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It was John Lennon's birthday, so a peaceful time was guaranteed for all.Not even Yoko Ono. Yoko Ono's Yoko Ono.
Peace, in fact, was breaking out all over Civic Center Thursday as the Imagine Peace Paint-In drew hundreds of the curious and pacifists to hear music and talks, including one from May Pang, the ex-Beatle's former companion.
"I was watching the movie The U.S. Versus John Lennon and saw the great things John and Yoko did for peace," said organizer Dana Cain. She quickly began recruiting not only Ono's support, but her friends in the artist community."Imagine Peace Paint-In." Yoko: still got it.
"The live bands followed. That was Yoko's idea. Yoko helped me name it, which was cool."
The free event was to raise awareness about the alternative to war [peace, in case you forgot--ed.], and at least three booths dedicated to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama were on site. The Imagine Peace Foundation's Aleta Antoinette, of Aurora, donated 50 T-shirts to the Department of Peace campaign.I'd settle for more peace and quiet in the world, Antoinette, hint, hint.
"I started the foundation about five years ago," Antoinette said. "I had a grandson and just decided I wanted to do something to put more peace in the world."
Art students from around the metro area were bused in by the dozens to watch artists create and play with stilts and hula-hoops. A solar-powered bubble tour left soap bubbles drifting across the perfect fall afternoon.Art students? Like, art students in high school? Grade school? Hmmm. And no, I'm not looking up what a "solar-powered bubble tour" might be.
Pang addressed the crowd of more than 500 at noon, telling them Lennon would have appreciated this gesture on what would have been his 68th birthday. She got a rousing cheer when she urged everyone to vote.But for whom, May? For whom?
One of the first to sign on with the event was Peace Together of Boulder, which produces T-shirts with messages of peace.Brainyquote Lennon. Eh. A few are funny, hardly any are wise, and none of those are about peace. Fave: "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"We really felt like we had to stop complaining [yeah, sure--ed.] and do something positive," said founder Bobbi Benson. "John Lennon had a lot of very wise words and wise things to say about peace. I think we can all learn from that." . . .
Artists at work. Og say: need more rocks (RMN pic).
Walter Cronkite, by the way, has gone completely bonkers. Here he is on the need for a Department of Peace.
Update: Paula Scabdul joins Walter in urging the creation of a DoP. I bring this up only to boast that I have never, ever seen a single episode of American Idol. Ever. Not one.
I knew Clay Aiken was gay, though.
Update II: But I really want another television set.


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KENNER - New Orleans Saints players Terron Armstead and Cam Jordan joined a group protesting the City of Kenner's ban on Nike products.
Armstead and Jordan joined hundreds of protesters inside the packed Susan Park gymnasium at a 5 p.m. protest against Mayor Ben Zahn's decision to ban booster clubs from purchasing Nike products.
The move, according to a statement by Zahn, comes down to the taxpayers of Kenner supporting what Zahn refers to as Nike's "political agenda," which he said was advanced by the selection of #takeaknee founder Colin Kaepernick as one of the faces of the company's new ad campaign.
"This government will not let taxpayer dollars be used to promote a company's or individual's political position, platform or principle," Zahn said. "That's my position as a matter of fairness to all."
Other local leaders, from Kenner City Councilman Gregory Carroll to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, have come out strongly against Zahn's Nike ban.
Cantrell issued her own statement saying the Nike ban is out of step with the values she holds dear for the City of New Orleans.
"Although the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is located in Kenner, it is owned and governed by the City of New Orleans," Cantrell wrote. "Let me assure you that our airport will continue to uphold our City's values."
Organizers of the protest in Kenner collected signatures on a petition to reverse Zahn's ban on the purchasing of Nike products.
Protest leaders called Zahn's ban "reckless and exclusive," and said they don't want any limits when it comes to helping the youth of the community excel.

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Coming up with unique and distinguishable names for drugs in development—monikers
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But confusion is occurring. Whether handwritten,
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of sound-alike and look-alike names. While such mix-ups often cause little
or no harm to patients, they sometimes are fatal.
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Acer Aspire 5560 Price, Powered by Quad Core AMD A6-3400M APU
Posted by meenakshi in Acer Laptop, Aspire 5560, Gadgets, Laptop
Acer has launched new laptop 'Aspire 5560'. The Acer Aspire 5560 has very good performance with quad core AMD A6-3400M APU with 4MB L2 cache and operating system updated, and a very good connectivity by the multitude of USB ports and the optimal wireless performance.
A good lithium ion battery and an extremely low weight make for the ultimate mobility. Whether you want to use him for fun or for work, you will not be disappointed. Train, tram, bus or plane, this is really a laptop that you can easily carry and use anywhere.
Acer Aspire 5560 Laptop Specifications:
- 1.5 GHz AMD A6-3400M processor
- AMD A60M chipset
- 4 GB DDR3 system memory and expandable Up to 8 GB via memory slot
- 500 GB HDD 5400 rpm
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS
- Mic, Webcam, and speakers
- Ethernet LAN
- 6-cell Lithium-ion battery
- VGA, USB, HDMI and Memory Card Slot
- Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n
- Dimensions: 33.02x381x254 mm
- AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics - 1.0 GB
- Weight: 2.58 kg
Availability and Price in India
The latest Acer Aspire 5560 laptop is available in India, and expected price in Rs.28900/-.
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Garmin Montagne Pro 010-12211-00 Topographical Vector Map France
Grid and vector map in the basic scale of 1: 25,000. Including the French Alps and Pyrenees. Over 27,000 km of cycle and footpaths, searchable POIs. Put in a microSD card and off you go - no need to pre-install it on PC/Mac and Garmin GPS device. We also do not deliver to the: Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Scilly Isles, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Islands & Northern Ireland. All items are IN STOCK at the time of listing. We use third party fulfillment centers to fulfill some of our orders so do not be alarmed if you receive an item with third party branding on the parcel/box, this is completely normal. And we will work with you to resolve it to your satisfaction.
The item "Garmin Montagne Pro 010-12211-00 Topographical Vector Map France" is in sale since Wednesday, June 21, 2017. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Cycling\Bike Accessories\Cycle Computers & GPS". The seller is "1771cohen" and is located in GB. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Russian federation, Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Chile.
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First PV for Hiiro no Kakera Released
So soon after the latest news about this upcoming otome game Hiiro no Kakera (Fragments of Scarlet?) adaption, we get to see the first promotional video for it. Showing the main characters' profiles and the voice actors for them, this is surely also showing us what to expect from graphics and main topics.
The video is available with limited viewership through the official website of the show.
Directed by Hetalia Axis Powers' Bob Shirohata, this shoujo romance will definitely be for all of you who like reverse harem in one way or another. OP song will be "Nee" by Maiko Fujita while the ED – "Kono Te de idaki Tomeru kara" by Shuhei Kita (also performed for Bakuman II and Persona ~Trinity Soul~).
Is this great news or not-so-great? What do you think? Comment below.


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The Chemikol fodder feedouts are hydroponic growing rooms specifically developed to sprout grain and legume seeds for highly nutritious yet cost effective livestock feeds.
These innovative fodder feedouts comprise a series of specialised growing trays onto which a selection of grains and legume seeds are spread and watered at pre-determined intervals with overhead sprays. A set temperature is maintained inside the chamber to ensure the best growth and highest nutritional value fodder possible. The fodder systems hold enough trays so that the desired amount of feed is available everyday.
The sprouts grow on the fodder solutions specially designed sprouting trays with no growing medium. Feed quality barley germinates within 24 hours of seeding. The barley grows in the same tray for 6-days and is ready for harvest as a 15 to 20cm high grass mat.
The "sprout mat" is completely edible and highly nutritious as it is a living food. The animals will eat the entire mat, roots and green growth so there is no waste. There are no added nutrients.
The Chemikol fodder feedouts offers low operating costs and require minimum labour as a typical operation only takes from only 15 to 60 minutes per day to harvest, clean and seed.


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What finally happened today was a data trove release that might be better than an NSA on any day. By going to Pro Publica they have the links to the information and their history with regards to some of their investigations into the immense money trove that is generated from prescription abuse - by Doctors.
Government Releases Massive Trove of Data on Doctors' Prescribing Patterns
The move follows a ProPublica investigation showing that Medicare did little to find dangerous prescribing by doctors to seniors and the disabled. It is also part of the government's new push to bring transparency to taxpayer-supported medical care.
by Charles Ornstein
ProPublica, April 30, 2015,
Medicare's failure to monitor what doctors are prescribing has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on excessive use of brand-name medication and exposed the elderly and disabled to drugs they should avoid.
The federal government released detailed data today on nearly 1.4 billion prescriptions dispensed to seniors and disabled people in the Medicare program in 2013, bringing more openness to the medication choices of doctors nationwide.
The data release comes two years after ProPublica reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had done little to detect or deter hazardous prescribing in its drug program, known as Medicare Part D. ProPublica analyzed several years' worth of prescription data, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and created a tool called Prescriber Checkup that lets users compare individual physicians to others in the same specialty and state.
But Medicare itself hadn't made this information easily accessible—until now.
"This transparency will give patients, researchers, and providers access to information that will help shape the future of our nation's health for the better," said acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt in a statement accompanying the data's release.
The information released by CMS is part of the agency's data transparency initiative. In recent years, CMS has released data on hospital charges, geographic variations in the way health care is delivered, and Medicare's payments to doctors. The payment data, first released last year, came after the Wall Street Journal and its parent company challenged a long-standing legal injunction that had kept the information private.
Medicare changed its approach to overseeing Part D after the ProPublica reports.
Before, agency officials insisted that monitoring problem prescription patterns fell to the private health plans that administer the program, not the government itself. Congress never intended for CMS to second-guess doctors – and didn't give it that authority, officials said.
Doctors didn't even have to be enrolled in Medicare to prescribe to patients in Part D, making it impossible for the program to know basic facts about whether the prescriptions these doctors wrote were appropriate.
Since our reports, CMS has moved to fix Part D's excesses and blind spots. In May 2014, the agency gave itself the authority to expel physicians from Medicare if they are found to prescribe drugs in abusive ways. Beginning next month, the agency also will compel health providers to enroll in Medicare to order medications for patients in Part D, closing the loophole that has allowed some practitioners to operate with little or no oversight.
Medicare Part D is popular among seniors for helping to lower their drug costs. But experts have complained that since Part D began in 2006, Medicare has placed a higher priority on getting prescriptions into patients' hands than on targeting problem prescribers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general has repeatedly called for tighter controls.
Among ProPublica's findings:
•Medicare had failed to use its own records to flag doctors who prescribed thousands of dangerous, inappropriate or unnecessary medications.
One Miami psychiatrist, for example, wrote 8,900 prescriptions in 2010 for powerful antipsychotics to patients older than 65, including many with dementia. A black-box warning on the drugs says they should not be used by such patients because it increases their risk of death. The doctor said he'd never been contacted by Medicare.
ProPublica also found that many of the top prescribers of the most abused painkillers had been charged with crimes, convicted, disciplined by their state medical boards or terminated from Medicaid. Nearly all remained eligible to prescribe in Medicare.
•Medicare wasted hundreds of millions of dollars a year by failing to rein in doctors who routinely give patients pricey name-brand drugs when cheaper generic alternatives are available.
•The top prescribers of some drugs received speaking payments from the companies that made them.
•Medicare's process of flagging fraud was so convoluted and ineffective that the program was losing millions of dollars to schemes. Though the number of prescriptions attributed to Florida kidney specialist Carmen Ortiz-Butcher more than quadrupled in a year and the cost of her drugs to Medicare spiked from $282,000 to $4 million, Medicare didn't ask any questions until Ortiz-Butcher realized that her prescription pads had been stolen and falsified.
The data released by Medicare today includes summary information, such as the total number of prescriptions written by each doctor in 2013, as well as more detailed information about each drug a doctor prescribed. It covers prescriptions worth more than $103 billion, not including rebates that lower the cost by an undisclosed amount.
The top prescribed drug in the program in 2013 was the blood pressure drug Lisinopril, prescribed 36.9 million times, including refills. Medicare spent the most on Nexium, $2.5 billion, not including rebates. The drug taken by the most Part D patients was the narcotic hydrocodone-acetaminophen. More than 8 million users filled at least one prescription for it.
Eric Hammelman, a vice president at the consulting firm Avalere Health, said the prescribing data could unlock clues about differences in how doctors practice medicine. Take, for instance, antibiotics, he said, which are often prescribed for inappropriate reasons. While the new data won't show which prescriptions are inappropriate, it may flag providers who should be asked questions because they prescribe the drugs to a high proportion of their patients.
Beyond that, if consumers compare the prescribing data to data on the payments drug companies have made to doctors, they can see how often doctors prescribe products sold by companies with whom they have financial relationships.
"Knock on wood, these files are coming out on a regular basis. I think some of the doctors and manufacturers would prefer this goes away," Hammelman said.
ProPublica will be analyzing the information in coming weeks and incorporating the data into our Prescriber Checkup tool.
Thirty-five years ago, the United States ranked 13th among the 34 industrialized nations that are today in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in terms of life expectancy for newborn girls. These days, it ranks 29th.
In 1980, the infant mortality rate in the United States was about the same as in Germany. Today, American babies die at almost twice the rate of German babies.
"On nearly all indicators of mortality, survival and life expectancy, the United States ranks at or near the bottom among high-income countries," says a report on the nation's health by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.
What's most shocking about these statistics is not how unhealthy they show Americans to be, compared with citizens of countries that spend much less on health care and have much less sophisticated medical technology. What is most perplexing is how stunningly fast the United States has lost ground.
The blame for the precipitous fall does not rest primarily on the nation's doctors and hospitals.
The United States has the highest teenage birthrate in the developed world — about seven times the rate in France, according to the O.E.C.D. More than one out of every four children lives with one parent, the largest percentage by far among industrialized nations. And more than a fifth live in poverty, sixth from the bottom among O.E.C.D. nations.
Among adults, seven out of every 1,000 are in prison, more than five times the rate of incarceration in most other rich democracies and more than three times the rate for the United States four decades ago.
The point is: The United States doesn't have a narrow health care problem. We've simply handed our troubles to the medical industry to fix. In many ways, the American health care system is the most advanced in the world. But whiz-bang medical technology just cannot fix what ails us.
As economists from the University of Chicago, M.I.T. and the University of Southern California put it in a recent research paper, much of America's infant mortality deficit is driven by "excess inequality."
American babies born to white, college-educated, married women survive as often as those born to advantaged women in Europe. It's the babies born to nonwhite, nonmarried, nonprosperous women who die so young.
Three or four decades ago, the United States was the most prosperous country on earth. It had the mightiest military and the most advanced technologies known to humanity. Today, it's still the richest, strongest and most inventive. But when it comes to the health, well-being and shared prosperity of its people, the United States has fallen far behind.
Pick almost any measure of social health and cohesion over the last four decades or so, and you will find that the United States took a wrong turn along the way.
As the presidential campaign draws the political debate to our national priorities, these questions must take center stage. As candidates argue over the budget deficit and the national debt, debate what to do about income inequality, address the problem of mass incarceration or refight the battles over the Affordable Care Act and the minimum wage, they should be forced to address how their policy wish list adds up to an answer.
Looking at how the United States compares with other nations is illuminating. As I noted in last week's column, over the last four decades or so, the labor market lost much of its power to deliver income gains to working families in many developed nations.
But blaming globalization and technological progress for the stagnation of the middle class and the precipitous decline in our collective health is too easy. Jobs were lost and wages got stuck in many developed countries.
What set the United States apart — what made the damage inflicted upon American society so intense — was the nature of its response. Government support for Americans in the bottom half turned out to be too meager to hold society together.
The conservative narrative of America's social downfall, articulated by the likes of Charles Murray from the American Enterprise Institute, posits that a large welfare state, built from the time of the New Deal in the 1930s through the era of the Great Society in the 1960s, sapped Americans' industriousness and undermined their moral fiber.
A more compelling explanation is that when globalization struck at the jobs on which 20th-century America had built its middle class, the United States discovered that it did not, in fact, have much of a welfare state to speak of. The threadbare safety net tore under the strain.
Call it a failure of solidarity. American institutions, built from hostility toward collective solutions, couldn't hold society together when the economic underpinning of full employment at a decent wage gave in.
The question is, Is there a solution to fit these ideological preferences? The standard prescriptions, typically shared by liberals and conservatives, start with education, building the skills needed to harness the opportunities of a high-tech, fast-changing labor market that has little use for those who end their education after high school.
Ensuring everybody has a college degree might not stanch the flow of riches to the very pinnacle of society. But it could deliver a powerful boost to the incomes and the well-being of struggling families in the bottom half.
And yet the prescription — embedded in the social reality that is contemporary America — falls short. In contemporary America, education is widening inequity, not closing it. College enrollment rates have stagnated for lower-income Americans. Sean Reardon from Stanford University notes that the achievement gap between rich and poor children seems to have been steadily expanding for the last 50 years.
On the left, there are calls to build the kind of generous social insurance programs, which despite growing budget constraints remain largely intact among many European social democracies. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, for example, is calling for an expansion of Social Security, paid for by lifting the cap on payroll taxes so the rich pay the same share of their income to support the system as everybody else.
That may be desirable, though at the moment, our greatest problems are not about the elderly. And at least for the foreseeable future, it remains a political nonstarter in a nation congenitally mistrustful of government. Just in time to kick off the presidential campaign, Republicans in the House and Senate were working on a budget that would gut Obamacare — most likely increasing the pool of the nation's uninsured — and slash funding for programs for Americans of low and moderate income.
Yet despite the grim prognosis, there is hope. The challenge America faces is not simply a matter of equity. The bloated incarceration rates and rock-bottom life expectancy, the unraveling families and the stagnant college graduation rates amount to an existential threat to the nation's future.
That is, perhaps, the best reason for hope. The silver lining in these dismal, if abstract, statistics, is that they portend such a dysfunctional future that our broken political system might finally be forced to come together to prevent it.


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DACH+HOLZ International sees the natural link between timber construction and the roof and wall sector and provides professionals with the necessary framework to promote the latest technologies and techniques, but also grow. The international trade fair runs for four days. Leading the exhibition are going to be the close to 600 exhibitors covering the entire value chain, while audience participation sits at a comfortable 47,000 international visitors. Do you have hotels in Cologne booked? No? Leave all the planning to Travel 2 Fairs ltd.
DACH+HOLZ International has developed market sensibilities and the exhibits all cover the entire value chain from machinery and tools to roofs, walls and interior decoration. You also rely on a diverse program to immerse you in the culture. There's a special event that displays practical applications of drones and digitalization, the training session of the German carpentry team, specialization for architects and an in-depth forum. The foundation of successful business travel is the hotel you choose. Seek out hotel accommodation for trade fairs without hassle, stress or spending large sums with Travel 2 Fairs ltd. Your price, your standards, your choice in location – what you wish is what we deliver!


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I'm Petro; a software developer from Toronto, Canada . I've been doing software development as a career for over a decade. I've worked on software in many industries including education, transportation, manufacturing, and finance. I love to share things I learn so be sure to check out my various profiles and blog if you want to learn more.


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Chinese President Xi Jinping stopped off in Greece for a three-day state visit on his way to the BRICS Summit in Brazil. During the visit he accompanied Greek Prime Minister Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on a visit to Piraeus Port, one of the most prominent Belt & Road Initiative projects within the European Union.
Xi also discussed developing bilateral relations within the context of the two countries' comprehensive strategic partnership, during talks with both President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Mitsotakis.
In 2009, a unit of China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) began managing the Piraeus Port container terminals. The Greek debt crisis then happened, and Greece was pressured to privatize some assets by the so-called troika (European Commission, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank), which was monitoring the economy as a precondition for new loans.
As part of a privatization programme, in 2016, Cosco acquired a 51% stake in the port, and has recently delivered a master plan for a major expansion programme.
During Xi's visit, the European Investment Bank (EIB) formally agreed to provide 140 million euros (US$155 million) to support the expansion and upgrading of the Port of Piraeus. This loan will support the implementation of part of the overall investment plan costing more than 600 million euros.
The 20-year loan was signed in Athens in the presence of President Xi; Prime Minister Mitsotakis; Xu Lirong, Chairman of Cosco Shipping Corporation; and Chairman of Piraeus Port Authority Yu Zenggang; by Andrew McDowell, EIB Vice President; and Athanasios Liagkos, board member of the Piraeus Port Authority.
The first 100-million-euro tranche was signed, and the remainder agreed as project construction progresses. The EIB loan is guaranteed by the Export Import Bank of China (CEXIM). The guarantee facility contract between PPA and CEXIM was also signed in the presence of CEXIM Chairwoman Hu Xiaolian and Thanos Liagkos from PPA.
In spite of the involvement of the EIB, the 2016 sale of Piraeus to Cosco is now viewed as highly controversial in Brussels, giving China control over one of the top ten European ports. In addition to the expansion of Piraeus itself, China also has plans to improve road infrastructure in southern Europe, in order to funnel more freight volume though Piraeus.
The control exerted over Greece by the troika during the Eurozone crisis caused a lot of hostility among the general populaton, and the Greek government is pursuing a closer relationship with China, rather than being over-reliant on the EU.
This year, Greece signed up as a member of the Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries (the 17+1).
China is now showing interest in acquiring another EU port, after the Portuguese government announced a public tender for the Vasco da Gama Terminal at the port of Sines.
Local media reports that Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) is expected to be one of the bidders on the project.
In May, Lu Hau, the Chinese Minister of Natural Resources, visited the port of Sines to be briefed on the details of the project, which will be structured as a 50-year concession, with financing to be provided by the winning bidder.
The new terminal will have an annual capacity of 3.5 million TEU (twenty-foot-equivalent units), and the sucessful bidder is expected to invest an estimated 642 million euros.


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Web-Based Learning Resources Library (link removed). This page, one of three in the series, is an educators' resource for delivery and management of education via the Internet.
It focuses on web-based learning for higher education, especially for at-distance, adult learners but has application for web-based learning in general.
This website attempts to informally catalogue (and occasionally compare, contrast and editorialize on) the tools, topics, and issues of interest to those developing for web-based learning initiatives.


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Talk "New Forms of Housing and Urban Densification"
Technisches Museum Wien
1.10.2017, 1pm
How do we want to live in the future? How do we want to organize our cities? And to whom will the city belong? As part of the exhibition THE URBAN FUTURE, the Technical Museum Vienna is showing projects that aim to rethink the city. What new forms of housing make urban densification not only bearable but also offer a better quality of life? How does the city grow with the great diversity of people and continue developing? In a workshop, Sibylle Bader (Wanderklasse) tackles the topics of urban design (planning). The Stadtarbeit project TISCHLEIN DECK DICH and Community Cooking (Caritas) offer people the chance of cooking together and sharing knowledge. The architect Anna Popelka (PPAG architects) talks about new forms of home living and densification in the urban space and along with the curator Elisabeth Limbeck-Lilienau acts as guide through the exhibition.


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We just had knockdown ceilings done in the house and would like to know if they have to be primed or painted, now or in the future?
Some say it should be protected and others say it is not necessary. We did prime the bath ceilings with Kilz Premium since the baths are prone to moisture, but are not sure if the main living area needs to be done.
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Placing a baby for adoption is undoubtedly one of the hardest decisions that anyone will ever have to make and it requires a lot of thought and preparation. The adoption process of placing your baby is a long road full of decisions that need to be made, medical tests, and legal procedures.
If you've decided that it is best for you and your child to place him or her for adoption, there are several steps along the way that you should be familiar with and ready for. Let's dive into what you can expect from the adoption process and how to navigate it.
Being Sure Adoption is the Right Choice
There is no doubt that deciding to place a child for adoption is a tough decision, possibly the most difficult decision of your life. It's important to talk through all of your options and come to a final decision on whether or not to go the adoption route. When you're dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, there are several options at your disposal and adoption truly is a loving and positive option to consider.
We recommend talking through the decision with the father and your family. We also have counselors that are available to help support you through the entire process.
Adoption is a big decision and it's important that you take your time in making it.
Birth Father's Consent
In order to place a child for adoption in Colorado, the agency must get consent from the birth father as well as the birth mother. If you don't have contact with the birth father or are concerned that he won't consent, don't worry! You don't have to deal with this on your own. Our legal team will handle getting consent from the birth father in whatever way we are able. The more information you are able to give the legal team, the easier it will be for them to deal with the birth father.
Creating an Adoption Plan
No two adoptions are truly the same. We work closely with birth mothers and birth parents in order to satisfy their needs in the process and our team helps to create an adoption plan to help the process progress smoothly and comfortably.
It's important to ask as many questions as you can during this process. Help set your plan up successfully by asking your caseworker questions and voicing any concerns that you have throughout the process.
Considering and Matching with Adoptive Families
The next step is to consider what kind of family you'd like to raise your child. There are likely over a million individuals and couples of all different origins, family styles, and backgrounds looking to adopt. It's important to think about how you'd like to see your child grow up and who you envision as the best kinds of parents to raise him or her. We work with all individuals and couples (regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, color, creed, and religion) and we want to help you get matched with the perfect family for your baby.
During this process you'll want to narrow down your preferences prior to reviewing prospective adoptive family profiles. Pay close attention to all the profiles you are given so you can be sure to make an educated decision and feel comfortable with your baby's new family.
The Legal Process
The adoption process is not a simple one. There are plenty of steps and milestones that have to be reached in order to officially place your child. The process can be intimidating, but we work directly with you through every step of the process. Our agency believes every birth parent should have independent legal counsel who can competently explain your legal rights before you make a permanent choice.
Financial Assistance
Financial assistance for a pregnant mother is available during and shortly after the pregnancy to help the birth mother with pregnancy related expenses. These expenses may include items such as medical costs and expenses, rent, food, transportation, phone, sundries, and maternity clothing. These are given on a case-by-case basis according to need. Adoption Choices of Colorado has a "Donation Center" where gently used items can be found to aid birth families as well. Please contact our office if you need assistance with any items at our center during or after your pregnancy.
Staying in Contact
Placing your child for adoption does not mean a forever "goodbye". More and more birth mothers are staying in contact with the adoptive family, getting regular pictures of the child, and even having in-person visits each year to see their child grow up. Adoption is about giving your child the best chance to succeed and the best situation for a successful life. It doesn't mean that you can never see how they grow up or what they grow up to be, we encourage you to stay in contact with the adoptive family, and vice versa.
Choosing adoption is a difficult decision and the process is a long one, but in many situations involving an unexpected pregnancy, it's a very loving and positive decision. We highly recommend counseling through the process to support your decision and your well being during pregnancy, giving birth, and adjusting post-adoption.
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As I a number of weeks ago bought a printer that can scan slides (or dia bilder in Swedish) my parents have sent me some old slides to scan. It's fun to see those old images again that none of us have seen for many years. Also getting them into digital form will preserve them better and there is a good opportunity to enhance them. There are many under or over exposed images that can easily be fixed on a computer but as a slide they always looked really bad.
Below is one image of me (to the left), my brother and my father 23 years ago, time flies.
This image was horribly over exposed, but now look rather good.


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They say LOVE is free! Unfortunately, money disagrees.
Although money can't buy love, you definitely need money…lots of it…to keep love. So before "I do," let's examine how fiscally responsible temporarily suspending love can be…especially if you're young. With simple calculations, we've determined that love can cost about $100K even before the marriage begins. Some of our estimates are pulled from the The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion and reported on in The Telegraph.
Assuming that an adult will go on roughly 50 casual dates, have about 4 short-term relationships averaging a year or less, and 3 long-term relationships averaging a year or more before finding The One, let's examine the numbers:
Casual Dating (50 total) – A cheap date, food and 2 movie tickets, will set one back roughly $60 so that's at least $3,000 for the 50 casual dates.
Short Term Relationships (4 total) – Assuming the 4 short-term relationships average 6 months each, that's roughly 16 major spending events (1 birthday, 1 Christmas (if you're a Christian), 1 Valentine, 1 month and 6-month anniversaries) per relationship in additional to approximately 96 dates (assuming an average of 1 date per week.) At $100 per event, the 16 major events will cost $1,600 while the 96 dates will require an additional $5,760 at $60 per date. That's $7,360 for the 4 short-term relationships.
Long Term Relationships (3 total) – Assuming the 3 relationships average roughly 2 years, that's another 30 major spending events (at least 2 birthdays, 2 Christmases (if you're a Christian), 2 Valentine days and 4 anniversaries (1 month, 6-month, 1 year and 2-year anniversaries) per relationship in addition to approximately 288 dates (1 date per week.) At $150 per event, the 30 major events will cost $4,500. Meanwhile the 288 dates will require an additional $28,800 at $100 each. Note that long term relationships are more serious so there's slightly more spending per date and event. One could actually argue that the opposite is the case but I'm not "one" today. So that's about $33,300 for the 3 long-term relationships.
The "One"
Dating & Engagement (3.5 years) – The average time between meeting and marriage is about 3.5 years. During those 3.5 years, one spends roughly $16,800 on courtship (1 date per week at $100/date.) Unfortunately, this does not include the 3 birthdays, 3 Valentines and 3 Christmases (if you're a Christian). And at least 5 anniversaries (1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 2-year and 3-year anniversaries) that may require spending. At $150 per event, that's an additional $2,400. The engagement ring will cost roughly $4,000 and the engagement trip, another $2,000. That's a total of $26,700 on 'The One' even before the wedding!
Wedding and Honeymoon – According to Cost of Wedding, the wedding will cost roughly $25,200. This includes the wedding ring, attires, entertainment, invitations, venue, catering, planning, etc. And don't forget the need to go somewhere memorable for the honeymoon which will require an additional $5,000 according to USA Today for a total of $30,200 on the wedding and honeymoon.
This brings the average cost of love to a whopping $100,560!
And this is all before the actual marriage even begins! Not to mention that the love would be even more expensive if there were kids, long distances or other interesting factors involved. One most likely won't save $100k by remaining single and dying alone. However, one can certainly save quite a bit by cutting back on dates, engaging in fewer relationships and spending as much time alone as possible. I sometimes believe that 'true love' will always conquer all and outweigh money but timing makes all the difference! As a wise man once said, "you'll always lose money chasing women but you'll never lose women chasing money."
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Blackface governor Ralph Northam calls slaves 'indentured servants'
Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has defended calling slaves "indentured servants" in his first TV interview since a racism scandal broke.
Mr Northam, who has admitted to wearing blackface, told CBS a historian told him "indentured" was a more accurate term for America's first slaves.
Plans have meanwhile stalled to impeach Virginia's Lt Gov Justin Fairfax, who is accused of sexual assault.
The state capitol has been plunged into turmoil by the twin scandals.
- How school yearbooks have the power to destroy lives
- Virginia's painful 'blackface' past and present
- How should politicians apologise?
During the CBS interview aired in full on Monday, Mr Northam was grilled over his college yearbook photo, which shows two people - one wearing blackface makeup and the other in Ku Klux Klan robes.
Mr Northam was asked why he initially apologised for the photo before backtracking and denying he was either in the picture.
"When you're in a state of shock like I was, we don't always think as clearly as we should," Mr Northam said, adding that he had "overreacted" by issuing an immediate apology.
"I will tell you that later that night I had a chance to step back, take a deep breath, look at the picture and said, 'This is not me in the picture'," he said.
Mr Northam has already admitted that he once "darkened his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume" on a separate occasion in 1984.
Asked whether he would resign, Mr Northam said: "I'm not going anywhere."
'Indentured servants from Africa'
The governor's damage-limitation efforts risked making matters worse when he told the interviewer that 400 years has passed since the "first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores".
CBS presenter Gayle King, who is African American, said: "Also known as slavery."
According to Encyclopedia Virginia, which is produced in partnership with the Library of Virginia, the first Africans to arrive in Virginia were sold in exchange for food in August 1619 from the English ship White Lion.
Unlike indentured servants, who were typically released after paying off the debt of their voyage to America, black slaves were rarely freed.
After the interview aired on Monday, Mr Northam released a statement defending his word choice.
He said that during a recent speech he "referred to them in my remarks as enslaved".
"A historian advised me that the use of indentured was more historically accurate. The fact is, I'm still learning and committed to getting it right."
Uncomfortable history
The scandals have rocked the state's capitol, Richmond, which was also the capitol of the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
Mr Northam's deputy, Lt Governor Justin Fairfax, has been accused of sexual assault by two separate women.
On Monday a Democratic-led impeachment effort against Mr Fairfax, who is black, appeared to stall after lawmakers announced that they would hold off for until further consultations are completed.
Virginia Delegate Patrick Hope, who wrote draft impeachment articles, said on Monday that he had spoken to his colleagues who helped him determine that "additional conversations need to take place before anything is filed".
Democratic Delegate Marcus Simon, who has called on Mr Fairfax to resign, told the Wall Street Journal that he believes there is no precedent in Virginia history to impeach a governor, and that more research must be done on the legal process.
"Frankly, a lot of us feel sort of helpless to do anything about the chaos around here. I just don't know this is the right thing to be doing," Mr Simon said.
Over the weekend Mr Fairfax, who denies the allegations, called for an FBI investigation into the accusations.
The number three in Virginia's government, Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring, is also in hot water after admitting to wearing blackface to a university party in 1980.


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The 'African Giant' won it for the second time in two years.
In 2019, he floored Teni Makanaki and Mr. Eazi to win the coveted category in the award, but this time it was Innoss'B (DRC), Sho Madjozi (South Africa) Dave (UK), Stormzy (UK), Ninho (France) and S.Pri Noir (France).
Hosted by former Real co-host Amanda Seales, the ceremony took place in the early hours of Monday.
The 2020 edition is the first-ever virtual BET Awards.
This year's show, which also aired on CBS and BET Her, boasts powerful performances from some of the biggest acts in music, including Alicia Keys, Chloe x Halle, DaBaby, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Lil Wayne, Nas, Questlove, and Usher.
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I had the uneasy feeling during the whole run-up to the final NHL series with the Vancouver Canucks Professional, Corporate hockey team that there was way too much hype about these sports events somehow being more meaningful to Canadians than anything else. And it wasn't just the corporate media – it was our national public broadcaster – whose news flagship – 'The National' – was ejected from its time slot for weeks in favour of covering a 'kids game'. Not only that, but whenever 'the National' was on, especially toward the end, even the news was hijacked by non-news of the NHL – and then of course by the immediate coverage of the Vancouver riots – great for ratings. I was bothered by this hype for weeks even though I wouldn't necessarily have predicted a riot after the last game. But in light of the hype, the riots make sense. When you are told over and over in the media that the whole meaning of your life comes from whether your professional team wins a game, then when they don't win what have you got left? I think Canada which in many ways is an artificial construct – based on the expoitation of both the people who lived here first and of Canadian nature herself – is in big trouble. The real problems – are the floods and droughts in our mid-west, floods in Quebec, the dramatically increasing production of greenhouse gases – a major cause in Canada are the Tar Sands – which are helping cause this along with the melting of the arctic and destruction of a whole way of life, the attacks on working people, the unwillingness of the haves in our country, supported by successive federal governments, to share with the growing number of have-nots – I could go on.
I told my wife as we watched the riots, with smashed and looted shops, that this was at least led by young anti-capitalists, some of the same people who engaged in property damage just before the Olympics in Vancouver but who also had held protests in major cities across Canada including Toronto where I live. The Toronto event, probably in December 2009 had as its major chant – 'No Olympics on Stolen Native Land'. We do have fine young people who understand what has been going on, and I know some who were arrested at gunpoint while they slept on the eve of the big G20 march last June in Toronto – and then spent several months in jail. I believe their message is that the people in this part of Turtle Island have been hijacked by corporate interests and some of them are not going to take it anymore – and if they have been too outspoken they have gone to jail and then had such restrictive bail conditions put on them that they are effectively silenced.


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January 3, 2019
2018 was a year of disruptions and catalyst events. We saw deal making accelerate across industries throughout the year, with the number of M&A transactions placing 2018 in the running with 2017's vibrant transaction track record.[1] Upon reflecting, very few of us were not impacted by the industry and organizational disruption of 2018.
As we enter a new year, we all must be aware that disruption is always on the horizon. Per Innosight's 2018 corporate longevity forecast, the tenure of S&P 500 companies shrank from an average of 34 years in 1964 to 24 years in 2016. The projection for 2027? Only 12 years.[2] We must constantly keep the escalating pace of change top of mind. After all, your organization doesn't want to be included on the list of firms who laughed off disruption.[3]
With this volatile business environment in mind, many organizations are reimagining their go-forward strategic plans and preparing to enter 2019 with their best foot forward.
Many, however, are setting themselves up to stumble.
Strategic plans are not worth the paper they are written on if organizations aren't prepared to execute effectively. If strategy is all about placing the right bets in an ever-changing world, then strategic execution is about driving rapid and effective change to capture those bets' value.
For me, a new year brings the opportunity to reflect on key common themes that arose while we performed strategic execution for clients we partnered with in 2018.
These concepts aren't radical. They are necessary shifts to drive successful execution, no matter the size of the firm or makeup of the industry.
1. Generate the Right Culture and Talent for Strategic Execution.
Whether it is a VC or PE-backed growth organization or a mature F500 juggernaut, too often firms lose strategic momentum and competitive advantage because of cultural misalignment and lack of necessary strategic talent.
First, let's talk about organizational culture and its impact on successful strategic execution. While strategy drives organizations forward into the future through a formal planning cadence and process, organizational culture provides the framework of values, norms, and behaviors needed to align organizations for ongoing successful strategic execution. Both strategic planning and organizational culture are levers to drive effective execution. Unfortunately, leaders often focus on strategic planning in a vacuum, deprioritizing the impact of organizational culture on successful execution.[4]
Organizational culture should not be siloed to the CHRO and the HR function. Instead, all leaders must actively understand, define, and engage with their organizational culture in respect to how it will impact, and be impacted by, ongoing strategic execution. For example, a culture historically rooted in stability and rule abidance will initially struggle to embrace and execute upon strategies rooted in rapid adaptability, change responsiveness, and iterative innovation. Leaders must be mindful of their organization's culture and the steps they must take to align (and keep aligning) everyone impacted.
Next, it is important to recognize that 2019 will see a continued talent shortage in the face of an already tight labor market. Compounding that, upwards of 59% of high-priority strategic initiatives lack sufficiently skilled talent.[5] My colleagues Gerard F. McDonough and Lisa Moceri wrote earlier this year about the increasing need to actively measure the value of an organization's talent (its Human Equity Value). Critical examination of current and needed talent is the best way to bridge the growing cross-industry talent gap.
2. Drive Alignment and Governance for Rapid, Successful Strategic Execution.
Under 50% of organizations self-report as being effective at the execution of strategies, with many organizations acting in opposition or resistance to planned change. Typically, organizations' daily activities are only partially aligned with execution efforts, and over 40% of organizations cite failure to align as the primary factor for failure to strategically execute.[6]
How can we align organizations to successfully execute? It is critical for organizational program and change leadership efforts to be implemented effectively to drive successful strategic execution. Change leadership emphasizes preparing for and driving transformation across organizations by aligning and equipping stakeholders. Likewise, program leadership and governance efforts (such as Program Management Offices, or PMOs) are designed to break down strategic bets into actionable and measurable initiatives. In combination, program and change leadership will cause strategic execution efforts to be six times more likely to meet or exceed objectives.[7] Change is inherently dynamic and difficult to control. Build the mechanisms to control the chaos, and make it work for you.
3. Create A Portfolio of Performance Optimization Efforts to Accelerate Value Creation.
When thinking about performance optimization, it is critical that organizations stop thinking only about incremental performance improvements focused on every day business efforts. Rather, organizations must consider first their future strategic vision for long term value creation to sustain competitive advantage. Leaders must create a portfolio of innovative performance optimization efforts around their strategic plan and pursue optimization relentlessly. The portfolio should be flexible, allowing for additions and subtractions in the face of market pressures, competitive disruption, and changing customer demands. If organizations consider performance optimization as a holistic portfolio across people, processes, technology, organizational culture, customer expectations, and financial investments, they will accelerate optimization rapidly over far shorter periods of time. Optimization efforts, in tandem with strategic execution efforts, will drive efficiencies and, more importantly, create the optimal foundation for sustained competitive advantage and value creation.
2019 Will Be A Year of Growth.
If 2018 taught us anything, it is that driving organizations through disruption is no easy task. With 2019 slated to be a year of growth, applying proven concepts to generate the right culture and talent mix, driving alignment and change leadership, and creating a portfolio of performance optimization efforts will convert strategy to execution and help accelerate strategic momentum, change adoption, and iterative innovation. In short, a happy new year!
[1] See: Dan Primack, "2017 Was A Record Year For Mergers & Acquisitions", Axios, 1/3/18. See also: "Number of Merger & Acquisition Transactions in the United States I 2018, Deal Value". Statista.
[2] Scott D. Anthony et al., "2018 Corporate Longevity Forecast: Creative Destruction is Accelerating", Innosight, February 2018.
[3] See: "Foot In Mouth: 43 Quotes From Big Corporate Execs Who Laughed Off Disruption When It Hit", CBInsights, 9/13/18.
[4] See: Boris Groysberg et al., "The Leader's 'Guide to Corporate Culture", Harvard Business Review, January – February 2018.
[5] See: The Economist Intelligence Unit, "Why Good Strategies Fail: Lessons for the C-Suite", March 2013.
[6] Ibid. See also: Donald Sull, et al., "Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About It", Harvard Business Review, March 2015.
[7] Ibid.


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The Serengeti National Park itself, we divide into four regions, Central Serengeti (Seronera), North Serengeti (Lobo and Mara), Western Serengeti (Grumeti approx.350 Km from Arusha) and the south-southeast Serengeti (Ndutu).
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MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics.
The field of microfluidics involves minute devices that precisely manipulate fluids at submillimeter scales. Such devices typically take the form of flat, two-dimensional chips, etched with tiny channels and ports that are arranged to perform various operations, such as mixing, sorting, pumping, and storing fluids as they flow.
Now the MIT team, looking beyond such lab-on-a-chip designs, has found an alternative microfluidics platform in "interlocking, injection-molded blocks" — or, as most of us know them, LEGO bricks.
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Amusement parks of Germany
In March in Germany the new season of the amusement parks. Parks this season offers a new theme, thrilling rides, breathtaking views and a sense of celebration.
The largest German amusement Park – Europa-Park in rust opens a new season on 28 March. In the Park Filmpark in Potsdam at the Studio Babelsberg from April 1 to dive into the world of cinema, to visit the set, in costume, to get acquainted with the work of the crew, Directors and actors.
The Autostadt Wolfsburg Autostadt in the capital of the automotive industry in Germany Wolfsburg – only as a city can not be called. The Autostadt is not only a place to advertise the wonders of the auto industry and the cultural magnet of the region; the venue of concerts, festivals and exhibitions. And automotive Museum "Zeithaus" it keeps the brand's most popular car Museum in the world.
Hanover zoo "Zoo of the future" in Hannover is one of the most unusual European zoos. 3000 zoo animals live in the seven thematic areas that have their own special design. Each zone has its own mini-arena where several times a day there are shows featuring animals. Feeding Pets of the zoo turns into a real spectacle. Another feature of the Park is the river which you can ride on the boat. At the zoo produced the original ice cream,and the kids participating in quizzes and competitions can feel the real Rangers, gold miners and pioneers.
Zoo Hagenbeck, Hamburg In the Hamburg Hagenbeck zoo, the animals live in spacious, not fenced with grids cages, Hagenbeck and guests can get acquainted with the fauna of any continent on our planet. So for example the complex polar seas teeming animals of the Northern regions and Antarctica. The penguins are playing near the polar seals and polar bears.
The amusement Park HANSA-PARK, Sierksdorf under the lübeck HANSA-PARK in Sierksdorf is the only family theme Park in Germany, located directly on the coast. 11 themed areas of the amusement Park dedicated to the history and development of the Hanseatic merchant Union. In the Park is 125 thrilling rides, the main element of the "Hansa-Park" is of course water. The names of the attractions associated with sea monsters and predators, models of merchant frigates and brigantines used in the design of thematic areas.
The amusement Park "Heide-Park" Soltau "Heide Park" in Soltau, lower Saxony – the largest amusement Park in Northern Germany. 850.000 sq. m. endless attractions, themed areas, playgrounds and downhill. You can leisurely ride on the Ferris wheel, or spinning a dizzy loop on a roller coaster. Time here flies, and experiences for the whole family and will last a long time!
The zoo in Rostock, the largest zoo on the Baltic coast of Germany is home to four and a half thousand animals of 320 species that inhabit our planet. Informative exposition of the natural science center "Darwinian" for example, animals more than 50 species clearly shows the evolutionary development of life, from the origins of the universe to the present day. Special love guests enjoyed the Zoological garden and the pavilion of apes – possession considered savvy orangutans and gorillas.
International bird Park Walsrode Bird Park "Walsrode" is the largest bird Park in the world by floor space. In the Park there are about 4500 birds, belonging to 675 species from all continents of the earth; in addition, in the spring it grows to about three million pieces of ornamental flowering plants. Thus, "Walsrode" is both bird Park and the Botanical garden. In the Park there are many external and internal enclosures are also located in several buildings of open type, in which in vivo contains birds.
Center botanica in Bremen the rhododendron Park science adventure centre botanica in Bremen's rhododendron Park invites you on a fascinating journey through Asia, from the snowy peaks of the Himalayas to the sultry Islands of Indonesia. The visitors center has a unique opportunity to get acquainted with exotic flora and fauna of the homeland of rhododendrons.


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The Global High Performance Polyamide Market is classified on the basis of product, end use industry, and region. On the basis of product, the market is segmented into PA11, PA12, PA46, PA9T, polyphthalamides (PPA), polyarylamide (PARA). On the basis of end use industry, the market is categorized into aviation & automobile, electrical & electronics, sports & leisure, medical and others. On the basis of regions, High Performance Polyamide Market is segmented into Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East & Africa.
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11. Company Profiles
11.1.1 Company Overview
11.1.2 Product/Business Segment Overview
11.1.3 Financial Updates
11.1.4 Key Developments
11.2 Evonik Industries
11.2.1 Company Overview
11.2.2 Product/Business Segment Overview
11.2.3 Financial Updates
11.2.4 Key Developments
11.3 Royal DSM N.V.
11.3.1 Company Overview
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11.3.4 Key Developments
11.4 Arkema SA
11.4.1 Company Overview
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