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It's fair to say that Tesco chairman John Allan surprised and angered a few people over his recent comments about diversity in the boardroom. Speaking at a Retail Week Live conference (the day after International Women's Day, not the best timing) last week, Allan said:
"If you are female and from an ethnic background, and preferably both, then you are in an extremely propitious period…If you are a white male, tough. You are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard."
Allan's remarks sparked a wave of criticism, not least from Women's Equality Party leader, Sophie Walker who told the Retail Gazette that she would no longer shop at Tesco in protest.
In light of recent statistics, Allan's comments are, at the very least, a little surprising. According to not-for-profit women's community Women in retail, last year 60% of retail industry employees were women and yet 20% of executive teams and 10% of executive board members were women. This, despite the fact that 85% of all retail purchases were made by women. Looks like that seesaw is just a little unbalanced, doesn't it?
According to the latest Female FTSE Board Report, less than a quarter of FTSE 100 boardroom appointments in the six months to March in 2016 were women. Which got us thinking about the UK's top supermarkets: which ones are really the most pro-woman?
Thanks to the FTSE Female Index published in 2016 we're able to answer this question, and – sorry, Tesco – but it isn't you…
In first place it's…Marks & Sparks with the percentage of women on the board at 36.4% (that's four women out of eleven men).
In second place it's…John Lewis Partnership with the percentage of women on the board at 33%.
In third place it's…Sainsburys with the percentage of women on the board at 30% (that's three women out of 10 men).
In fourth place it's…Tesco with the percentage of women on the board at 27.3% (that's three women out of 11 men).
In fifth place it's…Morrison with the percentage of women on the board at 25% (that's two women out of eight men).
What do all of these statistics prove? Well, perhaps it illustrates why no supermarket has been given a gold gender diversity medal yet. As these very recent percentages show, UK supermarket boardrooms are still nowhere near equal, even when you look at a company like Marks & Sparks that is working hard to bridge the gap.
According to Women in Retail there are three ways that retail can work towards much-needed inclusivity in the boardroom:
'Step 1: Set gender balance targets, and continue to
measure and report on them.
Step 2.
Make a deliberate decision to always consider
female candidates for recruitment and promotion
into key executive positions.
Step 3.
Appoint an Executive owner who is accountable
for driving the gender diversity agenda at all
levels, with a particular focus on the pipeline of
emerging leaders.'
It's 2017, afterall. Surely it's time to get those percentages up to where they should be: 50%.


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The wood stove, back up propane heater, and oven are in!!!!
The break in fire.
The supports for the stove pipe still need to be put up.
We also built our front door and hung it. The hardware is still a work in progress, do to the extra thickness of the door.
Also the trench was dug for the power line to the house.
The countdown begins to move-in day!!! Only a few more days.

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In a previous post, I shared with you the languages important to the industry of fashion. Look, I know you may not have the time to sit in a class or the funds to pay for a private tutor. Nonetheless, learning another language makes you more valuable, period! It has been proven that fashion professionals who know another language are in a better position to succeed professionally.
So, without further adieu, I will share 5 free or relatively inexpensive options to learn a foreign language.Read More


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Last night I got to pick up my new orthotics! It may seem like a strange thing to be excited about, but I have been chomping at the bit to go running again, since my stress fracture… and was advised to hold off until I could run in my orthotics. So this is like a little extra bonus (albeit belated) Christmas present!
Let's see… here are some more lovely photos of my new saviors…
What can I say about them? Well, they are really comfortable so far! They have extra padding built into the heel, to help me with my hard landings. The "almond" colored section near the ball of my foot is designed to provide "extra bounce/leverage" to help my under-supported arch with its "toe-ing off".
Anyway, I am not supposed to run in these for another couple days… So today I swam and did a short strength training session. Tomorrow I'll swim and cycle. Monday probably swim and cycle again. I'm supposed to "ease into these". But since I've been wearing SuperFeet in all my shoes for the last 6 months, my PT said I could wear them 2 hours yesterday, 4 hours today, 6 tomorrow, and 8 on Monday… but Tuesday I am allowed to run in them.
Yee-haw! Open road here I come!


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Earlier in the week there was a flap in the news media over a protest at Valdosta State where several unidentified individuals had placed a flag on the ground and were walking on it. Michelle Manhart, an Air Force vet who witnessed the protest, went up to the protestors and took their flag from them. This resulted in her detainment by VSU police and her resisting arrest.
After VSU police returned the property to them that Manhunt had taken, the protestors declined to press charges. After releasing Manhart without charges but with a criminal trespass warning the officers requested student identifications from the protestors. After refusing to show them any school IDs, the VSU police broke up the protest and sent them on their way.
The response from the conservative media and from various voices on social media has been predictable and, frankly, the same old song whenever they have the chance to wave a flag and talk about the "sanctity" of the flag. There has been a lot of talk about "freedom" while demanding punishment for those who "desecrated the sanctity" of the flag. In other words, praising freedom while demanding that it be taken away from us. First things first, the flag is neither sacred nor holy. It's also interesting, if not also a little hilarious, to see many who loudly proclaim "Christian Values!" as their way of life essentially declare that we as citizens of the United States must worship a false idol.
A flag is nothing more than cloth with dye on it. It's a material object stitched together, often not even here in this country anymore, and raised up in front of a crowd. It also has no more real value than whatever the person is willing to pry open their wallet and pay for it.
The things that have value, the things that should be deemed as sacred, are the ideas that people believe that the flag represents. Those are the things that have meaning, and those are the things that should be preserved. One of those ideas, a cornerstone of the freedoms of our country, is the freedom of expression. We can speak and engage in symbolic speech that others deem as repellent or vulgar, but it is our right to so.
For the record, I think the action of walking on the flag was idiotic, just as I think burning the flag is. But the more idiotic act to take would be to proclaim that our "freedoms" mean that we must restrict our most basic freedoms to suit those with tiny minds. Tiny minds fear and attempt to suppress the things they dislike, and, at least to the best of my knowledge, America has never been about tiny minds governed by fear or stupidity.
If that's the type of country you wish to live in, if that's the "freedom" you wish to champion, there are countries out there already set up for you. They have names like China and Iran. There are others as well if you don't like the sounds of those two. There are plenty of countries where speech against the various symbols of that country is actually deemed as punishable. But America isn't one of them yet, no matter how much some of you seem to wish that it were.
The flag is not a sacred artifact and cannot be desecrated. It can be walked on, torn up, and burned by as many angry people that want to do so, and the most important part of it, the ideas that people use the image of the flag to symbolize, will never be touched, will never be harmed. What will harm these ideas is mindless "patriotism" and flag waving in the form of things like demanding punishment for those who say or do something with it that you dislike or by demanding that the flag be enshrined as sacred in the Constitution.
You either believe in the freedoms that the flag you claim to hold as "sacred" represents or you don't. But do not be as hypocritical as to declare yourself a champion of America's freedoms and to praise them even as you demand that the very things that are the ideas personified in that flag be stifled, repressed, and removed from the citizenry who live under that flag.
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
― Salman Rushdie
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Turns out that newly minted conservative hero Manhart has had two other brushes with fame/controversy. Interestingly, they both involve the things she's currently banging the drum about everywhere she's gotten interviewed.
Manhart has been big on playing up her former military status, but the reason she quit betrays her talk now of her devotion to service. She's the same Michelle Manhart who posed for playboy in 2007 in her uniform. This is a clear and known violation of the regulations she was suppose to live by. Rather than continue to serve while facing the consequences of her actions, demotion to a lower rank, she quit and tried to parley that into a job.
Oh, yeah… She's also a PETA freak. The PETA thing is of interest because of her recent comments about the U.S. Flag Code. See, according to the U.S Code when dealing with the flag, the flag may not touch the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise and the flag should never be used as apparel nor drawn up in folds. Apparently she has a selective level of outrage about violating that code. She's only upset when others are doing it and when she does profit or benefit from it as can be seen below.
Still, as far as promoting their new hero of the moment, this isn't as potentially embarrassing as Hobby Lobby Holly, adulteress who cheated on her veteran husband by having an affair with a Tea Party leader, the racist Cliven Bundy, or the band of goons who supported him, some of whom decided the revolution was coming, murdered law enforcement officials, and covered their bodies with the Tea Party's flag of choice. But, still…


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Our imperial judiciary has struck again, this time claiming that a Texas voter-ID law applying the same standard to everyone is "discriminatory" against minorities.
The opinion was handed down by Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, a Barack Obama nominee sitting on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Ramos ruled Monday that a "voter identification law the Texas Legislature passed in 2011 was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters," reports the New York Times.
How Ramos divined this "intent" — and how it has a bearing on the actual constitutionality of the law itself (people can do the right things for the wrong reasons, after all) — was not explained.
Ramos "had made a similar ruling in 2014, but after Texas appealed her decision, a federal appellate court instructed her to review the issue once more," the Times also informs. "The appeals court — the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans — found that Judge Ramos had relied too heavily on Texas' history of discriminatory voting measures and other evidence it labeled 'infirm' and asked her to reweigh the question of discriminatory intent."
"Civil-rights" groups and Obama's Department of Justice had stated in 2014 that requiring minorities to obtain acceptable ID was tantamount to a "poll tax." The Texas Tribune explained what they found so onerous: "Under the law, most citizens (some, like people with disabilities, can be exempt) must show one of a handful of types of identification before their ballots can be counted: a state driver's license or ID card, a concealed handgun license, a U.S. passport, a military ID card, or a U.S citizenship certificate with a photo."
The Obama DOJ claimed that the Texas ID law makes it harder for minorities to vote. Alright, but requiring ID for federal handouts such as food stamps, Medicaid, and Social Security makes it harder for minorities (and everyone else) to obtain them. This didn't stop Obama's feds from demanding ID — and it doesn't inspire "civil-rights groups" to file lawsuits opposing the requirement.
In reality, ID is needed to negotiate our modern world, required for things ranging from boarding aircraft to buying a gun (a prerequisite for enjoying Second Amendment rights) to opening a bank account to applying for a job to visiting the White House. Why don't leftists raise objections? Because they don't win political office by facilitating illegal bank accounts and gun purchases.
But this isn't the only example here of selective outrage and politically based judgments. Judge Ramos and her fellow travelers claim that the Texas law is unconstitutional, that it violates the 14th Amendment, despite the fact that it doesn't "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." In fact, it applies the same common-sense standard to everyone.
This could only be objectionable if — as Ramos is clearly doing — you apply "disparate-impact theory." This states that if groups cannot satisfy a given standard equally, it can be considered unjustly discriminatory by definition.
This rationale has been used to eliminate police and fire-department physical tests on which women performed worse than men; as an example, in 2014 Obama's DOJ sued the Pennsylvania State Police for treating women equally (by giving all cadets an already dumbed-down test). Of course, under this silliness, stopwatches could be deemed discriminatory because male runners register faster times than females ones.
That the latter won't happen brings us to a serious point: Having a disparate impact is in the general nature of laws, regulations, and standards. Income taxes have a disparate impact upon Hindus (the United States' highest-earning religious group), Jews, and other highly compensated groups, which must shoulder an inordinate tax burden. ObamaCare has a disparate impact on men, as they must pay the same for health coverage but don't use healthcare services as much as do women. Anti-smoking laws have a disparate impact on smokers and those in the tobacco business, and Obama's CO2-oriented regulations had a disparate impact on coal suppliers.
Thus, while Ramos and other leftists claim disparate-impact judgments are necessary to combat discrimination, they're practicing discrimination when selectively deciding what cases of disparate impact to disallow. Disparate-impact theory is a tool not of principle but convenience, rolled out when a policy conflicts with the leftist agenda.
Another such ploy, one exhibited in the opinion of Judge Ramos, is this notion that allegedly bad "intent" can somehow render a law unconstitutional. Question: If a man thwarts a mugging because he identifies with the victim's race and dislikes the robber's, did this make the act of thwarting the mugging objectively bad? Should it not have happened?
As mentioned earlier, people sometimes do the right things for the wrong reasons; a given person can also have multiple motivations, some noble, some ignoble, when performing an act.
Politics is no exception. When then-senator Lyndon Johnson proposed the Johnson Amendment in 1954 — which prohibits non-profits from endorsing or opposing political candidates — it was surely driven by the fact that he himself was faced with a wealthy opponent who aimed to use a nonprofit against him in a senatorial election.
Should a judge strike down the Johnson Amendment on an opportunistic-intent basis? The provision may be bad and even unconstitutional; if it is, however, it's because of what it dictates, not what motivated its birth.
In fact, how many laws could pass muster if impure intent could render them illegitimate? Politicians aren't exactly known for having only the noblest motives, you know. Yet as with disparate impact, the intent standard is applied only selectively — when, again, a law contradicts the leftist agenda.
This is also another step in the judicial usurpation of the executive and legislative branches' power. Consider: It's relatively easy for judges to distort the meaning of a law crafted by dead lawmakers. But live lawmakers can stand up and clarify, saying, "No, that's not what we meant!" So what's an imperious judge to do?
He makes the intent behind the law relevant and in essence says, "Well, of course you won't admit being bigoted. But I find you must have been, so the law is null and void."
As for voter-ID laws, we could point out that vote-fraud is rampant, as I've reported here, here, here, here, and here. We could cite a study indicating that three million noncitizens voted in the 2016 presidential election. But the judicial overreach will continue until we limit the judiciary's reach, by recognizing that it has no constitutional power to strike down law (as I explain here).
Until then, judicial supremacy will continue to make our Constitution, as Thomas Jefferson warned it would, a felo de se (an act of suicide) — with our law in the hands of judges whose intent is anything but pure.
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Priyanka wore a golden wrap dress with golden heels while Nick wore a navy suit. Apart from looking completing in love and sharing lovely glances at each other, few pictures of Priyanka enjoying with his extended family are also doing rounds, few at the wedding and some before it.
In two tweets that announced the end of US support for the joint G-7 statement, Trump claimed Trudeau made "false statements" during a prior news conference and went on to lambaste the Canadian leader. "I avoided so many events with them (his parents) in the past because I pretended that I was not Middle Eastern", said Stachel, whose father is of Yemeni and Israeli heritage.
She explained: "There's nothing I would do differently". He told her: "There's just been a few things and it's probably better that we're just friends". "I know what I've come in here wanting and I know it's called Love Island , so I'm going to wait until I get what I want from it, no disrespect to you".
Tomorrow night: Increasing clouds. Temps today will be well below average along the coast this afternoon with the numbers holding in the low to mid 60s. High temperatures will be in the lower 90s. Highs will be in the low 90s. Rain and storms will linger overnight but will clear up by the morning. Temperatures are going to soar back into the middle 90s by the early afternoon thanks to some sunshine and a south wind gusting to 25 miles per hour at times.
The couple have known each other since Grande hosted an episode of SNL in 2016 and according to a source who spoke to People magazine , "It's a recent engagement . "He is still broken-hearted over their split and he can't imagine how she could move on so quickly, or fall in love already". Right after the news broke, the 24-year-old singer took to Twitter to share a quote from one of her favorite Broadway musicals, Wicked .
Ubisoft is asking fans to create art, music, and radio stations for the title and the publisher is working with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord to make it happen. For more on the future of the long-awaited Beyond Good & Evil 2, be sure to follow OnlySP on Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube . Jade is featured in the game as shown in the above trailer, though her exact role in the game hasn't been revealed yet.
White Castle joined the fun, too, with its own declaration: "We are excited to announce that we will be switching our name to Pancake Castle". "B-hold!", read the tweet . While the reviews still appear to be mixed, IHOP's marketing team definitely did their job and got people talking about it. The good news for truly angered pancake connoisseurs is that all the burger brouhaha appears to be a marketing ploy.
Kanye appealed to host Steve Harvey: 'That's an automatic disqualification. "It's called Family Feud-not today", Khloe answered. Congrats to Kanye, Kim, and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. It hardly stopped there: On Sunday evening, ABC provided a choice bookend to his birthday weekend by airing his appearance on Family Feud . Kanye's own music played during the party (natch), where family, friends and collaborators - including Kendall Jenner , Pusha T , Kid Cudi , Teyana ...
More Grande and Davidson supporters commented on the engagement by referencing the couple's recent social media flirtation . Despite the two having only dated for a few weeks, as second source claimed they're very much in love. Pete then raved about his new love after her Vogue cover went public, confessing he felt like a competition victor, and he gushed about his girlfriend during a stand-up show in Los Angeles last week.
They shared a carriage from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade where they witnessed almost 1,500 troops perform a military display as part of the official Queen's birthday celebrations. Given how many rules and traditions the Royal Family are said to adhere to, it's little wonder Meghan still needs some guidance. See how fellow style star Amal Clooney is helping Meghan ease into life in the U.K.by watching the video below.
Mr. De Niro received a standing ovation after he walked onstage at the star-studded affair and declared, "F- Trump ". "I can't believe De Niro did that", Kushner said. "Boy, do we need that now". De Niro criticized Trump again in April during the opening night of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival calling him a liar and a "madman".
Meanwhile, fans of Love Island have been sharing memes based on Dyer's potential reaction to his daughter's exploits in the programme's idyllic villa. 'I like his personality, but with the trainers, the hair... "Realistically, if I was on the outside world and my mates went "listen Dan, he's cheated on his girlfriend" that would be an off-put for me".
According to the Associated Press , prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny said that on Friday, the famous chef, writer, and host of CNN's Parts Unknown , took the belt from his hotel bathrobe to commit suicide . "Success beyond his wildest dreams". "It is a world very, very different than my own". At the time of his death, Bourdain had been dating Argento since 2016.
This certainly will boost the morale of footballing clubs in India and hopefully, we will qualify for a World Cup soon. Check out the most valuable player on each team below, organised by their groups in the tournament. Buffon has been a prominent feature of worldwide football for the previous two decades and has been present at all of the previous nine major global tournaments.
This is the sad reality that we are living. Another Twitter user took offense to the sound effects with the festival coming less than a year after the Las Vegas shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival that left 58 dead and countless others wounded.
In the midst of this cold climate, the White Walkers soon descended upon Westoros from the north and engaged in a long war in an attempt to cover the world in an interminable winter. We know that All Men Must Die but it's clear that all the Game of Thrones shows are still living. If ordered to series, the prequel wouldn't air until at least 2020 since "Game of Thrones" ends next year .
Incidentally, Ishaqzaade , too, was loosely inspired by Romeo and Juliet and went on to become one of the biggest hits of 2012. It is a day, her late mother, Sridevi , who died due to accidental drowning in Dubai in February. It further says - "I just wanted you to know this profession is fantastic if you work hard, be honest, learn to take the accolades with the brickbats, respect opinions, yet follow ur own path & instinct".
She stood up to her monster rapist and now she has to stand up to yet another monster, suicide ". Tributes to Anthony Bourdain have been pouring in nonstop since it was announced that the beloved chef and TV host had passed away on Friday, with everyone from Toni Collette to Barack Obama expressing shock and paying their respects.
Charli XCX opened Taylor's Reputation show on Saturday night in a sheer PVC two-piece ensemble, and performed a range of her hits. "You've shown that you're never going to let anyone forget about those victims". The Grammy-winning singer's message of resilience comes a few weeks after Manchester commemorated the first anniversary of last year's bombing. The Manchester attack occurred in May 2017 during an Ariana Grande concert, which killed 22 people.
While this may appear odd to some, as the young mogul has built a brand exclusively off of her social media prowess, it's not the first time she's stepped away from the limelight of the apps. However, it seems like the social media Stormi is over ... for now. Of course, we can't say for sure why Kylie would do this, but it's not completely surprising.
The young royal was seen pretending to shoot the plastic firearm at other children and even his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge . The playful photos did spark some backlash on social media, however, as some people thought George's toy gun was an innappropriate choice.
E! News reported that Boyd had been seen by numerous doctors before he died, as he was in heart and kidney failure, and he had liver disease. He won the NBC TV show and its one million dollar prize in 2008. It's a very slow progress. Earlier this year, he revealed that he was working on a new album slated for release in 2019. "You have these 'down moments, ' whether it be health or physical, like it is now, and it just feels like something great is about to happen once I get back on my ...
Current FCC chairman Ajit Pai spearheaded the effort to return the internet to the way it was before the rules took effect, and despite the overwhelming support for keeping the rules intact, the FCC voted 3-2 to reverse course. This, according to Pai, "will allow consumers to make an informed decision about which Internet service provider is best for them". The idea was to keep the internet open and uncensored.
A video showcases burgers with names like "Big Brunch" and "Cowboy BBQ". The restaurant says they want to be known as a place to get lunch and dinner, not just breakfast, according to CNNMoney . Will the newest burger joint contender be able to carry its brand through such online ire? Now that news of IHOP's new burger menu has officially been revealed, critics on social media are officially hating it.
The event was attended by senior royals including Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. He had a hip operation in April and retired from public life past year. Despite her apparent nerves, Meghan was in high spirits when she arrived on House Guards Parade with Harry in a carriage, along with the Queen's cousin the Duke of Kent.
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur ( 2 Guns , Contraband ), the film stars Shailene Woodley ( Fault in Our Stars , Divergent films) and Sam Claflin ( Me Before You , The Hunger Games films). James Corden appears late in the film, extending the narrative as a tireless investigator, a postscript that unavoidably recalls Soderbergh's more recent heist pic, Logan Lucky .
The cause of his death is not known. "Today was greeted by the sad news of the passing of Danny Kirwan in London, England", he wrote. When the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , he was one of the eight members of the group to be cited in the ceremony, however he did not attend the event.
Bourdain is seen here in the CNN series " Parts Unknown ". "The world would not be better off without you", she said in a now-deleted video posted to social media. As previously reported by the Inquisitr , the CNN host of Parts Unknown , was found in his hotel room in France by his good friend, Eric Ripert .
In a statement, ABC apologised for stepping into "a complex political issue" and defended Ms Chopra from the attacks online, clarifying she did not write, direct or cast the show, and nor does she have any input over plots. "It was certainly not our intention to offend anyone", it continued. Produced by ABC Studios and now in its third season, " Quantico " was canceled in May.
Vaughn was issued a citation to appear in court, authorities said . Vaughn was apparently stopped at a DUI checkpoint around 1 a.m. local time, according to Sgt. While some believe that Vince Vaughn may have been targeted for his public support of President Trump, others think that he may have been given special treatment due to being a celebrity.
Authorities initially reported that their were no signs of foul play when his body was found. Our family will always carry that truth forward. "Our wish is that the rest of the world who knew and loved him does as well", the statement continues.
The first two books, which are aiming for a fall release, will be a behind-the-scenes companion book, followed by a hardcover gift book for younger readers. More books are expected to come out throughout 2019. This publishing deal will expand the Stranger Things mythos next spring with a prequel book focusing on Eleven's mother and her involvement in the dastardly MKUltra program.
Ryan Gosling and Jimmy Kimmel dress up in spacesuits for an interview in outer space, well actually a soundstage in Los Angeles, for an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday (June 8). The film will reportedly focus on Armstrong's life from 1961-1969. Armstrong steadfastly responds to questions of that nature by saying they were planning on the moon flight being successful.
He was charged Friday with attempted murder, 2 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a knife, battery and criminal threats. On the last day of the "violent crime spree", O'Neal allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven store in Venice. 'Initially, the victim thought that the suspect (O'Neal) had merely punched him in the back, ' LAPD said in a statement. Nearby surveillance video captured a man fitting O'Neal's description, who walked away from the scene shortly after the victim was found ...
If your first thought at this point is to bring up Star Wars Battlefront 2 , don't. Don't expect it to be a full on, proper announcement as he also mentioned that the studio isn't yet ready to "talk about all of the wonderful things" it has in development.


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Hollande backs call to end ban on gay blood donors
Gay men in France would no longer be automatically excluded from donating blood under proposals supported by President Hollande. A parliamentary report has advised that risky behaviour, rather than sexual orientation, should determine whether gays or bisexuals can become blood donors.
Supporters of the ban, introduced in 1984, say that men who have had sex with other men are more likely to be infected with HIV. Yesterday's report, commissioned by Jean-Marc Ayrault, the Prime Minister, argues that prohibiting gay donors is now unnecessary because all donated blood is screened for the virus.
Scrapping the ban could be controversial in France, where 4,000 people, many of whom died, were given HIV-contaminated blood in the 1980s in a scandal that rocked the Government. "Homosexuals should be able…


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With the success of Avatar and other similar projects, 3D has recently exploded back into the public consciousness and is no longer regarded only as a distant gimmick from 70s drive-ins, but as a gimmick from the theaters of today. Putting on the glasses to see the 3D version of a film at the theater is fine, but manufacturers seem to think that people will want to do the same thing at home. Ah yes, I can see it now. The whole family gathered in the living room, wearing $150 battery-powered 3D glasses, fighting for the one spot on the couch where the 3D looks best. If only someone could figure out how to get 3D to work without those ridiculous glasses.
Enter Nintendo, Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010. The Nintendo 3DS is revealed appearing much like its predecessor featuring two screens, the bottom one being a touch screen. Except the 3DS's top screen boasts stereoscopic 3D that works without glasses. Every person who tries it makes a face like this:
In addition to a 3D top screen, Nintendo threw in motion and gyro sensors and a 3D camera among other things. This lets game developers do some pretty awesome stuff like augmented-reality where game elements appear to be interacting with whatever you see through the 3D camera. Games like Face Raiders take advantage of the motion and gyro sensors so that you have to physically aim the camera around to play.
All of this really really cool tech stuff aside, the 3DS is launching with a good mix of games, all of which still pale in comparison to the glory of the 3D remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. If you don't know what that is or why it's such a big deal, just imagine the best game ever, and then make it even better. It's reason enough for me to throw hand-fulls of money at Nintendo until I have one of these things in my hands. This is the face I will make once I do:
As usual I have digressed and the topic has somehow changed to video games. Bringing all this back to 3D: If you're going to buy into the whole 3D TV in the living room thing, you should wait until someone takes what Nintendo did on a small screen and puts it in a nice 40" LED. Maybe Nintendo will make their own 3D TVs? Who Knows!? Until then:


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The warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is July (66.2°F).
The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (23°F).
The month with the highest average low temperature is July (50.3°F).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is January (8.5°F).
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is August (2.4").
The driest month (with the lowest rainfall) is April (0.2").
The month with the highest number of rainy days is August (13.1 days).
The month with the lowest number of rainy days is April (3.8 days).


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Why Delridge? Narratives of Neighborhood Fragility and Economic Liability in Seattle
This paper examines the contradictions of neighborhood level visions of development in Delridge, Seattle contradictions — how they work discursively to produce a geographic imaginary of Delridge that molds itself to the ontology and epistemology of urbanism under neoliberalism while still subject to the 'actually existing ...
Creating Systems of Care: Integrated Health Delivery Programs and the Work of PATH
In 'Creating Systems of Care', I critique vertical and horizontal health deliver systems using a framework of relational poverty knowledge and care ethics. This paper looks critically at PATH's Andhra Pradesh Immunization Initiative (APII) as an example of a successful melding of vertical and horizontal systems into an ...


text: Abstract. In this study we propose and demonstrate a data-driven approach in an information-theoretic framework to estimate precipitation quantitatively. In this context predictive relations are expressed by empirical discrete probability distributions directly derived from data instead of fitting and applying deterministic functions as it is standard operational practice. Applying a probabilistic relation has the benefit to provide joint statements about rain rate and the related estimation uncertainty. The information-theoretic framework furthermore allows integration of any kind of data considered useful and explicitly considers the uncertain nature of quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE). With this framework we investigate the information gains and losses associated with various data and practices typically applied in QPE. To this end we conduct six experiments using four years of data from six laser optical disdrometers, two micro rain radars MRR regular rain gauges, weather radar reflectivity and other operationally available meteorological data from existing stations. Each experiment addresses a typical question related to QPE: First, we measure the information about ground rainfall contained in various operationally available predictors. Here weather radar proves to be the single most important source of information, which can be further improved when distinguishing radar reflectivity – ground rainfall relationships (Z-R relations) by season and prevailing synoptic circulation pattern. Second, we investigate the effect of data sample size on QPE uncertainty using different data based predictive models. It shows that the combination of reflectivity and month of the year as a double predictor model is the best trade-off between robustness of the model and information gain. Third, we investigate the information content in spatial position by learning and applying site-specific Z-R relations. The related information gains are only moderate and especially lower than when distinguishing Z-R relations according to time of the year or synoptic circulation pattern. Fourth, we measure the information loss when fitting and using a deterministic Z-R relation, as it is standard practice in operational radar based QPE applying e.g. the standard Marshal-Palmer relation, instead of using the empirical relation derived directly from the data. It shows that while the deterministic function captures the overall shape of the empirical relation quite well, it introduces additional 60% of uncertainty when estimating rain rate. Fifth, we investigate how much information is gained along the radar observation path, starting with reflectivity measured by radar at height, continuing with the reflectivity measured by a MRR along a vertical profile in the atmosphere and ending with the reflectivity observed by a disdrometer directly at the ground. The results reveal that considerable additional information is gained by using observations from lower elevations by avoiding information losses caused by ongoing microphysical precipitation processes from cloud height to ground. This underlines both the importance of vertical corrections for accurate QPE and of the required MRR observations. In the sixth experiment we evaluate the information content of radar data only, rain gauge data only and a combination of both as a function of the distance between the target and predictor rain gauge. The results show that station-only QPE outperforms radar-only QPE up to a distance of 7 to 8 km and that radar-and-gauge QPE performs best, even compared to radar-based models applying season or circulation pattern.


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The Husband: A Christ-like Example
Paul reveals a new pattern for marriage: Christ and the Ecclesia. This new revelation greatly increases the responsibility of husbands. As believing wives are already members of the Body of Christ, their role in marriage is unchanged from their "natural" role. However, the husband has been instilled with that which can be only divinely accomplished.
Christ is the Savior, the Ecclesia the sinner. Christ is the Giver, the Ecclesia the receiver. Christ is the Sacrificer, the Ecclesia the beneficiary. Christ is the Lover, the Ecclesia the loved. Christ is the Embracer, the Ecclesia the resistant. Christ is the Steadfast, the Ecclesia the inconsistent.
Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.
(Excerpted from his upcoming book, Wife Loving)
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Save more than £430 on your holiday car hire in three simple steps
Using a comparison site to check car rental deals rather than going direct could also save you as much as £190
HIRING a car abroad can be a big holiday expense - but there are ways to cut costs and make sure the process is hassle-free.
One of these ways is by buying your car hire as an add-on while booking your flights, which can save you hundreds of pounds.
Next, you'll need to swap hiring a SatNav in favour of using your phone.
You can also save a bundle by buying your car hire excess insurance from an independent broker, rather than from your car hire firm.
Below, we explain how these tricks work and the traps you need to watch out for to make sure they work.
1. Fly-and-drive - and save more than £260
You're no doubt familiar with the page that pops up when you're about to book your flight, when the airline suggests you buy insurance, hotel or travel passes with them at an extra cost.
Most people ignore these options, but actually you could save money by purchasing car hire with your airline as an add-on.
British Airways offers huge savings when you book your flights and car hire together on its website.
For example, return flights from Manchester to Malaga with BA costs £463 for a family of four, including car hire.
If booked separately, the overall cost of flights and car hire with Avis would have come to £723 - £260.76 more.
BA lets you check the prices of flights and car hire packages from the outset, while other airlines will show the cost of car hire as an add-on once you've chosen your flights.
You can also check flight and car hire packages with travel comparison sites such as Expedia.
IF you are going to book your car hire and flight separately then make sure you use a comparison website to find the cheapest price - it could save you up to £190.
Sites such as Skyscanner search around 50 different brokers and travel agents to show you the cheapest deals.
Hertz's website, for instance, shows that car hire for a week's holiday in Paris in August will cost more than £327. The car you will get is a Fiat 500 or similar.
A quick check on Skyscanner reveals that for the same dates, location and car type, you can pay just £137 with rental firm InterRent.com. That's a saving of £190.
Both policies include theft protection, collision damage waiver and tax.
3. Use your phone instead of a SatNav - and save £50
Car hire companies can charge customers more than £50 a week to hire a SatNav, but you can use your phone instead.
From June 15 this year, Brits will pay the same price to roam abroad in the EU as they do in the UK, meaning you can use maps on your phone at the same cost as you pay here.
Some providers, such as Three Mobile, allow customers to use their data allowance while abroad in 42 countries as part of its Feel at Home deal.
If you're with a different mobile phone firm you can check with them directly to see if they offer a roaming deal.
For example, EE offers a £1 a day data roaming pass for customers travelling to Europe.
4. Buy standalone car hire excess insurance - and save £120
When you get to the rental desk, you'll usually be asked if you want to buy car hire excess insurance.
This is usually very expensive - around £20 a day or £140 a week, according to comparison site TravelSuperMarket.com.
This insurance protects you in the event that you have a car accident abroad.
But you can buy standalone cover that is significantly cheaper - from as little as £2.99 a day, or £21 for a week in a European destination such as Malaga. That's a saving of £120.
Car hire rip-offs and how to avoid them
GOING on holiday soon? Follow these tips to make sure you don't get caught by a car hire trick:
- Car hire excess insurance: Buy a standalone policy rather than one at the rental desk, and save around £15-20 a day
- To avoid any unexpected extra charges, document any scratches or dents in the vehicle with pictures and make sure the staff take a note of everything - otherwise you could face a higher-than-expected bill once you're back home
- Bring your own child car seats, or face having to pay £50 for the rental firm's ones. Some airlines, such as Monarch allow parents to bring car seats free of charge
- Keep an eye on your credit card statement to check that the firm hasn't added on any excess charges
- If you have a complaint about a car rental firm, you need to tell them directly first. If they don't address the problem within 14 days, it may be possible to use a free service provided by The European Car Conciliation Service (ECRCS) which helps resolve complaints about charges from vehicle rentals in Europe.
New research shows that as many as 28 "extras" could be slapped on customers at some stage during the car rental booking process, or at collection or drop-off. Families hiring a car abroad this Easter are being warned to watch out for hidden costs such as young driver surcharges, extra drivers, insurance and equipment and one-way fees.
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BY Hilary Alexander in Paris | 05 March 2004
The Paris prêt-à-porter season was the setting for fashion's version of The Three Faces of Eve yesterday, writes Hilary Alexander
Emanuel Ungaro provided feminine fantasy, Helmut Lang opted for the avant-garde and Michael Kors bowed out of Celine with a final show focused on jet-set chic.
Those who like an excess of frills, froth and ornamentation would have found much to applaud in the Ungaro collection. But the decorative overload was too much to swallow in one sitting.
However, some designs by the creative director, Giambattista Valli - who took over ready-to-wear from the couturier, Emanuel Ungaro, three years ago - were more restrained.
These included pretty pastels, delicate florals and flattering curvy jackets worn over slim Capri pants.
Lang's collection was a study in architectural cut and minimal decoration. Deconstructed shearling and leather jackets, with semi-detached yokes, came in bolero, cropped and knee-length versions.
The largely black and white palette was spiced with cobalt blue, burgundy and burnished copper.
The Austrian designer used horse-hair for yeti boots and as trimming on long evening gowns of hand-pleated, transparent tulle and chiffon.
At Celine, the American designer Michael Kors ended his three-year stint for the former leather-goods house with a collection that drew a standing ovation.


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Hello Table Leaders!
Welcome to the June edition of the Table Leadership Monthly newsletter. You'll remember that last month, we started this new newsletter with the effort to improve communication among leadership and make sure you are all informed about what's going on at The Table and what's to come!
Please take a few minutes to read through what's below and share any pertinent updates with your teams if it applies to them. Prize at the bottom.
Thanks to you all for the ways you serve and love our community. I'm excited for what God has in store this summer at The Table.
- Summer Community Groups launch next week (June 4-8)! As leaders, make sure that you have a group to call home but also encourage your team members to join a group for the summer. Click here.
- We're recruiting SERVE Day leaders to spearhead service projects for our community on July 14. Please consider leading a group and encourage members of your team to lead a group if they have leadership potential. More info + sign-up here.
- Schedule a team for Sunday service? Please begin using Planning Center Sign-Up Sheets in June to do your scheduling. We promise your life will be a whole lot easier and your team will appreciate it. Click here to learn how.
- Our all-church survey is drafted and is getting loaded into Survey Monkey this week. We hope to send it out to our congregation soon to get feedback on what they love about our church and how we can improve.
- Our new sermon series on the life of King David begins this Sunday!
- Our next ALL-IN Team Night is this coming Wednesday, June 6. If your schedule allows, all leaders should plan on attending! We'll have dinner from 6:30 - 7p, and follow it up with some worship, prayer, and a short message. RSVP here.
- Next Steps Track relaunches this Sunday, June 3 after our May break. Please attend this month if you have yet to take the classes. Please encourage your team to take them as well!
- During all June 10 services, I'll introduce our ministry team coaches (or a representative) and we'll have a quick "volunteer fair" following the services allowing any newcomers to meet a coach and get plugged in with a team.
- Baby Dedications will take place during the 9:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. services on June 10.
prayers of praise (P) + requests (R) for the church
- P: For Josh McComas, Summer Community Group Leaders, their leadership, and hospitality.
- P: For new leaders who have stepped into administrative roles and justice + compassion ministry leadership (see below).
- P: For a restful Sabbath May for our church
- P: For Pastor Kevin's leadership and all who shared the word during our Holy Spirit series.
- R: For continued direction and wisdom for leadership and provision for our ministry
- R: For new Greeting (CoHi) and Hospitality (Downtown) coaches as our current coaches wish to hand over the reigns
- R: For all-church Ministry Directors to fill the Engagement and Next Steps director roles
- R: For an energetic and welcoming launch week of Summer Community Groups (launching June 3)
- R: For a fun and successful ALL-IN Team Night on June 6
- R: For a renewed passion for building community and connecting people with others to create life transforming relationships.
- R: For our congregation and that they would be receptive to our new teaching series on David.
- R: For vision, passion, and leaders to organize projects for SERVE Day 2018.
- Arunjana Das is now Director of Justice and Compassion and will provide leadership to WIN, Food Pantry, Soup Kitchen, and new j+c endeavors at The Table.
- After a successful launch of the A-team, we're grateful and praising God for
- Melodi Sampson (Prayer team admin)
- Kelsey Hendrixson (CG admin)
- Julie Altimer (Next Steps admin)
- Cat Currie (Newcomers admin)


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Mutual Exchange
As our tenant you have the right to exchange homes with another tenant, whether it is another Uttlesford tenant, another council tenant, or the tenant of a housing association.
Once you have found someone you might like to exchange with, we strongly advise that you view the property that you want to move into very carefully, as with a Mutual Exchange both parties agree to accept the property in the condition it has been left by the last tenant. You will therefore be responsible for any repairs and decoration of the property. It should be noted that the council will not carry out any routine repairs to the property immediately after the exchange has taken place.
An inspection will be carried out on all properties before the exchange is approved, to make sure that the properties are at the required standard.
You should ensure that the other tenant definitely wants to exchange and that the other tenant's landlord and Uttlesford District Council have agreed to the exchange.
The move is made entirely at the tenant's expense and your property has to be left in a clean and tidy condition with all rubbish removed from gardens and outbuildings.
You must not move until you have written permission and an agreed moving date from this council. If you move without this agreement you will be putting your tenancy in jeopardy and could end up with no home at all.
The Council has 42 days from the date your application is received to make a decision. There are by law 10 grounds on which the council can refuse the exchange, the most common grounds being if you have any outstanding Housing debts, if the properties are too big or too small for the family intending to occupy, if one of the properties is designated for elderly or disabled persons, or there are unauthorised tenants' improvements which must be rectified before an exchange can take place.
If you live in a property adapted for disabled people or sheltered housing for the elderly, you can only exchange with someone in need of this kind of property
In order to use the HomeSwapper system you need to register by going to the HomeSwapper website and then by clicking on the 'Join' tab at the top of the page.
Once your entry on the website has been approved by us you will be able to access information about tenants within Uttlesford who wish to exchange properties as well as details of those wishing to move here from outside the district.
HomeSwapper will also email you at regular intervals with details of suitable exchange partners. If you do not have access to the internet, HomeSwapper will send you details of suitable exchange partners via your mobile phone every two weeks.
If you have any queries about the scheme, feel free to contact the housing administration team on
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Our PPC management methodology is regularly meliorated to ensure good ROI. It embraces the following elements:
- Effective Strategy: Well begun is half done: To develop a structure of potent strategies, we initiate with the contemplation of research and analysis process of the client's domains. This elucidates the actual task to be done to satisfy the client's requirement.
- Continuous Keyword Research: Keywords work as the lifeblood for a website.
they are the major revenue generators as apposite keyword usage brings more business. We know how to play with keywords to make your website business-friendly.
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- Effective Landing Page: Our impactful services help in the evolution of an effective landing page with 'Call to Action' features. It assures that visitors perform the desired action.
- Research & Analysis: The key performance metrics is constantly analysed, which helps in understanding the effectivity of PPC campaign. Furthermore, it enables the delivery of positive ROI. Our PPC process begins with an in-depth website and competitor analysis blended with full-fledged research.
- Manual PPC Campaign Management: The complete PPC management process is operated manually. Whether the job is to research keywords or to manage the bid, everything is pursued in manual way.
- Implementation: In this step, the keyword bid strategy is executed where bids are organised for the selected keywords. Meanwhile, regular bid monitoring as well as revival of the selecting keywords are also undertaken here.
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Compassing the whole range of PPC marketing, our PPC advertising services lay special stress on sponsored and content page advertising as offered by Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Having an in-house group of expert PPC management professionals, we commit for good return on investments to our clients. Moreover, we strive to fulfill all their PPC marketing targets. Using unique and time-proven methodology, our devoted paid search marketing team smoothly manages the entire work procedure.


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Do these switches have an uplink port. If not are the ports auto sensing. If not did you use a crossover cable.
Use a crossover cable no matter what. If you do, that's one less thing to have to consider if/when you have to troubleshoot a problem.
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Five Surprising Uses of Virtual Reality in Business
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Ah, virtual reality. Huge potential but always seems that next year is the big breakout. There are many interesting case studies, more and more people trying VR for the first time and more hardware being sold every day, but in terms of practical, everyday applications in business, virtual reality is viewed by many as being in the "nice to have but not essential" category.
But that's already changing and is going to change rapidly in the near future. Virtual reality will offer significant advantages for professionals working in a host of different industries. It will allow industries from manufacturing to automotive, logistics, retail, hospitality and more to better plan for the future, access and see real-time data and hardware anywhere in the world, and collaborate on new designs, to name a few applications. In totality, estimates place the worth of the VR industry at $28.3 billion by 2020 (Source).
Below are five areas where there's big potential for VR in business applications.
As far back in 2012 (WAY back in VR-terms!), reports (example) were showing how manufacturers like Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Ford were using VR for visual prototyping, manufacturing, virtual assembly, testing and training. Ford's VR testing center is well …


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3 April 2012 MEDIA RELEASE
Lift Off at 20 Fenchurch Street
Contracts are awarded for lifts and escalators as the City's latest landmark climbs into the London sky
KONE has won an order to supply 14 double deck eco-friendly lifts and four escalators at 20 Fenchurch Street, the new skyscraper in the City of London being developed by Land Securities and Canary Wharf Group.
The lifts will race people to the top of the 37 storey, 525ft tall office building at a speed of five metres per second, reaching the roof from ground level in 30 seconds non-stop.
The contract announcement comes as 20 Fenchurch rapidly climbs into the London skyline. Having started construction just over twelve months ago, its core is now at a height of approximately 155m, or 37 storeys and on track for completion in 2014, bringing Grade A office space to a supply constrained central London market.
The contract includes the low and medium rise lifts being fitted with KONE EcoDisc® hoisting machines, which consume 50-70% less energy than conventional elevator motors. The project aims for a BREEAM environmental rating of 'excellent', which will put it among the greenest office buildings in the City of London.
Cormac MacCrann, Executive Director of Canary Wharf Contractors Limited, said: "We are constantly challenging our suppliers to provide products that outperform users' expectations and deliver better outcomes for the environment. KONE has stepped up to the plate on the 20 Fenchurch Street elevator contract. We look forward to working with them in the coming months to deliver London's newest skyscraper."
Michael Williams, Managing Director for KONE UK, says "It is always a pleasure to work with developers who share our passion for creating an excellent people flow experience that is delivered in a sustainable way."
The contract includes provision for a KONE JumpLift elevator, which boosts the building's vertical transportation capacity during construction time by 'growing' with the high-rise.
The work to deliver the scheme is expected to support approximately 3,000 jobs throughout the construction process.
The terms of the contract were not disclosed.
For further information, please contact:
John Garwood / Hamish McDougall
Canary Wharf Group plc
Tel: 020 7418 2326
Donal McCabe/ Naomi Curtis
Land Securities Group plc
Tel: 020 7024 5460/ 5411
Michael WilliamsKONE UK
Tel. 08707748211
Notes to Editors
The 20 Fenchurch Street contract between 20 Fenchurch Street (GP) Ltd and KONE Corporation provides for:
• 14 KONE double-deck passenger lifts
• Six KONE MonoSpace® special lifts
• Four KONE MiniSpace™ lifts
• Two dedicated firefighting lifts
• A KONE Motala™ platform elevator, ensuring accessibility for people with impaired mobility
• KONE JumpLift elevator, which boosts the building's vertical transportation capacity during construction
• Four KONE TravelMaster™ 110 commercial escalators
• KONE E-Link monitoring system, which guarantees service levels
• KONE Polaris® destination control system, which will increases capacity and reduce waiting times.
About 20 Fenchurch Street, EC3, London:
• 20 Fenchurch Street is being jointly developed by Land Securities and Canary Wharf Group. Canary Wharf Contractors Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canary Wharf Group, has been appointed as Construction Manager.
• Construction of 20 Fenchurch Street, EC3 officially started on Tuesday 18 January 2011.
• The building's architect is Rafael Viñoly. The building spectacularly flares outwards from a narrow base. It is topped by a skygarden
• When complete, the 525 ft, 37 storey, 690,000 sq ft building will provide world class office space, with each floor offering 360° of unrivalled views.
• The building will bring Grade A office space to a supply constrained central London market of 2014, as more than 3m sq ft of leases per annum are expected to expire or see breaks potentially exercised during the next four years.
• The floor plates will range from 14,000 – 28,000 sq ft, providing both flexible high specification accommodation with the larger floor plates on the higher floors, appealing to a wide range of prospective tenants.
About Canary Wharf Group plc
Canary Wharf Group plc is an integrated property development, investment and management group of companies. It is focussed on the design, construction, leasing and management of grade A office space and high-quality retail and leisure facilities in central London. Over the past 20 years the Group has regenerated derelict wharves into the Canary Wharf Estate, one of the world's premier business and shopping districts, constructing over 15 m sq ft of office space; more than any other company in London. These buildings are occupied by 95,000 people.
The Group's current projects away from Canary Wharf include the Shell Centre on the South Bank, which is a joint venture with Qatari Diar and 20 Fenchurch Street (Walkie Talkie) in the City of London, which is in a joint venture with Land Securities. These follow the successful completion of Pan Peninsula and Drapers Gardens.
Canary Wharf Group's tenants, clients and occupiers include some of the world's leading business organisations from the media, legal, accounting, financial services, IT, energy and transport sectors. Canary Wharf Group has also developed and successfully let over 200 shops, bars, cafes and restaurants including many of Britain's leading brands.
Canary Wharf Group has been named one of the Sunday Times 60 Best Green Companies in the UK since 2008, was the Property Week Offices Developer of the Year 2010 and also won the Christie's 2010 Award for Best Corporate Art Collection and Programme at the International Art and Work Awards.
About Land Securities Group plc
Land Securities is the UK's largest commercial property company and a member of the FTSE 100. The company owns and manages more than 29 m sq ft of property, from shopping centres to offices.
For more information see www.landsecurities.com
About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading lifts, escalators and automatic building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance. The company's objective is to offer the best People Flow™ experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2011, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 5.2 billion and on average 35,000 employees.


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According to the information shared by netizens in the Reddit community, the retail price of LG G8 ThinQ is Canadian $199.99 (about $6170.1). In addition, the picture shows that this year LG will launch 128GB version, while last year's $750 LG G7 only has 64GB version for consumers to choose.
LG G8 ThinQ is the company's first 5G mobile phone, which LG calls a flagship smartphone that can be operated without touching the screen. In terms of configuration, the mobile phone uses Qualcomm M855 mobile platform. In addition, the headache of fever on LG mobile phone will also be solved. It is known that the 5G model will be equipped with a water-cooled cooling device, Vapor Chamber, which uses water to reduce the internal heat of smartphones.
In addition, according to documents published by Anatel, the Brazilian certification authority, LG G8 ThinQ will carry a BL-T41 lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 3400 mAh (typical value of 3500 mAh). The front-end camera will be equipped with ToF sensors. ToF sensors work by reflecting infrared light from the main body and can be used for 3D object recognition. This allows for secure facial unlocking and more accurate background blurring in self-portraits, as well as possibly various AR applications. The sensor in G8 ThinQ is based on Infineon's REAL3 chip. LG doesn't explain more about how it will be used in G8 software, but it is expected to provide "a new level of front-facing camera functionality" in smartphones.
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27 Apr 2018
KWN - CEDR - IDRA Mediation Roundtable 2018
On 15 May 2018, CEDR, in conjunction with King & Wood Mallesons (KWN) and the International Dispute Resolution Academy (IDRA), will hold a roundtable discussion on the Hong Kong apology legislation and whether it will assist or hinder commercial mediation.
Hong Kong's Apology Ordinance came into effect on 1st December 2017. The Ordinance is the first apology-protection legislation in Asia and it extends the protection provided to apologies by similar legislation in many other Common Law jurisdictions.
In this roundtable, Professor Robyn Carroll will explain the background to and rationale for the legislation, the objectives of the legislation and the how its provisions aim to achieve its purposes. The panel of experts including Danny McFadden, Senior Consultant and Asia Pacific Ambassador with CEDR, will share their experience and perspectives on how to use the new legislation effectively in your practice as a lawyer or mediator. Other panelists include Dr James CHIU (Hong Kong based mediator), Mr Edmund Wan (Partner, KWN) and Dr Fan Yang, Director of IDRA Academy and CEDR Accredited Mediator.
For more information about the roundtable can be found here.
Danny McFadden, previously a CEDR Director from 2004, is dually qualified as a lawyer both in Australia and the UK. Danny speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently and mediates regularly in Hong Kong, China and internationally. He is an expert trainer in unconscious bias, conflict management, negotiation, change management and mediation.


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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A (대한기계학회논문집A)
- Volume 20 Issue 5
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- Pages.1562-1572
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- 1996
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- 1226-4873(pISSN)
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- 2288-5226(eISSN)
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High-Velocity Deformation Analysis Using the Rigid-Plastic Finite Elemement Method Considering Inertia Effect
관성효과가 고려된 강소성 유한요소법을 이용한 고속변형해석
- Published : 1996.05.01
The rigid-plastic finite element formulation including the inertia force is derived and then the rigid-plastic finite elemnt program considering the inertia effect is developed. In order to consider the strain hardening, strain rate hardening and thermal softening effects which are frequentrly observed in high-velocity deformation phenomena, the Johnson-Cook constitutive odel is applied. The developed program is used to simulate two high-velocity deformation problemss ; rod impact test and hdigh-velocity compression precess. As a result of rod impact test simulation, it is found that the siulated result has a good agreement with the experimental observation. Through the high-velocity compression process simulation. it is also found that the accuracy of the simulated results is dependent upon the time increment size and mesh size.
Reigid-Plastic Finite Element Method;Inertia Effect;Rod Impact Simulation;High-Velocity Compression Simulation


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Yep, that's right, it's my birthday! I'm now a ripe, old 22! But when it comes to book birthdays, my first thought is, of course, Lord of the Rings and Bilbo's 111th birthday in the Shire. The whole hobbit community partied the night away, with tons of dancing, drinks, and pipeweed.
And who could forget Gandalf's magical fireworks?
It's one of my favorite scenes in literature and cinema, and even though my birthday will be celebrated on a much smaller scale, I'll leave you with Bilbo's famous words:
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
Thanks for reading!
Love, Book Club Babe


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Hi Everyone! This is our family blog, welcome, sit down, have cuppa and catch up with what we're doing.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Hot Pool
We had a fantastic day at the pool in Usa.
We're speckled red and white, have hair like string, are flat out exhausted and my left ear is still full of water. But now I feel like the summer holidays have really started and the fun has just begun!
We started out in the Nagare pool - I have no idea if there is a word for this in English! It's the narrow, long, river-like pool in the picture above, and the water is propelled round and round the pool, so that if you hop in with some kind of flotation device, you can just relax and get gently pushed around the pool.
I got in with Erica in her baby-ring (a smaller ring inside a large outer ring, and a harness underneath so she doesn't slip through) and we went round and round and round until we got bored then I sent her back to the baby pool with Daddy, while me, Amy and Lena went for the waterslides.
There are two, which Amy and Lena dubbed the long one and the short one, though I don't think there was really much difference. I was able to catch up with Amy, with a bit of pushing off the sides, but we couldn't catch Lena, who shot ahead of us both. It was great fun, but the stairs nearly killed me. I took a break with Erica in the baby pool while Kanji had a go on the slides.
Every hour for ten minutes everyone has to get out of the pool while they clean it. I'm not sure what they do, check the chemical level I suppose, but I've seen them doing that while people are swimming. Check for drowned persons? I don't know. But it was a good sign that it was lunch time, so we ate up curry, okonomiyaki, takoyaki and soggy french fries.
After lunch I left Kanji with the bub again and we went to the deep pool, where I taught my kids more swimming in 40 minutes than their damn swimming school has taught them in four years. I taught them to dive and do back flips and handstands. Hence the water on the ear!
We left for home just a little too late, and Erica was past the point of endurance, so we were treated to a screaming match on the way home. Luckily Amy and Lena were too tired to argue on the way home!
Oh, and why the HOT pool? After lunch the water in the waterslide was, no kidding, hot! It was like having a shower all the way down then falling into a bath at the end. After that, we didn't need to stop at the onsen on the way home.
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- gaijin wife said...
I didn't even know this pool in USA existed! looks great. And that pool you can just lie in and get taken along for the ride with.
- Saturday, August 08, 2009 10:10:00 pm
- Rachel said...
I vaguely knew it was there but never got around to going until this year when the kids got discount tickets at school.
Let's plan a foreign wives' get-together there some day!
- Sunday, August 09, 2009 8:44:00 am
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30 November 2014
December is almost upon us, but before the festivities begin, we have so many events in November to tell you about…
November has hit with a BANG! On the first weekend of the month we provided a couple of fantastic fire jugglers for the Wentworth Golf Club Fireworks display, who wowed guests on arrival - this is an event we are involved in annually and is always a great evening for all the family.
We have some exciting news to share regarding venues this month. We're now the recommended supplier at Ascot Racecourse for team building activities. We are very pleased to be recommended by the venues in house events team and to get the opportunity to work more regularly at the venue. We have also become preferred supplier at Warren House, a stunning Victorian private venue in Kingston for wedding and party services which is fantastic!
Venues regularly offer 'Fam trips' to suppliers and clients to give them a feel for the hotel and what it can offer. On the first Friday of the month Firebird provided a number of services for a 'Fam Trip' hosted by The Radisson Blu Edwardian Heathrow. The event was circus themed with giant props, yummy food stalls and a fun packed circus workshop. The guests were greeted by The Top Bananas stilt walking band and a ring master accompanied by his mini-me! During the evening the partition wall was removed to reveal a dance floor and stage where RPJ band performed. Needless to say, we received fantastic feedback from the venue and the guests had a wonderful time!
November has been a popular month for conferences, the beginning of the month saw the production team heading off to Ricoh Arena, Coventry for a full conference and awards set up. The crew were also responsible for the sound for the well-known comedian, Milton Jones. Firebird are regularly involved in the launch of swim wear company, Zoggs new seasons lines, providing full conference set up, including set, AV, lighting, catwalk and technical crew at The Radisson Blu Edwardian Guildford. The last week of the month, Firebird travelled up to The Belfry, Birmingham for a two day conference for a regular client of ours, AXA Wealth. The first day of the conference had a main conference room with show caller and sound engineer, there were also 3 breakout rooms for guest speakers. The second day of the conference was moved into the Bel Air, (the venues on-site night club). The crew transformed the night club overnight for a conference and a buffet lunch, it was a fantastic transformation. Our brand new orchid table centrepieces made their debut at this event too. We now offer an elegant goldfish bowl filled with orchid stems on a mirror base with mirrored tea lights around the edge – they look stunning! These can also be used with our LED bases to incorporate colour and light into an event space.
The first of five charity events that we were involved in this month took place at Plaisterers Hall, London, for the charity 4Children. The evening was held for The Family Hero Awards, the awards recognise extraordinary people who have helped and supported families through difficult times. Firebird provided a full awards package set up including custom gobo's which projected the charities logo around the room. Hugh Dennis attended a charity event this month for one of our clients, he was also invited to dine at the top table before performing a 30 minute act and hosting the charity auction. Back in June Firebird were the proud entertainment and lighting suppliers of the annual Summer Ball for Children with Special Needs Foundation, this month Firebird not only supplied the technical equipment and entertainment for their suppliers thank you dinner, but one of our directors Andy Hobbs was a guest too. A great night was had by all! The end of the month saw a charity quiz at Chelsea FC where bespoke rounds had been created based around the club and football in general, this event used voting keypads to collate the team's answers as there were over 600 guests!
It's been non-stop for team building events this month too, the first team build of the month was our brand new 'Get Busy with the Fizzy' champagne tasting at the runnymede-on-thames. Teams went head to head in a tasting challenge to try and guess the type of fizz, country of origin, price range & three tasting note descriptions, its great fun! Many people have only ever dreamt about taking part in The Great British Bake Off, but a team of 50 delegates had the chance to get involved when we took our Bake Off team build to The Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa in Ascot. Body language expert, Richard Newman hosted our Bodytalk Master Class in Kidderminster this month too. The master class shows delegates how to create rapport, look and feel confident, to be more authoritative, charismatic and communicate more successfully.
Our acoustic (non-operatic) singing waiters were at Northbrook Park at the beginning of the month for a wedding, they were booked by the father of the bride as a surprise for the bride and groom – their performance went extremely well, getting the guests to join in with singing at the tables. Both the family were thrilled with the performance and Firebird received glowing feedback. Fireworks aren't only for the 5th November, this month we provided a 10 minute firework display for a fabulous wedding at Hever Castle - fantastic entertainment that everyone can enjoy!
This year is our 9th year of producing the Archant Hertfordshire Business Awards and Hertfordshire Care Awards. The production looked absolutely stunning and included outdoor lighting, logo projection, room lighting, audio visual equipment, sound production, set and staging! Click Here to view photos of the event.
As we approach December Corporate dinners and awards evenings have become more and more frequent. We provided 3 operatic singing policemen to a corporate dinner at Sketch in Mayfair, London. The singing police stunned the guests as they serenaded them after their main course. A Corporate event taking place at the London Film Museum this month saw our brand new iPad Magic! It's exactly what it says on the tin, it's magic using an iPad! Click Here to watch a snippet.
Christmas party season kick started during the last weekend of the month, with many companies choosing to host their Christmas parties early. The Firebird team are bracing themselves for what is renowned in our office as crazy Christmas!!


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Applied Table Theory – Proximity: How much is too much?
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Most of you know the obvious – in order to have a successful relationship, you need to spend time with your girl.
Simple, right? I mean, what else could proximity mean?
See that? I'm baiting you. Because proximity as a concept means so much more than "spend time with your girl."
And the reason I'm writing this is that, if I were to generalize, most relationships don't end from a lack of proximity, but rather too much of it. Some call that situation "lack of boundaries" or "loss of identity" – I choose not to, because that conflates proximity issues with other separate problems.
"Too much proximity? Preposterous!" you say.
Not at all. I'll say it again: seeing too much of your girl can be a huge problem.
"No way, Vichet, she's the bees' knees!"
The bees' knees she may be, but I guarantee you, spend every spare moment you have with bees' knees, and you will get sick of 'em.
Or, equally sucky, SHE'LL get sick of YOU.
Here's an analogous situation for you: ever have a best friend who you could hang out with once or twice a week and be best buds, getting into trouble and farting in each others' faces?
Then, at some point, you decide you might want to move in with your friend. You bring it up, he's super excited, you find a place, and next thing you know you're smoking bud while singing "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley. But not "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin (not Bob Marley).
It's great at first. You're seeing your friend every day, and the good times continue for days, weeks, maybe even months, and it's awesome.
But, at some point, you will probably start to realize that you're just doing more and more of the same. You guys come back to the apartment and have nothing to talk about because you see each other all the time. Going out has become routine, and boring. You feel like you're in a funk, or worse – that you're ignoring other very important parts of your life.
Grim, huh?
And it's grim, even if you assume that the roommate in particular has no bad habits that piss you off. People having bad habits that you never have to deal with if you don't live with them – that's a very specific boundary we can get into later.
Assuming no annoying habits, the only problem there is that you see too much of each other, and then unconsciously started making "just seeing each other" such a high priority in your life (as a habit) that you start to lose the parts of your life you once enjoyed on your own – the things that made each of you the person you wanted to share with the other.
Where's the balance?
Well, here's good news.
Remember how I said each person has to have their own independence, their own non-conflicting life goals, and a good amount of chemistry, all aside from proximity?
Well, all you have to do to keep any relationship fresh is to maintain those three: mutual independence, non-conflicting life goals, and chemistry.
The place where most guys f*ck up is when they decide to give up some of these things so that they can spend another measly hour per day doing nothing with their girl. I know guys who have dropped their favorite sport, or the few hours a week where they catch up with their friends, or some goal they had to travel and see the world (shoot, you can even bring the girl on that one), all so they could spend more time sitting in the same room as their girl.
That's a big no-no.
One, it makes you less interesting to be around.
Two, if you have nothing new to contribute when you do spend time together, that often begins to feel like a waste of time!
So that this makes more sense, an example of not having such boundaries would be if I quit my job (something I do for me) in favor of trying to spend more time with who I'm going out with.
I know that sounds crazy. That's because it is. And if you think it doesn't happen, it does. When it does, it's a case of bad proximity boundaries.
Trust, me, even if you live with someone, there is a way to continue having your own life, and working on yourself as an individual if you prioritize it properly. Your relationship won't suffer because you both decide to take some "me-time" to keep yourselves happy as individuals. Honestly, having your own life and things going on outside the relationship makes spending time with each other that much more satisfying.
One of the worst things that can happen to a relationship is complacency fed by proximity – meaning you start to take each other for granted because you assume the person will always be around. As human beings, when you see your couch in the same spot in your house every day, you begin to expect it to stay there. It becomes a part of your mental map.
We view people in our lives kind of the same way. You think, "She's here now, she'll be here tomorrow." And you think that spending time with her gives you some sort of high score based on hours you sit in the same room.
Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't spend any time with your woman. I'm saying to spend GOOD time with your woman. Both of you can decide on how often that is, but all those times you spend together should be good times!
I know people who see each other once a week and are perfectly happy, and mad about each other. I know people who live with each other, and spend 80 percent of their waking hours together every day – that's a LOT of time! But, they wisely spend that other 20 percent being on their own and making sure the needs that they have to provide for themselves (fulfillment, overall life happiness, personal goals, etc) are being met. They stay mutually independent and fulfilled even though they are together all the time. Instead of becoming each others' crutches, they help each other build higher than they could on their own.
So, before I leave you to ponder what the right balance and boundaries are, here are quick questions you can ask yourself that will help you find that right balance and boundaries.
Ask yourself these questions:
- Do I have things that I MUST get done right now, that I will otherwise be extremely disappointed/unhappy about? Get those things done first! Your problems will become your relationship's problems if you don't take care of them.
- Are we going to be just sitting in the same room with nothing to talk about, or are we doing something that adds to the relationship? Even something simple like taking a walk adds to your relationship. Make a plan, do an activity, find something that adds value to your time with each other, because time is all we really have.
- Do I find myself giving up lots of things, or having her give up lots of things, in order to spend time together? That's the opposite of balance. Both of you should be very aware of what you're willing to give up for the relationship. Honestly, if you have to give up anything important at all, that's kind of weird. Relationships should add to your life, not take away.
- Am I excited to see her, or am I doing it out of habit and obligation? If you aren't excited, that means the quality of your time together is low. Back some of it off and add more value!
Don't get me wrong – it's awesome to meet someone who you want to spend all your time with. I mean, that's what we're looking for, right?
Thing is, to keep that all fresh, you have to make sure you spend the right kind of time together.
Proximity, people. It's about balance and boundaries!


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A 33-year old hedge fund manager says British Airways branded him a pervert.
In his recent lawsuit, Mirko Fischer claims a stewardess forced him to switch seats to separate him from a 12-year old boy whom he was seated next to, according to The Daily Mail.
Fischer at first refused, but was then told that he would have to move or the flight wouldn't take off. Apparently the stewardess told him that British Airways has a strict policy against male passengers sitting next to children they don't know.
Of course at that point he moved, but only after he had been humiliated in front of the whole plane.
"I was made to feel like a criminal in front of other passengers. It was totally humiliating."
Now Fischer is suing British Airways for making him switch seats, claiming sexual discrimination.
A spokesman British Airways says they are considering a settlement.


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Dating and Relationships
The more I talk to people about dating or getting godly counsel on it, the more I am convinced that we need to discuss and make this topic part of our regular conversations. Marriage and dating questions don't have simple answers. Many people say that during their teenage years, they would have never heard or want to hear anything about better ways to start a relationship. This is usually the most crucial age and the time that most young people make the biggest mistakes in their lives. Can you imagine how much better off people can be if they will simply open their hearts to Godly truths and principles that were imparted to them at a young age. What would happen if a good friend of yours instead of encouraging to date, kiss and even sleep with your boyfriend or girlfriend tells you to stand firm on the belief of waiting for the right person or for you to mature and know what your values are really about so you can make good relationship choices. What if parents instead of telling you to casually date as many people as you can, emphasize strong core values like purity, and waiting for the right partner. As you become the best person you can, you will attract the best person there is for you as this is the will of a good Heavenly Father.