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Proposed amendments to new UK GAAP unveiled
THE UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued proposals to amend UK and Irish accounting standards, in line with the European Union Accounting Directive.
The FRC says the proposals will benefit 1.5m of the smallest companies ("micro-entities") in the UK by simplifying their reporting requirements. There will also be changes for the 1.5m other companies that fall within the "small" company size threshold, including improving accounting for financial instruments and supporting the implementation of legislative changes. The proposals are also intended to benefit listed groups by providing greater flexibility and greater efficiency in reporting formats.
Key aspects of the proposals include:
- The withdrawal of the FRSSE (Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities) for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2016.
- A new accounting standard for micro-entities offering some simplifications in accounting.
- New recognition and measurement requirements for other small companies aligned with new UK GAAP, and disclosure requirements based on the new legal framework.
- Greater flexibility in relation to the format of the profit and loss account and balance sheet in FRS 101, allowing the use of IFRS-based presentation requirements similar to those used for group accounts.
The proposals are intended to be effective for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2016, with early application permitted for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015. The proposals are open for comment until 30 April 2015 and the final standards and amendments are expected to be issued in July 2015.
The consultation documents are available on the FRC website.


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Definitely comes out of the mouth of one of the cats in this video.
I love this – even the most cynical non-animal-lover will hopefully enjoy this little chat. I wonder what they were talking about.
Cheered my hungover self right up!
(Presets were awesome by the way – Sigur Ros tonight)

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The thing about coffee from an animals bottom....
Now for coffee drinkers or lovers or whatever you class yourself as, there is plenty of variety to keep you satisfied, sane and for the most part, just that little bit calmer in the mornings. There is an abundance of shops serving coffee; the best of which have the full on coffee machine thing happening, the full time barista going off and surrounded by coffee grounds and chocolate dusting, and a shop full of people willing to wait for the best. The worst of which has a push button machine to satisfy the 'International' blend lover..ewwwww
Did you know that fresh ground coffee made from organic beans - pesticide free, keeps the brain and muscle tissue young...but if you go and use commercial milk and the all time biggest killer of the human race...SUGAR it reduces the health value dramatically.
Best to stick to short blacks or the lucrative beans (Kopi Luwak) collected from the excretions of the Asian Palm Civet (a small rodent like creature in Indonesia). Then you can be sure that it is 'Ala Natural'....I happen to have some in my fridge, horribly expensive but as coffee goes..sold for the story, not the quality. In another ironic twist, now Kopi Luwak is big business, so its no longer naturally collected. Now Civet farming is done under intensive farming conditions in which the caged Civets are force fed the berries......a bit like foie gras.....so much for the organic variety huh?
There are studies upon studies of how coffee can be good for you, or bad, just depending on who does the research. At the moment (and i have indemnity as this information could change tomorrow) it CAN lower your risk of type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease,stroke, dementia, and cancers of all sorts...I think the important word here is CAN, not WILL.
Its the caffeine we are all hunting, its the widest used legal drug in the world, levels of which are dependent on bean, roast, grind, and last and very important the brewing method. Did you know that drip coffee, because of its longer brewing time has more caffeine than an espresso? The finer the grind, the higher the caffeine level. Although some can have side effects with coffee such as heart palpitations, a diuretic result, or stomach cramping, it is the worlds most consumed food group, that's right, a food group. As with foods the darker pigment foods are better for you, so the darker the roast the better.
So for the best tips on howto take as much quality caffeine as possible;
1) Purchase sustainable coffee beans
2) Look for whole beans and grind them yourself
3) Drink it black
4) when using a drip machine, use non bleached filters
5) Choose your vessel wisely, a ceramic travel mug, BPA free container or glass is the best
But really....most of us just want their cup of coffee in the morning, plain and simple, its the fundamental start to our day. After all we cant all afford Kopi Luwak at $700 per kg.


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Federal job relocation provided movers are fantastic.
The result of my 2007 internship moonshot was a full-time job offer as a federal civilian. Having a great project portfolio on the web and prior work experience helped me get high-end salary offers, which the unique "Demo" pay program of NRL matches. The instructions for the Federal Government contracted movers were to not pack anything, just to disconnect electronics. I separated out all electronics into a closet with a sign saying "Not for Movers". It took them a day and a half, but they packed everything up, including a delicate glass thermometer. They packed with great care. I tipped the movers each $100 in thanks and so they'd pass the word to the different team that drove the LTL load cross-country. It will take about one week until they will unload at my new home.
So I will spend the next couple days wrapping things up. I have too much electronics to fit in my car, so I will use the UHaul Sport trailer once again. My little 4-cylinder car can pull it comfortably including through the Appalachians. To avoid theft risk I simply plan to sleep during the day Thursday and drive for 13-14 hours through the night, starting at 10pm Thursday. The idea is, arrive after Friday morning rush hour in D.C. since I don't want to pull a trailer in rush hour traffic!


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Palace: War on drugs can't be considered as a crime against humanity
President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody campaign against illegal drugs could not be considered as a crime against humanity, Malacañang Palace insisted on Wednesday.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could not have a jurisdiction over Duterte and his deadly campaign because of its "legitimate purpose" – to curb the proliferation of illegal drugs.
"Nothing has changed. The president's stance remains the same – that because the Philippine courts are able and willing, the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction," Roque said, speaking in Filipino, in a press briefing in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
"At pangalawa po, pagdating sa merito, hindi po pupuwedeng maging crime against humanity ang war against drugs, dahil ang war against drugs po hindi lamang nananarget (target) ng mga civilian, kung hindi ito po ay opisyal na pag-exercise ng police powers of the state and it has a legitimate purpose – to curb the proliferation of illegal drugs," he added.
"And secondly, in terms of merit, the war against drugs cannot be considered as crimes against humanity because it does not target just civilian population, but it is also an official exercise of the police powers of the state and has a legitimate purpose – to curb the proliferation of illegal drugs," he said.
On Tuesday, Duterte said he would not allow the ICC to to investigate him because of his controversial crackdown against illegal drugs.
"You cannot acquire jurisdiction over me – not in a million years," he said. "That's I'm not replying to it. That's true. I don't want to say that it has been my weapon ever since. Shit. Believe it," he said.
READ: Duterte to ICC: You can't acquire jurisdiction over me not in a million years
According to Roque, the ICC follows a principle of complementarity, in which the international tribunal may only investigate if a country's justice system is unable or unwilling to act on a case.
"Philippine courts are still to open to trying case," he said. "So there's no inability or unwillingness. Presidents have no immunity from prosecution for life." /atm
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23. February 2014
Ayam Goreng Bumbu Kuning
- Vegetable Oil for frying
- 8 Chicken Wings, with or without bones
- 1 Lemon, take only the juice
- 5 bay leaves
- 3 stalks lemongrass, crushed & take the part inside
- 350 ml of water
- Rice
Ground Spices
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 5 red onions
- 5 Candlenuts
- 1 tsp Coriander
- 4 cm Turmeric, grilled (you may substitute with turmeric powder)
- 3 cm Galangal
- 4 cm Ginger
- 3 Kaffir Lime Leaves
- Salt & Pepper
How To Make It
- Prepare some rice in your rice cooker
- Wash chickens in water then throw the water & replace with lemon juice. Mix it well & let it sit for at least 20 minutes. After sit for a few minutes wash it again with clean water.
- Then place the chickens in an empty cooking pot. Mix it with bay leafs, lemongrass, ground spices & the water. Stir well.
- Cook the chickens over medium heat until boiling, then reduce the heat. Close the pot with the lid, stir occasionally. Let it cook until the water is reduced & absorbed. Then take out the chicken wings & the ground spices.
- Heat oil in a wok over medium heat. Once the oil is getting hot, fry the chicken wings & the thicken ground spices. Cook until the color turns into golden brown. Then take out the chicken & the crispy ground spices to the prepared metal colander covered with the tissue (it is helpful to drain the excess of the oil).
- After a while put the chicken wings & crispy ground spices to the serving plate. Now it is ready to serve with some hot rice.
Enjoy! En Guete! Selamat Makan!


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You can find Iain at the Black Isle Show every year with dates posted on this website. Iain does live carving demonstrations and also has a selection of pre-carved items available for purchase on the day. This years date is August the 6th and the event page is here.
The Black Isle Farmers' Society was formed at a meeting in Avoch on 22nd March 1836 and the first Black Isle Show was held at Fortrose on 6th October of the same year.
The Society exists to promote the Interests of Agriculture and meets regularly throughout the year. In addition, the Society holds its Presentation of Show Trophies in November, a Bonspiel in January, a Ploughing Match in February and as the Main Event of the year, The Annual Black Isle Show on the first Thursday in August.
To continue promoting our aims and objectives we are constantly improving the Showground and facilities to make it more "user friendly" and attractive to the admission paying public. The admission fees are wholly expended in helping us achieve our ongoing charitable objectives. In 2010 we continued with our improvements as we have done in previous years, including building 2 new Buildings to house the Wool, Crooks, Fur & Feather and Goats. 2010 saw the Society host the National Beltex Sheep Show, this was accomodated within one of the new sheds at the "livestock"end of the Show, The roadside fence alongside the new path was also completed in 2010. More improvements are planned in 2011 including some more tarred walkways in some of the busier aisles.
From 1836 onwards, the Black Isle Show was held on various sites throughout the area on fields provided by farmer members. The Society acquired its own permanent Showground at Muir of Ord in 1955 and the first Show on the present site, now called Mannsfield, was held in 1957.
Mannsfield Showground was purchased outright by the Society in 2003, providing the opportunity to improve and upgrade facilities. This ongoing programme continues. In 2005 with the building of a Sheep Shearing Shed. The completion of the new toilet and shower block at the "Livestock End" of the showground just prior to the 2006 show proved its worth at an extremely busy show.
The 2007 Show saw the completion of a purpose built structure to house the popular "Food & Craft" stands. This building extends to 1100 square metres in floor area and has saved the Society a considerable amount in annual rental charges of marquees and temporary fittings. At the same time as this building was being constructed a new 3 phase electricity supply was installed throughout the Showfield making the Showfield more "user friendly" throughout the year. . In 2007 & 2008 the main roadways and walkways have been tarred amounting to some 3,500 square metres. This programme of tarring was continued til the present date adding to the overall Show experience.


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text: The second time I attempted to climb the East Groin, (I didn't succeed until the third attempt) I paused at this solitary boulder on the slope. It is taller than me. While the slope is shallower than the angle of repose, the bedrock is close to the surface and it is covered by a thin mantle of loose rock making uphill progress nearly impossible. Add to that the fact that I had a 30 or 35 lb battery, a weather station including a 10 foot pole to hold the wind bird, and some warmer clothes and there was no way that I could safely ascend further. The next day I found a better route to the top that is to the left of this picture. It was just as steep but it had some natural pathways created by frost wedges.


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The Copenhagen Summit
European Press Review: E.U. Snubs Turkey
|Given the cold shoulder: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (Photo: AFP).
Last week, Istanbul's independent Hürriyet ran a reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper" and asked whether Turkey would again be turned away from Europe's Christian table. It was. On Dec.13, delegates from the 15 members of the European Union met in Copenhagen and crushed Turkey's hopes that they would set a date to start negotiating admission to their exclusive club. In stark contrast, seven Eastern European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, all formerly part of the Soviet Union, as well as Malta and Cyprus—have just received the green light, after they fulfilled Europe's rigid economic and political pre-membership requirements. All of them had submitted their requests to join only 10 years ago.
Turkey, a member of NATO, has waited 40 years to become a part of Europe. Toward that end, it has undertaken crucial domestic reforms—abolishing the death penalty and taking steps to improve its human-rights record. It wasn't enough to convince the delegates at the Copenhagen summit.
The issue has divided the European press. Former French President Valérie Giscard D'Estaing, who is overseeing the efforts to draft a new European Constitution, fueled the debate when he remarked that Turkey "does not belong in Europe" and its acceptance would spell "the end" of the union. He was echoing the sentiments of many in Europe, who fear that Turkey's entrance would allow thousands of Turks to pour into the West in search of jobs, driving wages down.
London The Guardian (liberal), Dec. 13: Perhaps the [Turkish] Islamists have really changed. … Yet it seems probable that two very different projects are still under way in Turkey, the one to make the country more Islamic, and the other to make it less so, and that both have now seized on Europe as a means to their ends. The suspicion must be that the Islamists' hearts are not in [the E.U.], and that the secularists' need for both an icon and an ally has led them to overlook the real obstacles to union with what is indeed a Christian club. Totting up improvements in human rights or democratic practice is not the point. Turkey is an unfinished drama in which Europe's role has become even more central than it was before. But whether it will or should end with the country's incorporation into the E.U. is an open question. —Martin Woollacott
Paris L'Express (centrist newsmagazine), Dec. 12: The Turkish problem already divides—and will continue to divide—the French, and undoubtedly also other citizens of Europe. …One thing is certain: Turkey should be assisted economically…. But Turkey is not Europe!… [It] never belonged to Europe…. There is a European culture, but there is no such a thing as European-Turkish culture. We French have heard of Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Mozart, Sibelius, Beethoven, Verdi, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and many others. We are not aware, however, of any personality who represents Turkish civilization. We are ignorant about it, which proves that Turkey belongs to another cultural sphere…. If we admit Turkey, we will give up the historic-geographical criterion that will prevent Georgia, Azerbaidjan, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, but also Lebanon and Israel from claiming their right to become part of Europe tomorrow…. The borders of this kind of "Europe" would stretch from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean! …Is that what we want? The stakes are so considerably high that governments alone cannot decide on those issues. It is essential and vital that the citizens decide by referendum on which kind of Europe they want.
—Claude Allègre
London The Daily Telegraph (conservative), Dec. 14: Why should not Turkey's credentials eventually be accepted? I fear there is only one reason…: Turkey is not a European country. In taking that fact seriously, we don't necessarily fall into cultural bigotry and racism. Turkey has a traditional pull towards both Central Asia and the Middle East. With Turkey in the E.U., our borders will include Iran and Iraq….The creators of the European project were mostly Christian Democrats who had a great historical aim—to reconcile Germany and France, and to end the wars that helped destroy Europe's power in the world.… If you break away from history and apply purely universal criteria for membership—democracy, minority rights, etc.—so that Israel could be admitted now, Egypt in due course, and even, who knows, one day, a liberated Iraq, you will have destroyed the slim possibility of Europe's being a true community. I respect the Turks and admire Islam, but I do not think we should ever break down the walls and admit this particular Trojan horse.
—John Casey
Frankfurt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (conservative), Dec. 16: Europe is a society of peoples who have forged common values over many centuries and have freely joined together under the perception of these values being under threat. Turkey does not belong in this Europe.
London The Independent (liberal), Dec. 13: With Turkey, we are at least back to the big issues of Muslim inclusion and north-south divisions.…Once you start expanding membership at the rate the E.U. is doing now, most of the objections to accept Turkey—that it is insufficiently advanced economically, that it is half a Middle Eastern, not a European country, that it will upset the balance because of its size—fall away. Indeed, a Mediterranean country of Turkey's size is needed all the more if the balance between north and south, now tilting uncomfortably towards the north-east and Berlin and away from London, Madrid, and even Paris, is to be kept….Anyone who wants to enter a club so sorely in need of fresh blood as the E.U. should have their name put on the waiting list immediately, and not be asked to go to the back of the queue at the tradesman's entrance….You can blame the mistakes over Turkey on the system of rotating presidencies in the European Union, which has left a small inexperienced country such as Denmark in charge of the operation at such a moment…. But the real reason, I fear, lies much deeper. It is that Europe cannot cope with what it has on its plate now, never mind what it will have after enlargement.…[The E.U.] is an institution that has lost its way, that is increasingly divorced from, if not actually an obstacle to, the lives of ordinary citizens.
—Adrian Hamilton
Frankfurt Frankfurter Rundschau (liberal), Dec. 16: The European Union has agreed to consider Turkey's acceptance into the E.U. When and how that will happen depends on Turkey…The country is in need not only of economic reforms. Turkey is far away from fulfilling E.U. requirements for membership, which call for a well-functioning market economy as prerequisite for joining the E.U. Turkey will need to undergo deep and unpopular reforms. The new government can count on its majority in Parliament to push those changes through. Whether it has the courage to do so, however, is an entirely different matter.
Athens Eleftherotypia (liberal), Dec. 15: The newly formed Turkish government was dealt its first diplomatic blow on an issue that it defined as very important. It suffered an additional defeat when Cyprus slipped right out of its hands. Now, Cyprus has become an E.U. member and it has been relieved from Ankara's three decade-long whims…. Nevertheless, the big question is whether politicians and military officials will have the wisdom and maturity not to let Turkey embrace extreme measures … Athens seems prepared to stand by [Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party leader Recep Tayyip] Erdogan's side and support his government's goal to move closer to Europe. [Greek Prime Minister Costas] Simitis rushed to show his support for Erdogan, reminding him that Greece, as the next country to hold the E.U. presidency, could lend a helping hand to Turkey.
—Kyra Adam
Berlin Die Tageszeitung (left-wing), Dec. 13: Only when the Turkish elite establishes a European style of Islam will the country find its place within the E.U…. To point fingers at the Islamic character of a state, however, is not a good enough reason to block its acceptance into the E.U. Islam in itself is Arabic in its roots, but it has always adjusted itself to its surrounding cultures. As such it can be "Europeanized" as well…. This kind of Euro-Islam would embrace secular democracy, individual human rights, a civil society, tolerance, and cultural and religious pluralism…. Turkey, however, is far away from this form of Islam. Its secularization is superficial and has stemmed from "a revolution from the top." …Turkey has a lot of homework to do before it will fit into Europe. To call Europe a Christian Club, however, cannot change the fact that Turkey has to fulfill certain requirements. A European, rather than an Islamist Turkey, could become part of Europe. Islam does belong to this reformed Turkey—but only with a European-Islamic character.
—Bassam Tibi
Munich Süddeutsche Zeitung (conservative), Dec. 13: The ideological debate whether Turkey—tomorrow, the day after, or maybe never—will adopt Western democratic standards, the rule of law and of a civil society, is only one side of the coin. The other side is that European countries need to ask themselves how many neighbors they want to allow to move in….Turkey has every right to want to be part of the E.U. But the 25 E.U. members have a similar right to refuse. …Stretching Europe's Eastern borders eastward to Kurdistan could cause the Union to fall apart.
Vienna, Der Standard (liberal), Dec. 10: [By allowing Turkey to join the European Union, we would be] taking on too much. Enlargement to the east is a historic task, which will last well into the next decade, and thus will take up all our energies.
Hamburg Die Zeit (liberal weekly), Dec. 12: What is European identity? Was it shaped by the Enlightment, by language, by our beliefs? Does religion unify us? The Catholic Spaniards have as much in common with the Protestant Finns as the Anglo-Saxons have with the Orthodox Greeks. Nevertheless, they all happily gather in Brussels and worship the Western Alliance of European states. Why should the Muslim Turks not be able to take part?…Opening the door for Turkey will also do a lot of good for the strained German-Turkish relationship. A clear E.U. perspective for Ankara will stop the tide of Turks coming to Germany….Do we share the same values? Many Turkish officers have problems with our values, but so does Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who adjusts the rules of law in his country to fit his needs. If the Euro-euphoria of many Turks is any indication, they should become members of the E.U., whereas the British would have to be asked to leave….It would be a historic foolishness to stem this euphoria in the Muslim world. …The E.U. doesn't need to fear a new border with Iraq and Iran. Or does it want to leave world politics solely in the hands of the Americans? …Turkey is an important player in the region and with it in its midst, Europe's foreign policy would gain tremendous weight….There is only one reason to deny E.U. membership to Turkey: its economy. The per-capita income in Turkey is 22 percent below E.U. average….This crisis, however, could mean a new chance for Turkey. And what could be a better incentive for the E.U. than Turkey's knocking on its doors in order to remake itself as well?
—Michael Thurman
Turin, La Stampa (centrist), Dec. 12: Long, long before the Poles, Hungarians, or the Baltic states could imagine that they would one day become part of the E.U., and even before the Spanish, Portuguese, or the Austrians were thinking about it, Turkey had presented its request for admission into what was then called the European Economic Community. For 40 years, fearful of giving offense, yet unable to accept it, Europe neither said "yes" nor "no"... Few express their thoughts with absolute clarity, but one could say that those saying "no" to Turkey's acceptance into the E.U. have a "federal" conception, a homogeneous and compact image of Europe's future. Those saying "yes" to Turkey see Europe as an open space with few rules in common, but much liberty and diversity within. The naysayers believe in completing the process of integration. For the supporters, neither geography nor cultural identity defines borders—because in this era of globalization, borders no longer exist.... Compromises may be worked out over time. But if there really were more realistic and farsighted political minds in Europe, we could hope for an expansion of European boundaries to include Turkey, and to recreate today, based on the founding nations, a new nucleus of nations.
Zurich, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (conservative), Dec. 14: Despite disappointments on the economic front—traceable ultimately to an expensive military campaign against the Kurds—indications are that Turkey is entering a phase of political revitalization. Elections have brought to power a party of moderate Islamists, who seem committed to pressing democratic and human rights reforms. Western politicians in favor of E.U. membership for Turkey see the obvious practical advantages, but that is not necessarily true of public opinion. Some Turks, while fed up with waiting, point out with new self-confidence that reforms are needed anyway. Politics would be easier if both sides discarded their complexes.


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at the end of season one, they dialed apothisis ship, which was in orbit around a planet, so the wormhole reached the gate abord his ship. when he left orbit, the gate became inactive as such, because it was not near the co-ordinates of the address. Then, in the episode where they destroy a sun, carter dials the black hole planet, puts a shield round the gate, and launches it at the sun. but, when it leaves the vicinity of the planet, shouldent the wormhole cut off?


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On 2nd November, the year 10 Horticulture students made a trip to Kew Gardens.
The day started foggy and cold, but we soon warmed up in the tropical heat of the Palm House. It was so hot, that when we walked in, all of our glasses got steamed up. We learned about where lots of our food and medicine comes from. It was fascinating to learn the process of how coffee and chocolate is made. Also, by examining the seeds of the achiote tree, we discovered the popular orange condiment annatto. It is used as a colourant in Wensleydale and is the reason your fingers are left orange after eating Doritos and Wotsits.
We saw a lot of funny looking fish in the aquarium. The paintings in the Marianne North gallery where very inspiring. So accurate it was difficult to tell if they were photographs or not. We visited the Japanese pagoda, Minka house and peace garden.
The sun came out in the afternoon showing how all the autumn colours on the trees. Also, how low the planes fly as they come into land at nearby Heathrow Airport.
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Ever since he moved up from NXT to the main WWE roster, Rusev has been an unstoppable force that Vince McMahon, Triple H and company seem to love.
The Bulgarian Brute has quashed anyone that has dared to come up against him, including Big E Langston, Jack Swagger, Mark Henry and now Big Show.
He has now captured the US Title after defeating Sheamus and it seems like one of the smartest decisions the Creative team have made in recent times. However, wrestling legend Jim Ross has questioned what they're actually doing with the character.
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"It's interesting as to why WWE apparently feels Rusev should be booed....apparently only because he's Russian. The powerhouse rarely cheats, is a patriot to his native land, is a beast, isn't a coward, and has not lost via pin or submission," Ross wrote in his blog on Wednesday.
"What is there among those items that I am supposed to dislike? The nationalistic storylines can still work but the 'foreigner' still has to have heel tendencies and nuances."
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It's not really known what the WWE are planning to do with Rusev having the US Title yet. He's positively not going to lose it to Big Show anytime soon, and the more obvious outcome sees John Cena taking it from him to make it American again blah blah tired old Cold War cliche that Vince McMahon still loves for some reason.
The way Rusev kicked the fake soldier in the head was a good way to make him come across more villainous but there needs to be more of it. He also needs to be a destroyer of Brock Lesnar standards. Not that high up the card, but he needs to win in similar fashion.
Changing the name of the title to the Russian Federation Championship live on Raw would help to add more heat, and just generally making him more despicable should go a long way to providing the WWE with a heel for the next decade.


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Dog Days: The Israeli film 'Someone to Run With,' showing Nov. 4, examines the life of Jerusalem's lost children.
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'Six Days: June 1967' highlights this week's offerings at the San Jose Jewish Film Festival
By Richard von Busack
THE SAN JOSE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL continues this week with Wednesday and Sunday screenings. On Oct. 31, 7:30pm: Love to Hide. This glossy 2006 soap opera set in Vichy France features a gay paragon (Bruno Todeschini) suffering a fate worse than death after rescuing a Jewish girl (Louise Monot) he once kissed in a brief outbreak of straightness. Unfortunately, he has an evil brother who turns him over to the Gestapo. The cast seems to have been picked for looking good with their shirts off, so it's the villains who grab our attention. An actor rejoicing in the name Olivier Saladin gets to play a grinning copper, as rotten as tainted camembert; as the "Chef de [labor] Camp," Yuli Toshev seems to be having a marvelous time mistreating the prisoners.
Nov. 4, 5:30pm: Six Days: June 1967. The best documentary on Israeli history that I've ever seen. Ilan Ziv's scrupulously nonpartisan account of the war is much different than the way it was understood in the United States, where Time, Life and even Mad magazine pronounced it a triumph of a plucky little country against overwhelming forces. It was, instead—as Ariel Sharon admits onscreen—a war of choice, as avoidable as World War I.
As the Israeli army knew, they had the outstanding advantage over the weak armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. After flattening Egypt's air force and scattering her barefoot troops, Gen. Dayan's brilliant plotting kept the Israeli public out of the loop, pushing aside the civilians who wanted peace. In the Arab lands, lying media pumped up the war and assured the public the Muslim forces were triumphing. The first casualties were Prime Minister/Defense Minister Levi Eshkol and his assistant Yitzhak Rabin (who fell to a badly timed nervous breakdown under the stress). From retirement, Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion, urged diplomacy ("Since when does Israel make pre-emptive strikes?"). The great powers—the USSR's Kosygin, a patron of Syria, and LBJ, a duck in the process of laming himself—operated behind the scenes, nearly inflating this skirmish into World War III.
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Israel triumphed in the dictionary example of the catastrophe of success. The war hawks had their way, capturing Jerusalem and bulldozing a 700-year-oldArab neighborhood to make a plaza for the Wailing Wall. They also encompassed territory almost impossible to pacify and wrought the kind of bitterness that will last for generations. The roster of interviewees is startling; they include Robert McNamara, Abba Eban, Dayan's spokesman Michael Bar-Zohar, Said Al Rifa, personal secretary to King Hussein of Jordan, Nasser's secretary Abdel Magid Farid, Gen. Shlomo Gazit (the head of Israeli intelligence) and several Soviet officers who were almost called into battle. Essential viewing for understanding the Mideast situation today. On the same day: Cardboard Squares (1pm), about a family coping with the death of several members in war; Someone to Run With (3pm), the story of a runaway teen; and Discovery of Heaven (5pm), a drama about an angel wrangling with strong-minded humans, based on Harry Mulisch's novel.
THE SAN JOSE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL runs through Nov. 14 at Camera 12 in San Jose. See www.sjjff.org for complete details. Tickets are $8.50–$11. (800.838.3006) (Full disclosure: Metro is one of the sponsors of the festival.)
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I went from a disruptive, inconsiderate, troubled child to the straight A student; except in math… I joined passages through College Dreams which was a group of young woman who talked about what they went through in life and supported each other. The group went on a trip to a zipline located in Oregon, and it was on this trip that I discovered I could push through barriers. I remember a moment when I was standing on to of a moving pole and was told to jump and grab a triangular shaped apparatus on the other side, I freaked out and almost did not do it, but when I did I found my inner strength.
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With a looming deficit only staved off by the generosity of an anonymous donor, a third of the seats empty each night, and widespread criticism of some dubious artistic decisions, ENO had to do something to dig themselves out the quicksand.
The 2014-15 season, announced today, seems designed to place quality above novelty (at long last) and, more importantly in the short term, to put bums back on seats. Some might call it boring. I think it's a long-overdue recognition of limitations.
Yes, I would love it if London had an opera company with the vision and adventurousness of Amsterdam or Brussels. Wouldn't we all?
But that requires a leadership with the talent to separate the artistic wheat from the chaff with considerably greater success than ENO's John Berry has ever evidenced. This season's decision to hire directors of proven ability for works of proven appeal recognises the creative issue as well as the ever-tightening financial constraints on the company.
The repertoire has broad appeal, with Otello, the WNO Meistersinger and The Queen of Spades heading up the new productions. Revivals are mostly crowd-pleasers like Figaro, La traviata, Carmen and La boheme. Tucked away are new works from John Adams and Tansy Davies.
The director roster features the experienced hands of Richard Jones, David Alden, Peter Sellars (twice each) plus Nicholas Hytner and Fiona Shaw. Hytner's Xerxes is revived 30 years after its debut - as a recent review of the reissued DVD put it "The staging has weathered well, still looking fresh and inventive and superior to many more recent shtick-laden Baroque productions". A controversial debutant is Mike Leigh, who tackles The Pirates of Penzance. However, as a prominent Gilbert and Sullivan fan/expert of many years' standing, he's well placed to handle the problematic genre .
Instead of concrete bunkers or modishly microscopic theatres, this year's offsite venues are the eminently practical Barbican and Bristol Old Vic.
Top-class singing talent includes Stuart Skelton, Alice Coote, Dame Felicity Palmer and Iain Paterson. Anticipating a regular complaint, ENO counter that "85 per cent of the talent on stage in 2014/15 will be British or British trained". There are even two female conductors - Keri-Lynn Wilson for The Girl of the Golden West and Joana Carneiro for The Gospel According to the Other Mary.
Someone, somewhere has been listening.
But not to all the complaints. Despite the empty seats and the consequently regular discounting, ENO has put its prices up yet again. Want to see Meistersinger on a Saturday night? That'll be £155 for the stalls please - and £40 even in the balcony. Regardless of whether it's 'worth it' (always a dubious evaluation) many people simply can't or won't stump up that much. So don't expect the discounts to end any time soon.
Full listing:
- Otello (Verdi)
13 Sept – 17 Oct, 10 performances. ENO Screen live cinema relay 14 Oct.
- Xerxes (Handel)
15 Sept – 3 Oct, 6 performances
- The Girl of the Golden West (Puccini)
2 Oct – 1 Nov, 9 performances
- The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
16 Oct – 23 Nov, 11 performances
- La Boheme (Puccini)
29 Oct – 6 Dec, 14 performances
- The Gospel According To The Other Mary (Adams)
21 Nov – 5 Dec, 6 performances
- The Way Back Home (Joanna Lee)
11 Dec – 23 Dec (performed at the Young Vic). ENO Screen live cinema relay from December 2014
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Wagner)
7 Feb – 10 Mar, 8 performances
- La traviata (Verdi)
9 Feb – 13 March, 9 performances. ENO Screen live cinema relay 11 Mar
- The Indian Queen (Purcell)
26 Feb - 14 Mar, 8 performances
The above productions go on sale in the next few weeks; booking for the remainder (below) will open in the Autumn of 2014:
- Between Worlds (Tansy Davies)
Opens 11 Apr, 8 performances (performed at The Barbican)
- Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Opens 16 April, 7 performances (performed at Bristol Old Vic)
- The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Opens 9 May, 19 performances. ENO Screen live cinema relay 19 May
- Carmen (Bizet)
Opens 20 May, 14 performances. ENO Screen live cinema relay 1 July
- The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
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A World War II-era shortage of men for pro baseball teams created an opening for female athletes. Nancy Mudge Cato, 83, was among those who carved a place for themselves in a sport dominated by men.
She grew up a true tomboy.
As other girls played with dolls in the 1930s, Nancy Mudge Cato played football with the boys outside the two-room schoolhouse she and her brother, Baden Powell Mudge, attended in upstate New York. She coaxed him to throw passes deeper than her reach, knowing she would be able to fight to get under them, while the defense wouldn't.
In summer, the gang took over a farmer's cow pasture for makeshift baseball games. Two captains picked sides.
"If I would choose first, I would choose my sister. If the other boy chose first, he would choose my sister," Baden, now 87, remembers with a laugh. "She was a player."
When she ended up in the legendary All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and '50s -- the league that inspired the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own" -- her brother was off in college. He didn't have money to travel to see her play second base.
Fingering yellowing newspapers, he sees his tiny sister in black-and-white photos, hunched over in a batting stance or scampering to scoop up a ground ball. Her uniform was starched, white and skirted. Her lipstick was red, an AAGPBL mandate. Players were required to act prim and proper running the bases.
She spent six years in the league before a knee injury caused her to pack away the uniform. She took a job as a physical education teacher at the University of Minnesota and stayed for 20 years.
Her brother never got to see her snagging infield grounders that seemed surely out of her reach. But when he read about it in old newspaper stories, he could tell it was his sister.
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On Monday, the two-hour season finale of "Alcatraz" aired — but the fate of the task force is now in FOX's hands. The show hasn't been picked up for a second season, and less-than-ideal ratings don't seem particularly promising. Still, with an ending like that, how can we not hope for Season 2?
Though the finale provided some answers — such as what's behind Warden James' locked door — the questions were far more extensive.
Hauser and Lucy opened the door to discover a hidden Alcatraz command center, where the Warden and a scientist found a method to track the location of certain inmates in 1960 and revealed their plan to time-jump the inmates three years later. Their goals remain unknown, but given the fact that the scientist just woke up — a '63 itself, it seems — the task force already has the guy with the answers.
Still, what a cliffhanger! The episode ended as doctors were declaring time of death for Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), one of the series leads, which presented an interesting twist for a possible Season 2. She had been stabbed by her '63 grandfather, Tommy, after he tricked her with a hint about her parents' death.
Of course, the show being a sci-fi drama, it wouldn't be entirely outlandish for the team to find a way to revive Rebecca using the blood of the '63s. If they are striking her from the show, they risk losing the one "modern" character with a personal connection to the '63s.
Executive producer Bryan Wynbrandt tells us that the "Alcatraz" writing team has some new tricks up their sleeves now that Season 1 is behind them.
"You obviously learn storytelling things that are working and that are not working, and we'll obviously move forward with what we learn," he says, noting that they don't plan to make any drastic changes to the format of the series. "People comment about 'Fringe' Season 1 and 'Fringe' Season 2; I don't think it's anything dramatic in that fashion, but obviously you learn things in any line of work… and you go in the direction the show's taking you."
Co-creator Steven Lilien says that in a second season, they do plan to delve deeper into the personal lives of the task force. "I think overall we want to get to know our characters better, keep exploring our leads and get to know them better," he adds. Whether or not that includes Rebecca, he doesn't say.


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The Federal Aviation Authority is reported to be taking a fresh look at the use of electronic devices on board aircraft, with special attention to be given to the iPad. It is not before time and, if the FAA does introduce new regulations, it is to be hoped the relaxation will extend to other countries. I'm a layman in these matters, but it does seem that the blanket ban on electronic devices during takeoff and landing could be overdone.
If a device is in air mode, with all wireless switched off, I cannot see that it can pose a danger. I suppose the problem is in telling whether or not a phone or tablet is in fact in air mode. It's obviously impractical for in-flight staff to verify the status of every device, even if they knew how, so probably that is why we have a blanket catch-all ban. As far as I know, however, it has never been conclusively proved that electronic devices interfere with an aircraft's systems and it is high time that the FAA reviewed the current unsatisfactory situation.
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You can use the tethers attaching them to the camera backdoor housing. The adhesive anchors you can attach to the gear you use.
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A North Tyneside festival has highlighted the growing popularity of a new wave of drinks producers.
The first Proper Food and Drink Festival of 2017, held in North Shields over the Bank Holiday weekend, featured 60 producers and drew large crowds.
Among the drinks producers was North Shields-based The Three Kings Brewery, which started making beer five years ago. It now supplies pubs in Newcastle, Sunderland and Darlington, as well as North Shields.
Assistant brewer Rober Scott said: "It's the fun of it, it's the art and science of it – having the creativity to experiment with different tastes. We all share the passion. At events like this we talk about beer and help each other out."
Also at the festival was Anne Walsh, of The Fruit Kitchen, who makes fresh fruit cordials, liqueurs and vinegars.
At the moment, she is focusing mainly on making liqueurs to benefit from the current popularity of gin and cocktails.
The next Proper Food and Drink Festival is at Bents Park, South Shields, on May 27, 28 and 29. It is back in North Tyneside at Whitley Bay on Jun 17 and 18, before going to Cramlington for July 29 and 30.
Gateshead's Saltwell Park stages its first Proper Food and Drink Festival on August 5 and 6, before it makes its debut in Ridley Park, Blyth, the following weekend, August 12 and 13.
Organisers Mark and Shelley Deakin also run the North East Chilli Fest, from June 30 to July 2, at Seaton Sluice.
They are also finalising details for a new event. The Great North Feast will run from August 25 to 28, in Bents Park, South Shields.
Mark said: ""It's going to be a massive celebration of food and drink but it will also bring together the community for a social eating experience which has never been seen before in the North East. We'll also be trying to break loads of records."


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When a person decides to install lights in his garden or outside his house, the first thing that comes into his mind is the driveway. There are many who believe that driveway lighting is of no use as cars themselves have got headlights, which assists in navigation. However, you should understand the fact that driveway lights are not only for the purpose of eliminating dark, it also improves the look of your home and makes it appear more stylish – a true sign of great outdoor lighting. If you have a long driveway, then the illuminated driveway looks even more beautiful. It turns your house in a grand landmark and also provides the visitors with a warm welcome.
There are many methods by which you can illuminate the driveway. Down lights or wall mounted spotlights are more suitable if you have one long wall running parallel to the driveway. Whereas, if the height of the wall is low then you can go for wall-recessed step lights, which are installed few inches above the ground level and provide horizontal beams across the driveway. The spacing between the driveway lights should be carefully determined. You should try to ensure that the illumination does not overlap and should give a beautiful triangular pattern on the surface of the driveway. The most popular method of driveway lighting is bollards. In these, lights are projected downwards and horizontally around 360°, in order to illuminate the surrounding areas. If you have a garden surrounding the driveway then also, you can install them in the soils using spike mounted versions. The flange mounted versions is used for hard surfaces like brick, paving, concrete etc. Great for low voltage driveway lights too, and most any kind of outdoor lights.
In case you reside in a rural area, then you might find that bollards are more contemporary and urban and they do not go well with the theme of the house. If so, then you should consider bollards which are made up of solid copper. These dull down rapidly and blend with the surroundings. Lighting technology is another factor to which you should pay attention to. If you want to use halogen lighting then you surely need transformers to reduce the voltage to 12 volts. Nowadays, there are many transformers available in the markets which are compact and moreover, they can be buried under soil, in case you want to hide them from view. A new trend is driveway lighting is installing lights on the driveway surface to illuminate trees. However, for this you have to make sure that any outdoor lighting for the driveway should be robust enough to bear the load of the vehicles passing over it.Tags: driveway lighting, driveway lighting ideas, driveway post lights, lighting installation, low voltage driveway lights, outdoor lighting
Solar Driveway LightingFiled in: Energy & Cost Savings,Solar
Today, you will find majority of people looking for various solutions which will help them in saving money. Solar driveway lighting is one such solution, which will not only help in saving money but also it is a clean technology and does not cause any harm to the environment. Solar lights work on a simple principle. These absorb natural light in the daytime and use them once dusk sets in. Usually, solar lights when fully charged provide 8-10 hours of continuous light. Another advantage of using solar driveway lights is that these are just standing units and do not require any kind of wires or cables.
Due to their wide popularity, the solar light manufacturing companies are offering a gigantic range of solar driveway lighting. These lights are now coming in varied shapes, sizes and styles thus, giving you plenty of options to choose from. Driveway lights have emerged as one of the most popular home accessories as it makes your house look more fashionable that too, without costing much. These can be easily spotted from a distance. Due to their ever rising demand, the prices of solar lights have also gone down tremendously in recent years.
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The initial cost of solar lights are no doubt high, however you will be able to recover the cost in a short period of time by saving on your electricity bill. Also, in the absence of any installation or running cost, solar driveway lights are a fair deal. These lights have a positive impact on the environment. The potential of the solar energy is known to almost everyone. It is high time now that we should devise new and innovative methods to harness this form of energy and put it into use in our daily lives and solar lights for driveway is one such example.Tags: driveway lighting, led driveway lights, solar driveway light, solar driveway lighting, solar driveway lights, solar powered driveway lights


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"This is the first time we have exhibited the chain cutter in France," says Klaus Ertmer, Kemroc managing director and the inventor of all the attachments. "Because the cutting head has a chain in the middle, it means that you can dig very small, deep trenches with the machine." Emroc developed the machine in response to feedback from customers, says Ertmer. Standard cutter attachments have cutting wheels at either edge, and must be moved from one side to another to dig the trench, whereas with the EK tools, a straight cut is possible. This requires less skill from the excavator or backhoe operator and also speeds up the process. Ertmer started developing the EK range in 2012, perfecting the chain technology – which has been patented - in the Middle East. "It took us a long time to make the chain reliable," says Ertmer. "It wasn't easy." To date, Kemroc has sold around 60 EK attachments, says Ertmer, largely in the Middle East but also in Europe too. Visitors to Ertrmer's stand, which is adjacent to that of its French dealer, Witek, can also see the combination of a slim DMW cutter wheel with its new C&B breaker tool. This system could be used to demolish reinforced concrete structures or for rock extraction.
The DMW wheel is first used to cut slots in the concrete or rock, with the spacing and depth dependent on the material being cut. The wedge-shaped breaker with picks at either side of its tip is then pushed into the grooves to force the concrete or rock apart.
"It makes a good alternative where drill and blast is not possible, due to restrictions on noise or vibration," says Ertmer. "It can be used for breaking soft or medium-hardness rock." Though Ertner designed his first cutting tool attachment in 2000, Kemroc has only been in existence for just over a year - since Atlas Copco acquired Ertmer's firm Erkat which supplies traditional trenching tools, without the central chain technology. Kemroc supplies markets around the world, says Ertner, including its home country of Germany, Switzerland, North Africa, Japan and the US.


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How SMBs can Achieve Real-Time Marketing in Four Easy Steps
Many businesses wrestle with the notion that they do not have the marketing and analytics power to execute real-time marketing campaigns. In large part, resistance to real-time initiatives stems from the common misconception that all real-time efforts are reactionary. There is a persistent fear among marketers that real-time operations are an unachievable standard that many companies are not equipped to handle. This is especially prevalent among companies that lack a large, dedicated marketing staff, which is common for small businesses.
Often times, SMB owners wear many hats within their companies. In these cases, the owner is responsible for leading the marketing department; a big undertaking for a person that likely lacks the time, expertise and resources to establish real-time marketing campaigns.
Despite these roadblocks, small businesses can easily embrace real-time marketing with strategic planning. That's because real-time marketing is actually a technical practice that marketers can anticipate and plan for. While marketers should always strive to respond to consumers in real-time, much of the necessary analysis can happen well before interaction occurs with help from triggers and programmatic execution. With proper preparation and data, small businesses can bolster their campaigns with real-time capabilities that better engage consumers.
Here are four proven steps for real-time marketing success:
Step One: Create a Marketing Plan
Before marketers ever connect with customers, they need to know who their typical prospect or customer profile is, what messaging they will deploy and how they are looking to engage with their audience. By understanding your most loyal customers and segmenting them according to demographics and online behaviors, marketers remove much of the guesswork from real-time capabilities. Creating a helpful marketing plan starts with knowing who you are marketing to.
When marketers understand their target audience, they can remove a good deal of the noise that clutters real-time social channels. Marketers that track these attributes online and overlay B2B and B2C data gain an even deeper understanding of their customers. This means that they can achieve stronger interactions with the consumers that matter most.
Step Two: Define the Sales Funnel
After locating the best customers, marketers have to be intentional about determining each prospect's position within the sales funnel. However, to do so, marketers have to first define what their business funnel looks like.
To create the sales funnel, marketers must ask themselves what the typical buying cycle looks like for their customers. How long after visiting the site do they make a purchase? How many points of contact does it take to actually get them to go to the site in the first place? Consumers who are at-market should be treated differently than those who are not.
Additionally, every line of business within a company requires a unique sales funnel. Once the funnel has concrete structures, marketers can begin to place target audiences within them, altering messaging and channel preferences accordingly.
Step Three: Plan Your Creative Strategy
With the sales funnel defined, marketers should then create content to support every stage of the funnel. This creative strategy should include mediums like email, display ads, direct mail, search engine marketing and landing pages for remarketing efforts.
Creative content should serve to motivate prospects to the next stage of the funnel. For example, marketers can motivate customers that have abandoned their shopping carts to complete their purchase by sending them creative content, such as a promotional coupon.
Step Four: Reach out in Real-Time through Multichannel Campaigns
The work does not stop once a marketer has established creative for all stages of the funnel. In order to fully leverage today's communication networks, marketers have to develop multichannel campaigns that interact with consumers at many touch points. By looking at the results of previous campaigns and identifying which channels performed best for each type of customer along the funnel, marketers can reach the right prospects, with the right content, at the right time.
Marketers should use retargeting to engage consumers in real-time, even after they have left a retailer's site. Here, display ads or emails can extend your content beyond initial interactions. Do not forget about direct mail, either. Although direct mail is often overshadowed by digital avenues, it actually has the highest open rates and impression value with consumers.
The key to real-time marketing is preparation. Foresight is invaluable, and marketers should have their strategy in place well before then. If this is not possible, do not hesitate to partner with a third-party vendor for support.
Successful real-time marketing can help businesses large and small get to the next level of business growth. With a little forward thinking and a structured method for responding, any business can better understand target audiences, track sales cycles and implement real-time marketing campaigns.
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The firm's new research tool, the Aon DC Pension Tracker, shows the value of DC pension assets stood at £550bn in the beginning of the crisis in September 2007 and 16 months on, at the end of January this year, the value had been slashed to £410bn.
The DC pension tracker aims to provide a realistic gauge of how the nation's combined DC pension pot, into which over 3.7 million UK workers pay, is faring. It tracks the change in size of the DC pension market and calculates the expected pension income at retirement for people of different ages.
It shows that a 60-year-old who is contributing 10 per cent of their £25,000 salary and expecting to retire in five years has seen their total projected pension fall by 36 per cent, meaning they can now expect to receive £10,900 annually compared with the £17,100 forecast in September 2007.
The impact on younger workers is not so severe, according to Aon. A 30-year-old employee over the same period has seen their projected pension fall 8.5 per cent, as the effect of the current economic crisis is tempered by future contributions and the length of time until retirement.
Principal Helen Dowsey says: "Over the last year, DC pension scheme savers have been hit hard by the falls in equity markets and people need to take an active role in reviewing their pensions. We urge both employers and employees to maintain the long-term view that pensions are the best way to save for retirement."


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How to Adjust Feeding Amount of Electromagnetic Vibrating Feeder
The prominent advantages of electromagnetic vibrating feeder include continuous adjustment of feeding quantity, single engine regulation and automatic adjustment according to the control signal. There are mainly following three adjusting modes:
1. Change the excitation frequency.
In the unchanged vibration intensity situations, reduce the vibration frequency so that to reduce the number of jumps for the single particles in unit time. When the amplitude is stable, the feeding rate can be decreased. When the excitation amplitude is constant, the change of all indexes will make the amplitude decreased as well as the feeding rate. It should be noted that variable frequency power supply ensures the constant ratio of voltage and frequency invariant, but if frequency conversion method is adopted, it will be more complex with less application. If the frequency is lower, its corresponding amplitude will increase, which can increase the feeding quantity of the feeding machine.
2. Change the excitation force of the system.
By changing the excitation force of the system, the amplitude can be changed so as to achieve the purpose of regulating the feeding quantity. Electromagnetic vibrating feeder can adopt the excitation frequency of 50Hz can be when it is used simply for feeding; but when it has arch breaking capacity, it is appropriate to use frequency control circuit with 25Hz vibration frequency.
3. Install a flow control valve in the discharge port.
The flow control valve has other supporting products. The installation of flow control valve on the outlet of electromagnetic vibration feeder cannot only adjusted the feeding amount, but also serve as the gate to stem the materials which are not easy to lock. If the electric flow control valve is used, the automatic control of the machine can be achieved.


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Last July, my husband and I had a marvelous vacation in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas. I wrote about visiting historic sites like Gettysburg and enjoying amazing southern food and hospitality.
One thing I didn't emphasize enough was the Smithsonian Museum's programs on the Asian American experience. It was newish at the time and in the Natural History Museum, I lingered at a wall exhibit on Asian American food, reading up on noteworthy chef, restaurateurs, and celebrities such as Cecilia Chiang, Martin Yan and David Chang. It's not like the Asian-American food experience is totally different than that of other people in the U.S. but it comes in different flavors.
The Smithsonian is being creative with how it is collecting information on Asian American foodways. For example, author and writer Pat Tanumihardja's blog, Pickles and Tea, is being hosted by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Pat asked if I'd do a Q&A about the banh mi evolution/revolution and I immediately said, "Yes!"
I've done a number of press interviews and Q&As since The Banh Mi Handbook released, but no one asked me what it was like to eat banh mi as my school lunch, or how different I felt growing up, eating food that was different than that of my friends and neighbors. Then there's the bit about the banana leaf hacking and my mom's mock dog stew. Read the complete Q&A here. (There's also a book giveaway too.)
Although I touched on some of those cultural points with Christine Gallary, food editor at theKitchn.com, we mostly focused on strategies for crafting the perfect banh mi sandwich. Get the lowdown from Christine's story, "8 Expert Tips for Building the Perfect Banh Mi".
P.S. I'm traveling this week and as you may have gathered from my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram posts, I've been taping radio interviews with two of my favorite food radio programs: Good Food, hosted by Evan Kleiman on KCRW and The Splendid Table, hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and American Public Media. I've also been setting up what promises to be a very fun banh mi event in downtown Los Angeles. I'll keep you updated as things develop and air dates are announced for the radio interviews.
If you had awkward experiences eating 'weird' things while growing up, do tell! I can't imagine that I'm alone…
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