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Dubai / UAE. (dgc) The Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), in partnership with Dubai South, announced the launch of Dubai Global Connect (DGC), a 1 million square meter B2B wholesale market in Dubai which will bring together buyers and sellers to safely and easily trade great goods from all over the world, all year round in one central location. The initial focus will be on three sectors which have been identified as being large enough in size, growing, and relevant to the region: Furniture + Living, Food, and Fashion.
Strategic alliance beween Dubai and MCMC
On its part, DGC has announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with US-based Market Center Management Company (MCMC) for the development and management of DGC's state-of-the-art permanent showroom environment which will be open year-round to qualified retail buyers and designers, manufacturers, and industry professionals, and can be fitted out by sellers according to their own style and budget. The showrooms will be closed to the public.
H.E. Mohammed I. Al Shaibani, Managing Director of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, explained: «As part of our mandate to enhance Dubai's position as a global, competitive economy, ICD has embarked on the creation of DGC with the vision to build a unique trade infrastructure that enhances efficiencies in global trade flows through Dubai. We are excited to have MCMC on board to support our teams in realizing this vision, as well as in the development and management of the market.»
MCMC has a legacy of sole, private ownership of the Dallas Market Center (DMC), operating in the US for 65+ years, as well as multinational experience involving both ownership and management of wholesale markeplaces including Brussels International Trade Mart and ShanghaiMart as well as consultation experience on additional projects in Colombia, Vietnam, and Portugal.
Cindy Morris, CEO of MCMC, commented: «We are pleased to be a part of this truly unique opportunity for Dubai to address industry pain points and create an important global destination for wholesale trade. This multi-year agreement aims to foster team collaboration between our companies and ultimately help create a center of commerce for buyers and sellers from around the world.»
DGC is unique as it focuses on a global audience in addition to regional audiences to create a truly origin-neutral marketplace to trade goods from all around the world. Traditionally, wholesale markets have focused on promoting domestic agendas by bringing together sellers of local products with international buyers or by presenting international products to regional buyer groups.
Needed in today's changed global trade environment
«DGC has been a long time in the making but is even more relevant and needed in today's changed global trade environment. Establishing a controlled, permanent marketplace environment is perfectly timed as event producers and their attendees cope with reduced travel budgets and the need for smaller, more controlled gatherings. DGC enables traders to meet halfway by offering producers and manufacturers a window to the world in a central, easy to reach location, and by providing buyers with a safe buying environment and place of reference that is open all year round.» commented Douraid Zaghouani, COO of ICD and Chairman of Dubai Global Connect.
DGC, the «City of Trade», is already under construction, with a purpose-built visitor centre opening in Q4 of 2020. The market is expected to be delivered in phases, with the first phase comprising of 400,000 square meters of dedicated trade facilities including on-site storage, boutique offices, an innovation hub, and a Smart Service Centre to house third party service providers.
Located at the crossroads of Dubai's logistics corridor, at Dubai South next to Al Maktoum International Airport with a direct connection to the Jebel Ali Port, DGC's physical infrastructure will be supported by best-in-class services and optimal business solutions at the Logistics District, including a digital wholesale trading platform which will connect wholesale sellers and buyers online and facilitate hassle-free trade through DGC (Photo: DGC).


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Wednesday is day three at Wimbledon and ESPN2 will begin its coverage bright and early -- 5:00 a.m. CT.
Related: Wimbledon Scores And Results: Feliciano Lopez, Lucie Safarova Upset In 2nd Day Action
Some big names will be in action at center court -- Roger Federer is set to face Fabio Fognini, while Novak Djokivic will play American Ryan Harrison.
Elsewhere, Andy Roddick will resume his match against Jamie Baker; he took the first set 7-6 and leads the second 4-2. On the women's side, top seed Maria Sharapova faces Tsvetana Pironkova; American Serena Williams will play Melinda Czink.
Here's how the coverage looks for the rest of the week (all times Eastern):
Wednesday, June 27 (7 a.m.-5 p.m.): Second round (ESPN2)
Thursday, June 28 (7 a.m.-5 p.m.): Second round (ESPN2)
Friday, June 29 (7 a.m.-5 p.m.): Third round (ESPN)
Saturday, June 30 (8 a.m.-3 p.m.): Third round (ESPN)
Sunday, July 1 (3-6 p.m.): No live action; first-week highlights (ABC)
For updates, stay tuned to SB Nation Chicago. For lots more on Wimbledon and everything else in the world of tennis, please stay tuned to SB Nation's dedicated tennis hub. Watch the matches online at Wimbledon.com or keep up with the results via Sports Illustrated's scoreboard.


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A Long Time Coming
It's fitting that the opening song of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams' self-titled album (released June 23, 2015, on Red House Records) is "Surrender to Love." Like the other great duos whose ranks they join – Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, Buddy and Julie Miller, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett – Campbell and Williams' music both grows from and expresses their deep, abiding love for each other, as well as the passion they share for the music. As much as the singers are guilty of "desire in the first degree" and gladly open themselves to love ("drop the guns slow and easy," they sing, "and reach for the sky above"), Campbell's sassy, wink-and-nod guitar licks push along their soulful, soaring harmonies and disarm us, urging us to surrender to the music, to the love with which it's been written.
"It's a match made in heaven," according to Barbara O'Brien, Levon Helm's final manager, who's worked closely with Campbell and Williams at the Helms' Barn in Woodstock, New York, since 2005. "Onstage, they never get too soupy, but you can see and feel genuine love and respect between them."
Indeed, we'd be wise to accept the warm invitation to feel the love – to curl up, dance, moan, testify, and embrace the musical journey on which Campbell and Williams want to lead us.
The Journey
Speaking of journeys, the road to this album was long, but Campbell and Williams knew as soon as they met 28 years ago that they shared the same musical sensibilities. "Larry courted me with a Louvin Brothers mix tape," Williams says. To which Campbell quips, "There weren't a lot of women in New York City who understood the Louvin Brothers."
While the Louvins' music played matchmaker, the depth of the couple's passion grew. "From the first day I met him and spoke to him in person," says Williams, "I could see in his eyes the depth of his character, his soul, his wisdom, his patience, his kindness." For Campbell, Williams' "unabashed honesty was, and is, as delightful as it is painful as it is refreshing," he says. "With Teresa, you always know what you're dealing with; that's what makes her such a great singer, too."
"From the first day I met [Larry] and spoke to him in person, I could see in his eyes the depth of his character, his soul, his wisdom, his patience, his kindness." - Teresa Williams
In those days, they liked to spend their time singing under Williams' great-great-grandmother's cedar tree, the same one under which they got married. It may have seemed a musical collaboration was inevitable but, "after we got married," says Campbell, "our paths kept diverging. I was playing in a number of bands and then touring with Bob Dylan for ten years; Teresa was playing Sara Carter in a musical [Keep on the Sunny Side] about the Carter Family."
In 2005, when Campbell had just finished his decade-long stint with Dylan, Levon Helm asked him to be the musical director of the Midnight Rambles at his barn in Woodstock, New York, and to lead the Ramble Band. Campbell produced a record for Levon's daughter Amy's band, Olabelle, and Amy suggested that Campbell bring Williams up to the Barn.
"That was an immediate success," Campbell recalls. "We did a couple of rhythm tracks – including 'You're Running Wild,' on which Levon plays drums – around the time that I was producing Levon's Electric Dirt. We began to explore our musical sensibilities. The Ramble Band was a perfect incubator for what [Teresa and I] were doing together."
Despite the early musical magic, the idea of the couple doing a record together was still an abstraction, in their minds. In addition to the work they were doing at Helm's place, they were also very busy playing with Phil Lesh & Friends and Hot Tuna.
Hot Tuna guitarist and frontman Jorma Kaukonen, for one, was grateful for that diversion. "Aside from them both being noble human beings, they are the ultimate team players," says Kaukonen. "Almost immediately Larry … [felt like] someone I'd played in a band with for years. As a producer, he never tries to mold his artists to suit his vision. [That's] rare – very rare. Teresa bathes any space she is in with light and brings the voice of an angel to the table … she always sings what is right – always."
While those projects might have delayed any efforts to lay down their duo album, Campbell and Williams simply embraced these gigs as further opportunities to hone their already considerable skills. "Phil [Lesh] gave you the freedom to explore onstage without any fear," Campbell says, and Williams emphasizes that she might "never have tried any of these songs [on this album] if I hadn't been called to do this stuff [with Phil]."
Harvesting Influences
As a result of their time with Phil and Friends, the couple closes their new album with a haunting, spare, and sonic rendition of the Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter tune, "Attics of My Life," to which Amy Helm lends harmony vocals. The tune is more pure and chilling and memorable than the Grateful Dead's original on American Beauty.
More than any other quality, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams carries a purity of expression difficult to find on many other albums released in any year. Whether he's playing guitar, fiddle, mandolin, or steel guitar, Campbell never wastes a note. Williams' vocal phrasing is impeccable. Like any great soul singer – Maxine Brown, say – she controls her breathing, wielding the power of her vocals to deliver just the right emotional touch to a lyric.
As cathartic as this recording might seem to fans, Campbell admits that he never thought much about making an album or standing in the spotlight. "I wanted to be the best musician I could possibly be," he says. "Every time I learned a new instrument, I realized how broad and infinite music could be. I wanted to be a studio musician in New York – one of those guys where, at the drop of a hat, I could play on anybody's record."
"I wanted to be a studio musician in New York – one of those guys where, at the drop of a hat, I could play on anybody's record." - Larry Campbell
Guitarist and producer Buddy Miller, Campbell's long-time friend and bandmate, can speak to that. "Larry draws from many different wells," Miller says. "He's lived the different styles he plays, and this music is in him. His taste is impeccable. Teresa gives it everything, too; there's no pretense with her. When they're onstage, they just know what they're doing. They don't have to second-guess each other. Their music is humble, honest, and beautiful."
Indeed, you get the impression that Campbell has never picked up a stringed instrument he couldn't play. On Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, his astonishing multi-instrumentalism is on full display. So is his powerful songwriting, and Williams' soulful, evocative voice that's as capable of Tina Turner-like soul shouts and Dusty Springfield-like languorous smokiness as it is of the pure, crystalline harmonies that accompany Campbell's gritty vocals.
Songs for All Seasons
The beauty of this album comes not just from its musical purity but also its range of musical styles, and the pair's mastery of each. Campbell wrote six of the tunes on the album by himself, and co-wrote two others: "Down on My Knees," which he penned with Louie Ortega, and "Midnight Highway," on which he shares writing credit with Julie Miller. The couple also includes three covers on the album ("Attics of My Life," "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning," and "You're Running Wild"), which were audience favorites at the Rambles.
"This was very likely the first time we sang 'You're Running Wild' together," says Williams. "I thought it was our song, until I found out that Larry had already sung it with another girl singer and band [Buddy and Julie Miller]." She laughs.
Campbell admits that the first time he heard Reverend Gary Davis' "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" – an old gospel tune – he was terrified trying to follow Davis' playing. Then he heard Kaukonen's interpretation of the song. "After I listened to Jorma," he recalls, "I went back to Reverend Gary Davis, and I understood that song."
With their version, Campbell and Williams deliver a powerful anointing. Williams' soulful shouting carries the tune. She preaches and testifies in her singing, propelled by Campbell's driving electric blues guitar. The climax of the song comes in the final line – "for this old world is almost done" – as Williams holds "almost" for two bars before sliding down into the final word, "done."
"Everybody Loves You" features Campbell's Doc Watson-style, jaunty fingerpicking. With his tasty licks, Campbell creates a veritable orchestra that provides the sonic foundation for the tale of loneliness masked by adoration and love. With fist-in-the-glove lyrics that belie the happy-go-lucky instrumental, Campbell sings:
Everybody loves you, everybody wants you
All the women want to be you
And you drive the boys insane
Everybody's for you, they stand there and adore you
But nobody's gonna ease your lonely pain.
In the scampering blues moan, "Ain't Nobody for Me," Campbell's blistering guitar weaves its way around a tongue-in-cheek mournfulness about hitting the bottom of the loneliness barrel; Williams' harmonies make the ache even starker, since they haunt the singer with the just-out-of-reach possibility that there might be somebody for him after all. Campbell's lyrics include ingenious references to other songs of desire, like the Allman Brothers' "Sweet Melissa," as they drive home how very low he's gone:
I called little Susie
All she said was goodbye
I called Jenny Johnson
She said it'd be a cold day in July
I called sweet Melissa
She said, "Is this some kind of game?"
When I called up my mama
She wanted to know my last name.
"Midnight Highway," Campbell's co-write with Julie Miller, opens in spare fashion with Campbell's guitar and Williams' vocal. The entire song is reminiscent of Linda Ronstadt's version of Woody Guthrie's "(I Ride an) Old Paint" from her Simple Dreams album.
Campbell's starkly simple plunks on the guitar capture the mournful celebration of the once-entrancing nature of wandering that has lost some of its attraction, since what waits at the end of the journey is more attractive that the journey itself:
Out on the midnight highway
Longer than I meant to be
I rode high around the world
But all I wanna do
Is walk down the road that leads home to you.
The galloping blues guitar of "Bad Luck Charm" matches the down-on-his-luck lyrics of a singer who can't live with his woman or without her. "Another One More Time" explores the pain, remorse, and I-can't-quit-you nature of relationships in a straight-ahead country-blues dirge. The mournful tune captures the irony of the ingenious title line, which cuts at least two ways: "I'll give my heart another one more time." If the emphasis is on giving, the singer's taking the plunge "one more time"; if the emphasis is on "one more time," then the lover gets a second chance.
The spare instrumentation of "Down on My Knees" lends haunting shape to the tension lovers feel as they place blame and, at the same time, try to reconcile themselves to their own part in the making of a loss. Campbell's song provides the perfect foil to Libby Titus and Eric Katz's "Love Has No Pride."
Perhaps their most perfect performance on the disc, though, is Campbell's "Did You Love Me At All?" Williams jokes that she's glad he wrote the song but often wonders who it's about. In this country waltz – almost a shuffle, really – the opening verse packs such a punch that it leaves you breathless with beauty:
What's the meaning of forever
When we've grown so far apart
When it's easier to sever
Than to mend a broken heart.
That's just the beginning of this mournful tale of unfulfilled love, broken down by disappointment and misplaced expectations. But that's not all. The real sadness comes when the singer realizes her lover's love might have been empty from the beginning ("And I wonder did you love me at all?")
Campbell builds layer upon layer in this song and uses different images – a ship on stormy seas, a locust tree shaken in the wind – in each verse to capture the emptiness of the lover's heart. He zeroes in on the tension in the penultimate verse:
Who will pull me from the ashes
Who will lift me from the ground
When the one who built my refuge
Is the one who burned it down?
Is there any more perfect expression of the disappointment and loss that's often wrought by once-delivered but now-frustrated hopes of love?
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams is one of the best albums of 2015 not only because of Campbell and Williams' vision but also because of their deep love for each other, their passion for making good music together, building songs layer by layer vocally, lyrically, and instrumentally, their commitment to purity in musical self-expression, and their energetic and deeply felt desire for delivering this good music straight from their hearts to ours.
"I felt like we really said what we were trying to say [with this album]," Campbell says. "In its artistic essence, this is who we are: playing this great music with great people and with the person I want to be with."


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Eating vegan is one of the most budget-friendly lifestyles out there, but like all diets, it can be expensive if you make it so. There's the high-end natural food grocery stores, specialty nut butters, single origin chocolate bars, and more that can make anyone's eyebrows raise at the checkout stand. Save yourself the financial woes and dispel the stereotype of the "expensive vegan diet" by following these simple money-saving tips.
1. Look high and low
Grocery stores like to draw your attention to "special sales" at the ends of aisles, but these aren't always the best deals. Push your cart through the middle of the aisle and look above and below your eye line. Brands pay top dollar for placement right in your line of sight, which often means they're more expensive. Lesser-known brands (but not lower in quality) tend to be placed high up and down below, so stand on your tippy toes and reach for those savings!
Pro tip: You'll often find the biggest bang for your buck with generic brands of veggie broth and vegan cereals. Trust us, your store brand buik granola will taste just as good as the $9.99 luxury brand granola when sprinkled over your morning smoothie bowl.
2. Use your phone
Nowadays, you can avoid onerous coupon-clipping and the anxiety of holding up the line while you rifle through your stack of coupons by downloading the app of your preferred grocery store on your phone. Nearly every store has an app with a robust coupon section, and it makes it so much easier to discreetly and quickly scan the barcode on your phone for big savings. Have Amazon Prime? Be sure to download the app for super savings at Whole Foods.
Pro tip: While many digital coupons feature non-vegan products, you can score in this department with vegan-friendly cleaning supplies.
3. Buy in bulk (bins)
We're not recommending you stock up on 10 pounds of tofu, but we would advise stopping by the bulk bin section for all your dry goods needs. Food producers can pay a lot for packaging, and bulk bins allow them to skip this cost and pass the savings down to you. Bins are also great for those higher-priced specialty purchases—such as spices you don't normally use, nuts, cacao nibs, goji berries, fancy flours, etc—because you can buy only what you need instead of a $20 bag of the stuff. One of our favorite additions to the bulk section is the nut butter installment—not only is it fun to crank your own almond or peanut butter, but you'll definitely save some dough, too.
Pro tip: Want to try a new baking recipe but not sure you'll use all that specialty flour again? The bulk bins allow you to get just what you need to test out that gluten-free cake without investing upwards of $9 for a full bag of gluten-free flour.
4. Check the unit price
Bring your reading glasses and look for the unit price to help you find the most cost-efficient product. The unit price uses standard units of measure to calculate the price per unit across brands. So while a smaller jar of marinara might look cheaper, the larger bottle could have a lower unit price, meaning you'll get more for less. This number is listed as "unit price" on all price stickers, but it is much smaller than the actual price, so you might have to squint a bit.
Pro tip: This tip is especially helpful for items such as nut butters, coconut oil, and maple syrup. Sure, that tiny bottle of syrup might be less than the $19.99 gallon, but it could be twice as much (or more) when you compare unit pricing.
5. Chop it yourself
The refrigerated aisle within the produce department will often have a whole section devoted to prepared foods—chopped fruit and vegetables, sliced mushrooms, peeled squash, and an assortment of spiralized veggies all there for your convenience. However, these pre-prepped items are exorbitantly expensive. While hacking into a butternut squash or spiralizing your own zucchini may not be something you look forward to, the extra five minutes you spend to prep your own food will pay off.
Pro tip: Unlike hacking up a piece of meat, plant-based foods are easy to chop up! Do yourself a favor and check out this YouTube video on basic knife skills for vegetable cuts. You'll be a pro in no time.
6. Don't even go down that aisle
Just as a parent shopping with small children knows not to venture down the cookie aisle, train yourself to avoid the specialty product section. Particularly at fancy stores, these aisles can be full of vegan wonder—cookies, gluten-free crackers, cacao-pistachio butter, oh my! Put. The. Nut butter. Down. Like a five-year-old recklessly grabbing for the Keebler Elf cookies, you don't need it. Just like any way of eating, veganism can be expensive if you buy only expensive products. Save it for a special occasion and just walk away. You don't need it.
Pro Tip: If that bag of lion's mane mushroom hot chocolate is already in your hand, ask yourself: "How many times will I use this? Do I really believe it will help me sleep? Will it even taste good?" If you still have an inkling of doubt, put it back.
7. Warm up to the freezer aisle
Frozen foods tend to get a bad rap. Sure, if you're buying an overly processed TV dinner, this stereotype has some roots, but if you stick to fruit and veggies, you'll find high-quality products at bargain prices. Frozen fruit is perfect for smoothies; there's no need to buy fresh if you're just going to blend it up, and this way, you don't have to water your drink down with ice. Frozen vegetables are great for stir-frys, soups, scrambles, and casseroles. Plus, frozen produce keeps for months, so you can stock up and not worry about food going to waste.
Pro tip: The rule of thumb here is if you're going to cook or blend your fruit, veggies, or vegan meat with other ingredients (think soup, smoothie, or stir-fry), go frozen. If you plan to enjoy a handful of strawberries on their own dig into a big bowl of steamed broccoli, these tend to be more palatable when purchased fresh.
8. Make a list
Grocery stores are full of temptation. Between the fancy foods and the highly marketed sales items, many find it impossible to walk into a store and only purchase what they came in for. Make a list and stick to it—no excuses.
Pro tip: For those who like to be super organized, you can group your list in terms of departments—produce, buik, vegan dairy, etcetera. Talk about efficiency!
9. Ask yourself this question
"But, it's on sale!" It can be hard to pass up (what looks like) a stellar deal, but buying on-sale items when you don't need them can turn a simple shopping trip into a major expense. "10 for $10"; "Buy one get one half-off"; "25% off!" All of these can have you piling up your cart, but before you start reaching for those Amy's soup cans, ask yourself this question: If it wasn't on sale, would I buy it? If the answer is no, leave it alone.
Pro tip: This could be an exception when you really want to try one of those aforementioned specialty vegan items. If you've been thinking about that lion's mane hot chocolate for weeks and it does go on sale, this might be the time to treat yo' self.
10. Set a timer
If you get distracted easily or consider yourself a grocery store wanderer, it helps to set your phone timer to keep you on track. List in hand, make your way through the store as swiftly as possible, without becoming a hazard to your fellow shoppers—you're not on a gameshow!—and only buy what is on that list. Having a time limit means you won't have time to convince yourself to buy those specialty items. The time depends on how much you need to purchase, but try to stick to 5 minutes for a basket and 15 minutes (max) for a full cart. Once that timer goes off, you better be waiting in line at checkout—and no grabbing any vegan chocolates at the cashier stand!
Pro tip: While you should avoid the tempting goodies that line the checkout conveyor belt, don't hold yourself back from picking up the latest print copy of VegNews!
Tanya Flink is a Digital Editor at VegNews as well as a writer and fitness enthusiast living in Orange County, CA.


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I'm going to show you each kit and my swatches from my final mani (I tried each one a minimum of 3 times so am sharing the best results from each.) I will have my thoughts at the end of this post.
Sally Hansen Chrome Kit Peacock
The Sally Hansen Peacock Chrome Kit contains Peacock Powder, Salon Chrome Specialty Top Coat, and make up applicator. The additional items you will need are Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Blacky O and Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Top Coat.
Sally Hansen Chrome Kit Gunmetal
This Sally Hansen Gunmetal Chrome Kit contains Gunmetal Chrome Powder, Salon Chrome Specialty Top Coat, and make up applicator. The additional items you will need are Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Blacky O and Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Top Coat.
Sally Hansen Chrome Kit Rose Gold
The Sally Hansen Rose Gold Chrome Kit contains Rose Gold Chrome Powder, Salon Chrome Specialty Top Coat, and make up applicator. The additional items you will need are Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Frill Seeker and Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Top Coat.
- Apply 2 thin coats of Miracle Gel nail color (not included) to all nails. Allow to dry until tacky, 2-3 minutes.
- Dip included Applicator into Chrome Powder (only a small amount needed) and rub onto surface of nail (light pressure only) in a back & forth motion. Repeat for each nail. Watch effect appear!
- Apply 1 coat of Special Effect Top Coat and allow to dry for 5 minutes.
- Seal with 1 coat of Miracle Gel Top Coat (not included.)
My tips for best outcome:
- The instructions say to wait till polish is just tacky to apply powder. That "just tacky" window can be very short, if you apply the powder too soon you will ding your polish or if you wait too long the powder won't adhere. I suggest doing no more than 2 nails at a time, I found that when I applied the powder to the first nail by the time I got to the 3rd or 4th nail the polish was too dry for the powder to adhere well. I found that painting my second coat on 2 nails then applying powder, then paint second coat on 2 more nails.. rinse, repeat.
- Use liquid latex. The powder is so fine that it makes quite a mess even with liquid latex, I hate to think the mess you would have to clean up if you didn't use a liquid latex type product.
- Be careful to use a very thin coat of the specialty top coat (I'm assuming it's a water based top coat) If you apply it too thick you will end up with blotchy areas. And definitely let it dry a full 5 minuts before applying the Miracle Gel Top Coat.
I mentioned at the beginning of this post that I tried each of these a few times. That was because I wasn't getting the results I expected. But since this was my first time using nail powders I wanted to ensure I had realistic expectations, so I tried some others I purchased a months ago. The good news is I was much happier than those, the bad news is I still wasn't really happy with these.
Overall I just feel very underwhelmed with the results I had. I felt they were very finicky and when I did get the process down pat the results were still nothing like the box photos. Peacock was closer than the others, but it was still quite lackluster. Gunmetal lost any chrome look it had as soon as you apply their specialty top coat, and well Rose Gold was never chrome to begin with. I suspect these would all be at least a bit better applied over actual gel, but the whole point of the kit it seems is to be able to use it with regular polish. I did actually try them with a burnishing base coat as well, which was easier, but did not change the end result.
Unfortunately I could not give these a positive review, but my first responsibility is with you my readers. I hope that you were able to find this review helpful with your purchasing decisions.
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Volume 380, Number 2, December III 2001
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|Interstellar and circumstellar matter
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|15 December 2001
Infrared high angular resolution measurements of stellar sources*
V. Angular diameters of ten late-type stars
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschildstr. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
2 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, L.go Enrico Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
Corresponding author: A. Richichi, firstname.lastname@example.com
Accepted: 8 October 2001
In the framework of an ongoing series of high angular resolution observations by lunar occultations in the near infrared, we present accurate angular measurements for ten late-type giant stars, seven of which were measured for the first time. The sample includes one K and seven M stars. It also includes two S stars, representing to our knowledge the first direct determination of the angular diameter for this class of stars. The measured angular diameters range from 2.50 to 4.82 milliarcsec, with an average accuracy <5% . An exception is represented by the case of a star with a faint companion, where we have been able to investigate in detail the bias on the diameter determination, and hence on the effective temperature, which would be caused if the companion had not been included in the analysis. We suggest that faint undetected companions could explain at least some of the hitherto known cases of stars with effective temperatures remarkably lower than the standard calibration. For seven of the stars in the sample, we have used our own photometry in conjunction with values from the literature, to compute the bolometric fluxes and the effective temperatures, which we discuss in the context of existing calibrations. With the achieved accuracy level in the angular diameter, such measurements are also valuable as calibrators or science verification targets for modern large ground-based interferometers.
Key words: stars: fundamental parameters / stars: late-type
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How long does it take to get to mexico
How long does it take to get a visa for Mexico?
- Once you have completed your Mexican consulate application and appointment and have been approved for a Temporal or Permanente visa, your initial visa will be issued within 10 days. You will then have 180 days to return to Mexico to your ultimate destination town or city within Mexico.
How long does it take to get to Mexico from here?
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between United States and Mexico is 1,629 km= 1,012 miles. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from United States to Mexico, It takes 1.81 hours to arrive.
How long does it take to get to Cancun?
Flying time from United States to Cancun, Mexico The total flight duration from United States to Cancun, Mexico is 3 hours , 7 minutes.
Can we travel to Mexico now?
Can Americans Visit Mexico Right Now ? While the U.S.- Mexico land border is currently restricted to essential travel , air travel between the United States and Mexico is permitted. Technically, there's a ban on nonessential travel across the border through November 21.
How long does it take to get to Mexico from Manchester?
Flight time from Manchester to Mexico City is 14 hours 35 minutes . Distance from Manchester to Mexico City is approximately 8720 kilometers.
What happens if you go to Mexico without a passport?
The Mexican government may not let U.S. citizens who are driving or walking to Mexico enter the country at land border crossings if they do not have a U.S. passport book or U.S. passport card. Learn more about entry and exit requirements and safety and security in Mexico on our Country Information page.
How long can a US citizen stay in Mexico?
180 days
How long does it take to get through customs Cancun?
about 1.5 to 2 hours
How long does it take to get through security at Cancun airport?
New Travel Regulations You Need to Know: – Passengers must arrive at least 2 hours prior for any international flight. All carry-on bags are being subjected to security screenings. 3.
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2020 Update: That's still the best advice for travel to Mexico . The State Department has a long list of travel advisories and cautions for Mexico , and while most resort areas are explicitly noted as safe , Mexico is not a country made for carefree wandering. It's best to stick to the safe areas for the time being.
Can you fly to Cancun now?
The Cancun International Airport recently had a surge in arrivals, seeing the most air operations in a single day since the coronavirus outbreak began. Traveling to Cancun is nowhere near the same as it was prior to March, but overall, it's safe and working its way back to being the place tourists know and love.
Is it safe to travel to Cancun 2020?
Due to Cancun's limited access – one entrance, one exit – along with heavy security throughout, Cancun is incredibly safe . The same report expected Cancun to receive 6.8 million travelers in 2017, with a forecast of 7.6 million visitors by 2020 and roughly 9 million by 2025.
How long is a plane to Mexico?
Flying time from United States to Mexico The total flight duration from United States to Mexico is 2 hours, 39 minutes.
How long is a flight from Mexico to Manchester?
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How long is a flight to Mexico from UK?
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28 Jun Monday Message: Walk in Harmony, Slow Down and Care for Self
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It was another beautiful Monday with the family on Clubhouse! Thank you to all who joined if you didn't get to join us this week, we'll be back next Monday and you're always invited. Follow me @iyafunlayo now and you'll receive a notification when we start.
Yesterday at Orisa Prayer and Meditation, we paid homage to the ancestors and spoke of the importance of being willing and able to do and say what needs to be done and said. Change is not always easy, and it's not always cute. We spoke on how some of our ancestors had to make hard choices in their moves toward self actualization. As we reflect, we're invited to ask ourselves: Are you willing to do what it takes to get free even when it isn't easy? Are you willing to make the necessary cuts to ensure you're working with a winning team?
During our time this morning, as an example of doing what needs to be done, I shared that I've been a trained lifeguard since I was a teenager. And do you know the FIRST thing they teach you in lifeguard training? How to break free of a drowning person who is too panicked to follow your instructions and is grabbing onto you. Why? Because if you don't break free, not only can you not help them, but they also run the risk of drowning you, too. As harsh as it may seem to push someone who's seeking safety off of you, sacrificing yourself by letting them pull you down will not help either of you.
This weeks messages come from the "Tree" card, which corresponds to the seven of hearts (from the Grandma Baby's Black Gold Lenormand deck). This card encourages us to seek harmony this week and to consider reciprocity at every turn. Are you giving thanks for all of your blessings? Are you appreciating the earth on which you walk in the water that you drink? Are you showing the gratitude if I says we are always to show? Are you caring for yourself in a way that honors you–including setting healthy boundaries? Each of these are questions the "Tree" card asks us to answer within ourselves.
And then, the perfect crystal ally for this week revealed itself! Lepidolite, which is a go-to for stressful times, has a gentle energy that works to soothe and calm the nerves and also to help bring gentle acceptance of hard truths. It is THE stone for making peace with saying what must be said and doing what must be done. It encourages us to slow down and relish each experience, even the challenging ones, for each moment contains great lessons. It's great used in meditation or simply placed in the bath with you or carried in your pocket. Rub it and pray for Obatala's peace and calm to descend, for your Ori to open to accept what is meant. Don't have a piece? That's alright, focus on an image of it or bring it into your consciousness to call on its soothing energy.
I'm grateful for you always and wishing you an absolutely fabulous week. I'll see you around our weekly events. Ire gbogbo!
~ Iya Funlayo
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Cindy was a Peace Corps volunteer in Central African Republic, I think 83-85. She tells stories from her experiences, putting Cathy Grant in her place. The stories can be quite poignant, but provide a wide range of feelings. The art is great, as can be appreciated from these few examples.
The pages reproduced here are from Tales from the Heart No. 3, Chapter 4: Fits & Starts. The prologue shows the freshly-trained friends Cathy, Julie, Constance, and Karen heading up country to their posts, driven by Barry, with whom they are not close.
After getting Cathy barely settled, all the other Americans take off, leaving her hungry and curious. She asks her way to the market, which turns out to be a few women sitting under some mango trees.
Cathy knows a bit of Sango, but apparently has spent too much time with Americans, and can't deal with Central Africans speaking their national language. The learning process illustrated so well here is probably universal.
I have provided a few translations on top of these pages. I apologize for the poor quality of the images. I provide a copy of the text below each page.
Panel 1: Cathy says "Bara ala!" which is the greeting to more than one person. She thinks to herself, "Nothing but peanut sticks [a snack food] and onions here."
Panel 2: She says to herself, "It definitely looks like tuna fish tonight. Hope Brenda [her postmate] has a can opener." Somebody speaks to her in what sounds like gibberish to Cathy: "Baraminguimademoisellelleiriti...". I presume the extra "lle" is a typo.
Panel 3: The woman continues "mbiSimonembiyetisalakwanam" while Cathy says "W-what?".
Panel 4: "Mbitene!IritimbiSimoneMbiyetitenetenamotenetikwati-". Cathy catches the basic phrase: "Iri ti mo - Simone? Oui? I don't quite...". Somebody new pipes in "Mademoiselle!..."
Panel 5: He continues "...gasi! Gatibadatimbi!" Cathy replies "Bara mo." He insists "Ganambitibadatimbi!" She fortunately doesn't understand, and says, "I'm sorry. I can't - slower - uh yeke yeke."
Panel 6: She is now lost and confused as they try to get things out of her: "Mbiyetitienetenetibongotimo-" and "...moyetilue...rmbenifin...datimbi...". Cathy just says "Excuse me... but... er... I... uh... ..."
Panel 7: Cathy turns red presumably and says "Sorry, I have to... uh" while they wonder about this moundjou.
Panel 8: The caption reads "My cheeks red and burning, I raced back to the hut. I'd been so smug about my knowledge of Sango before in front of my friends. NOW..."
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Dr WOODRUFF - Minister, in preparing legislation for the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, draft statewide planning provisions were consulted. A process went from March to October 2016. There were a wide number of representations and the Planning Commission held public hearings. In February 2017, the minister announced that he intended to make the final statewide planning provisions with some of the modifications from the draft version.
Some of the modifications recommended by the Planning Commission were adopted and others were not. In the draft statewide planning provisions report that was handed to the minister, 15 recommendations were made. The top one of those was that there should be amendments to the SPPs made for the Natural Assets Code. They said that the Natural Assets Code should be scrapped in its entirety and a code developed after proper consideration of the biodiversity implications of proposed exemptions. The production of adequate statewide vegetation mapping and consideration, including protection of drinking water catchments. The minister rejected that recommendation and did a number of minor things which I won't go into. No further amendments were made to protect drinking water catchments despite concerns that had been raised by TasWater. Are you planning on providing this Natural Assets Code amendment to the SPPs, which the Planning Commission recommended around five years ago?
Mr JAENSCH - As you identified, the SPPs were created four years ago and they're due to be reviewed when they reach five years old.
Dr WOODRUFF - March 2022.
Mr JAENSCH - Next year will be the year in which the SPPs are scheduled for their first review. It will also be the year during which they will be in service across the state, as councils convert from their IPS across into the new TPS. That is the time where there is a structural requirement to review the SPPs and that will be happening alongside the review of the regional land use strategies.
This is one of the reasons why I have been most keen to try to drive the process urgently to get the LPS work done and out of the way, so that we could roll into the Regional Land Use Strategy and SPP work. They are crossing over each other a little bit but I think that the phasing is still manageable.
The other thing I have asked the PPU to do, now that we have seven councils working with the SPPs in their routine processing of planning matters, is to keep a record of the issues raised in use of these SPPs so that we can give back to councils who are asking about interpreting an application of the SPPs consistent answers. Also, so that we can build a body of evidence about aspects of the SPPs that might bear review, adjustment and amendment based on the community of practice who have been applying them. That is something we are taking more input on as the SPPs are being used.
Dr WOODRUFF - It has been five years since an extensive body of evidence was prepared and that still sits and is available to you, the 300 odd representations that were made in hearings. We don't need to wait to collect the evidence. It's still there, five years old. It could be updated but there is no doubt that we have extensive exemptions, because we don't have a functioning Natural Assets Code and that severely compromises our capacity to have even limited effect on protecting threatened species. The fact that we don't have an updated state coastal policy, a stormwater code or a proper Aboriginal heritage or geo-conservation area protections is also a grave concern.
My question is about the SPP review. The community is very concerned that they have adequate time to raise their views and to feed into the amendments that are outstanding, we would argue - and so would the TPC - at five years old. What is the process for people being able to have a long time to prepare and provide information for this very important review? Will you be engaging closely with bodies like PMAT who do that great work on behalf of so many organisations as the lobby group?
Mr JAENSCH - With these sorts of processes we do want public engagement. We want to engage organisations like PMAT but also the planning professional sector, local government and users of our planning schemes as customers, if you like, consumers, developers and the property council and those sorts of people. They have important insights into how these things work, so yes there will be a well announced and foreshadowed process for the reviewing of the SPPs. Given that this is going to be the first time round, we do not have an established process for doing that. We are going to have to design that as we are doing with the -
Dr WOODRUFF - The act has quite a lot of vigour and detail about how it has to happen. I suppose the question is when does it start?
Mr JAENSCH - This is the public process we are talking about.
Dr WOODRUFF - Maybe, through you, Mr Risby might be able to provide that detail.
Mr JAENSCH - I would be happy for Mr Risby to provide any further comment he has.
Mr RISBY - Normally we would undertake a very comprehensive public process to start off that sort of review. As you point out, Dr Woodruff, there is a statutory process there as well. It is a bit similar to the way the Tasmanian planning policies process is starting now where it is a public process to scope the issues prior to them going into the statutory formal process which has procedures set out in legislation.
As the minister has indicated, we would anticipate that with the local provision schedules coming on line that we are increasingly getting advice and comments from local government using the SPPs as to why things are phrased a certain way and what do they mean. We are addressing those as we go and if something needs to be addressed now we can do that through some of those amendments to the SPPs that parliament passed recently. We can also feed them into the longer-term review if we think it is a bigger issue that needs some consideration.
Dr WOODRUFF - Minister, one of the things the previous planning minister, Mr Gutwein, did not adopt from the draft SPP provision amendments from the Planning Commission's recommendations of February 2017 was a review of the State Coastal Policy.
This is clearly becoming a pressing issue for Tasmania, with changing conditions around the state, and lots of properties experiencing threat from coastal erosion and infrastructure. What are you doing, and planning to do, to review the State Coastal Policy? Is this in your time frame for the next year?
Mr JAENSCH - Thank you. The State Coastal Policy is technically in the Premier's portfolio of responsibilities - the State Policies and Projects Act - so I won't answer on his behalf. I consider that there are a range of matters relating to coastal policies and other areas of planning policy -
CHAIR - The time for scrutiny has expired. I will allow you to add to the answer you wanted to before we break, minister.
Mr JAENSCH - Thank you. I need to add to an answer I provided to Dr Woodruff regarding the UTAS environmental health officer workforce report. My office advises me that we do have a copy of that report. I will dig it out and take some more advice on the content of that report. It is not that I haven't seen it. My office has seen it and I will certainly go back to it now, off the back of our discussion Dr Woodruff, as soon as possible after Estimates.


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"A light biscuit topped with delicious strawberries."
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- Stir in buttermilk until the flour mixture is moistened.
- Drop 1/3-cup scoops of the dough 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Brush biscuits with heavy cream and sprinkle generously with turbinado sugar.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Mix together the sliced strawberries, 1/4 cup white sugar, and lemon juice in a large bowl. Allow berries to rest until juices develop, about 30 minutes.
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1. On which poet did Persse McGarrigle write his thesis?
T.S. Eliot.
2. How many people are attending the conference in Rummidge?
3. In what city does Persse teach?
4. What does "McGarrigle" mean in Irish?
"Son of Super-valour."
5. Where was Angelica found as a baby?
In an airplane bathroom.
6. What is the theory that Persse asks Angelica to explain to him?
7. From what disease did Persse suffer during his postgraduate studies?
8. What author was Morris Zapp's specialty?
Jane Austen.
9. What play did the conferees originally buy tickets to see?
"King Lear."
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If you are reading this, there's probably a better than 50 percent chance—and probably closer to 75 or 80 percent, really—that you were one of the, apparently, 8 trillion (Swizz's math might be a little hyperbolic) people who tuned into the Jill Scott versus Erykah Badu Verzuz on Instagram Live on Saturday evening. Topping out at about 730K simultaneous viewers (if memory serves correct), the show was an awesome display of music, appreciation, respect and admiration. Also, this wasn't really a battle per se. I have no idea if anybody was truly keeping score so much as waiting for the playlist from the evening to drop after it was all said and done. This was especially true for the Jill Scott jams she pulled out that I'd forgotten about, like "Calls" from The Robert Glasper Experiment's Black Radio 2 record. Good lawd, is that record a mood. Her selections also made me revisit her 2015 album, Woman.
Of course, Erykah played all of her banging-est Erykah jams and we were even treated to the first few minutes of Mama's Gun standout, "Green Eyes." The night was almost good enough to make me cop an $80 hoodie in celebration of the event from Erykah Badu's merch market, Badu World Market. Who am I kidding? I totally bought a hoodie...in May. I enjoyed the shit out of the whole thing. After it was over, I decided to revisit both of the albums that truly hit me the hardest from their collections: Erykah's Mama's Gun, an actual perfect album (which will be revisited later) and Jill's Who Is Jill Scott?: Words & Sounds, Vol. 1. I have such fond and vivid memories of both of those albums and specific records from them, probably because they were both released while I was in college where so many memories end up being tied to music. But one thing stood out: They were both released in 2000.
These two landmark albums, especially in the soul (and whatever burgeoning category folks were trying to create to separate them from the Jagged Edges of the world; I will not be making such a distinction) genre, came out in August and November of that year, which makes 2000 already one of the best years for soul (it was also no slouch for hip-hop releases). But it made me wonder what else came out that year given that my college years were chock full of great album releases. As it turns out, what a year it was!
Here are six more impactful releases in 2000 that pretty much make that year one of the greatest black music album release years of all time.
J.E. Heartbreak, Jagged Edge
Love or hate Jagged Edge, this was that album that had the smoothed out jams with four top 20 singles. Plus, it's Jagged Edge and we all know they're one of the greatest singing groups of all time. The album had "Let's Get Married," and "He Can't Love U," (which is true). It's a good album and a game changer and honestly, this is the album that truly revolutionized R&B music if we're being honest. You know what, let's just move on.
Voodoo, D'Angelo
Actual game changer. Can I level with you? I was always more of a Brown Sugar fellow than a Voodoo chap. Sort of like being a Good Kid, M.A.A.D City guy over a To Pimp a Butterfly gentleman. I recognize that they're all good, but some I've just liked more than others. But the more I've listened to Voodoo, the more I appreciate it as the masterpiece it is. Point is, it came out in 2000, too and it caught a lot of us by surprise.
Emotional, Carl Thomas
One of the biggest arguments I've ever gotten into with a person I didn't know (at the time) was about Carl Thomas and his ability to sing. That Times Square Applebee's got quite the laugh out of that convo. Be that as it may, this album still had the jams on it and the title track, "Emotional," is probably the real birth of today's R&B. Ralph Tresvant's "Sensitivity" was a decade ahead of its time. Carl Thomas made sure to not only stick the landing, but he also clapped when he landed.
Aijuswannaseing, Musiq (Soulchild)
I think he's just Musiq now. Either way, when "Just Friends(Sunny)" landed, Musiq kicked off a whole genre of situationship jams wrapped up in funky dressing so it sounded like chicken soup for the soul. This album had banger after banger on it though. "Girl Next Door," struggle vocal anthem "Love," "Mary Go Round," and his rendition of "Settle for My Love." True story, the whole late '90s early '00s Philly wave had me feeling like I needed to move to the City of Brotherly Love.
Lovers Rock, Sade
I mean, it was Sade's first album since 1992's Love Deluxe so you know the streets were waiting. And by streets, I mean open mics and incense enclaves like Little Five Points in Atlanta. I still bump "King of Sorrow," because that joint jams. Honestly, I can't remember what the whole album sounds like off the top, but I do remember how excited everybody was for this album to drop. And I mean, Sade.
Lucy Pearl, Lucy Pearl
We already covered this here.


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Having described an outline of her talk the first question hubby asked was what solutions had she presented to solve the problem. In that moment I could not think of one. He said it reminded him of a phrase he had heard at work one day. The problem that day had been presented many times before and the remark from the boss was, "we keep admiring the problem but what we need are solutions."
Are you admiring your problems? If you have a problem but take no action to find a solution then you are admiring your problem. For instance, things like a sedentary lifestyle can lead to weight gain. You can weigh yourself, talk about the weight gain, buy bigger clothes to hide the weight gain, get sad about the weight gain, but until you get off the couch to go for a walk you are doing nothing but admiring your weight gain.
Yes, look at your issue from many angles. Get some advice on how to move forward or how to change the situation you find yourself in. Ponder the solutions, let the ideas percolate for a while, and don't be rash in your decisions. And then do something!
Taking action is not always easy. Knowing what action to take may not always be apparent. But you cannot know the right way to go if you take no action at all. As soon as you move you will figure out if the direction is helping or hurting and make a course correction.
What you definitely don't want to do is to just keep admiring the problem.


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Matériaux & Techniques
Volume 103, Number 5, 2015
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|Matériaux et Société / Social value of materials
|Published online
|21 September 2015
Steel and humanity's grand challenges⋆
ESTEP, Bruxelles,
Accepted: 9 April 2015
The connection between industry, science, technology and societal challenges is often left to social scientists or to policy makers. It is however an interesting way to reflect on the activity of an industrial sector or on the role of key materials relative to the way we live in the world today. This essay attempts to analyze the role of steel with respect to the societal challenges defined by the European Horizon 2020 research and innovation program to direct R&I and face them. While steel is clearly related to energy, resources, transport or construction, it is also connected, directly and indirectly, with softer issues like health, well being and the inclusiveness of society. This is due to the particular feature of steel: an enduring technology, which has accompanied mankind in its historical journey since prehistory, but also an advanced material which is plastic enough in terms of its innovation potential to provide new solutions to new problems, incremental ones and breakthroughs that are needed to induce paradigm shifts.
Key words: Humanity's grand challenges / societal challenges / Europe / steel – raw materials / energy / climate change / health / well being / GDP / beyond GDP indicators / CSR reporting / food / packaging / transport / automotive / mobility / ULCOS / breakthrough technologies / Horizon 2020
© EDP Sciences, 2015
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The latest forecast is ARA's first to project rental revenue for 2023. The current figures, which are updated quarterly, also project slightly less growth for 2019 through 2022 than what was forecast in May.
"The market for the equipment and event rental industry remains positive, but there definitely are signs that the U.S. economic growth is slowing and this projected slowdown is reflected in our latest forecast," said John McClelland, Ph.D., ARA vice president for government affairs and chief economist.
"Trade tensions and a slowdown in the global economy are headwinds for the economy with the risk of a recession happening in the U.S. within the next 12 months at about 35 percent."
For 2019, equipment and event rental revenue in the U.S. now is expected to be $55.7 billion, up 5 percent from 2018, with growth in 2020 and 2021 expected to be 3.8 percent; 4.1 percent in 2022; and 3.3 percent in 2023 to top $64.7 billion.
Scott Hazelton, managing director, IHS Markit, the forecasting firm that compiles data and analysis for the ARA Rentalytics subscription service as part of a partnership with ARA, says the U.S. economy continues to decelerate this year as the stimulus from prior tax and budget incentives diminish.
"This has been exacerbated by still ongoing uncertainty over trade and tariff policy, particularly with China, and concern over the strength of the global economy," said Hazelton. "This uncertainty is likely to persist into 2020 and become further complicated by the presidential election cycle. The result is a modest reduction in our near-term economic outlook, particularly for the construction and manufacturing segments on which rental depends. We have slightly lowered our expectation for rental revenue growth, but we are not expecting a downturn."
IHS Markit forecasts rental revenue in Canada to grow 2.1 percent in 2019 to total nearly $5.5 billion and then continue to expand with revenue increases of 4.9 percent in 2020, 5.0 percent in 2021, 3.6 in 2022 and 2.2 percent in 2023 to reach $6.4 billion.


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Isaiah 58
6 Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked to cover them,
and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
This Lent:
"Let us dare to take the journey
that begins where the path ends…"
(from Jeannette McHugh's sermon for Christmas 2, 2nd January
and more from Jeannette's most recent sermon (20th January 2008):
"The Christian season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 6 weeks before Easter. It is early this year, only two and a half weeks away on 6th February. Perhaps now is a good time for us to attend to outstanding domestic chores and work and relationship issues, so that we may more easily find the time in the Lenten season to pause and wonder and reflect on what we believe, what gives meaning to our lives and what we need to do to make our lives more integrated and whole.
…don't be afraid to wrestle with questions of faith whatever your age and formal education. It's liberating to know more about the ground on which we stand in life."


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In Underrated, we review the ordinary rituals we build around food. Next up: eating fish and chips with a side of sand.
Eating on the beach is an impractical choice. The wind blows sand into food with ease, seagulls will not respect your boundaries, and everything feels sticky to the touch. Still, this evening my family carries our haul of fish and chips past the groups eating their meals straight-backed at real tables featuring plastic cups of Sauvignon Blanc and toward the ocean. Our fried food is swaddled in off-white paper like a newborn coming home. We stop at the border between sidewalk and sand, and even my dad, who eats pizza with a knife and fork, understands we must remove our shoes and feel the warm grains nestle snugly around our toes.
Sitting cross-legged near the water sans towels, we watch the hermit crabs scuttle into their holes. And with only fingers to eat our pile of food, we let any sense of dinner decorum crumble. We dig our heels deeper into the sand until we uncover the damp, cool pockets still wet from the morning tide. We tear into steaming hunks of cod, shower everything in lemon juice, and let all the crumbs tumble onto the paper, now almost transparent with oil drippings. The breeze is thick and briny and it makes us giddy, a little bit wild. We're all grown, but for now my Australian family are toddlers; sticky and laughing.
The mix of salty air and fried food offers a waft of possibility, like we're at a theme park of nature's making. Our experience is almost entirely sensory: The crash of the waves. The sploosh of sunscreen as it hurtles out of a tube. (My own red face smolders under the last sputters of sunlight.) A whizz of frisbees and the crack of a cricket ball flying off a wooden bat. Then the inevitable: The caws of a colony of gulls circling hungrily above our mauled dinner. In what world, my dudes?
In this childlike reverie nobody cares who was supposed to do the dishes last night. Or who racked up the international phone bill. Or who is responsible for the rogue grains of sand that are now grinding between all of our molars. We reach for benevolent explanations to make sense of one another. We aren't wounded or agitated. There are plenty of reasons for any earlier tantrums. Maybe mum didn't sleep well. Dad's allergies are playing up. My brother is stressed at work. I dunk a handful of thick-cut yellow chips into the creamy tartar sauce and shovel them into my mouth.
Away from the decency of knives and forks, this break in normalcy, this ritualistic mess, is what levels us. In our very serious world, eating fish and chips on the beach erodes everything that holds it together. It throws out all rules of adulthood, its anxieties, its niceties; what's left is just the unspoken grace to make a screaming mess of everything. To claw, to spill, to build sandcastles mid-meal. Then, just as quickly, to flop onto our backs and make shapes in the clouds or wonder at the first stars speckling the violet sky. Here, on the edge of land, we're enjoying the pure, primal pleasure of the experience. The joy of being nonsensical together, just for the sake of it.
Soon, it's over. The sun has almost dipped beneath the green mountains lining the coastline behind us. Just a few of the soggy chips are left; I'm the only one who loves those. Suddenly, dad is scrunching the paper into a ball. My brother is draining the last of his cheap beer. Mum is rubbing her hands on a wet wipe. We walk towards the car, splashing our sandy feet under a rusty tap and sliding back into our shoes. My heart sinks, but we'll be back. Fish and chips will be there, always the same: salty, abundant, ready to make us ravenous for life once more.


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Reversible "Be Brave" Phrase Necklace in Gold & Mother of Pearl
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A perfect bag that transcends seasons and goes with every outfit is an instant winner for the gift-giving season. And the Beaded Zebra Clutch and Coin Purse are THOSE gifts for 2020.
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Garment Duffel Bag in Kawa and Oiled Caramel
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Pledges to usher in new era of development in the district
PULWAMA: The District Development Council (DDC) Chairman Pulwama, Syed Bari Andrabi along with other members today held an interactive meeting with senior officers at DC office here.
The Additional District Development Commissioner, Ex. Engineers R&B, PHE and PDD were present on the occasion.
Interacting with the officers, Syed Bari said people have a lot of expectations from the council vis-à-vis development and prosperity of the district and sought cooperation of line departments to fulfill the same. He also pledged to work and priortise the things from the grassroots for smooth implementation of developmental and welfare schemes.
He said that they are committed to usher in a new era of development for the district.
On the occasion, ADDC Pulwama, assured full cooperation and support to the council for achieving new heights of development in the district.
He also expressed full commitment for strengthening the Panchayat Raj Institution and empowering the people at grassroots level. He said that DDC members are eyes and ears of Administration and people have reposed faith upon them for embarking the ladder of development and prosperity
With smooth coordination between the District Development Council and the administration, the district will witness new heights of socio-economic prosperity and development, he remarked.
During the proceedings, threadbare discussions were held for working out the ways and methods for ensuring the plans formulated at the local level culminates smoothly.


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Osseous surgery, sometimes referred to as pocket reduction surgery or gingivectomy, refers to a number of different surgeries aimed at gaining access to the tooth roots to remove tartar and disease-causing bacteria. The procedure also helps to improve the pateint's ability to maintain the health of their teeth over time.
Osseous surgery is used to reshape deformities and remove pockets in the alveolar bone surrounding the teeth. It is a common necessity in effective treatment of more advanced periodontal diseases. The ultimate goal of osseous surgery is to reduce or eliminate the periodontal pockets that cause periodontal disease. Despite the word "surgery" the procedure is reported to feel more like a thorough cleaning. The specific goals of surgery include:
A local anesthetic will be used to numb the area prior to surgery. First, Dr. Sherry will gently make an incision between the tooth and gum, preserving your gum tissue. This allows conservative access to the bone and roots of the teeth. After the roots have been thoroughly cleaned through scaling, shallow potholes in the bone, as a result of bacterial damage are smoothed to take away the home the disease causing bacteria live in. In deeper problem areas, bone, can be inserted as a powder, to fill and regenerate these areas of damage, helping to give these teeth a new lease on life.
Dissolvable sutures are often used with these procdures.
Pain medicine and mouth rinses containing chlorhexidine are generally prescribed following the surgery.
Do not be alarmed if bleeding and swelling occur after the surgery. This can be controlled easily by placing an ice pack on the outside of the affected area. In cases where the bleeding and swelling is in excess, it is advised that you call to notify our office. Several follow up visits may be necessary and you must fulfill a meticulous maintenance program especially during the initial phases of healing to maximize healing potential.
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