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With more freshly printed money coming from ECB QE announced today - 60 Billion Euro per month until September 2016, slump in commodities will be over one day. China is using every opportunity to secure the supply of strategic commodities for its growth in the coming years. You simply cannot print any Oil, Gold, Copper or Lithium. Central Banks are fighting Deflation - never fight the Central Banks: they will win and Inflation will be driving commodities super cycle again.
Commodities: China To Boost Investment In Latin America To $250 Billion Within Decade.
We can see how China is positioning itself on the global chessboard in order to preserve the stability and economic growth in these challenging times. After announcement of $1 Trillion infrastructure development plans now comes the very logical step to secure commodities supply from Latin America to implement these plans.
Metals: China Fast-Tracks $1 Trillion in Projects to Spur Growth.
Now we can put all China's world-wide acquisitions of the metal projects in the perspective. This huge stimulus plan for infrastructure development will need a secure supply of metals and China is already on the road to get it!
TNR Gold Los Azules Copper: Chinese M&A - Watch Out For Las Bambas Effect.
"Frik Els provides a very good insight into the Chinese deal culture and mining M&A particularly. Las Bambas deal is not only the very good indicator of the turning mining cycle, but also provides guidance for the smaller companies in China to go on The Hunt For Copper and other commodities. You can witness this approach in our particular case of Strategic Commodities with International Lithium and Ganfeng Lithium as well. Read More."
China And Argentina Forge Mining Alliance.
"A lot of investors are waiting for a change in Argentina this year. The political risk will become the value catalyst one day. China knows it too well and already is scooping up the best projects. We are already there with our projects and even partners from China! Read more."
(Kitco News) - China will continue to see slower economic growth but will not suffer a "hard landing," said Li Keqiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China in a keynote speech at the 45th Annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Li made the comments a day after the Chinese government reported that its gross domestic product expanded by 7.4% for 2014, missing the target set earlier in the year for a growth rate of 7.5%. China's economic growth is now at its lowest pace in 24 years.
|Photo courtesy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Li Keqiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China
"The Chinese economy will face downward pressures in 2015," Li said in a press released based on his speech during a special session of the Annual Meeting. "But the Chinese economy will not head for a hard landing."
Li said weaker growth expectations are a reflection of a slowdown in the global economy. However, he is still expecting China to play an important role in the global marketplace, pointing out that a growth rate of 7% produces an annual increase of $800 billion at current price, and is still higher than growth rates five years ago.
He added that despite the weaker growth expectations the government is not planning on introducing any new stimulus efforts, instead the country will promote growth through its structural reforms.
China's reforms include liberalizing the country's services sectors, promoting mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and deepening its capital markets.
"We will move towards the path of reforms. This way we can shift gear without losing momentum and achieve medium- to high-speed growth, and medium- to high-level developments."
He added that the government is preparing the nation to "embrace the new normal" as the country shifts away from its export led-economy to a more consumer-based one. He added that the government is planning to invest in targeted areas including health care, clean energy, and supporting small and medium-sized business to create employment, targeting specifically young people.
Also touching on the renminbi, Li said that more countries are now demanding the use of the Chinese currency to settle trades and investments. He added that although China is committed to creating an internationalized currency, it is going to be a long-term process.
Famed economist Nouriel Roubini, who is also attending the conference, said in a Reuters' interview on Wednesday that he expects growth rates in China to be below 6% next year."


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Come take part in free theater workshops led by the Wilma Theater's team of professional artists, as part of the theater's Portable Studio!
- Meet and work with professional Wilma artists in our library
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Sessions are January 9, 16, 23 & 30; February 6 & 13 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Meet the Artist: Josh A. Campbell is a playwright and director who works as a community archaeologist: unearthing community stories to create a snapshot of places, people, ideas, and culture.
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The University has two official sources for surplus property.
- Corporate Purchasing website (refer to links on the left menu).
- The second source for used equipment is through Medical Center Facilities. Chris Krenzer, 275-3988 manages that program for Facilities.
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Glancing at a box score from last night's game, it is actually sort of incredible that the Warriors only lost by four. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson combined for just 31 points on a ghastly 36 shots, Harrison Barnes was 3-of-10, and the injured Andrew Bogut didn't play. And then you get to Draymond Green's line, and understand how the Warriors almost won.
Thirty-two points on 11-for-15 shooting, 6-of-8 from three, 15 rebounds, nine assists, two steals, and just two turnovers in 47 goddamn minutes of basketball. The undersized Green played 28 of those minutes at center—holding Tristan Thompson to just three rebounds, none of them on the offensive end, after he'd killed the Warriors on the glass in Game 6—and was the secondary defender that helped hold LeBron James to a 9-of-24 shooting night. Including even James and Kyrie Irving, Green was the best player on the floor last night.
But the same drive and intensity that led Green to drop a 32/15/9 in Game 7 of the NBA Finals also showed itself to be his biggest weakness, as he repeatedly lost his head on the court during the playoffs and maybe should've been suspended for more than just sack-tapping LeBron James. After Game 7, he vowed to excise that part of his game:
"I learned a lot about myself as a man. I got to control my emotions. I will always control my emotions now. There is a silver lining in between everything. I'm not a guy that takes moral victories, but I did learn from that. I learned that I can't put myself in harm's way and that's in anything. That's in basketball. That's in life. You can't put yourself in that position.
"I think it will make me a much better player. I will have the same fire. I had my fire tonight, but it was controlled. It will make it a lot better …
Each offseason he's been in the league, Draymond Green has dramatically improved some core basketball skill, from his shot to his body to his handle. If come next season he's cut the dumb cheap shit out of his game and improved upon what we saw last night, he'll mean even more to the Warriors than just about anyone else. But as Green told USA Today last night when asked about his superb game—"We lost. I'd rather have zero [points], and have everybody say, 'Draymond didn't show up and he sucked. But they won a championship.'"—it only matters if the season ends with a win.


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I apologize that it has been a little while since you last heard from me. My computer broke, I haven't been feeling well at all, and so I decided to take it as a sign to take a small break. As happens with breaks, I found myself missing this blog more and more but needed some time to just focus on myself without stress of what blogging can entail (Its a lot more work than I ever knew).
So I'm back!
I have some fun posts to post along with my usual "101" on different treatment options for chronic pain and illness so stay tuned!
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Jordi Blanch
Jordi Blanch studied at the School of Medicine of Barcelona, Spain, from 1986 to 1992. He specialized in Psychiatry at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain, from 1993 to 1996, and, in 2002, achieved his PhD from the University of Barcelona with studies on the effect of depression on the progression of HIV-infection and on adherence to treatment. He also studied Philosophy in the University of Barcelona from 1987 to 1993.
In 1997, Jordi Blanch started working at the Psychiatry Department of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. He has been chief of de Psychiatry Emergency Department from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009 he is the chief of the Outpatient Clinic of the Psychiatry and Psychology Department of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. Chair for Educational Affairs of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona since 2009.
In 1995, during the last years of his residency, he started to devote part of his time to take care of psychiatric and psychological disorders in severely ill medical patients (oncology, bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, and others), and, more specifically, in HIV-infected persons.
He is member of the Organization of AIDS Psychiatrists and member of the HIV/AIDS Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatry Association. He has been a founding member of the International Symposium on Psychiatry and HIV.
Current President of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health
He has been co-author of the Spanish Guidelines for the Clinical Management of Neurocognitive Disorders associated to HIV-infection 2012He has also done research in the field of psychiatric and psychological disorders associated to HIV – infection. He has authored more than 50 papers and served regularly as reviewer for the following journals: AIDS Care, AIDS Research and Therapy, Antiviral Therapy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Current HIV Research, Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Cínica, HIV Clinical Trials, HIV Medicine, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Journal of AIDS, Journal of AIDS and HIV Research, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Medicina ClínicaPsychitry Research, Psycho-Oncology, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Stress.
Esteban Martínez
Esteban Martínez studied at the School of Medicine of Valladolid, Spain, from 1980 to 1986. He specialized in Internal Medicine at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain, from 1988 to 1992, and, in 1996, achieved his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with studies on neurosurgical infections.
In 1994, Esteban Martínez started working at the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. Since 1996, he has devoted his time to caring of HIV-infected persons, and, from 2001, he has been teaching infectious diseases at the University of Barcelona as an Associate Professor of Medicine. He is member of the Scientific Board of the International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Co-morbidities in HIV, has been co-author of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Non-Infectious Co-Morbidities in HIV (European AIDS Clinical Society), is a member of European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) and was elected as Regional (South Europe) Representative for EACS in 2012, and has been a founding member of the International Symposium on Psychiatry and HIV. He is member of the Editorial Board of HIV Medicine, The Scientific World Journal and The Open AIDS Journal.
His fields of interests span opportunistic infections (risk of and withdrawal of prophylaxis in the HAART era), simplification of antiretroviral therapy (switch studies), incidence and causes of death in HIV-infected persons receiving antiretroviral therapy, toxicity of antiretrovirals (indinavir-associated nepholitiasis, non-nucleoside-associated hepatitis, risk and management of dyslipemia), lipodystrophy (incidence, diagnosis, risk, and interventions), and non-infectious complications in HIV-infected patients (central nervous system, kidney, bone, and particularly, cardiovascular diseases). He has authored more than 200 papers. He has served regularly as reviewer for major journals on Medicine (New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Medicina Clínica), Infectious Diseases (Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica), Chemotherapy (Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Antiviral Therapy), and HIV/AIDS (AIDS, JAIDS, HIV Medicine, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses).


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See The Malay Race 1 : Proto Malay for the first part. Malay race by itself is one of the most open, hospitable and tolerant people in the whole world. Today we see many intolerant behavior of Malay in our region. That is not due to Malay culture. That is due more to Islam.
Malay Racist in Malaysia
Unlike Indonesia where President Sukarno set a socialist road map on race and religion issues, Malaysia was captured by reactionary hereditary aristocracy. The aristocracy uses racism and Muslim fundamentalism to manipulate the Malay people.
Even though President Sukarno's rule was not lack of controversies, his progressive view on race and religion greatly influence generations of Indonesian elites. This act as a impediment towards fundamentalism. Even though Indonesia is moving more towards religion fundamentalism over the decades, the effect of President Sukarno's policy has prevented situations from getting far worse.
Malaysia produces a lot of bigotry works. You cannot trust Malaysia academics on their studies of Malay race.
Proto-Malay could be closer genetically to Fujian Chinese, Taiwanese than Malaysia Malay
I have read many academic works on Malay gene, language and anthropology. The most authoritative scholar on genetic distance is Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza of Stanford University. Cavalli-Sforza's The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994 with Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza) is a standard reference on human genetic variation.
Below is some of the findings of Cavalli-Sforza.
Northern Chinese group with Japanese, Korean and Tibetan. Southern Chinese group with Malay.
Southern Chinese group closely with Taiwanese aboriginals, who is genetically closest to proto Malay. Malaya Malay is quite far from Proto Malay.


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This week in comedy podcasts: A new episode of the Marc and Tom Show
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Marc Maron and Tom Scharpling, the host of "The Best Show on WFMU," team up for a meeting of disgruntled minds and the result is a hilarious laugh-out-loud podcast. This is the third installment of the so-called Marc and Tom Show and if you are a fan of WTF podcast, the Best Show on WFMU or both, you aren't going to want to miss this episode where they discuss topics like what sports legend ruined a Who concert for Tom? Which one of the guys tried, unsuccessfully, to pitch Big Momma's House 3? Plus, Marc's traumatic story of his first (and nearly last) band gig.. Download here.
On Monday, Marc spoke to Eddie Pepitone, who is no stranger to WTF listeners. But this time, Marc tries to get to the bottom of the real Eddie with help from Steven Feinartz, director of a new documentary feature about Eddie. "The Bitter Buddha" which is now playing in select theaters and is available on iTunes here. Download the podcast here.
Today, singer-songwriter Aimee Mann stops by Marc's garage to wander down the path of her life, from a traumatic story of childhood turmoil to early pop success in 'Til Tuesday to an acclaimed career as a singer/songwriter. And, of course, Aimee serenades the Cat Ranch as only she can. Download the episode here.
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Living life isn't easy, you have to make mistakes to find the answers… Cry to be happy, get hurt to be able to love. Even though this seems to be simply complicated, life and love are hard enough to be mistaken over and over again before you get the most out of it.
We sometimes find love, but everything becomes a disaster when you loose yourself loving someone else. Making the person you love happy even if it costs your own, isn't healthy. Most people tend to preach what they thought they know, but even themselves doesn't really know how it works. Life is not all about great stories, dreams, and prophecies. They do exist, but the truth is no one really know how it all works. We just have to live our lives, follow what's within no matter how crazy it is. You make mistakes, get the consequences, learn from it, and live again…That, I think is what's the meaning of life.
Looking ahead you loose your present, looking back is the same, but living at the moment sometimes hard and scary as we are afraid of what may happen or what's not. It sucks when it hurts, yet most of the time we hurt ourselves from decisions we make. I wonder why it is natural for us to be brave making decisions but will hurt us , rather than make us happy? Why do we condition ourselves to be ready from disasters, but not to happiness?
It is easier to choose the way to happiness, but conditioning makes it harder. Most of the time, people we love always makes life harder for us. The beliefs and traumas of their experiences molds our personalities that isn't necessary. Fairytales do come true, but most people now I bet you doesn't believe in it anymore. Why do people believes more in getting hurt than to and be loved? Why contradicting is easier than understanding? Why is pointing fingers easier than taking responsibility?
Then after all those things we've done, we loose the ones we love and ask all these questions why? Why do we have to know everything, when life should be cherished at the moment? Even the moment is here, this right moment, we are afraid to live in it. It became harder, when it is the happiest moment ever. To live now is what I keep hearing, but really it is not easy… If there's an easy way to do it, let that be the greatest way, so people would be led in the right way.
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This article reports on a study of academic librarians' views of their work and possibilities regarding support for researchers' publishing. Institutional repositories and Open Access are areas being dealt with in particular. Methods used are highly qualitative; data was gathered at two Swedish university libraries over a six month period through focus group interview sessions and personal logs by informants. Findings indicate that attitudes are often in collision with practicalities in the daily work in libraries. Even though they have a high degree of knowledge and awareness of scholarly publication patterns, librarians often feel insecure in the approach of researchers. There is a felt redirection in the focus of academic librarianship, from pedagogical information seeking tasks towards a more active publication support, a change which also includes a regained prominence for new forms of bibliographical work. Although there are some challenges, proactive attitudes among librarians are felt as being important in developing further support for researchers' publishing.
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate planning processes for academic library buildings and the outcomes of such processes. This is accomplished through a case study utilising discourse analysis. The main question is: How is a vision of an academic library implemented in and through a building? The case study is retrospective and focused on the building of a new library at Kalmar University, Sweden, at the end of the 1990s. During this period, technological and educational developments and general societal change transformed the context of library planning and made way for renegotiations of the librarian profession. A critical realist approach characterises the study of visions, processes and the analysis of the various functions of the building. Results reveal the proactive nature of the activities of the library director in Kalmar. Early in the process he formulated a vision in which he presents the library as an information resource, a meeting place between different user groups and a workplace intended to promote learning and knowledge. From a professional point of view, the vision implied a dehierarchisation of relations both within the library staff and between library staff and visitors. The vision was based on an interpretation of Swedish national educational policy, and architecturally manifested by an ambition to reduce the physical and psychological boundaries between library staff and visitors. The early formulation of the vision together with the clients' use of architectural expertise facilitated the choice of architects. However during the process a need arose to anchor the decision in the library field. Efforts were made to address library expertise and to collect user comments from a broader academic field. Discourses concerning the university library as a workplace and a meeting place were especially evident in the strategies of the leading agents. The discourses uncovered in the study correspond to more general discourses which became prominent in society and higher education during the period in question. The library itself has met growing appreciation by users both from within and outside the university. The proactive leadership demonstrated by the library director in Kalmar was based on hegemony rather than coercion. This corresponds to contemporary tendencies. Hegemonic consent may persist even after changes in leadership. In Kalmar however, architectural solutions with insufficient support from the library staff have been reconstructed after changes in leadership. Future research on architectural planning processes may pay further attention to different discursive resources, social fields and the positions within them.


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HHS Inspector General: $3.4 Billion Recovered In First Half Of 2011Modern Healthcare: Inspector General Reports Recovery Of $3.4 Billion
HHS' inspector general's office tallied $3.4 billion in expected recoveries through its audits and investigations in the first half of fiscal 2011, according to its semiannual report to Congress. The office recovered $3.1 billion in the year-ago period.Of that, $222.4 million is attributed to audits with the other $3.2 billion netted from fraud investigations, largely carried out in collaboration with the U.S. Justice Department. That includes $620 million that will flow to agencies other than HHS, principally state Medicaid programs (Blesch 6/1). This is part of the KHN Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.


text: Johannesburg - Collins Mbesuma kept up his fine scoring form by netting the only goal of the game to see Black Aces defeat Chippa United 1-0 in an Absa Premiership match at Mbombela Stadium on Saturday night. The victory takes AmaZayoni to second place on the standings behind Mamelodi Sundowns, though they will be pushed down to third should Bidvest Wits claim a victory on Sunday. Aces almost claimed an early lead, with Collins Mbesuma seeing his diving header crash back off the crossbar after a lovely cross from Bryce Moon in the seventh minute. On 27 minutes the hosts saw another fine scoring chance wasted when Mbesuma's perfectly-weighted lob put Aubrey Modiba in on goal, but the midfielder blasted his shot off target under pressure from Chippa goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi. By this stage Chippa had found their feet in the game, but they were also guilty of missing scoring chances, with Andile Mbenyane shooting straight at Shu-Aib Walters before Joseph Malongoane put an effort wide of the target with only the 'keeper to beat. The Chilli Boys' best chance arrived a few minutes before the break when Walters saw a pass from his own penalty area intercepted by Chippa's forwards, but the opportunity was spurned by Mbenyane. It took Aces less than two minutes of the second half to break the deadlock, with Vincent Kobola providing a low cross from the right which was easily turned home by Mbesuma for his 11th league goal of 2015/16. On 53 minutes AmaZayoni almost doubled their advantage, with Lehlohonolo Nonyane rattling the frame of the goal with his shot direct from a free kick. Chippa made a couple of attacking substitutions in an effort to get themselves back in the game, with the likes of Lerato Chabangu and Rhulani Manzini entering the fray to boost their attack. Ironically it was defender Eric Chipeta who almost brought them level with a header on target in the 77th minute, but he was denied by an excellent save from Walters. That proved to be the last clear scoring chance of the game, with Aces able to hold out for the victory.


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The police chief who oversaw Seattle's crackdown on WTO protesters learned the dangers of militarization. His advice for a creating a police force that truly serves and protects communities.
-by Norm Stamper
November 16, 2011- They came from all over, tens of thousands of demonstrators from around the world, protesting the economic and moral pitfalls [1] of globalization. Our mission as members of the Seattle Police Department? To safeguard people and property—in that order. Things went well the first day. We were praised for our friendliness and restraint—though some politicians were apoplectic at our refusal to make mass arrests for the actions of a few.
Then came day two. Early in the morning, large contingents of demonstrators began to converge at a key downtown intersection. They sat down and refused to budge. Their numbers grew. A labor march would soon add additional thousands to the mix.
"We have to clear the intersection," said the field commander. "We have to clear the intersection," the operations commander agreed, from his bunker in the Public Safety Building. Standing alone on the edge of the crowd, I, the chief of police, said to myself, "We have to clear the intersection."
Because of all the what-ifs. What if a fire breaks out in the Sheraton across the street? What if a woman goes into labor on the seventeenth floor of the hotel? What if a heart patient goes into cardiac arrest in the high-rise on the corner? What if there's a stabbing, a shooting, a serious-injury traffic accident? How would an aid car, fire engine or police cruiser get through that sea of people? The cop in me supported the decision to clear the intersection. But the chief in me should have vetoed it. And he certainly should have forbidden the indiscriminate use of tear gas to accomplish it, no matter how many warnings we barked through the bullhorn.
My support for a militaristic solution caused all hell to break loose. Rocks, bottles and newspaper racks went flying. Windows were smashed, stores were looted, fires lighted; and more gas filled the streets, with some cops clearly overreacting, escalating and prolonging the conflict. The "Battle in Seattle," as the WTO protests and their aftermath came to be known, was a huge setback—for the protesters, my cops, the community.
More than a decade later, the police response to the Occupy movement, most disturbingly visible in Oakland [2]—where scenes resembled a war zone and where a marine remains in serious condition from a police projectile—brings into sharp relief the acute and chronic problems of American law enforcement. Seattle might have served as a cautionary tale, but instead, US police forces have become increasingly militarized, and it's showing in cities everywhere: the NYPD "white shirt" coating innocent people with pepper spray, the arrests of two student journalists at Occupy Atlanta, the declaration of public property as off-limits and the arrests of protesters for "trespassing."
The paramilitary bureaucracy and the culture it engenders—a black-and-white world in which police unions serve above all to protect the brotherhood—is worse today than it was in the 1990s. Such agencies inevitably view protesters as the enemy. And young people, poor people and people of color will forever experience the institution as an abusive, militaristic force—not just during demonstrations but every day, in neighborhoods across the country.


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Prada Academy is an online and offline environment in which knowledge, skills, techniques, practices and innovative ideas are shared and developed to enhance talents and ensure the Group's future growth.
The Prada Academy seeks to ensure the development of the 'human value' and to convey professional expertise with projects, tools and training modalities diversified for three macro areas: Craftsmanship School, Retail Training and Corporate Training.
Educational paths related to industrial production take place at the Craftsmanship School through courses dedicated to acquisition of footwear, leather goods and clothing manufacturing knowhow. The main goal is the protection and conservation of the wealth of knowledge and expertise that characterize the industry, passing them on to young artisans in order to introduce them to such professions that are crucial for the industry of luxury and strategic for the Italian economy.
Each path includes theoretical training (raw materials, manufacturing processes and techniques, such as technology, information technology and English language) as well as a practice applied on the field through activities hosted by the Group and its suppliers.
In addition to the daily support of experienced personnel, the activities conceived for the retail staff include Prada Academy institutional training courses aimed to consolidate managerial and professional skills, knowledge of the product and customer service.
A particular focus is put on the adoption of new ways of communication and relations with costumers, resulted from recent investments in digital technology that involved the entire retail network of the Group and allowing the sales staff the instant access to a wide range of useful information and materials.
Professional training dedicated to the members of the corporate area is centered on courses geared towards the enhancement of relational and behavioural skills aimed to achieve a more effective management of operational complexities.
Besides traditional theoretical training, every employee can access a digital platform that allows continuous and social training and development, through online courses, multimedia libraries, tutorials, blogs, online communities. This tool provides every single employee with an easy and 'on demand' access to educational material.
Furthermore, within the program for the integration of new company's employees in the Corporate and Manufacturing areas in Italy, the Prada Group organizes ad hoc paths in which classroom time – to know the history, the culture and the main company's processes - alternate with visits to the industrial sites.


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Recently, simple radiometers for measuring the intensity of dental curing lights have been introduced. This study examined the relationship among light intensity measurements by three radiometers, distane of curing tip from composite resin, and resin polymerization (as indicated by microhardness). Light intensity measurements, which decreased with increasing distance from the curing tip, were strongly correlated with composite resin hardness. Reduced light intensity produced softer composite re sin particularly on the bottom of specimens (2-mm depth). The different radiometers provided similar indications of the changes in light intensity at various curing distances.
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Being rich is a burden. There's a reason that comic book character Richie Rich was dubbed the "poor little rich boy." You think it's a picnic being the only child of billionaire parents and having two of everything? How are you supposed to choose between them? And who gets stuck paying the inheritance taxes?
The rich can't catch a break. They're given their own reality shows and gossiped about in the tabloids, as icons and amusement for others. But then they're expected to follow everyone else's laws like nobodies. The money people happily take from them at other times isn't supposed to influence justice.
Except that it did recently in Texas, turning the stuff of parody into a national outrage.
A rich teenager walked away with probation after killing four people and seriously injuring two others while driving drunk. The judge accepted the contention of a defense psychologist that the teen was the victim of "affluenza," raised with such wealth and entitlement that he never learned from his mistakes and was not responsible for his actions.
At 16, Ethan Couch got drunk on stolen booze, mixed it with valium, drove with three times the legal amount of alcohol in his blood (though 16-year-olds can't legally drink at all) at 30 mph above the speed limit. He slammed into someone whose car had broken down, and others who had come to help. One person who wasn't killed remains paralyzed, unable to speak.
Prosecutors had sought a 20-year prison sentence. But for all of his flagrantly illegal and multiply fatal actions, Couch got away with only 10 years of probation and an order to spend some time -- his defense suggested a year or two -- at a $450,000-a-year treatment facility. It features "equine therapy" and organic foods and should fit his parents' $10 million a year budget.
Couch's lawyer argued they never set limits, and gave him whatever he wanted, so how could he know how to act? As evidence, the judge was told of a time when, at 15, the boy was found passed out in a car with a naked 14-year-old girl, but wasn't punished.
Money did buy this kid justice, but not because it greased palms or afforded him a top lawyer. Rather, because the judge accepted the myth of the poor little rich kid and used it to perpetuate the privileges.
Couch's parents had misdemeanor, mostly traffic-related, run-ins with the law -- five for the mother, 22 for the father since 1989 -- but they either got dismissed or resulted in fines that were easily paid.
Children deserve second chances if they show remorse. Couch never even apologized to the bereaved families at his sentencing.
Imagine a public defender for a poor kid trying to get his client off on the grounds that his parent, working multiple jobs, wasn't around enough to show him right from wrong. The kid would probably have been petitioned to adult court and sent to the slammer for a long time.
And maybe that's the real point here. If a rich young person can be found not guilty because he was never taught responsibility, wouldn't a poor one have a more legitimate excuse because poverty left him few choices? Yet instead of giving the poor the benefit of the doubt, we are conditioned to punish and regulate them. A rich kid's "affluenza" is a poor kid's "pathology of poverty." One gets you off and the other gets you a prison record, with a domino effect on your prospects in life.
Couch did learn something from his parents. He learned that wealth can, indeed, buy extraordinary concessions. It's not likely that the equine therapy and organic foods will teach him otherwise. And what does the poor kid learn from this ruling? That even in our meritocracy, there are two standards of justice, they don't favor people like him or her, and they start applying from the moment of birth.
(Contact Rekha Basu, a Des Moines Register columnist, at email@example.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)


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Major League Gaming Partners with YouTube for MLG Vegas
3-Day Festival to be broadcast on MLG's YouTube channel and MLG.tv
December 14, 2016 – Major League Gaming, a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, announced today a global partnership with YouTube for MLG Vegas to distribute live match broadcasts, news and analysis from the event on MLG's YouTube channel in addition to MLG's proprietary EVE player on MLG.tv.
MLG Vegas is a festival and fan experience taking place at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, on December 16-18. The three-day event will play host to the first open event of the Call of Duty World League (CWL), as well as an Overwatch® invitational, and End Game – a special lifestyle event celebrating digital culture.
Friday will serve as the kickoff to the first CWL event of 2017, pitting 160 teams from around the globe in competition over 3 days for a share of the $100,000 prize pool.
The event will also play host to a $100,000 invitational tournament featuring Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch. Eight of the world's best teams will do battle, pitting their diverse rosters of heroes armed with extraordinary weapons and incredible abilities against each other in pursuit of the crown.
YouTube will deliver a premium viewing experience to compliment MLG.tv's premium fan viewing experience enabled via MLG's proprietary EVE player.
Viewers can follow all the action at www.youtube.com/MajorLeagueGaming.
For more information on MLG Vegas, head to MLG.tv/Vegas or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


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The Better Good Life: An Essay on Personal SustainabilityBy Pilar Gerasimo
When we hear the word "sustainability," we tend to think in terms of the environment and natural resources. But sustainability principles are equally relevant to other parts of our lives, including our health, happiness, and collective well-being. For those of us seeking a more satisfying an sustainable way of life, nature's lessons about what works — and what doesn't — can help point the way.


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Along the way, we make friends all over the place. One such friend is TerriAnn, who used to be a vet tech at the Animal Wellness Center where our hounds go for their health care needs. Everyone there is a pal – Doc Scott Sanderson, his manager Ani, and the rest of the team. They were amazing when we lost Lochrima, and have helped out with foster dogs since.
We were delighted to find out that TerriAnn was vegan! She brought her delicious Carrot Salad to share at one of our parties. Everyone loved it so much, we asked for the recipe. Now, we're passing it along to you.
The flavor depth of this simple salad will surprise you! There's no actual dressing, but it's so bright and refreshing, it doesn't need to be weighed down by even one more ingredient. The contrast of the sharp lime with the naturally sweet carrots and coconut are perfectly balanced. Not a fan of cilantro? Use parsley instead.
TerriAnn's Carrot Salad
6 carrots, grated
1/2 cup coconut flakes, unsweetened
1/4 cup currants
2 Tbs. sesame seeds
1 tsp. ground coriander
juice and zest of one lime
fresh cilantro, chopped, to taste (we add about 1/2 cup)
salt and pepper, to taste (optional)
Grate carrots into a bowl. Add all other ingredients and toss. Serve cold, adding more or less lime juice as needed to dress the salad.
This recipe is vegan and gluten-free. Feeds two to six, depending on portion size.
And we want to add – thanks TerriAnn, Doc, Ani and the rest of the crew at Animal Wellness Center. We have known you for more than a decade and you all have ALWAYS given our dogs the love and care you would give your own. 🙂


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This has been a truly special holiday, if not the best we have ever had. What a stunner New Zealand is. Yes, it was very cold here and there, but having NZ more or less to ourselves was worth the travel in winter. We have travelled 2600km around the South Island and could have easily continued for more NZ!
This is our route travelling in a Campervan: Christchurch – Lake Tekapo – Lake Pukaki – Queenstown – Lake Te Anau – Milford Sound – Queenstown – Wanaka – Hokitika – Punakaiki – Abel Tasman – Kaikoura – Christchurch
These were the highlights:
Lake Tekapo – simply stunning with its turquoise colour. Don't miss to visit the Astro Cafe with amazing views and lots of snow depending on the season.
Lake Pukaki – just as pretty as the Tekapo Lake and fresh Salmon is a must from the Cook Alpine Salmon Farm.
Queenstown – the place to be. Especially, when you are an adrenalin junky ;). We enjoyed an amazing Heli flight over the Mount Aspiring national park with a Glacier landing. Of course one member of our family had to do a couple of bungy jumps at The Ledge and Kawarau, finding the Kawarau more spectacular. Otherwise Queenstown is very pretty, relaxed and has very good food to offer. No matter, if brekkie or dinner! Our highlight was eating at the Stratosfare with amazing views over Queenstown combined with some Luge rides for the boys.
Lake TeAnau – stopped here for a night on the way to Milford Sound. So peaceful and remote. Even though the lake hasn't got the turquoise color, it is still amazing and lies there beautiful in silence.
Milford Sound – all worth the trip. We were very lucky with bright blue skies, but I am thinking it might be even more spectacular with some clouds hanging around Mitre Peak.
Lake Wanaka – what can I say, I surely fell in love with the lakes of New Zealand. Find that little tree on the lake and wait for sunset. What a photo opportunity. This might be the most photographed tree in this world ;).
Also visit the Puzzling World, it is great fun for every age.
Hokitika and Hokitika Gorge – loved this little silent, little town (it becomes very busy in summer) and the Gorge ist a must with its r0pe bridge and the amazing water colour.
Punakaiki / Pancake Rocks – What a natural spectacle!
Able Tasman – we only walked 5km into the park, but that part of the track was already pretty enough to give us a good impression of how pretty it must be to walk the 12km track or take a water taxi (unfortunately they only travel limited times in winter).
Kaikoura – just before Kaikoura make sure you spot the seal colony. An amazing amount of seals posed for us to take some pictures. Then head onto the Ohau stream walk to find the seal pup nursery. Surely one of our highlights seeing these little, gorgeous creatures having fun under the waterfall.
Personally my biggest highlight was our swim with the wild dusky dolphins. Being surrounded by roughly 200 playful dolphins is hard to top. Freezing water temperatures didn't stop us all to jump in with them for a personal encounter. Unfortunately no footage, as I was too seasick to take any pictures :(.
Christchurch – this town is still on the mend. 5 years after the awful earthquake Queenstown faced, the town is still a massive construction site. The people seem to hang in there and look on the positive site. Have a good walk around the city and discover the numerous, colourful street art. Make sure to visit the Re:START mall, a little mall made out of shipment containers. Very unique, very cool, very good food stalls, very good coffee. I was very sad to hear, that this is not going to remain and will be replaced by the usual staff.
This was a little bit of New Zealand for you. We loved every bit of it!


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Pioneering Natural Health
Susan Weiss, CEO and founder of Ark Naturals Products for Pets, discusses the company's two decades of innovating the pet health category.
Pet Business: Last year, Ark Naturals celebrated its 20th anniversary as a pioneer in the natural pet health, remedy and lifestyle products. How has this segment of the pet care business evolved during the past two decades?
Susan Weiss: In 1996, this category did not exist. The first show we did was the APPMA Show (now called Global Pet Expo). I remember standing in an aisle and talking to no one for three days. Following that show, we did the H.H. Backer Show, again standing in the aisle and talking to no one. We would stand in the middle of the aisle and try to woo retailers in. It went that way for the first few years. I will never forget the retailer who said to me, "No one wants natural. I tried it and threw the products away."
Today, a pet store cannot even think about opening its doors without natural products. So, we've gone from "no one wants natural" to retailers claiming they only do natural. But it took at least 15 years for that to happen.
PB: National Pet Dental Health Month is coming up in February. As a company that offers a comprehensive lineup of oral care products for pets, what advice would you give to retailers for making the most of this annual event?
Weiss: One of the biggest mistakes retailers make is in merchandising. They need to move products around, featuring different categories in the most visible place in the store—especially when it's National Pet Dental Health Month.
PB: Ark Naturals is well known for developing products to address common issues within the aging pet population. From your perspective, how important is it for retailers to cater to senior pets? How can they do so effectively?
Weiss: We have concrete evidence that pets are living longer, and that's not an accident. Pet owners are really paying attention. Food companies are producing better foods. More and more pet people are limiting vaccinations.
Growing older is not the end of the line, but there are issues that have to be addressed, regardless of whether you are a two-legged mammal or a four-legged mammal. I always considered my company as a group of innovators. We think outside the box. We see the changing demographics and realize how important it is to address senior issues. But again, there is a learning curve. Retailers have to learn about these aging pets and their needs and merchandise, merchandise, merchandise.
PB: What are some of the newest and most exciting products from Ark Naturals? What are some of the key features of these products?
Weiss: I'm so proud of our Gray Muzzle Brushless Toothpaste. We've taken the best ingredients and created a brushless product that meets the needs of senior pets. It's softer, so it works well with pets that have missing teeth, sore gums, etc. It contains limited ingredients, and it works.
PB: What does the future hold for Ark Naturals, as well as for natural pet health, remedy and lifestyle products in general?
Weiss: Our category will become more mainstream. Other people will enter the category and think they can make a quick buck. Discount stores will try to sell dental products that are cheaper and just as effective, but that is not happening.
Despite those obstacles, our goal will always be to maintain the integrity of our brand, our formulas and our relationships with our retailers and pet parents.


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Baseball America released their position-by-position rankings of minor league prospects and thirteen Pittsburgh Pirates players made the cut. Right-handed pitchers and outfielders, as well as catchers, are all spots that are well-represented with Pirates prospects.
Jameson Taillon was tops among Pirates right-handed pitchers, coming in at tenth place. Showing how deep the minors are in RHP, Tyler Glasnow was ranked 20th overall. Nick Kingham was ranked 27th. This list was by far the biggest, going down to 65 spots, allowing Luis Heredia to make the list as the 56th best righty.
For catchers, Reese McGuire was ranked as the seventh best prospect, while Tony Sanchez was 13th and Wyatt Mathisen came in at 24th place. Jin-De Jhang doesn't rank far behind Mathisen(one spot on our list), but he wasn't listed in the top twenty-five.
The outfielders were split up into corner outfielders and center fielders. On the center field list, Gregory Polanco ranked second behind Byron Buxton, the top prospect in baseball. Austin Meadows came in at eighth and Barrett Barnes barely made the list, grabbing the 30th and final spot.
As for corner outfielders, Josh Bell and Harold Ramirez finished #11 and #12 respectively. This list went to 40 spots and no other Pirates were on it.
For shortstops, Alen Hanson was the eight best overall and only Pirates player on the list.
The Pirates failed to place any in the top relievers list, which only went to ten. They also didn't have any top left-handed pitchers, a list which went to thirty spots. Our top twenty prospect list has Joely Rodriguez, Blake Taylor and Cody Dickson in the 15-17 spots, so it isn't a completely bare position in the system.
There was also no one at third base, first base or second base, obvious areas of weakness in another otherwise deep system.


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Connie Flachs is a professional ballet dancer. She began her ballet training at the age of thirteen after an injury forced her to take a break from competitive gymnastics. The bulk of her training occurred at the Massachusetts Academy of Ballet under her parents Rose Marie Wurzer and Charles Flachs. Connie received an honorable mention in the 2010 Young Arts competition, won the Grand Prix Award at the 2011 regional Youth American Grand Prix competition and was chosen to perform in the last round of the New York City finals. She performed on live television for the 2012 ArtPrize Finale. She has returned to perform as a guest artist with the Massachusetts Academy of Ballet and the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and has also danced in Seattle and St. Louis. Her participation in high school musicals, theater, community choirs, and voice training has helped her develop a passion for all performing arts. She has previously choreographed Act Too Studio Opera Workshop's productions of Goblin Market and The Medium.


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South's Greatest Moms of 2016 Winners
Jessica Quito
As a mama of two adorable little girls, Jessica Quito has her hands full, but she wouldn't have it any other way. Her daughters keep her laughing and dreaming, which is the blessing all children bring us. Jessica has instilled her love of nature in both of her daughters and they hope to take a trip to the Smokey Mountains some time soon. "We would love to road trip to the Smokey Mountains! The girls and I have always wanted to camp out in a cabin, hike trials, cook out in a fire and tell stories. They are huge nature lovers like I am, and we are hoping to make that come true soon."
Emma Cassity
Emma Cassity is the quintessential Southern mama. Her manners are impeccable, her taste is divine, and she raised seven kids: enough said. Her favorite road trip memory with her children was on a special exploration. "I remember taking a family trip with my four oldest children to Mount Rushmore. The road leading up to the monument was not much more than a dirt road. We stopped at a fresh water spring for a drink and my oldest son Wayne had a glass of cold water in the back seat and spilled it down my back, boy was it cold!"
Theresa Kaye
Originally hailing from Maryland, Theresa Kaye raised three Southern daughters, which makes her Southern in our book. Her favorite memories with her girls are the 13 hour roadtrips they used to take to see her family up in Maryland. Being in such close quarters for that long, makes bonding a necessity. Her favorite road trip activity? Singing with her girls. "We had trouble with road trip games. We tended to be better at singing together. So when a good song came on the radio, we would turn it up and sing as loud as we could." Now that her girls are older, Theresa would love to take another road trip to Maryland, for
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With so much new content being produced each day it's becoming harder and harder to know where to turn to advice.
To help you advance your career I selected the only five blogs you'll ever need to read.
You don't have to sort through all the lists that feature 25, 50, or 100.
Who has time for that?
Buffer Blog
Even though Buffer is not a career blog, the articles you read on their site will better your life and in turn help your career. A majority of the posts focus on productivity, life hacks, and of course social media.
Website: http://blog.bufferapp.com/
Follow Buffer on Social Media: Twitter, Facebook
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Before you shy away from they site because of the name I beg you to check it out. Ramit Sethi teaches readers how to live a rich life, which covers earning more money to finding your dream job.
I have yet to come across someone who has more helpful content that actually entertaining to read. He even helped one of my reader get a $5,000 salary bump!
Website: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/
Book: I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Follow Ramit on Social Media: Twitter, Facebook
Life After College
Jenny Blake is one of the smartest people I know. She has been featured in the post Learn The Secret My Grandma Taught Me About How To Send A Memorable Gift.
Life After College is a resource hub for college grads and beyond — quarter-life crisis-ers, mid-career changers and anyone looking for a boost in life – a place where they could come together with others who were making their own transitions.
Websites: http://www.lifeaftercollege.org/blog/ and http://jennyblake.me/
Follow Life After College on Social Media: Twitter
The Daily Muse
The Muse is the only online career resource that offers a behind-the-scenes look at job opportunities with hundreds of companies, original career advice from prominent experts, and access to the best coaches to get personalized and private career help.
Website: http://www.thedailymuse.com/
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Levo arms you with the tools to develop your talent, build connections with peers, mentors, and jobs, and stay inspired day in and day out as you grow and develop. We believe you can create a life you're passionate about.
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Now that you have the only 5 websites you'll ever need to read to advance your career (plus mine of course) it's time to get reading!
Leave a comment below and tell me one career goal you want to accomplish this year.


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Artist - Rosemary Petyarre
Title - Bush Medicine Leaves
Size - 153cm x 200cm
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Price: $4850
About The Artist
Born : 1945 –Utopia Rosemary was one of a group of Anmatyerre women at the forefront of the art movement in the Utopia area. In 1988-89, she commenced painting with acrylic on canvas.
With her traditional upbringing and intricate knowledge of the outback which provided an abundance of wildlife and plant species such as medicine plants and native fauna combined with stories about the land that have been handed down by her elders have contributed to forming the basis of Rosemary's paintings.
In her paintings, the main themes are primarily bush medicines Leaves, Yam Dreaming and Body Painting (Awelye).
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UPA Sync Service Startup issues due to invalid Name of the server
Recently I had worked on couple of an issues where User Profile Synchronization service wasn't getting started. The issue was specific to one server. Even if we create new UPA then also User Profile Synchronization won't get started. ULS logs don't show any exceptions. They only show that the Profile Synchronization Setup Job runs and exits without any error and FIM synchronization service does never get started . After doing some research and testing some scenarios I figured it out that the User Profile Synchronization Service does not start in the following conditions
SharePoint server has been renamed using the Rename-SPServer Power Shell command to another name
The server name is in the form of an IP address (like xx.xx.xx.xx)
There is difference in the NetBIOS name of the server and server name listed in servers in farm on which we are trying to start the User profile synchronization service.
When the Profile Synchronization Setup timer job runs, it checks if it is the local machine by comparing the server name string with Environment.LocalMachine. The Environment.LocalMachine picks up the value from the registry. There is chance when you run command hostname from command prompt and run the below Power shell command you might see a difference also.
[System.Environment]::Machine Name
If the NetBIOS name of the machine and the SharePoint server name do not match, the setup is rejected and the User Profile synchronization service will quit without any errors. It is highly recommended to use the NetBIOS name of the server and avoid using FQDN (or IP address) as the server name while configuring a SharePoint farm.


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ISLAMABAD: An Iranian drone reportedly on a spying mission was shot down by a Pakistan Air Force fighter jet in the country's restive Balochistan province.
Pakistan Air Force (PAF)'s indigenously built JF-17 Thunder fighter was used to destroy the Iranian drone, a security official said.
The Iranian unmanned aircraft was destroyed on June 19 in Panjgur area, Pakistan's Foreign Office (FO) said.
The debris of the drone was found in Parom area of Panjgur district, said the official.
"Pakistan shot down an Iranian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Panjgur sector on the Pakistan-Iran border. The drone was hit by Pakistan Air Force as it was unidentified and was flying at around three-four kms inside Pakistani territory," the FO said in a statement.
"Pakistan has already shared the information about striking down of this drone with the Iranian authorities indicating that the drone was struck down by our security forces as it was unmarked and there was no prior information about its flight," it said.
This was the second Iranian drone to be shot down as in the past, the US had downed an Iranian drone in Syria.
Pakistan shares a 900-kilometre-long border with Iran which in the recent months has expressed concern over militants operating along the Pakistani border.


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Let me tell you something that is a fact, if there is a blonde asian chick around then someone is going to get a blowjob and soon. A few years back this sort of blonde japanese fashion was all the rage. That was back in the Kogal and Ganguro days. Well I think this chick is trying to bring it all back and I am 100% in favour. She looks pretty cool while she ejaculates cocks and puddles cum. Her name is Rina Aina and she is making me nostalgic for the great heydeys of Kogal chic.
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We love Bukkake, and we love anything Japanese as long as it's naked and freaky. And one of the things we love the most are these Zenra sports videos like this. Take 10 hot Kogal style chicks, smooth shave them Paipan style, and then shoot semen on them and it's just bound to be fantastic. These girls are very cute…This video stars: Ai Himeno, minami ebihara, kana shimada, yura nanami, alice kudo and a hot selection of up and coming AV starlets. Not to be missed!
Why are Japanese girls so wild? It's pretty easy to get the impression that Japanese teenage girls are out of control sex maniacs that will do anything for money. This particular movie of Japanese Kogals doing a sex education class makes me wild. These girls are perfect, nubile and wild. The best part is at the last where they are swapping semen and spit. Absolutely a must see Bukkake movie.
So I have to admit that this is not reall a true bukkake post…but this little Tokyo soapland whore is so wicked cute that we just could not pass her up. She's still young enough that the whole whoring and pleasuring strange men thing is still new to her and you can tell it by her big smile. A really cute girl from the guys over at Asiangirlpix.
I've ranted on and on about the oversexed nature of flat chested girls and I think we have a winner here today. This peanut titted Kogal goes buck wild and gets cum drunk while ejaculating some tighty whitey clad bukkake hose guys. There is somehtin wildly erotic about watching these girls go from shyness and apprehension to semen glazed whores as the movie goes on. Wildly sexy…I love it.
So this is not really a true bukkake post, but we thought we would make an exception after taking a look at the expert fellatio skills of Ai Nakatsuka. She is a very enthusiastic little ejaculation machine, and she has one of those lithe little bodies that drive us crazy. This video has a great messy soapland scene as well and we rate it a must see. Thanks to the guys at Asiangirlpix for this one.
Bukkake is a practice that developed in Japan in the late seventies as a response to the increasing gender equality in Japanese society which many men viewed as a threat. It involves several men ejaculating on the face of a woman, ostensibly against her will. Related is the practice of Gokkun, in which the same woman ingests copious amounts of semen. This act is intended to humiliate and degrade the subject as well as provide sexual relase for them men, (and one would imagine foster an atmosphere of high-fiving team bonding.) It is easily adapted to BDSM scenes of humiliation, forced bisexuality, and has connotations of human toilet play as well and could lead to anal rape play. In this pictures series our model has become so sexually stimulated she has defecated.


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www.bieap.gov.in Intermediate 1st year results 2012 and BIEAP 2nd year results 2012 are to be announced for March exams conducted on 3rd to 21st offering BIEAP Intermediate hall ticket 2012. BIEAP time table 2012 was updated for the exam.
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Students get in touch with www.bieap.gov.in to check BIEAP results 2012. Students may check www.bieap.gov.in results along with Bihar TET result.


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GENEVA, March 3, 2011 — UN Watch welcomes the U.N. Human Rights Council's announcement, in response to our urgent appeal, that its current session is canceling the consideration of a council report lavishly praising the Qaddafi regime's human rights record, which was scheduled for March 18, and the report's scheduled adoption by a council resolution in the following week. The U.N. decision was announced today by the US Mission.
However, the Geneva-based human rights group urged the U.N. council to cancel — and not only "postpone" — the fraudulent report, whose main effect, said executive director Hillel Neuer today, "was to bolster Qaddafi's oppressive regime, demoralize his victims, and harm the reputation of the UN. The review should be completely redone, and the truth told about Qaddafi's crimes."
The US announcement of today's decision features below.
March 3, 2011
Statement by Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe
U.S. Representative to the Human Rights Council
On the Postponement of the Human Rights Council's Consideration of the Working Group Report of the Libyan Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
We welcome the decision by the Human Rights Council President in consultation with the Bureau to postpone consideration of the Working Group Report of the Libyan UPR. We hope that the Council completes adoption of the report at such a time when the voices of the Libyan people, and not just the voice of the Qadhafi regime, can be reflected in its final outcome.
Although UPR reports are primarily a record of the proceedings of a UPR review session, they also reflect the responses of the state under review to the many recommendations made during the UPR session. While some countries may have praised Libya's human rights record, other countries, including the United States, were highly critical. It is important to have a meaningful response to such criticisms.
The United States remains appalled by the situation in Libya and demands an immediate halt to the violence perpetrated by the Qadhafi government against its own citizens. We will continue to work with the international community on additional steps to hold the Qadhafi government accountable, provide humanitarian assistance to those in need, and support the Libyan people as they pursue a transition to democracy.


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Paul Knight of Fletcher Building has a clear view of what CIOs are focusing on this year -- looking at any opportunities to reduce cost and streamline processes using IT.It will, however, involve a deep dive into what Knight refers to as "the old chestnut of, how do you align IT and business strategy?"
"It is about staying engaged with the business to ensure you remain relevant. Otherwise, you just become a cost," says Knight. "IT can add value and can save money particularly when the focus is reducing budgets because of the efficiencies it can bring in."
He says the economic climate also provides an opportunity for IT to look at "synergies" that can be delivered through business technology. "When the business is growing rapidly, the focus is on customer and simply moving products through the business as fast as they can possibly move it. The business has become more interested in sharing and collaboration when the pressure is on."
Knight is working on a range of projects that will enable collaboration across the Fletcher Group, which is the number one private organisation in the MIS100 list of top IT user organisations in New Zealand. Collaboration is vital in the context of Fletcher, which he describes as a completely decentralised organisation.
"We are a business made up of smaller businesses," he says, referring to the more than 40 businesses in the six divisions of the group. "Each business can range from $20 million turnover to $1 billion turnover, each of those businesses has its own leadership business teams that include finance and IT.
"The strength of our decentralised structure is that our businesses are competitive, very focused on their customers and cost. They are light on their feet, they are agile they can move quickly," says Knight. "My role is much about facilitating as it is about doing.
"Fletcher uses a range of collaboration tools throughout the entire group. There is a SharePoint site where all the IT managers list the projects they have recently completed or are working on. "We ask people to put up there projects that may be of value to the members of the group, like a CRM or videoconferencing systems," says Knight.
Fletcher has communities of practice (COPs) which draw on staff in New Zealand, Australia, North America and Europe. They are virtual teams and use a combination of SharePoint, videoconferencing, and web cast to share information and tackle group projects.
"It is something we are continuing to do better, as new tools come out so constantly," says Knight.He says that in order for COPs to work well, they need strong governance around them.
"We put a lot of emphasis on COPs for understanding who the players are, where they live, what are their priorities, what are they trying to achieve, how they are going to work together what the outcomes are. We try to understand that before we put an IT system in place to support them.""You can have great technology and if you don't have that common understanding, the technology just doesn't work," he says.
This year, Fletcher Group is moving to telepresence, and this will allow him to meet both New Zealand and Australian IT managers at the same time.The executive team was the first to trial the system, using the Cisco telepresence facilities in Auckland. "We had people online from Melbourne and Cincinnati using their meeting rooms," says Knight. "I have high hopes that will change the ways we communicate with each other."An area he is focusing on is governance.
"We aren't driving a singular IT strategy from New Zealand," explains Knight. "Each business has its own strategy. To support that business strategy, my role is to ensure things are being executed consistently and in line with our policies.
"A lot of what I do is policy setting and ensuring that projects are executed for the right reasons and stand a higher chance of success than they might do otherwise, understand risk and mitigating that risk."
In the area of procurement for example, Fletcher has group-wide deals with vendors and these apply to both local and offshore offices. This enables the company to get a better price from a provider, for instance, through a group rate.Knight meets with the IT managers -- around 20 -- of Fletcher businesses in New Zealand every month. These meetings last from two to three hours. He also meets the offshore IT managers every month, through Skype or by phone. Each of the IT managers report into the leadership team and have a "dotted" line reporting to Knight.
Reaching out to customers
He says customer facing systems will continue to be key themes in the next 12 months and beyond. "How do we use IT to better work with our customers, to better add value to our customers?"Knight says the end users of their products are rarely direct customers. He uses the example of one of Fletcher's products, GIB board.
The company does not sell it to the business or the builders directly but it would like to "reach out" to these end customers so they are aware of the product and its capability. "Our customer is successful when they are able to buy our products fast," says Knight.
He cites their work with a Fletcher company in Australia, Fair Dinkum Sheds. Fletcher has written an app for the distributors which they use to sell Fair Dinkum products. The end customer can look at the options for buying a shed in real time and just press a button to order, and the order goes to Fletcher. "It is one example where we use the technology to help our customers be more successful."
Knight says Fletcher continues to acquire companies, from the corporate office buying a big business such as Crane, to one of their member companies buying another business. "We are very diverse geographically in terms of our markets," he says, which is why the focus on customer facing systems will continue.
Like many CIOs, consumerisation of technology is something that Knight and his team are working through. There are different layers for bring your own technology, he says, but at Fletcher, "the one that is coming out and is most immediate - whether we like it or not - is the strong desire by many of our employees to use their phone of choice".
It could be an iPhone or Android and they want to use it for work. "Gone are the days when phones are so expensive that you just have one and you want it to be provided by work," says Knight.
Save for some roles like sales where the contact between the staff and customer is the telephone number, Knight explains Fletcher is willing to take the staff number and put it in the corporate network.
"When they leave we will remove it from our network and give it back to them.""What is more of a challenge is ensuring we can connect a variety of phones to our network in a way that doesn't threaten our network from a security point of view and is sufficient and cost effective."
"You can configure an Android phone badly and it will burn lots and lots of data just doing nothing, just roaming and downloading GPS information. If you don't configure these things properly they can cost you money."
"That is just phones and we recognise we need to move beyond that," he says. "Should we be allowing people to bring their own laptops, their tablets, their PC of choice in connecting to our system? And if it is a good idea, how do you manage that?" Cloud technology, particularly Salesforce, is also being increasingly used across business units in the group.
"We are increasingly using different forms of cloud technology. It requires different skills, introduces different problems. Simply managing access to your systems is an example. Back in the good old days when you had no cloud technology, if you wanted to have somebody access the system you created an account on the network. These days you have to create an account for your network, and the Salesforce network [system], or whatever. The management of security and access needs to be tackled in a different way.
"Mobility is also impacting the way Fletcher works with customers. For example, builders use their mobile phones and even tablets for business. So they are developing apps where builders can use mobile devices to show customers their different products and finishes. "The consumer can then be excited about the possibilities for the products. It gives our products a fresh and modern look," says Knight.
When Fletcher staff were working with the Earthquake Commission on the remediation work in Christchurch, the EQC developed an app to run on the iPad. When the assessors and their staff went to the site, they carried their iPads and entered the details on these devices.
"Five years ago you would not be able to do that," he says, "so mobility continues to be an area of interest and growth."
Leading the way
On the shifting role of the CIO, he says, it is about working with the business to ensure the business understands the capability of IT, and to work with the business to support the development of their business strategies.He also attends informal get-togethers with his CIO colleagues.
"You have to develop a decent network of other CIOs and other business people not just in your industry. If you are looking at customer intimacy, banks are good at that; the fast food market has been leading the way in supply chain optimisation."
"I am not a believer of IT strategy to be developed in isolation," he says. "IT is very much a part of the business. I don't think we can lead and have the business follow. And I don't think business can lead and IT will follow. They have to work together."
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Adoption Selling
You know the traditional sales model; find the customer need, position your product, take the order, and move on to the next customer! This model is being radically changed. Every day a new web or "Cloud Services" is being created that allows anyone to dip their toe in the water to test the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), solution. The days of large one-time sales and long deployment cycles are quickly diminishing. According to the Technology Services Industry Association's (TSIA) research, buyers are more educated and have already determined what they want to buy before the ever engage a sales person!
This requires a new sales model. Customers are expecting technology vendors to do more than sell products and services, they now must have a stake in helping the customer realize value from their investments. In the case of cloud services, this is quickly becoming a monthly subscription service. The vendor's role is shifting from being a product provider to being a solution provider. This requires on-boarding, pilot groups and integration into key business workflows. Service providers must find a way to continually win the customer's business every month or they will quickly be replaced by a competitor. The role of the solution provider is to embed the solution into the customer's business processes and make it valuable and ultimately "sticky" This is the new sales model that focuses on expanding their footprint by driving successful outcomes for the customer.
The new role emerging is that of the "Adoption Consultant". Their role is to link the customer's desired business goals/outcomes to the software or service offering through the development of business use cases or specific workflows to achieve those outcomes. They create , and help the business users use the technology in pursuit of those business outcomes. Most customers are also assigned a Customer Success Manager (CSM), whose responsibility it is to ensure that the customer is optimizing and is satisfied with the technology over the term of their agreement, in hopes that they renew. Here is what the model looks like:
Many established technology companies that are used to investing before the sale, but minimizing expenses in support of the installation, consider these new roles an expense burden. This way of thinking could lead to a significant missed opportunity.
We suggest you think of your CSM as your next generation account executive. Today, you put your best sales people on your highest value customers. An aggressive hunter or a hungry junior rep may land a new logo, but if there's a gold mine in the account, you turn it over to your best miners to tap it. This same skill should be applied to Customer Success in a regimented, predictable manner. Once a contract is landed, assign the CSM to create a Business Adoption Roadmap that outlines multiple business use cases for your customer to adopt. The initial high value use cases should be easy to deploy and possible with little customer investment, ensuring the customer gets more value out of their initial investment before they need to invest more. With proven adoption metrics, you can justify expanded business use cases that include additional products and services required to achieve the desired business outcomes. This is called Adoption Selling. The model looks like this:
This is the sales methodology of the future. The more business outcomes you create, the more integral to their business you, your company and your solutions are. Your core solutions expand and renew, and your adjacent solutions are more likely to sell. Most importantly, your customer is more likely to achieve their business outcomes using your solutions, ensuring they stay with you for many cycles and refer you to many other customers.
Author: Paul Bernstein


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IBM Announces zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server
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Well it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements!
For nearly 50 years, IBM has been leading the IT industry with its mainframe servers. Today, IBM announced its 12th generation mainframe in its [System z product family], the IBM zEnterprise EC12, or zEC12 for short. I joined IBM in 1986, and my first job was to work on DFHSM for the MVS operating system. The product is now known as DFSMShsm as part of the Data Facility Storage Management System, and the operating systems went through several name changes: MVS/ESA, OS/390, and lately z/OS. I was the lead architect for DFSMS up until 2001. I then switched to be part of the team that brought Linux to the mainframe. Both of these experiences come in handy as I deal with mainframe storage clients at the Tucson Executive Briefing Center.
Let's take a look at some recent developments over the past few years.
If you currently have a z10 or z196, then it can be upgraded to zEC12. The zEC12 can attach to up to four zBX model 003 frames that can run AIX, Microsoft Windows and Linux-x86. If you currently have zBX model 002 frames, these can be upgraded to model 003.
The key enhancements reflect the three key initiatives:
For more on this announcement, check out the [zEnterprise EC12 Announcement Letter].
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Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of Virtualized Storage
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Earlier this week, Jon Erickson from Forrester Reserch, and Chris Saul from IBM, co-presented a webcast on the economic impact of using SAN Volume Controller for storage virtualization. The event was co-sponsored by IBM, InformationWeek, and UBM TechWeb, The Global Leader in Business Technology Media, a Division of UBM LLC. Jon spoke first, covering the cost savings and financial benefits of using SAN Volume Controller in your environment. His analysis shows a payback period of only 18 months!
Chris Saul (IBM) then covered the latest features introduced last June for SAN Volume Controller v6.4 release. Many of these features are available on older hardware models of SAN Volume Controller. One of the most exciting features is Real-time Compression.
If you missed the webcast, you can listen to the [Replay]. There is also a [whitepaper] if you prefer that format.
The Real-time Compression benefits can vary by the type of data compressed. Some data compresses only 20% savings. Other data compresses 80% or more. The best way to find out how much Compression would benefit your environment is to run the [IBM Comprestimator Tool] that runs against your own data!
If you are constantly battling out-of-space conditions, and would like to make extra room on your existing storage devices, your dreams have come true!
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IBM Plans to Acquire Texas Memory Systems
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IBM has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS), a privately held Houston, Texas-based company with about 100 employees, that focuses on solid-state flash optimized systems and solutions, including the RamSan family of external rack-mounted storage, as well as PCIe cards for internal storage that fit inside servers.
I've mentioned Solid-State Drive storage quite a few times over the past few years in this blog, which included some great interactions with my friends over at Texas Memory Systems. Here's a quick look:
Last year, IBM published the results of the [2011 IBM IT Decision Makers Survey]. Some of the key findings:
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Pictures from Taipei
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I am back from lovely Taipei. The IBM Top Gun class went well. Here are a few pictures of things I found interesting while I was there.
On the first day of class, I asked for some coffee. Our lovely class assistant, Ashley, brought me a cup with an interesting paper filter hanging on the edge. I have since learned that there are two drinks never to order in Taiwan: coffee and wine. If you enjoy either, you won't here. Instead, I drank the local "Taiwan Beer" and various types of tea.
Our class was on the 14th floor of the building, and there was this warning sign posted in the elevator. I have no idea what Chinese characters say, but we found the cartoon depictions of elevator dangers amusing. We interpreted the lower left corner to mean "Don't let your evil twin sister push you out of a moving elevator!"
I have to say that the variety of food was excellent. One night, we had dinner at a [Spanish Tapas] restaurant. The Spanish had a settlement on Taiwan island, known as Formosa back then, until driven out by the Dutch in 1642. We also had a traditional Chinese lunch, with dumplings, pickled cabbage, and "Lion's Head" soup.
From the classroom floor, we could see the Taipei 101 building, considered the third [tallest skyscraper in the world]. This wasn't here the last time I was in Taiwan.
On the last day, we were treated to some [Bubble tea], a specialty drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980's. The straw was unusually thick, about twice as thick as a normal straw. We quickly figured out why. It was so that we could slurp up the brown floating things at the bottom. We didn't realize this until after the first sip. These floaties were actually Boba Tapioca pearls. The tea itself was delicious and sweet.
Special thanks to Joe Ebidia for managing the class, his assistant Ashley, and our local support team Justin and Stewart. I would also like to thank the staff at the Sherwood Hotel.
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Next Week - ECTY and Webcasts on Virtualizatoin
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This week, I am in Taipei, teaching Top Gun class. There was concern that another typhoon would hit the island of Taiwan later this week, but it looks like it is now headed for Hong Kong instead.
Elsewhere in the world, there are several events going on next week, so I thought I would bring them to your attention.
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Post submitted by Aaron Rodriguez, former Rapid Response Deputy Press Secretary
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, issued a statement in response to reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is taking credit for directing a Department of Justice lawyer to help prosecute a hate crime case in Iowa.
Sarah Warbelow, HRC Legal Director said:
"One week after Jeff Sessions changed DOJ policy by refusing to protect transgender people under Title VII and launched a sweeping license to discriminate against LGBTQ people, he's seeking credit for prosecuting a hate crime? We believe Americans deserve an Attorney General willing to address systemic discrimination and enforce policies and laws that prevent hate violence in the first place."
One week ago, at the direction of Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) rescinded a memo issued by the Obama Administration and replaced it with a discriminatory memo arguing that anti-discrimination protections under Title VII do not apply to transgender people. DOJ instructed all U.S. attorneys to adopt this dangerous position in all pending and future matters. The very next day, Sessions launched a sweeping "license to discriminate" that puts millions of LGBTQ Americans at risk of discrimination.
A preliminary analysis of the Trump-Pence administration's license to discriminate indicates that LGBTQ people and women will be at risk in some of the following ways:
- A Social Security Administration employee could refuse to accept or process spousal or survivor benefits paperwork for a surviving same-sex spouse.
- A federal contractor could refuse to provide services to LGBTQ people, including in emergencies, without risk of losing federal contracts.
- Organizations that had previously been prohibited from requiring all of their employees from following the tenets of the organization's faith could now possibly discriminate against LGBTQ people in the provision of benefits and overall employment status.
- Agencies receiving federal funding, and even their individual staff members, could refuse to provide services to LGBTQ children in crisis, or to place adoptive or foster children with a same-sex couple or transgender couple simply because of who they are.


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Social Policy Responses to
Manage Changing Welfare Needs
Welfare needs in East Asia are changing. Also the rapid social change and diversity in a growing transborder East Asia are casting challenges, and discussion on the future policy orientation is gaining its attention not only within East Asian countries but also globally. Fast changing economies and societies in East Asia present rather complicated features as the experiences may be quite different from other countries in the world in terms of their speed, cultural aspects and complexity. In managing these challenges, governments are developing social policies and the East Asian welfare states are going through some restructuring. This includes not only problems in conventional social policy areas such as unemployment, inequality and poverty, family breakdown, and aging society, but also, possibly, new wave of transformation of society. >>more
About EASP
The East Asian Social Policy (EASP) research network was established in January 2005 to facilitate research exchange and co-operation among East Asian social policy analysts and to provide a forum and network of communication for the development of East Asian social policy analysis as a field of research.
The Network welcomes a multi-disciplinary approach to the analysis of East Asian social policies. It is open to people from a range of disciplines, including social policy, sociology, political science, and economics.