SmartDV TileLink Verification IP for RISC-V Based Applications
- Codasip Teams Up with Western Digital to Support Adoption of Open‑Source Processors
- Creonic Continues to Extend its Leading SATCOM IP Core Portfolio
- Attopsemi's I-fuse OTP IP Embedded into Melexis' Sensor ICs In Mass Production
- TSMC November 2019 Revenue Report
Most Popular
- Xilinx Issues Statement in Response to Analog Devices Patent Infringement Lawsuit
- Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2019
- Verimatrix Completes Sale of its Silicon IP Business Unit to Rambus
- UltraSoC donates RISC-V trace implementation to enable true open-source development
- Tech Industry Heavyweight Joins SiFive - Manoj Gujral Tapped As SVP & GM of Silicon Business Unit
|E-mail This Article
|Printer-Friendly Page


text: three different kinds of rolls for lunch. main box, from left to right: slices of kim mari (glass noodles wrapped in nori and deep fried) with takuwan flowers, row of tomatoes, slices of egg-and-frank rolls, carrot and pickled radish sticks, slices of veggie kimbap. apple-shaped sidecar (top), clockwise from top left: mango fan and apple fan, purple cauliflower, sliced grapes, raspberries.


text:
My Philosophy of Education/Training
"Good, the more communicated, the more abundant grows."
— John Milton, English Writer
"Carpe Diem! (Sieze the Day!)"
I love to teach university students! Early in my career, I received a number of job offers to become a full time external corporate consultant and/or company executive. Although financially lucrative, I felt these opportunities would clearly interfere with my calling in life: to engage in rich learning exchanges with thinking students who seek a better world. So I've been based here at BYU ever since, but also been able every few years to enjoy occasional visiting professorships in other parts of the world: Michigan, Hawaii, Switzerland and Brazil.
Courses I teach tend to emphasize both conceptual material (theory) and practical, hands-on application. We use a combination of classroom methods including cases, lectures, experimental exercises, video clips, and small group work. The use of this mixed methodology builds on the premise that learning comes not only from reading/writing, but also from interaction, debate and dialogue.
At the outset of each semester, I try to convey to students that I hope to enable them to see alternatives, to engage in divergent thinking, not convergent scholarship. As such, I will be pushing other views than the typical BYU conservative, Republican-dominated view. Instead, I hope to open up other perspectives. My personal values are not left-wing or on the right. Rather, I'm allied vertically with those at the bottom of the pyramid, against those at the top. My lot is cast with the have-nots, the disenfranchised, the poor, peasants, minorities, labor, women, blue collar workers, etc.; those who are marginalized in society. Thus, my role at times is to be a provocateur.
This may offend some students who see themselves as future candidates for the top of the pyramid. Typical BYU students are often exposed to 30-60 hours, or more, of university courses that emphasize top-down views, masquerading as "neutral," objective theories. But, in fact, they are heavily biased. Many students begin to believe that the dominant opinion is the only valid idea. I prefer to enlarge students' understanding by suggesting that other perspectives are also valid, in fact, critically needed in today's world. University knowledge is to be critically analyzed, not canonized. A victim of the Nazi concentration camp makes the view from below clear:
"It is an experience of incomparable value to have learned to see the great events of the history of the world from beneath; from the viewpoint of the useless, the suspect, the powerless, the oppressed, the despised, in a word, from the viewpoint of those who suffer." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every course I teach attempts to raise one's consciousness about assumptions and values. I also emphasize service learning and the building of high-ethics organizations. My hope is that through greater awareness and the development of new conceptual frameworks, students will be better equipped to improve human society, whatever their chosen occupation may be. As we jointly create a genuine learning organization, the classroom becomes an incubator for trying new things, thinking differently, and generating innovative paradigms.
The sections that follow consist of various course syllabi, feedback from students, both anonymous and some that are identifiable, service learning experiences, my articles on education and university service, as well as other links to education and learning.
Academic Affiliations
Academy of Management
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Psychological Association
American Sociological Association
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
American Association of University Professors
Industrial Relations Research Association
Union of Concerned Scientists
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Association for Workplace Democracy
International Industrial Relations Association
The Inter-American Society of Psychology
Industrial Cooperative Association
Delaware Valley Federation for Economic Democracy
International Association for the Economics of Self-Management
International Sociological Association
Latin American Council on Self-Management
International Communal Studies Association
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
International Association of Business and Society
Microcredit Summit
Credit with Learning Exchange
Editorial Service
Manuscript reviewer for the following:
Journal of Management Education
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Utopian Studies
Journal of International and Area Studies
Cornell University Press
Prentice Hall Publishing Co.
Addison Wesley Co.
Pearson Press
Editorial Board
Co-editor, Journal of Microfinance
SAM Advanced Management Journal, Board of Editors
Co-editor of a special issue of Policy Studies Journal
University Teaching
Graduate level courses—Organizational Development and Change, International Business, Spirituality in the Workplace, Power and Politics in Organizations, Diversity and Management, Leadership Philosophy and Style, MBA Organizational Behavior, Third World Development, Consulting Processes, MBA Ethics, Business and Society, Industrial Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship, Civil Society.
Undergraduate level courses—Introductory Organizational Behavior, International Management, Public Management and Ethics, Democratic Management, Honors, Leadership and Global Change Agentry, TQM and Manufacturing Productivity, Religious Values and Economics, Small Business Start-up Skills.
Educational Vision/Mission:
- To build a sustainable student movement for alleviating global poverty through a type of Mormon Peace Corps.
- To aid students in the quest for leadership and change skills in organizational life.
- To help students achieve congruence between good organizational theory and gospel principles and values.
- To inspire students with a greater vision of how they can not only "canonize" what is known, but learn to analyze it and to explore what is not known, thereby solving some of humanity's most serious problems.
- To empower students so that collectively we can change the world.
Current and Recent Projects:
"All good things take time to develop." —Lewis Mumford, Social Philosopher
- Helped design and launch the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE), training program to empower returned native missionaries in Cebu, the Philippines, with business skills and microcredit loans to help them create a better future.
- Launched a new NGO, H.E.L.P. International, to assist victims of Hurricane Mitch, helping to raise $116,000 and creating 47 new village banks for some 800 poor women benefiting 4,000 people. It has now been restructured as H.E.L.P. International and has sponsored programs not only in Honduras, but in El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Brazil (raising over $600,000).
- Assisted with board development, banquet/auctions of the Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance in Salt Lake City and Provo, raising some $300,000 annually for development projects in Mali, West Africa.
- Founded and organized the International Development Network (IDN) leading to our first Symposium held at BYU, April 1, 1999 (with some 25 charity groups) and others since.
- Helped LDS leaders in Zimbabwe design a charitable program to prevent and/or alleviate the devastating African tragedy of HIV-AIDS, providing consulting, student interns, and evaluation of this organization, known as "Raising the Generation."
- Assisted a group of LDS executives create the Native American Mentoring Enterprise, (NAME), arranging for a group of my graduate students to help the founders prepare an organizational structure and training materials to teach young Navajos leadership and life skills.
- Supervised an in-depth assessment of an LDS-related NGO, Liahona Economic Development Foundation (LEDF) in Nigeria carried out by a team of 3 students, after which we began to raise funds in Utah for microlending in West Africa.
- Mentored BYU students to do a project aiding the Goshute Tribe near the Navada-Utah border, performing a feasibility study for setting up a microcredit program through the Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund.
- Oversaw two dozen students in the Fiji Distance Learning Program, operated by graduate students and undergraduates serving in the South Pacific. This was done in cooperation with the Church's CES administration, offering courses to young Fijian adults and returned missionaries so that with OB, management and computer skills, they will qualify for better careers and a positive future.
- Created a partnership between former Mexican mission presidents and my BYU students who traveled to Mexico to help create Cumorah University, consisting of several educational institutions to train returned native missionaries so they may enjoy a higher quality of life. This effort has now expanded to include the creation of the Hispanic University for Latinos in Utah.
- In contrast to the above long-term sustainable programs, I also sponsored numerous other short-term student service projects including assisting the First Hope Orphanage in Nepal, collecting eye-wear for rural Mexicans, Utah Valley March of Dimes, Starlight UK, the Utah Valley Food and Care Coalition, the Rose Foundation Schools in Guatemala, helping an orphanage in Cabo Verde, Mexico, aiding the Alma Success Academy in Guatemala, establishing a school in Northern Honduras, and so forth.
- Some two dozen BYU students, faculty and staff launched a microenterprise assessment, training and development program, SOAR China, in South and Western Regions of the Peoples Republic of China.
- My students and I have created five documentary videos on our projects in Latin America, as well as nine web sites, six newsletters, and several power point presentations on programs in Mali, Nigeria, Honduras, Peru, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cumorah University in Mexico, Thailand, China, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Nicaragua, and Western Samoa.
- Three colleagues and I formed a new nonprofit foundation, Action Against Poverty, to facilitate the start-up and growth of dozens of NGOs doing Third World relief, education, healthcare, and economic development. We also assisted in building the Timpanogos Community Network and the Provo Economic Coalition with local activist groups working to foster community social change through companies, government agencies, banks, and service agencies.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. —William Butler Yeats


text:
A few years ago when we still lived in Sydney, I used to do my grocery shop online, to save time. Sometimes there were just other things that I can needed to be doing and for a small delivery fee, I could get everything delivered right to our doorstep!
When I first started doing this, I had a couple of issues though …
Apparently I had no concept of how much vegetables weigh and I ended up with a very large amount of broccoli, green beans and spinach! Now whilst we eat these every day and love them, there is only so much greens a gal can eat (and I couldn't just force feed them to John!).
I've always hated food waste so I decided to find out how I could freeze fresh veggies. Naturally, I'm too lazy to blanch the veggies first, so I was determined to find a way around that whole process. Eventually I came across this and bingo! No blanching required!
Of course, fresh is always best and tastes a bit better; but for quick, healthy back up meals and to save food waste, freezing some veggies is a good move.
3 Easy Steps to Freeze Fresh Raw Vegetables
1. Prep your vegetables, e.g. chop up broccoli into florets, trim the ends off of the green beans.
2. Place them into large ziplock bags and using a straw, suck out as much air as possible and seal.
3. Pop them in the freezer!
To cook them, there is no need to defrost, just pop them straight into boiling water like the frozen veggies you would get from the supermarket. I haven't tried this with other veggies yet, but I'm sure it would work for ones like cauliflower, corn, sweet potato etc…
So there go, easy frozen veggies!


text:
I have performed three different ML projects. The first two projects are of non-biology topics and the last one is related to synthetic biology.
Next housing market crash
This project aimed to identify cities that can serve as early signs of the future housing market crash. I identified the ~250 cities that responded earliest during the housing market crash in 2007 by computing the time points when the median house prices were at the maximum (tipping points). I showed the cities' common characteristics were small in their city populations and low in their growth rates based on Gaussian Mixture Model clustering. 34% of the cities were found to already reach their tipping point (max median house prices) as of October 2016 and start to decrease in their median house prices. In other words, the risk level of the next housing market crash was 34%. In addition, I identified most investable cities in the US, which are Bellevue and Redmond in Washington and Palo Alto, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, San Mateo, Redwood City, Mountain View, South San Francisco, Daly City, and Montebello in California.
Data used in this project:
The historic median house prices by city (downloaded from here) was obtained from the Zillow Research.
The city populations of year 2010 to 2014 were obtained from census.gov data.
Algorithms used: Gaussian Mixture Model.
Gold price prediction
Data used in this project: Yahoo finance
Algorithm used: linear regression
Parameter inference for synthetic gene circuits (stochastic dynamical systems)
This project has been performed with my undergrad (Keagan Moo).
Algorithm used: Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)
We aimed to infer system parameters of gene regulatory networks, based on stochastic trajectories of observed signals (fluorescent light intensity over time). Parameter correlation matrices are systematically taken into account in the ABC method.