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Leather Luggage Sets
Finding luggage sets of high quality is a must for every traveler. That is why one should consider using leather luggage sets. Leather luggage sets are the best choice if you want to travel in style. Not only are they durable but they are also versatile. Leather luggage sets are made up of flexible material created by tanning putrescible animal rawhide and skin.
Advantages and disadvantages
Leather luggage sets, like any other authentic leather products, usually come with a hefty price. This is one reason why most people shy away from this type of product. There is a risk during travel of your luggage being lost when it is carried by the airport's various modes of transport. That's why most passengers prefer a carry on leather luggage set. Most people would also say that leather luggage is heavier compared to other types of luggage. But with these disadvantages comes advantages. Aside from looking luxurious, when you buy this type of product you are committing yourself to quality. Leather goes a long way with time. It takes years before it can be badly damaged. But this doesn't mean that you don't have to take care of it. Owners should not treat leather to strong chemicals when cleaning its surface. It is not also advised to keep them under the sun for a prolonged period of time, since this will cause leather surfaces to dry and fade.
Real from fake, how to tell the difference
You will be investing much in buying leather luggage sets, so don't be fooled by leather imitators who pass their products as genuine leather. Some producers will also inform you if the product you are purchasing is made out of "pleather" or plastic leader, which is a synthetic material bonded with fabric and rubber, but others may not. Here are some tips to spot whether your leather luggage set is authentic or not: Study the edging where the leather of your luggage has been cut. Real Leather is rough around the edges, while fake leather will look and feel like plastic or foam. You should also try feeling the fabric. Different types of leather have different textures. But what you'll notice is that real leather has a generally inconsistent feel to it, not as smooth as the leather imitations. Also, look closely at the pores, fake leather will tend to have a more consistent pattern to its pores than that of real leather. Some people will advise you to smell your leather luggage sets, and see if the product has that "leather scent". Well, smell isn't all that accurate because modern technologies today are able to mimic the smell of real leather. You can also opt to use the fingernail test; this is when you dig your fingernail into the material. If it is real leather, it will leave a mark and will tend to fade very slowly.
Genuine leather luggage sets can be bought at department stores of branded stores and online shops. Prices will depend on the brand and size of the luggage be it a carry on or a duffle bag. A 5-6-piece leather luggage set can cost about 100 - 250 dollars.
After you decide that you do want a leather luggage set is to choose a particular type of leather. Different varieties of leather have varied characteristics that suit the different needs of users. The most expensive type of leather is Anline. This is because this is the most natural type of leather. This type can have a light surface coating, and is only colored with dye. Other types are also available like full-grained leather, the type of leather that has yet to be sanded and buffed. This type shows of its natural imperfections which add to its appeal and shows off its authenticity. There are also top-grained leather luggage sets, don't let the "top" in top grained fool you for incompleteness. In terms of quality, full grained are still considered more superior. This type has better resistance to stains and is less expensive. There is also deer skin which is generally expensive. It is prized for its softness and durability. It has what they would call a pebble-grained texture that has a spongy quality. The list may go on and on.
Another concern of leather luggage sets is their environmental impact. Vegans and animal right activists believe in the cruelty in wearing animal hides and are strongly against any commodity that uses animal parts as a material. If you are one of those people who believe in their stand, you can always opt for "pleather". These are made from synthetic materials bonded by fabric and rubber to pass of as real leather.


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Brazing vs. Welding
I occasionally visit bike forums to see what kind of questions bike riders are asking and occasionally I will post a reply if I think I have an answer. I try to stay away from anything controversial as people can become pretty hostile on the Internet; especially when they are posting under a pseudonym.
Just like the idiot who screams abuse at the cyclist as they drive by at speed; they do it because they can do so with anonymity. So does the occasional poster on a forum; he screams abuse on the Information Highway.
Recently someone asked, "Why are frames brazed instead of welded?" He had taken a welding course at his local community college and the teacher had told him that welding was much stronger than brazing. This was my response:
"Traditionally frames have always been brazed not because a weld would fail but because the tube would fail right next to the weld due to the tube being very thin. Many bicycle tubes are heat treated to strengthen them. The trick in brazing properly is to apply enough heat to make the lugged joint but not to get the tubes too hot over a large area; thereby retaining as much of the tube's inbuilt strength as possible.
A properly brazed lugged joint is tremendously strong and a lug spreads the stresses over a larger area, not pinpointed in one place as with a weld. This is also the reason lugs are cut into curved or other fancy shapes, and not just cut square like a pipe fitting. A square edge would create a stress point and the tube would likely fail at that point.
To sum up; yes a welded joint may be stronger, but in any structure there is no point in making a joint far stronger than the material you are joining. And if the structure is stressed enough the material will fail before the joint."
Notice I started my post with the word "Traditionally." And actually the question was wrong because frames are welded these days. And I should have known better than to post something like this, because every propeller head engineer who knows welding theory up the wazoo would jump on it like a kid on a merry-go-round. The next thing I know the subject is being debated.
The truth is that frames were brazed for about a hundred years from the bicycle's invention up until the late 1980s, early 1990s. About the time I got out of the business. Not just lightweight bikes but all bikes. Actually during the 1980s welding technology had reached a point were I could have welded frames that I built. But I did not because at that time it would not have been accepted by my customers; anymore than a sloping top tube would have been acceptable.
Mountain Bikes changed all that. You had a whole generation that had grown up with welded BMX bikes. BMX bikes had small frames with sloping top tubes so little Johnny would not ruin his chances of reproduction in later life. So the MTB frame began to look more and more like an adult size BMX bike with gears.
Early mountain bikes were built with lugs and had level top tubes. So the BMX bike had more influence on today's bicycle design than the first mountain bikes. Other influences on the acceptance of welding were frames built in other materials that cannot be brazed like aluminum and titanium.
Once a new style has been accepted you cannot go back. I could not go back to running a viable business building lugged frames even if I had the desire, which I don't. And the truth is whether a frame is brazed with lugs or welded; either is far stronger than it need be.
Footnote: If you are interested in welding as a vocation, this might be a place to start: "How to become a cetified welder."

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As you roam through each of the holes with 4 original hickory shaft clubs in your hand along with a sand tee mold in your pocket, you will be lost for the 90 minutes in the remarkable history of golf. Our golf balls which are included will match the distances of the golf balls in that era. Our score cards denote the yardage for each hole identifying the hole by a name rather than a "hole" number and also provide a stymie line on the score card to assure you a 6 inch stime rule. We know it will be a little work to smooth out the sand green after each hole is played to assure the next golfers a smooth surface, but it does replicate the way it used to be.
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Generally, when approaching a new vape design for the first time it's a good test of the intuitiveness of use to see if you can get the device up and vaping without looking at the manual.
So when the FlashVAPE arrived in a brown box with no manual, this was not a cause for panic. However, on taking the device out, my initial reaction was – what the hell is this? Answer: the craziest looking vape device, with no discernable mode of operation.
I started to twist and pull and the solid-metal black staff gradually came apart to reveal a battery compartment, a glass window that fell out, large ceramic blocks, meshes.
Where does the herb go? How do you inhale? I felt like one of the chimps from 2001: A Space Odyssey, bashing a rock with a bone before chucking it in the air with frustration.
Thankfully, human intelligence took over from blind fumbling; I put the whole thing back together, figured out where the herb goes (answer: a huge, 1 inch-diagonal bowl surrounded by the ceramic core and heating element, and accessed by a twist-off section).
The bowl can hold herbs or solid concentrates and vapor is passed through a replaceable screen to enter the inhalation chamber. You can see the vapor form through the tempered glass window (that only comes out when you unscrew its securing ring for cleaning).
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- Amanda said...
That is such a compact, organised office area - I love the Chez Larson blog - so many organizing tips. Hope you have a great weekend x
- July 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM
- Rosebud and Bluebells said...
What an awesome workspace. I would looove to have a little creative space just like this one.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
- July 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM
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Hi Michelle. Just wanted to pop by to say thanks for your comment. I am so happy to have found your gorgeous blog and am your newest follower. I hope you have a lovely weekend ~ Tina x
- July 9, 2010 at 9:53 PM
- ~*~ saskia ~*~ said...
What inspiring place you have, Michelle. I adore your framed buttons! Are they buttons? Off to visit your Etsy shop. Wishing you a lovely sunny happy weekend. xx
- July 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM
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Well I'm back, sweet Michelle, this soon.. to let you know how much I LOVE your works!! It's really gorgeous, adore your style. Hugs for a happy weekend. xx
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What a gorgeous space! Wish my girls had a craft area like this ... I won't show number 1 daughter in case she thinks its possible! Hope your having a great weekend. Michelle
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Hi Michelle, I have an award to pass to you if you get a chance to pop over to my blog, have lovely day xxx
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Editing Wikipedia allows students to transmit the knowledge they are gaining to real-world audiences beyond U-M. However, crafting assignments that promote effective student learning and meaningful collaboration, while also respecting Wikipedia's rules and style conventions, can present a daunting challenge.
Fortunately, instructors no longer have to "go it alone" or "reinvent the wheel," thanks to the pioneering efforts of Prof. McNeil and her GSIs, who began creating Wikipedia class projects in two graduate level-courses (CHEM 538 and 540) in 2008. After further course iterations, their body of experience was parlayed into national and local structures that facilitate other instructors' effective use of this teaching strategy.
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Behold, I am alive. Ambulatory, even. (Kind of. I'm walking perfectly easily, just not for very long periods of time).
What's more, I have been cooking. AND going to the newly-opened farmer's market.
Given that it's still so early in the spring, I've been able to do very little at the farmer's market aside from make a considerable dent in the supply of pea shoots and rhubarb every week, but still. The pea shoots have graced innumerable salads and sautes and stir-fries, and the rhubarb has been part of soup (poached in red wine and cassis), sorbet (cooked with the juice and zest of blood oranges) and smoothies:
(Greek yogurt, fresh ginger: need I say more?)
Unfortunately, aside from dishes containing the just-picked farmer's market produce, my main meals have been somewhat lackluster. Nothing has been actually bad, but nothing has excited me or made me want to write about it. I haven't saved a recipe I've prepared in almost a month.
I am not entirely discouraged, however. Even when living on hum-drum lunches and mediocre dinners, breakfast is always there to save me.
Like probably 50% of the rest of the population of the U.S., when I was growing up, my parents would occasionally fix 'breakfast for dinner' as a special treat. Whole wheat pancakes with scrambled eggs and bacon was the standard meal when the whole family sat down, and enormous potato pancakes–really thinly shredded hash browns bound with beaten egg and served with (forgive me) ketchup–when the food was meant for just my sister and me.
Unlike most of the population of the U.S., however, my family also ate breakfast for breakfast. I know that many people are unable to stomach heavy food–or food of any kind–early in the morning, but my family has never been been part of that group. Toast (with peanut butter and honey) and fried eggs was my default meal through childhood, while my sister took her toast neat and her eggs scrambled. My parents both consumed large quantities of yogurt and granola, and chili-covered cheese-filled omelets were rampant. All of this on ordinary weekday mornings, no less.
I don't eat quite the same way anymore. I have to eat my breakfast at 6:30 am to be able to get to work on time, and I cannot allow myself unlimited time to prepare a meal. I must, however, eat just as heartily as I always have. My usual lunch break isn't until 1 pm, with no break for a snack, meaning that my breakfast has to last me more than six hours (and a 1.5 mile walk, when I'm up to par).
On weekdays I stick to my strict schedule: I eat a hardboiled egg, some homemade sausage (variety subject to change at a moment's notice) and a large serving of whatever fruit is in season.
Weekends, however, are a different story. I have much more time to prepare my meal, and, given that I'm an early riser even without an alarm, the kitchen to myself to prepare it in.
My weekend meals usually center around eggs. Sometimes savory–two weeks ago I poached three eggs in the leftover sauce from a curry-roasted chicken. It was tangy, spicy and absolutely divine.
More often, though, I use my eggs for sweet dishes. Souffleed omelets and jam-filled crepes are my fall-back meals for weekends. Both are usually topped with fruit, and both benefit from the eggs I get from the farmer's market. The yolks are bright yellow and melt into a custard with almost no need for additional flavoring; the whites are stronger than I am and whip up to stratospheric heights.
Last week I made a very simple souffleed omelet–I whisked three egg yolks with two tablespoons of simple syrup and a teaspoon of vanilla, then folded in three egg whites, whipped to stiff peaks. I poured the mixture into a hot cast-iron skillet, the bottom filmed with flavorless oil. After a second on the heat to set the bottom, I slid the pan into the 400 degree oven, for 15 minutes, until it was cooked through–golden on the outsides, but still soft on the inside, like a meringue.
I topped the whole thing with fresh strawberries tossed with slivered mint. It looks enormous and sounds decadent, but it was so light on the tongue that the entire omelet disappeared without a second thought.
Yesterday morning I made crepes. Three more of those lovely eggs whisked up into the batter, along with a little Amaretto. I filled each one with apricot jam, dusted the plate with cinnamon and topped it with raspberries. It was, believe it or not, a clean-out-the-refrigerator meal.
Breakfast is my favorite meal, and I've been having some great ones, but here's hoping that the other two meals are soon up to snuff.


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Thanks to my matey Jan (master terrain builder for our Salute projects) indefatigably work with WI to get in a couple of his terrain articles, they also added my article in the same issu as Jan´s terrain building articles regarding his stunning Viking ships and making of whater to our Salute 2016 Salute game "Battle at Foteviken 1134". I think we got 8 pages in total with our articles of the Foteviken game.
Thank you also to Alan that took some stunning close-up pictures of our Foteviken game, you can see a couple of them in the article as well as a small one on the front cover. Thank Alan !
In the same Issue you can also read 4 pages about The Pikemans Lament, my and Dan Merseys Pike and Shot rules published by Osprey,
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Yet another week has sped by and we are really into a lot of learning. First off is next week's current events;
Tuesday - Michael
Wednesday - Annabel
Thursday - Robinson
Friday - Poppy
Wednesday - Annabel
Thursday - Robinson
Friday - Poppy
Our current unit of science has all the students exploring the safety of parachutes. We started by looking at what makes a parachute work and then came up with list of questions that would help us learn more about the safety of parachutes. Students then created an investigation based on one of the questions. They are in the process of completing these and then we will compare the results from the various groups.
Our writing of fiction stories has entered the final stages with most students almost completed their first drafts. Now they will share it with each other as the revise the story then it will be for editing and completion of the final draft. I want to remind everyone that writing is a very long term piece of learning. It takes most students years of learning and practice to become efficient and effective writers. Because of this, sharing becomes a very large part of the learning since it offers a larger audience of learning that just the student and teacher.
We will complete our math unit this coming week with the final assessment sometime towards the middle of the week. I want to spend some time reviewing first and then looking at problem solving. Our next unit is on addition and subtraction of fractions.
Next Friday is the school's annual book fair. These are vendors from here in Beijing that come to sell the books they have that are of interest to both our students and families. If you think your student might like to purchase a book, send some money with them and I will take them to the book fair to look around. There is no requirement to do this.
I want to take the students into the cooking lab for some real life fractions cooking but need some parents to help me please. The two dates I am looking at are Dec 1 and 9th and it will be sometime between 11:00 and 12:30. If you do not mind supervising this with me, please let me know. In the past students have really enjoyed this.
We are coming up to our grade 5 Performing Arts presentation on November 29th. It will be in the theatre starting at about 8:30 am. If you can make it, I am sure the support will be greatly appreciated by the students.
Next week is our Week of Kindness in the Elementary School. This is an important week as I feel that learning to be kind and learning about kindness is important for this age group. I am sure you will hear more about this as the week continues.
I will return to weekly Monday folders this week after my absence this past week. Look for the assessment rubrics for the exploration unit as well as the past two weeks of work the students have completed. Just a reminder that you are asked to sign this so that I know you have seen what I am sending home. The folder and signature paper comes back to school, the work stays at home.
Here is the video of the students involved with the Jedi Jugglers three weeks ago;
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
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2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II
Speaker: D. Walker, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Top Quark Pairs at High Invariant Mass -- A Model
Independent Discriminator of New Physics at the LHC
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Director's Coffee Break -
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4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West
Speaker: Z. Conway, Argonne National Laboratory/University
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Title: Electromagnetic and Mechanical Properties of
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Speaker: F. Margaroli, INFN Bologna
Title: CDF's Top Mass and Cross Section Results in the
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8:00 p.m. Fermilab International Film Society - Auditorium
Le Dîner de cons (The Dinner Game)
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It's Friday at the Lederman Science Center, and docent Mary Hawthorne is placing a glass jar upside-down over a lit candle in a tin full of water. "What will happen?" she asks. The room is full of boy scouts, pumping their hands in the air to answer her question.
The fourth-grade St. Charles boy scout den is spending the afternoon with Hawthorne to earn science pins for their uniforms. Hawthorne is teaching them about the Bernoulli Effect, Newton's laws of motion, Pascal's law, and how hydraulics and electric fields work. In one of her many demonstrations, she shows how cold temperatures can enhance the field of a superconducting magnet--she allows a magnet to levitate over a piece of superconducting wire
cooled in liquid nitrogen.
The scouts are really thinking about this. Their eyes are glued to Hawthorne, and they gasp when water spontaneously fills upside-down glass jars, small magnets hover inside copper tubes, and rubber balls crack into pieces after being dunked in liquid nitrogen. Scouts try to explain each outcome, sometimes using Newton's laws to justify their answer. "I like your balance between excitement and behavior," Hawthorne tells the group. "It's really working for me."
Classes like this have been going on at Fermilab for over two years. They are open to any den interested in earning a science pin. "We offer engineering pins, too," said Sue Sheehan, who also leads scout activity sessions at the Lederman Center. "In the engineering lesson, students get to make catapults." --Siri Steiner
You can learn more about the scout program and other course offerings on the education website.
Let's follow a photon from its birth in the thermonuclear furnace at the sun's center, across 525,000 kilometers (more than the distance from Earth to the Moon) to the convective shell, and then follow the heat transfer to the sun's surface.
The sun's core is a hellish place. Gravity squeezes inward, compressing matter to densities unlike any matter found on Earth - about eight times the density of gold. Furthermore, the center sizzles at a temperature (27 million degrees Fahrenheit) hot enough to get two positively-charged hydrogen nuclei (protons) moving fast enough to collide together with enough energy to overcome their mutually repulsive electrical force. At 27 million degrees those guys smack together hard enough to fuse into a heavy hydrogen atom, and release an anti-matter electron (positron) and a neutrino (a massless, chargeless particle, moving at light speed).
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Hadrons are bound states of two or more quarks, and the Λb is the lightest three-quark hadron containing a b quark. It is believed that the heavy b-quark dominates the decay of any particle containing a b quark; therefore, any particle whose heaviest constituent quark is a b-quark should have the same lifetime. Actual measurements show lifetime differences between various b hadrons, indicating that the other, lighter, quarks also play a significant role in the decay process. Sophisticated calculations predict that the Λb baryon should have a shorter lifetime than almost all of the other b hadrons.
The DZero experiment has recently reconstructed about 174 complete Λb decays and has used this sample to measure its lifetime. The result of (1.30 ± 0.15) × 10-12 seconds (less than the time it takes light to travel the width of a hair), is one of the most precise measurements of the Λb lifetime to date. It confirms earlier shorter lifetime results from other experiments, but is considerably shorter than a recent similar measurement reported by the CDF collaboration. Therefore the level of agreement between the data and theory remains open. It is widely expected that new analysis techniques and additional Tevatron data will shed more light on the problem. For now, the Λb remains the puzzle of a lifetime.
Read the Current Accelerator UpdateRead the Early Bird ReportView the Tevatron Luminosity Charts
Entertainment Book Sale in the Atrium
Would you like to save money on restaurants, stores and entertainment? Entertainment discount books will be sold in the Atrium Wednesday, November 15, and Thursday, November 16, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Cash, checks, Visa and MasterCard will be accepted. You can also buy the books anytime during business hours in the Recreation Office.
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Thursday, 19 July 2012
Re-shoring issues may slow Asian growth
In any discussion on the economics of global trade the opposing camps rarely deal with the impact that shifting foreign trade patterns can have on socio-political issues, not just for the present but, more disturbingly, also for the future. One of these dichotomous debates is the off-shoring versus re-shoring manufacturing issues currently being exploited by the American presidential candidates. A key issue, however, that could decide if the re-shoring back to the homeland will outvie the off-shoring trend of recent years will be logistics, by which I mean all the forces that can impact the global supply chain. Some of those forces are impossible to foresee accurately but are, nevertheless, highly potent, while others are of a more sinister nature. These include natural calamities, fears over rampant intellectual property theft and ubiquitous, staggering corruption.
Off-shoring, of course, is nothing new. It has been part of the global trade scene for over 100 years but with one big difference. In the past, when manufacturing centres were set up in another market, they were confined largely to industrialized, developed countries. Over the last few decades, however, there has been a huge shift of such jobs to developing countries, or what was called the Third World. This has led to substantial job losses in countries where businesses outsourced to cheaper countreis like China. In the 10-year period, 2000-2010, America lost nearly 6 million manufacturing jobs, many to off-shoring. The adoption of JIT delivery techniques, however, over the last two decades or so, has exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chains to natural calamities like earthquakes and floods. Other risks yet to test the JIT model include pandemics, catastrophic crop failures and political upheavals.
These concerns are are now encouraging global corporations, in particular, to redesign their global supply chains to make them more resilient to unquantifiable but serious shocks. This means re-shoring back to the mother country or at least near-shoring to eliminate the threats to JIT supplies posed by natural calamities, which could worsen if global warming accelerates.
The prime reason driving the trend to off-shoring was and remains the much lower production costs in developing countries. That advantage, however, has diminished as costs in these countries, especially China, have risen sharply to close the costs gap. In 2005, for example, Chinese production was 31% cheaper than in advanced nations, according to one group's calculations. By next year that gap is likely to be only 16%. Add on the logistics costs of shipping half way around the world, which could be 5-10% of sales values, and in many cases it would make sense to re-shore at least some production back to the homeland country.
Global corporations are now considering a change of tack on off-shoring of manufacturing, which if realized could slow development in poorer countries. According to an online survey by Boston Consulting Group, some 37% of manufacturers with sales over $1 billion and about half of those with more than $10 billion of sales plan or actually are considering bringing production back from China to America. Other corporations, however, are choosing to switch from China to other, cheaper sources in the Far East, but these countries are just as prone to natural calamities , like the floods in Thailand this year which seriously hit global businesses geared to JIT component supplies.
There are many other reasons driving even medium-sized businesses to re-shore back to their homeland, and possibly others yet to be tested. These include serious concerns over staggering intellectual property theft in China, poor quality, demands for large orders which imposes higher costs on importers and thus negates the JIT principles, unreliable supplies and long delivery times. The last of these places importers at a disadvantage to nimbler, locally-based producers, able to react more quickly to changes in customer demand.
Lest it be thought otherwise, outsourcing is not inherently deleterious to the global community. Far from it. When corporations outsource to cheaper countries they do not do so just because labour costs are much lower. They also look to develop sales opportunities in new markets, which does not only enhance their own earnings. Germany, for example, has done well from its exports of luxury cars to China because the rapidly-growing Chinese economy has created many Chinese millionaires, a phenomenon greatly helped by foreign countries outsourcing production to China. It is a classic example of how growing global trade is of mutual benefit. Perhaps the greatest single benefit of outsourcing has been China's major role in helping to keep the lid on Western inflation rates.
Never underestimate customer power
The rush to outsource, however, should not be based purely or largely on lower production costs without careful consideration of all the relevant issues. If customer considerations are ignored the results could be dire. In Britain, many functions have been outsourced to Indian call centres. This has led to customer backlash for the simple reason that customers had difficulty understanding the Indian accent. Now, companies like BT, Britain's biggest telephony/broadband supplier, is re-shoring all its call centres back to
Britain before year's end.
Businesses may feel dismissive about future, dimly perceived political threats arising from their off-shoring activities. "Our business is business, not politics," they might declare, but they would be crass to ignore the latent risks from political upheaval, even within their homeland countries. When people have had a taste of high living standards, whether earned or not, they don't like losing it through persistently high and rising unemployment. In such circumstances, scapegoating of multi-nationals could arise, and governments could be forced to re-evaluate how they could arm twist companies to keep jobs in their own countries. Worse still, perhaps, people-power could lead to crippling repercussions for off-shorers through widespread boycotting of their goods.
In a savage indictment of a long-term stagnant economy, Japan's young, unemployed graduates are a disturbing pointer of what could await other advanced, industrialized countries. In a country of 127.8 million people the suicide rate is 24 per 100,000, one of the world's highest, and it appears to be linked to socio-economic negative factors. Data analysed between 1985-2009 found that suicide rates were significantly correlated with unemployment rates. About a third of the suicides were in their twenties, including many graduates seeking jobs unsuccessfully.
Pundits are often fond of mouthing mantras like the need to improve maths and science among the middle-skilled and medium-waged occupations, but that is easier said than done and try telling it to the well-educated Japanese graduates still looking for jobs after years. Corporations that ignore these warning signs risk unimaginable consequences.
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Hi guyz! I think I am finally trying to balance working full time and having a blog - effort. This week I am going to be focussing on making a costume for my friends birthday night out on the 25th, we are doing an Otley Run in Leeds (ridiculously long pub crawl for those of you that don't know). A big group of us are going and we all have to dress up as something beginning with L - her name is Lauren - and I have decided to be The Little Mermaid. I'm going to look ridic, although we all will. We've got lollipop men, lego and lobsters to name a few. I will deffo be putting a post up about it (depending on how crappy my costume is!)
Hope you all have a good week, don't do anything I wouldn't do - which isn't a lot.


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st The N.W. South High School was the high school that Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, Pete Puma and Porky Pig attended, which was seen in Reunion, where all the students were seen in a graduation party.
Daffy was known to be an unpopular person, despite telling Bugs, who didn't go to high school, that he was popular and Marvin, Pete and Porky were unpopular. However, Porky reveals that he was the popular one and Daffy was unpopular.
In the stories Daffy and Porky both told, the school cafeteria was shown. The reunion was taken place in the gym and featured a photo booth.
Notable Students
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- Porky Pig (former)
- Marvin the Martian (former)
- Pete Puma (former)
- Gavin (former)
- Craig (former)
- Doug (former)
- Tanya (former)
- Cindy (former)
- Bill (former)
- Javier (former)
- Kim (former)
- Beth (former)
- Marvin was a foreign high school student.
- Pete didn't graduate high school, but is currently a zookeeper as seen in Devil Dog.


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The fruits were painstakingly created with the number of each month displayed on the front of each fruit.
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Started a new one tonight...12"x 18" oil on linen...some ideas where I want to take this one. I taped the linen to a board, and as such it is not taut enough to be photographed without the suggestion of ripples in the sky. Those are not actually there...
Friday, January 25, 2013
Deadwood Lake Michigan...oil on linen
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Blackduck Junior High speech team hosts tournament
Blackduck hosted the first junior high tournament of the speech season, which also begins the point totals that determines the Northern Minnesota Speech Conference champions.
A total 12 teams participated and nearly 200 speakers competed in the event, with championships earned by three Drakes speakers: Kaydre Gullette in Extemp Reading, Haley Patel in Great Speeches and Karly Pitzl in Storytelling. Earning a red ribbon for speaking excellence was Regan Frenzel, competing in the category of Serious Prose, and bringing home white honorable mention ribbons for the Blackduck team were Gretchen Larson in Great Speeches and Jayde Blooflat in Poetry. The junior high team will compete in four more meets to determine the best young speakers of the season -- the next competition is Tuesday in Cass Lake.


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You have to see this magic garden.
Each year the Toowoomba Bonsai Club has an annual show so while I am in Toowoomba I take the opportunity to visit the Japanese Gardens.
"The Toowoomba Japanese Garden is the largest, most complex and traditionally designed Japanese Garden in Australia. It was named Ju Raku En by the designer – roughly translated it means long life and happiness in a public garden.
The Garden is a joint project of the University of Southern Queensland and the Toowoomba City Council and was opened in 1989. It was designed by Professor Kinsaku Nakane – renowned as the modern day master of Japanese garden design and famous for the restoration of many of Japan's old gardens and the design and construction of gardens in Japan and throughout the western world.
The Central Lake represents the celestial sea from the Buddhist legend where believers dwelt in bliss amongst fragrant flowers, lotus blossoms and sounds of celestial music. The northern edge of the lake is lined by a large pebble beach to remind viewers of a seascape.
Other parts of the lake edge are rocky and jagged just like the sea coast of Japan. The skill of miniaturising real life features and reconstructing them in a garden is a highly sophisticated garden form unique to Japanese gardens.
Approximately 2,500 full sun Azaleas are planted on the northern face of Azalea Hill as a representation of hillsides in Japan where Azaleas grow wild. The pruning of these shrubs will eventually provide a wave like massed green mat which will burst into vivid colour in Spring.
When fully grown the hedge behind the Azaleas, in combination with the uneven and irregularly spaced stepping stones will not allow the visitor a view until they reach the summit where the total garden unfolds before them.
The Rock Island is the pivotal point of the garden representing the sacred Mt Sumeru which is the centre of the Buddhist universe around which all life rotates. The remaining two islands are where it is said that immortals dwell who possess an elixir capable of giving eternal life.
It can be viewed that the outer edge of the lake is the material world where we all live and crossing over the bridges to the mystical islands is symbolic of a religious journey from one world to the next. Over 450 tonnes of rock were used to create the five metre high waterfall. Both the mountain stream and waterfall were made to recreate a natural environment or to imitate nature.
The dry or Contemplation garden is a very important element in a Japanese Garden. The design of the dry garden makes suggestions to the viewer rather than spelling out the obvious. The dry garden is an abstract design depicting a seascape although no water is present – raked gravel constantly changes shape from the moving shadows.
To sit and view the dry garden for a period of time is a form of meditation and to a Buddhist this exercise can clear the mind of all preconceived worldly ideas to reach what is described as "pure thoughts" or "nothingness". Behind the dry garden, shrubs and trees are being planted to eventually form a thick forest area to give an illusion of great height copying the steep mountains of Japan.
The three kilometres of stroll paths meander around the garden and when all plantings are completed will constantly unfold new vistas and a gradually changing perspective of the garden. The path material is decomposed granite which when walked over produces a pleasant rhythmic sound allowing the visitor to feel part of the garden.
The outer edge of the garden contains many quick growing trees, both Australian native and exotic species which were planted to form a buffer from the harsh winds of Toowoomba. These plantings will also aid in creating a microclimate within the garden – virtually its own ecosystem.
Toowoomba's climate has sufficiently distinctive seasons allowing an excellent range of Japanese plants to grow. Eventually 230 species totalling over 20,000 individual plants will be planted. Some of these include Cherry Trees, Japanese Maples, Azaleas, Camellias, Bamboo, Japanese Black Pine (the delicate pruning and pinching of candles of the Black Pines has already commenced), Iris, Lotus Lilies and Moss.
Upon completion of the plantings the garden will contain the largest and most important collection of Japanese plants in Australia."
From of the council website.
This is a gallery of some pictures that I have taken on visits to the garden. Click an image to scroll through the gallery.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and take the chance to visit sometime.


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Good morning crafty friends and followers..
Thought I would try a card shape I have never done before, This circle die would be perfect from Yvonne Creations "Holly Jolly Nesting Frames".. for what I wanted to make..
Main card shape!.. One A4 card blank..
To get your equal measurements so the card meet`s in the middle.. cut the Width to 11.1/2"...(Longest side)
Score one end as shown 2.7/8" Next turn your card and score again 2.7/8" you should have an equal size in the middle of (back card) of 5.3/4" .
Rounded these inside corners with my Memory Keepers corner rounder.
Finished card size 5.3/4" x 7"...
This die set is really versatile! you get you main fancy shape...Two
plain circles and one with holes in..this is really handy as its just a circle
no blank middle! with holes in, so can be used with any other circle dies.
Too make a frame I used the fancy circle die with the largest plain circle, like below.
This is the cut out shape!
I made a backing frame a touch smaller for the back of lacy die cut. Adhered 1/2 the frame to the right side of my card opening as shown with glue.
Next I cut circles of gold and one in white from a stitched die with the single die with holes! Cut the Merry Christmas by Yvonne Creations..in gold & white and glue together to create a shadow.
Adhere together and glue on the circle as shown! Place in the centre of the die cut frame! Only glue the left side to the card, making sure it open correctly..
Finished card decorated inside with papers I used Kanban "Cosmo Christmas" papers! stamp by Precious Marieke, "Spirit Of Christmas". Gold Wow Embossing Powder.
Circles from my bit box, Tutti Designs . "Deer Family Tree"...Memory Box "Christmas Stars" with Poppystamps "Valley Snowflakes"
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In 2000 Ernie Tarut (the "Old Gringo") and Yan Ferry founded Old Gringo Boots. This collaboration combined Taurt's 30 years of leather manufacturing experience and Ferry's 30 years of European design and bootmaking knowledge, resulting in a boot brand with superior quality and unique style.
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When Murray State point guard Isaiah Canaan rolls into the Knicks practice facility Wednesday, he may as well see a "Help wanted: Point guard'' sign in the window.
Two days after Jason Kidd's retirement, the Knicks will hold their first pre-draft workouts. They select No. 24 in the June 27 draft and feel there is enough talent in a deep draft to land a rotation player, preferably a point guard.
The Knicks have no assurance they can re-sign free agent Pablo Prigioni. Raymond Felton is best when he starts in a backcourt with a playmaker. (Chris Smith, J.R. Smith's brother, is expected to make the roster but is not rotation-ready).
Canaan is the first point guard of note to perform before general manager Glen Grunwald and the Knicks scouts. The last time the club had a first-round pick, it stole Iman Shumpert with the 17th pick in 2011.


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And can we say `Happy 46 Birthday! to Gennady` ?
450 kilometers above us is a long distance, but we still can try to send flowers and, of course, you will say `Happy Birthday!`, when we will be talking with Gennady on the phone!You can even play and sing him `Happy Birthday !!!`-I have responded . And we went outside the house on the backyard to take pictures of him with the flowers.
Our pictures with flowers perfectly arrived on board to Gena (Gennady) and Misha (Michael in Russian), and these pictures will remind them home on Earth, all friends and enthusiasts of Space Exploration.
The respond from Gennady to Samuel was a special one.And, of course, it was special for Samuel to see picture of himself on board of station in hands of ISS-9 commander!!!
Happy Birthday to Gena (Gennady) from all of us! (list with names was attached to images with flowers).
And warmest wishes to both Gena and Misha on board.Two great Air Forces pilots, One Russian, One American, serving together on board of International pace Station.
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Toyota move yields political fallout in Calif.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s decision to move its North American headquarters to Texas is causing political fallout in California.
A representative on the California Economic Development Commission criticized officials in Torrance, Calif., for "having lost the world's largest automotive company," the city's newspaper reported Wednesday.
Jonathan Kaji, in an e-mail to the Daily Breeze, said that "the city staff was fully aware of ongoing recruitment and outreach efforts," he said. "I believe that due to complacency, arrogance, laziness and the belief that Toyota Motor Sales was too big to leave."
Kaji called it an "embarrassing failure" that city officials "missed all of the clear and obvious signals and failed in their mission to serve as the tripwire and to proactively ensure that Toyota Motor Sales would not leave." He added, "As a result, the city of Torrance is now the 'biggest loser,' having lost the world's largest automotive company."
California's loss
The shift marks the second high-profile move of a Japanese automaker from Southern California. In 2006, Nissan moved its North American headquarters to Nashville, Tenn. As much as $197 million in relocation assistance from Tennessee helped incentivize the deal.
Kaji, whose father was Toyota's first U.S. accountant when the automaker entered the market in 1957, told the Torrance paper he warned city council members and other city officials weeks prior to the company's departure.
But an official in California said he was taken aback by the move.
Don Knabe, the Los Angeles County supervisor from the 4th District, told the Los Angeles Times in April that he first learned of the move over the weekend from rumors on social media. He e-mailed contacts at Toyota, but no one responded, he said.
Knabe told the paper he was "very shocked" and that Toyota was "such a great corporate citizen."
Toyota spokeswoman Carly Schaffner told Automotive News in an e-mail today that the decision was based on a broad range of motives, including "geographic location, availability of suitable building site, direct flight connections, quality of life and cost of living for our associates, time zones and proximity to our manufacturing base."
Toyota also is moving its manufacturing offices from Erlanger, Ky., to Plano.
"Nearly 100 locations were considered. No single criteria determined the final decision," Schaffner said. "We needed a site that was closer to our manufacturing operations, in a neutral location, one without an existing Toyota presence. When considering whether to make an investment decision of this magnitude, economic incentives are one of many factors we consider," she said.
Texas also handed out an initial $40 million incentive that is expected to grow by the time Toyota completes the move in 2017.
Squandered relationship
But Kaji maintains Torrance squandered the relationship built up over generations that came from the Los Angeles suburb, which is home to large Asian-American populations. "That culture, in turn, served as a business incubator that helped companies from those nations successfully compete in the U.S., which is why Torrance has become an economic hub for Asian-based companies," the Daily Breeze reported.
Toyota said its 10 manufacturing plants in the United States will not be impacted by the changes.
About 2,300 California employees that work at parts distribution operations, port facilities, field offices and Calty Design Research will not be part of the relocation.
Mark Rechtin contributed to this report.
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text: Competitor last chance for registration into theGarnier Fructis Australian Open 2007, Perisher 21-25 August Best up and coming Australian can win trip to Whistler Sydney/AUS (13th August, 2007) Final call for Open registration into the Garnier Fructis Australian Open. With a over $60,600 in cash, plus prizes, along with a TTR Ranking of 4, the 2007 Garnier Fructis Australian Open is the third event on the prestigious Ticket To Ride World Series, via which riders are ranked internationally. Best Aussie Rider: Whistler Resort, Air Canada and Garnier Fructis will give a return trip to Whistler — including flights and accommodation along with entry into the World Ski and Snowboard Festival in April 2008 to one young up and coming Australian rider who proves the best overall performance in both event disciplines at the Garnier Fructis Australian Open.The 2007 Australian Open will kick off with the men and women's slopestyle finals and the Junior superpipe finals on Friday 24th August followed by the men and women's superpipe finals on Saturday 25th August. Practise and preliminary rounds kick off from Tuesday 21st August.• Registrations for mens, womens halfpipe, slopestyle and junior halfpipe are open until — 20th August (17:00pm AUS EST) 2007 at www.opensnowboarding.com (click on AUSO!).• For the men and women, slopestyle and superpipe competitors seeking to enter the pre-qualifiers must register online for the lottery and will be notified on or before 20th August confirming entry into the Australian Open. There are 70 spots for male competitors and 35 for female in each of the slopestyle and superpipe competitions.• Registration for the junior superpipe is on a first come first served basis for the sports available - 20 boys and 10 girls. • Winners of the men's and women's slopstyle and superpipe will also receive wildcard entries into the Burton Canadian Open, including complimentary airfares to the event.• The event will also feature an Invitational Big Air event for 10 athletes on Friday afternoon 24th August, presented by Garnier Fructis.2007 Burton Australian Open ScheduleTuesday 21st August PracticeWednesday 22nd August Superpipe Men's & Women's QualifiersThursday 23rd August Slopestyle Men's & Women's QualfiersFriday 24th August Slopestyle Men's & Women's Semi Finals & Finals Superipe Junior JamSaturday 25th August Superpipe Men's & Women's Semi Finals & Finals Invitational Big Air event Sunday 26th August Weather Day About the Burton Global Open Series, Presented by MotorolaThe Burton Global Open Series events are the pinnacle snowboarding events of the season. Founded by Jake Burton, the Opens have grown from grassroots events to global spectacles attracting tens of thousands of spectators and riders from around the world. Since the beginning, the Opens have been driven by riders, for riders evolving with snowboarding and riders' needs over the years. With events held in Europe, Japan, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, the Opens set the standard for snowboarding events around the globe. For more information, visit www.opensnowboarding.com.The Burton European Open is part of the Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour, the largest group of independent freestyle snowboard events in the world. TTR ranks riders based on their results at participating competitions and crowns a TTR World Champion at the US Open. For more information, visit www.ttrworldtour.com


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In episode #55 of the Physio Edge Podcast here, Brad Neal used the phrase "do as I say, not as I do" in relation to continuing to run with knee pain.
I get it. It's human nature. I think it's also worth considering that when people (Physiotherapists) *do* things differently to what they may recommend, there's probably a sensible rationale behind it, not to mention that they're looking at the same situation through an entirely different lens.
A financial advisor for example, may recommend a term deposit and a high interest savings account, with daily strategies such as "don't spend coins", to a new client who has minimal savings and a history of unhelpful behaviours with money, yet invest in high-risk margin lending funds themselves.
A Physiotherapist who understands physiology and the complexity of pain for example, may choose to 'run into pain' yet recommend to a client/patient that they avoid that same activity all together. I have pain most days but there have been very few occasions when I have made a conscious decision to avoid joining in with a kettlebell class because of the pain. Right now, I've had wrist pain since doing this on the 18th of March. That was 18 days ago! It's better than it was, but I liken the feeling in my wrist (and function) to an ankle sprain – holding a bell in a bottoms-up position, which demands more stability, is challenging and noticeably asymmetrical at the moment, which isn't normal. On Thursday last week, I described my back as feeling like it was broken; I still trained that day and moved 10,000kg in class on Friday, and the same again at 8am on Saturday.
Would I recommend someone else do that? Well, that depends on more variables that I care to list, and my recommendation could range from "absolutely! Suck it up pissy-pants" (I wouldn't actually say that second part, but may be thinking it) to "no. Go home, put your feet up and take the night off".
A couple of weeks ago one of our class regulars 'Troy' who in the previous class has been swinging a 44kg bell, had an issue with a wrist. On the very first back-swing on his warm-up with a 16kg bell, he felt a click and pain. He then struggled to hold onto anything after that and everything he did was painful. It would have been nearly impossible for him to have caused any structural damage with what he did and I suggested that he would likely wake up in the morning and feel like nothing had happened. That's exactly what happened. He skipped one class and that was it. Even though I was 99% certain that he hadn't caused any damage, I felt certain that pushing into pain probably wasn't going to be helpful. We could have both freaked out about potential damage to his triangular fibrocartilage complex, but we didn't – the value of perspective. Troy doesn't know what a TFCC is, and hopefully never will; he doesn't need to know – I do.
All that said, there's also the other side of the "do as I say, not as I do" coin.
Too often we err on the side of caution and avoid recommending the very things that we *would* do and would be helpful. Yesterday I shared a Facebook live video of me completing the Y-Balance Test and M.A.T. test after two recent podcasts with Dr Eammon Delahunt (PhD) discussing ankle instability – The Physio Matters Podcast here and BMJ Talk Medicine podcast here. Just yesterday, Rod Whitely shared his thoughts from an Aspetar lecture by Dr Phil Glasgow (PhD) entitled 'Optimising load in rehabilitation to maximise adaptation and minimise recurrence'. I agree with Physiotherapist Mick Hughes: "Let symptoms guide recovery and rehabilitation". Here is the effect of immobilising a ligament rather than encouraging normal movement and returning to loading as tolerated. I would suggest a similar principle could be applied to most things in rehabilitation. I shared the current guidelines for managing ankle sprains here, and I'm forever banging on about the importance of older adults being active and not treated as frail.
Load and loading has been written about a lot recently; Greg Lehman and Erik Meira wrote about it here and here.
Far too often in Physiotherapy, clients/patients are doing things which just aren't helpful – 'inappropriately loading' covers the spectrum of too little (or none) to too much. I'll be the first to admit that getting it right for an individual is more an art than science, and was involved in a brief discussion with Ben Cormack on his Facebook page about just that topic recently. Here's Ben's blog post about loading and dose-response.
I'm a passionate believer in 'The Mum Test'; I ask myself, "would I pay for my mum to be doing this?"
If the answer is a resounding "No", then we probably shouldn't be recommending it to anyone else!
In my next post, I'll share my own experience following the (unnecessary) surgical repair of the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee. My surgeon Dr Chris Vertullo told me to see a Physio and suggested Brad Beer at POGO (who I'd known for many years and subsequently went to work for); I never saw a Physio.


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Let's enter upon near the face of your car. Your car should be water-washed and waxed on a regular foundation. But what should you use to clean up your car? Some populace consider that any old cleanser will do to clean your car, but this is not honorable. If you are victimisation serving of food cleansing agent to swab your car next you are removing all wax from your car. Dish cleaner is made to get out carnal fat from dishes, so it will be truly suitable at winning off that good coat of wax that you applied later period. Your unexceeded superior for full car tending would be to pick and choose a level car clean up. These washes are more of a detergent than a soap and will do little modification to your wax job.
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When a dog has separation anxiety, reduce how long the dog is alone and gradually increase this amount of time, says the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The organization also recommends teaching dogs that predeparture clues do not always mean the owner is leaving and to rule out other issues with the veterinarian.
For minor separation anxiety, stop making a big deal about leaving or coming home, notes The Humane Society of the United States. This causes the dog to get anxious during arrivals and departures. Ignore the dog while leaving and coming home to stop this habit. Keep a familiar item that smells like the owner with the dog when leaving and have a word to tell the dog every time the owner leaves that reminds it the owner will return.
For dogs that have moderate or severe anxiety when the owner leaves, only leave for a short period of time at first, explains the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This keeps the anxiety level low. The gradual increase of the length of time starts getting the dog used to the routine. Desensitizing the dog to leaving is difficult with a high level of separation anxiety, but it is an important method.
The first step of this process involves changing the way the dog handles predeparture clues, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dogs get to know the routine of a person getting dressed and grabbing a wallet or purse before leaving. Before leaving, the dog is already experiencing anxiety. Avoid this by doing these things without leaving the house, which eventually causes the dog to realize it does not always mean the owner is leaving.


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A suicide car bomb blast outside a police station in central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday has left an officer killed and 20 other people wounded.
Two men tried to ram the vehicle inside the police station in the town of Pinarbasi, 200 miles south-east of the Turkish capital Ankara, and police guards outside the building opened fire setting off a bomb.
Ten children were wounded in the attack.
"There were two terrorists in the car," Turkey's Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin. said. "The intended target was not the police station. They detonated the explosives after police pursued them."
There was no claim of responsibility, although authorities suspect the attackers were members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Suicide bombing are rare in Turkey, which more frequently sees roadside explosions and bomb attacks.
"We can't get in contact with Pinarbasi police right now, either by telephone or other mobile devices. We know as much as television has reported," one Kayseri police officer told Reuters shortly after the blast.
"We heard that one policeman was killed and 19 people were wounded but we don't know yet how many of these people are policemen and how many are civilians."
In March, five Turkish police officers were killed in clashes with the PKK, as tension escalated between the separatist group and Ankara.
The group, which is listed as terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has been fighting for autonomy in the southeast of the country since 1984 in a conflict that has claimed more than 40,000 lives.
In addition to being Turkey's largest minority group, Kurds are the dominant ethnic group in the southeastern part of the country and account for almost 20 percent of the country's entire population.


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Banana OG :: Infos de la variedad de cannabis
criar por Unknown or Legendary
Información oficial / Fundamentos sobre el Banana OG de Unknown or Legendary
- Nombre
- Banana OG
- Obtentor
- Unknown/Legendary
- Ubicación
- interior, exterior
- Tipo
- mostly indica
- Floración
- desconocido
- Semillas
- No disponible feminizadas.
Aka: OGer's Kush
Banana OG is an Indica-dominant cross of OG Kush x Banana, that recently lab-tested at 25.46% THCa and 0.76% CBDa.
This strain really does taste and smell just like old bananas. If truth be told, it's kind of a gross flavor. We were surprised to realize that there was hardly any OG smell at all to the Banana OG. Instead there were hidden undertones of cinnamon and some type of Christmas-time potpourri that I only could detect after a grind. However, it is definitely not the same fresh pine scent most OG's have.
After the first bowl of Banana OG, a very mellow buzz set in most of my upper body that was very comforting. The initial buzz was heavily concentrated in my chest and behind my eyes, but crept slowly throughout my body until eventually ending with a full bodied mellowing effect. Even my eyelids became heavy and relaxed.
Despite my abrupt hunger, after just about two bowls my entire body felt so relaxed that I didn't want to get off the couch; this strain kick-started my appetite big time.
At first I thought that the Banana OG was weak because I felt none of the typical OG effects I was expecting. It just didn't slap me in the face like most heavy OG strains do. However, I would advise everyone not to be deceived by the mellowing effects. After all, this strain does test at almost 26% THCa.
Give this strain its time to work its magic before loading up three back to back bowls like I did. The high crept up on me and held steady for nearly two hours before making me extremely tired. After some late night munchies, I was ready to crash. The Banana OG has a heavy sedative effect on the come down, making it a great strain for relaxing before bed. It's also great for relieving muscle pain.
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Linaje / Genealogía
- Banana OG »»» Ghost OG x Sagarmartha's 60/40 Banana pheno
- Ghost OG
- OG Kush Ghost cut
- »»» Chemdawg x {Lemon Thai x Hindu Kush, Pakistan} Probably
- Lemon Thai x Hindu Kush, Pakistan
- Lemon Thai »»» Sativa
- Chemdawg
- Unknown Indica »»» Indica
- OG Kush Ghost cut Probably
- Sagarmartha's 60/40 Banana pheno »»» Unknown Strain
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- Banana Puff »»» Banana OG x Joseph
- Bubba Fresh »»» Bubba Kush pre98 x Banana OG
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The very best hybrid bikes are comfy, efficient and provide an excellent trip, despite what level of rider you are.
If you are searching for an alternative option to owning to work, or simply an enjoyable way to work out and keep fit, you ought to think about among the wonderful hybrid bikes on the market today. Most of them provide comfort and good pedal effectiveness, so they are ideal for travelling to the workplace. They are usually light in weight and enable you to pedal very easily on roadways. Numerous likewise enable you to ride off-road when necessary.
Their primary attractive functions consist of:
o A frame created specifically for convenience and efficient pedalling.
o Adjustable parts that provide either an upright comfort or, if you choose, a more aerodynamic position.
o Smooth suspension and durable however light-weight products that allow speed while still taking in vibration.
o Soft, ergonomic saddles that are comfy.
o High air pressure in the tyres to help with greater speeds and make long rides easier.
The suspension fork on a lot of excellent hybrid bikes makes sure that you stay in control even over rough surfaces. It likewise protects you from bumps and jolts for a smoother and more comfortable trip.Note: Read Hybrid Bike Reviews before you buy one.
You'll likewise find suspension seat posts on a lot of these bikes. These are an excellent, lightweight function to soften bumps and include comfort where it's needed, for instance going over challenges such as curbs.
Modern hybrid bikes also feature innovative gearing systems that are user friendly and good for hills. They likewise now featured outstanding braking systems, which mean you have more control over your speed and can stop rapidly with little effort on your part, if necessary.
Nowadays most hybrid bikes also have actually improved saddles that are ergonomic and offer far greater comfort than bike saddles utilized to. They are generally used anatomical shapes, flexible frames as well as gel cushioning, makings the commute to work far more pleasant than a stuffy cars and truck journey.
There has been a substantial increase in the variety of hybrid bikes available recently and most of the big, popular bike makers offer an excellent variety. The rise in the number of people selecting bikes over automobiles to obtain to work might be connected to the quality, convenience and reasonable rates of the bikes available, and for the best hybrid bikes you require look no more than the web, as many excellent companies will deliver one straight to your door. So exactly what are you waiting on? Get on your bike!


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Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande, has insisted that Treasury doesn't have the funds to cover a no-fee increase at South Africa's universities.
This comes after he announced that NSFAS-qualifying students (students from households earning less than R600 000 annual household income) wouldn't pay for university fee increases, which has been left at each university's discretion and capped at 8%.
702/Cape Talk's Eusebius Mckaiser (standing in for Redi Tlhabi) spoke to the Minister on what Cabinet's position is on the matter.
He said the Cabinet has always supported the cause for affordable education, which has paved the way for the most recent increment adjustments.
In October 2015, #FeesMustfall students protesters marched to the Union Buildings to demand a 0% increase and free education for all. A 0% increase was announced shortly after the march.
Listen to the interview below:
All that I know is that there is no money waiting for financing at 0% or no-fee increase for categories of people. He's [Pravin Gordhan] the one with the authority.— Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training
The Minister of Finance has been very supportive otherwise we wouldn't have reached the agreement, which I regard as a milestone.— Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training
This article first appeared on 702 : Nzimande: Treasury doesn't have the money for free education