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Motorola Mobility Announces First Quarter Financial ResultsMay 01, 2012
First Quarter Financial Highlights
- Net revenues of $3.1 billion
- Non-GAAP net loss of $0.03 per share compared to net loss of $0.08 per share in first quarter 2011; GAAP net loss of $0.28 per share compared to net loss of $0.27 per share in first quarter 2011
- Mobile Devices net revenues of $2.2 billion; Non-GAAP operating loss of $85 million; GAAP operating loss of $121 million
- Shipped 8.9 million mobile devices, including 5.1 million smartphones
- Home net revenues of $884 million; Non-GAAP operating earnings of $91 million; GAAP operating earnings of $68 million
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – May 1, 2012 – Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today reported net revenues of $3.1 billion in the first quarter of 2012, up 2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2011. The GAAP net loss in the first quarter of 2012 was $86 million, or $0.28 per share, compared to a net loss of $81 million, or $0.27 per share, in the first quarter of 2011. On a non-GAAP basis, the net loss in the first quarter 2012 was $10 million, or $0.03 per share, compared to a net loss of $25 million, or $0.08 per share, in the first quarter of 2011.
The Company had operating cash outflow of $98 million in the first quarter. Total cash at the end of the quarter was $3.5 billion and includes cash, cash equivalents, and cash deposits.
Details on non-GAAP adjustments and the use of non-GAAP measures are included later in this press release and in the financial tables.
"The introduction of RAZR™ MAXX marked another successful addition to the Motorola product family and contributed to our growth in smartphones. Our Home business delivered another solid quarter highlighted by improvement in year-over-year profitability," said Sanjay Jha, chairman and chief executive officer, Motorola Mobility. "We continue to work closely with Google to complete the proposed merger during the first half of the year."
Operating Results
Mobile Devices net revenues in the first quarter were $2.2 billion, up 3 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. The GAAP operating loss was $121 million compared to an operating loss of $89 million in the year-ago quarter. The non-GAAP operating loss was $85 million compared to an operating loss of $61 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company shipped a total of 8.9 million mobile devices in the first quarter, including 5.1 million smartphones.Mobile Devices highlights:
- Launched RAZR™ MAXX, the longest-lasting 4G LTE smartphone, allowing customers to talk for over 21 hours on a single charge, and DROID 4 by Motorola, the thinnest and most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone.
- Expanded budget-friendly smartphone portfolio in China, Europe, and Latin America with the introduction of MOTOLUXE™, a slim touchscreen device and Motorola DEFY™ MINI, the ideal "life proof" device for the active consumer.
- Teamed up with Bubba Watson, four time PGA Tour winner, including the 2012 Masters to introduce MOTOACTV™ Golf Edition, a cutting-edge GPS golf tracker, virtual caddy and online clubhouse.
Home highlights:
- Introduced Connected Home Gateway, the industry's first plug-and-play solution for home monitoring and control services.
- Provided equipment and services to Asian Broadcasting Network for launch of Malaysia's most advanced digital cable TV network.
- Industry recognition of our Medios multi-screen software portfolio including SecureMedia® named "Best Rights and Asset Management Solution" at 2012 IPTV World Forum.
- Announced global distributor and integrator agreement with Edgecast's Content Delivery Network platform, enabling advanced multi-screen service delivery to consumers.
As previously announced on August 15, 2011, Motorola Mobility and Google Inc. ("Google") (NASDAQ: GOOG) entered into a definitive agreement for Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $12.5 billion.
Motorola Mobility and Google continue to work closely with the authorities in China for approval on the acquisition. The transaction has been investigated and cleared without conditions in all other jurisdictions with pre-closing clearance requirements. We continue to expect the transaction to close during the first half of 2012.
For more information on the proposed merger, please visit http://investors.motorola.com.
Conference Call and Webcast
In light of the pending acquisition of the Company by Google, the Company does not conduct a financial analyst conference call or webcast following the release of its earnings information nor provide financial guidance. To access the first quarter results and other financial information, please visit http://investors.motorola.com.
Consolidated GAAP Results
A comparison of results from operations is as follows:
First Quarter
(In millions, except per share amounts)
| Net revenues
Gross margin
| Operating loss
| Loss before income taxes
| Net loss
| Basic loss per common share
| Diluted loss per common share
| Weighted average common shares outstanding
| Basic
| Diluted
Non-GAAP Adjustments for first quarter 2012 and 2011
First Quarter
| Per Share Impact
| GAAP Loss per Common Share
| Merger-related costs *
| Stock-based compensation expense
| Intangible assets amortization expense
| Total Non-GAAP Adjustments **
| Non-GAAP Loss per Common Share
* Merger-related costs primarily consisting of legal and banking fees.
** Earnings or loss per share (EPS) impact may not add up due to rounding.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
In addition to the GAAP results included in this presentation, Motorola Mobility also has included non-GAAP measurements of results. Motorola Mobility has provided these non-GAAP measurements to help investors better understand Motorola Mobility's core operating performance, enhance comparisons of Motorola Mobility's core operating performance from period to period, and allow better comparisons of Motorola Mobility's operating performance to that of its competitors. Among other things, the Company's management uses these operating results, excluding the identified items, to evaluate the performance of its businesses and to evaluate results relative to certain incentive compensation targets. Management uses operating results, excluding these items, because it believes this measurement enables it to make better period-to-period evaluations of the financial performance of its core business operations. The non-GAAP measurements are intended only as a supplement to the comparable GAAP measurements and the Company compensates for the limitations inherent in the use of non-GAAP measurements by using GAAP measures in conjunction with the non-GAAP measurements. As a result, investors should consider these non-GAAP measurements in addition to, and not in substitution for or as superior to, measurements of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Non-GAAP adjustments are comprised of the following items:
Merger-related costs: The Company has excluded the effects of merger-related costs from its non-GAAP operating expenses and net income measurements because the Company believes that this item does not reflect expected future operating earnings or expenses and do not contribute to a meaningful evaluation of the Company's current operating performance or comparisons to the Company's past operating performance.
Stock-based compensation expense: The Company has excluded stock-based compensation expense from its non-GAAP operating expenses and net income measurements. Although stock-based compensation is a key incentive offered to our employees and the Company believes such compensation contributed to the revenue earned during the periods presented and also believes it will contribute to the generation of future period revenues – the Company continues to evaluate its performance excluding stock-based compensation expense primarily because it represents a significant non-cash expense. Stock-based compensation expense will recur in future periods.
Intangible assets amortization expense: The Company has excluded intangible assets amortization expense from its non-GAAP operating expenses and net income measurements, primarily because it represents a significant non-cash expense and because the Company evaluates its performance excluding intangible assets amortization expense. Amortization of intangible assets is consistent in amount and frequency but is significantly affected by the timing and size of the Company's acquisitions. Investors should note that the use of intangible assets contributed to the Company's revenues earned during the periods presented and will contribute to the Company's future period revenues as well. Intangible assets amortization expense will recur in future periods.
Details of the above non-GAAP adjustments and reconciliations of the non-GAAP measurements to the corresponding GAAP measurements can be found in the financial tables.
Business Risks
Motorola Mobility cautions the reader that this communication includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the expected closing date of the proposed Google transaction and the expected timeframe for regulatory decisions. Forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed transaction and the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to consummation of the proposed transaction, including the ability to secure regulatory and other approvals at all or in a timely manner; and the other risks and uncertainties contained and identified in Motorola Mobility's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. Motorola Mobility undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances or update the reasons that actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements, except as required by law.About Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility.


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FOOL is adopting a non-standard schedule to play nice with the other events.Because our keynote talk finishes well before noon, you can either attend some other event from 11:30 to 12:00, or still take 1h30m for lunch—but shifted half an hour earlier.
Either way, please be back—this is the non-standard part—by 1pm! We will then go straight through to 3pm. By finishing then, we leave you free to attend the coffee break, followed by the last session of other events.
Nikhil Swamy will talk about the secure embedding of gradual typing for JavaScript. See details below.
This is the twentieth anniversary of FOOL! Looking back, Kim Bruce will talk about FOOL over the years.
Looking forward, Shriram Krishnamurthi will lead a discussion about objects and scripting languages. This isn't a panel; it's an open discussion with all participants welcome to participate (the more the merrier)! Come armed with objects, scripts, opinions, or caffeine.
Enabling the mixture of dynamically and statically type-safe code, gradual type systems have gained prominence in the past decade, both through research languages like Racket and industrial languages like C#. Now, with the advent of TypeScript and Closure, gradual typing has come to JavaScript. However, JavaScript's unusually flexible semantics makes it hard to provide gradual type-safety. Indeed, both Closure and TypeScript's type systems are intentionally unsound.
In this talk, I will present ongoing work at Microsoft Research on TS*, a gradually typed surface language on top of JavaScript. Its type system has the distinctive feature of providing safety guarantees even when TS* programs are composed with arbitrary, untrusted JavaScript. To achieve this, TS* provides a new gradual typing discipline that includes not one but two types to classify dynamically typed code: the type Any is for dynamically type-safe TS* expressions, while the type Un is for dynamically typed, but potentially adversarial, JavaScript expressions.
So far, we have programmed several small security-critical libraries in TS* and deployed them after compilation to JavaScript. Our experience suggests that web-security idioms that developers currently program in JavaScript (with much difficulty and still with dubious results) can instead be coded naturally in TS*, retaining a flavor of idiomatic JavaScript, while providing, by virtue of our type system, strong safety guarantees.
Nikhil Swamy is a Researcher in the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Nik's research covers various topics including type systems, program logics, functional programming, program verification, interactive theorem proving and the foundations of computer security. He is the lead designer and implementer of the F* programming language and the current chair of PL(X), the RiSE working group on programming languages.
The search for sound principles for object-oriented languages has given rise to much work during the past two decades, leading to a better understanding of the key concepts of object-oriented languages and to important developments in type theory, semantics, program verification, and program development. FOOL 2013 will be held in Indianapolis, IN, USA as part of SPLASH 2013.
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Taylor McTaggart's design was inspired by the history of Arnold Clark, and depicts Oor Wullie as an Arnold Clark employee with his bucket adorned with the company's major milestones over the past 65 years.
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Taylor McTaggart is an 18-year-old, self-taught artist who lost both hands and feet from meningitis when she was five months old. Taylor has had a passion for art all of her life, and is now turning it into a career. She particularly enjoys illustration, manga and anime.
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A wee bit like Oor Wullie, the Arnold Clark Group started from humble beginnings and has grown to become a household name. Since opening our first showroom in Glasgow's Park Road in 1954, we're now Europe's largest independently owned car retailer, selling over 300,000 cars a year. Jings, if that's no an awfy lot o' happy customers! And it's not just about selling cars. From servicing and parts to providing home insurance, training and fleet management, we provide the full motoring package. And it's all thanks to our 12,500 employees, every one of whom plays a valuable role in our continued success, which is founded on placing customer experience at the heart of every venture. We couldn't be prouder to be partnering with the famed Oor Wullie's BIG Bucket Trail this year, and we're so happy to have unveiled our very own statues!


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As you can probably tell, I use these quite a bit. Yep, I am a full blown Lushie, and I'm not sorry if that makes me basic. Quite frankly, I use a ton of Lush products, but these happy to be my current top five.
Angels On Bare Skin I love this face wash! It's gentle, it smells good, and it leaves my face looking radiant. Before I started using Lush, I was trying out all sorts of facial cleansers (drugstore and beauty store) with zero luck for my sensitive skin. AOBS was the first product I ever tried from Lush, and I can't be more happy with the results I have seen in my skin since using this product. This is definitely a mild exfoliant/cleanser, meaning it won't take off your make up, so just be sure you do that prior to using it. It's very gentle and made for sensitive skin, however the main ingredients are almonds and lavender, so if you have an allergy to those you should obviously avoid using this.
The New Charity Pot With fair trade shea butter being a main ingredient how could you say no? This stuff smells heavenly, any time I am wearing it people always ask "What smells so good?" and I am just like, "Me. It's definitely me". I am not much of a chocolate smell kind of gal, so when they made the change from the old Charity Pot to this new subtle floral scent, I was very pleased. This stuff with take moisturizing your skin to a whole new level, you only need to apply it once in the morning and you'll feel smooth 'til tomorrow. I have a slight addiction to the charity pot and tend to carry it around with me almost everywhere I go. Besides getting super soft skin, you will also be sending 100% of the price to small organizations around the world, hence the name Charity Pot.
BB Seaweed If you invest in any product this Summer, it should be this one. This mask is packed with Seaweed (duh), honey, aloe vera gel, olive oil, and rose; all the essentials needed to help aid your skin, especially after you spend time under the sun. This is a product that needs to be refrigerated, but personally, I love when cold things are placed on my face, plus the cold helps to reduce any swelling--I tend to get swelling in my cheek area and underneath my eyes when I'm exhausted or dehydrated.
Cosmetic Lad Like the Charity Pot, this too goes anywhere I go. This stuff is great if you're looking for something that moisturizes, but won't leave your face oily. If you're lucky like me and have neutral skin and only suffer from blemishes from time to time, then you might want to give this product a go. I apply this every morning before applying my make up, anytime after I remove my makeup, and if needed before bed.
93,000 Miles I was skeptical about trying this product, just because of how Lush was advertising the product as being something to use to soothe your muscle aches. I thought it was just a selling gimmick, but after trying it, I realized that I should just never doubt Lush. Oddly enough it does relieve some aches and pains. I crave this wash after a good workout at the gym. I'm not sure if it's the aroma that helps alleviate my pain by relaxing me, but I feel better after using it. On days when I know I am going to come home more sore than usual, I'll pop the jelly in my freezer and take it out when I am ready to shower. If you're anything like me and you love the smell of cinnamon and peppermint together, then you'll love this shower jelly!
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The Obama administration offered a compromise to religious institutions that object to paying for their employees' birth control — as mandated by the Affordable Health Care Act — because it violates their faith. The proposed rules will expand the religious exemption from churches and dedicated inculcators to include nonprofit religious institutions that have secular functions, such as universities. The workaround is pretty simple: Religious institutions tell insurers that they oppose contraception on religious grounds and the insurers offer employees a separate, contraception-only policy without co-pays. Religious groups won't have to "contract, arrange, pay or refer for any contraceptive coverage" and can continue pretending 99 percent of women don't use it at some point.
In what sounds like the federal equivalent of throwing down your credit card at dinner because you can't stand watching everyone bicker over who owes what, Businessweek reports that the government will reimburse insurers for the additional cost of coverage by reducing the fees they will pay into future health insurance exchanges established under Obamacare. But a statement released by the Department of Health and Human Services today predicted that issuers wouldn't even mind paying for the contraception because they, like the many women who use it, know it is way cheaper than covering their unwanted pregnancies.
Still, the updated rules do nothing for the private, for-profit corporations that have filed lawsuits seeking exclusion from the contraception mandate because their CEOs don't believe in emergency contraception. So we could still be on for a fall Supreme Court date after all.


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In January 2020, the media reported a court petition by the State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) to liquidate the East African Cables over a $2.85 million (Ksh285 million) debt, Ventures Africa reported. However, the two parties have reached an agreement, recently, on the restructuring of the $2.85 million (Ksh285 million) debt that is due and payable on demand. "The withdrawal of the petition is a significant step towards the company's turnaround plan that includes strengthening of the balance sheet, operational improvement and having the right funding structure for growth and profitability," sai


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St. Joseph's Parish is a Catholic Church located in Lake Orion, MI. The history of St. Joseph's dates all the way back to the 1800's, and the Parish today consists of over 3,000 households as members today.
From 1997-2003, St. Joseph's expanded and modernized their church to meet the needs of their growing congregation. In order to cover the cost of this expansion, the church accepted a loan from the Archdiocese of Detroit. Making payments of $39,000 per month, the church was on pace to pay their debt down by 2027.
In 2019, St. Joseph's put together a plan to pay the remainder of debt ($3.7 million) by 2022, which would in turn save them a total of $700,000 in interest. In order to make this possible, they needed the financial support of their members. St. Joseph's hired Drive Creative to design and construct environmental marketing pieces to assist in the promotion of debt elimination campaign.
attention on the campaign by creating signage for all entrance points of the school and church
awareness in the surrounding community that the parish had a new debt elimination initiative
banners, signage and other collateral to inform and share real-time progress of the campaign
banners on all light poles in both the East and West parking lot to draw attention to the campaign
The timeline was tough to say the least. We were given 3 weeks, start to finish, to not only come up with messaging and design for this campaign but also have everything fabricated, printed, and installed.
Luckily, the name of the campaign was already chosen; Living Stones. This gave us a creative foothold to build off of.
We chose simplistic messaging that would help drive our point home that the Parish needed financial assistance from their members in order to pay down the debt.
Complimenting pieces provided donation-thermometers that the parish could utilize to showcase the real-time financial contributions that were made by the congregation thus far. This strategy was used to motivate parish members to donate to the church and help them reach their goal as soon as possible.
The creative, imagery and messaging changed based on location. The marketing pieces used in the school focused on students and athletics, whereas imagery in the church focused on mass, weddings, and baptisms.
It was reported to us that after 1-week of the campaign launch, a total of $180,000 was pledged to the church which far exceeded their original expectations for week 1. The campaign is still in progress, being a 3-year effort in itself. We expect the client to reach their goal of $3.6 million well before their initial 3-year timeline.
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Three men who attempted to buy hacking programs were indicted this week
Wednesday September 10,2014 : KOREAN AUTHORITIES NAB HACKING SOFTWARE BUYERS
Software reveals player card information and compromises player data
Three men who attempted to buy hacking programs were indicted this week, Korean authorities said today.
The three were reportedly planning on selling the Hacking Two software, which reveals other players card information and comprises each players' data, to an online gambling operator for illicit use.
The remote-controlled surveillance programme, allegedly used for the cyber attacks against Korean companies and government agencies last year, was being distributed via peer-to-peer sites in the hopes of raising interest from online gambling site operators, reported the Korean Herald.
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"The real aim of (appointing) the interlocutors is to mislead the US President during his visit to India next month. The government of India wants to impress upon him that it is making a serious effort for resolution of Kashmir issue," Geelani told reporters at his residence.
Geelani, who was placed under house arrest immediately after his return from Delhi on Sunday, reiterated his call for boycotting the interlocutors as people have already conveyed their message about their wish for resolution of Kashmir issue under the right to self-determination.
"The five-point formula we had suggested to the government of India was endorsed by majority of people in Jammu and Kashmir on Eid day (September 11). New Delhi should have acted upon those suggestions which includes declaring Kashmir as a disputed area and withdrawal of troops from the state," he said.
He urged students, lawyers, traders and separatists lodged in various jails not to meet the interlocutors as 'it is a dirty trick' of the Centre. The boycott call comes a day after moderate Hurriyat headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said they will not meet the panel headed by eminent journalist Dileep Padgaonkar.
Geelani asked people to be aware of the 'nefarious designs of Indian agencies' as they might attempt to repeat Chattisinghpora incident "when 35 Sikhs were massacred during the visit of then US President Bill Clinton to impress upon him that the movement in Kashmir is terrorism."
On his heckling by Pannun Kashmir activists in Delhi on Thursday, Geelani said, "I have forgiven them from the bottom of my heart. They did what they felt was their duty towards Indian nation due to their ideological synergy."
Alleging that Pandits were driven away from Kashmir under a conspiracy by then Governor of the state, the hardline leader said the Pandit community will find "good neighbours in us whenever they return to their homes, orchards and fields".
Reacting to the Centre's decision to file a case against him for his speech at a seminar in Delhi, where demand for secession of Kashmir was made by Kashmiri separatists, Geelani said, "I have 90 FIRs registered against me. This will be number 91."
Geelani said he did not say anything new in Delhi that he had not said in Kashmir before. Supporting the signature campaign and call of moderate Hurriyat Conference for march to local United Nations office in Srinagar on October 27, he issued a fresh 13-day protest calendar which has only four days exempted from strikes and protests. The "normal" working days are October 28 and 29 and November 2 and 4.


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My dad and his friends started a Polish Tennis Association in Chicago called, Polonus. They held their first event at Five Seasons County Club in Northbrook, Illinois, where they showcased some young talented tennis players. Here are a couple of pictures from their exhibition match:
I always thought its amusing to watch tennis players interact with each other while taking a break from play. Most times they don't even look at each other, same thing happened here. Gotta stay focused! Enjoy!
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Getting pregnant can be exciting, for some women it can be a distress. Often getting pregnant is just so natural that it did not occur to most people that preconception cleansing is essential. Neither nor they know that pregnancy is actually a process of detoxification. Here are 6 reasons why you need to know about preconception health and why our body needs preconception cleansing.
1. Pregnancy is a process of detoxification
Have you wondered why women must past the first trimester to be confirmed that her pregnancy continues? When a woman found out she is pregnant, she may experience a sign of morning sickness as early as 6th weeks in her pregnancy. Morning sickness such as vomiting and nausea are signs of natural physiological changes enabling the removal of the toxin from the woman's body commonly occur during the first trimester. Detoxification takes place more intensely during this period so that the womb can provide a safer place to nurture the little life.
The body is intelligent. It does what is necessary to protect both the expectant mum and the baby. Should the woman's health is deemed not fit to nurture this baby, pregnancy will be terminated, miscarriage occurs. If pregnancy happens to continue despite a poor nurturing environment, baby's development may be compromised. Healthy couples give birth to a healthy baby. Preeclampsia happens to women with the underlying health condition. Wonder why some women experience swollen feet, excess protein in their urine and high blood pressure during pregnancy, others don't?
2. Possibly to Prevent Birth Defects
Birth Defects are broadly defined as functional and metabolic disorders that although present but may not necessarily recognisable at birth. Birth defects cause physical and mental disability. Birth defects severely impact the quality of life of the children and their mobility some can be fatal. The causes of birth defects may be due to genetic when one or more genes do not work properly or a part of the genes is missing.
Others are environmental factors that the pregnant lady is exposed to such as rubella and German measles, using drugs, smoking, alcohol during pregnancy or a combination of all the above factors.
Common birth defects are
Cleft lip or cleft palate, not life-threatening but it can destroy the child's self-esteem
Heart defects such as missing or misshape valve may require surgery
Neural tube defect such as spina bifida that develops during the first weeks of pregnancy, others are porencephaly and hydranencephaly develop later in pregnancy.
Other defects are sensory problems such as weak eyesight, blindness, deafness,
Nervous system and brain damage in a mild case may cause mental retardation, autism, down syndrome,
Metabolic disorder such as hypothyroidism
Musculoskeletal disorder-limbs and joints can be missing or deform, club foot or hand defects
Urinary system – hydronephrosis, hypospadias, obstructive defects of the renal agenesis and many others…
3. Increase Chance of Fertility for the Childless and Prevent Miscarriage
Infertility is the inability of a man or a woman contributes to conception, also refers to the state of a woman miscarries during pregnancy. See also Infertility-Nature's Way of Protecting the Human Race. According to Dr Sheila Loh, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Raffles Hospital. Age is the main factor of infertility especially for women over age 35. 5-10 percents of women in the reproductive age suffered from polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS) either woman has irregular or no menstrual period.
Another common cause of infertile is endometriosis, where the outside of the uterus has cell-growth that should be on the inside. This is common in older women. Men over 40 also have a lower level of the male hormone, which result in poorer quality sperm.
So, what do these factors telling us? Dr Lynn Tan, a Naturopathy doctor believes infertility is the result of toxaemia and nutritional deficiency much like other modern chronic illnesses. When age is the contributing factor then our health conditions determine whether we can bear a child or rather a healthy child.
4. Healthier Body for Healthier Baby
Baby's health is determined by both the couple's health condition at the time of conception. Basically, everyone is exposed to some degree of air pollution, impure water, modern diet (dairy products, refined food such as white flour, white rice, table salt and white sugar, pesticide-laced produces), chemically treated foods (MSG, aspartame, artificial colouring, preservatives) and a toxic environment (highly addictive food). On top of that, if your diet is lack fibre rich food such as fresh fruits and vegetables, slow elimination of toxic wastes may occur. Since our colon is highly absorbance, it reabsorbs the toxin from our intestinal wall into our bloodstream.
That is to say, constipation is the cause of self-intoxication. Emotional stress and lack of exercise prolong sluggish bowel movement.
By removing all the rubbish from our body follow by leading a healthy lifestyle, avoid electromagnetic radiation and positive thinking can definitely have a direct impact on the health of the baby.
It helps to increase the chance of fertility, possibly prevent all the above birth defects, miscarriage, stillbirth, low birth weight (<2.5kg), premature baby, and also help to strengthen the body against genetic allergies (asthma, eczema, sinus). After all, where do genes come from? All children have the right to be born healthy. What can these couples do to ensure their child has a healthy start in life?
5. Healthy Parents Leads to Enjoyable Pregnancy and Natural Vaginal Birth
Healthy women, in general, have a more enjoyable pregnancy with less complication, less physical discomfort such as morning sickness (due to toxin in our body) during an early stage of pregnancy, lower chance of pregnancy-induced hypertension, fewer low-birth-weight infant, fewer incidents of premature birth, fewer incidences of preeclampsia.
6. Protect your Financial Health
Autism, ADHD, weak eyesight, allergies are among some of the most common health problems in young children. Medical treatment and support services on birth defects become a tremendous financial burden to the family and Not to mention the emotional distress to the child and everyone else in the family have to suffer.
Preconception Cleansing or Detoxification is just like spring cleaning the house of our bodies, remove heavy metals, black, gluey, rubbery encrustations that build up over the years from small and large intestines, allow effective absorption of nutrients from our small intestine into our bloodstream, helps our body to get rid of poisons and to restore nutritional, hormonal and metabolic balance in the body. The body can then activate its self-repairing and self-healing properties. Detoxification takes place when the "burden" (toxin and sick cells) in the body has been eliminated through our skin, lungs, kidneys and bowels. Our body starts to rebuild itself with the supply of health-building essential nutrients to meet the needs of the starving cells and tissue. You can even continue to overhaul your body with a gallstone flush.
Although we as parents or parents-to-be cannot avoid all the unforeseen outcome, it is the consciousness of the women and men who are responsible in their creation of a healthy seed of love; and invest in their own physical, mental and spiritual health before conception as well as during pregnancy. Such consciousness prepares parents-to-be for positive parenting in the future.


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Dear Jamaica
I hope you're well, and everything's irie.
It's been a few years since we last met, that year when you had me round at yours for Christmas and New Year – we had such a great time!
I don't know how you managed to get santa to come over on a speed boat but you did it!!
Your beaches were lovely, and you kept me nice and warm throughout my usual cold and dark December/January days.
Your reggae sound systems pumping through my veins were a welcome change to the usual winter shivers.
Your sunsets were a work of art and your jerk chicken was worth the long queues.
I miss your sunny, lively, friendly energy.
There was no end to the number of times I heard the same Bob Marley songs – I figured that was just a 'touristy thing', since you have far more reggae legends in your collection than just this one – albeit a great one!
It's been a while Jamaica, but I still think of you.
All the best as you and the rest of your Caribbean neighbours open up again to tourists this summer, may it be a fresh and positive re-start.
The scroll below is one of my Jamaican holiday souvenirs, it hangs on the inside of one of my kitchen cupboards, reminding me often, that there are lots of special ingredients required for a happy home recipe – I guess if any of them are missing it might not taste quite right……


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This Fri & Sat more Customer Appreciation Sales! 20% off all used books koupit-pilulky.com , 15% off all new books & items. Free bubble bottles to everyone!
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Gardenhouse Studio going out of business in Bradford, VT
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Today is Bradford's annual WILD GAME DINNER! Come on down to the store while you're waiting for your seating — we have lots to see, nice comfy chairs, and great conversation!
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Sidewalk Sale a success!
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Autumn is upon us — is winter coming?
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When it comes to disrupting world motorsport events, the pandemic hasn't discriminated between four and two-wheeled forms of motorsport.
Thankfully, Italian developers Milestone are here to help give Moto GP fans and racing game enthusiasts in general something to break the boredom with the release of this year's officially licensed Moto GP game for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch and Google Stadia.
As regular RaceFans readers will know, we specialise in four-wheeled motorsport, so this is a rare venture onto two wheels for us. But with so many motorsport fans locked down at home with little to do – and this year's Moto GP game arriving earlier than ever before – it seems the perfect time to try out a different flavour of racing game and benchmark it against Codemasters' official F1 series, the 2020 edition of which was announced last week.
At its core, Moto GP 20 is an accessible yet extensively authentic recreation of the world's premier motorcycle world championship grand prix series. Every rider and team from the championship's three major tiers will be represented in the game, from the premier class of Moto GP with the likes of Marc Marquez, Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi, down to the junior class of Moto 3.
Due to the knock-on effects of the pandemic, the roster and bike liveries are not fully up to 2020-spec at launch. But creator Milestone has announced a road map to all three categories being fully updated via free downloads.
Moto GP will be the first to arrive at the beginning of next month. Moto 2 and Moto 3 will also be brought to 2020 spec by the end of May, with two full additional categories of the Red Bull Rookies Cup and the Moto E electric class to be added free of charge by the end of June.
Like F1, Moto GP originally announced its biggest ever calendar for 2020. And like the official F1 game, Moto GP 20 will include all 20 circuits which were originally scheduled.
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These include the brand-new KymiRing, an interesting if frustratingly twisty circuit that plays host to the new Finland Grand Prix. Also featured are two 'historic' tracks, namely a 2015-spec Donington Park and Laguna Seca of 2013 vintage.
As a rider's personal brand identity is such an integral part of the Moto GP experience, you begin the game by customising your own in-game rider. You can choose from a range of preset avatars that cover a range of ethnicities and include both men and women. Once your leathers, helmet and riding style are set, you can race for any of the official teams included in the game as your own virtual stand in.
But to help you really stamp your own identity on your character, Moto GP 20 offers a powerful suite of visual editing tools to allow you to create your own unique helmet design, rider number, logo and rider sticker for the rear of your leathers.
It's a deep and complex system. Having even a little graphic design or editing experience will come in handy, but if you've ever dabbled in the design modes of Gran Turismo Sport or Forza Motorsport, you'll figure things out fairly quickly. With 1,000 layers available, a generous number of save slots for each element and the ability to download community creations, if you've ever designed your own helmet or logo in your own time, you'll certainly be able to recreate it here.
Being able to customise your rider to such a degree is incredibly welcome and puts Moto GP 20 above its Formula 1 counterpart in just how immersive it can feel to have you in the game.
Once you've suited up to your liking and get in the saddle, you'll find that Moto GP 20 is a racing game that is difficult to master. Especially if this is your first time on a virtual bike.
There is a challenging but deeply rewarding handling model here. The vital art of leaning is controlled with the analogue sticks while front and rear brakes can be operated independently if you feel comfortable with it.
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Whether you're using 'Assisted', 'Normal' or 'Pro' physics, finesse and nuance is the key. Taking an accurate racing line into corners is arguably even more critical on a bike than in a car and given that you are not directly steering but instead controlling weight transfer, it's very difficult to be precise. You will find yourself losing bags of time if you miss an apex or braking point, which is very easy to do. Once you start to build up confidence and speed, you'll find that hooking up a good lap deeply satisfying.
Modern Moto GP machines take advantage of rider assists like traction control and anti-wheelie system and it's a good thing too, because the premier class bikes are monstrous.
If you're too keen on the throttle, you'll crash. If you're too late and hard on the brakes, your back wheel will lift off the track, you'll run wide and you'll crash. If you so much as touch the grass while leaning, you'll crash. If you ask the bike to do too much at any one time, you'll crash.
Thankfully, the Moto 3 class bikes are far more forgiving due to their lighter weight and far lower power output. Newcomers are strongly recommended to start off on one of these while you get to grips with the game as you'll find you can attack corners with far greater margin for error and correction than with its more powerful siblings.
New for Moto GP 20 is tyre and fuel management. The more you lean on your tyres, the more you'll see the wear indicator for both front and rear begin to deplete. It adds an element of tactics to races that have no pit strategies to consider. If you opt for soft compound tyres, you'll have to make a deliberate effort to be kind to them, else you'll find yourself losing critical lap time during the closing stages of a race
Given that the actual racing is the most important part of a racing game, Milestone have made a lot of noise about their Neural AI system, which they claim uses complex machine learning to create believable and formidable AI opponents. It all sounds like a bit of a gimmick and, on-track, it's hard to pick up on any specific AI behaviour and think 'ah, that's the neural system at work'.
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What can be said, however, is that the computer-controlled opposition is a lot of fun to race against, whatever is going on behind the scenes. When you get the difficulty setting right you'll notice that you won't have many corners that you're able to take much faster than your rivals, meaning that chasing down the riders ahead is a matter of gaining a little amount of ground through each turn. Every tenth gained feels truly earned and when you eventually catch them, and they'll not hesitate to re-pass you out of a corner if you throw a cheeky lunge up the inside.
In Moto 3, realistic packs form through the field while AI riders will make mistakes and crash entirely of their own accord, even in practice and qualifying sessions. Given how difficult it is to be precise, it can sometimes feel overly difficult to avoid clattering into your opponents during the opening lap, even if you're being careful. And with the new damage modelling introduced in this edition, even a slight bump could be costly to your bike's handling.
Career mode is a staple of modern officially licensed racing games and Moto GP 20 is no different, with Managerial Career mode making a welcome return to the series after a two-year absence.
With free pick from each of the three tiers available to enter from the start, you select your chosen category and select to join either an official team or one of the customisable original teams. Each model of bike across all three tiers has a customisable team connected to it. You can pick from a short list of sponsors and a handful of preset livery concepts that you're free to colour as you wish, but you'll be disappointed if you want to be able to name your new team.
Managing comes down to hiring personnel like your assistant and your data analyst, who have varying levels of ability to bring in money and resource points for your team respectively. You can assign your technical staff to research and development to improve your bike in the areas of engine, frame, electronics and aero – depending on your category. The more staff you have assigned to research, the more development points you'll get to spend, while the more staff you have assigned to development, the faster you'll be able to bring upgrades to your bike.
Get to Moto GP and you can even take part in test sessions where you can try multiple packages with various attributes, ride them at your leisure and then choose which package to move forward with. It's a great way to game-ify testing which is so crucial in real world motorsport and something other racing franchises would benefit from emulating.
Unfortunately, while you're free to sign with other teams and jump ship at your leisure, there doesn't seem to be the dynamic rider transfers that Codemasters offer in F1 2019. Nor does it appear that your computer-controlled rival teams develop their own bikes in parallel to you or each other. It takes away from the long-term appeal of the career mode knowing that each season you'll be racing against Marquez's Honda and Dovizioso's Ducati.
Not many motorsport series embrace their heritage as much as Moto GP and it's not surprising to see a significant Historic Mode featured in Moto GP 20.
Two historic eras of bikes, the old 500cc two-strokes from the early Nineties to early 2000s and the rebranded 'Moto GP' four-stroke bikes that succeeded them, are available with bikes unlocked through currency earned through completing race challenges.
Like Codemasters with Formula 1, Milestone aim to appeal to the nostalgia of its core players with names like Doohan, Schwantz, Rainey and Criville available to race against and unlock in the two-stroke era. With four-strokes, fans will also no doubt appreciate the chance to race retired champions like Stoner and Lorenzo and, in a welcome touch, you can also race as riders who were lost long before their time, namely Dajiro Kato, Nicky Hayden and Marco Simoncelli.
You can't simply choose which bikes and riders to unlock with your currency, unfortunately. You can only choose from three options at a time with each rider and bike having a different chance of appearing in the store when it cycles through. If you really want to unlock that 2004 Valentino Rossi Yamaha, you'll have to hope you have the right amount when it appears in the marketplace.
Moto GP 20 is not only a solid game to play, but it looks highly impressive too. The game takes great advantage of its Unreal engine to produce a game with a high image quality. Textures are razor-sharp. The rain effects during a wet race are excellent. The general lighting of the game is outstanding with circuits looking beautifully vibrant under clear blue skies and realistically dimmer under cloudy ones.
The game oozes the Moto GP branding throughout with the game integrating the sport's TV graphics package into the HUD and pre and post-race commentary from Keith Huewen to add that broadcast flavour. It feels like a truly authentic virtual recreation of Moto GP and one that hardcore fans of the sport will appreciate.
Unfortunately, we encountered some performance problem when reviewing the game on a standard PlayStation 4. Frame rates would briefly drop and on multiple occasions the game drove for a split second, often just before a TV graphic popped up. Having it occur in the middle of a corner is distracting to say the least and the frequency of momentary freezes is concerning.
Milestone offer a performance mode for Moto GP 20 on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X that they claim should provide 60fps gameplay, but this could not be tested for our review. Hopefully they are able to address these problems in a future patch.
Despite this, Moto GP 20 gets a firm recommendation, although it goes without saying that fans of the sport will appreciate it more than those who are only casually familiar with the world of motorcycle grand prix racing.
Milestone have given us a challenging and rewarding racing game that allows players to immerse themselves in the joys of racing wheel-to-wheel alongside the greatest riders on the planet, no matter their ability or experience.
It may not have the lasting appeal that other racing franchises offer, but as something to help keep motorsport fans entertained during the longest off-season of our lives, you could do far worse.
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The light rail system StUB (a German acronym which translates to "City and Surroundings Railway") will only be implemented if 90% of the eligible costs, including the rail tracks which run on existing roads, are government-funded. Discounting the subsidies, the city will invest 60 million Euro over a period of 10 years. This is money well-spent for the future of Erlangen. Important projects like the refurbishment of schools or the creation of new culture, arts, and community centres will not be affected by this, because investments in these projects have already been included in the city budget.
- A modern public transport system for a modern city
The citizens of Erlangen want to be mobile, even without a car, and they want to get from one point to another quickly and efficiently. They desire to reach the many culture and leisure opportunities the metropolitan area offers. The StUB will serve as a supporting pillar for the existing public transport in Erlangen and as a continuation of the existing Nuremberg tramway. Travel times will be shortened; new and attractive connections will be created. Therefore, the StUB will be just one more step to modernize our city and to develop a public infrastructure which will be ready to efficiently handle an ever-increasing number of commuters.
- Good for business
Companies based in Erlangen are facing global competition for top talent. The city and the region they are going to live in factor highly into the decision when today's employees choose a new place of employment. Modern workers want quick and reliable transportation from their home to their place of work and they want to enjoy an attractive offer of culture and leisure facilities, that can be accessed easily and hassle-free. All of this can be achieved with the StUB.
- Improved quality of life in Erlangen
Experiences gained from other German cities have shown the willingness of many people to exchange their cars for reliable railway transportation. The willingness to change mode of transportation is significantly lower if only bus services are offered; a finding numerous studies about the StUB have underscored. Fewer cars on the road will lead to decreased congestion, decreased emissions, decreased noise, and decreased pressure on parking. Every citizen in Erlangen will benefit from this – even those that remain dependant on their car.
- A better public transport for everyone
The StUB directly benefits the 30,000 citizens who live, work or study in the direct commuting area along the route and who will, in the future, have access to an increasingly attractive public transport system. But even citizens who live in districts which are not directly connected to the StUB will benefit: The StUB creates important infrastructure for public transport. In connection with further optimization of bus lanes along the StUB, all users of public transport will thus be able to get quickly into the city centrer to the university, and to the locations of major corporations in the region. Motorists can also expect less congestion along many main roads, e.g. the B4, the Herzogenauracher Damm or the Büchenbacher Damm (the later two being crossing links which connect the west of the city to the main settlement across the river valley of the "Regnitzgrund").
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- The StUB will shift 10,000 trips from road to rail every single day and will thus help to improve the overall traffic situation.
- Supplemented with an optimised network of bus services, the StUB can shoulder an additional 15,000 trips per day, which equals 20% of all daily traffic.
- The total investment by the City of Erlangen would amount to 6.35 Euro per citizen per month over a period of 10 years.
- Running costs will amount to under 3 Euros per citizen per month.
- Operational costs for the StUB will be significantly lower than running costs for a bus network of comparable capacity.
- A tramway will conserve over 2.5 metres of roadway compared to a BRT (bus rapid transit) system, thus leaving more space for cars, bike lanes, and greenery.


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Drivers and Monitors for Summerville's Dorchester District 2 Unite for Respect
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- School bus drivers and monitors with Durham School Services in Summerville, S.C., have voted to join Teamsters Local 509, uniting for respect and fair treatment in their workplace.
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The 165 drivers and monitors, who transport school children for Dorchester County School District 2, were determined to form their union with the Teamsters in the face of strong resistance by company management to their efforts to organize. Durham, a private company, took over school bus operations for the district last year.
"This is the start of a new beginning for all of us. Everyone is excited and glad that this victory belongs to us," said Annette Hill, a driver. "I voted Teamsters because I want us to have respect."
"We need to be treated fairly and as adults. I enjoy the kids and the people I work with, but morale here is in the basement. I supported forming our union so we can have fairness and respect," said Roger Shepherd, a monitor.
Durham Teamster members from Beaufort and Charleston, S.C., helped their Summerville co-workers by taking the time to educate them on the benefits of building a strong union. This support was critical, as the Summerville drivers and monitors were subjected to a vicious campaign of fear, division and worker intimidation by the company. The union and workers have filed unfair labor practice charges for a number of legal violations by the company.
Political leaders, including Rep. David J. Mack, III (D-District 109), came out to the Summerville yard to show support for the workers and their right to organize.
"I have always supported workers being able to organize in order to get the quality of life, pay and benefits that they deserve. I am very interested in Durham sitting at the table to negotiate to improve working conditions," Rep. Mack, III said.
Durham is a subsidiary of National Express Group, a large multinational corporation based in the United Kingdom.
L.D. Fletcher, President of Cayce-based Teamsters Local 509, is looking forward to representing the workers to improve their working conditions.
"I'm glad we could help them organize to have a fair voice and be treated fairly in the workplace," Fletcher said.
The victory is the latest in an effort to organize private school bus and transit workers across the country. Drive Up Standards is a national campaign to improve safety, service and work standards in the private school bus and transit industry. Since the campaign began in 2006, more than 34,000 drivers, monitors, aides, attendants and mechanics have become Teamsters.
For more information on the Drive Up Standards campaign, go to www.driveupstandards.org
Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @TeamsterPower.
SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters