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Queer dating in Africa: tricky business
Many obstacles
Between widespread homophobia, the government crackdowns on LGBTIQ communities, few digital dating platforms, and a distinct lack of 'queer singles mixers' in many countries, finding that special someone as a member of the LGBTIQ community on the continent can be quite a task.
Despite all this, there are many within the queer community who have found connections, some for decades, some for days – and some for the night.
Within the queer community on the continent, safety and security are of the utmost importance. Differences in contexts and spaces can be vast: something that works in one space not working in another.
Safety and security concerns
A stark example of this is 'queer woman speed dating': two similar events, two very different outcomes.
A rainy Saturday afternoon in Johannesburg, queer women gathering over welcome gin cocktails and smooth tunes for a successful event, while, in the meantime in Kenya, queer women speed dating was shut down and termed a 'lesbian orgy.' The Kenyan example is, sadly, closer to the norm, with many wondering if their gatherings will be shut down by the authorities. Or even a private, cosy dinner between two: derailed when management asks the loving couple to leave.
Knowing someone who knows someone
The close-knit nature of the community (due in large parts to safety issues as well as few people being openly out) means that often one often ends up dating someone whom their friend has dated. Many who try and 'diversify their portfolio' will hit the brick wall of not knowing any other queer people outside their circles. As the base presumption is often that most people are straight, one cannot simply hit the town and hit the prowl in many spaces.
This means that many must rely on their networks in order to get dates.
Nights out are, again, sometimes not on the cards. However, when they are, it's all about knowing where to go. Having queer-friendly spaces is important in countries where homosexuality is illegal.
In many areas being 'in the know' about a place that will not put you physically in danger is key to meeting people and interacting with them.
Queer organisations often also play a prominent part in facilitating meetings through workshops, movie screenings, dialogues, and other events. They play such a pivotal role with their wide networks across whole areas or even in some cases the entire country or continent. This would mean that chances are their social pull goes beyond that of you and your friends.
Dating in the digital realm
The digital space is also one that can prove extremely treacherous when it comes to finding love. Incidences of extortion and blackmail are rife in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, and Egypt through dating apps such as Grindr.
People, posing as potential partners or playmates, are using these spaces to extort money from those using the app. This potentially dangerous situation is countered by a distinct lack of choice when it comes to using dating apps as in many countries. Grindr is one of the fully queer options along with except for HER in South Africa and LIIV App.
While potentially exposing people to danger, some have said they have found a potential mate on dating apps and social media sites. One woman, however, lamented that often there is a very small pool to pick from.
This leaves good old sliding into the DMs, sending private messages on Facebook and double-tapping every Instagram photo to show someone you are interested.
With few formal channels for finding love and hookups, queer people on the continent often have to rely on the social media networks they create. Facebook is arguably the most active of these spaces, as it is rife with groups that speak to everything from location to preference: Lesbians Of Limpopo or Out and Proud Namibia or even Sexy Femmes of Abuja. These informal digital networks allow for offline communities to be built and people to come together.
The intimate nature of the communities functioning in a perilous (often closeted) context which means that dating as a queer person can prove extremely difficult.
This was first published on the Love Matters Website.


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Obituaries | The Tube City Almanac | September 20, 2017
Mary S. Callaway Edwards, 82, of Clairton, Pennsylvania, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, departed this Earthly life September 14, 2017 in AHN Jefferson Regional Hospital.
Born February 10, 1935 in Boissevain, VA, daughter of the late William C., Sr. and Tansileen Harvey Callaway; she was also preceded in death by husband, Enoch Edwards, son, Donnie Logan, and sister, Shirley Sales.
Mary was a member of Mt. Olive First Baptist Church Sunday School, where she taught Sunday School and was a former member of Friendship Baptist Church Columbus, OH, where she was a Choir member. She worked as a Unit Clerk for Grant Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Survivors include her son, Tony Edwards of Columbus, OH; brother, Rev. William C. (Leona) Callaway of Clairton; granddaughter, Kim Logo of Columbus, OH, nieces, nephews, cousins, and many loving friends.
Friends will be received Friday from 10:00- 11:00 am at Mt. Olive First Baptist Church, 451 Park Avenue, Clairton, Pennsylvania, where services will begin at 11:00 am with Bishop Thelma Jean Mitchell officiating
Interment will follow in the Round Hill Cemetery, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.
Arrangements entrusted to the Robert A. Waters Funeral Home, Inc., Clairton, PA.
Originally published September 20, 2017.
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It's been over a year since I last wrote a blog. The topic was a passionate defense of the award-winning documentary "After Tiller." The movie profiles the four doctors who were inspired to follow Dr. George Tiller's example after he was gunned down on a Sunday in 2011 in his church — of all places, by a religious zealot, no less. Dr. Tiller was one of the few doctors in the U.S. who performed third-trimester abortions, and the movie shows, with such humanity and compassion, how the four are carrying on in the spirit of his motto "Trust women." If you haven't had the good fortune to see the movie (which was shown on PBS this September and is available on Netflix), I urge you to do so. And if you need motivation, read my blog at lovemeanssecondchances.com. There's also a review at workers.org.
Please note that my blog has been on hiatus — that makes it sound so professional (wink, wink) — since last fall when I had to clear up some financial issues about selling the book on Amazon and I wanted to post yet another corrected version of the text via Lightning Source. It's amazing to me, the compulsive copyeditor/proofreader, that I continue to find sneaky little typos. Now that both issues have been resolved, I'm back to promoting my novel via this blog.
I had the good fortune to meet Dr. Susan Robinson, one of the four doctors in "After Tiller," at the 28th annual conference "From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom" at Hampshire College in April. She's just as down to earth, genuine, and dedicated as she appears in the movie — a real-life, totally unpretentious, genuine hero. It was exciting and delightfully gratifying to meet her.
There, I also met Dr. Melissa Madera, founder and director of The Abortion Diary Podcast, who subsequently interviewed me. Her concept for the podcast diary is that one way to end women's shame about having an abortion — and to break the silence resulting from the current viciously anti-abortion atmosphere — is to share our stories openly, publicly, proudly. Please check out Melissa's wonderful project at theabortiondiarypodcast.com. My story, entitled "I knew I couldn't be a single mother," is #53. And if you can make even a small contribution, please do. Every effort to affirm abortion as a woman's human right helps build the movement for reproductive justice for all women. Onward!
Last winter-spring, I wrote a series of articles for Workers World about the Hobby Lobby case, delving into its many complicated aspects — an overview of the issues, especially the fraudulent claim of "religious liberty"; why the free contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act is essential for woman's health and well-being as well as that of her family; and what political forces were behind the law suit. You guessed it, several far-right religious groups as well as the Kochs (whom I have since daubed "the kings of the oligarchs!). More recently, I've been writing about the attacks on poor women's right to access abortion in Texas for WW. If you're curious about those articles, and a review of "Obvious Child," you'll find them under my byline at workers.org.
Words matter, terminology matters
Over the summer the New York Times ran a very provocative article that claimed the concept of "pro-choice" was outdated, no longer necessary. I disagree. In a nutshell, the essence of choice is that every woman should have the means to freely choose whether or not to have children with whom she pleases. I call "Love Means Second Chances" a pro-choice novel because that immediately identifies it, setting it apart from other novels. I see "choice" as a useful shorthand for the whole constellation of factors — economic, social, gender/sexual, religious, cultural, political, environmental — that comprise the umbrella concept of reproductive justice.
At the Hampshire conference, Loretta Ross described how the term RJ originated 20 years ago when a group of Black women got together after attending the U.N. conference on women in Cairo. They were frustrated because they felt the term "reproductive rights" didn't go far enough. They wanted women's control over their own bodies to be viewed as a human right that must be guaranteed like all other human rights defined by the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Hence reproductive justice. But RJ is a very sophisticated, comprehensive concept and most people may not immediately understand the totality of what it encompasses: that every woman has the human right to experience the many aspects of her life freely and fully. So for now, I'm continuing to use "pro-choice" as an easy identifier when that's appropriate.
But the concept of RJ is essential when discussing some issues. One of the most far-reaching aspects was articulated this summer in several articles posted on RH Reality Check (a wonderful resource with daily material on all aspects of RJ). Katherine Cross summarized points made in a few of them and then added her own analysis in "The Price of Our Blood: Why Ferguson Is a Reproductive Justice Issue" (Aug. 26). She writes:
"Far from being a 'separate issue,' as some would like to imagine, what happened to Michael Brown is as much a profound indictment of our lack of reproductive justice as it is our lack of racial and economic justice.
"If reproductive choice is about deciding whether or not one can have a family, or how large one wants her family to be, then structural violence imposed on a community is a constraint upon that freedom. If a woman like Marissa Alexander, for instance, cannot defend her own life and her children from an abusive parent, that too is a violation of reproductive freedom.
"The issue is not only the tragic loss of a child, or an unjustly incarcerated mother. It's the fact that for the entire Black community in our society, there is a calculus to be made about one's children that's not prevalent among whites." Later she adds: "All lives must be valued as equal. There can be no reproductive justice without racial justice." And I would add economic, social, gender/sexual, cultural, political and environmental justice — every aspect of life that affects all women's existence. Cross then goes on to discuss how this same lack of equality is played out in Native, Latina, and other people-of-color communities.
I urge you, if you haven't read this article, to read it at tinyurl.com/lj4dml2.
I'll be posting this blog more regularly from now on!


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No fee hike for undergraduate courses at MU this year: Minister
Minister of state for higher and technical education, Ravindra Waikar on Tuesday announced that the 10% fee hike for undergraduate courses at Mumbai university (MU) will not be implemented.mumbai Updated: Jun 02, 2015 22:57 IST
Minister of state for higher and technical education, Ravindra Waikar on Tuesday announced that the 10% fee hike for undergraduate courses at Mumbai university (MU) will not be implemented.
Waikar also said only those colleges that fulfil guidelines set by the fee revision committee can approach the university for a hike.
HT had reported on Monday that the MU was mulling a 10% fee hike across undergraduate courses, followed by a 5% hike each for the next two academic years.
Last year, when a 25% hike in unaided courses was proposed, it led to several protests after which the fee revision committee was formed. The committee had come up with a set of criteria for colleges to meet such as adequate infrastructure, student-teacher ratio among others, after which they could approach MU for a fee hike.
However, on May 5, the committee recommended a phased hike in fee for three years for all courses and colleges and was also presented at the management council meeting.
But several members of the fee revision committee claimed that they were left out of this recommendation and the decision to present this recommendation to the management council on May 29.
Waikar was flooded with complaints by some section of teachers, senate members as well committee members opposing the same.
"We are strictly against the fee hike as very few colleges meet the requirements to be able to charge higher fees," said a senate member of the university.
In the meeting, Waikar asked the university to only allow colleges that fulfil these criteria to approach them for a hike. Moreover, only unaided courses will be considered for the fee hike, said an official from Waikar's office.
Naresh Chandra, former pro-vice-chancellor under whose chairmanship the fee revision committee recommended the hike said, "The minister has asked for revision of guidelines and the fee hike. We will follow what has been told."


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I am a stay at home mom to 4 kids, 2 little dog and 1 husband. I am a Christian but I am also a Democrat, which is unusual for the conservative area in which I live. My kids are getting older but I still feel the pull to stay at home with them. I do a lot of volunteer work in the community, mostly at my kid's (public) schools. I am very crafty, I like to paint, scrapbook, make my own greeting cards and all sorts of fun stuff like that. I also like to read a lot- it is a big stress reliever for me to go and spend a quiet couple of hours alone at the library. I have become very interested in a variety of environmental issues and am driving my family crazy as I become more and more "crunchy granola". I have also recently started to pursue a childhood dream of being a 'real' writer. I haven't published anything for money yet, but I still have fun doing what I love.


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BELLAIR'S HOTEL is the leading- house on the Southern line, and commands a large business from the travelling- public. The hotel has been in the hands of the Bellair family for over 25 years. Our illustrations show the hotel property as seen from Fitzmaurice-street, and an interior picture of the dining-room. The cuisine is excellent, and well served. The hotel enjoys a high reputation, and the motto of the proprietors is, 'Everything of the Best.' The commercial travellers' sample-rooms are commodious, and the stabling' accommodation is very extensive.
– The Sydney Mail Wednesday 10 August 1910.
Located a stones throw from the Murrumbidgee River and in the heart of Wagga's business district, Romano's is a Riverina icon.
Built as the Commercial in 1857, it was one of the most substantial buildings in the Riverina. In 1885 TS Bellair took over and it was called the Bellair Commercial. It was occupied by the RAAF during WWII and purchased by Azzalin Orlando Romano in late 1945.
Azzalin Orlando Romano, a restaurateur, was born on 13 September 1894 at Padua, Italy. His early hospitality working life saw him work at hotels and restaurants in Nice, Monte Carlo, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and London. He rose through a pyramidal structure from receptionist to cook and from waiter to wine butler; he had learned to speak French, German, Spanish and English, in addition to his native Italian, and claimed to have served every King in Europe.
In his early twenties, while officiating as head waiter at London's Ritz Hotel, he adopted Romano as his surname, reflecting his regard for one of the city's most renowned restaurants.
In 1923, Romano come to Australia to run the luxurious Ambassadors restaurant in Pitt Street, Sydney. Four years later Romano's Restaurant opened in York Street and in 1946 he purchased and lavishly rebuilt what is the current Romano's Hotel Wagga Wagga.
Romano kept the pub for nearly 20 years before publicly offering it for sale.
Today Romano's is owned by a syndicate with all members having strong associations with Wagga Wagga.
– http://www.romanoshotel.com.au
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As I told The Washington Post, I predict Obama will win the official vote count by 3.7 points. Let's see how I do.
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It's hard to believe GoldenEye 007 was released 20 years ago exclusively for the Nintendo 64 (N64) video game console! I must have played my favorite songs from that game thousands of times!
Graeme Norgate (with a little help from Grant Kirkhope and Robin Beanland) composed the soundtrack for GoldenEye 007. Despite being limited to the outdated MIDI format, Norgate composed an incredibly slick soundtrack for that title.
My favorite song in GoldenEye 007 is "Dam," an epic musical opening to the groundbreaking masterpiece. The song creates a sense of mystery, anxiety and suspense:
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Whilst completing my Masters degree in Creative Writing, I was offered the opportunity, along with other writers on the course, to help produce an anthology of the groups work. This involved coming up with a title and theme for the anthology, writing material to be included in the book and then completing a cover design for the final project. I really enjoyed working with my fellow writers and being involved with a local publisher, discussing various stages of the publishing process.
When the completed book was unveiled we were all very proud and began to look into marketing it. Amazon took a selection of the books and we also arranged several readings throughout Wales to promote and sell 'Wicked Words' to the public. The following picture shows the team at the Launch, based at Trinity College in May 2005. I'm standing at the far right.
This was the start of a tour, which visited six venues across Wales in six weeks! The other venues included Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Queens Hall, Narberth, The Mariners Hotel, Haverfordwest, and kings Arms, Pembroke. Our Programme consisted of author readings, guest appearances, drinks and nibbles and then book signings by the authors. As part of our marketing we distributed posters and bookmarks across libraries, schools, and other venues across the country. This is the bookmark we designed to match the Wicked Words book cover.
The reverse of the bookmark gives details of the writers featured in the book, (a variety of nationalities and backgrounds) and also information of the venues we were visiting. Our final tour date was very special to us, because it was a last-minute addition, but one which was of great importance and excitement. One of the ladies on the course had contact with Peter Florence, who is well-known creator and director of the Hay Book Festival, which takes place in Hay on Wye every summer, and attracts a wide range of people, from general public with an interest in literature, to famous writers, actors, comedians and broadcasters, such as Stephen Fry, Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Wilson. We managed to get a slot in one of the smaller marquees, and were added to the bill! It became very real when I received a programme of the Festival and saw our names in neat italics, alongside greats such as J.K Rowling and Gillian Clarke. I am still mortified today to think that on 5th June 2005, I was sitting next to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber in the green room for our marquee, and did not even realise who it was! Of course I knew of his work, I even enjoyed many of his musicals. And no doubt I had seen pictures of him in the papers and on television. But it took a friend to tell me of what she'd witnessed as she'd passed by the green room and looked inside, before I realised just how close I had come to meeting one of the greatest writers and composers in Great Britain! I won't make that same mistake in the future if ever I am within a few metres of the man!
Being involved in the festival was very nerve-wracking, but also very exciting! It was the first year I had ever been, and I go every year now without fail. The atmosphere is so electric. The people around you are like-minded individuals who are there to celebrate the books and the authors that wrote them as well as to discover new ones. As I took to the stand, looking out into a sea of blank faces, a few of them recognisable, I felt very nervous. But once I started speaking, it came more naturally and I felt proud to read my work to such a big and encouraging audience. The picture below shows those of us who attended the event, we were given white roses by the organisers, which I still have pressed into an old notebook to this day. I'm sitting front left.
The Book tour was surprisingly successful, with a lot of people attending the event aside from family and friends of those involved. I enjoyed talking to new people and making contacts, some very kind words were said about the writers and our book and a lot of people gave time and money to help us make a success of it. The experience taught me a lot about the business side of producing a book, of working with other writers and of the process of marketing and promoting your work. Although it was hard work and quite daunting at times, it was such an enjoyable experience. It gave me the opportunity to experience life as a published writer and firmly cemented in my mind my desire to continue on that path.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Spring \Spring\, noun [AS. spring a fountain, a leap. See {Spring}, verb (used without an object)]
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke. --Dryden.
2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! --Dryden.
4. An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
Note: The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms are the {spiral spring} (Fig. a), the {coil spring} (Fig. b), the {elliptic spring} (Fig. c), the {half-elliptic spring} (Fig. d), the {volute spring}, the {India-rubber spring}, the {atmospheric spring}, etc.
5. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; an issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. "All my springs are in thee." --Ps. lxxxvii. 7. "A secret spring of spiritual joy." --Bentley. "The sacred spring whence right and honor streams." --Sir J. Davies.
6. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. --Pope.
7. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as: (a) A race; lineage. [Obs.] --Chapman. (b) A youth; a springal. [Obs.] --Spenser. (c) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.] --Spenser. Milton.
8. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
9. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring." --Shak.
Note: Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer solstice, about June 21st.
10. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage; as, the spring of life. "The spring of the day." --1 Sam. ix. 26.
O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day. --Shak.
11. (Naut.) (a) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. (b) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
{Air spring}, {Boiling spring}, etc. See under {Air}, {Boiling}, etc.
{Spring back} (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat.
{Spring balance}, a contrivance for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel.
{Spring beam}, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box. See {Paddle beam}, under {Paddle}, noun
{Spring beauty}. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Claytonia}, delicate herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty blossoms, appearing in springtime. (b) (Zool.) A small, elegant American butterfly ({Erora laeta}) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.
{Spring bed}, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity.
{Spring beetle} (Zool.), a snapping beetle; an elater.
{Spring box}, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of mechanism, in which the spring is contained.
{Spring fly} (Zool.), a caddice fly; -- so called because it appears in the spring.
{Spring grass} (Bot.), vernal grass. See under {Vernal}.
{Spring gun}, a firearm discharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved.
{Spring hook} (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame.
{Spring latch}, a latch that fastens with a spring.
{Spring lock}, a lock that fastens with a spring.
{Spring mattress}, a spring bed.
{Spring of an arch} (Arch.) See {Springing line of an arch}, under {Springing}.
{Spring of pork}, the lower part of a fore quarter, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder. [Obs.] --Nares.
Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me. --Gayton.
{Spring pin} (Locomotive Engines), an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.
{Spring rye}, a kind of rye sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn.
{Spring stay} (Naut.), a preventer stay, to assist the regular one. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
{Spring tide}, the tide which happens at, or soon after, the new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common tides. See {Tide}.
{Spring wagon}, a wagon in which springs are interposed between the body and the axles to form elastic supports.
{Spring wheat}, any kind of wheat sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn. Springald Springal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
1: a spring in the shape of a coil [syn: {coil spring}, {volute spring}]
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At Ideacrate his responsibilities involve managing all phases related to opening of FEC which includes designing, tendering, planning, authority approvals, coordinating with various teams involved in project execution and handing over the FEC to operations team in a flawless manner. When not working you can find him in a badminton, squash or volleyball court in the neighbourhood.
Chantilly is our cookie monster and food panda fused into one. Visit her desk for unlimited supply of cookies and if it's your lucky day she will bring great stuff from her samples for us to taste. She works closely with the finance team handling the purchase division. You will find her most of the times on the phone negotiating with vendors and comparing quotations. She for sure brings to the team a touch of compassion with some outstanding initiatives.
Born and raised in Coorg one of the most beautiful places in India, Dechamma brings to our team an unending supply of adventurous stories and travel goals. She is our laughing therapy, in a very serious situation she makes sure you don't look sulky. She ensures smooth coordination between various departments and is responsible for all the senior management meetings. With an MBA in marketing and extensive experience in coordinating with higher management she brings Midas touch to our team.
Jagat is our go to man for literally anything related to technology. From being SOS'd for the silliest reasons like a frozen screen to solving the most complex networking issues this is our own upgrade of Sheldon Copper you could say this guy is one lab accident away from creating our own Skynet. Jagat brings to the team a fantastic experience from the IT industry, from implementing ERP's in multiple locations to ensuring our entire IT infrastructure in functional and up-to-date.
Sajal is the sole reason why we pick restaurants with veg food during team outings. With an obsession for North Indian sweets and a strict vegan diet, his desk is usually our inhouse sweet mart. Sajal brings a vast experience of over 5 years in the financial industry handling various key projects with leading brands. At Ideacrate he heads an enthusiastic finance team responsible for daily accounting and all other financial tasks. In a nutshell for Sajal excel sheets and number crunching can be considered as substitutes to oxygen.
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South Fork 7-13-09
Big bugs are up as high as Irwin, and with flow out of Palisades down to 13000 cfs the river in Swan Valley is in great shape for fishing. Bring your favorite dry giant and golden stonefly patterns! The river is slightly discolored but this does not impact fishing. Give a bit more time, and it will clear. PMDs are out along the upper river, and with flows dropping more gravel bars are becoming available. Big news for the lower river is that it is very tough to take out from the Twin Bridges site because the south channel is small and difficult to see as well as shallow enough to require pulling a drift boat through. The river has formed a berm near the top of that channel. But enough water comes up below this berm to allow launching from the Twin Bridges. On the lower river try such such as rubberlegs and super-x's. The best action here can be had in and around springs that enter the river. Try midge pupa under an indicator or PMD life cycle patterns.
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Information for 9303IIED
Common Land in Scotland. A Brief Overview
Andy Wightman, Robin Callander, Graham Boyd
Report/paper, 17 pages
This paper traces the history of Scotland's once extensive and diverse forms of common land. It provides an insight into why very littleof this common land is still in existence today. It shows how powerful landed interests were able to appropriate the bulk of these lands into their own substantial land holdings by the early nineteenth century. A description of surviving common lands is provided together with a brief insight into current management arrangements and a summary of the key lessons from the Scottish experience. In the concluding part of the paper, a brief overview is given of the new patterns of community ownership which are now emerging and the new legislative and financial instruments that are being developed to assist this process. A set of references and internet websites are provided for those wishing to further explore the topic.
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- Published: 2004 - IIED
- Theme: Drylands and pastoralism
- Series: Securing the Commons 08
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In much of Africa, rural populations depend on access to common property resources such as rangelands and forests for their livelihoods. Securing local rights of access to and management of such resources against encroachment or alienation by national or international actors is key to protecting the livelihoods of local people.
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A Gathering of Remembrance for Larry Dale Zink, 75, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2018, in the Centennial Chapel of Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home and Crematory conducted by Mr. Michael Apala. A time of visitation will follow the services.
Son of the late Charles P. Zink and Ruby Jean (Gordon) Zink, Larry was born May 17, 1943, at Fort Worth, Texas. He passed away Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at an Oklahoma City hospital.
Larry moved to Ardmore in 1966 from Ft. Worth. He and the former Shirley Lee Lewis were married Aug. 5 of that year. They were married for 48 years, when Shirley preceded him in death, Dec. 30, 2014.
A Supervisor at Michelin North America tire manufacturing company, Larry retired with 30 years service. An Ardmore Tiger Football fan, he was a ticket holder for over 40 years. Larry enjoyed fishing and watching sports, especially The University of Texas; in his younger years he was an avid bowler.
Larry is survived by his son, Robert Zink and wife, Toby of Madill, a special granddaughter, Landri Zink; two brothers, Eric Zink and wife, Debbie and Charlie Zink and wife, Janellen; two sisters, Mary Aaron and husband, Danny, Cheryl Carter and husband, Johnny; his special friend and companion, Susan Marsh; brothers-in-law, Chuck Lewis, Joe Lewis and wife, Coleta, many nieces and nephews.
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Comparing ourselves to others worsens depression. When I do it, it adds fuel to my negative thoughts and the descent starts there. I have discovered some ways to keep the comparison beast from taking over my mind and my life and therefore worsening my depression.
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A later evolution of the L-39 was the L-39ZA light attack aircraft. The ZA adds two additional weapon pylons and a center pylon to mount a gun pod. The ZA has proved a popular choice for low-intensity conflicts.
The L-39 Albatros is a low-wing, high-performance jet aircraft that doubles as a trainer and light attack aircraft. The Albatros was developed in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to replace older L-29 jet trainers. Powered by an Ivchenko AI-25TL turbofan engine, the L-39 has a top speed of Mach 0.80, a service ceiling of 11,000 m (36,100 feet), and can pull up to 8 G. Although primarily used as a trainer and light attack aircraft, the L-39 has also become popular with several aerial acrobatics demonstration teams.
Being a trainer aircraft, the L-39C has a tandem cockpit with the student in front and the instructor in the back. The instructor has several controls to mimic system failures to test the student. The L-39C also has two underwing pylons for bombs, rockets and close range air-to-air missiles. For decades, the L-39 was used by nations around the world to train pilots that later went on to fly aircraft like the MiG-29 and Su-27.
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A £300 million cash windfall is coming to the NHS in what could be its best ever Christmas bonus!
The money could potentially pay for 11,700 more community nurses, or 19,800 more breast cancer treatments for patients. In fact, it will supplement a wide range of priority services across the NHS.
The windfall comes in the form of a huge saving on the single most widely-used drug prescribed by the NHS – "adalimumab". Given to patients in hospital, it treats a range of severe and debilitating conditions including several types of arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, chronic psoriasis and other skin conditions.
Until recently, adalimumab was available only from the single pharmaceutical company which developed the drug and therefore held the exclusive patent to manufacture and supply it, using the brand name 'Humira®'. However, that 20-year patent recently expired, enabling other drug companies to manufacture their own versions of the drug, known as 'biosimilars'.
Introducing competition from rival suppliers naturally brings down the cost of the drug and large organisations such as the NHS can use their considerable buying power to negotiate the best deals with various suppliers. That is exactly what has happened in this case, with the NHS striking advantageous deals with five manufacturers to supply low-cost versions of adalimumab.
Although cheaper, these 'biosimilar' versions are just as effective. In fact, one of the five suppliers is the original manufacturer, which has slashed the cost of the drug to compete with its new rivals.
The reason that new drugs are granted an exclusive 20-year patent is so that companies which invent them can recoup some of the massive costs incurred in developing and testing them They do this by setting their own price for the limited period of the patent, free from commercial competition. Without this system there would be less incentive for pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs which could be immediately copied by rivals.
Because adalimumab is so widely used in the NHS, it means a massive saving of around £300 million per year on what it was previously spending. Hospitals will be able to save around a quarter of their previous annual spend on the drug and put the money saved in their budgets to many other uses.
Announcing the new deals, NHS England's Chief Executive Simon Stevens said: "As part of the NHS's Long Term Plan we are ensuring every penny of extra investment is wisely spent. Harnessing the power of competition between drug companies, NHS England has now freed up hundreds of millions of pounds of savings to reinvest in patient care.
"By working with patients and frontline clinicians we've now successfully negotiated the biggest ever set of savings on what was the NHS's most costly drug. This is another example of how the smarter approach to biosimilar medicines in the UK and Europe gives patients and taxpayers a much better deal than they get in the United States."
More than 46,000 patients are currently prescribed Humira® for severe debilitating conditions which are treated in hospitals. New and cheaper biosimilar versions of the drug are expected to be available to NHS patients from December, delivering the huge annual saving to the NHS just in time for Christmas.


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To find an idyllic retreat with your newly spliced other half, the island of Badija off the coast of Korčula should fit the bill. A secluded getaway of pine trees and pebble beaches, Badija was settled by a community of Bosnian monks in the 15th century. Left to their own devices for five centuries, they were resettled in the 1950s and replaced by deer. Unused to danger, these animals tamely mingle with the only human life on the island, leisure-seeking daytrippers, some of them nudists. Korčula is a taxi boat away.
A cruise through the fjords is many people's idea of a quality honeymoon. With Scandinavia improbably expensive, you may wish to consider the Limski kanal. With scenery almost as spectacular, the Limski kanal was a natural for the role of Norway when British filmmaker Jack Cardiff set his Viking feature 'The Long Ships' here in 1964. An estuary that makes a ten-kilometre (six-mile) gash into the west coast of Istria, the Limski kanal features dramatically steep slopes set over calm green waters. It's best visited by tourist boat, with tickets sold in nearby Rovinj.
To really get away from it all, just the two of you, there's Palagruža. The most remote of Croatia's many lighthouse locations, this rocky outpost lies far out in the Adriatic, closer to Italy, and those coming to stay here are transported by boat from Dubrovnik or Korčula. Once you arrive, armed with days of supplies and fresh water, the island is yours to explore, with its sandy shore and rocky walks. Now and then, you might see a passing fisherman, here for the shoals of sardines plentiful in these waters.
Gazing up at the stars is a regular honeymoon activity – in the pretty hilltop village of Višnjan, you can both see the heavens in more detail at its famed observatory. This is no everyday planetarium but a scientific centre of considerable international renown. Benefitting from the lack of light pollution around rural Istria, astronomers at Višnjan have discovered more than 100 minor planets, two comets and asteroids by the thousand. For half the year, the public is admitted to see for themselves, the so-called Astro Nights on Saturday evenings, with a tour and explanations in English.
Watching the sunset together can be a perfect honeymoon moment – and Zadar has the perfect sunset. The major city in north Dalmatia is orientated towards the west, with a string of long islands off its coastline, so that a golden orange sun bleeds into the sea before dusk. Such is the fame of this natural phenomenon that Hollywood director Alfred Hitchcock came here in 1964 just to film it. It also inspired local installation artist Nikola Bašić to create his disc-shaped communal work 'Greeting to the Sun', right on Zadar waterfront.
With all those endorphins whizzing around, it would be good for both of you to burn off some energy. Just outside Pula, Medulin is Croatia's leading destination for active sports, most of them waterborne. Here the pair of you can spend the day windsurfing, sailing, diving or jet-skiing, as well as horse-riding and cycling – or just take each other on at tennis. And if you want to relax after all that exercise, there's the sandy seashore of Bijeca, with its own Strandbar for cocktails.
Oligarchs, movie stars and wealthy sportsmen may choose Dubrovnik for their honeymoon because they can afford the kind of privacy that comes with five-star service. For first-time visitors, particularly newly weds, Dubrovnik can be dauntingly crowded. Yet even close to the Old Town you can find romantic solitude – whether it's Sv Jakov beach, that certain sea-view table at Nautika or a boat from the Old Port to Lokrum, and a whole island of hidden coves, walks through botanical gardens and even a nudist beach.


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Acne is the eighth most common health issue in the world in the world. Globally, 9.4% of the population have acne and a whopping 95% of people will experience the condition over the course of their lifetime. With so many individuals battling to fight the pimples, redness, and blackheads associated with acne, it's essential to find an effective treatment to clear up your symptoms. And, there's no better way than to use the tried and tested methods which are utilized by some of the nation's top skin care experts.
The no-touching rule
Everyone knows that not touching or squeezing your spots is the number one skin care rule, yet millions of people break it every day. When you squeeze a spot, the dirt and bacteria which lives on the hands get transferred to your face. There's then a chance of infection and more pimples developing. What's more, when you put pressure on a spot, you risk damaging the skin and even scarring it. This is why Allure's, Sarah Kinonen and GP Dr. Daisy Bennett promote the no-touching pimple rule at all times.
Double cleansing
Double cleansing involves you thoroughly cleansing your face twice to remove all traces of dirt, makeup, and impurities, and to penetrate your pores. In fact, it's the second cleanse that's the most important, according to the Director of Treatment & Development for HC MedSpa, Rabbia Aslam. She says that during the second cleanse, any dirt which has built up in your pores will be targeted.
This is crucial in combating acne as clogged pores are a leading cause of breakouts. Hallie Gould, the senior editor at Byrdie backs this theory up and says she swears by double cleansing when red cyst-like lumps rear their heads.
Soothing aloe vera
Aloe vera is somewhat of a super cure for multiple skin complaints. It's antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties means that it can alleviate the symptoms associated with sunburn, reduce facial redness, and diminish the physical effects of acne. Dermatologist Lauren Fine, M.D. recommends using fresh aloe vera where possible as it has the best concentration levels, meaning it will work quickly and effectively. Last year, Drew Barrymore tested this theory out , with great results. The actress used Instagram to share with her fans how effective the raw plant was on her cheek blemish.
Benzoyl peroxide
Coveteur's editor Hannah Baxter says she always turns to benzoyl peroxide when she experiences an acne breakout. She religiously uses Clean & Clear's Persa-Gel 10 which contains an impressive 10% of benzoyl peroxide. The great thing about benzoyl peroxide is that it is available in multiple forms and can be purchased in products which can be bought over the counter.
Meanwhile, higher strength products are available on prescription. Benzoyl peroxide works to treat acne by destroying the bacteria which causes breakouts and by removing dead skin cells from your follicles.
Topical retinoids
Topical retinoids containing vitamin A are an effective and expert-approved way to deal with acne. When topical retinoids are applied to your skin they encourage the production of collagen and exfoliate the skin. This results in fewer blockages and cleaner skin, therefore, you're less likely to experience a breakout. Erica Smith who writes for The Cut says that she likes to use Sunday Riley's A+ High Dose Retinoid Serum when she's hit with a bad bout of acne as it's "really, really good at shutting things down."
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Welcome to the Pearce Lab!
Neurodegenerative diseases have become a major global health concern as our population ages at an unprecedented rate. This problem is compounded by the fact that there are currently no available treatments that effectively target the underlying causes of these disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Huntington's disease. Our lab is interested in deciphering the molecular pathways responsible for how neurodegenerative diseases progress through the brain and cause toxicity. Our hope is that by expanding our understanding of these pathogenic mechanisms, better therapies can be developed to slow or stop these fatal diseases.
We are a team of bright and enthusiastic scientists at various levels in our careers (undergrads through PhDs!) who enjoy research and training the next generation of scientists. Please contact Dr. Maggie Pearce if you are interested in learning more about us!
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Pure Gold is a clear beeswax polish for ANY WOOD FINISH and really brings out the best in Ash, Beech, Maple, Light Oak and Pine.
This beeswax furniture polishing kit contains everything you need to polish and protect the finish of your wood furniture:
Our beeswax furniture polish is made in our own UK workshop using the highest quality natural waxes to bring out the shine and protect fine antique furniture:
We have developed our beeswax furniture polish to such a fine blend that you don't necessarily have to polish again for at least a year and possibly up to three years.
Environmental preservation is very important to us and we make every effort to ensure our products have a minimal impact on the environment:
Weekly furniture maintenance of removing dust can be done by simply using a slightly damp cloth and drying if needed with a clean dry cloth - beeswax polish will protect the surface for a very long time.
If you have a larger surface like the side of a chest of drawers or the top of a dining table apply the beeswax more evenly by dabbing the surface all over with small amounts of polish and then wipe in the direction of the grain to spread the wax evenly.
For carved relief areas such as an antique coffer, you can also apply beeswax furniture polish with a cheap 1 inch trimmed paint brush. It makes applying the beeswax much easier and allows the polish to get right into those dusty and hard to reach areas. Buff it 20 to 30 minutes later with the soft shoe brush and buffing cloth
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The KAUFMAN Terry Beach Towel comes in a 4-pack of assorted colors. Also great for a poolside day. Measures: 30in x 60in
KAUFMAN Terry Beach Towel
The perfect everyday beach and pool towel, presented in a unique and eccentric color scheme. This excellent valued set of towels has a variety of uses, ideal for a family vacation, trips to the beach, or poolside activities. The intricate colors provide a pleasant and colorful image for all situations, lighting up the environment and adding character to your boring everyday towel. The 100% cotton towels are plush and comfortable, as well as easy to care and to store. Overall, this towel will change your feelings of an everyday towel, changing your expectations of what a nice towel should feel and look like.
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How to get to the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Ljubljana
Bratislavska cesta 8, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
Surround yourself with cultural attractions, popular business venues and shopping hotspots when you stay at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Ljubljana just off the H3 motorway. Easily reach your destination on foot or by using a variety of nearby transport options.
From Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport
By car:
The hotel is 30km from the airport. A car drive takes around 25 minutes depending on the traffic.
From Ljubljana Train Station
By public transport:
From the Ljubljana Siska Train Station Walk 650 meters to the Stara Cerkev stop and take bus number 7 towards Przan - Nove Jarse. Get off in the Nove Jarse stop and walk 300 meters to the hotel entrance.


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For Sep 22, 2020
On a PICK-4 Selection Slip mark one digit (from 0 to 9) in each of the four columns on up to five boards. Or ask for a Quick Pick and the lottery terminal will randomly select your numbers.
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Abitus' courses for professional development are focused on those for the world's "de facto standard" professional qualifications. Those courses help busy candidates advance their careers by gaining valuable professional credentials within short time through efficient and flexible programs to meet the needs of a diverse candidate population.
●Number of students in USCPA program has increased over the last 10 years since "Accounting Big Bang", the major transformation of Japanese accounting system into an international standard.
●Abitus is the market leader in CPA education in Japan. It has annual enrollment of over 1,000 students with the main age ranging between 20's and 30's. Our program is specially designed for beginners in accounting . This means that each student can study and gain the critical knowledge as quickly and effectively as possible.}
●Abitus is the market leader in the CIA education in Japan . The course has gained popularity by the recent SOX requirement implemented in Japan.
●The majority of its students are in their 40's and many of them belong to accounting, consulting firms or internal audit department in public companies.
●CISA program was launched in April 2007. Number of enrollment has been increasing. This is supported by the recent growing interest in IT audit and Information security.
●Majority of students work in relation to Information system but there are also more than 20% of qualified CPA or CIA.
●Abitus signed an agreement with ICAEW (The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales), and launched the review course for IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) in November 2008.
●Abitus is the only provider for IFRS Certification Assessment in Japan.
●Abitus signed an agreement with FCSL (Florida Coastal School of Law), and started to market its online LL.M. program exclusively in Japan from August 2010.
●Abitus is also offering a preparation course for California Bar Examination not only to LL.M. students but also to Japanese attorneys.
●Annual enrollment of the first year is expected to reach 40 in LL.M. program, and 100 in Bar Exam preparation course.
●Abitus signed an agreement with UML (University of Massachusetts at Lowell), and welcomed the first cohort of students in April 2012.
●Abitus offers Foundation courses of UML's MBA program in Japanese, while supporting students learn in the Advanced courses where students can study online, on-campus, or both.
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AZUSA — Get used to this.
Not the final score, necessarily. Azusa Pacific's 91-79 rout of Cal Baptist in the NCAA Division II West Regional final here Monday night could probably be explained as the fruits of home court advantage, reaped by a team that didn't lose on its own floor all year.
After all, CBU had beaten Azusa by 7 at home and by 9 on a neutral court at the PacWest Tournament. When they played in the Felix Events Center during the regular season, Azusa Pacific won by 16.
But the meeting of a first year eligible D-II school (Azusa) and a second-year eligible school (CBU) in the regional finals suggests a trend, and in fact a power shift among Division II programs on the west coast.
It is no accident that the top four seeds in this week's eight-team tournament came from the PacWest Conference, the circuit of private, mostly religious institutions that has inherited the best of the old Golden State Athletic Conference — CBU, Azusa, Point Loma and Fresno Pacific, with more refugees from the NAIA coming (Concordia next year and, likely, Biola eventually).
Nor is it an accident that athletics staffers at the public institutions of the CCAA are getting very, very nervous about this.
Kevin Hatcher, the athletic director at Cal State San Bernardino, is ending his four-year hitch as tournament director of the West Regional. A year ago, Cal State hosted and the final four were all CCAA schools, with Chico State beating Cal State Stanislaus in the final.
But, as Hatcher noted in a pre-game conversation Monday night, ambitious private schools with bigger budgets for scholarships will force the budget-strapped public institutions of the CCAA to ramp up in order to keep up.
If not? Trying to compete with one hand tied behind their backs seems to be the alternate scenario, and not a pleasant one.
The atmosphere in Azusa's barn Monday night was intense and electric, especially during the first half when the game was close. This befits a rivalry that goes back five full decades: back to the days when Floyd Evans coached the Lancers, Cliff Hamlow coached the Cougars, and Azusa played its home games in a tiny Quonset hut of a gym.
Azusa's 3,500-seat upgrade, which was completed in 2000, is quite striking. Cal Baptist, which had bid to host this regional in 1,100 capacity Van Dyne Gym, is expected to announce plans for an arena of its own soon, possibly some time this spring.
And the arms race will continue.
"Iron sharpens iron," CBU coach Rick Croy said. "There are a number of great programs in our conference, and the CCAA is certainly going to respond. There are a number of great programs in the CCAA. More importantly, we're enhancing the level of the region.
"Certainly, we respect the crowds Azusa gets here. That's what college basketball should be like. It lifts the PacWest, and it lifts the region."
Azusa Pacific coach Justin Leslie, a former player for the Cougars, faced the same transition that CBU and Point Loma and all the rest did. But his team won the race, getting to the Division II nationals first among the newcomers.
"We always knew we had a great caliber of basketball in the GSAC," he said. "The GSAC was special. But we outgrew the NAIA. This was where we needed to be, and we knew that. There was a focus among those institutions that made the transition to be excellent. For us, we strive for God-honoring excellence.
"I've known Rick Croy a long time. We started in this business about the same time, and you're not going to find two more competitive people than the two of us. We're going to bring it every game. So yeah, ideally, if the PacWest continues to grow and get stronger, at the end of the day it's going to force the rest of the region to step up. We can make this the strongest region in the nation if we continue growing."
That will require commitment on the part of administrators, of course. At a place like CBU, where university president Ronald Ellis strives for excellence and fund-raising is seldom an issue, bureaucracy tends to not get in the way.
State institutions operate differently. And the fear among athletic administrators like Hatcher is that simply wanting to grow won't be nearly enough.
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A quick guide to brand awareness survey design
Brand awareness survey results are valuable to brand owners by showing what proportion of the general public, or of their target market, have heard of their brand.
Such surveys are usually undertaken online, and would typically (though not necessarily) have a sample size of 500-1000 respondents. They may be conducted on a one-off basis, or at regular intervals. In the latter case the survey may be referred to as a brand tracker. A tracker would be run in regular waves, perhaps quarterly, or even annually.
Demographic questions
A brand awareness survey will typically need to have the demographic questions at the start of the questionnaire, rather than at the end. So, this would include gender, age, region, etc…
This is so that the sample can be properly structured, to include the correct number of males, females, etc…
Selecting the audience
In addition, the questionnaire may need to include various screener questions. It all depends on who the survey is with. It could be with a nationally representative sample of the general public. Or, more likely, it could be only with the target market.
For example, if the survey is for a brand of hair dye then the brand owner is most likely to be interested in awareness among buyers of hair dye, rather than just anybody. Hence, the survey would need a screener question to identify hair dye buyers, and exclude non hair dye buyers from the survey. There is a particular skill involved in framing screener questions, to make sure they are effective in excluding non target market customers.
Spontaneous brand awareness
After the demographic and screener questions, usually the survey will ask spontaneous (or unprompted) brand awareness first of all. In other words, respondents will be asked to write in their answers, rather than selecting from a list.
Prompted brand awareness
The spontaneous awareness question will typically be followed by a prompted brand awareness question. In other words, respondents will be shown a list of brands and asked which they have ever heard of or are aware of. Ideally this list would not be too long, and only include the leading brands. Otherwise the respondent may well find it too daunting to read through all the choices. Then there is a risk of them giving inaccurate answers.
Other questions
Although a brand awareness survey is concerned primarily with awareness, it may also explore attitudes. For example, it could include questions about "Ever bought", "Would consider buying", and so on.
If you are considering running a brand awareness survey we would be pleased to talk it through with you.


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Pip Rowson
Pip develops and implements Mayvin's marketing and business development strategies. A creative thinker, her key skills are in content editing and research. She is known for her warm, empathic approach to building new business relationships.
Pip Rowson manages Mayvin's networking and thought leadership events. These regular events provide an opportunity for Mayvin's community of Organisation Development and HR practitioners to meet and make connections.
Pip also develops and edits content for Mayvin's mailings, website and social media. In 2016, she managed the redesign and launch of Mayvin's website and brand.
In addition, Pip edits the Mayvin blog. She was the content coordinator for Mayvin's collaborative research report about women's leadership in international NGOs and Restorative HR toolkit.
Pip has several years' experience coordinating Mayvin's large scale multi-strand programmes as well as smaller workshops, coaching and events. As Mayvin's client manager, she worked with John Lewis Partnership, NSPCC and Guys and St Thomas's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She also coordinated Mayvin's accredited programmes for the UK Civil Service and Surrey County Council.
Pip has a first-class degree in English Literature from the University of Sussex. In addition to her role at Mayvin, she works as a freelance content writer, copy-editor and proofreader.
She is an advocate of arts, culture and learning. Her previous roles include working for Arts Council England as well as at Charleston, a museum and literature festival. More recently, Pip was co-director of House of Cultural Curiosity CIC. She co-produced events for the British Science Festival, Hastings Youth Council and the Women's Vote Centenary Grant Fund.
Pip lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her partner Lee. Together they run Micro Library Books, creating miniature artists books and exhibiting work at UK and international events. In 2017 – 2018, these included Bergen Artists Book Fair; East London Comic Arts Festival and Bristol Artists Book Event.
She is a charity supporter and has run half marathons in aid of the charities Mind, Alzheimer's Society and Frank Water. Pip also loves the countryside and is a member of Sussex Wildlife Trust and the National Trust.


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Mobile, AL (WKRG)
For the first time in more than 30 years, Mobile's Historic Fort Conde will soon charge admission. The change comes on top of a major overhaul and new management that's trying to make the fort both fun and financially feasible. As new management prepares to take over the fort, the biggest change you'll see from the outside is an admission charge from seven to five dollars once an overhaul is completed.
"What can we do to get people here? We're really good at selling tickets and we're really good at trading people's time for fun so we think we can combine those two skills and make it into something the community will really be proud of," said co-owner of Activation Management Scott Tindle. Tindle says they're taking the fort back to basics. It charged admission when it first opened. Activation management entered into an agreement with the history museum board to raise money at the fort but Tindle says they're not being paid by the board to manage the place.
"As entrepreneurs, we really see a lot of potential here at the fort," said Tindle. There's nothing new to show at the fort right now, but it's hoped by changing the fort every three months will get people to come back repeatedly.
"We really believe in focusing on the length of stay I think you'll find through the interactivity and programming we create we'll create a little colonial community here," said Tindle. That colonial community may launch by Mardi Gras. As part of the changes, the city of mobile is moving the city's welcome center from the fort to the History Museum. The welcome center reopens in one week.


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Bambi is part of the Disney collection.
Bambi has a body of faceted clear crystal with non-faceted legs.
His his eyes and nose are made in Jet crystal.
Bambi has a beautiful Aurora Borealis Rosaline butterfly on his tail.
The Bambi Collection can be expanded with the following figures:
- Flower the Skunk
- Friend Owl
- Thumper
- Title Plaque Bambi
- Display Bambi
The packages are sent by GLS or TNT/PostNL. All packages will be registered and sent insured. The packages will be delivered to the home address unless you indicate that the package can be delivered to your neighbors if you are not present. Once your order is shipped, you will receive a tracking number by e-mail. Through the tracking number you can track your shipment through the internet and you will see the day of delivery. This varies by country.
If you are not at home on the delivery date, you can specify a different delivery date on the day of shipment to 23:59 using the received email, or it is possible to pick up your order at a GLS collection point. If you are not present during the offering of the package then your order will be offered again the next day.