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After Brian Williams was suspended from his position in February, it is unlikely that he will ever be returning to a television set near you. According to the now retired Dan Rather, former CBS evening news anchor, Williams' chances of returning to NBC were "slim to none" a few months ago. Now, Rather has changed his mind saying that Williams' chances are "slim just left town."
Dan Rather is a close friend of Williams and claims that he has not spoken to the news anchor since his suspension. A large part of the problem of bringing Williams' back will require him to say what he did wrong; but where and how would he do that?
Dan Rather was in a similar situation in 2005 when he retired. Usually retirements are voluntary but Rather's was urged/forced due to misinforming.
Brian Williams' suspension is mid-way over. Reports say that they are weeks away from a decision about his return. People are split in the decision to bring him back or not. The people who support him and want to bring him back believe that he was dismissed unfairly and that what he did was not egregious enough to dismiss him. Others say that if they bring Williams back, audiences would simply turn the channel when he is on. His supporters want him back on the Nightly News; but they realize that it will be unlikely for Brian Williams to return. His supporters also believe that he will be back if the decision is made that he has to retire. They went on to say that the current anchor, Lester Holt, is good, but he is not Brian Williams good.
The exaggerations in which Brian Williams is accused of making while NBC anchor have been stacking up. For example, at the Arab Springs uprising in 2011, in Cairo, Egypt, Williams claims to have seen pro-government forces riding horses with whips to beat people. He claims to have made eye contact with these horseback riding, whip yielding forces, however, it is unknown as to whether or not he was even there to see this transpire according to Paul Farhi, Media Reporter at the Washington Post.
The original exaggeration Williams is accused of making in 2003 was about how he was hit by a flying grenade in a helicopter during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Several more fabrications of the news have been found on his part.
For several weeks now, the viewership of the Nightly News with Lester Holt has lost its top spot to ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. Williams has spent three months in silence as he will have to spend another three months in silence due to the terms of his suspension, which will end in August with him either brought back or retiring. Supposedly, what he has going for him is that he has friends in high places at NBC; on the flip side there are people who do not want to see his return.
Brian Williams return is unlikely, but a decision is expected on May 11 on NBC's annual "upfronts" presentation for advertisers, because anchors are highly important to advertisers for viewership of their advertisements.
By Jacob Dowd
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Mar 22, 1982: Lulu White's Quietly Closes
March 22 wasn't the actual day the jazz club Lulu White's closed. That was the day the premises reopened as a Greek restaurant. There was no fire or padlock on the door to mark the closing of Lulu White's, at 3 Appleton Street in the South End. It just closed its doors for a short time for a makeover, and then hung out a new sign.
That address had been lively for decades before the jazz arrived in January 1978. For over 20 years the place housed the Club Khiam, one of Boston's better baklava bistros, known for its broadcasts of Middle Eastern music over WVOM-AM in the fifties.
Chester English was Lulu's first owner, and the club name, bordello decor, and Chef Willard Chandler's southern kitchen were presumably his idea. In early 1978, Tony Texeira's Creole Seven played Dixieland-style music there, with such notable local Creoles as Jeff Stout, Alex Ulanowsky, and Andy McGhee passing through the band. By the fall of 1978, though, a mostly mainstream format was in place. There were local groups like those of James Williams and Mae Arnette, but the club turned increasingly to name performers. Among them were Dorothy Donegan, Cleanhead Vinson, the Heath Brothers, Pepper Adams, and Dizzy Gillespie. Anita O'Day and Phil Woods visited annually. I haven't found the dates yet, but there was apparently one week where Bill Evans and Dave McKenna shared the bill and took turns knocking each other out.
Rumors of the club being in distress started in April 1981, when then-owners Dennis Palmisciano and Mario Carnavale denied the club had been purchased by nightclub operator Henry Vara, but did admit they were listening to offers. By then the club was closed Sundays and Mondays, and in ensuing months it booked some rock, without success.
The club was not advertising in 1981, so it isn't clear when the music stopped. Nor was it clear when the club closed. But it was clear when Boston knew that Lulu White's wasn't coming back: when the sign went up in mid-March 1982 proclaiming the new name to be Athens by Nite, a Greek supper club, with no jazz men or women, Creole or otherwise, to be heard.
Losing Lulu's as a jazz room was a blow to Boston, and one who remembers the place is the writer Stu Vandermark, a club regular, who writes warmly about it here.
Here's the late summer schedule for 1979, at the club's peak.
Can't tell if it's too late to get a reply but here goes anyway. I cherish the memories of seeing Duke, Ella, Dizzy, the Count etc. elsewhere. But equally up there was Helen Humes at Lulu's. The mid-way surprise act was an exquisite elderly woman who belted out her song. I think it was Alberta Hunter. Do you know? Thanks for the memories.
I took my parents, who were visiting from India, to Lulu's in 1981 to see Woody Shaw live. Having moved round the corner on Berkeley St that year, I was unaware till then of the club's jazz reputation. It might have been the last famous gig there.
Loved that place, saw McCoy Tyner and Woody Shaw along with many others.
Saw Stan Getz Quintet there for special election nite special. Two dollars to get in. Mitchell Forman on piano. Was over from UK. Still have the flyer publicising the gig. Out of this world
I enjoyed playing bass at Lulu White's 1978-79 accompanying Brian Jackson who was Gil Scott Heron's lead vocalist. Brian was out and about doing his solo tour. My favorite song that night was Stevie Wonder's 1972 "When The Winter Came". Last week I was called up to the band stand to sit in to play this song. This made me reminsce and research this Lulu White's thus bringing me to this site for the history. I hadn't played that song probably since that Brian Williams gig but I nailed it. Pardon my patting myself on the back kudos but everso grateful for a good memory.
I enjoyed playing bass at LuLu White's in 1978 with Brian Jackson who was Gil Scott Heron's lead vocalist which so complimented GSH's poetry and was a forerunner for the rap vocalist combos which they preceded.
One of the great spots in Boston during the late '70s, with too short a life. Sitting a few feet from tenor giant Arnett Cobb was only one of the indelible memories.
I was lucky enough to hear Blossom Dearie at Lulu White's .Also attended a celebration for Ron Della Chiesa there. Wish I could remember all the details…it's so long ago. Thank you for providing this wealth of information every day.
Even though I only went there once, I have very pleasant memories of Lulu's because it's the place where I got to see Chet Baker play, for the only time in my life. It was September, 1978. Chet had a quintet with Roger Rosenberg, baritone; Jim McNeely, piano; Chip Jackson, bass; and (I think) Jimmy Madison, drums.
I went with my friend Bob Bassett, the jazz radio DJ, who had made arrangements to tape an interview with Chet for his show. After the first set, we went into a small room backstage and Bob did the interview while I shot some pictures. Chet was very pleasant, and after the interview, we shared a few laughs before he went out for the next set.
I never went to Lulu's again, and then, as you've told us, it was gone.
I spent many a wonderful night at Lulu White's. Saw Johnny Hartman, Chet Baker, Art Blakey Jazz Messengers with James Williams on piano. Many others. Papa Jo Jones would be hanging at the bar.
I remember one night walking out with Alan Dawson (he was almost the house drummer). He was shlepping his drum cases. He turned to me and said, "I thought by now someone would be doing this for me!" We both laughed.

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Your local green grocer has asked you to produce a point of sale display to go above the fruit and vegetables in their shop. They want the display to be seen from the street through the shop window to attract passing shoppers in order to boost their trade. The shop is in a small precinct which also houses a baker, a newsagent, an independent shoe shop and is on the route to and from a well respected primary school.
The final reproduction size will be 2 x A1 landscape so you will need to produce your artwork at a smaller scale.
Analysing the Brief
To create two A1 sized point of sale displays, one for fruit and one for vegetables, to be placed above the respective produce in the grocery store.
The displays should be visible from outside the store, through the shop windows. My assumption is that the 'precinct' where the shop is, is outside (rather than an indoor precinct), so the displays will need to be quite bright to be visible through the windows from outside.
The displays should include images and wording.
The objective of the POS displays is to attract attention of people passing the store, draw them into the store and subsequently boost trade.
- Local Greengrocer
- Small Precinct
- Fruit and Vegetables
- POS Located Above Fruit and Vegetable Displays
- Eye Catching
- Seen from a Distance
- Seen in Peripheral Vision
- Clear
- Dynamic
- Attract Passing Shoppers
- Local Primary School
- Boost Sales
Target Audience
Local shoppers – the precinct that the greengrocers is in is quite small and also includes a baker, newsagent and an independent shoe shop. The shops are likely to attract locals who need a few items or some fresh produce in between their main grocery 'shops'. The surrounding shops sound quite 'down-to-earth', rather than 'luxury' shops, so are probably not attracting 'luxury' shoppers.
Mums with primary school aged children – the greengrocer is on the route to a local primary school so there will be a lot of Mums and their children (presumably both boys and girls) who will pass by. The children, in particular, are a valuable target audience, if they can be actively attracted in to the store with their Mums. (Some children might be with their Dads but this is more unlikely).
The Proposed POS
Because the POS needs to be seen from outside the store, through the windows, I decided that I would propose each POS display being in the form of a bright, backlit digital display. I checked that it was possible to purchase A1 sized digital display monitors and that the cost of them was reasonable to expect a small greengrocers to purchase. NEC sell 43 inch display monitors for £634 each which I felt was a reasonable cost, given that the monitors could be reused for other future campaigns.
I also wanted my POS digital display to be animated and involve some form of movement, so that it would attract attention, particularly if it was being seen in someone's peripheral vision.
I wanted the content of the display to attract primary school age children but I also wanted the 'message' to be something that would resonate with Mums and give them something that they could share or discuss together with their children while shopping in store.
Research / Developing Ideas
I don't have children so I first had to research what sort of thing appeals to primary school aged children and would get their attention. I was looking for a message that would encourage children to want to eat fruit and vegetables:
Based on my research, I decided that my POS displays would use bright, simple colours with limited text and fun animated cartoon characters. The message of the POS displays would play on the concept of belonging to a 'club'. I also wanted the message to be something that Mums would understand and could talk with their children about and which would support them in encouraging their children to eat fruit and vegetables.
Superhero Fruit and Veg
My first idea was to develop POS displays featuring 'super hero' fruit and veg characters. My research suggested that young children love superhero characters and I considered a message promoting the idea that 'superheros eat fruit and veg'. After a lot of thought, I decided that this idea was too 'male' and would not appeal as much to young girls. Most superheros are male and they generally involve killing or defeating 'bad guys', which I felt would appeal to boys more than girls. I felt my idea had to be more gender neutral to be equally appealing to the primary school boys and girls who would pass by the store.
Who's In Your 5-a-Day Gang?
The 5-a-day message is well known and I believe is also taught to children in primary schools, so I felt that this was a good message to promote in my POS displays. I considered using a concept of belonging to a '5 a day' club, team or gang that young children might want to be part of. If the child felt part of their own, personal '5 a day' gang, they might be encouraged to look more favourably on the fruit and veg in their 'gang'.
Fruit and Veg Explorers
This idea was about young children being curious and encouraging them to be daring and try new things. My research suggested that one of the main issues that stops children eating fruit and vegetables is that children consider them 'new' or 'strange' which makes them reluctant to try them, (hence the parents' trick of chopping vegetables into tiny pieces and adding them into more recognisable meals). Children who were Fruit and Veg Explorers would 'collect' the experiences of eating new fruit and veg. Intrepid explorers would relish the challenge of eating their fruit and veg rather than shy away from it!
Critique of Ideas
I reviewed my ideas with my husband. He wasn't comfortable with the concept of a '5-a-day' gang or club as he felt there was an element of 'exclusion' inherent in it. We both quite liked the 'Fruit and Veg' explorer idea but struggled to think of what the visuals would look like for this idea. My husband preferred the 'Fruit and Veg heros' idea, which I still rejected on the basis of it being too male.
The Final POS Displays
My final displays used the idea of '5-a-Day Kids' which, to a certain degree, combined the concept of 'superheros', i.e. you are somehow 'better' if you eat fruit and veg, and the 5-a-day message, and was inspired by a sticker I saw on a VW camper van which read 'VDub Dads ..like normal Dads but Cooler'. My research had suggested that messages to children should consider their values, so they won't react to being told something is 'healthier' but rather that it is 'cooler'.
For each POS display, I used Adobe Illustrator to draw 5 simple cartoon fruits and vegetables. I created a series of frames for each to make the fruits wave and the vegetables jump and used Photoshop to convert the frames into a simple animation which could be displayed on the A1 digital display screens in the Greengrocer's store.
I used simple bright colours for the display (and for consistency, used the same colours on each display), on a white background which, combined with the animation, was intended to attract the attention of young children passing outside the store.
The final POS displays
Thoughts on This Exercise
I really enjoyed working on this exercise 🙂
Using Adobe Illustrator for the exercise, really advanced my rudimentary Illustrator skills. It was also only the second time I had created an animation, and I was really excited to have produced a simple animation using Photoshop, for this exercise.
Some interesting observations were:
- How difficult it was to let go of my first idea and consider other ideas. I was conscious that my first idea about the superhero fruit was probably the most obvious one, but I also thought it was a good one and it was hard to allow myself to seriously consider other ideas. It also took quite a lot of subsequent research for me to admit that the superhero idea wasn't gender-neutral enough and that I should drop it.
- Getting critique from one person, particularly one who isn't in my target audience, probably isn't very representative.
- I wondered if my husband liked the 'Superhero fruit' idea best, because it was the most obvious idea and, like me, the first thing he thought of. Does that devalue his feedback if he just considers the most obvious solution to the brief?
- Is it acceptable to appropriate someone else's idea (the VDub Dad) and use it as the basis of my own work, or is that plagiarism?
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Reproduction of European Pikeperch Workshop, 16-20 September 2019, Belgium
In 2019, our fellow colleague Stefan Teerlinck from Inagro in Belgium will host for the third time a five-day workshop providing hands-on practical training on all relevant aspects in relation to Reproduction of European pikeperch (Sander lucioperca). Organized and hosted by Stefan Teerlinck (Inagro) and taught by skilled experts Daniel Zarski (UWM) and Uros Ljubobratovic (NARIC) this workshop will combine theoretical and practical classes from induction of reproduction to egg quality assessment. After this workshop, participants will be able to improve and standardize their own reproduction on farm level.
Inagro vzw
Ieperseweg 87
8800 Rumbeke-Beitem
Date: Monday - Friday, 16th - 20th September 2019
Price: 900 Euro (ex vat)
Registration price includes: hotel (5 nights, incl. breakfast), some lunches, daily coffee breaks, transfers airport - hotel and transfers hotel - inagro during workshop.
Registration: Limited to eight (8) participants in total! Priority for companies and practitioners.
Deadline for registration is Friday 30th August 2019.
Send an Email to email@example.com including your name, address, short motivation, professional background and invoicing details of your company. Please indicate any special requirements (dietary, mobility).
You will receive a notification on the outcome of your application soon after this date. Afterwards we will invoice the workshop registration fee to your company. After successful invoicing, we will send a confirmation for your registration. Do not book any flights etc. before you have received the confirmation of your successful registration!
Travel: Travel to/from workshop venue needs to be arranged by yourself and workshop registration fee does not cover the price. Transfers from Brussels Airport to Roeselare can be arranged for Sunday 15th September.
Find the full agenda ready for download here.


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its heyday in the early 20th century, Harlem, New York served
as the cultural center of Black America. One of the striking
features of Harlem in those days were the legions of soap box
preachers. Crates that had once transported bars of soap, were
used as streetside podiums by those who stood upon them and
competed for the attention of residents whose very survival
was often connected to their ability to dream about a better
life. Those soapboxes have long been replaced by televangelists
and mega-churches, yet there remains a nation of people who
truly need a message of survival. And it is for those folk that
Donnie offers The Daily News—a new collection of songs
that speak to the joys, pains, and challenges of being an American
in the early 21st century. "I just wanted to put music
to our everyday culture" Donnie says, "because nobody's
news is like ours."
That an artist would
use his or her music as a metaphoric soapbox is not new—it's
a tradition that is as old as Billie Holiday lamenting the practice
of lynching on her classic recording "Strange Fruit"
and continues today in the music of folk like The Dixie Chicks
and Steve Earle. What perhaps separates Donnie from many of
his contemporaries is the passion—bordering on religious
fervor—that he brings to his music. This is something
that comes naturally to Donnie. As the son of two ministers,
for which attendance in Church was a non-negotiable, Donnie
learned quite a lot from the styles that emerged from the pulpit
and the sounds that filled the churches that were his spiritual
homes in Lexington, KY and later Atlanta, GA. What he didn't
learn from the church he learned during his stint at one of
Atlanta's performing arts schools: "that's
where I learned some music theory", Donnie recalls, but
he also found musical inspiration "just looking at the
world… America is in bad shape. I witness human tragedy
every single day. And that shit don't make sense."
first emerged out of the Atlanta Soul music scene, which also
produced India.Arie. It was with the support of Arie, that Donnie
independently released the critically acclaimed The Colored
Section (2002) on Giant Step which led to his signing with the
legendary Motown record label. Donnie's affinity toward
legendary Soul singers like Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway
was clear, but few critics realized the other influences that
were as vital to Donnie's sound as classic Soul. "I
come from Gospel," Donnie notes, "I come from Rance
Allen, James Moore, John P. Kee, Darryl Coley—all of these
men in Gospel sing and draw emotions." Like the classic
Soul Men that also influenced him, Donnie understands how fluid
musical genres can be. Like The Colored Section before it, The
Daily News is evidence of Donnie's appreciation of a wide
range of styles including ragtime, jazz, the blues, show tunes,
Soul, hip-hop, gospel and of course contemporary R&B.
Though many critics
have described Donnie's sound as "old school",
he makes it clear that he is "an artist of today and though
my songwriting is classic, I want it to sound like today."
The "classically contemporary" sound that listeners
hear on The Daily News has much to do with the legendary musicians
that appear on the album including Al McKay (Earth, Wind, &
Fire), Jimi Macon (Gap Band), Bobby Watson (Rufus, Michael Jackson),
and Wayne Linsey (Stevie Wonder, Anthony Hamilton) - all of
whom wanted to work with Donnie because of his unique abiiility
to deliver old school Soul performances that speak to today's
relationship of Donnie's music to the "here and
now" is best reflected in the themes of the music itself.
Tracks like "Over-the-Counter Culture" (which features
Phonte of the hip-hop group Little Brother), "Classifieds"
and the title track, "The Daily News", are clear
indictments of the shortcomings and dangers of contemporary
America. While the urgency of such issues reflect the way in
which news is presented to us —24 hours a day at a break-neck
pace—The Daily News is also a reminder that many of these
issues are timeless, as is the case on songs like "China
Doll" which tackles the difficult subject of child molestation,
the very personal "Suicide", and "Impatient
People", which mocks the federal government's response
to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Through the socio-political
nature of the subject matter found on The Daily News, Donnie
says that he hopes his music "brings people some type
of joy and it makes them think about what they are doing every
single day, especially Americans." His music is a celebration
of life. Of moving forward and coping with the ever changing
landscape of life in the 21st Century as a proud and conscious
interview with Donnie
13 December 2002
debut CD "The Colored Section" has recently been released
and has gotten rave reviews from almost every critic on the planet.
He's been compared with Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway and Marvin
Gaye and is seen as one of the most talented new artists of recent
years. When we from SaveOurSoul spoke with Donnie, there was an
ice storm coming up, but Donnie did not want an ice storm, so
he was not expecting it. The ice storm came anyway.
Colored Section
title of Donnie's debut CD "The Colored Section" caused
some reactions. He got reaction from people that know right of
what the colored section is and are from African descent in America.
Those people really responded in a very warm manner. Some people
cried, which didn't surprise Donnie because he knows what they
are feeling and to see that type of symbol in this day and time
in a name of an album, those people enjoyed that. But there were
numerous people that wondered what the colored section was. That
was a question he had to answer a lot. The title comes from the
Jim Crow era, that was the time after slavery (1870 - till 1967)
when American negroes were let out of slavery and they had a set
of laws all over the United States that were against negroes,
which was against the constitution. The could not sit and eat
in certain places, could not use certain bathrooms, they could
not vote until the sixties. That was the colored section. But
to Donnie the colored section is much more, he likes to repaint
the colored section. He wants it to be a hip place to be instead
of a place people do not want to go. The colored section is the
United States of America.
the CD "The Colored Section" there is a wide variety
of music, such as funk, gospel, ragtime and even samba. Donnie
was just like everybody else introduced to music by his parents,
who were listening at that time to Lou Rawls, The Emotions, Ramsey
Lewis. In the eighties his parents went back to church, both of
them became preachers, so he would hear more gospel. But Donnie
has always listened to the radio and watched MTV. He is from the
MTV-generation and he listens to all types of music. Donnie was
influenced by contemporary gospel artist like the Clarck Sisters,
Hawkins, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke and the Winans. Even though
he is compared to Stevie Wonder a lot, Stevie was not Donnie's
major influence. Although he was an influence just like Donny
Hathaway and Marvin Gaye, to whom Donnie is related.
is not afraid to address isues like rasicm, age discrimination
and poverty. It is because of who Donnie is. He questions things
and does not take things for what they are. He wants to address
the problems, and not run away and escape them in the dreamy dreamy
love songs. Love songs have to be real. These topics are happening
in the United States, which is the colored section. Donnie explains:
"My last name is Johnson and I am a negro, and negroes are
mainly from Africa. There are Johnson's, Anderson's, Gaye's that
are white in the United States that are my cousin. But people
refuse to look at that. These are all our stories. And every white
person is not against me, and never has been. There were abolitionists
that died for slavery, because they thought slavery was wrong.
It is a very complex story in the United States of America. If
there is an african-american person with the last name Bush, who
says they are not kin to George Bush, our president. We are all
from the same people. And there were many masters that slept with
the slaves. And fathered many children. That is why we have a
variety of shades in the negro culture. People that are passed
for white that identify themselves as black. There are people
that are my color and even darker, that we know are black. I have
cousins that are very light, extremely light. We are all kin,
we have the same great great great grandparents."
black this first black that
grew up in Atlanta. In Atlanta's history Maynard Jackson was the
first black mayor and Andrew Young was the first black from the
south that became an U.S. congressman. This is what Donnie means
when he sings "The first black this, the first black that,
give me the truth and not the facts" in the title track of
"The Colored Section" Because in America you always
hear the First black that.. about all the people who have so called
"Made it", that are negro, but Donnie feels that without
negroes in America, there would definitly be no American story.
He says: "We were in every fase of it, wether it would be
good or bad, most of the industrial age was built off the American
negro. We invented ooh so many things, that we use today and take
for granted. But nobody will know that. And a lot of things were
even patented by white inventors, because it was against the law
for a negro to patent anything" As for "give me the
truth and not the facts", Donnie explains "Just give
me what it is. They twist the story a lot here. Even in my history
books we did not have a lot of black history. But we had more
than our parents. Our kids have more than we have. The first model
for the statue of liberty was a negro woman. But a lot of people
will never know that. We don't look at the truth we just look
at the facts. We look at what we have known to be true."
the love songs on "The Colored Section" you won't find
words like boy, girl, man, woman. The reason is that Donnie wants
to make his love songs accessible for everybody, giving it an
universal appeal. Whether you are male or female, he wants everybody
being able to sing his songs without feeling that the person has
to change the lyric. Donnie starts singing "Nothing you can
say can tear me away from my guy.. but I have to go sing girl"
The song is My Guy, My Girl is from the Temptations. "People
have to change it up and do all of that." Songs that have
words like "You and I", "It's about us" tend
to hit more. You never hear many female's singing She and male's
singing He because they would not play it on the radio.
hopes to achieve with his CD: "a better understanding, acceptance
of the truth and the evolution of the way we think and the way
we relate to eachother. Because we would rather have war than
talk and be fair and reasonable. We relate on animalistic level,
and I feel that we, including myself, should rise higher. I cannot
identify with the animalistic behaviours such as killing, raping
and bombing."
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Mortgage advice in Sheffield for every situation
People are always interested in investing in real estate properties. If you feel the same way, but you do not have all the money, you should start looking for mortgage advice in Sheffield. There are quite a few situations when you can invest and you have to be ready to what's next. A mortgage broker Sheffield can prepare you for each of them.
A lot of people think that a mortgage is the loan you take out when you want to buy a house you can live in. This is true, but you can find a range of situations that will qualify for this. If you want to have the best chances for success, you have to be sure each situation is treated as it is supposed to. This will get you closer to the result you are after.
For instance, the first time you want to buy a house can be scary and you are surely in the dark with what you have to do to achieve your goals. Without a little guidance you will not know where to start and what path you must follow to get the job done. This is why you will need an expert by your side to hold your hand from start to finish.
A house is meant to be the place where you create memories and raise a family, but you do not have to be stuck in the same place forever. There comes a time when you may outgrow the house you live in or you may be forced to relocate due to a career opportunity. There are quite a few reasons why your current home may not suit your needs.
So what will you do when you need to relocate? What steps will you take to buy a new home and sell the old one? It may seem like an easy task, but it can become complicated very fast without mortgage advice in Sheffield. This is why you should get in touch with an expert that will help you get the best deal when you want to buy a new home.
Initially you take out a mortgage loan because you want to buy a house. After a few years, you may need some extra money and your options are not so diverse. If you want to work with financial institutions for it, you can get in touch with a mortgage broker Sheffield and start looking for remortgage solutions. This is the answer you are looking for.
People use their salaries as a guarantee that they will pay off the loan. But what happens to a self employed person? How will they be able to apply for a loan when their income does not come from another source? A broker is able to show you a few solutions you may not know of and they will help you get things ready to achieve the goals you seek.
Staying in a council house is not out of the ordinary, but there comes a time when you may be able to buy the house. It is your right to buy the house where you lived, but the procedure you have to go through is not that easy. There are quite a few steps you must take before you can own it. An expert is going to help you go through with it much easier.
One of the things you have to keep in mind is that you will need a deposit. Usually this deposit is at least 20% of the total value, but this can be quite high. If you are not able to afford such a deposit, you will be able to solicit a little bit of help to buy a new house. The government can lend you 20%, you deposit only 5% and the rest is the mortgage.
If you are looking for an investment opportunity to increase your income, you can buy a house to let it. This is going to imply a range of other conditions you have to meet and it can be more complicated than you think. If you do not want to deal with this on your own, you should take the time to find the expert that will help you from start to finish.
An expert is going to provide the answers you are looking for, but you must be sure each of the situations you have read about here can be covered. The web is the first source you can use to find the specialists you are interested in.
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BACKGROUND: Before the great financial crash of 2008/2009, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former derivatives trader turned NYU professor of Risk Engineering, wrote a book debunking the predictive models of Wall Street gurus and former academics who, for a not-so-insignificant price, lent their vastly complex computer modeling and math skills to the large investment banks and hedge funds that were largely responsible for having accommodated government policy – all of which led to the collapse of the mortgage market and of the financial derivatives upon which it was based.
Taleb titled his book The Black Swan. He chose that designation to underscore his belief that when a segment of society – in this case, Wall Street financial institutions and hedge funds – has come to believe that it has discovered a foolproof way of assuring market success, it is precisely then that unforeseen, improbable events – Taleb calls these "Black Swans" – will cause the bottom to fall out of all the assumptions upon which those complex financial models are based.
To illustrate his assertion, the author points to a hitherto prevailing belief held for many years, that all swans are white – that is, until the discovery of black swans in the Australian subcontinent upset those preconceived notions of certainty.
Simply put, that is why the market for mortgage derivatives fell apart: Its house of cards tumbled in a domino-like pattern in 2008, when The Black Swans of unpredictability brought it down.
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As with many innovations that have been in existence for a period of time, dental veneers are available using more than one type of material. The main options used for veneers are composite and porcelain. Since veneers are useful for correcting a variety of minor problems with tooth shape, rotation and spacing, here is a side-by-side comparison guide that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each type of veneer material.
Composite vs. Porcelain Veneers – Which Material is Best for You?
- Durability. Porcelain veneers are exceptionally durable with proper care – some can last as long as 10 to 15 years before needing to be replaced. Composite veeners usually last four to eight years before needing to be replaced.
- Convenience. To make porcelain veneers, impressions of a patient's natural teeth must be taken and the veneers must usually be fabricated off-site. This means it will take at least two visits to install porcelain veneers. With composite veneers, the dentist will shape the material as he or she places it over a patient's natural teeth, so this type of restoration can be applied in a single visit.
- Stain resistance. Porcelain veneers are extremely resistant to staining by coffee, tea, wine, berries, and other types of food and drink. In fact, this type of veneer is often suggested when a patient has natural teeth with stains that have not responded to whitening. Composite veneers are not as resistant to food and beverage stains.
- Natural appearance. Porcelain veneers are able to to closely resemble natural teeth because of the way they reflect light. They are translucent, just as our teeth are. Composite veneers can be matched to the color of one's natural teeth very easily, but because they do not reflect light in the same way, will appear slightly less "natural looking" compared to porcelain veneers.
- Repairs. Porcelain veneers cannot be repaired if they are cracked or damaged – they must be replaced. Composite veneers with minor damage often can be repaired.
- Fees. Because of the impressions that must be taken to create porcelain veneers, the cost to fabricate them and the additional dental visits, fees for porcelain veneers are typically higher. Composite veneers usually cost less; however, because the dentist installing the veneers also constructs them, he or she must be aesthetically skilled to produce a beautiful, functional result for the patient.
"Each type of veneer can benefit patients, depending on an individual's circumstances," says Dr. Carol Ford, a cosmetic dentist with a practice in central Phoenix. "Talk to your cosmetic dentist about which type of veneer material is right for your smile makeover."


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Sprinkle raisins over the apple, and place it on a baking sheet.
Bake it in the oven for 15 minutes at 350° F.
Remove from the oven (don't forget your oven mitt!), and sprinkle a pinch of cinnamon over each apple half.
Scoop ice cream over the apple halves and enjoy!
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In lower-risk MDS patients, all three guidelines recommend the following for treatment of symptomatic anemia [24, 40, 39]
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La Caleta
La Caleta is a small and quiet holiday resort in the south-western part of Tenerife, approx. 5-6 km north of Playa de las Americas.
The beach in general
La Enramada beach in La Caleta is a 200-300 m long natural beach covered with coarse lava sand and rocks.
The water is clear and clean, but the bathers often experience big waves, as the beach is completely unprotected towards the west.
During the high season, it is possible to rent sun lounges and sunshades at the beach, and there is also access to toilets. There is free parking in both ends of the beach.
The lovely sand beach Playa de Duque is located to the south-east – less than one kilometre's walk away.
The coarse lava sand, the large amount of rocks and the big waves make the beach less child-friendly.
Water sports
No water sports activities.
Beach restaurants
There is a beach bar, which is usually open during the high season.
La Caleta holiday resort
La Caleta is a small and peaceful town, but if the extension of Costa Adeje continues, La Caleta will be merged with the larger town of Costa Adeje in a few years.
The largest hotel in La Caleta is the apartment hotel Jardin Caleta, which has a beautiful view of the beach and the ocean.
The town has a number of restaurants, including a tapas restaurant and a sea food restaurant. Several of the restaurants have a lovely view of the ocean. There are also a few bars in La Caleta.
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In a recent report by Rose and Hay, a case of lobomycosis was described as the first to be diagnosed in Guyana. I wish to point out, however, that an extraordinarily severe case of that disease of 56 years' duration in a lifetime resident of Guyana was described in 1976 by Jag Bhawan et al. In addition, the cases of lobomycosis that have been diagnosed by several investigators among dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) occurred in Florida waters off the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, not in the Caribbean sea as stated by Rose and Hay.
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- 2017-07-10
SoundCloud Lays Off 40 Percent of Staff to Stay Afloat
- Berlin-based streaming music service SoundCloud announced that the company laid off 173 staffers, or approximately 40 percent of its workforce, and consolidated its operations into offices in Berlin and New York.
The company will close London and San Francisco offices.
In March, SoundCloud secured $70 million in a new funding round. Last year, market leader Spotify tried to acquire SoundCloud, but who ended its interest in December.
In an attempt to boost revenue, SoundCloud began offering a subscription service last year but the song library was extremely limited and the service wasn't very user-friendly.
Also, COO Marc Strigel, finance director Markus Harder and CCO Stephen Bryan have all left the company in the past five months.
- Read CEO Alex Ljung's full statement below.
Eric [Wahlforss] and I founded SoundCloud nearly 10 years ago as we saw a need for something that would enable artists to share and connect through music. As we hovered together back in 2008 to push the button that would make SoundCloud live for the entire world, we had no idea the impact our, then tiny, platform would have on the future of music culture, and millions of listeners and artists around the globe.
In the competitive world of music streaming, we've spent the last several years growing our business, and more than doubled our revenue in the last 12 months alone. However, we need to ensure our path to long-term, independent success. And in order to do this, it requires cost cutting, continued growth of our existing advertising and subscription revenue streams, and a relentless focus on our unique competitive advantage — artists and creators.
With more focus and a need to think about the long term, comes tough decisions. Today, after careful and painful consideration, we took the difficult step to let go of 173 SoundCloud staffers and consolidated the team into two offices: Berlin and New York. We are extremely grateful for the contributions of each and every staff member who will be leaving SoundCloud, and we wish all of them the best. Without them, we would not be where we are today.
By reducing our costs and continuing our revenue growth, we're on our path to profitability and in control of SoundCloud's independent future.
So what does this mean for SoundCloud? The SoundCloud platform listeners and artists love will remain available in more than 190 countries globally. SoundCloud will continue to be the place for what's new, now and next in music, powered by the world's most diverse music community. I look forward to sharing more about our future plans in the weeks and months ahead.
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Sunday 16th February 2014, 9.59am, Koh Phangan, Thailand:
My backpack is locked in my beach bungalow. What a ridiculous problem to have on departure day. My own attempts to open the little wooden door have, obviously, failed miserably and now a small army of local boys (loosely imitating staff) have turned up with a box of a hundred unmarked keys which one of them is unsystematically trying the jammed lock with, whilst another is breaking in through the window, taking entire panes of glass out as he goes. He looks at me as if to say, "This shit happens all the time around here" and I smile, because it's unequivocally true. He then tries to charge me 200 Baht for fixing a problem that was quite clearly there before my arrival, which is something else that happens all the time around here. Because this is Thailand, and this chaotic, corrupt, disorganised and wildly beautiful land is the place I chose to be during this one-month escape of a cruel annual joke in England we call winter.
Last year, as my 30th birthday drew closer it intrigued me that I had never properly ventured solo into the world. All my life I've been seeking, discovering and exploring the planet within the safety of great and trusted company. Why had I never gone alone? Was it through fear? Complacency? Habit? It was time to find out. One passenger, one ticket, one bag. Destination: Koh Phangan.
My other reason for this trip was the simple need to pause and process the mayhem of life. As a friend so perfectly put it, I just needed to go somewhere beautiful for a while and clear my head. What followed was a month of auspicious encounters, surprise adventures and a healthy dose of introspection. The clearest way for me to describe the past month is by dividing it into lunar phases, representing not only some key moments during my journey, but also the moon that is so hedonistically celebrated on this island.
Part 1: Solitude (aka Waning Gibbous Moon)
Bangkok was its usual polluted self: a blend of intense heat, pandemonium-inducing traffic, neon lights, cheap clothes, persistent hawkers, street food, rats, throbbing club beats and political protests. My room was a typical windowless box above an Indian restaurant which doubled as a noisy all-night karaoke bar. The bed crawled with insects, the walls were adorned with unidentifiable stains and, outside in the soul-less concrete corridor, strands of electrical cables hung from the ceiling, dripping with water and sparking frequently. The end of the corridor was blocked by prison bars (to prevent travellers making a desperate escape by leaping off the roof?) and I would not have been surprised to see Robert Carlisle's paranoid head emerge from within darkened corners. It was your typical Bangkok dive, costing a total of £3.50. Most people fit neatly into either the Love or Loathe category where Thailand's capital is concerned, and I'm never quite sure to which I belong. On past experience I have to reluctantly conclude it's the latter, but I'm prepared to believe that could yet change. In any case, 24 hours after arrival I beat a hasty retreat south.
My first few days of island life were spent in relative solitude. Beyond ordering food and haggling songthaew taxi fares I barely engaged in conversation. During those days I mostly worked, albeit from the beach with a beer in hand, chipping away at the word count for an approaching deadline. Convincing myself that each hour of work should be rewarded with equal time at the hands of a Thai masseuse, I would break frequently because, really, what's the point of being a freelance writer if you can't choose your "office hours"? The more days that passed, the fewer words I spoke, which generally felt soothing, until a need for meaningful human interaction kicked in. I submitted my article, bid my masseuse farewell and switched locations on a whim.
Part 2: Liberation (aka Half Moon)
A whim, it turns out, can be quite the gem if you act upon it… Enter Camille, the wise and funny Zimbabwe-born Australian resident who I affectionately call Blondie. Two travellers, one available beachside bungalow and an unexpected invitation to share. We became friends instantly, bonding over our shared interests and curiosities about the world. Island life with Blondie on Koh Phangan was a series of spontaneous and fun events, like the enticing trailer of a summer movie: neon-painted bodies dancing carefree at the Half Moon Party; sun-kissed skin and salty hair; the wind-whipped exhilaration of motorbike rides over tropical terrain; beach-hopping island exploration; new friends, cold beers and old songs; sunsets and uncontrollable laughter.
It was a liberating time. The cobwebs of winter were blown away and I felt vibrant again. We shared a mutual understanding of each other that belied our short friendship and gave us confidence in its longevity. Seven days later, with farewell tears at the jetty (pathetic or what?) we went our separate ways. Some people's paths are destined to cross, and meeting Blondie brought me back to myself again. As she departed, the next chapter beckoned: The Sanctuary, a holistic retreat where I would spend a week cleansing my system and clearing my mind.
Part 3: Rehabilitation (aka New Moon)
Arriving via a rough but mercifully short longtail boat ride, I was plunged straight into The Sanctuary's hub and it felt a little overwhelming. The place was packed with hardcore hippies; dread-locked, tattooed and deep in stoned conversations about progressive ideas for rejecting the modern world. Even as someone who is perfectly at home with New Age living, I had to admit it was an intense environment. There was so much colour, texture and eye-catching detail coming from the artwork in the wood-carved space and from its inhabitants that I found myself in a bewildered trance. Very soon, of course, what had seemed intimidating felt perfectly normal, and I relaxed into a nourishing routine.
Opting out of a strict detox programme, I took the middle road which permitted a few beers at night and didn't involve voluntary starvation – the thought of fasting made me practically weep when I saw the veggie menu. I spent the week engrossed in yoga, meditation and a host of holistic healings from which I drew deep benefits and learned some potentially life-changing things about myself. I slept in a 10-bed dorm overlooking the sea, devoured daily spirulina juices and treated myself to herbal steam and cold plunge sessions at dusk. I rose with the sun, read in hammocks and floated on my back letting the sea carry my weight. As each day passed, my mind felt less cluttered.
A close ally at The Sanctuary made an astute observation one day, commenting that it felt a little like rehab in the sense that you checked in with your own issues and by the time you checked out you'd take on everyone else's too, which was both amusing and true. The hub of the restaurant was like an obstacle course of social encounters – it was imperative you chose your seat carefully or you might end up with a side order of Group Therapy to go with your curry. It became commonplace to tell intimate secrets to someone you met moments ago. Strange as it may sound, it felt completely normal, perhaps even cathartic, in that environment.
Within that social bubble I met a fascinating cast of characters: The sexy photographer/yogi from Sydney whose humour and easy company instilled in me a sense of peace; the esoteric Canadian with the intense stare who spoke freely about his depression and had no concept of personal space; the bubbly Camden girl with the beautiful eyes who was learning the art of letting go; the kind-hearted but wild pensioner trying to kick the habit of a lifetime; the unfulfilled surf instructor moving from one meaningless fling to another; the Italian farmer who hiked miles through the jungle each day in preparation for a Nepal trek; the quiet girl who engaged with nobody and slept around the clock; the tattooed German heavyweight fighter with the surprisingly gentle character; and last but never least, my good friend and close confidant, the kind-hearted nurse with the enviable zeal for life who needed time out from caring for others to nurture herself. Then there was me: how would others have defined me in one sentence, I wonder?
The retreat's setting was lovely, tumbling down a thick jungle mountainside to a small bay, but it was also isolated and after 7 days a feeling of claustrophobia was growing within me. I had gained so much from my experiences – The Sanctuary possesses a mysterious and special kind of magic – but I needed to escape the bubble and get back to the "real world". Plus, all the soul-searching in the world won't quench a woman's thirst for shopping…
Part 4: Contemplation (aka Full Moon)
During the final phase of my trip I wanted to marinade in all that I had experienced, somewhere with sunsets and broad horizons. I intended to be alone but remain open to company should I meet the right people, thus striking the balance I'm so conscious of maintaining in life. I found a small wooden beach bungalow on the opposite side of the island, a few metres from the water, with a hammock on the verandah and plenty of palm trees for shade. It was basic, but I made this hut my home, unpacking my few belongings and burning incense and candles for atmosphere.
Nearby were daily yoga and meditation classes, fantastic home-cooked food courtesy of a smiley woman called Pim, and a charming community of long-stay travellers who invited me in without hesitation, sharing esoteric conversation, joints and astronomy lessons around the bonfire. It was exactly where I needed to be, and as I surrounded myself with people who were so firmly on my wavelength, something was unlocked within me. I noticed that life was starting to flow more fluidly, more creatively. I'm certain it's the same whatever your walk of life; medical students feed their appreciation and understanding of the workings of the human body when in the company of an award-winning surgeon, just as fashion students might buzz with excitement during an encounter with an accomplished catwalk designer. When you accept that every encounter or experience we have in life can teach us something, all sorts of windows and doors start appearing where previously you only saw walls.
After this month of travelling alone, what is my verdict? Decidedly positive. Once my initial nerves subsided I found that it felt completely natural, and discovered that it not only suits but excites me. The possibilities are endless and the choices are my own. Solo travel tests my fondness of time spent alone, gives me space to be myself and meet strangers with a clean slate, and the chance to ponder such mind-boggling questions as what makes me happy in life, and why tropical sea lice don't sting your tongue when you open your mouth in the water (the latter question could be put down to an excess of sun and coconut water). Most crucially, my experiences have given me a deeper understanding of living through my heart rather than my head, they've taught me to trust my instincts and shown me how to focus on my passions. In short, this has been a blessing.
And so, as the whole island prepares to celebrate the Full Moon, I prepare for departure. It's not exactly a celebration for me – because who in their right mind would want to leave such an idyllic haven? – but I can feel proud of what I have accomplished on a personal level, and rather than returning home with a heavy heart and a cluttered mind, I feel relaxed, inspired, creative and centred. Now if only I could retrieve my backpack from that locked bungalow…


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TIJUANA, Baja California, May 26, 2017 – NAI Mexico announced today it will host the "TIJUANA Operations Directors Forum" for global industrial operations executives on Wednesday, June 14, 2017.
The event will feature 3 industry experts providing thought leadership from Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce (Cali-Baja unique global location), Seraph (management consulting), and NAI (global business advisory) discussing the US political election, Mexico operations competitiveness, potential tariff impacts, and how executives can remain competitive during 2017's disrupted market. The event is complementary to NAI invited clients.
NAI Mexico CEO Gary Swedback noted:
"The main objective is to enable operations managers to understand impact in Mexico due to the US election, tools for planning managers and how to help their operations remain competitive, internallly in the US, and world markets"
The event will be hosted at Club de Empresarios de Baja California, for a small—select group, limited to 40 executives Wednesday, June 14, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
For additional info please visit: http://naimexico.com/operations-directors-forum-tj/
NAI Mexico is an exclusive member of NAI, the world's leading managed network of commercial real estate firms serving over 390 markets worldwide.
NAI Mexico advises both Mexican and global clients through a platform of 11 offices in Mexico. In addition to traditional leasing and sales, NAI Mexico offers additional integrated services for design and construction, project management, valuation, advisory consulting, market analytics, capital markets and supply chain solutions.
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Joshua, a 52-year-old man with bipolar disorder, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension, presents to his primary care provider's (PCP) office for routine follow-up. His psychiatric symptoms have been well controlled for several years with aripiprazole. Joshua also takes pravastatin and lisinopril. His fasting lipid profile 3 months prior showed total cholesterol, 152 mg/dL; high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), 36 mg/dL; triglycerides (TG), 221 mg/dL; and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), 74 mg/dL. Having recently changed to another health insurance provider, Joshua tells his PCP that aripiprazole is no longer covered by his prescription plan and he cannot afford to pay for it. His PCP starts him on risperidone instead, which is on his insurance formulary, and asks him to return in 6 months. Joshua misses his next appointment, but when he finally sees his PCP 1 year later, he states that he stopped taking risperidone because of restlessness and enlarged breasts. Routine fasting lipid profile now shows total cholesterol, 214 mg/dL; HDL-C, 27 mg/dL; TG, 369 mg/dL; and LDL-C, 113 mg/dL. He reports that he has had times of spending more than he could afford, impulsivity, irritability, and feeling "on top of the world" as well as periods of depressed mood, anhedonia, lessened energy, and lessened interest in work and in family life. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the adverse drug event (ADE) in this patient?
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Safety and Security Programming
Miami University has developed a robust faculty-led education abroad program over the past decade. As we work to expand opportunities for students to develop competencies through experiential travel opportunities it is essential that we continue to develop the capacity of our program leaders to support the safety and security of our students while they are traveling in Miami sponsored programs.
Faculty and staff serving as leaders for Miami University study travel program are required to complete, once every two years, safety and security programming identified by the Study Abroad Office. All program leaders will carry an approved First Aid Medical Kit during program travel.
The proposed safety and security programming is delivered on two levels. Level 1 includes standard travel programs in locations that are within one hour of definitive medical care. Level 2 includes travel programs that are one hour or more from definitive medical care. "Definitive care" is a hospital or clinic providing medical care for health challenges that require specialized skills, treatment techniques, and knowledge in order to manage the patient for an extended period of time. The level will be determined in the proposal development process by the Study Abroad Office in collaboration with the program leader, and risk management consultants such as GeoBlue and International SOS. All proposals are approved at the department and division level.
Medical Kit
Purchased by Global Initiatives and stored at the Rec Center–program leader checks out kit for travel and returns at program end.
Level 1
Mountain Series Day Tripper Adventure Medical Kit
Level 2
Mountain Series Fundamentals Medical Kit
First Aid Training
Expensed to program budget and completed every 2 years
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| Vivarium (2020)
A young couple is thinking about buying their starter home. And to this end, they visit a real estate agency where they are received by a strange sale
| Ordinary Love (2020)
Joan and Tom have been married for many years. There is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a life time together and a depth
| Downhill (2020)
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their
| The Wrong Todd (2019)
Everything changes for Todd when his evil twin from a parallel universe arrives to steal his girlfriend.
| Midsommar (2019)
Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tra
| Almost Love (2019)
Does every relationship have an expiration date? Adam and Marklin are about to find out. Their 5- year relationship has gone from a passionate flame t
| Life Like (2019)
An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of huma
| The Intruder (2019)
A young married couple buy a beautiful house on several acres of land only to find out that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the prope
| The Russian Bride (2019)
A Russian woman travels to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire, who turns out to be a psycho who sends their lives spiraling in
| Instant Family (2018)
A couple find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children.
| Unfriended Dark Web (2018)
Tells the story about a teen who comes into possession of a new laptop and finds that it may have been stolen. He discovers the previous owner may be
| Adrift (2018)
Starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, Adrift is based on the inspiring true story of two free spirits whose chance encounter leads them first to
| The Escape (2018)
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
| Swinging Safari (2018)
Australia, 1975. The beach suburb of Nobbys Beach is a place that revolves around surf mats, baby oil, boxed wine and the new miracle of Kentucky Frie
| Redwood (2017)
After some bad news back at home, Musician Josh and his girlfriend Beth head out to a secluded national park in search of some clarity on the situatio
| American Violence 2017 (2017)
Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Amanda Tyler, has an opportunity to interview and analyze death ro
| Between Us 2017 (2017)
Thirlby and Feldman play a couple confronted by the fear that settling down and getting married means their carefree days as city-dwelling young adult
| Loving (2016)
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led
| Late Summer (2016)
An elderly woman has secluded herself in her remote home in the French countryside, when a young foreign couple on vacation suddenly intrudes on her i
| Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Se


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California 2017
The first major antiquarian book fair of the year in America, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017!
50 years of seeing, learning about, and purchasing the finest in rare and valuable books, manuscripts, autographs, graphics, photographs, print and ephemera.
The fair is sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, ABAA and ILAB.
Nearly 200 international booksellers will exhibit at the fair.
To see a full listing of all exhibitors, please visit the website.
The 50th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
10 - 12 February 2017
Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, California
Friday, February 10, 2017 • 3 pm to 8 pm
Saturday, February 11, 2017 • 11 am to 7 pm
Sunday, February 12, 2017 • 11 am to 5 pm
Three-day admission tickets are available at the door on Friday for $25.
Tickets purchased on Saturday and Sunday are $15 and all tickets allow return admission for the remainder of the fair.
For more information about tickets or exhibiting, visit www.cabookfair.com.
All tickets will be available to purchase online for a pre-event discount.
For more information about the 50th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, please visit the website at www.cabookfair.com or the ABAA website at www.abaa.org; or contact Fair Managers, White Rain Productions at, email@example.com, (800) 454-6401.


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Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Deschutes Brewery for a beer-themed hike at the Land Trust's Whychus Canyon Preserve. This walk is part of the Beers Made by Walking program that features a handful of Oregon breweries creating unique beers that are a portrait of their local landscape.
Deschutes brewer Veronica Vega will help lead the hike and talk about the edible plants that will go into the Brewery's beer. Land Trust volunteer Jane Meissner will add her vast botanical knowledge as a long-time Central Oregon naturalist. The hike will follow a trail through old-growth juniper forests that ends at a boulder outcropping with amazing views of Whychus Creek and the canyon.
special Deschutes Brewery beer that will be a part of the Beers Made By
Walking program will be available this fall at the Deschutes Brew Pub
in Bend and at a special tasting event at Belmont Station in Portland. A
portion of the proceeds will benefit the Land Trust.
Limited spaces available for this hike, so register today!


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Rich Dad will advise you to focus on building your cashflow if you want to be rich. When Dennis Ng was still alive, he would say that is not true. He got rich by capital gains. He became a millionaire by investing $250k in stocks. Who is right?
I will say both are right. In fact, you need both to be rich and there are no other ways unless you strike lottery big time. If you and I know that we do not have the destiny to win big from lotteries, we have to work our way through cash flow and capital gains. Let me give you my perspective in this post and I think it will help you frame your thoughts in a useful manner.
Role of Capital Gains
To become rich, you need to have significant capital gains. In order to have large capital gains, you need to have a sizable capital to invest with. Let's say you invested $100k after the stock market crash in 2008 and you sold your stocks in 2013 and made $100k. Although your percentage gain of 100% is impressive, you are still far away from being a millionaire. How many times will you need to double the money to $1 million? You will need another 2 market crashes which you may only achieve in 10 to 20 years time. But if you have $500k invested in the same period, you would have become a millionaire in 1 market cycle. It is much faster to become rich through capital gains if you know how to invest.
This is the reason why the rich gets richer. They have sizable capital to invest and grow their money much faster than the average joe. Remember, the growth of wealth is non-linear due to compounding effect.
I think this is simple to understand. But the question is, how do you get a sizeable capital? The answer is not capital gains but cashflow.
Role of Cashflow
Although Dennis got rich because of capital gain, he probably down played the role of cashflow in his wealth building process. When he left his bank job, his income dipped for a few years until he setup his mortgage brokerage firm. The company was making money and Dennis had more than enough money for his expenses. The 'excess' money would become savings or investment capital. He had money to invest because of positive cashflow.
In other words, you need positive cashflow to build your capital. Your source of cashflow can be your salary. You need to make sure your expenditure is lower than your salary so that you can have 'excess' money to form your capital. If you hardly have enough savings, you need to either reduce your expenditure or increase your income.
There are no other ways. Do not leverage your capital excessively to invest as you may not have the financial muscle to hold through the periods your investments are doing badly. You are setting yourself up for financial disaster.
Think of cashflow as a process which you need money to meet your daily needs. You cannot afford to wait for your capital gains to realise in 5 years because you cannot go hungry for so long. Although cashflow is vital, you cannot afford to rely on it solely because you will take a long time to become rich, if ever. Hence, investing for capital gains is still necessary.
Trading and Investing
Most people trade and invest without knowing what they want to achieve. Do they want an income or do they want to grow their money? To me, trading is cashflow and investing is capital gains. I know some people invest for dividends or cashflow but I think that is not the best way to grow wealth.
When I invest in stocks, I prefer to hold over a few years. I usually buy when no one wants to, and sell when others are interested to buy.
Investments, if done in such a slow and steady way, are quite easy to make money. Sometimes, you can make a few times of your capital. In my opinion, this is the best way to grow rich especially if you have sizable capital.
Trading on the other hand, is good for income. Due to the shorter time frame, you can get cashflow frequently. The amount may not be a lot but it can be enough for you to live and have some extra cash for your investment capital. The frequent but small gains are difficult to make you rich.
Some people may mistake trading as a way to get rich quick and I hope by now you understand that is not true. If you have a salaried job and you are happy with it, focus on doing a good job and save up part of your salary to invest. You do not need to trade as you already have an income.
Focus on investing to grow your wealth instead, you will become richer than trying to trade. This is because trading is hard and you need to spend a lot of time and effort to figure it out. You have many important things to do in life and you do not want to devote unnecessary energy to trading since it is not going to make a big difference to your wealth.
Trading should only be pursued by people who want to make a living from the financial markets.
- The best way for the average joe to become rich is to invest for capital gains
- You need to have sizable investment capital in order to have gains that would make a difference to your net worth
- You need to have positive cashflow to grow your capital
- A positive cashflow is established when your expenditure is less than your income
- To increase the cashflow, you can decrease your expenditure, increase your income, and/or setup more sources of income
- Cashflow alone will take a long time for you to become rich. So you still have to invest for capital gains.
- Trading is cashflow and investing is for capital gains.
- If you have an income, you should invest and not trade.


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Job Role:
Pilot, First Officer / Co-Pilot
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Spectrum Aviation is currently recruiting A320 First Officers on behalf of Air Astana, the national carrier of Kazakhstan. This is an excellent opportunity to join an international flag carrier offering an extensive route network and great conditions. Screening available throughout December and January, we can offer:
- Excellent monthly payment and commuting roster
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- Current CPL/ATPL with valid A320 Type Rating
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We analyzed antimicrobial use in 509 episodes of clinically significant bloodstream infection to assess the impact that microbiology laboratory reporting had on antimicrobial management. Most therapy interventions occurred at the time of phlebotomy and after notification of Gram stain results by telephone. Release of antimicrobial susceptibility data had the least impact on antimicrobial management.
Bloodstream infection (BSI) is an important cause of serious morbidity and mortality. Approximately 200,000 patients are diagnosed with BSI annually in the United States (9, 15-17; M. L. Towns, S. M. Quartey, M. P. Weinstein, L. G. Reimer, and L. B. Reller, Abstr. 93rd Gen. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol. 1993, abstr. C-232), with an estimated mortality from BSI of 22 to 29% (9, 17; D. J. Diekema, S. E. Beekmann, K. C. Chapin, E. L. Munson, and G. V. Doern, submitted for publication; Towns et al., Abstr. 93rd Gen. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol.).
The clinical microbiology laboratory plays a significant role in the management of patients with BSI. Culturing a pathogenic microorganism from blood is a highly specific indicator of BSI, and performance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) may assist in the appropriate use of antimicrobial therapy for patients with BSI (2, 4, 6). Furthermore, early and rapid administration of antimicrobial therapy to patients with BSI has been shown to reduce mortality (8-13).
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between positive blood culture reporting by the clinical microbiology laboratory and the antimicrobial management of patients with BSI. Findings from consecutive episodes of BSI at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics over a 13-month period are summarized.
All patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from July 1999 through July 2000 with a positive signal from the BacT/Alert continuous monitoring blood culture system (bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) were screened for inclusion in this study. An episode of BSI was considered to have begun at the time the initial positive blood culture was obtained. Referral blood cultures from outside facilities and autopsy blood cultures, as well as patients with false-positive signals (no organisms observed on Gram stain or cultivated from bottle subculture) and patients not admitted to the hospital, were excluded from the study.
Of the 509 episodes of bacteremia characterized in this study, 59% were judged to be hospital acquired; the remaining 41% were judged to be community acquired. The following percentages of bacteremic episodes occurred in the patients studied: ≤1 year of age, 8%; 1 to 15 years of age, 11%; 16 to 39 years of age, 18%; 40 to 59 years of age, 32%; 60 to 79 years of age, 28%; 80 to 101 years of age, 4%. Thirty percent of patients were hospitalized in intensive-care units at the time of the septic episode; the remaining patients were in general-care areas. The six most common causes of bacteremia in this study were Staphylococcus aureus (20% of episodes), Escherichia coli (14%), coagulase-negative staphylococci (13%), enterococci (12%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6%), and Klebsiella pneumoniae (5%).
Each positive blood culture was critically assessed and categorized as clinically significant or not clinically significant, taking into account clinical signs and symptoms, white blood cell count, number of blood samples culture positive out of the total number drawn, results of other cultures, pathology findings, imaging results, and clinical course. All indeterminate cases were reviewed by an infectious disease physician prior to classification. Only clinically significant positive blood cultures were included in the study.
A medical record review performed by an experienced nurse epidemiologist determined the time of blood culture phlebotomy, the time at which clinicians were notified by telephone by the clinical microbiology laboratory of Gram stain results from a positive blood culture bottle, and the time at which AST results were made available on the hospital information system. No information regarding likely AST profiles was provided at the time blood culture Gram stain results were reported by telephone.
Times of antimicrobial interventions were recorded in relation to the time points described above. The percentages of antimicrobial initiations and discontinuations that took place around these designated points in time were analyzed. The significance test of proportions (14) was used to compare cumulative percentages of antimicrobial initiations or discontinuations within a given interval. The alpha level was set at 0.05, and all reported P values are two tailed.
The largest proportion of therapy initiations occurred shortly after phlebotomy (Fig. 1 and 2). Half of all therapy initiations between phlebotomy and notification of positive blood culture results occurred within 4 h of the phlebotomy, and 25% took place within 2 h of the phlebotomy (data not shown).
A smaller proportion of therapy initiations occurred shortly after notification of Gram stain results (Fig. 1 and 3). Similar to the pattern noted after phlebotomy, most therapeutic interventions occurred very early after notification of positive blood cultures. Therapy initiation and discontinuation events following release of AST results were spread over a much more protracted time period and exhibited a more random distribution (Fig. 4). In particular, a disproportionate percentage of discontinuation events appeared to occur >10 days following provision of AST results. It is likely that these represented patients in whom therapy was discontinued as a result of completion of a defined course of therapy, rather than as a consequence of the availability of AST results.
Statistically significantly more therapeutic interventions occurred in the time period immediately following collection of blood cultures than during any other time period. The hours leading up to phlebotomy (data not illustrated) and the hours just following release of susceptibility test results were associated with the fewest antimicrobial interventions.
Clinically significant BSI remains an important cause of mortality. Reports have suggested the necessity of prompt medical intervention in the early hours of BSI. Kreger et al. (8) demonstrated that 60% of the fatalities in a study of 612 patients with Gram-negative bacteremia occurred within the first 48 h of infection. Another study (13) noted a mortality rate of 50% in granulocytopenic patients within the first 72 h of P. aeruginosa bacteremia. Since many studies have documented the importance of appropriate antimicrobial therapy in the clinical outcome of BSI (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), we sought to determine which, if any, service offered by the clinical microbiology laboratory had the most impact upon the management of clinically significant BSI.
Many patients had already been started on antimicrobial therapy before the index positive blood culture was obtained, and there was no particular pattern of use noted, except for a slight increase in discontinuation of therapy up until about 10 h prior to phlebotomy (data not illustrated). These data suggest that a fair number of regimens may be stopped in anticipation of blood culturing in an effort to increase assay sensitivity.
The hours immediately following phlebotomy were a time of tremendous activity with respect to antimicrobial management of patients with BSI. Greater than 50% and 30% of antimicrobial regimen initiations and discontinuations, respectively, that occurred between phlebotomy and reporting of Gram stain morphology took place within the first 4-h interval after phlebotomy (data not illustrated). These findings corroborate current clinical practice, which recommends blood culturing and concomitant initiation of appropriate empirical therapy in the face of suspected sepsis.
Two time points in this study represent action by the clinical microbiology laboratory. Of the two, notification by telephone of a positive blood culture and Gram stain results appeared to have a much greater impact on antimicrobial usage than did provision of AST results. Of the antimicrobial regimens initiated between notification by telephone of Gram stain morphology and release of AST results, 75% were initiated within 24 h of the telephone call. Of the antimicrobial regimens initiated after AST reporting, 75% were initiated within 177 h of the report. Similarly, 75% of antimicrobial discontinuations within the second temporal interval occurred approximately 39 h after notification of Gram stain results and 75% of stoppages after AST reporting occurred within 264 h of the report (data not illustrated). The effect of notification of Gram stain morphology by telephone on antimicrobial usage was shown to be statistically significantly greater than that of AST result availability. However, both time points were associated with fewer interventions in antimicrobial therapy than the time around blood culture phlebotomy.
In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that empirical therapy was usually administered early in the clinical course of BSI at our tertiary-care facility, prior to reporting of positive blood culture results. With respect to antimicrobial management, the most important information provided by the clinical microbiology laboratory appeared to be the first telephone call reporting positive blood culture and Gram stain results. Release of AST data did not appear to have a comparatively important impact on antimicrobial management among patients with BSI.
It is clear that current antimicrobial practice tends toward the use of broad-spectrum agents for empirical coverage of serious infections. In part, this is driven by increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance. Combined with a reluctance of clinicians to narrow antimicrobial coverage in the setting of a clinical improvement, AST results appeared to play a relatively minor role in the fine tuning of antimicrobial therapy in our institution. It must be recognized that our observations are predicated on a study conducted in a single, large, tertiary-care teaching medical center with extremely high patient acuity. Further studies of different patient populations are needed to address the impact of provision of AST results on antimicrobial drug administration to bacteremia patients in other care settings.
- Received 1 July 2002.
- Returned for modification 6 August 2002.
- Accepted 14 October 2002.
- Copyright © 2003 American Society for Microbiology


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I said – maybe not here but to myself – that I was going to post about a book every Monday and then I went and missed last Monday. Forgive me, I was preparing for my first interview in eight years and wasn't really in a book mood, plus I had to go and visit the local Brownies to encourage them on to Guides.
This week's book is Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding. I read Black Lung Captain, second in the series, a good few years ago and I enjoyed it but apparently not enough to seek out the first in the series.
Spoilers, because I didn't feel like making the effort to be vague and non-spoilery:


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Self-Powered Aeroplane With Lungs Tested in Portsmouth
Looks like an airship but don't tar it with that brush as it isn't.
Looks like an airship but don't tar it with that brush as it isn't.
The company says it's about the size and weight of a coke can. You can also control it with the wave of a hand.
A rookie in the drone ranks takes on Parrot's new novice-friendly fixed-wing craft and lives to tell the tale.
It's the nightmare pilots (and drone operators) fear the most, but according to British Airways, the plane didn't get a scratch.
German research project is like an aerial version of the patented Italian Job getaway.
Chinese drone-maker DJI has opened it's first ever physical shop in Shenzen. The 8,500-square-foot building looks like some sort of Apple-esque cathedral for quadcopters, and even features a 'cage' where the UAVs can be flown in the store. Read more >>
Following 3DR's announcement yesterdat, Phantom reveals its smart no-fly-zone wizardry.
No fly zones remain so with the company's clever embedded tech.
A flight of fancy indeed.
First off, stop calling them drones. Or quadcopters. You may think you know exactly what they are and what they do. You don't.
Space missions get all the hype, but NASA Aeronautics is doing some pretty cool stuff, too.
Flub-flub-flubbing them out of pipe launchers to bomb people who are a bit too foreign for their own good.
Aerial drone footage of the landscape, charred after months of shelling, does way more to convey what's going on.
"Suicide drone" sounded more intimidating than "model airplane that we could fly into things nearby."
It's almost like a scene from Star Wars