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If you are worried about your driving licence that has expired during the lockdown, don't stress, as you have until next year to renew it.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has publicised the gazette announcing amended directions on the validity period of licences, which was published on Wednesday, 22 July.
"All learner's licences, driving licence cards, temporary driving licences and professional driving permits, which expired from 26 March up to 31 August 2020, are extended to 31 January 2021," the gazette reads.
In addition, all motor vehicle discs, temporary permits and roadworthy certificates, which expired between 26 March 2020 and 31 May 2020 are deemed valid until 31 August 2020.
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Running your first ever Google Ads campaign?
Well, it is a great idea to invest in Google Ads. In fact, I consider it an excellent choice because Google Ads can help your business grow.
However, the process of formulating a Google Ads campaign has to be carried out immaculately so that it can produce profitable results.
But you do not have to worry about anything. I am going to help you get to know everything about Google Ads campaigns in this article.
So, let's begin with the basics.
What is Google Ads?
Google Ads is a Pay Per Click (PPC) platform that allows you to run online advertisements. These advertisements can be in the form of search results or displayed on other websites.
The Google Ads ads are run based on the keywords. For instance, when you search for 'Pizza', you get this advertisement.
Google Ads hosts an auction for keywords with high search volume – which in this case is Pizza – where the highest bidder wins. BUT that's not always the scenario. It is not always that the highest bidder will win.
Google checks a website's quality before assigning to it the keyword (Google wants to provide its users with appropriate results). So, a quality website that bids higher wins the auction.
Note: The price fluctuates for every keyword.
Why you should use Google Ads?
When you start using Google Ads, you will notice how beneficial it can be for your business. It is because using Google Ads can have numerous benefits:
1. Impressive ROI
Factually speaking, Google Ads can produce a high ROI.
If you bid for the perfect keyword and maintain the quality of your website, then chances are, you will experience an increase in your ROI.
2. An 'Authentic' PPC Campaign
Google Ads is no lesser than an authentic Pay Per Click advertisement. You pay on the bases of the clicks. If there are no clicks, then you do not have to pay anything. Yeah really. That's what Pay Per Click means.
Although, I could not find any appropriate example of this to help you understand because there's hardly any Google Ad that attracts zero clicks. Why? Next point gives you the answer.
3. Positions You At The Top
When you are assigned a keyword on which your advertisements will run, Google places them on top of the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). And how many clicks does the #1 position get? Around 33% which is much higher than the other SERP positions.
4. Keywords Signifying The Intent
Every keyword informs you about the searcher's intent that further gives you the idea about what they want. Therefore, you can advertise those pages of your website which satisfy the searcher's needs.
This will lead to falling bounce rate and rising traffic.
5. Extend your Keyword Database
While you are bidding for keywords, a broad list of keywords with high search volume and high conversion rate is recommended to you by Google. You can choose to add those keywords to your database and optimize your content to rank higher in the SERPs.
A smart move perhaps. But you do need to run a campaign on Google Ads initially to receive these recommendations.
What are the different types of Google Ads campaigns?
1. Search Ads
Here's an example of a search network ad:
These ads appear in the top SERP positions (from around 1 to 4). Search Network Ads appear whenever someone searches for the keyword on which the ad is running.
Other types of ads that run on the SERPs:
Generally, clicking on the search ads leads the user to the landing page directly. But if you select call-only, then clicking on the ads would allow the user to get on a call with you directly.
You must be aware of the difference between static and dynamic, right? If not, then you should know that static does not change and dynamic changes. So, when you choose Dynamic Ads In Google Ads, the heading of your Ad varies according to the keywords searched by the user.
2. Display Ads
While going through a website, you might have noticed different types of advertisements running on it, like these below.
You can decide on where and how your ad shows by choosing website placements or targeting a specific audience.
3. Video Ads
Video Advertisements are shown only to your chosen target audience. Plus, the same formula applies here as well: you will pay for these ads when the user decides to watch them.
4. Shopping
Shopping ads work best for eCommerce websites because these ads can turn out to be highly profitable for them.
Although, for running these type of ads the working is entirely different because you need to keep updating the product information in Google Merchant Centre almost every month. But still, you need to set a budget and CPC bid as well.
5. Universal App Campaign
When you run a Universal App Campaign, you will be able to run advertisements for your App for iOS and Android users alike. You will find the app in the search, on YouTube, and even the play store.
How To Use Google Ads?
After covering almost everything significant about Google Ads, it is time that we start preparing a Google Ads ad.
The steps are simple although it is necessary that you follow them all correctly.
Step I: Determine your budget
You know that Google Ads runs advertisements on the bases of your daily budget. So, before you begin preparing your Google Ad campaigns, you need to decide upon the budget you can spend on them.
How to determine your Google Ads budget?
You can determine your Google Ads budget based on your goals and general marketing budget set aside for advertising.
For instance, your monthly advertising budget is around $3000, and when you divide it by 30 (or 31 depending on the days of the month), you get $100. So, there you have it, your Google Ads daily budget can be $100.
Shared Budget
Google Ads also provides you with the option of creating a 'shared budget'; this allows you to allocate your daily budget across different campaigns.
In this case, what Google does is it utilizes your budget smartly. For instance, you have decided to set a budget for $1000 for two campaigns ($500 each). However, if one of the campaigns is not getting many conversions but has already utilized $300 of the budget, then Google Ads allocates the remaining $200 to the second advertisement so that it starts generating higher ROI.
Step II: Login Google Ads & Decide your Goal
It is time that you log in to Google Ads with your Gmail account.
Just as you log in, a window will pop up asking 'What's your main advertising goal?'
Is it to get more calls?
More visits to your business' physical location?
Or drive more sales or sign-ups?
Depending on your goal (whatever it is), Google Ads will take the process forward for creating the most efficient campaign.
Author's note: For this tutorial, I will be selecting my goal as 'Get more website sales or sign-ups'.
Step III: Choose The Business & Audience
After setting up your goal, you are lead to this window, which asks you about the business you want to advertise.
Your Google Ads account is synced with Google My Business so that it lists your business automatically.
If you want to advertise some other business, you can select 'Add Business', and this window pops up.
You need to provide your business name and associated website.
After submitting your brand name and website, click on 'Next' which leads you to this page.
On this page, you can select your customers based on the location. You can add multiple locations be it city, county or country.
Add all the locations with your business presence.
Now you need to enter information about the language you want to advertise in and a brief about your business.
On selecting the business category, Google Ads asks you about what products or services you want to promote in this ad.
It makes the suggestions as well. You can select more than one product or service.
Step IV: Setting Up Your Google Ads
Google Keyword Planner
You should use Google's Keyword Planner to identify the high search volume keywords relevant to your business and bid on them. So that whenever a user enters a word in the search bar, and if it is your purchased keyword, then your ad has the potential to be ranked on the top.
Write Your Ads
You need to write your advertisement's headlines and description. Plus, you have to add a link to the landing page. You have the option of writing more than one ad.
Since you have listed out the keywords through the Keyword Planner, you can begin optimizing your ad copy by ensuring to use them within the ad. Doing so can produce a higher ROI.
Add Images To Your Ads
Now, you need to add images to your advertisements. These are for display ads that will be placed on websites. You should add pictures and logos.
Step V: Budget & Review
After preparing the advertisement, you should enter your daily budget.
Google Ads provides you with the estimated performance (impressions and clicks) of the ads that are similar to yours.
Step VI: Set Up Billing & Payment
The final step is to set up your billing address and payment information.
Step VII: Google Ads Dashboard
You have set up the advertisement and the billing, but how to gauge the performance of your ad?
Simple, you can use the Google Ads' Dashboard.
The Google Ads dashboard provides you with information about everything related to your Google ads.
The dashboard tells you about the clicks, most shown search ads, keyword auction graph, and also about the devices on which the users accessed the ad.
There are several other elements of the dashboard that can help you prepare better ads in the future. So, by studying all of them you can run a successful Google Ads campaign.
Final Thoughts
…And done.
If you want more traffic to your website or boost the achievement of your goals efficiently, then using Google Ads is the best choice.
You will get the clicks, the engagement, the traffic, and if your landing page is convincing enough, then your traffic might even convert.
It is necessary that you keep tracking the performance of your advertisements in the dashboard because then you will know when to stop a campaign and when to rerun it.
Although I will advise you to keep patient and wait for the campaign to produce results for nearly around a week or more (up to your discretion) and if you still do not see any improvement, then stop it immediately and prepare it again.
Good luck with your first Google Ads campaign!


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The Reel Truth: Women Aren't Seen or Heard
An Automated Analysis of Gender Representation in Popular Films
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The women missing
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"The GD-IQ is an extraordinary tool that gives us the power to uncover unconscious gender bias with a depth that had never been possible to date. Our hope is that we can use this technology to push the boundaries of how we identify the representation imbalance in media. Media that is more representative of our society not only fosters a more inclusive industry, but by increasing the number and diversity of female leaders and role models on screen, content creators are affecting the ambitions and career aspirations of young girls and young women everywhere. If she can see it, she can be it." - Geena Davis
The Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (GD-IQ) is a ground breaking software tool developed by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary's University to analyze audio and video media content. Funded by Google.org and incorporating Google's machine learning technology, and the University of Southern California's audio-visual processing technologies, GD-IQ is the only software tool in existence with the ability to measure screen and speaking time through the use of automation. This revolutionary tool was co-developed by the Institute and led by Dr. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan and his team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), with additional analysis from Dr. Caroline Heldman.
Previous studies find that female characters are vastly underrepresented in film, and this has not changed much in the last half a century.[1] In this report, we use the GD-IQ to not only analyze gender representation but also analyze screen time and speaking time in the top 100 grossing films of 2014 and 2015. In addition, we have analyzed results by box office revenue.
To date, most research investigations of media representations have been done manually. The GD-IQ revolutionizes this approach by using automated analysis of media content with a precision that is not possible with the human eye or ear. It makes it possible for researchers to quickly analyze massive amounts of data, which allows findings to be reported in real time.
The GD-IQ was developed to more accurately measure gender representation in film. We find that female characters continue to be unrepresented in popular film, and when they are present, they have far less screen time and speaking time. This means that simply adding more female characters into films is not enough. To truly address gender inequity, female characters need to be seen and heard as often as their male counterparts.
We analyzed a total of 200 films for this report: the top grossing (non-animated)[2] films of 2014 and 2015, as reported by Variety. Findings for 2015 are presented here, and findings for 2014 are included in Appendix C. We use the GD-IQ, a revolutionary new automatic audio-visual tool – the first of its kind developed specifically to analyze media content.
Existing research on gender, race, and other representations in media almost exclusively employ content analysis performed manually by research assistants who view media content and score it "by hand." The approach limits the number of films or other media content that can be analyzed due to time constraints. It is also subject to human error and lacks precision because it relies on a human capacity to record character and scene details.
Automated analysis of media content gets around the limitations of human coding. Beyond the significant advantage of being able to efficiently analyze more films in less time, the GD-IQ can also calculate content detail with a level of accuracy that eludes human coders. For this report, we measure on-screen time by partitioning the movie into face-tracks by tracking the detected faces locally in time. Gender is computed for each face-track separately. We then calculate total screen time by gender for each film using the track duration. We measure speaking time by applying an automatic speech detection program that classifies the speaker as female or male. For further information about this automated processing tool, please refer to Appendix A.
In addition to the automated data, we include a general overview of gender in each film using hand coded data. For more information on the hand coding process, please refer to Appendix B.
Key Findings
The Invisible Woman: Female Characters Not Seen or Heard
In 2015, 17% of the top grossing films had a female lead. Women had a particularly strong presence in the comedy and action genres. Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Anna Kendrick had hit movies, demonstrating that funny women are bankable in Hollywood.
For this analysis, we compare films with male leads, female leads, and male-female co-leads. The co-lead category includes ensemble casts where both men and women are featured roughly equally. Films with multiple male leads or multiple female leads were folded into the male lead and female lead categories, respectively. The GD-IQ shows that male characters dominated both the screen time and speaking time in the top grossing films of 2015.
How to interact with the data: Each of the bars represent a single film. If you roll over (or touch on a mobile device) the bars or pie charts, the percentages for female and male characters will appear. You can also select the year and other variables to refine the results.
Screen Time: Women Missing in Action
Male characters received two times the amount of screen time as female characters in 2015 (28.5% compared to 16.0%).
When a film has a male lead, this gender gap is even wider, with male characters appearing on screen nearly three times more often than female characters (34.5% compared to 12.9%).
In films with a female lead, male characters appear about the same amount of time as female characters (24.0% compared to 22.6%). This means that even when women are featured in a leading role, male characters appear on screen just as often.
In films with male and female co-leads, male characters receive significantly more screen time (24.8%) than female characters (16.0%). So even when men and women are both featured as leads in a film, male characters are far more prominent than female characters.
Speaking Time: Women, the Silent Minority
In 2015, male characters spoke two times as often as female characters in the top box office movies (28.4% compared to 15.4%).
The gender gap in speaking time is even larger in films led by men. Male characters spoke three times more often than female characters (33.1% compared to 9.8%) in films with male leads.
In films with female leads, male characters spoke about the same amount as female characters (23.9% compared to 26%). In other words, in films with male leads, male characters dominate the speaking time, but in films with female leads, men speak as much as women.
In films with both male and female co-leads, male characters spoke far more often than female characters. Male characters spoke 25.5% of the time compared to 16.7% for female characters.
Gender gaps in screen time and speaking time were even bigger in action films, a film genre that is typically dominated by men. Even though women played leading roles in action blockbusters such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Daisy Ridley), The Hunger Games Series: Mockingjay Part 2 (Jennifer Lawrence), and The Divergent Series: Insurgent (Shailene Woodley), overall, male characters appeared and spoke on screen three times more often than female characters in action films.
Box Office: Gender Balance Brings In the Bucks
On average, the top 100 grossing non-animated films of 2015 earned $90,660,000 each. Films with female leads made considerably more on average than films with male leads – $89,941,176 for female leads compared to $75,738,095 for male leads. Films led by women grossed 15.8% more on average than films led by men.
Films featuring male and female co-leads earned $108,317,073 – 23.5% more on average than films with male or female leads alone.
Many factors determine the box office revenue of a given film, but these numbers are revealing. Our findings debunk the idea female leads are not bankable. Films with female leads actually earned more money than films with male leads, and casts with both male and female leads perform even better. Gender balance in casting produces sound financial returns.
The revolutionary technology powering GD-IQ gives the tool the ability to uncover unconscious gender bias with a depth that has not been possible to date. The GD-IQ was designed to push the boundaries of how we identify the imbalance of the representation of specific demographics and stereotypes in media. Content creators from the worlds of film, television, advertising, publishing, digital and more will be able to identify and recognize the issues contributing to the problem and correct the course.
The GD-IQ's capabilities go well beyond simply analyzing gender bias. The Institute, in partnership with Google and USC Viterbi School of Engineering, will present the research findings from this investigation along with additional automated methods to analyze individual-level character attributes, such as representations of animated characters and the composition of background scenes, at our Global Symposiums on Gender in Media in Los Angeles and in New York.
This first report concludes that women are underrepresented in film, and when they do appear, they are seen and heard far less than their male counterparts.
Summary of Key Findings
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Appendix A
Algorithms are a set of rules of calculations that are used in problem-solving. For this report, we employed two automated algorithms that measure screen and speaking time of characters by their gender. Here is an overview of the procedures we used for each algorithm.
Screen Time Analysis
We compute the screen time of female characters by calculating the ratio of female faces to the total number of faces in the film's visuals. The screen time is calculated using online face detection and tracking with tools provided by Google's machine learning technology. In the interest of precision and time, we estimate screen time by computing statistics over face-tracks (boxes tracking the general outline of each face) instead of individual faces. The face-tracks returned by technology include different attributes of the face with the corresponding time of occurrence in the video. Among the attributes returned for each of the detected faces, we use two parameters - the confidence of the detected face and the system's posterior probability for gender prediction. A threshold of 0.25 was empirically chosen for determining confident face detection. An overview of the on-screen time estimation process is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. On-Screen Time Estimation Process Overview
Due to multiple characters appearing on screen simultaneously, the face-tracks can be overlapping, as illustrated in Figure 1. A gender label is then assigned to each track using the average gender posterior associated with the confident faces in the track. If the average gender posterior probability of the track is greater than 0.5, the track is classified as a "female track," otherwise, it is a "male track." The number of frames with confident face detections in each track is summed up across all tracks to get the total number of faces. The number of female tracks is aggregated to get the total number of faces predicted as female. Finally, the screen time is computed as the ratio between the number of female face detections to the total number of face detections across the length of the movie.
Supplementary analysis shows that screen time estimated at frame-level (individual faces) instead of using face-tracks was not significantly different and was comparable. Furthermore, computing the average of gender posterior over tracks has an added benefit of "smoothing out" some of the local gender prediction errors. Face tracking incorporates temporal contiguity information to reduce transient errors in gender prediction that may occur with analyzing individual faces independently.
Speaking Time Analysis
Using movie audio, we compute the speaking time of male and female characters to obtain an objective indicator of gender representation. The algorithm for performing this analysis involves automatic voice activity detection, audio segmentation, and gender classification.
Voice Activity Detection: Movie audio typically contains many non-speech regions, including sound effects, background music, and silence. The first step is to eliminate non-speech regions from the audio using voice activity detection (VAD) and retain only speech segments. We used a recurrent neural network based VAD algorithm implemented in the open-source toolkit OpenSMILE to isolate speech segments.
Segmentation: We then break speech segments into smaller sections in order to ensure each segment includes speech from only one speaker. This is performed using an algorithm based on Bayes Information Criterion (BIC), available in the KALDI toolkit. Thirteen dimensional Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) features are used for the automatic speaker segmentation. This step essentially decomposes continuous speech segments obtained in the VAD step into smaller segments to make sure no segment contains speech from two different speakers.
Gender Classification: The speech segment is then classified into two categories based on whether it was likely spoken by a male or a female character. This is accomplished with acoustic feature extraction and feature normalization.
Acoustic Feature Extraction: We use 13-dimensional MFCC features for gender classification because they can be reliably extracted from movie audio, unlike pitch or other high-level features where extraction is made unreliable by the diverse and noisy nature of movie audio.
Feature Normalization: Feature normalization is deemed necessary to address the issue of variability of speech across different movies and speakers, and to reduce the effect of noise present in the audio channel. Cepstral Mean Normalization (CMN) is a standard technique popular in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and other speech technology applications. Using this method, the cepstral coefficients are linearly transformed to have the same segmental statistics (zero mean).
Classification of the speaker as either male or female is based on gender-specific Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) of the acoustic features. These models are trained on a gender-annotated subset of general speech databases used for developing speech technologies using frame-level features for each gender. The GMM we use in this system has 100 mixture components and is optimized by tuning the parameters in a held-out evaluation set. For a new input segment whose gender label is to be predicted, the likelihoods of the segment belonging to a male or female class are computed based on this pre-trained model. The class with higher likelihood is assigned to the segment as the estimated gender prediction. The total speaking time by gender is then computed by adding together the durations for each utterance classified as Male/Female. This gives us the male and female speaking time in a movie.
Appendix B
Data on character prominence was produced through hand coding. For this study, leading characters are defined as the major force driving the story. Co-leads are classified as two (or more) characters that share roughly equivalent screen time and are equally involved in driving the story. Some analysts require that characters appear within the first five minutes of a film to be counted as a lead or co-lead, but for our analysis, we evaluate the entire film to determine the prominence of the character.
A team of three researchers conducted a content analysis that produced these statistics. Prior to initiating the work, the research team met twice for training sessions and performed multiple statistical tests to ensure that their analysis was in agreement. They calculated inter-coder reliability on 10 films (10% of the sample) that were not in the top 100 grossing of 2015 and 2014 to ensure agreement. Inter-coder reliability was achieved in terms of both absolute agreement and Cohen's Kappa measures.
Appendix C
Top Films of 2014
Of the top 100 grossing films of 2014 compiled by Variety, 11% featured a female lead. According to our automated analysis, male characters dominated both the screen time and speaking time in the top grossing films of 2014. The findings for 2014 look remarkably similar to the findings for 2015. (We note one difference below.)
Screen Time
Male characters received twice as much screen time as female characters in 2014. Male characters were on screen 29.6% of the time compared to 15.9% of the time for female characters.
In films with male leads, female characters only appear on screen 12.3% of the time, while male characters appear 32.8% of the time. This means that male characters are almost three times more likely than female characters to appear on screen in films with male leads.
In films with female leads, male characters (20.5%) get about the same screen time as female characters (21.6%). Having a female lead does not translate into more screen time for female characters than male characters.
Male characters get significantly more screen time in films that have male leads than female characters get in films that have female leads (32.8% compared to 21.6%). When men play the leading role, male characters dominate the screen time, but when women play the leading role there is no screen time advantage for female characters.
In films with male and female co-leads, male characters appear on screen more often than female characters (26.9% compared to 20.6%). Adding a woman as a co-lead in a film does not mean female characters get equal screen time with male characters.
Speaking Time
Male characters are twice as likely to speak as female characters in the top grossing films. Overall, male characters spoke 31.8% of the time in films compared to 14.5% of the time for female characters.
In movies with male leads, male characters speak four times as much as female characters (36.7% compared to 8.8%). When men play the lead in a film, male characters have a strong speaking time advantage.
In movies with female leads, female characters speak 29.5% of the time compared to 17.7% for male characters. This speaking time advantage for female characters is not as large as the advantage male characters get in films with male leads, and this advantage disappears in films from 2015.
In films with male and female co-leads, male characters speak significantly more than female characters (27.8% compared to 19.7%). This means that when men and women lead a cast together, male characters still dominate the dialogue.
On average, the top 100 grossing non-animated films of 2014 earned $72, 228,000 each. Films with female leads made considerably more on average than films with male leads or male and female co-leads. Films with female leads earned $108,909,090 compared to $70,500,000 for films with male leads and $66,161,290 for films with male and female co-leads.
On average, the top 100 grossing non-animated films of 2014 earned $72, 228,000 each. Films with female leads made considerably more on average than films with male leads or male and female co-leads. Films with female leads earned $108,909,090 compared to $70,500,000 for films with male leads and $66,161,290 for films with male and female co-leads.
[1] See the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, 2014. "Gender Bias Without Borders: An Investigation of Female Characters in Popular Films Across 11 Countries." Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, & Dr. Katherine Pieper with assistance from Yu-Ting Liu & Christine Song Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative USC Annenberg.
[2] Our datasets do not include animated films since the automated tool is not yet able to read animated characters. Future reports will include animated films.
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Dog Parker is a climate-controlled, webcam enabled dog kennel you can rent by the minute on the streets of Brooklyn.
With Dog Parker, you can safely board your dog while you step inside the grocery store, grab a cup of coffee, or pick up a package from the post office. Instead of leaving your dog home alone all day, tying him up outside, or limiting his walk, keep your dog with you and realize the convenience of running all of your errands and living an active lifestyle with your best friend in tow.
Membership works similar to Zipcar, with a card giving you - and only you - access to your dog once parked. The rate is currently $0.20 per minute, or $12 per hour.
The service is currently in the Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, but hopes to expand City-wide soon.
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Jordan's King criticizes Turkish Prime Minister ErdoğanPublished on: March 19, 2013
Jordanian King Abdullah II has criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, saying the prime minister views democracy as a "bus ride."
Erdoğan is merely promoting a softer version of Islamism, the king told the Atlantic magazine in an interview. "Erdoğan once said that democracy, for him, is a bus ride," King Abdullah said. "'Once I get to my stop, I'm getting off,' [Erdoğan said]." King Abdullah paid a two-day official visit to Turkey earlier this month, where he shed tears as he visited Anıtkabir, the mausoleum dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey.
The King sees Erdoğan as a more restrained and savvier version of Mohamed Morsi, according to the interview. "Instead of the Turkish model, taking six or seven years, [instead of] being an Erdoğan, Morsi wanted to do it overnight," the King said.
"There is no depth there," Abdullah reportedly told the Atlantic of he and Morsi's discussion on Hamas. "I was trying to explain to him how to deal with Hamas, how to get the peace process moving, and he was like, 'The Israelis will not move.' I said, 'Listen, whether the Israelis move or don't move, it's how we get Fatah and Hamas 'together.'" When Morsi remained fixated on the Israelis, the King said, he tried to reiterate the importance of sorting out "the mess" on the Palestinian side.
"There's no depth to the guy," he repeated of Morsi.


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A few years ago I decided to build a standing desk, and after years of using one at home I finally got one for work too. But I think standing at work AND home is a bit much so I converted it to a regular seating desk using the same parts. All up it shouldn't cost you more than $150 for the bookcases and the tabletop, even less if you can find a bargain in the cheap section. So here they both are:
Parts for Both:
- 2 x Billy Bookcase (40x28x106 cm)
- 1 x Linmon Tabletop (whichever size you like)
Note: My desks are made from the old Vika Amon tabletop, but they are essentially the same.
Standing Desk
This is incredibly easy to make. Just assemble the bookcases, place the tabletop upside down on the floor then the bookcases upside down on top of it. Position them centrally (front/back) and on the sides of the tabletop then drill 4 long wood screws through the top of each bookcase and into the table top. Turn back upright and you have a standing desk.
BONUS: You can make a higher screen/computer level to give you a better screen height AND more desk space using 4 x Capita Stainless steel legs and 1 x Ekby Osten Shelf. It'll add about $50 but, again, you can probably find the parts cheaper.
Seated Corner Desk:
After dismantling my standing desk I was left with the 2 Billy Bookcases and the tabletop. I figured out that the 2 bookcases stacked on their sides is around the correct height for a desk. For this desk you will need a wall bracket or 2 to mount the table top to the wall on the opposite side to the bookcase. I was lucky because I had a spare wall bracket from the expedit shelf. You should be able to pick one up at the spare parts section if you want to use the same.
So, firstly determine which side of the bookcases you want the back to face and which side you want the shelves on, I have the shelves facing out. You want to stack the bookcases upside down to how you want them to face so that you don't see the screws holing them together. Stack them upside down, and screw them together. You will need the perfect sized screws for this. Mine were a little short but I screwed into the shelf height holes to give them a little extra reach. You'll want to put in at least 6; 2 at the top (front & back), middle and bottom.
Next the table top. Position the bookcases where you would like them to sit and hold the table top in place to give you an idea on how it will look to make sure you're happy with it and you have all the positions correct. Measure the height of the bookcases and mark the same height on the opposite wall where you will be mounting the brackets. Make sure you have these correct! Place the tabletop in position again to make sure. Mount the brackets. Up to you how (my walls are masonry so I just used wall plugs and long screws, but you could also use anchor bolts if you're paranoid). When the brackets are in place, position the bookcases again (my bookcases are offset from the edge of the desk to give it a bit of depth and edge, and also a bit more room underneath the desk) and place the tabletop on top in position, it should all sit nicely. Screw the tabletop to the bracket, and then the bookcases to the tabletop. Again use long screws and try and get in at least 3.
I am going to get a hole drill bit for the table top to pass cables through, but that is essentially done. 2 desks from 2 Billy's and a Linmon tabletop.
- Seated Corner OR Standing Desk with Billy and Linmon - July 11, 2014


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First, there was del.icio.us. Now, there's su.pport.us
No, it's not another clever manipulation of the .us top level domain by Joshua Schacter. su.pport.us is from O'Reilly's Steve Mallet who is clearly sick and tired of "it" and not going to take it any more. The tagline is "Customer to customer support because 'customer support' has become an oxymoron."
Wrote Mallet of his new service:
I've created su.pport.us as a way for customers to help customers. Computers, gadgets & digital anything was suppose to make our lives easier. Well, that might be the case once the damn things work.
Problem is: they almost never do and the companies providing them saddle you with the burden of getting them to. And how? By calling script-wielding, underpaid, frayed-nerved phone support or endless googling across blogs.....There are three primary ways this can work for the betterment of your fellow man/woman.
Number 3 is directed at vendors and other solution providers:
If you're company's service sucks (which [it] does), chip in what you know and save us all the hassle of contacting them.
And Mallet was obviously driven by his own expierience (which are probably similar to the ones I've caught on tape like this one, this one, and this one):
Tell people you know to come here and pitch in so we all don't go insane calling 1-800-eat-sh*t.


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There's not much info on this collection yet but this autumn, MAC Cosmetics will be collaborating with The Simpsons Marge to celebrate the shows the 25th anniversary. Marge is the blue beehive haired matron of the family and her style is iconic - most people can describe how Marge looks when asked so why not create a line around her?
What I will say is if they do use these shades I doubt this line is going to be wearable to all ages, as much as I would be itching to buy it - and I'd probably still buy it for the Simpsons packaging alone (Please MAC make Simpsons printed packaging) I doubt I'd wear it because my sons would be horrendously embarrassed of me haha.
There's a small part that thinks they may pull something completely unusual out of the bag. Maybe normal (or as normal as can be given the collaboration) tones with a Simpson's embossing in each of the powders and lipstick bullets? Now that would be AWESOME. I remember when everyone thought Kelly and Sharon's MAC Collaboration was going to be bright and crass but it actually resorted in completely wearable shades that everyone could pull off.
Unfortunately, the line doesn't launch until September but I'll be keeping my peepers open for any info, if and when I get more on this I'll keep you updated sweeties. What colours and products do you think are going to be available?
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Nairobi's transport system will have to be augmented to cater for the growing demand that is projected to double by 2050.says Kimunya.
Speaking during the stakeholders final workshop on feasibility of Mass Rapid transport system in the Nairobi Metropolitan region, the Minister for Transport noted the importance of the sector towards socio-economic development, adding that the growing demand for the services calls for expansion especially in the urban areas.
"Nairobi accounts for about 30 per cent of of the countries economic activities,its therefore a focal point in driving Kenya to new industrialized and middle income economy,The Nairobi Metropolitan Region (NMR) serves a population of close to 7 million which is expected to rise to between 15 and 30 million by 2050, the demand for expansion and improvement of the sectors infrastructure continue overwhelming most urban regions of the world like Nairobi,"Said Kimunya.
While attributing the heavy traffic jam congestion within the CBD to the growing middle income population he said the rapid increase of private motor vehicles is an indication of a growing middle class.
Noting that the transport demand in the rail service is still low he said the Ministry has started to upgrade the train frequency levels to 90, 000 from a low of 19, 000 per day which will see commuters experiencing the services in comfortable coaches. This he said will be done in collaboration with the Ugandan Government.
"Part of this upgrade has already begun with interchange stations and a branch line to the Jomo kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)," he said.
He added : "The Governments of Kenya and Uganda are modernizing the the Kenya-Uganda Railway and the current narrow gauge will be replaced with a broader standard gauge, the rolling stock will be replaced by modern engines, wagons and coaches with a speed of 160 kilometer per hour for passenger trains."
Kimunya said that adoption of 'trunk' and 'feeder' types of operation within the city will see the public realize affordable public transport services expressing optimism upon the completion and actualization of the study.
"It's a high time for the public transport system within Nairobi to be re-organized into 'trunk' and 'feeder' type for the realisation of an effective transport system for the increasing commuter traffic," he said.
At the same time the PS in the Ministry, Cyrus Njiru, reitereted that congestion will become a thing of the past as trains and buses will be dedicated special lanes while the heavy populated roads will have commuter trains.
"Areas experiencing characterised by heavy jams like Juja will have commuters," he said.
Reacting to the worry of facing out of the 14 seater matatus,Njiru said that there is no cause to worry as the matter was solved following the call for the formation of saccos noting that Vehicle manufactures are experiencing an increase in orders for vehicles carrying more than 14 passengers everyday.
African Development Bank (AfDB) which has funded the study has said it will also fund the detailed design at a cost of 500 million shillings.
Major roads within Nairobi such as Nairobi-Thika Highway, Outering Road, Uhuru Highway, Haile selasie Mbagathi way, Langata Road and Waiyaki way are used on average by 80, 000 vehicles everyday, which is beyond their design capacity. According to the report.


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Leading quick service restaurant chain Marrybrown opened its 9th outlet in Al Satwa, Dubai.
Mr. Snehashis Chakrabarty of Al Abbas Group was the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony held on 22 December 2017.
Being Malaysia's largest homegrown chain with over 400 outlets in Asia, Middle East and Africa, Marrybrown boasts an extensive menu with 100% HALAL food. The 'Ultimate Meal' comprising of 3 original or hotouch MB Chicken, choice of rice or fries and bun is popular across UAE. Event was full packed with customers who enjoyed clicking selfies with Marrybrown Chipmunk mascot and participated in festive activities. Complimentary meal vouchers and premiums have been distributed to first 100 customers.
Marrybrown Satwa opens daily from 9am to 3am.
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On Tuesday 25 September, Rare Cancers Europe is organising an event in the European Parliament to celebrate 10 years of active work in this field and to take stock of its achievements in addressing rare cancers as well as discussing the way forward in tackling the challenges that persist.
The event will highlight the EU milestones in addressing rare cancers and particularly the establishment of the Joint Action on Rare Cancers and of the European Reference Networks on cancer while presenting the role of Rare Cancers Europe in the process that lead to these achievements. The discussion will address the current challenges faced by the European Reference Networks and what more needs to be done to improve standards of care and reduce administrative barriers for patients crossing borders. Furthermore, specific attention will be given to addressing the problems of generating and exploiting evidence on rare cancers and the potential impact of the EU draft Regulation on health technology assessment (HTA) on improving treatment options for rare cancer patients while helping safeguard the sustainability of healthcare systems.
This event will also be an opportunity to discuss the European Commission's upcoming report on the implementation of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive and assess how countries across the EU have implemented its provisions and allowed patients to benefit from them.
Speakers include:
- Alojz Peterle MEP (EPP, Slovenia)
- Lieve Wierinck MEP (ALDE, Belgium)
- Annika Nowak, Member of Cabinet of the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis
- Ortwin Schulte, Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU
- Francesco de Lorenzo, Rare Cancers Europe & European Cancer Patient Coalition
- Kathy Oliver, Rare Cancers Europe & International Brain Tumour Alliance
- Paolo Casali, Rare Cancers Europe & Joint Action on Rare Cancers
To register your interest, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com | 0044 207 593 5560 | 0044 207 593 5672


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Chuping Luo, Former President (2016-2018)
Dr. Chuping Luo is the Senior Research Scientist in Advanced Materials Technology. His interests includes developing new chromatographic stationary phases and application methods for bio-separation and small molecules.
From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Luo was the Principal Scientist in Waters Corporation, where he developed many critical methods in solving the applications in Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
Xiang Zhang, President
Dr. Zhang received his B.S. from Lanzhou University, China and his M.S. from the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Purdue University in 1996, and worked in Dr. Fred E. Regnier's laboratory. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 2001, Dr. Zhang joined Beyond Genomics, Inc., a systems biology company in Boston, to develop bioanalytical and bioinformatics platforms for disease biomarker discovery and validation. In 2004, Dr. Zhang returned to Purdue University as the Director of
Naidong Weng, President-Elect
Dr. Weng is Scientific Director, Janssen Fellow, and Head of East Coast Bioanalytical Chemistry and Pharmacokinetics, Janssen Research & Development, Johnson and Johnson, Spring House, PA, USA. In addition to support various programs at Janssen, current research interests of his group include novel bioanalytical quantitation for biomarkers, protein/peptides, and novel drug conjugates and unique formulations. Dr. Weng has over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications,
Yi He, Secretary
Dr. Yi He studied applied chemistry and environmental chemical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and analytical chemistry in National University of Singapore (NUS) before completing her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 2004 at the City University of New York (CUNY). She took a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of CUNY in fall 2004 and was promoted to full professor in 2016. During 2012-13, Dr. He worked as a guest researcher
Wu Chen, Treasurer
Working experience:
Agilent Technologies (from 1997 to current)
Column R&D, HPLC column expert
· Developed HPLC column packing materials such as 1.8 µm totally porous particles,
Baomin Xin, Chief Information Technology Officer
Dr. Baomin Xin, VP of DMPK & Bioanalytical Services department at Medicilon, obtained his PhD under Professor Milton L Lee at Brigham Young University (BYU). During his PhD research, he was one of the chief designers who design and built an orthogonal extraction time-of-flight mass spectrometer. He designed, and made the mechanical drawings of, the inlet assembly, including the main flange, RF-only quadrupole focusing lens set, inter-quad lens, DC/RF quads set, and exit slit. Outstanding
Andrew Alpert, Committee Member
Andrew Alpert
College: Yale University, 1973
M.S.: U. of Nebraska Medical Center (Biochemistry, 1977).
Ph.D.: Purdue U. (Biochemistry, 1980). Advisor: Fred Regnier. Thesis work: Development of HPLC packing materials and techniques for protein applications.
Tao Jiang, Committee Member
Dr. Tao Jiang is an expert in HPLC, GC and LC/MS with more than 20 years of research experience in separation media, instrumentation and their applications in pharmaceutical field. Currently she is a technical fellow in R&D at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Jiang has published 23 papers, two book chapters, and 34 patents/patent applications; she has delivered more than 50 conference presentations. She received her M.S. in Organic
Perry G. Wang, Committee Member (2)
Dr. Perry G. Wang is a chemist in the Office of Regulatory Science, US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). His interests include analytical method development and validation for drugs and constituents of foods and cosmetic products using advanced instrumentation. His expertise focuses on high throughput drug analysis by LC/MS/MS. His current research focuses on developing analytical methods for constituents in cosmetics and dietary supplements by GC/MS/MS and LC/MS/MS.
Michael W. Dong, Committee Member
Michael W. Dong, PhD. Born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong, Michael is a principal consultant at MWD Consulting (www.mwd-consulting.com). He was formerly senior scientist at Genentech, Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry and QC, research director at Synomics Pharma (CRO), research fellow at Purdue Pharma, and senior staff scientist at Applied Biosystems / Perkin-Elmer. He holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from City University of New York and a certificate in Biotechnology
Tingyu Li, Committee Member
UCLA: Postdoctoral 1991-1992.
Harvard University: Ph.D., 1991.
Lanzhou University: B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1984.
Fengjian Shi, Committee Member
Fengjian Shi
Dr. Fengjian Shi is a scientist in Analytical Development at Biogen. Prior to joining Biogen, Fengjian received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2011 and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Temple University in 2017.
Perry G. Wang, Committee Member
Dr. Perry G. Wang is a chemist in the Office of Regulatory Science, US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). His interests include analytical method development and validation for drugs and constituents of foods and cosmetic products using advanced instrumentation. His expertise focuses on high throughput drug analysis by LC/MS/MS. His current research focuses on developing analytical methods for constituents in cosmetics and dietary supplements by GC/MS/MS and LC/MS/MS.
Frank Yang, Committee Member
Dr. Frank J. Yang earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Utah under the supervising of Professor Calvin J. Giddings in 1973. In 1976, Dr. Yang joined Varian Associates Walnut Creek Division, California where he became Manager for the Chromatography Research Group. During his 10 years association with Varian, he had involved and was responsible for the development of 3000 series gas chromatograph, 5500 Series liquid chromatograph, and capillary column GC
Yan-Bo Yang, Committee Member
Yan-Bo Yang, Ph.D., President&CEO, BioPharmaDev, Inc.
Dr. Yan-Bo Yang has 30 years strong experiences in chemical analyses and purification of both small pharmaceutical compounds and large biologics; generic drug product developments; cGMP, regulations and compliances; and project management. Dr. Yang is an expert in chromatography theory, chromatography column technology and
Michael Ye, Committee Member
Dr. Michael Ye is the R&D Manager of Liquid Separation Department in Supelco, a division of Sigma-Aldrich. He has over 20 years experience in chromatographic analysis and separation including over 10 years experience in separation product research and development. He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University and Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He has a MBA degree from Colorado State University.
Edward S. Yeung, Committee Member
Edward Yeung received his A.B. in chemistry from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, he has been on the chemistry faculty at Iowa State University, where he is currently Robert Allen Wright Professor and Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests span both spectroscopy and chromatography. He was an Associate Editor of Analytical
Kelly Zhang, Committee Member
Dr. Kelly Zhang is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader in Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry at Genentech. Prior to joining Genentech, she worked at Allergan and Pfizer. Kelly has 15 years of pharmaceutical industry experience leading analytical activities of drug development from discovery to NDA for therapies in oncology such as Cotellic™ (Cobimetinib), immunology, ophthalmology and metabolic diseases etc. She serves as Subject Matter of Expert in analytical method
Yukui Zhang, Committee Member
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What's Your Number? has all the requisites of a modern romantic comedy: giggly girls planning a wedding, a womanizing bad boy poised for reform, copious drinking and vulgarity, and a retrograde message that relationships are all that matter in a woman's life.
After losing her job, Ally (Anna Faris) reads in a magazine that women who have had more than 20 sex partners are doomed to spinsterhood. So with 19 notches on her un-chastity belt, she decides to stop sleeping around and, rather than look for work, revisit former flames, one of whom may be "the one." She enlists her promiscuous neighbor Colin (Chris Evans) in tracking down a handful of exes: a newly slimmed fatty, a closeted gay politician, a nerdy puppeteer, and a dashing millionaire.
The leads are likable and the story has some delightfully funny lines, but What's Your Number? never fully explores the possibilities of the old-boyfriends premise. Instead it marches inexorably toward a customary lavish wedding and the inevitable resolution of True Love Prevails. --Pamela Zoslov


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"Comforted of God"
compiled by Algernon J Pollock
£6.00 (UK); $10.00 (USA) - available from STP or online bookshops.
- Price: £6.00 (UK); $10.00 (USA)
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: 30 April 2010
- Compiler: Algernon James Pollock
- Edition: 8th
- Series: Understanding Christianity
- Height: 216 mm
- Pages: 110 pages
- BIC Subject heading: TBA
- Place of publication: Crewe, England
- Publisher: Scripture Truth Publications
- Distributor: Lightning Source
Short description
First compiled over 100 years ago, this collection of Scripture texts, prose and poetry shines the light of God's Word into the darkness of disappointment, illness and bereavement, lifts the spirit and draws the stressed, the discouraged and the sorrowful to the Saviour, who is the Prince of Peace.
Long description
This collection of Scripture texts, prose and poetry shines the light of God's Word into the darkness of disappointment, illness and bereavement. To those in such circumstances it provides encouragement, strength, illumination, understanding and comfort. Over thirty thousand copies were produced during the first half of the twentieth century, bringing relief to many. Over one hundred years have passed since the first edition was compiled, and yet the basic problems of the human condition remain essentially unchanged; and God's Word has as much to say to those facing the darkest of personal situations in the 21st Century as it ever did. Its message of hope still lifts the spirit and draws the stressed, the discouraged and the sorrowful to the Saviour, who is the Prince of Peace.
The compiler, Algernon James Pollock (1864-1957), was the eldest son born to a Christian banker and his wife in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the age of eleven he made a profession of faith in Christ. Early in life he was introduced to leading figures amongst the Brethren (John Nelson Darby was entertained in the home when he was about fifteen). He followed his father into banking, but his true calling was to share the treasure he had found in heaven, and he left to become a full-time evangelist. He was an indefatigable apologist from the pulpit and in print wherever he saw the Christian faith under attack. He wrote several books, but he is probably best known for over fifty pamphlets containing critiques of deviations from Bible-based, Christ-centred Christianity.
Publisher's comments
Read or download a sample selection of pages.
Other Books by A J Pollock are available from STP.
Table of Contents
A Bright Prospect, A Commonplace Life (poem), A Few Thoughts on Psalm 23 and John 10, A Good Answer, A Letter, A Letter to One Bereaved, A Psalm of Silence (poem), A Word to Doubters (poem), "Abba, Father" (poem), "Be Still!" (poem), "Bringing into Captivity every Thought", "But He giveth more grace", Cleave to the Lord, Comfort in Sorrow (poem), "Comforted of God" (poem), Counting on God for everything, Everlasting Love, Extracts, "Fear Not" (poem), Fragments, God is Better than our Faith, God Knows Best (poem), God ... the Great Deliverer, "He knoweth them that trust in Him", His Appointment (poem), I Know Not! (poem), In the Hand of God (poem), In the Plains of Jordan (poem), In Time of Trouble, "Jesus Christ, the same Yesterday and To-day and for Ever", Last Words of Samuel Rutherford (poem),
Lean and Pray (poem), Little Tangles, Look Up! (poem), Manna by the Way, "Meditate upon these things", "My cup runneth over", "Not Now" (poem), Nothing to do with To-morrow (poem), Now and Hereafter, Numbers 6:24 (poem), Oil and Wine (poem), On Prayer, Paul Gerhardt alone with God, Peace, Peerless Worth (poem), "Perfect through Suffering", Perfect through Suffering (poem), Psalm 23, "Rest at Noon", Samuel Rutherford's Dying Testimony, Settled Peace, Simply Clinging, Sometime, Somewhere (poem), "Step by Step", Stray Thoughts, Strength in Looking Up, Stripped but Blessed, "Take heed unto thyself" "Take ... no Thought for the Morrow", Texts, The Burden-Bearer, The Burden of Prayer (poem), "The Father's Care" (poem),
"The Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness", The Glory of that Light (poem), "The Light that Failed", The Lord of Hosts and the God of Jacob, The Peacock's Feathers, The Permanent and the Passing Away, The Pilgrim (poem), The Power of the Cross of Christ, The Tapestry Weavers (poem), The Touch of Jesus (poem), The Truest Comfort in Sorrow, The Way Home (poem), "Thou hast made me exceeding glad with Thy countenance" (poem), Thou Knowest (poem), Three Needles, "Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds" (poem), Thy Saviour loves thee (poem), Unveiled Mysteries, "What will it be?" (poem), "Who shall roll away the Stone?" (poem)
Author biography
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Algernon James Pollock (1864-1957), in his own words, "had the inestimable privilege of being brought up in a Christian home". And what a full home it was! In the first sixteen years of her marriage his mother gave birth to ten children, and the arrival of Algernon, her third child and first son, must have been a particular comfort to her after the death of her second daughter, at the age of six months, just nine months earlier. He came from a distinguished line: his father worked in a bank, his grandfather had been Chief Justice of Bombay, and his great-grandfather was saddler to George III and the Prince Regent, later George IV. In later life Algernon looked back with thankfulness that "the impression lasts through life" of "what was learned at a mother's knee". At the age of eleven he made a profession of faith in Christ.
Early in life he was introduced to leading figures amongst the Brethren: John Nelson Darby was entertained in the home when Algie was about fifteen and, on discovering that no plate was laid for the young lad, Darby shared his own with him - an experience of breaking bread with JND that he never forgot!
He followed his father into banking, but his true calling was to share the treasure in heaven and spiritual food that he had found, and he left to become a full-time evangelist.
In 1901 he married Elsie Madeleine Seton (her sister married F B Hole) and they raised a daughter and three sons.
When not undertaking preaching engagements he found time to write gospel hymns, edited the "Gospel Tidings" hymnbook, and took on the editing of the magazine "The Gospel Messenger", started by Dr W T P Wolston.
In an autobiographical piece, he freely admits that as he grew up "many a time I was tempted to give up the profession of Christianity, but something held me back. Infidel doubts assailed me. Any attack on the Bible distressed me and shook my confidence. But all this only in the end led me to take a stronger hold on Christ as my Saviour."
He was also led to become an indefatigable apologist from the pulpit and in print wherever he saw the Christian faith under attack. Along with H P Barker, Hamilton Smith, J T Mawson and F B Hole he frequently contributed articles to "Scripture Truth" magazine. He wrote a number of major books and over fifty pamphlets showing the error of different cults and ideas. He is probably best known for these latter critiques of deviations from Bible-based, Christ-centred Christianity. Indeed, when in 1909, God moved two Christian laymen in the USA to fund twelve volumes (compiled by A C Dixon, Louis Meyer and R A Torrey) that would set out the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and which were to be sent free of charge to those engaged in Christian work throughout the English speaking world, it was a measure of the international regard in which Algernon Pollock's writings were held in the Church at large was that he was selected to contribute a chapter entitled "Modern Spiritualism Briefly Tested by Scripture". Between 1910 and 1915 some 300,000 sets of "The Fundamentals" were distributed.
His ministry was not restricted to the United Kingdom; he travelled in the USA in 1898, and also visited Scandinavia, India, Spain and Germany.


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It seems to be done now – as I wrote those words, the sun came out. Perhaps My Run of Bad Luck is over.
Around our neighborhood, in fact, there was mostly very good luck. Only a few big trees went down, and it looks like minimal property damage.
Excellent luck at this address – at worst the electricity flickered last night, and a fair-sized limb dropped onto the back roof. Otherwise, it was just a great evening to watch the forces of nature in action.
Apparently I'm an exception, though, as the rest of the metro area didn't do so well. There are millions of homes without power, and the water supply in Fairfax County (suburban Virginia) was contaminated after the treatment plants lost electricity (no back-up generators, apparently). Alexandria, as usual, is swimming in floodwater.
While I think that emergency planning is always a good idea, I think that OPM and WMATA overreacted a bit. The Federal government really didn't need to close for the full day yesterday, and today I drove downtown with little trouble. On the other hand, erring on the side of safety makes sense. I'm just not sure whether an error of that magnitude was justified.
(Edited to say: It was. Completely. If for no other reason than you really didn't want to squeeze millions of people who had not had a shower for a day or two into office buildings the next day . . .. The streets of Arlington and downtown DC were filled with thousands of people looking for something to do last night, and there were quite a few you didn't want to get too close to.
I went for a walk around the neighborhood early this morning, to see what had happened. Mostly branches and limbs everywhere, but one street was blocked by a tree, and another tree will make some new homeowners quite upset. A giant maple (at least 70 foot) took out their deck and detached garage. The house was just bought a week ago. Ouch.
Today's Mileage: 10.40 miles
2003 Mileage:
24.58 miles
It was a long slow ride along the floodpaths down to the Potomac. Along the way, I saw a number of families who had come down to the river to gather water, using trashbins lined with plastic bags. They were walking, otherwise I would have invited them over to my house to use the hose.
The riding itself was more a test of my nerves than my knee – the path was wet, filled with lots of debris that made it very slippery. This made for something of a white knuckled ride, but in the end I was glad I stuck it through – again I had done something I did not think I was prepared to do.


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I'll tell you how my Saturday night went. I shot three great victories in Strikeforce and they were overshadowed by well, you know. Whatever about how you think the fights went — I saw three underdogs win, three lower ranked fighters beat the odds and beat their opponents in dominating fashion.
Fight week in Nashville. Here for Strikeforce and I'm super thrilled for Saturday's stacked fight card. Three championship fights! It's gonna be sweet.
Here's my favorite shots of this week so far.
Completely forgot to share these. The day after Strikeforce: Nashville held the LA media workout, we continued the Showtime crew's feature shoot for the broadcast with greenscreen on the CBS studio lot. Between setups, I shot new studio work of the fighters in the main events, and ridiculous number of photos of Aoki since I […]
Media workout photos plus a few stills from our production shoot. More to come.
Genghis Con creates another piece of MMA art featuring two of our favorite LWs. I hope highlight reels like these start popping up more and more instead of the 1000's of crappy ones on youtube cut to the latest song from Disturbed or Creed or some kind of frat boy rock.


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Recycling and Disposal of Lead Acid Batteries
1) Each motor vehicle seen on the road is equipped with some type of battery. The type of battery most common to vehicles is known as a lead acid battery. While effective, these types of batteries are known to create disposal problems.
2) While sending these used batteries to a landfill may seem to be the best option, those disposing must consider the consequences. Landfilling can present a variety of environmental dangers, one example of this being water contamination.
3) Considering all options, recycling should be considered the best choice. Recycling old batteries not only reduces risks for humans and the earth, it also conserves resources that may not always be available.
4) Thankfully, studies have shown that batteries make up only a small portion of the country's waste stream. This is very positive find considering that batteries are extremely toxic and one of the most hazardous materials found in solid waste.
5) Batteries should never be allowed into a solid waste land fill due to the risk of a damaged or cracked battery casing. Acid that is released from a damaged battery can react with other items in the fill, creating multiple types of hazards.
6) Auto mechanics in particular have a responsibility to recycle these batteries. Lead acid batteries are most often collected at automotive shops and repair stations. This is successful in most communities because these shops and garages serve as convenient and centralized locations for donation or drop off by consumers.
Battery-Specific Information
1) As the title suggests, these batteries utilize both lead and sulfuric acid. Lead is used in electrodes while sulfuric acid is the electrolyte.
2) A lead acid battery tends to weigh just over thirty pounds. Half of this weight is the lead and the other half is comprised of the sulfuric acid.
3) Batteries are completely, 100% recyclable. In fact, the
lead recovered from recycled batteries comprises over half of
4) For those who are strictly profit-motivated, the sale of lead alone should be enough cause to recycle these goods.
5) Always remember to store batteries in the correct manner to avoid injury and contamination.
Information Regarding Used Motor Oil
1) Used oil certainly has characteristics of hazardous waste, however oil that is recycled is not considered hazardous material by the EPA.
2) In the
3) Less energy is burned to produced oil from recycled stock than from crude stock.
Environmental Factors to Consider
1) One million gallons of drinking water can be contaminated by the used oil from one oil change.
2) An oil slick the size of one acre can be created from a pint of used oil.
3) The productivity of soil is greatly reduced when in contact with used oils.
4) Aquatic life forms of many kinds are put in great danger when motor oil is disposed of in an improper manner.
5) When recycled properly, used motor oil can be:
a) Refined into usable motor oil
b) Used in industrial lubricants
c) Used in the production of synthetic rubber
d) Turned into fuel
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After a relatively quiet period, launch activity in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) space has quickly gained pace coming into the finally weeks of the year. That quickening of launch activity is due to both the sheer number of funds and the variety of new ETFs hitting the tape.
This week was no exception to that fact. The funds launched cover a wide range of asset classes, themes and nations. In the end, investors continue to benefit from the diversity of new products.
For a list of all new ETF launches, take a look at our ETF Launch Center.
|ETFdb Category
|Expense Ratio
|WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged International Quality Dividend Growth Fund
|Foreign Large Cap Equities
|Goldman Sachs Hedge Industry VIP ETF
|Goldman Sachs
|Large Cap Blend Equities
|Barclays ETN+ FI Enhanced Europe 50 ETN, Series B
|Barclay's Bank
|Europe Equities
|USCF Restaurant Leaders Fund
|Consumer Discretionary Equities
WisdomTree Gets Dynamic
Fund sponsor WisdomTree has really made a name for itself with its currency hedged products. It was one of the first firms to recognize the ability of currency movements to hinder returns for foreign/international stock and bonds. ETFs like WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (DXJ ) have become immensely popular as investors look to hedge rising dollar risk away. However, ETFs like DXJ only tell half the story. That story is only if the dollar is rising.
In order to help protect against a falling dollar, dynamic currency hedged products can change how they interact with the dollar – up or down. This provides investors a one-stop shop for international exposure. The latest product from WisdomTree adds a touch of dividend growth to that equation.
Despite its long name, the basics behind WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged International Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DHDG ) are quite simple. The fund tracks those developed market international firms with histories of growing their dividend payments over time. The fund also screens those firms' various quality fundamentals, such as good earnings growth, low debts and low valuations. This is designed to make sure those dividends keep growing into the future. Finally, DHDG will dynamically hedge the multitude of local currencies in its holdings against the dollar. This allows investors to ensure "real" stock gains and take the dollar out of the equation in any environment.
Ultimately, DHDG can serve as a core international holding for investors. Expenses are cheap as well. The new fund will only charge 0.48%, or $48 per $10,000 invested.
You can search the entire ETF universe using our ETF Screener Tool. Filter ETFs using criteria such as asset class, sector, region, liquidity and expenses, just to name a few.
Smart Money Follows Smart Money
Venerable investment bank and asset manager Goldman Sachs has quickly become one of the best new sponsors of ETFs in recent years. The vast bulk of its holdings have focused on smart-beta indexing. This time, its new ETF focuses on something very familiar to its heart – the hedge fund industry.
The Goldman Sachs Hedge Industry VIP ETF (GVIP ) will follow smart money, literally. The ETF will invest in stocks that hedge funds, institutional investors and other gurus own. GVIP will search through various funds 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and buy the ones that appear the most frequently or "in very important positions." The index holds 50 companies that are equal dollar-weighted when the index is rebalanced.
It should be noted that GVIP's prospectus specifically states that the fund is not a hedge fund replication strategy. However, it could be an interesting indexed way to generate some additional alpha for a portfolio. Expenses run just 0.45%.
Want more Hedge Fund ETF action? Check out The 10 Hedge Fund Strategy ETFs You Should Consider.
Fisher Adds Another Bespoke ETN
Bank Barclay's iPath lineup of ETNs are pretty popular, but its lineup of ETN+ notes are not. However, it is here that asset manager Fisher Investments has chosen to partner with the bank in order to create various bespoke ETNs to serve its clients. The Barclays ETN+ FI Enhanced Europe 50 ETN, Series B (FLEU ) is the latest example of that. The ETN provides 2x the exposure of the 50 large-cap European stocks screened for various fundamentals.
Anybody can own the ETN. However, the vast bulk of FLEU's assets and shareholders will be Fisher Investments own clients. Trading volumes – as with their other bespoke funds – have been limited as these were created for a very specific set of people and purposes. Most investors will be better suited elsewhere. Expenses run 0.76%.
Another Restaurant ETF
This week, investors get another tasty ETF. The USCF Restaurant Leaders Fund will take on the previously launched Restaurant ETF (BITE ) for coverage of the sector.
MENU will follow the Restaurant Leaders INDXX Index. This underlying index specifically overweights those firms in the Quick Serve category and screens the universe for fundamental qualities expected to lead to outperformance. It does hold some full-service names, but the majority of the ETF are in fast food stocks. MENU can also hold small-, mid- and large-capitalization companies. The ETF is also globally diversified.
Expenses for the fund run 0.65%, which is cheaper than its rival BITE.
The Bottom Line
This week's set of launches continues to highlight the evolution and direction of ETFs. In the end, investors now have four new funds to help build out their portfolios. And they may want to consider them, considering those new sectors and ideas that they tackle.
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Arlington Park Free Picks~ Super High five 05/25
Happy Saturday everyone and I hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day Weekend! We are coming at you today from Arlington Park and looking at a super high 5 that is going to top the $100,000 mark today. That would make your weekend a little extra exciting to nail that ticket down. We will be putting our free picks out there for you to help you do just that. Here are your super high five free picks from Arlington!
Race 6: Finura and Shezadoozie
Race 7: Ausus and Ice Cream Silence
Race 8: Proud Jackson and Any Given Time
Race 9: Mister Mardi Gras and Nates Mineshaft
Race 10: General Election and Procurement
There you have it folks! Let us go big or go home and have a great Saturday enjoying the ponies~ Happy Handicapping!Share on Facebook
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On behalf of the Special Olympics in Northern Virginia and the Down Syndrome Association of Northern Virginia (DSANV), we would like to invite you to participate or be a sponsor of the Sixth Annual Golf Tournament.
The Tournament will take place on June 14, 2010 at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Virginia starting at 12:00 pm. This annual event attracts several hundred attendees and includes a lunch, dinner reception and raffle.
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Timber frame construction is since 1991 a topic of intense investigation at Cordes Holzbau, as the energy and environmental center Deister was created. So already the foundations were laid early, which was still less common wood frame construction to completely dominate in Germany and establish appropriate detailed knowledge along with business colleagues.
This is attested by the quality mark wooden building, which received one of the first companies in Germany, our company, which is now supplemented by the RAL quality mark awarded.
From the extensive experience, a number of benefits can be derived:
Do you like watching once in selected references in the timber frame , the we have selected from a wide variety of projects. Your contacts for timber frame will be happy to answer your questions.
Other plus points of our house concept made in a short construction period of 3.5 months. For your personal priorities and desires the Konzekt allows a great freedom in planning, since only the ground floor a central wall is load bearing. The attic is completely free support.
The timber-frame wall consists of quality-controlled construction timber (KVH) 6/20 cm 62.5 cm in height, with insulation thickness of 20 cm, WLZ 035,
with insulation thickness of 20 cm, WLZ 035 , planked on the outside with 15 mm MDF (medium density fiberboard) and from the inside with a 15 mm OSB plate (oriented strand board).
The exterior walls on the top floor are two shells: the façade is a high-quality timber panel base (22mm) – cover (22 mm) – formwork to your sample from the high quality wood: larch clad / Douglas fir.
reduction of heating energy: Especially in winter is due to the large temperature difference between the building interior and the exterior air exchange due to the thermal buoyancy instead. The heated indoor air flows in the upper part of the building through leaks in the building envelope to the outside (exfiltration), while in the lower part of the building cold air leaking through the building envelope nachströmt (infiltration). For a comfortable living environment, the inflowing cold air must be heated so that is heated by this unwanted air exchange more than necessary. As a result, the increase of heating costs.
Summer heat protection:
Following the motto "What is good against the cold, is also good against heat," stay well-insulated houses on hot summer days in around 3 ° -5 ° C cooler than the outside temperature. However, the outside air – or even the hot air under the roof tiles – get into the house, it can be even hotter in the house than outside.
avoid drafts:
By thermal buoyancy (see point 1 above) or wind effects may cause discomfort due to nachströmender cold air that makes itself through drafts or pools of cold air (cold air in the foot) noticeable. An airtight building envelope prevents train.
improve air quality and the quality of housing for people with allergies:
An airtight envelope around each individual apartment prevents comes from neighboring dwellings or the basement "bad" air into the living area. It is avoided that odor, dust or mildew-laden air travels unimpeded. Polluted air decreases the air quality. For allergy sufferers, it is particularly important that the building envelope is airtight. In a leaky building envelope occur pollutants to be filtered out through special filters in the supply air of the ventilation system in the building. The uncontrolled air exchange reduces the effect of the special filter.
Improved noise protection:
A leaky building envelope leads to a higher sound (noise) loading of the residents. Through joints and cracks, which are traversed by air, the sound can propagate. Noise reduces the quality of living.
avoid structural damage:
In the cold season warm air passes through the leaks in the building envelope to the outside and cools off in this way. Since warm air can hold more moisture than cold air, will fail due to the cooling of condensate in the construction. There will damp areas that lead to the formation of mold and can cause structural damage.
Optimum operating conditions for ventilation systems:
For proper operation of the ventilation system can not be guaranteed with a leaky building envelope. It may, depending on the distribution of leakage, result in a "short-circuit ventilation", ie Leaks in the air spaces act as air intakes, so that the planned supply and Überströmräume are not or insufficiently ventilated. This is particularly problematic in ventilation systems with heat recovery. The air does not pass through the heat exchanger into the building, and can thus not be used for heat recovery. Only an airtight building envelope provides the optimal operation of the ventilation system!
To study the permeability to air of a building envelope printing test is carried out for the entire building. Here, a stationary pressure difference is built to the environment within the heated area of a building. This leads to the general term 'differential pressure method'. The most common measuring equipment for such studies is blower door (door blowing), which is why it is also called the 'blower door method'.
For blower door equipment includes a blower with an adjustable air-tight frame and a nylon fabric may be incorporated in the frame of an outer door. A speed control for the fan and various orifice plates, the flow delivered by the fan to be adjusted in a wide range of relevant building size and leakage.
The instrumentation also includes a pressure gauge that measures the pressure difference between the interior of the building and its surroundings, as well as a device for determining the flow rate, which is sponsored by the fan.
The investigation of a building with the Blower Door has two objectives:
1 Determination of air change rate n50.
For this purpose, the flow rate is determined, which is necessary for the maintenance of 50 Pa pressure difference. Dividing this value by the volume of air of the examined building, so you get the n50 value. It is used internationally for the assessment of air tightness. An n50 value of 3 per hour (in character 3 / h), for example, that at 50 Pa pressure difference, the air volume of the building is changed three times per hour.
2 Location of the remaining leaks.
For this purpose, a vacuum of approximately 50 Pa is adjusted to the fan in the building. When this pressure difference can be detected in significant air leakage currents. The detection of an air flow by measuring the flow rate with a thermal anemometer. Since the air flow can be felt clearly hand, leakage can also be sensed with a rapid leak detection. In special cases, the use of a mist generator or an infrared camera may be required.
The individual steps for the implementation and evaluation of a blower door measurement are specified in the ISO 9972nd This international standard is currently being prepared with some changes and additions as a European standard (EN ISO 9972). It will deal with the following points:
The ISO 9972 contains no limits on the air tightness of buildings. Values for the n50 value have been included in the DIN 4108 Part 7 since November 1996.
There is excerpts: If measurements of the air tightness of buildings or parts of buildings is carried out, the 9972 measured according to ISO air flow should not be at a pressure difference between the inside and outside of 50 Pa
in buildings with natural ventilation: not exceed based on the air Volume 3 h-1 …
in buildings with exhaust installations (even simple exhaust ventilation): based on the air volume does not exceed 1 h-1.
The value of building exhaust air system technology has been eased in July 1998 through a notice in the Federal Gazette on the value of 1.5 / h.
In the heat protection regulation, the general requirement is included that the construction joints should be sealed 'permanently airtight according to the state of the art'.


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Racing mako sharks is the latest ingenious idea to come out of the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova SouthEastern University, in Nova Scotia (Canada). The race has one simple rule, the shark that travels the furthest in 6 months wins!
Of course that shark doesn't win anything itself and sadly doesn't know what a pioneering star he/she has become. But the Guy Harvey Research Institute wins big in that it found a way to fund research into mako sharks, and all it took them was finding an angle to attract investment from companies wanting to take part in this unique race. The lives of the sharks becomes a race with one easy to gauge metric (distance travelled) that is easy to understand and has a visual perspective that is easy to display.
Companies who decide to invest get to own the naming rights of the shark on the Guy Harvey Great Shark Race website. They then can follow the race in near real time. Thousands of people viewing the race will see their name and if they win then they get even more advertising through media but also win a Guy Harvey painting plus a fishing vacation in the Florida Keys for two.
The idea of racing sharks is quite possibly a masterstroke and it would be interesting to see if the idea could grow into something bigger, such as go pro styled camera filming mounted on the shark and other ways to measure the sharks success like weight increase and fish captured. From a viewing perspective it is equally fun to log onto the website and view the paths these mako sharks have taken as well as getting information on their size and gender which could then be used for science projects.
The other added x factor that marks this race apart from just about every other race is that these mako sharks face a very real threat of being captured and in this case we are not talking about being taken hostage. For instance this race is not an anomaly as far as GHRI is concerned as dating back to 2009, out of the 49 sharks they had tagged, 12 were captured. Two of the original starting eleven sadly won't be finishing the race and as you might have guessed it isn't because they pulled out due to a flat tire. With a little less than half the race remaining, it will be interesting to see if the remaining "competitors" can cross the finish line.


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Chip Childs
Membership Information:Member Since: 2017
Spouse:Jennifer Childs
Employment:Job Title: President and CEO
Company: Sky West, Inc.
Location: Utah, United States
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Russell (Chip) Childs is the president and CEO of SkyWest Airlines. He formerly served as vice president–controller. Prior to his employment with SkyWest, Chip worked in public accounting for five and a half years as an audit manager, where he assisted many large corporations with financial accounting and SEC reporting. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics and master's degree in accounting from BYU. Chip's family resides in St. George, Utah. Chip and Jennifer have three sons and a daughter.