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The Bible claims to be a unique book unlike any other. The Bible declares itself to be the revelation of God and His Word given to men. It claims to be more than just a book penned by human authors.
Some people find it difficult to believe that the Bible is actually God's Word. They wonder if it is accurate and reliable. They may question how much of it is actually from God.
When the term "the Word of God" is used, it does NOT mean that every word contained in the Bible is a word spoken by God. Sometimes the Scriptures are quoting the words of men, or angels, or even Satan. For instance, the Bible contains records of many sinful acts, but it does not commend any of these; it rather condemns them.
Scripture even records some of the lies of Satan (i.e., Gen. 3:4). But by including them in Scripture, it is not teaching us that these lies are true; rather, it guarantees that The Bible is a true and accurate record of what occurred and what was said. It does not mean that every word contained in the Bible was a word that God said with His mouth.
However, the Bible is the Word of God in the following way: God, through the Holy Spirit, divinely inspired the writing of it. He was the supernatural Overseer Who directed the Bible's design and the recording of its contents.
- But is it really the "Word of God"?
- Or is it the words of men with special religious insights?
- Are only parts of the Bible the Word of God – or is all of it God's holy Word?
- Can we really trust the Bible to be accurate and error free?
These questions and their answers are extremely important to any Christian leader. For either the Bible is the authoritative source for guiding our life and conduct, or it is merely a book of good suggestions which we can believe or not. Leaders must be convinced in their hearts of the authenticity and power of the Living Word of God.
In this section of the article, "The Bible – God's Holy Word," we will examine three important "foundation stones" of what the Bible teaches us about itself. Having a correct understanding and a firm stance of correct belief regarding these three issues will determine much about your personal walk with Christ and your fruitfulness in ministry.
These three foundation stones are:
Doctrine of Inspiration;
Doctrine of Inerrancy;
Law of Interpretation.
Let's look at the Doctrine of Inspiration first.
The term "inspiration" as it is applied to Scripture comes from the Apostle Paul's statement:
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God…" (II Tim. 3:16). Unfortunately, the English word "inspiration" used in this passage does not accurately reveal the meaning of the Greek word it translates. In fact it is somewhat misleading. The word "inspire" comes from the Latin word inspiro which means to "breathe in." Without a proper understanding of this word, might incorrectly conclude that God breathed into the writings of men, giving them a certain power. This is not what the Scriptures teach, nor what the Holy Spirit wants us to understand.


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...A boy with a big head drooling, mumbling something, playing with toys in his hands. His neighbor has got a misshaped body. He does not talk, just shouts. There is a girl shrunk on the bed with her thin legs appearing from under the blanket. Some of the students of Olshansky orphanage in Khust district have only seen three sides of the world - the ceiling, right and left sides. It takes them years to learn to hold a spoon. The distance from the plate of soup or porridge to their mouths is like miles of a road. It takes them years to learn to speak, brush their teeth, wash themselves, go potty, sit or stand...
Money for repairs from all over Europe
Olshansky orphanage has become a home for children, adolescents and young people aged 4 to 35. The establishment belongs to the III-IV profile, i.e. there are students with severe psychological and physical disabilities. The orphanage was built back in 1961 in a former administration of Tereblya-Rikskaya HPS. Then, in Soviet times, people with disabilities were being "removed" out of a human eye, completely isolated from society.
Same year 23 students made their home here. Little by little, in the orphanage one more dormitory was built, as well as a farm building, warehouse and a boiler house. In the late 90's benefactors from France ordered bathrooms and built training workshops to enable children to get engaged in occupational therapy. At the same time back then the orphanage suffered a great misfortune - flooding. Water washed away a large area of the school, destroyed buildings and roads. European sponsors helped restore the orphanage.
Bogdan Kikin says that over the last three years in the orphanage for public money and patronage nearly fifty rotten windows, rusty pipes and a roof have been replaced in the dormitory. Rooms, a medical room, a canteen and a corridor on the second floor have also been renovated. In Brno, Czech Republic, a charity auction was held, where they raised money for the renovation of two bathrooms, and now they are ordering the third one. The orphanage has been equipped with new toilets, bathtubs, water heaters, sinks and the hood. They bought a washing and a dough-making machines, two electric stoves, bread baking cabinet and two refrigerators ... Then opened their own bakery. Two or three years ago they didn't have all this.
Best 24 adult students have been living in the youth department of "Zontiki" in Tyachiv for nearly three years. Six gifted students of the orphanage even starred in the movie about Nicholai Shugai in the village of Kolochava in Mizhgiria district. Last year the film won at the International Film Festival in Prague. Every year, some children have holidays at the Black Sea and in Switzerland.
"Last year, we received the humanitarian aid of 860 000, - said Bohdan Mykhailovych. - Almost every day people bring bananas, apples, tangerines, chocolates, juices, biscuits... At the end of the year there is a lot of vegetables, we pickle cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes for winter. Children help with the housework, we look after the pigs, cows, goats, chickens, rabbits and six dogs. The children do not just study, but are educated here. They are engaged in art and weaving workshops... We have a small group of 9 people who already dance, sing and act a little".
Volunteers from the Czech Republic - NGO "Pustj" are helping Olshany orphanage. These are the department of rehabilitation specialists of Faculty of Medicine in Ostrava University, inpatient facilities, looking after children with disabilities from the Czech Republic, architects, programmers, theologians and social workers ... The nurses of Olshany orphanage learnt to care for children with disabilities in the Czech Republic and Switzerland. In Lviv, at the International Ukrainian-Netherlands MATRA project they learned to feed the children with impaired chewing function and digestion. Bogdan Kikin frequently visits orphanages abroad. He said it is fabulous there. "There is more stuff and the resource base is much more powerful. There are entire rehabilitation complexes with all the machines, swimming pools, a variety of therapies... A group consists of 6-8 children maximum, each having five professionals involved. While we have one nanny to work with twenty children..."
Bogdan says that so far they have a big problem with the staff – or rather with the lack of it. "For more than two years we have had no psychiatrist. The staff position is provided, but it still remains vacant. We cannot find one. Students do not want to go to the village to work. They all want to be either gynecologists or surgeons... Here we have a regional psychiatric hospital which has as many as four vacancies. They provide accommodation, up to a few thousands of salary: 25% - for special working conditions, 25% - because of the mountainous area, plus shifts... But no one comes. The same is with the rehabilitation specialists. There used to be a man here, who worked for a year, trained in the Czech Republic and later resigned. In mid-June, two of our workers are going to study in the Czech Republic again.
"We have nursed almost all the children, - said Bohdan Kikina. - Until recently, babies were not even able to hold their heads. We have got three newcomers – everything they could was only crawling on their knees. And now look at them: they can move almost on their own. To teach such a child to go potty is already a great achievement. To teach them to wash and brush their teeth is something unbelievable".
Czech volunteers of NGO "Pustj" have been working with the children in Olshany for over ten years. They come here in groups of twenty people four times a year. Now the orphanage has 13 volunteers.
Lukash Stanek from Prague is here for the first time. He is in charge of a 6-year-old Yovshko – they are playing with macaroni. A small boy is puts them into a bottle and then gleefully scatters them everywhere. Lucash has already adapted and doesn't feel any psychological discomfort. It is not difficult, he says, hugging the boy.
Monica Redmerova, also from Prague, has come to the orphanage for the sixth time. "We are all volunteers here. We play with children, bathe them, feed them, we draw together, sing, walk, help the nurses... We are learning from them and trying to share our knowledge." Volunteer Regina is in the studio, she is gathering a few kids - drama therapy is about to start. "Every time we have a new theme, a new fairy-tale character – she explains. - Today these will be pirates. We sit in this colored circle-rug and play with children. This helps to make friends, get to know each other. Games unite them".
And in the next ward a Czech girl is singing a lullaby to a boy with a large head, hugging him, stroking his blond hair". For the next two weeks this volunteer will be his mother. The mother, whom he has never known and who has not repudiated him in disgust ...
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PepsiCo launched a space-themed online film in China as part of its Chinese New Year campaign, which the brand hopes will inspire Chinese consumers to reach for the stars.
The seven-minute film tells the story of three astronauts preparing for their first space mission while showcasing the challenges and fears for them and their families as they prepare for their uncertain voyage. It was also created to celebrate China's burgeoning space program and timed to coincide with China's historic landing of a space probe onto the far side of the moon in early January 2019.
The film, which has gained around 500 million views and reached more than 23m people on WeChat through its interactive H5 format since its launch, is part of the ongoing PepsiCo's Bring Happiness Home CNY campaign in China, now into its eighth year. The campaign focuses on "home" and "family", which are of special meaning to the Chinese people.
According to the brand, this year's space-themed movie focuses on the message of "no matter how far you go in life, your family will always be right by your side." It believes the spirit of space workers is an excellent interpretation of this theme as, under both physical and psychological stress, astronauts constantly must challenge the limits of how far humanity can go into the universe. That means their home is a source of motivation and support.
"At the same time, we want astronauts reaching for the stars to symbolize everyone's journey of realizing their dreams. While catching our own stars and exploring the unknown on our way to the destination, the home will always be our shelters and our sanctuaries," Lilly Yip, vice president of the beverage category of PepsiCo Greater China Region tells The Drum.
"With release of this mini-movie, Pepsi hopes to pay tribute to all those who have to stay at work during the Chinese New Year, who share the desire to return home and celebrate with family, but instead choose to stay behind with an unselfish sense of purpose, allowing the rest of us to "bring happiness home."
In the process of planning the film with its creative agency Civilization Shanghai, the initial insights for the campaign came from an observation that the significance of "family reunion" was gradually neglected and overlooked in China, but the love for home is deeply buried in the heart of Chinese youngsters.
Deriving from these insights, PepsiCo wanted to be the voice that resurfaces this "hidden love", because eight years on, it feels that the BHH CNY campaign has connected "individuals" with their "families" and has broadened people's understanding of "home."
"The Chinese audience has come to expect Pepsi to deliver a strong, epic narrative as its main content each year for its Chinese New Year "Bring Happiness Home" campaign (just like the expectation the British audience have for John Lewis's Christmas campaign)," explains the spokesperson.
"The concept creation phase was kicked off in June and more than thirty different directions were bandied around before the subject of space travel was agreed upon. After that, it was a matter of sculpting a script together with the brand team and the mini-movie director's scriptwriting team that hit on the mandatories in the brief, namely, casting all of Pepsi's celebrities and the role of the product, while maintaining a coherent story structure that conveyed authenticity and elicited a strong emotional response."
In China, the CNY period is always a hectic time, especially in recent years, as a growing number of brands begin to launch marketing campaigns targeting this special occasion. The competition between these brands and the fight for media platforms are getting increasingly fierce.
According Yip, as PepsiCo is under the urgent need during this festive to elevate its brand communication through eye-catching creative ideas and unique content, generating breakthroughs and standing out in the creative and content aspect of its marketing communication while fostering long-lasting influence in both the industry and the society, is the challenge it faced when creating the campaigns.
"Production-wise, the biggest challenge was probably aligning the busy schedules of all the celebrities. Then, of course, we had to take on board their feedback on the script and adjust accordingly without compromising the integrity of the story," she adds.
PepsiCo believes the space-themed film has aided its understanding of the relationship between young people and their surroundings because as a strong influence and aspiration of youth culture, the brand has never stopped listening to the inner desires of the young people. It discovered that today's generation is confident, in a good way because they take pride in their root and are proud to express their identity, which represents the more liberal and passionate state of self-expression in our youth generation.
"This campaign also proved the importance of one-to-one marketing that emphasizes personalized interactions with customers. For the first time, we created hyper-personalized short mini-movies using cutting-edge big data technology," explains Yip. "With our New Year's blessings included in the mini-movie, the interactive platform receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from our customers and led us to firmly believe in our strategy in combining marketing communication with big data technology."
"More a reminder than a lesson, that a powerful story is the most efficient way to own the media between a consumer's ears called a brain."
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Scrambler XP 1000 EPS and RANGER XP 900 Deluxe added to the line-up
Minneapolis, MN (December 3, 2013)- Polaris® Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII), the leading manufacturer of off-road vehicles, today announced the company is adding two more vehicles to its ever-expanding off-road offering. The Scrambler® XP 1000 EPS and the RANGER® XP 900 Deluxe continue the company's aggressive approach to reinvent its product lines and provide innovative products to meet the demands off-road enthusiasts.
"In just the past four months, Polaris has introduced nine new vehicles to its off-road line-up," said David Longren, vice president of Polaris' Off-Road Division. "The Scrambler XP 1000 EPS and RANGER XP 900 Deluxe Editions provide off-road enthusiasts with more options for high-powered recreational vehicles."
In 2013, Polaris introduced the Scrambler XP 850 H.O. which offered sport 4×4 performance complemented with a streamlined design and racks to carry necessities making it a great trail companion. The vehicle featured a proven, 77 horsepower, 850 twin, high output EFI engine with Polaris' exclusive On-Demand, True All-Wheel Drive (AWD) with engine braking and a sport-tuned suspension for trail enthusiasts. The vehicle's revolutionary rider ergonomics thanks to the narrow seat, Rolled Independent Rear Suspension (IRS) and high ground clearance made for an exhilarating and comfortable 4×4 trail experience. For the trail riding enthusiast who wants all the features found on the Scrambler XP 850 H.O., but desires even more high performance, Polaris is introducing the new Scrambler XP 1000 EPS, the ultimate sport performance machine.
The Scrambler XP 1000 EPS has the highest horsepower, fastest acceleration, highest ground clearance and longest suspension travel of any big bore ATV. The vehicle's Polaris-built, single overhead cam 1000 twin engine is based upon the proven 850 twin. The fuel-injected big bore features a 270-degree offset crankshaft and dual balance shafts for in-your-face power that remains incredibly smooth and vibration free. From the instant the Scrambler XP 1000 EPS fires to life, the deep growling exhaust speaks extreme performance. An all-new dual exhaust system allows the engine to breath deep and produces maximum power and performance. For ultimate control on the trail, the unit features Electronic Power Steering (EPS) and Fox® Podium X 2.0 compression adjustable shocks, to tackle any trail obstacle in its way. The vehicle also features matte black cast aluminum wheels with 14 in/35.6 cm Carlisle tires, hand guards, a highly-visible digital gauge cluster, custom seat, dual LED headlights and White Lightning paint.
Also launched in 2013, the RANGER XP 900 defined an all-new class of Hardest Working, Smoothest Riding. Innovations such as the ProStar™ 900 engine, all-new chassis, restyled cockpit, more suspension, accessory integration, easier serviceability and a quieter ride catapulted it to one of Polaris' best-selling RANGER vehicles. For off-road enthusiasts who want to work hard and play hard, Polaris is introducing the RANGER XP 900 Deluxe. The vehicle has many of the same hardest working, smoothest riding features found on the RANGER XP 900 EPS with the addition of some new key features providing the ultimate combination of sport and utility.
The RANGER XP 900 Deluxe in Nuclear Sunset Orange takes the power of the RANGER XP 900 EPS and couples it with a new cockpit to appeal to the recreational rider. The more-utilitarian bench seat was replaced with bolstered cut-and-sew bucket seats featuring an adjustable driver's seat and center console with integrated storage for improved comfort and ergonomics. Color-matched half doors provide trail riders with more protection from branches and mud, while the factory-installed audio system in the dash provides endless tunes on the trail. When the operator is done having fun, the RANGER XP 900 Deluxe is still a formidable work partner due to RANGER's hardest working features such as On-Demand True All-Wheel Drive, one-ton/907.2 kg towing, 1000 lb/453.6 kg box capacity and 1500 lb/680.4 kg total payload. For added convenience, the RANGER XP 900 Deluxe's cab frame also readily accepts Polaris' Pro-Fit™ Cab systems and the vehicle's bed is Lock & Ride® capable making it quick and easy to turn the unit into a recreational vehicle or work partner.
The RANGER XP 900 Deluxe and Scrambler XP 1000 EPS will be available in dealerships in January.
As read on: http://www.polaris.com/en-us/company/news-item.aspx?articleID=181
MINNEAPOLIS (March 21, 2012)- With GNCC and WORCS races this past weekend, Polaris' factory racers were out in full force doing what they do best, winning.
The GNCC UTV race season kicked off this weekend in Washington, Georgia and Polaris' factory sponsored race teams all finished in the top five. National Guard/Polaris/ Coastal/Yoshimura/DragonFire/Yokley Racing Team Driver William Yokley took the checkered flag in his RZR XP 900 in the XC1 Modified Class with National Guard/Polaris/Coastal/Yoshimura/Yokley Racing Team Driver Scott Kiger finishing third. Polaris' newest sponsored team, Team Hendershot, and their new RZR XP 900 took fourth despite some setbacks and Rath Racing finished fifth.
In WORCS, Walker Evans/Polaris Racing's RJ Anderson was back on top at Round 3, in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Anderson took the checkered flag in the SxS Production 1000 class with Beau Baron finishing second. RANGER RZRs dominated the class taking the top 13 finishes and Anderson regained the points lead in the series with the win.
"It is nice to kick off the season with such a strong start" said Donna Beadle, Polaris Race Team Manager. "We congratulate all our teams on their successes this past weekend and look forward to another exciting year."
The next GNCC UTV race will be Big Buck, in Union, SC, April 14-15, and the next WORCS race will be the Speed World MX, in Surprise, Arizona, April 13-15.
As read on: http://www.polarisindustries.com/en-us/Company/News/Pages/News-Item.aspx?articleID=51


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Admit it, one of the best things about Halloween is dressing up. While some usually pick their costumes well in advance, some of us actually wait until the day before Halloween to put together the perfect look. If you belong to the latter category, rest assured that you still have time for a costume. Really! You need not spend any more of your time googling costume ideas. To help you, we have come up with a few DIY costume ideas. Not only are they quick and easy to do, but they also come without the scary price tag you dread.
1. Queen Bee
If you're looking out to have a buzz-worthy Halloween, dress as Queen Bee.
Requirements: a printable crown template, gold scrapbook paper, pom poms in yellow and black, shoe clips, a head band, hot glue, scissors and black pipe cleaners.
To make the crown, trace the template on the template on the back of the gold paper and cut it out. Using hot glue, fix the two ends together.
To create the antennae, apply some hot glue on a large yellow pom pom. Pinching the pom pom, attach it to a black pipe cleaner. Repeat for the second.
Leaving a bit of pipe cleaner hanging out at the base, attach the antennae to the inside of the crown, using glue.
Next, wrap the pipe cleaners around the headband to secure the crown. If required, add a dot of hot glue.
Once complete, glue small black pom poms around the base of the crown.
To make the shoe clips, fold a small piece of of gold paper. Draw a wing shape along the fold before you cut it out.
Next, attach the wings to the shoe clips using hot glue. Add a large yellow pom pom and a smaller black pom pom to the centre.
To complete your look, pair your shoes and crown with a yellow and black striped dress.
2. Dancing Girl Emoji
To make it unusual this time around, you can dress as an emoji. Plus, you can use clothing you already own. Just wear a pair of black shorts and a black tee.
For the ears, you require a thin headband, four black pipe cleaners, black fabric and sewing supplies.
Cross one pipe cleaner over the other before you twist them together at the top.
Next, twist the pipe cleaners tightly on the side of the headband. Repeat for the other side.
To cover the pipe cleaner, cut two rectangles (few inches larger than the ear). Taking some thread in a needle, stitch the fabric around all around the ear and trim excess. Repeat on the other side.
3. Bat
For something simple, try this bat costume. If you have a black dress already, you're halfway there. For the other half, you need jersey knit black fabric, a thicker black fabric, some elastic, a headband and hot glue.
For the wings, fold your jersey-knit fabric in half and cut out inverted scallops on the diagonal.
Next, cut out two sections of the elastic and sew each loop onto the ends of the bat wings.
For the ears, cut out four triangles of your thicker black fabric. Sew the right sides of the fabric together, leaving the bottom open. Next, turn your bat ears right-side out.
Attach the ears using hot glue onto the headband. Let it dry, before you put it on.
4. Pokeball
For those of you who cannot get over the Pokemon fever, this one is for you.
Like in the case of the dancing emoji costume, you can wear cothing you already own. A red top and white skirt work fine.
For the belt, you require minimal effort. You need black felt, white felt, scissors and a glue gun.
First, cut out strips of black felt and join them together. Once complete, measure it around your waist.
Taking another piece of black felt, trace a circle around it. Cut it out. On the white felt, trace a circle that is smaller than the black one. Cut it out. Using the glue gun. Paste the white circle on the black.
Once it dries, paste this on one side of the belt that you just made. Next, attach Velcro fastener on the back. This will ensure that your belt is adjustable.
5. Snapchat Filter
If you're obsessed with Snapchat, you need not restrict your favorite filters to photos. This Halloween, you can actually wear them as a costume. Here are a few you can DIY:
The Flower Crown
To make this you need wire, green tape, scissors and flowers in different sizes.
After making a crown shape using the wire, cover it with green tape.
Before putting the flowers to use, trim their stems. Holding each flower in place, secure using tape.
Puppy Dog
For the puppy dog filter, you will need felt (in several colors), headband, scissors, wooden skewers, wardrobe tape and a hot glue gun.
In order to achieve this, simply cut out puppy ears and features from felt. Using the glue gun, attach the ears to the headband. To attach the puppy nose onto your own, use wardrobe tape.
To hold up the tongue, use the wooden skewer.
Which one are you wearing this Halloween? Let us know below!


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PepsiCo Inc will be removing a potentially harmful chemical from their Gatorade drinks following growing concerns of the safety of the ingredient.
What's being removed is called brominated vegatible oil or BVO, which is an ingredient also found in fire retardants. It is a synthetic chemical which has atoms of the element bromine bonded to it. In it's natural state bromine is corrosive and toxic with properties similar to that of chlorine or iodine. Not something you want to be ingesting.
In Gatorade, the BVO was utilized in the Orange and Lemonade varieties and is used to keep the citrus-flavour evenly distributed. Athletes everywhere better hope they've been drinking the red kind!
Gatorade has reportedly been working to create a version without BVO for some time, they will be replacing it with sucrose acetate isobutyrate (SAIB) which PepsiCo has been using for over a year in some of their other beverages without causing problems to the flavour. A 15-year old girl in Mississippi created an online petition to have the ingredient removed which generated more than 200,000 signatures. PepsiCo denies removing the ingredient as a result of the petition, although the girl has claimed she is victorious.
What's interesting is that PepsiCo is clearly acknowledging the ingredient is hazardous yet they will not be removing the ingredient from Mountain Dew at this time.
BVO has been described as a "poorly tested and possibly dangerous food additive" according to the Centre for Science in the Public Interest's executive director Michael Jacobson.
Its quite frightening to think of all the harmful things we are putting into our bodies everyday unknowingly. It's one thing to know there is aspartame in diet soda, for example, and still drink it knowingly; but it's different when you find out you've been ingesting something for a prolonged period which contains an ingredient they are very well aware could be harmful.
I do still offer kudos to PepsiCo for proactively removing the ingredient before they were forced to by the government. I just suggest you don't drink Mountain Dew.
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22,000 Infant Carriers Recall Due to Possibility of Buckle Breakage
If the buckle breaks, the infant may fall from the carrier
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced the recall of about 22,000 fabric infant carriers. There have been at least eight reports of the buckle breaking, which creates a fall hazard for infants.
What's the problem?
This recall involves Eddie Bauer fabric infant carriers. They are worn by the parent or caregiver with the baby strapped into the front. The recalled carriers are black with "Eddie Bauer" and "First Adventure" printed in gray lettering on the front, outside the carrier.
The product was originally sold at Target stores nationwide and online between December 2017 and August 2018 for about $70. They are manufactured by Woodfield Baby Products of Guangdong, China and distributed by Goldbug Inc.
What happens next?
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled carriers and contact Gold Inc. to verify that the product is subject to this recall. Once the product is verified, consumers will receive replacement products of comparable value or a full refund. Consumers who purchased this recalled product must cut off and return both straps and tag with their name, address, and phone number to receive selected replacement products, free of charge, or a full refund.
Consumers can contact Goldbug Inc. at (866) 600-7205 for more information. Reference recall number 19-010.


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Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Born in Kansas, his BS is in Chemical Engineering from Kansas U where in 2006 he was inducted into its Chemical/Petroleum Engineering Hall of Fame. His MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering are from Univ. of Illinois.
He founded Maraco (Global Oil Patch Consultants) in 1979 and is its President, as well as being one of its oil and gas developers. Besides Maraco, he earlier founded D2 Computing & Scientific Software.
He has consulted around the globe – in Australia (Santos), Indonesia (TOTAL), Iran (Consortium) , Kuwait (Kuwait Oil), Saudi Arabia (Aramco), Libya (Oasis), The Netherlands (EBN,TOTAL), France(TOTAL), England (Tullow Oil) and the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna.
His Industrial experience includes Chevron, Esso, Dow Chemical and Union Carbide(where he wrote his first computer program in 1955).
He is Emeritus Professor, USC, (24 years Petroleum and Chemical Engineering).
A Distinguished Member of SPE, receiving its J.J. Arps Award, Ferguson Medal & Regional Service Award (Los Angeles), he has coauthored over 50 technical papers. He has been a member of AIChe from his undergraduate days.
SPE recently conferred the distinction of Legion of Honor Member to the Professor for career-long service to the petroleum industry and the petroleum engineering profession and for more than 50 years continuous membership in the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Two note-worthy computer applications:
- At Chevron & Aramco (1959-60) he headed an engineering -mathematical project that developed a reservoir simulation program and applied it successfully to Aramco's Safaniya Field in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. This was the first such application of what is now a standard fundamental tool for oil field operations. èinfo/free-articles/ è Evolution of Aramco Reservoir Behavior Simulator.
- At USC (1978-82) he formed and headed a team of engineers, economists & computer specialists who delivered to OPEC Secretariat a computer system that successfully modeled cost of evolving and competing energy supplies and its impact on economic output in the world's economic regions. Focus was on projected demand for oil and the variation of oil price with supply volumes. OPEC uses an expanded version of this system to issue its annual "World Oil Outlook". They seem to no longer use the oil price-volume feature – which they are struggling to assimilate in their current production curtailment actions – all in the face of our US engineer's remarkable reduction in cost to increase domestic supply. èinfo/free-articles/ è OPEC's OWEM: An Integrated World Energy Planning System.
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Format: E-book
Read with: iBooks for iPad
Length: Novel
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Harlequin
Hero: James Michael Diamond
Heroine: Sarah "Sally" Gallimard MacArthur
Sensuality: 3
Date of Publication: October 1, 1991
Started On: February 14, 2015
Finished On: March 15, 2015
Chasing Trouble by Anne Stuart is one of her oldies and nevertheless an enjoyable one at that. By the time I finished reading, I was sighing over the book, typical reaction to having read an Anne Stuart romance. My life undergoing a bit of a change right now means that I don't have as much time as I used to, to read for fun. And when I do, I want the book to sweep me away on a journey, just as if I was discovering the wonderful genre of romance anew. Anne Stuart books have a way of surprising you with just that and Chasing Trouble is one of those stories that had me pleasantly surprised and of course giddy with the whole effect of it when I was done.
Sarah "Sally" Gallimard MacArthur is looking for a private investigator and an "unsavory one" at that, one who would ask less questions and help her find her sister. While James Michael Diamond fits the mold that she is looking for, James proves to be a tougher nut to crack than she imagined he would be. James would like nothing more than to forget the classy Sally that walked into his office, trying to convince him to find her sister. But then Sally proves to be a difficult woman to forget, before long, James finds himself saddled with a woman who talks too much and still manages to drive him crazy with the secrets that she harbors close to her heart.
Chasing Trouble is a story that manages to deliver the great stuff that the romance genre is legendary for, and yet the stories of the present seem to quite not be able to deliver. It does not present a mystery that makes your heart pound. But what it does is present two complex characters that the reader would like to peel the layers off to find what lies beneath.
James is the sort of cynical detective, whose life as a cop and his failed marriage has helped shape him to who he has become. Sally, while she might have led a privileged life, suffers from issues of her own which you become privy to as you read along. Both are reluctant to let other people close enough to trust the other with their heart, but eventually its a losing battle they fight when you factor in the sizzling hot attraction that makes the whole body hum.
Anne Stuart is legendary for the types of heroes that she manages to create for her stories. While James is a tamped down version of the caliber of heroes that Anne Stuart is ever famous for, his impact is no lesser. The control that he exerts on himself was one that I wanted to break down under the onslaught that his senses were being subjected to by Sally. I loved the witty banter which is of course another trademark of Anne Stuart novels. This one has got a lot of that going down and boy, do the sparks fly! The "mystery" aspect of the novel has little bit of twists to throw your way and I think everything worked out just wonderfully in the end.
Final Verdict: An enjoyable romp between two opposites. Recommended!
Favorite Quotes
She would have been able to resist an attempt to overwhelm her. Men had tried it often enough, and she had simply shoved them away. She would have been able to resist a polite brushing of his lips against hers. That was usually all she allowed. But she couldn't resist the slow, sensuous nibbling of her lips, the way he drew her lower lip into his mouth and sucked lightly, the way his tongue moved against hers, the way his fingers stroked her breast into pebbled hardness, feeding the fire that was burning in the pit of her stomach.
He was almost frighteningly efficient about it. He seemed to know just what to do, just where to touch her, how hard, how soft, to elicit the response he wanted. She hadn't known her breasts were so sensitive, but beneath his hands, his mouth, her reactions were astonishingly strong. She lay beside him on the bed, squirming, whimpering, straining to get closer to him as he quickly, cleverly brought her to the edge of explosion, all without letting her touch him.
She wanted to keep that response from him. She wanted to argue, to force him to break through that control, but the words wouldn't come, her hands could only clutch his sweat-slick shoulder, her body could only move with his, reaching for him, clenching around him in a sudden shower of stars.
She remembered being almost surprised that he followed her, his body going rigid in her arms, his eyes closed tight, his mouth clamped shut as he gave her the one thing he couldn't withhold.
"Sally, " James said, his voice tight with regret, "I'm not the man for you. "
"Yeah, I know. You're too old, too broke and too mean. Don't worry about it. I'll get older, I'll give away my money and I'll work on being just as sour as you. "
"Sally. . . "
She put her lips against his and he had to kiss her. There was no way he could stop himself. "Don't argue now, Diamond. Once we're back in San Francisco and my sister's safe, you can give me the brush-off. Or you can try, " she added, as if honesty compelled her to. "But for now, just shut up and kiss me."


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What do you mean it's only Thursday??? No, no, you must be mistaken. Because I woke up this morning just sure it was my last day of work this week... oh, wait, it is. Yay me. Sorry, suckers. But hey, I need a little personal time every now and again, or else I might make inopportune Lalfaces at the people I work with. And then where would I be, hmmmm?
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Middle School Athletics
(elementary school athletics are not provided through the district)
* Currently there are no OTA middle school teams, so OTA students must participate for one of the other three district middle schools (Cedar Ridge, Boring, and Welches). Students will be expected to participate for their neighborhood school, but may participate for Cedar Ridge regardless (due to transportation being provided to Cedar Ridge daily). Students wanting to participate for a school other than Cedar Ridge or their neighborhood middle school, must get permission from the athletic director, Doug Lewis.
* At this time, there is no transportation provided for OTA students to contests, and there is only transportation to Cedar Ridge for practices. Parents are responsible for transporting students from OTA to the contest bus, or to the actual contest (or practice if necessary).
* All students interested must complete the following in order to participate:
1) Insurance form – Insurance Clearance Form
2) Code of conduct – Code of Conduct
3) Sports physical (must be completed by a doctor with the district form) – Sports Physical Form
The scanned copy of the physical is hard to read, but it should print off just fine.
All Oregon Trail Students can obtain a physical through the School Based Health Center.
4) Fee of $55 (checks made payable to the school of athletic participation, i.e. Boring, Cedar Ridge, Welches)
– Turn all forms and money into the Oregon Trail Academy Office.
Volleyball 9/1 – 10/17 (for 7th & 8th grade girls only)
Boys Basketball 10/22 – 12/10 (for 7th & 8th grade boys only)
Girls Basketball 1/9 – 3/6 (for 7th & 8th grade girls only)
Wrestling 1/9 – 3/6 (for all students, 6-8th)
Track 4/3 – 5/24 (for all students, 6-8th)
Please contact Athletic Director, Doug Lewis, with any questions:
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I so love my essential oils, and one of my favorites is peppermint. So I was happy to receive the Majestic Pure Peppermint Oil, 100% Pure and Authentic Essential Oils, 10% MenthoFuran, 1 fl. oz.
With all essentials oils, in comes in a dark brown bottle to protect the contents. There is a screw cap, and a dropper, to allow you to add the correct amount of oil.
I use mine in my diffusers, that I keep in all my rooms. It only takes a few drops to create a really fresh minty smell, in the house.
I also use them with Shea butter, and a carrier oil, to make my own moisturizer. I tend to use the more feminine smells for the body, and make up small batches, of ones such as peppermint, if I get a headache. It also helps to relieve stress for me.
These tiny 1 fluid ounce bottles go a really long way, as you use so little, at a time.
I received mine at a discounted price, and chose to write a review. No one influenced me on what to write.


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(07-03-2019, 06:17 AM)AC_Troy Wrote: Doesn't seem like anyone's willing to buy him outright. Can't blame them
He's not worty buting outright.A loan with option is the best we'll get.I actually think he'll be loaned out this summer after Giampaolo sees what hes made of.Unless he's improved every aspect of his game 10 fold he'll be loaned and then again next season.I think he wont play a competitive for Milan again and leave on a free in a couple of years.
He has talent he really does but he's so poor at putting it all together its infuriating.Id love him to turn it around but I just dont see it happening.


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Las Vegas Killer's Family Had History of Violence, Mental Disorders
Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas Strip shooter gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in US history, had a family history of gun violence. His father, Bejamin Hoskins Paddock, was a part-time bank robber and swindler with a history of running afoul of the law.
The toll from Stephen Paddock's deadly Sunday
So far, it is known that Paddock was a 64-year-old retired accountant living in his own home in a retirement community about 130 km northeast of Las Vegas. An affluent, twice-divorced man, Paddock was a licensed pilot and owned two small pleasure aircraft. He owned several rental properties, and enjoyed gambling, concerts and cruises. A licensed hunter, the would-be killer reportedly owned at least 42 guns, nearly a dozen of which were found in his hotel room following the massacre, with another 19 found at his property, in addition to explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo.
Paddock's backstory doesn't help to explain what drove him to commit the heinous act. Nor does it help that Paddock made no effort to make his motives clear before taking dozens of lives and committing suicide on the night of the shooting.
Crime Runs in the Family
One intriguing detail emerging from Paddock's biography is the story of his father, Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a WWII veteran, salesman and repairman in Tucson, Arizona who turned to robbing banks.
A clipping from the October 6, 1960 issue of the Arizona Republic newspaper reported that Paddock, a three-time bank robber, had been indicted along with a co-conspirator on three counts of robbing Phoenix, Arizona branches of the Valley National Bank between 1959 and 1960, stealing $25,000 in cash over the course of the three forays. After being arrested in Las Vegas following his last caper, Paddock was convicted in 1961 and sentenced to 20 years in a West Texas federal prison. According to other articles from the same period, Paddock was arrested following a dramatic confrontation with FBI agents in which he attempted to run one of them down with his car. The agents responded by riddling his windshield with bullets.
Stephen Paddock, the would-be mass killer, was seven years old when his father was first arrested.
In 1968, Benjamin Paddock escaped confinement and fled to San Francisco, where he was accused of robbing another bank, and then headed up the US West Coast, settling in Oregon and changing his name to Bruce Werner Ericksen. Between 1969 and 1977, Paddock's name was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Said to have been a diagnosed psychopath, Paddock's record also included automobile larceny and fraud.
An FBI poster from the time warned that Paddock had "suicidal tendencies and should be considered armed and very dangerous."
Federal agents caught up with Paddock's father on the night of September 6, 1979 in Springfield, Oregon, where he had become the manager of a bingo center, gaining a local reputation as "Bingo Bruce." Two more years were added to his prison sentence, but he was paroled less than a year later, according to an archived article from the Eugene Register-Guard, after receiving a petition signed by 1,600 Springfield residents pleading for his release. After his return home, he continued to run bingo parlors for several more years.
In 1987, Oregon's attorney general hit Paddock with seven racketeering and fraud charges, which he was able to settle for a fine of $623,000, allowing him to avoid jail time. Paddock moved to Arlington, Texas, spending the last decade of his life there, and dying in 1998 at age 71.
According to brother Eric Paddock, Stephen Paddock had no criminal history, and Sunday's massacre was a complete shock to him. At the same time, Eric confirmed that the brothers weren't exactly close to their father. Confirming that Benjamin Paddock was their father, Eric told media that their father was "rarely around."


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Sydney FC have secured a second straight A-League Premiers' Plate with a 3-2 win over Perth Glory at nib Stadium.
Sydney came to Perth on a mission to not only lock away back to back premierships, but return to some deadly form.
They did that by scoring three clinical goals in the first half, firstly to Adrian Mierzejewski before Bobo delivered another and then also scored from the penalty spot.
Two goals in the last 20 minutes to Adam Taggart for Perth at least made things interesting.
The win takes the Sky Blues to 58 points and 60 goals on the season.
They are 11 points clear of second-placed Newcastle Jets with games against Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory to go.
The loss ended four straight home wins for Glory. They needed something out of the game to stay in the finals hunt.
But they remain a point behind sixth placed Western Sydney Wanderers and goal difference behind Brisbane Roar.
Liverpool, Brighton score EPL wins
Manchester United open EPL with loss
Bale on verge of Tottenham return
With just two games to go away to the Jets and at home to Roar, their finals chances appear done.
Glory looked out of sorts from the opening and Sydney' are not the team to be flat against. They made them pay in the 12th minute.
A good ball from Brandon O'Neill couldn't be cut off by Dino Djulbic. Bobo's shot was saved but then Mierzejewski easily put the rebound home.
Then in the 29th minute Bobo easily scored after Djulbic brought down Matt Simon in the box from behind with referee Kris Griffiths-Jones having little option but to award the penalty.
It then became 3-0 in the 39th minute when Bobo easily got behind Perth's defence and shot the ball calmly through the legs of 'keeper Liam Reddy.
Perth scored with a well-worked effort with Chris Harold setting up Adam Taggart in the 72nd minute.
A wonderful side foot strike from Taggart 17 minutes later brought the home crowd to life but Glory couldn't quite find a third goal.
Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold couldn't have been prouder to secure the Premiers' Plate.
"I am a very proud man tonight but we are not done yet obviously," Arnold said.
"We've had two wonderful years. Last season we won the competition by 17 points, we are 11 ahead now and we've had a fair personnel turnover.
"We've lost (Danny) Vukovic, (Filip) Holosko, (Milos) Dimitrijevic and Rhyan Grant so we've had to refresh the squad. They've just done fantastically well and that's our second goal ticked for the season."
Glory coach Kenny Lowe couldn't fault his team's endeavour, but ultimately the Sky Blues were too clinical.
"We worked ever so hard to try and get back in it at the end but they are ruthless," Lowe said.
"We came out in the second half intent to get back in the game, which we did, and we really pushed and pushed to get back into the game even before we scored.
"We just didn't have that ruthless edge that they had."


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This photo made available by the U.S. National Archives shows a portion of the United States Constitution with the title of Article V. For the past two centuries, constitutional amendments have originated in Congress, where they need the support of two-thirds of both houses, and then the approval of at least three-quarters of the states. But under a never-used second prong of Article V, amendments can originate in the states. (National Archives via AP)
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This is something I did not know the history of—that there once was a fish ladder—so this article from the Auburn Journal is very informative.
An excerpt.
A recent news article states "San Francisco (Nov. 10, 2015) – Environmental groups filed a request yesterday to supplement their complaint against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and growers who flood irrigate rice in the Sacramento Valley for mismanaging water supplies that should have been used to protect California's once-booming salmon runs and fishing industry."
The suit was filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council against the bureau and the Rice Growers Association, alleging that the bureau unlawfully diverted limited water supplies from behind Shasta Dam for the use of corporate agriculture, instead of using the water to keep Chinook salmon alive below the dam. Chinook salmon especially — threatened winter and spring runs — are on the verge of extinction.
These headlines are almost daily occurrences in California newspapers with little being accomplished to save our anadromous fishes.
Californians must get salmon and steelhead over rim dams in order to prevent extinction.
According to NOAA records, Folsom Dam originally had a fish ladder installed, but it was washed out by a flood in 1949 and sadly was never rebuilt. The builders knew fish passage over the dam would be necessary to preserve salmon and steelhead, but the need has been buried and ignored for over half a century.
Fish ladders or some counterparts like fish elevators or fish pipelines over Folsom Dam and the North Fork Dam on the North Fork of American River would help reopen the dams now blocking natural passage for the fish.
Such changes would allow fish to spawn naturally in their natural habitat, which once extended to the crest of the Sierra. So doing will be a natural adjutant to the current management method of artificially spawning the fish at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery, which is manually squeezing out the eggs from females and milt from the males and hand mixing the fertilizing agents in a bucket.
Salmon are consummate natural creatures, and when this fish passage project is completed, they will only benefit.
The public is not yet ready to dismiss fish hatcheries, which have extended the lives of a weakened salmon species. But people well know fish hatcheries were advertised as a means of circumventing opposition to the rampant dam building of the last century.
People now know that the common mixing of milk and eggs does not strengthen the species like precocious males fertilizing eggs in a process of natural selection in the wild (see spawning video at www.sarsas.org).
When salmon and steelhead are able to get over these two dams, they will have a minimum of 125 miles of prime salmon spawning gravels in North Fork and its several tributaries, now all blocked. Passage must be installed in place of a system of "Catch and Haul" by trucking fish upstream.
Trucking the fish will cost hundreds of millions of dollars each year whereas the fish passage is a one-time expense for fixing the problem permanently.
Many very knowledgeable fish scientists have summarily dismissed the possibility of fish passage over California's rim dams and have stopped planning and experimenting with possibilities.
Folsom Dam is 340 feet to the top of the dam and 275 feet to its hydraulic height, the natural operating depth of the dam.
The fish ladder must be incremental with resting pools for fish to negotiate the dam's height. When the fish return, an underwater funneling system could be used near the dam to shoot the fish back through an opening very close to the dam, freefalling the fish back into the river where they're ready to make their return to the Pacific.


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June 14, 2012 Bantam Birchen Cochin Roo & Ugly Cockerel
This boy was finally caught on his evening roost. I managed to get a few good pics of him this am. Aside from his battle wounds (still healing from his territorial fight), he is a very good looking bird.
The nice thing about Cochins is their mild mannered nature. This guy never tries to skewer (with his spurs) or bite people. Once you catch him, he is a cooperative model.
Bantam Birchen Cochin Roo:
His imitation of a Bald Eagle.
SG Silkie x Bantam Polish Cockerel
(just plain missed getting his pic yesterday)
This young roo has not been plucked nor is he molting. He is actually part of our ugly breeding project.
This growing adolescent is actually quite full of himself. Our lady's man proclaims to be quite a stud.
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The Detroit Red Wings did not have a good night on Saturday.
They were blown out by a final score of 7-2 in a matinee game at the Joe Louis Arena and subsequently waved goodbye to playoff security. They have seven games to go this season and will have to win at least five of them to secure a post-season berth.
If they miss the boat, it'll be the first time Detroit has missed the playoffs in 24 years. That's the longest playoff streak of any team in all of the major North American sports leagues.
The Red Wings have 85 points currently. That ties them with the Philadelphia Flyers, who have eight games to go, and puts them four points back of the New York Islanders.
The seven goals Detroit allowed by the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon represented the most goals the team's allowed this season. The fans booed the Red Wings and Petr Mrazek was chased from the goal.
The Penguins came out firing and exposed a hockey club with a clear weakness. They got several easy chances on target and uncorked four shots on goal in 90 seconds. Phil Kessel and Nick Bonino had big nights for Pittsburgh.
The loss was tough and maybe even represented the beginning of the end, but general manager Ken Holland still believes in his franchise – and rightly so.
This is a club that's been able to move through many phases of its storied history, including the departure of key players like Nicklas Lidstrom, Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan. They've overcome adversity, like when the salary cap was supposed to iron things out in 2005-2006. And now they've turned into a scrappy crew that has to fight for a chance to dance.
That's not necessarily the position Detroit's fans want to find their beloved Red Wings in, but it's the way it is for the time being.
The team was 25-16-8 at the All-Star break and the playoffs seemed a sure thing. Since then, they dropped to 12-10-3 and lost ground to the surging Flyers. Their offence is 22nd overall, with Henrik Zetterberg on pace for his worst totals since his rookie season and Pavel Datsyuk coming up short as well. And the power play is 18th overall, a significant dip from their second-best man-advantage last year.
The Red Wings could make the playoffs. They aren't mathematically eliminated. But they'll need to pull things together and find their groove under head coach Jeff Blashill. And if they can't, history will be made for all the wrong reasons.


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The Power of Corporative Mindfulness
Traditional Mindfulness has been reinvented for the digital age. Its focus on the present moment attention, with a non-judgmental attitude, allows one to pause and consciously decide how to act. Mindfulness counterbalances overload and constant distractions of the digital-age.
How to Instill Mindfulness in Your Company
You need to customize your mindfulness programs. Many organizations have achieved good results by starting with a small pilot program, such as providing a mindfulness course to senior leadership.
How to Listen Mindfully
We often perform interact with people without being fully aware. Mindful Listening is a process of attentive listening, not an unconscious rote behavior.
Nowadays the term "mindfulness" has become familiar in our society. Its practice has spread in such a way that this meditation technique is now widely accepted in the fields of medicine, health, neuroscience, education, business and the world of business, university, sports, psychiatry and many other fields. Its clear purpose is accessing a greater state of well-being through the understanding of our attitudes and knowledge of the mind.
Meditation and Creativity
In 2010, IBM conducted a study of 1,500 CEO's from 60 countries and 33 sectors of activity. One of the main conclusions showed how, beyond integrity, rigor or vision, creativity is perceived as the main value that managers and business managers must provide. Now, how can we help generate good ideas and direct and maintain our thinking in a stage of "creative production" when necessary?
CEOs and Meditation
Since the beginning of this century, CEOs of a growing number of American and European corporations are realizing the usefulness of the practice of meditation. It is not only an effective instrument to alleviate and help manage stress, but its practice becomes an intelligent ally when making strategic decisions, and achieving objectives.


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Max Gardener is only 19 years old, but he already has all the makings of the next bedroom pop sweetheart. Following in the footsteps of male solo acts like Mac Demarco, Ariel Pink, and Alex Calder, he's grimy looking but makes sweet music. His latest single, "Sudden Love" is a twinkling synthpoppy song that fits right in with his predecessors, with a smoother and more lo-fi approach than his prior releases. Gardener's last EP, "New In Town" from this April 2017, also posses twinkles, and plenty of jammy electric guitar. Gardener, although still a teen, has been releasing music since 2015 - listening to his discography shows how he's matured over the years. "Sudden Love" opens up a new chapter in his musical career, one that we hope will launch him into that dirty lo-fi dreamboat clique that we all know and love. See him in his hometown of San Francisco at Rickshaw Shop on September 10th. -Allie Miller
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SMstudy® Certified Digital Marketing Experts are experienced in facilitating well-planned digital marketing strategies to meet the targets set by the Corporate Marketing Strategy. Given the nature of the constantly evolving online world – with new channels developing with greater frequency, and audiences exploring new sources of online content- Digital Marketing is one of the most crucial aspects of sales and marketing. SMstudy® Certified Digital Marketing Experts are able to define all marketing activities that use electronic devices connected to the internet to engage with customers. Experts will also be able to plan, develop and optimize available digital marketing channels to achieve the objectives defined for a product.
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- Multiple choice
- 180 questions
- No negative marks for iincorrect answers
- 240-minute duration
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This certification is appropriate for Sales and Marketing Professionals and Specialists interested in becoming a Digital Marketing Expert.
Candidates should have a minimum of five years work experience. It is preferable to complete the SMstudy® Certified Digital Marketing Specialist certification and study all processes in the SMstudy® Guide – Digital Marketing book before applying for the SMstudy® Certified Digital Marketing Expert certification.
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24/7 customer support will be provided to you, once you get enroll a dedicated account executive will call you and explain you how you need to take this training further also steps to schedule online proctor examination.


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A drumhead or drum skin is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum. The drumhead is struck with sticks, mallets, or hands, so that it vibrates and the sound resonates through the drum.
Originally, drumheads were made from animal hide and were first used in early human history, long before records began.
In 1957, Remo Belli and Sam Muchnick together developed a polymer head (also known as Mylar) leading to the development of the Remo drumhead company. [1]
Despite the benefits of plastic heads, drummers in historical reenactment groups such as fife and drum use animal skin heads for historical accuracy. Skin heads are used on most hand drums, including djembes, frame drums, bongos and congas, although in recent years, companies such as Remo have begun manufacturing synthetic counterparts for certain hand drums such as congas. Another common material used for drumheads is aramid fiber, such as kevlar. More durable fiber heads, such as kevlar heads, are used mostly in marching percussion.[2]
A drum "hoop" or "rim" may be made of metal, wood, or other material and is used to hold a drumhead against a drum shell, either with bolts through metal "claws" attached directly to a hoop, or bolts through holes in a flanged rim. The bolts, called "tension rods", are screwed into threaded "lugs" attached to the drum shell, in order to tighten and tune the drumhead.[3] A "drum key" is a four sided wrench used to screw the tension rods into the lugs.[4]
Drummers muffle their drums using special drumheads. Some drumheads come pre-muffled such as Remo Powerstroke Pro. Most muffling is done by external muffles such as Muff'l Strips or Bass Drum Muffles
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The increasing number of liquor licences granted in Queenstown is tarnishing the resort town's image, a report released this morning says.
The 2013 Hospitality Report, prepared by the Restaurant Association of New Zealand and the Auckland University of Technology, provided a regional spotlight on Queenstown which found it had the highest number of liquor licences per capita of anywhere in New Zealand.
The total number of licences in the district grew 6% in 2010 and 18% in 2011. Although there was a 5% reduction in 2012, many operators felt there were still too many licensed establishments and their proliferation was harming Queenstown's image.
Association members surveyed said the increasing licences also increased competition which encouraged low alcohol prices and consequently, a binge-drinking culture.
Opinion among the various interested parties was divided, the report said.
While the police and the council generally believed that the number of on-licence properties did not have a harmful effect on the town if the number of patrons remained constant, some hospitality operators disagreed.
Restaurant Association Queenstown branch president Cameron Mitchell said the group's business owners felt a cap on liquor licences would have a positive effect on the image of the town.
The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act, and its tough licensing conditions, had been welcomed by many hospitality operators.
''Selling cheap drinks and the ease of acquiring a liquor licence are things they hope will change. It will give communities a greater say over liquor outlets, set tougher rules for licence applications and could mean a change for the Queenstown bar scene,'' he said.


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The Big Field Aligner Infoceutical (BFA) does just what its name implies, it works to correct an imbalance or distortion in any of the three axes, aligning your body-field with the Big Fields of the Earth. Its effect is to stabilize and better organize your Body-Field, so it tends to help you to feel more secure within your physical body. When it's shown as a priority, using it to realign your Body-Field helps to make the other Infoceuticals in your protocol more effective.
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9th Annual Funds Transfer Pricing and Balance Sheet Management conference, hosted by Marcus Evans, in London, 16-17 September 2019.
Prometeia's team joins a qualified panel of speakers, leveraging its expertise to address the challenges for FTP calculations and platforms.
Here are some highlights of Prometeia's speech:
Massimo Pedroni, Senior Partner Prometeia
A senior partner at Prometeia since 2018. He has been the Head of International Business since 2014 and coordinates the activities of the overseas branches of the Group based in London, Istanbul, Moscow, Cairo and Lagos. A graduate with honours in Banking Economics from the University of Modena in 2000, he completed a Master's in Finance at University College London (UCL). Before returning to Prometeia, he worked for KPMG and Lloyds TSB in London as head of the Model Governance & Validation department. His many years of experience as a Risk Management consultant have seen him work in over fifteen countries, managing major projects in Austria, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Central-Eastern Europe and the Middle East.


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The Pacific Network
An introduction to Ocean Protocol's main network, named Pacific.
The Pacific Network1 is an EVM-compatible Proof of Authority (POA) network of nodes ("keepers") running Parity Ethereum software. Various Ocean Protocol smart contracts ("keeper contracts") are deployed to it.
Initially, all the nodes in the Pacific Network were operated solely by BigchainDB GmbH (i.e. one company), but the goal was for the nodes to be operated by many independent operators in the future.
We expect vulnerabilities to be discovered and will conduct security audits over time, but the Ocean Protocol smart contracts will be in the wild for all intents and purposes. Over time, the Pacific Network will be upgraded and improved. There is no intent to shut it down. Eventually, the goal is for it to be used in production by many projects.
Ocean Tokens in Pacific
To be able to use Ocean Tokens in Pacific, they need to be transferred from the Ethereum Mainnet with a token bridge.
For more information, see Pacific Network Ocean Tokens.
Connect to the Pacific Network
To connect to Pacific in your browser with MetaMask, see Tutorial: Connect to the Pacific Network.
Pacific Blockchain Explorers
There is a Pacific blockchain explorer at submarine.oceanprotocol.com. You can use it to check the status of a transaction, the balance of an account, and more.
It uses the following symbols for Pacific Ether and Pacific Ocean Tokens:
|Symbol used
|Pacific Ether
|Pacific Ocean Tokens
|OCEAN or SBT-OCN
Ocean Components Connected to Pacific
There are several Ocean Protocol software components that are live, connected to the Pacific Network, and operated by BigchainDB GmbH:
|Secret Store
|Aquarius Test instance
|Brizo Test instance
|Aquarius for Commons
|Brizo for Commons
|Commons Marketplace
|Faucet Server
|Token Bridge Frontend
Internal note: The private "atlantic" repo documents the internal details of the Pacific Network in
Using Barge with Pacific
If you run Barge with the
--local-pacific-node option, then Barge will run a Pacific node on your local machine (along with everything else Barge runs).
There might be many blocks in the Pacific Network's blockchain, so it might take a long time for your local Pacific node to sync, i.e. to download a local copy of all the blocks. In the meantime, the local Pacific node won't be able to do certain things.
The Pacific Network is (or was) also known by other names, including Pacific, Main Ocean Network, Ocean Mainnet, Ocean Live Network.↩


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How Instacart plans to keep delivering growth
Food retailers whose operating models were built and refined during a pre-digital era have been racing to improve digital engagement with shoppers and execute new forms of fulfillment. In recent years, many turned to San Francisco-based Instacart, founded in 2012, and Toronto-based Unata, founded in 2011. Instacart rose to prominence as a provider of grocery delivery services while Unata emerged as a digital experience company with technology solutions focused on making e-commerce seamless. Now the companies are one following Instacart's acquisition of Unata in January 2018. Retail Leader spoke with Nilam Ganenthiran, Chief Business Officer at Instacart, and Chris Bryson, Founder and CEO of Unata, about the future of food retailing.
Retail Leader: Let's start with what the Instacart network looks like today.
Nilam Ganenthiran: We are operating in 190 markets across the United States and Canada. We serve about 63% of the households in North America and plan to cover about 80% of households by the end of 2018. We work with 189 retailers from large to small and have about 30,000 personal shoppers who pick, pack and deliver millions of dollars of groceries on behalf of our retailer partners. We work with some of the largest grocers in North America including Costco, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Ahold/Delhaize, H-E-B and Loblaw. We also work with large and high quality regional players such as Wegmans, Stater Brothers, Supervalu, Heinen's and Homeland.
RL: What's the appeal to a retailer?
NG: We have a heritage of being a technology-first company, and our founder Apoorva Mehta's background is in fulfillment engineering and logistics. That was something he focused on while he was at Amazon. Store to home logistics, batching, route planning, those are not skill sets for traditional grocers who are great at the logistics to get stuff to the store. We help solve the hard technology problem of how to do last-mile fulfillment from a store in a very cost-effective way and we also help solve the problem of building a great front-end experience because the way a customer interacts with groceries is very different than other segments of e-commerce.
RL: How so?
NG: We had to figure out how do you make sure shoppers can pick, pack, and deliver groceries in a very fast and efficient, but also very accurate fashion, in stores that are actually designed for customers. Stores are designed for browsing and people taking their time and our model is dependent on people picking groceries really fast and really accurately. It is a technology problem. As we started talking to retailers, they realized there must be a better way than the way that everyone has tried to do it before. You can get pretty far trying to do it yourself, but there are challenges around having the technological expertise in-house. The bigger challenge is having the localized density and scale to be able to make the economics work. Because we work with multiple grocers within a city, we're able to batch orders across stores and keep our personal shoppers highly utilized. What matters to our personal shoppers is how much they're making per hour, meaning they need a lot of volume of orders every hour. These are some of the challenges that we've been able to take off the minds of retailers.
RL: You referenced your founder's background at Amazon. Now that capabilities like the type you offer are available to retailers, is the threat from Amazon overblown?
NG: We have the utmost respect and humility when you think about Amazon and what they've been able to achieve. They've got an engine for innovation and passion for customer service that many organizations just haven't historically had. Their relentless focus on the end customer has allowed them to win in things as disparate as cloud computing, to online e-commerce, to electronic e-readers and everything in between, which is pretty fascinating. That being said, we think that brick and mortar grocery is very hard and it is a very localized relationship that customers have, between the purveyor of food and their family. If you think about a busy mom, the choice of what to feed her family is one of the most important choices that she has throughout the day. When we talk to her, and it's usually a her, there are a lot of psychological benefits she gets from feeling in control of what she feeds her family.
Why does that matter, related to Amazon? That means that she has developed relationships with the H-E-Bs and Publix and Wegmans in her community over a period of decades and there is a great level of trust. It's actually going to be quite challenging for Amazon to break that relationship. Brick and mortar grocers are also advantaged with great real estate that enables them to have easy access to customer's homes. Not only have they built the stores where the demand is, but the assortment in these stores is tailored to what people in these communities buy. That level of customization, matching price, assortment, and brand to the local consumer is something that's very hard to replicate by an e-commerce technology-only company.
RL: How has Instacart's financial model evolved?
NG: Instacart has three revenue streams. We collect fees from retailers, typically on a revenue share basis. In exchange for picking, packing, delivering groceries, developing their catalog, taking pictures, building their site, answering customer service calls related to e-commerce – all of that package – they pay us a percentage of the transaction or a fixed dollar amount per delivery. The retailers maintain full pricing and merchandising control, and pay us a fee for the service. The next revenue stream is the customers who pay us a delivery fee or buys an annual membership and gets free deliveries for the year. The third revenue stream is the CPG community. If you think about it from an advertiser's perspective, they are hungry to find a way to get closer to the customer's purchase. While being retailer agnostic, CPGs are able to connect with the customer all the way from discovery down, not only to purchase, but repurchase, on one platform. We can drop a sample in the bag, and track whether the person who received the sample actually came back and bought the product.
RL: How about on the cost side?
NG: Our largest bucket of cost is our personal shoppers and their commissions or wages. Beyond that, we've got, obviously, our insurance cost, our customer support cost, customer service, we've got costs related to our technology and our hosting, all of that stuff, and the credit card swipe fees, we pay the credit cards money every time a customer transacts.
RL: Have you achieved the scale to be profitable?
NG: We are profitable in all our mature markets and profitability for us follows a predictable curve. For the longest time, Instacart had been in somewhere between 18 to 30 markets and we were conservative about expansion. Last year, we went from 30 to 190 markets and the reason 2017 was such a big expansion year is because in 2016, we were focused on profitability and, most importantly, having predictability around profitability. For example, what type of volume and density mix does it take to turn a market, in our language, from red to green on a profitability perspective? The improved predictability of profitability enabled us to add 160 markets last year.
RL: What did you learn in the process?
NG: Last year taught us about market dynamics. We learned the demand for our type of service in places like Buffalo, New York, or Evansville, Indiana, or Rockford, Illinois, on a per capita basis, is actually greater than the demand in places such as San Francisco, Chicago or D.C. Some of that's competitive dynamics, and some of that's just about having the opportunity to work with great retailers. What's really interesting, and it's neat to be part of this change, is that regardless of where she lives in the heartland of the country, this consumer seems to want this type of service, so we're meeting her across the country today. I would like to say that we knew this, but we really didn't, so it's been fascinating to see, and very exciting to see that the model scales and that the demand scales across the heartland of the country.
RL: Let's back up to CPG revenue stream because one of the concerns CPG companies have about the migration to online shopping is that it just turns into a replenishment model. If I'm Brand A and a shopper always buys Brand B the opportunity to persuade someone to switch is greatly diminished compared to what it would be in the store.
NG: The biggest dynamic with CPGs is the value of being first in the basket. In the old world, I actually started my career at Procter & Gamble as a brand manager, and they trained us incessantly on this idea of the first moment of truth. The first moment of truth used to be the shelf, and every time she was at the shelf, she had the opportunity to switch. In an online world, the dynamic is so different. The value of getting in her basket the first time is so high, because essentially, what we're finding, is customers have a very much "set it and forget it" dynamic to most of their core grocery shopping.
RL: Right, so how do CPGs break that cycle?
NG: Some categories lend themselves to more thrill-seeking or trialing than others, of course, but generally, that first basket is very sticky. So the challenge for CPGs is how do you get discovered in this world where, once the customer makes a choice, she doesn't want to rethink that choice because she's using e-commerce to simplify her life? How do you allow her to discover your brand if you're not already in that basket and do so in a way that isn't intrusive to her journey? We offer tools for CPGs to do that, like offering the ability to stock up and save. Things like buy a quantity of a family of brands to receive a discount or free delivery have been among our most successful programs. Other examples include targeted coupons or generating awareness of promotions via what we call 'the hero' in aisle. Featured search is another area where if she is searching for cereal, what shows up first? It is a very real problem for CPGs, but it's also a very real opportunity, because if you think of the return that comes from getting into the customer's first basket, it's tremendous.
RL: When the acquisition of Unata was announced you guys talked about the combination with Instacart "enabling the future of online grocery shopping." Elaborate on what that means.
Chris Bryson: The future of the grocery experience is a more convenient one and Instacart is part of what is enabling that future. Their value proposition of being able to get groceries to your door, sometimes as quickly as 60 minutes or less, is a game-changer that falls in line with the consumer focus on convenience. We are all so digitally dialed-in now, you can order your coffee ahead of time before you walk into Starbucks. Why can't you do the same with your groceries? There are so many opportunities to make the current grocery experience more convenient, to save more time, to make it more personal, to make it easier for consumers to pick the right product based on their own personal goals. Anything that reduces clicks, that makes it easier for me to convert my inspiration into an actual product decision, that takes away the burden for me of having to do research, of having to spend too much time. It all comes back to convenience.
RL: Some retailers view convenience as picking up at store, the click and collect model. What's your view of click and collect versus home delivery or is it not an either or situation?
CB: Many of our retailers provide both delivery and click and collect, and we've had the benefit of being able, courtesy of the loyalty programs that many of these retailers have, to also see what the adoption is. What we've noticed is that the shoppers who buy online, whether it's delivery or click and collect, continue to come into the store almost every single week. Shoppers will pick the method of shopping that is most convenient for them at any given time based on context and circumstances. We recently surveyed 1,000 U.S. shoppers and confirmed there is a strong desire for both delivery and pickup although delivery has a slight edge.
RL: What did the survey tell you about shoppers' desire to engage with voice?
CB: The data reinforced that shoppers value two way communication with personal shoppers. As Nilam knows, customers on Instacart get to know their personal shoppers, and there is two-way communication all the time around product preferences and substitution possibilities. Beyond that, Unata last fall integrated voice capabilities with our platform and we are beta testing with a few of our retailers. The idea is the second that moment of inspiration hits, that I realize I'm in my kitchen and I've run out of orange juice, or pasta, or whatever it might be, because that so often happens in the kitchen and I might have my hands full, I could very quickly vocalize to my smart speaker to add to the grocery list.
RL: That takes convenience to a new level.
CB: It becomes an effortless customer experience. Instead of having to pick up my phone and open up the app or write down on a piece of paper which I may forget to put in my pocket, voice is a much better customer experience because. It is effortless, it's tracked and it's saved. That's one use case, but certainly there are a lot of other use cases that I could ask my smart speaker about. And by the way, it doesn't need to be just the Google Home. It could be all kinds of other different chat bots. It could be something that runs on the Amazon Alexa, it could be Facebook Messenger, all those things are possible. What we are in beta with is the Google Home. I can ask to add an item to my order or is there any gluten-free beer on sale at my local grocer and have those results sent to my phone. The possibilities are incredibly endless.
RL: So voice is the future for grocery?
CB: We did ask those 1,000 shoppers in our survey whether they were embracing voice technology, and we found that one in five North American shoppers already owns a smart speaker and that about 30% of them had already used it to build their grocery shopping list. So not only is the device highly adopted, but the adoption toward the grocery experience is strong, and we expect that to grow. It comes back to the theme of convenience. If it is a more effortless customer experience, why wouldn't you use it? RL


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The Vietnamese surname Nguyen is the most common name in Vietnam with over 40% of the population bearing the name. The surname Nguyễn is the Vietnamese transliteration of the Chinese surname (阮),which is often translated as Ruan in Mandarin or Yuen in Cantonese, meaning a plucked intrument. During the Tran dynasty in the 11th to 13th Century many members of the Ly family changed their name to Nguyen to avoid persecution. Buy this crest on jewelry.


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Disney in Concert
When: SAT, December 16, 7pm–10pm
Where: Wiener Stadthalle
Entry: from 61.70€, buy your ticket here
Do we really need to put a video or link to the music here? Don't we all know the Disney songs by heart, anyway? And to be quite honest, we couldn't agree on which Disney song to put here – it started a huuuuge argument.
Recommended if you like: the circle of life, building a snowman, Hans Zimmer, singing along to all the soundtracks of your childhood movies, letting go, the bare necessities, dressing up as a princess or prince when home along


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Handcrafted Essential Oil Box
$ 48.00
This handcrafted, distressed wooden box is beautifully made and designed to both, showcase and store your essential oils. Perfect for storing your oils to protect them from dust, and light exposure. Includes a removable foam insert that holds 36 5-15ml bottles of oil. When foam is not inside, the box can hold 100 5ml or 64 15ml bottles packed in.
Choose from 2 different top designs or create a custom saying (please specify custom in NOTES section of cart). Perfect to hold your collection!
There is a NOTES section in your cart during checkout, if you have any other preferences, please put your notes there.
- Approx. 10 in x 10 in x 4.5 in (there may some variation due to the nature of the wood)
- Distressed, hand rubbed matte finish (each box will be slightly different due to the handmade process)
- There are no inserts - the box can hold many different variations of 5ml, 15ml, roll-ons, supplements, and more!