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- Scientists believe that sleeping in on the weekend does us harm
- Judges calling for oversight of COVID-19 police powers
- The Japanese art of buying books and never reading them
- The coronavirus is not a wake-up call, it is much more than that
- Four presents: Bésame cosmetics, a force bringing back vintage flair
I'm going to say something I thought I'd never say: we should all be listening to Utah.
Why, you may be asking?
Well, because they have managed to reduce their homelessness rate by seventy-four percent in the past eight years, moving 2000 people off the streets, putting them on the road to " homelessness altogether by 2015", that's why.
How, you might ask?
They are giving away apartments. For nothing. No strings. Utah calculated the costs between giving apartments away and providing a social worker to each person, compared to the average annual cost for a homeless person's E.R. and jail visits, and found that the apartment/social worker route cost them over $5,500 less per year to do – $5,670 less, to be precise. The cost of providing an apartment and social worker is only $11,000 per year, per person. Other states, like Wyoming, are starting to follow their example.
Compare this to, say, the news coming out of Norway, where they are planning on passing a new law that bans begging. The stated reason is to combat the high rates of pick-pocketing the country's capital of Oslo sees, but that sounds an awful lot like the foolish band-aiding that Australia is seeing with the pub lockouts in order to prevent alcohol-fuelled violence. Rather than actually address the issue – whether it be homelessness or violence – they slap a band-aid on a symptom and say it's fixed.
"We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice," Tony Abbott said in February 2010. "Or if their situation is such that it is just impossible to look after them under certain circumstances."
On any given night in Australia, there are over 105,000 homeless people sleeping on the streets. That's one in every two hundred people. Results from the 2011 census showed that the rates of homelessness had increased by 8% from 89,728 to 105,237.
I'm not going to talk about the budget here. Yes, the Abbott Government made a pledge (as of March 30th) of $115 million to homelessness services after CEO's of various companies warned that there could be a wave of lay-offs without some kind of intervention. This is, however, $44 million less than Labor's last pledge, and although the Prime Minister "reject any suggestion of cuts", Labor spokeswoman Jenny Macklin sees it a different way.
"There's less money to be spent on building homes for people who don't have them, for women and children escaping violence, for people who are living on the street," she said.
"There's $44 million less because of Tony Abbott cutting this funding."
There is so much that needs to be done and that could be done. According to Homelessness Australia, we should very much be investing and funding early intervention programs, rather than treating them "like pilot programs". We need to fund more homes. We need to encourage our States to look after the homeless.
Or, you can go what seems the complete opposite way and look to places like England and Canada where authorities are putting down "anti-homeless spikes" in certain areas to prevent the homeless from having a place to sleep. This absolutely astonished me – is this how low we have sunk? I always loved that places like Montreal would make sure all the metro stations stayed open 24/7 in winter so the homeless would have a warm place to sleep. Sure, it's another band-aid, but at least it isn't actively hindering people. It's a nice gesture. It's something.
So, why are they doing this?
Some protesters in London poured concrete over the spikes in order to make a point, and earlier this month some spikes were removed from outside a Montreal bookstore. A petition was signed by over 130,000 people and the spikes were removed from London and Montreal. The problem is well laid out by Matthew Pearce of the Montreal Gazette: Now what? Sure, the spikes have been removed, but now "the issue is fading from public discourse".
Spikes aren't the only "weapon" being used via city design to drive the homeless away. All you have to do is look at benches in outdoor places nowadays: separated by armrests so you can't lie across them; designed in peculiar shapes not designed to be lain upon; lumps of metal on the curb side to be "skateboard deterrents"; there are so many.
There are so many things we do to prevent the homeless from being an issue we can see, an issue that must be recognised because it is right in front of us. We need to start addressing the graver issue that underlies homelessness, whatever those may be – for they are many and various – and start helping these people.
So, come on, let Utah be our guide.


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Contact person: Bill Dailey (501) 315-7373
Email: email@example.com
Web site: www.purplehull.com
For four years it was the world's fastest garden tiller.
It was the first tiller to break 8 seconds tilling a 200-foot stretch of
plowed soil. It broke ground in
1994 by being one of two tillers that year to use an alcohol-burning engine, a
radical advancement at the time.
Then, after a mechanical mishap in 1997, owner Ricky Waller put it in
But now, the garden tiller "Digger II" is back.
The World Championship Rotary Tiller Race, now in its 12th year, has
finally been around long enough for some of its great tillers of the past to
come out of retirement.
Held each year on the last Saturday of June in conjunction with the
Emerson, Arkansas PurpleHull Pea Festival, the World Championship Rotary Tiller
Race – the "Tiller Thriller" as some call it - is the highlight of tiller
racing season.
In fact, to the best of anyone's knowledge, it is the tiller
racing season.
In addition to its race of souped-up, modified garden tillers, there's
also a "stock tiller" division as well as a "powder puff" category.
When the tillers line up for this year's event June 30, at least one,
maybe two, tillers from yesterday will be pawing the dirt.
A tiller named "Bad to the Bone," a crowd-pleaser from years past,
may also make a reappearance.
An officially sanctioned tiller track is 200 feet in length, a distance
set by the World Tiller Racing Federation, a semi-autonomous entity the
PurpleHull Pea Festival created in 1994 to govern and set rules for the new
sport. It also served the purpose
of keeping the festival itself from being embroiled in tiller racing
Digger II set the world mark by tilling 200 feet in 7.94 seconds in 1994.
Owner Ricky Waller gave Jimmy Baker the nod to be his tiller driver that
year. Waller says Baker will be at
the helm again this time.
"Jimmy's ready," says Waller.
"Jimmy stays physically fit, playing ball, basketball, softball, just
about all kinds of sports."
Indeed, it can be argued that the athletic ability of the driver is as
important as a fast tiller, if not more so.
"You have to be in good shape to stay with it," says world record
holder Ronnie Hughey. "If it goes
straight it's fine, but if it zigs a little bit, you got to be in control."
In 1998, Hughey and his tiller "Dirt Devil," a gasoline-burning
tiller with a four-wheeler engine, broke Digger II's record by over
seven-tenths of a second, tilling the track in 7.21 seconds.
Hughey, who races his own tiller, is preparing for this year's event by
wearing ankle weights, doing pushups, and running daily.
"You always hear the debate about whether motor sports are really
sports," says Bill Dailey, spokesman for the PurpleHull Pea Festival.
"If there was ever a motor sport where the drivers are true athletes,
garden tiller racing has got to be it."
Meanwhile, Waller points out that out of all the modified tillers in the
race, his is the only one that is a genuine garden tiller.
"Digger II is the only true garden tiller in the modified class,"
says Waller. "The rest of them
are made out of different things like three-wheelers and Hondas and all.
Mine is a Merry tiller. It's
got a souped-up engine, and a little modification on the tines, but in 15
minutes I can plow anybody's garden."
But in 1997, Digger II was getting ready for its second heat of the day
when problems struck. The alcohol-burning engine essentially flew apart.
"Really, it was my fault," says Waller.
"I didn't get the flywheel nut tight enough."
But Waller says his tiller and driver are prepared for this year's
"It's ready," says Waller. "We're
gonna win."
Sometimes retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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This is a casual playgroup, so players may show up to regular meetings with whatever they want, but these deck construction rules are for the formats collectively known as "Old School." If the group hosts a tournament event, it will use one of these formats.
This group is a work in progress and this page may change periodically.
We will be using deck construction rules similar to those that Eternal Central has set up, with some more broad inclusion.
Your deck must be at least 60 cards, with a 15-card sideboard (if you wish to use one). Except for basic lands (Forest, Island, Plains, Mountain, and Swamp) and those cards on the banned or restricted lists below, a maximum of four of an individual card may be used in the deck and sideboard combined. There is no maximum deck size, but you must be able to shuffle your deck without assistance.
Sets Allowed: 93/94
- Alpha/Beta/Unlimited
- Antiquities
- Arabian Nights
- Fallen Empires
- Legends
- The Dark
- The promotional cards Arena, Sewers of Estark, and Nalathni Dragon
- Reprints (including Revised, Fourth Edition, Chronicles, etc.) in any language, as long as the card's original printing was in one of the above sets.
When people refer to the "Old School" format, this is typically what they mean, but the set inclusions are not universal. Another large group based in Sweden does not use Fallen Empires.
In an attempt to make the group as egalitarian as possible:
- Original art is strongly encouraged for this group, but not required. Just be aware that using the new card face or a different art can be distracting, which might violate the spirit of the format. Also, if you plan to play with other groups' events, be aware that most will require the original art. (ChannelFireball is a notable exception, likely so their events can be sanctioned.) If you are choosing between two different printings when picking up new cards for your deck, you should keep this in mind.
- Cards from the Collectors' Editions, World Championship Decks (gold bordered cards, in sleeves), or other official products that aren't tournament legal, and Artist proof card sketches (as long as the sketch is by the original artist of the card sketched) may be used for this group's events and regular meetings. However, note that if we ever run sanctioned tournament, they will not be.
- Proxies, playtest cards, and replicas may be used during regular meetings, within reason. There may be additional restrictions (e.g. number of proxies) if events or tournaments are run, and everyone should be aware that many other groups' events don't permit substitutions for the real thing. Any replicas, proxies, or playtest cards should be recognizably or clearly what they proxy so that games can be played smoothly. It is also recommend that you indelibly mark replicas at least on the back of the card so that they cannot be used fraudulently should they ever leave your possession. If you aren't sure what is "reasonable" for a number of proxies, please read the Spirit of the Format. Also realize that if you are using numerous proxies without the original art, the game can get bogged down or your opponent can mistake which card is which, leading to unfair games. Always keep the spirit of the format in mind!
- Altered cards may be used. Perhaps even encouraged!
Banned/Restricted List
We will use (for now) the Eternal Central Banned and Restricted List:
- The following cards are banned:
• Bronze Tablet
• Contract from Below
• Darkpact
• Demonic Attorney
• Jeweled Bird
• Rebirth
• Tempest Efreet
- The following cards are restricted to a maximum of 1 of each card per deck:
• Ancestral Recall
• Balance
• Black Lotus
• Braingeyser
• Chaos Orb
• Channel
• Demonic Tutor
• Library of Alexandria
• Mana Drain
• Mind Twist
• Mox Emerald
• Mox Jet
• Mox Pearl
• Mox Ruby
• Mox Sapphire
• Recall
• Regrowth
• Sol Ring
• Time Vault
• Time Walk
• Timetwister
• Wheel of Fortune
Old School '95
Ice Age and Homelands are added to the permitted sets. The promotional cards Arena, Sewers of Estark, Nalathni Dragon, Giant Badger, Windseeker Centaur, and Mana Crypt are legal.
Mana Crypt is restricted. Demonic Consultation and Necropotence are watchlisted for restriction.
This is a less-common format, but the addition of Ice Age to the card pool makes a few more archetypes possible.
Original Type 2 (OGT2)
See Timewalking for a full description of the format. The sets are limited to Revised, The Dark, and Fallen Empires. The Banned and Restricted lists are essentially the same (minus, of course, the cards that aren't in the format).
Historically, this was the first Type 2 format and may be worth a look, especially for players without access to the cards from A/B/U, Arabian Nights, and Legends.
Chaos Orb has the following errata (wording directly from Eternal Central):
Chaos Orb
1, Tap: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, and lands resting on the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.
(Note: because of how Chaos Orb is worded, with it being destroyed after a flip, it can still be Disenchanted or Shattered in response to the activation. This is consistent with the wording of Chaos Orb not being sacrificed upon activation, as it probably would with modern templating.)
Plague Rats
Creature – Rat
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
A deck can have any number of cards named Plague Rats.
Current Oracle wording is used for all cards except Chaos Orb as errataed above. The modern ruleset is used with the following exception:
- Mana burn is in effect: At the end of each phase, when a player's mana pool empties, they lose 1 life for each unspent mana in their pool. This rule is reinstated to restore the intended functionality of some older cards.
Alternative Older Rules
Some cards function differently under the current rule set. Interrupts, for instance, were fundamentally different from instants. Both players may agree to play a game with any of the following rules still in effect:
- Tapped creatures do not deal combat damage. In particular, this rule decreases the power of Mishra's Factory, which is more powerful (possibly even problematic) in Old School than it was historically. Some cards in the format make more sense with this rule in effect, and some cards become quite a bit more powerful.
- Tapped Artifacts "turn off." That is, when they are tapped, the triggered, static, and activated abilities of an artifact cannot be played. This is rule that was abandoned in 6th edition and there are several ambiguities that might arise, so both players should be familiar with play under this ruleset and have built their decks with it in mind. The rule also has a few interesting effects on deck construction the format: Mainly, there are now more ways for all colors to handle artifacts, since they can use Icy Manipulator and Relic Barrier to shut down artifacts with triggered or static abilities (such as Black Vice or The Rack). For players wondering why Icy Manipulator was such a popular answer even in aggro decks during the early days of Magic, this rule is part of the reason.
- The Original Stack and Interrupts: The "stack" of instants and fast effects resolves simultaneously, and Interrupts may not be responded to except with other Interrupts. Players should be aware that there are occasionally ambiguous situations that arise under this ruleset. This is quite far removed from most players' experience, and even those of us who played quite a bit before 6th edition rules may have forgotten many of the subtleties and timing issues inherent in this rule. However, it does change the power levels of some cards like Giant Growth.
- Life totals are checked at the end of a phase. That is, you can go below 1 life as long as you have at least 1 life at the end of a phase. This rule is the reason that Mirror Universe could be used on its own as a win condition. I don't highly recommend this rule for play, though, as it has very few interesting uses that aren't abusive, and no cards in the format stop functioning as intended when it's not in effect.


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Eskom files affidavit against Deloitte ordering the return of R207m tenders
The tenders were altered to 'just under the ceiling price' which granted its approval from provincial Treasury.
The tenders were altered to 'just under the ceiling price' which granted its approval from provincial Treasury.
A tough one for Major General Noel Ndhlovu to explain.
11 years later and the Dihlabeng municipality has yet to deliver houses to the Bethlehem community.
The overall National and Provincial audit has, once again, demonstrated government's lack of responsibility.
The paper trail does not lie.
Well, it all makes sense now.
The turntables are about to stop spinning for this government official.
Who is this man, and why is he surrounded by private security in military uniform?
Nationwide reports of corruption are dropping everywhere except in the Gauteng province.
We wish this was an April fool's joke... alas.
"Hey big spender! Forge that tender!"
An expose by the Sunday Times has shed some light on SA's high commissioner to the UK, Obed Mlaba, and just what he's reportedly been getting up to over there.
Imagine a world where you buy something with taxpayer's money, without making sure that it'll actually work; then you realise you're an idiot and decide you're going to ask for all that money back.
Next week, the trial of Julius Malema will begin in the Limpopo Province capital. More than 3000 Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters are expected to show their support for Malema, colloquially known as Juju, starting with a night vigil on the eve of the trial


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Our admiration for Timeless Interior Design Ideas continues today with more classic and traditional interiors with sources for paint colors and a few furniture and decor finds.
Architecture/Design/Construction: The Fox Group.
Timeless Interior Design Ideas, Paint Colors & Furniture Finds
This post contains affiliate links which I hope you will use since they won't cost you a penny extra yet may earn this blog a small commission.
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 1: Classic White Bathroom
What makes this bathroom timeless? For me it's the fact that the materials chosen will stand the test of time, functionally and aesthetically. And that makes good financial sense for the long haul!
You also have to love (a) the va va voom luxury of HIS and HERS benches and shower heads and (b) the architecture of the shower surround itself…a work of art!
Did you know there are gorgeous porcelain tile options which look like Calacatta marble yet cost 1/4 the price and require no special installation or sealers? FIND THEM HERE.
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 2: Starry Light
Who says you need to go all Swiss cheese-y on your hallway ceiling?
I'm smitten with this idea of lining up Moravian Star Pendants in a hall!
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 3: Serene Palette
Even without any dining tablescape styling, this whispery lovely dining room sings with serene charm. The check on the roman blinds works beautifully with the French Bergere chairs, classic chandelier, and drop dead gorgeous ceiling.
If you are having a hard time deciding what the wall color might be…is it a pale blue, a light grey, and a faded aqua green? Then, that is a very good sign as far as I am concerned. It is those neutral tones which are difficult to pin down that turn out to be your best options for timeless, trend-less, unfussy style.
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 4: Vintage Style Pendants
These lanterns! Aren't they showstoppers?
To see one of my favorites… FIND HERE!
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 5: Herringbone Floor
It's a pattern that adds the suggestion of age, and hence, a greater sense of timelessness. Do you love this combination of white oak with BENJAMIN MOORE Simply White, and the medium gray paint color on the door?
Benjamin Moore Simply White Paint Color
Benjamin Moore Simply White Painted Shiplap
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 6: Slightly Coastal Bedroom
Why not treat yourself to a coastal style bedroom even if you're landlocked? A serene blue and white palette is easy to live with and won't feel stuck in time.
Timeless Interior Design Idea No. 7: Subway Tile
Here's a clever riff on traditional white subway tile in a shower from The Fox Group. A subtle, contrasting narrow tile is used to create interest with a stripe effect. Is it a nod to Mid-century modern's love affair with geometry? Slightly art-deco? Steeped in classicism? Or all of the above?
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 8: Ageless Kitchen
When you're investing in a kitchen design that feels fresh, traditional, and smart for re-sale, keep the materials, palette, and design as classically simple and timeless as this one.
Benjamin Moore Cheating Heart Paint Color
Timeless Design Inspiration – Idea No. 9: Built-in Banquettes
What makes a built-in banquette so timeless? They are reminiscent of a bygone era when quality craftsmanship reigned and breakfast rooms were on the smaller size.
Timeless Design Inspiration – No. 10: Classic Millwork
The Fox Group renders such amazing design and craftsmanship with regards to wainscot, paneling, and millwork. In this media room, a sense of timeless elegance was created with classic trim detailing and a tranquil painted treatment.
Benjamin Moore Galveston Gray Paint Color
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 11: Chinoiserie
You just can't go wrong with blue and white chinoiserie pieces when you're after a richly traditional and classic timeless look.
Find a variety of blue and white chinoiserie pieces RIGHT HERE.
Benjamin Moore White Dove Paint Color
Timeless Design Ideas No. 12: Copper Gutters
Similar Antique Brass Handleset: FIND HERE
A Similar English Farmhouse Style Outdoor Wall Sconce: FIND HERE
Brass wall mounted mailbox: FIND HERE
Cedar Planks for Porch Ceiling: FIND HERE
Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain Front Door Paint Color
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 13: Symmetry
This mud room is clad in very NOW shiplap yet has a classic feel with traditional style cabinetry and symmetrical architecture.
More classic symmetry here with these breathtakingly beautiful skinny French doors flanking the magnificent shower in this luxurious fantasy bathroom by The Fox Group!
Timeless Interior Designs Ideas No. 14: Maximal Natural Light
The gorgeous charcoal grey you see in the mud room beyond the kitchen above? BENJAMIN MOORE Trout Gray.
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 15: Dramatic Entry
Timeless Interior Design Ideas No. 16: Understated Cabinet Door Style
Meet the Architecture & Design Team
With over 25 years of combined experience Tom and Cara Fox have a true passion for creating beautiful, timeless homes and spaces, specializing in classic design, millwork and wainscoting. Based in Salt Lake City, they offer complete architectural plans and design and build/renovations of custom homes. They also offer long distance services of architectural plans and home design, as well as furnishings and styling.
Beautifully Timeless Furniture Finds!
Linen Dining & Accent Chairs
Love a classic wing back chair which will work in a variety of decor settings including traditional, French country, coastal, transitional, or modern farmhouse. Here is a beauty to behold…
If you love the convenience of shopping Amazon, then you are going to be happy to discover this gorgeous French linen upholstered dining chair at a friendly price point (if you have priced these or tried to find them in stock, then you know!).
Subtle nailhead trim on the skirt makes me love these even more than the ones we have in our kitchen and dining rooms.
Another option is this lovely set of 2.
The styling of the chair below features a graceful arch for a slightly more-French-than-Belgian look. It's a dead ringer for the RH linen slipcovered chair I have in my bedroom and can work as desk chairs, accent chairs with wood chairs at a dining table, or in a living room where you need more finely proportioned seating.
Which of these grain sack upholstered chairs would you choose?
Four Lovely Lighting Possibilities
Timeless Blue Hue Lovely
More inspiring design from The Fox Group await…visit them here and visit a timeless house by them we toured HERE.
For more timeless decor suggestions, SEE THIS.
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Peace to you right where you are.
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AQHA Programs and Events Overview
Programs and Events
Learn about the exciting AQHA Racing programs and events that will fuel your passion for speed.
Jay Pumphrey Cowboy Classic Memorial Golf Tournament
Since 1980, AQHA Racing has hosted the annual Jay Pumphrey Cowboy Classic Golf Tournament, which coincides with All American week and the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale at Ruidoso Downs.
The best of the best.
Check out what it looks like when an American Quarter Horse reaches the top tier of the Quarter Horse racing industry.
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The Stanley E. Fulton Family Foundation is making a $2-million commitment to assist New Mexicans.


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ETQ TG32P12 Review 2018
The ETQ TG32P12 gas powered portable generator is capable of giving a maximum output of 4000 watts. Such a high output capacity of the ETQ TG32P12 makes it one of the most powerful & heavy-duty gas generators currently available in the market. The power produced by the ETQ TG32P12 is more than sufficient for powering various home & office appliances. But even then, the TG32P12 has some negatives about it. Let us give you a detailed look at the performance & other features of the ETQ TG32P12 to give you a much clearer picture about the machine.
Dimension: 25 x 20 x 19 inches | Weight: 106 lbs.
ETQ TG32P12 Product Features
Power: The ETQ TG32P12 is most definitely one of the more powerful gas generators available in the market today. It is capable of producing a running power of 3250 watts & can go as high as 4000 watts. Its Sine power delivers clean electricity with low THD waveform.
Fuel tank: the fuel tank of the ETQ TG32P12 is also larger than most of the generators in its class. The fuel tank of this particular generator can hold about 4 gallons of fuel which is enough to run the machine continuously for 13 hours at 50% load.
Motor: The ETQ TG32P12 is powered by a 7 HP 208cc 4-stroke air cooled heavy-duty OHV engine. It also has an indicator which would alert you when its 0.6L oil canister is almost empty.
Noise level: Noise level of the ETQ TG32P12 is quite low compared to other similar machines. The machine produces a noise of about 61 decibels at 21 feet. That means, you can easily carry on your conversations without having to raise your voice.
Appliances: All types of electrical appliances are supported by the ETQ TG32P12 both at home & in the office. In addition, it can also be used for powering garden appliances & workshop tools. Hi-tech digital electronics & computers can also be run with the help of this generator.
Price: The price of this generator ranges between $350 & $400 which is quite competitive, given the features it offer to the buyers.
Compliance: The generator is not CARB compliant. Therefore, if you are living in California; you won't be able to buy this machine.
Warranty: The company provides a warranty of 1 full year from the date of purchase.
For most parts the ETQ TG32P12 is a good machine to have. It is powerful, efficient & reliable. It is not everyday that you would get a gas generator with a 4000 watts max capacity. Its oversized fuel tank can hold enough gas to make it run for a long time & at the same time you will not have to bear the loud noise of running such a generator. The price of the ETQ portable generator is such that it will be easy on your pocket.
But in spite of having such positive attributes, the ETQ TG32P12 is not a perfect machine. It has its share of negatives as well. Firstly, at 106 lbs the ETQ TG32P12 is certainly not a lightweight generator. So carrying this machine around will not be an easy task. Secondly, the machine is non-CARB compliant. So the residences of this state will not be able to use this. But since it has passed EPA testing, people residing in other US states will be able to use it. Thirdly, the machine only comes with only a year's warranty which is quite low. So if something happens to the ETQ portable generator after a year of purchasing it, you will either have to fix the machine on your own or buy a new one. This limited warranty period, in a way, eliminates the price advantage it has.
But overall if you try to balance the pros & cons of this generator, it seems, the scale is substantially weighed in favor of pros. So, buying the ETQ TG32P12 Portable Generator would not be such a bad idea.


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SpringServe is a video ad server platform that handles tens of billions of ad requests per day. The SpringServe platform collects video advertising opportunities from a network of publishers, distributes them to real-time bidders, and serves the winning ads on the publishers' properties—all in under 100 milliseconds. Demand and supply-side customers are then able to optimize their current and future advertising allocations with SpringServe's dashboard-rich UI, which provides a transparent view of the market through granular, real-time campaign metrics.
SpringServe's business hinges on its ability to quickly and consistently deliver video advertisements during varying levels of demand. Failure to respond to an advertising opportunity in a timely manner translates to lost revenue for SpringServe and the publisher, a missed opportunity for the advertiser, and a likely win for a competing ad platform. Yet as SpringServe advanced their infrastructure to meet performance demands, their open source monitoring tools could no longer provide the visibility they needed and ultimately became an impediment to growth.
"We were hitting that point when Graphite was being really, really slow. Our Nagios setup wasn't great either," says David Buonasera, SpringServe's Chief Technology Officer, adding that these self-hosted tools created a maintenance burden. "You'd need Nagios to monitor Nagios in other regions," he says. SpringServe's infrastructure was becoming more dynamic and distributed in order to provide better service around the world. But significant blind spots hampered those efforts: they could not track application performance across regions, nor could they correlate metrics between systems to uncover the source of issues.
SpringServe needed a reliable, real-time monitoring solution that could keep pace with its auto-scaling infrastructure, allow them to adopt innovative technologies, and keep growing quickly—without sacrificing the speed or consistency their customers depend on.
SpringServe turned to Datadog for real-time, granular data that allows them to monitor every layer of their infrastructure and custom applications, identifying issues before they affect the business. "It took away pretty much every use case we had for Nagios and Graphite almost immediately," says Buonasera.
From their initial Datadog deployment, "it just worked," Buonasera says, allowing SpringServe engineers to easily correlate metrics across their infrastructure and throughout regions to avoid costly downtime. Additionally, SpringServe can now analyze business metrics to identify areas of the platform that are ripe for improvement, which would have been prohibitively time-consuming with their old setup. With reduced MTTR, and without the burden of managing a self-hosted monitoring stack, SpringServe engineers are now able to focus on enhancing their platform's value-producing offerings. Moreover, they have been able to embrace a fully dynamic infrastructure to respond to traffic spikes, boost performance, and meet publishers' near-immediate response times in a cost-effective manner.
The breadth and depth of visibility provided by Datadog's built-in integrations surpassed what SpringServe had access to prior, allowing Buonasera and his team to readily prevent performance and capacity issues. "The most important thing we do is monitor AWS Kinesis," a streaming data platform in the Amazon cloud that is fundamental to SpringServe's functionality, says Buonasera. Kinesis delivers event data from SpringServe's ad and pixel-tracking servers to their aggregation system. However, as Kinesis reaches its provisioned capacity, it begins to throttle this event data and buffer it back to the servers. If capacity is not promptly increased, the servers quickly become overloaded, data may be lost, and a crash may be imminent. Buonasera and his team now receive Datadog alerts as Kinesis approaches its shard capacity in order to avoid this "catastrophic" scenario.
Monitoring Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) also allows SpringServe to proactively detect issues and keep transactions flowing. High ELB latency means that SpringServe's backend servers are not responding to publishers' ad requests promptly and SpringServe may lose these revenue-generating opportunities. What's worse, high ELB latency also signals that backend servers may be overburdened and liable to crash. "ELB latency is immensely important," says Buonasera. "Anytime we see it go over about fifteen milliseconds, we don't have a ton of time to respond, so alerting on it is super important." Creating alerts based on out-of-the-box latency metrics from Datadog's ELB integration allows SpringServe to investigate and resolve the underlying issue before it produces ripple effects on revenue.
While Datadog's built-in integrations enabled SpringServe to gain immediate visibility into their most critical systems, the ability to collect and monitor metrics from across the business has increased their ability to make data-driven decisions. By tracking every stage of the ad-serving process in Datadog, SpringServe is able to proactively reduce risk and latency throughout their platform and increase the value they provide to customers over time.
Engineers and business teams alike monitor SpringServe DirectConnect, a proprietary channel in which a majority of the transactions between demand- and supply-side partners take place. By collecting custom application metrics and graphing them in a Datadog dashboard, engineers ensure that DirectConnect is available and healthy, while executives can extrapolate revenue. Moreover, by tracking impressions, requests, and fill rates for individual parties, SpringServe's business team is able to identify their most productive partners and optimize ad delivery cadence accordingly.
Comprehensive visibility from custom metrics also allows SpringServe to provide better service to their customers, and ensure quality throughout their ecosystem. Datadog prevents unintentional ad spend by helping SpringServe identify partners who inadvertently place repeated ad requests with runaway scripts. "Our clients are not only able to adjust to the market quicker, but when they make a mistake, they find it out faster and are able to mitigate risk," says Buonasera. "That's an advantage."
Clients turn to SpringServe for quick and reliable video ad serving, real-time analytics with insight into revenue, and fast feedback to optimize campaigns. For SpringServe and their customers, "it's all about using data to inform performance," says Buonasera.
To ensure the stability of their platform and business, SpringServe turned to Datadog, an investment that continues to produce returns as they adopt new technologies and deliver innovative products. "We never have to think, 'Does this work with Datadog?' before we select a new technology. That's just a default—it's going to work with Datadog," says Buonasera.


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Avoid leaving sweat on your pores and skin as it may possibly cause pimples. Sweat provides the breeding floor acne needs to survive and multiply. So, after any work out or being in scorching temperatures, be sure to gently wash away any sweat on your face to help keep your skin clear.
Use a honey masks in your face for zits. That is necessary to your well being as a result of honey truly kills bacteria and will heal minor pimples in your face. Honey just isn't harsh unlike some soaps or cleansers. You should not get yourself obsessed over one pimple. It might probably really cause you more stress, and you will break out in multiple places. Simply let it be and it'll go away by itself. If you proceed to fret about it, it'll only get worse.
Avoid environmental pollutants as much as possible. The air pollution around us from vehicles, factories, and building can take a toll on your pores and skin. Avoiding environmental exposure and taking time to wash your face after being uncovered may help to keep your acne at bay. If you dwell in a bigger metropolitan space, this may be rather more important.
Exfoliate your pores and skin as soon as per week. It will remove the useless pores and skin and buildup that can clog your pores and uninteresting your complexion. Use scrubs which are specifically formulated for the face and have tiny grains in it. Do not use the scrubs which have large seeds or grains in them as a result of they will trigger tears in your pores and skin.
When utilizing a treatment to do away with acne, be sure to follow it. Utilizing an acne therapy a few times just isn't going to help clear up your face. If in case you have a tough time remembering to use it, you can place your therapy in a spot the place you will notice it continuously, akin to near your toothbrush or hairbrush.
Purifying the blood is a good way to stop zits breakouts. You can do this naturally by consuming a cup of Burdock root tea. Drink this tea thrice a day and it'll improve your blood circulation and purify your blood. This could lead to clearer pores and skin and hold it clear sooner or later.


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Under "The Belt and Road", the China shoe materials import is very good. "The Belt and Road" has been proposed for more than four years, and more countries have participated in it. At present, it has received responses and support from more than 100 countries and international organizations in the world. Since "The Belt and Road" initiative was put forward, the trade and economic exchanges between the purchasing countries along the line and China have become increasingly frequent, and the Chinese footwear market has become a hot spot in the overseas market. Oulian company engage in China import service for more than 10 years, we are specialize in China shoe materials import, here to introduce outsole import from China service we provide.
Types of Outsole import from China:
The outsoles for dress shoes for both men's and women's dress shoes are made out of high-quality leather and rubber. Casual, everyday shoes or work shoes have outsoles that are made from materials like natural rubber or polyurethane. The outsole can be comprised of the same material or different types. For example, an all-leather sole is a standard feature of the dress shoe, but it doesn't offer the most traction.
The shoe's purpose also plays into the materials used in the outsole. Athletic shoes are designed with various types of outsoles depending on how the shoe will be used. Shoes used for soccer, football, track, baseball, and golf are embedded with cleats or spikes to provide traction. Other athletic shoes, like basketball shoes, wrestling shoes, and climbing shoes are outfitted with rubber soles for greater grip.
Types of outsole import from China used for safety footwear are:
PVC is a thermoplastic material generally found in rubber boots, the outsoles made with this material usually have very good resistance to strong chemical agents like acids. It has good cold resistance from -5 to max -20 degrees but not really to high temperatures, maximum 100 degrees.
PU MONO (SINGLE) DENSITY. PU is the abbreviation for polyurethane. It has a good resistance to chemical agents and hydrocarbons, but no resistance to strong acids. The resistance to extreme temperatures goes from -10/-20 to +130 max 140 degrees . RECOMMENDED USAGE: indoor and not very aggressive work places.
PU/PU: (an injection molded outsole) is a double-density profile sole made of PU. The resistance to temperatures goes from -10/20 to 120 max 150 degrees . The average loss of weight is about 60/80mm3 for single density polyurethane. It is antistatic and has acceptable slip resistance. RECOMMENDED USAGE: indoor and outdoor, not really suggested for contact with chemical agents.
PU/TPU: (an injection molded outsole). TPU, thermoplastic polyurethane is a special type of polyurethane (PUR/PU). It is particularly sturdy, abrasion-resistant and flexible. TPU therefore provides higher performance: abrasion resistance, slip resistance at a very good level. Not very resistant to high temperatures (maximum 100 degrees), the abrasion resistance is about 50 to 80mm3. RECOMMENDED USAGE: indoor and outdoor, cold weather, not really suggested for contact with hot surfaces.
MONO DENSITY RUBBER: (generally an injection molded outsole). Non-vulcanised caoutchouc stinks and is not resistant to cold temperatures, so it is submitted to a vulcanization process which makes it very resistant. Rubber outsoles are exceptionally sturdy: temperature-resistant from -30 up to 300°C, hard to penetrate from sharp objects and resistant to fuel, oil, microbes and numerous chemicals. However, rubber is heavier than PU and TPU, and is less flexible when submitted to cold temperatures. The abrasion resistance of rubber is from 100 to 130mm3. RECOMMENDED USAGE: It is a compact and heavy material so it is not the best choice if you need extremely light footwear.
PU/RUBBER: (generally an injection molded outsole). Keeping the properties of rubber for the outsole, in this type of outsole the midsole is of PU so the footwear is lighter. The PU in this case is the weak point in the toughest situations where rubber's performances are better. RECOMMENDED USAGE: indoor and outdoor, in contact with hydrocarbons, chemicals, acids. It is a compact and heavy material, so to make it lighter it is joined with PU.
EVA/RUBBER: EVA is elastic and tear- and slip-resistant. When used to make shoes, EVA is used as cushioning material in the midsole. However, nowadays EVA is also used for creating midsoles in safety footwear, placed in cemented outsoles between the upper and the outsole (usually rubber). RECOMMENDED USAGE: indoor and outdoor, in contact with hydrocarbons, chemicals, acids. It is a compact and heavy material, so to make it lighter it is joined with EVA.
We have a dedicated team responsible for your outsole import from China project. Whether you shipping by sea or air, we have different sized containers to help you load. We also provide packing, tracking, door-to-door service. If you are interested in outsole import from China service, please contact us. The prices of different port cities and destinations are also different.


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Ken Cook Co. partnered with ABYC to create a powerful iPhone app to identify both required and recommended safety equipment for powered and non-powered recreational boats used in U.S. waters. The app uses the USCG recreational boat rules to generate a required equipment checklist for up to three different boats and has the ability to create shopping lists, maintenance notifications, float plans and more.
This is the second IBEX innovation award for Ken Cook Co., having received the award in 2008 for the Marine BookBuilder online owner's manual portal. Marine BookBuilder allows boatbuilders to make customized international owner's manuals, in 19 languages, and the ability to print just one copy at a time shipped to any location. "It was the innovation we built into Marine BookBuilder that caught the attention of ABYC." said John Jost, Director of Software Solutions who added "We have an outstanding staff of content creators, illustrators, writers, publishers and application developers that routinely provide our customers with unique solutions."


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Today, Amadeus announced a highly positive set of financial results for the first nine months of 2014 – with positive contributions from both business lines combined with additional growth driven by recent acquisitions.
In the year to date, group Revenue increased by 9.4% to reach €2,585.0 million and EBITDA grew by 9.3% to become €1,037.5 million, driving Adjusted Profit growth of 9.0% to €557.2m. Excluding the recent acquisitions of Newmarket International, UFIS Airport Solutions, and i:FAO Aktiengesellschaft, comparable growth for Revenue and EBITDA stood at 6.8% and 7.0% respectively, and Adjusted Profit increased by 7.1%.
In Distribution our air travel agency bookings rose 4.5% to 356.2 million, outstripping the industry growth of 3.1%, whilst our overall market share expanded by 0.4 percentage points to 40.4%. Further industry outperformance (+4.0%) and market share growth (+0.8 percentage points) were achieved during the third quarter. All of this resulted in revenue for the first nine months from Distribution increasing by 4.2%, to total €1,861.5 million (excluding the impact of the above mentioned acquisitions).
We recently announced our breakthrough agreement reached in September with Ryanair, bringing a wide range of its fares and full ancillary services to Amadeus travel agency subscribers – in November the low-cost carrier began distributing through Amadeus' innovative light ticketing technology, displaying fares available at parity with the Ryanair website.
In IT Solutions Passengers Boarded were up by 14.1% to total 519.7 million. This continued growth was mostly driven by recent airline implementations, in addition to the full-year impact of those implemented last year, with organic growth contributing 4.2%. It is worth emphasising that the Asia Pacific region now plays a larger role than previously, representing 22.9% of PBs Vs 16.1% in the same period last year. Overall, revenue for IT Solutions increased by 14.9% to €664.6 million (excluding acquisitions) during the first nine months.
There are now 132 airlines around the world that have contracted for both Altéa Reservation and Altéa Inventory. Based upon these contracts, Amadeus estimates that by 2017 the number of annual Passengers Boarded will be close to one billion.
Consolidated net financial debt stood at €1,530.8 million at the close of the period, representing leverage of 1.18x EBITDA. This partly reflects our recent M&A activity, including the acquisitions of Newmarket, UFIS and i:FAO; however it also reflects the payment of dividends to shareholders, following July's complementary dividend of €111.2 million (gross) and the interim dividend paid earlier in the year. In total €279.7 million has been distributed to shareholders this year – representing a 50% pay-out ratio on 2013's profit (and a 25% increase over the previous year).
If you would like to know more about our financial results, further details can be found in the press release and other documents posted this morning on the Investor Relations website. You will also find there a broad selection of presentations, facts and figures relevant to the investor community.


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The Art of Mastering Relationships
How To Start A Conversation To A Girl?
Are you considering yourself to be a shy guy but is determine to know how to start a conversation with a girl? If yes, then you have come to the right place as in this article, we are going to concentrate on the biggest problem that many shy guys have, which is to start a conversation with women.
Whenever you go up to a women to start a conversation, always keep in mind that this is otherwise known as an opener or opening. Well in simplest form, it is about saying something to start a conversation and at the same time, get her attention. The truth is, there are 2 different ways on how you could open a conversation and the most common amongst men is using a direct opener. Simply put, this is saying something that has a direct effect on the woman similar to you are cute or contemplating her physical appearance.
While this one might work, this method clearly indicates that you are sexually interested to her which can just scare her off. Using an indirect opener is the more recommended method that you have to know on how to start a conversation. The best indirect openers are going to tell you that you do not have interests with her and always asking open ended questions which mean that the woman could not just answer yes or no and let you to tell a story.
Asking about opinions on something is a good example for using indirect opener. By using this tactic, the woman that you're talking to is going to give her opinion and you can go into some interesting story which explains why you have asked that question. This opener is actually good as it is telling her that you aren't interested to her and your question can give high social status.
For shy guys to know how to have a conversation to any girl that they want, this is actually one of the best dating tips they can use. You can even make up an opinion opener of your own and back it up with real stories from your life and see how great they could work.
Your opinion openers need to show women that you're not interested and that they are asked with an open ended question which is the most important thing that you have to remember. Doing this can help you have good conversation starters and build that momentum to make her interested to you and not the other way around.
It's now up to you how you are going to put up various conversation topics to keep it going as soon as you have her attention.


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Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali is reportedly keen to sign up Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt for his next project.
After the lukewarm response to 'Jab Harry Met Sejal' (2017), Ali has now begun work on his next. A source told DNA India, "He has already had a word with her and Ranbir, but nothing's been finalised yet as it is in the initial stages."
The two will first be seen in 'Dragon', which has been postponed a number of times.


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I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, and about a month ago I finally went! (I invited myself along on my parents' trip and they were too nice to say no. How Watson Brewer of them.) Of course I re-read this Super Special beforehand to make sure I had a BSC-riffic experience.
Okay, so Stoneybrook High School offers a trip to Hawaii. (Really? My school would never…) Unfortunately they only give a few weeks' notice, and Mallory already has plans and also can't afford to go. Did I say unfortunately? Let's be real. No one but Jessi really cares if Mal is there or not. With her complexion she'd probably get hella sunburnt anyway, so she's probably better off. Kristy isn't going either, because she's working at Mrs. Stone's day camp with Mallory, but her (rich) family is taking their own trip to Hawaii in August. Logan is going, and I hope he gets nicknamed Luau Logan.
ANYWAY. About fifty kids and six chaperones are going, and each baby-sitter had to pay for half her trip, with her parents covering the other half. (Damn, baby-sitting business must be good.) Jessi convinces Stacey, Dawn, Claudia, Mary Anne, Abby, and Logan to help her keep a journal/scrapbook for Mallory. Here we goooo…
The trip's itinerary is like this:
- Fly to Hawaii and land on Oahu island.
- Five days in Honolulu, with trips to Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor, and Manoa Valley.
- A small group (including Stacey) flies to Maui, while the rest stay on Windward Oahu with a day trip to the North Shore.
- Then back to Honolulu for the flight back to Connecticut.
Of course my trip most closely resembles Stacey's… she's my spirit animal. I spent four days on Oahu and a week on Maui. On the morning of the Hawaii flight, we get introduced to Abby's Five Stages of Packing: Shock (that the suitcase won't close), Denial (that she has too much stuff), Anger (at the fact that she didn't pack earlier), Bargaining (with the objects to make room for one another), and Mourning (for the clothes she must leave behind).
The gang has a rowdy flight to Hawaii, where they land on the island of Oahu! In the above photo of them on the plane, Dawn kind of looks like a blond 1969 Patricia Krenwinkel. Just sayin'. Mary Anne calls Hawaii "the most beautiful place on Earth" (page 33). Logan is disappointed that he didn't get lei'd upon landing – he thought it would be like "The Brady Bunch" (#same, Logan). The SMSers stay at a hotel called the Honolulu Surf. While on the trip, Mary Anne and Logan are trying something called TBI – Together But Independent. Their friends rag on them for spending too much time together, so they're going to try to each have fun with their own friends and not spend all their time together. Stacey and Robert are also being a little bit distant, but nobody quite knows why.
On their first full day, Jessi, Claudia, and Mary Anne take a guided walking tour of Honolulu. They see a statue of Kamehameha the Great (a warrior king), 'Iolani Palace, the State Capitol, the Mission Houses Museum, and the Hawaii Maritime Center. They travel through Merchant Street and Chinatown. Eventually they all get ice cream near the Aloha Tower.
Meanwhile, Mallory is having a shitty time in Stoneybrook. Jenny Prezzioso, amiright?
Claudia goes to Pearl Harbor with a small group the next day. The site has extra significance for her because of her Japanese heritage. (Mary Anne goes, too. Being allergic to the sun, it would be a waste for her to spend her time at the beach.) At first Claudia finds the history interesting, but then when she thinks about all the people that died because of the attacks, she feels sick and wishes to be blond-haired and blue-eyed, to dissociate from the destruction. 😦 Poor Claud!
Abby and Stacey, meanwhile, are shopping on Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki. Stacey goes off in search of actual fashion, while Abby (whose mother calls her a "tsotchke maven") buys a bunch of tacky souvenirs: a windup hula dancer, a tin pineapple pencil sharpener, a glow-in-the-dark Waikiki plastic tumbler, and a poster of a grumpy-looking bulldog that said "I'd rather be wind-surfing". Keep it classy, Abby. Next, the girls and their group hit Kapiolani Park, followed by the Waikiki Aquarium, and then they hit Waikiki Beach. On the beach, Abby stumbles upon a camera crew filming a sunscreen commercial and – because she's pretty good at volleyball – she gets to be in it! She has to report back the next morning for filming. YAS QUEEN ABBY!
Jessi, Dawn, and Logan head off to Mount Tantalus, the highest point in Oahu. Dawn pulls a Margo Pike and almost barfs from carsickness on the way there, but we narrowly avoid that disaster. Jessi is taking pictures of everything – nine rolls of film so far (remember when film was a thing?) – and I want to be like, "Jessi, please listen to John Mayer's song '3×5' and LIVE YO LIFE instead of watching your vacation through a lens!" But Jessi's a fictional eleven-year-old so I can't quite get my message across. Dawn feels better in the fresh air (hippie) and loves it when they get to Paradise Park in Manoa Valley, where they eat in the Treetop Restaurant.
Abby is beginning to daydream about gaining stardom after her commercial job; she is pretty sure she's going to win the role of "glamorous thirteen-year-old asthmatic in [Steven Spielberg's] new movie, 'Abigail's Dream'" (page 102). Gotta love Abby. #HUSTLE #DONTQUITYOURDAYDREAM Abby reports to the Diamond Head end of the beach to shoot her commercial. She kinda flubs at first but manages to make it work. ABBY'S A STAR, ABBY'S ON TOP, SOMEBODY BRING HER SOME HAAAAAM! (Wait, can Abby even eat ham? Never mind.) Oh, but side note – she ironically didn't wear sunscreen in her sunscreen commercial and got burned to a crisp.
Stacey and Robert fly with a couple of others to Maui, where they're going to camp at Haleakala. They're having a bit of a tiff, though – Stacey's jealous/suspicious because Robert has been flirting with other girls. ~Stoneybrook drama!~ Once they get to the crater, they have the chance to see a Brocken specter – Stacey sees her silhouette in a rainbow. She's so friggin' fabulous. At the top – Pu'u Ula'ula – Stacey sees a view as amazing as she is. (Y'all know she's my fave.) But Stacey and Robert's relationship is beginning to bear more than a passing metaphorical resemblance to a rocky crater.
Claudia and the rest of the still-on-Oahu gang move to a new hotel and visit Punchbowl Crater National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, a graveyard of thirty thousand soldiers. (Yikes.) Again Claud feels self-conscious about her heritage, and kind of hides out a little. Then they move on to the summer palace of Queen Emma, where Claudia sees a Japanese cottage. She can't escape this whole thing. The group then drives through the Ko'olau Mountain Range, stopping to check out the Nu'uanu Pali Lookout.
Mary Anne is super stoked that they can see Gilligan's Island from their new hotel, the SeaView Family Resort in Kaneohe. I would be too – I could write about it for Live The Movies! And, in a very Mary Anne move, she decides to stay at the hotel (instead of going on a fabulous tour) to help a family find their missing five-year-old son. Of course the son was just kind of a dummy who went to the wrong room, got stuck, and fell asleep, but Mary Anne gains hero status by baby-sitting his sisters and then finding him. The hotel proprietors even want to hire her to baby-sit the next day. So Mary Anne – WHILE ON VACATION IN HAWAII – says yes. I can't with Mary Anne.
And of course Mary Anne's do-gooder step-sister Dawn finds a dirty littered beach down the way from their hotel and makes it her mission – WHILE ON VACATION IN HAWAII – to clean that shit up. I gotta say, I'm way more on Stacey and Abby's wavelengths. But whatever.
Stacey is a badass, so she goes on a helicopter ride. But… it doesn't turn out so great. They end up flying into a storm, and the chopper starts spiraling down next to the crater. Pete Black barfs and Stacey blacks out. OH SHIT. But it's cool – everyone survives. This is the Baby-sitters Club, not "Pretty Little Liars".
Back in Stoneybrook, Mallory is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… whoops, sorry, dozed off there for a second. Where were we? Oh, okay. In Hawaii, Mary Anne goes to baby-sit for the Reynolds fami…zzzzzzz…
SMASH CUT TO everyone finding out that Stacey's helicopter went down! WHAAAAT. Search parties are out looking for Stacey, Pete, and the others, but they haven't been found yet. Mary Anne (knowing that Mr. Reynolds's WWII veteran father would be showing up that afternoon) convinces Claudia to baby-sit there so she can get another perspective. Claudia is reluctant but in the end finds it valuable – Grandpa Reynolds convinces her that her heritage is nothing to be ashamed of, and that everybody's ancestors have done terrible things at one point or another. Claud feels better about that but is, natch, still worried about Stacey.
Dawn of the Jungle convinces Abby and Jessi to help her clean up the nasty beach instead of moping around about Stacey. (Abby's bikini is fab, BTW.) In just a short while, Dawn and the crew clean up the beach and give the kids who swim there some tips for keeping it clean. Dawn may be annoying, but at least she does accomplish some good things. And – great news – when they get back to the hotel they find out Stacey is safe! (Phew.) After going down in the Kahikinui Forest Reserve, the lost group camped out for the night, then hiked to the Kaupo Gap, and finally into the town of Kaupo. Stacey, being diabetic and having gone without enough food, wakes up in the hospital with Robert at her bedside. Awwww. She's okay! And she gets to rejoin the BSC after flying back to Oahu.
The gang celebrates at the Polynesian Cultural Center, where Robert pushes Stacey around in a wheelchair due to her blistered-up feet from a gnarly fifteen-mile hike through the forest. Now on the North Shore, the group visits Sunset Beach. The next day it's off to Waimea Falls Park, where Stacey can walk on her own two feet again, and lunch at Matsumoto, where shaved ice is a specialty. Then we get a Logan chapter! And Logan finally gets lei'd on the way home. And Logan and Mary Anne both admit that they hated TBI and are going to get surgically conjoined (except not that second part, really). And it's back to Stoneybrook for our favorite baby-sitters.
P.S. Mal loved the scrapbook/journal. Of course.
As a side note: I gotta say, this book (coming later-ish in the series) was really spunky and witty compared to some of the other more saccharine books in the series. I guess Hawaii brings out the best in the BSC.


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Is it possible to improve on a shoe that already is meant to decrease your marathon time by four percent? Nike says it is possible. The company is releasing two new updated version of shoes that are already designed to improve on marathon times. The shoes are the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% and the Nike Zoom Fly Flyknit.
Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% Flyknit
The Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% was first released last year. The shoe features the same Nike ZoomX foam and full-length curved carbon fiber plate. Together, these two technologies created a four percent improvement on marathon times when compared to Nike's current fastest racing shoe.
The updated version of the Vaporfly 4% has a Flyknit upper for a more breathable and flexible upper. The midsole and outsole technologies remain the same, the company just improved on the upper.
The shoe releases October 4 in North America, October 1 throughout all of Europe, September 6 in China, and September 6 in Japan.
Nike Zoom Fly Flyknit
The Nike Zoom Fly was released last year as well. If you didn't get a chance to get your hands on the Vaporfly 4%, the Zoom Fly was the next best option.
The updates to the Nike Zoom Fly Flyknit include Lunarlon with React foam and a full-carbon fiber plate. In addition, the shoe receives the flyknit upper just like the Vaporfly 4%.
We are currently testing these shoes so stay tuned for a full review!
The Zoom Fly Flyknit has already been released in North America, Europe, and China. It releases on October 4 in Japan.


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Transferring the ownership of a business or property is a very sensitive task that requires extreme accountabilities on every aspect. As many people get attracted to incentives and offers, it is worth noting that many people have been victims of fraudsters in business worth millions of money. The best thing is to ensure that you hire a licensed conveyancer Adelaide based, if you live there, to do all the digging and ensure that you get all the relevant information about the property or business so that so that you don't get conned.
When buying a house, land, and business
When you are buying a house from an individual, you always have a fixed thinking that the house belongs to that person who is selling it to you. You never give a second thought because you think no one can sell a vacant house that does not belong to him or her. You would be shocked on the day that someone will come with all sorts of documents and claim ownership of that house. A conveyancer Adelaide market has today can save you from that misfortune and ensure that you know these fraudsters so that you only buy the correct property or house.
First, information about the title deed and legal permit of the business is going to be searched. Once they know that everything is legal and as indicated, a conveyancer in Adelaide will inform you so that you take the next step. If the property or the business has no title deed to permit, you would be told whom it originally belongs to. Besides all that information, all impending debts on the property, all the loans that were taken and used the property as security would be revealed to you. The aim is to ensure that you get a clean property or business that will not yield any problems to you.
How to find a conveyancer
It is simple and easy, all you need is to ensure that you look at the background information of the person you want to hire. Find conveyancer in Adelaide who is licensed and make sure that he has a positive reputation from the previously served customers. It is also the duty of the conveyancer Adelaide market has today to ensure that you get a high-quality property or business that will serve you without any problem. Don't allow people to do fake business with you and lose your money, take caution and let the professionals handle it.
Transferring property from one person to another is not like buying clothes. Even the changing of the names of the ownership documents should be done legally and witnesses must be there to ensure that you have enough evidence you bought the property. Don't let offers and great deals close your eyes. Always follow the correct channels so that you obtain the perfect property for yourself. To ensure that you get great formal and legally accepted deals, always hire conveyancer in Adelaide. If you buy property without clear investigations, you would be prone to two kinds of misfortunes; one is getting a fake deal and second, buying a low-quality property.


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September 24, 2018
Spencer Tilger, Public Affairs Manager, Immigration Equality
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Immigration Equality Statement on New Public Charge Rule
NEW YORK, NY — This weekend, DHS announced its intention to implement a radical reinterpretation of the public charge rules. In order to obtain a visa or to ask for a green card, most immigrants must first prove they are not likely to become public charges. Under the proposed new system, DHS will heavily favor the rich. Immigration Equality's Executive Director Aaron C. Morris issued the following statement:
"This wealth test is a blatant attack on working families, on children, and on anyone living with a serious health condition. It shows that the Trump administration believes the United States should be a country for the privileged at the expense of everyone else. We should not force immigrants to choose between their immigration future and life-saving benefits for their families."
We will do everything we can to fight these proposed regulations. You can fight them too! We encourage everyone to submit comments in opposition to these changes as soon as the 60-day public comment period is announced.
Immigration Equality is the nation's leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization. We represent and advocate for people from around the world fleeing violence, abuse, and persecution because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status. Our legal team has won asylum for more than 1000 LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants while maintaining a 99% success rate.


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Henry Theodore Tuckerman was an American writer, essayist and critic.
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Edward Tuckerman Potter was an American architect best known for designing the 1871 Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Gorgeous bright colors, scrumptious looking fruits and delicious coconut drinks are just some of the symbols seen in Triple Toucan Slots exhilarating slots game that houses five reels and twenty paylines in addition to a random progressive jackpot. The random progressive jackpot can be won at any time when playing the real money game, it increases in value with every real money bet that is placed in the game. An auto play feature adds convenience to this game giving the player the opportunity to preset the number of spins that he wants the game to run for consecutively.
Within the tropical gardens of this game players will note the wild toucan that appears on reels 1 3 and 5. This wild can substitute for other symbols in the game in order to complete a winning payline. When it does substitute all the winnings for that line are tripled. The tropical fruit is the scatter symbol and this offers players multiplying payouts in the base game. Five of the scatter fruit symbols award players 300x the coin bet placed, four award the player 15x the coin bet placed, three award the player 3x the coin bet placed and two award the player 1x the coin bet placed. In addition three and more of the tropical fruit scatters awards the player free spins. Three award the player 9 free spins, four awards the player 15 free spins and five award the player 25 free spins. During all the free spins the toucan, when appearing expands to cover the whole reel that it is on giving the player more winning payouts. These free spins can be triggered again during their run and the additional free spins are added to the remaining ones. With parrots, coconuts, flowers and colorful frogs gracing the screens of Triple Toucan slots, it is a colorful and rewarding slots game to play especially with the chance of the random progressive jackpot at any time.


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- We really don't recommend getting a hire car in Menorca.
- The only reasons to hire a car in Menorca are the same reasons as anyhwere else, ie a car will give you so much convenience that it's worth going to all the hassle of driving and parking it on congested streets.
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- Apart from this spine road, there really is only one other road heading briefly to the north.
- With the island tending to become crowded with visitors in the summer, parking is always a problem, and even if the car gives a bit of flexibility, nothing tends to move very quickly.
- If you don't find the buses to be convenient, it generally much better to go around by taxi, as traffic really is that bad, at least you get out and walk.
- Menorca is also a great place to go walking in the north-west of the island and there are also some excellent trails on the southern side.
Poor value for money
- The Balearic island of Menorca really is too small to get much benefit from a hire car, and the island road between Mahon, where the airport is also situated and to the west has plenty of local bus services.
- Another pitfall to watch out for with Menorca car hire is that you might well find a seemingly attractive rental car deal, only then to see that you have to pick up a car with a full tank of fuel and then return it empty. So if you are only going to drive a few miles each day, that means that you end up giving the rental company a free tank of fuel.
Island hopping
- You are unlikely to do a road trip from Menorca, unless you want to island hop around the Balearics. If this is the case, then you will probably find a better range of flights and car hire options at Palma airport in Majorca.
Caronocar was initially set up because I'd heard various stories from places I'd been to about people hiring cars that they really didn't need to get. In Spain in particular, people found that they picked up a rental car at the airport, drove it to their hotel, and then hardly used it at all. Even in city break destinations like Barcelona, where you might do a lot of walking, a hire car just isn't that useful. Most of the personal notes I add to destinations are from my own experiences, rather than just from online research. I admit I haven't yet been to Menorca, but I have been to a few islands which are just like it. From what I've researched, this would be one of the last places on earth I'd ever recommend getting a rental car.
I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong. Have you hired a car in Menorca? Have you found that it was worth the effort? Better still, have you been to Menorca at least twice, but tried renting and not renting? If you've done that, and you still think renting a car in Menorca is a good idea, I'd love to hear from you.
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Should you rent a car in Menorca? The only reason to get a car here is if you have a strong reason to want to do so. In other words, you are travelling as a group or a family, and you want to keep everyone together, and keep all your stuff in the car.
There will always be some reasons why people will want to have a car with them, but these reasons would apply anywhere – even in a city like Singapore! We'd never tell anyone "not" to hire a car – this site is just about ideas and advice, but Menorca is simply one destination where that advice spins as far as it can towards not hiring a car. If you do hire a car here, you'll probably hire a car almost everywhere, so we have little advice to give. But if you have come here asking if it's worth it to hire a car here, or if you have any real need to hire a car in Menorca, then our answer is a resounding no, and no!
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Some of Prince's closest confidants had grown increasingly alarmed about his health in the days before he died and tried to get him help as they realised he had an opioid addiction — yet none were able to give investigators the insight they needed to determine where the musician got the fentanyl that killed him, according to investigative documents released yesterday.
Just ahead of this weekend's two-year anniversary of Prince's death, prosecutors announced they would file no criminal charges in the case and the state investigation was closed.
"My focus was lasered in on trying to find out who provided that fentanyl, and we just don't know where he got it," Carver County Attorney Mark Metz said.
"We may never know... It's pretty clear from the evidence that he did not know, and the people around him didn't know, that he was taking fentanyl."
Mr Metz said Prince had suffered from pain for years and likely believed he was taking a common painkiller.
Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound on April 21, 2016.
His death sparked a national outpouring of grief and prompted a joint investigation by Carver County and federal authorities.
An autopsy found he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin.
The investigative materials — including documents , photos and videos — were posted online yesterday afternoon.
Several images show the music superstar's body on the floor of his Paisley Park estate, near an elevator. He is on his back, his head on the floor, eyes closed. His right hand is on his stomach and left arm on the floor.
The documents include interviews with Prince's inner circle. That included long-time friend and bodyguard Kirk Johnson, who told investigators that he had noticed Prince "looking just a little frail", but said he did not realise he had an opioid addiction until he passed out on a plane a week before he died.
"It started to all making sense though, just his behaviour sometimes and change of mood and I'm like oh this is what, I think this is what's going on, that's why I took the initiative and said let's go to my doctor because you haven't been to the doctor, let's check it all out," Mr Johnson said, according to a transcript of an interview with investigators.
Mr Johnson said after that episode, Prince cancelled some concerts as friends urged him to rest. Mr Johnson also said that Prince "said he wanted to talk to somebody" about his addiction.
Mr Johnson asked his own doctor, Michael Todd Schulenberg, to see Prince on April 7, 2016. Dr Schulenberg told authorities he gave Prince an IV. Authorities said he also prescribed Vitamin D and a nausea medication — under Mr Johnson's name.
Mr Johnson then called Dr Schulenberg on April 14, asking the doctor to prescribe a pain medication for Prince's hip. Dr Schulenberg did so, again under Mr Johnson's name, Mr Metz said.
On the night of April 14 to April 15, Prince passed out on a flight home from Atlanta, and the private plane made an emergency stop in Moline, Illinois. The musician had to be revived with two doses of a drug that reverses effects of an opioid overdose.
A paramedic told a police detective that after the second shot of naloxone, Prince "took a large gasp and woke up", according to the investigative documents. He said Prince told paramedics, "I feel all fuzzy".
A nurse at the hospital where Prince was taken for monitoring told detectives that he refused routine overdose testing that would have included blood and urine tests.
When asked what he had taken, he didn't say what it was, but that "someone gave it to him to relax". Other documents say Prince said he took one or two pills.
The documents show that Mr Johnson contacted Dr Schulenberg again on April 18, and expressed concern that Prince was struggling with opioids.
At that time, Dr Schulenberg told investigators, Mr Johnson apologised for asking the doctor to prescribe the previous painkiller.
An assistant to Prince told investigators that he had been unusually quiet and sick with the flu in the days before he was found dead.
Meron Bekure said she last saw Prince a day earlier, when she was going to take him to the doctor for a check-up but that Prince told her he would go with Mr Johnson instead.
On that day, Dr Schulenberg saw Prince and ran some tests and prescribed other medications to help him. A urinalysis came back positive for opioids.
That same day, Paisley Park staffers contacted California addiction specialist Dr Howard Kornfeld.
The doctor sent his son, Andrew, to Minnesota that night, and the younger Kornfeld was among those who found Prince's body. Andrew Kornfeld was carrying buprenorphine, a medication that can be used to help treat opioid addiction.
Andrew Kornfeld told investigators that Prince was still warm to the touch when he was found, but that rigor mortis had begun to set in.
The documents also show that Prince's closest confidants knew he was a private person and tried to respect that.
"That's what pisses me off cause it's like man, how did he hide this so well?" Johnson said.
Mr Metz said some of Prince's friends might have enabled him as they tried to protect him.
"There is no doubt that the actions of individuals will be criticised, questioned and judged in the days and weeks to come," Mr Metz said.
"But suspicions and innuendo are categorically insufficient to support any criminal charges."
The US attorney's office also said yesterday it had no credible evidence that would lead to federal criminal charges.
A law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press that the federal investigation is now inactive unless new information emerges. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the federal case remains open.


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Having come from a spiritual intensive in Australia it took a while to adjust to the energy of Fiji. I always call on the spirit of a country and ask for permission to be there before landing. I let the land and spirit guides know my intension & ask for help to achieve them.
This time as a mum entertaining two children on a flight I completely forgot. By the time I remembered it was midnight and I was falling asleep in bed. I invoked them & my higher self and the Divine & fell asleep.
I woke up to diggers outside my room. Not what I wanted for my blissful holiday! After breakfast we moved huts, but I knew something was amiss. It just did not feel right.
After a trip to the pool I sat in meditation. I called on my team & the spirits of the land. I asked for permission for me and my family to be there. I flooded them and the land with love. I told them how we intended no harm, with great respect we wanted a relaxing & fun holiday.
They seemed relieved by this. They told me that my arrival had been a bit unsettling for them, like another tribe arriving they have not met before. I flooded them all with love and intended to embrace them in a field of Divine love. I felt them all relax.
(As I write this now on my porch a woman just walked past to visit our neighbours saying "we come from another tribe bearing gifts" – how is that for confirmation!!!!)
Since then we have had a wonderful holiday in Fiji. Great weather, water, food and company.
Thank you Fiji!!!


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The Unheard Voice
The Unheard Voice
As the debate continues between the anti-hunting community and those who believe in the "Conservation Through Hunting" model, the unheard voice is the rural African who must live among the wild animals. It is these people who are most affected when politics supercedes science in the management of wildlife.Posted by DSC Foundation on Monday, 20 August 2018
We Hunt for Life: "Marina Lamprecht"
We Hunt for Life: "Marina Lamprecht"
We Hunt for Life: "Marina Lamprecht" Learn about one Namibian woman's story about sustainable use hunting, the influence it has within her community, and why it's her country's single greatest conservation success. To see more DSC We Hunt for Life videos visit www.DSCF.orgPosted by DSC Foundation on Tuesday, 24 July 2018
The Future of Botswana's Elephant
The Future of Botswana's Elephant
We salute the efforts of Botswana's President Masisi as his administration looks to science-based wildlife management and considers reopening elephant hunting in their country.Posted by DSC Foundation on Thursday, 7 March 2019
How the ban on lion hunting killed the lions
Black Rhino
Black Rhino
Since that low point in 1995, the Black Rhino population has doubled in number. This growth has occurred primarily in Namibia. To understand how, it's best to first learn more about Namibia and how the country's attitude toward hunting has helped dramatically increase the Black Rhino population. For more information, visit https://goo.gl/H1YmdQPosted by DSC Foundation on Thursday, 4 October 2018
The Game's Uncertain Future
The Game's Uncertain Future
If politics supercedes science-based wildlife management, we will have placed the death sentence on Africa's game.Posted by DSC Foundation on Friday, 9 March 2018
The Value of Trophy Hunting
The Value of Trophy Hunting
"Positive enforcement finding for importing hunting trophies into the US are based in science" said Shane Mahoney. Shane goes on to say "It is my responsibility to put politics and emotion aside to support all scientifically established legal and well-regulated mechanisms for wildlife conservation. I encourage all of you to do the same."Posted by DSC Foundation on Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Elephant Populations in Kenya and Zimbabwe- What's the difference?
Elephant Populations in Kenya and Zimbabwe- What's the differe...
Don't base your beliefs on emotions. Take a look at the numbers. #huntingisconservationPosted by DSC Foundation on Thursday, 6 April 2017
The Zambezi Delta, Mozambique
The Zambezi Delta, Mozambique.
THE ZAMBEZI DELTA, MOZAMBIQUE. This short 2:30 minute video highlights the anti-poaching work that Zambeze Delta Safaris has carried out in Coutada 11, Zambezi Delta, Mozambique. Since 1992 the company has been working on rehabilitating the Coutada after 25 years of war left the area almost totally denuded of wildlife. To watch the full length 30-minute documentary, "Custodians of Wilderness: Zambezi Delta" click on the link: https://vimeo.com/215478401Posted by The Conservation Imperative. on Thursday, 25 October 2018
How Is Sustainable Use Working in Namibia?
How Is Sustainable Use Working in Namibia?
In Namibia, hunting and tourism together have generated enormous support for wildlife. It's led to dramatic recoveries for a variety of species, all of which would be massively jeopardized by a hunting ban. See more of Dr. Cooney's video series at https://goo.gl/xf6uxxPosted by DSC Foundation on Tuesday, 22 May 2018


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Why did LL plead, "Don't call it a comeback"? Because hip hop artists don't ever return from the dead (well, unless they're literally dead, in which case they go triple platinum). Pete Rock has somehow bucked these odds by releasing his most varied collection of beats well into his second decade behind the mixing desk (though the record's not as instantly infectious as his work with C.L. Smooth). Soul Survivor II is a solid slab of sonically conservative hip hop -- straight breaks, lots of soul -- that keeps it right in the pocket. (Now if Rock could only go back and find Gigolo Tony and bring him back, too.) On this tour, he'll be keeping things strictly vintage, with a DJ set spun from rare groove, tried-and-true hip hop, and classic reggae. Decide for yourself if it's a comeback or not when Rock takes to the decks at the Independent on Thursday, Aug. 12; call 771-1421 or go to www.theindependentsf.com.
-- Darren Keast
One of the first strip clubs in the country, the revamped Condor Ultra Lounge is now one of North Beach's latest and most popular nightclubs. Drawing inspiration from this infamous past, "Silhouette Saturdays" returns to the blue cabaret days with a burlesque show and male strip revue by the Men of Exotica. (And, by the way, if you have a penis and think for one second that you can ogle these oily Men and then get up on the bar, quite drunkenly, and dance with the ladies atop the counter, you'd be very wrong. Both you and your XY chromosomes might be thrown out on your ass. Trust me.) After the titillation, DJs Fabian, Hope, Noodles, and Torque spin deep house, hip hop, soul, and your favorite '80s hits. The show starts at 8 p.m.; call 781-8222 or visit www.condorsf.com.
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The tragic loss of Paula Kantor during a terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday 13 May has left many of her colleagues in the development world and friends with great sadness. Continue reading
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Environmental risk analysis in aquaculture report for Livestock and Fish
The report provides a brief and generalized introduction to the specific steps of an environmental risk analysis. This publication is based on materials covered and outputs generated during the Workshop on Risk Assessment Methodologies and Tools for Aquaculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Continue reading
Planning for Livestock and Fish Phase 2: A virtual review and discussion
In March, a CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish phase 2 planning workshop was conducted through a two part process. Initially conceived as a single event, it was rendered into an online format that operated across wide ranging time zones. Continue reading
Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis: A guide for CGIAR researchers
Developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), the 'Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis: A guide for CGIAR researchers' spells out the steps for collecting relevant sex-disaggregated data for five broad research areas: Continue reading
Stakeholders meet to develop Forages for Africa program
On 26-29 Jan 2015, a "Forages for Africa" meeting was held at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University UK. The meeting, organised by CIAT and IBERS aimed at bringing together partners around the Forages for Africa initiative. Participants included researchers from Colombia, the UK, and Central and East African countries, and key sponsors and donors. Continue reading
Livestock and Fish Program 2015 review and planning meeting goes virtual
This week, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish is holding a virtual review and planning workshop. Initially conceived as a single conference, this has been rendered into an online format that will operate across time zones. Continue reading
Influencing policies on the pig sector and broader livestock sector policies in Vietnam
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) projects in Vietnam are contributing to influencing policy on the pig sector and broader livestock sector policies in Vietnam in a number of ways. Below are some examples of this. Continue reading