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ARM supports the principle of transformation and views performance against the categories of the Broad- Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Codes of Good Practice of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the Mining Charter as an effective way to redress historic inequality, facilitate broader social development and to give all South Africans a stake in the country's mineral wealth.
The Company's approach to transformation is monitored and reviewed by the Social and Ethics Committee while the Employment Equity and Skills Development Committee is responsible for transformation in the workforce. Commitments made in our social and labour plans (SLPs) are achieved through transformation action plans.
All of our mines exceed the Mining Charter preferential procurement targets of 40% capital, 50% consumables and 70% services.
Achieving employment equity targets in the professionally qualified employees and senior management categories remains a challenge. The human resources strategy supports improvements in employment equity at senior levels through a combination of succession planning, graduate development and by ensuring that open positions are offered to equity candidates whenever possible.
The Draft Mining Charter Review has been released, but has not yet been gazetted, so the existing (2014) targets remain applicable until formally revised by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR).
The targets set by the Revised DTI BBBEE Codes introduced in May 2015 are considerably more stringent and ARM's performance declined from Level 4 to Level 8 under the new Codes. We continue to investigate a range of initiatives to improve our performance over a reasonable period. However, significant improvement in the short term will be a challenge in some elements.
Ensuring that suppliers have valid and current BBBEE certificates is an ongoing focus in maintaining our preferential procurement score under the DTI Codes of Good Practice.
ARM's mining operations submitted Mining Charter reports (on performance against the Mining Charter targets for the period 1 January-31 December 2015) to the DMR in April 2016. While all of our mines reported improved scores in most elements of the Mining Charter scorecard, the DMR's web-based tool, which automatically scores each submission in terms of overall performance percentage was not available at the time of submission. We can therefore, unfortunately, not report an overall performance percentage as in the previous year.
We are confident that the action plans that we have put in place subsequent to the previous scoring, have yielded positive results, both in specific elements and overall performance against Mining Charter targets.
All of our mines exceeded the Mining Charter preferential procurement targets of 40% capital, 50% consumables and 70% services for the 12 months to 31 December 2015.
While ARM's DTI BBBEE score decreased slightly to 68.82% in F2015 (F2014: 73.19%), the requirements of the Revised DTI Codes led to the Company falling from Level 4 in F2014 to Level 7. This was further discounted to Level 8 due to the sub-minimum scores not being met for enterprise development and supplier development under the revised Codes.
A BBBEE scorecard audit and assessment was performed by the external verification agent, and roadshows at the operations presented the audit result feedback and the interventions necessary to align with the revised Codes and improve the overall level achieved. Workshops were held with operations to assess progress made in addressing non-compliant areas of the scorecard.
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Everyone knows that colours are simply the result of the reflection of light, yet everything we see is represented by these few colours present in one spectrum. However, most people aren't aware that under certain conditions our world is not limited to this. What these conditions are, I will not reveal for the safety of the reader. Despite this, I will disclose that there are several places on this earth which are affected by this 'changing of the colours'. Think, sunspots on the face of the sun.
These places usually appear just as we would expect, but are affected by a certain cycle during which they will briefly become as dark as the deepest reaches of the vacuum of space, known as 'Impossible Colours'. Do not think of pitch black. Another shade of emptiness, unimaginable to humans. For this period, the place changes entirely, in shape and form, inhabited by beings constructed in strange dimensions which would lead to complete insanity in many witnesses. However this is not the most gut-wrenching element present here.
After the short interjection between the normal spectrum and this other, impossible niche hidden from reality, unfortunate beings who have managed to slip inside and become lost here are subjected to a terrible fate. Once this short timeframe has occurred those present are unable to ever return. Some call this the 'abyss'. According to certain unspecified folklore, those left behind become one with the colours visible in our world and are dismissed as spectators for eternity.
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Let these Quotes about Feeling Alone and Quotes about Being Alone help you to appreciate the distinction between loneliness and solitude. Take to heart the Paul Tillich quote below, and understand that loneliness is a feeling that something is lacking, rather that a feeling that naturally accompanies being by oneself. Recognize that nothing is lacking; you are complete and perfect by yourself. Learn to honor yourself and to appreciate your own company
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
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Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
I alone am the MASTER of my ship of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cry and weep,
when you are miserable,
you are alone.
When you celebrate,
the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration
do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration
do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
- Osho
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I love to be alone.
I never found the companion
that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha
A man is rich in proportion to
the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
- Judy Garland
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Consumption of spoiled meat leads to poisoning. What is very concerning, fresh meat also may be poisoned or contaminated.
First thing you need to do when choosing meat is to look at the manufacturing date and shelf life.
Whether it comes to steaks, minced meat, burgers etc. it is important that you recognize that the meat you are buying is not spoiled . Bright red color often can deceive, but, sure indication is the odor of meat.
Flesh color, as already mentioned, can deceive. Bright red color does not mean that the meat is fresh, even darker color does not mean that the meat is spoiled. The color depends on the exposure to oxygen, heat and light in the store.
Healthy poultry can have blue-white to yellow, and healthy pork is gray-pink, while the color of minced meat can be faked. The color of raw beef is often associated with red color, but that also can be misleading. The red color is not natural color of fresh beef and it comes due contact with oxygen.
One of best way to determine whether the meat is good – is to check its fragrance. If there is an unpleasant odor, probably should not eat it. So just smell the meat, which is certainly the best indicator like we said,if it smells unpleasant, it is not good to eat, no matter how fresh it looks, it's so simple. Chicken has a distinctive smell when it start to rotten. Some manufacturers use different chemicals to maintain the color of the meat so smell is one of the safest way to check.
The spoiled meat often gets mucosal texture due to the proliferation of bacteria on the surface of the meat.
Brewed undercooked meat can be equally bad for the body as well as corrupt, so it is always better to cook it good and quit eating "bloody" steak if the meat you have purchased is not from a reliable supplier.


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What Type of Whisky Drinker Do You Want To Be?
Whisk(e)y drinkers go through the same type of evolution that most children do--from young, excited, and bright-eyed, to sarcastic and anti-authoritarian, and eventually into a more reserved and experienced status of self-awareness (hopefully). It's fascinating to watch, actually. As someone who talks to dozens of different drinkers on a daily basis, and hundreds more via email, it's interesting to see where each particular person is in their development. Some people are hard to read because they're simply asking for advice, not telling me what they think. Others are constantly talking about themselves and have no interest in what I have to say whatsoever. Whiskey can be one of those things we allow to define us--something we take pride in understanding and want to share with others. Some of us want to be experts and to have people think of us as such. Others just want to enjoy themselves.
Not everyone sees themselves the way others do, however. I've learned a lot about myself by watching the behavior of others. Then I'll go out to shop for clothes or something and realize I'm doing to one sales clerk exactly what I didn't appreciate from one of my own customers. Whoops! What a hypocrite I am! We're all human after all. To see where you're at on your path to whiskey enlightenment, try taking this little quiz I've put together and see how you score:
1) You're browsing the whisky selection at your local retailer. A sales clerk you don't recognize asks you if you need help with anything. You answer:
a) Actually I do. Have you tasted the new Glendronach cask strength? I was wondering how that was.
b) I just got back from Scotland actually and my friends and I went to a few distilleries and we tasted a whole bunch of old and rare whiskies that don't make it over to the states. I've pretty much had everything available in the U.S. so I was checking to see if you guys had anything like that.
c) Yeah, I've got a list of the Whisky Advocate's "Best Whiskies of 2013," and I was hoping to get one of each.
2) You're curious to see if you can track down a bottle of the new 2013 Brora 35 year old release, so you call your local retailer to see if they'll be getting any. You say:
a) Hi, I was wondering if I could put my name down for a bottle of the new Brora if you thought you might be getting any.
b) Hi, I'm a big fan of Brora and I've been collecting whisky for the past few years and I've managed to get a bottle of Brora from every single release so far. I thought the 2011 release was better than the 2012--have you tasted them? I told myself I wasn't going to buy one this year because the prices are just stupid, but I read Serge's review and I think I still want to try and get one. Any chance?
c) Hi, I'm looking for the Brora 35. You don't? Well do you know where I can get one? What other stores? Can you get me their phone numbers? No, I've never used Wine Searcher. Can you just call for me?
3) Your local store is releasing a new allocation of Pappy in a few weeks. You're curious to see if you can score a bottle. You go in, talk to the spirits buyer and say:
a) Hey, sorry to be a pain in the ass--as I'm sure I'm the 500th person to ask you about this--but do you think there's a shot at getting a bottle of Pappy this year?
b) Yeah, I mean, I heard Pappy was coming out, but it's going to be super hard to get. I'd take a bottle if I can get it--even two. I think that stuff is like super-overrated and it's totally not worth all the BS you have to do to get one. I mean--I've had Stitzel-Weller whiskey so many times already, I probably don't need another one. But, nevertheless, I'd like to get one, so can you put me on the list?
c) Hey where do you guys keep the Pappy? Is it like in a jewel case or something or is it all in the back? I heard it came out this week so I know it's gotta be here somewhere. Can you get me a bottle of Elijah Craig 18 while you're at it?
4) You go out for a drink with a friend to a local whisky bar. The bartender comes up to take your order. You decide to order some Four Roses for yourself. You tell the bartender:
a) I'd like a pour of the Four Roses please. Thank you.
b) Hi, can I get a glass of the Four Roses? It's totally one of the most underrated whiskies available today. I know people are always trying to find Pappy--God, it's so annoying--but I think Jim Rutledge is the best distiller in the business. We actually went out the the distillery last year and took the tour with him. Amazing guy. Amazing whiskey.
c) Hey, can I get a glass of the Four Roses and a shot of sweet vermouth on the side? (You turn to your friend and whisper) "Dude, if you order a pour and the vermouth on the side it's two bucks cheaper than ordering the Manhattan off the cocktail menu!"
5) You're checking out at the liquor store and the person ringing you up notices the bottle of Glendronach 12 in your basket and says, "Nice choice." You respond with:
a) Thanks. I'm a big fan as well.
b) Yeah, I've been drinking this for years, before anyone knew about it actually, but now that Glendronach's getting popular I'm a little annoyed that everyone's drinking it too. Hopefully it doesn't become the next Macallan.
c) I know. I only drink the best.
For every time you answered A give yourself one point. For every B answer give yourself two points. And give yourself three points for each C answer.
5 to 8 points: You're comfortable with yourself and your understanding of whiskey. You're not afraid to ask questions either because you don't see asking a question as a sign of weakness or stupidity. You also don't feel the need to let others know that you're smarter than you may appear. You've found whiskey peace.
9 to 11 points: You understand whiskey, you've obviously done your homework, and you know what you're talking about, but you're not comfortable with that knowledge yet. You can't help but use each interaction with someone who works in the trade as an opportunity to show what you know, rather than simply interact on a more friendly basis. After more people start behaving this way towards you you'll likely become more self-aware and hold your tongue more often.
12 to 15 points: You seem to know something about whiskey, but you also seem to lack basic human relations skills. There are many other whiskey drinkers out there besides yourself, but this has yet to dawn on you. You're likely to rub people the wrong way and ruin your chances of finding great bottles rather than improve them.
I have gone through this entire evolution myself. I was once a young punk kid who thought he knew everything. Then I was a young punk kid who knew a little. And now I'm just a punk who tries to listen more often.
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I love buying my children things, whether it be toys, clothes or items for their bedroom I just love it, however what I don't love so much is taking them shopping with me which is why I like to do outlet shopping as they always have lots of shops altogether along with cafe's and restaurants so everything I need is all in one place.
One of my favourite outlet stores is GAP, I love their clothing and it's such good quality, here's some of my top pick from GAP at the moment.
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This Saturday, March 29, starting at 7:00 p.m., members of Beaver Creek Housing Co-operative will turn off their lights for an hour in the cause of fighting climate change.
Members and their invited friends will make their own hand-rolled beeswax candles to light for a community walk, followed by story telling for all ages and a discussion on "greening" their housing community.
How are you going to spend Earth Hour?
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Last spring, Geraldine and I threw in the towel on our most recent used car. After spending hundreds of dollars on never ending repairs, the engine cracked a week after we had the brakes fixed!
We agreed we had learned everything the universe possibly had to teach us about driving a succession of worn-out lemons into the ground. So we sat around the kitchen table and tried to budget for a new car. It was possible, but we thought a diet of bread and water for that many years might be a bit much.


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My recent unusual selection of a new forum softwareUntil a few days ago, the forum software I used on my company's website was the E-Blah Bulletin Board System, which is implemented in perl. But because of some technial details and other cumbersomenesses like that the administration panel of that board is filled with quotes and instructions from the bible (?!), I wanted to replace it.
Unfortunately, I didn't find a forum which I really liked. It had to be open source or free, lightweight, should have been unpopular enough so that its security flaws are not too often targeted by hackers and spammers (had some experiences with this already) but have decent enough features to fully replace the current eBlah sofware, a nice editor with code tags etc. In addition, it should be possible to import the old forum somehow.
So after some hours of evaluating several software (the winner so far was Phorum, btw, which I am using on my RGP game website already), I had an idea: Why not writing my own forum software? Of course not, this would be quite some work, right? But then I remembered that I alread did something like this: For our small dating website bienen und blumen, I already had implemented a working forum (And somehow I had forgotten this). So I only took this piece of software and refactored it. I added some new features like
- Anonymous Posting
- Simple math based CAPTCHA
- User registration (on Bienen und Blumen, all users already have an account)
- Preview functionality
- EBlah forum importer (had to reverse engineer the text file based database of eblah for this)
And voila, the perfect forum for the ambiera website was born. Try it out, if you like
to. One feature still is missing - highlighting forum threads with unread posts - but for basic support request handling it is pretty ok now, and I think, and I can add this feature later if at all.
seven comments, already:
Suggestion: Get rid of your math based CAPTCHA and use http://recaptcha.net/ instead. reCAPTCHA is extremely easy to use, plus it is per definition not crackable.
Read a little about it, and you will see why.
IMHO, without sounding too much like a commercial, there is really no reason at all why anyone would want to use a different CAPCTHA than that.
Tazo - 09 02 09 - 17:03
What's wrong with the bible?
Joe Smith - 09 02 09 - 17:32
@Smith: You can inform yourself here: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
rip - 09 02 09 - 17:40
I think it's ok that people believe the things written in the bible (although I don't), but I think something like this shouldn't be placed in the admin interface of any software. If the author would have used quotes from the Qur'an instead, I think some other people would have protested :)
About reCaptcha: Yes, would be an idea. But let's see how the simple thing works out.
niko - 09 02 09 - 17:48
is phorum unpopular enough?
tulcod - 09 02 09 - 19:57
Writing of own forum software is the best way by my opinion.
Yes, usually such task spends some time and efforts, but you will be able to implement your specific features related with relevant scope.
etcaptor - 10 02 09 - 04:02
no, phorum isn't unpopular enough.
horace - 10 02 09 - 08:07


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Sometimes, I don't get people. No, let's upgrade that to most of the time.
When it comes to all sorts of areas in our lives, we overrate ourselves. Most of us think we're better drivers than average. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who would rate their bedroom skills as sub par, even though their past significant others may disagree. Just about every investor thinks they're smarter than others, even though that can't possibly be true. We overrate our abilities all the time.
How many co-workers do you know who think they're the best thing at work, even though they slack off worse than a disgruntled Wal-Mart cashier? People overrate themselves at work all the time, which is why it's generally pretty easy for someone who actually works hard to get ahead. When everyone else takes longer breaks and slacks off because they "deserve it", they make themselves look pretty bad compared to a hard worker. That's how simple it is to succeed at work, which is why I'll never write (another) post about it.
Considering how delusional we are when it comes to certain other skills, is it any wonder that most of us only ever end up being middle class? Sure, we all want to end up wealthy. Who doesn't? But, when push comes to shove, very few of us are willing to put in the work it takes to become wealthy. Most people just resign themselves to a middle class lifestyle, and try to convince themselves that's what they always wanted.
I'm here today to tell you that a middle class lifestyle is really bad. In fact, I hate the term.
What separates the so called middle class from the working poor? Well, not much. Middle class folks generally have higher obligations, because they can afford nicer things. A middle class shmoe will drive a nicer car, but a similar percentage of his income will go towards his payments as someone who would be considered poor. The same thing applies to housing and various other expenses.
The point is, just about everybody in the middle class is just a small step ahead of the working poor. If you live paycheck to paycheck, does it really matter how big those checks are? You're not getting ahead and you're not on the road to becoming rich. In fact, with every passing moment, you're chained a little tighter to your job, since you need that job to maintain your lifestyle.
This is why I know people who are willing to put in 60 hours per week even though they only get paid for 40. This is why we all know people who have their lips pretty much planted on the boss's ass, just waiting for the next promotion to come along. A raise is their only opportunity to raise their standard of living. They spend all their time just waiting for their employer to throw them a bone.
This is the danger of being middle class. If you're resigned to thinking like this, you'll never get wealthy.
The similarities between the poor and middle class are striking. Both have no excess money, the poor spend every penny, while the middle class take on all sorts of debt. They both get 100% of their income from one place. They both typically have next to nothing saved for the future. Essentially, the only difference between the poor and most of the middle class is that the middle class make more money.
We often hear about how the middle class is shrinking. People lament the growing gap between the rich and poor, the very same gap that is squeezing the middle class out of existence. This isn't such a bad thing, since most members of the middle class aren't a whole lot better off than the poor. The only thing separating the middle class from the poor house is a higher paying job. That's a dangerous way to go through life.
How do you get out of the middle class and join the ranks of the wealthy? We've talked about it a few times now. There are basically two steps: 1) Diversify your income and 2) Change your mindset.
I spend a lot of time here talking about changing your mindset, (and boob jokes) but not so much time about specific ways to increase your income. Over the next little while, that'll change. I'll look at specific ways you can increase your income, both by working part time and by investing. Diversifying your income will be the ticket to increased riches. Increasing your side income while maintaining your main income is the easiest way to throw off the shackles of the middle class existence. If you add investing smartly to the mix, you're well on your way to financial independence.
Being middle class sucks. Stop aspiring to be mediocre.


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[15] The provision limiting communications before the end of
the opt-out period to those approved by the court reflected the
concern that the integrity of the opt-out process would be
impaired if class members were subjected to unfair, misleading
or oppressive communications by either party. That concern
exists in all class proceedings, but it exists in particular in cases
such as this one, where the class members have an ongoing relationship with the defendant. It also reflected the fact that the
atmosphere had been heated and there was some risk that the
fairness of the opt-out process would be undermined if the court
did not exercise careful control.
[16] Recognizing that Pet Valu needed to be able to communicate with its franchisees on an ongoing basis, the plan of proceeding permitted it to communicate with class members in the
context of its ongoing commercial franchise relationship with
them. It provided that following the expiry of the opt-out period,
the representative plaintiff would be entitled to communicate
information to class members on a regular ongoing basis by
means of periodic e-mail and other communications. It also provided that "limited and non-strategic information" would be
communicated to class members by regular updates of the website of class counsel.
[17] The certification order and the plan of proceeding did not
purport to curtail the right of other parties — specifically, other
franchisees or the CFC — to communicate concerning the class
[18] As part of the certification order, notice to the class
was approved. It provided that class members could opt out by
delivering an opt-out coupon on or before September 15, 2011.
Notices to the class were mailed on July 15, 2011. The opt-out
period was between July 15 and September 15, 2011.
[19] I now turn to the opt-out process and the campaign by the
The Opt-Out Process
[20] By September 4, 2011, there had been only 37 opt-out
forms received from class members.
[21] Beginning September 5, 2011, there was a noticeable
spike in the delivery of opt-out forms. By the end of the opt-out
period, a total of 140 opt-outs had been received. Three more
were received after the expiry of the period. About 65 per cent of
current franchisees opted out and about 10 per cent of former
franchisees opted out.
[22] Pet Valu and the respondent franchisees, who are founding members of CPVF, submit that the result of the opt-out


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Christmas is coming
I know many of you will be like "what are you talking about – it's only October!!!" and that's true, October doesn't really fill one with Christmas cheer but with only 10 Fridays to go – Christmas is coming and fat man red, knows if you've been naughty or nice!
The older I get, the quicker time seems to go – 8 weeks ago, I was lying on a beach in Cyprus in 45 degree heat, in another 8 weeks – the Christmas tree will be up, thermals on and sleigh bells ringing.
Now, as a horticulture site (and as a reader), we recommend purchasing real Christmas trees. To get the most out of your Christmas tree, you could use topsoil (we wrote an article on topsoil here. Topsoil will keep the tree hydrated and stop it from dying, making the branches green and full of life – bringing Christmas cheer to all that see it.
If you do not keep your Christmas tree hydrated and ensure it is getting the nutrients it need – well, it may not actually survive to see the big festive day and we hate to imagine sad faces on young children, expecting to sit around a topsoil rich, green Christmas tree only to be confronted with a branch less weed!


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The Peter Maurin Center is an outreach ministry in south Akron, Ohio. We first opened in 2006 and are located at 1096 South Main Street.The Peter Maurin Center is a place where all of God's children are welcome and can find food and drink, friendship, and God's love. Its mission is to be a response of love to the Gospel of our Lord. We are part of the Catholic Worker Community of Akron.
The Peter Maurin Center operates solely from the hard work of many volunteers and by the donations we receive. The Center is open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., Fridays and Sundays from 12:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
St. Mary Parish is committed to support this drop-in center in Akron and assist in a number of ways:
Contact David or Terry Churbock for more information.
Visit their website at Peter Maurin Akron.
Like Peter Maurin Akron on Facebook.
Follow Peter Maurin Akron on Twitter.


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Ben Kaufman on Quirky's Most Successful Inventions
Quirky's founder Ben Kaufman explains which products from everyday inventors have become most popular -- and his company's biggest winners to date.
Founded in 2009, Quirky is an online consumer products company with a social development twist: products for the people, created and designed by the people. The company's online community is at the heart of Kaufman's effort to democratize invention. Each week hundreds of inventor hopefuls, or "ideators," submit their concepts online. To simplify the development process, product ideas must retail for less than $150 and should not require integrated software.
The community, composed mainly of hobby inventors, students, retirees and product-design enthusiasts, votes on the submissions. The two most popular ideas are sent to an in-house team of engineers and designers to research, render and prototype. The best suggestions are incorporated, earning secondary "influencers" a portion of future sales revenue. Finally, if enough units of a product are pre-sold, Quirky will manufacture it.
And while direct competitors have cropped up, Quirky remains one of the first companies that rewards participants' input with cash payments. Thirty cents of every revenue dollar goes back to influencers, and a number of them have already earned tens of thousands of dollars. Kaufman puts the upfront costs of building a company around a single product at about $200,000--just to get the paperwork done and the first prototype out.
Quirky also retains the rights to all the cool ideas that are voted into the development process, and because the company gets validation from thousands of potential customers before making a move, Kaufman avoids all the costs associated with early design phases. Quirky, he says, never has to pony up money for manufacturing unless measurable demand (in the form of pre-orders) is there.
And there's no missing out on opportunities, since customers tell you exactly what they want to buy.


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George Mason University's Electronic MOU System (e-MOU) is an online tool developed by the Office of the Provost to create and track both domestic and international memorandums of understanding (MOU) and other academic cooperative agreements.
The e-MOU process begins with a notification of intent (NOI) in which information about the collaboration and partner is collected. The request is then forwarded to the respective deans and Provost's designees for permission to move ahead with planning. If appropriate, key administrative offices may be notified, and templates are provided to the originator to facilitate the preparation of a draft MOU. The originator is responsible for engaging key administrative offices if so requested. Upon completion, the draft is sent to the MOU Committee (including representatives of University Counsel) for review. Final approval of the agreement is contingent upon compliance with all relevant policy and regulations.
Please note that this process may take more than three weeks or longer, depending on the complexity of the agreement and the number of agreements waiting for review.


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The Handle Bar is a new pop-up cycling-orientated coffee shop in Cape Town. Since its launch, our rides have shifted start and end venues to include a stop at the Handle Bar. The vibe is cycling, the coffee is superb and the owners are passionate about the place. What more could you want?
We sat down and had a chat with Jason Lind and Nick Wright, the founders of the Handle Bar in Sea Point Main Road, Cape Town.
Jason's first memories are of a bicycle shop. His family founded Olympic Cycles; and this is where he was handed a broom at about the age of ten, to keep me busy while hanging around the shop while everybody was trying to work. Nowadays, Jason can still be found at the shop, not sweeping the floor but providing people with vehicles to fuel their passion. The Don of DS29 (Dual-sus 29ers) is a long way from being done with cycling.
"The evolution of the bike shop as we know them today was happening around me as I was growing up with one as part of my everyday life. Cycling became my life & I am privileged to have had this upbringing.
Cycling as a commuter and a mode of transport has always been a part of my life. I know the way that the freedom of movement empowered me through my life, years before I could drive a vehicle. I always want to promote the bicycle as a means of freedom and empowerment through not being constrained by public transport of private transport. I look to Europe and see how integrated cycling is in some countries and ways of life and strive to help people understand the benefits of this integration.
For many years I have discussed with several people the potential of a café bicycle space, that lets people express this desire for bicycles to be part of their lives in a public space, that lets cyclists and non cyclists experience this first hand.
I am a big supporter of BEN – Bicycle Empowerment Network, whose main goals are bicycle advocacy and poverty alleviation via the promotion of bicycles as a low cost mobility and as an affordable means of transportation. My belief in this stems from having been given the pleasure of cycling freedom from a young age. Being born into a family of bicycles and a bicycle store, Olympic Cycles, bicycles have always been a part of all my life".
Jason's passion for the noble machine is infectious and he has been a key part in our Privateer events, opening the shop early, serving espresso's to athletes weary with expectancy of a big day out all the way through to asking us to leave as we did our utmost best to drink two kegs of Jack Black Beer between 15 of us. We had just started riding his new bicycles around the shop, and an accident was not a possibility, but merely a moment waiting to strike!
If Jason is the hammer, Nick would be the sword. As day-to-day do-all-owner in the shop, Nick is responsible for how the Handle Bar looks & feels. Constantly obsessing over the order of bikes, the manner in which food is served and the consistency of the quality of the coffee, Nick is the motor which steers the boat.
"Coming from a background in interior design, I like to combine different elements to create new and innovative spaces. As a designer it's not always easy to reinvent the wheel and in this case why try when there are already two great loves out there… Riding bicycles and drinking coffee.
My background in these two loves is new but it's something I'm incredible passionate about. Creating a space for people to meet, drink coffee and lap up some good velotalk is what it's all about for me.
We live in a beautiful city with incredibly scenic coastal roads and being located on Sea Point Main Road it all lends itself to a commuting friendly environment. Ride more, Drive less!"
There is no cyclist like a new "addict" to the freedom of riding bicycles. Nick has thrown himself head first down the rabbit hole and come out with a space that we can all enjoy, despite arriving in cleats and being a little smelly. Always a smile on the dial, he is a welcome new face to the cycling community of Cape Town.
So what do they stock in the shop, besides The Perfect Cortado?
Both the gents in question would describe them as "Euro style commuter bikes". This is their specialty. In addition to this, you will also find lifestyle products like commuter helmets, clothing, accessories and magazines on their shelves.
Cape Town is commuter heaven in South Africa. There is nowhere else to ride in such beauty with such safety. The Handle Bar also has the "San Fran/Venice Beach" style bikes such as the beach cruisers and fixies for sale. In general they believe South Africa follows a very American bicycle culture, yet a lot of our other ways of life are very Euro-centric, sot their aim is to bring some long-overdue Euro styling to the cycling community in South Africa.
A last word from the guys:
"We are well on our way to achieving the goal of the Handle Bar, timing is right and we have had positive feedback from riders and the coffee consuming public. What we want to see is our bikes on the streets and people with smiles riding them."
Privateer loves the Handle Bar, full stop. Pop in if you are in the area for something to eat, drink and have a gaze at the amazing bikes and accessories in the shop.
Written By: Raoul de Jongh (PRIVATEER)


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Some viewers may have found the recent Starz Network series Camelot (which just completed its first season) surprising because it used a fair amount of sex & violence in its retelling of the saga of a young King Arthur. But it's not the first version of the Arthurian legend to do so. 1981's Excalibur relates the often told story with an adult, sexual & violent tone. This visually stunning version of the story was directed by John Boorman (Deliverance). The film was co-written by Boorman and Rospo Pallenberg, based on the 15th century Sir Thomas Malory tale, Le Morte D'Arthur.
The movie relates the classic story of young Arthur (Nigel Terry), as he pulls the sword from the stone and with Merlin's help, becomes king. We see his marriage to Guenevere (Cherie Lunghi) the start of his friendship with Lancelot (Nicholas Clay), and the founding of the Knights of The Round Table. All the high points of the legend are here: The Quest for The Holy Grail, Lancelot's affair with Guenevere, and the evil schemes of Arthur's half sister, Morgana, who wants to destroy Camelot.
It's all lushly filmed (on location in Ireland) by Boorman, with great cinematography by Alex Thomson. The effective score by Trevor Jones also makes use of classical music by Richard Wagner and Carl Orff. But it is a violent, R-rated version of the tale, and may not be for all tastes. In fact, when the film was originally in theaters, a PG-rated version of the movie was also released and later shown on some television stations, removing some of the more graphic violence and sex. The unedited, R-rated version is available on DVD & Blu-Ray.
The film is a bit over the top at times, but it all helps to serve the fantastical tone of the story. We've seen so many versions of this tale now (including the classic comedic take on the story, Monty Python & The Holy Grail) that the movie has lost a bit of its freshness. But it's still one of my favorite versions of the legend of Arthur. The cast features a gallery of stars to be in supporting roles, including Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne and the excellent Helen Mirren as Morgana, Arthur's evil half sister. Nicol Williamson plays Merlin, and gets many of the film's best lines.
If you're viewing it on DVD or Blu-Ray, the audio commentary by director Boorman is well worth a listen, as you get to find out a lot of interesting facts about the production, including the fact that Nicol Williamson & Helen Mirren didn't get along, and Boorman used that feeling for the antagonism between their characters. I highly recommend Excalibur if you're a fan of fantasy films (and the Arthurian legend).
Movie Quote of the Day:
Merlin (To Arthur): You brought me back. Your love brought me back. Back to where you are now. In the land of dreams.
Arthur: Are you a dream, Merlin?
Merlin: A dream to some. A nightmare to others!
Merlin: A dream to some. A nightmare to others!
Arthur (Nigel Terry) and Merlin (Nicol Williamson) in Excalibur (1981)


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In the European Union, it is assumed that education (including training) is indispensable for development of the today's society and the knowledge-based economy. Through integration of training into the educational framework, education is perceived in its wider sense – it is not limited to education at schools and higher education institutions only, but it also includes all forms of educational activities outside education systems, in particular activities aiming at enhancing professional qualifications and raising participation in culture and in the civil society.
The EU strategy emphasises the role of cooperation between member states in education and training, as well as learning from each other. European cooperation with regard to education and training has gained impetus since the Lisbon Strategy was adopted in 2000. It has its continuation within the Europe 2020 strategy. EU's main programme focuses on economic and employment growth, as well as social cohesion improvement. European cooperation with regard to education and training plays a substantial role in this programme by providing foundation of knowledge, skills and innovation as the most valuable assets of Europe, especially in the context of growing global competition.
According to Art. 165 and 166 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, education remains sole responsibility of member states. The Treaty gives the EU only soft competences in these areas which focus especially on coordinating, complementing and fostering activities of member states. Cooperation in these areas takes place mainly with the use of the so-called Open Method of Coordination.
It is provided for in the Treaty that the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (of ministers of education) adopt incentives, excluding any form of harmonisation of legal and implementing provisions of member states aiming at achievement of the main objective, that is development of high quality education.
EU measures relate to:
– development of the European dimension in education, in particular through teaching and promotion of languages of member states,
– promotion of students' and teachers' mobility, through among others encouraging to academic recognition of diplomas and periods of studies,
– determination and implementation of strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training.
Further information:
Europe 2020 strategy
On 17 June 2010, the European Council adopted conclusions setting out a 10-year growth strategy "Europe 2020". In a changing world of the EU, an intelligent and sustainable economy favourable to social inclusion is needed. Simultaneous work on these three priorities should help the EU and the member states obtain high employment, productivity and social cohesion level. The European Union created a specific plan enclosing five headline targets with regard to employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate change/energy which should be achieved by 2020. In each of these areas, all member states set out own national objectives which should contribute to achievement of the EU targets. Specific measures both at the EU and the national level strengthen implementation of the European strategy.
A headline target set out by the 2020 Energy strategy in education focuses on improving the level of education – in particular through:
– reducing the percentage of the youth who do not continue their educations to the level below 10% by 2020,
– increasing the percentage of persons aged 30-34 with higher education or equivalent education to at least 40% by 2020.
Framework of European cooperation in education and training until 2020 are determined in Council Conclusions of 12 May 2009 on strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training ("ET2020"). Council Conclusions include strategic objectives of European cooperation in education and training for the period up to 2020. The objectives are as follows:
- making lifelong learning and mobility a reality,
- improving the quality and efficiency of education and training,
- promoting of equity, social cohesion and active citizenship,
- enhancing creativity and innovation at all levels of education and training.
The strategic objectives outlined above are accompanied by seven benchmarks indicating the average European outcome to be achieved by 2020, however, member states may set out their own benchmarks according to their capacities and objectives (first two benchmarks have been set out as the above-mentioned headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy in education):
1/ fewer than 10% of young people should drop out of education and training,
2/ at least 40% of people aged 30-34 should have completed some form of higher education,
3/ at least 95% of children (from 4 to compulsory school age) should participate in early childhood education,
4/ fewer than 15% of 15-year-olds should be under-skilled in reading, mathematics and science,
5/ at least 15% of adults should participate in lifelong learning (in the period of 4 weeks before the survey),
6/ with regard to learning mobility:
– at least 20% of higher education graduates in the EU should have spent a period studying or training abroad in relation to higher education (including apprenticeship) which corresponds to at least 15 ECTS points or lasts at least three months,
– at least 6% of 18-34 year-olds with an initial vocational qualification should have spent a period studying or training abroad in relation to vocational education and training (including apprenticeship) which lasts at least two weeks or shorter if it is certified with a Europass document,
7/ the share of employed graduates (20-34 year-olds having successfully completed upper secondary or tertiary education) having left education 1-3 years ago should be at least 82%.
Currently, works of the EU on determination of the eight benchmark are being carried out which would pertain to desired for 2020 and at the same time measurable level of competencies in foreign languages.
Further information:
Open Method of Coordination
Due to the fact that matters related to education and the youth remain in sole responsibility of member states, cooperation in these areas takes place mainly with the use of the Open Method of Coordination. This is an intergovernmental management method in the European Union based on voluntary cooperation between member states. Open coordination is carried out at supranational level, however participation of EU institutions is limited. The European Commission plays usually the role of a coordinator or a link uniting activities of states participating in a given cooperation – it helps to gather, analyse and exchange information and experiences.
Open coordination consists in, among others, laying down guidelines for the whole EU, adoption of shared objectives which is facilitated by qualitative and quantitative indications for participating states, determination of benchmarks which are used to compare own achievements with examples of the best solutions developed by other member states subsequently, agreement on methods and deadlines of regular monitoring of outcomes achieved, translate shared guidelines into specific plans and national and regional policies which set out national objectives in particular areas, periodic monitoring, peer evaluation and mutual review of the situation/outcomes of actions.
The whole process aims at sharing experiences and learning from each other.
Further information: http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.htm
Erasmus+ programme
On 1 January 2014, the Erasmus+ programme was launched which fosters education, trainings, youth and sport initiatives across Europe. It is an equivalent of previous programmes, among others: Lifelong Learning, Youth in Action, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus and Jean Monnet, established for years 2014-2020. The scope of the Erasmus+ programme has been expanded by support for sport initiatives. Erasmus+ provides many facilitations aiming at easier access to funds for education. The new programme should be a response to challenges identified in the Europe 2020 strategy by constituting support from the EU for development of national education and training systems, higher skills level of citizens, as well as by assisting member states in solving the problem of high youth unemployment.
In the Erasmus+ programme, education and training sector and the youth sector will implement three key actions:
Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action 3: Support for policy reform
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The Technic of the First Classical Period
When the harpsichord was invented we know not. But we do know that the organ preceded it. The harpsichord seems to have been, at first, a mere household substitute for the organ, which latter instrument was, of course, too large and expensive to be used anywhere except in churches, monasteries and other large places for public assemblies. The harpsichord was at first a resource of organists for home practice and gradually found its way into popular use.
At first, organ music was transferred to it, and no account was taken of its peculiar capabilities. For a long time pieces were written "for the organ or harpsichord," and even at the time of Bach and Handel harpsichord players were almost always organists as well. And not only so, but these players seem to have considered the organ as so much superior that they devoted little attention to the harpsichord, regarding it as a mere auxiliary, subordinate to their main interests.
But the striking difference between the capacities of the two instruments must have suggested to some of these players that there might be something in the harpsichord worth cultivating. So long as scientific music was almost exclusively confined to the service of the church, so long the organ retained its exclusive supremacy. But when opera was invented, in the sixteenth century, and the harpsichord not only came into prominent use in the orchestra, but had to serve for the accompaniments of recitatives and arias, its importance increased. Compositions began to be written which took into account its special peculiarities ; its evanescent tones, its lack of sonority and its lightness and shallowness of touch as compared with the clumsy actions of the organs of the period.
The shortness of the tones precluded the cultivation of the lyric quality and suggested the appropriateness of rapid passages as the staple element of compositions intended for that instrument. When tones had to be prolonged they were trilled or furnished with turns, mordents, prall-trills or appoggiaturas. These were borrowed from the vocal embellishments of the time, but were not mere ornaments, as in the case of arias, etc. ; they served to supply the defect of shortness of tone in the instrument, and so were an important element in harpsichord music.
The second peculiarity, lack of sonority, owing to the lightness of the strings and the impossibility of producing a powerful tone by plucking a string with a quill, precluded any broad, majestic effects, and contributed to the adoption of light and rapid passages and embellishments as the main peculiarities of harpsichord music.
Lastly, the lightness of the action pointed in the same direction.
Harpsichord technic, then, involved light and rapid playing of scales and arpeggios and of all sorts of finger passages, including trills and other embellishments. It required independence and flexibility of the fingers and great dexterity, but not strength.
But there was no employment of extended scales and arpeggios as there is in our modern music. In the first place, these instruments were much smaller in compass than our modern pianofortes, rarely exceeding five octaves.
Then, too, the prevalent music was polyphonic, and extended passages were impossible in fugue playing. Each hand had generally to perform two or more voice-parts at the same time, and this involved the necessity of writing them within a narrow range of notes.
It was perhaps owing to this fact that the fingering of single scale passages in vogue at that time was so crude and clumsy. As late as the last decade of the seventeenth century the rules laid down in the instruction books for fingering scales required them to be played with two fingers only; the third (middle) and fourth in ascending and the third and second in descending.
The use of all five fingers was a result of the development of monophonic playing, or, what is, for technical purposes, the same thing, of the employment of long passages for only one voice for a single hand, in free polyphony. The hand, not being hampered by the necessity of playing two or more voices, could indulge in much greater freedom of execution, and out of this gradually came florid monophony, culminating at last in our day in the difficult passages of Thalberg, Liszt and others.
Of this style of free polyphony involving florid monophonic passages Sebastian Bach was as great a master as he was of strict polyphonic playing. In the latter he was unrivaled. He was not only the greatest composer of fugues, but the greatest player of fugues. In the art of delivering several melodies simultaneously he surpassed all his predecessors and contemporaries. This art involved the frequent changing of fingers on one key and the sliding of the fingers from one key to another, so as to produce a perfect connection between the tones.
The greatest defect of the harpsichord for fugue playing was the impossibility of discriminative emphasis. The clavichord was somewhat superior in this respect. It was possible to make some slight difference in the power of the tones of this instrument, to emphasize somewhat the entrance of a fugue subject or answer, and to discriminate one melody or passage from another by greater or less force of delivery. Above all, it was superior to the harpsichord in lyric quality, in the possibility of prolonging the tones beyond a mere tinkle, and imparting to them something of singing effect.
Accordingly, the clavichord was a favorite instrument with Sebastian Bach, as having finer artistic capabilities than either the harpsichord or the pianofortes of his day. The action of the latter was still too imperfect and clumsy to satisfy his requirements. The mechanism of the pianoforte is necessarily complicated, and it was thirty or forty years after Bach's death before it finally superseded the older instruments.
Sebastian Bach's technic, then, was the technic of the harpsichord, and especially of the clavichord. In him polyphonic playing, as well as polyphonic writing, culminated. All that could be done on the instruments of his time he did. He attained the utmost independence of finger, the utmost ease, lightness, fluency ; his dexterity in interweaving contrapuntal parts was perfection itself; he employed all five fingers in passages when they could be used to advantage, disregarding the pedantic rules of his time ; he made the most of the lyric capabilities of the clavichord. In short, like most original minds, he was an innovator, discovering all the possibilities of the instruments he used and inventing new means of accomplishing his ends.
Haendel was also a great organist and harpsichordist, but devoted most of his life to the production of Italian opera. His harpsichord technic, as far as it goes, differs in no essential particular from Bach's.
Domenico Scarlatti seems to have had more of the virtuoso spirit, in the sense in which that term is used in Germany at the present day.
A virtuoso, in this sense, is one who puts the mastery of technical difficulties and the display of his technical attainments above those aims which the real artist regards as paramount.
The true artist has in view, first of all, the worthy embodiment of a worthy ideal. As an interpretative artist he holds it his paramount duty to render truthfully the conceptions of any composer whose works he takes upon himself to represent to others, selecting the works of no composer whose genius he does not respect, treating them reverently and interpreting them with conscientious fidelity, so far as he can ascertain the composer's intention.
The virtuoso, on the other hand, is apt to use his attainments primarily as a means of glorifying himself in the eyes of others. Whatever he writes is apt to be written with reference to the display of his attainments, to the production of astonishing and sensational effects, that he may gain glory for himself. His performances of the compositions of others are apt to be characterized by the same dominant purpose. "Effect " is the watchword of the virtuoso. He does not like to play pieces, however noble or significant, which are not " effective." He is apt to desecrate the noblest works of the greatest genius by additions and alterations intended solely for show.
The spirit of the artist is one of self-abnegation, of devotion to ideal aims. The virtuoso is primarily an egotist, using his technical attainments as a means not to the faithful setting forth of noble conceptions, but for his own personal aggrandizement. But, although there are abundant examples of both classes of players, there are perhaps few artists who play much in public without sometimes being tempted to sacrifice something of the higher interests they are called to represent, to the desire for applause, and perhaps there are few virtuosi who do not sometimes feel impelled to use their splendid gifts and acquirements for high ends. It is a question, in each individual case, of predominant tendency and habitual intention.
As regards Domenico Scarlatti, it would doubtless be very unjust to represent him as a virtuoso pure and simple, in the sense in which that word has just been explained. But there is much in his compositions which seems to have been conditioned, not on any inward necessity of expression, but on the desire to overcome technical difficulties and to display his mastery of them. There are passages exceedingly troublesome to players even now, which seem to serve no ideal end, but to exist solely for the sake of difficulty.
The most conspicuous examples of this are passages where the hands are crossed very rapidly, as in the sonata No. 10 of Koehler's edition (see Chapter 1). But whatever we may think of the intellectual or artistic worth of this sort of work, it undoubtedly contributed much to the mastery of technic, and especially to the development of the monophonic style of playing.


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New Year's Eve parties aren't just for adults! Whether you're entertaining your family this year or your kids will be present at a grown-up party, it's good to keep the kids in mind when planning your New Year's festivities. If you're getting ready for an end of the year party with kids, you need to check out these 10 Kid Friendly New Year's Eve Party Ideas! All of these ideas are sure to be enjoyed by kids of all ages, and the adults will have fun with them too!
Kid friendly New Years Eve party ideas
1. Serve Mocktails
Just because the kids can't have alcohol doesn't mean they have to drink what they usually do. Instead, make them some mocktails in pretty colors! The drinks will look fancy, but they'll just be made with non-alcoholic juice, soda, or syrup.
2. Serve Kid Friendly Finger Food
If you're going to have a kid friendly New Year's Eve, you need to serve the appropriate food! While adult guests may enjoy oysters or stuffed mushrooms, it's likely your kids won't want to touch the stuff. Instead, serve up some chicken nuggets, pasta salad and mini pizzas for the kids to snack on.
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3. Have Dancing
Many kids love to dance! Include some modern tracks in your party playlist, and get the kids dancing! Throw in some party dances like The Chicken Dance and get everyone up!
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4. Bring On The Noise!
Kids just naturally like to make noise. Let them have fun being noisy at your kid friendly New Year's Eve party by letting them make their own noise makers! If you don't have time to create your own, you can get a big bag of inexpensive clackers and blowouts at the dollar store.
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5. Sing, sing, sing!
If your kids like to sing, they'd have a lot of fun doing karaoke on New Year's Eve. If you don't have a karaoke machine or console game, consider just downloading a karaoke app to your phone. Everyone will have a lot of fun singing along with new and old hits!
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6. Play Multi-Player Video Games
An excellent kid friendly New Year's Eve activity is playing group video games. While any video games will work, the best ones are those that use your Wii or Playstation Move to keep everyone on their feet and moving about.
7. Set off Fireworks
Fireworks are always fun! Give the kids gloves so they can hold sparklers, and let the adults set off some bigger fireworks. Then sit back and watch the pretty light show!
8. Take pictures and videos
You don't need a photo booth for party photos. Check the link below for props you can use for fun photos! Vidoe the nights festivities. Put on a show, tell jokes and funny stories. Have a fashion show or hair makeovers! The possibilities are endless.
Fun Photo Props For New Years
9. Play Board Games
Board games are a wonderful way for everyone to have fun together during your New Year's Eve party! Either play a few rounds of the same game, or switch it up by playing a variety of different board games.
Party board games
10. Have a Scavenger Hunt
Everyone loves a scavenger hunt! Have the kids and adults work individually or in teams to find various items that you've hidden around your home. You can find lots of clever scavenger hunt ideas online.
Family scavenger hunt in a box
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This week the children painted the clay beads they had made the previous week. They then left them to dry until next week when they will make either a necklace or a bracelet.
They also made a ring using some old buttons and wire. I am sure you will agree that they have done an amazing job!
This week the children made some clay beads and decorate the outside using clay tools. They also learned how to make a brooch and a key-ring using hammer beads. They worked really hard and concentrated well. Next week they will paint the beads to make either a bracelet or a necklace. Keep watching to find out how they got on!
This week the children made some necklaces and bracelets using pasta and pipe cleaners. They decorated the pasta using coloured felt-tip pens and a variety of sequins. They then threaded the pasta and beads onto the pipe cleaners. I am sure you will agree they have done an amazing job.
Today the children started their jewellery course. They looked at a selection of necklaces, brooches and rings. They designed their own piece of jewellery and made either a simple bracelet or necklace.
This was the final day of the course and the children made rings, brooches and necklaces. They used a variety of resources such as buttons and bottle tops also beads and wire. I am sure you will agree they have made some beautiful pieces of jewellery that they should be proud of.
This week the children made bracelets and rings from recycled materials. Mrs Herrington had previously cut a plastic bottle into narrow circles/strips. Then the children chose their own paper to cover and decorate them. They also had a variety of resources such as glitter and stars to embellish the bracelets.
The children then made rings from old buttons and wire. They had to thread wire through two buttons and attached them together with wire.
I am sure you will agree they have done an excellent job!
Next Friday is the final day of the course! The children will share what they have been doing with the rest of the Reception children during our 'Graduation Assembly'.
They will all be awarded with their Degree Certificate by the Head of Aire View University Mrs Bottomley!
This week the children worked really hard making their clay beads into a piece of jewellery. They chose to make either a necklace or bracelet. I am sure you will agree that they have done a fantastic job and as you can see they are all extremely proud of their achievements.
The children were very honoured this week as they were visited by the Dean of Aire View University Mrs Chris Newson. She arrived to verify the quality of the student standards and confirmed that they were met with flying colours. She was extremely impressed by the range of courses the students were involved in and the calibre of the students.
Today the children painted their clay beads that they made last week. They carefully painted each beads using a variety of bright colours and PVA glue was added to the paint to help seal them.
Once they had finished painting them they left them to dry. Next week they will be able to make them into a necklace or a bracelet.
This week the children were learning how to make beads using clay. They looked at a variety of necklaces and bracelets particularly focusing on the beads. Then they made their own beads rolling sphere shapes, cutting out flat shapes such as hearts and stars. They created patterns on the beads with clay tools.
Next week they will paint the beads and make them into a necklace or bracelet.
We can't wait to see what the finished product will look like. Well done to them all.
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Then they designed their own piece - a necklace or a bracelet.
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Well, it has come to that time in my life: it is now time for me to move out of my parents' house and move away, to start a new life on my own. I'm moving to a place nine hours, by car, from where I live now. So while I'll definitely come back to visit every now and then, I'll be too far away to be much involved in this place anymore. It is strange and exciting to finally be moving on and stepping out on my own, and I'm very happy that it's finally working for me to do this… but of course, it's also sad to say goodbye.
I've never liked goodbyes. Well, I imagine most people aren't terribly fond of them, but I've always had a pretty hard time saying goodbye. I don't like to say it. It seems too final. I like to say "see you later." And yet, sometimes, one must say goodbye. It brings closure for you and others, shows respect and love. Because why would you bother saying goodbye to someone you didn't like? Unfortunately, I did not manage to say goodbye to everyone I wanted to here, most especially my karate teacher. I am sorry for anyone I missed.
Anyway, I've had to say several goodbyes over the last week or so. To friends, to places… to my home and life here. I always feel depressed after saying goodbye. But it strikes me that every goodbye is also a new beginning. Every time you bid farewell to something, you also open the way for something new. I'm leaving behind people and places that I love and like, and a life that has been at times quite lonely and depressing, even hopeless, but has nevertheless had many joys. I discovered my passion for writing here. Fell in love for real for the first time. Earned my black belts. Discovered my abiding love for mountains and forests. Become what I consider to be a true artist. A life gets attached to the place it's been lived in. It's like you're leaving bits of your spirit behind, little ghosts of the things you do and the emotions you feel, all over the places you live. Even more, you leave bits of your heart with the people you care about.
Now, all that can be–is–very hard to leave behind. Sometimes you're leaving it behind against your will. Other times, like now, for me, it's by your own choice. But as hard as all that can be to leave… in a new place, you won't have all those little bits of spirit tying you down. You're free to make a new life, new choices. There's no knowing what might happen in a new place. Adventure lies behind every corner, if you have the heart to see it. Goodbyes are not endings. They are places on the road where you must leave something behind before you can continue your journey. Someday you might pick that something back up, but the journey isn't about recovering what you leave behind… it's not about taking everything with you… it's about going on, finding new things, adventuring, loving, losing, breaking, healing, searching. So don't look back. Who can say what mysterious and delightful twists the road will take?
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pgLatLon is a spatial database extension for the PostgreSQL object-relational database management system providing geographic data types and spatial indexing for the WGS-84 spheroid.
While many other spatial databases still use imprecise bounding boxes for many operations, pgLatLon aims to support more precise calculations for all implemented geographic operators. Efficient indexing of geographic objects is provided using space-filling fractal curves. Optimizations on bit level (including logarithmic compression) allow for a highly memory-efficient non-overlapping index suitable for huge datasets.
pgLatLon is a lightweight solution as it only depends on PostgreSQL itself (and a C compiler for building).
Unlike competing spatial extensions for PostgreSQL, pgLatLon is available under the permissive MIT/X11 license to avoid problems with viral licenses like the GPLv2/v3.
pgLatLon has been contributed by FlexiGuided GmbH as part of the WeGovNow project which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693514.
Installation and Documentation
pgLatLon uses PostgreSQL's extension building infrastructure PGXS to allow for an easy installation:
- Download the extension by clicking on one of the links in the "Download" section below.
- Extract the tar.gz file.
- Run "make install".
Documentation can be found here or be downloaded as an HTML file.
Example usage
Create a table with a column that stores a geographic position (an epoint) in column "location":
CREATE TABLE tbl (id serial4 PRIMARY KEY, location epoint NOT NULL);
Create a spatial index for column "location":
CREATE INDEX tbl_location_key ON tbl USING gist (location);
Perform a nearest-neighbor search using the previously created index:
SELECT * FROM tbl ORDER BY location <-> 'N12.34 E56.78'::epoint LIMIT 10;
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- PostgreSQL Database Server (tested with version 9.5)
- 2017-12-11: Version 0.12
- Bugfix for (in)equality operators of epoint, ebox, and ecircle
- 2017-11-19: Version 0.11
- Added C include directive to support PostgreSQL version 10
- Minor fix in documentation regarding GeoJSON_to_ecluster function for GeoJSON indexing
- 2016-10-31: Version 0.10
- Added safety margins for distance calculation on index lookups (fixes bug that caused nearest-neighbor search to fail in certain cases)
- Improved fair_distance function (see README for properties)
- 2016-10-25: Version 0.9
- Bugfix in type casts from epoint and ebox to ecluster (missing bounding circle calculation, requires reimport of database to be fixed)
- New fair_distance function (see README)
- 2016-10-21: Version 0.8
- Fixed broken functions GeoJSON_to_epoint and GeoJSON_to_ecluster (NOTE: after update, manually recreate any indices using these functions)
- 2016-09-26: Version 0.7
- Improved accuracy of vector projection for distance calculation by considering local approximation of WGS-84 spheroid instead of sphere
- 2016-09-22: Version 0.6
- Bugfix in distance calculation involving the ecluster data type
- 2016-09-12: Version 0.5
- Changed behavior of "contains?" operator (@>) which fixes wrong behavior regarding certain corner cases
- Added "contains?" operator for ebox type
- 2016-09-09: Version 0.4
- Added overlap operator (&&) and distance operator (<->) for ebox and ecluster data types
- Added "contains?" (@>) and "is contained in?" (<@) operators
- Bug causing table scans instead of index usage for nearest-neighbor searches of clusters (including polygons) has been fixed
- 2016-09-02: Version 0.3
- Added lossy overlap operator (&&+) for faster selections (where false positives are tolerable)
- Bug causing table scans instead of index usage when using the overlap operator (&&) with a ecircle query object on ecluster columns has been fixed
- 2016-08-22: Version 0.2
- Improved calculation speed of approximated distances on the WGS-84 ellipsoid
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Looking to buy a property in real estate in Vijayawada well then there is some bad news for you. The state government has decided to increase the registration value. This means all immovable properties including residential properties in Vijayawada will become much costlier to buy as the registration charges are going to rise significantly. The hike will be around 20-30 %, which means proportionate increase will be seen in the registration fee of properties bought in real estate in Vijayawada.
The stamps and registration department in compliance with norms scheduled to modify the registration value of all the immovable properties w. e. f.
August 1. Recently the property portals saw hike in demand of flats on rent in Vijayawada as the government employees of Andhra Pradesh have shifted their base.
Currently many people who were living in flats on rent after shifting their base from Hyderabad were planning to buy residential properties in Vijayawada. The property portals were witnessing that more people were looking to buy a flats rather than taking flats on rent in Vijayawada. But this move could discourage many buyers from investing in residential properties in Vijayawada and look for alternative investment destinations. Many people are arguing that increasing the registration value will also increase the market value of properties in real estate in Vijayawada.
Real estate builders of real estate Vijayawada are complaining that the existing registration fee of 7.5% of registration value is the highest across the country and this will seriously affect the buyer's decision who might want to invest in cheaper locations. Paying such a high registration fee is going to hurt pockets of end-user as well as investor who are already staying away from the market. This will adversely affect the sales volume and movement of properties which will cause a cash crunch situation for the builders.
People are upset about the fact that already the real estate market is going through a tough phase and this latest news is only going to further discourage the genuine buyer to stay away from the market. They were expecting some help from the government but unlike their expectation this decision was taken and this has come as a rude shock to many. Although people had anticipated what was about to come but they were unprepared for the shock.
Experts on property portals predict that this is going to affect the sales volume of residential properties in Vijayawada.