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We have been concerned about the state of world trade for some time. It is a great puller of GDP growth – invariably growing much faster than GDP and adding to global well-being. However, since the financial crisis, the "pull" has been extremely subdued relative to the past.
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So, the great negotiator and deal-maker (self-admitted) is now engaged in international brinkmanship over tariffs and trade. He can claim he is being true to his electioneering promises…

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It's one of the biggest Internet sensations in online marketing but is it right for you? "It," of course, is Groupon, the deal-of-the-day website that provides big discounts to online shoppers, and it presents unique opportunities and challenges for you and your practice.
Groupon can be difficult to work with, says Eva Sheie, director of client strategy for Strategic Edge Partners (and a new guest blogger here at medibeauty). On the positive side, it can drive tons of clicks to your site.
Consider the case of a Strategic Edge client who offered a $400 IPL procedure for $99. Although a potential loss-leader, more than 1,800 people visited the site the day the offer ran and 81 signed up for the practice's email list. "It was completely worth it," says Sheie, "just for the web traffic and conversions alone."
On the other hand, working with Groupon also presents unique challenges. Generally speaking, the company dictates the terms of its deals — the standard arrangement calls for a 50% discount, with Groupon taking roughly half of what's left — and the site's snarky style may be better suited to fast-food restaurants than long-term beauty treatments. Touting Botox as an alternative to "cryogenically freezing your face" because it "doesn't impact the patient's ability to be alive" may not project the image you want.
There are also significant questions as to whether Groupon actually builds repeat business or simply attracts one-time visitors seeking a good deal before moving on. The same is true for LivingSocial, Yuupon and other daily-deal sites.
Bottom line, says Sheie: "You should not expect to make money on your Groupon deal but rather, view it as a tool for exposure."
Doctor Takeaways
1. Daily deals are best used for aesthetic, not medical procedures
When daily deals are structured as compensation-per-lead arrangements, they amount to fee-splitting, which is illegal for medical procedures in many jurisdictions, notes Tracy Drumm in Plastic Surgery Practice. The law, as usual, lags the fast-paced world of the Internet but until specific rules are developed, limit Groupon deals to products and services provided by aestheticians and other office staff.
2. Limit deals to single-treatment procedures
Imagine the results if 100 people accepted a Groupon deal for a multi-treatment procedure like laser hair removal. Add up the time and salaries involved and the heightened toll on your equipment and there's no way to make a profit when you're only netting 25% of the revenue. Stick to single-treatment procedures (or products) instead.
3. Lay the groundwork to facilitate upselling or cross-selling
Ultimately, Groupon deals are a means to introduce potential patients to your practice so it's important to make them feel welcome when they visit your website and your office. Sheie recommends running a "Welcome Groupon" banner on the former and solid sales training in the latter: "If they come in for the Groupon deal, you want to ask what else are you interested in or did you know we also do provide this service?


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Andre Boustany
Ph.D., Zoology
2011-2013 Senior Research Fellow (Duke University)
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Andre Boustany is a research scientist at Duke University where he studies pelagic fish and fisheries with a focus on reducing bycatch and improving fishing efficiency. In addition to his research, Boustany also teaches classes in marine conservation and fisheries ecology and serves as a member of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel and the US ICCAT Advisory Committee, advising NOAA on domestic and international management of pelagic fishes in the Atlantic Ocean.View More
Ryan Rykaczewski
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography
2011-2012 Senior Research Fellow (Princeton University)
University of South Carolina
Ryan Rykaczewski, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina's Marine Science Program and Biological Sciences program, focuses his research on the responses of ecosystem and fisheries production to past and future climate variability and climate change. This research involves consideration of theory, observations, and models. He holds a PhD from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.View More
Thomas Froelicher
Ph.D., Climate & Environmental Physics
2012-2013 Senior Research Fellow (Princeton University)
University of Bern
Thomas Froelicher's research involves consideration of models, theory, and observations. He is interested in the present and future climate and carbon cycle interaction from a regional to global scale. His research focuses on the ocean components of the Earth System and its role in nutrient and carbon cycling and ultimately climate. He is also interested in exploring the responses of ecosystems and fisheries production to past and future climate variability and change. Froelicher was a senior scientist at ETH Zurich and is now working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Bern.View More
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
Ph.D., Fisheries Economics
Program Manager/Research Associate
2014-2016 Senior Research Fellow (University of British Columbia)
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor is a resource economist specializing in applied fisheries management and ecosystem services. His research touches on optimal economic policies, co-management, transboundary fisheries, ecotourism, and small-scale and Indigenous fisheries, always with a view to achieving sustainable resource use in a changing world.View More
Wilf Swartz
Ph.D, Fisheries Economics
Program Manager
2012-2014 Senior Research Fellow (University of British Columbia)
Wilf Swartz is a program manager of Nereus program. While most of his past work focused on examining global seafood consumption in the context of fleet expansion and international governance of fisheries subsidies, Wilf Swartz now focuses primarily on seafood supply chain management. Specifically, his current research interests include corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies in the seafood industry, sustainability standards in aquaculture, and modeling of price-setting mechanisms under perishability constraints (e.g. the fresh fish market in Japan).View More
Natasha Henschke
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography
Princeton University
Natasha Henschke's background is in biological oceanography, with her research focusing on how gelatinous zooplankton communities respond to changing oceanographic conditions. There is concern that as a result of anthropogenic factors our oceans are shifting from a fish-based to a jellyfish-based ecosystem, however recent reviews have failed to reach a consensus on whether gelatinous zooplankton abundances have been increasing worldwide. In her current work at Nereus she aims to investigate this issue by using earth system models developed at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory to examine the distribution and abundance of future gelatinous zooplankton populations under different climate and fishing scenarios.View More
Colleen Petrik
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography
Texas A&M University
2015-2017 Research Fellow (Princeton University)
Colleen Petrik's background is in biological oceanography and ecology, quantitatively rooted in mathematics and physics. Petrik's research focuses on understanding how the physical environment mediates the ecology of zooplankton and commercially harvested fish and invertebrate species and the implications of climate variability and climate change on these relationships. With the Nereus Project Petrik will be studying the effects of behavior and composition of crustacean zooplankton, the addition of fish early life stages, and dynamic coupling between zooplankton and fishes on the future state of global fisheries.View More
Richard Caddell
Ph.D., International Law
Utrecht University
2014-2017 Research Fellow (Utrecht University)
Richard Caddell specializes in the Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law, with particular expertise in wildlife management, the conservation of marine biodiversity and Polar law. He has an active interest in the regulation of whaling and marine mammal conservation, fisheries and Arctic issues, as well as human rights concerns. Caddell has advised numerous intergovernmental organizations, national governments and nongovernmental organizations on aspects of international and EU environmental law, the coordination of environmental treaties and the management of the Arctic region.View More
Audrey Valls
Ph.D., Zoology
2011-2014 Junior Research Fellow (University of British Columbia)
Postdoctoral Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Audrey Valls's doctoral research explored methods for understanding, modeling and predicting feeding relationships between marine species. She proposed a novel index, using a mathematical model to represent food webs and identify ecologically important species. She also looked at how to use knowledge in fish feeding behavior to predict fish diet composition. Her research highlighted the usefulness of digital and open-access information repositories in marine ecology and fisheries science. Audrey is now working on coupled human-nature systems models at the Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling.View More
James Watson
Ph.D., Marine Sciences
2012-2013 Senior Research Fellow (Princeton University)
Researcher, Stockholm University
James Watson's research aims to improve governance of marine systems and mitigate the impact of these disturbances. His work focuses on understanding crucial feedbacks between physical, ecological and social processes.View More
Kelly Kearney
Ph.D., Geosciences
2011-2014 Junior Research Fellow (Princeton University)
Research Scientist, University of Washington-Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)/ NOAA NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Kelly Kearney is a marine scientist whose research focuses on marine (and occasionally coastal) ecosystem dynamics. Specifically, Kearney's research is focused on developing modeling techniques that bridge the gap between traditional lower trophic level biogeochemical models and upper trophic level fisheries and ecosystem models.View More
Marc Metian
Ph.D., Oceanography & Marine Environment
2011-2013 Senior Research Fellow (Stockholm University)
Research Scientist, International Atomic Energy Agency
Marc Metian has a keen interest in aquaculture globally and future challenges associated with its development, particularly the debate about "competition between feed and food resources". More specifically, he is looking at links between sustainable use of resources, food security and governance, particularly in light of projected substantial increased demand for seafood due to both population growth and per capita consumption.View More
Miranda Jones
Ph.D., Fisheries
2013-2014 Senior Research Fellow (UNEP-WCMC)
Miranda Jones's main research explores the impact of climate change on marine fish and invertebrates, applying species distribution models to project species' range shifts and evaluating their uses and sensitivities within an ensemble model approach. She is also interested in species' vulnerabilities to climate change, as well as the socio-economic implications of shifts in species' distributions, using interdisciplinary approaches to assess changes in fishery productivity and profitability.View More
Andrew Merrie
Ph.D., Sustainability Science
2011-2016 Junior Research Fellow (Stockholm University)
Communications Officer – GRAID, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Andrew completed his Ph.D. thesis titled Global Ocean Futures – Governance of marine fisheries in the Anthropocene. The thesis provides an analysis of how an adaptive governance approach can be applied to address existing and emerging challenges in global governance with a focus on marine, wild-capture fisheries. Andrew is now working on science communications and science-policy work at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His work is in support of the Guidance For Resilience in the Anthropocene – Investments for Development program.View More
Gabriel Reygondeau
Ph.D., Macroecology & Oceanography
University of British Columbia
2015-2017 Research Fellow (University of British Columbia)
Gabriel Reygondeau's research focuses on the thematic of "The effects of climate changes and anthropogenic activities on the biogeography of the global ocean". His current research interests can be summarized in 3 topics: (1) relations between marine organisms (from plankton to top predator), biodiversity and environmental conditions at the global scale; (2) Identification and monitoring of global marine ecosystems and (3) Evaluation of the impact of anthropogenic pressures on the global marine ecosystems.View More
Laurens Geffert
Ph.D., Geography
2012-2015 Junior Research Fellow (University of Cambridge/WCMC)
Laurens Geffert conducted his PhD research at the University of Cambridge in cooperation with UNEP-WCMC. Before his PhD he studied Biology, Geography, Ecology and Conservation at the University of Bonn, Germany. His PhD research focused on "Improving range map methodologies for marine taxa". He tested approaches to account for sampling bias in species occurrence records and developed a method to integrate spatially explicit expert knowledge into quantitative machine learning models to more accurately map commercially important marine fish species. Laurens now works as a Data Scientist and uses psychometric data to better understand human behavior.View More
Lisa Dellmuth
Ph.D., Political Science
2014-2016 Senior Research Fellow (Stockholm University)
Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University
Lisa Dellmuth (F) is a tenured Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Stockholm University. Her research interests include global environmental politics and the legitimacy and effectiveness of international governmental organizations such as the United Nations and its bodies and agencies. Lisa has received several awards for her research and has been a principal and co-investigator for several external grants, funded by donors such as the EU and the Swedish Research Council. Her research is published in leading international journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Review of International Organizations, and European Union Politics.View More
Maria de Oca
Masters, Marine Biodiversity & Conservation
Duke University
2014-2017 Research Fellow (Duke University)
Maria de Oca is a James B. Duke Fellow working on her PhD at Duke University. At the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab she is studying the bottom-up regulation of fisheries production.View More
Mathieu Colléter
Ph.D., Zoology
University of British Columbia
2015-2016 Junior Research Fellow (University of British Columbia)
Mathieu Colléter is a fisheries scientist whose research focuses on ecosystem modelling and trophic networks. He is currently a Master's candidate in Advanced Global Studies, specialized in Environmental Policy, at the Parisian School of International Affairs (SciencesPo Paris). At Nereus, he worked on the production of biomass estimates for the 180,000 ½ degree Sea Around Us cells covering all oceans, from 1950 to 2010, using ecosystem modelling (EcoTroph) and the Sea Around Us' new spatialized catches. This will be used to model future changes in global biomass and fisheries catch under climate change scenarios.View More
Phil Underwood
Ph.D., Theoretical Ecology
University of Cambridge/WCMC
2014-2018 Research Fellow (University of Cambridge/WCMC)
Phil Underwood works with the Madingley model to validate its use as a policy informing tool in relation to fisheries and food security. As a member of the Nereus Program, Underwood will be working to better understand the relationship between oceanic ecosystems and human societies. To this end he will improve the ecological realism of the Madingley Model in order to generate future projections of fisheries in a global context.View More
Rebecca Asch
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography
2013-2016 Senior Research Fellow (Princeton University)
Assistant Professor of Fisheries Biology, East Carolina University
Rebecca Asch is a fisheries oceanographer whose research focuses on interactions between fisheries, plankton ecology, and climate. Her research combines fieldwork, time series analysis, and ecosystem modeling, spanning local-to-global and subseasonal-to-centennial scales. Rebecca's research primarily investigates whether climate change could lead to increased seasonal mismatches between trophic levels. Many fishes spawn synchronously with plankton blooms to maximize food availability for their offspring. Seasonal timing of both fish reproduction and plankton blooms is changing under global warming, but these shifts do not always occur at the same rate. Mismatches between trophic levels can lead to lower recruitment and decreased fisheries productivity.View More
Daniel Dunn
Ph.D., Marine Science & Conservation
University of Queensland
2011-2014 Junior Research Fellow (Duke University)
2014-2017 Senior Research Fellow (Duke University)
Daniel Dunn is a research scientist with the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab at Duke University where he focuses on the conservation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, and dynamic management of marine resources. This work is driven by an interest in conservation biology grounded in pelagic ecology, biogeography and macroecology. To more directly address these issues at appropriate scales and over their full extent, Dunn works to bring science to bear on marine policy in areas beyond national jurisdiction.View More
Chris McOwen
Ph.D., Marine Biology
2011-2014 Senior Research Fellow
Chris McOwen is a postdoctoral scientist working with the Marine team together with staff in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. He researchers a variety of aspects relating to marine capture fisheries. Specifically, Chris is exploring the drivers of fisheries production, considering a range of ecological, oceanographic and socioeconomic processes, so that future fisheries production can be predicted and marine ecosystems exploited sustainably.View More
Elena Finkbeiner
Ph.D., Biology
Center for Oceans, Conservation International
Elena Finkbeiner's research is on how we can increase both social well-being and ecological sustainability in the face of increasing uncertainties and threats that global fisheries face. She uses small-scale fisheries as her study system, given their importance for global livelihood and food security, culture, and ecological sustainability. Elena draws from ecology, political science, anthropology, and economics, and uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, including ethnographic techniques, analysis of fisheries catch data, and behavioral economic experiments.View More
Julia Mason
Ph.D., Biology
Stanford University
Julia Mason is a recent Ph.D. graduate from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station. Her research is on the effects of climate variability and management on the social-ecological resilience of fisheries in California and Peru. She is interested in dynamic management approaches that protect highly migratory species and fisheries livelihoods in a variable, changing climate. Julia is currently a John A. Knauss fellow for Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey's office for 2019.View More
Oai Li Chen
Ph.D., Aquaculture and Fisheries Economics
University of British Columbia
Oai Li Chen's research focuses on drivers of change in the seafood markets and their implications for fisheries sustainability and the well being of fish producers and consumers, at the national and global levels. She is developing an integrated assessment model that links economic and biophysical components to explore co-benefits and trade-offs in global marine biodiversity, food provisioning and economic benefits under different development pathways for the future oceans.View More
Robert Blasiak
Ph.D., International Cooperation
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Robert Blasiak is a post-doctoral researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, where he focused on how conflict and cooperation among states can impact the conservation and sustainable use of ocean resources. His current research focuses not only on how states can promote sustainable ocean management, but also the crucial role that can be played by transnational corporations, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations.View More
Gerald Singh
Ph.D., Resource Management and Environmental Studies
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Gerald Singh is a Nereus Fellow working with Yoshitaka Ota and Andres Cisneros-Montemayor and collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme. Gerald is characterizing the contribution of a sustainable ocean to achieving broad sustainable development goals. Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework, Gerald is researching how the SDGs are dependent on achieving sustainable use and management of the ocean.View More
Muhammed Oyinlola
Ph.D., Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries
M.Sc, International Studies in Aquatic Tropical Ecology
University of British Columbia
Muhammed Oyinlola finished his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with the Changing Ocean Research Unit and the Nereus Program of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. His studies focus on the implications of climate change and ocean acidification on global seafood production from aquaculture.View More


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Lifestyles and the death of the Metropolitan Elite
For those who are economically and politically classical liberal these are encouraging times
On May 1st I was invited to the IEA's Lifestyle Economics event at The Casino, Leicester Square, hosted by Director General Mark Littlewood and featured author and historian Chris Snowdon, who is heading up the project.
This well-attended event contained group representatives of nearly all the perennial targets of the "something must be done" brigade including alcohol, betting, electronic cigarettes and, inevitably, tobacco.
The raison d'être of Lifestyle Economics is that, starting with tobacco, health lobbyists are now expanding into every facet of our chosen pleasures, where the state is setting prices, restricting personal freedom, and demonising consumers and business. As Snowdon has noted: "Time and time again, we see well-intentioned but ill-considered policies backfire by fuelling the black market, exacerbating poverty and encouraging more harmful consumption."
He adds: "Ordinary consumers are often too busy to defend their lifestyles against well-organised special interest groups. Businesses often spend too much time protecting their narrow interests in the short term and fail to see the bigger picture."
Mark Littlewood informs me that he wants to set the agenda by "moving away from 'industry versus the health lobby' to 'consumer versus the health lobby.'"
And I'm sure anyone who has the temerity to eat a bacon butty, or drink a soda drink or a glass of wine, or indeed those who put £5 each way on a horse in the 3.30 at Ascot will wish this thoughtful and erudite initiative an influential and long future.
I find it no coincidence that the government has announced it will not be implementing cigarette plain packaging (read gratuitous medical pornography). The outrage of the health lobby to this decision was matched by the appreciation of those in attendance of the IEA event. In fact, two attendees at the event, Angela Harbutt of Hands Off Our Packs and Forest Director Simon Clark, should take much of the credit. Their outstanding campaign motivated 500,000 to write to the government, while the pro supporters garnered just 235,000. It seems in this case that the consumer and the industry have got the message.
And could things get better for advocates of lifestyle freedom? UKIP stormed to 147 seats in the county council elections last week; shameless smoker and drinker Nigel Farage has now established UKIP as a credible organisation. And one of the main consequences will be the marginalisation of the 'Metropolitan Elite' – generally those who are the paid advocates and patricians calling for lifestyle restrictions and the nanny state.
With a pseudo liberal philosophical orthodoxy best personified by The Guardian and the BBC, this elite is at odds with the average UKIP supporter: "older, often economically struggling, blue-collar workers with low education levels. These are socially conservative voters, alienated by the liberal values of today's university-educated middle-class elite." Democracy is so inconvenient.
For those who are economically and politically classical liberal these are encouraging times.
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Beano is the world's longest running comic. We literally break a new world record every week the new edition is published! We know, that's SO BEANO!
And today we celebrate 80 years of Beano. Happy birthday to us!
Beano was as rebellious in 1938 as it is now, breaking the mould of traditional kids' mags which were text-heavy, and introducing pictures to tell the stories instead. Plus, Beano's stories featured kids as the heroes – another first.
But our Dennis wasn't one of the original characters – he is a more recent introduction making his debut in 1951.
And he doesn't seem to have gotten any less wild in the 67 years since!
Back in the fifties, over 2 million kids read Beano. And that's the same number that use Beano.com today.
This week, we celebrate with a special 80th anniversary issue featuring David Walliams as guest editor.
And we've re-launched the Dennis and Gnasher Fan Club, too! Think of it as our gift to you.


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A lot of people say that starting your own home business can be tough, but that is only true if you do not know how to start a home business the right way. Just like anything, you need to be informed about starting a home business before you can begin running one. This article contains a number of tips on starting your own home business.
If you are going to start a home business you should only sell items you have an interest in. If you don't like or believe in what you are selling then you won't convince your customers to buy it either. If you don't like the product then don't sell it.
If operating an in-home business is what you need to stay home with your young child, consider operating a childcare facility in your own home. Once certification and licensing requirements for legal operation in your locale are met, your need could become a good opportunity for yourself as well as many of your neighbors who also need reliable and trustworthy care for their children.
When operating a home based business it is important to remember not to expect instant success. As a general rule in the home business industry, expecting to succeed immediately, is a sure way to fail. Plan to work many long, hard hours before you ever see a profit and expect to face some setbacks. Making money with a home business is hard work and doesn't happen overnight.
Optimize your home business web site to improve visitor statistics and hit counts. Consider using keyword tracking software or other measurement tools to see what users in your field are looking for and make sure the content on your web site uses those words frequently but appropriately. The more visitors to your home business site, the faster your business grows!
Just because your home-based business affords you the opportunity to work in your pajamas, it doesn't mean that you should. While it may be tempting to go from bed to desk, you will be more productive if you shower, dress and act as if you need to be ready to meet with an important client at any time, while you are working.
Business slowdown? Could be seasonal or the economy. Who knows? Take advantage of this quiet time to ramp up your marketing, tackle your email, log into user forums, beef up your web site and organize your office. Step outside and network with others in your field. Turn this slowdown into an opportunity.
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Make a plan for your home business before you just go jumping in. If you know what you're going to do and when you're going to do it, you'll be much more likely to meet your goals. Starting a business without a plan is like trying to drive to an unknown location without a map – even if you know where you'd like to end up, you probably won't get there in any reasonable timeframe.
As the beginning of this article discussed, starting your own home business can be difficult, but it is much easier if you are properly educated and informed. If you know the right steps to start a home business, it is no longer so intimidating. Apply the advice in this article, and be on your way to starting your own home business.


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Why should anyone in law care about using science and research-based practices in the law? Because this approach has been proven to be an effective tool in discovering how things work and why things don't work. The increase in our life expectancy and our economic standard of living are all direct fruits of science and research.
Here are some reasons we should care about using science and research-based practice in the law:
1. 1. The citizens of the State of Wisconsin spend billions of dollars each year in Wisconsin on such things as incarceration and probation (over $1.1 billion for the Department of Corrections alone), juvenile justice, child protective services, other court ordered counseling and programs, and have been for years. We only recently have started to look at what we are doing with a critical eye, trying to ascertain if these practices are working or not, and if they are working, why they work. In an era of considerable budget deficits and a threatening national debt, we owe our society and future generations nothing less than the best we can give them.
I am, in no way, a Pollyanna as it relates to science. I see what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico, and I understand the dark side of science. However, in human history, there has not been an engine of discovery and transformation as powerful as science. We are remiss to not use it as fully as possible in the law.


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Awesome summer holidays in the Tatras - First Minute
Sun, mountains, silence, beautiful views, next to with nature ... All of this can be found in the highest village in Poland, in the village of Zab near Zakopane. Here at the Redyk hotel we have prepared a special package holiday. We will make sure that your stay will be full of excitement and positive energy.
The package includes
- Accommodation in comfortably room
- Buffet breakfast with regional delicacies
- Dinner served or buffet if Hotel will be fully occupied (4:00pm - 8:00pm)
- Free use of the spa area in the Open Spa (11:00am - 7:00pm)
- Individual session in the Jacuzzi 2 x 30 min. after opening hours the Open Spa (19:00 - 22:00)
- Free bike rental (2 hrs. Per stay)
- Suggestions what to see in the region
- A free rental of Nordic Walking sticks
- A playroom and a playground for children
- Animation classes for children (on selected days of the week, at higher occupancy)
- Sports equipment storage
- Internet Wi-Fi
- Parking monitored
- Discount cards for various attractions in Zakopane and the surrounding area (many regional inns, thermal pools, bowling alleys, monkey grove, cinema, museums, ...) For an additional fee you can order
For an additional fee you can order
- Treatments in the wellness clinic
- Horse-drawn carriage ride around the grounds of scenic Foothills Gubałowskie
- One day tours like: Around the Tatras, the High Tatras, Orava - Liptov, ...
- Tours to the Tatra National Park with a guide
- Dunajec River Rafting
* Free children aged 0-2 years (without benefits, on the bed with their parents).
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Andy Muridzo's scheduled show at the Harare International Women's Day Festival on Saturday failed to take due to a low turn out.
The two-day festival which started on Friday was held at Rainbow Towers and Muridzo, who was performing for free, did not take to the stage after a handful of people had showed up.
The organisers' spokesperson Kudzai Guvamombe said they saw no need for Muridzo to perform as people failed to attend the show.
"Honestly, we saw no need for Andy to play anymore as the young people that we wanted to capture did not show up in the numbers that we anticipated," Kudzai said.
Mokoomba and Hope Masike were the headline act on Friday's concert to which they gave an outstanding performance.
Other artistes that performed at the 'Mwanasikana Anokosha' themed concert were Maasa, Edith Weutonga and Mrya Dube.
Diana Samkange did not show up for her act although she was part of the list of artistes scheduled to perform at the concert.
Guvamombe said the organisers were happy they managed to attract people from various embassies and the corporate world.
He said they had already started working on the next Women's Day Festival.
"We have received requests from social groups booking us for our next Women's Day Festival and we can only get better. For an inaugural event we got the right attention."
'Mwanasikana anokosha' is Hope Masike's brain child which seeks to provide sanitary wear to women in underprivileged communities and in correctional facilities. The Herald


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"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence – a lot passes you by – simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."-Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016[1]) was a British award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
Judy E. Martin, An Author to Know.
I am thrilled to be here on Ron's blog to tell you a little about my new book. Firstly, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Judy and I am the blogger behind Edwina's Episodes. I have only been blogging for just over a year now, but what a year it has been!
Now to back up a bit, I first encountered Ron's blog through another blogging friend Hugh, who recommended I visit Ron's blog as it had loads of hints and tips for bloggers, and also he organised this amazing weekly haiku challenge. Now, I didn't have a clue what a haiku was, but I am always up for a challenge and I loved the ones Hugh submitted, so I popped on over to Ron's to check it all out.
Well, that was it, once I got my head around the rules (ok I know I break them sometimes), I had a go, and then the inevitable happened and I was hooked on them! Since that first time, I have never missed a week, and in fact, I love it! On a Monday when I get home from work I love, seeing what prompt words he has thought up to torment us with! I don't know how he finds the time what with helping others improve their own writing, and having just finished writing his own book too! (Book plus not solicited but appreciated!-Ronovan)
As I said, I love a challenge and about two months after I started blogging I took part in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) which is where, throughout the month of November, those taking part should make sure they write at least one post a day. I completed the challenge, and that set the tone really for me being a prolific poster!
Now, I love mucking around with words, manipulating them and especially making them rhyme. I have done since I was very young, so now and again I would write a poem about whatever took my fancy (I even did an Ode to NaBloPoMo)! I always try to inject a little humour in my poems; having a moan about housework, or bewailing the fact that I don't have any vices left to give up. I even wrote my own version of 'Twas the Night before Christmas.'
My blog and my poems are about life in all its glory, warts and all. We all have those rubbish days, events that we want to celebrate, family that mean the world to us, or just times of appreciating the beauty of nature that is all around us: I have a rhyme for each occasion!
I felt it was something others could relate to and enjoy as well, so decided to go ahead and put them all into a book. Chris* designed a fantastic cover for me, vibrant and fun, capturing the tone of my book perfectly.
Why not go and check my book out. It is a wonderful opportunity to take time out, get comfy, have a cuppa and some cake, and really indulge yourself! You never know, you might even have a good old laugh too!
Links to my book:
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CreateSpace https://www.createspace.com/6102512
Thanks so much for having me over, Ron, and I look forward to the next haiku challenge!
You can find Judy online at the following sites, which will lead you everywhere else:
EdwinasEpisodes, her personal blog.
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Guest Author to Know: Colleen Chesebro. Inspired by Fairies. @ColleenChesebro
Hello, everyone, it's me – Colleen, AKA Silver Threading. Ronovan has graciously asked me to share some of the most intimate details of my journey as I write my first novel, The Swamp Fairy.
First, I would like to thank Ronovan for featuring me as a guest author. I am honored to have this opportunity! Thank you, Ron, for your friendship and guidance.
You know, I have wanted to write a book since I was six years old. I read voraciously as a child, and I still do today. Reading and writing have always been what makes me the absolute happiest person in the world.
In college, I discovered a hidden talent for being able to write about other writer's works. There is a special kind of thrill I get when I read a book and review it. It is a special connection I feel with the author. It's the best feeling ever when the author realizes that you "get them."
With all the reading I have done through the years you would think I would have written tons of books by now. The truth is, I never knew how to start. The passion was there but I had nothing that really spoke to me. I had a million ideas, I just did not know how to focus my writing energies.
When I started blogging, it was with the intention of writing and publishing a book. I decided that I would learn everything I could about writing, plot structure, and outlines. My main goal was to network and learn from others. It has been the most fulfilling endeavor I have ever undertaken! After I was blogging for about five months my creative juices were so fired up I was brimming with ideas.
Here was my inspiration:
Fairy Swamp
When we lived in Florida (we live in Colorado now) I walked each morning down a country road near our house. It was a foggy autumn morning that changed my life forever. That was my first experience seeing the swamp fairy fluttering in a bush at the edge of Fairy Swamp. Every time I think about that first meeting, I have to slap myself! What an experience!
I began to write posts for my blog about my walking experiences. I literally looked at nature and the real life occurrences that were affecting the reality of Fairy Swamp. I watched as the natural landscape was scarred by the construction crews who began to build a massive housing area on the edge of the swamp.
That gave me my first clue of what I wanted to write about. I wanted to write a young adult fantasy novel that at the heart of the story talked about what we are doing to our native habitats.
Construction land next to Fairy Swamp
Little by little, I developed a basic plot for my book. I even enlisted the help of my talented daughter, Tabitha who is going to draw the swamp fairy for us since I could not capture her in a photo. That fairy moved as quickly as a hummingbird!
Nevertheless, I still struggled with the outline of my novel. One day, while searching Google I stumbled upon The Better Novel Project.com. Christine takes best-selling novels like Harry Potter & The Sorcerers Stone, The Hunger Games, and Twilight and deconstructs them chapter by chapter. She shares how to study the different elements, from word counts to character archetypes. She also shares how to identify why the best sellers share a common element. I had hit pay dirt!
I am using Christine's Master Outline to write my novel. I have plans to use it for the series, too. It is an excellent source for writing YA fantasy. Your characters and events will always be different even though you will use many of the same elements that are found in most fantasy novels. Her outline takes you through step by step how to write a trilogy story arc.
Here is the synopsis for The Swamp Fairy, Book 1 of the Heart Stone Chronicles to be published in late summer or early fall 2016:
Fourteen-year-old Abbigale Forester, recently orphaned and a Ward of the State of Illinois moves from Chicago to Florida to live with her aunt, her last living relative.
Aunt Magnolia becomes Abby's Guardian and together they claim an ancient inheritance of land that has been in Abby's mother's family for generations.
Abby wears her mother's most sacred possession – a stone pendant in the shape of a heart forged from a giant mystical stone found on the very swamp land that Abby now owns.
However, Rafe Cobb, a greedy land developer, has other ideas. He wants Abby's land for himself and he is willing to stop at nothing to own that land.
All Abby wants is to be part of a family again and to learn to ride horses with her two new friends, Savanna, and Blake.
The swamp slowly gives up some of its secrets and Abby is summoned by a primeval nymph who teaches Abby that her true destiny is to protect the primeval nymphs from evil in an ever-changing modern world.
Can Abby save the swamp and the Naiad Nymph Clan from certain destruction before it is too late?
I want to share one other exciting aspect of my blogging experiences and how because of my participation in these events I am adding more creativity to my novel.
Ronovan hosts a Haiku Challenge with prompt words each week. I love haiku! There is something about the brevity of the words in haiku structure (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) in each line that tells a mini story.
I decided instead of naming the chapters in my novel I would use those Haiku I had written each week to enhance the beginning of each chapter. Here is one of my haiku from the challenge: (I don't know if this particular haiku will find its way into my novel for sure)
My two loyal muses, Sugar, and Spice spend countless hours with me in my creative room as I pound away at the keyboard.
Spice and Sugar, worn out from helping Mom write all day.
Now, I don't know if all of this will knock your socks off when you read my book but I sure hope so! Somehow, it all feels right to me.
In fact, I can hear my fairy nymphs whispering in my ear again. Time to get back to novel writing!
Thanks for stopping by and please stay tuned to silverthreading.com for all the upcoming information on my book. I am so excited! ❤
Would you like to connect with me? Find me on Twitter @ColleenChesebro, and on Facebook at my page Silver Threading. Stop by anytime and share your thoughts!
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The Excitement! by @YouAreTheExpert Annette Rochelle Aben
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Book Review of Dancing to an Irish Reel by @cfullerton3
Author: Claire Fullerton
Title: Dancing to an Irish Reel
File Size: 373 KB
Print Length: 237 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0990304256
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Vinspire Publishing (March 6, 2015)
Publication Date: March 6, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Enabled
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
Kindle: $1.99
Paperback: $13.99
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I received a copy of this book from the author for an honest review. And of course with me, you know that's what you get. Good or bad. Here we go!
What happens when an L.A. music exec goes on sabbatical to Ireland? Well this is a romance, so I'll say romance, along with love, music, and most of all confusion—caused by love, language, and longing. You might think a Southern girl who moved to L.A. might be accustomed to culture shock and speaking a different language, but Ireland is an island unto itself.
Dancing to an Irish Reel is about American Hailey meeting real Ireland and new-to-love Liam Hennessey. What you get is a story of Hailey learning about the place she comes to call home and as she learns about it and begins to understand it, she also begins to understand the man she falls for.
I like the character of Hailey. She is not your stereotype romantic leading lady that people like to think of. She is strong, knows what she wants, has common sense, and above all—she doesn't do the typical damsel in distress routines.
Men, you will like this book. I say that because men need to realize that a great deal of books with Romance in the genre are not exactly what you may think. Movies men seem to like have romance in them and could be labeled as such in genre. So get a clue.
In other words this will hit with all people.
I found this book a bit of a surprise in some ways. Things don't happen the way you expect, which to me is good. You want to be surprised these days. I do want to say that the character of Liam, well—Fullerton does a great job of explaining the Irish male in several places from different viewpoints. Very interesting, I thought.
You might at times want to hit Liam over the head with something, like his accordion, but then, he is a man, it's love, and he's young, so what else would you expect? And that is one thing that makes this book real and allows the reader to connect with it. No one is perfect in the book. Even those thought to be perfect are flawed deeply, and not entirely due to their own doing. And as for the accordion, it's a loved instrument in Ireland and makes Liam somewhat of a local celebrity.
I loved the description of Ireland, the people, how the language works and the culture itself works in so many different ways. Those parts alone make you think you have read a much larger book because you learn so much. I view the romance part of the story as a side by side symbolic representation of Hailey's coming to terms and coming to understanding Ireland itself.
How does the book end? Is it a happy ending? That's something you have to find out for yourself. Does Fullerton leave things open for a sequel? Could there be a trilogy or even a series of Hailey books? Personally, I would like to see more of Hailey in Ireland. How Fullerton uses Hailey to teach us about the real Ireland is something that needs to be revisited.
I recommend this book to lovers of Ireland, real people, common sense romance, and reality.
Character Believability: 4.5
0Flow and Pace: 4
Reader Engagement: 4.5
Reader Enrichment: 4.5
Reader Enjoyment: 3.5
Overall Rate: 4.1
You may be looking at that Reader Enjoyment number and wondering why. There were certain characteristics of Liam that somewhat annoyed me at times. I think maybe it was because I'm American and he's Irish and as Claire Fullerton explains in the book, those two types of men are different. But Liam is real to the Irish male character. Perhaps being of Scottish background, maybe it's just me.
Claire Fullerton grew up in Memphis, TN and now lives in Malibu, CA. She is the author of literary fiction, "Dancing to an Irish Reel," which is set in Connemara, Ireland, where she once lived. She is also the author of "A Portal in Time": A paranormal mystery that unfolds in two time periods set on California's hauntingly beautiful Monterey Peninsula, in a little village called Carmel-by-the-Sea. Both of Claire's novels are published by Vinspire Publishing. Claire is a three- time award winning essayist, a former newspaper columnist, a contributor to magazines including Celtic Life International and Southern Writers Magazine. She is a five-time contributor to the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series and can be found on Goodreads as well as the website under her name. Currently, Claire is writing her third novel, which is a Southern family saga based on her award winning essay in the 2013 San Francisco Writer's Conference.
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The Wind energy engineering workshop will be held over three days (from Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 to Saturday, October 13th, 2018) at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. This event aims to bring together professionals from government/private institutions, university professors, graduate students with a multidisciplinary engineering background. The topics covered are condition monitoring and asset management for large turbines and the main thematic related to small wind turbine technology which are outlined in the book of Dr David Wood titled 'Small Wind Turbines Analysis, Design, and Application'. The workshop program is based on a variety of activities such as lectures (held in English), interactive discussions and simulation exercise. The participants will be provided with a soft copy of the Wood's book as well as the necessary software.
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Accommodation and catering are provided at Al Akhawayn University.
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Dr. Reddy attained her medical training in Chennai, India, where she subsequently began her career as a general practitioner at a privately held clinic for 9 years.
Before relocating to UAE to become a specialist in Radiology, Dr. Reddy was Assistant Professor of Radiology at Sri Ramachandra University.
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I am in my 9th year at Driscoll, and in my 16th year of teaching! I am honored to be Driscoll's Teacher of the Year 2018-2019, and Driscoll's nominee for the Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Not only am I a teacher, but I also sponser the Drone Club, and coordinate Mini Mac a peer tutoring group at Driscoll and Redland Oaks Elementary. I attended Texas State University, where I received my BS in Education. My husband and I have one daughter who is a 7th grader here at Driscoll and plays volleyball and select softball year around. I have two sons, one is in 11th grade at Madison H.S. He is a wrestler and is raising a lamb in the Agriculture magnet program, and my other son is in his 3rd year of college at UTSA. I enjoy being a pitching/speed and agility coach for softball, reading, writing, and spending time watching my children in sports, and working out.
I love the subject of reading. Reading is a subject that allows us to drop all other distractions and focus on the art of how the author writes and communicates. I learn so much about my students as readers and people through their genre preferences . It is deeply fulfilling to watch each one of them grow more proficient and confident throughout the course of our time together as they discover their inner voices as readers/writers.
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I have been always fascinated by the Egyptian Civilization, with all the explendor and knowledge. The Luxury of their clothing and jewelry was a sources of
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Tis the season for tacos and I am hooked! Do you want giant tacos, a gorgeous back patio and delightful staff? Look no further than La Chingada!
Located near Dundas West and Dovercourt, it's a fairly new restaurant, but judging by the reviews, their popularity is growing quickly! Prices ranging from $6.50 for 1 taco to $25 for a Mexican platter, it's very reasonably priced and the portions will not leave room for dessert.
We started with housemade Chips and Salsa($10). It came with a bowls of sauces for dipping: guac, salsa verde and salsa borracha. The chips were so good that we ran out of chips before sauce, so our server offered to bring us more. Love that!
I was not prepared when the tacos arrived; they were as big as my face and I ordered 2...I almost ordered 3! Thank goodness, I didn't! I went with the Fish Taco($6.50ea) because I have a basa fish addiction. The housemade corn tortilla was brimming with blackened basa, cilantro slaw(OMG) and Valentina mayo for a lil kick. I made quick work of that one...I also made a mess on the plate because the taco was so stuffed! My second taco was the Carne Asada Taco($6.50). This taco was stuff with a pile of marinated steak, fresh onions, cilantro and salsa borracha. A lil more onion than I'd like, but it was one tasty taco. Not to mention, pairing them with their housemade hot sauces was a treat! You've got to try them!
For drinks, the beer selection was small, but they offered domestic, Mexican and craft beer. The margaritas and cocktails were popular on the patio!
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Work is complete on the new sidewalk along Bagdad Rd from Crystal Falls to the high school. This finalizes a joint endeavor between The Lookout Group and the City of Leander to ensure safe travel for children walking to Leander High School. "We were striving for something special," said Mr. Bozak, "and are very pleased with this one-of-a-kind sidewalk that is both artful and practical."
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Children riding bikes and walking to Winkley Elementary in the fall will benefit from the new signal light currently being installed at the entry to The Highlands at Crystal Falls. Heavy traffic on Lakeline Blvd. prompted the City of Leander to take action to protect the children going to and from school. City police and volunteer crossing guards have been previously on duty, and the light is a welcome addition.
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What if a game host could choose to play as a sort of Game Master instead of captain, allowing someone else to take the role?
As a GM, hosts would have be able to influence what their players see and how the galaxy develops within up to 20 sectors around the ship's location. This can range from the items found on planets, the amount and type of enemies they may encounter on planets, whether or not and what type of modifier drones will have, and even the ability to coax non-drone ships into changing sectors.
In order to prevent potential exploiting of these features, GMs wouldn't have omnipotent control over these factors. They have a limited amount of actions per jump, which they spend influencing the sector/s. Even then, what they want to occur specifically only has a chance of happening; if they want something to happen for certain, especially if it's a specific action like turning a weapon into a +3 version, it will cost more actions.
Actions cannot be wholly detrimental either. A GM cannot change a weapon into a food item, they cannot lower or raise the number of enemies below or above a certain amount, they cannot give multiple drones modifiers, and they can't warp ships into a sector with 3 other ships, cause drones to warp, or cause a manned ship above 25% Hull health to warp.
In order to keep monotony at bay, GMs are able to take control of a single enemy per jump, or interact with the player ship and other ships as a unique virus. Planetary enemies are limited to standard ones; a GM CANNOT take control of Paladins, Elite Bandits, or Bosses for example. GMs can take control of Drones, but not Manned ships, and while in control of the drone cannot control the weaponry or take/deal collision damage. They aren't able to take control of Bot Players on ships, but can take control of Infected Crawlers that have boarded the ship. As a virus, they are able to cause damage or repair damage to subsystems over a long amount of time, as well as occasionally causing an effect to occur, like a power flicker or making shields weaker/stronger for a moment.
This, I hope, would add a lot of replay-ability to the game, though I suspect it is far from the scope of it.
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sound like a pretty fun and cool idea mate would be on board with it
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I wouldn't start limiting the GM. If you include such a feature, and it looks fun, it would in my eyes make no sense to reduce the functionality. If player want to make it easy for themselves, they will find a way and arseholes playing GM's will find themselves without players pretty fast.
Aside from that, yes sounds great, I would love it.
Aside from that, yes sounds great, I would love it.
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So DnD but in pulsar
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You could just wait and let someone else take the captain role. It limits them and you slightly, but works fine so long as they dont try banning people or using bots (neither work for non-host captains)
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