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Warehouses are used for storing goods. It provides the storage facilities for the goods, where goods are stored until they are dispatched to customers or end users. Whenever any goods are produced, it requires time to be get used/consumed by an end user. For that specific period, it is necessary to store goods, and warehouse provides the platform for storing. Suppose, some goods are produced throughout the year, but its requirement is only for some specific period.
Similarly some goods are produced in some specific season but its demand is throughout the year. For both cases, warehouses provides the ultimate solution by storing the goods produced until they are dispatched to customers or end users. Thus, warehouses play an important role in maintaining the quality and help in checking the wide fluctuation in the price of goods.
Major Segments in Warehousing
There are mainly two major segments in warehousing industry, these are;
I. Industrial Warehousing
II. Agricultural Warehousing
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Industrial Warehousing:
Industrial warehousing provides storing facilities and logistics requirement to sectors like pharmaceuticals, retails, consumer durables, automotive and FMCG. Industrial warehousing in India is much unorganized, based on the requirement small warehouses are available throughout the country. Goods and service tax (GST) implementation will help in organizing the unorganized industrial warehouse and curb the number of warehouses available as of now. Major players in Industrial warehousing field are;
Private Sector
1. Future Supply Chain
2. TVS Logistics
3. Mahindra Logistics
Public Sector
1. Central Warehousing Corporation
2. State Warehousing Corporation
3. Central Railside Warehousing Company
Agricultural Warehousing:
Agricultural warehousing involves storage of agricultural products like wheat, pulses, food grains, cereals, oilseeds, fruits & vegetables etc. Agricultural warehousing plays an important role in meeting the supply demand function of public distribution system in India. Major players in Agricultural Warehousing field are;
Private Sector
1. Star Agriwarehousing
2. JICS logistics
3. National Collateral Management Services
Public Sector
1. Food Corporation of India (FCI)
2. Central Warehousing Corporation
3. State Warehousing Corporation
Activities in Warehousing Process:
Activities include collection of articles, putaway & storage, value addition, (repackaging, MRP tagging, inventory management etc), order processing, pickup and sending it to the market.
Warehousing Holistic View
If we study in details the warehousing sector, then we can come up with the following in-depth analysis of sector,
Warehousing Sector business models
• Ownership
• Operator
Player Categories
• Clearing and forwarding agents
• Transporters
• Stockist
• Third Party logistics
• Independent Players
Service offerings
• Industrial warehousing
• Agricultural warehousing
Key products
• Agri Warehousing: Wheat, maize, rice, cotton etc.
• Industrial Warehousing: Auto Components, FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, etc.
User Segments
• Manufacturers
• Exporters/Importers
• Wholesalers
• Retailers
• Transporters
• Warehousing Management Systems (WMS)
• Manual
Key Success Factors
1. Location: Location plays an important role in the success and profit of a warehouse. Owner always want their warehouses to be located nearby industrial hubs or consumer ends, ports, railway stations or highway, to have strategic advantage from its competitor. But cost of labor and land near by such areas are always on higher side. So normally it is not possible for owner to have warehouse in such locations. So it is important to choose right location which will be economically beneficial in serving the purpose.
2. Optimization of warehouse space: It is always advisable to use each corner of space available of the warehouse. The more optimize use of space, the more will be the revenue. Warehouse design should be given importance, so that storage space can be used properly.
3. Value added services: Warehousing sector in India is much unorganized. There are number of players in the market. So to have competitive edge and to charge premium to customer, warehouse should provide value added services like, inventory management, reverse logistics, customer services, distribution services, customs clearance, other value added services (MRP tagging, bundling, quality check etc.). So by providing such services, player can attract customer and charge them premium.
4. Automation: It is quite clear that manual labor restricts proper utilization of storage space. Manual labor can be optimized by using automation. Automation can be achieved by implementing IT system like warehouse management systems (WMS) and latest machineries like fork lift, cranes, conveyers etc. Availability of storage space means revenue. Each storage space availability will raise the scale. So automation will increase scalability as well as help in managing the warehouse more effectively.
Key Risk Factors
1. Damage to goods: Consumable products or agricultural products are prone to pest attack. So measures must have to be taken for tackling such attacks and regular disinfestation services needs to be carried out. Also other products, which are susceptible to damage, their storage must be taken into considerations. Proper measures need to be ensured while storing.
2. Lack of Automation: Sometime retrieving a good takes ample amount of time. These all results in delay in dispatching and customer complaint. Manual entry and long retrieving activities reflect on the inefficiency of a warehouse. To minimize such activities automation is necessary, it will help in managing the inventory and as well in replenishment.
3. Production: Agricultural warehouse depends on the production of crops. Poor production will leads to unavailability of agri-goods for the warehouse. That will lead to non-utilization of warehouse capacity and will lead to loss.
The size of the Indian warehousing industry is valued at about INR560 billion and the industry is growing at the rate of 6-8% CAGR. But the main concern is the unorganized structure of the warehouse industry. Goods and Service Tax (GST) will help in organizing/aligning the unorganized warehouse industry. First thing GST will do is it will totally abolish the central state tax (CST). Under CST, company has to pay tax for the goods which are produced in one state and sold at other state. To avoid CST, consumer goods companies operate with at least a warehouse or a clearing and forwarding agent in each state. GST will certainly encourage organized players to setup large warehouse in key strategic location and achieve economies of scale, which will in turn reduce the storage cost and encourage companies to outsource their warehousing requirements. Simultaneously, it will help in minimizing the risks and boost the success parameters for a quality warehouse.
This article is authored by Rahul Burman from IIM Kashipur
1. http://www.ey.com/IN/en/Services/Transactions/EY-Summarizing-the-key-warehousing-segments-in-India
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse
3. https://www.crisilresearch.com
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Orang Asli, inhabitants of Malaysia bred Telomians as hunting dogs. These dogs were very effective in controlling and keeping away the vermins and other household pests that posed to be threats to their habitat. African Basenji and Australian Dingo are thought to be its close cousins, and some cynologists believe that these dogs are the missing link between them. An anthropologist discovered and initiated this breed to the west in 1963 and named them "Telomian." He called the dog after the river Telom because he spotted it for the first time near the river. Telomian Dog Club formed in the year 1970 when a pair of these dogs migrated to the US. In 1973 the second pair was brought, and these dogs are said to be the descendants of these two pairs which were bred successfully and domesticated in the US.
Interesting Facts
- If the master doesn't feed the dog on time, these dogs catch small preys and eat them.
- Like other singing dogs, this dog also has an estrus cycle which peaks annually in September and October.
|Facts About Telomian
|Breed Group
|Breed Type
|Watchdog, Guard dog, Working Dog
|Country of Origin
|Domesticated in the U.S.A (Native of Malaysia)
|Other Names
|Size & Height
15-19 inches
|18 to 28 Lbs
|Competitive Registration / Qualification Information
|Litter Size
|Life Expectancy
|Smooth and Short
Temperament & Personality
These dogs are brilliant as watchdogs because of their hunting instincts. They are alert breeds with a strong intuition of sensing danger and informing their family for the same making them an ideal watchdog. They are not excessive barkers, but growls and howls when they sense any danger like its cousins, Basenji, and New Guinea Singing. Telomians possess excellent climbing skills due to their original living conditions where they had to use ladders to reach homes as they were built on stilts to acquire protection from insects and wild animals.
Due to their climbing skills, they have excellent paw control and can hold toys, food and open doors with great ability. They make amusing faces especially when they plead for a treat. Telomians were bred in wild areas and might stay indifferent to adapt to the human world if not socialized at an early stage. However, when they learn to mingle with people and other pets, they appear to be the best pet. These dogs are perfect companions, they display obedience, loyalty and the ability to please its owner in all the ways it can. Moreover, they can be perfect playmates for children due to their playful, energetic nature. Telomian can also quickly adapt to any environments.
Telomians are highly energetic and require intense activity each day. Apartments dogs will need long walks and playtime in a dog's park. Places having a fenced yard are ideal as these dogs love to play games like catching, ball fetching and many more. When they are indoors, they should be kept busy with interactive toys that provide mental stimulation. Inadequate exercise routines tends to develop destructive behaviors in them.
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Glynis Smy was born in England, in the coastal town of Dovercourt, near Harwich. She left town to nurse in London, and lived there for the first few months of her marriage. Three children, two pharmacies, a nursing career later, she is now free to write. Emigrating to Cyprus with her husband in 2005, enabled her to concentrate upon writing poetry.
Having always kept her poems in a drawer, Glynis decided to celebrate her fiftieth birthday by publishing them in a book. This was followed by a second, and she was contacted by a writer who told her she enjoyed reading her work. An on-line friendship formed, and for three years they communicated every day.
Reading a short story written by Glynis, her friend commented it would be better as a novel, and encouraged her every step of the way. Sadly the family contacted Glynis and told her that her friend had passed away. This was the day Glynis wrote The End on the novel. Slowly the writing world rallied around and drew Glynis into the community. Courage to set up a blog and share her work paid off, and novel two was completed with the support of a new mentoring friend.
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Monday, 29 September 2014
Doctor Who Review: the Caretaker
Oh dear. Another stinker.
This week's episode was about the Doctor and Danny. There was some special effects malarky with what looked like a rich kid's remote-control vacuum cleaner, and a silly story to go with it. The Doctor wanted to lay a trap for the killer Hoover at the one place in the Universe where Clara would be the ideal assistant -- the school she works at -- and he decided instead to give her the day off, and to instead play the comic caretaker. As I say, it was mostly a contorted senseless setup of an officially Antagonistic Relationship.
Assuming that my intention had in fact been to watch a time-travel soap opera, I still would have been unimpressed. The Doctor apparently dislikes Danny because he's a soldier. This makes almost zero sense, because the Doctor has been friends with many soldiers in his time, even since the advent of the apocalyptic plot device of the Time War.
And even if we do accept that the Doctor has some sudden military mania, why did this manifest itself with the clumsy nonsense of the Doctor refusing to believe that Danny was a maths teacher?
And if the excuse was to maintain a Comic Tone, why was said Comic Tone shattered by many minutes of Emotional Dialogue that made Eastenders look like Shakespeare? If I want science fiction soap opera with a comic touch, I can find more emotional depth on an old episode of Red Dwarf.
If the writers think it's a novel idea to have a companion who doesn't get along with the Doctor, there must be a million other more entertaining and more convincing ways to introduce one. Couldn't the Doctor and Danny have clashed over some real difference of opinion on how to deal with the robot vacuum cleaner? Couldn't Danny have screwed up the Doctor's plan in a more definitively objectionable way than just turning up?
One possible reason is that we're supposed to finally appreciate just how alien the Doctor is -- his clashes with Danny are inexplicable because he is inexplicable. But in that case, why is this the first time in all of his incarnations that he has been so alien? We can imagine that this might be explained in some glorious season finale or Christmas Special, but I'm sceptical that I'll suddenly jump up from my seat and cry, "Aha! The writing wasn't creaky and jarring and uneven after all! It's just that he's been zapped by an Internal-Consistency Disturbance Field so strong that it threatens to destroy the entire Universe!"
No, I think the show is just struggling with its historical inability to produce decent male companions.
Usually the companions are strictly female. Back in the 70s, the assumed justification for the Doctor being accompanied across the universe by an attractive young lady was that Seventies British Dad needed something to enjoy on those Saturday nights when he couldn't go down to the pub with his mates and get hammered and blot Seventies Britain from his mind. Seventies Mum never watched Doctor Who -- she was in the kitchen with the dinner, boiling the hell out of it.
But now we are in 21st century Britain, and the whole family contributes equally to dinner, through democratic ordering off the Indian take-out menu. So the occasional male companion is also required. But these fellows seem to do no more than continue the line of dolts who came before them. There hasn't been a decent male companion since Jamie hung out with the Second Doctor [1]. Consider this short and sad list: Harry Sullivan, Adric, Turlough, and Rory. And now Danny.
Just a minute, what about Captain Jack? Everyone loved him. In fact, he was so good that he wasn't allowed to travel regularly with the Doctor, and had to be given his own television show instead.
The other male companion of note (although he rarely travelled with the Doctor) was of course the Brigadier. If ever we need to be reminded with what wit a character can be drawn, and how wonderfully he can endear an audience for decades, then we need look no further than the redoubtable Brigadier -- with every episode of gentle sparring with the Doctor, every roll of his eyes and a cry of, "Doctor, do you really expect me to believe…?", and every time he yearned to dispatch of the latest alien menace with an air strike, we remember what Doctor Who writers could once produce.
Can they do it again? I'm sure they could -- but it's not likely to be with Danny.
Other Doctor Who reviews:
Robot of Sherwood
Time Heist
Kill the Moon
Mummy on the Orient Express
In the Forest of the Night
Dark Water
Death in Heaven
1. Jamie was a highlander who was plucked briefly from his fight against the English. Jamie, from the past, was excellently paired with Zoe, from the future. The Doctor was kind enough never to allow him the heartbreak of a visit to September 2014.↩
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- Anonymous29 September 2014 at 09:42
You are so wrong... learn to love the show (and some of its past) and not be a complete hater .....ReplyDelete
Never will ever read your rubbish ever again.. time to move with the times..Replies
I loved the old show, and I've loved some of the new -- see my review of last week's "Time Heist", which I thought was fantastic.Delete
I should also have said that I did think there were a lot of great lines in this episode. For what that's worth.
But you're not reading this, are you? Oh well.
- Ty Kendall29 September 2014 at 10:29
Looks like the brave Anonymous has found his way over from the Guardian, where it is strictly verboten to criticize the show.ReplyDelete
I agreed with pretty much everything you said, I also couldn't stand the "disruptive influence" girl who looks set to be a regular occurrence (sigh). Where are the kids that Clara used to babysit, they were much less annoying.
Oh yeah, I forgot about her. I found the Doctor's efforts to tempt a teenage schoolgirl to see the wonders of the universe with him a tad creepy.ReplyDelete
While I concur with the overall sentiment of your review I can't agree with your inference that Adric and Turlough were somehow poor companions.ReplyDelete
It is a shame that Moffat appears incapable of making his recent male companions anything other than love interests to their stronger female counterparts however. It's becoming more than a little tiring to see a borderline idiotic Doctor flanked by sassy, genius-level 20-something girls with, "safe and moronic boyfriend" in tow.Replies
I may have been unfair to Adric and Turlough. I remember them as both a bit dour and grumpy, but I admit my memory of the Peter Davison years is vague.Delete
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Educators will tell you that the best homework tips for students are that there are no benefits of no homework. Homework gives the student a chance to expose their full potential related to specific subjects and assignments. The ideas and concepts taught in class need to be consolidated and reinforced by practical work on the subject. One of the most cost effective ways of enhancing student's learning is through the assignment of homework (Cooper et al. 2006). This gives each pupil the chance to assess their own understanding of the subject and successfully advance in the completion of academic work. Even after restating this truth, it is imperative that there be a consistent environment and ambiance where the student can efficiently complete their homework. Let us look at some practical homework tips for kids.
Establish Homework Timings:
This is one of the best homework tips for college students. Designate a specific time each day to complete your homework. This time should be free from distractions. It is advisable to complete your homework earlier in the day. It will be easier to concentrate earlier in the day in comparison to late at night when you are all tired. On the contrary, if you feel that you can concentrate better at night after the day is done, schedule time in the evening for homework. If scholars opt to work at night, consider taking a nap in the afternoon to maintain concentration. The important thing is to maintain routine regularity. During the study session consider dividing your timings between the different subjects of your syllabus. Allocate more time for the academic writing service subjects which you find difficult in comparison to the ones which you understand easily.
Distraction Free Environment:
This is where parents should help with homework by providing them an appropriate environment which is free of distractions. This is the time when all screens should be switched off. Regardless of whether it is a TV screen, mobile screen or a laptop, all screens should be switched off. Make sure that any cellular devices belonging to the student are stored safely out of reach of the scholar. The family's entertainment system or the TV screen should neither be visible or audible in this setting. Consider having a PC or laptop with a printer in this setting strictly for research purposes and creating reports. In this location there should be a table which can accommodate the student's stationery all at once without being congested. If the learner has neighbours or friends let them know these timings are regularly allocated for studying, except perhaps for weekends.
Performing Priority Academic Tasks:
Every scholar finds some subjects difficult while others are easy. Some subjects are always a favourite in a specific age genre. Students should ask all the questions they can in class to clear up any misunderstanding. Highlight ideas and concepts which you find difficult in class in your personal notebook and research them once at home. Once at home complete the problem solution essay which you received for homework first before setting out to complete any other task. Once all the homework is complete allocate the rest of your time according to the order of difficulty of subjects. It is advisable to spend more time on subjects which learners find challenging. Give yourself enough time to comprehensively understand each concept before moving on to the next. If there are still certain principles and doctrines which you find difficult to understand, highlight them and don't forget to ask your teacher before the upcoming test.
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Bedazzled Legs, Anyone?
WWHL's Reseach Associate Producer reveals what kind of glittery goodies can be found in the studio.
What do you call someone who spends their day reading every bit of pop culture news, watching every Bravo show, and hanging on the words of every tweeting Housewife? A gal with a pretty awesome job.
Welcome to the world of a Watch What Happens Live researcher. As one of two Research Associate Producers on WWHL, my job is to find out everything and anything about our guests -- their careers, hobbies, habits, childhood, embarrassing moments, hidden talents, not so hidden break-ups, awkward photos, and fanatic tributes. If it's on the internet, I'll find it.
The result of spending so much time on the guests is how highly invested I get in each guest's experience and reaction to all the crazy we throw at them during the show. For example, my thoughts, pre-show, Sunday night: "What if Mike Tyson doesn't have pigeons anymore? We're giving him a Mazel onesie for his pigeon, what if he hates them? What if despite all sources confirming otherwise, he only has a passing interest in the The Real Housewives of New Jersey?"
Of course, my neurosis was completely uncalled for because did the man EVER know RHONJ. Not only was Mike Tyson game for everything (including some pigeon clothes), he also had one of the most insightful Housewives observations I'd ever heard: "Joe and Teresa, even though they're doing so bad, they look so good doing so bad. You can't be bankrupt and live in a mansion, nowhere else in the world, only in this country.
God Bless America. And Mike Tyson.While I love to see how our research plays out in the shows, it's often the unplanned moments that really give us a leg up (pun intended). Take Monday night's show with Sonja in the City and the Scissor Sisters. In discussing some Ramotional reactions to Aviva's prosthetic leg from that evening's Real Housewives of New York City, Ana Matronic reveals her love of prosthetic legs (Really? Really!). During the After Show we noticed (from the control room) that Andy is trying to get someone's attention when he wasn't on camera. We catch a shot of Andy mouthing a word and emphatically gesturing to someone off camera...he wants something...something large...one word... looks like he's saying... Before I can even process, my fellow Research AP Christie is making a mad dash out of the control room and comes sprinting back into the studio with something tan and glittery tucked under her arm. Within seconds, Andy is presenting Ana with a one-of-a-kind, bedazzled WWHL prosthetic leg! Yes, we had an extra bedazzeled leg just lying around the studio. No, I'm not kidding.
To me, those spontaneous, unscripted, perfectly weird moments are really what make the show. It just so happened that we had the leg lying (well standing actually) around, and it just so happened, that we had a guest who revealed her love of prosthetic legs on our show. Now why we had a one-of-a-kind, bedazzled WWHL prosthetic leg, that's for you to figure out. Side note: we also have a bedazzled whip with Andy's face on it, a bedazzled hookah, a slew of spare Ramona eyes, a pile of faux fur, and more wigs than you'd need in a lifetime.It would be simply wrong to wrap this up without mentioning the woman who took the collective breath away from the WWHL staff: Cher. Since Thursday's show featured Clueless alums Donald Faison and Jeremy Sisto, we knew there was no better bartender than Cher herself! Cue the internal confusion -- at points throughout the day we had booked: a classic Cher impersonator, a woman dressed as Cher from Clueless, both the Cher impersonator and the woman dressed as Cher from Clueless side-by-side, and even the Cher impersonator dressed as Cher from Clueless...what? But once straightened out, we were greeted by the most beautiful, larger-than-life, dreamlike Cher you could ever imagine. With three epic costume changes, none-the-less. At WWHL, we see a lot of celebrities. But with this one, our team just could not resist:
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"When the beginner can cast his fly into his hat, eight times out of ten, at forty feet, he is a fly fisher; and so far as casting is concerned, a good one."
James A. Henshall, MD, 1881
In the spirit of 'what gets measured, gets done' I thought James Henshall's criteria could be tracked. I mulliganed the first two casts, but as you can see from the landing sites of one through ten, I'm still falling some way short of the hat. When you deduct the length of the rod (eight feet) it's even worse! I keep telling myself the Chalksteams are only ten to fifteen feet wide and that the fresh Trout aren't the only reason I'm doing this......
"Unless one can enjoy himself fishing with the fly, even when his efforts are unrewarded, he loses much real pleasure. More than half the intense enjoyment of fly-fishing is derived from the beautiful surroundings, the satisfaction felt from being in the open air, the new lease of life secured thereby, and the many, many pleasant recollections of all one has seen, heard and done."
Charles F. Orvis, 1886
But then he would say that wouldn't he? He's got an agenda to push, and fishing gear to sell!!
I'm lovin' spending time outside, but the Trout are perfectly safe.
Any pointers gratefully received!
A tubby suburban dad watching hunting and adventure shows on TV and wondering could I do that? This is the chronicle of my adventures as I learn to learn to Forage, Hunt and Fish for food that has lived as I would wish to myself - Wild and Free.
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Here's one I've been dying to post. How does a fox catch mice when they're hiding under the snow? Foxes have sharp hearing, so they obviously listen for the little tunnelers. Pouncing in a random direction, though, is only successful about one out of five tries (18%). But, pouncing in a northerly direction is effective three out of four times (73%)! While the mechanism is yet to be worked out, the researchers think there must be some magnetism involved. Pretty cool.
The NPR link above has a general description, plus the cool drawings. Ed Yong originally covered this in 2011 and has the more technical description.


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I grew up being surrounded by books: on art, historic figures, World War II, encyclopedias, book about explorers, missionaries, novels, non-fiction books, in fact I do not think there was any subject we would not at least have one book about. I guess it was in those times that I learned to love illustrated books and luxury editions. It has been like that every since.
When I got baptized earlier this year I of course reported back to my mother in the Netherlands, what a fantastic experience it had been. Imagine my surprise when several weeks later the book on the left arrived in the mail.
Heralded as the most authoritative and up-to-date atlas of the Bible now available, "Biblica: The Bible Atlas" places the biblical narrative and its peoples in their historical, cultural, social, and geographic contexts, and incorporates the most recent archaeological findings and research. Features more than 650 full-color paintings, drawings, etchings, and photographs plus 125 full-color maps of the region. Barrons Educational Series.
As you can imagine it has bee the most amazing treat could ever have imagined. As promised o the cover this is indeed a Social and Historical Journey Through the Lands of the Bible. I consider it to be a rich resource next to the Bible and the book has already contributed in my understanding of the Bible.
Whether you are a Christian or not, this book in my view at least will have something of great value for any reader and a great way to (re)connect with the cultural roots of modern western society. I can recommend it to anyone.
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MUSIC NEWS- JEAN-MICHEL JARRE's new album-working title E-Project has been announced for a release date set of October 16 via Ultra Music.
The project was conceived with JARRE's wish to encompass the last few decades of electronic music with the participation of outstanding artists of all generations with whom he felt especially connected with by a common DNA .The album features 16 collaborations, including the so-far-revealed M83, Tangerine Dream, Gesaffelstein and 3D from Massive Attack.
"I've wanted to tell a story for a while regarding electronic music history from my point of view and experience, from when I started to nowadays," JARRE says. "So I planned to collaborate with array of artists who are, directly or indirectly, linked to this scene, over the last four decades that I've been making electronic music–with people I admire for their singular contribution to our genre, that represent a source of inspiration for me but who also have an instantly recognizable sound. At the outset, I had no idea how this project would evolve, but I was delighted that everybody I reached out to accepted my invitation."
Original demos were composed and produced by JARRE specifically for each artist. They in turn were invited to bring their unique spirit and signature to the recording, after which he completed the project.
The collaborative bent of this ambitious music project, was first revealed with the release of an epic first track made with rising French producer Gesaffelstein ("Conquistador"). See below from MNN. Since then, JEAN-MICHEL JARRE teased his fans with tracks with German electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream ("Zero Gravity"), French act M83 ("Glory") and Massive Attack's 3D ("Watching You"), a set of artists whose influence spans generations. The rest of the album will feature 12 more collaborators yet to be revealed. Each collaborator is personally introduced by an individual track story featuring JMJ and the respective artist on screen.


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A TEENAGE selfie addict says he was so obsessed with taking the perfect selfie that he spent 10 hours a day taking up to 200 photos of himself.
Danny Bowman, from Newcastle upon Tyne in Britain, says his "excrutiating" addiction almost killed him and is determind to share his story.
The 19-year-old lost almost 13kg and dropped out of school after his two-year obsession spiralled out of control.
Danny started posting selfies on Facebook when he was 15. His "friends" would post cruel comments that took a huge toll on his self esteem.
"One told me my nose was too big for my face and another picked on my skin," he told The Mirror.
"I started taking more and more to try to get the approval of my friends.I would be so high when someone wrote something nice but gutted when they wrote something unkind."
The aspiring male model was sent into further turmoil following an agency casting session in 2011.
"They told me that my body was the wrong shape to be a model and that my skin wasn't up to scratch. I was mortified," he said.
"When I got home that night I stood in front of the mirror and took a photo of myself. I didn't like it so I took another. Then before I knew it I had taken about 30, discarding each one."
This was the beginning of his two-year addiction. He would wake up early before school, just so he could take dozens of selfies.
"I would spend hours looking at them, scrutinising my features and skin. I took selfies in bed, in the bathroom, and all day into the early hours.
"I would pore over pictures of my idol, Leonardo DiCaprio, and then take selfies in different poses, trying to look like him. But I felt so ugly."
Danny would sneak out of class to take selfies in the bathroom. He found himself in the headmaster's office every day and was always late for school.
He dropped out of school so he could stay home taking selfies and started drastically limiting his food intake.
"I would limit myself to an apple and a bowl of couscous a day in a bid to be thinner and improve my skin. I had dropped from 9 stone (57kg) to 7 stone (44kg) but I still saw an overweight monster in the pictures."
After a heavy selfie binge in December 2012, Danny attempted suicide, but was luckily rescued by his mother and taken to hospital. He was later referred to a top psychiatrist at a London Hospital.
His phone was confiscated for periods of time, and he was forced to go outside without his phone.
"It was excruciating to begin with but I knew I had to do it if I wanted to go on living," he said.
But Danny now says he has not taken a selfie for seven months.
"It sounds trivial and harmless but that's the very thing that makes it so dangerous," he said.
"It almost took my life, but I survived and I am determined never to get into that position again."
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Peter N. Bouckaert, a senior emergencies researcher for Human Rights Watch who has been traveling in Lebanon and Syria, says that both Hezbollah and Israel have been committing 'war crimes' by their strikes against civilians on either side of the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Bouckaert said in the Israel-Hezbollah clash there is "a sense of self-righteousness on both sides of the conflict, and a willingness to look away from abuses committed on both sides of the conflict." But he adds: "We are talking about a different mentality. I mean, it's perfectly clear that Hezbollah is directly targeting civilians, and that their aim is to kill Israeli civilians." He says Human Rights Watch does not accuse the Israeli army of trying to kill civilians but of "not taking the necessary precautions to distinguish between civilian and military targets."
Why has the Lebanese government seemed so close to Hezbollah lately, even though the government had nothing to do with the start of the conflict with Israel?
To a large extent, the Israeli offensive has consolidated the relationship between the government and Hezbollah because of the heavy civilian casualties. It's very unlikely that we will see the government moving away from Hezbollah and taking an independent position and joining an international effort to demilitarize southern Lebanon and create those Hezbollah-free zones. And it's very unlikely that Hezbollah itself will agree to any such step because its backers in Iran won't agree to it.
Did you spend much time with the Hezbollah people in the south?
When we went to visit some of the villages in the south, we certainly saw Hezbollah persons on some of the roads and near some of the villages, and they are a very well-organized guerilla group. I've worked in three countries with civil wars and guerrilla forces on the ground, and Hezbollah comes across as very impressive. They have very good communications, and they seem very disciplined and well-trained. So Israel faces a real threat on the ground from a very well-motivated and well-trained force in Lebanon. That was also the impression of the experienced journalists that I worked alongside.
And of course the new UN resolution allows Israel to keep its forces on the ground until there is an international force, and I take it you are very dubious that Lebanon can agree to this.
Well, there are more than two parties to this conflict. It's not between Israel and Lebanon. The fighting taking place is between Israel and Hezbollah, with Lebanon being increasingly drawn in because some of its infrastructure has been destroyed. It's very difficult to see a UN resolution which allows Israel to stay on the ground leading to a suspension of Hezbollah activity in the south. And as we have seen in Iraq, the occupation force that Israel would have in the south would be very vulnerable to guerrilla attack, to attacks from insurgents. Basically, what would happen would not be a palatable outcome for the Israelis, obviously.
And this only seems to increase the Israeli determination to not appear weak, so that will only increase the fighting, I suppose.
I think Israel seriously miscalculated in going into Lebanon with this all-out offensive. First of all, they thought they would be able to deal Hezbollah a mortal blow from the air. That certainly hasn't been the case. If you look at guerilla wars around the world, it's almost impossible to deal a guerrilla force a mortal blow from the air. I mean, go back to Vietnam with all the aerial bombardment that was tried there—it didn't have a real impact on the Viet Cong.
Air power works very efficiently when you are dealing with an enemy like Saddam Hussein with a small army, tanks, and other targets you can hit, or the Serbian military, but it doesn't work very well against guerrilla forces. Rather than hitting Hezbollah hard, Israel hit a civilian population hard, and many, many people were killed. Now, the second option is to go in on the ground with ground forces, and they are taking very heavy casualties by doing this. And they have not impacted significantly on Hezbollah's ability to fire rockets into Israel, and to continue fighting. So Israel is faced with a real dilemma: how to end this war and appear victorious? Not to stop would mean a long period of continued fighting with an uncertain outcome, and with significant casualties—military casualties on Israel's side, Hezbollah casualties, but also heavy civilian casualties.
Has Human Rights Watch tried to urge Hezbollah to stop its attacks on obviously largely civilian targets in Israel? Human Rights Watch is very critical of the Israeli air attacks on Lebanon. What about from the Hezbollah side?
I think the record is there. If you go to our web site, our first statement denounced Hezbollah for indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel and said it was a crime. One of the problems we face is the Israelis and those who are generally supportive of Israel have not looked at our work on Hezbollah and our criticism of Hezbollah. And the same goes for the Arab world. We have been very objective in our coverage of this conflict. We don't just cover abuses on one side. We have people inside Israel, we have people inside Lebanon, and we have people inside Gaza.
The whole point, the whole general thrust of our work, is that outsiders need to stop pursuing policies which have such a heavy impact on the civilian population, and that no side should use abuses committed by the other party as an excuse for their own abuses. But so often we get frustrated either at the pro-Arab organizations or the other side. And I find it very interesting that so few people look at our work in a kind of broader context, as an impartial record of what is happening in the conflict, rather than just how our work affects their side.
It's interesting that you say you are accused by the Arab side of being partial toward Israel. And of course, as you know, many Israelis have been critical of Human Rights Watch for its reporting on the bombing. So I guess perhaps you win by being attacked by both sides.
Because of our objectivity we end up making everybody angry with our reporting because we do have to deal with a sense of self-righteousness on both sides of the conflict, and a willingness to look away from abuses committed on both sides of the conflict. And we are talking about a different mentality. I mean, it's perfectly clear that Hezbollah is directly targeting civilians, and that their aim is to kill Israeli civilians. We don't accuse the Israeli army of deliberately trying to kill civilians. Our accusation, clearly stated in the [latest HRW] report, is that the Israeli army is not taking the necessary precautions to distinguish between civilian and military targets. So, there is a difference in intent between the two sides. At the same time, they are both violating the Geneva Convention.
You're in Damascus now. Do you expect Syria to get involved in this?
The whole region is involved in what is happening in Lebanon, and it's impossible to divorce developments in Gaza from what's happening in Lebanon, and that's why it's so important that we do look at these issues in a regional sense. You see Hezbollah flags everywhere in Damascus these days, and there's a lot of posters of [Hassan] Nasrallah up. We have written to the Iranian and Syrian governments to ask them to use their influence over Hezbollah to stop some of these abuses. In our letters we clearly state what kind of influence we think they have.
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text: > This ignores the fact that both companies have paying customers. If I am a > BBN access customer and I cannot get to any sites, then what good is BBN to > me? As an access provider, I built a access infrastructure and I get payed > by my customer for providing it to them (include in this cost is the price > to connect to content providers). If I am a Exodus customer and I pay for > hosting, Exodus is no good to me if it doesn't have any viewers. Exodus > built a hosting infrastructure, its customers pay for the right to use that > infrastructure(included in this cost is the price to connect to viewers). So > both companies need each other. Both companies get payed for providing a > service. Where is the problem? Why should BBN get a cut of what Exodus's > cutomers pay? BBN is trying to get payed to provide something it needs to > from Exodus. If BBN needs it, why would Exodus pay for it? Isn't BBN trying > to get payed twice? > If you are a BBN access customer, then you BUY TRANSIT FROM BBN. That's not ignored below, that puts you in the category of people that should make noise. Personally, I agree with your position. Owen > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Dillon [SMTP:michael at memra.com] > > Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 9:13 AM > > To: list at inet-access.net > > Subject: Re: BBN/GTEI > > > > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Brian Wallingford wrote: > > > > > If you don't peer with or buy > > > transit from GTEI, sit back, shut up, and watch and learn (seriously - > > > WATCH and LEARN). > > > > This is seriously good advice. A lot of people have compared this to the > > UUNet peering flap but the two incidents couldn't be more different. In > > UUNet's case you had John Sidgemore, an economist, attempting to throw his > > weight around and push towards a paid peering scenario with a cartel at > > the core, all of this based solely on an economics viewpoint. > > > > But with BBN, there is a network engineering problem at the core of the > > issue, that of assymmetric traffic patterns. And BBN realizes that this > > sort of assymmetry will become more and more common in the future and that > > the industry needs to find some sort of hybrid peering/settlement > > mechanism that will work for both parties in an asymmetric arrangement. > > They are looking at things like what kind of methodology can be used to > > measure the traffic, what constitutes free balanced peering, how to charge > > for regional transit on traffic that exceeds the limits of balanced > > peering, and similar difficult issues. > > > > I believe that the reason we are not hearing many details is that there > > are NDAs in place about the specifics of the Exodus, AboveNet and CRL > > peering contracts. But sooner or later those companies will come to some > > sort of agreement and BBN will explain the rationale behind their > > thinking. We may not totally agree with that rationale, but I think we can > > all see that establishing peering between two specialty providers has to > > be handled a bit differently than between two full-service providers. > > > > And if BBN's ideas can be refined and accepted by the industry, then we > > will be in a better position because there will be an established > > methodology and pricing structure for an ISP to transition from full > > transit to full peering. I know from my experience with Priori that a lot > > of peering negotiations happen like an old-boys club cartel and if you > > ain't a member of the club, you can't get in. We need to change this so > > that there is an open process by which anyone can transition to being a > > peer based on an open and accepted methodology and pricing structure. > > > > -- > > Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting > > Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael at memra.com > > Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com > > > > >


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Austin leaders on Wednesday night passed a $3.9 billion 2018 budget — a new record for the growing city — after days and months of City Council frustration over wanting to add social services money and feeling hemmed in by previous spending commitments.
The budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 includes a $1 billion general fund, which covers most city operations, plus self-sustaining funds for things like electricity, water and aviation. It raises tax revenue 7.9 percent, just under the 8 percent limit that could trigger a rollback election, for a tax rate of 44.48 cents per $100 of property value.
An owner of a median valued home of $305,510 will see a $151 increase in city taxes and other fees.
Both the budget and the tax rate passed 8-3, with Council Members Ellen Troxclair, Jimmy Flannigan and Ora Houston opposed. Those three raised concerns that the city was dipping into its 12 percent reserve fund buffer, even if only slightly, and they wanted to slightly lessen the tax increase.
The budget does not increase the city's 8 percent homestead exemption — that ship sailed in July — but the city's homestead exemption for senior and disabled residents to bumped up from $82,500 to $85,500. The exemption lowers the value of a home for taxation purposes.
With little wiggle room in the budget to add new spending, the one department in which staff initially proposed major increases was Development Services. Staff proposed adding 51 positions and increasing the department's budget by 55 percent — costs almost entirely covered by fees — in order to speed up permit reviews after the 2015 Zucker Report documented lengthy delays and other problems.
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But the City Council backed away from that plan in the final days of budgeting, after Council Member Delia Garza raised concerns about steep development fee increases to pay for those new positions. Council members left those positions out of the approved budget, but may add them later with a budget amendment after they've evaluated the proposed fees in more detail.
Budgeting for public safety, which makes up 67 percent of the general fund, remained ambiguous, as negotiations are still ongoing to hash out multi-year labor contracts for police. Budget officers, not wanting to show the city's hand amid the negotiations, didn't outline what costs they assumed for public safety raises and new officers.
Local activist groups brought out members in droves during budget hearings to call for less money for policing and more for social services. But police advocates said the force is falling behind as the city grows and needs at least a dozen new officers to keep crime in check.
The city's policies for rainy day saving came up for debate Wednesday as council members voted 6-5 to allocate money from the reserves for a Pay for Success homelessness program, even if it may not be spent in 2018. That leaves unallocated reserves at 11.9 percent of the total general fund, just under the 12 percent minimum city financial advisors recommend.
Later, the council voted to fund several items, including a disabled-accessible playground, with $92,000 of reserve money — an amount Mayor Steve Adler called "a rounding error."
Some tensions flared when Troxclair led a successful vote to have $1.2 million in hotel tax revenue pay for security at festivals, intending to follow that with a request to put the corresponding savings from the general fund toward tax relief. But Council Member Greg Casar preempted her with a motion to put $580,000 of it to various social services. That measure passed 7-4, with Troxclair, Flannigan, Houston and Alison Alter opposed.
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The council agreed to spend the remaining $420,000 and $200,000 on lowering the tax increase a fraction of a percent and increasing the senior homestead exemption, respectively. That $420,000 translates into roughly a dollar of savings for the median homestead.
The 2018 budget built in cost increases for things already approved, like $1.9 million and nine new employees to staff the new Central Library, set to open next month, and 2.5 percent pay increases for civilian city employees.
That left a thin, $5 million buffer for council members to squeeze in additional priorities and led to drawn-out small-dollar politicking this week.
Ultimately, the council voted to fund $1.1 million for parent support specialists at the Austin school district, $840,000 to increase the capacity of homelessness services and expand outreach, $700,000 in public health contracts, $637,000 to pay temporary employees the city's living wage of at least $14 per hour and offer them sick leave, and $135,000 for immigrant legal services, among other priorities.


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Parakou, town located in central Benin, western Africa.
It is the terminus of the so-called Benin-Niger Railway, which was originally planned to extend to the Niger River. The railway runs northward from Cotonou, Benin's major port and commercial centre on the Gulf of Guinea, to Parakou, whence goods must be transported by road to the navigable Niger River and into landlocked Niger. Pop. (2002) 149,819; (2013 prelim.) 254,254.


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Pokhara Tours and Activities
You can add some extra flavor to your Nanohana Lodge stay and Pokhara vacation experience by visiting a number of local attractions mentioned below:
- Fewa Lake
- International Mountain Museum
- Paame
- World Peace Pagoda
- Begnas Lake
- Rupa Lake
- Sarangkot
- Mahendra Cave
- Davi's Fall
You can get free tips and useful information from the travel desk at Nanohana Lodge to visit these and many more local attractions in Pokhara and explore those sites on your own.
In addition to providing warm hospitality at affordable prices, Nanohana Lodge operates a full-time travel desk with the aim of catering to various needs of travelers.
Kul Bahadur Acharya, the owner of Nanohana Lodge, happens to be a well-experienced trekking and tour guide. Every year, he leads several groups on trekking trips to the Annapurna Sanctuary and other parts of Nepal. When needed, he can organize almost any kind of tours and activities in Pokhara for you.
Some of the most popular tours and activities that you can start from Pokhara are featured below. For more information, please feel free to contact us.
Pokhara Sightseeing Day Tour
This one day tour features various tourist attractions in Pokhara such as the World Peace Pagoda, Davi's Fall, Gupteshwar Cave, Mahendra Cave, Seti Gorge, International Mountaineering Museum, Fewa Lake, etc. It is an ideal starter for everyone visiting Pokhara. Nanohana Lodge offers private transportation to all the sites included in this tour.
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Ghorepani Ghandruk Trek - 5 Days
This trek is neighter too long nor too strenuous, yet offers a fabulous opportunity to everyone seeking a rich blend of nature and culture. The trail itself is circular, starting and ending at Nayapul and routes through Tikhedhunga, Ghorepani, Tadapani and Ghandruk, with a small side trip from Ghorepani to Poon Hill (3210m), the highest point of the entire trip. So, prepare yourself for a memorable journey within Annapurna Sanctuary that features a great combination of mountains, flora, fauna and culture.
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Dhampus Short Trek - 3 Days
Dhampus is one of the most renowned destinations near Pokhara for hiking, chosen especially by those travelers who are on a short vacation in Pokhara. This 3-day trip will give you a glimplse of Nepalese lifestyle and culture as well as the magnificence granted by mother nature to the countryside.
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The Barrels of Fun have been at Luna Park Sydney since the early days. The deceptively simple, engagingly awesome, reliably hilarious challenge dares you to race through twin barrels at speed! Timing is of the essence, will you walk and risk the wobbles, run and crash out, or are you one of the few that make it out on two feet?
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Getty Images Acquires Pump Audio
Photo licensor Getty Images has acquired online music rights company Pump Audio for $42 million. Pump Audio does for independent musicians what Getty already does for photographers – license music to movie studios, TV networks, and Web companies for usage in their respective productions.
Pump's catalog includes more than 100,000 songs, and the company says it has secured more than 80,000 placements for artists. The company does not retain exclusive rights to songs and splits licensing fees evenly with musicians. While a departure from their core photo licensing business, Getty's large customer database and sales force make Pump poised for expansion under its new corporate umbrella. Getty has been on a buying spree of late, with previous acquisitions including WireImage, Punchstock, and Scoopt.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Pump's revenue in 2006 was "less than $10 million." The company had previously raised a reported $2.5 million in venture capital.


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We are starting a specialty coffee roastery in Qatar and are looking for a professional to join our team and manage the company. You will be at the forefront of the business, making executive decisions on how to build and develop the roastery and cafe with the owners. We want to recruit professional, experienced and dedicated personalities who are looking for a challenge, have the drive to push forward the business and help us build a specialty coffee culture in Qatar. You must have a larger than life personality and a desire to create and deliver a unique coffee experience.
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After decades of bickering, Democrats and Republicans now agree that a reduction in the rate of growth in spending is not a cut.
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat who has long attacked previous GOP "cuts" in social programs, today re-issued an analysis from Politifact rebutting the claim by Mitt Romney and congressional Republican charges that the Affordable Care Act cut $716 billion from Medicare.
The Democrats indeed reduced future Medicare spending, mainly for gold-plated Medicare Advantage plans, by about $500 billion to pay for the Affordable Care Act. (That number has morphed into $716 billion based on updated Congressional Budget Office figures that includes the Act's full phase in, plus interest.)
Pelosi's office quotes Politifact saying, "The reform does not cut $500 billion from the current Medicare budget. Instead, the reform aims to slow the program's future spending growth."
There we have it. The fact is that current Medicare spending is unsustainable, which means the current program will change. Period. It is pointless for either side to say that means future grannies are going to get thrown under the train.
For a rare objective look at the Medicare fight, see Bill Galston's piece here from the Brookings Institution. He concludes, "At some point the American people will have to decide" whether to cover Medicare costs by scaling back the program, raising taxes, or both.
Republicans generally would restrain growth by capping the amount recipients receive (Paul Ryan's vouchers), trusting that consumers, by shopping within a budget, would impose competitive pressures that will wring out spending from the demand side. Democrats generally would restrain growth by limiting the amount the government pays doctors and hospitals, restraining cost growth through the supply side. Conservative John Goodman argues here as to why that could lead to physician shortages.
Former Obama economic chief Lawrence Summers explains that the growth in the elderly population is pretty overwhelming, so that that even if the system becomes more efficient, Medicare costs will continue to take up an increasing share of the nation's income. That means the GOP goal of shrinking government may be quixotic.


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Why are you alive?
If you're a Christian, Jesus has already answered that question for you.
"Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." (Matthew 28:19-20)
Over the last few years, we've sought to fulfill our God-given mission through our partnership with churches and Christian ministries in Bolivia. We're excited to announce that God has provided an opportunity for us to return to Bolivia this fall as part of a 12 day missions team (August 11-23).
Trip highlights include 3 days in an orphanage caring for 80 abandoned children, 3 days days serving alongside a church in El Alto, evening meetings with various churches, and shopping in the markets of La Paz. El Alto is the suburb of La Paz where two of our members, Brad and Tammy Bishop, have been working with Suti Sana. We estimate the total cost will be somewhere between $1,000 and $1,200, including airfare, meals, lodging, and transportation.
If you are interested in joining the mission team this fall or in years to come, be sure to attend the interest meeting on Sunday, April 13 from 12:15-1:00pm in the Seminar Room. You'll hear stories from church members who participated in past mission teams and have an opportunity to ask questions about getting involved.
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"Maker" is a feature-length documentary on the Maker Movement and its impact on society, culture and economy in the U.S.
The "Maker Movement", sometimes called the "Third Industrial Revolution," subverts traditional manufacturing by building on innovative concepts such as open source, local manufacturing, crowd funding, and digital fabrication. Breaking the hobbyist movement stereotype, "Maker" delves deep into this ecosystem of design and manufacturing in the Internet era. The film explores the ideas, tools, and personalities that are driving the Maker Movement – and returns with a timely snapshot of one of the transforming influences of the current age.
Official Website: MakerTheMovie.com