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When I was evacuated from my first Peace Corps service, in Niger, I went home to live with my parents for a few months, where I planned to get my bearings straight and decide what to do next. I figured I would get a low-stress, no-stakes job, so once I passed the initial devastation of my service ending, I started looking around for gigs. I went to the local ice cream shop, a bar, a couple of retail stores. No one wanted to hire me, probably because I didn't have much experience in those industries. The place that did want to hire me, though, was the local newspaper, and so I took the job and immediately became one of the more veteran reporters on staff. A few months later, the Missouri River Flood of 2011 happened, and while I won an award and produced clips that I used to get jobs a few years later (after a second Peace Corps service), it was not the stress-less job I had hoped to have.
I've been very fortunate that I haven't had to work many service, minimum wage jobs in my lifetime. My first real job, outside of babysitting, was lifeguarding and teaching swimming lessons, which I did all throughout high school. In college, I interned and freelanced for newspapers and made most of my beer and rent money working in the marketing department of a scoreboard company. Outside of short stints at Blockbuster and a pizzeria housed in a gas station, I have always held jobs that were linked to my field of choice. I never folded clothes at a Gap, made a latte, or waited tables. I am lucky, I know.
When I made the choice to quit my job to go to school it was with the idea that I would probably get some part-time work down the road. With my grad assistantship to cover my tuition, loan money to cover my rent and extra school fees, a willing husband to cover more costs, and a fairly decent savings, I didn't need a job right away but that didn't stop me from obsessing over our bank account and feeling guilty for not contributing more to the household expenses.
Initially, I thought that this would be through freelance work. I could do some writing, editing, and marketing work on the side, creating my own hours and bringing in a bit of cash. When I left my job, though, I didn't want to start putting out the feelers right away because I needed a break. Plus, I wanted to adjust to my new life as a student. I did apply for a few positions from postings online, but I knew that the best way to get work was reaching out to connections. Part of me put off looking for this kind of work because school hadn't quite ramped up and I didn't know what kind of time I could commit to a side gig, but also because I wasn't ready to dive back into that work just yet. And because writing those "Hey, I am looking for work" emails isn't the best way to spend an afternoon.
Then, one day, while returning home from the gym where I just swam tens of laps to get rid of my anxieties about money, I decided to stop in at a health foods market in my neighborhood. The market is attached to a restaurant and cafe that has been in the neighborhood for 40-some years and is known for its vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options. The store's items include produce from an organic farm in Michigan, sustainable coffee, vegetable versions of chips, and natural beauty and cleaning products. I had been in there a few times to browse their vegan section, and while I couldn't afford much, it was the type of store I often dreamed about shopping at exclusively. Locally owned. All organic. Kombucha on tap.
I've often been scared to go up to a business and ask if they are hiring, as if I am the first person to ever think of such an idea, because of the possibility of instant rejection. On this day, though, I would risk that fear because the worry over money was greater, so I walked up right to the counter and asked if they were hiring.
The woman wasn't sure. Maybe, she said. I told her I wasn't looking for many hours, just one or two shifts a week. I didn't know if this would hurt or help my chances, but it was actually the answer she was looking for. They could use a filler here and there, and even better that I was willing to work weekends, almost exclusively. I didn't flinch saying 'no' when she asked if I had retail experience, but she gave me an application to fill out. I returned it later that day and was hired the following week at Heartland Café.
Generally speaking, the job is easy. Checking the produce, make inventory notes, answering the phone, and taking to-go orders. It can get stressful on a Sunday morning when I have several online orders that need to be sent to the kitchen and a line full of customers waiting to be checked out, but other than that it is low-stakes. Whatever fire ignites is easily put out in a few minutes. I was overwhelmed at first, not knowing how busy a kitchen can get and terrified to ask the chefs to make special accommodations on orders, but then I found my groove and identified my little role in this business.
Some have said that the worst part of jobs like these are the people. Rude customers, unlikeable characters, strays from the neighborhood. And, it's this unknown of who is going to come in the door that has kept me from jobs like this in the past, but it's actually the people that are my favorite part. I love the regulars who come in for the same thing each Sunday or whose order I can predict before their open their mouth. I love helping people find something that they can't get at other stores. I even like the uncomfortable situations, where someone comments about how high the prices are or how the business has gone down in recent years, because it's great training for a counselor who will be in all kinds of awkward scenarios.
What's best about this job, though, is that it is just a job. I don't have to think too much, except when counting the cash, and it gets me out of my own head for a few hours. I work just a shift or two a week making minimum wage, but even that is enough to soothe some of my money worries. Plus, I've always loved grocery stores and it's an easy two-block commute from my house.
And, it's low stakes. I don't have to be here forever. I don't have to work my way up. I don't have to prove to everyone that I am good at what I do. I can just show up, do my job, and then go home. The key, for me, is to keep out the stress. In my last position, I spent so much time worry about where I was in the organization and what others thought of me (they often were not thinking about me) that it diluted my experience. Much of the time, I was more stressed than I needed to be. In fact, when I left, one piece of advice someone gave me was to just relax. This market job is a way of reclaiming my passion and my energy. I want to succeed and do well at school, but work is actually a break from that. It's just a job, and at this moment in my life, it's exactly what I need.
Just when I started to really enjoy this just-a-job job, I lost it (after I had written 1,300 words about it). The Heartland announced that it was closing because the building had been bought (by developers, cue the eye roll). Both the restaurant and café will close tomorrow evening, December 31, without a new home, although the owner hopes to be in a new Rogers Park location by the spring, but nothing is confirmed.
At first, losing my job was a kick in the teeth after some already unfortunate events Ethan and I were handling. Second, I am losing my strongest connection to the neighborhood. But most of all, the neighborhood is losing, as many customers have told me, an institution. Over the last few weeks, people have poured into the store, telling me how they started coming there three years ago, 15 years ago, 35 years ago, when they first moved to the area. It was their first home, they tell me. They are sad for me, but mostly for their neighborhood.
It's very interesting to be at a store as it approaches its end. Some people are sad, saying they love this place, but admit they haven't been there in years. Other people are very pumped about the discount on market products and buy baskets full of stuff when they wouldn't have bought anything if there wasn't a sale. It reminds me of a radio piece I heard several years ago, about the 2008 recession, and how some customers were upset that either something was discounted further or they no longer had what the shopper wanted. Most people are generally upset about the Heartland closing, but there are some who just want a good deal. It makes me sad.
For a while, I wasn't sure what I would do. Maybe I would actually try freelancing this time, because we do need the extra income, or I could get another part-time job. Either way, I told myself that I wouldn't bother with that until after Heartland closed. Till then, I would work my shifts and say goodbye properly.
One thing that is nice about working at a locally-owned business is that other locally-owned businesses want to hire those employees. A few places reached out to the owner about some opportunities and he passed them on to those who were interested, myself included. Before Heartland closed its doors tomorrow (I'm working the morning shift that day), I've already worked two days at my new job. It's at a bakery, not too far away, and so far it's as cute and as quaint as you would think baking at a bakery would be.
I will miss Heartland, but it was my threshold to just-a-job jobs. I needed that foundation of doing something unfamiliar yet low stakes to help me through school. Getting through my master's is my main focus right now, but these jobs shows me sides of myself that have yet been cultivated. Now I know I can have just a job and be perfectly content.


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Destination & Tourism Gabe Zaldivar April 12, 2017
Before you tell your most special loved one that you want to frolic and play on 'Orgy Island,' perhaps you better preface it with a bit of the backstory to this unique place.
CNN's Silvia Marchetti takes a deep dive into the captivating and often times sordid history of Italy's Zannone.
This peculiar island goes dark now every single night as guests, aside from the occasional scientist doing research, are forbidden from spending the night. This is contrary to what this hotbed of scintillating sex parties once featured just 50 years before.
Zannone might be a mere state-owned example of Italian beauty if it weren't for the Marquis Casati Stampa and his wife Anna Fallarino, both of whom seemed to have had the libido of SNL's Festrunk brothers and had wild parties that would put any Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman movie to shame – and we aren't talking about "Far and Away."
For the adults in the room, we are referring to good, old-fashioned orgies.
Marchetti spoke with former fisherman Giorgio Aniello who now whisks visitors from Ponza to this strange isle.
Aniello starts off by directing attention to the place where it all went down: "See that white colonial villa up high there? That's where the Marquis Casati Stampa held lavish sex parties."
READ MORE: 10 Photos From Italy That Will Have You Packing Your Bags
Decades later, this place is now a tourist attraction. Those interested can pay €27 per person to go from Ponza to Zannone. Leave your thoughts of untoward hookups back at home, however, because there isn't much partying, sex or sex partying taking place on the Marquis' former home.
That's because this place is closed off except for during the day when visitors can bask in the sun and cool water.
This desolate island once had quite a renowned population for a time. Aniello breaks down a bizarre melodrama in a remarkably concise manner: "He (Casati) was a lewd man, a voyeur who liked to watch and photograph his starlet wife get kinky having sex with other younger guys. Then one day he got fed up of the threesome, shot the two lovers and killed himself."
Aniello goes on to explain that the 1960s was something of Zannone's heyday with the Marquis and Fallarino throwing Gatsby-esque parties that welcomed all who might want to dive into the island romp.
Salvatore Pagano is described as a former caretaker of the island and explains, "The villa was a hot jet-society get-together."
With the Marquis off hunting, his wife would entertain on the beach. And the nights, we imagine, were insane. Pagano continues, "It was crazy here."
Another island expert, tourist guide Riccardo Peci, tells CNN: "We all knew what was happening there. It was dubbed the 'sex parties isle' but nobody ever uttered a word about it back then."
I like to think any orgy culminates in one of the most intense hangovers ever, mixed with regret and not a little bit of worry.
In this case, orgy island's sordid era of debauchery ended in an awful manner. The Marquis reportedly discovered that his wife had fallen for one of her lovers. This was enough to set him off and he killed the pair and shot himself while the three were back in Rome.
Decades later, their eccentric lifestyle continues to draw tourists to the area. As noted, you will have to secure passage from Ponza for a tour of the island.
However, things wrap up before nightfall, which is when you will have to return to your mundane, non-spouse swapping existence.
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Electronic Certification (eCert) for imports
eCerts are now available for sanitary certificates issued by New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries. This excludes certificates issued by New Zealand for live animals and reproductive material.
Read more about eCert availability and refer to the Help Card.
eCert for imports is an electronic system that enables us to receive overseas government certificates in a digital format. This includes phytosanitary and sanitary certificates for food and agricultural imports.
These digital certificates:
- Contain the same information as paper certificates.
- Are received in a secure government-to-government exchange.
- Are coded using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The XML is then converted into a readable certificate display by the eCert for Imports system.
- Are integrated into the department's Agriculture Imports Management System (AIMS) for import clearance purposes.
If the eCert has been lodged correctly, brokers and importers do not need to submit a paper certificate with their lodgements.
eCert availability
eCert is available for government certificates from:
- Indonesia, Ministry of Agriculture, Agency of Agricultural Quarantine – effective April 2019.
- New Zealand, Ministry for Primary Industries – phytosanitary certificates effective November 2012, sanitary certificates effective August 2019
We continue to work with overseas government agencies to establish additional eCert connections.
Read more about eCert expansion.
Please note:
- Other supporting documentation must be submitted via the Cargo Online Lodgement System.
- There are no changes to the procedures for foreign certificates under the Imported Food Act 1992.
eCert countries and certificate formats
This table highlights the countries the department currently has an eCert exchange with:
|Government certificate type
|AQIS Document Type
|AQIS Document Number format
|New Zealand
A Help Card is available for eCert countries and certificate formats. This highlights any country-specific formatting requirements.
|File size
|Help Card PDF
|Help Card DOCX
eCert expansion
The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) has established a global IPPC ePhyto Hub. Any countries connected to the Hub can exchange certificates through this centralised system. Work is in progress to establish a connection with the global IPPC ePhyto Hub.
Lodging import declarations with eCert
When lodging import declarations, brokers and importers need to accurately enter government certificate details in third party software or the ICS in accordance with the Minimum documentary and import declaration requirements policy.
Information must be entered in both:
- AQIS Document Type —drop down field used to select the relevant country and certificate type.
- AQIS Document Number — free-text field used to record the government certificate number. This must entered in the correct format for each country and/or certificate type.
Refer to eCert countries and certificate formats.
For example, for a NZ phytosanitary certificate:
AQIS Document type: NZPHYTO and AQIS Document number: NZL2019/ABCD/12345.
Software providers should be contacted if there are any issues using or locating these fields.
When both fields have been entered correctly, the details are cross-checked and matched in AIMS.
Departmental officers processing these entries will be able to view digital certificates in the eCert for Imports system.
Using Customs Interactive
Customs brokers and importers can use Customs Interactive to lodge import declarations with government certificates.
Customs Interactive does not allow wildcard characters (including "/#") in free-text fields. Use a space in place of a wildcard character.
Customs brokers and importers will still select the applicable AQIS Document Type. However, must add a space where a wildcard is used for AQIS Document Number (such as a certificate number).
This does not apply to customs brokers and importers lodging via third party software.
This table shows how to enter certificate details in Customs Interactive:
|Lodgement Type
|AQIS Document Type field
|AQIS Document Number field
|Third party software
|Customs Interactive
Benefits of digital certificates – paperless trade
Transitioning to eCert exchanges is helping us to prepare for future global challenges. This includes increased volume and complexity of trade.
It will modernise the way we trade with other countries, and uses technology to strengthen our biosecurity system.
The ultimate goal of eCert is paperless trading.
eCert benefits include:
- Certificates are transferred securely between governments. This reduces the opportunity for fraudulent certificates to be presented
- Provides assurance that goods being imported comply with food safety, animal and plant health requirements
- Reduces reliance on paper, in line with international standards
- Provides an instant connection with other government agencies, reducing time delays for certificates to be presented to us
- Provides prior notice of imports, which could be used for pre-clearance of goods
- Helps eliminate 'lost' documents
- Seamless interface for industry clients
- Improved efficiency and integrity for staff assessing certificates.
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By Jordeene Sheex Lagare – May 31, 2018
from The Manila Times
MANILA Electric Co. (Meralco) is hoping the government will finally decide on the fate of its Atimonan power plant in Quezon as everything is all set for its construction, a top company official said.
"We're still very hopeful the government will look at this considering the fact that everything is in place," Meralco PowerGen Corp. President Rogelio Singson told a briefing.
Singson noted that the 2×600-megawatt (MW) ultra super critical coal-fired power plant in Atimonan, which was given a pioneer status by the Board of Investments (BoI) as the first ultra supercritical power plant project in the country, is "way much, much better than the current coal plants."
Earlier this month, Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said the Atimonan facility was set to be affirmed as an energy project of national significance (EPNS).
"[I]t might be misconstrued as my agreement to the PSA," Cusi said, referring to the certification.
"We'll have to look at the implications of the Swiss challenge because you've gone through the entire process
already… We'll also have to see what's going to be the impact on financing, on EPC [engineering, procurement, and construction contract]," Meralco President Oscar Reyes said.
Singson said Meralco PowerGen is looking for another technology for the 2×300-MW circulating fluidized bed (CFB) coal-fired power plant of Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. (RP Energy) in Subic, Zambales.
RP Energy is a joint venture of Meralco PowerGen Corp. with Therma Power, Inc., a wholly-owned unit of AboitizPower Corp.; and Taiwan Cogeneration International Corp.—Philippine Branch.
"We're looking for another technology because the facility is still CFB, meaning subcritical, and we feel there will be more efficient technologies already… If you recall this project has been moving from one technology to another," he added.
Singson said the company is in discussions with other parties.
Earlier, RP Energy said in a statement it sent a letter of contract termination to its EPC contractors, South Korean company Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co. Ltd and local firm Azul Torre Construction Inc.
"The validity of the EPC price expired at the end of December 2017 because RP Energy was not able to issue a Notice-To-Proceed to Doosan without the PSA approval from the ERC [Energy Regulatory Commission]," it added.
Singson said Doosan sent them a new proposal which could make the planned coal facility economically unviable as the cost was "substantially" higher.
Meanwhile, Singson said they are ready to commission the 455-MW coal-fired power plant of San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. in Mauban, Quezon by next year as they have already cleared the hurdles for the project.
'We are confident we've been able to settle most of the problems that we're having with [the]LGU [local government unit], with the EPC contractor, that could have potentially delayed the project," Singson said.
Meralco PowerGen is the power generation arm of Meralco.


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In addition to Finishing the Picture, opening in London this month, another Miller play is being revived in the UK by the StoneCrabs Theatre Company. Some Kind of Love Story (1982) is a one-act play, touring London and the South-East this summer as part of a double bill with a Brazilian play, Tieta (The Trial). (Some critics believe Love Story is loosely inspired by Arthur's relationship with Marilyn. It was originally produced with another Miller play, as Two-Way Mirror.)
"Inspired by the 1940s and 50s film noir genre, Some Kind of Love Story is a dramatic gem: former lovers Angela and Tom meet one night to discuss the Felix Epstein case, which Tom has been trying to crack for five years. He is convinced Angela has privileged information, therefore holding the key to the innocent Felix's release from prison. But Angela will not tell. Is Tom ready for the truth?
Miller hits back at the themes of American justice and the search for truth in a tale of corruption, drugs, power and abuse."


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COVID-19 Updates, Restrictions, Cancellations - More information
Jessica Beckman
Visiting Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature
Contact & Office Hours
Spring 2020
Monday 2:00-5:00 p.m.
And by appointment
Seelye Hall 416
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Georgetown University
B.A., The George Washington University
Jessica Beckman received her doctorate in English literature from Stanford University. She also holds her master's degree in English from Georgetown University and her bachelor's degree in English and Art History from The George Washington University. At Smith, she teaches literary history, early modern drama and poetry, including Milton, and the history of the book from William Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein.
She is currently completing a manuscript titled "The Kinetic Text: A Poetics of Movement in the Age of Print," which studies how literature produces poetic effects by inviting reading that is discontinuous, recursive, spatial and tactile. Arguing against the postmodern assumption that verbal interruptions and typographic play are signs of metafiction, this book observes that subtle and abrupt changes in reading have long represented unwritten ideas. It foregrounds a body of work in the 16th and 17th centuries in which experimental literary forms and unstandardized printing create kinetic metaphors, so that meaning is manifest through the starts and stops, recursions and rotations, of the material text. By introducing a critical language that works across literary formalism and textual materialism, "The Kinetic Text" redraws the boundaries of early modern genre and offers novel readings of works by Spenser, Lyly, Shakespeare, Marlowe and others.
Her next book, tentatively titled "Unstable Character in the English Renaissance," examines the physicality of literary character before the rise of narrative realism. How, it asks, do poets and dramatists theorize bodies that are made out of words? How are such bodies assembled and transformed? Unlike character criticism that focuses on neoclassicism, probability, or psychological consistency, this project investigates how early modern writers use literalized metaphors and transformed bodies to explore fiction as a kind of material existence.
Beckman has held a number of grants and fellowships related to her research, including a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library and a Text Technologies Fellowship from the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Her essays have appeared in Spenser Studies and Exemplaria. Before joining the faculty at Smith, she held the first competitive postdoctoral fellowship in the Stanford University English Department, where she also received the School of Humanities and Sciences' Centennial Teaching Award.


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A 185-pound individual will consume 311 calories in 30 minutes of high-sway heart stimulating exercise and 466 calories in 30 minutes of utilizing the curved mentor or stationary bicycle at a fiery pace, as indicated by Harvard Health Publishing.
How to burn more calories during cardio?
Think about the time when you have done exercise, cardio or gym thereafter the feeling of the heart with the sweated body, it's awesome and mind-blowing feeling after exercise. It gives great happiness and pleasure to the mind.
Don't you love how cardio makes your blood flow and your heart speeds up? You can't help feeling that you've achieved something worthwhile when you dry your towel and have a drink of your favourite sports drink. Let's try some important steps to burn more calories during cardio and exercise.
But day after day, doing the same thing can wear you out, and the fat that burned so easily when your weight loss regimen started doesn't want to give in. Fortunately for you, you can renew your cardio to burn more calories than ever with these simple tips and tricks.
The best 5 ways to turn on your cardio to burn more calories during cardio:
- Get your whole body: many cardiovascular exercises focus on a single important muscle group: the legs. While jogging, climbing stairs and cycling are excellent exercises to tone your calves and thighs, if you want to burn more calories, try to also incorporate the upper part of your body.
- Move your arms while running; test the elliptical with mobile handles; Enroll in a full-body fitness class like Zumba. The more muscles you work, the more fat you will lose in the long term.
- Get out of your comfort zone: because some cardiovascular exercises require you to repeat the same action over and over again, it is easy to let your mind go out while sliding in your regular pattern.
- However, when trying something new, you will not only experience the additional mental challenge of discovering how to use a new machine or a new sport, but you will also be forced to work for different muscle groups, ensuring that you get the maximum performance.
- Start the melodies: listening to music is a great way to boost your training. Studies have shown that those who listen to fast-paced music while exercising were more likely to work harder and increase their heart rate. Find some songs that set you in motion and then enjoy the trip!
- Observe its shape: it is much easier to simply perform the movements instead of actively participating in your cardiovascular training. Although we may think that we are exercising, when we lean on the machine or hold on to the handles, then we are deceiving ourselves from the experience of burning fat. "Also, poor posture can cause injuries, so be sure to stand up straight and relax your shoulders".
- Stay focused: for some, cardiovascular exercise is an opportunity to multitask: catch up on your favourite TV show or even finish the last chapters of your favourite novel. However, when we let our mind focus on something other than exercise, we often lower our intensity to prevent the book from moving or the machine exceeding the volume of the TV.
- Instead, focus on your movements and your breathing, be aware of every muscle you are working on and make sure to tighten those central muscles whenever you can. By being more aware of your actions, you will make the most of your cardiovascular exercise and burn more calories.
By following these simple steps, you can make the most of your next cardiovascular exercise and burn even more calories every time you go to the gym. When combined with a healthy diet, your cardio sessions will be an excellent way to lose weight and lose those stubborn kilos that cling to your waist
The best way to exercise is to have fun. The more you enjoy what you do, the more you'll want to do it on a regular basis. Now you are ready to burn more calories during cardio with these ideas. Please share with friends, THANKS!


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10 Signs You're Lady Mary From 'Downton Abbey'
Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) might seem to be easy to peg at first. She's rich and the only problem she used to have was finding a husband, but she crossed that off her checklist. But as time goes on we see Lady Mary becoming more and more progressive and therefore more complicated. Do you think you're anything like this leading lady? Here are 10 signs to find out!
1. You're not much of a cook. You've always had people do that for you.
2. You have a reputation of being hard.
3. You make it hard for possible love interests to get to know you.
4. You're the one who usually voices the uncomfortable truth to others.
5. Your routine of getting presentable is quite detailed and you may constantly need help doing it.
6. You're the oldest so there is a lot more expected of you.
7. You've stopped caring about other people think.
8. You have mastered the eye roll.
9. People may assume you're too prissy for sport, but you're not.
10. You don't always have the best of luck, especially when it comes to love.
How are you like Mary Crawley? Let us know by tweeting the Twitter handles below!


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Spaceman17 replied to Sorabh's topic in Modelling and Texturing Discussionfor texturing is make a material that contains an image emissives is by the material menu also you should make the service module of the indian pod, and service moduel and orbital module in shenzhou
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Spaceman17 replied to Monkey29399's topic in Challenges & Mission ideaswhat is part clipping? also for come towards kerbin perpendiculary to the atmosfere you must burn retrograde first, and then toward kerbin, but in the other i think you are good for make challenges, the next time make something about mun because i will send keople to there
i'll try 1.1 and 1.2, to see the thing of the textures
[Wings3D] Trying to make a custom Command Pod
Spaceman17 replied to Sorabh's topic in Modelling and Texturing Discussioni use wings 3d too, is there any update?
i cannot upgrade to more than 1.0, because even in 1.0 some textures aren't showed and eats much ram someone will be able to make a version for 1.3 (i think) i'm about to make my first mun landing, it consist of 10 missions until a landing: 1- make a flyby around mun in a free return trajectory(FRT); preparing 2-achieve an orbit around the mun, orbit sometimes and return to kerbin; preparing 3-make a orbit around kerbin, for testing the lander; preparing 4-flyby mun in FRT with the lander to test; preparing 5-use the lander engines for orbit mun, then undock and back to kerbin; preparing 6-orbit mun and make a unmanned landing on mun, no return; preparing 7-orbit mun and make an unmanned landing on mun, returning to the ship; preparing 8-send a rover to mun and make an unmanned landing near it; preparing 9-orbit mun for find a good landing site; preparing 10-land in mun and plant a flag; preparing 11-land in mun near the rover, and plant a flag; preparing 12-land in mun, and drive the rover for find a site for building a base; preparing facts: all missions are being made with orion and SLS more missions will be announced
stop of criticizing me! anyhow does someone here how to modify planets?
i'm preparing to make a mod for 0.90: kerbalized solar system if anyone know how to modding planets, mak me know, thanks also launched the core of the prometheus station why everyone seem to be criticizing me for using 0.90?
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after recovering in EFT-1 it was black
made a nbody simulation of the kerbol system, and: moho: stable eve: its moon gilly is unstable, constatly changing its orbit kerbin : all stable duna: stable dres: stable jool: laythe: stable, vall: crashed with laythe, tylo: stable, bop: was about to go to kerbol orbit, pol: stable eeloo: stable also designed a rocket: the Laythe I it's capable of: sending 30 tons to LKO sending 20 tons to a space station sending 10 tons to keosyncronous orbit sending 10 tons to trans-munar injection orbit sending 5 tons to kerbol orbit, near kerbin this picture was taken when i was planning to send a new space station, i will deorbit the odyssey
the orion is renderes as black, for heat plates


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Speedmaster '57 Omega Co-Axial Chronograph 41.5 mm by Omega
The "Speedmaster '57 Omega Co-Axial Chronograph 41.5 mm" (reference 3184.108.40.206.01.002) belongs to Omega's "Speedmaster" collection. The Watch features a black dial and a stainless steel case. This watch was designed for men. The round case is 41.5mm in diameter and waterproof up to 10 bar (approximately 100 m water depth). The transparent case back allows to admire the movement.
The watch is based on an automatically winding Omega 9300 mechanical movement offering a power reserve of 60 hours and indicators for hours, minutes and seconds (small second). The caliber has the popular chronograph "stopwatch" function to measure the duration of an event. The measured duration can be read with an indicator for the seconds. A tachymeter scale allows to convert stopped seconds - or travel time in general - to speed. The movement displays the date. As regulating organ, the movement uses a co-axial escapement. Other features of the movement: free-sprung balance and silicon balance spring.
The watch is worn with a steel bracelet with a steel folding clasp. Omega asks its official retailers to sell the watch at around 8'050 CHF. Use the "Contact Shop" button to reach out to an official store of your choice for their offer."


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May 5
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Every May, WhiteBrook students participate in Walk for Water – an event to raise funds for Kalthana, India, where the closest water is five miles away, and that water is already heavily polluted. We are so proud of these students for taking on such a worthy cause, and we are delighted to be supporting them! $1 of every pops sold will be donated to their fundraising efforts. Come join us!


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Contributed by Apoorva Chugh
The grade 9 students from ISS recently participated in the Chair-ity project and collaborated with kids from the rainbow centre to create chairs. Both- the students from rainbow centre and ISS Students, got to experience each other's world by working on these chairs together.
To see the chairs and find out more information, there is currently a public exhibition going on (1-15th December) at level 3, Ion from 10am to 10pm.
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCATr2NF-II&feature=youtu.be


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This One Chart Could Explain Why Brexit Happened
Early Friday morning, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to exit the European Union, leaving many with one question on their minds: How did Brexit come about? Early polls originally predicted that the vote would be close, but the U.K. would ultimately stay in the EU; even Nigel Farange, leader of the Independence Party and a strong proponent of breaking with the EU, thought that the U.K. would vote to remain. In the end, however, nearly 52 percent of voters chose to leave the EU, and although nobody is quite sure how the exit will proceed, the decision is clear.
The results of the polls may present a united front, but in reality, Brexit (a portmanteau of "Britain" and "exit") divided the U.K. on a number of levels. Gender, region, and party loyalties all influenced voting choices, but according to BuzzFeed, the clearest divide was between generations, particularly millennials and baby boomers: 75 percent of people between 18 and 24 years old voted to remain, while nearly two-thirds of those over 60 years old voted to leave the EU. These numbers reflect a staggering difference in thought along generational lines, but the following chart created by BuzzFeed drives home just how deeply the division ran.
Many young residents of the U.K. voiced their disagreement with the decision on Twitter, often pointing out that they have decades of their lives ahead of them, while older generations are unlikely to experience the long-term consequences of leaving the EU. According to these users, older people are making decisions for the future of the young when they won't have to live with the fallout.
Unfortunately, their concerns aren't unwarranted. Britain entered the EU in 1973, so young people today have never lived in a fully independent United Kingdom. As The Guardian points out, membership of the EU allows residents to work, study, and travel freely between its 28 countries. This allows for a wider range of jobs to choose from, without the hassle of obtaining special visas or worrying about citizenship. Now that the U.K. has voted to leave, it's likely that there will be fewer jobs for new graduates to choose from, forcing them to compete in a smaller pool of employment options — and with a larger group of workers fighting for a smaller number of jobs.
Furthermore, the university system itself may lose money. According to Sputnik News, U.K. universities receive a significant chunk of their funding as a result of membership in the EU, and some worry that Brexit will put this money in jeopardy. Even if U.K. university funding remains untouched, the ensuing restrictions on travel will most likely affect students' ability to study in other countries.
Finally, young adults are usually the first to suffer in recessions, and a number of economists have predicted that the UK's economy (among others) will suffer when it exits the EU. House prices are already expected to take a short-term hit at the very least, and The Independent predicts that younger millennials may experience their second recession before they're 30. Unfortunately, an exit from the EU will make it much harder to find employment outside the country — and these are just predictions for the next decade or so. Considering no country has ever fully left the EU, there's no telling what the long-term effects will be; all we know is that millennials — most of whom voted to remain — are the ones who are going to be most impacted by those long-term effects.
In the hours since the results were announced, Brexit has had major consequences: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday morning that he would step down, and the pound crashed to record lows in the wake of the decision. Furthermore, many have speculated that the decision will affect U.K. immigration patterns, the economies of other countries, and perhaps even set the stage for the EU to dissolve entirely.
That being said, the move to exit the EU is unprecedented, and it may take months or years for the U.K. to actually leave. However, it's clear that the move will influence the world for years to come in ways that remain to be seen.


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Corporal punishment of students is still legal in Texas. A few school districts use it, extensively — and to good effect, they argue. The Dallas Morning News featured the practice in a front-page story on Sunday, August 20.
Photo by Tom Fox, Dallas Morning News
Photo caption: When principal Anthony Price arrived at Everman Junior High three years ago, he was warned about out-of-control students and threats to teachers. After getting parents' consent, he instituted paddling last year, and he says he's seen the results. 'The building is a pleasure to work in now,' he says.
See also "Faith, culture are factors in paddling."
My noting these stories here should not be read as endorsement of the practice.
One wonders how the schools perform on the state exams.


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What unites us is stronger than what divides us. However, when we allow what divides us to define us, we end up hurting ourselves and our neighbor in the process.
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Instead of requiring high school students to read The Diary of Anne Frank, the United States could have served as asylum for her. Are we denying asylum to the Syrian Anne Frank?


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When: Saturday, September 8, 2018. Light brunch at 10:30am, free program from 11:00am – 1:00pm
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New vacancy figures lay bare the scale of the problem faced by the health serviceby Anita Charlesworth / August 2, 2017 / Leave a comment
Poor workforce planning has long been the Achilles heel of the NHS in England. The UK spends close to the European average on health, at almost 10 per cent of GDP, but we have fewer doctors and nurses per head of population than comparable countries.
Over recent years the number of doctors working in the NHS has increased rapidly. There were 20 per cent more full time equivalent consultants in the NHS in 2016 than in 2010. But the number of nurses has not kept pace—increasing by just 1 per cent over the same six years. When you factor in population growth, this does not bode well for the future of the health service. When you factor in Brexit, the picture looks even more grave.
While money worries have dogged the NHS in recent years, staff shortages are fast overtaking money as the main concern of NHS leaders (though of course the two are linked). Last week saw the publication of data suggesting a significant increase in the number of vacancies across the NHS. The vital signs for the NHS workforce are not good and nurse staffing in particular looks to be flashing for urgent and significant attention.
The NHS is short of around 30,000 nurses, and 49 per cent of NHS nurses say they don't think there are enough staff for them to do their job properly. This matters for individual patient care but also the overall efficiency of the NHS. The Health Foundation's research found a clear association between consultant productivity and nurse numbers. It's an obvious point but health care is delivered by a team. Rapidly increasing doctor numbers without ensuring that there is a full complement of the whole patient care team is a classic, if depressing, example of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
Around one in 10 nursing posts was vacant in 2016—double the number in 2012. Based on current training plans and trends in staff leaving the service, the NHS will still be short of 16,000 nurses in 2021.
In the past, England has relied on international recruitment as a "get out of jail free card" to avoid the consequences of these workforce policy failures. But the outlook for international recruitment means that the government may have run out of cards. Nurse workforce shortages are not…


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text: Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. 26(2):152–156, MARCH 2016 DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000186 , PMID: 25706662 Issn Print: 1050-642X Publication Date: March 2016 Print Comparisons of Bone Mineral Density Between Recreational and Trained Male Road Cyclists Christopher Mojock;Michael Ormsbee;Jeong-Su Kim;Bahram Arjmandi;Gideon Louw;Robert Contreras;Lynn Panton; + Author Information *Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia;†Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida;‡Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida;§Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; and¶Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Checking for direct PDF access through Ovid Abstract Objective:To compare measures of training, performance, body composition, and areal bone mineral density (aBMD) between age-matched recreational and competitively trained male road cyclists.Design:Cross-sectional.Setting:Laboratory.Participants:Male cyclists (N = 28) aged 21–54 years riding more than 3 hours per week.Assessment of Risk Factors:Men who train at high (≥8 h/wk) and moderate volumes (3–8 h/wk).Main Outcome Measures:Areal bone mineral density assessments by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry of the whole body, lumbar spine (L1-L4), right and left hips, maximal oxygen uptake (V[Combining Dot Above]O2max), and training history.Results:Trained cyclists had higher power to weight (5.3 ± 0.4 vs 4.7 ± 0.3 W/kg, P = 0.001), V[Combining Dot Above]O2max (57.2 ± 4.5 vs 53.0 ± 6.1 mL·kg−1·min−1, P = 0.049) and training volume (10.6 ± 2.1 vs 6.3 ± 0.9 h/wk, P < 0.001) than recreational cyclists. Trained cyclists had lower right (0.898 ± 0.090 vs 0.979 ± 0.107 g/cm2, P = 0.047) and left hip aBMD (0.891 ± 0.079 vs 0.973 ± 0.104 g/cm2, P = 0.032). Z-scores identified lumbar (L1-L4) aBMD as osteopenic (−2.5 < Z-score < −1.0) in trained cyclists (−1.39 ± 1.09). Lumbar scans identified 12 trained and 4 recreational cyclists as osteopenic and 3 trained cyclists as osteoporotic.Conclusions:Areal bone mineral density is lower in trained male road cyclists compared with recreational, specifically at the hips. Lumbar aBMD is low in both trained and recreational cyclists. Research is needed to determine the chronic effects of cycling on aBMD and interventions that improve aBMD in this population.Clinical Relevance:This study suggests road cycling may compromise aBMD and potentially increase the likelihood of low-trauma fractures; health care professionals should consider this exposure when exercise prescriptions are designed for patients at-risk for osteopenia/osteoporosis, for example, women and older adults.


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I was delighted when Irene shared her new discovery of yeast free bread with me. Her daughter Victoria and Amber are both allergic to yeast. That's a big thing for a growing up kid. That means no bread, buns, cream crackers, fatt kou, ma lai kou or any other kueh that's spongy! No bread - the comfort food when sick. No bread - to go with peanut butter. Simply no bread. Can you imagine life without bread ? Something so basic and simple ?
and for Amber, who lurvvvess Marmite yeast extract, it's torturing. I had to chuck away our big jar of Marmite to the bin when we discovered her allergy.
I quickly made my way to Woods Macrobiotics Hanspeter Biobackerei to check their spread of offers ! I got some donuts, an pan bun and packs of dairy free soya chocolate. Amber loves the chocolate milk (soy version) treat and she polished the donut the same night :
cinnamon donut
red bean bun
Thanks Irene for sharing the discovery. Amber can now eat donuts and lots more food. No more boring rice cracker for her break time :D


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NCS White Paper on Colour Trend Forecasting
The NCS – Natural Colour System®©, a Color Marketing Group (CMG) Partner, shares the importance of colour systems and anlaysis in the colour trend forecasting process.
Colour Trend Timing
Colour trends are important! It is the understanding of what colours our customers prefer at a given time in the future. If we do our job correctly, we will sell a lot, thanks to the colours we choose. If not, we will not sell. Simple.
How do we come the conclusion of what colours will sell in the coming years?
Firstly, we need to understand what colours are preferred today. Then we need to understand in what direction our colour preferences are moving and why. Lastly we need to conclude where our colour preferences will be at the time we have defined and why.
The Thinking Behind Colour Forecasting
In the process, we need to consider the logics of the way our brain, our psychology works, independently on the exterior drivers and influences.
Studies show that colour trends is a repetitive cycle, once our brains get tired of being exposed to domination colour areas, we want to have colours from the opposite extreme of the colour space.
Once we understand this, we can understand in what directions the trends most likely will go.
Even though the steps overlap, this makes colour trend forecasting much more accurate. Without a proper analysis in to the visual colour space of NCS – Natural Colour System®©, it becomes a much more subjective and intuitive observation.
Colour Directions
Benefits of the NCS System
Colour Analysis in Colour Trend Forecasting
Accurate Colour Selection Pays
Colour is far more important than most people realize and we need to treat it as such. Wrong colour decisions based on inaccurate colour definitions cost a lot. The success of a colour forecast shall always be based on our experience, our expertise, our intuition, and on the corresponding rational analysis. NCS does not forecast, it is the tool to confirm that we make the correct decisions.


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Thanks for taking the next step in making a difference in the lives of our EB families.
You could hold a BBQ, set a personal goal, have a cake stall or come up with your own unique idea, every little bit counts in making a difference to children living with EB in Australia. Set up your fundraising page and share it with your friends and family.
Thanks for being an amazing Human and supporting DEBRA Australia.
DEBRA Australia
DEBRA Australia is a voluntary non-government funded support group that helps individuals and their families with Epidermolysis Bullosa, more commonly known as EB. An EB person has skin that is as fragile as butterflies' wings so they are affectionately known as "Butterfly Children". This rare genetically inherited skin disorder is incurable and requires painful 3 hour dressing changes every second day.
DEBRA Australia works to provide financial and emotional support to families with EB as well as advocating and providing vital funding to research for a cure.


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Yes, I'm sure you can, and indeed I have many times.
14 hours on a flight from London to Hong Kong on many occasions has produced a sleeve or 2 for me, a hat or a good start at a scarf. All that available time to knit while watching a movie is good knitting time.
However I have heard horror stores about people having their knitting ripped off their needles in one swish of a security guard's hands! The indignity of it.
When preparing for airport security, I recommend sewing in a safety line. That way, if needles are confiscated, stitches remain.
I'm a frequent traveller and the following airlines and airports have been successful for me to bring my knitting in my hand baggage. Scissors never in the cabin! I have had straight needles, wooden, carbon, plastic, bamboo and mental too. DPN's and circulars as well. I don't hide them, they are just in my hand baggage.
Although a knitting needle arguably has the same danger level as a pencil, one must remember that it's both up to the airport and airline.
Oh go on, share your knitting selfies on board... Enjoy mine in the loo.


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Marubeni, First Japanese Company to Obtain Casablanca Finance City Status. Casablanca- Japanese integrated trading and investment business conglomerate Marubeni obtained the Casablanca Finance City (CFC) status for their new Casablanca office, according to La Tribune Afrique.
China's AIIB Approves 13 New Member Countries. By Dezan Shira & Associates The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved applications from 13 new countries to join.
They are Afghanistan, Armenia, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Peru, Sudan, Timor Leste, and Venezuela. These members will officially join the bank once they complete their required domestic processes and deposit their first capital. The shares allocated to them come from an existing pool of un-allocated shares. The bank, which began operations at Beijing's instigation in January 2016, pools financing from its members and repackages these into mutually agreed funds for "Asian investment" projects. RELATED: China's AIIB – The Facts To Know.
Africa: China Disburses $30bn to Africa. By Elita Chikwati China has disbursed nearly $30 billion to assist African countries in different projects as it pledged to be the most reliable partner in speeding agriculture modernisation and industrial development.
AIIB to add 25 new member countries in 2017. Ireland, Canada, Ethiopia and Sudan are reportedly among around 25 countries from across the world that are expected to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) this year.
China established the AIIB to finance energy, transport and other infrastructure projects in Asia, and the bank started operations a year ago with 57 member countries and US$100 billion in capital. The Beijing-based bank is expected to add a wave of new members at its second annual meeting in June. "We have applications from a number of Europeans who didn't join in the first wave, some Asian countries, South Americans and Canada has applied to join," Sir Danny Alexander, vice-president of the AIIB, told the Financial Times (paywall) on Tuesday. "So this year the membership will expand quite substantially." Several US allies, including the United Kingdom, Australia and South Korea, rushed to join the AIIB in the first wave despite Washington's initial opposition. How Jack Ma's Acquisition Of US-Based MoneyGram Could Be Good For Africans. Photo: thecommonwealth.org China's richest man, Jack Ma, and his acquisition of U.S.
-based money transfer firm MoneyGram show the importance of remittances as a powerful driver of economic change at both the individual and international level, according to the competition. Ma's Ant Financial acquired MoneyGram for $880 million on Jan. 26, 2017. MoneyGram is the second largest provider of money transfers in the world, operating in more than 200 countries with about 347,000 offices.
Part of the fast-growing Alibaba Group and parent of AliPay, Ant Financial is stepping up its international expansion with the acquisition, Bloomberg reported. The will connect MoneyGram's network of 2.4 billion bank and mobile accounts with Ant's customers, who will be able to use a variety of tech-based financial services including payments, credit and insurance products. MoneyGram specializes in sending money from immigrants back to their home countries, according to the New York Times.
Silk Road International Bank set in Djibouti. By Gu Yang With the acceleration of Chinese enterprises' "Going out", the financial industry is becoming the powerful support to boost Belt and Road construction.
Recently, under the guidance of the Belt and Road construction frame, the first commercial bank set abroad by our country- Silk Road International Bank was announced to be set up in Djibouti on the west bank of Gulf of Aden and this was the first time for China-invested enterprises to obtain the banking license on the African continent. Why Djibouti Djibouti is a strange country for most people, but in the eyes of Luo Feng, the Vice Chairman of Silk Road International Bank Board of Directors and the President of IZP Group, this magical land in the east Africa is a hot land that is full of hope-it is at the vital communication hub of Europe, Asia and Africa and is located at the throat where the Red Sea flowing into the Indian Ocean. Africa: Chinese Fund Invests U.S.$4 Bilion in Africa. Guangzhou — The China Africa Development Fund (CAD Fund), an equity investment fund managed by China Development Bank, had invested 4 billion U.S. dollars in Africa as of the end of November, authorities said Wednesday.
Since its establishment in 2007, the fund has invested in 88 projects in 37 African countries. The projects cover areas including infrastructure, processing and manufacturing, and energy and mineral resources, said Wang Yong, vice president of the fund, at a business partnership event attended by Chinese and African companies in Guangzhou. In addition to investment directly from the CAD Fund, the projects have attracted a further 17 billion U.S. dollars in the form of enterprise investment and bank loans to Africa, according to Wang. Every U.S. dollar the CAD Fund invests attracts some five U.S. dollars of investment from Chinese companies and banks, he said. China-backed AIIB to fund projects in Africa in 'near future'
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is reportedly expecting to fund projects in Africa in the near future, a move that would mark the first time for the Beijing-based bank to extend its business beyond Asia.
AIIB President Jin Liqun, who was attending the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in Vienna on Monday, said that the bank could co-operate with other lenders to help African countries to meet their development needs. "We expect that in near future we could carry out our business in Africa, and could cooperate with the World Bank, the African Development Bank and UNIDO," Jin told Xinhua. The AIIB chief said that his bank shares the same inclusive and sustainable development mandate with UNIDO and could cooperate with it to support the industrial development in Africa in the future. Exploring the China-Africa Development Fund. Algeria to Accelerate Process of Settling Transactions With China's Yuan. China forms firm to fund Africa projects - Daily Nation. By OTIATO GUGUYUMore by this Author China has formed an infrastructure firm with an initial Sh50 billion ($500 million) investment to help fund projects in Africa.
The China Overseas Infrastructure Development and Investment Corporation Limited (COIDIC) will invest and manage projects from concept to feasibility studies. It will also follow up on financial close and take part in commercial operations. Afreximbank closes $300 million China Exim-backed loan - African export-import bank. Banking prepared to offer services in renminbi in Portuguese-speaking Africa. The internationalisation of China's currency, the renminbi, in cross-border trade in which Macau will serve as a clearing platform, has been anticipated by Portuguese and Chinese banks, offering a range of services in Chinese currency to companies in the Portuguese-speaking countries.
The use of Macau as a platform along with Shanghai's financial centre, to encourage cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries was the subject of a conference organised by the state-owned Portuguese bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), which on 5 September in Lisbon brought together the financial authorities of the two Chinese regions, as well as financial and legal sector executives. In Macau, where it issues the pataca, the BNU has 220,000 customers, about a third of the population and in 2015 its revenue more than doubled compared to 2012. In November 2015, the IMF officially approved the inclusion of the RMB in its currency basket, with a weight of 10.92%, after the dollar and euro. China creates company with $500m initial capital for infrastructure in Africa. The story of China in Africa is not over yet. China is not letting on her hold of Africa. The country has just announced an infrastructure development fund for the continent.
The Chinese government announced at the second Invest in Africa Forum a $500 million initial capitalization, with the creation of the China Overseas Infrastructure Development and Investment Corporation Limited (COIDIC). According to a press release copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, the COIDIC is a for-profit company that invests in and manages projects from concept to feasibility studies, financial close and commercial operations. Chinese finance institutions immerse into Egypt's economy, pump dollars into market. China is the largest international partner to Egypt, representing 10% of the Egyptian commercial market. The trade exchange between Egypt and China amounted to $13bn in 2015, an increase of 11% compared to 2014 and the highest value reached between the two countries, according to Egyptian Trade Plenipotentiary Minister and Head of the Economic and Trade Office at the Egyptian embassy in China, Ayman Ali Osman.
Osman said the balance of trade is still in China's favour due to the superiority of Chinese exports to Egypt, which amounted to $12bn in 2015, compared to $10.5bn in 2014. The most significant Chinese exports to Egypt are mobile phones, cloth, mixtures of steel, and garments. Egyptian exports to China are concentrated in a limited number of tariff items, such as marble, granite, lubricants, citrus fruits, cotton, steel ore, and oil exports (petroleum oils).
Osman said that the total Chinese investments in Egypt amounted to EGP 6bn in 2015. China Africa Digital Migration Financing. China-Africa financial cooperation. Comment Pékin est devenu le banquier de l'Afrique. Inédit : un accord sur la conversion et la libre circulation du yuan et du franc CFA en Afrique centrale et en Chine - Cameroun Liberty. 05-07-2016 (18h00) Le Chef de l'Etat congolais Denis Sassou Nguesso est arrivé à Pékin ce 4 juillet 2016 pour une mission d'Etat de quatre jours, il va tour à tour visiter les villes de Suzhou , Shanghai et Pékin. Une série d'accords hautement stratégiques sera signée entre les deux états, les accords devant engager le Congo et la sous-région Afrique centrale. Apres la rencontre ce Mardi avec le président chinois Xi Jinping, ce sera au tour du président de l'assemblée nationale populaire, Zhang Dejiang, ensuite le premier ministre chinois Li Keqiang, le maire de la ville de Shanghai ainsi que des visites d'institutions financières.
Première étape, la Banque Sino-Congolaise pour l'Afrique (BSCA Bank), filiale de la Banque agricole de Chine qui ouvrira ses portes en 2018 à Brazzaville, les travaux de construction du siège sont en cours. De cette visite, plus attendu, la signature d'un accord sur la conversion et la libre circulation du yuan et du franc CFA en Afrique centrale et en Chine. First branch of a Chinese banking group opens in Central Africa. Targeting Africa: Chinese Bitcoin Mining Giant Invests In Trading Platform. HaoBTC Bitcoin Mine. Photo: Eric Mu Beijing-based bitcoin mining giant Bitmain has invested $1.6 million in Shenzen-based BitKan, a bitcoin data and trading services provider, with a view to expanding over-the-counter bitcoin trading in non-mature bitcoin markets including in Africa and the U.S., BitcoinMagazine reported. Bitmain is an integrated circuit design company specializing in research, development, and sales for mining chips and miners.
The company manufactures Bitcoin mining hardware and also operates Antpool, the world's largest Bitcoin mining pool with 28 percent of the network's hashrate. BitKan is a bitcoin-focused data and trading services provider. China offers Nigeria $6b loan to fund projects. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 12, 2016. Muhammadu Buhari is on a visit to China from April 11 to 15. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / KENZABURO FUKUHARA. Bank of China débarque au Maroc (VIDÉO) China's $60 bln Africa pledge not threatened by slowdown: ambassador.
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - China's economic slowdown will not threaten its plans to plough $60 billion into African development projects, Beijing's ambassador to Ethiopia said. Africa could even benefit as Chinese companies looked for investments while their own economy adjusts, Li Yifan told Reuters. China's economy grew 6.9 percent in 2015, its slowest pace in a quarter of a century.
Beijing's sharp drawdown of reserves to alleviate downward pressure on its yuan currency has unnerved global markets in recent months. Use of Chinese Renminbi Booms in South Africa - MoneyBeat. Bank of China to Open Branch in Casablanca Finance City. L'Algérie adopte le règlement par renminbi de ses transactions avec la Chine. La Banque d'Algérie a instruit les banques intermédiaires pour commencer à compter du mois en cours à utiliser le renminbi (ou yuan, monnaie chinoise) comme monnaie de règlement des importations venant de Chine.
"La Chine étant devenue le premier partenaire commercial de l'Algérie, il est entendu que les règlements des importations en provenance de ce pays ne sauraient être réglées dans une autre monnaie que celle de ce pays. D'autant plus que cette formule élimine tout premium pour la couverture du risque de change dans le cas de règlement dans une autre monnaie", a indiqué la Banque d'Algérie dans une note datée du 18 novembre et adressée aux présidents et directeurs des banques commerciales. Africa: China-Africa Trade Approaches 300 Billion Dollars in 2015. Beijing — China's trade with African states has grown about ten times in the last decade, with the total value likely to hit 300 billion U.S. dollars this year, according to the Fourth China-Africa Industrial Forum (CAIF), which opened Monday in Beijing. Africa Is Another Victim Of China's Capital Outflows. Sinosure to underwrite $100m Zim loan facility. Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa says Chinese company Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) is seeking insurer, SinoSure to underwrite the $100 million loan facility for small-scale miners before disbursements to Zimbabwe.
Minister Chidhakwa said in an interview that XCMG told him that it has received informal commitment from the State funded insurance company and is now awaiting formalisation of the commitment. Gold mining is strategic to the growth of the domestic economy in light of the fact that together with platinum, the sector account for over half of the country's foreign exchange earnings generated from mining.
"It is our hope that this is done early so that early 2016 we start disbursing the equipment," he said. Agricultural Bank of China expands in Congo: MFW4A - Making Finance Work for Africa. Agricultural Bank of China et un consortium congolais inaugurent la Banque Sino-Congolaise pour l'Afrique - Cameroun Liberty. Un nouvel établissement bancaire vient de voir le jour en République du Congo. Il s'agit de la Banque Sino-Congolaise pour l'Afrique (BSCA), qui a été inaugurée tout récemment, selon un communiqué publié le 12 octobre par Sopra Banking Software, un groupe spécialisé dans le domaine des logiciels qui a construit le système d'information du nouvel établissement.
African govts urged to utilise China's SME fund - Graphic Online. An Assistant Professor at the School of Economy and Business Management Science of the Zhejiang Normal University, Professor Xiaofeng Zhang, has tasked African entrepreneurs to take advantage of the Fund for African Small and Medium Scale Enterprise set up by the Chinese government to grow their businesses. These four African currencies are in danger of sinking as China's devaluation stings. ON most days, Kazakhstan finds itself in the backwaters of financial markets. Yet, it's this central Asian nation that has delivered the latest shock to global currency trading. What does yuan's devaluation mean for Africa? China plans to open banks in Angola. China and Angola sign agreement for mutual acceptance of national currencies. China Development Bank octroie un financement de 26,2 milliards FCfa à Afriland First Bank - Investir au Cameroun: l'actualités quotidienne sectorielle de l'économie camerounaise - telecom agro mines gestion publique.
Avec l'AIIB, la Chine défie les États-Unis et la Banque mondiale. Afrique-Chine : Attijariwafa bank et Bank Of China, une alliance pour promouvoir le Renminbi. Central banks of China and Mozambique sign agreement. China injects $2 bln into new Africa fund. China-Africa Fund Finds Investing in African Projects Difficult, CEO Says. Africa: new frontier for the renminbi.


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|I asked you to kill me, not to bring me across. Not to bear for eternity what I couldn't bear for another second. I asked for death, and you gave me forever. Forever.
— Urs, Hearts of Darkness
An amateur stripper from the Raven's Friday night session goes home with an admirer—but it is he who is murdered. Is she the killer or a witness? Natalie determines that the victim had been killed by a vampire. But, as Nick and Tracy keep Ellen under police protection at home, Urs becomes increasingly distressed by parallels with her own mortal years.
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- Krista Bridges......Ellen/Monica/Jacqueline
- Kristin Lehman......Urs
- Edward Jaunz......Don Eckhart
- David Nerman......Todd Marnecki
- Greg Kramer......Screed
- Normand Bissonnette......Bourbon
- Steve Behal......Lemieux
- Adriana Galic......Mrs. Marnecki
- Laura Catalano......the girl in the whirlpool
- Camille James Adams......Killoughby
- Ralph Small......McFarlane
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- LaCroix: Let us peel back the layers, let us strip away the last vestiges of decorum and civility, and reveal our inner selves. Oui, mes amis, it's amateur night at the Raven, and tonight our amateurs will reveal their inner selves by getting naked!
- Urs: I don't take death as lightly as you, Javier.
- Urs: Please—feed and then let me die. Please. Please. Kill me.
- Urs: I asked you to kill me, not to bring me across. Not to bear for eternity what I couldn't bear for another second. I asked for death, and you gave me forever. Forever.
- Ellen: Haven't you ever wanted to die?
Tracy: No.
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October 9, 2019
Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Mendez, illustrated by Jaime Kim
Where Are You From?
by Yamile Saied Mendez,
illustrated by Jaime Kim
This story is about a little girl who doesn't look like everyone around her. Because of this, children and adults alike assume she is from somewhere else.
Where are you from? they ask.
Is your mom from here?
Is your dad from there? they ask.
This is a book that could quickly become a sermon, or a protest sign, but Mendez gives our young narrator a problem that resonates in today's world and an abuelo. When he could lecture, abuelo spins a story about the many lands their ancestors called home. He talks about guacho and the pampas, condors and mountains and far off lands. But what he's really telling her about is family.
Jaime Kim's illustrations bring this story to life. She creates a diverse variety of characters, children and adults, who pose these questions to the young narrator. Then she creates a smiling abuelo who spins a story of exotic seeming locals that are in some ways very familiar – they are full of families. The story ends as abuelo and our character return home, to a place full of a wide variety of people.
Kim combines watercolors and digital techniques to create the illustrations for this book. I think my favorite illustration is the one of the Andes and the condors or maybe it is when the pair are on horseback on the pampas.
If you haven't read this picture book, I'd definitely recommend it for a great way to teach without preaching. It is subtle, sweet and relatable. Give it a place on the bookshelf in your classroom, office and home. It will act as a great jumping off place for readers young and adult to discuss identity and their understanding of others as well as self-acceptance.


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Electroacupuncture After Full (EAF) is a procedure in which the conductivity of the tissue is checked by means of a measuring device. With Electroacupuncture After Full, pathological processes in the body should be recorded early, at a time when no irreparable damage has occurred.
The Electroacupuncture After Full unites the concepts of acupuncture and electrotherapy. This diagnosis and therapy method was justified by the physician Reinhold Voll. He developed an electro-acupuncture device in 1971 as a result of his own illness.
On the one hand this device measures the resistance at certain points of the skin surface (partly points from the different acupuncture concepts, partly self-found points), on the other hand it is able to deliver weak electrical impulse currents.
The EAV device consists of a measuring part and a therapy part, which can supply the patient with weak electrical currents. During the examination, the patient holds a metal handle connected to the device, the so-called indifferent electrode. The examiner uses a point electrode to measure the skin resistance at the clearly defined EAV points.


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NOTE: See – Malta Budget 2020
If you are thinking of buying or renting a property in the next year, here are the key points from Budget 2018.
First-Time Buyers
The duty exemption scheme for the first 150k of a residential property is extended for another year. The maximum amount a first-time buyer can benefit from is €5,000.
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Second-Time Buyers
This new scheme is created with young growing families and older people in mind. If you need to sell your first home and buy are bigger or smaller one, you are eligible to a refund of up to €3,000 on duty.
There are additional benefits for people with special needs and even their parents, so the maximum amount can go up to €5,000.
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Buying a property in Gozo
If you are thinking of buying a residential property in Gozo, there is good news from Budget 2018 for you too. The reduction on duty from 5% to 2% will continue for another year.
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Urban Conservation Area – Duty on property
In the last 12 months the duty on properties located in urban conservation areas was halved from 5% to 2.5% and according to the information from Budget 2018, the scheme will be extended for another year.
Rental Market
The Government is trying to regulate the rental market and it shows in Budget 2018. In an attempt to create a better legal framework and create a fairer environment for both landlords and lesees, the registration of all rental contracts is now required.
Also, more and more people will be able qualify for a rental subsidy with special thresholds to apply for those over 65 years of age.
Another point worth mentioning is that property owners can receive up to €25,000 to renovate old properties. These properties will have to be rented out on set rental rates to the Housing Authority for 10 years.
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Individual Investor Programme
In a nutshell, Individual Investor Programme (IIP) enables foreign individuals, who contribute to the island's economic development, to attain Maltese citizenship. Although, it has caused a bit of a controversy in the past, the programme is seen as beneficial and has been extended for another year.
Overall, the outlook for the property market in 2018 is quite positive. With incentives for First-Time Buyers and Second-Time Buyers alike, the demand for properties should continue to stay strong.


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Bowery Kitchen, which was once located on Manhattan's Bowery Street, has been a New York staple for housewares since 1975. However, after moving its location to Chelsea Market in 1996, the store not only became a hot spot for home cooks, professional chefs and foodies alike, but it became the go-to for its neighbor, The Food Network.
"They are a regular customer and it's like a nice, familiar face for them and for us. We have to make sure that we give them the type of service that they don't get from a chain. They recognize us, we recognize them; it's a loyalty. It still never gets old. It's fresh and it's fun. It's a nice partnership and we are proud of the fact that we can service them," Coval previously told GOURMET INSIDER®.
The store was also featured on NBC's "The Profit" and now has a sister store, Bowery Fork, which is located in Laurel, NY.
Feast your eyes on what we captured during a recent visit to the store. And if you're hungry for more, check out our galleries of Le Roux Kitchen, The Kitchen Nashville and Whisk's New York City location.
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2017 Goldeneye Ten Degrees Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
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In 1996, building on their tradition of excellence established at Duckhorn Vineyards, and their growing love of Pinot Noir, Dan and Margaret Duckhorn came to Anderson Valley to found Goldeneye. Anderson Valley has since earned acclaim as one of the world's greatest Pinot Noir regions. Representing the pinnacle of our winemaking portfolio, Ten Degrees is made from only our finest lots, making it a Pinot Noir of unparalleled grace and grandeur.
Wine Profile
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Varietal Content: 100% Pinot Noir; Cooperage: 100% new French oak
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The pinnacle of our portfolio, Ten Degrees showcases the depth and diversity of our Anderson Valley estate vineyards, offering fragrant layers of blueberry and blackberry, as well as sophisticated notes of redwood forest, moist earth and spice. Though rich and alluring on the palate, a beam of bright acidity adds depth and nuance to the dark berry flavors, with hints of tobacco leaf, anise and pennyroyal revealing themselves as the wine evolves in the glass.
The 2017 season began with plentiful rains that resulted in healthy vines and an excellent crop. After ideal temperate weather throughout the summer, a significant September heat spell ushered in a brisk start to harvest. A return to normal temperatures, combined with thoughtful irrigation, slowed the pace and allowed us to continue picking each site at optimal levels of ripeness. The grapes arrived at our winery in exceptional condition, resulting in complex wines that embody the rustic elegance of great Anderson Valley winemaking.
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25.0° Brix at harvest
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Dodge to the WTCC?
Dodge may join the World Touring Car Championship as part of its relaunch in Europe in time for the 2007 season. DaimlerChrysler wants to use the Dodge brand for a major European push and is eyeing the new WTCC as part of its marketing campaign. It would likely use a new Ford Fusion-sized vehicle due to go on sale in 2007. Prodrive is rumored to have talked with Chrysler executives, and some sources suggest a deal is already done. This would likely result in a Dodge touring car hitting the tracks in time for the final races of next season.
Wheldon a no-go to F1
As it turns out, Dan Wheldon's latest (and apparently final of 2005) flirtation with Formula One was much ado about
nothing. Talks with officials from the BMW and Williams teams Sept. 23 in São Paulo, Brazil, did not lead to serious discussions, Wheldon said, at least "not in the time frame that I have." In other words, Wheldon, the Indy 500 and IRL champion, needs to sign his next contract with Andretti Green Racing. Expect that to happen soon. Wheldon's next venture into European racing will come Dec. 3 in the individual portion of the Race of Champions in Paris. Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais, a virtual lock for the Champ Car title, is expected to join Brit Wheldon as a U.S. series champion. Jeff Gordon and motorcycle ace Travis Pastrana are expected to be the U.S. representatives in the Race of Champions.
Minardi will stay
In addition to committing the Minardi team to the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Group through 2012, Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz confirmed this week that the team would remain at its base in Fäenza, Italy. "For me, this is an Italian team, and it should remain in Italy. But it must become competitive and avoid being always last on the grid," said Mateschitz. "So we'll change its image. It will be a mixture of entertainment and performance." Mateschitz said Vitantonio Liuzzi, Red Bull Racing's third driver, is 99 percent likely to drive for the revamped team. American Scott Speed is in the box seat to join him, while David Coulthard and Christian Klien remain at Red Bull. Minardi will continue to use Cosworth engines in 2006-07 and is likely to switch from Bridgestone to Michelin tires.
Japan's ALMS
Japan will have its own version of the American Le Mans Series next year. Le Mans 24 Hour organizers reached an agreement with Japanese race promoter COX Inc. The series is tentatively called the All-Japan Sportscar Endurance Series. Three races of up to 1000 kilometers (621 miles) are scheduled for next year at Sugo, Motegi and Okayama (formerly TI-Aida). One of these events could be incorporated into the Le Mans Endurance Series. The Japan championship will use the same rules as the ALMS, which means old-style prototypes such as the Audi R8 will be allowed to compete.
Making the rounds
A week after his high-profile visit to the Champ Car paddock in Las Vegas, Honda Performance Development boss Robert Clarke had his first tour of a NASCAR garage at Talladega. Clarke's escort was Grand-Am series president Roger Edmondson. Clarke had never been to a Nextel Cup race, and had no scheduled meetings with NASCAR,
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MUMBAI: The BA Pass actress Shilpa Shukla, who did some very bold scenes in the hit film, says sex is important in any relationship. But it shouldn't be the only binding factor, says the Bihar-born actress.
"Sex is extremely crucial. But, if a relationship begins and ends at it, then it doesn't make sense. It is not the only thing that binds two people together. Still, it's a lot of fun!" the actress was quoted as saying Mumbai Mirror.


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The company will install 340kW solar photovoltaic modules on the rooftop of the Davos Congress Center.
Hanwha Group takes part in the environment preservation spirit being pursued by the Davos Forum by donating solar photovoltaic power modules to Davos, Switzerland where world leaders are discussing current issues.
Hanwha Q-Cells donated on January 23 (January 22 by local time) solar photovoltaic power modules to Davos at a ceremony held at the town hall of the city where the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2013 meeting is being held. The donation ceremony was attended by Mayor Tarzisius Caviezel of Davos and officials of the Davos Forum.
Hanwha Q-Cells will install a total of 340kW of solar photovoltaic power modules at the Davos Congress Center, the venue of the Davos Forum meeting, including 280kW modules within a space of 1000㎡ on the Congress Center's rooftop and 60kW modules on the rooftop of an indoor swimming pool attached to the Center. These facilities are expected to reduce 20 tons of carbon dioxide a year.
Vice Chairman Hong Gi-jun of Hanwha Chemical said, "We are happy to take part in the environment preservation spirit of the Davos city government and the Davos Forum, which are taking initiative to initiate global eco-friendly green growth. As a leader in the global solar photovoltaic power generation market, Hanwha Group will concentrate its efforts on developing solar photovoltaic power as the most reliable energy source."
Mayor Caviezel of Davos said, "The Davos city government has been implementing sustainable green growth policies and it received the energy city label in 2001 from the Swiss Energy Management Agency for the first time among cities in the state to which the city belongs. We owe them a thanks for the donation of solar photovoltaic power modules that can contribute to implementing our environmental preservation policies."
Having acquired Q-Cells, a leading solar photovoltaic technology company in Germany, last year, Hanwha Group rose to the third largest solar photovoltaic power company in the world by launching 'Hanwha Q-Cells'. And the company has been conducting a variety of activities for expediting eco-friendly green growth across the world using solar photovoltaic power as a medium.
In February 2012, Hanwha Q-Cells installed solar photovoltaic power modules on the rooftop of the Vision House, a model of a future eco-friendly house, at Disney Land in Orlando, Florida. In July 2012, the company also installed solar photovoltaic power generation facilities in Lingwu, Ningxia Autonomous Region, China as part of the desertification prevention activities endorsed by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
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text: i love these retractable chopsticks. i first encountered these at prêt à manger. these ones are from waitrose. if supermarket sushi is all you can get (not everyone lives within walking distance of the tsukiji market), go for waitrose. tesco, M&S – rentikan. waitrose actually use sashimi and the wasabi is made in hokkaido!


text: NEWS New York Dolls Sign With Roadrunner 7/14/2005 FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME After reuniting last year for the first time in decades, seminal underground rock act the New York Dolls has signed a new deal with Roadrunner. After reuniting last year for the first time in decades, seminal underground rock act the New York Dolls has signed a new deal with Roadrunner. The group is at work on its first new studio album since 1974's "Too Much Too Soon," expected to be released next spring.Surviving original members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain will be backed on the set by guitarist Steve Conte, bassist Sami Yaffa, drummer Brian Delaney and keyboardist Brian Koonin. That same lineup is on the road this summer for a handful of dates, beginning Saturday (July 16) at the Cisco Systems Bluesfest in Ottawa, Ontario."Since word has spread of the band getting back into the studio to record new material, I've been inundated with calls from various high-profile producers and artists wanting to get involved," Roadrunner A&R executive David Bason tells Billboard.com. "I can't reveal any names yet but it's nice to have such a vote of confidence from the artistic community out of the gate." "The sound of this record will be true to form New York Dolls -- down and dirty rock'n'roll," he continues. "I've heard sketches of the material and if it's any indication, the record will blow you away."The Dolls regrouped in 2004 at the urging of Morrissey, who was the president of the group's fan club during its heyday. An early comeback show yielded the CD/DVD "The Return of the New York Dolls: Live From Royal Festival Hall 2004," which Morrissey released on his Attack imprint via Sanctuary. Original bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane died suddenly of leukemia shortly thereafter.As previously reported, Kane is the subject of the new film "New York Doll," which chronicles the ups-and-downs of his post-Dolls life. The movie is scheduled to hit theaters in October.Here are the New York Dolls' tour dates:July 16: Ottawa, Ontario (Cisco Systems Bluesfest)July 17: Montreal (Les Franco Folies De Montreal)July 23: Amagansett, N.Y. (Stephen Talkhouse)Aug. 6: Notodden, Norway (City of Notodden)Aug. 12: Sayreville, N.J. (Starland Ballroom)Aug. 13: Atlantic City, N.J. (House of Blues)Aug. 31: Anaheim, Calif. (House of Blues) FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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Low-tech transportation tools for the prepper: Do you have a wagon, wheelbarrow or yard cart?
|(Natural News) When SHTF, do you have an efficient way of carrying your supplies? Have you considered getting a wagon or a yard cart as a form of manual transportation? Anything with wheels can help you carry things. Don't forget that as a prepper, you also need to get ready for when you have to move…
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