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So many buyers just look just at unit or dollar movement, and delist products based on those parameters. Recent SKU rationalization missteps at some of the nation's largest grocery retailers should serve notice about the folly of this train of thought. The key to any new product is incrementality – how much incremental sales and profit will it generate for the category. Research has shown that new products that offer new to the world packaging, flavor, or preparation innovation tend to drive the most category growth. As an example, the frozen pizza category was considered a flat, commoditized category until rising crust pizzas were introduced in the 1990's. This revolutionary product innovation, significantly closed the quality gap between frozen, store bought pizzas and delivery pizza. Furthermore, Bertolli's also did a wonderful job of delivering a premium quality, frozen Italian entrée that stole usage occasions away from Italian restaurants. Delist the redundant flavors, crust/bread types, and package forms despite the fact that they may have higher sales volume than more unique, niche items.
What are some other key measures to consider?
It is important to review a manufacturer's past track record on new products. Has the manufacturer consistently brought new and exciting products to the category, or have they been merely imitations of other competitive items? How effective have their consumer and trade marketing programs been? Have they followed through on account specific programs? Do they closely monitor the progress of their new items and provide additional support if the product gets off to a slow start? It shouldn't be about just the slotting dollars, but look at the total investment and resulting incremental sales and profits that the manufacturer provides for your category.
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I know that the Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro and the Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro are fine lenses, and compare favorably with some offerings from Canon and Nikon. But they should not be confused with the Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG Macro (non-APO) or the Tamron 75-300mm f/4-5.6 LD Macro (non-Di), which are priced lower still, and are, if not inferior to the offerings from Canon and Nikon, then certainly on par with them. So, the truth is, the 'cheap' Sigma and Tamron lenses did not beat the seeminglyequivalent lenses from Canon and Nikon. The lenses that did are at least one step up from the 'cheap' lenses.
I was not disputing the findings of the magazine you quoted. I was just cautioning the OP about blindly accepting such broad statements as "The Tamron and Sigma cheap 70-300mm lenses beat ALL the camera manufacturers lenses at anywhere near their prices ... ". That kind of statement sticks with people, and the truth usually falls short of the expectations it might inspire.
And the Olympus 40-150 would have been included because 4/3 dSLRs have a 2.0x Crop Factor which gives the 40-150 an angle of view equivalent to an 80-300mm lens on a 35mm film SLR. To be fair, because of the 1.5x Crop factor on a Nikon, the 70-300 would have an angle of view equivalent to a 105-450mm lens on a 35mm film SLR. So it would have been more correct for them to include the Olympus50-200mm, but then they wouldn't be comparing low priced telephoto zooms.
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Well I got the standard Pentax K100d I was going to purchase the super version but I was told by a local source that dust removal systems are mostly useless....anyway not the point...the point is I got the K100D for 569 and tax canadain with the kit lens....
I am so happy that and some old SMC fixed 50mm.....Aperture 1.4 to 22 that I bought with a Pentax KM camera for a buck at a flea market 2 yrs ago works on the pentax just fine...I just have to tell the camera that it's "50mm" for the shake reduction to work.....
I think I'm really going to enjoy learning this camera....
Here is a pic I took 6 hours after camera purchase with the old fixed lens...Manual settings including a custom white balance setting.....
A bitout of focus...but I think I moved slightly and with such a shallow depth...well you know... : )
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Alex Moulton died yesterday at the age of 92. He was an industrial designer involved in the suspensions of automobiles (Mini Cooper), airplanes and bicycles. These photos are of a folding bicycle at Rydjor Bike in Austin, Minnesota, my local bike shop.
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- Justine Valinotti said...
RIP. I've often said that if I ever started collecting bicycles, one of the first I'd want is an original Moulton (not one of the ones Raleigh later made). Whatever you think of his ideas, you have to admit that he changed the way we see and ride bicycles. As an example, the modern mountain bike simply would not be possible had there not been a Moulton.
- December 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM
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AM was an engineering Tour de Force. My parents had a cooper in the UK and I swear every corner I turned that car was glued to the ground. Someday I will have to buy one of his erector sets. Gods Speed Sir Alex.
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- Mimbres Man said...
RIP Dr. Moulton
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Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. It is actually not a specific disease. It's a condition that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills that can reduce mental strength.
There can be many symptoms regarding dementia. But psychological counseling says that few symptoms are easily recognizable:
- Subtle short-term memory changes: Trouble with memory can be an early symptom of dementia. The changes are often subtle and tend to involve short-term memory. The major symptoms of short term memory failure involve instances like forgetting where a thing has been left or struggling to remember any incident or forgetting what they were supposed to do on any given day.
- Difficulty finding the right words: Another significant symptom of it is struggling to communicate thoughts. Persons with this disease might face difficulty in explaining something as well as failing to express with correct words. Talking with a person who has dementia can be difficult. They might take a time to conclude a conversation.
- Changes in mood: A change in mood is also common with it. If you have dementia, it isn't always easy to recognize this in yourself, but you may notice this change in someone else. Depression, for instance, is typical of early dementia. Along with mood changes, you might also see a shift in personality. One typical type of personality change seen with dementia is a shift from being shy to outgoing. The condition affects the entire scenario.
- Apathy: Apathy is a very common factor occurring before dementia. A person with such symptoms could lose interest in hobbies or activities. They may not want to go out anymore or may not like to have fun. They start losing the interest of spending time with friends or families and may seem very emotionally flat.
- Confusion: Someone in the early stages of dementia may often become confused. Confusion arises when they stop interacting or communicating and thinking about anything constructive. Confusion can occur for a number of reasons and apply to different situations and this is one of the most affective symptoms as per psychological counseling in Kolkata. For example, they may misplace their own stuffs or forget what comes next in the day, or have difficulty remembering someone they've met before.
Forgetfulness and memory problems don't essentially indicate dementia. These are normal aspects of aging and can occur due to other factors, such as fatigue. Still, you shouldn't ignore the symptoms. If you or someone you know is experiencing a number of dementia symptoms that are not improving, a doctor should be immediately contacted. This should never be taken very casually.


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The formation of stone is one of the common problems of urinary system and as per modern science only few medicines are available for such condition along with surgery. It is second most common disease of urinary tract with high recurrence rate. The common symptoms of ureter culculi are pain, haematuria, burning micturiton, dysurea, tenderness and sometimes fever. Ayurveda described Mootrashmari as urinary calculus disease of Mutravaha Srotas and considered as Asthamahagada. Ayurveda described various treatment approaches for the management of disease; use of herbs, ayurveda formulation and Kshara, etc. this article presented summarative review on Mootrashmari.
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Nashville, TN – The Nashville Honky Tonks were stunned by the Round Rock Dance Halls 2-1 in 10 innings Saturday night in front of 11,038 fans in Music City. Round Rock's victory secured the Dance Halls the coveted Boot Trophy in the Battle for the Boot Series.
The Honky Tonks pitching staff was cruising through 26 outs but Bobby Wahl yielded a solo home run to Round Rock's Drew Robinson, which knotted the game at one run apiece and sent the game to extra innings. Wahl blew his first save of the season as he allowed a game-tying two-out home run to Drew Robinson in the top of the ninth inning. The right-hander was a perfect seven for seven in save opportunities entering Saturday's game.
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IIM Indore's Special Interest Group on Comparing Business in China and India organized a workshop on Doing Business in China, at the Institute on April 27, 2015. The day-long workshop was organised in collaboration with the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi.
The workshop comprised of talks by speakers from both China & India, featuring an interesting mix of researchers and practitioners. The topics spanned a wide variety, ranging from experience sharing of doing business in China to aspects of governance and political economy.
The workshop was inaugurated by Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore. In his inaugural address, he noted that for the success of programmes like 'Make in India', gaining global perspective is very important and remaining too internally focus will hamper the country's development.
His lecture was followed by the speech of Professor Alka Acharya, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Professor Acharya explained how in the last 30 years, China has reached to the second position in the global economy beating all other developing countries. She further emphasized that Chinese have now started believing in slower and sustainable growth rate.
The next lecture of the day was delivered by Professor Yin Xiangshuo of Fudan School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai. His lecture was on the topic Is Chinese economy slowing down? Where is it heading', in which he discussed the causes of slowing down of Chinese economy and reaching a new normal growth rate of 7%. He mentioned that the innovations on technological front will become the driving force for Chinese economic growth.
Mr. Aneesh Sen, Vice President, DigiValet, was the next speaker for the day. His talk was on the theme 'Foraying into China: Strategies to Pivot the entry with a Niche Technology'. He noted that contrary to general perception, the Chinese favour expensive and cutting edge technology. Chinese companies look forward to partner with the firms who are willing to go beyond the last line.
Mr. Sen's speech was followed by the lecture by Mr. Jayant J Shrikhande, former country head of China operations, Larsen & Toubro, on the topic 'Chinese Advantage in Manufacturing'. He highlighted the Chinese manufacturing advantages through illustration of three cases. He explicitly mentioned that India needs to learn cost innovation through process flexibility and come out of its 'analysis paralysis'. He also cited China's action & result orientation as a suitable model for India's economic growth.
The 'Cultural determinants of Chinese Negotiation Behavior' was discussed by Professor G. Venkat Raman, Faculty, IIM Indore. Professor Raman discussed actors, structure and strategies associated with the negotiation process. He stressed upon the point that for the Chinese, negotiation means both, discussing and judging and we need to be prepared for long journey while entraining into negotiation with the Chinese.
Mr. Ravi Kethana, former head of China operations, Tata Consultancy Services, delivered an interesting talk on the topic 'Doing business in China in Chinese way. His interesting lecture covered the difference in perceptions of Chinese and Indians. He also added that he gained success after he let go of his perceptions about China and began exploring the real China.
The next lecture of the day was delivered by Professor Ni Shoubin, Dean, School of Law, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, on the topic 'Legal and Financial safety/ risk aspects while doing business in China'. He highlighted the legal and financial risk aspects of China. He also emphasized on pro-business environment provided in China in terms of taxation, single window clearance and case of foreign capital access.
The last lecture of the workshop was on the topic 'Sub-national Economics: Soft targets and hard surfaces for Indian Businesses in China' which was delivered by Dr. Aravind Yelery, Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. He mainly focused on how to do business in China. For that, first we have to consider the prominence of the sub-economies in China, for which we have to find out the faults, cracks, landscapes and then take a decision to do business in China, he added. He also emphasized on global value chain, global trade and global production network
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Three men miraculously walked away with minor injuries after the small single engine Cessna aircraft they were in crashed into power lines in a residential area at 125 Clarendon Drive in Valley Stream on Sunday.
According to Authorities, the plane was being piloted by 27yr old Dongl Kim of Flushing, Queens, with two other men in their twenties aboard.
The trio flew from Niagara Falls and were headed to Republic Airport in East Farmingdale, NY. After the Pilot made four failed attempts to land at Republic Airport, Air Traffic Controllers re directed him to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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Professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard on 30 May 2018 recieved the 'Rigmor og Carl Holst-Knudsens Videnskabspris' of Dkr 100 000 at a ceremony in the Aarhus University Aula
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The 'Rigmor og Carl Holst-Knudsens Videnskabspris' is awarded yearly by Aarhus University to researchers connected to the university, and with an exceptionally distinguished career.
This year's prize was awardet to professor of economics Annette Vissing Jørgensen and to professor of astronomy and head of SAC Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard.
The motivation for the prize was given by the dean of Science and Technology, Niels Christian Nielsen, and local SAC staff was well represented both at the ceremony and at the following reception.
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Earlier today, Aeternity AE price saw a gain of over 20 percent as investor interest peaked on the project. These gains have made AE the best performing coin on Coinmarketcap.com.
It seems the currency is experiencing the positive momentum due to a string of positive developments.
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The past one week has been good for Aeternity. The token price has increased from yesterday's low of $1.07 to peak at $1.29 which was recorded at around 09:30 UTC.
A closer look at the charts shows that the peak arrived as the eastern trading markets were drawing to a close. The influence of these markets is visible with over 50 percent of AE's movement coming from ZB.COM, Gate.io, and OKEx. All these exchanges are in China.
Ironically, the dominant trade across these exchanges isn't the Chinese yen but Tether (USDT). It's accounting for almost 60 percent of today's trades in total. The volume has also quadrupled from yesterday. Rising from $5 million to 20 million over the past 12 hours.
The token has also managed to maintain some stability over the last seven days. It has managed to trade between $1.04 to $1.09 until the earlier hours of today.
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The past week has seen two key developments take place around the Aeternity project. These developments seem to be the reason that has sparked the token to life. First of all, there is the announcement that DSTOQ securities exchange has decided to implement Aeternity's blockchain on its trading platform.
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Also, this week, Aeternity has released a report that details "Significant improvements to state channels, nodes, and system stability." The updates will hit the testnet by the end of this week.
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Memorandum Of Understanding Was Signed Between API And Linton University, Malaysia To Launch The Campus Blockchain Training Program
On August 7th, API had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Linton University College, Malaysia. With the signing of this memorandum, API officially launched the blockchain technology into campus, promoted the application and technology popularization of blockchain technology through the cultivation of talents. The memorandum of understanding was signed by Dr. Kamis Awang, Vice Chancellor of Linton University, and Stephen T. Homer, Sustainability Development Advisor of API.
Through this memorandum of understanding, the API professional team will provide educational training on blockchain technology applications for Linton university. They will provide professional blockchain tool, so that participating students can truly experience the application of blockchain technology. This training in the fundamental level will open to 50 students from the university, and the participants will automatically become one of the developers of the blockchain.
In addition, API also invited Dr. Rebecca Ling, the chief economist of the World Data Forum Organizing Committee (WDC) of the United Nations International Information Development Organization, to the event and in-depth explanations to all participants of the trends and characteristics of the smart business, blockchain technology and big data era, and how each person should embrace and participate in this era.
Dr. Kamis Awang, Vice Chancellor of Linton University (fifth from left), Dr. Rebecca Ling,The chief economist of the World Data Forum Organizing Committee (WDC) of the United Nations International Information Development Organization (fourth from left), Stephen T. Homer (third from left), Sustainability Development Advisor of API, CEO of four universities, academic professionals and students (others)
The Vice Chancellor, Chief Executives, Deans, management team, academicians and the students of Linton University College and its affiliated colleges, Pertama Institute of Technology, Jati Institute and International Institute of Science Mantin were also invited were also invited to this event for the exchange and learning of global blockchain technology.
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When I look back on the course of my required classes, it went something like this: grade 4: Indiana history; gr. 5: US history; gr. 6: Canada & Latin/South America; gr. 7: world history; gr. 8: Indiana/US history; gr. 9: [we were somehow exempt, but normally it's geography]; gr. 10: world history; gr. 11: [AP] US history; gr. 12: government/economics. That seems like a lot of history, but it was often repetitious.
I'm not saying that from a student's prospective. There are some parts of our history that bears repeating, each year with more detail and critical thinking behind it. Everyone in this country should be aware of Columbus' landing, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, etc. But now that I've been out of high school for nearly ten years, I've realized that there are huge portions of our history that have been glossed over or merely "touched on."
For example, I don't remember talking that much about the taking of Texas from the Mexicans and the war that ensued because of this. We mentioned it in passing. I do remember discussing at length about World War I (or the Great War as it was called at the time). But we only discussed World War II for about a week. The one war of our grandparent's generation, and we only give it a week. There was barely any mention of Korea or of Vietnam. And only a reading assignment was given for the Iran-Contra affair or anything of the 1980s. For me, 20th century history stopped with World War I.
I also fault the history books (and possibly to an extent the history teachers). It also seems that there is only a little mention of anything that was socially turbulent. We wouldn't want to show our country in anything other than the best (and rosiest) of lights. Of course, Susan B. Anthony is mentioned, as well as other suffragettes, and the convention of Women's Rights at Seneca Falls, NY. There is little mention of the beginnings of the large corporate banks, including the Federal Reserve (which by the way is no more "federal" than Federal Express). I feel that history is presented, but not wholly presented. I don't think they represent the whole story: the books only tell which version of history they want to present. (Japan has also been accused to limiting history in textbooks to show Japan in a better light.) There isn't enough emphasis on how atrocious and corrupt some of the top leaders have been. I find it funny how when I'll watch something on the History channel, and I think, "Hmm that's different from what I thought happened."
Jay Leno sometimes does a segment called "Jay Walking," where he picks people and interviews them on the spot, asking them various questions. It amazes me there are people who have no idea who our founding fathers are or other basic history highlights that you, as an American citizen, should know about your own country. Foreigners know more about our country than our own citizens. I just don't know how you can go through school and NOT retain some of these things. I don't expect people to remember polling data from the 1896 presidential campaign, but I think you should at least know the presidents presiding during each of the major wars. You should be aware of the major wars and have an idea of about when the wars were waged and against which countries. I think you should know all 50 states and be able to spell them correctly (as well as their capitals). You should know who the presidential candidates are and for which party for the current election. It's just a sign of ignorance and irresponsibility. It's not cool to be dumb about your own country.
History education is lacking, and it seems that (judging from the people on Jay Walking) they just don't think it's that important to know all that history junk. But I can tell you that it is important. Everyone has heard the old adage that history repeats itself. It does. The reason we study history is to learn from the mistakes we've made in the past. It's also so that we learn to think critically and analyze situations, and to see the view from the other guy's point vantage point. If we don't start learning from history, we'll be history.


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The latest antics of the Dishonesty, errr, Discovery Institute
It must be nice to value honesty so little as to have no qualms with deleting conversations that make you look bad from your website. I wonder how the Discovery Institute is able to reconcile their dishonesty with their Christian morals. Hmm, well I guess if you're lying for Jesus it's okay.
So what did they do this time? PZ Myers recently debated IDiot Geoffrey Simmons on a Christian radio program. The Dishonesty Institute's blog had a discussion going as the debate happened. Apparently many of the commenters had conceded the debate to Myers, though they disagreed with him. What was the Dishonesty Institute's response? What else? They took the thread down! If only all of us could simply delete our embarrassments from history as easily as the DI can. PZ notes that the thread has been preserved here.
PZ makes his feelings toward these antics clear:
I don't like to do this; even when discussing the work of the anti-scientists in the creationist movement, we should link to their work. But I'm not going to link to Uncommon Descent ever again. It's not that they're wrong or that I disagree with them, but that the site is profoundly dishonest and unreliable, and can't be trusted. I'm not going to link to a site which will freely shift and modify their content to polish their image, since who knows where any link will end up.
Ric, a commenter on PZ's post, had this to say:
Yes, the crooks and liars at Uncommon Descent need to be called out. Let me do so:
William Dembski: You are a dishonest embarrassment to Christians.
Denyse O'Leary: You are a blatant liar and propagandist.
Dave Scot: You are a lying embarrassment to the human race.
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Over the last decade or so, the procurement landscape has garnered a lot of attention for managing costs and eradicating any and every risk of supply chain management. A sound procurement provider lays down the foundation upon which a company's success depends upon. We understand the importance of procurement services, which has enabled or rather allowed organizations to operate in a profitable and effective manner. Hence, it is imperative for us, here at Beyond Exclamation, to celebrate the incredible journeys of such procurement companies that goes beyond the conventional way to make the exclamation happen through this magazine titled "Top 10 Beyond Procurement & Supply". The issue highlights some of the leading service providers in the procurement space, which are playing a fundamental part in the supply process and aiding organizations with its services.
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Somewhere deep in the bowels of The Wrong Sword, dozens and dozens of pages past the Amazon "free sample" point, is my own little salute to steampunk. Except it's pre-steam, and pre-punk. Paleotech! There's the phrase. You heard it here first.
Anyhoo, there's a scene where poor Henry is locked up in a tower with the medieval equivalent of a mad scientist with dozens of goonified inventions, and I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I didn't make up any of them. Brother Wiglaf the mad monk may not be putting these inventions to the purposes for which they were intended, but they were definitely part of the literature, as it were...even if the literature is about six hundred years too early.
One of those suckers is the Faraday dynamo. A real one looks like this:
See, the original dynamo is a copper disc that's spun inside a magnetic field to generate an electric current. In TWS, it's more or less the reverse - a magnetic core that's spun inside a wheel of copper wire. There's no technical reason I did it like that, unless "sheer ignorance" counts as a technical reason. And I can pretty much guarantee that no matter how much you spin a real dynamo, it won't behave the way the lodestone dynamo behaves in TWS. But I can promise that what happens in the book is more fun.
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I want to remove zero value pixels from MODIS LST raster images and apply a moving window that can only substitute the missing values and leave the other original values with out alteration. I have tried this raster Calculator command from (Filling NoData gaps in raster using ArcGIS Desktop?)
However the resulting raster image does not have attribute table. Since I have many raster images I want to do this work in ModelBuilder, this is just a process to check before going to ModelBuilder. Some of the rasters have many zero values(missing values) and I am not sure whether this affects the focal statistics or not.
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The Gendarmerie Nationale is the national police force of Mauritania.
- World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by Taylor & Francis. 2004,
- World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems,second edition, Gale., 2006
- Sullivan, Larry E. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.
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Crochet Gift Set: Colorscape Hat
Crochet Pattern by B. Hooked Crochet, Copyright 2018.
Please do not copy, sell, redistribute or republish this pattern. If you wish to share this pattern, link to this page only. You may sell items produced using this pattern. Do NOT use the copyrighted photos for your product listing.
This pattern is written in US crochet terms
Gather Your Supplies
For this project we'll use Red Heart's Colorscape yarn. I LOVE this stuff! The color speaks for itself and it's a great replacement for the recently discontinued Red Heart Treasure. With it's 100% acrylic fiber content, Colorscape is perfectly soft and excellent for anyone on your list this season.
To make the entire gift set, you'll need 3 skeins of Red Heart Colorscape yarn. To make the hat individually, refer to the supplies list below for yarn requirements.
Hat Supplies
- Approx 210 yds Red Heart Colorscape, (Rome and Munich shown)
- 6 mm Crochet Hook
- Darning Needle
- Scissors
Disclosure: Please note that the links below are affiliate links, and at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you decide to purchase your supplies online. Please understand that I have experience with these products and I recommend them because they are optimal for this pattern, not because of the small commissions I make if you decide to buy them online. If you have received valuable information from me at any point, this is one easy way say thank you for a job well done.
Gauge and Sizing
Gauge: 6.5 sts x 10 rows = 4″ worked in clustered stitch pattern. Rounds 5 and 6 make up clustered stitch pattern.
- BLO – Back Loop Only
- Ch – Chain
- Hdc – Half Double Crochet
- Hk – Hook
- Rep – Repeat
- Rem – Remaining
- Sc – Single Crochet
- Sc2tog – Single Crochet Two Together
- St(s) – Stitches
For a list of all crochet abbreviations to keep in your crochet notebook, check out my quick guide here:
Crochet Abbreviations Quick Guide
Pattern Notes
This quick and easy crochet hat is perfect for gift giving. You'll only need two skeins of Colorscape yarn and about 2 hours to complete it!
Special Stitches
Clustered Stitch – YO, insert hk in designated st, YO and pull through 2 loops. YO, insert hk in same st, YO and pull through 4 loops. One CL st made.
Crochet Gift Set Hat – with Brittany
This tutorial is also available in a left-handed version. Click the link below to be directed to the left-handed video on my YouTube channel.
Crochet Gift Set Hat – Left-Handed Tutorial with Brittany
Written Instructions
Ear Flaps (Make Two)
Row 1: Ch 4. Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each rem ch.
Row 2: Ch 1 (doesn't count as st). Make 2 sc in first st. Make 1 sc in each st to last st. Make 2 sc in last st.
Row 3: Ch 1 (doesn't count as st). Make 1 sc in each st.
Rep rows 2 and 3 a total of 7 more times (19 sts on final row). Don't fasten off. Continue working down the side, evenly spacing 16 sc down to first row, then evenly space 3 sc in foundation ch and evenly space 16 sc up the opposite side. Fasten off.
Round 1: Fasten on in the BLO of the first stitch of one ear flap. Sc in the BLO of each st. Ch 30. Make one sc in the BLO of each st of the other ear flap. Ch 12. Join with a slst to the BLO of the first sc. (80 sts)
Round 2: Ch 1 (doesn't count as st). Sc in BLO of first st. Sc in BLO of each rem st and each ch. Join with a slst to the BLO of the first sc.
Rounds 3-4: Ch 1 (doesn't count as st). Sc in BLO of first st. Sc in BLO of each rem st. Join with a slst to first sc.
Round 5: Ch 1 (doesn't count as st). Hdc in same st as ch. *Ch 1, sk one st, CL in next. Rep from * to last 2 sts. CL in second to last st. Ch 1, sk last st. Join with a slst to Hdc.
Round 6: Ch 1 (doesn't count as st). Make one sc in every CL st and every ch. Join with a slst to first sc.
Rep rounds 5 and 6 until your hat measures approximately 8.5″ from band edge ending on a fourth round. Fasten off leaving a long tail. Weave the tail in and out of each stitch with a darning needle and pull tight to draw up. (be careful! If roving yarn unwinds, it will be very weak and may break. Make sure it is twisted tight before you pull)
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In Walsenburg, Colorado a series of strange occurrences have been happening, animal mutilations. There have been 8 discovered so far, while a grand total of 3 multiple cow mutilations have occurred in years before. While no one has proof of what really took place that night, we can speculate as the what may have cause it.
The cows all had the same appearance, perfectly circled cuts and organ removals. Where the organs were removed also had the same circular cuts. The cases on the two ranches were strikingly similar as both ranchers told there stories. While most of us look at multiple cow mutilations as a bad thing, for those of us its happening to think its a nightmare.
Many of the facts relating to this story can be found here. Some similarities noted on the ufonut.com, as examining two different carcasses from two different farms, were as follows:
Both steers were 26 months old.
Both carcasses were facing towards the West.
Both animals were originally found lying on their left sides.
While these three things might not seem like much, the actual amount of similarities is much bigger. Many of these mutilations are considered by some to be the infamous chupacabra, aka the goat sucker. Many more however, believe it to be UFO's investigating our wildlife. Please see the link below for more.
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Did you know that the UC Davis School of Medicine is celebrating its 50th anniversary?? And Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is celebrating 50 years as an academic department, too – 1967-68 was the academic year in which Robert Stowell MD PhD arrived from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology to serve as the first chair in our new school. 1968 was also the year that this budding new medical school enrolled its first class.
1968 is considered one of the most historic years of modern American history – CNN referred to 1968 as "the year that changed America". This was the year that both Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, two African-American Olympic medalists raised their fists during the national anthem to silently protest racial discrimination, and the first televised inter-racial kiss took place on "Star Trek". In medicine and science, 1968 was the year of the world's second heart transplant and this patient was the first to live more than a year afterward. Brain death was established as a technical "fact" by a group of Harvard faculty. And Douglas Engelbart, a computer scientist at Stanford, gave a presentation which has become to be known as the "the mother of all demos" since he demonstrated a system that included the mouse, a graphical user interface, desktop sharing and video conferencing which set the stage for our personal computers today.
On top of all that, that average cost of new house was $14,950, the average American's income was $7,850.00, and gas was only 34 cents a gallon!
Our School of Medicine was born in this historic year of rising social consciousness and in its own way has helped change America by meeting the challenges of that era and the times that have followed. We are proud that our student body demonstrates our commitment to diversity and inclusion. Over the past five years, 43% of our students are from backgrounds that are under-represented in medicine, and 51% who are socio-economically disadvantaged. Our school's research continues to address the most important social issues and impactful diseases of our times: gun violence, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, autism, social determinants of health, and more.
I'm proud – as I hope that all of you are – that our department has played a special role in educating outstanding physicians who serve California and the world and in making discoveries that have made our school among the top quartile at #39 of research medical schools, and #10 among medical schools for primary care, according to US News.
Here are just a few fast facts about our department over the years:
- Leveraging UC Davis' international stature in agriculture and nutrition, our faculty have led the way in elucidating the role of nutrients and diet and their effects on health and the development of disease.
- Founding chair Robert Stowell led an extensive and detailed multi-institutional review of research data on the artificial sweetener Aspartame. Due to many high-profile controversies surrounding this sweetener, the Food and Drug Administration would not approve Asparatame without Dr. Stowell's thorough and impartial, outside review which led to the eventual approval.
- Chair emeritus Ralph Green, an international expert in health effects of folate and other B vitamins, has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, US Food and Drug Administration National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
- Work by Vice Chair of Research Yvonne Wan and her lab have gained considerable attention for their findings on the effects of the Western diet on the microbiome and its influence on the development of liver disease, including liver cancer.
- Modern understanding of breast cancer development and the risk associated with pre-invasive lesions have been shaped by the foundational work of chair emeritus Sefton Wellings and faculty member Hanne Jensen. Drs. Wellings and Jensen defined the sub-gross anatomy of the female breast, as well as the earliest pre-cancerous lesions and the anatomical structure where they arise: the terminal ductal-lobular unit.
- Chair emeritus George Lundberg MD created the "brain-to-brain loop" conceptual framework for clinical testing, an important concept that remains at the heart of clinical quality programs and the National Academy of Medicine's recent report on diagnostic error reduction.
- Ground-breaking work on the pathogenesis of AIDS was conducted by department faculty members during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Chair emeritus Murray Gardner and other UC Davis colleagues discovered simian AIDS, the latter serving as the model for human AIDS research. As a result of this work, Dr. Gardner and departmental colleague Paul Luciw and others co-founded UC Davis' Center for Comparative Medicine.
- One of the earliest informatics fellowships in the nation began right here in our department by chair emeritus Robert Cardiff MD PhD. One of our early informatics graduates was Jose Galvez who is also an alum of our residency program. Today, Jose is Chief of Biomedical Translational Research Informatics at the National Institutes of Health. Together Drs. Cardiff and Galvez created informatics tools that supported many national efforts including the Pathology Core for the National Cancer Institute's Mouse Models of Human Cancer, a core led by Dr. Cardiff.
- Our department has a tradition of leadership in educational technology. We were among the first departments in the nation to replace glass slides with virtual microscopy for medical school pathology course, an innovation introduced by Regina Gandour-Edwards. Today, Hooman Rashidi continues this legacy of educational innovation with his HemeQuiz app which includes many faculty as chapter authors, along with interactive online textbooks such as Hematology Outlines and others in the works.
On 5/24, we will be celebrating our 50 years as an academic department, and these are just a few of the many accomplishments we have to celebrate. Our chair emeriti will be returning to share their reflections and vision of the future during a panel lunch discussion and in rotating roundtables to follow. We will showcase our research in a moderated poster walk before lunch and well as in afternoon platform presentations. And the event will conclude with the highlight of the day, our annual Stowell Lecture delivered by Abul Abbas, Chair of the Department of Pathology at UCSF who will speak on one of today's hottest topics and treatments, "Recent Advances in Immunology: Understanding Disease Mechanisms and New Therapies." I'm delighted that the Stowell family will be with us to share in this special day and present to the department, Dr. Stowell's Golden Headed Cane Award, the highest honor in the discipline of experimental pathology. Please click on the flyer to register for the event.
History is the thread that binds us together, engenders pride in who we are, and shapes where we go in the future. Please join us on 5/24 to celebrate our history and the history that we will make together going forward – I hope to see you there! And to learn more about our department's history, check out our historic timeline.


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Beat Belgium and the England lads will start to puff out their chests and think: We're serious contenders.
I've heard the whole argument that we're better off losing, and finishing second in Group G — because it looks like a smoother pathway through the rounds.
Roberto Martinez says he will make up to ten changes to his team on Thursday night. But you don't want to lose or slack off at this stage. Gareth Southgate will make some changes too, but I doubt it will be that extreme.
The dynamics of your squad can change very quickly with a defeat. As far as I'm concerned you try to win the game. Keep a winning mentality.
Consider what another win would do. Victory over Belgium at that, a very strong nation whose players we know well and love to watch.... imagine what confidence that will give. First big test of this World Cup passed.
You carry wins like that into the next game.
Win in Kaliningrad, and it's a good result. If not, take second in the group and whatever possible benefits that may bring.
I'd say the benefits of a boost in confidence, belief, and putting down another marker for the tournament, that a win brings, massively outweighs finishing second and getting what may be a kinder route to the quarter final and beyond.
Taking your foot off the gas is fraught with danger. You could get embarrassed out there. You could get disjointed, and then you can't just turn the good form back on in the knockout stage next Tuesday night.
There is no way Southgate can go into this game thinking, 'Let's finish second, get beaten.'
He thinks in the back of his mind that second is a better route, but he also knows that individuals grow through tournaments.
You take every game seriously. You get battle hardened against the best and press on to win more.
Wait 90 more minutes to sing It's Coming Home...
Are we getting a bit carried away? After all, England have beaten Panama and Tunisia, ranked only 55th and 21st, by FIFA.
It's a question to answer after this Belgium game.
It is understandable that fans are excited because they are watching – even if it is just in ruthless 25-minute spells – play that makes us think, "That was inventive. That was creative. They've tried something there. They've got a plan."
In past tournaments, England looked bland. A lack of ideas. Relying on star names to do something.
I get the reason why people have become excited. But personally I would err on the side of caution. It's a bit like what Gareth Southgate said after the game: There are small concerns. We have been a bit sloppy in possession. Against better teams you'd be punished.
I am interested to see, against Belguim, where we stand against a top side. So I'm not getting carried away. I'm giving it another game.
Set-piece successes born in the USA
England are causing panic at the World Cup with their set-pieces.
It's an amazing stat that we'd not scored from 72 set-pieces at tournaments, and now we've got three goals from eight in Russia.
Set-pieces have been a big factor at this tournament.
From my understanding, Southgate's No2 Steve Holland is a bit of a geek in his planning. Very creative. I know players who have worked with him. He'll be having a big influence. He's a technician.
We are not just whipping the ball into the box. What you have to analyse is how we are getting the space. How does John Stones get free to head in his first goal? And watch how Jordan Henderson peels off and brings two men out of the box before Stones scored his second.
We have shown creativity with our dead-ball situations, but we are also a massive physical presence.
I know these lads anyway, but walking past Dele Alli, Harry Maguire and Stones pitchside after the game the other day, you realise they must terrify the opposition. Every one is 6ft plus. They've got teams panicking.
And now we've got a player to put the ball on the money in Kieran Trippier. A floated one, a whipped one or a clipped ball into the danger zone, he is a serious weapon.
Southgate's visit to the US earlier this year to study NFL teams, specifically the Seattle Seahawks, is interesting too.
American football and basketball are about little blocks to get an inch or a yard. It may not totally convert to football, but there is something to look at there.
I attribute much of this new-found set-piece success to the ability to run the right patterns and have the ball delivered perfectly.
Don't throw away Kane's Golden opportunity
Harry Kane has got his Golden Boot head on and has got to start against Belgium.
This is a once in a lifetime chance.
I have watched Harry play a lot, and I don't think he has exerted anywhere near as much energy here so far as he does in Premier League games.
I'd love to see the stats. He has played poor opposition in Tunisia and Panama. The games have been slow, and not as end-to-end as in the Premier League.
The conditioning experts will have a record of what he has done and whether he is anywhere near the red zone — when you can get injured.
So England MUST start Harry on Thursday night. You start with your captain.
By all means bring him off after 60 minutes, but he will want to be out there, scoring goals. It is a massive opportunity. Rare.
Also, he is on such a run you don't want to break that. People can be superstitious. If I was Harry I'd be saying, "Leave me on the pitch! I literally can't miss at the minute."
Imagine if England got a penalty and he wasn't on. He'd be thinking, 'I should be scoring that and then be on six goals.' You'd be a bit p***** off.
If something is working, don't chance it. Let it keep happening. Let the goals keep flowing.


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The business landscape has changed dramatically over the past several decades. New technology now exists to help companies find time-saving solutions to everyday tasks, and most businesses now operate in a much more relaxed, informal setting than the buttoned-up companies of yore. However, the biggest and best difference in today's workplace is the level of diversity we see among members of office staff. Men and women of all colors, religions, ethnicities, and belief systems now work side-by-side in offices across America.
The dramatic increase in workplace diversity shows us how far we've come in the past fifty years, but it can also come with some questions for employers about how best to ensure they create an inclusive, harmonious office setting for all members of their staff. Here are some tips for showing your employees that your company embraces and celebrates diversity.
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Having a culturally diverse workplace means being able to get input and feedback from a variety of differing perspectives. Each member of your team is coming to every new challenge with their own set of experiences, and this can help your team see problems and find solutions in a new light. By encouraging round-table style discussions in your team meetings and getting employees to weigh in with their opinions as individuals from different backgrounds, your organization can not only gain a lot of scope about the matters at hand, but can also become strengthened through the frank, open discussions which take place.
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One fun way to build community in a diverse workplace is to encourage staff members to share their cultural traditions and celebrations throughout the year. Keep a diversity calendar in your staff break room to mark important holidays that each of your employees celebrates within his or her culture, and hold lunchtime potlucks to commemorate them. Additionally, as an employer, it's important to be mindful of each staff member's beliefs and customs, and offer paid time off for important religious or cultural holidays whenever possible.
Fight Discrimination
As an employer of a culturally-diverse workplace, you know how important it is to maintain a harmonious, cohesive unit among your staff members. If at any time you witness an act of discrimination or prejudice, or if you hear a report of such actions from another staff member, it is essential that you take a stand and let the offender know that these behaviors will not be tolerated. By enacting a zero-tolerance policy against workplace discrimination, you are drawing a firm line and standing up for the people who make your office what it is.
We have come a long way in workplace diversity over the past few decades, but there is still much to be done until everyone can truly feel equally respected. As the manager or owner of your business, it's up to you to ensure that your culturally-diverse workplace is an inclusive, safe environment for your entire staff.
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A special congressional supercommittee acknowledged failure Monday in efforts to cut the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. The panel's failure was announced in a joint statement issued in late afternoon after the close of U.S. stock markets, which plunged during the day.
Yesterday, Congress passed the 2012 Agricultural Appropriations Bill or "minibus" as it has come to be called. The good news is that cuts to both national and international nutrition programs were not as severe as originally expected. The bad news is, poverty is still at record levels and there is still more we can do to help those in need.
Over the past few weeks, Sojourners activists have sent thousands of emails to Congress urging them not to cut poverty focused foreign aid. While that fight continues, the passage of this bill -- without any major cuts to vital programs for poor and hungry people -- is an important step.
A new poll released this morning by Public Religion Research Institute shows the American public has clear ideas about what steps political leaders should take to reduce the federal deficit.
The poll shows that a majority of white evangelicals are opposed to cutting federal anti-poverty programs for the poor and nearly three-quarters of white evangelicals oppose cutting funding for religious organizations that help the poor.
The poll, based on a survey of 1,002 American adults performed November 10 -14, also shows a nation divided both by political affiliation and generation when it comes to attitudes towards Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
The survey found that nearly 7-in-10 (68 percent) of Americans say that in order to reduce the deficit, it's fair to ask wealthier Americans to pay a greater percentage in taxes than the middle class or those less well off.
Governor Perry should have to stand up and have the three hour Lincoln-Douglas style debates about why he wants to cut the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, and perhaps even the Environmental Protection Agency, and all the other government work that he would like to forget.
Today's veterans are suffering through the current recession. They have a higher unemployment rate are are more likely to be or become homeless than the rest of the U.S. population.
Thankfully, the Senate yesterday unanimously passed jobs for veterans legislation that should begin to help.
But other problems remain. As many as 25 percent have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and suicides are rising. Forty-six-thousdand have suffered devastating physical injuries, and as many as 360,000 may have brain injuries.
With this set of problems, the Veterans Administration doesn't have the necessary resources to meet the profound need.
Right now, in cities around the world, there is a growing protest movement putting the issue of economic inequality squarely on the public agenda. Regardless how you feel about this movement, I believe there is another "99 percent" we need the G20 – and urgently Congressional leaders – to remember and prioritize.
Nearly 8 million children under the age of five die every year due to preventable malnutrition and disease. But they are not dying in the United States, Germany or here in France.
According to research by World Vision's Child Health Now campaign, 99 percent of those entirely preventable deaths take place in developing countries. The 99 percent of the children that die under the age of 5 are too often invisible and don't have a voice at major global summits such as the G20 or in the corridors of Congress. These children constitute the real and too often forgotten 99 percent.
On November 23, the Congressional Super Committee appointed to reduce the national deficit must decide where to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget.
Many of their proposed cuts the Super Committee is contemplating strike fear in my soul -- a visceral forboding of injustice.
That's because the proposed billion-dollar cuts will affect after school tutoring programs, job training for unemployed adults, Head Start and child care programs, energy grants that help low-income families afford heat and many other programs that benefit the least of those among us.
It is for this reason that many organizers, parents, students, community leaders and people of faith will assemble across the nation at noon (in every time zone) on November 16 to form human circles of protection around the buildings of organizations and agencies that have dedicated their lives to helping the poor and are in jeopardy of losing essential funding from the federal government.
As you are reading this, the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (a.k.a. The Super Committee) is making choices about who and what our nation will protect.
Will we protect the wealthiest 2 percent by preserving $690 billion in Bush era tax cuts?
Or will we protect children by preserving $650 billion in special education, student aid, and assistance to low-income schools?
Will we protect corporations by preserving $97.5 billion in subsidies for big business or will we protect families by preserving $98 billion in Head Start and child care programs?
We have 32 days left to remind Congress that, "Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss" (Proverbs 22:16).
We're sorely missing the servant leadership of America's CEOs on matters of corporate taxation.
As Congress contemplates trillions in budget cuts that will worsen poverty and undermine the quality of life in America, consider these findings from a new report that I co-authored, "Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging," by the Institute for Policy Studies.
Last year, the compensation of 25 CEOs at major profitable U.S. companies was larger than the entire amount their company paid in U.S. corporate taxes.
These 25 include the CEOs of Verizon, Boeing, Honeywell, General Electric, International Paper, Prudential, eBay, Bank of New York Mellon, Ford, Motorola, Qwest Communications, Dow Chemical, and Stanley Black and Decker.
More than 140 prominent Protestant leaders from 12 Latin American countries have signed an "open letter to the Christian churches of the United States," asking American Christians to stand with "the most vulnerable members of US society" who would be affected by proposed budget cuts to the social safety net.
Citing the Circle of Protection as a positive Christian witness, the signers also expressed their dismay. "We view with deep concern recent decisions in the United States that will add to the suffering of the most vulnerable members of US society," the letter read. It was signed by a broad array of Latin American religious communities, including leaders of the Latin American Council of Churches, the United Bible Society of Latin America, evangelical councils and alliances in Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Uruguay, the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (CONELA), the Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches of Latin America (AIPRAL), Micah Network, Indigenous Association of Peruvian Amazonia, and the Latin American Biblical University in Costa Rica.
When I first visited Ethiopia at the height of the 1984 famine, I watched as twenty-four people died of starvation in less than fifteen minutes, right in front of my eyes. Barely five years into my career as a Congressman, nothing my staff told me beforehand could have prepared me for what I saw on that trip.
Gasping at awful photographs of unspeakable human suffering is one thing; bearing firsthand witness to human suffering is another thing entirely. Glancing at a picture of a starving child in the newspaper, you can always turn away, but when you're staring into the eyes of a mother who has just lost that child, it's a completely different story. There's no looking the other way.
That's why I often describe those first Ethiopia experiences as my "converting ground" on issues of global hunger. What happened in Ethiopia changed me, and changed how an entire generation looks at hunger.
It's also why I'm currently back on the Horn of Africa, reporting on the ground from the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya, less than fifty miles from the Somali border. And I am appealing to my affluent brothers and sisters in the United Stated and around the world not to look away. We need your help.
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As Christians concerned about poverty, it is time to turn our full attention to the injustices of an "offshore tax system" that enables corporations and the wealthy to dodge taxes and impoverish countries around the world.
As members of Congress in the United States debate deep and painful budget cuts, people of faith should raise our voices against an unfair system that enables profitable U.S. corporations to dodge taxes, depleting an estimated $100 billion from the U.S. Treasury each year. Instead of cutting $1 trillion over the next decade from programs that assist the poor and ensure greater opportunity, we should eliminate these destructive tax gimmicks.
Recent reports show that aggressive tax dodgers such as General Electric, Boeing, and Pfizer, avoid billions in taxes a year. They use accounting gymnastics to pretend they are making profits in offshore subsidiaries incorporated in low- or no-tax countries like the Cayman Islands, thereby reducing their tax obligations in the United States. This system is unfair to domestic businesses that have to compete on an un-level playing field.
As the federal debt ceiling standoff threatens to cause an economic catastrophe for our nation, more than 4,000 pastors across the country are opposing proposed immoral budget cuts that harm the most vulnerable people in their congregations and communities. An open letter to Congress and the president ran today as a full page ad in Politico. (You can view the ad and full list of signers here.) We were amazed by the huge response this letter generated. We hoped to find 1,000 pastors willing to speak out with us, and in just 2 weeks more than 4,000 clergy joined our campaign.
Yesterday, the leaders of more than 50 Christian denominations and organizations drew a line in the sand of the budget debate, and asked our political leaders to do the same.
On Easter weekend, I will break my fast. I will have spent almost four weeks drinking only liquids. But, as is often true of fasts, what has been gained is far greater than anything given up.


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Australian cricket's bitter pay war is finally over.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland and his Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) counterpart Alistair Nicholson today confirmed an in-principle agreement had been reached on a new memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Mr Sutherland said the agreement was the result of a "sensible compromise" from both parties.
"Neither side has got everything they wanted from these negotiations, but they shouldn't be approached with a winner takes all mindset," Mr Sutherland said.
"I think we've reached a good compromise, one we can both live with, and one that will be good for the game and good for Australia's cricketers."
The public battle between CA and the ACA has raged throughout the year and Mr Sutherland conceded damage had been done to the game.
"Relationships with the game have been tested and I know that has been a bit of a turn off for fans," he said.
"Both parties acknowledge and regret that. We are restoring certainty and beginning to repair relationships, especially with the fans.
"We want the focus to be back on the cricket."
The ACA had vowed no player would make themselves available for selection until the new MOU was signed and some 230 players had been unemployed since the previous deal expired on June 30.
The most divisive issue during the oft-heated stoush has been revenue sharing.
CA wanted to scrap the salary model that has governed players' salaries since the first MOU was brokered 20 years ago.
But Mr Nicholson today said the revenue sharing model would be retained.
Players will get up to 30 percent of revenue - around $500m in the five-year period covered by the agreement.
The stand-off saw the Australia A tour of South Africa cancelled and threatened the upcoming Test tour to Bangladesh, with players due to fly to Dhaka on August 18.
The Test squad will assemble in Darwin next week for a training camp.


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