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If any image describes the Electric Room's scene last night at Jason Wu's after party for his spring 2014 runway show, it's Jessica Paré entering the venue dancing while pumping her arms up in the air, almost triumphantly. There was plenty to celebrate, after all, and the man of the hour looked on cracking up at Paré while cozying on a couch with Maria Sharapova. Both girls were at Wu's show earlier in the day, which debuted a sexy spring wardrobe: all-ivory sportswear paired with sequined separates, filmy sheer silk dresses, tailored suits, and head-turning mermaid gowns.
"I feel great. I really do. I just loved this show so much. It did go according to plan and so effortlessly. It felt so right and I was so happy about it," he told ELLE.com. While it was all too easy to lose him in a crowd of adoring friends, we managed to ask about the collection—particularly the glitzy beaded pieces matched with more casual knits. "To me the two were never separate," he said, "Sequins are sportswear for me." As for the all-cream color scheme? "It's an elegant color. We can't forget that ivory and grey, soft colors, can feel so beautiful!" the designer explained before getting whisked away to the DJ booth. At least we got his song request for the night, "'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk is always a favorite! I mean, that song is always good!" he said.
Despite being a first-timer at Wu's runway show (she was in New York for her gig as a Porsche brand ambassador) Sharapova waxed poetic about the designer. "He understands a woman's body. I think that's why so many women are fans of him. He creates silhouettes for all different types of women. He's a perfectionist," she said. The tennis champ naturally admired his ethic, too. "He works extremely hard at perfecting one single piece. When he's working I know how dedicated he is to his craft and that's just really inspiring."
Jessica Paré is more of a seasoned Wu fan after befriending him a year and a half ago. "I'll tell you what I've always loved about Jason's aesthetic is that it has such an ethereal femininity but it's very grounded in a really bold sexuality, which is what makes you feel like such a woman in his clothes," she said. "Every one of those things I was like 'Mine. I want it. I'm getting it!'" The Mad Men star joked with Wu, trying to remember the first time they met (it was at the CFDA Awards.) "It was love at first sight for me!" she laughed, "I think he's the perfect man."
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Massimo.guerrato necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
CareerBuilder, for those who doesn't know, is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract their most important asset - their people. Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com, is the largest in the U.S. with more than 23 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 31 million resumes.
The company has presence in more than 50 countries, and since 2008 we're also in Italy and Spain, where we are growing fast in the top spots of the online careers websites
Italian (and European) professionals that seek for a better opportunity or a new job.
Companies that are looking for new talents and need to attract candidates and get more visibility through CareerBuilder
Banners should look good, showing careerbuilder.it as a high-end "virtual boutique" for the Top jobs in our country. You can find more than 7000 jobs live on the website, so there's place for everyone to get a better career. IN any case, the target audience should be the most interesting talents and candidates in Italy.
We would like to see the logo in the banners, and a quick copy: "Il lavoro dei tuoi sogni ti aspetta".
We'd love to have the banners in an editable format (psd or any other) as well, so we can localize it for Spain and eventually test new wordings easily
We leave free space for designers to create something really cool and that impress users. I enclose our logo (it doesn't need to be in that colour, it can be also blended differently).
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The PARAGRAPH Project helps bring brands to market with clarity and inventiveness. As our name suggests, we are about a concise expression and a sequential approach to market research and brand strategy that yields a well-conceived story about a brand.
Our group is a diverse one, comprised of thinkers with backgrounds in design, advertising and strategic planning as well as anthropology, behavioral economics and fine art. This makes every day an interesting one at PARAGRAPH. We exist to provide an alternative to research and strategy that is either uninspired or over-intellectualized. We want to partner with people who want to be the best, to be associated with companies of quality and conscience and ethics. We want any company we partner with to represent our very best work and to be a part of a portfolio we never need to edit.


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TriShop necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1025 diseños de 215 diseñadores freelance.
TriShop is a retail store devoted to triathletes and aspiring triathletes. We will open in 2010 and intend to provide products, services, coaching, and race promotion. We want to be everywhere triathlon is, and we need a logo that is simple, clean, modern, and original.
Triathletes are a discerning, disciplined, and driven bunch (and maybe a little obsessive compulsive too). Our store (and TriShop's personality) will be an extension of that.
Our target audience is triathletes and those interested in triathlon, whether its for competition or just for the fitness and camaraderie that comes with being a triathlete. Our logo will be featured everywhere you can imagine - on prominent signage that will be seen by thousands, magazine advertisements, web pages, car window stickers, business cards, shirts, bike jerseys, bikes, triathlon suits, and so on. We want our logo to become synonymous with triathlon.
The TriShop logo needs to have instant appeal and elegant simplicity.
No cute triathlon swim/bike/run graphics are necessary. We like clean lines, clarity, simplicity, and elegance. We want a logo that transcends our store front and that can, assuming the world domination plan goes like we hope, look good everywhere we place it.
Our logo needs to be something people will remember and that will be easily identifiable in virtually any context. We are basically open to anything creative that blows our compression socks off.
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In 1955, clam diggers on a Port Gardner beach wore fedoras. In January '69, the Snohomish River rose so high that people escaped homes in boats. And a month later, on Feb. 9, 1969, a crowd at Paine Field watched the first takeoff of a Boeing 747.
Local historians know all this. Now, with new online access to old Herald photos and other historical pictures, we can all see our region's past.
One photo at a time, Sno-Isle Libraries is telling the area's story through its Digitize Our Community History Project. More than 500 images are available online, at www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos.
They include 235 Everett Herald photos, dating from the early 1950s through 1970. Much older pictures were made available to Sno-Isle by historical societies in Snohomish, Darrington, Edmonds and Langley.
Colleen Brazil, Sno-Isle's content access manager, said the project began when the agency received a $5,435 grant from the Washington State Library Rural Heritage Program more than a year ago. That money was used to digitize South Whidbey Historical Society pictures, with help from the Langley Library.
The Langley Collection, 195 pictures, shows Freeland settlers, the 1911 Langley High School baseball team, and a portrait of Joseph Whidbey, the first European to circumnavigate Whidbey Island.
After the Langley work, project leaders applied for a $20,000 Sno-Isle Libraries Strategic Initiatives Grant, which paid for hardware, software and computer servers to create an ongoing digital archive.
Staff at Sno-Isle branches worked with volunteers from the Darrington Historical Society, the Edmonds Historical Society, the Snohomish Historical Society and the South Whidbey Historical Society.
It was a different story with photos from The Everett Herald, as the paper was known for decades.
"We were approached by Sno-Isle to provide access," said Josh O'Connor, publisher of The Daily Herald. The newspaper was preparing to move from downtown Everett to its new offices on 41st Street. Before the move, file cabinets filled with Herald images were taken to the Sound Publishing Inc. facility near Paine Field.
O'Connor said he and Neal Pattison, The Herald's executive editor, had discussed ways to provide more public access to the newspaper's work, covering more than a century of local history. The Everett Public Library has the newspaper on microfilm, back to 1901.
Brazil said O'Connor and Pattison met with Cheryl Telford, Sno-Isle Libraries strategic partnership manager, to discuss how to include Herald pictures in the archiving project. "We talked about what we had been doing with the other groups," Brazil said. Someone was needed to do the work — scanning and providing captions — that historical society volunteers had done with their pictures.
"That type of stewardship, culling through all of this information, was a daunting task," O'Connor said.
With The Herald pictures, that task was accomplished by Von Flake, a University of Washington student working on his master's degree in library and information science. "It was a directed field work opportunity," said Flake, 46, who also has a work-study job at the Lynnwood Library.
Flake spent several months on the project. He "harvested" photos at the Sound Publishing site, then did the scanning and created digital files at the Sno-Isle Libraries Service Center near Marysville. "We were limited to two or three file cabinets loaded with images," Flake said. Pictures from the 1950s through 1970 were in the best order, and had descriptions.
O'Connor said the most organized files coincide with years when The Herald had a librarian on its staff. Nearly all the pictures in The Herald collection, which Sound Publishing still owns, were taken by Jim Leo and Ken Knudson.
At the Sno-Isle Libraries Service Center today, partners in the photo project will celebrate its first year. Organizations interested in sharing historical photos are welcome at the 1 p.m. event.
The Darrington collection shows early-day loggers and giant cedars. The Brackett residence and the Yost family are among highlights of the Edmonds photos. The Snohomish pictures show a First Street butcher shop and the old bicycle tree. And from The Herald are parades, floods, train disasters, and day-to-day life.
"They are invaluable," Flake said. "They record moments in time."
Julie Muhlstein: 425-339-3460; email@example.com.
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View photos from Sno-Isle Libraries' Digitize Our Community History Project at: www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos
Along with the Everett Herald Collection, there are collections from historical societies in Darrington, Edmonds, Snohomish and Langley. Groups interested in applying to have historical photos included in Sno-Isle's collection are invited to an information session at 1 p.m. today at the Sno-Isle Service Center, 7312 35th Ave. NE, Tulalip. Or contact Colleen Brazil, 360-651-7046 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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A juicy burger, a thick steak, buttery corn on the cob—these barbecue basics will never go out of style. But the grill is actually suited for much more than just meat and the occasional veggie. Get creative with these delicious barbecuing ideas.
- Have you ever considered firing up the grill for breakfast? Whip up your favorite French toast recipe and cook it on the grill. Heartier breads like a baguette may hold up better. While you're at it, crisp up bacon and potatoes for a smoky twist on your favorite morning sides.
- When we think grilled vegetables, we think corn, asparagus and bell peppers, but lettuce is also a surprisingly good candidate. Cut heads of romaine in half lengthwise, brush with olive oil, and grill to add a little charred flavor to your next Caesar salad.
- If you've never roasted or grilled a garlic head, you're missing out. Take an entire head of garlic and slice off the pointed end, exposing all of the individual cloves. Toss with olive oil, season and then grill in a foil packet. Eat with veggies, meat or even by itself.
- If you love a crisp crust, then you'll love a pizza made on the barbecue. Form premade pizza dough into a crust, coat with olive oil and crisp it up. Then add your favorite toppings and put it back on the grill till the cheese is melted.
- Fruit can be a great option for grilling, whether it's for dessert or a main course accompaniment. Grill watermelon and toss with balsamic and cheese for a summer salad, or toss peaches with brown sugar and vanilla extract to grill up a tasty dessert.
- Grill slices of an already baked cake like angel food or pound cake just long enough to get char marks, about a minute on each side. Serve with grilled fruit and whipped cream for a summery, simple dessert.
Final tip: Some hard cheeses like provolone or halloumi will char up on the grill without getting too melted. Serve warm with a baguette and fruit preserves.


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Profits from selling U.S. liquefied natural gas abroad may be elusive, belying the $60 billion race for export licenses as the price gap between Asia and North America shrinks from record levels.
The difference between U.S. and Asian gas is poised to drop by more than 60 percent by 2020, leaving exporters facing a loss of as much as $6 million per tanker, according to calculations by Bloomberg based on data from Rice University in Houston. The U.S. share of the global LNG market will be in "single digits," according to Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), which has stakes in more than 25 percent of the world's liquefaction capacity.
As many as 16 applications for LNG export projects from Texas to Maryland and Oregon are being considered by the U.S. Department of Energy as companies look to follow Cheniere Energy Inc. (LNG) in exploiting record price differentials between the U.S. and Japan, the world's largest consumer.
Buyers from Tokyo to London are seeking supplies in the U.S., where prices are less than a third of those in Europe and a fifth of Asian costs.
"The idea that the world will be flooded with spot LNG is not going to happen," said Frank Harris, global head of LNG at Wood Mackenzie Ltd. in Edinburgh. "Returns are already getting squeezed. By the end of the decade, the LNG market looks better supplied, and spot cargoes from the U.S. won't necessarily look so attractive."
Losses Increasing
U.S. natural gas has risen 70 percent from a decade-low in April to $3.24 a million British thermal units in electronic trading today on the New York Mercantile Exchange. U.S. exports to Asia would help damp the Platts Japan-Korea Marker, a daily price assessment of Asia-bound LNG known as JKM, to a mean of $8.08 through 2020, from $17.80 yesterday, Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy said in a study.
The average cost of shipping U.S. natural gas to Japan will be $9.05 from 2011 to 2020, assuming a U.S. price of $3.98, leaving a loss of $0.96 per million Btu taking into account the costs of transportation and liquefaction, the study shows.
Losses widen to $1.77 per million Btu in the decade to 2030 as the price at Louisiana's Henry Hub, the U.S. benchmark, rises to an average $4.69 and the JKM falls to $7.98, according to the study, published Aug. 10.
The loss to the U.K. is $0.49 through 2020 and $1.23 from 2021 to 2030. U.K. next-month gas, the European benchmark, today rose 0.7 percent to the equivalent of $10.90 on London's ICE Futures Europe exchange.
Domestic Use
"Applications for export licenses are around 29 billion cubic feet a day," Kenneth B. Medlock III, the study's author, said from Houston. That's equivalent to about 48 percent of domestic consumption in October, according to the Energy Department. "I doubt we'll see more than 6 billion," he said.
The economic rationale for delivering LNG to Asia would be significantly diminished at a U.S. price of about $6 per million Btu, while in Europe it disappears at about $5, according to James, Henderson, a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
Interest in U.S. LNG exports blossomed in recent years as growing supplies of gas from previously inaccessible shale rocks and the fourth-warmest winter on record cut Henry Hub prices to a 10-year low of $1.902 per million Btu on April 19 from as high as $13.69 in 2008.
The average Japanese LNG price was $16.92 in 2012 to October, peaking at $18.07 in July, according to data from the nation's Finance Ministry.
Prices soared from a mean of $9.04 in 2009 as utilities were forced to switch to natural gas in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster that led to the temporary closure of all the nation's reactors.
Price Gaps
"The arbitrage opportunity that is driving actors to seek export permits and licenses for new liquefaction facilities is based on current price differentials," said Iain Grant, a manager of special projects at Athabasca University in Canada who has written about the political economy of natural gas trading.
"But should we expect either the low Henry Hub prices or the high Japanese prices to last long enough to justify the massive effort that is underway to capitalize on it?"
Cheniere, based in Houston, is investing about $5 billion in its 18 million metric ton facility at Sabine Pass in Louisiana, which in April became the first facility in almost half a century to receive approval to export to countries that the U.S. doesn't have a free trade agreement with. Shipments are scheduled to start in late 2015 with 11 percent of capacity available to the spot market and the rest tied up in long-term contracts with Korea Gas Corp., GAIL India Ltd. (GAIL) and BG Group Plc. (BG/)
Louisiana Coast
Main Pass Energy Hub LLC applied in September for authorization to export 3.22 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day, or 23.5 million tons of LNG per year, from a site 16 miles off the Louisiana coast, according to the Energy Department's website. Gulf Coast LNG Export LLC in January 2012 requested permission to build a 2.8 billion cubic feet LNG terminal at the Port of Brownsville, Texas.
In total, 29.21 billion cubic feet a day of projects have applied for licenses to export LNG, according to the Energy Department. Assuming investment costs similar to those at Sabine Pass, they have a value of almost $60 billion.
Half of North America's 120 million tons a year of LNG export potential will be built, Andy Brown, upstream director at Shell, the world's largest shipping operator of the fuel, told reporters On Dec. 5. The U.S. share of the global LNG market will be "modest," he said.
The world's biggest LNG tankers, known as Q-Max vessels, can carry as much as 122,000 tons of the liquid fuel, or about 6.3 trillion Btu of natural gas.
NERA Report
All outstanding applications were waiting until after a Department of Energy report into the probable effect on domestic prices published on Dec. 5. Exports would have "net economic benefits" for the U.S., according to the study, written by NERA Economic Consulting.
While U.S. regulators decide how much gas they are prepared to send overseas, export projects are coming online from Australia to Angola. Some 221 billion cubic meters of annual liquefaction capacity will be added to the 413 billion currently in existence over the next four years, according to Barclays Plc. Of that, 115 billion will come from Australia.
U.S. natural gas prices will rise to $4.80 and $8.70 per million Btu by 2035 with a reference case of $6.30, according to the NERA study. The price increases by 14 percent above the base case by 2020 and 6.4 percent by 2035 assuming low expansion of LNG exports. Under a high and rapid expansion scenario, the increase will be 20 percent by 2020 and 14 percent by 2035.
'Different Economics'
Long-term buyers of U.S. LNG who invest in shipping and liquefaction infrastructure may be able to make significant savings, according to Jonathan Whitehead, global head of commodities markets at Societe Generale SA in London.
"It's completely different economics for spot versus long- term contracts," he said. "A spot-shipping rate of $3 to Japan from the U.S. Gulf coast is probably true, but over 20 years it's probably $1 and a bit. Liquefaction might be $2."
Korea Gas (036460), the world's biggest LNG-buying company, agreed last January to buy LNG from Sabine Pass based on Henry Hub prices. The contract may help the utility pay 30 percent less than supplies in Asia, which are traditionally indexed to oil, the state-owned company said in April. Exports to Asia would cost $9.35 per million Btu, based on a Henry Hub price of $3, Cheniere said last year.
The introduction of contracts linked to Henry Hub instead of crude will help speed a move away from oil indexation, according to the Oxford Institute's Henderson.
"Even if the volumes of North American gas that actually arrive in Asia and Europe are relatively small, their impact on prices and price formation across the globe could be significant and long-lasting," he said.


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The two times of the year when it's almost mandatory to raise a glass and get a little tipsy – Christmas and New Year – has been and gone, hopefully leaving behind memories of good times.
But with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UK's chief medical officer looking set to revise the safe-drinking levels downwards, Scotland's drinking habits have never seemed bleaker.
The latest report from MESAS (Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy), commissioned by the Scottish Government through NHS Scotland, shows that 10.7 litres of pure alcohol was sold per adult in Scotland in 2014, the equivalent of 41 bottles of vodka for every adult.
And the impact can be devastating.
Health experts and leading charities now warn that current guidelines are "almost certainly unsafe" due to the risk of damage to the liver and other organs by regular alcohol consumption up to the limit and warned that new evidence linking alcohol to cancers has been a "game changer."
Recent research by Harvard School of Public Health in the USA has found that regular consumption of more than 15gm of alcohol a day in post-menopausal women can increase the rate of breast cancer, and Rajiv Jalan, professor of hepatology at University College London has found that damage could be caused by men drinking just three units of alcohol per day, which is within the current guidelines
Amanda McLean, director of World Cancer Research Fund UK, said: "People need to be aware that there is strong evidence that alcohol increases the risk of five different cancers including bowel, breast and liver.
"We recommend avoiding alcohol as much as possible as any amount increases your risk of cancer. If you are going to drink then there are ways you can be 'alcohol savvy'."
This includes having a bottle of beer instead of a pint, mixing alcohol with a mixer and having a glass of water between each alcoholic drink.
"Come January we hope that people will quit drinking alcohol and give their bodies a well-deserved break," she added.
Jim Bett, of Fife Alcohol Support Service, one of the many alcohol advice bodies throughout Scotland, said: "The recent downward trend in the amount of alcohol sold per adult in Scotland appears to have stalled.
"With alcohol now being approximately 75 per cent cheaper than it was 30 years ago, we are now seeing an increase in deaths caused by alcohol.
"There were 1152 alcohol-related deaths in Scotland in 2014, an increase of 5% compared to 2013, and it particularly sad to see so many Scots die from alcohol-related diseases when they are only in their 40s and 50s."
Department of Health guidelines state that women should drink no more than two to three units of alcohol per day, which is equivalent to a standard 175ml glass of wine, and that men no more than three to four units, where three units is equivalent to a pint of strong beer and four units is two cans of beer.
Jim Bett said: "It looks like the guidelines are going to be dropped by a significant level. The current guidelines have been in place since 1995 and in light of more recent research, appear to be out of date."
The MESAS figures revealed that 72 per cent of alcohol in Scotland was sold via off-sales, the highest market share since records began 1994, and alcohol sales were 18 per cent higher than in England and Wales, mainly due to higher sales of lower-priced alcohol, particularly vodka, through supermarkets and off-licences. More than half of off-sales alcohol was sold at less than 50p per unit.
Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said that the figures were disappointing and underlined the importance of addressing the affordability of alcohol through minimum unit pricing.
But while Scotland's track record is sobering, drinking too much is a UK-wide problem and it is not the 20-somethings who are risking their health by having a glass – or bottle – too many.
Research by international body OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) found that UK women aged 45-64 is the fastest growing group of drinkers who are putting their health at risk, with 10 per cent of women in this age group drinking five times a week compared to 2 per cent of women aged 18-24.
A survey by alcohol education charity Drinkaware found that almost a third of women with grown-up children are drinking more than their adult offspring – and nine out of 10 are not
worried about the consequences.
Furthermore, a quarter of these mums said they had drunk more since their children left home.
The findings also highlighted that 95 per cent of the mums surveyed were not worried about their level of drinking and did not believe that it was impairing their health.
However, adults aged 18-24 were nearly twice as likely to be concerned about the negative effects of drinking on their health.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, of Drinkaware, said: "While many believe it is the 20-somethings who are drinking too much, we are actually seeing an epidemic among British women aged 45-64.
"Women in this age group seem to be drinking more alcohol, more regularly – whether at home alone or out socialising. Many are unaware that a couple of glasses of wine each day can cause as much, if not more, damage than the binge drinking associated with many university students."
Have a problem? Help's just a call away
Advice on safe drinking levels can be confusing when it comes in terms of units.
Or perhaps you already know you have a problem with drink but can't stop on your own.
There are many places to look for advice and information.
Drinkaware, for example, offers a free app to work out and track your alcohol units – and the calories you're drinking.
If you have a problem with alcohol or simply want advice and support on cutting down how much you drink, there are bodies throughout Scotland just a telephone call away.
Alcohol Focus Scotland has region-by-region information on the services available – www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk or call 0800 7314314.
If someone in your family has a problem with alcohol, you can also get support. Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs has a directory of services throughout the country that you can tap into to get both professional advice and the help of a network of others in a similar position – www.sfad.org.uk or call 08080 101011.


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mHealth Knowledge connects you — global health professionals — to the people, products, and ideas that you need to do your mHealth work effectively. This curated portal of records hyperlink to the original source. To find evidence-based digital health research, go to mHealth Evidence, part of the suite of resources available via mHealth Knowledge.
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- Vous recherchez des ressources en français? Cliquez ici pour notre guide de planification de mHealth.
- mHealthKnowledge.org is the new home for the African Strategies for Health (ASH) Project's mHealth Compendium Database! More on the transition here.
- Find all presentations from the 2016 Global Digital Health Forum here. The mHealth Compendiums also remain available as full downloads in English, French, and Portuguese.
- New resource: WHO Monitoring and Evaluating Digital Health Intervention: A Practical Guide to Conducting Research and Assessment.
- The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development's Working Group on Digital Health, co-chaired by the Novartis Foundation and Nokia, has launched the report "Digital Health: A call for Government Leadership and Cooperation between ICT and Health.".
- New Resource: Making Content Meaningful: A Guide to Adapting Existing Global Health Content for Different Audiences
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- K4Health is happy to announce a new home for the archive of resources from the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) Global Project. Click here to read the final blog from Kirsten L. Gagnaire. All tools, resources and reports produced by the project may be found here or via search.
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See the stories behind the numbers in our interactive review at EDCin2016.com.
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Thanks Obamacare! Due to rising cost of healthcare, Sears will be dropping their employee healthcare and instead offer them cash to buy their own on the free market.
That may sound good. But one must take into account several factors.
First, they all will have to pay taxes on said money. Where before they didn't.
Second, private coverage is no where near as cost effective as getting it from your employer.
Third, it is not expected to be enough, or keep up with rising cost.
Olive Garden is following them.
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7...n_1920275.html"It's a convention of wolves over there with all the snarling, snapping, and baring of teeth."
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This was entirely predictable. Obamacare was an abomination, and it's only going to get worse.
You knew it was going to happen. Another thing that no one realizes is that just getting our prescriptions filled will become more and more difficult. I've been so upset with Walgreen's, as it's been a nightmare. I found out from a technician in the pharmacy at my local stores that they don't stock much meds and often run out. In cost cutting efforts, they carry a limited stock and have to shuttle meds between stores or order it and have it delivered. That explains the waits, the partial fills where I have to go back, the many people almost screaming at the desk when someone from the store (or they think is from the store) tells them they have it and come pick it up and when they get there, it isn't there.
They have some sort of central ordering system. Now it has finally sunk in that I'm talking to someone who could be in India, who tells me it will be ready in an hour. It happened the other day. I was furious when I came in to pick the meds up, shopped a little so I wouldn't be bugging the pharmacist prematurely, only to finally go up to the counter to pick up the meds and the order hadn't been placed. I almost lost it as it's been happening with frequent regularity. My insurance mandates Walgreens or CVS or Wal-Mart. I won't go to the local Wal-Mart, too far and too crummy.
Has anyone dealt with CVS?
I heard that most of this is because the government has cut reimbursements so much and Wal-Mart undercuts with prices.
This is a mess already, and hold on to your hats, boys and girls, this is going to be an increasingly bumpy ride. Thanks Mr Obama----NOT!!!!!!!!!!
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What's scary is that the employees of Sears don't know what is about to happen to their health care insurance. My brother-in-law is a repairman that goes on house calls for Sears and, when I asked him about this, he hadn't heard anything about it.
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Liberalism is what the stupid think is smart.
I hope the Sears and other employees wise up and get out and vote Obama out.
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Here I have two choices. A local pharmacy that has basicly set up its own monoply, or a wal-mart. Next time it comes for meds, I'm trying Wal-mart. I'm sure the other has gotten way out of wack on their prices. That or I may see about going out of town to another pharacy like CVS."It's a convention of wolves over there with all the snarling, snapping, and baring of teeth."
Ron Paul Supporter Describing CU
When it was looking dicey that they would renew his insurance, I checked into Costco. I've found that if you're not using insurance, they are the most reasonable.
Glad to hear that CVS is fairly decent. I noticed Walgreen's has started some sort of a card program similar to CVS. I wish all of them would stop the games and just lower their prices. I guess Walgreen's had to get into that game to keep up with the competition. Obama probably won't be happy till all the large pharmacies (and mom and pop ones) go out of business. Then we can depend on the government. Won't that be fun. Oy!
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
My daughter uses CVS for her Rx and doesn't have a card. Says it qnd Costco sell RX at the same price for members and non-members.
I wouldn't know as except for getting my post hospital stuff I've been on mail order for years.
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You got what you deserve America. And Barry has much more in store for you. Get a dictionary. In a couple years everyone will be scrambling to learn the definition of "austerity measures". 0bamaPhone lady is going to be pissed.Be Not Afraid.
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Franklin Park Kite & Bike Festival
Join thousands of people in Boston's backyard -- Franklin Park -- to celebrate the arrival of spring at the annual Franklin Park Kite and Bike Festival.
Families with kids of all ages will gather on Saturday, May 18th, from 11-4pm, at the field near Ellicott Dale (near Shattuck Hospital) -- a new location -- to have fun exploring or gaining mastery in kite flying skills.
With some luck, May 18 will be a windy spring day, and colorful kites of various shapes and sizes will soar to new heights over the skies of Franklin Park. Kites will be available for purchase or you may make one in our kite-making workshop in the park.
For those whose who'd rather stay focused on the road, not the sky, bikes will be available to borrow, with local bike advocacy groups giving tours of the park. Everyone is invited to participate in a variety of activities, and enjoy a snack from a vendor, or personal picnic or BBQ, and as if on cue, Touch106.1FM will be on site to provide the music!
Discover Roxbury is a non-profit organization that promotes civic engagement and economic development in Roxbury through tours and events, which leverage the neighborhood's artistic, cultural, historic, and culinary assets.


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Request delegate access to reseller customer accounts
If you need to help a customer manage their account, you can request delegate access via the Reseller Control Center (RCC). Having delegate access allows you to manage your customer's account without needing the account's password.
Required: In order to access your customer's accounts, you will need to have two-step authentication enabled on your GoDaddy account.
Request access to customer accounts through the Reseller Control Center (RCC)
Note: You will only need to request access for existing customers, or if you want to enable purchasing power via delegate access. All new customers will have limited access automatically enabled.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account and open your Reseller Control Center.
- Access your Customer Lookup report by clicking Reports and then Customer Lookup.
- Click on the customer name for the account that you want to request delegate access.
- Click Request Access, and then select the level of access that you want to your customer's account.
- Once your customer approves your delegate access request, you will be able to launch into their accounts from the RCC.


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Court Hears Arguments in Guatemalan Adoption Case
Court Hears Arguments in Guatemalan Adoption Case
The Missouri Court of Appeals is expected to rule within two months whether a woman from Guatemala should regain custody of her biological child, or if the now 6-year-old boy should stay with a Missouri couple he has lived with since he was about 1 year old.
The child's mother, Encarnacion Bail Romero, asked the appeals court on Monday to overturn a ruling that terminated her parental rights and allowed a Carthage couple to adopt the boy. The couple is asking the court to uphold the earlier ruling that Bail Romero abandoned and neglected her child after she was caught and jailed after an immigration sweep at a Barry County poultry plant in 2007, The Joplin Globe reported.
Greene County Judge David Jones determined in July 2012 that Bail Romero had abandoned her son after she was detained on immigration violations in 2007 and later jailed on identity theft charges. The judge allowed the Carthage couple, Seth and Melinda Moser, to adopt the child.
The child started living with the Mosers in October 2007, and they were able to adopt the boy after a Jasper County court judge terminated Romero's parental rights in 2008. That judge ruled that the mother had not tried to maintain contact or provide for the child while in prison.
Romero's lawyers contend the adoption process was flawed and that Romero was not given sufficient legal representation before losing custody of her son, who is a U.S. citizen.
An appeals panel overturned the Jasper County decision, saying the lower court lacked authority to grant the adoption. The appellate court said state laws were intended "to prohibit the indiscriminate transfer of children, meaning that someone could not pass a child around like chattel."
The state Supreme Court then ruled in January 2011 that state adoption laws were not followed and ordered a new trial regarding Bail Romero's parental rights.
Then, in 2012, Jones again severed Bail Romero's parental rights and allowed the Mosers to adopt the child for a second time.
"The Supreme Court said the earlier ruling was a travesty, and we think that continues," Bail Romero's attorney, Curtis Woods, said during Monday's hearing. "The child was not eligible for adoption. That issue is still at the forefront, and it's one of fundamental liberty."
He said no evidence showed that Romero willfully abandoned the boy after her arrest and she made several telephone calls to ask about his welfare while she was in prison.
Many of Bail Romero's supporters, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, have contended that her parental rights were severed because she was in the country illegally.
However, attorney Richard Schnake, representing the Mosers, said recordings of phone calls made by the mother from jail showed that she asked about the child's welfare only twice and wanted to send him to Guatemala, where her two other children live, so she could stay in the U.S. and work.
The Supreme Court also noted in its ruling that Bail Romero has not seen her two other children, ages 8 and 14, in seven years, that she seldom sought available social services for her child, and that she made no arrangements for him in case she was jailed, even though she had been deported before.
Court Hears Arguments in Guatemalan Adoption Case, September 11, 2013, LegalNews.com


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Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange serves more than 11,000 members, and the public at large, through its mission to preserve the world's diverse but endangered garden heritage for future generations. Founded in 1975, the nonprofit organization consists of a network of people committed to collecting, conserving, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants. Seed Savers houses its collection of 25,000 heirloom seeds on a 890-acre farm near Decorah, Iowa. The organization is the largest non-governmental seed bank in the U.S.
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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have finalized their divorce.
The 35-year-old actor and 51-year-old actress have officially ended their marriage and are both legally single, E! News confirms. Their final divorce papers were recently filed in a L.A. court.
Kutcher and Moore, have taken almost a year to make their divorce final and were reportedly negotiating their finances.
Guess now Kutcher and Moore can enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday without the stress of their divorce in the back of their minds.
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Kutcher and Moore married on Sept. 24, 2005. They announced their separation in late 2011 and Kutcher filed for divorce December 2012 citing irreconcilable differences.
Kutcher and his "That '70s Show" co-star Mila Kunis have been dating since April 2012. Kunis recently sparked engagement rumors when she stepped out in L.A. in September wearing a ring on her engagement finger.
As for Moore, she began dating restaurateur Harry Morton (who's 20 years her junior) around the beginning of 2013. They dated for about six months before Moore moved on to romancing Harry's father, restaurant mogul Peter Morton.
--Reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental vaccine containing tiny molecules of an immune-system protein was able to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice, raising hope that it might work in people, Canadian researchers said on Thursday.
Type 1 diabetes is caused when certain white blood cells, called T cells, go haywire and begin attacking insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
But not all T cells cause harm, said Dr. Pere Santamaria of the University of Calgary in Alberta, whose study appears in the journal Immunity.
"Essentially, there is an internal tug-of-war between aggressive T cells that want to cause the disease and weaker T cells that want to stop it from occurring," Santamaria said in a statement.
Santamaria's team wanted to find a way to counteract the harmful autoimmune response without compromising general immunity.
They developed a so-called nanovaccine — particles many times smaller than a cell and coated with protein fragments specific to type 1 diabetes. These were bound to molecules that play a critical role in presenting these protein fragments to T cells.
When the team gave the vaccine to mice with an early form of type 1 diabetes, they found the vaccine slowed the progression of the disease. And in mice that had full-blown diabetes, the vaccine helped restore normal blood sugar levels.
The team said the vaccine appears to work by expanding the number of T cells working to fight off the attack of aggressive T cells that destroy the insulin-producing beta cells.
And they said the findings may lend clues about how to reverse other autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis.
Teodora Staeva of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation said in a statement the study was promising because the treatment worked only on the immune cells specifically focused on aggressively destroying beta cells, without compromising the rest of the immune system.
Type 1, formerly called juvenile diabetes, represents about 10 percent of the estimated 180 million cases of diabetes globally. Most diabetics have type 2, the kind linked with a rich diet and lack of exercise.
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The Board Member's Book: Making a Difference in Voluntary Organizations
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Capital Market Success: What Matters?
In the last year, hundreds of beverage companies have found themselves either looking for capital or a buyer. Neither is easy. What should they do to improve their odds of success? When raising capital of selling a company, what matters to the parties with the cash? To get to that "Promised Land", what should entrepreneurs and their boards keep top-of-mind when handling key strategic decisions? All companies require capital at some point and investors need a return on their investment, likely through selling the company (the famous "exit") or other methods like paying dividends and going public. In the last year, Silverwood Partners, where I work, has concluded multiple successful exclusive advisory engagements in the sale of beverage companies (Function Drinks to Sunsweet Growers) and capital raises (Zola, Maverick Brands/Sunkist Naturals).
As an investment banker focused on the consumer sector, the two primary professional activities that I spend my time with include assisting companies as they raise capital, and mergers and acquisitions (assisting companies in finding buyers or in finding businesses to buy). I am certainly not the only person qualified to talk about what investors and buyers look for, but as the deals above indicate, when it comes to beverage deals, our firm is in the thick of the market's activity.
Here are some thoughts on what helps guide us. Through our experience, we have identified several identifiable traits of companies which assist in successfully raising capital or selling – and doing so at attractive prices. In this article, I'll discuss a few of those traits and relate them to successful transactions. The process of raising capital or selling a company creates a situation with multiple would-be investors and buyers poring over, assessing, and scrutinizing every data point, every strategic choice, and dissecting the company's marketplace performance. A good buyer leaves few stones unturned and few areas of weakness unexposed. Every investor and buyer looks for one reason to say no. Don't give them one. Focusing the strategic attention of the board and management on some of the key areas below could help sell the vision of what a company can become under new ownership or with new capital.
1. Go Deep, Not Wide
In our view, one mistake often repeated by companies is the sense that a product needs to be everywhere overnight (a "land grab"). But distribution takes money. Building a brand takes time. And one of the most important pieces of data in any capital process is how fast a product sells off the shelf, sometimes referred to as velocity or same-store sales. Creating velocity requires time and effort – demos, guerilla marketing, creative merchandising, and other things, but if a brand can't show same-store-sales growth over time, it is a brand in decline. Overall sales may go up because the product enters new distribution, but it's the quality of those sales that matters more. Companies that are able to concentrate on creating a story of same-store growth are companies that also create a story that investors imagine they can replicate. So perhaps start by succeeding in limited markets, with key retailers to create a growth story.
2. Leave Holes
The corollary to not having flooded every distribution channel and geography is that major growth opportunities remain for the buyer or new investor. Items that can be sold in multiple channels with many doors, such as salty snacks and beverages, are often the ones that fetch the highest valuations. If a product can be sold in C stores, club, grocery, coffee and sandwich shops, etc… then a buyer knows they can easily ramp by turning on their sales and distribution power – if they see success in one or more channels or geographies, they can more easily see the path forward.
3. Capital Efficiency
In the current economic environment, accessing capital can be difficult – sometimes extremely difficult. Successful companies attractive to buyers and investors are often those that present the least amount of perceived risk. One way to minimize risk is to minimize the capital required to grow. The goal is to lessen the dollars required (paid-in capital) to achieve revenue. Simply put, often the lower the ratio of paid-in capital to revenue, the higher the value a company can achieve. Companies with high ratios may be heading towards down rounds (future rounds at lower share prices) or the inability to raise capital. For example, which company should get a higher valuation, the one where $1 million of investment achieves $1 million of sales or the one that can grow to $5 million with the same capital?
4. Had One, Want Another
Products which can be consumed quickly often lead to higher velocity and stronger sales. Companies can assess their current product lineup to see if there are ways to increase consumption patterns. Can a single-serve package (or convenient multi-single serve packages) be created? Can markets for new usage occasions be found? No one wants to be the product that stays in the refrigerator for six months; weekly replenishment creates more sales.
5. Making Money Matters
Simply put, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) matters. That means that gross margin matters. Startups may not have scale, but that does not mean that negative margins should be acceptable – at any stage. Margins can improve over time, but many of the best businesses are those that are designed to make money quickly (remember capital efficiency?). Companies are expected to lose money at first (see next point below), but the path to profitability must be clear.
6. Fuel the Growth, Don't Fill the Hole
As stated above, every investor expects and knows that early-stage company will experience losses. This time period, often described as the "Valley of Death," requires companies to invest in product development, team, inventory and more ahead of revenue. It's that process that describes the plunge into the Valley – and more and more, institutional investors have become reticent to fund that plunge; instead, they want their money to fuel growth, not fill a large hole of losses. Many of the points above (capital efficiency, velocity) are intertwined with this point, but the importance of this in today's capital markets to institutional investors cannot be overstated.
7. Create Permission
For branded products, part of selling a growth vision is demonstrating where a brand can go. Management may not have all the answers yet in this regard, but the best brands are those that have strong market permission and the ability to extend into adjacent product areas (Honest, Kashi, Odwalla, Bear Naked, Rising Moon Organics…). Again, sell the vision and don't create one that is overly limiting at the outset.
8. Been There, Done That
The right team minimizes investor/acquirer risk, and that team is typically a complete, domain experienced group that has already made money for investors. In addition, investors tend to like humble, experienced entrepreneurs who know what they know and also know what they don't know. Making money for investors the first time can be the easiest ticket towards raising money for the second go-round. Those investors need to invest their returns somewhere…why not back with you?
These are just a few of the characteristics of companies that are more likely to conclude successful capital market transactions. Others include market leadership (strong number one or solid number two), customer diversification, and product price point relative to competition and company size. If you can keep the numbers looking like they're going in your favor, you've got a chance. But as you can see, there's a lot of work to be done when it comes to making the process come out in your favor.
Michael Burgmaier is a managing director at Silverwood Partners, LLC.


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In a fit of frustration over snowfall last week, I marched out of the house in my snow boots and hacked off some forsythia branches that line my property.
In a fit of frustration over snowfall last week, I marched out of the house in my snow boots and hacked off some forsythia branches that line my property.
The girls were all home from school yet again because of the weather.
I am longing for warmer weather.
When I came back in the house with my arms filled with branches, Olivia smiled and said how she loves that I force the buds to open every winter.
She adores a little bit of spring in the house.
Grape hyacinth bulbs in a mason jar on the kitchen table have also added a bit of desperately needed color.
So have the daffodils that David brought home for me for Valentine's Day.
I dislike roses. They are pretty but not my thing. Bring me daffodils or daisies and you have my heart. David knows this after many years together and always gets it right.
Even Molly is sick of the snow. Sick of the cold. Sick of bundling up.
She gets herself dressed proudly every day and as of late she keeps putting on bathing suits. Yesterday she came out in her cherry one-piece.
The other day it was her monkey bikini. She keeps asking if today is summer. Ugh. I wish it was, baby.
The dry air in the house is killing my nose. And the sound of the heat running makes me stressed.
I just want it off for the season and the windows open.
I know it won't be much longer and last winter we really were spoiled around here but some days the winter seems to drag on and on.
Heavy sweaters and one too many dinners including gravy makes me dream of days outside grilling and sitting in the warm sun. Sleeping with the windows open. Listening to my wind chimes.
So we wait patiently for the first signs of spring.
Molly asked me if the trees were going to get their leaves back. She was worried about them.
I assured her that they always do. Every year.
And the birds come back and all of the bugs and our sweet little chipmunks too.
Our pretty daffodil bulbs that I planted so long ago have begun pushing out of the soil beneath the snow as we speak.
We can't see them yet but soon enough they will be here.
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Vancouver Airport Authority's subsidiary exits investment in UK airport
Apr 24, 2014, 14:13 ET
Vantage Airport Group divests all interest in Liverpool John Lennon Airport
RICHMOND, BC, April 24, 2014 /CNW/ - Vancouver Airport Authority (YVR), the parent company of Vantage Airport Group (Vantage), today announced the subsidiary's exit from Liverpool John Lennon Airport after four years in the UK market. Vantage continues to operate nine airports around the world and remains well-positioned for new acquisitions and future growth.
"Vancouver Airport Authority was faced with a difficult decision: invest further funds in a venture that has already lost a significant amount of equity, or exit the project altogether," said Craig Richmond, President & CEO Vancouver Airport Authority. "The right business decision for the Airport Authority and Vantage was to exit the investment in Liverpool John Lennon Airport."
Vantage significantly improved the customer experience and airline operations at Liverpool Airport, however the airport was challenged by the poor economic climate, tough regulatory regime and a highly competitive market.
YVR reported a $49.7 million write-down and loss on this investment in its 2013 consolidated financial statements, which include the results of all of YVR's subsidiaries. The operational and financial position of YVR remains unaffected. YVR maintains a AA credit rating; this is the second-highest airport rating in the world. Funds for the initial investment in Liverpool came from the 50 per cent sale of YVR's shares in Vantage Airport Group in 2008 to Citi Infrastructure Investors. Today, YVR retains 50 per cent ownership in Vantage and appoints four of the eight Directors to its Board. Vantage remains a strong investment for Vancouver Airport Authority.
Vancouver Airport Authority created Vantage Airport Group in 1994 to market the expertise, operating philosophies and leading edge systems developed at YVR. This model provides excellent opportunities to learn from other airports, undertake personnel development and showcase the skillsets of British Columbia to the world. During the past 20 years, Vantage has owned and operated more than 25 airports. Its current portfolio includes airports in Cyprus, Jamaica, Chile, The Bahamas and Canadian airports in Fort St John, Kamloops, Hamilton and Moncton. Vantage is actively pursuing new airport opportunities.
About Vancouver Airport Authority
Vancouver Airport Authority is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that manages Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Canada's second busiest airport, YVR served a record 17.97 million passengers in 2013. Fifty-three airlines serve YVR, connecting people and businesses to more than 109 non-stop destinations worldwide. Vancouver Airport Authority is a dedicated community partner and in 2013 donated more than $700,000 to local organizations. YVR was named best airport in North America for the fifth year in a row by Skytrax World Airport Awards, as voted on by over 12 million passengers. We are committed to creating an airport that British Columbia can be proud of: a premier global gateway, local economic generator and community contributor.
SOURCE: Vancouver Airport Authority
For further information: YVR Media Relations, 604.880.9815; email@example.com, www.yvr.ca, Twitter: @yvrairport


text: The Coca-Cola London Eye offers breathtaking views of London from high above the River Thames. See Big Ben towering above the Houses of Parliament, follow St. James Park as it sweeps down to Buckingham Palace. Is the Queen at home? You'll spot the flag flying if she is. The Eye offers a constantly changing 360 degree view of London. A Standard Ticket Experience on the London Eye lasts for approximately 30 minutes, the time it takes for the London Eye to revolve once completely. Relax in one of the 32 modern glass capsules, with Samsung Galaxy tablets to help you locate the key landmarks, and enjoy the London skyline at your leisure. The London Eye 4D is a groundbreaking 3D film with in-theatre effects, such as wind, bubbles and mist, to make the 4D experience. The film itself is a touching story of a little girl in London with her father. Her view of famous London landmarks is obscured by people and traffic, but a seagull draws her attention to the London Eye and her visit finally gives her an amazing view of the city. Colourful parties inside the capsule, time lapse of the London Eye day and night and a spectacular firework display all add up to an emotional and entertaining experience, the perfect prelude to the London Eye itself. Freesale offers complete flexibility to individual travelers (1-14 people) as there is no need to commit to a date and time in advance when booking. This in turn gives you the ability to 'go as you please' and make the best of your time in London. The London Eye is located next door to SEA LIFE London Aquarium, and with the London Eye 4D Experience and London Eye River Cruise Experience it is easy to build a half or full day itinerary in the area for your guests. Why not visit the SeaLife London Aquarium and London Dungeon, also located at County Hall, after enjoying the Coca-Cola London Eye?


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If you're an avid reader of our blog, then you know that we love to highlight products that make your life easier. A few members of our staff are here today to share some Quirky product reviews of a few of their favorite items from Quirky.com. You're sure to find something for everyone, from carryall backpacks to smart home gadgets.
I needed a charging station that would eliminate the endless clutter of several USB chargers and wires. The Converge 4-port USB charging station is perfect for my phone, iPad mini and camera. It has everything I need and is easy to use. The Converge is a simple and straightforward device that I would recommend to anyone who needs to get rid of all the clutter. -ManLing He
The Pivot Power Genius is an intro to smart home automaton. It's easy to set up, well-made, and functional with a bendable design and two "smart" sockets. Simply download the free Wink app, set your phone to full brightness and enjoy a 60 second light show that pairs your Pivot Power Genius to your phone.
My favorite feature is the ability to schedule the two "smart" sockets to turn on/off at any time, from anywhere using the Wink app–perfect for lazy days or simple home security. Overall, I would recommend the Pivot Power Genius in place of traditional surge protectors due to its ease of use, smart design and awesome build quality. -Chris Spohrer
The Shake backpack for kids comes with a mesh-bottom to help shake out all the sand after a relaxing day at the beach. I wasn't able to use it at the beach, so I decided to put it to the test at a very crowded music festival this past weekend. My final say is that this backpack is not only for the beach but great for day trips, picnics or a hike. It's very small and compact so it's easy to carry around.
What really impressed me was how roomy and durable it was! I stuffed everything in it to last me through the night (jacket, scarf, wallet, glasses, water bottle, etc.) and still had a good amount of space to put my friend's things in as well. I definitely recommend this backpack to everyone and not just kids. -Nicole Lim
The Contort Power with portable power and cord management is very sturdy. It is also very convenient as it has two USB port connections and a three-prong plug still that you can use at the same time. The built-in cable management helps, but could be flawed because it only drops to the left. The design allows the Contort Power to fit in your already crowded power strip. -Danny Ferreira
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Season of Giving Makes Wabash College Specialby Joe Klen • December 14, 2005 Share:
There is something special about this time of year on the Wabash campus. Students have completed their final exams and papers, winter sports teams have started their seasons, and the first snowfall of the year has come and gone. Indeed, the end of the year and the season of giving is upon us.
It is at this time of year that we take a moment to look back at the last year and also to think about how fortunate we are at Wabash College.
This fall has been marked by events that are not only memorable, but in many ways inspirational for the Wabash community. Students worked together to raise money and provide relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina. They raised money for women's shelters in Indianapolis and Crawfordsville. Jeremy Robinson '04 became Wabash's eighth Rhoades Scholar. Wabash's National Survey of Student engagement scores were off-the-charts. The football team went 11-1 and clinched their second NCAC championship in five years. And more recently, Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded Wabash $20.5 million worth of grants for the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
What is really significant about this time of year is we realize that it is Wabash students who benefit so much by these accomplishments and during this 'Season of Giving.' Gifts to the Annual Fund by alumni, friends, parents, faculty, and staff have a significant impact on Wabash students and their experience. In fact, over 60 percent of those who give in support of Wabash students give to the College's Annual Fund by December 31st.
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I would say yes. We take all kinds of things on faith because we have to. Things that seem obvious but are essentially unprovable. Just to take one example, I believe in a world external to my mind, populated by real people, not figments of my imagination. I can't prove it, but I take it on faith. ''
Another thing I take on faith is that I can trust causality to be regular. To be sure, there are occasions when causality seems to fail, but I assume that there are explanations vindicating causality. If I assume causality is really irregular, then there's no reason to be logical, is there?
The difference between that kind of faith is that it doesn't form the basis for baseless toxic activities. It doesn't lead me to discriminate against or kill people who don't share my beliefs. In fact, it has no real consequences at all other than to help me live day-to-day.
Believing on faith that there is an all knowing, all powerful, very judgmental, king-like being looming above everything can be used to discriminate falsely between good and bad people with punishments ranging from shunning to eternal hellfire.
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** "Faith" has no more place in science than do 'causality' or 'external world'
Excuse my being brief -- 1) "Faith" in the xian context means 'trust'. 2) Neither the so-called "external" world nor so-called universal (deterministic) causality have anything to do with scientific inquiry, theory creation, experimentation, or theory testing.... 3) "Causality" and logical implication are not related -- they belong to different conceptual categories.
1) The Latin bible uses 'fides' to translate the Greek 'pistis' -- trust. In God we trust -- says the dollar bill but that's not true -- the believer trusts some god-proxy, an "authoritative" text or an "authoritative" person who in the first instance may be a parent indulging in indoctrination.
Greeks held pistis to be the lowest form of knowledge -- trusting someone who says that 'X is true' is vouching for the truth of X. 'Jesus arose from the dead' is a true statement because eyewitnesses to the resurrected Jesus said so; and their testimony has been handed down to us. >> Xians inverting the Greek epistemological scale put "faith" forward as superior to "knowledge".
2) Kant taught that he needed to make room for faith (Glaube) by showing the limits of reason. Since reason acting upon sense information can never guarantee a Law of science -- there must be a context which allows for universal determinism required by law likeness.
Thus Kant opined that without a context providing for spatial relations and without a context for a universal time -- no infinite space or infinite time (in a newtonian interpretation) could arise just from the action of reason upon empirical information.
Unfortunately for Kant, his contexts -- "categories" to structure reason are meaningless since quantum mechanics offers only a probabilistic causality and newtonianism is false as Einstein's General Relativity demonstrates. That is, there are in fact no laws of science -- only probable uniformities.
Philosophy can comment on science only when its practitioners learn science -- the other way round through armchair metaphysics (or worse theology) finally died when newtonianism failed account for radioactivity, black body radiation, photoelectric effect, gravitation, and the large-scale structure of the universe.
3) Obviously, indeterminism does not make a mockery of logic. Probable uniformities bring events into relationship with one another in spacetime. Logic, on the other hand, is an axiomatic system of statements from which can be derived theorems -- the ancient plane geometry is but one of many logics characterized by logical (not causal) necessity linking its theorems.
1) "Faith" in the xian context means 'trust'. 2) Neither the so-called "external" world nor so-called universal (deterministic) causality have anything to do with scientific inquiry, theory creation, experimentation, or theory testing.... 3) "Causality" and logical implication are not related -- they belong to different conceptual categories.
1) Religious people don't trust that God exists, they hold it as an unassailable, unexamined belief.
2) And yet, how many scientists would take the position of philosophical idealism, which is the notion that the world is mental, composed of ideas, not concrete things bandied about by various forces. Most, if not all, would choose the side of materialism, which holds that there is a world outside the mind, not controlled by mind (this would be the observable world, not the world of quantum events). Science has a materialistic bias.
3) True, because causality is believed to be factually true (on faith) whereas logical implication carries with it only the necessity of an internally consistent system based on a set of basic principles which form the basic constructs of the system. (Now, of course, Goedel showed us that even a seemingly self-consistent system of math or logic results in
Philosophy can comment on science only when its practitioners learn science -- the other way round through armchair metaphysics (or worse theology) finally died when newtonianism failed account for radioactivity, black body radiation, photoelectric effect, gravitation, and the large-scale structure of the universe.
I see that as a rule you'd like to see observed, but not much more than that.
It's absurd to think that only a geologically-trained philosopher or logician can criticize geology's methods. I can't think of an instance where philosophers have criticized results in any other way than by criticizing its methodologies. Methodologies involve mathematics of logic.
There is an old "chicken and egg" argument as to whether math is a subset of logic or vice versa. My view is that they are largely indistinguishable from each other. When doing math, you are always depending on logic of some sort. Mathematics without logic is hard to imagine, so indistinguishable are they from each other.
Scientists can only practice science when they learn logic, which is a product of philosophy. Science, logic, and philosophy exist as a kind of three-ringed Venn diagram, with plenty of overlap and plenty of feeding off each other.
We also take on a kind of faith things we feel no need to question or which, if questioned, would call everything in question. Just as systems of mathematics are based on some set of assumed principles, so does any method of examining the world.
Suppose I live in the world of the Matrix movies. Despite the plot of the movie, if all of my perceptions are unreal and are fed to me by a super reality, where could I possibly go from there? If all of my perceptions are false, I'm insane in a sense.
So, I assume on faith some basic trust in my ability to perceive the world.
There was a discussion during a Philosophy of Science class several years ago. We were discussing the scientific method as a logic model of how the 'sciences' progress. We came to the question of falsefication, and started considering if the method was testable.
It was unclear if the method could satisfy even its own demands with a metatest. The method in recursion, a self referencing, can it survive? It might be that the 'scientific method', is more like a heuristic than an algorithm. Albeit, a very good one so far...;p).
My graduate course on philosophy of science really opened my eyes as to how science works. The attendance of some science graduate students auditing the course showed us that their eyes were opened as much as ours. Until then, even though they were proficient in scientific method, they had never really scrutinized it, and certainly never realized it rested on unexamined principles.
One has to start somewhere, and often that means by making some basic assumptions which seem reasonable. After that, you have to take a lot on faith. You can't get off the dime in science without accepting some philosophical (metaphysical) presuppositions. After that, your successes tend to keep you going and provide practical evidence that the faith you placed in those assumptions was justified. And yet, that isn't really proof. Proof has a finality and an unassailability to it that the mere accumulation of evidence does not.
First, choose a dictionary and trust its definition.
NOAD's (New Oxford American's) first definition is complete trust or confidence in someone or something. (Its remaining definitions refer to religion so I will ignore them.)
I will try another dictionary; NOAD's first definition persuades me that faith is dangerous and/or foolish.
And yet, do we not have complete trust and confidence in many matters? That if I put water over an intense flame it will heat my soup pretty quickly. Seriously, do you put some soup in a pot, turn on the heat, and actually wonder if this will heat up your soup?
I just assume that things are stable, till they are not, then I test my expectations. Most of the time things are running smoothly, no worries, but there are the outlyers that can cause me to pause and revisit my understanding of how things 'work'. I just figure I am almost always in catchup mode with reality.
So, you have faith in things as they are until something were to cast doubt on that faith.
Yes generally, that seems to be about it. After 58 years, I seem to have a rather good working knowledge of things and people, but some details elude me. I do have the say that 'faith' is not quite the right term to apply. I think the term 'confidence' might be closer, but maybe I am mincing words?
No, I was thinking 'confidence' too, when I was reading. The deciding factor is the differentiation between "Trust, Faith and Belief". We use the terms interchangeably quite often, so its quite a grey area. If there was no such thing as "Trust" there would be no such word as "Promise".
The Faith that religion carries, is in something that cannot be experiences by the five senses, at any time. All the other trusts, beliefs, etc. become proven or are provable using our five senses, at some stage.
The OP mixes the two, for the purpose of debate. It is an interesting exercise, but I am not sure whether its an exercise in semantics or more than that. The kind of 'blind faith' that belongs to religion, with absolutely zero evidence, and quite a lot of contradicting elements is not really replicable outside of a religious or 'spiritual' interpretation.
We take some things on faith because there's no real alternative. There is no necessity to the faith the religious place in God.


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They can't. The games provide them with another source of income. Basically, you provide your name, address, etc. when you set up the card. Then every time you use the card, your purchases are recorded. Then drug stores, supermarkets, etc. collect this information under your own name and sell it to interested parties, like insurance companies. Your insurer uses that information to raise your rates.
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PLease note that I predicted that Walmart will actually be the driving force behind Single Payer before it's over. Walmart doesn't care if it has to pay premiums for National Health Insurance as long as everyone else does. McDonald's the same way. Both of these places take a lot of crap for the percentage of their employees who are on public assistance.
Note that this is not consistent with the lie that this will cost more money. It will not. Neither will the employers be off the hook for employee premiums- they will pay them into the Single Payer system.While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
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I got stuck working in a pharamcy today, someone called in sick. It was my choice, but they were slammed with customers, so I had to help them out, for 8 hours...lol Our competiton now closes early on Sunday so we had a last minute rush. The others now have to close early to make budget...if we were not open, customers would enjoy a 180 minute round trip to Las Vegas.
Today I had to fill a few prescriptions that our competiton did not have in stock. You can guess the names of the stores. Tomorrow will be really bad...it's the first of the month!
I urge everyone to utilize all the technology that the pharmacy chains offer from text messages when your prescription is ready, smart phone aps, and the chain's web pages to order and keep track of refills. Even just using one of these can really help. When I order my own refills I scan my bar codes with my phone.
Often what happens is when a refill is put in, there is a very slight, so very slight, drug interaction that requires a second look from a pharamcist and when they are busy they often don't see it in time to resolve it....it's usually a quick fix, but the filling of the prescription will not start until after that small glitch is taken care of....but in the long run, it's all part of the checks and balances for the patients safety. If I don't get a text message that my Rx is ready, I call the store. No wasted trips for me.
New pharmacy grads in Florida have a very difficult time finding a job. I know one pharmacist from Boca Raton, Florida that has 17 years experience that has been laid off three times in the past four years. Once for over a year...things are getting bad. Now she works as an independent contractor with no benefits.
Our Wal Mart tells people they need 72 hours to fill an Rx. Today I told people twenty minutes and every Rx was completley filled. We don't get special orders on the weekends. Throw in the 11 people waiting for flu shots when we opened the doors at 10 AM, a few pneumonia shot upsells, and a couple shingles vaccinations....on top of filling & selling over 200 prescritpions I think we did pretty good for just the three of us on a Sunday. Two techs and a pharmacist. The last two prescriptions I sold were for Hospice patients and the nurse did not have their case numbers yet....so I let those go at no charge. I know we will eventually get paid and I did not want the family have to worry about any more then they were already worrying about....
I'm pretty sure most pharmacy techs work just as hard, if not harder then most people on a Detroit assembly line. On top of having to interact with patients.
They had to start to offer $4 drugs like Wal Mart. It's killing them. They close at 6 PM, the staff is still there at 10 PM trying to fill prescritptions. Both the husband and wife are pharmacists and they just opened a location in Las Vegas. On top of that, they deliver! They started to take some business from other pharmacies when they were new, but most of that business has came back. They can't keep up...they are having to give stuff away to get people in the door.
Medicare cut reimbursment rates in half on some medications and it takes them at least six months to get paid...
They keep hanging in and are very nice people. But it's tough for an independent doctor or pharmacist to make it any more.
They are closed on Sunday, but I noticed they were there today working.....it's killing them.
I think in 10 years, Sears and K-Mart will not exist.
Sears may exist as a hardware and appliance store only. Everytime I go into a K-Mart, it's dead. There are few shoppers and few employees. I can't imagine they are making much money.
I am surprised that Sears is still around; as well as K-Mart. Neither one is as profitable as they used to be. I go to each one maybe once a year and that is it.
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When I went there, I was surprised to see the good prices they had on kids' clothes. They're about giving away a lot of the stuff. Whenever I need something, I'll check out the Sears. I like the fact that they support our troops with contributions, plus carry name brands. SR even found some casual shirts he liked there.
When I see a place almost giving away the stuff, though, I get nervous. These are desperate times for retailers.
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I get my prescriptions filled at Target, happy with their service.
I agree with Noonie here, Sears and K-mart will be casualties of this economy.
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When I play backyard cricket, you cannot throw stuff at other people. It will result in two runs. These "things" incldue little gumnuts off tree, grass, shoes (yes, shoes) and other things. the rule was brought in at the arrival of the shoe, as it happened I got out, after Sanka threw a shoe at me. He won the innings due to this, with the worst bowler (Matt) still haveing 3 balls to go, off which I neede 1 run.
Well one day, needing 4 runs to rake the lead (and virtaully win) and to reach my double century (dont ask, wierd scoring system), Nick got me out. I was so dissapointed, knowing I had lost.
The next bastman in was David, whos average was only twenty and high score was 104. Yes we actually calculate this. He had no hope of reaching 200, so Nick (the one who got me out) was going to win.
Sanka (the shoe guy) then decided he didnt want Nick to win and threw 4 gumnuts at me! results in 8 runs, winning me the match and giving me my first double centrury. Nick was so dissapointed and annoyed at Sanka that he began yelling and screaming at him.
Since then the throwing rule has changed, as have the scoring system. Well, the thrpowing rule hasnt really cganged, just the scoring system making less attractive. Now bowling is included to your score, subtracting it from a HUGE batting total, sometimes over 300, but most scores end up at about 60. This meaning that if you throw something at someone, they get 10 runs and you have ten runs against your bowling, giving you a lower final score.
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