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Music and Voice Services
Our list of streaming partners and voice assistants just keeps growing. Some names you will instantly recognise. Others may be less familiar, but still worth exploring. Remember, availability varies by region, so click the logo to find out what's currently playing in your area.
Amazon Alexa
Amazon Alexa brings convenient voice control to your Sonos Home Sound System. Sonos One allows you start and stop your music with your voice. Amazon Alexa built right in. Or connect any Sonos speaker to an Amazon Echo or Dot over WiFi, and you've got instant, hands-free control of your favourite music and more.
Streaming services
Free. Premium. Selected. On-demand. The list of streaming services on Sonos keeps growing. Some names you'll recognise right away. Others may be less familiar, but still worth exploring. Remember, service availability varies by region so click for details to find out if it's playing in your area.
Already subscribe to a service? Great. Just add it to Sonos using the app, sign in, and play it out loud - for the entire house to enjoy.
When you're an Apple Music member, all the music you already have lives right alongside just about every song ever recorded. Plus, experts help you find the right music—hand-selecting songs, artists, and albums based on what you already listen to and like. You'll also hear the best new music in the world on Beats 1, broadcasting live from Los Angeles, New York, and London, and can listen to curated radio stations based on genres and themes.Learn more
Spotify gives you access to any song, anytime, to any Sonos player in your house. Just search for an artist, album, or track and hit play. You can create playlists, or collaborate with a friend to make the ultimate mix. All you need is a Spotify Premium subscription.Learn more
YouTube Music is a new music app that allows you to easily find what you're looking for and discover new music. Get playlists and recommendations served to you based on your context, tastes, and what's trending around you.Learn more
Google Play Music makes it easy to explore, share, store, and listen to your favourite music. Play millions of songs instantly from anywhere on any device. Get free cloud storage for up to 20,000 tracks, create custom radio stations, and enjoy smart recommendations that get smarter the more you play. Together we've created a whole new way to experience music.Learn more
With SoundCloud on Sonos, hear millions of tracks from the world's largest community of artists, bands, podcasters, comedians, and more in your home. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing – SoundCloud lets you hear more.
Upgrade to SoundCloud Go+ to access and stream an expanded catalog of more than 125 million tracks.Learn more
From Chopin to 2 Chainz, we have all your favourite music ready to stream to every room in the house.
Pick from over 43 million tracks, choose a playlist to fit your mood or kick back and let Deezer Flow blend old favourites with new music recommended just for you.
Start your free trial now for ad-free music and great sound quality.Learn more
TIDAL is the perfect match for Sonos, streaming music in lossless, high fidelity audio quality, ensuring the best sound experience possible. Add high definition music videos, curated editorial by music journalists, artists and experts, audio search, offline mode and much more and you simply have a superior solution to your music listening needs. More than 25 million tracks and 75,000 videos available. Enjoy.Learn more
NTS is the world's most authentic music platform for curated online music discovery. A global family of more than 500 musicians, artists, producers and music enthusiasts creates 24/7 radio programming with live broadcasts from London, Manchester, Los Angeles and Shanghai, as well as broadcasting remotely from events all over the world. NTS celebrates music culture and uncovers the best of the past and the present whilst cultivating the future of non-mainstream music and the scenes that surround it. With a growing international audience, nearly one million listeners are tuning in each month.Learn more
7digital's store offers a catalogue of millions of high quality digital music tracks. Your purchases are automatically kept in the 7digital 'cloud based' locker for secure storage. You can access your music wherever you want and through multiple devices on any operating system. Simply sign in to stream all your 7digital music instantly through your Sonos system for a great listening experience in your home. Free Service.Learn more
Add music to your day with Anghami, and make it louder with Sonos! With millions of Arabic and international songs, Anghami recommends music that perfectly suits your mood and taste. With Anghami's Personal DJ, play the right music for your house party this weekend, or while cooking in the kitchen, or sleeping in your bedroom. Oh, and let's not forget music while you shower! Music is in pure Dolby, so you can play top quality music on your Sonos.Learn more
Audible offers the world's largest selection of audiobooks. Enjoy award-winning performances from celebrities, authors and even full casts. Listen to your audiobooks anywhere, anytime — at home on your Sonos speakers or on the go with the Audible app — and never lose your place.Learn more
Audiobooks.com provides the first on-demand streaming and downloadable service for audiobooks, delivering access on any Internet-enabled smartphone or PC, including Apple iPhones, iPads, Android smartphones or tablet devices, and now Sonos. The company is the first and only provider of Cloud Bookmarking, its proprietary technology that synchronizes users' last listened-to bookmark position across all devices. Find out more at www.audiobooks.com.Learn more
Discover amazing new music and directly support the artists who make it. Create your own music collection, download or stream your purchases, and follow fans and artists whose taste you love. With a free Bandcamp fan account, you can listen to your purchases on the go via our apps for Android and iOS, or in any room in your home with Bandcamp for Sonos.Learn more
CalmRadio.com is an internet radio station specializing in Acoustic, Classical, Jazz, Ambient, Country, World Music as well as an extensive Classical Composers category.
Plus! Enjoy our extensive selection of Atmosphere channels...especially crafted for sleeping, working ambience and for sufferers of ringing-in-the-ears or Tinnitus.
We have one of the largest and most extensive selection of music channels anywhere...over 140 channels and more to come! All our channels are delivered to you in high resolution 192K CD quality sound.Learn more
Classical Archives: the largest classical music site in the world!
Classical Archives (ClassicalArchives.com) brings the largest collection of classical music recordings in the world to Sonos! This service offers almost 1.5 million tracks (90,000 albums) by 18,000 composers and 70,000 performers.
Classical Archives is proud of the care and expertise with which our inventory is categorised. Our musicologists and computer scientists have developed a unique Contextual Metadata Engine which compares all incoming recordings to a canonical list of compositions. This allows all albums, works, movement titles, artists and composer names to be displayed and cross-linked with the care and accuracy classical music lovers expect.
Unlimited streaming access is less than €8/month (or €80/year)!
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- Create and share playlists
- Search by composer, performer (artist), album and track
Listen to your favourite radio shows and stations whenever and wherever you want, thanks to DAR.fm on Sonos. Simply browse or search to find what interests you – sports, news, talk shows, and music – and DAR.fm will record and store them for you. Now you can tune in to virtually unlimited radio content in any room of the house—based on your schedule, not the station's. Pause, rewind or fast forward to get to the good stuff. Free service. Available everywhere in English only.Learn more
deliver.media professional music streaming services for POS and hospitality industry. Music genres or dedicated music streams.Learn more
FIT Radio Workout Music: The only fitness app that provides you with non-stop, high-energy music of all genres designed to motivate your workout. Dubbed the "Pandora for gym rats" by Mashable, the app has been featured in SELF Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Women's Running, Health, P90x and more.
It takes a lot of time and energy to search for and download music for your workout. What you typically listen to throughout the day may not be what keeps you moving at the gym. With FIT Radio, manually putting together upbeat playlists for the gym is now a thing of the past. Thousands of mixes are all in one easy place for listeners to simply choose their favourite genre, push play and go! The music never stops – not even for ads – and we upload new mixes daily, providing users with hot tracks the moment they start exercising.
Ideal for those on the move, FIT Radio gives smartphone and web users access to high-energy playlists in a variety of musical genres, offering a randomisation of 15–20 mixes in each genre at any given time. Using the smartphone app, FIT Radio users can stream a wide range of playlists of top 40, rock, hip-hop, house, EDM, indie, and more. All are updated daily! Each playlist is made by a professional DJ.Learn more
Focus@Will: supercharge your brain! Reduce distractions while you work and study with this scientifically proven music streaming service. Multiple channels individually customised for your brain type, maximising your cognitive performance. Almost a million users agree: If you want to get serious about dealing with distractions, nothing compares to Focus@Will. 14-day no risk, free trial.Learn more
Gaana gives you unlimited access to all your favourite Indian music – Bollywood, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya & many more regional songs on one platform. Brought to you by India's favourite music service: Gaana.com
Listen anytime to latest music albums, top charts, your favourites, your playlists and much more.
Just subscribe to Gaana+ service and instantly stream your favourite music to any Sonos system in your house with Gaana.Learn more
Listen live to Capital, Heart, Heart 80s, LBC, Classic FM, Smooth, Capital XTRA, Radio X and Gold, plus a selection of playlists curated to fit your mood.Learn more
In a few words...Slow Music for Fast Times. Hearts of Space creates calming atmospheres with contemporary ambient and electronic music, plus orchestral adagios, ethereal ballads, transcendent jazz, sacred chants, and spatial sounds from around the world and across the centuries. Enjoy eight channels of carefully curated music, blissfully free from commercial interruptions, with or without minimal announcements. Ideal for any kind of concentrated or creative work. High quality AAC+ streams. Standard Service account required.Learn more
Hotelradio.fm™ is a premium radio service targeted at the hospitality industry. With over 50 music stations to help set the mood there's a multitude of station choices available to define an atmosphere: be it in a restaurant, hotel lounge, spa or even at home! Curated by professional DJs, hotelradio.fm's music programming gives you the desired music mix when and where you need it, and it also offers the chance of individually programmed music channels for the ultimate customisation service.Learn more
Since 2005, the Hype Machine's mission has been to help you fall in love with something new. We think the best way to find new music is just to listen to lots and lots of music—all kinds of it. That's why we don't use algorithms and we don't try to predict what you'll like—all we do is track hundreds of music blogs around the world. We present their posts in a single stream for convenient listening and easy discovery, and we let you find your favourites. It's free-form radio where bloggers are the djs. Their passion for music is your shortcut to hearing the next great thing, months before everyone else catches up.
Start on the Latest Tracks channel—the newest music just hitting our site. Our community of over 1 million users favourite the tracks they like here, bubbling them up to Popular Tracks. You can heart tracks to My Favorites directly from your Sonos and join in. Explore the blogs in our listings at hypem.com, and subscribe to their posts to create My Feed, a stream of music customized just for you. Connect with your friends via Facebook and Twitter, and add their favourites to your Feed. Or listen to your favourite blogs via the Blog Directory—all posts from a blog, in a single playlist. There's a lot of music in here. Dive in.
Hype Machine is only available on Sonos for SoundCloud Go users. Please visit here to link your Soundcloud Go and Hype Machine accounts.Learn more
Discover classical music in lossless quality (FLAC). Listen to the latest albums, exclusive releases, and playlists created by our expert curators.Learn more
FIND: The Best of Live Radio
Listen to more than 1,500 live radio stations from coast-to-coast including pop, country, urban, rock, talk, and college. Browse radio stations by music genre and location, and let our DJs know what songs are hot or not by giving them a thumbs up or thumbs down.
CREATE: Personalized, All-Music Custom Stations
Simply pick a song or artist to create your own commercial-free, uninterrupted Custom Station featuring music from that artist and similar ones. Choose from our catalog of over 18 million songs and 450,000 artists.
ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ALWAYS FREE: Take Your Favorite Radio Stations & Music Wherever You Go Log in to iHeartRadio through email or Facebook to make iHeartRadio uniquely yours. Create, save, and share your stations from wherever you access iHeartRadio.Learn more
With your LivePhish+ subscription, unlock the entire LivePhish catalogue. On-demand minutes after each show ends, stream professionally recorded multitrack mixes of every night of Phish Tour. Plus, dive into the Phish Archives too.Learn more
Mixcloud helps you discover the world's best radio in one place.
Listen to music & talk radio programmes from our community of over half a million trusted DJs, radio stations, radio presenters and music tastemakers.
Search for what you like or browse to discover new content through our charts, editorial selections and recommendations.
Music is the most powerful artform in the world. At Mixcloud we believe that curation is art, not science, and we believe passionately in the power of expert curators and tastemakers to give you inspiration for your ears.Learn more
Send your CD and vinyl collection to the future with Murfie. Murfie converts and securely stores your CDs and vinyl and provides you unlimited, high-quality streaming and downloads of the music you own and love. Add a Murfie HiFi membership for an exclusive, lossless streaming experience. Grow your collection on murfie.com and enjoy your new music instantly on your Sonos system. When away from home, stream your music anywhere with Murfie's iOS, Android, and browser apps.Learn more
Fire up nugs.net to listen to last night's show from your favourite bands. Join nugs.net's curated live music service to stream thousands of professionally recorded and officially released concerts. Listen to full shows on demand, make playlists of your favourite live tracks, read and post reviews, and save shows for offline playback.
Sign up for a 7 Day Free Trial, and subscribe for €12.99/month or €129.99/year for unlimited access to current and archive shows from your favourite bands' tours. Tours include Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Dead & Company, Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee, Gov't Mule, moe. and many more.Learn more
With Plex for Sonos you can now browse and play your entire Plex music collection on any Sonos device, straight from the Sonos app.Learn more
Qsic is the world's only commercial music streaming service with built-in AI to positively influence your customers' mood, mindset and behaviours.Learn more
Top-quality radio broadcasting online with a unique system that combines excellent Stress Relief Music and Relaxing Music with Natural Sounds.Learn more
With Radio Javan, enjoy the best in Persian music with access to all the newest songs. Search for your favourite artists and music hits.Learn more
Radionomy.com is an online radio platform featuring a wide variety of music and themed radio stations to discover and listen to for free.
Browse through our directory classified by genres and find the perfect radio station according to your mood - or simply create your own radio station in a few clicks on radionomy.com and listen to it on your Sonos device!
Radionomy is one of the largest user generated online radio networks in the world with thousands of radio stations managed by real passionate people. Tune in to one of the stations, sit back and relax!Learn more
radioPup is a personalized radio app featuring 300+ live & local radio stations streaming the best music and news available powered by the 3rd largest owner of radio stations in the US, Townsquare Media.
Covering many genres including: Country, Classic Rock, Hip-Hop / R&B, Pop, Lite Sounds, Sports, News/Talk, Classic Hits, Rock and more. Browse through all of the available stations by location, genre or recently added stations.
radioPup is the radio app that follows you everywhere. Take radioPup wherever you go with our iOS and Android apps.
Free music service with no sign up required.Learn more
Enjoy dozens of free different genre channels and music festival live streams from all over the world!Learn more
Red Bull Radio broadcasts handpicked music and in-depth interviews with influential artists from around the world.Learn more
Get instant access to over 25,000 classic old-time radio shows from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Includes detective shows, thrillers, drama, comedy, science-fiction music, variety, westerns, juvenile and so much more. There really is something for everyone.
Search for your favourite series, shows or stars. Create playlists to enjoy throughout the day.
RUSC Old Time Radio is a wonderful resource that is guaranteed to bring hours of listening pleasure whether you are 9 or 90.
Simply choose a show from your favourite category, put your feet up, and be transported back in time to a world when radio ruled the airwaves, and when good clean entertainment enthralled the nation.
If you love audiobooks or audio drama then RUSC Old Time Radio will be like an Aladdin's Cave of audio treasures from days gone by.Learn more
Saavn is the best Bollywood and Indian music listening experience, online and on the go. It's a beautiful and easy way to search, discover, and listen to over a million songs, from the latest hits to hard-to-find classics.
Saavn brings you the best music, trending songs, and personalized radio in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, English (India Only), Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, and Bhojpuri. Save playlists and favorites across genres like film, devotional, bhangra, bhajans, ghazals, and more, and access your favorite music through your existing Saavn Pro account.Learn more
Business never sounded so good! Whether it's in an office or a restaurant, a retailer or a hotel, background music enhances both the customer and the employee experience. Hundreds of stations and millions of songs, including the ability to create artist stations, so you can design the perfect sound for your brand. Fully licensed for business environments.Learn more
With Soundry you can play music in your business easily, affordably, and legally. Play curated playlists packed with royalty-free music.Learn more
Listen to radio shows, podcasts, talk shows, news and sports – all on Spreaker. Spreaker connects you with the voices of people from all over the world: hear their stories live, or listen later as podcasts. Tens of thousands of shows available in every room of your home. Free Service.Learn more
Curate your own personalised list of podcasts and tune in to the most up-to-date content in business, sports, politics, and entertainment from brands like NPR, CNN, BBC, Adam Carolla and more. Pull together your favourites from over 5000 podcasts, radio shows and stations to create a custom playlist, or allow Stitcher to recommend shows based on past listening. Stream it throughout your house on demand. Free service.Learn more
Swedish Radio in your Sonos-system. Listen to our live channels for example P1, P2, P3 and P4 or explore our 400 radio shows.Learn more
Tribe of Noise offers an innovative background music service for businesses, without the need to pay (annual) fees to national collection societies. This cloud music service will help businesses to create the right ambiance for their clients and staff.
- All rights included music. No need to pay to national collection societies. Your subscription covers everything.
- Wide variety of songs selected and updated by our music department.
- Choose between 3 different music channels depending on which ambience you want to create.
- No ads, 100% music, 24 hours a day.
- Being different – a fine selection of modern music from emerging artists, in your shop, store, restaurant, gym, etc.
Listen live to any station across the Triple M Network for Rock, Sport & Comedy. Featuring your favourite shows like the Hot Breakfast, The Grill Team, Rush Hour and The Rub.Learn more
Stream over 20,000 live concert recordings featuring the world's greatest performers with your Wolfgang's AMP'd membership.Learn more
Worldwide FM is a unique radio platform exploring arts, music and culture from London, Berlin, Tokyo, Kyoto, Los Angeles and beyond.Learn more
Sonos plays everything – the most popular streaming services, on-demand services, internet radio, your favourite podcasts and audiobooks, your go-to collection of downloads – whatever you love to listen to.
Internet radio and podcasts
With Radio by TuneIn on Sonos, you'll have instant access to over 100,000 local and international radio stations, shows, and podcasts streaming from every continent. All for free.Browse for stations or type in specific call letters or a podcast you love.
Your personal music library
Play music from every PC, Mac, and storage drive on your home network. Up to 16 sources. And all those songs on your smartphone, too.
Choose "On this phone" in the Main Menu and listen to your heart's content.
Audio formats supported
Sonos supports a number of audio formats at various sample rates and bitrates including many of those used by Apple iTunes and Windows Media Player. The supported Lossless (uncompressed) formats are ALAC, FLAC, AIFF and WAV. The supported Lossy (compressed) formats are MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG.*
Operating systems (for stored files)
Sonos can access files shared from a PC running Windows 7 and higher, Mac running OS X 10.9 and higher, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that supports the Common Internet File System (CIFS).
Playlists supported
Sonos supports the playlists that you've created in iTunes, Windows Media Player and services like Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play Music, SoundCloud, Spotify, TIDAL, and more.
Album art supported
JPG, BMP, GIF and PNG formats are supported up to a resolution of 1024 x 1024.
Internet radio supported
Sonos supports MP3, AAC and WMA streaming audio formats for Internet radio stations.


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Narendra Wajapeyee, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
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Pathology: Experimental Pathology Graduate Program | Pathology Research | Wajapeyee Lab
Obesity Research Working Group
Yale Cancer Center: Signal Transduction
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Office of Cooperative Research
Cancer is a complex disease and typically involves multiple gene-specific and global genetic and epigenetic changes in the human genome. The major classes of genes that have been causally linked to the process of tumorigenesis are tumor suppressors, which act as "brakes", and oncogenes, which function as "accelerators" and typically promote cancer. Recently, non-coding RNAs-- such as miRNAs and long non-coding RNAs-- are also linked to cancer, wherein they can either promote or inhibit cancer cell growth. The focus of our lab is to understand the mechanisms of genetic and epigenetic regulation of cancer initiation and progression, and translating this understanding for early detection and treatment of human cancers. We use melanoma, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and hematological malignancies as model systems to study mechanisms of tumor initiation and progression.
Specialized Terms: Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression
Education & Training
|Indian Institute of Science, India (2005)
Honors & Recognition
Research Scholar Grant, American Cancer Society, 2016 (2015)
Yale Cancer Center Translational Cancer Research Excellence PrizeYale Cancer Center (2014)
IASLC Young Investigator AwardInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (2013)
Young Investigator AwardMelanoma Research Alliance (2013)
Kimmel Scholar for Translational Cancer ResearchSidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research (2012)
Hollis Brownstein Award for Leukemia ResearchLeukemia Research Foundation (2011)
AACR Centennial Cancer Research Award for Childhood Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research (2010)

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We're a big mac and cheese family, so I couldn't wait to try it out. Tonight for dinner, we were having bbq pork, so it seemed like a great time to check out the new mac and cheese.
I let the youngest (8 years old) make it. The instructions were pretty easy so no problems there! (Don't mind my messy kitchen )
Note: When the box says to stir frequently, they aren't kidding! We had some pasta stick to the bottom of the pan, but we made a full recovery!
I wasn't too sure about this stuff because you don't drain the pasta. I'm usually not a fan of that because sometimes you end up with a weird texture. It looked good, so I gave it a try.
The verdict? The kid really liked it. She gave it a big thumbs up. The husband liked it. He said it was really cheesy. I thought it was ok. It would lend itself well to add-ins like bacon or broccoli. It was really cheesy and the pasta had some substance, which I like. I will probably make it again, adding some broccoli next time. We tried the regular mac and cheese this time, and we're looking forward to trying the other varieties.
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I underwent Lasik surgery approximately 18 months ago. I have experienced excellent results with absolutely no issues – I attribute this to the skill of the surgeon and the compatibility of my eyes for this type of surgery. Recently, however, it occurred to me that flap dislocation could become an issue (albeit rare). Hence, I have scaled back anything that could present a problem, such as contact sports, etc. Late traumatic dislocation was not discussed when I had my procedure.
I have a question and haven't found adequate or consistent information online and perhaps it's a subject you are familiar with. In your research/exposure to the topic, do you think riboflavin/UVA cross linking can in fact completely seal this flap mechanically by increasing the strength of the cornea in otherwise successful surgeries? Or is this treatment something that is only reserved for side effects. Even then, when it is used to treat a side effect, is the eye stronger?
I've become somewhat depressed after quitting sports, etc. I understand that the likelihood of dislocation is extremely low, but not zero, which I why I have decided to "lay-low".
What sparked my interest was this article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148611.php, in particular this quote:
...the National Institutes of Health grant renewal will enable the lab group to test a possible solution that would strengthen the stromal flap and allow it to permanently bind back to the cornea after LASIK, Conrad said. It uses a combination of riboflavin and UVA light to permanently cross-link the connective tissue of the flap to the underlying corneal connective tissue.
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After struggling for over a decade trying to "make it" as a Las Vegas musician, Blair Dewane has finally gotten a foothold into working professionally in Music on Monday nights at the Bunkhouse Saloon. Join us Monday Nights at the Bunkhouse as Blair faces his biggest nightmare as he learns to live the fast and loose live of a professional KJ.
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Introduction and Technical Specifications
XSPC Raystorm D5 Photon RX480 V3 WaterCooling Kit
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XSPC is well known in the water cooling community for their high performance, yet affordable cooling product design. XSPC's latest release comes in the form of their Raystorm D5 Photon RX480 V3 WaterCooling kit, featuring a massive 480mm (4 x 120mm) radiator, a Photon 170 Reservoir with integrated D5 pump, and a Raystorm CPU block. They were kind enough to provide us with a sample of this kit to see how it stacks up against other liquid and air coolers we've tested previous. With a retail price at $314.99, the kit comes at a premium price, but remains a fair price considering the components included in the kit.
D5 Photon 170 Reservoir/Pump Combo
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XSPC bundled in many of their high end components into the Raystorm D5 Photon RX480 V3 kit, including the Raystorm CPU block, the RX480 quad fan radiator, the D5 Photon 170 reservoir / pump, two meters of 7/16" inner diameter / 5/8" outer diameter clear tubing, black chrome compression barbs, four 1650 RPM 120mm fans, four fan guards, both Intel and AMD bracket/mounting kits, LEDs for both the reservoir and CPU block, and all the hardware necessary to put it all together. The Photon 170 reservoir is capable of holding up to 410mL of liquid, direct feeding the inlet of the integrate D5 pump. XSPC's D5 pump can process up to 1200 lph (liters per hour) of fluid, translating to a US-style flowrate of about 5 gpm (gallons per minute). All components are copper, brass, Acetal, or glass to minimize the possibility of mixed-metal corrosion occurring in the loop.
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The Challenge
How could we raise brand awareness while reinforcing UNIQLO as a global fashion innovator? With over 600 different t-shirt designs available, UNIQLO shoppers were feeling the effects of choice paralysis.
We saw an opportunity to make their lives easier by helping them decide which T-shirt best reflected their unique personality. Our strategy was to showcase UNIQLO's huge T-shirt range while creating a fun personalised experience for the customer.
We designed a neurological shopping experience that helped people decide what to buy.
In collaboration with Melbourne University, we created an in-store activation using neuroscience technology to create UMOOD. UNIQLO customers were fitted with a neuro-headset and shown a series of video stimuli. Their neurological responses to the stimuli were then analysed in real-time by a custom-built algorithm that identified their current mood and recommended the perfect T-shirt for them.
Result / Business Effect
- Uniqlo solidified their reputation as a true innovator
- 20 million+ media impressions
- $1.1. million in earned media value
- 2 million+ social media impressions
- Planning to roll out to Singapore, Japan and China
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|From Cairo's protest in solidarity
with Shaimaa "Mai Ezzat"
Now thanks to friends that got very good and reliable connected sources in Sudan , I knew that Shaimaa Adel is currently detained in the women prison in Omdurman along with Sudanese women activists that have been arrested in the on going protests in the past few weeks. According to these sources she is being well treated and that soon the Egyptian ambassador will be able to meet her !! "I do not know when"
Already Shaimaa seemed to be facing a lot of trouble. Mohi El Din El Tatawy , the head of journalists Syndicate in Sudan told Al Masry Al Youm today that Shaimaa is facing charges not related to journalism according to the Sudanese authorities. This is not good , now Shaimaa can face whatever charges the dictatorship of El Bashir wants to accuse the protesters with including foreign support for the protests !!
Shaimaa was arrested at internet Café in Khartoum last week while sending her second report to Al Watan Newspaper in Cairo. She entered Sudan and worked as a correspondent for Al Watan without taking a permit from the international press center or whatever it is called there or notifying the Sudanese embassy that she would go there to cover the protests.
I know tomorrow there will be a protest in front of the ministry of foreign affairs in solidarity with Shaimaa.
Please spread the word about Shaimaa , she needs your help.
Update :
The vice president of Sudanese president Nafae Ali Nafae told journalists today in a meeting at Al Wafd Party during his visit to Cairo after meeting Morsi that we will hear good news about Shaimaa !! He also claimed that she was detained her house in Khartoum !! I do not know what kind of lies he is spreading but I trust my sources more than him.
Already it turns out that some of the protesters and activists arrested during the protests are facing charges like receiving orders from the #Jan25 Protesters in Cairo to spread it in Sudan !!
Here is Shaimaa's mom telling Al Wafd newspaper that she knows about her daughter for 7 days now !!"In Arabic"
MP Ali Fatah El Bab of FJ Party demanded in Shura Council today the immediate release of Shaimaa.
The fantastic Gameela Ismail asked President Morsi to interfere immediate and save Shaimaa before she becomes as another Gizaway "The Egyptian lawyer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia and accused of drug trafficking, resulted in a diplomatic crisis"
قبل ما شيماء عادل تبقي جيزاوي اخر..ايها الرئيس تدخل فورا وقبل فوات الاوان للافراج عن شيماء #الجيزاوي #السودان_ينتفض #مرسي_رئيسا— Gameela Ismail (@GameelaIsmail) July 9, 2012


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April 23, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The women's track team hosted the non scoring Coed Invitational on Saturday, April 22. Freshman Emily Hwang, sophomore Aline Thomas and junior Chi-Fong Wang picked up event victories for MIT.
Hwang won the pole vault with a mark of 10-06.00. Wang threw the javelin 125-07.75 to win the event. In the hammer throw, Thomas continued her impressive campaign and took first (146-00). She also finished fourth in the shot put.
Also in the field events, sophomore Karen Davie jumped to third place (15-11.00). In the distance events, junior Alisha Schor secured third place with a time of 18:40.80, and sophomore Ericka Erickson took fourth in the 1500 meter run.
The Engineers are back at home next Saturday, April 29, to host the NEWMAC championships. The competition will begin at 11:00 a.m.


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Fighting the rain, I made a little trip to the shops today to buy the palette I have been waiting for – The Chanel Blue Celestes Quad & Azur Limited edition polish.
T'was very irritating to be visiting Chanel counters today. Simple question – "What is limited edition?" – you know four counters out of five didn't know (apart from pointing out the Fleurs Quad which is clearly limited because it says LIMITED on the stand).
I wanted to clarify since sometimes what is limited in the US isn't limited in the UK and obviously there is no rush to buy anything that isn't limited…tsk. I got so frustrated I stuck to my two new purchases.
Then I went to Superdrug. Superdrug is the second biggest drugstore type store in the UK, which recently has acquired a lot of exclusive make up brands that aren't available in Boots. For example, Miss Sporty, ME ME ME Cosmetics, GOSH…er that's all I can think of, although they stock Barry M and Mini Bourjois, which isn't available in every Boots store.
Today I discovered a brand called FAMOUS by Sue Moxley.
Hmm Sue Moxely. Reminds me of the Tesco (a supermarket) make up brand, innovately called "Make Up" by Barbara Daly. Talented people with normal names. If I ever became a world famous make up artist I would change my name to Coco L'Wren, and when I marry Wentworth, become Coco L'Wren-Miller, so my brand could be called, "Cosmetic" by Coco L'Wren-Miller.
The first thing I thought was – ooh bright eyeshadow. The second thing was, £16!?!?!?!?!?!?!!! For a Quad?! Hello!
This was an eyeshadow on a stand for gods sake. Plus, soft as the eye shadows were, they kind of brushed away quickly. (I do a test with all my eye shadows. Softness, pigmented and brush-away-able-ness.) The packaging was black, but kind of big and a bit – well, footballers-wife.
Don't get me wrong – the Chanel quad was £30.50 which is almost double. £16 to me, is a funny inbetween stage; it is no longer a value product, or a drugstore item, but it isn't quite a luxury quad, since most high end quads are realistically £25-£40 arena.
When I buy a high end quad though, GENERALLY, I am treated so some luxury packaging and an excellent product. I don't know what to do with a £16 in not very nice and chunky packaging, because I know I won't lug it around with me, but its not cheap enough for me to try out and chuck into the corner somewhere. Hmmm.
Actually a friend of mine worked for Superdrug and she said they were going for a beauty boutique type of image these days, as opposed to the bar gin style, which probably explains the introduction of expensive brands. But I mean to be a boutique..they probably need to change the name to something slightly more elegant than Superdrug, and give their staff something other than lurid pink t-shirts.
Whilst I was there I tried out the samples of Max Factor's new foundation,
Horrid, horrid stuff. Oh wait, let me build up to it.
Firstly, it is billed as a solid to liquid foundation. No its not, its a cream foundation. It didn't magically turn from a rock hard piece of make up to water in my hands. It was basically a thick cream foundation.
Secondly there were four shades for me to choose from – I can't remember the names of them all, but I tested the two darker shades for my NC35 skin, and they were both horridly pink based. And pretty white.
Thirdly, it was THICK. I love good coverage in my foundation, but it can't be so dry that it looks cakey, and is hard to blend. I tested it on the back of my hand and it immediately covered any lines I had on my hand (ie. settled into lines) and even the boyfriend added, "Ew. That looks heavy."
Anyway, even if I wanted to buy one (which I don't), I couldn't have; Superdrug is poorly stocked most of the time, and both Famous & Max Factor barely had anything left on the shelves.
I did find something decent there though (but it was out of stock!).
I can't find a picture of it online, but it was a 12 colour eyeshadow palette from the brand Sleek – which is a range for black/darker skins although anyone can wear the eyeshadows of course.
The shades were soft, well pigmented and had some pretty hip, bright metallic colours…but all sold out. It was on offer (2 Palettes for £7!) D'oh. I feel a mission to locate it coming on…


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Ever feel so overwhelmed with things you want to scream HELP? That's exactly how I've felt lately. Since September 18 we've had our sell date pushed off every week, now til October 23rd. We are down to 3 employees on the farm now and it's thrown us all to a 7 day a week work schedule. Somehow we are making it. We've managed to get the second cutting of hay wrapped up along the way. The highlight of haying this year was the addition of the New Holland 570 square baler. After putting up 400 square bales we have affectionatley named them "idiot cubes". There is so much work in squares it sure makes you wonder if it's worth it. I didn't have but a little over 100 rolls this year so the squares should help us stretch the hay through the winter. I'm thinking that the drought in the Southwest combined with flooding in the Northeast will cause cattle prices to decline pretty significantly this winter. If that's the case I'm going to try to pick up bred cows or cows with calves by their side. I've sold off all my calves except the 2 smallest. If prices stay up they will go by the end of next month. Just as I thought calving was over for the year I noticed a new black speck in the pasture. After thinking about it and checking the calendar I realized it's time for it to start again. So far we have 2 beautiful black specks streaking across the pasture and giving chase to the bigger calves. It does my heart good just to stop and watch. I'm thinking this will be the last year we keep JR. our bull. He has gotten so big we can't handle him. He's plenty gentle but sometimes that's a bad thing. He could hurt or even kill you just playing.
Just like the calves, the kids are growing by leaps and bounds. Just as Madison's school basketball season ends Garett's academic team season begins and Kaylee's fall football games are in full swing. It seems like every night of the week one of them is at some sort of game or meet. Throw Jujitsu and spare nights at the school practicing basketball and riding bikes in the mix and there's no rest. Madison has been asked to play in a traveling league this year so there seems there won't be any off season for her. We've decided to wait and see how things develop with Madison before holding her back a year to mature. I get a lot of negative comments from people about holding her back for basketball. I always respond it's not life or death, it's much more important, it's basketball and this is Kentucky! Of course I'm joking, but noone should doubt basketball is almost that important to us here in the bluegrass. I know it was that important to me as a kid growing up in these hills and hollers cheering on Joe B Hall and the likes of Roger Harden, Dirk Minnifield, and who could forget the "Twin Towers" Sam Bowie and Melvin Turpin. I want to give her every opportunity to compete at the college level and if being a year older will help her then that's what we will do. I don't worry about Garett, he's ready for college now. As a matter of fact he'll be taking the ACT in December as part of Duke University's talent search program. I think maybe I need to be setting the record straight to him early though. He's from Kentucky and I can't have him going to Duke. That would be worse than Louisville. We still haven't forgotten that shot heard round the bluegrass!
The tractors are still holding up great! This makes thousands of hours and 7 years of Mahindra tractors and no major breakage on any of the 3. I'm sad about it and hate to see it go in a lot of ways, but the 6000 has outlived it's usefullness here. It's just plain too big to use in the poultry houses and we have the 7010 for outside work. It's really hard to look back and imagine a time when that tractor did it all. It will make someone a great tractor for a small beef cow operation. I try to look at the upside of selling or trading it. A new 4035 PST will be a great second tractor for helping out with inside the poultry houses. The sloped hood and curved boom loader will make it great for a lot of tasks outside too. I may even go all out and add a 485 Mahindra Bradco backhoe. Of course the apple of my eye continues to be the 8560 cab. I hope to grow by either buying or leasing land and increasing my cow calf numbers. I haven't had much of an opportunity to get out and talk to folks about leasing land because I'm seemingly always in with the chickens or gone with the kids. It seems the long term lending sector is pretty much frozen too. Farm Credit Services is very tight with money to expand right now. If anyone knows of another source to try I'd like to hear from them. I'd even be open to rolling my whole note over to someone new.
There's more to do than ever before so I better end for now…be sure to check out the photos and video I've added to Flickr, Facebook, and You Tube. Thanks for reading!


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Dave Navarro wonders what he's doing here, too.
Dave Navarro was on One Tree Hill this week. We know, he fulfilled the Obligatory Celebrity Cameo in the show's Hangover storyline, but still -- how does this show keep getting big music stars, and why does no one seem to notice? The press is all over Glee (which we love) for its ability to pull big guest stars, and meanwhile, this little show that no one seems to notice gets Dave Navarro in a water-condom fight and we hear bupkis. How does this keep happening? Who does Mark Schwahn have compromising pictures of? Or are a surprising number of rock stars closet CW fans?
ANYway. The show. It's the morning after Brooke's bachelorette party, and things are rough. Brooke loses her engagement ring, Quinn gets a tongue piercing, Millie suddenly has a tattoo, Alex has a black eye and Sylvia is sporting a rocker t-shirt. What happened?
Stop 1: The spa suite
The night started off innocently enough, with hunky men giving massages and dispensing green smoothies at a spa suite. But those foul-looking energy drinks are apparently a recipe for disaster when mixed with booze. Oops.
Most embarrassing aftereffect from the eveningcustomer surveys Stop 2: The bull-riding bar
Somehow, the fivesome wandered over to a Jane's Addiction concert and kidnapped Dave Navarro. Then they go to a country-western bar with a mechanical bull and a horrific drink called "The Boot": "15 types of alcohol mixed in a real cowboy boot." Ew. Millie apparently bested the boot, and to celebrate, they ended up at ...
Stop 3: The tattoo parlor
Millie gets a tramp stamp of a pair of boots to commemorate her victory over footwear, and Alex convinces Quinn to let her pierce her tongue. Ack! Dave Navarro apparently also gets a commemorative tat, but we just see the picture, not the tattooing itself. Oh, and one of Millie's "brothers" got a tat, too, which leads to...
Stop 4: The college campus
Apparently the girls made friends with a bunch of frat boys, who took the party back to their house. This happens to be on the campus where Nate is getting his business degree, and the hated professor August Kellerman lives nearby. So the girls TP his house, throw eggs, and kidnap Dogust Kellerman, the nasty prof's skateboard-riding bulldog.
Also, they're now driving an ice cream truck.
Stop 5: The wings joint
The group ends up at a restaurant that specializes in hot wings, and Sylvia makes her mark by defeating the reigning wing-eating champion (a fireman) and ending up on the "Wall of Flame." Brooke busied herself with "making out with some guy," according to the waitress. She's shocked.
Stop 6: Clothes Over Bros
But that's nothing compared to what she discovers at Clothes Over Bros: A half-naked Dave Navarro. He takes back the shirt Sylvia stole, then thanks Brooke for a wild time: "Oh, Brooke, by the way, you were amazing. I can't remember the last time I busted through that many condoms in one night."
After a freak-out, Brooke discovers that the condoms were used for a water-balloon fight on the roof, during which Dave Navarro nailed Alex in the face, which gave her the black eye. Brooke and Sylvia simultaneously remember that that wasn't the only blood spilled: They had a vicious fight in which Sylvia called Brooke selfish and called out her inability to have children, and Brooke called Sylvia smothering and called out her drinking. Awkward!
The aftermath
Brooke goes home to confess her sins to Julian, who reveals that he was the guy she was making out with in the restaurant, and he held onto her engagement ring for safe keeping. Also, he spent much of his bachelor-party time decorating the church just like Brooke described in her wedding book. Sylvia helped, and paid for it all. "You did all this for me?" Brooke asks. "I did this for the girl my son loves," Sylvia replies. And just like that, they've made up.
Sylvia also dispenses some words of wisdom re: friends growing apart and appreciating the people who are actually there for you. Because to no one's surprise, Peyton won't be at the wedding. At this point, we almost wish that Leyton had gone into witness protection -- it's the only reason we can think of for them missing everything that's happened. Brooke asks Haley to be her Matron of Honor, since she's actually there, and we prepare for the wedding next week.
Highlights, thoughts and odds and ends
Dave Navarro says this is the best night ever. Does the show really expect us to believe that? The man has gotten awards for directing porn. Somehow we don't think water balloon fights, even those using condoms, can compare.
Sharon Lawrence does recovering-from-a-bender well. We loved her drinking directly from the sink.
We wish we could look that good after a massive bender. Two glasses of wine (or whatever we consume while recapping) and we look like we've been dead for six months.
When Haley discovers the receipt from the tattoo parlor (do tattoo parlors give receipts?) the girls all start checking themselves for tats in all the usual places. "It's like an x-rated version of 'Where's Waldo,'" Haley quips.
And about Haley -- the show cleverly sends her home to help Nathan study. As she's preggers, she wouldn't have been drinking, and therefore she would have remembered everything -- and probably stopped some of it from happening.
Dave Navarro wrote his phone number on Brooke's leg with chocolate. See, that sounds like something he'd do...
Poor Millie, who spent half of the episode trying to figure out why everyone was calling her Boots. And why would she get a cowboy-boots tramp stamp? "Because that tattoo kicks ass!" Haley says. Heh.
Sylvia: "Has everyone dated this Lucas character?"
Putative reason Leyton is skipping the wedding: Baby Sawyer is sick. Unless she's in the hospital, we don't understand why one of them can't make it...
Nathan's prof continues to be a schmuck. We can't imagine why he'd have such a cool dog.


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Housing Works
Index of articles from Housing Works
About Housing Works
Housing Works is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States, as well as the nation's largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since our founding in 1990, we have provided lifesaving services, such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.
Housing Works also runs social enterprise businesses that raise millions of dollars every year to help pay for the services that we provide, spread awareness of our mission, and provide jobs to graduates of our Job Training Program. Our best-known businesses are Housing Works Thrift Shops, a chain of upscale thrift shops located throughout New York City, and the Housing Works Bookstore Café, a used bookstore, literary hub and concert venue located in Soho in downtown Manhattan.
Since 1990, Housing Works has:
How to Reach Housing Works
Housing Works, Inc.
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Over 50 and Ready to Start a Business? Free Resources To Inspire You to Make it Happen
Over 50 and Ready to Start a Business? Free Resources To Inspire You to Make it Happen
Over 50 and thinking of starting your own business? Looking for real-world, actionable information to start your own business?
Entrepreneurs over the age of 50 are one of the fastest growing groups of new business owners. Perhaps you are looking to turn a hobby into a business and finally have the resources to do so. Or you want the flexibility or supplemental income that running a business or being your own boss affords. With a lifetime of experience, skills and connections under your belt, why not?
Making it Happen
Take, for example, Portland-based husband-and-wife team Dave Faul and Sandra Yates, who started Wash n' Roll Pet Grooming business after more than 25 years of employment in the women's apparel and real estate industries respectively. Both Faul and Yates were animal lovers, but when Faul suggested that they start a business washing dogs and cats in a van parked a client's curbs, Yates said, "Thinking he was nuts was an understatement." However, after three years in business, Wash n' Roll has expanded to two vans and serves the entire Portland metropolitan area.
Faul began research for a new business when he realized his job could evaporate in a corporate merger or store closure. He learned that the U.S. has a $30 billion pet industry. He also looked at who spends a lot of those dollars. "The baby boomers, whose children are getting older or who are empty-nesters, are willing to spend money on keeping their fur kids happy," he said.
Sounds a common enough business venture, but mobile pet groomers weren't prevalent in the Northwest at the time. Faul attended a pet grooming school in Albany for six months, and Yates wrote a business plan.
In need of funding, they approached local bankers who said the business had to operate for two or three years before they could get a business loan; instead, the couple paid their own startup costs. They also received assistance from SCORE. SCORE members volunteer as counselors for small entrepreneurs. "They were really helpful," Yates said, "and it was surprising that it was all free."
Growing mostly by word of mouth, the business now has three part-time and three full-time employees.
More Nuggets of Wisdom
Other entrepreneurs who have found success at 50+ talked to AARP and offered the following useful tips for aspiring encore entrepreneurs:
"Find a business mentor. I went to SCORE. Having a good mentor helps you cut through the BS. They will tell you like it is. Do you have a good idea? Will your concept work? Once you're 50, you don't want to waste your time." Annemarie du LeBohn, 51, launched a motivational speaking business after a former career in corporate marketing.
"Develop your team, people who will help you take your business where you want it to go. For me, it's my business coach, website support and others. Take the risk and have fun. Unlike during my younger years when I wanted to prove myself and was driven to 'be successful,' this time around it's about leaving a legacy and pursuing dreams. It's about incorporating my business and retirement goals with my personal values." Barbara Hyatte Boustead, 61, a licensed clinical social worker for 37 years, runs Mary's Daughter to provide daily money management services to older adults and veterans.
"Know your product and know how to sell it. If you are familiar with the saying, 'selling ice to Eskimos,' you will be aware of the necessity as an entrepreneur to develop good salesmanship. You must develop the ability to sell, or better put, to convince people to buy. Also, think carefully about how to market your product, and be 100-percent confident about the merit of your product or service. My long career in the arts taught me one important lesson: if the main door is shut, look for the side or back door. They always exist and are much less guarded." Yuval Zaliouk, 74, a former orchestral conductor, who at age 50, (while still conducting) started Almondina Cookies, an online cookie business.
Inspired? – Free Resources that Can Help You Start your Encore Business
Check out SBA's 50+ Entrepreneurs web guide for tools, resources and training that can help you assess your readiness to get started and walk you through the steps involved in starting a business – including connecting you with a free mentor, finding the right business type (home-based, online, etc.), as well as the legal and regulatory steps involved such as incorporating your business, getting the right permits and so on.
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Hollywood has long had a love affair with the world of organized crime. The sex, drugs, greed and violence were seemingly made for film.
It all started in 1932, when the original "Scarface," directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes, hit the big screen. Censors demanded the subtitle "The Shame of the Nation" be added so filmgoers wouldn't view the movie as a glorification of gangster life. So much for that.
"Scarface" was the most violent film of its time, and set the bar high for future gang-related movies.
Here, we take a look at a full baker's dozen of the most successful gangster movies of all time based on inflation-adjusted box office sales.
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Trinity needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 48 freelance designers.
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Strawberry Media
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Brussels, 25 October 2011
Social Business Initiative – Frequently Asked Questions
The European Commission has adopted a Social Business Initiative action plan as part of a package of measures entitled the Responsible Business Initiative (see IP/11/1238).
Why is the European Commission proposing this initiative?
The growth potential of the social business model in the Single Market is not being exploited fully. Social businesses find it difficult to gain access to funding. There is a low degree of recognition for their work and the regulatory environment does not take into account their specific characteristics.
Social businesses' mission is to generate significant social, environmental and or community impacts and thus can contribute to realise the European Union's objectives under its 2020 strategy by:
The Commission's objective is to create an ecosystem conducive to developing social businesses and to facilitating their access to funding. The initiative also builds on the Communication on the Innovation Union (see IP/10/1288 and MEMO/10/473), the Platform against poverty and social exclusion (see IP/10/1729) and on the recent Commission proposal for establishing a Programme on Social Change and Innovation (see IP/11/1159).
What is a social business?
The Commission uses the term 'social business' to cover an enterprise:
The Commission has no comparable statistics for social enterprises that would give a detailed picture on the scale and dynamics of social entrepreneurship activities in the European Union. As a proxy, the Commission often uses data on the social economy, which includes many social businesses, and which employs more than 11 million EU citizens, 6% of the total employment in the EU.
What is the added value of doing this at a EU level rather than national level?
The Single Market model is based on a "highly competitive social market economy". This means an open economy which creates space for pluralism of business models to develop and grow. Public policies should not only address the business environment for businesses driven by profit, but also those driven by a social and societal mission. Public policies at European level can help ensure that there is a real Single Market with a level playing field for all economic actors, including social businesses.
Market imperfections (such as lack of transparency regarding the supply of, and demand for, social investments), an unfavourable business environment creating legal, administrative and financial obstacles, the fragmentation of the Single Market in terms of labelling the social impact of businesses or social and ethical investment funds, and the lack of mutual recognition of these certifications constitute barriers for many social entrepreneurs to scaling up their business across national boundaries and thus benefiting fully from the advantages of the Single Market. For example, current EU public procurement rules do not foresee the possibility of including selection criteria specific to social businesses.
The initiative therefore aims at reviewing and adjusting EU rules on public procurement, state aid and financial market regulation, where needed, thus contributing to providing a level playing field for social businesses.
Dedicating efforts to exploiting expertise and resources across Europe will generate significant value added, e.g. by scaling-up proven businesses and business models across the EU, establishing EU-wide platforms and networks of businesses, investors and providers of business development services.
EU level action represents a cost-effective way to collect in a structured way information on the nature, scale and dynamics of social enterprises and thus provide a basis for an unbiased political dialogue with Member States and stakeholders.
Is there a link with some other Commission proposals?
The initiative has to be seen in the in the context the Europe 2020 Strategy, in which the European Union has set itself ambitious targets on employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy for the next decade. It contributes to the Union's Flagship Initiatives on innovation, fight against poverty, and job creation. More specifically, it also follows on from the various consultations, studies and initiatives in the social economy sector (since the White Paper of the Commission in 1989 and the draft European statutes of cooperatives, mutual societies and European foundations), corporate social responsibility and corporate governance.
As such, it also puts into perspective ongoing policy reforms in the field of cohesion policy and structural funds, public procurement reform and current and future amendments to state aid rules.
What is the initiative about?
The Social Business Initiative provides a short-term action plan to stimulate the creation, development and growth of social businesses.
The Commission proposes 11 priority measures, split into 3 groups according to their objectives:
Measures to improve the access to funding for social businesses such as:
Measures to improve the visibility of social businesses that can be achieved by:
Measures to improve the legal environment of social businesses, such as:
How will all this be financed?
The funding for the creation of the financial instrument backing the Initiative, which will provide an easier access to finance for social businesses, will be taken as allocated in the European Union programme for Social Change and Innovation from 6 October 2010 (COM 2011/609) and will amount to circa €90 million.
In addition, the support of social enterprises under national and regional cohesion policy programmes will be financed from European Social Fund (ESF) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) interventions in the Member States and regions.
The majority of the proposed actions do not entail substantial costs for the EU or national budgets.
Do you have any concrete examples of social businesses?
Who will benefit and how?
Citizens, social businesses and investors into social businesses (i.e. social or impact investors), will be the main beneficiaries of the measures proposed by the Commission.
These measures are designed to boost social businesses which are social in their means, or in their ends, as they e.g.:
When will the measures take effect?
The Social Business Initiative is the first stage in the realisation of the European measures envisaged in order to develop a framework favourable to social businesses in Europe. On 6 October 2011, the Commission already worked towards this Initiative by proposing the extension of the 'Progress microfinance facility 1' and the new instrument of investment for social businesses. These instruments are a part of the new European Programme for Social Change and Innovation (2014-2020), which was proposed in the framework of the reform of structural funds and cohesion policy2 (see IP/11/1159).
The legislative proposal on social investment funds, which is one of the 12 key actions of the Single Market Act of April 2011 (see IP/11/469), is due to be adopted by the Commission before the end of 2011.The other initiatives, for the most part, will follow in 2012.
Will the Social Business Initiative lead to "positive discrimination" in favour of social businesses?
The Lisbon Treaty prohibits discrimination in favour of certain businesses or services. Discrimination based on the legal status of companies or on the type of goods/services produced is thus not possible.
However, Single Market rules can and should take into account that the social market economy promotes an open economy that gives a plurality of business models latitude to develop and grow. This includes in particular those which place greater emphasis on "social capital" and long-term issues. On the contrary, a uniform approach which does not take into account the specific characteristics of social businesses would have a discriminatory effect on them.
The objective is to create a level playing field for all businesses.
Social enterprise, social economy, social innovation, social responsibility, companies, corporate governance – what is the link?
To avoid confusion, the Communication uses the terms social enterprise and social business as synonyms, paying tribute to the variety of social business models and conceptions across Europe.
The initiative targets social businesses, as defined in the Communication. The key characteristic of social businesses is their primary social, environmental or community purpose, set up under a variety of legal forms, and the entrepreneurial and innovative way in which social entrepreneurs are striving for making a significant impact on society, economy and the environment.
Traditionally, the common thread for social enterprises had been ownership and control by the people they serve, and use of the essential surpluses in the interest of their members or in the general interest, but not distributed to investors.
These criteria are common characteristics of cooperatives, mutual societies, foundations, and associations, often termed as social economy enterprises. These therefore may also fall within the definition of a social business, and should therefore be concerned by this initiative, provided the company's purpose focuses on the social impact of the businesses, rather than merely providing a service to its members.
Social innovation is an organised initiative of a variety of actors to tackle societal challenges when the market and public sector do not respond to these challenges in a suitable, sustainable and acceptable manner. It is about developing new forms of organisation and interactions between public, private and third sector actors and contributing to reshaping society in the direction of participation, empowerment and learning.
Social entrepreneurs have been pioneers in re-engineering supply chains and distribution networks, or developing, promoting and establishing business standards and norms for inclusive and sustainable development. The new financial instrument to improve social businesses' access to funding has been proposed as an action under the EU Programme on Social Change and Innovation.
What happens next?
On 18 November 2011 there will be a conference on promoting social entrepreneurship in Europe where the following topics will be discussed3:
See MEMO/11/730, MEMO/11/732 and MEMO/11/734
Relevant examples include the Caisse des dépôts et consignations (France), the KfW Entwicklungsbank (Germany), the Big Society Bank project (United Kingdom) or the Triodos Bank (Belgium, Netherlands)
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You would think disability would be the reason most workers take disability leave. Turns out, that may not be the case.
A recent German study shows that a middle-aged worker who develops arthritis is much more likely to take a disability pension and retire early if she is feeling depressed than if she is struggling physically to perform her job but isn't suffering mentally. Overall, musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis are the most common cause (pdf) of early retirement in Europe.


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I have some memories my mother would probably prefer I not share, and this may be one of them.
I was thinking about how much I loved it when her choice for dinner was pot pies. I just loved those little tins with crust encased broth, mystery meat and vegetables. I now know it was probably an "I'm exhausted, what is the easiest thing I can cook tonight" kind of meal, and I'm not sure how Daddy felt about them, but my sister and I were ecstatic. It was like having our own little meal - all to ourselves. I can still remember the broth bubbling up in the slits Mama made before cooking them.
Pot pies have come a long way since my childhood years. When I was growing up, it took 1 hour and 15 minutes to cook a pot pie from frozen to table, if you added on the time it took to preheat the oven. Today, pot pies are cooked in the microwave. We had a "fancy" pot pie when Mama splurged and bought beef pot pies. Those were a special treat, but not as tasty to me as the chicken ones. Today, pot pies are fancied up in restaurants by topping them with puffed pastry crust and cooked with an assortment of fresh vegetables and potatoes.
The pot pies we enjoy today had very humble beginnings. The 1805 edition of "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" provides this recipe: "To make a pot Pie. Make a crust and put it round the sides of your pot, then cut your meat in small pieces, of whatever kind the pot pie is to be made of, and season it with pepper and salt, then put it in the pot and fill it with water, close it with paste on the top; it will take three hours doing."
The crust in this recipe was used to seal the ingredients to retain moisture and was a hard, inedible pastry - a far cry from the crusts we enjoy today.
With all the convenience items we have today, making your own pot pie is about as easy as buying a premade one. The key to a producing a good pot pie is starting with a good stock or broth. In a perfect world we would make stock a couple times a month and have them stored in our freezer - load of time, we would make stocks every other weekend and have them handy in the freezer whenever we need them - but we don't live in a perfect world, so we run to a grocery shelf to provide this essential ingredient.
A cheap watered down chicken broth is going to give you a watered down taste. If you can't make your own, splurge and buy a good, name brand broth or stock. I personally am in love with Knorr's Homestyle Stock, these little 4 oz tubs of concentrated stock pack a lot of flavor. The instructions say to melt a tub in 3½ cups of water, but I usually only use on 3 cups when I want a rich broth. Before you add ingredients to your broth, taste and season it until you have the flavor you are after. Once you obtain a rich tasting broth, you are on your way to a good homemade pot pie.
Pot pies are basically a stew or casserole with a crust on top. When you look at them this way, you can create gourmet pies by using the leftovers in your refrigerator.
Here is a basic recipe for pot pies that can be easily adapted to use whatever you have on hand.
Teri Bell is co-owner of Miss Sophie's Marketplace at the Mighty Eighth in Pooler. Go to sophiesmarketplace.com.
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 cups rich stock
Beef, Chicken, Vegetable or Veal Stock
2-3 sprigs fresh thyme
2-3 cups chopped or shredded cooked meat
Rotisserie chicken, turkey, beef or lamb
2 cups cooked vegetables:
Peas, Carrots, Mushrooms, Potatoes or Frozen mixed vegetables, uncooked.
1 box of 2 pie crust or 1 sheet of puff pastry
Melt butter in a medium sauce pan. Add onions and cook until translucent, 2-3 minutes. Whisk flour into butter and onions. Slowly whisk broth into flour until smooth, add thyme and bring to slow simmer. Add meat and vegetables. Simmer for 10-15 minutes.
For a 2 crust pie: spray a pie plate with cooking spray. Unroll one crust and cover bottom and sides of pie plate, trim excess edges. Pour hot ingredients into pie shell. Top with second pie crust, remove excess crust and tuck crust down around ingredients. Using the tines of a fork, crimp edges to pie plate to seal. Cut two or three slits in the top crust to allow steep to vent. Bake in a 400 degree oven 30 - 40 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
For a top crust pie only, pour ingredients directly into pie plate and cover with one pie crust or a sheet of puff pastry, remove excess and tuck crust down around filling. Using the tines of a fork, crimp edges to pie plate to seal. Cut two or three slits in the top crust to allow steep to vent. Bake in a 400 degree oven 30 - 40 minutes or until crust is golden brown.


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fxmarketinginc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 9 diseños de 2 diseñadores freelance.
I need a simple website and DVD cover designed. (DVD cover will be used in print) I also need the DVD in 3d format for use on the web (example: http://www.qesign.com/service/3d-dv…esign.jpg).
Breakthrough Profit Creation
I need a website designed which should be kept simple.
I'll need the following:
- Breakthrough Profit Creation logo
- Table centered on the page but graphically should be 3d and off the page (700pxl wide). Use of creativity here is needed. The table needs to be white on the inside. It will be used for a traditional sales letter. (example: http://www.salehoo.com/secrets/ )
- bullets to use in the sales copy.
- 3d call out boxes for testimonials
- DVD cover design with the dvd logo on it and the Breakthrough Profit Creation logo for use in print media
- 3D version of the DVD designed for use on websites.
UPDATE: These are questions I have been asked.
This landing page to sell an information product. Some examples are:
I don't need anything extra outside what I asked for... the testimonial boxes are like the ones you see on those competitor sites. I especially like the salehoo site because of the simplicity of the boxes.
Breakthrough Profit Creation will be the recordings to a $5,000 workshop for $1. We teach people how to create and launch their own products online.
- Sleek and current design
- No soft colors or poor design.


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54-Year Old School Teacher Who Doesn't Know How To Download Movies First To Be Kicked Off The Internet In France
from the hadopi'd deptWe recently noted that, over in France, under the HADOPI three strikes regime, they had their first 10 people get their third strike, and each was being reviewed to see if they should lose their connection. Well, it looks like the first guy has lost his connection... and it's a 54-year old school teacher who insists he has no idea how to download unauthorized content. The story is a little unclear, but it sounds like he had open WiFi, and he didn't understand what the "first strike," was really about. When he got the "second strike" notice, he tried to figure out how to secure his WiFi, but it either took too long or he was unable to figure it out... and so along came the third strike. The guy is pretty upset about this, for a damn good reason. It's going to be ridiculously expensive to fight and it may get appealed up to European courts outside of France, which would entail significant travel expenses as well. This is why it's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, right?
Filed Under: france, hadopi, oversight, review, three strikes
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LONDON (Reuters) - British employers took on permanent staff at a slightly slower pace last month after hiring hit its highest in more than two years in July, but temporary appointments rose at the fastest rate since 1998, a survey showed on Monday.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and consultancy KPMG pointed to another positive month overall for the UK labour market, the health of which is pivotal for the Bank of England's new monetary policy guidance.
Their monthly index measuring permanent job placements slipped in August to 61.3 from 63.3 the previous month, but well above the 50 mark that indicates growth.
The index for temporary job hiring hit 62.9 in August, its best showing since July 1998 and up from 61.5.
The report also showed a sharp rise in the number of permanent vacancies. Salaries paid to workers in permanent positions increased at the fastest pace since February 2008.
"August was an extraordinary month for the UK jobs market," said REC Chief Executive Kevin Green.
"Vacancy growth has hit a six-year high and fluidity is returning to the jobs market, so over the coming months we expect to see a noticeable improvement in official employment figures."
Business surveys last week suggested the pace of hiring slowed last month among services and manufacturing companies even as overall growth picked up in both sectors.
Britain's labour market is in the spotlight after the Bank of England said last month it would not consider raising interest rates until the unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent, something the BoE expects only in late 2016.
Unemployment was 7.8 percent in June. An official report on the labour market in July, due on Wednesday, is expected to show the unemployment rate stayed unchanged in July, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
Reporting by Andy Bruce; Editing by Susan Fenton