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15 August 2018 | Fatima Sookharia
From the Airport Runway onto the humid bustling streets of Cox's Bazar I was in awe by the sheer number of people walking the streets of Bangladesh. The tuc-tuc in which we rode to our hotel fitted a driver, our luggage and the Salaam Foundation team, 3 in number. Informal housing, unfinished buildings and small shops lined either side of the narrow roads, shared with cars, busses and cows. The sound of every vehicle hooting is something that I soon got used to as a background buzz wherever we were. Everything is tight in Bangladesh, a country with 163 million people, 2.9 million of which live in Cox's Bazar.
A year earlier on the 25 August 2017, the Rohingya crises escalated when the Myanmar military accused Rohingya rebels of launching attacks on police and military points in the Rakhine state. The military responded in a grotesque manner, resulting in a mass persecution of the Rohingya people.
Village by village as survivors have testified to the army came, called out all the men, terrorised and violated the women and children and opened fire on them. As they ran, their homes were set alight, many thrown into blazing fires.
For some, this meant jumping into rivers and swimming across for survival. Slain bodies of Rohingya children have washed up onto Bangladesh shores which shows the extreme measures that the Myanmar Army have taken against the Rohingya. This latest tragedy compounding the reality that the Rohingya are the world's most persecuted minority since the late 1940's.
The hype around the Rohingya people has dimmed since the initial flurry of news last year. But the story has not ended as they are still in desperate need of the world's assistance.
On route to the camps we stopped at a safe home. These are centres which see to the psycho-social needs of women who have faced gruelling conditions. No men are allowed to enter these homes. Inside, I met 18-year-old Jannatul Firdous. She had a 1 month old baby named Anwar and was ready speak to me about her experiences in Myanmar and how she came across to Bangladesh. My visit was cut short by a phone call that prevented me from interviewing the survivors. This particular home had taken a strict stance towards protecting the anonymity of the women as well as their stories. Disappointed I had to leave.
We then went to Kutaupolong camp, in an area called Ukhia close to the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. This is the largest of all the Rohingya refugee camps and houses about 600 000 people.
Here I visited another safe shelter, a space for women and children. I went inside hoping to interact with the survivors of the brutal Rohingya genocide. Lutfa Bakhsi, a counsellor that works at this shelter spoke to me about what they do. She used the term, "mind satisfaction," to describe the service they offer. She said they help the women and children to take their minds off the horrors of their past. Inside, a classroom of young girls welcomed me. I sat chatting about their lives. Senuwara, lived with her mum and 5 sisters in the camp. Her dad was killed by the soldiers. Rafiqa, a 10-year-old girl said that if the soldiers saw any beautiful woman, they would rape her. Shocked by what she had just said to me, I asked her how she knew this, and her reply was, "I know, because I saw it".
The frank manner in which they spoke about the horror and violence that they witnessed touched a chord deep inside me. At that moment, while these girls spoke, my thoughts shifted to my similar aged daughters that I had left at home in South Africa. A piece of my heart would always remain in the safe space I visited that day.
Curious to find out what the camp houses were like, we visited some homes. Rahima Begum was one of the ladies that spoke to me. She said the military came to their homes and told them that they cannot live in Myanmar. "They called out all the men and opened fire on them while setting their homes alight."All of this happened right before her as she escaped in the early days of the genocide. Bangladesh had not yet opened their borders, so she spent a week in a river in no man's land between the two countries. To survive she was forced to eat leaves from the trees.
I always knew that the situation these people faced was grim and bleak but hearing it from them made me tremble. Each one had a horror story, worse than the previous one.
Sitting in a smoke-filled bamboo hut, Aashie shared her experience, "The army raped my sisters, they raped our daughters they killed our parents, and all of this happened in front of me. To save myself, I jumped into the river and in this I lost my own child." Tears ran down my sweaty cheeks as I walked out trying to compose myself to do one more interview.
ShazedaBeghum said that the torture was too much. Her brother and aunt were burnt to death and she spent Eid ulAdha last year in the river as well as she tried to flee and was denied entry at that time.
Bangladesh has since relaxed their border controls and welcomed over one million Rohingya into their territory.
As I walked out of the Kutupolong camp that day, I felt helpless, powerless and defeated. The thought of a food distribution the next day lightened my emotional burden.
Unchiprang camp in Teknaf, Southern Bangladesh was our destination for the next day. The Al Qamar medical centre run by a young Bangladesh scholar, Moulana Yusuf, treated approximately 300 patients daily. Medical services are provided free of charge. Here, patients can see a doctor for treatment and minor procedures. Circumcisions, quite an important need for the predominantly Muslim Rohingya, are also carried out here.
Moulana Yusuf also runs a madressah for the Rohingya children to learn their basic Islamic beliefs. In his classrooms across the camp he teaches 5000 children on a daily basis.
The process of handing out parcels was managed by the Bangladesh army stationed at that camp. Captain Faheem, well versed in English and extremely jolly, marshalled the troops who assisted with maintaining order.
The ferociousness with which the children queued and fought to get a meal, spoke to the severity of their hunger and need. The sight of a two-year-old child, scantily clothed, who could barely hold the food parcel gave a new meaning to what gratitude truly means.
Over 1000 children were fed at this distribution. Their life reality played out before me.
We often ask what we can do to help refugees. Well, when people run away with nothing in their hands, they need every little thing. From medicines to clothes, shelter to emotional support, they need it all. Sometimes it's just a hot nutritious meal that makes all the difference.
Back in Cox's Bazar we visited the public hospital. An overcrowded building of patients. A shortage of beds forced medical staff to see to patients who lie down on the floors of the wards. Passages and corridors of the hospital were also filled with patients, all desperate for assistance. Bangladesh is country that has many living below the bread line and the influx of the Rohingya people, bring with it xenophobic and economic challenges. International aid is thus vital to the sustainability of this country in helping the many Rohingya that they have accommodated in their country.
Throughout the Salaam Foundation #Survivor campaign, we focused on helping with the psycho-social needs of the Rohingya. It was disturbing to see so many children who had very little to wear while many ran around the camps wearing absolutely nothing. The Islamic dress of the Rohingya women stood out as a reminder that these ladies want to guard their modesty, many of whom, wore a face veil. Keeping this in mind a clothing distribution was facilitated by Pulse Bangladesh, a partner organisation.
Humanitarian journalism is all about reporting on the story and then getting involved and doing something about it. It's almost impossible to visit a place like the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and not do something about it. We report on issues globally and locally and then try our best to provide aid to those in need. We call on you to help the many in need by donating to Salaam Foundation.
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Brilliance BS6 is a business-class sedan that combines reasonable price and quality. In truth, Brilliance BS6 resembles little a typical product of the Chinese car manufacturers. Sedan looks very impressive, serious and solid. The Chinese automaker has added to the exterior solidness of sedan high-quality equipment. There is a good range of colors and almost perfect gaps and details that are most susceptible to corrosion, have additional protection. Anti-lock braking system, an electronic brake force distribution, reverse parking assist sensors, climate control, alarm seatbelt –all this make Brilliance BS6 very comfortable.
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China set to be car makers of tomorrow
SHANGHAI - Feng Jingwei walked to a Roewe e50 parked at the Hongqiao transport hub in Shanghai, after returning from a business trip.
He unplugged the charger from the white-green hatchback and hung it on the charging pile, before driving to his office 12 km away. It was the fourth time Feng had used the car in a month.
The ultra small plug-in car was a rental that Feng booked online, one of 220 EvCard electric vehicles (EVs) lined up at the Hongqiao hub, near a high-speed railway station and two airport terminals.
"I don't have to queue up for a taxi or jam myself into a subway coach," said Feng, 31, who runs a small business in one of China's most expensive cities. "I don't have a car, but it's getting easier to book one on an app and is usually cheaper than hailing a taxi."
Five minutes after Feng pulled out with the Roewe e50, a Chery EQ filled its parking slot.
Lu Liuxi got out of the minicar, connected the charger and scanned a sensor on the windshield with his smartphone before hearing a beep.
"It's available now," said Lu, an EvCard employee whose job is to move cars between parking stations as instructed by a dispatch center.
"Hongqiao is the busiest place among all EvCard stations in Shanghai, and we send cars here many times a day," said the veteran driver, who has been employed by EvCard for three months.
Launched in 2015 by Shanghai International Auto City (SIAC) Group, EvCard is China's first EV rental service, deploying 3,000 stations and about 6,000 cars in Shanghai. It also serves a further 23 Chinese cities.
The rate is 15 yuan for the first 30 minutes, with each minute a further 0.6 yuan in town, and 0.5 yuan out of town. The daily rent ceiling is 219 yuan for choices such as the Roewe e50 or Chery EQ. A BMW i3, a more upscale vehicle, costs more.
On Wednesday, the State Council announced efforts to develop the sharing economy, amid efforts to boost innovation and entrepreneurship.
Rong Wenwei, chair of the SIAC board, said that when the idea of EV rental first came to China, a number large vehicle rental firms were interested but dragged their feet due to uncertainty over profitability. The state-funded SIAC, however, had no such hesitation.
"In such a metropolis, each step to make the streets less choked and the air less polluted is worth taking," said Zhu Jing, who is in charge of the EvCard business unit.
The effort is paying off. EvCard now leads the world's green car rental service with the most EVs, self-service rental spots and membership clients, and is set to make a profit in Shanghai in 2018. By 2020, it plans to build a fleet of more than 300,000 cars to serve in 100 Chinese cities.
"It isn't impossible that cities like Shanghai will see car numbers drop," Zhu said.
His words were echoed by Zhu Xichan, professor at the School of Automotive Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai.
"The car has turned from a luxury to a household item in China. Limited resources and roads make car sharing the most convenient transport solution," he said.
"The idea of sharing, plus new energy vehicles, may well be an answer to private transportation while the number of cars can also be reduced," he said.
Recent statistics are encouraging. DriveNow, a car sharing service launched in 2011 in Germany, has pulled down private car use in Munich by 25 percent in past years, according to German reports.
While Los Angeles is estimated to remove 1,000 private vehicles off the road, a Paris-based firm is partnering with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation to supply 200 EVs and 100 chargers on various streets.
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"A total of 121,425 EVs have been registered in Shanghai, almost doubling the number 12 months ago," said Ding Xiaohua, deputy director of Shanghai's EV Public Data Collecting, Monitoring and Research Center (EvData), also affiliated to SIAC.
"All those EVs are being monitored here -- the entire EvCard fleet as well as all privately-owned and public ones like electric buses and sanitation vehicles," Ding said in front of a congested e-map of the downtown on a huge screen in an EvData monitoring room in Jiading, a municipal district where the SIAC is headquartered.
When the center was set up in 2012, he recalled, data came from only eight cars, all hand-recorded. Now the platform is the world's biggest in terms of database size, the number of involved automakers, models of cars and total mileage.
A car's location, speed, battery capacity, voltage and temperature can each renewed in just 30 seconds.
While big data can be used for driving behavioral studies and car performance evaluation, accidents can be alerted and prevented when certain parameters of cars go abnormal, Ding said.
China has an "obvious strategic vision" in EVs and clean energy transport, said Professor Roger Raufer of energy, resources and environment at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.
"Although it is first driven by its own domestic needs for better air quality and fewer oil imports, China's sheer scale and global aspirations make it a tremendously formidable player on the international scene," said Raufer, a former advisor to the UN Division for Sustainable Development in New York.
In 2016, over 507,000 EVs were sold in China, more than the combined sales in the United States, Norway, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Shanghai now has 10 percent of China's green cars.
As more EVs hit the road, there is a growing need to make them safer, smarter and more linked.
An enclosed test zone for connected and self-driving cars in Jiading is where many Chinese and foreign intelligent cars are tested before being mass manufactured.
Known as the F-Zone, the site is considered the best in China and is one of the most advanced in the world.
Connected cars are put through as many as 50 simulation programs, such as pedestrian and non-motor vehicle crossing alerts, intersection collision avoidance and collaborative highway fleets.
Automated driving tests include collision avoidance, exiting systems under dangerous conditions and response ability.
The zone is blueprinted to reach beyond an enclosed area for real road tests and offer more simulations, such as in different weather conditions, said Gu Leiming, from SIAC management, who supervises the F-Zone.
Experts including Li Keqiang, professor of the Department of Automotive Engineering at Tsinghua University, believe that after new energy cars, intelligent connected vehicles will be the next in the auto industry.
China has been the world's largest auto market for years.
China's home-grown auto makers have gained a one-third share of the domestic market, 28 million vehicles in 2016, turning themselves from imitators to initiators in research and development.
With a huge and robust market, an ever stronger information industry, innovative industrial policies and the self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, China might have an edge on competitors in developing intelligent connected vehicles, Li said.
More innovative
In 2015, China announced the "Made in China 2025" initiative, focusing on promoting high-end manufacturing, with energy saving and new energy vehicles being one of the key points.
By 2020, Shanghai is set to work on about 60 major industrial projects, each worth over 1 billion yuan. The development of intelligent connected vehicles is on the list.
Efficient governance, advanced technologies and a large group of consumers eager to enter the connected era may give China "the lead in the worldwide race to build connected cars and future transport system," according to a report by the Swedish trade and investment council in December 2016.
However, China's road to future cars is not without bumps.
Many argue that the soaring number of new energy cars is the result of government subsidies, and quite a number of drivers still prefer going to gas stations after buying plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs).
"If that is indeed the case complying with our data collection, measures should be taken and the car owner's credit rating should be affected," EvData's Ding said.
Ding appreciates that use of personal data may be a concern to some.
"While using data for future decision making on traffic optimization, we set collecting points on main roads instead of tracing individual vehicle movements too close to specific residential spots," he said.
Meanwhile, experts say that car rental can also be more scientific and friendly if it uses a "handshake" feature, allowing a vehicle to be transferred between two customers on the fly, which saves time looking for a parking place.
As for maintenance of shared vehicles, EvCard is introducing an appraisal system in which each clients can grade previous users, resulting in a reference for members' credit ratings.
Most experts remain positive about the future of EVs.
"The world needs a better way for people and goods to get around, and we believe autonomous, connected vehicles are an important component of the solution," Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan, said as he signed with a Chinese firm representative an investment deal in October 2016 to advance autonomous, connected vehicles and robotic technologies.
David Frey, a partner for Markets Strategy at KPMG in China, said that each company recognized the unwavering commitment of the Chinese government to developing advanced new energy automobile manufacturing.
"We can expect that city-based experimentation with the infrastructure and business models required to support expansion of electric vehicles will be robust," Frey wrote in the latest issue of Insight, the journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.


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Last week I was having coffee with a friend when she casually mentioned that she had been to an orgy. "A what?" I said, hoping she'd meant that as an abbreviation for: organizational seminar. Maybe she'd been getting organized. That's important.
Nope. She clarified. She'd been to an orgy - where people have sex with other people they don't know. It took place in someone's apartment on the Upper West Side and everyone was naked and under 40.
Why would she do such a thing? "Because," she said, "I like to try new things."
I loved that she had such a practical excuse. Why not switch toothpaste? That would be trying a new thing too. And there's no risk of an STD.
At first, I couldn't believe she was serious. But the more she talked, the more I got the sense it was no big deal - she could go to an orgy or she could go to pilates. It could go either way.
Then she said something really alarming. "Want to come with me next time?"
This is a friend who never invites me to anything. The type of person who says, "I'm going to the movies with some friends - I'll call you later" and now, suddenly, she was inviting me out - extending an invitation to an orgy? I don't get invited to the movies, but I get invited to the orgy. Do I really seem like I'm orgy material?
First of all, I'm too old for an orgy. Even if I'd had an adventurous, sexually experimental side, those days, which never existed, are long over.
Also, I'm too tired for an orgy. You have to have energy for that. They happen late at night, way past my bedtime. I have trouble staying awake past 10 o'clock and I'm guessing there aren't a lot of people at orgies taking naps.
But also, more importantly, I'd be way too concerned about the germs. Where would I sit? If I make people wash their hands before using my computer, I'd need a biosphere suit just to walk in the room. That environment is a breeding ground for bacteria and viruses - I'd have a sore throat within seconds and if someone tried to touch me I'd hand them a bottle of Purell hand gel. How sexy is that? Not exactly the gel they had in mind.
Another thing. I'd worry about running into someone I know. Like my doorman. Or even worse, my shrink. That would change everything.
Since orgies are gaining popularity, I wondered who else I know has been. Liza has been so busy working, I thought I should check in with her and see if she'd ever consider going to one. "Are you kidding?" She said, "I barely have time to get a pedicure."
My other friend, Audrey, wasn't aware this was happening either. "I knew cowboy boots had made a comeback. But orgies?"
I suppose the main thing about going to an orgy is you have to be relaxed about it which is precisely why it would be the worst possible situation for me to be in.
I'd have a hundred friggin' questions. Every time someone tried to make a move, I wouldn't trust it. "I'm curious," I'd say, "What do you do for a living?"
Either that or no one would make a move. That would be depressing. I go to an orgy and someone asks me if I can make them a sandwich. As in, an actual sandwich.


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Celtic complete record move for PSG youth product Odsonne Edouard
Celtic have completed the permanent signing of Odsonne Edouard from Paris Saint-Germain in what the Scottish club said is the biggest transfer in their history.
The decision to trigger Edouard's purchase option, the value of which was not disclosed but has been reported to be £10 million, means the move for France youth international surpassed Chris Sutton's transfer from Chelsea in 2000.
"From the moment I walked into Celtic, the club has felt like home to me," Edouard, who signed a four-year contract, said in a statement announcing the move. "I have been made to feel so welcome by everyone at the club and our fans have given me such brilliant support.
"Celtic is one of the world's great football clubs and I was desperate to make my move permanent. The scenes from May, when we achieved such a historic double treble, and made the city come alive are still very fresh in our memories."
Edouard played 29 matches and scored 11 goals across all competitions on loan with Celtic last season, winning the Premiership title, the Scottish FA Cup and the League Cup.
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"We are delighted to make such an important signing," Celtic coach Brendan Rodgers said in the statement. "Odsonne is one of the best young players I have worked with and one of the best in Europe.
"Our fans saw exactly what he is capable of last season and we look forward to working with him again as we look to build on the tremendous success we achieved last year.
Edouard, a PSG youth academy graduate, won the France under-19 championship with the club in 2015-16.
In their own statement, PSG congratulated Edouard "on his excellent season in Scotland" before wishing him "a long and successful career."
Edouard's sale helps PSG in their quest to raise a reported €40 million to €60 million before the end of the month to avoid short-term financial fair play (FFP) sanctions related to UEFA's investigation of their 2015-17 accounts.
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As we talked about briefly, the templates are preset for Producing your checkout, sales page, membership pages, and course pages the best they can be. The good news is that it's among the easiest design procedures I've ever noticed.
Your course content, and all of other modules you put On your site, are coordinated for you. Moreover, the preset templates look amazing.
I'd say this Will frustrate some professional Programmers who want full control over their design environment. But, it's still a wonderful solution for all skills levels due to how rapidly the Podia builder sets together your website.
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Considering that Podia is provided to you for 30 days without Any credit card, it offers you an opportunity to play around with the tools and see how easy it's to use.
I would argue that Podia gets the perfect user-experience For beginners, intermediates, and advanced users. It makes sense that some developers would like to use Magento or WordPress for more sophisticated features, but I truly don't see the point if you're just going to make something like a membership or internet course website.
The hosting is contained, and the dash is fitted with Some fun and easy to understand steps for making your website. Consequently, if I wanted to create an internet course, I would start with this Online Course button.
Then, Nearly All the attributes are consolidated on 1 page, with a couple of tabs for your sales page, preferences, and sales. It shows the amount of sales you have currently earned, and you can click the Preview button to have a look at your website.
The primary buttons comprise the options to Insert Documents, Insert A Link, and Insert Text. That's pretty much of it. I know for a fact that a few folks will not be that pleased with the limited design options, but that's kind of the point of Podia. It cuts back on the complicated process of constructing an internet course or membership website, and it's all done by giving you a gorgeous theme to start off with.
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Although this is extremely restricted, Stripe and PayPal Cover a wide array of states. You should not have any problems with the fees or solutions.
Marketing is built in with the email marketing module. This sends out everything from course upgrades to email newsletters. What's cool is that you can brand them into the best of your ability and select whether you'd like to send the manual or automatic messaging. The trickle material is configured to the automated end of things.
Additionally, a sales page is provided for record a Item description, headline, and cover photo. I enjoy this for people that want to link from advertisements on Google and Facebook. Feel free to upload a debut video and make an FAQ area. You are able to incorporate your shopping cart and email marketing too.
The Customer Support
1 drawback of Podia is that the lack of telephone support. You have the option to email Podia or undergo the 24/7 live chat area. The Shaker plan even has onboarding and migration support if you intend on moving from another platform.
Along with a blog, documentation and also a Resources page, Podia support is about as good as it can get without call support.
Your Podia checkout is protected by Stripe and PayPal. Podia does not collect any information when among your clients undergo the checkout, and also the checkout pages are completely protected. The transactions are sent through an encryption process and shielded by 128-bit SSL encryption technology.
I'd like to see some fraud security, because Membership and online course sites often see people trying to game the system.
1 advantage is that both pricing plans have SSL Certificates for locking down trade security.
Application Process
Establishing a Podia account is straightforward and mostly surprise-free. You'll need to connect to a Stripe (see our review) account to allow memberships, however.
Project Qualifications
Should you set up a Podia accounts, then you'll be able to Begin Selling memberships, digital courses, and digital downloads as soon as you complete the account setup process. Podia's terms of service prohibit copyright infringement, misleading/fraudulent articles, spamming, and libel.
The TOS also put out a policy against Material that"includes or depicts nudity, comprises or depicts sexual activity, or is otherwise unsuitable as determined by us in our sole discretion" This would seem to preclude all content that may be considered"adult" This is a bit curious, considering Podia promotes itself as a more creator-attuned alternative to Patreon, which does allow some kinds of adult content. At least in this regard, Podia is much more restrictive of creators than Patreon, less.
Customer Service &Technical Support
Podia offers a Series of articles to assist you through various aspects of working with the service. In terms of direct assistance, Podia provides email service and live chat. In reality, Podia's creator offered to meet up with me in the NYC area once I signed up for the service!
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Positive Reviews & Testimonials
The Aforementioned video review of Podia was quite positive general, praising the design, aesthetics, and community-building characteristics of the platform.
Negative Reviews & Complaints
I could not find much in the way of feedback regarding Podia. One of the only reviews I could discover online — a movie review submitted to YouTube — noted that unlike some competing platforms, Podia doesn't allow for several writers within a single account. Another review noted that the platform"is not the cheapest solution on the market."
As Previously Mentioned, the Podia system provides a 30-day Free trial without the need to type in your credit card information. What is more is that if you upgrade to an actual plan within five days of starting your free trial, a 15% lifetime reduction is thrown onto your own plan.
Annual and monthly billing plans are revealed, so naturally, If you pay for Podia on a yearly basis you're likely to get a better monthly rate.
Although Podia is not the cheapest way to make an Online store, the pricing isn't bad at all. Also, it constitutes for the price with all the awesome features and simple user interface.
1 thing I like about Podia is that it only includes two Pricing plans. Therefore, you're not confused when attempting to figure out which characteristics you need to cover.
Here is what's available concerning pricing.
The Mover Plan — $33 per month for all basic Podia attributes and drip course material.
The Shaker Plan — $67 a month for most basic Podia features, advanced visitors, onboarding, migration support, drip class material, affiliates, and memberships.
All plans have the following.
0 percent transaction fee to Podia. This doesn't include the fee you will need to cover Stripe or PayPal.
Email newsletters for sending out manual and automatic emails.
Prelaunch product pages.
Unlimited courses.
Unlimited digital downloads.
Drip content.
Client monitoring.
A high-conversion checkout site.
Many integrations like ConvertKit and Zapier.
Payouts that instantly go to your bank accounts.
Data exporting tools.
A customized domain name to sell things from your own website.
A payment protection plan.
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I like this app for People Who have found that Gumroad, or other competitors, are either too intricate or they induce you to pay large transaction fees. Podia supplies an excellent user experience together with a rapid launch process for online courses, digital downloads, and membership sites.
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We recommend you travel Gran Canaria and visit Santa Maria de Guia. As there's much more here than just great cheese!
If you drive down the GC-2 along the northern coast towards Agaete and before you get to El Puente de Silva (which is one of the tallest bridges in Spain) there are number of interesting beaches like El Pagador or San Felipe Beach.
Guia's town centre itself is also interesting and it was even declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument due to its beautiful architecture.
You should also visit El Cenobio de Valeron...this is a pre-Hispanic
storage area with over 300 rooms!
Guia isn't really known for its beaches but if you know where you're looking for you can find true gems!
One of these gems is Roque Prieto Beach. This is a totally secluded natural swimming pool. Only a few locals come here. It's a great place to come in summer during low tide! Do not however try to swim here during high tides as there are strong sea currents which are very dangerous.
El Pagador Beach is another less secluded natural swimming pool. Many small fish are trapped here during the low tides which makes it a nice place for snorkelling. There's also a really good restaurant here which we love coming to called "Restaurante El Paso". It has great sea views and as you can imagine the fish is REALLY fresh.
San Felipe Beach is probably the best know beach in Guia though. It's also known as 'Surfer Paradise' and it's excellent for...well, surfing. This is the place to come to if you like surfing, however if you don't, there is not much point in coming as there are much nicer beaches further down in Agaete.
The town of Santa Maria de Guia has one of the most typical Canarian architectures on the island. Because of this it was declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1982.
To get to the town centre (driving from Las Palmas towards Galdar) you'll have to turn left in here…
...there's a statue of a woman making cheese on the left, so the entrance will be easy to spot. Then you just have to carry on straight until you get to its neoclassical Church. You'll see that all the roads here are made of embedded stones.
Opposite the Church is the town hall and on its left is an excellent
example of typical Canarian architecture called Casa de los Quintana.
This house was built in the XVII century.
Before leaving Santa Maria de Guia you should also visit El Cenobio de Valeron which is a pre-Hispanic structure. It's believed that this was and ancient granary which has over 350 rooms used by the Guanches to store cereals. The site opens from Tuesdays to Sunday (10:00 - 17:00) and there is an entrance fee of 2.5 euros.
You also have to try Guia's cheese as it's really famous for it. You can find lots of it in its street market. The market is held opposite the Church in the town square every Tuesdayand Sunday from 8:00-13:00. If you're planning to be in Gran Canaria during the last week of April you can't miss its Cheese Fiesta!!
By Car
It's very easy...just take the northern motorway (GC-2) from Las Palmas and you will be here in 20 minutes.
You can either take the 105, which goes to Galdar, or you can take the 103 which goes all the way to Agaete and its beaches of Las Nieves.
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Ducati introduces the 2015 Multistrada 1200 S Touring D|air model, featuring an integrated, safety system wirelessly connected to Ducati Apparel D|air airbag jackets by Dainese. Marking a "world"s first" in the motorcycle industry and combining the innovative designs from two famous Italian brands, the new Ducati model takes a significant step forward in two-wheel safety.
The cooperation of expertise between Ducati and Dainese has produced an intelligent system that uses sensors built into the Multistrada 1200 S Touring's electronics to constantly understand the vehicle's dynamic situation, deploying only when subjected to a genuine accident scenario. The Multistrada D|air system completes the data analysis and airbag deployment inside both the rider and passenger jackets in just 45 milliseconds, considerably reducing the risk of injury upon impact.
The Ducati D|air is the first production motorcycle with an integrated jacket airbag system to complete the necessary tests for certification by Germany"s rigorous TÜV SÜD, the association responsible for defining the standards for wearable airbags. Ducati's premiere of the technology, developed with Dainese, further underlines the Italian motorcycle manufacturer"s commitment to enhanced safety, already represented by their Ducati Safety Pack consisting of multi-level ABS, traction control and power-controlling Ride-by-Wire.
This intelligence comes from a sophisticated algorithm, which manages data delivered from two triple-axis accelerometers fixed to the left and right fork bottoms of the Multistrada"s front suspension and an additional two rear triple-axis accelerometers mounted in the D|air Electronic Control Unit (ECU) positioned under the seat. When the sensors detect a potentially dangerous crash scenario, an algorithm is triggered which takes just 25 milliseconds to decide if airbag deployment is necessary or not. If deployment is necessary the D|air ECU onboard the Multistrada, which is continuously in bi-directional radio contact between the system and the Dainese jackets, initiates and completes airbag inflation in just 20 milliseconds, a total of 45 milliseconds from the start of impact.
The system adds just 1kg to the Multistrada and the only visual difference to the model is the addition of an extra LED display on the main instrumentation that constantly provides the system's active status.
The Ducati Multistrada D|air®, which is also equipped with Ducati's semi-active Skyhook suspension, will be available in European Ducati Dealerships from May 2014 onwards along with the D|air Street jackets.


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Madang, Sydney
It certainly has been a while since my last visit to Madang, there is usually a large group of people lining and it's the queue that makes me walk away. However, we (the family and I) were all craving Korean food and was determined to get a table. We arrived at about 6pm on a Saturday evening, and 25 minutes later we were seated!
I left all the ordering to my brother F, and as soon as we ordered, the banchan were served. Kimchee, grated daikon, potatoes salad, fish cake salad and seaweed salad. My favourite was definitely the kimchee and I love how it was refillable.
The haemul pajum – seafood and shallot korean pancake ($20) was one of the nicest pancake I have had. The batter was crunchy and I love the combination of shallots and seafood. The dipping sauce was a wonderful complement.
Dolsot bibim bab – rice topped with vegetables and a choice of beef, chicken, pork, tofu on a hot-pot ($14) and we all opted for the beef. Delicious mix of beef, rice, and vegetables which has been blanched and dressed with olive oil and soy sauce. I love the crunchy, chewy, sticky rice that was stuck at the bottom of the pot.
We ordered the tong kimchi tong ($18), pork belly marinated in wine with whole cabbage kimchee. I love the wine-marinated pork belly, it was incredibly tender, and succulent. I could have easily eaten the whole thing on my own!
We also enjoyed the pork ribs (I can't for the life of me remember the name of it!), which was barbequed beautifully by my Mum!
F has been raving about the fried chicken here, he claims it is one of the best he has had! Ordered the tang su gi – deep fried chicken in sweet and sour sauce ($26), the chicken had a lovely crunchy batter and succulent chicken. I love the sweet and sour sauce, however, it wasn't the right one!!!!
SO we ordered another fried chicken, the 'right' one, deep-fried chicken in spicy sour sauce ($26) and wow – the crunchiness of the chicken, the spiciness of the sauce exploded in our mouths.
Clearly, we ordered too much, and I took the left over fried chicken in spicy sour sauce and had it for lunch the next day. The prices quite reasonable, and the quantity of the fried chicken was definitely generous! I think the quantity for the barbecued meats could be more, regardless, it was still good.
Service good, and efficient, and I have to say, that chili chicken is definitely worth coming back for – even if its takeaway! Unfortunately they do not take reservations on Friday and Saturday nights, get there early so you won't have to wait too long!
GA's rating: 7.5 / 10
371 Pitt Street
Sydney 2000
Ph: +61 2 9264 7010
July 8, 2011 at 12:31 am
I love Madang. I totally agree it has the best seafood pancake and the sweet and spicy chicken one of my faves.
July 8, 2011 at 1:28 am
pork ribssssssssssss! dont u love it when theres ppl that does all the cooking and u just eat? haha!
July 8, 2011 at 2:00 am
You ordered all my faves! At my fave Korean restaurant! The seafood pancake simply tops the list though – I could live on that stuff!
July 8, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Madang has been on my wish list for MONTHS…I'm going to go there soon as it just looks like great food.
July 9, 2011 at 6:25 am
Love this place, their pancake is best on earth !
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Betsy DeVos has dedicated nearly her entire life to public service. Most people know her as the current Secretary of Education under the Trump Administration. But DeVos has been active in Republican politics and public service since her college days. She served as the chairperson of the Michigan Republican Party for more than 20 years. And she has spent a great deal of her career working to better the broken public education system in the United States.
It has been these latter efforts for which DeVos is least known and for which she has received the smallest amount of credit. For someone who led a relatively privileged life, it is, perhaps, surprising that DeVos would become such a staunch advocate for reform of the country's inner-city schools. She attended an upper-middle-class high school and then went on to study at Calvin College, a fairly exclusive Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that is often placed among the top Christian colleges in the country.
It was there that DeVos met her future husband, Dick DeVos. As the latter's career took off and the couple became wealthy, Betsy DeVos started spending more time volunteering and engaging in philanthropy. It was during this period that she first realized just how broken many of the country's urban schools are. DeVos remembers touring an inner-city school in her hometown of Grand Rapids and being shocked at the conditions that she witnessed. She saw classrooms where the heat didn't work in winter. And she heard stories of serious felonies being committed on school grounds, causing many students to constantly fear for their safety.
As she looked into the root causes of these problems, DeVos realized that the public-school system, for various reasons, had completely failed America's inner-city youth. She started reading Milton Friedman and other free-market theoreticians, eventually concluding that free-market solutions would provide the best bet to counter the pernicious tendency of urban public schools to decay into a farm system for the country's prisons.
DeVos and her husband put their money where their mouth was. They started a number of public charter schools with the goal of transforming how urban kids were taught, bringing their scholastic environments up to the standards that were seen in the wealthiest school districts. Some of these schools, like the New Urban Learning school in Detroit, have proven DeVos' vision, taking kids from the most neglected neighborhoods in the country and shaping them into top scholars.
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Climate Change, Mitigation and Developing Country Growth
Michael Spence
Lecture on "Climate Change, Mitigation and Developing Country Growth" delivered by Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Spence on 7 September 2009 at Hotel Taj Mahal, New Delhi.
This paper deals with global mitigation strategy. More specifically the main purpose is to address the question of whether growth in the developing world is consistent with long-run climate change objectives. The answer I believe is yes. The first part of this paper lays out time paths for emissions for countries in various categories. These paths are consistent with countries' growth objectives, incomes, and capacity to absorb mitigation costs. The intent is to show that while global emissions are likely to remain flat or even to rise as a result of the combined effect of mitigation undertaken by advanced countries and growth in the developing world, eventually reasonably safe global per capita levels can be reached on a 50-year time horizon. The second part of this paper discusses countries' roles in relation to different categories and mechanisms that would support the achievement of safe emissions paths. These mechanisms create incentives and deal with the absorption of costs. In particular, the paper argues that a carbon credit trading system in the advanced countries, combined with an effective cross‐border mechanism and a 'graduation' criterion for developing countries to join the advanced group, will create strong incentives, achieve a fair pattern of cost absorption, and support the dynamics described in part one. One point emerges clearly: the cross-border mechanism (or international offsets) is essential in dealing with both the efficiency and the cost absorption/equity challenges of a global mitigation strategy.
- Spence, Michael (2009). Climate Change, Mitigation and Developing Country Growth. Washington, DC: Commission on Growth and Development.
Related Links:
- Anuradha, R.V. (2009). Negotiations in Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities. Lecture delivered on 27 August 2009 at ICRIER, New Delhi. Download Presentation.
- Mendelsohn, Robert (2009). Climate Change and Economic Growth. Washington, DC: Commission on Growth and Development. Download Full-text Paper.
- Wheeler, David (2007). Greenhouse Emissions and Climate Change: Implications for Developing Countries and Public Policy. Washington, DC: Commission on Growth and Development. Download Full-text Paper


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Trevor Grunewald of Hampton Bays was at the beach on Sunday, July 2, sporting an American flag bathing suit appropriate for the holiday weekend, while hanging out with friends and family.
As he does on nearly all of his days off from work as a landscaper, Mr. Grunewald, 46, had gathered up his beach gear, packed it into his truck, and drove onto a stretch of beach in Southampton Village known as the "Picnic Area," joining a group of other families and friends with four-wheel-drive vehicles.
"It's just our culture," Mr. Grunewald said. "We grew up on the beach. Our whole life has been at the beach."
Mr. Grunewald, who moved to Hampton Bays from East Hampton 10 years ago, said his great-grandfather was a whaler, and going to the beach has been a family tradition for generations.
That day, the grills were fired up and covered with hamburgers and hot dogs, and kids were running around, throwing Frisbees and boogie-boarding in the chest-high shore break, as families congregated between their cars and trucks on the sand.
Mr. Grunewald and his crew looked out at the ocean while basking in the sun in their beach chairs, sipping on ice-cold beverages on the 80-plus-degree day. Even a fog bank that rolled in mid-morning didn't stop their plans on their day off for the week.
Over the last few years, they've worried that something else might.
Mr. Grunewald and families like his have been concerned about losing the ability to drive and park on the beach during the day ever since a lawsuit was filed in 2015 by nearby homeowners. The waterfront property owners grew tired of looking out at a sea of vehicles instead of simply the beach, and went to court seeking to prevent vehicle access to the Picnic Area, which is the only place in Southampton Town that allows beach driving during the summer months.
No decision has been made regarding that lawsuit, but on May 31, attorneys for the State Department of Environmental Conservation, Village of Southampton, Southampton Town Trustees and the Araskog family—Kathleen Araskog Thomas, Andrew S. Thomas, Rand V. Araskog and Jessie M. Araskog—met for a conference with State Supreme Court Justice Daniel Martin in Riverhead. Since that meeting, a decision on whether to go to trial was left in Justice Martin's hands. It is not clear when he will make a decision.
Mr. Grunewald and others who love spending down time driving on the beach don't want to see their way of life change. "Just because a few people decide they don't like the view that might not even be here in five years?" he asked. "Someone else might come down here and tear down their house and build something else they want.
"They think they have the right, but we have our rights too," he added.
"Every time you go in front of a judge when it comes to beach access, it's concerning," said former Southampton Village Mayor Mark Epley. "You don't know how they are going to lean. My thing has been to keep it out of the court systems."
The Southampton lawsuit was filed by attorney Nica B. Strunk, on behalf of the Araskog family, in October 2015. The suit claims that the Village of Southampton and the Southampton Town Trustees are unfairly and illegally allowing vehicles on a small portion of the beach in front of the Araskogs' home during the day in the summer months, while excluding vehicles from other beaches. Also named as a defendant in the lawsuit is the State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Calls to Ms. Strunk this week were not immediately returned.
While homeowners along the oceanfront in Southampton Village own the beach from their house to the mean high water mark, the Town Trustees hold a public access easement along all ocean beaches within the town, which extends from the crest of the natural dunes to the high tide line. The Dongan Patent, from 1686, established that easement and allows the Town Trustees to regulate activities in that zone, such as fishing and collecting seaweed.
In the Picnic Area lawsuit, the homeowners claim that village and town ordinances designate the 2,000-foot stretch of sand as the lone daytime access point for vehicles in the town, which puts an unfair burden on those who live next to it, and therefore violates equal protection statutes of the U.S. Constitution. They also claim that Picnic Area beachgoers are rude, get drunk on the beach, defecate and urinate in the dunes, and leave their garbage.
An image presented before a Southampton Village Board public hearing last year depicted rows of four-wheel-drive trucks and SUVs along the stretch of sand—something Mr. Epley said is rare. On a typical day, the vehicles are not layered two or three deep from the beach toward the dune, though that can happen on the busiest days.
"When you have a picture of one day, and present that to a judge, that's the hard part," Mr. Epley said. "A picture's worth a thousand words."
On July 2, the number of trucks at the beach was far less than what was depicted in the photo presented. Instead, the trucks were spaced out in a single row along the beach.
In 2016, Mr. Epley sought to cap at 175 the number of vehicles that can access the Picnic Area at any given time, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and park on the sand. No decision was made, and no cap was put in place.
On Monday, Mr. Epley defended his efforts, saying the number of vehicles he sees at the Picnic Area during the busy days is normally far less than the 175-vehicle cap that he was seeking. He said he was just trying to keep this case from going in front of a judge.
He said he was hoping to see the Town Board and Town Trustees take action to possibly open more beaches for beach driving during the summer months, but they did not.
One beach that was looked at by the Trustees was Hot Dog Beach in East Quogue, though Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman put that to rest in December 2016, saying the beach was already being considered as a sunbathing area, and the off-road vehicles could put the sunbathers in harm's way.
Instead, Mr. Schneiderman recommended the Trustees look at a stretch of sand to the west of the Ponquogue Beach Pavilion in Hampton Bays. At this point, the Trustees have not opened any additional areas for beach driving.
Southampton Village Mayor Michael Irving said as a kid, he used to camp at the beach, and it was rare to see a vehicle pass by during the night. Now, he said, everyone owns a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and the density along the beaches has increased dramatically.
Mr. Irving echoed Mr. Epley, saying he doesn't think the Town Trustees have done enough to open more beaches, creating pressure on the Picnic Area.
"I think they gotta push harder," Mr. Irving said. "The general public wants more access."
But opening more beaches involves a lot more than waving a wand and granting people access, according to Southampton Town Trustee Scott Horowitz.
One of the problems the Trustees face when looking at a piece of beach to open is whether or not the endangered piping plovers are in the area. If they are, then the Trustees risk being fined by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife if the birds are harmed in any way.
The authority the Trustess hold over this easement along town beaches has eroded slowly, and according to Mr. Horowitz, the Trustees need to work with the authorities before considering any additional beaches.
"People want to point fingers, but, look ... we have to be compliant with U.S. Fish and Wildlife," he said. "We're trying to find some balance that makes sense."
As for the lawsuit, some people are worried that the judge's decision could kill off a tradition that people like Mr. Grunewald believe is rightfully theirs.
Though a decision is still pending from Justice Martin, the beach still remains open, without limits beyond what the law currently states.
Steven Stern, an attorney from Carle Place-based Sokoloff Stern LLP who represents the Southampton Town Trustees, made it clear that there is no motion for a preliminary injunction, and there is nothing filed with the courts to close down the beach until a decision is made.
Craig Goulding, 43, of Hampton Bays, was at the beach with Mr. Grunewald, and also expressed his discontent with the situation, pointing out the problem isn't with the people who live in Southampton year-round.
"It's ridiculous," Mr. Goulding said. "These people are here for half the summer. They use it, maybe, every other week. I don't understand what their big complaint is."


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Goodmoods' handmade sandstone bottles are a "satire of our plastic use"
French creative publisher Goodmoods has released a collection of soft matte ceramics that mimic the shape of single-use plastic bottles. More
French creative publisher Goodmoods has released a collection of soft matte ceramics that mimic the shape of single-use plastic bottles. More
Italian architect Matteo Thun has used cold-processing techniques to create a series of translucent blown-glass vases for Murano glassmakers Venini. More
French designer Pierre Charrié has reimagined traditional Peruvian singing vessels with his collection of coloured musical jugs. More
Blown glass lights that look like bubbles of magma and blown glass vessels slumped over steel and brass stands feature in Nouvel Limited's latest collection. More
Arnhem-based designers Visser & Meijwaard drew upon their Dutch heritage to create these matt black vessels for German design brand Pulpo. More
London designer John Booth has created three-dimensional versions of his colourful illustrations for this collection of collage-style vases. More
London studio Industrial Facility has unveiled a collection of lacquered vessels at Milan design week that are based on traditional Japanese soup and rice bowls. More
The Brinery is a home fermentation vessel designed by a team of Royal College of Art students to kickstart interest in the "forgotten" process of preserving vegetables. More
The developers of a biodegradable urn that turns the ashes of a dead person into a tree have designed an incubator to aid the growth process (+ slideshow). More
Spanish product designer Victor Castanera has created a set of cylindrical resin containers with patterns reminiscent of ocean waves and sandy beaches. More
Wolfgang Natlacen's ovoid funerary urns can rock like a Weeble toy to offer an alternative to the "grey and sad conformism of death" (+ movie). More
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By: Monique Tello, MD, MPH, Contributing Editor Recently I saw a young woman in my clinic for her annual exam. As usual, I asked her if she would like to be tested for sexually transmitted infections, and then we reviewed the "menu" of options: we could collect a swab of her cervix for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomonas, and a PAP smear for human papillomavirus. We could collect blood for HIV, hepatitis C, syphilis, and


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Are you ready to experience one of the greatest adventures of a lifetime – quite literally? Revel in the most thrilling, exhilarating and magical winter wonderland adventure ever, certain never to be forgotten.
Meet Westport native Kim Reichhelm:
Kim has exceled in the sport of skiing since snapping into her bindings at the very young age of three. Family trips to Stratton Mountain (Vermont) each weekend sealed her fate. Riding up the chairlift, Kim watched the inspiring ski racers below, instilling a desire within. By the age of five or six, she was banging on the door of the Stratton Mountain School's ski club begging to be allowed to join the ski team. After accomplishing and completing each hurdle that was handed her (including the fact that she was too young/ not tall enough), the coach conceded. "I went into the ski school and graduated from the highest level class required within weeks," said Kim. "And was back knocking on the Ski Team's door with my certificate in hand. The coach was like, oh my gosh, this kid, I can't get rid of her (laughed Kim). He allowed me to join and I never looked back."
- Kim raced with the Stratton Mountain School Ski Team (1972-1978)
- United States Ski Team, at 15 years old, after being invited to train with them in Europe (1975 – 1979)
- Two time NCAA All American while attending the University of Colorado (1979-1983) and the Women's Pro Tour
- Two-time World Extreme Skiing Champion (1991 and 1995) and is the only extreme skier to win the North American, South American and World Extreme Skiing titles in one season.
- "After racing for many years and through college I became a big mountain ski racer (extreme skiing)," continued Kim. "I kept wanting more challenge, I needed to have that rush and be constantly pushing my own limits."
Not unnoticed:
Kim did not go unnoticed, as before long, Greg Stump featured her in his ski movie, License to Thrill. Kim also appeared in To the Limit I-Max Films (stunt double), No Man's Land Christian Begin Productions, and Sick Sense Match Stick productions. Kim was also featured as an extreme skier on Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning America, Wide World of Sports and NBC Dateline. Kim worked in television broadcasting as a reporter for ESPN, ESPN2, Fox Sports and a color analyst before hosting instructional programs for RSN and Outdoor Life.
"It was through skiing and movies that I got invited to ski in Alaska and compete in the first ever World Extreme Ski Championships in 1991. Since then I have never missed a season of skiing in Alaska. I'm in love with the place."
In 1989, Kim founded 'Women's Ski Adventures', an innovative program designed for women of all ski abilities and has taught thousands of women around the world how to have fun on the slopes while boosting their confidence. Due to Kim's success as an extreme skier and the popularity of the Women's Ski Adventures, Kim created 'Black Diamond Adventures' in 1995. This co-ed program caters to men and women who are advanced skiers looking to take their skiing to a whole new level. This year, 2015, marks the 26th anniversary season of Kim's hosting and directing numerous empowering clinics and over the top adventures.
Additional Guided Ski Adventures offered:
Ski with Kim: Vail, Ruby Mountains, Aspen, Alta, Alaska, Crested Butte, Internationally ski South America/ Chile or Iceland, Steep Skiing Camps, your own custom adventure, groups/family/kids adventures, and non-other than the ultimate ski adventure and the experience of a lifetime – helicopter skiing!
Note: you do not jump from the helicopter; it lands and lets you out safely.
Kim believes 'great guides are key in creating the ultimate ski experience for her clients. She finds the very best guides available in each location, who share their knowledge, a shared strong appreciation for safety and lots of experience.' "We guarantee that every detail is taken care of so that all you have to do is enjoy the adventure!" assured Kim.
Kim also works as a technical advisor for K2 Ski's, Dalbello boots and Nil's Skiwear, working with engineers and designers, she helps research, design, produce, market and promote state of the art ski equipment. "I travel with dozens of pairs of skis and equipment for all my guests to try," said Kim. "I think we make some of the best skis in the world and we work very hard at it. I put in hundreds of days on the snow each year for K2, developing the products."
Fast Facts:
- Fastest speed: While on the US Ski Team downhill racing – approx 75 mph
- Favorite Mountain: Aspen, I absolutely love it there.
- Highest Mountain Skied: On the Andes, in Chile, we landed via Helicopter at 14,000 feet
- Favorite Race: Having grown up in Vermont, we didn't have the big mountains, so I was a Slalom specialist; it's quick, very fast and has a lot of gates.
- Physical/ Health: I eat really well, a lot of fruits, vegetables, juices, good nutrition, and a lot of high proteins because I think I need them, low carbs because they slow me down, high energy foods. I also work out at the gym, I cross country ski, station bikes, yoga, core exercises, in the summer I kite surf and more. Kim also skis a minimum of 200 days per year (and has for the past 30 years).
Sponsors/Represent: Kim lives in Aspen, Colorado and represents several companies: K2 skis, poles, helmets and boots, Gorsuch (Ski with Kim's host shop), Hestra, Clif Bar, Oakley, Smartwool, Aloe Up, Turtle Fur, Peeled Snacks and Los Vascos.
Future Goals: I'm doing more work in public speaking/teaching: how to be a positive leader, overcoming fear, goal setting, talking with kids about finding their paths, empowering women and people in the corporate world, to accomplish what they want to. I focus now more on the spiritual and psychological side of it. Skiing is spiritually a beautiful sport – the tranquility, it's very stimulating, you feel refreshed and empowered, and it's really graceful and beautiful. I have so many fabulous stories I'm compiling now."
Rewards: "It gives me back so much and what I get back from my clients is so rewarding. I'm so rewarded being able to share my talents and my passion with people and in some cases have it be life changing for them. You would not believe how many people come up to me after they have skied with me and say – you have changed my life! I love this too much to ever change it (careers)."
skiwithkim.com. The 2015 calendar is posted. Not to be missed. "It's a great gift too!"


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Nowadays, it is notorious that our cars have more functionality that the previous ones. If you imagine a Fusca 66 and BMW 2006 it is not hard to see it. A strong component of this change is the amount of software presents in the new cars. The Institute (Vol. 31, No. 01, March 2007) presented an important essay about this topic. It essay was based on a new family of four IEEE standards is ensuring among others functionality that cars and roadside can communicate with each other. In general, the researchers believe that these standards could do for cars and vehicles what the IEEE 802.11 wireless standards have done for laptops and networking. The IEEE 1609 suite of WAVE Communications standards, developed for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), covers the underlying architecture for WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments). Three of the standards (IEEE Std. 1609.1, 1609.2, 1609.4) in the suite have been approved for trial use, and one is pending (IEEE Std. 1609.3). The standards cover since methods of securing WAVE messages, management of simultaneous data streams, until control and service channels. In the practice, according to Lee Armstrong editor of the IEEE Stds, 1609.1, 3, and 4., the WAVE system can do driving safer and easier since WAVE-equipped cars will transmit information to other cars and to roadside transceivers about their location, speed, acceleration, brake status, among others. In this way, we can imagine these cars connected with traffic lights and roads facilitating and improving our lives. The currents scenario is that tests involving the WAVE system are scheduled to start soon, electronic manufacturers are prototyping WAVE radios, and the auto industry is developing ways to build the radios and their antennas into cars. The forecast is to see cars with WAVE may come off the assembly line in about 2011.
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Why the FT3 Lab Reference Range may Not be Applicable for People on T3-Only, NDT, T4/T3 Therapy
Why is it foolish to rigidly apply the FT3 lab reference range for people on T3-Only, and probably for those on T4/T3 and NDT too?
Almost all doctors think the FT3 reference range should always be abided by, i.e. an FT3 result should always be in range. Most patients agree with this approach too - as it is what they are often told.
Often the effect of doing this is that patient's T3 medication is never increased to a therapeutic dose, or it may even be reduced if FT3 is above the top of the range. So, why isn't this ok?
Well, there are some extremely good reasons for this.
The argument for this came about through a discussion I had with a thyroid researcher. I have never seen this written about anywhere else before.
However, it is logicall and is holding many people back from getting well.
Let's start with people on T3-Only, as the argument is more obvious in this case.
Well, it is simple, but not so easy to describe in a few words.
The FT3 lab range is created from healthy people, or people on T4 therapy. The FT3 range is clearly based on blood measurements.
However, healthy people or those with normal levels of FT4, have T4 to T3 conversion constantly going on inside their cells. All of our cells do some level of conversion of T4 to T3. They either make D1 or D2 deiodinase enzymes in order to do this conversion. The liver and kidneys make D1 (the liver uses D1 to clear a lot of rT3) and the rest of the tissues make D2 (which is actually more efficient at converting T4 to T3). The T4 to T3 conversion occurs inside the cells.
Much of this intra-cellular converted T3 is never returned to the bloodstream. So, these healthy, or T4-treated, people have the measured FT3 in the blood, PLUS some good amount of extra FT3 being constantly converted within the cells. The FT3 they have in the blood is moving into the cells on a constant basis, PLUS they have the hidden FT3 from conversion.
So, the FT3 lab range only represents the blood FT3 and does NOT include the extra, sneakily converted FT3 that is additionally present in the person's cells.
Now, on T3-Only therapy we don't have much T4 left (I have zero). So, we get limited, or no, extra FT3 from conversion! Obviously, some of the FT3 is moving into the cells, but we lack the extra intra-cellular conversion going on constantly.
This is critical to be aware of.
If those on T3-Only get limited by a doctor saying we cannot go above the FT3 lab range, we are likely to not be getting enough T3!
So, this situation usually needs to be compensated with a higher FT3 than the lab range. Mine is sometimes 2 - 3 points above the top of the range (depending on when the blood draw is taken relative to the last dose of T3). I am not hyper or thyrotoxic in any way, which is what most doctors would interpret from a FT3 above the reference range. This also implies that for someone on T3-Only, they often need far higher T3 doses than when is is used in conjunction with T4 - higher than people mght expect. Practical experience suggests 40 to 80 mcg of T3 is fairly typical for most people when they use it as a T3-Only therapy. A few people need a little less and a few need more. I have personally been taking 60 mcg of T3 for well over ten years and I can happily cope with higher levels without any issues.
So, when patients who are on T3 therapy contact me and say they still don't feel well, but their lab test says their FT3 is at the top of the range, I am not at all surprised that they don't feel great.
T3 therapy needs to use the patients symptoms, and some key signs, like body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure in order to find the optimal dosing. Symptoms especially are critical. If a patient has no hyper symptoms at all, has normal body temperature, has not got an elevated heart rate out of the typical range and has good blood pressure, they are extremely unlikely to be hyper - regardless of an FT3 result which may be a little over the top of the reference range. On T3-Only, multiple sets of these measurements over the day, before and 2-3 hours after each T3 dose, provide good information, that virtually guarantees there is no hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxicity present if the measurements are all normal. To be even more secure a doctor could occasionally run an ECG and a blood calcium or other actual measures of true body function.
Lab tests are of almost no value when on T3-Only / T3 therapy.
This is all discussed within the 'Recovering with T3' book (Updated Edition 2018).
The above argument applies but to a lesser extent to T4/T3 therapies and NDT. The top of the reference range may be too restrictive for some of these people also. This is because their balance of T3 and T4 may be different to what they needed when they were well, and before they had hypothyroidism. This argument becomes more relevant the more T3 is in the T4/T3 combo being used.
It is worth noting that I have seen many thyroid patients who have never recovered until they reached zero rT3, near zero FT4 and higher than range FT3.
I have also written about this point in 'The Thyroid Patient's Manual' and in the Updated Edition 2018 of both 'Recovering with T3' and 'The CT3M Handbook'.
Basically, the lab ranges are of of little value on T3 therapy, with perhaps the only exception being that you can find out if TSH is suppressed, and whether you are clearing rT3.
An FT3 result has little diagnostic value when on T3-Only therapy, apart from knowing it is rising as the T3 is increased (i.e. there are no absorption issues), and should not be used restrictively when someone is on T4/T3 and NDT also.
The above knowledge is in all my books now, but I have not seen anyone else write about it... yet.
It is not surprising that the FT3 reference range is unhelpful for those on T3-Only or T4/T3 therapy. It simply was never developed with these therapies in mind.
I hope you find this interesting and useful.
Best wishes,
If any of you are planning on discussing the ideas presented here to your own physician, I recommend going slowly, carefully and politely. This article may challenge a lot of long-held beliefs. So, 'softly-softly' might be the best way to approach things. I mainly wrote this for thyroid patients to provide insightful background information.


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Routes into the Science Industries
There is a huge range of job and career opportunities available in the science-based industries.
There are great careers on offer working for companies at the leading edge of discovery, development and new technology.
Routes into work include apprenticeships, and higher-level apprenticeships and for graduates there are opportunities for career progression through acquiring new skills and continuing professional development.
Apprenticeships in the sector go from Level 2 through to Levels 6 and 7 (6 equates to a bachelor's degree and a master's degree is at level 7).
Degree apprenticeships are a newer and alternative way of studying for a degree without the costs of being a student, while gaining valuable industry experience. More and more science employers are complementing their graduate recruitment schemes with level 7 apprenticeship programmes where their trainee recruits study for master's degrees or professional qualifications.
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Jumuika is an opt-in (permission-based) mobile advertising platform where adverts are delivered via SMS and MMS. The platform allow the users to send free SMS but attach the ad at the end of the user's message. If for example the sms is :
Sorry i am in a meeting, i will call back later
The receiver of the message will get something like:
Sorry i am in a meeting, i will call back later>> Kachwanya.com is selling nice Phones
Kachwanya.com is selling nice Phones, being the ad attached to the message. In short it is free to the users while the advertisers pay for the ad attachment.
Majority of the mobile phone users in Kenya own feature phones. With that, the only form of mobile marketing one can do in such is through SMS. It is said that SMS is typically read within an average of 15 minutes after receipt, and responded to within 60 minutes. I think it is a great way to reach the masses, but first we have to check if the Jukuika has them.
[pullquote]Jumuika is owned and operated by Jumuika Media solutions, a company based in Kenya. Jumuika Media solutions provides technology-based marketing solutions to small and large organizations within East Africa[/pullquote]
How does Jumuika attract and maintain the Users?
Members of Jumuika receive monetary incentives for each advert they receive. These incentives are sponsored by advertisers. This is done through two ways:
One, by agreeing to receive the ads on your phone. To do that you need to register on the Jumuika platform. The registration process is simple, enter your phone number,select your interests and preferences, then finally you get the activation code..and you are good to go.
The second way is by utilizing multilevel marketing format. In other words you can also earn by referring your family and friends to the site.
The Jumuika earnings which is referred to as J cash is as follows:
- Get 30 points for each SMS/MMS Ad you receive.
- Get 20 points for each SMS/MMS Ad your friends receive.
- Get 10 points for each SMS/MMS Ad their friends receive.
The following are the ways with which the members can redeem their earnings.
- airtime transfer to the members phones
- Airtime topup
- Shopping vouchers
- Mobile coupons
- Bank cheques
- Mpesa and ZAP
- Donations to charity
What else?
Jumuika members get to stay informed of various events, discounts, and latest news in their specific areas of interest and from locations near them while Jumuika advertisers are able to deliver their brands to a targeted audience.
Final Word:
I know majority of Kenyan mobile phone users are not thrilled when they constantly get ad messages through the sms. They consider that spamming, and i have seen most people complaining to the mobile phone network operators like Safaricom to stop such. But that is usually purely ad messages, i am not sure on the reaction of the people when the ad is part of the message form friends and family members. I did a random check with a few friends and most of them don't mind receiving the ads.


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Today we have added the latest video for Crytek's First-Person Shooter title – Crysis 2 – coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 this week. We are awaiting our review copy EA!
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