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Animal Attraction for Halloween 2012/
Animal costumes are always popular attire at Halloween, both for kids and adults. An interesting thing happens, though, in the transition from children's costume to adult costume – the attire often becomes sexy. While this is often to get attention, once you learn these fascinating (and scary!) sex facts about animals, the shift from cute cat to sexy kitty makes sense in a whole new way.
Speaking of sexy kitties, did you know that when a male cat penetrates a female cat, he bites into the back of her neck? The female is further held in place by his penis, which becomes lodged inside her with its horny barbs. This will ensure ejaculation, but there's also speculation that the "rough play" may initiate her ovulation. Ouch!
But "bee" glad you're not the poor male drone bee. When he mates with the Queen Bee, his genitals are ripped off after orgasm, leaving him to die within hours. Or how about the male red-back spider? After copulating with a female red-back spider, he selflessly somersaults into her mouth to become her post-coital meal. Those males make the ultimate sacrifice for their offspring!
Lest you think all animal sex facts are painful, let's switch gears to the humorous. In a creative attempt to encourage panda mating in captivity, Chinese zookeepers got film of other pandas having sex and played this panda porn for their panda bears. Did this aphrodisiac work? Yes! However, it's unknown whether their increased passion was from the visual or auditory cues.
This final animal sex fact about the male anglerfish is perfectly ghastly in the spirit of Halloween. The male anglerfish is tiny compared to his female counterpart, and reproduces by attaching his teeth to the female's side. Over time, his face becomes absorbed into the female's body, until he eventually becomes just a reproductive appendage. Talk about attachment issues!
So this Halloween, consider the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration. If you're taking a classic animal costume and imbuing it with sexy vibes, read up on the sexual predilections of your chosen animal. Then add an air of credibility to your choice to sexualize the animal, by including an unexpected detail (such as a hacksaw for a Queen Bee!). Impress your friends, because whether sexy or scary, animals really know how to get it on.
(Published in the October, 2012, issue of Pacific San Diego Magazine.)
~Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus, San Diego, CA -- Sociologist, Sex Therapist, Sexologist, Sexuality Speaker


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On Tuesday 11th Septemeber Stephanie Phillips and Berenice Smith will be making their way to London. They will be guests on Soho Radio with Bibi Lynch and talking all things World Childless Week.
If you are not in the vacinity of the radio waves you can listen in live online via the Soho Radio website.
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The Art Of Adventure with Derek Loudermilk
DEREK LOUDERMILK | Professional Adventurer, former Pro Cyclist, and host of the Art of Adventure and Uncharted Family podcasts.
After near death experience with a blood clot in his brain, Derek dropped out of his Microbiology PhD program and began traveling full time to learn about and teach how adventure can lead to a more fulfilling life.
In his quest to understand the future of entrepreneurship around the world, Derek Loudermilk has traveled to every US state, 35 countries, and lived on four continents. He is the author of Conductors: Orchestrate the Next Big Thing.
Derek is a proud papa to his new baby son, Axel, and travels the world as a family with his partner Heidi.


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Political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability when the actions of the Avengers lead to collateral damage. The new status quo deeply divides members of the team. Captain America (Chris Evans) believes superheroes should remain free to defend humanity without government interference. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) sharply disagrees and supports oversight. As the debate escalates into an all-out feud, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) must pick a side.


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Lean Leadership
UNC Health Care initiative included a written care plan and a whiteboard in every room with daily goals to help keep the patient focused on his or her discharge date. So there was a focus on communication with patients. They had also daily care plan meetings and improved communications based on centralized, accessible data. According to Scholl, creating a fast, easy-to-use plan of care was the essence BCG's work. Within first 24 hours following admission, the doctor now checks off the care and education a patient will need. With that care plan in place, the care manager and nurse know exactly what to do. Another part of lean initiative was a top-down review of day-to-day administrative procedures, and identifying common problems, bottlenecks in another areas. No one had to work more hours. UNC Health Care launched a lean pilot program that is increasing efficiency and enabling the hospital to serve more patients. No new hires were needed. UNC health care did more with less! This tool work so well because a hospital with 800 beds that cuts average length by just 10% can free up nearly 80 beds per year, enabling the delivery of more than 4000 additional procedures and boosting operating profit by almost $30 million.
b.What are five ways that businesses in the lean transformation might utilize "excess" people (i.e. those people made available as wasted time/motion is removed from the system) rather than letting them go from the company
(1) Reduce overtime
(2) Put the extra people on Kaizens (to get future payback)
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Sometimes you have to stop for a moment and write all the wonderful things happening in your life, so today I am grateful for :
- Those two girlies. They make me happy.
- The sun, it has been so generous lately! My freckles are back in business.
- Mini-festivals on campus. Listening to live music, eating burgers and drinking Pimm's out in the sun is pretty cool to me.
- Spas. Heaven on earth let me tell you. Facials and scalp massage just make it for me. I just wish I could go everyday!! Today was a good one!
- Friends who come unexpected with dinner and a contagious energy for packing. Just what I needed to get me started!
- University. It has taught me SO much. I would say more about life and myself than law. But that's the best isn't it? Throwing bags of lecture and seminar papers made me realise how much things have changed in 3 years. Still can't believe it is the end...
- My family. I don't want to get all mushy but sometimes you've just got to say it. All of this would have never happened without my amazing and supportive parents.
- Bright purple lipstick. It goes well with my freckles and tanned skin.
- Small road trips across the English countryside in a convertible, loud music and my hair in the warm summer air.
- Ice lollies. They're cool.


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Tips On Securing the Best Cell Phone Tower Deal.
People that have land that the cell phone carrier wants to lease are usually in a dilemma of how much their land is worthy. High chances are that this is the first time that they are doing this and that means that there is no experience at all. The fact that different lands are worth different amounts actually makes it even harder because they will not have references. A good number of people however thinks that their land is the same as the neighbors and that means that they should be paid the dame but that is a mistake because there is a very good chance that they are getting underpaid. These are some of the situations where you will need a cell phone lease expert by your side to secure you a good deal that you will enjoy for the next 20-30 years to come.
There are however a good number of them out there and that means that getting the best will not be a walk in the park especially when you do not have an idea what to look for. The experience is a good place to start, but it is important that you make sure that it is a recent one. When they have worked with the cell phone carriers recently then that means that they are updated because these things keep changing with time and the technology. The longer they have been doing this also, the better the chances that they will get a better deal.
Make sure that you are sure that you will be getting the services from the actual people that you hired and not their representatives. The people that they have served are the ones that can tell you of the kind of services that you will get before you invest bin the expert. This is the most unbiased information that you will get because these people have no conflict of interest. Talk to people that have gotten the services, references that you can get from the company and the also the online testimonials.
The prices is the other thing that you should consider. Do not be wooed by those cheap services. A Company with the highest quality that charges the least will be better since the quality and the prices usually go hand in hand. Among the other thing would be how you are paying and many more that you can check on their site. The best will secure you the best deal that you will enjoy for like a decade to come.
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You can still get the 75K bonus miles offer and there are several working links.
You could check this Flyertalk thread for all the available links or here is one of the working link for 75K miles signup bonus.
Note that this card has an annual fee of $450, which is not waived for the first year. Some of the vast benefits of this card include
- Admirals Club membership for you with guest privileges
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- 10,000 Elite Qualifying Miles from American Airlines after $40,000 spent in purchases each calendar year
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Investment Bank Morgan Stanley reported fourth-quarter earnings of 78 cents per share, or $870 million, ahead of the analyst consensus expectations of 66 cents a share, compiled by Thomson Financial/First Call.
"The favorable variance entirely reflected a low compensation accrual which fell from 45 percent in the third quarter to 31 percent in the fourth quarter -- we assume Morgan management was very tight with bonus accruals and paid these heavily with stock/options," Merrill analyst Judah Kraushaar said.
The earnings were 28 percent below year-ago levels. Fourth-quarter revenue fell 17 percent to $4.6 billion.
Morgan Stanley shares rose 4.2 percent on Wednesday, up $2.23 to $55.79.
The company MWD said its securities business posted net income of $530 million, a 41 percent decline vs. fourth quarter 2000.
Institutional sales and trading net revenue fell 3 percent to $1.4 billion. Fixed-income revenue was strong, aided by gains in government debt and interest-rate derivatives trading.
The firm said equities' revenue fell from year ago levels "primarily due to lower customer flows, a continuing decline in primary issuance, and a significant decrease in volatility."
The investment management business quarterly net fell 10 percent, to $147 million from $164 million a year ago.
The firm said retail assets fell $12 billion during the quarter and $35 billion from a year ago -- to stand at $280 billion. Institutional assets were unchanged during the quarter but declined $6 billion over the past 12 months to stand at $179 billion.
Credit services net income rose 31 percent from a year ago to $193 million.
"The increase was driven by higher net interest income and lower marketing and business development expenses, partially offset by an increase in net charge-offs. In addition, merchant and card-member fees were up from fourth quarter 2000 levels," Morgan said in a press release.


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What is prostatitis?
Prostatitis is a condition that involves inflammation in the prostate and sometimes the area around it. It can also be an inflammation with no sign of infection. Just 5% to 10% of cases are caused by bacterial infection. And it can be classified into acute, chronic, asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis, and chronic pelvic pain syndrome, each with a range of symptoms. Some men with the disease will experience severe pain and others will not be bothered. However, the symptoms of the disease do have a significant impact on a man's quality of life.
What is masturbation?
Masturbation is the self-sexual stimulation of the genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation may involve hands, fingers, everyday objects, sex toys or combinations of these.
Prostatitis and masturbation
Actually, in clinic, masturbation does have some effects to men's health. For example, it can drain out some fluid, and make men get some relief; it is also one of the best ways we can learn about our sexuality; it can help us explore the types of touch we like the most and help us learn how to get excited and how to reach orgasm; and it can enhance our physical, mental, and sexual health and the health of our sexual relationships.
However, according to a recent publication, men who excessively masturbate witness an elevated level of prostate inflammation. Your prostate is charged with controlling the urine stream and producing the white, alkaline solution for semen. When you have excessive masturbation, the prostate overworks to prepare enough alkaline liquid for the next ejaculation. The over-use of the prostate leads to exhaustion and elevation in lactic acid, DHT, cortisol and prostaglandin E2.
According to Dr. Peng from Chongqing Medical University, a high level of lactic acid and free radical buildup occurs during an intense contraction of the pelvic muscles to ejaculate semen. This constant contraction leads to Prostatitis, known as prostate inflammation.
According to Dr. Peng from Chongqing Medical University, a high level of lactic acid and free radical buildup occurs during an intense contraction of the pelvic muscles to ejaculate semen. This constant contraction leads to Prostatitis, known as prostate inflammation.
For sex and masturbation to occur, the body must produce the necessary neurochemicals to power the sex drive and erectile capacity. During and after sex, the body releases hormones, neurotransmitters and steroids to relax muscles pump blood and bind to testosterone. When a man engages in too much sex or masturbation, the body will over produce DHT, cortisol and prostaglandin E2, stress hormones that impede the liver's detoxification process and ruin the sex organs. DHT, when found in excess, inflames the liver and prostate, causing chronic Prostatitis.
Meanwhile, the enzymes and anti-oxidative mechanisms that normally recycle lactic acid, free radical and excessive metabolite waste become altered. Young adults who masturbate in excess see the toxic buildup remain high because of a weakened liver detoxification process damaged by O.M, so prostatitis can be easily induced.
All in all, measurable masturbation has certain profit, while over masturbation does bring much harm to your body like prostatitis, once suffering from this disease, patients can get a cure with Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill. Besides, men had better avoid eating too much sspicy food and holding back urine, and do some exercise for enhancing the immunity.


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Turin, September 22-26
32 Via dei birrai will take part in Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, the most important international event dedicated to food and gastronomy.
For the first time ever, the event will take place in the streets, squares and parks of Turin.
Where: Valentino Park and Po River – Stand F273
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Netherlands Head Coach Ryan Campbell saw enough to be happy with parts of his side's performance against Ireland where they were competitive despite showing signs of rustiness after two months on the sidelines.
Half centuries from Ben Cooper (73) and Roelof van der Merwe (63) took the Dutch to a competitive 264 for 7 - useful cameos too by Wesley Barresi (41), Pieter Seelaar (27*) and skipper Peter Borren (22).
However, the bowling unit failed to fire, allowing too many boundary balls as the Irish won by five wickets.
"I thought we beaten by a very professional, well oiled outfit," said Campbell. "I was happy with parts of our game, but we were very rusty in the three elements of the game.
"Im very pleased to get the match under our belt and we know we need to improve if we are to compete with Ireland in Round 1 of WCQ in Zimbabwe next month.
"In saying that, I think you witnessed a Netherlands team that even when not at our best, was still in the game and competed well, something that we wouldnt have done not long ago."
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New BST-events in June and July
News from Jun 21, 2016
The Berlin Sustainability Talk is a brownbag meeting, where mainly researchers and PhD-Candidates of the Environmental Policy Research Centre present their curent work.
It is open to the public.
Upcoming events during the summer semester are:
Freie Universität Berlin
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Also tweak CodeGenCXX/arm-swiftcall.cpp to still pass now that it checks more.
Good catch! Is there a reasonable way to just make FileCheck itself enforce this, or does that cause too many false positives with tests that are using e.g. x86_64 as the entire prefix?
If we were starting over again, I think ideally the check-prefix would be unconditionally treated as flagging something for FileCheck, so that any sort of unrecognized command after it would produce an error. I doubt there's any real use-case for writing e.g. CHECK in a test case. But that's no longer possible because of the widespread idiom of using things like CHECK-NATIVE as conditionally-enabled prefixes, which is of course ambiguous with typoing a command like CHECK-NEXT or thinking that CHECK-CONT should exist. But it'd be nice to get as close to that as we can without rewriting ten thousand FileCheck tests.
There has been some progress recently on better FileCheck diagnosis of likely test-writing issues, although to date it mostly requires the human to ask "what is going on here?" explicitly. I can see adding a check to detect the missing-colon-on-otherwise-valid-directive case (including the usual suffixes), and my guess is that isn't too likely to cause excessive churn. The deeper we go into typo-detection the more likely we are to trip over false positives, but this small step seems like a worthy change.
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101 Circus Games for Children: Juggling - Clowning - Balancing Acts - Acrobatics - Animal Numbers
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Review for 101 Circus games for childrenI had hoped it would be a book that is more accessible for the children themselves. This is definitely for teachers or people who work with kids a lot. I can¿t imagine trying to control the kids enough for most of these to work and still be interesting to the kids. Some of the games are too short to be worth getting the extensive props needed. Some appear to me to be too dangerous for my kids. I did however find a lot of fun ideas to try. Some are simple enough for a parent to do with the kids, but these are few. For the most part it would require a lot of supervision and most of all organization. However, the games are well described, have appropriate warnings and are well indexed. I can see this being useful for camps or group activities.
I found this to be a nifty little book. It is NOT a circus arts book, rather, it is designed (and explicitly says so) as a physical activities book for children between the ages of 4 and 12 using circus related theme activities. The background of the author is in children's education, dance, and drama. The activities are described fairly broadly, and can easily be modified for local use. This is the kind of book that should be purchased by academic libraries with elementary education and/or physical education programs. Also, individual practitioners could add this to a general collection of activity books. The book does not list a lot of specifics about resources to use. I would expect an instructor would annotate this quite heavily with things like "Use the photocopy paper boxes in the faculty lounge" and the like.Understanding that the activities are targeted to a broad age group, certain activities might not seem particularly compelling (but if you're four years old they could be a blast). More room for annotations in a personal copy in this area (e.g., "The five year olds kept hitting their heads on the mats.").I really liked the overall organization of the book. Chapters are organized into four categories based on increasing age (the older the kid, the more advanced - and dangerous! - the activity). All activities are tagged with up to nine icons indicating recommended age, length of time for the activity, size of group, assistance required, large space required, physical contact, props required, music suggested, and (my favorite): "Game is potentially dangerous."Appendices include a rather sparse set of further references (3 books, 4 websites, a few suggestions for music). This book should not be seen as a resource guide.If you want to learn how to juggle, swallow swords, or balance on balls, this is not the appropriate work. If you work in a childcare setting or elementary school and want ideas to engage the little rug rats, this will do quite nicely.
I'd like to state in advance that I've been teaching the circus arts to children and adults for nearly 10 years. Most of my students do circus for fun, i.e. not to become professional performers, and so I mix a lot of different games into my teaching, both as warm-ups and in the context of the different circus disciplines (i.e. I have games for acrobatics, games for trapeze, games for juggling, etc).I was hoping that this book would provide more circus games, either involving the different circus apparatus or just circus-themed activities to do with my students. But it doesn't really do either... besides which I found most of the activities to be too young for the age range described -- or is the target audience just very maladroit? Many of the activities' time estimates seem off as well.Many of the "games" in this book are just simple acrobatic and juggling tricks. For example, in game n° 74, children can learn how to throw a piece of cloth into the air, and catch it again, in unison. I mean, really... they say that this is for over 10 year olds, but my 5 year old students can do that. And learning to throw a scarf and catch it, even with the more difficult variation of catching your neighbor's scarf, would never take 45 minutes. And the 9 years olds learn to juggle balls in exercise n° 68. So why are the 10 year olds still on one scarf?Other games include learning do a somersault/forward roll (and arrive flat on your back!) (n° 13), learning to spin a chinese plate (n° 100), how to balance on a rolla bolla (n° 75) or barrel (n° 101), how to do the wheelbarrow with a partner (for 10 year olds!) (n° 91). Some of the games aren't even activities, just things to put into a show -- such as a fake snake charming act (n° 44) which explains how to tie a snake to a string so that a hidden assistant can pull it out of a basket, and what music will go with the act. Another game (n° 49) requires "a circus pet" as a prop, and instructs the children to bring in their performing pets in order to create an act with them.The instructions in the Bed of Nails game (n° 57) show clearly that the author has never encountered a "real bed of nails". The instructions state that "you cannot, of course, let a child lie on a real bed of nails" -- when I was a kid the local science center had a bed of nails, in order to teach us about weight distribution. And yes, we had fun sitting on it!I did like some of the activities, especially those designed for the 4-7 year olds. n° 52 seems like a fun get-to-know-you game, though the age estimate is off -- even 4 year olds can do animals; n° 12, blatantly and admittedly copied from Cirque du Soleil, also sounds interesting -- though you'd have to get ahold of enough fabric. But most of the activities are just much too basic within a circus context -- and as very many of them require materials such as gym mats, stilts, gym rings, a trampoline, musical instruments, juggling materials, costumes, etc., they seem fairly useless outside of a circus/gym context as well.
Great idea, lots of options. I used to play "circus" when I was a child so I can imagine it having a market. Not sure how many of the games actually might work for kids, but it's a great assortment of ideas that could be used as a starting point for kid fun!


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Meals update - Q1 2015
Once again, we are humbled by all of the support from you ... to help us help some folks around the globe!
In the first quarter of 2015 (1/1 - 3/31) we/you funded 1128 meals for widows & orphans via Bring Love In based in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia. WOW!
The photo accompanying this blog post is of a sweet little girl named Setota ... her name translates "gift" in English. Setota was one of the first children that was saved via Bring Love In and is a good example a child that receives meals resulting from each WO|Bone dog toy sale.
Again, thank you! This mission to "create change for widows & orphans in developing countries" is not possible without support from our retailers and family/fans. Thank you!


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The Application Window is Closed for the 2018-2019 Year.
CRS University Engagement and the Catholic Campus Ministry Association are jointly offering small grants of up to $3,000 to Newman Centers, Catholic Centers, University Parishes, or other groups seeking to serve Catholic students at non-Catholic campuses.
The objective of providing these funds is to advance our Catholic mission of working toward the global common good by cultivating student leaders through newly formed CRS Student Ambassador Programs within campus communities.
Appropriate projects will draw on the programs and resources of CRS University Engagement, oriented toward the establishment of a CRS Student Ambassador program via leadership training, kickoff events, recruitment and marketing, and other startup funds to create and sustain this student leadership initiative. Projects that promote collaboration across campus (i.e., between academic and student life areas), reach a significant portion of the campus population, incorporate advocacy and have a digital and traditional media dimension are highly regarded.
Projects must involve students in a significant way but must have a faculty or staff sponsor. Proposals will be accepted through June 15, 2018 and should be oriented toward implementation during the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 academic year.


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August 3, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, repeating until August 3, 2018
Clay is soo Fun! Get your hands in the clay. Choose projects from an array of ideas; animals, houses, owls, turtles, wizards, dragons, and many more. Learn slab, coil and pinch methods. All projects get fired in the kiln and are ready to paint and take home on Friday. Don't miss this class.


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Annelies – I love these kinds of recipes. And I especially love this sentence from your post: "If you think about the place taste holds in the memory, it might be the second most powerful way to remember after smell." For me, that is so true. That is why I am really trying to recreate my grandmother's recipes and also create food traditions in my own home.
I recently listened to an interview with the great chef Grant Achatz and he talked about how important smell is to taste as you also mention. He said he once ate a duck dish that actually had no spice on it but the served it with aromas surrounding it and they created the taste in his mouth. Fascinating, especially from someone who lost his taste completely and then got it back. You know he's in tune with his senses.
Anyway – will try this simple dish. Love the simplicity of it and history.


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The Special Councils for 2019 are Security Council and Environment Council. At designated times on the first and second day, one member of each delegation assigned to a council attends that day's council.
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St. John's PC Houston Mission Trip
Jul 15, 2018
The Houston Mission was an amazing experience. My husband and I joined four other members of St. John's along with a couple from Westminster Presbyterian, and eight members from Paoli Presbyterian on this trip. From June 23 to July 1, we ate, slept, worked, laughed and prayed together in a hot and humid Houston. We were fortunate to stay in a home owned by First Presbyterian Church, a large and welcoming church. The home had 16 blow-up air mattresses for us to sleep on but most importantly it was air conditioned. We arrived hungry Saturday afternoon to a house stocked with lunch food. Church members also provided us with three dinners. We were privileged to worship with them on Sunday and meet and thank the congregation for their kindness.
The team accomplished a lot in a week. We worked in two teams at two houses, each home coordinated by an on-the-ground partner who would check in on us throughout the day.
At Lenard's home we worked with Attack Poverty: Friends of Northside. Attack Poverty is global organization that serves locally, adopting pockets of poverty. These locations are long-term commitments that require collaborative efforts with local organizations, churches, and residents. Lenard's home had been damaged by flooding and the drywall had been removed to the four-foot level. Before beginning, two paneled walls had to be demolished and all walls had to be disinfected with mold killer. Insulation was installed in exterior walls and the entire house and garage was drywalled, taped, spackled and ready for primer.
At the Ruth Street House, we were partnered with Agape Development. Agape is a neighborhood-focused ministry that works to transform neighborhoods by preparing Christ-following, independent community leaders. This home had been damaged by a roof leak that became so much more during the sustained winds and rain of Harvey. Here the team removed flooring in the kitchen, entry, and laundry room down to the joists, replaced the sub-flooring, tiled, replaced the back door, and repaired a damaged bedroom ceiling.
Both homes were not in good condition before Harvey. It was always a surprise when a wall or floorboard was removed as to what one might find, what might need to be removed or repaired before work could continue.
The homeowners had been living with other family members since Harvey and were very appreciative of our work. One homeowner stopped by daily with Gatorade for us and to sweep up the mess we created. The other homeowner stopped by on the last day with lunch for the team and individual thank you cards. As Annie, the Friends of Northside project leader, said in her thank you letter "Lenard and his wife are thrilled for the work that was done and are so very appreciative for the assistance they received. The work isn't finished but thanks to you all, they are one step closer on the road to recovery from Harvey."
The July trip to Houston was cancelled but a trip has been planned for October when it is cooler in Texas. The Houston Mission trips in March, April, and June brought together 46 people from eight area churches. It was a successful partnership. Through our work we demonstrated to these homeowners and their neighbors that they weren't forgotten nine months after Harvey. Working together, we made a measurable difference in their lives and demonstrated God's love in action. I think the October trip will also be a success.
We were blessed to have been able to make this trip to Houston and partner with First Presbyterian Church, Attack Poverty, Agape Development, and with you. The days were long and hot, and we were dirty, sweaty, and exhausted in the evening. But there was joy and satisfaction in seeing a job completed and the homeowners faces and words of appreciation.
There was also the personal journey and blessings each of us found working together and getting to know one another. I was able to re-center, re-focus (at least for a while) as to what is truly important in life. It changes your perspective. The people whose homes we were working on, didn't have a lot of what we take for granted. Thank you to the Presbytery of Donegal Engaging Our Mission Committee giving St. John's this opportunity.


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Simplicity has launched two investment funds that rival the New Zealand stock exchange's popular Smartshares Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
The not-for-profit has launched a 'NZ Share Index Fund' that invests in the 50 largest companies that make up the NZX50 index, as well as a 'NZ Bond Index Fund' that tracks an index of over 30 New Zealand investment grade bonds.
The funds are structured almost identically to Smartshares' NZ Top 50 and NZ Bond funds, so should deliver similar gross returns.
Yet taking Simplicity's lower fee structure into account, investors' net returns should be higher.
This is how the offerings differ:
|Establishment fee
|A one-off fee of $30 regardless of the number of ETFs being invested in.
|Annual admin fee
|Annual management fee (of funds under management)
|NZ Top 50: 0.5%
NZ Bond Fund: 0.54%
|Fee for withdrawing funds
|Depends on broker. ASB Securities charges 0.30% for sums over $10,000 for example.
|Minimum investment per fund
|Minimum that can be added to fund
|No minimum
|$250, or $50 if signed up to regular investment plan.
Simplicity CEO Sam Stubbs says Simplicity has maintained a $10,000 minimum investment threshold to reduce the number of transactions investors make and thus keep its costs down.
"Once we get the efficiencies - the economies of scale - to drop that, we certainly will. I don't think we're too far away from doing that."
He says the funds give New Zealand retail investors access to products at the same price as investors in more developed markets.
"As a non-profit, we only charge what it costs, and that means management fees much lower than our profit making competitors.
"There's an ever growing body of evidence showing the best way to get higher returns, in bull and bear markets, is by paying lower fees."
Looking at Simplicity's fee structure more closely, it becomes more attractive the more one has to invest.
For example, a Smartshares NZ Top 10 investor with $10,000 under management will save 20% if they switch to the equivalent Simplicity fund. Meanwhile an investor with $50,000 will save 68%.
|Funds under management
|Annual fees
|Simplicity NZ Share Index Fund investor
|Existing Smartshares NZ Top 50 investor
|New Smartshares NZ Top 50 investor
|0.1% management fee + $30 admin fee
|0.5% management fee
|0.5% management fee + $30 establishment fee
Stubbs says the underlying message behind Simplicity launching two low cost, index-tracking funds is that it wants to get into wholesale asset management.
He says the funds effectively set a new benchmark for what institutions should be able to pay to invest in New Zealand bonds and equities.
"We can't compete against Vanguard internationally, if you want to invest direct there. But here in New Zealand, no one's offering what should be offered, which is an absolutely at-cost, passive series of investment funds."
Stubbs maintains an unintended consequence of Simplicity launching a product that competes with the NZX's Smartshares, is that it will hold the exchange to account.
Smartshares launched its first ETF in 1996. It has since added another 22 ETFs to its offering, in October surpassing the $2 billion of funds under management mark.
More than 60,000 New Zealanders are invested in Smartshares, either directly or via the NZX's SuperLife KiwiSaver business, or through financial advisers and investment platforms, Invest Now and Sharesies.
Having launched in September 2016, Simplicity has $400 million of funds under management through its three passively-managed KiwiSaver funds and regular investment funds that mirror those funds.
Ultimately Stubbs believes the NZX should ditch its asset management business.
"We don't mind having a competitor," he says.
"But we don't want their corporate energy going into running a funds management business as opposed to developing a stock market."
NZX CEO Mark Peterson says, "The public capital market plays a vital and active role in the New Zealand economy and a healthy market is one with a growing range of investable product and wide participation."
Smartshares CEO Hugh Stevens adds, "It's fantastic to see another passive fund manager offering access to the New Zealand market.
"This will help push investors of all stripes to consider passive strategies within their portfolio, and validates the approach Smartshares has been taking for more than 20 years."
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Smartshares need to try harder. Smartshares have been acting like a monopoly incumbent for too long. They can't even be bothered setting up a decent website. With InvestNow, and Simplicity offering cheaper fees and better service smartshares are looking rather dumb.
Fees are the silent killer for most investments.
For a lot of people this is probably the best way to see it, as both funds are likely to provide the exact same return.
Tell me about it. I just looked at what i'm paying to buy shares on the ASX thru ASB. NZD/AUD exchange spread then minimum $30AUD fee to buy or sell, plus as far as i'm aware Australian franking credits don't translate to NZ imputation so effectively get double taxed on any dividends.
Anybody know of a cheaper brokerage for ASX trading?
I'm not aware of a cheaper broken at this time. If anyone finds one I'd be interested in knowing as well.
The double taxation on dividends is pretty frustrating. As a foreign investor capital growth makes more sense if you are buying Australian shares or ETFs.
Are you solely looking for NZ domiciled brokers, or for overseas ones? I know Australia has SelfWealth and Stake that allow you to buy ASX listed stocks for $9.50 AUD a trade and U.S. stocks brokerage fee free, respectively. You need a TFN for each though, and it would complicate your tax return a bit more.
Try ANZ Securities (aka Direct Broking) "Trades for Australian listed securities with a trade value of up to AU$30,000 AU$29.00"
As far as I know the cheapest way to buy ASX securities from NZ is:
1) Open an OMCA account with ANZ(Direct Broking)
2) Transfer in AUD via a currency broker like HiFX. Make sure you haggle with them on the phone to get a good deal. Don't pay the chump tourist rates!
3) Buy your shares in large AU$30,000 orders
The catch with ANZ is you can't transfer AUD out of there without first converting it to NZD at their ripoff rate.
Thanks bilbo, i'll have to switch to them if I start looking at $10k+ single trades, might be useful to keep trading and buy and hold on separate brokers for tax reasons too. Another question for the accountant..
I have to agree with the other commenter here. If you're doing <$10k trades you're doing it wrong. It's probably better for you (especially if you're young) to invest in a passive fund every month and focus on your career. Trading is simply not worth the fees and hassle for small parcels.
I'm not sure I agree. I started with $1k, 2k parcels and learned lessons that I wouldn't want to have to learn with $20k trades. Admittedly, the brokerage takes up a significant amount and in financial terms you're right, but there's some benefit from gaining experience with low stakes. It also helps keep your hands in your pockets and prevents excess trading when each transaction takes up 1% or more of your stake.
So you paid in high brokerage for advice through lessons learnt along the way. Alternatively a broker can give you that advice for free.
Craigs Investment Partners will help you exchange foreign currency pretty much for free, at the market rate. I was able to repatriate some euros I earned overseas and make an order once the exchange rate was suitable (September last year). Secure, friendly and personal service from locals, all you need to do is make an appointment and set up an account and you can do the rest over the phone or by e-mail. Worth a look anyway.
If you've got a UK bank account, degiro offer € 10.00 + 0.05% for Oz, plus vastly better rates for Europe and America.
Why would anybody want to invest passively in the NZX top 50 companies? The top 5 or 6 companies have accounted for some ridiculously high proportion of the total gains since the GFC.
This is not like getting broad exposure across many industries when you invest in a passive S&P 500 fund for example. These considerations are far more important than the fees you are paying.
And Pragmatist, if $30 is a high percentage of your transaction, then you are probably doing it wrong.
Fee is the greater of $30 or 0.3% of the transaction value. At the moment i'm not really willing to throw $10k at each trade of the somewhat speculative smallcaps i'm playing in. I haven't got a spare 6 figures lying about to gamble with. Still, if they keep going up at 13% per week like they have been i'll get there soon :)
FNZ50 has been a good investment. The performance of A2, etc is "lucky", but I agree that I probably wouldn't start investing now.
Yes, large cap stocks distort NXZ50. Having held both I found MidNZ better than FONZ. Even with the fee gouging by SmartShares, MDZ would likely continue to be better than Simplicity NZX50. Sad!
Yes, I have been in FNZ since day 1 and drip feeding. Investing in both MDZ and FNZ would have been better. Simplicity doesn't give you the regular investment functionality of Smartshares, but correct me if I'm wrong.
If you mean the ability to make regular additions to your investment, yes it does. just set up a payment from your bank with the appropriate references in the right fields and it works nicely.
The one limitation that I don't like, is as far as I know you can only be in one of the retail funds at a time, so you can't put $10k in the growth fund and $10k in the bond fund for example. I hope they change this at some point.
Thanks. That would be regular payments after the 10K initial investment. Your point about only be able to be in 1 fund at a time is interesting. I wonder how they explain this.
Pragmatist, while I can't comment on why the platform doesn't allow you to do this, my question to you is why would you want to do this?
Why go into the growth fund, which presumably has say 20% of bonds, and then distort this percentage by putting an equal amount into a bond fund with 100% bonds? The result is an effective fund of 60% bonds and 40% stocks (simply speaking). Do they not offer a fund that has that percentage? It might be called something like a conservatively balanced fund.
The underlying investments will be the same.
I currently have no desire to do it, but for example if I thought NZ shares were going to go gangbusters over the next few years I might want to have more than the 14% the growth fund has in NZ shares, without going to 100% nz shares if I put it all in the NZ shares fund. They only have three diversified funds, plus the 2 new ones, so the granularity is rather coarse. For now i'm happy to have everything in the growth fund and leave it to them while I dabble and learn in the sharemarket.
Are these new funds available outside of Kiwisaver?
Yes, they are retail investment funds. Put your money in and take it out at will.
Keep it up Simplicity. At the rate you're going I'll soon be able to drop my SuperLife accounts, and save a bundle in fees.
Anyone have thoughts on the comparison with investnow's vanguard offerings?


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We have set a high ambition for Sheffield to become the fairest city in Britain. For this to happen, many things need to change: the culture of the city, those who make strategic decisions for it, and everyone who lives and works here.
fairness principles
Given that fairness is a complex concept, the Fairness Commission developed the following guidelines to help policymakers and citizens make Sheffield a fairer place for everyone.
- Civic responsibility - all residents to contribute to making the city fairer and for all citizens to have a say in how the city works
- Those with the most resources should make the biggest contributions
- The commitment to fairness must be for the long-term
- The commitment to fairness must be across the whole city
- Preventing inequalities is better than trying to cure them
- To be seen to act in a fair way as well as acting fairly
- Those in greatest need should take priority
- An open continuous campaign for fairness in the city
- Fairness must be a matter of balance between different groups, communities and generations in the city
- The city's commitment to fairness must be both demonstrated and monitored in an annual report
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The guide is organised according to the challenges that people sometimes face and includes suggested questions that might help you to access help for your particular situation, or if you are supporting someone else, to help them feel able to confide in you.
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The Fairness Commission
The Fairness Commission published its report in January 2013, a copy of which is available to download here.
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So many projects, so much mismanagement. That's the refrain of many IT executives. Indeed, even with project management software, IT projects often wind up taking longer (much longer) than planned and costing more than budgeted.
While no two projects are exactly the same, the issues that can affect, and potentially jeopardize, them are often quite similar. And even good project managers can make mistakes when wrangling a big, complex project, or when being bombarded with change requests.
Here's what IT executives and project management professionals told us are the all-too-common mistakes they see project managers make, and advice for avoiding them.
Mistake #1: Not meeting with the whole team and setting goals upfront
"It's important for the entire team to know roles and responsibilities and deliverables" right from the start, says Shami Ahuja, director of agile practice at technology consulting firm Nisum. This is why it's a good idea to hold a kickoff meeting with all stakeholders.
"A kickoff meeting helps [define and set] expectations, and [ultimately] makes the team more self-dependent and self-organized. It also instills a higher level of accountability and ownership [of the project]."
Mistake #2: Not breaking down (big) projects into smaller pieces
"Breaking [a] large project into small, manageable pieces will make the team feel more comfortable and confident that they can successfully tackle what may seem like an impossible project and [accomplish] each task," says Sid Soil, owner of document imaging and storage provider DOCUdavit.
To avoid leaving your team feeling overwhelmed, "take the time to understand each facet of the project." Then "break the project into small pieces, and break those small pieces into smaller pieces if you can." And assign each task to the team members who are best suited to accomplish them.
Mistake #3: Not prioritizing projects and/or tasks
"Many IT departments have multiple, concurrent projects running, for both internal and external customers," explains Cortney Thompson, CIO of data center services provider Green House Data. And "too many times, we see staff keeping their head down on a project that is a lower priority while a higher visibility project starts to slip."
That's why it's important for, and the job of, the project manager to let team members know what tasks should take priority and when priorities have changed. "Clearly communicating project priorities can help save a lot of hassle and headache," he says.
Mistake #4: Forgetting that project management is also people management
"Too many project managers get bogged down focusing on the scope, quality, cost and timeline associated with their projects" and forget about the people who are actually doing the work, says Irfan Kapasi, managing director, strategic solutions and services, at IT staffing firm Computer Task Group. Failing to properly manage team members, or micromanaging them, can "lead to delays, impact quality and result in cost overruns."
To avoid this problem, "make sure everyone understands how and why their role is important to the success of the project and schedule time for periodic check-ins," he advises. "This includes sponsors, team members, executives, suppliers and other stakeholders. This way you can make sure everyone shares the same vision for the project."
Mistake #5: Not regularly communicating with team members
"While nobody will refute the importance of constant communication to successful project management, once a project is underway it's easy to miss times to meet with the team or provide updates to key stakeholders," says Bob Drainville, president of time tracking app maker Timesheet Mobile.
"Establishing the right foundation for regular meetings, who will attend these meetings and who else needs to be involved will help keep things on track." Drainville also emphasizes the importance of having the right number of people involved because "too many people can bog things down, as people may feel they need to comment at every turn."
Mistake #6: Letting changes get out of hand
"Scope creep is pervasive in project management and difficult to manage because, as the name suggests, it creeps up on you," says Kofi Senaya, director of product at mobile app development company Clearbridge Mobile. "Additional requests and added features strain resources and can affect the focus of the product vision. And without the proper control, [they] can severely affect project success." However, "scope creep can be curtailed by strong project management and product ownership."
"When adding features [or considering changes] you need to ask yourself a few questions," he says. "Do new feature requests align with the product vision? Do the proposed changes add value to the end user? Are they critical or nice to have? Clearly defining product goals and identifying success factors can help ensure that change requests and added features that aren't aligned to objectives don't threaten timelines."
Mistake #7: Not using a project management tool
"Many solid project management tools, like Asana or Trello, have great visual representations of the status of [a] project," says Kean Graham, founder & CEO of ad optimization companyMonetizeMore. To help keep projects on track, "it's important to use these tools to know where the project is, to make sure it is on pace to complete by the deadline and to identify opportunities for additional efficiency [or spot problems]."
Additionally, "project documentation should be updated weekly," says Cerila Gailliard, a certified project management professional and consultant. "If something of importance comes up [e.g., a change in task or scope or deadline], the PM should update the documentation within 24 hours. This will give everyone on the project accurate information [about] the project."
Mistake #8: Failure to adjust course when things go wrong
As every project manager knows, sometimes, despite your best efforts, things go wrong or the project fails. And "the fear of failure can sometimes lead a project manager to an exercise of futility in trying to salvage a doomed project," says Brandon Evans, CTO of project portfolio management software provider Changepoint.
That's why it is essential to "create a vehicle for transparent and truthful reporting... [that] provides executive stakeholders with information that allows for good, timely decision making," he says. That way, "if the project is strategically important, [and something goes wrong,] the business can change course and [help the project to] become successful by adjusting [the] budget, resources and/or delivery expectations."


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Burkina Faso's leaders urged vigilance on Saturday, a day after brazen Islamic extremist attacks on the army headquarters and French embassy in the capital, which killed eight people. An al-Qaeda-linked group based in neighboring Mali claimed responsibility for the assaults.
It was the third attack on Ouagadougou in just over two years, and it was aimed directly at the army's central command and the heavily guarded embassy, raising concerns that extremists are growing bolder in their assaults on the West African nation. The attack on the army headquarters narrowly missed a conference of top military leaders, indicating that the extremists might have had inside information.
Previous extremist attacks had been on soft targets of restaurants, which caused a greater loss of civilian lives.
"The decision to actually stage an attack in this area [the army headquarters] where there is a permanent security presence demonstrates the growing confidence and capabilities of terror groups in the region," said Sean Smith, a West Africa politics senior analyst with Verisk Maplecroft.
Burkina Faso contributes more troops to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali than other West African nations, making it an extremist target, he said.
The Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar said the militant group Jama Nusrat Ul-Islam wa Al-Muslimin issued a message late on Saturday saying that it was behind the attacks.
The agency often carries claims of responsibility by extremist groups for attacks staged across West Africa.
The agency said the group carried out the dual attacks in Burkina Faso in retaliation for the killing of one of its leaders in a recent raid by French troops.
The formation of the group, also known as JNIM, was announced in a video in March last year as a merger of three extremist groups: al-Qaeda-linked al-Mourabitoun, Ansar Dine and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. It has positioned itself as the al-Qaeda branch in Mali and as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, and has claimed attacks not only in Mali, but also in Niger.
Several extremist groups have also vowed to step up the bloodshed in response to the recent deployment of the multinational G5 Sahel force. The 5,000-strong force combines troops from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad and Mauritania to battle extremism in the region.
Islamic extremists have carried out two other large-scale attacks on Ouagadougou in recent years, killing 30 people at a popular cafe in 2016 and 18 more at a Turkish restaurant in August last year.
Friday's attacks killed at least eight people, including a senior officer, and left more than 80 injured.
Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kabore condemned the violence in a speech broadcast to the nation on Saturday.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing, can justify such indiscriminate fury against the Burkinabe state, its institutions and the brave people who love peace, democracy, justice and progress," he said.


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Polly Tyrer talks about her recent experience buying art for her home.
"I have a home on the beach with a rugged view of the sea and Shoreham Harbour. It's very open plan and airy. For the last four or five years I have been looking for a piece of art for a large wall that faces the view. It needed to absorb me and be big and interesting enough to fill the space. I wanted it to speak of the view but not compete with it. David Hayward's work, inspired by shorelines, sung out to me from the minute I saw it on Kellie's web site. In reality the colours and textures looked even better and on my walls they are exactly what I was looking for. So much so I now have not one piece but two".
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A Reprint Because It's Necessary
This was originally posted in March of last year. Those of us with homes in urban/suburban settings where neighborhood covenants may be in place can have a disproportionate impact on water quality than those living on wooded lots. In light of the population crisises for bumblebees, bats and others, I thought this needed to be re-posted.
What group of lifeforms do we most need for our own survival? I'll give you a moment to think about it.
Ready? Insects. Avid students of gardening probably answered this without need of the white space pause. Here I paraphrase E. O. Wilson, from his book The Creation:
First there are the pollinators, without which flowering plants would cease to be in only a year or two. Other insect-pollinated plants would follow. Then the kicker: "The soil remains largely unturned, accelerating plant decline, because insects, not earthworms as generally supposed, are the principal turners and renewers of the soil."
In my personal quest to find the best combination of plants to create habitat, the lawn question led to more questions than answers, at first. I hope I will include enough information in this post to help you answer your own. My goal is to create lawn space that looks attractive but does not discourage other life forms that are necessary for the success of my "target" life forms (like songbirds). What I found was disturbing, with wide-spread impact.
In municipal and federal landscaping (think DOT), plants are searched out and chosen on the basis of low maintenance and high success rate. Over the years, this has contributed to many unintended consequences, such as the invasive presence in North Carolina (and many other states) of miscanthus. Some of these plantings have been so wildly successful that they have choked out other native species and the other life forms that depend on them. An example of this is tall fescue, which has led to drops in the population of (among other things) quail, which require huge numbers of insects for forage.
Tall fescue is an introduced grass. Around airports, as mentioned before, it is probably an excellent choice because it does reduce the population of potential airplane destroyers. It has a symbiotic relationship with a fungus (called an endophyte) that not only improves the viability of the fescue, but reduces the viability of insects. Without the insects, species like quail cannot survive.
Because of its success in choking out competition (and therefore requiring little if any weed control herbicides), tall fescues have been billed as an environmentally conscious choice for turf grass. So far as that standard goes, the marketing agents are correct. The fewer toxins we use in our landscapes, the better. That ought to be a no-brainer. However, if the goals is to sustain life, rather than just to inhibit it, tall fescues really, really fall short.
Agricultural industry has focused primarily on the "defeat the weed" strategy. So most research is aimed at solutions for weed-free turf or forage. A fine summary of this agricultural research comes from Cornell University. This type of research is not directed at finding which grass species support forage by other species, but rather on what is not required for species success--water, fertilizer and herbicides. Another approach was taken by Stevie Daniels. A Penn State Master Gardner, Daniels has worked to understand the best solutions for native turf grasses. She has selected the fine fescues as one of her lawn solutions, depending on your location. Others are discussed at the included link.
Fine fescues, based on what I can find, do not need endophytes to succeed. This would mean that they would not inhibit insect life the way that introduced tall fescues do. There may still be a threat of allelopathic(linked document has great chart) relationships to consider, but the native clumping red and sheep fescues should be safe choices for turf that won't disturb the balance of life. Mixed with violets like johnny jump-ups and other native, low-growing species, these less-aggressive fescues can help you achieve a lively lawn that allows the bugs (and bunnies...I'm all about the bunnies) to thrive. Which will make your birds happy.
The real point here, however, is that it is not just our songbirds who need bugs. We all do. We need them to pollinate our flowers and crops, we need them to till and aerate our soil, we need them to maintain the smaller life forms that feed us, either directly or indirectly. So in my own personal habitat, the quarter of an acre that I can control, it would be the height of foolishness to discourage my insects. I need to provide them all the sanctuary I can.


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Giant Stars including Supergiants and Hypergiants are stars that are larger in size compared to other stars of the same temperature. Giants are the smaller of the group followed by Super and then Hyper. Our Sun is actually classed as a dwarf star because it is much smaller than some of the giants out there. The Sun is more massive than 95% of stars in the cosmos and 75% of stars in the cosmos are red dwarf stars. Forbes
In terms of spectral types, they will tend to have 0a (Hyper), Ia (Luminous Supergiant), Ib (Less Luminous Supergiant), Iab (Intermediated Sized Supergiant), II (Bright Giants) and III (Normal Giants) in the code.
Our own star, the Sun is a dwarf star compared to the really big stars that exist. Going by the picture at the bottom, giant stars are say 10x bigger than our own sun such as Pollux, supergiant stars are 100x bigger than ours and hypergiants are 1000x and above. Its a simplistic explanation based on the picture below. Their colours can range from blue (e.g. Spica through yellow (e.g. Pollux) to red (Betelgeuse).
The bigger a star is, the shorter its lifespan is. Being a giant star is a disadvantage when it comes to living, giants such as those mentioned will die long before Dwarf Stars such as Proxima Centauri which is tiny compared to the real giants out there. If you want to continue the human race, you would look to move to a planet orbiting a dwarf star rather than a supergiant.
The centres of Galaxies aren't super massive giant stars, they are supermassive black holes. Although some galaxies are known to have a cluster of stars rather than a supermassive black hole. In the case of the the milky way, the galactic centre can be found in the constellation of Sagittarius and is imaginatively called simply Sagittarius A*.
Near the centre of our galaxy, there are a number of large stars, these include AH Scorpii. According to a Nature paper, there is an extraordinary cluster of massive stars near the centre of the Milky Way, yep, that's the title.
The first stars that were created after the The Beginning of the universe were massive giant blue stars which lived fast and died young. The first stars in the universe would made mainly of supergiants or hypergiant stars that would as mentioned earlier, lived fast and died young.
When they died, they would have been recycled into newer stars. It is said our Sun is a third generation star which means there would have been two stars in this area before our Sun appeared. Elements on the periodic table heavier than iron can only be produced by the heat and energy of a supernova explosion. As they live and die and what gets born after will be smaller. 70% of all stars in the galaxy are in fact smaller stars so our Sun is one of the largest stars that is out there.
There is a theory that the supermassive black holes that are at the centres of galaxies are the black hole remnants of large giant stars. Although there is another theory where the supermassive black holes were created directly from a collapsing dust and gas cloud bypassing the stellar stage.
When people talk about the largest stars, they tend to refer to radius of the star, how many times the star is bigger than the Sun. The radius aren't precise and are scientists best calculations/guesses based on their observations. The stars are so far away which is why they are the best guess/estimations. Only by visiting a star will we ever know precisely just how large (radius) it is.
Massive stars are stars that are considered to have at least eight times more mass than the Sun. Mass is how much matter and weight it has compared to its size. UY Scuti might be the largest star, but its not the most massive. The most massive star that we know about is R136a1 and that has about 135 times the mass of our sun. Massive stars live fast, die young.
When a star has converted all its hydrogen into helium, the outward pressure on itself will beat the inward strength of gravity keeping it together. The outward strength will win and the star will grow in size. Our Sun will one day begin to grow in size and will expand to include the orbits of the gas giants of Jupiter before it ends in a supernova and turn into a white dwarf.
The good news is that there is still a long way to go before the Sun destroys the life on our planet. It is estimated that life on this planet has another billion years left, so still time to do the homework and get it marked. As the Sun grows, it will get hotter and the water will boil away but life will have gone before that. Stars like UY Scuti and Betelgeuse are super/hypergiant stars that are nearing the end of their lives. Betelgeuse is estimated to be getting ready to supernova in the next million years which might seem a long time but in astronomical scale of time, its soon.
Generally speaking, all the stars in a star cluster such as Omega Centauri are all the same age, they will all have come from the same source. Amongst the stars as such in Omega Centauri are blue stars, these stars will look larger, hotter, younger and bluer than other stars. The blue stars are vampire stars, stars that feed off other stars and therefore look younger. As they feed off the other stars, they grow larger than their surrounding stars. These stars are referred to as Blue Stragglers.
There is a discussion on-going as to what is the biggest star in the galaxy, we can only talk about the stars that have been observed. The current biggest is UY Scuti, a star in the Constellations of Scutum. If you research the internet, you will find that some sites will say that the biggest is VY Canis Majoris or NML Cygni in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. These stars are measured in terms of solar radii, a radii of 1 is the same size as our Sun such as Rigil Kentaurus also known as Alpha Centauri. Anything less that 1 will indicate it is a smaller star. UY Scuti is estimated to be about 1,708 times the radius of our Sun. NML Cygni, another contender for the biggest star has a radius of between 1,642 and 2,775 times the Sun.
The current most massive known star outside the Milky Way is R136a1 which is a star in the NGC2070 Star Cluster in the Tarantula Galaxy in the constellation of Dorado. Its mass is once thought to have been more than 300x that of our own Sun and is far in excess of what astronomers had once thought was possible for a star. Over time, its mass is now calculated at being 265x our Suns mass. At that time, people thought a star could only be up to 150x the mass of our Sun. It is believed to be 10 million times brighter than our sun and has a temperature of 40,000 degrees Celsius on its surface. The star is more than 165,000 light years away. The light we see is what it looked like 165,000 years ago.
Although an exoplanet has not been spotted round the largest stars e.g. NML Cygni and UY Scuti. Planets have been spotted round Pollux, Hamal and Aldebaran for example. Pollux in the constellation of Gemini, the twins is a yellow supergiant because its many times larger than our Sun. It is harder to spot an exoplanet round a super or giant star because the influence on the star by the planet is less noticeable. Planets are easier to be spotted round smaller stas because they have a large influence on the star.
The largest supergiants such as UY SCUTI and NML Cygni tend to be red hypergiants which are end of the life stars when they've exhausted their hydrogen and are expanding near to their deaths. The star that currently holds the title of the largest yellow supergiant is HR 5171 in the constellation of Centaurus. Originally thought of as being a blue supergiant with a spectral type of A7V, the updated spectral type for the star as detailed in Simbad is G8Ia++B0Ibp making it a yellow giant star.
The Yellow Star has a companion star which according to E.S.O., the two stars are connected to one another. The two stars will one day merge into one star and there will be a catastrophic explosion. The star is reckoned to be about 1,300x the diameter of the Sun. It is in the top ten percent of largest stars in the galaxy. Phys
As you can see from the picture below, the giant stars tend to be blue or red. The hotter a star is, the more blue the star is. Stars like Spica is hotter than Betelgeuse which is a dying star and therefore more blue. A blue star will burn more fuel than a red star. You can infer from the below picture that Pollux, a yellow giant star is about the same size as Spica taking the line that joins the two stars. The stars colour is also determined by its mass, blue stars will have extremely high mass compared to other coloured stars. Star colours are not static, blue supergiants can turn in red supergiants during their lifetimes and vice versa.
The image is from NovaCelestia which the artist has said people can use so long as there's an acknowledgement of his copyright and a link back to his site.
These goliaths of stars are the biggest and coolest stars in the universe. They share the same spectral type of 'M' as dwarf stars and are cool like their dwarfen cousins but that's all. These stars tend to be at the ends of their lives which one day they will explode in a supernova.
These are a little hotter but not much in the sphere of things. They will have a spectral type of K.
Blue stars are the hottest stars in the universe. These stars tend to be young and not live long. The first stars in the universe are believed to be blue hypergiants and all have exploded now.
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Cruelty free fashion falls under the ethical side of sustainable fashion, but that doesn't mean by default that cruelty free is sustainable.
I kind of sound like a broken record writing about how ethical, eco-friendly, fair-trade and now cruelty free fashion are all sub-categories of sustainable fashion, but it does not make them sustainable by default
All are important steps in their own regard, but the use of these terms interchangeably with each other is diminishing their power and importance.
Cruelty Free Fashion Is Vaguely Defined
As many of you already know, I am pretty big into Pinterest. Almost all of my boards fall around the different categories of sustainability. Something interesting happened the other day: A post I wrote on eco fashion ended up on someone's "Cruelty Free" board.
Don't get me wrong. I love it when people pin my posts to their boards, and I'm not going to tell someone not to do something simply over the meaning of different words. I could not let this pin go when I realized how ubiquitous the words cruelty free and sustainability has become.
There needs to be a change, and it starts with understanding.
Cruelty Free Fashion is a vaguely defined word. There is no regulation on the use of the word. If someone said a pair of gluten free jeans was LEED certified, the LEED certification would have a lawsuit on their hands, and they'd likely win. Though if someone says something is "sustainable" or "cruelty free" it's not always the case.
Cruelty Free Fashion is not Eco-Friendly by default
When it comes to cruelty free fashion, it falls more on the side of Ethical Fashion and not always Eco Fashion. If a product is made from new plastic, it's not eco-friendly, but can be considered Cruelty Free. This misconception is a problem in the understanding of sustainability and marketing.
The result is a ton of articles and pins that are mixing up terms, relaying false information, and generating mistrust for the entire industry.
Cruelty free focuses more on the welfare and ethics of animal rights. Sometimes it includes the rights of workers and distributors, but that usually involves another certification.
For example, I did a quick search for "Cruelty free fashion" and was rewarded with these mess of products. As you can see some are either outrageously expensive or way too cheap to validate fair wages in the making of the product. You'd be better off searching for more sustainable brands and skip the cruelty free label.
Many People Still Don't Understand Sustainability, Let Alone Cruelty Free Fashion
Sustainability is all about the balance between the environment, the economy, and ethics.
With the blogging boom over the past decade, there has been a surge in eco-ethical blogs. One one hand, I think this is amazing! So many people are now into being sustainable consumers but at a cost. Many sustainability "experts" don't know what they're talking about and many actual sustainability professionals are way too busy to blog.
Terms like Cruelty Free Fashion may hit well on SEO or Pinterest, but the quality of content for those articles is not usually correct. It is going to take some time, patience, and more experts in the field to sort out the SEO dilemma that is fueling the misinformation across the web.
Some transitions are inevitable, and this will be one of them. If you want to be on the good side of history, I suggest you become an actual expert in something. That's where listening to real experts and producing quality research.
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Police: Woman charged over poisoned juice at California Starbucks store
Ms. Behbehanian was arrested, and charged with attempted murder, after another patron alerted store officials. According to San Jose Police, the customer spotted Ms. Behbehanian-then wrote down her license plate number as she fled the scene. Wow.
NBC News, Bay Area Video attached: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/NATL-BAY-COPY-Woman-Arrested-at-SJ-Starbucks-for-Potential-Orange-Juice-Poisoning-205443031.html


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Chemokine receptors comprise a large family of seven transmembrane domain G protein-coupled receptors differentially expressed in diverse cell types. Biological activities have been most clearly defined in leukocytes, where chemokines coordinate development, differentiation, anatomic distribution, trafficking, and effector functions and thereby regulate innate and adaptive immune responses. Pharmacological analysis of chemokine receptors is at an early stage of development. Disease indications have been established in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome and in Plasmodium vivax malaria, due to exploitation of CCR5 and Duffy, respectively, by the pathogen for cell entry. Additional indications are emerging among inflammatory and immunologically mediated diseases, but selection of targets in this area still remains somewhat speculative. Small molecule antagonists with nanomolar affinity have been reported for 7 of the 18 known chemokine receptors but have not yet been studied in clinical trials. Virally encoded chemokine receptors, as well as chemokine agonists and antagonists, and chemokine scavengers have been identified in medically important poxviruses and herpesviruses, again underscoring the importance of the chemokine system in microbial pathogenesis and possibly identifying specific strategies for modulating chemokine action therapeutically. The purpose of this review is to update current concepts of the biology and pharmacology of the chemokine system, to summarize key information about each chemokine receptor, and to describe a widely accepted receptor nomenclature system, ratified by the International Union of Pharmacology, that is facilitating clear communication in this area.
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LaPiyama is a Spanish brand dedicated exclusively to the design, manufacture and distribution of children's pajamas aged between 2-14 years.
We were born six years ago in Marbella, a city that inspires our collections with its light, Mediterranean and multicultural essence.
Many people wonder, why pajamas and children's nightgowns? Well, because being a mother of four children it was very difficult to find pajamas of quality, design and good preparation.
In order to achieve all of the above, we have surrounded ourselves with a great team, with more than twenty years of experience behind us, which dedicates endless hours to design, pattern making, tailoring and tailoring. Each and every one of the departments are vital to achieve an optimal result and what I take this opportunity to say ... Thank you, thank you and more thanks!
All our pajamas and nightgowns are made with natural fabrics of excellent quality, both domestic and imported, especially 100% cotton and cotton-linen.
We bet on style rather than fashion, quality rather than quantity and we believe that small details matter a lot.
In LaPiyama we want to create clothes that last over time and that help us to remember unforgettable moments of our daily lives.
Our dream is to be able to transmit sensations through our pajamas!
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A journal (through French from Latin diurnalis, daily) has several related meanings:
The word "journalist", for one whose business is writing for the public press and nowadays also other media, has been in use since the end of the 17th century.
A public journal is a record of day-by-day events in a parliament or congress. It is also called minutes or records.
The term "journal" is also used in business:
The Journal is a daily newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne. Published by ncjMedia, (a division of Trinity Mirror), The Journal is produced every weekday and Saturday morning and is complemented by its sister publications the Evening Chronicle and the Sunday Sun.
The newspaper mainly has a middle-class and professional readership throughout North East England, covering a mixture of regional, national and international news. It also has a daily business section and sports page as well as the monthly Culture magazine and weekly property supplement Homemaker.
News coverage about farming is also an important part of the paper with a high readership in rural Northumberland.
It was the named sponsor of Tyne Theatre on Westgate Road during the 2000s, until January 2012.
The first edition of the Newcastle Journal was printed on 12 May 1832, and subsequent Saturdays, by Hernaman and Perring, 69 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. On 12 May 2007, The Journal celebrated its 175th Anniversary and 49,584th issue.
Journal is a Canadian short film television series which aired on CBC Television in 1977.
Independent short films were featured in this series. For example, Spence Bay was created in their northern community by a group of secondary school students and their teacher. Other films included Peggy Peacock and Jock Mlynek's North Hatley Antique Sale and Quebec Village; Mark Irwin's The Duel - Fencing, For The Love Of A Horse, Lacrosse, Sailaway, and Step By Step; and Tony Hall's Serpent River Paddlers.
This series was unrelated to CBC's news and current affairs series The Journal.
This 15-minute series was broadcast Sundays at 12:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 15 May to 25 September 1977.
Switzerland (/ˈswɪtsərlənd/), officially the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH), is a country in Europe. While still named the "Swiss Confederation" for historical reasons, modern Switzerland is a federal directorial republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities, called Bundesstadt ("federal city"). The country is situated in Western and Central Europe, and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global and economic centres, Zürich and Geneva.
The establishment of the Swiss Confederation is traditionally dated to 1 August 1291, which is celebrated annually as the Swiss National Day. The country has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002. Nevertheless, it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. In addition to being the birthplace of the Red Cross, Switzerland is home to numerous international organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association, but notably it is not part of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area. However the country does participate in the Schengen Area and the EU's single market through a number of bilateral treaties.
A journal (through French from Latin diurnalis, daily) has several related meanings:
The word "journalist", for one whose business is writing for the public press and nowadays also other media, has been in use since the end of the 17th century.
A public journal is a record of day-by-day events in a parliament or congress. It is also called minutes or records.
The term "journal" is also used in business:
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