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A Faustian bargain: the effect of GSP on developing country trade policies
In this article, the authors argues that preference schemes such as the GSP would offer the recipient little benefit. The biggest winner seems to be the donor countries instead.
"How do nonreciprocal preferences such as GSP affect the trade policies of beneficiary
countries? In this paper, we provide the first extensive evidence on this question. Using a
dataset of annual observations of 154 developing countries since the United States started
its GSP program in 1976, we demonstrate that countries dropped from GSP subsequently
adopt lower trade barriers than those remaining eligible. These findings control for
income, market size, geography, growth, and other factors; they are robust to five different
measures of trade barriers; and, most importantly, they hold when correcting for possible
endogeneity of GSP eligibility.
We offer one candidate explanation for why nonreciprocal preferences might have
these perverse effects. Governments set trade barriers while balancing political support
from import-competing and export sectors. By de-linking foreign market access from the
recipient's own trade policy, however, nonreciprocal preferences bremove the major
incentive that export industries have. . .for opposing protectionist trade policies at homeQ
(Hudec, 1987). Hence, GSP shifts the political balance in the beneficiary country to the
import-competing sector. Domestic politics within the donor state compound this effect.
In particular, the ease of altering unilateral (as opposed to GATT-bound reciprocal)
commitments skews protectionist pressures within the donor state towards the GSP
instrument. Because its preferences will be removed if its exports increase significantly,
the recipient thus has a perverse incentive to implement even more protectionist
policies to limit its exports. Conversely, if GSP is indeed withdrawn, the resulting
conditionality of foreign market access reinvigorates the interest of the export sector in the
recipient government's trade policy decision, reducing the optimal level of protection. We
accordingly hypothesize that withdrawal from GSP will induce a developing country to
lower its own trade barriers."
Caglar Oezden and Eric Reinhardt, 'The Perversity of Preferences: GSP and Developing Country Trade Policies, 1976–2000', 78 Journal of Development Economics (2005)


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Cuba accused the United States of lying about the mysterious sonic attacks affecting embassy personnel in Havana. And that the accusations are being used as an excuse to damage relations between the two countries. CGTN's Roee Rottenberg has more.
Cuba's Foreign Minister didn't mince his words this week in a visit to Washington D.C. Bruno Rodriguez accused U.S. officials of lying about claims his government was behind a mysterious audio attack on American embassy staff.
"It is high time for the United States to speak the truth, or otherwise present evidence," he said.
Washington said Havana didn't do enough to safeguard American diplomats based there. At least 22 Americans have reportedly suffered a range of symptoms, from hearing loss to dizziness and mild brain injury.
In September, Washington began pulling out all non-essential staff, meaning that no visas to the U.S. can be issued or renewed. The U.S. also expelled 17 Cuban diplomats and warned Americans against traveling to the island.
"The measures adopted against Cuba are unwarranted and politically motivated," Foreign Minister Rodriguez claimed, "since they are not based on evidence or investigation results."
Rodriguez is on his third trip to the U.S. in recent weeks. After the U.N. General Assembly in late September, he met in Washington with his American counterpart Rex Tillerson, hoping to defuse tensions in what's become the biggest diplomatic row between the two nations since relations were re-established in 2015.
The Cuban diplomat accused the Trump administration of trying to sabotage the progress made under U.S. President Barack Obama, and—in English—accused the U.S. of hypocrisy.
"If Havana were really an unsafe place, the U.S. authorities would not have requested 212 visas for relatives and friends of diplomats between January and October," Rodriguez said.
The two countries are currently conducting separate investigations. The U.S. State Department said both are "cooperating."
However, Cuba said the cooperation from the U.S. has been very limited. Rodriguez wants the Americans to share medical records and an unaltered recording of the sounds they believe may have caused the damage. So far, Havana said it has received neither.


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Thousands of elderly investors may have been mis-sold expensive insurance policies designed to cover future inheritance tax bills. In recent weeks The Telegraph has been inundated with complaints from worried pensioners who stand to lose a significant slice of their life savings on these "whole of life" plans.
Many have ploughed thousands of pounds into these policies only to learn, 20 years later, that they will either have to treble their premiums or lose half the money they've invested.
Most had been given no prior warning that their policy was underperforming. In fact in some cases customers had been reassured just 12 months earlier their plans were on track to pay guaranteed benefits. Worst still, these "shock" reviews tend to come as policyholders reach their eighties and are less able to afford the premium increases.
The problems aren't confined to one insurer. We've seen complaints about Phoenix, Skandia, Aviva, Scottish Provident, Scottish Mutual, Axa, Prudential and Standard Life, to name but a few.
As a result we are calling on the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to investigate. The Telegraph would like insurers to review the policies still in force to give customers a realistic projection of how much more they are likely to pay, or how much the cover will reduce, if they live to 80, 90, 100 or beyond.
If you have been affected by the events by this story email firstname.lastname@example.com
Given that many of the policies were sold on wildly optimistic growth assumptions – and some people appear not to have been given adequate advice at the point of sale – this should alert policyholders to potential problems and allow them to make alternative financial arrangements, to cover future inheritance tax bills, for example.
If insurers aren't willing to do this, the FSA should compel them to include such information in annual statements. None includes such information at present.
So what has gone so wrong with these policies? Looking at readers' complaints there is the familiar toxic mix of underperforming investments, high charges, poor advice and generous commission payments.
While some readers said they were aware that premiums could be reviewed, it is the size of the increases that has left many stunned.
Take Mr G from Winchester, who is in his late eighties. He took out a Scottish Provident plan with his wife in 1999, paying an annual premium of just over £3,000 to insure a £140,000 payout. He wife died in 2007 but he continued paying the premiums. But in May this year Phoenix – which subsequently bought Scot Prov – told him the cover would be cut to just £16,605. If he wanted to maintain the plan, annual premiums would be £27,808.
In this case, Phoenix claims that the policy was sold on what was known as "maximum cover". Here, premiums were set artificially low for 10 years, and the adviser should have warned policyholders they faced steep increases after this. But some policyholders – such as Mr G – say this was never made clear.
But some reckon it is not just a case of poor advice. Mike Deverell of Equilibrium, a wealth management firm, said many policies had a design flaw. "There doesn't seem to be any provision if you survive beyond your expected lifespan," he said.
Although insurance companies are obliged to review these policies on a 10-year basis, most are simply altering the premium to ensure there are sufficient funds to meet the cover for the next 10 years, Mr Deverell said.
Mr and Mrs P bought a Skandia policy in 1987 and said they had no warning about how poorly their plan was performing. "We had paid our premiums for 24 years. In 2008 Skandia informed us that this would support our level of cover 'for a few more years'. But a year later they wrote to say they were either reducing the sum assured by around 90pc or increasing our monthly premiums eightfold." Unable to afford this, the couple cancelled the policy. After paying in £17,000 over the previous two decades they received just £100 back.
Similar problems struck two Norwich Union policyholders, who bought their policy in 1992. They paid £2,600 a year for a "guaranteed death benefit" of £100,000. Until 2008 they received annual reviews, saying the policy was on track to pay out this benefit. The reviews then stopped. Out of the blue in 2011 – eight weeks after the company debited their annual premium – they were told their cover had been cut by 25pc.
One of the policyholders said: "They told us if we wanted to reinstate the original insurance we would have to pay twice the original premium." The surrender value is just half the £50,000-plus paid to date.
Many customers have taken their complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service, but not all have been successful (see below). A complaint about this Skandia case was not upheld. The Ombudsman said the couple had probably been mis-sold the policy but ruled that Skandia was not expected to pay compensation. Skandia said all its policies were sold through advisers and details of how the policies worked were outlined in the terms and conditions.
But many readers who contacted us were reluctant to lodge a complaint about their adviser, despite the fact most were paid handsomely to sell these products and it was their job to warn of potential pitfalls. Most instead blamed the insurance companies for the poor management of the funds. However companies such as Aviva said the plans had been hit by the "exceptional investment climate".
The Financial Services Authority said it was not aware of widespread problems with whole of life policies, as the issue had not been raised by consumer groups such as Which? or by the Financial Ombudsman Service.


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Seasonal Affective Disorder (as in not-baseball-season) has hit me like a ton of linebackers, so here's some good reading to hopefully heckle my heavy heart into some starting day cheer:
♦ Finally starting to feel like baseball season (College Baseball Lineup)
Now that the temperature is starting to fall it is starting to feel more and more like opening day here in Monroe. It is always funny to me that baseball players are referred to as the "boys of summer" when anyone who has been apart of college baseball can tell you that couldn't be farther from the truth. It is always that first cold day that lets me know that the season is approaching quickly. . .♦ ESPN leading a college baseball resurgence? (SEBaseball.com)
In the past few seasons, ESPN has improved their broadcast quality. Instead of a retired big leaguer who may not have seen a college game all season thrust in to call a postseason game, now the opportunity is there for an announcer to broadcast college games all spring. Some announcers are even college-only guys - dedicated to follow the sport and understand the nuances that make the sport different from the pay-for-play variation.
There is no coincidence that the commitment to a better college baseball product coincided with the bat and pace changes.
"The new bats are TV friendly," Rooney added. "It makes it easier to put on TV. You have to save a four or five hours versus three hours or less. And I don't think we have lost the excitement. The style of play changed but we haven't lost the drama."
Read more HERE
♦ Revisiting 2008 recruiting class rankings (Baseball America) shows you really never know just how good any given recruiting class will be.
♦ Distiller's Dozen: Maker's Mark made me do it (College Baseball Today) has lots of good links to other recent stuff on the web about college baseball.
♦ If you're really, truly, totally desperate for college baseball, you could fly to the Dominican Republic and watch this.
♦ And this will get your blood pumping...


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Sarah Johns is currently a first year student studying a BA in Geography. She has just sourced her own internship and gives her tips on how this can be achieved.
I have just been accepted onto a one month work experience placement for a design and communications agency based in Leeds and London.
Applying for advertised internships can be a stressful and competitive process. There are other methods though. Prior to being accepted as an intern, no formal application had taken place, let alone handing in a CV.
Google searches of the word 'internships' did not get me very far. Instead, I sought opportunities through University to develop skills, volunteer and gain insight into future careers. I enjoyed actively meeting people and gaining information by talking to them.
What I did
I would say three key factors helped to secure my internship. These are experiences in volunteering roles, networking experience and use of initiative.
1. Volunteering experience
I have been involved in a year-long project with the Careers Centre organising a networking event called 'Excuse to Breakfast'. It involved teamwork with other students, regular meetings with my student team and Careers Centre staff and training with local employers. This has vastly improved my confidence contacting employers over the phone and email. I had become so used to speaking to employers that I no longer felt embarrassed asking to speak to someone at a company. Also the training as part of the project included dealing with rejection as well as techniques to get you past the telephone gatekeeper. This insider knowledge gained in the project was invaluable to understand how to build and maintain business relationships. Building relationships means employers get to know you and they'll realise they would like your skills to be put to use in their company with an internship.
Similarly being a member of the global student organisation AIESEC has been hugely rewarding. It's a society at Leeds that helps you improve your employability. You gain practical leadership experience and transferable skills.
2. Networking experience
I made the contact with the company through someone I had met at the AIESEC networking event. I explained the experiences I'd had and how they had improved my skills. Several weeks later we met again by chance at a volunteer opportunity called CSR in Action. Local employers spoke and answered questions and the contact I'd made was there speaking about her company. This contact recognised me and seemed warm to the idea of networking with students.
3. Use of initiative
I wanted to get in touch after the event so I rang up the company a week later and asked to speak to her. I said I was hoping to gain more information about her work. She set up an appointment for me to have a tour of the office! When I visited I didn't know what to expect but after the tour and chat she asked me if I would like to give her dates for a work experience placement!
Without my aforementioned experiences I would not have had the confidence to build a relationship with the employer in the first place. So grab opportunities while you can and gain that internship!
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The Mermal Magic has a lot of great new features.
They are similar to regular Hatchimal CollEGGtibles in that they come in a case which you need to break (or hatch) by rubbing the purple heart until it turns pink.
Different in that these creatures come in a glitter shell (rather than an egg) and have fish and sea creature features such as fins and mermaid tails. Some also have accessories like surf boards and floaties.
There are even some that look like crabs, fish and seahorses and they are a lot more colorful.
Once they are hatched place them in warm water to see their special features change colors. To change them back either put them in cold water or just let them dry.
Overall I think these are better than the regular Hatchimals since they are more interactive and the fun is no longer just hatching them.


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India will invest as much as Rs 3.96 lakh crore to boost it's the infrastructure sector in FY2017-18, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, even as he unveiled the largest ever allocation for the railways.
Jaitley said the government will pump a little over Rs 2.4 lakh crore into the transport sector, of which Rs 1.31 lakh crore will go to the railways, a little less than half of which will, in turn, come in the form of gross budgetary support.
Unveiling the first ever integrated budget (the separate railway budget has been done away with for the first time since 1924), Jaitley said the railways is now at "the centre-stage of the government's fiscal policy." This, he said, will facilitate a "multi-modal transport planning between railways, highways and inland waterways."
The railways, which saw its throughput go up by 10%, will also get to list its subsidiaries—Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corp, Indian Railway Finance Corp and Ircon International—and will lay 3,500 kms of new tracks in the coming year. The transporter, which has received flak for a spate of accidents that have resulted in scores of fatalities, will also get a new safety fund, for which Rs 1 lakh crore will be allocated.
The other major beneficiary of Jaitley's largesse has been the highways sector, with the national highways getting a Rs 64,000 crore push, and Rs 19,000 crore going towards rural roads via the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
Moreover, Jaitley proposed that the Airports Authority of India Act will be amended to help the AAI monetise excess land for airport development. In addition, the finance minister said new airports will be developed via the public private partnership (PPP) route across select tier-2 cities.
The real estate sector, which has had to face the brunt of demonetisation, could begin to look up with the government unveiling a slew of sops for the affordable housing segment. The finance minister acceded to a long-term industry demand by granting infrastructure status to affordable housing, which will attract investors into this segment.
Apart from changes in provisions for the built-up and carpet areas which had been stipulated in the affordable housing scheme announced last year, Jailey also increased the holding period for considering long-term capital gains from three to five years. "This move will significantly reduce the capital gain tax liability while encouraging the mobility of assets. We also plan to extend the basket of financial instruments in which the capital gains can be invested without payment of tax," the finance minister said.
Vijay Agrawal, executive director at Equirus Capital, said the government's proposals on affordable housing will enable companies in the segment to borrow long-term and external commercial funds at lower interest rates. "They will also be able to undertake long-gestation projects like affordable housing townships. This will help increase supply of affordable housing to achieve dream of Housing for All by 2022," he said.
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With Kubeflow being an extension to Kubernetes, all the components need to be deployed to the platform.
The team have provided an installation script which uses Ksonnet to deploy Kubeflow to an existing Kubernetes cluster. Ksonnet requires a valid Github token. The following can be used within Katacoda. Run the command to set the required environment variable.
export GITHUB_TOKEN=99510f2ccf40e496d1e97dbec9f31cb16770b884
Once installed, you can run the installation script:
export KUBEFLOW_VERSION=0.2.5
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/kubeflow/v${KUBEFLOW_VERSION}/scripts/deploy.sh | bash
You should see the Kubeflow pods starting.
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It's difficult to summarize the chaos and horror of 2017, which saw the first full year of Donald Trump's incompetent reign as president, white supremacists marching through the streets of major American cities, hundreds of people shot in Las Vegas, and North Korean missiles trained on the U.S. Continue reading "The Worst People Of 2017"
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The Worst People Of 2016
For the second year in a row I present the people who had the worst impact on this dumpster fire of a year. Continue reading "The Worst People Of 2016"
The Worst People Of 2015
In honor of the New Year we can finally look back and recognize just how terrible the last one truly was. Continue reading "The Worst People Of 2015"


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The next meeting of Beijing Writers' Network will take place on Monday 23rd October, from 7.30-9.30pm, at Zarah in Dongcheng, near the Drum Tower.
We will be completing a writing exercise, sharing our work and offering each other constructive but robust feedback. If you are interested in creative writing you are very welcome to drop by, to meet other writers or just to see what it's like; there is no need to book, and no obligation to read your work until you're comfortable. For more information please contact Jingjing (email: firstname.lastname@example.com; WeChat: aoelius).
Everyone attending is asked for a small contribution to cover costs: 20RMB, or 10RMB if you're a student, pensioner, not working or on a low wage (you will not be asked to prove it!) Please note that although we are a diverse group of many different nationalities, meetings are conducted in English.


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"Promote World Peace Through Service"
Youth Exchange is Rotary's high school student exchange program. Youth Exchange offers students the chance to travel and study abroad, and sponsors students from countries around the world to come here and experience our culture as well. The program offers young people all over the world the chance to immerse into another culture and learn lessons that we hope lead to peaceful understanding.
Each year, about 8,000 students from over 100 countries and geographical areas participate in exchanges through the Youth Exchange program. There are two types of exchanges:
This exchange is open to students ages 15‑19 and usually lasts 10‑12 months. The student lives with more than one family in the host country and is required to attend school. Long-term exchanges may be extended to include all or part of the holiday/vacation periods immediately before or after the academic year.
This exchange is open to students ages 15‑19 and ranges from 3‑4 weeks in each country. It often takes place when school is not in session, and usually does not include an academic program. Short-term exchanges typically involve a Rotary district-organized exchange of a son or daughter between two families, but they may also take the form of international youth camps or tours that bring together groups of students from many countries.
For students, this is a "Journey of Friendship." We intend that each young ambassador have a full educational experience in and out of the classroom. We expect them to extend the right hand of fellowship and offer the culture, beauty, language and other characteristics of their country, town, and family to all who will see and listen.
For the host family, this should be an educational and rewarding challenge for all in the household. Imagine an extended period of time to show a visitor the unlimited, vast resources of our town, region, and country. The endless conversation, in and out of our language, in which we, our friends, and our families can participate and learn of faraway places. Also, there is the wonderful challenge of learning the operation of a teenage mind from another culture.
This is a program to offer tremendous challenges and joys to all who will partake.
If you are interested in becoming an exchange student, please scroll down to begin the process by submitting the Preliminary Application for Outbound Students.
Meet BRC Exchange Student Seema Tamang
Seema Tamang, from Nepal, is a 16‑year‑old Rotary Youth Exchange student with blindness. She is Nepal's first Rotary youth exchange student. Her sponsoring club is the Rotary Club of Kathmandu, which was Nepal's first Rotary club, having been chartered in 1959.
Preliminary Application for Outbound Students
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Pushing beyond the MVP
I did some volunteering here and there for one of my favourite organisations Open Australia. This included occasionally managing the twitter handle for their project "Election Leaflets". My job was to tweet and answer questions. I began noticing some patterns and then dug a little deeper to see what it all meant. I wrote up my research in an article: Scrutinising the Audience Experience of Election Leaflets.


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We have invested heavily in modern tooling equipment and outfitted with proper tools and safety personal protective equipment in creating the Installation Department. The Department provides expert professional services in the specialized field of metal roof fascia, cladding, ceiling panels and metal decking installation. It is composed of teams, with each being headed by a highly trained licensed engineer or an architect for roof, cladding and metal decking floor systems installation. The Department conducts actual measurement at site and provides warranty on its completed jobs within one year from date of substantial completion.
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Equipped with an automatic uncoiler and recoiler, the slitting line can slit coils with thickness ranging from 0.30mm to 2.00mm.
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About About
by Bob Schwartz
The About page of this blog has been revised.
The previous version of the page was, I have to admit, pathetically brief and uninformative. Especially for someone who regularly turns out thousands of words on any topic under the sun.
So if you are a regular reader of the blog, and are curious to find out a little more, feel free to check it out. If you think that you already know enough, or know too much, or can't be bothered, no worries. I completely understand.
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Title: Little Nature Library of Butterflies
Categories: Field Guides:Butterflies and Moth,
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text: It's time to finish the season strong. In Florida, the Log-Off is locked in a dead heat, and with Joe and Swilley sidelined after sinking their second boat, Jimmy and James are poised to take the top spot. Swamp man Shelby Stanga's log buyer is due in the morning, but a bite from a water moccasin may kill his plans for success. At Rygaard, Craig kicks Dave off the landing, but one moment of inattention could be the end for former chaser. At Browning, the crew battles a patch of tangled timber, and north of the border, the men of Lemare are racing to stay ahead of winter storms that could shut them down at any time.


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Peru's anchovy yield plummets
Callao, Peru --
The ocean off Peru boasts the world's richest fishing grounds, but Taurino Querevalu is returning to port empty again after a hunt for Peruvian anchovy, cursing his empty nets and an increasingly stingy sea.
A little more than a decade ago, Querevalu's 8-ton wooden boat rarely returned with an empty hold as it does on this day motoring back to Lima's port of Callao, the low-slung clouds above as gray as the sea mirroring them.
"There used to be fish for everybody," the 48-year-old trawler captain laments, leaning on the rail as a stiff breeze buffets his leathery brow. "You'd run into immense schools."
Querevalu's frustrated search for the silvery, stiletto-size fish reflects a voracious, growing global demand for the protein-rich fish meal, and oil, into which nearly Peru's entire anchovy catch is converted. It also reflects unremitting cheating by commercial fleets on quotas and other regulations designed to protect the species.
Not only has overfishing of the Peruvian anchovy, or anchoveta, battered the industry that makes Peru far and away the world's No. 1 fish-meal exporter, it has also raised alarm about food security in a nation that had long been accustomed to cheap, abundant seafood.
The drop in the anchoveta population has over the years affected the food chain, as stocks of hundreds of bigger wild fish and marine animals that eat it have also thinned.
Anchoveta thrives in the cold, plankton-saturated Humboldt Current along the coast of Peru and Chile and accounts for about a third of the global fish-meal industry used to fatten farmed seafood and livestock, from salmon in Norway to pigs in China. Like other small "forage fish" that account for more than a third of the world's wild ocean fish catch, nearly the entire anchoveta catch gets ground up into feed and rendered into oil.
It is the "the most heavily exploited fish in world history," according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization.
Peru's government ordered deep cuts in what the country's 1,200-boat commercial fleet could catch in October after anchoveta stocks plummeted to about 5 million metric tons - at the low end of what fishermen would bring in during previous years. While the small fish reproduce rapidly, their overall population is now less than half its volume a decade ago, said Patricia Majluf, a top Peruvian marine scientist.
With so much overfishing, particularly of anchoveta, fresh fish of all sizes are now scarcer than ever for Peruvians, and seafood prices have risen since 2009 at a rate four times that of other foods.


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REASON FOR PURCHASE: Comfort
I purchased and installed the Oxford Heaterz Sports Heated Grips as they were the same ones I used on the BumbleBee and worked great. Oxford changed the model a little bit to include a 5 stage controller (previously it was 4) and a battery saving mode. I'll admit that I was a little leery of buying these at first as I wasn't sure about the quality, but they really have been fantastic.
INSTALLATION: Difficult
Installation was a real pain in the neck. It involved removing the original handlebar grips (which were caked on) and then using a power grinder to get the new grips to fit correctly. That took a lot of trial and error, and was tedious. The electronic system itself is all plug and play so the only challenge there was routing the cords (which was awkward for my hand size). I also installed foam puppies over the heated grips and found that helps with comfort even more!
These are GREAT! The 40 and 50 settings are usually more than enough to keep my hands plenty warm when riding. I did briefly go all the way up to 100% when riding through freezing fog in Wyoming and northern Colorado, but I had to back it down to 75% pretty quickly . I would definitely recommend these grips as a nice add on for any motorcycle. Having warm hands can make you considerably more comfortable on those chilly rides!


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700/900 Coilovers
SAVE $200 on your coilover order by supplying spindle cores!!!
Key Benefits:
- Height Adjustment
- Increased alignment (camber & caster) when used with our adjustable strut mounts
- Our kits include Eibach Racing Springs, with spring rates & lengths of your choice.
- All hardware aluminum hardware is 6061 T6 grade and anodized for corrosion prevention.
- Billet Aluminum Rear Spring Perches and Height Adjusters
- Welded stop ring
Pricing & Packages:
Front Kit includes:
- A pair of modified strut housings, (does not include spindle cores)
- Coil over hardware consisting of our low profile upper spring perches, aluminum sleeve and spring seat.
- Eibach Brand Springs, XT type springs will be used when available.
The Rear kit includes:
- Rear adjustable spring perches
- Eibach Brand Springs.
The Front & Rear Hardware kit includes:
- Weld Rings
- Luxe Steer Upper Spring Perches
- Coilover Sleeves and Lower Spring Perch
- Eibach Springs (2 Front & 2 rear)
- Rear Adjustable Spring Perches
Do you need new strut roller bearings?
- New SKF Bearings
The Shorter & Rethread Strut Housings option includes:
- Taking the factory strut housings cutting them to a shorter length and threading the tube for shorter strut insert.
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Adjustable Coilovers are one of the key components to unlocking the handling performance of a 700/900 chassis.
One of the improvements when using the 700/900 Adjustable Coilovers is changing the springs from an application specific spring, which is only available in very limited selection, to standard motor sport spring. Standard motor sport springs are available in many different lengths and stiffness rates. Typical "sport springs" are designed to lower the car for aesthetic purposes and provide a very mild increase in spring rate. These low spring rates are good for ride comfort but bad for performance. We have spring packages that we can tailor to the individual's preference for the balance between ride quality and performance. Using a more aggressive spring rate can improve the cars response to steering, braking, and acceleration inputs. It also reduces body roll side to side and front to rear resulting in better braking performance and increased lateral grip.
The ability to adjust the spring height at each corner of the car lets the cars ride height and corner weights to be adjusted and fine tuned. Ride height adjustment can be used to increase the aesthetics value, the utility value, and handling performance of the 700/900 chassis.
When Volvo designed the suspension on the 700/900 they built in understeer under mid to heavy cornering to protect the unskilled motorist from sliding out of control. One of the best ways to remove this understeer, improve tire wear, and increase grip is to change the front end tire alignment of the car. The factory springs have a large outer diameter and when coupled with our adjustable strut mounts can limit the adjustment range before the spring will hit the inside of the strut tower. The front springs that we use have a much smaller diameter and allow the alignment to be adjusted into a more optimal position.
This conversion compliments our adjustable strut mounts by allowing for a larger adjustment range due to the smaller diameter front springs.
Each set is sent with springs to the customers specifications based on desired driving applications.
The modification to the front struts removes 4 lbs / side.
Shortening & Rethreading: Why, How, and When?
Why: The factory strut inserts and housings are optimal for the soft ride and long travel that Volvo sold with the cars to keep a smooth ride. This setup made ride comfort a priority without considering the reduction in cornering performance. With coilovers you can make a car very low but if that is your goal for your car coilovers are only one part of the equation. If you use the adjustment of the coilovers to lower the car more then 2 inches (50mm) lower then stock, you will most likely be riding on the bumpstops excessively. This causes a reduction in ride quality and control. To fix this we heavily recommend using a shorter strut insert and housing. What this does is changes the point at which the suspension is fully collapsed or bottomed out. For example, if you lower the car 3" from stock you may have 1" of bump travel left and 6" of droop travel with factory length struts. With a shortened housing and insert you can have 3" of bump travel and 3" of droop travel.
How: We cut the factory strut housing to a length that will be suitable to your ride height and use requirements and then machine the internal threads into the housing at the new length. Combine this with the correct length damper, like our race struts, and you can set the car up to work well at different ride heights with good ride quality.
When: If you want to lower the car more then 2" from the factory ride height.
We often get asked what the "Core" is, hopefully this will help clarify. In this kit we are modifying a factory spindle strut housing assembly. In order to help you save money on these parts we offer the option for you to supply us with these parts instead of just forcing everyone to buy a set of strut housings from us.
As of 1/16/15 we are now including the cost of cores in the in our kit. We offer 3 options to deal with this.
- You can purchase a set of cores for $200 from us. This is included in the $940 purchase price.
- You can purchase the coil overs and return your original strut cores at a later date and we will refund your $200 core charge. If you are sending us a set of cores back they must be in good serviceable condition. Good serviceable condition being defined as, no significant rust or corrosion, no damage or excessive wear to the bearing surfaces, and being generally straight. If you have a set that are questionable please email us and we can confirm if they will be accepted or not.
- You can supply a set of cores for us to modify for you and we will reduce the price of the Front or Front & Rear Coilovers by $200.
This is the what the core looks like (ABS 240 Unit Pictured). When sending us the core please remove the springs, wheel hubs, back plates, brake components, and strut inserts. It is also a good idea to tape or protect the wheel bearing area as it is easily damaged in transit.


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Over 2015, EVPA is producing a number of factsheets detailing venture philanthropy and social investment activities in countries around Europe. The below article is based on our recently published Poland factsheet.
Even though Poland is the only European country that has steadily grown in recent years, effectively avoiding the recession that hit its neighbours, some economic and social issues still demand attention. Persistent challenges such as unemployment, social exclusion, an unskilled workforce, insufficient access to high-quality health care and the traditional gap between rural and urban development would benefit from a novel approach.
The venture philanthropy (VP) and social investment (SI) sector in Poland is still very early stage, with few funders thinking about grant-giving in terms of 'social investment' and rarely focusing on measurable outcomes, supporting grantees with expertise and/or funding on a multiyear basis or allowing capacity building. However, in this article we will highlight some of the initiatives that are taking place and show great promise for the future of the sector in this country.
The Polish Government Department of Public Benefit's 'payment by results' initiative for public grants, which started in 2012 and incorporated input from the sector in 2014, has helped open the discussion on outcomes and impact in the Polish social sector.
The Polish government's National Programme of Social Economy Development (KPRES) is working on the development of a legal structure for Social Enterprises.
In addition, there are two national certifications already in place to promote social enterprise: [eS] certificate (Social economy enterprise) and Zakup pro-społeczny (pro-social goods and services).
For 5 years FISE (The Foundation for Social and Economic Initiatives) has been organising a competition for the best social enterprise of the year (Final edition in November 2015). In 2014, NESsT supported by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation organised a national social enterprise business plan competition, the 1st of its kind in Poland. The winners joined NESsT's incubation portfolio receiving up to seven years of capacity and financing support.
There are two knowledge sharing initiatives in the sector. Firstly, SKES (Permanent Social Economy Conference) which is an ongoing arrangement between organisations involved in social economy to share learnings and advocate for creating an ecosystem for social enterprises. Then there is also the OSES Conference "National Meeting of Social Economy", an annual meeting of social entrepreneurs, academics, policy-makers and other social economy actors in Poland.
The Polish Private Equity Association created a Philanthropy Committee in 2011 to raise awareness of philanthropy within the Polish private equity/venture capital community. There is also one nationwide web portal Ekonomia Spoleczna that covers and promotes topics related to social economy.
There are two consultancy firms that are helping the sector grow. One actor is The Unit for Social Innovation and Research-Stocznia (Shipyard), a Polish think tank and consultancy that advocates venture philanthropy, working with funders and non-profits on impact including building evaluation capacity and impact measurement. Another actor is Go Responsible Consulting, with their support of third sector organisations in the field of management with special emphasis on sustainable development, social and environmental standards.
The VP/SI sector in Poland is still in the beginning stages, but is witnessing great progress. There is still a need for legal frameworks in some areas in order to take the next steps, but movement in the right directions is already underway.
EVPA has 2 Polish members, and 2 more members that are active in the country along with numerous partners with whom we co-organise market development and networking events to connect and support the development of the VP/SI sector. Polish members are active in our network, with TISE attending 2015 Training Academy and Valores connecting with UK based members to tap into their experience to successfully set up and develop Poland's first VP fund.
In the past year EVPA has connected with players in the Polish market by organising the event 'Innovations and trends in social investment' in Warsaw on 2 July 2015, providing perspective at the 'Collaborative ecosystem for social change' pre-event at EFNI 2015 and participating in a session at the 'National Meeting of Social Economy' OSES conference in Warsaw on the 17th November 2015.
Interested in finding out more about EVPA's members in Poland? Have a look at our factsheet, or get in touch with us so we can facilitate connections. Our Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Manager Ewa Konczal is based in Poland and you can reach her here for any questions or comments.
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IPv4 and IPv6 Transit, Interlinks and Wavelengths in London Docklands
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Connectivity can be provided on 1Gbps and 10Gbps, and we're very happy to quote for low commits on high bandwidth ports (e.g. 100Mbps commit on a 10Gbps port)
All locations offer dual routers connecting to separate upstream switches. Transit customers are provided with a pair of BGP sessions, on each router.
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I would like to offer heartfelt thanks to TDC and the cleaning team who have done such a great job in the last few days cleaning up Cliftonville Seafront. It's absoltely remarkable the difference it has made. Thank you TDC, Cllr Martin Wise and all the workers.
We hope it will be maintained and that funds can be found to install vandal proof dog poo bins and litter bins along that stretch. There are many bins placed at Minnis Bay, so one hopes that this could be replicated along this stretch in Cliftonville.


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Dish: Vegan Lettuce Wraps
After the first week of soups, today we start with a fresh week of Cooking Carnival. For this week my theme is Appetizers. Each day of the week I shall bring a different appetizer for you. Each appetizer is from my favorites list, yes if I ever have to make a choice between appetizer and desserts, I pick the savory appetizer nine out of ten times! I love finger foods and for a moment I was going to choose that as my theme for the month. But finally I gave up the idea and decided to do it for a a week. Even for a week of appetizers, I made ten and bringing my favorite six for you.
The first appetizer is made of tofu, mushrooms, spices and lots of lettuce leaves. This one is pretty quick to make and not very difficult to scale up for a party. The recipe involves making a tofu and mushroom saute, a simple sauce and lining up lettuce leaves next to them. Each person makes their own wraps with as much stuffing and sauce as they desire. I love to have this with sriracha sauce too. It tastes really hot but yummy.
I first had this at an Asian restaurant and fell in love with it. After a few experimentations and a few recipe ideas online, I now follow this recipe for making the wraps. While the original recipe has meat, adding mushrooms gives the meaty texture to the filling. If you make it with just tofu, the taste will be just as good, but to me that feels a little like Bhurjee or Sofritas. So I like to add mushrooms. For those who do not enjoy mushrooms as much as us, try adding some water chestnuts. They work really well in the recipe too.
When making the dish for a crowd, just make the stuffing based on how spicy the guests can handle. Then keep a few sauces like sweet chilli, spicy sriracha and tangy soy vinegar dip. If you cannot find iceberg lettuce, use romaine lettuce. Just wash and put the lettuce with the rest of the ingredients. Your Vegan Wrap station is all set!


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Life has swamped me so much the last six months. I keep going back through the multitude of albums and being reminded of how epic the meals are and then kicking myself in the bumholio to get them posted. I visited The Glass House in Hobart back in February and was spellbound by the views, the decor, the food and the entire experience. The Glass House doesn't have a set menu, it changes daily based on availability, freshness and what the chef thinks will work best so regardless of my visit time all the meals are relevant and the place is so marvellous it needs me to shout about it from atop mountains.
The Glass House is simply one of the best venues I have ever been to. It is elegantly appointed and has an upper class atmosphere suited to the wealthy but at an affordable price. It sits at the end of the wharf where you catch the ferry to MONA and during the day has expansive harbour views while at night it has dazzling views. The venue is three walls of glass with uninterrupted views of Sullivan's Cove and the Derwent River and then the entry from the pier.
The venue is designed by Circa and Robert Morris-Nunn and really has no expense spared. It is the same owners of the venue and designers who created The Islington Hotel, Hobart's only Five Star Hotel.
The venue is split into balanced but unique sections. Arm chairs in frosted green Jim Thompson fabric against beaten silver tables balance the light encompassed front Dining Lounge. House of Hackney covered settees with prints of marsupials having a party worthy of the Mad Hatter occupy 'The Keep', which also houses their exclusive Whisky Locker. This section is more suited to lounging and drinking some of the marvellous local and international cocktails, whiskeys, gins and wines.
There are larger tabled sections that are slightly more private – these would be ideal for groups of any kind. There is the bar with mirrored ceiling and bar stools for some pre drink heaven and finally there is the glass section. Not actually a dining area – cabinets housing their remarkable glass collection. There are a lot of personal items in the cabinets and a lot of glassware purchased from auctions from the local area. It is impressive.
As you enter you will be greeted but the most beautiful Miss Fish Fingers. The muse of The Glass House, Miss Fish Fingers is the subject of a painting born of local artist Michael McWilliams. The venue itself is designed to compliment her colours and she is a heavy influence over THE GLASS HOUSE. She is also so bloody marvellous I wanted to steal her but I would imagine a very nasty fishy cursing coming from that.
The food is fit for royalty. You here for quality and not quantity. Do not be expecting a massive pasta, or a hearty stew. Everything at The Glass House is about showing off the marvellous local food in a truly decadent style. Executive Chef David Ball rules and Ikuei Arakane is the Global Brand Ambassador. Ball has an established career to make most chefs quiver. He honed his skills at Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a two star Michelin restaurant in Oxford and has since worked at venues through Europe and Sydney. Arakane is best known from his Iron Chef fame and together they champion The Glass House on the International restaurant market and promote local produce and Tasmania itself as a bespoke destination.
The menu itself is a daily affair. It is a love letter to local produce and one of the great restaurants to highlight the best of Australian food. It is delicate, it is decadent and it is refined. The front of the menu explains where all the local produce in the dishes comes from and the next two pages of our menu showed us the twelve meals we could order plus the two desserts and cheese platter for afters. The impressive thing is that the most expensive dish is only $28-.
This is not the place you will get a lobster from, in fact we couldn't find any lobster in the Hobart area at all but you get my point. The Glass House menu is more tapas styled dishes, all designed to be shared and designed for you to order many. Some dishes, like the Mixed Oysters may appear more entree like but all the dishes are fairly small. Speaking of the oysters – make sure you indulge in many when in Tasmania – they are the best in the world.
Mum kicked it off with a delightful white wine from the marvellous wine menu while I went a little more indulgent and whored myself to the Lavender and Rosemary Bellini. It was heaven. Our first dish scared the hell out of mum. Due to some health complications over the years mum's diet has had to be reigned in to more simple fair and the Cured Wallaby Tartare wasn't a simplified dish. The wallaby was served with egg puree, onions and kunzea emulsion. Kunzea is a shrub actually native to Australasia. I had never heard of it but it tasted like a divine gourmet prawn cracker. The tartare itself let me know I was dining somewhere special. Wallaby on it's own is a terrible meat to eat. The combinations of flavours in this tartare balanced and flavoured that wallaby to the next level. This dish was sublime.
We then moved on to an Ocean Trout served with apples, watercress and pickled mustard seeds. It was a refreshing and delightful dish with the local trout looking more like watermelon circles. The apple ball's citrus was a beautiful partner to the trout that was all brought together with the mildly peppery watercress. Call this a top tier palate cleanser dish that makes your eyes roll back into your head.
Following this was a dish mum couldn't eat. She can't do mushrooms, so the oyster mushrooms, onsen egg, amaranth black garlic and slivers of nori was all mine. This was easily one of my favourite dishes. I have an egg worship issue and the flavours in this dish scream the name of the talented Executive Chef, David Ball. Onsen eggs are slow cooked at about 70 degrees for 35mins. In the modern world this is known as the 63 degree egg but traditionally they were eggs cooked in nets in the Onsen Hot Springs in Japan. The hot springs were usually at about 70 degrees.
This was probably mum's favourite dish. A flaky crispy pork shoulder tonkatsu served with a sesame slaw. This visually simple dish was perfectly matched with it's accompaniment.
Short rib cubes served with master stock braised daikon, green onion and fermented chilli labnah. Not only the most visual dish of the night but my favourite dish of the night. This was a masterpiece in every way. It fell apart in the mouth and like the other dishes basically had my toes curling and my eyes rolling back into my head with each bite.
I don't know what we were thinking – we were pretty stuffed to the brim by this stage and I was drinking some gin specialty the venue made for me on ice that was melting my face off. I wish I could remember the drink – it was sublime. But we went two desserts. One a sweet and the other a cheeseboard. I am pretty sure we took half the cheese back with us to the AirBNB. The cheeses we selected were the Bay of Fires Cloth Bound Cheddar and for me always the blue, a Grandewe Sapphire Blue. If I was on an empty stomach with a bottle of wine cracked the cheese would have been perfection and nothing would be left.
The sweet dessert was next level genus. It basically looked like a plate of white stuff but was so refined and delightful I will have this again when I return to Tassie. Ground white chocolate over coconut sorbet and yuzu curd. I am obsessed with yuzu so was in heaven with this and there's always room for sweets right?
If you are after a high end dining experience on a fairly decent price tag that offers some of the best views in Hobart then The Glass House is a must. I recommend a minimum of two dishes per person to get the most out of it and most definitely indulge in cocktails. You won't be disappointed.
SCORE BREAKDOWN: 3/3 food, 2/2 service, 1/1 drinks, 1/1 venue & ambience, 1/1 cost, 1/1 toilets and 1/1 bonus
Brooke Street Pier, Franklin Wharf, Hobart TAS 7000
BOOKINGS: Yes
12pm – 10pm Every Day
BAR: Fully Licensed
TAKEAWAY: No
LOCAL DELIVERY: No
VEGETARIAN OPTIONS: Yes
GLUTEN FREE OPTIONS: Yes
KID FRIENDLY: Yes – if well behaved
*** The majority of this meal was paid for however the venue brought us a few sample dishes to extend our order ***


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Sarah Horton
Co-author of A Web for Everyone
About Sarah
Sarah Horton is a consultant for strategic planning for websites and web applications. She also does accessibility and usability reviews.
Sarah started her career in interaction design in 1991 at the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media, creating award-winning interactive instructional software. She was an instructional technologist at Dartmouth College for 11 years before becoming director of web strategy and design. As director, she was responsible for planning and developing Dartmouth's digital environment, and she led a team of user-experience professionals responsible for web and media design, development, and production. More recently, Sarah was Web Strategy Project Lead at Harvard University, responsible for strategy and user experience design for the Harvard Web Publishing Initiative. Sarah is currently UX Strategy Lead with The Paciello Group.
Sarah is co-author with Patrick Lynch of Web Style Guide, now in its third edition and translated into at least eight languages. She also wrote Web Teaching Guide, which in 2000 won the American Association of Publishers award for best book in computer science. Her third book, Access by Design, combines the disciplines of universal design, accessibility, and usability into guidelines for designing websites that are universally usable. Her most recent book, A Web For Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences, with Whitney Quesenbery, was published in January 2014 by Rosenfeld Media.
Sarah has more than 50 publications and 40 presentations to her name. Her publication and presentation credits include the New York Times, Peachpit, Boxes and Arrows, Digital Web Magazine, the International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A), WebVisions, World Usability Day, and the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Annual Symposium.


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Build Day 5.
It's Friday afternoon and the Yarwood build is now in its fifth day. Steve has been painstakingly fashioning the bow and little by little it is taking shape.
This blog is about our life aboard Yarwood, a 66' Tug style narrowboat launched in Jan 2012.
Certainly is coming on, seeing as it's only day 5! I'm sure that knowing you will be going to take photos EVERY day is spurring them on!!! xxxReplyDelete
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It could be the 'witch effect' that is behind the progress but I think it's just how things go. The next week or two things will slow as they have to weld her together inch by inch by inch...
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Threshold Festival 2013 lines up MOBO Award winner and GIT Award nominee Esco Williams as headliner – plus full line up is revealed.
Esco Williams is to headline Threshold Festival 2013, Getintothis can exclusively reveal.
Following his packed out show at Liverpool O2 Academy last week, MOBO Award winner and former GIT Award nominee Esco Williams will join a superb line-up of talent on Saturday March 9 at Camp and Furnace.
Since playing Threshold's Blade Factory stage & Aintree Racecourse Liverpool stage last year, Esco Williams has been on a huge adventure, playing Liverpool Sound City, becoming one of the first nominees of the GIT Award and of course that all important MOBO.
Kaya Herstad Carney, Threshold Festival director, said: 'We love Esco Williams and always love to work with him. I don't think this year's line-up would be complete without him and his band on board. He really encapsulates how exciting the music scene in Liverpool is right now,'
Esco Williams performing at the New Challenger single launch and GIT Award 2013 launch party.
The Paper Garden Stage, designed by The Craft Creative and in association with Soul Inspired Events in the Furnace will host Esco and his band. He will play on the line-up with A Ray of Charles, Coffee & Cakes for Funerals and LA soul acoustic artist JC Villafan.
Meanwhile, the quite staggeringly enormous line up for Threshold Festival 2013 includes all this lot:
62 Pieces of Lego
A Ray Of Charles
Alabaster DePlume's Copernicus Trio
Alright the Captain
Amanda Pixie
Antoinette Egan
Arc Light
Avital Raz
Beans on Toast
Beaten Track DJs
Ben Stafford
Book Thieves
Bring the Fire Project
Broken Men
Brou Haha
Caroline England
Chelcee Grimes
Choc Electrique
Christina Malley
Chrystina Miles
Clockwork Radio
CMWMSMDM vs Kid Blast
Coffee and Cakes for Funerals
Creative Community Choir
Curtis Watt
Dan Danko
Dave O'Grady
David Harbottle
Dead Hedge Trio
Detuned Radio
Dominic Dunn
Driven Overboard
Elementals Orchestra
Emilio Pinchi
Felix Hagan & The Family
Fidel Afro
Fifth Movement
Fire Beneath the Sea
Frances Wood
Gary Edward Jones
Geoghagen Jackson
Gerry Potter
Hayley Kinkaide
Hedda Aaronsen
Ian Dunn
Indigo Sky
Indigo Vibe
Ioisis Aerial Performance
James Sills
Jamie Broad
JC Villafan
Jeremiah Ferrari
Jessica's Ghost
Jo Bywater
Jody Cooper
Joe Symes & The Loving Kind
John Fairhurst
Johnny Panic & the Fever
Karpia DJ
King Twit
Kitty Kimono
Lauren Bradford
Lauren Flynn
Lauren Housley
Long Finger Bandits
Louis Barabbas
Luke Moore
Man Get Out
Masters of the Radio
MC's SAS, Nicky Talent, 2K
Me & Deboe
MiC Lowry
Michael Seary (DnB Dubstep Set)
Mike Neary
Mike Zar
Milk DJs & VJs
Mimi Amore
Monkey DJ
Mr. Wolf Collective
Mr. Resistor
Muto Leo
Nadine Carina
Natalie McCool
Paddy Steer's Three Pronged Audio Bath
Paul The Doorman
Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies
Piagull & Cosmic Girl Visuals
Polly Annas
Rachael Wright and the Good Sons
Richard Barry and the Chaps
Rob Gough
Robert Vincent
Ronan Boyle
Scare Tactics
Science of the Lamps
Sense of Sound Singers
Silent Cities
Simeon Dallas-Hammond
So Sexual
Sound & Fury DJs
Speed Pets
Spoony Bard
Stacked Actors
Statement Haircut
Ste Hedley
Synne and the Sunbeams
TE Yates
Terry Gray
The 69 Watts
The Fall of Kings
The Gastric Band
The Mono LPs
The Probes
The Roughneck Riot
The Singing Bowl Orchestra
The Soul 4 Soul House band
The Southbound Attic Band
The Tenements
The Thespians
The Tin Foil Hat Brigade
The Wretched Pearls
Them & Us
Thom Morecroft
Three Minute Hero
Tone Puppets
Torn Prince
Vanessa Murray
We the Undersigned
William Breakspear
Wired to Follow
Yum Yum DJs
Visual Arts Contributors
Robyn Woolson
Sam Skinner & Charlies Holden
The Happy Hookers
Chloe Gallagher
Jazamin Sinclair
Karen Henley
Pam Sullivan
Vicky Lucas Le Bon
Anna Ketskemety
Adam Collier
Alex Germaine & Company
Carolyn Sinclair
Matt Seamless
Tristan Brady Jacobs
VJ Gray Torino
Vj Ben Power
Craft Creative
Film Program
Efterklang & Andreas Koefoed 'The Ghost of Piramida'
First Take Short Film Programme
LIft-Off Film Festival Winner Screening
Super Effective Sunday: Retro Gaming
Draw the Line
Origami Butterfly Workshop
Craft Creative
Further reading on Getintothis:
Threshold Festival 2012 review and pictures part one.
Threshold Festival 2012 review and pictures part two.
Culture Forum: Have your say on Liverpool's grassroots arts scene.
GIT Award 2013 and Esco Williams single launch: The Grey Space, Water Street
Watch Esco Williams' video to the New Challenger.
Getintothis' in depth interview with GIT Award nominee Esco Williams.
Tickets for Threshold Festival 2013 are £20 for the full weekend, student weekend Tickets priced £15; Friday tickets £10, Saturday tickets £10, Sunday tickets £5.
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Quinn Scharn was first diagnosed with cancer as a baby and had to undergo six weeks of radiation therapy before his second birthday to get rid of the disease.
A decade later he had a pain in his knee, and after a biopsy concluded that the cancer had indeed returned, the schoolboy went on to have an operation that resulted in him having his leg amputated at the hip.
When Scharn woke up in hospital after his life-changing operation the first thing he told his parents and doctors was that he wanted a disabled dog to keep him company.
Scharn's mother Teresa then spent 24 months looking for the perfect companion, and eventually found pitbull-mix Logan, 2, at a rescue centre in Sacramento.
A spokesperson from the Front Street Animal Shelter said: "He now has a best friend to grow up with. This is one of the most beautiful adoptions we've ever seen."
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Anne van Kesteren <email@example.com> wrote: > We introduce a DocumentContent union type (DOMString maps to a Text node): > > DOMString | CharacterData | Element | DocumentFragment So this excludes Document and DocumentType. Is there any reason to go out of our way to exclude DocumentType here? If someone wants to do document.doctype.remove(); document.prepend(newDoctype); is there some specific reason it shouldn't work? We should just make it work with any Node, except of course Document. > We introduce these methods on Element and DocumentFragment: > > prepend(DocumentContent... nodes) > append(DocumentContent... nodes) > > We introduce these methods on Element, DocumentFragment, and CharacterData: > > before(DocumentContent... nodes) > after(DocumentContent... nodes) > > We introduce this method on Element and CharacterData: > > replace(DocumentContent... nodes) > > We introduce this method on DocumentType, Element, and CharacterData: > > remove() I would just put these on Node, and if they're called in some place where they don't work, they throw. This matches all the existing methods, like insertBefore() and so on. Why should we go to the trouble of defining the same method on a bunch of different interfaces instead of once on Node? It's just a matter of whether it throws TypeError or HierarchyRequestError, so let's make it simple to spec. We definitely shouldn't leave them off of DocumentType just because we wish it didn't exist. That would make them not drop-in replacements for insertBefore() et al., for no good reason I can see. These should all return the context object. That's a good pattern we should be adopting. Overall, though, I think this proposal is excellent.Received on Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:35:13 UTC
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NYX Cosmetics Names its Six FACE Awards FinalistsJune 4, 2012
NYX Cosmetics has announced the top six finalists of its Fine Artistry of Cosmetic Elites Awards—a YouTube competition to name the Beauty Vlogger of the Year. They are Charismastar, iwanted2c1video, Sabsbeauty, Beautyliciousinsider, Promuanetwork and Goldiestarling.
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A team from the Upminster Freemasons peddled their way through a 110-mile fundraising journey from Upminster to Norfolk with a Chinese rickshaw.
The Chinese rickshaw that travelled across the world to end up in Havering was put to good use to raise an impressive £6,500 for children battling cancer. During the courageous mission, the team were met with many obstacles along the way; it ended up in a ditch following a sudden manoeuver, was stopped by police in Cambridgeshiere and at times endured issues with the chain.
However, this did not prevent them from accomplishing their goals with its dynamic 10-man crew on the scene. Glyn Hopkin supplied the loan of two vehicles for the event – the Nissan Navara and X-Trail to help them raise money for such a great cause.
Peter Banks, Upminster Masonic Centre chairman, said: "When it arrived we realised that it was originally made for smaller riders but we quickly adapted it by moving the seat and making a few adjustments."
"The members at Upminster loved the idea of a fundraiser so we decided to set off on a 110-mile sponsored ride which took us a couple days to complete and while it was not without incident – the end result has been worth it."


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What do…
Posted by kinasepro on July 10, 2009
…the Bee Gee's and R406 have in common?
R-788 (a prodrug of R-406) has shown promise in a Ph2b trial. Partner Plz?
still no BMCL
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July 16, 2009 at 3:56 am
There may not be any BMCL till it is partnered 😉
August 5, 2009 at 9:50 pm
The safety data is alarming. Molecule looks DOA to me for RA…might fly for cancer. You should also check out the reproductive tox with R788 recently disclosed by Rigel and ascribed to Ret as an off-target.


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October 10, 2018
Downtown Winnipeg Farmers' Market Moves to New Indoor Location at Cityplace Shopping Centre
The Downtown Winnipeg Farmers' Market is moving indoors to Cityplace Shopping Centre (333 St. Mary Avenue) starting Thursday, October 11 for the fall, winter and spring season. The Market will remain free to attend and will be held approximately twice a month from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. through to May 2019.
Held in downtown Winnipeg for over four years, the Downtown Winnipeg Farmers' Market offers fresh local vegetables and fruits, baking, preserves, meat, cheese, crafts, jewelry, plants and flowers, and other food and artisan items. If you can Make It, Bake It or Grow It, you can find it at the Market.
The Downtown Winnipeg Farmers' Market can also be found on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @dtwpgfarmersmkt or using the hashtag #finditdowntown.
2018 Market Dates at Cityplace:
October 11, October 25, November 8, November 22, December 6 and December 20
2019 Market Dates at Cityplace:
January 31, February 14, February 28, March 14, March 28, April 11, April 25, May 9, May 23
Visit www.downtownwinnipegbiz.com for a list of vendors for each date and more information about the Downtown Winnipeg Farmers' Market.
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West, Thomas (1577-1618) (DNB00)
WEST, THOMAS, third or twelfth Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), born on 9 July 1577, and baptised at Wherwell, Hampshire, was the second but eldest surviving son of Thomas West, second or eleventh baron De La Warr (1566?–1602), by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys [q. v.] . His grandfather, William West, first (or tenth) baron De La Warr, was nephew of Sir Thomas West, eighth baron West and ninth baron De La Warr.
Thomas, like his father and his brother Robert, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating on 9 March 1591–2, but left the university without a degree, and appears to have travelled in Italy in 1595 with a son of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, who was West's godfather (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1595–7, p. 326; Cal. Hatfield MSS. v. 227). On 25 Nov. 1596 he married, at St. Dunstan's in the West, Cecilia, Shirley's youngest daughter, and possibly it was from his three famous brothers-in-law that West imbibed his love of travel and adventure. On 14 Oct. 1597 he was returned to parliament for Lymington (Official Return, i. 434), and probably in the following year served for a time in the Low Countries. In 1599 he was with Essex in Ireland, distinguishing himself in the fight near Arklow on 29 June, and being knighted by the lord deputy on 12 July (Cal. Carew MSS. 1589–1600, p. 311). His connection with Essex led him into difficulties, and in February 1600–1 he was imprisoned in the counter in Wood Street on a charge of complicity in Essex's rebellion; on the 19th Essex asked De La Warr's pardon for bringing his son into trouble, and declared that West 'was unacquainted with the whole matter.' He escaped very lightly and, after succeeding his father in the peerage on 24 March 1601–2, became a member of Elizabeth's privy council. He was continued in that office by James I, and on 30 Aug. 1605 he was created M.A. of Oxford University, but his energies were soon absorbed in schemes for the colonisation of Virginia.
In 1609 he became a member of the council of the Virginia company and on 28 Feb. 1609–10 he was appointed first governor and captain-general for life; in the following month he sailed for Virginia with a reinforcement of a hundred and fifty emigrants and supplies. He arrived on 10 June, just in time to prevent the dispersion of the struggling colony. He appointed a council and sent out two expeditions in search of food; in a despatch sent home on 7 July he impressed on the English government the need of liberal support for the colonists and of care in their selection. He himself had returned to England by June 1611 (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1611–18, p. 48), and gave a very favourable report of the state of the colony; this was printed in the same year as 'The Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De-la-Warre, Lord Governour … of the colonie planted in Virginea to the Lords and others of the counsell of Virginea touching his unexpected returne home …' (London, 8vo); another edition appeared in the same year and was reprinted in 1858, 4to.
On 16 March 1617–18 Chamberlain reported that De La Warr had again sailed for Virginia, and on 14 Oct. following news had reached England of his death, which took place during the voyage on 7 June; the exact locality is a matter of dispute, but it was somewhere off the coast of Virginia or New England. De La Warr's connection with Virginia had been comparatively brief, but his intervention at a critical moment undoubtedly saved the colony from ruin, and Alexander Brown goes so far as to say 'if any one man can be called the founder of Virginia … I believe he is that man' (Genesis U.S.A., ii. 1049). His name is commemorated in Delaware bay, river, and state.
De La Warr's widow was on 20 Sept. 1619 granted a pension for thirty-one years out of the dues on imports from Virginia; it was renewed in 1634, but the outbreak of the civil war stopped it; in 1662, however, she was still alive and a fresh grant was made (Cal. State Papers, Amer. and West Indies, 1661–8, Nos. 239, 249). She had in 1651 regained from the committee for compounding lands which she had let to Sir Edward Nicholas [q. v.] , and had been sequestrated for his delinquency (Cal. Comm. for Compounding, p. 2895). By her De La Warr had seven children; the eldest son, Henry, born on 3 Oct. 1603, succeeded as fourth or thirteenth baron, and died in 1628; his great-grandson, John West, first earl De La Warr, is separately noticed. Several of the daughters, with their mother, acted in a court masque on twelfth night, 1616–17.[The family papers are preserved at Buckhurst and Knole, but they contain little about the third Baron De La Warr; see Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 157, and 4th Rep. pp. x, xiii, 276. See also Cal. State Papers, America and West Indies, 1574–1668 passim; Cal. State Papers, Dom.; Buccleuch and Queensberry MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), i. 103; Court and Times of James I; Captain John Smith's Works, ed. Arber, passim; Stith's Discovery and Settlement of Virginia, 1747; Neill's Virginia Company, 1869, Early Settlement of Virginia, 1878, and Virginia Carolorum, 1886; Proceedings of Virginia Company (Virginia Hist. Soc.), 1888; Brown's Genesis of the United States, 1890; Shirley's Stemmata Shirleiana, pp. 180, 198; Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, i. 339; Reg. Univ. Oxon. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.); Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Burke's and G. E. C[okayne]'s Complete Peerages.]