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Lending has been something which has existed for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Due to obvious reasons, the history on online lending for payday loans and the like is very short, but the roots of traditional lending can actually be traced back to around 3,000 years ago. Whereas, online lending started in 1985. The evidence to support this are loan contracts from Mesopotamia which display the development of the credit system and even speak of the concept of interest on loans.
Lending has always been of great importance. In fact, the expansion on human civilisation would not have been possible without it. Take for example the discovery and exploration of the New World, Spain was funded for taking part in this through lending. Furthermore, the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th century was made possible through loans. Lending has proved to be productive to society throughout time and has funded some of the greatest projects which we recognise and use to this day.
Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, banking in all forms was carried out by private individuals who could offer loans. What these individuals offered appears to be similar to what we know as 'payday loans'. The structure for lending remains pretty much the same.
In general, workers of the land would borrow large sums of money so that they could plant their crops. They would then repay the loan come the time of the harvest.
There is evidence of Ancient Roman's using what we know as a 'collateral loan', where items were held as collateral to keep the risk down if the person could not repay.
Dark and Middle Ages
In the year 325 AD, religious leaders had decreed that any form of lending would see an interest rate of 1% per month.
It was the case that Christians were forbidden from lending money with any interest due to the fundamentals of Christianity. Therefore, the Jewish people tended to take on the role as lender – but could only lend money with interest to gentiles (non-Jews) and this was only accessible outside of the main city walls.
Interestingly, lenders tended to conduct their business from a bench, which is where the word "bank" originates from. Furthermore, it was traditional for a retired lender to smash up his bench as mark of withdrawal from the trade – hence the term "bankrupt".
20th Century
The mid-20th century was a catalyst for a major shift in the responsibly held by lenders and borrowers. Instead of physical collateral used to keep the risks of lending low, the mainstream method shifted to financial data.
In 1950, a business man named Frank McNamara paid a bill with a small cardboard card, which is what is known as a Diners Club Card today. Eight years later, the bank of America launched the BankAmericard (which is Visa now), becoming a valid form of payment.
The FICO score first gained recognition in 1995 and was used as a way to evaluate mortgage loans. By 1959, lenders officially started using FICO scores to make informed credit decisions.
History of Payday Lending
The role of payday loans in the UK, only really gained momentum in the early naughties as a way to offer quick finance through the use of online mediums such as the Internet. Wonga.com took payday lending to a new level when they launched in 2005, where they really took off around 2010 offering millions of pounds worth of 'micro loans' per month.
At one point, there were around 200 payday lenders in the UK and hundreds of comparison sites and brokers. Since the introduction of strict regulation, the number as of 2018 is only around 40/50 lenders and a handful of comparison brokers such as allthelenders.


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There has been a lot of hullabaloo since rumors that the Kinks would reunite spawned back at the beginning of the year. Lead singer Ray Davies hinted in an interview he gave to the BBC in Februrary that the original band members (Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife and Mick Avory) , dismantled since 1969, were planning a comeback to work on some new material.
This legendary band was one of the most influential of its time, (yeah, yeah, shadowed by those damn scarabs hoggin' the spot light). Their golden age (1966-1972) bred amazing tunes like You Really Got Me Goin, Lola, Sunny Afternoon and so many others. Unfortunately many complications lead the band to change line-ups, and after '72 there just wasn't the same vibe anymore.
Anyways, Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe's arts reporter joined the ranks of the many who have been urging and boosting the Kinks to get back together. He's currently working on a documentary called Do It Again whose sole purpose is to get the band to reunite. Here's a funny trailer of the movie:
Can't wait till this comes out.

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I received my scissor case exchange from Nita today! She stitched an adorable house for me – it has Hardanger windows and eyelet panels on the door. Katie looked at it and said "Can I see the scissors through the windows?" LOL
The back says "A home for my scissors", and the little tag says "Made with love" 🙂
She also made the matching fob and sent the peacock scissors! It's really fun and pretty, and the inside is even lined with a cozy fabric. Thank you, Nita!


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Unless you've been hibernating, you will have noticed that both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live were hacked at Christmas, meaning gamers couldn't play with their new consoles online. Sony is looking to make amends.
This weekend, it will hold a 10 per cent discount sale to apologise for the outage.
PS Plus subscriptions, Music Unlimited and video rentals aren't eligible.
To get the discount, you'll have to enter the code at the checkout. The code will be available on the PlayStation Store and via the @PlayStation Twitter account.
For any PS Plus members affected by the outage, Sony is rolling out a five-day PS Plus member extension. According to the blog post by Sony VP Eric Lempel, you don't have to do anything. If you're eligible, you should get an email confirmation with more details.
Read more: PlayStation Store Black Friday sale launched
The PSN and Xbox Live hack was allegedly carried out by a group called Lizard Squad. A UK man has been arrested in connection with the hack in Southport, near Liverpool.
Lizard Squad offered a tool that let anyone in the world deliver a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against any website for $6. Embarrassingly, the group was itself hacked recently, and its entire list of customers leaked online.
The lesson is: crime doesn't pay. If you're that annoyed at someone, why not just ship them some glitter?


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I recently purchased the XPS 13 9360 (Kaby Lake) and have been using for a couple days.
I've noticed coil whine in the form of static sounds coming from the left side of the laptop, near the power connector.
There is very minimal noise when the laptop is on battery, where the noise is audible when your ear is next to the keyboard.
However, when connected to the power outlet the static becomes quite audible at a normal viewing distance. The static occurs frequently (especially when scrolling).
I tend to work in quite spaces with little ambient room noise, as I am easily distracted.
Is there a solution to resolving this coil whine issue? I feel like at this price point this should not be an issue (especially since is was well known in the earlier models).
I have this issue on the 9350. It's driving me insane. The coil whine is constant and increases when moving the mouse cursor. Paid over 2000 euros for this thing and feel like smashing it;
Join the club. This has been an issue for at least 2 generations and Dell has done nothing to fix it. There is no workaround other than getting a refund. There are a couple of threads on this community forum and a Dell rep has responded already. Try your luck with him but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
I purchased a dell XPS 13 9360 1 week ago and I experienced the same issue from the date I received the device with the slight different that in my case the sound comes from the middle area of the keyboard between letters F and J.
Has this problem been fixed by dell to anyone before or is this an issue that costumers need to deal with
I also just purchased the XPS 13 9360 two weeks ago, and I hear a constant screeching coming from the middle of the keyboard area.
Thank god it's a hardware issue - I thought I had developed tinnitus!
How can Dell let this defect exist in their most expensive XPS model?
I will certainly be demanding a refund if they can't fix this - it will totally ruin watching movies with that broken violin sound in the background (watching and editing movies was one of the main reasons I bought this model).
it is unfortunatly normal that you hear the coils whining. this is the biggest flaw for the xps13 - and it was in the reviews mentioned...
and till its a hardware design issue there will be no fix.
only upside is, that you can only hear it while its realy quiet and you put your focus on this
Oh god, I ordered the XPS then read all this. I have coil whine on my Acer Swift 3 and its driving me insane. It's all I can hear 24/7. even with my Tinitus. I wonder if every XPS has it, i.e. engineering issue vs some faulty units?
I also experience this with my Dell XPS 13.
I had some heating issues after I got mine and it was resolved after I updated my BIOS. You might try that.
"and till its a hardware design issue there will be no fix."
ok..but why do we keep being told they are working on a fix then?


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LONDON — It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. Or do I mean, it would be tragic if it weren't so funny? The political condition of post-Brexit Britain is what I'm talking about: the national mood. Sick with fear and fastened to a dying animal, we know not what we are.
Things, though, have taken a turn, perhaps for the better, perhaps for the worse, with Jeremy Corbyn's surprise announcement at the end of August that the Labour Party will reverse its position on Brexit and back continued membership in the European Union single market beyond March 2019, when departure from the union was meant to be done and dusted. Why the Labour Party hasn't been full-bloodedly opposing Brexit from the word go is a matter for another article.
Go back over who said what in the course of last year's referendum — we are still doing little else in this country — and the most startling, if not the most decisive, moment came when Mr. Corbyn declared his support for remaining in such a dispirited and halfhearted fashion that it could easily have been mistaken for an argument for leaving. Asked on television to rate his enthusiasm for the European Union on a scale of one to 10, he stumbled to seven, then appeared to add a half, and then appeared to retract it. If Labour voters wondered which side he was on, you cannot blame them.
Few politicians look as compromised and conscious of being wrong-footed as Mr. Corbyn does on TV. He is at home only in gatherings of the faithful, where he doesn't have to hide what's in his heart because it's in theirs as well. Throughout the referendum campaign, he came across as out of sorts, queasy and there on sufferance only.
On one side of him, senior Labour politicians were lauding the European Union for all it had done for labor legislation and the protection of workers' rights. On the other, no-less-senior colleagues were arguing for the free movement of labor, which was a cornerstone of the union's philosophy and to which no socialist, surely, could take exception. And there, in the middle, sat Jeremy Corbyn giving it seven and a half — or was it seven and a quarter? — and, according to reports, quietly ordering his party to temper its Euro-enthusiasm.
Mr. Corbyn's difficulty was that as a Labour man of the old school, he saw the European Union as a club for capitalist cronies and had never wanted Britain to belong to it in the first place.
Mr. Corbyn has been around a long time and has ideological skeletons in his cupboard. He saw a little too much of the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams than he should have at a time when the party's paramilitary wing, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was busy bombing English cities. He got on a little too well with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist organization that the European Union continues to blacklist as a terrorist group. And he'd been no friend of the European Union. No surprise, then, that every time he was asked a question about where he'd been politically for the last half-century, he looked like a burglar caught with a sackful of silver.
But we see what we want to see, and that, evidently, was not how he appeared to everyone. The lackluster Mr. Corbyn is now a force in the land, thanks to Theresa May's botched general election, a favorite of the young, the hottest turn at the summer's rock festivals, where his addresses are greeted with the Shelley-inspired chant "For the many, not the few."
No one really knew what June's election was about. Mrs. May called it ostensibly to strengthen her hand with her own party and put her in a stronger negotiating position with the European Union. Since she declared herself weakly for staying in the union before the referendum and then declared herself strongly for leaving it afterward, it was never entirely clear who in her own party, never mind the union, she wanted to put herself in a stronger bargaining position with. That she campaigned with such extraordinary feebleness — making Mr. Corbyn's seven and a half look like a masterstroke of decisiveness — might just be attributable to the confusion in her heart. The consequence, anyway, was that a ruling Conservative Party meant to romp home to decisive victory was returned to government with no overall majority — and a resurgent Mr. Corbyn.
Absurd in itself, the election has released an absurdism into the country already made to look foolish in its own eyes, never mind in others', by a referendum that should never have been called and a resolution in which nothing was resolved. Tragedies like the recent terrorist attacks on Manchester and London and the fire at Grenfell Tower have drawn attention from this, but on the lips of anyone not a confirmed Brexiteer or Corbynite the word most often heard is "farce." No one is in charge. No one says what he means. No one knows what's going to happen or why things have happened as they have. Jeering has taken the place of debate. The mood is ugly.
Although Mr. Corbyn's resurgence can easily be attributed to Mrs. May's acting as his recruiting officer, it is also the consequence of a young electorate with no historical memory growing fuddled about who, in the matter of Brexit at least, supported what. Despite Mr. Corbyn's having done so much for the Leave side by the manner in which he opposed leaving — think of the millions of Labour voters he might have persuaded to remain had he given seven and a half to the Leavers — research shows that more than 50 percent of voters who had backed Remain voted Labour in June. And of that group, a sizable proportion had switched from voting Tory.
Thus, though Mr. Corbyn had no appetite himself for remaining, as opposed to Mrs. May, who once had no appetite for leaving, it was he to whom Remainers turned for comfort and safe harbor. Not to reverse the referendum — not enough people as yet have the courage to press for that — but to make the exit less painful.
Little more than a week ago, this rump of the Remainers looked foolish in their hopes indeed. Bereft of historical recall, misinformed by social media, driven by dreams, they were putting their money on a loser. Yes, the chances are that when the next general election is called (most likely in 2022), Mr. Corbyn's Labour will defeat a raggle-taggle Tory Party, decimated by Europe yet again. But the Mr. Corbyn they will get, a man revered for the steadfastness of his principles, will no more be able to forget his opposition to the European Union than he will his opposition to Britain's imperialist past.
I say "a week ago," but we all know how long a week in politics can be. Now Mr. Corbyn has changed tack, proposing a four-year transition period during which Britain will keep its full membership in the customs union and the single market, presumably ensuring that the free movement of labor continues, at least temporarily. It's unlikely that Mr. Corbyn is hoping that this transition period will enable a greater change of heart in relation to the European Union altogether, but some in his party might — including the very people Mr. Corbyn sacked from his team only recently for supporting a softer Brexit approach along the lines he's now suggesting.
So, we descend further into shambles. How will this new policy play with Labour voters in the northeast of England who voted overwhelmingly to leave the European Union and want it done expeditiously and "hard"? Will they see this softening as betrayal? And if they do, will they swap loyalties and vote Conservative?
And what about the devoted young for whom Mr. Corbyn was a man of honor among knaves, who has never changed his mind in 50 years and whom you can rely on not to change it now? How lies the land with them? Impervious to the argument that unswerving principle is admirable only so long as the principle is worth not swerving from, will they change their minds about Mr. Corbyn and admire his newfound capacity for apostasy?
Meanwhile, some among the Tories, alarmed that Mr. Corbyn might have pulled another rabbit out of the hat, are growing convinced that the only way to counter softening on the one side is to promote further hardening on their own. To that end, talk grows of replacing Mrs. May at the earliest opportunity with an arch-Leaver, Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Mr. Rees-Mogg is a media-savvy High Tory in the self-consciously preposterous, overprivileged Boris Johnson mode, only without the boyish incorrigibility. When accused of electioneering in a Bentley, Mr. Rees-Mogg proclaimed his innocence of such insensitivity, insisting it had been a Mercedes. When he is not being cutely comedic, Mr. Rees-Mogg views any backtracking on Brexit as a betrayal of the very people it is hard to believe he gives a damn about. But in this, he is not much different from politicians on all sides who think the will of the people, no matter what percentage of the overall population Leavers actually represent, is sacrosanct.
And here, we return to the initiating absurdity. For the will of the people is not sacrosanct. Democracy is not a god; it is a servant. Not a servant to be treated with contempt, but where it persists in an error that can be shown to be detrimental to those it exists to serve, a servant that can and should be asked to think again.
We are sick with fear and fastened to a dying animal. The dying animal is not the European Union. It is this misbegotten "will of the people."


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In what's becoming a depressing genre, The Wall Street Journal published a story profiling the very human moderators who prevent the internet from becoming a completely murder-filled terror and abuse machine. Usually hired as contractors, these workers do the dirty work of reviewing flagged posts for internet giants, spending their days plugged into a non-stop feed of graphic violence, child pornography, animal abuse, and terrorism. In return, they say they're often left with lasting psychological damage, including PTSD, for low wages and limited counseling - if they're given any healthcare resources at all.
"The first disturbing thing was just burnout, like I've literally been staring at porn all day and I can't see a human body as anything except a possible [terms of service] violation," one former Google moderator told the Journal. "The worst part is knowing some of this happened to real people."
For tech companies trying to protect their users from the constant flood of abuse and horror, easy answers aren't forthcoming. In response to increased public scrutiny about content on their platforms, both YouTube and Facebook announced this year that they plan to hire thousands more moderators to sacrifice their minds for our collective sins. And companies like Microsoft and Google have been bullish about the content moderation possibilities of artificial intelligence, but machine learning has yet to show it can reliably distinguish pornography from pictures of deserts, much less tell the difference between a Pulitzer-winning photograph and an image of child abuse.
For bloggers, however, easy answers are our stock and trade, which is why I can confidently state that drafting tech executives into moderating their sites is the best solution to this complex problem. Either by cultural norm or federal law, every c-suite executive eyeing a cushy Silicon Valley job would have to spend at a year in the moderation trenches comprehending the ugly souls of their shiny wares. Think Undercover Boss, except there are no cameras and no flattering Teaching Moments, just an endless stream of violence, crime and hate.
At the very least, it would make it harder for tech overlords like Mark Zuckerberg to trot out vague platitudes about their platforms "building community" while thousands of poorly-paid workers burn their retinas gazing deep into the abysmal hell-feeds they have created. And they might even learn something! Like, for instance, "Oh god, oh god, what have I done, this was all a mistake, this was all a terrible mistake."
Of course, forcing social media CEOs to reckon with dark truths about their creations won't solve every problem in Silicon Valley - which is why this program (which I'm calling EatSh!t) would ideally be expanded to include every startup that makes a few people very rich, some people's lives a little bit more convenient, and leaves an unseen mass of non-employee "contractors" broken and sad.
If the tech CEO draft were widely instituted, would Travis Kalanick have berated a bankrupt Uber driver for not "taking responsibility for [his] own shit"? Would Amazon have dismissed a report about warehouse workers collapsing on the job by saying "we expect a certain level of performance"? Maybe so, but when the tech gods lie down on their Soylent-filled water beds each night, they would at least feel a shock of terror over a possible visit from a Dickensian ghost of startups past.
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The general election effort to take down Donald J. Trump through television ads will begin on Wednesday, with the main "super PAC" supporting Hillary Clinton airing its first two attack ads on broadcast television in four swing states. The effort kicks off a multimillion-dollar campaign that will flood screens in those states in the months to come.
The super PAC, Priorities USA Action, had initially planned to wait until after the June 7 primary contests to introduce TV ads attacking Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, but accelerated its effort against him. The group's $6 million investment includes two ads that offer scathing critiques of Mr. Trump's comments about women that will run for the next three weeks in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Nevada.
Mrs. Clinton's most devoted donors have given roughly $80 million to Priorities USA Action to stop Mr. Trump, more than the group raised in the entire 2012 election to re-elect President Obama.
The ads are the beginning of the broader Democratic campaign against Mr. Trump, focused on convincing suburban and working-class women that he does not respect them.
Priorities USA Action said it also planned to run ads that critiqued Mr. Trump's business record and portrayed him as out of touch with the working-class Americans he says he represents, an approach similar to the one it used to depict the Republican nominee in 2012, Mitt Romney, as a cold corporate titan.
Mrs. Clinton's allies said Mr. Trump's mocking of a New York Times reporter's disability also effectively turned off swing voters, potentially providing fodder for future ads that depict Mr. Trump as insensitive and unprepared for the presidency.
Mr. Trump's Republican rivals criticized Mr. Trump similarly on his comments about women and on his business record during the party's nominating contest, but the effort came too late to stop his momentum.
One of the super PAC's ads, called "Speak," shows voters lip-syncing some of Mr. Trump's caustic remarks about women as they wear shirts with Mr. Trump's visage screen-printed on them. The other, "Respect," shows quick interviews with the candidate in which he outlines his positions on abortion and Planned Parenthood.
The super PAC had initially invested $130 million to reserve time for broadcast and digital ads that would start running the day after the California and New Jersey primaries in June. But it decided to add an additional buy to accelerate the time line, aiming to sow early doubts about Mr. Trump, particularly among female voters who will have a disproportionate effect on the fall election and with whom Mr. Trump has shown a particular weakness in polls.
Female voters favored Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump, 55 percent to 35 percent, in a New York Times/CBS News poll released in March, twice the gender gap of the 2012 presidential election, when President Obama defeated Mr. Romney.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign, which cannot directly coordinate with the super PAC, has tried to raise money by showing Mr. Trump's comments assailing the former secretary of state for playing the "woman's card."
Mrs. Clinton, though, has tried to avoid directly provoking Mr. Trump, relying instead on outside groups like the super PAC to carry out direct attacks. The campaign's online videos against Mr. Trump have focused mostly on his policy positions and on criticism by his rivals in the Republican primaries.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said the "Speak" ad had misrepresented one of his statements. "The pathetic new hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. 'You can tell them to go BLANK themselves' — was about China, NOT WOMEN!" he wrote on Twitter.
That drew a rebuke from the super PAC.
"Sorry Donald, but the ad isn't only about your overt sexism, it's about your divisiveness and character being unsuitable for the office of the presidency," Justin Barasky, a spokesman for the group, said in an email on Tuesday morning.
In an interview, Mr. Barasky said the group thought it had to advertise earlier after seeing the Republican "stop Trump" effort fall short. "The decision was made recently to go up now because we learned from Washington Republicans that you can't wait to go after Trump," Mr. Barasky said. "What they did was too little, too late, and we weren't going to make the same mistake."
The new ads adhere to similar lines of attack taken by Our Principles PAC, the super PAC led by Republican operatives. It released an ad, "Quotes," featuring female actors reciting Mr. Trump's quotations about women. The ad tested highly in effectiveness, but came out only days before the Republican primary in Florida, which Mr. Trump won.
"Speak" is slightly different in that the ad uses Mr. Trump's voice rather than those of actors, along with the voices of voters.
"Our research shows most people know very little about Donald Trump," Guy Cecil, the executive director of the Priorities PAC, said on MSNBC on Monday night, adding, "When we tested a lot of the 'Never Trump' ads, we realized very quickly they really had no idea what Donald Trump had been saying on the stump and what his record had been in business or toward women, and so it's our job to make sure they see it."
He added that the group would also be focused on Mr. Trump's business record, an issue that numerous Republican groups and campaigns highlighted during the nominating contest. Mr. Cecil specifically mentioned Mr. Trump's record of "making ties in China and hiring people in Bangladesh."


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Do you love wearing the newest clothing types? Do you want spending hours looking at a number of the trendiest stores and retailers, trying around the newest type?
If you are doing, perhaps it is possible to turn the love regarding fashion and also style in to a fun, intriguing career simply by starting and also completing any fashion diploma. A trend degree can cause an exciting and occasionally glamorous career with all the possibility regarding good funds and long-term career security.
In which Does An individual Earn any Fashion Diploma?
Fashion just isn't just about the most available schooling options. Most schools usually do not offer a qualification program inside. But there are a few two- and also four-year diploma programs offered by a handful of schools, and you will even manage to enroll in classes online so that you can work about your active schedule. Typical education programs in fashion may contain courses for instance:
• Trend history
• Regular sewing and tailoring
• Fabric and materials
• Shades
• Styles
Most students realize that taking courses in operation, merchandising and also marketing may also help using a career of this type, especially in the event you expect to be effective available side or perhaps management in the foreseeable future. And in case you are attracted to at least one particular industry within trend, such since menswear or perhaps athletic use, you may are able to join additional lessons that give attention to that location. And that always really helps to work in a apprentice program using a fashion designer or even a design residence while participating in school as it will tremendously improve the employment opportunities after college.
Fashion Occupations
Many graduates locate jobs inside big cities for instance New york, Los Angeles, San francisco bay area or Arkansas, but you will find job opportunities throughout the country. If you'd prefer the store side with the business, you should work with a regional or perhaps national garments company or you should get started with a small, self-sufficient clothing store. Getting a great entry-level position with a large garments manufacturer can result in becoming a part of the layout or creation of clothing which is sold inside their stores. Large suppliers often run their particular in-house layout departments together with fashion developers employed on their staffs.
Fashion graduates may well enjoy doing work for theater teams or motion picture companies in which clothing together with historical accuracy has to be designed and also produced. And several students look at the ultimate positions to be in the exceptional, high-end layout house in which work inside the great money cities with the world, playing part in developing new trends for superstars and large society. Having any fashion diploma doesn't meet the criteria you to achieve this, but it will also help you get going.
Fashion Occupations and Options
The You. S Institution of Labour Statistics jobs that job for trend designers must remain steady through the next ten years, and there may be a increasing demand regarding designers regarding customers regarding major mid-level suppliers. Job opportunities may also be expected being strong inside the design divisions of key retailers in which market their particular products to many shoppers. Careers and also positions inside the fashion industry tend to be seen as being very attractive and jobs may be competitive, but individuals with conventional training and also job experience might find they hold the most options.
Earnings inside the broader trend field is still good. The Institution of Labour Statistics reports the average salary to get a fashion artist in May well 2009 has been $74, 410, even though the top 10% in this industry averaged above $130, 900.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Harley-Davidson HOG, +1.81% cut its estimates for third-quarter shipments to a range of 86,000-88,000, down from 91,000-95,000. "Against the current economic background, we no longer expect worldwide dealer retail sales to increase during the second half of 2007," it said. It expects a "modest" revenue decline for 2007 and earnings per share falling 4% to 6% to a range of $3.69 to $3.77. For 2008, it expects the U.S. retail motorcycle environment to continue to be challenging, with moderate revenue growth, lower operating margins and EPS growth between 4% and 7%. It's withdrawing 2009 guidance. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected 2007 earnings of $4.12 a share and 2008 earnings of $4.51 a share.
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These American BioTech Supply Premier Freestanding Undercounter Glass Door Pharmacy/Vaccine Refrigerators, 2.5 Cu. Ft., PH-ABT-HC-UCFS-0204G feature a microprocessor temperature controller and display, which allows for precise temperature control, verification and recovery versus mechanical style thermostats.
The Freestanding models ("UCFS") require 4" of clearance around back and sides of the unit for proper ventilation. Improper installation will void the warranty and will lead to temperature maintenance issues, overheating and possible failure.
The acceptable temperature ranges for vaccine storage are 36F to 46F (or 2C and 8C) in the refrigerator and -58F and 5F (or -50C and -15C) in freezers.
Environmentally friendly, natural hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants (not containing hydrofluorocarbons) vastly reduce global-warming potential (GWP) while meeting new EPA/SNAP mandates and UL, ASHRAE compliance guidelines.
- Four adjustable shelves (two large, two small) with guard rail on back to prevent product from being pushed against the back wall.
- Back wall evaporator cover.
- Vaccine storage power cord warning label.
- Forced draft circulation.
- Keyed door lock.
- Magnetic door gasket for positive seal.
- Leveling legs.
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- HFC-free refrigerant (R600A), foam insulation and packaging.
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Temp Controller:
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written by: Katharine Lee Bates
Happy Fourth of July! I would like to share this song to all of us who enjoyed the Gift of FREEDOM and LIBERTY which this country has given us!
( This is a poem by Katharine Lee Bates, first appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. She revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913- source:kids.niehs.nih.gov)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
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If you've already purchased a copy of my Beaded Nutcracker ornament, or my rose beaded box, then you know I've been flummoxed by a beading mystery. In fact, you might have been puzzled by this one too!
Well, I'm happy to bring you the news that I have now solved the mystery…
A beading mystery…
What is this beading mystery, you may ask?
Well, settle back and I'll tell you a story…
It all began one day when I was looking for some Delicas that were running low. I was sure I had ordered a new packet. But could I find them?…No!
Now, that isn't a beading mystery. I 'lose' bead packets all the time. They usually turn up somewhere later on. So, I wasn't too bothered.
But I was surprised to find a packet of beads that I had no recollection of ordering. They were a lovely deep red colour. So, when I came to make my beaded Nutcracker, I decided to use this packet of beads.
Get the beaded Nutcracker pattern here>>
I made the Nutcracker, published the pattern and thought nothing of it…
Customer questions…
Yes, that's right. I began to get a few emails from customers who had bought the pattern. They were asking me about the colour code for the red beads. Apparently, it seemed to give them a pink bead, rather than the red I had used.
I was a bit concerned. So, I checked and re-checked…and checked once more. Yes, my beading packet really did give colour number 625.
So, all I could do was apologise and suggest another number for a different red that I've used on other projects. My red beads do have a slightly pinkish tinge to them. So, I thought perhaps it was something to do with colour rendering on the computer screen.
The emails soon trailed off and I thought no more about it… Until I came to make my rose beaded box.
My own stupidity…
That gorgeous, rich, velvety red seemed like the perfect colour for a rose. I figured that people would probably choose their own colours anyway, so I risked using this one again.
Get the rose beaded box pattern here>>
Well, same thing happened. More enquiries about the colour code.
That's when the penny finally dropped. Of course, I should have spotted this right away. I know colour code 625 because I've been using those beads for over 6 years. Yes, they are (usually) silver lined pink alabaster. That's the shade I use for donut icing, fondant fancies and battenburg cake in my Sweet Treats book. (Not to mention countless other projects!)
How could I have been so stupid and not realised this immediately?
Get your copy of Sweet Treats book here>>
OK, so I had now established that I wasn't going mad: the bead packet really did say 625 and really didn't contain pink alabaster beads. So, I had a beading mystery on my hands… Not just one, but two…
How had I ended up with a wrongly labelled pack – which had come direct from the Miyuki factory?
…And what was the correct colour code for those gorgeous red beads?
A beading mystery solved!
So, how to solve a beading mystery? Well, call on the beading community for starters!
So, I hopped onto Facebook and showed a photo of my 'mystery' beads and asked if anyone else could identify the real colour. If you know anything about the beading community, you know how helpful people are.
Within a matter of hours I had several suggestions. Now, if you know anything about beads, you'll know how hard it is to identify a colour from a photo. So, some of the suggestions definitely weren't right. But all of them allowed me to check the delica colour codes and descriptions against my own beads.
I had another clue to work with… My pack had a label to warn that these beads had been dyed. So, that proved the clincher.
Thanks to Cath Thomas, who sent a link to a range of Miyuki dyed red beads, I think I've identified the correct colour code for my mystery red… DB654.
So, if you are one of the people who has my Nutcracker or Rose beaded box patterns, this is the colour I actually used!
Get the Fondant Fancy beaded box pattern here>>
Thank you Miyuki!
Just to be sure, I also emailed the Miyuki factory to check. Someone had suggested that maybe the colour codes had changed at the factory (what a nightmare that would be). I thought that possibly unlikely, but you never know.
Anyway, Miyuki were so kind and helpful. They have confirmed that my mystery beads were indeed in the wrong packet and they very kindly offered to replace them with the correct beads.
I haven't worried about that. After all, I've enjoyed using those red beads. I've discovered a new colour that I love. So, I'll just have to order more of both colours now!
The important thing is that I had a beading mystery, and now it is solved. I can amend the colour code on the patterns and hopefully that will end the confusion!


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Home And Garden Decorating
Decorating is most often done upon moving into a home whether it is purchased new or already established but it can also be done whenever the mood hits or one has outgrown a particular design. When decorating or re-decorating a room, the first question that should be asked is: What is the purpose of this space?
The purpose of a space may not simply be a functional purpose, it might also be what feeling or mood the room should emit. For example, the purpose of a dining room might be to provide a place to gather and eat a meal. This is true. But, the purpose might also be to make the extended family feel welcome and inspire conversation. Or the purpose of a bedroom might be to provide a place to sleep, but it might also be to provide a peaceful sanctuary from the hassles of everyday life. The secondary purpose of a room may vary
once the purpose of the room is decided; the next step is to find the pieces of furniture and accessories that will match that purpose. However, if the piece is made of
Cost-Effective Home and Garden
Home and garden lighting can also increase a whole lot to the feel and relaxation of any home or patio. Inexpensive selections will often be found, and several can certainly be just as instantly set up perhaps even and it doesn't involve working with a expert gardener or electrical contractor.
Many people are keen on solar lighting designed for outdoor locations. You don't have to run long electrical wires towards the electricity supply, and no need to rip up grass or alternatively hard top. Even so, if however you live in a location that does not get sunlight each and every day, solar lights most certainly won't be the best long term option. You have to charge no less than ten hours with a purpose to provide you with light for an equivalent amount of time.
There are plenty of categories of lighting for any house that online sellers have sprung up to offer nothing but a variety of lighting fixtures. These range from your small bedroom reading lamp to huge crystal chandeliers that hang down ten or more feet.
Home and Garden
Gone are the days when a hot tub is used just for a quick soak. Modern hot tubs provide numerous health benefits thanks to technological advancements which give you hydro therapeutic results in the comfort of your own home or garden.
The Home and Garden Spas 6-Person 40-Jet Hot Tub from Great Escape Spas falls in the mid price range and is loaded with numerous features for increased comfort, relaxation and luxury. Does it provide the epitome of luxury or does it fall short? Read on further to find out.
Features of the Home and Garden Spas 6-Person 40-Jet Hot Tub
- 6 person capacity
- Easy to use digital control panel
- Slip resistant surface
- 40 customizable, adjustable stainless steel jets
- MP3 input with Sub-Woofer and Waterproof speakers
- 6 HP motor
6 person capacity
Size is often a major aspect to consider when choosing a hot tub as you want all your friends or family to share the experience with you. This has a 6 person capacity which is very adequate for most families.
It features a slip resistant acrylic surface which is
How to Make Any Balcony a Personal Garden?
Balconies can be a real haven if you take the time to appreciate them. This is one place where you can escape the busyness of your apartment and enjoy the fresh air and benefit from a bit of relaxation at the same time. Why not turn this area into the perfect spot?
What if you could turn your balcony into your own personal garden? Do you think it's possible?
Besides, there are various places where having a garden space comes at a premium. What we are talking about is a townhouse that features a courtyard, smaller units with balconies, and apartments that sport a balcony or two.
Let's discuss some workable ideas around this concept of turning your balcony into a haven and a place where you can let your hair down at the end of a hectic day.
Which plants are a good fit for my balcony?
Setting up a garden on your balcony needs to follow similar rules for designing a garden as far as plants are concerned.
You have two options open to you:
- Learning through trial and error by planting what tickles your fancy
Fabulous Ways Of Decorating Your Home And Garden
One of most sizzling topics recently is home and garden decorating. You can see TV shows discussing different ways on how to decorate your home and garden. These programs provide interesting and useful guidelines to people who need a home transformation project. Aside from this, they also help people learn about home decorating without breaking their piggy bank. Through this, a fabulous home and garden decoration is not in a slightest way impossible to achieve.
Colors, paint, materials, fabrics and accessories – these things are very essential in home and garden decorating. Some people are doubtful when it comes to decorating because they think that they are not creative enough to do things their own way. In this case, magazines, books, catalogs and programs can be very helpful. These resources can help both beginners and experts to fulfill their home and garden decorating needs by presenting basic to complex ideas of modifying a home or garden's appearance.
Most decorators and homeowners decorate in such a way that their garden and home match perfectly together. They want to drag the concept of an attractive garden to the interior of their home or vice versa. To accomplish this
How to Choose My Home and Garden
No wonder, every one of us cares about his life quality. We all want to eat well, live in comfort and enjoy a relaxing living. That is why we should pay enough attention to our home and garden furniture. But to get the right ones we should know a little bit more about them first.
Actually, there are three main categories of furnishings. They are classified according to what they are made for.
First of all, there are furniture designed to satisfy a particular need, which means that they accomplish a physical function aiming the comfort of the user. For example, couches and beds are created to carry people comfortably while tables are designed to bear dishes and meals.
For this furniture category, effectiveness should be considered above all. In fact, what can you do with a beautiful table that doesn't support a little glass, or a couch above which you cannot relax? So, these stuffs should provide the function they are made for first, and all the rest would be a plus.
The second furnishings category encloses those made to be watched. These provide a moral function as they should satisfy people only
Keeping Your Home and Garden
If you are like most people, you want your home and garden to be smart and stylish. You can keep your place up to date when you shop for all the modern necessities and luxuries. You can surround yourself with beautiful and functional items as you make your choices.
Your home will be cozy and livable and your garden will bloom when you get all the right accessories. You will be able to make any kind of food or beverage in your kitchen if you have the right appliances to do the jobs. Cookbooks will guide you on your way to great family meals in your home.
For beverages, you will have blenders, juicers, and mixers. You can find cookware to suit your style, whether it is a single cooker or a complete set of nonstick cookware. Bring out the cutlery sets to chop up and prepare your foods for cooking and roasting. You can also cook in fryers, skillets, griddles, or microwaves. Toasters, toaster ovens, grills, and waffle makers complete your small cooking appliances.
When your food is finished, you can serve it with coffee, tea, or espresso. Use buffet style food servers to
It is Home and Garden Show Time
March is here and spring is just around the corner even though winter is still making a determined stand throughout the country. We will soon be entering into the new planting season. Home and garden shows are ramping up and will feature the latest lines of outdoor furniture for around the home. This is an excellent time to take the family out and find out which designs best suite your lifestyle.
You would never dream of decorating the inside of your home without the input of other family members. Why not get their input about the outdoors as well. Often, individuals pick out single outdoor furniture pieces throughout the year as the need arises without the consideration of what others may want. There is usually not a lot of thought to how these new pieces blend in with your existing outdoor furniture. This can easily lead to a tacky eclectic backyard yard that nobody knows what to do with.
Do not make that mistake. This year, gather the family together and hit the nearest home and garden show around where you live. Go pick out an outdoor living furniture set that everyone agrees on.
If you find
Should I Really Care About My Home and Garden
If you ask anyone that enjoys his life about the two things he cares about the most, you would probably find a unique answer: car and home; the car because it is what you use to move from a place to another so you want it to be nice looking and comfortable; and the house because it is where you spend the most of your time so you want it to be relaxing.
So when it comes to your home, the best thing you could do to make it look better is providing some good home and garden furniture for it.
In fact, when you set up a harmonized decoration in your home, either indoors or outdoors, you make it look beautiful and relaxing; something that helps you spend really good times with your family.
As living in a nice looking place has a positive impact on the human psychology, purchasing the right stuffs for your house inside and outside has became barely a must, not a choice. Watch out! These are not my words, but experts claimed it.
So if you want to get some equipment to improve your living, you have a
Hours of Fun With the Little Tikes Home and Garden
There are noisy toys, battery powered toys, flying toys, zooming toys, and just plain fun toys, but if you are looking for a toy that promotes both fun and learning the field narrows quickly. Many educational toys work with reading and math skills, but the little tikes home and garden playhouse is fun and builds skills that others do not. The colorful playhouse is big enough to play in and gives children hours of fun as they use their imagination to grow their flower garden, check the mailbox, and have fun playing indoors or outside.
The little tikes home and garden playhouse is made with bright colors that keep the children playing. Because of its size, it is easy to play inside when it is raining, then move it outside for sunny day play. Its plastic construction makes it safe to store outside and is perfect for setting up in the yard to give the kids a place to play while the adults barbecue and visit. Several children can play together, so when the friends stop by for a play date, the kids will have hours of fun. For added fun, the parents can write notes to
Benefits of Attending a Home and Garden
When was the last time you thought of giving your home a makeover? If you are like most homeowners, this is something that is always at the back of your mind. Unfortunately, your lifestyle doesn't allow you to get down to work. Of course, there is always the fear of jumping into the unknown when it comes to new décor or landscape design, which might also explain your procrastination.
However, this doesn't have to be so. You can borrow inspiration from a home and garden show to get started sooner rather than later. This might not have been the first thing in your mind but the moment you set foot at one of these events in your city, you will instantly realize what you have been missing.
If you are struggling to get your home improvement project off the ground, below are some of the reasons why a visit to these shows is a must:
- Meet the TV show stars: You have probably longed to meet your favourite TV star face to face and during a home renovation show, you have a chance to do so. From Mike Holmes Jr., Matt Muenster of BATHtastic!, Carson Arthur of Home
Home And Garden Party
If you're a home and garden party consultant, helping your hostesses come up with ideas for their parties can be a win-win situation for both of you. For the hostess, having a printed list with ideas, themes and even recipes can take a big part of the stress off her shoulders, and make her more motivated and enthusiastic about the party. For you, the consultant, having a happy hostess means happier and more relaxed guests, and everyone having a wonderful time at the party. This also can translate into more sales for you.
Although a garden party may make you think of elegant women in large hats, sipping tea out of tiny porcelain cups, in reality it doesn't require a home in the country with a large lawn, beautiful grounds and lots of outdoor furniture. Successful garden parties can happen on small patios in the city, in the backyard of the suburbs or even in a living room or dining room. In fact, some of the most successful garden parties don't even happen in the hostess's home – we've had successful garden parties at the local park, at a family member or neighbor's home, and once, even
A Review of the Home and Garden
The Home and Garden Party company was originally founded in 1996 and was completely based on Christian principles. The company's headquarters is located in East Texas. Each day, nearly 7000 orders are filled by over 300 employees. Steve Carlisle is the current CEO and Chairman of the company, while his wife Penny Carlisle holds the title of president. The company sells a variety of different products all from the comfort of your own home.
Their products range from home decorations and framed artwork, to dinnerware and bake ware, to candles, pottery and much more. Home and Garden Party currently has more than 28,000 Independent Designers, located all throughout the United States. As well, the company is a member of the Direct Selling Association.
The company gives the Independent Designers the opportunity to be their own boss. As an employee of the company, you have the ability to decide when and how much you want to work. An employee can keep their current job and work for Home and Garden Party for additional money. Or, if they choose, they can work for the company full time. If the Independent Designers have families, they can easily work the
Flags For Home and Garden Decor
Have you ever wanted to add creative elegance to your porch, garden, deck or wall? Decorative flags may be just the right ingredient for that special finishing touch. A friend of mine has a home with a tall wooden fence next to the garden path. She hung large rainbow flags from the top of the fence. The result was absolutely stunning. The sky is the limit when it comes to decorating with flags. Today designers have created flags that are beautiful works of art. There are colors, themes and sizes that will enhance any area of your home. For those of you who have an entry porch that would benefit from an uplifting splash of color a flag may be just the ticket for you. If you have a wall that is boring, then consider hanging a banner to cheer it up. It is easy to be creative when decorating with flags. Whether you choose to be flashy or understated you will find the flag fits the bill.
Flags are available in themes for the country home, the traditional home, the contemporary home, the desert home, the log home and the sea side cottage. There are even
Home and Garden Software
Would you like to landscape your garden and need home and garden software? You will find lots of software to landscape your garden, design your home, for home security, and hobbies, such as scrapbooking on the Internet.
Experiment with software to see the exterior of your home in a different color paint, with additions, different windows, doors or roof. Or experiment with a picture of your garden, adding plants, shrubs, trees and features.
Get an eBook with full colour step by step do it yourself guides. Here you will also find software for hobbies, such as greeting cards, embroidery, fashion, playing piano, health and fitness, garage bands, DJ software and music downloads.
You can also remodel your home, with the help of kitchen design or home design software. There is no need to employ an interior decorator. Experiment with the software to change your home into your dream home.
You will also find home security software. Keep your home, pets and loved ones safe, with the help of home security software and a camera. Why pay a security company when you can do it yourself? Your insurance company is sure to give you a
Have A Beautiful Home
There so many ways to beautify your home and you can make use of the variety of materials. If you have no idea on where to start then you need to have help and you can read along home magazines that give ideas or tips on how to make your backyard good and also the interior of the house. Another thing is you can browse in the internet for pictures of different landscapes and decorations that you can use. If you have the money then you can ask personal help from interior designers; just make sure that they have all the home and garden decorations that you personally chose.
The garden and the overall appearance of your house matters especially if you are the type of person that would have people come over and enjoy a quiet time bonding with each other. You can put to use other home decorations like gnomes that will help you create a mini wonderland in your backyard or have metal animal stakes which you can use to add details in your garden. Another garden decor that you can use and will give a big impact in the looks of your garden
Home and Garden Spas
If you want to experience the joys of owning a hot tub, but you're limited for space outdoors then a three-person hot tub could be ideal for you. Besides the space factor, it is more intimate to relax in a smaller Spa with your loved one so you may also be drawn to one for this benefit.
The Home and Garden Spas 3-Person 31-Jet Hot Tub is a user-friendly, small hot tub designed to be easy to maintain whilst still providing relaxing and therapeutic effects. Home and Garden Spas have a great reputation for producing high quality products which have been manufactured with energy-efficient methodologies so their range is well worth looking at.
Features of the Home and Garden Spas 3-Person 31-Jet Hot Tub
- 3 Person capacity, includes Lounger
- 31 jets
- User-friendly topside controls
- 6 horse power 2-stage pump
- 9-Colored LED lighting
3 Person capacity
This has been designed to accommodate 3 people so it's a perfect choice for couples or a small family. The dimensions are 80″ W x 60″ L. Due to its small size it is a space saver as well as being economical because less water is required to be heated up to
Hot at the Home and Garden Store
If you think everything at your local home and garden store is the same as it's always been, think again! The speed of technological and scientific innovation hasn't left the home supply industry in the dust. The whirlwind of new modernity has swept it up, and there are all sorts of hot new items that might surprise you.
Bathroom Products
In the bathroom, companies are putting all sorts of things into old products to make them more efficient, effective, and entertaining. You've probably seen waterproof radios; some hang from your shower arm while others are designed to stick to the tile with suction cups. While these are effective at broadcasting sound, they take up space in the shower and can be a bit of an eyesore. One company has come up with an ingeniously simple way to integrate sound seamlessly into morning showers by putting a wireless speaker inside the shower fan. The music plays over the noise of the fan and is positioned to broadcast downward, an acoustically superior positioning, without taking up any space.
Another new product prevents a toilet backup from turning into an overflow emergency. This new toilet has a sensor
Creative and Useful Ideas For Home and Garden
Spring is in the air! Take advantage of the resources at hand and make the most of the creative and useful ideas for Home and Garden that are available online, in books and libraries and give your home a sprightly look.
Try rummaging in your own home
If you are on a budget, use whatever materials you have at home before going out and buying anything. Make an inventory of discarded, faded dried twigs and flowers which could look new with a fresh coat of paint or just soap and water. Mix these with a few fresh twigs or flowers and arrange them in attractive bowls. Enhance your window treatment by just changing the drapes with colors that reflect the season. Re-arrange objects and centerpieces and notice how a little re-arrangement projects a newer look. Change furniture around and bring out the patio armchairs. Revive neglected garden furniture with a coat of polish or paint if you are one of those who love pottering around in the garden.
Spring-clean and make do with clutter
Use this opportunity to get rid of stuff that has piled up in attics and closets. Empty out closets and
Useful Home and Garden Makeover
Gardening experts give practical and useful home and garden tips online or on TV shows which are very instructive. Incorporate their ideas and suggestions to give your garden a face-lift. Several factors go into creating a beautiful garden. While the size is not very important, proper placement of plants, pathways and garden furniture all combine to create a beautiful garden.
Remember to follow these simple instructions
Prepare the soil before you bring in plants and vegetable seedlings. Clean out the garden and use lawn clippings, branches and leaves by renting a shredder and re-use this as fertilizer for your lawn. Make a compost pile in one sunny corner of your yard. Make sure to place a layer of soil over your leaf and waste products. Check out how much sun or shade is required for a plant by reading instructions on tags when they are bought. Select the right spot and make your soil bed. Remember, it is not necessary to dig too deep as this can choke a plant or create root rot. If a tree is to be planted, remember to leave a clear area all around for the future.


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Firstly, let us point out that those who believe that Aberdeen has a serious problem with traffic congestion are displaying a hopelessly parochial attitude and don't get out too much - they clearly haven't been to other UK cities recently. This video shows Glasgow commuter traffic:
Aberdeen traffic is light by comparison.
Anyhow, if you've read this blog, by now we're quite sure that you'll reckon that we'd be in favour of a congestion charge for Aberdeen. And you'd be right. However, ACC have made a dreadful political mis-step by openly declaring that their intention in introducing the charge would be primarily for revenue generation - such a policy clearly victimises motorists and will provoke a backlash. Because of this poorly handled political aspect, we think that the chance that a congestion charge will be introduced has actually been reduced.
It is all the more surprising that ACC should make such a political mis-step when we have the world-renowned University of Aberdeen Centre for Transport Research based here. Travel Demand Management is one of the specialities of the Centre, which recently completed a study demonstrating that, as in Stockholm, congestion charging can be introduced with the benefit of a fair political wind behind it if the public are allowed to experience a trial period; allowing the benefits to become clear.
The study's findings show that support increases significantly if people become more convinced of the positive benefits for themselves or for society, as they are more prepared to adapt, on the condition that it is to their advantage.
So, while a congestion charge shouldn't really be looked upon as primarily a revenue-raising measure, we should welcome it and any steps which will limit the extent to which private cars erode the pleasant liveability of Aberdeen. For too long has too much space been donated to the unilateral demands of the motoring lobby - and still they demand more! Will they ever be satisfied? To ask the question is to answer it.
Too often we hear from friends and relatives and correspondants and the local press that there's "no alternative" to the car for getting around Aberdeen. We have to ask ourselves - what's wrong with these people? Can't they walk? Are they really that dependent upon their cars? Are they truly so debilitated by this dependancy that walking even just a mile is out of the question? Aberdeen is no metropolis; it is a charmingly compact and pleasantly walkable medium sized town. Haven't they noticed? Why not leave the car outside the town centre and walk the rest of the way? It costs nothing and it has great personal and civic benefits. Aberdeen would be more pleasant yet were the air quality improved and more road space available in the city centre for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. And even equestrians - why not? That'd be great!
|Urban dual-carriageway: congestion, noise, visible and smelly pollution. And some roses.
The roses, unfortunately, cannot mask the smell.
The result is that, today - when compared to Aberdeen - many towns in continental Europe have much more pleasant town centres where people live, visit, work, do business and are entertained - all untroubled by the danger, noise, smell and inconvenience of heavy traffic. Sustrans is like a weird voice in the wilderness in the UK in its call for "Quality Streets". On the continent, there is no need for pressure groups to lobby for policies like these - it's just the way things are already.
So we should look at our European competitors (for that is what they are) and realise that we share their heritage. Rather than try to turn Aberdeen into Houston, we should let Aberdeen be what it is - a north European merchant city. For a modern attitude to transport, we need only to look back to the time when cars didn't dominate the centre and try to recapture the feel of that human-scale city. This is not America.


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Did you catch my recent faux pas? Somehow I accidentally posted a paragraph of my draft writing the other day. I am not a fan of the new post layout WordPress uses. It's not very user friendly for me!
You may have noticed I made some visual changes to my blog. I have been playing around with it for some time. I think I like how it looks for now and it is giving me what I want in layout design. Some of my writing will be moving away from food and recipes. I have found that writing thoughts and sharing life musings is healing for me. I'm giving deeper consideration to a book writing endeavor. I have been encouraged often so I've gotten a bit more active by studying more formalized writing. It's fun to try out my creativity in other ways. Writing was always a favorite creative outlet for me as a child, teen and young adult. I am finding the joy in writing again as I rest solidly in my "middle-age" years.
I have been giving serious thought to lots of new ideas recently. I am a dreamer for sure! I am a doer, too! I've been rather bored with my current vegetable choices these days and long for the peak season of produce abundance. I just planted my first set of indoor vegetable seeds! Yay for veggies of the future! I'm giving container gardening another try this year. In the meantime, I have been on a quest to find a little more excitement in my veggies that will make my palate happy for them.
Check out what I found! Have you ever seen one of these?? It's called a candy-cane beet! Isn't it pretty? Now, if that doesn't make me want to eat my vegetables, I don't know what will!
It tasted quite mild and is delicious raw. I sauteed part of it which brought out a bit more flavor, but still very mild so that it picked up spice flavors quite nicely. It does not have the robust, earthy beet taste like red beets. I like this beet sliced raw in a salad best. If you find one, pick it up and give it a try! Break out of your veggie doldrums, too!


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Guys' Getaway ~
Who's up for a mancation?
Bachelor parties are so last season. It's all about the mancation. Man, the stories you'll have to tell afterwards. Check out this four-day sample itinerary for the ultimate guy's getaway in the mountains of West Virginia.
Day One
4:00 pm – Arrival and Check-in
5:00 pm – Grab dinner while catching your favorite game at Glassworks Grill followed by live entertainment (Entertainment offered every Saturday from 9-11 p.m.)
Day Two
8:00 am – Enjoy our famous Mountaineer Breakfast Buffet in Ihlenfeld Dining Room
9:00 am – Grab a bike and take a heart-pumping ride through the Mountain Biking Course– bike rentals available at the Par 3 Clubhouse
11:00 am – Play a quick game of Mini Golf as you practice putting for tomorrow's match at Speidel Golf Club
12:00 pm – Casual lunch at Route 88 BBQ & Brew– enjoy a variety of house-smoked meats and craft beers on tap
1:00 pm – Cast a line at Schenk Lake– fishing pole rentals and bait available at the Schenk Lake Boathouse
6:00 pm – Time to try the Dry Aged New York Strip at Ihlenfeld Dining Room
8:00 pm – Grab a whiskey in Glassworks Grill and enjoy the view from the West Spa Patio which overlooks the park
Day Three
8:00 am – Enjoy our famous Mountaineer Breakfast Buffet in Ihlenfeld Dining Room
9:00 am – Gather the boys for 18 holes on the Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Course or Arnold Palmer Course
1:30 pm – Time to try a juicy burger at Speidel Grill
3:00 pm – Afternoon at the Aerial Challenge Course
6:00 pm – Dinner at Glassworks Grill featuring wood-fired pizzas and wings
8:00 pm – Head to Hickman Lounge for live entertainment (Available every Friday)
Day Four
7:30 am – Start the day by exploring miles of groomed hiking trails originally traveled by Earl Oglebay in the early 1900s.
9:00 am – Breakfast pastries and coffee at Sarita's Coffee Bar
10:00 am – Shopping at Speidel Pro Shop for keepsakes to commemorate your stay
11:00 am – Departure
Local Attractions
- Wheeling Brewing Company- 6.3 Miles / 18 Minute Drive
- Wheeling's Historic Centre Market – 6.9 Miles / 16 Minute
- West Virginia Independence Hall (First State Capitol of WV) – 6 Miles / 17 Minute Drive
- Cabela's – 12.6 Miles / 20 Minute Drive
For more information or to book your Guy's Getaway, please contact a Reservations Specialist at 877-436-1797. Please Note: Items outlined are set as an example itinerary. Oglebay cannot guarantee the availability of all amenities suggested. Reservations are highly encouraged.


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One Fish, Two Fish, No…a Floating Fish with its own parachute! You never know what magical fish you'll find In Migilicots Pond or in the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss! Hand sculpted and hand painted to the delight of Seuss fans everywhere.
Product Features
- Hand Painted
- Hand Crafted


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Sutter Shared Services understands what it takes to deliver high quality and affordable patient care—both to Sutter Health and other health systems across the United States.
Our services aim to provide our partners with a seamless patient experience. We reduce the administrative burden of back office administrative tasks, enabling you to focus on what's really important—the care of your patients.
We believe in continuous process improvement led by technology enhancements, innovative thinking, paradigm-shifting analytics, and "Lean" methodology to ensure our state-of-the-art services remain best in class. We have the experience, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence that will allow your organization to provide your patients with exceptional service.


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Reebok Classic Brings In Ariana Grande, Sharina Gutierrez And Rae Sremmurd
Some really cool news out of Reebok came to the forefront this week. Reebok Classic announces the addition of international pop star Ariana Grande, supermodel Sharina Gutierrez and rap-duo Rae Sremmurd to the next iteration of its Always Classic Spring/Summer 2018 campaign, showing the world what it means to be Always Classic with the new Classic Leather Flexweave.
A brand that fiercely believes in those who challenge expectations and push their creative boundaries, Reebok's new Always Classic campaign brings together the most disruptive and authentic style pioneers of this generation and unites them with Reebok Classic's iconic Franchise Four collective: the Freestyle Hi, Classic Leather, Club C and Workout Plus. First up celebrating the newest silhouette, the Classic Leather Flexweave, a reimagining of the iconic Reebok Classic sneakers, are Ariana Grande, Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi.
The Classic Leather silhouette is an icon of style, and the Flexweave evolution only adds to its legendary status. Ariana Grande and Rae Sremmurd brings an innovative energy to the table, taking the silhouette to new heights of self-expression. As hit-producing artists, Ariana and Rae Sremmurd are changing the game and creatively stretching the very essence of their genre. Known for their fresh and fearless style choices from the stage to the red carpet, they all bring their own flair to what it means to be Always Classic. With a signature style that is as diverse and unique as their assortment of hit singles, one thing that remains constant is their fresh footwear and the Flexweave has become a staple part of their distinctive style.
As a style shapeshifter in her own right, Sharina Gutierrez also isn't afraid to have her own distinct fashion identity, refusing to follow fashion trends or look to others for fashion choices but instead trusting her fashion instincts to remain true to herself.
The Flexweave's new openweave technology combines 8 different fibers, providing a perfect union of stability and breathability; durability and flexibility. The power of 8 means never having to sacrifice comfort or movement in the upper, creating a fashion forward silhouette for those who want to stand out.
Always Classic champions the people whose fearless self-expression and nonconformist attitudes turn heads and set trends around the world. Alongside Ariana, Sharina and Rae Sremmurd, the campaign features some of Reebok's most daring brand partners, including Rapper Lil Yachty and international supermodel Gigi Hadid.
Shop the new Classic Leather Flexweave, as worn by Ariana Grande, Rae Sremmurd and Sharina for $95 at http://www.reebok.com/us/classic_leather.
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Russia remains a major player in the global defense market. Various estimates are available on the size of Russian arms exports (more on that later)—but all leading market monitors agree that Russia is currently the world's second-largest arms supplier after the United States. Arms exports are an important source of earnings for the Russian economy.
In 2016, Russia exported $285.7billion worth of goods and services; according to the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), defense hardware and services accounted for 5.2 percent of that figure ($ 15 billion in absolute terms). But Russia's overall exports rely disproportionately on raw materials and minerals—especially hydrocarbons, which account for 62 percent of the total.
If we exclude energy from the tally, arms exports become even more important for the Russian economy. For example, they make up over 60 percent of Russian machinery exports ($15 billion of $24.4 billion). In other words, arms exports are one of the very few success stories in the Russian high-tech sector, along with the exports of nuclear technologies and materials.
Arms exports are important to Russia not just economically, but also politically and militarily. President Vladimir Putin once famously said at a sitting of the Commission for Military and Technical Cooperation "Effective military and technical cooperation is a potent instrument of promoting our national interests, political as well as economic." The Kremlin may also see major arms contracts as part and parcel of its long-standing and developing political and economic relationships, for instance with China, India, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, and many other countries.
Another notable development in this regard is the growing non-commercial arms deliveries to Russia's allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), especially Belarus and Armenia, and to non-CSTO member Syria. These deliveries are a major instrument of Russian foreign policy. They help to strengthen Russia's closest allies that serve as buffer states along its borders (Belarus, Armenia), and to suppress the terror threat—mostly in Syria, but also in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Click here for the full report (64 PDF pages) on the CSIS website.


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COPD Foundation and American Lung Association Collaborate to Enhance COPD Research
(April 26, 2017) - WASHINGTON, D.C.
For more information please contact:
Allison MacMunn
[email protected]
The COPD Foundation and American Lung Association today announced a partnership to help more patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) access clinical trials, and as a result enhance COPD research and outcomes.
The nation's third leading cause of death, COPD is a condition that encompasses emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and other diseases characterized by increased breathlessness and wheezing. Through the coordination of the COPD Foundation's COPD Patient-Powered Research Network (COPD PPRN) and the Lung Association's Airways Clinical Research Centers (ACRC), both organizations are aiming to improve the quality of life for those living with disease.
The COPD Patient-Powered Research Network (COPD PPRN) is comprised of patients who have provided health and quality of life information using a robust technological infrastructure that supports clinical studies and surveys. The platform provides a unique opportunity for researchers to connect directly with participants, and is overseen by a patient-led governing board to ensure that patient priorities remain at the forefront.
"The COPD Foundation looks forward to working with the American Lung Association on this endeavor," said Craig Kephart, Chief Executive Officer at the COPD Foundation. "We believe this collaboration will speed the development of improved therapies and ultimately a cure for COPD. Our network will serve as channel for ACRC recruitment, integrating our efforts and enhancing patient-centered COPD research overall."
The American Lung Association's Airways Clinical Research Centers (ACRC) is the nation's largest not-for-profit clinical research centers network dedicated to COPD and asthma. The network conducts large clinical trials that directly impact patient care for those living with COPD. Originally focused on asthma alone, in 2015 the program expanded to include COPD treatment research.
"Over 6,300 patients have participated in clinical trials through our Airways Clinical Research Centers, and we look forward to making an impact on thousands more with the support of the COPD PPRN," said Susan Rappaport, Vice President of Research and Scientific Affairs at the American Lung Association. "This important collaboration will aid our ACRC researchers at 24 different trial sites throughout the United States in conducting research studies toward our mutual goal of supporting better COPD management and improving treatment."
About the American Lung Association
The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease, through research, education and advocacy. The work of the American Lung Association is focused on four strategic imperatives: to defeat lung cancer; to improve the air we breathe; to reduce the burden of lung disease on individuals and their families; and to eliminate tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases. For more information about the American Lung Association, a holder of the coveted 4-star rating from Charity Navigator and a Gold-Level GuideStar Member, or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or visit: Lung.org.
About the COPD Foundation
The COPD Foundation was established to undertake initiatives that result in expanded services for COPD and to improve the lives of individuals affected by COPD. The Foundation' activities focus on achieving these results through research, education and advocacy programs that will lead to prevention and a cure for this disease. For more information about the COPD Foundation please visit www.copdfoundation.org.
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FREELAND, Mich.--Adrian College senior right-hander Tommy Parsons (New Albany, Ohio) has been named the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Pitcher of the Week for the second straight time for the period ending Sunday, the conference office announced on Monday. This marks the third time this season (March 5, March 26) and 10th in his career that the business management major has earned MIAA Pitcher of the Week.
Parsons tossed a three-hitter in going the distance in a 1-0 win over archrival Kalamazoo on Friday to begin a four-game conference series. Forty-four of his 68 pitches went for strikes, finishing with seven punch-outs to move into third place on Adrian's all-time strikeouts chart with 215. He allowed just one baserunner past first base and the pinch-runner was picked off at second--his second of the game. Parsons also tied the Bulldogs career record with six shutouts, which ranks second among active Division III pitchers. His 32 victories also lead active hurlers in NCAA Baseball, ALL Divisions.
On the season, Parsons owns MIAA bests with a 1.74 earned-run average and 36 strikeouts.
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