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The term "TERRITORY" means Japan.
The term “UNIT” means new/used cars, new/used heavy machinery, new/used parts or spare parts and other products.
The term “JPCTRADE” means JPC Trade Co., LTD. located at 8F, TK Monzennakacho Bldg, 1-2-13, Etchujima, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
The terms “WEBSITE” means JPC Trade Co., LTD. Official WEBSITE www.jpctrade.com.
The term “CUSTOMER” means a person and/or company that has registered on our website.
The term “TRANSACTION” means the sale and or purchase of the UNIT between JPCTRADE and CUSTOMER.
The term “EMAIL” means the CUSTOMER registered Email address in JPCTRADE website and JPCTRADE system.
The term “BID” means to place a BID on a UNIT directly through the CUSTOMER account on the JPCTRADE WEBSITE.
The term “DEPOSIT” means the money showing in JPCTRADE CUSTOMER account on the WEBSITE after the words “Deposit”.
The term “BALANCE” means the due balance of CUSTOMER to JPCTRADE.
The term “INVOICE” means the invoice issued by JPCTRADE to CUSTOMER which is shown in the CUSTOMER account Balance section.
The only official JPCTRADE channel of communication is EMAIL to [email protected]. Any other way of communication such as phone calls, sms, text, personal emails to JPCTRADE personal, chat, mobile phone application’s text or voice systems and so on, are not official channels of communication and can not be used for claims to JPCTRADE.
JPCTRADE is not responsible for failures on EMAIL communication due to network problems or service provider’s difficulties from the CUSTOMER side or JPCTRADE side.
CUSTOMER should check EMAIL at all times and make sure to reply as fast as possible to JPCTRADE inquires. Late replies may cause miscommunication for which JPCTRADE is not to be made liable.
Each CUSTOMER has a main sales person in charge of their account. In case of any request, claim or emergency, CUSTOMER should first contact [email protected]. If there is no reply, then CUSTOMER should get in contact with the sales person in charge of the account. If the sales person in charge is not available either, CUSTOMER should then email [email protected] in order for other sales personnel available or management to attend to the urgent matter. If CUSTOMER is shipping to a destination where we have a BRANCH, CUSTOMER may also contact the BRANCH directly in case there is no reply from [email protected] or in case of emergency.
JPCTRADE is not to be held responsible for failure in the network or service provider difficulties that may cause WEBSITE to be unavailable for a certain period of time until the difficulties or failure are fixed.
JPCTRADE will update WEBSITE without previous notice in order to improve our services.
In order to participate in UNIT auctions or to order a stock purchase, it is necessary to have an adequate amount of DEPOSIT in the CUSTOMER account. The smallest DEPOSIT amount with JPCTRADE is 100,000 JPY and this increases with the amount of CUSTOMER intended BID or type of UNIT. Please contact JPCTRADE in case of doubts about the correct amount of DEPOSIT.
JPCTRADE can cancel your BID unilaterally in case it finds that the DEPOSIT is not enough to place a particular BID.
No TT copy, no website screenshot or any other document is enough to confirm a DEPOSIT. Only when the money has arrived in the JPCTRADE bank account and it is uploaded to the CUSTOMER account, is to be counted as DEPOSIT. If there is no DEPOSIT showing in the CUSTOMER account in our WEBSITE, it means there is no DEPOSIT.
DEPOSIT can be refunded at all times. However if CUSTOMER has already placed BID(s) which still have not ended, already won a UNIT, has a due BALANCE, has a pending situation regarding payment and/or certain other specific topic that JPCTRADE may see as related, JPCTRADE can keep this DEPOSIT until the situation is resolved.
DEPOSIT allows you to have your account free of advertising, can see all pictures and place and lot number visible, but if there is no BALANCE activity in a period of 2 months, your account will be set as "inactive" which will show again advertisement, only the front picture and no place and lot visible.
When we receive payment from customers through Paypal in other currencies like USD, EUR, GBP, CAN, NZD, AUD, etc. company immediately exchange those currencies into JPY because of potential risk for exchange loss. If customer wants to refund through Paypal in the same currency later on, company does not have any balance in such currencies at that time. Company has to exchange JPY amount on the customer balance into the customer's currency. In this case the exchange loss will happen in the customer side depending on the exchange rate.
BALANCE is expected to be paid in full as quickly as possible by the CUSTOMER.
BALANCE for a particular INVOICE is to be paid in full within 72 hours of the issued date of the INVOICE. Any time later than 72 hours is to be considered a late payment. This article does not apply in case of Letter of Credit (L/C), please refer to 5.13.
No TT copy, no screenshot or any other document is proof of payment. Only when actual money has arrived to JPCTRADE bank account and it is reflected in CUSTOMER account in JPCTRADE WEBSITE is it to be considered as received. This is not negotiable and is a basic rule to do TRANSACTIONS with JPCTRADE.
Late Payment may involve extra charges or penalties. JPCTRADE is free to issue extra INVOICES to request payment of these charges or penalties.
Late payment for a prolonged period of time can be the cause of unilateral CANCELATION by JPCTRADE with penalties for CUSTOMER.
JPCTRADE will follow legal actions inside or outside the TERRITORY in case of prolonged due BALANCE.
Paypal money transfers may be stopped, delayed or canceled unilaterally by Paypal. All fees charged by Paypal will be paid by the CUSTOMER. In case of Paypal transfers, CUSTOMER must inform JPCTRADE by EMAIL that a transfer was made. JPCTRADE will confirm Paypal transfers only during accountancy working hours and may take some time to update depending on accountancy workload.
Bank Telegraphic Transfers (TT) may be stopped, delayed or canceled unilaterally by your bank or by the intermediary bank. All fees charged by your bank and by the intermediary bank will be paid by the CUSTOMER. In case of TT transfers, CUSTOMER must inform JPCTRADE by EMAIL that a transfer was made. CUSTOMER must inform of the name of the account transferring the money, as well as the exact amount transferred. It is recommended for CUSTOMER to EMAIL a scanned copy of the TT transfer voucher or receipt.
JPCTRADE only recognizes transfers made to its official Paypal addresses, Moneygram accounts or Bank accounts, all of them mentioned on the JPCTRADE WEBSITE. Any transfer made to any non-official Paypal address, Moneygram account or Bank account will not be recognized by JPCTRADE.
Delayed payment (or delayed issue of an L/C) causes extra costs and yard parking fees. JPCTRADE will charge these extra yard parking fees to the CUSTOMER.
JPCTRADE will inform CUSTOMER by EMAIL and other methods of the delayed payment. If after a prolonged period of time there was no payment, JPCTRADE can decide to get rid of the unit or proceed to re-sell it as its own.
In the case in which a Letter of Credit (L/C) is used for payment, CUSTOMER is requested to provide full details to make a Proforma Invoice on the same day the unit was purchased or in a period no longer than 24 hours. JPCTRADE will issue a Proforma Invoice and email it to CUSTOMER. CUSTOMER is expected to open a Letter of Credit (L/C) as soon as possible, in a period no longer than 1 week from the date the Proforma Invoice was issued. JCPTRADE may reject or issue extra charges in case the Letter of Credit terms are different to the ones mentioned in the Proforma Invoice. If there is any discrepancy to be paid due to any difference in the terms or mistake at the CUSTOMER bank, this discrepancy fee will be deducted from the Letter of Credit amount at the time of arrival. The unit is not considered paid until the actual amount of money is transferred to JPCTRADE account from the applicant bank.
The only official way to BID with JPCTRADE is to bid directly from CUSTOMER account page “Bid” section. Any other way of bidding such as phone calls, sms, text, personal emails to JPCTRADE personnel, chat, mobile phone application’s text or voice systems and so on, are not official methods to BID and can not be used for claims to JPCTRADE.
JPCTRADE personnel may try to assist CUSTOMER to place bids or late bids by non-official methods such as phone calls, sms, text, and personal emails to JPCTRADE personal, chat, mobile phone application’s text or voice systems and so on. JPCTRADE will try its best to successfully place these BIDs, but it is not responsible for any mistake or misunderstanding. In these non-official methods, JPCTRADE is not responsible if the BID wasn’t able to be placed in time. In these cases JPCTRADE expects the CUSTOMER to be checking online and to contact JPCTRADE immediately if there is any mistake or misunderstanding. JPCTRADE is free to reject any of these non-official methods of bidding at any time.
JPCTRADE will receive CUSTOMER maximum offer for a UNIT and BID on CUSTOMER behalf directly at the Auction House bidding system. JPCTRADE is not responsible in case of a failure at the Auction House bidding system, a failure with the network or failure due to any event of force majeure.
JPCTRADE will update results of the bidding to CUSTOMER account as fast as possible. Depending on JPCTRADE capabilities or special situations, results and updates on results may take some time to show on CUSTOMER page. These delays on result updates may take up to several hours after the auction is finished. In some cases it may take until the next working day.
If CUSTOMER is not sure about the result of a particular BID, CUSTOMER should immediately contact JPCTRADE to confirm the result status.
If result shows “Sold” it means UNIT was won by a different bidder. “Unsold” means that the seller decided that the maximum offered amount was not enough and didn’t accept to sell. “Won” means CUSTOMER has successfully won the auction of that particular UNIT. These results may change or be updated later by JPCTRADE. Refer to article 6.4.
CUSTOMER can request to JPCTRADE to apply to negotiation for UNITs that ended “Unsold”. Depending on the time of the application the UNIT could be sold already.
Once applied to negotiation, the application can not be canceled. CUSTOMER must have this in mind at the time of applying.
JPCTRADE can decide to automatically negotiate some UNITs which were unsold under the CUSTOMER maximum BID offer. However, JPCTRADE also may not negotiate automatically for unsold UNITs depending on its capacity on a given day or depending on how the BIDs grouping is arranged.
Negotiation results may take a long time depending on the Auction House and the seller. Sometimes depending on the seller decision, the seller may not accept the negotiation application or reject it. In the case of negotiation for stock one-price, other stock and unsold UNITs, there are some extra costs during this process. These costs are taken into account at the time JPCTRADE receives an offer from the seller and can affect the price provided to the CUSTOMER. CUSTOMER should think of the BID amount taking these and all other topics into consideration.
Once a BID remaining time shows “End”, the BID can not be changed. For any requested change after remaining time shows “End”, JPCTRADE will try its best, but can not be held responsible for it. Also, once remaining time shows “End”, BID can not be canceled. JPCTRADE can make its best effort to cancel, but can not be responsible.
CUSTOMER must check their bidding list at all times. CUSTOMER must check for updates in the bidding list during the bidding day and also to confirm any other update on the day after the auction. JPCTRADE will always try its best to keep this bidding list updated but also requires the CUSTOMER cooperation to keep vigilance of its own results list.
f more than one CUSTOMER is bidding for the same UNIT at JPCTRADE, JPCTRADE will only place a BID for the highest BID (highest budget CUSTOMER). A message alerting of this situation ( “Important” ) will automatically show on the lower budget CUSTOMER’s bidding list. In some cases, due to the highest budget CUSTOMER grouping arrangement or sudden cancellation of the BID by this highest budget CUSTOMER, other CUSTOMER with a lower budget may end up winning the UNIT. CUSTOMER should be aware of this situation and make sure to inform JCPTRADE if they wish to cancel a BID in order to avoid this situation.
Depending on the auction house, it may or may not be possible to place the exact BID as the one the CUSTOMER entered as the maximum BID on the WEBSITE. Therefore, JPCTRADE will do its best to not BID over the maximum BID amount. Nevertheless, JPCTRADE may overbid up to 20,000 JPY in some cases in order not to lose the auction or due to auction house rules or bidding conditions which makes it impossible to avoid overbidding. CUSTOMER agrees to accept overbid of up to 20,000 JPY. This is non-negotiable and CUSTOMER should be aware at the time of placing a BID.
If there is any point on the inspection sheet which the CUSTOMER has doubts or questions about, CUSTOMER should contact JPCTRADE before placing a BID. JPCTRADE is not responsible for mistakes or misunderstandings made by CUSTOMER upon reading a UNIT inspection sheet.
In the case that JPCTRADE purchases more cars than the CUSTOMER specified in a group, it is agreed that the CUSTOMER will take the first car purchased and JPCTRADE will take the subsequent cars purchased.
Our system provides the “first registration in Japan” year which is the same as indicated in the Export Certificate of the UNIT. There is no information in the WEBSITE regarding exact manufactured year or month of a UNIT. We provide an online reference system, but in order to make fully sure of an exact manufactured year, CUSTOMER should contact directly the sales department for confirmation.
JPCTRADE does not provide originals or copies of any private document from its service and product providers. This makes reference to auction house’s invoices, transportation company's invoices, shipping company's invoices, and so on.
Only UNITs with the export certificate ready and full payment completed can be booked for shipping. If export certificate is not ready and/or full payment is not completed, JPCTRADE will not confirm booking for that UNIT. This is not negotiable and a basic condition for TRANSACTIONs with JPCTRADE.
JPCTRADE will send a BL (Bill of Lading) and EC (Export Certificate) to the CUSTOMER directly by express mail. JPCTRADE is responsible to send these documents before the vessel arrival, but depending on certain conditions such as holidays, shipping company delays, an event of force majeure and so on, sometimes documents may arrive after the vessel arrival. CUSTOMER is to keep track of this on the CUSTOMER page and contact JPCTRADE in case of any potential delay. In the case of Letter of Credit (L/C) all documentation will be sent directly to the applicant bank. Only EC will be sent separately.
JPCTRADE is not responsible in case the company transporting this original documentation loses the documents or if there is any delay with them. JPCTRADE will help as much as possible in these situations, but it is not to be held responsible.
JPCTRADE can assist to get insurance for UNITs, but it is not to be responsible for any damage or theft of any kind of any UNIT. JPCTRADE can provide, at request, a list of the insurance company coverage information. Any claim regarding insurance should be made directly to the insurance company.
CUSTOMER is responsible for requesting the application of a UNIT’s insurance. A type “full cover” and C type “from port to port”. Application date is very important, JPCTRADE recommends customers to request insurance application from the date of purchase. Insurance can not be applied for after damage has occurred. In the case of Letter of Credit (L/C), the insurance will be applied by JPCTRADE only when the original Letter of Credit (L/C) has arrived to JPCTRADE. Coverage starts on the date of application.
Insurance Certificate and INVOICE will be available online at the CUSTOMER’s account for download and CUSTOMER is responsible to keep track of it.
In the case in which payment method is Letter of Credit (L/C), booking will be arranged upon arrival of the original Letter of Credit to JPCTRADE.
JPCTRADE is the service provider between CUSTOMER and all the related companies working to provide UNITs to CUSTOMER. These related companies include auction houses, dealerships, stores, transportation companies, customs agents, shipping companies, insurance companies and others related organizations. All of these companies are responsible for each of their procedures and JPCTRADE is not to take responsibility for any of their failures.
JPCTRADE is a service provider in charge of representing the CUSTOMER from the point of purchase to the point of delivery. CUSTOMER is to take full responsibility of the UNIT during this process.
JPCTRADE doesn’t accept cancellations. There are some special situations where we can accept cancellation requests or unilaterally cancel a UNIT.
If a UNIT hasn’t been paid in full for a prolonged period of time, JPCTRADE can unilaterally cancel the UNIT. JPCTRADE will keep the DEPOSIT on that UNIT and/or any other DEPOSIT or paid car on the Japan side for the same account; and any other payment made on that UNIT. JPCTRADE will calculate the loss on the canceled UNIT and use these previous mentioned assets to pay for this loss. JPCTRADE will contact the CUSTOMER before this procedure looking for a resolution with the CUSTOMER, but if there is no successful resolution or CUSTOMER does not reply by EMAIL, JPCTRADE is free to proceed to unilaterally cancel the UNIT.
If the CUSTOMER can not pay for the UNIT due to an unexpected situation such as change of regulation, financial catastrophe or personal matters, JPCTRADE may accept cancellation of a UNIT. The fees for canceling a UNIT and other costs will be determined by JPCTRADE.
If the CUSTOMER noticed that they won a car that they didn’t want, and noticed it just after the auction finished, cancellation on the same day for a won car in the auctions is possible in some cases. This is possible only if requested within a few minutes after the end of the auction. Fees will be established by JPCTRADE. Time depends on the auction house rules and if too late there is no way to cancel at the auction house and the UNIT is won by CUSTOMER. The CUSTOMER then has to request cancellation by resell at the auction house or any other method that JPCTRADE may advise.
JPCTRADE is not responsible for the car condition. JPCTRADE only can provide a translation of the inspection sheet from the auction house, translation of the car condition as mentioned by the dealer or seller and/or translation of the full description of the second inspection requested at the auction house.
JPCTRADE provides pictures and inspection sheets of UNITs when available. Sometimes due to Auction house or dealerships convenience, JPCTRADE can not get this information and can not provide it to the CUSTOMER. If CUSTOMER can not find this information in JPCTRADE WEBSITE, or sees any mistake or potential mistake in the data provided at JPCTRADE WEBSITE, CUSTOMER should contact JPCTRADE immediately in order for JPCTRADE to check and update the UNIT information.
CUSTOMER should not BID on any unit if any doubt or not sure of the car condition. CUSTOMER is fully responsible for having checked the car condition before placing a BID on any UNIT. Only after making sure the received information is enough for the CUSTOMER to take the responsibility of bidding, CUSTOMER is expected to be ready to place a BID at JPCTRADE WEBSITE.
JCPTRADE is only responsible for the information mentioned in the remarks at JPCTRADE WEBSITE, including the translation of the inspection sheet written in the CUSTOMER account. Any information provided by any other way of communication such as phone calls, sms, text, personal emails to JPCTRADE personal, chat, mobile phone application’s text or voice systems and so on, are not official channels of communication and can not be used for claims to JPCTRADE.
CUSTOMER is fully responsible to check car condition requirements at the port of destination, as well as the law involving importing a UNIT at the country of destination. JPCTRADE is not responsible for the importing process or for checking if the UNIT complies with the import regulations at the destination. JPCTRADE is not responsible for any change in the import destination regulation.
UNITs real manufactured year should be checked by CUSTOMER. JPCTRADE can assist with the search but ultimately CUSTOMER is responsible for the final decision of whether to place the BID or not.
JPCTRADE is not responsible if the UNIT stops working or suddenly has a failure. JPCTRADE is not responsible also if the UNIT fails to pass any export regulation established by the TERRITORY customs agency such as radiation limits or others.
JPCTRADE can arrange a unit to be repaired in order to be able to be exported, but all extra costs involving this procedure are to be charged to CUSTOMER in full.
JPC translate this auction sheet to the best of its ability as an extra service to the purchaser. JPC recognizes that many of its competitors do not offer this bonus service. However as JPC nor its staff are registered translators, JPC and its staff accepts no liability for any claim due to human error in translation, no translation due to poor auction sheet handwriting or mistranslation.
In the event that there is a conflict between the terms of an Individual Contract and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Individual Contract shall prevail.
A BRANCH’s CUSTOMER agrees to the same Terms and Conditions of Use mentioned in this document. Nevertheless, special extra conditions and/or special terms which offer wider protection to the CUSTOMER and which involve direct responsibility of the BRANCH is to be explained by the BRANCH in a separate document.
All content included in or made available through JPCTRADE, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, and data compilations is the property of JPCTRADE or its content suppliers and protected by TERRITORY and international copyright laws.
All disputes, claims and/or other matters regarding TRANSACTIONs are to be ruled by Japanese Law and only under the Tokyo City Court.
It is CUSTOMERS responsibility to periodically check JPCTRADE WEBSITE for ammendments to this Terms and Conditions of Use.
JPCTRADE will post on its WEBSITE every time there is an amendment on this Terms and Conditions of Use.
Certain exceptions may apply to TRANSACTIONS which are already in progress at the time of making a change to this Terms and Conditions of Use.

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Akshay Kumar kadam, Sayali sonje, Tejshri Kasar “Digital Control and data Logging for Solar Power Plant Using Rasp-berry Pi” in international conference on emerging trends in science, engineering and technology, IJEECS, Vol 7, Issue 3, March 2018, ISSN 2348-117X. 21,22 March 2018.
R. Deshmukh, B. kulkarni, S. Kalekar, A. Deshmukh, S. Shinde, “A Secure Mechanism for Data Distribution, Storage and Privacy in Cloud Application”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJIRSET), Vol. 7, Issue 7, July 2018.
Atharva Joshi, Anjali Singh, Mohit Mhaskar, Pramod Bade, Prof. Mr. Nikhil Dhavase, “Patient Health Management System using e-Health Monitoring Architecture using WSN”, International Engineering Research Journal (IERJ), July 2018.
Dipali Gavhane, Gitanjali Shelge, Swapnanjali Ubale, Swapnil Shinde, “Recommendation of Cold-Start Product by Socializing E-Commerce”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJIRCCE), Vol. 5, Issue 5, May 2017.
Sagar Hangarage, Shilpa Arsul, Rohan Mithapelli, Vishal Palse, Vishal Palse, “Real Time Phishing Detection on Genrated Url’s”, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 6 Issue 06, June – 2017.
Rasika Deodhar, Isha Deshpande, Rutuja Gandhi, Suraj Jadhav, Shital Kakad, “Seeing Unseen: Detecting Malware Attack Vulnerablity in Android Smartphones”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJIRCCE), Vol. 5, Issue 5, May 2017.
Deepashree Deshmukh, Divya Holkar, Sayli Mangle, Nikita Navale, Pranjali Kuche, “Content Based Image Authentication and Retrieval”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJIRCCE), Vol. 5, Issue 5, May 2017.
Neha Ubale 2 , Seema Karandikar 3 , Rahul Shedge, Prof.Pratik Kamble, “IVTRACKER: Individual Vehicle Tracking and Partially Controlling the Vehicle”, International Journal of Modern Trends in Engineering and Science (IJMTES), Vol. 4, Issue 5, May 2017.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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The Hilary Black Show #9: Bubbleman!
Hilary Black talks to BC Hashmaster, Bubbleman, maker of Bubblebags and proprietor of The Melting Point Vapour Station and Store. Music from B-Funk and the All-Stars.

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Even if everything has changed, music is as good now as it was a decade ago.
Nashville needs to stop waiting for the mythical pop success and celebrate its already fertile music scene.
The unpredictable highs and lows of country music in the '90s.
Pianist Chucho Vald�z fronts the storm of Afro-Cuban jazz thundering through the United States.
Former James Brown sax man has funky good time playing.
Mary Jane Lamond is determined to keep the past alive, but she isn't a cultural throwback.
Reviews of a pair of new tribute albums.
t least the grunge scene shoved the arrogant, joyless Brit-poppers off of MTV for awhile, so that's one good thing about the last 10 years in music.
In the same time, the Nashville rock community has grown stronger in every way: there's more talent, more diversity, and more means of support for performers to sustain a living from their craft.
Ten years ago, just four years after The New York Times trumpeted the "Death of the Country Sound" in a front-page story, the country music industry entered what could now be called the good old days.
Plus, profiles of Chucho Valdéz, Maceo Parker, and Mary Jane Lamond, a host of reissues, and more.
And our Birthday Picks are about Christian rockers and New Orleans jazz.
With more rock 'n' roll, less heavenly praise, and facing personal, social, and worldly issues, Christian musicians encounter criticism from the gospel music industry.
New Orleans jazz recorded by the Atlantic label from the mid-50s to the early '60s has been re-released in a beautiful boxed set called "The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions."

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LEWISBERRY, PA -- Due to today’s housing market, many people cannot afford to “down size” as they get older. That makes life a little more difficult as they have to make adjustments as to how to carry laundry or groceries from one level of their home to another.
Many of today’s homes have laundry facilities in the basement or first floor of the home, and the bedrooms are located on another floor. This condition makes it difficult for a person with mobility problems to get the laundry to the area where it is needed.
And there are tons of homes out there with those pesky garages located under the first level of the home. Even a person in good health gets weary of carrying groceries from the car up to the kitchen area.
Butler Mobility Products has the solution. The custom sized dumbwaiters can solve transport problems. Butler Mobility offers a line of premium quality electric dumbwaiters which can be customized to fit any needs. Dumbwaiter cars can open on one, two, three or four sides and corners too. Load capacities range from 100 lbs to 450 lbs and can go up to seven stories. When a custom dumbwaiter is ordered, it comes with a complete set of drawings and a step by step installation manual. It is easy to install and maintenance, and has a five year warranty for residential applications.
Our Butler dumbwaiter is proudly made in the USA. Give us a call at our toll free number, 888-847-0804, or visit us at our website at ButlerMobility.com, and let us help solve your grocery or laundry moving problems.

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Mike Hughes has been appointed Non-Executive Director (NED) at HL Partnership, as the mortgage network prepares to expand and attract new members.
Hughes was formerly chief executive of network Burns Anderson, which went into administration in 2012.
He started his career with Bristol & West, before working for Legal & General Bank, Castle and Novia Financial as sales and marketing director.
In his role as NED at HLP, Hughes will be advising the network’s executive team, drawing on his experience and knowledge of the financial services market in helping the South Coast network grow.
It comes after HLP last year bought Mortgage Support Network, a smaller mortgage and protection network based in Leicester, which continues as a separate entity.
Chris Tanner, chief executive at HL Partnership, said: “We are delighted to have Mike working with us.
Hughes added: “I am particularly excited about joining HL Partnership in a NED role.
“This is a company which has been one of the better kept secrets among networks.
“It has quietly gone about building up a nurturing environment for its members, backed by some of the best IT, training and compliance support systems I have seen.
“Having met with Chris Tanner and his team and looked at their plans, it was clear that HL Partnership had a lot more to offer mortgage and protection advisers searching for a stable and supportive base on which to build their businesses.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Popular Topics: What And How To Write About Religion?
Writing about religion can be pretty tricky stuff. Most of the time, the person reading your essay will have a strong opinion on religion so it will be difficult to satisfy them. This becomes even harder when you have to write an argumentative essay on religion and convince someone that you're opinion is right and if they don't agree with you they're wrong. So, in order to help you do it right, here are the top five topics when writing an argumentative essay about religion.
This is a strong choice if you want to go for a controversial essay. This point has been argued many times by those who have become disillusioned with Christianity.
This will allow you to include the hot topics of the modern world such as war and gay marriage.
This is certainly a relevant topic and will allow you to educate your readers about Islam and destroy the misconceptions about Muslims.
Islam may not be evil, but there certainly have been some evil people who identified themselves as Muslims. Make sure you don't defend them in your essay.
I touched on this one as a subtopic in number one, but there is no doubt that it is worthy of having it's own essay.
Most people in today's world are pro gay marriage and equal rights so this is a good choice if you want to write an argumentative essay without risking alienating those who read it. You will be simply reaffirming their beliefs (probably).
This has been discussed hundreds of times with the Christian right labeling atheism a religion and atheists all the while doing the best they can to prove it's not a religion.
Atheism doesn't qualify for tax breaks and atheists don't get holidays off, so it might be a little difficult for you to make the argument that it is a religion.
If you are looking for a topic, which can fill, pages upon pages and books upon books, this is the topic for you.
This has been discussed on television, on the internet, even in churches; and everyone seems to have a different answer. You're probably not going to be able to answer this in your essay, but you can try!

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(R)etailer to watch: "We’re global leaders in the niche sector “raw denim” and made our mark with Cultizm"
"We’re global leaders in the niche sector “raw denim” and made our mark with Cultizm"
Raw denim for real characters – that’s what it’s all about at cultizm.com. The menswear online shop was founded by Dejan Milenkovic after quitting his job as a stock market agent. He was always into fashion, looking for new trends and the (hi)stories behind a brand. With cultizm.com, Milenkovic fulfilled himself a dream. With its headquarters in Münster, Germany, the shop has quickly established itself as a well-known international player within its niche. Here, Dejan Milenkovic talks about his concept and plans for the shop, the five products he couldn’t live without right now and why he added French underwear brand Hemen as well as the prestigious German company Brütting Diamond-Brand to his assortment.
Why did you start your shop? What were your motivation and your professional background?
The end was somehow the beginning. I worked at the stock market as an agent. I was in charge of an account and was allocated a number of shares. When the financial bubble was threatened to blow up, I knew that I had and also wanted to change something. In addition, personal influences and an inner rethinking led me to sell my literature about stock exchanges online. I was very surprised about the high demand and how fast the products were selling over a suitable platform. That’s why I drew a line under my agent career and sold everything which was related to my business past.
I always had a thing for fashion. I look for new trends, I’m interested in brands and their histories and love the interaction with the people behind the brands. Now the thing is, for example, Adidas or Nudie Jeans co. are not just brands for me – they’re friends. I always had contact to that métier, but at this changing point, I at first recognized that. Furthermore, I had the first points of contact through my family, more explicitly, my father. We even visited manufacturing facilities in Turkey back then. There are no coincidences in life.
It just needs to fit. It’s not only a business, it’s also a feeling. We worked on our current shop system for many years. Now that we reached our limits Cultizm is ready to take the next big step with its employees. The design of the shop is not only a hallmark because of its long durability. We’re global leaders in the niche sector “raw denim” and made our mark with Cultizm. The logo, font, order of the elements, all of that has led to a compound puzzle which stands for itself today.
Of course, we know the customer nowadays has different desires than 3-5 years ago. First of all, this means a well-thought-through, tidy - basically a clean look where nothing distracts you from the products. Our curated products take center stage in the shop as well as the customer’s perspective. In addition, it is important to us to act on the principle “structure follows strategy”. Following this credo in usability is “mobile first”. We want to give the modern online shopper an easy mobile access to our shop. Furthermore, our products do really need explanation. That’s why our task is to display them as transparent and comprehensive as we can and explain them in more detail. So we have a lot of work ahead.
Here are our Top 5: Nudie Jeans, A.P.C., Merz B. Schwanen, Levi’s Vintage Clothing, Bleu de Chauffe.
We’re always on the hunt for anything special. Our latest findings and thoughts have led to us adding the French underwear brand Hemen as well as the prestigious German company Bütting to our assortment.
What are 5 products you couldn’t live without right now?
I can’t really answer that question because what’s in high demand is not only in our hands. Many influences like trends, styles and the media play a big role. One day it can be a special sneaker and tomorrow a jeans with a special selvage edge. One little example: Some time ago there was a brand documentation called “Grandpas vest goes cult” on TV. It was about Merz B. Schwanen. After that our whole stock was sold out and the phone just kept on ringing.
That question is hard to answer as well. What exactly is a newcomer in the fashion segment? If I use the age of the company as a key indicator, I would say brands such as Rogue Territory and 3sixteen (both from the US) enjoy great popularity in the raw denim community. Those young companies catch the feeling of the people with their style and thrill the audience with new creations and variety. Nevertheless, the conditions can change quickly. Alpha Industries, for example, is an interesting project at the moment. The bomber jacket is the symbol of streetwear right now. The image change and smart marketing have led to Alpha gaining new momentum.
At the beginning of the year, we visit trade shows regularly. This is important to us as we can keep close contact with our counterparts and friends. Time is limited and unfortunately and apart from work, it is difficult to spend time together. We are regular guests at Pitti Uomo and Seek. In addition, we visit brands or get visited quite often. That’s what makes Cultizm and its social environment so special. Business relations are good, friends are better.
It can’t be denied that times are getting harder. A certain restlessness and volatility prevail the market but at Cultizm, we are well prepared for that.
Those considerations float around from time to time. Nevertheless, we have so many different projects going on right now that this project receives less priority. I want to mention here that a decision like that is dependent on several factors which can not necessarily be influenced. Multi-channel-management is only one challenge we have to face in this regard.
Our typical customer knows about fashion (laughs). If I should describe the typical customer, he’s between 25-50 years old, incredibly trend-conscious, digital native or immigrant, well-informed and belongs to the category “innovators” or “early adaptors”.
First and foremost, we do our thing. But we also get inspired. Which technological innovations are there? Benchmark or best practice always belong to a reasonable evaluation phase. We always scrutinize ourselves – what goes right and what goes wrong? Where can we change something and take action? Of course, research is also part of this process. We think outside of the box a lot. Shops from other branches are especially interesting. For example, we recently discovered an award-winning shop in the wine retailing segment. It belonged to the category “hidden champions” – a very special gem. That’s how we get inspired – not only by fashion retailers.
In the field of online-pure-player/e-commerce, new challenges have to be faced all the time – all of us in the online segment have to. The decreasing customer loyalty is an issue and one needs to ask oneself: how can an online retailer build more trust? How can it act more transparently?
Also, the availability of a website via mobile devices is still one of the biggest challenges. Is it enough to have only an optimized webshop or does one need to think one step further?
Delivery times also become challenging as big e-retailers’ delivery times get shorter and shorter. It’s our task to find logistic solutions in cooperation with our partners to meet the customer’s expectations. SEO, the findability via search engines, is becoming a major competitive advantage. We aim to get involved in that and further collect expertise. You see, demand is throughout. We never stand still. This belongs to our raw spirit (laughs).


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Wondering which Amsterdam airport transfers are most efficient? How to get quickest and cheapest from Schiphol Airport to the Amsterdam city center? Find out here about: trains, taxis, shuttles and cars.
Click here if you have a stopover at Amsterdam airport and you're wondering if you have enough time to go into the city.
This is our preferred option: quick and cheap! The airport's train station is right below the main hall (Schiphol Plaza). Trains leave each 10 minutes and it takes 15-25 minutes to Amsterdam Central Station (which is at the heart of the city center where most tourist hotels are). Some trains also stop at Amsterdam Lelylaan and Amsterdam Sloterdijk.
To buy tickets, look for the big yellow machines that accept major credit cards and coins (no bills!). A ticket from the machine to Amsterdam Central Station is 3.80 euros; from the ticket desk there's an extra 0.50 euro charge. Don't buy tickets inside the train, you'll pay 35 euros extra!
Once at Amsterdam Central Station, get a tram or bus (in front of the East and West Hall entrances), or hail a taxi (they stop outside the West Hall entrance). Most hotels aren't far from the Central Station.
Don't know which bus or tram to take? Ask the bus or tram driver, go the big white tourist help center in front of the station, or call your hotel. They will be happy to help with Amsterdam airport transfers.
In case your hotel isn't reached easily from Amsterdam Central Station, you'd better take a shuttle bus or taxi.
They stop right outside the Arrivals hall. A taxi to the Amsterdam city centre takes some 25 minutes (but much longer if there are traffic jams) and costs about 40-45 euro. All taxis are metered by law and the meters don't charge money when the taxi is standing still (e.g. in traffic jams, which there are a lot around Amsterdam!).
When departing, one advantage of taking a taxi over the train, when is the taxi can take you straight to the gate of your particular airline. Note that if you ask your hotel to call a taxi for you, the taxi is not allowed to charge a higher price for this "hotel service" on top of the metered price.
Connexxion has a shuttle service at their designated stop just outside the Arrivals hall. They run each 30 minutes between 6am to 9pm and go to almost all of the hotels in Amsterdam. Shuttles are the second cheapest Amsterdam airport transfers: the cost is 12 one-way, 19 return, and the trip lasts about 30 minutes.
There's car rental at the airport (main hall), which includes all the major car rental companies. From the airport, take the A4 motorway in the direction of Amsterdam, then go on the A10 motorway that circles around the city center and take the appropriate turnoff (S101 to S118).
But, if you are staying in the Amsterdam city center, a car is rather inconvenient due to expensive parking and traffic jams. You'll get around the quickest with public transportation (trams, subway and buses) or with a rental bike.
Admittedly, outside the city center and the large canal belts, a car is more convenient for Amsterdam airport transfers.
You can also have people in Amsterdam pick you up at the airport, there's "short parking" close to the Arrivals hall and the main hall (Schiphol Plaza).
Do you have a stop-over at Amsterdam Schiphol airport and you're wondering if you have enough time to go into the city?
As you can read above, including the waiting time for the train at the airport, Amsterdam airport transfers to the city center just take 30-40 minutes. The train is the safest option as they leave each 10 minutes and are seldom delayed - taxis and shuttle buses can get caught in a traffic jam, and this could mean e.g. 30 minutes delay. The Amsterdam canals are at 5 minutes walking from Amsterdam Central Station and the Red Light District is at only 10 minutes.
At Schiphol, you can usually also check-in through the internet (if you only have hand luggage) - 24 hours or, with a paid service, even 7 days in advance.

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For those just joining us, this is a series. There’s a series of links at the bottom of this post, so you can start at the beginning if you like.
When times get tough, the tough get going. But actually, as a worker, when times get tough ion a way that looks like they’re not going to get better, it doesn’t matter what the tough do: it’s the smart that you want to keep an eye on. And when times get irrevocably tough, the smart invest their energies on where it will pay the most dividends.
There is a human side to killing a business, and it has everything to do with how people feel. Yes, emotions, feelings — those strange, sticky things down in our guts — are very important for a business, because for the workers within it this is what drives the machinery of work.
It also drives the machinery of flight (as in to flee, not as in to fly, though my own flight ultimately involved flying across an ocean). As soon as it became apparent that financial problems — serious ones — were on the horizon, and that we wouldn’t be told until the last minute, I started putting feelers out for a new job, since at first it was just a lot of talk about hard times, about sticking together as a family… which, in a family business, means you’re likely to end up out in the cold when the really hard times kick in. The people in the office who knew stuff I didn’t — who saw the payroll figures, who were seeing the sales reports, and whatever, started whispering grim things, advising everyone start job-hunting as soon as possible.
Then our PR woman, Sue — who was really good at her job — left for a position at the CNIB (Canadian national Institute for the Blind). By then, we (non-family members) had started going for lunch in groups, commiserating about how things were going, as of course the problems began to bring out all sorts of in-group/out-group weirdness within the company. Remember, it was a family business, and blood was basically what determined who was in or out.
But the morale kick didn’t come when Sue left. She’d been really nice about it, really assured everyone that the reason for her leaving was not the stuff going on at the company, at least in public.
No, the kick in the teeth to morale came a little later. It was when our coworker and friend Astrid, who basically held together the non-family staff — constantly encouraging us, saying it wouldn’t be so bad, giving us a sympathetic ear when we were stressed out by the impending collapse — was fired for “agitating” everyone. This was a shock, as she’d been an excellent worker, and with the company longer than anyone. Yes, she’d long been part-time. Yes, she had primarily been testing and that was something others could fill in on in her absence. But she was irreplaceable as a member of the team; to be honest, she was the heart and soul of the staff, the smiling face, the positive attitude. Her being fired — much more, being fired for “making problems in the office,” smacked of everything going wrong.
It was, in fact, a brilliant move, if our CEO’s goal was to kill the company. Nothing could have destabilized morale more than firing Astrid. And an added source of dismay for those of us who heard both sides of the story was how Astrid reported feeling it was primarily because she’d grown apart from the “project manager” — the daughter of the CEO — and over a falling-out that had occurred between the two of them and a mutual friend, over some sort of betrayal, a boyfriend-theft or something I cannot remember but which had nothing to do with work at all.
That was really the beginning of the end. Astrid had kept people laughing and smiling through the occasional crisis-call weekends when we had to test software, through the frustrations of being on the outside — she was too — and through the anxiety of working in a place that seemed ready to collapse. To see her fired, that was too much. It was a drawing of lines, and nobody mistook what it meant.
From what I recall, by this point everyone was looking for a new job, and with some vigour, as well.


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The REFRESH Pilot Working Platform in Germany brings together representatives from the food industry, retail and ministries at the national level as well as civil society organizations. They discuss the status quo on food waste and food waste policy in Germany and develop a Framework for Action.
Four years of common work - despite the imminent official end of the EU research project REFRESH in June 2019, the final meeting of the members of the German REFRESH Steering Committee was characterized by a relaxed, trusting atmosphere and an optimistic view into the future.
At our final conference in cooperation with the Barcelona Design Center on 10 May, 2019, we will present and discuss the REFRESH project results and spur future action on EU food waste reduction among business, policy, research, social innovators and civil society. Preceding the conference, on 9 May, 2019, a selection of field trips and events will be offered, featuring food waste innovators from business and civil society in the Barcelona area.
By early summer 2018, almost 900 PENNY trainees had been trained on reducing food waste as part of a REFRESH pilot project in Germany. Now the German food retailer PENNY and the CSCP wanted to know: To what extent is the topic still present among the trainees months after the training? Was it worth the effort? And would it make sense to repeat the training with new trainees?
The German REFRESH Steering Committee (SC) met for its seventh meeting on 8 November 2018 in Wuppertal. Seventeen representatives from various companies and institutions discussed own activities, European and German political developments and the future of the committee.
Eighteen Steering Committee (SC) members met on 11 April 2018 for the sixth meeting of the German REFRESH national platform to continue the discussions on data collection, own activities and pilot projects.
On 11 October 2017, thirteen representatives of the German REFRESH Steering Committee (SC) met for their fifth meeting in Wuppertal to discuss data collection, activities and pilot projects.
In April 2017 agreement was reached with the German retailer PENNY to conduct an employee training programme as first German REFRESH pilot project.
In July 2017, REFRESH reached out to consumers in its four pilot countries (The Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Hungary) to complete a survey on food and drink products. The purpose of the research is to investigate different contents and formats of on-pack information and their effect on consumer understanding and food waste behaviours in these four EU member states. The results of the survey will be disseminated towards the end of 2017.
The German PWP proceeds as planned: Thirteen representatives from retail, industry, NGO, science and associations came together on April 6 to discuss the aggregated findings of individual baseline activities as well as next steps for pilot projects.
Since its last “Steering Committee” meeting on 6 October 2016 the German Pilot Working Platform (PWP) started to take action. Member companies initiated individual baseline activities with first insights expected in April 2017. Furthermore, the PWP discussed the priority areas for Germany and how these could be addressed through targeted interventions.
REFRESH business engagement gets off the ground. The third meeting of the German Pilot Working Platform (PWP) took place on 06/10/2016 at the CSCP’s premises in Wuppertal. Representatives from retail, the food industry, ministries at federal and national level as well as civil society organizations agreed upon five priority topics to tackle with a number of collaborative projects from 2017 on.
REFRESH has the objective to bring together different stakeholders from all stages of the production and supply chain and to lead them closer towards the goal of reducing food waste and loss. This will be implemented through effective measures, especially those that do not stem from legal necessities. The Framework for Action guides cooperation within the German Business Engagement Steering Committee (German National Platform).
In the 2nd meeting of the German Business Engagement Steering Committee meeting, the participating organizations finalized the Framework for Action (FA) to combat food waste across the whole value chain. With this document we have an excellent basis to define projects to reduce food waste at the relevant food value chain stages.
On February 2, 2016, fourteen organisations joined the first Pilot Working Platform meeting in Wuppertal, Germany.

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text: Len's Summary: The memoirs of an Armenian Apostolic priest and intellectual who disguised himself as a railway worker and escaped the WWI Armenian bloodbath. The translator is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and the American Response (Harper Collins, 2004). One of a spate of books being published as the 100 anniversary of the Ottoman massacres of Armenians nears.

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Yesterday we covered the 24 Reasons To Study Italian In 2016.
Today, I have another number for you to consider – 6.
As in six of the reasons that people commonly cite as excuses for inertia and inaction.
These are the explanations people give for not making their dream of speaking Italian a reality.
We teach Italian to retired people, professionals, students, home-makers and the unemployed. From countries all over the world.
We once taught Italian to a chess champion, another time there was a film actor from California, a few years ago we had an ambassador. But in between, there were plenty of ‘people like you’.
Don’t we all. But you are not, literally, enslaved. You do have some time to yourself, or could at least arrange some.
Careful! This is a dangerous one. ‘Commitments’, especially family, are often used as an excuse for not taking risks.
You probably can. An Italian course in Italy can cost as little as a few hundred dollars, less probably than what most people spend on a summer holiday.
If you’re not actually on the breadline, studying at our school in Bologna is likely to be within your financial reach, even if you have to save up for a while.
Nope. Actually, it’s very easy.
Otherwise organizing your Italian course and accommodation is fast, simple and completely safe.
This is often the real reason people don’t make that leap forward.
There are lots of things to be scared about.
The course will be too difficult, you won’t know anyone there, you’ll feel embarrassed, you won’t enjoy yourself, it’ll be like school, you won’t make any friends, and so forth.
If you have kids, you might remember reassuring them before their first day at elementary school.
And what happened next, when they came home after that first day, suddenly full of confidence again.
Everything was fine, none of their fears had been realized!
Fear can overwhelm and paralyze, but it rarely survives an encounter with reality.
Mostly, bad things just don’t happen. So why worry?
Day-dreams are a welcome distraction from real life. We all have them, which is just fine.
But what if learning Italian could be more than ‘just a dream’?
Mastering a foreign language is a long process but a worthwhile one. And it’s never too late to start.
The first step, however, is to acknowledge that it’s NOT just a dream.
That you actually need to take action to get things going.
If you know what’s stopping you from taking steps to achieve what you want, it’s not usually rocket science to work out how to move ahead, what the next step needs to be.
But it IS easier to go with the excuses. Inertia seems more common than momentum, doesn’t it?
If a 78 year old widow from the midlands of the USA can organize a four-week study session at Madrelinguaq then ANYONE can do it! Still have fond memories of my time in Bologna and cannot imagine my life without that experience. I am trying to get back for my 80th. Certainly the experience is worth every effort including booking the flight!!!! Buon Natale a tutti.


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Robin's Blog: Coffee *is* a drug!
This morning I managed to require only one half cup of coffee to stave off my usual caffeine headache. I haven't gotten by on this little coffee since I was trying to get pregnant with Kira (and I felt like a wreck). Even when I'm down with the flu or recovering from surgery I manage to get some coffee down my throat. So today, I was very proud of myself. So happy with myself, in fact, that I thought if I needed another half cup in the afternoon that would be fine. So I did have that second half cup. And I could *feel* it - not in that jittery over caffeinated way, but I could actually feel the blood vessels constricting through my temples, and feel my jaw tensing up.
I recently learned that the reason we addicts feel a caffeine headache is that caffeine restricts the blood vessels in our head, thereby letting through less blood. So, when we don't have coffee, the blood goes rushing through making our heads throb. Of course, better circulation is a good thing if you can handle it.
I feel like I just discovered my best friend has been robbing me blind while I had my back turned. How could my beloved coffee be doing this to me?! The very things I've complained about, tense jaws, pounding headaches, whacked out metabolism... seem to have some roots in coffee.
So, this week should be my last caffeinated week - after that, it's decaf all the way, baby!


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by Jing Liu ~ May 27th, 2006. Filed under: News & Announcement.
The minutes and the group photo are posted. Please click to view.
· Professional development: affiliations, conferences, workshops, new technology, etc.
·· Beibei, on Chinese programs at VPL?
·· Jan, on what library employers are looking for?
1. Working in a public library is, to some extent, more challenging than working in an academic or special library.
Beibei: Working at the reference desk is quite challenging; you are serving different patrons with different questions everyday. It’s important to read English books, newspapers, book reviews and to get to know more about the bestsellers and well-known writers.
Jan: Patrons who use the services in a public library are diversified. Sometimes you may need to help patrons with disabilities. Reference and information service to patrons with disabilities should be equivalent to the service offered to patrons in general. Patrons with disabilities may require additional assistance according to the dictates of their particular disability; for example, patrons with mental health problems or drug additions may not be able to articulate themselves well, in such circumstances, effective communication is the key to a successful reference transaction. Listen and re-phrase, ask for clarification if you are not sure if you understand the question, and be sensitive to patrons’ disabilities and limitations, but at the same time remember to deal with them as individuals and in a professional way.
Henry: Working at the reference desk is quite challenging, as we were not brought up in this culture. When in SLAIS, one should not only be focused on the courses, but also pay more attention to the cultural aspects and amass culture-related knowledge.
Jan: Be aware of what is going on outside your library school. Read newspapers, watch news on TV, and even be aware of what shows are popular now.
Ian: Making patrons happy and making proper referrals are more important than providing the exact answers to the questions. When working at the reference desk, try to make the patrons flow if there is a line up and don’t let one question get stuck there.
2. Some of the barriers Chinese librarians meet and the ways to cope with them.
Jan: I think two biggest barriers are: language and culture. For the first barrier, we should pay attention to fluency and accent. For the second barrier, we should be sensitive to the cultural difference and try to adapt to the environment. Take initiative to talk and network with your native speaker colleagues and get used to communicating in English even with your Chinese-speaking classmates or colleagues.
Jing: Observe what others do and how they behave in the working environment. Try to cultivate awareness and sense. It takes time.
Jan: Be sensitive to cultural differences as we are dealing with a majority of patrons from Western culture and in a multicultural environment.
3. How to deal with unfair treatment or conflicts in the working environment?
Jing: Calm down when being treated unfairly and there will surely be fair judgment in the end. Pay attention to the ways of expressing yourself.
Henry: One should have one’s own principles and fight for one’s own right. Speak out your minds but at the same time don’t easily get excited and act on impulse.
Ian: Discrimination does exist between cultures, seniority, and etc. Linda has been very supportive to many of us. We need a support group and learn about the right procedures and channels to voice up.
Jan: If such unfair treatment or conflict happens during your shift working at a branch, talk to the branch head and tell him/her your thoughts. Tell the branch head that you prefer he/she talk to you first before the issue(s) are brought to a higher level of authority.
Jing: Every step is important. Start to pave the career path from SLAIS, and all student work.
Linda: Enjoy the Toastmaster program and learned a great deal. It is not just about public speaking. Communications skills are a whole package. Everyone can work to improve his/her skills. In additional to communication skills, at Toastmasters, you learn to organize meetings and chair meetings. You also learn the skills to mentor, coach and to evaluate others. Our future meeting should follow the standard meeting protocols. Set an agenda first, and then follow the agenda. All non-agenda items go to the Round Table at the end. Meetings should finish on time.
There are Toastmasters clubs everywhere in the world. The fee is only about $75 a year. Many organizations and/or companies reimburse the fee for “Professional Development”. Meetings are run weekly. Members are free to switch to a different club more suitable to individual’s needs.
Not sure if the members can commit to and benefit from a registered association. We will start with the Blog. Blog is a good tool to share information, should be better organized and classified. Zhu Lei has made copies of how-to blog and distributed to interested people.
Oops, I guess I was just not patient enough. Now I can see it. Thanks, Lei.
Hi Mindy. It took me a few more minutes to re-size the photo. Sorry for the delay. Enjoy it.
Thanks Lei for the posting. Some attendees left before we took the group photo. I have some individual photos too if you are interested, but won’t be posted here.
A milestone, isn’t it? Perhaps we should frame the photo.


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Women and Senior clinics are an encouraging, relaxing, and friendly environment to foster new friendships, embrace camaraderie, and share a passion of skiing.
The Senior Clinic, which focuses on contemporary ski techniques for those 60 and older, meets in the Lodge each Thursday at 8:30 am and heads to the slopes at 9:00 am. The group will ski until a lunch break at 12:00 pm. The clinic is free and hosted by Hugh Casey and John Viney, both PSIA Level 3 instructors. All participants must have their own season pass or lift ticket, and be able to ski green and blue slopes.
The Women’s Clinic meets at the Lodge each Thursday at 11:30am and skis until roughly 4:00pm. The clinic is free, but participants must have their own season pass or lift ticket for the day. The Women’s Clinic covers the following skills and techniques: improving form and confidence by developing skiing skills, sharing knowledge of contemporary skiing styles and equipment, sharing skiing-related strength and conditioning exercises (off-snow), and empowering women through the sport of skiing.

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I was wondering how fast does gravity propagate through spacetime. I assume it propagates at lightspeed, but assumptions are dangerous things sometimes. Presumably we can calculate this from great celestial events like binary stars or black holes colliding. And I guess a follow-up question would be, does gravity always propagate at the same speed? Through matter vs through the vacuum of space for instance. Do we know this yet?
Although Einstein wins out over Newtons ideas, it does not seek to explain if gravity travels through dense objects at the same speed or not. The range, or reach of gravity may or may not be infinite too, and I dug this up..
So it seems we are getting to grips much more with gravity than I thought.
So, do we have a unified gravity theory that works the same throughout the universe? It seems Einstein would say we can have some confidence that it does, but it's worth remembering we only detected gravitational waves a few years ago. It could be one day we may need "Gravitologists" to navigate space if we ever take to the stars.
One fundamental question that can be answered is the speed of gravitational waves. Long thought to be the speed of light, an initial measurement in 2003 made as Jupiter passed in front of a distant quasar confirmed that light and gravity traveled at the same speed — although the measurement was not very precise. However, today's measurement is stunning. After traveling for 130 million light-years, gamma-rays traveling at the speed of light and gravitational waves traveling at the speed of gravity arrived at Earth within 1.7 seconds of each other, with the gravitational waves arriving first. This is a conclusive measurement of the speed of gravity.
While today's measurement is an exciting one, it's important to remember that it's but a single observation. Even more thrilling is the fact that astronomers have just begun to exploit this capability. Gravitational-wave detectors are just beginning to tell us about some of the most violent events in the universe. I don't yet know what story they will tell us, but it's going to be fascinating.
Seems to suggest there is a new upper limit on the speed within the UNIVERSE. Spooky Action at a Distance happens instantaneously, or measured at the speed of light, I think.
I think I read that this was problematic, conflicting with the speed of light as the upper limit. If the instantaneous could happen just faster than the speed of light then the conflict would disappear?
Watson » July 3rd, 2018, 7:29 pm wrote: Seems to suggest there is a new upper limit on the speed within the UNIVERSE. Spooky Action at a Distance happens instantaneously, or measured at the speed of light, I think.
Incorrect. It is already well known that the velocity with which light actually travels is affected by materials it travels through (in this case low density interstellar gas). The index of fraction of a material divides this speed, so for example, light travels slower by a factor of 1.33 in pure water at 20 degrees Celsius. The constant used in relativity is the speed of light in a perfect vacuum.
Thus the upshot is that the measurements here have absolutely NOTHING to do with any increased upper limit but only that the speed of gravity waves is a bit more reliable measure of that constant over great distances.
How does that not increase an upper limit to which I think Watson was thinking.
Event Horizon » May 15th, 2018, 5:14 pm wrote: I was wondering how fast does gravity propagate through spacetime. I assume it propagates at lightspeed, but assumptions are dangerous things sometimes.
Gravitational waves and the 'speed of gravity' are the not same. Below is an attempt at calculating the 'speed of gravity'.
The first attempt to combine a finite gravitational speed with Newton's theory was made by Laplace in 1805. Based on Newton's force law he considered a model in which the gravitational field is defined as a radiation field or fluid. Changes in the motion of the attracting body are transmitted by some sort of waves. Therefore, the movements of the celestial bodies should be modified in the order v/c, where v is the relative speed between the bodies and c is the speed of gravity. The effect of a finite speed of gravity goes to zero as c goes to infinity, but not as 1/c2 as it does in modern theories. This led Laplace to conclude that the speed of gravitational interactions is at least 7×106 times the speed of light.
DJ_Juggernaut, your statement is simply incorrect. In GR, gravity is assumed to travel at the speed of light. In addition, the recent observation of the merging of two neutron stars with associated optical and gravitational wave detection proves without any doubt that the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light. The differences are under 1.7 seconds out of a few hundred million years in travel time. Very compelling.
Because the measured speed of speed of light x in this case is NOT the speed of light in a perfect vacuum c, which is the upper limit due to relativity. So instead we have the speed of gravity = c = x + a very small amount to make arrive 1.7 seconds earlier out of a few hundred million years. It just means that the index of refraction of the space the light traveled through was slightly higher than 1 due to interstellar gas.
No Z, 'twas I that was hypothesizing, or at very least, surmising.
until we have more data, you are all hypothesizing.
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Nope. No hypothesis anywhere in sight. I was simply explaining the scientific facts.
In the OP I was probing to find how gravity propagates, and if it is slowed by planets or suchlike. I think knowing it's equivalent of terminal velocity, and ways it might be manipulated could be critical to our survival as a race that will eventually have to abandon earth.
I also want to know why it's such damn awkward thing. Are clumps of dark matter real, or some kinda wrinkle in the Higgs field perhaps?
Is it better to know the right questions, or know the right answers? That's tough.
Event Horizon » July 4th, 2018, 3:26 pm wrote: In the OP I was probing to find how gravity propagates, and if it is slowed by planets or suchlike. I think knowing it's equivalent of terminal velocity, and ways it might be manipulated could be critical to our survival as a race that will eventually have to abandon earth.
Seems to me, it is more critical that we learn to behave, treating the earth and each other better. That is the more immediate requirements for survival, and if we cannot do that then I hope we do not spread the disease to the rest of the universe. I guess that means I am not a humanist, putting more value in the species than anything else.
The sun has billions of years left. If you are going to talk of eventualities then as far as we know, everything ends in the heat death of the universe.
Event Horizon » July 4th, 2018, 3:26 pm wrote: I also want to know why it's such damn awkward thing. Are clumps of dark matter real, or some kinda wrinkle in the Higgs field perhaps?
Dark matter? Now THAT is an hypothesis.
The right questions usually lead to the right answers which in turn leads to the asking of a lot more questions. At least, that is what science has shown to be right sort of answers -- answers which shed light so we can see more to ask questions about. Not at all like the "Goddidit" kind of answer.
Even if we turned right around and protected our planet it should last a few billion years for sure. But the Sun will eventually become a red giant with Earth on the perimeter of its atmosphere. We can't stay here and we would have to launch many many craft over a long time to promote success. We gotta go then, or before then. Either way, we gotta go.
Anyway. If dark matter contains so much gravity, shouldn't it also be interacting with the Higgs field, or perhaps a manifestation whereby the Higgs field is distorting spacetime more than in other areas perhaps? A lot of gravity would indicate high levels of interaction with the Higgs field wouldn't it?
No Higgs, no gravity(Via mass), I'd like to know how this interaction works but I don't think the instruments have been invented as yet.
Apparently the standard model can probably said to be compatible, but we need metrics to be developed. Nailing gravity would be simply epic.
Gravity is also marginally faster than light in experiments, but I think photons have a quanta of mass albeit small which may account for the really very marginal difference in recorded speed.
And somehow I got back to where I started.
And is gravity super-relativistic in some way? How do we test for that?
The other thing I was pondering the about the neutron is, given the two options, forming a BH or coalescing into a larger star. In this case it form a BH, but how can it be otherwise?
How can the two rather large massively dense objects just coalesce into a single larger, more massive object? How can this happen without a massive display of energy and debris? Seems to me, the weakness of gravity would not be able to contain the energies and material of such a collision, despite the suggestion in the article. Obviously I'm missing a piece of the puzzle?
A kinda unified gravity theory should be a common goal I think, or its equivalent. Ever since Newton we have pondered this. It looks like we're gonna have to ponder it some more.
Watson » July 4th, 2018, 7:21 pm wrote: The other thing I was pondering the about the neutron is, given the two options, forming a BH or coalescing into a larger star. In this case it form a BH, but how can it be otherwise?
A low velocity collision is certain to produce a black hole. Neutron stars have a pretty narrow mass range (between 1.4 and 2.16 solar masses) and so just doubling the minimum will put you over the limit where the mass will collapse into a black hole. But with a high enough velocity collision enough matter will blow off to bring the total mass in under the limit and you get a neutron star. More velocity might blow off enough mass to leave you with one or more white dwarfs. Of course, with a high enough velocity collision you could end up with just a large cloud of hot matter (with all kinds of heavy elements) -- great stuff for making rich planets..
You know a neutron star is like a gigantic atomic nucleus and so one of these collisions would be like watching a nuclear reaction writ very large. This is very very interesting stuff for the scientist... BUT not something you can watch close up and expect to survive (huge understatement)!
On further reflection my suggestion of white dwarf star(s) as possible remnants would be highly unlikely. Even if you still had a mass of neutronium under the lower limit after blowing off enough mass due to the high speed collision, the destabilization of the mass of neutronium would give you an explosion too violent to leave a white dwarf remnant.
When two neutron stars collide, one of two things can happen. If the two stars are small enough, the outcome will be a single, larger, neutron star. However, if the combined mass of the two stars is above a threshold, the neutron stars will disappear into a single black hole. The data reported today cannot yet determine which happened in this instance. The remnant is either one of the heaviest neutron stars ever observed or one of the lightest black holes.
This is the part of Lincoln's article I'm referring to. If it is a gentle coming together of a pair of neutron stars, seems to me they would become a pair of hard rock rolling around each other in some gravitational dance. What energies would cause them to become one single, larger neutron star?
And if they collide with some force, wouldn't the collision + gravitational forces combined be enough to create a super nova, or at least appear as one, to us?
If they do not touch then it is not a collision. Though a near miss should cause severe disruption and friction due to tidal forces. Thus a gentle collision will reform into a larger mass with blow off to get rid of any kinetic energy. What you would do is compare that kinetic energy to the potential energy required to remove the mass from the gravity well and thus you would know how much mass is lost.
Neutron stars have such a narrow mass range because it is a delicate balance between the gravity and the forces needed to compact it down to neutronium. Too little mass and the gravity is not enough and the neutronium expand explosively. Too much mass and the gravity overcomes the force due to Pauli exclusion and it collapses into a black hole.
The following is largely personal opinion, so take such with a grain of salt..lol.
I believe it is a mistake to group the wave propagation speed of a Gravity Wave with the speed of Gravity Collapse.
In the first case of a Gravity Wave, we are looking at the propagation of a Gravity Wave in the medium of Space-Time. It should be at the Light Speed (given my personal Model of Space-Time).
However, for Gravitational Collapse, we are talking about a density differential of a Gravitational Field or the Curvature in Space-Time (as more commonly used). As such, the structure of Space-Time is supported by the local surrounding structure of Space-Time. This means that if one could instantly remove.. say.. a Star like our Sun.. then the structure of Space-Time must relax (density decrease) as a function of its local area spread over distance.
This would mean that the instantaneous removal of our Sun would NOT result in releasing our Earth from its Solar Orbit 8 (plus) minutes later as per the propagation of Light Speed. What seems more probable is the relaxation of Space-Time Curvature spread over some Period of Time and not.. an instantaneous shift in Curvature. Or in other words.. the Earth would eventually break Solar orbit but it would be a gradual outwards spiral and not a sudden drop causing the Earth to shoot off in a straight line 8+ minutes after the Sun has been teleported elsewhere.
This was a topic explored several years ago by myself and several Experts (I am not an expert..lol). It required a Model of a field of clocks surrounding a Black Hole and what would happen to the clocks should the Black Hole suddenly disappear. The answer demonstrated that the Gravitational Field Collapse cannot be propagated at the Speed of Light because it includes the element of Time (Temporal Adjustment) for one thing.
In other words: Given the Space-Time stress/tension created by a Star, the direction of Stress Dissipation must be from the outside in and not the inside out. A crude example is imagine a group of people crowded inside an enclosed area. Now instantly remove the enclosure. Notice the people near the center are the last to know the enclosure has been removed and they may now move further apart or dissipate (reduce density). As far as I know, this would seem true of all Gradient Density Effects which become suddenly unbounded. They dissipate outside-in as in released tension.
Hi Dave. That makes quite a bit of sense to me.
I hadn't considered the possible effects of gravitational collapse. If you can find a pulsar imploding or something, and measure gravitational variations, it should be interesting. Unfortunately I don't think Cern are gonna find any gravitons for a while. I'm still trying to figure what kind of energy is the darn Higgs field made of. This on top of zero-point energy, contiguously? Separately? What stops all bosons gaining all their mass, and when this mass is given off as energy can the Higgs field get its energy back?
I tend to think too much sometimes. Heh!

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One thing I had been looking forward to a lot about moving to Amsterdam was the fact that here exist several networking events for women in technical companies/technical professions, i.e. mostly in IT. A lot of them seem to be organised via Twitter or Meetup (a platform whose benefits I'm only just now starting to discover! Ah, the possibilities!) So far I've discovered the PythonLadies, the RailsGirls, the PHPWomen and, less technology-specific: Girls in Tech and the Girl Geek Dinner.
Considering that Karlsruhe, where I've lived before, is also considered a somewhat big technology and innovation hub, it's a little sad to see how few girls' networking events take place there: virtually none. I guess it's just a different culture here. Or there really aren't enough women in tech back home.
So, as soon as the date for the September edition of the Girl Geek Dinner here was announced, I just had to sign up! The Girl Geek Dinners are a world wide organisation who promote women in technology. In Germany they seem to be a bit underdeveloped, unfortunately, thats why I only came across the organisation when I moved here.
The dinners usually feature one or several speakers for varied topics, usually women, and a buffet style dinner. Men are allowed to attend as well, but only as long as they're invited by a woman - every woman can invite one man, like this women will never be outnumbered by men.
The topic for September's GGD in Amsterdam was "Start-ups" and was hosted in the beautiful premises of Rockstart on Herengracht. The evening started out with drinks and socializing and me being a little shy, but I soon got into conversation with some other first-time attendees. And there were really only women! No men! And all of those women were working in technology!
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The Knowledge House, with Per Scholas and Hostos Community College, conceived of and designed The Bronx Digital Pipeline (BxDP). BxDP is a strategic partnership among seven leading technology education organizations and higher education institutions offering technology skills training to Bronx residents. The objective is to connect 16-24 year olds who are out of school and not working – and those at risk of falling into this population – to occupational training customized to employer needs that lead to industry-recognized credentials, entry-level technology jobs, and higher wages.
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Fowler was the oldest son of Howard Fowler, a London businessman, and Ena, daughter of George Dewhurst, a Manchester businessman. He was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Cambridge (B. A., 1911); as a student he showed considerable ability in golf and cricket as well as winning prizes in mathematics. After taking his degree he published some work on the theory of solutions of differential equations and as a result was elected to a fellowship at Trinity in October 1914.
By this time Fowler had obtained a commission in the Royal Marine Artillery. He was wounded in the Gallipoli campaign, and while convalescing in 1916 was persuaded to join a group of scientists, led by A. V. Hill, who were doing research on such military problems as tracking the flight of airplanes and computing trajectories of cannon shells. This early introduction to applied mathematics seems to have influenced Fowler’s subsequent interest in physical problems, although he did not entirely abandon his earlier commitment to pure mathematics.
In 1921, two years after returning to Cambridge as a fellow, he married Eileen, the only daughter of Sir Ernest Rutherford. They had four children.
By the early 1920’s Fowler was among the very few workers at Cambridge who maintained a continuing interest in the progress of the quantum theory; he kept in touch with recent developments through correspondence and visits to Copenhagen. Those students—such as Dirac—who turned their attention to the quantum theory had usually been introduced to it by Fowler, and it was he who gave Dirac the galley proofs of Heisenberg’s “matrix article” of 1925, which led to Dirac’s discovery of Poisson-Bracket relations (according to private communication from T. S. Kuhn, based on information in the Archive for History of Quantum Physics). Because of his connection with Rutherford, Fowler was particularly well placed to introduce problems from the quantum theory into the discussions of the more experimentally inclined physicists who gathered at the Cavendish Laboratory and in the Kapitza Club. Much of the early work at Cambridge on this aspect of physics was therefore stimulated by him.
Fowler was awarded the Adams Prize at Cambridge University in 1924 for an essay on statistical mechanics. In 1929 he published a revised version of this essay, including the application of quantum statistics and ionization theory to states of matter at high pressures and high temperatures. Statistical Mechanics became the standard reference work on the subject in English-speaking countries for the next decade; it was followed by a second edition (1936) and by Statistical Thermodynamics (1939), a book emphasizing applications to physical chemistry, written with E. A. Guggenheim.
Fowler was elected to the Plummer chair of theoretical physics at Cambridge in 1932 and continued to pioneer the applications of statistical mechanics and to explore other areas of theoretical physics. Together with such students and colleagues as E.A. Guggenheim and R. F. Peierls he developed the “Ising model” as a theory of phase transitions and cooperative phenomena in magnets, alloys, and solutions.
In 1938 he was appointed director of the National Physical Laboratory, to succeed Sir Lawrence Bragg, but had to decline the appointment almost immediately because of illness. In World War II he served as a consultant to the Ordnance Board and the Admiralty. In 1942 he was knighted for his services to the government, in particular for establishing scientific liaison between research efforts on military problems in England and in Canada, and for his accomplishments during an important mission to Canada and the United States.
The best source of information about Fowler is the comprehensive memoir by his friend and colleague E. A. Milne, in the Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 5 (1945–1948), 61–78, which contains a portrait, bibliography, and many personal recollections.
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