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Here's what I saw. Somewhere at the World Economic Forum in Davos, there was a stage lined with eight armchairs ready for a live BBC program. Seated on the stage were Christine Lagarde, the current IMF director, a pretty African woman, likely representing the developing world, and several very important looking white men.
She told us that these points were met with great disbelief and scorn by her IMF colleagues, who told her: "This is not main stream. This is not what IMF does." Well, now, Ms. Lagarde assured us, her thinking is main stream at IMF. OK, so far so good.
Of course, Ms. Lagarde needs to check her definitions: Any growth that lasts for a while, leads to an exponential increase of economy and its resource needs, and this cannot be sustainable in the long run. A well known property of exponential growth is that each next doubling creates more needs than the sum of all needs before the doubling. For example, 1+2=3 is less than 2x2= 4, 1+2+3=6 is less than 2x4=8.
How is it possible to continue this growth ad infinitum on a finite planet with finite resources and constant primary productivity?
Wealthy Chinese have been buying tens of billions of dollars worth of real estate in California and New York each year. House prices even in small towns, like Arcadia north of Los Angeles, went up 40% for no reason whatsoever, other than the absentee investors parking their money in large empty homes. Imagine that the same Chinese double their spending this year, and then again next year. We will run out of real estate to sell to them.
The rich Chinese are escaping the other blessings of a runaway economic growth in China: pollution everywhere, no clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, cancer, very expensive housing, and lots of cash focused in the hands of several thousands of business people. These business people smuggled out $1 trillion from China in the last decade to buy a cleaner environment in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and so on.
It makes sense. We spend trillions of dollars asking China to produce the junk we buy, China destroys its life-preserving environmental services, and the business owners recycle our dollars back to us buying whatever is beautiful and clean in our country. We all envy China for their high economic growth rate. But should we?
Still Ms. Lagarde was the bright spot in what I saw from Davos, despite her inability to answer simple questions starting from the pesky "Why?". After her there was a prancer, who said nothing, but tried to be funny. Then the African woman tentatively said something about lack of job creation, but no one paid attention, she was quickly interrupted and silenced, and the microphone went to a silver fox. He did some homework and from his notes rattled out that in 1928, the global poverty rate was 84 or so percent, while in 2011 it went down to 14 percent. Everyone sighed with relief and I switched back to al Jazeera.
So let's think for a second about the statistics the silver fox read from his notes. I bet this guy never talks to drivers of the limousines his staff hires to take him to his Leer jet. But suppose that he took a cab from Manhattan to JFK. Chances are high that his cab driver would be from Ghana, or Ethiopia, or Eritrea. If he decided to talk to, say, a driver from Ghana in his late 30s or 40s, this is what he might learn:
As a child, the driver lived in a small village surrounded by banana and other fruit tree groves. Twenty years ago, the villagers would have plots with vegetables and grain crops, and barter products at a local farmer's market. Today, when this driver goes home, there is nothing left of the trees and crops. Instead, there is a store that sells expensive Coca Cola and junk food.
Most people in Ghana are now completely dependent on a large-scale distribution system to buy expensive, often foreign food. In one generation, the driver's village went from a healthy barter economy and good food (i.e., poverty) to buying unhealthy food from unknown sources with cash (i.e., not poverty).
Mr. Progress has knocked on the driver village's door and stimulated the global economy. The driver had to emigrate to America to earn money so that his family could buy American food in Ghana. There you have it.
In 1928, the global population was 2 billion people and in 2011, it was roughly 7 billion people. In 1928, most of the global population lived by barter outside of cash economy, and would be considered poor today. In 2011, more people lived in the big city slums around the world than the entire global population in 1928. These people may not be considered poor by the learned economists, but just look around, especially when you travel outside of Davos or watch al Jazeera, or go to almost any place in Africa, or in South or Central America, or to Haiti. What water do these people drink? What food do they eat?
|These people are definitely not poor. They have shoes and buy food with cash they scrape every day. And they live happily in the global economy, whose stewards I saw prancing in Davos.


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The Spring Bluebonnet Wine and Cheese Trail is a wonderful way to enjoy the beauty of native Texas wildflowers and enjoy the blooming viticulture at some of Texas' best wineries. This is the namesake event for the Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail.
Ticket sales are limited so purchase yours today! Ticket sales will stop no later than 5:00 PM on Friday, April 6, 2018.
On March 24-25, March 31-April 1, & April 7-8, 2018, the wineries along the Bluebonnet Wine Trail will offer ticketholders a select pairing of two wines and a specially-crafted cheese dish. When you arrive at your first winery, you will receive a Bluebonnet Wine Trail glass to use and keep for all of your tastings. In addition, each ticket holder will receive a specially selected Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail commemorative gift at the sixth winery visited, while supplies last.
Your trail tickets are good on March 24-25, March 31-April 1, and April 7-8, 2018, regardless of when you purchase them. However, many of the wineries will be CLOSED on Easter Sunday, so it's advisable to call ahead on that day. Blaze your own trail and pick where you want to start and where you want to end. You have at least five days over three weekends to visit all the member wineries. Groups of 8 or more must schedule visits at each winery one hour prior to arrival to allow wineries to plan for food and staffing.
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GEF: Practical Use of Geospatial Science
Geospatial science for evaluating environmental projects
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Anupam joined the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) in 2014. He uses satellite data, GIS, machine learning, computational social science, field surveys, and other mixed methods to evaluate environmental and developmental projects. Before GEF, he was a Remote Sensing Scientist at the Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF), University of Maryland, where he worked on developing satellite-based global data products and participated in multiple NASA-funded projects, including field campaigns for NASA's future satellite missions. He has qualitative field research experience in south Asia, and has worked with indigenous communities in the Indian trans-Himalayas.
Anupam has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in GIS, spatial analysis, quantitative methods, ecological labs, GIS, statistical modeling and data visualization at the University of Maryland.


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(Ph.D. Harvard): Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor in Jewish Studies, LGBT Studies, Womens Studies, Affiliate Professor in Environmental Studies. Ethics (Kant, character, virtues & vices, evil); social & political philosophy (justice; crime & punishment); feminist philosophy; environmental philosophy; lesbian culture.
Author of
The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil
(Oxford, 2002),
The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck
(Temple 1996),
Lesbian Choices
(Columbia 1995), and more than 100 articles and reviews; editor of
Feminist Ethics
(Kansas 1991),
Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy
(Indiana 1994),
The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
(Cambridge, 2003),
On Feminist Ethics and Politics
(Kansas 1999), and a special issue of
Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Editor of book series
Feminist Ethics
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Journal of Homosexuality;
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Social Theory and Practice, Hypatia, Ethics and the Environment
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Feminist Ethics
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Essays in Philosophy
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Former chair of APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession, (1997-2001); Senior-Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (2002-2007).
Teaching: (Philosophy 241 "Introduction to Ethics"; Philosophy 341 "Contemporary Moral Issues"; Philosophy 439 "American Philosophy"; Philosophy 441 "Environmental Ethics" (cross-listed with Environmental Studies); Philosophy 442 "Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust" (cross-listed with Jewish Studies); Philosophy 543 (variable content: Kant's Ethics; Crime and Punishment; Theories of Justice; Theories of Evil); Philosophy 556 "Topics in Feminism and Philosophy"; graduate seminars in ethical theory, feminist theory, and political philosophy.
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Haha, hey guys! Sorry that it's been a while since I last made a review… Things happened, and… well, yeah.
I AM BACK and here's a Land of Stories review!! (Have I made one before? I have no recollection of it, if I have.)
Land of Stories is a series made by Chris Colfer, if you don't know yet. I've been pretty much hooked since the first book came out! I mean, having to interact with some of your favorite childhood fairytale characters is a concept that I've always imagined myself in, whenever I feel sad or lonely.
Reading about it from another person's imagination is sorta interesting, y'know? It's like, an AU of our own AU! ^v^ (I feel like I've been reading far too much fanfics right now, ugh…)
But really, I think it's cool. There's also the relationship buildings and plot twists… I nearly cried reading one of the books, at some point… Who would've thought? It's not only adventure and action and romance and comedy. It's everything and somewhere in between the mix of everything… if that makes sense… XD
An Author's Odyssey is one of the most thrilling books I've ever read, especially when I include the after-effects!… Which was me imagining myself in my own stories… which was horrifying.
Exciting, sure, but visiting a world where those with power are crazy, and the sanest ones are the weakest ones? Yeah, I'd like to stay insane, if that's so…
But that's beside the point. I like this series because it… how should I word it? It's like… exploring your own imagination through other's stories. Not that it's the first time I've experienced it, but it's the first time that I stayed with my own thoughts separated from the story's story plot, so that's an improvement, right?
Argh, I'm rambling again… Sorry for the vague review, but I think I left my brain somewhere in my bedroom.
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My wife and I had been debating whether or not we should spring for a new bed. Our full size mattress was twelve years old and the foundation was even older. A typical morning involved the two of us trying to make sense of the bedding strewn about the bed, me asking my wife how she slept with her responding, "Horribly!" and me feeling like I did not sleep more than an hour. We decided a mattress was a sound investment for our well-being and our careers.
After speaking to several friends, we decided we wanted to check out memory foam mattresses. After making that decision, I asked: Where should one begin shopping for a memory foam mattress? I typically shop online first and do my homework on the Internet. Then I move onward to shopping in stores. However, buying a mattress at a furniture store is almost like buying a car. Salesmen swarm over and start making promises they can't keep and they start diagnosing you with sleep disorders you never knew existed. This was not getting us anywhere. While out and about shopping on night we did meet a very nice district manager at Bob's Discount Furniture that was helpful and took the time to explain to us our needs based on our size and weight. He also explained the pros and cons of memory foam, latex, and innerspring mattresses. Armed with the information he provided, we decided we definitely wanted to go with a queen size memory foam mattress.
Over the next few weeks, I price hunted everywhere and nobody could beat Bob's price on the Bob-O-Pedic. If we bought from Bob's, we were going to get the Bob-O-Pedic Lite since we are not large people. We did not require the extra support from a 10 inch mattress. After considerable research, the only competition I found was the Sealy TrueForm mattress which was a few hundred dollars more. The Sealy came highly recommended from a trusted friend. I was leaning toward the Sealy 8 inch bed because it had 3 inches of memory foam versus 2 inches in the Bob-O-Pedic Lite. Then my wife happened to catch a Big Lots commercial for a Serta 10 inch Queen Memory Foam for $549 which just seemed too good to be true.
The very next day drove over to Big Lots to check out what all of the buzz was about. They had one Serta memory foam mattress left. We gave it a test drive and it was just as good as anything else we had tried. I did some research on the mattress – 3 inches of memory foam and 7 inches of base foam, which made it comparable to any other low end memory foam mattress we had considered. At that point in time, my conscience took over and made me buy the Serta at Big Lots. I ended up getting what I wanted – a name brand mattress for a great price. The mattress and foundation were $668 versus $999 for a similar Bob-O-Pedic ($599 for a Bob-O-Pedic Lite). The Sealy TrueForm was around $1200. After sleeping on this bed for the past three weeks, I have crafted my overall opinion of the mattress. I have compiled my findings below.
- Cost – the price was unbeatable for a 10 inch memory foam mattress.
- We move around much less during the night, just as the representative from Bob's told us. Our bedding does not look like it has been flogged during the overnight while we slept.
- When I toss and turn, the bed dampens my motion and it does not propagate over to my wife.
- When I wake up in the morning, the memory foam in my opinion is at its optimum comfort level since it has warmed up during the night.
- I feel rested when I wake up – I sleep through the night more frequently.
- Most importantly, when I ask my wife how she slept she says, "Great!"
- Contrary to most, I have found this bed to be cool at times. It takes an hour or so for my body to warm up the memory foam. This may change once summer arrives.
- Diving into bed can hurt a bit. Hitting the bed fast is like hitting water fast – it's surprisingly hard.
- From time to time I have back pain (not induced by this mattress). The bed has not made them go away, but I should not I did not buy the bed to fix my back. I've heard people say they bought a memory foam bed to cure back pain. The only back pain a new mattress can cure is that brought on by your old mattress!
- Big Lots does not ship. We had to rent a U-Haul which cost $40. Thankfully they were right next door.
- Big Lots did not have a cheap bed frame. I had to pick one up at Jordan's Furniture for $40.
I am 5'11" tall and 180 pounds. My wife is 5'1" tall and 120 pounds. We do not sink into the memory foam as far as many other Americans. Consider that when you are shopping for a mattress. The depth you sink into the mattress is proportional to how hot you are while sleeping on a memory foam mattress. I suspect that being encased in memory foam can make the mattress hot. Not surprisingly, "HOT" is the major complaint about this type of mattress.
Overall Rating
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give the bed an 8.5. The price of the mattress and foundation was a bargain even though I had to arrange my own transportation. I take points away since the bed is most comfortable when I wake up, not when I go to sleep. I am very pleased with the bed thus far and would highly recommend it. I will post updates down the road since I have only had the bed for a few weeks. I think it is important to know how something works a year down the road.


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Things we learned from the 86-62 Oregon Blowout:
Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike is Still Better Than You on One Ankle:
Chiney scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds (her 16th double-double of the season). She also only played 28 minutes due to hurting her ankle last Sunday and limited practice this week. Compare that with Oregon freshmen Jillian Alleyne going 13 and 13. Much was made of the match-up, as Alleyne leads the league in rebounding, the first freshmen to do so since 2002. They tied on boards, but Chiney got the points. And boy, she does work hard for the money. None of those baskets came easy. Well, maybe she had one or two easy baskets when Oregon forgot to guard her, but when she gets the ball down low, she fights. Also, kudos to Chiney for that great steal of the inbounds pass after a Stanford basket. Oregon fouled her trying to put it back up. And shame on Oregon for letting that happen.
"T" stands for Tinkle:
Or Two Technicals. Oregon Coach Paul Westhead got one for arguing the calls (Or maybe he was mad his team could not hit a three, going 5-21). Then two minutes later, Tinkle got one for…we're not sure. Pac-12, providing TV coverage, cut away after Tinkle got tangled with an Oregon player and it was called a jump ball. We think she argued with the ref after, but we don't know for sure.
Tara Van Derveer (AP Photo/Don Ryan)400 Is a Big Number:
Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer got her 400th Pac-12 win, the first coach in Pac-12 history to do so. Ever so self-effacing, she joked, "I think it means I have been here a long time."
Stanford continues their Jekyll and Hyde routine:
Going up by 19 points, than going cold and letting Oregon get within 10. Whaaaa? Although C and R did like the new and improved offense of "Passing." Tara VanDerveer shows why she has won 400 times in the Pac-12. She does her homework. She knew Oregon plays a lot of Zone, and the best way to beat the zone is pass, pass, pass. Stanford did, quickly, crisply, and when they found open spots and took their shots.
Live by the three…:
Oregon likes to run and gun, get quick lay-ups and hit quick threes. Stanford, those show-offs, likes to say, we'll duplicate your game plan and beat you over the head with it. They made 10-27 threes to only 5 for Oregon. Plus, Stanford got baskets in transition when Oregon did not get back. There's your game plan, Paul
When Others Step Up:
Chiney, Joslyn Tinkle and Sara James all scored in double digits. Guard Amber Orrrrange had 9 and Taylor Greenfield had 8. When others not-named-Ogwumike contribute, Stanford usually wins.
Watching Stanford on TV is Not the Same as Live and in Person:
That said…
And now, let's here from our Guest Blogger, TH, who was at the game live and in person:
Let's be honest, an 86-62 win over Oregon's struggling program does not take a 4th ranked team to new heights. But in the Cardinal's case, it was a good opportunity to involve the bench (check), get some non-Chiney points on the board (check), and log an impressive 400th conference win for Coach VanDerveer (check).
I attended the game with a soccer player, uninitiated to the ways of the Cardinal. Soon after tip off, she asked of Joslyn Tinkle, "Is she their top scorer?" It wasn't a silly question– in less than four minutes of play, Tinkle had a lay up, a three-pointer and a soft-touch jump shot. She would finish the game with 16 points and turned in a nice all-around performance that included a decisive stuff under Oregon's basket (one of two blocked shots overall).
Sara James is still writing her own version of a rags-to-riches story. It's great to see her earn a starting spot and continue to make it count. Ever since James started to play more minutes, it seems like the Cardinal have added a cylinder to the engine. Along with Tinkle and Chiney, James was the third Cardinal to finish the game with double-digit points, including three 3-pointers. She also facilitated a nice assist to Tinkle by pushing the pace and leading Tinkle in for a lay up on a long pass.
You never know what will jump out at you when you watch a game live, instead of on TV. Here are a few had-to-be-there highlights. First, six foot, five inch Tess Picknell was a top Cardinal recruit last year from southern Oregon. She led her high school team to a perfect season and a first-ever state championship. Now she is like the young karate kid who must dutifully wax all of the cars before she can enter the competitive arena. When she jumped off the bench in the last five minutes or so of the game (to the loud cheering of an obvious contingent of Picknells), she worked her butt off to follow the offensive plan, snag her two rebounds, and score four points, all in front of the beaming family. Let's all hope for continued progress for the kid from southern Oregon. Wouldn't it be nice for Chiney to have a big, strong and gutsy kid down low to help absorb and distract some swarming defenders?
Another had-to-be-there highlight, sadly, was Oregon coach Paul Westhead throwing gratuitous temper tantrums. Coach, if you are going to call a time-out, don't leave your players standing there, looking at your shoulder blades, while you cuss out the ref. Also, Coach Westhead, your team out-rebounded Stanford 48 to 40 on the game and your spirited point guard—all of 5'6"—scored 17 points against Stanford. This was not an occasion that warranted losing your &*^%$# on your team, in my humble opinion. Please take that frustration and channel it into a sustained effort to get recruits on your roster and fans in the seats.
Oregon sends its continued well wishes to Chiney Ogwumike who led the Cardinal with an "I got this" attitude, 22 points and 13 rebounds. Wow.
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Tina and Ethan posing next to an animatronic Apatosaurus
"Roar, Growl, Hiss, Grr, Screech and Scream!"
Welcome to the world of the fabulous dinosaurs (also known as the "terrible lizards") at Dinosaurs-Live!, a recently opened exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. Happening from now til 26 Feb 2012, the exhibition showcases almost 50 life-sized dinosaurs, reptiles and other prehistoric creatures brought realistically back to life by awesome animatronics.
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Emory Healthcare is constantly growing, and in doing so continues to welcome some of the best faculty and staff members in the industry. Here's a spotlight on two of the newest members of our cardiovascular team:
Camden Hebson, MD
Dr. Hebson was born in Gadsden, Alabama and raised in Birmingham. He attended Vanderbilt University for undergraduate training and then returned to Alabama for medical school. Dr. Hebson joined Emory Healthcare eight years ago and has since completed a pediatric residency, chief residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship, and an advanced fellowship in adult congenital cardiology.
Dr. Hebson now cares for both children and adults with congenital heart disease. He focuses on lifelong care and has particular interest in patients with single ventricle disease, aortopathies (including bicuspid aortic valves), and patients with congenital heart disease who become pregnant. He sees patients at both The Emory Clinic located on Clifton Road and Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital.
Dr. Hebson enjoys spending time with his family – wife Carolyn, son Henry, and daughter Alice. His other interests outside of cardiology include fishing, leisure reading, and being a self proclaimed "baseball junkie."
Jonathan Kim, MD
Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, and additionally holds an adjunct Assistant Professorship in the Division of Applied Physiology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Kim received his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Emory in 1998. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and studied in Melbourne, Australia before attending Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University before completing his General Cardiology fellowship at Emory in 2014. Dr. Kim was chief fellow at Emory between 2013-14. Dr. Kim joined the faculty at Emory in 2014 as part of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute.
Dr. Kim's research focuses on issues relevant to sports cardiology and exercise physiology. His interest and published work in this field began during his time in Boston, and continued as a fellow at Emory. Dr. Kim has engaged in and published work analyzing exercise-induced cardiovascular remodeling, pre-participation ECG screening of collegiate athletes, cardiac arrests in marathon and half-marathons, and hypertension in isometric sporting disciplines. Dr. Kim has a strong clinical interest in sports cardiology as well, and will be developing a dedicated sports cardiology clinic at Emory St. Joseph's Hospital.
Outside of cardiology, Dr. Kim enjoys running, golf, watching sports and spending time with his wife and two kids: son Benjamin (age 3) and daughter Isabella (age 1).
For information about cardiovascular services offered at Emory Healthcare, please visit www.emoryhealthcare.org/heart.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stocks drifted lower Wednesday, leaning back from a six-year high brought in by a five straight winning sessions. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, -0.12% shed 0.2% to 344.01, with shares of Osram Licht AG OSR, -3.28% sliding 7.6% as the lighting company issued a downbeat fiscal-year revenue forecast. Also lower, shares of GlaxoSmithKline PLC GSK, +3.11% GSK, +3.18% fell 1.7% after the drug maker said British regulators are probing its commercial practices. But Telecom Italia SPA TIT, -3.15% sat at the top of the Stoxx 600, rising 4% after Goldman Sachs put the shares on its conviction buy list. Among country-specific indexes, the U.K.'s FTSE 100 UKX, +0.32% fell 3 points to 6,842.33, the German DAX 300 de:dax shed 0.1% to 9,935.30 and France's CAC 40 PX1, -0.63% slipped 2 points to 4,527.76.
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Paul's home theater oozes with style and it's packed with gear, including Martin Logan Electrostatic speakers, a TiVo Series 3, and a seven terabyte media server. To see all the pictures of Paul's home theater, check out the full slide show.
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Qstream, makers of a mobile sales capabilities platform for igniting high-performance teams, today announced that SDL, the leader in global content management and language solutions, deployed Qstream to prepare its global Translation Productivity sales team for the launch of a suite of translation management solutions.
Based in Maidenhead, UK, SDL achieved 98% engagement and a 26% gain in product message proficiency in just eight weeks by using Qstream's platform ahead of this important launch.
"There are many ways to go about preparing large teams to sell new products, yet there are very few that effectively deliver the combination of reinforcement, coaching and insight that Qstream does," said Massimo Ghislandi, executive vice president, Translation Productivity, SDL. "We were delighted by how the platform helped our sales team firm their understanding of key product concepts – in just minutes a day. Engagement has been extremely high, and feedback is overwhelmingly positive."
Named by Forbes as a major disruptor in its industry, SDL has operations in 38 countries with over 3,500 employees who help clients master the complexity involved in going global. Using Qstream, SDL Translation Productivity sales reps responded to brief challenge scenarios pushed to their mobile devices, employing a clinically proven approach to improving sales performance. Qstream's analytics engine synthesised response data to provide sales management with sales fluency indicators, highlighting engagement and proficiency gains prior to launch, as well as targeted coaching opportunities.
"Too often, enterprises set ambitious product launch goals but fail to assess whether sales teams are truly ready to achieve them – or even monitor team proficiency levels over time," said Duncan Lennox, CEO and co-founder, Qstream. "We're delighted that Qstream's platform provides SDL with a more efficient and effective way to address the 'human side' of sales acceleration."
Combining mobile, science and data analytics in a powerfully simple enterprise solution, Qstream helps top brands measure and manage sales rep performance at scale. Delivered from the cloud to any mobile device, Qstream is easy to use and deploy. With all the security and reliability that IT requires, the platform integrates seamlessly with CRM and other third-party systems to correlate data for a richer, more predictive picture of sales enablement to revenue.


text: Hi, For reasons too long to go into I had empty iTunes and create a new library. The sidebar now says FILMS and TV PROGRAMMES instead of MOVIES and TV SHOWS. I prefer MOVIES/TV SHOWS. Any body know why this might have happened and how I can change it back? Cheers PS could this have happened because I changed the MAC's language to BRITISH ENGLISH in System Preferences?


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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state's "Pure Michigan" tourism campaign has launched its winter advertising effort.
Travel Michigan, which is part of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., says that TV and radio ads began this week in key markets in the Midwest and parts of Canada. The ads will run through the end of January.
The campaign involves partners including some cities, attractions and industry groups. The campaign has a total budget of about $1.5 million, including roughly $250,000 from those partners.
Travel Michigan says the 2014 Pure Michigan Winter Travel Guide also is available, offering ideas for seasonal activities.
The state says it uses the "Pure Michigan" brand for "business, talent and tourism initiatives."
Pure Michigan: http://www.michigan.org


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I got interested in this event because I've lost someone very important to me because of diabetes and almost lost another cuz of heart disease. And as it is, kidney failure is a very bad complication of diabetes.
However, instead of thinking the negative, I chose to think the positive and this is one way how I can help people be aware of the health problems associated with it.
What you can do to make a difference!
- Get tested: If you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or a family history of these conditions or kidney disease, you are at risk. See your doctor and get screened. The National Kidney Foundation offers frequent free kidney health screenings across the country.
- If you are in the US:
- Volunteer: The Foundation welcomes volunteers of all ages and interests. Contact your local NKF office to sign up.
- Join NKF: Thousands of health care professionals, patients, donors, recipients and their families benefit from the educational information, guidance, support and advocacy opportunities provided by the membership in the National Kidney Foundation and participation in the NKF "People Like Us" Take Action Network.
- Support NKF: You can help make a direct or memorial gift, participate in a Kidney Walk or NKF Golf Classic Tournament in your community, donating a vehicle to Kidney Cars, attending a fundraising event, or making the NKF a beneficiary of a planned gift.
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With German technopop music blaring from the sound system, the Kyrgyz police officer drove his own sleek, spacious BMW sedan - just a few months away from a showroom floor - through the rutted, rock-strewn roads of the Tien Shan Mountains of Central Asia.
His salary, he acknowledged, is about $25 a month. How could he buy such a car? "I had help from friends," he said.
Of course, there was more to it than that. In Russia, 40 percent of all foreign-made cars on the streets were stolen in Europe, fitted with new documents in a third country, and either legally imported or smuggled into Russia. According to the Russian bureau of Interpol, the international police agency, the percentage of stolen cars may be as high as 60 percent among expensive luxury cars like the policeman's BMW.
The policeman had traveled across the steppes of Kazakstan, spanned European Russia and Belarus, purchased his German car in Poland, and driven it home. How the car got to Poland, he did not know. But it is very likely that his car has the same history as tens of thousands of similar BMWs and Mercedes Benzes that find their way into the former Soviet Union and other regions of the world.
Here is a typical history of a car, as told by law enforcement officials in Moscow:
A network of thieves finds a German having trouble keeping up with his payments for an expensive new car. They buy the car cheap and take it to Poland with its original keys and registration, which they use to legally re-register the car. The next day they return the keys and old documents to the German owner, who reports the car stolen to collect the insurance.
Then a Russian, Ukrainian, or Kyrgyz buys the car and takes it home. Most such buyers actually buy the cars legally and are innocent owners, says Dmitri Chuchuyev, director of the stolen cars department of the State Automobile Inspectorate in Moscow.
Back in Germany, Mr. Chuchuyev says, "nobody is interested." The carmakers sell more cars, the owners are paid by their insurance company, and the insurance companies raise the premiums on their obligatory policies to cover the costs.
In Russia itself, the explosion of car theft that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union is subsiding year by year, and the number of stolen cars that are recovered is climbing. The main tool used by Russian law enforcement is a web of documentation linking every car to its driver and both visible and invisible markings on each car. In Moscow alone, police flag down and check 8,000 to 10,000 cars every day. Car thefts in Russia this year are half what they were in 1992.


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The Sun Newspaper
Labels: Britney Spears, the sun
So, I am still awake, it is nearly 1am in France. I am launching the new site fuelmyblog.com (more later) and I thought I'd read the Sun for the first time in weeks, online.
Now is it me but...They are a bite behind aren't they? http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007000558,00.html I mentioned this Britney Spears thing on the 22nd December. Come on the Sun. You must surely have more to mention than that???
Attn. The Sun Newspapers.
Why not employ me to work for you? I three weeks ahead of the stories you publish!!
No seriously, I miss the old currant bun. A little bit of sport and celeb bullshit never hurt anyone. .did it?


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though it has been said that this phone has 8 mega pixel rear camera but its not true. the picture quality of the rear camera is too bad. the front camera is even worser than the rear camera. i regretRead More
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The Chicago-based leader in sales intelligence software sales-i, today announced the appointment of Bruce Kopkin as the new General Manager for its U.S. operations.
Kopkin brings extensive leadership and management expertise to his new role. During his 30-year career to date, he has held a number of executive sales and marketing positions in the technology, manufacturing and distribution industries, including tenures at IBM, GT Software, IRIS, JDA Software, Lorentzen & Wettre, Indus International and Honeywell.
Speaking of his move, Kopkin says: "I'm excited to be joining a company with such a great track record of bringing true value to its customers. I look forward to helping sales-i continue to drive customer-focused innovations."
Founded in the UK in 2008 and launched in the U.S. two years later, sales-i empowers sales teams by turning customer data into critical selling opportunities and insights. Hundreds of product-focused organisations across a range of sectors now use the software to boost their profits and margins, from industrial packaging and automotive parts manufacturers to food and drink and office product suppliers.
Kevin McGirl, President of sales-i, comments: "Bruce's extensive experience in boosting customer engagement, leading sales and marketing efforts, and driving key business results makes him the ideal person to further sales-i's leadership in the sales intelligence market."
"We're looking to our General Manager to take sales-i to the next level. For this, Bruce is the perfect choice," he adds.


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The telencephalon is the embryonic structure that in mammals gives rise to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia. Despite the manifest differences in size, structure and function of telencephalic derivatives in different vertebrate species, the underlying patterning of the embryonic telencephalon is highly conserved. Very little is known about the development of the zebrafish telencephalon beyond the earliest embryonic stages of neural induction and patterning. One major outstanding question is the mechanism underlying telencephalic eversion, a process that is peculiar to ray-finned fish and that results in the dorsal telencephalon folding out laterally rather than evaginating as it does in most other vertebrate species. I used a range of techniques to monitor proliferation, neurogenesis, and axon extension over the entire period of embryogenesis. This led me to propose a mechanism for an observed rearrangement within the telencephalon between 2 and 3 days post fertilisation (dpf) that may also underlie the eversion process. To characterise the neuronal populations of the dorsal telencephalon I made a careful expression analysis of three LIM-homeobox (Lhx) genes, genes that are involved in neuronal subtype specification in a variety of systems. The Lhx genes lhx1a, lhx1b and lhx5 are expressed in spatially co-ordinated overlapping domains in the dorsal telencephalon and some of these genes are later expressed in the telencephalon-derived olfactory bulb. This suggested a dorsal origin of some olfactory bulb neurons. To further probe the morphogenetic movements and cell migrations that shape the zebrafish telencephalon I performed a fate map of the 1dpf telencephalon. I developed a cell labelling technique that uses the Kaede protein, a green fluorescent protein that is converted to a red fluorescent form on irradiation with UV light. By labelling small groups of cells in the 1dpf telencephalon and following them to their positions at 5dpf I established that the most posterior regions of the dorsal telencephalon contribute to the OB at 5dpf. In addition I identified two populations of migratory cells in the ventral telencephalon, contributing cells to the OB and the dorsal telencephalon respectively. These populations may reveal a previously unknown conservation between fish and tetrapods.
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Weapons-Grade Plutonium Possibly Found at Iraqi Nuke Complex
BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. Marines may have found weapons-grade plutonium in a massive underground facility discovered beneath Iraq's Al Tuwaitha nuclear complex, Fox News confirmed Friday.
Coalition forces are investigating a stash of radioactive material found at the site south of Baghdad, an embedded reporter, Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, first told Fox News on Thursday.
U.S. defense officials on Friday confirmed that preliminary field tests did in fact indicate the material could be plutonium.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that any potential weapons of mass destruction retrieved during Operation Iraqi Freedom will be analyzed by not only U.S. scientists, but weapons experts around the world, to be sure of the results.
Meanwhile, the Army Times reported that troops with the 101st Airborne Division this week unearthed 11 shipping containers full of lab equipment at a chemical plant in Karbala.
The material was discovered at the complex, which is operated by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission and is located south of Baghdad's suburbs.
While officials aren't prepared to call the discovery a "smoking gun," two preliminary tests conducted on the material have indicated that it may be weapons-grade plutonium.
The discovery of the underground labyrinth of labs and warehouses was unexpected, Fox News has confirmed, and forces in the area are testing a variety of things to best determine the significance of the find.
So far, Marine nuclear and intelligence experts have found 14 buildings that have high levels of radiation, Prine reported Thursday.
His report noted that some of the tests have found nuclear residue too deadly for human contact.
The Marine radiation detectors go "off the charts" a few hundred meters outside the nuclear compound, where locals say "missile water" is stored in enormous caverns, reported Prine, who is embedded with the U.S. 1st Marine Division.
"It's amazing," Chief Warrant Officer Darrin Flick, the battalion's nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist told the newspaper. "I went to the off-site storage buildings, and the rad detector went off the charts. Then I opened the steel door, and there were all these drums, many, many drums, of highly radioactive material."
Former Iraqi scientist Gazi George told Fox News Friday that the material "definitely" could have been planned for use in nuclear weapons or dirty bombs.
"The high levels of radiation suggest it's a high-level nuclear waste that was stored underground, trying to hide it for the process of repurposing it for the future … or just to make dirty bombs out of the material that's down there," George said.
"If the material has not been disclosed by Iraqis to the United Nations …[then] definitely this material was hidden there to use it as a source for extracting plutonium chemically and using it in dirty bombs.
"Saddam always tried to hide ... uranium or other nuclear fuels so we could use them in the future for weapons of mass destruction."
George said it's important the coalition find Iraqi scientists who know about these weapons so they can hunt down the harmful material and destroy it.
"I think this demonstrates the failure of the U.N. weapons inspections and demonstrates that our guys are going to find the weapons of mass destruction."
This underground discovery could still test to be perfectly legitimate and offer no proof of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The CIA encouraged international inspectors in the fall of 2002 to probe Al Tuwaitha for weapons of mass destruction, and the inspectors came away empty-handed.
"They went through that site multiple times, but did they go underground? I never heard anything about that," physicist David Albright, a former IAEA Action Team inspector in Iraq from 1992 to 1997, told the Tribune-Review.
"The Marines should be particularly careful because of those high readings," he told the paper. "Three hours at levels like that and people begin to vomit. That leads me to wonder, if the readings are accurate, whether radioactive material was deliberately left there to expose people to dangerous levels.
"You couldn't do scientific work in levels like that. You would die."
Capt. John Seegar, a combat engineer commander from Houston, is currently running the operation in Al Tuwaitha. "I've never seen anything like it, ever," he told the Tribune-Review. "How did the world miss all of this? Why couldn't they see what was happening here?"
The Army Times reported that troops from the 326th Engineer Battalion and chemical specialists on Wednesday found steel containers full of $1 million of sophisticated lab equipment near the Karbala Chemical Company.
The equipment included a machine used to analyze chemical compounds and a 750-pound centrifugal pump that was made in Finland, shipped to a Jordan company and ended up in Iraq. One bin was filled with documents on Baath Party letterhead.
Chemical protective mask filters were on the ground and hand grenades and loose ammunition were also in the facility.
The Mobile Exploitation Team -- made up of civilians and military chemical experts -- went to the scene Thursday and closed off the area.
"This is significant," Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Richard Gonzales, head of the team, told the Army Times. "We would not be here if it was inconsequential."
U.N. weapons inspectors spent five hours at an adjacent munitions factory on Feb. 23.
The Karbala Chemical Plant supposedly was bombed during the first Gulf War, but there are signs that an active lab there was recently used.
Fox News' Carl Cameron and Major Garrett contributed to this report.


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Vikings Wolves of Midgard – PS4 Free Torrent
What can't be ignored is Vikings' depth of combat. Using a standard one-handed sword I quickly learned that spamming an attack just won't do. Over the course of a 20-minute stage, it leveled up from simple slashing to more complex skills like a projectile shot, an area-of-effect stun, and devastating dash attack. It was all quite necessary given the many hostile creatures ruling over the icy tundra; be it ravenous wolves, pesky bats, demon warriors, and mammoth ice giants. I found myself constantly keeping an eye on each power's cooldown and the layout of enemies on screen, prioritizing stronger attacks for tougher opponents. It all lead to a showdown with the icy ruler of this dominion who rained down torrents of ice and summoned wolves as I unloaded attacks on its throne and eventually felled the giant beast (I assure you it happened just after we finished recording the 19-minute hands-on gameplay shown above). Those adversaries weren't the only hardships my shieldmaiden faced, as the world's plummeting temperatures require constantly finding firepits to prevent death by exposure. On one hand, it was kind of annoying having to worry about depleting health outside of combat, but it kept me proactive in battle as I had to think quickly about how to dispose of a group of enemies and find respite.


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Archives are moving!
July 25th, 2017 – Archives update
In June, the Conference Archives announced that we will be moving to 312 Main Street in Vancouver. We continue to look forward to it with great anticipation!
The 312 Main project team has recently notified us of a delay in the building renovations. This means that our move has been postponed by at least a couple of months.
Therefore, the Archives will remain open to the public until further notice. Full story of the move below.
On June 7, 2017, BC Conference entered an agreement with the City of Vancouver to lease office space for the Conference Archives at a location known as "312 Main". This is the former site of the Vancouver Police headquarters, at the corner of Cordova and Main. The facility is currently under renovation, and will offer 1800 square feet of office and storage space for the Archives. The space will include full environmental controls, and security and reception services will be shared with other tenants. We will be able to house our entire holdings onsite once again, with some room to grow.
Assuming plans proceed on schedule, the Archives will move to the new location in early September. The Archives will be closed between July 17th and late September/early October to accomplish the move.
The 312 Main project team describes its vision for the new facility on its website:
We are building a Global Center for Economic and Social Innovation, rooted in Vancouver's inner city. 312 Main will be home to a dynamic community of entrepreneurs, artists and organizations committed to economic and social democracy, empowering one another – and the neighbourhood they are part of – to thrive. Collectively, we will break down barriers.
Part of this vision is to "set the table" for a rich mix of members who value reconciliation, collaboration, and sharing under one big tent. The Conference is delighted to be part of this vision, especially in light of the Archives' continuing role in the work of truth and reconciliation.
For more information on 312 Main, visit: 312main.ca


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Today we're travelling across the country to Kelowna, British Columbia. Having just wrapped up a big project at work this week, it's the perfect time for a much needed vacation.
But I still have more Canada Day recipes for you! I've already shared my Canada Day Pancakes and Canada Day Donuts and I've lined up some more Canada Day-themed recipes leading up to July 1st, so definitely check back. Some are vegan, some are gluten-free, all are easy and delicious. Bonus, they can all be easily adapted for Independence Day! I hope you enjoy and have a great weekend and holiday next week!
Overnight oats and chia pudding combine in this beautiful, indulgent parfait that you can enjoy for breakfast or dessert, or both!
If you're going to be celebrating the Fourth of July, then just add blueberries and you have a festive and healthy treat.
Canada Day Chia Seed Parfait
(Yield: 4 servings)
- 1/3 cup chia seeds
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp maple syrup
Serve with:
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
- coconut whipped cream
Directions: Add all ingredients to a bowl or jar. Stir well and cover. Refrigerate overnight, or for at least 1 hour. Layer with fresh raspberries and whipped cream. Enjoy!
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Wim van Binsbergen
|paper presented at the session Het discours van de expert, orale traditie tussen formule en uitvoeringtradition between formula and (the experts discourse: oral performanceAssociation of African Studies, 2003 ), Convenor: Jan Jansen, Netherlands Conferentie perspectives in Africa studies, 26 Power, Politics and Poetry: Dutch september, Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Pieter de la Courtgebouw, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden
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Wim van Binsbergen, Improvising away from fixed verbal formulae in the four-tablet oracle of sangomas in contemporary Botswana
The rich literature available (cf. van Binsbergen, in press, and references cited there) offers ample evidence for the essential formal and generic unity of such major African divination systems as Ifa, Sixteen Cowries (Nigeria, Benin), Sikidy (Madagascar), and Hakata (Southern Africa), all of which can be regarded as transformations of the system of Sand Science (ilm al-raml) or Sand Calligraphy (khatt al-raml) which spread from Abbasid Iraq all over the Islamic world, the Indian Ocean region, and Africa from the late first millennia CE onwards. However, between these various regions, which are up to a few thousand kilometres apart, considerable variation has developed in the physical details of the divination apparatus, in the accompanying interpretative catalogues by reference to which the diviner interprets the formal patterns produced by the apparatus, and in the discursive style through which diviners structure the sessions with their local clients.
Current research on Ifa, especially such research as is conducted by African academic philosophers (e.g. Abimbola 1976, 1983, 1991; Bewaji 1992, 1994; Eze 1993; Uyanne 1994), tends to attribute to the Ifa interpretative catalogues the following characteristics, among others: the text is orally transmitted, it is yet considered to be fairly immutable, and it is seen as a timeless and constant repository of wisdom as a philosophical corpus whose use for divination is almost secondary and an adulteration. The corpus is extremely systematic and elaborate, and whenever it happens to be codified (by practicing diviners in West Africa, Cuba or the South-eastern USA, or by ethnographers such as Bascom) books of hundreds of pages emerge, with a neat internal structure that follows the productive mathematics of the systems 2n-based formalism. This suggests a rather one-way structure for the divinatory session as a therapeutic ritual: the eternal wisdom of the corpus is supposed to speak, through the apparatus and through the diviners mouth, with a timeless authority in the light of which the clients personal, topic concerns can only humbly submit, so as to be radically transformed so as to conform to the available, time-honoured and formalised wisdom texts.
The older literature from Southern Africa (Bartels 1903; Coertz 1931; de Jager & Seboni 1964; Eiselen 1932; Garbutt 1909; Hunt 1950; Hunt 1954; Hunt 1962; Laydevant 1933; Seboni 1949; Seboni 1949) suggests a situation very similar to this West African model: the Southern African diviner is supposed to learn, for every formal combination the divinatory apparatus yields, a specific praise formulae, so the sum of his knowledge would also be 2n such formulae (here, usually n= 6, so 64). Typically, this older literature was based on decontextualised, in vitro, ethnographic practices (seeking to tap the experts knowledge through formal question-and-answer interviews in a setting chosen and determined by the ethnographer), which did not convey the praxeological dynamics of real sessions. Against this background it is surprising to find, in the divinatory practices of sangomas in Botswana today, a great disregard for the conventionalised praises with fixed textual contents. Instead, each of the 16 combination which the oracle can produce, are interpreted by a highly improvising, creative and intuitive practice, in which the conventionalised associations of each combination along a number of divergent dimensions (ancestors, witchcraft, the body, social interaction, death, animals and totems, etc.) are mobilised in a kaleidoscopic fashion, guided more by the emerging conversation between diviner and client hic et nunc and somewhat on equal terms , than by the timeless and immutable wisdom attributed to a verbal corpus.
Historical and sociological reasons will be advanced to interpret the amazing ethnographic contrasts between Botswana today, on the one hand, and, on the other, Southern Africa in the early twentieth century, as well as West Africa.
At the request from the chair, in the oral presentation during the panel, discussion of the above themes was combined with a more general theoretical and methodological remarks on North Atlantic researchers study of oral tradition and performance in contemporary Africa. Here the emphasis was on participatory fieldwork, not so much as a means of collecting cognitive information, but as an intersubjective testing ground where the researcher constantly subjects herself to the scrutiny of the host community in order to allow the latter to assess any progress the researcher in making in conceptual, linguistic, and performative cultural learning. Therefore the fact that all papers in this panel deal with a researchers apprenticeship towards a local African domain of expert symbolic production, is highly significant and should not be allowed to be obscured under layers of imposed, etic, objectifying scientific rationality. In the apprentice process the many aspects of culture become accessible which are not primarily expressed in words not so much because the belong to a domain constructed as secret, but because they belong to a domain (comparable to intimacy, corporeality, sexuality) that is too central to experience and too intersubjective than that explicit verbalisation could enhance, rather than diminish, its value. These are themes elaborated in van Binsbergen (2003).
These remarks are not intended to be dismissive of the etic approaches that dominated at least two of the other papers in the panel; instead, the message is to try and find a balance between such analytic rationality, and a celebration of the emic intersubjectivity around which the original apprenticeship revolves. To underline the importance also of an etic approach, finally an extemporised attempt is made to link what appears to be recurrent themes throughout the panels papers: the interplay between the creation of value, the verbal expression, and the financial reward. The female bard, the expert jembe drummer, the Malian sand diviner and the Southern African sangoma diviner all perform and represent a voice from outside the vicissitudes of the ongoing social process between humans. Those themselves involved in this ongoing social process take this outside voice to be eminently valid and inescapable hence constructions of its legitimation in supernatural terms (the experts powers are attributed to ancestors or the high god, the sangomas are even incarnations of ancestors). One almost gets the impression as if the construction, through the experts performance, of such an outside focus of comment, exhortation and criticism, and the verbal and financial exchanges that link this focus (and the experts work) to the ongoing social process, is in itself much more than a comment yea, constitutes a very major factor in the social order. Perhaps it is no accident that, of all available social roles, the local format of the apprenticeship towards the local status of expert is extended to the North Atlantic researcher, the outsider who seeks to be an insider and who by her distancing commentary in the form of ethnography also brings out essential aspects of the local social order.
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van Binsbergen, W.M.J., in press, Islam as a constitutive factor in African traditional religion, in: Breedveld, A., van Santen, J., & van Binsbergen, W.M.J., eds., Islam and transformations in Africa, Leiden: Brill
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China is to the world as Germany is to Europe.
Industries in both countries are much better equipped to compete in export markets than are most of their rivals. That is due in part to fixed exchange rates that they zealously protect.
Both countries tend to see their advantage as the result of their own moral superiority: They save; others spend too much.
Germany's fixed exchange rate is the euro zone, which legally includes 16 countries but in practice includes a number of others that seek to tie their currencies to the euro. It is enshrined in treaties and laws that assume that no country that adopts the euro can ever change its mind.
Now the world is riveted on the spectacle of Greece being forced to choose between default and seemingly permanent austerity. Other European countries, most particularly Germany, want to see many Greeks take pay cuts. If, that is, they hang onto their jobs. They also think unemployment should rise, and that many Greeks should consider moving to more economically attractive countries.


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Snapped these pics while I blocked the Ishbel scarf, finally. It's beautiful. It's a gift for my friend, but I'm 97% sure she's never seen this blog, so I feel safe posting these pics.
Here's a little washcloth made using short rows. I used Christmas yarn, and every time I spy it in my kitchen now I think it looks like a giant Christmas mint. Yum.


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The Dig On Supporting Beady Eye On US Tour
With only days to go until the start of Beady Eye's US debut US Tour, David Baldwin from support band The Dig talks to us about opening up at sold out shows in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia on their debut US tour
The Dig are made up of David Baldwin, Emile Mosseri, Erick Eiser and Jamie Alegre. Emile and David grew up together an hour north of New York City and have been playing in bands since they were 11 years old. Erick is from Southern California and Jamie from Cambridge, Ontario. They formed the band in New York a few years ago.
How did the Beady Eye gigs come about? What should fans expect?
Our management got us three gigs supporting them in the US. We're really excited to play with them. Fans can expect an energetic performance. We just hope to pick up some new fans and to have fun.
Have you heard Different Gear, Still Speeding? If so, what are your thoughts?
We really like the new album a lot, and we're psyched to hear the songs live.
Were you fans of Oasis? If so, when did you first hear them? What are your favourite tracks?
We're all big fans of Oasis. Emile's first concert was Oasis at Jones Beach in 1996 when he was 11 years old. 'Don't Look Back in Anger' and 'Live Forever' are a few band favourites.
What are your plans for the rest of the year? Will you be playing dates anywhere outside the US?
We don't have any dates outside the US at the moment but we hope to make it over to the UK sometime this year or early in the new year. We plan to finish our new record and continue touring and writing tunes.
Upcoming shows:
June 17th - Chicago - Schubas
June 24th - New York City - The Studio at Webster Hall
July 7th - Boston - TT The Bears
For more details on the band visit www.thedigmusic.com www.facebook.com/thedig and on Twitter.
Thanks to David for taking the time to do this.