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Néné Chérie: French-made Vintage Inspired Clothing and Accessories
Nene Cherie: French-made Vintage Inspired Clothing and Accessories
Nene Cherie is a French shop owned by Honey Nene, a talented seamstress who creates clothing, hats and accessories, in the south of France. Her design aesthetic is primarily tailored towards the fashion of the 1920s through the 1960s. Every retro and vintage fashionista will enjoy her original pieces and understand her respect and appreciation for these time periods.
All Pictures with friendly Permission by Néné Chérie
Hollywood Style Clothing
Retro-styled women will love Nene Cherie's clothing because they are vintage inspired. Gypsy lola , 50s diner, navy style and sexy bustier tops are all included in the tops collection.
For the summer, the shop has a few flirty high waisted shorts available, and for more conservative occasions, the perfectly retro skirts are available in swing styles or high waisted pin up styles. The elegant interpretation of past decades are masterfully crafted in the small but beautiful dress collection.
Beautiful Handmade Capes and Coats
Nene Cherie's collection of capes and coats are so elegant, and they can turn any ordinary woman into a star. The amount of workmanship put into each item is obvious and every aspiring pin up girl will be warm and looking glamorous at the same time. From faux fur accents to full circle patterns in the longer coats, these classic details and high quality fabric are striking and flattering for every woman's body.
Must-have Vintage Style Accessories
Every retro loving girl should have a copious amount of vintage style accessories on hand for every occasion. These accessories elevate vintage style to any outfit, even if it's just a t-shirt and jeans.
The accessories at Nene Cherie has the most selection in the entire shop and include sunglasses, handbags and a wide variety of hair accessories. Whether you're into delicate hair flowers, stylish turbans, fancy hats and fascinators or pin up style bandannas, this line is just the right amount of flirty and stylish.
Nene Cherie's collection is perfect for the glamour girls, rockabellas and other vintage loving girls who want to add to their retro style. The prices aren't outrageous, and you will be one of the few wearing Honey Nene's fabulously handmade designs.
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Miss Fortune Clothing
Miss Fortune Clothing
Miss Fortune Clothing is a UK-based one woman shop founded by zombie momma Laura Brandreth, who rose from her undead pillaging in 2005 and began to sell her handmade the psychobilly, rockabilly, post-punk rock and roll clothing online.
All pictures with friendly Permission by Miss Fortune
A student of fashion technology, Laura finished her studies in 2007 with an outstanding achievement award and began receiving so many orders for her clothing from England, France, New Zealand and the United States that she opened her own office and began to have her designs made by an outside manufacturer in the UK.
Always looking for new ideas, Laura gets her rockabilly and psychobilly-styled inspiration from all over the map; 1940s and 1950s fashion photos, music like the Stray Cats or the Meteors and simply imagining up individual and flattering designs for friends or random people she sees on the street.
She applies her unique combination of fabrics and patterns to the classic 1930s, 1940s and 1950s styles of wasp-waist dresses, pencil skirts, sailor-styled sets and form-fitting clothing to create hotter-than-hot, hella-fun styles. Using nautical themes, Hawaiian patterns and styles plus classic pin up and re-vamped, western styles, Miss Fortune Clothing mixes unexpected fabrics and colors with well-known lines and designs. You will find classic polka dots, red cherries and Hawaiian flower prints plus pink hot-rod hearses, tattoo flashes, skulls and contemporary solid colors.
Taking advantage of stretch denim and other movement-friendly fabrics, Miss Fortune Clothing's Ashleen Dress is a dungaree-style halter neck frock that goes with separate gingham gypsy tops and hugs every curve without restricting movement. The Aloha Hunny Range combines Hawaiian-inspired patterns and shirt styles with asymmetrical lines form-fitting femininity while the Nautical Nancy range is all adorable red, navy and white knitwear with anchor, rope and skull details. Greaser shirts, sleeveless hellbilly shirts plus Mexican Day of the Dead T-shirts are also available for all those psychobilly guys out there.
Miss Fortune Clothing's prices are quite reasonable, ranging from £28.00 to £48.00, and they have an up-to-date sale page with great deals. They take regular and wholesale orders, and ship within all of Europe, as well as The United States, New Zealand and Australia.
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Unique Vintage
Unique Vintage
Glamour gals who adore shining bright like a Hollywood Star will love the Los Angeles-based American online store Unique Vintage.
All Images with friendly permission by –▶ Unique Vintage
With a full range of clothing, shoes and accessories in the styles of every classic decade from the 1920s to the 1960s, plus comprehensive tips and tutorials on hair and make-up this shop makes it easy to step out in full-force with an authentic flapper dance hall girl look, or in true pin up girl style from head to toe, or as a 1950s Hollywood bombshell.
Whether you need to squeeze into your rockabilly swing dress or hot 1950s and 1960s style wiggle dress, or you are so Mod Andy Warhol turned to you for advice, at Unique Vintage you can find evening gowns, short and long prom dresses, cocktail dresses, and swimsuits in extra small to plus sizes and from smoking brand names like Lolita Girl clothing, Queen of Heartz and Stop Staring! Clothing and designers like Sue Wong. They also sell casual clothes, childrens wear, shoes, tuxedos and accessories plus bridal and bridesmaid frocks and even Quinceañera dresses.
Shoppers can use the handy international conversion sizing chart to help get the best fit, wherever they may live and order online or call their toll-free number. Unique Vintage even has an elaborate prom dress guide to help customers select their most appropriate colors and flattering cut of vintage prom dress.
Run by Kimi, Katie, Amanda and Rebecca, Unique Vintage also has a retail store in Burbank, California that not only sells retro and vintage clothing but will purchase authentic vintage items from those who have them to sell.
Unique Vintage ships domestically via FedEx and worldwide via USPS Express. Customers can expect to receive their goodies within 5 to 10 days, and international shoppers should be aware that additional customs fees and shipping times will apply.
Returns are accepted within 14 days of receipt for domestic orders and within 30 days of receipt for international orders of items, although Unique Vintage prefers exchanges instead of refunds and retains the right to reject returns for add a 15% restocking fee upon them.
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- Scan "8B 89 54 05 00 00 89 5D D8 8D 55 D8 8B D8 52 6A"
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Though a collection of short stories, each one is really a stand-alone mini-novel, full of detail and depth about ordinary people coping with the common pressures of family and marriage, and those moments that change everything. It was as if I'd grown up with so many of these people and I could profoundly empathize with their circumstances.
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About BDI
BDI provides insurance for the replacement of beekeeping equipment should it have to be destroyed due to an incidence of a notifiable disease, such as European or American Foul Brood. Further information about how Bee Diseases Insurance Ltd operates can be found here
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Details of the features and benefits of our secure system for maintaining your membership records and generating insurance receipts and returns can be found here.
The link below takes users who have not yet migrated to eR2 to the original BDI eReturn system
BDI is committed to best practice to ensure all data held within our systems is fully GDPR compliant. Further details of the systems and procedures that are in place can be found within the help section of our eReturn & eR2 systems.
Making a claim
The procedure for a making a claim is very simple and straightforward - details can be found on our claims page here
Research Activities
An important part of the work that BDI undertakes is the seed funding it provides on behalf of beekeepers for research into the causes of bee diseases.
October 2019 BDI & CB Dennis Trust announce the awarding of a major grant for research into European Foul Brood (EFB)
Training grants for 2019
In order to encourage the keeping of healthy bees, BDI has re-introduced training grants for association members for 2019. Full details can be found here
Sept 2019 - Premiums to remain unchanged for 2020


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We've discovered a list of new YA books that'll be releasing this December. Don't forget to mark these on your Goodreads shelf!
1) Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman
Their Fractured Light is the 3rd and final installment in the Starbound trilogy. The series is currently in development with MGM Television. Kaufman's other trilogy that she co-wrote with Jay Kristoff is set to adapt by Warner Bros and produce by Brad Pitt and his Plan B Team.
The Starbound trilogy is set in space where Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survives a spaceliner crash in a different terrain. In Their Fractured Light, it is up to Tarver and Lilac team up with several other players to attack one common enemy. See how it all ends in the last and final installment of the Starlight trilogy written by Amie Kaufman and co-written by Morgan Spooner.
Add Their Fractured Light to your Goodreads shelf.
2) Wandering Star by Romina Russell
Wandering Star is the final installment in a duology. Rho is sent to a refugee camp where she lives her life in disgrace because she was stripped of her title. But news has spread that the Murad groups wishes to bring chaos to the harmony in the Galaxy. Ochus appears to Rho bearing a cryptic message that leaves her no choice but to fight.
What happens to Rho when she decides to join the fight? Add Wandering Star to your Goodreads shelf.
3) Frozen Tides by Morgan Rhodes
"Rebels, royals, and monsters wage war over the Mytican throne in the shocking fourth book of the Falling Kingdoms series, from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes."- Goodreads
Add Frozen Tides to your Goodreads shelf.


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When a man dies, you're not obligated to celebrate his life, but you shouldn't denigrate it, either (Fidel Castro excepted). And it's really counterproductive to take cheap shots while trying to convince people of your maturity.
Does that sound over the moon even for a member of the celebrity left? Well, it's not beyond esteemed late-night-virtue-signaler Bill Maher, who wrote a short blog post on Nov. 17 about comic giant Stan Lee's death. In it, Maher opines that the mourning over Lee's ("a man who inspired millions to, I don't know, watch a movie, I guess") death was excessive -- because "twenty years or so ago...adults decided they didn't have to give up kid stuff. And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature."
So, to translate, Maher is saying "Come on, young adults, quit being such babies and forsake your fond childhood memories of comic reading! Be a big boy like me!" And of course, no late night "comedian's" thought would be complete without a Trump bash: The last sentence of the blog post reads, "I don't think it's a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important." Real insightful, Bill.
According to the Huffington Post on Nov. 20, Lee's company POW! Entertainment decided to punch back, arguing in an open letter to Maher that:
"Countless people can attest to how Stan inspired them to read, taught them that the world is not made up of absolutes, that heroes can have flaws and even villains can show humanity within their souls...Stan is the author of millions of happy childhood memories and the provider of so many of the positive tools of adulthood."
That's pretty reasonable. But unfortunately, the egos of activist celebrities are seldom amenable to reason.


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Winds ease as temperatures increase Sunday. After waking up to some snow Saturday morning, the snow will melt quickly Sunday in central and southern New England.
In the upslope-favored locations in northern New England, the epic snow season continues with another foot or more recorded in the Greens. Readsboro, Vermont, close to the Massachusetts state line, still has a staggering 39-inch base!
Again, Sunday will warm well into the 50s with a lot of sunshine. Occasional wind gusts could make it feel a bit cooler. Clouds increase Sunday night. Showers are possible Monday. Snow may mix with the showers away from the coast.
U.S. & World
Once that cold front moves through Monday, quiet weather will return during the day on Tuesday. Temperatures fall back into the 30s and 40s, which is close to average for this time of year.
Temperatures begin to moderate by Thursday as they recover into the 50s. Temperatures around 60 degrees are possible for next weekend.
It might not be as bright and beautiful as it will be this Sunday, but it certainly will be mild. Clouds will be around with a couple showers. However, we aren't expecting any appreciable precipitation between Monday night and next Saturday.
In areas that don't have snow on the ground, there will be a heightened risk for brush fires. Be mindful of your surroundings if you plan on doing any burns. Even after a weekend spent in the 60s, temperatures only pull back into the 50s the following week. Enjoy!


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It's being reported that China, as a nation or even a collection of industries and companies, cannot actually make a ballpoint pen. This seems a little odd but it also seems to be true. And what is also odd and true is that this means we really shouldn't be worrying about TRIPS--TRIPS being the process by which we try to shoehorn intellectual property protections into every trade deal, the point being that the reason that China cannot make a ballpoint pen is intricately tied up with their own domestic IP protections. And once they work out that they need said IP, and its protections, to take their economy to the next level then we, the outsiders, don't need to be trying to impose those protections upon them.
The ballpoint pen issue is here:
Premier Li Keqiang recently made a shocking revelation about the industrial capabilities of China on national television: despite the fact that the country is widely known as the "world's factory" and produces everything from iPhones, aircraft carriers, high-speed railways to spacecraft. Until now there is not a single manufacturer in China that is able to produce the tiny rotating ball fitted to the tip of a ball pen that disperses ink as you write.
Each of these tiny metal balls has to be imported by Chinese pen manufacturers from overseas suppliers.
Their steel and other alloys aren't good enough; they can't mill or shape them accurately enough. So, why is this so?
The root cause of China's backwardness in some of the key industrial technologies lies in the fact that state-run and private manufacturers are unwilling to invest in research and development because, in most cases, it won't bring profits and extra market share, owing to the lack of protection for intellectual property and rampant plagiarism by other competitors.
This brings us to the public goods argument. Innovation, invention, the discovery of how to do something, is a public good. Once it's been worked out then anyone can use it without diminishing the ability of other people to do it. It's non-rivalrous and non-excludable. This is a problem because, as above, it means few to no one is willing to invest in finding out how to do these new things. Thus we invent copyrights and patents in order to provide protection (to make then excludable) so that people can make a profit. This gives them the incentive to do the R&D.
Excellent. So, the Chinese economy, or at least its managers, are realizing they are stuck at this current technological level because the absence of IP protections means that no one will invest in that innovation. At which point we can assume that they will institute IP protections purely out of their own self interest. They want the country to continue to get richer not because that's what they want, but because those economic managers masquerading as a Communist Party know that's the only way they are going to retain power.
We, the foreigners, don't need to be pushing IP law down their throats every time we discuss trade therefore. China will come to it, as will every other developing country, when it is rich enough to be innovating. And yes, that is a pretty good definition of a rich economy, one that innovates rather than just copies. Further, we don't particularly care very much about poor countries just copying rather than paying licence fees, because poor people don't have much money that we can take in such royalties and fees. IP is really, in terms of international protection, one of those self-solving problems. As countries get richer they will want to institute the system for themselves for their own reasons. All we have to do is state that we will offer reciprocal protections. We'll protect your IP in our country as and when you protect our in yours.
Thus the entire TRIPS process is unnecessary, and given that it's the major sticking point in most trade negotiations we'd be better off just ignoring it. Economies will develop to where they naturally desire such protections. No point in making life difficult for ourselves or anyone else in imposing it upon those not ready.
Thus the policy recommendation is simply to ignore intellectual property in trade negotiations.


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The Thirteenth Finance Commission on Friday, briefed Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on its recommendations on sharing tax receipts between the Centre and the States, which are likely to have some ramifications on the Budget to be presented next month.
"Today we briefed Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on the recommendation of the commission. From here, it would go to the Cabinet," said an official after the meeting.
Earlier, the Finance Minister had said the Finance Commission's recommendations would be reflected in the Budget, which is likely to be presented in Parliament on February 26.
The Commission was represented by the Thirteenth Finance Commission Chairman Vijay Kelkar, Secretary Sumit Bose and member B.K. Chaturvedi, among others.
The Commission had submitted the report to the President on December 30, 2009.
"The report is likely to be tabled in the Budget session of Parliament," the official added.
The report assumes importance as the new indirect tax regime- GST-is scheduled to be implemented from the next fiscal and the new Direct Tax Code is likely to come into effect from 2011.
The Commission was appointed in November 2007, with the mandate to review the finances of the Union and the States, and sharing of net proceeds from taxes between the two.
The recommendations will cover the five-year period commencing from April 1, 2010.
In September, the Government had extended the term of the commission by three months up to January, 2010, but asked to submit report by December 30, 2009. It was earlier required to submit its report by October 31, 2009.


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Congrats Gov. Snyder
Did you know that from the years 2009 to 2014, Michigan had the 3rd highest percentage increase in our state's gross domestic product (GDP)?
Only the oil boom states of North Dakota and Texas had a larger percentage growth.
Congratulations Governor Snyder and the Republicans who control the Michigan state House and Senate.
Good policies do improve the lives of people, government can only improve our lives on a minimal basis and with great cost to us taxpayers.
The definition of state GDP is as follows: The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a state's border in a specific time period.
According to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy Michigan's GDP increased 13.8% from 2009 to 2014, the US growth rate was only 5.9%.
North Dakota came in first with a 35.6% increase (Fracking) with Texas coming in at a distant second with a 15.5% increase.
The Mac Center believed some of the reasons for the great performance are "Gov. Rick Snyder's business tax reforms, the state government not being shut down for four-plus years and the rebound of the auto industry all played a part in the increase in GDP."
Even a University of Michigan economist Don Grimes believes the increase in Michigan's GDP was "very impressive for Michigan."
For those of you who want to give credit to the federal government and their policies, well consider this, there were seven states that had negative GDP growth from 2009 to 2014.
So now what do you think of Gov. Snyder and the Republicans' work?
Good policies help us the people bring ourselves out of the morass of bad policy decisions.
If you constantly bring hate and division to our society the only winners will be the politicians who promote it and the losers will be we the people.
Let's discuss this today on my show The Live with Renk show, which airs Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to noon, to let me know your thoughts at (269) 441-9595.
Or please feel free to start a discussion and write your thoughts in the comment section


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Bright people developing their local resources.
We are an agile and lean organization, specialized in mature oil and gas fields operations optimization, workforce development, energy efficiencies, production and reserves enhancement. This is where you can discover our ethos, corporate governance details and our take on ethics, diversity and human rights.
We strive to make a positive impact!
Since 2005, we have kept our same mission and vision but continuously improving our corporate governance as our stakeholders base continue to grow internationally.
Our Vision
Be the worldwide preferred partner of mature oil and gas resources owners to maximise their asset's potential and reduce their environmental footprint.
Our Mission
We enhance mature Oil & Gas fields to make them safer, greener, more productive and more profitable for longer time.
Corporate Governance
For all XP stakeholders' peace of mind.
A board of directors regulates the company behaviour, along with timely released financial statements, an internal audit function and information and documents given on a regular basis to our shareholders.
The board is constituted of five directors, of which four represent the shareholders, one is an independent director and three of them are non-executives. They meet at least twice a year and receive monthly a detailed management report. Board meeting information is sent a week before the meeting.
Advice is addresed to the management in the development of strategic priorities and plans that align with the mission of the organization and the best interests of stakeholders, priorities that have an appropriate short-, mid- and long-range focus. The directors also actively monitor management's execution of approved strategic plans, as well as the transparency and adequacy of internal and external communication of strategic plans.
The BOD reviews and approves company strategy, annual operating plans and financial plans. It also monitors management execution against established budgets as well as alignment with strategic objectives of the organization.
The directors also set the ethical tenor for the company, while management adopts and implements policies and procedures designed to promote both legal compliance and appropriate standards of honesty, integrity and ethics throughout the organization.
They understand and appropriately monitor the company's strategic, operational, financial and compliance risk exposures, and collaborate with management in setting risk appetite, tolerances and alignment with strategic priorities.
XP prepares and presents all financial statements and reporting in accordance with IFRS. Our financial statements are audited in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. We comply with all disclosure requirements under applicable law, regulations and listing rules (fair disclosure).
Shareholders are provided with information and documentation upon their request and as specified by applicable law. We also have an internal audit function.
Doing the right thing and being fair, Always!
Equal opportunities, transparency and mutual respect for all individuals.
Expert Petroleum has a significant workforce, the company takes all measures to ensure that employees work in a supportive environment, focusing on safe working conditions and aiming for fair treatment.
There are a number of internal procedures and regulations dealing with different aspects of the social field and they present in detail processes such as staff recruitment, training, rights and obligations, work conduct and other relevant aspects of working in a social environment. The Internal Regulation and the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) are conceived in accordance with the legislation in force. Their aim, to create a work environment focused on equal opportunities and mutual respect, as well as promoting transparency, where anyone can express their ideas freely without fear of reprisal.
Being a responsible organization, Expert Petroleum is concerned with the wellbeing of its employees and has taken all necessary measures to protect their health and safety, including the prevention and mitigation of professional risks.
In return, employees comply with these measures and are being encouraged to inform the management of any proposal of improvement considered necessary.
Our differences are a strength!
Diversity is good business as it generates creativity and innovation.
Expert Petroleum is committed to making sure that diversity and equal rights for all employees are respected. We are bound to foster the professional growth of women and minorities and monitor and report our progress in this matter on our annual sustainability report.
Human Rights
Back to basics.
Expert Petroleum applies all suitable best practices in the human resources area, ensuring a safe, healthy and regulated work environment.
We offer the employees a comprehensive package of benefits as stipulated in the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement). Moreover, we maintain a permanent social dialogue with the representative trade union and with individuals.
Our HR representatives have meetings and exchange experiences with similar oil and gas organizations, as well as with HR professionals from CIPD (Continuous Improvement Professional Development). Thus, they get continuous updates on common best practice and ensure relevant benchmarking.
The principle of equal opportunities and fair treatment is applied to all employees, and therefore no form of discrimination does exist, whether direct or indirect, based on sex, sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, age, membership nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, political option, social origin, handicap, situation or material responsibility, membership or trade union activity.
It is the responsibility of managers at all levels to have firm measures to ensure discipline within their sector, in compliance with the law and the employer's decisions. No human rights violations, discrimination on any criteria, or sexual harassment have been reported so far, but we will continue to raise awareness and educate staff about these issues and their potential consequences in order to avoid such situations.
Already More than 12 million working hours focused on production enhancement. We've been around for a while.
The founding of Expert Petroleum and the steps taken for growth, since 2005:
The beginnings of Expert Petroleum
Expert Petroleum was founded by two Schlumberger managers, Michel Louboutin and David Martinon. Their aim: to grow, extend and improve on the success of the Production Enhancement Contract they implemented with Romgaz in Romania.
Aquisition of eigth Relinquished fields
To build credential we decided to acquire first eight relinquished assets in Romania and with the financial support of private equity (Lime Rock Partners) to appraise and redevelop these assets. In 2010 we signed our first Production Enhancement Contract with MOL for the Sarkadkersztur gas field in Hungary.
PEC Timiș awarded by OMV Petrom
In 2012, XP has been awarded by OMV Petrom, a large Production Enhancement Service Contract for 15 years for all the mature oil and gas fields in the Timisoara area in Romania (13 fields in total with more than 150 active wells).
Lime Rock Partners exit
In 2013 the founders and GMS Holdings bought back Lime Rock Partners shares. The company is since then fully owned by the management and related parties.
Acquisition of Petrofac Romanian entity
Three years later, in 2016, we acquired Petrofac's Production Enhancement Contract with OMV Petrom. The PEC has a 15 years span and produces from seven mature oil and gas fields in Craiova county, Romania.
New International Ventures
We are now extending our footprint to Ukraine, India, Angola, Kazakhstan and North Africa.
One thousand women and men who every day strive to have a positive impact on their community.
Meet the board of directors and the management team. Their unique personnel management capabilities are a real competitive advantage, in the way that they support, train and empower the local organisation towards production enhancement initiatives.
Board of
Ghiath SUKHTIAN
Ghiath M. Sukhtian is a leading entrepreneur who has been working in the MENA region's telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and agricultural sectors for the past 48 years. He is a board member of Astra Industrial Group (AIG – Saudi Arabia), Palestine Telecommunications (Palestine), VTEL Holdings (Dubai), Ogier Electronics (UK), United Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company (Jordan). He is Chairman & founder of MSPharma, Agri Sciences Izmir Turkey, as well as several other leading regional companies. Mr. Sukhtian is a member of the World President's Organization (WPO), and serves on several non-profit boards including Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies as well as Microfund for Women where he is Chairman. He has completed his studies at the American University of Beirut-Lebanon and University of Houston/Texas in Economics.
Jean CHEVALLIER
Independent Director
Expert Petroleum welcomes Jean Chevallier as an independent director of the company. During his diverse 38-years career with Schlumberger, Jean has held a variety of senior management and engineering positions in Schlumberger's Oilfield Services Drilling business, and regional management positions with the Well Testing business unit. He was also Vice President Industry Affairs, the first Chief Information Officer at Schlumberger and President of Omnes a joint venture with Cable & Wireless. Jean retired from Schlumberger in 2009 and co-founded IDO, an NGO which is helping rural communities in less developed countries build sustainable drinking water supply systems. Jean holds an engineering degree from ENSTA in Paris.
Faisal SUKHTIAN
Faisal Sukhtian is the Executive Director at GMS Holdings. In addition to managing the operations of GMS Holdings, Faisal oversees a number of investments within the GMS Holdings portfolio and serves as a director on the company's board. Prior to joining GMS Holdings, Faisal worked at JP Morgan's investment bank in New York where he worked on a number of M&A, debt and equity transactions serving clients in the industrials and transportation sector. Faisal holds a Bachelors of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
David MARTINON
Before co-founding Expert Petroleum in 2006. David spent all of his career in Schlumberger where he started as a Well testing Field Engineer in South East Asia up to the position of Manager Mergers and Acquisitions at Schlumberger Limited in Paris. David has been involved in various production enhancement projects in particular in Indonesia. He has a broad understanding of the Oil & Gas industry from operational and strategic perspectives. He holds an engineering degree from INSA, France and an MBA from INSEAD.
Michel LOUBOUTIN
Before co-founding Expert Petroleum in 2006, Michel spent 24 years with Schlumberger. He has broad experience in production, development and mature asset management. He managed two large integrated production enhancement projects in Norway and Venezuela, and was distinguished for initiating and managing one of the largest and most successful production enhancement contract in Romania with Romgaz S.A for the Laslau Mare gas field in 2003. Michel has worked 17 years in Romania and the region. He was elected Oil Man of the Year in 2011 by the Romanian Petroleum Club, and was the President of ROPEPCA (Romanian Petroleum Exploration and Production Companies Association) between 2015 and 2016. He hold a Master Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University, and a Master in Project Management.
Florian GROSU
Assets Director
Florian has 28 years of O&G international experience. He has a strong background in geology, petrophysics, geophysics and reservoir engineering including considerable experience in the rehabilitation of mature fields in Romania. Florian worked 21 years for OMV/Petrom in Romania and in Kazkhstan in various technical and management position. Then he joined Schlumberger for the production enhancement project of the Hassi Messaoud giant oil field in Algeria. There he was responsible for the R2T (Reservoir to Tank) team, which covered all activities from reservoir, drilling and production to transportation. He worked as lead geologist for the development phase of the giant gas-condensate field Karachaganak from Kazakhstan. In 2010 he joined Expert Petroleum in Romania. There he was responsible for the R2T (Reservoir to Tank) team, which covered all activities from reservoir, drilling and production to transportation. He worked as lead geologist for the development phase of the giant gas-condensate field Karachaganak from Kazakhstan. In 2010 he joined Expert Petroleum in Romania. Florian graduated the Executive Master Program from ESCP Europe.
Lavinia PREDESCU
Lavinia previously worked for KPMG Romania where she started as Audit Assistant up to the position of Audit Manager. She is a member of ACCA and CAFR, she holds a master degree in Financial and Stock Exchange Management (ASE) and a master in management from ESC Paris.
Daniela BRICEAG
HR Manager
Senior HR Professional with more than 15 year experience in building and optimizing organizational processes for maximizing the business results. As an HR consultant, she has been involved in various M&A and privatization projects by implementing key actions that ensured full people support thus making the difference for success. Before joining Expert Petroleum team in January 2013, Daniela worked for a number of big international organizations such as KPMG and ABN AMRO Bank. Daniela has master degree in Applied Electronics, an MBA from University of Bristol and she is an active member of CIPD (Certified Institute of Professional Development).
Ciprian RUS
QHSE Manager
Ciprian has a law degree from Tibiscus University, Timisoara. Ciprian has more than 10 years of QHSE experience first with Schlumberger for a large gas field production enhancement project in Romania, then with Expert Petroleum for the last 4 years. Ciprian leadership in QHSE has been demonstrated by the excellent QHSE track record of the company and its various ISO certification.
Cristian ITU
Business Services Manager
Cristian has over 18 years of experience in Business Advisory and Auditing, Project Management, Business Process Improvement, IT Governance and ERP systems implementation. Before joining our team, Cristian worked for 12 years in KPMG Romania – Management Consulting. Within Expert Petroleum, Cristian coordinates the Internal Audit, he is also in-charge with IT Governance and Process Improvement. Cristian is Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA), Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) and has M.Sc. in Financial Analysis.
Alex ȘERBAN
Subsurface New Ventures Manager
Alex is a geoscientist with 15 years of O&G international experience. He has a background in geology and geophysics and has worked on various projects from from appraisal stage, to field development and mature asset rehabilitation. Before joining Expert Petroleum in 2013 he spent 8 years working for Schlumberger as a consulting geologist in various projects/environments from Romania, North Africa and Gulf of Mexico area. Alex holds a B.Sc. degree in geophysics and a M.Sc. degree in geology from University from Bucharest.
Claudiu VIRDARIE
Production Enhancement Technologies Manager
Has a proven production technology / engineering background in the upstream oil & gas industry with at least 12 years of experience. Starting in offshore drilling and later one in Schlumberger as production technologist in gas field redevelopment project. Provides production technology solutions to oil and gas projects, delivering standard and functional well and completion design that account for the entire oil and gas field time, develop proposals and implement new technologies for artificial lift, stimulations, rig less interventions, production chemistry and sand control solutions.
Vlad ZĂRNESCU
PEC Țicleni Subsurface Manager
Before joining Expert Petroleum Vlad worked over 10 years as technical advisor for Landmark Halliburton and reservoir engineer at RFD Oil and Gas. Experience in production enhancement in brown fields, reservoir studies and reservoir management. In charge of production increasing thru new wells, work over and well reactivation candidates.
Cătălin CORDONAȘU
PEC Timiș Subsurface Manager
Catalin has over 12 year experience as reservoir engineer, within OMV-Petrom Romania, RFD Oil & Gas, Amromco Energy and Expert Petroleum Romania. Experience in all aspects of reservoir engineering including production enhancement in brown fields, reservoir studies and reservoir management. Involved in well performance analysis and reservoir opportunities analysis (well stimulation, infill drilling, sand control).
Octavian VASILE
Commercial Manager
Certified procurement professional (CPP), Certified QA/QC professional and EU Public Procurement Professional, Octavian has more than 14 years of experience in Business Support area covering quality, purchasing and commercial side. Commercial and Procurement Manager experienced with a good knowledge of E&P in O&G Industry and strong leadership skills he coordinated during the time complex teams covering all Supply Chain and Commercial Area in domestic and international projects implementing and applying global procurement and commercial best practice with proved results. He is member of APICS since 2012. With a proactive attitude he is always open for new challenges in his professional life.
Manuel MANOLE
Țicleni Operations Manager
Manuel has 25 years of O&G experience in particular as head of operations for petroleum activities (drilling, completion, heavy workover, special operations, production wells and O&G sales) for mature assets in Romania and some O&G fields in South Sudan. Before Expert Petroleum, Manuel worked for Petrom as well as international Oil and Gas companies.
Emil BURLACU
Timiș Operations Manager
Experienced Productions and Operations Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Oil & Gas industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Petroleum, Budgeting, Operations Management, and Management. Strong operations professional with an Engineer's Degree focused in Oil&Gas University Ploiesti Romania. With 10 years of diverse experience onshore oil & gas fields within Petrom and Petrofac mostly in technical leading positions: Production Engineer, WO/WI Supervisor, Sector Chief, Production Management, Asset Performance Optimization. Studied and implemented number of new technologies to improve operations efficiency, optimize oil&gas production with minimum investment and maximize asset value. Implemented an intensive production enhancement programme; production optimization, well re-activation, workover, water injection project and drill new wells. Assessed and managed mature fields for production enhancement and production sharing contracts.
Anton TOKAREV
Asia Business Development Advisor
Anton is an experienced strategist with background in oil and gas and management consulting. Before joining our team Anton served as Head of Strategy in Ukrainian largest oil and gas company (UGV) and was responsible for developing strategy and transformation of the company. He also worked as management consultant in Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and KPMG. His experience covers wide variety of business areas, such as strategy, operational excellence, turnarounds, financial management, investments, Lean, PMO and other for largest industrial companies across a world.
Victoria SERGEEVA
Ukraine Deputy Country Manager
Victoria is external affairs, business development and international trade professional skilled in communications, negotiations, contracts, due diligence, international financing, international trade, market promotion, management of targeted projects and ad-hoc teams. She counseled Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL, worked for 8 years for DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG as deputy director in Ukraine, before for Marathon Oil as GR manager in Ukraine, for U.S. Embassy in Ukraine as commercial specialist handling the energy sector. Victoria holds a degree in computer system engineering from National Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine, and a professional diploma in management from The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.


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Tom Papa gets "Baked" on Food Network, new book out for Father's Day
Tom Papa has been telling Joe Rogan about bread for years. Here he was a couple of years ago bringing homemade sourdough to the Joe Rogan Experience. Two days ago, Papa was back on the JRE, this time to announce he's got a new TV series about bread and baked goods, Baked!, premiering this Labor Day on the Food Network. From a shoot this April in New York City, this description of the series: "The show will follow Tom as he visits 5 different bakeries or restaurants in a city and learns how to make the iconic baked goods...Read More


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Now that Twitter and Facebook have become our freshest sources for up-to-the-minute news, it was only a matter of time before Google caught up. The search engine giant has announced they've revised their search algorithm to make results more timely. The tweak is said to affect 35 percent of our queries. The hope being that now, when we go to search something that's happened in the last hour (a baseball game, an Apple product announcement, or a speech from President Obama), we won't be getting a slew of results about stale news from days and days ago. (Say you want a recap of last night's Project Runway, and Google insists on giving you something from last week or two weeks ago?! So frustrating!)
This development is obviously HUGE for those of us who eat, breathe, live on current headlines! But ... I have to wonder. What took so damn long, Google?
Back in the summer, everyone who wasn't "lucky" enough to feel that weird earthquake that hit the East Coast found out about it on Facebook or Twitter. For 15 minutes ... 20 minutes ... maybe even a half hour after the tremble, go-to Google had nothin' to say on the topic. BAD sign!
Yeah, there's a time and a place for "citizen journalism" (aka those photos you took of a branch that had fallen on your car during last weekend's Snowtober storm). But our Facebook friends or that annoying as hell Facebook Ticker shouldn't be our go-to news source! Twitter can't give us enough info in 140 characters or less, and as a conduit to other news sources, it's fine, but it's also a bit unwieldy as far as being able to narrow your results to the exact story you're looking for. Google, on the other hand, is supposed to be the be all and end all way to find ANYTHING. So the fact that it hasn't -- until now -- been able to provide us with that "anything" as quickly as, say, Facebook or Twitter is kinda crazy!
Hopefully, though, this is just the tip of the iceberg for Google. I want to depend on it for my breaking news. I'd rather see a news ticker on Google than anywhere else on the web (especially my Facebook feed!). Instead of "Easter eggs" and cutesy Google Doodles, it's about time they start filling the role they could do better than any other site on the web -- being THE provider of real-time news.
Do you ever get frustrated with Google's search results being stale? What do you think about this change?
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July 11, 2019 – The Long and Winding Road Somewhere, Somehow, Someone's Going to Pay. . .for Gene Therapy
This is a unique point in time for healthcare. After decades of dedicated and dogged research by the scientific and medical communities, we are now seeing FDA approvals of gene therapies which can ease or cure a myriad of debilitating diseases. While biopharma companies seek to recoup their R&D costs, the market will struggle to price these treatments, particularly those developed for small and very targeted patient populations. Who and what will determine the cost to the patient? Big Pharma? Government? Insurers? Payers? Manufacturers? Many would say that the cost is more than just what the market will bear, as the pharma and research communities will also need to fund and encourage continued innovation. It seems the next step is to thoroughly explore and understand the myriad pieces to this emerging "pie" – from there, the current challenges will be made clear, and we can then proceed in this new and exciting frontier.
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Wayne is currently a medical director in Global Medical Affairs at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., working with a talented team of scientists and pharmaceutical professionals, developing innovative therapeutics for patients with serious unmet medical needs in rare diseases. He is responsible for leading the research efforts for medical affairs globally for the mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) programs in Sanfilippo B (MPS IIIB), Morquio A (MPS IVA) and Maroteaux-Lamy syndromes (MPS VI).
He has over 20 years of broad healthcare industry experience from clinical medicine, to managed care, health information technology and biotechnology. After 5 years of clinical practice as a fellowship-trained orthopaedic hand surgeon, he served as Chief Medical Officer for several San Francisco Bay Area Medicaid managed care plans, where he helped establish two Medicare Advantage Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans. He then moved on to serve as Chief Medical Officer for two San Francisco Bay Area IPAs, as a Chief Medical Informatics Officer of Health Access Solutions, a healthcare software company, as an Advisory Chief Medical Officer for a healthcare-focused data analytics start-up, as Chief Medical Officer for Thrasys, a global healthcare technology company, and was the Chief Medical Officer for Applied Research Works (ARW), a healthcare technology company that developed a simple, effective cloud-based, physician and patient behavioral change platform that is being used in several health plans and medical groups across the US to drive improved performance in healthcare quality, better patient experience and clinical outcomes. Prior to his current position, he was a medical director and health economist in US Medical Affairs at Genentech, working on quality of care initiatives and health economic research in hemophilia, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, stroke and inflammatory bowel disease.
Wayne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Johns Hopkins University, an MD and PhD degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his post-graduate clinical training in Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and Clinics and a fellowship in hand and microsurgery at the Philadelphia Hand Center. He also finished a post-graduate fellowship program in design thinking at the California College of the Arts.
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You may have read in my Myspace weblog (it's linked somewhere around here) that I've planted a garden, in the finest tradition of Murray men. I garden for many reasons:
- an investment in seeds, water, and time is still less dollars than buying the grown food
- It uses space in the yard that otherwise I'd have to mow
- It looks nice
- I have a knack for it
I had taken some time off from serious gardening while I lived in my townhouse, focusing mostly on houseplants. My garden in our new home has been something I was looking forward to, even if last year's inaugural experience was more filling for the dogs than it was for us (Zoe took a liking to eating ripe tomatoes off the vine). This year, I vowed as I gazed upon my domain during the long, cold winter, I would live up to my legacy and plant, goddammit!
I did not wait for May to be half gone before putting time into the land. I planted earlier this month, after we had our round of warm days. I was so happy to put things in order outside our back door (this is still a work in progress in some areas). It has mostly continued to be warm, too. Many nights have we slept with our windows open. Excepting last night, and probably tonight.
A cold snap is moving through, with temperatures supposed to reach down into the frost area. This is typical. I take the time to shovel and hoe and fertilize and plant seeds, fret over the seeds until they start to sprout (for the record, my father's garden is looking fantastic compared to my efforts), and then rejoice and give thanks as more sprouts emerge, spreading their first true leaves to the sun, and then a frost moves through. I'll do what I can to protect my small friends, but it still irks me that on this last day of April, less than 24 hours until May, I'm worrying about frost.
Here's hoping that the frost doesn't come, or is merciful; I can already taste the fresh beans, squash, peas, broccoli, peppers, radishes, and carrots. and popcorn. I'll talk about the popcorn later, and maybe I'll share some photos of April's efforts in the yard.


text: In April of last year, we wrote up Netgear's NTV200 streaming media player. Netgear's streaming-media suite includes many big-ticket services, like Netflix, VUDU, Hulu Plus, YouTube, Pandora, and Rhapsody. Back in September 2012, Netgear introduced a trio of new players. The basic NTV300 ($49.99) is a replacement for the NTV200, with the major addition of HTML 5 support. The NeoTV PRO (NTV300S, $59.99) goes a step further, adding an analog A/V port for compatibility with older TVs, as well as Intel WiDi support to wirelessly display your PC screen on your TV. Finally, the top-shelf NeoTV MAX (NTV300SL, $69.99) includes all of the features listed above and adds the ability to stream personal media files via USB/DLNA. It also comes with a premium IR remote that adds a full QWERTY keyboard. Netgear sent us a sample of the NeoTV MAX to try out. (At the recent CES 2013, Netgear also introduced the NeoTV PRIME, a GoogleTV-powered player, for $130.)


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Gau Tao is a traditional festival of the H'mong and has been preserved by the Hmong in Muong Khuong, Bac Ha, Si Ma districts and Phong Hai town of Lao Cai province. Normally, when a Hmong family has no children, very few children, has only son or only daughter, someone ill or unfavourable job, they will go to Gau Tao Hill to pray god for what they want. When their wishes come true, they celebrate Gau Tao Festival to express their gratefulness to Gods.
In the language of the Hmong, Gau Tao means "playing ground". As traditional, Gau Tao festival is co - organized by 3 families with blood relations or suffering from the above situations. This festival takes place in Spring of 3 continuous years. They plant one New Year's tree per year so 3 family will respectively come to get the tree and the things hang on the tree to get luckiness and fortune. The place where Gau Tao Festival takes place called Hau Tao is a low hill with plain top creating a flat, large ground surrounded by the higher hills. In front of it is a low and narrow space. Gau Tao Hill must face the East, so the New Year's tree can catch the sunlight when it grows up. In the Hmong's opinion, Gau Tao Hill represents the destiny of the homeowner. The low and narrow space is the symbol of the break, unfortunate, while the behind higher hills represent the development. The meaning is that better son than parent is a good news which can bring more and more fortune.
New Year tree - a special custom of H'mong people in their spring festival.
In order to organize Gau Tao Festival, the homeowner must invite a person called Tru Tao to chair the festival and a woman to assist, called Ne Tao, who all have happy and affluent family. The two other young persons, a boy and a girl helping Tru Tao to conduct the festival call Tu Tao and Say Tao.
The festivals takes place in every January, but the preparations are made from the end of December of the previous year with two main ceremonies of bamboo cutting and New Year's tree preparing. The day of bamboo cutting, the homeowner prepare a tray of offerings and all the assistants conduct praying. Homeowner invites the chair to drink wine. After 2 cups of wine, the chair sings a song about the reason to celebrate Gau Tao festival. After that, he opens an umbrella and sings the song of finding the New Year's tree. He then leads the group to the location of the appointed bamboo to cut it down. The bamboo tree to make New Year's tree must be straight, same in each piece of trunk and at from 9 to 12 m high. Bamboo cutting ritual takes place right at the stool of that bamboo. The chair holds the umbrella and sings the song of cutting tree while walking around the bamboo stool. He has a cut on the tree after 1 round around it. When the song ends, they keep cutting until the tree falls to the East. Someone will get the tree on his shoulder to prevent it from falling to the ground. After that, the tree is smoothened and its top is maintained with leaves to present the hair of dragon or the sacredness. The chair cover the tree with his umbrella and sing the song of carrying the New Year's tree, so people carry it to the festival ground without any stop with the root first, the top behind and above ground. At the destination, people dig a hole which is not concise with the hole of last year to plug the tree in. The tree now is called New Year's tree, not bamboo. The chair ties two pieces of black and red cloth, a bottle of wine, 3 ears of sticky rice and a group of Sui plant (which is similar to firn) on the top of the tree. They then together stand the tree facing the direction of sunrise.
The couples are happily dancing in the sound of pan-pipe.
The worshipping ceremony takes place right in that morning with offerings including chicken, wine and rice. The chair burns incense, votive paper and walks counter-clockwise around the tree while singing the song of "Tinh chay" to inform the gods that the homeowner are making a New Year's tree to celebrate thanks giving festival. people then receive the goodness right at the foot of the tree.
Seeing a high New Year's tree in the middle of Hau Tao ground, people know that there's going to have Gau Tao Festival that year. People inform each other at markets, on roads or whenever they meet to prepare to join the festival, creating a crowded atmosphere. People who are good at khaen will play khaen and show their children to play. People who are good at martial arts with weapons will practice to perform in front of a crowd in festival. Normally, these martial players only teach their elderly son, so not many people know and can play this kind of art in Gau Tao festival. The festival is also the time for the young to prepare nice clothes, coming to see and play with friends, lovers to express feelings that they can hardly show in daily life, through the songs.
The main time of festival is from 2nd to 4th of Tet, depending on the age of homeowners. The chair and the assistant hang the offerings on New Year's tree, put votive paper in tree stool and then kneel to immolate the tree. After that, the chair declares to open festival. A singing performance to open the festival is performed by a good singer who has a healthy and prosperous family. The festival's attendants then can sing, perform and enjoy many performances and games and are offered wine by the chair. The event lasts till night with complementary singing between host and guess, man and woman. Visitors from distanced places can overnight at homeowner's house to continue the festival the next days.
Other imagine of Gau Tao festival in Ha Giang.
Gau Tao Festival lasts for 3 days. On the afternoon of the third day, the chair announces to lower the New Year's tree and leads the group to counter-clockwise, singing the song of lowering the tree. Similar to the tree cutting ritual, the tree must be lowered toward the direction of sunrise. The trunk is kept above ground and is carried to the house of homeowner. Coming closer to the house of homeowner, they cut a section of around 1m long from tree trunk; get the seeds from 3 rice ears and put some money on the tray of rice. The homeowner is waiting but closes the door and sings to receive the tree with the chair. He then opens the door to receive the tree. The tree is entered home with its stool first. The chair gives the cloths and the section of tree stool to the homeowner. The tree stool is plated under bed, and the cloths are used for making clothes for the children given thanks to praying on Gau Tao Hill or for the patient who has overcome sick owing to praying in Gau Tao Festival.
Gau Tao is the biggest festival and also the unique one at community level which related to the spiritual life of the Hmong. However, Gau Tao festival of the Hmong in general has been gradually deteriorated as the artists are getting older and older and they only pass for their eldest son. Thus, the inherence of next generation is limited. Moreover, the young generation now is not really interested those rituals and traditional art performances.
In order to assert the historical, cultural, scientific values and also the necessity of protecting and developing this heritage, Gao Tau Festival of the Hmong in Lao Cai has been recognized as the national intangible cultural heritage. (The first time in December 2012), in the section of traditional festival.


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Last week's blog, Will your Financial Institution Win or Lose in Mobile Payments?, provided a high-level view of some of the mobile payment technologies and asserted that banks were at a disadvantage when compared to players with greater technology expertise and with ownership of the infrastructure. One method to diminish the impact of these technological disadvantages is to form strong partnerships with the organizations that control the infrastructure. No one institution, merchant, cellular provider, or vendor is going to win this competition alone. The interests of financial institutions align closely with those of the card associations. Financial institutions and card associations should work closely together to leverage the existing card infrastructure. This will enable both groups to minimize erosion of interchange fee income and win the inevitable battle for data ownership.
The best opportunity for financial institutions to become winners in the mobile payments space is to offer broad, multi-channel solutions convenient to consumers at a vast majority of merchants. These solutions must provide merchants and consumers a high degree of confidence in data security and fraud protection. In terms of convenience and security, ISIS appears to be an early market leader. ISIS is among the few solutions offering both credit/debit card and stored value capabilities. However, one disadvantage is Isis' reliance on Near-Field Communications (NFC), which requires many merchants to invest in new Point-of-Sale terminals.
Another intriguing technology is the FIS Mobile solution which has been piloted at two institutions. FIS, in partnership with Paydient, is providing its core platform customers the ability to enter the mobile payments market regardless of institution size. This and similar solutions, assuming they eventually operate on existing infrastructure, may allow small banks and credit unions to beat larger institutions to market. If they are not already doing so, smaller institutions should be learning of and influencing the strategies of their core system providers and other key technology partners in order to utilize competitive advantages that may arise.
Financial institutions and other mobile payments players must be open to compromise. In addition to satisfying the convenience and security needs of merchants and consumers, the winning solutions will generate benefits – revenue – for financial institutions, card associations, cellular providers and technology enablers. The greedy players, those that attempt to control the market and refuse to share revenue, will be left behind.
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Fragrant blossom, edible fruit on an evergreen tree. It is easy to understand why the humble citrus tree features in so many Australian gardens. The Merrywood range of espaliered citrus are grown in the open at our nursery on the Mornington Peninsula. We have chosen varieties that are excellent performers in a wide range of conditions.
Stock is available in a range of 33cm, 40cm and 50cm pot sizes with square lattice. A limited number of 50cm formal espaliers are also available.
This decorative small tree is extremely hardy. It produces masses of sweet smelling flowers that develop into small, tart fruit that can be left on the tree for a long time.
The Meyer is a small tree and few thorns when compared with the other varieties. Although cold tolerant, the Meyer will drop some leaves in winter. The Meyer crops very well and we recommend that your remove some fruit during seasons with heavy crops.
The emperor matures in winter. Its fruit has bumpy, thin skin that is slow to colour. But it is a sweet, juicy mandarin that holds well on the bush.
Maturing early winter and on, the Washington Navel has large, juicy and seedless fruit. It can be left on the tree for longer but will lose a little of its acidity.
An upright tree with pointed leaves the Nagami has teardrop fruit that is less tart than the Calamondin when left on the tree to develop fully.
Medium sized fruit with few seeds, the Tahitian matures in winter. Use while still green or can be left on the tree until yellow (but will lose some of its acidity).
The earliest of the manadarins, the Imperial has few seeds and is easy to peel. The Imperial should be thinned out on heavy crop years to encourage blossom for the next year.
Less vigorous and fewer thorns than the Lisbon, the Eureka's main crop matures in the winter months but can produce some fruit during the summer months.
The Kaffir produces distinctive double leaves that can be used fresh in Asian cooking. The fruit is bumpy and unusual. It is not juicy but the rind can be grated and used together with the leaves for cooking.
The blood orange is a sweet/tart fruit, with few seeds and matures in mid winter. The colour of its flesh varies from pink or orange with red streaks. Deepness of colour is generally better developed in warm inland areas with cool nights, but its juice is always have red tinge wherever you are.
An upright, vigorous tree the Lisbon produces medium sized fruit in the winter months with almost no fruit produced in summer.
Australian Blood (Australian Red Centre) a cross between an acidic mandarin and a native finger lime and has blood red flesh, rind and juice. Australian Outback (Australian Desert) developed from a selection of different native desert lime trees. It produces small green juicy fruits which ripen at Christmas. Australian Sunrise is a cross between a finger lime and a clamondin cumquat. It produces a pear shaped fruit.
With medium sized fruit the Valencia is ideal for juicing. Its fruit matures spring into summer and can be left on the tree for a long time. Remove some of the fruit while still small during years with heavy crops to encourage flowers for the next season.


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Any suggestions of digicams that may fit the citeria?
i'm totally new to digicam, so i really don't kno what i should expect in a digicam. please help!>.<
but i got these few features i realli would like:
PRICE RANGE: around $400USD (maximum $450)
around 3 megapixels
6X-up optical zoom
2X-up digital zoom (doesn't matter much)
easy to function
movie mode-(best with audio)
use SD memory card (because i heard xD is more expensive?)
use AA batteries (special photography batteries are more expensive?)
is it possible to get a camera like that?
thanks all for your help!thxthx!
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You are going to need NiMh AA bbatteries because you won't be able to feed regular AA's fast enough. Camera's eat them.....so, resolve to getting rechargable NiMH batteries. At least 2 sets, preferably 3 sets. I suggest the Nikon Coolpix 4300. Many great features, strong ratings everywhere. I have a Coolpix 2100 which was nice for a first, but somewhat incapable camera. (Have since upped to an Olympus C5060) Don't even consider using the digital zoom of any camera. All that does is take chunks of what the optical zoom sees and you usually get grainy pictures. Your object is to take nice pictures, so resolve to spending the extra on rechargable batteries and good quality optical zoom. And read professional reviews, not opinions by a bunch of chatty internet camera geeks like me...... And don;t expect decent movie modes from a camera. Get a movie camera for that. You're also going to need a memory card becaue the one that comes with most cameras hold barely any pics.
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RGRotss is correct on digital zoom, very little use. Some of the video modes are getting pretty good (check out the Z2 specs) but those don't meet your other specs.
My suggestions are based on the 6x zoom requirement.
Take a look at the Fuji S3000 great little camera it does use xD memory but it's $100 cheaper than you were budgeting so you can pay the small premium for the card (cards run about $40 for 128M and $85 for 256M), all the other specs are right on what you want.
Video is only 10fps which will be jerky.
Next is the Kodak 6490 .. More camera than you asked for but you can find them as low as $400. Uses a funny battery but the battery does last a long time (an extra battery will run you about $25). I've gotten 400 pics on mine with about 60% flash. 10x Zoom SD memory, 4MP. It even comes with 16M of internal storage. Pretty good 15fps video mode (Decent for watching on a PC)
Next would be the Fuji S5000, Like the S3000 on steroids, faster lens, more pro features to grow into, still uses xD memory and has the best video modes of the bunch (30fps). Price is right at your limit.
Last on the list would be an HP 850 4MP, 8x Zoom all the other specs you wanted. The biggest problem I know of on this camera is it is very slow in picture to picture time (SD memory writes are very slow). Video is low resolution but 30fps.
I own a 6490 and love it...
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You can also get a Minolta Z1 for less than $300 delivered from a reliable online retailer. http://www2.buydig.com/shop/basket.a...dd&sks=MIDIMZ1, You will need a SD card and a charger with NiMH batteries. Shutter lag and cycle times are very fast.
Lexar is selling their high speed XD cards at very reasonable prices lately. It is faster than most cameras can use. I dont think a fast card would help the cycle time much on the HP. Even the basic SD cards are reasonably fast.
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thx guys for your help!
actually i did look at professional reviews for details on the pro's and con's~
so i'm realli thinking about FujiS3000+S5000, Minolta Z1 and the Olympus C740.
because i lived in Canada, and I don't think Minolta is popular around my place, so it seems quite difficult to have an idea about its price range.
but anyways, thank you so much for all u guys!
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"Fusion doesn't represent anything anymore because everything's fusion", says Tarun, the Tabla maestro who also does the electronics. Delhi to Dublin is a cultural gathering of the kilt wearing Korean sitarist, Irish fiddlers and Bhangra musicians beating the 'dhol'. And together they're a "Punjabi fusion, Celtic, electronic madness" making music in true global style.
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RAINSFORD is The "Rendezvous" Synth Pop Princess You Need to Know
RAINSFORD's process for bringing "Rendezvous" to life was just as fun (and funny) as the song's lyrical inception—and when her and her sister slash co-director Margaret Qualley cast the two costars, they knew they needed some woke AF old retirees to play the part. And as far as the creative direction? That was even easier to foster—as sisters, these two are kind of like the match made in filmmaker heaven…if there is such a thing.
"We'd never made a project like this together before, but it was awesome," RAINSFORD says. "She's like my best friend."
If you've yet to see "Rendezvous" with your own eyes, just know this: the song was inspired by two retirees getting it on in the grassy knolls of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and the accompanying vid follows that direction quite literally with a Wes Anderson-inspired aesthetic to make it that much more indulgent. It's almost impossible to imagine a better mishmash of artistic insp; to hear more on the video, and what's next for this LA-based songstress, peep our full interview below.
I was just watching the "Rendezvous" video. It's amazing!
Thank you, my sister and I directed it together. We're pretty happy with the way it turned out. Thanks for watching!
What was the process for bringing the song to life visually?
Well, my co-writer and producer, Nick Dungo, and I were writing a different song in the studio—he used to be based in Brooklyn, but he's out here now—and we took a little break, went to Prospect Park to get some fresh air, and stumbled across this older couple that was, in a less cinematic way than in the video, making out so much and rolling around in the grass and like so into it. At first, we were kind of fucking with them and playing "Let's Get it On" from like thirty yards away, just being assholes. Then, we ended up being really inspired by them, so we went back to the studio and wrote "Rendezvous". For the video, it was such a visual, cinematic inspiration so we decided we wanted to recreate that for the video. My sister is an actor and she's super talented, smart, creative and amazing and she wanted to help me direct it, so we directed it together. It was actually super challenging and made me respect directors and filmmakers so much because we had to go to the rental houses and pick up all the gear and my car wasn't big enough, so we had to borrow my mom's car and we didn't have it insured to be in the car so I was getting stressed out about it being stolen, and then all the setup—anyway, it was a lot of work, but I think it turned out well.
What is it like working with your sister? She obviously knows you so well, have you worked creatively together before?
We grew up dancing, we would dance together before. We'd never made a project like this together before, but it was awesome. She's like my best friend, we're lucky because I know a lot of siblings fight, but we never do, we really get along. It's funny, people were taking some behind-the-scenes videos of the old people and you can hear our voices in it. Our voices are so similar you couldn't really tell who's saying what, but we're telling these old people "Okay, great, could you do a nice firm grab? Okay, great, now spank her ass, give it a little spank." We're directing these old people to make out, so it was fun.
Did you cast the old people through a casting call? How did you find people who are down for that when they're like 70?
[Laughs] I felt kind of bad asking them to do it. My sister knew a casting agent so he sent us a couple pages of people to pick from. We hadn't met them before the fittings, but they were down, so it worked out.
I hope I'm like that when I'm old, just down for whatever.
Yeah, same [Laughs].
And as far as the single itself, what's the reception been like so far?
It's been pretty good, I think. I like following it, I'm just stoked for more people to hear it.
I definitely love all the 80s vibes I get from your stuff—I think of LA when I hear your music, for sure. There's a lot going on in the synth-pop arena right now—how do you you stand out? What makes your music you?
When I'm writing, I don't try to write something that's so different from what's on my mind. It's the music that comes from me. I think all art is a reflection of someone's personal experiences, so it's unique in that way—it comes from my experiences.
Is "Rendezvous" off of an upcoming EP, or what are you working on right now?
I'm just figuring it out as I go. I was thinking about doing an EP for a while, but I changed my mind and think I'm going to stick with just doing singles and build up the fanbase for a little while before I think about doing an EP. I think unless you're really successful for the most part, people mainly consume singles anyway. That's my plan for now.
Featured image courtesy of Damian Borja; polaroids courtesy of Alex Spencer
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Exodus Meaning in English – the movement of a lot of people from a place; a mass departure of people
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Exodus meaning in English :
- a mass departure of people;
- the movement of a lot of people from a place
Exodus Synonyms:
evacuation, departure, starting, Egress, egression, evagination, debouchment, Emergence, outflow of funds, onset, sendoff, Exit
arrival, inflow, influx, inrush, flux
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Each year members of the Big Walnut Local School District honor their own at a ceremony and dinner hosted by Roush Honda immediately preceding the May Big Walnut Board of Education meeting. Recognized during the ceremony are that school year's recipients of the Roush Honda Golden Eagle Mentor Award.
Roush Honda Golden Eagle Mentor Award recipients are selected through a nomination process that began earlier this month when school administrators, staff members, and area residents nominate individuals they believe have made a positive impact in the life of Big Walnut students.
Nomination criteria include involvement, support, and communication for a school building, the school district, and within the Big Walnut community; impacting the lives of students in a positive manner; and promoting the welfare of students while they are at home, in school, or in the community.
A panel of volunteers and staff then selects final honorees.
Nominees will be rated on a scale of 1 to 5 based on the strength of demonstration in the following criteria: Works for the district's mission or assists the individual school or district to inspire and guide students to reach their maximum potential.
Staff nominees should be student-focused – caring, available, supportive, positive, and friendly; professional – lifelong learners who are dedicated and accountable; and collaborative – flexible, team-oriented, and cooperative. In addition, staff nominees must reach far beyond any acts that could be considered part of the individual's job description.
Community, parent, and volunteer nominees should be informed, supportive, and involved. They should demonstrate extraordinary service that goes far above what is typical, and consistently demonstrate a level of selfless doing whatever is needed service.
Individuals may not be nominated if they have been a Golden Eagle Mentor Award recipient in the past five years.
This year's deadline for Golden Eagle Mentor Award nominations is Monday, April 17.
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To accommodate the Golden Eagle Mentor Awards ceremony, the Thursday, May 18, meeting of the Big Walnut Local School District Board of Education will be held at Big Walnut High School. The 5 p.m. award ceremony will be held in the high school auditorium, followed by a dinner in the cafeteria. The board meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the high school's Innovation Center.
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