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For me the easiest way to talk about my work as a composer is to talk about the questions I am working with. The first questions for almost every piece I've written so far have been to do with context: what and where I am writing the piece for, and most importantly, who the musicians are. I'm writing this blog during the last few days of Impuls, a new music festival and academy in Graz, Austria, in which working together has been a central part of the compositional experience so perhaps that is skewing my current view, but for me the first challenge of Confluere (my new piano trio for Illuminate's 2019 Season I), was the huge distance between me as a composer and the Prism Trio in the USA. I can't wait to work with them when they come to the UK later this year because there is really nothing like being in a room with musicians and working on ideas together. For now I'll introduce Confluere and explore how it relates to some other examples of my work.
Confluere was the first instrumental piece I wrote following a long period of work on Samara, my largest orchestral work to date. After being immersed in such a large canvas for so long, suddenly having only three instruments felt very exposed. Confluere is in a sense very simple. It focusses on building very intimate relationships between the three performers and exploring how those relationships can change. The word 'Confluere' is the Latin root of the English 'Confluence' and means the place where two rivers meet and join together. Unusually for me the title came after the work on this occasion. It is descriptive of how the three instruments interact but also of my compositional process which, for this piece, was in a way very fluid. Confluere will be premiered in the US on 8th March (Cambridge, MA) and in the UK on 30th August (Brighton) alongside works by Blair Boyd, Kerensa Briggs, Angela Elizabeth Slater and Sarah Westwood.
In Tiled
At the other end of the spectrum in terms of collaboration and notation is my recent piece In Tiled. Building on some smaller scale pieces written during my time in Cardiff last year, In Tiled explores how exactly we communicate (with each other as musicians and audiences, and with the musical material itself), and what happens when the score becomes mobile. Inventing and working with a new kind of scoring for this piece meant confronting questions of form and movement and has resulted in a work which I hope will grow in new directions each time it is performed. In Tiled was premiered in Graz, Austria, by Jacobo Hernández Enriquez (violin) and Yui Sakagoshi (saxophone) to whom I will always be grateful for their enthusiasm for the experiment.
Back in the land of traditional notation, or at least a non-mobile score, Samara is my first full scale orchestral work and was commissioned by Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra, an amateur orchestra based in Reading, UK. Samara was written to sit in a programme of music concerned with desire and for me that meant working with ideas of partnership, parallel and contrary motion, suspension and, above all, a journey. My harmonic and structural approaches in Confluere are largely drawn from ideas that occurred during my work on Samara. Below you can listen to two excerpts from the premiere given by Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Taylor, Reading University Great Hall, UK, 2nd Feb 2019:
The Peacock Tree
An older work than the others I have talked about so far, but one which was a turning point for me, is The Peacock Tree for wind quintet. At the time of writing this piece I was working a lot with issues to do with metaphor, meaning, and the live experience of music; what it means to give sound a title, to what extent music can really communicate, and how much the non-audible aspects of a performance and performance space can become part of a piece. Many of the aspects I began to explore in this little piece have been vital to my more recent works and continue to provide questions worth further exploration. You can listen to an excerpt from the piece here:
Juxtaposing these four pieces, I think I can safely say that my current concerns are: approaches to structure, music as a mode of live communication between audience, performers and composer, and clarity of character in the experience of each piece I make. I am still at the beginning of my journey and who knows where music will lead me next. I am hugely grateful to Angela for the opportunity to work with the Prism Trio and honoured to be a part of Illuminate's 2019 Season I.
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Much of my music is influenced by reflection. As music can be such a powerful elicitor of reflective thought, I aim to write music which can give expression to existential emotions in a way that is universally accessible. Having grown up in the English Choral Tradition and singing on a regular basis from a young age, my music has been heavily influenced by the transcendence of sacred music and spaces, with it being described as 'meditative and mellifluous'[1], with a 'great feel for choral sonority and textures'.[2]
In terms of my compositional approach, I am very much led by my ear. As the composer Herbert Howells once said, 'I have composed out of sheer love of trying to make nice sounds'.[3]Musical sounds or ideas, like any auditory signal of course, unfold over time. When composing this piano trio, 'Forget?', for Prism, I wanted to explore ways in which music can be involved with memory and the processing of emotions, responses and ideas.
I knew from the outset that I wanted the opening section to reappear in different guises, each time incorporating different textural, harmonic, melodic and rhythmic ideas. I wanted the reminiscence of the initial theme to be clear, but for the memory of it to become altered through the processing of the subsequent contrasting sections. These are varied in numerous ways throughout the piece but hark back to ideas from the original theme.
I often find it helpful to refer to traditional structures, and with this idea of musical reminiscence and altered repetitions in mind, I decided early on to use Rondo form as a structural outline (ABA1CA2DA3). Polytonal ascending semiquaver phrases in the piano part juxtapose emotive and more melodic writing found in the string parts in the B and C sections. The D section sees a more contrapuntal interplay between all of the instruments. There are elements of jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies throughout the piece, particularly at the end of the D section where the strings eventually come together into unison. This then leads us back into the final statement of the original theme, which, although featuring subtle differences and having been influenced by memories of the contrasting sections, has not been forgotten.
You can hear the trio amongst other premieres by Sarah Westwood, Blair Boyd, Angela Elizabeth Slater and Laura Shipsey on the 8th March at the New School of Music Concert Hall in Cambridge, MA; at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, CT, on the 30th March; at the Music and Wine concert series at St Luke's, Brighton, on the 30th August; at Late Music at Yorkon the 7th September; St Mary's Church, Stafford on the 14th September, and at Stonevale Concert Serieson Sunday 15th September.
[1]The Choir of St Bride's Fleet Street on 'Gloucester Service' (2018)
[2]Professor Robert Saxton on 'Ave Regina Caelorum'(2017)
[3]Paul Spicer, Herbert Howells, Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press Ltd (1998)
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Dame Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) described in 2001 as 'one of the most substantial composers these islands have ever produced.' Looking at her musical rap sheet alone is impressive, you name it she's written for it - symphonies, concertos, ballet, opera, chamber music, the lot.
So who was Elizabeth Maconchy?
Elizabeth Maconchy was born in 1907 in a village in Hertfordshire and spent her teenage years in Ireland. She started playing the piano when she was six and at just 16 years old she got accepted to the Royal College of Music to study piano and composition. At RCM she made a lifelong friendship with fellow composer Grace Williams and studied under Vaughan Williams who also became an important mentor and friend.
In 1930 Maconchy caught a big break when Henry Wood premiered her orchestral suite The Land at the Proms. It was the start of an amazing career. She received commissions from everyone from major orchestras including BBC Symphony and CBSO to individual musicians such as clarinettist Gervase de Peyer and singer Janet Craxton. Maconchy went on to become Chairman of the Composers Guild. She also chaired the Executive Committee of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) and helped develop the British Music Information Centre (BMIC), now both part of Sound and Music. Maconchy was made a CBE in 1977 and then became a Dame in 1987.
Maconchy was friends with her contemporaries Grace Williams, Ina Boyle and Britten, later on she also inspired and befriended a new generation of composers including Thea Musgrave and Richard Rodney Bennett.
RCM launched her phenomenal talent into the world but like many women Maconchy dealt with her fair share of misogyny and sexism. She was denied the Mendelssohn Prize enabling overseas study by the college director Sir Hugh Allen because she 'will only get married and never write another note.'
Maybe Maconchy thought she'd be compared unfavourably to other composers because of her gender if she allied herself to a particular school of composition. Whatever the reason Maconchy forged her own path, composing in a unique musical language and not getting bogged down in the various schools and isms going on the rest of the musical landscape of the time. She rejected the English pastoralism of her mentor Vaughan Williams, if anything she was inspired by East European modernism from Bartok and Berg, although her later work moves on from that to create her own distinctive style.
Her fiercely independent voice means Maconchy's music is more accessible, there's something for everyone. You have the masterwork of power and strength in her Symphony for Double String Orchestra, delightly cheeky comic opera The Sofa, uplifting jubilation in her song This Day to the patriotic Proud Thames. Maconchy's body of work explores the whole range of the human experience. Maconchy was continually innovating, constantly challenging herself and doing the unexpected whilst still having a clear sense of her music and style.
So, Maconchy wrote tons of music for different ensembles but she kept coming back to the string quartet. She wrote 13 string quartets over a 50 year period. They act almost as benchmarks to the whole of the mid 20th century, from the 1st in 1932 to the last in 1984.
String quartet no 3 is her shortest quartet but it packs in the drama. Written in 1938 No 3 sees Maconchy really getting into the nitty gritty of complicated family relationships. The piece is a 10 minute psychological thriller, seeing the four instruments engaging in a tense disagreement.
The only recording of this so far breaks the piece into 5 broad sections. The first section is a Lento, slow and full of unspoken tension, expertly paced and drawn out to heighten the drama. This leads into a Presto - frenetic and passionate. There's a brief respite with a seductive Andante, sweet and manipulative before moving into another anguished Presto. This is succeeded by a calmer Poco Largamente which brings the piece to a close.
The interactions between the strings really seem like a story unfolding, the chords come together but never quite resolve themselves, just bouncing off onto another phrase, another sentence.
The four voices are constantly intertwining, breaking into canons then merging again only to separate completely once more going all the way through until coming to a final uneasy conclusion.
To hear this fascinating work performed come along to Illuminate at RCM on 16th February 2019!
Dame Elizabeth Maconchy is such an inspiration, her musical integrity, individual sound and breadth of composition continue to delight audiences. More recordings of her music are appearing and her work is regularly performed around the world.
Here's to Dame Elizabeth!
Written by Elizabeth de Brito
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Sculpting and Refining, a cross synthesis in Amphora
Amphora, n.
1. an ancient Greek jar or vase with a large oval body, narrow cylindrical neck, and two handles that rise almost to the level of the mouth broadly : such a jar or vase used elsewhere in the ancient world
2. a 2-handled vessel shaped like an amphora
For the upcoming Illuminate concert, my piece Amphora for bass clarinet, violin and cello will be performed as part of the RCM Chamber Music Festival 2019.
Amphora are vessels dating back to the Neolithic period and also had been made for Ancient Greek vase painting. They were used for the everyday and rituals, prizes and for funery practices.
I had been working with pottery in previous pieces, including using various size clay pots as resonant speakers- in Cable Veins, for piano and electronics; Chalk.Body.Barrowelectronics for dance, and Rare Earth installation (work in progress). Whilst working physically with pottery, I wanted to focus on their tactile quality; the weighted and earthy and fragile and ancient qualities, to embody these in sound. The idea of writing Amphora began here.
At the same time, my compositions encompass other impetuses, and I am often drawn to dance (which I discussed in my previous post for Illuminate) or poetry, and I blend these with my sketches - sculpting, juxtaposing and refining original designs for the piece.
I've used the poetry of Georgie Lorimer as a catalyst for a few pieces, including Amphora and it falls within a triptych of works I am basing on Lorimer's poetry: The Artist's Kintsukuroi
1) Into the Blank Expanse of Space for bass flute, piano and electronics
2) Amphora for bass clarinet, violin and cello
3) The Artist's Kintsukuroi for septet, narrator and conductor
for Amphora:
it was autumn when we kissed
that first time after one
last summer storm on the beach
hair plastered against your face
and disfigured with sandwe
were hideous as tempests
battering into the cave
maybe if we'd stayed for more
than that moment we'd have been
trapped forever much later
i danced a fresh edge of sea
until even the soft shush
je t'aime je t'aime je t'aime left
my leaps sinking into sand
After developing these thoughts, a 'cross-synthesis'happens where phrases, or larger structures, could have started as an embodiment of pottery which are then co-mingled with the poetry ideas, or vice versa. Once I have refined a section, the original meaning and ideas are hidden and transformed. In electronic music, the cross-synthesis occurs when spectral data is applied from one sound to another in order to create a hybrid sound, or a transition from one sound to another. I wanted to use this process in an acoustic setting - and so I imagined the cross synthesis firstly occurring in a short, exclamatory motif.
I then abstracted this motif, supporting it with different pressure, resistance, harmonics, multiphonics and pulsating vibrato and tremolo, always striving to sculpt the poetry and pottery together. I also endeavoured to blend an embodied sense of the pottery and poetry with the spiritual.
Example: [ https://soundcloud.com/sarahewestwood/amphora-extract/s-hTvVh]
Amphora extract, Heather Roche (clarinet), Patrick Dawkins (violin), Valerie Welbanks (cello) Deptford Town Hall, London. May, 2018.
To hear the please in full, come to the concert on 16 Feb!
Photo credits:
1) Guillaume Baviere
Creative Commons: Attribution, ShareAlike.
2) Sarah Westwood, personal photo of the ocean
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Photography is my passion and I am into it from past 2 years, and also looking forward to my future into this. I am a good learner and want to get into better techniques and enhance my knowledge. While exploring Instagram and Facebook came across DSLR. My few friends are a part of this group and I too decided to join a photo tour they were organizing in June. The tour continued for nine days starting from Leh and ended at Srinagar. Our stay was pleasant and loved the hospitality arranged for us by the DSLR team as well as the hotel staff. Camping at Pangong Tso, Hunder and Nubra valley was commendable. Houseboats at Dal Lake, Srinagar was a nice attraction as this was our first experience.
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Now that my college track and field career is over as an athlete, I couldn't help to think about how incredibly slow I am, at least compared to the 400 meter world record time set by Michael Johnson. People always say how I am o so fast… but they don't know fast. My fastest 400 meter time was during my freshman year in 2004 at the end of the outdoor track and field season at Bates College. During a 4×400 relay, I ran a sub 48 in the anchor leg. During that same track meet (either NESCAC Championships or New England's D3 championships… google it lol), I ran my fastest open time of 49.09. During my sophomore year I got caught up with rugby and decided not to run track anymore. Looking back, I wish I stuck with it. I wonder how much faster I could have ran. Possibly a school record, 47.04? I don't if I would have ran that fast, but I know I would have been moving.
So I was fast but nothing great. Michael Johnson on the other hand, well he was amazingly fast. And supposedly his running form was awful, but who's to say his form is bad considering the fact that he has the fastest time ever recorded. Even Usain Bolt can't even compete with MJ in the 400, although I think he could if he properly trained for it. When Bolt was about 17 years old, he ran 45 seconds during the second leg of a 4×400 meter relay. CRAZY! But Johnson's world record performance set back at the 1999 Seville World Championships was on another level… he literally left his competitors in his dust. The previous record stood for about 11 years. Johnson's record has stood for 15 years so far… I wonder when it will be broken, if ever?!? But for now, enjoy the unorthodox running of the best to ever do it~


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The Most Over-the-Top Gifts Prince William Has Given Kate Middleton
Ahh, the life of a royal. From dating to engagement to wedding to babies, these are the most beautiful baubles Prince William has ever given Duchess Kate. Check out her jewellery collection and try not to be jealous.
Victorian ringFour years after meeting, and 18 months after they officially started dating, William first showed his affection for Kate in 2005, with a rose-gold, pearl-and-garnet-studded Victorian ring. Sounds just OK but its significance lies in the stones, as Will's birthstone is pearls while garnets are Kate's.
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Duchess-to-beThey broke up in 2007 but three and a half years later, they were back in fine form. In fact, so fine that Will popped the question with his late mother's epic engagement ring — 12-carat Ceylon sapphire, surrounded by 14 diamonds set in 18-carat white gold.
See 17 more times Kate has channelled Princess Diana's sense of style.
Matching setAnother piece from Princess Diana's collection, the sapphire and diamond earrings were given to Kate and match the engagement ring. The Princess of Wales wore them as studs but Kate had them redesigned as drops and debuted them three months after their wedding day, during their first Canada tour.
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First ChristmasWill marked their first holiday season together as a married couple with green amethyst and diamond earrings by her favourite designer, Kiki McDonough. Merry Xmas!
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First babyAfter Kate's barfy pregnancy, she was due an extravagant push present. And what better way for William to show his love and affection and appreciation for his wife than by gifting her with a Annoushka diamond eternity ring?
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Bonus giftIt was reported that Will also gave Kate a flower brooch with a pink diamond at its centre which, according to the Daily Express, was commissioned by the princess from the Queen's jewelers especially for his wife.
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Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new master called himself: 'The Divinely Favoured One'.
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Babycare brand Chicco celebrated Mother's Day in the UK with an enormous Facebook giveaway. Here's how they teamed up with the agency HROC to plan and carry out the sweepstakes.
Asking mothers for their honest advice and opinions created a buzz of conversation across social media. Chicco UK boosted engagement and increased the strength of their online community, almost overnight. Let's take a look at the details.
The agency
HROC is a fully integrated PR and advertising agency. It spans creative services, digital marketing, web development, video creation, social media and public relations. Based in Moseley, Birmingham, UK, HROC works for a variety of clients nationally across a huge range of both B2B and B2C industries.
The brand
Chicco is an Italian babycare brand with a very strong presence throughout Europe. Chicco's mission has always been to make a baby smile, and help parents through their child's early years.
Chicco provides safe solutions, designed to meet the demands of babies as they grow. With household-name products such as its Chicco Next2Me side-sleeping crib, Chicco combines innovation and traditional design to provide modern classics across all areas of infant and childcare.
The objective
The goal was to mark Mother's Day in a fun and interactive way, while promoting Chicco's innovative range of NaturalFeeling bottles. The vast majority of people who like the Chicco Facebook page are mothers, so the brand and agency wanted to do more than share a Mother's Day status update.
The Facebook competition asked women to share what they have learnt from motherhood, and help other new moms out. It was the perfect way to celebrate mothers everywhere.
Chicco and HROC chose the Facebook giveaway app so that mothers could express their views personally and authentically by commenting. So the giveaway was really by and for moms. It was much more meaningful than simply liking or sharing a post created by the brand.
The solution
Four posts were created in advance and scheduled to run through the week leading up to Mother's Day. The first post was boosted, but the other posts relied purely on organic reach and engagement.
The prizes were a Chicco NaturalFeeling gift set with two sizes of feeding bottle and a silicone soother, as well as a Chicco Boppy feeding pillow for breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. The prizes were carefully selected to benefit mothers and babies.
The Facebook giveaway app collected entries from all four posts into one prize draw. Then it randomly selected five people to win. HROC found the app very easy to use, because all the posts could be added to the giveaway at once – there was no need to select posts or comments one by one.
The result
The competition received a total of 371 comments altogether, with a reach of well over 100,000 views.
The reaction was overwhelmingly positive from new and experienced moms. Throughout the week, Chicco's Facebook page received 919 additional likes, of which they attribute a large proportion to the Mother's Day competition.
Easypromos made the whole thing very easy and straightforward. It is the perfect way to choose competition winners on fair and random basis, and by providing the capability to select multiple posts to choose from, selecting winners is a very simple task. It also allows you to choose back-up winners should there be an issue with the original selection, as well as blacklist entrants with whom there may have been issues before.
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Self-Defense And Self-Confidence - Building A Brighter Future
Posted: February 26, 2019
"It Is Better To Have Self-Defense Skills And Not Need Them, Than To Need Self-Defense Skills And Not Have Them." -Anonymous
Dear Friend,
I trust this blog finds you well.
As a parents , we certainly don't want our children to experience any sort of violence in their lives.
Yet, we know that they will.
Without a doubt, as a parent, you will protect your child, no matter what it takes.
Ultimately, protecting our children must include providing opportunities for them to learn how to protect themselves.
Kids rarely get bullied while their parents are with them.
It happens when mom and dad are not there to intervene.
So, what can you do about it?
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Here's why...
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Martial Arts classes are incredibly beneficial.
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It works the exact same way for adults.
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An acquaintance of mine is off scuba diving somewhere this summer, but his last wish for those of us left in Japan was that we get pounded by rain whilst he was off somewhere else. (We had a dry "rainy season" following a dry "Season in which it rains".)
Thus far, his wish has come true, but in an odd way.
We've had a mercifully cool summer. It's been humid to the level of "breathing liquid" but the temperature has been in the high 70s/low 80s Fahrenheit (26-28 Celsius) which is a lot better than usual Tokyo metro area temperature of "scorched earth".
The trade off has been lots of rain and a few migraines.
Today, for example, we kept the air conditioner off most of the day. However, about the time it got so humid we decided to turn on the air conditioner, we had an impressive cloud burst.
I hope this lasts. However, I suspect we'll have a hot September. I have to be good and sweaty by the time I get to work, I guess.


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text: Health Insurance Print The Definition of Medical Necessity in Health Insurance By Michael Bihari, MD Updated on August 18, 2019 PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou / Getty Images More in Health Insurance Healthcare Reform Affordable Care Act & Obamacare Medicare Medicaid Prescription Drug Insurance Financial Aid & Subsidies More Types Health insurance companies provide coverage only for health-related serves that they define or determine to be medically necessary. Medicare, for example, defines medically necessary as: "Services or supplies that are needed for the diagnosis or treatment of your medical condition and meet accepted standards of medical practice." Medical necessity refers to a decision by your health plan that your treatment, test, or procedure is necessary for your health or to treat a diagnosed medical problem. Most health plans will not pay for healthcare services that they deem to be not medically necessary. The most common example is a cosmetic procedure, such as the injection of medications (such as Botox) to decrease facial wrinkles or tummy-tuck surgery (but "cosmetic" procedures done for restorative purposes are generally covered by health insurance, such as breast reconstruction after a mastectomy, plastic surgery after an injury, or repair of congenital defects such as cleft palate). Many health insurance companies also will not cover procedures that they determine to be experimental or not proven to work. Criteria to Determine Medical Necessity Medicare and private insurers have varying criteria for determining whether a given procedure is medically necessary based on the patient's circumstances. Medicare uses National Coverage Determinations and private Medicare plans (ie, Medicare Advantage) use Local Coverage Determinations in order to ensure that the criteria for medical necessity are met. Private insurers that offer non-Medicare plans can set their own criteria (which may or may not mirror Medicare's criteria), although they're required to provide coverage that's in compliance with state and federal benefit mandates. Medical Uses of Marijuana The use of marijuana for medical reasons is a prominent 'medical necessity' case. Cannabis is a plant with active ingredients that are widely reported by sufferers to be effective in pain control for various conditions, usually neuropathic in nature, where common painkillers have not worked well. Medical marijuana first became legal under state statute with the passage of California's Proposition 215 in 1996. By May 2019, the medical use of cannabis was legal in 33 states and the District of Columbia. However, as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is illegal under federal law. Schedule I drugs are defined by the Drug Enforcement Administration as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." Interestingly, cocaine and methamphetamine are both classified as Schedule II drugs, putting them one rung lower on the DEA's system for classifying "acceptable medical use and the drug's abuse or dependency potential." Marijuana has also not been approved by the FDA, in part because its Schedule 1 classification has made it difficult for the FDA to conduct adequate trials to determine safety and efficacy. Over the last four decades, there have been repeated proposals to change the Schedule 1 classification for marijuana. And although the DEA has thus-far refused to change the classification of marijuana, the agency did downgrade some CBD products (with THC content below 0.1 percent) from Schedule 1 to Schedule 5 in 2018. The DEA also agreed in 2016 to increase the number of DEA-approved facilities growing marijuana for research purposes, although nothing had changed as of 2018. There is still just one such facility (at the University of Mississippi), but the DEA noted in 2016 that additional approved suppliers would be able to provide FDA-approved researchers with "a more varied and robust supply of marijuana." For the time being, however, due to marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug (with "no currently accepted medical use"), its illegality under federal laws, and the lack of any FDA approval, health insurance plans do not cover medical marijuana, regardless of whether state law deems it legal, and regardless of whether a doctor deems it medically necessary. But synthetic THC can be included in a health insurance plan's covered drug list. 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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators Thursday issued a proposed settlement over who gets the bill for the now-closed San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California.
The California Public Utilities Commission said in a statement that the tentative deal would provide about $1.3 billion in consumer refunds and credits. But consumers will pay about $3.3 billion in costs over 10 years, including for power purchased after the plant shut down.
"I believe the settlement results in just and reasonable rates, is consistent with the law, reasonable in light of the whole record and in the public interest," Commissioner Mike Florio said in the statement.
The commission is scheduled to consider the settlement Nov. 20.
At issue has been who should take the financial hit for the plant's demise — company shareholders or customers.
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Pick A Polish: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream.
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What stamper and scraper do you use? I have a Konad one but it's a little small, and I have a feeling I may have lost the plastic scraper. I've also seen reviews that say the Moyo stampers aren't great too.ReplyDelete
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The Heart Always Wants to Keep Beating
"The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating."
― Elizabeth Scott
Four words that have angered me since my sister's murder are: This. Too. Shall. Pass.
Please keep silent unless I ask for your counsel. It's better to say nothing than to utter the wrong words to a mourning girl.
Unless, of course, your soul mate has been assassinated, too. Only then will I consider listening to what you have to say. Only then will I know you truly understand about darkness, shadows, and sharp, clawed fists twisting inside your liver and kidneys.
By the way, in case you didn't know, one can live with half a heart, half a soul. Yes, the blood still flows thru veins, the legs still move, the pulse still pulses.
Isn't that simply astounding?
After the murder, I stumble upon certain activities to distract me from my sorrow, to divert me from insanity. It's a relief when one can take a break from being crazy. It's liberating to become temporarily removed from one's suffering. When this happens, it's as if you're standing outside your own body observing a stranger.
"Look at her," You say, "She might actually make it."
So one day my girlfriend, T calls, "Clear your day tomorrow morning. I'm teaching you how to make apple pies."In other words: This task is not an option. When I arrive at 9:30 a.m., the centers are already prepared and organized in her enormous Martha Stewart kitchen: the apple-peeling center, the crust-making center, and flour, cinnamon, sugar, butter, nutmeg, and shiny green apples are beautifully positioned around the oak table like obedient children.
"How about a strawberry margarita before we start?" she says. I see two mammoth glasses of blood-red slush and begin to giggle like a school girl. "It's 9:30 in the morning," I say."So." She says. "You need a Margarita reeeeeeal bad." She holds onto the e for a long time.
We slurp the thick liquid of strawberries and tequila slowly, and the heat traveling from my throat to my stomach feels dangerous, familiar, satisfying. We talk about our kids, husbands, work, and what's happening in the Middle East. We talk about sex, too, and other things girlfriends typically discuss. We finally get serious about apples after a couple of hours.
She has one of those incredible gadgets that peel the apples and removes the core. There's something deeply beautiful and pleasurable about watching the skin of the apple unwrap, unwind, and shed its body to the tiled floor: revealing, comforting, and mysterious—like something old and new evolving at the same time. Who invented such a joyous tool? But preparing the crust outweighs everything else. Sifting flower, cutting in Crisco, wrapping your hands around the soft pillow of dough as if it's a big fat Buddha or your plump Mama.
"Don't be afraid of it," T says, "Pound it. Push it. Press it firmly. Pretend it's the murderer."
"Take that, you son-of-a-bitch!" I scream.
I punch the dough with all my might. I beat harder and harder as if I'm slamming every regret, belittling word, oppressive action, lost opportunity, and three bullet holes with my bare hands. I beat until my knuckles turn into different shades of pink.
"That's what you get, you motherfucking murderer."
"Hey, let me help," T says. She lifts her fist in the air like a kick ass member of the Black Panthers.
And we begin beating the dough as if it's a punching bag.
"Why didn't we do something?" I shout, "Why didn't we break his legs when we had the chance, smash his fingers so he couldn't pick up a gun, why didn't we call the police, why didn't we…?"
Why. Didn't. We. Tell?
We sit in silence afterward as if we just finished a chapter of some despicable novel. All I hear is our labored breathing and the idiotic clock tick:::tick:::ticking. One thing I've learned in life is that even if you've stopped ticking—Time has not.
Suddenly, T says, "We still have apple crisp to make! Get your butt up, Kimmers." She throws a handful of flour in my face and waits for a response, waits for the petals of my fists to unfold into some form of light. She takes my hand, "She's here. Can't you feel her?"
It's true. I do feel her. Everywhere. In every unfilled space like a soft flickering of hope gathering back its missing colors.
Sometimes all we need is a strawberry margarita, and somebody who gets us really gets us.
Sometimes all we need is the interruption of apples and cinnamon to survive.
One. More. Day.
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I loved this, Kim. Beautiful. Like everything you write. Your words always take my breath away. How blessed you are to have T. (And she, you.)
And I like what you said in a comment. Root friends. I call mine the core (and we call ourselves the core four).
Sending you love as always.
Stunning. Heart-wrenching. Beautiful. Inspiring. God, I'm so thankful for all the T's who buoy the lost, carry the suffering, make drinks and bake pies for the grieving.
Such a wonderful, wonderful post, Kim!
Sending you hugs.
…Not more than I love you, T. xx
have I told you lately that you are one of my favorite people?
I have a list! LOL xx
…Oh, that's a relief.
Thank you, Caterpillar Girl! xxx
–I have 4 ROOT friends who put up w/ my shit.
Love them.
and they love me unconditionally.
xxx hope you do, too, Nan.
Booze and chocolate.
I Likie!! xx
Love the idea for the grieving children….rather than a margarita,
they can have orange Kool-Aid and punch the hell of that padding. I do believe I need one, too!
Love you, dear. xx
…Until the end of time….
xxx to Paris.
As always,
thanks for your words, Angie. xx
As always, LOVE how you are able to express your sorrow Kim and love you all the way from South Africa.
🙂 Mandy xoxoxo
Real. Honest. And, as always, powerful. Every time I read your writing, Kim, I am inspired to remain strong, to not give up, to stay vigilant. You, and your friend, rock.
I get goosebumps while reading this, Kim.
This. Too. Shall. Pass. …. what can I say…some wise A$$ thinks that they knew better.
Wow Kim.
This is true friendship!
Love you till the end of time.
Thank you for another powerful post. Pounding the dough reminds me of the kids at the Center for Grieving Children. We have a Volcano room where 2 kids at a time go with 2 facilitators. They get 5 minutes in this padded room to release intense emotion. They don't have the delicious margarita but they have a safe place to feel. Having a beautiful friend who not only gets it but offers a safe place to feel is a blessing that you show so powerfully in this piece and in your experience. I love you and thank you❤
As always, heartfelt hugs and oceans of caring. With booze and chocolate on the side.
Everyone needs a friend like your friend T. It is a miracle from God – someone who gets you. You are a blessed woman because you have any people who get you, love you, appreciate you, and need your words, all of them. But to have someone like T? Wow. Just wow. Totally. Ya know?
Love this. I get you.
WOW!!! T is an Angel among us…..to know what a friend truly needed….is such a gift
And Kim your gift of writing is a gift to us…..thank you for sharing a part of your soul
Love you Kimmers


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Getting "Out There" Part I: Scale Fragments
Typically, when rockers think about soloing or over chord progressions, they keep fairly well to the diatonic realm – staying tethered to a scale that "fits" the harmonic current of a given song. That's not a bad idea. Generally, playing the "right" notes that fit with the chords of a song will resonate with most people and sound "normal." But sometimes you need to get "out there." In this article, I'm going to discuss one "mindful" strategy for going outside the diatonic sphere in an effort to add color (or chaos) to your lead lines.
One way to get "out there" is by thinking in terms of, not a scale, but, structurally consistent scale fragments taken from multiple keys and threading them together into a chain. The resulting chain would be relatively independent of the underlying harmonic framework of the song. The purpose of this is to develop what I call the sound of "transgressive fluidity" characteristic of art if not commercial music. For more on this see my first Chops From Hell article titled "Disturbing Shred."
If you've spent time learning about tetra-chords, hybrid scales, or pitch axis theory, you know that you can play a lot of non-diatonic notes in your leads. And these approaches do lend themselves to very interesting sounds and are extremely useful. For example, hybrid scales are musical entities built out of different scale materials or unusual scales resulting from the mixing together of two completely different scales. An example of hybrids might be to fuse the Lydian mode (G A B C# D E F# G) with the fourth mode of the Melodic Minor scale, the Lydian Dominant (G A B C# D E F G). The result of this fusion would be a non-standard, eight note Bebop scale: (G A B C# D E F F#). But "pitch axis" theory and hybrid scales are relatively "unilinear" in that note functions are analyzed in relation to an axial pitch or a parent tonal center. This is not quite what I have in mind in this article. We are leaving behind the notion of an axial pitch altogether. The song goes one way and the solo goes another. You are walking without a net.
Scale fragments take you toward a "key of the moment" proposition or "Harmolodics" where independent melodies collide, diverge, or are woven together. Here a soloist can, if so desired, depart completely from the song's tonal center. I know this sounds a bit unconventional but we're going for absolute improvisational freedom here. The tyranny of the Id, if you will.
This was the basic approach in my "song" Jupiter Proximity.
Jupiter Proximity was going for an ambient, frenzied, chaotic feel like racing headlong through space toward some terrible disaster. Instead of just playing some lines from one scale or playing some arpeggios up and down, I aimed at a fluid, braided tapestry of sound by playing through many different scale fragments in different keys that ultimately "landed" or returned to the song's parent key (C minor). Check the notation for an approximation of what my thinking was in the first 26 seconds of Jupiter Proximity.
Here's the logic behind the Jupiter sound encapsulated in just a couple of measures: the first few notes, as I was thinking of them, are taken from the G major scale. The remainder of the first measure comes from the A major scale. I then shifted to notes taken from A major to B major and then on to F# major. So, one way to look at the run of notes is to see them as fragments progressing through time: (| G major, A major | | B major F# major |). Now, in the actual song, the first 26 seconds goes through G major, C major, A major, D major, B major, E major, F# major, and lands in C melodic minor before being followed by a mostly diatonic sequence derived from the C natural minor scale.
You can, however, profit by examining each set of fragments in relation to the underlying C minor tonality of the song if you so desired. Doing so will demonstrate that the approach is not arbitrary.
The shift from G major up a whole step to A major is a classic jazz move. If you examine your "circle of fifths" you'll notice that the distance between G and A, on the wheel, is fairly close…I think of them as related cousins that are basically identical except for two notes. And those differences in accidentals (C# and G# in the case of A major) impart a Lydian Dominant sound to the G which is a scale frequently used by jazz musicians. However, against the underlying C minor tonality of the song, the G and A scale fragments provide sounds from C major and C Lydian b9. Adding the major third interval imparts the sound of the Aeolian major scale (a natural minor scale with a raised third interval). The second measure takes us into the B major scale which imparts, perhaps the easiest way to analyze it, is a truly chromatic sound against C minor. B major played on top of C minor would result in the combination of C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F# and so on. You can carry out this analysis through all the various scale fragments to see how they relate to C minor.
The whole point of this approach to scale fragments is to achieve a very non-linear chromatic sound in a song or part of a solo. Of course you could just play from the C chromatic scale. However, the shift in mental perspective offered by scale fragments, the interval shifts, and the resulting technical angle (see the notation) can give you a sound that is totally chromatic yet does not sound as if you're just racing up and down the neck playing a scale.
The difference, essentially, is that playing from the perspective of the chromatic scale will sound linear. By playing as I did in Jupiter using scale fragments the sound is totally circular and non-linear. I guess it has it's time and place ;-)
Shredders have been long criticized that they just race up and down scales. Many do. However, by breaking musical elements down into smaller entities (fragments) like the first four notes of one scale, or however many different scales, you can avoid that trap. Regardless of whether you find it pleasing, the sound in Jupiter is not that of scales up and down the neck. Instead, as I hear it, it is a wall of structured sound that takes on visual shapes in the mind. Close your eyes and "look" for geometric shapes moving as you listen.
In my next installment I'll cover the idea of "interchanges" and how you can use them to get "out there."
As always, I hope you found this to be interesting and useful. Best of wishes.
Bofatron Sofasaurus plays in the hybrid rock band Tryptophane and is the inspiration for Shred Like Hell a site devoted to avant garde and experimental guitar.


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Qualcomm Collab To Deliver Cloud-Based Gaming To Mobile Devices
In an announcement by Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, inc a new subscription service for cloud-based gaming for mobile devices will be delivered by Qualcomm and Hatch Entertainment, a subsidiary of Rovio Entertainment, in a collaboration between the two companies.
The service will be playable on servers based on Qualcomm Centric™ 2400 – the worlds first 10nm server processor.
"The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 server processor was purpose built for cloud to deliver exceptional performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar," said Vishal Gupta, vice president of business development at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies. "We bring high compute density and energy efficiency with Qualcomm Centriq 2400 to help drive Hatch's innovative cloud game streaming solution."
The new service will utilize Hatch Entertainment's innovative online streaming delivery model will be combined with Qualcomm's server technology to deliver the service.
The service will will allow mobile gamers to experience full-featured games running at 60 frames per second, optimized for low-latency gaming performance over mobile data networks.
Despite the power of the servers and technology behind the service, gaming through this service will require less than half of the bandwidth required for video-based game streaming solutions.
Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 will offer a 48 core processor that will help Hatch Entertainment provide a large number of game instances per server.
Hatch will offer gamers high-quality gaming experiences in the cloud, while developers will be able to more easily afford and create multi-multi-synchronus multiplayer games.
The service will work well for gamers wanting to free up space on their phones and will facilitate competitive gamers and family's and friends who want to collaborate in-game on their mobile devices.
Our vision is to let people discover, play and share great games instantly and in real-time, bringing people together over games they love," said Juhani Honkala, founder and chief executive officer, Hatch Entertainment. "Our collaboration with Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies is a significant leap forward in advancing our existing gaming technology and platform, which offers users a fun and completely new kind of gaming experience on mobile."
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Environmental Awareness: A look into Video Game Environments
Imagine, a player loads up a game called The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim for the first time and after a short stint being greeted by flames and smoke in an area not far off, you are greeted by an expansive land of snow and ice.
It's not that easy to describe, however, the player is greeted by more than the land before them, they are greeted by the animals weaving in and out of trees, curiously afraid of the armored figure. They are greeted by the wailing snowy wind, and the distant roar of a dragon, sat atop a mountain in the distance, and they are greeted by an atmosphere that they are free to explore in its entirety.
It is this atmosphere that make games what they are, even when players don't realize it.
The sounds and sights of the world players engross themselves in is what makes players stay. It is captivating and when done well, it can alter the players mind in ways that can induce fear, wonder, and amazement.
Gameplay is important, of course, but without good sound design, environmental art, and sound lighting, the game will fizzle out.
What made games like Dead Space and Resident Evil so terrifying was their sound design.
In Dead Space, a popular survival horror game set in space, players will hear the hiss of pipes, the creaking of the colossal metal ship they are walking in, and the skittering noises of enemies nearby.
Without these atmospheric tones and well-timed sound effects, the game would feel no different than The Sims. It is this sound design that draws players in and makes their heart pound as they creep through dingy hallways littered in torn limbs and gore, not just the graphics.
Graphically, a game can be amazing but if the environments lack life or atmosphere, they will ultimately fail to become a true game.
Skyrim makes use of all aspects of environmental design. Birds chirp, snowy wind whistles, the sound of a wolves footsteps behind the players character induce fear and panic as they try to figure out where the enemy is from within a patch of brush.
Of course, video games aren't all about panic or inducing fear. Good environmental design can also induce wonder.
Most players that first step into the world of Skyrim agree that they were met with a feeling of wonder, and curiosity as they crept down the snowy mountainside, hearing the sound of every footfall and windy whistle and gazing at the beautiful environment created by the artists and designers at Bethesda, the developers behind the game.
Another game players recall feeling this exact emotion was Bioshock Infinite.
Players will find themselves thrust into a skytop city brimming with alternate universe American culture. Statues of George Washington and other founding fathers litter the world, american flags are hung everywhere, and the sound of bells and atmospheric chatter swiftly bring players into the world it is trying to purvey.
These atmospheres sometimes take years to create. Certain games require teams to visit locations all around the world to record sounds or conduct research on the feel of the atmosphere of the area they are trying to create.
Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft sent teams to modern Egypt to get a feel for how things looked and felt before they set upon to create Assassin's Creed Origins, the developers first foray into ancient Egypt.
For games that take on historical roots, accuracy is key. Researchers, designers, and artists painstakingly scour the internet, real-world locations and books to accurately portray the world or time period they are designing.
It is an amazing feat, especially for smaller development teams but the work that goes into the design of a games environment lasts the lifetime of the game.
Islands in the Formless Void changes the Dynamic of World Sandbox Games
In what is a unique take on the open-world sandbox genre of video games, Islands in the Formless Void opens up islands filled with tiny artificial intelligences.
Comprised of people and various creatures, players will witness these tiny creatures learn to manipulate the world around them, eventually learning to build and explore, but what they learn and discover will be entirely up to the player.
Decisions and player interaction is an integral part of Islands in the Formless Void.
"The idea for this game has evolved over the course of many years," said Jon Galindo, developer of Islands of the Formless Void. "Part of it is just my personal style, and part of it is based on my often-unsuccessful attempts to unravel the philosophy of games and art."
Players can be a disembodied witness to the world below, or choose to shape the terrain, or jump into a body and pretend to be one of the creatures living on the island.
When jumping onto one of the islands, all the options available to the AI's is available to the player. Build fires, chop down trees, and build anything.
Of course, when feeling lazy, players can create an assortment of different lifeforms to do the work for them.
Each island has a different assortment of creatures available to them, pick one and see the creatures explore, transform the world around them, and learn new abilities and building projects.
The player can walk among them in hopes to teach them new things, but the tiny creatures will never be under full control, they are their own beings.
The game will take place in a shared universe, comprised of islands. Players can claim exclusive ownership of an entire island, or leave a portion of it open to other players.
These aren't just empty islands though, these lands are open and available to change to the players hearts content. Want to change the way the hill looks on that side of the island, the option is available to do so.
Of course, just like the real world, anything created on the island will eventually decay over time. Players are warned though, this will create complications for the little island citizens if too many resources decays over time.
Of course, all of these features take place in a gorgeously unique pixel-based universe.
"Shining Force, by Sega, was the first video game I completed, that's what inspired the graphics of Islands in the Formless Void," Galindo said. "Minecraft and and Age of Empires are what inspired the building and resource collection mechanics."
The game will be an HTML5 app, which means it will be playable on practically anything with an internet browser.
The creator of Islands in the Formless Void, Jon Galindo, got started in video games in middle school, where he says his father bought him a $25 PC from a second-hand store.
"On that computer I found a little game called Chip's Challenge, which I played endlessly," Galindo said. "I later acquired a CD containing a collection of Sega classics containing the original Sonic games, and Shining Force, the first game I played to completion."
Later on in life, Galindo said he discovered Pokémon, Minecraft, and Age of Empires, but never found satisfaction with the games, he wanted to change them, improve their mechanics.
Eventually, he got into code and is now developing his own video game.
"There are challenges, but they are like puzzle-solving," Galindo said. "Trying to understand what games are, understand what fun is, answering these has been an obsession which led me to where I am now."
With development of Islands of the Formless Void underway, Galindo hopes to one day run a small business, and hopes the development of this game will open the avenue to create more games.
The game is touted for a December 2018 release.
The Kickstarter campaign for Islands of the Formless Void is a little under a month until completion and funds from the campaign are going directly to the game and other related costs of development.
As Jon Galindo states in his Kickstarter campaign, the fate of the game depends on donors decisions.


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Cost Accounting Course
5 Courses
14+ Hours
Full Lifetime Access
Certificate of Completion
Cost Accounting Basics
Cost Volume Profit Analysis
Types of Costing
Profitability Analysis
Marginal Costing
What you get
Online Classes
Technical Support
Mobile App Access
Case Studies
This Cost Accounting Course is a bundle of 5 courses with 14+ hours of HD video tutorials and Lifetime Access. Along with this professionally made training program, you get verifiable certificates for each of the 5 courses on Cost Accounting!
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If you would like to get involved in business in any way – as an employee or as an entrepreneur, you need to know the nitty-gritty of cost accounting. This Cost Accounting course is designed for students and professionals who want to master cost accounting skills.
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Cost Accounting Course Details
|No. of Hours
|Cost Accounting:01 - Getting Started
|2h 3m
|Cost Accounting:02 - Types of Costing
|2h 7m
|Cost Accounting:03 - Cost Allocation and Analysis
|3h 14m
|Cost Accounting:04 - Decision Making using Marginal Costing
|4h 07m
|Cost Accounting:05 - Process Costing
|4h 4m
|Online Cost Accounting Course
|This is 5 course bundle. Please note that you get access to all the 5 courses. You do not need to register for each course separately.
|14+ Video Hours
|Core Coverage
|Basics of Cost Accounting, Cost Terms and Purpose, Cost Volume Profit Analysis, Types of Costing, Job Costing, Batch Costing, Activity Based Costing, Cost Allocation and Analysis, Profitability Analysis, Decision Making using Marginal Costing, Process Costing, Joint Product and By Product
|Course Validity
|Lifetime Access. You can view the cost accounting course any number of times
|No eligibility as such.
|What do you get?
|Certificate of Excellence for each of the 5 courses
|Certification Type
|Course Completion Certificates
|Verifiable Certificates?
|Yes, these are verifiable certificates. This means that you will be provided with a unique URL/Link which you can include in your resume/Linkedin profile for online verification.
|Type of Training
|Video Course – Self Paced Learning
|System Requirement
|1 GB RAM or higher
|Other Requirement
|Speaker / Headphone
Cost Accounting Course Description
This entire online cost accounting course is divided into five sub-courses which can be done separately as well. But to extract the best out of the entire course, it's better that you follow the sequence and do all five sub-courses.
Cost Accounting: 01 Getting Started
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- Getting Started (Basic Cost Accounting): In this sub-course, you will learn a lot. This online cost accounting course is designed for the beginners. Students who are just starting out in cost accounting should do this course first.
- Introduction: In the first section of this sub-course, you will learn the fundamentals of cost accounting.
- Cost Terms and Purpose: To understand cost accounting in detail, it's important that you understand each cost term and the purpose of cost accounting. In this section, you will learn about direct cost and indirect cost accounting. You will also get to know the behaviour of the cost and example on the same. The instructor will also take you through cost function and cost estimation. Finally, you will learn about high low method and the example on the same.
- Cost Volume Profit Analysis: This is the final section of this sub-course. In this section, you will first learn the fundamental of cost volume profit analysis. Then you will go through CVP assumptions and practically understand an example on the same. Then you will learn about contribution margin ratio of cost, fixed cost and sales volumes, equation method of cost, and contribution margin method of cost. Then the instructor will take you through the margin of safety and its example and many examples of cost accounting.
Cost Accounting: 02 – Types of Costing
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- Types of Costing: This is the second sub-course. This online cost accounting course is designed for intermediate students who have already done the first sub-course i.e. the basic cost accounting.
- Introduction of Cost Sheet: In this section, you will learn what a cost sheet is and what the pattern of a cost sheet is all about. Then the instructor will explain the cost of production and cost of sales. Finally, you will go through an example of a cost sheet.
- Example of a Cost Sheet: This section is totally dedicated to learning the example of a cost sheet. The instructor will take you through each item of the cost sheet. Then you will learn to calculate the profit as well.
- Job Costing: This entire section is dedicated to job costing. You will learn what job costing is, limitations of job costing, numerous examples of job costing, and data pertaining job costing example.
- Batch Costing: This entire section is devoted to batch costing. The instructor will take you through the fundamentals of batch costing, binder in batch costing example, and batch costing profitability example.
- Activity Based Costing: In this section, you will learn the fundamentals of activity based costing. Then the instructor will take you through an example of activity based costing. Then you will learn about total cost using activity based costing. Finally, you will learn about cost driver and volume of cost driver in activity based costing.
Cost Accounting: 03 – Cost Allocation and Analysis
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- Cost Allocation and Analysis: This is the third sub-course of cost accounting course. This cost accounting course is designed for intermediate students.
- Introduction: In this section, you will learn about cost allocation.
- Cost Allocation: In this second section, you will learn about steps for cost allocation. You will also get to understand indirect cost, basis of apportionment, and example of basis of apportionment.
- Allocation of Service Department Cost: In this section, you will learn about allocation of service department cost, method of re-apportionment cost, and direct re-distribution cost. The instructor will also take you through the example of step down method, two departments in step down method, and example of direct and step down method. You will also learn about reciprocal re-distribution method and an example on the same. Finally, you will learn about overhead absorption rate, an example on overhead absorption rate, and customer profitability profile.
- Profitability Analysis: In this last segment, you will learn about profitability analysis in detail.
Cost Accounting: 04 – Decision Making using Marginal Costing
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- Decision Making using Marginal Costing: This is the fourth sub-course of this comprehensive course. This is designed for intermediate students.
- Introduction: In this first section, you will learn about the fundamentals of decision making.
- Relevant Cost in Marginal Costing: In this second section, you will learn about relevant cost in marginal costing and non-relevant cost in marginal costing.
- Example of Relevant Costing: In this section, you will go through a detailed example of relevant costing and you will learn additional tits-bits about relevant costing.
- Cost of Opportunity: This is a very comprehensive section. In this section, you will learn about the concept of opportunity cost with example. You will also learn about cost concept and marginal costing and their respective examples. Then the instructor will take you through independent situation of marginal costing, cost volume profit (CVP) ratio, contribution margin ratio, break even analysis, target profit analysis, and also the example of target profit analysis. Finally, you will get to understand about graph of analysis, decision making using cost costing and CVP Analysis, and example of decision making.
- Types of Cost: In this final segment, you will learn about the impact realization value and route maintenance cost, cost indifference example in decision making, different types of cost indifference, output range and machine preferences in cost indifference, calculating cost indifference & interpreting results, and finally calculating opportunity cost.
Cost Accounting: 05 – Process Costing
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- Process Costing: This is final sub-course of the full comprehensive course. This is designed for intermediate students.
- Introduction: In the first section, you will learn process costing in detail.
- Getting started: In this second section, you will learn about the meaning and the principle of process costing, practical example of process costing, difference between process costing and job costing, and lastly process costing accounts.
- Practical Example: In this section, you will learn everything about process accounts and costing. The instructor will take you through the practical example of process accounts, key terms of process costing, normal loss in process account, and example of normal loss in process account. You will also learn about different types of process account, example of abnormal loss, concept of equivalent production, valuation of work progress inventory, example of equivalent production, average method in work progress inventory, and finally example of average method.
- Joint Product and By Product: In this last section, you will learn about joint product and by product. The instructor will also guide you on physical and average unit cost in joint product, contribution margin method in joint product, market value method in joint product, accounting for by product, and finally you will get to understand spoilage and rework.
Cost Accounting Certificate of Completion
What are the requirements / pre-requisites to this Training?
- Willingness to do this cost accounting course: The first pre-requisite to this training is your willingness and commitment to do this course. Only going through the course will not make you an expert in cost accounting. You need to simultaneously practise on your own while you learn.
- Basic knowledge in accounting terms: It is important that you understand the basic accounting concepts and terminologies. Otherwise it would be difficult for you to do this cost accounting course.
- Basic knowledge of costing: You don't need to know everything about costing. A fundamental knowledge will help you understand the concepts well and you would be able to extract the maximum value out of this course.
Target Audience for this training
- Students of finance: This online cost accounting course would be relevant and useful to the students of finance. Students from other branches can do this course, but only they can ensure about the usefulness and relevance of this course to their stream of study.
- Accountants, Cost Accountants, Tax Consultants: These working professional would get tremendous benefits out of this comprehensive course.
- Entrepreneurs: To entrepreneurs, this online cost accounting course would be invaluable since this course will teach them how to make effective decisions, how to reduce costs, and how to increase revenue and profit.
Why should I do this cost accounting course?
This online cost accounting course can't be missed. It may not be relevant for all streams of students, but this is the most comprehensive and best course on cost accounting in the market.
I'm not in finance profession. Can I do this cost accounting course?
The answer lies within your question. It's all about your willingness to do the course. But how useful this cost accounting course would be in your professional life, you need to figure that out.
I have years of experience in cost accounting. Would it be valuable to me?
Who won't love a refresher course after many years of experience? This is a classic refresher course for those who have been in cost accounting for many, many years.
Sample Preview of this course
Here are some of the sample videos of this course. Click on the icons below to view the samples –
Concept of Opportunity Cost Example7.11
Contribution Margin Ratio5.34
Pratical Example of Process Accounts8.21
CVP Model Analysis Assumption9.42
Example of Direct and Step Down Method8.07
Career Benefits of this training
- Add tremendous value to your professional life: There is no doubt about it. Do this online cost accounting course and you would know how valuable this course actually is.
- You will be way ahead of your peers: If you do this course, you would be marching along the extra mile. And your peers won't be able to catch you any time soon.


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I have already posted the free patterns and instructions for making three different types of rings with beads. This is a summary of the two different types of beaded rings already shown in the blog.
This is the first ring which was made with simple beads and crystal beads, it's a beautiful flower shaped ring and it's medium difficulty.
Making this jewel will take you at least half an hour, you'll need crystal or swarosky beads (around 10) and small standard beads. I've used a thin nylon thread for making it, to do it yourself follow the pattern showed here. In the patterns "inicio" marks the starting point and "fin" is the end of the work. Start passing the thread through the holes of the beads as shown in the diagram, paying special attention to the points where you have to cross both ends of the thread trhough the hole of an Swarosky bead. I've called this jewel "flower ring"
This is a completely different type of ring, made with "balls" or fake pearls and standard beads. This jewel is easier to do than the former one, to do it, follow step by step the pattern shown here, following the diagram as explained above
Manualidades con abalorios. Anillos de cristal Swarosky, esquemas, collares, pendientes, pulseras y animales de abalorios.
Patterns for bead rings
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Hola Patricia, lo siento pero no utilizo msn, además no tengo acceso a internet siempre, si quieres puedes enviarme un email con tus patrones y aqui siempre podrás encontrar mis modelos :)
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The Endoscopy Archives
High Resolution Images: Gastric Cancer of the Diffuse TypeThe endoscopic images in this site are mostly quite compressed in order to make the transmissions times as short as possible. Sometimes it is however nice to have high resolution images, for example for publications, text books or lectures. In these "high resolution files" some larger images are displayed.
Just click on any image to get a magnification (and then click "Back" on Your browser). Click here to get back to the index page.
A diffuse cancer in the gastric corpus
A diffuse cancer in the gastric corpus
A diffuse cancer in the proximal antrum
A diffuse cancer in the proximal antrum
The intestinal type is somewhat more common than the diffuse type. The patients are usually older, more men get this disease, it forms a typical visible tumour in the stomach, and Helicobacter pylori is an important etiologic factor, a person with Hp-infection has a 6-time high possibility of getting this disease.
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HEINEKEN Ireland has unveiled a new TV campaign featuring global Formula 1® legend
Dublin, Thursday, 3rd November 2016: HEINEKEN Ireland has unveiled a new TV campaign featuring global Formula 1® legend – and road safety pioneer - Sir Jackie Stewart to deliver a compelling don't drink and drive message. "When You Drive, Never Drink" is the latest chapter in Heineken's® long term commitment to encourage responsible drinking.
The 30 second TV spot will break on Thursday, 3rd November 2016 and the campaign will feature a mix of TV and social media. The ad creatively communicates a powerful anti-drink driving message where consumers are left in no doubt – when you drive, you never drink. It reinforces HEINEKEN'S view that when you're behind the wheel, abstinence is the only option.
The debut of HEINEKEN's "When You Drive, Never Drink" campaign comes at a time when the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and An Garda Síochána have renewed their focus on tackling drink driving behaviour due to reported increases in the incidence of drink driving in the past year alone*.
Since 2014 the Heineken® brand has committed 10% of its annual media spend to campaigns that communicate the importance of responsible consumption. The previous "Sunrise" and "Dance More, Drink Slow" campaigns delivered an impactful moderation message but this latest campaign marks a shift in focus towards tackling drink driving behaviour.
Commenting on the new campaign Maggie Timoney, Managing Director of HEINEKEN Ireland, said: "HEINEKEN Ireland is proud of our long standing commitment to actively advocate moderation and the responsible consumption of our products and this latest safety campaign is one of our most important yet. Sir Jackie Stewart's track record in road safety is unparalleled, with nearly 50 years of pioneering work under his belt. He is an excellent role model for being alert and in control when behind the wheel and is a superb spokesperson to connect with audiences to deliver this important and timely responsibility message on behalf of Heineken®. When you drive, never drink".


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NFL, once frowned upon by sport snobs as nothing more than a brash and confusing game has now become the fastest growing sport in the UK, and today NFL spokesperson Mark Waller confirmed a giant stride has been taken to further enhance the UK fandom.
Speaking as tickets for this years International Series of NFL matches go on general sale, with two games at Wembley Stadium and the debut match across the way at Twickenham, Mark Waller confirmed that by 2022, the UK could have its very own American Football franchise.
"I think we're on track to deliver that. I fundamentally believe we will deliver that……The fan base is big enough and passionate enough that it can support a franchise," said Waller this morning.
There has long been rumours of a franchise making their permanent home Wembley Stadium, or the soon to be built stadium for Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur. It's an idea that has divided NFL fans, with some craving more action on a permanent basis, however some traditionalists have argued the authenticity of the 'American game' would be ruined if such a move was to occur, and don't forget that any franchise move would upset the fans in the current city the franchise calls home.
The Wembley series of matches attracts sold out crowds every year, and the Jacksonville Jaguars have hosted a regular season home game since 2013, with their owner Shahid Khan also the chairman of Championship club Fulham F.C. However Khan has in the past denied it would be his franchise that would make the permanent move to London.
Waller who is the NFL's executive vice chairman added " We are in a unique position as a sport because of the way our season is structured – we only play one game a week."
It's a move that will divide opinion and for the past few years has been nothing more than a rumour, however with Waller's comments and the continued popularity of American Football, it seems it'll be sooner rather than later that London will become permanent hosts of a franchise.
We are of course assuming at this time that a current franchise would up sticks and move to London, however there is talk that a completely new franchise would be created however there would be many hurdles to consider if the latter approach was to be taken, given that the team would likely need an increased salary cap to combat the taxable income laws in the UK and the high demands of players to move over to London.
Such franchise moves aren't uncommon in American Football, with the St Louis Rams just this week deciding to relocate to Los Angeles after moving to St Louis from LA back in 1995. These moves are often met with discontent so it would be interesting to see how a move to another country would be received amongst supporters.
What do you think of the plans to move a Franchise to the UK? Would it provide an extra spice to the game or would it inconvenience fans. Do you currently support an NFL team and would like to see them play their home games at wembley. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.


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Publisher: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society: 1980
Seller ID: 11871
Condition: Good
Octavo (23cm), pp. 399. Cover has moderate wear. Previous owner has added tabs to mark the alphabet throughout, name on half title page in ink. Front hinge is cracked at cover. View more info


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