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Day two of the European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) saw workshop momentum accelerate. Indeed, delegates divided into three streams A, B and C- each designed to offer a more focused opportunity for discussion about the respective topics- large plants, cylinder plants and healthcare.
Stream A - Large Plants
Stream A saw moderators, Christina Fry from Air Products, Jörg Fischer from Linde Engineering and Bernard Jumeau of Air Liquide, lead discussion on oxygen safety in large plants. Introductory speaker, SOL's Andrea Mariotti offered his take on the three-part workshop: "Despite the plants being designed and operated by experts, all those involved need to be aware of the risks associated with oxygen. Large plants involve a high number of staff and because the oxygen inventory is so large and the associated pressures and flow are so high, there is inevitably a risk present and accidents, though infrequent, can happen."
Mariotti pinpointed two particularly significant presentations, he said, "In the first two items discussed we heard about the operation of the main condenser and boiler, the workshop saw the consequence of accidents and the same in the case of bulk storage tanks. We can not afford to face an accident like this again, so we must focus on prevention."
Thanks to the stream, attendee attention was drawn to several harmonised documents in the EIGA library, all designed to enable the prevention that Mariotti alluded to. In addition, the audience benefited from some valuable speaker's lessons. Particular nuggets of advice included Dirk Reuter's observations on the importance of plant surroundings as well as an almost unanimous emphasis on re-boiler hazards.
Despite the plants being designed and operated by experts, all those involved need to be aware of the risks associated with oxygen.
Andrea Mariotti, SOL
Messer GmbH expert Reuter noted, "It is important to check the plant surroundings for any changes in air quality which can be affected by many factors. For instance it is crucial to maintain checks on proximate plants in case they change use or emissions. This can have significant impacts upon your ASU's operation and safety." Reuter relayed his message by way of a Malaysian incident in which environmental forest fires prompted a hike in airborne hydrocarbons which subsequently ignited and destroyed a proximate facility.
Such examples just reiterated the need to be familiar with and follow guidelines, and particularly those that are harmonised and based on real-life incidents such as that in Malaysia. Mariotti concluded, "Harmonisation involves a lot of effort and input from various working groups, so I will be brief – the conclusion is we must utilise our resources and share the knowledge that we gain from incidents through these papers, guidelines and symposiums."
Stream B – Cylinder Plants
At the same time as delegates debated the key issues related to large plants, in the adjacent seminar room, Stream B saw engaged discussion about cylinder plants.
Moderators Angel Arrieta from Praxair, Danilo Ritlop of Messer and both Yara's Alan Ross and John Romer from Linde led three riveting sessions. Introductory speaker, Air Liquide's François Joffet reviewed the day's activity, "An overview of stream B - First of all a warm thank you to the presenters of the stream, we had the opportunity to share very interesting documents and items, which are key elements of interest to all attendees of the meeting."
"Our session highlighted that oxygen has many properties - one of the main properties is its scope for high velocity and adiabatic compression. The second key item is the need for analysis, it is essential to perform this when we design a new unit or installation, but it is also important for existing installations to protect operators, technicians and engineers. Another key point is the need to gain equipment from qualified suppliers - this is essential," emphasised Joffet.
All the elements presented by Stream B speakers were of the utmost importance and if you do not follow recommendations then incidents can and will happen…
François Joffet, Air Liquide
Joffet went on to convey the need for carefully selected specialist equipment, he added, "Very often presenters spoke about valve seats - the material of these seats is absolutely essential when dealing with oxygen." Though this recommendation might seem to be common sense, it was clear from incidents described during Stream B, that the topic is still over-looked.
Combating this, delegates left fully equipped with a run-down of the latest safety literature and best practice guidelines courtesy not only of EIGA, but NASA, BAM, the CGA, IGC and ASTM. As Joffet summarised, "The conclusion is to respect the items you have been warned of – the human factor is frequently involved in incidents and we often see that there was a lack of respect for procedures, or that the equipment used was not of a good specification. In summary – all the elements presented by Stream B speakers were of the utmost importance and if you do not follow recommendations then incidents can and will happen."
Stream C - Healthcare
Stream C, held in a smaller venue but with an equally robust turnout considered oxygen safety in the healthcare setting. Dual moderated by Jan Strybol of Air Products and Peter Henrys from The Linde Group, attendees learnt from a balanced range of internal and external experts.
Initial attention looked at the use of medical oxyegn, which was explained comprehensively. Further consideration was also made of the physiology of oxygen in a healthcare setting thanks to speakers from external entities such as the National Heart and Lung Institute. The second focus was more centered towards materials and equipment. Audience members were privy to Air Liquide research thanks to Martine Carré who explored the toxic components created during ignition of polymers. Stream C introductory speaker and overall Chair, Carlos Sainz of Praxair applauded the findings on quality of data and particularly commended information relating to the impact of exposure on patients.
Subsequent speakers about materials and equipment also yielded important messages, as Sainz eloquently summarised, "We learnt that devices are very much regulated by EU directives. It became clear from the speakers that presentation of the critical framework, the purchasing process and technical files, were all aspects that needed to be provided to the sector."
Concluding the stream's workshop a third block offered insight into oxygen out-with the typical industrial gas confines. Sainz explained, "The latter block really showed us what is important to consider when designing and installing equipment in hospitals. And finally within this block and with an outsiders view of hospitals in Italy, Matteo Lora Moretto of Vivisol discussed the critical factors and what they need from us in order to use oxygen more safely - for example 24 hour response and accurate telemetry."
Sainz continued, "We then learnt about the new developments and trends in home supply and most importantly, how the whole philosophy behind home therapy is designed to provide mobility for the patient and how this can be translated into guidelines for the healthcare provider as well as the gas supplier."
Thanks also to speakers - there are hundreds of years of experience in our presenters who left us with a wonderfully rich amount of information to take away.
Michael Wilson, The Linde Group
The latter point provoked heated debate from the floor with delegates discussing how to balance important, but sometimes costly, guidelines against monetary concerns – particularly in growth geographies.
All in all, a highly informative and heated opportunity to discuss oxygen safety in terms of healthcare – indeed Sainz offered a diplomatic yet accurate take on the agenda, "As this part of our business supports human life and health safety is crucial. Therefore we have to observe the reality of official regulations, which is sometimes a bit difficult, costly and time consuming, but it will help us to understand the jobs and tasks of our colleagues in the healthcare business."
Closing remarks
Day two offered a remarkable overview of the nuances involved in oxygen safety. Speakers covered an almost exhaustive range of topics with a concise and illustrative style. If delegates were intended to leave with a suitcase full of ideas and information to impart to their colleagues, as promised by President Stefan Messer on day one, then the objective was certainly fulfilled.
But before travelling home with a compendium of lessons about oxygen safety, Michael Wilson took a moment to formally close proceedings and thank those involved in hosting EIGA's 2012 Workshop: "A very big thank you to all in the room. To delegates in the workshops for participation, I think we saw very mature and professional discussion."
"Thanks also to speakers - there are hundreds of years of experience in our presenters who left us with a wonderfully rich amount of information to take away. The moderators did a fantastic job, helping presenters produce material that reinforces the points but also discovers new information." Linde's Wilson concluded by thanking the organizing committee and the EIGA team making particular note of the efforts involved. He closed, "There was clearly hundreds of years of experience for you to take back to your peers, so please do so and convey the information we have absorbed."


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I uninstalled WindowBlinds after two weeks of the trial period. I used Revo Uninstaller to do this, although it first ran the WB uninstaller before removing remaining traces of WB. After rebooting I discovered that elements of the WB skin were still in place! I then downloaded and ran (as Administrator) the Purge_WB.bat (available from https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/Purge_WB.zip), and again after rebooting - the the WB skin (dark mode) still exists. It is especially noticeable for Office 365 Excel - the spreadsheet remains dark gray.
How can I completely remove WB from the system? Windows 10, latest version as of Feb 5 2019, Lenovo Ideapad 720s.
Have you reboot before? If yes, try these.
1) Reinstall WB
2) Apply any style that come with WB.
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4) Apply default Theme/Style (This will actually disable WB).
5) Reboot.
6) See if all the colors back to normal Windows 10 Style.
7) Run the purge steps again. https://forums.stardock.com/486023/windowblinds-support-faq#reinstalling (Remove WB)
8) Reboot and retest.
Let us know.
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This did not work. After reinstalling, setting the style to several different themes (and rebooting); then reverting back to Default Theme (and rebooting) the background colour of MS Excel spreadsheets remains grey (see image below). It's as if WB modified Office itself; or, changed the default theme itself. When I change the style the Excel background is modified to the new style colour. But after setting back to default, the default colour is grey (not white), based on the original WB installation.
I had installed Flat Dark and Dark Mode from the online repository. I notice they are still within the reinstall set of styles. Where are they stored? How do I delete custom styles?
Is there a way to edit the default theme in WB? One idea is that WB changed the default itself; perhaps it can be changed back using WB?
Or, perhaps there is some registry editing may be required to fully resolve this, which is of course dangerous.
Delete them. Open WindowBlind and right click the WB you want to get ride of and click "Delete".
To totally delete the folder. Open Explorer.
Window 10 Stardock folder location
1. Open File Explorer2. Click on "This PC"3. Click on OS (C)4. Double click on "Users"5. Double click the "Public" folder6. Double click "Public Documents"7. Double click "Stardock"8.Then double click on Windowblinds folder.
Just right click to delete any folder.
Note. You can not modify the Default WB or delete..
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Looking at your screenshot. Did you just change your excel Office Theme to Black? So if you need to bring the default white back just need to change back the Office Theme to White or Colorful.
Here a link for reference : https://www.howtogeek.com/360470/how-to-enable-dark-mode-in-microsoft-office/
That is not the cause - the Office theme only applies to the ribbon and menus, not the excel sheet itself.
Something during the original installation and operation changed the default theme itself, i.e. system colours, etc. Other than being able to download a *fresh* Windows 10 default style it seems I have no choice than to reinstall Windows. Is there such a style for download?
Kinda brutal when trial software doesn't leave the system intact after removal.
So I think I found a solution. I changed the Windows Theme to a new one obtained from the MS store. This apparently changed the system colours back to normal. It would seem then that WB changed the Windows Theme I had been using, and setting to default in WB did not restore the original theme state. By switching to a new theme it would seem system colours were reset. Perhaps obtaining a fresh one from the Windows also helped.
I really not sure what is happening on your system but on mine it always revert back to default Windows 10 color every time I applied that Windows default style. Here a video I made just to show you how it look like on mine.
Would suggest you to try this guide to see if there is a conflicting application. https://forums.stardock.com/486023/windowblinds-support-faq#cleanboot
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Blender Icon Guidelines
Separate SVG files
Blender uses vector graphic icons on its user interface. Since itself is an open source software, it uses an open standard image format: the W3C approved Scalable Vector Graphics, which is basically a namespaced XML dialect. At the moment blender has a single huge SVG file which is processed and separated during compilation time.
Why isn't the single-file model and the compilation time processing is not good?
First of all, SVG is a very powerful format. Even though it is having its renaissance on the web as we completely replace Flash with other technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JS, it is still a really old solution and lacking dozens of new and preferred features. And although it has solid and amazing proposals for its next version (2.0), those suggestions are in this proposal-state since ages. I think that is one of the reasons, why most of the vector drawing utilities and applications has different implementations to improve and extend SVG with their existing but currently unavailable features in version 1.1; or absolutely new ideas to SVG.
Probably this isn't a big problem on its own, especially not if a dedicated, closed team with a specific toolset is working on the interface of blender. But this is clearly not the case, and as a matter of fact a lot of people wants to contribute and collaborate on the UI. And those people have different operating systems, therefore different applications and licenses, therefore different SVG compatibilities. This the first problem we have with this single file of icons. If someone opens and probably makes some changes and save this file, it has a great chance that this saving will effect the other icons as well! This is clearly a thing we don't want!
The second problem we are facing with this single file of icons is that it is truly difficult to follow, which icons are used in more than one places; what are the names of a specific set of icons or even a single icon; how to search in the icons; how to use those icons while creating a mock-up, etc. And unfortunately this file is getting bigger and bigger over time. (This is a good thing it means there are going to be new icons available in blender, but also means it will be really hard to maintain those.)
The third problem is if some user wants to have custom icons. Let's just assume this user doesn't want completely different ones, but a recolored set of icons to match with the users color settings of the selection or the panels in blender. Clearly, this case one has to change this single file and recompile a new version of blender with the changed SVG. This "static" solution is a pain in the arse, and makes the changing almost impossible. (And I did not mention the "official" designer team here -- it's quite difficult to test the new icons!)
Proposal to use separate image files and style presets
First of all, we need to make blender's SVG loading and processing to work on runtime. Most likely it will load the icons on startup or after a refresh/reload command is called in the console.
Second, we need a list of references of the separate SVG icons, which for example can be browsed, modified and extended without changing the actual icon file.
My proposal is that we should use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for this purpose, since it is super-lightweight, really easy to parse and write from any programming language because it's object structure is natively available in most of them. It is also easy to read and write for human beings. Here is a version how I imagine it would look like:
{ "ObjectMode": { "ToolsTab": { "Transform": { "Translate": "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Move.svg", "Rotate" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Rotate.svg", "Scale" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Scale.svg", "Mirror" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Mirror.svg" }, "Edit": { "Duplicate" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Dup.svg", "DuplicateLinked": "release/datafiles/icons/fx/DupLink.svg", "Join" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Join.svg", "Delete" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/Del.svg" } } }, "EditMode": { "ToolsTab": { "Transform": { "Translate" : ["ObjectMode", "ToolsTab", "Transform", "Translate"], "Rotate" : ["ObjectMode", "ToolsTab", "Transform", "Rotate"], "Scale" : ["ObjectMode", "ToolsTab", "Transform", "Scale"], "Shrink/Flatten": "release/datafiles/icons/fx/ShrinkF.svg", "Push/Pull" : "release/datafiles/icons/fx/PushPull.svg" }, } } }
As you can see, it is very-well structured, and easy to navigate inside it. I also propose a "linking" feature, which means if the value of a key is a list, it will lead to the location of a pre-existing icon. With this method it became very simple for a designer to link one image file to another area of the GUI with the same functionality.
Style presets to uniform icons
Although SVG has a very awesome feature to make the existing code-base reusable, it is limited to a single file only. One cannot separate the definitions of filters and gradients and import them or refer to them from another SVG file. So it would be really nice to have a DRY and globally controlled style-sheet which stores the presets. For example, if one wants to change the "selection" color in each icon from the default "orange" to "cyan", because ones color preferences in blender uses this different color. Or one wants to make the icons darker or even brighter not only because one wants to match ones panel color settings, but because the icons will be easier to recognise and less aggressive to look at (less contrasts makes it more comfortable to look at for a long time). Or as a blender designer one also wants to globally change a color setting to try new approaches for all icons.
As you can imagine, this kind of work is very tedious and boring to do: open each file (and we are talking about at least 300 icons!); find the objects you want to change the color of; apply the new settings; save it; and close it and start the whole process again.
However SVG has special CSS support, it can only apply pre-existing filters to the SVG elements, it cannot build new ones, and also cannot copy definitions from one file to another -- well, CSS is only a declarative language as we all know.
That's why I implemented a small script in Python apply_icon_theme.py which reads a JSON definition file; also scans the JSON list file mentioned above; and applies all the details described in the definition file to the separate SVG files. All I have to do is carefully pick the right "reference" names to my objects.
How this is working in action (example)
Let's say we have these icons:
As we can see, both of the files are using some kind of orange color, but they are not matching. Plus, they need inner shadows to make them look 3D. They are defining gradients with inapposite colors but what is important for us at the moment is that they are at least describing the directions and the gradient locations.
So I open the SVG files in a text editor, and start editing them. I have to do this step only once after the drawing stage, and now on I can change the exact values any time I want. So I add these few lines and rename the gradient in the <defs> section:
<defs> <linearGradient id="selected_fill_solid" /> <linearGradient id="selected_outline_solid" /> <filter id="example_body_shadow" /> <filter id="example_drop_shadow" /> <linearGradient id="selected_fill_gradient" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="4.037" y1="6.012" x2="11.988" y2="6.012"> <stop offset="0" stop-color="#FFFFFF"/> <stop offset="1" stop-color="#000000"/> </linearGradient> <defs>
And of course I link the definition IDs to the actual objects. I don't have to specify any other details, such as colors or other sub elements.
I create/modify the definition JSON file:
{ "---------------------------- VARIABLES -----------------------------": "#", "almost_white_orange": "#FFE9BE", "light_orange": "#FFCC66", "mid_orange" : "#A3671C", "dark_orange" : "#804000", "--------------------------- SOLID COLORS ---------------------------": "#", "selected_outline_solid": { "color": "@dark_orange" }, "selected_fill_solid" : { "color": "@light_orange" }, "-------------------------- GRADIENT COLORS -------------------------": "#", "selected_fill_gradient" : [ { "color": "@light_orange", "stop": 0 }, { "color": "@dark_orange", "stop": 0.7 }, { "color": "@mid_orange", "stop": 1 } ], "--------------------------- SHADOW VALUES --------------------------": "#", "example_drop_shadow": [ { "type" : "outer", "blur" : [0.5, 1], "offset" : [0, 0.5], "opacity" : 0.7 } ], "example_body_shadow": [ { "----- HIGHLIGHT -----": "#", "type" : "inner", "color" : "@almost_white_orange", "blend" : "screen", "blur" : [0.1, 0.5], "offset" : [0, 1], "opacity" : 0.35 }, { "----- HARD SHADOW -----": "#", "type" : "inner", "color" : "@dark_orange", "blend" : "multiply", "blur" : [0.5, 1], "offset" : [0, -3], "opacity" : 0.7 }, { "----- REFLECTION -----": "#", "type" : "inner", "color" : "@almost_white_orange", "blend" : "screen", "blur" : [0.1, 0.5], "offset" : [0, -1], "opacity" : 0.2 } ] }
Now I navigate to the python file and run it:
>>> python3 apply_icon_theme.py
And voilá! I have the "unified" final versions here:
Detailed Instructions
Reference presets in SVG
Solid Colors, Linear and Radial Gradients
One can define solid colors by simply adding a <linearGradient>s with a defined id to the <defs> section, like:
<defs> <linearGradient id="selected_outline" /> <linearGradient id="selected_fill" /> </defs>
and then one can apply these colors to take effect on the selected objects:
<g id="Layer 1" <path d="M10,10 L90,10 L90,90 L10,90 z fill="url(#selected_outline)" /> <path d="M15,15 L85,15 L85,85 L15,85 z fill="url(#selected_fill)" /> </g>
Adding shadows/glows is not harder at all one has to add a <filter>s with a defined id to <defs> section, like:
<defs> <filter id="outline_outer_shadow" /> <filter id="simple_inner_shadow" /> </defs>
and then apply this color to the object you want to use for example:
<g id="Layer 1" <path d="M10,10 L90,10 L90,90 L10,90 z filter="url(#outline_outer_shadow)" /> <path d="M15,15 L85,15 L85,85 L15,85 z filter="url(#simple_inner_shadow)" /> </g>
Implement presets in JSON
A well structured declarative file needs comments too, but since JSON does not support comments and because I wanted to keep the file as close to the standard as I can, I come up with this solution::
<string: literal block>: "#"
Because only those key-value pairs will be detected as comments which values are equal to "#", it is allowed to add as many comment lines as wanted inside the same scope. Comments are recursively removed before the JSON file is processed.
A maintainable declaration needs variables as well, to make it even easier to change with as little effort as possible. One can create variables, assign values to them and use them later on in the JSON file. A variable can hold any kind of JSON data. The assignment is really simple:
<string: variable name>: <any: data>
Referring to a variable needs a @ prefix:
<property>: "@<variable name>"
Colors and Gradients
To define a solid-color one can use a single dictionary:
<id>: { "color" : <string: hexadecimal, default=0> (, "opacity" : <float: 0-1, default=1> ) }
Gradients are list of color-dictionaries, but these colors also have a stop value:
<id>: [ { "color" : <string: hexadecimal, default=0> "stop" : <float: 0-1> (, "opacity" : <float: 0-1, default=1> ) }, { "color" : <string: hexadecimal, default=0> "stop" : <float: 0-1> (, "opacity" : <float: 0-1, default=1> ) } ]
Shadow filters
One can define inner and outer drop shadows as well:
<id>: [ { "type" : <string: inner|outer> (, "color" : <string: hexadecimal, default=#000000> ) (, "blur" : [ <float: 0-1, default=0> (, <float: 0-1, default=0>) ] ) (, "offset" : [ <float: 0-1> (, <float: 0-1, default=0>) ] ) (, "opacity" : <float: 0-1, default=1> ) (, "blend" : <string: normal|multiply|screen, default=norma> ) } ]
The first value of blur's' or offset's' list is responsible for the x-direction and the second value is for the y-direction. If only one value is provided in the list, the second value will be equal to the first one.


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CARBONDALE, Ill. -- What better way is there to appreciate a fall day in Southern Illinois than by paddling on a scenic lake?
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The guys get to record face to face, for the first time in MexiBro history, and discuss the 80's summer camp slasher classic: The Burning! In "The Little Orphan Army" Noel sits down with West Texas musician, Shad Dougherty, to talk about the Lubbock music scene. Uncle Rob 'Crane Kicks' his way through The Karate Kid. In the Mira Que Look-It Fred and Noel are joined by Ryan Cole from Colenado Gaming to talk about Stranger Things, the Big Trouble In Little China 30th anniversary soundtrack, No Man's Sky, and one of them wants you to know the really liked the new Ghostbusters.
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"And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you." Joshua 3:5
I am convinced by the Spirit of God that God desires to take you in 2017 where you have not been before. I hear the Spirit say that it's your time possess the land. Holy Spirit is about to move in might and power. He is about to wow both you and your adversary.
But this is not for everyone; it's for those that are willing to pay a price.
Just as Joshua and the people of Israel were about to carry the 'ark of the covenant' across the Jordan, God desires that you carry this same glory.
He desires that His church carry His presence in power but you must first sanctify yourselves.
To sanctify means to separate, to set apart, to mark the holy from the unholy. God is calling for you to separate yourselves in 2017 from some things that have kept you back in 2016. There are some things that you cannot take into 2017. There are some things that just can't go into the Promised Land.
He is calling you to understand that you have been marked for a purpose and those that are willing to consecrate themselves in 2017 will experience a greater level of glory and anointing than anything they have imagined to this point.
As Joshua stated…Get ready to expect a miracle! God is about to move, but you must first sanctify yourselves.
So as you begin to embark into this New Year-this new season. Take the time and seek God.
Listen to Him speak to you. Sanctify yourself! Prepare yourself because you're about to get a miracle.


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The Esther unit uses the Bible story included in the book of Esther. Throughout the Bible we hear stories of people such as Esther, who was faithful and stood up for God. Her story can inspire us to learn more about who God wants us to be.
Scripture: Book of Esther
Bible Verse: Who knows, perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this. (Esther 4:14)
By the end of this unit children will: 1) become familiar with the story of Esther; 2)discover that each of us is born to do something for God; 3) learn that God has special plans for each of us; 4) find that, like Esther, God wants us to be faithful and stand up for God; 5) explore their ability to make choices for God even when it is hard to do so; 6) learn about and experience some traditions of the Jewish festival of Purim.
Esther Bible Stories
Printable Esther Bible Story in color by Lambsongs and the printable black and white booklet to color.
Printable Crown Maze by Biblewise
Printable Find the Difference, Queen Esther Saves Her People by Biblewise
Printable coloring page of Queen Esther's room by Biblewise
Printable Esther word search by GardenofPraise
Online Esther Jigsaw Puzzle by GardenofPraise
Printable Purim masks to reenact the Esther story
Queen Esther printable paper doll
Printable KIng and Queen Crown to color and wear


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Elite Residences present 8 units of freehold strata house at 52 Elite Terrace in Singapore District 15. It is a sanctuary away from the bustle outside city buzz. TOP expected to be in 2018.
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The popular address of Elite Residences presents numerous favourite stops to spend the day which includes the Siglap Shopping Centre, Bedok Point, NTUC, the Cold storage, Sheng Siong etc. Feel free to dine at the sumptuous eateries near the vicinity such as the New Upper Changi Road Food Centre, Bedok South Food Centre and the East Coast Lagoon Food Village.
Leisure places are also within reach which lists the Elite Terrace Park, the East Coast Park, Garden Hill Park, the Bedok Adventure Park as well as Bedok Sports Hall.
Highly reputable schools are also seen minutes away from the Elite Residences which proposes quality learning experience as well as grand education for students at Zoo-Phonics Kindergarten, the Opera Estate Primary School, Victoria School, Ngee An Primary, the St. Anthony's Canossian Secondary School, CHIJ Katong Convent, Temasek Junior College, the Global Indian Intl School, Temasek Polytechnic as well as the Sekolah Indonesia Singapura just to name a few.
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My Summer Everyday Carry
I used to change purses....quite often.
Zach has tried to talk me into a "wallet phone case" for about a year.
I remember it was a year ago because his example of a practical use would be walking to the farmers market on Saturdays and not having to take a purse or shove cash in my pockets.
At the time, not taking a purse sounded boyish and also messy. I took a purse that organized chapstick, lipstick, a pocket knife, cash, credit cards, my license, multiple gift cards/rewards cards, cosmetics, tissues, and who even knows what else.
Everything was neatly organized though! That. I am proud of.
But, in the last few months, call it spring cleaning or just better vision for my budget, I have been hauling away a lot of accessories and clothes and house random things.
If it doesn't fit just right, I don't want to buy it. If I never use it, I don't want to keep it. If it's not going to be a functional item in my closet or in our apartment, I will save up for something better.
So, with it, I tossed extra bags and purses and slimmed down to one small leather bag and the hopes of a big waxed canvas or worn leather tote in the future.
The midst of changing purses and the fear I had one morning as I thought I for sure left my license in one of my purses elsewhere, brought me to Zach and asked if the offer still stood on the wallet case.
And it's SO GREAT. It has actually changed my day to day flow quite a bit! Most days, because it's dawning on summer and I don't need the pocket kleenex, the gloves and the extras, this is all I bring with me!
I don't need my wallet anymore, therefore, if I stow chapstick in the car and my desk at work, all is well!
I can carry 3 cards and some cash OR 4 cards if I need to take one of those previously mentioned gift cards somewhere.


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How to Make Dosa Podi Kerala Style in Malayalam
Here is the best way to know How to Make Dosa Podi Kerala Style in Malayalam Language. This powder is a good curry combination with Dosa, Iddly, etc. This is a kind of chutney which has the ingredients such as Black Gram, Sambar Paripp, Pepper, asafoetida, Salt etc
How to Make Dosa Podi Kerala Style. in Malayalam
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Let me state first that I don't think this is a duplicate of the mentioned question, though the basic thought is the same. Nevertheless, I come up with the prequark rishon theory of Harari, which accounts for all interactions, and not with a muon that consists of an electron and two neutrinos. In the first answer to the abovementioned question, it is actually confirmed that muons (or quarks and leptons in general) could actually have a substructure. To reveal the substructure of leptons you could smash them together at very high energies (because it is known they no substructure only if we probe them below a very little distance). I don't know if such experiments are done because in the framework of the standard model there is no need for them: it describes leptons (and quarks) as elementary, so why look if they are not?
A muon (${\mu}^-$) changing into an electron ($e^-$) and a photon ($\gamma$), has never been observed in Nature (or maybe it's better to say " in particle accelerators"). To explain this, physicists assumed that there are two kinds of neutrinos: one associated with the electron (${\nu}_e$) and one associated with the muon (${\nu}_{\mu}$). They assigned a "muon number" $+1$ to the muon and its associated neutrino (and a value $-1$ to their anti-particles), and an "electron number" $-1$ to the electron and its associated neutrino (and a value $+1$ to their anti-particles). These numbers had to be equal for the original particle and the particle into which it changes.
So a ${\mu}^-$ changing into a $e^-$ and a $\gamma$ (which obviously has lepton number $0$) won't occur because the muon number (and the electron number) has to be conserved (you can say it's an extension of the conservation of lepton number), which obviously isn't the case.
On the other hand, a ${\mu}^-$ can change into a $e^-$, a ${\bar{\nu}}_e$ and a ${\nu}_{\mu}$, which you can check by inspecting the (additive) muon and electron numbers for the particles.
With this rule (conservation of electron number and muon number, to which we can nowadays add a tau number) you can predict which changes can take place.
But is this really a explanation why the ${\mu}^-$ can't change into a $e^-$ and a $\gamma$?
I suppose not, so what is the conventional, deeper explanation (in the framework of the standard model) that this change can't take place?
And can't we just as well say that the $\mu^-$ is composed of three particles which each carry an electric charge (amongst other kinds of charge) of $-{\frac 1 3}$, so, because of the repulsive force of these charges, the ${\mu}^-$ can't change into $e^-$ because in a $e^-$ the three charges are closer to each other.


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Soul Coughing - 08/05/1999/
I never realized that Soul Coughing had become a well-known entity. I picked up on them around the time of "Super Bon-Bon" because that song was catchy as hell and because they had this interesting approach to pop music that was almost like a jazz quartet influenced by drum n bass who replaced the horns with a sampler. In fact, I was explaining how Soul Coughing worked to someone the other day and I was reminded of how amazing it was to see a group that relied on samples for a lot of the sound, but where the guy playing the samples was just a part of the band who had to be good at playing the samples and not just good at pressing the spacebar on a laptop. I liken what that guy was doing to someone like Kid Koala who takes pre-recorded sound and makes something entirely new with it right in front of your eyes. I perform electronic music all the time, but it's no secret that what I and what most people who perform with computers are doing is maniupulating the sounds, not triggering them in real time with the dexterity of an instrumentalist.
Of course someone with a laptop somewhere is throwing his hands up about to complain that I'm saying that there is no art to playing with a laptop, and no skill--that's not it at all. I take what I do very seriously, but at the same time I moved away from the 'how well can I trigger the sounds at the right times' model to the 'how well can I influence and mix and change the sounds in real time' model, which seems to work better for me.
The Soul Coughing guy though used his MIDI controller and his Akai sampler the same way some other person might have used a sax, guitar, or drumkit, and I found that really exciting. I wasn't sure why the Masquarade was so packed with people to see a band that I thought was my own little indulgence, but I was glad to see that a band doing something like that was getting some attention. They broke up not too long after that tour and Mike Doughty went on to make some solo records, but that configuration didn't have the same appeal for me.


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Fast is Slow. Slow is Smooth
As more people get the entrepreneurial bug and start their own companies, conversations tend to focus too much on getting it to market quickly. Current conventional wisdom is, if you have an idea or product concept you have to race to get it to the masses first or else you'll never gain market share – or worse, someone will steal your idea and you'll get nothing.
But getting it to market fastest is not as important as taking care of your customers' real needs and creating a solid process before introducing en masse. Making the buying experience better is really what today's clients are interested in.
So, if you are in a field that repeats workflow like stationary, catering, photography, staffing, or rentals, be sure to create an experience for each of your clients that's fast, efficient and still one-of-a-kind.
· Write down what needs to be done
· Break it down into how-to steps
· Devise a process as if only one person is doing the work
· Highlight the essential touch points for your clients, minimizing the back-and-forth as much as possible
· Identify what parts can be assigned easily to others to free up your own time for only the most important work
· Pick out who on your team will do the work
If you can set up an efficient system in the beginning, you can stay lean or grow when ever you want. It's much harder to start with a challenging system, undo it, and then reimagine and implement a new system.


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Hey Being Feminist readers! I just want to give a big apology for not updating as much as usually do! This past week I was sick and had two exams…so you can imagine the lack of time I had!
I'm now done all my school for the holidays, so I will get back to normal posting on Monday!
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The Japanese vehicle industry in review
The Japanese automotive industry has recently undergone dramatic change and more structural change is set to take place over the next several years. This has largely been prompted by the prolonged weakness in the domestic vehicle market, which has generated very serious over-capacity problems for most of the manufacturers. Tony Pugliese reports.
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BNTouch is the only Mortgage CRM that offers a content exchange. A place where our users can upload the mortgage marketing content they've been using for others to apply to their account. See how our top producing clients are creatively using their CRM to bring in more borrowers and provide more loans.
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Suffolk County Department of Labor's Career Quest will be presenting 2 programs at the Suffolk County One-Stop Employment Center in Hauppauge.
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The rut is the Super Bowl of whitetail hunting. Bucks that typically behave like ghosts are suddenly vulnerable, and your chances of tagging a wall-hanger are at their highest. But whitetails are still whitetails—always cautious and rarely pushovers. So there are plenty of ways you can go wrong. Here are 15 ways you can turn the annual breeding season into a surefire flop.
The early hunter gets the buck.
1. You don't start early enough.
Perhaps the most classic screwup is waiting until "things to get good." Many hunters won't hit the woods until they see bucks running after does like hounds on a coon. If you wait for the nuttiness, you often end up chasing the action rather than enjoying it. Far better to start early—as in two to three weeks before peak breeding—when mature bucks are laying down sign and moving freely in their core areas. Minnesota hunter (and my neighbor) Dave Olson shot this whopper the last week of October—three weeks before the rut peaked in our area.
Terrain funnels are often the best locations to ambush a rutting buck.
2. You don't hunt terrain.
Sure, rubs and scrapes are exciting, but never forget that bucks are constantly moving during the rut, and they do so by moving through terrain quickly and efficiently. Funnels like creek bottoms and fence lines that connect distant blocks of cover are perfect examples. I shot this pretty 10-pointer midday, as he moved through a small triangle of timber between doe bedding areas. There was not a rub or scrape within sight.
Spend time shooting your bow, even during the middle of the season.
3. You don't shoot enough.
This is one of the easiest, and most common, traps to fall into. After weeks of pre-season practice, and now that you're bow is sighted in and scary-accurate, you quit practicing as soon as you get serious about hunting. Big mistake. To maintain focus and ensure that your equipment hasn't changed, keep shooting so that you're ready when that giant you're after finally steps out.
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Cutting Back
By Aaron Tanner
For those who have been keeping up with the Rocket City Notebook, I am currently juggling running work in the mornings at the dental lab, working on the company newsletter and writing for Alabama Living. In addition, I am trying to stay in shape by exercising at the gym, and I will be going out of town at least two times before the end of the year.
I must confess it has not been easy to keep up with everything. On top of that, I have had sleep issues. My insomnia may be a sign that I have reached my limit.
Although I do not want my Aspergers to limit as far as what I can handle, I, along with others, forget that I have a disability and that I need extra time for maintaining my health along with downtime to unwind from the day.
Due to my hectic schedule between now and the end of the year, I have decided to cut back on how often I post on The Rocket City Notebook from now until the end of December. I will still share thoughts and other posts related to Asperger Syndrome. However, the posts will come whenever I can get around to writing one vs. writing every week like I have been doing.
I hope that everyone understands the changes I must make to keep my physical and mental health in check. Meanwhile, feel free to read and comment on the other blogs on The Rocket City Notebook.
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The First-tier Tribunal – in N v Pawson (Deceased), published on 27 January 2012 – has allowed inheritance tax business property relief (BPR) in relation to a holiday let.
The deceased owned a cottage in a recognised holiday area, typically letting it out for two weeks at a time. Members of her family occupied the cottage for three weeks during the holiday season and paid rent – calculated with reference to HMRC's literature on payments for private use. It was held that exploitation of the holiday cottage amounted to the operation of business and not one which consisted as the holding of an investment. BPR was therefore available on the full value of the cottage.
The decision is significant because property letting is generally considered to be an investment activity for BPR purposes. Relatively recently, HMRC altered their manuals to indicate that they would look more sceptically on claims for BPR in relation to holiday lets of this sort and IHTM 25278 now states:
Recent advice from the Solicitor's Office has caused us to reconsider our approach and it may well be that some cases that might have previously qualified should not have done so. In particular we will be looking more closely at the level and type of services, rather than who provided them.
The fact that HMRC took this case to the Tribunal presumably demonstrates this new approach in practice; however, the Tribunal did not support HMRC's view. Reference was made to the following factors:
- The services provided to the occupiers of the cottage appeared to be a significant part of the reason why the occupiers were prepared to book it for their holidays.
- The need for the owners to travel to the cottage from time to time when emergencies occurred.
- The efforts made to advertise it for letting.
- The fact that the cottage had been let every year without fail, albeit that it was usually only let in the summer months.
The Tribunal also found that the use of the cottage by family members for three weeks in the year did not disqualify it from being eligible for BPR.
Claims for BPR in the context of holiday lettings will inevitably turn on the facts relevant to a particularly property; however, the decision is nevertheless a useful indication of the approach the Tribunal will take.
For a review of the Business Property Relief position in relation to any property or company please contact the TaxDesk on 0845 4900 509 and ask for Ian Maston or Priya Dutta.


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Date posted:2018-07-25 | Writer: Business English Advisory Ltd | Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Business English Advisory Ltd. is a language institute that has been active in the Santiago market for more than 20 years. We are currently hiring native level EFL teachers. We are a professional company that teaches Business English to executives in national and international companies in Santiago de Chile. Our students are generally executive level professionals and therefore we value professionalism and dedication from our teachers. Our teachers travel to our students´ offices twice or three times a week for an hour and a half or two our class.
We work with a self created and standardized curriculum of materials which we adapt per the student's needs. This means we both help our teachers by providing material and our students by personalizing the individual course. We offer competitive pay as well as the curriculum support needed for your classes.
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Are you In or are you Out?
Recently I read about a family that had two cats that were basically indoor cats. One summer they both went outside and were not seen for weeks. Eventually one got tired of being outside and came back in. The other came back to the house but would not come inside. She would sit at the door, beg for food, and loved to be petted. She would come in briefly, but wanted to go back outside. When winter came she came back to being an inside cat.
As I read that story I couldn't help but think about Christians who can't make up their mind if they want to be in the church or in the world. They like the idea of being in the church for all the things the church can do for them and their families. The church will host wedding and baby showers, provide a place for weddings and funerals, offer support and comfort in times of sickness and death. Children are often entertained and recognized for their accomplishments and the elderly get nods of appreciation at times. And of course the church offers a place to worship, study the Bible and share in fellowship.
When it comes to faithful attendance to Bible study and
worship many are like the cat who wanted to come back for food and a little petting, but soon go back into the world. In the book of Galatians, Paul addressed this kind of religion. One that claims Christ as Lord and Savior, but has one foot deeply rooted in the world. Are you so foolish? Having
begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Galatians 3:3
Many have become caught up in the worldly attractions and the false religious beliefs that teach you can't fall away from Christ no matter how you live. You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. Galatians 5:4
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High Yield
If you invested in high yield bonds in December 2008--when they were selling for 55 cents on the dollar--and you held onto them until now, you participated in one of the strongest performing segments of the market's recovery over the last two years. That's that steep upwards jag in the yellow line on the right end of the chart above.
In 2009 the high yield index gained 57.5%, it gained another 15.2% last year and has already added an additional 3.7% in the first two months of this year. A good chunk of that performance has been driven by the economic and market recovery, but since late summer, with QE2 keeping interest rates depressed, it's also been driven by investors' search for yield in the market.
This has been great news for issuers. You can also see in the chart above what's happened to high yield spreads during the same period. The blue line is the amount over the prevailing Treasury rate that companies have to pay when they're selling new bonds in the market. It's not quite at record lows today, but given where underlying Treasury rates sit, issuers are doing just fine. Unsurprisingly, they've been active--the first two months of this year saw record deal flow of $9.8 billion in the riskiest segment of the market--CCC-rated bonds.
And deals have had all sorts of bells and whistles on them--they're covenant lite and some have PIK toggles--that allow issuers to issue new bonds instead of making interest payments, if they hit a bump in the road. Use of proceeds? In many instances, payment of dividends to private equity owners. All of these features are vintage pre-crisis, and, to use good market-speak, are signs that the high yield market may be getting a bit "frothy". Especially in the context of the last two years' market performance.
So I wasn't particularly surprised on Tuesday to see the headline Move to Synthetic Junk Bonds on the front page of the Financial Times' Markets section. What I expected to follow was an article on how anxious investors are finding clever ways to short the high yield market. What I found instead was one that offered up a generally bullish investor outlook on the economy--leading to the expectation that bond default rates will remain low--and that aforementioned search for yield as reasons for the uptick in demand for Credit Default Swap (CDS) derivatives in the high yield market.
The instruments described by the article--tranches of exposure to CDS Indices--aren't new. But in the wake of the financial crisis, their use is just re-emerging. For now, the market is tiny. According to the FT, at the end of February the net notional exposure on all CDS tranches--investment grade and high yield--was $5.9 billion--a mere drop in the multi-trillion dollar bucket of global financial markets.
My take away from learning about the resurfacing of these instruments was multi-faceted. First, that the market is so small, and yet the FT was able to spot it is, to me, an indicator of improving transparency in the derivatives market. Derivatives are traded over the counter. They are right now the subject of intense regulatory debate. In response, players in the market are moving to make information on their structure and trading more readily publicly available. Three years ago it's doubtful the public would have known these deals were being struck at this stage in the market's development.
Second, while I appreciated the optimistic perspective on the investor interest in the instruments, there are two sides to trades like these--the bullish and the bearish one. Given the froth in the high yield market today, I was surprised that the FT didn't address the bearish indicator--for the high yield market and, for some investors, perhaps, for the economy as a whole--that their resurfacing just now also represents.
Finally, I have mixed feelings about the instruments. Credit default swaps serve a real purpose. They allow investors to take that bearish stance in the bond market, where shorting bonds is difficult to do, and also to strip away interest rate risk, to trade on credit risk alone. I believe there's market value in both of those roles. Yet, when you layer a derivative on top of a derivative, as these instruments do, it's questionable to me where the real value lies. And we've seen how they can amplify value destruction, when underlying assets go badly wrong.
For now, on balance, I'm sanguine about the instruments themselves. There's enormous value in the FT having flagged them early. That regulators are paying attention to derivatives puts inside players on best behavior. Media attention intensifies that positive pressure. Curiosity has been piqued, and I expect we'll see more about them in the coming months--potentially from the swaps and derivatives industry itself. As for the high yield market? I'd take the bearish side of the trade.
You can learn more about Markit, the organization that licenses and runs the CDS Indices underlying the tranches described by the FT here. The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) now publishes weekly CDS market updates. You can find them here. And for a great overview of Credit Default Swaps basics, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, DTCC and Markit have created The ISDA CDS Market Place, which is here.


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i got my check from work yesterday and attached to it was a piece of paper. it's not that it hasn't happened before...you know, the whole paper attached to the check. it's usually to tell us things about the company, insurance, and whatnot. this time...it was something i truly did not expect.
the company was asking it's employees to donate to haiti...any little bit helps it stated. you had the option of 1$, 3$, 5$, 10$, and other...once the donations are in the company i work for will match whatever its employees will donate. you know...alot of bad things are said about chicago courier companies...there are definitely alot of negative things about this industry and those who control it but, this time, well, not this time. i struggle sometimes working here but not this time...this time i felt proud to work here.
i know, i know...i always complain about how much messengers make and no one has loot but, we also know that if you have money for beer then you have money to donate. messengers around the world came together to help our brothers and sisters in japan...for what? for a bike race that got a bit out of hand. im sure we can all dig a little deep here and there to give to those who do not have to fortune to even know the joy of such bike races/events.
cnn has some sad but great pics...
if you haven't done so already...donate! like the company i work for said..."every little bit helps". hopeforhaitinow.org
im proud of those who gave and happy to work where i do(for now...ha!).
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In the same way as an office worker injured at work can claim compensation for personal injury, athletes who are injured on the pitch or the court could potentially do the same. As athletes are dependent on performing a sport for their living, any injury can have seriously life changing consequences, particularly when it comes to the ability to earn income. Where an injury has been suffered as a result of an accident in the athlete's 'workplace' there is the potential to make a compensation claim.
Duty of care towards athletes
It is often argued that athletes are more aware than most of the potential risks of their sports. Some sports – such as skiing or rugby – have particularly high injury rates and many of those problems that arise simply as part of the game are par for the course of an athlete's career. However, just as an employer has a duty of care towards their employees, the body responsible for the sport also has a duty of care towards the athletes that participate in the sport according to the rules and regulations that it has created. Employers are required to ensure that health and safety standards are maintained so that their employees can perform their roles without the risk of being injured and a similar duty applies here.
Basic standards
Sporting events organisers must adhere to a number of basic conditions and standards that are designed to create an environment that gives athletes the best chance of participating without injury. For example, regular safety checks should be carried out and any equipment involved properly maintained to ensure that it is safe to use. Sports that involve serious physicality should have a referee to keep interactions under control and there are rules about what First Aid should be available and when this needs to be applied.
Referees and coaches
As well as sporting bodies, referees and coaches are also under a duty of care to help avoid injury and accident on the field, court or training pitch. They are responsible for making sure that everything that could be done has been done to remove inherent risk from the environments they are responsible for.
Sports injury compensation
If a sporting body or a referee or coach has not carried out their duty of care and an athlete is injured then there is the potential to bring a sports injury claim. There are three main elements to a successful sporting injury claim and these are:
1. Establishing that there was a duty of care owed
2. Showing that someone, such as the sporting body or the coach, breached that duty of care.
3. Demonstrating that the athlete has suffered damage as a result of the breach of duty of care, for example an injury that results in loss of earnings.
It's also worth noting that athletes also owe a duty of care to each other to "exercise all care that is objectively reasonable in the prevailing circumstances in order to avoid injury to such co-participants." The definition of the prevailing circumstances includes factors such as the objective of the sport and the skill and judgment that could reasonably be expected by someone doing it.
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Technopolis' Composition of Nomination Board
TECHNOPOLIS PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.
Technopolis' Composition of Nomination Board
The Annual General Meeting of Technopolis Plc on March 27, 2013, decided to form a Nomination Board to prepare proposals concerning the election and remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors to the General Meetings. The Nomination Board is established for an indefinite period.
The Nomination Board consist of three members nominated by the shareholders of the company. In addition, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company participates in the work of the Nomination Board as an expert.
The right to nominate members shall be vested with the three shareholders of the company having the largest share of the votes represented by all the shares in the company annually on September 1 based on the company's shareholders' register held by Euroclear Finland Ltd. However, if a shareholder who has distributed his/her holdings e.g. into several funds and has an obligation under the Finnish Securities Markets Act to take these holdings into account when disclosing changes in his/her share of ownership makes a written request to such effect to the Chairman of the Board of Directors no later than on August 31, such shareholder's holdings in several funds or registers will be combined when calculating the share of votes which determines the nomination right. Should a shareholder not wish to exercise his/her nomination right, the right shall be transferred to the next largest shareholder who otherwise would not be entitled to nominate a member.
The Nomination Board shall elect a Chairman from among its members. The term of office of the members of the Nomination Board expires annually when the new Nomination Board has been appointed.
Members of the Nomination Board based on holdings on September 1, 2015 are Risto Murto, President and CEO of Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Timo Ritakallio, President and CEO of Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company and Matti Pennanen, Mayor of City of Oulu. The chairman of Technopolis Plc's board of directors, Carl-Johan Granvik, participates in the work of the Nomination Board as an expert. Risto Murto acts as chairman of the Nomination Board.
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Technopolis provides the best addresses for companies to operate and succeed in five countries in the Nordic–Baltic region. The company develops, owns and operates a chain of 20 smart business parks that combine services with flexible and modern office space. The company's core value is to continuously exceed customer expectations by providing outstanding solutions to 1,700 companies and their 47,000 employees in Finland, Norway, Estonia, Russia, and Lithuania. The Technopolis Plc share (TPS1V) is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.


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Logical Analysis of Speech, Erkenntnis (1932. 85) Ernst Breisach, Introduction to Modern Existentialism, New York (1962. But just as he himself is not a poet, not an ethicist, not a dialectician, so also his form is none of these directly. The possibility of having everything meaningful break down poses a threat of quietism, which is inherently against the existentialist philosophy. In contrast, the inauthentic life would be one without such integrity, one in which I allow my life-story to be dictated by the world. In English, it is often distinguished from its antecedent by being pronounced in its original French form, approximately "Ante-GN." The play was first performed in Paris on 6 February 1944, during the Nazi occupation of France. We are condemned to be free, which means that we can never simply be who we are but are separated from ourselves by the nothingness of having perpetually to re-choose, or re-commit, ourselves to what. Existentialism existed before existentialists, but not in a single and coherent form; instead, it existed more as a critical attitude towards common assumptions and positions in traditional theology and philosophy. Authenticity does not depend on some particular substantive view of history, some particular theory or empirical story. 21 However, the term is often identified with the philosophical views of Jean-Paul Sartre.
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26 Concepts edit Existence precedes essence edit Main article: Existence precedes essence Sartre claimed that a central proposition of Existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which means that the most important consideration for individuals is that they are individualsindependently acting and responsible, conscious beings existence. In this example, considering both facticity and transcendence, an authentic mode of being would be considering future projects that might improve one's current finances (e.g. For example, a singer who loses the ability to sing may despair if they have nothing else to fall back onnothing to rely on for their identity. Concretely, what I am constituted as is a function of the other's project and not something that I can make myself. Englewood Cliffs,.J.: Prentice-Hall. This creation of a "God of the philosophers" was, he believed, actually a form of pride. Other religious figures have dealt with similar issues: fourth-century theologian Saint Augustine, for example, wrote about how humanity has become alienated from God due to our sinful nature.
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You will then attend an introductory meeting with the FOCUS Business Development Manager and your consultant, during which we will outline the FOCUS process and answer any questions.
After this initial meeting, you will work closely with your consultant to discuss your business' current circumstances and future ambitions, and develop your Business Development Strategy.
"how long does stage 1 take?"
Your consultant will spend around 5 days working on Stage 1. Some of this time will be spent remotely doing research and writing up the Strategy, and some time will be spent face-to-face with you at your company. Stage 1 should be complete within 6 weeks of starting FOCUS.
"What is required of me?"
You will be required to be flexible and willing to commit time with your consultant. Your consultant will need access to information about your business, and is likely to request details regarding your company's accounts, structure and any current strategies you may already have in place. You will need to review the Business Development Strategy before finalising it. It's important that you are able to commit to responding within a reasonable timeframe, in order to complete Stage 1 within the timeframe.
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What is it about Maine that calls to artists? What is it about Maine that stirs the Muse to speak?
I wonder if it's the fog that wraps around us on an otherwise glorious summer day, that shuts gently the doors to perception of what is around us, that opens as quietly those internal shuttered gates?
"May I be as the fog," became the opening line to a song that came to me as I sat on a rock on Mt. Desert Island on a June day years ago. I had been planning a hike, a paddle in the campground kayak around Somes Sound, a day of brilliant sunshine and striking contrasts in the deep blue of Maine's Atlantic waters and the deeper greens of the pointed firs. A day, I had thought, that would inspire exhilaration, make me want to climb high and dive deep, make me breathe fully of her beauty. It could have been that kind of day. Maine summers are like that, breathlessly and breathfully inspiring.
But it would be a softer kind of day that greeted me when I stirred under the down coverlet in the six-person tent I was managing to fill quite well all by myself. Other than the cries of young gulls who swooped on the tide flats below me, a veil of quiet had fallen in the night. Where I had hoped for revelation, Mystery arrived in her stead. Brilliant blue and forest green had given way to the softest of greys. Distant views moved in close, disguising themselves as forest gnomes and unnamed emotions, the sadder kind, the kind that almost but not quite remembers something it once loved, the kind that longs for something it might never have. And around it all, stillness. Stay here, it said, stay here. This could be the most beautiful day.
And really, it was. On the wings of the gulls and the tenderness of those grey clouds resting on the earth and the sea came a song:
May I be as the fog, drifting in the bay
May I be as a leaf, graceful as it lays,
Grow as tender, as a flower, even more than I would dare,
May I come to be a dancer on a wing and a prayer.
I think this is a writer's prayer as well, isn't it? That we'll come to the page with openness and readiness, without expectation but with every hope that we'll be invited to dance? And although I would not ever want to give up one sparkling minute of that other kind of Maine summer day, the kind whose dazzle we cannot drink deeply enough, I'm always grateful now for the Muse of fog that turns us inward, retreating from our senses toward those inner mysteries, the ones that invite us to Stay. Stay here.
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AAOG losses widen
Pre-tax losses at Anglo African Oil & Gas rose to £937,313 in the 10-month period to the end of December - up from £345,272 in the year ended 28 February 2016.
The group ceased its previous business of diamond mining in Namibia through its subsidiary company, Sonnberg Diamonds (Namibia) (Pty) Limited, in the year to 28 February 2016, so that, in the period to 31 December it could pursue the acquisition of an oil and gas company, Petro Kouilou SA, situated in the Republic of the Congo.
This acquisition completed post-period-end, with a 49% interest being acquired.
The group said it was currently seeking to acquire the remaining interest and following completion of the acquisition, it would, through its subsidiary, hold a 56% stake in the producing Tilapia oil field in the Republic of the Congo.
Chief executive Alex MacDonald saids: "2017 has seen us successfully raise £10 million, secure admission to AIM and complete the initial acquisition of an interest, through Petro Kouilou SA, in the productive Tilapia oil field in the Republic of the Congo.
"We have commenced operations at the Tilapia field, and have defined a development strategy to increase production, principally through a drilling programme targeting existing reserves and a proven discovery, as well as the potentially transformational opportunity in the Djeno Sands Horizon, an horizon which has been found to be highly productive in neighbouring fields, making it a comparatively low-risk venture.
"Contemporaneously with the preparations for the drilling campaign, we also commenced pre-identified low-cost workovers of two existing wells on the asset, giving the company a potential opportunity to increase production in a cost-effective manner.
"This is ongoing and, as investors will be aware, has had mixed results thus far.
"Our work at TLP-101 has increased the flow rate by 40% from approximately 32 bopd to approximately 45 bopd.
"With the second well, TLP-102, we have proven the presence of hydrocarbons but, after re-perforation, the well has not flowed and therefore we are re-examining the potential for alternative stimulation methods.
"However, as we emphasise above, the true potential of Tilapia is in the deeper horizons which we will be targeting through the drilling campaign.
"We have a strong and experienced technical team on the ground, led by our operations director Oleg Schkoda, who has many years' experience in the Republic of the Congo and of these particular horizons, plus a supportive local partner, and we believe we are well positioned to take advantage of the opportunity in front of us."
At 9:25am: (LON:AAOG) Anglo African Oil Gas Plc Ord 5p share price was -0.75p at 19.5p
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Somproduct is a huge furniture and home decor store based in Romania -it is like the Romanian version of IKEA-.
They needed a specific landing page where they could offer special promos and big discounts to aim at a business audience. Fulfilling their needs, both mobile and desktop versions were designed accordingly.