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CALLED TO BE AN AGENT OF CHANGE AS A PBVMBack
At one of our Deanery meeting at Kanjamendi, Pastoral Centre, Kandammal, I requested if we could encourage all our children and parishioners to segregate degradable and non-degradable waste and to work towards organic farming and protecting our environment. I also asked if we could use inclusive language in prayer, e.g. human instead of man.
The group accepted the proposal and asked me to give a 20-minute input on environment and the document on Laudato Si. I nervously accepted the challenge, conscious that there were few female voices heard at our meetings. I prepared my presentation with resource materials from Lancia, our expert in Eco-Spirituality, my experience as IPA Justice Contact in India and my life and work in Zambia.
I gave my presentation on 16th December 2016. I spoke about the Social Teachings of the Catholic Church, the Pastoral Plan for the Church in India by the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) 2013, the Rio Summit, the MDGs, the SDGs and Laudato Si. All these documents called the faithful to save and protect the mother earth and the people made poor. Afterwards, I was thanked me for the inspiring and challenging presentation. I said to thank my Congregation for what I was able to share with them.
The Deanery meeting concluded with the group taking practical steps to share about the SDGs and Laudato Si to the various groups we are working with, the priests were requested to integrate them in their sermons and to encourage our children in the hostels and schools to start segregating waste, compost making, to prepare organic kitchen garden, tree planting etc.
As I travelled home that day my thoughts went back to my days of working as IPA Justice Contact in India along with my companions. Today I am deeply grateful to Nano Brennan who guided, inspired, challenged and supported me in the Justice ministry, Marlette Black who helped me to understand what is Rights-based approach in our ministry by using the Two Feet Theory and the Systemic Change Road Map, to the Leadership Team for the opportunity given to attend the TFT training through the intervention of Elsa and the IHRTP training with the support of Fatima and the Leadership Team of then Zambian Vice Province.
My life and work in Zambia taught me many things around organic farming, kitchen garden and composting and the credit goes to Inez and her team. I was given the opportunity and the freedom in my community to implement all that I had learnt in organizing people, very specially children in planting trees and to create a more just and sustainable communities.
Here in Boudh, Odisha we teach the play school, LKG and UKG children to plant trees, to use waste baskets and to segregate waste. I realize, that as an adult whose ways are already set, it is difficult for me to implement the good things I have learnt, whereas teaching children these practices means that they will easily pick up good habits, so that when they grow up they can make a difference in society and build a world of love, justice, peace and integrity of creation.
So, my dear sisters it is with deep gratitude I tell you that I am proud of my Congregation and what we can offer to the world as followers of Jesus and sisters of Nano Nagle. As I travel and interact with other religious groups I realize the richness of our Congregation. I think our minds are saturated with plenty of information and we have a responsibility to connect with local, national and international groups to share all that we have learnt using our own God given unique gifts.
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Hi there and welcome back to your Top 10 Blog! It's been a while since last time and actually I was hoping to have some more votes for our Top 10 List, but nevertheless your preferences helped me to determine a ranking in "our Top 10 Bands of All Times". Many of you won't be surprised by the outcome, neither am I, yet it is still interesting to see, isn't it?
our Top 10 Bands of All Times:
1. The Beatles
2. Pink Floyd
3. Queen
4. Led Zeppelin
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Report: Sylvester Stallone buys Rocky statue for over $400,000
United Artists/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) –Yo, Rocky! Meet your creator.
Sylvester Stallone, who created and played the title character in the Rocky film franchise, apparently bought a backup statue of Rocky that was supposed to be used in Rocky III. According to TMZ, the price was just over $403,000.
In an Instagram post, Sylvester is seen standing in front of the towering statue with his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger. The statue stands at 9 feet tall and weighs 1,800 pounds.
TMZ reports that artist A. Thomas Schomberg created two statues for the third film in the Oscar-winning franchise. The first was used in Rocky III and is now on display in Philadelphia; the second was on display in the San Diego Hall of Champions. When that closed down, the latter statue went up for auction, which is when Stallone purchased it via a middleman.
Perhaps the statue will make an appearance in the second Creed movie, set to hit theaters Nov. 21, 2018.
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For years, Yelp has been dogged by claims that businesses that pay it money receive better treatment on the site. But courts and regulators have consistently sided with Yelp. Now the company has another piece of evidence that its system for sorting online reviews—love it or hate it—isn't subject to unfair manipulation.
Yesterday, Yelp disclosed in an official blog post that the Federal Trade Commission has concluded an almost year-long investigation into the site's practices and decided to take no action.
The company is treating the FTC's inaction as something of a backhanded endorsement, which is not unreasonable. The agency has hardly been shy about taking on tech companies it thinks are pushing the boundaries of the law. It has gone after Google and Facebook over privacy issues, despite the fact that online privacy laws range from weak to nonexistent.
The post, written by Yelp VP of Communications Vince Sollitto, reads in part:
The FTC recently concluded a deep inquiry into our business practices and informed us that it will not be taking any action against Yelp. The FTC looked into our recommendation software, what we say to businesses about it, what our salespeople say about our advertising programs, and how we ensure that our employees are not able to manipulate the ratings and reviews that we display on our platform. After nearly a year of scrutiny, the FTC decided to close its investigation without taking further action. This marked the second time that the FTC had looked at our advertising practices and ended its inquiry without further action.
The FTC's decision comes not long after Yelp won a major legal victory at the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, putting an end to a long-lasting class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit had accused Yelp of tweaking the order of reviews for businesses that pay up for advertising. The district court judge in that case said the plaintiffs' claims were "entirely speculative," and the appeals court said the behavior that was being cited as "extortion" in reality amounted to "at most, hard bargaining." It's the most recent in a string of cases making extortion-related allegations against Yelp, none of which have succeeded.
The investigation became public last April, when the Wall Street Journal acquired more than 2,000 complaints pursuant to a FOIA request. Yelp's Sollitto characterized that number as small, "especially when viewed in context of the tens of millions of reviews on Yelp." Many of the reviews "appeared to be from businesses that simply weren't happy with their ratings or reviews," Sollitto wrote.


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This month, federally sponsored scientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) publicized their creation of an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with about four-times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery – and this one is being prepared for commercial applications.
Stories of close-but-not-quite-ready battery chemistry promising to one day multiply electric car range and vault EVs into the mainstream have been fairly common. But while more has yet to happen with this story, and the ORNL didn't at this early stage discuss automotive applications, researchers have applied for a patent for what they say is a solution that's safer and cheaper than lithium-ion.
"Our approach is a complete change from the current battery concept of two electrodes joined by a liquid electrolyte, which has been used over the last 150 to 200 years," said Chengdu Liang, lead author on the ORNL study published this month in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
The ORNL researchers say that their new ionically-conductive cathode enabled their Li-S battery to maintain a capacity of 1200 milliamp-hours (mAh) per gram after 300 charge-discharge cycles at 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit).
This eclipses a traditional lithium-ion battery cathode which has an average capacity between 140-170 mAh/g. Because lithium-sulfur batteries deliver about half the voltage of lithium-ion versions, Liang said this eight-fold capacity increase in the ORNL battery cathode translates to four times the gravimetric energy density of lithium-ion technologies.
Despite rhetoric from various critics to the effect that the federal government never created anything but a boondoggle, and future growth belongs to private industry, it appears at this point that taxpayer dollars may have actually struck pay dirt.
Or so would go the implications of the synthesis and characterization of the new battery that was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at ORNL. This in turn was done under research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office.
The discovery was described as bypassing a "catch-22" that had baffled researchers for decades. In previous attempts to develop lithium-sulfur batteries, liquid electrolyte was shown to help conduct ions through the battery by allowing lithium polysulfide compounds to dissolve. This was never commercially viable however because the same dissolution process caused the battery to prematurely break down.
"This project represents a synergy between basic science and applied research," Liang said. "We used fundamental research to understand a scientific phenomenon, identified the problem and then created the right material to solve that problem, which led to the success of a device with real-world applications."
How did they get the "device with real world applications?" The ORNL researchers said they first synthesized a new class of sulfur-rich materials that conduct ions as well as the lithium metal oxides conventionally used in the battery's cathode.
They then combined the new sulfur-rich cathode and a lithium anode with a solid electrolyte material that they also developed and created the energy-dense, all-solid battery.
"This game-changing shift from liquid to solid electrolytes eliminates the problem of sulfur dissolution and enables us to deliver on the promise of lithium-sulfur batteries," Liang said. "Our battery design has real potential to reduce cost, increase energy density and improve safety compared with existing lithium-ion technologies."
What's more, Liang told Gizmag that the new lithium-sulfur batteries are stable.
"We did not observe self-discharge. A charged cell was put on shelf for over a week, and it still delivered the same capacity. The essence of our all-solid battery design is to eliminate the self-discharge through the all-solid configuration," Liang said.
"This battery charges slower than Li-ion battery at the current status for a simple reason; the ionic conductivity of both the solid electrolyte and cathode are not high energy to have high current density. Much better performance at elevated temperatures such as 60 degrees C or higher," he added.
At the same time, the ORNL researchers say they enhanced safety and cut costs because their chemistry relies on sulfur – a compound presently considered a waste byproduct of petroleum processing.
Could it be an ironic twist that a solution toward overcoming the "addiction to oil" was discovered within petroleum itself?
This does remain to be seen, but the researchers' all-solid battery design also eliminates flammable liquid electrolytes that can react with lithium metal, thus it's more fire resistant, and, as mentioned, it's also low cost.
"Sulfur is practically free," Liang said of the byproduct of petroleum processing. "Not only does sulfur store much more energy than the transition metal compounds used in lithium-ion battery cathodes, but a lithium-sulfur device could help recycle a waste product into a useful technology."
The investigation of the ionic conductivity of the new compounds was supported by the Energy Department's Office of Science. The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences is one of the five Energy Department Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs) supported by Energy Department's Office of Science national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale.
Questions Remain
But what does this "game-changing" technology mean for the electric car? Anything? Or does it only mean cell phones will get longer talk time, and laptops will go day and night? We are eager to find out, and have put in inquiries for further information. The following is what ORNL initially said upon publicizing the discovery:
"Although the team's new battery is still in the demonstration stage, Liang and his colleagues hope to see their research move quickly from the laboratory into commercial applications," the lab offered in a statement. "A patent on the team's design is pending."
We will let you know more when we learn more.


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We always want to enjoy our favorite tunes and jams at any time of the day and anywhere we may be. For that, you need speakers or a music player that can withstand harsh conditions and can fit anywhere while you carry on with your day. Well, your prayers have been answered in the Splash Tunes waterproof shower speakers.
Popularly known as BTS-06 because of the product code it has been given, the Splash Shower tunes is a Bluetooth waterproof shower speaker which comes in a number of colors like green, blue, black, yellow and pink colors and is available at FRESHeTECH. This speaker is more than just the outlet for your favorite sounds. The circular control panel at the center of the speaker lets you control the volume, forward or rewind your music and even take a phone call using the Bluetooth microphone. You can charge the device using a USB cable provided in the pack.
What is great about the Splash Tunes speaker is the fact that you can connect it to any smartphone or relevant device via Bluetooth. It is reasonably priced and can be used during that picnic, by the pool, on the farm and, of course, in the shower. You are able to place this speaker in a convenient place that you can reach thanks to the suction cup at the bottom of the speaker. The cup allows the speakers to be mounted on any surface.
As earlier mentioned, the Splash Tunes Bluetooth Waterproof Shower Speaker is better known by its product code which is BTS-06. However, there are counterfeit versions of these in the market and there are many disadvantages to getting fake goods. For one, it will not last more than one month because it will either break or stop working after a short time. They are also not waterproof because they are not made by the same quality parts as the original. In addition, the suction cup, because of its inferior quality can cause the speaker to fall in water, in the shower or in places with dirt because the cup has weakened. One sure way of knowing that the product is fake is through the code. When you see it written as btS-06 (where the letters are written in mixed cases), then you will know that it is counterfeit.
One disadvantage to buying counterfeit products such as the Splash Tunes is that in the event of a malfunction or need for maintenance, it will be impossible to contact the manufacturer for assistance because they will not service fake goods. It is a well known fact that 'cheap is expensive' and this means that buying fake Splash Shower Tunes speakers can have you replacing them regularly which then becomes a costly affair.
Therefore, keep the party going with the Splash Tunes Bluetooth waterproof shower speakers no matter the weather or terrain you may be experiencing. Don't buy fake speakers or your party will be shut down too soon. Never compromise on quality in any situation.


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This race has great memories for me. It was my third half marathon back in 2012, even though it was "just" a training run on the path to my first marathon. 2012 brought me a PB and so did the 2013 edition. Finally, last year, I battled PF, but still finished with Emma and celebrated as she ran her way to a small PB.
This year, the goals are different. Or, as Phaedra has noted, "this is NOT your A race."
So, she's given me a plan, based solely on time per KM. The plan is to stick to the plan. Sam's game to come along for the ride.
We'll go out and aim to hit 5:08/km as fast as possible (the beginning is always a bit of a cluster nightmare until about 3k) and then the effort should be smooth and easy all the way past the turn at 14k and then at 16k, we're supposed to pick it up and hit 5:05/km for the last five. Hopefully, we'll be feeling good enough to hit a bit faster in the last couple of KM. I've toyed with the idea of suggesting we race up the chute, but I know Sam will beat me, so instead, I'll settle for another (and better) finishing photo:
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Editor's note: For the past number of years, the NTCI Foundation's archivist, Nancy Baines, has been working on a labour of love – the cataloguing and digitizing of the University Scholarship Winners' photographs. In the following article, Nancy shares this journey.
If you attended NT any time prior to the 1990s, you will probably remember the rows of scholarship photos that lined the main wall of the foyer. Discretely framed, with five faces to a frame, these photos of former NT university scholarship winners, displayed our bragging rights to academic excellence from 1919 to 1986 when this practice was discontinued. Sometime in the 1990s, these photos were taken down and carelessly stored anywhere that space could be found for them. Some were piled in the back of the auditorium under the stairs, others in the former "kitchen-cum- archives room" in the basement and still others were placed in the boiler room and caretakers' room. There they languished until it was decided to build the new school.
When I took over the care of the archives, I did not realize that the photos were so unloved. But eventually, realizing that something had to be done to preserve them, I appealed to the TDSB's conservationist for advice on how to take better care of them. Needless to say, 348 framed photographs took up too much space to properly store them in their frames. So, several months before the big move, I had the caretakers comb the school to locate all the photos. Then I removed them from their frames, carefully noting the information about them. Fortunately, I also had a typed list that a former secretary had kept of the winners. After destroying the frames, I got some pleasure in smashing the glass to little pieces, wrapping it and putting the whole mess out for the garbage. But no more could be done until well after the move. Then I took on the chore of scanning the photos and placing the pictures themselves into binders, recording each name and scholarships won. All this has been done to the best of my ability and now four large binders are available for anyone who would like to see them. We also have a USB key with the scanned photos.
However, much to my dismay, some of the framed photos never resurfaced when we went looking for them in 2010. The following photos / scholarship information are missing:
- 1964: Susan Lederman, Douglas Long, Warren Milne, Glen Patterson, Peteris Zvilna
- 1965: Francis Aboud, Jacqueline Constam, Georg Gunther, Lorraine Koffman, Sheldon Larry
- 1969: Wendy Wayling (although listed as having no photograph)
- 1971: Paul Eprille, Ingid Jarvis, Jan Shapiro, Dianne Short, Martin Snelgrove, Marilyn Thomson
- 1981: Peter Chan, Helen Ferrigan, Stephen Ko, Christopher McLeod, Paul Quinn
- 1982: Michael Armstrong, Peter Wan
- 1983: Jill MacDonald
I have scanned and enlarged the yearbook photos for the students listed above. They are fuzzy but better than nothing. If anyone has information about the scholarships these alumni won and/or a copy of their scholarship photos, I would appreciate hearing from you. Please contact me at: email@example.com.


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If you've come here after seeing this cartoon in the Dominion Post, then nice work! Your Googling skills are impressive - since the Dom Post kindly removed the URL to this webpage (along with my copyright notice) before publishing the 2 cartoons.
For those of you who didn't see NGA in the Dom Post, the cartoons which were printed in last Saturday's Long Weekend section are this one and this one.


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2015, Green Bay Street Food
A collective of Green Bay community members working with the Green Bay Community House received funding towards the cost of obtaining market licenses for the Green Bay Bazaar and Green Bay Street Food events. Both events are aimed at increasing connection in the Green Bay community. The Green Bay Street Food Friday night food markets held at the Green Bay Community House since early 2016 have been very popular with the local community. Green Bay Street Food has provided opportunities for locals starting out with small food businesses, such as Rampant Coffee and Mama Tahina food truck. Both events are committed to being zero waste.


text: Pride, wrath, laziness, envy, greed, lust and gluttony — these seven sins are the major diseases of people, according to Christianity. The developers of Play'N Go company decided to remind the gamblers about this with help of «7 Sins» video slot. This is a stylish and ambient model with colorful characters, a wonderful graphics and unique bonuses, described in the following review by Casinoz.


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The Tube's network of tunnels have not been cleaned for six months and dust is building up in its deepest sections.
Dust made up of oxides of iron and silicon as well as particles from hair, skin and the street is leaving a residue on ventilation systems on the Northern Line.
And one driver who took a mask to work was told to remove it, or face disciplinary action.
He told BBC London: "Managers are worried drivers wearing masks will send the wrong signal to customers - but it is a truthful signal and it is that truth we are trying to get out."
Iron has been linked to heart and liver problems and silica to lung disease.
But although LU admits dust levels are rising, it says exposure levels will not reach dangerous levels.
LU's health adviser Dr Olivia Carlton does not believe dust in the Tube to be dangerous, but has asked the Institute of Occupational Medicine to investigate further.
One solution could be a fleet of mobile vacuum cleaners, prototypes of which are currently being developed.
Martin Brown of Tubelines, one of the private companies who have taken over responsibility for Tube maintenance, said: "The important thing is we have got to come up with the best method of collecting the dust.
"We think this may be a much better method than the tunnel-cleaning train because it allows us to take out a much lower level of dust particle. That is a big improvement on what we can currently do."
'Like smoking a cigarette'
A working model of the Tube vacuum cleaners is expected to be ready in a few months.
In October 2001, scientists from University College London warned that air quality in carriages and at stations was up to 73 times worse than at street level.
They said a 20-minute journey on the Northern line through central London had the same effect as smoking a cigarette.


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IHC 1NFINITY is the first record label with a shared music video universe. Our repertoire of releases consists of sick originals and remixed tracks by artists like starRo, Chela, Pictureplane, Mark Redito, Gavin Turek, Ho99o9 and more. We invite both new and returning members of the IHC fan club to listen to this line up of fresh sounds that soundtrack the weirdness that is the 1NFINITY universe.
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Will I bruise with my neck liposuction procedure?
Neck liposuction can be performed as an outpatient surgical procedure under local anesthesia or IV sedation. Neck liposuction is an outstanding cosmetic procedure designed to recontour the jawline and neckline in patients who have definite increase in fat volume along the neck and jawline. The patients who wish to undergo neck liposuction will first undergo a comprehensive consultation with Dr. Karamanoukian wherein all aspect of the surgery will be discussed. Most patients will undergo tumescent liposuction during their neck procedure. If you have questions about neck liposuction, please call our cosmetic surgery patient coordinator at 310-998-5533.
Consultation for neck rejuvenation in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills includes all aspects of facial cosmetic surgery, including neck lift, facelift, laser neck resurfacing, neck liposuction, and mini neck lifts.
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Vistex is an SAP software solutions extensions partner serving businesses of all sizes worldwide across a spectrum of industries by managing their master data, contracts, pricing, rebates and incentive programs. Our solutions provide unprecedented visibility into the breadth and depth of go-to-market programs and enable businesses with insightful information that drive revenue, control costs and increase margins. Our deep industry expertise coupled with in-house implementation, delivery and training services makes Vistex a full solutions resource and consultancy.
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Collingswood May Fair
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The region's biggest block party! Food, music, arts and crafts, rides, kid and family events, car show, entertainment, shopping – all along one mile of Collingswood's beautiful, historic downtown. It's the 39th Annual May Fair!
More than 200 artists and crafters will display their unique creations in a juried show. Children will have their day of fun in the "KidZone" featuring carnival games, rides, and children-friendly crafters.
Multiple stages of live music will feature blues, rock, folk, and more. An antique and classic auto show and Harley Davidson motorcycle display add to the festival's appeal. Visitors will also find several food courts complimenting the downtown restaurants and cafes. There will be everything from pulled pork to fancy desserts! May Fair also welcomes the return of the renowned Collingswood Farmers Market offering "Jersey Fresh" produce, flowers, and more sold in a delightful open air atmosphere.
Parking is available in the PATCO lots and on side streets. Haddon Avenue will be closed to traffic beginning at 6am. PATCO is a great way to come to May Fair; the Collingswood station is a block from the action! If you need an address to Google or to enter in your GPS, use 678 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08108 which is the Borough Hall in the center of town. Rain date is May 27th, 2018.
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Friday, February 16, 2018
5:00-5:30 Registration. HAL Atrium.
5:30-6:30 Dinner. SU Great Room.
7:00-8:00 Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture. Sticht Lecture Hall.
"Economic Calculation and the Vertical Division of Labor: An Austrian Perspective on Development Economics"
Dr. G. P. Manish, Associate Professor of Economics at Troy University
Saturday, February 17, 2018
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Pastries. HAL Atrium.
9:00-10:30 Sessions
▪ The Future of Cryptocurrencies. Chairman: Jeff Herbener. HAL 114.
- "Fighting Economy Privilege with a Protocol: A Qualitative Analysis of Bitcoin's Potential to Propagate Sound Money and Banking Worldwide,"
Zack Voell (Grove City College)
Giancarlo Diaz (Baruch College)
Anthony Rozmajzl (Grove City College)
10:45-12:15 Sessions
▪ The Promise of Private Solutions. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. HAL 114.
Christian Thoren (Grove City College)
Justin Austin (Ferris State University)
Jesse Newton (Grove City College)
- "Polycentricity and Collective Action in Religious Communities: A Case Study of the Chabad-Lubauitcher Sect."
Alexis Catherine Garretson (George Mason University)
▪ The Perils of Government Solutions. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
Jessica Wiewel (Oklahoma State University)
Joshua Tam (Grove City College)
Scott Vineyard (Grove City College)
12:30-1:15 Lunch. SU Great Room.
1:15-1:45 Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. SU Great Room.
"The Culture of Liquidity."
Dr. Guido Hülsmann, Professor of Economics at the University of Angers
2:00-3:30 Sessions
▪ Money, Capital, and Business Cycles. Chairman: Caleb Fuller. HAL 114.
Jackson Place (Grove City College)
Daniel Sanchez-Pinol (Texas Tech University)
Estefania Lujan-Padilla (Texas Tech University)
3:45-5:15 Sessions
▪ Economic Reasoning: Potent and Impotent. Chairman: Shawn Ritenour. HAL 116.
Anton Chamberlin (Loyola University, New Orleans)
Tegan Truitt (Grove City College)
George Balabanian (British Columbia)
Melissa Lueken (Grove City College)
5:30-6:30 Dinner. SU Great Room.
6:45-7:00 Awarding of the Thomas E. Woods Prizes for Best Papers. Sticht Lecture Hall.
7:00-8:30 The Bubble Film. Sticht Lecture Hall.
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At the November 21 regular meeting of the Historic Architectural Review Board, Mobility Coordinator Xavier Pellicer requested approval to construct pedestrian improvements across Avenida Menendez and Marine Street, spanning from Artillery Lane to the Municipal Marina, which would include a crosswalk, signage, ADA ramp, and curbed islands. This effort is part of the Mobility Program to continually make pedestrian improvements within the City.
The proposed designs for the improvements will be similar to those installed on Avenida Menendez during the recent resurfacing project along the bayfront. The crosswalk and curbed islands will be laid in brick with flashing lighted signs on either side of the street, that will be activated by a pedestrian wishing to cross the road.
For further information, contact Xavier "X" Pellicer, Mobility Coordinator, at 904.209.4211.


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Toyota Kirloskar Motor launched new Liva hatchback with cosmetic upgrades priced at Rs 5.76 lakh for petrol variants and Rs 6.79 lakh for diesel variants, ex-showroom Delhi.
The car features dual tone painted contrast roof and pillars in black colour. The black treatment also applied to the new rear roof spoiler, grille and ORVMs (Outside Rear View Mirror). The new Liva also comes with 15-Inch diamond cut alloy wheels.
The interior is spruced up with wood finish on the dashboard. The car also comes with Bluetooth audio and new dual-tone seat fabric.
On safety front, the new Liva comes with dual front SRS airbags, pre-tensioner and force limiter for front seatbelts. The updated hatchback comes with a warranty of three years or 1,00,000 kilo meters, whichever comes first.
"It is our endeavour to continuously upgrade our offering in line with the changing lifestyle preferences of our customers and with Etios Series being received Most Promising Brand 2015 and we are confident the New Liva will further delight our customers this auspicious season," said Akitoshi Takemura, senior vice president, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd.
The facelift is powered by the same 1.2-litre petrol engine that develops 79bhp at 5,600rpm and 104Nm at 3,100rpm. The diesel unit is the 1.3-litre CRDi engine that develops 67bhp at 3,800rpm and 170Nm of torque at 1,800-2,400rpm. Both engines are mated to five-speed manual transmission.
The Liva comes with a length x width x height of 3,775mm x 1,695mm x 1,510mm. The car also comes with 2,460mm wheelbase and 251-litres of fuel tank capacity.


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Impressive Curved Stair From Our Joinery Division
Just completed in our Joinery Workshop - Two curved on plan staircases for a private client near Henley on Thames. Oak treads and risers and handmade laminated curved strings. They will have steel dowel spindles with a continuous oak handrail. These photographs were taken before site installation. More photos after installation will follow.


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We have an extensive range of support stands where your Eloma compact combi steamer can rest securely and perfectly. Special hygiene support stands are available on request, either open or with doors.
- With 10 rails for GN 1/1 or half size sheet pans
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This stock powder makes sensational stocks and adds flavour to vegetables and sauces. Using only premium ingredients like the finest vegetables, herbs, extra virgin olive oil and pure sea salt from the Great Southern Ocean, Massel believes good food is simple. And tasty. Really, really tasty!
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Learning to play guitar when you have small hands can be a real challenge. Fortunately, there are some great small neck guitars on the market that are good for people with small hands.
While these smaller guitars are good for kids and teens, they are also good for adults with smaller hands. Even pop star Ed Sheeran plays a small guitar! What you need is a guitar with a smaller neck, these are normally 3/4 scale guitars or slimline guitars.
Personally, I think electric guitars are easier to play, but there are plenty of acoustic-electric models that are also easy to play. Check out our top picks below.
Top 10 Best Small Hand Guitars in 2015 - 2016
|Taylor BT2 Baby Taylor Acoustic Guitar
|(4.8 / 5)
|Takamine GD20-NS Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar
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|Epiphone SG G-400 Pro Solid Body Electric Guitar
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|Daisy Rock Butterfly Jumbo Acoustic-Electric Guitar
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|Ibanez AEG240 Thinline Recording Acoustic-Electric Guitar
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|Yamaha FG700S Acoustic Guitar
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|Martin X Series Ed Sheeran X Signature Edition Little Martin Acoustic-Electric Guitar
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|Martin LXK2 Little Martin Koa Pattern HPL Top with Padded Gigbag
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|Epiphone PR-5E Acoustic-Electric Guitar
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|Daisy Rock Wildwood Artist Acoustic-Electric
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|Taylor GS Mini Mahogany GS Mini Acoustic Guitar
|(4.5 / 5)
|Jasmine S35 Acoustic Guitar
|(4.4 / 5)
|Seagull S6 Original Slim Guitar
|(4.3 / 5)
All of the models listed above are great when it comes to playing guitar with small hands. Most of the time, a 3/4 scale guitar is what people with small hands end up playing. These are good options, but keep in mind that they tend to have frets that are kinda smushed together a bit as you move up the neck. It's not bad, but I do want to you be aware of it. Your other main option is a slimline guitar where the necks have a slim taper design that works well for smaller hands. Or, if you can get your hands on a old 60's Gibson guitar – those things have really small necks!
Some guitar brands are known for making all their guitars with thinner necks. In general, the best brands for thin necks are Ibanez, Charvel, Daisy Rock and Jackson. Of those, I definitely prefer the sound and feel of an Ibanez.
My Favorite Acoustic Guitar for Small Hands
When it comes to the best acoustic guitar for small lands, look no further than the Taylor BT2 Baby Taylor Acoustic Guitar. This guitar has a similar feel in your hands to the small Martin guitars, but I think you get a better sound from this model. here's my quick Taylor BT2 Baby Taylor Acoustic Guitar review.
This entry level acoustic guitar has a nice, affordable price and a great sound. It is a 3/4 scale guitar, which is why it's great for people with smaller hands. I'm a big fan of the mahogany finish (pictured), but you can buy it in other finishes as well.
It is a steel string guitar and they feel like very light strings. I find the Baby Taylor very easy to play. It comes with a free tan soft gig bag for storing and transporting the instrument. The bag is padded, so it works well for protection.
Overall, the sound is just as good, if not better, than what you get with a full-body guitar. It even seems to maintain it's tune in any type of weather conditions – humid, hot and cold. That also makes this a great travel guitar choice. It's also worth noting that this is a solid wood guitar and not some cheap particleboard type of crap. You're getting a real quality instrument with this one. Check out the video below to hear how good this one sounds.
My Favorite Electric Guitar for Small Hands
When I was first learning to play guitar, I went with an electric because I found it easier to learn on. Most guitar players find that electric models have smaller necks in general, and I agree with this. Of course, some are a bit easier for small hands than others. I think the Epiphone SG series has some of the slimmest necks, which is why I think that the Epiphone SG G-400 Pro Solid Body Electric Guitar is the best electric guitar for smaller hands. Keep reading for my Epiphone SG G-400 Pro Solid Body Electric Guitar review.
You can get this model in either a cherry or an ebony finish, though I am partial to the ebony. The guitar itself looks amazing and for good reason – it's a throwback to the designs from the 60's.
This is a really high quality guitar and it features Alnico Classic PRO pickups and push/pull coil-tapping. It really gives you the chance for some versatility in your playing.
It has a slim tamper profile, which is why it's the best electric guitar for small hands right now. It's also a good electric guitar for beginners because of this. In fact, it is overall one of the best electric guitars for the money today.
The guitar goes not come with a case or gig bag, so you'll have to buy one of these separate, if you decide that you want one. But it does come with D'Addario strings standard, which are great, so no need to worry about having to replace those. For a good idea of how this guitar sounds, check out the video below.
Daisy Rock Butterfly Jumbo Acoustic-Electric Guitar Review
If you are new to the Daisy Rock guitar brand, then you should know that the company was started by a woman who wants to make smaller guitars for women and girls.
And while many of their guitars have flowers, glitter and other traditionally girly things, these are really unisex guitars that can be played by anyone. And one of my favorites is the Daisy Rock Butterfly Jumbo Acoustic-Electric Guitar.
This guitar has a slim neck for smaller hands, which is a signature of all Daisy Rock guitars. It is also pretty lightweight compared to most models, which also helps to make it easier to play.
If you want to hear how this one sounds when played, take a moment and check out the video below.
The guitar sounds great when you play it and looks even better. It features a butterfly rosewood bridge,white binding, and a butterfly inlay as the 12th fret marker. And, it comes with a soft gig bag.
Ibanez AEG240 Thinline Recording Acoustic-Electric Guitar Review
My main guitar at home is actually this sweet little model from Ibanez. Most of the guitars that they make have smaller necks and this Ibanez AEG240 Thinline Recording Acoustic-Electric Guitar model really fits comfortably in my smaller hands.
The thinline design means that this one is much easier to play than a deeper, larger guitar. And since it is easier to hold, that is why it is good for people with small hands.
As an acoustic-electric, you get a lot of versatility. And one really unique feature is that the guitar itself has a USB port, which makes it easy to plug into your computer and record your playing.
Unfortunately, you don't get a gig bag or case, so you'll have to buy a separate one to use. Of course, that is pretty standard with most guitars.
Overall, this model has a great sound at a great price. You end up with a high quality instrument that fits comfortably in your hands and should last you for many years. Check out how it sounds in the video below.
Takamine GD20-NS Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Review
Another high quality guitar brand that is known for making most of their models with smaller necks is Takamine. And out of all their current models on the market, I really like the sound and feel of the Takamine GD20-NS Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar.
Sure, it might not be much to look at since it has that natural finish and that traditional acoustic guitar look, but what it lacks in visual appeal it more than makes up for in sound and quality.
From the first time you pick this one up, you'll notice how great it feels.
The sound you get from this guitar is a warm tone thanks to the solid cedar top and mahogany sides and back. That means that this guitar works well for all different types of music. It truly is a great acoustic guitar for the money. But don't take my word for – listen to how it sounds in the video below.
Yamaha FG700S Acoustic Guitar Review
Another great choice for small hands is the Yamaha FG700S Acoustic Guitar. Though Yamaha normally makes fatter necks, this model is a bit on the slim side, which is why we've chosen it.
Not only is this is a good guitar for small hands, but it also the best acoustic guitar under $200 – $500 right now! It's rare that you find such a high quality guitar as such a low price, but when you buy this model at Guitar Center it is cheap.
The price also makes this a good acoustic guitar for beginners. As you've noticed, the design of this one is traditional like the Takamine reviewed above. However, the finish on this one is a little lighter in color. if you don;t like the color, there are a few other finishes available but they tend of have a higher cost.
Unless you buy the higher priced bundle kit, you do not get a case or gig bag with this guitar. I suggest skipping the bundle though and picking out your own case or bag. That way, you get something that is better quality.
After playing this model, I find the sound to be more folk acoustic than traditional acoustic. Either way, it sounds pretty good. Watch the video below to see what you think about the sound.
Seagull S6 Original Slim Guitar Review
When you ask around for slim neck guitars, the Seagull S6 Original Slim Guitar is one of the most recommend. And it is a pretty good guitar, but it is by no means the best choice. In fact, I think that any of the models reviewed above is a much better choice for you. And I still think that this is a decent guitar.
One of the good things about this guitar is that it is made in North America. So, if you definitely want a good acoustic guitar that is made in the USA, then this model is a good option for you cause it comes from just across the border in Canada. However, it is one of the higher priced guitars on this list (based on Guitar Center price).
Overall, this guitar feels like a high quality instrument and it fits comfortably in your hand. The brand is well-known and has won several awards for making high quality guitars. In fact, this very model was awarded.
The sound from this guitar is also good. You get a nice full, dark sound. I think it's probably best for folk music though. And even though this isn't the most attractive guitar, it is easy to play and is built to last you for years. I suggest taking a moment to listen to how it sounds when played in the video below.


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And the results of all this striving? To know ourselves, of course. Only by knowing what is possible, says Sasselov in this inspirational book, can we ever understand how life got going on Earth and why it has the characteristics it has. Sasselov quotes T. S. Eliot: "We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."


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Outgoing Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has regularly been the headlines, be it facing dissent from within the Supreme Court judiciary, or his landmark judgements upholding constitutional, fundamental and individual rights.
Being the Chief Justice of India is no mean feat. One has to walk the fine line of balancing the law with the greater good, and ensure every judgement speaks for fairness.
On October 2, 2018, CJI Dipak Misra will step down as the 45th Chief Justice of India marking an end to an era that witnessed several landmark verdicts.
Born on October 3, 1953, in Cuttack, Dipak Misra pursued a degree in law from Madhusudhan Law College and cleared the bar on February 14, 1977. He began his practice at the Orissa High Court and the service tribunal and since then, has played a crucial role in the Indian judiciary. He served as a permanent judge in Madhya Pradesh High Court, and later as Chief Justice of Patna High Court. He was appointed the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court in 2010.
In his 13-month tenure at the Supreme Court, Dipak Misra was the only CJI to have faced rebellion from within the Supreme Court judiciary and an impeachment motion by opposition MPs.
A series of progressive verdicts in the last few weeks of his tenure will define what he will be most remembered for - the judge who stood for individual liberty and gender equality. Eight judgments by Justice Dipak Misra that will impact generations to come:
Sabarimala temple opens doors to women
A Hindu pilgrimage center in Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala, the Ayyappan temple in Sabarimala clocks about 45–50 million devotees every year. Women between the ages 10 and 50, though, were kept out. On September 28, a five-bench judge comprising Justices R F Nariman, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, and Indu Malhotra, led by CJI Dipak Misra overruled the Kerala High Court's 27-year-old decision that restricted the entry of women into the temple.
In its official statement, the court said,
"The dualism that persists in religion by glorifying and venerating women as goddesses on one hand and by imposing rigorous sanctions on the other hand in matters of devotion has to be abandoned. Such a dualistic approach and an entrenched mindset results in indignity to women and the degradation of their status."
Supreme Court proceedings to be live streamed
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" - stated a bench led by CJI Dipak Misra on September 26, delivering a verdict allowing live streaming of court proceedings. Cases of national and constitutional importance will be live streamed by the apex court for all citizens. The move is seen as a step towards transparency, and increasing accountability of the lawyers and judges.
Private companies can't demand Aadhaar verification
A Supreme Court bench upheld the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, striking down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, which allowed the sharing of citizen data with private entities. The ruling means Aadhaar is mandatory only to file IT returns and for PAN allotment, and is voluntary for bank accounts, e-wallets, and school admissions.
The bench, in its 1,448-page verdict, also asked the government to make Aadhaar more secure by "adopting and implementing appropriate technical and organisational security measures to ensure that the agencies, consultants, advisors or other persons appointed or engaged for performing any function of authority under this Act have in place appropriate technical and organisational security measures for the information".
Husband, not the master; adultery no longer a crime
The Supreme Court last week struck down the 158-year-old Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code. The Colonial-era law criminalised adultery, stating that a woman could be punished for adultery, as could a man who has consensual sexual intercourse with another man's wife without his consent. The Supreme Court called the law unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master".
"Any provision of law affecting individual dignity and equality of women invites the wrath of the Constitution. It's time to say that the husband is not the master of the wife. Legal sovereignty of one sex over other sex is wrong", read out Chief Justice Dipak Misra from the judgement.
Section 377 struck down
A five-judge SC bench gave a historic, unanimous ruling on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, decriminalising homosexuality. The bench, terming Section 377 as 'irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary', diluted it to exclude all kinds of adult consensual sexual behavior.
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The natural identity of an individual should be treated to be absolutely essential to his being. What nature gives is natural. That is called nature within. Thus, that part of the personality of a person must be respected and not despised or looked down upon."
Two states and their tryst with Cauvery
In a verdict on the longstanding Cauvery river water dispute, the Supreme Court reduced the allocation of water from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu. CJI Dipak Misra led the special three-judge bench, which announced its final verdict on the 120-year-old dispute over the Cauvery River between the two states on February 16, 2018.
Declaring the Cauvery a "national asset", the bench upheld the water-sharing arrangements finalised by the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) in 2007. In the verdict CJI Dipak Misra said, "Cauvery, as the Ganga of the South, and the river is not a state's property but a natural resource." Karnataka was directed to supply 177.25 tmc instead of 192 tmc, from Billigundlu to Mettur dam in Tamil Nadu.
Observing that Bengaluru had attained "global status", the bench laid down a few guidelines for sharing the water on priority basis, and termed drinking water requirement as top priority.
Death sentence to convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape
The brutal Delhi gangrape case in 2012 rocked India, sparking angry protests and putting the focus on sexual crimes against women. The rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student shocked the country and prompted the government to set up a judicial committee to propose stiff laws to deal with rape cases. This spurred faster prosecution and harsher punishment for perpetrators.
Observing that "wanton lust" and "servility to absolutely unchained carnal desire and bestiality" ruled the minds of the four convicts, CJI Dipak Misra awarded them the death sentence in May 2017. In his verdict, he said: "The casual manner with which she was treated and the devilish manner in which they played with her identity and dignity is humanly inconceivable. It sounds like a story from a different world where humanity has been treated with irreverence."
Midnight hearing and rejection of Yakub Menon's plea
This trial led to one of the most extraordinary hearings in the history of the Supreme Court. It was 3.24 am when Justices Dipak Misra, PC Pant, and Amitava Roy began hearing a petition seeking deferement of Yakub Memon's execution. The verdict was unanimous: the plea was dismissed, and the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts was executed.
Eleven people were convicted for the bombings that targeted the Bombay Stock Exchange, a five-star hotel, the offices of Air India, and crowded bazaars. Memon was the only one whose death sentence was upheld; the other 10 accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.
CJI Dipak Misra's other notable judgments include:
- Cinema, as an art form, is an inseparable part of the right to free speech and expression (during the brouhaha over the release of Padmavat).
- Upholding the marriage of Hadiya, who converted to Islam, with Shafin Jahan in a presumed 'love-jihad' case.
- Deprecating honour killing and honour crimes, stating that assertion of choice is an integrable facet of liberty and dignity.
- Making it mandatory for cinema theatres to play the National Anthem.
- Upholding the Allahabad High Court judgment that reservation in promotions can be provided only if there is sufficient data and evidence to justify the need.
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The over-exploitation of important earth resources such as land and water has led to a number of environment-related problems all over the world. At the same time, land-use change caused by various human activities has led to extinction of habitats and species of flora and fauna. In this context, the relevance of biodiversity for human survival is becoming a major international political issue as scientific evidence builds on the global health implications of biodiversity loss. These issues are closely linked with the issue of climate change, as many of the health risks due to climate change are associated with fast degradation of biodiversity. This present work focuses on holistic natural resource-based spatio-temporal planning, development and management and considered them as essential to save the degraded ecosystem for sustainable resource management. Contributions are compiled in two volumes: 1. Climate Change and Biodiversity, and 2. Landscape Ecology and Water Management. Geoinformatics along with its tools such as remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS) have been used in assessing the results of various environmental problems both physical and social. The volume will be useful for geographers, geoscientists, hydrologists, landscape ecologists, environmentalists, engineers, planners, and policy makers.


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Healthier ageingBMJ 2012; 344 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e1214 (Published 12 March 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e1214
- Phyo Kyaw Myint, clinical senior lecturer in ageing and stroke medicine12,
- Ailsa A Welch, senior lecturer in nutritional epidemiology1
- 1Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
- 2Academic Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY
- Correspondence to: P K Myint Phyo.K.Myint{at}uea.ac.uk
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Ageing affects people in different ways, with a wide variation in age related physical and mental functioning
Healthier ageing is achievable through modifying some lifestyle factors—such as stopping smoking, being more physically active, and eating a balanced diet
For healthier ageing, eat mainly nutrient dense foods that are rich in vitamins and minerals and low in fats and sugar
Balancing energy intake and expenditure is important for maintaining healthy weight
Preventing chronic diseases may promote healthier ageing through better physical and mental health
Ageing is associated with a gradual decline in physical functioning with or without mental frailty. The ageing process is intrinsically complex, being driven by multiple causal mechanisms.1 2 Genome instability, telomere damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, and inflammation are established mechanisms of ageing.w1 w2 Age related changes in body composition include a relative increase in fat tissue and a gradual decline in muscle mass. Not everyone ages in the same way, however, and the term biological age is loosely used to indicate how well someone has aged in terms of the degree of decline in their physical functioning and their ability to meet physiological demands.3 4
Ageing is determined by complex interactions between biological, environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural factors,w3 some of which are beyond the control of individuals. Factors that may contribute to the ageing process, such as poor nutrition,w4 physical inactivity, smoking, and psychosocial characteristics (such as stress),w5 may be modifiable. These factors are associated with the development of chronic diseases that are, in themselves, associated with physical and mental frailty and could be tackled at an individual level throughout life. Considerable geographic variation in the prevalence of major …
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The concept of the early 20th century side show evokes images of bearded ladies, sword swallowers and exotic 'others' exhibited as 'freaks' before audiences both lured and repelled by what they saw.
Crowds flocked to Coney Island side shows where, for ten cents, they could find solace that someone was worse off than they were during times of low life expectancy, high infant mortality, world war and financial instability. Few had the luxury of seeing the humanity behind the act.
Cartoonist Bill Griffith based his legendary character Zippy the Pinhead on Schlitzie, a real life side show 'pinhead' who appeared in the movie, "Freaks." Early audiences were appalled by director Tod Browning's use of real side show actors who banned together to seek revenge on those who treated them with cruelty.
Griffith's new graphic novel is his way to dig a little deeper into who Schlitzie was and the side show family who cared for and loved him.
Also this hour: we learn about a man who saved thousands of premature infants over almost forty years by exhibiting them in incubators in a Coney Island sideshow. Behind the acts, side show performers were often people of great compassion, courage, and humanity.
- Bill Griffith - Creator of the syndicated daily comic strip Zippy and author of two graphic memoirs, including, Invisible Ink: My Mother's Secret Love Affair With a Cartoonist," and Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead
- Wolf Krakowski - Yiddish singer but not a klezmer musician. Wolf created the genre of Yiddish World Blues. His CDs are on Tzadik Records. Wolf has also videotaped more than 100 testimonies of Holocaust survivors for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
- Claire Prentice - Award-winning freelance journalist, editor and writer. She's the author of two non-fiction books, including The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century, and Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine
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The principal authors S. M. Shahedul Alam, Research fellow, Faculty of Business Studies and Md. Nekmahmud Argon, BBA student, Department of Marketing, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh has conducted this research work under the supervision of Assistant Professor Sheikh Majedul Huq, the Department of Marketing, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladseh.
Now a days cell phone is becoming more popular and user friendly device due to its convenient using and availability of low cost to communicate with all classes of people.
The main objective of the study is to investigate the customer's attitude towards mobile advertising in Bangladesh. Researchers try to find out the customer's attitude based on five (5) factors, i.e. entertainment, information, credibility, irritation and incentives. Through which marketers can scan the real scenario about the customers' attitude towards the mobile advertising. This paper makes capable enough to take proper decision about effective communication and advertisement which can ensure its long term sustainability in the competitive business world. According to The Mobile Economy Report 2015, the mobile industry continues to scale rapidly with a total of 3.6 billion unique mobile subscribers at the end of 2014. Half of the world's population now has a mobile subscription up from just one in five 10 years ago. An additional one billion subscribers are predicted by the year 2020, taking the global penetration rate to approximately 60%. There were 7.1 billion global SIM connections at the end of 2014, and a further 243 million machine-to-machine (M2M) connections. As per the information of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of mobile phone subscriptions has reached 124.705 million at the end of April 2015.
Researchers also found out that company taking permission from only 17% of respondents sending mobile advertising. 53.1 % of respondents experienced that they have got discounts or coupons message through mobile advertising. 51.5% of respondents have high involvement with mobile advertising. The study also exhibits that only 23.1% of respondents are often used mobile advertising for their shopping purpose. Most of the customers would like to receive mobile advertising in the morning and night. 67.7 % of respondents are showing their concern that they want to receive three or more messages in a day.
The authors suggest that Advertising content, format and structure must be accurate, attractive and accepted by the target audience or receiver of mobile advertisers. Those clarified mobile advertising and communication decisions help to improve advertising efficiency resulting with high sales volume and strong customer relationship.
Md. Nekmahmud, BBA Student, Department of Marketing, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
S. M. Shahedul Alam, Research fellow, Faculty of Business Studies, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
Supervisor & corresponding author:
Sheikh Majedul Huq, Assistant professor, Head of the department of Marketing, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
A paper about the study appeared recently in International Journal of Business and Economics Research.
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Reason Not to Go to Law School #6
There are three different systems of ethics in the world:
Six year old ethics: Little kids have very good instincts about what is fair and what is not. Sometimes they just need a little more information about what effects different choices will have, but they're generally good gauges of what's right and what's wrong.
"Ethics:" Then there's ethics as in "ethics." This is the manipulation of rules to come up with the most convoluted way to rationalize their actions. If you explain it to a six year old and they give you a cross look, it's probably not ethics, it's "ethics."
Lawyer ethics: Some people will confuse this with "ethics" in that it's entirely convoluted, but instead of trying to find some weird theory to justify their actions, lawyers just create needlessly complex, stupid ethical rules. I assume law students start school with the normal six year old ethical sense most of us share. But, somewhere along the line their heads get full of weird legal rules and they lose sight of basic ethical principles. While sometimes they are trying to cheat and steal and relying on "ethics," most of the time they're just so far removed from basic humanity that they couldn't find a coherent ethical principle with two hands and Hammurabi.
Case in point: David Lat (of AbovetheLaw.com fame) went to a hotel, ate a packet of Oreos from the hotel mini bar. He then replaced the packet with an identical one bought from a local store to avoid the crazy hotel charge. He submitted this scenario to Randy Cohen's New York Times column The Ethicist, who promptly told him he was in the wrong.
Here's what one commenter said, as reported on Above the Law:
"In a way, it's somewhat analogous to the crime of theft (as tested on bar exams): once you take something that doesn't belong to you with the intent of permanently depriving the owner of possession, the crime is complete. You can later change your mind and return it, but the crime remains."
While this is a fair representation of the fictitious (yet representative) multi-state crime of theft as test on the bar exam, it's also a fair representation of what's wrong with law student (and lawyer) ethics. The analogy is simply irrelevant. Here's the entire relevant inquiry regarding Lat's dilemma:
Q: Was anyone, in the least bit, harmed by your action?
A: No.


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The ECMI Eastern Partnership Programme (EPP) team is back from Ukraine and their latest activities in Kyiv.
The Ecmi EPP team organised two seminars focusing on indigenous peoples and Roma mediation in the beginning of April, with participation from local stakeholders and partners from three target countries, as well as the invited international experts.
The first event on "Exchange of experience in Roma mediation: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova" was organised in cooperation with the Roma women fund "Chiricli".
"Roma mediation is not only an effective instrument of intercultural communication, but also an instrument for overcoming inequality and promoting integration," said Dr. Zora Popova (Senior Research Associate at the ECMI) in her opening speech, before giving the floor to the representatives of local organisations working on Roma issues in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Some of the topics discussed during the sessions included:
- What is meant by 'Roma mediation'? What are the different stages of work of a Roma mediator? Questions of mediation in the Roma communities: the role, tasks, and ethics code of mediators.
- The importance of consolidation of trust and consensus and effective communication skills
- Presentations of the situation of Roma mediators in three countries: Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova
- The analysis of thematic cases on the topic – Mediation on general issues (interaction with local authorities, police, etc.) as well as specific case analysis on thematic issues of education and health
Some of the organisations represented during the seminar included the National Association of [Roma] Mediators of the Republic of Moldova (represented by Mr. Valeriu Căldăraru, Director), Romano Alav, the Romani Women and Girls Network (represented by Kristina Raducan, Founder and Execurive Director), the International Charitable Organization Roma Women's Fund Chiricli (represented by Zola Kondur, Vice President), and National Media Teleradio Moldova / Programme Petalo Romano (represented by Elena SIbru, Journalist).
The second seminar organised by the ECMI EPP team focused on "Indigenous people: political participation and conflict resolution". The seminar was organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and took place also in Kyiv, Ukraine. Thirty civil servants from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and local state administrations attended the event at the premises of the "Crimean House". The seminar was moderated by ECMI Senior Researchers Dr. Zora Popova and Dr. Raul Carstocea. The seminar featured two international experts: Prof. Alexandra Xanthaki (Director of Research at Brunel Law School, UK) and Elisabeth Nauclér (Finnish independent politician and jurist).
The lecture by Prof. Alexandra Xanthaki on the first seminar day drew attention to the international and national legal mechanisms of conflict resolution over the status of indigenous peoples. The autonomy of the Åland islands, which are home to the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, was the focus of the second seminar day. Elisabeth Nauclér portrayed the early challenges of the autonomy establishment back in 1921 and the political dimension of the modern model. The afternoon session of the second seminar day featured a fruitful discussion of the draft of the Law on Indigenous People moderated by Dr. Raul Carstocea. One of the authors of the law, Ms. Yuliia Tyshchenko, communicated its contents to the audience and provided comprehensive answers to the questions about the substantial points of the piece of legislation.
The ECMI wants to thank all the participants and partner organisations for their active engagement and support!
About the ECMI Eastern Partnership Programme
The EPP addresses Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine – three countries that face various challenges and also have numerous achievements in the accommodation and governance of their ethnic and linguistic diversity. The EPP's goal is to enhance governance and to advance state policies on the prevention of ethnic discrimination and on the mainstreaming of national minorities issues according to European best practices in the target countries. Read more about the project at: www.ecmi-epp.org
The programme is to be implemented in the years 2014-2017. The Final Conference of the Ecmi Eastern Partnership Programme will take place in Kyiv in May 2017. Further details will follow shortly on www.infoecmi.eu.
Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European Centre for Minority Issues.
This post first appeared on ECMI InfoChannel - European Centre For Minority Is, please read the originial post: here


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Simon Arias
Family 1st! But after that, Leader, Mentor, Entrepreneur & Motivational Speaker.
Simon Arias was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He played football at Youngstown-Ursuline where he led his team to a state championship as team captain his senior year. Simon received a scholarship to play football at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania where he was again voted team captain. Simon took the leadership skills he developed over the years on the football field and was hired by the Surace-Smith Agencies of American Income Life in Ohio after obtaining his Bachelor's Degree. Simon excelled and very quickly moved to a top level management position in the organization- becoming a Regional Manager within his first year.
Growing up in a tough neighbourhood for much of his life, Simon knew what it meant to have good role models like his mother, Chrissy, who serves as the operations manager for his agency. He has taken it upon himself to seek out and find young people to mentor and impact- especially at-risk youth. In his spare time Simon enjoys travelling, visiting with family, working out, and is a student of jiu jitsu and mixed martial arts.
Simon holds multiple company records for being the fastest agency to hit company weekly production milestones, and for becoming the youngest State General Agent in company history at 24 years old. He has been a member of AIL's Executive Council on a regular basis, and he is the only SGA in company history to be named State General Agent of the Year for two consecutive years.
Today Simon Arias is the State General Agent for Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, & Florida, and has a State General Agent Partnership in Tennessee with fellow SGA, Cameron Cimino. Simon came to American Income Life Insurance Company by chance upon receiving a phone call from his first company mentor in Ohio, State General Agent, Marcus Smith.
Simon recalls, "He was so successful, professional, and caring at such a young age, I wanted to be just like him.." Upon coming to AIL, Simon quickly excelled into a management position and made over six figures in his first year with the company. When asked how he did this at such a rapid pace, Simon's response was, "I didn't really give Jim Surace (State General Agent) and Marcus Smith (Regional Director) a choice. I basically bothered them into helping me. I listened and ran with their advice. I learned from their experience, what they had already done."
After Simon's first year in the business, everything seemed to click. It was at this point he knew that American Income Life was where he belonged. "I fell in love with the opportunity here after getting into management. It was then that I realized that your success at AIL is based off of how many people you can help. As a sales rep, you're helping working Americans protect their families, and as a leader, you're helping the people on your team achieve the success that they desire," he says, "I can't really imagine a better way to achieve your career and financial success, than to genuinely help others."
Simon's financial success has allowed him to give back to the communities he serves, and to establish community programs in his hometown of Youngstown, OH. Simon helped bring the youth program, Inspiring Minds, to Youngstown, and he has partnered with Maurice Clarrett to open The Red Zone, a company whose mission is to help at-risk youth and their families. Aside from these programs in Simon's hometown, The Arias Agency regularly supports a variety of charitable efforts, believing that giving back is a key component to success."
As of 2015, Simon has partnered with the charitable group Inspiring Minds and has opened a location in his hometown of Youngstown, OH. He serves as board chair for the Youngstown location. For more information on Inspiring Minds, please visit inspiringmindsyouth.org.


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ICANN Resolutions » Adoption of Operating Standards to provide guidance on conducting Specific Reviews, as mandated by the ICANN Bylaws, Article 4, Section 4.6
Important note: The Board Resolutions are as reported in the Board Meeting Transcripts, Minutes & Resolutions portion of ICANN's website. Only the words contained in the Resolutions themselves represent the official acts of the Board. The explanatory text provided through this database (including the summary, implementation actions, identification of related resolutions, and additional information) is an interpretation or an explanation that has no official authority and does not represent the purpose behind the Board actions, nor does any explanations or interpretations modify or override the Resolutions themselves. Resolutions can only be modified through further act of the ICANN Board.
Adoption of Operating Standards to provide guidance on conducting Specific Reviews, as mandated by the ICANN Bylaws, Article 4, Section 4.6
Whereas, the ICANN organization (ICANN org), in consultation with the ICANN community, developed the Operating Standards to provide guidance on conducting Specific Reviews, as mandated by the ICANN Bylaws, Article 4, Section 4.6.
Whereas, the ICANN org published a first draft of the Operating Standards for public comment in October 2017 and an updated draft for public comment in December 2018. The ICANN Community provided input to the development of the Operating Standards via two public comment proceedings, via public sessions at ICANN57, ICANN58, ICANN60, ICANN63 and ICANN64, and via webinars in February 2017, October 2017, and October 2018.
Whereas, the ICANN org incorporated feedback from the ICANN Community as given in the public comments, public sessions and webinars on the Operating Standards, as well as community input provided in the public comments on Long-Term Options to Adjust the Timeline for Specific Reviews. ICANN org also incorporated best practices from recent and ongoing Specific Reviews.
Whereas, the Operating Standards address the required items detailed in the Bylaws (see Section 4.6 (a) (i)) pertaining to: candidate nomination, review team selection, size of the review team, conflict of interest policies, decision-making procedure, solicitation of independent experts, and review team access to confidential documentation subject to the Confidential Disclosure Framework.
Whereas, the Board's Organizational Effectiveness Committee received substantive and procedural briefings from ICANN org throughout the development of the Operating Standards.
Resolved (2019.06.23.13), the Board adopts the Operating Standards for Specific Reviews, developed for the conduct of reviews under Bylaws Section 4.6.
Resolved (2019.06.23.14), the Board confirms that the Operating Standards adhere to the Bylaws requirements and directs ICANN org to publish the Operating Standards on the ICANN web site. Operating Standards shall be updated as needed and in accordance with Section 6 of the Operating Standards, to assure the document continues to meet the needs of the ICANN community, the ICANN Board, and the ICANN org by supporting the effective and efficient conduct of current and future Specific Reviews.
What is the proposal being considered?
The proposal being considered is for the Board to adopt the Operating Standards for Specific Review, as mandated by the Bylaws Section 4.6.
Why is the Board addressing the issue?
Specific Reviews are an integral part of ICANN's accountability measures that derive from Article 4, Section 4.6 of ICANN's Bylaws. Four such reviews are specified in the Bylaws: Accountability and Transparency Review; Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review; Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review; and Registration Directory Service Review.
Section 4.6 of the Bylaws calls for the development of Operating Standards to support the work of these reviews that are conducted by the ICANN community, facilitated by ICANN org, and overseen by the ICANN Board. Specifically, section 4.6 requires that the Operating Standards should adhere to guidelines regarding candidate nomination, review team selection, size of the review team, conflict of interest policies, decision-making procedure, solicitation of independent experts, and review team access to confidential documentation subject to the Confidential Disclosure Framework. The Operating Standards address all of these issues and conform with the Bylaws. Adherence to the Operating Standards will result in Specific Reviews being conducted in a transparent, consistent, efficient, and predictable manner, while supporting the community's work to derive the expected benefit and value from review processes.
Input from the ICANN Community
ICANN org has facilitated the development of these Operating Standards in close consultation with the ICANN community, via two public comment periods, three webinars, and five public sessions during ICANN meetings:
ICANN org first organized a public session during ICANN57 for the community to share input on the development of the Operating Standards with the goal of making Specific Reviews more efficient, consistent and transparent.
In February 2017 ICANN org conducted a webinar to obtain community support on the process of how to develop the Operating Standards, as well as feedback on some of the key issues that the document will contain, such as the review team selection process.
Another public session was held during ICANN58 in March 2017 to update the community and obtain additional input into substance and process of drafting the document.
In October 2017, ICANN org published the first full draft of the Operating Standards for public comment. The release of the document was followed by a webinar to provide an overview of the document and allow for community feedback as well as an extended 'question and answer' session. ICANN org also presented the draft at a public session during ICANN60 in October 2017. Following the 90-day public comment period, ten comments were submitted, including from the GAC, GNSO Council and the ccNSO Council. Commenters provided constructive feedback, supporting some of the proposals and expressing reservations about others, including the proposed scope setting procedure as well as the selection process of review team members by the SO/AC Chairs.
ICANN org held a session at ICANN63 in October 2018, during which the discussion focused on some components of the Operating Standards: scope setting, review team selection, and decision-making procedures for ICANN's specific reviews. In the run-up to the next iteration of the Operating Standards, ICANN org conducted another webinar, to highlight proposed updates to the draft Operating Standards in several key areas and provided a proposed timeline for their adoption.
In December 2018, ICANN org published an updated draft of the Operating Standards for public comment. During the 65-day public comment period, six comments were received, providing constructive feedback in the form of mostly supportive comments. The six comments contained a combined 48 suggested edits to the draft Operating Standards, and ICANN org was able to incorporate 43 of these; the remaining five were not included because they were either individual suggestions that did not appear to have the support of the wider community or they were not feasible in light of the Bylaws or existing best practices. ICANN org also conducted a final public session during ICANN64 in March 2019, to provide an overview of the public comments and how they will be incorporated into the final document.
What concerns or issues were raised by the community?
During the two public comment periods, three webinars, and five sessions during ICANN meetings, the ICANN community raised a number of concerns about specific proposals contained in draft versions of the Operating Standards.
For example, the first draft of the document proposed a procedure to set the scope for review teams to which many commentators reacted negatively during the public comment. Similarly, the second public comment resulted in comments that proposed more detailed information regarding the roles and responsibilities of review teams and the review team leadership, as well as a more nuanced process for resolving conflicts among review team members. All of these inputs resulted in changes, resulting in a more simplified process for review teams to set their scope, a more detailed section on roles and responsibilities as well as a more detailed conflict resolution procedure. Therefore, the final document reflects community inputs.
What significant materials did the Board review?
The ICANN Board reviewed all relevant documents pertaining to the development of the Operating Standards, including draft documents and summaries of public comments. Board members also attended sessions during ICANN meetings and webinars.
Are there positive or negative community impacts?
This Board action is expected to have a positive impact on the community as the Operating Standards will support the work of the Specific Review teams and contribute to conduct of transparent, consistent, efficient, and predictable Specific Reviews.
Are there fiscal impacts or ramifications on ICANN (strategic plan, operating plan, budget); the community; and/or the public?
This Board action is anticipated to have no adverse fiscal impact. The adherence to Operating Standards is expected to contribute to streamlining the work of the community-led review teams and ICANN org's support and facilitation of their work.
Are there any security, stability or resiliency issues relating to the DNS?
This Board action is not expected to have a direct effect on security, stability or resiliency issues relating to the DNS.
How is this action within ICANN's mission and what is the public interest served in this action?
The Board's action is consistent with ICANN's commitment pursuant to section 4 of the Bylaws to ensure ICANN's multistakeholder model remains transparent and accountable, as well as with Section 4.6 that calls for the development of Operating Standards through community consultation.
Is public comment required prior to Board action?
Draft versions of the Operating Standards were published twice for public comment (October 2017, December 2018); no additional public comment prior to Board action is required.


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The Town of North Wilkesboro publishes a quarterly newsletter, Downtown. This newsletter provides information about Town services, topics of interest as suggested by citizens or staff, special announcements, meeting dates and holiday schedule changes. The publication is mailed with the water/sewer bills and is also available on-line.
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Town Code
The North Wilkesboro town code is now online. The town's zoning ordinance and personnel ordinance are not included in the town code as they are stand alone ordinances. The zoning ordinance is located on the town's website under zoning. The personnel ordinance is not on-line, but rather is located in the payroll/personnel technician's office and town clerk's office.
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