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tis 29 sep 2015
When we came back from Bangkok I was afraid I would have to buy new wheels for the stroller.
One of our strollers is a twin Airbuggy stroller, Japanese designed but made in Taiwan. It has a very sturdy aluminum frame, and pneumatic tyres. Which is why I needed help. I was not going to complain about the frequent punctures (it is still beyond me why they do not use foam tyres).
But this time, the wheels were not working right. They were not rolling smoothly, the stroller kept bumping and cringing. So I went to the Airbuggy store.
The store person looked at, me, looked at the kids, and looked at the stroller. I described the problem in my halting Japanese.
"Left wheel, is it? Well, let's see." And she took the wheel off (the Airbuggy has wheels that are very easy to remove).
"Oh, you need to center the tire on the wheel. See this circle? It should fit into the rim of the hub. Let me fix it for you."
And she emptied the air out of the wheel, centered it, and pumped it again.
"Let me check the other wheel. Oh, you have the same problem there. Let me fix that."
And she emptied the wheel, centered the tire, and pumped it up again.
"But you have mixed up the right and left! See these arrows? They are supposed to sort of roll forward. We need to put this wheel to the right, and this one to the left."
And she put the wheels back in their right places.
"Do you want me to pump the front wheels for you?"
I thanked her politely as she added air to the wheels. As we rolled out the door (much more smoothly), she said:
"Do the brakes work OK? Allright? Well, drive carefully and safely and have a nice day! Thank you so much for patronizing our humble establishment!"
This is actually the kind of service you usually expect in Japanese stores. The tyres are getting smooth, so it may be time for another store visit soon. For once, I actually look forward to go shopping.
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Better Call Saul S01E04 – "Hero"
Four episodes in and yes, Better Call Saul is a damn fine TV show. Already it is clear that the twists and turns are just going to keep coming and escalating and the story of the rise of Saul Goodman is merely beginning. Bob Odenkirk is absolutely nailing it right now too, going above and beyond his previous portrayal of the character and he hasn't even hit the highest highs of absurdity yet.
Like that other show before it, BCS has a huge emphasis on cinematography in each episode. The team behind the scenes well and truly outdid themselves this week, between the opening flashback in a dingy alley, the epic visuals of Jimmy growing into his new suit and billboard or that incredible bit of lunacy as Chuck experienced the morning sun of Albuquerque. The look of the show is a huge battle to win these days, score one to BCS.
As for plot, this week we've finally managed to hit the point where the wheels start moving for Jimmy. Not without consequences of course – it's unlikely that's the last we've seen of Nacho and a strong enemy has been made with Jimmy's billboard stunt. Not to mention what shenanigans Chuck may produce after sneaking a copy of the Albuquerque Journal. The ball is rolling on this one, God only knows what next week is going to bring.
Better Call Saul is available Tuesdays at 7am on Netflix
The Walking Dead S05E11 – "The Distance"
Many changes are clicking into place as TWD reaches another milestone that has comic readers giddy with excitement at seeing crucial junctures realised and TV only fans are sitting in eager anticipation of what is to come. Much like the build up to the prison story arc, exciting times are afoot as a shift in dynamic is coming over the next few episodes. Good or bad I'll never tell but stay tuned is all.
Balance was key this week as we got one of the most evenly structured hours in the context of dialogue versus action. Aaron brought with him some interesting conversations with Rick seemingly the only one of the group overly cautious while the rest are happy to believe him after having some small proofs confirmed. Rick has reason to be the most cautious in a lot of ways – as leader of the group he sees every death as being on him and of course he has two children to look out for. Michonne is a great opponent for him in these arguments – she has come from the worst to a far more stable way of being and nearly resembles Rick had he kept the moral compass he began this series with. They're finally managing to juggle the talky bits, yay!
As for the action well, holy hell. Grand Theft Zombie was something else and once again we had a Hero Zombie Kill with the flair to the head. It may seem gratuitous and it stands out a little but in order to keep all of the millions of viewers the eye candy must prevail. One final note, social media seemingly exploded as a result of the same sex kiss in this week's episode. Sweet Jesus, grow up. For starters this series already has a conformed homosexual character (Tara) and I mean come on – blood, guts, decapitation, murder, attempted rape, child death and more; is a simple kiss between two men really going to spark controversy. Cop on people.
The Walking Dead airs Mondays at 9pm on FOX

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The Soft Moon - Total Decay
San Francisco ensemble The Soft Moon are a welcome, adverse reaction to the accepted norm. In proferring such a diverse and all-encompassing yet challenging range of styles and sounds, they could quite easily have emerged at any given point between 1978 and the present day. »
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We returned home last night from a super fun extended family vacation. I am in the process of doing lots of laundry, uploading hundreds of photos and getting resettled as we prepare for school to start next week...it is so bittersweet to say goodbye to summer but I am so excited for the fall too.
I will be back soon with some photos from our trip but I just wanted to pop in and say hello, hope you are having a great week so far!
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Wow! Stunning photo. Can't wait to see the rest of your trip pictures.ReplyDelete
Hey hey! I know that bridge -- in fact I live about 10 minutes south of that lovely bridge/state park. :DReplyDelete
Looks absolutely beautiful where you vacationed!! Can't wait to see more pics! Blessings, HeatherReplyDelete
I am in the complete same boat! We just got home from 5 days of camping and it looks like a bomb went off in the house! It's going to be a crazy week!! :)ReplyDelete
A farewell to summer vaca sounds delish. I think this year we'll be camping in our back yard. ;) Enjoy the last days of summer, chica.ReplyDelete
Ahhh, Deception Pass right? Stunning photo. I love it there. We plan to drive up there this weekend...we live pretty close. We might be just a little crazy what with the holiday weekend. But its worth it for one last hurrah before school starts next week!ReplyDelete
i cannot wait to see your photos from our time together with family!! your eye--along with that fabulous camera/lens--captured some amazing and beautiful shots! (for the record, that lens totally spoiled me...how am i to be content with what i've been shooting with when i know that THAT LENS is out there??!) :)ReplyDelete
i am looking forward to fall, too--embracing the changing of the seasons right now... i think our family vacation is always a bit of a marker to me of the end of summer. and now: school next week, and all of the special traditions of the autumn season to get excited about... i love that we share so many traditions marking the rhythms of the seasons together! xo


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5 Classic Filipino games to teach your kids
MANILA, Philippines – Here's an easy pop quiz: can you still recall the chant that goes with a game of tagu-taguan, or Pinoy hide-and-seek?
Tagu-taguan maliwanag ang buwan
Wala sa likod, wala sa harap
Pagbilang ng sampu, nakatago na kayo,
Isa, dalawa, tatlo, apat, lima, anim, pito,
Walo, siyam, sampu!
Next question: does your own child know this chant?
These days, safety and time constraints limit our kids' options for active play. Because of that, studies have shown that our kids today may not be getting enough exercise – and it's usually linked to our own inactive lifestyles as adults. (Read: All work, no play: How your lifestyle may affect your kid's health)
Your child is missing out on a lot of fun if he or she can't play these Pinoy games with you or with other kids. These classic games allow you to bond with your child, get a workout, and teach them about a few Filipino traditions. Not to mention it's a great way to keep your kids active and healthy!
It won't be long before your kid is all "grown up." Spend time with them as often as you can. You can play these fun games with your child, right in your own backyard or even inside the house. Need a reviewer? Brush up on taguan, piko, and patintero rules below. – Rappler.com
What you need:
- 6-10 players
- Chalk
How to play:
- On the street, start by drawing a grid of 2-4 lines on the ground divided by a long line in the middle.
- Divide the players into two teams. Pick a rep to determine sides.
- Flip a coin or use scissors, paper, rock to determine who's "It" or "Taya."
- The "It" team takes their positions in the grid. As line guards, they are only allowed to run within the horizontal lines. Player 1, or the "Patoto," can traverse the vertical line as well.
- All players from other team will run through the "It team" without being tagged.
- If anyone gets tagged by the It team, the runners lose the round.
- The team who successfully crosses the grid without being tagged wins.
What you need:
- 4-8 players
- A soft, firm surface such as grass or a gym mat
How to play:
- Divide the players into two teams. Flip a coin to determine the "It" team.
- Two players from the It team will start the "base" by sitting across each other on the ground, with their right feet touching (see diagram).
- The other team assigns a "mother" (leader). All the players must jump over the base without touching it.
- Every round, the It team adds an outstretched hand on top of the base. Their other teammates can also increase the height of the base.
- If a player fails to jump without touching the base, the "mother" can save the player. If the "mother" fails, the team loses the round and the teams switch sides.
What you need:
- 3 players or more
- A wide indoor or outdoor area with hiding spots
How to play:
- The round starts with "maiba taya" (a quick show of hands, palms facing up or down). Odd one out is "Taya," or It.
- The Taya chooses a corner or post as the base, faces it, closes his or her eyes, and counts to ten. Everyone runs to find a hiding spot.
- After the count, the Taya will try to find all the players. After all the players are found, everyone needs to run back to the base.
- The next "Taya" can be the first person found, or the last person to reach the base.
What you need:
- 5-10 players
- A handkerchief
How to play:
- Play "maiba taya" (see above). The Taya gets blindfolded.
- The other players scatter and choose a spot as the Taya turns in his/her place 3 times.
- The blindfolded Taya tries to catch one of the other players. They provide clues to the Taya by making animal sounds, or saying the Taya's name repeatedly. They may also keep silent and give clues by touching or tickling the Taya.
- The caught player becomes the Taya in the next round.
What you need:
- 2-8 players
- Chalk
- "Pamato" pieces for each player (these can be flat pebbles or buttons)
How to play:
- Draw a grid on the street or garage like the one above (this is just one version.
- Each player chooses a pamato. The sequence of players can be determined by "maiba taya" or "Jack en Poy" (one round of scissors, paper, rock).
- Each player throws his/her pamato into the grid. Each player should hop through the grid, one food per square, without landing on a line, on the square with the pamato, or without falling down. After reaching the last grid, the player makes his/her way back in the same manner, picking up the pamato.
- Everyone who succeeds in the first round proceeds to the next rounds. Each round can be made more challenging by a player assigning a "house" among the squares that other players can't hop in, or each player skipping through the grid while looking up at the sky.
- The winner of the game is the last one standing.
CHUCKIE believes that the happiest childhood comes from the bond that is strengthened when parent and child play together. Head over to Facebook.com/Chuckie.ph for fun games and play ideas you can try with your Buddy today! #AlwaysABuddy


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As a corollary to yesterday's outing we should always remember the relationship
whenever we deal with any of the tales emanating from 1930-1955. If one is reading a rip roaring tale of gold hunting in Batavia, Golden Lilly, then always look for the uranium connections. If one is reading about OSS covert ops into Czech territory looking for Kammlerstab IP, Paperclip, then make sure to look for, non obvious, gold related threads to the story. Swilling in the background, all unnoticed like, will be Mercury.
Other things to look for are a swift death at the hands of the Allies in swing courts of inconvenient truthers. Mysterious multiple deaths of doubles and triples in the final months of smart lads. Weird connections to Holocaust propaganda. Weapons of mass destruction and human experimentation. Royalty.
This concoction of narratives is designed to keep one from looking too closely at what was really going on at the Meta historical level. In fractal history everything is camo. However no matter how hard the geezers in the BIG room try they cannot stop their own rivalries seeping through into our everyday banality.
Two weird timelines can illustrate these seemingly unrelated threads.
*Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文 Yamashita Tomoyuki?, November 8, 1885 – February 23, 1946) was an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British possessions of Malaya and Singapore.
*The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking was one of the elite Panzer divisions of the thirty eight Waffen SS divisions. It was recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. During the course of World War II, the division progressed from a motorised infantry formation to a Panzer division and served on the Eastern Front during World War II. It surrendered in May 1945 to the advancing American forces in Austria.
Both of these wiki refs then go on to give a brief description of their life spans until the end.
So let us apply the concoctions of history to their lives in the great genocidal operation after a cursory summary.
1 Operating in Kwantung.
2 Then the good general suddenly achieved a great victory over a UKplc force that was at the highest level to be sacrificed in the Brisbane line strategy to exhaust USofA corp. over two decades. The thing about western children is that they do not understand that real wars last centuries nothing is ever "home for Christmas" in the real world.
3 He then gets banished to Manchukuo.
4 Then back to Philippines.
5 Then dead.
SS 5, which is Dutch, gets formed after the SS conzentrationslager taint of other SS units can stick to it. In four years it travels farther and fights longer and harder than any other unit, Heer included.
1 Briefly it is 1941-Rostov.
2 1942-Caucasus.
3 1943-Ukraine. Then destruction in KP Kassel 1944.
4 Rebuilt and operates with SS 3 delaying/blocking Soviet advance into Poland east of Warsaw 1944.
5 Spends 1945 operating again mainly with SS 3 on the approaches to the Reichsprotektorate (Redoubt?).
Let us now translate into full concoctese.
General. 1 Gold. 2 Gold. 3 Uranium. 4 Mercury. 5 War Crimes.
SS 5. 1 War Crimes. 2 Gold. 3. War Crimes. 4 Uranium. 5 Uranium.
Looking at this in the millennial war planner's kaleidoscope Ukraine/Philippines and Manchukuo should be viewed as Hannibal/Hasdrubal viewed the Iberian Peninsula. A kind of extra jurisdictional fire base.
And retranslate into what we can now make sense of.
General. 1 Imperial gold looting via mercenary treasure teams, Unit 731. 2 Imperial gold looting via Royal Household. 3. Unit 731, Unit 516. 4. U Boat cargoes, Gold, Mercury, Uranium, triggers. 5. Navy Manila massacre war crime. Royal technology/treasure/evacuation burial. Silenced to keep the (Japanese/UK/Dutch) Royals out of the lime light.
SS 5. Liquidation of CHEKA murder army and CHEKAjews. 2. Kwantung flights and (Royal Dutch) Oilfields. 3 Waging unprovoked war under Nuremberg war Crimes definitions. 4 Shielding Blizna. 5. Shielding Reichsprotektorate and Lower Silesia and strategic evacuation plans. Kept on ice for deployment against Soviets. Dispersed to the four winds, some even turning up in Dien Bien Phu.
Oooh look what falls out of all that bollox.
Royal Houses.
Just in case you didn't get that let me do an Alex Jones on you. The biggest load of false dining napkins on the planet, Bilderberg, actually was a serious organisation when it began, 60 years ago now. Royal Dutch SS Prince Bernard kicked it of to coordinate recycling the strategically evacuated loot of Europe.
So by the time Big Jim and Foghorn Leghorn got invited to skulk around their under growth, like flashers in a public park, it was simply an orgy of hidden cameras. Did BJ or FL ever stop the human trafficking into the hermetically sealed hotels then?
I chose SS 5 because it is the first of the SS units to display the private use not national use of Waffen SS forces. As a good business student will realise the national and Waffen SS strategy was aligned in 1942. As the war progressed it became less so and blatently disengaged by 1944/45. Indeed I have highlighted "Papa's" little faux pas at Kharkov with SS 1 Corps as an indication that we have a deep schism hidden already. By the time SS 1 gets taken to Italy during Zitadel we have a new business model arising and at that point the allies business plan is in deep shit.
So more relationships can be added to our little list.
Royal Houses=Gold=Uranium=Oil=EnergyBank=Publishing House
Credit Score=Mao's Little Red Book=COMINTERN=Catechism=Previous behaviour is surest indicator of future performance=Slavery.


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Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910F gets Android 5.0.1 Lollipop
Cyrus, 5 years ago 0 1 min read 351
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 seems to be the next in line to get Android 5.0 Lollipop. The 3.4GB update brings with it a whole new minimalistic TouchWiz layout, with all of Lollipop's goodness which makes the already blazing Note 4 even faster. The messaging, contacts, music, file manager and settings app get an overhaul with light colors that looks really nice on Note 4's Quad HD Super AMOLED display.
The model in these pictures is the SM-N910F (European) variant:
You can always wait for the OTA update to come, but if you cannot wait like me. Then you can always head over to Sammobile and manually flash it! This is a quick preview of how the update looks. We'll post more details if we find something new. Happy flashing! 🙂


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Too cold to sketchPosted: January 30, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 38 Comments
It was probably a little too chilly for sketching from the car studio today: -10°C with an even colder wind chill meant that I had to turn on the car heater quite often to warm myself up and dry the washes on my paper. But… the light was wonderful on Lakeshore Road and since we haven't had that many sunny days of late, I sketched away, even if it meant having frozen feet. The yellow wall on the side of the Canadiana-style building had a wonderful shadow on it and that made me forget the discomfort for a bit.
Musical chairsPosted: January 27, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 12 Comments
I was back at school today, drawing in the cafeteria during a break. If you sit there for a while you notice two things — and this is not a new observation because I have mentioned this before— students leave their winters coats on indoors and they are always on their phones. I drew the girl with the fur collar first and when she got up, she was replaced by an almost identical figure in a fur-collared jacket, also on his phone.
I used a V-Sign Pen from Pilot for these drawings. It's got a fatter nib than pens I usually use, but it's great for quick drawings because the ink flows quickly, especially if you use smooth stock like this Stillman & Birn Zeta paper. It's also really black! And a bonus for quick studies like this: it uses water-soluble ink so a quick once-over with a water brush will give you some good grey tones.
I haven't had time to answer comments from my last post yet, but I wanted to thank everyone who sent me a note. I was completely bowled over by all of the truly wonderful wishes you sent my way.
Same bouquet, different dayPosted: January 25, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 170 Comments
Last Wednesday I painted this same bouquet, but a lot has happened since. I don't usually include personal stuff on this blog but today is special. It wouldn't feel right if I wrote about technique or materials or colour today. Instead, I am dedicating this post to my mom who passed away last Friday, just four short months after my dad.
My mom was an amazing woman — a trailblazer in education and a mentor to many (including me). She broke the glass ceiling many times in her career and in doing so, taught me that there was nothing I couldn't reach for. A true believer in lifelong learning, she took up art later in life and when she gave up painting because of illness, I inherited her brushes, paints, paper and books. I still use a lot of those materials today. She was always the first person to encourage me to paint, to exhibit my work and to enter shows. In her own strong, humorous, gentle, loving, intelligent way, she set the bar very high and the world will just not be the same place without her.
Flat brush floralPosted: January 18, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 27 Comments
I don't know about you but sometimes it takes me several starts to get the result that I want. With florals my aim is to keep the watercolour loose and fresh, not overworked or nitpicky. Today's first try — painted with a small round brush — looked like that, so I decided to give it another go. I grabbed a fresh sheet of paper and for my second attempt I picked up a big, flat 1 1/2″ brush. There's no mistaking what the shapes will be with a brush that wide. You can't work on details. And since flowers of the same colour seem to look better when you paint them all as one big mass, the big brush helped me get a better start. Thinking carefully about edges, I painted a big yellow shape and then did the same with the red, and from there it was easier to work in the details like the leaves and the stems (the flat brush is ideal for painting stems, btw!). Painted on Arches CP paper, 10″ x 10″.
Frozen lakePosted: January 16, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 28 Comments
I was driving around in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, looking for a good view to sketch with a little bit of distance in it, and remembered this spot where I can see frozen lake, barns and the highway in the distance. As the days warm up this week, I've noticed that the winter colours have softened. It's funny how colours end up on the page when you are painting. I had no colour scheme in mind, and I didn't set out to paint in pastels but that is just what the day is like and somehow that softness made its way to my paper. Painted on Arches Rough paper, 14″ x 10″.
Lovric's boatyardPosted: January 14, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 38 Comments
A few years ago I did a preparatory sketch for a bigger painting of a scene at Lovric's boatyard in Anacortes, Washington. Reading my post about that sketch again today, I saw that I hoped to do a bigger painting soon. Well, it's almost two years later, but nobody's counting, right? Here's the original sketch I did in watercolour, and what intrigued me then about the scene (the end of day light) was still what I was trying to capture this week.
For this larger painting (16″ x 20″) I decided to try it in oils. It was a real learning experience for me, once again, with this new medium. Since this is only my third full oil painting, there are still many things that I am experimenting with for the first time. For example, the rigging and thinner lines are more difficult in oil. You have to wait for the layers underneath to dry before you add more lines on top. That is never something that I worry about in watercolour. Also, there were areas that I wasn't happy with in the painting, so I scraped them out with a knife (first time for that too) and repainted them until I was satisfied with the colour. And then there's the process of photographing the work! I tried a studio shot using the lights and technique I usually use for watercolours, but the shiny oil paint creates a lot of glare. After a few tries, I ended up going outside with the painting, putting it on my cold stone walkway and taking a photo of it in natural light. The colour is not quite right but at least the glare is gone.
Next week: back to school which means more quick sketches and few paintings. Sigh.
WoodpilePosted: January 9, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 45 Comments
Here's a painting I experimented with a bit, both in format and with paper stock. Last week I was driving towards Hudson on the road that runs along the lake. It was such a brutally cold day — made worse by the frigid squalls blowing across the field — that I couldn't have painted in my car. In fact, it was almost too cold to step outside to take a reference photo, but I did it anyway.
When I got back to my studio I thawed out my hands, and then I painted the scene on the remaining half sheet (15″ x 22″) of Schut Noblesse paper that I had. This is a paper that I find a bit too smooth (you can read out it here) but thought it might work for the snow shadows in this scene. When the painting was done, I found it a bit flat and decided to try it again.
For the second try I used a full sheet (22″ x 30″) of Arches rough paper, which is not something I use very often, but I was hoping to get more texture and granulation than on the previous version. When the painting was done I stood back to have a look and realized just how much blue I had used, which I guess conveys well how cold I felt standing out on that road with the wind whipping around me as I looked at the scene.


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A SWOT and PESTEL analysis of IKEA
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The company chosen for analysing is IKEA, a leading home furnishing retailer in world wide. The creation of better life for several people every day is the vision of the company. In UK there are 18 stores of IKEA and through its website it has online shopping and ordering. IKEA has retorted to the society's mounting concern to sustainability. To make the business practise strong it believes in strong eco-friendly stance. Being the company in world business it has to overcome more barriers and face more competition.
SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis is done in order to identify the strength, weakness, opportunities and threats for the strategic assessment of the company. The assessments carry a vital data of reliability. This is the assessment technique of the internal, external, negative and positive situation assessment. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are to be identified by the company in order to make the necessary changes the organisation need in order to improve its performance. Businesses need to produce occasions and pledge threats by exploiting their powers (strengths) and handling weaknesses.
Strengths are characteristics of a trade that add worth to its products or amenities. The strengths of IKEA are
A strong international brand. IKEA has gained an international brand through its quality and service.
Vision with clear aim.
Strong perception.
Design which suits the democratic balance of quality, purpose, plan and price. The performance of IKEA is measured by a special tool of key performance indicators (KPI). This measurement shows how far IKEA is been progressing in the direction of its vision.
The strength IKEA possess throughout the process of production are as follows
As an eco-friendly manner it has made its hand in increasing the materials of renewable resources.
They are minimising the waste of the raw materials by smarter use way.
The relation with them and the supplier are of long-term.
They have their economy to the scale.
The following are the opportunities of IKEA by using its strengths. Here the customer demand plays a key role for their strength. They are
Increase of demand for the eco-friendly products which do not harm the customers, company and the environment as whole.
As IKEA provides with the low price it makes an evergreen demand for their products.
The utilisation of less water while producing the products and reduction of the carbon footprint has increased demand for their products.
Beyond their products IKEA too provides the following.
Tips and ideas are provided through online for the solution of the home life.
The non-waste use of the resources with the aim of nil landfill waste and water reduction.
The cost of cutting down the transportation and packing the goods.
It supports for the charity which helps to develop social obligation platforms in communities.
The recognition of the potential drawbacks is required for the improvement and managing them. They are
Control of the standards may become difficult due to the scale and the size of their business throughout the global.
The maintenances of the quality should be done for the low-cost.
As they have a large scale of business the communication to their stakeholders and the consumers of the company regarding its environmental activities will be difficult.
The company should also be conciseness about the possible external threats. This issue has to be managed in order to overcome the weakness and threats and to create a possible positive environment.
Social trends are keep on changing for example there are few consumers who buy products for once in their life for house.
As more competitors offer the same products there comes the market force. The competitor for IKEA in UK is B&Q.
The economic factor. The economic situation of the people is not same throughout the world. Throughout the world it changes. So IKEA has to monitor the economic condition of a country carefully before entering into the market and after entering.
IKEA can be evaluated by the use of porter's five force value as follows
The customers of IKEA are from both household and office background. There are customers who buy furniture for life being. So the threat of minimising the business is possible. The low prices will surely pull people of all economy.
As IKEA is global brand it has to depend on the suppliers all over the world. As soon as IKEA implicates its base charge for a product, IKEA then pursue to steady of economical labour with the firm's quality goods standards. In the same manner it does with 1,800 suppliers around 50 countries. In various occasions, IKEA parties its idea among supplier rings and inspires them to participate for the manufacture package. In some situation in order to meet the basic price, from many suppliers IKEA gets one design with pieces.
Existing Competitors
In every country there are more authentic furniture stores. Beyond this there are stores of modern furniture as IKEA do. But the condition of offering low price furniture with good quality is only possible from IKEA. So the possibility of the customers who looks for modern furniture with designed future and with fewer prices will be surely attracted to IKEA.
Potential competitors-barrier during entry
The duplication of the idea of IKEA is not possible. Because a company can duplicate the entire product IKEA has but the duplication of the work on the furniture cannot be duplicated in more accurate and prescribed manner. It is even easy to duplicate the atmosphere of IKEA but it becomes hard to duplicate each and every idea of IKEA.
Indirect competitors or the substitutes
Many low-cost local suppliers are in UK and in every part of the world where IKEA has setup its branches. In UK for example Argos which sells IKEA's product as well as the product of Argos which seems to be cheaper for certain goods. This is major substitutes for IKEA. IKEA as the retailer do only specific retailing for home goods but all other do general retailer activity.
IKEA is a successful global brand. In order to make its business successful IKEA should look into both its internal and external environmental situation. These will analysis its threats and opportunities. When we look into IKEA they demonstrate how they are keen about the people and eco-friendly environment. IKEA as overall combines the factor of design, cost effective and environmental friendly uses of the resources. It considers the sustainable factor all together for customers, earth and the business.
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I had no intention of doing the following when I awoke, nor had it been on my mind in the days prior to doing it – so why, then, did I do it?
(This is all rhetorical, by the way…)
What I went on to do that day was to drive to a church in Heptonstall, not the easiest place in the world to find, to visit Sylvia Plath's grave.
I rarely get the urge to visit the graves of people I know, let alone those of others I do not.
However, churchyards and graves hold fond memories of childhood for me, oddly.
I did not speak any words at the grave.
My hands brushed the lavender to release its scent.
The rose bush caught my eye as something that needed pruning.
The pen that someone had thrust into the soil atop of the grave annoyed me.
The solitary horse chestnut placed on top of the head stone also annoyed me.
I stayed for no longer than five minutes at the grave – it seemed inappropriate, somehow.
The day was warm and sunny – not the depressing rain and cold associated with churchyards.
And then, after those five minutes of standing around, wondering what to do, I drove back home by a different route to the one I had arrived by.
So, why?
What's that about?
And why the urge to write about it?
Where does this stuff come from?


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Putting a price on natural capital – in other words, assigning a dollar cost to environmental impacts – provides a business context for the analysis.
Not surprisingly, the embedded environmental costs are significant and represent real financial risks and strategic opportunities for companies. Our research found the direct and supply chain environmental costs of S&P 500 retail companies totalled almost $22 billion. That is a lot, but the costs of the food and beverage companies are more than three times higher at $69 billion. For food and beverage companies the key impacts were water use ($38 million), land and water pollutants ($12m), greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ($10m) and other air pollutants ($8m). For retailers, the most significant impact was also water use ($8m), followed by GHG emissions ($7m).
How are companies paying for their environmental costs?
Droughts and pollution hot spots are causing food and beverage and retail companies to internalize upstream environmental costs. During the 2012 U.S. drought, water shortages and high temperatures destroyed field crops, driving up corn and soybean costs. This has led to increases in prices for other food supplies such as animal feed. Knock-on effects continue to ripple throughout supply chains and the impact on food prices such as meats, dairy and eggs is expected to be felt into 2013 as companies pass on higher input costs to consumers.
Regulatory frameworks that place a price on carbon emissions are also evolving in regions including California and nine Northeastern U.S. states, parts of Canada, Australia, South Africa, China, South Korea and Europe. Companies with carbon intensive suppliers in these regions are at risk from pass-through carbon costs leading to lower margins.
How well are companies measuring these environmental costs?
To get a snapshot of how well companies are managing their environmental performance, we assessed the disclosure of impacts resulting directly from companies' direct operations.
We found the food and beverage sector discloses 41 percent of its direct impacts on the environment — over double that of the retail sector, which discloses 20 percent.
Water is the most material environmental cost for both sectors, but disclosure was worryingly low, particularly given that our demand for the resource is already outstripping supply in some regions.
For retailers, water dependency tends to be embedded in the supply chain; the direct environmental cost being mostly negligible.
However, direct water disclosure is a key challenge for the food and beverage sector, which discloses just 24 percent of its direct water use.
The top 10 disclosers
Both sectors disclose best on GHGs, perhaps reflecting the availability of an international reporting standard (GHG Protocol), as well as awareness of the potential materiality of GHGs for food and beverage and retail companies.
Food and beverage companies have made the most progress, disclosing 73 percent of their GHG emissions, compared to 58 percent in retail.
The food and beverage sector is also making significant progress in disclosing waste and land and water pollutants, with disclosure of 58 percent and 47 percent of these impacts.
Retailers are also making progress in disclosing 43 percent of the total air pollution impacts.
To celebrate the success of companies leading the way in disclosing their direct environmental impacts, we reveal the top 10 disclosers in each sector:
Top 10 S&P 500 disclosers of direct environmental impacts in the retail sector
|Percent cost of direct environmental impacts disclosed
|1 – tie
|Target Corp.
|1 – tie
|JC Penny Co. Inc.
|Kohl's Corp
|Whole Foods Market
|Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
|Safeway Inc.
|Kroger Co.
|Staples Inc.
|Best Buy Co. Inc.
|Home Depot Inc.
Top 10 S&P 500 disclosers of direct environmental impacts in the food and beverage sector
|percent cost of direct environmental impacts disclosed
|Molson Coors Brewing Co.
|2 – tie
|Coca-Cola Co.
|2 – tie
|Coca-Cola Enterprises
|4 – tie
|Hormel Foods Corp.
|4 – tie
|ConAgra Foods Inc.
|4 – tie
|PepsiCo Inc.
|7 – tie
|Campbell Soup Co.
|7 – tie
|H.J. Heinz Co.
|7 – tie
|Monsanto Co.
|General Mills Inc.
How does this compare to disclosure of supply chain impacts?
Not surprisingly, the majority of the environmental costs of food and beverage and retail companies are found within their supply chains. To assess progress in understanding these risks, we compared the disclosure of direct emissions to supply chain emissions for GHGs, the most disclosed direct environmental impact for both sectors.
We found an acute difference. The average retail company discloses 4 percent of its supply chain GHG impacts, dropping to just 2 percent in the food and beverage sector.
While only a handful of companies currently report supply chain impacts, many are gearing up to do so. The Carbon Disclosure Project and Newsweek Green Rankings have both revealed sharp increases in supply chain reporting. In order to meaningfully report these impacts, companies first need a systematic way to identify and capture material issues at each supply chain tier since impacts are often concealed in the raw materials and processing stages.
The GHG Protocol's Corporate Value Chain Accounting and Reporting Standard, published in October 2011, provides much-needed guidance and recommends companies start by modeling impacts to identify focus areas for efficient primary data collection from suppliers. This type of supply chain "hot spot analysis" has been used by companies like Sprint, PUMA, BSkyB and the Formula One Teams Association.
What are the implications for food and beverage companies and retailers?
Food and beverage and retail companies that take the lead in understanding and managing supply chain resource dependency and environmental impacts will benefit from reduced risk from input costs — and just as importantly, opportunities to evaluate and lock in strategic suppliers Companies that assign a value to environmental impacts will be able to communicate with CFOs, CEOs, and investors about their performance in a business context.
Valuation of environmental impacts also provides a common metric to integrate environmental considerations into traditional financial metrics, helping companies identify trade-offs, select more environmentally efficient suppliers and optimize supply chains and products in line with natural resource availability and environmental cost. Measuring and valuing natural capital will lead to early mover advantage — because what is valued is managed.
Trucost provides data, insight and tools to help businesses to integrate nature into everyday decision making; to optimise operations, supply chains and products in line with global resource availability and natural capital constraints.
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What I Wore: Fall Preview | Leopard and Booties
I've been praying for all those affected by Irma, and Harvey too. The devastation is so horrific it is hard to even comprehend. We are getting some leftover rain in Kentucky from Irma, so it finally feels like fall weather is here with cooler temperatures. So today I'm finally wearing one of the fall outfits … [Read more…]


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The 340B program — or 340B drug pricing program — refers to a federal public health law that requires certain pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell their drugs at a discount to specific health providers that have a proven record of serving low-income populations, including hospitals, community health centers, and others. By offering some relief from the high cost of pharmaceuticals, 340B discounts play a critical role in allowing these safety net providers to maintain and expand critical health services in their communities.
Attorney Maureen Testoni is a national expert on all aspects of the 340B program, having spent almost 7 years at 340B Health, the national trade association representing 340B hospitals. Maureen most recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel at 340B Health, where she oversaw the Legal, Policy, and Government Affairs Division, which worked to influence law and policy regarding the 340B program. She regularly counseled health systems regarding 340B implementation, compliance, audits and appeals, as well as federal policy guidance. She is also a frequent speaker at national conferences on topics relating to the 340B program and the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program.
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Government dependency is a funny thing. It seems like it would be something that people, especially Americans, would want to avoid; and for a large part of our nation's history, it was avoided. We decided that hard work, perseverance, and self-reliance were the keys to success and happy lives. It doesn't take a genius to realize that this is just simply no longer the case. The amount of Americans that depend on the government for various methods of "help" is higher than it has ever been before. Although there are a number of different reasons behind this change in mindset, I believe Dinesh D'Souza indirectly pointed one of them out in his most recent book, Godforsaken.
In this book, Dinesh writes about suffering. He explains that throughout his experiences debating leading atheists, such as the late Christopher Hitchens, he realized that a major reason for the lack of faith among these people is their unwillingness to accept that an all-powerful and benevolent God could allow suffering. This is not an atheist-only problem, however. Dinesh explains how the problem of suffering is very controversial topic among Christians.
At the very beginning of the book, Dinesh explains the difference in perception of suffering in different parts of the world. In many third world countries, suffering is seen as an inevitable part of daily life, and as a result, the sufferers become closer to God for the consolation he offers. Rather than blaming God for their suffering, they ask Him for comfort. The West is very different, however. Dinesh writes:
"Outside the West, many people are habituated to suffering. That's because they think it is inevitable. We don't, and that's a sign of progress. We have in our cultures greatly reduced suffering, and this means that we are very intolerant of what suffering still remains. In America and Europe, we have become almost pathologically averse to suffering. Unlike our ancestors, and people in the developing world, we regard suffering as having no legitimate place in the universe. Utopia, for us, is worth striving for."
Indeed this must be a sign of progress. We have advanced so much as a society that true suffering (i.e. hunger, homelessness) is no longer seen as the only option in our lives. Rather than viewing a day without any meals as an unfortunate occurrence and turning to God for comfort and hope, we view our three daily meals as basic and understood. We have them because we have them.
There is nothing wrong with success and prosperity and no one (or nation) should ever apologize for accomplishments. However, those born into a nation of such prosperity in which true suffering is a tragedy rather than a recurring event must be careful.
Careful of what? Liberals, of course! Conservatives see this type of prosperity as positive. We see that minimal suffering was not simply granted to us at birth, but earned by our predecessors through character traits of hard work and determination that have been passed down to us. We realize that it is our responsibility and our duty to work harder than the previous generation so that the next generation will be subjected to even less suffering than us. We acknowledge that our success relies on this hard work, and without it, our success would vanish.
The liberal view is actually somewhat similar. Liberals see that we, as a society, are increasingly separating from suffering and resultantly try to find ways that will continue to lessen suffering for the next generation. However, rather than attempting to do this through our previously stated conservative ideals, liberals want to accomplish this through the perversion of the definition of suffering.
Because of the lack of exposure to it, liberals define suffering as any simple inconvenience rather than true distress. Suffering is anything negative that occurs, even if it is a result of poor choices or an unfortunate occurrence that is not any one person's fault. So what happens when they attempt to liberate the future generations from their idea of suffering? The welfare state becomes reality in America. The distress of hard work is replaced with laziness and unemployment benefits that eliminate the incentive to work. The tyranny of self-reliance is replaced with government dependency. The torture of freedom is replaced with the helping hand of the government.
One only needs to look at the Occupy shenanigans (I refuse to call it a movement) for proof of this liberal flaw. The Occupiers would hang around in whatever city they happened to be in, holding signs that advocated for the death of capitalism and the rise of socialism. Not a surprise. These are the exact liberals that I have been describing. They have finally realized that they must work for money — that being dependent on the government is not necessarily a good thing, and that yes, other people may actually be more successful than you. Damn did that piss them off.
"I mean, come on! This is 2012, isn't it? Shouldn't such hardships as these been abolished by now?" the Occupiers think. Having never been exposed to any true suffering, any type of hardship or work is now a tragedy. For these people, even the slightest possibility of failure is, once again, considered to be suffering. Capitalism is then seen as the enemy, for it allows people to try and fail. The only way to abolish this remaining suffering is to implement policies that will inhibit anyone from having to deal with the suffering of honest failure. Socialism.
It's amazing the difference in ideas between the conservative way and the liberal way as to how to prolong our minimally suffering society. Conservatives think hard work. Liberals think less work. Thank God we're conservatives.
When we let liberals change the perception of our very own principles, bad things happen. They took religion and morality and construed it to the public as the evil Republican trying to impose his beliefs on others. They took our desire to keep our hard earned money and called it greed. They took our love of equal opportunity and hatred of equal outcome and called in unjust. They took our love of our country and called it selfish. When we let liberals mark our beliefs as something they are not, we are letting them win. We cannot let liberals label ideals like hard work and determination, the very foundation of our great country, as suffering. If we do, I can assure you that they will cease to exist, just as religion, morality, and patriotism already have under the liberal monster.
Daniel Pellegrino | Franklin and Marshall College | @DannPellegrino


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CHICAGO—Health Partnership is planning two acquisitions in the fitness industry in a two-month time span. In December, the company announced its plan to acquire Capital Partners For Health and Fitness, a chain with nine locations in the Raleigh, NC area. This month, the company announced plans to purchase Beyond Fitness, a company that provides personal training services to 55 health clubs.
Edward Sampson, the founder and CEO of Beyond Fitness and founder and CEO of the fitness center chain operated by Capital Partners, will serve as the CEO of Health Partnership's fitness center division. He said after his company explored several growth options, including going public, Beyond Fitness decided to become a part of Health Partnership. The closure of the transaction is based on several factors including the completion of audits and approval by the board of directors.


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Episode Air Date: May 4, 2017
Artist: Narrator Roscoe Lee Browne, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, Sir Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, ensemble cast, London Symphony Orchestra
Recording Title: The Story of Star Wars
You're listening to the Story of Star Wars, a 20th Century Fox LP from 1977 and…
You're on the Sound Beat.
Ah, the Force. A supernatural power that binds all entities throughout the universe. George Lucas would borrow the idea from many cultures: chi in traditional Chinese culture, mana in Hawaiian; in Hindu culture it's "prana" the word translating directly as "life force". And with the possible exception of light sabers, it's just about the coolest part of the whole Star Wars universe.
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My favourite Martin and Lewis film is Artists and Models. This very funny, wacky Tashlin film is one of the definitive colour films of the 50s-and clearly a strong influence on Jerry Lewis's imaginative and expressive colour schemes in his own films, most notably in The Ladies' Man and The Nutty Professor.
Tashlin had an illustrious prior incarnation as one of the Warner Brothers' best cartoonists and all of his feature films reveal these origins and first love, none more so than his several collaborations with Lewis and most explicitly this one. Its very subject matter betrays a cartoonist's worldview: the publisher's office is dominated by an enormous image of The Bat Lady; Eugene Fullstack (Jerry Lewis) appears on stage in costume as a field-mouse and could have strayed out of Disney; his Vinnie the Vulture nightmares are parodies of DC comics characters and situations.
Artists and Models contains many excruciatingly funny set-pieces that extend the kinds of gag structures common in the Looney Tunes cartoons. Among the most effective are: the opening sequence with Lewis' comic-books being sucked into a giant mouth on an advertising billboard and blown out of this orifice into the street, followed by tins of paint being clumsily knocked several storeys down onto hapless passers-by; a sequence where Martin and Lewis push suits of armour down the staircase of the imposing mansion headquarters of a spy ring, causing them to take on a life of their own; the business with Lewis' imagined steaks which suddenly materialise as a half-asleep Martin rolls over in disbelief; Lewis' first meeting with comic-book publisher Eddie Mayehoff with each distorted to the other through a water-cooler; and especially,an extended, grotesque love duet (Inamorata!) between Lewis and Shirley MacLaine on the staircase where their limbs go in opposing directions and their lack of connection mocks the lyrics.
Among the film's many targets is violence in comic books with Lewis demonstrating in an embarrassingly bad television interview to what extremities such material may take an avid aficionado (the blood-curdling screams that provide the sound effects in Lewis' Vinnie narratives and George Winslow's reaction to The Bat Lady -"She stinks. No blood. I like blood"- are symptomatic of the film's overall tone).
There's also strong comic support from Eddie Mayehoff, toting a steady stream of voluptuous women half his age ("this is my cousin") and delivering lines that put the dramatic emphases in all the wrong places. Finally, there's a quartet of extremely attractive female leads-Dorothy Malone, Shirley MacLaine as the boys' romantic interests, Eva Gabor as a sexy femme fatale spy, and Anita Ekberg in a lively cameo. They are all appropriately decorative in a cartoon-like way and MacLaine and Malone especially have a ball with their opportunities.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential race (all times EDT):
4:30 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is thanking her "longtime friend" Debbie Wasserman Schultz after the Florida congresswoman's decision to step down as chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Clinton says that Wasserman Schultz will serve as honorary chair of her campaign's 50-state program to help elect Democrats around the country.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee says she looks forward to campaigning with Wasserman Schultz in Florida "and helping her re-election bid."
Clinton responded after Wasserman Schultz agreed to step down as chair at the end of this week's Democratic National Convention.
The move came after the publication last week of some 19,000 hacked emails, some of which suggested the DNC was favoring Clinton during the primary season.
4:20 p.m.
President Barack Obama says he is "grateful" for Debbie Wasserman Schultz's leadership at the Democratic National Committee. Obama says in a statement that the Florida congresswoman has "had my back," particularly during his 2012 re-election campaign. He says she played a critical role in supporting the nation's economic recovery and his effort to overhaul the nation's health care system. He adds that no one works harder for their constituents.
Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she will resign as party chairwoman at the end of this week's Democratic convention. The four-day convention kicks off Monday in Philadelphia.
3:55 p.m.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she is stepping down as Democratic Party chairwoman at the end of this week's convention.
The Florida congresswoman has been under fire following the publication of hacked emails suggesting the Democratic National Committee favored Hillary Clinton in the presidential primaries.
That prompted runner-up Bernie Sanders to call Sunday for Wasserman Schultz's immediate resignation.
In a statement, Wasserman Schultz says she still plans to fulfill her duties formally opening and closing the convention in Philadelphia. She also says she will speak at the four-day gathering.
3:05 p.m.
On the eve of the Democratic convention, party officials are holding discussions about whether Debbie Wasserman Schultz should resign as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
That's according to a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The Sunday afternoon discussions come one day before Democrats open their convention in Philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential candidate.
The discussions were prompted in part by the publication last week of some 19,000 hacked emails, some of which suggested the DNC was favoring Clinton during the primary season.
The revelations prompted runner-up Bernie Sanders to call for Wasserman Schultz's resignation Sunday.
Sanders was critical of the Florida congresswoman throughout the primary, accusing the party of rigging the process in favor of Clinton.
2:32 p.m.
Barney Frank, co-chair of the rules committee at the Democratic National Convention, says it was never expected that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz would preside over convention proceedings this week.
Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is under fire after the leak of embarrassing emails that indicate some high-ranking party officials favored Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders to become the nominee. The DNC voted to select Rep. Marcia Fudge to oversee the convention proceedings instead.
Frank says Fudge was on the list to be convention chair "long before" the emails were leaked. He notes that heads of the Democratic National Committee are never picked to oversee convention proceedings.
2:00 p.m.
Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio says she is "happy to serve" as chair of the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia.
Fudge issued a statement Sunday thanking Hillary Clinton for recommending her to the position. Fudge said she is looking forward to a "great convention and our ongoing efforts as we work together for a strong party and a successful election."
Still in question is what role Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will play during the convention. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says she should step down after some 19,000 DNC emails were leaked that suggested committee officials favored Hillary Clinton during the party's primary.
1:25 p.m.
Michael Bloomberg, who was elected mayor of New York City as a Republican, will speak at the Democratic National Convention to endorse Hillary Clinton for president.
Spokesman Marc LaVorgna says Bloomberg will make the endorsement speech Wednesday night.
The billionaire media mogul opted against running as a third-party candidate for fear it might siphon away votes from Clinton and help elect Republican Donald Trump.
Bloomberg has been sharply critical of Trump, and in particular of his fellow New Yorker's inflammatory rhetoric on immigration.
Bloomberg had previously been a Democrat before switching his party affiliation to Republican before his successful 2001 run for mayor. Bloomberg, who served three terms, later became an independent and a leading advocate for gun control.
His endorsement was first reported Sunday by The New York Times.
12:56 p.m.
The Democratic National Committee's rules panel has decided that Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio will preside over convention sessions beginning Monday.
A DNC rules committee member says she was voted as convention chairwoman as part of standard procedures. That makes clear that DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not act in that capacity; under party rules, the DNC head acts as temporary chair until a new one is voted in.
Still in question is what role Wasserman Schultz might play during this week's Democratic convention. Many supporters of Bernie Sanders are angry after some 19,000 emails from the DNC were leaked that suggested committee officials favored Hillary Clinton during the party's primary.
The DNC rules committee member spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of internal party affairs.
12:55 p.m.
Hillary Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine are planning a bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio after the Democratic National Convention.
Economic issues are the focus, with the Democratic ticket set to stop in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and Youngstown and Columbus in Ohio.
They'll appear at public rallies and smaller events.
12:10 p.m.
Hillary Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine say they won't come up with an epithet for Donald Trump akin to his use of "Crooked Hillary."
In a joint interview with Kaine, Clinton told "60 Minutes Sunday" that she won't engage in "that kind of insult-fest" and that she prefers to talk about Trump's record.
Kaine, who was announced as Clinton's running mate this weekend ahead of the Democratic National Convention, said using terms like "Crooked Hillary" was beneath "the kind of dialogue we should have." He added: "Most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade."
11:45 a.m.
A California delegate says there are serious discussions underway to challenge Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine as her running mate.
Norman Solomon, a delegate who supports Bernie Sanders, says there is talk among Sanders' delegates of walking out during Kaine's acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest.
Solomon said he believes a "vast majority" of Sanders delegates support these kinds of protests to express their dismay. Sanders' supporters say they are concerned that Kaine is not progressive enough.
11:15 a.m.
Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, were back at their longtime church in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, a day after the Virginia senator made his campaign debut with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as her running mate.
Kaine — a former choir member at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church — sang a solo during Communion.
His wife spoke briefly at the end of the service, telling parishioners how important they've been in their lives.
She said "you have helped shape us" and that she and her husband "will really need your prayers."
Kaine told reporters outside the church: "We needed some prayers today and we got some prayers, and we got some support and it really feels good."
St. Elizabeth's is a majority black church in Richmond's Highland Park area.
10:15 a.m.
Bernie Sanders says he wishes Hillary Clinton had picked someone like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for her running mate instead of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.
Sanders tells NBC's "Meet the Press," that Kaine is a "very, very smart guy" and a "very nice guy" but wouldn't have been his vice presidential choice.
Sanders — who describes himself as a democratic socialist — says Kaine is more conservative than he is.
Warren is known for her fiery edges, particularly when going after Wall Street and big banks, and is a favorite of the party's liberal base.
9:35 a.m.
Bernie Sanders wants the head of the Democratic National Committee to step down — after leaked emails suggested the party played favorites during the presidential primary.
Here's what Sanders tells ABC's "This Week": "I'm not shocked, but I am disappointed."
Emails posted to the website Wikileaks show that at least some DNC officials were looking at ways to undercut Sanders' campaign, including questioning his religious beliefs.
Sanders says the party chairwoman, Rep., Debbie Wasserman Schultz, should resign immediately.
The Vermont senator says a new leader is needed to focus the DNC on defeating Donald Trump, attracting young voters and improving the economy.
9:30 a.m.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager accuses Russia of leaking emails on purpose from the Democratic National Committee to help Republican Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Wikileaks has posted emails that including several denunciations of Clinton's primary rival, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters.
Robby Mook says on CNN's 'State of the Union" that experts are telling the campaign "Russian state actors" broke into the DNC's emails, and that other experts say these Russians are now selectively releasing the emails.
He says it's no coincidence the emails are coming out on the eve of the party's nominating convention in Philadelphia.
9 a.m.
President Barack Obama says Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. might not come to the defense of NATO allies is another sign of what he calls Trump's "lack of preparedness" on foreign policy.
Obama tells CBS' "Face the Nation" that Trump's comments amount to an admission that the U.S. "might not abide" by NATO's "most central tenet."
NATO members promise that an attack against any of them is considered an assault against all.
8:50 a.m.
It's become a bit easier for Hillary Clinton to formally claim the nomination at the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
The Democratic National Committee has released a slightly trimmed list of superdelegates — those are the party officials who can back any candidate.
There are now 4,763 total delegates, and 712 of them are superdelegates.
Two superdelegates left their positions in the last month, while Rep. Mark Takai of Hawaii died from cancer.
It now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination.
Heading into the convention, Clinton now has 2,814, when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. Sanders has 1,893.
More than 50 remain uncommitted.


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Meet Anne Roderique-Jones, a badass babe who ditched the office life to become a freelancer. She travels the world (almost) year-round and writes for some of the most fabulous publications in the world like Vogue & Marie Claire. #LivingTheDream
Tell us a bit more about yourself,
I'm a just-three-year New Orleanian, having moved here from New York City where I worked in magazines. I went to school in San Francisco, so I'm fully living out the whole Tennessee Williams quote. Today, I'm a freelance journalist residing in the Irish Channel and cover everything from fitness to travel to features on important topics for women. I travel for both work and fun, often with my husband. A few favorites: Southeast Asia, Saba, Tunisia, and Cuba. While in New Orleans, which I do consider the most interesting city in the world, I love trying new restaurants and bars, but fully appreciate the classics, which is done so well in this city. There's nothing greater than sitting on the porch at The Columns or having a drink at The French 75 Bar. And I love a Friday lunch more than just about anything. A close second is a total dive. I like that, too.
How did you make the jump from working full time to becoming a freelancer?
I was on staff for 5 years at The Knot magazine in NYC, and shortly after leaving, I made the jump to freelance. I took a full-time job working for Dr. Oz's beauty website and, in the evening, I dove into specialized writing classes and worked on freelance projects. Once I felt confident enough to support myself on a freelance-only income, I left the office life.
You seem to be living any millennial's dream life, are there any downsides to not having an office job? Do you have any advice for young professionals looking into freelancing full time?
What I miss most about the office job is being surrounded by smart, encouraging women. I made some of my best friends at a magazine, and it's fantastic to have that kind of daily support system. I also miss the office snacks.
But working for yourself is worth it. My advice for those looking to transition into freelancing is to work your tail off post-day job, make contacts, and always, always be genuinely nice. You never know if your intern will one day be an editor that you pitch.
What's the biggest lesson you've learned working as a freelancer?
To set boundaries. Because I work for myself, I could easily write or edit until midnight or fill the weekends with freelance projects. I've learned to set realistic hours (for me that's starting super early) and enjoy the flexibility. Also, don't turn the television on during the day—Ellen is a hilarious time suck.
What's your favorite article you've ever written?
I love the Saints and football, so I wrote this story during the Ray Rice debacle. Also, this feature was so interesting to write because I had the chance to interview a lot of really intelligent and honest women about what it's like to be bullied by other moms.
How do you decide on where you're taking your next trip?
My husband and I have a list of places we want to visit and use it as a loose guide to where we book our next trip; it's always flexible and there are few places I'd not want to go. Also, my work sends me on assignments; sometimes I might be the weird solo traveler with a bunch of honeymooning couples or I may be interviewing potters in Mississippi (that's this weekend).
What's your favorite city in the whole world?
Luang Prabang in Laos. It's like a marriage of Southeast Asia and super-chic France.
What's your favorite hotel in the whole world?
For the U.S., it would be Twin Farms, a luxury property set upon 300 acres in Vermont with just 20 totally unique rooms. For international it would be The Oberoi Udaivilas in Udaipur, India. The property is set on a lake, accessible only by a small boat, and boasts private pools, terrific dining, and a great spa. It's a hotel geek's dream.
What's your favorite restaurant in New Orleans?
If I had to choose one that encompasses everything I love about this city, it's Commander's Palace. Not only is chef Tory McPhail's food out-of-this-world good, but the party-like atmosphere and gorgeous garden room make you feel like you're nowhere else in the world—or certainly don't want to be anywhere else. I live in the Irish Channel, so I can walk there, take a long lunch or boozy brunch, and then stroll the cemetery or Garden District post-meal. There's nothing more New Orleans than that kind of day. If I get to choose runner-ups, I'd pick dinner at Clancy's, a Friday lunch at Galatoires, and a burger at The Avenue Pub.
One thing you can't live without?
My husband—he's my favorite person to travel with in the world. For something less personal/cheesy, it's a pair of sneakers. I like to run, and it's one of the best (and free!) ways to see a city that I'm visiting.
One last piece of advice for anyone who's New Year's resolution is to travel more?
I'd say to get a credit card that gives you loads of sign-up miles, allows you to accumulate multiple points for purchases, and then pay it off each month. I use mine for everything and rarely pay for plane tickets.
Check out more of Anne's adventures on her Instagram!
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I was approached by Emily about publishing my this article on my blog. As a new mom I found it interesting and though my readers might too 🙂
The ability to adjust and have versatility, as well as the ability to communicate articulately in a variety of ways with the widest possible audience, are two keys to doing well in a tilted economic system. This includes bilingual ability as well as the ability to communicate in non-verbal ways for the benefit of the disabled – primarily the deaf.
That being said, a growing shortage of qualified interpreters fluent in Sign Language has led to more career opportunities – and if current trends continue, it's likely that skilled SL interpreters will have little problem securing lucrative employment in a society where such a commodity is destined to be in short supply.
Signing Before They Can Speak
A great deal of research has clearly demonstrated that the early years – ages 2 to five – are the best time to educate children in different modes of communication and language. This goes beyond the spoken word (though it is an optimal time for children to learn a second language); many young children have an aptitude for signing as well. This can be taught at home or some child care programs incorporate it into their curriculum.
As you may know, many indigenous peoples around the world, including American Indian nations, have used sign language for centuries to facilitate communication with other tribes with whom they do not share a language. Some paleontologists and anthropologists theorize that Neanderthals – who apparently lacked the vocal mechanism to produce many spoken words – depended a great deal upon hand gestures to communicate.
Recent research actually suggests that sign language is innate. Boulder Daily Camera published an article in 2003, presenting strong evidence that babies as young as six months old communicate with their hands:
"…by 6 to 7 months, babies can remember a sign. At eight months, children
can begin to imitate gestures and sign single words. By 24 months, children
can sign compound words and full sentences. They say sign language reduces
frustration in young children by giving them a means to express themselves
before they know how to talk." (Glarion, 2003)
Additionally cited, a study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It demonstrates that young children who are taught sign language at an early age actually develop better verbal skills as they get older. The ability to sign has also helped parents in communicating with autistic children; one parent reports that "using sign language allowed her to communicate with her [autistic] son and minimized his frustration…[he now] has an advanced vocabulary and excels in math, spelling and music" (Glarion, 2003).
The Best Time To Start
Not only does early childhood education in signing give pre-verbal youngsters a way to communicate, it can also strengthen the parent-child bond – in addition to giving children a solid foundation for learning a skill that will serve them well in the future. The evidence suggests that the best time to start learning SL is before a child can even walk – and the implications for facilitating the parent-child relationship are amazing.
Co-written by Emily Patterson and Kathleen Thomas
Emily and Kathleen are Communications Coordinators for the network of Texas child care facilities belonging to the AdvancED® accredited family of Primrose child care schools. Primrose Schools are located in 16 states throughout the U.S. and are dedicated to delivering progressive, early childhood, Balanced Learning® curriculum throughout their preschools.


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SYLENCER Signs With dPulse Recordings/Ovrtone Music Group
SYLENCER (formerly ASYLUM), the Illinois-based project featuring Markus Johansson (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Johnny Rox (bass), has inked a deal with dPulse Recordings/Ovrtone Music Group, Inc. for the release of its as-yet-untitled debut album (formerly "A Lethal Dose Of Truth"). Due in early summer, the CD features vocal production by Christian Olde Wolbers (ARKAEA, FEAR FACTORY) and mixing by Orlando Villasenor. The effort was mastered by Maor Applebaum (HALFORD, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN).
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* Larry Tarnowski (ICED EARTH) – Lead Guitar
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|About the programme
Language: Danish (See language requirements) | Place of study: Aarhus | Commencement: August / September and January / February
This programme is only offered in Danish.
In social science, you study politics in a broad sense – the structure of society, the political system and how citizens, organisations and political leaders work together and influence each other.
A Master's degree programme with social science as the main subject leads to an MSc (Social Science) degree.
The main subject in social science can be combined with a subsidiary subject such as mathematics, physical education and sport, languages, history, pictorial art, business administration or the study of religion.
The department emphasises that the teachers in the Master's degree programme must be permanent academic staff and the teaching of a high academic standard based on current research.
Students with a completed Bachelor's degree in social science and the first part of a subsidiary subject qualify for admission to the Master's degree programme with social science as the main subject.
Another option is a special single-subject line of the Master's degree programme, in which you can enrol if you have completed a Bachelor's degree and the first part of the subsidiary subject in social science.
A Master's degree programme (120 ECTS credits) with social science as the main subject consists of:
The politology seminars are subject to a requirement for diversification to ensure that the following three main areas are covered:
The single-subject line includes the second part of the subsidiary subject in social science instead.
The single-subject line has the same structure, but with the difference that the 45 ECTS credits for the subsidiary subject are used for the second part of the subsidiary subject in social science. Overall, you therefore get a Master's degree with an amount of social science subjects that is somewhere between that of a subsidiary subject and a main subject.
For information on admission requirements and procedures click here.
Department of Political Science and Government places great emphasis on social activities. The department offers a range of activities in different associations. You can choose to become a member of the editorial staff of the department's newsletter or join a number of social and academic associations. The Graduate Association was set up by students, and it organises a number of social and academic events. The Graduate Association also founded the IFSK Conexus, a network database that offers inspiration and specific knowledge sharing about topics such as jobs, study periods abroad, student jobs, work experience and future workplaces.
Department of Political Science and Government is located in the middle of the "social lake" complex, together with Department of Business Administration and Department of Law. The students meet in the Social Sciences canteen, and the department's location in the middle of campus also ensures easy access to other facilities at the university, such as the State and University Library, the lakeside lecture theatres, etc.
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With thousands of pictures #yourniversity gives insight into the everyday life as a student at AU; the parties, procrastination, exams and all the other ways you'll spend your time at university.
The photos belong to the users, shared with #Yourniversity, #AarhusUni and course-specific AU-hashtags.
This data is derived from AU's 2016 employment survey. This data should not be considered a completely accurate representation of the labour market and job functions for all graduates of the individual degree programmes. It exclusively represent the responses submitted to the survey in the years in question.
The MSc (Social Science) degree especially targets the teaching sector and most graduates find work as teachers at upper secondary schools, folk high schools and training colleges. Experience also shows that graduates with social science as their main subject have excellent opportunities for getting the same jobs as political science graduates, e.g. as heads of departments or managers in Danish organisations and government institutions. The EU and the embassies also take their share of graduates with an MSc (Political Science).
The Master's degree programme builds on the competences acquired during the Bachelor's degree programme. It should be noted that students can shape their own degree to a certain extent and, as a result, end up with different academic profiles.
A social science graduate has the following academic competences:
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Meet Mr. Jack-O. He is my newest creation. He is available in my etsy shop. http://www.yorkiesprimitives.etsy.com/ See what you think.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Meet Mr. Jack-O
Posted by yorkie's primitives at 8:03 PM
7 comments:
- Jody said...
He is adorable!! Great job!
- September 15, 2010 at 5:23 AM
- Donna said...
LOVE HIM VALERIE!!! CUTE!! CUTE!!! BET YA GETS LOTS OF ORDERS FOR THIS GUY!!!!If I had the extra to spend...you would have gotten an order for one from me. blessings... Donna
- September 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Olde Homestead Barn said...
OMG Valerie I JUST LOVE HIM!!! You did a great job! I may have to make one he's so darn cute! Big Hugs Vic
- September 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Firecracker Kid said...
He's a Pumpkin God! Great job Valerie:D
- September 16, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- yorkie's primitives said...
Thanks girls, I was in shock but he sold the very first day!!! I couldn't believe it. That's the very first time I have sold something the first day!! Hugs, Valerie
- September 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM
- Art From The heart said...
I bought one!
I love him,he's adorable and I think he loves me too !
Thanks Valerie.
Hugs, Amy
- September 21, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- yorkie's primitives said...
Amy I am so glad you like Jack-O. I fell in love with him too. Thanks for your purchase, Valerie
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I record over component just fine (Matrox MXO2 Mini)
A lot of the cheaper & older capture cards just have dynamic range limitations as they can't handle the video throughput and need to skip certain colour ranges to keep up
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CSAIL researchers were honored with the Best Paper Award at the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery's Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications conference (OOPSLA) for their paper "Verifying Quantitative Reliability for Programs That Execute on Unreliable Hardware." The paper was written by CSAIL graduate students Michael Carbin and Sasa Misailovic, and Professor Martin Rinard.
The paper describes a new programming framework that enables software developers to specify when computing errors made by smaller and less reliant transistors may be tolerable. The system then calculates the probability that the software will perform as it's intended.
"If the hardware really is going to stop working, this is a pretty big deal for computer science," said Rinard, in an interview with Larry Hardesty for the MIT News Office. "Rather than making it a problem, we'd like to make it an opportunity. What we have here is a … system that lets you reason about the effect of this potential unreliability on your program."
Read more about the paper here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-to-program-unreliable-chips-1104.html.


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