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NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Americans plan to spend $720 on holiday gifts this year, on average, according to a November survey by Gallup,up from $704 last year.
"Barring a major economic crisis or winter weather event that curbs Americans' willingness to shop, consumers seem on track to outlay a bit more on Christmas gifts this year," Gallup says.
To ensure you don't blow your holiday shopping budget, you need to avoid making spending decisions under stress and anxiety, says consumer finance expert Pamela Yellen. Those situations often lead to "awful" money mistakes that can "create lasting misery in the New Year," she says.
To avoid that happening, Yellen offers a "don't do" list of common holiday money mistakes that can dent your household income:
Don't keep up with the Joneses. "The holidays offer so many keeping-up opportunities, from the lights on your house to the cookies you bring to the neighborhood holiday potluck to the holiday outfits you buy for your children," Yellen says. Avoid the temptation to spend to "keep up" and instead keep more cash in your pocket and more sanity in your holidays.
Don't fall for holiday ads. You've seen the ads showing happy families gathering around a brand-new sedan with a big red bowtie on top — and you want that experience for your family. Don't fall for it, Yellen says. "People look so happy in those ads, right? Clearly, you will be happy too if you do all those things, right? But then of course when you do buy all that stuff, somehow you don't feel that happiness the ads promised, so you wind up feeling miserable," she says. When you overspend, you're just creating more financial problems down the road, so walk away from Madison Avenue ads that can cause more financial trouble than they're worth.
Don't rely strictly on credit cards. "Research shows that people spend more when they pay with plastic," Yellen says. "Also, most folks have trouble keeping track of, or even remembering, what they've charged on their cards. So not only do you spend more than you wanted to, but you're totally oblivious to it — until the bills show up in January."
Don't shop when you're anxious or tired. That's a big no-no, Yellen says. "Your decision-making skills and good judgment go out the window when you're exhausted, starving and stressed or feel particularly rushed," she says.
Don't try to give everyone everything they want. Americans, especially parents, go to great lengths to give their loved ones everything on their wish list. That's noble but not realistic, and overextending yourself can lead to a debt problem. Ask your gift recipient for one great gift idea and strive to get that gift under the Christmas tree this year, Yellen says.
"Doing even a few of these steps will make your holidays cranky and gloomy rather than merry and bright," she says. Instead, opt for a positive approach where you make good, healthy spending decisions that still lead to a happy holiday for you and your loved ones.
— By Brian O'Connell for MainStreet


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Seeing the strength and determination of nature to throw off the pavement of man got me thinking about where I and the world are going right now. It led me to the comparison of civilization as the road, and the ants and the horsetail as the parts of the earth that refuse to give up and give in to the weight of what we deem civilization. I can see this in myself as well. I have slowly been pushing and pushing at the weight of social self and the constraints of the society I live in. I see now that I, along with many others have been paved over with thoughts and things, but yet that wild part of us is still there. The ants of my creativity and strength, and the horsetail that is built of my courage and heart, have been working hard to burst through the pavement of my social being. Much of that pavement is cracking away, but it is not easy to keep pushing. I am struck as I write with a thought about looking for the holes to find a way. So I am going to ask myself as well as you:
- What holes have opened in the cement of your social self?
- What ways have your pushed through and opened up?
- What can we learn from both the ants and the horsetail, about the resilience of the earth, and her creatures including ourselves?
I love this analogy and the questions! I am ready to keep pushing and growing. How about you?
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On arraignment and plea: What happens when the accused refuses to enter a plea?
A person accused of a crime or offense also has rights. Among these is the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. In criminal proceedings, one of the stages where this right is carried out is at the time of the arraignment of the accused. The arraignment is … Continue reading On arraignment and plea: What happens when the accused refuses to enter a plea?
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The live media coverage of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona has given everyone the opportunity to witness the proceedings even without having to go to the Senate acting as an impeachment court. As we watch the trial, we see how the prosecution and the defense team argue and defend, respectively, their cases, … Continue reading What is a subpoena?
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Last year, I wrote an article in this blog titled, "Let us all help end violence against children," evidently urging everyone to help end such violence. I wrote it in reaction to the videos I always see on the Internet or on TV, showing parents hurting their children, who, due to their tender age, are … Continue reading How can we help end violence against children?
Let us all help end violence against children
Whether on the Internet or on TV, I often see videos of parents hurting their children, who are unable to defend themselves due to their tender age. And all they can do, while being physically abused, is to simply cry in pain. Worse, some even end up dying due to the fatal injuries they sustained. … Continue reading Let us all help end violence against children


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Dejuan Gillory, a father of three, was shot and killed by a police officer, in Mamou, Louisiana. Dejuan was stopped by police under suspicion of burglary. He fit the description of a suspect accused of a burglary that was committed recently. Unfortunately, police only care about one description, melanin. The bottom line is Dejuan was a black man who was shot and killed by a white police officer.
"The bottom line is Dejuan was a black man who was shot and killed by a white police officer."
Dejuan was with his girlfriend at the time of the shooting, her name is Dequince Brown. She is currently booked awaiting trial for first-degree attempted murder of the police officer. We need the community to come together on this and fight for her freedom before the justice system cheats another black life. It's time to once again confront this issue head on.
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THE Broadcast Research Council of SA has released its ratings for June 2016 through its monthly Television Audience Measurement Survey' showing which TV shows attracted the most South African viewers during the month.
According to the viewer audience statistics released on Thursday' Uzalo amassed more than 8-million viewers at its highest point in June' with Generations: The Legacy following hot on its heels.
The fierce battle for viewership numbers looks as follows for June:
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Muvhango is the most watched show on SABC 2' with 5,822,236 million viewers.
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The four-minute game show' which is televised on SABC 1 every Tuesday' managed to reach an audience of 5,836,157 viewers.
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With an audience rating of 22.1' SABC 1's Skeem Saam now boasts 7,465,141 viewers.
2. Generations: The Legacy
Still tussling at the top after winning back its crown as the people's champ in May' Generations: The Legacy is back at number 2 with 8,018,765 viewers.
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Informatics Colloquium 21.5. Seeing the invisible (black holes)Informatics Colloquium 21. 5. 2019, 14:00 lecture hall D2 prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc., FI MU Seeing the invisible (black holes) Abstract: Black holes used to be just an astrophysicsl curiosity representing extremal conditions following from General Ralativity. Until recently, no direct observation would seem feasible. Advanced use of computing allowed spectacular changes in this, resulting especially in the first image of black hole in the center of M87 using a technique resulting in computer-synthesized telescope stretching accross the diameter of the Earth as well as synthesizing a real image of black hole, not just a result of its simulation. In the talk a quite detailed and popular explanation will be provided how this remarkable scientific outcome has been obtained.
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text: Most of us grumble about taxes but we seldom understand just how many different ways we are taxed in our daily lives. From the federal level right down to the local level there are more outstretched government hands than you'd think, all vying for their cut of your money. Kristen Tate spells out for us where these often hidden taxes lie and why it's important to hold our leaders at every level accountable for what they're doing with our money.


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Yesterday was our first day on the worksites. We've got a variety of projects going amongst 7 different work teams – a few groups building stairs, roofing a shed, clearing brush, finishing a ramp, sprucing up a new food pantry, and repairing a fence.
Peanut butter and jelly all around for lunch. It wouldn't be SSP without them.
The program theme for the week is "A Place at the Table" and yesterday's sub-theme was "Setting the Table." We talked throughout the day about what it means to set the table for other people. How do we prepare ourselves and our lives to invite others in? I am looking forward to seeing where this theme is going to lead our group throughout the week.
Today we have a full day of work ahead of us, and then tonight we will be sharing dinner with people from the community. Our program will be a presentation and Q&A session with a representative from the Klamath Tribes. It should be an enlightening experience.
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The booklet describs all Cornish Engines being preserved up to 1953. All engines are described, accompanied by some pictures each. Most interesting are the valve gear pictures.
An easy to read history book with many pictures, a good introduction of where steam engines come from.
Many construction sketches of early Watt machines, many explanations of how it all works.
Historic facts and details on Cornish Beam engines, their dury in the
last century, their
manufacturers and much more. With many pictures and photographs.
Many construction sketches of early Watt machines, many explanations of how it all works.
No pictures, but a whole lot of stories , some very funny, some quite sad.
The catalog looks as if you could order today! There wasn't anything
photographs in those days, so the pictures are all copper plate prints.
Giving a thourough overview of the evolution of the steam engine, it
lacks a chapter on the cornish engine. But with many pictures and interesting
technical facts and citations, it is a valuable book. (The ISBN number
is for the paperback)
Photographic survey made by the author before so many of the machines
pictured were scrapped! Chapters on
winding, pumping ventalation engines used in the mines as well as steam machinery in other industries. There is a
complete section on Cornish beam engines including a rare photograph of the 70' engine at Hodbarrow Iron Mine,
Cumbria, built 1878, the last surviving example of a Cornish beam engine made by the Perran Foundry.
There is also another volume in the same series The Steam Engine in
Industry - Public Services a
photographic survey covering steam engines used in public services such as water supply, sewage disposal etc.
Out of print, I think.
LIstings of preserved sites with public access on a regular basis, engines
in museums (public and private) or on
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Engine histories are included together with addresses of the many locations worth visiting in the British Isles. Many
photographs and glossary.
The book has sections on Cornish pumping engines, rotary engines, winding
engines and Cornish engines outside
Cornwall. Illustrated with many photographs from the author's own collection. Mr Woodall is a veteran model
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Cornish engine cycle, for example). The photographs reproduced in the book are unique as the author began his
photography in the 1930s when many engines were still at work, especially in the St Austell china clay district.
The book's title is slightly misleading: there is not much about waterwheels!
The pictures in this small book give a good impression of the pitworks in Cornwall. It is very impressive to see, how the working conditions were in the last century. The most shocking sentence to me was the last one of the book, under a picture of a huge cave with some men having candels on their hats: 'The brief illumination for Burrow's photograph would have been the only time these men saw the great cave they had created.'. So they had steam to pump, candels to give light, cornish pastries for lunch, and only their hands and some hammers to work.
Besides the steam engines, there were many other things on the surface of a mine to process the ore, in order to receive tin or copper in the end.
The story of one mine, where the engine I modelled was working.
Some stories.
General overview of mining in Cornwall, from geological aspects to engines and miners. With a list of remaining buildings.
Somewhere, the iron for the huge steam engines had to come from, so this book illustrates, how the iron was developed.
This is not the actual place the iron for the steam engines came from, but it might well be. Furthe r more, a very early Boulton&Watt was serving as an air pump to the blast furnaces. So, without iron - no steam engine, without steam engines - not enough iron to build more steam engines!
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There hasn't been much publicity about this, but these measures (see link below) are specifically for the Licensed Trade (alcohol and late night refreshment), and came into force on 6 April 2017. In short it is part of a clamp down on illegal working in Licensed Premises, with the key points being:
Applications by individuals must include evidence of their lawful immigration status or right to work, otherwise the application must be refused.
The relevant licence application forms have been updated. So if nothing else, make sure you are using the current ones!
Licences will lapse if the person's immigration status or right to work comes to an end.
Immigration officers have wide powers of entry to check for immigration offences.
Immigration Enforcement may request the review of an existing licence as a result of enforcement activity.
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This is the motherboard that was provided by Asus to review AMD A10-6800K. Overall the layout is nicely implemented, and the on-board are spread-out properly. It should be noted that all the fan connectors are 4 pin, and it has LED indicators, the usual (for Asus)DirectKey/MemOK!/TPU buttons and switches. The motherboard has all the required PCIe slots that most of the users would ever need, but the following is where you'll get to know them in great detail. There are a total of 5x 4 pin fan headers, 2 of which are for the CPU coolers in case with a push pull setup or for 240/280mm radiators.
From left: Keyboard/mouse PS/2 pin, 2x USB 2.0, S/PDIF connector, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA and DVI connector for video output that works via the APU's integrated graphics. Then there's a total of 4x USB 3.0, an e-SATA port, a gigabit LAN and 6x audio ports. The last port on the bottom of the e-SATA connector housing is also used for BIOS flashback and USB Charger+ as pointed out in the manual. But if would help if it had a colour indicator. Maybe keep half the connector as red and half as blue. The USB 3.0 ports that runs via ASMedia ASM1042 controller also supports UASP mode.For those who don't know, USB Charger+ helps by providing to up to 3x more for apple gadgets, smartphones and other portable devices that usually can be charged via USB. The best part is that it allows you to charge it even if you have your system switched, in sleep or in hibernation mode. UASP is a standard which allows transmission speed of up to 170% more than what the standard USB 3.0 bandwidth allows, provided that the USB 3.0 device can take advantage of it.
Via the A-Series APU's integrated AMD Radeon graphics, the DisplayPort allows upto 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz resolution, HDMI via 1080p @ 60Hz, dual-link DVI support upto 2560 x 1600 @60Hz and VGA output which allows upto 1920x 1600 @ 60Hz.
One of the pairs of USB 3.0 is powered via ASMEDIA USB 3.0 controller, whereas the other is via the AMD A85X Chipset.
From left: Front panel audio header with S/PDIF out, followed by one of the Chassis Fan header, Serial port in white, 4x USB 2.0 ports powering up to 8x USB 2.0 ports, a TPU switch with a TPU indicator and a Direct key, BIOS clear button and front panel headers. Between the SATA ports and the front panel connectors, you'll fine the BIOS flashback button with an LEF indicator below it.
Next to the DIMM slots, there's the DRAM LED and a MemOK! buttons, followed by an EPU switch.
From Left: PCIe X1. PCIe x16 which runs on x16 in single card setup andx8 with dual card setup, PCIe X1, PCI Slot, PCIe x16 which will run on x8 mode, another PCI slot and the last PCIe x16 which runs on x4 mode. Its best to have PCIe x1 slot placed either on top of the first PCIe x16 or leave a space enough that it won't interfere with dual slot graphic cards. This way you can connect your X1 add-on cards without any fuss- like a sound card. Even with CF configuration with dual slot cards, there enough space between them to allow good enough airflow, especially for GCs with dual front intake, like the Dual-OC cards from XFX or even Asus' non reference DirectCUII cards.
The mainboard uses ASMEDIA ASM1042 controller to power up 2x USB 3.0 ports, Realtek 8111F Ethernet controller, Realtek ALC892 controller for the audio, followed by Novato NCT67790 sensor and controller for the temperature and fan speed. As expected from Asus, the mainboard uses their branded VRM controller. ASMEDIA ASM1445 is the chip used to manage controls between the output connectors.
Since the chipset allows up to 8 SATA III ports, there are a total of 8 native SATA 6Gbps ports, out of which the last one is used as eSATA on the rear I/O. A lot of people wouldn't have minded having the 8th board over an eSATA port, assuming they're able to fill them up. The controller supports Raid 0, 1, 5 and 10.
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tomorrow, not today
In yet another blinding flash of the obvious, when I said in yesterday's post that I'd be back for real tomorrow, I didn't really mean today. More like day after tomorrow. Or Thursday. Follow?
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Get back to nature in the hinterland
Head out of town and head for the hills! Venture along the hinterland discovery drive, following the Tourist Drive 28 signs up to the Alstonville plateau and check out the boutique stores and cafes along Main Street. You're sure to find a treasure.
A short drive from Main Street, visit Summerland Farm, a working macadamia and avocado property set in the hills of the Alstonville plateau. While you are here take advantage of the regions' rich volcanic soils and stock up on fresh produce at the Regional Grocer.
Escape to Victoria Park Nature Reserve, one of the last remnants of the Big Scrub, the rainforest prominent to the natural landscape of the Northern Rivers region. Stroll around the boardwalk loop and enjoy the cool, lush sub-tropical rainforest.
Continue along Wardell Road towards the historic town of Wardell. Get out and stretch your legs and grab one of the BEST pies you'll ever eat (whether you are hungry or not!!) from the Wardell Pie Shop then head to the riverfront boardwalk. You can fish off the jetty alongside the landmark bridge built to replace the ferries and barges used to transport cedar and sugar cane in the 1800s.
From Wardell take the back road (River Drive) towards South Ballina and catch the Burns Point Vehicle Ferry across the Richmond River to Ballina. That's after you've explored South Ballina!
After your ferry journey, take your photo with the Big Prawn. The Big Prawn stands nine metres high and is one of Australia's iconic big things and see how creative you can get with your pics.
Pick up some fresh seafood for dinner from the Ballina Fishermen's Co-op or Northern Rivers Seafood on River Street in West Ballina, located a short distance from the Big Prawn on the opposite side of the road.
Head to the river, watch the sunset and enjoy!
Day Two
Drive north to the Historic Village of Newrybar, a quaint little hamlet nestled in the hinterland above Lennox Head. Newrybar is home to Australia's oldest bakery (making the most devine pastries and sourdough artisan breads), the award-winning Harvest Café and a glorious deli, both serving delicious coffee.
Check out the quirky antique store across the road and the old home that has been converted into a trendy collective of local artisans that showcase their wares at the Newrybar Merchants. Try leaving without buying something – warning you it will be hard!!
While in the area, take a detour and visit the Cape Byron Distillery on St Helena Road above Byron Bay. This is the areas first distillery of gin, set on a macadamia farm surrounded by sub-tropical rainforest. They offer tours and tastings every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you love Gin don't miss this – from the moment you arrive and they greet you with a welcome G& T!! ohhh happy days. Everything else is just a bonus.
Head back along the Hinterland Way and visit the historic town of Bangalow (that's another blog article in itself, so much to see, taste and enjoy in this town), then head west along Lismore Road and take a scenic drive towards Tintenbar along Friday Hut Road to Killen Falls. Take a short walk to see the waterfall, the viewing platform sits above the falls.
You mightn't have time today but just down the road is the Teven Valley Golf Course, if you like a round, you'll love this place. The nine-hole course is surrounded by nature, you feel like you are playing amongst the tree tops. The property is boarded by a pretty creek and I am not joking, we saw a platypus in the creek!!
That was a great way to top off a magic day in the hinterland!


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Oct. 5, 2017
Click here for the article. SIX years is a long commitment. Many USAID projects only last three to five years. Six years is enough to see the impact of Lean efforts across a large geographical region. Looking for clues as to whether the JDE - Cohonducafé Foundation project is a Lean project, a few can be found. The key one was this:
"We conducted value-chain analysis to identify what our priorities should be," Project Manager Edgar Joel Castro explained, detailing how the team at Cohonducafé Foundation worked with staff at JDE to evaluate
key indicators in the market and narrow down the project's objectives. A "value-chain analysis" that is well-done at a high level of the supply chain is an excellent tool to help link many "value stream analyses" once you start drilling down.
The rationale for the strategic analysis couldn't be clearer. "The industry that their grandfathers once knew and operated in has
changed drastically in line with increasing global demand for the
commodity, climate change, greater instance of pests and diseases and
other economic factors," (GCR).
The key impact metric may sound small, "overall productivity has increased 25 percent" but if we assume this is across all 15,000 farms in the project, that is actually a very impressive bump to Honduras' 2016 production of 5.93 million 60 kg bags, (USDA's FAS annual GAIN Report), which comes from 97,000 producers (Instituto Hondureño del Café report 2015/2016).
Another helpful illustration in the Honduras story is how the project united many players along the value-chain. One alone could not have achieved the same result -- even the "largest one with the most money." Here's how they describe the collaborative group:
Through the foundation's connection with Cohonducafé, the largest
exporter of coffee in Honduras, and partnership with JDE, the project
gained access to the coffee companies' extensive networks and superior
logistics. "We had direct business relationships with more than 40,000
producers," says Castro. "We believe that if they weren't part of this,
it would have been much more complicated."
The foundation also has strategic alliances with 30 different
organisations, from universities and municipalities to local and
international NGOs.
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In this lecture Stefano asks, "If Ryanair makes us fly at one-tenth of the normal cost, if IKEA convinces us to pay for the pleasures of building our own furniture, can we build a museum based on similar principles? Can we create a university or a business organized by such principles?"
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Love is a bizarre thing. Have you ever been somewhere, met someone, shook hands with them, and as you looked at them you realized that everything around you just didn't really exist anymore?
Instant attraction
We've all heard about this kind of instant attraction. Singers write songs about it. Poets write poetry about it, sometimes very bad poetry, but poetry none-the-less. Authors write books about it. The list goes on and on.
If you've ever had this kind of instant attraction, you can usually number the times it's happened on one, maybe two fingers.
But, for some people who have never experienced it, they think it's all a bunch of hooey. And they might be right. The type of attraction that makes your world melt around you because it's totally focused on that one person in front of you may be chalked up to hormones, chemicals reactions, the barometric pressure, who knows?
Instant attraction vs. love
Instant attraction and love are two very different things, and one may lead into the other after you've gotten a chance to know the person and see if they're compatible with you. Even so, there are still times when that person makes the world melt for you.
There are those couples out there who have somehow been able to keep their world melting love alive for years. Admittedly they are extremely rare, but they have a connection that goes beyond hormones or chemical reactions. It goes down deep to the very bedrock that love takes root in and grows out of.
God is love
The Bible states in so many different ways that God is Love. Period. God cannot be anything but love, yet how many times do we just say the words, 'God is love' and have no reaction to it all? It has become so commonplace to us that God is love that we don't really stop to think about what that means.
How many times have you had an encounter with God where the world melted around you? Just like when you meet that person who you've been instantly attracted too?
How many times is God the first person you want to run to when something amazing has happened to you, just because you want to tell Him about it?
If you're honest with yourself, not many times. If at all, which is pretty pathetic especially since God put it all on the line for you. He loved each of us so much, that He saw we couldn't have a relationship with Him unless He made that relationship possible. Then He makes that relationship possible.
The only reason someone does that for another person is because the world melts when they're with that person. It's not a stale, passionless love that recites 'I love you' while yawning every morning and every night. It's a passionate love where you want to spend every minute with the object of your affection, you want to give them everything you have.
In short it's a love where the world melts when you're with them.
Isn't it time you had a world melting moment with God?
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Google Report 3rd Quarter Earnings
And unlike Yahoo's 3rd Quarter, Google's numbers look pretty good.
Google reported revenues of $2.69 billion for the quarter ended
September 30, 2006, an increase of 70% compared to the third quarter of
2005 and an increase of 10% compared to the second quarter of 2006.
Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis
without deducting traffic acquisition costs, or TAC. In the third
quarter of 2006, TAC totaled $825 million, or 31% of advertising
70% climb, compared to last year can't be bad at all!
Well done everyone at G
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And Joseph Morin quotes
And Joseph Morin quotes Gordon Hitchkiss on Google's potential future earnings:
interesting post by blodget
but it was a comment that picqued my interest. even if only true about the advertiser/fraud/etc and totally discounting the "almost entirely because of one advertiser- dadamobile.com" part, it's interesting that G hasn't nuked them. I'm not familiar with the ringtone market nor dadamobile, but I do know the "auto-subscribe" plans are out there.
Google's revenue growth over the past two quarters has been almost entirely because of one advertiser- dadamobile.com
This is a company based in italy that buys hundreds of millions of dollars worth of internet advertising from Google, for "Free XYZ ringtones!" or "Complimentary XYZ ringtones!"
You go to one of those sites, under a thousand different domain names but all owned by dadamobile, enter your cellphone number for your "free" ringtone, then find yourself subscribed to a 20 dollar per month ringtone "plan" that you cannot unsubscribe from.
Read any of the SEO or webmasterworld forums and you'll find that most people in the online text ad business are devoting a majority of their time developing dadamobile ringtone campaigns. The stuff pays more than "mesothelioma" per click.
Dadamobile is being sued by the FTC is all 50 states in this country, but as its headquarters are in italy they manage to keep operating with hundreds of shell corporations.
Yahoo and Microsoft have over the past few months stopped doing business with dadamobile, but Google continues to power ahead with them. In fact, over the last two quarters, it is widely believed by those in the SEO crowd that dadamobile has become google's largest advertiser- pushing ebay out of that top spot.
The question is- how much longer can Google depend on cell phone fraud to power its earnings growth?
Keeps going up
Stock is up about 7% already today:
RC, Dadamobile are not a
RC, Dadamobile are not a long term issue. There are members here who have had dealings with them, and got burned. They'll only be able to churn so much, and they'll get shut out of the market. Still, they'll have made a LOT of money by then, so I don't suppose it'll worry them, at that point.
Eventually, various governments will get around to legislating on the issue, long after the market has found a solution. It's just the current "phentermine" style fad
Reason why their $$$ Went up like that
The reason why their earnings went up that much is because of all those Adsense publishers who were banned like anything and they stocked their $$$! Isnt it? LOL...
Look, It is very fucking simple.
How many SEOs actually *believe* Google's double profit number?
How many people do you know are buying double the ads?
How many people do you know are being scalped by dramatically excalated ad prices? 0.05 to $5.000 overnight?
How many people do you know are busy clicking on more ads?
If YHOO fell because of employee stock options, where is the loss of profit due to GOOG GSUs this quarter? O right... that's the ratio decidendi.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it is true that as of 2Q 2006 ClickFraud has become institutionalized as a means of keeping the company solvent just a little longer (to allow continue selling of insiders). Hey, YHOO just pledged to buy back 3 billion worth of stock, GOOG insiders have never bought back a single share. Certainly click fraud is a more rational explanation for a doubling of profits whilst Internet visitors to the engine remained fairly consistent and no where near double what they were.
its not double or
its not double or nothing
layers of growth logarithmically layered on top of one another lead to higher returns. some pieces layered are...
- increasing marketshare
- in a market which is increasing in size
- higher ad pricing
- more relevant ads
- expanded ad network
- biasing results more toward informational sites
- placing multilinks on brand related sites to noise up the serps and encourage more ad clicks
I just sold all my GOOG. the main thing I think that is controlling pricing is insider selling more than earnings, but can you fault them for cashing out a few billion when they have 10s of billions in equity?
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Please see the message below from WABA about some upcoming cycling events that they have planned. I am not sure of the exact routes, but since Edgewood is bordered by a couple of states (Rhode Island Ave and Michigan Ave) they might ride around here.
Dear Friends in Cycling,
WABA has a very busy and exciting week coming up and we would love your help in promoting our upcoming events! All detailed event information is available at waba.org
Thursday, September 23- Join WABA, the Capitol Riverfront BID, and Forest City as we celebrate the full moon and the opening of the brand new Yards Park! The Yards Park is a beautiful new park along the SE Waterfront close to Nationals Stadium and is a great location for the start/finish of our bike rides and fun before hand!
The fun will begin as WABA watches as the Washington Nationals take on the Houston Astros at 4:35pm. Tickets for this game are available now through WABA's online registration! And don't forget- the Nationals offer free bike valet parking! Following the game, we will walk over to the Yards Park where there will be food trucks if you're hungry, community groups and bike shops to talk shop with and more.
Beginning at 7:30pm, riders can check-in with WABA or register on-site for one of our two rides. At 8:30pm, WABA will lead an 11-mile ride leaving the Yards Park heading west along the Potomac River taking in sights along the way including Hains Point, the Lincoln Memorial, and National Mall. There will be a turn-around point for those wishing to make their ride shorter.
Date- September 23rd, 2010
Location- The Yards Park
4:35pm - Nationals vs. Astros Game
7:30pm - Ride check-in and on-site registration opens
8:30pm - 11-Mile ride departs
Saturday, September 25- The legendary 50 States and 13 Colonies Ride is back in 2010. Are you ready to try one of the hardest rides in DC? We provide the Start/Finish area and 3 pit stops fully stocked with water, food, and a bike mechanic.
The Rides
50 States
The most unique and challenging bike ride in DC! This 60+ mile ride is for cyclists experienced and comfortable with riding through the city streets with traffic. The 50 States ride covers all 50 state streets in all 8 Wards in search of the District of Columbia's statehood. Often been referred to as "brutal," "insane," and "engrossing." You have not seen the city of Washington by bike until you have done the 50 States Ride.
*Cue sheets will be available the day of the ride. Because some of the cues may change last minute due to construction projects and road closures, WABA will not provide cue sheets in advance.
13 Colonies
Not quite as challenging as the 50 States Ride, but equally as enjoyable. Ride on all the streets named for every one of the 13 original colonies. This ride is a little under 15 miles and is also for cyclists who are comfortable with riding on city streets with traffic.
*Cue sheets will be available the day of the ride
Register Now>>
Ride Information
Ride Check-In & Start:
Kalorama Park
1875 Columbia Road NW, WDC
8:00 am - Ride Check-In
8:30 am - 50 States Ride Begins
9:00 am - 13 Colonies Ride Begins Getting There:
Kalorama Park is conveniently located to the Adams Morgan/Woodley Park Metro Station on the Red Line. If you are driving, limited street parking is available.
Those who choose the California Tortilla burrito lunch option will receive their food at the Capitol Hill Pit stop no earlier than 11:30AM.
Post-ride Happy Hour:
To celebrate your hard pedaling, come on over to The Grill from Ipanema for a post-ride happy hour! Located right across the street from the finish area at Kalorama Park, there will be bike parking out front, a delicious brunch offered until 4pm and a full menu after that, and 1/2 price beers and $1 off drinks and appetizers for riders! Check out the brunch menu here>>
Thanks for your support of WABA and cycling in the DC area!
Chantal Buchser
Events Manager
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2599 Ontario Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20009
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Nice place
Nice place to go and relax. I have met some cool people along the way. Highly recommend everyone try it out.
Great place
Very clean, very relaxing. Nice pool d huge sauna and hot tub. Very friendly staff and would return anytime I am visiting Indianapolis. I highly recommended
Honestly Club Indianapolis is filled with absolutely nothing but couples who are looking to play, guys who are just looking for sex, and guys who all they care about is what you look like, how big your penis is, and how far you are willing to lower your standards. Personality, attitude, and "approach has nothing to do with it.
This place always smells rotten. The employees are very rude, bitter queens that do nothing but sit and play on their phone. They could be cleaning, but they don't. This place is knows as being a petri dish for STD's. There is a lot of drug use and sales going on here. So if you want some STD's and you love the smell of SEWAGE and you like it when bitter queens talk trash to you, then by all means go visit this disgusting place. The manager is a liar.
The club was nice just wish there was more younger and black guys there
Check your items
Great place. However check all your items when arriving. Money was stolen from my wallet in the locker given to me and I supposedly had the only key. So beware of your stuff and check it in at the front desk. Pretty sure the employees were in on it.
What's the action like here during the day? Say between 9 and 3.
Good spot for Married Bi Hotties
Last Wednesday of the month is BLACKOUT Night, darkness in the wet area for discreet encounters with many hot bi and curious guys looking for fun they can't get at home. Gets busy around 9, I'm cumming back tonight for Halloweeners.
overall enjoyed
I had a blast wish more guys visited but; might go back again tonight!
They did Tom wrong.
I used the place off and on for a few years, but found out that they fired Tom in the gym for using the pool. This is an injustice to him. I know of all the wrong that the workers do there and will post the info for all to see. It's good stuff, but I'm going to wait to see if they fix the mistake first.
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a great place to work out, rest in the hot tub, get steamy in the sauna, and get hotter in the dark room or renting you own private room. it can will be good an experience as you make it. brad the manager is a great host and so are the guys he works with. definitely a stop if you're in indy. have fun!!!
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Renowned stylist and keynote speaker Joshua Heath explains how you can boost your business by simply being conscious of the clothes you wear.
What you choose to wear has a powerful effect on how people view you.
We all have our personal style. However, we need to remember that our personal style is likely not the style of our business or the company we represent.
People judge in the first three seconds of meeting someone new. We judge based on what we see first, not on the knowledge they might have.
It all comes down to the details and effort you put into your overall appearance.
It is the small details like dirty shoes, cracked nail polish, bad breath and the pen you hold that lets most people down.
Joshua's top style tips for men:
• Shine those shoes. It takes little effort but adds so much to achieving a polished look.
• Keep it neat. Appearance can be a bit more relaxed, but make sure your hair is trimmed and tidied every four to six weeks. Ensure you've got a style of haircut that you can maintain yourself. You want to have something that's clean and sleek with a nice style.
• Say no to the five o'clock shadow. Either you're clean shaven or you've got a beard. It does come down to the company you work for. A lot of them will just say no facial hair at all, which I lean more towards. If you've got a beard, keep it trimmed and clean. Also, book into a men's salon and have those unsightly ear and nose hairs removed.
• Remember your hands. Keep your nails short and clean. Ninety-nine per cent of people look at a person's hands during a conversation.
• Buy clothes that fit you. It sounds like a no-brainer, but I see so many guys with suits that are too big or shirts that are too small. When it comes to suits, look at made-to-measure – it's more cost-effective than you think.
Joshua's top style tips for women:
• Be conscious of the hair. I always say to ladies, "You've got hair, so brush it". A lot of women have long hair, but if you're going to have long hair then you've got to maintain it. Wake up that little bit earlier to do it. Don't have wet hair and don't throw your hair in a messy ponytail. Choose a hairstyle you can maintain easily while still looking well-groomed.
• Take note of the nails. The same rules apply for ladies' nails. If you've got nail polish on and it's chipped, take it off or reapply it.
• Wear clothes that flatter you but scream professionalism. Avoid revealing clothing – low-cut tops and short skirts are not appropriate. Wear tailored or structured clothing that flatters your shape rather than flaunts it.
• Keep make-up to a minimum. Make-up is a huge thing. Keep it simple and keep it time appropriate, so think about what time of day it is. Most of the time, you're going to be working during daylight hours, so keep the make-up to a minimum.
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An imposing detached home situated in a great location overlooking Hove Park. This home offers considerable accommodation.
A stunning looking house situated in a prime location overlooking the hugely popular Hove Park. This is a home that offers considerable accommodation and is located in one of the most sought after locations in Brighton & Hove. Commuters will love being able to park the car on their driveway and walk to Hove station, families will love the option for the kids to spend their time in one of the best parks in area.
The highlight of the impressive ground floor accommodation is the lovely lounge across the rear of the house, overlooking the garden, and with a superb bow window and double doors leading to the conservatory, which in turn leads out to the rear garden. There is a further cosy lounge to the front of the house and a lovely size study with glazed double doors found immediately to your right off of the entrance hall. The spacious and extensively fitted kitchen/breakfast room runs from front to back and has double doors to the rear garden as well as a door leading to the utility room and access to the integral garage.
The master bedroom suite is impressive with a spacious double bedroom with lovely bay window, large en-suite bathroom and dressing room. Bedroom two is also a spacious double at the rear of the house overlooking the garden which also has an en-suite shower room and dressing room. There are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom.
Whilst this home does require some updating it affords potential buyers the opportunity to model the house specifically according to their own requirements.
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SSI Basic Spearfishing
Spearfishing is an ancient fishing method that has been practiced by humans all over the world as a means to bring food from the sea. Today Spearfishing is primarily a recreational activity and a fast growing sport. SSI's approach to spearfishing is from a selective underwater fishing perspective.
In today's world, with over fishing and environmental degradation threatening our seas, ethical and environmental concerns needs to be front and first in any spearfishing activity.
SSI Basic Spearfishing course gives you the necessary knowledge and techniques to become a selective, ethical and safe spearfisherman.
Pre-requisites: Minimum SSI Pool Freediving or equivalent certification
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In the Spearfishing Safety and Training course we give you the tools to improve your dive stamina, bottom time and comfort in the water through spearfishing specific training methods, in and out of the water.
We further review and elaborate on the fundamental safety aspects of spearfishing to keep you safe in your favorite activity.
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So, I watched Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish. I loved it. I hated it. Yes, I loved it, and I hated it. In fact, this film forced me to re-evaluate my relationship with the phrase "conflicting emotions".
Quick synopsis:
English Vinglish is an Indian film in Hindi and English, about a younger-than-middle-aged housewife and mother of two, Shashi, who can't speak English fluently and is constantly mocked and picked on by her husband Satish and tween daughter Sapna. In the middle of all this, Shashi's niece in New York is getting married (because no Indian movie is complete without a wedding), and Shashi travels to NYC ahead of her family, where she is forced to confront her now shattered self-esteem and her fear of feeling (being?) inferior because she can't speak English. She enrols in a 4-week English class for adults, where she works super hard to improve her English and regains her self-worth. Her family comes to NYC, finds out that she can speak English (it's still not fluent, but she is able to give a speech at her niece's wedding), the wedding happens and everyone goes home happy. Yay… only… no.
Look, English Vinglish is a lovely movie, with a touching, original storyline and characters (and actors) that draw its audience in. If I were asked to rate it (something I rarely do with art), I'd give it a 9 out of 10. So, why did I hate it? Well, let's go back and take a closer look at the story. I said that Shashi's husband and daughter make fun of her for not being able to speak English. Well, that's the glossed-over version of what goes on in their home. What I observed was very subtle, but very real emotional abuse. To explain it fully, I need to give a bit more background.
In the movie, Shashi's family lives in the suburbs of New Delhi. Satish is the bread winner of the family – he works for some generic, presumably capitalist company, where everyone wears suits and ties and speaks English. He leaves early to work, and comes home late at night. His wife Shashi does all the housework, and I mean ALL of it. She cooks for her husband, her daughter, her son, her mother-in-law, and sometimes it's different meals if certain people have specific preferences. She does everyone's laundry, she gets her children ready for school and she cleans the house. After she fulfils all her "wifely" duties, she then makes time to pursue something for herself: laddoos.
Laddoos are a kind of sweet (which I am currently itching to taste after watching the movie) which Shashi makes at her home and delivers to people. She doesn't actually need the money she gets from selling laddoos, but she enjoys it thoroughly, and her customers simply love her sweets. It's the one thing she does for herself and gets complete fulfilment from. Which makes it positively frustrating when her husband comes back from work one day and says she should stop selling laddoos because only he should be able to enjoy her cooking. Already, earlier, he'd refused to send her the car and driver to make her deliveries so she had to do it by tuk-tuk (which she really didn't mind; it would simply have been more convenient by car), so clearly he wasn't 100% joking about her giving up her one harmless hobby just to please him. But for Shashi, laddoos represent more than just a time-filler. Through her sweet sales, she gets to interact and socialize with people outside of her little family, and she gets to leave the house and be more than just a housewife. And I think that is the real reason that Satish doesn't want her selling her laddoos: abusers like to isolate their victims.
If Shashi is completely dependent on her husband, financially and emotionally, then Satish becomes her whole world and is free to do absolutely anything he feels like to his wife, with the assurance that she won't complain or leave. Sure, Satish never hit Shashi, but he didn't need to. Abusive relationships are about control, and if the perpetrator realizes that he can achieve that control without causing a scene/scandal/exerting too much physical effort, then great for him (or her). In this case, Satish's hold over his wife was threefold: first, she adored her children and would put up with absolute crap (as seen from her tolerating her daughter's outright disrespect) as long her role of motherhood was never challenged. Number two: money. We don't know too much about Shashi's background except that she has an older sister, and they went to a Hindi-speaking secondary school. It doesn't seem like either of them had much going for them money-wise before they each got married, so we can assume that Shashi was financially dependent on her husband. This dependence was threatened by her laddoo sales, which he realized were gathering momentum, and so he tried to discourage them. Third and most significant, is the aforementioned Hindi education that did not prepare Shashi for a milieu where English is the privileged language. Shashi knows some English words but doesn't have a command of the language, a fact that makes her the subject of derisive and regular mocking by her husband in front of their children. Satish makes Shashi feel inferior because she can't speak English, and Shashi internalizes this to such a degree that when their twelve-year-old daughter Sapna, implicitly supported by her father, jeers at her mother, defies her authority, or downright insults her, Shashi doesn't feel like she can do anything about it.
When we meet Shashi, her self-confidence is very low, which is understandable considering that her husband has spent many years undercutting it. And with this less than solid confidence in herself, she has to travel to New York by herself, a daunting prospect even if she had a supporting family behind her. Each time she has to speak English to someone, she is petrified, so much so that she panics in a café while trying to order a sandwich (although in that case the grouchy woman taking orders did not help the situation). This is why Shashi enrols herself in English classes (using her laddoo money).
The thing about emotional abuse is that it is difficult to observe, especially if you're not looking for it. Unlike physical abuse that leaves obvious signs (most times), emotional abuse by-passes the body and goes straight to the mind, the psyche, the soul, and these are parts of us that are invisible. The victim alone feels the weight of the abuse and tends to internalize its consequences – low or damaged self-esteem in the best scenarios and in the worst cases depression and suicide. I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist; I am simply writing from experience. Maybe someday when I feel ready, I will write separately about these experiences; for now I'd rather stick to the film.
Sure, English Vinglish could be viewed through the lens of its official synopsis – a woman who boldly decides to learn English so that her family will stop making her the butt of their jokes. However, what I saw was a woman struggling not to drown in the mistreatment constantly dealt to her by her husband, the person who is supposed to be her partner and confidante. How often it is that the people who have the power to build us up and help us along in life use that power to tear us down. Maybe Satish saw his father treat his mother that way. Maybe one of his parents or an older sibling undermined him in a similar way, and he was perpetuating this abuse in a vicious cycle. I don't know. I'm simply glad that Shashi found her English class, which was a ledge that she could grab unto and use to pull herself out of the mire of contempt she'd been coping with. Some people aren't so fortunate (in fiction and real life).
I don't know what Gauri Shinde's intentions were when she made this film. Her coverage of emotional abuse was very subtle (subtle enough to miss unfortunately – hence my ire against the film), but frankly, so was the rest of the film, and so are a good number of Indian films, especially those made by women. Still, it is unlikely that she covered such a significant issue by accident. So to clarify earlier statements about my ambivalence toward the film, I loved the film, I hated the emotional abuse. If I watch a good movie about rape or racism, I'd feel just as conflicted. Something about hating the sin but not the sinner comes to mind…


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BBC Review
Demands to be heard by all lovers of Berlioz's best-known orchestral work.
Graham Rogers 2012
One of the hottest new conducting talents around, British-born Robin Ticciati has been making waves with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for several years, becoming its principal conductor in 2009. Berlioz has featured prominently in their concert programmes, so it is fitting that their first CD release together is of the maverick French Romantic's seminal orchestral work, the Symphonie Fantastique.
The sharp-focus clarity and litheness of this relatively small-scale account will come as a surprise to most listeners – we are used to grander versions with full modern symphony orchestras – but Ticciati's approach reaps great dividends. The portentous double bass pizzicato line in the atmospheric introduction has never sounded more unanimous, and the taut rhythm of the bouncing string chords beneath the gloriously legato woodwind melody ensures strong forward momentum.
There is a delightful lilt to the dreamy ballroom scene, the most carefree movement of the work, with liberal but discrete use of portamento sweetening the bold violin melody – and there is a genuine sense of danger in the brisk march to the scaffold. The detail and crisp delineation of textures that Ticciati achieves is nothing short of phenomenal, and the performance manages to regain much of the work's shock factor, lost in decades of over-familiarity and superimposed romantic gloss.
But, however impressive this fresh detail is, it is impossible to escape the nagging feeling that Ticciati too often concentrates on micromanaging at the expense of Berlioz's broader canvass. Many passages have little sense of line or direction, and the big tutti moments frequently lack the sheer power required to send thrilling shivers down the spine.
So, unfortunately, this new version is only a qualified success – but it is one that absolutely demands to be heard by all lovers of Berlioz's best-known orchestral work. The Linn engineers have worked wonders to make the most of Ticciati's forensic approach with superb clarity, while maintaining a warm, natural glow around the studio sound.
An assured, fleet-footed account of the quirky and sparkling overture to Berlioz's last and arguably greatest opera, Beatrice et Benedict, provides an attractive makeweight.


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AKRON, OH - As manufacturing jobs require increasingly higher levels of technical skill, U.S. companies are struggling to find workers who possess the necessary qualifications to thrive in these rewarding careers and grow their firms' business. To help address this critical issue, Schaeffler Group USA (Schaeffler) and The University of Akron (UA) have partnered to offer three innovative educational programs specifically designed to meet the needs of the manufacturing sector and its evolving workforce.
A long history of apprenticeship programs in the Americas
Under the partnership with UA, Schaeffler employees now have three distinct options to earn an academic degree and further their professional development:
- Option One: Employees can complete an apprenticeship linked to an engineering technology degree in on the following fields: Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Electronic Engineering Technology or Mechanical Engineering Technology.
o Each of Schaeffler's four apprenticeship tracks is aligned with at least one of the above engineering technology degrees.
o Coursework from the degree program serves as the curriculum for the apprenticeship program, along with other non-credit courses such as blueprint reading, welding, etc.
o All Schaeffler apprentices are automatically enrolled as UA students. Classes are held at Schaeffler as well as Wayne College and the College of Applied Science and Technology on UA's main campus.
o Graduate apprentices receive an Apprenticeship Certificate/ Journeyman's Card from the U.S. Department of Labor as well as an Associate of Applied Science degree in one of the three engineering technology fields.
- Option Two: Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Technology degree
o Schaeffler employees can earn an Associate of Applied Science degree in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Technologyfrom UA by attending classes part-time over three years. Classes are held at the Training Academy on the Schaeffler campus in collaboration with the Wayne County Schools Career Center.
o The extensive curriculum encompasses subjects such as manufacturer computer applications, robotics, lean manufacturing, quality control, and more.
o Students are encouraged to continue their studies toward a bachelor's degree.
- Option Three: Preferred Corporate Partnership Scholarship Awards
o Eligible Schaeffler employees and their dependents can receive a scholarship award equivalent to 25 percent of their tuition for undergraduate, credit-bearing courses at UA. Graduate, credit-bearing coursework is eligible for a scholarship equal to 10 percent of tuition costs at UA.
"Today's manufacturing environment is quite sophisticated, and we must ensure that our employees have the advanced training they need to be successful," said Matt Frary, vice president for Transmission Applications at Schaeffler Group USA. "Building on our successful apprenticeship partnership, our newly expanded agreement with the University of Akron gives our employees access to customized coursework that seamlessly meets the needs of their work at Schaeffler. It also provides them the development tools to take their careers to the next level."
The partnership between Schaeffler and UA dates back to 2015, when UA was tasked with delivering the curriculum for Schaeffler's nationally recognized apprenticeship program. In the ensuing years, the two partners have significantly expanded their cooperation.
For example, in addition to offering a traditional apprenticeship program, UA has aligned the curricula from three of its engineering technology associate degree programs with at least one of Schaeffler's state-approved apprenticeship tracks. Apprentices in these four tracks are able to complete their Associate of Applied Science degree in either Mechanical Engineering Technology, Advanced Manufacturing Technology or Electronic Engineering Technology as they simultaneously earn their journeyman's card. UA and Schaeffler further cemented their joint commitment to creating a highly trained technical workforce by offering the Advanced Manufacturing AAS degree on Schaeffler's campus to employees who had not earned a college degree in this field.
Schaeffler and UA also formalized a corporate partnership package that offers discounted tuition to employees and their dependents who wish to further their education, but are not involved in the apprenticeship program.
"As an educational institution, we are happy to partner with manufacturing companies like Schaeffler to find solutions to their workforce needs," said Elizabeth Kennedy, dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology. "Not only will these agreements help to increase the number of individuals who make up the region's skilled technical workforce, they will also provide greater access to educational opportunities for Schaeffler apprentices, employees and their dependents."
About Schaeffler's Apprenticeship Program
More than 255 individuals have participated in this pioneering program since its inception in 1980, helping the global automotive and industrial supplier to attract and cultivate top talent in Wooster. The largest of its kind in Ohio, this award-winning program has an 83 percent retention rate after graduation, thereby providing the Wooster facility with the skilled employees that ensure its long-term competitiveness.
To learn more about job opportunities and apprenticeship programs with Schaeffler, visit the company's careers page online.


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These days, it seems as though a new social media app appears to the masses every day. There are so many to sift through, it can be difficult to choose which ones will work best for you, let alone figure out what they actually do. For many, Pinterest is one of these apps – you know you've heard of it but may not know why you've heard of it, what makes it so great or how it can help.
Pinterest is an online platform that allows you to organize and share things in the form of images or video. When you find an image or video, known as a "pin", that piques your attraction to, say, beekeeping, you simply upload it to your Pinterest account so that others who share your beekeeping passion can see it and share it too. Pinterest then allows you to organize all of those posts in 'boards', customized by you to include anything you want, such as recipes, great quotes, historic images, agriculture, fitness, technology, etc.
Like many social networks, the learning curve isn't very steep. Once you download it to your computer, it configures itself to your web browser so you can instantly pin anything interesting to your Pinterest account, while browsing the web. A great example is if you found an image of a young child learning to milk a cow by hand at a local fair. By hitting the 'Pin It!' button within your browser, choosing the Board you want to pin it to, then including a text comment ("A young farmer in the making!"), the last step is clicking Pin. There isn't a need to worry about copyright infringement either, because by using Pinterest's application, the picture is linked back to the original source. That can be helpful if want to promote a picture, recipe, and action taking place around the farm with a more in-depth article.
Pinterest is meant for those with a specific interest, and helping to organize those. If you're in the beginning stages of building a new barn to expand your operation, Pinterest can be used to find and organize barn designs and features of other barns around the world that you might like to include in your barn. You can either search Pinterest for existing design pins or surf the web to pin what you find to your board.
On top of being available for your web browser on your desktop, Pinterest is also a free app for download to Apple and Android devices.
Like most social media platforms, you can find and follow other Pinterest users who share your interests. The network also allows liking, commenting and re-pinning from the Boards of other users. Over time, a person could grow a following for their insights, photos and information that other users are looking for. At last count, Pinterest boasted over 11 million users. In North America, women make up the majority of Pinterest users, which should be kept in mind when developing content for the network. For agriculture, there can be tremendous opportunity when working to connect food and farming, with the thousands of recipes that users pin and re-pin daily. Even pinning one or two pictures or videos a week can show a consumer how farmers care for their animals and provide safe food, connecting the process to the plentiful food on the Pinterest table.


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Managing real-time demand fluctuation under a supplier-retailer coordinated system
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. We have considered a supplier-retailer system, that operates under an agreed coordinated policy, with an imperfect production process and a possibility of having demand fluctuation. In this paper, a dynamic planning process is proposed to deal with short-term demand fluctuations. To do this, a mathematical model was first developed for a single fluctuation, either for increasing or decreasing demand rate. The model generates a revised plan, after the occurrence of the fluctuation event. We also propose a new and efficient heuristic to solve the developed model. Secondly, multiple fluctuations have been considered, for which a new occurrence may or may not affect the revised plan of earlier occurrences and we extend the heuristic so that is capable of dealing with multiple demand fluctuations on a real time basis. We have generated a good number of random test problems and also solved the model using a genetic algorithm, in order to compare the solutions with our heuristic. The comparison confirmed the consistent performance of our developed heuristic, and also its lower computational time. Numerical examples and sensitivity analysis have been presented to explain the usefulness of the developed model.
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In late 1978, just prior to the fall of the Pahlavi regime, you published your book Iran: Dictatorship and Development. Much has happened since then to challenge and modify your analysis. How would you assess subsequent political and economic developments in Iran? footnote*
In one sentence, I would say that the revolution was a product of the contradictions that I tried to analyse, but that it has failed to resolve almost any of them, and has, in addition, created new problems for Iran. It is a fundamentally false answer. Let me set the arguments of my book in their political and intellectual context. It was written during the years 1976 and 1977 and reflects, above all, questions that were being posed at that time. It is not a work about the revolution, and I certainly do not claim to have predicted the shape or outcome of the revolution. It is a book about the
My own analysis, then, was partly the product of theoretical debates within the socialist movement about imperialism, about the new 'subimperial' role of countries like Iran and Brazil, and about the contradictory role of the ussr with regard to the third world revolutionary movement. In attempting to identify the specific characteristics of the Pahlavi state, I was also encouraged by contemporary discussion of Poulantzas's research on the state and its relation to classes and of the work of such writers as Hamza Alavi on the 'post-colonial' state.
I had visited Iran as a student and had had continuous contact with the Iranian Left from the mid-1960s onwards, both around issues relating to dictatorship in Iran and, later, in solidarity work with the revolutionary movement in Oman. The book was a product of that relationship—in part a reflection of opposition views, in part a debate with them. Many things in the book offended Iranian readers—not least my refusal to portray the Mosadeq period as entirely successful, and my assessment of the Tudeh Party, which, while critical of its policies, refused to categorize them simply as traitorous or opportunist. One Iranian exile, Ahmad Faroughy, attacked me for not giving sufficient attention to the role of British imperialism. But, as anyone who has read the book carefully would know, the purpose of the discussion on imperialism was not to dismiss its importance, but rather to specify more precisely
There were, however, deficiencies in the book that subsequent events were to bring out. First of all, while the analysis was correct in stressing capitalist development in Iran, it understated the degree to which this was uneven. In particular, it failed to appreciate the extent to which pre-capitalist sectors and ideologies, represented by the Bazaar, had survived and flourished and could play a significant oppositional role. Secondly, in its discussion of the traditions and significance of political forces in Iran, the book placed too much emphasis on the secular opposition of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and underestimated the clerical forces of 1963. I knew about Khomeini from Iranian associates, but shared with many of them the view that he was a man of the past. I am happy to say that I have never held illusions about Khomeini and have never said anything positive about him. But I did not fully grasp the degree to which he would be able to consolidate his own clerical power after the revolution. Thirdly, the book underestimated the fragility of the Pahlavi state and the possibility of its rapid demise. Looking at events in Chile and other repressive capitalist countries, I could not see how the Shah's military dictatorship could be overthrown in the near future by popular mobilization alone.


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New Name for the Hall
We are pleased to announce that when the Hall re-opens in July it will have a new name: Tŷ Price – St Thomas' Community Hall.
The change reflects its future use as a community facility, which will be open to all, and in tribute to Revd. Norman Price, Vicar of Overmonnow from 1964 to 1993. Norman is fondly remembered for his pastoral work in the community and for the time when the Hall was in a serious state after bad flooding in 1979. The church had no funds for the repairs but Norman said 'Have faith, it will all come right'. Plans were made and with the aid of a Youth Opportunity Scheme, various donations and other help, the Hall was saved.
Revd. David McGladdery, present Vicar of Monmouth said, "People always tell me how they were helped by Norman and his wife Eira, and it is fitting to name the Hall in recognition. We hope the whole community will benefit from the new work done to extend and improve the Hall."
We also have a new logo, designed by David Evans of Platform One, Monmouth. This features a group of people and the Overmonnow Market Cross to reflect the role of the hall as a community meeting place. The market cross is thought to have been in place in Overmonnow since at least 1039.
Team Vicar, Revd. Catherine Haynes said "We are looking forward to working with partners to provide a range of activities for the community". Tŷ Price will have an enlarged main room for up to 60 people and three smaller rooms and modern facilities. It will also be available for booking on a regular or one-off basis. Plans are being made for the re-opening of the hall at the end of July although fundraising is continuing for the equipment and furniture for hall.
If anyone would like more information about the project or to make a donation please contact Steve Martin (Project Co-ordinator) email: email@example.com


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My Fellow Citizens
(To Sylvester Bourke, Pat Hoey, Pier Leonard and Chantel Kangowa, my preferred candidates in Arklow local elections. As of now. Please circulate widely.)
I fully intend to vote for one or more of you in the forthcoming election or elections. Why? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. Whose doubt? Mine. You have yet to prove yourselves in this great façade we call life, or something like that.
As far as I know, but who am I to say, you are reasonable facsimiles of human beings. Robots can be very realistic and getting more so all the time. Once I vote for you, if I vote for you, that's it. I've burned my boats. I'm stuck with you until the next election, if you get elected.
Speaking as a semi-lunatic, driven mad or half mad by circumstances beyond my control, but that's life, isn't it, yes, as I said before, I strongly intend to vote, if I get around to it, which I expect I will. But don't count on my vote, let the counting officer do that.
My point is I will have to put up with you for 4 years if you get elected but you will ignore me completely. That may be mutual. I have better things to be doing than thinking about politics all the time.
People like me are the electorate, for better or worse, and require representation. How can you be one of us and not one of us at the same time? Can you square that circle?
This may be a joke but someone said all politicians should be taken out periodically and shot. That's fairly funny if you're not a politician. There is still hope. You may not be elected.
To quote Samuel Beckett, everything is futile, it would be better never to have been born. He also said try again, fail again, try again, fail better.
He was more or less a comedian, not to be taken too seriously.
I too am Irish. So what? If I was born somewhere else I would be something else. And equally ashamed or proud, or probably both at once.
All good things come to an end, including life itself, good or otherwise. So you are going to make my life better. Says who? I didn't make much of a job of it myself. I can't really blame you. Not yet, anyway.
The torch was passed to another generation and they lit a marijuana cigarette with it. Fine words butter no parsnips. But they're better than nothing.
To quote Dean Swift, and why not, in his self-written obituary:
He left the little wealth he had
to build a house for fools and mad,
and showed by this satiric touch,
no nation needed it so much.
End of quote.
What is your price? Will you fulfil my requirements? Do you endeavour to give satisfaction? Or do you just want to get elected?
I will sign my vote in blood. That sounds good, doesn't it? Not mine, I hope.
A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing – Oscar Wilde.
I know the price of a pint of Guinness, four sixty in my favourite hostelry, less in some places, more in others.
Have you read Less is More? Or Small is Beautiful? Neither have I. I recommend them to other people. Not written by Irish people, but we can't all be Irish.
What's wrong with Ireland that you want to make it better? A patriot is a person who says a country is the best in the world because he was born in it – G. B. Shaw (also Irish).
Karl Marx said something else but he wasn't Irish. He once said smokers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chain smoking. Or something very like it.
So, okay, if you get elected we won't have to put up with each other for four years. I look forward to that. An amicable divorce. We all make mistakes.
Any of you could turn out to be another Hitler, Pol Pot or Shane Ross. God help us all. At least you're not Nigel Farrage, not so far, anyway.
Are you good at soundbites? Do you tweet often? What have you learned from Donald Trump?
Okay, that's it, fateful Friday approaches, the day of reckoning, when the sheep are sorted from the goats, the men from the boys, the girls from the women, the good things from the bad things. I'll see you in Heaven, Hell, Purgatory or Nirvana, whatever you're having yourself. Destiny awaits. Many stirring words have been spoken, I am stir crazy hearing them.
Ok, I'll vote for you, something is better than nothing. Or so they say. That's for me to know and you to find out. Take it on the chin. Roll with the punches. Let Katy Taylor be your role model.
Arklow forever! Or the time being, anyway. Sorry for taking up so much of your time and mine.
Still, you could be in jail. Cheer up!
I asked a woman was she a politician, she said she hasn't sold her soul. A man I repeated that to said politicians have no soul. He used the eff word.
Anglo Saxon is a gift bestowed on us by the English on their departure. We are fluent speakers.
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These classic 'Airline' clips of furious people missing their flights are truly hilarious
There is no better TV show than this
We'll be honest, travelling through airports can be pretty awful. I understand they need all the security protections and everything but my god, it's such an unbearable hassle.
And one classic show that captured the pain of airline travel better than any other was ITV's Airline, which ran from 1998 to 2007. This gem of a show followed the daily highs and lows of everyone who worked in and passed through an airport. Like the finest operatic performance, Airline had soaring joy, crushing tragedy and, most importantly, stunningly beautiful hissy fits of passengers losing their shit when they were told they'd missed their flights.
The clips were uploaded to Twitter by @tomwaIker and have sparked euphoric waves of nostalgia and schadenfreude in our office.
Now sit back, relax and enjoy this Airline feature presentation:
1. This woman's high-pitch scream is a joy
2. The outrageous rudeness here is off the charts!
3. Just… wow…
4. We have nothing but respect for all these airline staff
5. This is utterly superb
6. Living for the drama
7. Jane is a modern-day hero
8. We've got another screamer on our hands
9. "It is easy… if you get here on time"
10. We've saved perhaps the best for last
The purest drama you could ever wish to view: surely it's time for Airline to come back into our lives? Make it happen ITV, make it happen.
(Image and video: Unsplash / LWT / ITV Studios)