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Groningen researchers discover by chance possible more efficient solar cells
Researchers from the University of Groningen may have accidentally discovered a way to make solar cells more efficient perovskites. It works by keeping certain gases in the crystals. The research may also lead to sensors for certain gases.
The discovery was made by researcher Hong Hua Fang was doing research on a specific perovskite crystal in a vacuum chamber. The aim of the study was to better understand the fundamental properties of the crystal. Fang Before that was in the process of cooling the crystal in a vacuum chamber. While evacuating the vacuum chamber was a laser that should bring the crystal excited state. This laser provides for electrical charge in the crystal, which in turn allows for the transmission of light. The crystal should emit green light, but after the air from the vacuum chamber was sucked away, the crystal sent no light anymore. By air to come back into the room, the light came back.
This seemed to be the result of certain gases in the atmosphere. The gases block the so-called "traps" in the crystal, which ensure that the efficiency of solar cells of silicon decreases as well as perovskites. "To make a solar cell efficiency, you want the 'stage' or deactivate passivation," says Professor Maria Antonietta Loi on the phone from Tweakers. "In a solar cell, you do not want the traps are present."
Fang which gases then examined to make sure that the traps become blocked. It was found that, inter alia, to oxygen and water vapor, the traps are disabled. For nitrogen, argon or carbon dioxide, however, the blocking effect did not occur. It is to look for ways to turn off the positively charged traps. Simply add water vapor or oxygen has no meaning, because that will damage long-term perovskite.
Now, it is a matter of testing alternatives in order to increase the efficiency of perovskite-solar cells. One of the reasons why perovskite according to Loi is so interesting for the production of solar cells, is that the material is potentially easier to process than is silicon.
Another possible application of this basic knowledge is making sensors for certain gases. As an example Loi perovskite crystal in food packaging for the detection of oxygen. Its presence namely ensures faster decay. By laser light shining on the crystal, it will light up when oxygen is added.Viewing:-332
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This beautifully appointed townhome is owned by native Nashvillians who invite you to use this space as your home base for exploring their home town. The artist-owners of this urban oasis have decorated the space with their own artwork, including photographs of some of Nashville's most iconic sights.
~Newly constructed town home minutes from downtown venues - Honky Tonks, Bridgestone Arena, Ascend Amphitheater, Tennessee Performing Arts Center & the historic Ryman Auditorium.
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Hair will not hold a style past a day, help?
I have fine neck length hair. I'm just now getting a more defined curl pattern like wavy s pattern I think thats 2b?? My hair is kind of choppy(from bad weave installments)which is difficult to style. I do twist outs, bantu knot outs, wash and go dont work for me, I dont have the face for it which sucks. I just started using gel to keep the curl pattern in twist outs and add perm rods, I alos use coconut oil. I oil my hands when I take them down when completly dry but they frizz up still. The middle part of my hair becomes a fuzz ball. The gel I use is eco styler with olive oil which does not help my edges but does add moisture and shine to the twists. Can anyone help me?
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You've had zero hours, now try a sliver of time
The weekly Thompsons Solicitors Blog
You might think the outcry after a report revealed that more than a million people are on zero hours contracts would make government ministers think twice before bragging about other ruses to take advantage of desperation for work. But not this government – or, at least, not Lord Freud, the Minister for Welfare Reform.
As ever, nasty stuff has a euphemistic name – 'slivers of time' – the idea being to create a marketplace where workers bid against each other to see who can offer the lowest price to do very short, sub part-time, periods of work.
Some local authorities, including Tory-led Hammersmith and Fulham, have been using it for several years, and Tesco opened up slivers of time to its workforce in 2010.
The champion of this scheme, Lord Freud, is a man with no background in social policy and who is best known for leading the somewhat botched floatation of Eurotunnel.
He is responsible for spearheading government attacks on the Welfare State and is notorious for commenting that Scottish welfare claimants should get a job if they wanted an extra bedroom.
At a fringe session on welfare at the Conservative Party Conference, Freud described slivers of time as 'a marketplace for short hours' where an employer would say 'right, we want three hours on Wednesday afternoon – what am I bid?' That group would then say 'I'll do it for £10 an hour, £15 an hour… whatever'.
In other words, slivers is a Dutch auction for job seekers' time, set up to encourage it to be sold as a commodity in a race-to-the-bottom. And, if people are forced to work at rates below the national minimum wage, such contracts could potentially be unlawful.
In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, David Cameron announced that 16 to 25 year olds 'Neets' (Not in Education Employment or Training) who refuse to take up offers of education, work or training will have their benefits stopped.
But rather than conjuring up ideas for finding random hours of work to fill on shoddy terms, the government should concentrate on how best to place people into real jobs on a fair rate of pay.
Slivers of time may well have positive applications in limited circumstances if done on the worker's own terms. But its integration into a benefits regime that operates on compulsion takes us back to the Victorian days and the fundamentally exploitative nature of workers having to tout for anything they were lucky enough to get.
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Date: 17/10/2013
In response to queries from Building magazine POS disagrees with developers that have been suggesting that whilst the NPPF may have encouraged more planning permissions to be granted, it is the onerous conditions and 'red tape' attached to these permissions that is now proving to be the delaying factor in more housebuidling coming forward.
Mike Kiely, POS President and Director of Planning at Croydon LBC, commented "I think there is a fair charge that some LPAs take too long to clear them, the reason being that they are not measured on them so with limited resources they go to the bottom of the pile. As to imposing them unnecessarily developers should appeal against them and quote the NPPF - if they are unnecessary the PINs Inspector will allow the appeal. They can do this ASAP after receiving permission, and as development commencement always takes a while after that there should be no programming issue."
Kiely added "a possible reason that the industry is moaning now could be that pre-commencement conditions take on an additional meaning in the CIL world. A developer only benefits from statutory relief (ie £0 CIL for affordable housing) if they discharge all pre-commencement conditions before they start work. Hitherto developers were tardy on doing this - now it costs them!"
POS said there are rules around conditions: Para 206 of NPPF - Planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects.


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Here are all my blocks so far. This quilt has a lot of colour zing in it. I seem to be red a lot more this year.
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To take care of a ferret, check that it is neutered or spayed, feed the pet regularly, and make a spacious cage. Ensure the ferret gets supplements, if needed, and regular bathing.Continue Reading
Ensure that a ferret is neutered or spayed before you purchase it. Neutering male ferrets makes them less aggressive and less territorial, and you should also have your ferret vaccinated for canine distemper and rabies.
Feed your pet with specialty ferret food, which is low in fiber and high in protein.You can also feed your pet quality kitten or cat food. Ferrets naturally eat several times a day, so make food and water available at all times. Dry pellet feed is ideal as it does not go bad.
Make your ferret a spacious wire cage where the animal can move around freely. Place the cage in a cool, dry area of the residence and away from direct sunlight. Keep the cage clean, and install a litter box.
Pets fed on a good diet of ferret specialty food or cat food rarely need supplements. However, ferrets in colder parts of the country require supplements to help them add fat during the winter months.
Wash your pet once or twice a month; no more, no less. Doing so more often will wash away the animal's natural oils that protect the skin and to do so less often will cause that oil to build up and it does have a staunch odor. Purchase a ferret shampoo available at pet stores.


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Nivea Sun Protect Water Gel
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on 5/1/2018 2:59:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I am the kind of girl that hates wearing sunscreen and refused to wear them because I find the majority of western sunscreen are either so oily it makes my face look like a greaseball or makes my makeup melt off OR it's so sticky and gross!
However, I find Japanese and Koreans does a great job at sunscreen.
- non sticky
- very lightweight
- not heavily fragrance/no scent
- does not make me look like a greaseball
- does not break me out
- blends easily
My aunt tried it and loved it so much she asked if i know anyone going to Japan and to help her get one. This product also have a re-fill version in a bag rather than a bottle.
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Highly Recommend!
on 1/3/2018 11:35:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Tan, Warm
Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I am reviewing the 140g size, SPF 50 PA +++ (white bottle with gray cap) version. I ordered this off amazon with the intention of just using it for my body, which I did during the summer. I really liked for my body (mostly my arms, chest.... I almost never use sunscreen on my legs because I'm lazy probably not the best thing to do). It absorbed quickly, and didn't leave a greasy or a white/purple/ashy cast which many popular body sunscreens (in the US) are notorious for doing. Then, this month I ran out my face sunscreen and decided to try this while procrastinating on reordering it. It felt drying at first (it does alcohol) but only for a few seconds, and with continued use, it didn't feel drying on my face anymore. It doesn't take too long to dry down, maybe 5-10 minutes, and it doesn't feel or look greasy at all. I always powder after sunscreen because I have oily skin but with this sunscreen, I don't have to constantly blot/powder throughout the day. I haven't noticed it break me out either. I will definitely reorder this, and would reuse it as a facial sunscreen as well. I also like that the size is a bit bigger than other Asian sunscreens.
on 10/16/2017 3:10:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
As happy as I could be with a sunscreen. Great price, not a super tiny bottle, nice finish, no fragrance, no breakouts. I know Japanese sunscreens are not the highest PPD so for beach days I would prob stick to Euro ss but for daily incidental exposure I feel protected without all the downsides of the many of sunscreens I have tried expect for the Biore Mild Care milk which I find very similar to this but only spf 30.
on 3/24/2017 12:37:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Cute packaging, dries down pretty fast, is not mattifying, but not needlessly oily either. It's actually kind of moisturizing, despite the alcohol. Really cheap, you get a stupid amount for the price, and has an understated, pretty packaging. Highly recommend.
on 7/21/2016 11:13:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This is a review for the 2016 version. I`m so surprised that women wear this on their face: here in Japan it is marketed more as a sunscreen for your body and I only use it as such. This has been my daily sunscreen for quite a few years because it is so light and it doesn`t leave any sticky residue or give you that nasty feeling at the end of the day (looking at you, Neutrogena and Vichy!). I still use the highest SPF (50 PA+++) for every day because the sun here in July and August is simply blinding, so I`d rather feel protected even if I`m just out and about for a few minutes. I am pasty white and with this I have never noticed my skin becoming darker or any sort of pigmentation coming up. Once I`ve even worn it at the beach on one of those rare days when I go swimming and expose my body to the sun, and while I did notice my skin tone changing a slight bit, there were no burns, pigmentation, or permanent spots. Also, it doesn`t stain my clothes: I love wearing white summer dresses and they don`t turn yellow with Nivea.This is an awesome product and I always come back to it.
on 4/29/2015 9:47:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
My skin: Combo-oily, sensitive (among others, my skin takes the habit of breaking out in hives when it doesn't like something I eat or put on my skin), SD/PD-prone. OSPW. Fitzpatrick IV. Freckles and PIH from hives.
This is the review for the 2015 SPF 50 PA+++ version.
First impressions: lotion texture, very lightweight, applies quite white but disappears within seconds and leaves no whitecast whatsoever, no tackiness/greasiness, but dries a tad shiny which can be easily taken care of with a light dusting of powder. Dries velvety like skin within a few minutes. Albeit the fact that it has high amount of alcohol it doesn't feel drying. I had no tightness and crinkle. I would still at least use a hydrating lotion/spray/serum. No stinging or burning feeling at all. It's obviously also perfect for body sunscreen to avoid the sticky feel with regular ones (not a fan of hair sticking to neck).
The protection isn't exactly perfect as it doesn't protect from all range of UV rays (it has only Octinoxate, Uvinul A Plus and Uvinul T 150 which only provides full coverage against UVB, decent on UVA-II and most of UVA-I but lacking between 380-400nm, I reckon that explains the low PPD), but this is, by far, the only one I can wear very comfortably daily without irritation and whitecast. I would still reach for my other sunscreens on higher exposure days, but I would wear this daily on cloudy/rainy, winter and office days.
on 10/8/2013 3:24:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
This review is for the Nivea Sun Protect Water Gel SPF33PA+++
I love the texture of this product - lightweight, non-greasy, no white cast, lightly hydrating and disappears into skin. However, I am taking off 1 lippie because it only contains chemical sunscreens (I prefer physical filters or a mix of physical/chemical) and provides incomplete protection against the sun (protects agains UVB & UVA2 Rays, but not UVA1 Rays).
Actives: Octinoxate (Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate), Uvinul T 150 (Ethylhexyl Triazone) & Uvinul A Plus (Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate).
Others: Water, Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Dimethicone, caprylic/capric triglyceride, sodium hyaluoronate, phellodendron amurense bark extract, pyrus cydonia seed extract, tocopheryl acetate, acrylates/C10-30 acrylate crosspolymer, carbomer, ceteth-10, sodium hydroxide, methyparaben
on 5/8/2013 8:48:00 AM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
PLEASE NOTE - this review is for the Nivea Sun Protect Super Water Gel SPF 50 PA+++ (white bottle with the silver cap).
Ingredient List for the SPF50 PA+++ version of the product:
UPDATE: 7/5/13: Super duper love this. I have 3 in my back-stock.
UPDATE 5/28/13: Still love this product! The good news is that it is now available on rakuten.com and that means I can pay closer to a reasonable price than eBay's inflated pricing. On rakuten, the per-piece item is about $7USD, and the shipping for two of these is $18. Yes, it's high BUT the total price per piece works out to $16 per bottle, as compared to $26 on eBay and that, IMO, is reasonable for a spectacular facial ss.
Original Review: Okay, I absolutely love this sunscreen. I'm two months in and it is (and I don't say this often) a complete HG product. It is the first sunscreen I have been able to use that does not break me out in any way, shape or form -- no clogs, blackheads, cysts, bumps, odd textures, nada. It is much like a lotion, goes on feeling like a moisturizer, very soothing. It takes about 5 minutes to set but I can spare that time for good protection. After those 5 minutes, there is a definite "tightness" likely due to the alcohol component however within 15 minutes of that you are left feeling velvety soft, smooth and hydrated. No additional moisturizer or primer needed IME. If you are okay with a slight wait to move on with your makeup (and if you don't wear cosmetics this would be a non-issue) give this a go. I have had NO luck with sunscreens in the past and feel lucky to be using anything for sun protection. It's PPD is midrange but for me, mid with religious use is far better than high with sporadic usage due to constant breakouts. Oh and in terms of finish it is definitely not super-matte. It's got a bit of a shine but it's more of the freshly washed face look than a greasy ss look. It just feels so good on my face.
Since I've been using this my PIH has decreased and my overall complexion looks fantastic. I have backups on hand I like it so well.
The rub? The only place I can buy this is UGH-Bay (e bay). It's $26 for 80 ML which isn't terrible for ss but what is painful is knowing in JAPAN the cost is about $8.
on 6/4/2012 7:34:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Dark, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Kinky, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Finally! A sunscreen that protects my face and leaves NO WHITE RESIDE!!!
This sunscreen is a SPF 30 watergel formula that applies very easily and immediately absorbs into the skin with no residue. It doesn't change my foundation color and it appies very smoothly. I've had no adverse reaction using this product.
You can get it in a squeeze bottle or a pump application. You only need a pea-sized amount to get the protection you need.
I gave this a 3 rating for price simply because you cannot buy this product at a store in the U.S.A. It's Japan based and you have to purchase it online through Amazon or Ebay but the cost is steep.
I am very, very fortunate to have a relative who lives in Japan and sends me all kinds of goodies that have been fantastic for my skin and lots of fun make-up items too. I would however, still pay the Amazon/Ebay price for this sunscreen since it works so wonderfully on my skin.
I haven't tried it out at the beach yet.....since I was specifically looking for something to wear under my make-up (I don't wear make-up with SPF), I'll probably use my normal sunscreen for waterplay.
This is definately worth the effort and money, especially for women of color who often have to deal with the strange white/grey cast left from other sun protectors.
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Tour Package Deals
Welcome to 'Antique Motorcycles package deal' where any group, with a minimum of 12 people, ranging from car and bike clubs, men's sheds and families, are welcomed to the venue.
Johnny Gee will be the first to greet you at the door with an introductory speech, providing you with a drink in hand, while explaining where all the facilities are located around the venue, after which you and your group will be free to roam around the shop to indulge and drool over all the incredible memorabilia and motorcycles on display.
After some time, John will gather you together for the start of the official tour where you may now be filled with questions you can ask.
John will talk about some of the rare and famous bikes that we have here and bikes with different technological advances and how they came about. This can take anywhere between 20 minutes to an hour, depending on the interest of the crowd, after which you will be seated for your refreshments depending on your chosen package deal.
Offers range from:
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Tour + Coffee/Tea and Cake
$25 per person
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Tour + Lunch at the Naked Racer
$50 per person
'An Evening Special' Available
Please contact for more details
The Naked Racer Café Bar in conjunction with Antique Motorcycles have come up with something special for all you motorbike fanatics out there!
Welcome to the Naked Racer Workshop.
Each month there will be a new themed workshop ranging from the basic 'How to Service your Bike' and 'Bike Familiarization' workshops through to history of certain Makes and anything mechanical and fun!
Keep an eye on this space! Details to come soon!
Motorcycle Rides
Located in Antique Motorcycles' showroom is the office of the Classic Racer Club, Inc.
Each month a club ride is organised, where club members are welcomed at the Naked Racer Café Bar with a nice cup of Coffee before heading out on their adventure around Victoria!
Why not become part of the family and join us at the Classic Racer Club, Inc. for rides and events held at the Naked Racer Café Bar and Antique Motorcycles.


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Just found out that it is the last day for Macy's "Shop for a Cause" event today!
Purchase a pass for $5.00 and enjoy storewide savings while helping the March of Dimes. I'll see you there!
Macy's at The Promenade Mall
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Elizabeth Simcoe Teacher Blogs
Some of our staff at Elizabeth Simcoe Jr. P.S. are using private blogs to communicate important or helpful information to parents and students.
If you don't know the blog's password, please ask your child's teacher directly.
Arlene Knights-Svarich (Principal) - Simcoe Shines
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Mrs. Di Paolo - Grade 2/3 Class (Room 28 is Great!)


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The Week That Was
The October sky in Chennai belongs to a widow – gloomy and weeping. I hate when it rains. The night air was buzzing incessantly with the noise of infinite raindrops plunking onto the damp earth. Flashes of livid lightening relentlessly illuminated the room filled with grey smoke. Green grass lay as burnt ash in an empty cigarette pack. I cuddle myself in warmth trying to grasp the unusually artsy and surreal night that the rain had to offer. For once, I didn't hate the rain. It's quite atypical that I am high on spirits unlike the murky ambience, feeling warm from within. I haven't felt this contented in long that I now feel anxious to have realized the comforts of feeling this way. There is certain uneasiness in wrapping my mind around the idea that things are fine. But then, things are fine!
It was all about changing perceptions… about the rain, about work, about people and about life in general – the week that was.
I woke up next morning to find my article titled '19 Reasons Why A Fashion College Is The Coolest Place To Study In' featured in IFB Links a la Mode among the top 20 blog posts of the week. Here is the complete list of top 20 articles featured by Independent Fashion Bloggers community.
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With fall in full swing, we're all breaking out the sweaters, getting the coats out of storage. And of course, doing a bit of fall shopping. Now is as good a time as any to investigate where the trends are headed so you can make the most of your fall fashion budget. This week we have a great roundup of fall hauls, trend reports and outfit inspirations to help you decided which way you're going to fall this year.
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- Back2Blanc: What Every Happy Girl Should Have
- Charlotte Lucy: Fall Boots & Other Stories
- Chic & Defined: Fab or Fail: Metallic Oxfords
- Couture Stories: Stylish Clothing You Can Borrow From Him
- Daily Luxe: How to Find Your Perfect Denim
- DressCode:HighFashion: Cape Trends for Fall
- Ellekae: Billion Dollar Brows
- Everest Says: Style This: Culottes
- Fashion Miroir: Runway Fashion: 15 Coat Trends
- Invictus: Casual With Mallzee
- Just Sammthing: Review of Chanel No. 5's Ad, "The One That I Want."
- Mode Plus: Animal Instinct
- Ms. Fabulous: Cosplay Trends at New York Comic-Con
- Preponderance in Fashion: Get "Vested" in Fall Fashion
- Purushu: 19 Reasons Why Fashion College is The Coolest
- Quaintrelle: Victorian Hair Jewelry by Swarovski
- Style Curated: Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce C. Scott
- Style Duplex: How We Fall
- Style Marmalade: Living NOW Reflection DIY
- The Curious Red Alice: DIY Statement Sunglasses
- We Are Ready Made: Swedish Fashion Goes to Paris
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In October, the challenge we're focusing on and helping schools to tackle is 'Supporting progress and attainment across the whole school'. This blog highlights the case of Deyes High School in Liverpool who has been using their trainee teachers to use the power of PE to impact wider school outcomes with a target group of underachieving Year 7 boys.
The benefits of active learning in the classroom are widely acknowledged in a variety of areas of the curriculum. Global and UK-specific research confirms the positive association between participation in physical activity and academic performance in young people. Physically active children have been found to be have significantly higher test scores and are more likely to go into further and higher education.
The challenge
The data received from the feeder primary schools for KS2 indicated 18 of the incoming Year 7 Pupil Premium students were entering Deyes High with a maths raw score of 100 or less.
Historically, these students have never reached the benchmark of a grade C when entering with this score. Other intervention strategies had previously been implemented to try and tackle this challenge, however none had been successful and had the desired outcome of improving these students grades.
The solution
The school decided to challenge this potential underachievement by using an active approach to teaching maths and measure if it had a positive impact on achievement.
Students involved in the project were asked to attend two 30 minute Active Maths lessons each week over a nine week period. The sessions ran at 8.30am each morning, which meant that these students missed registration on the project days. After consultation with the Maths Department each session was orientated around improving the student's multiplication skills.
The objectives
Academic impact: Students post test results to show an improvement on the pre-test results; closing the gap on other students in the year group.
Improvement in physical activity levels: The regular activity sessions to improve levels of fitness and meet the DH ambition for students to receive additional physical activity each day.
Development of soft skills: Students to feel that their confidence within maths has increased due to the intervention and their motivation and focus within 'static' maths lessons improve. Through the physical part of the programme, teamwork and problem solving skills should have developed and be transferable to other areas of their curriculum.
The impact
Academic impact: The SCITT trainees took ownership of this process and created a pre-intervention test of 120 multiplication questions and these were used again as the post-intervention test. The intervention sessions followed the same format each morning; a physical activity game led by a PE trainee and then a focus on multiplication led by a maths trainee. The headlines indicated that students in the pre-intervention test attempted on average 55.7 questions and correctly answered 44.8 questions in six minutes. In the post-intervention test students attempted on average 59.3 questions and correctly answered 55.2 questions. An improvement in both questions attempted and questions answered correctly in the time allowed.
60% of students increased the number of questions that they attempted and 80% of the students increased the amount of questions that they got correct.
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- 70% of students indicated that they enjoy maths more now than before the project started.
- 80% of the students strongly agreed or agreed that the active maths sessions had improved their confidence with numbers.
- When asked in the post-intervention questionnaire whether active maths had made them want to try more challenging maths problems 70% of the students strongly agreed or agreed that it did.
- 90% of the students in the post intervention strongly agreed or agreed that the active maths sessions had developed their teamwork skills.
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|Proceeds of Crime Bill
The Chairman: Order. I am bound by Standing Order, and unfortunately, I cannot follow the hon. Gentleman down the seductive road along down which he is trying to lead me. I reiterate the fact that the amendment would not result in the measures for which he is arguing.
Mr. Hawkins: I am trying to explain our concern that there should be an explanation about the basis of the performance targets. The amendment would bring that about. However, I shall stick to your guidance, Mr. McWilliam. I am sure that the Minister will reassure us, but we are worried about such matters and we shall stress our concern whenever the wording in the Bill is too wide. We shall be interested in whether the hon. Gentleman can give us some comfort for the future and say that he is willing for the Bill to be more specific. If the Government cannot accept our amendment today, we hope that further consideration will lead to their reflecting on the matter and agreeing that we are right. The amendment may be accepted in another place or on Third Reading. We shall return to the issue.
Norman Baker (Lewes): I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. McWilliam, on behalf of my Liberal Democrat colleagues. I wish to propose a radical way forward. Given that the Bill is so exhaustive and detailed, I want members of the Committee to spend the limited time that we have on matters of substance rather than on amendments that would not take us very far forward. We should not feel obliged to table amendments to clauses or schedules if none are required. We should restrain ourselves, and use our time as best we can by concentrating on issues of real substance that relate to the Bill. I hope that we shall adopt such an approach this morning, and in subsequent sittings.
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: I accept what the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins) said about the number of targets and potential difficulties. However, he should reflect on the fact that the Government whom he supported presided over a doubling of criminal activities. Perhaps things might have been different if they had had a few targets.
The amendment would require the director to include the basis for any performance targets in his annual plan, which may or may not be for the financial year covered by the annual plan as well as the targets themselves. The value to organisations of an annual plan is increasingly recognised. It is common practice, when new bodies such as the Assets Recovery Agency are established, for legislation to include provisions for drawing up annual plans. It is accepted that organisations should have performance targets as part of the plan, some of which are likely to be related to the key objectives of the organisation. Other targets may be related to the performance of ancillary tasks, such as dealing with correspondence.
The performance targets in the Assets Recovery Agency's annual plan will be set by the director, but must be approved by the Secretary of State. The targets will have to take into account the wider work of the assets recovery committee, including successive assets recovery strategies. We may expect the inclusion of a target that relates to the number of criminal confiscation hearings that are conducted and the number of civil recovery actions that are brought. Initially, we anticipate that in any full year the agency might have a caseload of 15 to 20 civil recovery cases, 250 criminal confiscation cases, for which the agency is responsible, and 25 to 30 tax cases. However, the number and spread of cases may vary from those figures.
Performance targets set in annual plans are usually challenging but achievable. The Secretary of State will bear that in mind when approving the director's annual plan. However, the director should not be required to set out the basis for the performance targets in his plan. The director may include it if he wishes, but there is no reason why he should be required to. The Secretary of State must approve the plan. If he is not satisfied with the targets or requires further information about their basis, he can request further information from the director.
Mr. Grieve: Is there not a potential problem? We want such an organisation to be proactive, and, as far as is possible, to seek to recover assets. However, if targets are fixed on the basis of sums of money recovered, there is a risk that that will be the first step on the path to injustice. A burden would be placed on the director to seize assets when that might not be justifiable.
Mr. Ainsworth: I understand the hon. Gentleman's worries. On Second Reading he mentioned the Child Support Agency's problems . I ask him to accept that the agency will be a different animal, and will operate in a different field. It will not have nearly as wide a remit as the CSA. To be frank, there are no easy targets. Legislation that supposedly allows us to confiscate the proceeds of crime has existed for some time, and it was passed by Governments that the hon. Gentleman supported. That legislation has not been effective, and it is widely recognised that there is a need to settle the matter.
The agency will not deal with thousands upon thousands of cases submitted by the general public. Overwhelmingly, it will deal with the cases that the law enforcement agencies refer to it. Such cases will be few and none will be easy. The guidance to the director is designed to ensure both that everybody is satisfied with the relevant hierarchy of powers for law enforcement agencies and powers for this agency, and that recovering the proceeds of crime does not have a higher priority than the prosecution of criminal cases. The annual plan should give us the opportunity to make the agency accountable not only to the Secretary of State but to Parliament, because the plan will be lodged in Parliament for everyone to see.
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Mr. Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green): We should set aside the interests of those who, at this early stage, are laying the ground for a political assault on the agency. I am concerned because paragraph 8(3)(b) states that performance targets need not be consistent with the objectives set by the director in the annual plan. That raises a query: what kind of circumstances could produce considerable variance between the director's objectives in the annual plan, and the performance targets? If such a variance occurred regularly, would not it require some explanation?
Mr. Ainsworth: I hope that there will be no variance between performance targets and the director's objectives, but some performance targets will have a wider scope and will be relevant to more than just the agency. The agency will form only a small part of the assets recovery strategy. It will not pursue the overwhelming majority of compensation cases that occur; most cases will be taken up by prosecuting authorities, and the agency will become involved with such cases only when those authorities want its involvement.
The annual plan will provide a mechanism that annually oversees the agency's actions, and that plan will provide for input from the Secretary of State. It will be placed before Parliament so that we can see the targets that the Secretary of State sets for the agency. With regard to concerns that the agency may set easy targets, I do not believe that the agency could get the courts' approval unless it convinced them that the threshold set by the targets was high enough to allow it to investigate and confiscate the proceeds of crime.
Mr. Hawkins: The Minister will have received advice from his officials, no doubt, so is he prepared to tell us the number of performance targets that a director might be given in an annual plan? Will he give a formal assurance now, so that it is recorded in Hansard, that the director will be set no more than 10 performance targets? The Home Secretary could then set that figure before Parliament. That would allay many of our concerns.
Mr. Ainsworth: No, I do not want to give a set number of performance targets. I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that I will state how we shall set the targetsboth those that will be the agency's direct responsibility, and those that will have a far wider reachbefore we discuss the relevant passages of the Bill. I laid that out in the note that I provided for the Committee. It gives our current thinking on the subject, but we do not want to pre-empt the agency before it is set up or has appointed its director.
Mr. Grieve: I am grateful to the Minister for allowing us to discuss this subject. Opposition Members have not got the slightest idea
The Minister of State, Scotland Office (Mr. George Foulkes): Hear, hear.
Mr. Grieve: We have not the slightest idea what sums the Minister thinks the agency can recover. It is all very well to set up such a structure, but there are similarities with the Child Support Agency. Some of those similarities are shared with the subject of drug recovery. I used to practise law on the subject of drug trafficking offences, and the amounts ordered to be seized were consistently larger than the amounts eventually seized. That is an important issue.
The Minister must enlighten the Committee as to how the agency will work in practice. How many millions of pounds per annum should the director try to seize? The Minister has the intelligence to answer[Interruption.] At least, I think he does. I do not have the intelligence to do so
Mr. Foulkes: In every sense of the word.
Mr. Grieve: Not in every sense of the word. We need guidance from the Minister.
The Chairman: Order. Sedentary interventions are unwelcomehowever much the Minister of State, Scotland Office and I may have indulged in them in our previous incarnations.
Mr. Ainsworth: There has been no attempt to hide the information on the basis of which the policy has been developed. The hon. Member for Beaconsfield has had an opportunity to read the performance and innovation unit's report: it shows international comparisons with regard to potential capability, and the failure of past performance is apparent.
I suspect that the hon. Gentleman and I will disagree about the reasons why confiscation orders were not enforced as often as they should have been, and the extent to which the agency will be able to fill the gap by ensuring that confiscation takes place more frequently. I have not attempted to hide the basis on which the Government have taken their decisions and chosen which road to go down, and I will try to ensure that the Committee is informed about our thinking on such matters as it reaches the relevant stages of the Bill.
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Selena Gomez & Justin Bieber Reunite in Texas - See the Pic!
Selena Gomez, hidden in a black hoodie, and Justin Bieber were just spotted together in a local Starbucks on Friday morning (March 7) in Texas.
The 21-year-old entertainer was in the Starbucks in the morning and was joined by her on-again off-again beau Justin during the last hour of their visit, TMZ reports.
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The pair then stopped by Royal Perfume, where Justin bought two perfumes.
Selena is set to perform in Hidalgo tomorrow night. It is unclear why Justin is in Texas, besides to spend time with Selena! She Instagrammed a picture of herself in the Starbucks in question, with the caption, "Hidalgo, I've missed this :) ill see you soooon"


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The New York Marathon, Cosplay and Germs
This weekend, I spent a day with 45,000 people of like mind looking to survive the crowds of crazily-dressed strangers, many wearing spandex that doesn't fit as well as they might think. And I couldn't stop taking their pictures.
No, not a comic convention. I went to the New York City Marathon.
While there are runs with superhero themes, this is a general interest marathon in which some people just happen to get dressed up. I bring to you now a few pictures of the people relevant to the interests of this website.
Here is my first Batman sighting of the day, though it's only of a shirt that says "BATMAN" across the front. Dressing in all-black helps, but I'm not sold. Where are the yellow pouches?
This guy went with the Batman shield on his chest and otherwise in all black, so he gets points.
The next guy won the Running Batman contest:
Sadly, I saw him only after he passed, but it's the cape. He had the cape!
It was cool out on Sunday. When the race started, it was in the 40s, and only crept up into the low 50s when the sun got high enough in the sky to peek out between buildings. I'm sure he wasn't too hot in that get-up, though serious racers will no doubt wonder what the friction from wind under his cape did to his final time.
Batman wasn't the only one in a cape.
I've said before that I'm not in touch enough with today's pop culture to understand all the cosplay references. I'm sure this is one of those cases.
It never gets better than a man in a banana suit, does it?
Lots of Superman shield t-shirts, but this was the only guy I saw donning a lookalike costume. The name across his chest read "Marathon Man," yet he didn't look anything like Richard Dawson or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What, this isn't an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Or a Man In Black? If I'm stretching, then it's time to end this bit…
I'm not sure what this catalog is, exactly. It looks like the French edition of "Previews" for the months of January through March of 2014. It crosses a variety of publishers and comics lines, with plenty of preview art and vital statistics on the books. It's a great way to browse some of the comics market in France. It only becomes disappointing when you have to flip through pages showing the DC titles — both new and old — being reprinted in French. I already have access to those. Give me the new stuff.
I could give you a list of the books that look interesting here, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Yes, the thing runs hundreds of pages long, but it's a pleasant trip. There are two side thoughts I had in looking through the material.
First, it's publisher support of their books in the form of store displays. Here in the North American comics scene, about as far as a publisher will go is a promise to get mass media interest in a comic or a series of variant covers with weird ordering schemes that store owners can sell for great profit.
In France, they have nearly life-size cardboard stand-up figures attached to drop bins to hold an assortment of oversized hardcover books.
If those are too much for you, there are simpler counter displays:
These are the things you can do when you have a higher price point and bigger profit margins with publishers who work hard to get your attention, no matter the cost. I don't know how widespread these displays are in France, but the very fact that they exist puts them a mile or two ahead of the North American comic market.
The latest edition of "Asterix" likely needed none of that to sell the five million copies shipped out last month, but I bet had some of it, anyway. It had an initial release in 15 countries, none of them mine. That made me sad. (Bonus link: Interview with ace "Asterix" translator, Anthea Bell.)
The other thing I noted in looking at the catalog is the strength and consistency of the cover designs. Even at a small size, you can pick up the design elements for the book covers of these two series:
Great use of negative space. Both would be clearly identified on the stands from afar, if they were facing straight out. The "Soda" covers even carry a consistent color tone to them, somewhere in the oranges and reds.
I'm not saying this is unique to the French comics market at all. We see lots of covers today in comics series that use a theme. Think of the "Walking Dead" or "Invincible" collection covers, for instance. There are very few such series in America that last 12 volumes or longer, though. It's much more obvious when seen with a long-lasting series.
Did I mention the 5,000,000 print run on "Asterix"? That's 1950s "Walt Disney's Comics & Stories" numbers right there. I don't want to read any more stories about how strong this industry is because two books topped 100,000 in a month. . .
This imported book from Papercutz tells the story of six-and-a-half year old Rebecca, a sick little kid whose best pal is an invisible green microbe. With that alone, you'd have a book that might be a big hit amongst the kiddy readers. They love gross-out humor and stories of kids playing in the snow in t-shirts to get sick. They love nose picking and fart jokes. While there's some of that in here — although not nearly as gross as you might imagine — the heart of the book comes from the disintegration of Rebecca's parents' marriage. What seems at first like a light and funny story of a precociously cute kid quickly becomes a bittersweet and often-heartbreaking book about a kid confused about her parent's screaming matches and overnight stays elsewhere.
The format is much like the "Dance School" book I reviewed last week. It's a series of one page gags — with a few two-pagers thrown in — that tell short gag stories. These add up to more than what "Dance School" went with, though. There are on-going gags (such as Rebecca's attempts at forcing her parents' reconciliation a la a bad sit-com) and quick punchlines, but that thread of a child confused by her parents brings it back to earth and can crush you at the same time you're laughing. It's part Afterschool Special and part Calvin and Hobbes, which makes for an uneasy blend of things that will keep you glued to the page.
The art from Antonello Dalena feels like what would happen if you merged art styles from Lucky Luke in with cute core manga and a touch of Disney: not quite chibi, but very cute with large expressive heads and cartoonish gestures. Beyond the initial surface impressions, what impressed me about the artwork in the book is the use of negative space. Dalena draws plenty of detailed backgrounds, some packed with cars and buildings and all the sorts of things artists hate dealing with. But, more importantly, he can drop everything out when the situation calls for it. The backgrounds will fade out to pure white or a simple color, as the characters in the foreground become the stars. These are the sequences where the art helps to carry the story so much. It's when Dalena gets the most expressive in his art, with characters dialing up their manic energy to a full 10. The backgrounds in those cases aren't necessary. Usually, you see them in the first panel to set up the scene, but after that the characters tell the story and anything else in the panel would be noise. Background junk.
Cecilia Giumento's colors fit the book perfectly. They're most often warm, with lots of purples, pinks, and oranges. The only other notable color is green, which is fitting since Ernest the Microbe is green and the two main characters like to hang out together with some frogs outside. Giumento also uses the green in night scenes, where others might go to the more conventional blue. Coloring is in the same style as the art, with something of an anime/manga look, the shadows cut with hard lines as if they're drawn onto the page instead of trying to appear like realistic gradients.
Janice Chiang's lettering tries as hard as it can, but is often constrained by the realities of a translated work like this. The font needs to shrink sometimes to fit the restrictive space of the pre-drawn word balloon. Sometimes, the font even gets squished to squeeze in. It's readable, but it is an obvious distraction in spots.
This first volume in the series is available in hardcover only for $11.99. It's slightly oversized from the rest of the Papercutz lineup at roughly 8 x 10 inches. With the third volume, Papercutz shrunk the book down to roughly 6.2 x 9 inches. While I always bemoan books getting smaller, I have a feeling that won't lessen the entertainment of the book. The audience for this book — mostly the younger readers — will enjoy it, nonetheless.
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Gender: Feminine
Origin: Italian
Meaning: "cheerful; happy."
Eng (uh-LAY-grah); (uh-LEG-rah); It (ahl-LAY-grah)
Allegra first appeared in Medieval Italy and was used as an auspicious name. It was especially common among Italian-Jewish families and more common in Central and Northern Italy.
It was introduced into the English-speaking world through Clara Allegra Byron (1817-1822), the short lived daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. It was also borne by Anne Allegra Longfellow (1855-1934), the daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who is mentioned in the 1860 poem The Children's Hour.
It is currently borne by Allegra Versace (b.1986), heiress to the Versace fashion house.
Allegra is also the Romansch word for hello and is used by Romansch-speakers as a given name.
Another Italian form is Allegrina. A Spanish and Ladino cognate is Alegría.
Allegra is the 413th most popular female name in Germany, (2011).


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(LAS VEGAS) — A 24-year-old woman accused of driving a car onto a sidewalk and through a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one and injuring many others, made a brief first appearance in court Wednesday morning.
Lakeisha Holloway, believed to be from the Oregon area, has been charged in a criminal complaint with murder with the use of a deadly weapon in connection to Sunday's crash, which killed a 32-year-old woman and sent over 30 people to the hospital.
A public defender represented Holloway in court. Her next appearance is set for Jan. 20.
Holloway was also charged with child abuse, neglect or endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. Her 3-year-old daughter was in the car at the time of the crash, and she drove off after the incident, officials said. The child was not injured, officials said.
In an interview with police, Holloway would not tell police why she drove onto the sidewalk, but she did say she remembered a body bouncing off her windshield and breaking it, the police report revealed.
Holloway said she was trying to sleep inside the car with her daughter before the crash but "kept getting run off by security of the properties she stopped at," according to the report. Holloway had been in Las Vegas for about one week before the crash and was living in a car, officials said Monday. Holloway said it was her car, but the car was registered to another person in Oregon, officials said.
Officials said they have ruled out terrorism as a possible motive. They do believe the incident was "an intentional act" based upon the car's movements. The suspect went up on the sidewalk "two, maybe three times," according to police.
"The video [of the incident] obviously shows intention," the sheriff said.
The sheriff said Holloway was very stoic and did not appear to be "distressed" from her actions.
A former resident of Portland, Oregon, Holloway worked for the Forest Service through a program designed to help at-risk youth. Holloway was touted as a case study in resilience, even receiving a role model award in 2012.
Speaking in a video about her experience, she said she "beat the odds" by becoming the first person in her immediate family to graduate high school.
Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center said in a statement, "It's hard to believe that Lakeisha did this, she was such a great kid while she was a part of our program."
Holloway's cousin Lashay Hardaway said Holloway would never do something like this on purpose.
"None of it made any sense. It just didn't add up to who she is," Hardaway said. "She loved her family, she loved her daughter, she loved god, this was just traumatic for everybody."
Holloway told officers she was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash. Her blood was drawn after she was taken into custody.
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New Citrix Offices In The Warehouse District Working Through The Planning Phases
The growing technology company Citrix is making plans to move into downtown Raleigh next year. The city's website has some details of their new building that is currently under review by the planning department. More of a renovation than a new building, the company will expand on West Street in downtown's Warehouse District. For the warehouse lovers out there, the design does include a demolition plan which may upset some but others may welcome the added retail and parking spaces.
First, for those catching up, the announcement:
Citrix today announced that in response to rapidly increasing demand for ShareFile, the secure and reliable file sharing service, it will move its North Carolina offices to an ultra-modern 130,000 square-foot office space in the warehouse district of downtown Raleigh. The facility will become the new development center for the data sharing product group which is expected to more than double in size over the next five years. This move follows Gov. Bev Perdue's June announcement of Citrix's plans to create 337 jobs and invest $12.5 million in North Carolina. The move is anticipated to be completed in 2013.
*On the Move: Citrix Announces Expansion in Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina – July 30, 2012.
Looking at the development plan application on the city's website, we have some more details as to what is expected on the 100 block of South West Street. The area under design is shown in the Google map screenshot below.
The entire block is under development and I've included two separate colors to show what is staying and what will be brought down. The orange indicates the warehouse that will be renovated for new offices to house Citrix's future Downtown Raleigh employees. The red shows which buildings will be demolished to make way for a parking deck-over-retail development. This includes the Men at Work stand-alone building and the shorter warehouse attached to the Dillon Supply building.
As of August 27, 2012, there was a sign on the front door of Men at Work stating that they will be moving, not far, starting on September 1st.
The parking deck/retail combo building will not be attached to the Citrix warehouse but instead be separated by approximately 26 feet of outdoor landscaping and walkways. Preliminary sketches have the block looking like the sketch below.
The sketches show retail spaces and vehicle entrance/exits on West Street as well as a healthy amount of retail space along Morgan Street, including space along almost the entire length of the block minus the space for delivery access. 14 foot sidewalks and street trees will be put in place as is standard in new developments thanks to the city's 2030 comprehensive plan. About half of the Morgan Street side will actually get 24 foot sidewalks. It's also worth noting that the sidewalk improvements wrap the entire block.
See the document for more details but the plan looks promising to bring life at all hours of the day to the warehouse district.
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Men at Work have already painted the old Limo building, just South of the site. Without saying too much, we'll see how the "base level retail" gets developed in the beginning. More than likely it will be a parking deck for a longggg time before it ever has retail or even retail slots.
Additionally, Men At Work also have a new location on the other side of the tracks in the neighboring area of Boylan Heights.
However — I DO NOT like the idea of just tearing down a warehouse for a parking deck. And I agree with Jed that I fear that the parking deck would likely remain without retail for quite some time.
This location of the parking deck is crucial to the appearance of downtown because Morgan is a main corridor for entrance into Downtown from the NC State area. Once a person in their car crosses the tracks on Morgan they enter the core area of Downtown. Having the first building they see be a parking deck weakens the overall experience of Downtown.
I would like to Challenge the developers, architects and Citrix to find a creative, proactive solution to parking needs that go beyond just a cement-gray parking deck.
I concur with Kelly. This is a corridor into the medium transitional part of downtown. What really irks me is that we are still in the business of above ground parking decks. Although underground parking is more expensive, you can offset some of that cost by making this a paid parking facility open to the public during events or for CAM and free for Citrix workers. I'm just trying to have some foresight to a future where DT real estate is not at the current vacancy level. A high quality parking deck with viable(during Citrix off hours)shops would be ideal.
They're tearing down the building because it's structurally unsound. They said from the beginning that it was beyond repair, this parking deck actually looks pretty decent. I think based on what we've seen of the proposed office, Citrix isn't going to deliver something bland and out of place.
If a location practically at the corner of Hillsborough and Glenwood is only good enough for "Future" retail store fronts (instead of retail store fronts NOW) then we might as well stop building retail downtown period. This seems to me like it would be pretty much the best location in all of downtown for retail, period.
I get that the city is excited about Citrix but they should absolutely not let this "Future retail store front" crap fly.
While true that the retail component will likely remain unoccupied for some time, it's good to see this is incorporated into the design. Better that than the alternative of just a big parking deck without any alternative use.
I think somehow this project in its entirety has found a way to both keep part of the area's character and also to make it feasible for a company of that size to do business there. Again, the alternative in my opinion of not having them there, or not being economically attractive for a business to do this is worst for the entire downtown and Raleigh.
When they say "Future retail storefront," to me that says not that it will be an empty storefront, but that it will be a completely bare space, perhaps with no utilities roughed in, no HVAC, and probably even the glass windows won't be installed. They will probably include a punch-out wall that MIGHT eventually be converted to retail but probably won't. Something like this, in the parking deck on Wilmington Street: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=raleigh,nc&hl=en&ll=35.774829,-78.638398&spn=74.941792,123.925781&sll=35.170517,-79.860994&sspn=4.929155,7.745361&t=w&hnear=Raleigh,+Wake,+North+Carolina&z=3&layer=c&panoid=z1gcODhFBwG3_cBT2NtEYw&cbll=35.774829,-78.638398&cbp=13,-223.22212364934273,,0,2.4421183797534525
@orulz, you are making quite a few assumptions and very pessimistic ones at that too. Also, what exactly should the city do to not 'let this fly'? Developer is doing exactly what everyone has been asking for: incorporating retail and active uses at the ground floor of parking decks! Is it their fault that our city has a suspect history of supporting retail downtown? Best way to have these spaces filled: go support other downtown retail spots and show there is a market for it!
Interesting @orulz, I though it was something more along the lines of the Hue/222 Glenwood/West where the space was carved out and had the glass out front.
Why would they have called it a "future retail store front" instead of just a "retail store front." The elevation sketches don't show "Future truck access" or "future curbside delivery access" – the only place where they use the word "future" is for the retail space(s). I think they wouldn't have put the word "future" in there unless it meant something, and I'd bet that the meaning is this:
They plan to initially build it into a less-than-leaseable space, for MAYBE eventual conversion into a retail store front at some unspecified point, perhaps decades from now?
There's adequate precedent in this city for things like that. The parking deck I linked above. Quorum Center. The city approved both "Future" retail spaces with hardly a question. They are probably so excited about landing Citrix downtown that they might be inclined to let some things slide.
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong, and sorry for bringing a dose of negativity to the party.
I mean call me naive (you wouldn't be wrong) but I thought they called it 'future retail' because retail wouldn't necessarily be there from the beginning (as in, there wouldn't be a retailer in the space right at the opening) but the driveways, etc. will be used from the beginning, so calling them 'future driveway' would be silly.
Right, my interpretation of 'future' is that they just haven't finalized the retailer yet, so the space requirements are not completely hashed out. This way they can adapt to a variety of uses and pitch the space to many retailers to get it filled as soon as possible or to get the best price by having more competition for this space. So I think 'future' is just a placeholder for saying, 'we are working on it and can't release specifics yet'.
I spend way, way too much time looking at site plans for mixed use developments instead other things that I should be doing. I've never seen this sort of "future retail store front" wording before. This is very unusual.
I'm pretty sure that at the point of site plan review, very few developers already have tenants lined up for all their retail spaces.
Again, I hope I'm wrong.
Orulz, you could be right, but I'll make two observations I think are pertinent. The first is that it would be silly, looking at this design which has almost a block's worth of retail spaces along Morgan, for the building to have 'pop out' walls as you showed on Wilmington. The space on Wilmington is tiny and just one spot, this proposal has a huge (by comparison) number of spaces. Second, the space on Wilmington is in an awful area for retail. It's basically in a pedestrian dead zone, the the backs of FS buildings on once side and a whole host of parking decks/imposing cold structures on the other. Maybe it will change if they ever do anything with Charter (though I can't imagine that will do much for Wilmington) and if they ever build anything around the Pope House, but for now, it's not an inviting place for a retail business. I think the Morgan St plan would be much better at attracting business because there's already a fairly decent retail (especially art galleries) sector in that area.
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Effect of Level of Crude Protein and Use of Cottonseed Meal in Diets Containing Cassava Chips and Rice Straw for Lactating Dairy Cows
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Effect of Level of Crude Protein and Use of Cottonseed Meal in Diets Containing Cassava Chips and Rice Straw for Lactating Dairy Cows
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The effects of different levels of crude protein (CP) and cottonseed meal replacing for soybean meal in cassava chips and rice straw-based diets for mid-lactating cows (100-150 day in milk [DIM]), were studied using 32 multiparous Holstein Fresian crossbred dairy cows. Diets containing 10.5, 12.5, 13.7, 14.4% CP of the rations and 0, 12.1, 14.9, 17.8% cottonseed meal were fed to cows for 60 days. Thirty two cows were randomly divided into four dietary treatments using a Randomized complete block design. Four dietary treatments were offered in the form of total mixed ration (TMR) with concentrate to roughage (chopped rice straw) at 60:40 and offered ad libitum. Dry matter (DM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) intakes tended to linearly increase with increasing dietary CP levels. Intakes and digestibility of crude protein increased linearly with increasing dietary CP level (p<0.01). Crude protein digestibility of the 10.5% CP diet was lower (p<0.05) than that in diets with higher levels of CP, while there were no significant differences among the other three levels of CP (12.5, 13.7 and 14.4%). Daily milk yield tended to increase with increased CP from 10.5 to 14.4%. Income over feed in terms of US$/kg of milk increased with increased CP from 10.5 to 13.7% and decreased when the CP level was higher than 13.7% (quadratic effect p<0.09). Milk composition was not significantly affected by increasing level of CP, however there were relatively high contents of protein and fat among treatments. The proportion of milk-urea N (MUN), ammonia-N (
-N) and bloodurea N (BUN) were closely correlated and increased linearly with increasing CP levels (p<0.01). Balanced diet was found in diet containing 12.5 and 13.7% CP of the rations when BUN and MUN were used as indicators of the protein to energy ratio in the diet. Conclusions can be made that increasing dietary CP levels from 10.5 to 13.7% using cottonseed meal as the main source to completely replace soybean meal was beneficial to cows consuming rice straw and cassava chips based-diets. Increasing the CP level above 13.7% of total ration did not additionally improve milk yield and composition or net income.
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I bought this bar in the sales (20% off), which came to a grand total of 75p for 200.0g, exceedingly cheap. I wasn't all taken in by the foil wrapper - I thought the choice of colour was a little odd, and not really suitable for a dark chocolate. The chocolate itself was equally underwhelming. It really lacked a telling aroma, and also was completely devoid of any personality with a completely smooth looking complexion - it just looked insanely boring.
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Overall I wish I hadn't done this review, as my last memories of Woolworths are tainted by this truly terrible chocolate. This was frankly awful dark chocolate. It looked boring, lacked flavour and had a poor melt ... I only bothered eating about 30.0g of the 200.0g. I am genuinely sad that Woolworths is now no more, but thank god no one will have to withstand their own brand chocolate for much longer. The question is where are we going to go for cheap chocolate now!?
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