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The webmaster has to keep track of all the updates in the search algorithms. He also has to make his website stand out so that it can attract visitors. That is why SEO (search engine optimization) holds the key to a successful digital marketing strategy. And this is the reason why novices can't entrust it. You should do SEO only when you know what you are doing. If you are looking to manage a website then you need to get a proper SEO training courses and SEO certifications.
The Eight Best SEO Training Courses and SEO Certifications in 2018
Let us take a look at the following eight best SEO training courses and SEO certifications in 2018.
1. Lynda SEO Training and Tutorials
If you are looking for a place where you can brush up your knowledge, then this is it. You can read up on several aspects of SEO here.
They have more than 30 courses you can enroll for. Apart from the courses, you get access to thousands of videos with useful tutorials. You can learn about local or advanced SEO, and how to build links smartly. Some of their courses also train you in the skills of marketing.
The attractive thing about Lynda is that they offer a free 30 day trial. Lynda offers several courses other than SEO, and the basic package gives you access to all those courses. If you also want practice files for all of these 6000+ courses, you could opt for the premium package.
2. Gotch SEO Academy
You can choose from any of their available SEO training courses. You can pay the course fees either in one go or you can choose to pay the fees in five equal instalments. Most participants opt for the SEO Mastery course here, which equips them for White Hat SEO.
This popular course has four modules which cover all necessary aspects. You start off with learning the basics including how to provide a great user experience to the visitor. After that, you move on to learning about keywords, and then you learn about promotional activities and link building strategies. Finally, the course ends by taking you through strategies for increasing organic traffic.
3. Distilled U
This online university provides hundreds of hours of interactive video content. You could opt for the demo version which doesn't charge any fees.
If you want to access all the learning, then you should sign up for the full account. This account provides annual and monthly payment plans. You get almost 100 hours of online classes and also tests to check your knowledge. Furthermore, you get 28 modules in the full account, whereas the demo account only provides 3 modules.
You get to learn about the usual aspects of SEO. Additionally you are also taught about competitor research, analysis of links and even information architecture of websites.
4. Coursera – Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialization
They are very famous for providing learning on a variety of subjects. SEO is also covered very well by them. Coursera has divided this course into six partitioned modules.
The first two modules set you up for what is to follow. Once you have got a grasp of the fundamentals, you move on to learning about SEO. The next two modules take you through advanced SEO strategies. The final module is a client report project on website optimization. The prices might be on the higher side. But you can rest assured that this SEO certification would be highly regarded by the industry.
5. Hubspot Academy
If you are not up for doing an extended course, you can try Hubspot. They have a SEO Crash Course which would suit you. It is a free course and it lasts all of five days.
You would get an email on each of those five days. In these 5 emails, you learn the most important aspects of SEO. The mechanism of web crawlers is something this course has. You also get to know about both on-page and off-page SEO. Keywords and link building are obviously covered, and you also learn how to get backlinks from other websites.
6. SEO Training by Moz
This is a well-known name in the world of SEO, and has several popular blogs. It offers a great opportunity for corporates to develop talent in-house.
If you have a team you wish to train, they can set up webinars or invite you to their offices for the training. Moz offers the customization of the modules for such training according to your specific requirements.
You also have the option of going for the standard training package. Audits, Research and Reporting are some of the areas covered, apart from the keyword and linking basics.
7. Online SEO Training by Yoast
You might have heard of this name in an entirely different context. Yoast is well known as the place for the best plug-ins for a website or blog created using WordPress.
But they do offer some great online courses on different subjects, including SEO. Because of their mastery over SEO, they are your best choice when it comes to gaining the best knowledge possible. They offer smaller courses for individual aspects like copywriting, site architecture, backlinks etc. But they do have a slightly costlier course which is all-encompassing. That would be the best choice for you.
8. SEO Certifications by Online Marketing Institute
The certification offered by them is based on a robust course. OMI developed this course on the basis of extensive research in SEO. If you are a beginner, this certification might not be great for you.
The course is more suitable for marketing professionals or digital marketers who want to go to the next level of their expertise. They have two options for you. You can choose either the basic package or the pro package. Apart from these two options for individuals, you can also customize a plan suitable for a team from your organization.
We are sure that you will find what you need from among these 8 best SEO training courses and SEO certifications in 2018 so that you can end the year as a master of SEO. More about SEO you can read here.


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We all have walked into a room, forgotten what we wanted, walked out then remembered ( or not). That's me. Most of the time. I get ideas when I'm in odd places. Then once I find the time to sit and actually write something down, I go blank. And I had the thoughts aligned very well to the conclusion. Well, such is life.
Another way to actually get ideas is starting to write. Anything. As long as it flows. I have enough half baked posts in my archives because what happens is, if an idea creeps up when I'm in the middle of doing something else unrelated to blogging, I write two or three lines in there to remind me what exactly it is I want to write about.
Water has its way of giving me ideas. Especially, when I'm doing laundry. I do laundry once every fortnight if I have the time or once a month. Don't judge. Thank you. The unusual thing is that when you have that many garments to wash, you are probably going to be there for two or more hours. I'm very meticulous and I take my time doing stuff. Laundry especially, according to me, requires that you have psych to wash so if I start I have to finish because if I break to sit and type something it would mean that stash might have to wait two more weeks or whenever I feel like washing again. When I'm in there scrubbing away I have tons and tons of ideas flowing from my head to Buckingham Palace and back.
I actually start to think the content of each of the ideas until they overflow and intermarry and I'm left to think maybe I should go ahead and be an author already. I'm actually working on a book, play and all sorts of stuff, same story again, ideas giving birth to ideas. Spring cleaning, (arduous task that one) also gives me the same vibe. Too bad, this also takes time, like a whole day, and my body needs to agree with my brain that I'm really going to do this so no breaks allowed.
There is a time I was in the exam room and my thoughts went astray because, well, I was through with what I knew and I don't do guess work too well but maybe I should try it sometime. The regulations are that, you should not write anywhere else apart from within the margins of that booklet. So it's an hour to time and I feel like my wrists are chained and I'm burning up with ideas.
I have to confess 8-4-4 broke me if not made me worse. You know the way you read for exams and as soon as you write it down you have to re-read it in order to explain it properly? That's how I function. I could not write anything anywhere, thinking was the only option at that time. By any chance if I would write down that would mean that idea walks away with the outlet thanks to the restrictions. I either note it down and expound on it later when I have time. Because if I let it stay in my head hoping it could come back in the same force when I'm ready there's a 0.09 chance of that happening.


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Living Fully & Letting Go
Thriving, hope, and meaning, within the context of illness, have been the common thread woven throughout Susan Bauer-Wu's professional and personal life. Her genuine passion, commitment, and skill in optimizing quality of life and healing and promoting wellness are remarkable. This is exemplified in her touching and inspiring presentations, her transformational resilience retreats, as well as her solid research and scholarship. Her vision, knowledge, and wisdom— of how to thrive amidst the challenges of illness and our busy, high stress/high tech world— touch the core of many.
- "Promoting Nurse Resilience Through Mindfulness", Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX (October 19, 2015)
- "Mindfulness-Based Interventions in the Setting of Chronic and Serious Illness", Internal Medicine/Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX (October 20, 2015)
- "Mindfulness Matters: Beyond the Hype", Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX (October 20, 2015)
- Helen L. Erickson Lectureship in Holistic Nursing, Austin, TX (November 11, 2015)
- TEDx Washington Square, Mindfulness and Social Change, New York, NY (Movember 15, 2015)
Simple Tip to Bring Mindfulness into Everyday Life
When you are overwhelmed, pre-occupied, worried, angry, agitated or uncomfortable: STOP…
- S Stop. Simply pause from what you are doing.
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We had the tough subject of depression in senior men, highlighting the positive side of getting help. Ben created the perfect concept, character and atmosphere that made both the cover and interior article work together. He was extremely helpful and friendly and I could not recommend him enough.
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I had the privilege of working with Ben on a new children's book, Mario and Tilly Take Flight. Although I was editing from the United States and Ben was illustrating in Australia, he was totally professional in creatively putting all our visions on the page. He truly brought the sweet tale to beautiful life and made a complex task go smoothly – and meet our deadline.
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We work an industry full of ideas, and to make a wage – we need to sell them. This is much easier said than done. Even as a Copywriter, there are times where my words are not enough to convince the client.
This is where Redrum Studios steps in. They saves me every time. I can safely say we've had a 100% "sell-in" rate when using their charming and beautifully crafted illustrations. They're reliable, obviously talented and manage to visualise exactly what's in my head every, single, time.
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We needed an illustration studio that was not only very skilled but could achieve exactly what we wanted. Redrum Studios took the time to meet us and spend time at our winery ( enjoying a few reds of course ) to fully understand what the project was about. They were always very easy to work with, on time and fairly priced. The result was magnificent and I would definitely use them again.
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You'll never believe how much the cast of FRIENDS is making still.
Friends is one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Even though the show went off almost 15 years ago, the episodes are still as funny as when they were originally aired.
That is why Netflix is paying AT&T (who owns rights to Friends) $80Million to have the show on the service for 2019, and they may spend even more to extend that.
The show was so popular that back in 2002 (Season 9) the cast negotiated $1 million per episode per cast member, this was a record for a 30 minute show.
Consider that each cast member made $22,500 per episode in season 1, and read below what they are making still to this day.
"The cast's per episode paycheck wasn't the only dough they were receiving from the show. After season six was over and it was back to the negotiation table, they all started receiving a portion of the show's syndication profits.
Today, all six of them still receive 2 percent of syndication income, or $20 million each per year, since the show still brings in $1 billion annually for Warner Brothers. Plus, now that the Netflix deal is going through, Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry and Schwimmer can expect to see even more on their checks from Warner."


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The industrial as well as the retail environment both have shown a tremendous growth in the use of stand up pouches. With its growing popularity, various printed pouch manufacturers have introduced numerous combinations of colours such as clear fronts with colored foil backs etc. of printed packaging pouch. Because of this innovation, many companies have been able to add colors in their style of packaging that too without any such increase in the cost. Not only this, companies have also abandoned applying the ready made labels and now they have their own customized printed standard pouches. In order to lower the cost and speed up the pricing, some things that printed pouch manufacturers can follow is:
•Becoming familiar with what is actually being packed. This includes the nature of the product, its durability, its state (Solid or liquid) etc. the product that has been packed, gently effects the choice of material on which the buyer gets printed standup pouches and what kind of packing machine is required or used.
•Information that is very critical to the supplier of the product is the weight and size of the product. Depending on these factors, the supplier determines the thickness of the film so as to assure that the product is not only protected but is also quite strong to stand firm by itself.
•What exactly the user expects from his stand up pouch barrier film to do is the next area to be considered. There are no set statistics to judge this barrier. This includes factors like shelf life of the product, protection form high temperature places, flammable substances, transportation facilities available in the place where the product is supplied, season in which the product is manufactured, moving and shipping conditions, etc.
•The type of the film that the buyer wants in his printed stand up pouch. This includes types like clear fill pouch or the metalized foil that doesn't allow the user to see through. Many people think that clear foil is not a very good barrier as metalized foils are, but this a misconception. According to the product, the printed standup pouch suppliers provide the best guidance to the customers regarding which style to choose and why.
•The final price of the printed as well as normal standup pouches depends on features like tear notches, zip locks, etc. the better the features, higher is the price.
•Design the style of the printed stand up pouch on your own. This many times bring out the most creative and innovative ideas no other people have ever though off. But this sometimes also comes with a limitation that the supplier might not be able to design according to your requirements and hence there is a need to change.
Thus printed pouch manufacturers can keep these things in minds with packaging pouch material and packing machines to get the best deal at the cheapest prices.


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There is the biggest mirror in the world. This mirror not only reflects my figure, my friends, and cars, but also embraces the sky, the sun, and beautiful nature. This very place is called Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia, a very famous place where many might have heard of it at least once. Uyuni Salt Flat looks very different from the typical picture of desert with vacant field of sand dust. However, the desert in Bolivia is not the typical kind, containing only sand. When water in Uyuni Salt Flat evaporates, it looks like a rice paddy cracked from a long drought, but when it rains it becomes a very shallow lake, reflecting the sky and all objects on the salt flat on the calm and placid lake. This creates a dreamlike world that cannot be distinguished where the sky begins and where is the ground with full of upside down decalcomania. This picture looks enchanted because we are used to looking at what we are used to see and thinking in the same ways trapped by status quo. Even though no salt flat is laid upon our view, let's attempt on reversed thinking upside down and experience a totally new world with imagination. Even in the same experience, you can enter a new world depending on how you conceive the situation.


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The Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge is one of the world's largest competitions in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship. Green start-ups from all over the world can submit their promising sustainable business plans. The winner will receive €500,000 to further develop the product or service, and to bring it to market. The runner-up will receive €200,000 and the three other finalists receive €100,000 each. An international jury selects the winner and runner-up. In addition to the prize money, all finalists will receive over six months of expert coaching to optimise their business opportunities.
The Dutch Postcode Lottery started the competition in 2007, after being inspired by president Clinton to look for those dedicated entrepreneurs with brilliant green business plans. Plans that are ready to speed up the transition towards a low carbon economy. The answers to the issues of our time are already in front of us. But it takes entrepreneurs like the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge finalists to present us with sustainable solutions and get them out into the world.
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Green entrepreneurs can submit (free of charge) their sustainable business plans at www.greenchallenge.info. After the entry period the organization will announce the 25 nominees who have a chance of becoming a finalist. Five finalists will then be selected for the final round of the competition, where they will present their business plan in front of a selected audience and an international panel of experts during the grand final in the Netherlands in 2019. After the decision round the judges will announce the winner of the €500,000 as well as the runner‐up who will win €200,000 and the three other finalists who will receive €100,000 each. No shares, no returns, just support.


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Dr. Sarmad Said is one of few international medical graduates to become a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, medical associations
VISALIA – Cardiologist Sarmad Said, MD, is now seeing patients at the Visalia and Tulare offices of Visalia Medical Clinic. Dr. Said earned his medical degree and Ph.D. in Germany. He was board certified in internal medicine and cardiology before moving to the United States. He completed his U.S. medical residency training in internal medicine and his fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Texas Tech University Health Science Center.
Dr. Said is one of very few international medical graduates to become a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He is also a member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Cardiology. He has had numerous papers published in elite medical journals, and he serves as a member of the board for several medical editorial journals.
"My wife and I lived in Palm Springs and we knew we wanted to be in California," Dr. Said noted. "We have family in northern and southern California, so Visalia provided the right location. We also appreciate the quiet environment and it's a safe place for my family. I think we made the right choice."
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Color correcting is to 2016 what contouring was to 2015. It is everywhere. Seemingly out of nowhere, brands of all price-points started dropping their own color correctors. They come in all different formulas and packaging: individual or jammed together in palette form. The choice is really up to you!
Not everyone is on the color correcting bandwagon, though. Makeup extraordinaire, Mario Dedivanovic, who just so happens to be Kim Kardashian's makeup artist (no big deal, psh!) is not into the trend at all.
But that's okay, because not everything works for everyone. I personally apply some salmon-colored corrector on my dark circles and I find that it works wonderfully. If I want extra bright under-eyes I apply some yellow corrector after my concealer, but that's very rare. Let me explain how this stuff works, though.
So what in the world is color correcting, anyway?
Color correcting is a method of using the undertones of your skin color to eliminate imperfections, most commonly dark circles and blemishes. You do this by countering the colors of your imperfections using a color opposite of it, in order to cancel it out. Sounds a bit complicated, but I promise it isn't, so let's take it back to art class and try to understand it a little better.
Here we have our color wheel. Pretty, right? In a nutshell, colors across from each other cancel each other out. So that means if you want to cancel purple out, use yellow. In order to cancel blue, use peach. In order to cancel green, use red. However, these colors don't appear as bright and obvious on our skin as they do on this wheel. So you should examine your skin and see what colors appear more intensely under your eyes. Then, use a corrector in a color that cancels it out and cover that with concealer.
Let's use some more pictures, shall we?
Blondeshell Beauty posted this as part of her tips for concealing dark circles.
And let's break that down some more:
So, again, the key here is to find the color of your dark circles and use a color that cancels that out. Some of you may have stumbled across some of the extreme color correcting techniques found floating around Instagram, but don't drive yourself crazy. Stick to applying a small amount of a color correcting concealer on your dark circles and call it a day. I'm with Mario (above) in some sense, and I find that, as most things, this can be exaggerated and misused.
This is a pretty helpful video that demonstrates how to eliminate dark circles (and it's the technique I use, myself!).
The awesome people over at beautyblender have also caught on to the color correcting hype and launched a set of mini beautyblenders designed specifically for color correctors. Along with the mini sponges they had a 4-day series dedicated to color correction.
And there you have it. Correct those dark circles and take over the world, honey.
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Houston Life & Properties Magazine New Automobiles Archives
The department of engineering has regularly advanced as a result of the ever dynamic technological globe. The automotive has been among the best-selling fashions in Toyota's line-up, globally and the success of the Camry hybrid sedan in India has been one instance. The first definition of a kit automobile is an vehicle that has picked up spare elements from a particular manufacturer and put them on sale. Throw in the fact that the 2016 Hyundai Accent 's 137-horsepower, 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine gets 27 mpg in metropolis driving and 38 mpg on the highway and there's a lot to love about this affordable entry stage option. However, loading even as much as six automobiles onto one flat automobile left a large amount of area above the vehicles that was unused. It has been quite a while because the Hyundai Verna has received a era improve in India. Additionally they stopped the theft of autos and elements from autos and kept hobos from dwelling in the vehicles. Lexus vehicles are noted for caring for their prospects whereas they wait.
Jaguar saw the most important gross sales improve of any brand, with sales more than doubling in contrast with 2015 because of its new XE sedan. There are other choices for the 2016 smart fortwo, like a convertible body type and an electric drivetrain, but any configuration beyond the base model coupe is prone to push the worth above $15,000.
The 2017 Maruti Suzuki Ciaz facelift is expected to get a revised grille and alloy wheels, new daytime operating lights, revised headlamp and tail gentle cluster as part of the changes. Royce might have succeeded in his quest to create the most effective automotive in the world," though it was so costly that few would ever enjoy its high quality (Brown 20). The railroads turned the primary lengthy-distance transporter of completed cars. Even with incentives, the typical sale value of a car rose to $32,000, a record for December, LMC mentioned. The attract of particular cars could fluctuate from place to place in as we speak's America.
When Toyota launched the Lexus luxury model method back in 1989, the LS four hundred sedan was the very first automobile. Democrats Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova are getting ready already for their August 2018 congressional main rematch – by raising and spending marketing campaign cash. To be locally manufactured for home and global markets in the Proper-Hand-Drive (RHD) configuration, the Jeep Compass was recently unveiled in India at the firm's Ranjangaon facility that will act as a worldwide manufacturing hub. Owing to poor month-to-month sales, Nissan had decided to withdraw the X-Trail from India a few years in the past. The 2016 Nissan Versa is the least costly automobile on our listing of the most effective new automobiles under $15k. This essay is focused on the current and past elements of engineering vehicles about minimizing the total price of their production. Expects U.S. gross sales to drop to 17.1 million automobiles in 2017 as interest rates and vehicle prices rise.
That ought to change with the 2018 Camry, which is extra thrilling to take a look at than any that has come earlier than, with a large stance and more sculpted sheetmetal. Despite the truth that challenges categorized the manufacturing of vehicles in the past relating to satisfaction of customers and value of the product, enhancement in know-how has succeeded in dealing with these matters.


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Explore the defining characteristics, past performance, current valuation, and future outlook of Sturm Ruger & Co (NYSE:RGR).
This post is part one of two in our RGR analysis:
Welcome to the inaugural equity analysis at Duke of Dollars! We are excited to share with you an in-depth examination of a publicly traded business. We're going to start our investment series with Sturm Ruger & Co: a well-known brand but a surprisingly small company by market capitalization. In Part 1, we'll describe the state of the personal firearm industry and the political climate that has an outsized influence on the perception and performance of this business. Part 2 will dive into the financials, trends, and valuation.
If you haven't already, please read about our investing philosophies. The information contained in that article is critical to fully uunderstandour stance with regard to all stocks and how we intend to present them to you, our valued readers. If nothing else, please note that this is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold the stock; it's strictly an analysis of the business.
Sturm Ruger & Co makes and sells guns, mostly to private citizens of the United States of America via a network of distributors. Overall, Ruger was been the #1 US producer of firearms from 1986 – 2010, according to the Small Arms Survey, "Ruger leads with about 15.3 million firearms produced in all, followed by Remington Arms (about 14.2 million) and Smith & Wesson (nearly 10.5 million)."
Despite its production prowess, the limited size of the firearm market has constrained RGR to a market capitalization of < $1B. The shares trade currently for an eye-catching ~$11.50 P/E ratio amid a market where the S&P500 costs more than double at a $26.00 P/E. The headline P/E ratio is salivating for value investors, but the Earnings denominator needs further examination before we can call the shares undervalued. First, let's dig into Ruger's place in the industry.
Ruger products and market position
Sturm Ruger & Co enjoys primary, secondary, or tertiary market position in all three of its primary product categories. According to the Small Arms Survey, from 1992 to 2010, Sturm Ruger & Co held the #1/#2 market share position among pistol makers, #1/#2 for revolvers and #1/#2/#3 for rifles. More recent data have shown that Ruger's strength in these markets continues into 2017 despite intense competition.
In its 2015 10K, the company states, "The principal methods of competition in the industry are product innovation, quality, availability, and price."
The Ruger brand is synonymous with quality among gun buyers, and the company's lean manufacturing prowess helps ensure as much availability as possible, especially given that demand for its products can come in massive waves and troughs. On price, RGR is reluctant to discount its products as much as some competitors, although they've tweaked this practice in response to losses in market share spurred by its competitors' fire sale prices in 2014-2016. That leaves product innovation as the last major feature in the firearm competitive landscape. Fortunately for Sturm Ruger & Co, innovation is an area of strength, and they've cultivated it into a competitive advantage.
New products and engineering teams
Gun enthusiasts know few greater feelings than handling a cool, new toy out on the range. RGR has latched on to this dopamine release with ferocious enthusiasm and intentional pace. No other firearm manufacturer is as dedicated to Research & Development (R&D) as Sturm Ruger & Co. Its closest competitor, American Outdoor Brands Corp (formerly Smith & Wesson) spent $12.5M in 2014-2015 and dedicated 56 employees to R&D; compare that to Ruger's $16.2M investment and 115 employees for the same time period.
Ruger releases new products frequently, averaging about 10-15 minor releases (think same rifle, new caliber) and 3-5 major releases (a whole new gun or an upgraded, reworked version) per year. The major releases are especially prone to massive fanfare. Just check out YouTube reviews for the Ruger Precision Rifle (announced July 2015), or search forums for opinions on the ultra-concealable Ruger LCP II (announced October 2016). In the months following the retail availability of new releases, demand sometimes spikes so high that customers have troubling finding these items in stock.
Leading up to these major releases, management groups engineers into teams of about a half dozen men and women. Each team focuses its efforts on expanding an existing product line or introducing a new one. Generally, the team will remain intact and focused on this specific effort until the product is under production and for sale, at which point new teams are formed to engineer new ideas.
Ruger has about 115 employees focused on R&D. Therefore, you can estimate that about 15-20 projects are simultaneously underway, at various stages of completion. In the past 4 years, new products have comprised between 16% and 36% of sales per year. 2014 at 16% was a low water mark for this composition of sales, and it's reasonable to expect new products to drive 25-30% of sales going forward. Product launches should be considered the backbone of continued revenue and EPS growth. While firearms are durable goods, especially well-made brands, Ruger uses novelty and variety to keep its products fresh and interesting for its customer.
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Not only is it logical to expect Ruger to continue releasing popular new models, but its R&D efforts also convey a figurative lottery ticket with each share. From this annual capital investment, a new product might emerge that is so popular or so novel that it effectively creates a new market.
In the previous few decades, two mega products have revolutionized the firearm industry: modern sporting rifles and polymer pistols. As a leading innovator, Ruger has as good a chance as anyone at intentionally stumbling into the next big thing in the gun world. Like tech companies investing in so-called skunk works and moon shots, it's conceivable that Ruger could be first to market or fast follower of a new wave of gun tech.
The customers
Gun owners may be best described as collectors, and there's a nearly endless list of reasons for a person to buy a new gun. A typical collection is incomplete without a full-size handgun for the nightstand, a concealable EDC option, a big game bolt action rifle, a trusty .22LR for the squirrels digging in the garden, great-grandpa's cherished war relic, at least one shotgun of the five major types, a pistol capable of taking down a grizzly just in case, a modern sporting rifle for ultimate badassity, that pink muddy girl monstrosity that the girlfriend just had to have, etc. And if a gun malfunctioned one too many times, felt too heavy on that long hunting trip, or just doesn't fit your hand perfectly after all, then it's time to get a replacement.
Our point is that people who buy guns will continue buying guns. They're repeat consumers, not like people who buy deodorant so they don't stink, but more like wealthy individuals with a wristwatch or fine jewelry obsession. Think of a situation, and a gun owner will think of an appropriate gun for the scenario. Next time you see your redneck or suburban survivalist buddies, suggest a game called "Best Gun for the Situation" and you'll see what we mean.
In the past decade, the demographics of gun buyers have shifted. Although hunting is steadily declining, ownership of firearms for personal protection or sport is increasing. Anecdotally, new customers who aren't exposed to hunting culture as children are often introduced to guns as the ultimate means of self-defense. While poking holes in paper targets at the local range, new gun owners quickly discover just how fun shooting is as a hobby. If it's enjoyable to slowly line up the dot sights and chuck a relatively small 9mm bullet at traditional bullseyes, the freshly minted gun owner might start to wonder just how fun it is to unload a 30-round magazine of 7.62×39 hollow points into overripe jumbo watermelons. And thus starts a new collection.
Consequences of the November 2016 elections
Perhaps more valuable than a four to eight year presidency, for better or worse: the November 2016 election determined the political leanings of at least one future Supreme Court justice, who serves his or her life time. The court currently sits at a 4-4 stalemate on most issues. Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch for the tie-breaking seat, a move heavily applauded by the NRA.
Presumably a champion of the 2nd amendment, Gorsuch would tip the balance in favor of gun rights 5-4. He'd be the youngest justice by 7 years. With two liberal-leaning octogenarians currently seated, the Trump administration may have an opportunity to stack the court even more conservatively before its term(s) expire. As long term investors, we consider these political happenings to be enormously accretive to the value of gun makers. For the gun industry, the risk of adverse judicial opinions in the next two or three decades decreases with each supreme court justice that Republicans are able to seat.
The share price of RGR has dropped nearly 22% since Election Day, which on the surface, would appear to contradict the analysis in the previous paragraph that a Trump election is a long term boon for gun makers. We believe that the three-month drop is indicative of Mr. Market's myopia. This price decline seems to be symptomatic of shorttermitis.
In a nutshell, the thesis for shaving off nearly one quarter of RGR's value is that the demand for guns and therefore EPS were both artificially inflated by 8 years of Democrat control of the White House. Prior to the election, the price of RGR shares reflected an assumption that the blue team would continue to be in charge, pressuring 2nd amendment rights and encouraging gun sales based on an imaginary deadline whereby purchasing firearms would be prohibited or severely restricted.
If this thesis holds true, the result is that the 3Q2015-3Q2016 period will contain the highest ever earnings for the company, for at least the next 4 years. Potential investors will see an 11-12 P/E ratio on their stock screeners, which makes the stock look like a bargain, but earnings in 4Q2016 and beyond will collapse, saddling buyers with a crippled investment that they bought because of a classic Peak Earnings Trap or a Value Trap. This argument is a strong one and merits careful consideration.
Spectators of the firearm industry sometimes quip that former President Obama was the greatest gun salesman of all time. There's little doubt that during his tenure, this industry's consumers participated in a frenzy of buying and hoarding, largely from fear that easy and legal access to a bevy of different firearms might be curtailed in the near future.
Precedence from the 1993 – 2001 Clinton administration lent credence to this fear, and Obama's combination of executive orders with post-crisis press conferences especially spurred Americans to high tail it over to the gun store. While this politically motivated shopping spree has acted as a tail wind for gun sales, we believe that the effect may be overstated and that the growth in gun sales has a robust and secular underpinning. In part 2, we'll take a shot at estimating the true growth rate of RGR EPS, independent from the shifting political winds.
Domestic design and production
"America first!" "Make America Great Again!" We've all heard the refrains a few too hundred times.
One would think that a company whose flagship products include the American Pistol and American Rifle might stand to benefit from such a nationalistic administration, but for a plethora of reasons discussed here, the market price of RGR has plummeted since America's Election Day hangover. President Trump has consistently pledged to protect and bolster American manufacturing.
You won't find more of a pure-play USA producer than Sturm Ruger & Co. In respect to RGR's business, beneficial government action may include tax breaks for domestic manufacturing and tariffs on imported goods, directly harming Ruger's competitors.
Pressure from institutional selling
Institutional investors place such large orders that their purchases and sales move markets, and this is doubly true in lightly traded securities.
In the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, many institutional investors disavowed their holdings infirearm-relatedd businesses. RGR, SWHC (now AOBC), and OLN (the manufacturer of Winchester Ammunition) were among the tickers subject to market pressure from the big movers.
CalSTRS – a California teacher's union, socially responsible ETF's, and the NYC Employee's Retirement System, among many others, all divested in response to collective moral decisions by the fund representatives that the manufacture of firearms eschews their moral compass. Whether or not you agree with the moral and ethical justification, there's no question that large Sell orders dominating sparse Buys will send a stock's price plummeting.
High volatility
Single-week price movements in excess of 10% are not rarities for Sturm Ruger & Co.
For a long term investor, a highly volatile ticker symbol is not much of a concern except in two circumstances: 1) finding an attractive entry point and 2) withstanding substantial paper losses psychologically.
A prudent investor will exercise patience when considering a stock that tends to swing wildly in price. After one has determined an intrinsic valuation range, simply set up a stock alert and keep cash on standby; eventually, the threshold is likely to be crossed and an investor can make a confident purchase.
That's the easy part, where volatility works in your favor. The difficulty comes when you've already established a position and Mr. Market boldly claims that your shares are only worth 50% of what you paid. If you entered into the investment fully informed and look to a distant horizon, then you can rejoice in the markdown as an opportunity for both you and the business itself to accelerate returns on invested capital. All stock purchases are subject to these pricing considerations, but small cap companies that frequently find their way into news headlines are especially sensitive to Mr. Market's crazy eyed bidding.
Sneak preview of Part 2
To combat the price fluctuations, knowledge is power. When you think of yourself as a business owner – because you are – you become more concerned with the balance sheet and income statement than you are with the new headlines or per share price.
We'll talk about how to value a RGR, with its $0 in debt, $101M+ in cash, decade-long burst of growth, variable dividend, share purchase program, and the potential to complete acquisitions or even be bought out itself. Now that we've described the state of affairs for RGR, the type of discussion you'd hear from the talking heads on money TV, let's focus on what really matters. Is this a worthwhile investment at its current prices? Let's dig into the numbers in Part 2, coming soon!
Full disclosure: one of the authors may be long RGR indirectly through small cap index funds, and the other author is long RGR.
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Updated: 10:25 a.m. | South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — a hawkish Republican who dropped his own presidential bid a few weeks ago — endorsed Jeb Bush, a former rival, for president on Friday.
Speaking at a news conference in North Charleston, S.C., Graham said, "I've concluded without any doubt that Jeb Bush is ready on day one to be commander in chief." Graham's endorsement came on the day after the first Republican debate of 2016, which he attended on Thursday night in his home state, and just weeks before the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. South Carolina, Graham said, will play an important role in pushing back on Donald Trump, the national front-runner.
"South Carolina is going to reset this race. On Feb. 20, we're going to give Jeb Bush the momentum he needs."
Graham criticized Trump over his support for a policy to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country and lauded Bush for pushing back on the proposal during Thursday night's presidential debate.
"Jeb has proven to me he will stand up to people who are running against him," he said.
A source close to Graham said Friday that Graham's timing was surprising, but not his decision to back the former governor of Florida, and that the endorsement "was almost purely a Graham move" rather than a coordinated event.
Bush said on such issues as national security, he has sought Graham's advice even while the two were running against each other.
"And he gave it," he said. Looking to Graham, he added, "I'm honored to be your student in many ways."
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Merry Christmas from the Fort Bend Texans
Posted by Fort Bend Texans Sports Association on Dec 24 2013 at 03:22PM PST in Fall 2013
The Fort Bend Texans would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! The coaches and staff would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has given us an opportunity to be a part of their children's lives in 2013.
The Fort Bend Texans believe that family is a vital part of every young person's development to adulthood, and recognize that families play a critical role in achieving success. We are proud to congratulate the Manz, Page, Peters and Preston families on the accomplishments of their 2013 College Signees.
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New websites on migration and Roma health
An estimated 73 million migrants and 10–12 million Roma live in the WHO European Region. The European health policy framework, Health 2020 calls for the creation of supportive environments and resilient communities as one of its four priority areas for policy action. Improving the conditions in which migrants and Roma populations live, grow, work and age is a key factor in improving their health and well-being, as well as reducing the health inequalities in the Region.
WHO/Europe has launched two new websites to share information about improving the health of both migrants and Roma populations.
Migration and health website
Since 2005, the number of migrants in the WHO European Region has increased by 5 million, bringing the estimated total to 73 million. Strengthening the health sector's capacity to manage large influxes of migrants is a key factor in reducing health inequities.
WHO/Europe has established a new project, under the Health 2020 umbrella, to address the health challenges of migration. The Public Health Aspects of Migration in Europe (PHAME) project assists Member States in strengthening their health sectors' preparedness for and ability to adapt to increasing migration.
Created with the support of the Italian Ministry of Health, PHAME is based at WHO/Europe's European Office for Investment for Health and Development in Venice, Italy.
The migration and health website is a platform for the sharing of knowledge and best practices on migrants' health, and promotion of cross-national political dialogue on the issue.
Roma health website
With about 10–12 million Roma estimated to live in the WHO European Region, they represent one of the largest ethnic minority in the Region. There are significant inequities in health status and access to health care between Roma and majority populations. These are socially determined, driven by multifaceted processes of social exclusion that work both within and outside the health sector and are linked to discrimination due to Roma ethnicity.
Ensuring the rights and social inclusion of Roma is critical to improving their health and reducing health inequities in the Region. WHO/Europe joined the Decade of Roma Inclusion in 2011 and works with the European Commission and other United Nations agencies and partners to improve Roma's living conditions.
To raise awareness of the unacceptable living conditions of Roma populations and to disseminate knowledge and expertise for improving their health, WHO/Europe's programme on vulnerability and health created the Roma health website, and disseminates a quarterly newsletter.


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Child custody battles can be very stressful to say the least, but sometimes they can also pop up unexpected. There was a blog in the Huffington Post Divorce about a fictional custody case that was based on a lawyer's real experiences with clients. This blog pointed out two mistakes that should be avoided in divorce and custody battles.
A couple had a child, and they divorced on good terms, meaning there was no court case. The child stayed with the mother, and the father moved to another state about 2,000 miles away and got married again.
There were no problems with this arrangement until the mother sent her son to his father for six weeks over the summer. A day before going to pick her son up from the airport, the mother got a call saying that her son would stay with the father instead.
The father's new wife had convinced him they should have the child live with them to avoid paying child support, and the case was taken to court in their state of residence. The mother tried to get the case dismissed and succeeded at first, but eventually lost, because building a solid case from 2,000 miles away was too difficult.
This case cost the mother tens of thousands, because she had to fly in for court, have a home inspection that cost her $2,500, and pay legal and fees child support.
The dramatic legal battle could have been prevented by handling their divorce properly in the first place, and getting a custody order right after the divorce. If not, the mother should not have sent her son away without having a custody order in place, so that a custody case would be handled in her state. The mother should have also filed for custody in her own state in addition to trying to dismiss the case in the father's state of residence.
Divorce and child custody cases can be emotional but also very complex if unexpected issues arise. Handle your divorce properly from the start and hire an experienced divorce attorney in your DuPage County, Illinois. Our DuPage County divorce attorneys are ready to help you with your divorce and family law issues, so do not hesitate to contact our offices.


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What's For Breakfast The Day After Halloween? How About 'Walking Dead' Pancakes? (VIDEO), Highlight Hollywood News
Can you imagine what to fix for your kids tomorrow morning after Halloween candy-high has worn off? Well, not bacon and eggs for your little trick-or-treaters, it's got to be something really
'Nightcrawler' Scares Up $515K For Thursday Opener Ahead Of Halloween, Highlight Hollywood News
Halloween-theme films and horror genre are making a comeback this weekend! Jake Gyllenhaal starrer Nightcrawler crawled its way to $515,000 at 2,766 locations on Thursday night. This year, Halloween weekend is a ghost
Creative Team Behind Hit '24' Creating Presidential Drama 'POTUS' For Fox, Highlight Hollywood News
After reviving 24, the producers are reteaming for a drama entirely about the president of the United States. Fox has handed out a script commitment to POTUS, a drama from 24's Howard
'Limitless' TV Sequel In The Works At CBS With Bradley Cooper, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Highlight Hollywood News
The CBS network has officially made a production commitment to a TV sequel based on Relativity's 2011 Bradley Cooper thriller Limitless. However, Cooper will exec produce but not star. The
'Sons Of Anarchy's' Charlie Hunnam To Star In 'A Prayer Before Dawn', Highlight Hollywood News
"Sons of Anarchy" star Charlie Hunnam is now attached to head-line in true-life Thai kick-boxing prison thriller "A Prayer Before Dawn" with Jean-Stephane Sauvaire ("Johnny Mad Dog") on board to direct.
Co-Pilot Killed, Pilot Injured In Virgin Galactic Crash In Mojave Desert In California, Highlight Hollywood News
A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, killing one crew member
25-Years Since The Iconic 'Twin Peaks' Ended, How David Lynch And Mark Frost Plan To Dazzle A 21ST Century Audience, Highlight Hollywood News
"Twin Peaks" ended on the ABC Network on June 10, 1991, leaving viewers with so many millions of fans with so many questions left unanswered that David Lynch and Mark Frost had a
'Game Of Thrones' Season 5, Changes Are Coming, And Yes, Winter Is Coming As Well, Highlight Hollywood News
If it's one thing residents of Westeros in "Game of Thrones" realize. Changes are always coming, and how they prepare and then adapt is everything. House Stark, loyal, moral and honorable has
A Slew Of Actors Cast In HBO's Upcoming 'True Detective' Season 2, Highlight Hollywood News
HBO'sTrue Detective season two casting news just keeps getting better every day. After Taylor Kitsch broke his own casting announcement earlier this week (and Matthew McConaughey confirmed it!), four more names have
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Rumors: Model News — BMW's Unconfirmed Supercar To Be Called M8?
By Brandon Turkus
November 21, 2012
BMW's long-denied supercar may have a name if a report from MotorAuthority is correct. We've been hoping for a production version of the M1 Homage from a few years back. Rather than use the legendary M1 as its namesake, though, the new model would be called M8.
If the report is true, the M8 would arrive in 2016 with power from a force-induced, mid-engined V-8 that delivers 600 M-developed horses. The report also claims the production M8 will share a chassis with the i8 plug-in hybrid, which should guarantee a low curb weight.
Now, 2016 is quite a long ways away. A lot can happen between now and then, so we'd advise you to take this news with a große grain of salt.


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Administrative evaluation of the education cooperation programmes of the Nordic Council of Ministers
Term / Duration
1 July 2001 - 31 October 2001
Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen
This study carried out between July and October 2001, concerned 10 education and research programmes of the Nordic Council of Ministers (NMR). It represented an "administrative assessment" of these 10 programmes with an aim to deliver recommendations to the NMR on two main sets of questions, namely should the Nordic education programmes be redesigned in order to avoid the overlap with the EU programmes and should the present macro-structures and mechanisms for the administration of these programmes be overhauled. The study consisted of comparative analysis of Nordic and EU programmes, evaluation of the EU experience in programmes administration and reform, and the actual recommendations for the future of the 10 Nordic programmes, which were made in the light of earlier comparative analysis and EU experience.
The study makes a total of 11 recommendations. The first three are related to the future focus of Nordic education support and its relationship with EU funding. The author suggested:
- to keep the concept of the "Nordisk Nytta" as "open" as possible, and refrain from defining it too narrowly, in order for it to be able to accommodate future policy shifts;
- to abstain from having its own programme priorities dictated by "third parties", for fear of "overlap" with EU programmes, and by "pulling out" where the EU offers parallel schemes;
- to continue its support for a wide range of sectors, themes and target groups in education and research (training) in Norden, rather than focus it on narrow fields of particular "Nordic concern".
With regard to the "configuration" of Nordic programmes, recommendation 4 proposes to reduce the present 10 schemes to five programmes, devoted to research training, higher education, school education, adult education and languages respectively. This "modest merger" recommendation includes the integration of separate "regional" schemes (for the Westnordic and Baltic/Northwest Russian areas) into the "mainstream" programmes, without giving up priority attention to these regions.
In recommendation 5 the author discourages considerations to "decentralise" management task to the level of the NMR member states/participating countries. Such decentralisation is not deemed necessary in the culturally and linguistically homogeneous Norden area. Exceptions could be made for "soft" management tasks, such as information, promotion and advice.
Recommendation 6 encourages the NMR to continue with and complete the process of outsourcing programme management to "expert organisations". In line with the proposal for the creation of five programmes, five "agencies" would thus be entrusted with the management of Nordic programmes. Selection of these organisations should be based on tendering procedures. Conflict of interest must be avoided.
Recommendation 7 discourages the introduction of "institutional contract" models, as they were introduced in the Erasmus sub-programme of Socrates. This recommendation is based on the relative failure of the EU experiment to reach its main aim, and the superiority of the network formula, which is now internationally regarded as the state of the art.
Recommendation 8 proposes that five advisory committees should in the future be responsible for supporting the NMR Secretariat in the governance of the programmes, one for each of the new programmes, and that no sub-committees be created for any sub-programmes. Recommendation 9, still on the issue of governance, advises that the role of these committees should be strictly focused on providing advice on policy matters, and that they should abstain from any involvement in programme management as such.
Recommendation 10 proposes to enhance the visibility of the programmes by improving information tools. Expressly endorsing the "unbureaucratic" management style applied in Nordic programmes, the author nevertheless proposes in recommendation 11 the introduction of a few minimum standards to be applied in the administration of all five Nordic programmes, in order to avoid the danger that "lightness" of management oversteps the boundary to intransparency.


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A world expert in black lung disease will examine a sample of the 100,000 X-rays of Queensland coal miners after confirmation of a fourth case of the disease in Queensland.
Black lung disease, or pneumoconiosis, is a fatal emphysema-like choking infection caused by microscopic coal dust fibres.
The first confirmed case in Queensland in 30 years was confirmed in May 2015 and reported in September 2015 in the Commissioner for Mines Safety and Health 2014-15 annual report.
Since then, two more cases of black lung disease in Queensland were confirmed in October and a fourth case in late December, a spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources and Mines said.
Dr Robert Cohen of the University of Illinois has been contracted by Melbourne-based Monash University expert Dr Malcolm Simm to review safety procedures and look at the X-rays of Queensland mine workers.
In the United States, Dr Cohen has suggested coal mine workers are working longer shifts and are unable to adequately clear their lungs.
Queensland's coal mines contained more coal dust in 2015 than they did in 2012, Queensland's Mines Commissioner has found.
The 100,000 coal miner X-rays are stored at the Queensland government's Safety in Mine Training and Research Station (SIMTARS) at Redbank.
Mine union state secretary Tim Whyte said the CFMEU was very worried that the 75 suspected cases of black lung disease identified in a 1984 study for the Queensland Coal Board had not been thoroughly tested.
That 1984 study said those 75 suspected cases should be followed up annually by Queensland Health, which provided the initial checks to Queensland's 7784 coal mines at 33 sites.
"Miners and other persons employed about mines who have been shown to have chest X-rays demonstrating the features of overt pneumoconiosis – or a pattern suggesting early changes due to the effects of coal dust ... should be reviewed at more frequent intervals, potentially annually."
Mr Whyte said the CFMEU still had doubts about the ability of radiographers to be able to read X-rays to check for black lung, separate from emphysema and bronchial infections.
The CFMEU is funding checks by US-based experts because they believe Queensland-trained radiographers do not have the specialised skills to recognise the disease, Mr Whyte said.
"The doctors that the Queensland department are getting over here, we have had to shame them a bit, saying that if you don't get these people over here to train our doctors to the standards, we will pay for them to come over, pay for their airfare and accommodation and the whole lot."
Ipswich man Percy Verrall – who is one of Queensland's four confirmed cases of black lung disease - told Fairfax Media before Christmas he was never told he was suspected of having the disease despite multiple X-rays until he resigned in 1997.
"We got chest X-rays. But they never told the miners what the chest X-rays were like, whether they were bad or good," Mr Verrall said.
However, a Natural Resources and Mines spokesman rejected the criticism from the union, saying Queensland radiographers could identify black lung disease.
He said the only US expert being paid for by the Monash study was Dr Robert Cohen.
The Mines spokesman said questions about the fate of the 75 persons suspected of having black lung disease in 1984 needed to be addressed to Queensland Health because it provided the health data for the Queensland Coal Board after the 1984 report.
Mine unions say the potential black lung scandal could end up as widespread as the James Hardie asbestos health case, when thousands of people who worked with asbestos contracted mesothelioma. A trust fund for workers was eventually set up.
A SIMTARS spokeswoman said the X-rays had been examined, but was unclear whether they had been examined for "black lung".
However the spokesman for Natural Resources and Mines said they simply stored X-rays which had been previously checked by the miners' doctors.
"The results of health assessments undertaken through the Coal Mine Workers Health Scheme are provided by the medical professionals involved to the mine worker. A copy is subsequently provided to the department for storage," the spokesman said in a statement.
"Many thousands of records are held by the department but what the department receives are copies of medical assessments and X-rays that have already been completed and reviewed by doctors then returned to the patient."
Tony Moore is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times


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Na'vi Hit London to Protest British Mining of Sacred Indian Mountain
Photo: Thomas Haugen under a Creative Commons license.
It seems that even though "Avatar" is finally out of theaters, its environmental message and memorable imagery have taken root. Protest groups have used the movie's themes to raise awareness of causes that range from Israeli policy to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The latest group to paint themselves blue and strap on tails is Survival, an international group dedicated to preserving the rights of tribal peoples.
Survivor is protesting British mining company Vedanta's plan to dig an open pit mine for aluminum ore on the Niyamgiri mountain in eastern India, on which the local Dongria Kondh depend as a vital source of food, water and medicine, and which they worship as a god. The mountain is used by the Dongria Kondh to grow their crops, including beans, bananas, lentils, and is home to surprisingly diverse wildlife- monkeys, tigers, bears, and wild boar. Survival posted a video of some Dongria Kondh explaining the mountain's importance to them:
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Pitted against a peaceful indigenous tribe that is totally dependent on the mountain it wants to tear apart for the sake of bauxite, Vedanta isn't improving its reputation. The fight over the proposed Niyamgiri mine has been going on for about a year, and Vedanta seems to be losing ground. In February, under pressure from Hindu leaders and activists, The Church of England withdrew its investments in Vedanta.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group reported:
After six months of engagement, we are not satisfied that Vedanta has shown, or is likely in future to show, the level of respect for human rights and local communities that we expect of companies in whom the Church investing bodies hold shares.
And things aren't looking up for Vedanta. With the arrival of two Na'vi at a Survival protest outside Vedanta's Annual General Meeting in London, the forces opposed to the mine have reached out to James Cameron, on the grounds that the plot of "Avatar" closely resembles the plight of the 8,000 Dongria Kondh. They've already got a few celebrities on their side, including Monty Python's Michael Palin. With the ten feet tall Na'vi now against them, it's hard to see Vedanta emerging from this fight victorious.


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In the early 2000s, a sleeker, narrower folding version of the kick scooter became wildly popular in the US, with a wide variety of colors and styles. Popular brands include Razor[?], Kick, and Xootr.
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Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has been in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons, and as a result, will miss some time on the field.
Ronaldo has been left off the roster for Portugal's next four games, including matches against Poland and Scotland, as he is currently facing rape allegations.
Ronaldo won't play in upcoming games against Poland and Scotland as he fights rape allegations https://t.co/LTt6vEBpA6— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) October 4, 2018
The allegations stem from an incident in Las Vegas back in 2009, in which Kathryn Mayorga claimed Ronaldo sexually assaulted her in a penthouse suite. Mayorga's lawyer, Leslie Stovall, said that his client is still undergoing "active therapy" to emotionally cope from the ordeal. When approached with those allegations, Ronaldo vehemently denied them.
Ronaldo will miss the Oct. 11 UEFA Nations League game against Poland, as well as a friendly match against Scotland three days later. Portugal coach Fernando Santos also ruled Ronaldo out for November matchups against Italy and Poland, but did not say that decision was due to the ongoing investigation.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been left out of Portugal's squad for their upcoming fixtures against Poland and Scotland: https://t.co/mU0f9gUD6i pic.twitter.com/oqoybSot0e— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) October 4, 2018
"[Federation] president Fernando Gomes and I spoke with Cristiano Ronaldo and we considered it best for the player not to be included in this and November's call-ups," said Santos in a news conference on Thursday via ESPN.
"I personally always support my players, and this is not even a question of solidarity, but I believe what the player said publicly. He considers rape to be an abominable crime and clearly reaffirms that he is innocent of what he is being accused of. I know Cristiano well and I fully believe he would not commit a crime like that."
With the investigation ongoing, do not expect Ronaldo to participate on the pitch for Portugal any time soon.


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If you've been to BJ's Brewhouse or Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery, you've been to C.B. & Potts. Which is to say that although it's thus far limited to seven locations in Colorado, you'll experience that same convergence of craft and kid-friendly corporate models. The first spot opened in Fort Collins in 1974, and brewing launched in '96.
Beers are made at multiple locations (none here) and shared around for a respectable seasonal list that's six deep. (There are also six flagships.) Some excel: One of their Highlands Ranch brewers earned a gold at 2014's Great American Beer Festival; all the IPA renditions are likable; and a couple seasonals such as a blackberry porter and Finnish-style Sahti, with bold juniper notes, wowed us at a media preview.
But when we came back recently — to what looks like an REI on the outside and quasi-industrial brewpub inside, with service ranging from poor pre-bussing at a booth to a killer bartender who greets us with a handshake and remembers our names — the beers on the whole ($5.99/six samples) felt less than exciting, and were often inaccurately described.
For instance, an Irish red is supposed to play up hops; instead, prolific toasted malt takes it almost entirely into a roasted coffee realm. One IPA promotes lemon peel and balancing honey notes, but both are faint, if there at all. A Belgian-style Dubbel hosts none of the advertised cinnamon or clove, nor any defining yeast esters; I actually requested another sample, only to receive a lighter-colored beer that also didn't match the tasting notes.
Guys, if what you meant to brew didn't turn out, just re-write your beer descriptions and we'd be all good ... well, mostly good. Which is better than how some of the food fared.
Nachos ($8.95) are standard-issue and soggy. Pork green chile and chicken tortilla soups ($4 cup) are both thin with quickly departing flavors. Spanish red rice ($2.75) finishes dirty-earthy in the bad way, and a quinoa-rice blend ($3.50) appears weighted 95 percent toward rice. On the gluten-free menu, both a Reuben ($11.50) and chimichurri chicken ($14.25) feel more like concessions than thoughtful creations. More moist bread (rye, please) could elevate the Reuben, while the chicken's dry, steamed veggies boring, and chimichurri not plentiful or potent enough.
At least the chicken-jalapeño-pepper-jack Armadillo Eggs ($9.25) are terrific drunk food, with all the texturally tacky protein, starch and spice you desire in one cracker-crusted, giant oval. A generous Parmesan-crusted cod ($14.95) sports a nice lemon-caper cream sauce with wilted spinach, and burgers like the Buttface Bacon Cheese ($12.25) and Big Porter Blue ($12.95) are beautiful. The first, with a buffalo patty ($3 more) on a pretzel bun, uses an amber-beer cheese sauce, gooing up the pork and crispy onion rings. The second most notably balances Gorgonzola funk with a lovely, sweet jam. With those burgers, sides like chopped-garlic-laden vampire fries ($2.75) and heavy cheddar mashed potatoes ($3.50) work great.
From a house-made dessert menu — assembled soccer-mom-style with commercial products like Oreos and Dreyer's ice cream — a towering Mile High Mud Pie ($8.49) does please, with mocha almond fudge and cookies-and-cream ice creams. But I'd recommend you ask for the sub of delightful Disorder Porter hot fudge. After all, if there's anything these chains know, it's how to bleed their beer everywhere.
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Slipping into bankruptcy reorganization at Uncle Sam's financial gunpoint, GM has a serious reputation problem to overcome. College of Communcation public relations Professor Peter Morrissey, an expert on reputation management (helped J&J on the Tylenol case) thinks GM is capable of regaining its "fierce customer loyalty" that made it the world's leading automaker.
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Found the cache in our second try. I left two trackables attached to the magnet of the cache and placed the cache underneath the marble right in the corner. It's covered up with a little bit of dirt in order to hide from muggles. It's actually in the other flower bed farther away from the street corner. Maybe CO can go get the TB's in order to place them in a better cache, but they are pretty well hidden unless someone is actually looking for them. Tftc!
Besides the fact that the TB's will surely disappear the next time the gardener comes around, the cache has not been replaced where I hid it! It is a magentic micro hidden on the bottom of a metal railing around a planter. The cacher is from out of state and has over 100 finds. I tried to be nice when I emailed him telling him that a TB should never be left outside of a micro container but I can't promise it was my nicest email. Luckily the next cacher found everything and made things right:
Hmm.. because of the 'new' hide by the last cacher the hint wasnt really correct anymore and we saw 2 groups of geocachers who where focussed on that hint (because the reception is really bad) and didnt find it. We tried after them and after we didnt find it the way we expected I looked a little underneath it and saw something in the dirt. That was pretty disgusting, as were the TB's. We took them with us, cleaned it up and replaced it the way it should be!! So people please keep it that way so everybody can find it easily with the given hints.
I then checked my other micro caches in the area to see if he left TB's anywhere else and found this log:
Tftc! Still looking for the other cache on 44th street to place a TB in, but not having luck yet.
NO!! Don't do it.
The thing is that this isn't the first time this has happened. About a month ago I received this log on another of my micro caches in NYC:
Found it!
King of Geocaching Geocoin dropped off.
There is no way this coin could have fit in my bison tube! I had to mark it missing and then the TB owner said that the coin was in the hands of the security guard on the property (he emailed the cacher who left it to find this out. Security is very aware of the cache although I could not find one who knew about the geocoin).
Another guy recently placed TB's in two of my micro caches but after a little research I found that they are just dipping the TB. They "place" it on one day and when they leave the area they grab it to take on their travels even though it never left their possession. I have heard of people dipping their own TB's to keep track of their travels but these TB's don't even belong to them!
I guess I get frustrated because the poor people who own these TB's are losing their TB's and I can only imagine these cachers are doing this everywhere they go.
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Happy New Year everyone!
Hope you all had a great 2015 and an even better start to 2016.
It was a great year. One with many highs and some real lows but overall it was a year that has prepared me for the one ahead. I feel optimistic and positive which is a first in a real long time for me, funny how a few sessions with the brain doctor can get you to turn your thinking around hehe. I am now filled with excitment not dread and can't wait to see what my future holds. 2016 will be a year of personal growth and re-learning to respect and love myself again.
To start off 2016 I thought I'd look at 2015 in review and pick a few choice pages from each month. These are the ones that resonated with me and hope you like them too.
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The InterCityHotel Kiel is a Tourist hotel. Located in Kiel area. Shopping is accessible by bus/taxi and the nightlife/restaurants are easily accessible by taxi or bus from the hotel.
Watch the sea and breathe in the fresh salt air theres no better place to do that, than directly at the Kiel Fjord, where major yearly sailing events take place. Here, you can also reside in the InterCityHotel Kiel in the middle of the city centre, directly at the train station and only minutes away from the shipping and ferry terminal. Take advantage of free travel on the local public transport system by using your room ID card. Free use of the fitness club adjacent to the hotel.
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Valentine Day Sensory Bin
For our February sensory bin I choose to go along with the Valentine day sensory bin for the upcoming holiday. I am still alternating it with our Winter Sensory bin.
Sensory bins have always been a hit in our house, they help keep the little ones busy. We sneak in many different ways to teach the kids using our sensory bins. We practice counting, patterns, fine motor skills, and many other ideas are used depending on the sensory bin.
Whats Inside our Valentine Day Sensory bin?
- Valentines Garland with hearts
- Heart bracelets
- Little Heart containers
- A Feather Rose
- Red Star Christmas Ornaments
- Red, White, and Pink Silicone Baking Cups
- Textured Hearts on Sticks
- Valentines container
- Red and pink necklaces
Here is a close up look at the things found inside our bin. All of the items were purchased at the dollar store. The bin we used was a simple Trofast bin from Ikea and is rater inexpensive and a perfect size for a sensory bin!
Opening and closing the heart containers is wonderful fine motor work!!
Ethan took the garland out right away and decorated the room for us!
I also added the hearts on sticks for the kids to play with in the bin.
This valentine day sensory bin has been a hit with the kids, they have enjoyed playing with it for many hours!
To see all of the fun Valentine's Day ideas and recipes we have shared over the years head over to our Valentines Day idea page.
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Louis' little friend Flora is turning one soon!
She's an April baby, and, being an April girl myself, I happen to know that her birth stone is diamond. So what better theme for her first birthday party than Breakfast at Tiffany's!? LOVE it! My mind is teeming with ideas.
There are a ton of gorgeous Tiffany's-inspired invitations available on Etsy. Here are the ones I like best (click on the pic for sources):
And to eat? Breakfast/brunch is the perfect way to celebrate a child's birthday party. Children are at their best in the morning and you can make a gorgeous brunch set-up without having to make too many things yourself. I want to do a classic breakfast with croissants, mimosas, cappuccinos, maybe muesli parfaits, and cupcakes and macarons to satisfy the guests' sweet tooth:
I've had these dreamy diamond ring cupcakes in my head since I saw them in Martha Stewart Weddings way back when. Also yummy – mini diamond ring cookies!
Decor? How about Tiffany-blue bunting, poms and balloons?
I found these Tiffany's-inspired favor boxes on Etsy, that I think will be perfect. If I was feeling crafty (craftier) I would try making these in tiffany blue.
I wish I was a better seamstress (and had time to sew) because little Flora would be a dream in this DIY Audrey Hepburn-inspired party dress with a little string of pearls and black ballerina slippers (and big baby sunglasses)! Luckily, there is a perfect tutu for sale on Etsy!
Check out this first birthday party with a Breakfast at Tiffany's theme on On to Baby. This sparkly version is fabulous too.


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CONWAY, Ark. – The University of Dallas women's basketball team dropped a 76-48 road decision at Hendrix College on Tuesday evening. That moved the Crusaders to 1-1 on the young season. Being outscored 17-3 in the second quarter summarized a difficult shooting performance for UD, who went 25 percent overall and 3-for-15 from behind the arc. The Warriors only had two more treys in 22 attempts, but did connect for 43.1 percent. Each squad made 21 free throws.
Celsi Caraway (Arlington, Texas) hit a trifecta to put Dallas up 3-2 about two and a half minutes into the opening quarter. After a field goal by Heather Prowse, Michelle DeCoud (Monument, Colo.) sank a three-pointer of her own to make it 6-4 with seven minutes before the break. Near a minute later Leah Boehl had the first trey the Warriors scored to change the lead back to the home side.
DeCoud had a couple free throws on two different trips to the line that knotted the contest again. The final time was 12-12 with 3:23 remaining and the deadlock stayed until a jump shot was notched by Boehl for Hendrix with 2:08. HC tallied the final seven points in that span to go up 19-12.
The big second quarter extended the advantage for Hendrix to 36-15 going into halftime.
The Crusaders allowed 40 points in the second half with 20 per half, but did score the same total as their foe in the final 10-minute quarter. It was too insurmountable of a deficit for UD to reduce.
DeCoud scored 17 points for the Crusaders, while Jules Oliveti (Southlake, Texas) contributed 12 from the bench. Francesca Weisbruch (Temple, Texas) and Jackie Landry (Anaheim, Calif.) tied team-highs in rebounds with six apiece.
The Warriors posted a 48-30 edge on rebounds and outscored UD 23-9 on points off miscues. Heather Prowse recorded a double-double with 17 points and 12 boards. Boehl contributed 12 points, while Madison Martin and Vinessa Daniel both added 10. Hendrix improved to 3-1 overall.
Dallas continues its three-game road trip at Illinois Tech on Saturday with a 1 p.m. scheduled tip-off.


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Malojian: Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home – songs from a lighthouse
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Recording an album in a lighthouse may conjure soundscapes of wistful desolation, but not for Malojian. Lurgan's Stevie Scullion has enlisted several well-known names for his fourth album, from Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love to session drummer Joey Waronker (REM, Beck), and while the end result – recorded at Rathlin East Lighthouse – isn't quite a party album, it's far from melancholic either. Scullion's soft voice drifts atop a soundtrack that veers between electric and acoustic, from the bumbling folk canter of A New Armageddon to the 1960s vibe of Ambulance Song, the twitchy pop burble of Between the Pylons and the woozy rumble of the title track. Amidst the personal songs, there's even time for some wry humour (Beard Song). All in all, it might be his most well-rounded album yet.


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They acknowledge that everything that they do will be in vain to accomplish their stated goals, but they do it anyway.
Mark Glaze is the former executive director of Bloomberg's anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is now misnamed Everytown for Gun Safety. The Wall Street Journal reported:
Since the Newtown massacre, Mark Glaze has been the face of the gun-control movement. The executive director of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mr. Glaze led the futile 2013 fight for expanded background checks and has been regular on cable news after each successive mass shooting.
Now Mr. Glaze, 43 years old, has stepped away from the fight. Friday marked his last day working for Mr. Bloomberg's organization, now calledEverytown for Gun Safety, after three and a half years as executive director.
In an interview at his organization's Washington office earlier this month, Mr. Glaze expounded on how President Barack Obama's unrelated political problems – health care, Edward Snowden, congressional gridlock – damaged the gun-control cause.
And Mr. Glaze said the movement hasn't solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldn't have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates, even if they might have prevented other gun crimes.
Gun control has very little to do with preventing violence. If they really thought that taking guns away from potential victims would somehow prevent violence, then why stop at guns? Why not work to ban handguns, knives, bats and hammers also?
Preventing violence has never been the goal of gun-grabbing politicians. That's just their marketing slogan. Gun control isn't so much about controlling guns as it is controlling people. The fastest way to control a populace is to first take away their defense weapons.