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Scam Letter(s) from Lilia Ahmadullina to Carlos (Spain)
Letter 1
Hello. It is a nice surprise for me to see your answer. Right now we know practically nothing about each other, we are like open books for each other. And i'm glad that I have possibility to know a person from another country and to get to know how your life is. I think it is extremely interesting getting to know new people. As I'm sociable and communicative , I hope we'll get along and we'll find some common points and a lot of topics to talk about. So you know my name already and I know yours, and this is something to start with. Don't you think?:) I'm 28 years old and I'm single and I have no kids. I live in a very small city it is called Sernur. It's more like a village I can say. A lot of young people do not want to live in villages like min and they move to big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Ekaterinburg and others. I have not been to all of these cities but I've been to Moscow and St Petersburg and I cannot say that I want to live there. These cities are beautiful and have a lot of interesting historical places but at the same time they are huge… and people live there not noticing each other. And for myself I want to have dear people and my friends around and I do not want to live with people that do not notice me at all. That's why I can say that I like Sernur for its itimate atmosphere of a small town. And what is he city you live in like? How big is it? And do you want to stay there for the rest of your life or you wouldn't mind to move to another place? As for me I wouldn't mind to move somewhere but I need at least one true friend around and I think I can be happy in any place in the world. As my city is not big ,it is not easy to find a decent job. I think that I am lucky as I found one. I'm a shop-assistant in the furniture store. I have a normal 8hours working day for a Russian man. I work from 8 o'clock in the morning till 7 o'clock in the evening and I have 1 hour of a lunch break usually from 12 to 1 o'clock in the afternoon. I like my job in general but I'm not sure that I want to do that all my life and I night to try myself in other fields some time later. As any person in the world I have my family. Right now it consists only from my mom and me. we are happy family because we love each other and we always support each other. My mom's name is Aleftina, she is 59 years old and she doesn't work right now as she is too old for that. she is on the government pension. My dada left my mom when I was about 2 years old and I haven't seen him from that time. So actually I don't remember him at all. My mom told me about how he was when they were young but she herself hasn't seen him since the time of a break-up. He seems to disappear somehow… I don't really want to talk much about that as I do not understand why my father did that way and why I am turned out to be to blame in their break-up. I worried a lo about that a lot when I was teenager but now I seem to get over that. What is your family story? Is your family big or small? How do you get along? Do you have a lot of relatives in you city or live somewhere all by yourself? And do you visit your relatives that are live far away from you? I'm asking so many questions about your family because I think that this information might give me the basic knowledge about you as all of us are children of our parents and we are the "product" of our own family traditions. For example I do not drink or smoke and I can say that I have no bad habits and it is all due to my mom. She was always an example to follow. I' have never seen her smoking or drinking alcohol. She could drink only a glass of Champaign or wine while celebrating big holidays or when inviting a lot of friends over. Also when I was small my mom always explained to me how harmful for our health smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and drugs are. So in my example the influence of my mom in my life is huge and what is in your case? How your parents influenced your life? Oh, it is 9 o'clock in the evening already and the internet cafe; is about to close. By the way computer with the internet is still a luxurious thing in our small town (it is different with big citites), so majority of population who need internet go to inernet cafe;. We have several of them in Sernur. Can you imagine that took me an hour to write this letter?I came to the internet cafe; when it was 8 'clock in the evening and it is 9 already. Time flies. It took me much longer than I thought it would , it is probably because ihave to translate everything I want to say in Russian into English and I want to say it right in English:) I don't want us to have any misunderstandings because of he language barrier. So please if you don't understand anything that I wrote feel free to ask me, I won't be offended and I'm open to answer any questions:) One more in conclusion I want to say that I'm glad that to see a letter from you in my mailbox and I hope you would like to continue writing letters. It would be very nice to get the answer from you soon and to start getting to know you:) Anna.
Letter 2
Hello, CARLOS:) I wanted to say good evening but then I thought that I don't know in what part of the day you will read my letter. and if you read it in the morning and I will great you with "good evening" it will sound strange , won't it?:) Well, that is not something that I'm supposed to start the letter I guess… anyways… I was glad to see a letter from you again and I'm glad that you decided to continue our writing letters. Thank you for answering my questions. Maybe they were too frank for the first letter because family is something very personal and I want to thank for sharing that with me. My family is on the first place for me and it plays an very important role in my life. The second place takes up my job. My job is something that give me a chance to express myself and of course to earn money for living and it helps me to be independent. What is your job for you? would you quit it if you for example won one million dollars? As for me I think I wouldn't because doing nothing is good for a while but soon people get annoyed by that and sooner or later they come to a decision that they need some kind of job. I hope you remember that I told you that I'm a shop-assistant in the furniture store. My job is not artistic, I'm not a designer of furniture i'm not making it. I just sell the items that other people created. But anyways I don't think that my job is no important. My job is to help people to create the comfort in their homes and to give them advices if they ask for that. The store is not very big, but a lot of people in the city know it as we sell good and not expensive furniture. And not high price give us a lot of customers. They are all different and my job is to find a key to each customer that step in our store. This is some kind of psychological work I think. And I like it all. It is very easy for me to work with people. I enjoy the process of choosing furniture and just talking to people. And what is your job related to? Do you work with people or somewhere in the office with the computer? Could you describe your duties for example or your every day work? I had a funny customer a few days ago. He wanted to buy bookshelves. He didn't want to get the ordinary ones, they got to be special in some way. At the same time he didn't know exactly what he wanted and he didn't have enough money to get the help of professional designer. So he was running arounf the sore explaining the size of the room and the places where the bed, the table and the sofa were, describing the color of the room and other details. And he needed my help, other shop-assistants came to look at that show:) and they were laughing at that man's manner explaining everything ! that was very funny!:) after about half an hour of the show he stopped and asked if I can advise anything? I sowed him the shelves that were oval and he liked them. Yesterday he came with a box of sweets and told me that the shelves that I picked suited perfectly well in his room. I was very glad with him and with the job done too:) I told you that my job takes the second place in my life and right now it is so. But to tell the truth I want it not to be more important than love. At this very moment I don't have man that I can fall in love with. And I was looking for that kind of man very hard in Russia but unfortunately I haven't met any. Don't think that I'm very independent woman who doesn't need a man. It's not so. I need someone who will protect and support me and who I can take care about. One of my friends had the same problems and a few years ago she met a nice man in the internet and after some time of writing letters to each other she visited him and didn't come back. They ended up marrying and she seems to be very happy. I'm emailing her form time to time and I see the joy that is in all of her letters. Till the latest time I thought that I was to find my love in Russia but now I came to conclusion that it doesn't matter which country people are from if they understand each other and if they have common topics to talk about. I have no experience talking to foreigner but I like it so far with you:) and let me know what do you think of it? Have you talked to a lot of different women from other countries? If yes, how was it? Was it difficult because of the different mentalities? Or may be this just added peculiarity to the communication?:) For me personally it is very exciting talking to you, to a person that have totally different life and another way of thinking though at the same time all the people no matter where they live in Africa, Indonesia, India, Japan or Brasilia have a lot in common: everybody dreams about true love, everybody needs to have a true friend, everybody wants to be successful in something and so on… I can name a lot of things that are common for all people in the world. So tell me if you are interested to know more about me after reading this letter and I will be happy to do that. I like telling about my life if one wants to know about it, I'm not shy or not talkative(I hope you have already noticed that:)) I can answer your questions if you have any and I still waiting the answers to mine:) Thanks for giving your time for reading my letters and writing the answers. I appreciate it. Anna.
Letter 3
Good time of the day CARLOS!:) It is very pleasant to know that someone who live so far away wants to know about me and about my life. I mean internet does incredible things like we would never get a chance even to start talking if there were no internet. It seem s that due to internet the whole world unites and gradually becomes one huge country. I don't know if it is good or bad for us people who live in this world but what I know for sure it is good for me personally because you and me began to write to each other:) I have now that many friends in other cities of Russia or abroad. I have one friend who married foreign man and went to live to another country , then I have a few friends who right now live in Moscow and St. Petersburg but most of my friends live here in Sernur. And what about your friends? Do all of them live next to you or do you have to go some distance to see them and to spend some time together? I love spending time with my friends, they make my life brighter and easier and more fun. I wish I could spend more time with my friends but it is not possible because fo the work and other responsibilities that I have. When I have free time (it is usually in the evenings) my friends and go to different entertainment places like movie theatre, theatre, cafe;. I just love to watch movies in the movie theatre. I like different movies starting from romantic comedies, dramas to adventure movies and action ones. Watching movie in the movie theatre can't be compared with watching it at home: the screen, the sound, the atmosphere- everything is so different! Most of my friends have the same opinion so we usually got to movie theatre with a big company. Less of my friends like an understand classical theatre. To be more precise only 2 of them really enjoy it. As for me I like to go to drama performances better than to opera and ballet. I do not understand opera because singers sing in Italian and I do not know Italian at all and I can guess what is going on on the stage only by the actors' movements.. and I believe that is not enough to understand performance. Ballet dancing is easy to feel as dancers express their feelings by movements but not by words so their movements is more emotional and expressive then those of opera singers. Anyways I prefer drama but I don't go to the theatre that often. Another alternative to go out with friends are different cafes and bars. We prefer karaoke bars as there are more opportunities to entertain ourselves. And where do you usually go out? What are the most popular places in your city to spend some free time? My free time consists not only of going out with friends. I have some hobbies. For example I like to do jogging in the mornings. I try to jog every day. I think it is on of the best ways to keep fit and I don't have to spend any money for going to gym. Jogging in the summer is very pleasant if it is not raining. It's getting harder in the winter when it is cold, snowy and the wind is blowing. But even in winter I do jogging not when it is freezing but when the weather is not that cold:) I don't really like any other sports… well, aerobics is kind of o'k. I can watch only one type of sport games. That's football. But I have never played it:) that how I am with sports:) do you go to gym or play any sport? Maybe you did that when you were in school or college. When I was in school I did a lot of skiing during my PT class. I hated it but our PT teacher made us do skiing otherwise he wouldn't give us good grades. I've never touched skies since the very time I graduated fro high school. But I like skating. I can't say that I do that excellent but I enjoy skating on the ice-skating rink while good music is being played. By the way about music! I can't live without music at all:) I turn it on when I wake up. I go jogging with a player. There is always some kind of radio station playing at work. And then I enjoy music going to concerts or to the bars in the evenings:) When I get ready to go to bed I listen to some calm music. I can't say that I like particular musical style. I like something form pop, rock, hip-hope and techno. It just depends on what I do. Tell me what are your musical preferences:) I think I asked you quite a lot of questions already:) that's probably enough for one letter:)))))) I hope you'll answer them all:)))) and may be tell something more about yourself! I would be glad to know more of you. I have to say good bye because the internet cafe; that I'm writing form is closing again. And people who work here don not want to wait till I finish the letter and they give me signs that I got to leave… that kind of impolite of them.. Next time I'll try to come to the internet cafe; earlier so I would have a little more time to write to you:) Anna.
Letter 4
Good time of the day to you CARLOS!:) I cannot write to you in Spanish because I do not know your language. You can use the translator to read my letters. How was your day? Mine was good. It was rather active. I should confess that I skipped jogging today mornings as I wasn't in the mood to work out. My morning started very calmly. I had a glass of juice and a wonderful omelet with tomatoes, ham and cheese .. I enjoyed not only eating it but cooking it as well:) by the way do you cook your breakfast yourself from time to time? Or do you prefer to have just a cup of coffee or a glass of juice and then you eat at lunch only? As for me it sometimes so happens that I drink only a glass of juice but then I feel starving at far before lunch and I have some snacks before lunch and then during the lunch I do not really eat anything… I know that it is not good at all, so more often I try to cook good breakfast at home and eat it all only that way I feel like I have enough energy to work till the lunch and then at lunch eat a salad and a piece of chicken or beef with rice or potatoes.. it's interesting what do you usually have for you lunch and then dinner? Do you have some kind of favorite food that you eat very often?:) as for me I do! I just love chicken with rice and boiled vegetables for lunch. Of course I don't eat that every single day but it happens often:) Well, I better stop talking about food as I came to the internet cafe; just after work and I haven't had dinner yet. And I realized right now that it is difficult to talk about food when you are starving…:) Anyways today morning I felt ready to do a lot of work… and you know my feeling that I would have lot to do didn't deceive me. Today was very busy day for me. there were so many customers today ! it's just unbelievable, it seems that the half of the town decided to buy something new in their house at one and the same time:) Thanks God I'm not the only shop-assistant in the store other way I wouldn't believe do all the work by myself… Actually I like when I'm busy at work and I can't stand sit doing nothing. It's boring for me. From time to time it happens that we practically have no customers then I try to do something useful fro myself. For example I read. Now at work I have a book in English. It is called "Pride and prejudice" by Jane Austen. I've started reading not that time ago but I like it so far. Reading in English is not easy for me I often have to consult the dictionary but I believe that this way I can make my English much better. Anyways today wasn't eh kind of day that I would have time to read… do thing like that happen to you? I mean does it happens that you have nothing to do at work? If it does what do you usually do to spend that time? Going back to reading I like to read historical books too. The history of Russia is extremely interesting especially I like the period of tsars and tsarinas, the period of developing arts and sciences… I would like to visit some historical places that are as well known as Hermitage in St.Petersburg. May be it would sound weird that a modern woman is interested in history but I think that the history of my country is a part of my history and it doesn't matter that right now I live in a small city where nothing huge ever happened… And do you know the history of your country? I don't mean in details… but at least in general? Do you know how your country was created? And who did that? maybe you would give a short historical note to me:) as I'm good in the history of Russia and I'm very bad in history of other countries of the world::( It's not possible to know everything.:) Not that long time ago I found another reason why I should know the history of Russia. It is connected with my future life. Before I though that I want to marry only Russian man but now my mind changed and I accept the thing that sooner or later I might go to live to another country if I meet that man that I will love. That would mean that my kids(that I'll have in future) will grow up in another culture. But I will ant them to remember about their Russian roots and I will want them to know the history of their country where their mother was born and lived a big part of her life. I hope that the way how seriously I'm thinking about the future do not confuse you. As right now I'm at that period of my life when I definitely want to have a family with the man who I will love. I feel like I'm ready for that and I'm ready to give my all for the family. Oh by the way here is a funny thing. This letter I talked so much about I like history, historical books and historical places.. but the place where I live now is not historical at all… we have only one museum that tells about the history of Sernur… but to tell the truth there is nothing to tell about:) isn't it hilarious:) During the period of tsars Sernur was a territory of one landowner who lived in St/ Ptersburg and practically never been to that land.. He just was sending people who took money from poor peasants . Then during the times of Soviet Union our city was a huge farm but this farm was totally controlled by the government and all people worked not for themselves but for the government. The city was not big at all, and after the collapse of Soviet Union the city started to grow, land became controlled by people who bought it from the government and since then our city began to develop. Well, that's the history of my native city:) and what is the history of yours? I would wait the answer in your next letter:) and not I'm going run home and cook something to eat as I'm starving to death…. And I can think only about food this very moment:) I hope you will excuse me:) Talk to you very soon!:) Anna.
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One simply cannot talk about people of importance to this genre without tipping the hat to the most masterful musician, teacher, musicologist, producer, folklorist and preservationist of the traditional blues. By now, Stefan Grossman is a venerated, iconoclastic and respected acoustic blues figure of mega-proportions. He came out of the vibrant Greenwich Village, New York, 1960s scene around Washington Square, where so many American folk and blues musicians launched their careers. His friend and occasional collaborator, Steve Katz, formerly of the Even Dozen Jug Band, the Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears, once half jokingly told this writer: "There we were, all these New York Jews playing the black blues." Indeed, the blues had a strong influence on young New Yorkers during the folk revival. These musicians, Stefan Grossman, Happy & Artie Traum, Danny Kalb, and many others, in turn had a powerful influence on the acceptance of the blues by the American baby boomer generation at large; and, they significantly helped to launch the folk, roots & blues revival, thereby reinvigorating the careers of many original blues musicians whose careers had waned.
Many people know Stefan Grossman as the paramount teacher and entrepreneur in what has become the world's largest "blues school", Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop. He is one of the most skilled guitarists in the genre, having been a student of Rev. Gary Davis in New York City. He also picked up lessons directly from Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and others.
The bottleneck guitar ideas of Son House, Blind Willie McTell, Fred McDowell, Blind Willie Johnson, Hambone Willie Newburn and Muddy Waters are presented. Country blues bottleneck style and techniques offers the student a wide variety of sounds, textures and atmospheres as well as challenges.
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Munnar, The Popular and Picturesque Hill Station of Kerala
Munnar , The Beautiful Hill Station at Kerala Western Ghats:
The summer resort of Kerala, Munnar, located at an altitude of 1524 meters, on the towering Paschimghat hill range, is a land amidst the awe inspiring natural locale. It is also the most beautiful hill station of Kerala.
The secluded serene city is famous for producing cardamom, black pepper, cinnamon and cloves. The dream city for the nature lovers is surrounded by three feral and untamed hilly rivers Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala. The fascinating city is also known as "the tea country". Besides the astonishing well spread tea gardens, tourists can watch tea processing as well. Interested tourists who love different tea flavors can even purchase tea packets from Munnar. Munnar also houses the only tea museum of India.
Coffee groves along with the lingering green carpets of tea garden fascinate hordes of holiday makers and nature lovers. The hillock, located on the lap of captivating nature, is a perfect travel destination for honey moon couples. The old Munnar, situated on the hilly tila, is the lifeline of the entire Munnar city.
The Roman Catholic Christ Church, built in 1898, is the prime attraction for the Christian tourists. Even though the Church doesn't look attractive but 14 rows of the chairs and imprinted commemorative statuettes on the walls are worth watching. Besides the beguiling Roman Catholic Christ Church, Tata General Hospital and Roman Catholic Church Mount Carmel are the other coveted destinations for the interested holiday makers. However, a lot of striking monuments and old history of Munnar are now in ruins due to the flood that took place in 1924.
The meaning of 'Mun' is three whereas 'ar' means rivers. The place pulls huge crowd due to the three rivers, Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala, all of which can be seen at a distance of 13 km from the main city. This is the place where all these uncultivated rivers are meeting with each other. A dam, installed right at this place, has helped to build the Pullivasal Hydro Electric Project. The Mattupatty Lake, about 12 km from the city of Munnar, is another sought after tourists' destination. The Lake, formed at the congregating point of three rivers, is a result of installing the dam. The blue streams of the Lake, encircled by the soaring green mountains, look amazing when its small waves hit the adjoining banks.
It's a destination for all the tourists who love the stillness and tranquility. They can enjoy the atmosphere, especially in the quiet noon. Colorful and pulsating butterflies move around to entertain the nature lovers like you. Myriad of indigenous and nomadic birds would amuse the bird watchers as well. Watch the changing colors of the nature while boating in the Lake. You are going to have a lifetime experience in the middle of the beguiling and mesmeric natural locus.
If you are really interested to watch the entire Hydro power project and want to know how it works then you have to grant permission from the DTDC Information Office, Old Munnar @ (04865) 23156.
Cattle Breeding Centre or the Indo-Swiss Dairy farm, located towards the southern tip of the Lake, is another charming destination.
Tourists who visit Munnar have to watch the sight of the Eravikulam or Rajamalai National Park, about 17 km away from the city. The Eravikulam Nationa Park, covering a sprawling 100 square km of area, located at a height of 1950 meters from the plains, is a nearby fascinating manor. The National Park houses maximum numbers (1317) of Nilgiri Tahr. If you want to visit and enjoy the Park thoroughly then avoid the rainy season. Take permission from the Wildlife Warden, Munnar before you get into the Park.
Eco point, Honey Bee Tree, wild Chinnakanal and Blossom Park for seasonal flowers are the other coveted tourists' destinations in Munnar. Apart from Pallivasal, countless other waterfalls are scattered in various parts of the hilly town, Munnar. The Pothamedu View Point, about 3 km away from the city, offers a panoramic view of the surrounds and overwhelming sunset.
Trekking lovers would be able to take the pleasure in trekking in Munnar as well. Trekkers can enjoy the astonishing cosmos while trekking to the largest crest of the Paschimghat hills in South India, Anamudi, located at an elevation of 2695 meters. The peak looks like a head of an elephant. Nilgiri Tahr, elephants, Shambars and Gaurs stroll on the slopes of various acclivities of the Paschimghat hills. If you want to watch these ambling denizens then you have to go to the gateway which is located in Vaguvarai, about 16 km away from Munnar. Take a walk to the Rajamalai from the entrance. Rajamalai is a part of the hilly territory of Naikundi hill.
Book a room for you and your family members in the Forest Rest House if you want to enjoy the fascinating nature for a while.
Places around the Devikulam or the Sita Devi Lake, about 16 km away from Munnar, located at an altitude of 1800 meters, are popular destinations for the picnic and outing lovers. The spice garden on the banks of the Lake entices many. Cheeyappara and Valara waterfalls in the close proximity look marvelous. The surrounding hills are hidden in the dark and quiet shades of the red and blue colored Gum trees. The adjoining places enjoy the dimness, especially when thick clouds gather on top of them. Try and carry packed food and have a picnic.
Holiday makers who really love this façade of the nature can stay at Government Guest House, on the banks of the stunning Lake.
Located at a distance of 60 km from Munnar, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, covering 90 sq km of rambling area, is another nearby accessible destination for the nature lovers.
The Top Station, about 32 km away from Munnar, at an elevation of 2200 meters, is the highest tea grown in South India. Avail a bus or Jeep or taxi from Munnar to the Top Station. You will touch the shooting Point, Eco Point and Tata Tea Estate on the way to the tea garden. Previously there was a rope way in the Top Station. However, rope way station is not their anyway. Located at the edge of the Paschim Ghat hills, at the border of Kerala and Tamilnadu, the Top Station, also offers a wonderful view of Tamilnadu. Another attraction of the Top Station is the beautiful Neelakurinji flowers which bloom just once every 12 years.
How to reach: Munnar is well connected to Mettupetty, Devikulam, Top Station, Ernakulam, Coimbatore, Madurai, Thekkadi, Thiruvananthapuram, Palani, Kochi, Kodai Kanal by frequent bus services. The Munnar Bus stand is located at the northern side of the city. It is best reached from Madurai.
Where to stay: Hill Resort of KTDC, Windermere Resort, Hotel Hill View, Hotel Monnar Inn, Hotel Arata Tourist Home, Royal Retreat, Hotel Rahi Inn, Hotem Munnar Dream Palace, Hi-range Inn, Club Mahindra and Hotel Mermaid. Always book in advance to avoid disappointment.
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CAM - Common Area Maintenance - a term used to include the costs of maintaining such as drive/parking lot areas, landscape maintenance, outside lighting, water for common areas, repairs of common areas, etc.
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2017-2019 Theme: Changing the Narrative - "I Am My Sister's Keeper [Because] I Am My Sister." - Iyanla Vanzant
Welcome Association of Black Women Attorneys ("ABWA") members, supporters, and friends to the 2017–2019 bar year. I am honored and humbled to serve as President of ABWA this year, and thankful for your confidence in my ability to lead this organization. As we embark on this bar year, I look forward to adding to the building blocks of my predecessors and continuing in ABWA's mission of "Lifting As We Rise." The theme of my presidency this year is "Changing the narrative – I am my sister's keeper because I am my sister." With a primary focus on strategic programming geared at engendering strong and meaningful personal relationships, my mission is to dispel the narrative from which the "crabs in the barrel" concept derives and that perpetuates the notion that vulnerability is a sign of weakness rather than strength. It is my belief that programming geared at encouraging an atmosphere in which insecurities can be unmasked and vulnerabilities acknowledged, lasting friendships will evolve. Such friendships will establish bonds that will ensure the growth from which our sisterhood is made, thereby securing future professional prosperity.
With your support, let us start to change the narrative, as we lift as we rise; strengthen our sisterhood, as we lift as we rise; and create lasting bonds, as we lift as we rise.
Vice President, Jennifer Taiwo, the ABWA leadership, and I are committed to and look forward to serving the members of this phenomenal organization.
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text: It's becoming more and more prevalent for institutions to construct portfolios that leverage the premia of various risk factors such as value, size, momentum and volatility. While a multi-factor approach is prudent, academic research suggests that the factor that demonstrates the best risk-adjusted returns is momentum. A recent research paper, Fact, Fiction and Momentum Investing by Moskowitz, Asness and Israel (May 2014), shows that managers can improve the efficiency of their portfolios by incorporating momentum strategies. Including momentum to enhance smart beta portfolio construction can no longer be ignored.


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Good morning, I wanted to share with you our experience in selecting our wedding venue, how and why we picked ours based on our style and theme for our wedding.
We decided to go off and come up with a top 3 venues each and then compare lists and go from there.
As a wedding photographer, I have a slight advantage over Emily as I have been to 40+ wedding venues.
Within a day Emily had her list of venues, I took a few days to get mine done while thinking of mine I mentioned Trevenna to Emily as a venue I'd photographed a few years ago.
By the time I had made my list of venues Emily had taken one of hers off the list and swapped it for Trevenna, this made me tweak my list as well.
Our top 6 venues
Trevenna Barns
Horn of Plenty
Ever After
Pentille Castle
Some other place
We sat down and looked at the venues and checked that they matched our criteria for a wedding venue. ***checklist for venue***
I called and made appointments for 3 venues. Unfortunately, we had to withdraw Ever After from the list as they didn't meet the checklist criteria, we are getting married in February, and they only offer elopement packages for 8 people.
Horn of Plenty
It was a cold and wet Saturday morning, we drove up through Dartmoor to visit the Horne of Plenty and were greeted by some spectacular views across the valley with low-level mist settling in due to the weather. This added to the atmosphere, and the weather didn't put us off.
We had the tour of the venue and looked into some of the rooms, met the head chef Ashley and discussed what food options were available if we were to book with them. Ashley and his team would customise the menu to suit your needs, and nothing seemed impossible.
We finished the tour and then had a walk around the grounds and then jumped in the car talking about the venue all the way to our next.
Trevenna Barns
As I mentioned earlier, Trevenna was somewhere I had previously visited with another couple, It's located in St Neot's just past the Trago Mills. We pulled in to the carpark and were met by Jonathan. Trevenna is a large venue split across several barns and is a fulltime wedding venue. We walked into the marquee, and I could tell that Emily had fallen in love with Trevenna, we spent some time there discussing ideas, layouts and how the wedding would run.
We then went and looked at all the accommodation Trevenna has to offer as it can accommodate 40 guests on site. Emily would be a terrible poker player as it was clear that she had made her mind up that this is where we were getting married. It just felt right and matched our personalities, we are both very relaxed people, and you get that feeling when you are there.
We drove home discussing the venue and what we were going to do…
Needless to say, we cancelled the other viewing and spoke to Jonathan the following week to secure a date for the venue.


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Poultry farm that supplies Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's boiled halal chickens ALIVE
Birds spent agonising minutes in boiling hot water when they should have been stunned or had throats cut
A POULTRY company which supplies many of the UK's major supermarkets boiled chickens ALIVE after equipment meant to knock them out at the slaughterhouse failed.
Faulty electrical equipment meant that the birds, being handled by company 1Stop Halal, were not stunned before being killed.
The firm also failed to cut the chickens' throats before they entered a scalding tank used to loosen feathers on dead birds.
It meant that the birds spent two minutes in very hot water and suffered an agonising death.
1Stop Halal suggested that the birds had died in a single incident in July last year, but an investigation by The Times has now established that live birds were plunged into the scalding tank in TEN similar incidents on different days last year.
The episodes were uncovered during post-mortem examinations by meat hygiene inspectors employed by the Food Standards Agency.
The first incident, on July 6, involved 70 birds. There were nine more incidents involving between one and four birds over the next three months.
1Stop Halal stuns some birds by dipping their heads in an electrically charged water bath before cutting their throats.
It also kills chickens while they are conscious to cater for some Muslims who want to be sure the animals are alive at the point of slaughter.
In the first incident, the company switched from stun to non-stun slaughter after a fault with the water bath meant that 1Stop Halal had to rely on its slaughtermen to cut each chicken's neck swiftly and accurately to minimise suffering.
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However, the production line handles 60,000 to 100,000 birds a day and some passed the slaughtermen without being cut - sparking a row between two members of staff over poor cutting during which 64 birds entered the scalding tank alive.
The 81 chickens involved were got rid of and not sent on to retailers.
1Stop Halal admitted causing unnecessary suffering to 81 chickens at its plant in Eye, Suffolk, earlier this month, with company co-owner Ranjit Singh Boparan, a multimillionaire known as the "chicken king", fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £6,000 costs.
A statement from the company said: "We deeply regret the circumstances which occurred on the 6th July, 2015, during our non-stun slaughter when up to 81 birds were caused unnecessary suffering.
"This occurred on our first day of operating the facility at Eye and involved a degree of human error. "Employees who were involved in the incident no longer work for the business.
"Since this incident the company has invested substantially in further training [and] improved control systems and have processed more than 30 million birds."
The company did not respond when quizzed about similar incidents on nine other days but said that Mr Boparan was not involved in the day-to-day running of the business.
Morrisons said that it sold chicken from 1Stop Halal and had "a small number of their concessions in our stores" but "don't buy the products affected by the failure."
Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's said that they sold halal meat from Shazans, a subsidiary of 1Stop Halal, which uses chicken from the Eye plant.
Sainsbury's added: "We have been reassured that the Shazans line was not impacted by the court case."
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Posts Tagged 'packaging'
For good packaging loversseptembre 21, 2011
Watch and learnnovembre 18, 2009
L'idée est de Packlab, et a gagné le prix d'emballages en aluminium des pays nordiques 2009 (Nordic Aluminium Package Design Awards). Elle consiste à offrir un emballage pour les fleurs en vente, qui puisse avoir une durée de vie prolongée pour servir de vase.
Chapeau, non?
« Food airlines »août 19, 2009
I saw a really nice video while I was on my daily visit on Sylvain Allard's (really cool and interesting) blog, and I decided to share it here too.
Well, it's a Canadian video, and I'm not Canadian nor live in Canada like him, but I guess we have the same problems in France, only with different statistics.
There's the video. It's has a nice stop-motion work too!
Well, since I'm in Brazil at the moment, it's really easier to keep buying local. I guess it's easier in an almost self-sufficient Country. For those who aren't (like Canada, apparently), the designer James Reynolds suggests a really fun eco-conscient packaging, that I also found on S. Allard's blog. There you go:
Yesterday, I was on the beach with a friend from France that also came to spend some time in Rio. We were resting on the sand all afternoon, and after a while I got a bit hungry and remembered I had some apples on my bag. He looked at me in a really shocked way, asking why on earth do I eat apples in Brazil!?
Humn…well… Brazil also produces (shitty quality) apples, and you'll all agree with me, that it's way easier to carry than a pinapple on the beach!!
PS: I sooo should have had a camera around to take a pic of Matthieu's look on a Rio's beach… But since I don't, just imagine a skinny really pink-white dude with a candy-pink short with macarronis drawn on it…( Hehehe je pouvais pas résister, mec…)


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Hi Vivaldi Team! I had updated to [b]1.3.551.30 (Stable channel) (32-bit)[/b] and now, when I close Vivaldi, [b]it does not save automatically the session tabs as before[/b]. Even the settings having [b]STARTUP - Startup With - LAST SESSION[/b] selected, Vivaldi [b]opens with a clear TAB[/b], as Home-Page or Start-Page. No one of the other tabs are loaded... I believe it's a bug of the newest version.
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Strange, but it works for me with Vivaldi 1.3.551.30 32bit on Windows 10x64 (Anniversary).
Close Vivaldi
Start Taskmanager
look for runnig Vivaldi processes
If there are any kill them
Open Vivaldi profile folder at C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
Delete files Last Session, Last Tabs, Current Session, Current Tabs
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I can confirm that happened to me too yesterday, after installing 1.3 stable, closed it and sessions weren't restored.
I had to kill the vivaldi processes, restarted and all my tabs were there. Didn't happen anymore so far.
Today it loaded my saved session but NOT the last one, with this forum opended in another tab…


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Last Sunday, my husband said there was a big street fair in a nearby town, in case I wanted to go, but being "Poisson d'avril" (April Fool's Day), I thought he was joking, not to mention that it was Sunday when most stores are closed. Mais non, three streets were actually barracaded for about 6 blocks, making a giant square communal area. There were pedestrians, street performers, and stands everywhere selling 'everything but the kitchen sink'!
I browsed and people watched a lot, so I guess, the April Fool's joke was really on me!
(All photos copyright of 24/7 in France)


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International Finance Competition
The third International Finance Competition organised by SDA Bocconi School of Management was as international as it could get as it saw participation of over 20 top business schools from around the world. Since each school could only be represented by only one team, the competitions officer helped organize an internal case competition to choose the best team which would then represent RSM at Milan. Interested teams at RSM were given a valuation based case study to solve within 3 hours. My team was chosen the winners of that internal competition and thus got an opportunity to represent RSM at this competition.
The International Case Study Competition was sponsored by some of the big brands like Bain & Company, UniCredit and Edison group. The case study had two parts and we received the first part through email to be solved within a week and mailed back to them. We soon realized that the case was not a pure play financial analysis case but needed us to devise the given firm's business strategy by balancing finance and its long-term vision and growth prospects. After numerous sessions of team meetings and several revisions we managed to submit our report to SDA Bocconi.
As the next step, my team and I reached Milan and it was an overwhelming experience to be part of the pool of students which were representing their schools. The interplay of energy, enthusiasm and the spirit of competition was something that we do not experience in our daily school lectures and environment and thus we would cherish that memory forever. In the second part of the case study, we were given some more information about the case. We were asked to devise the long-term business strategy for an electronics car sharing company based on growth projections of various businesses it could choose to diversify into within three hours and then present our analysis to a panel of SDA Bocconi professors and sponsors in a maximum of 5 PowerPoint slides. The 20 business schools were divided into 4 pools with each pool having 5 schools and one school from each pool was to proceed to the final round.
Unfortunately, RSM could not make it to the next stage but it brought a deep level of satisfaction to be able to represent our school at an international stage. Also, a combination of exposure to a real-life business strategy problem, a global platform and presenting your ideas to industry experts like Bain & company and Edison, provided us with an enriching experience which we would carry with us in our professional lives in the future. We would like to thank RSM which provided us with this opportunity and experience which goes beyond the classroom learning and helped us widen our horizons.
Written by Nitin Kumar, class of 2018


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The field-strength war
ike almost everything in this world, MR machines come in different sizes: extra-small, small, medium, large, and extra-large. The technical terms in MR lingo for these sizes are ultralow, low, medium, high, and ultrahigh field machines. These terms refer to the magnetic field strength of the respective machine. The field strength is measured in Tesla (T), a unit that replaced the former unit of Gauss (G) some years ago, although Gauss is still used sometimes (10,000 G = 1 T).
Ultralow-field machines operate at a field strength below 0.1 T, low field between 0.1 and 0.5 T, medium field between 0.5 and 1 T, high field between 1 and 2 T, and ultrahigh field machines above 2 T.
In clinical surroundings, the national radiological protection boards used to allow machines as high as 2.0-2.5 T. Everything above this limit was considered potentially hazardous and thus should only be admitted to research facilities – particularly if fast gradient-switching was used. Today, ultrahigh fields are considered safe for research and, partly, for clinical routine – at least in some countries.
In describing MR machines, natural scientists prefer to talk about frequencies instead of field strengths. This is because different nuclei in the periodic system possess different resonance frequencies. At 1 T, for instance, protons resonate at 42.58 MHz, whereas at the same field strength, phosphorus nuclei resonate at 17.23 MHz. For clinical imaging purposes in medicine, this is of no importance because only proton MR imaging is used.
Strolling down the aisles of the world's biggest commercial exhibition of medical imaging equipment at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, one could find small machines operating at 0.06 T and huge machines operating at 4.0 T or even higher fields. Their magnets are different: below approximately 0.3 T, the magnets are permanent and resistive or electromagnetic, but above this field the magnets are superconductive. All these magnet types have their pros and cons.
Why does one find small ultralow field MR imagers and high field machines operating at fields 100 times stronger? Why are there not only low or high field machines?
The field-strength question has divided the MR community since the early 1980s. At that time, all MR machines operated at low fields, and many of the prototypes had strengths of approximately 0.15 T. Researchers did not believe that imaging at higher field would be possible because higher radio frequencies would not be able to penetrate the human body. Like many other predictions in MR imaging, this prediction was wrong.
MR images at that time were crude, blurry, and generally worse than CT images. Scientists working for the R&D divisions of companies producing MR equipment were asked:
"How do you get better image quality?" They had a simple answer: "Increase field strength."
From analytical applications of chemical MR spectroscopy it was known that the signal-to-noise ratio increases when field strength is increased. The better your signal-to-noise, the better your image will be. Higher fields also require higher gradient strength to reduce the chemical-shift artifacts created by these fields. In turn, this led to better spatial resolution. So some manufacturers, driven by their research and marketing people, moved to high-field superconductive magnet systems. These systems were (and in some instances still are) huge, dinosaurlike machines. They were expensive, difficult to produce, and costly to maintain, but image quality suddenly became better.
Another argument supported the development of high field machines; only these machines are able to produce in vivo MR spectra for phosphorus or proton spectroscopy. At this time, one of the aims in the development of MR in medicine was to combine imaging and spectroscopy to acquire morphological and metabolic information about the human body. The higher the field, the more detailed spectroscopic information will be.
However, in vivo spectroscopy did not take off, whereas the popularity of MR imaging exploded. Dedicated imaging machines became the rule, combined imaging and spectroscopy the exception.
Even for imaging, it became an ideology to plead for high fields. There is no rational scientific reason for this development; image quality and spatial resolution of low and medium field machines became as good as, and in some instances even better than, that of high or ultrahigh field equipment. Additional research revealed that the most important factor in medical imaging, tissue contrast, at least for certain diagnostic questions in the central nervous system, seems to be best at medium fields and, in some instances, even decreases with higher fields [2,3].
There was still no rational approach to the problem. At a 1983 magnetic resonance conference in San Francisco, a debate on field strength that had started on the platform was continued in the corridor of the conference center. The discussion nearly ended in a fist fight between the proponent of the high field ideology, whose company had put all its efforts into 1.5 T machines, and the proponent of low fields, whose company advocated MRI systems at 0.35 T.
The front lines in this war were mighty and the trenches deep. You were either part of one camp or the other. All large companies jumped on the high field side and promoted high fields with all the ammunition their marketing departments could provide. In some countries, millions of dollars of taxpayers' money were channelled into subsidies for the development of high field systems.
However, one morning in the early 1990s MR customers woke up and found that a gap was emerging. One company had decided to enter the mid-field market, another followed suit, and a third decided to compromise by offering an MR machine operating at a field strength in between the others.
The reasons for these steps were never publicly discussed, but people had realized that the signal-to-noise increase expected from the results in analytical NMR did not occur in the same way in whole-body MR imaging.
In whole-body MR imaging, signal-to-noise increased to a certain extent, and then the human body created additional noise that led to a flattening of the signal-to-noise curve at high fields. In addition, nobody had foreseen the new problems faced by users at higher fields, among them being the worsening of motion and susceptibility artifacts. Cost and hazards also increased with higher fields. At the same time, low and medium field machines became smaller, the quality of their diagnostic output better, and interventional MR became feasible.
A new generation of buyers, the smaller hospitals and private practices, preferred cost-efficient MR systems that they could use for most of the daily routine examinations. Bigger hospitals, and in particular those interested in spectroscopy and research in functional imaging, went for high field systems, but for them also the second and third system usually was medium or low field. Today, the market for 1.5 T high field equipment is nearly unbroken because they are good diagnostic machines.
"Definitions always seem to be in the eye of the beholder."
The marketing department of the biggest US-American manufacturer pushed for high field (1.5 Tesla) in the 1980s. Fifteen years later, they postulated that their new mid-field equipment (0.7 Tesla) was also high field. Another 15 years later, 3 Tesla was the non-plus-ultra and "high field". Definitions always seem to be in the eye of the beholder. If all of this had been known or taken into consideration 15-20 years ago, more patients would have had access to MR imaging, and medical MR equipment might have been less expensive than it is today.
Derek Shaw worked for Varian, later for Oxford Instruments, and since 1983 until his retirement for General Electric Medical Systems. He is one of the leading MR scientists in Europe. In 1996, he wrote the following statement in a book chapter:
"The early period of MRI ... was dominated by the 'field-strength war'. What was the best field strength for MRI? These battles were essentially commercial, science being used to justify the company's competitive position ...
"Our pawn in the field strength battle was in vivo spectroscopy... As it became apparent that there was not going to be sufficient specificity available via T1 and T2 determinations, MRS ... was seen as a potential alternative ... MRS needed the highest field possible ...
"This need, along with the higher signal-to-noise ratios achievable at higher field strengths ... led, despite their extra costs, to the use of 1.5 T magnets ... Without this push to high field, MRI systems might be quite different today, probably lower down on the cost/performance scale."[4]
Thus, the trend went towards high field. High field made higher profit, which is a recurrent theme not only in medical technology. This is reflected in equipment sales worldwide and in the sales revenue of MR equipment according to field strength.
Recently the field strength quarrel has flared up again. This time it is 1.5 Tesla versus 3.0 Tesla. However, this time it is not MR spectroscopy, but functional MR imaging pushing up field strength. The results are the same. In research – and in some places even in routine imaging – 3-Tesla system have become the sine qua non. It has become fashionable to buy them.
They also have some advantages over low field equipment; for instance, ultrafast imaging, where scan time is reduced at the expense of signal-to-noise ratio, is generally more effective at higher fields. This facilitates another 'sexy' research area: functional imaging of the brain.
Once again, people claim that the signal-to-noise ratio in MR imaging increases linearly with field strength. Some researchers state that signal-to-noise between 1.5 T and 3.0 T increases by 200%, even 300%. There are papers indicating that this might be correct for functional MR imaging using the BOLD technique. However, comparing the BOLD technique and MR imaging is like comparing apples and oranges. On the other hand, for MR spectroscopy a 20% increase in sensitivity, but the same signal-to-noise ratio has been shown in comparative studies between 1.5 Tesla and 3.0 Tesla [1].
For MR imaging itself, reliable comparative studies do not exist – to make a valuable comparison, the total amount of signal acquired during the same time should be taken into account and this is not in favor of ultahigh fields since T1 increases.
Without any doubt, signal-to-noise and spatial resolution can be better at 3 Tesla, coronary arteries are better seen, small brain structures better delineated. However, the cost/benefit ratio remains unknown ... and adverse effects might threaten both patients and staff.
Next stop: 7 Tesla, perhaps 9.
1. Barker PB, Hearsham DO, Boska MD. Single-voxel proton MRS of the human brain at 1.5 T and 3.0T. Magn Reson Med 2001; 45: 765-769.
2. Hoult DI, Chen C-N, Sank VJ. The field dependence of MRI II. arguments concerning optimal field strength. Magn Reson Med 1986; 3: 730-746.
3. Rinck PA, Fischer HW, Vander Elst L, Van Haverbeke Y, Muller RN. Field-cycling relaxometry: medical applications. Radiology 1988; 168: 843-849.
4. Shaw D. From 5-mm tubes to man. The objects studied by NMR continue to grow. In: Grant DM, Harris RK. Encyclopedia of nuclear magnetic resonance. Volume 1, Historical perspective. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 1996, 623-624.


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A stock, XJ Cherokee Jeep with the spare wheel mounted in the rear cargo area gains a significant increase in cargo space if the spare wheel can be relocated to an external wheel carrier. A roof rack had been purchased for our Cherokee so there was no need to complicate the carrier with Jerry can holders, etc. The preference was for a clean looking carrier that kept the stock look. The Detours TailboneTM was the obvious choice.
This document is not a substitute for Detours step by step Installation Guide, it is just my notes that may or may not assist. I'm not an automotive engineer or mechanic therefore you are just getting my best guesses and you cannot rely on the accuracy or validity of any information in this document. Basically if you try to use or implement any of this and it ends in tears or there are other issues don't come crying to me, you should have followed Detours instructions. You have been warned.
The closest 4x4 accessories shop is ARB but online they didn't list a rear wheel carrier for the XJ Cherokee. Locally Wooders Garage listed the Garvin and Proto Fab carriers but none of these products made use of the existing bumper skin nor maintained a clean, factory appearance. So it was time to search the intertubes.
Looking offshore, there were a wide variety of shapes and sizes but for our purposes none was better than the Detours Tailbone. Obviously you must have a clear idea of your requirements. For example, the Tailbone isn't suitable if you want to totally replace the factory bumper and end caps with a solid bumper.
The following list created in early 2011 probably doesn't cover every carrier in production and there are others that are only available secondhand e.g. a factory Jeep/Mopar unit.
|AJs Offroad Armor
|Tanker Tire Carrier Bumper
|BPI Fab
|Rear Bumper
|Rear Bumper
Spare Tire Carrier
|Custom4x4 Fabrication
|Rear Bumper
Swing-away Tire Carrier
|Dirtbound Offroad
|Tire Carrier Bumper
|Wilderness Rear Bumper with Tire Carrier
|Hansen OffRoad
|Rear Bumper & Tire Carrier Combo
|Rear Bumper with Carrier Stealth Style
Rear Bumper with Carrier Tube Style
|Logans Metal Products
|Rear Bumper with Tire Carrier
|Rear Bumper with Swingout Tire Carrier
|550-Rock Rear Bumper
Tire Swings
700-151 high gloss
700-154 rubicon black
|Proto Fab
|Rocksolid Bumper with Tire Rack
Classic Bumper with Tire Rack
|Rock Hard
|Rear Bumper
|XRC Rear Bumper with Tire Carrier
|Rear Bumper
Swing Out Tire Carrier
|Rear Bumper
Tire Carrier
Decide if you want the spare wheel held vertical or offset (angled back to match pitch of the tailgate window). Then place your order via email or telephone. Remember to specify lefthand or righthand drive as it determines which way the carrier pivots and places the spare behind the driver to minimise visual obstruction.
Telephone was the quickest way to get answers to our questions then to place the order. From Australia this did mean some 3:00am phone calls to sort out what we wanted and the phone calls were worth it. It wasn't obvious from the Detours web site that there was a righthand drive option plus we had many other questions related to the Detours Backbone, and then there was a looming deadline for loading a shipping container on the west coast.
Cost of shipping a single, heavy package (65lbs/29.5kg) from the United States could be outrageous. I was quoted $US274 shipping and handling for moving an empty box to Australia. I wanted an empty, secondhand, Tektronix TM5006 instrument case to carry test equipment in Volvodemort. Had a bit of a surprise just now, turns out the Tektronix specifications say 14.5kg empty. Who would of thought an empty box could weigh so much. Given the Tailbone shipping weight was ~30kg then shipping and handling charges to Australia could be more than the purchase price of the Tailbone.
Our neighbour was bringing in some shipping containers from the west coast and our XJ fruit was shipped for a nominal amount. Only catch was an unexpected holdup getting the shipping containers onto the ship. Christmas presents may have been a bit late but I did like the cheap shipping.
US prices with a strong Australian Dollar may make direct purchases look attractive but moving stuff across the pond is a killer.
Due to the Tailbone being in a shipping container load a Customs Agent was required to clear the shipment through Australian Customs. The Customs Agent entered the details from the invoices and the charges for this processing included a fixed charge for each line item. So it may not be a good idea to add a $US0.20 packet of washers to an order just to save paying $1.20 for the same item from a local hardware store. Also, buying a kit of parts for $xxx.xx is cheaper to process than an order consisting of multiple line items with their individual sale prices.
There maybe a free trade agreement between the USA and Australia but that doesn't mean an item shipped from the USA will automatically be exempted under the agreement. An invoice needs to say the item was made in the USA to escape a 5% duty. I didn't know this, didn't ask Detours to add this comment on the invoice, and got slugged an extra 5% which I think was added before the GST calculation. Trap for a noob. Exchange rates and the GST makes an appearance in the Customs calculations and even the freight cost can get added into the mix.
Major shippers would probably handle the customs clearance in the background and just present you with the bill. At the end of the day the government is going get a significant amount of your money.
As the Tailbone is supplied primed the first decision is what type of finish to use. The Detours Paint Tips recommends against powder coating and describes spray paint products that you're unlikely to see in your local Bunnings store. If colour matching to the Jeep had been required it would have been a job for a professional spray painter. My partner does the aesthetics and she requested a satin finish, black topcoat.
Given the basic black colour I chose to do my own painting. To save money I had removed some of the floor sheets in the Volvodemort motorhome before delivery to Volgren's Service Centre for the framing work. This plywood floor was secured by screws with thread that was ever so slightly triangular shaped, presumably to prevent screws working loose in service. It was impossible to remove all these screws by hand with just a screwdriver so I bought a cheap, chinese air compressor and tools from the local Aldi supermarket. A very basic spray gun was supplied with the compressor. Although pressurised spray cans was one possibility suggest by Detours, given the total surface area of the Tailbone plus the Detours Backbone to be painted, a spray gun was the way to go. I already had goggles, mask (with P1 filters and prefilters) plus gloves so Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was not a problem. The Tailbone became my first spray painting job. Major components of the Tailbone and Backbone can be seen in the photograph.
The local Bunnings only stocked one type of satin black paint that might be suitable. The gloss and flat black paints had instructions for spray painting with a paint dilution recommendation but the satin finish didn't. Given the spray gun was nothing special it was no great loss if the paint clogged the gun. So I went ahead with the satin paint and guesstimated a dilution.
The Tailbone is shipped as two major assemblies: the pivoting carrier and the more complex base. The base appears symetrical with the only visible difference being five bolts on the pivot end and four bolts on the latch end. The primed, righthand drive variant is shown below. The colour differences are due to changing from natural light to using an electronic flash. If you need to examine an image more closelythen clicking an image should open a larger, higher definition version.
The base breaks apart into a number of components that all require painting. As there was going to be a delay between painting and installation I photographed each step of the breakdown to aid reassembly and keep track of the various bolts.
Qty 9: 3/8" dia. x 1 1/2" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 9: Spring Washers.
Qty 2: 3/8" dia. x 1" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 2: 3/8" dia. x 3/4" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 4: Flat Washers.
Except for these two flat pieces all the other metalwork was supplied primed.
Note the length and location of the bolts.
Qty 2: 3/8" dia. x 1" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 2: Flat Washers.
Qty 4: M10 x 30mm High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 4: Flat Washers.
Qty 4: M10 Nuts.
Qty 2: 3/8" dia. x 1 1/4" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 1: 3/8" dia. x 1 1/2" High Tensile Bolt.
Qty 6: Flat Washers.
Qty 3: Nuts.
At this point the major base assembly is stripped.
Qty 2: 3/8" dia. x 1" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 2: Flat Washers.
Qty 2: Nuts.
Qty 4: 5/16" dia. x 1" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 8: Flat Washers.
Qty 4: Nuts.
And this completes disassembly of the base.
There is no disassembly required for the swinging frame, just removal of a minimal number of bolts.
Qty 4: 1/4" dia. x 3/4" High Tensile Bolts.
Qty 2: 7/16" dia. x 1" High Tensile Bolts.
The last bolt is a 3/8" dia. x 1" stainless steel bolt with a spring washer that is for the pivot of the swinging frame.
Use masking tape to cover the pivot's grease nipple.
As you can see above, I attempted to use Cat 5 computer cable to suspend the frame then blocked the remaider of the bolt hole with paper. Basically this was a failure as it leaves the large bearing end open and overspray can coat the bearing surface. Definitely not recommended.
Use masking tape to seal the open end of the pivot's bronze bearing. Using a Stanely knife or box cutter carefully cut the masking tape along the 'V' shaped groove between the bronze bearing and the steel frame.
I had to spray paint in the garden and major problems were dust and birds. All dust collected in shipping has to be removed before applying a coat of paint. Between coats I used very fine grade Wet and Dry sandpaper to remove any embedded dust. Also avoid painting in dusty or high wind conditions.
Worst problem was bird poop. The paint takes many hours to dry and as I was hanging the metal work from wooden beams Indian Myna birds would sit on the beams and drop bird poop onto the wet paint. As the bird poop became embedded into the wet paint I had to sand back to the primer and redo the next day. A drawback with spray painting was the amount of cleaning required after each days spray. Given the setup and cleanup was always more time consuming than spraying I added another coat to all the metalwork even if only one item required a respray. To avoid a bird strike the next time I moved the drying metalwork into the barn but a different piece of the Tailbone suffered a bird strike. The aim was always to apply multiple coats of paint so the bird poop was only ever a minor inconvenience.
Before each spray I would change the orientation or location of the cables. I would also avoid painting the attachment points to prevent a buildup of paint between the cable and metal.
Due to old age I wanted to improve my access to the chassis and wanted to place the Cherokee on axle stands. Looking at the Detours' instructions all the work can be done with the vehicle on the ground so this step really is optional.
First step was to look at the jacking up instructions in the driver's Operating Information booklet.
XJ has finally made it into the shed. To be continued.......


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OPM Announces CHCO Council Changes
In a memo entitled "Chief Human Capital Officers and Council Future Composition," sent to all federal agency and department heads, new U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director Jeff Pon announced that he will increasingly consult with members of the CHCO Council (the body comprised of federal agencies' Chief Human Capital Officers), in keeping with a view of the body as more decisional than informational.
"President Trump, as well as his two predecessors, recognized in their President's Management Agendas that the government's workforce is one of the Nation's most valuable assets. I intend to underscore this focus," Pon said in the memo, distributed yesterday.
"In order to effectively support the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), I believe the role of the CHCO should be assigned to an individual at a very senior-level who has the trust of the Secretary or agency head and serves as an integral part of the leadership team," Pon continued. "The CHCO should share accountability with the other members of the leadership team for the agency's bottom line performance, mission results, accountability, and best use of taxpayer money."
Pon concluded, "As the OPM Director and CHCO Council Chair, I intend to consult with CHCO Council members periodically on issues facing the civil service. Therefore, I strongly encourage agency heads to ensure that the designated CHCO for his/her agency meets the criteria above."
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Technical analysis is a method of analyzing currency movements by examining the data generated by market activity.These data that were analyzed are usually historical data, such as previous prices and volume. Professionals called technical analysts attempt to study these given data, such that they can identify patterns that may be used to predict future price movements in the forex market.
There are a lot of techniques that analysts make use of to evaluate data.There are moving averages, trends, double tops, double bottoms, MACD, support, and resistance.
But first, there are several reasons why a lot of traders believe that this method of analysis can be a great way to predict currency movements.Basically, this kind of analysis is based on three primary assumptions:
- The prices of currencies reflect all available information, such as fundamental factors. Thus, some argue that conducting fundamental analysis wouldn't add any value. Technical analysts believe that analyzing the price movements or the supply and demand of these different currencies is the most ideal way to identify trends in the foreign exchange market.
- The price movements tend to follow a specific trend. With this, previous price behaviors are likely to occur again. Moreover, if a trend has already been established, it is more likely that the currency will continue in the similar direction.
- In relation to the idea that prices follow trends, technical analysis also assumes that history repeats itself. This assumed repetitive nature of the movements of prices is attributed to the psychology of the participants of the market.This is based on the notion that these participants frequently react in the same manner to recurring events in the market. In fact, a lot of popular chart patterns are even based on this assumption that history repeats itself.
Although technical analysis has proven to be of great help when it comes toforex trading, some forex traders still believe that fundamental analysisis the better way to analyze the market. Unlike technical analysis, fundamental analysis involves looking at macroeconomic factors that may affect the economy of a country, as well as its currency.
There has always been a debate about which is the more useful method of analysis, but even the best forex broker would say that it would be ideal if both methods are implemented. These two have their own strengths and weaknesses, hence,being well-versed in both types of analyses is the safe way to go.


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Anne Charlish (UK) is a well-known medical and health writer and broadcaster. Her 30 published books include Your Natural Pregnancy: A Guide to Complementary Therapies and Alternative Answers to Arthritis.
Angela Robertshaw (UK) became a full-time reiki therapist in 1986. Taught in the Shiki Ryoko tradition, she became a master teacher in 1996.


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Recently I was asked to present at the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG) event hosted by the University of Sussex. MELSIG is a special interest group originally formed in 2008 (MELSIG, 2014). The group's focus has evolved, alongside contemporary developments in technology, to include investigation of a wide variety of digital media when applied to the support of learning and teaching. The theme for the University of Sussex event was Digital Media Interaction and Inclusivity and this was exactly the prompt I needed to engage in more thorough research of in-app adjustment functions which has been preoccupation of mine for a while.
Embedded Nearpod Presentation from MELSIG event
Through my work building 'communities of practice' (Wenger, 1998) on both sides of the Atlantic, and in particular during the development of App Swap events at the University of Brighton something always bothered me about apps or mobile applications/software. Namely why, when developers have such rich SDKs to work with, isn't there more attention to paid to inclusivity when designing apps? Both the iOS and Android operating systems have a number of built-in functions which have the potential to greatly aid accessibility in addition to the benefits afforded by the touchscreens and the form factors of the devices themselves. However, due to the unique conditions under which apps are developed a combination of factors including time/monetary constraints, corporate interests and the lack of a common accessibility guidelines seem to stifle the potential of certain apps on the accessibility front. Indeed within app development no equivalent to the WC3's Web Accessibility Initiative seems to have emerged and the rule systems applied to website design such as the EU Internet Handbook have no bearing on the design of apps. On the one hand this is quite liberating for interface designers and has led to something of a Wild West populated by some truly innovative interface designs.
My intention with this post, I should point out, is not to stifle innovation, but rather I would like to propose that when an app's primary purpose falls within certain categories of use, 'categories' which can be applied to the creation or consumption of educational materials or be used in support of learning, that extra attention be paid to the accessibility features of 'said' apps. Perhaps in the future this could resemble a set of agreed standards, but at this time I would like to make more of a humble request rather than a full recommendation. The core idea I put forth in relation to my 'request' is the notion of letting the user choose and customise the app through the presence of 'adjustment'; this I believe is a key facet of the path to accessibility. I shall expand on 'categories of use' later in this post.
A personal experience which prompted this line of enquiry was my use of Amazon's Kindle app for iPad. In October 2011 Apple introduced support of text-to-speech (TTS) within their iOS5 operating system (Moren, D. 2012); as a Dyslexic person I was eager to make use of this function and to this day find it immensely useful. Imagine my disappointment to find out that the 'Speak Selection' tool is actively blocked within the Kindle app. The 'VoiceOver' tool was later allowed within the Kindle for iPad app (Ingber, J. 2013) and Amazon had introduced its own text-to-speech function to the Kindle 2 device in 2009 but eBook publishers could choose to disallow the function with the viewpoint that it might damage audiobook sales (Schofield, J. 2009). There is another aspect of the Kindle app which always seems a bit of an oversight; reading background colours. Given the development resources available to Amazon, there are only three options provided for the text background colour: White, Black (X-Ray) and Sepia. Why not make the reading experience as accessible as possible by including customisable background colours as evidenced by apps like Bluefire Reader, Kobo Reader and Goodreader? When comparing Kindle to particularly Kobo reader and Goodreader one is reminded of the oft used technological paradigm of VHS and Betamax; VHS won due to market share in combination with other factors rather than viewing quality.
On the topic of background colour more specifically, from a personal perspective this is the number one 'adjustment' which I would like to see made available in apps. Particularly those apps which are promoted as 'readers'. My own perception of black text on a white background has been a persistent barrier to my consumption and enjoyment of reading. To help elaborate on my own experience I even created a javascript web application (using Processing) to show what this experience is like for me. This is a condition sometimes known as Irlen Syndrome, Meres-Irlen Syndrome, Visual Stress or Scoptopic Sensitivity syndrome. I am hesitant to adopt any of these definitions as an explanation of my experience, as I have never received an official diagnosis. Furthermore there are some sceptical viewpoints in the medical fields when assessing the diagnostic procedures and the original studies which led to the recognition of the symptoms (Coyle, B. 1995 and Lawrence, J. 2008). I prefer to view it as a complex part of my own dyslexic puzzle and one thing is not in doubt, the ability to adjust background colours, fonts and font-sizes makes a huge difference to my experience of reading.
So why the title of The Adjustment Bureau? The 2011 film, The Adjustment Bureau based on the Phillip K. Dick's short story, The Adjustment Team (1954 – full text) which tells of characters whose life choices deviate from a preordained plan set-out by a mysterious organisation. Inspired by this idea I postulated that there may be a parallel between that concept and app developers whose choices are guided or pushed by a combination of external factors and client influences, ultimately I wondered whether this explains why the avenues to accessibility are so seldom followed? With all of this in mind I decided to enter into an assessment of the adjustment functionality available within some of the most prominent and popular apps I have encountered while working in Higher Education. I focused on apps available for iOS for this pursuit as that is the primary device type supported in my workplace and I had access to the devices. This also prompted me to define some basic 'categories of use' when applied to app use within academia for the support of learning and teaching.
The Categories of Use are as follows:
|A web browser for navigating web-based information. May include other features such as reader functions and RSS curation.
|In this context for the composition of text-based materials and documents.
|For curation and consumption of RSS content, blogs and online news sources.
|Apps with the main purpose of taking notes and/or placing notes and annotation on documents.
|Apps with the primary purpose of reading text, eBooks, ePubs, PDF and other text formats. May have limited annotation tools.
When defining the categories I tried to resist the use of pre-existing desktop software definitions such as for example 'word processing'. These definitions have established associations and many apps reach beyond the format-based outputs which are expected from these former software definitions.
The Adjustment Criteria upon which each app was judged are listed below. If an app includes a feature it is awarded a point for that criterion, it may partially allow a feature which would result in a 0.5 of a point. The total score is a point value out of a total of 8, for the 8 criteria and is shown as a final percentage. Apps which achieve >=60% are highlighted in purple.
|Font Size
|Font size can be changed specifically, within the app. In the case of 'composer' categorised apps this is included in their writing functionality.
|Line Height
|Line height can be changed specifically, within the app. In the case of 'composer' categorised apps this is included in their writing functionality.
|Font Style
|Font style can be changed specifically, within the app. In the case of 'composer' categorised apps this is included in their writing functionality.
|Background Colour: Invert/Brightness
|Brightness of the display or invert (white text on black background) is a specific option within the app.
|Background Colour: Sepia
|A sepia background (beige/mild yellow) is a specific option within the app.
|Background Colour: Sliders/Colour
|A selection of colours or Red/Green/Blue sliders allow the user to adjust and specify the background colour within the app.
|Pinch zoom
|The pinch zoom is a built-in function of the iOS. Some apps do not make/allow full use of this touch-based function.
|iOS Speak Selection
|A function which can be enabled in the General > Accessibility functions in the iOS this can be used by selecting text in certain apps and pressing the 'speak' option which comes up. This is distinct from the 'Voiceover' option which is a complete audio interface and harder use for quick impromptu needs.
The scores as an embedded Google Spreadsheet – a work in progress. NB: this list is not designed to be exhaustive and if you have other apps which you would like me to assess using these criteria, please add them to the comments area below. The "+" next to the app title identifies that the app is available for both iPhone and iPad.
Through this process of investigation and app functionality testing I feel that I have only begun to scrape the surface of how accessibility functions are implemented and the possible avenues for improvement. I think that there is certainly scope to devise a more concrete scoring and testing system with the view to helping teachers and learners make informed decisions about the accessibility functions of certain apps. Such a system would also have the potential to help inform developers about the needs of specific user groups. However the responsibility cannot be squarely that of the developers, as users we also have a responsibility to let developers know what we want and need. One of the benefits of working with apps is that developers are often small to medium sized companies and really benefit from the suggestions from their user-base, this may extend to use testing. In the Wild West of apps we as the user have an opportunity to make a difference and we shouldn't miss out by sticking to the easy path.
Appendix I – Some particularly successful adjustment interfaces discovered as a result of this investigation
Mercury Web Browser (discussed during MELSIG presentation)
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Bluefire. 2014. Bluefire Reader Apps [Online]. Available: http://www.bluefirereader.com/ [Accessed 07/09/14].
Coyle, B. 1995. USE OF FILTERS TO TREAT VISUAL-PERCEPTION PROBLEM CREATES ADHERENTS AND SKEPTICS. Canadian Medical Association journal, 152, 749-750.
Dredge, S. 2011. Top 10 steps towards making your mobile apps more accessible [Online]. theguardian.com. Available: http://www.theguardian.com/smart-accessibility/making-your-mobile-apps-more-accessible [Accessed 23/08/14].
European Commission. 2014. Information Providers Guide – The EU Internet Handbook [Online]. Available: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/standards/accessibility/index_en.htm [Accessed 07/09/14].
Good.iWare. 2014. Goodreader [Online]. Available: http://www.goodiware.com/ [Accessed 07/09/14].
Ingber, J. 2013. Using VoiceOver with the Accessible Amazon iOS Kindle App. AFB AccessWorld Magazine, 14.
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Lewis, T. 2014. Paddy Considine: 'I was always portrayed as angry, but I was just ill' [Online]. theguardian.com. Available: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/07/paddy-considine-actor-i-was-portrayed-angry-i-was-just-ill [Accessed 07/09/14].
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Moren, D. 2012. iOS 5 Review: Ambitious update rings in the changes [Online]. macworld.com. Available: http://www.macworld.com/article/1162962/ios_5_review_ambitious_update_rings_in_the_changes.html [Accessed 07/09/14].
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Schofield, J. 2009. Amazon caves to Authors Guild over Kindle's text-to-speech reading. The Guardian Technology Blog [Online]. Available from: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/01/authors-guild-blocks-kindle-voice [Accessed 07/09/14].
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Squash Court Repair: "Do I need to refurbish my squash courts on a regular basis?"
Most squash courts in England, Australia, Germany and many other countries date back to the 1970s or even longer. Therefore, even with the best available squash court wall materials, repairing squash court walls becomes a topic that is getting more and more serious. With a product like a squash court being in use every day for several hours, receiving thousands of hits by the ball, sooner or later the day comes where a squash court repair becomes necessary. This point in time is certainly highly dependent on the material used for the squash court walls. While plaster walls might require squash court plaster refurbishment very 6-12 months, other squash court wall systems might only require filler repairs and a new paint coating in.
Squash Court Repair – the Floor: "Is there any time period to refurbish squash court floors?"
Although the squash court walls might suffer most from wear and tear, the squash court floor is also an important part of the system that might require floor repairs every now and then. Despite popular belief that solid wood flooring can be sanded multiple times in comparison to any engineered floor, reality showed and continues to show that neither one should be sanded more than 3 times to avoid compromising the solidity of the floor. Nevertheless, this does give the floor a life span of at least 15-20 years considering a sanding and re-impregnation of the floor every 5-7 years depending on usage.
Do squash court experts always perform better with repairs?
So all in all, repairing squash court walls and squash court floors is something that needs to be discussed in detail with an expert in order to receive the best possible result. A solid, track record proven squash court is the basis of a good squash center but like a car, it requires some attention and caring to make up for the daily wear and tear. Who would repair your car – a car specialist or the plumber? A short term solution might turn into a long term problem.
Squash Court Repair – the Walls: "What can I do to improve my squash court walls?"
Squash court owners often ask: "What can I do make the look of my squash courts better?" or "What is the best way to make my squash courts look new again?" Depending on the condition and the wall type (being brick, plaster or panel) to repaint the squash court walls is usually the most convenient way to give the courts a new again.
More about this you find at squash court paint …


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Justin Quiles launched his most recent album titled "La Promesa" on July 29th, that same day the album reached #1 on ITunes among all Latin albums & #1 on Spotify Latin Urban as well. Today, we receive the amazing news that the album is #1 in sales among the Latin Urban albums on Billboard, and #2 in sales among all genres, an incredible milestone for this young artist. In Spotify he is currently on top 20 most streamed albums worldwide.
"I am extremely grateful for my fans that always support everything I do, if it wasn't for them, I would not be able to do what I love. Thank you to all of the media outlets that never let me down and my incredible team that are my backbone", said Justin.
With the launch of this album Justin has been able to share time with his public in various select events, such as his successful instore at El Museo del Disco in Miami, where the turnout surpassed anything that was expected, he also offered an unplugged performance next to guitarrist and composer Andy Clay at Wynwood, where his fans came out to celebrate the Wall that artist DREW dedicated to Justin's album cover. At the Gibson Showroom, he offered an unplugged for key media outlets and industry friends, where MTV, Telemundo, Terra.com, Wow La Revista, Pulso Pop, DJ's Executives, and artists such as Manu Manzo and Los Adolescentes came out to support. In New York he presented the launch of the album at a Sold-Out La Boom nightclub and in Miami, at Ivy Nightclub.
This week, Justin travels to Ecuador and Mexico City where he has a series of concerts and promotion.
"La Promesa" contains 15 songs written by Justin himself, and a special participation by Farruko. We are sure that this album will be a turning point for this talented artist.