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Because Rings & Things' components are not intended for children's jewelry, we do not plan to label our products with additional classifications. Generally speaking, though, precious-metal components and certified lead-free components should comply with strict lead-by-weight restrictions.
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REACH Regulation limits lead and its compounds in
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05% by weight." This amount equals 500 parts per million (500ppm) by weight.
Cast Pewter & Related Base Metals
pewter on the market today is lead free. But, cast antiqued-pewter items contain pewter only in the thin plating that covers a different base metal or alloy underneath. As a result, cast plated items (including antiqued pewter, gold, bronze and silver) are more likely to still contain some lead (Pb). The reason this matters is because lead is toxic and can cause serious when ingested (for example from sucking) or inhaled (primarily an issue in manufacturing). ... Do not give children cast metal jewelry if there's a chance they will put it in their mouths!
Lead is popular in manufacturing because its softness makes it easy to cast in a mold. Most base-metal beads, charms and findings available on the market today (including ours) contain small amounts of lead. As a rule of thumb, if a cast item isn't certified "lead free," it probably contains some lead.
These items can and often do still comply with strict laws, though! Many cast and other base-metal components comply with California's lead-in-adult-jewelry law by maintaining a low percentage of lead by weight. With acceptably low amounts of lead by weight, they fit in California's Class 2 (suitable).
Naturally Lead-Free Metals
The following elements and alloys (mixtures of elements that create a metal) are either lead free or have a very low lead content because, by definition, they are comprised of metals other than lead:
99.9% pure titanium. This is an element on the periodic table (Ti), just like pure lead, copper and gold. It may contain some slight impurities (that's why we don't say 100%).
99.9% pure niobium. This is also an element on the periodic table (Nb).
Composition depends on karatage and color. 24kt gold is pure elemental gold and very soft. 10kt, 12kt, 14kt and 18kt gold are alloys containing gold mixed with other elements to make the gold harder (and less expensive). If you're familiar with Black Hills gold, then you've seen rose gold (with extra copper), green gold (with extra zinc) and white gold (with nickel). Many metalworking books provide exact amounts of each metal that goes into various colors and karatages of gold.
Sterling silver:
An alloy of 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper (Argentium® sterling silver contains a small amount of germanium, which helps prevent tarnish.
An alloy of copper and zinc; percentages vary according to desired color or hardness. Our red brass wire is 90% copper and 10% zinc. Yellower brass has less copper and more zinc.
Nickel silver:
A silver-colored alloy containing nickel (surprise!). It is often called German silver. Nickel silver has no actual silver in it, despite its color. Elemental nickel by itself is too hard to work with for most jewelry purposes. Copper and zinc are added to make it softer. Our nickel silver wire is an alloy of 65% copper, 18% nickel and 17% zinc.
Copper-clad steel:
A common base for plated findings. Steel is tough, but silver and gold platings don't stick to it very well. Therefore, it is commonly clad with copper, to which the other platings will stick. Steel does not contain lead, although it usually contains about 8% nickel, to which some people are allergic, particularly in and around their ears. We carry a range of nickel-free items for people with this allergy.)
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Attic Calendar -The Attic Calendar was in use in Athens and its surrounding territories during its most productive period as far as classical literature is concerned (5th & 4th centuries B.C.E.). Although there were several other calendars in use at the time, and at different times throughout history, this one has the most documentation as it was used to run the internal affairs of the city. It is also the one many modern Hellenic Pagans choose to base their liturgical calendar on.
Celtic Tree Calendar -The Celtic tree calendar, also called the Beth-Luis-Nion Calendar, is a modern calendar based on modern, theoretical interpretations of the Ogham alphabet, or the Celtic Tree Alphabet. While there is no evidence of ancient Celts or Druids using a calendar that even resembled this one, it has, however, become a valuable spiritual, liturgical and magical tool for some modern NeoPagans who identify with the ancient Celts. Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans reject it utterly as a complete fabrication with no historic basis. Which of course it is. Others embrace it as a tool to enhance their magic, their spirituality and their connection with nature and to help give structure to their rituals.
The Gregorian Calendar -The Gregorian calendar is the modern calendar widely used throughout the world. It was an improvement upon the previously popular Julian Calendar that was off by 11 minutes causing a drift of about 3 days every 400 years. This drift upset the Christian Liturgical calendar because it caused the Vernal Equinox to fall gradually earlier and earlier, which affected the date of Easter. The Gregorian calendar was adopted by papal bull decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.
Julian Calendar -The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Ceasar in 45 BCE in response to the confusion of the previous Roman calendar which was very inaccurate and required regular meetings of officials to decide when days should be added or removed to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons. To further the confusion, it seems these officials sometimes added or removed days to suit their own ends, for example, they might remove a few days to get a public official they were not fond of out of office quicker.
Wheel Of The Year -The Wheel of the Year is the cycle of seasons as celebrated by several groups of NeoPagans particularly Wiccans, Druids and other groups that have Celtic roots. The Wheel of the Year is made up of 8 observances, known among Wiccans as Sabbats. Although their names and other specifics may vary by tradition, the Wheel of the Year Sabbats are Yule or Midwinter, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer or Litha, Lammas or Lughnassadh, Mabon, and Samhain.
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NOTE: This is part three of a five-part series about my faith journey over the last few years. You can find the first two parts here and here.
As I began to learn more about the Episcopal Church, I noticed that if I ever casually mentioned it to anyone who wasn't Episcopalian, I'd hear all about how it was "Catholic lite." But the more I read, the more I found the Episcopal tradition to be quite different from Catholicism. It seemed that most people just saw the collars, heard some words, and saw the worship style and assumed it was the same. They took a look at the cover of the book without bothering to read it. I, however, saw meaningful differences. But I digress.
I want to share some of the impactful things I learned through a couple of books, beginning with Welcome to the Episcopal Church by Christopher L. Webber. On the Bible:
"The Bible is not a set of instructions that can give us simple answers to all questions or a text with which to prove points. In the first place, the guidance the Bible gives was provided for a society very different from ours and still in the early stages of growing in knowledge of God's love.
In the second place, any set of words is open to various interpretations…God, being ultimately responsible for both the text of the Bible and the nature of human beings, presumably understood that in creating both and made allowances. The authority of the Bible is not that of a dictator or rule book…If God had wanted us to have a rule book, surely a better one could have been provided than this. The Bible is something quite different; we go to it not to find specific words to answer our questions but to find the Word who created us and knows our need before we ask."
On worship and theology:
"Worship for example, is inclusive, not exclusive, while theology, by its nature, excludes. Theology is concerned with defining issues and boundaries, with saying we believe this and not that. Worship, on the other hand, like great music and art, can be appreciated on many levels and in many ways. Art, music, and worship are difficult to define in words and it would be difficult to say that someone whose appreciation is different from ours is wrong. Worship, then, has the ability to unite, to draw us in and draw us together…
Theology relies on language in its attempt to understand religious experience, and those who worship God know how difficult it is to put that experience into words. God is always beyond our definitions."
On the importance of reason, in addition to scripture and tradition:
"No matter how much some Christians may question reliance on human reason, they cannot avoid using their minds to do so. Neither Scripture nor tradition provides clear and certain answers to all questions; at some point, there is no way to decide among possible interpretations except through the use of the human mind."
On "sin:"
"The attempt to identify sin with some outward enemy can also lead to such phenomena as racism, homophobia…and a negative approach to the world in general…sin lies in the misuse of good things rather than in the things themselves. The purpose of the spiritual life is to seek God's glory rather than simply avoid sin. Nature has an inherent goodness that can be perfected by grace."
On differences of opinions within the Church:
"Unity is not the same thing as uniformity, nor can it be imposed from above…Uniformity of opinion and vision might be more comfortable to some, but unity is made up of diversity. It is precisely in this clash of opinions and the debating of different visions that the mission of the church is clarified. A church without controversy would be a dead church."
I also read Episcopal Questions, Episcopal Answers by Ian S. Markham & C.K. Robertson. Here are some of my favorite parts, the first being about doubt and certainty:
"It is often said that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. When we think about God, we do so from the vantage point of humans. We are small entities in a vast universe; we are trying to work out what the source and creator of the universe is like. We should approach this project with some humility. Our vantage point does not permit certainty. We are called to think, struggle, and discern the truth about God and God's relations with the world…we are all on a journey of faith. This journey will have many twists and turns. Sometimes our sense and experience of God will be strong; at other times, God will seem to be further away."
On the inherent worth of others:
"We are made in the 'image of God' — often referred to in the Latin as 'Imago Dei.' Every person is special. It means that we are all required to treat people with dignity. They are extraordinary creations of infinite worth."
On the importance of social justice:
"If you had to identify the single most important biblical theme, then I think any fair observer would say 'social justice.' It is the primary theme of the Gospel (Jesus never mentions homosexuality, but talks repeatedly about the dangers of riches and the importance of the poor); it is the major theme of the prophets in the Old Testament (just look at Isaiah, Amos, and Micah); and it is a central characteristic of the early church (see Acts 4:33-35)…this commitment is firmly embedded in Scripture. The Church is called to be an agent of change in society."
On scripture:
"It is not enough to read a verse of Scripture on its own, divorced from its setting in the larger passage. Sadly, there have been many times in the history of Christianity when people have wrenched a verse from its context and used it to justify otherwise deplorable acts such as slavery, racism, even crusades and inquisitions. Even in less extreme situations, it is far too easy either to take a verse that supports our own biases or to react against a too-easy fundamentalist approach by dismissing all of Scripture as irrelevant. No, we choose to do the harder work. This means considering the passage surrounding a particular verse.
…While affirming the way that Christians before us have comprehended the Word of God in relation to their time and place, we must also ask what God might be saying to us now in our own context…God can do a new thing if we are willing to let go of our own presuppositions and dare to approach both Scripture and our own situation with fresh eyes.
…Everyone looks at the Scriptures through a lens of some kind."
On diversity within the church, including diversity of opinion:
"The work of discerning 'what is of God' is hard. We need the range of perspectives. We appreciate the wisdom of those who push the question: What is the biblical basis of this or that innovation? We appreciate the insight of those who push the question: How can we further the work of justice in today's society? Naturally, this can look messy at times. If you look at the church in Corinth and read behind Paul's letters to that congregation, then you will see messy is the norm. And messy can be good. We would rather all stay together in conversation than keep aspiring for a purity where other voices are excluded."
On the Bible and the "Word of God:"
"For the Episcopal Church, Jesus is the primary Word of God. As we shall see later, the Bible is the Word of God because it points to the primary Word, which is Jesus. It is from the Incarnation that we learn what God is like. It is the primary disclosure of the nature of God to humanity."
That is a lot to digest, I know. And it's only the beginning. Next, I'll talk more about what I've learned, specifically by actually [gasp] regularly attending services.


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Daymond John: Gifted with Dyslexia
Overcoming Obstacles The fashion mogul opens up about his battle with dyslexia and inspires others facing similar challenges.
"When I was in grade school, I had to read books four times over to retain the information," said entrepreneur Daymond John. "Sometimes I even spelled my own name wrong." John struggled in school not due to a lack of intelligence, but because he learned differently.
Today, the industry pioneer has risen from struggle and adversity to build a billion dollar fashion company, FUBU, and gaining national fame on the hit ABC TV show "Shark Tank." Just like when he was a kid, he is living — and thriving — with dyslexia, a learning disability that affects more than 20 percent of the U.S. population.
Overcoming obstacles
Growing up in Queens, New York, schools didn't have the resources or the knowledge they have today about learning disabilities like dyslexia. When he would get sub-par grades in English but excel in math and science, his parents and teachers simply thought he was a weak reader, he said. He hadn't discovered that he processed information differently until he reached adulthood, when texting and social media started booming and close friends noticed his repetitive misspelling.
He has paired with Yale University to spearhead a campaign to raise awareness about dyslexia and the various available resources that can assist those affected in furthering both their academic and professional development. Making it his life's mission to ensure that no child's self-esteem is negatively impacted, as his was during his youth, John aims to inspire others with dyslexia to accept themselves for who they are, empowering them to thrive.
Motivating others
"Kids and teens in inner-city schools, like where I had grown up, can easily get involved with the wrong crowd when they're not confident," John explained. Many with learning disabilities who do not have the appropriate resources available to them become vulnerable to that influence.
"If we save one, two or 10 kids from being in the streets and making bad decisions, and they grow up to be great contributors to the world, then I've done my job," John said. Already using his experience to make a positive impact, John's daughter is currently attending college, despite also been diagnosed with dyslexia.
Through his work, which extends to motivational speaking and other TV appearances, he wants to inspire others with dyslexia to accept themselves for who they are.
"I can't say this was a challenge," he said, "because how did I get here?"
"You can't look at dyslexia as a disability," he continued, "just as a different way of processing information. Self-esteem is the only thing that is going to make you say, 'I can do this.'"
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Cash – At the end of the quarter, Google had a cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments balance of $1.86 billion.
Revenue generated on Google's partner sites, through AdSense programs, contributed $384.3 million, or 48 percent of total revenue
Pretty sweet...
Although I think that would be a bullsh..t statement, sometimes you are bound to draw conclusions like that, I certainly would have...
And then again: who buys my shares anyway ;-)
if any of you can see the live trades, have a look, it's mind boggling.
Ain't that the truth. Over 10 million shares traded in less than an hour. This will probably be a record day.
I like to watch to see what the market is doing when big lots are going through versus when they aren't. It gives you a good idea of what the funds are doing versus what the masses are doing. Currently, GOOG is going up with the big lots and drifting down without them. That tells me that the funds are still buying and the masses are profit taking. The profit taking will end soon and the pressure from both the funds and the masses will be upward once again.
Over 10 million shares traded in less than an hour. This will probably be a record day.
Over 22 million shares traded now, breaking the opening day record. And the day's only half over.
GOOG is now at $179, up $30 for the day. Two analysts raised their estimates to $200 this morning and one to $190.
If this keeps up, even I am going to think it's too high. ;)
UPDATE: I'm out at $179.99. I'll probably regret this (then again, what's to regret about a 75% profit in 2 months?), but at least I'll be able to get back to work and quit watching the Level II quotes. ;)
[edited by: MovingOnUp at 4:54 pm (utc) on Oct. 22, 2004]
Personally, I'm projecting a price anywhere from $100 to $300 over the next year or two. That's the main reason I sold Friday--even at the top end of that range, I can find better returns than that elsewhere. The other reason I sold is that this spike was driven largely by momentum day-traders. They drove it up. They'll drive it down. I think it'll be a while before GOOG goes past $180 again. I think it's just too much of a gain to hang on to. I could be wrong, though. It might have the strength to continue rising in the short term.
I never knew that pill capsules were coated in gelatin, soon they won't be.
Just to be remotely on topic, I don't see what google's advantage is nowadays in search?
i know if i wanted to see how much "news coverage" a company got, Yahoo is quicker to index news and has more depth.
That's what I was thinking in 1999. Now I know better.
$15 is about as likely as $1500. Neither is going to happen. Analysts are projecting a $3.36 EPS next year. At $15, that would be a P/E of under 5.
What is so rediculous about that? If Google is peaking now then a forward PE of 5 is not unbelievable. Why do you think they are doing an IPO? They don't need the money, so it must be because they are cashing in at the peak.
You said it best earlier: "There are just a lot of idiots who don't understand how the stock market works."
To me Google looks rediculously over valued but nobody can say when the market will come to its senses. If the price goes to 250$ I may be tempted to buy those puts though :)


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This boat I have fashioned for this adventure is my one and only home . The branches on the riverside sing to me in the wind "Godspeed you wayward passenger!"
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"I am one with the river guided gently by her stream and when I set my feet on the ground,I'll never forget how sweetly moving me was the river I explored ~The River;VanRisseghem
February 06, 2011, 12:38:48 PM
LOL! Love that AC - I are special snowflake....
February 06, 2011, 11:29:04 AM
Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
February 06, 2011, 11:16:07 AM
hee hee
February 05, 2011, 03:51:08 PM
"Kaballah says that the child never forgets how to fly home each night in their dreams"
February 05, 2011, 03:46:49 PM
Meditation & Mysticism is Magick ! Open your mind to manifest the best of all possible worlds.
February 05, 2011, 03:43:15 PM
"Within you there is a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself"~ Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
February 05, 2011, 03:30:43 PM
"Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear!
O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of Fire! "
February 05, 2011, 03:25:47 PM
"And the sky is full of dreams...but you don't know how to fly..." ~The Killers
February 05, 2011, 03:22:18 PM
"I told you that we could fly 'cause we all have wings but some of us don't know why "~INXS
February 05, 2011, 03:08:01 PM
Life is Good !
Live,Love & Laugh !!
February 05, 2011, 02:50:34 PM
Franz Bardon Forum
concerning Hermetic Magick and Initiation into Hermetics !!
February 02, 2011, 04:03:36 PM
"Lend me your eyes I can change what you see.But your soul you must keep, totally free...Awake my soul you were made to meet your maker..."
Mumford & Sons
February 02, 2011, 03:56:32 PM
"As the water grinds the stone, We rise and fall.As our ashes turn to dust, we shine like stars"~Bullet by Covenant
February 02, 2011, 03:39:19 PM
Every gift of God makes the soul ready to receive a new gift, greater than itself ~
Meister Eckhart
January 17, 2011, 08:55:54 AM
"Within every human lies a divine cosmic energy called Kundalini. Kundalini is Shakti, whom the sages of India worship as Mother of the universe. She is the Active aspect of the Absolute."~Swami Muktananda http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Kundalini.htm
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January 16, 2011, 11:41:41 PM
Through love the devil becomes an angel.
Through love stones become soft as butter.
Through love grief is like delight.
Through love demons become the servants of God.
Mevlana Rumi
(1207 - 1273)
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A cool (but old) picture that reminds me of the back of the big first-edition Astral Dynamics book by Robert Bruce:
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"Here, there's passion to the work."
Mutisya is confident that ASDF has great potential to expand, not just in Kenya.
Mutisya Makonyi has been working as a Communications Officer at our partner organisation Africa Sand Dam Foundation (ASDF) since October 2013. He chose to work for ASDF over a corporate job because he wanted to see the impacts of his work on people's lives.
"Here, there's passion to the work. You see the impact of what you are doing and how it effects people and that's something I wanted to do" Mutisya explains. "As they say, 'water is life' and without water life becomes very difficult, especially here in semi-arid Kenya where agriculture is the backbone of the economy. When we give people a sustainable source of water they can engage in profitable agriculture and that makes their lives better".
Mutisya spends his time between the office and visiting communities in the field, collecting their stories, photographs and videos for fundraising and reporting purposes, so he's able to see the impacts of sand dams first hand.
"When I see communities before they have sand dams, they are just holding on to life, surviving, but with the introduction of sand dams they can start growing vegetables and trees and start making some money. You go back after some time and find that they are happier and that's a good thing to see" he says.
Having worked at ASDF for more than a year now, Mutisya feels confident that the organisation has great potential to expand, not just in Kenya but around the world.
"Most of Kenya is arid or semi-arid and I think there is a need for people to do what we do in those areas, so I'd like the organisation to expand beyond Makueni, where we work now." He adds: "Sand dams are timeless. They always deliver results. And I believe it will actually be necessary to spread that technology across Africa and other arid and semi-arid areas of the world."
And Mutisya knows that his role in communications will play an important part in this future success. "In communications, we have a great role to play because we can tell the stories to the world. We are here on the ground and can let people know what we do – the impacts of what we do and the necessity of what we do. And I believe the world is a reasonable place - if they hear our story, they will see the sense and will want to jump on the band wagon."
I believe the world is a reasonable place - if they hear our story, they will see the sense and will want to jump on the band wagon.
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Q1. Mr. McGrady: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 6 July.
The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major): This morning, I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall have further meetings later today.
Mr. McGrady: After the Prime Minister's success in his little local difficulty, congratulations would normally be in order, if it were not for the very great disadvantage caused to the communities of Northern Ireland by the introduction of the Clegg factor and the damage that it has done to the peace process. However, in the aftermath of that, could I ask the Prime Minister now to devote himself wholly to the pursuit of the cause of peace in Ireland, in view of the increasingly volatile situation there? Will he consider the appointment of an independent international arbitrator or negotiator to break the current logjam, rather than rely on his Northern Ireland ministerial colleagues, who have many departmental and other ministerial duties to attend to? There is a precedent for that in the inter-
The Prime Minister: I am looking at ways of breaking the logjam, but I do not think that it would be helpful to the hon. Gentleman if I were to discuss those this afternoon. I remain as committed to proceeding with the peace process in Northern Ireland as I have been since the moment I walked into Downing street. A great deal of progress has been made. It is crucially important that that progress is sustained. I hope that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends, and all hon. Members from Northern Ireland, will join me in that search. I know that it is what they wish for and I am absolutely certain that it is what their constituents most wish to see.
Mr. Redwood: May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his win? May I assure him that, like him, I wish to see a Conservative election victory? Would he agree with me that some of the ideas and policies that I set out in the past two weeks could make an important contribution to that victory?
The Prime Minister: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his words. I hope that he will agree with me that we had a fair contest last week. I am grateful both for the way in which he has spoken this afternoon and for the way in which he conceded the result of the election. Let me say to my right hon. Friend that there is a great deal that the Government will be doing in the months ahead which I know that he will wish to support enthusiastically. I will welcome his support, as will all my colleagues.
Mr. Blair: I offer my congratulations to the Prime Minister on his re-
Last year, the Prime Minister gave what he called a cast-
The Prime Minister: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his congratulations. I think that he congratulates me in the same spirit that Mr. Neil Kinnock did on one occasion. I am equally grateful and I look forward to the same result at the subsequent general election.
I confirm that, on a phased basis, I look for the introduction of nursery education for all four-
Madam Speaker: Mr. Peter Luff.
Mr. Blair rose -
Madam Speaker: I am sorry. Mr. Blair.
Mr. Blair: I know, Madam Speaker, that rather a lot has been going on on the Government Benches recently, so it is perfectly understandable.
If that is the Prime Minister's commitment, and we know that 90 per cent. of four-
The Prime Minister: I think that the right hon. Gentleman will find the answers to his questions very satisfactory and that he will find them very speedily. It is perfectly clear from events a moment or so ago that not only is the right hon. Gentleman following most of our policies but it would seem that he may actually have joined the Conservative Benches.
Mr. Blair: It is Labour local authorities that have provided nursery education.
Never mind the Prime Minister telling us to wait for his right hon. Friend-
The Prime Minister: No, the right hon. Gentleman will see that what we are proposing this afternoon will meet the points that he has in mind and meet them better than he could. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was in favour of choice in education since he exercises it. We said that we would deliver pre-
Madam Speaker: Now we will have Mr. Peter Luff.
Mr. Luff: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Everything comes to he who waits.
Does my right hon. Friend agree that a policy of withdrawal from the European Union, or a policy of immediate acquiescence in every idea that emerges from the Commission, no matter how damaging to the nation's interests, would both be acts of political and economic folly? Does it surprise my right hon. Friend in the slightest that the Leader of the Opposition has espoused both such policies?
The Prime Minister: I shall spare the Leader of the Opposition the quotes that I have used often enough in the House to indicate his changing view on Europe, from espousing withdrawal behind closed doors in 1983, to announcing subsequently that he had changed his mind, and then to wholehearted support for everything that happens in Europe without any reference to the British national interest. It is fudge, mudge and split the difference on every aspect of that policy. The right hon. Gentleman does not understand the difference between competitiveness and the social chapter and between national interest and a national veto. He will learn if he stays as Leader of the Opposition-
Mr. Ashdown: Why does the Prime Minister not realise that vouchers that only partly fund pre-
The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman really ought not to be so silly. We are placing a substantial sum in the hands of parents so that they can make a choice of nursery school education for their children. Now we know the Liberal party's position: no choice at all for parents. I do not know what happened to the Liberal party's old philosophy, but gone it completely has. If people want choice-
Mr. Butler: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the appropriate tenure of a Conservative Prime Minister is not four and a half years involving one general election victory, but at least 11 years involving at least three general election victories?
The Prime Minister: There is certainly an honourable precedent to that effect, and I shall seek to follow it.
Q2. Mr. Nigel Griffiths: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 6 July.
The Prime Minister: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Griffiths: Does the Prime Minister welcome the strong support that Lord Justice Taylor gave Sir Richard Scott at the distinguished Lord Mayor's dinner last night? Will he, too, give his strong support to Sir Richard?
The Prime Minister: I gave Sir Richard my support when I appointed him to head the inquiry.
Sir Anthony Grant: Is my right hon. Friend aware not only that the courageous decisions that he has made in the past week were wholly and absolutely justified, but that his Government are faced with the most inexperienced and fatuous Opposition whom I have seen in all the 31 years for which I have been in Parliament? Furthermore, I do not want a job.
The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend has been examining Labour Oppositions for many years, and I have no doubt that what he says is entirely right. After the next election, he will have an opportunity to study another Labour Opposition.
Q3. Mr. Flynn: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 6 July.
The Prime Minister: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Flynn: Is the Prime Minister not appalled by the ungrateful treatment being handed out to the constituents of Basildon? Tory Members are reported to be seeking new seats and abandoning their loyal Tory voters in Eltham, Loughborough and, yes, even Basildon. Is the Prime Minister's advice to all his hon. Friends with majorities of less than 18,000, "Retreat now: abandon your voters, because it is "No change, no chance'"?
The Prime Minister: I seem to recall hearing rather arrogant remarks like that before the last general election.
I seem to recall hearing rather a lot of them. Yet those who behaved in such an arrogant fashion long before the election are still sitting on the Opposition Benches.
Mr. Stephen: Does my right hon. Friend share the concern felt by so many of our constituents that the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights have a tendency to encroach far too much into areas that are properly within the sovereign authority of this Parliament and that if those institutions are to maintain the respect of the British people, they must exercise more self-
The Prime Minister: As I indicated to the House when I reported on the Cannes summit a week or so ago, there are areas where the European Court of Justice ought not to tread, and it was on that basis that I refused to allow it to have any jurisdiction whatsoever over the Europol convention, which I agreed with our partners in Europe at the Cannes summit. I believe that because it touches on sensitive matters that are rightly the prerogative of the British courts and no other, and on that point the Government's policy will remain as it is.
Q4. Mr. Ainger: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 6 July.
The Prime Minister: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Ainger: Given the description by the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) of the Prime Minister's leadership style as uncertainty based on indecision, is it the new job of the Deputy Prime Minister now to take the decisions, or has the Prime Minister not decided yet?
The Prime Minister: In elections-
"It would have been easier to pull out their teeth than to have received straight answers to my questions."
The right hon. Gentleman the present leader
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Tesco.com receives more than 300,000 orders a week and its online sales for the first half of 2007 reached £748m, so it is hard to pick any flaws with it's business. But could it be doing even better? We think so.
Tesco is in a similar situation to Amazon (which we looked at last week) and may not want to mess around with a site that is clearly working in terms of revenue.
Nevertheless, we've identified 10 areas that could be tweaked to generate even more of the green stuff for the retailer...
Improve the homepage - lose the drop down menus
From the Tesco.com homepage, there are a lot of options for visitors, so I can see why the web designers have chosen to save space by using dropdown menus. However, this is not the best idea for the user experience.
Using dropdowns prevents users from seeing all of the navigation options at a glance, and it can be very frustrating when the cursor moves away from the menu, forcing customers to start all over again.
Provide more filtering/sorting options
When websites have large product ranges, some means of sorting and narrowing down choices is essential to prevent customers from having to trawl through pages and pages of results.
Tesco does this well to a point, allowing you to sort by price and brand, but a few more options would be useful.
For example, if I search for washing machines I still have four pages to go through after choosing a price range:
In the case of this product, I'd like to be able to search according to spin speed, load size, and other relevant features, all of which would help me find the one I want more quickly. At the very least, Tesco should look allow users to narrow the search results by keyword (something it doesn't currently cater for).
Non-descriptive URLs
Tesco, like other online retailers with large product ranges, uses dynamic databases, which can produce some ugly, lengthy URLs that have no connection to the product page.
Adding related keywords to product page URLs will help not only help in terms of SEO, but they will be more understandable to users. We're big on 'guessable URLs' here at E-consultancy, and websites normally benefit in search engines if URLs are meaningful (for example, by using an article's headline, rather than the a Reuters-style 25-digit number string punctuated by ampersands and the like).
Better product images
For some products a basic image is all that's needed, but others need to be seen from a range of angles to enable customers to decide on a purchase.
This is especially true with products like this sofa. If you are going to spend £800 on an item like this, then you really need to be able to see it from a variety of angles and contexts. From the pages we looked at, Tesco seems to be limiting its range of product images, as can be seen below:
Show delivery charges on product pages
Customers hate finding out about delivery charges at the last minute, especially as this is a crucial part of the purchase decision for many web shoppers.
This is the extent of the delivery information on the product pages:
This is not good enough, and would be the first thing we'd change. Customers want to know delivery charges at the very least. They will also like to know when an item will be delivered. This vague message doesn't provide either.
The rule of thumb for e-commerce companies is to never hide delivery information and pricing within the checkout process. Don't force these people to visit the checkout unless they're ready to buy. If you do, then your checkout abandonment rate will be disproportionately high.
Don't make customers register before shopping
This is not the case for the rest of the site, but if you want to look through the groceries section of the site you need to register and enter your email, home address, phone number, and so on.
This is placing unnecessary obstacles in front of the customer, and may cause many to abandon the idea. Why not let customers browse, fill up their baskets, and register just before checkout?
Tesco must have some reason for doing this but we don't know what it is. It is possibly a persuasion thing, to make prospective shoppers mentally commit to the process. Otherwise it may just be some legacy issue, and is 'just the way we've always done it'. Traditions are not always there to be upheld.
Offer free shipping - it's what works best
Delivery charges are a major factor in a customer's purchase decision, so why not make it easier by offering free shipping for purchases over a certain amount. This will not only encourage sales, but can also have the effect of increasing order values. We know that free shipping is about as powerful an incentive as you can offer online. It works wonders.
Never change the price after the order has been placed
I've ordered some groceries and set a delivery date, only to be told that the prices may change between now and when the items are delivered! Why can't they guarantee the price? The current messaging is confusing and needs updating so it is more transparent:
Provide a contact email address
Tesco.com provides contact phone numbers for each department, as well as a range of postal addresses for customers to write to, but no email contact details.
Why not give customers the option of contacting Tesco by email? Many people would prefer not to hang around on the phone, while writing and waiting for a reply can be a slow process.
Emails can allow a quick response, and can also take pressure of call centres, as long as queries are answered in a timely fashion.
Tesco won't want to encourage email, but there are a range of online customer services tools out there that can help massively, in terms of email management.
Add user reviews
With such a wide range of products, customers could sometimes use some help in deciding which is best for them. Moreover, web users have begun to expect websites to have this feature.
User reviews can have a positive effect on credibility, as well as improving conversion rates. According to Bazaarvoice's Brett Hurt, reviews can increase conversions by up to 20%. Tesco may well take the leap into user generated content before the year is up.
And that's it. So what did we miss?
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I find the shopping experience a bit one-dimensional.
Online shopping should be smarter than trolleying around aisles looking up shelves.
How about the ability to filter / search products by calorie count? What if I can't eat food that contain gluten? What do the shopping baskets of people who live in the same area as I do contain? What if I want to eat the same things as people who aer my height but 2 stone lighter?
A few months ago Tesco announced its decision to invest in social media. I would hope that the purpose for this is to make the shopping experience more useful and not a facebook clone to get people to poke each other.
Maybe it's just me but despite what is stated on their usability statement, I have never been able to complete my grocery shopping with Firefox (both on Mac and PC): page load is slow and I regularly get a very 1999 bug asking me to save the page.
So another one should be to do accessibility testing on multiple browsers and OS.
And in reply to Lawrence's comment
"... not a facebook clone to get people to poke each other."
Making they are thinking of the throwing sheep application...
Great analysis, customer product reviews on Tesco would have a fascinating impact PR-wise. I hope they go for it.
I certanly argee with the statements above they are really well explained but my opinon on online shopping is rediculous as it is just pure lazy ness and should be acceptep thankyou XxxX
did u know that the new word for having an affair is called going to macdonalds now there is an interesting fact
Tried to find out if Tesco deliver to my postcode - couldn't find it out. Asda web site gave this information easily - so now I'm another customer Tesco has lost by pathetic website design. Are they getting too lazy because they are so big?
I should have added that I agree with every item in the review above especially the irritating drop-down menus. Never got as far as having to register to look at thiings but that would have driven me mad and, yes, i do want to know delivery charges BEFORE filling the basket.
Actually i wanted to find out if tesco delivers to my post code as well...indeed asda is so easy in this respect. Perhaps calling the paid phone is more efficient for the company rather than just making it easy for the customer.


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José Manuel de la Sota
|José Manuel de la Sota
|59th Governor of Córdoba
In office
December 9, 2011 – December 10, 2015
|Alicia Pregno
|Preceded by
|Juan Schiaretti
|Succeeded by
|Juan Schiaretti
|57th Governor of Córdoba
In office
July 12, 1999 – December 10, 2007
Germán Kammerath (1999)
Hernán Olivero (acting 1999–2003)
Juan Schiaretti (2003–07)
|Preceded by
|Ramón Mestre
|Succeeded by
|Juan Schiaretti
for Córdoba Province
In office
December 10, 1995 – July 12, 1999
|Personal details
November 28, 1949
Córdoba, Argentina
|Political party
|Justicialist Party
Silvia Zanichelli (1972—89)
Olga Ruitort (1989—2004)
|Alma mater
|National University of Córdoba
José Manuel de la Sota (born November 28, 1949) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was the governor of Córdoba Province from 1999 until 2007, and was reelected to the post in 2011. Possible candidate in the 2015 presidential election in the Christian Democratic Party, part of the United for a New Alternative.
Born in Córdoba, de la Sota studied law at the National University of Córdoba and married Silvia Zanichelli, the daughter of former Governor Arturo Zanichelli, in 1972. He was designated Legislative Secretary to Córdoba Councilman Miguel Flores, a left-wing Peronist, in 1973, and Chief of Staff to Mayor José Domingo Coronel, a right-wing Peronist, in 1975; the March 1976 coup, however, cut his political career short.
The return of democracy in 1983 led de la Sota to run in the Justicialist Party (Peronist) primaries for governor. Coming in second, he ran for Mayor of Córdoba, but was amply defeated by UCR candidate Ramón Mestre. He was, despite a continued poor showing by the Peronists in the province, one of four candidates elected on the party list to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Córdoba Province in 1985. He served in the 1986 Provincial Constitutional Convention as the body's Vice President, and secured the nomination as candidate for governor in 1987; he was defeated by the incumbent, Eduardo Angeloz of the UCR, by 5%, however.
The tragic death in 1989 of one of his daughters led to his divorce, and in December 1989, he married Olga Ruitort, a San Juan Province Peronist lawmaker. He had been reelected to Congress, but resigned in 1990 to accept a post as Ambassador to Brazil. De la Sota again ran for governor of Córdoba in 1991. Defeated by Governor Angeloz by over 15%, this latter setback was significant because it cost De la Sota much of his support within the Justicialist Party (which was flush with victory in the 1991 mid-terms), leading to President Carlos Menem's endorsement of a separate party list in Córdoba for the 1993 mid-term elections, and to De la Sota's failure to regain a seat in Congress.
The 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution raised the number of Senators from two to three (giving the largest minority party in each province the third seat), and this allowed De la Sota to return to high-profile elected office as a Senator in 1995. His tenure in the Senate was highlighted by a largely unsuccessful effort to reform the nation's budget process, proposing a fiscally conservative program that would replace the value added tax for a national sales tax of 15%, and would limit spending. He was elected Governor of Córdoba in December 1998, defeating Governor Mestre (in the first Córdoba governor's race won by Peronists since the 1950s). He launched a putative campaign for president in 2002,[1] though he withdrew in favor of his candidacy for a second four-year term as governor, which he obtained by nearly 15%.
De la Sota and Olga Ruitort had two daughters, but divorced in 2004.[2] As governor, he emphasized public works, and during his tenure, 340 schools and over 20,000 public housing units were completed (in a province of 3 million inhabitants). He reaped controversy, however, following his creation of a Corruption Prosecution Office in 2000. The director appointed to the office, Luis Juez, uncovered evidence of corruption by, among others, Mayor Kammerath, Public Works Minister Carlos Caserio, and the governor's Chief of Staff (and wife), Olga Ruitort.[3] Lacking support from the governor, Juez resigned on October 10, 2002.[4] The governor's expropriation of the former Ferreyra Palace in 2005 for its use as the Evita Fine Arts Museum also proved contentious; the Ferreya family was reportedly compensated with a fraction of the landmark's market value, and most of the mansion's grand interiors were lost during its subsequent conversion as a museum.[5]
He joined President Néstor Kirchner in supporting Vice-Governor Juan Schiaretti, who was elected in 2007 over Juez in highly contested results.[6] Following speculation that his 2011 bid for governor would be as an opponent to Kirchnerism, de la Sota gave President Cristina Kirchner his endorsement late in the campaign.[7] He was returned to the office of Governor of Córdoba by voters in the August 7, 2011, elections, defeating Juez and UCR candidate Oscar Aguad.[8]
Governor de la Sota distanced himself from the president following the 2011 elections amid a dispute over ANSES social security funds in excess of a billion pesos (USD 210 million),[9] and in September 2012 established a local Federal Peronist faction opposed to Kirchnerism.[10]
- ^ Clarín (August 24, 2002)
- ^ "De la Sota se separó de su esposa, Olga Riutort". La Nación.
- ^ "Quien es Luis Juez". Luis Juez. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011.
- ^ "Fue destituido el fiscal anticorrupción de Córdoba". La Nación.
- ^ Cadena3 (September 26, 2009) (in Spanish)
- ^ La Voz del Interior (10/2/2007) Archived August 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. (in Spanish)
- ^ "José Manuel De la Sota se definiría por Cristina Fernández de Kirchner". El Ojo Digital.
- ^ "De la Sota claims victory in the Córdoba gubernatorial elections". Buenos Aires Herald.
- ^ "Lorenzino compares De la Sota to an 'overlord' after failed conciliation meeting". Buenos Aires Herald.
- ^ "De la Sota estrena su alianza peronista disidente". Buenos Aires Económico. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013.
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