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Waffles with Zesty Orange Sauce
1 3/4 cup pancake mix
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
2 large eggs
1 stick unsalted butter, melted
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
Cooking spray
For orange sauce:
1 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoons sugar
1 orange, seated and segmented
1 teaspoon almond extract
Preheat a waffle iron.
Sift together the pancake mix, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. Whisk the eggs, melted butter, vanilla, and buttermilk. Combine the wet and dry ingredients with a rubber spatula. Do not over mix.
Pour waffle batter onto a hot, oiled waffle iron and cook until golden, about 4 minutes. Set ken baking rack to cool.
In a small skillet, melt the butter. Add the sugar and oranges and allow to cook until sugars caramelize. Stir to prevent from burning. Turn off the heat and stir in the almond extract.
Pour hot sauce onto the waffles. Serve with hot maple syrup and sprinkle with confectioners sugar!
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Björk's new album, Vulnicura, dropped at an extremely inconvenient time: I've just started working with a client in the Study Abroad Office at Santa Clara University on a semester long program design and assessment project; the three Career Fairs I'm helping organize as a Graduate Assistant in the Center for Career and Academic Services are all coming up in quick succession; the publicity sub-committee I'm a part of for the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Education Symposium (FLEDS) is in the process of strengthening its recruitment efforts, both for paper and poster proposals, as well as for attendees; and I'm slightly nervous to give groups of local high school students German grammar lessons as part of MIIS' International Education Day. By no means do I mean to say that I don't enjoy all of these activities, but any new music released by my Icelandic hero requires a certain amount of concentration I simply don't have at this point. She remains, however, the soundtrack to my days, however packed they may be. Let's take a closer look:
Wake up and throw on "Army of Me", an I'm-a-badass-and-I-got-this anthem if there ever was one. It inspires confidence and is a great complement to the pot of coffee I inevitably drink before feeling truly ready to leave my apartment and head out for the day. I try to keep the energy going by playing "Triumph of a Heart" or "Declare Independence" on my way to campus. Outlook is everything, so I try to bolster mine with positive vibes to start the day.
I generally arrive to campus early, set up shop in either Samson or Holland Center, and put on something from Vespertine, usually either "Aurora" or "It's Not Up To You" while I read, write in my journal for German class, or catch up on emails. I personally am incapable of being productive in a library–as soon as I'm told not to talk, that's all I want to do. Another advantage of working in Samson or Holland is that it's super fun to eavesdrop on all the Translation and Interpretation students while they're practicing their skills.
Between classes or before work I like to sit in the super comfy armchairs with matching ottomans located in the foyer of the McCone building. There is rarely someone there, so it's a nice place to go on campus for a bit of peace. I either eat lunch or do some more reading while listening to probably my favorite track off the new album, "Stonemilker". It's actually a break-up song, but it has a gorgeous string arrangement that makes me melt into that armchair and let go of any stress I'm holding onto if but for a brief moment.
Most days I have some sort of meeting, whether for a group project, presentation, or planning committee. I definitely don't listen to music during meetings, as that would be more or less sociopathic, but on my way home I tend to crank "Pluto" or "Alarm Call". These songs keep the energy level up so when I get home I can continue to work on various assignments, tasks, or projects. I usually toss some veggies into the oven to roast, put on a Björk LP in the record player, and get as much done as possible before the witching hour of 11pm when I am no longer able to formulate coherent sentences or comprehend theories and developmental models.
To fall asleep I listen to the classic "All is Full of Love". This song is a great reminder of why I chose to study at MIIS to begin with: my love for experiential language education and passion to facilitate transformative intercultural experiences for students. No matter how hectic things get, it's vital for me to remember not only why I'm here, but also the many open doors that lie ahead as a result.

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One way of better understanding what affects Haldex's sales and profitability is to break down both revenues and expenses to see how the operations are structured. At the same time, Haldex's costs are a way of returning value to employees, suppliers and shareholders.
Business model and profitability
Truck, Trailer and Aftermarket
The largest portion of Haldex's sales (45 percent) consist of sales to the aftermarket. However, these sales could not be made if a large number of vehicles were not manufactured with Haldex products installed on them from the outset. Volumes are built up by signing large-scale contracts with OEM's (Original Equipment Manufacturers, that is, manufacturers of trucks and trailers). These contracts are subject to intense price pressure from experienced purchasing organizations, since the volumes procured are sizable. OEM sales can, in turn, be divided between truck manufacturers, who account for 23 percent of sales and trailer manufacturers, who account for 32 percent of total sales. Truck manufacturers generally sign larger contracts than trailer customers. On the other hand, trailer customers have shorter lead times from projects being initiated to the commencement of production, so aftermarket sales start sooner than with larger contracts signed with truck manufacturers.
Aftermarket sales generally have higher margins than OEM sales. For distributors owned by OEMs – known as OESs (Original Equipment Supplier) – contracts are, in many cases, linked to those signed with the OEM customer. See also the business model on page 7.
Products in a start-up phase incur higher fixed costs than those that have been on the market for a long time. For Haldex, this means, in the current situation, that brake adjusters have a higher margin than disc brakes, although the difference is expected to even out as disc brake volumes rise and aftermarket sales get underway. Since disc brakes are most common in Europe, this region's profitability is lower than that of North America where drum brakes (of which brake adjusters are a part) are still most common.
Direct materials
Haldex's largest cost item consists of direct materials, which account for more than half of the Group's costs. Consequently, a saving of 1 percent on material costs has a considerable impact on Haldex. Direct materials are considered to be a variable cost.
With a total of about 850 suppliers globally, many job opportunities are generated among suppliers.
Personnel costs account for about a fifth of the Group's costs and are considered to be partly fixed costs and partly variable costs. About 40 percent of employees are white-collar workers, while 60 percent work in production. Our largest manufacturing facilities are located in Mexico, Sweden, China and Hungary. Our Code of Conduct ensures that working conditions are good in all of the 18 countries where we operate. We also invest some SEK 150 m in R&D, which primarily involves personnel costs, corresponding to 3.5 percent of sales.
Fixed costs
Haldex's other costs involve investments in machinery, rental costs, property maintenance, depreciation and financial costs. Including fixed personnel costs, fixed costs represent approximately one-fourth of total costs.
Value creation
Another way of breaking down costs is to look at who is the recipient. For our employees, we create value by offering jobs. Our purchasing from suppliers creates jobs, often in developing countries that need them most. Social security contributions, pensions and taxes are paid to the community. Haldex does not pursue aggressive tax planning and does not locate subsidiaries in tax havens. Finally, we have shareholders, for whom we create value through dividends. In addition, some of the company's profits are reinvested to generate long-term value for Haldex as a whole.


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Earlier today, 6sqft brought you flashy new renderings of the amenity spaces at 432 Park Avenue. The reveal came with a link to the official building website, which has a section offering jaw-dropping photos that showcase the views from the 1,396-foot tower, the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. As the site notes, they span from the Hudson River to the East River, from Westchester to Brooklyn, and from Central Park to the Atlantic Ocean.
In addition to all five boroughs, 432 Park will offer views of New York state, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
As 6sqft previously reported, 432 Park can be seen from 47 miles away at sea level, "roughly the distance from the tower to Beacon, NY, Bridgeport, Connecticut, or Trenton, New Jersey."
Though technically One World Trade Center is taller than 432 Park at 1,776 feet, this includes its 408-foot-tall spire. Therefore, 432 Park's roof is actually 29 feet higher, and its uppermost penthouse will look upon One WTC's observation deck. And this penthouse will sit at 1,302 feet above street level, making it the highest apartment in the world.
Thirteen major bridges can be seen from the top floors of the tower: George Washington Bridge, TriBoro (RFK) Bridge, Queensboro (Ed Koch) Bridge, Whitestone Bridge, Throggs Neck Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Verrazano Bridge, Hell's Gate Bridge, Bayonne Bridge, Pulaski Skyway, and Tappan Zee Bridge.
There's also the fun video below, which gives a great idea of how light changes from day to night.
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Day of the Dead: Ritual and Ceremony
Little is firmly known about the particulars of today's holiday since the limited sources available are either folkloric literature like the Celtic sagas or Roman authors who would have likely "trashed" the traditions of a culture with which they were often in conflict.
Although, you can kind of imagine what really went on back then. Different cultures around the world gathered in a ceremony to honor their ancestors on and around November 1st. This sacred day was often known as a cosmic aperture, where the veils get thin, and the souls from "the other side" can contact us with more ease. There's plenty of written experiences where people have encounters with spirits or ancestral anecdotes from all over the world regarding the ceremonial processing of these mystical energies. Samhain, for example, is very well known as its a three day ancient Celtic pagan festival, that was known for sacrifice, prayer and celebration to honor the departed, and their ancestral bloodlines, through devotional acts, often considered sacrifices to assist the dead to enter heaven.
Dia de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead, is another popular example that is often confused as the Mexican version of Halloween, yet it certainly is not. Day of the Dead originated several thousand years ago with the Aztec, Toltec, and other Nahua people. For these pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase in life's long continuum. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit—and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth to rejoice with their loved ones on this plane.
ALTARS- sacred spaces
The centerpiece of the celebration is the altar, the ofrenda.
Ofrenda, means sacred offering, is what you place on your altar as an offering to your loved ones that passed, and to your ancestry. The altars of Dia de Los Muertos can be some of the most inspiring and colorful scenes you can imagine. And, these aren't altars for worshipping; they're actually meant to welcome spirits back to the realm of the living. As such, they're loaded with offerings—water to quench the thirst after the long journey, food, family photos, and a candle for each dead relative. If one of the spirits is a child, for example, you might find small toys on the altar. Marigolds and oftentimes Calendula, are the main flowers used to decorate the altar. Scattered from altar to gravesite, marigold petals embody Solar energy, the light, guiding wandering souls back to their place of rest (Heaven). The smoke from the copal incense, a resin from the sacred incense tree family Burseraceae, acts as a transmitter of prayers and purifies the aura and area around the altar. The name copal was probably derived from the Nahuatl copalli, meaning "resin."
used in altars in Central & South America
a favorite amongst Central and South American witches, it often used to purge, deeply cleanse the space and banishes bad energy. A fresh sprig of Rue is often placed in a cup of water, and according to how it behaves within a few days, it's supposed to signal how the quality of your energy and your home's energy is doing.
is a beloved around the world, used in Central and South America as an herb that provides protection and clarity. Oftentimes used by mediums to make it easier to actually see the departed.
used like Rue, its an herb to cleanse, yet invoke higher energies. Much like White Sage, it does the final cleansing, as it brings in the light after space has been purged (for example, oftentimes Rue and Palo Santo are used first, and then bringing in the light with Mugwort and Sage.)
symbolic for its Solar energy, used as a symbol for bringing in the light, and the qualities of heaven.
used to cleanse and uplift. Palo Santo has been known to act as a mirror, helping souls face themselves and find their way out into where they belong.
like palo santo used as a spatial purifier, as well as a purifier to the subtle bodies and aura.
DRAGONS BLOOD (Sangre de Drago)
known to be the blood of a mythical, flying creature that, according to many stories, performs wonders and heals even the sorest of wounds. It's often used in rituals where one has lost a partner, wife/husband, or a child.
Interestingly enough,
the Burseraceae family, the family that Frankincense, Myrrh, Palo Santo and Copal trees belong to, produce powerful antioxidant-rich oils that are now being studied for their anti-cancerous, and anti-tumoral properties. So, seems like these "bad vibe" banishers aren't just metaphorical helpers!
Used an energetic seal, oftentimes employed directly to sew up holes in the subtle energy fields and aura.
BLUE LOTUS or WATER LILLY
used by the Egyptians and many indigenous people all over Asia when invoking the dead, and otherworldly. It acts as an antenna, or a transmitter, to receive higher wisdom, knowledge. Also used to be able to See and Hear the voices of the ancestors. In Central and South America, white and pink water lily's that grow native to the jungle were used in the same way.
energetic cleanser prevents bad energy from entering the space. Often used in doorways, windows, or in a vessel. Many households keep it in a vessel in a corner, as the "wastebasket" of the space, so challenging energy can be disposed of easily.
used as an ofrenda, food for the departed, in exchange for prosperity.
And there's so much more!
These are just a few to start off with. Enjoy crafting your altar with your
loved ones during these sacred days.
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Available in silver or gold, the Urbane is powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 CPU and features a 1.3" inch 320x200, 245 PPI P-OLED display, 4GB eMMC/ 512MB LPDDR2 memory, a 410mAh battery, various sensors including gyro, accelerometer, compass, barometer, and heart rate, and dust and water resistance.
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I am an eternal optimist who believes in the omnipotent forces that hold Life in balance. I refer to forces we cannot see or touch but have been at work since the dawning of time.
Our beautiful Planet, which we are abusing unrelentingly, is now so far out of balance through climate warming that its melting ice caps will, if necessary, flood all land masses to cool things down. If we are wiped out in the process it is not personal but simply a result of the Planets need to rebalance itself!
For humanity, balance is achieved through the omnipotent forces of Trust and Integrity, the lynchpins that hold human fallibility in check, as we go about fulfilling our most basic of needs to create, support and nurture a home, family and each other.
We are now, like our Planet, in a state of growing global imbalance, as these disciplines are ignored in pursuit of the narrow financial beliefs of the few. They have taken us out of balance by making 'profit and debt' the single dominating forces in our lives, achieved by deliberately weakening the democratic process we have designed to hold Life in balance.
Interestingly what the 1% are blind to, as again they seek to create a New World Order, is that throughout our history no single belief system has ever achieved the domination of our species they crave. The 99% hold the consensus, as the birthplace of all dissention against narrow beliefs and the source of all new leadership and new beliefs . . . this has always has been the case and it always will be.
The present assault on democracy follows the same pattern that happened in Rome and has been repeated by all the other 'man-made' power structures right up to the present day. Power creates abuse, which creates distrust, which leads to collapse that is brought about by the revolt of the people as, for example, our history with France and Russia remind us.
Our present rulers know this and so, as their greed becomes all-consuming and they try desperately to hold on to the status quo by suppressing the people with greater and greater levels of violence and aggression. Their blindness does not recognise that by such extreme actions they are again creating a tipping point. This is particularly so today as the internet breaks down all of the traditional barriers they have used to keep us separated and subdued.
When Society is pushed out of balance the unrest begins and the greater the imbalance the greater the unrest. That we are now experiencing this unrest from a united young and disenfranchised globally is a first in our history, taking us into uncharted waters.
This imbalance has accelerated since the 2007 financial collapse and the subsequent money printing by banks and governments, which has bypassed the people it was originally promised to. Instead it has gone to the few, at miniscule interest, for them to invest in their own companies and other ventures, providing vast paper profits and ensuring the gap between the rich and the poor grows ever wider.
Such is the scale of this greed driven abuse that we now have the classic signs of another financial disaster that will make 2007 pale into insignificance. Whilst share prices are escalating, profits continue to diminish, providing no foundation upon which to support these record stock market prices, other than the money printing!
Conclusive proof of the reality of the situation comes with the news that at the recent Davos Economic Forum it was revealed that the rich are now beginning to panic at how the people will react when the next collapse occurs. They know it is coming and like the Nazi hierarchy at the end of World War II, are now heavily investing in remote properties in New Zealand and South America. Even Sotheby's Reality in New Zealand confirmed the situation and the paranoia and fears for personal safety that is driving the purchase of these remote properties.
In his annual report Lord Jacob Rothschild, no less, has warned his investors that the focus must now be on preservation of shareholder capital, rather than short term gains, "as the geopolitical situation across the planet begins to resemble World War II". The 'geopolitical situation' to which he refers is the growing fear by the rich of vast social upheaval and rioting following the next '2007'!
We live in Capitalism and its power seems inescapable. However the same was said about the 'divine right of Kings' and that was resisted and changed by human beings, driven by the immutable universal forces of balance.
We are in unprecedented times, where the outmoded order of kings is being replaced by the democracy of the Global Village, something we will either painfully grow into or perish in the process. Would we have it any other way?!
Until the next time.
Thinking from his Book: Global Magna Carta. Returning Power to The 99% . . . If They Want It! By J T Coombes


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Milpitas, Calif. — Rising sales of handheld digital devices and smartphones pumped up fiscal first-quarter revenue at palmOne, soaring 62 percent to $273.1 million from a year-ago $168.6 million.
The company also reversed its year-earlier red figures, registering first-quarter net income of $19.6 million, compared with a net loss of $21.7 million in the same three months in 2003. Excluding special items, first-quarter profit reached $21.9 million, compared with $14.1 million the previous year.
With palmOne's unit sales of handheld computers rising 10 percent in the first quarter, compared with a year ago, and the company's Treo 600 mobile phone showing healthy sales, the maker registered a 33.3 percent gross margin figure in the first quarter, up from 28.1 percent year-on-year and 30.5 percent in the fourth quarter of the previous fiscal year.
The company reported inventory turns rose to 44 times in the first quarter, compared with 21 times in the same three months a year ago, while operating margin came in at 8.5 percent.
"Our handheld and smartphone solutions performed very well in the marketplace," said Todd Bradley, CEO. "Excitement is mounting in our category."
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Ahimsa – Transcend
Ahimsa – Transcend – Album Review
After experiencing the music of Ahimsa for the first time in 2013 I can tell you firsthand that I've been waiting ever since for whatever might come next from this incredible project. Anticipation runs extremely high for this album as I can easily say that Ahimsa ranks up there with my favorite bands and artists of the instrumental rock scene. In listening to the new album Transcend, it's clear at the point there's zero difference between what Ben's one-man accomplishments making music in Ahimsa sound like compared to my absolute favorites and giants of the genre.
Ahimsa has every right to be in that list…this is music that earns its keep through extraordinary depth in sound and true commitment to atmosphere. The extremely subtle opening of "Mariana Trench" starts the album with translucent sounds almost inaudible…slowly expanding over a beautifully toned guitar and hazy atmosphere. It's as if you can see the music of the rest of the album preparing for a battle to be waged upon your attention-spans, assembling themselves into a massive construction and coming at you in full regalia at the end of "Mariana Trench." At this point – I'm already incredibly amped up…that ending was PERFECT and what a build to get there! What a payoff!
As it moves into "Wambiana," I'm of course, squealing from delight and just trying to keep myself contained at this point. I said to my wife last night…it's like Ahimsa took the very essence of "Auto-Rock" by Mogwai and expanded the premise into the backbone of an entire sound or genre itself. But that mood…that feeling…those incredibly dynamic and emotional piano parts and incredible guitar filters and swirling atmosphere…there are no accidents here; everything put into this record, performance and song is a direct reflection of Ben's incredible love and commitment to the music. And while I could go on FOREVER about how much I love this song…I'm literally assuming Ben would already KNOW I would…so thanks dude, cause I do!
We'll move on…for now…if only because we HAVE to talk about the way that one of the shorter tunes, "Birdwing" becomes one of the best rides on the album. At just under three minutes, it's still a large accomplishment by any stretch of the imagination; again starting out in a low-key atmosphere, and giving way to a brilliant change up halfway through the song. The drums…just perfect for this song, they've got an incredible tribal rhythm & roll…it all just comes together as perfectly as he could have possibly hoped, and so too this album so far, for me.
Not by saying 'so far' that I expect that to change at this point. Ahimsa is so consistent with quality it should SCARE the mainstream instrumentalists…cause Ben is coming. Any doubt of that, is silenced quickly by the massive epic "Antiqueeze," which is approximately one quarter of the entire album length at just over ten minutes. Needless to say at this point, this journey covers all kinds of brilliant dynamics in sound and structure and just flat-out delivers for (painfully obviously) ten minutes long! I can't even begin to explain just how flawless this Ahimsa project really is…there's simply nothing I'd ever to think of changing remotely. "Antiqueeze" takes you through an incredible adventure, nearly hitting onto a post-punk vibe in the midst of the track, borrowing on bass-tones and guitar you might find in Joy Division or on albums from The Cure, and with all of the dark melancholy & mystery that should accompany those references. There's a slight element of menace on this track…at least for certain during that middle segment…this track is so massive it could have easily been three tracks for any other band. As it comes chiming and crashing into the final three minutes, Ben lights up the guitar for one of the most incredible parts he's put on this album with a simple but completely effect blast of sound that transforms this epic into sheer legend.
Now…you KNOW he's a nice guy, cause he immediately cuts you a break and lets you breathe for a moment with the soft-side of him coming out in "Create." This track reminds me of the eastern influence you can hear in instrumental bands like Tortoise, ones that nearly replicate electro through their assembly and incredible skills on their instruments. The switch in "Create" is unlike any other on the album…it's a real 'rock' sound coming at you on this one; and with the bendy-guitar taking the lead, it's actually extremely reminiscent of something Steve Vai would have created in his early work on Alien Love Songs. Complete credit to Ben on this one; it wasn't a switch I was anticipating or expecting, and again shows the depth of an artist that can bring complete visions to vibrant life through music. Another style, another sound…and another flawless performance.
Title-track "Transcend" is the shortest on the album at just over a minute and a half…beautifully played guitar in a spacious atmosphere…again…it feels as if the battle is just about to begin once again. I absolutely love the incredible texture and atmosphere in the music of Ahimsa.
With the DIRTIEST guitar line I've ever heard since The Jesus Lizard put out "Zachariah" way back in the day, the final track right away grabbed my attention for its dark, slow-rhythmic brilliance. This is how to make an impact…this is how to leave someone with an impression of your sound and scope that they'll never forget. "Dissolve Illusion," is just pitch-black throughout its opening, and though it might break, crack and bend rays of hope partially through the first half…you just know he's coming back to claim the rest of you; it's only a matter of time. With a wide-open space filled with echoed guitar tones and subtle synth this track builds up with an intensity like sitting in an interrogation room when you know they're guilty and you know they know it…again, it's only a matter of time…
EXPLODE. Into one final burst of sonic glory, Ahimsa just claims the throne with this final part of this final cut. The battle is over…and to the winner go the spoils. There's such an incredibly dramatic finality in this album that you can't possibly ignore it; for an instrumental album, these songs create imagery as clear and vivid as a 3D movie.
I can't say it any better than I have, or in any way that can compete with the incredible album put together here by Ben on Ahimsa's latest album. To say I had massive expectations for this album would be an extraordinary understatement…but to say that those lofty expectations weren't both met and surpassed in every aspect, would simply be a lie.
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The first PISA intelligence test for adults shows Germans just above the international average in reading and comprehension tasks, although 17.5 percent have a reading age of a primary school child.
A sixth of adults fell into the lowest-scoring category in the literacy test, as they were only able to read and understand short, simple texts.
The report, published by the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), detailed the results from a range of tests covering numeracy and computer proficiency as well as reading comprehension.
It collated data from 166,000 participants from 24 different developed countries, including 5,465 from Germany, selected from a broad variety of social and economic groups.
The PISA intelligence tests have been sat by 15-year-olds worldwide since 2001, but this is the first time the tests have been administered to adults.
The results of the original 2001 report were highly controversial in Germany, causing a "PISA-shock" as people were shocked by the lack of knowledge among Germany's teenagers. The study triggered a push for education reform in the country.
But 12 years later, the number of Germans scoring in the top category for literacy is below the OECD average, whereas the number scoring in the lowest group in the five-tier system is above average.
Top scorers in the study were adults in Japan and Finland. Their scores were so much better than the average German's that they would be consistent with Japanese and Finnish participants having had an extra four or five years in school.
The results demonstrate that success in education in Germany depends on the individual's social background and family, the authors said. "In hardly any other country does literacy depend so much on your parents' education," they said.
Participants whose parents neither completed the Abitur (A-Levels), nor an apprenticeship, scored on average 54 points less than those with at least one parent who held a college degree or a master's.
A difference of seven points on the scale – which runs between zero and 400 – is said to correspond to one year's school education.
Outside of tests on reading and arithmetic, the OECD study also looked at information processing skills and performing tasks like pulling information out of graphics and statistics.
But the computer tests revealed another serious result with 12.6 percent of those aged 16 to 65s not able to operate a computer mouse.
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PKU Clinic Update
Division of Genetics, Birth Defects and Metabolism
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
225 E. Chicago Ave, Box #59
Chicago, IL 60611-2605
Main Genetics number, for appointments – (312) 227-6120
PKU clinic is held on Wednesday mornings
We see patients in our Westchester outpatient location every third Wednesday of the month
We have recently welcomed two new metabolic dieticians, Katie Arduini and Amanda Aspan, as well as a new social worker, Soo Shim. Our PKU Clinic staff is as follows:
Andrea Paras, MS (Clinic coordinator, genetic counselor) – (312)227-6772; firstname.lastname@example.com
Heather Bausell RD, LDN (Metabolic dietician) – (312)227-6122; email@example.com
Katie Arduini, RD, LDN (Metabolic dietician) – (312)227-6771; firstname.lastname@example.com
Amanda Aspan, MS RD LDN (Metabolic dietician) – (312)227-6768; email@example.com
Soo Shim, MS, LCSW (social worker) – (312)227-3386, firstname.lastname@example.com
Barbara Burton, MD (clinic director, metabolic geneticist) – firstname.lastname@example.com
Angela Dean (administrative assistant, receives phe levels) – (312)227-6120
Rachel Katz, MSW, LSW (Research Coordinator) – (312)227-6764; email@example.com
Education/outreach activities: We are planning an afterhours grocery store tour at Lil's Dietary shop (the low protein food store in Chicago). This will be held on Thursday August 20th from about 6:30-8pm. Details to follow.
Research activities: We continue to recruit subjects at least 18 years of age into the Phase 3 study of the investigational drug pegvaliase ( formerly referred to as PEG-PAL) sponsored by Biomarin. It is likely that recruitment will cease within the next several months when the targeted enrollment has been reached. At that time, all enrolled subjects will be followed until the study is completed at which time the data will be analyzed and submitted to the FDA. We also continue to follow younger children enrolled in PKU-015, the study of the safety and efficacy of Kuvan in patients under six years of age, including subjects enrolled in the first year of life. Data from the first two years of the study have been published and show that the drug is safe in young children and works in the same way as it does in older individuals. Children will be monitored in the study for a total of 7 years to demonstrate that cognitive function is preserved in treated patients. We also have many patients enrolled in the registry referred to as PKU-DOS. This is a study that involves only entering information gathered during the course of routine PKU care into a central registry where it is combined anonymously with data from other clinics. There are over 1000 patients nationally in the registry, which is giving us important information about the long term effects of PKU on patients, as well as answering specific questions such as those related to the safety and efficacy of Kuvan during pregnancy.


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Twenty Questions: A Lesson Using the Hundreds Chart 3-5All Classroom Lessons
A Lesson for Grades 3–5
Caren Holtzman
Overview of Lesson
This lesson is a math variation of the popular 20 questions game. The teacher chooses a secret number on the 1–100 chart. Students ask 20 questions to try to ascertain the secret number. Students mark their 1–100 charts to keep a visual record of information they have gathered and to see the possibilities narrow down. Formative assessment opportunities abound as students think, explore, hypothesize, ask questions, and discuss the properties of numbers.
Identifying the Mathematical Goals
Students will:
• generate questions in order to guess a secret number,
• use logical thinking to eliminate possible answers,
• apply deductive reasoning to solve a problem,
• connect numbers to real world contexts,
• and use mathematical vocabulary to describe properties of numbers.
• Several 1–100 charts and pencils for students
• Several 1–100 charts for teacher to display at the front of the room
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
odd, even, multiple, factor, prime, digits, sum, difference, divisible, composite
Teaching Directions
Part 1: Focus or Warm-Up
1. Begin the lesson by showing a 1–100 chart. Ask students if they have used 1–100 charts before and what they know about them. Ask students to generate a list of words that describe numbers (odd, even, more than, digit, less than, prime, composite, etc.). Write these words on the board for student access. This warm-up prepares the students for the upcoming task and also gives you a diagnostic assessment of the students' current ideas about 1–100 charts, numbers, and relevant vocabulary.
Part 2: Introduction
2. Play a game with the whole class. Distribute 1–100 charts and pencils to all students. Have a 1–100 chart visible in the front of the room. Tell students you have chosen a secret number on the 1–100 chart. Their job is to guess the secret number. Explain that they need to ask 20 yes/no questions to help them narrow down the possibilities. They are not allowed to guess the secret number until all 20 questions have been asked.
Part 3: Exploration
3. Have students talk in pairs or small groups to brainstorm questions. This is an opportunity to eavesdrop and get a sense of what types of questions students are asking and which vocabulary words they're comfortable using independently. Collect some formative data by jotting down notes about which students are asking questions and what types of questions surface.
4. Have a volunteer ask a question. Answer the question and tell students to discuss what they now know about the secret number. Have them mark their 1–100 charts accordingly. For example, if the volunteer asks, "Is your secret number odd?" and the answer is no, students now know the secret number is even. They can cross out all the odd numbers on their 1–100 charts. You might model this on the 1–100 chart in the front of the room. You might also keep a written chart with information about the secret number. For example, after the first question is answered, you can write, "The secret number is even" on a class chart. This class chart serves as a reference for the students and also offers further formative assessment information about what types of questions and which number concepts and vocabulary they use.
Teaching Tip: Using a Word Bank and Sentence Frames
If students have not had much experience talking about numbers, this can be a challenging activity. Having a word bank and prompting students for different ways to ask questions provide helpful supports for the less experienced math conversationalists.
For students who need more language support, sentence frames might be helpful as well. Some useful sentence frames are:
Is your number greater than ______?
Is your number between ________ and ________?
Is your number a multiple of _____?
Does your number tell how many _______?
5. Students continue to ask yes/no questions and mark their charts accordingly. Give students frequent opportunities to check in with a partner to clarify what they know about the secret number, what possibilities are left, and what questions they might ask next. These small-group talks provide formative assessment opportunities to briefly interview students about their ideas.
Teaching Tip: Formulating Questions
Another chance for formative assessment arises when students are prompted to apply different number concepts in formulating their questions. Challenge students to ask a question that involves multiplication (e.g., Is the secret number a multiple of 3?) or considers the relationship of the digits (e.g., Is the sum of the digits less than 10?). See if students can generate more than one question related to the same concept. You might say to students, "Can you come up with three more questions that are connected to multiplication?" Also, find out if students are using the appropriate math vocabulary to formulate their questions.
Teaching Tip: Asking 20 Questions
Typically students home in on the number within 10–15 guesses. However, the challenge is to ask 20 questions, so they must stretch their thinking about numbers and operations in order to create questions that test their hypotheses about the secret number. If students think they know the secret number but still haven't asked all 20 questions, prompt them to think about ways the secret number might be used in the real world outside of math class. For example, students might connect the number to dates, ages, quantities of common objects, sports, or food.
6. After students guess the number, have them process the experience and do some self-assessment. This processing can be done in small groups, through a whole-class discussion, or as a writing task for individuals. Effective questions include:
- How did it go?
- What was tricky about this game?
- What strategies did you use? How did they work?
- Do you have any advice for students who are going to play this game for the first time?
- What question would you ask first? Why?
- Students' responses provide insights into their conceptual and metacognitive knowledge.
Adapted from Minilessons for Math Practice, Grades 3–5, by Rusty Bresser and Caren Holtzman
Formative assessment ideas and strategies from INFORMative Assessment: Formative Assessment to Improve Math Achievement by Jeane M. Joyner and Mari Muri
Featured in Math Solutions Online Newsletter, Issue 40


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- Line a 9-inch square pan with foil, letting foil extend above pan on 2 sides.
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The United States has welcomed the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission's investigations into the distribution of food assistance along political party lines.
In a statement, the U.S. Embassy said, "As the largest contributor to humanitarian assistance in Zimbabwe, the United States Agency for International Development has robust mechanisms in place to ensure that U.S. food assistance goes only to those most in need. While the report did not cite any complaints regarding USAID-funded humanitarian assistance, we are redoubling our efforts to reconfirm and ensure that our assistance is not subject to any form of political manipulation."
Since June 2015, the U.S. government has contributed $117 million in response to the El Niño-induced drought in Zimbabwe to meet immediate food security needs while also building resilience against future droughts.
"The majority of USAID's food assistance is provided through the World Food Program (WFP), which does not operate in any of the districts cited in the report. USAID does provide food assistance in Bikita through a long-term food security activity Enhancing Nutrition Stepping Up Resilience and Enterprise (ENSURE), implemented by World Vision. ENSURE has numerous oversight mechanisms in place to receive and investigate reports of fraud and abuse but has not received any reports of diversion of food aid or undue pressure on their staff."
The Embassy said the United States has rigorous processes for safeguarding food assistance. "Our food commodities can be distinguished from other sources by their packaging, which is marked with the American flag and USAID logo. USAID also channels all food aid through WFP and other non-governmental organizations, and the food goes directly to the beneficiaries with no intermediary. USAID and our partners have robust measures in place to carefully and thoroughly monitor food distribution. This includes verifying transparent targeting of beneficiaries, ensuring smooth distribution of the food, and following up after distribution to ensure that the food reached its intended beneficiaries.
Most importantly, the U.S government said, these measures allow community members to report grievances or complaints in a direct or anonymous manner. "There is a suggestion box and a help desk at all food distribution points, as well as a toll-free hotline. USAID takes our responsibility to assist those most in need, regardless of political affiliation or geographic location, very seriously, and will continue to actively investigate any and all reports of possible political manipulation of U.S. government food assistance."
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British artist Hurvin Anderson's solo comprehensive exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario delivers an informed view of his painting, photography, and sculptural work. You should really try to go see this.
Anderson shows us an intermittent look into the cultural landscapes of his personal experience through antonymic forms and colour that feel both rigid and fluid at once. Born in Birmingham, England to Jamaican parents and having completed a residency in Trinidad, Anderson provides animated abstracted moments from these familiarities that allow for an immersive but disjointed experience.
The disjointedness feels essential to this show; it gives the visitor the pieces but doesn't quite put them together for you.
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What is "deep poverty"?
Data on those with incomes below 50 percent of poverty thresholds
The U.S. Census Bureau defines "deep poverty" as living in a household with a total cash income below 50 percent of its poverty threshold. According to the Census Bureau, in 2016 18.5 million people lived in deep poverty. Those in deep poverty represented 5.8 percent of the total population and 45.6 percent of those in poverty.
While poverty thresholds vary by the size and household composition, for a single individual under 65 years old, deep poverty would be an income below $6,243 in 2016. For a family of four with two children, it would be $12,169.50.
Who lives in deep poverty?
According to Census Bureau Data, a larger percentage of children younger than 18 live in deep poverty than adults in any other age group. In 2016, nearly 8.2 percent of all children lived in deep poverty. For comparison, only 3.3 percent of those over the age of 65 live in deep poverty.
In terms of race and Hispanic origin, Census Bureau data show that those who are Black or Hispanic are most likely to be in deep poverty, with poverty rates of 10.8 and 7.6 percent, respectively. Those who are White and not Hispanic or Asian are least likely to live in deep poverty, with poverty rates of 4.1 and 5.2 percent.
What does research show about deep poverty?
Several researchers have looked closely at the problem of deep poverty. In one study, researchers at the Urban Institute used the Census Bureau definition of deep poverty to look at data for 2012. They found that deep poverty tends to be a chronic condition that persists generation after generation.
According to this study, about half of those in deep poverty are under 25 years of age, and more than one-third are single mothers and their children. The study also found that about three percent of children spend at least half of their childhood in deep poverty. Research shows that poverty during childhood has lasting consequences on health, developmental and educational outcomes, which can lead to persistent poverty across generations.
The Urban Institute study also found that three quarters of adults in deep poverty have not worked in the past year. The obstacles to work for adults in this group are complex and persistent—health, education or developmental issues. Because the current safety need is largely conditional on work, households in deep poverty, and the children who live in them, receive little additional support.
How else can deep poverty be defined?
Researchers at the University of Michigan National Poverty Center have also looked at extreme poverty over the period 1996 to 2011. They used the World Bank definition of deep poverty as living on $2 a day per person or less, an income level dramatically lower than the Census Bureau definition.
The study showed that from 1996 to 2011, the number of U.S. households living of $2 a day per person or less increased from 636,000 to 1.46 million. This included in 2.8 million children in 2011, which is about 16 percent of all children in poverty.
The study found that the number of poor households living on only $2 a day per person increased significantly from 1996 to 2011. These households accounted for ten percent of poor households in 1996, 15 percent by 2000, and nearly 20 percent by 2011.
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Updated 1/16/18
For more information:
Semega, Jessica L. et al. 2017" Income and Poverty in the United States: 2016 U.S. Census Bureau.
Lei, Serena. 2013. "The Unwaged War on Deep Poverty." The Urban Institute.
Shaefer, H. Luke et al. 2012. "Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011." National Poverty Center Policy Brief #28.


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All families have their problems. No more so than the Maxwells of Tawny Brooks Winery. Situated in the heart of the Margaret River wine region, this world-renowned winery was the childhood home to three sisters, Natasha, Eve and Phoebe.
Today all three women are enmeshed in their city lives and eager to forget their past - and their fractured sibling relationships. Until Phoebe decides to get married at home . . .
Now the sisters must all return to face a host of family obligations, vintage in full swing and interfering in-laws who just can't take a hint. As one romance blossoms and others fall apart, it seems they are all in need of some sisterly advice. But old wounds cut deep. Somehow, The Maxwell Sisters must find a way back to one another – or risk losing each other forever.
'The Maxwell Sisters' is the new contemporary fiction novel from Australia author Loretta Hill, who so impressed me with her Pilbara-set romance books: 'The Girl in the Hard Hat' and 'The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots' among them. 'Maxwell Sisters' is the first book, and I'm told (by the author herself, via Twitter) that at least two more books are planned in the same Margaret River wine region.
I had a bit of a sinking feeling as I started reading this, only because it had elements of a Monica McInerney novel I read in 2013, a novel I happened to hate. 'The Alphabet Sisters' was about three sisters reuniting at their family home after years of silence following an explosive feud – namely around the youngest sister stealing the middle sister's fiancée. When they reunited the middle and youngest sister had to have it out (but never really did) over the betrayal, and oldest sister (long thought to be perfect) had to slowly reveal how her marriage was collapsing.
Loretta Hill's had similar elements to McInerney's novel … or what I thought were similar elements at first. 'The Maxwell Sisters' sees youngest sister Phoebe getting married, and calling her feuding middle and older sisters home a month early under the guise of wedding arrangements, but really to mend fences.
Phoebe is marrying Spider, celebrity TV chef and her sister Eve's former restaurant partner, and best friend … but unbeknownst to her, he's also the man Eve has unrequitedly loved for years now, and she's still struggling to come to terms with what could have been.
Meanwhile, eldest "perfect" sister Natasha is returning home with some bad news … her marriage is over, and she and her husband Heath have been living in separate states for the last month. But when she arrives at her parents infamous winery, she is surprised to discover Heath there too – adamant that they still have a marriage worth saving, and banking on Tash not wanting to lose face with her family by pre-emptively telling them about her marriage breakdown.
The stage being set, and the sister's initially being at odds with one another, Hill's and McInerney's books become vastly different in their plots and execution – where 'The Alphabet Sisters' fell flat in pretty much every single way for me, I read Hill's 'The Maxwell Sisters' as being a phenomenal contemporary romance cross between King Lear and 'Pride and Prejudice' … as the sister's enjoy spending a month together under the stealthy influence of their beloved patriarch, a famous wine man who has often been called "mad" for his belief in celestial tides affecting the grapes. The Maxwell sisters must grapple with their misconceptions and assumptions about one another's lives and feelings – having so lost touch with one other over the last few years, the novel becomes about how these three reconnect and fit back into each other's lives.
Along the way there is romance to be had – for Eve it's the new manager her father has employed, the delicious Adam "Adonis" (as she calls him) who is running from his own problems. Natasha must decide if she's really ready to turn her back on her husband and their previously blissful marriage, and Phoebe becomes increasingly suspicious of Spider in the lead-up to their wedding … Hill's romances for the three are excellent, especially for being so nuanced and proportionate to the bigger issues going on in the sister's lives and familial relationships. Just as her Pilbara books were more about the female characters surviving in tough, male-dominated work places (that, for their remote locations, became living quarters too), 'The Maxwell Sisters' is likewise more about the sister's realigning with each other than it is solely a vehicle for their love lives to get back in order. I think that's where Hill really excels in her contemporary fiction – she never forgets the real heart of the story, the meatier characterisation and bonds are not playing second-fiddle to the lovey-dovey stuff.
That being said – and although Hill did a remarkable job of making me root for all the sisters (even the Mary Sue-esque character of Phoebe), I especially loved Eve's story with Adam/Adonis, which starts off snarky and then progresses to sparky. I especially loved Eve's story because she is the more underdog sister –unmarried, lusting after her sister's fiancée (and has been for years) a failed business owner and the shorter/curvier one, compared to her willowy sisters.
By the time she got back to the couch, Phoebe and Natasha were already seated there on either side of her father. They had both seized the opportunity to get his attention while she had rushed off to get stuff organised. How familiar the scene was. As a young girl, she had often thought of herself as the Cinderella of the family. Only the analogy was definitely flawed – neither of her sisters were ugly and her life was still a pumpkin.
'Here, Dad, drink this.' She held out the glass of water to her father and sat down on the edge of the coffee table.He took it rather absentmindedly as he gazed at each of his daughters in turn. 'Look at you all.' He sipped his water. 'All of you in the same room. My beautiful girls. My life is literally flashing before my eyes.'
As I was reading this (and I did so in one sitting – staying up until 1AM) I found myself hoping, finger-crossing that Loretta Hill would be turning this into a series … and as I discovered on Twitter, she is! I'm especially keen because there are two other wineries mentioned, and the breadcrumbs laid for the stories around those family-run wineries are intriguing … there's mention of a Jack Franklin, "the region's most notorious womaniser," and member of a rival family; "the Franklins and the Maxwells had been mortal enemies from day one, especially when it came to wine." Seriously, I cannot wait!
I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of this e-book via NetGalley, and I did find it funny that after reading it on December 18, it became the first book to make my 'Favourite Books of 2015' list, and so soon after mentioning 'The Maxwell Sisters' in my 'Most Anticipated Books of 2015' list too! It really was a wonderful read, and I can't wait to return to the region and meet the Franklin family next. Loretta Hill is such a wonderful voice in Australian contemporary fiction; beautifully balancing romance and family tales that tug at the heart.


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Having made this choice we are then faced with either a divinely given interpretation, which we must then receive, or an interpretation (or set of interpretations) that are coloured by our cultural situation. If the latter, then the doctrine of the atonement alters its meaning over time.
What we cannot avoid is having an explanation of the meaning of the cross at all. The moment that we contemplate this death we are confronted with words like "Christ," "sin," "atonement," "for," and even "death" itself. These words convey to us the meaning of the cross.
The following lengthy extract if from Gresham Machen's What is Faith? The passing of time has not altered the relevance of his observations. The tendency for man to separate what God has joined together, fact and theory, event and explanation, is still very much with us. Machen's takes this dangerous distinction to the woodshed:
We can have the fact of the atonement, it is said, no matter what particular theory of it we hold, and indeed even without holding any particular theory of it at all. So this substitutionary view, it is said, is after all only one theory among many.Gresham Machen, What is Faith?, p. 145-6
This objection is based upon a mistaken view of the distinction between fact and theory, and upon a somewhat ambiguous use of the word "theory." What is meant by a "theory"? Undoubtedly the word often has rather an unfavourable sound; and the use of it in the present connection might seem to imply that the view of the atonement which is designated as a "theory" is a mere effort of man to explain in his own way what God has given.
But might not God have revealed the "theory" of a thing just as truly as the thing itself; might he not himself have given the explanation when he gave the thing? In that case the explanation just as much as the thing itself comes to us with divine authority, and it is impossible to accept one without accepting the other.
We have not yet, however, quite penetrated to the heart of the matter. Men say that they will accept the fact of the atonement without accepting the substitutionary theory of it, and indeed without being sure of any theory of it at all.
The trouble with this attitude is that the moment we say "atonement" we have already overstepped the line that separates fact from theory; an "atonement," even in the most general and most indefinite sense that could conceivably be given to the word, cannot possibly be a mere fact, but is a fact as explained by its purpose and result...What we have really done is to designate the event with an explanation of its meaning.
It is impossible for us to obtain the slightest benefit from a mere contemplation of the death of Christ; all the benefit comes from from our knowledge of the meaning of that death, or in other words (if the term be used in a high sense) from our "theory" of it.
If, therefore, we speak of the bare "fact" of the atonement, as distinguished from the "theory" of it, we are indulging in a misleading use of of words; the bare fact is the death, and the moment we say "atonement" we have committed ourselves to a theory [MD: we are committed to a theory when we say death]. The important thing, then, is, since we must have some theory, that the particular theory that we hold shall be correct.


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text: PersonalTaking ChancesBy Leaderonomics|12-10-2013 | 1 Min Read I started working when I was 15, and I have had over 15 jobs since. Carpet salesman, retail assistant, banquet waiter, home typist, personal assistant, driving instructor, music performer, errands boy, hotel doorman, cafe staff, office clerk, tuition teacher, master of ceremony. Some jobs I was told to leave unceremoniously, some jobs I was asked to stay with better pay. As a home tutor, I told my students to get out there and work during the school holidays. It is from there that you might discover what kind of job, or life, that you do not want to have, as opposed to what you think you want. I believe the more you are exposed to the world, the more you will find out about various professions and dimensions available to you. So it is not unusual for you to change or alter directions and ambitions as you go along, and it is important not to see it as quitting or falling short. Weeks after submitting my application for a place in a public university, I decided to switch to Law. As a result, I entered university a year later than all of my peers. During my degree, I did three brief internships at a legal department of a multinational corporation, a world-renowned humanitarian organisation, and an impressive law firm in Kuala Lumpur. I know that I do not regret the time I fell asleep at the law firm library in front of my boss's office, rendering myself semi-conscious by banging my head on the glass table while reading something I actually found interesting. Nor do I regret not claiming more than two weeks of pay for the work I felt I did not deserve. I do not regret studying Law or not getting an A throughout my Law degree. I especially do not regret turning down a scholarship to do it abroad because I wanted to be around to watch my small sisters grow up. I know that I absolutely do not want to be a lawyer. Today, I am a freelance project manager and I run my own collective, Random Alphabets, which I started only six months after I left university. I often receive invitations to work on certain ideas, or companies seek to engage my services. At almost any social gathering or event I go to in KL, I meet someone who seems to already know of me, the collective I started, the work it does, and they usually have good things to say of it. Both the collective and what I do now have no direct relation to the field of study I devoted five years to in university. Though the collective and its cause are mine, people's expectation and impression of it is beyond my control. It is one that I sometimes get exhausted of entertaining, and worst still, struggle to live up to. I see that managing and battling with expectations continues from school to university to work-life. Last night, I received a personal phone call from the head of department of a fairly large and conservative company. He had never read about me in the newspapers, nor heard of the bizarre projects I had initiated. I had only met him once in a group meeting where I shared my views, and based on that he felt I was suitable to work for him. He offered me a job, more convinced than myself that I was suitable for the position of a writer. While I admit that the uncertainties of the offer were worrying, accepting it was a start. What I did know is that had I sat around pondering endlessly on what to do, this opportunity would have never fallen onto my lap. Here is the gist of my winding road. I did a number of things since I left the conventional path of university, and by default began my own education, which forced me to learn a great deal. But unconventionality should not be restricted to education, and that is fine by me. Do not let others dictate their norms on you, even when you are unsure of what to do. It is okay to not know what you want to do in life – just at least know what you do not want to do. After five years of echoing that message, it is neither ironic nor surprising to me that I still do not know what to do. However, the simple act of speaking up, making things happen, and getting things done will open more doors for you. After all, the first step to finding out what lies beyond your boundaries is to challenge yourself to anything. Who knows, you might actually find something that you love doing. Zain HD fancies the fine things in life, but often finds himself meddling with the opposite. He chose not to practice Law, and is currently a marketing and events project manager. He is saving up to travel to Kampala, Jerusalem, Fortazela, and Lyon. Note: The above entry was written in 2010 for What's After SPM?, published in 2011. This non-for-profit book project is a collaboration between Leaderonomics and a team of young Malaysians. Click here for details on the project and authors. Click here for more articles.Read NextTo Err Is Human, To Learn DivineShareThis ABA Assessments will blow your understanding of yourself


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Primal Scream's new album Chaosmosis is out March 18 via First International/Ignition. Sky Ferreira duets with Bobby Gillespie on the album's lead single, "Where the Light Gets In." Below, watch the video. "Where the Light Gets In" was produced by Gillespie, Andrew Innes, and Peter Bjorn and John's Bjorn Yttling.
Even more special guests have also been revealed for Chaosmosis. Haim appear on "100% or Nothing" and "Trippin' on Your Love," and Rachel Zeffira from Cat's Eyes is featured on "Private Wars."
Find Primal Scream's tour dates below.
Read our interview with Ferreira and our "5-10-15-20" with Gillespie.
Primal Scream:
03-29 Aberdeen, Scotland - Beach Ballroom
03-30 Glasgow, Scotland - O2 ABC Glasgow
04-01 London, England - Palladium
04-02 Manchester, England - Albert Hall
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Dutch chatelaine pincushion with embroidered 18th century Silk fabric (the white thread at the top is part of its identification tag)
There's a story to tell about this beautiful pincushion. One of our members purchased it many years ago from Nerylla Taunton. If you haven't heard of Nerylla, she wrote one of the definitive books called Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries. It's still in print, and well worth a look both for its beautiful pictures and the wealth of historical research found in its pages. It's one of those books that we all love to read, and is also used as a major reference book by dealers and researchers world-wide. If you can't get your hands on your own copy, it might be in a library near you.
So, what's the story here? Our member had a close friendship with Nerylla, and is also a well-known embroiderer and author in Australia. When she fell in love with the pincushion, she decided to restore the cushion part (fallen to bits, I think, though I'll have to check if it was even there - I'll let you know).
This pincushion is usually called a Chatelaine pincushion. There's a silver framework around the edge of the heart shape, dark in the photo because it's hard to polish without touching the silk covering on the cushion. Nerylla dated it to the end of the 18th century. The silversmiths liked to create patterns on the silver, sometimes simple repetitive marks, sometimes with scenes or figures on them.
Respecting the age and rarity of the pincushion, our member decided to cover over the damaged cover with a fragment of 18th-century embroidered silk she had in her embroidery stash. Yes, she's one of the special people who find treasures like this and keeps them safe. The embroidered silk was exactly the right age and style to restore the pincushion, and she did the work herself.
There's a silver ring at the top of the heart, to hang it from a chatelaine or from a ribbon or braid hanging from the waist. We all fell in love with this piece, with its elegant heart shape and the tiny pointed finial on the bottom.
There are so many beautiful tools to be seen, and not always antique. Moving into a related topic of Quaker pinballs for a DIY moment -- In the last few years an American embroidery teacher has commissioned new silver rings to place around reproduction pinballs in her embroidery classes (kit here). If you can't get a piece of history like our member's original one, you can make your own. Even if you're not able to go to a class , there are pinball patterns in some specialist magazines and a few cross-stitch kits. Many were knitted in fine silks or cottons. Usually made in two parts, a separate front and back, they were joined together and stuffed firmly. Then the centre margin was wrapped using silk ribbon or a fine woven braid instead of a silver framework, extending it to form a loop at the top centre for hanging.
Knitted pinball patterns can be seen in this flip book or in their pictures here. You can download an article about the Quaker medallion patterns used for the pinballs in the book as a pdf too. (Tip: Look for the TOKENS OF LOVE window, click to rotate it, then click Download.)
If you're making a knitted one, click here for information on the fine knitting needles.
By the way, there's no affiliations in these links. They're here because I think they're useful. Hope you enjoy them!


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What is a WikiWord. Well for one, WikiWord is a wiki word. A wiki word is an automated internal linking system on a wiki site. When editing a page just type a word like normal, but one that has at least two capitals, including the first letter. When you are finished editing the page you can click on that word and go to that page (and create it if it doesn't exist). So for example if I sign a page with my wiki name: ColinDabritz any user can click it and see my homepage. If you use a wikiword for your login name (see UserPreferences in the upper left) then it will be shown in the list of RecentChanges and we can see who did what easily.
Wiki words have some quirks. They don't automatically link phrases that are squashed together that have blocks of capitals. So "NotALink" doesn't work, but "ThisIsaLink" works just fine.


text: How Do I Sell Services and Attract Clients Organically? Tweet Published: November 11, 2019 October 17, 2019 Author: Jason Holicky - Hometown Design Studio Inc. Growing your business organically means bringing more traffic to your website from people who are using search engines like Google to solve problems. It's also accomplished by capturing their attention on other digital assets such as your social media pages or your website's blog and bringing them along a path toward a purchase. Organic traffic is different from paid traffic that arrives from clicking an ad you've paid for as those visitors are likely to find you by following a different path. Let's take a look at developing organic traffic to boost sales of your services. The Benefits of Organic Traffic The main reason to pursue organic traffic is to create a sustainable pipeline of people coming to your website who are interested in your products and services. Ad campaigns are effective--but only for as long as you're paying for the ad. Organic methods take time to establish and a bit more time to start rolling, but once you've got the pieces in place, you'll continue to receive fresh visitors to your site without having to continually shell out cash. Plus, according to one study, capturing the attention of people who are searching for solutions also means connecting with them when their intent to take action is high. For example, Facebook posts tend to bring people who are looking to read one or two pages, and then resume scrolling their feed. Even if they may be a good fit for your products and services, they aren't actively looking right now. People who find you organically will tend to have more intent to take an action such as making a purchase or agreeing to a consultation. How to Sell Services Organically Helping people find your services via organic methods takes an organized approach, and it requires a slightly different approach than trying to sell products. Promoting services means your expertise, experience, and trustworthiness must be clear and apparent as both your customers and search engines like Google will need to check those boxes before you get any traffic. The process starts by building your services pages as they will be the foundation of your strategy. From there, you'll add support with blog posts and other links. Building Your Services Pages Each service you offer should have its own page. Services that are similar or connected to one another can be grouped together, but only if the people looking for such services are very likely to want to see them together. For example, if you offer various tiers of a service or if you frequently bundle several services together, it may make sense to group them on a single page. However, in general, the more specific your services pages are, the easier it will be to develop a keyword strategy for them and ultimately bring in new visitors. Quality and detail are the magic words when creating the content for your service pages. Each page should contain at least 500 words of text and should cover what the service is, what the benefits are, how your solutions are different from your competitors, and testimonials from clients who have been happy doing business with you. While it's important to be thorough, remember that visitors to your service pages are still early in the buying process. Keep the information focused on early decisions to be made, such as specific benefits and cost considerations. Avoid going overboard with specifics that might be better for later in the buying cycle, such as implementation concerns or scheduling. You can always add links to pages that contain more detail for any visitors who are interested in a deeper dive. Remember to stay laser-focused on the needs of your customers when choosing what to say and how to present it. Continually return to who your ideal customers are, what problems you are solving, and why your solutions are better than the others. Laying the Path with Links In terms of SEO, links are used like votes of support on the internet. When you link from one page on your site to another, you're telling Google and other search engines that the page you've linked to is important. The more links to that page you have, the more important it will become in comparison to your other pages. Links from other websites are even more valuable as it's easy to vote for our own pages, but far more challenging to get others to do it. To establish many pages from which you can link to your service pages to signal their importance, a blog is the best tool. A blog allows you to add pages and pages to your website while still maintaining the integrity and importance of your core pages. Blog posts serve as a supporting element of your main pages and can also bring in traffic on their own by targeting a variety of keywords. It is common for businesses to make the mistake of using their blogs as an extended advertising arm of the website. Instead, your blog posts should be packed with information and be useful and helpful to your readers and not a series of product pitches. One last detail: be sure to link back to at least one service page from every blog post and anchor that link to a word or phrase that is related to that service. The last step is to reach out to other organizations in your industry to see if you can earn some backlinks, or those highly valuable links from other websites to your service pages. Some ideas for where to reach out include industry publications, experts with a respected presence online, respected vendors or suppliers, and other resource-filled pages that are not directly linked to your competitors. Quality, Always With every discussion surrounding the technical details needed to get organic traffic and other SEO results, we must always return to the word "quality." Your primary focus should always be to deliver an exceptional experience to your visitors and customers. Never sacrifice the reader's experience for an SEO detail as not only will your visitors see right through your efforts and lose trust, but Google is getting better at spotting phony efforts every day. When you always begin by focusing on the needs of your customers, you'll be able to build a sound, long-lasting strategy for bringing in fresh traffic and boost your service sales without relying on gimmicks, tricks, or expensive schemes. Categories: Search Engine Optimization About the Author Jason co-founded Hometown Design Studio of New Lenox, IL in 2013. He spends his days guiding and consulting industrial clients and small businesses owners on their marketing strategy and projects. 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Post Release Moment of Gratitude
Well, it's been a week today since the 24 hour Savage Fire Release Day Party and what a day it was!
I met so many new authors I hadn't heard of before, made some lovely new friends and great connections. The feedback I continue to receive is all positive and thanks to Love, Lust & Erotic Pleasures for hosting the event which has been labelled by a few as the best takeover/party ever attended. Many participating authors have also expressed their gratitude towards their involvement in the event as they too have made some great new fan connections.
And a massive shout out to Give Me Books for hosting and promoting the release. I couldn't have asked for more in any aspect of this release. So thank you sincerely to everyone involved.
My super Street Team deserves a massive round of applause too. They have been working their butts off to share this release all over and I couldn't have done it without their support. I call them Kelly's Angels, and they certainly live up to their name 🙂
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