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Tag : Art Over Nursery Dresser
Beautiful Guest Room Decor features Art over Nursery Dresser by Homepolish
By Bruce WayneThe nursery room looks calm with blue and white theme and I think that is a nursery supposed to be. The picture shows a little part of the room and I feel a little bit surprised because there is a wide bed instead of crib for a baby. I think the crib is on the other part of the room and it is unfortunate because I cannot see it. However, I really love how the designer put lovely details in some parts of the room, and one of the best is the wall. Some paintings in white and brown frames, white head animals, and the cute flying striped blue air balloon make the room less boring. The curved cream dresser completes the lovely touch in the room.


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Viktoriya Yordanova is a BA (Hons) Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Scheme with Sandwich Year final-year student at Birmingham City Business School.
"Why do you go to university?" – I was asked once. "To get my dream job." – I answered. In today's tough economic climate, however, hundreds of freshly graduated young people are competing for the same job position. Just a degree from a well-known university does not guarantee a job offer anymore because employers are looking for what else an employee can offer – mostly job-related skills and experience.
You would ask "But how can a person who has never worked before and has just graduated have any relevant experience at all?". Well, there is a way around it – an industrial placement. I had the opportunity to go on one after my second year at Birmingham City University and can certainly confirm that this was the best year of my life.
Getting a placement offer was not an easy task at all. It was the first time I was ever applying for a 'real' job and the declines I received almost made me lose faith. However, thanks to the help of the lovely people at the Placement Office at my university, I was given full support during the process. From being sent job adverts in which I might be interested to receiving advice on how to improve my CV and participating in a mock assessment centre, the Placement Office was always there to help me in my preparation for getting my placement. One mistake some students make, however, is to never reach for that support.
After sending around 10-15 applications, I finally managed to get two job interviews. I was successful at the first one and decided to accept the job offer by a boutique digital marketing consultancy in central London. The first three months settling in and getting used to the 9-to-5 daily routine were difficult, but with the support of my new, friendly colleagues I 'survived' my probation period. I was really enjoying my job and the dedication and hard work paid off when my contract was extended and I received a bonus. Although being just a placement student, my contribution was always valued, which was the best reward I could get.
Now I am in my final year at university and only after coming back from a placement I can understand why employers want to hire people with experience. I learnt so much by doing the work every single day, not only in terms of digital marketing but also in regards to business conduct and other details that are not mentioned in the academic literature. The placement experience enhances the effect of the university and students who go on one graduate as more confident experts in their professional field.
Another benefit of being on placement is the exposure to industry professionals with whom the student work and develop relationships. This can later lead to a future job offer or a recommendation to a potential employer. In addition to the gained new knowledge and improved confidence, the student on placement has already started building their professional network, which is of great importance for future success.
Last but not least, many Birmingham City University students who go on a placement are subsequently offered a graduate role by the same company, which demonstrates the employers' satisfaction with the quality of the work they deliver. The preparation and support from the university throughout the whole process is steady. Even when at work each student is assigned a personal tutor to keep in touch with, who ensures the student is happy with all aspects of the placement experience.
I would recommend to everyone, regardless of their degree, to go on a placement. Undeniably, the application process is tough, but if you are determined and hard-working, you will be reaping the rewards from it for a long time in the future and will start your graduate career with a jump-start.
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Are you looking for how to start beekeeping in Meadville Pennsylvania? A number of individuals say honey bee farming classes in PA can be expensive and there are alternative ways to master honey bee farming without spending lots of money in training.
Beekeeping is a hobby that depends on having fire that is entire. You cannot start a company like this if you do not like dealing with live creatures. Working with bees is like working with some other kind of fowl or animals; it needs knowledge and attention to keep bees productive and healthy. You should take complete care of every little matter and each, to ensure it doesn't create any trouble for the company in the foreseeable future.
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– Selecting the correct tools
Beginning without selecting the proper tools beekeeping, is like entering the conflict with swimming costumes. You should be well prepared before you start your company or it is going to be a total loss for money and your time.
Ask your self several questions before you choose your hives that are acceptable. This depends on which is your target from beginning beekeeping a lot. If you are willing to invest time and some cash in a bee keeping business then you might want to know will you take care of your hives. Are you prepared to purchase an expensive hive if it's best alternative for you?
These type of questions will be asked to you once you visit an expert bee keeper to consult him about the greatest hive to purchase. Every hive has its specifications, maintenance and honey generation amount.
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Obviously we as pet owners cannot be with our furry friends 24/7 and as a result they sometimes are capable of getting into trouble when we aren't around. If our cat or dog has snuck into a garden shed or garage, or has gotten out of the yard and gone exploring, there's no telling what kinds of messes they may get themselves into.
Think for a moment of all the different substances that can be found in your very own garage or back yard. Now think about how difficult it will be to remove some of those things from your pet's fur if and when they do happen to get mixed up in them. Let's go through a few different scenarios so that we can provide you with some easy, home made solutions.
Let's say for instance that your pet has been rolling around in or rubbing itself against some type of oil-based paint or motor oil. A natural solution, and one much less harsh than using something like turpentine, is to use a Vegetable or Mineral Oil to remove the substance. This will definitely be time consuming but in the end will do the trick. Rub large amounts of oil into the fur and use paper towels to absorb any excess. You may need to repeat the process several times in order to remove all of the paint or motor oil. Once you have finished, use Flour or Powdered Starch to absorb the substance. Use a wide-toothed comb to remove the mixture and then use a diluted dish detergent to bathe the animal and eliminate any remaining oil and powder.
If your pet has come into contact with tar, then you will want to use some Petroleum Jelly or Crisco Shortening to soften it up. Let it soak in until the tar is softened and then you will be able to wipe it away with paper towels. Repeat the process as often as necessary and afterwards wash your pet with soap and water.
To remove latex paint or wax from your pets fur, use ice to harden the area of hair that you are dealing with and this should make it nice and easy to peel most of the substance away with your fingernails. Wash the rest of it out with soap and water and you're good to go!
If your pet has an issue with bubble gum stuck in its fur, use your fingers to work some Peanut Butter into the problem area and gently separate the hair from the gum. The oils in the peanut butter will help to break up the bubble gum making it easier to remove. (This is also a great trick for children with the same problem!)


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La Mandarine Beachwear
Block printed strappy dress Gini
This wonderful dress is hand made for us in Jaipur using the traditional techniques of block printing. This dress is perfect as a cover-up for lunch in the sun at the beach club, or for perusing the local provencal village. It also works really well for festivals and any sunny summer afternoon.
100% cotton. Machine washable at cool temperatures and line dry in the shade.


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This is a personal blog mainly to do with hillwalking things but with other stuff as well.....maybe the odd rant..
Knipe Towers.
Shrouded in mystery??
The gates of hell?
On second thoughts, it could be wallpaper for a Goth's bedroom.
It is Mike's Knipe Towers front parlour.
Is it Time Team does Fred West's back garden?
Ok, ta for the japes everybody - the truth is (wait for it...) the truth is that it's inscibed on the door of a commercial premises in the lovely village of Bowes at the Eastern end of Stainmore Pass on the beautiful A66.
An odd thing to draw on your door...
Goole ! Arf!


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Leigh and Stephens Mundy were honored with the Ianelli Award last weekend by Mayor Colin Read.
Photo by Elizabeth Izzo
PLATTSBURGH | This year's Ianelli Award went to a local couple with years of service in their respective industries.
Stephens and Leigh Mundy were presented the annual award, designed to highlight community philanthropy and service, in the closing hours of the Mayor's Cup last week.
"Sunrise Rotary is proud to support arts in our community and the revitalization of our historic downtown," said Sunrise Rotary President Doug Kashorek in a statement. "Our club is delighted that the committee has chosen to honor Leigh and Stephens Mundy and to recognize their tremendous efforts to enhance the community in which we live."
When Leigh moved to Plattsburgh from West Virginia in 2002, she remembers packing up an old suburban, two sons in tow, and making the 11 hour drive all at once.
Her husband Stephens was about to take the helm as president and CEO of Champlain Valley Physician's Hospital (CVPH), and she wanted their kids to start school in the springtime.
The deadline to enroll was in just four days, so she packed everything and made her way to a place that the family would call home for nearly two decades to come.
"We moved into a guest house of somebody's until Stephens could get here," she said. "The boys started school on time."
Stephens followed a little while later, and after getting his bearings at CVPH, would hold his position there for the next 16 years, presiding over the halls as the hospital expanded its services and staff twofold.
Not long after, Leigh got involved with the Strand Center for the Arts, first as an events planner, then as a member of the Strand Board of Directors.
As her husband watched one Plattsburgh institution grow, during her tenure on the board she saw the Strand Theatre awaken from its dilapidated slumber and become a downtown staple again.
As a volunteer, she spearheaded the restoration of the old theater — at one point, Leigh and Stephens could've been seen carrying out old, tattered carpets from the Strand or hosting "scrubbing parties" to get others involved.
Rehabbing the Strand was a process that took nearly a decade, but she loved to do it in part because she loves this community.
She's now serving as its interim director as a search continues for another executive.
The Ianelli Award was created eight years ago in honor of former Mayor John Ianelli, a lawmaker remembered for his "community does matter" spirit.
"The energy and devotion the Mundys offered this community is precisely what the Ianelli Award seeks to recognize," Mayor Colin Read said in a statement. "They took a derelict theater in the heart of our downtown and created a treasure for which our entire region can be proud. This is the pride of Mayor Ianelli that I am overjoyed to endorse."
Getting the Ianelli Award was a good surprise, Leigh said, and one that made them both very proud.
"You get what you give," she said.
For her, community service isn't just about doing your job and working to build something, it's about showing up in your city:
"I just think — if you don't get involved, then you can't complain about things being a certain way," she said. "You have to be part of the solution. People that just sit in their houses and complain need to get out and get involved, and it's not easy to do. It's not easy, but it's very rewarding."
"I look at it as — we're trying to build a community, all of us," Stephens added. "A vibrant downtown makes a difference. When you go downtown and there's restaurants buzzing and there's a show at the Strand, that's something that either keeps people here or attracts people here."
Past recipients of the award include former state assemblywoman Janet Duprey, Adirondack icon Gordie Little, the law enforcement of Clinton County, Kit and Sally Booth, Bob Wallet, Roger Harwood, Matt Spiegel and Bob Pooler.


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Shenzhen The Harbinger City
By Frederick Kuo
December 27th, 2017
As the legend goes, when Deng Xiaoping opened China's doors to the outside world, Shenzhen was nothing more than a fishing village. Now it is a metropolis of 12 million people capped by some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. From the beginning of China's market reforms, Shenzhen has played a leading role in defining the country's direction. Starting out leveraging its ever growing masses of cheap labor, the city and the region became a major manufacturing and OEM hub, as well as a cheap shopping destination for the neighboring city of Hong Kong. For a long time, Shenzhen's local businesses were notorious for Shanzhai, or copycat products, as they strived to emulate the most desired brands and products of the West and Japan.
However, in the past five years, the city's industries have begun to shift their focus from mere emulation to actual innovation. Shenzhen has attracted some of the brightest engineers in the country and its businesses have grown in size and sophistication, these factors combined with China's massive chest of capital have seen the city become a global hub for hardware innovation. Below are some of the fields where the city is breaking new ground, and how these innovations may begin taking on a global footprint.
Electric Vehicles
Polluted air and grey skies have been a regular feature of large Chinese cities ever since the beginning of rapid industrialization in the 90s. In response to this, the government has begun to transition the country towards renewable energy, setting on investing $360 billion in the field by 2020 and making China the biggest clean energy player. A major feature of this move is the field of electric vehicles. China has mandated an ambitious scale of policies promoting EVs including mandating automakers replace at least 10% of their production lineup with EVs by 2019, to providing generous subsidies for EV purchases as high as $15,000 a car, and a massive plan to build a national network of charging stations of which 171,000 are already in existence.
The city of Shenzhen is home to BYD, China's equivalent of Tesla. Although BYD's offerings have traditionally not been anywhere near as glamorous, the company is vertically integrated since it started out as a battery maker and makes a wide lineup of vehicles from passenger cars to commercial trucks and buses. Selling over 100,000 EV vehicles in 2017, BYD is already the world's largest electric vehicle company. Everywhere in the city of Shenzhen, the company's taxis and buses dominate the roads. The city, which already has 14,000 electric buses on the road, 80% of which are supplied by BYD, has determined the city's bus fleet will be all electric by the end of this year. Not satisfied by being a player in China, the company is expanding its global profile. Expanding its bus plant in Lancaster, CA and building a truck plant in Canada, BYD, which is 10% owned by Warren Buffet and has already enlisted Leonardo DiCaprio as a brand ambassador, is intent on becoming a global brand.
Consumer Drones
A stroll around Shenzhen's fashionable retail and entertainment district of OCT harbor inevitably brings you to a futuristic building that looks like it was planted on the grounds from the page of a sci fi novel. The building serves as the flagship store of DJI, the world's largest drone maker, which is based in the city of Shenzhen. Founded in 2006 by Frank Wang and taking advantage of the region's strength as a OEM manufacturing hub, DJI debuted its Phantom quadcopter back in 2013 and essentially created the modern consumer drone industry. Today, it dominates 85% of the world's market and with new high tech models such as the Mavic Pro, is continuing to cement its grip.
In the golden $500 to $1000 priced segment, DJI continues to lead the way with a 36% market share, with the second place going to 3D robotics, led by former Wired editor Chris Anderson and stocked with a formidable VC war chest. However, following 3D's recent announcement that they were changing their focus from drones because they could not keep up with the vertically integrated Chinese powerhouse, DJI's dominance over a crowded field of well funded American and European rivals continues to be unchallenged.
In other ways, DJI has expanded into unconventional arenas that blend emerging robotics with the field of big entertainment such as its sponsoring of RoboMaster, an annual contest between aspiring engineers from all over the world to design competing robots who take on a field of diverse physical challenges to determine their competence. In 2017, the competition attracted over 7,000 participants from over 200 universities across the world and racked up more than 814,000 online views on twitch.tv. Through these competitions and maintaining a cutting edge in drone and robotics innovation, DJI has emerged as a leading pioneer in Shenzhen's transition towards becoming a global tech hub.
Internet Tech and Smartphone Integration
The Pearl River Delta, where Shenzhen is based, developed into the world's factory where the ubiquitous "Made in China" label became a fixture for global consumers. From cheap toys to gradually more sophisticated OEM manufacturing for global giants such as Apple, the region gradually built the world's most extensive hub of manufacturing and industry. Local businesses that once copied the products of foreign makes have now emerged as sophisticated brands in their own right. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the smartphone industry, where Chinese smartphone brands have come dominant in many markets throughout the world. The region is home to three of China's four largest smartphone makers, including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, all of which have built a reputation of cutting edge technology and sleek design. In just a few years, these three brands have grown from being marginal players to rank only behind Samsung and Apple in global market share, with Huawei expected to soon surpass Apple to become the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer according to new reports from market research firm IDC.
Shenzhen is also home to Tencent, the giant tech company that ranks along with Facebook and Apple in the world's $500 billion tech club. The company is a dominant player in games development, and owner of wechat, a social media messaging app that now boasts over 900 million daily users. Through wechat's payment service, coupled with Alipay, a similar service by Alibaba, the volume of Chinese mobile payments zoomed past $5 trillion by the end of 2016 with volume expected to surge past $45 trillion by 2021. Through the use of QR codes and the ubiquity of smartphone usage, businesses from street vendors to large big box retail are riding the wave of China's transition into a cashless future.
The Innovation Hub of the East
Shenzhen continues to act as the dragon's head for China's ongoing modernization and industrialization, a feat of a size and scale never before seen in world history. With a VC market now rivaling that of the US in size, a government firm on making the country a leader in innovation, and a massive and growing middle class, China's presence in the global innovation industry can no longer be ignored. Shenzhen in the heart of the Pearl River Delta, the world's largest megacity region, enjoys a unique intersection of industry, capital, human resources and market circumstances to maintain its lead in China's newest transformation into an innovation led economy. The heart of the city's tech scene, Nanshan district, is home to 125 listed firms boasting over $400 billion in market value.
With its massive pool of companies specializing in all fields of tech from AI to EVs to smartphones to drones to genomics and much more, Shenzhen is poised again to act as a disruptive force in the world economy since the region first became the factory of the world, but this time, it will be a race to heights of technological prowess.


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On August 12, 1877, Thomas Edison invented the photograph, giving birth to gold albums, hit records, and decades of musical fun. That's why we celebrate Vinyl Record Day every August 12.
I don't know about you, but I really enjoy old vinyl record albums. Of course, I buy CDs instead now, even though there are many songs being produced on vinyl now. Nevertheless, the records are fun.
You can celebrate Vinyl Record Day by playing lots of vinyl records, preferable with a bunch of friends. It's even more fun if you sing and dance along with the music!
"You turned my wailing into dancing;
you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.
Lord my God, I will praise you forever."
Psalm 30:11-12


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Ghalta, Primal Hunger (Promo)
- Color: Green
- Type: Legendary Creature - Dinosaur, Elder
- Rarity: Rare
- Set: Rivals of Ixalan
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Holy yes. This thing is amazing.
Ryan Ulrich
Sadly just after Lupine Prototype cycled out
Gladecover Scout (1 reduction) + Rancor (2 reduction) + Might of Old Krosa (4 reduction) + Mutagenic Growth (2 reduction) + 3 forests = Turn 3 big dino on board thanks to big hexproof trample elf attacking. Don't know if it makes a deck.
I prefer this method:
Turn 1:
– Play Tree of Tales
– Play Lotus Petal
– Cast Torpor Orb
– Simian Spirit Guide for R, Phyrexian Dreadnought for 1.
Turn 2:
– Play Mox Opal (Metalcraft enabled via Tree of Tales, Mox Opal, and Torpor Orb / Dreadnought)
– GG: cast Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Turn 2, 24 power.
Edit: Alternatively,
T1: Bayou, Dark Ritual, Torpor Orb, Dreadnought
T2: Green/x land, GG for Ghalta
Needs 1 less card than the first one.
i was lookin 4 a casual EDH green commander. HERE IT IS
And you don't even have to make mana ramping a main theme!
Lord Gonti Of The Orzov Networ
Metalwork colossus became a real boy!
Edwin Marín Castro
A huge dino that cost nothing if you play big guys… Awesome!
Kevan Kramer
it will always cost at least 2 green mana
The most curious thing about this I haven't yet seen commented upon is the "Elder" subtype. That's an exceedingly rare thing we've only seen on a few creatures, all of which have been dragons. It's got to be there for a specific reason right? Especially considering Nicol Bolas and his past conflicts with other elder dragons, this has very interesting story potential…
It probably just means it's one of the oldest Dinosaurs on Ixalan.
"Elder" means different things for different planes lore-wise.
I really hope this is part of a cycle. This card is great and has serious potential in Standard and Commander
Rhonas and Kefnet just got a new friend
Dr. Burn Crow
-screams forever in pure idiot glee-
I showed my infant son this. He giggled in glee.
Voltron edh deck with mana dorks to ramp and pump spells to kill or as a "ritual" to cast Ghalta.
Beserk + Ghalta -> 24/12 trample commander <(o.O<)
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This is sick. Shouldn't be too hard to get this costing something reasonable like 6-8
also elder dino hype
Happy The Cat
this is incredibly strong, elves can play this turn 4 without that crazy of a start, G artifacts can also pull off some Sol ring starts to get him 3-4.
With Triumph of the Hordes, Grafted Exo, Berserk, or Fireshrieker and you have a scary fast kill potential simply by building board early before people can draw into their Wraths.
Are you talking EDH or casual?
Happy The Cat
Edh for most of the suggestions, but this should at least see testing for tech in for modern elves.
Modern Elves would never play this over Craterhoof Behemoth. And they don't even play Behemoth anymore, outside of fringe lists.
Behemoth literally wins you the game when it hits the board, this just sits there looking stupid for a turn.
Hell, most green decks in existence would never play this over Craterhoof if forced to choose.
Dinos can easily play this turn 4.
T1: Inspiring Vantage. Kinjalli's Caller
T2: Survivors' Encampment. Otepec Huntmaster, or Drover of the Mighty.
T3: Unclaimed Territory. Any dino with 5+ power.
T4: Any land. Play Ghalta for 4 mana with Otepec, or 3 mana with Drover. Could be 1 mana if you play Regisaur Alpha turn 3, and it'd have haste then too :D
What's really interesting is the fact that it's a rare and not a mythic. I expect a white (Kinalla) and a red Elder Dinosaur along with it.
Josh Bowdish
Curves are scary.
Attune -> Longtusk -> Rhonas -> Ghalta
Snek -> Rishkar -> Ghalta
Old Fogey's elder son
Darkray Accel
Hes big.
Rovkir Hexus
Ramp/Tokens say hi
Turns Gaea's Anthem into a TRUE three mana enchantment version of Gaea's Cradle.
Dr. Burn Crow
This is seriously perfect for a commander for an introduction into EDH.
You can theoretically cast this Turn 2 in Legacy if you're running a janky Torpor Orb (or similar effect) combo with Phyrexian Dreadnought.
It'd be like Turbo-Depths, except way worse and way more exciting.
Also Itlimoc makes this terrifyingly easy to cast in Standard.
Calvin welsh
Extra maodern elves finisher?
Hey so Fling is in standard now right
M Hedonist
This seems like a "dino haha"-random commander but there's actually SO much you can do with him. First off: There are so many ways you can play him super-fast and super-cheap. Omnath, Locus of Mana. Primeval Protector. Just to name two cards that get him out for super-low mana. And what do you do with him? Birthing Pod him into Emrakul, the Promised End for a 13/13 flying trample. And then just replay him because Emrakul decreases his cost by 13. What about throwing him into Greater Good to draw 12 (& discard 3)? And doing it again and again for 2 mana – provided you have a packed board.
This is amazing. I hope it won't be insta-banned in standard because it was made to be too good.
M Hedonist
It won't. In Standard, it's just a slightly bigger hitter that's REALLY hard to get into play and still just dies to almost all removal without having any impact on the board whatsoever. By comparison, Verdurous Gearhulk is always cheap to get into play and is an 8/8 Trample. If you've played a Verdurous Gearhulk deck in Standard you'll know that a big hitter like that alone doesn't win you the game. And Verdurous Gearhulk has the added bonus of Snake interaction / distributing the counters so it's not just all on one creature. You'll be better off playing Verdurous Gearhulk. You'd probably even be better off playing Sifter Wurm.
Might be that someone figures out some weird way to abuse him in Modern or something like that. But probably not.
Jay Kenley
Not that hard to cast what u talking about?? Have creatures add to 5/5 and cost a 12/12 trample for 7….thats insane!!
not really think about how long it takes to get to 7 mana, it is good if you can get it down early but it needs a lot of set up.
Dean henton-kent
Seems fine to me. Yeah it might die to a kill spell, but then any creature does, I'm going to run it just to see if I can find it with gishath, and hope to hit a verdant avatar as well. Getting a 5/5 and a 12/12 trample and gaining 17 life for free sounds like a laugh.
Prey upon is a similar card? Should they have made dinosaurs mountable like vehicles? Why aren't menfolk have islandwalk if they live in water? Why. can some vampires fly and others cannot? Hmm.
Merfolk here don't have islandwalk because Wizards doesn't want to use the landwalk mechanic again. That's pretty much all the reasoning. It would indeed make sense for them to have islandwalk otherwise.
Some vampires can't fly because on every plane, there are different species of vampires, and different breeds. There's a wide variety of abilities between vampires even within planes, e.g. Innistrad's vampires are remarkably diverse. So it just happens that some vampires have developed flight, while others have not. Also, some vampires might just not turn into bats very often, or they might just be ineffective in their bat form.
Daniel Chaney
Same goes for zombies (in movies), Are they fast, slow, aggressive, crazy, lazy? Does it take one shot, where, does stuff grow back on them? Airborne or person to person? Attracted by blood or scent or noise? Zombie Land, Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Shaun of the Dead, Dead Snow, Zombie Strippers, and Zombeavers all have different zombies
Ethan White
the biggest, dumbest guy
Ian Ghoreyeb
Finally found a reason to play Old-Growth Dryads in my casual wombo-combo deck, and get it out on turn 3.
Robert FakeLastName
this has combo potential as a commander.
This will totally replace Ancient Brontodon in my Gishath EDH deck, hahaha! And I cannot wait for the white and the red one to be revealed (the blue one as well of course even though I will not be able to play it)!
Jay Kenley
HahahahahahOMG WHAT A BOMB
Robert FakeLastName
turn 0 leyline of anticipation
turn 1 forest dork
turn 2 forest ->cast phyrexian dreadnought. trigger on the stack cast this guy.
Old Fogey is back. He ate all the homarids and gained their delicious strength.
This time, it's personal.
Brandon Vega
Turn #1 — You play Old Fogey.
Turn #2 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases out.
Turn #3 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases in. Cumulative upkeep says, "Hey, pay {1}." (This assumes your abilities have the ability to speak — mine do). Echo says, "Pay {GG} or sacrifice Old Fogey." And finally fading says "Take off one of my three fading counters."
Turn #4 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases out.
Turn #5 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases in. Cumulative upkeep says, "Hey, pay {2}." Echo says, "I'm good." And fading says "Take off another fading counter. I'm down to one."
Turn #6 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases out.
Turn #7 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases in. Cumulative upkeep says, "Hey, pay {3}." Echo says, "I'm still good." And fading says "Take off my last fading counter."
Turn #8 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases out.
Turn #9 — During your untap step before you untap, Old Fogey phases in. Cumulative upkeep says, "Hey, pay {4}." Fading then chimes in and says, "You know, I'm going to make you sacrifice Old Fogey. Do you really want to pay {4}?" Then cumulative upkeep says, "Maybe I will. What are you going to do about it?" And then echo says, "Guys, can't we just all get along? Can't we all just get along? Get along? Along?" A fight then ensues which ends with Old Fogey's death.
I would explain how his devouring of the homarids makes your tl;dr unnecessary as the crab people were secretly so powerful it made them weak and plus with drawn butter it increased his midi-chlorian count enough to make him instantly go super sayan dino, but I'd be afraid the point was already lost :/
Brandon Vega
Just read it… It's worth it.
Musn't… admit… actually reading… gotta be cool… in front… of… anon… NOOOOOOOOO *vanquished*
(yes it was good :P)
Kinjalli's Caller reduces it to 11 cause it reduces the cost of all dino spells by 1.
Otepec reduces it to 9 cause it reduces the cost of dino spells by 1 anyway, and also has 1 power which reduces this by 1.
Any dino with 5+ power reduces it to 4 cause then that's 6 power total + 2 cost reducers. 6+2=8. 12-8=4.
Drover of the Mighty gets +2+2 as long as you control a dino. So if you play a dino turn 3, Drover is a 3/3. Then you've got Kinjalli's Caller reducing by 1. 3+5+1=9. 12-9=3.
Regisaur is a 4/4 and gives you a 3/3, so 7 total power. So if you've played Kinjalli's Caller, then Drover, then Regisaur Alpha: 1(cost reduction)+3(Drover's power)+7(Regisaur+token) = 11. 12-11=1.
You'll still have to play 2 green mana thought, but a 12/12 turn 4 with trample and haste (thanks to the Regisaur) isn't bad. turn 4 you might have enough mana to blast it on your opponent with fling after the combat phase too.
Oh yeah, forgot about the 2 green mana xD(though the land I listed does cover it). Would still be only 2 mana though on turn 4, which is a very nice play, and yeah, fling, would be a nice combo :D


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Chancellor Merkel's ruling party suffered widespread losses to the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland in this year's local elections.
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Merkel who's mass immigration policy has also seen 1200 women, young and old, both raped and sexually assaulted in a single night, in a single city. Wide divisions are being sown within Germany, one country can not be destroyed by one single person, and be allowed to get away with it.
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To counter climate change, New Zealand must vastly increase its area of forestry. But as recent disasters show, not all trees are created equal.
Two years earlier, on the steep slopes above Loudon homestead, 300ha of Pinus radiata owned by local forestry investors had been clear-felled. Trees had been harvested up to the edge of Waieke Stream, which flows through the forestry block and the Loudon farm and into the harbour. The forestry contractors had carted the good logs away, and the land was left with the usual post-harvest covering of debris – years of thinnings and prunings, and sawn logs that the contractors had left behind. In the year after harvest, the block had been replanted with a new crop of radiata seedlings.
Sometime before dawn on July 22, the denuded hillside let loose a torrent of mud, felled trees, forest detritus called slash, silt and weeds into Waieke Stream. King and his forestry adviser, Mark Belton, believe the debris formed dams in the stream bed. The water built up until the blockages blew out, sending surges of trees, rock and muddy water downstream through Loudon farm.
The debris flow demolished standing trees in King and Lovell-Smith's permanent woodlot, dumped thousands of tonnes of logs across their land, destroyed fences, damaged farm tracks and stockyards, scoured out the stream bed, flooded one of the homes on the farm up to the windowsills, and left a thick layer of clay and silt across productive flat land. Even now, 10 months on, Loudon is littered with tangled heaps of pine logs and mounds of silt and debris.
King and Lovell-Smith are still paying for the clean-up and repairs – King says the bill is likely to come to $1 million – and they are fighting for accountability. Environment Canterbury, which should have required the forestry company to obtain a resource consent for harvesting but wrongly advised that one wasn't needed, has decided not to prosecute anyone, despite its investigator's assessment that the "catastrophic flows" of sediment and logs have damaged aquatic life in the stream and dumped a large volume of sediment, logs and debris into the harbour.
The forest management company, PF Olsen, denies liability and says the flood was triggered by an old slip that was activated by the intense rain. Belton believes the calamity is "entirely" a consequence of the logging operation.
Whatever the outcome of the argument, the disaster at Loudon farm is instructive. New Zealand is on the eve of a new forestry boom. The Government wants to plant a billion trees over the next 10 years. In its draft report on how the country can move to a low-emissions economy, the Productivity Commission says we need to increase the land planted in forests by 1.4-2.8 million hectares. The question is, what trees should be planted, and where?
The prime of pine
The history of tree-planting in New Zealand is overwhelmingly a tale of Pinus radiata, an undemanding and fast-growing species that has been planted in successive waves: in the 1920s and 1930s, when the State Forest Service, as it was then called, realised the country was running out of native wood supplies for domestic requirements; in the 1950s and 1960s, to control erosion; and in the 1990s, by private investors lured by the hope of spectacular returns through special forestry partnerships.
Of this country's 1.7 million hectares of plantation forestry, 90% is radiata pine, which grows better here than in its native California. It can tolerate our steep hillsides and poor soils, it has outperformed hundreds of other exotic species trialled over the decades and it produces a crop after just 28 years.
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of radiata have been planted in severely erosion-prone regions, such as the East Coast and Tasman districts, to heal marginal land that was previously stripped of its native bush to grow grass for sheep and beef farming. With its rapid growth and large root system, radiata has proved successful at binding the soil on steep country that would otherwise have undergone continuous erosion if left in pasture. Radiata has also done New Zealand a favour from the point of view of our climate-change obligations. Current forestry plantings offset 30% of our gross greenhouse-gas emissions.
But the deluge of logging waste at Loudon farm points to a massive weakness in the country's plantation forestry system. The so-called "window of vulnerability" is a period of about six years after a radiata crop has been clear-felled, during which the land lies raw, unprotected and at the mercy of rainstorms and cyclones.
In the Motueka Valley, Geoff Miles and Halina Ogonowska-Coates are among several owners of lifestyle blocks in the Tasman district still picking up the pieces after debris flow from a recently felled plantation on the hills behind them crashed through that window of vulnerability and onto their property when Cyclone Gita pounded the country in February.
Miles says that after a day of steady rain, he heard a loud rumble, then saw a sudden surge of water in the stream that runs through their land. Massive piles of forestry debris caught on bridges and other obstacles upstream prevented more severe damage. But an area that he and Ogonowska-Coates had been restoring to native bush sustained major damage from silt-laden floodwater and smaller forestry slash. Their home, which is on a rise, was not affected.
The forest manager – PF Olsen – cleared the logjams in the stream to alleviate the risk that they would blow and cause catastrophic damage. But Olsen chief executive Peter Clark insisted the company was under no legal obligation to help such property owners; it chose to do so as a "good neighbour".
Miles says PF Olsen is contributing about $3500 towards the cost of remediation. "It's something, but in no way covers the huge amount of manpower, expense and emotional stress associated with the clean-up and remediation."
Much of the forestry in the Tasman region was planted in radiata by the renamed New Zealand Forest Service during the 1960s and 1970s to protect the soil after pastoral farmers had been unable to make a living from the land. Running in a band from Abel Tasman National Park south through the Motueka Valley is a geological feature known as the Separation Point Granites – fragile, steep and erosion-prone country that becomes "extremely mobile" when saturated, according to the Tasman District Council's principal environmental planner, Steve Markham.
Cutting rights to the former state-owned plantations were sold off to private companies in the 1990s, and much of the flat land in the valleys was subdivided for lifestyle blocks – which, like Miles and Ogonowska-Coates's property, now lie in the path of debris floods following clear-felling on the hillsides above.
On the North Island's East Coast, another region with severely erosion-prone soils where huge areas of native bush were burnt and cleared to make way for pastoral farming, vast swathes of radiata pine have been planted since the 1950s.
Initially they were classed as "conservation" forests, intended to hold the soil and counter the risk of sedimentation and flooding caused by pastoral farming on the steep, deforested country. But according to retired Gisborne Landcare Research scientist Mike Marden, radiata turned out to be such a successful crop that the status of the forests was changed to "production", and almost all were harvested and replanted in radiata.
These days, the East Coast has 156,000ha of radiata plantations, including trees planted with Government subsidies after Cyclone Bola devastated the region in 1988. Locals, having had the benefit of soil conservation while the trees stood, are increasingly familiar with the window of vulnerability, as huge areas reach the harvest age of around 28 years and are clear-felled. Some of those forests have gone through two harvest cycles, and the post-Bola forests are being harvested for the first time.
According to historian and conservationist Dame Anne Salmond, who is restoring 1100ha of rural land in Gisborne's Waimata catchment to native forest, the impact of clear-felling is seen in degraded rivers clogged with logging debris and "mountains of slash coming down and landing on pristine beaches". She says Gisborne port has to be dredged because of the sediment, the cost of damage to bridges and other infrastructure falls on ratepayers and properties are at risk of flooding caused by the build-up of logging debris washed into rivers.
She says that in trying to solve one environmental crisis – the massive clearance of native bush by early farmers – by planting short-rotation plantation radiata, New Zealand has caused another.
Rotting roots
The window of vulnerability has been studied in detail by forest scientists. On clear-felled slopes, the roots of Pinus radiata hold the soil for the first year after harvest, but then quickly rot. "Between year two and year six, [harvested slopes] are highly vulnerable," says Peter Weir, a hydrologist and slope-stability specialist who is president of the Forest Owners Association.
Foresters typically replant a new crop of radiata seedlings within a year of harvest, but Weir says these "do nothing" to hold the soil for the first couple of years. By year three to four, their roots are "getting established, and by year five to six, they are "doing a pretty good job".
But clear-felling has a second effect on the soil. Weir says about a third of rainfall is intercepted by the canopy of mature forest and evaporates rather than reaching the ground. But clear-fell harvest removes that protection: the soil is wetter and more prone to slips in heavy rain.
"So harvesting triggers a process that, through time, makes the slope more vulnerable if a severe storm comes along."
On flatter land, the risks are minimal. But huge areas of New Zealand's radiata pine estate are on steep land. According to the Crown research institute Scion, about a third of our 1.7 million hectares of production forestry is on "erodible steepland terrain" – land which, once cleared by harvest, is liable to shed mud and debris flows during storms.
Around 140,000ha currently in production forest would be regarded as unsuitable for plantation under new environmental standards that came into force this month, according to Oliver Hendrickson, director of spatial, forestry and land management at the Ministry for Primary Industries.
Foresters argue that over the whole life cycle of the forest, the soil conservation virtues of radiata pine far outstrip those of pastoral farming on steep country and that on extremely vulnerable ground like the Separation Point Granites, landslides occur regardless of the type of vegetation cover.
But the fact remains that the business model underpinning radiata pine forestry relies on the economies of scale of clear-fell harvesting, which leaves the land highly vulnerable for up to 20% of the whole rotation period. As Forest and Bird advocacy manager Kevin Hackwell puts it, radiata forest owners "keep their fingers and arms and legs crossed and hope not to get a weather bomb" during the post-harvest window of vulnerability.
But with climate change bringing more intense storms – such as this year's cyclones Fehi, Gita and Hola – hoping for the best no longer seems a credible risk-management strategy.
Blessing or calamity
As the Government begins to roll out its plan for a billion trees (half of which will be replanted trees on existing forestry land), the question on Salmond's lips is whether the coming planting boom will be a blessing or a calamity. She has written to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to express concern that exotic species such as radiata pine will make up the bulk of the planting and warning that "without good planning" the programme could damage the environment, regional economies and landscapes.
Forestry and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones says he wants the programme to be seen as a "national identity" exercise, but the proposed billion trees are serving many objectives, some of them competing. For starters, there is New Zealand's carbon liability, estimated by the Ministry for the Environment at $14-32 billion, to meet the gap between expected emissions and our Paris climate pledge to reduce greenhouse gases by 11% (compared with 1990 levels) by 2030. Fast-growing radiata pine is the quickest way of soaking up excess carbon and covering a large chunk of that bill.
Then there is the requirement for forestry-related jobs in the regions – for the "nephews", as Jones calls them – as well as ambitions for new biofuels and bioenergy sectors using feedstock from an expanded forestry estate.
Jones says he wants the billion trees to include "large swathes of natives". He has pulled together a ministerial reference group to help oversee the forestry policy, including Environment and Economic Development Minister David Parker, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage, Climate Change Minister James Shaw and Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor, which he says will ensure a strong focus on natives. But grants and incentives to induce landowners to plant natives on a large scale have yet to be unveiled.
Meanwhile, forest owners have their own commercial imperatives. They clear-fell about 45,000ha a year of radiata plantations, and need to replant for future cash flow. Mark Belton says the "modus operandi" of the industry is short-rotation radiata crops on cheap, steep land – what he calls "grow and mow".
There is increasing interest in replacing harvested radiata on steep country with Californian redwood, which reduces the risk of post-harvest landslides because the roots graft onto neighbouring trees and sprout new growth rather than rotting. But the availability of seedlings is limited and industry capacity much smaller than in the incumbent radiata sector.
So what's to stop the coming planting boom repeating the mistakes of the past, which saw indiscriminate planting of "grow-and-mow" forests on fragile land? Julie Collins, head of forestry at the Ministry for Primary Industries, says the objective is to put the "right tree in the right landscape" and MPI is working on a "toolbox" of grants consistent with this goal, which she says will need to be ready by next year's planting season.
"At the other end, we will be working with regional councils at a more intimate level to say, 'We have this toolbox, but from a land use planning perspective, where should these trees go?'"
So far, the most significant new scheme rolled out under the billion-trees programme is a major state-funded push to expand the area of commercial radiata pine plantations. A reinvigorated Crown Forestry – the government business unit that oversees forestry assets primarily on state-owned land subject to Treaty of Waitangi claims and on leased Maori land – has been instructed to "jump-start" tree planting by entering into 30-year lease or joint-venture deals with private landowners who have blocks of at least 200ha that have not previously been in plantation.
Collins says the agency hopes to secure 4000ha for new plantings this year and 20,000ha next year – the maximum area that can be stocked, given constraints in the supply of seedlings. Crown Forestry will cover the cost of planting and management; the landowner will receive returns through land rentals or a share of the harvest revenue, or both. The landowner can also earn carbon credits if the forest is entered into the Emissions Trading Scheme.
National standards
New National Environmental Standards (NES) for plantation forestry, which came into force on May 1, should reduce the chances that steep, erosion-prone land will be cloaked in new radiata forests. The standards' new requirements cover harvest planning, the sequence of logging operations, design and layout of tracks and landings, management of run-off during and after harvest and the volume of forestry slash then left on the ground. They also require riparian planting of 5-10 metres, depending on the size of the waterway, to be retained at harvest.
Weir, who was involved in the development of the NES on behalf of the industry, says the game-changer is the development of a detailed map that codes all land as red, orange, yellow or green. Red-zoned land is the steepest and most susceptible to erosion; green is flat, easy country. All planting, earthworks and harvesting on red-zoned land will require a resource consent, which gives councils discretion to set tighter conditions – including the ability to stipulate which species can be planted on land not previously in forestry, and what gets replanted after a radiata block is clear-felled.
MPI's Collins says the stricter rules mean that trees planted by Crown Forestry as part of its current push to put 24,000ha into radiata will not be on highly vulnerable red-zoned land. But when it comes to radiata plantations that have been recently harvested, regional councils will be in a bind, Weir says: once a crop has been felled, councils will be anxious to protect the soil as quickly as possible – and arguably the best way to achieve that is to plant another crop of radiata, which locks up the soil in about six years, compared with a species like Douglas fir, which takes 10 years, or natives, which take longer still. But a new generation of radiata merely buys another 25 years of soil stability before the window of vulnerability is opened up yet again at the next harvest.
Redwoods, with their durable root system, are seen as a possible contender to replace existing radiata forests after harvest. But although new seedlings put down roots and stabilise a site as quickly as radiata, they are less site-tolerant and are unlikely to thrive in colder, drier South Island conditions.
The need to break out of this dependence on short-rotation radiata pine crops on steep erodible sites is on the minds of officials at MPI. Hendrickson says the challenge is to "transition some of this land out of pine and into permanent forest cover. But we need to work with the landowners around that. They have invested in the land, and they have an investment model around that."
Belton, who specialises in permanent carbon forests, is concerned the billion-trees programme could lean too much towards the commercial forestry industry's short-rotation harvesting model. Instead, he says, New Zealand should be planting permanent mixed-species exotic forests, which protect the environment and permanently lock up climate-damaging carbon.
Such an approach doesn't need government subsidies, he says; it just needs reasonably priced land and a rising carbon price that trades within a predictable band. He says a price range of $20-$30 a tonne is enough to make carbon farming commercially attractive, provided it is on low-value land types. "No one would advocate putting these forests on good agricultural land. They should be planted on land that should never have been cleared in the first place. We shouldn't be just doing massive industrial forestry expansion; we should be looking at how to integrate trees into the landscape, with commercial forestry on easier land and long-run carbon, soil-conservation and biodiversity-enhancing forests on other land."
But Salmond finds the idea of planting permanent exotic forests on land that should never have been cleared of its native trees abhorrent. In the tussle between exotics and indigenous species, the ability of natives to quickly recolonise and protect vulnerable land has been underestimated, she says: on her Gisborne land, livestock were removed and the foothills planted in native trees. Kererū and other birds spread the seeds of those trees up the steeper slopes, which have reforested "extremely quickly. We had a closed canopy in 11 years – very rapid regeneration."
The missing vision
As competing interests scramble to promote their preferred version for the coming planting boom, perhaps the piece that's missing is an intergenerational vision for our forests. Andrew McEwen, a former president of the New Zealand Institute of Forestry, says he's pleased that forestry is again seen as a legitimate concern of government. "But there is a strong need for governments to have good advice within their own bailiwick, rather than relying on all the pressure groups – the carbon foresters, the farm foresters, the big industry guys."
He and other forestry professionals are pushing the case for a long-term forest policy that covers "all forests, all species, and all tenures".
"If you go to many other countries this is what other governments have – because forests provide more benefits to society and to the economy, environment and culture than any other land use.
"If we have stable soils, if we have carbon being taken up furiously by trees, if people can go and recreate in forests and tourists can enjoy looking at them, those are benefits for all of society, and so all those interests need to be protected."
This article was first published in the May 12, 2018 issue of the New Zealand Listener.


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Taxi drivers in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city, have joined the league of groups calling on candidates of political parties and their supporters to shun violence and vote for peace during the February polls.
The taxi drivers gathered in their dozens at the Unity Fountain to stage a 'drive for peace' and support for the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan, at the weekend.
They hoped to mobilize their members to vote for the incumbent whose administration, they said, has impacted positively on them.
Nigeria's general elections are only two weeks away and aside rallying support for the President, the group of taxi drivers said that the exercise was also targeted at sensitizing members, and other party supporters on the need to vote peacefully during the polls.
Nigerians will go to the polls in February 14 for the presidential elections and February the 28 to elect governors and legislators in the states and at the federal level.
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What Should I Do?
The two most important things NOT TO DO is continue using your computer if it's still working. And DO NOT try to recover the data yourself. In both cases doing either of these things will compromise our success when you bring it to us.
What Is Data Recovery
The simplest definition of Data Recovery is that your hard drive has a fault, and the information on it can no longer be read by your computer. Such a fault could be either the drive itself failing, such as the drives motor or circuit board being burnt out. Or it could be data related, such as the information being "scrambled"
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Recovery is defined by three categories. 1 is a relatively simple fix, where the data can be recovered by running a set of utilities which extracts the information. Category 2 is difficult. Either the data has to be recovered in small blocks or the drive has failed and needs rebuilding. In either case recovery is very time consuming… perhaps taking two or three weeks. Category 3 is specialised, requiring the drive to be sent away to a lab. These labs are sterile environments with very sophisticated equipment. However, these facilities are seldom used, due to the cost.
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Frankfurters in homemade rolls
Member recipe by olcia_rom
ServingsServes 1 - 10 Rolls
Cheap, easy to make hot dog-style snack that everyone loves!
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- 400g of flour
- 1 tsp of yeast
- 1tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp of salt
- 250 ml of warm water
- 1 tbsp of olive oil
- 10 frankfurters
- Mix flour, yeast, salt, sugar together, add water and olive oil and knead until forms a smooth ball.
- Roll out the pastry on floured surface, to a thickness of about 0.5cm, cut with knife into 10 rectangulars of the same length as your frankfurters. Using your fingers, swaddle franfurters in the pieces of dough, making sure all the edges stick together.
- Place all of them on the baking tray, lined with baking paper. Leave for about 30mins until they double their size.
- Bake in the oven for about 20-25mins in 200C.
- Serve hot with ketchup.


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Chhattisgarh govt transfers cop for alleged remarks against human rights activists
The Chhattisgarh government on Friday transferred the superintendents of police (SP) for Sukma and Jagdalpur for allegedly saying that human right activists should be crushed on the roads of Bastar.india Updated: Mar 03, 2017 23:53 IST
The Chhattisgarh government on Friday transferred the superintendent of police (SP) for Sukma for allegedly saying human right activists needed to be crushed on the roads of Bastar.
Following pressure from the opposition, Indira Kalyan Elesela, the Sukma SP, was transferred to the special investigation unit.
The Jagdalpur SP, RN Dash, in whose presence Elesela made the comments, was moved to Baloda Bazar district.
Sukma and Jagdalpur are the two districts of the state's Bastar region which are most prone to Maoist activity.
Leader of opposition in the state legislative assembly, TG Singhdeo, had raised the matter in the assembly and a Congress delegation also met chief minister Raman Singh demanding a probe in the matter.
"We condemn the statement of the Sukma SP and demanded a probe into the matter. You cannot expect this from an administrative officer who is in a sensitive region for the security of the people," Singhdeo told Hindustan Times.
Singhdeo said chief minister Singh assured them of strong disciplinary action if the IPS officer was found guilty as such "misbehaviour" was not acceptable.
The remarks were allegedly made at a private function in Jagdalpur where controversial former inspector general of police, Bastar, SRP Kalluri was also present.
However, no action has been initiated against Kalluri who is currently attached to police headquarters, Raipur. Kalluri is currently facing allegations of abusing human right activists following an attack on activist and author Bela Bhatia's home.
Read | Kalluri gone, Bastar top cop says media won't be harassed in Maoist heartland
Local newspapers on Friday quoted Elesela as saying: "Manvadhikaar karkartya ko sadak pe kuchal dena chahiye.." (Human rights activists should be crushed on the roads of Bastar)."
The newspaper also quoted him as saying that human rights activists were "Maoists sympathisers" and they should be treated like Maoists.
"The action has been taken after the statement they have made in a private programme in Bastar on Thursday. A police officer cannot make such statement in public," said a senior police officer posted in Raipur.
Speaking to Hindustan Times before the transfer orders came through, Elesela rubbished the reports and denied saying anything against human rights activists.


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The following articles can be viewed by clicking here.
- Doing the right thing with your unwanted IT – An Article giving several options on what to do with your unwanted IT equipment. Published Nov 2009.
- Getting SMART for 2020 – Green IT takes the lead – An Article on SMART 2020 which highlights how IT can reduce the carbon emissions and costs across other sectors. Published Oct 2009.
- It's time for data centres to go green – An Article on why organisations need to have a green data centre. Published Oct 2009.
- Could Green IT hold the key to the economical and ecological crisis – An Article on how Green IT can help with both the ecological and financial crisis. Published Oct 2009.
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Birth Charts of People with Moon in Pisces, Ascendant in Pisces
Moon in Pisces represents strong intuitive nature, easy-going temperament, nourished by imagination, daydreaming, soothed by the mystical and going with the flow. Ascendant in Pisces represents interacting with a soft and gentle air that permeates around them, a rose-colored view in their approach to situations and people. and appearing with a emanating compassionate energy.
In lists of people filtered by their Ascendant, you may notice some people are 'greyed out'. These individuals have a birth time rated below 'good' and thus have a questionable Ascendant (which changes by hour). Use these data points with caution!
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"25-year-olds should not pay a 31.3x Shiller PE to buy their grandparent's equities"
"Let's start with what I'd tell a 25-year-old to not do with investment capital," answered the CIO. He'd been asked how our youth should invest for 10-15yrs. "I'd tell them to not blindly follow their parents and grandparents as they pay ever higher multiples for a shrinking pool of equity assets," he continued. In 1982 when Baby Boomers were coming of age, they paid a 6.6x Shiller price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500. By 1990 when the median Baby Boomer was 35-years-old, they had bid the Shiller PE to 16.5x. That same year, Baby Boomers owned 33% of all US real estate assets by value. Fast forward to 2020, the median Millennial is 31-years-old and they own just 4% of US real estate assets. If they scrape together a few bucks after paying down student loans, they must pay a 31.3x Shiller PE multiple to buy the S&P 500. "To win a game, play to your strengths, exploit your opponent's weakness," said the CIO. "As people age their creativity slips away. Their imagination withers. Their risk appetite fades. Their ambition dwindles. Their drive slides. And this leaves them incapable of reimagining the world, let alone building that future," he said. "But as people age, they do accumulate capital. And recognizing that this is their only remaining competitive advantage, they unsurprisingly lobby for policies that enhance its value." Baby Boomers are the wealthiest cohort in all human history. They've shifted the game's rules to entrench their interests. Which has both limited competition for their companies and artificially shrunk the pool of investable equity assets. "There's too much capital in the world today relative to too few equity assets. 25-year-olds should not pay a 31.3x Shiller PE to buy their grandparent's equities. They should play to their strengths and fight to build new companies that unseat established ones. Creating new equity assets to ease the acute shortage."
Underutilized fixed assets are the topic of this essay. But all the other variants, such as underutilized variable assets, are important to understand as well. Food delivery is a great example of this. Many people often express disbelief that food delivery startups, have been able to get as many restaurants to sign up for them while charging large take rates (sometimes north of 30% now) from the merchants. "How do these restaurants afford it?" these skeptics ask. What these skeptics fail to understand, is that restaurants do not view deliveries the same way they view customers dining in. There are many factors that restaurants are constrained on including, ingredients, labor, kitchen capacity, and dining space.
For walk-in diners, the primary constraint is dining space. There is an immovable cap on how many tables a restaurant has, and thus how many turns they can do a night. This real estate space is a fully utilized fixed asset. So a startup bringing new diners to a restaurant is entering a zero sum game, especially during peak hours when a restaurant knows they can likely fill all their tables. If a restaurant accepts a diner from a startup and pays them a take rate, this replaces a diner that would have walked in for free. This is the reason why restaurants often don't list their prime hours on sites like OpenTable. They know they can fill their limited number of tables, so why pay OpenTable a fee for it?
But delivery is different. Real estate space is not relevant to delivery orders. Instead the two main constraints for restaurant delivery are labor and kitchen capacity. Kitchen capacity is an underutilized fixed asset. Most kitchens can handle more orders than they handle each day, but never need to because there's not enough space in the restaurant for more diners. Like all underutilized fixed assets, restaurant owners are very happy to have their kitchens handle more orders if makes sense.
The other constraint is labor. Restaurants may have some underutilized labor, depending on how busy they are. However, if they have any significant number of delivery orders, they likely would need to have their workers do more shifts, or hire new workers. So labor is an underutilized fixed asset up to some point, but then primarily a variable asset for restaurants.
So when a startup brings new delivery orders to a restaurant, their main question is whether the delivery will be profitable net of the variable costs like ingredients and labor of the restaurant. Other factors like real estate costs are already fixed and so not factored in by restaurants. If these delivery orders are profitable, restaurants are happy to do any and all incremental orders–and will happily pay a higher take rate in return for bringing them the customer. And if the startup brings more customers than they have workers to handle–they're overjoyed to hire new workers, as long as the economics make sense.
Variable assets are great because they can scale well. However, they are far less preferable to underutilized fixed assets for a number of reasons. Their primary weakness is that they can be copied by competitors. Underutilized fixed assets when discovered are have a huge amount of stored value. The first company to properly use them can increase their value significantly. However, after they've burned through this arbitrage, future competitors must find a new way to get advantaged distribution fast. This isn't true for variable assets as we can see in food delivery. The field is increasingly competitive with Grubhub, Uber Eats, and Doordash all competing in increasingly costly battles.
Why market timing can be so appealing
Why is this so unimpressive? Because I would expect a strategy that literally knows the future to outperform by more than 40 basis points (0.4%) a year! The fact that it doesn't just goes to show how silly the pursuit of market timing can be.
What does this mean for you? It means that you shouldn't worry about getting the absolute lowest price when making equity purchases. In fact, you are very likely (95% of the time) not going to get the best price when you buy into the market.
But the good news is that this won't matter all that much in the long run. Why? Because, for markets with a long-term positive trend, the timing decisions you make with your excess cash won't be that important.
As you can see, DCA purchases at higher average prices compared to the Absolute-Bottom strategy. More importantly though, the divergences between the average prices are largest during bear markets (i.e. 1974, 2008), but start to converge during bull markets.
This tells us that timing decisions only have a significant impact once in a while (i.e. during big bear markets), so we shouldn't spend any time worrying about them. Because you will likely lose more by waiting in cash than what you would gain if you did successfully time the market. Choose wisely.
YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time
On an annual basis, Google says YouTube generated $15 billion last year and contributed roughly 10 percent to all Google revenue. Those figures make YouTube's ad business nearly one fifth the size of Facebook's, and more than six times larger than all of Amazon-owned Twitch.
Separately, Google says YouTube has more than 20 million subscribers across its Premium (ad-free YouTube) and Music Premium offerings, as well as more than 2 million subscribers to its paid TV service. Alphabet says revenues from those products are bundled into the "other" category, which made $5.3 billion last quarter and also includes hardware like Pixel phone and Google Home speakers. That makes it hard to gauge the specific performance of any one product bundled under that category.
U.S. consumers spend more time in TikTok than Amazon Prime Video: App Annie
TikTok saw explosive growth in the U.S. in 2019, growing 375 percent year-over-year in terms of time spent on the platform. U.S. consumers spent some 85 million hours on TikTok in 2019, up from 15 million during the same time last year
CTV's "walled garden risk" and implications for Trade Desk
The negative take is that Amazon sees potential fragmentation coming to the CTV industry (not just Amazon Fire, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV but also players like Xbox, Samsung, Playstation, Comcast…etc). In case viewership fail to aggregate at the CTV platform level, Amazon wants to be able to aggregate them at the SSP level.
As Amazon Publisher Services (APS) signs up more CTV platforms, this aggregation of eyeballs gives it negotiating leverage over ad buying platforms like TTD.
The article also indicates that Amazon's SSP is best used with Amazon's DSP. Whether Amazon extend that optimization to its partnership with TTD remains to be seen. Again, Amazon has the leverage here.
The positive take (for TTD) is if Amazon's SSP could be used on say Xbox or Playstation, that further shifts CTV industry away from walled garden approach. Also, APS actually allows ad buying from Trade Desk, so the more platforms APS hooks up with, the more TTD benefits.
Worldline to buy Ingenico for $8.6B in major payments consolidation play
The deal underscores two big themes in fintech, and specifically payments. The first is that the shift in payments and spending habits to more digital platforms has meant an increasing amount of fragmentation in the payments space, with each player getting a cut of the transaction: this means that a company doing business in this area needs economy of scale in order to make decent returns. The deal will give both companies a lot more economy of scale.
The second is a bigger theme of consolidation among larger players in part to better compete with the long tail of smaller and more fleet-of-foot fintech companies that have found a lot of traction in this new wave of commerce. While Stripe, Adyen, Google, Apple, Amazon and many of the others may not individually do enough competitive damage against Worldline or Ingenico, their collective presence could.
"Together we create the European World-Class leader in digital payments," said Grapinet in a statement. "I am convinced that the combination of our respective remarkable talents [SIC] pools, joint capabilities and state-of-the art offers will procure our combined Company an outstanding value proposition to pursue an exceptional growth benefitting to all our clients, banks and merchants alike and to all our business partners. This is a landmark transaction for the industrial consolidation of European payments, highly value creative for all our stakeholders and for the shareholders of both companies, and which ambitions to reinforce the role of Europe within the global digital payment ecosystem."
Why it only costs $10k to 'own' a Chick-fil-A franchise
At $4.2m per store, Chick-fil-A's average revenue is the highest of any fast-food chain in America, dwarfing both direct competitors (KFC; $1.2m) and bigger brands (McDonald's; $2.8m). That's especially impressive considering that all Chick-fil-A restaurants are closed on Sunday.
Based on these figures, Chick-fil-A's 15% royalty alone (not including its 50% cut of profits) might work out to around $600k per store, per year. (And remember: It still owns the property and equipment.)
Creating a competitive shaving market
According to the research firm Euromonitor, Gillette held 47 percent of the US men's razor market in 2018, with Edgewell's brands, which include Schick and Wilkinson Sword, combining for 13.6 percent of the industry. The Harry's brand, which started selling online but now has a large presence in both Target and Walmart stores, had just a 2.6 percent share at the time, according to Euromonitor. Dollar Shave Club owned 8.5 percent of the US market in 2018, according to Euromonitor, and is owned by Unilever, following a $1 billion acquisition in 2016.
So the FTC thinks that stopping a merger of the number two and four brands in a market is good for competition? I think it is bad for competition and keeping Harry's and Schick separated will just allow Unilever and P&G to dominate this market going forward. I don't understand what the FTC is thinking or doing with this case in the least.
Ditch your car: Ridesharing is more cost effective
Can ride-sharing really replace cars? The numbers say if you drive less than 10,000 miles, maybe. However, ride-sharing is a better option for low-mileage users as compared to driving according to this analysis. There are different ways to value your time, which could impact how you value ride-sharing versus driving. But you have more freedom with a car, and don't have to worry about other passengers, the driver, or not being in control of the vehicle.
Overall, the driving experience is pretty subjective. From a quantitative viewpoint, it's sometimes cheaper to get a ride share. Qualitatively, it all depends on what you value.


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Sometimes the clothes, do not make the man
Clothes don't make the man, but they can sure make him look more appealing
There are lots of rules and a lot of chat about what you should and shouldn't wear, (and most of them should be heeded), but I find that a true sense of style comes from a lot of self confidence.
I'm talking about the sense of self that comes from inside, and permeates through your skin.
Gucci, Prada, Fendi or Sixborn,to name a few, aint worth a pinch unless you feel good about yourself before you put them on your body. See, it's not what you wear, but how you wear it.
There are lots of label clad cowboys out there who make expensive clothes look like cheap knock-off's. The thing is that these cowboys think that the labels they wear are making into a better person or a more desirable person.
Sorry boys, thats like thinking you can attract a soulmate by flashing your credit card!!
It just doesn't work like that! Style comes from appreciation of self, and how best to adorn that self. It's about mixing and matching designs and cuts until you find the things that make you feel like you're representing who you really are.
It's not about spending big to be more flashy, it's more about spending smart and appreciating the craftmanship or design value in the clothes.
What you present on the outside, is really a reflection of what is going on inside
So the next time your about to go out on the town, look in the mirror and appreciate the person standing in front of you, and then feel what u would like to wear.
It will make a world of difference to the way you and others see you.
3 Responses
to "Sometimes the clothes, do not make the man"
By Michael on Mar 23, 2011 | Reply
"Gucci, Prada, Fendi or Sixborn" – I've only heard of three of them. Who is Fendi?
Great work J Man
By justin on Mar 23, 2011 | Reply
Just the last one you need to know
By Brian Machine on Aug 22, 2011 | Reply
I learned a lot from this post, much appreciated! 🙂