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A Firsthand View of Politics and Credits in Emerging Markets
With Brazil being Latin America's largest investible country by far, T. Rowe Price investment professional Richard Hall had a laserlike focus on the country's 2018 presidential election outcome. Brazil's bond market had sold off prior to the election, as investors feared that the expected victory of a left‑wing populist candidate might mean that the country would be unlikely to tackle much‑needed pension reform and could impose damaging economic policies.
With the outcome highly uncertain, Richard, a sovereign credit analyst covering Central and South America, visited Brazil in September 2018, a month before the first round of voting. Richard embarks on such research trips about one week of every month to stay abreast of economic and political developments in these volatile regions.
Having lived and worked in Brazil for the U.S. Treasury Department prior to joining T. Rowe Price in 2012, Richard, whose wife is Brazilian, knew the country well and had developed wide‑ranging "go to" contacts. These include government officials, political analysts and consultants, local investors, journalists, and even cab drivers.
Based on conversations with his sources, Richard concluded that Brazilian candidate Jair Bolsonaro, a controversial conservative, would emerge the winner. Although investors also had concerns about Mr. Bolsonaro, Richard projected that the Brazilian bond market would rally following the election, reflecting confidence in Mr. Bolsonaro's key economic advisor, Paulo Guedes, a U.S.‑educated economist.
Both predictions proved accurate. Following Richard's recommendation, some T. Rowe Price portfolios retained their ownership in Brazilian bonds. "Sometimes the hardest thing to do is hold on to your position when the market is moving against you," Richard says. "But this visit reinforced my conviction that this was going to work out. And the market had a huge rally after the election; the bonds went from trading like a BB credit to being priced like an investment-grade credit."
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At T. Rowe Price, our investment approach is to go beyond the numbers when evaluating which companies may offer the best future potential. By getting out into the field, we gain insights and a deeper understanding of where a company or industry stands and where it could go in the future.
"Visiting countries in my coverage area on a consistent basis to meet with central bankers and finance ministers is crucial," Richard says. "In our sovereign credit rating model for emerging markets, governance issues are very important. We really have to understand how strong the institutions are in a country. We also try to gain in‑depth insights into the country's monetary and fiscal policies."
In‑Depth Coverage Provides Benefits for Investors
Richard says T. Rowe Price "has a much bigger emerging market research platform than most of our competitors and that allows me to go into more depth and to visit Brazil three or four times a year.
"I collaborate closely with our emerging market corporate debt analysts as well as our Latin America equity team," he says.
"Meeting regularly with finance ministers and central bankers really helps us understand their thought process and how their views or policies are changing over time. A lot of other analysts don't have the bandwidth to research these countries in such detail."
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There has been a steady and quite sharp of an increase in the number of people that are investing by buying gold jewelry and coins and generally stuff made of gold. There is also an increase in the number of women that like and actually purchase jewelry made of gold.there are many places where one can be able to buy gold. This includes websites and also some physical stores. It is a completely different case when it comes to finding a gold buyer that is reliable where you live. But due to how expensive and precious gold is, you should not just trust and choose any gold dealer and buyer at random. To get a reliable and god gold buyer there are a lot of things that you will need to consider. This is because if you do not, you could end up doing transactions with a thief or criminal and this could lead you to have legal problems. In this article, the major factors that you should consider when looking for a good gold buyer are highlighted.
The first thing that you should consider is the reputation of the gold buyer. The reputation of the gold buyer is an average or a pattern of behavior that clients of the gold buyer have about hi or her. Buying gold and gold-related jewelry is a big business. There are some bad gold buyers that have the tendency to defraud their clients by either treating them in a bad way or even paying them very little money. The best way that you can know about the reputation of the gold buyer is by checking the kind of reviews that the clients of the gold buyer have you would be able to know what kind of experience you will have when you are in business with him or her. There are multiple websites that clients can post reviews about the gold buyer. If the reviews there turn out to b negative you should avoid that gold buyer. Only go for a gold buyer that is reputable.
The next thing that you should consider is the kind of credentials that the gold buyer has. It is very important that you deal with a gold buyer that is legitimate and one that operates within the confines of the law. One way that you can confirm this is by ensuring that the gold buyer that you chose has the right certifications and licenses form the appropriate government bodies. In the event that the dealer you choose is a certified gold buyer and dealer, you will be less likely to get conned. You should also find out how long they have been in business. Working with a gold buyer that has enough experience.
The last thing that you should be considering is the current gold exchange rate. This will determine how much the gold you are selling to the gold buyer is worth. Ensure that you d not accept to sell your gold to a gold buyer that is offering you an amount that is less than the current gold exchange rate.
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Outside of Charleston, on James Island, we stayed at a very large county park – James Island County Park – where the RV park just occupied a small corner of it. One of the nicest city/county parks we have seen, with an abundant supplies of activities for the park visitor – fishing lake, climbing walls, asphalt walking and biking trails, etc. Only problem we had there was that as we arrived there was a 12 inch water line break just outside of the park entrance – 2 miles from the RV park. They said it would be fixed in about three hours, so we proceeded to do our laundry with water we had in our tanks on board the coach, using up most of our reserves. Three days later, after deciding that the failing fixes to the elbow at the end of the 12 inch line were not working, they tapped into the line a hundred feet back — and we got water. The park brought in porta-potties and potable water tanks. We carried three five-gallon buckets to our coach and syphoned it into our fresh water tanks.
The county park was setting up for their Holiday Festival of Lights — all volunteers — but the three mile display range among the top ten in the USA. Officially turned on after we left, but we could see many of the light displays in the evening while they were testing. Check our photo gallery for more pictures.
While in Charleston, we did a trolley tour of the city, a boat trip to Fort Sumter -where the Civil War started, and fascinating tour of Patriots Point Navel & Maritime Museum — where we toured four ships: Clamagore submarine, Laffey destroyer, Ingham coast guard cutter, and the amazing U.S.S. Yorktown aircraft carrier. No OSHA or fear of law suits – I was wondering around the engine room and over the propeller drive shaft, up and down steps to narrow walkways – with no one around — mmmm, which way did I come from.
After our four night stay in Charleston, we drove 106 miles to Hilton Head Harbor RV Resort & Marina where we stayed five nights at a nice waterside sight. We explored Hilton Head Island and the Hilton Head Sun City homes just off of the island – nice homes, liked most of the models, low prices, but we not interested in this area. We did a 2.5 hour Grayline Trolley tour of the island, but since the island is so divided with Plantations (of homes) we could not see it was informative but not a good as other tours we have done.
We drove 35 miles over to Savannah, Georgia, where we did another interesting bus tour, and then drove back to Bay Street where we wandered through the stores, art booths, and watch small boat races (small outboard hydroplanes). Liquor laws are different in some cities. One business sold multiple flavors of daiquiris, which could be carried out to the street — mmmmm good.


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International negotiations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and slow global warming are stuck in a stalemate. Many people in the United States – the world's biggest economy and one of the planet's top per capita greenhouse gas emitters – continue to doubt the reality of manmade climate change. After a brief dip during the financial crisis, CO2 emissions are on the rise again. Many climate scientists and policy-makers fear that the world's nations will not act in time to avoid disastrous changes wrought by global warming.
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So it was a rare bit of good news when, in February, low-lying, flood-prone Bangladesh, energy powerhouse Canada, eco-conscious Sweden, and climate-change-denier haven the US announced they were joining forces to curtail pollutants that are both exacerbating climate change and adversely affecting human health. Eager to find a strategy to slow global warming, these governments (joined in April by the European Union, Colombia, Japan, Nigeria, and Norway) have initiated a climate change mitigation program that focuses on a less-well known, but still dangerous, group of pollutants: black carbon (also called black soot), methane, and hydrofluorocarbons.
Together, these pollutants account for about one-third of global warming. Because they are short-lived – black carbon remains in the atmosphere for only days or weeks after it's emitted, whereas carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for decades to centuries – curtailing these emissions would have an almost immediate effect. The technological fixes for reducing these pollutants are well tested and, equally important, available and relatively cheap. Experts say that slashing short-term pollutants may prove much easier to accomplish than the large-scale shift away from fossil fuels required for significant CO2 reduction. Success in limiting short-lived pollutants would deliver a much needed psychological boost to the movement to slow global warming and re-energize broader efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
While by no means a panacea for addressing global warming or a substitute for CO2 reduction, the scientific consensus is that reducing black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants is vital to combating climate change.
"This project holds a lot of promise, especially in the context of our larger battle against climate change," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said when she announced the coalition. "Now we know, of course, that this effort is not the answer to the climate crisis. There is no way to effectively address climate change without reducing carbon dioxide, the most dangerous, prevalent, and persistent greenhouse gas. It stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. So this coalition is intended to complement – not supplant – the other actions we are, and must be, taking."
To be effective, the coalition needs to get moving immediately. Climate science shows that there's a narrow window in which to act. Scientists estimate that by tackling short-term greenhouse gas pollutants, the currently projected global temperature rise could be reduced by nearly 0.5°C (or 2°F) by 2050. This might not sound like much, but it represents about one-fourth of the temperature rise climate scientists say must be averted to prevent long-term irreversible climate change. And given the international failure to address CO2 emissions, it's likely the best way to avoid some of the most dire climate dislocations.
Black carbon is formed when fossil fuels, biofuels, or biomass – wood, vegetation or dung, for example – is burned but not fully combusted. Its sources include diesel engines – in motor vehicles, boats, trains, and also non-vehicle engines – as well as generators, agricultural burning, wildfires, inefficient cookstoves, and the kind of brick kilns that are common in South Asia. It is also emitted when excess gas from oil rigs and refinery wellheads is burned, or "flared." This type of industrial pollution has created chronic environmental and health problems in regions where refineries are clustered, such as along the US Gulf Coast and Africa's Niger Delta. Picture the heavy black smoke released when a diesel engine starts up, the black plume at the end of flaring industrial smokestack, or the curls that come off of wood smoke.
Black carbon, simply because it is black, absorbs more light than any other kind of particulate matter. When it settles on ice and snow it absorbs sunlight and makes them melt faster. In Arctic regions, these effects contribute to accelerated snow- and ice-melt and result in greater extents of open polar water that, in turn, allow for increased heat exchange that raises surface and air temperatures. The world's Arctic glaciers are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of black carbon, as are glaciers in high-altitude regions such as the Himalayas. It's estimated that black carbon emissions contribute about half the current warming effects in glaciated regions. This warming speeds spring snowmelt and thus affects when and how much water is available throughout the year for drinking, agriculture, and for natural vegetation. Because glaciers play such a pivotal role in global and regional climate patterns, slowing their melting will help mitigate climate change impacts over the short- and long-term.
"Aggressively reducing black carbon over the next 30 years could reduce currently projected warming in the Arctic by two-thirds," says Erika Rosenthal, staff attorney with the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice and contributing author to the United Nations Environment Programme's black carbon assessment.
Black carbon's presence in the atmosphere can also affect cloud formation and lead to disrupted patterns of precipitation. While not directly linked to temperature change, such altered precipitation can have significant impacts on overall climate patterns. Scientists have already begun to link such disruptions – severe storms, droughts, and heat waves and their health effects – to climate change.
Black carbon also contributes to air pollution that has well-known impacts on respiratory and cardiovascular health. Black carbon is a component of the fine particulate pollution known as PM 2.5 (particulate matter of 2.5 microns or smaller). Exposure to particulate pollution contributes to some 2 million premature deaths worldwide each year. Another short-lived climate pollutant, methane, is a precursor to tropospheric ozone that also contributes to poor air quality. (The troposphere is the lowest region of the atmosphere extending from the earth's surface upwards for 6 to 10 kilometers.) The public heath benefits of reducing these emissions will be substantial in virtually every region of the world, from heavily urbanized and industrial areas to remote and rural communities.
The good news is that measures to curtail short-lived climate pollutants, particularly black carbon, are readily available, relatively affordable, and don't entail major changes in technology or energy-use habits. Diesel engine retrofits, new engine and fuel emissions requirements, alternate-transportation solutions, and clean-burning cookstoves are some of the proven technologies that could reduce short-term pollutants. For reasons coincidental to climate change mitigation, Rosenthal notes, "efficiency, cost savings, public health benefits" are concurrent goals.
Durwood Zaelke, president of the Washington, DC-based non-profit Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, believes the new international initiative to curtail these pollutants has enormous potential. Because the results are, at least in theory, so readily achievable, the effort has the potential to "change the psychology" of the climate change movement and to take it "from denial to despair to optimism," he said after the coalition's first meeting in Stockholm. "That these governments have taken this step and so publicly is a major milestone," Rosenthal adds.
Yet there are considerable challenges involved. UNEP experts point out that because the sources of black carbon tend to be so widely distributed and numerous – lots and lots of relatively small-scale sources like individual diesel engines, cookstoves, brick kilns, as well as large-scale sources like agriculture – implementing reductions will require concerted efforts. Luckily, the coalition will not have to start from scratch. It can build on ongoing international clean air and global warming control efforts such as the Montreal Protocol, Global Methane Initiative, Arctic Council, and Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Financial commitments, including a UNEP-managed trust fund and $12 billion in support from the World Bank, are already in place.
Another challenge is quantifying results. That's because emissions sources are varied and each pollutant gets measured differently. The best way to assess progress in reducing black carbon is by looking at specific emission sources, explains Earthjustice attorney Rosenthal. For example, one can count how many diesel vehicles have been retrofitted or how many clean-burning cookstoves have replaced inefficient ones, and estimate reductions that way.
It helps to have a picture of the global landscape of such emissions. While biomass burning – including wildfires – contributes about one-third of all black carbon emissions worldwide, contributions from other sources differ in ways that reflect regional variations in economic development. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Report to Congress on Black Carbon, released in March 2012, black carbon emissions have been decreasing in North America and Europe over the past century but increasing elsewhere, particularly in developing economies in Asia and Latin America. The US now produces only about 8 percent of the world's black carbon emissions; developing countries, about 75 percent.
The most striking difference in emissions sources is that of residential cookstoves. Globally, about one-quarter of black carbon emissions come from residential sources. Only a small fraction of North Americans depend on biomass-burning stoves. But about 3 billion people worldwide cook and heat their homes with stoves that burn wood, dung, other biomass, or coal. This raises the obvious issue of whether targeting cookstoves for emissions reductions means burdening the less wealthy and pushing the responsibility from those responsible for high per-capita emissions – American SUV drivers, for example – to those already at the low end of the income scale.
But the recognition of how critical these measures are to slowing global warming – combined with the important health benefits they can have – has won over those who were initially skeptical. Key to this, Rosenthal explains, was the decision to separate black carbon reduction efforts from the geopolitics of CO2 reduction and international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol. "Coalition members are very sensitive to these questions," Zaelke says. "They will not advance an agenda that asks their people to do something they cannot do."
Urgency is also a compelling factor. To be effective, short-lived climate pollutants need to be reduced before the world reaches what scientists call "peak warming" – the threshold beyond which climate conditions could become severely detrimental. A January 2012 paper by Drew Shindell – climate scientist at the Goddard NASA Institute for Space Studies – and colleagues, published in Science, makes this abundantly clear. To illustrate the impact of these reductions, the paper identifies and maps the effects of 14 different measures that would reduce about 90 percent of current black carbon and methane emissions. These include eliminating high-emission diesel engine vehicles, banning agricultural waste-burning, and replacing inefficient stoves, brick kilns, and coke ovens with clean-burning models.
A number of such programs are already underway. Efficient cookstove technology is being supported by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves with funding from the US Department of Energy. In the US, new engine standards, particulate filters, "ultra-low" sulfur diesel fuel, and engine retrofit programs are expected to reduce diesel black carbon emissions by 86 percent by 2030.
But Shindell and colleagues are careful to note that while the public health and environmental benefits of reducing these short-term climate pollutants can be significant, over the long-term global warming mitigation will depend primarily on reducing CO2 emissions.
"We need to do more on the CO2 side," Zaelke says. "But it's hard to do more when you don't have options. Acting on black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants will help buy some time. This is something we can do now while we have options."
"Given the already disrupted state of the climate, there's not an either-or here," says Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of 350.org, the international climate campaign. "We've got to do it all. If this is a substitute for reducing carbon, that will be sad. If it's a supplement, it will be a real help."
Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules, High Tech Trash, and other books. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Salon, The Washington Post, The Nation, Yale e360, and other publications.
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Halifax to San Juan, Puerto Rico - $314 CAD roundtrip including taxes | last minute flights
Delta is showing a few last minute flights from Halifax to San Juan, Puerto Rico for $314 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
The flights have 1 stop in New York each way.
Availability for travel
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How to find and book these flights
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Where to stay in Puerto Rico?
The average price per night for an Airbnb rental in Puerto Rico is $190 CAD/night for 2 people. However, there are also some well reviewed places for under $99 CAD/night.
If you were to book this flight, you would probably want to use the 'Instant Book' filter on Airbnb, which only shows you properties that can be booked instantly, without waiting to hear back from the host.
Airbnb search: Puerto Rico, Feb 8 to Feb 16, under $99 CAD/night, instant book properties only
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FeedLine becomes the first iPhone App to Integrate Google Buzz
Feedline, a relatively unknown (and basic) RSS feed reader for the iPhone, has become the first iPhone app to support Google's new social network Buzz.
Buzz integration is rather poor I'm afraid. You can currently only few the public streams of individual accounts. It does not currently connect or integrate with your own Buzz account so no indication of your own posts, who you follow or who follows you, but if you have a selection of users you enjoy staying tuned to, simply enter their usernames and you'll be notified of their updates.
The app does feature a built in browser, but doesn't offer any way to comment or view comments for a particular Buzz post.
As mentioned, Buzz is also a standard RSS reader (which is essentially what it's using to read users Buzz accounts). The app doesn't support importing of OPML feeds so the only way to add a site to the app is by entering its URL. It also features a 'news alert' tab (which is essentially just Google News) and allows you to set up notifications for particular keyword searches…all a bit of a hack-like really.
Frankly, though usable, the entire app is very basic but for an alternative way to access your favourite Buzz accounts, it will do…for now. If you're an active commenter, 'liker' and big into your location based features, skip this and get right back to http://buzz.google.com.
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Beware of the Plant-Based Health Halo
Hello Loyal Soup People! As most of you know, I'm a big advocate for eating a plant-based diet. Whether you just go meatless on Mondays, eat veg before dinner, or go fully vegan, I feel you are making an incredibly healthy choice for yourself, for the planet, and for the animals. However, this week I want to make you aware of "health halos" that are often associated with vegetarian and vegan food. Some plant-based items are quite unhealthy and should be either avoided or eaten in moderation:
– Mock meats – While a lot of culinary advances have been made in this area, many imitation meat products are highly processed and loaded with salt, calories, and fat. If you avoid deli meat for health reasons, don't look to mock meat slices as a replacement. In many cases you'll be replacing one type of salty, unhealthy preservative with another!
– Desserts – I have a sweet tooth and love to enjoy dessert. However, you should not eat an entire pint of "ice cream" just because it is made from coconut milk! Vegan desserts often have just as much fat and calories as regular versions – sometimes more!
– Vegan cheese – Like the mock meats, imitation cheese is quite often made from unpronounceable ingredients and is full of sodium and fat. However, there are amazing, new nut-based cheeses on the market that are wonderful. They are made with simple ingredients, are absolutely delicious, and very closely resemble their dairy-based counterparts. These cheeses can be a bit more expensive, but in my opinion, worth the extra price!
Approach plant based eating as you do any other type of diet. Look for clean, simple, ingredients. Yes, Oreos are indeed vegan. But definitely not health food!!
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I didn't wan to leave you guys another week without anything, though, so I'm giving you an In/Exhale flashback. I'd actually debated about posting it at all, and if so it would have gone after Sunday and before Monday (we stopped on Saturday as the last I've posted), but since Sunday still isn't finished I figured it'd be better to give it to you now than nothing at all.
I can't make any promises for when In/Exhale will continue after this. I'm really hoping soon. I'm also hoping I can get unstuck with Love UnSeen because it's being very stubborn.
This episode takes place a few weeks after Kai was recovered from his aunt's house. He's been in the hospital recovering from his injuries and malnourishment and undergoes his first of several surgeries. It's from Cathy's (aka "The Warden") and Art's point of views, and so it'll give you a different view of the circumstances, I hope. I think you may also see Art a little differently, too.
Flashback: September 28, 1988
Thanks again for all your support. The past six months have been very difficult for me, emotionally and physically. I've found myself on more than one occasion tapping Kai's strength, knowing if he can get through all that he has then I can, too.
PS - You might want to refresh your memory on Dr. Miller's findings about Kai's status once he was recovered from his aunt's house in the last posted episode, or if there's any other episode you need to catch up on, check out the Table of Contents.


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This semester, the University of New Mexico's new Honors College is offering a 300-level course from its past titled "Meet the Authors: Exploring the Creative Process." As part of the course, well-known New Mexico authors will give talks open to anyone who wants to attend.
Taught by several instructors in recent years, the course was first offered in the early 1980s by UNM Journalism professor and fiction writer Tony Hillerman and quickly became popular among UNM Honors students. With the creation of UNM's new college, Honors faculty and administrators decided to bring back the course, which has not been offered for several years.
Long-time Honors professor and UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow Leslie Donovan is teaching the newest version of "Meet the Authors." Donovan, who graduated from UNM's Honors Program in 1982, took the original course from Professor Hillerman. She said, "Hillerman taught the course on Saturday mornings. The audience was usually packed with people from the community, along with us students. It was incredibly exciting to be in that room listening to real writers, both famous and just starting out, talk about what they did. I wanted to try to recreate a little bit of that excitement with my class for our students today."
Donovan has scheduled nine New Mexico writers to speak as part of her course, which meets on Mondays from 2 - 4:30 p.m. For the first hour, authors will discuss their work and their writing process in a public talk. Following the public talk, the writers will meet with students enrolled in the class in a closed, private session.
The works by the authors taking part in the course span a wide spectrum of genres and styles from poetry about the Southwest to science fiction novels about the far future. Participating authors include: activist and feminist writer Margaret Randall; Honors graduate and bestselling Hugo award nominee Daniel Abraham; and Anne Hillerman, daughter of Tony Hillerman, whose first book following in the traditions established by her father will be released in October.
The schedule for the authors' public talks is as follows:
8/26/13: Michael Thomas (fiction)
9/9/13: Steve Brewer (crime fiction)
9/30/13: Melinda Snodgrass (science fiction and fantasy)
10/7/13: Kate Horsley (fiction, drama, and poetry)
10/21/13: V. B. Price (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction)
10/28/13: Daniel Abraham (science fiction and fantasy)
11/4/13: Margaret Randall (nonfiction, poetry, and photography)
11/11/13: Demetria Martinez (fiction and poetry)
11/25/13: Anne Hillerman (mystery fiction)
All author talks will be held in the Honors Forum (ground floor of the Student Health Center building, room 21) from 2 - 3 pm. Sponsored by the UNM Honors College, the talks are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Leslie Donovan at firstname.lastname@example.com or (505) 277-4313.


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We're creatures of habit. Do you remember in grade school, the first time the teacher didn't have assigned seating. You felt liberated. This must've been what it was like when we declared freedom from the British. Fireworks went off, anthems were sang, and the stars and stripes flew high.
And then you picked your seat and stayed in that seat the rest of the year.
If any new kid came in, and you found him in your seat, something boiled inside you. You started sweating. You'll take another seat for now, but you won't feel comfortable the rest of the day, and mentally note that you need to get to school earlier tomorrow, so you can reclaim what is yours.
There's a spot that the guards let me park that is near the entrance to the garage. I'm supposed to be able to park in bike racks according to the rules set for motorized scooters, but their bike racks are in bad places. So we have an understanding that I can park in this special spot off to the side.
Recently someone started riding their motorcycle to work. Not only did some jerk start riding his motorcycle at the end of November, but he started parking in my spot so that I have to park 3 levels up in the garage. I just want to kick his motorcycle down.
I've been dealing with that over the past two weeks. I was coping pretty well actually, until today.
There's one particular shower that I like to use at the gym. It has the best temperature control and seems to get the best water stream from it. It's also off to the side, so not a lot of people use it. (Plus I go to the gym before the lunch rush usually starts.) So I don't have disgusting body hair all over the shower or that bandaid that always is on the ground.
Today someone was in there.
My brain stopped thinking about motor functions and my present surroundings. Instead, I thought, it's the same guy. I have an evil twin trying to inconvience me in life. Soon I'm going to come home from work and he'll be sleeping on my side of the bed. Or he's going to finish off the milk and leave the carton in the fridge.
Then I went into another fantasy where I jump kick him through the shower curtain. I grab his head and bash it into the tiles of the wall.
Then I came back to reality. Scared that I had wandered into my fantasy so long. Scared because for 5-10 seconds my brain had its own thought processes. I almost expected to come to with blood on my body and an unconscious man laying at my feet.
So I went to another shower and felt the at first too cold and soon too hot sting of an awful shower.
Well played evil twin… well played


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The ballots have been mailed and the tallying has begun; this November, the voters of Manzanola School District will determine whether or not to accept the award of a $21.4 million BEST Grant (from the Colorado Department of Education) by providing a 9 percent local contribution, about $1.9 million.
The ballots have been mailed and the tallying has begun; this November, the voters of Manzanola School District will determine whether or not to accept the award of a $21.4 million BEST Grant (from the Colorado Department of Education) by providing a 9 percent local contribution, about $1.9 million. If accepted, the project will finance the construction of a single new unified school building, "built on 20 acres of land directly across from County Road 11.5 from the existing junior/senior high school building." This facility will replace six of the seven separate buildings currently in use by the district.
Drivers in the town of Manzanola will quickly notice the dozens of "Vote Yes on 3C!" yard signs. Eastbound traffic on Highway 50 will see a single sign advocating a for a "common sense no vote" on the issue. While this sort of public representation of the opposed positions is clearly far from equal, letters in the Rocky Ford Gazette have expressed both supportive and contrary positions. Even the plentiful supply of supportive signs, of course, testify to the supporters' awareness that the ballot issue is not certain. The proposal has triggered discussion of where Manzanola as a community is headed, and of what goals it should embrace. This debate is in itself a good thing, according to School Superintendent Tom Wilke. "It has people talking," he said. Regardless of the outcome of this particular vote, that kind of community attention paid to the school, and the school's role as a center for the community to come together, are clear positives in Wilke's view.
If the new school is built, that role will be augmented by several practical elements. A system of pass cards with the door security features inherent to the planned building will add safety for students and staff, but will actually improve ease of visitation as well. "Our plan is to have more public access, not just the library."
The principle of equal representation (or "one person, one vote") means that only residents of the district may vote in the election, since owners of property there who themselves reside elsewhere are able to vote in those other local elections. However, in Wilke's opinion, "anyone with a stake in the district" should be able to take advantage of the public facilities it will offer, including landowners and all students' families, for example. Access to workout facilities is one of the services planned for the public, as is the use of some kind of community meeting room (a request regularly made of the schools at present) and that of the included new location for Manzanola's public library.
Community access is a district mission regardless of the vote on 3C. Wilke notes that the district is presently applying for a grant to fund a reverse osmosis water filtration system, to include free water for community members. The project will also provide another practical lab for the ag program students, one of the pre-professional curriculum areas the school offers. Another application in progress seeks support for a CNA program.
The plan to replace the current school buildings isn't a matter of maintenance. The existing facilities have been well cared for, and (in the case of the high school) even supported with grant money as a historic structure. If the project goes forward, the District intends to cease use of and offer for sale all but the gymnasium, with demolition as a final resort. "We're going to keep the gym over here… it has historical value to it, with roots dug in deep," and is well positioned by the athletic fields. Maintenance issues can be, and have been, addressed by ongoing expenditure (around $100,000 annually, with $14,000 last year on the heating system alone).
From the district perspective, the problems are mostly those of inherent limitations in what can be done with the buildings that exist, either because of size or as a result of age. The elementary school facility offers food service for the whole system; neither space nor staffing allows for relocating or replicating that at the high school. The elementary building is the younger of the two main campus facilities, and is still old enough that they don't play games with airborne balls inside because impact with the ceiling will dislodge asbestos. Potentially dangerous electrical cable is too close to ground level and to roofs susceptible to trespass on both main buildings. This last was illustrated sharply "just a few months ago" when it was discovered that "a guy with a mattress, food, and blankets" had been camping for some time, unnoticed, on the elementary school's roof.
The junior/senior high school is in itself an antique, at 92 years old. It is an attractive building, solidly built, and which has been well kept up over its tenure. It is also subject to a long list of integral, insolvable problems. It has a modern fire alarm system, contrary to rumor, but cannot retrofit the fire suppression sprinkler system that would be a standard safety feature on a more recent school, and similarly, cannot remove the hazardous asbestos that is no longer used in such construction. It lacks an elevator; when a student is mobility-restricted, whole classes have to relocate to rotate out of a single room downstairs. Even on the main floor, some ADA accommodations are non-standard; likewise, there are not ready solutions for temporarily injured staff or students facing mobility limitations. An even more basic restriction comes from the limited plumbing—girls have a restroom downstairs, and boys have one upstairs (where all the classrooms are normally located).
"We aren't building to increase enrollment," Wilke says. "We're building it to better educate the students we have now." Net enrollment is up in 2017, with 140 students compared to 128 (including 19 graduating) in 2016, but no particular surge is anticipated. Equally, however, the district is under no expectation of disappearing in either the near or distant future. Annual financing costs on the local contribution portion of the project, even allowing for interest, will be less than the annual maintenance normally budgeted for the half a dozen facilities intended for replacement. The state of Colorado performed the inspections and selected Manzanola for eligibility; "I believe we were third in line," said Wilke, across all rural districts, based on evaluated need.
Regardless of the election, the District responsibilities to its student body will continue. "The idea that this town is shriveling up and will disappear — there's no truth to that; it's not going to happen" said Wilke. In practice, the election is not between an option with no cost and an option with new costs, but between two alternative spending plans — maintaining the seven building system as it is, with its inherent drawbacks and expenses, or financing the unified building. Every voter in the Manzanola School District is encouraged to return the official ballot (s)he received in the mail in order to make this community decision.


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This is a three-day course is offered to staff that see various clients who may have an STI in various settings. This course has didactic as well as discussion with participants. The target audience is nurses, social workers, outreach workers, health aides, phlebotomists, clerical and administration. This class is limited to 14 participants. Cost for this class is $150.00
This one-day course is offered to clinicians to assist them in identifying wet mounts (BV, candidiasis and trichomonas) under a microscope correctly. This is taught by our lab consultant. This class is limited to 10 participants. The cost of the course is $90.00
This half-day course is open to clinicians, medical technicians and others who are responsible for performing darkfield microscopy. To successfully complete the class, participants will be required to accurately identify Treponema pallidum, the agent that causes syphilis, under a dark field using accepted microscopy techniques. The class is offered as both introductory and a refresher. Class size is limited to 10 participants. Continuing Education is provided.Schedule by request with 2 scheduled annually; space still available. The cost for this class is $90.
This is a two-hour course is offered to NP or PAs that need the experience in doing a good male STD clinical exam. This includes hands-on examination experience with live models didactic presentations by experienced faculty. This class is limited to 10 participants. The cost of the class is $70.00
3 Day training for outreach workers in Maryland. Topics include: Outreach with youth, seniors, and LGBT community, using social media, accessing community resources, effective advocacy, HIV and PrEP, substance abuse, faith-based health promotion, mental health, and MORE!
This is a one-day course is offered to NP, PA students to learn how to do a good STD clinical examination on male and female patients. This includes hands-on examination experience with live models didactic presentations by experienced faculty. This class is limited to 10 participants. The cost of the class is $155.00
Identify Point of Care Test (POCT) options for common STIs.
Demonstrate proper techniques in the use of selected POCTs for STIs.
Professional Practice Gap and Knowledge is in identifying what current FDA approved POCTs for STDs are available and how to perform these tests. Our activity will address the need by introducing current POCTs for STDs that are currently available, demonstrating how selected POCTs for STDs are performed and having participants identifying various unknowns correctly, using selected POCTs under laboratory supervision. There will be a lab consultant that will be assisting participants in properly identifying the unknown specimens.
PrEP Update Knoxville TN. Collaborators are TN AETC, TN DOH and Knoxville County Health Department
This five-day course is open to clinicians offering STI services. The curriculum includes didactic presentations by experienced faculty; one day of experiential training in laboratory techniques; one clinical day with a preceptor; and, "hands-on" training in a directed sexual/reproductive health examination by genital teaching associates. Class size is limited to 8-10 participants. Continuing Education is provided Schedule – class schedule set annually. The cost for this class is $250.00
To increase the awareness of trends in STI morbidity in our catchment area (DC, DE, MD, PA, TN, VA, WV and surrounding areas) and to offer training in clinical care, medical management and diagnosis, behavioral techniques and partner management activities to clinical health care providers, utilizing didactic methods, presenting the most current information, and implementing research findings regarding STIs. We will discuss the transmission, symptoms, tests available and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. This class is limited due to the venue. No charge for this course. Continuing education is available.


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Meraki Tries Its Own Network
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San Francisco already has more Wi-Fi than most cities, even without the chronically-delayed citywide network that's been held up by the politicos. So what's a little more?
What's going to be different with the square mile of free Wi-Fi intended to stretch from Mission Dolores Park up to Alamo Square Park is that it will be sponsored and operated as a free network by Meraki Networks, a company that has made its name so far by supplying equipment to others to build community-based networks.
"This is a way for us to build a big network and see it operate and see how the community networks come together," says Sanjit Biswas, CEO and co-founder of Meraki. "Our goal is to see what the network operators experience." The company will supply all the equipment needed, gratis, to get this off the ground.
Meraki makes very inexpensive equipment -- $50 for an indoor unit (Meraki Mini) and $100 for the outdoor version. You hook a few of the nodes directly to a broadband source like a cable modem, and the rest of the nodes form a mesh to extend the signal. They start inside rather than outside, unlike most mesh networks.
A deployment of Meraki nodes is controlled remotely using Web-based software called Dashboard. It's hosted on Meraki's servers, so customers don't have to install anything. "That's the first thing people ask: 'Make it so we don't have to install Linux,'" says Biswas.
Dashboard use is free -- customers only pay for the hardware. But Dashboard is required to run the hardware over the Internet; Meraki also pushes out automatic firmware updates to the hardware on a regular basis. Dashboard can be used to monitor a network and limit bandwidth usage -- and to monetize the network, letting the network operator decide how much, if anything, to charge a user for access. The money collection is handled by Meraki, which takes a cut before they send the operator a check.
Meraki didn't pick the San Francisco neighborhood for this "First Mile in Unwiring the World" (as they call it) out of a hat. Many of the 15 staffers at Meraki live in that area of San Francisco. "That's kind of 'our community,'" says Biswas. Meraki headquarters is in Mountain View, California, also home to their most famous investor, Google, which already installed a citywide, free Wi-Fi network there.
Still, the network isn't up and running at capacity yet, not even close. "This is something we'll kick off soon," says Biswas. " We'll hand out products to anyone in that area -- families, businesses, community groups, anyone -- to extend the range with repeaters." Interested parties can sign up at sf.meraki.net. The goal is to hand out about 1,000 repeaters.
How does a company like Meraki get the word out? It doesnt exactly have the PR power that EarthLink will use when and if it gets to deploy its citywide services. "The biggest issue in San Francisco is education and outreach," says Biswas. "We think it's about getting involved in the community. As it is deemed useful, people will talk about it." He says one of Meraki's customers in San Diego manages to get between 200 and 500 users per week on his network spanning five to ten city blocks. "We'd like to get to that point as well," Biswas says. "He's in an area one fifth of the size we plan to cover."
Meraki received $5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital just last month in its first round. This followed smaller investments last year from Google. To date, Meraki claims that its equipment is used by 15,000 users in 25 countries.


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A BSF plane 'BSF Superking aircraft' crashed at Delhi's Dwarka's airport while landing back on the runway.
The authorities said that minutes after the plane took off, it developed technical snag and was asked to return back. It was while landing when it collided with the wall around built the airport.
All 10 passengers on board are reported to have died. Early reports suggest there were three deputy commandments seven technicians on board, who were travelling to Ranchi.
Mahesh Sharma, the MoS, Civil Aviation Minister confirmed the death of all 10 passengers adding that the investigation had been launched.
Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh said that the plane was on its way to Ranchi and had 10 passengers when the crash took place.
"I'm going to the place of accident and will have more details later," he said.
AK Sharma, Director, Delhi Fire Services, said that 15 fire tenders had been deployed to douse the fire.
He said, "It was BSF aircraft and the accident took place at around 9.40 am. A part of the aircraft was submerged in a nearby water body."
Eye witnesses from the nearby village said that they saw huge fire near the runway, when they rushed to the crash site.
It's a developing story and we will keep updating the page as we get more detail


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Suggest something new to Tamilspider.comHello Friends
It's a long way our Tamilspider.com has travelled till now, with the help of our webmaster and site coordinators, I can say Tamilspider is a great hit in Tamilnadu by seeing the enthusiastic contributions from our members and the top earners column says the rest.
To make our journey here more successful and to take Tamilspider to the next level, I hereby request members to come out with their suggestions / ideas for improving our Tamilspider.com, from which both the site as well as the members can get benefited mutually.
Some suggestions you can give on are like how to bring more traffic to site, any new section which can be of help, can we have any change in the look of the site, how to make this site rank No.1, suggestions on new types of reward and recognition for members, any cleanup activities to be done, anything missing according to you, new types of guidance which can be of help for members on improving their contribution, any contests which can be run periodically, how to capitalize more on the current scenario or season, may it be on Politics, Tamil Cinema, Job market, Studies, Indian economy, Business, Tourism etc
Above are the broad lines given for you to think on, any other thoughts are also welcome, as the above are already in practice and under constant review by the Tamilnadu.com for improvement of the site but in case you have any feeling that we can do better, please share.


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I love that Miss Monkey likes to do hair. She likes all girly and feminine things. Bows and dresses and perfume and lip gloss. She says she likes to make people fancy. She sets up her little beauty parlor about once a week.
I am not so girly. I really like feminine things and beautiful things and feeling like a girl, but it doesn't come as naturally to me as it does to Miss Monkey. I just recently figured out how to properly apply eye liner. Miss Monkey was right there with me every step of the way. She was so proud of me that she made a special announcement that night at the dinner table. "Guess what everyone? Mom learned how to use her eye liner today!" I'm hoping I can learn a few things from her.


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Rush Was Wrong
Listening to Rush during my drive today (I like Rush, but I was really waiting for Dana Loesch to come on afterward), I heard him say something peculiar.
He was addressing a caller who was wondering why one of Romney's campaign managers could be so inept as to bring up Romneycare in response to the crazy Joe Soptic advertisement. That response, of course, was about as incompetent as it was possible for it to be. This led Rush to diagnose the difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
Rush hypothesized that the Democrats were made up of tons of small special interest groups that clashed with each other usually, but all agreed that they had to beat us. He further went on to say that we did not come together as Republicans in the same way.
There is something to that, but it's still wrong.
None of us wants to see Barack Obama re-elected, for sure. We'd gladly put aside any differences between us to defeat him.
No, Rush… The problem with the establishment Republicans is that the old guard still has the nonsensical idea in their head that they can actually be friends with the Democrats.
When Harry Reid took to the Senate floor with outright lies about Mitt Romney not paying any taxes at all for ten years, I actually saw Lindsey Graham say that he liked Reid, but that Reid just wasn't being truthful.
And Rush… That is the problem, right there.
Mr. Graham, I can guarantee you one thing. Harry Reid does NOT like you. Harry Reid hates the very air you breathe. And if he was ever nice to you at any point, it wasn't genuine. He'll only pretend long enough to get as close to you as he can before he sticks a knife in your back.
Younger Republicans and Tea Party members understand this truth, and that is where the disconnect lies within our coalition.
Mitt Romney showed some glimmer of understanding this when he refused to play along with Democrat shell games and release even more of his tax returns, but his campaign staff certainly doesn't get it at all, and the establishment itself is clueless.
They still think they can all get along and hold hands singing Kum-baya.
That will NEVER happen, and it's time they realized it. The Democrats are playing hardball 24/7/365 and if we don't go for their throats, they WILL get to ours.
We'll lose.
Our best hope is that Romney nominates a Vice Presidential candidate that understands a truth that Romney himself has so far failed to grasp.
There are no "gentleman's rules" in modern politics.
This is war.


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Most so-called technologists will sit you in a room and tell you that there is always — always! — a tech-centric way to solve a business problem.
And for the most part, the products on display at the HR Technology Conference & Exposition here in Las Vegas hold water in that regard. Need a better way to view and organize how you compile data about your people? There's an app for that. Want to streamline social recruiting by having postings apply to different sites at different times? Tech has got you covered.
So you can imagine my intrigue this morning during a panel discussion put on by Glassdoor when the topic of company culture inevitably came up.
As an editor, bringing up culture as a topic is usually followed by an eye roll. Not that I don't believe in the value of company culture; I certainly do. I, for one, would not be working where I work if it weren't for the fact that Human Capital Media Group's culture is aligned with what I value in an employer.
I roll my eyes when talent practitioners constantly answer HR strategy questions with "company culture" as the solution for every problem.
Tech is seeing this demand and trying to get in on the action.
Without mentioning specific technology providers — because, frankly, I may have only witnessed a sliver of them on the conference floor — there are a number aiming to use technology to track real-time employee satisfaction sentiment. While most organizations are used to using an annual survey to get answers on satisfaction and culture, these vendors have created ways to collect inputs from social media (both of the external and internal variety) that computes qualitative employee sentiment in real time.
For instance, I talked to an Oracle executive yesterday who mentioned the capability of technology that could instantly measure how well a CEO's blast email to an entire company announcing an organizational change is received.
While such a development is impressive, I wonder if it is actually solving the culture problem. Ask any talent executive and most will tell you culture isn't something to change overnight. These things take time — lots of time.
So say you do track the sentiment of a CEO email in real time. First, who is sitting at their desk ignoring the myriad of other talent challenges to produce analysis of such a thing? And, second, what is a CHRO supposed to do with that information in the moment?
Say the email is received poorly. Does the talent executive react by advising the CEO to try again? Should we schedule a town-hall style meeting immediately?
The last time I checked, culture is a comprehensive body of values built over time. Therefore, couldn't a once-a-year culture survey paired with everyday, grassroots culture evaluation driven by purposeful human qualitative conversations by business unit suffice to measure and make a case for culture change? Could such conversations happen over social media? Sure. But is the data collected any different than the sample of conversations had in an office environment? I doubt it.
Maybe I'm wrong. But while I'm certainly impressed with the new tools and capabilities HR technology has given practitioners, sometimes I wonder if the cart is constantly being put before the horse.
Are technology providers actually producing tech capabilities that are needed to solve relevant business problems here and now? Or are practitioners wooed by the ideal capabilities these technologies would bring if their companies were prepared to implement them and use them properly?
I mentioned this idea in my blog yesterday. HR analytics is clearly important, needed and relevant. The technology vendors have produced is excellent. But do companies have consistent and reliable data to input into these systems so they can actually maximize their value?
Culture is driven by humans. Technology can play a role, for sure. But let's not forget that technology is simply a foundational tool. It's like a level sizing things up — not the hammer putting the nail in the wall.
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Twain's The Golden Arm
from Mark Twain's
How to Tell a Story
The pause is an exceedingly important feature in any kind of story, and a frequently recurring feature, too. It is a dainty thing, and delicate, and also uncertain and treacherous; for it must be exactly the right length -- no more and no less -- or it fails of its purpose and makes trouble. If the pause is too short the impressive point is passed, and the audience have had time to divine that a surprise is intended -- and then you can't surprise them, of course.
On the platform I used to tell a negro ghost story that had a pause in front of the snapper on the end, and that pause was the most important thing in the whole story. If I got it the right length precisely, I could spring the finishing ejaculation with effect enough to make some impressionable girl deliver a startled little yelp and jump out of her seat -- and that was what I was after. This story was called "The Golden Arm," and was told in this fashion. You can practise with it yourself -- and mind you look out for the pause and get it right.]
The Golden Arm
Once 'pon a time dey wuz a monsus mean man, en he live 'way out in de prairie all 'lone by hisself, 'cep'n he had a wife. En bimeby she died, en he tuck en toted her way out dah in de prairie en buried her. Well, she had a golden arm -- all solid gold, fum de shoulder down. He wuz pow'ful mean -- pow'ful; en dat night he couldn't sleep, caze he want dat golden arm so bad.
When it come midnight he couldn't stan' it no mo'; so he git up, he did, en tuck his lantern en shoved out thoo de storm en dug her up en got de golden arm; en he bent his head down 'gin de win', en plowed en plowed en plowed thoo de snow. Den all on a sudden he stop (make a considerable pause here, and look startled, and take a listening attitude) en say: "My lan', what's dat!"
En he listen -- en listen -- en de win' say (set your teeth together and imitate the wailing and wheezing singsong of the wind), "Bzzz-z-zzz" -- en den, way back yonder what de grave is, he hear a voice! -- he hear a voice all mix' up in de win' -- can't hardly tell 'em 'part -- "Bzzz-zzz -- W-h-o -- g-o-t -- m-y -- g-o-l-d-e-n -- arm? -- zzz -- zzz -- W-h-o g-o-t m-y g-o-l-d-e-n arm?" (You must begin to shiver violently now.)
En he begin to shiver en shake, en say, "Oh, my! Oh, my lan'!" en de win' blow de lantern out, en de snow en sleet blow in his face en mos' choke him, en he start a-plowin' knee-deep toward home mos' dead, he so sk'yerd -- en pooty soon he hear de voice agin, en (pause) it 'us comin' after him! "Bzzz -- zzz -- zzz -- W-h-o -- g-o-t -- m-y g-o-l-d-e-n -- arm?"
When he git to de pasture he hear it agin -- closter now, en a-comin'! -- a-comin' back dah in de dark en de storm -- (repeat the wind and the voice). When he git to de house he rush up-stairs en jump in de bed en kiver up, head and years, en lay dah shiverin' en shakin' -- en den way out dah he hear it agin! -- en a-comin'! En bimeby he hear (pause -- awed, listening attitude) -- pat -- pat -- pat -- hit's a-comin' up-stairs! Den he hear de latch, en he know it's in de room!
Den pooty soon he know it's a-stannin' by de bed! (Pause.) Den -- he know it's a-bendin' down over him -- en he cain't skasely git his breath! Den -- den -- he seem to feel someth'n c-o-l-d, right down 'most agin his head! (Pause.)
Den de voice say, right at his year -- "W-h-o -- g-o-t -- m-y -- g-o-l-d-e-n arm?" (You must wail it out very plaintively and accusingly; then you stare steadily and impressively into the face of the farthest-gone auditor, -- a girl, preferably, -- and let that awe-inspiring pause begin to build itself in the deep hush. When it has reached exactly the right length, jump suddenly at that girl and yell, "You've got it!"
(If you've got the pause right, she'll fetch a dear little yelp and spring right out of her shoes. But you must get the pause right; and you will find it the most troublesome and aggravating and uncertain thing you ever undertook.)
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Shanghai is not brimming with sightseeing spots but it does not disappoint the curious traveler. Most of the tourist sites lie to the west of the Huangpu River and its colonial waterfront, the Bund. European architectural styles cluster along the Bund. However, the city's major landmark is on the east side, in Pudong – the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower is the modern symbol of Shanghai City and stands at a height of 468 meters (1536 feet). Needless to say, it is the tallest TV tower in Asia. The best way to check out both banks of the Huangpu River and their sights is to take a splendid Huangpu River tour.
The other main sights lie about 1500m south of Nanjing Lu in the Old City, the longest continuously inhabited part of Shanghai, with the Yu yuan Garden, which is the largest of Shanghai's ancient gardens with Ming and Qing architectural styles. The garden has six areas, each with its own style and surrounded by bustling bazaars.
Shanghai, China does not have a cuisine to really call its own, but it modifies those of the surrounding provinces. Fish, eel, crab, and chicken are commonly "drunken" with alcohol and are typically steamed well. Facing the East China Sea, seafood in Shanghai is naturally very popular. The most prominent local delicacy is the Shanghainese hairy crab.
Visitors cannot leave Shanghai without savoring some of the delicacies that Shanghai is famous for. Popular Shanghainese food items include the xiaolongbao and the shengjian mantou, Shanghai fried noodles, a regional variant of chow mein made with Shanghai-style thick noodles, lime-and-ginger-flavored thousand-year eggs and tofu.
Shanghai, China experiences four distinct seasons, with spring and autumn being the best months to visit the city. The peak summer months in July and August can be excruciatingly hot with temperatures often reaching in excess of 35 degrees. Winters can often be cynically cold with nearly all evenings seeing temperatures fall below freezing point. Winters can be boring for tourists to Shanghai, as sightseeing spots may be too cold to go to and Shanghai is also not known for winter sports.
Shanghai is playing host to the World Expo 2010, which has been dubbed as the "major event of the decade"? Themed "Better City, Better Life", it is a remarkable celebration of international culture. Shanghai is full of energy and ever teeming with opportunities for business associates and travellers to take in the culture of this wonderful city. This contemporary metropolis with its rich history of ancient Chinese culture indeed has much to see and do. Visit Shanghai today!


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How to Connect Your Hypster Playlist With Your Tumblr
Hypster allows you to create and play music playlists made of songs from a variety of artists. The service also gives you the ability to place a widget on your Web page or blog, such as your Tumblr blog, so that visitors to your site can enjoy the music on your playlist. In order to connect your Tumblr blog with your Hypster playlist, you'll need to get the HTML code for your Hypster widget from the Hypster website, then place it in the correct location in your Tumblr's HTML code.
Visit the Hypster homepage, located at hypster.com. Click "Login" on the bar that runs across the top of the screen. Enter your username and password into the two text fields that appear, then click "Log On."
Click on the image of the tape cassette just above the words "Cool Player Widgets." On the next page, click "Select" under the "Bar Widget" option.
Click the radio button next to the image of the player that you want to use. All of these options have the same functionality, just different skins. Select "Configure Settings" at the top of the page. Click the drop-down box next to "Playlist" and choose the playlist you want to use in your widget. Alter the "Autostart," "Shuffle" and "Placement" settings as desired, then click "Get Code!."
Open a new browser window and direct your browser to tumblr.com/login. Enter your email address and Tumblr password, then click "Log In." Click on the name of your blog at the top of your Tumblr dashboard, then click "Customize Appearance," located on the left side of the screen. Click "Theme" at the top of the screen that appears, then click the "Use Custom HTML" button.
Bring up the Web browser that is still on the Hypster website. Click anywhere in the HTML code box in the middle of the page, then press "Ctrl" and "C."
Go back to your browser with your Tumblr HTML code in it. Press "Ctrl" and "F" to bring up a search box, then type "" into the box and click "Next." Place your cursor at the end of the "" line in your code and press "Enter," creating a new line under the "" line. Press "Ctrl" and "V" to paste your Hypster HTML code here.
Click "Save and Close" at the top of the screen to save your changes to your Tumblr blog.
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