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Governor, University of Nebraska president celebrate growth in international student enrollment
In advance of International Education Week, going on now, Gov. Dave Heineman and University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken joined to host welcome events for new international students at the four campuses and celebrate NU's continued growth in international student enrollment.
Hundreds of students representing countries around the world attended the events, which took place throughout the fall at the Governor's Residence in Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska at Kearney campuses. The events aimed to especially welcome new international students to Nebraska; overall, NU's international student enrollment is 3,475 this fall – a record high and a 10 percent increase over last year.
"I'm very pleased that the number of international students on our four campuses continues to grow, and I thank Governor Heineman for his partnership in welcoming these students to Nebraska and sending the important message that our state values the talents, perspective and contributions of individuals from around the world," Milliken said.
Milliken added, "International students are a tremendous educational and cultural benefit to the university and state. We have a responsibility to prepare our students to live and work in a global economy, and ensuring that they interact with a diverse population while they are in college is one way to meet that responsibility."
Governor Heineman said, "In today's global economy, it is more important than ever for Nebraska to be successful in attracting talent from around the world. International students bring valuable skills, creativity and diverse perspectives to our state, and the benefits extend well beyond the university's campuses. Our international engagement fosters important collaborations that are beneficial both for our partners around the globe and Nebraska. I applaud the University of Nebraska's continued success in this area."
A report released this week by the Institute of International Education shows that international students are contributing more than $98 million to Nebraska's economy this year. Nationally, international students have a $22.7 billion economic impact, according to the report, "Open Doors," which is released annually by IIE.
NU's strategy for global engagement includes a goal to double international student enrollment, to more than 6,000, by 2020. The university has strong momentum in this area, for example being recognized as a leading U.S. host institution for Brazilian students participating in that country's Scientific Mobility Program, which is sending 100,000 of its best and brightest students to study at the world's leading universities.
The university also aims to significantly increase the number of students who study abroad, and create more international partnerships focused on key areas like water and food security, early childhood education, public health and others important both to Nebraska and the world.
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As one of Southampton General Hospital's largest departments, the unit deals with around 90,000 patients annually through its eye emergencies, outpatients and inpatients and surgery departments. The optometry department provides aids for the treatment of low vision conditions as well as contact lens fitting, and works alongside the orthoptics department to assess and treat a range of problems with eye movement and vision. We have a specialist children's eye service including family support and we operate a mobile eye unit to enable patients with certain eye conditions to be treated closer to home.
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I went to the London Book Fair last week, the UK's equivalent of BEA. Some things were the same – cavernous convention halls, loads of booths and meeting areas, crowds of people, and a full calendar of interviews and panel discussions.
But some things were different. Every year a foreign country is featured and this year it was China and a group of 21 government-approved writers. Chinese publishers abounded, along with various exhibits including one that explained how the Chinese had developed movable (clay) type long before Gutenberg. This being England, there had been numerous op-eds in the newspapers protesting the focus on China since its censorship ministry is alive and well.
Another difference: though I picked up a lovely carrier bag at the entrance, expecting to fill it with the usual freebies found at US book fairs, there were none! No free pens and bookmarks, no ARCs (advanced reading copies,) not even any Hershey's kisses in fishbowls.
CHILDREN'S NONFICTION – US v UK
I was pleased to find a full complement of panels on children's literature, including one titled The World Into Words: Why Reading Nonfiction is Vital to Children. [Note to London Book Fair organizers: Children's lit is a hot topic! Don't put us in the smallest meeting room next year. We overflowed the room and much of the corridor outside.]
Nicola Davies and Vivian French, both prolific nonfiction authors, were moderated by Jake Hope, Reading Coordinator for the Lancashire County Council. He began by asking why they were drawn to writing nonfiction.
Viv French discussed her desire to share information about what she finds exciting. She praised her grandfather for answering all her myriad questions when she was a child, and in fact brings such a grandfather into her book T.Rex. For French, the best books come from a passion to answer questions and to lead readers to more exploration.
Nicola Davies wants to share her life-centering passion for the natural world. She writes to excite her readers and to engage them in a dialogue with the world: to be in the moment, watching, and making connections. For Davies, Story is a carrier bag for information. Story makes that information easy to remember and makes connections between a child's inner and outer worlds. The information is a rope that you pay out gradually to readers with pacing, tension, and drama. A prime example is her award-winning Ice Bear.
Davies has found a prejudice against this sort of narrative nonfiction from teachers and librarians. They want information books without the narrative. Both French and Davies praised their UK publisher, Walker Books (owner of Candlewick) for being a champion of their kind of narrative nonfiction. Each author had a name for straight 'information books.' Davies called them "tile-grouting books" where a photo – the tile – dominates the page with bits of caption and text – the grout – surrounding it. French called them "gobbet books" with no story. [gobbet, according to the Cambridge dictionary means "a small piece or lump of something, especially food."]
As in the US, UK teachers are forced to teach to tests these days. (The UK has a national curriculum.) Davies lamented that because of this, children often don't get the chance to read for pleasure, and teachers can't engage them in open-ended learning. All this makes publishers more cautious about publishing narrative nonfiction.
Davies and French agreed that things were better in the US.
1) While we complain about the lack of children's books reviews in the press, they say it's much worse in the UK and that nonfiction books never get reviewed.
2) They praised all the nonfiction awards given in the US, because they have none in the UK. Davies rallied the troops, asking nonfiction authors to demand more publicity.
3) The authors perceive that American teachers are more open to their kind of books than UK teachers, but partly blamed that on UK teacher education courses. They pleaded for more time allotted to children's literature in teacher training classes, which they believe happens in the US.
French and Davies both love new technology. Viv French writes for very young readers and savors the prospects of add-ons to her books. Nicola Davies herself indulges in all forms of communication – books, i-Pad, kindle. "Don't get your knickers in a twist about technology," she warned booklovers.
Technology can encourage reading.
Things aren't sorted out yet, and the next few years will be like a washing machine tumble, but we will figure out how to combine quality material with new technologies, keeping an authorial voice in the mix. And kids need to watch television and use the internet, because that's the modern world. French saw an ideal future where kids read books for concentrated information, then go to the internet for further research.
Moderator Jake Hope, discussed budget cuts in schools and loss of school libraries. He encouraged schools to work with public libraries, and proposed bringing together librarians, teachers, parents, publishers, and authors to address the issues of libraries, schools, kids, curricula, and books. Davies described the merging of library and school services and fabulous reading programs in her home in Denbighshire, North Wales. French praised her new local Edinburgh, Scotland library which offers the interaction between books and computers that she favors.
Last words from Viv French: write letters to newspapers to demand more reviews of nonfiction children's books.
Nicola Davies: keep libraries open and support children's reading for pleasure.
David Hockney: "What technology needs is imaginative mad people to start using it."
Howard Jacobson, winner of the 2011 Booker Prize: "Literature is the solvent of ideology, so never ban anything."
Jacobson again: "What we think is very boring. People are banal in what they think. Only in art are we truly interesting. Literature dramatizes: that's why I attach so much importance to it."
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wheat, chicken meat meal, maize germ, animal fat, fresh chicken meat, chicken broth, molasses, bone meal, meat meal, hemoglobin, potato protein, minerals, beet fiber, brewer's yeast
protein 21.0 %
fat 10.0 %
fiber 2.5 %
ash 6.0 %
moisture 10.0 %
vitamin A 10.2 IU/kg
vitamin E (tocopherol) 70.0 mg/kg
pantothenic acid 16.0 mg/kg
folic acid 391.0 mg/kg
biotine (vitamin H) 117.0 mcg
phosphorus 1.0 %
potassium 0.6 %
sodium 0.35 %
magnesium 0.1 %
iron 140.0 mg/kg
copper 12.5 mg/kg
manganese 34.0 mg/kg
zinc 69.0 mg/kg
iodine 2.6 mg/kg
selenium 0.2 mg/kg
calcium 1.2 %
carbohydrates 50.5 %
niacin (vitamin- B3) 18.0 mg/kg
vitamin B1 (thiamine) 2.7 mg/kg
vitamin B12 (cobalamin) 53.0 mg/kg
vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 3.8 mg/kg
vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 1.9 mg/kg
vitamin D 1.07 IU/kg
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The first ingredient in this food is wheat. Although apparently a whole grain, wheat is believed by many to be the leading cause of food allergy problems in dog foods. Even if this had been a decent grain, however, we would still note that grains are not a natural foodstuff for canines and are of very low quality compared to meat (on which dog foods should instead be based). The second ingredient is a named meat product, in meal form.
Animal fat, fourth on the ingredient list, is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative". We note that research at Purdue University has identified fat in the top four ingredients of dry dog foods as a factor increasing the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
Chicken, the 5th ingredient is not a meat meal, but instead is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this ingredient is truely amongst the most prolific in the food and would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. At wet weight only the 5th ingredient in the the food, it is likely that the true amount of this ingredient is significantly lower and it is unlikely to make up any significant portion of the food. Bone meal and meat meal are very low quality ingredients, of unidentifiable origin with indeterminate source and quality (such ingredients are almost always extremely low quality). Molasses is an undesirable source of sugar (dog foods should not contain sugar).
Beet fibre (pulp) is a controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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The health and fitness section of Apple's iTunes app store has hundreds of apps to aide workouts, ranging from Nike Training Club that simulates a personal trainer to MapMyRun, which has a GPS camera and logs the miles a user has completed, among other features.
With these workout and personal trainer aides available at everyone's fingertips, do people still want to spend the time and money to go to the gym? According to Lori Patterson, a certified personal trainer who trained soldiers while serving in the U.S. Army, the answer is yes. In March, Patterson launched The Boot Camp Challenge mobile app, designed for users to either supplement a workout in a gym or use on its own.
"When I was doing research before creating my own app, it was a question I had," Patterson says. "What I found was many apps were meant to supplement a workout."
Patterson, whose app has been named an iTunes App Essential, says numbers in her boot camp have risen since her app was released, although she adds it is not clear that the app was the main reason for the increase. Apps such as Patterson's may help bridge a gap for users who are not comfortable in a gym. The app can be a platform for them to start an exercise routine and gain confidence, she says.
"The app was created for those who don't have the courage to go the gym," Patterson says. "They can work out at their own pace and hopefully gain the courage to later go to the gym."
The effectiveness of having a virtual personal trainer might still be debated, but mobile apps can help members with their workouts between training sessions. Apps can track users' workouts so their personal trainer can validate that clients are understanding and keeping up with workouts.
Clubs may want to create their own mobile apps to attract these members, and as Club Industry reported in April, the cost to create those apps varies. Joe Martello, a business development manager at Bottega Sol, Chicago, said that many apps can cost anywhere from $55,000 to $150,000, depending on the complexity of an app. Casey Conrad, president of Communications Consultants, said apps can be created for as little $500.
Scott Gerold, COO of Rapid Fitness, Raleigh, NC, is working with JEFIT, Cary, NC, to create an app that would be used to help supplement workouts. JEFIT is a workout and bodybuilding app that allows users to log workouts, create routines and track body statistics.
Jessica Matthews, an exercise physiologist and spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise, San Diego, says fitness professionals should not shy away from new technology. Professionals in the industry can work with mobile apps, she adds, to help promote new programs or encourage people to join a gym.
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I made this costume from different products that I could buy seperately but not at the same time nor from the same companies, I have many variations of it, including Gaga-Ween (headless Lady Gaga), Headless Ozzy Osbourne, and Headlessly Married.
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Snap-in wiper seals, which are installed in stepped grooves (fig. 1), are typically of a small radial section per diameter and close to the end of the cylinder head component. Therefore, installation by hand is usually possible.
Press-in wiper seals require special equipment and careful planning for ease of installation without damaging the wiper seal or housing. Assembly tools adapted for each press-in wiper seal size should be used in conjunction with appropriate steady force in a hand operated press. Installation by impact (e.g. striking the assembly tool with a hammer) is not advised. The press assembly tool should be configured to stop when the wiper seal has been pressed flush with the groove edge (fig. 2). Pressing beyond flush can damage the wiper seal.


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SKF to showcase sealing solutions for two-wheeler suspensions at EICMA 2015
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SKF will present innovative seal products designed to improve sealing performance for two-wheeler forks and shock absorbers at EICMA 2015
Gothenburg, 17 November 2015: SKF will showcase new sealing solutions that boost performance for two-wheeler suspension systems and improve overall control and comfort for riders at EICMA 2015.
SKF will be exhibiting at the show with its official distribution partner InnTeck, an international distributor of high-tech components and racing accessories for motorcycles and bikes. Innovative SKF seals that are featured in several suspension products distributed by InnTeck, including floating pistons and piston seals and fork closed cartridge seals, will be featured at the dual SKF/InnTeck booth.
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This sealing module from SKF is an integrated solution for the pressure reservoir of rear shocks on two-wheelers. The unit replaces conventional multi-component designs and integrates a membrane feature into the piston. An advanced external sealing lip design controls oil and gas transfer and reduces friction, virtually eliminating stick and slip effects. The reduced friction and rubber membrane design also helps improve rider control and comfort. The floating piston module will be available for Öhlins shock absorbers with a reservoir internal diameter of 49mm and WP shock absorbers with a reservoir internal diameter of 52mm.
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Combining low-friction rubber compounds and optimized seal design, piston seals and fork closed cartridge seals from SKF deliver outstanding sealing performance for two-wheeler forks. Both feature dynamic seal lips to reduce friction and integrated metal inserts to improve seal contact with the shaft and housing. When used together, these seals enable better absorption of impacts from small obstacles, particularly during braking, improving rider confidence and thereby contributing to higher performance.
Piston seals and fork closed cartridge seals from SKF are both offered for the Showa SFF-Air TAC. Packaged and distributed by InnTeck, this kit replaces the air piston seals and original rod seals of the Showa SFF Air-TAC forks, used on some Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki models.
SKF will be active on social media in the run up to and throughout EICMA 2015, using the Twitter handle @SKFseals_Eicma and hashtag #SKFreadytoride. Users can follow our social media activities via the Tweetwall on our stand or our website dedicated to two-wheeler sealing solutions, which also contains product information: www.skf.com/sealsbikes.
EICMA is a worldwide exhibition for motorcycle enthusiasts, attracting more than 600 000 visitors and 1 000 exhibitors in 2014. This year's EICMA is the 73rd edition and will take place at Fiera Milano in Milan, Italy, from 19-22 November 2015. Visitors will find SKF solutions on display at the SKF/InnTeck booth in pavilion 24, stand I53.
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WATCH THE 1979 NASL NATIONAL SOCCER CONFERENCE FINAL VS. NEW YORK COSMOS (courtesy of canadianblaster09)
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As we look forward to playing in our first Major League Soccer (MLS) playoff game against the mighty Los Angeles Galaxy, the task at hand appears quite daunting. The Galaxy are the reigning MLS Cup champions, and they boast three of the top players in the league in Robbie Keane, Landon Donovan and of course, David Beckham.
If you are looking at this game on paper it is hard for anyone to really believe that we have any chance of going to LA and getting a result. Fortunately the game is played on the field, and not on paper. In fact, our boys can look at some playoff history that will show them they can do it.
To be the best …
It was back in 1979 when we were to face the cream of the North American Soccer League (NASL), the two-time defending Soccer Bowl champions New York Cosmos. In their team were World Cup winners Franz Beckenbauer (Germany) and Carlos Alberto (Brazil), as well as Giorgio Chinaglia (Italy) and Johan Neeskens (Netherlands) – the latter of whom led Holland to the runners-up spot in back-to-back FIFA World Cups in 1974 and 1978. Not to mention the wealth of other talented players they had on their team.
The Cosmos had finished with the best record in the NASL (24W-6L). In order to get past them, we needed not only to beat them once, but twice in a two-match home-and-home series – or in an extra mini-game should we win one match each.
We had confidence from beating them twice during the regular season, but this was the playoffs, and they had the added incentive of hosting the Soccer Bowl at their home venue – Giants Stadium.
Up against the odds
I have to say in looking at both teams' rosters, our chances did not look too good. But we knew as a team that once both teams got out on the field that we were not going to be outworked by New York.
There was no doubt that there was more quality in their team, but mentally we felt that we had the edge. We were confident that we were more of a team and that we really trusted each other and could overcome anything that the Cosmos threw at us. But as they say, talk is cheap, and in the end you have to do your talking on the field.
Who wants it more?
We played the first game at home in front of a sell-out crowd (32,875) at Empire Stadium. The game was tense, hard fought, and very close. But we remained focused throughout the match and held strong. Eventually they were the first to blink and we came away with a 2-0 victory on goals by 'Wee' Willie Johnston and Trevor Whymark. The job was half done, but there was still plenty of work left to do going back to New York.
Even winning the first game did not change people's opinions; the prevailing thought was still that the vaunted Cosmos had too much firepower for us and that would show with them playing at home.
When you go into a game as an underdog it is said that you really have nothing to lose and can play freely. There is some truth to that – there was definitely more pressure on New York than us – but we had a lot to lose. We had a chance to get to the Soccer Bowl and we were not going to let this team stand in our way.
We lost the game in a shootout, which meant that we would immediately play a 30-minute mini-game. The mini-game also ended tied, meaning the contest would go to a second shootout. After going toe-to-toe for almost four hours, we eventually came out on top.
David had conquered Goliath.
Our 'Caps face a mighty challenge against the Galaxy and will have to play their best game to advance. But I know firsthand that even the most talented of teams can be beaten.
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Terrence necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Maverick Marketing Tactics http://www.maverickmarketingtactics.com
I have always been considered a maverick when it comes to sales and marketing techniques. I use tactics that work in the real world, to get results!
mav·er·ick (mvr-k, mvrk)
Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence: maverick politicians; a maverick decision.
I am an entrepreneur who recently discovered a need in the marketplace and my business is growing rapidly. However, as a marketing firm, I need to build my brand (starting with a logo). I will provide feedback on all designs submitted, so you can adjust on the fly and have the best chance of winning!
Small to mid-size business owners, ranging from existing businesses to start-up ventures to someone trying to start a business out of their home. These individuals do not know how to market their products/services effectively and do not have the time to put into creating, implementing and managing a strategic internet marketing strategy. The benefits of implementing an internet strategy; cost effective method to building a consistent, passive pipeline of prospects that are interested in the products/services of the business.
I want a logo and business cards that are professional, creative and strong. You can see how I currently market myself (http://www.maverickmarketingtactics.com) and I am looking for a logo to encapsulate everything I have described in this posting, as well as what you can gather from my current site (which I will be redesigning after I have a logo).
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English Rugby
Palmer to miss Six Nations
ESPN Staff
January 22, 2013
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England's Tom Palmer looks certain to miss the Six Nations after his club side Wasps announced that he is set for eight weeks on the sidelines.
Palmer, who last played for England in November against the Wallabies, lost his place in England's elite player squad when the re-vamped selection was unveiled in January. In his place, his Wasps team-mate Joe Launchbury has been given the nod while Northampton's Calum Clark has also been included.
During the Six Nations there is usually some movement between the EPS and the Saxons due to injuries and suspensions, but it looks like Palmer will miss out on the action altogether, including the Saxons' two matches. He has been struggling with a calf injury and after seeing a consultant on Monday, Wasps have confirmed that he will be out of action for around two months.
With Clark nursing an injury, Botha is training with the EPS this week while the Saxons are focused on Friday's clash with the Irish Wolfhounds in Galway.
Wasps have also revealed that USA international Paul Emerick is set to miss the rest of the season with a leg injury while long-term absentees James Bailey and Lee Thomas are continuing their rehabilitation.
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The Center for American Progress – "a think tank that is the closest thing to a Democratic government-in-exile," according to Paul Waldman of The Washington Post – released a universal health care plan Thursday.
The document starts with a broad statement of principle – "Health care is a right: No American should be left to suffer without the health care they need" – before moving on to the nuts and bolts of how the proposed universal health care system would work in the U.S.
Here are 5 key features of the proposal, which CAP refers to as "Medicare Extra for All":
- The plan would be open to everyone, but no one would be forced to join. Workers with private insurance could stick with their existing plans, although employers could opt in and provide health insurance through the new system.
- Newborns would be automatically enrolled, resulting in steady movement toward a single system.
- Preventative care and generic drugs would be free. Prices for other services would be determined on a sliding scale, starting at zero and increasing with higher income.
- Medicaid and CHIP would be folded into the new plan.
- Premiums would be paid only by those earning more than 150 percent of the poverty line, with a cap at 10 percent of income.
One important thing missing from the plan: a cost estimate. But at this point, the politics of the proposal probably matter most. As Axios notes, the proposal suggests that the mainstream of the Democratic party is now firmly behind the idea of universal health care, in a way that goes beyond Obamacare. "It is in some ways 'repeal and replace,' but from the left rather than the right," said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation.


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liseasimont necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Archer Rees Wines
We are a young couple that just started a wine company. We make small lot, single vineyard wines that are a unique expression of the area they are grown in. We don't want to own the world of wine, just make our mark on it with beautiful and powerful wines. She grows winegrapes and makes wine, he is a gardener who loves rare plants, we have a home in Sonoma County together where the business is based. Our home ("the office) is very modern and clean, and we love bright pops of color in blue, orange, or red. We definitely have a sense of humor and our most treasured wall hangings are a napkin from China printed with Mao Tse-Tung, an embroidered Elvis on fabric accented with sequins, and photos of our kids. We want to come across as modern but humorous and use bright pops of color. We do love fuschia blossoms and have considered using pressed images of them on our labels. We do not like traditional grapes, grapevines, or vineyard scenes.
We are targeting Russian River Pinot Noir, Dry Creek Zinfandel, and unusual varietal wine drinkers. We're so small that we can afford to create more unusual and esoteric wines. Our natural market are millenial wine drinkers, but X-geners and baby boomers will love the Zinfandel. We're going for modern and cult status (wouldn't that be great!?)
We would like the whole name "Archer Rees" or the initials "AR" in our logo. Having the word "wines" in there somehow would be positive, but it's certainly not necessary. Outside of that, have fun! How modern, clean, and poppy with color, yet earthy enough to satisfy the farmer and gardener in us, can you be?
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LifeAI is an open source C++ library for Artificial Intelligence decision-making. It can be integrated in computer games, robotics, or anything that requires simulated intelligence.
Entities and actions are created in C++ and text files with LifeAI's syntax. Entities have characteristics that describe them called "stats". They consider their value of the stats and how much they are modified to assess the "pros" and "cons" of an action. They also consider their value of other entities involved in the action and how it affects them. They can then determine an overall value for performing the action. As stats in the simulation change, LifeAI updates the best action options for the entities. The actions can then be implemented as needed in a simulation.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Car Protect
We are lauching a new and used car warranty service into the Republic Of Ireland. The warranty will offer mechanical and breakdown protection on any vehicle for a cover period of 3 months upto 2 years. It will offer the most comprehensive cover curently available through any warranty company in Ireland. We are an Irish company (although please do not swamp me with green based logos), who work in partnership with a UK insurer.
The product will be sold through car dealers and also directly to members of the public through our website (to be built at a later stage after logo design). The end user will allways be a member of the public. We are looking for a logo that will help us look proffessional to both large car dealerships, but also give confidence to members of the public. It will need to be simple and easy to remember.
We require a logo which incorporates colours and design which will give us a proffesional and trustworthy corporate image.. The colours and design of the logo will then be incorporated in our future website, leaflets and publicatiions. The winning logo designer will be given the brief to deisgn the website. We would like to see designs which incorporate an idea of what we do, but also designs which are based around our business name "Car Protect". The logo will have to be distinct as it will be trade marked. It is not possible to Trade Mark the words "Car Protect" on their own, so the deign must be further developed.
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Matt Damon's hair grew back just in time for him to walk the red carpet with wife Luciana at the premiere of Elysium on Wednesday at the Regency Village Theater in Westwood, Calif.
Elysium, which is set in the year 2154, required Damon, 42, to shave his head. His character, Max, looks not just tough, but also futuristic, since he wears robotic parts that are drilled into his body.
Damon said that going through the change in appearance was "really fun" and that going bald was freeing.
"And as far as just shaving the head, it's really liberating to jump out of the shower and run a towel over your head and be done," he told PEOPLE.
Damon's family enjoyed the transformation as well, especially his 2 -year-old daughter Stella, whom, Damon admits, he goes to great lengths to entertain.
"Once my kids got used to it, and my wife, then the rest is easy. They liked it," he says. "My youngest was less than a year at the time, and she used to drum on my head. She thought that was the funnest thing, and so, you know, when you're a parent, you'll do anything to make your 10-month-old smile. So I would put my head in her lap and let her bang away as long as she wanted."
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These are utilities which both simplify and extend SCCS.
I started these programs in March 1986 as scripts, and shortly after rewrote them as C programs.
My original motivation for writing these programs was to help rein in a "consultant" (more aptly "hacker") who was working with me. In addition to getting potato chip crumbs in the keyboards, he had no configuration controls aside from a monthly tape backup. To save disk space, he hardlinked development files into the release area. That cost us some time when he overwrote some of those files and lost their content.
At that time, my experience with revision control was limited. In a previous project, we had a CM group. It seems in retrospect that they did not use software tools, but instead relied on processes (people). In the 1986 project, a solution using people would not work.
This project used SVr2 minicomputers (NCR towers belonging to the project, as well as vendor-loaned Altos, Charles River Data Systems and Plexus machines). SVr2 had SCCS (which I had not used before). From its description, that could be used to alleviate our problems with source control. In response to my suggestion that we use SCCS, the consultant replied
No, things are too volatile right now. Wait.
Given the lost time (a few weeks), it was already too late. I discussed the problem with the project manager, and proposed using SCCS to capture a stable version of the sources. Reading the documentation, I saw that SCCS could be told to put its archives in a subdirectory, i.e., "SCCS". I surmised that the consultant would not notice those directories or be concerned about their contents.
I first wrote shell scripts to use the SCCS utilities to create archives. SCCS is clumsy; my shell scripts simplified this:
delta and
Conceptually of course, this is similar to the BSD sccs front-end. I encountered that a few years later. But there are additional features which are provided by my wrapper programs that are not in either BSD or AT&T SCCS.
When I wrote my scripts, I quickly realized that there was a basic problem with them: they would not be unobtrusive:
Therefore, retrieving a file (to repair damage done by the consultant) would be noticeable when looking for recently changed files.
I solved this problem by writing better tools. The improved
tool manipulated the
delta program to make it store
the file's modification time rather than the current date. It
also retrieved files, setting their modification time to match
the date recorded in the archive file.
Being a typical hacker, the consultant never noticed the SCCS archives. I collected all of the source files into SCCS archives.
Later (after the consultant was gone), I collated the tape backups and built a source archive to use for researching changes that were made to the project over its three-year lifetime. Recording correct timestamps was essential to understanding the change history.
Utimately, these tools were made obsolete when I started work on RCS-based tools, called cm_tools in May 1988.
However, I continued to improve these tools, adding the
sccsput and
sccsget programs (again,
initially as scripts), and the
fixsccs utility. Like
the RCS-based tools, I made changes to allow the SCCS wrappers to
work as setuid-programs (to support a shared archive), though
these were less robust in that area).
Part of the reason for the prolonged use of this package was that I extended it for use in a later project which used a COTS product named "CmVision".
When I came into that project, they had no tool. They did have
a resident hacker, who had some shell scripts using SCCS. Those
were undocumented, and relied on the source archive being
world-writable. He did not know how to use
sed (and
spent three days removing the word "beta" from the SCCS keyword
lines in about 1200 files).
Rather than prolong that problem, the newer management had tasked one of the engineers with evaluating suitable products. ClearCase was out — too expensive. They had just decided on CmVision when I arrived.
CmVision was then marketed by ExpertWare—it has been defunct by either name since late 2002. (As of 2014, web searches find several unrelated companies named "ExpertWare", and in fact other programs named "CmVision").
A poor tool is worse than none at all. I asked to see what CmVision could do, and found that the evaluation had been essentially based on cost and advertising literature. Further, I found that CmVision was marketed as a front-end to RCS or SCCS. It went beyond the capabilities of either (by making directories, as well as files, controlled objects). I investigated and found that its support for RCS did not work. The SCCS support did work.
CmVision had a Motif GUI and an interface which ran in a terminal. Neither was useful:
cmv, the GUI, showed a graph of all files in
the system. Perhaps usable for 50-100 files, it was unusable
with our project of 3500 files on a heavily loaded Sun
cmt, the terminal interface, was a full-screen
maze of menus with no online help, no useful error messages.
Only one person (of 50-60 people) on the project mastered it.
Not me.
Of course part of my interest stemming from the choice between RCS and SCCS was that I had written tools for those.
I wrote a new program which would map filenames between a
developer's work area and the CmVision archive. With that, I was
able to write scripts that used
putdelta and
getdelta for working with CmVision. Likewise, I
cloned and extended the support in ded for viewing archive information for
That made a usable interface for CmVision and (except for the
one user of
cmt) we used my tools as its front-end
for several years. By then, we had migrated to PVCS (again with
my tool extensions), and dropped maintenance on CmVision. At that
point I reconstructed the legacy CmVision archives as ordinary
SCCS archives (since our use of PVCS on Windows did not address
the need of development).
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Sunday April 27th, 2014
By Barrie Dunsmore
Recently I assured a group of Vermonters who had come to the Shelburne Town Hall to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, that as bad as things seemed to be, I did not believe that a new Cold War was about to begin. I still feel that way, although I have to confess that conviction has been somewhat challenged by the new book, "Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War," by British military historian Max Hastings.
On this 100th anniversary of the Great War as World War I was originally called, what is striking to learn is that most people in Europe did not want such a war. But through gross miscalculation – and most importantly, a widespread fear of being seen as weak – the greatest military powers of the day effectively blundered into what in its time became the bloodiest war in Europe's history. Consider this: roughly 10 million military dead, 20 million wounded and 9 million missing in action. That staggering total of nearly 40 million military casualties represented virtually an entire generation of young European men (including my Scottish grandfather, a British Army private who was killed in Belgium in 1917.)
The political consequences of that war were also profound. A late starter, the United States emerged as a world power. But the Austro- Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire ceased to be. The Russian monarchy was overthrown by revolutionaries dedicated to the new ideology of communism. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate. The Treaty of Versailles drew up new boundaries for Europe and the Middle East, which created several of the international disputes which remain to this day. Britain and France were sent into a deep state of shock, and even more than a decade later were afraid to challenge Adolf Hitler when he seized power in Germany in 1933 and began to expand a new, malignant fascism.
Considering how extraordinarily consequential WWI was, most of us today don't really know much about it. What I learned as a school boy, was that the war was triggered in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, when a young Serbian anarchist assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand – the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Actually, the assassination became the pretext for the war.
To begin with, Ferdinand's assassination initially caused barely a ripple anywhere. Here is some of the reaction according to historian Hastings:
-The Archduke's funeral service lasted just fifteen minutes.
-The London Time's reported from Vienna that there was a remarkable absence in the Austrian press of calls for revenge upon the Serbs.
-Foreign observers expressed surprise that Viennese mourning for the heir to the throne was perfunctory and patently insincere.
- It was thus ironic that the Austrians scarcely hesitated before taking a decision to exploit the assassination as a justification for invading Serbia.
In author Hastings' opinion, this made Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph the principal villain. At the time, this head of the Hapsburg dynasty which had ruled central Europe for several centuries, was a weary old man of 83, who could see his empire crumbling. His generals considered threats of war and war itself, a tool for the advancement of national interests – a sentiment shared by German Kaiser Wilhelm and his generals. Historians often point out that a crippled arm made the Kaiser both insecure and aggressive. In backing Franz Joseph, Wilhelm saw potential for extending Germany's domination of Europe.
Russian Tsar Nicholas II understood that a general European conflict would be disastrous. But Russia's then recent humiliations - in 1905 when it lost a war with Japan and in 1908 when the Hapsburgs annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina, were considered shameful by the Russian aristocracy. So Nicholas was determined that if Serbia was attacked, Russia would go to its defense. He was also depending on his military convention with France, which the two had signed in 1894, in the belief that Germany was a common threat to both countries and neither nation could stand up to Germany alone.
Finally there was Britain. Although Britain and France had mutual treaty obligations, they were not automatic. And throughout July of 1914 Britain was almost oblivious to the march to war in Europe because it was obsessed with the highly controversial question of Home Rule for Ireland. The Catholics of Ireland were demanding it, while the Protestants of Northern Ireland were threatening civil war to prevent it. The British were deeply divided over intervention, but in the end they entered the war - oddly, because Germany violated Belgium's neutrality on its way to attacking France.
So, is any of this, relevant to the Ukrainian crisis?
Yes, according to Australian historian Christopher Clark, author of "The Sleepwalkers. How Europe Went To War in 1914." In a recent lecture to Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, Clark noted the similarities between 100 years ago and today. He spoke of the "weary titan" then in Britain, just as some see in today's United States. As reported by the Washington Post's foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius, according to Clark, " the big difference is that despite Russia's aggressive moves in Ukraine, Western Nations responded with what Clarke called 'caution and circumspection' rather than lockstep escalation.
Ignatius took that a step further. "There is something of the summer of 1914 about (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. It's not clear whether he sees himself as the tsar …..but he's evidently a man with something to prove, confident and insecure at the same time." As for President Barack Obama's handling of the Ukrainian crisis, this is Ignatius' impression. "Obama, once more has shown himself to be the opposite of the macho politician. He is reserved and analytical….if he had been guiding one of the major nations in 1914, one senses that he might have avoided the reflexive mobilization that proved so disastrous. That sense of caution would have been derided as 'weak' in 1914, as Obama is now." In my view, if Obama's legacy is that he avoided unnecessary wars, we should all be grateful.
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SET 1: Runaway Jim > Punch You in the Eye[1], All Things Reconsidered, Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, Fluffhead, The Old Home Place[2], Uncle Pen[2], Prince Caspian > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: La Grange, It's Ice > Glide, Brother[3], Contact > Also Sprach Zarathustra[1] > Timber (Jerry The Mule)[4] > Taste[5], Funky Bitch[4], Amazing Grace, Amazing Grace Jam[6]
ENCORE: Possum[6]
Soundcheck: Funky Bitch (one and a half times), Jam, The Fog That Surrounds
SET 1: Wolfman's Brother, Rift > Free, It's Ice > I Didn't Know[1], The Fog That Surrounds[2], Strange Design, Chalk Dust Torture, The Squirming Coil
SET 2: Cars Trucks Buses[2], AC/DC Bag, David Bowie, Billy Breathes[2], Keyboard Army[2], Harry Hood[3], Hello My Baby[4], A Day in the Life
ENCORE: Possum
Soundcheck: Two Princes, Halley�s Comet, Weigh
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Guelah Papyrus, Uncle Pen, Stash, Bouncing Around the Room, Rift, Weigh > Reba, Sparkle > David Bowie[1]
SET 2: Golgi Apparatus, It's Ice > The Lizards > Tela > Wilson > AC/DC Bag > Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Sloth > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Amazing Grace[2], Fire
SET 1: Uncle Pen, The Landlady, Reba, Llama, Memories, Run Like an Antelope[1], Sweet Adeline
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March 27, 1993
25 years ago
Warfield Theatre
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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Last week, a new iPhone app called Tiger Text hit the App Store. The app lets users send text messages to a server that could be read by the recipient via an app reader. The text message would then be wiped from the face of the earth (i.e. both the texter and recipient's iPhones, and the server) after a pre-determined amount of time.
The purpose of this app, of course, is to hide your tiger tracks. Makers of the app swear they came up with the app's name, Tiger Text, well before steamy Tiger Woods texts and voicemail messages that he'd sent to mistresses made headline news.
Tiger Text is supposed to give texters power over historical records of their private texts that they might hammer out one night and regret the next day--but it's a false sense of control. Clearly, the makers of Tiger Text are betting that most iPhone owners who receive Tiger Texts messages don't know how to take a screenshot of the message. And maybe they don't.
All of this got us thinking that a review of some of the hidden iPhone features is in order. The simplicity of the iPhone and lack of buttons belies a wealth of shortcuts. We've picked six of the most important ones.
Two-Button Screenshot
What to do: In order to take a picture of whatever is on the iPhone screen at the moment, simply press the home button and the on/off button together. The screenshot is added to your camera roll. Also, in Safari, you can copy an image on a website by pressing on the image and holding until the "save image" pops up. The image will be saved on the camera roll. (Note: This doesn't work in some native iPhone apps like AP Mobile.)
Why it's important: Text messages, emails, websites, images often get inadvertently deleted. The screenshot shortcut is a fast way to save data.
Double-Click Camera
What to do: You can set your iPhone so that double tapping the home button brings up an application, such as the iPod or camera. Go to settings, general and home. Then select from home, search, phone favorites, camera and iPod. We recommend you set it on camera.
On a related note, if the iPod is playing, double-clicking the home button from another app or while at home screen will call up limited iPod controls, not the camera. When the iPhone is locked, double clicking the home button will also bring up the iPod controls.
Why it's important: Photo opportunities arise when you least expect them. That's why the ability to quickly bring your camera online is critical. The double-tap of the home button is much faster than scrolling through your screens and looking for the camera app. (Remember to unlock the iPhone first before double-tapping the home button or else the iPod controls will pop up.)
Three-finger Zoom
What to do: With three fingers, tap the screen twice and you'll zoom in. It doesn't matter if you're on the home screen or in an app. Perform the action again to return to normal view.
Why it's important: This feature can make it easier on the eyes. On the home screen, app icons and the words beneath them appear bigger. But the real advantage comes in the camera. If you called up your camera app using the double-click feature described above (as opposed to scrolling and calling up a feature-rich camera app like Snapture), then chances are the photo opportunity is fleeting. A three-finger double tap can zoom in on the subject.
Hold for Voice Activation
What to do: Hold the home button down until voice control activates. Then you can issue voice commands such as calling someone or playing a certain song.
Why it's important: Searching for contacts and numbers while driving is a recipe for disaster, not to mention maybe illegal. Voice commands keep you safer on the road.
Double-Tap Safari
What to do: When surfing the Web on Safari, it's hard to read text and view images on the tiny screen. If you're using two fingers to expand the content, our hunch is that you've probably just bought your iPhone. Instead, double tap the text or pictures to fit the screen. Double tap again to return to normal.
Why it's important: Web surfing and content consumption is a lot easier and less frustrating than constantly having to pinch and reverse pinch. Your fingers will thank you, too.
Voice and Data
What to do: You've seen it in the Apple and AT&T ads. When on a voice call, you can put the call in speaker mode and then hit the home button to access other apps. It's one of the key selling points--voice and data at the same time - of the iPhone.
Why it's important: At first, it might seem odd to multi-task during a call. After a while, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.


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Yes, the late 1990s and early 2000s were the good ol' days for Mitsubishi. This ad for the 2003 Lancer Evolution, the first one sold in the U.S., recalls better times for the company.
They've fallen on hard times since then, with the current Evo set to be the last of its line (until it returns as a diesel hybrid, and I'll just go ahead and call bullshit on that.) The rest of Mitsubishi's lineup is a sad shadow of the company's former self. No one buys Eclipses anymore. The 3000GT is long gone. The current Galant is literally a relic from another decade.
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According to ComingSoon.net Paramount Pictures is aiming for December 14th, 2007 for the adventure comedy Ripley's Believe It or Not by Tim Burton. It will currently put it up against the sequel of "The Chronicles of Narnia".
Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander, who penned "Man on the Moon", wrote the script, which will pick up Ripley's life after he has already achieved fame for tracking down and reporting on some of the world's greatest oddities. Ripley became a larger-than-life personality in the '30s and '40s, well-known for going around the world looking for oddities and getting into adventures while doing so.
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The logo commonly recognized as the "peace sign" since the late '50s supposedly began as the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). According to the CND, it was designed in 1958 by an English professional artist/designer named Gerald Holtom, who had graduated from the Royal College of Arts. Holtom, a conscientious objector who had preferred working on a Norfolk farm during WWII instead of joining the conflict, incorporated the hand-held flag symbols (semaphores) for N and D into his logo, the N standing for "nuclear" and the D for "disarmament." In semaphore, the letter N is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down V, and the letter D is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. By superimposing the flag orientation of these two letters, the bars of the peace sign were derived.
Holtom presented his design to officials in the Peace News office in London and to the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Direct Action Committee was already planning its first major anti-nuclear march from London to Aldermaston, where British nuclear weapons were manufactured. Bertrand Russell, an organizer of this march, selected the symbol to be placed on buttons and banners for the march. The "peace sign" made its first public appearance in the U.K. on that march over the 1958 Easter weekend. Holtom originally had intended to use the cross symbol within a circle as the logo for the march but various clergy he consulted about the idea were obviously not enthusiastic about using the cross on a protest banner. Holtom described the use of the downward V to represent the despair that he felt due to nuclear proliferation. He later reportedly regretted his choice, rather preferring an upward V, which he felt would express the joy of peace. He requested that the upward V peace sign be placed on his tomb, but this request was not heeded.
The symbol was brought to the U.S. by Bayard Rustin, a U.S. civil rights protester, who had participated in the Aldermaston march. The peace sign was first used in the United States later in the same year when a pacifist protestor, Albert Bigelow, sailed his small boat near a scheduled U.S. nuclear test site displaying the CND banner. It was later used on civil rights marches and appeared at anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
The reported origin of the symbol has been clearly documented in letters, interviews, and the original sketches of the symbol, which are now displayed in the Peace Museum in Bradford, U.K. However, there have been a variety of claims that the symbol has Communist, occult or anti-Christian meanings and derivations. The controversy is fully understood when one examines the historical use of the same signal. The downward V has been linked to the mystic character for "Aum," a sacred word to the Hindu. Saying "Aum" over and over supposedly awakens the power of Brahma at the base of the spine. Germanic tribes that used it claimed the sign, or "rune," to have eerie, mystical properties. It is said that it was used by sorcerers in pagan ceremonies. The Saracens in A.D. 711 used this symbol to alternately represent a broken cross, a raven's claw, or a witch's foot, all presumably satanic symbols. Under the reign of Roman Emperor Nero, infamous for his brutal persecution of Christians and Jews, this symbol was prominently used to represent a broken cross or broken Jew. Nero crucified the Apostle Peter upside down, and the horrific event resembled the downward-pointing fork. It was thereafter called the Neronic cross. With the Third Reich steeped in the occult, Hitler's 3rd Panzer Division used this same symbol from 1941 to 1945. The symbol in Germany is called a todesrune or death rune. It often appeared on death notices. It is also found on some of the tombstones of the notorious SS soldiers. For Bertrand Russell, a supporter of communism, the symbol meant not only communism but also peace without God. Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, used the downward-pointing fork as the background for his altar. The Book of Signs, written by Rudolph Koch, indicates that the downward-pointing fork means "the death of man," and, with the circle around it meaning "total," the entire symbol means "the total death of all people."
Holtom never professed to have any knowledge of any historical use of this symbol. However, it is certain that Bertrand Russell was well aware of the satanic and anti-Christian roots of the symbol. He chose it accordingly. It is possible that Holtom learned of the symbol's dubious past at some point, prompting his desire to convert the symbol to an upward-pointing V. The underlying meaning of the circle with the downward pointing fork, "the total death of man," certainly is contrary to what the peace movement wanted in its anti-nuclear stance.
Whatever the origin, meaning, and usage of the peace sign, this much is clear: it speaks of a false peace—"'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 6:14b). There can be no true peace until "we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:1). Rather than looking for peace in a symbol, may we all turn our eyes to the only true source of peace. "The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace" (Numbers 6:24-26).
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March 16, 2014, New York Times -Last month, Tesla Motors, the maker of high-end electric cars, announced plans to open the world's largest battery plant in 2017. The goal is to overcome what it calls the biggest obstacle to meeting increased demand for its vehicles: a reliable supply of the advanced batteries that power them.
To accomplish that, Tesla will need plenty of battery-grade lithium. That's where Simbol Materials comes in.
Simbol, based in Pleasanton, Calif., is preparing to break ground on its own commercial plant in August, which would put it on track to start production around the same time Tesla's plant is scheduled to open. The Simbol plant will be the first to use a unique process to extract lithium from a novel source: the waste from geothermal power plants.


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The African Development Bank is conducting a second workshop with the theme "Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development – Africa Action Plan" from August 27-29 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first workshop was held in Kigali, Rwanda, in June.
The event is organized by the Statistical Capacity Building Division of the Statistics Department (ESTA) in the Chief Economist Complex of the AfDB, in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency.
The goal of the workshop is to inform participants — experts from Ministries of Agriculture and National Statistical Offices (NSO) of 21 regional member countries, representatives of African Union Commission and development partners — about the Global Strategy and the Action Plan. It also provides training on the effective use of Country Assessment instruments in compiling information related to agricultural statistical capacity needs.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Bank's Resident Representative in Ethiopia Mr. Lamin Barrow noted that Africa was the first region to champion the implementation of the Global Strategy, following its endorsement by the 41st Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in February 2010, by preparing an Action Plan to guide the implementation process in African countries. The Resident Representative underscored the importance of ensuring availability of timely statistics and datasets on the agriculture and rural sectors for end-users and policy-makers, and also informed participants about the steps already taken by the African Development Bank to support the implementation of the pillars of the Action Plan. These include the recruitment of a coordinator, the organization of the first meeting of the Steering Committee and the publication of a News Bulletin.
The Action Plan, which was signed by chief executives of the AfDB, UNECA, African Union Commission (AUC) and FAO, aims to address a number of issues including: (a) the declining quantity and quality of agricultural statistics in developing countries; (b) new data requirements to inform policy on emerging and urgent development issues such as food vs. biofuels production, global warming, environmental sustainability, and food security; and (c) the requirement for the data systems to be harmonized and integrated to achieve synergy and cost-effectiveness.


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You may follow and look up to your MP for raising your concerns in Parliament and hope that your representative works towards the development of the constituency and formulating policies that aim for overall development and growth. However, your MP may not be the best example to follow when it comes to optimal deployment of your investment corpus across various financial instruments available in the country.
While the elected parliamentarians will be looked up to clear the new Sebi Bill that looks to provide greater powers to Sebi and thereby provide better protection to the investors as and when the next government is formed, only a handful of them have investments in mutual funds and listed securities. Most of them, however, seem to be finding greater comfort in bank deposits, gold, unlisted firms or even in giving their money as loans in a bid to earn return from their investment.
While the stock markets act as a barometer of sentiment for any significant political development, the politicians seem to be shying away from having an exposure in them. Since February 1, 2014 alone, the Sensex has jumped by more than 10 per cent to trade at new all time high.
They elected members may work towards framing policies for a deeper penetration of equities in the country and investments into mutual funds and pension funds, but only few seem to be walking the talk and leading by example. A look at the investment patterns of 65 prominent candidates from six states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala, Gujarat and Haryana — shows the reluctance of the political leaders when it comes to direct equity investment or mutual fund investment.
The BJP's prime ministerial nominee keeps a large chunk (almost 90 per cent) of his movable assets in the bank while LK Advani keeps 97 per cent of his movable assets in the bank. Both of them have no exposure in equities or mutual funds.
While Rahul Gandhi, Congress Vice President is yet to file his nomination for 2014 general elections from Amethi, his 2009 affidavit shows that even he does not have any investment in bonds, debentures or shares of a company.
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If bank deposits are the primary mode of money saving for these prospective parliamentarians, an interesting factor is that a large number of them park their money in unlisted companies or have given a sizeable portion of their movable assets as loans or advances.
While 36 out of 65 leaders have investments in the category — equities/ mutual funds, less than 10 candidates have investment in listed entities or mutual funds and they instead hold shares in unlisted companies (either promoted by them or a family member or friend).
Thirty-two candidates in the list have given loans/advances to individuals or companies. Out of the gross total value of movable assets of Rs 27.66 crore for Milind Deora, the Congress candidate from Mumbai South, Rs 25.77 crore are in the form of loans and advances. On the other hand the total investment in bank and mutual fund and equities amount to Rs 1.07 crore for Deora.
Even the affidavit of Arun Jaitley, the BJP candidate from Amritsar, shows that out of his gross total value of movable assets amounting to Rs 36.86 crore, loans and advances amount to Rs 10.37 crore.
Kuldeep Bishnoi of Haryana Janhit Congress has gross movable assets amounting to Rs 58.7 crore and out of that the unsecured loans (given) amount to Rs 36.8 crore.
For 13 out of the 65 candidates, loans and advances stand in excess of Rs 1 crore while for the remaining 19 it stands below Rs 1 crore.
Investment in gold is common with almost all candidates, and on expected lines. While some have moderate exposure to gold amounting to close less than Rs 1 lakh, a number of candidates in the list have a sizeable exposure to gold. While Arun Jaitley has gold and jewellery amounting to Rs 1.8 crore, Maneka Gandhi and Praful Patel have gold and jewellery worth Rs 1.4 crore and 1.2 crore respectively.
After bank deposits and gold, small savings schemes with post offices, PPF or investment in life insurance corporation forms another major component for 37 of the 65 candidates.
An example you will not like to follow at all Surprisingly of the 65 candidates, a well known candidate of a leading national party does not seem to have a bank account. Neither the candidate, nor his spouse or other dependents hold a bank account as can be seen in the affidavit filed with the Election Commission.
Of the total movable assets of Rs 42.3 lakh that the individual has disclosed, almost Rs 41 lakh are in gold and jewellery and Rs 1 lakh is in cash. Against the head 'details of deposit in bank accounts' that includes term deposit and all other type of deposits including savings account, the candidate has mentioned 'NA' in all the five sections meant for him, his spouse and his three dependents.
At a time when the Reserve Bank of India has issued two more banking licences in a bid to promote financial inclusion, it is surprising that a leading candidate running for Lok Sabha elections from an urban constituency does not have a bank account.
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