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Shutter House
Shutter House
Lake Monger Drive, Wembley
Website/Social Media
stateofkin.com.au // @stateofkin // State Of Kin
The Shutter House is a culmination of customised details that have been conceived and executed in collaboration across all skillsets of the State of Kin team.
Associate & Interior Designer Alessandra Salomone, and Associate & Graduate of Architecture Ara Salomone, went on a mission to source the perfect combination of 'seed stones' and oxide for the terrazzo flooring. They then conducted a few experiments to get the ratios and base colour perfected. Once the design team was happy with the test run, the material was taken to site to execute the full-scale formation, including meticulous hand-seeding of the aggregate to ensure the ultimate blend of texture and colour was achieved.
The finished product is a completely custom piece of art, which is full of character and love. It forms the perfect base for the rest of the home.
Builders Donny, Gino, and Steve were exceptional in helping Ara and Ale execute the use of raw steel, brass, stone, and timber in incredible ways throughout the design. The re-imagined version of the 'old-school' parquetry floors on the first floor is a good example. The design team really wanted to bring this vision to life but were disappointed in the colour and finish of product they have found 'off-the- shelf'. So the team made up some sample pieces and played with a variety of oils and stains to achieve the warm, walnut-ish shade- a custom blend that will be protective of the timber substrate and age really well over time.
The team also customised the scale of the pattern so that it's a little larger than standard to better reflect the scale of the project and the value of the material within the space.
In order to retain and highlight the structural material of the upper floor slabs –the visual connectivity from one floor to another, and highlighting the structural material of the Shutter House's upper floor slabs was also a focus. The design team worked closely with engineers and electricians, mechanical consultants and lighting specialists to maximise the exposed concrete spans.
This involved strategic placement of dropped ceilings in 'secondary' spaces, the specification of lighting canisters to be cast-in to the slab, and some clever wiring solutions. The coordination of these essential, methodological aspects of the concept is smoothly accomplished due to the constant open dialogue between all members of the State of Kin team and the shared understanding of the value of each activity and contribution.
Project Team
Gino Salomone: Director and Builder
Steve Salomone: Director and Builder
Ara Salomone: Associate and Graduate of Architecture
Alessandra Salomone: Associate and Interior Designer
Donny Salomone: Associate and Building Manager
Amy Clark: Interior Designer
Jessie Nguyen: Graduate of Architecture


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With just one touch from his Almighty creative hand, He has healed the sick and raised the dead. How amazing is His Lordship over all the earth, how powerful is his redeeming love. How great was his sacrifice for our sake and bring forgiveness and hope to us all that believe in him. By his stripes we ask for healing and we are healed. Standing within His reign and rule we ask for restoration. May life and wellness grow in fullness until it overflows.
Our Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need:
Run to him in time of your need and confusion. He will show you mercy/ healing, and comfort you with a sense of His goodness. He will preserve you from the temptations of your enemy and give you patience under your affliction. He will restore you to health so that you may live without fear. Let him dwell within your life.
Isaiah 53:5 (KJV)
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

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Easy Banana Bread
Yields 1 Loaf
A banana bread recipe is a good one to have in your repertoire - it's perfect for breakfast, toasted with butter, for a midday snack or even for dessert. This version is nut-free, but feel free to toss in a 1/2 cup of coarsely chopped toasted walnuts or pecans if that tickles your fancy. Be sure to use very ripe bananas for a flavorful loaf. Since I live alone, I freeze any bananas that begin to turn so that I can make this recipe whenever the mood strikes.
Unsalted butter, for greasing
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for greasing
1 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoons baking soda
1-1/4 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
9 ounces mashed banana (about 3 medium sized bananas)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a 9x5 loaf pan with butter and flour.
In a medium-sized bowl combine the flour, salt, cinnamon and baking soda. Mix well.
In a large bowl, combine the eggs, oil, water and vanilla. Whisk well to emulsify all ingredients. Add the sugar and whisk to combine. Dump the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix, just to combine. Add the bananas (and nuts, if using) and gently stir to combine.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 55-65 or until a skewer comes out clean.
Let cool on a rack for 20 minutes before carefully removing the loaf from the pan. Allow to cool completely. Wrap well in aluminum foil. This loaf can be stored, at room temperature, for up to 5 days.


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What propels someone to collect art? How has art collecting become a sign of the growing middle higher-class purchasing power from East Asia? These two questions are the foundation of Taiwanese director Hao-Hsuan Hsu's quest in this documentary.
Filmed over the course of two years in artistic hubs including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Italy, and the UK, the film allows behind-the-scenes access to the art collection world. Encounters with gallery owners, auctioneers, and art collectors showcase the wonderful (and sometimes absurd) rationale behind art collecting. Meanwhile, the introduction of numerous contemporary Asian artists informs us the deep influence of globalization and diaspora to their work.
This film is Taiwan's gift for art lovers around the world. So sit back, relax and get ready to be immersed by the dazzling images of art projected alongside with the existential questions on art's function in our rapidly changing world.
Director's Bio
Hao-Hsuan Hsu
Hao-Hsuan Hsu 徐浩軒 has participated in Taiwanese documentaries A Life That Sings, The Untrammeled Traveler, and Ode to Time as the writer and assistant director. He currently works as an independent director/writer of documentaries, commercials and fiction films.


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When clients ask me to help them rebrand, one of the first things I ask is why now?
Chances are they've had their current logo / identity for a while, so what is making them decide to change it today?
The answer to this question will set the tone for the rest of the consultation.
Timing is crucial in marketing. So it's vital to have the full picture before starting work on the project.
There's a million different reasons why a company could choose to rebrand; so it's not worth guessing.
Redesigning a logo should be goal-orientated. So defining a goal or objective from the outset is essential.
Good questions start great conversations.
And great conversations spark the best solutions...
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Paws for books
Katie Wiedenfeld, Max Wiedenfeld, Ella Bowers, Rex Lippert (reading), Owen Becker, Anson Noecker, and Ella and Logan Krueger participated in the Paws for Books program at the Library. Over 70 kids came to the library ready to show some love to our furry friends during the May 23 Paws for Books program.
The kids got to practice their reading skills and the dogs were very good listeners. The library appreciates the participation and assistance of Emmie, Rosie and Charlie, along with their owners Craig, Melissa, Mason and Tate Dickens, Nolan Noecker, Ella and Anna Bowers and Josh Anderson and his German shorthair dog, Koda.
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What happened to good names? You tell me, in the last five years, anybody who's been introduced to a baby named Larry. Bring me baby Larry. Show me a baby Glen. Who are we gonna borrow tools from in the future?
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Designing for Change
How we're attempting to alter our customer's routines through the design of Fastlane.
"The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it." — Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
Last month, the innovation team that I work with at Z Energy released Fastlane at 9 trial sites around New Zealand — a new way of fuelling up and paying at a petrol station (read more about it here). While other teams would expect a certain number of registrations and transactions to deem it successful, our success is the gathering of data, the on-site observations, and the insights from all customer types and all areas of the business. We need to operate in this way because we are looking to modify habits and create change, and that only happens when we understand the current behaviours of everyone involved.
Many companies deal with growing pains of innovations which require a distinctive behaviour change by overreacting, not buying in, and shutting things down too early. In 2008, Evernote founder Phil Libin made the difficult decision to close the company down after deciding it was never going to take off, only to be met with a large overseas investment that ultimately carried the success of the company. In the same year, when Airbnb first started, it struggled to survive as prominent investors passed on the idea. Only through the unrelenting persistence of Airbnb's team did they succeed.
Often times similar companies and innovations fail because the founders and investors are trusting their customers to know what they want. As Henry Ford said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." In my last article about the Google Pixel Buds, I argued that the buds "will change your relationship with headphones" but the consumers and the industry have indicated (through terrible reviews) that we just aren't ready for this change. (Time will tell if Google will hold out to see the innovation through or kill the idea before a change ensues). Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, says: "Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new."
While many companies start to question their judgement or react to low sign up and usage numbers, we aim to resist the urge to do this with Fastlane and focus on the core hypotheses we have in our learning plan to understand customer usage/experience. However, our nature is to question why: Why aren't more customers signing up? Why aren't more customers driving through the lanes? Is the experience of the Fastlane not working for people? I believe it's because our customers have deep, instilled routines and expectations with how they fuel up now and changing those behaviours is outright difficult.
While habit-changing can be seen as impossible, Charles Duhigg of The Power of Habit gives us hope. He says, "Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped." So, the question is: how do we go about changing our customers' habits?
According to the Fogg Behaviour Model (named amply after BJ Fogg, the head of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab), if motivation, ability, and triggers aren't present, the desired behaviour won't occur. Jason Hreha, Head of Product, Behavioural Sciences at Walmart, says: "In order for a behaviour to occur, a person must first be motivated and able to perform the behaviour. Then, if they have an ample level of motivation and ability to perform the given behaviour, they will follow through when cued/triggered." With this context, let's dig into 3 helpful tips in shaping a customers' habits.
1) Understand current motivations and expectations
While this may seem like they typical run-of-the-mill "understand your customer experience," it's a bit more complicated than that. Understanding who your customers are and what your customers are doing on their journey is one thing, but digging into their routine — what drives people to repeat behaviours — is where the insight comes in.
We often ask our Z customers why they choose to pay inside over pay at the pump, and we get a slew of answers — "I like to talk to the people inside," "I think it's easier," "I want a drink" — but those answers are typically just the surface answers, not digging into the real meat. I believe many customers have formed routines over time, such as going to the same fuel stations (even favouriting specific lanes!), talking to the same people, and using the same form of payment. The idea of changing those behaviours, no matter how much better or easier things will become, doesn't compete with the ease and comfort of routines.
"We can design for the fact that our users carry a consistent set of expectations about how the world works."—Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design at Intercom
We also know that people see and expect the world to work in a certain way and showing them a different reality should be done with special intent and thought, especially when we're asking them to change their behaviour to something less compelling.
Maintaining a sense of user autonomy is a requirement for repeat engagement. Fuel, for example, is an energy commodity that people feel some ownership over. They invest in a vehicle and expect to use it easily and in the same way they have been for the past 100 years (while ideally keeping costs as low as possible). Changing people's expectations that this is not a commodity they have ownership of but rather a service and a resource they are paying for is threatening their known reality and autonomy. Customers could even rebel against this new behaviour. Psychologists refer to this as reactance.
As expected, our Fastlane trial so far has seen a direct impact of going against people's expectations and is gathering reactances. Because there are specific lanes just for registered users, if someone pulls up who is not registered, the driver is asked to move to a different lane. It's a simple request but because of people's routines and expectations, a few have become defensive. We never expected the amount of strife Fastlane has created, but it has been great for teaching us about the difficulty of changing behaviours.
On the flip side, for those who are registered and arrive to a Fastlane, the drivers' name flashes on the pump screen. While the primary purpose of this is to notify our concierge, it also gives the driver personal recognition and the expectation that this is their lane and the pump is ready for their use. It's small details like these that could ease customers into new and different ways of doing things as we slowly start changing expectations and the experience.
Understanding who our customers are, what and how they interact with the product, and the why of their behaviours is necessary to inspire change.
2) Offer the right triggers at the right time
We've discussed above that an individual's current behaviours and expectations might inhibit their motivation and ability to change, but more times than not, we aren't offering the right triggers at the right time.
There are two types of triggers, according to Nir Eyal: external and internal. An external trigger is typically some piece of marketing or cue to remind someone to do a particular action. These are seen as emails, push notifications, signs, etc. Unfortunately, external triggers often don't work unless it can be connected with an internal trigger. (For example: I get a notification from Facebook on my phone, I realise that I'm bored, so I open Facebook; I see the powerful McDonald's Golden Arches, I realise I'm hungry, so I pull into a McDonald's). Leveraging these internal triggers in association with external triggers can be very powerful, as long as one's individual ability isn't inhibited. To create new customers, great marketing campaigns will often focus on the feeling experienced when someone purchases a product, so that the potential internal trigger can be associated with the external trigger in the wild.
For our Fastlane trial, we heavily relied on external triggers at particular Z Stations because it was a limited release. We asked people to download the app and register through brochures and posters. We created big, bright orange floor signage to trigger customers into driving into that particular lane. Stickers and flags were plastered all over the pumps. While these are all great external triggers, Fastlane won't create an emotional connection with our customers until they try it and, as with most services, customers need to register. Unfortunately, downloading an app and registering when you are on the forecourt of a petrol station certainly doesn't align with existing customer habits in this setting. Breaking down these barriers of registration (Fogg's 'ability') is necessary for us to move forward and break the power of habit:
- Don't want to use their cell data to download an app
- On the go and busy, can't be bothered (or they're driving)
- Regulation enforces not to use phones on the forecourt
- Lack of understanding of their smartphone (or don't own one outright)
Experimenting with various external triggers—such as free WIFI at the petrol station or an offline registration process—will be helpful so that we can start learning if there are repeat visits, indicating that people have made a positive emotional connection with the faster payment system.
"If a user is presented with a call to action when they're able and somewhat motivated to perform a behaviour, it's likely that they will. If they then have a good experience… they will be reinforced to use it again in the future. If the following occurs enough times, a habit will be formed." — Jason Hreha, Head of Product, Behavioural Sciences at Walmart.
3) Build new habits by experimenting with rewards
It's easy to think about rewards as something tangible that we can offer our customers, but to build new habits, we need to focus on deeper, intrinsic rewards. Duhigg says: "Rewards are powerful because they satisfying cravings. But we're often not conscious of the cravings that drive our behaviours."
These cravings are woven together through motivations, rewards, action, and investment—otherwise known as the Hook Model.
At the heart of the Hook Model is a powerful cognitive quirk described by B.F. Skinner in the 1950s, called a variable schedule of rewards. Skinner observed that lab mice responded most voraciously to random rewards. The mice would press a lever and sometimes they'd get a small treat, other times a large treat, and other times nothing at all. Unlike the mice that received the same treat every time, the mice that received variable rewards seemed to press the lever compulsively
Nir Eyal says that there are three types of variable rewards and that must satisfy the needs of the customers while driving motivation to reengage again. These three are:
- Rewards of the tribe are social rewards fueled by connectedness with other people.
- Rewards of the hunt is the search for material resources and information.
- Rewards of the self is the search for intrinsic rewards of mastery, competence, and completion.
(Similarly, Hreha says that one way to amplify motivation are through incentives, which he broke into four categories—monetary, tangible item, point-based, social.)
Furthermore, understanding the core-users and what they value with a product, will take some experimentation. It's important to test different rewards and learn which rewards will drive change.
"This might take a few days, or a week, or longer. During that period, you shouldn't feel any pressure to make a real change — think of yourself as a scientist in the data collection stage." —Charles Duhigg
While Fastlane hypothetically eases the pain of payment, we need to learn through our trial if the intrinsic reward triggers reengagement in the future. Furthermore, we need to learn if people are willing to sacrifice other rewards they are getting in a normal fill-up to satisfy their need to just fill-up and go. Experimenting with different incentives for sign-up, different rewards for fill-up, and variable rewards for loyal customers will be great for our team to try break some of the barriers mentioned above.
New experiences are always at the mercy of the current experience—and even if it's a better experience, it's unfortunately not always perceived that way. Kumar Mehta, Ph.D., author of the Innovation Biome, calls this gap the 'Experience Delta,' and claims it's at the centre of innovation.
The Experience Delta, or the change in experience between how something is done today, vs. how it could be done through a new idea or innovation is a consistent and valuable way to determine which ideas to invest in and which to pass on. The bigger the change in experience, or the larger the Experience Delta, the more impact an innovation is going to have. —Dr. Kumar Mehta, How You Can Start Betting On The Right Ideas
To be successful at innovation, we need to understand our customer's experience, design intently for the new experience, and offer intrinsic rewards that satisfy their inner cravings. This drives true, long-lasting behaviour change, creates new ways of thinking, and bridges the gap between the old and the new.
Read more about Fastlane and the Z Energy Innovation Team here: Customer convenience is the focus of Fastlane - pull in, fuel up and go


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Provence is characterized by its delicious Provencal cuisine. There are many restaurants that have these typical dishes on their menu. There are also more and more restaurants, on a lovely international cuisines, sometimes with a light Provencal influence.
Below is an overview of the various restaurants that are recommended in Provence and the Cote d'Azur. The restaurants are classified by us with one to five Q's (QQQQQ). The more Q's better the quality / price ratio.


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We welcome the opportunity to respond briefly to PRA's CP 12/17. We are content with the move from ICG to a formal P2A requirement set under section 55 of FSMA. The approach to solo Pillar 2A requirements looks reasonable. But we think PRA has not adequately made the case for, in effect, attempting to mandate disclosure of the TCR by all banks and building societies.
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GPS is the tracking unit which uses the global positioning system to track the locations of a person, a device, locates the vehicle, etc and records the position at regular intervals. The positioning of a person or a device through Internet and satellite unit embedded in the device. The system provides useful capabilities to military, civil and commercial users around the world. GPS plays an important role in the earth sciences. Meteorologists use it for weather forecasting and global climate studies; and geologists can use it as a highly accurate method of surveying and in earthquake studies to measure tectonic motions during and in between earthquakes. AS GPS is very popular now days with its presence in our gadgets it has various types.
Hardwired GPS system:
Hardwired GPS systems are usually used in the vehicle. It is basically used for the navigation to go at your destination. These GPS tracking systems sometimes come with antennas that must be attached to the vehicle through which the connection between satellite and your vehicle.
Personal GPS Trackers:
Personal GPS trackers are GPS tracking systems which look like small beepers or cell phones. The personal GPS trackers are usually used to locate the childrens, people , our pets. We can locate our child at any time and pets also .We can even locate our loved ones when they are stolen by somebody in no time. These types of the trackers are useful in our daily life.
Real-Time GPS Trackers:
The Real Time GPS Trackers are trackers which continuously gives the information abouth the location of the device or person. It is widely used for vehicle tracking by Transportation, Service and Utility companies as well as Police and Fire departments around the world.
As the technology upgrades now almost every gadget has the GPS capabilities these days. So today's most popular technology of GPS is A-GPS it refers to Assisted Global Positioning System. It addresses signal and network problems by using assistance from other services. Such technology in your cell phone can help you in various ways like tracking your current location, receiving turn-by-turn direction instructions, location based tracking, etc


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MP demands accountability for rail failures
Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has written to the Rail Minister to ask her to clarify what sanctions are available to ensure that Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railways are held to account for their failure to deliver acceptable standards of performance.
Mr Herbert followed up a Commons debate called by Sussex MPs earlier this month in which he called for stronger accountability for the railway operators who had failed to meet their own modest performance targets on the Brighton and Arun Valley lines.
Speaking in the Westminster Hall debate on 16 March, Mr Herbert said that it was a "matter of deep regret and enormous frustration" that MPs had to come back to the Commons once again to raise concerns about the performance of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Network Rail.
The MP pointed out that in 2011, 78 per cent of Southern passengers were satisfied with train punctuality and reliability, but by Spring 2015 the figure had fallen to just over half, 56 per cent. In the autumn it rose to 65 per cent, but that still meant that fewer than two thirds of passengers were satisfied.
Mr Herbert said that this was unacceptable when one year ago the industry had agreed a performance improvement plan, thanks to the efforts of the Rail Minister. The plan had set a low benchmark of 80.2 per cent of planned services that were less than 5 minutes late at their final destination, yet after one year GTR had failed to hit even this low target for three months running.
The MP pointed out that the promise in the performance improvement plan that passengers would "... notice real improvements from now onwards in the punctuality and reliability of our trains" had been been broken, and that customers were fed up with hearing excuses about lack of rolling stock and inadequate driver numbers.
Mr Herbert argued that GTR and Network Rail should be held to account for their persistent failure to deliver a decent service, and suggested that performance related penalties should be applied. He praised the Minister's approach to the issue, but said that the current situation could not continue and that more radical action should be considered to address the problem. He said that the lack of performance was undermining faith in the entire policy of engaging the private sector to deliver public services and was damaging both to the Government and to the reputation of the whole industry.
Mr Herbert's criticism was echoed by other West Sussex and Surrey MPs who voiced similar concerns about performance on the lines.
The Minister responded that her Department was currently focusing on working with Network Rail to tackle the persistent, daily failures of the infrastructure. 60 per cent of delays were the result of infrastructure failures such as points failing, signals failing or other things going wrong. The Minister said that this was "intolerable" and that there had to be a "relentless focus" on the day-to-day details of running a railway.
On the issue of driver shortages she said that this has been a persistent problem for the franchise, with the number of drivers about 6 per cent or 7 per cent below what was required. On its current recruitment plans, which are the biggest in the country, GTR would reach the minimum - operational - in August this year. The Department for Transport had asked it to go further and recruit more so that there would be resilience in the system, and the company was on track to do.
In the last minutes of the debate, Mr Herbert pressed the Minister to respond on how the franchise will be held to account. The Minister replied that the franchise had been fined more than £2 million for cancellations and short formations and that additional proposals would be forthcoming.
On the question of whether GTR should be stripped of the franchise, the Minister said that "this is an exceptionally busy, difficult franchise to run. In my view, nobody out there could do a better job than the current management team, but we have to ensure that there is a relentless focus on the customer."
Mr Herbert has now followed up on the debate and the Minister's reply by writing to ask her what further measures will be taken to ensure that GTR and Network Rail are held to account for their failure to meet the targets in their own performance improvement plan.
The MP said: "Day after day, week after week my constituents have to endure a standard of service that is simply unacceptable. They don't want to hear more excuses: they simply want the service to improve, and so do I. That is why I have asked the Minister to clarify how Network Rail and GTR/Southern will be held to account for their failure to deliver as they themselves promised".
1. To read the debate in full see http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm160316/halltext/160316h0002.htm#16031635000262.
2. To read Nick's news 'Southern must improve rail service immediately or lose franchise' see http://www.nickherbert.com/news.php/692/mp-southern-must-improve-rail-service-immediately-or-lose-franchise.


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What does a Maintenance Worker, Machinery do?
Lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance.
Jobs Roles
- Reassemble machines after the completion of repair or maintenance work.
- Start machines and observe mechanical operation to determine efficiency and to detect problems.
- Inspect or test damaged machine parts, and mark defective areas or advise supervisors of repair needs.
- Lubricate or apply adhesives or other materials to machines, machine parts, or other equipment, according to specified procedures.
- Install, replace, or change machine parts and attachments, according to production specifications.
- Dismantle machines and remove parts for repair, using hand tools, chain falls, jacks, cranes, or hoists.
- Record production, repair, and machine maintenance information.
- Read work orders and specifications to determine machines and equipment requiring repair or maintenance.
- Set up and operate machines, and adjust controls to regulate operations.
- Collaborate with other workers to repair or move machines, machine parts, or equipment.
- Inventory and requisition machine parts, equipment, and other supplies so that stock can be maintained and replenished.
- Transport machine parts, tools, equipment, and other material between work areas and storage, using cranes, hoists, or dollies.
- Collect and discard worn machine parts and other refuse to maintain machinery and work areas.
- Clean machines and machine parts, using cleaning solvents, cloths, air guns, hoses, vacuums, or other equipment.
- Replace or repair metal, wood, leather, glass, or other lining in machines, or in equipment compartments or containers.
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- Measure, mix, prepare, and test chemical solutions used to clean or repair machinery and equipment.
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Consulting, Economics & Sustainability, Public Finance Management - Manager (Dubai/Riyadh)
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August 15, 2019
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You will be working within the Economics and Sustainability team (E&S). We are an analysis-driven team that uses economic principles and techniques to support the strategy and policy making process. We help governments and private sector organisations make better decisions, grounded in robust and compelling evidence. We provide the necessary foresight that help make and deliver critical business decisions and investments. We work across the Middle East for clients in a range of sectors, including but not limited to central government, real estate, energy and utilities, transport and health.
The work we typically undertake includes:
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We are a new and rapidly growing business unit, capitalising on changing trends in the regional market. The team offers you the opportunity to develop and apply your knowledge of economics in a commercial environment to solve important problems for our public and private sector clients.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
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Hill with Chitrakoota is that the description of the fauna and flora given by Valmiki agrees with what prevails today in the area. Saturn in Libra. The district is named after its headquarters town. People only remember the very good or the very bad. Furthermore, the planetary positions mentioned in the Ramayana would also have occurred multiple times in history prior to the calculated date.
Bellary district, is a major city in the state. Karnataka, is 311 km from the state capital of Bangalore and 354 km from Hyderabad. Karnataka is a state in the south western region of was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as the State of Mysore, it was renamed.
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We've started carrying new organic essential oil blends by Simplers Organics. I've been really impressed with the quality of these essential oils and how clean and beautiful they smell.
All of the essential oil blends featured below are on sale this June for 20% off.
Blissful and Bright is one of my favorite blends. It's cheery and uplifting and is great for a quick mood boost.
Ingredients: Citrus bergamia (Bergamot) Oil*, Citrus x paradisii (Grapefruit) Oil*, Citrus sinensis (Sweet Orange) Oil*, Salvia sclarea (Clary Sage) Oil*, Citrus aurantium (Neroli) Oil*, Boswellia carterii (Frankincense) Oil*, Elettaria cardamomum (Cardamom) Oil*.
Calm Within is a fantastic blend for stress and nervousness. It's a very soothing and grounding oil.
Ingredients: Lavendula angustifolia (Lavender) Oil*, Citrus sinensis (Sweet Orange) Oil*, Citrus aurantium (Neroli) Oil*, Vetiveria zizanoides (Vetiver) OIl*, Pelargonium x asperum (Rose Geranium) Oil*, Cananga odorata (Ylang Ylang) Oil*.
This is a wonderfully relaxing sleep blend that can help soothe the body and quiet the mind.
Ingredients: Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender) Oil*, Citrus reticulata (Mandarin) Oil*, Chamaemelum nobile (Roman Chamomile) Oil*, Origanum majorana (Sweet Marjoram) Oil*, Boswellia carterii (Frankincense) Oil*.
This is a very effective blend for mental exhaustion, and can help to reduce feelings of stress and fatigue.
Ingredients: Citrus limon (Lemon) Oil*, Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir) Oil*, Elettaria cardamomum (Cardamom) Oil*, Ocimum basilicum (Sweet Basil) Oil*, Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary) Oil*, Mentha x piperita (Peppermint) Oil*.
Fortify and Protect is a great wellness blend, and is useful for cleansing and detoxifying the environment.
Ingredients: Citrus x paradisii (Grapefruit) Oil*, Origanum majorana (Sweet Marjoram) Oil*, Eucalyptus radiata (Eucalyptus) Oil*, Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender) Oil*, Citrus sinensis (Sweet Orange) Oil*, Melaleuca alternifola (Tea Tree) Oil*, Ocimum sanctum (Holy Basil) Oil*, Syzygium aromaticum (Clove) Bud Oil*.
Simplers Botanicals also have organic essential oil blends made specifically for topical use:
This blend is formulated for respiratory issues and can open and soothe the sinuses.
Ingredients: Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) Oil, Eucalyptus globulus (Eucalyptus) Oil*, Rosmarinus officinalis cineol (Rosemary) Oil*, Inula graveolens (Inula) Oil*. *Certified Organic
This blend helps to soothe itching from yeast overgrowth.
Ingredients: Olea europaea (Olive Fruit) Oil*, Calendula officinalis (Calendula flowers)*, Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender) Oil*, Melaleuca alternifolia (Tea Tree) Oil*, Tanacetum annuum (Moroccan Blue Chamomile) Oil*, Thymus vulgaris linalol (Thyme) Oil*, Helichrysum italicum (Helichrysum) Oil*.
This topical blend is formulated to help in reducing the appearance of scars.
Ingredients: Olea europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil*, Calendula officinalis (Calendula flowers)*. Rosa canina or rubiginosa (Rose Hip) Seed Oil*, Argania spinosa (Argan) Seed Oil*, Calophyllum inophyllum (Tamanu) Oil*, Helichrysum italicum (Helichrysum) Oil*, Artemisia herba alba (Mugwort) Oil, Salvia officinalis (Sage) Oil*, Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender) Oil*. *Certified Organic


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Most people have had unfortunate experiences in the past. This is a costly mistake that should not bear repeating.
There are things to think about when choosing a hotel to stay in. Amenities like a swimming pool, a gym, free local calls or breakfast, a gym and pool and a convenient restaurant are also important considerations. Try locating a tip that checks off as many of your wish list as is realistic.
Check the Internet for the best deals before you book a hotel deals. It is your responsibility to find these savings. Check out websites such as Jetsetter, Jetsetter, or RueLaLaTravel.
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Plan your trip in advance as you can to ensure best rates. Many locations offer discounts if you book more than a few months in advance. You might even be able to save up to 50 percent or more.
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There are three different things you should do before taking your pet on a pet. Be sure that this hotel really does allow pets. Be sure to bring some bags on hand to make pet cleanup easy.
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I have always wondered… does it count if it doesn't always rhyme?
Next Generation
No time. Your turn. Try to help out more.
Shriek yell shout
Lout. Bitch.
How did i end up with you
When does time sap 'i do'?
If you spent more time …
If you said i love you, thank you, sorry –
If you didn't watch footy-
If you didn't bitch carp nag…
If you listened to the pain inside
bills line heart, deafened, deadened to the memory
of white dresses, drinking bubbles of intoxicated hope
hunched. Defeated.
Won't can't shan't forgotten how –
to hear touch smell define: heart stuff.
Mine. Gimme. Don't touch.
Watched. Wide staring, silent eyes.
No voice. No wonder.
Won't know won't see can't tell
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"Mel Time"
My dad often helped me get my bedtime snack: just about always nachos (Tostitos with cheese, melted in the microwave) and sugar-free chocolate milk. To this day, that is still comfort food to me. Much of my childhood and even into my teens my bedtime snack was a ritual never to be missed. During that time I was also having a problem of dropping low in the middle of the night and had quite of few hypoglycemic seizures as well. Glucagon to bring me back and Phenergan suppositories to help with the vomiting that always followed, were staples in our house. All administered by my parents. How scary it must have been to have to give a shot to your convulsing kid, wait for her to awake groggy and disoriented, and asking "did I have another one?" Then try to get her to drink some regular pop or eat something as she's asking for something, anything to throw up in. They did it. Sometimes we had to go the ER for an IV if I couldn't keep anything down and my blood sugar wasn't coming up. They did all this and yet somehow kept their calm, didn't let me know just how scary or awful it was, and let me feel like it wasn't such a big deal.
My parents were my biggest fans and supporters in the annual Bike-A-Thon to raise money for the diabetes youth group run by the team at my doctors' office. Dad borrowed a truck, the kind with the lift on the back, from his work each year and gave all us kids rides which was always a hit. Today they are still among my biggest supporters in the annual ADA walk. They tried to treat me the same as my sisters, but isn't that nearly impossible when I had a chronic illness such as diabetes? At Halloween I would go trick-or-treating with all the other kids then turn in my candy to my mom in exchange for a toy or later a jean jacket I just had to have. At Easter I usually got a toy or something too; after we figured out that the sugar-free candy caused stomach problems. Not such a bad deal.
Aside from a strong aversion to actually writing down my blood sugars, one which I still have, by the time I graduated from high school I was an independent, comparatively responsible 18 year old heading off to college 10 hours away from home. That is when my diabetes control became my sole responsibility & I started screwing it all up. I don't want to reminisce about the self-destructive path I was on for quite some time (at least not now). I am finding strength in remembering the sacrifices my parents made for me, the knowledge to care for myself and my disease that the bestowed in me, and all the love and support they gave and still give to this day. I am drawing on that strength and thinking I CAN DO THIS. I really can find a way to live in harmony with diabetes and be happy and healthy.
As with most things, I will do it in my own slow, sweet, "Mel Time" as my mom calls it.
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- art-sweet said...
Mel -
This is definitely a RWYCC (Read Where You Can Cry) post... I can't imagine how hard it must be to balance love, support, and independence as the parent of a kid with diabetes. So tell your parents that a random internet friend is very proud of them.
- Scott K. Johnson said...
Hey Melissa,
Your post touched me in a couple of different ways.
For one, as those of us that grow up with D can attest to, we ALL go through self destructive periods. I think it's actually an important piece of the acceptance puzzle.
And it also helps us a great deal to come to terms with the fact that we are only hurting ourselves in the long run - which starts the process of internalizing our self care, rather than doing it just because we are supposed to. So, don't feel bad for the time you spent there. It's part of the process.
The second thing that touched me was the "I CAN DO THIS!!" message. That is a message that I use myself often. It empowers me to rise to the challenges that we face. It makes me feel strong. It makes me feel like I will not let diabetes crush me, but rather I will pound it into submission with my relentless dedication to myself, and finally, it helps me know that I will never give in to it.
Because I (WE) CAN DO THIS!
Best wishes!
- Shannon said...
Everything you described your parents did for you, I do for Brendon, right up to trading Halloween candy in for a toy.
So this post gives me great hope that all I am trying to do for him will make a difference for the better when he's an adult.
I think most 18 yr olds go on a self destructive phase when they're "set free" whether they have diabetes or not. For me, when I was a Freshman in college, I went crazy with partying, drinking, carousing, etc. Then I calmed down and became a responsible 21 yr old and once again became boring and predictable (which compared with the alternative can be a good thing).
Like you said, it's all about finding harmony with the limitations diabetes sets on you and the desire to break out and live life.


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SAUDI ARABIA: Expat Levy Expected to Start Next Month
In December 2016 it was first announced by the Saudi government that, to help boost the countries revenues amid weak oil prices, they were to introduce an "expat levy" which would start on 1st July.
In December 2016 it was first announced by the Saudi government that, to help boost the countries revenues amid weak oil prices, they were to introduce an "expat levy" which would start on 1st July. It is important for us to stress that the Saudi government have yet to release further details of the levy since the budget announcement back in December, and companies are still awaiting the official announcement from the government.
If the proposal does go ahead this would mean that previous SAR 200 fee would be replaced by a SAR 100 levy, which would apply to all foreign employees with no regard to the number of local employees. Under the new plans the levy would then increase on January 1st 2018, which would include the introduction of two further rates; SAR 300 which would affect companies employing more local workers than foreign workers and SAR 400 for companies employing more foreign workers than local workers. There are then plans for future fees of SAR 500/600 in 2019 and SAR 700/800 in 2020 which will use the same two tier structure as previously mentioned.
As well as the above levy introduction, the Saudi government have also imposed a similar levy on dependents of foreign nationals. This means that a SAR 100 fee per dependent will begin on 1st July, which would then increase to SAR 200 in 2018, SAR 300 in 2019, and SAR 400 in 2020. This particular levy on dependents has caused much concern amongst the expats in Saudi. It is worth noting that since the announcement in December the government have yet to confirm this introduction either.
The announcements above have evoked contention from companies in the Kingdom. We will, of course, keep you updated with any further announcements from the Saudi Government in relation to the levy introduction.
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The pursuit of fresh and high quality hazelnuts is at the heart of Ferrero's innovative practice contributing to sustainable growth. Global hazelnut production wasn't adequate to support fresh supplies all year-round, due to its northern hemisphere predominance. In 1994 Ferrero introduced in Chile high quality hazelnut plantation and created Agrichile. Through the key involvement of local communities, Ferrero created a sustainable, innovative and replicable model:
- Planting hazelnuts on its own plantation
- Cooperating with local growers to select the best adapted varieties of hazelnuts
- Making hazelnut plantlets and planting materials available to local growers
- Granting free know-how and technical support to growers
- Ensuring the purchase of quality hazelnuts based on international market prices
Today, with 14.000 ha, Chile is among the top hazelnut producing countries. This flourishing industry provides jobs for low and middle classes, contributing to the country's food security
Agrichile - ChileLead applicant
Fruit Agrichile SA , belonging to Ferrero group in Italy, is focused on the production of European hazelnuts, both in own plantations and outgrowers, whose final destination is the supply of raw material for their own chocolate factories
SENCE - ChileInitiative partner
National training service
Agricultural institute Salesiani de Linares - ChileInitiative partner
Formation of science students
SAG - Agricultural and Livestock Service - ChileInitiative partner
SAG is the official Chilean State body responsible for supporting the development of Chile's agriculture, forestry, and livestock industries by protecting and enhancing plant and animal health.
NATIONAL UNION FEDERATION OF FRUITS PRODUCERS S.G - ChileInitiative partner
Entity in charge of improving the situation of agriculture in Chile. Nonprofit Association, responsible for disseminating agricultural, commercial and technical information of agricultural secotr in Chile. Defender or trade union representing horticultural producers.
Copeval Development - ChileInitiative partner
Company limited company dedicated to the Trade of Agricultural supplies and training. Operating Agent of CORFO, nationwide.
CORFO - ChileInitiative partner
CORFO is a public-sector organization dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and growth in Chile. Acting in tandem with the Chilean Ministry of Economy, CORFO's programs support and finance a wide variety of initiatives in this line, with the goal of stimulating the Chilean economy and providing more opportunities for Chile's entrepreneurs, innovators and key industries to be competitive on a global stage
CHILEAN FRUITS EXPORT ASOCIATION - ChileInitiative partner
Union association of producers and exporters of fresh fruit from Chile. Its main objective is to support and improve marketing channels of export products, prices and markets.
Italian Chamber of Commerce of Chile - ChileInitiative partner
Intercambio comercial de productos y servicios entre empresas italianas y chilenas
Talca University - ChileInitiative partner
Centre for higher education, research and development.
Planting trust, the story of a mutual collaboration where knowledge and passion lead to a new way of doing agriculture
The main innovation developed is a concept of self-sustained agricultural supply chain introduced to produce, for the first time, hazelnuts in South America. To achieve this, Ferrero created Agrichile and promoted a unique system of knowledge transfer by bringing Italian hazelnut farming methods and expertise of global supply chain to local agriculture. Afterwards, farmers infused their own local expertise in climatic conditions, crop management as well as traditional and innovative agricultural techniques. This replicable two-way knowledge transfer created enough momentum for the project to flourish. Even after the supply chain establishment, Ferrero is still providing the necessary know-how and support while benefiting from local expertise and innovations. We found this the most effective way to achieve a long-term, efficient and independent supply chain where to source hazelnuts and ultimately contribute towards true food security for the region.
Ferrero was driven to implement hazelnut production in Chile to assure a fresh supply of hazelnuts year-round and to expand an industry largely limited to Turkey in terms of volumes. Chile maximizes its productive areas producing cash crops and importing some of the staple food crops. By nature, many cash crops are susceptible to climatic risks, creating volatile conditions. At the regional level, hazelnut cultivation can help diversify agricultural production with a secure long-term cash crop, providing increased food security to the country. The hazelnut crop is a low inputs tree crop: it's still rustic, resistant to many adversities, easier and cheaper to manage than most other crops. Moreover, with the application of good management practices, it enjoys stable yields per hectare limiting additional inputs and their ensuing degradation to the environment. These are key features that provide a higher and secure income for farmers and allow nutrition diversification for the region.
For Ferrero the replicable model resulted in a first reliable hazelnuts production in the Southern Hemisphere, leading to a fresh counter-cyclical supply. For the Chilean new hazelnut farming communities, AgriChile's model has demonstrated higher hazelnut yields compared to historical areas of hazelnut production. It ensures a stable income even through poor production years, combined with low and stable input requirements. A thriving agricultural sector can provide many benefits to the impacted communities, and AgriChile is already reaping some of them, through a secure food supply both directly and indirectly.The AgriChile project promoted since its start the development of many new skills among the workers and the creation of many new managerial jobs. It has also inspired many new science graduates, dramatically increasing the cultural niveau (not to mention the quality of life) of the local population.
Agrichile positively impacts on many people's life, especially:
• Young workers looking for a job are able to be employed and thus reach an economic security ensuring them the possibility of planning a future, avoiding emigration
• Ambitious workers are offered career opportunities and better economic and cultural conditions
• Students can benefit from specialized training opportunities that could lead to job placement
• Farmers can diversify their activities adding a new crop that guarantees: Independence and resilience due to the hazelnut technical support service, diversification of income, accessibility to inputs for greater return, transferability of machinery, pioneering opportunity, market access.
• Local politicians can provide their communities of shock resistant local economy through hazelnut cultivation; technical elevation of the agricultural workforce, opportunities for the next generations to remain in agriculture.
Here below a list of the main professional profiles and the names of key people involved in AgriChile activities:
MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE (Carlos Melendez)
IRRIGATION SYSTEM MAINTENANCE (Hamilton Gutierrez)
ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE (Alvaro Ramirez)
FIELD SUPERVISORS (Claudio Castillo)
IRRIGATION SYSTEM OPERATORS (Jose Barrios)
TRACTOR DRIVERS (Patricio Nuñez)
OTHER EQUIPMENT OPERATORS (Abel Oyarce)
GENERIC OPERATORS (Manaser Ramirez)
FIELD SERVICES (Miriam Martinez)
WAREHOUSEMEN (Gustavo Pañinao)
GUARDS (Saul Saavedra)
FIELD, NURSERY, PACKING, CRACKING MANAGERS (Nelson Andrade)
BACK OFFICE (Karina Rojas)
CRACKING QUALITY MANAGERS (Cristina Moya)
MAINTENANCE MANAGERS (Erhard Seiffert)
AGRARIAN COORDINATION MANAGERS (David Reyes)
MANAGERS (Camillo Scocco)
PURCHASING (Carlos Quintana)
CFO Cristobal Donado
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER (Mariela Zuñiga)
M.S .: IT (Marcelo Cornejo)
CUSTOMER SERVICE (Gabriel Aguilar)
GENERAL SERVICES (Mauruicio Perez)
Ferrero arrived in Chile with the intention to plant Italian varieties of hazelnut trees, while also testing others. After 10 years of trials, one of the varieties on which Ferrero was hoping to see success from largely underperformed, in terms of productivity, thus putting the whole project at risk. This has led to a strategic engagement with the local farmers to identify the best performing varieties, where their expertise was fundamental. They and the research institutions we collaborated with were continuously providing detailed assessments on performance to guide towards the best selection. Even though these pioneer farmers had to undergo this difficult trial period, their involvement led to an ownership of the eventual success, a strong sense of collaboration and the creation of a robust root for the industry. This was key to creating the innovative collaborative approach between the local producers and Agrichile.
Hazelnut cultivation is a perennial system, which brings many environmental advantages over other crops. The project area has its own environmental characteristics in terms of climate, soil composition and water availability. By embracing them, we make sure that the ecosystem is neither being stressed nor underused. When stressed it leads to high inputs turning the system fragile; when underused its lack of performance must be offset by a greater use of land and resources. Agrichile aimed to find land where hazelnut systems worked in harmony with the local environment's capacity. The management of the areas thus minimizes inputs (water and fertilizers) all the while producing optimal yields.
This has led to a healthier productive system where
• water is used efficiently, without overcoming the system's natural capacity,
• more CO2 is absorbed and converted,
• full land potential is unlocked, providing constant and minimized inputs to the system,
• ever increasing quality is obtained
Agrichile started in 1994 and, after years of trials, the plantations became productive in 2002. Today, the Chilean infused hazelnut industry is thriving and growing in a sustainable way, as reported by the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture. Agrichile has paved the way for 6 other similar Agricompanies around the world. In 2009, Ferrero came to South Africa with the same objective and planted the continent's very first hazelnut commercial plantation. Today, the initial results are promising and help conclude that the original model is in fact replicable: Agrisudafrica has established 450 hectares of plantations, several hectares of variety trials in various areas as well as a commercial nursery. Outside of the Hazelnut industry, this model brings success. The same steps were brought to Colombia where Ferrero together with a local partner is attempting to transfer this model to the outgrowers in the very same way, in order to help the cocoa industry reflourish in its native lands.
Agrichile has always been proactive in promoting and sharing its hazelnut cultivation model in the VII and IX regions of Chile. Agrichile operates with an open source approach; participates in public-private-partnerships for technology transfer and shares experience and results with investors and producers. Agrichile joined "Programa FAT Grupo de Transferencia Tecnologica - GTT (Technology Transfer Program)" promoted by Corfo (http://www.corfo.cl/), which provides assistance to producers and monitors production results. With the "Programa de Desarrollo Proveedores - PDP (Supplier Development Program, for Export)", Agrichile and Corfo joined forces supporting agro-companies in improving productivity and quality of their plantations. Agrichile shares results and information through its own initiatives (e.g. conferences, farmer meetings, technical workshops) reaching hundreds of farmers every year. Further information on AgriChile is carried out within Ferrero's CSR yearly publication.


text: Fluid and mud samples were collected from Wushanting (WST), Hsiaokunshui (HKS), Yenshuikeng (YSK), Kuantzeling (KZL), and Kunshuiping (KSP) mud volcanoes of southwestern Taiwan. Concentrations of major ions and trace elements in mud volcanic fluids were analyzed to find the possible linkage to elevated arsenic (As) concentrations in the Chianan plain groundwater. The elevated Na+, K+, and Cl- concentrations indicated possible marine origin of the fluids. The trace element concentrations in the mud volcanic fluids were generally low, but the As concentrations were up to 0.12 mg/L. High contents of As, Fe, and Mn were observed in the mud samples. Saturation index calculations indicated that both carbonate and oxide minerals acted as potential sinks for As in the mud volcanic fluids. Arsenic in the dewatering fluids and muds may be transported by the subsurface flow and surface streams as suspended solids and eventually deposited in the Chianan plain aquifers. Under reducing conditions, As may be released from the host minerals (such as Fe- and Mn-oxides/hydroxides), thereby causing widespread groundwater As pollution.


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Movie Review: 'The Cloverfield Paradox' an Entertaining Deep-Space Void
Here's a new marketing campaign: the latest installment in a big screen sci-fi franchise unveils its very first trailer during the Superbowl… and immediately premieres on Netflix right after the big game wraps up.
It's The Cloverfield Paradox, a sequel (prequel?) to two movies I kinda dug - but I didn't even know this new one existed until hours before watching it. The strategy might have paid off: while anticipation or big-screen aspirations might have sunk Paradox, I can't say I wasn't entertained by the fast & loose late-night snack of an end product here.
The first Cloverfield was one of the more interesting additions to the found footage genre, a global kaiju cataclysm caught through the eyes of a drunken videographer racing through New York City. The second, 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane, was 90 minutes of a nifty little B-movie thriller with no connection to the earlier movie - save for a twist ending that's spoilt by the movie's very title.
But where Paradox fits into the Cloverfield universe… well, it's a paradox unto itself. In what seems to be a prequel to the original film, a group of scientists-astronauts is sent into space to power-up some kind of particle accelerator to unlock the secrets of Higgs-Boson, generate perpetual unlimited power, and save the world from the brink of war during a global crisis.
Or, you know, unleash giant monsters from an alternate dimension upon the Earth, as seen in the first movie and prophesied by a TV conspiracy theorist (Donal Logue) early on here. But how did he know they'd be giant monsters, I'm thinking?
None of the energy crisis material matches anything in the earlier movies, which leads me to believe this may not be a prequel after all… in fact, it's entirely reasonable to speculate that all three films take place in alternate dimensions, and the only link between them is the briefly-glimpsed monsters. And in Paradox, the glimpse is the briefest of all.
But that's OK. Instead of getting into the monster mash or tying these films together, The Cloverfield Paradox delivers yet another schlocky Alien retread that throws in elements from films like The Thing, From Beyond, Event Horizon, and countless other creature features.
Just minus the creature. But when bad stuff starts to happen to a good cast - the astronauts are played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Brühl, David Oyelowo, John Ortiz, Chris O'Dowd, Aksel Hennie, and Ziyi Zhang, who speaks in Mandarin throughout the entire film - Paradox gets pretty fun, even if there's no reasonable explanation offered for all the weird goings-on.
Highlight: a severed arm that crawls around the floor and somehow communicates with the crew… from another dimension? In which it's owner has died?
Nothing here makes a lick of sense, and the final act of the film takes an unfortunate turn towards action movie cliches (one ridiculous scene matches a shockingly similar one in the recent megabomb Geostorm, beat for beat), but for a good while The Cloverfield Paradox offers enough schlocky fun to keep you watching.
It ain't last year's very similar Life, which was surprisingly good, but Paradox, at its best, offers a comparable level of thrills.
I enjoyed both previous Cloverfield movies, and got a giddy little kick out of this one, too. But three movies teasing a world of giant monsters is two too much; this film and the previous one are all-too-clearly independent scripts shoehorned into the Cloverfield franchise without much care for how well they fit.


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National Gallery of Victoria Kids on Tour sessions popular at Warrnambool Art Gallery this summer
The National Gallery of Victoria Kids on Tour sessions have been a major success at the Warrnambool Art Gallery this summer.
The free program encourages children and families to get involved in art with free hands-on activities and workshops including the task to build a clay city.
Jenae Broomfield from Warrnambool Art Gallery said she had received great feedback about the sessions.
"We've had local people come and we've also had people here on holidays," she said.
"Parents have loved it. Kids have loved it.
"It's something different to the usual school holiday activity."
Miss Broomfield said the sessions were so popular that she had to turn people back so that sessions weren't overcrowded.
She said people that had been turned away had come back another day to enjoy an art session.


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WHAT happens when you take a contemporary moment of rage and render it as old as the universe?
The answer is somewhere in Ellie Kendrick's Hole. Directed by Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland, the play is an extraordinary explosion of political and poetic rage. Blending contemporary feminist politics and science, it uses music, movement, poetry, myth and confrontation to explore a politics of oppression and violence.
The impetus here is the same as that behind the #metoo movement — talking about how women occupy space, how they might be controlled, how they might be violated. But in Kendrick's extraordinary first play, Ronkẹ Adekoluejo, Alison Halstead, Rubyyy Jones, Cassie Layton, Eva Magyar and musician Ebony Bones speak, sing, dance and scientifically theorise their way through these issues.
As they do so, the production harnesses a wonderful and vital anger around consent, the controlling power of the male gaze and questions of self-definition or expression. But what Kendrick does so extraordinarily is to switch registers so that conversations about being contained and restricted become conversations about density and compression.
Such a reframing forces a reconsideration. This more abstract register is also one often denied to contemporary feminist argument and female playwrights and it's impressive to see Kendrick employ it.
That said, the production and script are not always in control of the tension between the scientific and the political although, in a striking sequence, Layton dons a mirror-ball costume and reflects on what it means to be intently watched, both as a woman and as a sub-atomic particle. In that moment, performance, words and science blend seamlessly.
Hole is a powerful and complex call to arms. It rebuts a politics of oppression that is both tied to the #metoo moment and also works to aggressively force us to see that moment as part of gendered structure forged aeons ago.
Runs until January 12, box office royalcourttheatre.com.
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BEIJING — China's lottery sales rose 19.6 percent year-on-year to about 245 billion yuan ($36 billion) in the first half of the year, official data showed.
In the January-June period, sales of welfare lottery tickets increased 4.2 percent year-on-year to 110.6 billion yuan, while sports lottery sales surged by 36.1 percent to 134.6 billion yuan, according to the Ministry of Finance.
In June alone, sales of sports lottery jumped by 147 percent to some 39.5 billion yuan mainly due to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the ministry said.
A total of 29 provinces and regions saw growth in lottery sales in the first half of the year, driven by strong performance in Jiangsu, Hunan, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, according to the ministry.
China sold more than 426.67 billion yuan worth of lotteries last year, making it the world's second largest lottery market after the United States.
Under lottery management rules, money from ticket sales must cover administrative fees, public welfare projects and prize money.


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This complete package for your workhorse comes with a Banks Ram-Air Intake System, the OttoMind handheld tuner, and the TorqueTubes Manifold Assembly. This combination of parts come together to give your vehicle gains of up to 70 horsepower and 92 torque for the rear-wheels, as well as a vastly improved fuel economy while never requiring high octane. The Ram-Air intake system improves upon stock intake system with an increase of up to 66% better airflow. It gets rid of obstructions in the intake so that more cool and dense air can reach the cylinders. The OttoMind programmer allows you to match to airflow improvements, the fuel curve for bringing together a clear responsiveness. The TorqueTubes' design is a step beyond the stock models with 1/2″ thick flanges that are welded onto both sides of the tubes and then are made perfectly flat ensuring they never crack or break.
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Victor Wanyama was a Premiership football player with Southampton Football Club, now currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur after a transfer a couple of seasons ago. He is also the Captain of the Kenyan international team and has a large following of supporters. Known as the Mighty Kenyan, he provides a strong hold of midfield for both his Club and Country.
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Of rights and wrongs. Thoughts on Suzanne Vega's recent post on Measure for Measure in the New York Times.
Back in the '80s, I remember Suzanne Vega's tune Tom's Diner rising from the din of music at the time to remind us all that even in an age of drum machines, synthesizers and other new-fangled noise generators, the human voice and melody remained king. Tom's Diner was so pure, refreshing, an acapella cannon shot of singular vision into the layered complexity that was pop music at the time. So when I noticed that Suzanne Vega had written about this tune on Measure for Measure, I soaked up the article. Much to my surprise, it not only told the story of Tom's Diner, but also how Tom's Diner became the reference track for the engineers who developed the algorithm for MP3 compression. But there was a third theme in the article: that of copyrights.
According the article, Tom's Diner was one of the very first songs to be remixed (some British dudes added a rhythm track to the song) and, as such, kicked off the re-mix revolution. And, of course, the copyright conundrum that followed, which has become the debate of our time (along with whether to bail out a bunch of Wall Street morons).
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Many thanks to Scott Keairnes for the beautiful cross and pottery he made. The cross is 6 x 4 feet. It's made up of many different kinds of wood from all around the world – Cedar, Oak, Yellow, Purple Heart, Zebra Wood, Maple, Paduak, Pine, Teak, Rosewood, Ebony, Mahagony, Walnut, and Jamoica.
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