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UN threatens sanctions amid stalling Libya talks
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday threatened sanctions against those who reject UN-brokered peace talks in Libya.
UN special envoy Bernardino Leon held a first round of talks with rival politicians on 29 September that the council described as "an important step" toward a peaceful resolution in Libya - and something which the country's critical purse-holding central bank also welcomed this week.
But the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) militia that controls Tripoli has rejected the talks, and in the east, their ally "Shura of Benghazi Revolutionaries" issued their own statement rejecting the initiative as "unfair".
In a unanimous statement, the 15 members of the council "expressed their readiness to use targeted sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, against individuals or entities that threatened Libya's peace and stability or undermined its political transition."
Another round of talks is scheduled after the Eid al-Adha holiday, which ends Sunday evening.
The talks held in the remote town of Ghadames brought together members of Libya's House of Representatives (HoR) - one of two rivaling parliaments in the country now - with elected members of the same body who have boycotted the HoR sessions since the parliament was convened in August.
Around 80 Libyan politicians are currently boycotting the country's Tobruk-based government for a variety of reasons - some out of choice and some who are reportedly unable to reach Tobruk as a result of infrastructure destroyed during the past three years of fighting in the country.
"It's a mixed bag," said Mattia Toaldo, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), of the various boycotters this week. "You have people from Misrata. Islamists from all over. An Islamist MP from Benghazi. And then you have a bunch of people who can't get to Tobruk and who can't fly there."
Some analysts have indicated that the UN is likely focused on bringing the boycotting parliamentarians into the fold becuase they have connections to Libya Dawn and Misrata militias in control of Tripoli as well as the Tripoli-based General National Council, the HoR's rival which reestablished itself in August. In essence, the Ghadames talks are seen as a baby step towards future, broader reconciliation.
One of the sticking points for many of the boycotters has been the HoR's move to Tobruk when, by law, it should meet in Benghazi. The city, which has been at the centre of general Khalifa Haftar's so-called Operation Dignity.
If the HoR could, for example, decide on a neutral location to meet, Toaldo said, there is potential for boycotters to return and the country's transition - including elections scheduled for early next year - to get back on track.
Government representatives from Britain and Malta, Libya's close Mediterranean neighbour, attended the closed-door meeting in Ghadames, close to the border with Tunisia where many representatives are now based.
Dozens of Libyan troops killed in Benghazi
Meanwhile, dozens of soldiers were killed and more than 70 wounded in car bomb attacks and clashes between troops and militants around Benghazi airport, a Libyan army spokesman said Friday.
"Thirty-six soldiers were killed on Thursday in three car bomb attacks, followed by fighting between the army and Islamists", a special forces unit spokesman told AFP.
Two car bombs exploded when an army convoy travelled past close to the airport, taking out three soldiers, the spokesman said.
Later, a third bombing attack struck, also near the airport.
Islamist-led militias have since September sought to seize control of Benghazi airport -- the last remaining bastion in the city of forces loyal to former general Khalifa Haftar, a rogue general who launched a military campaign against the Islamists in May.
On Wednesday, militiamen of the Shura Revolutionary Council launched a fresh assault on the airport, which has both civilian and military airfields.
General Sagr al-Jerushi, an aide to Haftar, said warplanes and helicopters were being used to repulse the Islamists' advance on the airport.
Sudan summons Libyan envoy over 'interference' claims
Sudan has summoned Libya's chargé d'affaires to protest claims made by a Libyan army official that Khartoum was supporting Islamist militias in the North African country.
"Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Abdullah al-Azraq summoned the Libyan chargé d'affaires to officially deliver Sudan's objection on media remarks made by a Libyan army officer, in which he accused Sudan of supporting extremist groups in Libya," read a Thursday statement issued by the ministry.
"Sudan stands at the same distance from all sides in Libya and is ready to play a mediating role," the release said.
Last month, Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani accused both Sudan and Qatar of arming the Islamist "Dawn of Libya" militia, threatening to sever ties with both countries if they continued to support the militia.
The political divisions have yielded two rival seats of government in the country, each of which has its own institutions.
Libya has been sliding into chaos since longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in an uprising that was later supported by NATO three years ago.


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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Stations in the sacred landscape
Posted by Littlestone at Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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- june jackson said...
A beautiful tranquil image of Silbury, no road, cars, people or men men wearing hard hats. I wanted to walk into it.
- Monday, 05 November, 2007
- Littlestone said...
Glad you liked the image tjj. Know what you mean about wanting to walk into Silbury. There is something about the place that is... beckoning? There's a very clever play on emotions here - the visual being just one that sort of slaps you in the face and says, "I belong here, come closer and touch the soul of this land."
- Tuesday, 06 November, 2007
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[ One Two Squeeze ] . week 34 / bird/
Week 34 Topic: Bird
My chinese name is translated as intelligent swallow(as in the bird). So a part of me has always been attracted to birds. I often find myself taking pictures of birds, especially in flight. While this picture is like many of the pictures I've taken before, birds in flight continue to speak to me.
For all you who don't know, One Two Squeeze is a weekly photo project that my friend, sister-in-law and I developed to get our creative juices flowing. We found that sometimes we just hit a creative slump, and we hoped that through these weekly photo prompts, we could stay creative! So One Two Squeeze was born! (Squeeze being.... squeeze the button to take a picture!)
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Learning To Stand In One Place
Telling someone who is in the grips of anxiety to stop and be present it like telling someone who is being chased by a tiger to slow down. Feeling like you want to run away from anxiety is natural. The only problem is the longer we run, the longer we are chased.
Recently I got caught in a cycle of anxiety about my business and my future. I felt like I was running away from this fear that I will fail and never fulfill my potential. And it felt like if I stopped all of those fears and worries would crash down and swallow me.
But then a good friend told me that I needed to relax. He said I was worrying too much and I should just try to be calm. And as soon as he said it I realized that I'd be in as much danger whether I was running or not. I realized that if I could stand still and just be with my anxiety, it might just leave me alone.
So that's what I did. I accepted that I might fail. I accepted that the future was unknown. I stopped running and as soon as I did I noticed Continue reading –>
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At the tender age of nine, a wee Dougie McCance from Glasgow picked up the bagpipes for the first time and he's never looked back. Now just shy of 26 years old, McCance is living the good life. He's already toured the world for several years as a member of the "most famous bagpipe band on the planet," the bagrockin' Red Hot Chilli Pipers. He performed on the soundtrack to the Dreamworks' film "How to Train Your Dragon 2." Earlier this year he was a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition. He's engaged to be married in 2018, and he's just released his debut album as a solo performer, "Composed."
McCance's final set in the Young Traditional Musician competition
After studying, teaching and performing for over half of his young lifetime, McCance says the time was just right for him to share his music with the world. "I just felt like I was at a nice stage of my life where I had written some tunes and I just wanted to showcase myself as a musician to let people hear my own tunes, my own style of music, and my own tastes."
As a Red Hot Chilli Piper, McCance has earned his fame so far playing their unique fusion of bagpipes with classic rock and pop tunes - a musical genre the band has styled as "bagrock." As a solo album "Composed" is all about Dougie's love of traditional Scottish music. The album is a collection of 9 tracks, written mostly, says McCance, in the past year or two. Within these tracks are fine examples of traditional bagpipe styles, like jigs, reels, airs and laments, but the bagrockin' Dougie is never far away. The opening track, Loch Morar, proves this as the opening bars could backdrop a scenic walk across a Scottish Moor while slowly building to a heart-pounding, knee-slapping, foot-stomping ceilidh tune worthy of any Chilli's encore. In short, Composed delivers a blend of tunes sure to please both traditionalists and bagrockers and most in between.
McCance (center piper) with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers in a holiday TV appearance
A nice touch to the album (CD) was McCance's decision to include a small booklet within the CD sleeve in which he shares brief notes about the inspiration behind each song, like Leaving Home - written for his twin sister upon her moving to Dubai to work for Emirates Airlines or CathKen's Tune - honoring his Mum and Dad for their support of his following his musical dreams. The first music video from the collection, Kingston Road, features his girlfriend, now fiancé, Eilidh, as one of the Highland dancers.
Kingston Road is the only track on the album to feature vocals (in English or Gaelic). The video was filmed at The Cloisters at Glasgow University.
As a professional piper, McCance is available for hire for weddings and other special occassions. He also offers bagpiping lessons both online and in person. His success as a member of the RHCP has opened other doors too - the Dreamworks recording for example and a chance to perform with one of his musical influences, Ed Sheeran. Another memorable experience was his portryal of the Lone Piper at Edinurgh Castle for a 911 tribute video the band did honoring the 343 firefighters who died in the Twin Towers terrorist attack.
The official 343 fundraising video featuring Dougie McCance as the Lone Piper at Edinburgh Castle.
McCance says it's too early to know if there will be a Dougie McCance Composed solo tour but he didn't discount the possibility. McCance purposely did not use any of the Chillis as backing musicians on Composed but will he perform any of his own tracks with the Chillis? Other musicians well associated with bands have done so - Don Henley of the Eagles and Phil Collins of Genisis come to mind. McCance says that's not his decision, it's for the band and its management but he admitted it would be fun to do so. (McCance is not the first Chilli to launch a solo career - bassist Alan McGeoch released his first solo effort, Modern Love Affair, in October 2016 showcasing his talents as a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumental musician. McCance appears playing the pipes as a guest.)
McCance used crowdfunding to help with the costs of production of Composed with backers receiving personalized signed "pre-release" copies. The CD is now available to order through Dougie's own website (link below) or on iTunes.
•Dougie the Piper (website)
•Dougie McCance (Facebook)
•Red Hot Chilli Pipers (website)
•National Youth Pipeband of Scotland (website)


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GF Mini Donuts with Mint Icing/
I'm not one to turn down a baking challenge. Especially when it's sponsored by Doughnuts and Deadlifts. As most of you know by now, I'm the director of Black Iron Nutrition, and we have an ingredient challenge each week. It's a great opportunity for all of us (clients and coaches) to get creative, to think outside the box, and to work on our skills in the kitchen. This week there was a little twist, instead of a specific ingredient, we partnered up with Doughnuts and Deadlifts to offer some goodies to the person who could come up with the best donut recipe! And I'm not one to miss out on something as fun as that.
Considering the the fact that Halloween is just around the corner, I decided to go with green and black toppings. And what better flavors than mint and chocolate? The donut base is plain though, so feel free to get creative with your own topping of choice.
GF Mini Donuts with Mint Icing
Prep 15 min
Cooking 8 min
Servings 24 mini donuts
For the donuts:
1 cup gluten free baking flour (148g) I love Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour
1/3 cup sugar (66g)
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
2 tbsp unsalted butter (28g)
1 egg
1/3 cup + 1 1/2 tbsp unsweetened almond milk (100ml)
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the icing:
1/2 cup + 3 tbsp powdered sugar (80g)
1 tbsp unsweetened almond milk
1/4 tsp peppermint extract
Green food coloring (about 2-4 drops, depending on how dark you want them)
For the toppings:
Mini chocolate chips
Chocolate sprinkles
Chocolate dusting powder (mix of sugar and cocoa powder)
Preheat oven to 350F
Spray a mini donut pan with nonstick spray and set aside
In a large bowl combine the GF baking flour, sugar, baking powder and salt
In a separate small bowl whisk together the melted butter, egg, almond milk and vanilla exact
Pour the wet ingredients in with the dry ingredients and whisk until combined
Pipe the mixture into your donut pan (I scooped mine into a ziplock bag and cut the corner for easy filling), until about 3/4's full as these rise a bit
Bake for 8 minutes
Remove and place on a wire rack to cool completely before frosting
While they cool prepare your glaze by mixing together the powdered sugar, almond milk, mint extract and food coloring
Dip each donut in the icing, then add any toppings (if using) before the icing hardens
Nutrition Facts
Servings 24
Amount Per Serving:
Calories 57
Total Fat 1 g
Sodium 20 mg
Total Carbohydrate 11 g
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 6 g
Protein 1 g


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Why I am taking a Facebook hiatus.
I've noticed myself staying up later and later every evening. So much so that I wake up tied in the mornings. It takes me an extra couple cups of coffee (which is saying a lot) to wake up and get ready. I have a tendency to be obsessive and to have a bit of addictive personality. And my addiction and obsession of choice recently is Facebook. I scroll and scroll and scroll looking for anything that has some controversy around it. #blacklivesmatter #bluelivesmatter #trump #hillary #bernie #america #republican #democrat. The thing that keeps me up is the dumpster fire that is the comments sections. So with everything that is happening in the world and the volatile nature of the political environment social media has given me feast of comments to wade through. What is causing me to take a pause is what I have noticed in my heart… I get frustrated and self righteous and judgemental and I like it.
This is not the proper posture of my heart and it is affecting my ability to function and discern.
Some of my community here in Bellingham made a commitment to refrain from posting anything that would add to the volatile nature of the conversation online. We believed the best way to engage in tense topics is in person and in conversation. So, we committed to be relational in the ways that we engaged the current political landscape. Last week, however, I received a Donald Trump pinata as a gift with very clever caption that poked fun at my commitment to nonviolence and I wanted to say thank you to the anonymous person who sent it to me. And because I have been nurturing a posture of judgement in my heart it didn't even occur to me that this would go back on the commitment I made. I was called on it… like I should have been. And am now addressing what is going on in my heart and how I am using my time.
So here is what I am going to do. I am going to take an indefinite hiatus from interacting on Facebook until I can figure out how to align my heart with our good and beautiful God. WIth one exception… pictures of my family (because I cannot rob the world of that level of cuteness and it is the only way that some of my friends and family are able to see them). But even that is going to be a one way street.
This is not a call for other people to do the same … it simply what I need to do to get my own heart check. And I am thankful to have a crew to call me on stuff for the glory of God's rule and reign in the world.
I will be answering messages and what not as they come in so feel free to send me a note… I will see you on the other side… whenever that may be.


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Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels.
The symbolism is captured in Zechariah 9:9 "The Coming of Zion's King – See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey". It was perceived that Jesus was declaring he was the King of Israel to the anger of the Sanhedrin.
According to the Gospels, Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there laid down their cloaks in front of him, and also laid down small branches of trees. The people sang part of Psalm 118: 25–26 – ... Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord.
The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition that it is an animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal of war. A king came riding upon a horse when he was bent on war and rode upon a donkey when he wanted to point out he was coming in peace. Jesus' entry to Jerusalem would thus symbolize his entry as the Prince of Peace, not as a war-waging king.
In many lands in the ancient Near East, it was customary to cover in some way the path of someone thought worthy of the highest honor. The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and victory in the Greco-Roman culture of the Roman Empire.
Who is this Man
Here is a story I wrote about how I would deal with someone asking me about Christ. If someone comes to me and asked me "do I believe Jesus Christ is God"? I would first ask them "what do they mean?" Reason is because this is a loaded question, people love to play the devil's advocate and ask stupid questions to create controversy. I believe the response would be, "what do you what do I mean? I asked it, do you believe Jesus Christ is God? In other words how could God be Jesus when God is supposed to be a Spirit"? My response would be "God is Manifested in Jesus Christ". Most people would run with this and say, "How do you call yourself a preacher when you can't answer a question?" "I'm not what Christ is but I am trying to emulate (match or surpass) the essence of His existence". I can go on with this story but the point I'm trying to prove here is that most people have a "surface understanding" about Christ. People are taught that Jesus Christ is God but what is the Essence of Christ. Why did Christ have to Exist? What is it about Christ that we are to fully understand? Let's go to the bible and paraphrase some scripture.
John 1:16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
Ephesians 1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Colossians1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
Colossians 2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
Roman 3:24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Fullness: completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity.
In most people today, we are all full of you know what. We have so much sugar-honey-ice-tea in us that it can sometimes overwhelm us. Some of us have accepted it while others play like it's not there. But the more and more we socialize with others, that inner person comes out. We all want to improve ourselves and most think that we must rid self of this stuff but I beg to differ. See all of the information we need to utilize is right here in the bible. In Genesis, God creates the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for a purpose, to give us balance in life. We must study it, not for religious purposes, but to the sense of science, philosophical, sociological, mathematical, and psychological states. Theses are consider the "branches of nature".
Science: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus encompasses the actual essence of science because in Christ Jesus is creation, the actual structure and behavior of the physical and natural world. So now science is the study of what was created by Him. As for the word "heavens," this is derived from the Hebrew word שָׁמַיִם (shamayim). According to Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon, this word refers to the sky or visible heavens, including the stars and galaxies. In other words, Genesis is a discussion of the creation and purpose of the physical universe. Science has all kinds of theories about creation but science must abide by the universal rule of the physical world that every event must have an elementary source, better known as the singularity problem. Out of all the theories of science such as the big bang and the theory of everything, scientist still have to ask the question, where did it all come from? All of these elements, which all came into being, add to the singularity problem. Where did the capability for matter to produce all of this come from? The big bang theorists simply have no logical explanation. We as humans can't grasp the concept of the beginning because we can only understand time, in our physical nature. God has no time therefore creation is the beginning of time.
Philosophy: the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
Philosophy is simple terms ask a lot of questions about everything that exist. Studying the book of Proverbs, we discover the actual conversation on philosophical issues. It is an example of the Biblical wisdom tradition, and raises questions of values, moral behavior, the meaning of human life, and right conduct. Wisdom, the repeated theme that "the fear of God (meaning submission to the will of God), is praised for her role in creation. God acquired her before all else, and through her he gave order to chaos; and since humans have life and prosperity by conforming to the order of creation, seeking wisdom is the essence and goal of life. When Christ is exposed to us in the Gospels, he demonstrates philosophical behavior in a humbling experience.
Throughout the bible we see sociological examples from Genesis to Revelations. Taking religion out of the forefront and reading with the open-mind we reveal how people behave in society, as a whole. Especially when we read the Old Testament a study the children of Israel, God chose these people and their actions did not demonstrate the Glory of God. One thing that trips people up is trying to understand the connection between there only being one God, and yet God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. When you think about it, it really isn't too difficult. For example, when you're speaking about a family, you usually say "the Smiths" or the "Smith family". Either way, a single unit is represented but consists of more than one member. Make sense? So, there is only one God, eternally existing in three persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit ... Gen 1:1, Gen 1:26, Deut 6:4, Isaiah 6:8, Matt 28:19, John 10:30, often referred to as the Trinity. Let's take a closer look at each of the three members.
Since all people from Adam to present have a sin nature, we have all been separated from God. But the good news is that God made away to reconcile all people back to Himself. When Adam and Eve sinned, God promised that He would send a Savior, from the seed of a woman, to redeem the human race from slavery to Satan and to restore man back to Himself. The rest of the Old Testament is the story of God preserving a righteous bloodline through whom the Savior would come and Satan's attempt to stop the Savior from coming.
To reconcile mankind back to Himself, God had to find a man who was not under Satan's dominion and control. Since there was no man who could fulfill this role, God decided that He Himself would enter the human race and become a man and, as a man, take the authority back from the devil and become the representative of an entirely new human race. This is where Jesus Christ, the Son of God, comes into the picture.
Mathematics: the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change.
This subject is tricky because God uses math in various ways. Creation has a mathematical presence in how this universe was created. We can go through topics like Noah's ark and Solomon's temple to see math and how God utilized it. Jesus and how he chose and instructed His disciples to recruit others is another mathematical example. Just looking at the story of Noah and the ark, we find math. The bible has so many mathematical subjects that it is too many to name.
Even further than that, Christ can be viewed from psychological point. Through the hierarchy of needs, which was presented by Maslow, there is a five stage model that can be divided into basic (or deficiency) needs:
1. Biological and Physiological needs - air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep.
2. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law, stability, freedom from fear.
3. Love and belongingness needs - friendship, intimacy, affection and love, - from work group, family, friends, and romantic relationships.
4. Esteem needs - achievement, mastery, independence, status, dominance, prestige, self-respect, and respect from others.
5. Self-Actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences.
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And so do you guys have an estimated date?
More or less or a quarter? Should we see it this year?
That the minute launch?
Yes, yes, it will be okay.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to this edition of the crypto basic podcast.
My name is corinne baroque.
And while you're listening to now is a part of our crypto convo siri's, i am very happy to introduce our guest for this evening.
He is the global development manager for ontology.
Going for thank you so much for joining us today. How are you?
Thank you, karim it's. A pleasure to do it. I'm very good. I'm very excited. Tio participate in this. I had a chance to listen to pre resembles short, which was a great stuff. So yeah, awesome.
So you know that the audience already has a general idea about what ontology is, but hopefully here will get to discuss, um, extra details. Eso why don't we start? You know, give us a general basic introduction about yourself and how you got interested in crypto currency and maybe how you ultimately ended up with ontology?
Sure. Okay, so education wise, i have a masterpiece in mechanical engineering and finance business, so i'm not from i t background. But immediately after graduation, i jumped into a a in american fortune five hundred company where i was heading up in the practice in the nordics hall is located in in denmark, then started to explore bit the luxury and technology inside the company, and i had a change to build up some collaborations with universities and some small ideas about how to do assessments and potential proof of concepts and pilot projects. I was able to allocate resources to spend up like spin up resource is on the cloud and tried to utilize some of them for small consortium's off block change to see how it was really working and get my hands dirty, which notes consensus and so on. So i got really interested into that and i wass relocating to china with my current my period's company, and then i stumbled into some guy from ontology, and i wanted to go full time on blockchain, so it was kind of a perfect match, and, yeah, i left and joined ontology to go full time on election that's ah, fascinating shit, yeah it's quite recent, so i joined around three months ago and i'm big in shanghai everything's go teo so you went from artificial intelligence toe blockchain have you always been interested in game breaking technology or that was a coincidence you ended up in these fields those were pretty interesting fields to ah to be working in s o it wass definitely off interest that i jumped into it because as mechanical engineering, mechanical engineer and finance background you would expect me to going to some new product development maybe some financial engineering stuff like that but i really saw some interesting stuff going on in the space especially i yeah andi i think the first thing which called mind my interest was the whole idea about robotics then later on i jumped into machine learning a bit more into the new networks, which is really some off the underlying ideas off yeah that's ah that's pretty fascinating stuff, man.
All right, so you're exposed to pretty cool technology so all right, the audiences you know has got a general introduction to the project, but why don't you give us a description from your perspective?
Maybe possibly describe one ontology is trying to accomplish and what sets it apart.
Okay, so often when i have to describe what is scientology, i call it a public block change with a new architecture and a public platform for distributed trust ecosystem so that's like some off the the sentence is you'll find in a white paper on enough and so on, but i think it's it's quite spot on and what what is really important to see here is that we have blocked change instead ofthe rock chain, so we're not running on a single change.
We are running several chase ourselves what we also give the opportunity for organizations, industries, people, teo, really build their own chase and connect into the network.
So that's also why we talk a lot about the on the trust ecosystem, because while we have our own chain and people, they will start to build their own change, we will kind of see ontology as the umbrella reaching out to a very diverse sets off chase, which will make of this.
And things were important to say that in ontology, we don't try to solve it particular business problem, we are the provider off the foundational infrastructure.
We are also that the provider off tools, modules and protocols for all the participants in this infrastructure to connect with each other to verify identities across the chain also transferred data for the change.
So, again, one off the hot franks with say, is we want to build a reliable connection, and we really believe that we do that by allowing this high level of the customization, and they're easy framework where people easily can get on board.
So, mathias, why don't you actually explain why ontology has decided to take this approach of customizable and multiple block chains? Or, you know, why does ontology believe that a single public blockchain is not going to solve the problems that a lot of businesses air going to look to solve?
Okay, so i would say this kind of two parts to this one thing is, when you operate on a single chain, you will face as certain you've a certain limits off customization. So let's say that you want to build a dia. When you really try to build low level customization, you will feel face on limitations on a single chicken and that immediately do to to the architecture and some standard fritz is written into these. The second thing is that we want to while operating on a single team is not you don't always have the opportunity to to do these custody since according to your compliance, so are your rules. And you know, it could also be your code of conduct in a certain business, so when we give them the framework to build wanchain himself, it could be a country or industry they can be compliant by applying their own law regulations s o alright.
That's ah, i think that explains it pretty clearly, and i did have a few questions that are somewhat related to neo. But before i do that, i just want to clarify again that ontology and neil are partners, but they're completely different projects. So why don't you define the relationship between neo and ontology for the audience? And then i'll follow up with my knee a related question.
Okay, so we published an announcement around way worked to get up, and i think based on that it's, a bit more kia. I do understand why there were some confusions around it previously s so that the collaboration iss that way share some resource is for research, and we also share one manager. I would say so so dong is going across, which is very new, and wanchain and he's, also a bit advisor to ontology. But i prefer them, tio said, from the technology projects which complement each other where we have the new smart economy and we have the ontology ego system and mentality could reach out to a new and you're aware of all.
Right, so then the question that i was going to ask you and i don't know how much insight you have into this but one of the interesting things that ontology took from neo was two to token model where you are going to have a no anti token which produces oh and g can you tell us a little bit about maybe why you guys shows that model or what some of the benefits of that model are yeah so when you have a dual children model you have the security token which is twenty us and then you have the utility children which is twenty on ontology yes s o the idea about this is that then you have the security toe twenty in order to participate in the governance off a network so that would kind of be you you you share off this whole network and with that you could override the note you could also participate in in voting voting's which will go on in the network where's the mentality guess it's really that token that you used to perform the operations on the that well, so if you want to do some transactions you will pay twenty two do that and section i could also be to deploy your smart contract it will cost some some guests to deploy it will cost some guests to run the contract if it's off a certain size so for example, if a gn employer wanted to use ontology to verify my identity or if i wanted a idea sure i would usually pay them in on nong correct?
Okay that that makes a lot of sense and the no auntie would be reserved for like you mentioned governance bigger picture ah decision making about the ontology project itself.
All right, so meth i says we are talking about governments one of the few reservations we had during the ontology episode wass the possibility of centralization based on the structure and selection of d o nt counsel and we couldn't really find a lot of information.
Do you have any information about how the council has chosen or how it operates since it's the foundation no governance of the project so so i don't have much information and it around that at this point and i think something which will be much more clear after the minute lunch oh, so it's something we might get more information on once ontology has actually launch is still in like the pre project stage absolutely on and it also goes a bit back to the that the twenty on the the governance idea because when you have a steak off twenty eventually you will participate in the governance and if there's some voting mechanisms for potentially a council or some council members, you could do it that way oh excellent and since you did mention the main net launch i know a lot of people are excited about it they're waiting about it.
What can you tell us about the progress that's being made and when we can expect to see that launch yes so just yesterday we had an external organization to do some testing i'm sitting here with the document us as we speak because he just got it yesterday that the translation from chinese twinkies when interested i v b ft algorithm i think that that's one of the key things off you are all mean it it's running and it's performing the translation for seconds that we wanted to do and the results they're quite good also had a i spoke with the detective and i know on the take side we are we are on time on just the one thing from this report i see that the test was three million transaction purse agains they send six thousand seconds over five hundred seconds they headed for the blocks and the transaction for seconds is just around five thousand five hundred oh so this apartment quick yeah that's going to be pretty big and so do you guys have an estimated date more or less or a quarter should we see it this year the minute launch yes yes it will be third if you and of you too so it's just around the corner fantastic.
And i know one of the questions for a lot of people regarding the launch is going to be how to handle the migration of omt tokens into the main.
And i know a lot of people, maybe god, ontology during the air drop, and they want to know what they're going to have to do or what you know.
What should they follow?
So what can you tell them?
Yeah, sure, you're just one note.
The main net launch way will do some some pre launch presentations around, but in generally we don't make too much noise around wth this minute, but it will be in effect, you two.
So about the talk you talk about the talking swap from correct.
Twenty, which is currently on any p stand up, and you will have to convert it into anti native.
So we were published some announcement with a structure out to to do it.
But really, what it's all about is that we have this twenty, which is on any people which is under the new chain, and now we want to convert it into a wen t on the maintenance.
So how you do it is that you take your children's, you won't see any p childrens and you transferred to a migration adverts, and then that migration efforts will make sure that it gets mapped to the minute and on the men, that it will be the same address.
It will be the same.
Keep here so you'll have the same address and the same private key just resting on the minute it's done, and it will automatically get destroyed on the unit.
Oh, so it's the same physical address that is currently being used for the token that's going to be the actual physical address on the ontology.
Yes, cynical.
Okay so is that's what is also going to be used and because i believe that the people that got an air drop from neo still have unequal match of that coming for the ontology may net correct so if you have if you got ten ontology tokens from neo as an airdrop that means you have another ten tokens coming once you actually migrate correct so it will be sent directly to that address it will not be sent directly you need to send it yourself to the migration address and then once you send it it will be destroyed from the right here and it will be deployed on the intelligence aion ontology attacked you will still only have tio they just be on ontology native country instead ofthe ontology knew okay yeah that part definitely makes sense i thought that there was an extra air drop coming from the initial neo snapshot but i could be wrong about that my idea next everybody i'm not entirely aware about that theo but the main process itself will be a simple as sending your ontology to an address that will look identical to yours and that will burn them on the neo sign and they will be existant on the ontology sign and you are yes because we'll be ready to go that's a beautiful way i figure explaining because sometimes he's talking swaps they get a bit complicated it's often written in a bin cryptically language so, right, we're just explained it, that that's bottom.
Okay, perfect, perfect that's going to make it pretty easy for people.
And i know what you're right when the steps get too complicated.
Scary, you know, because you're moving around money, so all right, so one of the things that becomes a parent, as you start learning about ontology, is that the project really embraces air drops as a method of distribution and community building.
So i was just wondering if you could talk about that a little bit, maybe.
Ah, what?
Why you guys use them, or how they can help build the project.
Just air drops in general, since ontology seems to utilize them very well.
Yeah, so i don't have a schedule foot for the upcoming andrew i know we did a huge one before which were very much minded on getting the technical community going and i think why we used it isthe a line to the philosophy had the project and the philosophy ofthe legion are co father he believed that the technical community and in general that the community around ontology will be one off the key successfactors too into this project.
So as we are ontology it's not our job to build the whole network, we will simply and maintained that the infrastructure and then the rest should be developed by the ecosystem.
So we want to distribute some tokens out in the community in the system for them to get the interest of the project, and start to develop the eppes and tools.
And we call the enhancement proposals which could be some some contribution to the protocol itself.
So that's kind of the philosophy which do that way make these efforts yeah that's ah, very interesting and i think we have seen that in this space ah lot of power comes from the community and even neo itself i think has gained a lot of value from the city is eye on and, you know, community driven projects such as that so it's definitely good to see that you guys were focused on that aspect and that that's actually my role in ontology currently to build up the technical community.
So after this add drops, i see that people, they they took their time to understand the technology, and now a lot of them live on our project interesting, and they're starting to contribute their starting to build small, independent groups, and that is really cool to see how how it has affected it that way.
Yeah, it does seem to grow organically once there is a spark, and it could go in any direction, and they know that we have allocated a huge proportion off our tokens community.
I honestly believe, it's, one of the biggest allocations that we have seen in the reasons projects around that sounds like a good place to put your resource is, um all right, and then another major question again, i know you're more in the community building side, so you may not have the answer to this and that's fine.
But another strategy for ontology seems to be partnerships with major financial investment firms like falsone and sequoia, and just wanted to know is that is a strategy here to use thes companies as pipelines to put aion team to multiple businesses and sectors kind of from the top down.
So the idea ofthe importing this veces is that they have the connections out in the industries so they will be able to help us unfold some institutions could be financial institutions they could also raise all the to farmer life science governments and so on so that the idea is that we don't i wouldn't say we're looking for money we're looking for like pieces who can connect us out too valuable institutions with and be the first ones to participate in the network because trust ecosystem will not arise before we have some institutions which are going in to be what we call trust angus so so it has to start somewhere right once i probably killed him then it's probably more easy for to convince the other ones to participate yeah that seems like a pretty engineers strategy honestly and especially if you can convince these vc cos if you can show them that this is ah product that's going to improve the businesses they're investing in it's a you know a positive feedback loop for everyone involved all right and these are questions that we kind of tend to ask everybody that tend to be a little more put you know fun or lose but one of our favorite questions is if you had to pick a portfolio five coins for ten years you couldn't trade him five projects in the cryptocurrency space okay aah ee aah and you are allowed to pick ontology i'm not a lot of big told you you are you are you are a lot of ontology pivx would be one of them obviously otherwise will not work for the company i believe second, i think i'll go for ethereum i would probably also go for iphone and maybe open, which is a very new projects open platform where they tried to build an infrastructure for for payments and last one i'm trying to come up with for one for the last one probably i guess it would be new it's not a fun one but area near it's not a fun one but it's a solid choice ah your your selections would be very popular with the crypto basic staff.
So so what i'm often trying to look at me when i'm getting my points is to look at projects with are delivering enterprise level solutions and not trying to solve a too narrow particular business problem already provide some infrastructure which is applicable to today life larger orgy audience off the industry so mathias is based on what you've seen personally since you're in touch with the industry and you get to have a lot of communications with ease businesses and the actual crucial points of adoption how do you see the timeline of mass adoption for crypto currency if, like i know it's a just a gn opinion but just based on where you stand sure so so, it's, very interesting these days, because when we go out to visit some off off potential partners and people who request information, we're starting to see that some off them they are beyond the step off.
What is blocking, they are starting to do and beauties and pilots, and they're looking for for projects.
Tto help them do that.
So that's one off the the crucial steps, i think way we're starting to torture and but in terms ofthe mess adoption, i would say, if i have to give a number, i would say tellus, probably, in my opinion, then we will really start to see the technology in a very mature stage, and business is really seeing the benefits off utilizing it.
S o so i think at some stage, the businesses they will see.
Okay, now we can autumn eyes face, we can streamline processes, and we can eventually save cost, and then they will start.
I probably couldn't agree with you more.
I do think that we tend to overestimate change in the short run and underestimate change in the long run.
Ten years sounds like a like a very reasonable curve and another question.
I mean, i know you told us why you got into cryptocurrency after a ah, you had an opportunity, and it was kind of serendipitous how you met with auntie, but personally did you have a particular ah ha moment with crypto currency that really sparked your interest or a particular project or event that really got you interested in this world?
Yeah, definitely.
Ethereum wass my my entry into the black sea in space, i started follow them back and be i don't know that would be around two thousand fifteen, i guess something like that.
Yeah, i just saw this this idea coming up about blockchain, true point, zero hour pulling on the second generation off because obviously i was a bit interested in bitcoin and here to be a caste system and so on.
But once we showed this idea ofthe making programmes on the blockchain, it really caught my attention because now we can implement business like into a distributed system and so that this is not a new idea.
It's kind of old idea, where we suddenly had someone who were able to execute project at the right time where the computing resource is.
They were capable enough off doing some time, some tragic, surrounded.
All right.
And then i have one more impromptu question for you that i didn't know i was going to ask you.
But once you told me about your background, ah, from what you saw in the artificial intelligence world, and now you're experiencing blocking, do you see a merger of these two technologies?
That may be a lot of people aren't seeing coming of how the developments in artificial intelligence might end up interacting with the blockchain or those two worlds.
Do you see them as staying separately for a while?
I see some parts off a definitely going into a lodge in our hey isa very, very loose concept these days, i would say, and some off the they say management ideas off a i i could see and in blockchain like way will see a lot of data coming into the bloc.
China are being handled in the systems it could be from a i ot off a man, organizations who are protesting a lot of transactions. And to handle this data, i could see some cognitive agents coming in, which is, i would say, like a set off machine learning algorithms, which learning based on data, and they're able to handle certain scenarios and situations with these so that you can leave mustard into management to a internet agents instead of many that i think that's, some good case that's going to be a fascinating to watch.
All right, mathias, if, if there's anything, we missed here, anything you want to let us know about ontology, anything that's upcoming, any message you want to give to the audience, you have the floor here.
Tto close out the show.
Stay tuned for for our minute and he's going and join our discourse, and maybe our telegram, they say a lot of things going on in there right now and that's really replace teo, check out the project and see all that this excitement around it.
I'm also from ontology side, we will publish some men guidelines regarding a community and their contributions on how to engage with us and being compensated. So, yeah, go check that out and check out our project. I think it's it's definitely a cool project.
You know, i can say that with full honesty, i was we had a couple of our very active community members push for us to cover ontology, and i'm very glad they did, because the more we learned about the project, the more we liked it. So, mathias, i really want to thank you for your time for coming here to speak to our audience about ontology and thank you so much for listening. This is going to wrap it up for this crypto convo, as always, don't forget to check out our other episodes of the conversations rate is an itunes all that good stuff, but with the crypto basic podcast my name's current baru kau is here was mathias glam pork your room, thank you so much for tuning in


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Long overdue, but as promised, another follow-up to the birthday post.
As I wrote about Josh's birthday last month, I realized that those of you with younger kids on the spectrum, family members, someone you know or maybe you're just curious, might be wondering how you buy presents for a child that has such difficulty with communication.
That, is a very good question! And one that I have been asked many times by my family, and that I struggled with myself for a time. "What should we get for Josh other than Blue's Clues things?" For a while, that's really all it ever was. That was the easy part. Sometimes I would try to throw some other things in there, but it was always very hit-or-miss as to whether he would be interested or not. When Blue's Clues ended, the toys stuck around for a while, but slowly began to disappear, making the usual that much harder. I could still find some things on e-Bay and Amazon Marketplace, but they were getting more and more expensive. Plus, he had almost everything anyway. So I knew there would have to be alternatives. He still loved/loves the books, and thankfully, you can still get them easily at Amazon and a few other places. But toys were a different story. He doesn't really play with things, not in the same way most kids would anyway.
I finally decided a few years ago that it was too hard to try to guess what he might like, and it was clear in many cases I was projecting what I thought he should be interested in. So, one December as I was picking up some things at Toys r Us, I just let him show me things he liked. I let him go, and watched what he went to, what he tried to pick up or actually did. And I just followed him around and things he seemed to really like, I put in the cart. Ruining the surprise? Not really. First of all, I don't think Josh understands that concept as it is intended, and, I'd leave everything in the car and wrap it when he wasn't around, so he wouldn't see the things again until he opened his presents. This was a great success so this is what we do for every occasion that might warrant it. This way, I know he's getting things he likes and is interested in and he's always very happy. So now when my mom comes near his birthday or Christmas we just take him shopping, he picks something he likes and she gets it for him. He's happy, she's happy, everyone wins.
So what kinds of things does Josh like???? Well, as his developmental level would suggest, he gravitates to the toddler toys. I do have trouble sometimes, buying things that are labeled for 1-3 yr olds for my 12 yr old, but, I just have to remember this is what he likes so it shouldn't matter.
He loves things that make music. I have mentioned the vile cat piano, this is still a big favorite. This by the way, is it: Except his current one is orange. I cannot tell you how much he adores this toy. I can't tell you how much I don't. I don't mind toys that make music or play songs. But for some reason the particular collection that this piano has in its pre-sets is unbelievably annoying. But he loves it, so, as long as I can I will continue to replace it as needed.
Anything else that makes music seems to be high on the list these days. Mostly he likes the small, toddler electronic toys - like the pretend cell phones that play music as well as noises. This is one of the things I got him for his birthday this year, and he loves it: It makes sounds when you shake it, but it also plays music and lights up at the end. He'll carry this around all day.
The other thing I got him that he seems to really really like is a classic from Fisher Price. I found it at Target, and apparently there are several old, classic FP toys back on the market right now and I love it! These are things I actually remember having as a kid. So this is what he got:
You wind it up with the little knob, and it plays London Bridge like a music box. It is NOT electronic. Took him some time to figure out the knob - haha, yes kids, we had to turn dials and knobs back in the "old" days, there is more to life than pushing buttons! But he has it now and just loves this. It's so simple. But that's what he likes. There are more of these "classics" around, so I imagine we'll try another one or two at Christmas.
Probably his MOST favorite thing that doesn't make music are these: He will carry any number of these around with him ALL day long. They are in my car, they are all over the house. He will head straight for them in the toy aisle if he sees them. He does chew on them quite a bit. But he also just likes holding them. And he likes the colors of the ends. He'll line them up and list the colors over and over. He won't do that with much else, even other blocks. Here is a close up of one of the alphabet ones: Most of these things are very simple. But this is what he likes. These are the things that make him happy, and I know because I let him show me.
Just a matter of adjusting the mind-set of "this is how we're supposed to do it" to, this is what works best for us.
In other news, the staff at the middle school continue to make me love them. A lot. Amazing how common sense and understanding can go a long way toward piece of mind. They are a joy, and I am thrilled.
Josh is still having a hard time. I thought for a bit last week he might be coming out of this, but I don't think so now. He is also sick at the moment which is making a tough time that much tougher. He just has no ability to cope right now and it's heartbreaking.
I have an exciting couple of months coming up: heading to BlogWorld 2010 in Vegas in October, then I'm registered to do the Seattle Half-Marathon Walk at the end of November so there's much training to do!
I realize my posting frequency hasn't improved, in fact it might be worse at the moment, I think if we can get Josh a bit more sorted I'll have more energy for the blog again, I am sorry :(


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Bicyclist dies in crash; police seek witnesses
Seattle police are trying to locate witnesses to a hit-and-run crash early Sunday in which a former South Vietnamese Army officer was killed while riding his bicycle to his job at a bakery south of downtown.
Killed was Nghi Van Do, 61, a Beacon Hill resident, who was en route to his job at Schwartz Brothers Bakery, 4318 Sixth Ave. S.
A motorist called police shortly before 3:30 a.m., reporting a man lying in the street in the 3400 block of Sixth Avenue South. No witnesses could be located, but police determined a vehicle had struck Do from the rear.
He died at the scene.
Hung Nguyen, a friend of Do's family who also works at the bakery, said Do was imprisoned for many years after the fall of South Vietnam. He came to the United States in 1993 and had worked at the bakery ever since.
Do's wife, Phuong Nguyen, arrived here two years ago. They lived with one son on Beacon Hill.
Do was going to take his test for U.S. citizenship in January, Nguyen said. "Everyone here really loved him," he added.
Rick Doyle, general manager of the bakery, said Do may have been hit by one of the cars that often use the deserted industrial-area streets for racing. But without witnesses there is no way to know, police said.
Police ask that anyone with information call the Traffic Collision Investigation Unit at 206-684-8923 or 911.


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Keltic donate fabric for Schools playcare network
We were very happy to be able to donate a large amount of fabric to the Birmingham Playcare Network who will be passing the fabric out across schools in the area.
The fabric will be used for many things including making costumes for school plays, art projects and backing for children's art display boards.
We are very happy to be able to make these kinds of contributions and will continue to work with organisations like BPCN in the future.
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New Business Casuals Collection now available!!!
Looking for a corporate uniform to enhance your business image? Fancy making a change to your current corporate uniform? Then check out some of our great new garments…
Our business casual collection is a must have;
An 11 piece collection including chino trousers, chino skirt and tweed waistcoats. A stunning range for both men and women.
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Sophisticated Suits | Slinfold Golf and Country Club
As a leading supplier of corporate suits, Keltic have a suit to match every requirement. Because we know that choosing between suits can be tricky, we offer three distinct suit collections which we split into three simple categories: durable basic, luxury fashion and best of both. Our luxury fashion collection is entitled The Sophisticated Collection. It is a great collection for higher-end roles as well as for reception staff. One customer who orders from this collection is Slinfold Golf and Country Club. In need of new uniforms for their reception staff, the club recently made a new order with us, and as pictured below they are thrilled with their sophisticated new suits!
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Stay Cool – Go for Short Sleeve Office Wear!
Phew, it's getting a bit warm, isn't it? A bit… too warm? In true British style, many of us pray for this kind of sun all year round, and then when it actually comes we complain that it's too hot! Saying that, it's no fun being cooped up in a sticky office in the height of summer. And it's even less fun when your uniform isn't made for the heat. Naturally, with the rise in temperatures we've seen a rise in enquiries about short sleeve office wear. Following this we thought that we'd run you through a few of our best-selling short sleeve shirts and blouses. They are all designed to keep you and your staff cool as the temperatures soar!
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The Colour Trends of 2017
In these early stages of the new year there is a huge buzz surrounding colour trends. At Keltic we've been working our way through the industry colour reports as well as speaking to our manufacturers about the palate of 2017. In this article we'll share with you the information that we've found!
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How To Keep Your Staff Warm This Winter | Winter Workwear
Happy new year to all of our customers! We hope you had a lovely Christmas! After a restful break the team at Keltic are enjoying getting back into the rhythm of working life. There's one thing that we're not so keen on, though – the cold! After the mild weather we had over the Christmas period, temperatures are plunging at the moment. With some really wintry weather on the horizon, you'll want to double check that your staff workwear is resilient to the cold. In this article we'll advise on the kinds of garments that could really make a difference to your staff uniform's warmth and comfort. Firstly we'll address outdoor wear (for security guards, wardens and SCPs) and then we'll turn to indoor corporate wear.
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Corporate Uniform: Why Try Before You Buy is a Must!
Finding the right corporate uniform for your staff can be difficult. There are many factors to contend with. Demanding bosses and fussy colleagues are not the least of your concern, and then there's the pressure of making sure the uniform matches the job role, projects the brand image and stands the test of time. Keeping this all in mind whilst deliberating the overwhelming range of options can get a little stressful. Hence our advice of the week: 'try before you buy'!
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Branded Corporate Clothing: Still an Effective Marketing Tool?
In 2011 we published an article about the effectiveness of branded corporate clothing as a marketing tool. We referenced a study which found that 74.4% of uniform programs provide better marketing than modern tools such as the internet and TV ads. Five years have passed since this article, and internet marketing has exploded. Bearing this in mind we thought it would be interesting to see how branded wear is faring as a marketing tool in 2016.
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Uniform Trouser Trends – Slim Leg vs. Wide Leg
Whether male or female, trousers are a part of the 21st century modern day life. For many, a staple pair of trousers or two are the go-to fashion item when dressing to impress. Men have been wearing varying forms of trousers since the medieval period; these have developed over time to now become one of the most commonly worn items of clothing for men. In comparison, only in the past century did the western world start adapting to and accepting the trend of wearing trousers as a choice over dresses and skirts for women. Post World War II led us to start integrating the female trouser as an acceptable item of clothing. It is only during the past 30-40 years, however, that the casual trouser and the uniform trouser have been integrated in to everyday clothing.
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The Importance of Wearing a Workwear Suit
Though it seems Spring is on the horizon, the temperatures aren't quite there yet and cold weather definitely isn't taking a hike any time soon. With the cold winds and frosty mornings we are feeling thankful for our workwear suit jackets at the moment. With a few new suits being released in our range this year, it's got us thinking how important wearing a suit can be and the affect this has on perceptions.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — After two weeks of flooding, about half of Bangladesh is under water, 140 people have been killed, tens of thousands of families have been forced from their homes and well over a million acres of crops have been destroyed. The poorest, their rural livelihoods in ruins, will most likely have no choice but to head to the cities.
As experts attribute the frequency of immense floods to climate change, the thousands who move to Dhaka, the capital, and other cities should be considered climate refugees.
The floods have disrupted life in Dhaka, a megacity that is home to 16 million people. Roads turned into canals. Some people took to using boats. Some waded through waist-high water.
Dhaka is packed with an estimated 135,000 people per square mile and is already the densest metropolis in the world. Its creaky infrastructure can barely support the existing population. The arrival of thousands of flood victims will strain services further.
The August flood is being compared with two other major floods in the country: one in 1988, which resulted in more than 2,000 deaths; and another in 1998, which killed more than 1,000. The fewer deaths this time signify the country's increasing capacity to cope with floods. The same floods have taken more lives in the more sparsely populated areas of neighboring India and Nepal.
Bangladesh's history of frequent flooding and subsequent losses have led to greater investment in flood management. Public schools and mosques are built with a view to their potential use as shelters. Mobile phones, exceeding 100 million, have turned into an important tool for conveying information during a calamity. Bangladesh's government was quick to deploy the army, its soldiers being best equipped to reach remote villages and help with evacuation.
The August floods were caused primarily by overflow from the Brahmaputra River, which flows from northeastern India into northern Bangladesh. Shafiqul Islam, an acquaintance from the northern district of Dinajpur, told me that his father had never seen water rise so fast or so high in their village.
Monira Parvin, his wife, sought refuge with their 5-year-old daughter at her parents' village in a dry area. Ms. Parvin is studying for an undergraduate degree, and her husband, who never made it to a college, proudly supports her. She represents a new generation of educated Bangladeshis, who are more aware of emergency practices such as timely flight to safety.
In previous floods, the destruction of agriculture caused acute food shortages. Since 2010, Bangladesh has become a food-surplus state; because of its grain reserves, there is little risk of the food scarcity of the past.
The most pressing concern for the victims of the flood is their reduced purchasing power. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised to offer each affected family 30 kilograms of rice at one-fifth the market price. There are other extensive agricultural and social safety support programs in place to help the victims.
There is a limit, though, to what Bangladesh can do by itself. Floods are a transnational affair, and when the big river systems running across China and India and then pouring into Bangladesh go into their seasonal churn, borders mean little. During the floods this time, 800 Indians from the state of West Bengal bordering Bangladesh sought shelter in Lalmonirhat, a northern district of Bangladesh.
India has erected a forbidding barrier of concertina wire along the thousands of miles of border between the two countries. Indian border guards routinely shoot Bangladeshis attempting illegal crossings and kill 50 or more every year.
The Bangladesh border guards, however, did not try to prevent the Indians from crossing to escape the floods. The Indians are reported to have found shelter not just on streets, but also in Bangladeshi homes. A local resident said they "stood by the flood-affected Indians." Common sense and humanity prevailed over jingoism and xenophobia on the India-Bangladesh border.
The increasing frequency and intensity of floods point to the need for cross-border cooperation on shared rivers. India, being both the bigger country and the one upriver, has to take the lead. That means signing water-sharing agreements, which have been pending for two decades. It also means rethinking India's frighteningly dangerous river-linking project that harks back to an era of grandiose development schemes.
If South Asia cannot work together on shared natural resources, it will be ill equipped to cope with the desperate rush of refugees. Going forward, climate change will displace millions — and there is no concertina wire strong enough to hold back multitudes desperate to survive.


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David S. Ware Quartet, 'Surrendered' (2000)
At the end of Playing Changes is a list: The 129 Essential Albums of the Twenty-First Century (So Far). I organized these by year, and then alphabetically by artist name. I'll be running them down here, in that order. (No one appears more than once as a leader, though there's ample overlap in personnel.)
The righteous, prayerful bluster of David S. Ware's tenor saxophone was an important force on the ground in New York at the turn of the century. And I do mean "force" — Ware could project with a physical intensity that rattled the ribcage, if you were sitting close enough in the room.
A veteran of the New York loft scene and a catalyst for the perpetual avant-garde, Ware led a phenomenal band in the early 2000s with Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass and Guillermo E. Brown on drums. (Previous iterations included several other fine drummers.) For a hot minute, this quartet recorded for Columbia Records, as a result of some inspired kamikaze calculation by Branford Marsalis, a label A&R exec at the time. Ware's first Columbia release was the excellent Go See the World, released in 1998 (with Susie Ibarra on drums). Surrendered was the second Columbia release. There never was a third.
The intensity of commitment in the DSWQ is apparent on every track of Surrendered. Gary Giddins may have been weighing in on a different record when he issued his famous pronouncement the following year — "Let's be bold: The David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today" — but the praise fully applies here.
Ware went on to release a flood of music in the 2000s, mainly on the AUM Fidelity label. (The label has continued issuing material since his death in 2012; last year it released Live in New York, 2010, a document from a club engagement that I reviewed for the NY Times.)
What led me to select Surrendered for the 129 Essential Albums list is its generosity of scope and spirit; this is a DSWQ recording that almost any jazz listener could appreciate, if not for the stubborn preconceptions around "free jazz" or "the avant-garde." There's a version of Charles Lloyd's "Sweet Georgia Bright" on this album, and a calypso that points firmly in the direction of Sonny Rollins. But what drives the whole enterprise is a sense of quest — the same feeling, on some level, that many younger listeners now associate with Kamasi Washington.
Listen to "Theme of Ages," and the way that a compact, anthemic theme gradually assumes epic proportions. Just don't try to tell me that this music remains locked in its moment in time.
David S. Ware's Surrendered can be purchased on Amazon or streamed on Spotify.


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Previously, 529 plans could be used only to cover costs for college and other post-secondary educational expenses. The new tax bill changes that, allowing use of 529 savings plans to support children's K-12 education, and authorizes 529 accounts withdrawals for public, private or religious schools. With this expanded flexibility, families not currently setting aside money for education may want to reconsider earmarking some savings toward a 529 plan.
If This is December, It's Time to Consider 529 Qualified Tuition Plans
Got a kid or grandchild headed to college....sooner or later? December is a great time to set up and contribute to a 529 plan, to take advantage of this year's annual gift exclusion amount. 529 plans are an efficient and cost effective way for parents and other family members to help pay for accredited post-secondary educational expenses. "529" is a reference to the Internal Revenue Code section setting out the terms and conditions for qualified tuition plans. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as many state educational institutions, provide or spo nsor 529 plans where income earned on assets are not subject to federal income tax and may not be subject to state income tax if ultimately used for qualified educational expenses.


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From Sand to Snow
It seems the British troops are having to turn their efforts to domestic issues during the coming winter in the UK. The idea to draft the army in was made after roads aren't been cleared quickly enough, which as a result has an effect on everyday life.
Places in Scotland have only just been able to recently re-open roads. This is why the likes of Edinburgh Airport and Glasgow Airport have been forced to delay flights after the weather in the skies has cleared.
While flights and airports are now able to run on time as most of the heavy snow has stopped, the effects down on the ground have seriously affected travel still. A part of the M8 in Scotland opened for the first time in two days yesterday. The further north you go, the more the weather is still having serious effects.
Down in London you will find that both Gatwick Airport and Heathrow Airport are back on schedule and things are running smoothly once again.
According to the Met Office the weekend forecast suggests that things could even be quite sunny rather than anything else. Going into next week is much of the same, but many suggest that we may have seen the worst of thing for now. However, in the New Year there is the potential for heavy snow to return, so hopefully we have learned some lessons in advance.


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OBX Holiday Portraits | Stuart Family
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Baby Chilton is Almost Here!
Sweet Baby Chilton is due on December 23rd but being a second baby I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's early, we waited until the last minute to take these so we could document her beautimus belly right before he came!
This is the first time we shot on their new property on Bell's Island! Hunter adores it as it has a pond where he can feed all the ducks and watch them for hours, it's such a peaceful location and perfect for these 4! They will be building their forever home soon, I can't wait to see it!
Olivia always has the best ideas for her shoots. She describes her and Hunter as loving and silly and she loves all things pretty (who doesn't??!) so a hilarious shoot with Hunter in a Santa outfit with gorgeous lighting and her and Sifer looking beautiful and stylish (as always) was absolutely perfect. The boat represents him as he's out in one every day crabbing, although usually it's filled with stinky fish and men, not his gorgeous ladies!
We are so excited to meet baby Chilton, Sifey is going to be such a doting and loving sister, she is over the moon for his arrival!!


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Google is constantly changing its search algorithm to stay ahead of the competition. In a Google+ post from Google head of search Amit Singhal said; We made more than 890 improvements to Google Search last year alone, and we're cranking away at new features and the next generation of big bets all the time. It […]
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Businesses are considering switching to their own ecommerce websites instead of using eBay to sell online after changes made last week made using the site more expensive. The changes impact auctions for three-to-ten day & 'buy it now listings' in particular, although some will see costs drop slightly. EBay's Gallery plus feature has been increased […]
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Facebook's director of small business Dan Levy announced recently that Facebook now has 30 million active small business Pages worldwide. Around two-thirds of them (19 million) actively managing their Facebook Marketing pages via mobile, which highlights the growing importance of having a mobile marketing presence today. Small businesses have been struggling recently with a decline […]
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The British Retail Consortium (BRC.) have released figures showing a 19.2% growth in internet purchases during December 2013 compared to a year earlier. More of us clicked into Christmas than ever before, with online non-food sales growth putting in its best performance since March 2010 and accounting for nearly 20% of spending. The surge in […]
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The amount spent by UK shoppers online increased on average by 16% per person in 2012 compared to 2011, according to the latest data from Ofcom. The communications regulator found internet shopping was more popular in the UK than in the other countries it surveyed, with the average spend increasing £150 compared to the previous […]
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