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Czech Traditions
Winter Carnival and Feasts
Mask parade (Masopust) is a traditional carnival that takes place in many Slavic countries, including the Czech Republic. Festivals are organized in many villages and cities. The date is not fix. Typically it is between the Three Kings Day and Ash Wednesday, forty-six days before Easter Monday. In the past, it was the "last chance" to eat fill and have fun at the balls, as the Ash Wednesday also means the start of the forty days fast.
Masopust is a feast of the great food. On the market, you can taste typical Czech delicacies. Sausages, grilled pork, white or black pudding or something sweet. Traditional Czech pies are delicious, doesn´t matter if they are with the poppy, curd cheese, plummy butter or nuts. All are fantastic. The local ball finishes the day. The whole village meets together there.
Czech masopust is so famous and traditional that the most popular ones around the Hlinsko city are thereby landing on the UNESCO World Heritage List. If you want to see it, you must visit villages Vesely Kopec, Hamry, Vitanov, Studnice, Blatno and Vortova, 100 km from Prague in the East Bohemia (Vysocina Region). This year we visited masopust at the Sychrov castle, 80 kilometers from Prague in the North Bohemia region. The carnival takes place on the beautiful premises of the castle Sychrov park. The atmosphere here was unforgettable.


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Module Reading List
Dr. Stephen Pearson
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
* = Most recommended
Research projects
* Bell, J. 2014. Doing your research project: a guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science . 6th edition. Maidenhead, Open University Press
* Davies, MB. 2007. Doing a successful research project : using qualitative or quantitative methods. New York, Palgrave Macmillan
* Module 12 in Varkevisser C.M. et al. Designing and conducting health systems research projects. Geneva: WHO IDRC, 2003. (Links to Vol 1 & Vol 2 )
Walliman, N. 2005. Your research project: a step-by-step guide for the first-time researcher. 2nd ed. London: Sage.
Usherwood, T. 1996. Introduction to project management in health research : a guide for new researchers. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Luck, M. 1999. Your student research project. Aldershot: Gower.
LearnHigher. 2011. Report writing - resources for students. Available from: http://archive.learnhigher.ac.uk/Students/Report-writing.html
Burnard, P. 2004. Writing a qualitative research report. Nurse education today. 24(3): 174-9.
WHO Regional Office for the West Pacific. Health research methodology. A guide for training in research methods. 2nd ed. Manila: WHO, 2001. (link)
General academic writing
* Skills@Library. 2019. Writing skills. Available from: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14011/writing/106/academic_writing
Burnard, P. 2004. Writing skills in health care . Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes.
Gillett, A. 2009. Academic writing: writing paragraphs. Using English for academic purposes: a guide for students in higher education. Available from: http://www.uefap.com/writing/parag/parafram.htm
Morley, J. 2013. Academic phrasebank. University of Manchester. Available from: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
Williams, D. 2002. Writing skills in practice : a practical guide for health professionals . London: Jessica Kingsley.
* Sandars, J. 2009. The use of reflection in medical education. AMEE Guide No. 44. Medical teacher, 31(8).
Sobral, D.T. 2000. An appraisal of medical students' reflection-in-learning. Medical education, 34, 182–187.
Tate, S., Sills, M. 2004. The development of critical reflection in the health professions. London: Higher Education Academy, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre.
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Diane Sawyer
It's been a long time since the executives at CBS News have had something to cheer about in the ratings, and that trend continues despite the replacement of the previous Evening News anchor Jeff Glor with female host Norah O'Donnell. In addition, the network is paying O'Donnell at least $7 million per year, much more than the $2 million Glor received during the 18 months he sat in the anchor chair.
The NewsBusters Time Machine returns this week with Diane Sawyer gushing to Iran's former President about what a softie the Holocaust denier is. Seven years ago this week, the then-Good Morning America co-host interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and wondered what makes him cry.
Remember back when journalists were skeptical of independent investigations into presidents? In the days when Ken Starr was looking into Bill Clinton, journalists weren't so supportive. On November 25, 1998, 20/20's Diane Sawyer grilled Starr, saying of the Starr Report: "This has been called demented pornography, pornography for puritans."
President Trump won't officially announce his latest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court until this evening, but it's already easy to predict the liberal media's spin. As with all recent Republican nominees, reporters will repeatedly label them as "conservative," which will nicely reinforce the Democrats' strategy to paint them as outside "the mainstream." But when Democratic Presidents announce their Supreme Court nominees, those same reporters can't find the words to call those choices "liberal."
During Thursday night's edition of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS, the liberal host made an interesting comment about how he believes President Donald Trump should leave the White House. He made the remarks while interviewing guest Diane Sawyer, who had interviewed the GOP occupant of the White House back in 1999.
The broadcast networks have refused to cover the conclusion of a massive defamation case involving one of their own. ABC News and Beef Products Inc (BPI) reached a confidential settlement which concluded a 5-year-old lawsuit as of June 27. BPI filed a $1.9 billion lawsuit against ABC News in 2012 for reports that the company's lean finely textured beef (LFTB) as dangerous "pink slime." ABC may have been liable for up to $5.7 billion if it lost the case because of South Dakota's Agricultural Food products Disparagement Act.
The defamation case Reuters called a "trial of a lifetime," between Beef Products Inc. and ABC over the network's coverage of its lean finely texture beef product continued with an amazing allegation. The network news also continued ignoring the trial, in spite of depositions of ABC employees which were shared with the court the week of June 12.
Reacting to the air strikes ordered by President Trump, Good Morning America journalist Martha Raddatz on Friday assailed the "horrific chemical attack" by Syria's dictator. Given that the war criminal Bashar al-Assad brutally massacred over 70 of his own people, the journalists at ABC might be embarrassed at how, through the years, they fawned over the "charming," "intelligent," "thoughtful" Assad.
Instead of scolding the divisive and unhelpful repudiation of a new President, the news media are enabling the sore-loser Left. But eight years ago, liberal journalists freaked out after Rush Limbaugh said of incoming President Barack Obama and his ardently liberal agenda: "I hope he fails."
Millions of Americans will celebrate Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, but the vast majority of journalists probably won't be among them — and it's not their scrupulous "objectivity," or a unique aversion to Trump's personal style, that keeps them from joining the party. Reviewing the media's inauguration coverage since 1989 finds that incoming Republican presidents receive little of the worshipful coverage that's accompanied the ascension of Democratic presidents. Instead, journalists measure new presidents using their standard liberal yardstick.
Sundance, the left-leaning indie film festival held in Utah each January, helped turn former vice president Al Gore into the media's favorite film star. Now, the festival is set to do it again. A sequel to Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, will premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR). The original premiered at Sundance in 2006 before its wide release and media fanfare later that year.
Fidel Castro's communist regime executed hundreds of political opponents and drove tens of thousands more into exile; hundreds of dissidents today languish in Cuban prisons. Yet liberals in the U.S. media — who rightly condemned such abuses when perpetrated by dictators such as Chile's Augusto Pinochet — inexplicably remain enchanted with Castro and his socialist revolution. For almost 30 years, the Media Research Center has documented the liberal media's infatuation with Fidel Castro and Cuba's communism; details within.


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Blockchain will not eliminate fraud or cure diseases, and cryptocurrencies in its current form will only exist until governments have found ways to control it like fiat currencies. Hi, I am JD and welcome to Blockchain beyond the Hype.
Opening a keynote session on the future of blockchain in this way is a signature for the work by Dr. ir Johannes Drooghaag, Executive Consultant, Researcher, Author and Keynote Speaker. Over the years, JD developed a reputation as reliable realist to breakdown new technology developments into usable implementations and transformations.
The following thought provoking keynotes are available:
Blockchain beyond the Hype - What is blockchain, what isn't blockchain, and what needs to be done before blockchain can start to fulfill the promises.
Blockchain and Endpoint Security - No need to hack blockchain itself when the endpoint devices are much easier to crack. Blockchain can work against you when your devices are exposed to hackers. This keynote is part of The Crypto Roadshow. Read all about The Crypto Roadshow and book your tickets for a great educational event on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain!
Ethical Technology Development - Will Artificial Intelligence be the next Manhattan project? It will if we don't start applying a framework of ethical standards around the evolving technology and it's community.
Agile Business reality check - Agile itself is a good concept to achieve flexibility and true market obsession. The real transformation to become Agile is however (almost) always blocked by treating it as a way to do more-with-less by the development teams. Wake up, Execs. Agile is not another badge for the website, and will not solve resource restrictions or bad planning.
Make them see the cow - Emotional competence and the art of presenting. You will see the cow, like it or not.
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Meditation Program
Want to lower your stress level and unlock calm? Join our new bi-monthly meditation program with Mary Ellen Crangle. Through the practice of meditation, breath-work and balancing chakras, you will also learn about the different types of meditation and discover how, when and where to meditate. All levels welcome. Fridayss, December 20, 12:00-1:00 pm.
Telescope Now Available for Lending
Thanks to a generous donation by Terry Zittritsch, the library has acquired an Orion Starblast 4.5 inch Astro Reflector telescope through the Vermont Astronomical Society's Library Loaner Telescope program. The Orion is a steady and rugged telescope that can be used outside and transported in your car - putting it on the floor or using a seatbelt may be a good idea. Dew or condensation will not damage the telescope but may blur the image. It is best to store the telescope inside when not in use. Lending rules may be found here. Call the library to reserve the telescope. Please allow 30 minutes check out/check in time.
LearningExpress Now Available!
LearningExpress contains academic and career-related solutions in one easy to use platform. It includes skill-building in reading, writing, math, science, college admissions exams, occupational licensing tests, workplace skills improvement, career exploration, computer skills and much more! The subscription also includes Job & Career Accelerator, a platform where job seekers can explore occupations, scholarships, jobs, learn how to write resumes and gain skills.
To get started click on this link and go to Sign In/Register on the menu. Click Register under New User. To create an account simply enter your name and email address and create a password. If you would rather not use an email click on "I'd rather NOT register with my email" and enter in a username, password and security question. Make sure and write these down as the library cannot retrieve them.
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The Friends of the Dorothy Alling Library are pleased to sponsor an online language-learning product named Mango. This free service is available to all DAML cardholders. Pick from 71 languages as well as 21 ESL (English as a second language) courses, movies in other languages and specialty courses.
Pick a basic course to quickly learn basic words and phrases or a complete course to move beyond the basics! There are apps available for iPad's, iPhone's and Androids. See the support page on the Mango site for help in addressing any concerns.
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This week's theatre highlights
Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust
Lauren Coe as Emma in Landmark Productions and the Everyman world premiere production of Asking for It by Louise O Neill. Photograph: Hugh O Conor
Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Nov 9-24 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm) €13-€45 abbeytheatre.ie – In these alternately distressing and galvanising days, you have to remind yourself that Louise O'Neill's breakthrough novel, Asking For It, was inspired by real events abroad rather than a grim prediction of what could happen much closer to home. An account of an 18-year-old girl, Emma O'Donovan, raped at a house party by the sports stars of her school, and distrusted in the fallout by the divided community of her picturesque Cork village, it will have an unsettling timeliness for as long as rape culture exists.
That the town should devolve into victim-blaming in O'Neill's story is characteristic of close-knit tribal guardians. But the complexity of O'Neill's fiction is to make its victim flawed from the beginning – disloyal, low on self-esteem, using sexuality as power – while also blameless. It asks us to understand the difference.
Already the inspiration for a television documentary and in the process of being adapted for the screen, the book reached the stage earlier this year in Cork in an adaptation by the terrific writer Meadhbh McHugh.
How to depict such a story, which the book distends through individual perspective, drunken blackouts and social media shaming, has been the task of Landmark and the Everyman Theatre's co-production, in association with the Abbey and Cork Midsummer Festival, and the excellent director Annabelle Comyn.
Such accounts, we know too well, rarely come without controversy, but given uncanny, discomfiting similarities with real life, how can anyone still have difficulty believing them?
Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Nov 9-10 7.30pm €18-€20 projectartscentre.ie – The fate of Kitty Genovese still haunts us. In 1964, the young woman was stabbed, sexually assaulted and murdered outside her apartment block in New York, reportedly in full view of 38 of her neighbours, none of whom came to help. That, however, was not entirely the case: a much-discussed report in the New York Times assumed the worst and accentuated the sensationally negative.
The event, nonetheless, inspired both despair, soul-searching and much study: had society really disintegrated to such a nadir, or were there mitigating factors? The gruesome, dispiriting event is now the cornerstone of the psychological theory of "the bystander effect".
That is also the concern of this new dance production from Ireland's Junk Ensemble, which debuted at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival and now performs at Project Arts Centre. Much of it is informed by an angry response to Genovese's ignominious tragedy, with fresh resonance for a time of indifference and apathy in the face of horrors far-flung and near.
"Movement is deeply embedded, jittery twitches and guttural contractions that portray the conflict between conformity and individual responsibility," wrote Irish Times dance critic Michael Seaver in an approving review. "Societal conformity seems to wins out."
Layering the Genovese's story with allusions to the bleak existentialism of Camus's The Stranger, while featuring notes on cowed behaviour and personal culpability against urban anomie, The Bystander brings together dancers and actors to probe at our responsibility to each other.


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New York: Takashi Kamei
Takashi Kamei is a fashion photographer based in New York. Born in Japan and raised in London, Takashi studied Fashion and Photography at London College of Fashion - University of Arts London and has assisted some of the most influential photographers in the world.
Takashi is known for his strong and graphical imagery.
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Magazines include Vogue Japan, Numero Tokyo, Harper's Bazaar Japan, i-D, Dazed and Confused, Vanity Fair Germany, WWD and Rolling Stone.
He has also shot numerous celebrities including Miranda Kerr, Selena Gomez, Rinko Kikuchi and Paul Smith.
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Lincoln Castle Revealed – Event Opener
In 2015 Lincoln Castle will be revealed to the public, showing off a completely renovated castle complex complete with a new centre to house the Magna Carta!
To officially start the Countdown to Lincoln Castle Revealed ceremony - A-Star Media were commissioned to create a short documentary film to officially open the event.
We have been filming the castle building works over the last four years for long-standing client Robert Woodhead Ltd. Using this footage and additional content shot weeks before the event, we created a beautiful opening film that brought tears to many an eye on the day.


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Workshop objectives:
- To learn how autism may affect your child
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- To locate resources to support your family
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A GANG armed with hammers, baseball bats and an axe caused terror in an Ashton rampage.
Four men burst through the door of a house in Margaret Street, smashing up furniture and a window before assaulting the boyfriend of the female occupant.
Police said they caused a substantial amount of damage.
The culprits continued their brutal spree after they were challenged by an onlooker, as they fled from the scene.
They set about the 24-year-old victim with baseball bats, gashing the back of his head.
Police are hunting four men, following the incidents on Friday night from 7.15pm onwards.
The axe-wielding offender is described as being 5ft 1ins tall, of broad build, wearing a navy blue hooded top.
One of his accomplices was described as aged 20-22, 5ft 8-9ins tall, of slim build, with curly, black hair, wearing a thigh length waterproof coat.
There are no descriptions for other two.
"We need to know who these people are," said PC John Cox, of Ashton police.
"With that kind of incident there would have been a lot of commotion. It was at a time when they could have been quite a few people about, either getting ready to go out or coming home from work, so if anyone saw anything we would urge them to contact us."
PC Cox added that anyone thinking of tackling criminals should weigh up the situation.
"You've got to think of you own personal safety," he said.
"If people are running down the street with hammers and an axe use your common sense. The best thing to do is keep your eyes and ears open and contact the police."
If you have any information call PC Cox of 0161 856 9372 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


text: Washington, D.C. - (FILE) -- Flight operations at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, August 2, 1987 from the Metro subway platform. The aircraft pictured belongs to an airline that is no longer in operation. The Eastern Air Lines aircraft, a Boeing 727, was flown as part of their air shuttle service between Washington and New York. In 1989, the Eastern shuttle was sold to Donald Trump, who renamed it ithe Trump Shuttle. It operated until April, 1992 when it was acquired by US Airways. .Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP


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Looking for a beta read? Someone to help with research? Dog walking? You've come to the right place for the first two, and if you have a pug, I'll seriously consider the dog walking, because my job is to make your life easier. Also, pugs are awesome.
I've spent years in the start-up sector of the tech industry — including a stint at Kobo — honed my skills in project management, problem troubleshooting, and getting 'er done. I've managed a million dollar budget, run websites that garnered a million hits an hour, and have over 15 years experience with helping people do their jobs. My approach is über flexible, I have a keen eye for detail and organization, and I'm a writer and voracious reader with a love of all things literary. And I'm here to help.


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D.I.E – No Lanes
Well the time is here and I think I am ready to talk and discuss about Driving In Egypt (D.I.E). The Acronym is very fitting actually. It almost feels like you're about to die, every time you put yourself behind the steering wheel in Cairo.
On most decent roads, you'll find faint lane lines, to guide the drivers as to where they should be driving. This however has little or no impact on people. When you get into your four wheels and behind that steering wheel, consider the roads as a massive bumper car track, where the aim is to avoid all the cars around you at any means necessary but when you do hit someone or someone hits your car; It's always going to be 'Malish' (I think it means, don't worry).
A road that has three lanes can soon enough turn into six unmarked lanes. It becomes the survival of the fittest. No concept of fast lane or slow lane. It's the case where If you feel like driving like a snail in the fast lane, who is everybody else to tell me what to do.
The sad part is that the driving affects you. I end up driving without seeing the lanes and maneuver according to where I want to go and at the speed I want to drive at. I know it's my bad.
I say make sure all three of your mirrors are working and use them every other second. You never know who might be popping up from any side of the road. Just stay focused and keep driving straight as possible.
Pavements and Trees in Amman
(photo by wasapninjordan)
Why do Jordanians plant which I believe are olive trees on the pavement in front of their homes? My neighbours on my street have them and almost every inner street I know have them. Hence walking on the pavement becomes extremely difficult. People are actually forced to walk on the road, which in the UK is called 'jaywalking'. Incidentally 'jaywalking' on the road without appropriate reason is a criminal offence in the UK.
When I first came to Jordan, walking on the road rather than a designated pavement was so weird and I would find I would feel at odds walking on the road while the cars whiz by you.
Just a thought from my curious mind 🙂


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In terms of mainstream adoption, gallium nitride (GaN) has reached a crossroads of technology innovation and supply-chain transformations. GaN offers significant advantages when it comes to semiconductors. It's been used in RF and LED applications, and can be effective in solar applications, too.
One company that's working with GaN technology is MACOM. I spoke with Doug Carlson, Vice President of Strategy, about where GaN is headed and what is changing in the industry.
Wong: Do you consider gallium nitride a "proven" technology at this point, or are the industry's expectations for GaN's performance still in flux?
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Carlson: The performance advantages achievable with GaN technology are well known within the RF and microwave industry today. GaN delivers as much as 8X the raw power density of incumbent GaAs and LDMOS technologies at high efficiency, with the ability to scale the device technology to high frequency. GaN technology has also allowed device designers to achieve broad bandwidths while maintaining high efficiency (Fig. 1). These are proven benefits.
Many of the early reliability challenges of GaN have been solved and GaN today demonstrates, via RF life test, a mean time to failure (MTTF) of greater than106 hours at a junction temperature above 200°C. Though GaN has realized many significant advances over incumbent technologies, GaN has not realized its full potential. Over the coming years, we expect advances in total power per device, penetration of GaN into additional RF functions, and increased functional integration.
Wong: How would you characterize GaN's early market trajectory?
Carlson: Historically, GaN technology development has been primarily driven by government funding and R&D. GaN on silicon carbide (SiC) is being successfully applied in the military domain today, in applications such as broadband electronic warfare jammers and radar systems, while GaN on silicon (Si) has been successfully deployed in military communications. GaN's usage continues to expand in the military market. These initial successes have opened the door for its penetration into commercial markets, including CATV, cellular infrastructure, and other applications. In fact, we are seeing the initial penetration of GaN into these markets.
Today, we are only at the very beginning of GaN market penetration and adoption. GaN revenue for 2013 was $188.6M according to ABI Research, suggesting that the technology has penetrated less than 1% of the approximate $9.5B overall analog semiconductor market. Given the extensive hype around GaN, this narrow market penetration may come as a surprise to many, especially when one measures GaN's potential impact beyond the RF and microwave market. It's been said that there isn't a single analog function that won't be made better with GaN. Indeed, when GaN's cost structure comes into alignment with incumbent technologies, its disruptive effect on the analog domain will be massive.
Wong: What applications do you expect to be the biggest market growth drivers for GaN technology in the near term?
Carlson: In the RF field, in the near term, GaN will see the highest growth in cellular infrastructure applications. GaN's bandwidth, power, and efficiency advantages provide compelling drivers for adoption in macro base stations and small cells. It will further penetrate cellular infrastructure, providing solutions for point-to-point communications. While military use of GaN will remain solid and in fact grow, the commercial market will continue on its present trend and be the main driver today and in the future.
GaN will have a profound impact on the microelectronics industry beyond RF applications. GaN, particularly GaN on Si, is poised to revolutionize the power-conversion market, which seeks an improved semiconductor platform for high-voltage power management. Many of the fundamental properties that make GaN a compelling solution for RF also make it the ideal solution for power conversion. This market may be as much as 10X larger than the RF and microwave market serviced by MACOM.
Wong: How do you answer skeptics who say that GaN is too expensive to support mainstream commercial applications?
Carlson: GaN, at its current cost structure, has begun to penetrate commercial applications. Its use is primarily driven by performance advantage. Further penetration into commercial markets will place significant demands on the manufacturing infrastructure for GaN—from device fabrication to packaging. The entire supply chain will have to adjust to increased market demand.
GaN-on-Si device technology coupled with high-performance plastic packaging solutions is ideally suited to address the challenges of high-volume commercial markets. Certainly GaN-on-SiC technology will continue to support less price-sensitive applications. The supply chains for GaN are defined along these two separate paths, and not surprisingly, these supply chains look very different. The cost-effectiveness of GaN ties directly to the process efficiencies and ultimate scalabilities of these supply chains.
Wong: How would you characterize and compare the respective process efficiencies and supply chains for these two flavors of GaN, and how do these factors impact cost?
Carlson: GaN on SiC will remain the purview of low-volume, niche applications due to the inherent cost structure of the substrate material. Fundamentally, at a physics level, SiC boules grow significantly slower than silicon. The main cost drivers for producing substrates—notably capital depreciation and energy consumption during growth—scales proportionally to production time. Therefore, GaN on SiC will remain perpetually higher cost, and thus prohibitive, for mainstream commercial use. The high attendant costs of producing SiC ensure that this market will be serviced by a select group of high-mix, low-volume compound semiconductor fabs.
By comparison, GaN on Si leverages the supply chain and cost structure of the broad silicon semiconductor industry. This allows GaN, as a new technology, to exploit enormous industrial manufacturing scale, both in terms of wafer diameter and sheer fabrication volume, while also benefitting from decades of optimized process control. These factors will drive the GaN-on-Si cost structure, in the near term, to be comparable to silicon solutions.
And whereas carbide is a relatively new material with a correspondingly short history of use in industrial-scale applications, silicon has benefited from more than 60 years of industrialization and development. It's arguably the most technically engineered material on the face of the earth, so the supply chain for GaN on Si has a host of natural cost efficiencies aligned in its favor.
Wong: What will the GaN market landscape look like when it reaches full maturity?
Carlson: We expect that the GaN-on-Si cost structure in mainstream silicon fabs will be reduced significantly from today's GaN-on-SiC structure. Scaling GaN from small-diameter GaN development fabs to 200-mm silicon fabs will achieve orders of magnitude reductions in cost.
Providing a viable roadmap for cost-effective manufacturing removes one of the last remaining barriers to mainstream GaN adoption. GaN's cost structure will soon intersect and drop below that of GaAs for cell phones. Once cost parity is achieved, better performing technologies always displace incumbents in the highest-performance applications.
To fully realize the commercial promise of GaN, there must also be surety of supply to promote stability and resiliency—to say nothing of economic efficiency—across the GaN supply chain. Exact dual-source support is a key requirement for high-volume, risk-adverse applications.
Wong: How big a factor is GaN component packaging technology with regard to mainstream GaN adoption?
Carlson: GaN packaging options are an essential part of the equation, with implications for product performance and cost, as well as manufacturing efficiency. Recently, MACOM has focused on the introduction of high-performance, surface-mount plastic packaging for high-power GaN devices (Fig. 2). Plastic-packaged high-power GaN enables designers to adopt conventional surface-mount manufacturing approaches and their associated manufacturing efficiencies. In this way, the adoption of GaN in plastic further drives a roadmap for supply-chain cost reduction.
Wong: When should a system designer employ a GaN-on-ceramic RF device versus a GaN-on-plastic RF device?
Carlson: GaN on ceramic remains the packaging option of choice for devices that must be hermetically sealed to ensure reliable operation in environmentally challenging conditions. Ceramic-packaged GaN devices also can manage much greater power-dissipation levels than plastic-packaged alternatives available today.
When measuring the value/useful applicability of ceramic- versus plastic-packaged GaN RF transistors, the target lifecycle for the end system is often the deciding factor. For example, military radar system designers have higher expectations for environmental ruggedness and system lifetime than designers of many consumer products. Ceramic-based GaN devices are ideally suited for systems expected to deliver extremely high reliability for long periods of time with minimal maintenance, and are often less sensitive to cost pressures than commercial-caliber systems (Fig. 3).
Wong: Are there any other hurdles to leap before GaN reaches the mass market?
Carlson: Several critical requirements must be met in order to propel GaN to mainstream market adoption, some driven by cost, and others pertaining to how we as vendors approach customers/system designers with this nascent technology. Among the practical considerations to be mindful of here is that any new technology must solve a technical problem that can't be achieved with current technologies. In this sense, new technologies like GaN don't replace older technologies, but rather augment capabilities and expand performance to allow the next wave of innovation. System designers and GaN vendors alike need to understand where GaN fits in the toolbox.
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DigiCase Transport Case for the DigiPlate Pro System
A transport case has been our number one requested piece of equipment since launching the DigiPlate line. The DigiCase is based on the Pelican 1510 case for its ruggedness and it is also the largest size case you can carry-on on a commercial airline. The DigiCase active suspension system suspends the DigiPlate Pro in the middle of the case so you can leave your laptop and all your accessories attached to the DigiPlate Pro during transport. Then just pop open the case and you are ready to get to work. There is also a ton of room for cables, extra hard drives, camera bodies and lenses underneath the DigiPlate Pro. For more details and pictures, click here.
DigiPlate v2 Has Arrived
We've been hard at work for the past few weeks with a bunch of new DigiPlate products. The first is a slightly revised DigiPlate which measures slightly smaller than the original version and features a more comfortable handle. Also in the works which we hope to reveal in the next few weeks is a sunshade system, a custom transport case and a few other goodies. Stay tuned!
DigiLegs for the DigiPlate Now Shipping
We've been working on a few add-ons to the DigiPlate system. The first of which are DigiLegs. With the DigiBase and a hard drive or two mounted on the bottom of the DigiPlate, the bottom can get uneven when you just need to set everything down during setup and teardown. The DigiLegs help level everything out. We just leave ours on all the time. You can see more details here. DigiLegs for the DigiPlate
New DigiPlate Tripod Bracket
We've been busy for the past week putting final touches on the DigiPlate. The pictures of the black anodized prototype are pretty much final at this point. We also have created a new mount that will allow direct mounting of the DigiPlate to your tripod legs. Here's a quick little video we did with the tripod bracket mount. It demonstrates how easy the bracket is to use and also how portable the whole DigiPlate system really is.
DigiPlate Mounting Options and Ideas
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We've had a lot of inquiries on what types of accessories we will be making for the DigiPlate. The first accessory we're working on is the accessory/drive clamps. These are very similar to the laptop clamps but most likely we'll be making them in two sizes. They will come in two versions that will cover .5" to 1.5" thick accessories. Each of those versions will come with shims that will extend those clamps in 1/16" to 1/2" increments and can also be used to shorten the clamping height in those same increments. So, the 1/2" clamp will be able to accommodate drives/accessories from 1/2"to 1" tall and the 1" clamp will be able to accommodate drives/accessories from 1" to 1-1/2". Here's a quickie video that shows prototype clamps in action:
80MPH Extreme Clamp Test
This test was probably was more for fun and geekdom than necessity but we did it anyway. We did the shake test yesterday and you saw that the clamps really aren't going to let go of your laptop. Today we mounted the DigiPlate to the roof of a car and cruised up the 110 in LA and did the extreme DigiPlate clamp test. Check out how robust the laptop clamps are:
DigiPlate Clamp Shake Test
Last week we progressed the DigiPlate to a prototype stage (version 3) that we think is pretty robust and so this week we are testing it almost every day in real world shooting situations. Here's a video showing how well the clamps grip the laptop to the plate. The clamps have a special rubber from 3M that is very thin and also very grippy.
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Based upon my preliminary research we have at least three cases that manifest Pirsumei Nissa in Halachah - (perhaps there are more?)
A. Ner Hanukkah
B. Megillat Purim
C. Arba Kossot
We have several Halachot flowing from this designation
1. "Af hein hayu b'oto hanneis" implies gender equality in the performance of all of the above Mitzvot
2. We are also enjoined to "sell the shirts off our backs" to fulfill these Mitzvot
Some observations
• Women are usually enjoined from drinking too much wine. Obviously this is suspended during arba kossot
• However, re: Megillah, it seems that many Posqim refuse to waive issues of "kol ishah" to permit women to read the Megillah in Public.
Perhaps the Hilluq is the private nature of the Seder vs. the public nature of Megillah
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• Another anomaly is that regarding Ner Hanukkah, husbands and wives usually fulfill this jointly. This may be driven by the "uveito" nature of the Mitzvah which pertains to the household [heftza] as opposed to the individuals [gavra].


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CHICAGO – He was all Chicago, from his birth on the West Side to his passing on the North Side, blocks from Wrigley Field and his beloved Chicago Cubs. Howard Fagenholz's family owned the Marigold Bowl near the corner of Grace and Broadway from 1941 through 2004. He was a lifelong entertainer at the bowling alley, combining his bellicose and sentimental virtues as a bartender and counter worker there, which earned him the nickname "Uncle Howard." Fagenholz died in his sleep of natural causes on June 30th, 2017. He was 88.
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How much longer does Marv Albert plan to work, given his nearly half-century as a sports announcer and his age, which is 74?
"I think I have another 25, 30 [years] in me," he joked Tuesday.
As improbable as that seems, Albert will remain at Turner Sports at least for the time being after signing a contract extension that the network announced in advance of his calling the NBA All-Star Game Sunday in Toronto.
Albert is in his 18th season as a play-by-play man for the NBA on TNT.
As part of his new deal, he no longer will call NCAA Tournament basketball games. Albert said calling four games in one day and six in three during the first two rounds of the NCAAs simply was too much for his voice to handle.
"My voice the past couple of years, it actually took me out of doing NBA games for several weeks," he said. "I felt it was the wiser move to go primarily NBA at this stage."
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- Above, Mike and Maria Kanellis battled in a qualifying round for the UpUpDownDown Championship Tournament. The two would play Mortal Kombat with Mike picking up the 2-1 victory to advance. Both Mike and Maria have been in the news recently after it was reported the duo had requested their release from WWE, Maria has since said she did not request her release from the company.
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- In the video below, Ric Flair cut a quick promo about how he wants to be like The Rock in 2019.
"Instead of being a kiss stealin', wheelin'-dealin', limousine ridin', jet-flyin', son of gun, I've decide to be like The Rock!" Flair exclaimed. "That's right, it's 2019 and I want to grow up and be like The Rock!"
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Another weekend, another splash in the cinematic sewer. Paramount's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" remained a huge No. 1 at North American theaters with $47 million in ticket sales ($261 million to date). But it was the unexpectedly strong performance of "Horrible Bosses" — noted by critics for its homophobia and misogyny — that caught Hollywood's attention.
"Horrible Bosses," which cost the New Line division of Warner Brothers about $35 million to make and is rated R, sold an estimated $28 million in tickets for second place, proving that audiences are anything but weary of crude comedies. (Still to come this summer: "Friends With Benefits," in which Justin Timberlake uses an iPhone app to detect menstrual cycles, and "The Change-Up," featuring a baby defecating on Jason Bateman's face.) "Zookeeper," a family comedy that cost Sony Pictures Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $80 million to make, was a soft third with about $21 million, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data. That result, which a Sony spokesman called "solid," was in line with prerelease expectations.
"Cars 2" from Disney's Pixar Animation Studios was fourth, taking in about $15 million for a three-week domestic total of $149 million. The inexpensive R-rated comedy "Bad Teacher" (Sony) was fifth with about $9 million, lifting its total to a robust $79 after three weeks.


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is a short story of a group of friends who grew up in Hawaii. During the long flat summer, the crew decided to take a trip south. While most surfers are heading to Indo, Fiji or Tahiti during this time of year, our crew decided to go further. Far on New Zealand's southern island, the gang runs into many things working against them. From angry locals, iceberg lakes and no idea where to go, they do there best to capture the raw beauty of the place whilst keeping the laughs going the whole time.
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Troubled Brighton gym looks likely to stay open
A Brighton gym is likely to remain open and in the same hands despite the owner's financial difficulties.
Fitness First, which owns a gym in Queen's Road, near Brighton railway station, has asked accountants to come up with a financial rescue package.
The package – known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) – will mean dozens of branches are put up for sale.
But today (Tuesday 5 June) the firm of accountants behind the rescue package, KPMG, said: "The Queen's Road branch of Fitness First is not one of the gyms which has been put up for sale.
"Instead, it is one of a total of 57 gyms which will be retained by Fitness First and which, subject to the approval of the CVA by creditors, will be retained at current rents (not reduced), which will be paid monthly as opposed to quarterly for three years."
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Pete Davidson is evidently a cool and funny guy – there is no disputing that.
He is a comedian, after all.
However, after he was engaged to Ariana Grande and then this weekend seen holding hands with megababe Kate Beckinsale many may have been wondering, like, how?
Let's not also forget he had a long-term relationship with another legend Cazzie David. The guy knows how to wrangle angels.
Now former Real Housewife of New York Bethenny Frankel has proferred her own theory on how Pete managed to land a bunch of immortals.
And it involves his penis.
Which he might not be happy to hear about, if you cast your mind back to Ariana's comments on his appendage…
Anyway, Bethenny tweeted yesterday: 'So Pete Davidson was engaged to the sexy & talented @ArianaGrande and is now dating the beyond stunning @KateBeckinsale?'
Yes, that is correct, Beth.
'So I guess it's clear that he shoots diamonds out of his penis?'
Whoop there it is.
We mean, it can't hurt right? The fact he could shoot diamonds, that is. The actual act of it might be super painful.
She was totally team Pete though, in his endeavour to just live his best life.
'He is probably nice & funny & sensitive which women like. Cute and sweet,' she added, when someone questioned how a comedian was able to land Hollywood actresses and superstars.
'And the diamond D doesn't hurt I reckon.'
The SNL comedian's winning dating streak (we can call this a trifecta now, right?) seemed cemented on the weekend after he was seen with British actress Kate, after they were first spotted together at a Golden Globes after-party and later holding hands after a gig on Friday.
He was previously engaged to Ariana until they announced their split in October last year, but, no hard feelings, sure, addressing her previous comments on his peen he felt it wasn't exactly acting in his favour.
'I don't like that she talked all that shit for my penis,' he said during a stand up performance in January.
He continued of his petite ex: 'Everything is huge to her.
'Why would she tell everyone that I have a huge penis? So that every girl who sees my dick for the rest of my life is disappointed.'
Ah poor Pete.
For those who need a little context on the whole palaver, way back in June the cheeky singer couldn't help but praise her man's penis size during a Q&A with fans over her new album.
On the new release, there is an interlude named Pete Davidson – and when a fan questioned how long it was, she couldn't help but shoot back an epic answer.
'Like 10 inches?' she joked. 'Oh fuck….I mean….like a lil over a minute.'
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One of the key potentials is to improve the delivery of services to consumers within their own habitation. Achieving these improvements thus requires combining smart home systems, other IT and traditional service delivery into effective and efficient smart home services. A possible solution has been examined and tested in Hamburg in the past due years in the frame of the "networked home in the neighborhood" project, which included, among other things, the design and implementation of a model apartment.
Meeting daily challenges with the help of the Internet
Today, 16 October, all project partners will display their results at the official final presentation that will be inaugurated by Hamburg's Minister of Health, Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks. "Demographic change alters the requirements for life and living in Hamburg.The "networked home in the neighborhood" project impressively shows how new residential and care services may be provided in future when innovative ideas meet the desires and needs of older people", said Cornelia Prüfer-Storck, Hamburg's Minister of Health. The project partners – University of Hamburg, Care & Housing Ltd., Pro Shop AG and Q-Data-Services GmbH and the Health Economy Hamburg GmbH as project co-ordinator – thus set up a model apartment with technical assistance systems and complemented it by a web-based service platform. Both should support and enable elderly people to be able to live as long as possible in a familiar environment and maintain their independence.
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In the past months, the assistance systems and the service platform havd been tested and evaluated by test residents. Moreover, an advisory board with experts from the Hamburg Care Society, the Medical Association, the country's senior advisory council, housing associations VNW Hamburg and BFW National Association North as well as partners from science assisted and advised the project, which was funded by the European Union and the Hamburg Ministry for Health and Consumer Protection.
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Doesn't eleven hours of the finest music of Solomun's world-famous imprint sound like a fantasy? We think so too!
Diynamic Festival is coming back to the forests of Amsterdam once again for the sixth time this 2018! Label boss Solomun himself will be showcased! He will be spinning along with the first wave of acts recently announced, namely Adriatique, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, and HOSH!
As always, the venue of Diynamic Festival remains in the beautiful Amsterdamse Bos, which is a lush and organic forest whose vivid green location puts you at one with nature. Tickets to this event will start next week, precisely on the 13th of December!
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she started going downhill again yesterday, her temp is back up and her O2 sat rate is down. the vets had given her both baytril and a long acting abx injection last week…my guess is the injection is wearing off and the oral baytril is just not cutting it alone now.. she went back into the vets today and now is on 4 different oral antibiotics…baytril once a day, flagyl, amoxicillin and clavimox three times a day. tonight she still is not good. i am to phone the vet tomorrow to update, if she is still down, we wiill try a couple of days of steroids. maude is about 16 now…not a good time in any elderly life to develop aspiration pnuemonia. fingers crossed that the diva soon returns.
4lane is also not weathering his GI bleed storm very well…the bleeding has stopped but his appetite has not yet returned, he is quite low right now too. 4 lane is on flagyl and sulcrate three times a day and baytril once a day plus gravol prn an hour before we try to feed him or give him meds.
we moved most of the dogs out of the main part of the house today. jack and cole moved over to the mp room to their mutual delight. chyna, star, and jewel moved over to the big dog room. star and jewel didn't stay there for long…they are currently in my room because jewel the not to be denied ten ton torpedo, crashed thru the gate separating my room from their room. star hit my bed and not even i can make a half starved neglected dog who looks so pleased, get off again. and well…moving a torpedo who doesn't want to move, just doesn't happen i guess.
now the cats have the back 2 rooms, the kitchen and the big cat room, mostly to themselves…just sickie maude, tyra, buddy, sissy, molly, nina and squirt and none of them the least bit interested in whatever the cats want to do. monty and tiger woods and harrison have already moved back into the big cat room, conan has poked around a bit and tried out the couch, tang and mango have moved back in and renee is laying by the open door trying to decide if she wants to come in too.
it is not that any of the dogs were ever mean to them, they were just freaking loud and excited sometimes…the cats are quite glad that the chaos creators have moved elsewhere and now they can have room to move around more AND a little peace.
este was glad chyna moved over, they have already been playing in there together again. that is nice to see. and while i am not exactly happy that jewel the noisy hysteric is enthoned in my room, i guess i will have to deal with that….better me than the cats i suppose…i can tell her to shut the hell up and she actually sometimes listens to me!
busy day tomorrow, i have lots to do…winter and diablo arrive late tomorrow night and i hope they do ok with the whole travelling thing. luckily carrie is flying to get them tomorrow morning. westjet no longer flies animals by cargo unless a passenger is on board so i stuck the flight on my fake plastic money card…i am glad i did…i won't worry about them getting lost so much now.
well…we are down a full staff person tomorrow since carrie is flying to saskatoon for the day, and renee has her driving test so is off at noon so she and lane and i need to kick ass until then. if we get it all done…i am thinking a quiet afternoon in bed with a bunch of crazy old dogs might be kind of ok….or maybe i can trick steve somehow and have a look at a certain off limits to me new room.
good luck carrie, good luck winter and diablo…good luck renee…and good luck me trying to sneak a peek in the not icky or doorless room.
4lane and maude honey…please feel better soon.


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How to Rank on Google's 1st Page with Quality Backlinks!
Talking about creating backlinks is certainly not the sexiest SEO topic (yes, we think SEO has some sexy topics) – but backlinks are the bread and butter of your Google ranking.
Understanding what makes a good backlink, how and where to create them, and how often is fundamental and crucial information to getting to that first page on Google.
We know that investing marketing dollars in search pays off because 89% of customers are searching for products and services online – and we also know that many of them are searching based on location-specific needs to solve their problems.
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What is a backlink?
A backlink is simply a link from one website to another website's page. Examples of backlinks are a guest blog post that links back to your author page on your website – or a local directory that includes a link to the menu page on your site.
Backlinks contribute substantially to your search ranking, and fall into one of the three main pillars that Google crawlers use to determine your site's ranking: off-page SEO.
Quality Rules Over Quantity
While it's important to continuously build backlinks to boost your search ranking, Google will always favor high-quality links over low-quality links. In fact, there are many reports of Google penalizing sites that flooded crawlers with low-quality, fake/irrelevant, or toxic backlinks. The Google crawlers can easily determine a toxic link from a high-quality link, and it takes months to offset the damage that toxic links can do to your domain authority, and as a result, your ranking.
Building Quality Backlinks:
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Step 1: Select relevant keywords.
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When your backlinks are shared on a website that has very high domain authority, it will boost your domain authority. For example, government and educational websites are ideal resources to secure backlinks, primarily because they are considered extremely credible – and would never sell a backlink for profit. Your services must be relevant to their organization. Consider scenarios where you might be able to leverage a relationship with a government office or educational institution in order to secure a backlink; the payoff is a thousand times more valuable if you can swing it.
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If you're looking for the biggest 'bang for your buck' when it comes to quality backlinks, the most powerful positioning is anchor text that is positioned in the first paragraph of the main body of an article. It's also important to ensure your first 200 words or so, are relevant and serve as a sort of summary introduction to the overall content, so as to speak to the cohesiveness of the content.
Easy 'Backlink' Wins:
Companies should work towards building partnerships with high 'domain authority' brands over time to continue to build quality backlinks. But if you're wondering what you can do immediately to fuel your race to Google's first page – here are some quick and easy backlink wins to go after:
- Local and business directory submissions: With so many customers searching for local companies, take advantage of optimizing your visibility with local listings. It's the fastest and easiest way to outrank your competitor, plus you'll be adding relevant backlinks and be even easier for your customers to find!
Submit your listing on Google maps and Bing and any search engines that offer map services, too.
One last tip: Ensure your NAP is always consistent. NAP stands for Name/Address/Phone Number and will virtually be included everywhere you list yourself. However, if the wording or spelling isn't consistent, it will affect your rank.
- Share press releases: News and other forms of shared content are a great way to secure backlinks to your site. There's no shortage of fresh content that a business can share, and by providing frequent updates you're remaining relevant and continuing to demonstrate your expertise; both factors that rank in search results. View our PR writing & distribution services!
- Find guest blogging and expert interview opportunities: Guest blogging is a great opportunity to join the conversation with key influencers and local businesses in your geographic area and among your target audience. It's also a great way to position a key team-member as a thought-leader, providing valuable expertise on relevant topics. Similarly, if you have media connections, pitch yourself for an 'expert interview'. Invite local media out to business events to secure noteworthy mentions and backlinks.
Some Important Backlink Vocabulary:
Domain authority:
Domain authority is one of the most important denominators that calculate the rank on search engines. Domain authority is largely based on the number of quality backlinks pointing to your website. Backlinks from a website with authority will boost your domain authority.
Link juice:
Link juice is a measurement of backlinks coming to your website, and links your link to other sites. You'll fill up your glass with 'link juice' when you have an abundance of high-quality links coming to your site. However, you'll deplete your 'link juice' if you have a lot of outgoing links. Ideally, you want more high-quality links coming to you, and only a very few links going out.
Follow Links VS. No Follow Links:
Both 'follow' links and 'no follow' links look the same on a web page, however ideally, you'll want to have 'follow' links backlinking to your site, because they are the only links that supply 'link juice' to contribute to your overall ranking. With Green Lotus SEO Tools, you can flag 'follow' links and 'no follow' links and make adjustments as necessary to the HTML tags to optimize your content for better search results.


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Blood Moon by Teri Harman!
Teri is a fellow Jolly Fish Press author and her book, Blood Moon releases June 22nd! Teri does a wonderful little segment on KSL in Utah about books. Even though I don't live in Utah I enjoy watching her fun segments, usually about her top book picks. Today Teri is sharing her favorite Witch books. Welcome, Teri!
Thanks so much for having me on your blog today and for being a part of the blog tour for my debut novel. BLOOD MOON is a young adult/new adult witch fantasy and the first in the Moonlight Trilogy.
Thanks so much for having me on your blog today and for being a part of the blog tour for my debut novel. BLOOD MOON is a young adult/new adult witch fantasy and the first in the Moonlight Trilogy.
I've always loved reading books about witches and it was, in part, that love that inspired my book.
Here is a list of my top five favorite witch books.
1 – "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
First published in 1958, this beautifully written book has timeless themes of love, friendship and staying true to the heart. All the reasons I enjoyed this book as a girl still resonate with me now as an adult.
Kit is one of my favorite female literary characters. She is strong-willed, outspoken, curious and loving, and sees people for who they really are instead of as the labels they have been given by society. The relationship between her and Hannah, the old woman who lives by Blackbird Pond, and who has been labeled a witch by the quiet Puritan town, is touching and memorable. Although there is no fantastical magic in this story, Speare taps into a different kind of magic: life in its purest, richest moments.
2 – "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
Taking a delightfully playful turn, I couldn't have a witch book list without including this one by my very favorite author. "The Witches" has thrilled children and adults for decades with its clever plot, creative mischief and perfectly creepy witches. In Dahl's imaginative world, the witches hide among the normal people, forever plotting the demise of children. Beneath their wigs and gloves, these witches are scary, scabby and extremely wicked. When a young boy accidentally discovers the Grand High Witch's plan to get rid of all the children in England, he embarks on a thrilling adventure that will change him forever.
3 – "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe
This book is part historical fiction, part supernatural thriller, and all wonderful. Connie Goodwin is a dedicated scholar. She knows the history of the Salem Witch Trials backwards and forwards. But when she stumbles across a hidden piece of paper while cleaning up her deceased grandmother's house, she discovers a whole new kind of witch history. Not only will Connie discover secrets of the past, but she will also unearth her own unrealized powers and come to understand the strengths of her female ancestors.
Howe's writing, while a bit academic, is vividly descriptive and immediately immerses the reader in the story. The romance is sigh-worthy and the mystery intriguing. Even with a predictable plot, this book is hard to put down.
4 – "The Witch's Daughter" by Paula Brackston
This witch book is creepy, intelligent and magical. Brackston's story follows the life of a hedge witch over many centuries. Elizabeth Hawksmith survives plagues, wars and heartbreak, constantly reinventing her life to stay hidden from the evil Gideon Masters, who saved her from the witch's gallows and first imbued her with magic.
Emotionally driven and beautifully written, this book is also a historical-supernatural mix. I loved the quiet strength and enduring perseverance of the protagonist. The historical element is fascinating and often heartbreaking. And, of course, the magic is wonderfully exciting.
Content note: There are some descriptive sexual references, occasional violence and mild foul language.
5 – "The Winter Witch" by Paula Brackston
Paula Brackston makes the list twice. She's my favorite witch writer and this is her new book. Seen as an outsider in her small Welsh town, Morgana cannot speak and struggles to control the magic inside her. When her mother marries her off to Cai Bevan, a widower from the hills, Morgana hopes to find a place in her new home. But when terrible things start to happen on the farm she must find a way to harness her power or lose all that she's come to love.
The Winter Witch is a lovely story of a heroine you can't help but cheer for. Morgana is tough, determined, and sweet. She doesn't let anything, including not being able to talk, get in the way of what she knows to be right.
The writing is atmospheric and enchanting; the story gripping and complex. I was captivated by the descriptions of the Welsh countryside and the swoon-worthy romance. And the magic employed by Morgana and the evil witch, Isolda, is powerful and fascinating.
What's your favorite witch book? Share in the comments so I can add more to my to-read list!
Find Teri on-line at her Website, on Facebook and Twitter and learn more about her witch book, BLOOD MOON, out June 22.
Thanks for joining us today, Teri. My favorite witch books are The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab (YA) and The Stolen by Alex Shearer (MG).


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Business: Introduction and Analysis, PESTEL and SWOT
Introduction to Business:
Business is an enterprise of making money through manufacturing and selling goods or services. In order to do business, it is not necessary to have a company or corporation or any other organization, but a person can also earn money by his small earning activities like auto Dealing, Blogging, Personal Assistance, Wedding Planning and others. Such type of business is called One-Person Business.
Business Analysis:
It is a process of identifying business requirements, risks, upcoming problems and its solutions. The person who performs this task is called business analyst. Business Analysis is required as it aware the business owners from the upcoming issues so that they could find the appropriate solutions. Business Analysis can be done through many techniques, the most used techniques are as follows:
- SWOT Analysis: In this technique, SWOT refers to Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. These are the elements of SWOT Analysis. Therefore, this analysis is used to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats regarding the business of an organization or an individual. The information obtained by SWOT Analysis helps the business owners to achieve their desired objectives and the competitive advantages.
Elements of SWOT Analysis:
- Strengths: The business analyst first evaluates the substantial resources of the organization that provide successful outcomes. The information received from this assessment helps the business owners to know how they are better than their competitors.
- Weaknesses: After the evaluation of strengths, the business analyst examines those resources which obstruct the successful outcomes. Such information helps the business owners to understand what their organizations need for the improvement.
- Opportunities: Through this element, the business analyst examines what market trends could help to increase the sales of the organization. Opportunities are those external factors that provide the business growth.
- Threats: Threats are also external factors, such factors jeopardize the success of the organization. Therefore, along with all other elements, threats are also required to be analysed by the business analyst.
In this way, SWOT Analysis is beneficial to the business owners as it helps to achieve the competitive advantages and the business objectives.
- PESTEL Analysis: It is a framework which is used to analyse the external factors that create an impact on the business organization. Here the word PESTEL refers to Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal. These factors are as follow:
- Political Factors: The government intervention in the economy affects the business of an organization. The Political factors include Government Policy, Tax Policy, Political Stability and Instability in the Market, Foreign Trade Policy and so on. In order to grow a business, it is required for the business owners to adjust their marketing policy according to the government policies and legislation of the country.
- Economic Factors: These factors have a significant impact on the business. The Economic Factors include Interest Rates, Exchange Rates, Disposable Income of the Consumers, Economic Growth and so on. These factors are required to be taken care by the business owners while determining the future values of their business.
- Social Factors: The attitudes and interests of the population also affect the business of an organization. Social Factors include Population Growth, Health Consciousness, Age Distribution and so on. These factors help the marketers to understand the requirements and interests of the people so that the business owners could grow their business accordingly.
- Technological Factors: Owners of the organizations use the Technological Factors to determine new ways to produce and distribute goods and services. These factors are useful for the better communication to the target market also. Technological factors include 3D Technology, Automation, Wireless Charging, Engine Efficiency and so on.
- Environmental Factors: There are some Environmental Factors that also affect the business of the organizations. These factors are Environmental Pollution, Deficiency in Raw Material, Carbon Footprint Target, Geographical Location and so on. These Environmental issues are faced by the business owners while manufacturing and distributing goods and services.
- Legal Factors: Each nation has its own rules and legislation. Therefore, it is essential for the business owners to take care of these rules while spreading their business in other countries. Legal Factors include Consumer Law, Health and Safety Law, Copyright Law, Fraud Law, Employment Law and so on.
In this way, these above analysis techniques are highly essential for the business owners to grow a business and also to achieve competitive advantages.
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The Complicated Reality of Buying Abortion Pills Online
An abortion provider delves into the safety, efficacy, and legality.
April 8, 2019
By Jennifer Conti, M.D., M.S.
Given the many obstacles facing reproductive rights in our current political climate, we as physicians are seeing some people take abortion into their own hands. No, I'm not talking about coat-hanger abortions or any of the other infamous and tragic methods that people in the past (and, sadly, even some in the present) have explored.
Specifically, I'm talking about those who are self-managing medication abortions, meaning that they're getting and taking abortion medications without going through a health-care provider at all.
Continued: https://www.self.com/story/buying-abortion-pills-online