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The new centre in Frankfurt will support
mega-trend-driven innovation
But there is a sense that a herd mentality has set in here now - with some proponents really not up to exploiting the mega-trends they have identified, given lack of core expertise in some vital areas. I discussed this idea with Alasdair Nisbet of Lazard bank not so long ago - you can see his views in this ICIS article.
A quick search over the strategy pronouncements of the the leading innovation-centred chemical producers shows that many are focusing on the same mega-trends - not so much room there to carve out a competitive edge.
Take AkzoNobel - it is focusing its longer-term strategic thinking around population growth, climate change, scarcity of natural resources and improvement in quality of life in high growth markets. Or BASF - urbanisation, demographic change, growing energy and mobility needs and world population growth. And Dow - energy, transportation and infrastructure, health and nutrition and consumerism... see what I mean - I could go on with another half a dozen companies. Well why not: Lanxess - mobility, agriculture, urbanisation and water; DSM - global shifts, climate and energy, health and wellness...
My point is that to exploit a growing mega-trend a company needs a wide range of associated innovation competencies - some of which may be lacking. This may, as Nisbet predicts, spur M&A activity as producers try to buy in technology to widen their competency. Or it might really lead to step-out innovation in new areas.
Which I guess is where we get back to the Clariant investment. The new innovation centre will house 500 scientists and business personnel, in open-plan architecture designed to combine chemical research and development activities with application-oriented labs and technical marketing functions of several business units. In this respect it looks to emulate Evonik's science-to-business centre philosophy which has garnered critical acclaim in recent years.
But whether anyone can forge ahead with the mega-trend bus is now a moot question, as everyone seems to be onboard and heading in the same direction!


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At the Nigerian Embassy in The Hague, we designed an extension to the official residence for conference rooms and guest areas.
To preserve the detached nature of the villa and the beautiful views of the pond and gardens, we exploited the extension at level -1. By placing the extension in earthworks, the ground appears to roll smoothly, as if the extension is built underground. This can be built above ground within a closed soil balance and the view from the villa is undisturbed.
By keeping to the -1 level the extension connects snugly to the villa. The extension has daylight on several sides and opens to a wide area, providing a vista over the pond and gardens. This will be a strong outside-inside experience and creates the visual impression that the spatial limits are exceeded.
The roof and two walls are covered with earth and vegetation, thus a high isolation factor is created. In addition, this creates double land use; firstly for the conference and guest rooms and secondly, the 'roof' may used as a terrace for relaxation.
Whether the pond could be used for heating and cooling the building surface areas is being investigated. Through the optimal use of daylight, relatively little additional lighting is required. This action, together with energy-efficient solar panels on the roof of the residence, can realize a sustainable energy generation source.
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It's no secret, the last couple of years on the farm have been bloody tough. The 2015 drought cut deep here, only to be followed by the dairy debacle of 2016. Now the historic agreement to sell Australia's last big co-op has us in unchartered waters.
We just need a bit of a breather to recover and keep our heads above water.
During the last two years, we've closed down spending as much as possible. We haven't sacrificed feeding cows or looking after our soils but, beyond that, if it could wait, it did.
It means we have some maintenance to catch up on, especially the farm laneways that the cows use to get to and from their paddocks. Maintaining tracks is expensive and we have the equivalent of a very good year's profit to make up as well as new debts to repay. It hasn't been a very good year yet.
So, you can imagine how it felt when I heard Freshagenda's revised forecast for next financial year, which basically said milk prices are headed down again. Not good. Demoralised and, honestly, rather cranky.
But is there really anything to worry about?
After all, a year (or even half of one) is a long time in dairy commodity pricing. Freshagenda notes there are plenty of variables, like exchange rates, the weather in New Zealand and even the Russian ban on dairy products, that can all still make a big difference to the outcome.
This farmer's left wondering whether it's safe to let the moths out of the cheque book for that much needed maintenance.
If I spend too much, there might not be enough left in the kitty for another tight year. If I keep the hatches battened down, the tracks will cost a fortune to bring back to square one in another two years' time.
While all of that is a big deal for me, others argue there's much more at stake. There's the psychological impact on farmers for a start.
If social media is any guide, plenty of farmers have had a gutful of industry turmoil and tight times. Some of them will curl up into a little ball, some will grin and bear it, while others will simply walk away.
I've heard farmers suggest it's irresponsible to publish something like that when the industry is on a knife edge. Others worry that the processors will use commentary like this to jawbone the farmgate milk price down.
Either way, they argue, it could help to dampen milk production for another year, reducing Australia's ability to be an efficient, reliable exporter.
With all this in mind, it's not surprising Freshagenda has copped a bit of flack. Its founding couple, Jo Bills and Steve Spencer, shouldn't be surprised. Dairy Australia famously stopped issuing similar forecasts after similar blowback.
Asked for comment by Milk Maid Marian, DA explained its approach this way:
"Dairy Australia exists to provide our farmer stakeholders with the most accurate and up to date information so they can make informed decisions around their business practices."
"Our role in this space is to provide an unbiased view on current market trends and drivers, through publications like the Situation and Outlook report.
"Milk pricing varies greatly from processor to processor and farm business to farm business. Our approach is to provide the information and insights that farmers can apply to their own context, and draw much more meaningful conclusions than an industry 'average' price.
"DA moved away from providing an exact prediction on milk pricing for a number of reasons, these include:
– The risk of eroding competition for milk and unduly influencing market decisions made by processors.
– The industry is now in an environment where there is significant variation in processor prices meaning that no price will ever apply to everyone. This has not always been the case.
– Milk pricing is extremely complex and there are too many variables for DA to confidently predict a single/universal price."
It provides all the ingredients for a powerful argument against the proposed $2 million milk price index that seems to have gone very quiet.
On the other hand, Freshagenda is not the only one pointing to a softening in global dairy commodity prices. A quick Googling will reveal analysts from around the world coming to the same conclusion that this cycle is already turning. The processors all know it and can point to any amount of evidence for a lower new season's price if they want.
Freshagenda has simply put that into context for Australians.
Yes, they've also put a number on it, or "numbers" I should say as they've actually offered a fairly broad price range that comes with the expected caveats regarding changing conditions.
When the dairy debacle of 2016 unfolded, it caught farmers by surprise. Many asked why they weren't warned. We can't have it both ways.
The question is: would you want to know if there's a bad moon rising? At spreadsheet-time, yes, I would.


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Kids used their light icon to help them figure out which side of their bamboo shoot would be the lighter side. Even at third grade some still have to stop and think about this. I even had them finger walk from the icon to the bamboo to see which side their fingers reached first.
Some got away from using just horizontal and vertical cylinders and decided on their own what directions to use -- I loved it!! Now we have more variety.


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Keep up the pressure. This man is not appropriate for this job. Michelle Malkin has contact information for the corporations that support GLSEN, the organization founded by Jennings and which advocates this "safe-school" pornography, including news that GLSEN distributed a guide to "black-leather bars" to teens during one GLSEN conference.
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Oh yeah, DICKS. We haven't done one of these in a while. Let's do one now!
Don't be afraid of the hanja! In the video we didn't really explain too much about what hanja are; hanja are Korean words that come from Chinese characters. Nowadays people just spell everything out using 한글 but in our parents' generation, newspapers still used hanja and you wouldn't be able to read a book without knowing several thousand characters. That's right I said thousand, which makes them super scary sounding.
And they are scary. They're complicated looking. And many of them are confusingly similar. But they're also really elegant, and interesting, and if you kinda sorta generally know about them, they'll make your life loads easier.
For example, in the video, we taught you that 방학 is the word for the kind of vacations (holidays?) Korean students take. We also learned another word for vacation, "휴가" which is when you take off time from work. That 휴 in 휴가 is also hanja, which looks like 休 and means to rest. If you know that, it makes remembering all these other words that use the 休 hanja a scrillion times easier.
휴학 is a gap year, or a semester taken off school. 휴 means rest, and 학 means school, so 휴학 literally means "rest from school"
연휴 is a long or holiday weekend
휴게소 literally means resting place, like pit stop on the road. 소 means place, like how the word for laundromat (laundrette?) is 빨래 + 소, which means "laundry place"
휴무 means day off, or when a place will be closed
See what I mean? Hanja is cool, right? And it's even cooler on account of our epic hanja hats, amirite? Yes? Hello? Are you guys still there?
We're not really sure if y'all are interested in hanja. Since you can live your life in Korean just fine without ever learning a single one, maybe we should pitch our hanja hats and forget this ever happened. What do you think? More hanja? No hanja? Let us know.
Speaking of pitching things, there are loads of words we wanted to share that didn't make the final cut. We got a bit carried away and filmed about 30 minutes of this, but sent most of it to the bin. "The bin" (and the whole concept of binning your rubbish) is one of them, since Americans don't bin things, they throw them away. In the trash. Maybe in a trash can. But never just a can. Or a bin. We also don't hoot our car horns. We honk them. And who hoovers their carpets, besides the British? Do the Aussies also hoover? Or do you vacuum like everybody else? What about queuing? Or using torches? Do you use aerials or antenna?
There are a few phrases we're not so sure about either. Apparently British people can "be pulled up" or can "do a bunk," whatever that means. I swear, we're not "having you on." And we hear that in England even ladies can "knock up," but in America only men can knock you up, and usually only when shagging (which we also don't really do). We bone, or boink, or schtupp, or do each other, or maybe even make love, but we definitely don't shag. Shag is a kind of carpet.
Still, you guys taught us lots of lots of great slang from all over the UK that should totally be part of Americans' vernaculars. If you liked this episode, let us know, and hopefully we can do another one in the future. We didn't even talk about accents! Suiyoubii told us we can't do an accent episode without talking about the Geordies, which means if you want to hear us butcher the Geordie accent in the future, you definitely need to subscribe, so you won't miss it. Click the button below to make it happen!
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kind of peeves me off the way you've differentiated between the two using 'english' and 'british english'. i think you'll find it's 'english' and 'american english'. Also, exclaiming 'why?!' after discovering the original english word is stupid, ask instead 'why' americans changed it. Plus, no one in england speaks like that, most people in england, especially up north have very very very different accents with different dialects and slang so when speaking about something like this and putting on an accent like that, please only describe it as 'the queen's english' which is how those pretentious accents are called here. thank you.
"I agree with Harriet Elizabeth. Her response was exactly what I was thinking when I was watching.
I was actually really interested to watch the video and check out the comparisons but the majority of it felt like it was just 'taking the piss out of' (there's another English phrase – in American English "making fun of") English terms. Pulling screwed up faces every time the English term was presented like it's stupid and asking "Why!?"
I'd never even heard of the term "perambulator" – after looking it up on google – it says it is an old-fashioned term. In my whole life I've only ever heard and used the term Pram.
And I agree about the accent – it's so witless and weird because I've never even heard anyone talk like that in England, only an extremely small percentage of the entire population speak like the queen. It would be like if an English person made a video that looks like they are generalising that the majority of Americans spoke like they were from the deep south. Of course, America has many different diverse and wonderful accents, and we do too in England, even though we are only a wee (small) island. The "Geordie" accent was referenced above.
Noticing the differences is fine and dandy but we should enjoy the differences in our languages and dialects.
It reminds me of a fantastic podcast by our national treasure Stephen Fry.
OK finished rant lol. Just seems like something I have come across so many times over the past few years of travelling around."
This was extremely entertaining.
Weird about the interchange/intersection, though – I'm full-blooded English and have lived in the UK my entire life, but I've only ever heard "interchange" being used when it's a large motorway junction. Or sometimes at a roundabout. We do use "intersection", though, but it's more a kind of generic term for any intersection you come across. The word we typically use as the equivalent to "intersection" is actually "junction". So, junction, T-junction, Y-junction… and the four-way one we call a crossroads. Or you get a five-way junction or whatever. But all the motorway intersections are referred to as "junctions" (you'll see this on the road signs whenever they feel the need to pop up a "delays between junctions 23 -27") the whole way across the country, and I've travelled around a fair bit and only really heard people referring to junctions, so I'm pretty sure it's not just a northerner thing from the area I'm from.
(Aubergine is French. But I've always been confused why Americans call them eggplants, because there's nothing egg-like about them.)
And when it comes to vacation… one of my friends is at Oxford, and they don't have holidays there at university. They call them vacations, because they vacate the university premises but they're still expected to be doing work while they're away. (From what I can make out, it's basically just holiday work, but there's something about it by law being that they have to do/term it that way or else the terms aren't long enough. Might be myth. There are lots of fun stories surrounding Oxford and Cambridge and our older universities that are probably just fun stories rather than being true.) My friend actually got given a small handbook of Oxford slang when she arrived there so that she'd know what people were talking about, because they basically have their own vocabulary. So does Cambridge. The one that amused me most is that the cleaners in Oxford accommodation are apparently known as "scouts"… and in Cambridge they're known as "bedders".
As for "pram"/"perambulator", that etymologically has its roots in Latin. "Per" is the Latin preposition meaning "through" or "by means of" and "ambulator" comes from the Latin verb "ambulo", which means "to walk". But people (quite rightly) decided that "perambulator" was far too long to say, so they dropped the "bulator", and then the "e" dropped out because "pram" is quicker and easier to say than "peram".
I also ended up teaching on an English summer school last summer, and we had some kids from South America as well as a whole bunch from Europe. It was really interesting, because the South American ones had all been taught American English and the European ones by and large UK English, so I ended up doing a session on words that were different between UK and US English.
And it took me quite some time to persuade the South American ones that you don't go out in your pants in the UK. We had a good laugh over that.
(We call them trousers here, because pants are underwear.)
Americans used to call a break from work "holiday", too, until it became fashionable for the upper crust of New York to leave town for the summer and go up to the Adirondacks. When they did, they vacated their residences in the city, giving rise to the term "vacation" for a break from work often involving travel.
Well, etymologically, "holiday" is supposed to come from "holy day" and many holidays revolved around days of religious observance. So if they were taking a break that wasn't due to a day of religious observance, it makes sense that they'd use another word to express it.
lol Americans call them eggplants because in the growing stages they are shapped like a purple egg, also there is a white variety that looks like this: http://bonnieplants.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/white-eggplant-lo-225×300.jpg… which really really looks like an egg
Hmm… it does look kind of like an egg.
And what about English muffins or whatever they're called? Because the first time I came across them was when I was abroad with European friends in France and one of them (who was German) turned around and was like "hey, you must eat these every day, right?" I was almost lost for words. Most of my other English friends were like "wait… these things exist?" too.
@Ella Kay yeah in the U.S toilet is used mostly for the actual thing you sit on rather than the room itself. Most people use bathroom or restroom, lol nobody uses loo or lavatory though unfortunately
Oh man, I am just really nerdy or is all this etymology talk super interesting to anyone else? Thanks for sharing, guise. I always wondered why there were so many French words in English.
So upon some research I found out that the "English Muffin" was invented by a British imigrant to New York (originally from Plymouth England) circa the late 1800s. Its from what they described a more bread/toast like version of the crumpet and really did not get to England till about a century later in the 1990s :D that is so funny I really did always think they were English. huh.
Oh also again on the eggplant thing, it was you guys who first called them that because the white and yellow variety was most common in Europe at the time. It was later that the french name was borrowed and the purple variety got there (though I'm not sure exactly when)…. Also random fact in the U.S. (and in Brazil where I live) most eggs you buy are white not brown, though you can get the brown ones too at stores… but they tend to be more expensive.
@fighterfemme I don't actually like crumpets all that much. The rest of my family thinks I'm really weird. But I also don't like tea, and that's pretty much a faux pas for and English person.
English muffins apparently show up a fair amount on the continent, if what my friends were saying is any indication.
Another one of the French adopted/rejected words is toilet, I think. (In the sense of it being a WC.) It's just the word that they use in French-speaking classes, but then in the UK people say loo (well, some of them). Or lavatory, if they're being very proper and posh (it's kind of only my gran's generation that still does that, though). I tend just to go for washroom to be diplomatic, or bathroom, depending on the situation.
@Ella Kay (lol must be why) I don't think I've ever had crumpets, though I have had the english muffin while i lived in the U.S. even there it wasnt exactly common though… oh but you could get it as a breakfast item at McD's so i guess not that uncommon either.
I new about the adoption of french words but I didn't know about the upper classes rejecting them, haha that is so funny. I can understand where they are coming from though.
As for the eggs, yeah its the breed of hen, lol my grandma has a few in her farm and most lay brown eggs, but some lay white eggs and another lay this very very pale egg that has an almost pale blue/green tinge to the shell. but it is very very light.
@fighterfemme (For some reason, it won't let me reply to your post, maybe to prevent things from getting too long/too far across the page?)
I didn't know that about the English muffin. But yeah, most people don't really know what they are. We still have crumpets over here (I think my family is addicted to them, to be honest).
Yeah… we changed the names of a lot of things to use the French versions. The words you had in your vocabulary were essentially a part of what class you were, and since many of the upper classes spoke/were part French (due to… must be the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, as I'm pretty sure he was the last invader to successfully conquer England), people who wanted to seem more upper class started adopting French words. That said, some of the upper classes disliked the Frenchisms so much that they tried to drop them, so you get words like "serviette", which were apparently much more of a middle class thing, while the upper class still rather obstinately used "napkin".
Yeah, the eggs we get have brown/pale brown shells. Must just be the breed of hen.
Do a bunk: To wag, skip school, be a truant etc.
ITs common in New Zealand too. like "I'm bunking chem" "Lets bunk economics".
I don't know why but I always used to say Lux instead of vacuum. It was only at high school when a friend didn't know what I was talking about that I changed to vacuum like everything else.
One thing about New Zealand is that we are familiar with the American and British versions of most sayings because we are affected strongly by both countries though we usually have a preference for which version we use. It depends on what you are trying to say though!
I am a cross-Atlantic child, with a mum from England and a dad from the US. So I never actually know when I'm using one country's slang or another. But there are a few that I always get a kick out of. For example, in the US, there are fanny packs. But in the UK, a fanny is a woman's hoo-ha. And is a quite risqué. So instead of a fanny-pack, they are called bum-bags. Which I find hilarious for some reason.
Ah, the Hanja! Studying Japanese – which calls them Kanji – means you have to know those thousands if you want to read or write. Yep. No substitute. After five years I know a solid thousand, but that's still not enough. However, I love studying them. Each of them have a cultural origin and meaning and they make the language deep and beautiful. It also helps with studying Korean because a lot of words have a pronounciation that is similar to the Japanese word, so it's easy and fun to learn. Yay languages!
Soo Zee, did you really not know about stick shift? Man! That's how everyone drives in France! More and more cars are automatic, but they are still the exception (and a thing of the future – I was astonished to see how many automatic cars there are in Malaysia and Australia). Back home, everyone learns how to drive manual. That's why it takes so long to get your driving license…
Yes, "aubergine" is French.
Thanks for the DICKS guys! Ooh, that didn't sound right…
Depends, if he's in the North it's pants, only soft southerners say trousers. :P
PS.Pants is not American, it's 19th century English word derived from the European word Pantaloon.
I'm English and this amused me so much!
When I went to Korea, one of the things I got picked up on was "toiletries" which is basically a collective name for bathroom stuff like shampoo, soap, toothpaste and things, no one had a clue what I was talking about, paha. For the British-American thing, there's the whole "chips" thing, chips here are like fries, but America it's crisps, America say diapers, we say nappies. There's probably so much more…
Here's some lovely British terms for you:
"Up the duff" "preggers" Being "knocked up" = Pregnant
Getting with someone = Kissing them/ making out
Pulling someone = Successfully obtaining a partner at a club or whatever and getting to business and being "on the pull" means looking for a partner for such business…
I say things like "grim" which means gross basically or nasty, "nomnom" which is just a way of saying yummy.
We're "obvs" advancing the English language well!
PS. The Geordie accent is annoying, but I recommend you watch a show called "Geordie Shore", it will give you a glimpse of some of the classy people of England, and you will learn lots of fun words and phrases such as "worldie" "tashing on" and "getting mortal" and manyyy more. We don't all talk like that, I swear haha, I could go on because every area of England has lots of different words, there's things I don't even understand half the time!
Lol some of my favorite differences are car related: trucks/lorries (though there are certain specifications), hood/bonnet, trunk/boot, sweater/jumper. It is really fun discovering all these
Also, something I forgot to say earlier: somebody the other day was telling me about how he used to enjoy walking down Oxford Street in London when he was younger (I think it was Oxford Street), because there used to be these street announcers asking people to stay off the road.
The only trouble was that there were a lot of American tourists, and the vocabulary they used wasn't helpful, because they said "please keep to the pavement".
And apparently the "pavement" in the US is the paved area of the street — i.e. the road. And in the UK, we paved the sidewalks, so they're the pavements for us. (Seriously, we don't use sidewalk here.) My friend said it was very entertaining watching the confusion of the American tourists who didn't understand why they were being asked to remain in the road.
As for a Norwegian who grew up watching American movies and using American English, moving to England did put me in some awkward situations. In England they don't use the word pants. Or they use it but then it means men's underwear. The correct term would be trousers. But you can bet that I said pants a lot before someone told me! And also if you say school about university, it makes you sound as if you're fourteen or something. It's always university or uni.
And this is why when I first heard the anthem "Iiii lost my paaaaants", it took a much nastier meaning in my mind ;D
In the UK we have the delightful ability to use certain words and have them mean many different things.
For example bum, means your arse, a tramp, you can bum a drink/cigarette for free of someone, it can be used as an insult and as a verb which means to have anal sex.
For other slang which is considered swearing(the BBC actually did a poll on this), there is bollocks which also has many different meanings, it's main meaning is testicles, talking bollocks means talking crap, you can be stark bollock naked,you can bollocks something up(completely screw something up), the 'dog's bollocks' is something top notch/high end or someone who is full of themselves, and you can shout it when you just remembered something important that you forgot to do. Eg. 'BOLLOCKS! I f'rgot t'let dog out!'
I had wondered if hanja would ever be brought up here! My first foreign language Japanese, and I admit, I have become dependent upon Chinese characters! Even if I don't know how to pronounce characters in a given word, if I recognise the character, I can at least take a stab at the meaning. Since only a few hanja are actually used in Korean (numbers, hanja shortcuts for countries in headlines), I can't do the same thing. ;_;
I understand that Korean students are supposed to learn a bunch of hanja but I'm curious, Soo Zee, how many do you actually remember or use in your everyday life??
My heart skipped a beat when you mentioned me guys <3 I loved this episode, I use every single word in this video every day, seeing Soo Zee's face of confusion when she found out the British equivalent was hilarious, like Laundrette and Aubergine xD
Seriously looking forward to you guys butchering my dialect, its one of the funniest and hardest to understand in the UK, good luck! :D
I think that in Australia we use a lot more British words than American ones (although they still exist)
Then there's a whole you new world of unique Australian slang. 90% of it is awful.
So happy DICKS is back! "Knock you up" is British slang I learned in conversation with my roommate's boyfriend in college. He's British and was visiting for a week, and we were all hanging out in the common area of our dorm suite. Roommate and her boyfriend were heading to bed, but wanted to make breakfast plans for the morning. I usually woke up before them, so British boyfriend said, "Ok then I'll just knock you up in the morning." O_o <– was my exact face, while roommate just busted up laughing before finally explaining that they would knock on my door to let me know when they were ready for food times. I will definitely never forget that one.
Also I learned from watching the sortedfood channel on youtube that instead of saying "are you kidding?" a Brit might say "Are you having a giraffe?" BEST SLANG EVAR!!!
"Giraffe" – rhyming slang for "laugh".
AHAHAHAHA that fact that you guys think 'aubergine' sounds like a perfume is bloody hilarious!!!
okay that pudding one, i don't use!! i saw dessert!!! mmmm…dessert!! i want some now!!
O_o 'Perambulator'????? the heck….had no idea pram meant that!! sounds like some freakin' badass, robotic, terminator style….pram
about the apartment, PERSONALLY i call an apartment- the fancy cool, more expensive places, and a flat- the horrible crappy, cheaper places….ahahaha!!
Unless I'm mistaken, what we call pudding in America is called blancmange in the UK. One of the better known "puddings" in Britain is a suet pudding with raisins or currants called "spotted dick". Good stuff, actually.
Guy Fawkes' Night is coming up soon, and there's a traditional Black Country (West Midlands) dish made with oat groats, beef and leeks called "groaty dick". Good stuff, too, for remembering the Fifth of November.
Another odd name for a nice, hearty English dish: toad in the hole.
If you want a Geordie accent, listen to Kevin Whately as DS (later DI) Robbie Lewis in "Inspector Morse" and "Lewis"; in fact, listen to Kevin Whately in just about anything. He comes from "Oop Nawth": Hexham in Northumberland.
Since you call some of the British terms "sciencey", that reminds me of another British phrase: "blinding with science".
Toad in the hole is one of my favourites! Is it a Yorkshire dish, or is that just the Yorkshire puddings?
I was once late visiting a friend in Oxford because they were filming Lewis and closed off the road I was trying to go down so that they could do takes of him driving down the street in a 1920s Jaguar or something. (It was a nice-looking car.)
I live in Australia and I use vacuum and a combination of the British and American words. I use some of the words interchangeably. For example bin and trash, holiday and vacation. Technically prawns and shrimps are different but people use shrimp and prawn interchangeably, generally the word prawn is used to describe the bigger ones and shrimp is used to describe the smaller ones. Reply to my comment if you have any questions, I'll be happy to help even though I don't normally use "Australian" slang. :)
Australians use a combination of the British and American words – plus a few of our own.
For example, US – sweater, UK – pullover but Aust. – jumper. We also call duvets 'doona' (apparently it comes from a Swedish word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvet). I found it hilarious that they are called 'comforters' in Canada because it sounds like a sex toy or something. I believe a doona is a 'quilt' in British English – we have quilts too but they're much thinner.
One of my favourites is the word 'bogan', which I think is the equivalent of a 'redneck' or 'chav' (?). Lately, in Western Australia at least, the term 'cashed-up bogan' is quite popular, meaning someone of working class background who is now earning a lot of money. (A lot of unskilled workers, as well as skilled workers, earn a lot of money in the mining industry over here.)
I believe there are some regional differences between the different states in Australia too. I think they say 'cossie' (short for swimming costume maybe?) or 'swimmers' over east but in western Australia we call swimwear 'bathers'. There are others too and I think they might have to do with the types of migrants we have in each state – Western Australia had a lot of Italian migrants in the '60s and '70s so we use a lot of Italian words for food (e.g. we say 'polony' = highly processed cold meat made of some part of a pig, – I think they say 'devon' over east) that they might not use over east.
Anyway, hope that helped. I know they're all called different accents (British accents, American accents etc.) but there are definitely a lot of lexical variations as well as the phonological ones.
In Britain a 'doona' is still a duvet, a quilt is just two pieces of cloth with wadding in the middle, like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt
I'd also use the word 'jumper' rather than 'pullover' but of course there are regional differences in Britain too! Plus what kind of background you come from too.
Ah – cool! My knowledge of British terminology is a bit lacking, I know.
I don't remember if it is for the trunk or the hood of a car but in British English one of them is referred to as "the bonnet" which in America is a type of hat that was primarily worn by the pioneers (or the Amish).
It's for the hood of the car (we call it that in Australia too) and the trunk is called the 'boot' here in Australia (might be the same in Britain).
It is the boot in Englanda too.
As someone who took Mandarin at school, memorizing all those characters was one of the things I hated most about the class. It's already hard enough to memorize what word translate into what, but you have to memorize how to write it too because of the lack of an alphabet. (No, I don't count pinyin or zhuyin as an alphabet.) The language looks elegant and all, but it's so easy to get something wrong. xD
Based on the 學 you put in the video, does Hanja use traditional Chinese characters? Or a mix of simplified and traditional characters?
Korea uses traditional Chinese characters.
So…the first thing that came to mind as I was laughing myself off the couch "GOd, I missed DICKS!"….I was really glad no one was home to hear me say that! Lol.
This was really fun to watch and I'm glad you two are back in front of the cameras telling us all about the slang in the world!
I totally would love to learn more about Hanja! The history of the Korean language is really interesting to me and you guys are funny and KEEP it interesting!
Yep, pretty much my life right now and let's not even talk about cockney slangs.
Nooo but cockney slang is so much fun we should definitely talk about it
Leigh…"I'm an adult, I say 'I gotta take a piss!'"… true American :) But also that made me laugh so hard but I'm sick so it hurts to laugh but it was so worth it :)
I'm from Australia so like Merzygtlm we use a lot of them interchangeably often depending on who you're speaking to and if they're going to get up you for saying sidewalk instead of footpath, or grocery store instead of supermarket. I usually err on the side of British English though.
To get 'up' someone – to get annoyed at, to call out, to get in their face. I think that might be very Antipodean though.
And 'to pull up' is definitely a term. If I pull someone up, it means I've called them out – usually on their BS. To pull someone is different though and means I've picked up… as in at the club.
So excited that Dicks is back! Thanks Leigh and Soo Zee!
I've missed these segments!!!
I had to tell you of an American phrase that translated completely differently when said in Britain.
The phrase?
Fanny pack.
Here is the link that explains it:
Yay, I love the DICKS segments. I vote on keeping the Hanja!
In Australia we say runners or sometimes sneakers rather than trainers. I guess we have to do lots of running and sneaking in Australia to get away from all of the dangerous animals… >_>
Or joggers (or maybe we're just weird over here in WA…)
Australian-English is pretty similar to British-English, but Australia slang is actually so weird! (I'm Australia, and half the time i have no idea what we are saying…)
My husband and I watch a lot of BBC shows, one being Top Gear. We watch it so often I randomly find myself saying the bonnet and boot instead of hood and trunk.
Learning the term for stroller now makes sense. Apparently there is the term Pram-face which is slang for a teenage mother, which still is weird. Because that just means stroller-face, which could go for anyone who has a kid.
You mentioned foods that have different words in different countries. I know there are some interchangeable words within the US. The only one I can think of right now are hazelnuts. I, being from the east coast, thought everyone in the entire world uses hazelnuts. But apparently some people out west call them filberts.
Other examples would be soda. It is very western to call it pop. I did a double take the first time a waitress asked if I wanted any "pop." Sometimes in the UK they call it fizzy drinks
Apparently in Australia bell peppers are referred to as capsicums, the genus the species fall under.
Don't forget
Lorry for Truck (and Articulated Lorry for Semi)
Petrol for Gas
you "Mind" things in Britain and "Watch" things in the U.S.
Arse for Ass
Bank Holiday for National Holiday
Barrister, Solicitor for Lawyer
Chips for Fries
Bin Liner for Trash Bag
Bloke, Chap, Lad for Man, Guy, Dude
You make a Booking not a Reservation
Bum Bag for a Fanny Pack (and Fanny means a lady's private bits, while in the U.S. Fanny means Butt)
Caravan for Camper
Chemist – Pharmacy
Coach – Bus
Courgette – Zucchini
CV, Curriculum Vitae – Resume
Daft – Stupid
Brilliant – Great
Noughts and Crosses – X's and O's
Z is called "Zed"
Dustcart – Garbage Truck
Dustman – Garbage Man
Estate – The Projects or Suburb or Sub-division (depending if it's in the city or outside)
Fag – Cigarette
Fag End – Cigarette Butt
Flyover – Overpass
Football – Soccer
Footpath – Trail
Stone – 14 pounds
Garden – Yard
Gherkin – Pickle
Gear Lever – Gear Shift
Hen Night – Bacherlorette Party
High Street – Main Street (the commercial center of a town)
To Let – For Rent
Lolly – Lollypop
Iced Lolly – Popsicle
Indicators – Turn Signals
Jumper – Sweater
Kit – Gear
Knickers – Underwear
Nylons – Panty Hose
Ladder – Run (in your panty hose)
Lead – Leash
Mains – Plug, Power socket
Lift – Elevator
Bog Roll – Toilet Paper
Posh – Rich
Lot – Guys, Folks ("Hey you Lot" "Hey you guys")
Mange Tout – Snow Peas
Mate – Friend
Maths – Math
Mum – Mom
Nappy – Diaper
Pinch, Nick – Steal
Nil – Zero
Nought – Zero
Pensioner – Retired Person, Senior Citizen
Pillock, Pratt – Idiot, Moron
Piles – Hemorrhoids
Pissed – Drunk
pitch – field
plait – braid
press up – push up
public school – private school
gaol – jail
tyre – tire
quid – buck (money)
randy – horny
Ring – Call (on phone)
Roundabout – Traffic Circle
Row – Argument, Fight
Rubber – Eraser
Sack – Fire (to get sacked, to get fired)
Saloon – Sedan
Sello Tape – Scotch Tape
Serviette – Napkin
Shopping Trolley – Shopping Cart
Billiards – pool
Swimming Costume – Swimming suit
till – cash register
tin – can
aluminium – aluminum
Trousers – Pants, Slacks
I guess it's easy for Australians. We basically use either the British or the American way of English (and of course our own special words) it all depends on what you feel more comfortable with.
I can imagine a lot of people would find hanja in your videos useful, like those who know or study Chinese or Japanese (I'm guessing there are a lot of those among your viewers), or those who are already way into Korean and have learned some hanja. I myself am half Chinese, and knowing Chinese has helped me SO MUCH with learning Korean. So I vote YES for hanja!
lol you should do an Aussie one. There are some interesting things that are different from Britten and American language
also we drive both autos and manual cars, you can get both licences here, if you get a manual licence you can automatically drive an auto car as well, but if you get an auto licence you can only drive an auto car and be fined or jailed if caught driving a manual vehicle.


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Yes, once again the PMBOK® Guide creates confusion and this time is about project success.
- We did write in the past a few articles on the PMBOK Guide – what is good about it, what is missing, its inconsistencies, its gaps, and practitioners misunderstandings.
- We also wrote a series of four articles about project success and the dimensions of project success, which is also a chapter in an upcoming book for us. In those articles we gave examples and compared our position in relation to PMBOK Guide (4th edition).
- A few weeks ago, PMI officially released the fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide, and this version include a definition for project success in Chapter 2.
- Just a few days ago – there are at least two discussion topics on LinkedIn on this topic – the first specifically address the PMBOK guide but the other indirectly address the guide. Both of these threads included actively and passionate debate on the subject.
What Started It All
What started these debates is the new definition in the PMBOK on project success … please refer to the Guide page 35 (of the print version (p 61 on PDF format); section 2.2.3. The extended definition is four sentences.
Point 1: Confusion between project success and project management success
We quote the first sentence of the definition here: "Since projects are temporary in nature, the success of the project should be measured in terms of completing the project within the constraints of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk as approved by the project managers and senior management."
Let us reflect on the above before we include other parts.
Is this definition for one or two dimensions?
What we mean is, typically time, cost, resources are related to project management processes. On the other hand, the physical scope and quality can be related to the project management process only or both project management and product processes.The key distinction here – are we talking about scope management or delivering the scope – product?
If you consider all topics (scope, time, cost, quality) as part of project management than we have one dimension only – project management success. If we split them, the this one PMBOK sentence is covering two dimensions (consciously or subconsciously).
Another point, to be picky here, what does "temporary" has to do with the rest of the sentence?
The significance of the above distinction is to help us understand this sentence and whether it is OK or has gaps, or flawed.
So the first confusion: are we talking about 1 or 2 dimensions?
The way we understand it, is that this sentence is discussing measuring project management success; only! If this is the case, is this enough to measure if a project is truly successful?
If the project is being developed by an organization to build a commercial facility; is success only about delivering the project on time, scope, cost? We do not want to repeat the four articles here that we already wrote on the subject or the discussions on LinkedIn so we advise the reader to refer to them.
Point 2: Is PMI changing the definition of project?
Please refer to the next article on this subject.
Point 3: Significant flaws in the "new definition"
Let us add more — assuming the PMBOK is now changing the definition this statement is flawed.
PMBOK is supposed to be for most projects most of the time. In all capital investment projects, power, petrochemical, refineries, utilities, hospitals, schools, etc. the project team is not and SHOULD not be responsible for operations whether initial, temporary, or permanent. Operations skills and expertise are totally different from project design and construction skills. Did those writing this sentence recognize this? Or where they writing from a narrow perspective and did not understand how the projects by these industries where projects are typically in the millions and billions of US dollars?
Point 4: More flaws in the "new definition"
The project success definition "To ensure realization of benefits for undertaken the project, a test period …" How long of a period is acceptable, days, weeks, months, years? So PMI is advocating keeping the project open for an undefined period of time … do people realize how dangerous this is? This is an invitation to keep the "books" open indefinitely. Let us say we are over-reacting and one can define this period … how long is enough to determine "realization of benefits"? In a software projects maybe weeks are enough to determine if a new application is truly more efficient. But again for capital investment projects are weeks enough to determine if the new hospital, manufacturing plant, or refinery is giving the organization (the project owner) the benefits expected when they launched this project?
Point 5: Last Baselines
The third sentence in the definition: "Project success should be referred to the last baselines approved by the authorized stakeholders". In abstract this is OK. However, let us ponder for a minute. Is it possible that from the idea, feasibility, charter, project management plan, someone or the team could have made a mistake in the developing the project in line with the project business case and expected benefits?
So we do not allow potential gaps – is one of the reasons there are four dimensions in the Customizable and Adaptable Methodology for Managing Projects. Each of this dimensions address a different control reference points along the project life span. Please refer to our past articles (mentioned earlier) and other references, listed at the end of this article.
Point 6: Project Manager Role
The last sentence in the definition is "The project manager is responsible and accountable for setting realistic and achievable boundaries for the project and to accomplish the project within the approved baselines."
Outside the context of project success there is nothing wrong with this statement.
However, since it is the definition of project success – the context change and creates more confusion.
- If we limit the definition to project management success – then in our humble opinion the statement is still mostly acceptable. Except – we are giving the project manager too much power in an industry where we keep saying Matrix is the most common form where the PM does not have enough authority.
- Let us say the PM is empowered … as an organization are we going to allow the does of a task, project, etc. set their own success measures? Where is the oversight and governance to ensure that the success criteria is from the eyes of the organization and not an individual?
- The other issue with the above: PMBOK keep insisting that the PM is not involved pre project (pre charter) even though the PM is helping write the charter.
- Pre project is the period where the feasibility studies are done … if the PM is not involved here then how could he/she be able to set the proper criteria — and then be accountable to it. I am all for the PM to be involved and again this is what we advocate in our methodology but this is not what the PMBOK advocates.
- Assuming we are wrong on the above points – where is the role of the sponsor and the organization management?
Unless we really totally misunderstand this new definition, there are major issues in every sentence – and there are only four sentences.
The root cause in our professional opinion is that there are too many stakeholders perspectives and view points conflicting here and PMI continue to play as a bystander without hiring experts to review these standards for consistencies. With all respect to the volunteers – there are too many of them and each team is working on a chapter or section – what is lacking is consistency check across the board.
PMI also need to make up its mind – what does the PMBOK covers, Project Manager Perspective? Project Owner (organization) Perspective, Service Provider Perspective, Project Sponsor Perspective, Project Life Span Perspective? Or, what we prefer, a strategic perspective from the project owner viewpoints.
Another issue PMI need to decide – is the PM a technical clerk, a Manager for the life span, or the project manager from idea to closure? Does the PM has limited authority or significant power?
The last point: should PMI continues to get away without proper reviews of the PMBOK by paid experts, from different domains, for consistency checks?
What are your views on this article and the points we make here? We want to hear from you especially if you have counter points.
SUKAD and Author Views on Measuring Project Success
- Click here for a presentation on the Four Dimensions of Project Success
- Click here for a draft of the chapter on measuring project success from an upcoming book
- Click here for a workshop on Managing for Project Success
- The following figure is from our methodology showing the four dimensions
SUKAD offers courses on the PMBOK, CAM2P Model, PRINCE2, Capital Projects, PMO, Case Studies, Risk Management, Project Success. We offer our programs for the public in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Lebanon or for private clients wherever they are.


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Discharge vs. reassignment
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Different scholars, studies and forms of literature have tried to explain the history of police in variant and equally fascinating methods. However, one common feature in their studies is that in every history of civilization, societies sought protection for their members and possessions. They point out the origin of given concepts like crime prevention, jurisdiction, professionalism and discretion. They also show the problems in policing like corruption, brutality and in efficiency. Richard Lundman suggested that the history of police involved a shift from informal to formal policing and resulted from three developmental stages: Informal policing, where policing was a communal responsibility; transitional policing, where police functions are informally delegated to particular individuals in the society; formal policing, where specific members of the community assume formal police responsibilities (Engel, 2010).
America borrowed heavily on policing from England where the community was involved in law enforcement. In early civilizations, members of one's family provided protection and hence law enforcement in colonial America was considered a local responsibility. There was established a system of night watch in the north colonies to guard cities against fire, crime, and disorder. In addition to night watch systems, there were also sheriffs appointed by the governor and constables elected by the people. These individuals were responsible for maintaining order and providing other services like: controlling slaves and Indians; regulating the markets; maintaining health and sanitation; ensuring the orderly use of streets by vehicles; controlling liquor, gambling and other vices. There were organized slave patrols in the south colonies which were mandated to control, return and punish runaway slaves. By 1837, South Carolina had a slave patrol of more than a hundred officers which was far larger than the northern city police force at the time. Policing on the Western frontier mainly inhabited by settlers, had variant policing techniques. Settlers who originated from the northern colonies developed marshals and police forces similar to those in northern colonies while settlers originating from the southern colonies created systems with sheriffs and posses. There were also groups of vigilantes destined to maintain order in the settlements.
In the 1800s, the processes of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration brought so many changes in America which necessitated the changes in law enforcement. These changes were characterized by unsanitary living conditions, poverty, and increase in crime and disorder in the cities. As a result of poor living conditions and poverty, many riots and ethnic conflicts sprouted in many American states like: in Philadelphia, the Broad Street Riot of 1837 involved almost 15,000 residents; in St. Louis, in 1850 a mob destroyed the brothels in the city in an attempt to enforce standards of public decency (Uchida, 2004). The continued riots, conflicts and increased vices generated social and economic disorders that initiated the need for larger and better organized law enforcement. After much debating in the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Boston, the political forces selectively adopted the London- style of policing. The style was defined in the London Metropolitan Police Act of 1829. Notable was the adoption of the preventive patrol idea and limitations to police authority as individual liberties were upheld.
In the American system of law enforcement, police are controlled at the local, state, and federal level. Hence, American police agencies are subject to political influence. In addition, the American police agencies are highly fragmented. These led to corruption, inefficiency, unprofessionalism and lawlessness.
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This instigated a reform effort in the 19th century by a group known as the Progressives to create a truly professional police force. However, the progressives were met by strong resistance from the political forces and the police themselves hence they did not succeed. The second effort was from police chiefs department that implemented a variety of innovations that would improve the professionalism of the police. The department was autonomous from political influence and hence, succeeded considerably. Similarly, leadership and technology aided in professionalizing the police force.
The rise in crime, the civil rights movement, antiwar sentiments and riots in the cities challenged the efficiency and professionalism of the police in the 1960s. With the federal funding from LEAA, a police study was carried out by researchers and led to a new community policing strategy as a result of a research that questioned the communication gap between the police and the community as well as the police tactics and strategies. The community would provide information and help the police in the gathering of evidence from crime scenes. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 gave a financial boost to the community policing movement. This funding brought into force 100,000 additional officers, new technology, and innovative programs into the implementation of community policing. In addition, a new agency, called the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) was formed. The COPS office was significant in empowering the community policing strategy in that between 1995 and 2003, it had provided more than $6.9 billion to hire over 118,000 officers, deputies and troopers. By 1999, 60% of the strategy had been achieved. The fund also provided incentives for agency executives.
However, with the recent technologies, American police agencies face new challenges. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon challenged the America police agencies. Priorities for training, equipment, strategies, and funding have now been focused on homeland security (Uchida, 2004). In relation to the Department of Homeland Security: Local Law Enforcement agency is a governmental department charged with the responsibility of regulating and controlling the affairs of a community which includes; maintaining order, enforcing law, preventing and detecting crime.
State law enforcement agency is responsible for maintaining law and order, enforcing law, preventing and detecting crime as well as investigating crime in a given state. Federal law enforcement agency is applicable in a country with a federal constitution and varies from one country to another. It is charged with major security issues like guarding presidents, fighting international crime. Examples are FBI and Interpol.
The enforcement of law and security of persons has always been of considerable interest. The increase in population, crime, advancements in technology and required professionalism has led to the growth of the law enforcement. Political influence has contributed widely in the atrocities associated with the police force. The growth of the police force has been faced by challenges and although efforts have been made to make it professional, vices like corruption still remain in the force. However, the efficiency of the police has grown with time especially after the introduction of the community-policing strategy. The police force has also grown in number and according to 1993 figures, there are nearly 20,000 different law enforcement agencies within USA. With the increasing treads of terrorism, the police force must improve professionally and technologically to counter eminent challenges.
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The new Kenyan curriculum emphasizes the role of parents as integral to the curriculum's successful implementation. This development requires a mental and societal shift in how parents and the community interact with schools and education. The perception (at least in Kenya) has always been that education is the sole responsibility of the school and the teacher. The role of the parent therefore has been clearly cut out to provide all material requirements for schooling and avail the child in school every morning; but is this enough?
How then can parents become involved in their children's education? One may ask.
First, it is extremely essential for a child to know that parents care about his/her educational progress. One avenue parents can leverage is parents' meetings organized by the school.
During this time, parents should be deliberate about interacting with the child's class teacher and follow-up on the child's progress. Moreover, parents should focus on holistic child progress and focus beyond academic scores to inquire about the child's behavior and other non-academic interests of the child.
Second, it is important for parents to engage their children in conversation regarding what happens at school while at home. This engagement creates an opportunity for parents to learn about activities their children are engaged while at school and may aid parents to further support these interests. Additionally, children may reveal struggles they are facing in school and provide an opportunity for parents to support them. If the challenges cannot be solved only by the parent, the parent can then follow-up with the teacher. Such interactions between parents and children reinforce to the child that a parent cares and promote a positive psychological environment for children to share challenges even in the future without prompting.
Third, parents can check children's books and support children in their homework. Here, parents do not necessarily need expertise or even be knowledgeable of the subject content. The direct interaction with a child's schoolwork communicates and affirms parents' interest in the child's schoolwork. Furthermore, through these periodical reviews parents can easily identify their children's academic strengths and support in shaping future career paths for their children.
In conclusion, parental involvement carries benefits. According to Vyn Wak[1] when students know that their parents will follow-up on their schoolwork, students learn to value education and even behave better when in school benefits that cut-across all socio-economic boundaries. In addition parental involvement in education motivates schools to improve the quality of teaching which translates to higher student achievement.
[1] Van Wyk, J. N. 2008. A comparative perspective on the theories, policies and practices of parent involvement in education. Lecture paper: University of South Africa. August 2008.
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The UK trade deficit hit record levels in December as imports of aircraft jumped ahead of a change in VAT, and bad weather caused disruption at airports and ports.
According to statistics published today by the Office of National Statistics, the UK's deficit on trade in goods and services increased from £3.9bn in November to £4.8bn in December. This is the largest ever margin between the cost of the import and export of goods to the UK economy since records began in January 1980.
Combined with a sharp fall in GDP at the end of 2010, the figures may raise concern among economists that Britain's recovery will not be as swift as hoped.
The ONS figures show that the seasonally adjusted deficit on trade in goods was £9.2bn in December, compared with the deficit of £8.5bn in November. The seasonally adjusted surplus on trade in services was estimated at £4.4bn in December, compared with the surplus of £4.5bn in November.


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The Mystery And Truths About Ayahuasca
There is a lot of mystery and wonder surrounding what Ayahuasca is exactly, and most of this wonder is due to it not being found anywhere but South America, in addition to other factors. Before considering making a journey to give it a try it is important to know exactly what it is and how it can safely be used. The best thing you can do before taking any risk is to educate yourself.
Ayahuasca, which is also commonly referred to as yage, is a chemical substance that is used for spiritual purposes that causes psychological and physical changes. It is a brew, similar to a tea, that is a mixture of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the Psychotria viridis leaf. It is most commonly used by shamans located in the Amazon regions of South America.
Depending on the religion or beliefs behind those that utilize this drug, there are different reasons that people choose to use it, but it is known to certainly produce hallucinations that some believe to have a healing component. In fact, since the mid 1900s people have been traveling to the region in hopes of enjoying a spiritual awakening, healing emotional problems as well as beating drug addition, most commonly opiate addiction.
There is a great deal of dispute over whether or not the claims of the benefits are true. There are essentially two opinions, one that it is simply a drug that causes one to hallucinate and could possibly face serious illness or death and the opposing view that it has true healing properties that are unique to the drug itself.
There are stories of people visiting the region to experience this drugs effects to never return. It is not always clear what the cause of this is. In some cases it is known that individuals chose to not return and felt they found a better way of life. However, in other cases it is clear that they died there, but the actual cause of their death was not clear. Given these mysterious deaths, there is clearly a cause for concern as to the safety of visiting the region and using the drug.
Before deciding to visit and use the drug, you certainly should do a great deal of research. Some shamans are known world-wide as being trust worthy. Those shamans believe that they are doing a service … read moreRead more


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This unit is the first in a six-unit study sequence in the Education Studies Major. The preservice teacher will begin to address the critical questions about the role of early childhood settings and schools in educating for a more just and equitable society, and in particular the mission and nature of Catholic schools in our society.
This unit focuses on fundamental concepts and theories within a critical reflective approach which deepen understanding of children and school aged young people as individual persons and members of social groups. All students will consider and critique a range of theories concerning the physical, cognitive and psychosocial aspects of development and will examine ideas and debates about the context of development with specific reference to family, childcare, school, peers, culture and diverse social contexts, as well as developmental differences and disabilities. The unit emphasises the importance of preservice teachers developing an informed, theoretical framework; one that acknowledges different ways of knowing and different world views including Indigenous ways of knowing. Information Communication and Learning Technologies (ICLT) for the development of skills and applications for learning will be introduced.
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Wyalong Farm, settled by Edward Pay circa 1890, has been the home of ECOsustain since 2010
Nestled alongside the Loddon River in the North of (North Central) Victoria, Australia, within Barapa Barapa country, Wyalong Farm is being re-designed to offer a variety of real-life experiences in land-based sustainable living and agriculture, environmental practices and local history.
Wyalong Farm Permaculture Demonstration and Education Centre will be established in a series of Projects via participatory Workshops whilst valuing the intrinsic worth of all living organisms and following the Permaculture Ethics of Care of the Earth ~ Care of People ~ Return of Surplus
The vision for ECOsustain's 'Nature by Design' implementation program is to provide an abundant, thriving model of profitable permaculture in action, on a larger farm scale.
It is planned to establish A Not For Profit (NFP) charitable trust with an Incorporated Committee of Management (CoM) to operate the centre.
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New Songs in Place of Old Sweaters
Let September begin and all sorts of wonderful Fall goodness enter our hearts and souls. As always, I try to seek out new bands for our playlists, but over the course of last month I stumbled upon a couple of amazing blogs that have provided a lot of influence in this and, I'm sure many … Continue reading
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Engineered wood flooring is an astoundingly celebrated and searched for after wood flooring game plan these days and in it's definitely not hard to see any motivation behind why. At Wood and Beyond, we're much of the time gotten some data about the benefits of engineered wood flooring. We worship a test, so we got the gathering together completed a coffee in the working environment. At that point set ourselves the task of finding 10 central purposes of engineered wood flooring.
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It looks essentially like veritable wood
A staggering angle with respect to the engineered wood flooring. That you can buy today is that it looks basically like bona fide wood. Right when engineered wood was first displayed. It was considered by various to be the poor association with solid wood.
However even its harshest observers can't express a comparable today. A better than average quality engineered wood floor will trap. Indeed, even the hardest skeptic into assuming that the floor is or could be solid wood.
It doesn't stretch out and contract to an undefined degree from solid wood
Beside its phenomenal looks, this is apparently a champion among the most critical ideal conditions of engineered wood flooring over solid wood. As a result of its clever improvement, engineered wood flooring doesn't stretch out and contract to an unclear degree from solid wood.
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It is to an incredible degree intense
Engineered wood flooring is contained layers and layers of plywood that are fortified together before being done off with a solid wood lamella or best layer. The making of engineered wood flooring sheets thusly suggests that they are impossibly extraordinary and will confront overpowering footfall in both private and business circumstances.
It can be sanded
Regardless of the way that the conditions that engineered wood flooring can be sanded depend upon the thickness of the lamella or best layer, there are no making tracks in a contrary course from the way that engineered wood can be re-sanded in the midst of its lifetime.
Re-sanding a story engages you to revive the floor back when it's looking depleted. It is also a not too bad technique to discard surface recoloring or stamping.
It can be reemerged
Once you've re-sanded your engineered wood floor, you can patch up it to secure it and impact it to look like new yet again. This implies you are thoroughly permit to change the look of your floor each time you re-sand and reestablish it, giving you honest to goodness flexibility.
It lands in a whole extent of creature gatherings, assessments and culminations
Thus, that solid wood flooring lands in a whole extent of creature gatherings and grades. Engineered wood flooring has a comparative scope of its lamellas or best layers. This suggests you can achieve the look you require and also picking the best entire to suit your lifestyle.
Particular assessments of wood infer that you can alter your choice to suit your money related arrangement also. Thusly, paying little mind to whether you require an extreme, lacquered low spending decision or a developed, oiled best quality decision, the choice is there for you.
It fits more broad sheets
The way wood boards of flooring plan, in order to achieve a wide solid wood board. You require a genuinely tremendous tree. This isn't the circumstance with engineered wood flooring. Since the inside sheets are a build of plywood, the sheets can outline a mess more broad than solid wood flooring without breaking the budgetary arrangement.
This implies you can find a couple of strip engineered wood flooring. That will empower you to have less joins over your floor. At that point, present your floor in a little measure of the time.
It comes in chevron and parquet look
It is winding up progressively fundamental to find engineered wood flooring sheets in parquet and chevron styles. This implies you can buy stacks up. That starting at now have your pined for finished style set up. Empowering you to complete a low down parquet or chevron floor wander in close by no time.
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Easy to work and lively to lay, engineered wood flooring advances itself magnificently to both DIY and master foundation. Truth knows there is even a tick structure. Which is impressively less troublesome than standard designer wood flooring for any person who likes going up against an endeavor of this nature out of nowhere.
It won't consume every accessible asset
The last, mind blowing good position of engineered flooring is that, regardless of the reality, that it might look just as it cost a fortune, it won't.


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Please join us for 2016 annual meeting of the Texas Association of Deans of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TADLAS) hosted by Texas A&M University-Kingsville College of Arts & Sciences.
When: February 3-5, 2016
Where: Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX
Topics to be covered this year include: Developing Leadership, Applied Research & Global Programs.
Participants may purchase their registration prior to the meeting at the ONLINE rate of $100.00. ONLINE registration ends on 02/03/2016.
ON-SITE registration will be available on February 4, 2016. Laptops will be available to accommodate ON-SITE registration at the ON-SITE rate of $150.00. No cash or checks will be accepted.
To register, please visit the 2016 TADLAS Marketplace.
Online registration rate ends on 2/4/2016. Laptops will be available during conference registration to accommodate on-site registration. No cash or checks will be accepted.
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- Use the group code 'TAD'.
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The tentative schedule for the conference is:
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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DivorceCare is an ongoing recovery and support group for people experiencing the pain of separation or divorce. It is open to anyone, and you are welcome to join DivorceCare at any time. We also offer DivorceCare for Kids (DC4K) for ages 5-12. For more information about DivorceCare, visit their official website at divorcecare.com
DIVORCE CARE and DIVORCE CARE FOR KIDS meets for 13 Weeks in a Fall Term and again in a Spring Term ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FROM 4:00-6:00 IN ROOM #192.
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"To encourage and inspire young girls to become successful young women giving them the gift of opportunities, networking, and leadership by "Building confidence from the "SOLE" is the mission statement of the Show Me Show Foundation and the foundation has done just that.
Founder Anneka Jenkins started the Show Me Shoes Foundation in 2009. Show Me Shoes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. With a good heart Anneka went straight in to get the organization started. Anneka's vision was to assist young girls who have experienced unexpected hardships. Anneka and her team have done just that and even more. By putting on events here in Atlanta and workshops for young women. Connecting young women to professionals in all different fields and even some local celebrities like Toya Wright. Show Me Shows Foundation is helping young women build leadership and helping build young women's confidence one sole at a time. "The reason I started Shoe Me Shoes is to empower young women to recognize their dopeness" said Anneka.
For six years straight the Show Me Shoes Foundation has been helping young women around Atlanta in many ways. Offering a wide range of helping out with providing prom dressing to young women who can't afford them to providing a way for young women to network.
One event Show Me Shoes holds here in Atlanta every year is Prom Project. Prom Project is an event where Show Me Shoes provides slightly worn prom dresses and shoes to high school girls whose families can't afford to buy dresses for their proms. This year was the 6th annual Prom Project. Receiving over 200 dresses giving the 91 girls that came out to select dresses options, this was the biggest Prom Project Show Me Shoes has held here in Atlanta.
Another event that Show Me Shoes holds every year is Moguls in Heels. Moguls in Heels is an event where Show Me Shoes invites young women to be inspired by successful women. Successful women such as entrepreneurs, community leaders, taste makers, millennials, and small business owners who are making a difference in their community. The reasoning for this event is to inspire and encourage each other while raising money for the community.
The Show Me Shoes foundation loves to hold all kinds of events to simply show young women that they can be successful. "The girls remind me to continue to keep being thankful and keep enjoying life" said Anneka. The Show Me Shoes foundation is also an award winning foundation, winning serval local awards. Winning awards for their greatness such as the 2015 Center Link "Community Choice" – Best Organization Nominee and 2015 "Capture Kindness" ThriveEnt Financial Winner, just to name a few.
"My advice to young women is to enjoy the journey so that the outcome is everything." – Aneeka Jenkins


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Understanding how Laser Therapy Works on Boosting Hair Growth
If your hair is increasingly shedding as you brush, on the pillow or even on the shower drain, it is time you need to fix it. You also may need to start getting worried if your ponytail is getting smaller in circumference with time. To men, the family will not tell you that you are balding even when you may not be in a position to see it on the mirror. It tends to be normal for most people to act immediately and change their hairstyle the moment they note that they are losing so much hair. It is due to the worldwide loss of hair that researchers have embarked on research with the intention of figuring out a remedy for hair loss that comes without the side effects. While hair loss can happen at any stage of life, it is essential to note that it is more common as one grows older.
It is normal for many people only to note that they are losing hair after they have lost so much hair. By the time some people are embarking on a hair restoration strategy they tend to have lost so much hair that they can never reinstate their hair back to what it was. Bearing in mind that there is no scientific method known to bring back a dead cell to life, it would be essential to figure out a way of rejuvenating the dying hair follicle cells early enough using laser therapy. As a result, one would need to stop further progression of hair and come up with a strategy to regrow the thinning hair. You would need to note that laser therapy tends to have no side effects even as it tends to rejuvenate hair follicles to strong cells capable of ensuring healthy hair growth. It would be essential to talk to an medical practitioner bearing in mind that other factors such as trauma, stress, genes and medication may be causing the hair loss. One would need to know that some of these conditions tend to be temporary and can be fixed at home while others tend to be treated early enough to avoid instances where they become irreversible.
Low level light treatment is carried out on both males and females who lose their hair. The cells of the hair follicle require stimulation to facilitate hair growth. The laser therapy has proven to stimulate hair growth without having to subject one to taking of drugs that one may have to deal with the side effects that comes with the drugs in question. Did you know that you can treat headaches,alopecia and chronic ulcers using the low level light treatment. A healthy growth of hair is vital to an individual. Melanin is responsible for the natural coloration of hair, and the laser therapy influences its availability.
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