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At SPS IPC Drives, igus presented the world's first high-tensile Profinet bus cable
Bus cables often reach their mechanical limits in hanging applications due to their small cross section and more fragile design. Therefore, igus has now developed the CFSPECIAL.182.060 bus cable for Profinet with special strain relief elements in the PUR outer jacket, which decouples the sensitive bus elements from the high tensile forces. All vertical applications, such as storage and retrieval equipment, can now be reliably and safely supplied with bus signals.
Bus signals such as Profinet are transmitted via special electrically coordinated bus cables, which must meet clearly defined electrical parameters in order to ensure correct data transmission. The cross sections of these cables are typically very small as communication does not require large levels of current. The advantage of this is that bus cables can therefore usually be very thin. However, these small and delicate structures have the disadvantage that the mechanical durability of the bus cables reaches its limits very quickly in hanging applications, depending on the cable length. This is because the maximum permissible tensile forces of the cable can be exceeded very quickly just under its own weight. Therefore, igus has now developed the new high-tensile CFSPECIAL.182.060 bus cable for Profinet. Due to its special structure with integrated strain relief elements, this can also allow hanging applications of 100 metres and more, and can carry the weight of the cable up to 50 kilograms. As a result, new modern storage and retrieval equipment can now rely on bus communication. For example, igus is now the only provider of the CAT5e cable to also offer a Profinet cable for increased tensile forces, rounding off bus communication for 80 percent of all bus applications.
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The new CFSPECIAL.182.060 is shielded and features an abrasion-resistant PUR outer jacket with integrated strain relief fibres. The cable is resistant to oil and coolant, as well as to hydrolysis and microbes. The cable is also very impact-resistant and free of PVC and halogen. Like all igus cables, the CFSPECIAL.182.060 has also been tested in its own test laboratory spread over a floor area of 2,750 sq. metres. Therefore, igus is the only provider on the market that can promise a guarantee of 36 months on its cables.
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Duration: 100 mins
Country of Origin: Australia
Moderate themes, Moderate violence, Moderate coarse language
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Norma Khouri is a thief, a saint, a seductress and a sociopath – depending on who is talking. Men want to marry her, Islamic extremists want to kill her, and the global publishing industry wishes she would just disappear. Khouri won fame and fortune with her "true story" Forbidden Love, about a shocking honour killing in Jordan. The book was a runaway bestseller, translated into multiple languages, and Khouri became the toast of the literary world. That was until July 2004, when esteemed Sydney Morning Herald journalist Malcolm Knox exposed her book as a work of fiction.
She's been in hiding ever since. Now she wants to talk.
Weaving between the literary salons of London, the mosque-lined vistas of Jordan, the beachside suburbs of Queensland and the seamy Chicago backstreets of Norma's dubious past, FORBIDDEN LIE$ pits Norma's tale against the stories of those who believe she duped them: the publishers, the FBI, her next door neighbour…even her husband. But the most compelling character of all is Norma – encouraged by director Anna Broinowski to journey through every shade of grey that separates fact from fiction.
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Bright Children Perform Much Better At Grammars Than At Comprehensives, According To Ofsted
A report published by Ofsted this week reveals that bright children in England perform much better at state grammar schools than at state comprehensive schools.
The report titled "The Most Able Students – An Update On Progress Since June 2013" was published on 3rd March 2015. The report laments the huge under performance of bright children in comprehensive schools compared to grammar schools. The report notes that this problem was highlighted by Ofsted two years previously, when comprehensives were instructed to improve their offering to bright children. However, the report concludes that no discernible improvement has been made by comprehensives to this problem over those two years. The report can be accessed at the link below.
What Bright Pupils Now At School Think Of Their Comprehensive Education
In compiling its report, Ofsted visited 40 comprehensive schools in England and interviewed bright students currently in Year 8, who are due to sit their GCSEs in 2018. Ofsted reported the following shocking feedback from these students' experiences of attending comprehensive schools (contained on pages 15 and 16 of Ofsted's report):
"One Year 8 student commented:
'Most of the stuff I know already and you have to complete the simple stuff first to get to the more advanced things.'
"Another Year 8 student reflected on the difference between work in primary school and the work he did currently:
'Most lessons aren't as interesting now……They are now boring'.'
"Most students said there were lessons that did not challenge them; the work was repetitive and covered what they had already learnt in Key Stage 2. A few gave examples of where their learning had been slowed by teachers pitching the work to the lowest ability or insisting that all students listened to explanations the most able did not need. For example, one student said that in IT the teacher regularly freezes the computer screen to explain the solution to a problem experienced by only one or two students.
"In 25 of the secondary schools visited, most able students in Key Stage 3 reported that their learning was affected by low-level disruption. This took the form of chatting, fidgeting or asking 'silly' questions intended to distract the teacher. One student summed this up in a response to the online survey:
'The school focuses far too much on pupils who are either disruptive or out of control in lessons and therefore do not give every other pupil an equal amount of focus and help.'
"The quality of the work and tasks that teachers set for students across different subjects was patchy, particularly outside the core subjects. The work given to individual students varied, for example, from challenging algebraic equations in mathematics to undemanding comprehension tasks in citizenship, which one student described as 'ridiculously easy'.
"Year 8 students typically said their school could do more to develop their interests. One Year 8 student reflected on the lack of encouragement they had:
'I took a musical interest in playing the piano, but my teacher in my music lesson did not encourage me to play the piano to the best of my abilities. At parents' evening I went to my music teacher and she didn't even know who I was.'
"Another expressed frustration at the lack of variety open to Year 8 students:
'I want to do music, psychology and art but there are no art or science clubs that I have been informed of. Also there are music clubs, but none for just lower years'."
The Lost Generation
Ofsted's solution to the under performance of bright children is for comprehensives to try even harder to cater for these children's needs, even though they have tried and failed to achieve this over the previous two years.
Unfortunately, Ofsted does not propose the obvious solution, which is revealed by the graph on page 25 of their report (click here) – which shows that children who scored highly at primary school* and who then attended a grammar school achieved nearly twice the number of top grades in GCSE Maths and English than children who scored highly at primary school* but who then attended a comprehensive school.
Therefore, the solution to the problem of the under performance of bright children in comprehensive schools is to let those children attend grammar schools.
In fact, for the first time, the Ofsted figures reveal the true scale of this problem – namely that there were 95,897^ state school children in England in 2014 who were educated at comprehensive schools and who performed highly* in Maths at primary school but then failed to score highly** in Maths GCSE. Of these children, 54,562^^ (nearly 57%) would have scored highly if they had attended a grammar school***. The equivalent figure for English GCSE is 34,697^^^.
The Ofsted figures starkly reveal that there were 69,954^^^^ bright state school children in England in 2014 who failed to score highly in English or Maths GCSE at their comprehensive schools, but who would have scored highly if they had attended a grammar school***.
Incredibly the number of bright children in England in 2014 who were failed in this way by the comprehensive system was at least 70,000. And this was for just one academic year in Maths and English, and does not take into account children who were let down in other subjects.
In fact, there are nearly one million bright children currently attending state schools in England who will not succeed in fulfilling their potential under the comprehensive system, but who would succeed if they could attend a grammar school****.
What a tragedy for this "Lost Generation" of children that they cannot attend grammar schools, and what a loss of talent for our country!
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We are very fortunate to live in Kent where grammar schools still exist county-wide, so that our bright children are not failed by the state education system. However, the absence of a grammar school in Sevenoaks means that we are continuing to actively campaign for a new grammar in the town, including our appearance earlier this week on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:-
On the same day, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan was asked about grammar schools in The House of Commons:-
If this represents the level of political debate on this important matter, then the General Election cannot come soon enough.
*Scoring highly at primary school means attaining Level 5 at Key Stage 2 in Year 6 at primary school.
**Scoring highly means achieving an A* or A grade at GCSE.
***Assuming that if those children had attended a grammar school then they would have performed at the same level as existing grammar school children.
****Assuming that Ofsted's figures for previous years show the same pattern as its 2014 figures – ie. 70,000 bright children per year who attain Level 5 at Key Stage 2 in Year 6 at primary school in Maths or English but fail to achieve an A* or A grade at GCSE in Year 11 at their comprehensive, but who would have attained A* or A in GCSE if they had attained a grammar school (assuming that if those children had attended a grammar school then they would have performed at the same level as existing grammar school children).
There are 14 years of school attendance from Reception Year to Year 13. 70,000 x 14 years = 980,000 children, which is nearly one million.
^165,340 x 58% = 95,897
^^165,340 x (75-42)% = 54,562
^^^138,789 x (64-39)% = 34,697
^^^^(((165340-91994)/165340) x 34697) + 54562 = 69,954


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I would be lying if I were to say that the music of Menomena was not ingrained into my own musical landscape. I remember going to a brief stint in therapy, listening to "The Monkey's Back" on repeat for hours on end, and commuting to Portland for college with nothing but Friend and Foe playing in one ear (my headphones were broken). They were also the second concert I attended in Portland. To say that I'm not slightly critical would be… well, bullshit.
Friend and Foe has gotten a lot of breathing room over the last three very long years, and six since the debut I Am The Fun Blame Monster! Yet, the songs on these two albums, such as Fun Blame closer "The Monkey's Back," still sounds vital, and Friend and Foe opener "Muscle n' Flo," after as many times as I've heard it, is still worthy of chanting along with in the shower. The question, I suppose, is this: are the songs here on Mines going to be as good as those three years ago, after they've teased with a new album for so long?
The short answer, to spare you the suspense, it yes, absolutely. Mines opens on perhaps the most understated song of the band's career, "Queen Black Acid," one that is actually fairly old at this point. It also finds the band in a much more heart-on-sleeve place, somewhere that we haven't seen since the aforementioned "The Monkey's Back," or Friend and Foe highlight "Boyscout'n." "I've made myself an open book / I've made myself a sitting duck," Brett Knopf howls in the all-too-telling chorus of the song. However, the downplay of the song only lasts the length of its boundaries, when "TAOS" brings us out of the slump and right back into the head space that made "Weird" a flawless track.
"OH! I bet I know what you like! At LEAST I know what you might!" Knopf howls at the beginning of "TAOS." It's the perfect juxtaposition, and easily one of the band's best song to date. "I'm a social mess, but not yet slurring," our suave narrator intones, in a perfectly crafted morality tale about a "wolf covered in fleece." Subtle, the track isn't, but really subtlety was never the band's forte, was it? The cut finds the band in extremely high spirits, and sets the stage for the highly-layered album to come.
Mines finds the band in a much different head space, and with this comes a much different sound, somewhere in between sounding exactly like the Menomena of the past, and nothing at all like the Menomena of the past. The bleak tone of "Killemall," where Danny Seim asks if you've strangled your ghost amidst the tempest of blasted drum beats and itchy guitars, conveys this in a razor-sharp fashion. "BOTE," later on the album, is a dense thicket of Modest Mouse guitars and noise howling above ocean of noise, portraying singer-as-sea-captain: "I thought I could handle anyone who came along / But the worth of a boat is how well it floats / and this old boat won't float for long with all these holes."
"INTIL," the album's finale, in many ways, follows in the tradition of the last two albums by ending on an intense mess of a song ("West" of Friend and Foe, anyone?), but in others takes the band somewhere they simply haven't been before. "You don't want the truth / You want someone else," our singer muses behind the wash of plinking piano and a positively hypnotizing drum beat. It all slowly, very slowly, builds and builds and then… simply vanishes. Here, even the hidden blip of sound that follows the radio silence of every album is an all-too-short wash of twinkling bells. Beautiful.
After the critical boom following the release Friend and Foe, it's clear that the band felt the need to hone their skills, and Mines serves as proof that one of the most solid bands running can get even better with age. "Oh Pretty Boy, You're Such A Big Boy" is living proof of this, as one of the album's standout tracks, where our singer croons about how he fears he's showing his age, and you truly feel for him in the track. Mines is an album that's not quite all about growing old and growing up, but it does the trick of conveying all of the feelings perfectly. Mines is Menomena at, somehow, a more mature place than they were before, and with every album, they just get even better at what they were always the best at doing. It's all nothing short of amazing.


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Ryan Grindler is the co-owner of 101 Restaurant and Mint Lounge in Tallahassee, Florida and one of the founders of the Edison Restaurant, a new restaurant, banquet room and catering company slated to open in Cascades Park in the Fall of 2015. For his restaurants, Ryan oversees finance, legal, real estate and development of new projects. Ryan is also the President of Wildwood Realty, a full-service real estate firm based in Tallahassee.
Prior to moving to Tallahassee, Ryan worked for a private real estate firm based in Miami Beach where he served as Director of Acquisitions and Development. During his six years with this firm, Ryan oversaw over half a billion dollars in capital transactions, including the assemblage of a large group of retail properties on Lincoln Road where he lead acquisition, redevelopment and financing activities as well as negotiating joint venture agreements with publically traded and institutional partners. Ryan served as the firm's credit officer, where he reviewed the financial and operational strength of potential tenants and oversaw numerous workouts during the liquidity crisis that began in 2008.
After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Florida State University, Ryan worked in Washington, D.C. for United States Senator Bill Nelson in various political and fundraising roles. During this time, Ryan obtained his law degree at American University's Washington College of Law and briefly worked in Maryland's Community Development Administration's Low Income Tax Credit section.
Ryan is a former member of the City of Miami's Housing and Commercial Loan Committee Board and the National Eagle Scout. He is a member of the Florida Bar Association and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Florida. He resides in Tallahassee with his wife, Grace, and two children.


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An inquiry is to be launched into the safety of donor blood after a study suggested in October that some Britons could be carrying variant CJD, the human form of 'mad cow disease', without realising.
Researchers at University College London found that one in 2,000 people in the UK (some 24,000 adult Britons) could be a carrier, something that could have serious implications for blood donations and transfusions, they wrote in the British Medical Journal.
Now, the Commons Science and Technology Committee has called for an inquiry after saying it s extremely concerned that the disease still poses a significant risk to public health, BBC News reports.
Chairman Andrew Miller MP commented: 'We want to explore whether the government is taking this threat as seriously as it should be.'
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Hi Nesters.
This past Saturday, we drove 8 1/2 hours north to Klamath Falls, Oregon to attend a service for Jason's Great-Aunt Julie (from his mom's side), which was held Sunday morning. Pretty much all of his mom's family lives in Klamath Falls (population 19, 462) or Merrill (a small neighboring town - population 897) and we haven't seen them since the last funeral about 12 years ago.
Although it was a somber occasion, it was really nice too see our relatives. We spent the majority of the day after the service at Uncle Don and Aunt Connie's ranch, which is located out in the country in Merrill. This was Sierra and Cameron's first small town experience. Our cities' population is approximately 910,000 so that gives you an idea of what they are used to.
The kids toured the ranch, moo'd at the cows, and caught (and released) blue-bellied lizards. We ate delicious pulled-pork sandwiches for dinner out on the back deck and got caught up with what everyone had been doing over the past several years. Sierra got to meet and hang out with cousins she hadn't seen (and obviously didn't remember) since she was 1 year old. Lucky for her, all but one of her cousins are girls.
About 30 minutes later, a thunderstorm started brewing in the sky. We all stood out in the driveway and ooh'd and aah'd over the beautiful lightening on the horizon. About a half an hour later, Jason and I decided to head back to the hotel. We weren't 5 minutes away from the ranch when the rain started. It went from sprinkles to a torrential downpour within seconds. The rain came down so hard (I've never seen rain this fast and hard in my life) that the wipers struggled to keep up with the water on the windshield. It became so difficult to see, I asked Jason to stop the truck because I started to feel panic setting in. He slowed to a crawl while I regained my composure.
Immediately my mommy senses kicked in and I remembered that Sierra was out with the girls in this storm. We drove directly to the Polar Bear Drive-In to see if the girls were still there. They weren't. We pulled in the parking lot and called Sierra on her cell phone. She said they were on their way back to the ranch. We told her when she got there to stay there and we would bring her home.
When we arrived at the ranch and picked up Sierra, she recounted her experience during the storm...
After they left the drive-in, they headed to one of the local elementary schools to enjoy their shakes and ice cream on the playground. Unfortunately about 5 minutes later, the downpour drove them back to the car. With Sierra and 2 cousins in the back seat, they pulled out of the school parking lot to head back to the ranch. Sierra said she heard a sound and looked over her shoulder out the back window. At that moment, a tree fell down across the road directly behind their car. Sierra said they were "freaked out" and looked for falling trees the whole way back to the ranch.
On our way back to the hotel, we drove by the school to see the location where the tree fell. The tree was so large it blocked the entire road. People were already busy cutting it in sections to remove it so cars would be able to pass. Sierra said it was the most exciting thing that has ever happened to her. I don't even want to think about what might have happened if the girls had left the school yard just a moment later than they did.
The next morning, we went to breakfast at the Black Bear Diner (a recommendation from the hotel concierge). The portions were enormous (the biscuits were 4 times the size of regular restaurant biscuits) and tasty (thank goodness). Had I known this, I would have got a half order of biscuits and gravy instead of the full sized one. After breakfast, we hit the freeway for the long ride home.
Below are photos I took of Mt. Shasta (located in California just south of the Oregon border) on our way to Oregon. I don't remember much from our last trip to Oregon 12 years ago. And I certainly don't remember Mt. Shasta being so majestic. Although these photos are nice, they don't do justice to how it looks in person. She's a beauty!


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TC Super Sharp GerMedUSA scissors provide effortless, precise cutting.
They feature one blade razor edge and one micro-serrated edge along with the strength and durability of tungsten carbide.
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In building design and construction, energy efficiency does not necessarily equate to good thermal comfort for occupants.
In fact, human thermal comfort is rather difficult to analyze because it is as much psychological as it is physiological. The notion of "comfort" is a personal feeling – not a quantifiable metric like the kilowatt-hour is for electricity.
Think about it – who has not been in a room where one person claims to be uncomfortably hot while someone close by exclaims to be cold?
So, how can we empirically evaluate occupant comfort? Enter Professor Povl Ole Fanger.
Predicted Mean Vote (PMV)
Professor Fanger was an expert on the health effects of indoor environments. During the 1980's, he introduced a seven-point scale to asses the thermal comfort of a large number of individuals.
This scale provided the basis for taking surveys of large samples of people regarding how they felt under varying activity levels, clothing levels, and interior environmental conditions.
Fanger also determined that the average value of the numerical survey results could be predicted.


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Transition Towns Kapiti invites you to a Brainstorming on Establishing a Food Forest.
This Sunday the 7th June, 2-4pm.
Roll over Community Gardens – Here comes TTK Community Food Forest
After an inspiring night watching the very entertaining and informative Geoff Lawton's Establishing a Food Forest Documentary and a enthusiastic discussion afterwards, Andrew come up […]


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Useful information about your holiday in Tenby
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|Motts Holidays
A Chilterns based coach holiday company with Tenby as one of it's destinations staying at a variety of hotels including Park Hotel and the Cliffe Norton Hotel.
|01296 336666
Narberth is an enchanting small town just 10 miles from Tenby which has more recently become a real centre for good food, restaurants and fresh produce. There are a variety of exclusive shops stocking everything from quality kitchenware, designer clothing, art and gifts. There are many coffee shops and restaurants to choose from with Ultra Comida (a beautiful continental deli) well worth the trip.
|National Holidays
A Hull based coach holiday company with Tenby included in it's destinations.
|0844 477 9990
Newsurf offer a complete service for surfers from novice to advanced in Newgale (28 miles from Tenby). They have a comprehensive selection of new and used equipment for sale, instruction, on site board hire, demonstration equipment and board repairs.
|01437 721 398
Twelve miles from Tenby is Pembroke - well known for it's magnificent castle - the birthplace of Henry VII with spectacular views across the county from its famous keep. Pembroke Castle is a good family day out and often has events on to attract families.
|Pembrokeshire Adventure Centre
Pembrokeshire Adventure Centre (run by the Prince's Trust and based in Pembroke Dock, 11 miles from Tenby) offers a wide range of adventure sports, based on both land and water. Whether you are seeking something interesting to do with your friends and family, organising a group event, or aiming to develop your personal performance and qualification level in the adventure world, they are the people to talk to.
|01646 622013
Just a mile or two from Tenby, Penally is a small, pretty hillside village overlooking Tenby's gold club. It has a variety of campsites as well as the luxurious Penally Abbey Hotel, a couple of pubs and a village shop.This is a quieter village to the busy bustle of Tenby. This is also the home of Trefloyne Golf Course and the Ritec Valley Quad Bikes.
Fifteen miles from Tenby Pendine is a coastal resort made famous in the 1920's by speed king Sir Malcolm Campbell. In April 1926 Parry Thomas set the new lad spped record (171.02 mph) in his car Babs but sadly died the following year trying to break the record.
|Powells Cottage Holidays
Powells Cottage Holidays has over 50 years' experience in holiday letting. Being established in the popular seaside town of Saundersfoot which is just a short drive from Tenby, Powells has grown to become the leading provider of quality holiday cottages across Pembrokeshire.
|01834 812791
|Power Boating
If you have always fancied learning to drive a power boat then check out Ahoy Pembrokeshire! Based in Milford Haven - 17 miles from Tenby they offer power boat courses for small craft.
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I get a lot of enquiries regarding "what is there to do in Tenby when it is raining?" Why not have a look at the "indoor" section of "Things to do in Tenby" by clicking here? Things to do in Tenby in the rain!


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The pay gap between men and women has blown out to be the biggest in 20 years, largely because of the hefty salaries paid in the mining and construction industries.
On average, men in full-time work are being paid nearly $15,000 more a year than women, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows.
For part-time workers, the gender pay gap would be wider because a higher proportion of women are in casual jobs.
CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian says the pay gap is linked to large salaries paid in the mining and construction industries, which are traditionally dominated by men.
He said although pay rises in the mining sector have been slowing in the past year, it is still the best-paid industry.
"Now that the mining sector seems to be coming off, it's more of a combination of mining and construction that are the best paid, the more male-dominated industries," he said.
"To some degree, banking and finance as well – professional services."
Meanwhile there is very sluggish pay growth in industries which are traditionally dominated by women, such as accommodation, food services and retail.
"The mining wage is about two and a half times what you'd get in the retail sector," Mr Sebastian said.
Mr Savanth said the pay gap between men and women is likely to widen over the coming year as housing construction increases.
The pay gap between men and women increased by almost eight per cent in the 12 months to May, the fastest pace in three years, the ABS data showed.
Average ordinary full-time gross earnings for men came in at $1,560.50 a week, while women earned $1,274.40.
Men in the mining sector earned $2,585.20, while women workers received $1,970.20.


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Artist Bunpei Yorifuji (寄藤文平) is creating a series of manner posters for the Tokyo metro, around the theme of "Do It At Home". Yorifuji was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in 1973, and founded Bunpei Ginza in 2000 to specialize in mainly Art Direction, Illustration and Book Design. Yorifuji's manners posters address the most common complaints heard by the Metro, such as people who apply


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
ABS Ornament Blog Hop - Win One of Mine!
This reminds me of a progressive supper club my friends and I started several years ago. Once a month, we would spend an evening trekking from house to house, stopping at a different house for a different dish on the menu. It was so much fun, but took an exhausting amount of time and energy to accomplish.
The ABS ornament blog hop is all the fun without all the work or the gas! All you need is a finger to click on the links of the participants, and you'll be transported to a holiday Winter wonderland!
Here is my contribution to the hop, a sweet little Victorian miss in her fur-trimmed aqua cape holding a red rose wreath, one of the ornaments in my 2010 Holiday collection. All the ornaments in the collection have a Victorian theme and were all created by me using digital images transferred to polymer clay. They are all "framed" in antique brass clay or burnished gold clay and trimmed with Swarovski crystal. To see more, scroll down the page or visit my flickr photostream.
Leave a comment at the end of this post and you could win this Sweet Little Victorian Miss ornament! No purchase is necessary, just leave a comment and on December 10, I'll draw a winner at random and send you an ornament in time for you to enjoy it on your tree this Christmas.
Thanks so much, and Happy Holidays!
Here is a list of all the participants. So, hop aboard the Ornament Express and let's go see what wonderful creations await us!
Art Bead Scene
Creative Impressions in Clay
Diva Designs - You are here!
Elysian Studios
Fab Fibers
For the Love of Beads
Island Girl's Insights
Jeannie's Blog
Lampwork Diva/Cindy Gimbrone
Mary Harding
Michelle Mach
Spirit Rattles
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38 comments:
- JeannieK said...
That's so true about blogs or a blog hop. Just one click of a button and your there with your friends. No Gas, No snow, No Ice, No nasty weather.
She is so sweet. Love the colors. I know from experience that imagine transfers are no easy task. It takes a lot of practice and a lot of ruined clay.
Thats's very generous of you to give away such a beautiful piece of your work.
Thank you. Happy Holidays to your and yours, jeannie
- December 7, 2010 at 6:00 AM
- rosebud101 said...
Your ornament is really sweet! Aren't these blog hops fun? I truly enjoy them.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:39 AM
- Islandgirl said...
Never tried image transfers. Lovely piece. Hope on over to my blog
Wishing you a happy and safe Holiday season!
Islandgirl aka Lynne
- December 7, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- JenniferJangles said...
Your ornament is so sweet.
Happy Holidays,
Jennifer Jangles
- December 7, 2010 at 7:27 AM
- Kym Hunter Designs said...
I'm enjoying the blog hop and your ornament is very lovely!
Happy Holidays!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- Rosanne said...
She is so beautiful! I would hang her on my tree anytime. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- maryharding said...
Lovely ornament. Beautiful crafted. I love Victorian Christmas images.
- December 7, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Michelle Mach said...
I love the Victorian theme of your ornament. The image transfer looks great. I've done those and I know that they don't always come out so nicely!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Beverly Herman said...
Thank you for sharing your beautiful ornament on the ABS blog hop. Yours has been one of my favorite stops!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
- December 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Tess, Gilded Days said...
She's gorgeous!
- December 7, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Rosalynn said...
So lovely! What a wonderful keepsake. Your ornament is a delight.
- December 7, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Heather Powers said...
Your victorian inspired ornaments are lovely! Thanks for playing along with the blog hop. Happy Holidays!
- December 7, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Diva Designs Jewelry said...
Thank you so much, everyone! I really appreciate the compliments!
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you!
- December 7, 2010 at 11:17 AM
- Tari of ClayButtons.com said...
Very nice ornament! My goal is to learn how to do transfers.
Happy Holiday!
- December 7, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- TesoriTrovati said...
That is simply adorable. My sister in law has a tree with all sorts of romantic ornaments on it. This would be perfect for her!
Enjoy the day!
- December 7, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Spirited Earth said...
The Victorian theme is perfect for the season..sweet ornament.
i love blog hops as well.
- December 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Diva Designs Jewelry said...
Thanks again for the comments, ladies!
- December 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Erin Fickert-Rowland said...
Your ornament is lovely- I have never tried image transfer on clay, but it turned out beautifully for you!
- December 7, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- cindydolezaldesigns said...
Adorable image. Love this ornament.
- December 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- WondrousStrange said...
This has such a sweet and innocent feel to it...lovely:)
- December 7, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Marcia P. said...
Your ornament is gorgeous! A collectors item! The blog hop sounds fun too. I must take a look at the others. Happy Holidays!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:22 PM
- Angela said...
I am lucky enough to own one of these gorgeous ornaments. I'd be ecstatic for her to come to my house and join her counterpart :)
- December 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Alice said...
I just love blog hops! They're fun and full of inspiration.
What a pretty ornament you made!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:06 PM
WooHoo A chance to win gorgeous work of Lynda's! I'm in for sure. The one SCDiva ornament I have hanging on my tree needs a cute friend like her! Off to blog hop.
- December 7, 2010 at 9:09 PM
This is such a sweetie! She would be right at home with the other Victoriana on my tree!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:43 PM
- JuLee said...
What a wonderful idea. A blog hop. What fun.
- December 8, 2010 at 5:20 AM
- m.e. said...
Your work is soooo Gorgeous!
The Victorian ornament collection is an amazing combination of modern medium and unique tecnique,with true antique look and charm!The winner of this ornament is going to own a treasured heirloom !!! m.e. :)
- December 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Deborah said...
I'm such a fan of Victorian period and style - this ornament is delightful! Would love to win it.
Thanks so much for this giveaway chance!
- December 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Lynn said...
She is an adorable victorian girl and you made a beautiful ornament :)
- December 8, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- Susanm said...
Blog hops are ome of my favouite virtual activities - lots of inspiration at my finger tips. Your ornament is one of my favourites.
- December 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Robin said...
Oh my, she is just so precious! I love anything Victorian...but this is really stunning. I am keeping my fingers crossed you pick my name.
- December 8, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Marie Young (Young Creative) said...
Beautiful work. Seeing your work puts me in the Christmas spirit.
- December 8, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Diva Designs Jewelry said...
Thank you so much, everyone! I am overwhelmed by the comments!
The choice will be made using a random generator so that everyone has an equal chance to win. :)
Thanks again, friends!
- December 8, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Kathy B. said...
Our family of 5 siblings used to do the progressive dinner thing and decided by about the 3rd house we were so full we could bearly waddle to the last 2 houses! We have now changed it to a progressive "snack" with each house serving only 1 or 2 items at Christmas so we get to see each other's homes decorated for the holidays, & that works out much better! I love your artwork, and would give it a place of honor on the tree & show it off to everyone who comes over!!!
kathy.bruner at hotmail dot com
- December 9, 2010 at 1:53 AM
- Diva Designs Jewelry said...
I have chosen a winner by random, so the comments are closed for the draw. Please do keep commenting, and I promise to host another giveaway soon, so stay tuned!
Thanks to all of you who entered! I appreciate every comment!
- December 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Pretty Things said...
Oh I love her!
- December 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- Cindy Gimbrone said...
I love the vintage look of your ornament. Your etsy shop is chock full of beautiful work! Thanks for sharing it!
- December 12, 2010 at 7:43 AM
- Diva Designs Jewelry said...
Thank you, ladies!
- December 12, 2010 at 11:35 AM


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Taking place over the course of a long London summer in 2001, Robin Yassin-Kassab's debut novel offers a nuanced depiction of Islam, and explores religion, identity and love among an increasingly post-cultural society.
Sami Traifi, a second-generation Londoner of Syrian origin, is a mess. He was meant to follow in his late father's footsteps, and become a renowned specialist in Arabic poetry. However, ten years on from completing his undergraduate degree, the PhD remains elusive, and both his self-belief and marriage are rapidly disintegrating. Rather than "leaping forth from the giant's shoulders" as he'd hoped, he seems firmly stuck in his father's shadow.
A last-ditch trip to visit relatives in Damascus turns up an unpleasant family secret that adds to his turmoil, which he chooses to elude with copious spliffs. His wife Muntaha, the love of his life, is finally running out of her seemingly bottomless patience.
Through Sami, Muntaha and the people around them, Yassin-Kassab demonstrates the complexities of the Muslim faith, even embodied in one individual. He fleshes out his characters with unsentimental prose, keeping them realistic and surprising as the narrative meanders through their pasts and presents.
Sami is an atheist who is losing faith in himself, his faithlessness and his father Mustafa. Muntaha is an empowered and educated woman who decides to wear hijab, much to Sami's dismay. Her brother Ammar is desperate to find his racial and cultural position in the world, veering between black hip hop artists and the mosque. Gabor is a scientist-artist who sees logic and beauty in Islam and longs to worship fellow school teacher Muntaha, whom he aligns with the faith.
While the focus is on Sami, several of the supporting characters easily warrant their own novels, such as Muntaha's former poetry editor father Marwan and Tom Fields, Sami's enigmatic, survivalist-professor friend. Yassin-Kassab touches on their rich histories with restraint, summing up the unimaginable loss that Muntaha's father Marwan suffers in Baghdad, and offering a peep into Tom's off-the-grid, rural hideaway.
Yassin-Kassab further enriches his exploration of Islam by establishing a gender divide between his characters that favours the fairer sex.
The women of The Road from Damascus possess the most strength, especially Muntaha who remains straightforward and composed in the face of tragedy. Sami's largely silent, devout mother Nur, carries her pain with pragmatism, while Muntaha's stepmother Hasna, although comically bossy and bragging (about her doctor son in particular), is the heart of the community around her, enlivening her second husband's musty home.
In contrast, most of the male characters are largely ineffectual. Both Sami and Muntaha's fathers are trapped in the past; Mustafa is a revered relic for his son, in the form of his books and memories, and Marwan is a living ghost, thanks to the trauma he endured in Baghdad.
In the present day, Ammar parrots the various creeds he has taken on board, whether the anti-globalization pronouncements of Public Enemy or passages from the Koran, without really understanding what he means. Sami's PhD adviser Dr Schimmer is well-meaning, but fails to give Sami the firm direction he really needs. Gabor has a confident exterior, but gets swept away in fruitless fantasies, despite his professed commitment to science and logic.
As much as faith, love is both a binding and separating force in the novel, particularly for Sami and Muntaha. Just as Sami is caught in his father's academic shadow, it seems his marriage may fail as theirs did too, for similar reasons.
Sami initially sees his love for Muntaha in poetic terms, likening her beauty and allure to the Sumerian artefacts in front of which he first encounters her, an orientalization that is later echoed by Gabor.
Both men orientalize themselves as well as Muntaha; Sami with his Syrian heritage and Gabor with the Russian-ness of his grandfather, although both men reveal themselves to be more typically English than anything else.
However, this typical English-ness is tempered by the constantly redefined meaning of being English, another modern aspect that Yassin-Kassab explores through his recreation of London.
Although the novel begins in legendary Damascus, "a city that had briefly ruled the world", and briefly travels to Baghdad and St Petersburg by way of memories and musings, London is the main landscape in which the characters wage their internal battles.
Yassin-Kassab richly evokes "unrelenting, eternal" London's schizophrenia, effectively bringing it to life as a densely multi-faith, multi-cultural metropolis.
In his London, you can buy weed from elderly Trinidadian barbers; attend mosque with Irish converts; infiltrate Freemason haunts; rave in warehouse parties; get arrested at Tower Bridge; become a pyramid power disciple (or not); riot at controversial lectures; and fall in love at the British History Museum.
This London setting suits the entangled political and historical shifts that intertwine the characters' lives. At first, it provides a buffer to the Middle Eastern drama the previous generation – i.e. Mustafa and Marwan – fled from, with Sami and Muntaha being able to enjoy a blissful courtship in the aftermath of the 1991 Kuwait war.
As the summer continues, the realities of their fathers further encroach upon them, while Sami undergoes several transformations; physical, spiritual and emotional. So much happens in the characters' internal and external worlds that the season's notorious end comes as a surprise, and is well-utilized as a turning point in Sami and Muntaha's relationship, as well as more tightly weaving together the novel's multiple themes.
While The Road from Damascus offers no easy solutions to the grand questions of religion and relationships that it raises, it succeeds in depicting a positive, complex and thoroughly modern Islam, one which is much needed in a world that increasingly swings between forms of extremism, whether hedonistic, consumerist or religious. More importantly, it does so while telling an engaging tale that offers insight into many worlds, all of which are thoroughly grounded in reality.
The Road from Damascus
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin (2009)
Language English
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm


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The UK unemployment rate stood at 5.6% in the three months to June. While this was a slight rise on the previous quarter, there is little in the numbers to suggest anything worrying. Rather, the economy seems to have hit something resembling full employment - full in terms of numbers rather than necessarily full of the types of jobs everybody wants. Earnings grew by 2.8%y/y, again unchanged and well above the rate of inflation. And the nation's productivity grew at the fastest rate since Q2 2011. Nice and steady then, but as yet unlikely to move opinion on the Monetary Policy Committee. There are plenty of people unemployed, so train them for a job...now!.....
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UK construction output grew 0.2%q/q in Q2, slightly higher than initially thought. But there was a split. Private house building was the fastest growing sector but house-building by public bodies contracted at a faster rate than any of the other sub-sectors. And it's down by 10% since the third quarter of 2014. But house building stands to get a boost soon. Companies typically start and finish projects when prices are rising faster. They may not be at the moment, but the reliable monthly indicator from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors suggests they are about to pick up significantly. More higher production and exports are needed for growth!....
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The euro zone economy expanded by 0.3% in Q2, slightly slower than Q1's 0.4%. In context, the US managed 0.6% and the UK 0.7%. The stand-out stat award goes to Greece. No, not down. That'll come soon enough. Rather output in the Hellenic Republic expanded by a mighty 0.8%. That's faster than Germany, which may raise an ironic smile for your average Athenian. Closer to home, France's economy stagnated, while Italy's managed a meagre 0.2%. In short, the euro zone economy remains weak, and certainly poorly-placed to resist the eastern wind's deflationary blast. Come on Euro zone countries wake up and drive investment from wealthy people and then increase productivity and growth!...
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Still patchy.
The US is growing at a decent rate and increasing numbers of people are getting into work but data on performance remain patchy. On the plus side, the number of people registering as unemployed reached its lowest level in 15 years. Retail sales were up 2.6%y/y in July, a solid if unspectacular result. Industrial production edged up, although it was flat if car production was excluded. On the downside, consumer confidence slipped again and core producer price inflation rose only 0.9%y/y. There's little in these numbers to encourage an early rate rise!....
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Water now flows unabated over what remains of the Little Falls Lake dam after it was breached in 2015 amid Department of Natural Resources concerns that it couldn't withstand a heavy flood.
That image is soon to change, however, after a 2017 budget bill signed by Gov. Scott Walker that included $11 million in funding for replacement of Little Falls Lake dam. The development completed the funding needed for the project after $8 million was approved in the state's previous budget.
The Wisconsin Building Commission in October included the Little Falls Lake dam in its list of projects, signaling another major milepost in the project's progression.
"This is great news," former Sen. Sheila Harsdorf said after the building commission's approval. "Obviously this is a costly project, but one that we know is vital to maintaining the interest in Willow River State Park."
Harsdorf, now the state's Secretary of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, was on hand with Rep. Shannon Zimmerman in February when Walker visited the state park to announce his support of funding for the project. She later said the Little Falls dam project faced no opposition on its legislative path to the Republican governor's desk.
Willow River State Park Manager Aaron Mason said Dec. 22 that plans are on schedule for the project to be completed by the end of 2019.
He said plans are being completed by an engineering-architectural firm that will then be submitted to the administration department for review. The project will go out to bid, likely in February, with a contractor to be selected in the spring, Mason said.
Barring setbacks, construction is expected to start in June. Mason added that a public meeting will likely be held in advance of construction.
He said plans to address downstream sediment problems in Lake Mallalieu are on the DNR's radar, but remain on hold until after the dam is complete.
Editor's note: This story is part of a series recapping the top stories of 2017. Read the other top stories here.


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Do you look at the glass and see it as half full, or half empty?
This isn't a very important question, and the answer doesn't matter. The more important question is, How do you look at your life? Even more importantly, is the story you tell yourself that makes the difference. If you look at your life and you see the parts that aren't full, or the feel empty, you will feel like you are missing something. That is entirely okay to feel an emptiness. It's the beginning of a desire, a yearning, and that can lead to taking steps to get it. Or do you look at that emptiness and feel down and tell yourself a story of pity and sorrow? Do you ask the people around you to partake in joining you to fill up that empty space and make it what you want? Are you willing at that moment to do something different? Or do you look around waiting for someone to somehow know what you want without telling them, and hope that you get it, while you keep painfully feeling the emptiness at the same time.
Or do you put your attention mostly on the part of your life that is full. Do you feel grateful for it? Do you marvel at that fact that it is all happening while at a warmed up spot on the earth while spinning through galaxies of stars? Yes, your life could always have more on top of what you have. The glass of life can be imagined to be infinitely tall making it seem like we have so little. Or do you look at what you have and enjoy it? Do you drink from that glass and savor what you have, whatever amount it is?
It may not be important how we look at a glass on the table, but it is important to our happiness how we look at our life. And a more important variable in determining our happiness is the interpretation we make about the part of our life we look at.
What parts of your life do you spend the most time looking at? And what stories do you tell yourself about what you focus your attention on? Change your story, and you can change your life.
The Self Mastery Course can help you change your story.


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Media Release: Analogue insulin as an essential medicine: the need for more evidence and lower prices
ACCISS Study members wrote a letter, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology as the World Health Organisation Expert Committee considers putting analogue insulin on the Model List of Essential Medicines, highlighting how its addition could, in fact, reduce access to insulin in LMICs, and call for lower prices and more evidence | See the letter here
Media Release: Access a Major Obstacle for One in Two People Using Insulin to Manage Type 2 Diabetes
A paper published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology estimates that, between 2018 and 2030, the number of people with type 2 diabetes using insulin will rise to 79 million. But without improved availability and affordability, over half of those will face challenges in accessing this life-saving medicine | Download the Press Release
Media Release: Shocking Disparity Between Insulin Prices and Cost of Production
A study published on Tuesday 25 September, 2018 in BMJ Global Health shows that, in a global market dominated by just three multinational companies, people living with diabetes are paying far more than they should for life-saving insulin. | Download the Press Release
Media Release: Health Action International Commend Decision By World Health Organization Not To Include Long-Acting Analogue Insulins On The Essential Medicines List
Press Release | 6 June, 2017 | Download PDF
Statement to the 21st meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines
Presented by Dr. Marg Ewen on 27 March 2017 | Click here to download the full statement.
Comment from Health Action International to Expert Committee on the application to include long-acting analogue insulins in the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
Insulin discounts lower price burden for Americans, but insulin still not affordable worldwide
AMSTERDAM— Researchers conducting a global study into the barriers to insulin access call on Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi to lower prices for all types of insulin worldwide and for greater transparency of actual prices paid for insulin. Read more
ACCISS Study Reveals Numerous Barriers Hindering Access to Insulin for Millions in Need
GENEVA—A number of barriers are impeding access to insulin around the world, according to new research published today by Health Action International, Geneva University Hospitals/University of Geneva and Boston University School of Public Health. Read more
Listen: ACCISS Study Investigator, David Beran, Speaks to The Lancet D&E About Insulin Access
Coinciding with the release of the ACCISS Study's new Review, 'Constraints and Challenges in Access to Insulin: A Global Perspective', in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, co-author David Beran spoke with the journal about key issues affecting access to insulin. Read more
Innovative Global Study Launched to Improve Access to Insulin
AMSTERDAM—Health Action International (HAI) has launched an innovative global study, called Addressing the Challenges and Constraints of Insulin Sources and Supply (ACCISS), to identify the causes of poor availability and high insulin prices and develop policies and interventions to improve access to this life-saving medicine, particularly in the world's most under-served regions. Read more
Insulin shortage could affect 40 million people with type 2 diabetes
The Guardian – November 21, 2018
Insulin prices could be much lower and drug makers still make healthy profits
STAT News – September 26, 2018
Citing cost, WHO rejects request to add some insulins to essential medicines list
STAT News – June 6, 2017
Access to Insulin in India Constrained by Costs, Lack of Market Competition
Boston University – October 14, 2016
Insulin access remains limited for thousands of people, study finds
Diabetes.co.uk – February 8, 2016
Life-Saving Insulin Too Costly for Many of the World's Type 1 Diabetics, Lancet Review Finds
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network – February 06, 2016


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Amazon Black Friday preview: Deals to start 10 days early
Amazon, who has been at the forefront of the Black Friday sales since online shopping took off, are due to start their sales early this year, cutting prices for the discount event from 17 November. In July they also run their own event called Amazon Prime day where members have access to a lot of deal for only 24 hours.
The online retailer has become well-known for their 'lightning deals', giving shoppers limited windows to access deals on specific products. This year, we can expect to see discounts on Amazon's Echo and Echo Dot products, as well as on big-ticket items like TVs, laptops and white goods.
Black Friday originated in Philadelphia, USA in the early 1950s but it was online giant Amazon who disrupted the UK shopping scene by introducing it to the UK in 2010.
Most of the Black Friday action now takes place online and the original UK Black Friday e-tailer continues to slash prices during the sales bonanza.
This year the action falls on 24 November, while sales will continue until Cyber Monday on 27 November. If you want to be in line for the latest offers but don't fancy standing in a queue all afternoon, follow our comprehensive coverage to keep up with the latest offers.
Check back on this page when Black Friday arrives to find our hand-picked selection of the best deals from online giant, Amazon. For now, here are our tips for bagging their best deals - and which in-demand products to look out for.
How to prepare for bagging the best Amazon deals on Black Friday
Amazon, as one of the champions of Black Friday in the UK, is understandably one of the top-searched sites for shoppers to grab a discount online.
The web giant has its own dedicated Black Friday deals page where you will be able to find all the offers first. Amazon also has a daily deals page where you can find the best offers today, email newsletter sign ups for Amazon's latest news and the dedicated Amazon app.
It's also worth signing up to Amazon Prime, which costs £79 per year or is available for a free month-long trial, if you just want to get the best offers for Black Friday.
Amazon Prime gives you free next-day delivery on thousands of items and early access to lightning deals - offers which run for a limited time only.
Amazon's Black Friday history
Amazon was the frontrunner for Black Friday in the UK in 2010 and has since tried to stay ahead of the game on its rivals. Black Friday was previously its biggest ever UK sales day but has since been eclipsed by its own-branded Prime Day over the summer.
Last year, Amazon began cutting prices two weeks before Black Friday, so many predict a similar sales event this year. Rivals such as Carphone Warehouse and Currys PC World also ran longer sales, such as a 10-day 'Black Tag' event on Currys.
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Amazon will offer price cuts on a wide range of items, from video games to consoles, home electronics to fashion, toys to toiletries. But you can also expect great deals on a whole host of Amazon's own items, including the Fire Tablet, Kindle and Amazon Echo range of smart home speakers.
Amazon has recently updated its range of home speakers in addition to its original Echo and Echo Dot. All the speakers use its AI Alexa and can be used to answer questions, read the news, play music or manage other smart home appliances.
Amazon normally slashes its prices around Black Friday on its own items - so here are the deals to look out for.
New Echo
Amazon has replaced the first version of its Echo speaker with a device of the same name. The new Echo is slightly shorter and wider than its predecessor and comes in metal, wooden and material finishes. It is cheaper than the original Echo and comes out in the UK on October 31.
Unveiled back in May, the Echo Show is an Alexa-powered device with a 7-inch touchscreen for video calling and other visual content like song lyrics. It will arrive in the UK just in time for Black Friday, being released on November 16. Amazon is also due to release a smaller version, called the Echo Spot, but this will not be here in the UK this year.
Price: £199.99
Echo Buttons
Billed as stocking fillers that will 'bring back family games nights', Echo Buttons are an accessory for the Echo - rather than Echos themselves - that connect to the speaker via Bluetooth. They are due before Christmas, so may not be ready in time for Black Friday.
Price: £19.99
What other deals can we expect this year?
Amazon won't just offer value on its own items - you can expect deals across a range of items from fashion to books. Here are just some of the products we found on offer last year:
- Le Creuset Cast Iron Provencale Round Casserole, £79.99, reduced £115 (30 per cent saving)
- Nescafé Dolce Gusto Melody 3 Coffee Machine - £37.99, reduced from £70.71 (46 per cent saving)
- Bosch PSR 18 Cordless NiCad Drill Driver - £80.16, reduced from £109.99 (27pc saving)
- Sennheiser HD 598 Headphones - £89, reduced from £199.99 (55 per cent saving)
- Sony Bravia KD49XD7004BU 49" Android 4K HDR Ultra HD Smart TV - £550, reduced from £799 (31 per cent saving)
Plus, check out our guides to Black Friday TV deals if you are after a new model.
Savvy shopper tips for Amazon
When using Amazon it's always good to check and see if there are even better deals elsewhere and that you are getting the best deals, rate and discount.
Price-tracking service CamelCamelCamel lets you see the historical price of an item to make sure you're not buying at a high point, while Flubit and Beat My Deal are both sites that claim they can find better prices for you.
The Telegraph has broken down all the best ways and tricks to getting a good deal online, so check that out before you buy.
Amazon will probably hold another long sale for Black Friday over several days, while you can expect it to slash prices on its branded items as it tries to get more people into the Alexa ecosystem.
Definitely grab an Amazon Prime free trial if you do not already have one to take advantage of price cuts and lightning deals.
The Telegraph makes a small amount of money by adding affiliate links to products mentioned in this article, however all products are picked independently by our journalists.


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U.S. intelligence warily watches for threats to U.S. now that 87 nations possess drones
By Guy Taylor
The Washington Times Nev. 10, 2013
The age of the drone is here, and U.S. intelligence agencies are warily monitoring their proliferation around the globe.
China uses them to spy on Japan near disputed islands in Asia. Turkey uses them to eyeball Kurdish activity in northern Iraq. Bolivia uses them to spot coca fields in the Andes. Iran reportedly has given them to Syria to monitor opposition rebels.
The U.S., Britain and Israel are the only nations to have fired missiles from remote-controlled drones, but the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles has become so prevalent that U.S. intelligence sources and private analysts say it is merely a matter of time before other countries use the technology.
"People in Washington like to talk about this as if the supposed American monopoly on drones might end one day. Well, the monopoly ended years ago," said Peter W. Singer, who heads the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution.
What's worse, clandestine strikes carried out by Washington in far-flung corners of the world have set a precedent that could be ugly
Mr. Singer said as many as 87 nations possess some form of drones and conduct various kinds of surveillance either over their own territories or beyond. Among those 87, he said, 26 have either purchased or developed drones equivalent in size to the MQ-1 Predator — the model made by San Diego-based General Atomics.
While American Predators and their updated sister, the MQ-9 Reaper, are capable of carrying anti-armor Hellfire missiles, the clandestine nature of foreign drone programs makes it difficult to determine how many other nations have armed drones.
Defense industry and other sources who spoke with The Washington Times said 10 to 15 nations are thought to be working hard on doing just that, and China and Iran are among those with the most advanced programs.
"Global developments in the UAV arena are being tracked closely," said one U.S. intelligence official, who spoke with The Times on the condition of anonymity. "Efforts by some countries to acquire armed UAV systems are concerning, not least because of the associated proliferation risk."
Other sources said that while the international media have focused on the controversy and political backlash associated with civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, Washington's unprecedented success with the technology — both in targeting and killing suspected terrorists — has inspired a new kind of arms race.
"It's natural that other nations and non-state actors, seeing the many ways the U.S. has leveraged the technology, are keen to acquire remotely piloted aircraft," said Lt. Gen. Robert P. Otto, Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Race to the skies
The number of nations possessing drones nearly doubled from 41 to 76 from 2005 to 2011, according to a report last year by the Government Accountability Office, which highlighted the fact that U.S. companies are no longer alone in manufacturing and marketing the technology.
"Many countries acquired their UAVs from Israel," said the report.
It said Germany, France, Britain, India, Russia and Georgia have either leased or purchased Israeli drones, including the Heron, a model that many foreign militaries see as a good alternative to the American-made Predators and Reapers.
A report this year by Teal Group, a Virginia-based aerospace and defense industry analysis corporation, said UAVs have come to represent the "most dynamic growth sector" of the global aerospace industry, with spending on drones projected to more than double from roughly $5.2 billion a year today to more than $11 billion in 2022.
China is widely seen as a potential powerhouse in the market.
Chinese companies have "marketed both armed drones and weapons specifically designed for UAV use," said Steven J. Zaloga, a top analyst at Teal Group. "It's a case where if they don't have the capability today, they'll have it soon."
Although there is concern in Washington that China will sell the technology to American adversaries, sources say, the U.S. also is pushing ahead with development of its own secretive "next generation" drones.
Today's models emerged in the post-9/11 era of nonconventional conflict — a time when American use of both weaponized and surveillance-only drones has been almost exclusively over chaotic patches of the planet void of traditional anti-aircraft defenses.
With little or no need to hide, relatively bulky drones such as the MQ-1 Predator dominated the market. But the "big secret," Mr. Zaloga said, "is that the U.S. is already working on both armed and unarmed UAVs that can operate in defended airspace."
Another factor likely to fuel the proliferation of armed drones, he said, centers on a global push to make "very small weapons" that can be tailored to fit smaller aircraft. This matters because of the roughly 20,000 drones now in existence, only about 350 are large enough to carry the slate of weapons on the current market.
"What the new munitions will do is mean that if you're operating the smaller UAVs, you'll be able to put weapons on them," said Mr. Zaloga. "And those smaller UAVs are being manufactured now by quite a few countries."
In the wrong hands?
One serious concern in Washington is that smaller drones could be used by groups such as al Qaeda or Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant and political organization based in Lebanon that is engaged in a protracted war with Israel.
The U.S. intelligence official who spoke with The Times on the condition of anonymity said it is "getting easier for non-state actors to acquire this technology."
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah made headlines by claiming his group flew a drone into Israeli airspace last year, after Israel announced that it had shot a UAV out of the sky. Although Mr. Nasrallah said the drone was made in Iran and assembled in Lebanon, little is known about precisely what type it was — or whether it was armed.
Armed or not, U.S. officials are wary. "No one is turning a blind eye to the growing use of surveillance-only UAV systems — including by non-state actors — even if these systems have a host of beneficial civil applications," said the official who spoke with The Times. "One problem is that countries may perceive these systems as less provocative than armed platforms and might use them in cross-border operations in a way that actually stokes regional tension."
That appears to be happening in Asia, where Japan recently threatened to shoot down Chinese drones flying near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Northeast Asian countries are likely to invest heavily in drone technology, said Patrick M. Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington.
"But even before these investments are manifested in wider deployments, Japan will be relying on UAVs for wider and better surveillance, particularly around its southwest island chain, while China will be using them to variably challenge Japanese administrative control and, indirectly, pressure the United States to restrain its ally," said Mr. Cronin. "This vital new technology is improving situational awareness. But, paradoxically, if used more offensively the same technology may also accelerate a maritime crisis in the East or even South China Sea."
U.S. precedents
Others say the U.S. and its closest allies have set a precedent with clandestine drone strikes in foreign lands. Although British forces have carried out hundreds of drone strikes in Afghanistan and Israel has used drone-fired missiles to kill suspected terrorists in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, as well as Islamic militants in Gaza, the most widespread use has been directed by the U.S. military and CIA.
In addition to strikes in Libya and Somalia, the U.S. has carried out more than 375 strikes in Pakistan and as many as 65 in Yemen over the past nine years, according to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The concern, said the Brookings Institution's Mr. Singer, is that adversaries will point to U.S. behavior as an excuse for carrying out cross-border targeting of "high-value" individuals.
"That's where you have the problem," he said. "Turkey carries out a strike in northern Iraq and then cites U.S. precedent in Pakistan to justify it. Or Iran carries out a drone strike inside Syria that the Syrian government says it's fine with because it's a lawless area where what they call 'terrorists' are hanging out, and then they throw the precedent back at the U.S.
"That would make it sticky for us," said Mr. Singer. "That's not the broader norm we want out there."
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Armenia to produce unmanned aircrafts for EU and Northern America
by Arthur Yernjakyan
January 30, 2014
Instigate CJSC, Armenia, will invest nearly $1 million in production of multifunctional unmanned aircrafts and automated control systems for them, Karine Minasyan, Deputy Minister of Economy, said in the Government, Thursday.
The Government has licensed Instigate Robotics CJSC (subsidiary of Instigate CJSC) for exploitation of free economic area Alliance in the territory of Mars RAO. The deputy minister said the company plans to create 25 highly-paid jobs. The production space of the free economic area Alliance will total 200 square meters. Sitronics Armenia CJSC will lease the given area for $8 per sq m for a period of 10 years. The output will be exported to Northern America, Europe, Middle East and the former Soviet countries. The company plans to export up to $1.9 million products, the deputy minister said. The company has already mastered the technology of production of two models of unmanned aircrafts Educotper and Photocopter.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, in turn, said the Government has approved rather serous economic programs, including manufacture of Armenian tablets that will be launched already in the current year. It is the second solid investment program, he said.
Instigate Robotics is a spin-off company of Instigate CJSC launched in 2013. Instigate Robotics is specialized in robotics and industrial automation solutions such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), 3D printers, CNC devices and robotics kits for schools. Instigate cjsc is an engineering company with hardware and software teams based in Yerevan and four other cities of Armenia. The company is represented in the US, EU, Israel and Georgia. The company is specialized in Electronic System Level design and modeling, EDA software design, software acceleration and parallel programming, using modern technologies such as AMD/NUMA and NVIDIA/CUDA. Instigate cjsc was founded on July 6, 2005.
The subsidiary of Sitronics OJSC, SITRONICS ARMENIA CJSC, created the first free economic area in Armenia on 1 August 2013. The subsidiary has been created in order to centralize the management of the CJSC Mars plant and three scientific research institutes, and the management of a free economic zone, which is created on these sites. The residents of the free economic are will act on the principle of 'one window' and enjoy favorable tax field.
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Here's an Autumn poem by Massachusetts' own Emily Dickinson. It's
one of her more whimsical ones with the reference to elves and to
poetry written by others about the season:
Besides the Autumn poets singby Emily Dickinson
Besides the Autumn poets sing
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the Haze --
A few incisive Mornings --
A few Ascetic Eves --
Gone -- Mr. Bryant's "Golden Rod" --
And Mr. Thomson's "sheaves."
Still, is the bustle in the Brook --
Sealed are the spicy valves --
Mesmeric fingers softly touch
The Eyes of many Elves --
Perhaps a squirrel may remain --
My sentiments to share --
Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind --
Thy windy will to bear!