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Christmas food shopping uncovered
by BBC News Online's Emma Clark
Behind the scenes Christmas' little helpers are working overtime to deliver all the goodies we look forward to over the holiday period.
And we are not talking about Santa Claus' elves, but a band of supply managers who spend 14 months planning for Christmas to ensure there are enough sprouts and turkeys to go round.
Kate Barham is Sainsbury's Christmas project manager 2001 and has spent the past year co-ordinating planning across the chain's different departments.
She has certainly been busy - Sainsbury's laid on 1,000 extra products for shoppers this Christmas.
Chris Saunby, general manager for fresh food supply, and Graeme Douglas, general manager for groceries, beer, wine and spirits, together stock the shelves with food for over eight million customers.
'A logistical nightmare'
As a result of intricate planning, the volume of food going through the supermarkets at Christmas almost doubles.
"It is a logistical nightmare to deal with the volumes," adds Tarlok Teji, a partner in the UK consumer business group at Deloitte & Touche.
"You have to have phased deliveries and be constantly building volume."
Phased deliveries
Alcohol and packeted products tend to hit the shelves first before the stores gear up for all the fresh produce.
In the last 10 days before Christmas, some of the major flagship supermarkets receive deliveries almost every hour to keep up with customer demand.
It is no wonder that the three months around Christmas are known as the "golden quarter".
Supermarkets rake in a substantial amount of their annual profits during this period.
Christmas autopsy
You might think that the supply managers could take a breather after Christmas, but in fact planning for the next year starts before the turkey even goes cold.
Over the entire holiday period, the supermarkets are constantly analysing sales.
"We have an autopsy," says Asda's Mr Saunby. "We look at what's happening during Christmas. We get store feedback and customer feedback before we place our orders for next year."
By February, Sainsbury's is planning production time for its Christmas puddings and last year took feedback from the Women's Institute.
Believe it or not - it also consulted with joke experts to improve the offerings in its crackers.
Summer run-through
The next burst of activity comes in the summer when the supermarkets enact a bizarre series of dress rehearsals.
"It is done overnight so that the customers were not annoyed by the snow flakes," she says.
Photos were taken and then shown to staff during training sessions so that they could get this year's Christmas look just right.
By September, the supermarkets start placing orders for Christmas.
Orders for some of the fresh food, such as sprouts, are constantly adjusted, even at the last minute, says Mr Saunby.
The biggest sellers are of course sprouts, turkey, wine, crackers and Christmas puddings.
About 90% of the turkeys and sprouts sold in a year are bought at Christmas.
Tesco, which has its own dedicated sprout manager, plans to sell 150 million sprouts in the week running up to Christmas.
If these sprouts were lined up they would reach to Brussels and back 11 times, according to the supermarket's own research.
Changing tastes
Over the years, stores have worked hard to mix the traditional products with innovations.
Marks & Spencer has traditionally been an innovator and played a key role in bringing luxury produce, such as stilton and preserves, to the mass market, says Jacquie Scull, a retail consultant at KPMG Consulting.
As Ms Barham points out, Christmas is about "lots of tradition with a slight twist".
The slight twist saw an strong uplift in sales for goose and duck last year, according to the British Retail Consortium.
Goose sales were likely influenced by a Delia Smith recipe - and it is a matter of priority for supermarkets to scan recipes of celebrity chefs to make sure that all the ingredients are readily available.
Seven more days to go...
With only a week to go until Christmas Eve, food shopping is shifting up a gear.
Asda has over 1,000 trucks on the road delivering food - 40% more than usual - as herds of customers begin to trample through the stores.
And ironically, for all their planning, Ms Barham, Mr Douglas and Mr Saunby will be leaving their food shopping until the last minute.
Perhaps that is a measure of their confidence that this year the shelves will not run dry on Christmas Eve.
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Street procession to launch Carnival on Friday
Carnival 2018 will be officially launched in Tobago on Friday with a procession from uptown Scarborough to GNV Place on Wilson Road, the new office for the Festivals Commission.
George Leacock, Chairman of the Commission, which is responsible for Carnival activities on the island, said the procession will begin at midday.
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Last Saturday, Tourism and Culture Secretary Nadine Stewart-Phillips said that Tobago's 2018 Carnival budget stays at $7.2 million, with the Tobago House of Assembly having considered current economic challenges in deciding on the allocation for celebrations in Tobago.
"The Executive, in considering the overall budget for 2018 Carnival celebrations, decided that due to the current economic realities, we would do a major cut from the 2017 budget of $10.5 million to $7.2 million in 2018. Therefore, even before the Minister (of Finance) announced the position the Government was adopting in Trinidad, the Tobago House of Assembly already did a slash on the entire budget," Stewart-Phillips told Newsday Tobago.
On December 15, the Executive Council approved the $7.2 million-budget for Tobago Carnival 2018.
Last Thursday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced a cut by one-third in financial donations for all events which receive sponsorship from the ministry and all government agencies, saying "it would be a general policy that would be coming out of the Ministry of Finance that we have to reduce the amount of the contributions across the board to all of these organisations."
Special interest groups, Pan Trinbago, the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) and the National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA), which receive state sponsorship in addition to state subventions from the National Carnival Commission, will also receive a cut in sponsorship funds at the same rate. The NCC is expected to receive an allocation of $160 million this year.
At the launch of Carnival 2018 last Friday at the VIP Lounge, Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Colin Lucas, National Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman, announced that Kings and Queens will return to the Queen's Park Savannah for the Dimanche Gras show, which will include elements of calypso and pan.
Lucas said a budget of $1.3- $3 million, excluding prize money, has been allocated for the show.


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Berkeley Today: Wednesday
In the news today: The Berkeley City Council agrees to Arizona sanctions and decides not to fine large family day care centers for retroactive penalties; Berkeley sets a limit for CO2 emissions; police warn of robberies; UC Berkeley freshmen get DNA swabs as welcome presents and Berkeley High School reopens the search for a new principal.
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City Council drops retroactive fees for large in-home day care centers
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Berkeley became the second city in the U.S. after Richmond, Calif. to recognize 350 PPM as the recommended carbon dioxide level based on scientific research. City Officials said that the resolution would help Berkeley reach its climate action goals. At first Councilmember Gordon Wozniak said he had some concerns about the resolution mainly because it might cost the city a lot of money, but then the council moved the agenda item and it was approved unanimously. So far, about 112 countries have adopted the same CO2 goal. For more information: www.350.org
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A discussion about the cost of funding a sunshine ordinance proposed by a group of Berkeley citizens was listed on the Council's Tuesday agenda as "Summary of Costs Related to the Initiative Ordinance Enacting New Requirements for the City Council and Rent Stabilization Board and Boards and Commissions Relating to Agendas and Meetings, Requiring Additional Disclosure of Public Records, and Creating a New Commission".It did not result in any votes being taken by the council.
City Manager Phil Kamlarz said that he thought the citizens' version of the sunshine ordinance would be extremely expensive. Several councilmembers suggested holding a workshop to discuss the ordinance, but Mayor Bates opposed holding a workshop unless the initiative is withdrawn, and no vote was taken. The citizens' group is currently trying to get signatures to put their proposed ordinance on the Nov. 2010 ballot. The city clerk informed the council that if the group fails to get the required number of signatures by next week then they will not be able to put it before the voters in November. They can continue until September to collect signatures to put it on the June 2012 ballot.
Berkeley police warn of robberies
Berkeley police are asking the public to remain vigilant about a group of robbers who sneak up on people from behind, hit them in the head and take off with their belongings. According to a press release from Berkeley police, the group—comprised of four men and women—has hit pedestrians three times in April and May. They robbed a person at Shattuck Avenue and Center Street in downtown Berkeley at midnight on April 28. On May 6, they struck people once in the 2500 block of Benvenue Avenue and again at Parker and Fulton streets. Police said that victims have described the group as two black men and two Latino women in their late teens or early 20s.
Anyone with any information should call the Berkeley Police robbery department at 510-981-5742.
UC Berkeley Freshmen get DNA swabs
Even as it struggles with budget cuts, fee hikes and layoffs, UC Berkeley is getting creative about ways to welcome its incoming freshmen. The latest idea involves taking DNA swabs from inside students' cheeks which would be analyzed to help them find ways to make their lives healthier. Some students in the class of 2014 will even get the chance to have their DNA mapped by the private DNA profiling company 23andMe. Although the university hasn't yet named a company who will carry out the DNA testing for the freshmen, the cost per 1,000 samples, according to the New York Times is a whopping $35,000 to $40,000.
Berkeley High to start principal selection process from scratch
With Principal Jim Slemp retiring in June and no suitable candidate in sight to replace him, Berkeley High School will be hiring a consultant to find the right person to lead Berkeley's only public high school. Slemp announced his retirement in March and since then the district has received more than 40 applications. The district, however, only picked a handful for interviews, of which only three showed up.
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Borwein, Jonathan M. (1986) Generic differentiability of order-bounded convex operators. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society: Series B: Applied Mathematics, 23 . pp. 22-29.
Borwein, Jonathan M. (1986) Norm duality for convex processes and applications. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 48 . pp. 53-64.
Borwein, Jonathan M. (1986) Partially monotone operators and the generic differentiability of convex-concave and bi-convex mappings. Israel Journal of Mathematics, 54 . pp. 42-50.
Borwein, Jonathan M. (1986) Stability and regular points of inequality systems. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 48 . pp. 9-52.
Borwein, Jonathan M. and Borwein, David (1986) A note on alternating series in several dimensions. MAA Monthly, 93 . pp. 531-539.
Borwein, Jonathan M. and Borwein, Peter (1986) More quadratically converging algorithms for $ \pi$. J. Math. Computation, 43 . pp. 247-253.
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Borwein, Jonathan M. and Strojwas, H. M. (1986) Proximal analysis and boundaries of closed sets in Banach space, Part I: theory. Canadian Journal of Math., 38 . pp. 431-452.
Borwein, Jonathan M. and Wolkowicz, H. (1986) A simple constraint qualification in infinite dimensional programming. Mathematical Programming, 35 . pp. 83-96.
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Lazar, Aldo J. and Tsui, S.-K. and Wright, Steve (1986) Derivations from hereditary subalgebras of C*-algebras. Canad. J. Math., 38 (1). pp. 109-126.
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Miss Millie's Groom by Catherine E. Chapman
Publisher & Release: Self-Published, September 10, 2016
Time and setting: 1914-1919, England
Genre: Historical Romance/Edwardian
Length: 148 pages
Heat Level: 1 Sweetheart
Rating: 3.5 Gold Crowns
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It is the summer of 1914 and Britain teeters on the brink of war. Society girl, Millicent Awbridge, is oblivious to the impending conflict and preoccupied with the recent shooting of her horse. When she confronts the culprit, Ryan O'Flynn, a groom in her father's service, Millie finds romance rather than hostility. The encounter sparks a series of events that brings Millie's burgeoning womanhood to fruition.
Millie and Ryan's affair is conducted in secret but Millie's aunt has her suspicions and is determined to bring an end to it. Inevitably, the war also impacts on the young people's lives and others are implicated in the muddle. Will Millie and Ryan ever be truly united?
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This is the first book I have read by Catherine E. Chapman. Miss Millie's Groom is available through the Kindle Unlimited program, but I discovered it when reviewing book review requests to the Romantic Historical Book Lovers blog. I normally enjoy books set during the Great War, so I decided to give it a read.
Millicent Awbridge is a bit of a hoyden, enjoying a rousing ride on her horse more than the role of society girl her aunt Rose intends for her. When her beloved animal has to be put down, she is filled with rage and seeks out the culprit who did the deed.
Ryan O'Flynn is a groom in Millie's father's stable and the young man who had to destroy the horse. Millie's anger quickly turns from ire and attraction. Ryan, realizing how unsuitable it would be for them to entertain the attraction does all he can to discourage the strong-willed and determined miss. Going so far, as joining the army and going to war.
When Ryan returns after injury, they see each other again at the hospital where Millie works. The attraction between them is as stronger as before he left, but Millie's aunt has thrown an obstacle in their path.
Will Millie and Ryan find a way to move beyond the difference in class and find the love they both crave, or will Millie's aunt's machinations keep them apart?
Miss Millie's Groom was different than I expected, but a very interesting read. I found the pacing steady for the most part, although, at times, it did slow a bit due to a bit too much telling rather than showing.
Millicent's character is vivacious, endearing and determined. I truly enjoyed Millie's character a great deal from the first page to the last. Her character reminds me of Sybil from Downton Abby, the popular period drama by Julian Fellowes that ran for six seasons on Masterpiece theater. In fact, this novel had other overtones from that drama.
Ryan O'Flynn's character is an interesting hero, but I did not get to know him as well as I would have liked. Most of this book is in Millie's POV, so I didn't glean very much of Ryan's insights and feelings. He is a likable character, though and reminded me a bit of Tom from Downton Abby, although not as fierce in his beliefs as Tom's character is.
While Miss Millie's Groom does have a romance, it is more of a glimpse of a young girl's turning of age during the Great War. I did enjoy the romance between the pair, but I would have liked to see it a bit more fleshed out, which was the case with the characters as well.
Any fans of Downton Abby will enjoy Miss Millie's Groom, but please don't expect the brilliance of that drama. This is a sweet story, but it did lack depth. Nonetheless, I did enjoy it, and I am glad I had an opportunity to read it. Happy reading!


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I realize that I need a fresh start...to start from square one. So, this is the word that I picked to represent what is needed to be done this year:
* To remove by or as if by cleansing
* To rid of sin or guilt
I almost picked that word! I decided on cleanse instead, but I basically meant exactly what you said your goal was for this year:) We'll have to help each other this year since our words are so similar!
Its heavy inside and difficult during the process of release... but once the weight is lifted, Kelli girl, you will have freedom. We just always need parentheses on our words... and inside it reads: be consistent!
I think that is a GREAT word for you - for all of us!! Looking forward to seeing how you PURGE this year!
What a fabulous word! I think we could all use a bit of purging here and there in our lives.
Oh that is a good one!! My word for this year is going to be PEACE. I need to be more at peace, have a peaceful home, and create more peace.
I'm still working out my word, simplify. It is going to coincide with yours a bit I think... Looking forward to this year and glad to call you friend.
I just found your blog while I was trying to figure out how to do Ten on Ten, and I really love it! I agree with purge being a great word. I'm still trying to figure out mine. :)
Oh girl that is a hard word but a wonderful one. My word for this year is seek. I need to seek so many things but mostly HIS presence and His will.
What a GREAT WORD!!!!! I love it! I think we can all stand to do a little purging in life:) I commend you, friend! You will do well with this years word, I KNOW it. Just don't {purge} me! Love ya!
I love this word. I need to do some purging. I think I overwhelm myself and take on too much.
The last sentence of your post is amazing. I need to put that on my fridge.


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A new study indicates the Internet can help dieters keep the weight off.
For many people trying to shed a few kilograms, it's hard enough to lose the weight, but many experts say it's even harder to keep the weight off. Now, a new study indicates that the Internet can help.
People in the study had already lost an average of nine kilos. The challenge they faced was maintaining their new weight.
To test various strategies, researchers randomly assigned participants to one of three groups. Some were told to meet with a counselor once a month. Another group was asked to try a weight management website. People in the third group were on their own.
Those who got personal counseling did the best, regaining about four kilos. The website users regained about five point two kilos - overall, not much better than the control group, which had no structured weight maintenance program.
But study author Kristine Funk, a dietitian and researcher at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research says those averages mask significant differences within the group of website users. She says the online tool was very effective for those who used it at least once a month.
"The participants in the consistent use category regained 56 percent of the amount they had lost, whereas the participants who used the website minimally regained nearly all their weight," she said. "So the tool here does help participants, if they use it."
Users visiting the website created for this study were asked to enter their weight, the food they'd eaten, and their physical activity. The website followed their progress, provided tips and encouragement, and offered bulletin boards where users could compare notes and motivate each Funk says it's not the same as one-on-one counseling, but she points out that the personal approach may not always be possible or convenient.
"Partly because, while personal counseling and a personal coach might be the Cadillac version of weight loss maintenance, it may not be practical for all people after they've lost weight, whereas if an Internet website can prove to be helpful, something like an Internet website is available.
She also says that, when the upfront costs of developing a website like that are spread over a lot of participants, the web approach would likely be cheaper than individual counseling.
Kristine Funk's study on Web-based weight loss management is published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.


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|Not Arizona, but Death Valley... Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
An installation by the artist Ibrahim Quarashi uses the iconic American highway to track what he calls "the end of cowboyism."
Quirashi, described as a Pakistani now based in Europe (Berlin and Amsterdam) was born in Nairobi, according to the web site of a gallery that represents him. The "enigma of the Western cowboy" is said to have long been one of his obsessions.
His "Dreaming of Arizona" installation dates from 2009, when it was first shown in Amsterdam, but it has recently been mounted in Massachusetts.
It is yet another example of the many ways in which people around the world are caught up in the mythology of the American West and the Frontier; with the "highway" often playing a mystical as well and mythical role, redolent of all sorts of symbolism.
In Dreaming Arizona, Quarashi states on his web site
a metaphoric journey through the legendary Highway 64 is created to expose the end of cowboyism through a series of 7 films within 7 different time frames and 7 sets of photo prints.
It seems to me that he may actually mean legendary Route 66, since, coming from the east, Highway 64 stops at the Arizona border. Oddly enough, an article about Quarashi and the installation in the North Adams Transcript refers to -- and quotes Quarashi as referring to -- the highway at Highway 67, which in fact runs north-south and also does not enter Arizona....
The article, by Jess Gamari, quotes Quarashi as saying:
In Dreaming Arizona, I aim to simultaneously expose the structures that influence how we see the codes of an American Cowboy, with references from to Spaghetti Westerns, homo- eroticism, and pop culture like Andy Warhol [...] It gives a sense of how travel is so connected to the desire of an ideal that is perhaps never reached in the world of modern cowboys. I suppose Dreaming Arizona is a metaphoric journey through the legendary Highway 67 to expose the end of cowboy-ism through a series of seven films within seven different time frames, structure and inner sequences.
The exhibit, he added
looks at "the spatial analysis on the structures that influence how we see a world, a particular space wanting to metaphorically indulge in the illusions of a cowboys' hyper-masculinity without any of its real responsibilities," he said. " [Traveling through the American heartland] is a contemporary metaphor for an endless road trip that hold a very religious resonance is definitely subconscious but always present in the psyche.
Gamari writes that in 2007, Quarashi rented a white Bronco and traveled through Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Texas and Colorado, and later took a closer look at Mexican cowboys in Yucatan, Veracruz and Oaxaca.
Here is a video of the installation, from Quarashi's web site -- the text at the beginning and end of the film is also interesting as a description of the project.


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The section of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert is a land rich in resources and ripe with opportunity, but also held back by a complex web of monumental challenges. Violence, poverty and famine have wracked the region. At the heart of these issues is a lack of political stability, due to weak or corrupt governments.
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Iranians in Toronto United on the 10th Anniversary of July 9th 1999 Student Uprising:published on Friday, July 10, 2009
Hundreds of protestors in Toronto gathered on Mel Lastman Square on Thursday July 9th 2009 between 6pm-10pm to mark the 10th year anniversary of July 9th 1999 student uprising in Iran.
Hundreds of protestors gathered around the main stage on Mel Lastman Square, with hundreds of Lion and Sun Flags, listening to speeches from various artists and activists as well as singing the national anthem and listening to various revolutionary songs.
Tens of leftist activists staged their protest at the entrance of Mel Lastman Square, while tens of protestors with candles staged their protest in the mid section of Mel Lastman square. It must be noted that this was the only section of the demonstration that was relatively silent, while both leftist activists and those with Lion and Sun were very vocal with their slogans of "Down with the Islamic Regime" "Down with Khamenei" "Down with Rafsanjani" "Mousavi is an excuse the entire Regime is marked" and "freedom, Equality" etc...
The most memorable moment of the protest came around 9:00pm when the group of "silent protestors" who were mostly young students came and joined the "Lion and Sun" protestors. They were welcomed with open arms and some of them took to the stage and started shouting slogans such as "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we are all together" and "free political prisoners". Later on all protestors held hands regardless of their beliefs and ideas and regardless of whether they were holding a Lion and Sun Flag, a green sign or nothing at all, and started singing "Yare Dabestani" (my classmate) which is associated with July 9th 1999 student uprising.
Many of the protestors holding the Lion and Sun flag also lit candles which they were given by young students, and some of the protestors were so overwhelmed by the gesture of these young students, that they were in tears. It was a beautiful, unifying moment for Iranians in Toronto and it certainly made me proud to be an Iranian.
Near the conclusion of the program one of the speakers thanked the Honourable Prime Minister Stephan Harper for supporting the Iranian people in their quest for freedom and democracy in Iran.
Last night's protest united the Iranian people and I hope to see this unity continue. I will finish with one of the most popular slogans both in Iran and Toronto "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we are all together" and for the Islamic Regime "be very afraid, be very afraid, because we are all together."
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran


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37 week observations
We're full term today! I'm still amazed at just how fast this year has gone by. It seems like just yesterday we were breaking the news to family and friends.
For the majority of my pregnancy I have felt wonderful and I do still feel relatively good. But over the past 2-3 weeks thing have gotten increasingly more difficult. I can't walk as far or as long as I used to. I now have to force myself to take breaks which I'm really not used to. My abdomen is in a constant state of tightness. Over the past 2 days I've started having some mild painless but uncomfortable cramping accompanied with what I think are some Braxton Hicks contractions.
Some observations . . .
-Going to the bathroom is not only often but is quite a chore. Getting down there to wipe completely is a feat in itself. Seriously God should have rethought perhaps growing my arms a couple inches as my belly increased in sized.
-Sleeping is no longer straight through the night and anything but comfortable for more than a little while before needing to re-adjust my position (I'll admit I'm probably pretty fortunate that my good nights of sleep lasted as long as they did).
-Strangers now stare instead of just glancing at me and my protruding belly. This could just be my own paranoia but it seems as though I'm my own little mobile freak show. I could/should start charging admission. :)
-Jeans are no longer my friend. I know people cringe at the thought of being pregnant in the summer but honestly its been a god send to me. I've been able to live in yoga capris, long tanks, comfy cotton skirts and flip flops. I wore jeans the past couple of days (after a little bit of a hiatus from them) with the more comfortable weather but regretted it by the end of the day as they started to dig badly into the bottom of my belly. I think they're past their expiration date and/or he's dropped considerably.
And with 37 weeks comes a completed nursery! Here are some pics of the little guys new room all completed (minus his name letters that will be hung this weekend). I must say he's already a pretty lucky little boy. :)


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The Festival aims at carrying forward the Pingju art and continuously extending its influence at home and abroad. During the festival, activities include the appraisal and performance of excellent plays, academic seminar, competition among Pingju fans, and exhibition week of Pingju films. The festival's organizing committee attaches importance to the characteristics of the era and the mass participation. Moreover, it has increased economic activities since the third festival. China Pingju Festival has made great contribution to the artistic exchange and development of Pingju.
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July 24, 2010
Weekly Arab Political Magazine
Palestinian, Arab, Islamic warnings against Israel's construction plans in Jerusalem
U.S. urged to immediately intervene to deter Israel
Turkey closes airspace to Israeli flights
U.S.-Israel relations suffering "tectonic rift," says Israeli ambassador in Washington
Barak proposes plan in U.S. to start peace negotiations with Syria
Arab Inter-parliamentary Union (AIPU) Secretary General Nour El-Din Boushkouj called on all world parliaments and the international community to practice pressures on the Israeli occupation authorities to release Palestinian parliamentarians from Israeli jails and abolish military decisions to banish them from Jeruslaem and Palestinian territories.
Boushkouj, in press statements, condemned the occupation authorities' demolition of Palestinian homes to force their owners to move away and refusal to grant construction licenses for the Palestinians, particularly in Jerusalem, to build new houses to cope with the normal increase in population.
"The Israeli violations and crimes have even extended to include mosques and churches by denying access to worshippers to go to Al-Aqsa Mosque," he said during an AIPU conference in the Sultanate of Oman.
Meanwhile, The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) warned on Monday of an Israeli plan to expand Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem on Palestinian-owned property.
"Such Israeli plans will negatively impact the U.S-sponsored indirect peace talks," PNA spokesman Nabil Abu Rdineh said in a press release.
Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on Monday that the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee is set to approve "an unprecedented master plan that calls for the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem."
The daily added that the move is largely based on construction on privately owned Arab property.
Abu Rdineh urged the U.S. administration to rapidly move to stop Israel's plans "that blocks the progress of the peace process. "
The United States sponsors indirect proximity talks between the Palestinians and the Israeli which started in May.
The indirect talks are scheduled to last four months, aimed at bridging the gap between the two parties and confidence building to head for direct negotiations.
Palestinians say talks can not witness success as long as Israel is continuing settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and the eastern Arab section of East Jerusalem which they want as a future capital.
The PNA on Wednesday welcomed statements by a European Union (EU) official that described Israel's policy of house demolitions in Jerusalem as "an obstacle to peace."
"Such statements are encouraging," Palestinian official Wafa news agency quoted the PNA's spokesman Nabil Abu Rdineh as saying.
"The EU's stance is a clear message to Israel that peacemaking is in danger because of its practices on the ground," he added.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday in a statement that "settlements and the demolition of homes are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible."
On Sunday, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clashed in Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem where the Jewish state is going to demolish 22 Palestinian-owned houses for settlement purposes.
Abu Rdineh urged the United States and the international Quartet to take "decisive steps to stop Israel's plans in Jerusalem that would definitely harm the peace process."
Israel's Channel 10 news reported on Wednesday that work began to construct a new neighborhood for settlers in the Shepherd Hotel complex in East Jerusalem.
Fatah official in charge of Jerusalem affairs, Hatem Abdul Qader, told Xinhua that this act proves Israel's intention to thwart the U.S.-mediated proximity talks.
In May, the Palestinians and Israel went for indirect proximity talks under an American umbrella.
The four-month proximities are meant to bridge the gap between the two sides to resume direct talks which halted in 2008 when Israel launched an all-out attack on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
In Ankara, Turkey has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, the Turkish prime minister and officials said Monday. An official said civilian commercial flights were not affected.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Toronto that Turkey imposed a ban on Israeli flights after the May 31 raid on a Turkish ship that was part of a six-vessel international aid flotilla, according to the state-run Anatolia news agency.
The prime minister, who is in Canada to attend a summit of the Group of 20 major industrial and developing nations, did not elaborate.
A Turkish government official said, however, that the ban was for Israeli military flights and that commercial flights were not affected. It was not a blanket ban and each flight request would be assessed case-by-case, the official added. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government rules that bar officials from speaking to journalists without prior authorization.
On Sunday, Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported that Turkey had not allowed a plane carrying Israeli military officers, en route to a tour of memorial sites in Auschwitz, Poland, to fly over Turkish airspace.
The transport plane, with more than 100 officers on board, was forced to make a detour, the paper said.
The Israeli military "refrained from responding officially to the event so not to exacerbate the rift in relations," the newspaper added.
The Israeli prime minister's office had no comment on Erdogan's statements.
Eight Turks and a Turkish-American were killed in the raid that drew Turkish outrage and widespread international condemnation.
The aid ships were sailing to Gaza to break an Israeli blockade that it said it imposed to keep weapons and other military components out of the hands of Gaza militants who have attacked Israel with bombs, rockets and mortars for years.
Israel insists troops involved in the deadly raid acted in self-defense after being attacked by some of the activists on board.
Turkey, which had a close alliance with Israel until the three-week Gaza war, which ended in early 2009, withdrew its ambassador and canceled joint military drills in response to the raid. It has said it will not return its ambassador and will reduce military and trade ties unless Israel apologizes for the raid. It also wants Israel to return the seized aid ships, agree to an international investigation and offer compensation for the victims.
"Up to now, we have done whatever is necessary within the rules of law — whether national or international — and we will continue to do so," Anatolia quoted Erdogan as saying, adding that ties with Israel could return to normal if the Jewish state meets Turkey's demands.
"We are not interested in making a show. We don't desire such a thing and we have been very patient in the face of these developments," he said, according to Anatolia.
Israel has objected to an international inquiry into the operation and has set up its own investigative commission that includes two foreign observers.
On the other hand, Israel's ambassador to Washington said that relations between Israel and its most staunch ally, the US, have suffered a "tectonic rift".
Michael Oren briefed Israeli diplomats on the deterioration between the countries ahead of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House early next month.
Oren said the situation had moved beyond a crisis that eventually passes. "There is no crisis in Israel-US relations, because in a crisis there are ups and downs," he told the diplomats in Jerusalem. "Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart." His analysis will alarm Israel's political establishment, which is feeling isolated internationally and under pressure to take concrete steps over the blockade of Gaza and settlement building in the West Bank.
Oren said President Barack Obama made judgments about Israel on the basis of cold calculation, in contrast to predecessors George W Bush and Bill Clinton, who were motivated by historical and ideological factors. He suggested Obama was less likely to be influenced by pro-Israel supporters inside or outside the White House. "This is a one-man show," he was quoted as saying.
Netanyahu and Obama are due to meet in Washington on July 6th after talks were postponed following Israel's lethal assault on the aid flotilla trying to break the blockade of Gaza.
Netanyahu is keen for the meeting to be seen as a success after a string of difficult issues ruptured relations. At his last visit to Washington, Obama declined to hold a photo call with him.
The agenda of next week's meeting is unlikely to prove painless for Netanyahu. As well as discussing the flotilla debacle, Obama is expected to press for further action to allow imports, exports and people to move more freely to and from Gaza. Obama is expected to again raise the vexed issue of settlement construction. The 10-month partial freeze, wrung out of Netanyahu after months of pressure, is due to end in late September.
Oren's remarks go further than comments he made in March after the crisis over an Israeli announcement of a big expansion in a Jerusalem settlement during a visit by US vice-president Joe Biden. Then, Oren told colleagues US-Israeli relations were at their worst in 35 years.
Netanyahu delivered a robust speech to the Israeli parliament last week, warning that the Jewish state's legitimacy was under attack and criticizing the UN and other international bodies for condemning Israeli policies and actions.
Also in Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak focused on reviving direct Israeli-Palestinian talks "as soon as possible", a US official said.
The pair also reviewed Israel's announcement at the weekend to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip, run by the militant Hamas group, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters.
"They discussed the prospects for a comprehensive peace in the region, with a renewed focus on moving as soon as possible from proximity to direct negotiations to achieve a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," he added.
The Palestinians reluctantly agreed to launch the indirect talks in May after months of shuttle diplomacy by US envoy George Mitchell, but said they would not move to direct talks without a complete Israeli settlement freeze.
Crowley said it was likely Mitchell, who returned at the weekend from another tour of the Middle East, attended the talks with Barak and Clinton at the State Department on Wednesday.
The State Department has welcomed Israel's plans to ease its Gaza blockade and believes the move will greatly improve living conditions in the Palestinian enclave once it is actually implemented.
Israel announced at the weekend it would allow all strictly "civilian" goods into Gaza while preventing a specific list of weapons and dual-use items from entering the Hamas-run territory.
The diplomatic quartet of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations plan to watch the implementation closely.
Crowley said Clinton would "note that the US, along with the quartet ...., the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and other concerned parties, will work with Israel to help ensure implementation of this new policy."
But the United States expects more from Israel, he added.
"I'm sure she will also mention that, while .... this is an important step forward, but there is still more progress to be made," Crowley said.
"And I'm sure she will welcome, too, Israel's formation of an independent public commission, including outside international observers to investigate the tragic events on board the flotilla headed toward Gaza," he said.
He added that the pair will also "discuss Israel's legitimate and urgent security concerns, including Syria, Iran, and Hamas and Hezbollah."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose authority has been confined to the occupied West Bank since Hamas seized power in Gaza and ousted his forces in 2007, insisted Israel must completely lift the four-year-old blockade.
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Background in foreign exchange, maths and economics now put to use at Stirlingshire cleaning products supplier
There are a relatively narrow number of things to master in the world of foreign exchange, but successful traders must grasp them completely. Depth of knowledge in a limited field is the main element that separates those at the top from the rest.
For 13 years, that's what Robert Ross did, eventually making it to global head of G10 currencies at HSBC in London. But he knew he would eventually come back to Stirlingshire, where he is now the fourth generation to run family-owned Alexander Ross Holdings.
"I have always liked history," he says. "The history of the family business, and taking that on was something that I never questioned. I always knew I was going to take it on, but I wanted to go and do something else first."
Predisposed to mathematics and business from an early age, he found a natural home in the City after studying economics at Stirling and Strathclyde universities. Between working days typically lasting ten hours or more, he also succeeded for many years in finding time to pursue his passion for circuit racing, though that eventually came to an end.
"I actually fell asleep in the pit lane in Portugal, with all of these other cars speeding by," Ross recalls. "I just remember thinking to myself, 'I am not at peak performance'."
His final three years in the City were similarly notable, covering the onset of the global financial crisis that sent trading rooms into seemingly non-stop pandemonium. It was time to leave, and after a six-month break to go skiing around the world, he returned in May 2011 to the Ochil Hills and the company set up by his great-grandfather.
With a group turnover of £15.4 million, Alexander Ross Holdings includes three business – cleaning products supplier Unico, set up by the original Robert Ross in 1923; Scottish Fine Soaps, launched in 1974; and Montague Lloyd, a subsidiary that specialises in luxury hotel toiletries.
So there was plenty to be getting on with, but after so many supercharged years, surely it was nothing Ross couldn't handle? Well, yes – and no.
"There are so many different things that you have to look at," he says. "In the morning it might be sorting out logistics, and in the afternoon it could be fashions in packaging, or you might be in the lab with the chemists or in the finance department, or sorting out IT issues or a problem on the production line.
"I did struggle a little bit at first. I went from knowing my subject 100 per cent to being a little bit lost with the mass of variety."
The larger Unico division provides janitorial and catering supplies within a conventional geography, but Scottish Fine Soaps has evolved along different lines during its four decades of trading. It generates less than 20 per cent of its turnover – nearly £6m last year – from sales within the UK.
Stocked throughout the US by the TJ Maxx retail chain, Scottish Fine Soaps are additionally exported to more than 30 other countries. In its home market, the brand is stocked mainly by smaller gift shops, and is also available online.
Collections include the company's most popular Au Lait, which is made from real milk, and the newly relaunched Sea Kelp line rich in minerals and coastal fragrances. Two further collections – "Larch & Lavender" and "Pink Grapefruit & Argan Oil" – were added earlier this year, and more are in the pipeline.
Ross believes all could gain a significant following among UK consumers, particularly after last year's major rebranding to contemporary premium packaging. The enticing look invites shoppers to pick up a product and have a sniff – a key component in securing sales.
The next step, Ross says, is to make these products more readily available. While online theoretically covers the whole of the UK, it can't replicate the "sniff factor". Small shops have been a good mainstay in this regard, but they are often unable to carry the full range of products.
The company has appointed French-born Stephanie Shaw, formerly of luxury goods house LVMH, to drive listings within the UK. One of her main jobs will be to get Scottish Fine Soaps stocked within department stores and other national retailers. This could then unlock the possibility of advertising.
"We can't really do anything like that right now," Ross said. "In an advertising campaign you have to tell people where they can go to buy your product, and nationally, we don't have anywhere we can point them to."
Ross believes that tackling these issues could double sales of the firm's bath and beauty products within the next five years.
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Raised: Falkirk
Education: Larbert High School, University of Stirling (Economics), University of Strathclyde (Masters in Economics)
First job: Working for my dad as a student at Unico
Can't live without: Mountain bikes and mu skis
Kindle or book: A book – I use both, but if a book is there, it reminds me to go back to it and keep reading, but I don't always remember to go back and open up an app
Favourite city: London
Favourite mode of transport: The train or the car – I don't like buses
What makes you angry: Very few things. I am not an angry person. If I get angry it is probably because I haven't had enough sleep
What inspiress you: People who do lots and lots of different things in their life
Best thing about your job: It's the variety


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What does 3 Free or 5 Free mean in the world of nail polish, and why does this matter?
Let's start with the basics:
3 Free = NO formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, toluene
5 Free = NO formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, toluene, formaldehyde resin, and camphor
(there are also vanishes on the market now that are 7 and 8 Free!)
And what do these top 3 chemicals do? (according to WebMD)
1. Formaldehyde – a carcinogen
2. Dibutyl phthalate – has been linked to birth defects in studies involving lab animals
3. Toluene – a toxin that may cause birth defects and developmental problems in children of pregnant women who have had extended exposure
When I was selecting which product ranges to use at Nautilus Dublin, I wanted products that were as natural and organic as possible. It's what I choose to use at home, and I like being able to provide my clients with some "greener", "cleaner" options. I also thought about what the impact of exposure to extra, unnecessary chemicals could be long-term to my own health. Now, I'm not a soapbox preaching eco-fanatic, but I do believe there are simple choices we can make that are better for us but without sacrificing quality or results.
I'm of the mindset, "better safe than sorry" and that's why I selected the Soil Association certified Neal's Yard Remedies range for our facials. For our professional spray tans, I selected EcoCert certified TanOrganic. Natural, chemical-free, and organic products have become more widely available and are as effective as their potentially less safe counterparts.
Why does being free-from matter? Well, nail products are trickier. By their very nature it takes chemicals to create those glossy, long lasting, colours that are flexible enough to adhere to the nail. But, with these nasty chemicals no one really knows the full effect that long term exposure to the fumes or to the chemicals being absorbed through the nail plate or surrounding skin may have. Thankfully, there are some amazing free-from options available!
At Nautilus Dublin, we use 5 Free Zoya nail varnishes, which are "safe for those with sensitive skin or skin allergies or if you're pregnant".
We also use 3 free CND Vinylux. For our gel polishes we use SmartPolish, which is a long lasting gel that does not require a base coat or a top coat. There is no sticky layer to remove. All of this means less chemical exposure to you and less time under the UV lamp!
Probably WAY more information than you were bargaining for, but sure, knowledge is power 🙂
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Rumors, via Ars http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/report-google-to-launch-wireless-service-this-year/, that Google is going to be operating a pilot MVNO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator) combining Sprint & T Mobile networks.
Also Ting, a Sprint MVNO, is adding GSM to it's offerings https://ting.com/blog/ting-to-offer-service-on-a-gsm-network/.
[Wikipedia on GSM & CDMA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_phone_standards]
Suspect there is some connection here, not necessarily that they are working together, perhaps T Mobile & Sprint are partnering at some level?
Ting has a very interesting pricing structure, you pay for what you use, see https://ting.com/rates for details.
I'm planning on giving Ting a try around March/April 2015, to see how good it is with GSM.
I'll post my thoughts on Ting's GSM here on my Blog.
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Are the Green Bay Packers serious contenders for the Super Bowl?
The Green Bay Packers are an American football team that hails from the Green Bay area of Wisconsin. This iconic team happens to be part of the North Division National football conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The Packers are the 3rd oldest franchise in the NFL, and their long and widely eventful history can be traced way back nearly a century to when the team was first formed in 1919. Getting cheap Green Bay Packers tickets is never easy but searching online can help ease that process.
At the present time, the Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit and community owned major league professional team in the entire US. With all this unmatched attributes this team has a lot riding for them this season. And if statistics can be believed, they can be one of the top contenders for the 2014-2015 season which kicked off on the evening of April 8. This obviously stems from their unmatched track record, and to this day the Packers are the only team to win 13 league championships. The most recent being the action-packed Super Bowl XLV in 2011.
As most NFL pundits would have it, the Green Bay Packers' most potent strength, and also some might say weakness, lies in their defense lineup. And with the return of Aaron Rodgers (their star quarterback) the future definitely looks bright for them. Nevertheless, this dependency can also be seen as a weakness, and it's high time the Packers got an excellent replacement and backup, as putting all your eggs in one basket is not the ideal strategy to make it to the playoffs. The Packers have also enlisted the services of Matt Flyne on a rather short 1 year contract. The head coach Mike Mccarthy, has been quoted severally making allusions to his being keen on developing a much younger quarterback. So Packers fans should keep their fingers crossed on that score.
The cornerback position is another area the Green Bay Packers need to work on, despite the return of Casey Hayward from the hamstring injury that ended his 2013 season. Finally the outside linebacker is also another precarious position, regardless the large pool of talent this team can draw from. Such as the beyond pro bowler Clay Matthews, first round pick Nick Perry, and even the versatile Julius Peppers. All in all the Packers need to get their house in order if they wish to replicate the astounding Super Bowl XLV performance, and bring more renown to their pacesetting record.


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One of the first steps to personalize your creation is uploading your photos! To import your photos into the Photo Well, see the steps below.
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If your photo well photos are missing, please see the troubleshooting section at the bottom of this article.
Importing your photos
Open Smilebox and click the "Get Photos and Videos" button, shown below.
From here, you can choose where you would like to import your photos from: My Computer, Facebook, or Smilebox for iPhone.
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To navigate to a different folder on your computer, you can choose from the folders shown on the left-hand side, click the "up" arrow (shown below) or search your folders.
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You can also drag and drop your photos into the Photo Well directly from your Pictures folder!
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We recommend that you add your photos/videos to the Photo Well and rearrange them in the order you want them to appear in your creation before using the Auto-fill feature. If you decline the Auto-fill feature but change your mind later, you can always exit the design and start a new one by selecting it from the Design Catalog and the Auto-fill feature will appear.
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Last month Prime Minister Julia Gillard made international headlines after branding Opposition leader Tony Abbott a sexist and a misogynist in the federal parliament.
Many welcomed the lambasting of Abbott for his backwards views on women. However, he is not the only hypocrite in the parliament. The policies of the Gillard Government have shown that they too are happy to undermine women's rights and conditions.
On the same day Gillard made her famous speech in Parliament she pushed forward a plan to move 100,000 single parents from parenting payments onto the Newstart Allowance. The changes mean that when their youngest child turns eight, single parents will be forced onto a lesser payment. This will mean that many of Australia's poorest families, mostly those of single mothers, will lose between $60 and $100 per week.
The Gillard Government is attacking single mothers and driving them into poverty in order to save the government $728 million. The government claims that this move will make single parents look for work and in turn increase employment participation. The truth is that if they can find work it most certainly be low paid, irregular and insecure.
The Australian has reported that single parents face a 90% risk of falling into poverty. Many single parents who are currently studying will have to drop out of their courses.
A new analysis has reported that the change will not only hurt single parents but also those with a job that pays an annual income of up to $47,000. Like aged pensioners, these parents are eligible for a concession card. The card helps reduce their cost of living and its value is estimated at $60 a fortnight. But the National Welfare Rights Network has said that single parents who earn between $36,000 and $47,000 will lose this card as of next year.
Around $2.2 million people currently live in poverty in Australia and these changes will make that situation worse. The lack of adequate childcare and well paid jobs with flexible hours already puts single parent families at a disadvantage.
Forcing them to work low paid jobs, insecure jobs or lose their welfare payment will not resolve these problems. At the same time without proper investment in childcare, many working single parents find most of their paycheck ends up paying for childcare. It is a lose, lose situation.
Only by replacing the profit first system of capitalism with a democratic socialist system that is run in the interests of people can we ensure that childcare, housing, education and better employment options will be made available to all.
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Genuine Quickie Accessory Available in black.
|Pediatric Dimensions:
|12"L x 12"W x 4"D
|Adult Dimensions:
|18"L x 13"W x 5"D
|Hangs on backrest, does not require push handles
Good bag but lousy zippers. Zippers give out long before any appreciable wear is evident on the bag itself. I'd give it an 'A' for design and construction, but the too-weak zippers that fail after less than a year drops it to an 'F'. I've gone through three of them now. Einstein said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I guess I'm cured of my insanity because I won't buy another one of these.
It's cute but inside tears easily, have bought two in last few months. Dont know where else to get this type of bag!


text: I realize this topic has kind of already been beaten to death by me and others, but seeing Tomlin yesterday made me lose some of the respect that I had for him. After the 4th and whatever it was miss by Ben in the last 2 min, Tomlin did not even looked like he cared one bit. This is where I kind of wish we could have Cowher back for a few games during the season. I could picture Cowher coaching that game and I can't imagine Cowher letting something like that happen, and if it did, he would atleast look like he cared a little bit. Tomlin can't just be the nice guy anymore. He needs to step it up in the offseason and work this team until there's no such thing as blowing 4th quarter leads. :crossfingers:


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[CAVA] created a cigar humidor with a social life. A humidor stores cigars in a humidity controlled environment to maintain freshness, but this special humidor sends the humidity sensor value to ThingSpeak and alerts Twitter when you need to add water. The project uses a humidity sensor and an Arduino Ethernet to… read more >>
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Old Caswell County Jail
Availability: Open Year Round
Location: Yanceyville Court Square
The old Caswell County Jail building is located immediately southwest of the historic 1861 Caswell County Courthouse. Built in 1906, the Jail is a two-story brick Romanesque Revival style building with segmental-arched windows and a rich brick corbel cornice. The back left room of the first floor and the entire second story were used to house prisoners. Here are found the original iron cells, gallows, and doors made by Stewart Jail Works Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The remainder of the building, consisting of the five rooms on the first story, served as the jailer's living quarters, with a metal food slot between the jailer's kitchen and the first-floor prisoners' quarters. The jailer often was the Caswell County Sheriff who, with his family, occupied the Jail along with the prisoners.
The last jail in North Carolina to be built with a gallows, the old jail held prisoners until 1975.


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They are very appreciated as a snack and are very useful in varied and nutritious food.
Suggestions for use: As a snack at meal intervals, with breakfast cereals, bread recipes, salads, or the making of your favorite recipes.
Ingredients: Peeled Pumpkin Seeds
Nutritional information (per 100g):
Energy: 2559 kj / 617 kcalFat: 49.05 gOf which monounsaturated: 12.2 gOf which polyunsaturated: 31 gCarbohydrate:: 10.7 gOf which sugars: 1.4 gFibre: 6 gProtein: 30.23 gSalt : 0.02 g
Store in a cool dry place.
Origin: Poland
Category: Food products > Seeds
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My name is Mitchell Dunkley and I work as a Principal Information Assistant for De Montfort University Library and Learning Services in Leicester. I am part of DMU Library's Content Delivery Team. I manage the library's e-resources portfolio and I am involved in library systems admin, collating and disseminating e-resource usage statistics and e-resource troubleshooting.
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Finding It
I headed into Cora Carmack's Finding It expecting to love it, and I came out the other end of Cora Carmack's Finding It with my expectations met.
I'm a big fan of this author and her quirky, contemporary world she's created. We started out with Bliss meets Garrick in Losing It, which had me laughing at out at Bliss's hilarious character, and we spend more time with them in Keeping Her. Following that was Cade's story, Faking It, where he meets the somewhat troubled Max, and the fresh tone keeps the series fresh, and man, I fell in love with Cade. And now, in Finding It, we spend time with Bliss's bestie Kelsey on her worldly travels as she heads in search of, well, herself.
Those travels of hers puts her in the path of one hot and hunky ex-soldier Hunt. Excuse me a moment whilst I pause to say 'Yum'.
From the off, there is chemistry between this pair. In the slightest of eye contact, the attitudes they show one another, the small touches they share. And I loved that the one with the history of whore-hood was the female for a change—though, don't condemn her yet; there is all too often a reason for why people (male and female) behave this way.
Despite Kelsey's behaviour being the kind I despise having to witness in others, I still managed to connect with her from the off. In real life, I'd have probably been pretty appalled by her carryings-on, yet in the book I just found myself concerned for her, wanting to understand why she was behaving this way, wanting to figure out a way for her to not behave this way, and wanting her to find the happiness she was so obviously seeking.
When Hunt steps onto the scene, and almost successively steps up to the task of helping her in her hunt (<<see what I did there?), whilst portraying one chivalrous task after another, I see that first glimmer of hope for her—as does Kelsey herself once she admits what her subconscious is trying to tell her. And henceforth, we are taken on a journey in a new direction, one where we get to watch the developing relationship between Kelsey and Hunt.
About here, the story starts to get really interesting. Because that chemistry between them fights even harder for its place at the forefront—which is a place it deserves.
I guess I could complain about how long Ms Carmack keeps the reader waiting for what we know is surely to come, but I don't think the book would have worked as well as it does had it been played a different way. Especially with the spanner thrown into the works that every romance author out there likes to toss at their characters once they've led them into a false sense of security.
Now, admittedly, I'd figured out the exact spanner size before we reached that point. Yes, I had suspicions—the reader is obviously supposed to—but I'd also worked out the smack-bang-up-yer-face of it, too. However, that didn't mar my enjoyment one iota. This was still a totally rocking read—made even more rocking by the imaginative redemption of said spanner that drew this book to a sigh-worthy conclusion.
Yeah, yeah, I get I'm being obscure—but why would you want to know the entire plot from me when you'll get so much more pleasure out of discovering it for yourself? Finding It is an awesomely sad yet witty book, filled with hope and self-condemnation, personal development and self-discovery, growing up, stepping up, and love lost and found, all wrapped up in a colourful and vibrant journey of places I've never visited but now would love to dearly. It's now available to buy. I recommend you do so.


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Stalos lies on the north-west coast of Crete ten kilometres from Chania. There are two parts to Stalos; the sleepy little village tucked on a hill surrounded by olive groves and vineyards with a backdrop of mountains, and seaside Stalos with sandy beaches and water sports. The former is Pano Stalos and the latter is Kato Stalos. Pano Stalos provides traditional Greek authenticity with only a small shop and one or two tavernas as well as a magnificent view over the sea and the neighbouring countryside. Kato Stalos, on the other hand is a typical Greek seaside resort.
Stalos lies in a particularly beautiful part of Crete and has adapted well to the demands of tourists. The sandy coastline invites both beach lovers and water sports enthusiasts with its wide range of facilities. There are shops, bars and tavernas lining the beach providing daylong refreshments and fairly lively nights. Being so close to the historic town of Chania, excellent shopping and a livelier nightlife is only a short ride away.
A Stalos holiday is popular with a wide range of holidaymakers. Families are attracted by the beach (sand is so important for tots with buckets and spades), water sports enthusiasts have a good choice of activities and couples of all ages come to enjoy the relaxation and the interesting towns and villages in the surrounding area.
The most popular time to take a Stalos holiday is in the summer. The season extends from Easter to October when the temperature range is from twenty to thirty degrees.
Stalos is a very popular holiday resort in Crete with its accommodation providing for all tastes and budgets. Situated in the north-west, close to Chania it is well placed for the enjoyment of both the beach and interesting sights in the area. Here, the holidaymaker can experience the true charm of authentic Crete in the old white-washed village on the hill as well as a plethora of modern holiday amenities in the resort below.
The long sandy beaches have been awarded Blue Flag status. The sand shelves gently into clear blue seas making bathing safe for children and weak swimmers. There are opportunities for a variety of water sports including fishing, snorkelling and diving.
There is an abundance of bars, tavernas and shops along the waterfront providing a shady place to enjoy refreshment.
There are many companies offering excursions from Stalos to the more famous tourist attractions of the Samaria Gorge and the Palace of Knossos. There are also local buses into the historic city of Chania.
A Stalos holiday offers a guarantee of summer sunshine with sandy beaches and warm clear water. It also offers a wealth of leisure and sightseeing pursuits.
Stalos has a large number of bars, tavernas and restaurants that provide evening entertainment. Many of the bars have music and dancing. The larger hotels often provide their own entertainment. For a further choice of nightlife try the nearby villages of Agia Marina and Platanias or even take the short ride to Chania.
Stalos has a number of shops where you can buy all your holiday essentials. There are supermarkets providing for your daily needs as well as gift and souvenir shops. Those wanting a wider variety of shops can take a trip to nearby Chania where they will find many high quality specialist shops and a good covered market.
Stalos has a variety of restaurants and tavernas catering for most tastes. In the sea front resort you will find many tavernas and restaurants serving traditional food as well as fast food outlets. Fish features widely on menus. If you feel peckish between lunch and dinner try a plate of meze, a Greek equivalent of the Spanish tapas, with such things as deep fried fish, stuffed vine leaves, pickles, olives and halloumi.
Eating out in Greece is a pleasure that should be enjoyed in a leisurely fashion. Don't mistake the lack of haste for tardy service as you are simply being given the time to fully enjoy each course. Children are warmly welcomed in restaurants and their tastes and portion size are usually accommodated.


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The Rule Development Process
The Civil Aviation Authority rule development process includes four distinct phases:
1. Issue Assessment Phase
Issues with our aviation regulatory system can arise. For example, technology or international requirements may change, or our existing regulatory requirements could be resulting in unintended safety or economic outcomes.
The issue assessment process provides a formalised way to address these issues. Key steps include:
- Determining the root cause or problem driving the issue, and the associated risk.
- Identifying and assessing options to resolve the problem.
- Development of an issue assessment paper with recommendations.
- Decisions by a senior Review Panel, made up of CAA General Managers.
- Implementation of agreed actions.
The process is supported by the Aviation Community Advisory Group, a representative body that provides advice, technical input, and feedback on the issue assessment process from an aviation community perspective.
Actions arising from the process can result in either regulatory or non-regulatory change. For example, education and training, changes to CAA practice, development of guidance material, or changes to rules or legislation.
Anyone can raise an issue for assessment using CAA Form 24011/01. See Rule Projects in Progress for current petitions to raise a regulatory issue.
2. Policy Investigation Phase
Policy investigation involves a more rigorous assessment of the problem, and analyses the options and impacts of any intervention.
Often, policy investigation will conclude that an action other than a rule amendment would be more effective in addressing the issue. That could include revising Advisory Circulars, initiating education campaigns, developing promotional material, issuing an exemption, or working directly with certain operators. Where that is the case, the CAA will work closely with relevant experts, including through industry consultation, to ensure accurate and effective information is provided. See Regulatory Policy for current policy projects.
If an issue assessment indicates that a rule amendment may be a good option, the CAA will establish the policy intent behind any rule change. This includes consultation with affected people and industry experts.
The CAA will then produce a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) for Treasury. This document describes the options considered, and quantifies the impacts of the proposed change including the safety, economic, environmental, social, cultural, and legal implications. The RIS is a measure to make sure that the CAA's proposals for rule changes are based on sound analysis and evidence.
Once the RIS is approved by the Minister (and depending on the nature of the change, sometimes Cabinet) the rule can be included on the Ministry of Transport Rule Programme.
Progress reports on the rule projects included in the Transport Rules Programme can be found under Rules Projects in Progress.
3. Rule Development Phase
The rule drafting will begin once the rule project has been accepted onto the rules programme. The CAA publishes a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) and asks for comments on the proposed rule changes during a consultation period where anyone can make a submission.
The Rule Projects in Progress page is updated monthly to provide progress reports for each of the rule projects, including links to any NPRMs. After consultation, the CAA will publish a Summary of Public Submissions responding to the points made, and may make adjustments to the proposed rule.
4. Rule Finalisation Phase
Final rule updates based on feedback are passed onto the Ministry of Transport which will review the proposal and provide the final rule package to the Minister for signing.
Any ordinary rule changes are subject to the Minister of Transport's agreement. Once the rule amendments are signed by the Minister, the CAA will publish the changes in the New Zealand Gazette, and on the CAA web site as Pending Rules. The rules don't normally come into effect until at least 28 days later.
A summary of recently completed rule projects, together with their associated NPRM and Summary of Submissions can be found under Rules Projects in Progress.
Further Information
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Whether aviation is your business or pleasure, from the moment you enter the aviation world, you must follow the Civil Aviation Rules. They are made by the Minister of Transport in the public interest. The booklet explains the process, and includes a guide that gives you an idea of the rules that apply to your aviation activity. Revised Jun 2016
If you have any queries regarding the rule development process, please email email@example.com.
You can subscribe to our free email notification service to receive updates on changes to the rules. As well as the rule parts, there is a category for the Aviation Community Advisory Group, and one for updates to the Rules Projects in Progress page (formerly the CARRIL).
The current rule development process evolved from the recommendations of the Scholtens Report completed in 2002.