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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Element II
I've finally begun building the boat I've wanted to build for years, and the final decision was based on how well Element sails and my enjoyment of the restoration process. I love the elegant simplicity of these Wharram Tiki designs, enough to commit myself to building a Tiki 26 over the course of the next year or two in my spare time. For my needs, the Tiki 26 is the ideal size, still small enough to easily manage for maintenance and moving to different locations on a trailer, yet big enough to have good sitting headroom in the cabins, enough load capacity for long voyages, and the same shallow draft and light weight advantages of the Tiki 21. I still intend to sail Element at every opportunity, and I'm planning some multiday cruises on her a little later this year, but as time permits I will be steadily working away at building Element II. I'll be documenting the process here on a new blog:
Hope to see you there....
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Sunny Winter Day
I went sailing Friday. This was the first time I've sailed the boat in sunny weather since the launching. Friday's forecast was for stronger wind when I was planning the trip, but as it turned out the cold front that had kept the north winds at 15-20 knots the two previous days had started to blow itself out, and by the time I got to the coast, the wind was east-southeast at maybe 10 knots. The sailing was nice, and Element handled well in the diminishing chop out in the sound, but I still couldn't get more than about 6 knots out of her in those conditions. We'll see when I finally manage to get out on a windy day. I had a fine close reach back into the harbor at Biloxi, and was able to point higher than I ever imagined possible in the combination of light winds and smooth waters.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Nice Daysail
Although the wind was really light, maybe 5-7 knots and even less at times, I enjoyed some fine sailing on my most recent day aboard Element. It's amazing how well these boats sail in light air. This is because of the light weight and the slim, easily driven hull forms. In these conditions the Tiki 21 cruises effortlessly along at 5-6 knots, making very little fuss and hardly rippling the water in her wake.
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Quickly grabbing some fast food or a semi healthy salad for dinner, a group of AI-students gathered at the train station. As I usually feel when I go on such expeditions, I was excited, curious and feeling good about myself. We were about to do something awesome, something educational and informative – without being told to do so. It's the best. I love that kind of stuff.
As some of us had been there before, I knew the location and organization were going to be good. A place to put our coats, some tokens for drinks, lots of chairs and the slides projected a dozen times across the wall, so no one had to miss out.
Speakers of the evening were:
Menno Vis, in charge of large IT initiatives at Bol.com since 2010,
Eric van Tol, director of the Big Data Expertise Center at Fontys and
Wouter de Bie, Data Architect at Spotify.
If there is anything you should take away from these talks, it is probably the following:
map(), reduce(), start counting words and as the data is piling up, you better get a move on.
Since the videos will be online later, I will try not to spoil it all. If you will watch only one of the videos, I would definitely watch Wouter de Bie again. He is an incredible and incredibly funny speaker. Both Bol.com and Spotify will probably amaze you with the numbers that go with their respectable data collections. In these two talks you will get a sense of where these companies started and what they are currently at.
Goal of the Big Data Expertise Center is to connect research, education and professional practice. From Eric you can expect a nice Big Data overview with a touch of philosophy.
That should about cover it for now.. Did I forget something? Oh yes! You will be leaving with some pretty neat goodies. Attending also gives you an opportunity to chat about your very own future with the IT Talent Partners, who not only make these evenings possible, but may also provide you with interesting internships or jobs after you've finished your study (which will be sooner than you think).
In 2016, the IT Talent Colleges will rock on. Next topic on the list? – Privacy.
Would you mind if someone followed you around a shop and wrote down all kinds of little details about you? Do you mind websites doing exactly that? And what about all those emails you send, do you think they are yours only to read?
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Then I remembered that our son's friend had made noises about having him come over to play Saturday afternoon, and then spend the night. Score! Any time I don't have to referee sibling issues is time I can spend reading.
Next up, I remembered that my husband and I were invited to a wine drinking event Saturday night. As fun as that would be too, it's always hard to get a sitter (=my excuse to stay home), and if he's off having a good time, I don't have to feel bad about ignoring him all evening.
The final two pieces of the puzzle are that a) I have a midmorning coffee/walk date with a friend whose mom died a few weeks ago, meaning I have a built-in exercise and social break, and b) my daughter is coming off of a super busy birthday weekend, so neither of us will feel too bad if she spends most of her day on screens.
YES! I won't stay up all night, because I need my sleep in order to function and don't want to be too groggy Monday. (Yes, it takes me that long to recover.) I figure I can get 12 hours in easy, and may challenge myself to push it to 16 or 18.
Here's what I have on deck as potential material.
- Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins (I've listened to 1/3 of it on audiobook, but my headphones suck, so I'll just read the rest).
- Lauryn Miracle's Shine, which looks like it might be kind of intense and Speak-like.
- I Crawl Through It by A. S. King, whom I adore.
- Leviathan by Scott Westerfield, because my kid who read ONLY gang-related tough-guy stuff told me it's really good.
- Legend by Marie Lu because I haven't read any of her stuff yet.
- Walk This Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson because I loved her first trilogy and need to overcome my concern that this one looks weird.
- Rainbow Rowell's Carry On, which I suspect will be a fast read despite being the size of a small country. I know I have it somewhere.
- Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton and whatever book I get from Uppercase this week, because I need to keep up on the monthly books coming in.
- No One Knows by J. T. Ellison because an adult thriller will probably be a good change of pace from all the YA.
- A steady stream of Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series--I started book five last night.
- Stephanie Kuehn's Charm and Strange, which was sitting behind me while I took the picture. Duh.
- In the Best Interest of Students by Kelly Gallagher, one of a half dozen teachers whose work totally inspires me while also making me feel vaguely guilty for not being as awesome as they are.
- Read, Write, Teach by Linda Rief, another professional book a colleague loaned me with great enthusiasm.
- The Forest for the Trees by Betsey Lerner, a book on editing and writing my in-laws gave me for Christmas, which indicates clearly that my husband gave his brother a hint. I love the way he tries to give me kicks in the butt about taking my writing more seriously.
- Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Drive World, by Arlene Pellicane and Gary D. Chapman. I won this from Nicole last summer and probably definitely need to read it, given that my childcare plan for the read-a-thon is "Stick kid in front of unlimited, unsupervised screens for the day."
- Mary Karr's famous memoir The Liar's Club, so then I can read her book about writing memoirs without feeling like I skipped the pre-req.
- Jenny L. Holm's latest MG novel, Turtle in Paradise and her previous work The Fourteenth Goldfish
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
- Not pictured: I've been meaning to read Fish in a Tree for a year now. Might do it
- Relish by Lucy Knisley
- A. D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
- If I can get my hands on some of Brian K Vaughn's Saga, that would be fun too.
- Random volumes of poetry. I have some by Marge Piercy and Ursula le Guin that I haven't re-read in a long time. I also plan to swing by the 800 section of my school library and pick up a few volumes of light verse and accessible classics.
Have you ever done a read-a-thon? Are you doing this one? Anything I should keep in mind? Have you done other "athons," whether mara-, joga-, or dancea-?


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Over the next few weeks, I'm doing a campaign for Gap that features profiles of other design bloggers. The interviews are an extension of Gap's Born To… Campaign, which is about pursuing your passion. As you may have noticed, I'm into that. Find out more about the campaign on the Facebook page here. For completists, the whole set of interviews is over here.
This is Jeremy Gutsche, author of Exploiting Chaos (due out Sept. 1), and founder of Trend Hunter, which is why he can rock this Risky Business action:
I personally think the shot would have been better in tighty whities, but Jeremy has a professional image to maintain, and I guess that means pants. Fair enough.
Trendhunter is a social network for trend spotting and innovation, which means Jeremy is the kind of guy MTV calls when they want to know what's hip with the kids these days. He grew up in Rural Alberta racing dirt bikes, and now heads up a team of editorial interns and programmers at the Trendhunting office in downtown Toronto.
"Sometimes I'm doing graphic design, other times I'm programming, and other times I'm off in another city doing a speaking gig," Jeremy says. "I deliver keynote speeches about five to ten times a month, so I'm typically traveling somewhere new."
The site's goal is to outpace mainstream media, the idea being that by the time these trends reach the printed page, they're not cool anymore. But do his eyes ever glaze over at all the hipness? Does everything start to look the same after a while?
"By definition, we're looking for new things," Jeremy says. "So they don't look the same. However, after a week of looking at TrendHunter, everything in a traditional magazine does seem boring and outdated."
After years of trend immersion, Jeremy has developed a pretty good eye for what will hit. Common themes are creativity, elements of shock or suprise, and of course, the naughty factor. "I'm more happy to see when I am wrong [about a trend]," he says. "We're looking for all of the little sparks that could capture viral attention, and to be surprised is actually rewarding."
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Can Herman Cain survive?
It's a privately settled matter. Herman Cain should address it as a settled personal matter. He should state that sexual harassment in the workplace should not be tolerated and neither should false allegations be tolerated. He should then discuss the anti-sexual harassment policies he put into place while at Godfather's Pizza and the National Restaurant Association.
This story shouldn't be too damaging considered the personal baggage carried by the other GOP contenders. Romney's and Huntsman's shared Mormonism, Perry's Niggerhead camp, Newt's philandering, and Bachmann's loopiness are foibles causing 65 percent of Republicans polled wanting someone other than of these frontrunners. Maybe one of the sidelined GOP "stars," eg, Gov. Mitch Daniels, will step in to save his party from a landslide defeat next November.
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And the tournament hurtles on at a heck of a pace. Before I can deliver a summary of Group A, Uruguay have already made it in to the Quarter Finals and as I type Ghana are leading the USA in their Round of Sixteen match in Rustenburg - Oh, a penalty for USA!
It's almost impossible to catch one's breath in this tournament. I've managed to watch a game a day plus the highlights package and the quality of the football (and drama) on offer is improving all the time.
The comparative strengths of the Latin teams (as opposed to the European ones) is the narrative of the tournament so far - New Zealand were one of only three teams to get so much as a draw against the Latin Americans - and we can add Spain and Portugal to the list of the most dangerous contenders.
My other groups were E & H. It looks like the Netherlands are the only northern European side to be playing up to their reputation but they have yet to be really tested - Denmark were poor, Japan only got thorough because Denmark were poor and Cameroon were unlucky to come last but weren't good enough to go through. The Dutch should take out Slovakia, who won't be able to back up after their efforts against Italy the other night, and comfortably make it into the Quarters.
Japan might have a show against Paraguay if they are given as much as room as they got from the Danes - particularly with those splendid free-kicks.
In Group H, while there wasn't much to separate Spain and Chile on points they were worlds apart in quality. Spain's David Villa is one of the stars of the tournament and the Spanish have quality and flair all over the pitch. Chile are dirty, niggly little buggers and I can't see them beating Brazil (who haven't raised much of a sweat so far).
The Round of Sixteen has generated some mouth-watering match-ups: Argentina v Mexico, Germany v England (which Peter analyses below) and the battle of the Iberian peninsula - Spain v Portugal on Wednesday morning. Can't wait.
Round 1 Review
In Group B Argentina were not quite as dominant as the final table suggests but they always looked comfortable. And with a frontline of Messi, Higuain, Tevez, Aguerro and Milito there can no other team in the competition so blessed in attack. It's not all about attack though and the Argentineans looked decidedly shaky on defence at times, most notably against the Nigerians in their first match. They were majestic against a very good South Korea side though, especially once they had worn them down, no mercy was shown in the final 30 minutes. South Korea are also through though and a very handy side with the likes of Park Ji Sung from Manchester Utd and Park Chu-young from Monaco amongst their ranks, they did well to get past disappointing Nigeria and Greece sides and into the Round of 16.
Spain were expected to waltz through Group H but have looked a little out of sorts, losing their first match to a stolid but spirited Swiss side. They won their next two, including a fairly dominant performance against Chile despite a seriously under powered Fernando Torres. Spain and Chile go through to meet Portugal and Brazil respectively in the finals. There's quite a bit of talk about how the altitude is affecting some of the top players (Rooney, Torres). I'm not sure, what do you think?
England vs. Germany; It wasn't always this way.
Geoff Hurst, is the only player to score a hat trick in a World Cup final. Hurst, the likable West Ham Utd striker was not even a main-stay in the England team at the start of the 1966 World Cup but won his place when first choice target man Jimmy Greaves was injured against France in the group stages. Greaves, also from East London, never really got over it, mainly because he was fit for the final but by that stage Hurst had proven himself and coach Alf Ramsey wanted to keep the same side together to face the Germans.
After heading home England's first from a free kick, Hurst's second was the controversial 'line' goal that still causes arguments to this day. Naturally I believe it was over but the linesman didn't help matters by initially signalling no goal and then changing his mind. Hurst's last goal right on full time is a delight, and one of my favourites of all time for three reasons. Firstly, it sealed his hat-trick writing him permanently into the history books. Secondly, he was fed by Captain Bobby Moore. England's greatest ever player and fellow Hammer, Moore ignored his team-mates pleas to put the ball out and finish the game, instead sending a sweetly lofted pass into space that Hurst could run onto and hammer into the German net. Great thinking by Moore and a goal that put the result beyond doubt (important considering the nature of Hurst's second, above). And thirdly, as there were spectators starting to run onto the pitch it brought out the greatest football quote of all time from the commentator; "They think it's all over ... It is now!"
The Germans naturally feel a bit ripped off, but the English won it playing to their strengths with lots of heart and lots of energy. At the completion of normal time Ramsey wouldn't let the players lie down as this would make them look tired. He made them stand and look fresh to dishearten their opposition.
Hurst said recently that he spent the weekend after the World Cup mowing his lawn and washing his car. The following week he was asked to present a new car to a Bingo winner in Ilford. He was introduced to those present as World Cup winner Mr George Hurst. Ah, them were the days...
At this World Cup I can't help thinking of the USA as just a bigger version of us. They've got a home-grown coach; they aren't expected to do well; football isn't the national sport; and their tactics seem to be to cross it in and hope like Hell Landon Donovan is there to do something. We just don't have a Landon Donovan.
Ghana on the other hand, are the last great hope for the continent. The Black Stars are fantastic and as I write this they have just secured a quarterfinal appearance, with a fantastic overtime goal against the US.
So now we look to Germany vs England and Portugal vs Spain: games with no history behind them whatsoever.
Back in 2000 we went to Portugal for a holiday, it's a fantastic country and we loved the people and the culture. We stayed with a friend's family and they instilled in us the importance of hating the Spanish. We are much like the Portuguese. A small country beside a larger more famous country that we have a healthy rivalry with; the big difference being that we have never been invaded by Australia.
Portugal's campaign has been lacklustre so far. Ronaldo and Deco and Simao have yet to really hit their straps, and a scrappy game against Brazil has shown that they may struggle against the bigger teams. Teams like Spain, who have also started slowly.
For me Japan, are the surprise entrants in this round and I don't expect to see them travelling further. But then again their attack had better structure than I was expecting. The Crows will have the incentive of wanting to get further than the Koreans who have now bowed out. And they may just have the edge over a Paraguayan team who couldn't even score against easy-beats New Zealand.


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Study Title:
Thyroid Function, BDNF, and Brain Plasticity
Study Abstract
recapitulation of developmental-like mechanisms for neuronal survival and regeneration. Concurringly, ontogenic dependency of central neurons for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is lost during maturation, but is re-acquired after injury. Here we show in organotypic hippocampal slices that thyroxin, the thyroid hormone essential for normal CNS development, induces up-regulation of BDNF upon injury. This change in the effect of thyroxin is crucial to promote survival and regeneration of damaged central neurons. In addition, the effect of thyroxin on the expression of the K-Cl co-transporter (KCC2), a marker of neuronal maturation, is changed from down to up-regulation. Notably, previous results in humans have shown that during the first few days after traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury, thyroid hormone levels are often diminished. Our data suggests that maintaining normal levels of thyroxin during the early posttraumatic phase of CNS injury could have a therapeutically positive effect.
Study Information
Shulga A, Blaesse A, Kysenius K, Huttunen HJ, Tanhuanpää K, Saarma M, Rivera C.
Thyroxin regulates BDNF expression to promote survival of injured neurons.
Mol Cell Neurosci.
2009 September
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Viikki Biocenter, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland.


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Richard S. Soble named to BTI Client Service All-Star list
Richard S. Soble, a partner in the Tax Practice Group of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, was named one of BTI Consulting Group's Client Service All-Stars for 2015. He is one of only six Michigan attorneys to receive this designation. To earn a place on this list, an individual attorney must be singled out by a corporate counsel for client service that exceeds all other attorneys used by the organization. The list is the result of nearly 320 in-depth, independent interviews with legal service decision makers conducted by BTI, a leading provider of strategic research to the legal community.
Soble focuses his practice on advising individuals and businesses on a vast range of federal income tax issues, and counsels them in planning to minimize their taxation on day-to-day commercial operations and in transactions. He has more than 30 years of experience in structuring business ventures to accomplish clients' business goals and representing their interests in adjudications, audits and appeals. Soble is the author and co-author of numerous scholarly articles and accounting professional journal columns, and his work on the taxation of partnerships and pension related claims in bankruptcy has been widely published.
He is a past council member of the State Bar of Michigan's Section of Taxation and the past chair of the, Committee on International Tax and Partnership Tax in its Section of Tax. The Best Lawyers in America has recognized Soble since 2003 and as its Detroit Tax Lawyer of the Year in 2012. In addition, Michigan Super Lawyers has recognized him since 2007.
Soble earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan.
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Late Summer Fairs and Festivals with Local Goodness
Summer is beginning to draw to a close, and for most there are only a few chances left to get out there and enjoy all of its offerings -- especially the area's lovely fresh produce.
According to Rhonda Schuldt of Local Goodness, there are a dearth of food festivals and fairs that are sure to satisfy anyone still eager to explore the local food scene. Chief among these events are the amazing array of food festivals, including the Laurel Highlands Garlic Festival this weekend, which she calls "a nice day trip away from Pittsburgh." the festival boasts hundreds of varieties of garlic which will intrigue any foodie with an affinity for the pungent plant.
Later in the month the Laurel Highlands will also play host to the Seven Springs Food and Wine Festival. For those looking for a sweeter treat, visit the mid-September Ohio Pawpaw festival, in Albany, Ohio. Those willing to make the hike out of state can sample a North American fruit with a custard like texture.
Food Festivals:
8/17-18 Laurel Highlands Garlic Festival
8/25 Phipps Tomato Garlic Festival
8/24-25 Seven Springs Food and Wine Festival
9/13-15 Ohio PawPaw Festival
Art Festivals
8/24-25 Shadyside Arts Festival
9/6-8 A Fair in the Park
Neighborhood Cultural Festivals:
8/22-25 Bloomfield Little Italy Days
8/22-25 East Pittsburgh's Ypapanti Greek Food Festival
County Fairs:
8/10-17 Washington County Fair
8/12-17 Lawrence County Fair
8/17-24 Somerset County Fair
8/25-31 Indiana County Fair


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Euroa Wedding | Patty + Josh
Euroa Butter Factory 9th April 2016
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Things you need to know about Klonopin
Klonopin is a medicine which used in the treatment of anxiety, depression and mood disorders. More of people in the world are short-tempered. It means they get angry, depressed and anxiety in simple situations. A Klonopin helps you to change your mood and make it better. With that, you can better remove anxiety and mood disorders. Also from that, you can better do any work without getting stressed.
In simple words, it helps you to stabilize your mood and remove anxiety problems.
Consult with doctor
Before you go to take this medicine, you need to consult with the doctor who provides you with more benefits. Consulting with doctor or specialist allows you to take better advice as this medicine contains side effects also. You can better decide to take Klonopin or not by consulting with any doctor. Or you can better prevent form many side effects mentioned in this paragraph by consulting with a doctor. Some side effects are:
- Dizziness
- Tiredness
- Lack of coordination
- Increase saliva production
Benefits of taking this medicine
It is essential for you to know about this medicine benefit on your body or life.
Relaxation of mind
More of people get stressed in daily lives due to their daily work and studies. The better way to remove stress and give relaxation to mind is taking Klonopin. It helps you to remove all your stress and anxiety from your body. With that, you can better do any work with a relaxed and stress-free mind.
Better sleep
Better sleep is essential to remove the stress and make the body better in a proper working condition. As this medicine provides relaxation to your mind, from that, you can better take a right and adequate sleep. It allows you to remove all your mood disorders and anxiety problems to take a better sleep. You can better take this medicine by consulting with a doctor to take a better sleep.
Do useful things
If you are feeling bad due to any reason during your work or everywhere you can better take this medicine. It proper gives relaxation to your mind, and you can better do useful things. It increases your performance at work, and you can do valuable things smoothly.
We can easily conclude that you can take Klonopin to remove mood disorders and remove anxiety. Also, it is essential for you to consult with a doctor.


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Courses for Grades 3-5
These exciting courses are all delivered by global educators, and offer a wide array of possiblilities for students. Join Mukhayamna and unlock your child's potential!
These grade bands represent the child's CURRENT grade in academic year 2020-21. Grades 3-5 are equivalent to Years 4-6 in the British Curriculum. These courses are generally aimed at students aged 9-11.
*Note: Classes will need a minimum of 5 students to continue , if the minimum is not met classes will be cancelled and you will be refunded.
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Musical Prodigies
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Musical Prodigies
This class is an amazing opportunity for students to dive deeper into their passion for music and explore key music concepts. This class is for students in grades G 3-5 of all music abilities and levels. In this course, students will learn key musical knowledge, which is transferable to all musical instruments. Students will have the chance to explore different elements of music composition, as well as develop a strong tonal center utilizing solfege, note names and rhythmic value. This unique course will include mathematical structures and patterns in music, vocabulary, and will explore composition and music theory concepts.
Course Instructor: Jacob Spears
Pre-Requisite: Students must be able to work and follow directions independently. Students must have a high-level of interest in music.
Language Medium: English
Supply List: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmRbF7Mws8N-q_rDHm3nY3GzCflk4wz0/view?usp=sharing
Duration: 6 Weeks
Start Date: January 23
Frequency: Once a week (Every Saturday)
Session Timing: 1:00-2:00pm
Course Fee: 500QR
Location: Awsaj Academy - Education City
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Musical Theatre!
Students have an exciting opportunity to learn musical theatre techniques, create hands-on projects for costumes and props and socialize with their fellow learners! In addition to the weekly classes, we will rehearse and perform a musical! A few of the aspects we will explore include speaking and literacy skills through monologue, dialogue, and improvisation. Students will explore choreography of song and dance numbers, pitch development, rhythm, timing, and reading sheet music, as well as acting techniques that develop character through voice, tone, facial expression and body language. This course aims to highlight how theatre enhances social skills and collaboration to create a musical production!
Course Instructors: Jacob Spears and Nancy Oumarou
Pre-Requisite: This class is for students with a passion for performing. This course is highly recommended for students who have participated in school productions.
Language Medium: English
Supply List: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ujstz3WfjHHZ4PgC-Y3PRrEUqg-PBTdb/view?usp=sharing
Duration: 6 Weeks
Start Date: January 23
Frequency: Once a week (Every Saturday)
Live Session Timing: 12:00-1:00pm
Course Fee: 750QR
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Creative English Writing, Speaking and Listening Course
Enroll now on this virtual Creative English course for a fun packed learning experience. Explore a range of virtual tools and share your imagination and creativity. Participate in group discussions, shared online writing tasks and a range of collaborative virtual learning engagements.
We will explore;
Character descriptions
Adventurous stories
Speaking and listening games
film & images to enhance Literacy
Course Instructor: Nadia Hussain
Prerequisite: None
Language: English
Supply List: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hL1nAwZScrWtHVxWDCEelAZUW30xwvkH/view?usp=sharing
Duration: 6 weeks
Start Date: January 23
Frequency: Once a week (Every Saturday)
Timing: 10:00-11:00 am
Course Fee: 500QR
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The Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, or Simple Cloud API, is intended to let developers use common application services in the cloud and access value-added features from individual providers, said Zend, which is best known as a provider of tools for PHP application development. Developers would be able to build cloud applications accessing all major cloud platforms. IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Rackspace, and GoGrid serve as co-founding contributors to the community project. Cloud leader Amazon Web Services is among the platforms supported, although Amazon is not now a participant in the effort.
Initially functioning with PHP, the API was designed for translation to any object-oriented language for the Web, Zend said. "We have talked with people in Java, Python, and the Perl community and they're interested in collaborating," to support the API in these languages, Sinclair said.
Initial deliverables include interfaces for file storage, document databases, and simple queue services from platforms like Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network, and Rackspace Cloud Files. Developers can deploy applications accessing services in these environments without having to make changes to source code.
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From acclaimed writer-director Walter Hill comes the stylish rock-and-roll fable, starring Michael Paré (The Virgin Suicides), Diane Lane (Man of Steel), Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters) and Amy Madigan (The Dark Half). Amid a brooding rock & roll landscape, the Bombers motorcycle gang, led by the vicious Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), kidnap diva Ellen Aim (Diane Lane). Her hope for rescue lies with unlikely heroes: soldier of fortune Tom Cody (Michael Paré) and his sidekick, the two-fisted beer-guzzling McCoy (Amy Madigan). Joined by Ellen's manager, Billy Fish (Rick Moranis), the trio plunges headfirst into a world of rain-splattered streets, hot cars, and deadly assassins.
This cult favorite features a razor-sharp cast and original songs written by Jim Steinman, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Ry Cooder and performed by The Blasters and The Fixx. STREETS OF FIRE is a rock & roll shotgun blast to the senses.
On May 16, 2017, Shout! Select home entertainment series is proud to debut STREETS OF FIRE Collector's Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray™ set on North American home entertainment shelves. This definitive collector's edition features new 2K high-def transfer, cast and crew interviews plus feature-length documentary, vintage featurettes, music videos and more! A must-have for movie collectors, pop-culture enthusiasts and loyal fans to complete their entertainment library, STREETS OF FIRE Collector's Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray is available for pre-order at:
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Beginning in 1852, all register of wills in Pennsylvania counties were required to keep separate registrations of births. However, this legislation was short lived and was repealed in 1855 leaving a small range of years for vital records.
Search Tips: An index is in the front section. Names within this birth register are arranged chronologically by the date recorded. Not every birth was registered in compliance with this legislation. Researchers should consult church records for additional birth record sources.


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Main CharacterIdentity: - Male Profession/status: - slave Age: - 20's-30's
SettingTerrain - Mountains A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a primitive/fantasy society Planet outside solar system? - Yes
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For all of you wonderful people abroad in Australia, England, France and Asia, please excuse me as I have something to say that pertains only to the American people who are eligible to vote in our National Elections.
Today is November 2nd. It is an election day for Mid-Term elections.
Don't forget to vote. Today!
I will be voting in my home state of Wisconsin.
Thank you.
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Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa (translated by Alison Watts)Read about the other entries on the list.
At the Doraharu shop on Cherry Blossom Street, a young man name Sentaro feels hopeless about the future because of his criminal past. When a widowed 76-year-old women, Tokue, who was quarantined most of her life, repeatedly asks him for a job making dorayaki (a honey pancake with sweet bean paste inside), he eventually relents, and they form a deep friendship that transforms both of their lives. Tokue's exquisite version of dorayaki, and the tender care with which she makes the treats, astound Sentaro. When she offers to teach him her secrets, he's able to envision a purpose for his existence. A beautifully rendered tale of outsiders coming together.
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Archive for September, 2022
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Mohamed Elmaghrabi, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Al Ain Campus
PhD in Accounting, University of Stirling, UK
MSc. in International Accounting and Finance, University of Stirling, UK
BComm. of Accounting, Mansoura University, Egypt
Research Interests
- Voluntary disclosures, Integrated reporting, Market based accounting studies, Governance and gender in accounting studies
Selected Publications
Elmaghrabi, M.E. (2021), "CSR committee attributes and CSR performance: UK evidence", Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-01-2020-0036
Ahmed, A. H., Elmaghrabi, M. E., Dunne, T. and Hussainey, K. (2020). Gaining momentum: towards integrated reporting practices in GCC countries. Business Strategy and Development, URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bsd2.130
Elmaghrabi, M. E. (2019), "Corporate Social Reporting in Egypt: Nature and Determinants" ,Financial and business research journal, [Portsaid University], Vol. 5, issue 2.
Teaching Courses
- Postraduate level: Managerial Accounting, MBA (0502603)
- Undergraduate level: Principles of Financial Accounting (code: 0502200); Government Accounting (0502360); Financial Statment Analysis (0502420)
Published in: Financial and business research journal [Port Said University]
Jan 06, 2019
Purpose: This paper explores the nature and determinants of corporate social reporting (CSR) in Egyptian listed companies using publicly available sources, including annual reports, stand-alone reports and corporate internet disclosures. Design/methodology/approach: A 55-point content analysis from 6 categories was developed using both Egyptian sustainability reporting guidelines and the Global Reporting Initiative reporting guidelines. Both the index score and number of sentences were used to measure CSR. Multiple OLS regression was used to test the significance of both corporate governance mechanisms and firms' characteristics in explaining the variations in CSR. Mann-Whitney U tests were used to measure the differences between governmental and non-governmental firms. Findings: The results of descriptive statistics show that 54.8% of the sample reported CSR. Community & social information was dominant under the three disclosure channels. Empirical findings show a significant relationship between CSR disclosure and the existence of a CSR division, the existence of family directors on the board and those companies which are cross-listed. The results do not show a significant relationship between CSR and non-executive directors, CEO duality, institutional ownership, foreign ownership, size, profitability, leverage and audit firm type. The results also show that non-governmental companies use varied channels of disclosure more than government-owned companies. Originality/value: As the most comprehensive study to date of its kind in an Egyptian context, the paper contributes to investigating empirically the link between CSR and both corporate governance mechanisms and firm specific characteristics.


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At 62, Anna Maria Grillo hoped decades spent working in sewing factories would afford her some modest comforts: family time in her longtime Maple home, spoiling her grandchildren with a present or two, and the occasional trip to Swiss Chalet.
Instead, she says, a workplace injury — and a practice at the workers' compensation board known as "deeming" — has forced her to sell her house and move near Alliston to save money.
"It means not being able to purchase a sweater or a pair of pants, not being able to purchase gifts for my daughters, for my grandchildren," she said.
For more than a million low-wage workers, Ontario's minimum wage hike brings the promise of more money in the bank. But for some injured workers with permanent disabilities, advocates say, it promises precisely the opposite.
Aidan Macdonald, of the Toronto-based legal clinic Injured Workers' Consultants, says the wage bump to $14 from $11.60 an hour introduced this month brings fresh urgency to a long-standing debate over deeming at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. It's a practice Macdonald calls the "biggest issue in terms of forcing people into poverty."
Deeming works like this: when an employee sustains a permanent injury, they are entitled to loss-of-earnings benefits to make up for the wages they earned before getting hurt. When the WSIB "deems" the worker capable of finding suitable, available work again — say, in a minimum-wage retail position — they get the difference between minimum wage and their pre-accident earnings.
So as the minimum wage rises, loss-of-earnings benefits for permanently injured workers will correspondingly fall. According to the WSIB, fewer than 1 per cent of the 80,000 Ontarians receiving loss-of-earnings benefits will be negatively affected by the wage hike — about 700 people. But spokesperson Christine Arnott said the board will phase in the adjustments over three years to "help ease the impact."
"We're here to help people return to health and return to work. While less than 1 per cent of people who receive loss-of-earnings benefits will see their payments impacted by the change in minimum wage, we do understand the impact is meaningful to them," she said.
The more fundamental issue, Macdonald argues, is that the WSIB cuts benefits regardless of whether the injured worker has actually found a new job after an accident. By the Injured Workers' Consultants estimation, almost 82,000 people since 2007 have been "deemed" to have jobs without actually being employed.
"The board knows that in many cases these people are not in fact working. As long as they have deemed people capable of working, they will cut their benefits," Macdonald said.
"It totally disregards employment barriers that people with disabilities face."
Grillo permanently injured her wrists working in a sewing factory five years ago. Despite being deemed employable in a minimum-wage job by the WSIB, Grillo has never found work since the injury, which left her wearing wrist braces and unable to sew.
With the minimum wage rising to $14 this month, she says her $66 weekly benefit will soon disappear because she was making $13 an hour at the time of her accident.
"I have applied a lot of places. When I show up and they see the braces on my wrists, they tell me we'll let you know," she told the Star.
"I feel depressed, I feel bad. Because I did everything they told me to do, I did everything I'm supposed to do, I did everything I could. Every time I go and apply, the answer is always the same. 'We'll let you know.' "
Some 92 per cent of injured employees return to work with no wage loss within one year of their accident, according to WSIB statistics. Employers generally have a duty to provide work for injured employees for at least a year. But as previously reported by the Star, the WSIB doesn't track what happens to injured workers beyond a year back on the job.
A 2015 study conducted by professors at McMaster and Trent universities looking at injured workers with permanent impairments in Ontario found that 46 per cent were living on the poverty line five years after their accident.
That, Macdonald notes, means the cost of workplace injuries is often ultimately borne by taxpayers — rather than the employer-funded workers' compensation system.
"I would say that almost everybody that comes into our office is already on some form of social assistance," he said.
In a statement, provincial Labour Minister Kevin Flynn said the WSIB, an arm's-length body, has the legal authority to determine its own practices and procedures. But he said his government was "prepared to explore further action when it comes to (deeming)."
"I have met, and will continue to meet, with injured workers regarding this issue and the best way it can be dealt with.
"Our government believes in helping the most vulnerable, which is why we are raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour effective Jan. 1, 2019," he said, adding it has also launched new employment strategy to connect injured workers and people with disabilities to jobs.
The WSIB runs numerous programs designed to improve job prospects for workers who can't return to their original role after an accident. These include skills upgrading, essential skills and literacy skills programs, which the board says results in 88 per cent of participants finding new employment.
Grillo, who grew up in Italy, says the board paid for classes to improve her language skills.
"Since I didn't really know how to read or write English, it did help me to learn and write," Grillo told the Star through a translator. "But it didn't help me prepare for another job or my job, or prepare me in any way to be able to find another job."
Through a freedom of information request, the Star obtained audits of work reintegration programs conducted between 2014 and 2016. According to the documents, while 44 per cent of injured workers who speak English as a second language were classified as "employable," just 13 per cent actually landed jobs after completing a board-sponsored work transition program. (These figures translated to a 23-per-cent "employment rate," according to the review.)
In response to questions from the Star, the WSIB said it expanded its work transition program in early 2017 to include a "heavier focus on English as a second language courses."
"What we often see or hear from injured workers who are going through the return-to-work process is that the assistance that they are getting is not meaningful and not truly helping them obtain or sustain employment," Macdonald said.
"The sustainability of work is really the crucial factor," he added.
Despite the slower phase-in, Macdonald said, the board should ultimately do away with deeming and "compensate people for their actual lost wages."
"No more of this pretending that people have jobs that they don't actually have."
After her injury and her inability to find a new job, Grillo says, she and her retired husband count on his pension and a $500 Penningtons gift card her family gives at Christmas for bare essentials.
"I don't do anything anymore. I don't even go see (my daughter) in Maple because gas is too expensive," Grillo said.
"There's nothing left in my life."


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…. Aaaaaaaaand we're back.
Has it actually been 10 months since Snax Oliver gifted the Illini the football every other play? Man…. time flies when the Crown Tower clock is white.
I'm always excited about Northwestern football, but I'm pretty damn excited about what's in store across the rest of the world of college football this year. If nothing else, each Saturday will provide me a nice respite from the daily grind of working and going to grad school at the same time. Now, I know what you're thinking… "stop tooting your own horn, Roger. It's really unbecoming of you." Well, maybe, but who actually gives a shit? Let's take a look around the country and see who else is tooting their horn (a little too much) this offseason.
Let's start out west. UCLA….. wtf, UCLA?! Your offseason resembled an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians. First, we had this. I don't even have words here. A kettlebell? Come on, Diddy. Go get yourself some brass knuckles or something. Who the f*ck chucks a kettlebell? That's some power lifter shit. Next, we had this. That's right… Ishmael Adams, arguably the nation's best DB, has been suspended indefinitely for robbery. But this wasn't some Jameis Winston crab legs robbery. No no. As you can read in the linked article, it turns out that our boy Ishmael got in a fight with his Uber driver and stole his phone. Are you kidding me?! All this aside, I'm taking this one to the bank: UCLA is wildly overrated and will not finish the year with less than 5 losses. Their schedule is no joke (although they do avoid Oregon), they are replacing a very good college quarterback and they can't seem to avoid the distractions of LA. Yet, people still have them ranked in the preseason top 15 and some have considered them dark horses for the Playoff at year's end. I'm calling bullshit there. In an ode to the original Jim Mora (not Jr who currently coaches UCLA)…. Playoffs?!
Now let's migrate east. Southeast to be precise. Nestled about 140 miles northeast of Bubba Sparxxx's home of Lagrange, Georgia we find ourselves in Athens where expectations are high for Georgia. Yes, UGA has a distinct advantage over the rest of the SEC "contenders" in that they play in the SEC East (which might be as bad as the B1G West). But, hold the phone here. The Dawgs have to play both Auburn and Alabama in cross over games this year in addition to their annual rivalry with Georgia Tech. Some might say Nick Chubb can lead them to victories in 2 of 3 there, but guess what? That's wishful thinking when you're starting a graduate transfer at QB who lost his spot at Virginia. Unless Lindsey Scott, Herschel Walker and crew show up for some heroics this season, there won't be too much property destroyed in St. Simon's Island this fall. Prediction: Dawgs don't even win the SEC East.
I'll spare everyone the lengthy bitching, but let me get in a few sentences about a usual culprit on the overrated list: Notre Dame. This team was an absolute charade last year. They were mediocre at best. Northwestern waltzed in to 1930's Berlin (also read: modern day South Bend) with a depleted team and ran up and down the field on those clowns. So….. Everett Golson leaves for FSU and now ND is a title contender again? I'm not buying that one. I thought after 20 years of consistently overrated shit we were done with the usual preseason garbage surrounding this team. Apparently not. Thanks Lou Holtz… now stop spitting on the camera.
That's enough for the shit(tier than expected) teams…. let's talk about how this season is going to play out.
First, Ohio State is good and the B1G is mediocre. If they get by VT on Monday night, realistically, it's smooth sailing until a 3 game gauntlet of Sparty, The Game (with some increased attention now that The Lunatic graces the other sideline) and the B1G title game. It's really damn difficult to win the title two years in a row. Ask '02 Miami. But, it's also really damn difficult to see Ohio State boxed out of the final four. I've got the BuckNuts with the 1 seed in year 2 of the CFB Playoffs.
So, with Ohio State in, one would think that's all for the B1G, right? Probably, but I'm not so sure about that. If Michigan State manages to beat Nike (also read: Oregon) on 9/12 and Phil Knight's squad goes on to win the Pac10/12/14/Whatever, then Sparty could also be sitting pretty at the end of the year if they only have one loss to the BuckNuts. Blowhards like Mark May, Lou Holtz and co. will point out that Sparty didn't even win their division, but again, ask me if I give a shit. Are we looking for conference winners here or the 4 best teams? Prediction – the winner of the Sparty vs. Oregon game will be in the final four.
We're left with 2 spots and we haven't even taken a look at Dixie yet. Aside from the usual racism in the name of heritage, general homophobia and sociopathy, what does the South have in store for us this year? Will it rise again? Sadly, yes, but only in the football sense. There's also a saving grace here. Our third playoff team won't be from this god forsaken state. The entire SEC West is going to beat up on itself once again, but LSU will sneak through with only one loss. Thus, the LSU Tigers will win the SEC and advance to the playoffs.
So, where's the final spot coming from? The ACC? Uh….. no. I actually think Georgia Tech is the best team in the conference, but their schedule is too daunting to allow them a top 4 ranking at season's end. That leaves us with only one other Power 5 conference. The Big 8-turned-12-turned-10. This one's going to be fun. Everyone should buckle the f*ck up for what's in store on the farmland. Everyone knows about TCU and Baylor. They were both great last year and are well positioned to enter November unscathed again this year (Baylor, tisk tisk for not playing a team with a pulse in your non-con). But, I would be remiss not to remind everyone that there's a common theme in the Big [pick a number] over the past 15 years: Oklahoma ALWAYS rises to the top when expectations are low. Guess what? Expectations are low for Stoops and his crew. As such, I see Samaje Perine taking home the Heisman and leading the Sooners to the conference title and a birth in the final four. (Side note: Samaje Perine wasn't even born when Northwestern won at Notre Dame 20 years ago today).
So….. how'd we do?
It looks like we have Ohio State, LSU, Oklahoma and Michigan State/Oregon in v2 of the College Football Playoffs. As for what happens once we get to that point, that's anyone's guess (and I have negative interest in speculating at this point… primarily because my prediction is likely to be wildly off base anyways).
That's all for now. Here are some wild predictions for the week ahead of us:


text: In every eukaryotes the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) has a central role in protein folding and maturation of secretory and membrane proteins. RTA and RCA disposal require the cytosolic ATPase CDC48 (Marshall et al., 2008), that acts as a molecular machine and provides the force to pull proteins out of the ER membrane to the proteasome. Expression of a dominant negative mutant of the ATPase CDC48A, which is impaired in ATPase function (CDC48A QQ), causes also the accumulation of the non-glycosylated ERAD substrate MLO-1, which is a mutated form of the barley powdery mildew resistance O (MLO) protein (Mller et al., 2005). The integral membrane protein MLO-1 has a lesion in one of the cytoplasmic loops (ERADC substrate) and is therefore highly unstable when expressed in and mutants (Hong et al., 2008, 2009). In addition, the and growth defects are also rescued by the mutant, which lacks the specific mannosyltransferase that transfers the 1,6-mannose to the C-branch during the assembly of the oligosaccharide precursor (Hong et al., 2009). These findings are hallmarks of glycan-dependent ERAD processes and reveal that recognition of a defined mannose residue plays also a crucial role for the degradation of aberrant glycoproteins in plants. Recently, the first members of the ERAD complex have been discovered (Liu et al., 2011; Su et al., 2011). Mutants deficient in the homologs of the membrane-bound cargo receptor SEL1L/HRD3 and the E3 ubiquitin ligase HRD1 can suppress PF-03814735 the dwarf phenotype of and plants. mutants accumulate BRI1-5 and BRI1-9 proteins and analysis of their glycosylation status revealed the presence of processed endoglycosidase H-insensitive N-glycans on a small portion of the mutant BRI1 variants. These data suggest transport of functional BRI1 variants to the plasma membrane resulting in the rescue of the dwarf phenotypes of and phenotype and BRI1-9 accumulation was observed for a mutant (HRD1 homolog (Su et al., 2011). Moreover, stabilization of the non-glycosylated ERADC substrate MLO-1 was detected in plants (Liu et al., 2011) indicating that the HRD1CSEL1L/HRD3 complex is involved in degradation of glycosylated as well as non-glycosylated proteins (Table ?(Table11). Table 1 List of identified ERAD proteins from homolog of YOS9 termed OS9 was identified and characterized with respect to its role in degradation of misfolded PF-03814735 glycoproteins (Httner et al., 2012). Consistent with a role in ERAD, the mutant suppresses the and phenotypes and a chimeric protein consisting of the OS9 protein fused to the C-terminal region of YOS9 was able to complement the protein degradation defect of PF-03814735 the yeast mutant. Co-immunoprecipitation analysis of transiently expressed proteins revealed that OS9 interacts with SEL1L/HRD3 as well as with BRI1-5 and BRI1-9, strongly indicating that this plant MRH-domain containing protein has a similar substrate proofreading function with recognition of a distinct glycan signal on ERAD substrates. Together these findings demonstrate that a conserved HRD1CSEL1L/HRD3COS9 pathway for the degradation of terminally misfolded proteins exists in the ER of plants. Despite this recent progress, the nature of the glycan signal and the process that leads to its generation on aberrant proteins is still unknown. The aforementioned results Mouse monoclonal to MAPK p44/42 for increased BRI1-5 and BRI1-9 protein levels as a result of kifunensine treatment and phenotype highlight that mannose trimming orchestrated by -mannosidases is essential for degradation of these misfolded BRI1 receptors. The class I -mannosidase family consists of five members (MNS1 to MNS5; Liebminger et al., 2009). The MNS proteins remove one to four mannose residues from the oligomannosidic core N-glycan and thus at least one of them acts.


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With the argentinean input of Sergio Agüero and Nicolas Otamendi, Manchester City smashed Watford on their visit to Vicarage Road for a overwhelming score of six cero. In just ten minutes City resolved the game with two goals of argentinean striker Agüero and served an assistant to Gabriel Jesus. Belgium De Bruyne served Agüero for the first goal, the second one came with a lost ball from a play of Gabriel Jesus and Silva which finally ended by Agüero. Third by the assistant of Agüero. Otamendi added one more with a close range header and finally, Agüero completed his hat trick. The six goal was made by Sterling who was grateful with Agüero for a penalty. Pep made one single modification to the successful lineup which played against Dutch Champions during the week. They sent Sterling instead of Bernardo Silva. As per the Guardian: "Watford were inferior, no doubt about that, but never submissive. They rebelled quite strongly at the start of the second half and even had Ederson in the City goal worried for a moment, André Carrillo cracking a fine volley a couple of yards wide from the right-hand corner of the box."
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Agüero got his six hat trick on Premier League. His powerful skill as a striker is obvious, however, Sampaoli still choosing Icardi on the official lineup for Argentina. Now is when he needs to push hard since they are two games away of the World Cup and still needing points to consolidate classification. Agüero in the recent years has been very away of his offensive skills with the national team. They will be playing against Peru at La Bombonera in a decisive game. Certainly, this hat trick works as a good motivation. Manchester City is the leader of Premier League's board and will play with Crystal Palace for the next game.
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Tick-tok, tick-tok, tick-tok…..the clock is ticking. Today we drive to Seward and tomorrow will be an important and exciting trip to the Chiswell Islands. But right now while I wait for everyone else to awake, I'm visualizing VERY HOT weather. On June 17, I fly to San Antonio to try for the Yellow-green Vireo, Masked Duck and Hook-billed Kite. There is now a Streak-backed Oriole and a Yellow Grosbeak coming to feeders in the Patagonia area of Arizona.
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Instagram has extended the maximum length of videos that are uploaded for greater reach and engagement.
Does it mean that all the scare stories about our attention spans shrinking are just that - scare stories?
Yes and no.
There is no doubt that our attention spans are getting shorter. A report by Accenture in 2016 showed that 87% of consumers use a second screen device - mobile, tablet or laptop - while watching television.
The average attention span at the turn of the Millennium was 12 seconds.
The average attention span in 2015 was 8.25 seconds.
...to put that in context, the average attention span of a goldfish, that infamously inattentive creature, is 9 seconds.
"The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish instead!"
Ashwin Sanghi
Here are some interesting stats for you if you have a web presence and have content you are keen to convey:
- On a webpage with 111 words or fewer, a visitor will read, on average, 54 of those words
- Whereas, on a webpage with 500+ words, a visitor will read only 140 of those words
Extra words do not equate to proportional extra time spent on your website by the user.
There is just so much content out there that our poor, frazzled senses are both overwhelmed and overloaded. Does that necessarily mean though that our brains are too busy greedily trying to consume as much of the oceans of content out there as possible and have stopped trying to seek out high quality information that is most interesting to us? Quite the contrary.
What it means is that today's consumers have low boredom thresholds and are frighteningly discerning and sophisticated. It means, especially for marketing folk, and really for anyone with any kind of message they want to convey to a digital audience, that content needs to be creative, it needs to be compelling and it needs to be different in order to cut through and engage.
Back to video content
This brings us back to the newly extended video on Twitter and Instagram, and Twitter's current push towards a separate video area on their app. Video is the perfect medium for the age because it makes it possible to communicate a good deal of content quickly, and with creative flair…It's just that 30 seconds is probably a little too restrictive to the imagination.
Of course what we mean by video now is not at all the same thing as the high production value, dry, self-indulgent corporate video of old. Nowadays video can be quirky, fun and potentially quite low-fi. Journalistic, content-led video is just fine. The main point is that it be engaging.
Video is a creative, effective, highly democratic (anyone can be a broadcaster these days) way of communicating your message and building a brand and/or personality. It is one means of bridging the gap between quality and quantity - a gap that can often appear vast in the current content-crowded digital world.
As with all content you put out, with video you still need to be mindful of issues such as:
- Targeting
- Relevance
- Standing out from the crowd
- Keeping it fresh
- Making sure your key messages are front and centre
We would always argue for a mix of content, to keep short attention spans even more stimulated, but these days video has to be a central part of any marketing strategy. Aside from anything else, creating video content can be enormous fun!
Remember, your consumers probably don't know that they want their lives changed by your products or services...but they almost certainly DO want to be informed, amused and entertained… Video just makes that process a little swifter and simpler.
This article has been updated, 2 years from it's original publish date, on 15th August to remove a reference to Vine. TikTok and Snapchat operate a similar space in the market and the article is still relevant today.


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Grand Canyon, Ariz. – At approximately 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report from a
commercial river trip of a fatality at river mile 74 on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park.
According to one of the trip guides who reported the incident via satellite phone, the group had gone on a side trip, a hike up the Tabernacle Route,
located in the vicinity of Upper Rattlesnake and river mile 74. During the hike, a woman in her 70s lost her footing and fell approximately 100 – 140
feet suffering fatal head trauma.
Park Rangers responded via helicopter to the scene, began initial investigations into the incident and packaged the body for transport.
The body was flown via helicopter to the South Rim where it was met by the Coconino County Medical Examiner.
The National Park Service is conducting an investigation into the incident.
No further information is available at this time.


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AFRICANGLOBE – My most recent visit to the United States coincided with the turmoil caused by the decision of the Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict Mr Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown seven times, killing him.
Street protests followed the jury's judgment.
The refusal of the jury to indict generated a firestorm of protest in Ferguson and many cities and campuses across the US.
The rage was in part a by-product of the age-old controversy that plays itself throughout the United States where Blacks are routinely stopped, frisked and quizzed by white police officers on the assumption that they are more than likely transporting drugs, weapons or some other illegal commodity.
Few Black men escape being stereotyped, profiled, and harassed which is associated with it.
"Driving While Black" is a major criminal offence in America.
Many Americans, but Blacks in particular, expected that great achievements would follow from the election of Barack Obama. While few, if any, expected that the race problem would disappear, quite a few expected the fulfilment of Martin Luther King's dream.
It was assumed that "freedom" had finally come, and that Jim Crow and the colour bar would be anachronisms of the past.
There is now a great deal of disappointment among some naive Black folk.
As Obama explained in one of his speeches, "On the heels of my victory over a year ago, there were some who suggested that somehow we had entered into a post-racial America, and those problems would be solved…That did not work out so well."
That was of course one of the understatements of the year.
Many "post Blacks" are disappointed about how little of the Black prophetic agenda Obama has been able to deliver. Statistical data indicate that many are in fact poorer now than they were before Obama. The Black middle class has shrunk and rates of Black unemployment is said to have increased.
Young Blacks are also being incarcerated in droves—six times the rate of white people—and few are finishing high school.
One in 15 Black children have a parent in prison compared with one in 111 white children.
The median wealth of white families is 20 times that of Black families. The average Black family has US$5,677 in wealth compared with US$113,149 for the average white family.
This disparity is said to be the highest it has ever been.
Race-based remedies bearing the taint of affirmative action are for the most part a no-no,even though Jim Crow is still alive and the cross still burns in suburbia.
Some of Obama's problems are by-products of his own hybridity as well as the manner in which he campaigned for the presidency, having regard to the demographics that characterise American society.
He had to fashion a style that would make him acceptable not only to Blacks of all classes, but also to whites, Hispanics, Asians, Southerners, Eastern liberals, first time voters whom he mobilised, and other minority communities. As one scholar put it, "In racial terms, Obama was singularly polysemous and multi-vocal enabling voters of multiple stripes—Black and multiracial, post-racial, immigrant pacific islanders and so on to see him as a pan-racial candidate who dignified their experiences and advocated their interests."
Given Obama's many pan-racial constituencies, it is not surprising that he satisfied no one fully. Once the honeymoon was over, and given the collapse of the banks and economy as a whole, he was hogtied. He was acceptable only to a minority of whites, some of whom felt he was too Black, too liberal, too "socialist", etc.
He could neither move to the right or to the left. He had no consistent base.
He had to be strategic and opportunistic to survive.
Any initiative that was Afrocentric was shot down with the assertion that he was an American President and not an American with what has been called "wounded identities". Those who belonged to the right-wing lunatic fringe, (the "Tea Party") were hostile on all counts.
They would lynch him if they could.
Many Republicans and even some Democrats saw him as a dangerous radical who must be opposed and blocked comprehensibly, whether it was on Obamacare, his healthcare programme; on immigration, which was blocked in the Congress even though it had had bipartisan support in the Senate; appointments of ambassadors, etc.
What we have had for the past six years or so was a political system in near total gridlock.
Governance had fled from the US Congress. Very little moved.
Politically, the US was worse than Trinidad and Tobago in some respects.
The result of all this, in a political nutshell, was that Obama was unable to get much of his declared policy agenda through Congress, and in the end had to rely unilaterally on executive orders and what is euphemistically called "prosecutorial discretion" which allows
Presidents to use their discretion when it is deemed necessary in the public interest so to do.
Some accuse Obama of political overreach, and accuse him of being a "rogue" president who wanted to be a dictator to secure his legacy. Some even talked about impeachment and of dismantling Obamacare, his main policy triumph.
Obama denied any such aim, and insists that his policies are within the law: "The actions I am taking are not only lawful, they are the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half century."
Obama spokesmen noted in particular that some of those who used the executive route were Reagan and George Bush.
Obama also denies that nothing has changed.
As he pleaded, the problems facing Blacks are deeply rooted and will take time. He told young Blacks in particular to be steady and not quit when you don't get all the way there.
America is not yet a "post-racial" society.
Things have moved forward somewhat, and we can't equate what is happening now with what was happening 50 years ago.
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