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Master in Management
Three terms/one year
Number of Credits
Start dates
October, January & March
Fees per term
Rapid political, economic, social and technological changes are taking place across the world. In order to cope with and actively shape these complex changes, new forms of leadership are required. This program explores the realities of being an authentic leader in the 21st century, from making strategic decisions, managing people and performance and negotiating effectively, to operational and marketing management. Focusing on the development of critical thinking and executive skills, this master's will give students the tools to be an effective leader and to adapt to future changes in business.
Degree Awarded
- A state-recognized, university master's degree awarded by Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), Spain, (título propio).
- A master's degree from EU Business School Switzerland which is internationally accredited by ACBSP, IACBE, IQA and certified by eduQua.
Benefits of Studying a Master's
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by studying in a diverse and multicultural environment
Why Geneva?
Studying a Master in Management in Geneva allows students to benefit from proximity to the Swiss capital's remarkable concentration of outstanding intergovernmental organizations, financial institutions and the headquarters of multinational companies. It is home to the highest number of international organizations in the world, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the Red Cross. EU students are given an insider's glimpse of the workings of these world-famous organizations and institutions during company visits and networking events.
The diverse and international community in Geneva allows students to gain a global mindset and expand their cultural awareness during their time at EU. These soft skills are essential for any future business leader's repertoire and are highly desirable traits in the international job market. Geneva's combination of tranquility, diversity and business excellence makes this city a perfect location to gain a business education.
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EU's faculty is composed of highly qualified academics, entrepreneurs, consultants and business leaders.
All courses are taught by lecturers with a wealth of practical experience in their fields. Our teaching staff create a personalized and interactive learning environment that promotes and fosters the skills and knowledge required for a successful career in business. The caliber of the faculty and a culture that values and rewards an entrepreneurial spirit are what make EU Business School stand out.
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EU prepared me for taking on future challenges and also helped me a lot with networking. Actually, it was here at EU, through their networking events, that I got offered my current position.
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Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga's Reviews, is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks
This week i was a little late on posting but here i am! Here are the books i got over the week. I decided to add my thoughts on each book. Enjoy! ❤
Title: The Immortal Rules ( Blood of Eden #1 )
Author: Julie Kagawa
Published: March 26th 2013 by Harlequin Teen
Source: Amazon
*Thoughts: Huge fan of Julie Kagawa! can't wait to seek my teeth in this one
Title: Confessons of A Murder Suspect ( Confessions #1 )
Authors: James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Published: September 10th 2013 by Little, Brown and Company
Source: Wal-mart
*Thoughts: My first James Patterson Murder mystery! I can already feel the suspense.
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Title: Shadow of Time
Authors: Jen Minkman
Published: Published January 1st 2013 by CreateSpace
Source: Netgalley from the Author
*Thoughts: I never heard of the book before but it does seem really interesting to read, and the cover is really pretty.
Title: Aberrant ( Aberrant #1 )
Authors: Ruth Silver
Published: September 23rd 2013 by Patchwork Press
Source: Netgalley
*Thoughts: I have heard a lot of amazing things about this book! so i can't wait to read it.
Tagged: Aberrant, Blood of Eden, confessions, Confessions of a Murder suspect, James Patterson, Jen Minkman, Julie Kagawa, Maxine Paetro, Ruth Silver, Shadow of Time, Stacking The Shelves, The Immortal Rules, YA, YA books, Young Adult

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Report has it that a Nigerian man has been arrested in Italy after harassing people and allegedly assaulting police officers.
It was gathered that the 32-year-old Nigerian approached some women in a supermarket in Navacchio, Province of Pisa and allegedly started to harass them before the police were called.
It was scooped that when the police arrived, they tried to pacify the Nigerian immigrant but all pleas fell on deaf ears. He was alleged to have assaulted the police officers.
The suspect was immediately arrested with charge of resistance and violence to public officials. When an investigation was conducted, it was discovered that the Nigerian has no fixed address.
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The Journey of Sydney the Kidney
More stories from Bria Brown
December 19, 2017
When Helen Moore was born, a light was brought in the Moore Family. Yet little did they know that their newest child's health was about to have many complications.
Young Helen was soon diagnosed with kidney failure.
"They found out, that my kidneys were failing," Helen said. "And apparently, it's crazy that I was still alive and not in a coma because my condition was so bad."
Helen's father, Chris Moore, had a suspicion that there was something wrong when Moore was born. However, he didn't quite know what it was.
"She's a little different," Chris Moore said. "It started out that way when she was a little baby and we knew something was a little different. She would go to the middle of the room and just sit there and not crawl around like other babies."
Helen said that as a baby she didn't feel like she had much energy to do anything, although she knew how to do everything that any other baby would know how to do.
After Helen's parents went to the pediatrician to voice their concerns, the doctor didn't believe them.
"My mom knew something was wrong with me as a baby," Helen said. "But she kept telling the pediatrician, she kept telling the doctor, and they kept just kept thinking that she was a crazy mom."
Despite this, Helen's parents kept pursuing their concerns to doctors, until they met a doctor who could help them.
"When I was one, I think it was November 6, 2003, I received the [kidney] transplant because I had two failing kidneys," Helen said. "They actually don't know the reason why they failed. I personally just think I was born with two bad kidneys."
During her diagnosis, Helen's parents were concerned about what was going to happen to their newborn.
"She had six different surgeries, trying to get different types of catheters to work because they're not designed for babies. that was really stressful," said Elizabeth Moore, Helen Moore's mom.
Elizabeth Moore was the kidney donor for Helen.
"We had to go spend a month in the hospital," Chris More said.
After seeing the doctor, the Moore's were given an answer as to what had happened to their daughter. The doctors informed them that they would have to put Helen Moore on dialysis to help remove the waste build-up in her kidneys.
"Helen was put on the haemodialysis because her blood was so toxic that her kidneys were not working," Chris Moore said.
In order for Helen Moore to get the proper treatment she needed her parents did everything that the doctors said they needed to do, including transforming her bedroom.
"We turned her bedroom into a dialysis clinic," Elizabeth Moore said. "Basically we had all this complicated equipment and we'd have to put her on it for 12 hours at a time every night. And a nurse would come at night and watch her sleep and make sure she didn't get tangled up in the equipment."
Before Helen could get off of the dialysis, she had to have a kidney donation, and her mom was excited to be considered as the donor.
Elizabeth Moore hoped that she could be her daughter's kidney donor, but the doctors needed to run medical tests to make sure that she was healthy enough.
After six months of waiting, the Moore's were informed of the state of Elizabeth's kidney.
"Finally Elizabeth got approved for a kidney transplant," Chris Moore said.
After Helen received the kidney transplant from her mom, she needed to be on peritoneal dialysis.
The process of peritoneal dialysis included cleaning her kidneys, and making them less toxic, which lasted about three or four months.
After receiving the kidney treatment and recovering from the kidney failure, Helen as well as her parents said that her body changed dramatically.
"My body was more puffy than most kids because I had so much excess fluids throughout my body, but once I went on dialysis it was all drained and then I looked almost hollow," Helen Moore said. "It's kind of crazy."
Helen still had more work to do, even after draining fluids and recovering.
"Helen had to go through a lot of therapy to get her caught up because she was behind developmentally and couldn't walk or talk," Elizabeth Moore said.
After the therapy that Helen had to take, her parents were excited about her progress.
"She just blew past all the goalposts pretty fast and caught up with all her peers," Elizabeth said. "We were really pleasantly surprised. We were expecting brain damage."
Once Helen got the medicine she needed, she showed extreme progress.
"Helen was like getting a turbocharger and she just took off," Chris Moore said.
After all the treatment Helen says that she feels like any other kid. Her mother agrees to say that she now thinks that Helen has a normal life, there are no more emergencies.
"You get pampered, you know," Catherine Moore, Helen's sister, said during the lighthearted conversation.
After all the hardships that the Moore Family went through, Helen is now a vibrant 15-year-old and able to joke about her kidney. She has begun to refer to her kidney by its "jazzy" rhyming name, "Sydney the Kidney."
Bria Brown is a 10-th grader who loves her country, the USA. She is a member of the JV Girls Ultimate team, 10th-grade Treasurer in SGA, and Inter Atlanta...


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|Standard paintwork guarantee
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Performance & economy
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|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
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Student Spotlight: Linda Rubino
Name: Linda Rubino
Expected graduation year: October 2018
Job Title: Admissions Manager
Company: 2U
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Tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Linda Rubino and I currently live in Virginia right outside of Washington D.C. with my fiancé, William. Along with working full time and attending the online MSIM program, my fiancé and I are busy planning our wedding! In my spare time however, I love to cook and plan weekend adventures which include spending time with family and friends.
How do you define information management?
I define information management as the ability to make sense out of the vast amounts of data we collect. Behind all of that data is a story. The story, however, cannot come to life without making sense of the data to create meaningful information and insight. An information manager should be able to understand how to manage the information on both the technical side and the business side of an organization.
What is your academic background?
I hold my Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies from Lock Haven University as well as a certificate in business/corporate communications from Duke University Continuing Studies.
What made you want to explore a career in information management?
Instead of thinking about what role I saw myself in, I focused on what skills I was looking to gain from a master's program. With the rise of professionals needed who have a technical skillset, I began to look for a program that would allow someone like me (non-technical) to learn and develop these skills. This led me to Syracuse University's iSchool! I am now adding a whole host of technical skills to my tool belt and very excited about the potential I will have in the future.
How are you applying what you are learning in your program?
The beauty of the information management program is that it is a blend of management courses and technical courses. So far I have taken four courses, and I started my next two for the summer 2017 quarter. I have gained exposure and hands-on practice in IT project management and data modeling as well as management theory and best practices. I have found the management courses to be immediately gratifying. Overall, I am learning a lot about myself and my own ability to apply what I've learned to my profession.
What made you decide to also pursue a Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science?
This goes back to what made me want to explore a career in information management; I focused on the skills I was looking to gain. Being able to obtain my M.S. in Information Management while also being able to focus on gaining a Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science seemed like a perfect fit and honestly a no-brainer!
What do you plan to do after you graduate with your master's in information management?
Right now I do not have an immediate plan. But I firmly believe on creating as many open doors for yourself as possible. I love the ability to network with my current classmates and begin to understand all of the possibilities that will be available down the road.
How will this degree move you closer to your long-term career goals?
I can already see how this degree is helping me develop technical skills that were once foreign to me. Overall, that is exactly what I was hoping for.
Tell us about your experience collaborating with classmates in an online environment.
During my undergraduate degree I took a few online classes, but nothing compares to the digital courses with Syracuse University! It is amazing to finally be able to put a name to a face and make meaningful connections with my fellow classmates. Part of the attractiveness of graduate school is being able to grow your own professional network. To be able to do that in real time through our live classes really helps me learn from the material and the professor as well as from my classmates!
What advice do you have for others considering this degree?
Don't create barriers for yourself by holding yourself back or underestimating yourself. I am exploring many of these areas for the first time, but I can still keep up. Meanwhile, my classmates who have been in technical roles for some time, still learn something new or are fine-tuning best practices. So don't be hesitant! If you are looking for a program that truly cares about your development and potential, then the online information management program from Syracuse University's iSchool is the perfect place to be.


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Bickle, Penny, Cummings, Vicki, Hofmann, Daniela and Pollard, Joshua (eds.) (2017) The Neolithic of Europe: Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle , Oxford. Oxbow books, 340pp.
The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from south-east Europe to Britain and Ireland and chronologically from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with a decided focus on the former. Several papers discuss new scientific approaches to key questions in Neolithic research, while others offer interpretive accounts of aspects of the archaeological record. Thematically, the main foci are on Neolithisation; the archaeology of Neolithic daily life, settlements and subsistence; as well as monuments and aspects of worldview. A number of contributions highlight the recent impact of techniques such as isotopic analysis and statistically modelled radiocarbon dates on our understanding of mobility, diet, lifestyles, events and historical processes. The volume is presented to celebrate the enormous impact that Alasdair Whittle has had on the study of prehistory, especially the European and British Neolithic, and his rich career in archaeology.
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September 24, 2018 by Kiko Martinez
Filed under Kiko, Reviews
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jamey Sheridan
Directed by: Craig William Macneill ("The Boy")
Written by: Bryce Kass (debut)
While it has sustained a strong interest among American folk historians and true-crime enthusiasts for decades, the story of Lizzie Borden, a young woman suspected of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax in 1892, has never received the cinematic attention that a crime of its notoriety would normally demand.
Four years after Christina Ricci portrayed the title character in the laughable Lifetime movie "Lizzie Borden Took an Ax," which featured a lot of goth-punk music, the legendary murders are explored with more style and intimacy in director Craig William Macneill's indie psychological thriller "Lizzie." Despite a worthy effort by Macneill and first-time feature screenwriter Bryce Kass, Lizzie is more memorable for its foreboding atmosphere and believable performances by the film's top-billed actresses Chloë Sevigny ("Lean on Pete") and Kristen Stewart ("Adventureland") than its storytelling prowess.
Along with setting up an ominous backdrop, Macneill and Kass should also be commended for depicting a host of unusual theories as part of the Lizzie Borden narrative, some of which seem to be loosely based on author Ed McBain's 1984 novel "Lizzie." In his book, McBain speculates that Lizzie committed the killings after her stepmother discovered she was having a tryst with their Irish housemaid Bridget Sullivan.
In "Lizzie" the film, it's her father Andrew (Jamey Sheridan) — not her stepmother Abby (Fiona Shaw) — who witnesses the lustful encounter between Lizzie (Sevigny) and Bridget (Stewart). The situation is complicated even more because Andrew is taking sexual advantage of Bridget and has also decided to make Lizzie's uncle John Morse (Denis O'Hare) custodian of her inheritance, a move that aggravates his daughter.
There are also threatening notes being left at the Borden household that suggest someone else in town might have an issue with the family ("No one will save you from what is to come" and "Your sins will find you" aren't exactly neighborly messages). When Lizzie and Bridget's resentment comes to a boiling point, they devise a plan to rid themselves of the people who are harming them.
Shot beautifully by cinematographer Noah Greenberg ("Most Beautiful Island"), "Lizzie" is a somber revisionist interpretation that fails to reach the story's full potential as the minimalist murder mystery it hoped to become. The chemistry between Sevigny and Stewart is palpable as the sexual tension mounts throughout the film, but there just isn't enough substance behind the relationship to warrant an entirely new take on what took place inside the walls of the Borden home more than a century ago.
Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, & Chloe Sevigny – Barry Munday (DVD)
December 16, 2010 by Kiko Martinez
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In the dark independent comedy "Barry Munday," (released on DVD Dec. 7) actor Patrick Wilson ("Little Children") plays the title character, a douchebag stuck in the '90s, who wakes up in the hospital to discover he no longer has testicles. A homely-looking Judy Greer ("13 Going on 30") chimes in as Ginger, a past lover who swears the baby she is carrying is his. Chloë Sevigny (TV's "Big Love") is Ginger's more attractive sister Jennifer, who bats her eyes at Barry because she can.
"Barry Munday" never hit theaters in San Antonio, but I was able to sit down and talk to the cast for a few mintues last March during the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival.
Chloë, what was it about this movie that made you want to be a part of it?
Chloë Sevigny: I had never been in a straight-up comedy before. It's something I had wanted to do for a long time, but never really had a lot of opportunities presented to me. I was also a big fan of Judy [Greer] so I just jumped at this opportunity.
Was it easy for you to change gears and get into comedy mode?
CS: It was very challenging and sometimes intimidating especially since these two (Judy Greer and Patrick Wilson) were so funny. Playing the role on "Big Love" on HBO for so long, you get comfortable there. I haven't been doing a lot of films lately because of scheduling with the show, so being in a movie like this is so terrifying because I'm out of my comfort zone.
Judy, how much input did you have in creating the look of your character. The frizzy hair is pretty wild.
Judy Greer: I think the wardrobe and the glasses were enough. I mean, this girl just really doesn't care. She wasn't trying to force this look on herself. It's just that she didn't give a shit.
What about you Patrick? I haven't seen a braided belt in a while.
Patrick Wilson: We just started building on it from the outside in. There were such strong characters on the page. I knew right away when I talked to [director] Chris [D'Arienzo] I knew I needed to wear puka shells and a braided belt. Once we established that he was hanging onto the early 90s – around the time he was in high school and probably the last time he felt cool. Then I sort of based his movements on someone who, when he hit on women, was completely awkward and not smooth. I based him on a couple of people, but I would never say who.
Is that where you got the walk?
PW: Well, the walk came from a couple of things. I knew this guy who would always walk and lead with his chest; sort of like a gorilla. It's like someone trying to be as manly as he can be and then all of a sudden his manhood is taken away. We were on a time crunch with this movie, so we had to make these decisions and go with it. In the first few days you're really thinking, "I hope this works."
Judy, did your look allow you to feel more like your character?
JG: I think you see a lot of times in movies when characters go through a physical change. I just didn't want it to be about that. I did want my character to fall in love and then say (in a snooty voice), "Now I have to be beautiful because I'm in love." Barry makes her happy. He doesn't change who she is. I think the most my makeup artist let me use was some cherry ChapStick.
Patrick, "Barry Munday" and your 2005 thriller "Hard Candy" are totally different films, but did it worry you at all that your genitals were back in the spotlight again?
PW: Well, emasculation is definitely a theme. There is a similarity there, characters are always looking for an arch in what they gain and learn. I've done every variety of the emasculated man…even in "Little Children." I've actually been very lucky to get these kinds of characters.


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In the past, I have defined the Negative Attribute as a feature of the product that may be needed in order to overcome a potential negative. I said they are well known to most of us, No Preservatives, No Artificial Flavors, Won't Leave Residue, Gluten Free, etc. My assumption was that they were only rarely needed and even then were expendable if the Selling Proposition was complex and already had an abundance of communication elements in it. They don't generally score very high when compared to all of the other communication elements yet curiously, consumers frequently insist on including them in the Selling Proposition. Why do they do that? Here is the answer.
For a long time, I have referred to what I call the operating state of humans. That state is "What's wrong here?" By operating state, I am referring to their frame of mind. If you were just thinking to yourself "yes, but not me", look more closely. This goes for you and I as well. We do it on a subconscious level constantly and jump into and out of it thousands of times daily. Its presence seems to vary on our mood or circumstance but I say it is always right there. I think it is a holdover from the days of the caveman when things went wrong on a frequent basis.
In the past, I recommended we be aware of this consumer behavior and avoid several things that will turn the consumer off simply by making it difficult to work through your Selling Proposition. Here is a short list:
- Avoid a sentence with more than four words.
- Avoid more than five key elements,
- Communicate on an eighth grade level,
- Make smooth transitions from element to element,
- Avoid long words.
- Avoid any word that may not be widely understood.
- Avoid small type or anything else that may be difficult to see.
- Make sure there is contrast in all graphics.
This list was built defensively. That is, with the attitude that one needed to be careful not to sabotage your own Selling Proposition. Now, there is a positively motivated action that I like much more. A reason that offers an advantage over your competition.
Let's assume you still check the above list to be sure you are not inadvertently turning the consumer off. What's next is to find a negative attribute simply to satiate the operating state of your consumer. I believe if you do so they will lower their level of interest in finding an objective that will disqualify their purchase. This will be most effective on a product where you are relatively sure there are no Negatives in the consumers mind to overcome.
Let's get creative for a moment. Let's say you are selling an electric fan. It has in it a simple circuit breaker that is already required by law in case of a short. Electric fans have been made this way for years. The consumer, on the other hand, has no fundamental fear of a short as they encounter the category.
The opportunity: The consumer approaches the category looking for a fan with little knowledge of how fans work. He scans several fans that boast similar performance features making the decision difficult. But when he encounters your Selling Proposition, it includes the words "Automatic short safety protector". This line is intentionally worded similar to a "surge protector" that the world has come to accept as necessary. Now we have invented a Negative Attribute for our own use to set ourselves aside from our competition. Which one does he buy?
Continuing the thought, I have seen the line "gluten free" on food products that are completely inappropriate like preserves and juices. I suspect it was added by marketers who are hoping for a ride on that bandwagon.
The learning here is that in the endless quest to drive your competition crazy, three words at a time, take a look at the Negative Attribute. Your competition is likely unaware of this opportunity.
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In this issue: prospects for a universal basic income; ending sub-minimum wages; rising suburban poverty; and investor primacy v. social capitalism.
In the World Economic Forum, the Peterson Institute's Pedro Nicolaci da Costa looks at automation and other job killing trends as well and lists many more policy options beyond UBI including a negative income tax, a government jobs guarantee, taxing the robots, and expanding the safety net. This podcast from LinkedIn takes on the universal basic income that is much beloved of the tech industry but faces skepticism from workers, some of whom went so far as to call it "anti-American."
Economist Michael Spence offered up these thoughts: "Our identity based on work-definition and our rugged individualism, might in the next two decades, take a significant hit. As our current employment rate is lower than it has been in a long time; we have to think carefully of how we will problem solve automation and what we will tolerate our most vulnerable to experience during this period."
You also might be interested in this feature by Lisa Miller in New York Magazine that looks at a Michigan town facing car-plant layoffs and what it means for policymaking:
In 1978, the American auto industry employed 1.2 million people; by 2009, that number had been reduced by half. It's not personal, and there's no single culprit. Competition, especially with the Japanese, toppled the Big Three's primacy. Automation eliminated whole categories of jobs. Globalization forced consumer prices down, putting crushing pressure on automakers to continually cut costs. These forces have devastated the American industrial-labor market over the past half-century, like oceans rising and flooding the landscape. The jobs that remain are a mixed bag. Some are appealing: in management, engineering and robotics, industrial design, and even machine learning. And union workers on the line can still earn about $30 an hour. But thanks in part to the decline of unions and the ever-increasing (market-driven) corporate focus on profit margins, assembly jobs are no longer as stable or as lucrative as they once were, and the vast majority of autoworkers — 72 percent — now work in separate auto-part plants, most of them as independent contractors often doing dirty, dangerous work for significantly lower pay. So when Donald Trump tweets "JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!," as he did in March, taking credit for Ford's moves in Wayne and elsewhere, he is marketing a nostalgic fantasy of a time when a job at Ford meant a house, a boat, a pension, and a backyard grill.
But time doesn't go back. The Ford of 2017 wouldn't survive if it hired a hundred thousand Americans to work its lines or reinstated lifetime benefits for those it does employ. Its factories are already making as many cars as people want to buy (and maybe more), and a new generation of competitors like Tesla and Google promise to change the game — again — completely. So what help is possible?
Over at Salon, Mike Adams looks at the marijuana industry and whether it has potential to be a blue-collar jobs engine:
The latest market analysis from New Frontier Data shows marijuana legalization's power to create new jobs could be a salvation's wing for the "middle class," the pulse of the U.S. economy, by creating more jobs (nearly a quarter of a million) within the next few years than the combined offering of the manufacturing and government sectors.
What's more is the full job-creating potential of legalization is far from being realized.
Reports show that long before the first gram of marijuana is ever sold in a legal state, money is being made hand over fist by those members of the business community with, perhaps, little to no interest in legal weed. Contractors specializing in everything from construction to heating & air are being called upon in the beginning stages to assemble the various components of the cannabis industry. This situation alone is responsible for putting thousands of people to work — contributing new money to local economies.
In the American Prospect, Ben Spielberg discusses a new congressional proposal to raise the minimum wage and end sub-minimum wages:
That sub-minimum wages exist isn't all that commonly known, but the one you're most likely to have heard of is for tipped workers—people who, for example, wait your tables when you go out to eat, drive you around in taxis, cut your hair, and park your car. Businesses do not need to pay these workers the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour; instead, these workers are only guaranteed $2.13 an hour from their employers, a wage floor that hasn't changed since 1991. The idea is that tips will make up the difference. In theory, employers are required to make up that difference themselves if a worker's tips for the week don't add up to the minimum, but this requirement is notoriously hard to enforce. Worse yet, employers sometimes confiscate tips...
The minimum wage is meant to rebalance power between workers and employers, who often pay not what workers are worth (as the standard economic model erroneously teaches us) but as little as they possibly can. It is an ethical standard that defines what workers deserve and the kind of economy we should have. Allowing businesses to pay some workers less or carving out exemptions for some businesses sends the message that paying substandard wages in a multi-trillion dollar economy is okay, that we view a business owner's right to make profits as more important than a worker's right to earn a decent living.
In the New Republic, we have a photo essay that offers a window into some of the struggles going on in the Appalachian region:
A "forgotten land," Saturday Review declared in 1968. If we wished to believe in the American dream, we had to view the poverty and despair of Appalachia as somehow separate from our national aspirations: an American nightmare of its own making. The region and its people remain poor for a simple reason: They were shaped by a legacy of extraction and exploitation. As Appalachia has been systematically stripped of its coal and timber and other resources—the wealth of an entire region converted into energy and capital for industrial America—the poverty rate has soared to 35 percent in mining communities like McDowell County, West Virginia. Many residents lack access to basic necessities like health care and transportation, let alone broadband internet. If some turn to an easy and self-destructive alternative, be it conservative politics or opioid painkillers, it isn't because they lack the intelligence or strength of character to improve their own lot. It's because false promises and cheap drugs are the only things the rest of America exports to Appalachia in plentiful supply.
In the Atlantic, Annie Lowery looks at why Maine's welfare policies reflect the sentiments about the deserving and undeserving poor:
Kane is one of tens of thousands of Mainers affected by sweeping changes made to the state's anti-poverty programs by the state's Republican governor, Paul LePage. His administration has tightened eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps, and welfare, and hopes to do yet more: adding work requirements to Medicaid, removing young adults from public health coverage, and eliminating the state's general-assistance funds for the indigent. The broad aim of these reforms is to create a safety net that provides help for the disabled, elderly, and children, but prompts able-bodied adults to help themselves. "It is this idea that all welfare should be workfare," said Michael Hillard, an economist at the University of Southern Maine.
In implementing these changes, Maine has become a bellwether. A number of other states are copying the state's reforms or devising similar ones of their own, with numerous states mulling attaching work, volunteering, and job-training requirements to safety-net programs...The point is to separate out the "deserving" from the "undeserving" poor, a concept that has its roots in Tudor England, when local parishes were instructed to punish and even execute the idle. Where the federal government is now going, Maine has led the way.
Over at Quartz, we have a new look look at rising poverty in the suburbs that is challenging the safety net and assumptions about who is poor and where they live:
Recent research by the political scientist Scott Allard shows that, in absolute numbers, this no longer holds true. The University of Washington professor estimates that there are 17 million people living in poverty in the suburbs of the US's big cities—4 million more than in cities themselves...Allard believes that the challenge of addressing suburban poverty is exacerbated by the fact that the scope of the problem is so often portrayed—by Trump and others—as being limited to the urban poor. He found that, in 2010, there were about eight times as many articles in major US newspapers containing the words "urban" and "poverty" than "suburban" and "poverty," and that this media coverage is disproportionately focused on black Americans. He cites a wide range of research that suggests support for social-assistance programs declines when Americans believe that poverty is mostly found in urban, minority settings.
Over Vox, Dylan Matthews discusses two new reports and says proposals to replace current social safety nets with universal basic income would have many worrisome trade-offs:
Both the OECD and AEI reports suggest that an immediate cashing out of big social programs to fund a UBI would be kind of a mess. It'd create massive disruption with big winners and losers, and given the scale of change required, it probably isn't the most effective way of alleviating poverty you could imagine. Indeed, many of the models they consider would lead to poverty going up, not down.
But it's important not to interpret these results as implying that any attempt to offer cash without work or other requirements is bound to be ineffective or require gutting necessary programs. It just suggests that there are better avenues for advocates of cash to explore than a large-scale UBI reform.
For example, both these papers assume that the basic income would be paid out to everybody: homeless people with no earnings, plus Bill Gates, plus everyone in between. That might make sense if you fund the program with bigger taxes on high earners, so as to claw back the benefits, but none of the plans modeled rely on that as their primary financing mechanism.
Playtime is crucial for children's mental and social development but is increasingly scarce if the child is poor, writes Livia Gershon in TalkPoverty. In the Washington Post, we have a story on how real estate developer Jared Kushner was able to take advantage of subsidies meant for low-income communities to build a luxury tower. You also might also be interested in this ACLU lawsuit against a county in South Carolina that may be engaging in a type of debtor's prison:
Under the Trial in Absentia Policy, the complaint says, Lexington County courts order the arrest and incarceration of people unable to pay fines and fees in connection with trials and sentencing proceedings that are held in their absence. Even if the individual contacts the court to request another hearing date and to explain why they cannot appear at the scheduled hearing, courts will convict them in absentia, and sentence them to jail pending payment of fines and fees. Before notifying these individuals of their sentences, courts issue bench warrants ordering law enforcement to arrest and jail the individual, again unless the full amount owed is paid.
In the New Yorker, Sheelah Kolhatkar looks at whether social capitalism is losing ground based on events following the purchase of ride sharing company Juno:
Juno's founders had adopted the language of a doing-well-by-doing-good philosophy that has spread in the business world in recent years. Some call it conscious or socially responsible capitalism, but the basic idea is that any business has multiple stakeholders—not just owners but employees, consumers, and also the community—and each of their interests should be taken into account. The idea arose in response to an even more powerful principle: the primacy of investor rights. In a new book, "The Golden Passport," the journalist Duff McDonald lays much of the blame for that thinking at the feet of a Harvard Business School professor named Michael Jensen, whose "agency theory," developed in the nineteen-eighties, sought to align the interests of managers with those of the company's investors. (Gordon Gekko spoke eloquently on its behalf in the movie "Wall Street.") This alignment led to huge stock-option pay packages for top corporate managers and, McDonald argues, provided an intellectual framework that justifies doing anything (within the law) to increase a company's stock price, whether that be firing workers or polluting the environment.
In this philosophical tension, the investors-above-all doctrine seems to have triumphed over the more inclusive approach. "I think what's recent is maybe being so completely blatant about it," Peter Cappelli, a professor and labor economist at Wharton, said.
In the Wall Street Journal, Warren Stephens laments that young people like social entrepreneurship and free enterprise but are skeptical of capitalism:
This disconnect is at best confusing; at worst it's troubling. Without access to capital, budding entrepreneurs see their ideas wither; without capital, there is nothing to fuel innovation. Capital is the lifeblood of our economy. It must flow freely to ensure the economy's vitality and health.
I recognize that young people have come of age during some troubled economic times. I suspect this contributes to their discontent and their misguided belief that government interference is the answer. In truth, government meddling is a large part of the problem...I hope for a day when young people no longer reject that concept but revel in it. As a country, we need to reclaim our pride in capitalism and remember that the markets have the greatest power when they are free, and that free markets empower one and all, not just the few and the select.
Bloomberg reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook says any corporate tax reform should include a levy on any income no matter where it is held: "It should be a required tax," Cook said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Television. "And so you're not asking the people that have had earnings from their international subsidiaries if they'd like to bring back money. You're saying that, you must pay the government X percent now or over some period of time."
Deirdre Hess Jun 12, 2017 Reply
$2.13 an hour... I am amazed to learn that's still the tipped minimum! That's what I made at my first job, age 14, as a waitress after school at a Western-themed restaurant in my tiny heartland hometown. No one eats dinner at 4pm, and it was a quiet restaurant in a quiet village. I would frequently spend a majority of my shift cleaning, rather than serving.
It suddenly occurs to me that I have no idea if my employers made up the difference between the $2.13 and the normal minimum wage of the time. Did they even know they were supposed to? Possibly not. I certainly didn't.


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June 6, 2018
IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF: MMM, a minor child,v.AMMJ, Appellee (Respondent). MMM and CRM, Appellants (Petitioners),
from the District Court of Fremont County The Honorable
Norman E. Young, Judge
Representing Appellants: Wendy S. Owens, Casper, Wyoming.
Representing Appellee: Pro se - no brief filed.
BURKE, C.J., and HILL [*] , DAVIS, FOX, and KAUTZ, JJ.
Father and Stepmother petitioned for a decree of adoption
allowing Stepmother to adopt MMM without Mother's
consent. The district court denied the petition, finding that
Father and Stepmother failed to show by clear and convincing
evidence that Mother willfully abandoned MMM or that she
willfully failed to pay child support. Father and Stepmother
appeal and we affirm.
1. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it found
that Father and Stepmother failed to demonstrate by clear and
convincing evidence that Mother willfully abandoned MMM?
2. Did
the district court abuse its discretion when it found that
Father and Stepmother failed to demonstrate by clear and
convincing evidence that Mother willfully failed to pay child
support during the relevant period?
The facts in this case are generally undisputed. On November
5, 2008, MMM was born to Father and Mother, who were never
married. Mother was a drug addict and was first arrested when
MMM was two years old. She has spent a significant amount of
time since then either in incarceration or in a court-ordered
treatment program. MMM has lived the vast majority of her
life with Father. Father and Stepmother were married on
December 29, 2012, and MMM has resided with both since then.
The district court entered a joint custody order in January
2013, granting Father primary physical custody of MMM, and
granting Mother visitation by telephone every Tuesday from
5:00 to 6:00 p.m. for six months, with any other visitation
at Father's discretion. The order set Mother's child
support obligation at $50 per month, and gave her the right
to petition for modification of both visitation and child
support after six months. Mother never petitioned to modify
visitation or child support.
From the date of the order through the date the petition for
adoption was filed (except for nine months from January 8 to
October 13, 2016, and four days in June of 2016), Mother has
been incarcerated or in inpatient treatment for her drug
addiction. Mother's contacts with MMM consisted of phone
calls and letters from prison and phone calls during the
brief period when she was not incarcerated. Mother agreed
that her phone calls have been inconsistent, but testified
that both she and Father share in the responsibility for
those inconsistencies. Sometimes Father and Stepmother would
not allow contact with MMM and, according to Mother,
"this would go on for extended periods of time, and then
I would get a letter saying it was okay to call again, and .
. . I would initiate phone calls." Mother explained that
Father and Stepmother would ask her not to call when they
were visiting extended family in Arizona. And, while she was
incarcerated, it was difficult to make consistent calls
because she was not always available at the time she was
supposed to call, but that "at all times, [she] was
doing what [she] could." Mother also explained that she
had talked with Father, trying to rekindle their
relationship, probably 15 to 20 times between January 2016
and October 2016. During that time frame, she spoke to MMM
"about 12" times. She testified, "When I was
supposed to call, I would call. Sometimes I was working and I
didn't. And then after [Father] and I had a dispute on
personal matters, it got awkward between us. And I, at that
time, had started using, and I quit attempting to make
With respect to her relationship with MMM, Mother explained:
At this point, I'm at a very pivotal point in my life and
in my drug addiction. Instead of going and doing my time this
time, I have voluntarily went into a program that is brutal.
. . . This time is different. I am at a different place. . .
I at no point have agreed to or want to have my rights
terminated. . . . Like this is my last chance. . . . And the
only thing I have is the knowledge that I have to try to
fight for myself as a parent for my daughter.
Father testified that Mother's contact with MMM was
"sporadic" and that when she did not call as
scheduled, "she would say it was because they were on
lockdown or whatever reason." He described contact while
Mother was in prison as being "good for two, three weeks
straight, and then it might not be for a month or two months,
and then we'd get one here, one there." During the
time Mother was not in prison, the times for Mother's
calls changed to accommodate MMM's dance schedule and
"for two months, [Mother] was on point calling . . . and
then all of a sudden nothing again." Mother told Father
that the scheduled time conflicted with her work schedule so,
again, they changed the time, but "she never tried to
call again." Father also testified that Mother never
sent MMM a birthday card, or anything for her birthday or
Christmas, and that Mother had not called since the adoption
petition was filed.
Occasionally, while she was incarcerated, Mother held jobs
and made approximately 30 cents an hour, but the record does
not indicate the total amount she earned. In 2014,
Mother's grandmother gave her some money, but the amount
and frequency of those gifts are not contained in the record
either. During the nine months when she was not confined,
Mother worked part-time as a seasonal flagger for a road
construction company and earned approximately $200 at that
job. Mother made one $50 child support payment in January
2013 and has made no other support payments. Mother
contributed nothing toward child support from her income at
any of her jobs or from the money her grandmother gave her.
Mother admitted that she ...
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There's no better way of connecting to the emotional side of parent care than listening to your parent's life stories. Preserving her stories via recordings or video creates an elder care legacy to share with your family. Encouraging your parent to share stories deepens your parent care bond and helps them review their life.
It's easy to add story collecting to your parent care activities. The basic equipment is a recording device and your questions. Ask open ended questions to encourage your parent to open up and share stories. Save sensitive questions until your parent is comfortable being interviewed.
Here are a few questions to get you started.
- What is your earliest memory?
- Tell me about how you met Mom (Dad).
- Tell me about your wedding day.
- What is your favorite memory of your parents?
- What are you proudest of in your life?
- What kind of things did you like to do as a kid?
- What lessons would you like to pass on to your kids and grandkids?
For more questions check out the Question Sets on the Our Story website, a site that helps people create personal timelines. You can purchase a kit from Project Storykeeper for a more structured approach to collecting your parent's stories. Giving the kit as a gift is a great parent care connector.
Setting the stage for a stronger parent care connection via story sharing
- Schedule your interview at a time of day when she has the most energy.
- Avoid having more than one or two family members present. Having too large an audience might be inhibiting.
- Try not to interrupt your parent once she starts talking.
- Be ready with follow up questions if your parent gets stuck.
- Keep the session relatively short 1-1.5 hours to prevent tiring your parent.
- Story sharing should be pleasant, if your parent is not comfortable answering a question, move on.
Parent care can be much more than taking care of your parent's needs. An Important task is helping your parent reflect on their life and preserve their stories for your family.
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We're off to a great start this term. As I wrote in my opening post, I will be an occasional contributor to this blog. While I'd like the blog to be primarily a space for students to share their ideas, I do read all the posts and reading gets me thinking. And thinking gets me writing.
In the first class, I asked the group to write their personal language biographies, taking into account all aspects of their linguistic repertoires (with whom and when do they use particular linguistic resources). If you've been following along with the blog, you'll see that some of the students have developed the in-class activity into blog posts.
(As an aside: I am starting to realize how busy this blog is going to keep me – there are 38 students in the group and they are each expected to write a minimum of 3 posts during the semester. You do the math, but that's a lot of blog posts! But, I am very lucky because I get to read them all.)
I'd like to share some reflections on what has been posted so far. First, some themes I've noticed:
accent – noticing, changing, losing, gaining
identity – changing, becoming, challenging, noticing
place – staying, traveling, studying, living
culture – sharing, including, excluding, belonging
language – maintaining, learning, teaching, defining
I've also noticed some words:
native speaker
In these words, at times, I see a stance on language and language learning that mirrors how most normal people think about language. Like Van Herk (2012), whose textbook we're using, I'd like to draw attention to difference between how (socio)linguists and normal people think about language (here's an earlier blog post I wrote about this same distinction). This is important because everyone (linguists and normal people alike) has an opinion on language – which ones are good and prestigious, which ones are easier to learn, which ones should be taught. Normal people tend to think of a language with respect to how standard (real, pure, prestigious) it is. This positions anything less than that as non-standard (broken, limited, devalued). Normal people tend to think of these differences as linguistic fact. Sociolinguists research has exposed that these "facts" are socially constructed value judgements and that, from a purely linguistic standpoint, all language varieties are equally as systematic and rule-driven.
Sociolinguists, rather than searching for evidence to support an understanding of linguistic facts, are interested in describing what people are doing with language. While I don't expect everyone in the course to become a sociolinguist (even though sociolinguists are pretty cool), I do expect that everyone will be open to playing with and trying on sociolinguistically-informed ways of understanding words like language, dialect, L1, L2, and native speaker.
I won't say more for now, but I have no doubt that these are themes and words that will surface and resurface throughout the course and in this blog.
For now, I should stop writing because there are probably several student blog posts to read and publish (trying to keep up…).
Van Herk, Gerard (2012). What is sociolinguistics? Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell.


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by Kathryn Weber
This is Part II of the article Feng Shui and Personal Chi Traps
When life is frustrating and it seems like we can't break out of a pattern of frustrations and problems, the energy that needs to change in our life is our personal energy. Feng shui has an amazing ability to provide opportunities and shifts in your life when you work with it, but if you are stuck in a personal energy trap, you may find that when the opportunities do come along, you may let them go by, not follow up, or that you fail to take advantage of what is presented to you.
That's why it's so important that we look at both our personal energy as well as the energy of our homes in feng shui.
When we have competing energies, there is a lack of harmony, and harmony is the basis of feng shui. By harmonizing our minds, personal actions and efforts, and feng shui in our homes, we multiply chi and that energy creates true shifts in our lives.
Part one of this article talked about personal chi traps, such as fear, worrying, and complaining.
These are all personal chi traps that keep us stuck even when we work on our feng shui in our homes (and wonder why it's not working). The second part of this article is aimed at helping you break free from those traps, harmonizing your mind with your home's feng shui, to create a chi that is strong, free-flowing and that helps you grow and advance.
Intention and awareness.
Creating an intention to solve a problem is a key part of getting past it. Determination at working on what's not working in your life begins in your mind first. Your intention has to be that you will resolve the issue irrespective of how you will accomplish it. This is critical to helping energy flow in a way that helps you create situations and bring opportunities that get you out of circumstances that make you unhappy.
Too often, though, the how of getting out of a situation is often what keeps people stuck in it.
They can't see how they are going to change it, or it's not obvious, so there is doubt, and when there is doubt, there is desperation. Trust that you are going to make a change and that energy will move the way you need it to bring solutions to you even when you don't know how it will do that or what those solutions will look like.
Decision making and claiming.
There are times when you must decide – or claim — for yourself that things will change. This is usually not a claim that you make for yourself but for the circumstances that you find yourself in, sometimes time and time again.
It may be that you have to decide that no matter how it is you have gotten yourself to where you are, that you have decided that you've had enough and you are ready to claim a different way of living, being, and acting.
Go neutral.
When circumstances are difficult, avoid complaining about it, ruminating, and worrying. Avoid letting despair and negative emotions from swallowing you. Instead, put your mental focus and self-talk firmly on the steps you are taking and the outcome you desire.
Use the power of 1.
Taking a single step or action and committing to it is powerful. Many times when we have a problem, there really is only one right solution. We typically know what it is, like my packing up and moving a full china cabinet before I sold my house. You know in your heart what the answer is and what the step is you need to take. Now, just take that one step.
It's you, not me.
When the problem is always outside of you, the solution is too. Why do the same things keep happening to me? Because I have chosen to see the problem, and often times, all problems, as outside myself. It's like the wife staying with the abusive husband. Who is the problem? Who is the solution?
We have to be our own solutions in every circumstance.
That may mean changing our thinking, our reactions and responses. When you apply your mind and thought, you change your chi. But your thinking must be accompanied by your actions. We can't just think our way out of problems; we have to act our way out of them.
Confidence vs. courage.
It's important that you believe in yourself. Doing that requires you take action on your behalf. You may even stop yourself from taking action because you don't have confidence in yourself.
You may believe that you can't take certain steps, be a certain way, or take action until you have confidence. You may even wait for the confidence, like a city bus, to show up on a street corner, before you act.
What you lack is not confidence, it's courage. Have courage to take action on your behalf, and you will build your confidence. Confidence is something that's cultivated, not given, bestowed, or inherited.
Go for growth.
In feng shui, moving energy with feng shui is a way to improve your life. You do this by applying feng shui to your home, bedroom and office. You need to apply it to yourself as well. Maybe you've gotten into a pattern of oversleeping, overspending, or other patterns of behavior that are self-defeating.
One quick way to shake up your energy is to change your look.
Seeing something different in the mirror is helpful for seeing something different in your life. If you don't dress nicely for work, polish your image. Do something different for yourself, such as a new hairstyle or color. See yourself differently and then see what changes in your life.
Create a new image for yourself.
What is the image of you? Do you have a picture of yourself or a painting that represents you? If not, find one that represents the ideal you. Leave this image where you can see it frequently. This can be an image of what you aspire to, or an image that gives you a certain feeling.
I have an oil painting in a beautiful gold frame that I bought when I was fourteen years old that I have always loved. It shows a little girl standing and looking out over an ocean scene. The colors are bright and pastel-colored, she's wearing shorts and a hat like she's enjoying a lovely day at the beach.
I've owned this painting now for 42 years. It represents the way I want to feel inside – like a little girl on a summer's day at the beach. Happy and content. Find your image that depicts how you want to live, feel, look like, or that represents your perfectness.
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Drink coasters often do their job of protecting our tables from ugly drink rings, and then they're stored away, unseen, until they're needed again.
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These meat chickens are raised on a pasture in moveable pens so that they are given the opportunity to eat fresh grass every day. They are also given a supplemental feed to ensure the health of the birds. The feed is antibiotic and growth hormone free, and non GMO.
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1857 3¢ - #25
Four outer frame lines
3¢ - Rose red or dull red - Type I
Four outer frame lines.
38,000,000 - Perf. 15½ - Scott #25 - 1857
3¢ - Rose - Type I
Four outer frame lines.
Perf. 15½ Imperf Vertically - Scott #25A- 1857
CERTIFICATE REQUIRED! to discern from #25
(with 4 margins around the design)
Used: $8-$35
No postmark with gum (MH): $200-$400
Full perfect gum, no postmark, no trace of stamp hinge mark (MNH): $2,500
Issued: February 28, 1857
Plate Size: Sheets of 200 subjects (2 panes of 100).
Printer: Toppan, Carpenter & Co., using the flat plate printing process.
Watermark: None
Quantity Issued: 39 million
Color: ROSE
Note: Because of the narrow margins, finding an example with a complete design can be a challenge. One can usually see one frame line, either at the top or bottom of the design.
The Inspiration for the Design
The design was based off Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust, for more detail on the bust click here.
Varieties to look for
Jerome S. Wagshal established a connection between the "Sample A" Chicago Perf. 11 stamps and the effort by R. K. Swift to sell the Hadley perforator to the U.S. Post Office Department in June 1855. W. Wilson Hulme II went into greater detail identifying the various known examples by their respective positions in the sheet and establishing that the ex-Chase block of 21 (since divided into smaller units) and two blocks of six originated from the same "Sample A" sheet, which Swift submitted to the Third Assistant Postmaster with his solicitation letter. These "Sample A" stamps later reached collectors.
A total of 33 "Sample A" Chicago Perf. stamps are recorded, including a block of nine, two blocks of six, and a block of four. There are four contiguous stamps from the Chase piece that have not been accounted for and may still exist as a block.
Jerome S. Wagshal established a connection between the "Sample A" Chicago Perf. 11 stamps and the effort by R. K. Swift to sell the Hadley
Whilst not as well known as the forked lightning crack on plate 3 of the 1857 1¢, this plate crack (at upper left) does command a premium in price.
Extremely rare and not cataloged by Scotts. Last seen at an auction in 1973.
How the perforated stamp came to us
When Rowland Hill designed the worlds first postage stamp, the penny black, no provision was made for separating the stamps. in 1847, six years after the introduction of the first stamp, Henry Archer submitted a two seperating machines to the British postmaster general. These machines employed lancet shaped blades, however their effect, was mixed at best. Soon after Mr Archer patented a machine which used perforation as a means of seperation, his first trials with this machine were on the Prince Consort essay, an example is seen above. The Prince Consort was Prince Albert, the design was never approved.
In October 1853 the first perforated stamps were issued in the UK using new perforating machines built by David Napier and Son Ltd, they were revenue stamps The first perforated stamps were revenue stamps issued in October 1853.
Aaron Brown, Postmaster-General 1857-59
In 1857 the new postmaster general was determined to introduce the perforation of postage stamps to the US. Perforating machines, at the cost of $3,000 were acquired by Toppan Carpenter, along with $6,000 in new plates. The machines were from England, but not from Napier, they purchased rouletting machines from William Bemrose & Sons of Derby, converting them to perforating machines. One problem is that these new machines could accommodate a relatively narrow sheet, which explains why the stamps of the 1857 series are spaced so close together. The first stamps to be perforated were the thirty cent, twenty four cent and ninety cent values.


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Sinuses Are Clear: Sinusitis Home Remedies
Before modern medicine was widely available to prevent sinusitis, people used various different natural remedies to help relieve symptoms and deal with the problems associated with the sinuses. Some of these old fashioned sinusitis remedies can always hold true when it comes to dealing with congestion and relieving pain and pressure.
Other Remedies
One way that some people use to counter the symptoms of sinusitis is to give themselves a facial massage. Some sufferers say that simply pressing the particular thumbs firmly against the sides of the nose and holding all of them for 25 mere seconds before repeating will temporarily clear the sinuses. This is because it delivers a fresh blood supply to the affected area. People have said that using a vaporizer at night is a useful remedy for sinusitis. It will stop the air getting dried up through the night and irritating the sinuses.
Sinus toothache may be due to an infection in the sinuses caused by strain and pain on the teeth's roots. Sinus toothaches may be hard to diagnose and to take care of. However, there are various ways that you can do to treat nose toothache in a natural way. As much as possible, test some available natural methods first, when in case the pain is still unbearable, then you may choose to go to your physician for further examinations. Basically, treating this supply, which is often a nose problem (sinusitis), can help you remove the sinus toothache in no time. Below are a few natural remedies that you can make use of so that you can get relief from a sinus tooth ache.
- Self-Help Rest is necessary to allow quickly recovery as well as help your body to fight irritation.
- You also have to be able to drink a lot of essential fluids like water and refreshing fruit juice.
- Inhale vapor from a bowl filled with warm water to help hydrate the sinus cavities; or you may also just use a comfortable shrink.
Symptoms of the Condition
Chronic sinusitis or rhinosinusitis will usually be indicated by a number of signs. There will be greenish/yellowish thick discharge from the nose or even at the back of your throat. You will also have difficulties in breathing because of nasal congestion. Locations around your eyes, nose, forehead and cheeks are going to be swollen, soft or painful. You will also feel headaches, ear pain, teeth/jaw pain, sore throat, breathing problems at night, lowered sensing notion, bad breath, feeling sick and fatigue.
Some of the a lot more widespread signs of a sinus infection are: tiredness, tiredness you cannot describe, nasal congestion, drainage from the nose down into the actual again of your throat, coughing, sneezing, strain or discomfort wherever in the region of tooth, cheekbones, jaw, forehead and best of the head, head ache when bending around or experience worse when you sleep the night or stand up-- this depends on that set of sinuses are involved.
How the Condition is Acquired
Many sinusitis cases normally go away for not more than two to three weeks. After the symptoms of acute sinusitis don't go away, they are able to develop into chronic sinusitis. Additionally, there are disorders that can lead to the development of this condition. Some of them are:
Natural sinusitis remedies can still be used in today's society, and in many cases can ease sinus problems without the need to resort to medicine.
- There are four sets of pairs of sinuses.
- These are air-stuffed cavities.
- These are related to a room among the nose and the nose passage.
- Their purpose is to defend the skull, lessen its fat and allow the words resonate inside.
Surgery If medical treatment all fail to make the condition better, surgery may be considered as the second treatment in order to improve the afflicted sinus' drainage. The most common medical method performed is FESS or perhaps useful endoscopic sinus surgery; whereby an endoscope will probably be put into your nose. The particular endoscope enables the doctor to see as part of your nose in order to eliminate cells that cause sinus blockage.
The Use of Cayenne Pepper Was Considered a Remedy for Sinusitis Before
People would stir a tsp of the pepper into a cup of hot water, and drink three cups each day. Eucalyptus oil is also well known as a remedy for congestion and blocked sinuses. People would serve a few drops of eucalyptus into a bowl of boiling water, then cover their head with a towel and breathe in the steam for ten minutes or so. Salt mixed with water has been used as a nasal inhaler in times past, and has been known to be an effective decongestant. Thyme was used in the past because of its antiseptic properties. 1 or 2 teaspoons of thyme were put into a cup of boiling water and left for 10 minutes before drinking. This could be done three times per day.
- Hour Sinus Infection Breakthrough will teach just how sinus can be eliminated inside of only one day.
- Sinus Doctor can be an additional product you can use to experience quick rest from the infection.
Dental Problems When your teeth and gums are infected, this may spread to the maxillary sinus and result in sinus infection.
Medication With the advance of science and modern medicine, there are now several treatments available to deal with sinusitis. Antibiotics may help to deal with an infection, although they are not able to help sinusitis that is caused by a virus or allergies. With regards to sinusitis treatments, the medical world offers various other options which are designed to relieve symptoms as opposed to fully cure sinus issues.
Typically when folks don't really feel good, commence getting a lot more exhausted, assume they may perhaps be getting a cool or in fact think they have one by now, it might just be the commencing of a sinus infection. The signs can be confusing since so many of the nippy signs or symptoms mimic sinus infection symptoms. But with a little detective perform you are able to figure out which usually it is. If you're starting up to get a sore throat, nine times out of ten it will be from your sinus infection or irritation in the early levels fairly than strep throat or a cold. It is possible to quickly tell by gargling with a little salt water -- we all phone it saline resolution in the hospital. Use about one 50 % of a measuring teaspoon of salt to be able to one particular cup of real or warm spring h2o. In the event that it feels a smaller amount annoyed compared to it really is most likely sinus drainage that has brought on the tenderness and irritation.
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You think you might have a sinus infection or are just questioning just what to find when you do not have one but, the succeeding sinus symptoms may give you an notion of what to look for. Usually you are going to have at least a single or a lot more of these signs. They by no means usually mean you have an infection heading on, it could be simply an inflammation of the sinuses referred to as sinusitis (an irritation is also present in an infection.) Sinusitis can be acute (which indicates a sudden onset) or persistent which means a lengthier expression.)
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How the Condition is Treated
Medications Steroids in forms of drops and sprays may be applied to the nasal lining to be able to reduce inflammation and swelling. Antiobiotics may also be recommended for a longer period of up to one month once a whole assessment from the throat, nose and ears is done. If the sinus infection is related to candica infections (which is rare), antifungal medicines are going to be approved also. Painkillers can also be taken to be able to ease your own pains. Decongestant sprays or falls are used to help you breathe simpler. For decongestion, you may also use saline options for the nose.
You can Get Rid of an Infection or Sinus Problem At Residence With All-Natural Remedy
These are just a few of the sinus infection symptoms to work with you figure out if you have a sinus infection or a chilly. It will get higher and you can get some relief and heal it on your own with some fast treatment at residence. An individual neverhave to experience.
These sinus cavities are known as frontal -- operating out of the forehead, maxillary positioned driving the oral cavity bones, ethmoid located among the eyes and sphenoid located deeper at the rear of the eyes. The sinusesdefend you from overseas organisms just like viruses, bacteria and fungi and from pollution and things that trigger allergies. Any of these organisms can stick to the mucous, cilia (little hairs) and cells lining the sinuses and lead to a sinus infection. Also your signs or symptoms may give you an idea which set of sinuses is impacted.
Seeing the Doctor
Chronic sinusitis normally occurs after a few incidents of acute sinusitis (not longer as compared to four weeks). You know you ought to find a doctor when the symptoms have been occurring 7 days in a row previously.
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Natural Remedies
Natural sinusitis remedies may not clear an infection where antibiotics may be the better option; but many people still rely on their usefulness when it comes to the relief of symptoms. A number of the more popular remedies are detailed below:
Your doctor may recommend a decongestant to help clear the sinuses and reduce the pressure caused by mucking up up as well as blocking of the nose passage. There are also a number of nasal sprays available that provide the same effect as well as lowering this and stuffiness that comes with blocked sinuses.
- Allergic Rhinitis This nose allergy affects cells of the nasal area lining and can block the waterflow and drainage channels of the sinus.
- Thus, the sinuses develop inclination towards infections.
- For whatever condition you may have, knowledge about it will be very helpful in achieving effective treatment.
- When it comes to persistent sinus infection, you have to know a large number of things to be able to cure it.
- You've chronic sinusitis if your sinuses or nasal pathways are swollen and painful.
- This common condition typically remain for a period of 12 days (even longer), regardless of what treatment you provide.
Use Garlic to Cure Sinus Toothaches
This common herb can be a very powerful and normal antibacterial cure and also can be used to cure just about all sinus toothache causes. If in the event the pain will not subside, you could bruise up garlic cloves and put it directly into the tooth that is affected. Remember to take away the garlic if and when it starts to tingle. - Essential clove oil could also be used for sinus toothache . These cloves have natural pain-relieving attributes and can be very helpful in getting relief.
Placing droplets of the oil using organic cotton swabs and directly applying it in to the area of pain can give you relief from the pain. - Turmeric paste will be a natural anti-inflammatory and antibacterial treatment as well as can also help lower discomfort. You can make a combination of turmeric stick with the addition of the right amount of water. The mixture should then be applied to the affected area. - Ginger root can also be very effective in treating this kind of pain. It has natural pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory attributes.
Can help you fight the infection and relieve you the pain which can be due to the contaminated enamel. - An Or grape root tincture can also help you treatment sinus toothache which is a result of a sinus infection. Since it has a powerful antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial qualities, it can help you reduce the discomfort of your toothache. When in case a clove essential oil is not available, you may choose to chew or crush whole cloves and then apply them directly into the affected area. Though it may not be as effective as the oil, it can somehow reduce this as a result of nose toothache . Ginger root, on the other hand, should not be taken by people suffering from a gallbladder disease as it may trigger problems.
- Cold/Flu Illnesses Viruses cause cold and flu that can affect the sinuses.
- In some instances, bacteria may cause the condition to be able to aggravate that will additional damage sinus linings.
Natural sinusitis remedies can be a great way to combat sinusitis, especially for those who are sensitive to medication; nonetheless, it should be noted that these are solely remedies for the relief of symptoms. If you think you may have a more serious sinus infection, you need to go to a doctor, as medication may be more suitable.


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Chief Executive Officer
Peter has 40 years of insurance industry experience, including 30 years in Asia. Peter is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of UK.
He has successfully managed both regional and country-based operations in the underwriting, risk management and broking sectors and has operated in both retail and wholesale segments. He has also been involved in servicing a broad range of Asia based and global clients in the power, mining, pulp and paper, petrochemical and manufacturing sectors.
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Administrative Officer
Fujita joined Marubeni in 1992 and began his foray into the insurance industry in 2004.
Since then, he has assumed senior insurance roles within the Marubeni corporation which include group captives, the Marubeni Safenet agency, as well as Marnix Tokyo and Singapore operations.
Chief Financial Officer
Mui Eng has been the Chief Financial Officer of the company since it was set up in year 2010.
She has over 20 years of experience in the insurance broking industry and is also a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Prior to joining Marnix, she was with one of the top insurance broking firms for 15 years.
Global Head, Power & Engineering
Kif joined Marnix in 2015 as a Director in the Power and Engineering team and leads a team of brokers focused on delivering insurance solutions and services to power generation clients in Asia. He specialises in property, business interruption, general liability, terrorism, etc. for clients in these segments.
Kif has over 20 years of working experience in the insurance industry and has held various positions in
client management, underwriting, risk engineering and loss adjustment, mainly in FM Global and ACR.
Specialising in challenging occupancies, he has led teams of underwriters, risk engineers and claims adjusters in meeting the insurance needs of numerous clients in industries such as Power, Semiconductor and Chemical, throughout Asia.
Naomi has been responsible for managing reinsurance placements for operational and construction power projects not only in Asia but also in the Middle East, South America and other regions mostly for Marubeni related projects.
She joined Marubeni in 2008 and has played a key role in setting up the Marnix Singapore office. Having developed her career in Tokyo as a General Manager from May 2012 by leading a team which handles insurance for the heavy industry sector including power projects, she was relocated to Singapore in April 2014.
Before joining Marubeni, she worked for Sompo Japan Insurance, dedicating herself to marketing a variety of product lines mainly in the retail insurance area.
Director Facultative Broking
Kazunori joined Marnix in 2019.
He joined Marubeni in 2008 and was assigned to Marubeni Safenet Co., Ltd, one of the most sizable Japanese insurance agency. He has been mainly responsible for the placement for marine cargo, trade credit and general liability of Marubeni related business. After Marubeni Safenet, he has transferred to Insurance Business Development Team of Marubeni in 2012.
He played a key role in managing the captive in the Federated States of Micronesia and setting up the captive in Vermont, U.S.A. Just before relocating to Marnix, he has also worked at Marnix Tokyo for 3 years and manage reinsurance placements for operational and construction power projects of Marubeni related projects.
Before joining Marubeni, he worked for Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. dedicating himself to designing marine cargo insurance programs for key accounts.
Account Executive
A graduate of the Singapore Institute of Management with a degree in Banking and Finance from the University of London, Melissa is a new addition to the Power and Engineering team at Marnix.
She is providing strong support to the team and is involved in servicing major clients.
Director, Treaty
Poh Lueng joined Marnix in 2014 as Director of the Treaty Division, having previously served in a similar capacity at PWS. His main areas of responsibility are the management of the Treaty portfolio and new business development in the Asian territories.
Besides the traditional classes of Property, Engineering, Marine and Casualty, he is also involved in the delivery of Specialty lines solutions such as Bonds, Credit, Guarantees and Warranty.
He has more than 20 years of reinsurance experience and had served in various director and management positions in both broking and underwriting companies.
Poh Lueng is also a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and qualified Associate of the Charted Insurance Institute (ACII).
Broking Assistant
A Broking Assistant in Marnix, Joy assists in casualty Facultative and Treaty reinsurance mainly for China
and Taiwan.
Handling business operations in the Specialty and Treaty portfolios, Joy's responsibilities include assisting in placement and communicating regularly with clients and reinsurers on renewals, endorsements and claims.
Technical Administrator
A key member of the Broking Team for the Treaty Division, Yi Xin assists the Treaty Director in the reinsurance placement and development of the Treaty portfolio across all lines both for Quota Share and Excess of Loss contracts. She also maintains and updates the Treaty portfolio statistics and handles Treaty business from the Asia Pacific.
Before joining Marnix in 2014, Yi Xin was a Technical Administrator for a Lloyd's Broker and handled treaty reinsurance premium and claims transactions.
Director, Facultative
John has held directorship roles in UK, Malaysia and Singapore and has worked in the reinsurance industry for 30 years.
During the span of his career, he has been involved in production and broking of all classes of reinsurance business, placing risks into local and global markets, focused on Construction, Project Marine Cargo, Property and Aviation.
Joining Marnix in 2014 as Facultative Director, John handles placements on behalf of Marubeni and other Japanese interests and non-Japanese clients alike.
Senior Broker
Jeanne commenced her career in insurance as a direct corporate broker with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) before joining the reinsurance industry in 2002.
Having started her reinsurance career with PWS East Asia Pte Ltd (subsequently renamed THB Reinsurance Brokers Singapore), she then joined Marnix Insurance Brokers Asia in 2014.
Jeanne has reinsurance experience in major property accounts across various industries such as Mining, Power, Energy, Semiconductor, Textiles, Pulp and Paper, as well as Petrochemicals for countries like Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand and USA.
Responsible for broking and placements of Faculative risks across South East Asia, Benjamin's focus in Marnix is in the areas of Power, Property and Construction.
Experienced in both life and general insurance including retail broking, client serving and risk advisory, Benjamin served under big names such as Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) and Great Eastern Assurance Co Singapore prior to joining Marnix.
He used to support JLT's Major Corporate Client Solutions team, managing accounts in various sectors, such as healthcare, logistics, automobile, R&D, and FMCG.
Senior Broker
Theresa is focused on developing, placing and servicing the reinsurance business emanating predominantly from emerging markets in Asia Pacific such as India, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as other territories like the Middle East and USA domiciled risks.
Her principal focus is on Casualty, Financial and Specialty lines and she is also actively involved in conceptualising various facilities and schemes.
Prior to her employment with Marnix in 2014, Theresa worked at PWS East Asia Pte Ltd in Philippines for almost 10 years.
Chief Executive Officer
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Le Village Buffet, along with the buffet at the Bellagio, are two of my favorite buffets on the strip, although I haven't tried the one at Wynn's yet. The ambience here is wonderful and brings me memories of me and hubby sitting outside a cafe in the real Paris sucking on escargot. Well, just me with the escargot bit because hubby would never eat snails.
The snow crab legs and cocktail shrimps are always good here, and this time around they had Jonah crab claws. I was surprised to find out that Jonah crabs used to be considered a nuisance to New England lobstermen, as I found them sweet and delicious. There were delicious baked oysters too, but no raw ones.
The dessert section is wondeful. Their creme brulee is perfect, and they have a crepe bar where they will make your crepe to order. We always seem to end our dinner with soft serve.
They also have good flan, nice and light. That brown thing there is one of the kids' brownies, which was too sweet for me.
My mom was able to have her crab legs warmed up by the waiter, although I prefer my snow crab legs fresh and chilled as I find them juicier that way. The waiters, of course, bring you all the drinks you want.
Le Village Buffet is located at the Paris Hotel at 3655 Las Vegas Blvd S., Las Vegas, NV (888) 266-5687