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Electron Neutrinos and AntineutrinosThe history of a particle that appeared to have no charge and no mass is an interesting one. The electron neutrino (a lepton) was first postulated in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli to explain why the electrons in beta decay were not emitted with the full reaction energy of the nuclear transition.
The apparent violation of conservation of energy and momentum was most easily avoided by postulating another particle. Enrico Fermi called the particle a neutrino and developed a theory of beta decay based on it, but it was not experimentally observed until 1956. This elusive particle, with no charge and almost no mass, could penetrate vast thicknesses of material without interaction. The mean free path of a neutrino in water would be on the order of 10x the distance from the Earth to the Sun. In the standard Big Bang model, the neutrinos left over from the creation of the universe are the most abundant particles in the universe. This remnant neutrino density is put at 100 per cubic centimeter at an effective temperature of 2K (Simpson). The background temperature for neutrinos is lower than that for the microwave background (2.7K) because the neutrino transparency point came earlier. The sun emits vast numbers of neutrinos which can pass through the earth with little or no interaction. This leads to the statement "Solar neutrinos shine down on us during the day, and shine up on us during the night!" . Bahcall's modeling of the solar neutrino flux led to the prediction of about 5 x 106 neutrinos/cm2s.
A remarkable opportunity for observing neutrinos came with Supernova 1987A when the Japanese observing team detected neutrinos almost coincident with the discovery of the light from the supernova.
Neutrinos interact only by the weak interaction. Their interactions are usually represented in terms of Feynman diagrams.

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While I haven't yet put all of my contacts together, I thought I'd play around a bit with the newsletter options. There's a little box on my home page that gives tutorials on the basics, so I chose that option.
iContact gave me 3 choices. (They seem to like doing things in threes!) I could use:
Message Builder
Create one from scratch using WYSIWYG editor (haven't a clue what that could stand for)
Copy and paste
Seeing as I can't code, I chose the message builder option, which then made me choose from a number of different designs. I can get overwhelmed with too many choices—perfectionism I guess—but at least it was broken down for me into sections: Industry/Product/Regular/Theme/Holiday/Postcards/Custom.
I was hard pressed to figure out what writing and editing would fall into, so I chose the regular theme.
Then I had to choose which background color I wanted (which sometimes makes the e-mail message take longer to download), and which color border I wanted. Did I then want a shadow around it or a solid color or a picture at the top (called Bubbly for some reason, even though it doesn't have any bubbles)?
After that, I had to do even more choosing. Did I want a side column or side bar, a one or two column press release style, a fancy header, a menu on the right or the left?
The whole time I was doing this, I could see a preview picture on the page based on each choice I was adding—a great tool for the visual learner.
Then I got to fill my template. To be honest, it couldn't have been much easier. Every tiny section was labeled for me with a text box to write in.
For the template I chose, I could have added 6 URLS, each one giving me two text boxes to write in—the name in one box and the URL in the second one. The date, newsletter title, headlines and sub-headlines, footer headline and text—all of these were offered in the same format.
I continued on to be asked which e-mail type I wanted—HTML or text based. Would I have pity on all those readers who couldn't see my pretty colors and fancy fonts, or not? I didn't think so. 🙂
Then I got to edit what I had created. I was able to delete the columns the extra URL options were in, but when I went to add my photo, it only gave me the option of linking to a linked photo. I thought that was strange, considering I had uploaded a perfectly good one to the images section. I temporarily allowed the pop-up window, and it reversed the work I 'd done on deleting the URL boxes. I tried "merge with the cell to the right" option, and it only got wider and weirder, so I was able to undo it, but the undo button only works once and no more—note to self—only mess up once. When I right-clicked, there was another option to "unmerge with cell to the right." Too late.
I clicked on the image button again, and when it opened to the "link your photo" page, I clicked on the bottom text which asked me if I wanted to find an alternate image. It led me to the photo I'd saved.
All that was left was to copy in the text for those who had no HTML reading capabilities in their e-mail programs and e-mail myself a copy of the finished letter.
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Partisans and Purists
Do fans experience football differently to those who watch without a vested interest?
After watching a derby between Nottingham Forest and Notts County in 1934, the novelist and playwright JB Priestley observed, among other things and with no little distain, "the monstrous partisanship of the crowds, with their idiotic cries of 'Play the game, ref!' when any decision against their side has been given." To an outside observer, the supposed tribalism of football crowds appears irrational and base. The word tribalism itself carries strong pejorative connotations, a primitive bestiality and a blind obedience to the group. Such partisans are the very antithesis of the purist, an altogether rarer breed. The purist is the embodiment of the rational and unbiased football supporter, a fan of football itself, able to enjoy a heightened aesthetic experience because untainted by the irrational biases of tribal support.
But then that's the average football spectator for you — blind, irrational, partisan. However, despite his disparaging initial remarks, Priestley goes on to say that partisans are "not mere spectators in the sense of being idle and indifferent lookers on; though only vicariously, yet they run and leap and struggle and sweat, are driven into despair, and raised to triumph; and there is thrust into their lives of monotonous tasks and grey streets an epic hour of colour and strife that is no more a mere matter of other men's boots and a leather ball, than a violin concerto is a mere matter of some other man's cat gut and rosin." To enjoy the festival of the crowd, almost a conscious organism in its own right, is part of the aesthetic enjoyment of any sporting event — to lose oneself in the heaving, swaying, singing, braying mass. The psychological benefits of partisanship extend even further, to feelings of identification with the local area, civic pride, and comradeship.
The apparent and supposed superiority of the partisan is emphasised by the philosopher Nicholas Dixon. In a paper entitled "The Ethics of Supporting Sports Teams"1 he argues that the partisan not only enjoys the psychological benefits associated with offering unconditional support to the local team, but also has an ethical advantage, in that her commitment and passion is more virtuous. He says, for example, that she exhibits "the great virtue of steadfast allegiance to her team even if its fortunes decline." Most 'genuine' football supporters will, of course, display this virtue: if you cut me, I'll bleed black and white; we'll support you ever more.
Dixon thinks the same thing happens when one is in love. At the beginning of a romantic relationship, we come to love our partner's good qualities, but over time we develop something deeper, namely a love of their "unique instantiation of those qualities", their special identity. Furthermore, when some new potential partner comes into our lives, as they often do, we are reluctant simply to 'trade up', even if the new prospective mate scores higher on, or better instantiates, those valuable qualities. Love can also endure change. A partner may lose the qualities to which we were initially attracted, but we stay in love regardless. Despite the changes, there is a constant nucleus that remains the object of our love. In much the same way, I don't change my team with each new defeat — if I did, I'd literally be supporting a new club almost every other week.
Dixon goes even further, suggesting that the partisan displays a side to their character lacking in the purist — the tendency to form bonds with others, especially those with whom we are familiar. Drawing an analogy with the ability to form friendships and lasting romantic attachments, the purist "displays a character flaw that would be condemned from a standpoint of virtue ethics." Quite a claim! But what of the purist? Why is she normally regarded, as Dixon suggests, as lacking commitment, as barely qualifying as a fan at all?
The purist, we might say, is prepared to trade up at any given opportunity. Her support is based purely on their love of the game and is prepared to follow whichever team best exemplifies the virtues and admirable qualities most prized: fairness, excitement, skill and style. In a sense, as Dixon points out, the purist has the moral high ground here, as her choice is based on purely sporting excellence, rather than the arbitrariness of place of birth. If we want to teach our children the value of fairness, at least partly through the games that they play with each other, why should we also give them the strong impression that they should stick with their team even when they cheat and connive, privileging a win-at-all-costs mentality? "Rather than being a genuine fan, the purist approaches each game as a neutral, hoping that his team will continue its excellent play, so that he will be able to continue supporting it."
Of course, the loyal support of the partisan can itself be dangerous, or just plain stupid. Why would I continue to love a partner who continues to abuse and betray me? Asking for me to give them fifty quid every week? Travelling hundreds of miles every other week just to see them for a couple of hours? That really is the limit. Unconditionally to give our love and support to another becomes masochistic if the significant other is genuinely not worthy of it. Perhaps the partisan could do with learning a little from the purist, as some Liverpool and Chelsea fans, in the face of recent controversial incidents, have been unable to do. Therefore, something that could be called 'moderate partisanship' would be the best option: I'll give my whole and undivided support to my team, but there's a limit.
A more robust defence of the purist can be made, however. Stephen Mumford, like Dixon, a philosopher, actively privileges and praises the virtues of the true purist, arguing that the issue turns to a large extent on the respective aesthetic experiences enjoyed by our two different types of supporter. But how and why do different types of supporter have different aesthetic experiences? Obviously, a partisan may enjoy the game less if her team loses, trudging home disconsolately and awaiting the barbs of colleagues on Monday morning, while the purist enjoys the spectacle even if their adopted team loses, shrugs their shoulders and flicks the channel to see if Barcelona are playing. But the differences, according to Mumford, go even deeper than that, as we'll see after a brief journey through Schopenhauer.
Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, placed an extreme amount of importance on the enjoyment of aesthetic experiences. In The World as Will and Representation, he argues that the world is indifferent to human suffering — and suffer we do. Human existence, Schopenhauer says, has no intrinsic meaning or value, and is characterised by suffering, pain, and misery. This is because humans are animals that have will and desire: we have desires (and needs) that we seek to satisfy, and our will drives us on to do so. Unfortunately, as soon as one desire or need is satisfied, another arises, making our lives a continual succession of new desires in need of satisfaction that ends only in death. In fact, happiness may be defined in purely negative terms, as the temporary absence of pain.
Fortunately, we have three choices open to us. Firstly, suicide. Those of us unwilling or unable to end our own lives can consider the second option, that of pursuing an ascetic lifestyle, the denial of the will-to-live, by which we renounce our desires. Sadly, Sky Sports packages are not widely available to the residents of caves half-way up isolated mountains, so the third of Schopenhauer's options might be more viable: we can temporarily remove ourselves from the constant striving and misery of everyday life through art and through the aesthetic experiences that attend our genuine appreciation of it.
Some types of art, however, are superior to others, or at least lend themselves to a superior aesthetic experience. Starting at the bottom of the art form league table, but not yet cut adrift from those above them, is architecture, followed by landscape gardening, sculpture and painting, and poetry. But running away with it at the top of the table is music. The reason for the hierarchical ordering is that Schopenhauer believes that the different types of art allow us better access to the Platonic Forms, or Ideas, the 'in-itself' of the world. The problem with art, excepting music, is that it is still connected to the will and to the striving of everyday life. We cannot experience art (again, excepting music) without understanding it through the prism of our needs and interests, thus distorting it and lending it a subjective bias. But music is different: music releases us from the endless striving and suffering and desiring of life.
Schopenhauer describes it as follows: "When an external cause or inward disposition suddenly raises us out of the endless stream of willing, and snatches knowledge from the thralldom of the will, the attention is now no longer directed to the motives of willing, but comprehends things free from their relation to the will. Thus it considers things without interest, without subjectivity, purely objectively... Then all at once the peace, always sought but always escaping us on that first path of willing, comes to us of its own accord, and all is well with us... For that moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will."
In this sense, the having of a genuine aesthetic experience demands a kind of disinterestedness, a denial of the will and all it strives for. Usually, we see the world around us in the self-interested context of how specific aspects of it might be utilised or manipulated to help us satisfy our desires. But through the aesthetic experience of music, we become detached from ourselves and from the pressures placed on us by our desires and needs, and can enjoy it objectively, for its own sake.
This is beginning to sound rather like our purist, the rational and unprejudiced football fan who supports her team, or teams, for the virtuous qualities it embodies, and Mumford reinforces this impression through his defence of the purist. Just as the quality of our aesthetic experience of art depends on our ability to become detached from our desires, so too does our aesthetic experience of sport. So whereas Dixon sees the purist's flexible and conditional support as a drawback, to the extent that he suggests purists are not genuine supporters, Mumford sees it as a positive benefit, allowing her to enjoy a heightened and authentic aesthetic experience.
The purist, Mumford argues, perceives the game differently to the partisan, the latter having what he refers to as a 'competitive perception'. Reporting on a match he saw between Hearts and Celtic in 1996, Mumford recognises that our desire to see our team win at all costs distorts our perception of the game. Sitting with the Hearts fans, he observes them calling vociferously for corners, free-kicks, and even throw-ins for their team when it was clear that the ball was Celtic's: "In their perception, the ball really did seem to have come off a Celtic player before leaving the field… Were they being disingenuous? Could this really be two different and honest perceptions? I decided it could be."
This leads Mumford to suggest that purists and partisans simply perceive the game differently to each other. Drawing on the thesis of the theory-dependence of observation, he says that "one's beliefs and desires can determine what one sees." Again, this reminds us of Schopenhauer's idea that it's possible to avoid the distorting effects of the will in our aesthetic experience of art. (This is a good reason to demand that referees are neutral.)
But if the purist and the partisan just see the game differently, then on what basis are we allowed to suppose that one interpretation is better than the other? The implication must be that the purist sees the game more objectively, for the simple reason that they lack the unconditional loyalty and passion that might otherwise distort their perception, blinding them to the objective reality of what's in front of them.
This point can be taken even further, for if Dixon supposes that the purist is someone who supports a team for the qualities they embody, then Mumford supposes that the more genuine purist is one who supports no team at all. For the most authentic aesthetic experience, to see the game "for all its beauty and drama", the purist must not have any investment in any one particular team. Thus, they have no interest in where the beauty and the drama come from, only that they can experience it, and without experiencing it through the distorting prism of partisanship. In this way, the true purist doesn't switch allegiance from one game to the next, depending on which team is the fairest or who plays the most attractive and exciting football, for she has no allegiance in the first place (although it might be said that some teams display certain virtues on a more continual basis, allowing Mumford's purist to develop some degree of allegiance).
If this is indeed the case (and I do not think that it is), then the analogy drawn earlier, between supporting a football team and one's love for a partner, is misplaced, or at least the wrong inference is drawn. Mumford agrees, and develops the following analogy: "The purist is more in the position of a parent with a number of children… The parent wants to see all their children do well in life and realise their full potential. They do not choose a favourite among their children and hope for them to do better than their siblings."
In that case, it would be a mistake to think that the partisan is more passionate about the game — it's simply more likely that the passion of the purist is less conspicuous. Invoking John Stuart Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures, Mumford says that the purist enjoys the game in a deeper and more satisfying way. They can, for instance, focus more on "the style of play, the tactics, the movement of the ball, rapidity, grace, economy, incisiveness, and so on." To be concerned with the identity of the winner or the final score is "a crude measure of the worth of a game".
A number of objections could be raised at this point. Firstly, why the sharp distinction between partisans and purists? Isn't the dividing line drawn by both Dixon and Mumford artificial and arbitrary? I think so, for the reason that the distinction fails to capture the actual lived experience of many football fans. My evidence here might be considered anecdotal and personal, but I think valid generalisations can be made.
Now, I would count myself as a partisan — I am elated and relieved when my team wins and sometimes depressed when they lose; a grey cloud of misery often hangs over me until the painful memory has faded somewhat. But that does not automatically exclude my having purist, and often sheer puritanical, feelings towards the game itself and even towards my own team. I don't exactly expect my team's players to endorse and then follow a strict moral code derived in the Kantian manner, but I would be ashamed if any of them scored or won a game by cheating. I like to think that I can appreciate the good performances of teams other than my own, even when they beat us. Despite being a partisan, I can also enjoy the finer side of the game, taking an interest in tactics, watching matches from a range of European leagues, and reading the Swiss Ramble blog. And through it all, I remain more than partial to my team, and can't envision a time that I don't support them unconditionally, even though they often depress me and occasionally disgust me.
If this is the case for other football fans, and I think that it is, then the distinction between the purist and the partisan begins to break down. As ever, the truth lies somewhere in between. Making analytical distinctions is a favourite pastime of philosophers, parcelling and packaging the world into discrete and distinct entities that may or may not reflect the lived experiences of those to whom they're relevant. Experience shows us that these distinctions can be broken down, deconstructed, multiplied and subverted and are therefore at best meaningless, and at worst dangerous.
Furthermore, and here's the second objection, the main part of Mumford's argument is based on the theory that the purist actually has a superior or more genuine aesthetic experience, which obviously raises the question: can we enjoy meaningful aesthetic experiences from watching sport at all? Can sport be said to be an art? We can obviously say that sport can be the subject of art, as Lowry's wonderful "Going to the Match" demonstrates on its own. Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno's film/art installation, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, is also, ostensibly, a work of art, and yet it blurs the line: can Zidane's performance against Villarreal, upon which the film remorselessly focuses, itself be considered art? My temptation is to say yes, as it embodies the grace, elegance, poise, and balance that Mumford thinks are key aesthetic sporting qualities. It also embodies the striving, determination, and occasional brutality of football (Zidane is sent off for violent conduct towards the end of the match).
Linguistically speaking, at the pragmatic everyday level of language-use, we naturally attribute aesthetic qualities to sport — "that was a beautiful goal", "Xavi's pass was a work of art", etc. Certainly many football players and managers have been obsessed by the supposed superiority of the aesthetic approach, privileging 'attractive' football over the win-at-all-costs mentality, a feature of football brought out nicely by the famous and oft-mentioned enmity between César Luis Menotti and Carlos Bilardo, the aesthete and philosopher versus the arch-pragmatist.
Intuitively, most football supporters understand this, even if they don't necessarily go along with it. We may, for instance, disagree on the exact source of aesthetic enjoyment. After all, we might get just as much enjoyment from watching a valiant backs-against-the-wall 0-0 game, especially if one of the teams is demonstrably inferior to the other, as we do from a 4-3 thriller characterised by awful and comical defending. The increase in the number of Premier League goals per game over the last few years might be cause for celebration for some, but bad news for fans of sophisticated defenders and defending. It depends where we find the beauty of football and that might be at least partly subjective.
But is the aesthetic dimension of football an essential aspect of the game? Again, it depends where you stand. Peter Arnold, among others, makes a distinction between purposive and aesthetic sports. Arnold defines purposive sports, such as football, in the following way: "The aesthetic is not intrinsic to their purpose, which is to win by scoring the most goals, tries, baskets, points or runs." Therefore, there's no requirement, legally or morally, to bring aesthetic qualities to the performance. Aesthetic sports, on the other hand, are obviously based, to a large degree, on the aesthetic aspects of the performance: there is a "concern for the way or manner in which they are performed." The awarding of points in sports such as gymnastics and diving (I'm going to avoid the obvious Luis Suárez/Gareth Bale joke here) qualitatively focuses on relevant aesthetic qualities.
Here's an excerpt from an expert's summary of Ludmilla Tourischeva's gold medal-winning floor exercise at the 1972 Munich Olympics, quoted by Arnold in an article entitled "Sport: The Aesthetic and Art": "Of qualities of form, she displayed poise, controlled balance, cleanness of line, and each in turn — an arched, curled, twisted and extended torso; her long supple limbs described sinuous and circular movements and her shapely flexible fingers made florid gestures in space. Her footwork had a precision at times forceful and firm and yet again dainty with impeccably shaped and patterned placings."
On this theme, Mumford acknowledges the "aesthetic pluralism" of sport, meaning that different aesthetic categories apply to different sports: speed, strength, grace and so on. Furthermore, most sports, and football is a perfect example, provide spectators with a further aesthetic dimension — the unfolding of a drama as the teams battle for a limited resource, namely victory or first place. Some sports, however, cannot provide such drama — quantitative sports, such as long jump and running, rely on measurements (of time and distance) to determine the winner, while qualitative sports, such as figure skating, rely on the application of aesthetic criteria. According to Mumford, the drama of such sports "tends to be less regular and is not what the nature of these sports is all about." Sports in which teams are in head-to-head competition, on the other hand, optimise the potential for sporting drama.
Nonetheless, the main point is that, despite the enjoyment of observing the unfolding drama of a football match, aesthetic qualities are not necessarily inherent to football, even though they may be highly desirable. Footballers can succeed if they are slow, weak, fat, graceless, and so on, although they're clearly more likely to be more successful if they possess none of those qualities. We can, it seems, say that some players are better than others, depending on the criteria we choose to apply, suggesting that the principle of aesthetic pluralism holds within football as well as without. The question is whether any specific criteria are objectively more significant than others, in this case because they add to the aesthetic experience of spectators — technique, flair, vision, and so on. In other words, and drawing on the insights of lazy football analysts, the kinds of qualities attributable to, say, Barcelona's tiki-taka merchants, but not to, say, the Stoke City bruisers. Of course, Barcelona are superior to Stoke because they're simply more successful, but is it possible, or even appropriate, to say that they're superior because they're more aesthetically pleasing?
The extent to which the appreciation of such qualities is objective, or whether they can be applied only subjectively, is moot. Many of the defining philosophers of the Enlightenment, and especially David Hume, argue that there is something more at play than a purely subjective choice when deciding which aesthetic criteria are more significant.
Despite the fact that we all have a feeling or a sentiment towards an object offered up for our aesthetic judgement, there are, Hume argues, "standards of taste". The general appreciation of a work of art over a long period of time is one standard, as evinced by the continued affection of football fans for the Ajax and Netherlands sides of the 1970s, to give but two examples. Another standard is given by paying attention to the opinions of those with refined and delicate sensibilities, such as critics and experts. Of the current crop of the best football teams in the world, which ones will be remembered, and which will be fondly remembered? That's a question perhaps best left open.
Many will resist Hume's conclusion that there are standards of taste that go beyond subjective preferences. We find our enjoyment where we can, and if that means celebrating the ugly goal that wins our team the cup, then so be it. If my team avoids relegation by playing defensive and aggressive football, then what's to be done? There's no point in going down in a blaze of glory after a season chock full of high-scoring defeats. After all, winning friends is easy, winning points less so.
How far are we prepared to push this argument? At some point, aesthetic criteria shade into moral criteria: it's an obvious example, but was Luis Suárez right deliberately to handle the ball and prevent a goal in the World Cup quarter-final against Ghana? Would you praise or blame your player for taking a dive to win a last-minute penalty? Perhaps ambivalence is the most appropriate response to both situations, as it would be if through some unfortunate sequence of events we suddenly found our team gaining promotion under the management of John Beck. I guess I'll just have to put up with the stiff neck, like it or lump it, if that's the price of success.


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Post-doctoral Fellowship: « Avicenna East and West », Louvain (deadline: 10 juin 2012)
The Institut supérieur de Philosophie (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) is pleased to announce a full-time FRS-FNRS post-doctoral Fellowship, beginning as soon as possible, for a period of two years. The Fellow will be integrated in the project "Commentaries on Avicenna's /Qasidat al-nafs/", under the direction of Prof. Cécile Bonmariage. This project is part of the broader project "Avicenna East and West", and aims at studying the commentaries on the /Poem of the soul/ by Avicenna, both individually and in a diachronic approach. The Fellow is expected to contribute to the project and conduct independent research. No teaching duty is attached to this Fellowship. The Fellowship offers a stipend of approximately €2000 a month, plus some support for research. *Requirements:* Applicants should hold a doctorate in Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies or another relevant field of study (obtained no more than /six years/ before the beginning of the fellowship); have a high command of Arabic (knowledge of Persian and/or Ottoman Turkish or of Latin is a plus); be able to work with manuscripts; be able to work effectively both independently and as part of a small team. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in pre-Modern Islamic intellectual history and/or edition of texts. Applicants must meet the requirements of international mobility (i.e. no more than 24 months residency and/or principal activity in the last 3 years in Belgium). *Application:* Applicants should send a cover letter, CV (including a publication list), a representative sample of their scholarship, and the names and contact details of two referees to: email@example.com (subject: Post-doctoral Fellowship "Avicenna East and West") *Deadline for application*: June 10, 2012.


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A Turnaround Idea for Slow 4Q Sales
Only about 30 days or so are left in the holiday season for 2013. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are around the corner. And if you're looking at your early Fourth Quarter results and can see you need a jolt of energy to turn things around, keep reading. Today we reflect on a shopping trend that began a year ago and we you offer an idea you can implement yet this season.
A year ago, early online holiday shopping broke sales records. While forecasts for this year appear to show modest overall growth over last year, there will be winners—most likely online direct marketers ready for the growing number of consumers who purchase via mobile devices. Even if you didn't plan for mobile marketing, it's not too late to move into action to help your organization take its place in the winner's column.
The migration of online shopping will most likely continue its shift from desktops to mobile. Last year it was the Apple iPad making headlines. Consumers used iPads by a factor of nine-to-one over any other mobile device, doubling the year before. With Apple's 52 percent market share, their users accounted for 88 percent of online shopping traffic, according to IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark Report.
Of course, that was then, and this is now. Recent data tells us 170 million iPads have been sold. A substantial number of people have them, and use them.
As direct marketers, you have an opportunity to take advantage of the sheer number of iPads, and the trend toward using it for shopping, by optimizing your website for mobile applications (if you haven't done that, make it a 2014 priority). In addition, when you use tools that work well on iPads and hold your prospective customer to the screen longer, your odds for success improve.
Reinventing Direct is for the direct marketer seeking guidance in the evolving world of online marketing. Gary Hennerberg is a mind code marketing strategist, based on the template from his new book, "Crack the Customer Mind Code." He is recognized as a leading direct marketing consultant and copywriter. He weaves in how to identify a unique selling proposition to position, or reposition, products and services using online and offline marketing approaches, and copywriting sales techniques. He is sought-after for his integration of direct mail, catalogs, email marketing, websites, content marketing, search marketing, retargeting and more. His identification of USPs and copywriting for clients has resulted in sales increases of 15 percent, 35 percent, and even as high as 60 percent. Today he integrates both online and offline media strategies, and proven copywriting techniques, to get clients results. Email him or follow Gary on LinkedIn. Co-authoring this blog is Perry Alexander of ACM Initiatives. Follow Perry on LinkedIn.


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Thursday, 07 March 2019 12:04
Help at Spires for heart attack victims
Staff and sales assistants at the Spires shopping centre are keen to publicise the location of a defibrillator that has been installed at the High Street entrance with the help of a £500 donation from the Barnet Residents Association.
Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:51
Barnet Councillors' pledge to tackle rough sleepers and street drinkers
Chipping Barnet Residents Forum has been given an assurance that Barnet Council will take action to remove up to three homeless men who bed down each night in alcoves and under bay windows outside Chipping Barnet Library in Stapylton Road.
Tuesday, 06 November 2018 12:43
Premier Inn approved: will it help town centre?
Plans for a 100-bed Premier Inn on the site of Barnet Market were approved by a clear majority at a meeting of Barnet Council's planning committee despite the continued, forthright opposition of residents in the adjoining Chipping Close.
Friday, 22 April 2016 17:40
Community action spruces up Church Passage bench
Three volunteers spent the morning washing down and scrubbing clean the long, architecturally-designed teak bench that is beside the gardens in Church Passage, just off Barnet High Street.


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The NFPA Standards Council met on October 28-29, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. At the meeting, some of the following items were addressed by the Council:
- an appeal on a proposed TIA to NFPA 70, 2014 edition on 517.41(E)
- issuance of proposed TIAs on NFPA 70, 400, 1851, 1951, and 1971
- new projects/documents on hybrid, gas, and fire water droplet systems; fire-based community healthcare provider (FBCHP) program.
- consideration of a request from the Committee to enter new document, NFPA 1986, Standard on Respiratory Protection Equipment for Technical and Tactical Operations, into revision cycle.
- consideration requests from Committees to change revision cycle schedules and committee scopes
Read the Council's preliminary minutes for the results of items addressed at its meeting.
Also, the Council issued a Final Decision on proposed Tentative Interim Amendment No. 1133 on NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2014 edition, section 517.41(E) (Agenda Item 14-10-2-d)
The NFPA Standards Council is a 13-person committee appointed by the NFPA Board of Directors that oversees the Association's codes and standards development activities, administers the rules and regulations, and acts as an appeals body. The Council administers about 250 NFPA Technical Committees and their work on nearly 300 documents addressing topics of importance to the built environment.


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SOUTHERN BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg, the particular 37-year-old gran of this north Indiana town who in only weeks provides vaulted through being a near-unknown to a large star within the Democratic Celebration, officially began his president bid right here on Weekend, presenting themself as a life changing figure who will be well situated to defeat President Trump, despite becoming young plus facing away against a lot of seasoned competitors.
"I recognize the particular audacity to do this like a Midwestern, millennial mayor, yet we reside in a moment that will compels all of us each to do something, " Buttigieg said before thousands of followers, jacket-free together with his sleeves folded up. "It calls for a brand new generation associated with leadership. "
Buttigieg additional, "It's time for you to walk away from your politics from the past plus toward some thing totally different. "
The picture for Buttigieg's rally was obviously a hulking previous Studebaker set up plant, in whose closure years ago connected this region's economy. The website has considering that become a information and education and learning hub pressed by their administration — and main to their technocratic, positive pitch which he is ready to assist communities nevertheless struggling with the consequences of globalization.
"Change is arriving, ready delete word, " Buttigieg told the particular crowd. "There is a misconception being sold in order to industrial plus rural areas, the misconception that we could terminate the time clock and turn it in return, " and touted their attempts within the city to aid the labor force with schooling and training programs.
A few attendees went from throughout the country right after being influenced by Buttigieg's message as well as the historic character of their campaign like a gay president candidate. Meant for Buttigieg, Sunday's upbeat collecting on a dismal, snowy mid-April afternoon had been an important politics juncture: the re-introduction to some party which has only started to pay focus on this gran with a hard-to-pronounce name, yet is now definitely listening carefully as it looks for a standard-bearer.
[In sharp contrast with other 2020 hopefuls, Sanders courts Trump voters]
Carrying out a string associated with buzzy podcasting and tv appearances, progressively crowded prevents in early voting states, as well as the release of the best-selling memoir, Buttigieg will be suddenly the contender in the crowded Democratic field, using a $7 mil fundraising carry in the initial quarter from the year as well as a rapid within the forms.
Meanwhile, their husband, Chasten, has become a preferred of Democrats on social networking, and Buttigieg has got on the protect of nationwide magazines, which includes New York publication this week, with all the headline "How about Pete? "
Since rain dropped on this associated with roughly hundred, 000 upon Sunday early morning, thousands arranged under umbrellas and included up within jackets, waiting around to your facility, keeping homemade signals and having coffee mugs and duplicates of their book, "Shortest Way House. "
One of these was Ashley Pawlowski, thirty four, a self-described independent through South Flex who functions at a nearby nonprofit. "The South Flex we all was raised in has been very different. He or she changed this particular city plus brought a brand new attitude, " she stated. "He's obtained this capability to help people strong down in the bones. "
Buttigieg's problem in the arriving months: translation this meteoric momentum plus goodwill amongst Democrats that are eager to brighten a self-confident, youthful tone of voice from the Midwest into a suffered national strategy that can outpace candidates in whose careers make them well-liked by activists plus donors.
[Sen. Kamala Harris releases tax returns showing nearly $1.9 million in household income in 2018]
Buttigieg worked to stroke off the weighty sheen associated with implausibility through his upstart candidacy, requiring that as being a two-term gran of a town in the middle of the nation gives your pet more regulating experience compared to Trump which he is the face area of a brand new generation that will wants to avoid the partisanship and rancor that has held Trump's Wa.
"My encounter is the message, " Buttigieg usually tells voters on the advertising campaign trail, the catchall method of referring to the calm character that has attracted comparisons in order to President Barack Obama and also to his own politics profile: the gay Midwestern mayor, the retired Navy blue officer whom served within Afghanistan and also a Rhodes college student who, in the event that elected, will be the youngest leader in Oughout. S. background.
Buttigieg's route will be not a slip. While some as soon as unknown outsiders, such as Jimmy Carter within 1976, have got captured the particular Democratic candidate selection, others along with electric begins have seen their own bids diminish.
Buttigieg offers generated the swell associated with enthusiasm amongst several best Democrats plus Obama allies, such as experienced strategist Jesse Axelrod — and Buttigieg has fulfilled privately along with Obama, that has praised your pet. Other Democrats remain fairly muted regarding the mayor.
Within recent times, Buttigieg's report in Southern Bend comes under overview. His administration's efforts in order to knock lower blighted homes in the town have been belittled by several Democrats as being a policy which was overly intense in revamping lower-income locations that are house to many group voters. Southern Bend furthermore continues to grapple with a one fourth of the town hovering over the poverty collection.
Buttigieg's report on competition has attracted criticism through Democrats too, particularly their demotion associated with South Bend's first dark police main, Darryl Boykins, in 2012. Buttigieg has reported a federal analysis of Boykins as their rationale for your ouster, yet Boykins continued to prosecute the city meant for racial splendour.
Solomon Anderson, a 57-year-old banker through South Flex, said a few in the city's black local community remain pending by Buttigieg's handling of this incident, even while he among others cheered within the mayor's advertising campaign at the move on Weekend.
"Not most people are over it, " Anderson stated. "He provides tried to become a healer, to become inclusive, however it hasn't been easy. "
Axelrod, viewing Buttigieg's masses from very far, noted upon Twitter the fact that crowd "seems very large, breathtaking but also extremely white — an barrier he will need to overcome. "
And Buttigieg's 2015 opinion that "all lives issue, " that can be called insensitive by those people in the Dark Lives Issue movement that will seeks to deal with issues dealing with black Us citizens with police force, prompted your pet to assure a municipal rights team this 30 days that he knows their worries and appears in solidarity with their trigger.
Buttigieg's strategy is aware of the particular growing limelight on his mayoral decisions plus determined to display his report and associated with case that will running a town like Southern Bend allows him to comprehend vexing nationwide issues from the ground-level viewpoint. Sunday's move featured preliminary speeches through mayors from all other states that have become allies, following Buttigieg's work in mayoral groups great unsuccessful operate for Democratic National Panel chairman within 2016.
"The horror display in Wa is enchanting. It's all-consuming. But beginning today, we are going to replace the channel, " Buttigieg stated.
Nan Whaley, the gran of Dayton, Ohio, known as Buttigieg "the polar reverse in every method to Donald Trump. " Dorrie Adler, the particular mayor associated with Austin, supported him plus said this seemed
as if "the entire world is emerging in Southern Bend. "
Underscoring designs of generational change great interest in contacting religious voters and working-class voters whom drifted towards Trump happen to be priorities associated with Buttigieg great aides because they have mapped out their campaign recently, believing he is able to make overtures to them plus liberal Democrats at the same time.
The power surrounding Buttigieg was obvious over the weekend right here: His advertising campaign headquarters within South Flex was busy with volunteers, who live-streaming past the wall colored with tall-lettered guidance on the best way to pronounce call him by his name: "Boot Advantage Edge. " Chasten Buttigieg greeted followers and contributed a playlist of tracks from rings such as Fleetwood Mac plus Phish for all those taking street trips.
"5 years ago We came out to a family, " tweeted a single supporter, Matt Miller. "I never believed 5 years back I'd end up being driving 6 hours during the night with our Republican dad right simply by my part to go view the first freely gay guy announce he is running just for president. "
Buttigieg's plan proposals are actually relatively wide compared to other people in the field therefore far connected to their belief that will American democracy needs to go through a systemic renewal which includes a debate more than possible modifications to the Oughout. S. Metabolism, including growing the Best Court plus making the particular confirmation procedure less partisan and removing the electoral college.
Upon Sunday, he or she spoke away against the increase of white-colored nationalism, voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering and impact of business money in advertisments. "Sometimes the dark minute brings out the very best in all of us, " Buttigieg said.


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A Wedding Homily for Caleb & Lauren
By Laurence Windham on
Posted in Highlands Blog under Family, Marriage
God Gave Us Stories
Our text for this occasion is from I Corinthians 10:
For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,
that our fathers were all under the cloud,
and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized
into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate
the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink.
For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them,
and that Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them
God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might
not desire evil as they did.
When the apostle Paul wrote this for the Christians in Corinth, he essentially includes the entire library of Old Testament narratives to say to them, "God gave you all of these stories so that you would see how you should live before Him and with each other." For these stories are examples for us all.
Caleb and Lauren, your story starts here and what a great start it is! All of this pomp and circumstance; you both look great. Your story together begins with being surrounded by people that love you, with great hymns being sung, with prayers, sacred vows, with God's holy Word being read, with food and wine and dancing . . . not a bad start to your life together.
3 Examples to Show Us How to Live
And since you both belong to God, I will charge you with three minor examples from God's Word in the hope that they will help you, and remind us all, of how we should then live.
In Job Chapter 2 we read:
Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. Then his wife said to him, 'Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.' But he said to her, 'You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?' In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
in the categories, "For better or for worse" this would qualify as the worst day ever! To make things even worse, Job's wife is trying to get him to do exactly what the devil predicted Job would do—curse God.
One has to wonder how Job's story would have been different if his wife had been encouraging. What if the Scripture recorded something different—her collapsing in grief at the loss of their children or her sobbing because her husband is in pain? What if she had cried while singing and then joined her husband by sitting in the ashes. What a better example for God and to others she might have been. Her story is here so that your story will hopefully be much more glorious.
Caleb stands here at your side. Marion and Chesley have done their best to raise Caleb for this day . . . well, they did what they could with what they had to work with. He is a good man; your mother and I approve of him as your husband with great enthusiasm. Most of the story of your life will be with him. By God's grace, make it a story that causes others to be able to see the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ lived out.
In I Samuel Chapter 25 we read:
There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved.
When we read these verses about the wise and beautiful Abigail, we cringe. "What a shame" we all think. We grieve that such a great woman would be married to such a fellow. We have all seen this in measure, in marriages around us: great wife/foolish husband. Just so that everyone knows, there will be no more casting calls, for these roles have been filled to the point of redundancy.
But we are left to wonder, what if Abigail's husband had valued his wife's wisdom and grace? What if he would have became "one" in heart and soul, mind and strength with his wife? How might the story have changed?
Lauren stands next to you today as your bride. In spite of the best intentions of her mother and I, she has turned out to be a good woman. Your parents have welcomed Lauren in a far greater way than we could have imagined. The story of your life will always include how you treat her. By God's grace, show the world how much Jesus loves the Church.
These two stories were given for our edification—for us to see ourselves. To consider what could be, what should be. Now here is one more story, the story of a godly couple, of what was, of what can be.
In Acts Chapter 18 we read:
Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue.
When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Aquila and Priscilla are mentioned, only briefly, six times in the Bible. From these snippets we know this about them: they worked together, they were fully engaged in building the kingdom, and they were an ongoing encouragement to others.
We also know this about them. Of the six times that they are mentioned, Aquila and Priscilla are referenced with equal billing for their names are constantly transposed. Their story reads this way; and if you have ears to hear, it reads like poetry: "Aquila, and his wife Priscilla, " "Priscilla and Aquila," "Aquila and Priscilla," "Priscilla and Aquila," "Aquila and Priscilla," "Priscilla and Aquila."
This is, at-a-glance, what being Spirit-filled looks like. This is the symmetry of leading and following. This is the beauty of authority and submission. In a word, this is marriage, where two become one.
It's as if Aquila's first name is "Bone" and Priscilla's first name is "Bone."
It is as if Aquila's last name is "Flesh" and Priscilla's last name is "Flesh."
Caleb and Lauren, Lauren and Caleb. When people think of you and mention your names, may this be what they think, what they mean, what they see.
For then they will see what Jesus can do to, and for, and through, the two of you as you play out your roles in glorifying Him and enjoying Him forever.
That is the exhortation, the charge that I have for you.


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Prior to joining HK in 2016, Martha was a partner/COO of a regional CPA firm, a controller for a manufacturing and distribution catalog company, CFO for a business-to-business cataloger of professional audio equipment and consultant with two Top 15 CPA firms.
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Martha and her husband, Eric, have two children, Will and Kaytee. Martha enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading and being outdoors.


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SUEZ and Solvay have won the contract to treat brine from reverse osmosis desalination at Wanhua Chemical Industry Park in Yantai (Shandong Province). This contract is part of the Alliance between SUEZ and Solvay which was formed to jointly develop and market Advanced Oxidation processes (AOP's) within China to meet stringent environmental standards.
1 Reverse osmosis consists of passing water through semi-permeable membranes using pulse pressure. This process reduces seawater salinity by more than 98.5% and does not require the use of chemicals.
2 Total Nitrogen (TN), Total Organic Carbon (TOC), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Suspended Solid (SS), Total Phosphorus (TP).
3 Including systems such as Ozone/Hydrogen Peroxide and UV/Hydrogen Peroxide.
4 Particularly for hard COD containing effluents.
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Cricket may be a popular game in the major countries that it is played in but it is yet to find its footing as a global sport. One of the biggest ways in which the game can be expanded is by including in some of the biggest multiple-sport events such as the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games among others.
The inclusion of cricket in the 2024 Olympics is a matter which has been discussed at length in the ongoing ICC board meeting and there is hope that it may indeed happen. However, it is not that cricket has not featured in any such event before this. In fact, there have been quite a few instances of this occurring in the past.
Here are 5 occasions when cricket was part of a multiple-sport event:
5. 2015 Pacific Games, Port Moresby
Quite surprisingly, cricket has been a regular feature at the Pacific Games, which includes countries from the South Pacific. After making an appearance in the 1979, 1987 and 1991 events, the sport returned to the Pacific Games roster in the year 2003 and has been a regular part of it ever since.
The most recent instance of cricket being included in the event took place just last year and both men and women had separate tournaments. In the men's division, it was Vanuatu who emerged as the gold medalists after beating Papua New Guinea in the final whereas Samoa won the women's gold.


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Sai Dharam Tej's previous films might have failed at the Box Office, but that hasn't affected the openings of his latest release Chitralahari. Thanks to teaming up with director Kishore Tirumala and the festive season, Chitralahari has got good openings. With the election season ended and summer holidays began, families are visiting cinemas in large numbers and this has become huge advantage for Chitralahari.
Trade is hopeful of a possible break-even by Sunday and enter into profit zone from Monday. It is buzzed that the figures of Day 2 are higher than that of Day 1 and this is an interesting development. The comedy elements of Vennela Kishore in the second half are getting good response from crowds. Despite mixed reviews, overall, the film is said to be delivering content feeling to movie goers.
Sai Dharam Tej is now relieved with the good openings Chitralahari garnered. He is hopeful that the film would end his flop streak. Let's wait and see.


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Rand Worldwide announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has acquired Advanced Technologies Solutions, an Autodesk Gold Partner headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
"ATSI is a great addition to our presence in the Southeastern US and we are excited to carry on the tradition of providing great customer service that has been the hallmark of ATSI over the years," says Larry Rychlak, president and chief executive officer of Rand Worldwide. "We have been providing solutions to customers in this region for many years and look forward to sharing the depth and breadth of our experience with ATSI's customers and to being an active member of the Jacksonville business community."
"ATSI's customer first approach has been the foundation of our long-lasting business relationships and I am sure that our customers will see many enhanced benefits through their relationship with IMAGINiT," says Aaron Wood, president of ATSI. "It was very important to me to find a partner like IMAGINiT that offers such a broad range of software and services solutions but still understands the needs of each local market in which it operates."
IMAGINiT is an Autodesk Platinum Partner with more than 40 offices and 200 sales and technical professionals throughout the US and Canada.


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Background Edit
Anastasia was born to an Ananasi kin mother and Hatar father, a man who had renounced the Wyrm to follow the Weaver. But nature and nurture are strong and he was not able to keep his vows. When it became apparent that her husband had returned to old ways, Anastasia's mother left him and took her daughter with her. To prevent her father from reclaiming her, their family secreted them away for protection. Unfortunately, this secrecy meant that Anastasia had no contact with her Ananasi family and did not learn of her heritage.
Many years of living hidden were violently interrupted when the two were seriously injured in an accident. Suspecting the Hatar had found them, with her last words Anastasia's mother set her daughter to flight. Homeless and adrift, the young girl eventually found her way to St. Claire.
Game History Edit
Anastasia reached St. Claire at an inopportune time: her first change. The violent encounter that triggered her change attracted the interest of several local Garou. Finding her in the aftermath, bathed in blood with the bodies of her attackers around her, she had already returned to her human form. Confusion ensued and she was eventually brought to the Caern as a new cub. However, the Sept Elders did not accept her, finding something off-putting about her smell and her mannerisms. She eventually fled for her life, injured and with several of the Sept's guardians in pursuit.
While the Sept in general would have nothing to do with her, several of her new cub friends decided to take her protection into their own hands. She eventually found herself under their wing and Feinen's, a local mage. And none too soon as her father had been tracking her and showed up in St. Claire to bring her into the Hatar fold with him. In pursuit of their friend, the cubs and a few older Garou eventually managed to intercede. The scene became violent when, thwarted, Anastasia's father showed his true colours. It ended bloodily for him.
Back in the city, the right people among the supernatural community outside St. Claire were eventually reached and Anastasia was finally united with her aunt and returned to the family and to the Weaver's side. While she never did return to St. Claire, she stayed in touch with several of the cubs afterword.


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A Free Craft Pattern for Each Day of the Year
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Decoupage - Decorate a Clay Pot
January 28
Clay Pot Decoupage
It's easy to decoupage a clay pot. Decoupage gives a pot character and color. Here is a very simple pattern for decoupaging a clay pot step by step, using just a few materials.
Click here for the craft pattern.
More days with decoupage you might like:
|Creative Clip Board
|Mod Podge Magnets
|Easy Door Knob Hanger
|Decorate a Clay Pot
|Creative Christmas Plaque
|Diary Cover
|Decoupage Vase
|Halloween Decoupage


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The girl with the strawberry eyes said to me, "Underneath my blue dress
is more sky.
If you want me to dress in that color you'll have to be seen wearing nothing but me."
The girl with the strawberry eyes turned her head to the sky as if I had not bid
Her not pray. But I did. So she came to my side asking, "Why don't you die?" "But if I
Just died, how would you get around in this soundless small town?"
asked my mouth. "Well I think,"
Replied she, with a wink that squeezed juice flowing pink from her eye. So I tried
To show her the nature of physical things. How her mind could not be what it was
Without me. How the girl with the strawberry eyes was a lie unless I were to be.
My eyes filled with water and juice from her mouth as she laughed in my face,
saying, "You
Are a slave to my whims. You can't stand," (I collapsed), "On your own. You can't breathe," as I gasped.
She towered within me, I cowered outside her I thought she was trying to kill
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Calendar » Pathways to Clean Cooking 2050: Leaving No-one Behind - Call for Abstracts
With only 10 years left to reach Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for ensuring "access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all", including universal access to clean cooking, an estimated 2 billion people are in danger of being left behind.
This conference will explore recent advances and probe continuing challenges. It proposes to focus attention on reaching the furthest behind first, with topics such as:
- Households and settings
- Evaluating pathways to modern, sustainable cooking energy systems
- Impact Based Finance for cleaner cooking
- Modern, clean, sustainable bio-energy in a low-income country context
- Policy options for a just transition to modern, sustainable cooking energy systems
- Transitional and hybrid multiple fuel-device cooking systems
In addition to presentations, seminars and plenaries that highlight latest research and recent case studies, the event will include musical/cultural evening, video launch and photo exhibition.
Events to be held at Wexford Library, Wexford Arts Centre and National Opera House, Wexford.
For more information or to submit an abstract, visit: www.pathways2cleancooking.info/


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Class is about to begin at Rosewood Ballet School! Join Willow and her fellow students as they overcome disaster, injuries, and last-minute nerves to put on a unique production of The Nutcracker in celebration of their friend Samira's beautiful garden.
Contains illustrations of dance poses, a glossary of ballet steps and a comic strip version of The Nutcracker.
Fiona Macdonald studied history at Cambridge University and at the University of East Anglia. She has taught in adult education and in schools and universities, and is the author of numerous books for children on historical topics.


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The Morbid PotionThe Morbid Potion is an extremely lethal potion. It is so dangerous it is unavailible to be made, and the recipe is impossible to get, from the two people that have it.
The only people in the whole Caribbean that have the recipie to the potion is Jolly Roger, and Tia Dalma. It was created many decades ago at a voodoo convention that was held every year in Cuba, hosted by Tia Dalma.
Only a true potion brewing master can create this potion:
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This potent potion is a total killer. One drop of it is enough to poison and kill a child... two drops is enough to kill a full grown man. Nobody knows what it tastes like because nobody has lived long enough after having it to tell what it tastes like. This potion completely messes up your senses, it weakens your body's immune system and gives you a high fever. It also takes away all of your strength, and disables your speech powers. It takes lots of healing, medicine, and self-determination to be able to fight off its effects, if thats even possible.Aren't we glad that its impossible to make now? And that there is none left! Or is there...
At the time there were no undead armies, Jolly Roger was the first undead skeleton. He wasn't evil back then, until him and Tia Dalma accidently created a potion so horrible and powerful. She destroyed all of the potion that they made, and killed the rare Vortexian Poison Fly Trap species. Now they are believe to be extinct. Jolly was so mad, he stormed away and wasn't seen for another decade.
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With 182 registrations looming, Toyota is claiming that in July, Irish drivers can upgrade to a new hybrid 'for free.' Of course, it's not really free - what it means is that by taking the potential fuel savings, tax savings and lower depreciation (hybrids really do seem to have very strong residuals at the moment) over three years, you will get back the extra you spend on upgrading.
To sweeten the deal further, Toyota is offering 'Trade In, Trade Up' packages, which give you bonuses on your trade-in values and some tempting interest rates.
For the outgoing RAV4 (there's a new model coming at the end of this year) you can get a €4,500 trade-in package made up of a €2,500 trade-in boost and a €2,000 price cut for the Luna Sport Hybrid, with a 3.9 per cent interest rate on finance.
For the Auris (again, it's being replaced at the end of this year) there's a €3,700 package, which is a €2,000 trade-in boost with €1,700 worth of extra equipment for the Luna Sport Hybrid model, and 3.9 per cent interest.
The C-HR crossover can be had with a trade-in boost of €2,000 and 3.9 per cent finance, which is also available on the Yaris, which comes with a €1,500 trade-in boost. The Prius gets a trade-in boost of €2,500 and 3.9 per cent finance, while the Corolla gets a €2,500 trade-in on the Luna Sport petrol model, plus €1,500 worth of additional spec.
The Aygo (which is getting a mild facelift this summer) gets a 2.9 per cent finance rate with repayments starting at €30 a week, while the Proace van can be had on a 1.9 per cent Hire Purchase plan, or a trade-in boost of €3,000.
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Over the course of all the E3 appointments I've attended in my six years covering the show, I don't think I've ever heard someone place equal emphasis on their game and why it's better than the competition. Project CARS 2 creative director Andy Tudor did this. It was half sales pitch and half obnoxious truthering. After thinking about it for a bit, I can't say I blame him.
"The first truth is that we still have the largest track roster of any console racing game," Tudor started out. "And it is great that other games have only just added dynamic weather because we had that in Project CARS 1," he continued. There's no lapse between these statements; these sentences are literally said back-to-back.
The entire presentation is filled with this stuff. Area-specific conditions that cause certain parts of the track to form puddles while other sections don't become as waterlogged. Tudor prefaces this with "Other games are just catching up to us [with dynamic weather]; we are continuing to innovate with localized weather." There's an anecdote about how developer Slightly Mad shut down Long Beach to fly drones over it so that it could make the track realistic to within 1 millimeter -- something that Tudor calls "above and beyond the competition."
It goes on. We're told that there's no need to go out and buy an off-road game because Project CARS 2 will have rally racing. We're told that "this isn't a Pokemon car collecting game" and that we can drive any vehicle right from the get-go. Sly jab after sly jab about why this game has the player's interests more in mind than any other racing game. "We are the most technologically advanced game out there," he says toward the end of the meeting.
When we turned the magnifying glass away from the competition and onto Project CARS 2, Tudor points to two major improvements that will make the sequel more accessible than its predecessor. Probably most important is that gamepad handling will be better right out of the box. Also, the menus are pared down to be less overwhelming to a casual player. All the depth and fine-tuning is still in there, but it's not cluttering things for the people who just want to get into a race that they can understand.
But, for all the comparisons to the competition, Tudor walks it back when we ask him how that mindset affects design. He insists that the likes of Forza and Gran Turismo don't influence the development of Project CARS. "No, we just purely get on with what we want to be doing because we don't necessarily know what the competition are doing. We have our spies here and there, but we honestly do not know," he comments.
Tudor continues "We've been making racing games for a very long time, since 2000, and over that time we've been constantly kind of nipping at the heels of the main competitors. Finally, we've gotten to the point where they're playing catch-up with us, with stuff we did in the first game. We're now going beyond that. We just concentrate on our own lane. We just do exactly what we want to do."
It's funny because staying in its own lane is the opposite of what Slightly Mad did in this meeting. But, I kind of get it. Project CARS isn't going to be a game that ever has a marketing budget the size of Forza. It could quietly be very good with each passing installment, only noticed by the relative few who care. It could live in the shadows of those first-party racing behemoths. Or it could make some noise and rattle some cages, effectively shouting "actually, we're better than those guys."
That's what Tudor and Project CARS 2 did at E3. I don't know if it'll live up to those claims or not. I just know that it came out swinging, looking to sock anyone and everyone right in the mouth.


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2020 will be ride number 4.
I think I might be addicted. Addicted to cycling, addicted to the wonderful friends I have made and community I have become a part of. Addicted to being a part of something bigger than myself. Addicted to seeing the look of engagement on the face of teenagers when they listen to a rider's presentation during Ride Week. Addicted to Ride Week itself.
I suppose there are worse addictions I could have?
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It's no secret that I truly love to clean. I like my home and things to be organized and put together. Is it always this way? No. But these are my favorite cleaning products I go to when I need to get down to business.
Laundry will be the hill that I die on. My family of three creates a sh*t ton of laundry and there is never, ever a moment when it is all done and put away. There is always a load that needs to be shifted to the dryer or four loads that need to be put away. Who else hates putting laundry away? It's the worst part of the job. I can't forget about the mound of stinky, sweaty gym clothes that need their own zip code and the stained soccer jersey (ketchup, not grass stains unfortunately) that has seen better days.
In this month's One True Love video we share our favorite cleaning products.
No surprise, it looks like I had a few more favorites than Megan. Go figure, since I do secretly love a good deep clean every now and then. Have you seen our Clean with Me video series?
We spent a good amount of time talking about our go-to favorite laundry products but let's not forget about my favorite Pledge. I love to walk into a clean home with the scent of lemon Pledge. Am I completely nuts for loving a good cleaning product so much?
Watch the Video: Favorite Cleaning Tools, Supplies and Products
Be sure to check out the Favorite Cleaning Products tab in our Amazon shop where we've linked all the products mentioned in the video plus links to everything I use to keep my house in ship shape.
Do you prefer commercial or homemade products to clean your home? And how do you feel about clean ingredients? If you have a favorite homemade recipes that you use in your home, please leave us a comment or link so we can check it out.
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Gregg Sulkin has been cast as the lead in Status Update.
Gregg Sulkin has landed the lead in Status Update, an indie comedy from director Gabe Torres. Sulkin plays Josh, a five-star high school quarterback who wants to be a journalist. When he writes an article about his social experiment of changing his Facebook status from "single" to "interested in men," a fellow male student with a crush on him creates a tribute video to "Josh the Gay Quarterback" that goes viral. The media picks it up, and Josh becomes a hero to gay teens. As his relationships get tested, can he keep the secret that he's straight? Torres also co-wrote the pic with Britt Logan, and both produce for Digital Riot Media.
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The list of things that I didn't know, and still don't know, about parenting is ridiculously long. At least once a day, if not more often, I'll think, "Wow. I had no idea that would happen." One of the craziest things, at least to me, came along with naming our kids. Both of them were named before they were born, although we picked out Lauren's a lot earlier. Both of them were called by their name before we had even seen them, which I believed would make their name "stick" more easily. I was wrong.
I'm not sure if this is something that every parent feels, but when my kids were born it was hard for me to call them by their names. It just felt wrong! Like I was calling a stranger the wrong name. Most people would probably say "You obviously gave them the wrong name, then!" I don't think that's it at all. To me, this is a new person who I've never met before. When I meet new people I often find myself second guessing how I'm saying their name, or if I'm even calling them the right name. That feeling extended to my children, which surprised me.
I thought that when my children were born I would know them. I would look at them and automatically feel a connection like I've known them all my life. For me, it wasn't like that at all. I loved them both completely, with all of my heart, but they were still a completely new person in my life, just like Tim was at one time. I didn't know what would make them happy, what would make them laugh. I didn't know if they liked being held when they ate (Brenden) or laying flat on their back while they had their bottle (Lauren). I had to get to know them, just like I have had to get to know everyone in my life.
I just realized the other day that Lauren knows her name. She's probably known it for a long time but I wasn't noticing how she responded. At the same time, I realized that it no longer felt strange to call her Lauren. It felt like she had finally grown into her name, but that's not really true. She was always meant to be Lauren, just like Brenden was always meant to be Brenden. I just know them now.
I know that Brenden likes to play peek-a-boo before he falls asleep. That when he says "Harry Potter's at Walmart" I'm supposed to say "Nooooo" and then we'll both giggle our heads off. (Don't ask. I don't know how it started.) I know that Lauren wakes up happy. If she starts fussing and she's been awake for about an hour, she's tired. If she starts fussing and it's been less than an hour than she probably just wants to stand up in her exersaucer. (Miss Independent!) I know what makes her giggle. I know her.
It's amazing to feel this way. It made me feel like I'm a good mom when I realized that she hadn't cried in a few days. Of course, part of that is the fact that she's a great little kiddo, but part of it is the fact that I know what she needs long before she gets to screaming.
Getting to know my kids has been one of the most difficult and most rewarding things I've ever done. And now that I know them, I wouldn't change a thing about either of them.
He was always meant to be our Brenden...
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Adam Finer
Father, Instructor, Waterman, Athlete.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 1971.
Adam Finer is a father, an action sports innovator, and business owner, who has found a way to combine his passions and creativity into a lifestyle that allows him do do what he loves to do. A pioneer in Snowboarding, kitesurfing, Windsurfing, SUP. and now Foil, Adam has rolled all of his knowledge into his family business "Surf Mexico" which is committed to creating independent environmentally responsable ocean users thru his highly skilled staff of talented Ocean Athletes and diverse training programs. Surf Mexico sells and distributes high quality water sports products, and only represents manufacturers that share his vision to reverse the negative effects humanity is having on the Ocean environment, so his daughters and future generations can continue to pursue the dominance of the aquatic environment.
Finer's qualifications are diverse, He started his career as a Reconnaissance soldier in 1 PPCLI Canadian Infantry Battalion. The military developed Finer's ability to set goals and focus on mission objectives. He excelled as a soldier, athlete and leader with International successes in events such as NECIC International Military competition, obtaining an obstacle course world record, UN Track team Pole vault champion on a Unitied Nations tour in Cypress, Military Games Biathlon Gold medal winner at the Canmore Nordic Center, and many more.
Adam was the first international Stand-Up Paddle instructor trainer for the Academy of Surfing Instructors, (Australia)- and is also a life guard trainer for GIAAS (Grupo de Investigacion en Actividades Aquatics y Socorrismo -Spain), and water safety expert and consultant. This vast, diverse experience allows him to provide expertise and learning experiences like few others in the world. Adam's companies have taught thousands of students how to Surf, Kite Surf, wind surf, and have introduced thousands more to water sports thru his events, training seminars and courses. His latest alliance – SUP Kids teaches youngsters about water safety and environmental conservation.
As a water sports athlete Adam has competed at the top levels internationally, at world championship events such as the Red Bull King of the Air, ISA Paddle Board World Championships, Battle of the Paddle, Canadian Kite Racing Championships, and US Kite Racing Championships, and many more. Adam has always felt the highest honor of representing his country as a proud Canadian, now living abroad in Mexico with his wife and three daughters.
Adam's company Punta Mita Ocean Sports runs the Water Sports Program for Mexico's most exclusive development Punta Mita, and runs his team – the Koa Kai – or Soldiers of the Sea, with military precision, in all water sports activities for the development.