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Skyworks Solutions Will Tank Alongside AppleAAPL) suppliers like Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) have rallied strongly following the announcement that Apple is witnessing strong demand for its iPhone 7. In fact, the demand is reported to be so high that Apple is struggling to meet it.
Given the fact that Tim Cook is a supply chain genius, it seems odd that Apple is struggling with the supply and won't reveal the first weekend sales number of the iPhone for the first time in its history. You can be sure that Apple would have released the numbers if they were good enough, but given that Apple is blaming supply as a reason seems a bit odd especially considering the fact that lines at Apple stores were noticeably shorter worldwide as compared to last year.
You could argue that people are shifting towards online sales, but that still won't explain why Samsung had bigger lines at the launch of the Galaxy S7.
Apple probably knows this and is buying more time by not releasing the first weekend sales number.
I find the recent Apple and Apple suppliers rally a bit of an overreaction and expect the stocks to come crashing down when Apple releases its quarterly earnings.
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Skyworks Solutions in particular has appreciated more than Apple in the last few days. As someone who recommended Skyworks Solutions when it was trading at $28, I think the stock peaked a long time ago and it will struggle to stay over the $70 mark in the short term.
Despite Skyworks Solutions' diversified business model, the market has always linked its performance with Apple, which is understandable since it generates a large portion of its sales from Apple. While the Apple-dependency was a boon two years ago, Skyworks Solutions will suffer considerably if sales of the iPhone 7 fail to impress the market, which, in my opinion, is very likely.
I have been bearish on Skyworks Solutions for almost a year now and the stock has fell almost 10% in the reference time period. However, going forward, I expect Skyworks Solutions to continue underperforming and would recommend investors to use the recent rally to exit the stock. Skyworks Solutions' IoT potential may make it look attractive, but the stock is not trading at attractive levels given its saturated growth.
If the iPhone 7 fails as bad as I expect it to fail, Skyworks Solutions will tank, which is why I think the stock is a sell.
Published on Sep 23, 2016By Ayush Singh
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See You at the Barricades! Three Books That Revive the Memory of the Paris Commune
Buhle, Paulhttp://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36803-see-you-at-the-barricades-three-books-that-revive-the-memory-of-the-paris-commune
Publisher: Truthout
Date Written: 14/07/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX19748
For socialists and communists of over a century, the Paris Commune was a defining event. From March 18 to May 28 in 1871, following the collapse of the French Republic and the Prussian siege of the capital, the Communards swore to defend Paris until they were overwhelmed by the French army itself. Karl Marx himself called the temporary self-government of the population the "dictatorship of the proletariat."

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As Homer is the "end of the road", the only way we can go is back the way we came. At least until we get to Wasilla. We bypassed Seward and went back to the Forest Service Campground near Portage Glacier called Williwaw. When we were there last month it rained non-stop for all three days. (Our July 30th blog entry about Williwaw Campground ) As we said then even though it rained all three days "This is the MOST SPECTALUAR setting for a campsite since we have been on the road." This visit we did have some rain every day, we also had partly sunny days as well.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Return to Williwaw and Wasilla
As Homer is the "end of the road", the only way we can go is back the way we came. At least until we get to Wasilla. We bypassed Seward and went back to the Forest Service Campground near Portage Glacier called Williwaw. When we were there last month it rained non-stop for all three days. (Our July 30th blog entry about Williwaw Campground ) As we said then even though it rained all three days "This is the MOST SPECTALUAR setting for a campsite since we have been on the road." This visit we did have some rain every day, we also had partly sunny days as well.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Homer, Alaska – Part 2
I forgot to mention a lady we had met on the bay cruise to the Rookery!
Her name was Liz Bashaw, who owns the Alpenglow Chalet/Bed and Breakfast. She had a day off from the B&B and had decided to take the cruise of Kachemak Bay. While waiting for the boat trip, she overheard us say that we were from California. It turns out she's from Chula Vista, CA, near San Diego and they run the Chalet and B&B during the summer up here in Alaska. Her husband is quite handy in construction, so he has guaranteed work no matter where he is and she is also a registered nurse. They stay in Homer until about November and then head south for winter. I was so busy taking pictures of the scenery that day that I forgot to get her photo!
After that, since it was late, we opted to go to the Cosmic Kitchen for burritos. These were the largest burritos in the world!! They were so big....you had to eat it with a fork. There was no way you could pick up in your hands like regular burritos! Delicious with all kinds of peppers and onions sautéed with the meat! Yum!This morning we woke up to more sunshine! Yeah! So we took the Raider dog for a long walk on the beach. Due to the extreme low tide there was so much sand exposed. We managed to get past the large stones and let him have a good run on the sand! Boy did he kick up his heels, he was in Fat City! I think he was thinking, "Now this is a beach!" The waves had made a wonderful pattern on the sand when the tide was high. Since it stays fairly shallow it resembled waves on a sand dune.
While walking along the beach we met the gentleman from Georgia, whose trailer had been attacked by the moose! He related the story of how he was driving, near Tok, Alaska, when all of a sudden a moose explodes out of the trees. He saw the bull and even pulled over to the side of the road to avoid him. The moose kept coming, hit their beautiful 1971 Airstream Classic mid-ship! With his rack he tore open a huge hole in the aluminum side!! The bull then stepped back, shook it off and charged back into the forest! They were stunned! They had saved up for 5 years to do this Alaska trip! Now their prize possession was a shambles! And the stupid moose lived! By the time they made it down to Fairbanks, their insurance company "totaled" the trailer as not repairable, and then handed them a check for the replacement. That sweet southern gentleman, with a great penchant for story telling we could surmise, told us, "I found someone who would buy the wrecked trailer as salvage!" So he came out of the deal very well!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
HOMER, Alaska – Part 1
Monday, August 11, 2008
All of the other RV parks along the river are for the fishing folk, packed like sardines in gravel parking lot fashion. Since we aren't fishing, we opted for grass between the roomier sites. We were handed a "Handbook" on all of the rules while staying there. One of the key things to keep us paranoid was "thou shalt not let your dog urinate or defecate in the park. If so you will be asked to leave without refund". Since we were so lucky to get a site at the end, right next to the road, we walked our buddy Raider on the highway for his needs. I'm glad we were only staying a few days, through the weekend! There was a dog run at the back of the park, but what if your dog has an accident before you get there?! And then there was Mama Moose and baby moose to watch out for in that area, too! RV Fulltiming has it's unique experiences, that is for sure!
Saturday we drove over towards the town of Kenai and tried out luck on finding some birds. It was a cool gray day, but I managed to spot a Short Eared Owl flying low looking for his lunch, along with several immature Bald Eagles and a lone coyote in the field. The coyote was keeping an eye on the black Labrador retriever, near us, picnicking with his family.
We headed back to camp because we had a side dish to make for the potluck . Mel and Joann hosted the party at their site with several barbecues ready. Everybody brought their own meat to barbecue. Besides Fred, Jo, Mel and Joann, we met Gordon and Juanita, as well as Mary and Mike Camp that evening. Gordon writes a travel blog, too and we've been following his adventures since Dawson Creek, they are traveling a few weeks ahead of us. It was great to finally meet them. Mary and Mike are from Escapees, which all of us belong to, and they were also a delight to meet!
Right away we hit it off. No longer strangers when it comes to sharing RV stories while traveling Alaska. Great food and drink, good company, what more could we ask for?!
Well, perhaps some sun would've been a nice addition! It was still gray out, and we were all bundled up in layers with sweatshirts, but by 9:00 the wind kicked up and we all retreated to our individual homes on wheels!
Sunday morning, after church, we stopped by the Kenai Visitor's Center and walked the nature trail called the "Keen Eye", catchy! We walked through a thick forest down to a lake where we could hear a loon, but could never find it. Problem with diving birds, there always under water and come up for air somewhere else! As we're walking along, I'm making sure we can be heard so as not to scare any bears or moose that might be around. So I said to Grant, "OK, so where is this mythical moose they keep telling us is in this area?!"
It was a loop trail, a little steep, but pretty. Grant was walking ahead of me, the mosquitoes were eating him alive. We're just about 75 feet of the parking lot, when he starts walking backwards!! UH OH!! I yell, "What is it?!" He tries to whisper, "Moose". As I come up from behind him, there's this huge female moose right at the very end of the trail, half standing in the parking lot and half in the plants. She's as big as a horse and watching us very intently. We had to bushwhack through the underbrush to get to the truck, avoiding her! With all of the noise we were making she apparently wasn't startled, she just kept grazing! Since we hadn't planned on anything but getting to church on time, neither one of the cameras was back in the truck!! Talk about frustration!! Oh man, we could have had great photos; she was less than 20 feet away!!
Like a lot of our birding, it seems the birds have moved on already! We didn't find any shorebirds on the beach, just gulls. Perhaps they've already gone south because the weather is so much more like fall than it is summer!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Montana Owners Alaska Hospitality CommitteeBernie and Tammy Jarriel are active members of the Montana Owner Club forum montanaowners.com that live in Seward year round in there Montana 5th wheel. They have become the MOC Alaska Hospitality Committee; we are the 6th couple so far this summer to visit Seward and spend time with them, as they tell of living in a 5th wheel where the snow fall is almost as tall as your trailer. They had a wonderful table reserved for us at Ray's on the wharf! It was great to meet them and swap "Montana" tales, though theirs are a lot more exciting! We can't imagine driving their brand new Montana from the dealer in Anchorage down to Seward in JANUARY!! They have ice on those highways that time of the year! And then there was so much snow in their campground, it sounded like a roofless tunnel to back it into!! Thanks for such an enjoyable meal!
Exit GlacierJust as you enter Seward is the turn off to Exit Glacier. This is the only place where you can drive into the 670,000 acres Kenai Fjords National Park. Exit Glacier is also one of the most accessible glaciers in all of Alaska. The walk from the parking lot to the edge of the glacier is only a 1 mile round trip. It is also the easiest place to get to the 300 square mile Harding Icefield that feeds all of the glaciers on the Kenai Peninsula.
Park Service Map of Kenai Fjord National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park Boat Tour
The Seward tourist industry includes cruise ships arriving and departing, fishing charters for halibut and salmon and boat tours of Kenai Fjords National Park. The boat tour industry is so big that everyday a passenger train of people comes down from Anchorage just for the boat tours. There are at least 4 different boat tour companies, most running several boats a day and tours are 3 hours, 6 hours and 8 hours. The very last day of our first Alaska trip 10 years ago we took a Kenai Fjords National Park Boat Tour. Even after 4 visits to Alaska and all of the great things we have done, I still think it is the single best tour in Alaska. This time we went on the Renown Tours catamaran. The seas were calm and the catamaran was very stable. We stayed outside the whole time until we started back to port. The whole trip was about 120 miles round trip and lasted exactly 6 hours. We saw sea otters, at least a half a dozen humpback whales, but no Orcas. We also saw 2 kinds of dolphins and 2 kinds of seals.
We saw 15 species of birds including 2 new LIFE BIRDS: The Red-faced Cormorant and the Parakeet Auklet! The Captain even said that if there were Birders on board just tell the crew or the ranger if there is a target bird you want to see and they would try to get you to it. Both the Captain and the on board ranger were Birders. We saw mostly Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres and Tuffed Puffins. We also saw some of the Horned Puffins and Glaucus Winged Gulls on the cliffs of the islands. They take you to one glacier and depending on how they are doing on time they decide which one to take you to. This trip we went to the Holgate Glacier. We did not see it caving this time, but we got pretty close to it that we could hear it cracking and groaning. Throughout the day the scenery was INCREDIBLE!
Alaska Sea Life Center
The Alaska Sea Life Center is also in Seward, it was built with some of the money that Exxon was fined due to the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Center's mission is to rehabilitee injured sea life and to educate the public about the sea life in the area. Since we were members of the Monetary Bay Aquarium for so many years and went so often everything pales by comparison, but it is impressive for a town this small. One huge bull Stellar Sea Lion knew how to work the crowds. The tank is 3 stories tall, so you can go down below and see the seals and fish swim. This bull was right up to the window showing off. He even looked like he was trying to hug the little girls standing next to the window watching him. What a ham! One of the pictures in the slide show gives a good size perspective of this beast! They also had an aviary, which of course, we HAD to stop in first! Imagine our delight to be able to go up to a Tufted Puffin as close as 12"! Puffins do bite we were warned, but they look so comical with those bright beaks! You could also go down below and watch the Common Murres and the Puffins swim under water. There was fish littered on the bottom of the pool for them to hunt for themselves. Quite impressive to see them "Fly" under water.
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|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
|A Musical Journey
|James Patrick Doyle
|James Patrick Doyle and Joe Cascone
|Joe Cascone
|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L.Frank Baum
|Toronto Civic Light Opera Company (2000, 2002, 2010, 2017)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 2000 musical play based on the 1900 novel of the same title by L. Frank Baum that premiered at the Toronto Civic Light Opera Company. The lyrics are by James Patrick Doyle and Joe Cascone, the music is by Doyle and the book is by Cascone who also directed. This company describes the show as the most requested in their repertory, and revived it in 2002 and again in 2010.[1]
Joe Cascone, artistic director of the Toronto Civic Light Opera Company, had long wanted to stage a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that was truer to Baum's original intentions, and as such, was able to incorporate various influences from the many adaptations of the story produced throughout the 20th century, including the original 1903 musical, the famous 1939 MGM film, the musical The Wiz and several others. In writing the libretto for the new musical, Cascone made Baum a character in the play as a narrator, also doubling as the Wizard. Composer and lyricist James Patrick Doyle was a long time Oz admirer who restored some of the music from Baum's The Maid of Arran, the 1902 Wizard, The Woggle-Bug, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, Prince Silverwings, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz, which had not been heard in recent decades. The production premiered in 2000 at the Toronto Civic Light Opera Company, directed by Cascone with choreography by Lesley Ansell. Two original cast albums were released. One by Hungry Tiger Music in 2000, and one by The Civic Light Opera Company in 2002, featuring the revised score.
The Toronto Civic Light Opera revived the show in 2002 and again in 2010.[2] Joe Cascone and David Haines, of the original and revival casts (as, respectively, Baum/Wizard and the Cowardly Lion), presented highlights of this musical as well as of many other Oz musical incarnations at the International Wizard of Oz Club's Winkie Convention at Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, on July 9, 2011 as part of a concert entitled "Songs in the Key of Oz" which is also available on CD.[3]
The show is to be presented again from November 29 to December 10, 2017 at the Zion Cultural Centre, Toronto featuring members of the original 2000, 2002 and 2010 casts (including Cascone and Haines) along with several newcomers to the various roles. [4]
The original cast album was recorded October 27, 2000, at Grace Church Chapel on the Hill, Toronto.
- Just a Touch of Humbug (Baum and Co.)
- Gray (Dorothy)
- 'Round and Around (Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, Dorothy & Co.)
- Free! (Boq & Munchkins)
- The Wizard Who Lives in Oz (Locasta, Munchkins)
- Wicked Is What I Do (Wicked Witch & Co.) *
- Rags and Hay (Scarecrow)
- A Tin Man's Tale (Tin Woodman)
- 'Fraid Not (Lion)
- Dream for Me (Scarecrow, Tin Woodman & Lion) +
- Further Along the Way (Four Friends)
- Pull Together (Mouse Queen & Co.)
- Finale Act I (Four Friends & Co.)
- Emerald City (Royal Army & Co.)
- Oz, the Great and Terrible (Wizard, Four Friends)
- Come Along with Me (Four Friends)
- The Golden Cap/Fly! (Wicked Witch, Monkeys)
- Nothing Special (Dorothy)
- Wicked Waltz of the West (Wicked Witch) *
- In the Castle of No Return (Wicked Witch, Winkies) - added to the 2010 production
- Reprise—Just a Touch of Humbug (Wizard & Co.)
- Even Further Along the Way (Baum, Four Friends & Co.)
- Reprise—Dream for Me (Glinda) *
- This Land of Oz (Glinda & Co.)
- Cut from subsequent productions
+ Cut from 2017 production The score was largely re-recorded and released on a second CD in 2002 by The Civic Light Opera Company to reflect many of the musical changes that had been made since the original version had been made in the preceding two years. This CD is available through http://www.civiclightoperacompany.com/wizard_of_oz.html
Cast of Characters
- L. Frank Baum/Wizard
- Dorothy Gale
- Toto
- Aunt Em
- Uncle Henry
- Locasta, Good Witch of the North
- Scarecrow
- Tin Woodman
- Lion
- Queen of Field Mice
- Wicked Witch of the West
- Winged Monkey King
- Hungry Tiger
- Glinda, Good Witch of the South
and various Farmers, Munchkins, Crows, Kalidahs, Poppies, Field Mice, Emerald City Citizens, Winged Monkeys, Winkies, Hammerheads, Fighting Trees, Quadlings
The role of Dorothy was originally played by Kelly Sanders in 2000 and 2002. In the 2010 production, Olivia Stupka and Alisa Berindea alternated in the role of Dorothy. Nicole Burda will assume the role of Dorothy for the 2017 production. Members of the original casts to reprise their original roles again in 2017 are David Haines as the Cowardly Lion, Joe Cascone as L. Frank Baum/Wizard and Sandi Horwitz as Locasta.
- ^ "About Us". www.civiclightoperacompany.com.
- ^ "oz_2010". www.civiclightoperacompany.com.
- ^ http://hungrytigerpress.com/winkies_2011_registration.pdf
- ^ "oz_2017". www.civiclightoperacompany.com.


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A feectionalised portrait o Lucian taken frae a seiventeent century engravin bi William Faithorne
|Aboot 125 CE
Samosata, Roman Empire (modren-day Turkey)
|Efter 180 CE
probably Athens
|Novelist, rhetorician
|Notable warks
|True History,
Dialogues o the Dead, Dialogues o the Gods,
Dialogues o the Courtesans,
Alexander the False Prophet,
Sale of Creeds,
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Lucian of Samosata (Auncient Greek: Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, Laitin: Lucianus Samosatensis; aboot 125 CE – efter 180 CE) wis a rhetorician[3] an satirist wha wrote in the Greek leid during the Seicont Sophistic. He is notit for his witty an scoffin naitur.
Lucian wrote exclusively in auncient Greek. He wrote mainly in the Attic dialect, but On the Syrian Goddess, which is attributit tae him, is written in a faux-Ionic dialect.
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- ↑ Guy G. Stroumsa (2009). "Transformations of Ritual". The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity. The University of Chicago Press. p. 79.
the pagan Lucian of Samosata, makes him one of our most precious witnesses about various "mystery" cults
- ↑ howard D. Weinbrot (2005). "Introduction. Clearing the Ground: The Genre". Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 18.
the pagan Lucian was a "most execrable villain" who attacked both Christianity and religion in general
- ↑ Paul of Samosata, Zenobia and Aurelian: The Church, Local Culture and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria Author(s): Fergus Millar Source: The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 61 (1971), pp. 1-17.


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1. Read 200 books in 2015:
Still moving happily along. 56 books putting me at 28%. Still ahead for the year and with a few books right on the edge of being finished.
2. Read 12 non-fiction books in 2015:
I squeaked in on this one, listening to Tina Fey's Bossypants during a long car ride since I realized I hadn't even started reading one this month. That puts me at 5 so far, so still ahead of the game, but my goal is really to read at least 1 non-fiction book a month, so I'm still on target for that.
3. Clear out my Currently Reading GoodReads shelf:
I cleared one more out - Hope Leslie, an old school read I'd never finished. That leaves me with 3.5 (one of them is sort of actually currently reading, sort of just hanging out there). Still, nice progress with plenty of time left in the year.
4. Read at least 2 print books I already own each month, with an eye toward weeding:
This resolution continues to be my downfall. I did read Thursdays with the Crown by Jessica Day George, but I also knew I was not going to be getting rid of it. I squeaked in Dangerous by Shannon Hale (another keeper) with six minutes left in the month. But both of those titles were on my to read list and I do own them. I'm going to try some sort of alphabetical thing like with my e-books because that is helping me rock the goal.
5. Read at least 1 eBook I already own each month:
I honestly think by just working through alphabetically by title, I'm not worried about which book I should read next or figuring out what I'm in the mood for. I just click on the next title. I've enjoyed some of them a lot. Others have made me roll my eyes. But there are less books I own that I haven't read, so that's a good thing. This month I read Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1/2986by Annelie Wendeberg, Also Known As by Robin Benway, Altdorf: A Novel of the Forest Knights by J. K. Swift, Anathema by Megg Jensen, A Bride in the Bargain by Deeanne Gist, Andy McBean and the War of the Worlds by Dale Kutzera, and Angel in the Shadows by Lisa Grace so 8 books. Pretty impressive. And it also makes me feel better about the print goal, because this is where a lot of time went.
And there you have it. Any resolutions you've kept up with or are struggling with?


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I was wanting to buy bananas today to bake a banana bread for the banana bread bake off organised by Not Quite Nigella. Can you believe it, I cannot find any ripe bananas!! Have all the monkeys gotten them? Haha.
In the end, I decided to make something chocolatey. I seem to be in a chocolatey mood. I just bought a pack of M&M to snack on in the office today, and I am not usually a snack person, though chocolate is my weakness. I took out my Donna Hays recipe book and chose the double chocolate chip cookie.
It was really nice! Though I wish they were a bit more chewy than crispy. Instead of dark chocolate chunks, I added the remaining of my Hersheys chocolate chips into the final mixture. The kitchen was filled with the aroma of chocolate. The recipe says it makes 16 cookies. They must've been giantic ones, because I made more than 40 cookies, and they are already bigger than what I usually make.
I wish I am having these cookies with my husband, with a hot steaming cup of hot chocolate, while chatting into the night..
*pokes my dream bubbles* reality is....I have to go to bed now, and turn up for work tomorrow. But hey, tomorrow is Friday!! Yeah!
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An IMEI check will let you know if that iPhone you're thinking of buying as a small business office phone is actually stolen. If the iPhone is stolen then you aren't going to be able to use it. You will likely also meet your city's finest officers to explain why you're in possession of some poor guy's iPhone. So, beat the criminals at their own game, check with Apple first by running the IMEI number or Serial Number.
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Hey, every small business is smart to buy used. A business owner knows that it is their #2 job to make one dollar spend like it is three dollars. One of the ways you can do that is to buy a $949 iPhone 6 Plus in Rose Gold for only $350 by buying it used. Smart move, right? Damn right! Well, unless the phone is stolen. So, you have to do an IMEI check.
Have the seller give you the IMEI number from the phone before you even go look at it. If they won't, then you're going to have to assume the phone is stolen. Consider yourself lucky before you were:
- Mugged. Many thieves pretend to sell an iPhone just to mug you when you show up with all those hundreds in your pocket.
- Experience the hassle and possible trauma of being caught with stolen merchandise.
There is no reason for the seller to withhold this number from you. The only thing you can do with it is stare at it or ask Apple, by an IMEI check, if it is a stolen phone.
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Apple has set up a website for just this purpose. They are helping to prevent iPhone theft by allowing you to easily do an IMEI check for the phone to make sure it isn't hot. Enter either the IMEI number or the serial number on that website page. This webpage will also let you know if the iPhone is ready for sale.
If the iPhone is Activation Lock disabled according to Apple then the iPhone is not ready to be transferred to anyone else. This will let you know that either the number you were given isn't for an iPhone that is for sale or the seller just hasn't finished preparing the phone yet. Do NOT get involved with this iPhone until the website states this phone is clear and ready to be sold, because you have no idea what you're walking into. This deal could be a mugging, a stolen iPhone to be sold or some other nefarious operation. Tell the seller to prepare the phone so you can verify it. Only show up if the IMEI Check is good then go see the phone.
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Succeeding In Succession Planning - It's Not Just a Big Company Thing
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- 5.12 Solutions
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The workforce is aging, and in the next 5-8 years, 40-65% of the US public and private workforce will be ready to retire. A change in middle management and executive leadership is inevitable. Is your organization prepared? Who will transition into those roles and how will it happen?
Succession planning isn't something just "big companies" do. In fact, it might be even more important for smaller and mid-sized companies who do not have the people and resources for structured organizational development programs.
If you are a human resource professional or a senior leader and would like to learn more, join Sal Silvester for this pre-recorded audio program on Succeeding in Succession Planning. During this session, we'll cover the following:
- The business case for succession planning: why a succession planning program matters and the costly impact of not having one
- Considerations when designing a Succession Planning Program
- Critical obstacles that must be overcome
- 5 Steps to implementing a Succession Planning Program in your organization


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To the Ends of QuezonWednesday, August 09, 2017
To explore the folds of Quezon's largest municipality is to defy today's definition of adventure. When instant gratification in the form of prepared itineraries and detailed guides are highly in demand, General Nakar will remind you of the thrill and joy that comes with personal discovery.
Perched on the northernmost tip of mainland Quezon, about six hours from the Metro, is the municipality of General Nakar. Named in honor of Guillermo P. Nakar – a World War II hero whose guerilla forces kept fighting even after Bataan fell – the town was once part of its neighbor Infanta until President Elpidio Quirino decreed them separate in 1949.
Despite being "partially urban", General Nakar remains devoid of the usual modern comforts. There are no fast food chains here, only karinderya. Save for the public market and some sari-sari stores, there's no other commercial establishments. Most houses still have thatched palm fronds as roofs and halved bamboo stems as floors. Here, habal-habal is king instead of the jeepney, what with most routes comprising of rocky inclines and river-crossings. Even mobile reception is a bit unstable.
But being Quezon's largest municipality doesn't come without its perks. The town is ringed by the expansive Sierra Madre mountain range, including the popular Mount Daraitan on its western borders. Its shores open up to the Polillo Strait which then flows directly into the Pacific Ocean. General Nakar, with its total land area of 161,640 ha, boasts of an untamed and dynamic landscape comprising of lush woodlands, beautiful coastal areas, wild hiking trails, and a complex waterway that spawns countless waterfalls and a temperamental river.
Related Adventure: DIY Guide to Alabat, Quezon
What the River Gave
Just before you pass through General Nakar's welcome arc, you'll go across a bridge. Beneath it is a winding strip of deep green water, meandering and feeling its way between General Nakar and Infanta. This is the mighty Agos River.
In 2004, when consecutive typhoons hit northern Quezon, Agos River surged and overflowed. The flashflood took many lives – an unprecedented event that had traumatized the residents. If anything good had come out of this tragedy, it's that it had made the locals more cautious. During the rainy season, as soon as a storm signal is raised in the area, the more than 500 residents along Agos River willingly evacuate to the nearby town proper in case the river overflows again. On most days, however, Agos River is tamed; its water inviting, glittering, and clear enough to see your toes. Especially during the summer months, the long stretch of the river serves as a favorite spot to cool down. Floating bamboo cottages where visitors can lounge or have lunch can be seen near the banks. Mobile food carts line the shores, proffering halo-halo and chichirya. An imposing cluster of mountains stand on one side, guarding over the river like honored guards. Overhead, the wide, towering bridge serves both as shade and "dive board". Brave local kids perform flips and cannonballs off the bridge into the deeper portion of the river.
Related Adventure: 8 Waterfalls and Rivers Near Manila
A Rumbling Cave
In Brgy. San Marcelino, on a beach a stone's throw away from the Pacific Ocean, stands a row of lofty cliffs and limestone formations. In one of its many crevices is an entrance to a cave named after the loud, thunderous sound it produces when it's hit by waves. Considered sacred by General Nakar's Dumagat residents, getting expressed permission from the tribe is important to access Tulaog Cave, but that's not all there is to it. When the tide is high, the cave is unreachable, impassable; its entrance claimed and overrun by powerful waves of the Pacific. When the sea recedes, one then has to skirt a rock-strewn shore, scrambling over huge boulders and getting drenched by lashing waves along the way. One can always take a boat, of course, but even then, locating the cave without a native's help would be impossible, as the entrance would be buried under layers of sand. Once you finally dig and squeeze your way through the tiny entrance, a dark and damp chamber with a soaring ceiling and a narrow girth will welcome you. This chamber, with a small recess that holds an image of the Virgin Mary, draws Catholic pilgrims from all over Quezon, especially during Holy Week. This is as far as visitors can go inside the cave, though. The rest of Tulaog Cave remains restricted to the Dumagat – a place for them to pray to their god Mukadeppat.
Related Adventure: DIY Guide to Tangwa Peak + Ngusong Kabayo
Chasing Waterfalls
Numerous waterfalls lay hidden within General Nakar's dense forests. One of which can easily be reached by a short walk on a rutted dirt road amidst coconut trees in Brgy. Maligaya. Nabuslo Falls, with its steady-flowing potable water, not only serves as the locals' bathing ground but also their primary water source. Here, sunlight barely passes through the thick canopies. Pipes that feed water to Maligaya's households mingle with vines and foliage around the falling water. Below, a catch basin the shape of a kidney overflows into an ankle-deep brook.
In Brgy. Sablang, meanwhile, is Depalyon Falls – a destination hardcore adventure-seekers will surely love. Getting wet is inevitable when going here, as it involves more than two hours of wading across neck-deep streams and trekking through virtually undisturbed forests. Depalyon Falls is situated within a ravine. The stone walls that flank it are smooth, dark, and shiny with moisture. The raging waters of the falls itself are relentless, showing no signs of slowing down even during the summer months. It is so powerful, Depalyon Falls is perpetually shrouded by a spray of mist, which often creates a miniature rainbow. There is no flat area immediate to the falls, however. So Depalyon Falls is definitely no place for picnics. The small pool beneath it, while safe enough for swimming, is surrounded by jagged rocks. It rushes out to a craggy tributary with strong currents churning white rapids – the same tributary you'd have to swim through to get in and out.
Related Adventure: DIY Guide to Oras Falls
On a Beach Corner
General Nakar also offers beautiful secluded beaches. Its characteristic pebbly brown shores may not have the same appeal as white sand ones, but it presents a rarity that's hard to resist: a relaxing day on the beach sans the crowd. Take Sulok (corner) Beach in Brgy. Catablingan for example; even on a weekend, only a handful of people – mostly locals – can be spotted swimming in its impossibly blue waters. What's more is that an undulating ridge surrounds this rustic beach, so even when it's facing the Pacific Ocean, the salty breeze is gentle and soothing. The rock enclosure also makes for a natural shade and a dramatic background – perfect for beach-bumming and unlimited pictorials.
It's Worth It
While it's easy to see the charm of day-tours and quick getaways, especially when budgets are tight and vacation leaves are limited, nothing still beats a good ol' foray into the unknown – no expectations, only courage and spontaneity. Things may not be as easy but the joy of discovery makes everything worthwhile. You see, places that don't offer both seclusion and maximum fun may just be around the corner. All you have to do is look closely enough. Take heart, and put in a little more effort. Do away with itineraries and expectations once in a while and you're bound to arrive, one way or another, in parts less known yet equally beautiful. Even when it lacks the typical amenities of a touristy town – paved roads, high-end resorts, and organized tours – General Nakar can hold its own against any of its more popular neighbors. It may not have the name-recall of Infanta, the isolated vibe of Jomalig, the festive atmosphere of Lucban, but General Nakar is General Nakar. And more often than not, simply being yourself is more than enough.
Have you been to General Nakar? How was your experience?


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Friday, February 24, 2012
DIY Vanilla Coconut Oil Moisturizer
My go-to for a few years was Green Beaver's Après Ski lotion. It works very well, has a very 'clean' ingredient list and is made by a Canadian company. Unfortunately it also smells strongly like roasted chicken (the rosemary) and it just isn't moisturizing enough for these Halifax winters.
After searching through the options at our local health food store, it's frustrating to notice that as a consumer you really have to read every ingredient list. Just because it sits on the counter in the 'Natural' section doesn't mean it's free of synthetic or potentially sketchy ingredients. I've been uncomfortable with the idea of slathering chemicals that are meant to be absorbed into my skin and into my bloodstream, the least amount of ingredients the better.
Finally, after reading a few comments and posts of bloggy-friends who used coconut oil, straight up, I thought- why not? I bet it smells amazing and will be a very cheap attempt.
I bought organic coconut oil in a glass jar and gave it a go for about a week. Definitely a weird texture, scooping it out and rubbing it between my hands results in a strange melting to oil sensation. It also felt like I was greasing up after the shower, surprise surprise it was... oily! The great news is that in a few short minutes my skin is fine to put on clothing and I haven't noticed any oil stains on my clothes.
Sadly, and maybe it's because I've never cooked with coconut oil, it doesn't actually smell like anything.
I decided that I would try creating my own scented oil with some essential oils. Why not, right? My first attempt was actually fairly disastrous and resulted in way way too much essential oils that irritated my nose and my brain all day.
Today I tried out my second attempt and I am in LOVE. The smell is subtle but delicious, it was very easy to make and extremely cost efficient. Oh and it works!
Vanilla Coconut Oil Moisturizer
Hardware: ceramic bowl, table spoon, wide mouth mason jar
Software: coconut oil (organic is best!), vanilla (beans or extract. I used homemade extract that was gifted to me since I didn't have the beans. It means that there's a small amount of alcohol in the mix, but it hasn't affected the smell. I think vanilla beans would be stronger though).
Scoop a bunch of the coconut oil into the ceramic bowl. Mush it around with the table spoon a bit so it's a similar consistency. Add 1 to 1.5 tablespoons of vanilla extract (or scraping the insides of a bean). Mix so it's all one golden beautiful yummy colour.
Scoop into the mason jar (wide mouth and shallow will be easier to scoop out with your hands).
Place in a cool spot (or the fridge) over night.
It will be ready to use the next morning!
article and photographs copyright of EcoYogini at ecoyogini.blogspot.com
18 comments:
So Awesome!! Do you use this on your face as well? I have been searching high and low for something to clean and also moisturize my face. Everyone is saying coconut oil for everything but I find it's really hard to use it as a cleanser. Any ideas?ReplyDelete
@Meg: yay I'm excited too! :)ReplyDelete
Actually, I only use it on my body, my face would break out i fear if i tried it there. BUT I use HONEY to clean my face and it works awesomely!! this is the blog post I wrote for Five Seed on my face on honey :)
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM
What kind of coconut oil are you using? Refined coconut oil doesn't smell or taste like coconut, but virgin unrefined coconut oil has a very strong coconut scent and taste! I love it!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad this is working well for you! I love coconut oil so much!
i've tried coconut oil a couple times but i feel like it's too greasy. i wish there was some other lotiony thing to cut it with but i'm not sure what that would be.ReplyDelete
@FiveSeed: ahhh THAT is my problem! It's refined (for cooking), I couldn't seem to find unrefined, but then i really didn't look that hard (probably some unrefined at Pete's frootique). I bet unrefined and vanilla would be a yummy combo!ReplyDelete
@Julia: yep it's greasy, but surprisingly the oily feel gets absorbed into your skin within an hour or so- i feel like it wouldn't be a good choice if you don't live in a very dry-cold climate though or if you don't have very dry skin. Perhaps Shea butter would be a better choice for you? I know you can buy that straight up...
I grew up in the boonies but we never had deer antlers around (and my dad did hunt and tried to kill). ;) I do like deer antler buttons though, and also rustic wooden ones.ReplyDelete
I LOVE coconut oil.superstore health sectionReplyDelete
Has nutiva brand unrefined virgin it's delicious!
On toast, great for scalp treatment, great moisturizer, eye
Makeup remover, lip balm, and in coffee. It is a miracle
Oil . I'm still learning about the greatness of it. Oh
And baking soda with a bit of water to exfoliate your face
And then apply coconut oil is so great! It won't break you out
It absorbs into your skin.
I'm so lazy I often just scoop out the coconut oil into my hand and then add a drop of essential oil then and there.ReplyDelete
Did you know you can also use this to make deodorant? Just add baking soda and cornstarch to the coconut oil - and a drop of essential oil if you want it scented - and apply. I have never found this to be greasy but I have super dry skin.
I am addicted to coconut oil, and it smells so yummy. My son always says "I smell coconut" after I walk in after a shower. I love to add brown sugar for a scrub in the bath, amazing! Can't use it on my face though, break-out city.ReplyDelete
- Yogatrail1February 26, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Good idea to add essential oils! I'll give that a try - a few drops of lavender must be nice too. I've been addicted to coconut oil for a long time. Discovered it in India, when asking a lady what she did with that and she said 'everything!'. Anyway, she also had a good point about not using on your skin and hair something that you can't eat. The best kind I found is called 'parachute' (in Indian Grocery stores!) but it smells very 'coconutty'.ReplyDelete
I use this as a moisturizer on my whole body and wash my face with it every night... I add it to a little baking soda and it works wonders.. I am in the second trimester of my first pregnancy and before I became pregnant I never had a breakout ( but used a neutrogena face wash ) Not even 3 weeks into my pregnancy I started having the WORST breakouts of my life! So I started researching coconut oil and decided to give it a try and it is amazing! No more breakouts on this preggo! :) I know a lot of you say you think you would have a lot of breakouts using this on your face but it balances the oil levels in your skin and then you don't have to use any extra moisturizers. I love it. It also supposedly helps with stretch marks (reducing the appearance of and as a preventative) I cant wait to see if that actually works as my pregnancy goes on!ReplyDelete
Great post!This recipe looks great!ReplyDelete
Cracked Skin Care
Just bought a vat of 100% extra virgin, unrefined, cold pressed, organic coconut oil and wanted a little fragrance for it. Thought about using vanilla extract but wasn't sure how the alcohol content would work. But glad to hear others have had a good experience with it! My hair has never been softer and my scalp more moisturized without feeling overly greasy and sticky (I wear my hair naturally). Next adventure, my dry winter skin---can't wait for the cold to come!ReplyDelete
I used coconut oil in my hair I had a perm in it and they over processed it my hair was burned so bad it was just breaking off I started using coconut oil and my hair is so soft and I ware mine natural also.I use it for every thing I was reading on Pentecost on a.mother post it said to put baby lotion and victims e in it I haven't tried it yet.I was wondering about vanilla extract.also so thank u for your post .ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe. It seems good to use.ReplyDelete
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If you use a blender and whip the coconut oil then put in the essential oil it has a very nice light fluffy texture and stays that way (unless it gets too hot and melts!). But I have read that if it starts to get hot you can put it in the frig and it keeps its nice fluffiness!ReplyDelete
Argan oil has proven his natural benefits by help heal nails that scarred as well as reinvigorate them with quick and non-toxic process.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 6, 2014 at 4:29 PM
Question: why not melt the oil first in a warm water bath then adding the drops of oil and waiting for it to solidify...would that work I wonder?ReplyDelete
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I remember a graduate student once asking me if she should continue on to a PhD program after completing her master's degree. I asked her what she thought the benefits were to getting a PhD; she responded that having a PhD would put her on a faster track into management.
Her thinking was driven by a common and faulty assumption held by many—that eventually, to progress in your career as a UX professional, you have to become a manager.
The truth is, there are many career paths for UX professionals, including many leadership roles that don't require managing people. In fact, organizations typically need a balance of managers and high-ranking individual contributors (meaning not managing people) to tackle varying leadership responsibilities that require different skill sets.
I'm more confident than ever that management involves distinct and sometimes intrinsic skills, and should not be viewed as the default next step in one's career progression. And there's a ton of research that supports this. According to one Gallup study of 2.5 million manager-led teams in 195 countries, only one in ten people possess the innate talents needed to be a successful manager. The same study quotes that companies fail to choose the management candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time. Continue reading So you want to be a UX manager?


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Integration of Coupled Casting and Structure Simulation for Magnesium Die Castings
Simulation is an important tool in the different phases during development. It is used in the early, purely virtual development phase as well as in later production and final test phases, respectively, to analyse and solve issues of the components.
To simulate the structural behaviour one needs, besides the design, also the material properties of the component. The quality of the simulation is improved by an advanced characterisation of the material. Dimensioning and structure simulation of die cast components are usually based on material properties that were derived from separately cast specimens. Actually, due to the process parameters the properties of die cast components could differ from those of specimens. One reason is that die casting conditions may vary locally leading to different morphological characteristics, defect size and defect type in complex components. The properties could vary depending on thickness, distance to injection location, and between casting surface and centre of respective cross section.
It is explained in this paper that Takata-Petri and Calcom ESI found a way to couple die casting and structural simulation. By doing so, the influence of the die Magnesium alloy castings quality (gaseous entrapments, shrinkage cavities, and layering) on the component strength is considered. The integration of this method into the development process is described and the resulting improvements are explained. The results of the investigations about the interaction of the morphological characteristics of the cast material of a steering wheel and its material and component properties are used to confirm the method.
Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Wuth - Takata-Petri AG
Dipl.-Ing. Elke Lieven - Adam Opel GmbH
Dipl.-Ing. Ole Köser - Calcom ESI SA
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pyttel - FH Giessen-Friedberg


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Love After Baby
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Reconnecting with your partner...after becoming parents
What does love look like when two becomes three or more? And how do you navigate the complexities of marriage with parenthood? This energetic and fun workshop will provide you and your partner with three proven tools that will increase your relationship satisfaction and success. Babies in arms only please.
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Date: June 22
Time: 6-7:30pm
Cost: $45 per couple. Space is limited. RSVP required.
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Sunday, November 20, 2016
First 100 days state-by-progressive-state re-unionizatioin agenda
None of this below has ever been vetted by the courts -- but no time like now to start -- the workability seems very compelling.
First, (progressive) states can add to federal protections like the minimum wage or safety regulations. Don't know why they could not add to labor organizing protections.
LEGAL dissection: Suppose that the opposite of today there were no federal setup for establishing a collective bargaining unit -- people in the free market established their units ad hoc when and where they were able. Suppose that unlike today that federal law made interfering with establishing a collective bargaining unit a crime. [This reverse combination might do more for labor than today's actual situation -- but I digress.]
Examples of federal fed and state parallel statutes: bank robbery, RICO (33 states), etc. If there were no organizing setup to PREEMPT, there would be no question states could make union busting a crime. With today's fed set up I would still think it perfectly obvious that states merely protecting that setup is not preempting.
Now we add the CONSTITUTIONAL dissection: Given the established First Amendment right to organize (commercial association), the fed cannot setup an exclusive path to collective bargaining if said path is in a permanent blocked condition.
The process of labor organizing is by definition adversarial situation where history in the US (recent decades at least) shows unchecked market power -- MONOPSONY! -- all on one side.
6% union density in private industry -- and it wouldn't even be 6% if they had to start from scratch today -- 6% union density (and dropping) is all proof anybody should ever need that the road to collective bargaining is permanently blocked.
Put at its simplest: the fed cannot preempt something with nothing -- not with a fundamental constitutional right at stake. This should make the open path to states criminalizing union busting doubly unduckable.
Logically IF THE FED CANNOT PREEMPT SOMETHING WITH NOTHING -- if it's difficult to get people to think that any radically new way of doing things is possible -- logically: states should be able to erect their own labor union certification setup UNTIL THE FED REFORMS.
What I'd like to see at the state and eventually federal level is mandated certification elections on a finding of union busting. Simpler, more streamlined than using up law enforcement resources, no businesspersons go to jail (big business more pin-downable than small, just like with discrimination statutes).
In Wisconsin the Republicans force recertification of public employee unions every year -- with 51% of membership required, not just voters. So what's so alien about forcing a certification election with reasonable cause?
Interestingly, California (and maybe others, I don't know) have a separate union certification setup for farm workers only. This is done on the strength of FDR telling Congress that it did not apply to farm workers, probably just to get it through.
6% union density is like 20/10 blood pressure -- it starves every other healthy economic and political process. I am sure that all these stories we see about big pharma making drugs so expensive nobody can use them (think Sovaldi which could eliminate Hep C overnight for the cost of half a billion dollars manufacturing, but Gilead wants 300 billion!), for profit colleges (Trump), trillion in student loans, etc., would never have gotten so bad in the first place if there were anybody minding the store.
David Broder, late dean of the Washington press corps said that when he came to DC fifty years earlier the lobbyists were all union -- the economic cops on the blocks.
10,000 gun homicides in US -- 8,000 gang related. Ever want to stop the shooting in Chicago, $400 jobs will have to start paying $800 AGAIN (my old taxi job, supermarkets -- be nice if regional airline pilots didn't have to take food stamps, answer to the latter is centralized bargaining, look it up). Meantime 100,000 out of my guesstimate 200,000 Chicago gang age males are in street gangs to try to make a living. Only unions will stop the shooting -- absolutely no other way.
Want to ruin Donald's day -- in case that's the only thing that matters to you: actually help poor blacks (who did not vote against) and blue collar whites (who did vote for) -- unlike O and the Clintons who never did anything for either of them; not enough to make their lives promising again anyway.
Nobody can stop the march of collective bargaining once progressive states wake up and realize they -- not only -- can but -- only they can -- restore healthy labor union density to our undernourished, moribund democratic process.
PS. Don't be daunted if Repubs force right-to-work nationally. In the German labor market, the platinum standard of labor effectiveness, I don't believe there is a single majority union -- mostly "freeloaders" -- but mostly collectively bargained -- that's the difference.
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Our airline manufacturing evaporates -- while Donald fiddles (not to mention O and Hill)
One huge industry where the US seems to be holding its own is manufacture of airliners — namely Boeing …
… or are we? First I saw TV reports that manufacture of the body and wings were being off shored Italy and Japan.
"The final assembly for the Boeing 787 takes place at Boeings' plant in Everett, Washington. The plant employs a mere 800 to 1,200 staff who are responsible for the final assembly of the major components of the aircraft. As with the Boeing 737, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will have the construction of it's major components contracted out to manufacturers around the globe." http://www.modernairliners.com/boeing-787-dreamliner/boeing-787-dreamliner-assembly/
"Subcontracted assemblies included wing manufacture (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan, central wing box)[37] horizontal stabilizers (Alenia Aeronautica, Italy; Korea Aerospace Industries, South Korea);[38] fuselage sections (Global Aeronautica, Italy; Boeing, North Charleston, US; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan; Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, US; Korean Air, South Korea);[39][40][41] passenger doors (Latécoère, France); cargo doors, access doors, and crew escape door (Saab AB, Sweden); software development (HCL Enterprise India);[42] floor beams (TAL Manufacturing Solutions Limited, India);[43][44] wiring (Labinal, France);[45] wing-tips, flap support fairings, wheel well bulkhead, and longerons (Korean Air, South Korea);[46] landing gear (Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, UK/France);[47][48] and power distribution and management systems, air conditioning packs (Hamilton Sundstrand, Connecticut, US)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#Manufacturing_and_suppliers
As with everything, the economic rape of America can only end with the re-constitution of high union density. European labor unions would not tolerate this kind of de-industrialization — they would react politically. 6% unionization in private firms (which wouldn't even be 6% if it had to start from scratch) is equivalent to 20/10 blood pressure: starving every other healthy process.
Anybody -- everybody?! -- understand that making union busting a felony can be done on a state by progressive state basis — the only open path with Repub control of Congress? Do this or do nothing!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Pink Donald: The Wall (afraid of swarthy skins)
Anti-wall campaign slogan:
Pink Donald: The Wall (afraid of swarthy skins)
Situation: 12 million illegal immigrants — maybe 2/3 overworked/underpaid Mexicans.
Just think: 1 out of 40 persons among us is an overworked/underpaid Mexican — and it's all our fault for not spending tens or hundreds of billions of dollars building a Maginot Line barrier to keep them out. Just imagine: we still have time to build the laughing stock of the world. Can't think of the link but: according to US and Mexican authorities, Mexican emigration to US steadily down for 10 years — one source said by three; the other by ten.
Hundreds of years from now archeologists are going to dig up the ruins of American civilization and find that it was 8 million underpaid/overworked Mexicans who brought everything down.
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Friday, November 11, 2016
We can always hope: impeach Donald!
We can always hope.
What would happen if Donald Trump was impeached?
The Independent – 1 day ago
This guy has such an overactive scurrilous past that a Watergate type Albatross could hang over him his whole term — however short (fingers crossed) that may be.
NBC decides not to air 'SVU' episode about President-elect Trump's rape accusation
Death and Taxes – 1 day ago
Trump Rape Accuser Dismisses Suit [technicality -- unaided by attorney filed under wrong statute -- will be back]
The Daily Beast – 2 days ago
Woman accusing Trump of raping her at 13 cancels her plan to go public [death threats]
The Guardian, Nov 3
With Bloom coming on board Doe appeared – until the press conference fiasco – to have acquired considerable additional legal and media firepower.
The founder and owner of The Bloom Firm, which handles family, civil and criminal cases in California and New York, has in the past sued the Boy Scouts of America and the Los Angeles police department. Bloom hosts a Court TV talkshow and is a legal analyst for NBC News.
. . .
Judge Ronnie Abrams has ordered counsel for Trump and Epstein to appear in his New York district court along with Doe's legal team for an initial status conference on 16 December. That raises the extraordinary prospect, were Trump to win the election, of counsel for a US president-elect being called into federal court in proceedings relating to allegations of rape of an underage girl.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
"All these histories are bullshit": why Trump won
As my old Bronx doctor, Seymour Tenzer, put it: "All these histories are bullshit -- I got punched in the chest; that's why I've got a lump."
Trump's victory is down to the disappearance of the $800 job for the $400 job. That subtracted from the vote in the black ghettos – and added to the vote in the white ghettos -- both ghettos being far off the radar screen of academic liberals like Hill and O.
I notice the white ghettos because that is me. My old taxi job (much too old now at 72 3/4) was "in-sourced" all over the world to drivers who would work for remarkably less (than the not so great incomes we native born eked out). Today's low skilled jobs go to native and foreign born who willing to show up for $400 (e.g., since Walmart gutted supermarket contracts). Fast food strictly to foreign born who will show up for $290 a week (min wage $400, 1968 -- when per cap income half today's).
Don't expect the 100,000 out of maybe 200,000 Chicago gang age males to show up for a life time of $400/wk servitude.
6% union density at private employers = 20/10 BP which starves every healthy process in the social body = disappearance of collective bargaining and its institutional concomitants which supply political funding and lobbying equal to oligarchs plus most all the votes ...
... votes: notice? 45% take 10% of overall income -- 45% earn $15/hr or less -- a lot of votes.
To shore up my usual assertion that states can make union busting a felony (taking same as as serious an economic crime as taking a movie in the movies – couple year fed hospitality), state and federal laws against bank robbing coexist side by side (so could copyright violation penalties, no?).
Right now, at the federal level we have placebo protection for organizers. Jobs can be reinstated after years of waiting – mostly fired again for something else. No deterrence to suffocating unionizing – nor recourse, like mandating elections on finding of union busting – zero; nothing at all.
As such today's federal law sets up a union certification gauntlet most all employees cannot survive – an inherently lopsided contest in an inherently adversarial process. Being forced into the straightjacket of an inherently unworkable organizing process – preempting something with nothing -- is the equivalent of forbidding employees to organize a collective bargaining unit – a First Amendment right.
Interestingly, California has its own certification process for farm workers only. Seems FDR told Congress – trying to get the union law through; not written in the law – that it would not apply to farm workers. With this as an excuse states are able to set up certification of their own.
Leaving the esoteric aside – states can inarguably back up the federal labor organizing scheme by instituting criminal penalties for muscling in our most important market (would anybody doubt states may penalize unions for the reverse?).
Deterring union busting at state level should breeze through legislatures in progressive states (WA, OR, CA, NV, MN, IL, NY, MD?) which also happen to be our most prosperous states and therefore potentially the most influential.
From there it is "clear and hold."
I see collective bargaining as such a core social as well as economic right that I think that a US Constitutional Amendment should be prepared to enshrine it specifically – going beyond an (recognized) First Amendment protection.
A couple of years of Donald and I am sure we can take back the House and the Senate. If progressives' number one push is for re-unionization I'd be absolutely sure we could take them back. (Remember, Bernie beat the hell out of Hill versus Donald.)
The Wage That Meant Middle Class
By Louis Uchitelle, APRIL 20, 2008
"Leaving aside for a moment those who have lost their jobs, what of those who still have them? Once upon a time, a large number earned at least $20 an hour, or its inflation-adjusted equivalent, and now so many of them don't.
"The $20 hourly wage, introduced on a huge scale in the middle of the last century, allowed masses of Americans with no more than a high school education to rise to the middle class. It was a marker, of sorts. And it is on its way to extinction."
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Monday, November 7, 2016
Middle class-workers of the world unite -- foreign policy
My view of the big world — foreign policy — is the Rick Steves, Anthony Bourdain outlook: middle class-workers of the world unite (or at least middle-classes): the people everywhere who (to borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton) work hard and play by the rules.
There seems a commonality of outlook to be discovered from Russia to Turkey to Syria to anywhere. Somehow we (the middle class) people ought to be able to coordinate our countries' interactions.
Classically, middle classes — all the way from the Middle Ages — were the vanguard of democratization. No more Game of Risk mentality if we take hold.
But, if you read Thomas Frank's timely tome, released in March, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? you will learn that the Clintons' and Obama's missing empathy with the middle class goes deeper than just some cultural blindness from living too high up in the clouds (or too high on the hog) but that it is enforced with a deeply antagonistic to middle priorities view of life …
… and cloudy elitist Hillary is not very likely to see the middle-classes-of-the-world-unite approach as a promising way forward — indeed unlikely to be capable of seeing it is there at all. https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1627795391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478532665&sr=8-1&keywords=listen+liberal
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Saturday, November 5, 2016
How foolish is the failure of progressive states to make union busting a felony?
Do you know what failure of progressive states to take the easy path to re-building union density reminds me of?
Of 19 Republican governors who oppose Medicaid expansion (90% reimbursement yet!) -- who always willing GIVE UP hundred of millions if not billions of dollars of tax breaks to attract businesses and jobs ...
... but who wont TAKE hundreds of millions if not billions of federal (payroll) tax raised money to create really top flight medical jobs ...
That's how foolish progressive legislatures who do not make union busting a felony look to me.
Even if it were just only for their own electoral good.
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New Haven
LAST week, European leaders met in Berlin amid new signs of an impending recession and an emerging consensus that Greece could leave the euro zone within a year — a move that would have dire consequences for the currency's future.
There are many reasons behind the crisis, from corruption and collective irresponsibility in Greece to European institutional rigidities and the flawed concept of a monetary union without a fiscal union. But this is not just a story about profligate spending and rigid monetary policy. The European debt crisis is not just an economic crisis: it is an escalating identity conflict — an ethnic conflict.
The European Union was a political concept, designed to tame a bellicose Germany. Strong economic interdependence and a common European identity, it was thought, would be cultivated by the institutions of the union, as Europeans benefited from the economic prosperity that integration would create.
Elites could sell that concept to their publics as long as Europe prospered and had high international status. But the union has lost its shine. It is slowing down and aging. Its longtime ally, the United States, is shifting attention to East Asia. Its common defense policy is shallow.
As Europe's status declines, the already shaky European identity will weaken further and the citizens of the richer European nations will be more likely to identify nationally — as Germans or French — rather than as Europeans. This will increase their reluctance to use their taxes for bailouts of the ethnically different Southern Europeans, especially the culturally distant Greeks; and it will diminish any prospect of fiscal integration that could help save the euro.
The result is a vicious circle: as ethnic identities return, ethnic differences become more pronounced, and all sides fall back on stereotypes and the stigmatization of the adversary through language or actions intended to dehumanize, thereby justifying hostile actions. This is a common pattern in ethnic conflicts around the world, and it is also evident in Europe today.
The slide to ethnic conflict in Europe is not violent, but it can nonetheless be destructive, both economically and politically. Take the roiling tensions between Greece and Germany. A recent survey finds that a majority of Germans want Greece out of the euro if it doesn't reform quickly, even though most analysts say that a Greek exit would have incalculable costs for Germany. Clearly something deeper is motivating the German public.
A recent study by the political scientists Michael Bechtel, Jens Hainmueller and Yotam Margalit found that German voters' attitudes toward the bailouts are explained by their degree of "cosmopolitanism," or the extent to which they identify with geographically or culturally distant groups. More cosmopolitan individuals are more likely to support bailing out Germany's southern neighbors.
Unfortunately, cosmopolitanism can be the first casualty of rising ethnic tensions, as populations react negatively to escalating political demagogy, strengthening the hand of extremists. Examples of such stigmatization in Europe abound, from the disparaging acronym PIGS, used to refer to the troubled economies of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, to the tired medical analogies of an infection of the North by the contagious South. Germans tell the Greeks how to live; the Greeks reply by calling them Nazis.
This is not just the result of economic weariness or fear. It is the predictable re-emergence of hard-edged national identities, which the European Union hoped to banish. True, many Greeks, especially those living abroad, still toe the European line about "taking the medicine" prescribed by the European "doctors," no matter how painful.
Why? Some fear the social upheaval that a transition to the drachma would cause. Others worry that populist politicians would abandon all structural reforms without European oversight. But social psychology suggests that many Greeks might be desperately clinging to the last shreds of their European identity, because that gives them more self-esteem than the alternative — the Near Eastern or Balkan identity they have been trying to shed for decades. Greece's wounded reputation makes some Greeks cling to their European identity. But even that may not last long.
Germans must have a frank public discussion about what it means to be European, how good European citizens should behave toward other Europeans and why a strong Europe is good for German interests in a world dominated by the United States, China and emerging powers like India and Brazil. Without such a discussion, and real concessions to Greece, a Greek exit is inevitable — and with it the triumph of parochialism in Europe.


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NU Online News Service, June 7, 2:08 p.m. EDT
State Farm Mutual Insurance Company said it plans to stop handling claims for the National Flood Insurance Program but will continue writing policies.
The Bloomington, Ill.-based insurer is the largest administrator of NFIP policies, serving over 800,000 customers nationwide—40 percent of them in Florida.
Under the new system, State Farm agents will handle reports of claims for policies where State Farm provides homeowner's coverage as well as writes flood policies. But claims will either be handled directly by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or its designee, according to Phil Supple, a State Farm spokesman.
State Farm said in a statement it is dropping out of the program because of numerous stop-starts to the program since 2002, and because procedural changes in claims handling are forcing it to divert too much of its resources to the program.
According to FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Racusen, existing customers will not be affected by State Farm's decision. Both new and renewing customers will be able to obtain federal flood insurance through a State Farm agent "or one of the other 90 insurers that sell flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program" after the program is renewed.
"What's important to keep in mind is that homeowners will still be able to take the steps needed to protect their property from damage in the event of flooding or another disaster," she said in an e-mail statement.
FEMA said State Farm has 829,273 policies as of March 31. There are over 5.6 million NFIP policies as of May 3.
State Farm announced its new policy against the background of another lapse in NFIP authorization.
The House passed legislation on May 28, before it went into 10-day recess, that reauthorized the program until Dec. 31, but the Senate will not act on extending the NFIP and other lapsed programs until later this week.
Without congressional approval, the NFIP cannot issue new policies, allow agents to change existing policies, or renew existing policies.
A House Financial Services Committee bill reported out on April 27 (H.R. 5114, the Flood Insurance Reform Priorities Act of 2010) would reauthorize the program for five years and makes other changes and reforms. Reforms include phasing in actuarially sound rates, eliminating subsidies, and increasing coverage limits available to homeowners and businesses. The House could take up the measure early this week.
Two other bills dealing with catastrophe issues also passed the panel at that time and are awaiting House floor action.
In justifying its decision, State Farm said that servicing NFIP applications and claims has had an impact on the company's resources.
"Various procedural changes to the program have complicated State Farm's participation," the company said. "Numerous reauthorization delays for the program have challenged our ability to serve all customers' needs."
State Farm noted that since 2002, there have been 11 last-minute reauthorizations of the NFIP, and on four occasions the program was allowed to lapse.
"These 'stop-start' situations require a large company like State Farm to dedicate significant resources to coordinate numerous communications with customers, employees and its more than 17,000 agents," the statement said.
Under the new policy, State Farm Fire customers' flood policies will be transferred to the NFIP over a 12‑month period after the company's current arrangement expires on Sept. 30, Mr. Supple said. Policyholders will receive notice at least 90 days prior to their policy's expiration date, he said, adding that the transition is expected to be completed by April 2012.
State Farm has also been seeking to disengage itself from areas in Florida that are hurricane-prone, deciding to continue to provide homeowner's coverage in Florida only after a prolonged battle with the state that resulted in a decision to reduce, rather than totally withdraw from the state.
But, the compromise allows the carrier to stop providing homeowner's coverage from properties along Florida's hurricane-prone coastline. However, it currently is responsible for administering flood claims in many of Florida's coastal areas.
The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents, responding to the news, blamed Congress for State Farm's action.
In a statement, Rita Hollada, past chairman and current PIA National's representative to the Flood Insurance Producers National Committee said the news about State Farm's action "does not come as a total surprise."
The program, she said, has "become the victim of an increasingly political atmosphere in recent months and years" and its repeated manipulation by Congress affects "the certainty" of "a viable insurance program…"


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John Wilson - 'statesman' farmer.
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time after his death.
by John Townson.
John has chronicled the Lyth Valley branch of the Townson family through more than 300 years and saw how, for 200 years, they remained self contained and more or less self sufficient at Low in the Lyth Valley. If anyone can add to this story John would be very pleased to hear from you; his e-mail address is .
The main text of his article is quite long. He has also provided transcriptions of wills and inventories that are on separate pages of the web site as below.
The Townsons of Lyth - main text
The Will of Leonard Townson, 1667
Inventories from the Wills of Thomas Townson, 1700 and Agnes Townson, 1715
George Brockbank (smithy)
and Granddaughter
by Jean Abbey
Jean presents an account of her research into the family history of the Brockbanks of Crosthwaite and the Lyth Valley.
George Brockbank, obituary notice, Westmorland Gazette, 17 January 1931
Mary Humfrey was born 8th July 1875 in the Lyth valley. She emigrated to Canada in 1911 at the age of 35yrs, leaving her home in Pool Bank, Crosthwaite, and sailed out from Liverpool on the ship 'The SS Victorian'. She arrived in Quebec on 14th July 1911. Click here to read more.
Hartley's Grandfather and
grandmother on their golden
wedding day
by Hartley Trotter
Hartley is recording as much information as he can gather on the families that have dwelt in the Lyth Valley. We will be adding his findings to the web site over the coming months (years!).
In October 2012, Edwin Bowlas, having come across the Crosthwaite and Lyth web site, wrote to John Sceal of South Low at some length about his memories and upbringing in the Parish. With his permission this is what he wrote.
Crosthwaite and Lyth W.I.
A Living Memory project for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to mark the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme by members of Crosthwaite and Lyth WI
Remembering Louise M Holme O.B.E., Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps 1891-1920
Click here to read about the project undertaken by the Crosthwaite WI in 2016


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Lee Min Ho's Biography
Star Alias:
이민호 / 李民浩 / 李敏镐
이민호 / 李民浩 / 李敏镐
Birth Place: Seoul, South Korea
Birth Date: 1987-06-22
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Boys Before FlowersKorean DramaJan Di is an average girl whose family owns a dry-cleaning shop that is located near the luxurious and well-known Shin Hwa College. Jan Di meets the four richest and spoiled boys when she delivers laundry to the school one day. The boys are known as the F4 and cause… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2009 Rating: 9.8/10 (410 Votes)
City HunterKorean Drama'City Hunter' is an original script based on the world-famous novel by Japan's Tsukasa Hojo. Since it became public that Korea would be the first remake of this story into a drama, 'City Hunter' has been receiving worldwide attention. 'City Hunter' has switched the setting from Tokyo 1980 to Seoul… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2011 Rating: 9.82/10 (119 Votes)
I Am SamKorean DramaThe story focuses on the conflicts between the young teachers and the problems that high school students have. Jang Yi San (Yang Dong-Kun) is a timid and incompetent homeroom teacher who has to teach the only daughter of a highly dangerous mob leader, Jae-kon Yu (Park Jun Gyu). Eun Byul… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2007 Rating: 9.66/10 (32 Votes)
Mackerel RunKorean DramaA high school drama filled with hilarious moments... [More]Status: Completed Released: 2007 Rating: 9.97/10 (37 Votes)
Personal PreferenceKorean DramaJeon Jin Ho is pretending to be gay in order to gain access to a mysterious mansion that was built by a famous architect Mr.Park. His daughter, Park Kae In would never accept him as a renter so he pretended to be gay.His hobbies include organization and ironing, and he's… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2010 Rating: 9.8/10 (86 Votes)
Our School E.T.Korean MovieSu-ro Kim plays the role of a quirky high school physical education teacher. But the school?s new policy to boost English education puts his position at stake, and he decides that teaching English is his only hope. Thus begins the simpleton?s rigorous training to exercise his brain ?muscles? to master… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2008 Rating: 9.63/10 (30 Votes)
Howling (Movie)Korean MovieAn action drama, where the truth of a 'wolfdog' related to the case reveals itself to 'Sang-gil', a veteran crime squad detective who is investigating a series of murders through natural combustion, and newly appointed female detective 'Eun-young' (Lee Na-young). [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: 9/10 (1 Votes)
FaithKorean DramaThis drama shows the romance between a warrior from the ancient times and a female doctor from the modern times, their love transcending time and space. It will also tell the story about the process of making a true king.--HanCinema Yoo Eun Soo (Kim Hee Sun) is a 33-year old… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: 9.95/10 (85 Votes)
The HeirsKorean DramaA romantic comedy about high school students living in top 1% high society. Things get turned topsy turvy when the students end up getting tangled with a girl from lower class who is the heir of poverty, and romance unfolds. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2013 Rating: 9.6/10 (140 Votes)
Running Man (Movie)Korean MovieJong-woo is an immature father to a son only 18 years younger than himself. He earns a living by working at an auto repair garage during the day and driving a cab at night. His long-standing dream is to buy a small home to live in. One day, a passenger… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2013 Rating: 9.78/10 (9 Votes)
Gangnam Blues (Movie)Korean MovieJong-Dae (Lee Min-Ho) and Yong-Ki (Kim Rae-Won) grew up in an orphanage like real brothers. After they leave the orphanage, they make a living by picking up paper and empty bottles. Jong-Dae then becomes involved in a struggle of interests over development in Gangnam, Seoul. In the process, he lives… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2015 Rating: 7.85/10 (13 Votes)
Bounty Hunters (Movie)Chinese MovieLee Shan and Ayo are ex-Interpol agents who are now bounty hunters, chasing fugitives for cash rewards. When the two of them are framed for a hotel-bombing, they join hands with a legendary bounty hunter named Cat, along with her teammates, to find the real bomber. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2016 Rating: 10/10 (2 Votes)
The Legend of the Blue SeaKorean Dramahe drama is a fantasy romance, taking its motif from the mermaid/merman story in Korea's first historical (romance) storybook. In the Joseon-era storybook, it is recorded that real-life figure Kim Dam Nyeong returned mermaids/mermen that were caught fisherman back to the sea. 8.0/10 (1 vote) [More]Status: Completed Released: 2016 Rating: 9.66/10 (135 Votes)
First Kiss for the Seventh TimeKorean Drama*This is an Ad for Lotte Duty Free Mall* Min Soo Jin is a receptionist working at Lotte Duty Free mall. She is a person who never had a boyfriend nor has been kissed. It's her 25th birthday and she wishes to get a boyfriend. While at work, she helps… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2016 Rating: 9.14/10 (14 Votes)
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Following the recent Mumeishi seminar, Sueno sensei attended our regular Tuesday practice and taught another session to add to the information that he gave us at the weekend.
As before he put us through some very simple men and kote drills and reinforced the importance of correct kiai in achieving good technique. I have long been aware of the difference that good kiai makes in kendo and wrote about it in the early days of this blog http://wp.me/stBQt-kiai . Sueno sensei however dealt with the subject much more eloquently and I feel that it's worth summarising his explanation.
Before moving into the drills, he repeated the point he made at the seminar, that "There are many paths to the top of the mountain". A good way of saying that different teachers have different approaches, but that in kendo the end goal is always the same. The drills themselves consisted of students working in pairs, starting in issoku ito maai with kakarite stepping into his or her own cutting distance and concentrating on delivering a men strike with correct ki-ken-tai- itchi timing. Each partner would make two large men attacks then receive two. After several repetitions, instructions were given to make the strikes smaller.
Once everyone was into the rhythm of exchanging men attacks, Sueno sensei made the following point. "Before starting the attack breathe in quickly through your nose; hold the air in your abdomen and make a big shout releasing some of the air. Then make your kiai as you strike, releasing the rest of your air as you move through to safe distance. As you strike your kiai should grow in volume and in pitch so that it increases your energy and acceleration and pulls your posture up throughout the attack and zanshin."
He continued to point out that if you allowed your kiai to diminish as you hit, it would have the adverse effect, causing you to lose power and "grind to a halt".
To demonstrate the feeling of "holding breath in your abdomen", sensei suggested that we try to tense the muscles in our stomach and abdomen, which everyone could and did. Then he instructed us to put tension into our shoulder and chest muscles at the same time, which nobody could.
We then returned to the drills with the emphasis on just edging our feet into our own preferred striking distance rather than taking one clear step in.
As Sueno sensei says "There are many paths to the top of the mountain" and I would be happy to have many of the Hanshi sensei as my guide. However in much the same way as does Chiba sensei, Sueno sensei has the ability to make complicated kendo concepts appear simple and logical.


text: This paper presents results obtained from a laboratory investigation conducted on material from a pressure vessel after longterm operation in the oil refinery industry. The tested material contained structural defects which arose from improper heat treatment during steel plate manufacturing. Complex tensile tests with acoustic emission signal recording were conducted on both notched and unnotched specimens. The detailed analysis of different acoustic emission criteria allowed as to detect each stage of plastic deformation and microstructural damage processes after a long-term operation, and unused carbon steels during quasi-static axial tension testing. The acoustic emission activity, generated in the typical stages of material deformation, was correlated by microscopy observations during the tensile test. The results are to be used as the basis for new algorithms for the assessment of the structural condition of in-service pressure equipment.JO - Archives of Metallurgy and Materials L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110143/PDF/AMM-2019-1-21-Lyasota.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110143 PY - 2019 IS - No 1 EP - 151 KW - monitoring KW - low carbon steel KW - plastic deformation KW - acoustic emission KW - refinery industry A1 - Lyasota, I. A1 - Sarniak, Ł. A1 - Kustra, P. PB - Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Commitee on Metallurgy of Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 64 JF - Archives of Metallurgy and Materials DA - 2019.03.14 T1 - Acoustic emission snalysis of the plastic deformation stages of degraded low-carbon steel after long-term operation in the oil refining and petrochemical processing SP - 143 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=110143 DOI - 10.24425/amm.2019.126230 ER -


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After weeks wondering about the news that Apple will bring us, eventually, the Apple Keynote was here and obviously we couldn't miss it, we followed the keynote minute by minute as if we were watching a football match. We are sure that after 2 hours listening well-known words such as amazing, convenience and incredible, there are things that you probably have missed and this is why we are going to help you remembering everything along this post.
The exciting arrival of the iPhone X
As expected the iPhone X is no longer a dream, but the most advanced product of the company.
First of all, the most striking feature is its new design. The all-screen display that precisely follows the curve, so Apple has omitted the home button which house the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, the method that replaces it is called Face ID, it unlocks the phone just by having you look at it. It combines an IR system with the front camera and flood illuminator which allows your face even in the dark.
Also will have a OLED display which measures 5.8 inches called Super-Retina, now we have to keep in mind the new aspect ratio has changed so we will have to review the design of our apps.
Among other features the iPhone X has wireless charging, dual 12-megapixel rear cameras, and it's equipped with optical image stabilization on both lenses, front-facing camera and Face ID sensors that in addition to being the new authentication system also will recognize facial muscle to create the animojis, besides will include the hexa-core and A11 Bionic chip.
As you can see the iPhone X is coming with plenty of new features…and there is even more!
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus
Apple did not forget about its traditional iPhone devices so they have decided to upgrade them with some new features, although the OLED display will remain only in the iPhone X. Nevertheless, has the hexa-core and the A11 Bionic chip, also the cameras have been improved and support wireless charging.
For many of us, will be a really good option when we have to choose which one to buy. Considering that the iPhone 8 will keep the Touch ID, the one we have seen in previous version.
Apple Watch Series 3
The Apple Watch has also been renewed. Finally Apple has launched a watch with LTE connectivity, so you don't have to keep it connected to your phone. Apple says it will work with the same phone number that your iPhone has, and all that things like calls, iMessages, and music streaming will just integrate seamlessly.
Apple TV 4K
Apple has added support for 4K video and HDR to its Apple TV, also you could use it to play videogames with its best resolution.
And what about iOS 11?
Although we knew that iOS 11 was coming along with the new iPhones, now we have the official release day, 19 of September we could download this new version and get all the new features.
And finally…
If you are iOS developer, I am sure that after reading this post, you are looking forward to start working with the new features, so we recommend you to have a look to the following link
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Apple is going to have to replace one of the panels on its ten meter tall glass cube entrance at the 5th Ave. Apple Store location. According to 9to5Mac, the panel was shattered by a snow blower, and repairs could easily approach half a million dollars.
That figure was derived from the $6.7 million Apple spent turning the cube from a 90-panel construction to the 15-panels used today. That renovation took place in 2011, and it's doubtful that the costs on one-of-a-kind glass manufacturing has gone down since then.
Then again, maybe Apple could puts its sapphire manufacturing friends down in Arizona to work. I doubt it would be possible to make a sapphire pane that large, but it would probably do a better job of resisting stray snow blowers.
Instagram user krissyhotdogs captured a fantastic image and gave us permission to repost it:
Apple's 5th Ave. Apple Store Cube - Shattered
Photograph by krissyhotdogs, republished with permission