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Skin care
Most women do not give a second thought to sitting in the hairdresser for an hour or so on a regular basis, but how many of us consider doing the same for our faces?
So important to our confidence, it's the first bit of us that people notice when we meet.
Now you have the opportunity to put in some "me" time on your face. Yet why is it that somehow having a facial is regarded as an indulgence, and buying an expensive moisturiser an extravagance? Whilst we readily devote time to keeping our bodies fit and active, how much time do we spend doing the same for our faces?
Whatever your age its never too late to improve the appearance of your skin, and rediscover some of that youthful radiance, so here are a whole range of natural ideas to give you some wow factor.
Face Exercises
Our bodies contain about 600 muscles, of which 90 are in the face. Yet we are far more likely to exercise our bodies, and our faces don't get a look in.
If you want a toned body you work out, so the same goes for the face. If you are a Botox user this is particularly important as your face muscles are frozen and not given the chance to be stimulated by normal facial movement. A good facial massage or short daily exercise regime will exercise and tone the muscles, but it won't happen overnight, so you will need to be patient and not give up before you start to see the benefits. Facial cells take about 30 days to come to the surface, so if your skin feels tired, dull and dehydrated then give it a boost to get started, with a couple of good face massages two weeks apart.
- If you feel you can regularly commit time to facial exercise the guru to use is Eva Fraser Even 10 minutes a day, 3-4 times a week, gives really impressive results and firms and tightens the muscles in your face and neck. She looks in her 50's but amazingly is in her 80's, so she is a great advert of the exercises. Look her up on the web and try a one-to-one starter lesson if you can get to London, or buy her DVD.
- Or try the rejuvenating exercises in "Quick & Easy Face Massage: 5 Minute Massages for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime" by Beata Aleksandrowicz from Amazon. They are great for a bit of pre-party rejuvenation.
- Give your face a morning exercise. Lift your chin up to stretch your neck. Open your mouth as wide as you can and slowly circle your jaw. It gets the circulation going and makes your face glow.
Nourish Your Skin
This month's star products are:
- So Much to Dew Midnight Mask by Sampar is a silky smooth overnight serum for a soft fresh complexion.
- Miracle Skin Transformer from Sarah McNamara is a cocktail of nourishing antioxidants with SPF 20 Lanolips 101 Ointment, 100% natural lanolin works miracles on cracked lips and skin
- Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser is a fantastic plant based product and often rated 10/10
Drink more water
Drink more water during the day, before you go to bed, and definitely drink lots if you are drinking alcohol. It really does plump up the wrinkles and you should soon notice the difference, particularly around your eyes. Keep alcohol consumption to a minimum.
Get more sleep
Get more sleep – more regular early nights, a light supper, no coffee or alcohol and a large glass of water, and in bed by 10.00pm reduces under eye shadows and improves general skin tone.
Polish skin to make it glow
If you want to make a huge and immediate difference to your skin, exfoliation is the answer. Choose one with fruit enzymes, glycol acids and retinols and use twice a week.
Cleanse thoroughly
Ask any beautician or skin specialist what is the best thing you can do to make your skin more radiant and they will say 'clean your face properly', not only to remove dirt and make up, but also to remove dead skin that accentuates lines and stops skin absorbing moisturisers.
The smoother our skin, the more it reflects light and looks luminous. Also the active ingredients in the products you apply will have much greater impact if they don't get clogged up in old skin cells.
So, a cleansing balm is the first step. Then you won't need a toner or face scrub.
- a quick first cleanse to get rid of make up, then
- a second cleanse and massage it in
- remove with a warm cloth to leave skin really clean
Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser and Elemis Pro -Colagen Cleansing Balm are both excellent. Or try Moringa Cleansing Balm which doesn't damage the skin's acid mantle but removes impurities without stripping the skin.
You could also try No7 Beautiful Skin Melting Gel Cleanser (£9). It is refreshing and gentle but effective, and an excellent price compared to premium brands.
Give your skin a boost
Kick start your skin, and adjust your skin care to the seasons. Think of it as changing your face's wardrobe.
Winter is tough on your skin and extra help is needed in the winter months to help stimulate cell renewal and restore radiance. A radiance boosting serum will help enormously – see below.
Age can make your skin thicken and look duller, so you really do need to use products that penetrate the layers rather than sit on top of your skin. Products that contain fruit acids help remove the top layer of dead skin cells to reveal the fresher layers. Others with hyaluronic acid work by trapping moisture to give a dewy bloom to the skin.
Hydrate your face
Use a hydrating face mask to cleanse and nourish tired dehydrated skin. These masks are tried and tested and have good results:
• Espa Essential Mineral Mask doesn't dry into a cake, skin feels soft and more refined and it smells lovely
• Skinceuticals Hydrating B5 Masque is expensive but users say its like 8 hours sleep in a tube. Skin feels plumped, looks fresher and fine lines vanish – a good winter hydrator
• Organic Pharmacy Honey and Jasmine Mask is rich, indulgent and smells gorgeous. A real treat for the skin and a good one to leave on all night
• Dermalogica Skin Hydrating Mask is a refreshing gel that leaves your skin feeling really smooth, and is very effective around the eyes
You could also use multiple masks for a super boost. Use an exfoliating mask and then follow that with a hydrating one.
Have regular facials
Regular facials every couple of months clear out dead skin and clogged pores, and pump moisture into your skin. Go to a professional. A good facial will improve your skin's texture and tone and maximize the effectiveness of your beauty products.
What makes a good facial? Well generally its best to steer clear of the department store/salon chain facial as generally the staff are on a mission to sell you their products, and tend to deliver a formulaic service. A good facial is much more about good technique – its all in the hands, and the skill used in applying the treatments.
A good facial massage with firm kneading will stimulate lymphatic drainage to release toxins, and reduce puffy under-eye bags and ease frown lines, leaving the face feeling invigorated whilst aiding the effective absorption of the serums applied to plump up and hydrate the skin.
It is worth visiting a few therapists to find one who knows her stuff. For a one off treat, one of the best in London is Sarah Chapman. She has a long waiting list to prove it, but after a session with her you will at least know what to look for in a local therapist. Her charges are high end, but her results are truly impressive.
Una Brennan also does amazing facials. To give your skin a revitalizing boost, especially after too much sun, or a drying winter of central heating book one of her tailor made treatments 020-7313-9835 . Her products are available at Boots.
If you can find a clinic that offers hydra facials using SkinCeuticals products, the facials are expensive but ideal as a winter skin booster. A serum is applied under pressure to maximise penetration into your pores.
Rehydrate mature skin
Rehydrate mature skin in an instant by using serums and facial oils, as an alternative to expensive moisturiser, to give your skin a nourishing boost.
Keep skin looking radiant by using a boosting serum with antioxidants underneath your moisturiser to repair and rejuvenate your skin. All the big makeup houses now sell them and for older skin they really do brighten your complexion, improve skin tone and make it smoother and more even toned.
Serums also make a big difference to the effectiveness of your tinted moisturizer or foundation. The tendency is to apply more of the latter to cover flaws, but you can end up with skin looking heavily coated – instantly ageing and certainly not radiant!
Serums have a higher % of active ingredients than creams, they can be mixed with your regular products (like moisturiser or foundation) and are targeted to do specific jobs – hydrate, peel, brighten etc. They don't make your skin feel oily or greasy, and they restore elasticity and comfort to mature skin.
Moisturise daily
Moisturise daily and use minimum SPF 15 protection. There are so many moisturisers on the market and we all have our favourites, but skin care is constantly being refined in the battle to reduce wrinkles and restore that elusive youthful radiance, so it is worth considering a change to your moisturiser as a new product can give your skin a boost and you will benefit from new advances in skin care. Incorporate a product with an SPF of 15 or over into your daily routine – whether you are in the garden, walking or just out and about. Boots No7 's Protect & Perfect range is a high street favourite, but many facial experts would say don't waste money on high street brands – price doesn't guarantee results. SkinCeuticals is a fabulous range. My current favourite moisturiser is Neal's Yard Wild Rose Beauty Elixir containing rosehip oil (a rich anti oxidant ) plus Vitamin C, hyaluronic acid and essential oils for a nourishing boost. Skin really does feel rehydrated and stays soft all day.


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Rustic Halloween Decorations
There's nothing artificial about displaying the fruit of fall's labor. Gourds, pumpkins, and apples make a beautiful display when stacked around the house. For a down-home look, set them on shelves, next to the front door, then roll in the wheelbarrow or small wagon and stack them inside.
Wood baskets and crates -- you can usually get them for free at your grocery store -- make great fruit and veggie showpieces, too. For that warm harvest gold glow, set out a few electric lanterns or dig out your electric candles from the Christmas decoration stash. Use pretty rust-colored ribbon to tie dried bunches of wheat or Indian corn around the room.
Create a beautiful hearth
for this Halloween party.
you're bringing the outside in, why not prop a scarecrow in the party
room? Stuff an old shirt and overalls with newspaper, and knot a few
bunches of raffia and let them dangle out of the sleeves and pant
cuffs. Give a nod to the tale of Ichabod Crane and his Headless
Horseman by leaving this scarecrow empty from the neck up.
Or, if your young crowd requires a noggin, tie an old dish towel over a balled up bunch of fabric -- rags or T-shirts will do -- and use a permanent marker to draw a cheerful scarecrow face. If you have enough raffia, tie it around small boxes to create hay bales.
Give the kitchen an old-world feel by draping an autumn-colored tablecloth or runner across the table, then spice up the color scheme with vibrant green, yellow, or orange napkins and dinnerware. Got a rustic salad bowl? Surround it with coffee cups and fill it with hot apple cider.
Make a beautiful centerpiece by trimming twigs so they are equal in length, then hot glue them to the sides of a clean aluminum soup can (with the label removed). When the glue is dry, tie raffia ribbon around it and set some dried flowers inside. Scatter leaf cutouts or dried leaves about the table and even on the floor. Simple paper chains made of orange, brown, and yellow construction paper complete the old-fashioned effect.
Looking for another theme for Halloween decor? Try a skull-and-crossbones pirate theme. On the next page, we'll float a bounty of pirate ideas by you.
Want to scare up more fun Halloween ideas? Try these:
- Halloween Crafts: Not done being creative? These are great do-it-yourself projects for Halloween, from trick-or-treat boxes to candy jewelry.
- Kids' Halloween Costumes: Try on our unique costume ideas for your ghosts and goblins.
- Halloween Masks: Want an easy way to dress up for Halloween? Try a mask instead of a costume. Check out our selection of monstrous masks.
- Halloween Games: Play more than 20 spooktacular games to entertain kids and adults alike.
- Halloween Recipes: Learn how to make dozens of bewitching Halloween treats.
- How Halloween Works: Traces the popular holiday's Celtic roots to American traditions celebrated today.
- Pumpkin Carving Patterns: What's Halloween without pumpkin carving? Check out these great pumpkin carving patterns.

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HealthConnect is a government project aiming to build a network of electronic personal health records and improve the flow of information in the Australian health sector. The system has been trialled in parts of Tasmania, the Northern Territory and Queensland for several years.
However, this week the Productivity Commission -- a key government advisory and review body -- said "feasibility studies and trials used to evaluate HealthConnect appear to be deficient". The comments came in the commission's report on the impact of medical technology on national healthcare expenditure.
The report was particularly stern on commissioned HealthConnect benefit studies from DMR Consulting and Fujitsu. It said the reports "examined only a narrow range of benefits and did not demonstrate how HealthConnect would generate the claimed benefits".
Costs for the project, the commission claimed, have been assessed in isolation from benefits. The examination of benefits has also been limited. In addition, "trials have been uncoordinated", and "implementation has preceded successful completion of trials".
The commission also unveiled "major interoperability problems ... within and between hospitals, as well as linking medical specialists into the system".
In addition, the commission was concerned about the privacy provisions of the project. It cited concerns from the Federal Privacy Commissioner that "the roll-out of HealthConnect could precede the establishment of governance mechanisms".
The HealthConnect project is associated with trials of a new Medicare card project, which would see the current generation of magnetic strip cards replaced by cards with an included computer chip. Privacy advocates have expressed concern about the smartcard scheme, particularly with respect to its integration with HealthConnect.
Federal Human Services Minister Joe Hockey said this week in his first speech as minister of the newly-created department that the cards would be rolled out nationally and used to access government services beyond Medicare.
"What the smartcard represents is one set of keys to open a number of doors to a range of government services and benefits," Hockey said.


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the window. wide open. lying on bed. watching the pouring rain outside. tree branches are swinging. its leaves are dancing. under the water drops. with the musical of rain. on one fine day.
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flying away
blow with a whisper and wishes
into the air, dandelion fly
fly, fly away
to anywhere but stay
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the paper boat story
I once had a paper boat. The lil' girl in me used to sail with it through the river. It floated up and down along the stream.
Somehow it stopped, somewhere. I forgot it was just made from a piece of paper. Soon it's getting wet and drowned. The paper boat sank. The lil' girl wast lost. The dream faded away.
Oneday, two lil' boys brought some pieces of paper and said, "Mom, teach us how to make a paper boat and play it with us." The lil' girl in me suddenly woke up. But it took a courage to start dreaming and sailing again.
Hopefully the paper boat will float again, someday, somehow...
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Fair Trade:
For more than 60 years, Fair Trade-a trading partnership based on dialogue, transparency, and respect-has contributed to greater social and economic equity and the protection of the environment around the world. In the past few years, consumers' interest in finding quality products that can make a tremendous positive impact on communities has increased steadily, offering grocers and other retailers an opportunity to create even greater change by choosing fair trade.
Fair trade traces its roots to 1946 when Edna Ruth Byler, a volunteer for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), visited an MCC sewing class in Puerto Rico and discovered the talent the women had for creating beautiful lace and the extraordinary poverty in which they lived. She began carrying these pieces back to the United States to sell and returning the money to these groups directly. Her work grew into Ten Thousand Villages (www.tenthousandvillages.com ), which opened its first fair trade shop in 1958 and is now the largest fair trade retailer in North America.
In 1949, Sales Exchange for Refugee Rehabilitation and Vocation International (www.agreategift.org ), the second oldest fair trade organization in the world, began helping refugees in Europe recover from World War II. Today, it supports artisans and farmers in more than 35 countries.
In the late 1970s, U.S. and Canadian entrepreneurs who embraced fair trade principles began to meet regularly, exchange ideas, and network. This informal group would evolve into the Fair Trade Federation (www.FairTradeFederation.org ) and formally incorporate in 1994. In 1989, the International Fair Trade Association (www.IFAT.org ) was founded as a global network of fully committed fair trade organizations, aiming to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged people through trade and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas.
In 1988 as world coffee prices began to decline, Solidaridad (www.solidaridad.nl ), a Dutch organization, created the first fair trade certification initiative. Named after a best-selling 19th century book, the Max Havelaar label initially applied only to coffee in the Netherlands, but similar labeling initiatives soon grew up independently across Europe. In 1997, these organizations created Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (www.fairtrade.net ), an umbrella organization which sets the fair trade certification standards and supports, inspects, and certifies disadvantaged farmers. In 1999, FLO affiliates TransFair USA (www.TransFairUSA.org ) and TransFair Canada (www.TransFair.ca ) opened in North America.
In 2002, the first World Fair Trade Day, a global public education campaign for fair trade, was celebrated to heighten consumer awareness and strengthen connections among communities around the globe. On World Fair Trade Day 2008, the world record was set for the largest fair trade coffee break by involving more than 12,000 people in 150 communities across the United States and Canada. In 2006, Media, Pennsylvania declared itself the first Fair Trade Town in North America, following more than 400 communities in Europe by publicly showing its commitment to fair trade. Today, there are nine Fair Trade Towns in Canada and the U.S., over forty local, grassroots groups organizing in support of fair trade, and hundreds of individuals who participate in the campaign on a volunteer basis.
From its beginnings in Pennsylvania, fair trade continues to move forward across the globe because of the efforts of consumers, entrepreneurs, non-governmental organizations, farmers, artisans, and other communities.
As awareness of fair trade grows, so can confusion about the various actors and their role in alleviating poverty by changing trading relationships. Within fair trade, there are two types of organizations:
Product certification The Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) sets standards for and audits the supply chains of specific products from point of origin to point of sale. FLO utilizes 20 national initiatives and three producer networks to spread fair trade principles and fair trade certified products. In North America, TransFair Canada and TransFair USA are the only third-party certifiers of fair trade products in their countries. In Canada, bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, flowers, quinoa, rice, sports balls, sugar, tea and wine can be licensed as certified products. In the United States, certified bananas, chocolate, coffee, flowers, honey, mangos, rice, sugar, tea and vanilla are available. Traders who purchase fair trade certified products agree to four principles: pay a price to producers that covers the costs of sustainable production (the Fairtrade Minimum Price), pay a premium that producers can invest in development (the Fairtrade Premium), partially pay in advance when producers ask for it, and sign contracts that allow for long-term planning and sustainable production practices. FLO also establishes specific product standards that govern the trade of each commodity to which licensees must subscribe.
Organizational evaluation The International Fair Trade Association (IFAT) and the Fair Trade Federation (FTF) evaluate businesses and organizations for their commitment to fair trade principles. FTF is the association of North American retailers and importers who are fully committed to fair trade. With fair trade at the heart of what they do, federation members commit to eight principles: supporting participatory workplaces, paying fair wages in the local context, promoting environmental sustainability, respecting cultural identity, building direct and long-term relationships, providing financial and technical assistance, educating consumers, and offering public accountability and transparency. Each organization undergoes a rigorous screening process to evaluate its trading practices and the depth of its commitment. By approaching business and development in a holistic way, members make trade a tool to alleviate poverty, reduce inequality, and create opportunities for people to help themselves. Members offer a broad product range-grocery items, stationary, baskets, personal care items, product packaging and unique gifts.
While these organizations focus on either products or organizations, other actors seek to
expand support for fair trade among consumers and communities. The Fair Trade Resource Network (www.FTRN.org ) provides tools to educate consumers about the impact of the choices that they make, including the Conscious Consumer Guide and references for films and other media to explain fair trade. Fair Trade Towns USA (www.FairTradeTownsUSA.org ) organizes local advocates whose aim is to encourage and support the Fair Trade Movement in the U.S., including the creation of where-to-buy guides for each Fair Trade Town. (See article "Fair Trade Towns", this edition.) Institute for Marketology (www.fairforlife.net) is one of three fair trade certifiers recognized for the Whole Trade program. Rainforest Alliance (www.rainforestalliance.org) also is a fair trade certifier recognized for the Whole Trade program.
Great products, tremendous impact
Whether sourcing from Fair Trade Federation members or buying fair trade certified products, grocers have the opportunity to create a tremendous impact among communities of farmers and artisans by choosing fair trade.
Through long-term relationships, fair trade seeks to deepen the connection between all parts of the supply chain. Alter Eco Fair Trade (www.altereco-usa.com ) has worked over the past four years with two cooperatives of rooibos tea farmers in South Africa to progressively integrate the whole supply chain. These cooperatives now produce, package and export their tea. Boxes are hand-printed by the women to increase their revenue. Through Alter Eco's efforts over the longer term, the cooperative now captures 30 percent of the consumer price and has sponsored many economic and social development projects in its community.
In the same way, fair trade works to enhance the capacity of producer communities by reinvesting in communities. The Community Friendly Movement (www.whycfm.org ) and Global Crafts (www.globalcraftswholesale.com ) worked with two cooperatives in Greater Noida, India to supply reusable canvas tote bags to replace plastic shopping bags. Located on the outskirts of Delhi and surrounded by one of the largest industrial parks in Asia, these cooperatives not only receive feedback on the needs of the North American market from CFM and Global Crafts, but also build the capacity to silkscreen images onto the bags and export them. In 2007, this partnership injected over 73,400 rupees into this community. CFM also donates 10 percent of its profits to an Artisan Welfare Fund, which enables it to plan long-term investments in the communities with which it works. Presently, CFM is looking to purchase additional sewing machines through the Fund, so it can train and employ more tailors in the next few years.
With a focus on participatory workplaces, fair trade offers farmers, artisans, producers and employees the opportunity to participate in the decisions that affect them. Cooperative Coffees (www.coopcoffees.com ), a green coffee importing cooperative comprised of 24 community-based coffee roasters in the U.S. and Canada, sources sustainably grown coffees. These roasters work together, so that they can more readily impact and multiply the positive effects of their selective coffee purchasing.
The effects are being felt by cooperatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America, including with Yeni Navan Michiza (MICHIZA) cooperative in Mexico. By collaborating, the 946 cooperative farmers (including 266 women) were able to stop the local intermediary coffee purchasers from controlling the price. Instead, MICHIZA exports coffee independently and sets its own terms of trade. With the support of Cooperative Coffees, MICHIZA also offers technical support to its members to improve their capacity in organic agriculture, overall coffee quality and yields. By joining forces, Cooperative Coffee's roasters and the MICHIZA cooperative strive to raise the living standard of MICHIZA members through a sustainable agriculture and the construction of a fairer and more equitable market.
The social justice elements of fair trade combine with an effort to cultivate responsible stewardship of natural resources. Essential Living Foods (www.essentiallivingfoods.com ) and one of its producer partners, Candela Peru (www.candelaperu.net ), combine economic development activities with preservation of the Amazon forests of Peru. Brazil nuts are harvested by 273 indigenous people who live along the Madre de Dios River in eastern Peru as part of a program that protects the rainforest from clear-cutting. Brazil nut pods fall naturally from trees in the rainforest; and, by increasing the market for nuts collected as they naturally fall, the partnership seeks to combat changes in the use of the land and give value to products harvested in a sustainable way. Candela's organic and fair trade certifications stand as a testament to sustainable production throughout the supply chain.
Through these and other examples, fair trade certified products and Fair Trade Federation member organizations act as a positive force for change in producer communities. The quality of the work supplied by Fair Trade Federation Members and in fair trade certified products not only speaks to the skill and hard work of producer communities, but also to the relationships and the capacity building offered through fair trade.
Looking ahead
More consumers are recognizing that they can make choices with concern for the well-being of people and the environment without compromising what they want in the food and beverages they consume, the way they decorate their homes, the clothing they wear and even the travel they do. Research by the Fair Trade Federation indicates that total sales of both FTF members' and fair trade certified products in North America grew by 102 percent between 2004 and 2006. The Conscious Consumer Report from BBMG (www.bbmg.com) indicates that 62 percent of Americans say it is important for products to be made by companies that support fair trade practices; and, between 2005 and 2006, FTF members' sales grew by 146 percent, as buyers and consumers supported companies who are fully committed to fair trade.
How to find
Sourcing from Fair Trade Federation members and fair trade certified products has never been easier. The Federation offers a searchable member directory at www.FairTradeFederation.org; TransFair USA lists its licensees at www.transfairusa.org/content/certification/licensees.php ; and in Canada, licensees can be found at www.transfair.ca/en/transfair_locate.
Carmen K. Iezzi is executive director of the Fair Trade Federation in Washington, D.C. ([email protected]).


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Fan though I am, this is not about the eerie absence of Steve Jobs from the helm of Apple. With or without him, I don't foresee an 80's style collapse of Apple. There is, however, another threat to Apple, and to me. The Economy.
First, the disclaimer. I am not an economist, you know. Although i read this essay by Daron Acemoglu, an MIT economist, and he details where economists too went wrong. This article by Arnold Kling is very accessible.
To quote Acemoglu, economists started believing that
the era of aggregate volatility had come to an end. We believed that through astute policy or new technologies, including better methods of communication and inventory control, the business cycles were conquered. Our belief in a more benign economy made us more optimistic about the stock market and the housing market. If any contraction must be soft and short lived, then it becomes easier to believe that financial intermediaries, firms and consumers should not worry about large drops in asset values.
I'm no one to judge an economist, much less an economist's assessment of economists, but I must say that till early 2008, I heard many economic writers I admire say that this problem was all "much ado about nothing".
Anywho, here we are, no one seems willing to give any good news. Wall Street Journal had this article, saying recruitment in Business Schools were at a lower level than even one expected in October. One quote by a student caught my eye. She said about the placement system in the college,
The system they have in place now seems to be one that works very well when the economy is good, but now that there are no employers coming — no one knows what to do
This may be true, and therefore we will need a plan. This is the moment for aggressively reaching out, and I'm happy to say our batch is already thinking on those lines. I never would have thought that there will be dozens of mails everyday in our mailing list. Some are about mundane issues like what laptops to buy, but several talk about projecting ourselves to the world. This being the first batch, and the institute is flexible, so a lot of ideas are being discussed, and nothing is off limits.
This may sound like an ad for the batch, but it didn't start that way. I wanted to discuss the problems, ended us talking about the solutions we are working on. So…. does anyone have any idea? Where do we look for jobs next?


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D-Day March for Brass Band (British Style)
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An original march for Brass Band by Keith Terrett, with the first strain written in the minor key.
There are interesting parts for all, and a delectable Eb Soprano Cornet line during the last strain.
This march was runner-up in the 2008 Ohio Brass Composers Competition, it is now published by:www.jagrins.com
The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 British Double Summer Time (H-Hour). In planning, D-Day was in reference to the day of actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. The assault was conducted in two phases: an air assault landing of American, British and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France commencing at 6:30. The invasion required the transport of soldiers and material from the United Kingdom by troop carrying aircraft and ships, the assault landings, air support, naval interdiction of the English Channel and naval fire-support. There were also subsidiary 'attacks' mounted under the code names Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable to distract the Kriegsmarine and the German army from the real landing areas.
The operation was the largest single-day amphibious invasion of all time, with over 130,000 troops landing on June 6,1944. 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel were involved. The landings took place along a stretch of the Normandy coast divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
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A dozen Irish musicians, actors and activists will be visiting Wales to show their solidarity with imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning and her Welsh-Irish family.
On Friday 23 Jan at the Shamrock Bar, The Square, Fishguard and Saturday 24 Jan at the Labour Club, Dew St, Haverfordwest. There will be performances by Irish musicians Joe Black, RoJ Whelan, Brian Fleming, Robbie Sinnott, Paul O'Toole & more. Both nights start at 8pm. Entrance by donation on the door.
Donations to help offset the costs of organising this weekend would be very much appreciated.
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Cape Town - A glance at his game time over the course of the 2019 Test season so far does relatively little to back up the argument with any force.
But it seems increasingly apparent that Frans Steyn - a sometimes controversial, much-debated figure in SA rugby's recent past - will be a vital component of the broad Springbok plans for the looming World Cup.
I know I will consider it a bombshell (my jaw will rapidly drop, whether enforced by explosives or not) if the seasoned figure, who appears to be suitably on-side with Rassie Erasmus's immediate goals for the national side, is omitted from the Bok tournament party of 31 to be revealed next Monday.
Steyn's going to go ... isn't he?
The reason I am so confident he will be on the plane to Japan isn't so much about his value to the "first XV", at least as things stand: he may still not yet be deemed part of that equation, especially with Damian de Allende the reasonably solid top-pick incumbent of the inside centre berth, which is still also Steyn's most ideal station.
But it has everything to do with the re-emerging desirability of the 32-year-old as a versatile backline factor, especially in a group touring a long way from home turf and not necessarily able to summon emergency replacements with any great haste.
Those with slightly more cynical thoughts around the much-travelled but agreeably streetwise customer may point to the limited Bok activity so far in the year that Steyn has had ... and all off the splinters.
It began with 28 minutes as a second-half replacement for Andre Esterhuizen against Australia in Johannesburg, another 25 (on for De Allende) against New Zealand in Wellington, 15 (De Allende again pulled off) against Argentina at Salta, and finally 25 (for Esterhuizen) in the follow-up against the Pumas on Saturday.
So the big unit hasn't even had a full half of action yet.
But he could also be described as some sort of mounting talisman as a Bok reserve, considering that his last seven Test appearances in that capacity have seen the Boks unbeaten (six wins and a draw); the sequence includes three caps in the 3-0 home disposal of France in 2017, when Allister Coetzee was still head coach.
It just seems as if all that experience - nobody else in the Bok ranks at RWC 2019 will boast as much in time-passage terms, considering that Steyn is lone survivor as a 2007 Webb Ellis Cup winner - meaningfully helps the Springboks to nail down matches in their favour at the vital business end of them.
I still suspect there is a chance, in Japan, that he will force his way into the starting mix; he is just too good a rugby player not to push forcefully for that status again, especially if his Test-level conditioning, already improving through lengthy exposure to the Bok camp of late, continues its gradual upward trajectory.
But events at Loftus at the weekend may well have conspired, in many respects, to only underline Steyn's role as a utility presence extraordinaire for South Africa in Japan.
In short, he may be now even more assuring cover for three Bok berths: in midfield (where, at a push, he can even be used at 13), at fullback and flyhalf.
That is because the latter two positions have an increased likelihood of being reasonably economically-staffed from a depth point of view at the tournament, whilst Andre Esterhuizen is at risk of not travelling as immediate understudy to De Allende at No 12.
The Sharks player was commendably rugged against the Pumas in the messy 24-18 weekend victory engineered by a largely second-string Bok line-up, but again more subtle elements were largely absent from his game and Steyn, I fancy, is now the rosier prospect to cover that base behind De Allende.
Meanwhile, Warrick Gelant's up-and-down sort of showing in the last line of defence in Pretoria also raises the possibility that he won't earn a RWC ticket as back-up to Willie le Roux, instead leaving cover there in the shape of Cheslin Kolbe (albeit superb in a wing capacity of late) ... and Steyn.
The last-named player has made 14 starts - among his total of 60 caps - for the country before at No 15, and often with aplomb, even if the most recent was at the now distant 2011 World Cup against Wales in Wellington, and lack of pace these days for the berth would be an issue.
On the plus side, however, his safety and sheer physical presence under a high ball are beyond dispute, and don't forget that penchant for monster relief-kicks or banging over the odd penalty from 55 or even 60 metres out, sometimes clearing the crossbar with plenty to spare.
Then there's the flyhalf cover to consider as well, though: the Boks are expected to take along only two specialists in that massive, tactical string-pulling area of play, Handre Pollard and Elton Jantjies, even if both are in reassuringly sprightly form.
But if one of them suddenly went down for any length of time, there's an immediate problem over quantity of back-up.
Once again, Steyn would seem the best temporary figure to plug a hole as he has operated there before for the Boks, either as starter or substitute.
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I have often spoken of my Caribbean background in my posts and have shared some of the wine pairings I've done for family events, but wine pairing at these events has not always come easy for me. While our events are filled with merriment, soca and calypso (believe it or not, we have calypso for every occasion; Christmas, Easter, not just Carnival), they are also filled with delectable food fare, which come with a plethora of spices such a curry, masala and cumin. As you can imagine, with all of these spices in play, it takes some thought in to the ideal wine for such a spiceapalooza. So, after some trial and error, research and talking to local vintners who are familiar with a good curry and roti, I have amassed a list of some go to varietals for pairing with spicy dishes.
What not to pair with spicy foods
The main thing you need to be cognizant of when pairing wine with spicy food is that the spices will always want to be the centre of attention on the palate, and anything that tries to vie for the same level of attention will lose some of its virtue, and this is never good thing. The previous means you will want to stay away from the full bodied, high acidic and high alcohol level wines. Red wines such as Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Barbera are on my 'not to pair with spicy foods' list, and white wines such as Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay live there too. In both red and white wines, like the ones listed above, pairing them with spicy foods will cause the tannins or the acidity to bounce forward in an aggressive way, truly ruining the lovely mouth experience that we know these wines can offer. So, it's best to stay away from these wines if doing a meal pairing with spicy dishes.
What wines work well with spicy foods
I do have a short, but solid, list of go to varietals for spicy foods and they include both red and white wines to appease the varying audience. My rules for pairing wines with spicy foods are simple; always go for sweeter wines and wines with well-tempered tannins and great fruit taste. I find that the sweetness and fruit taste of the wine end up tempering the stronger spices in the food, and the lesser spices get a chance to shine through, making each mouthful a new and wonderful experience. When it comes to red wines, I will go for Zinfandel, Pinot Noir and Merlot. When it comes to white wines, I will normally go for Riesling, Viognier, Vouvray and Gewürztraminer.
As we roll into Easter, I have long planned my dinner wine list, and it includes Henry of Pelham Family Tree White, Thirty Bench Riesling, and Folie à Deux Zinfandel. I know we're in for a treat.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on pairing wines with food? Drop me a line or add your comments to this post, so we can all enjoy.


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Below is the transcript of the podcast available here
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"LL-In Bare Bones Biology 117 a couple of weeks ago, I introduced the Vision without Fission conference.
This panel discussion and several others are posted on Youtube by CoreLight Films. Father John Dear is on this panel, and today he reports to Bare Bones Biology from the final day of the conference.
Father John has been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize. His struggle for peace is described in his book "A Persistent Peace." I will post more references, my opinions, and a transcript at my blog."
I'm so sorry about the quality, but I thought they were through with those loudspeakers, and they weren't, so I had to do some noise reduction digital modifications.
"So we're here at Los Alamos, outside the nuclear weapons laboratory commemorating Hiroshima anniversary 67 years ago when the atomic bomb built here at Los Alamos, New Mexico, was dropped on the people of Hiroshima, Japan, and vaporized 120,000 in a flash. We've been coming here for years to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons and war.
"Today at the rally I gave this quote from Mahatma Ghandi, which he said a couple of days after Hiroshima. Ghandi said: 'I hold that those who invented the atomic bomb have committed the gravest sin. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory to the allied arms, but it resulted for the time being in destroying Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see. Unless the world adopts nonviolence, this will spell certain suicide.'
"The police tell me there are 300 people here. We've been saying that nuclear weapons are bad for the economy. And Occupy is saying that our economy is collapsing and it's no good, etc., but here we're making the connection between Occupy and Los Alamos, that nuclear weapons are bad for the children, the earth, for animals, the economy, everything, but I was also saying it's bad for our souls, and that's what Ghandi said, so we're here to talk about this, to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, the closure of Los Alamos, the reclaiming of our soul as a people. Ghandi said the only way to do that is to become people of non-violence, to get rid of these nukes and turn that money, trillions of dollars for war, to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, getting jobs, teaching everybody about non-violent conflict resolution.
Father John-"So what we did here is we broadcast live here at Ashley park, where the bomb was actually built, the ceremony – live from Hiroshima on August 5, we heard by phone from the memorial ceremony in Hiroshima, right at the time of day when the bomb was dropped – here in Los Alamos we heard the ringing of the peace bell. It was very moving for everyone. And then hundreds of us processed along the main street through Los Alamos, and then all of us sat down in sack cloth and ashes for 30 minutes of silence, which is from the Bible, in the book of Jonah, when the people of Ninevah repented in sack cloth and ashes for their sins of injustice and violence, and they never were violent again. We're reclaiming that ancient Biblical symbol in resistance and protest. And the ashes especially remind us of Hiroshima. It was a time of prayer, reflection, and trying model for ourselves the nonviolence we want for Los Alamos and Texas and the United States.
"So my hope and prayer is that we can all become people of non-violence. Non-violent to ourselves, non-violent to one another, and that we can all work or a new world of non-violence. Abolish war, nuclear weapons, execution, corporate greed, sexism, racism, and environmental destruction. Really work creatively –
LL interrupts – "Find our souls."
Father John – "Yeah, and if we do that, we will reclaim our souls. That's the way to spiritual healing, and everybody has to be part of that because we must change this culture of violence that is not working."
LL – "It's very clear that it's not working."
End of transcript here, beginning of my commentary:
That's the bare bones version of the annual Hiroshima day action at Los Alamos. If you want to read more about Father John's view of the day, go to his blog. And then browse around on that site. For example, under Press you can find an Amy Goodman interview. I couldn't figure out how to post it on this blog, but I did download a copy if you want one.
Personally, I knew very little about the peace movement. There is a reason for that. I believe the Peace movement is incredibly important in our effort to save what we have built – but it will be irrelevant of we kill off the earth itself. A lot of good, heroic people are working for Peace. If we humans make it through this disaster we have created, then we will be able to grow the peace based on the heroic work of the peacebuilders who exemplify it in the face of all odds.
However, very few people are working to explain what the ecosystem REQUIRES to stay balanced and healthy so we can avoid killing it. It is possible to kill the ecosystem. It's happened before, and climate change is suggests it is happening now.
It is the earth ecosystem that gives us enough food so that we can imagine a peaceful lifestyle and work to make a peaceful earth ecosystem. Furthermore there are so many people working for peace, and most of them do not realize the relationship between peace and a healthy earth. Therefore some of their efforts do accidental harm to the ecosystem that we require if we are to grow the peace. And very few people are working to explain that relationship. So that's what I am trying to do. Make available this information that the corposystem is trying to hide under piles of money and suffering. (For example, download the Chapter of Bare Bones Ecology that is available on this web site.)
Meantime Father John has lived an incredible life, working for Peace, and of course we do need the vision of peace, as we strive to accomplish the goal of survival. I read his autobiography "A Persistent Peace" all the way through, and I couldn't help thinking that among us we are ALMOST "getting it."
A Persistent Peace, is the a necessary vision (I have been saying "compassion" rather than "peace," but really what's the dif? You could read the Dalai Lama's book "Beyond Religion, Ethics for a Whole World," and get essentially the same message.) Then I would suggest reading "A Great Aridness," by William deBuys, to provide a historic and sociological context of how we created this mess by mis-using the Creation we were given. Then, if we are to make any changes, we need to understand what exactly we are doing that causes failure of peace, and for that I would suggest Michael Klare.
I have been trying to explain this emergency in "soft" language so as not to create either panic or denial, but I feel like the response is an indulgent smile. (Although it's hard for me to see, war, genocide, starvation, annihilation caused by overpopulation as soft. But that is our reality.) This is not a matter for indulgence. Michael Klare is a professional prognosticator. To deny his evaluation of reality out of hand — because it is uncomfortable — would be scandalous. And to engage in displacement activities that do not also impact the causative problem – overpopulation — is akin to evil. Maybe we have lost our soul.
Honorable people of this age have one choice left. We do not sit around bemoaning whatever. We spend each day living this day – including our obligation to the future which must include some little action every day that is addressed to making family planning available to everyone on earth who wants it. Whether we make these technologies directly available or work through the political system or simply take the time to study the issue and discuss it. That is our obligation to our mother earth, and after that our obligation to our own mental health and/or our efforts to help treat any one of the symptoms of this emergency – all the various kinds of individual suffering of all sentient beings — needs to come second. If we do not every one of us focus on our common survival goal of bringing the population to the level the earth can feed — but only work on "fixing" the symptoms (war, genocide, starvation, etc) then we will not survive, and neither will we achieve any of our long-term goals.
If God created the earth, then God created that biological entity, the whole earth ecosystem, and He meant it to function exactly the way it does function. I mean in terms of the earth, air, water and fire (energy) and how it stays BALANCED, so that the whole thing can survive. The same laws of nature that permit our own bodies to survive within the body of the ecosystem. That is: "Life."
As Father John says, or rather one of his students said: "The Kingdom of God is Life." I couldn't agree more. But right now we are at war with life – and we are choosing our own desires over the biological needs of Life – and we can't win that battle.
As Rabi Malka Drucker explained last week. What is good for the ecosystem is good for humans. But it doesn't necessarily work the other way around.
The bottom line is that the Kingdom of God is not only about what humans want or think they should have. Human cultures have understood this fact in the past. This fact seems to me the very core of all our wisdom traditions (including those that were presented aat the Vision Without Fission Conference) that honor all parts of life in their balance.
If there is time, we can learn to understand it again.
The new book looks interesting. Lazarus Come Forth, by Father John Dear.
Bare Bones Biology 120 – Brother John
KEOS Radio 89.1, Bryan, Texas
Recommended References:
The Conference.
Father John speaks at http://youtu.be/yArg0UHRxjk. Then watch the series of other YouTube videos reporting on nearly the entire conference.
https://factfictionfancy.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/ – Biology 117 – Los Alamos
Bare Bones Biology References:
https://factfictionfancy.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/- Bare Bones Biology 119 – Rabi Malka Drucker.
Father John
"A Persistent Peace"
"Lazarus Come Forth"
William deBuys – A Great Aridness
Michael Klare –
"The Race for What's Left"
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With love in the air, and a few nice days this week, I decided to add some color to the blog and finally get Ivory behind the camera again!
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
New Look for Moab's Red Rye IPA and Wednesday's Craft Beer Week Events
Here is your American Craft Beer Week events for today. Also, It's been brought to my attention that Squatters is not serving $2.50 drafts this week. Not sure when that changed, but it did. Apologies.
Wednesday, May 18
Beer 101- Wasatch Sugar House: 6:00-7:30 Taste your way through a variety of styles of Squatters & Wasatch craft beers with a Brewmaster, as you discuss the details of brewing (and more importantly drinking) delicious craft beers. This 2 hour class will educate you in the basics of brewing and the language of craft beer, while training your pallet to identify the subtle differences that exist between the wide range of craft styles. This class is perfect for the novice craft beer drinker as well as the more seasoned enthusiast. Tickets available at: https://www.wasatchbeers.com/shop/details.aspx?prodID=301
Hoppers Brewing
$5 Growler Fills
Shades of Pale
Movie Night - Strange Brew. I believe it starts at 8pm. Hit up Shades of Pale to make sure.
Uinta Brewing
Spring Beer Dinner. A special menu put together by Head Chef Brett Parker featuring newer and experimental beers. This event is open to the first 30 people to purchase tickets in advance. Beers: Hop Nosh Tangerine, Cucumber Farmhouse, Sneak preview of upcoming releases, Special reception firkin'
Hop Nosh Tangerine promo @ Hogswallow @ 7:00
Blind Taste Testing flights. Receive 4 samples of Uinta beer (2 at a time) and guess 3 out of 4 beers correctly to win your choice of a Uinta Branded Wooden Sign and to be entered into a daily raffle for a limited edition Stainless Steel Stanley Growler.
801 cans are our featured beer of the week. Our 801 Pilsner doubles as a delicious beer and a community builder - proceeds from purchases benefit local non-profit Trails Utah $3/can.
Free tours will be available to the general public starting at 6pm. Groups will meet in the Pub and then be lead on a tour lasting 45 minutes.
Special Randall Beers will be available Monday night & Wednesday night.
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melt down
1. intransitive To melt from a solid to a liquid state. By the time the ceremony was over, the elaborate ice sculpture had melted down into a large puddle.
2. To cause something to melt from a solid to a liquid state. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "melt" and "down." He melts recycled scrap metal down and uses it in his sculptures.
3. Of a nuclear reactor core, to become so hot as to melt through the containment unit. The entire region has been a deserted wasteland ever since the nuclear power plant melted down ten years ago.
4. To go through extreme emotional duress; to have an emotional crisis or break down. More commonly worded as "have a meltdown." He was just trying to juggle too many things at work, and he ended up melting down.
melt something down
to cause something frozen to melt; to cause something solid to melt. The rays of the sun melted the candle down to a puddle of wax. The heat melted down the ice.
melt down
1. Lit. [for something frozen] to melt. The glacier melted down little by little. When the ice on the streets melted down, it was safe to drive again.
2. Fig. [for a nuclear reactor] to become hot enough to melt through its container. The whole system was on the verge of melting down.
melt down
1. To melt from a solid into a liquid: As ice cubes melt down, the water level in the glass remains constant.
2. To cause something to melt from a solid into a liquid: The sun melted the snowman down into a puddle. I melted down the ice on the window with a hair dryer.
3. To overheat severely and melt, resulting in the escape of radiation from a nuclear reactor core: The nuclear reactor melted down, and thousands of people had to evacuate the area.
4. Slang To have an emotional breakdown: I was dealing with a lot of stress, and I melted down on the subway when it stopped between stations.


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FMDRIVE is a VST synth that not only emulate the Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive FM sound chip YM2612 but also add a lot of extra features.
FMDRIVE is not another YM2612 emulator, it is a Windows VST instrument with live control in mind. Using a new modeled core with extended features, FMDRIVE adds the full FM power underneath the original concept...
You may think, the YM2612 chip is basically another 4 Operator Yamaha FM synth but there is more... DAC, SSG Envelopes and Special operating modes like CSM speech synthesis. On top of that the Sega had a distinctive distorted sound, more or less present, depending on revision models.
You can design a vast range of sounds on top of 33000 instruments presets already extracted from Games ROMs. Go further with extended controls, and even MIDI control the real hardware with a special add on interface: The GENMDM designed by Little Scale (not included).
FMDRIVE had been developed with the latest stable SynthEdit engine using custom C++ code and 3r party licensed code.
Runs on Windows 32/64-bit Systems and is multi-core compatible with 32-bit DAW/Host.
FMDRIVE is Donationware with a minimum of 10.00 €.
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- Two Audio Models: HQ and MD1 (Crystal clear and high resolution processing) and MD1 (emulate distortion and low resolution of MD1 model).
YM2612 Native Features:
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Some features of the YM2612 chip were not very documented until reverse engineered, that is why some people may think that some features are not possible on a real YM2612.
Everything FMDrive does was and is possible on the hardware except for these optional features : bit-crushing effect, high resolution mode, Un-Sync PMS and Modulation index filtering.
- Custom LFOs, were usually done directly in the code or via a custom music engine. FMDrive does it for you without the hassle.
- Custom envelope generator, made also in the code by directly writing to TL register, however, not as smooth as the internal EG.
- CSM Mode Speech Synthesis is perfectly working on the chip, however there was no driver provided for it... so programmers had to code their own, the hard way.
FMDrive gives you a much easier control over CSM including a way to sync the timer speed to the current FNumber (playing note frequency).
There are two octave range that are usable "musically" so this makes some pretty cool "talking" sounds or instrument.
Game arts studio were among the rare teams who developed in the past a great engine on MSX computer that permitted them to provide unique sounding CSM synthesized speech in their games at the fraction of the size of PCM data.
Learn more on the CSM mode
- Ladder effect emulation (DAC distortion of Model 1). I have found a way to emulate accurately the characteristic DAC distortion from the Model 1 Genesis witch greatly affect the tone...as far as I know, there is currently not even a game emulator platform that provides this feature.
- Direct DAC waveforms. If you can play PCM, you can write waveforms...
- SSG is a very powerful way of looping the entire envelope generator. this can easily reach audio rate to provides ring modulated type of sounds.
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On this day in World Cup 1982. Italy road to Madrid. Italy v Poland 0-0
Today we start the trip in the World Cup Spain 1982.
We decided to follow the Road to Madrid of Italy.
On this day in World Cup
The first match of Italy was against Poland.
Poland was a strong team, one of the best Poland ever.
The star of Poland in 1982 was Zbigniew BONIEK.
Italy Poland 1982 0-0
This are the facts of the match
REFEREE Michel Vautrot (France)
LINESMEN Adolf Prokop (East Germany) Nicolai Rainea (Romania)
YELLOW CARDS 1′ Giampiero Marini (ITA) 10′ Zbigniew Boniek (POL) 47′ Gaetano Scirea (ITA)
1 GK Dino Zoff (c)
4 DF Antonio Cabrini
5 DF Fulvio Collovati
6 DF Claudio Gentile
7 DF Gaetano Scirea
9 MD Giancarlo Antognoni
11 MD Giampiero Marini
14 MD Marco Tardelli
16 MD Bruno Conti
19 FW Francesco Graziani
20 FW Paolo Rossi
Coach: Enzo Bearzot 54 26 Sep 1927
1 GK Jozef Mlynarczyk
5 DF Pawl Janas
9 DF Wladislaw Zmuda (c)
10 DF Stefan Majewski
7 MD Jan Jalocha
8 MD Waldemar Matysik
13 MD Andrzej Buncol
20 MD Zbigniew Boniek
11 FW Wlodzimierz Smolarek
16 FW Grzegorz Lato
19 FW Andrzej Iwan (-72)
18 MD Marek Kusto (+72)
Coach: Antonie Piechniczek


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End user computing and server computing is a critical part of IT for any business. Users need to be supported efficiently to be productive. ITSS provides an all-encompassing tool that offers both end user and server management support. This includes the desktop/laptop/server and mobile/tablet environments.
We also assist your organisation with making an informed decision on the correct or best toolset to purchase.
We utilise one product to provide the above services namely SolarWinds Ncentral.
There are typically three viable options in relation to how we partner with our clients using the toolset.
From a toolset perspective, the SolarWinds Ncentral toolset caters for each example. ITSS have provided solutions using SolarWinds Ncentral, to our clients and have experienced each aspect mentioned above. We guide our clients and provide the best solution offering that fits the client's needs and requirements.
You can now advance your company's productiveness, and eventually, its success by ensuring all your employees are equipped to, or even surpass their full abilities.
Today, companies cannot rely on using financial measures alone. Businesses are required to track non-financial measures for example speed of response and product quality; intensive measures, such as customer experience and brand improvement. This also includes, future procedures, such as employee gratification, core values, preservation, and succession development.
Measuring Customer Experience (CX) provides companies with greater insight into their performance which allows for problems to be attended to before they create a negative effect on the company.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are a company's measurable goals. This is typically attached to an organization's tactic, but often not evaluated properly.
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Maximum goals are reached not through the efforts of an individual person, however by numerous individuals in a diversity of departments which that indicates you always have a situation of "shared accountability" that is fundamental to a company's triumph.
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As networks grow in complexity and scale to thousands or tens of thousands of devices, IT service providers need powerful tools to help them keep up. SolarWinds N-central provides you that power.
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Ncentral scales easily to environment from the SME markets to the larger Enterprise markets. Ncentral's core strength is to provide all of the service offerings in one toolset. What you get within the product set is as follows:


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BioB.S., Materials Engineering, Iowa State University, 2002M.M.S.E., North Carolina State University, 2005Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2006Post-Doc at The Pennsylvania State University, 2006-2008
Jon Ihlefeld is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at the University of Virginia. He joined UVa in 2017 following a career at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM where he held positions of Senior, Principal, and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Materials Science and Engineering Center. His research group studies the linkage between processing, structure, and resulting properties in ferroelectrics, dielectrics, and ion-conducting thin films. His group then utilizes this understanding to enable materials integration resulting in novel electronic, thermal, or optical functionality and devices. This includes demonstration of active phonon transport regulation using ferroelectrics, methods to interrogate nanoscale ferroelectric domain structure in active devices, property enhancement via improved material integration, and fast ion conducting thin films for energy storage, among others. He is currently the Chair of the Electronics Division of The American Ceramic Society, an Associate Editor of the Journal of The American Ceramic Society, a Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Applied Physics Letters.


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Hockey Prospectus 2013-14 is now available for purchase. See here for details on how to make said purchase.
For those interested, I contributed to the BUF, OTT, and WPG pages. For WPG, I wrote about stuff related to realignment, and how WPG's travel will be affected. For BUF and OTT, I analyzed their goalie situations using a new technique.
I'll write more about those techniques in a forthcoming post, but the basic idea is that the approach automagically regresses a goalies estimated true Sv% towards the league average, especially for those goalies who have faced relatively few shots.


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Whether on the personal or corporate level, managing risk and maintaining compliance are fundamentally important in our ever-evolving society. However, navigating the details and creating a personalized plan can be a complicated process.
To help you make informed choices, we are proud to offer BenderU: a company-sponsored series of seminars designed to educate you on the issues that matter to you, your family, and your business.


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USAID's Women's Leadership in Small & Medium Enterprises (WLSME) initiative expanded the frontiers of this field to generate new learning about which interventions for women's entrepreneurship in SMEs work best in different developing country contexts. The resources on this site cover the external constraints, human capital constraints, information and network constraints, and risk challenges that businesswomen face.
Women's Leadership in Small & Medium Enterprises (WLSME)
Oct 02, 2014
Disparities in initial resource endowments of men- and women-led firms, sector sorting into low productivity activities, social norms, and institutional arrangements, constrain the growth of women-led enterprises.
Sep 25, 2014
This project conducts critical research and learning activities to disseminate and share with the development community to examine how women leaders of small businesses can better engage in the cashew value chain.
Sep 15, 2014
A new report by Babson College on the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative has found that training and education for women entrepreneurs positively affect emerging economies by increasing revenues and creating jobs.
Sep 05, 2014
Across a wide spectrum of society, there is growing recognition of the central role that women play in the world economy.
Aug 25, 2014
There are numerous projects and programs focusing on female entrepreneurship worldwide, yet there were no measures available to compare countries according to the same metrics. The Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) was created to fill this gap.
Jul 16, 2014
Equity-based crowdfunding emerges as a promising opportunity to empower female entrepreneurship and to emancipate investment.
Jul 16, 2014
Women's World Banking (WWB) finally closed its first private equity fund to invest in microfinance enterprises that support women.
Jul 16, 2014
The SME Survey 2014, an annual study of factors behind the success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa, has found that a small business owned by a woman has a better chance of being profitable than one run by a man.
Jun 16, 2014
About 63 percent of women in the non-agricultural labor force are self-employed in the informal sector in Africa, more than twice the worldwide rate, according to World Bank data.
Jun 16, 2014
According to an Asia Foundation study of the business environment in Bangladesh, male- operated small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) far outnumber those led by women SME entrepreneurs, and only 69 of the 3,800 firms in the sample have at least one female owner.
Jun 16, 2014
USAID press release: Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in driving economic growth and job creation.
Jun 14, 2014
The Gender-GEDI Index provides key insights designed to help countries advance female entrepreneurship and ultimately bolster the global economy.
May 13, 2014
Development finance institutions – such as the International Finance Corporation and Britain's CDC – play a significant role in early stage SME financing while laying the foundation for other forms of investment.
Apr 29, 2014
Women entrepreneurs in Africa have historically had more limited business networks than men. With advances in technology reaching around the world, there is a growing opportunity to use technology to break this divide.
Apr 23, 2014
Research suggesting that certain entrepreneurial mindsets and skills can be learned has given rise to the field of entrepreneurship education and training (EET).
Mar 04, 2014
On March 5-10, 2014, USAID's Women's Leadership in Small and Medium Enterprises (WLSME) program is sponsoring the 8th National Garment Trade Fair "Fashion Industry 2014: Manufactures and Equipment" hosted by the Association of Light Industry Enterprises.
Feb 24, 2014
Investing in women and girls is one of the highest return opportunities available in the developing world, as a wide range of economic research shows.
Jan 21, 2014
This article was cross-posted from www.marcopolis.net . Interview with Meaza Ashenafi, Chairperson of Enat Bank. 1. What is your overview of the banking sector and what is your outlook for 2014 and onward? In Ethiopia, private banks started to flourish since 1994. Before 1994, there were no private...
Sep 01, 2013
Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) and Sector3 Social Venture Group have partnered in Peru to implement the Women Entrepreneurs Leading Development project (WELD).
Sep 01, 2013
The Pakistan Firms Project is helping increase the profitability and incomes of small and mediumsized enterprises in vulnerable areas.


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Have you ever play or heard about any of spirit's game? Spirit of the coin, spirit of the glass or whatever game that required you to worship the ghost spirits? Have you try it before?
(aku pernah main weh mase kat BBGS dulu2 time zaman jahiliah. tobat takmau main lagi)
Ok, without any further please let me start. The spirits game is a game which required a coin / glass / chain / pen or anything as an object to worship. The object would be place in the center of a medium size of cardboard that contains numbers, letters, and the word of yes, no and goodbye. The players would have to put their finger on top of the coin, and set the prayer until the spirit or ghost come and play with them. If you're lucky, the ghost would appear, but if not it would be waste of time.
Here how the prayer will sounds like:
"Spirit spirit of the coin,
Come here and join us.
Spirit spirit of the coin,
Come here we need you.
Spirit spirit of the coin,
Come to me!"
Seriously, you have to be very bold to play this game. There are 5 main rules of playing spirits game which are:
Sometimes, it would get you bad consequences if you join this Satanism game. So girls and boys DO NOT PLAY SPIRITS GAME!! Exploring by books would be good enough to satisfy the curiosity instead of trying things that could harm you.
p/s : Ops, no merdeka entry in this blog? Bohsan la..I just wanna sleep. Semangat merdeka akan ku tunjukkan dengan mengibarkan bendera Malaysia sambil melaungkan MERDEKA3x dalam mimpiku yang diulit indah bersama putera bunian yang paling handsome di alam semesta!
Ikhlas dari kepala ke lutut, neo si lampu neon.
- Pray the ghost's spirit to come.
- Do not make the ghost mad.
- Do not lift finger up while playing.
- Ask any question to the ghost and keep the ghost on the game.
- Sent the ghost back to their own place.
You can't play with the rules. The main rule is do not ever lift up your finger if you are still on the game, if not the spirits / the ghosts will not ever return to their home but will haunt you forever.
It's still fresh in my mind that my friends and I were very bold to play this game during school periods. I assumed that God will forgive me for playing that sin's game because at that moment I was quit ignorant.*ha- ha*. I was really bored at that time, and I stay put at my table. My class was really noisy as the teacher came up late. So, my friend came and asked me to play a game – here to mention that she is not Muslim. With a sudden, she drew a spirit board and took out a coin. "Let's play spirit of the coin", she jerked. I was like yeah, why not. It's a bright day outside anyway =) we gathered about 7 people to join us, and started to worship the coin. We prayed and waited for the ghost to come until our fingers got tired but nothing came up. See, what a waste of time. I guess it just not our lucky day.
Nowadays, I always heard that there are always cases of people get hunted by a ghost for playing spirits game. My cousin also had her own experience of playing the game as she the only one who gets hunted. After the play, she gets hysteria which had made everyone around her pretty terrified. She even dropped her high school because of lost attention of her studies. If people get near her to talk, she would talked in a very bizarre way never you could imagine. As she talked, she likely to played with her hair, and giggled and wiggled as if she is a baby. However, her family had sent her to the traditional doctor which we usually call, bomoh. Her family had tried so many ways to get her fixed from the sickness and at last she totally recovered from the diseased after 3 years been hunted. SO SCARY.
Sometimes, it would get you bad consequences if you join this Satanism game. So girls and boys DO NOT PLAY SPIRITS GAME!! Exploring by books would be good enough to satisfy the curiosity instead of trying things that could harm you.
_Just for you to see..How people play the spirits game_
Ikhlas dari kepala ke lutut, neo si lampu neon.


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N° 27–2000: HST's 10th anniversary, ESA and Hubble : changing our vision
17 April 2000
To mark the Hubble Space Telescope's tenth anniversary, ESA is hosting a press conference at the Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) in Munich on Thursday April 27.
With the astronauts who took part in the most recent Servicing Mission (SM3A) in attendance, ESA is taking the opportunity to give a - first - complete overview of Europe's major contribution to the HST mission. It will also review the first ten years of operations and the outstanding results that have "changed our vision" of the cosmos. A new fully European outreach initiative - the "European Space Agency Hubble Information Centre" - will be presented and officially launched; it has been set up by ESA to provide information on Hubble from a European perspective.
A public conference will take place in the afternoon to celebrate Hubble's achievements midway through its life.
Ten years of outstanding performance
Launched on 24 April 1990, Hubble is now midway through its operating life and it is considered one of the most successful space science missions ever. So far more than 10,000 scientific papers based on Hubble results have been published and European scientists have contributed to more than 25% of these.
Not only has Hubble produced a rich harvest of scientific results, it has impressed the man in the street with its beautiful images of the sky. Thousands of headlines all over the world have given direct proof of the public's great interest in the mission - 'The deepest images ever', 'The sharpest view of the Universe', 'Measurements of the earliest galaxies' and many others, all reflecting Hubble's performance as a top-class observatory.
The Servicing Missions that keep the observatory and its instruments in prime condition are one of the innovative ideas behind Hubble. Astronauts have serviced Hubble three times, and ESA astronauts have taken part in two of these missions. Claude Nicollier (CH) worked with American colleagues on the First Servicing Mission, when Hubble's initial optical problems were repaired. On the latest, Servicing Mission 3A, both Claude Nicollier and Jean-François Clervoy (F) were members of the crew.
Over the next 10 years European scientists still plan to use Hubble as one of their prime research tools, but they also expect to benefit from synergy between Hubble and the ground-based 8-metre class telescopes that are becoming available to scientists in Europe.
Notes for editors
The Hubble Space Telescope is an international cooperation project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The partnership agreement between ESA and NASA was signed on 7 October 1977. ESA has provided, among other items, two pairs of solar panels and one of Hubble's scientific instruments (the Faint Object Camera). 15 European scientists are contributing to the science operation of the Hubble Observatory and are currently working at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore (STScI). In return for this contribution, European astronomers have guaranteed access to 15% of Hubble's observing time.
Scientific operation of the Hubble Observatory is the responsibility of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is run for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).
The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), hosted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching near Munich, Germany, provides support to European Hubble users. ESA and ESO jointly operate ST-ECF.
From 27 April 2000 the "European Space Agency Hubble Information Centre" will be available with its services on the World Wide Web at http://hubble.esa.int as part of the recently upgraded ESA Science website http://sci.esa.int
For more information, please contact :
ESA - Communication Department
Media Relations Office
Tel: +33(0)22.214.171.12455
Fax: +33(0)18.104.22.16890
Press conference
Thursday 27 April at 10:30h
Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) (c/o European Southern Observatory (ESO), K. Schwarzschild-Str. 2, Garching bei München, Germany), Auditorium.
Press event programme
10:30 Catherine Cesarsky, ESO Director General: "Welcome address: The Synergy between Ground and Space-based astronomy"
10:40 Roger M. Bonnet, ESA Director of Science: "ESA and Hubble: Changing our Vision"
10:50 Piero Benvenuti, ESA HST Project Scientist: "Hubble's Impact on Science"
11:00 Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ludwig-Maximilian University: "Hubble and European Science"
11:10 Servicing Mission Astronauts: "Working with Hubble in Space"
11:15 Hugo Marée, ESA Science Programme Communication Service: "The ESA Hubble Information Centre and Its Services"
12:30 Cocktails & lunch - informal Q&A, interview opportunities
Public Conference Thursday 27 April at 15:00h
Hörsaal MW 2001 (Rudolf-Diesel-Hörsaal)
Technische Universität,
Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
Bolzmannstr. 15, Forschungsgelände
D-85748 Garching bei München
Everyone interested is welcome.
15:00 Roger Bonnet, ESA Director of Science: "Welcome and introduction"
15:15 Piero Benvenuti, ESA HST Project Scientist: "10 years of Hubble Science"
15:30 Servicing Mission Astronauts: "Working with Hubble in Space"


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Tax credits if you leave or move to the UK
You live outside the UK
You could get tax credits if you're a Crown servant posted overseas or you live abroad with your child and get UK benefits or the State Pension.
You're a Crown servant posted overseas
You may be able to claim tax credits, just as if you were living in the UK. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will treat you as being in the UK if any of the following applies:
- you are, or were just before you were posted abroad, 'ordinarily resident' in the UK
- you've had a series of postings abroad, with no breaks in between - and you are or were 'ordinarily resident' in the UK immediately before the first of those postings
- you were in the UK just before you were posted abroad and the reason you were in the UK was connected to your posting - this can apply to a single posting or to a series of postings
Ordinarily resident
Ordinarily resident means you normally live in the UK, and plan to stay here for the time being. When HMRC decides if you're ordinarily resident in the UK they'll look at things like:
- where your settled home is
- where your close family live
- why you came to the UK
- if you plan to leave the UK permanently in the next 2 or 3 years
Your partner's a Crown servant posted overseas
You may be able to claim tax credits if your partner's a Crown servant posted outside the UK and you:
- live with your partner while they work abroad
- live in the UK while your partner works abroad
You do not need to be ordinarily resident in the UK during the time you're with your Crown servant partner overseas.
You have a child - and get UK benefits or State Pension
If none of the sections above apply to you, you might be able to claim Child Tax Credit if you and your child live in a European Union (EU) member state and you get State Pension or one of the following benefits:
- Incapacity Benefit
- State Pension
- Widow's Benefit
- Bereavement Benefit
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance
- Severe Disablement Allowance
You will not be able to get Child Tax Credit if you do not live in an EU member state, unless you (or your partner) are a Crown servant posted abroad.


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Bike and Hike in the Algarve
With the sun already warming the coast and the countryside of the Algarve, but the fresh breeze still making it enjoyable, it is the perfect weather to take up any of the walking or biking trails the Algarve has to offer.
There is no better way enjoy the wonderful and diverse natural environments at a slow and quiet pace and to sniff in Portuguese culture in the small villages you might pass through.
Do not worry: there are walking routes Algarve for all levels and wishes, from short and easy day-trips, to a full-on hiking experience of several weeks. You pick and choose your hike in the Algarve! Algarve Housing like to inform you with the main hike trails in the Algarve.


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Bulgarians can Travel Without Visas in 156 Countries
Bulgarians can travel freely without visas in 156 countries. By this indicator we rank at the prestigious 20th place in the world, bypassing most of our neighbors.
The Ranking of the Henley Passport index for 2018 for free movement is headed by Germany, whose citizens can visa-free travel in 177 countries. The second place is for Singapore (176 countries) and the third is shared by Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the UK, whose subjects are free to travel in 175 countries. The Americans are fifth. They do not need a visa in 173 countries. At the bottom of the list are Iraq and Syria, their citizens can visit visa-free only 27 and 28 countries respectively. In the Balkans, in front of Bulgaria are only Greece and Slovenia, which occupy respectively 7th and 11th place. Greeks and Slovenes travel visa-free in 171 and 167 countries. At the same time, Bulgaria is ahead of Serbia with a total of 21 positions (41st place). Its citizens can travel freely in 119 countries. The Republic of Macedonia is 46th (112 countries), Montenegro is 48/110 countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina is 51/105 countries, Albania is 52/100 countries.


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Using Ohai to obtain platform September 1, 2009Posted by John Dewey in Chef, Code, Deployment, Ohai.
I have found myself needing to know the operating system platform. Rather than explicitly checking for /etc/lsb-base or /etc/issue to determine if it's Ubuntu or Debian respectively. Let Ohai do the work for you.
This small gist prints the platform. You can access just about anything you want to know about your system via this method.
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During the early days of cloud computing–let's call it "Cloud Uno" since Cloud 1.0 has already been used–several phrases were consistently used to describe it. Some of them were:
Over time, most cloud IaaS environments improved in each of these areas. Although on-demand and rapid provisioning implied speed-to-a-login-prompt, speed in today's cloud – "Cloud Dos" (that is "Cloud 2.0") – has a different meaning.
Now cloud computing, specifically the leading public clouds like AWS and Azure, is used to get products to market more quickly. For Cloud Dos, no longer does the debate center around cost and security, but instead the speed at which one solves business problems and pursues innovative ideas. You may find that costs are slightly higher for the leading public clouds. However, when you compare the number of tools and services available in AWS and Azure's toolboxes then compound it with their rapid rates of innovation and new tool introduction, the additional costs are quickly overshadowed. In addition, I would argue that most enterprises still don't fully understand the cost of their internally run private cloud, but their business owners do understand how long it takes to get things done using it. While security is still a leading concern, public clouds have made great strides over the past few years, and in some cases meet more security certification than many private clouds.
The recent announcement by HP that it will sunset its Helion Public Cloud makes it clear that keeping up with the quick pace of feature announcements from the public cloud leaders may be impossible. Azure has added around 500 new features and services in the past 12 months alone. Not only do AWS and Azure introduce features quickly, but their tools and services are quickly accelerating up the solution stack as well–this fall, AWS rolled out QuickSight, its own cloud-powered business intelligence tool.
In addition, the revenue growth rates of the leading public cloud, AWS, is diminishing the naysayers with YoY revenue growth numbers north of 75%. There is abundant market evidence that the public cloud is not just for test/dev and proof of concepts anymore.
The public cloud is progressing quickly. Companies need to think long and hard if they can afford to disregard its benefits.