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Brothers and Sisters, I would like to thank everyone that took time to attend a unit meeting this month. There is a lot going on with Oncor Electric Delivery. IBEW Local 69 is supporting the acquisition of Oncor Electric Delivery by Berkshire Hathaway. The parties will await the bankruptcy judge’s decision on how the deal will proceed. Also, Oncor announced a plan to swap assets with Sharyland Utilities in a transaction valued at approximately $400 million. The transaction is subject to approval by the Public Utility Commission of Texas. When approved by regulators, Sharyland will receive approximately 258 miles of 345 kv transmission lines from Oncor, and Oncor will receive all of Sharyland’s distribution network and retail delivery customers, totaling around 54,000 customers. I understand about 130 Sharyland employees will receive offers of employment to join the Oncor team. Let’s hope they are not in management because, we have plenty of chiefs - we need more Linemen.
The happiest people in Texas are the Sharyland customers. The customers at Sharyland moving over to become Oncor customers will realize a significant rate relief, resulting in lower electric bills. Oncor and Sharyland will file a joint change-in-control filing with the PUCT. When approved, the transaction will be complete before the end of the year.
The Company is in the process of offering a contract extension to IBEW Local 69 members. At this time we have not received an offer in writing. At the unit meetings we discussed whether a one year contract extension or a two year extension would be in our best interest. We have one more week of unit meetings at the time this article is written, stay tuned for updates.
Local 69 and WFAA-TV will enter into negotiations on August 1st for wages only. After we have a solid offer from the station we will inform the membership and schedule a ratification vote at the station. You all know how hot it is. Don’t get too hot and drink plenty of water.
There will be a Steward Training Class on Saturday, August 19, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. at Local 20’s Hall. Local 20 is located at: 684 W Tarrant Rd., Grand Prairie, Texas, 75050. IBEW representatives will conduct the Steward Training. If interested please send an email to our local at ibewloc69@aol.com. There will be members from Locals 20, 66, 69 and 220 attending the training.
Posted on August 7, 2017 by Teresa Reed.

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text: In the last couple of decades the national administrative law of the Member States has been influenced by case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). One of the main objectives of this research is to examine this influence and more specifically the influence of EU law on cooperation between public authorities. The present work examines how and to what extent EU (public procurement) law has an influence on the way a public authority organises and discharges its public service tasks. The object of this book is limited to cooperative agreements (public contracts and service concessions) concluded between public authorities as a means to organise or discharge public service tasks. Public authorities and private enterprises should be made aware as far as possible of the potential impact of EU law on certain types of cooperative agreements. This knowledge will prevent situations where the public authorities are post facto confronted with lawsuits that might force them to withdraw completely from cooperative associations that are already underway. It also enables private enterprises to be aware that in this context they may benefit from an open market. The book gives lawyers and practitioners in the field the most actual theoretical and practical background on the subject.

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Did King Arthur Exist or Not?
Mystery stories motivate the mind, increase speculation and invite the interest of conspiracy theorists. Though there are numerous ancient mystery stories, they do not stimulate us the same way as contemporary mysteries do, maybe because we may relate to them better if they are nearer to our own time. It is that capacity to relate, to feel some connection, that not only feeds the mystery, but also appears to intimate that a solution is within range.
One of the most liked genres of literature for both child and adult readers is that of mystery and detective fiction. Most of the finest opportunities to be had for delving into fantastically written, top quality literature are mysteries. Many of the lightest and most intriguing fiction books collections are mystery stories.
A superb illustration of mystery and crime books are locked room mysteries which include, ostensibly, unattainable murders and have fascinated mystery fans since the golden age of detective fiction. They offer enormous interest because crime authors are very creative when it comes to devising solutions.
Writers of locked room mystery stories are usually not interested in the psychology of the killer, or the alcohol problem of the detective. What captivates them is the excitement of planning a wicked mystery and defying the reader to get to the bottom of it.
Consider the scene: a ceiling, floor, four walls and a door. As crime scenes go, it does not look exceptionally promising. Still for a century or more, a number of the most stimulated detective writers on this planet have been wringing anticipation and excitement through locked room deaths.
Crime thrillers and mystery books of the locked room genre is littered with examples of seemingly impracticable killings. Maybe a blood spattered corpse is found in a room which had been locked for several weeks. Or a victim, paranoid for their safety, concealed on their own in a bank vault, is murdered regardless.
As crime thrillers and mystery books go, these kinds of stories are worlds away from modern-day, grimy police routines or stories of maniacs and loners. Locked room murder mystery stories do not endeavour to shine a light on the darker and much more cruel realities of our lives. Every one is a conundrum.
This is a place in which detectives, usually noble or capricious, fight to solve offences which should not have been doable in the first place. In these type of novels one will be able to scrutinize the solutions to these crimes that have bewildered the most clever of readers and tested the powers of the most clever of detectives.
Within this list of solutions could be found bats who free ceremonial knives in order that they plummet into the heart of the victim, or vicious cats whose claws have been dipped in poison, hidden doorways, gas filled glass vials crushed under foot and sliding doors. Every one uncovers a little of the amazing inventiveness of authors of mystery and crime books series.
The plots of many of these boxed sets of books groan like primitive machinery however the majority arrive wrapped up with a really inspired resolution.
Undoubtedly riveting, scary stuff. So whilst some of the characters of the stories may have gone the way of the corpse in the locked room, if you are ready to go looking for it, this old school genre stays alive and well. You'll never look at a floor, four walls and a ceiling in the same way ever again.
Shop 4 Books is an online bookstore for everything books. We have a diverse range of categories covering all genres and in all major formats. We can also make it easy for you to obtain calendars, diaries, music CDs and downloads, DVDs, newspaper gift books and much more. We have the lowest price books online so check us out and take advantage of all our frequent special offers.

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Solve challenging questions from seven different categories.
Four pictures are given and you need to analyze them in order toguess the word behind it. This game requires you to observe thedetails.
Did you mentally register the details? A zoom-ed picture will nowappear and you have to try to guess what the word is.
Riddles are an old hat that require logical thinking andunderstanding in order to decipher the meaning.
Consists of pictures that present the meaning of words. Thisexercises require ones imagination and accurate analysis.
We encounter numerous sounds during the day but would you be ableto recognize them alone?
Are you able to understand the connection between two words andcome up with a new word that has the same connection logic? Thougheasy, it requires attention.
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industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Take control of all domain-related settings and your organization's general settings from the Dashboard.
Add an extra layer of security to your accounts with Two-factor authentication. A Zoho-generated OTP, combined with your password, ensures your accounts are protected.
Buy a new domain of your choice, set up multiple domains, monitor email hosting status, add domain aliases, and manage all your domains from a single window.
Customize your login URL such that your users will be able to login to mail.yourdomain.com, and customize your company logo on the login screen and the Control Panel.
Find out how to setup Two-factor authentication and Customize your login URL.
Control all user accounts and set up user-related data from the User Details section.
Migrate your users from your old email provider to Zoho Mail by simply importing a .csv file, or add them manually in a few simple steps.
Fear no more of forgetting your password. Be assured that your password can be reset by one of your Administrators or Super Administrators on request.
Create more than just one email address for each user by setting up email aliases.
Delegate or back up emails by forwarding them to an email address either inside or outside your organization.
Worried that your much-needed vacation will leave potential clients hanging? Set up user-specific vacation replies that keep your clients in the loop even while you're away.
Ensure that your users create a secure password by enforcing a password policy and a password expiration period.
Learn more on Managing Users.
Create group email addresses for specific channels, such as support, sales, and marketing, with relevant policies and permissions.
Zoho offers four group types: Public groups, Organization groups, Private groups, and Moderated groups. Choose the best one for your channel's requirements.
Choose the required number of moderators for each group, and allocate custom member roles to each user.
Manage advanced group preferences, such as permissions to email the group, customizing group notifications, and controlling spam at the group level.
Use your Control Panel to customize the notification or warning emails sent to group members or moderators.
All group email content that needs moderation is saved in the Control Panel, making verification and further processing easier.
Read more about Groups in Zoho Mail.
Zoho Mail's spam policies keep spam away ensuring that genuine email lands in your mailbox.
With validation protocols like SPF and DKIM, email authenticity is never going to be a question again.
Emails that fail to be validated by the SPF or DKIM protocols can be quarantined, and you can decide whether these messages get delivered to user accounts.
Keep your spam and genuine email sorted by adding them to your email Whitelist and Blacklist.
Keep yourself informed of bounced email and the spam categories that rejected them by monitoring your Spam Classification Reports.
Know more about Zoho Mail's Spam Control Mechanisms.
Use email policies to control the domains from which you send/receive emails, set up restrictions on accessing mailboxes from POP/IMAP clients, backup all outgoing emails, and so much more.
Control all your user accounts from the Control Panel. From disabling incoming/outgoing emails to resetting forgotten passwords, you can manage it all in the Control Panel.
Allot varying levels of privileges to each user by assigning the User or Administrator roles.
Add trusted IP addresses to prevent access outside these IP ranges.
Track admin activities by monitoring detailed audit logs. Sort the logs based on the category, the operation performed, the period in which it was performed, or the administrator who performed it.
Set up domain-wide disclaimers, configure catch-all addresses, and notification addresses for the entire organization.
Back up email data from entire accounts or emails that fall within a specified date range.
Find out how to Configure Email Policies and Organization Settings.
Migrate all your data from your previous service provider to Zoho Mail using the POP/IMAP migration or the Exchange migration wizard.
Download the Exchange Migration Wizard.
Check out how to migrate users using POP/IMAP Migration or using the Email Migration Wizard.
Access your Control Panel on the go using the Zoho Mail Admin app.


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Moleskine Journal, with an original artwork on the cover, by Linda Boucher.
This small notebook is just the right size to pop in to your pocket, your purse, or the stocking of your beloved.
If you would like me to personalize this notebook for you- just let me know!


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Ghasili is the first Saudi on demand laundry and dry cleaning service.
With 3 easy steps, we will come pick up your laundry and deliver it to your door steps the next day.
Ghasili is a Saudi premium on-demand laundry service application.
Fill Ghasili laundry bag then select between regular or ghasili now and the rest is on us.
Ghasili is fast, easy and reliable.
We use high quality cleaning products and the highest quality machines to keep your clothes in safe and good condition.
We pickup and deliver your laundry wherever you are.

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Redwood Shores Elementary is a public elementary school located in Redwood City, CA in the Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary School District. It enrolls 499 students in grades 1st through 12th. Redwood Shores Elementary is the 3,354th largest public school in California and the 22,025th largest nationally. It has 25.0 students to every teacher.
The form below lets you find Redwood Shores Elementary alumni info and Redwood Shores Elementary students.
Out of 6,241 ranked schools in California, Redwood Shores Elementary is ranked 5,998th for total students on lunch assistance.
The percentage of Redwood Shores Elementary students on free and reduced lunch assistance (3.2%) is significantly lower than the state average of 60.7%. This may indicate that the area has a lower level of poverty than the state average.


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This railway station serves Bamber Bridge, a Lancashire village three miles southeast of Preston.
The station lies on the East Lancashire Line. Services calling here include trains from Blackpool South to Colne (via Preston, Blackburn, and Burnley Central). Adjacent stations on the line are Lostock Hall and Pleasington.
It’s a basic station with few facilities other than a couple of shelters. There’s no ticket office here.
Bamber Bridge Train Station is situated on Station Road. There’s a small park-and-ride car park between the station and Bamber Bridge Police Station (postcode PR5 6EA). Parking is free for rail passengers.
There’s a convenience store and plenty of other small businesses (takeaway, fish and chip shop etc.) in the immediate vicinity of the station.
Trains departing from Bamber Bridge Train Station.
Trains arriving at Bamber Bridge Train Station.
Map showing location of Bamber Bridge Train Station.
Train station in Lostock Hall, South Ribble. View train times and station facilities.
Train station serving the village of Pleasington.

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All Security Technology offers the complete set-up and installation of Digital Security Camera and Video Systems to help improve the overall security of your site. Security Camera systems have been recognised as being one of the most reliable and effective deterrents against theft, vandalism and property crimes.
We utilise the latest in Digital Security Camera and Video Systems to deliver a solid security platform that offers you easy visibility of incidents, with the added benefit of being able to integrate this system with your IT network for easy backup and added security. Our aim is to provide you with a Digital Security Camera and Video System that is both practical and within your specified budget.
Ability to integrate with security alarm and access control systems.
All Security Technology uses a wide range of digital camera systems for your premises engineered by the reputable AVER range which comprises a vast range of high tech DVR and NVR recording equipment.


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Direct Supply prides itself on being a premier pallet supplier and packaging supply store in Naperville, IL. Serving small and large companies – family owned to Fortune 500 businesses across the country – we offer local, one-stop access for all your pallet, warehouse, shipping and packaging needs. Our customer focused service programs put you in the “green” in terms of cash savings and eco-friendliness.
Yes, you, the Naperville customer are our focus. Filling your unique pallet, packaging, warehouse, shipping and industrial service needs is of primary importance to us at Direct Supply. We promise to do so with stellar customer service, attention to detail and expert product knowledge. After all, no one does business quite like you do!
For this reason, we offer a variety of products to increase the success of your Naperville business. We offer customizable solutions built through our relationship with you to meet the most specific of needs. Why? Because we believe that your success is our success.
Offering customers in the 60540, 60563, 60564 and 60565 postal codes durable skid solutions in line with your needs at affordable prices is Direct Supply’s goal.
Oftentimes, how you secure and protect a shipment determines its condition upon arrival to your customer. Whether a shipment is heading across town, across the country or to the other side of the world, Direct Supply offers Naperville businesses the packing supplies necessary to make the trip. We are the one-stop shop for all your pallet and freight securing needs.
Direct Supply offers Naperville a full line of shipping supplies to handle your packaging needs from start to finish.
Direct Supply works with your Naperville business to develop a program that reduces your warehouse expenses, guaranteed! We work with your logistics team to find efficient and affordable solutions to your specific warehousing needs.


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Mullican's hardwood flooring lines consist of engineered prefinished hardwood flooring, solid prefinished hardwood flooring, and unfinished solid hardwood. Some of the engineered prefinished hardwood floor finishes include NorthPointe, RidgeCrest, Frontier Wire Brushed, Distressed and many more. From the solid hardwood flooring category comes St. Andrews Oak, the Nature Collection, Green Haven, Knob Creek Hand Sculpted and much more.
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Get a Mullican flooring catalog in your inbox today. Simply fill out the form and select the products you would like information on. We will send complete Mullican flooring brochure to your mailing address. Printed material can be available by paying $6 shipping cost.

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The Socceroos will leave for Brazil this week after an entertaining 1-1 draw with South Africa on Monday night, though an injury to star right back Ivan Franjic took the gloss off the display.
The crowd of 50,459 got their money’s worth with an open and attacking clash despite the bumpy surface at ANZ Stadium.
A first half goal to Tim Cahill cancelled out Ayanda Patosi’s strike a minute earlier in a frenetic opening.
However, a second half injury to Franjic is a big concern just two days out from a plane ride to Brazil.
Over the 90 minutes, the Socceroos showed immense attacking promise but a few worrying moments exposed by South Africa’s speedy strikers on the break would’ve given Ange Postecoglou cause for concern.
Overall though this was a performance of great attacking promise showing that Australia won’t die wondering in Brazil.
It was a helter-skelter opening 20 minutes. As expected, Australia started sharply with plenty of movement and good energy levels in their 4-2-3-1 formation with Cahill up top.
Oar went close with two long-range efforts and Leckie’s header from the resulting corner was batted away by the keeper as the visitors looked all at sea in the opening ten minutes.
Yet in their first attack the South Africans broke down Australia’s right via Thulani Serero and in the resulting scramble in the box, Ayanda Patosi slotted a low shot past Mat Ryan’s left hand for a shock lead.
But Bafana Bafana celebrations were short-lived - in Australia’s first attack from the restart, ‘Captain Cahill’ rose high to head home a perfect cross by Oar and it was 1-1 inside 15 minutes.
Cahill should’ve made it 2-1 a minute later when the excellent Oar found him on the edge of the box but South African keeper Senzo Meyiwa made an excellent stop.
South Africa regained some control in the latter stages of the half but the sides went into the break locked at 1-1.
The all-out attacking continued from the off in the second stanza with both sides creating good chances in the opening minutes.
But the excellent Franjic’s injury five minutes into the second half was a worrying sight.
The Roar star was given treatment and returned, albeit gingerly. He lasted barely two minutes before hobbling off.
The ever-dangerous Leckie, playing on the right, was put through brilliantly but struck low and past the post as the Australians continued to press for a second.
A number of substitutions in the latter part of the second half took some of the rhythm out of the Socceroos’ game but the home side continued to press forward with Milligan almost slotting home from the edge of the box.
Ben Halloran, one of the late substitutions, was causing problems and the striker came close with his own long distance strike.
Inside the final ten minutes and World Cup qualification hero Josh Kennedy came on to raucous applause for the hard working Leckie.
Vidosic had a chance to win it with a header in the final few minutes and Bozanic's header was just inches away but no winner could be conjured up for the Brazil-bound Socceroos who had to be content with a draw.
Best for Australia were Oar, Leckie and Cahill, who was subbed off after 62 minutes.

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Homeowners and holidaymakers alike have flocked to LWP’s lifestyle estate in WA’s south west, Springdale Beach.
Planned to make the most of the ‘down south’ lifestyle so loved by generations of Western Australians, tranquil Springdale Beach is located 2.5km east of the Denmark town centre and 30 minutes from Albany.
According to Project Manager, Kelli Howell, there is a lot to love about Springdale Beach, starting with its generous homesites and idyllic location.
“The site was carefully selected by LWP to take advantage of a rare opportunity to develop an estate with both large lots (from 3,000sqm to 1.26ha) and direct beach access, while remaining within easy reach of the Denmark town centre,” she said.
Ms Howell said real estate was all about ‘location’ and stunning Springdale Beach did not disappoint.
“Set on the Wilson Inlet with direct access to un-spoilt beaches and found on the Albany side of the Denmark townsite, Springdale Beach is well located should people need to travel to Albany for work, shopping, the airport or medical facilities,” she added.
For those choosing to work from home, Springdale Beach offers access to NBN and on weekends, an abundance of activities and attractions such as local vineyards, cafes and fishing, bushwalking tracks and surfing spots await.
Keen walkers are often delighted to discover that scenic trails link the estate to the Denmark Golf and Country Club and the Denmark town centre.
Ms Howell said buyers were attracted to the variety of price points and lots sizes on offer at Springdale Beach.
“The choice of a 3000sqm lot or one of our generous 1.26ha homesites is a real drawcard and buyers are always pleased to discover that we have catered to a range of tastes and budgets,” she said.
Underground power, scheme water, side and rear boundary fencing and telephone service access are all included the purchase price, with lots starting from $189,000.
She estimates that more than 90 per cent of buyers have chosen to make Springdale Beach their permanent home and were “delighted by the neighbourhood feel and friendly atmosphere”.
“We have a clear vision for Springdale Beach and each year take positive steps to bring that vision to life,” she added.


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Abigail Wise is the online managing editor for Outside magazine. When this interview was done, she was still a senior editor at REI's Adventure Projects.
Abigail Wise, currently Senior Editor for the REI Coop Journal, and soon to be Managing Editor at Outside Magazine.
It comes from the old children’s rhyme “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me”. As women we feel underrepresented on the lesser end, and on the more extreme end we can even feel harassed. Plus Sticks and Stones are out in the wild where we go to play.
Why did you pick TinyLetter as the way to run it?
I didn't anticipate having a huge list size when I started out. I’m not going to hire a designer and code this thing, and pay for subscription, because probably it's only my friends will be reading it. Ann Friedman is a big-time feminist writer, she’s fantastic. And she has a TinyLetter. That's how I found it.
I would say around a thousand. As it started to grow a little bit, at first it was “I should try to turn it into a big newsletter and really grow that list”, but then it became a networking tool in a lot of ways - everyone from athletes to editors, pr-people, travel-people. It's just cool to connect, to hear what everyone is reading. I always saw newsletters as megaphone, a tool for sharing your words and links. But it's more a conversation now.
Have you ever missed a week?
I don't think I have. I've been late and I’ve changed days. It used to be Mondays but I couldn’t get my mind together after weekend adventures, so now it’s Friday. I have all the week to get it together.
It's definitely not a chore. It really is what I'm reading that week. That's not hard. I‘m huge nerd, my mom was a librarian and I grew up reading.
You have just let it grow organically?
Yes. I have talked with some friends who have a better business mindset than I do about starting to grow it, and maybe getting some ads. That may happen in future.
Any interesting opportunities that have come from it out apart from conversations?
Yes. I've met a lot of freelance writers who subscribe and email me their own work. I've ended up reaching some of them for stories. Or we start chatting and they pitch me with some ideas. I live in Boulder, Colorado, land of the outdoor athletes. People come up to me saying “Oh, Abigail Wise! I read your newsletter!” It's always a cool moment. It becomes an icebreaker.
Sign up for the Sticks and Stones newsletter here.
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“Jay Foreman, CEO of Basic Fun!, poses with K’NEX products after Basic Fun’s acquisition of the company this year. The firm will be hit by Chinese tariffs if the trade war escalates.
A group representing Pennsylvania toy manufacturers, distillers, hog farmers, and retailers gathered in Philadelphia for a town hall meeting on Thursday to sound the alarm on President Trump's escalating trade war with China.
Tariffs have destabilized businesses by making it nearly impossible to formulate business strategy, said members of the group, Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, which held a panel on free trade Thursday with funds coming from big agriculture groups, ranchers and individuals. Inventories are being kept low. New small manufacturing facilities have been placed on hold. The state's 101 whiskey distillers and spirit importers are delaying market expansions into Asia and Europe.
The toy industry is especially anxious about next year's sales. Industry leaders already anticipate higher production costs and consumer prices.
"The good news is that [the hikes] won't be happening this season," said panelist Michael Araten, CEO of the Rodon Group in Hatfield, which specializes in plastic-injection molding in the United States, including the K'nex building toy brand.
Next year, the self-described "patriotic capitalist" said, prices may be be 10 percent to 20 percent higher. "A $20 toy will cost $30. The [Trump] tax credits were great," Araten added. "But the tariffs will take all those gains away from the consumer."
Minyuan Zhao, associate professor of management at the Wharton School, said "the biggest threat to all involved is that they don't know how to plan ahead."
Determining the impact across the spectrum of industries is tricky, said Zhao, who did not participate in the town hall meeting but researches emerging economies, global strategy and innovation. But small farms are particularly vulnerable because of the volatility of the commodities markets. "It's harder for them to buffer the risk."
Trump's confrontational plan on trade has resulted in a new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement that many experts say is similar to the old one. Trump has also turned his attention away from Europe, avoiding the mistake of getting into a harmful spat with allies needed to form a trading bloc and a unified front.
Instead, Trump is focusing his trade war on China, which is seen as engaging in a wide range of unfair trade practices and industrial espionage. Three weeks ago, Trump slapped tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, prompting China to respond with levies on $60 billion in American goods. The president has threatened to levy 25 percent tariffs on the remaining $257 billion of Chinese imports if Beijing refuses to eliminate trade and economic policies that Washington regards as discriminatory.
The group that convened Thursday at the New Liberty Distillery in the city's Fishtown neighborhood was respectful of what the Trump administration was trying to accomplish, but believed that there's a better way to bolster American business without resorting to tariffs.
"The level of uncertainty is now at an all-time high," said panelist Angela Marshall Hofmann, deputy director of Farmers for Free Trade, which organized the Thursday morning town hall and is co-chaired by former U.S. Senators Richard Lugar (R., Indiana) and Max Baucus (D., Montana). "And that's not just impacting farmers and ranchers, it's impacting manufacturers and retailers, too."
Farmers for Free Trade has taken its free-trade message, a core GOP belief until recently, directly to the president, she said. It has run ads on Fox News in the Washington and Palm Beach media markets and signed on Lugar and Baucus to make their case.
The administration's unpredictability is driving worries that the relatively strong U.S. economy will begin to falter. Those concerns were amplified by a stock market selloff that lopped more than 1,300 points off the Dow Jones average on Wednesday and Thursday.
"The danger is a spiral of retaliation," said panelist Craig Snyder, the president and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. "The politics are being used to distort the very complex puzzle of trade."
Thanks to Trump-imposed tariffs, Pennsylvanians are paying $45 million more a month for internationally sourced goods, according to data complied by consulting firm Trade Partnership and released by Tariffs Hurt the Heartland.
On steel alone, the state spent an additional $98 million on "section 232 tariffs," primarily on steel from Russia, aluminum from Canada, rebar from Turkey, and forklift parts from China. Pennsylvania ranked fifth in the nation for paying steel tariffs. States reportedly paying more in steel tariffs are Texas ($389 million), Michigan ($139 million), California ($104 million) and Illinois ($103 million), according to the Trade Partnership data.
A 10 percent tariff on picture frames was put into effect in September, said panelist Steve McGowan, vice president of operations at Easton's MCS Industries, a leading supplier of frames and wall décor to retailers. If tariffs rise to the expected 25 percent rate, a $5 frame will retail for $7.50, he said. "Business will go down," said McGowan. "So we've put expansion of our Easton distribution center on hold and it could be going away."
Most of the levies have yet to kick in, Hofmann said. She expects tariffs on an additional $200 billion in goods to be imposed next year. "Continuing down this track will only lead to more layoffs and higher prices," she said.
Distillers are worried because they have to set price points 12 months out, said panelist Robert Cassell, founder of Philadelphia's Millstone Group, which owns the New Liberty Distiller. "If our supply chain of local grain producers takes a hit and prices rise, we'll have to absorb those costs," he said.
This article contains information from Inquirer wire services.

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Beijing – July 5, 2014 – The CCTV (China Central Television) invited Mr. Edward Lehman, the managing director of Lehman, Lee and Xu, to take part in a CCTV show discussing Anti-corruption drives in China. This discussion covered a range of topics including: how effective President Xi’s current measures are in preventing government corruption, what preconditions need to be met to guarantee the movements success, how the CCDI (Central Commission on Discipline and Inspection) works, how the government will handle future high profile corruption cases and how the current apparatus used in China at the moment compares to anti-corruption efforts in other countries.
Mr. Lehman describes his own experience as an observer in China, watching how the CCDI works in finding and exposing corrupt party officials in specific cases, as well as where he believe the corruption could be stemming from. He goes on to illustrate his thoughts on how China can shape its laws in order to fight corruption appropriately, how corruption in China compares to corruption in the US, what measures could be taken to change the mindset of people as a whole in order to create a positive moral compass as well as how corruption within officials and the measures taken against them compares between China and the US.
To find out more about our firm, please visit our website at www.lehmanlaw.com.


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Just over a week ago, I picked up a new pair of Brooks Pure Connect running shoes. These fall within the "Barefoot" category and Chris at IMPACT magazine had asked if I was interested in testing a pair, for their future Running edition. I was surprised at their weight, or lack of. The box they came in was heavier than the shoes.
The runners I've been using weigh 2 lbs a pair and have the cushioning of a Lazy Boy. The key element I look for in a shoe is comfort. In 2010 I had used shoes from nine different manufactures and 19 different models. When anyone asks what kind of shoe I use I just say 11 neutral. So, holding these featherweights, I wondered what I had let myself in for.
I've been keeping up-to-date on the "Barefoot running" phenomenon. Like millions of other people, I've read "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall. He does a great job telling the story of the Tarahumara Indians, a race of people who live in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. The terrain is savage and they only wear thin leather sandals, but are able to run incredible distances. On the pathways in Calgary, I see a number of runners wearing Vibram's five-fingers or minimalist shoes. To be honest, the closest I've come to barefoot running is at night when I put on my Winnie the Pooh slipper socks.
I took the shoes home and showed Sue. The first thing she said was how she loved the colour. She called them "Corn Flower Blue" and I must admit they are pretty striking. Chris had asked me to test them for a week so I thought I'd better have a plan. The main thing was not to get injured so I started with a 5km easy treadmill run. The shoes fit like a glove but with plenty of room in the toe box. Getting on the treadmill I stared running with my normal gait. It was weird. There's no heel so I was up on the balls of my foot. Afterwards, I was a little sore, but no permanent damage.
The next run was on Saturday morning with members of the Cochrane Red Rock Runners and Tri Club. As we waited to get going I got a number of comments about the colour of the shoes. Definitely a hit. This time I ran 8km on pavement and some gravel pathways. Again some soreness. I still haven't figured out the correct gait for these shoes.
On Sunday I got back on the treadmill and ran 10km. Things started to feel better. I changed my stride to more of a midsole landing and I felt a lot more comfortable. On Tuesday I ran 14km on the pathways in Calgary and really enjoyed the lightness of the shoe.
The final test was on Thursday. A group of us got together for a night run and we headed out on the Cochrane Pathways. I veered off and ran some single track, along the river. I caught a root and a couple of boulders. These shoes don't offer a lot of protection for the toes or for ankle rollovers but I came back no worse for wear.
In summary. Well, it was a huge learning experience for me. The shoes were a perfect fit with no pressure points. The heel area had excellent support while there was ample room in the toe box. The shoes performed well on pavement, gravel and single track trail.
Am I a convert to "Barefoot running"? Well let's just say I'm taking it one step at a time.
Brooks Pure Connect: Ready for the off.
A week ago Sue and I headed up to Edmonton. I had an appointment with Michael Jorgensen of Myth Merchant Films. Michael had been one of the producers I had made a pitch to at the Alberta Write Stuff Workshop. He talked about his current project, a documentary about a man going back to Vietnam. We talked about Marathon Quest 250 and Quest for Kids. Michael then introduced his "Story" equation.
He noted that Marathon Quest 250 has a strong character, the Quest was now completed and the stakes were physical damage and trying to hit the fundraising target.
Looking at Quest for Kids. He said that it has a strong character; Quests are on going, there is a physical challenge and there is a need to have the funds focused on a specific group or groups.
We then discussed the "The 10th Quest". We kicked around a number of ideas like run the seven deserts on the seven continents. I brought up the idea of running around the coast of Great Britain in 2014. Michael suggested we tie it into a significant event in 2014 that links a great explorer. There has to be a time component and the funds raised must be linked to a specific town or village in Africa.
The idea would be to rekindle the British spirit of perseverance, effort, and sacrifice. Terryanne, my mother-in-law, calls me "The Brit with Grit". I think it should be a cross between Sir Edmund Hilary and Karl Pilkington.
Sue came up with the idea of running from Cairo to the village I played table tennis at in Ethiopia.
The Saturday morning runners came up with the idea of running across the Sahara on snowshoes.
If anyone's got a crazy idea for "The 10th Quest" please send it along.
What will be "The 10th Quest"?
Last Saturday night Sue and I went to our first ever Lacrosse game , the Calgary Roughnecks vs the Edmonton Rush. There we met Scott Cable. Scott was on the Netball Quest 61 team that, in September 2011, set a new Guinness World Record for the longest marathon of netball played. I had chatted with Scott during the 61 hours we had been on the court and he had told me about his love of Lacrosse.
Scott and his brother Shawn run a company "Hotbox Lacrosse" which sells lacrosse apparel and he said that they would be interested in working with me on a Guinness World Record for the longest indoor Lacrosse Game. In the fall of 2011, I contacted Guinness in London and found out that there had never been an indoor record set and that we would have to play a minimum of 24 hours to set the record. I had told Scott that I had never played Lacrosse but I would be willing to learn.
But before I play a game I want to know the history of the sport. Scott has a video on his website and this is what I learned.
Modern day lacrosse descends from and resembles games played by various native America communities. These include games called dehuntshigwa'es in Onondaga ("men hit a rounded object"), da-nah-wah'uwsdi in Eastern Cherokee ("little war"), Tewaarathon in Mohawk language ("little brother of war"), baaga`adowe in Ojibwe ("bump hips") and kabocha-toli in Choctow language ("stick-ball").
Lacrosse is one of the oldest team sports in North America. There is evidence that a version of lacrosse originated in Mesoamerica or Canada early as the 17th century. Native American lacrosse was played throughout modern Canada but was most popular around the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic seaboard and American South.
Traditional lacrosse games were sometimes major events that could last several days. As many as 100 to 1,000 men from opposing villages or tribes would participate. The games were played in open plains located between the two villages, and the goals could range from 500 yards (460 m) to several miles apart.
Rules for these games were decided on the day before. Generally there was no out-of-bounds, and the ball could not be touched with the hands. The goals would be selected as large rocks or trees; in later years wooden posts were used. Playing time was often from sun up until sun down.
The game began with the ball being tossed into the air and the two sides rushing to catch it. Because of the large number of players involved, these games generally tended to involve a huge mob of players swarming the ball and slowly moving across the field. Passing the ball was thought of as a trick, and it was seen as cowardly to dodge an opponent.
The medicine men acted as coaches, and the women of the tribe were usually limited to serving refreshments to the players (There was also a women's version of lacrosse called amtahcha, which used much shorter sticks with larger heads).
Lacrosse traditionally had many different purposes. Some games were played to settle inter-tribal disputes. This function was essential to keeping the Six Nations of the Iroquois together. Lacrosse was also played to toughen young warriors for combat, for recreation, as part of festivals, and for the bets involved. Finally, lacrosse was played for religious reasons: "for the pleasure of the Creator" and to collectively pray for something.
In future Blogs I'll talk about Lacrosse Quest 24 and my up coming, week long, "Lacrosse Boot Camp" at Springbank School. Oh, Calgary beat Edmonton 12 -8.
I'm afraid of three things, the Black Widow spider, Giant Killer jelly fish and English grammar. I remember many moons ago sitting at a wooden desk, in grade 3, as the teacher slowly marched up and down the classroom reading out the daily list of twenty spelling words.
My spell checker shows no problem with the contents but clearly its rubbish (but fun).
Last fall, I signed up as a Substitute Resource Assistant for the Rocky View Schools Division. I've been in a number of times to help out and in mid February I received a call from a local Cochrane School. I've very much enjoyed working with the kids and giving help wherever possible. I have no problems with quadratic equations, the periodic table or the history of the First World War, however I ran into trouble with a Grade 4 English class.
The teacher asked me to mark a punctuation exercise: linking adverbs to verbs. Cold beads of sweat started to form on my forehead and my heart rate hit 160. Fortunately, the teacher had marked several pages so I managed to figure out the rest of the answers. That was a close call.
Then a week ago, I received the edited manuscript of "Marathon Quest" from Meaghan Craven. Meaghan has been retained, as editor, by Rocky Mountain Books and I have been working closely with her for the past two months. There's still lots of work to do on the document but luckily, I have my "Grammar Queen", Sue. She helps me sort out my colon from semi-colon and limits my run-on sentences.
I've now decided to take control of the situation. This morning, I ordered Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. This is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss the former host of the BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English Language by mixing humour and instruction.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received nearly 89 percent of the vote in the election. The president [Bush] called Mubarak on September 10 to congratulate him and to say he looks forward to continuing to work with him, according to the White House statement.
The US derided Syria's Bashar al-Assad overnight for claiming to have won a second seven-year mandate as president in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.
"I think it's pretty hard to suggest that any kind of election can be free, fair or credible when you've only got one candidate and that candidate receives about 98 per cent of the vote," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey.
George W. Bush was quick to congratulate Mubarak on his election victory, even though only 23 percent of Egypt's 32 million registered voters (out of a population of some 75 million people) turned out to cast their ballots -- a fact that, in other countries, would likely be seen as weakening the winner's sense of a mandate.
"Given the rate of abstention, plus expressions of concerns by prominent Venezuelans, we would see that this reflects a broad lack of confidence in the impartiality and transparency of the electoral process, which is worth noting," State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.
As Noam Chomsky has said (with characteristic insight), the U.S. judges elections not by process but by outcome. If the candidate backed by Washington wins, the election is by definition free and fair regardless of the process--and vice versa.
Oddly, the more that a candidate is willing (and in Mubarak's case, eager) to use the powers of his brutal police state to do the U.S.'s bidding, the freer and fairer his election becomes.

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Here’s a full transcript of the first episode of Shedunnit. Click here to listen to it now in your app of choice.
Caroline: Every age has had a different way of describing a woman who exists alone, rather than as part of a couple. Today, she might just call herself “single”, but at different times in the past people might have referred to her, often with contempt, as an “old maid”, a “bachelor girl”, a “spinster”, or a “singleton”.
For most of history, this has been considered to be a pitiful state, against the natural order of things, as if a woman without a man — because until the very recent past it would have been thought that it was a man she needed, of course — was somehow incomplete and lesser.
After the First World War, there was a great flowering of female independence as more women chose to live single lives. This change, and the backlash to it, is all there to be found in the murder mysteries of the period, if you just dig a little below the surface. From self-contained, professional women like Mary Whittaker in Dorothy L Sayers’ Unnatural Death to dear, fluffy Miss Marple, there are a multitude of single women’s lives to discover.
But let’s go back to the beginning. This particular story starts with the surplus women.
Welcome to Shedunnit. I’m Caroline Crampton.
In 1921, the British government published the results of a census. It recorded that there were just over 44 million people in total in the country, an increase of around two million from a decade before, despite the loss of life during the First World War. The figure that attracted the most attention at the time, though, was a striking disparity between the numbers of men and women. For every 1,000 men, there were 1,100 women, or “an excess that amounts to 1,906,284”, as one newspaper put it at the time.
At this point, the First World War had been over for three years. 700,000 British men had been killed. The casualties were disproportionately young, unmarried and from the middle or upper classes. Another 250,000 people in the UK died in the global Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919. In the decades before the 1920s, there had been campaigns luring young unmarried men to emigrate to British colonies like Australia and India with promises of far greater wealth and luxury than could be obtained by staying at home.
Given all of this, it shouldn’t have been very surprising that in 1921 the country contained more women than men. Many women found themselves single either because fiancés and sweethearts had died in the trenches, or just because all the casualties meant that there was no one left in their circle to pair up with. Some characterised these women as ‘imaginary widows’, unmarried yet mourning the husbands they should have had. A socialite named Isie Russell Stephenson, whose husband died in 1918 from his war injuries, recalled many years later how she went to a party in 1919 and thought it was a women-only affair until she spotted a single suit among all the evening frocks. “It was as if ever man you had ever danced with was dead,” she said.
Helen Parkinson’s great aunt, Mary Shallcross, was another woman who lost the man she might have married to the war.
Helen: Certainly not affianced or anything like that but somebody she was fond of, and then that’s it. She led a solitary life other than being ‘aunty’ and things after that.
Caroline: Mary was a factory worker who worked variously in munitions and confectionary plants throughout her life. She never married, or to Helen’s knowledge even came close.
Helen: She was very shy. I would imagine if the pool of available men was much reduced there’d be other people possibly her younger sister, thinking about it, who’d be better at nabbing what was left.
But for all that she’d lost someone important to her, Mary was happy — at least as far as Helen knows she was.
Helen: She was actually she took content in small things. Because my granny certainly ran round my grandad all her life doing exactly what he wanted. So maybe Auntie Mary was quite glad she didn’t have to.
Mary Shallcross was just one of thousands of women who found their circumstances irrevocably altered by the First World War, but refused to give into spinsterhood and despair. Yet even before the 1921 census confirmed Britain’s gender disparity, the plight of those like her had become the focus of much outrage and indignation.
A medical doctor named Murray Leslie had given a widely-reported lecture to the London Institute of Hygiene in February 1920, in which he warned that women would soon be scrapping like cats over “the scared and elusive male”. This in turn would lead to a lowering of moral standards, more infidelity and clandestine sexual relationships — which in his view, would result in a national crisis. Reporting on his talk, a Leeds Mercury newspaper writer linked Britain’s post-war economic depression directly to the terrible behaviour caused by the mere existence of these extra females. “No wonder the value of the pound has become so depreciated abroad,” he mourned.
Of course, women wrote in to these newspapers, often anonymously, to point out that they were, in fact, also human beings with a right to their own lives. In response, men penned opinion pieces proposing solutions to this supposed problem such as increased female emigration, and special care for that scarce commodity, male infants.
Throughout all of this fuss, one phrase was repeated more than any other. Surplus women.
Rosemary: The phrase surplus women came about in the press in the early 1920s in response to the 1921 census.
Caroline: This is Rosemary Cresswell, a senior lecturer in global history at the University of Hull.
It isn’t just as simple as to say that the First World War unbalanced the population, she says.
Rosemary: The trend in there being more women than men in British society goes back to the Victorian and the Edwardian period and some factors around that are emigration to Empire but also that infant mortality was higher amongst boys than amongst girls.
Caroline: The reductive idea that everyone in the nation was supposed to pair off, boy girl, boy girl, is fraught with problems — not least because not everyone is straight. Male homosexuality was a criminal offence at this point in history, although of course gay and lesbian people existed and had relationships in spite of prejudice and the need for secrecy. Part of the reaction against the so-called surplus women is connected to this, as women would often set up house with their female friends, causing alarm among those who hated the idea that they might love each other, rather than a man. We’re going to talk much more detail about how the private lives of queer people find their way into detective stories in a future episode, so listen out for that.
Rosemary Cresswell first started researching the surplus women as part of her work on the Overseas Nursing Association, an agency that recruited British nurses who wanted to work abroad. Large numbers of women were applying to do this in the early 1920s, a trend that could well be a result of so-called surplus women wanting to seek their fortune abroad, as an alternative to remaining in a Britain that regarded them superfluous.
Rosemary: I would think there if they did want to marry and hadn’t found somebody in Britain, there would be this awareness that there’s more men — more choice in Empire. But also I think it is an adventure to go overseas so there’s more to it I think than just seeking marriage. I think it’s about independence, autonomy, a different lifestyle to that which you had had in Britain.
Caroline: During the First World War, the number of women in the workforce had increased by nearly a million. Women had stepped into traditional male roles in factories, on farms, in hospitals, and in offices, and many had found it to their liking. In 1918, British women received partial suffrage for the first time, when the Representation of the People Act gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met certain minimum property standards. When the war was over and there was pressure to step aside so that returning soldiers could have their jobs back, many women were reluctant to relinquish the independence and autonomy that their new working lives had provided. Being labelled as “surplus” was just an additional insult, along with the lack of equal pay or proper pension provision.
Rosemary: If you got married and you were a teacher, for example, then you would have to leave your job. This was a trend that started after the first world war, because there were men coming back with demobilisation who needed employment, so there was much more emphasis that women could not work if they got married. So if people wanted a career, if they wanted to be a teacher and become a headteacher, if they wanted to be in nursing and become a matron and progress up, then it could be a choice not to get married and in the civil service it was the same as well. It was legal to do this at that time, to force women to resign their job if they married.
Caroline: In many cases, these marriage bars were informal — just an unspoken understanding that married women wouldn’t work, as opposed to an actual rule or law. It worked though: 90 per cent of women gave up their jobs when they got married. If you were someone who wanted a career, therefore, it was in your interests to remain unattached.
It’s always been the case that women with any degree of power or autonomy become objects to be feared or dismissed as “unnatural”, and the scaremongering in the 1920s around the idea of “surplus women” only exacerbated this existing prejudice. There are plenty of examples from other literature of the time — Vera Brittain, who had lost her fiancé in the war, wrote a poem titled “The Superfluous Woman”, in which she described them as “ghosts crying down the vistas of the years”. Her friend Winifred Holtby, another post-war single woman with whom Brittain lived, wrote several novels with characters who struggled with the loneliness and futility of their lives. There are loads more works like this too, and together they suggest that Britain was stuffed full of maiden aunts, a tragic lost generation of British womanhood.
This literary stereotype of the spinster is one manifestation of the many ways in which independent women have been stigmatised down the years. Even as society has become more tolerant and fair, that caricature remains.
Camilla: I know that we’ve tried to retrieve spinster as a word to try and sort of flip it on its head but it still it retains that kind of connotation. To me it’s a pernicious kind of a word. . . It’s a word that’s hard to reclaim.
Caroline: This is Camilla Nelson, an associate professor of writing at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She’s made a study of all the ways in which single women are portrayed in literature. And she’s found that some of the most sympathetic and positive versions exist in the detective novels of the 1920s and 30s.
Camilla: What’s wonderful about many of those stories like Miss Marple or Miss Lemon or Miss Climpson is that they’re stories about women who are leading full and satisfying lives, who are working, who aren’t reliant on men, who are characters in novels who aren’t just sort of a satellite of the male character or a conduit to their husband, and who are leading full lives which are separated or divorced from marriage and romance.
Caroline: In her 1927 novel Unnatural Death, Dorothy L Sayers explicitly addresses this notion of the surplus women. In chapter three, which is entitled “A Use for Spinsters”, her aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, invites his Scotland Yard chum Inspector Parker to visit a “little flat in Pimlico” with him, where there’s a woman Wimsey wants him to meet. Parker, surely a proxy for the 1920s reader here, immediately jumps to the conclusion that this is Wimsey’s lower-class mistress, housed at a comfortable distance from the luxury of Piccadilly for his lordship’s convenience.
Sayers then pulls the rug out from under us by introducing the woman herself — a single middle aged woman called Miss Climpson, who Wimsey is employing as a kind of private enquiry agent. “She is my ears and tongue and especially my nose,” he declares to his friend. Although Miss Climpson is very smart and sharp, she is very good at giving the impression that she’s merely a gossipy middle aged lady. As a result, if Wimsey sends her in to a delicate situation to ask questions, it doesn’t arouse suspicion the way a man doing the same would. More than that, it’s expected that she will be nosy. He’s taking advantage of the way society looks down on her — it’s like she’s in permanent disguise. For Miss Climpson, being a spinster is a kind of superpower.
Wimsey congratulates himself on having found this “use for spinsters” as stealthy private detectives. The nation should erect a statue to him, he says, with an inscription that reads “To the Man who Made Thousands of Superfluous Women Happy without Injury to their Modesty or Exertion to Himself”. In subsequent Sayers novels like Strong Poison, Miss Climpson appears as the head of a bureau of surplus women, who are deployed by Wimsey in roles like secretaries, companions, nurses and governesses in ways that will help solve his cases.
What makes the novels of Dorothy L Sayers stand out particularly in this regard, I think, is the wide variety of single woman characters she includes in her plots. They’re not just maiden aunts or elderly companions, but academics, nurses, socialites and revolutionaries. Her spinsters are real people, beyond the negative stereotype of a shabby, grumpy old maid.
Camilla: I think that what makes her Miss Marple a stand-out is that she’s pink cardigan on the outside but she’s got a mind like a steel trap and the men in the books around her actually respect her. The policemen defer to her. The policemen can tell that she is a woman who is intelligent, who is rational, who is not hysterical who doesn’t imagine things which makes her an interesting, quite a unique character particularly for that for that period where more usually a spinster character is a prattling character or is a sour or desiccated character.
Caroline: In creating Miss Marple, Christie turned all of the unfavourable assumptions about spinsters on their head. Miss Marple is very nosy and gossipy, and deeply interested in the lives of her servants and everyone in her village. But in these novels that’s a good thing — she cares about people and is empathetic. Again and again in the books, she finds the solution to the puzzle when nobody else does because she pays attention to tiny domestic details like the toppings of a trifle, or how a curtain was hung. Because she’s so involved in the village life of St Mary Mead, there’s not much about human nature that she doesn’t know.
Both Sayers and Christie lived relatively unconventional lives for women of their period. In her 20s, Sayers had affairs with men she didn’t marry, and even had a child out of wedlock. She later married a divorced man and continued to work full time as a copywriter and author. Christie got married to her first husband in 1914, but divorced in 1928 after he was unfaithful to her. She later went travelling in the Middle East on her own, eventually marrying an archeologist who was 14 years younger than her. These experiences made their single women characters more nuanced, Camilla Nelson says.
Camilla: You wonder if the life experience of writers like Christie was divorced or Dorothy Sayers as well for her Miss Climpson and that she married much later in life and of course she worked as an advertising copywriter and you wonder if that struggle of doing a job and living a life and wanting to live a full life really comes through in that fiction. I do think that if Agatha Christie hadn’t divorced that maybe Miss Marple may not have grown in the way that she did.
Caroline: We might like to think that today’s society is free of prejudice towards single women, but it isn’t quite that simple.
Camilla: What’s interesting about some of these characters is that when they’ve been adapted to television recently — Miss Marple, ITV gave her a romantic backstory which I think was was ludicrous because it sort of ruined the character but it’s almost like the way we think about story and plots seems to involve the way you round out a female character seems to be that you marry them or you make them unhappy in love.
Caroline: We might not talk about “surplus women” anymore, but society still struggles sometimes with viewing single women as whole beings, independent and self sufficient. Single friends who have travelled in more remote parts of the world have told me that it’s sometimes easier to wear a fake wedding ring than face endless questions about their lack of a husband. Female celebrities are still asked about their love lives and their children in a way that men rarely are. Unmarried women are still asked by relatives and colleagues when they’re going to ‘settle down’.
Perhaps there are still spinster sleuths among us, even now.
This episode of Shedunnit was written, narrated, and produced by me, Caroline Crampton. My thanks to Rosemary Cresswell, Camilla Nelson and Helen Parkinson for their contributions. For more information about the subjects discussed and links to all the books mentioned, visit shedunnitshow.com/surpluswomen, where you can also find a full transcript. If you enjoy the podcast and you’d like to do me a good turn, consider telling a friend who likes mystery stories about it, whether that’s in person or on social media. You could also tell a stranger by leaving a review on iTunes. I’ll be back in two weeks with another episode, so make sure you’re subscribed.
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It’s hard to keep up with Zara’s sell-out items considering that most of its chic designs become an instant hit among women around the world.
However, one item we certainly haven’t forgotten is the corduroy jacket we were all desperate to get our hands late last year. And we’ve got great news: it’s in stock again.
The Spanish retailer has brought the popular jacket – which sold out completely during its first production run – back to stores and its website, in three new colourways that are perfect for the spring months ahead.
The oversized collared jacket has long sleeves and features chest flap pockets, welt pockets on the waist, a frayed hem and metal button fastening in the front. Priced at just £29.99, it is not only purse-friendly but can be thrown on with almost any outfit for a little extra edge.
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Amidar is an arcade game programmed by Konami and published in 1981 by Stern. Its basic format is similar to that of Pac-Man: the player moves around a fixed rectilinear lattice, attempting to visit each location on the board while avoiding the enemies. When each spot has been visited, the player moves to the next level.
The game and its name have their roots in the Japanese lot drawing game Amidakuji. The bonus level in Amidar is a nearly exact replication of an Amidakuji game and the way the enemies move conform to the Amidakuji rules - this is referred to in the attract sequence as 'Amidar movement'.
As in Pac-Man, the player is opposed by enemies who kill on contact. The enemies gradually increase in number as the player advances from one level to the next, and their speed also increases. On odd-numbered levels, the player controls an ape (in some versions labeled 'Copier'), and must collect coconuts while avoiding headhunters (labeled 'Police' and 'Thief'). On even-numbered levels, the player controls a paint roller (labeled 'Rustler'), and must paint over each spot of the board while avoiding pigs (labeled 'Cattle' and 'Thief'). Each level is followed by a short bonus stage.
Whenever a rectangular portion of the board is cleared (either by collecting all surrounding coconuts, or painting all surrounding edges), the rectangle is colored in, and in the even levels, bonus points are awarded (In odd-numbered levels, the player collects points for each coconut eaten). This leads to some comparisons with the popular and influential Qix, although the similarities between these games are superficial at best. When the player clears all four corners of the board, he is briefly empowered to kill the enemies by touching them (just as when Pac-Man uses a 'power pill'). Enemies killed in this way fall to the bottom of the screen and revitalise themselves after a few moments.
The game controls consist of a joystick and a single button labeled 'Jump,' which can be used up to three times, resetting after a level is cleared or the player loses a life. Unusually, pressing the jump button does not cause the player to jump, but causes all the enemies to jump, enabling the player to walk under them.
A simplified version of Amidar was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. This was the only official port but as with most arcade games of the time, there were many unofficial clones for home computers including Acornsoft's Crazy Tracer (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron), Microdeal's Cuthbert Goes Walkabout (Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 CoCo, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family), Llamasoft's Traxx (Vic-20, ZX Spectrum), Superior Software's Crazy Painter (BBC Micro), Gapper and Rollo And The Brush Bros (DOS), and FunSoft's Time Runner (multiple platforms). A clone of this game was released for the Atari 2600, entitled Spiderdroid.

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Our six delegates and another 400 members enjoyed a morale raising and optimistic Regional Conference. Over here we can lose sight of the strength and quality of MPs and speakers we have in Yorkshire.
Keynote speaker was John Trickett MP for Hemsworth who is in charge of the Party’s preparations for the next election. The next manifesto will include £10 an hour minimum wage, legislation on TU rights, refinancing the public sector, an end to privatisation of the NHS, funding for municipal socialism, deveolved power s for the North.
Rachael Maskell MP for York Central confirmed the commitment to nationalise the rail system and added a commitment to give control of bus transport back to local authorities, a national walking and cycling strategy and a review of freight transport to get a shift from road to rail.
John Grogan MP for Keighley said a devolved Yorkshire should be run by a cabinet of Council Leaders. Judith Blake Leader of Leeds Council said it was wrong for George Osborn to present himself as champion of the Northern Powerhouse. It was after all John Prescott who first proposed and then championed the idea. Richard Corbett and Linda McAvan MEPs and Paul Blomfield Shadow Brexit Minister spoke on Brexit. See Linda’s report.
Other speakers Melanie Onn MP for Grimsby, John Healey Shadow Housing Minister, Loiuise Haigh Shadow Police Minister, Emma Hardy MP for Hull West, Bill Adams TUC, Mark Burns-Williamson West Yorkshire PCC, Joanne Thomas USDAW, Alex Sobel MP for Leeds North West, Thelma Walker MP for Colne Valley. A rousing speech from Richard Burgon Shadow Secretary of State for Justice brought Conference to a close.


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Mangochi North-East MP, Alfred Mwechumu (independent), has charged that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will never come back to power.
Mwechumu, speaking in Parliament, said Malawians will never forget the type of leadership they were subjected to during the late Bingu wa Mutharika and DPP rule.
He said the eight years DPP was in power, Malawians were being ruled by “liars”.
Citing examples “to some of the exaggerations”, he asked: “Didn’t the DPP-led government lie that a barge would dock at Nsanje? Did that barge dock?
The Speaker – a former secondary school head teacher – guided Mwechumu to construct the same sentence and ask a rhetoric question and say; “didn’t the DPP-led government inform the nation that Malawi is second to Qatar”?
Apparently, DPP presidential candidate in 2014 in late Mutharika’s brother, Peter, who has been living outside the country for many years.
Leader of DPP in the House, George Chaponda said Mwechumu was out of order to talk about lying on the transfer of the sickness of the late President to Johannesburg.


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Peel the carrots and cut of the ends. Now cut each of them lengthwise into four pieces.
Beat the egg, add water and mix thoroughly.
Dip the carrot sticks in the beaten egg and then roll them in the parmesan.
Place them on an oven tray and bake for 15 minutes at 390 °F.
Mix the mayonnaise and chili sauce together to make the dip.
It only takes a few minutes to whip up some of these healthy treats and chances are your family and friends will agree that they're a lot yummier than chips or pretzels. A great idea for your next barbecue or movie night!


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Find your perfect home at 300 North Lamar where convenience and relaxation are number one priority! Steps from Town Lake, Downtown Austin, and Whole Foods, your fully furnished apartment creates the ultimate corporate housing experience. Located in central Austin, everything is within walking distance. Enjoy Austin’s finest restaurants, shopping, and live music right outside your door.
Centrally located, 300 North Lamar is steps from Downtown Austin, Whole Foods, Town Lake, and everything Austin has to offer. Eliminate your commute and enjoy a relaxing stay!


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Carlson Rezidor Hotel has announced the Park Inn by Radisson Residence Dubai Jumeirah Village Triangle.
The property featuring 261 studios and apartments is scheduled to open in quarter two of 2017.
It brings Carlson Rezidor’s portfolio in Dubai to 14 hotels with around 3,300 rooms in operation and under development.
“Dubai remains one of our most important markets in the Middle East.
“The country is performing at high levels and gearing towards mega events such as World Expo 2020 which will further drive demand for internationally branded hotel rooms and serviced apartments”, said Wolfgang Neumann, president of Rezidor.
“We are delighted to introduce this project – situated in the upcoming area of Jumeirah Village Triangle – together with our partner Aqua Properties,” continued Neumann.
The Park Inn by Radisson Residence Dubai Jumeirah Village Triangle will enjoy a strategic location on Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Road; allowing for easy access to all key areas of the city.
The hotel will be a twenty nine-storey construction comprising 261 studios, one and two bedroom apartments.
Guests will benefit from a contemporary lifestyle ambiance and state-of-the-art amenities including an outdoor pool, fitness centre, and a multi-purpose meeting room.
Dining outlets will include an all-day dining, a lobby lounge and a gourmet pantry.
“We are delighted to be entering into a partnership with Rezidor whose vast experience and international expertise, as well as their growth in the UAE, will ensure the success of this new project.
“The signing of the new property in Dubai is the beginning of a progressive partnership, and we look forward to delivering the best quality in design, construction and finishing”, said Ali Tumbi, chief executive, Aqua Properties.
Park Inn by Radisson is Carlson Rezidor’s core brand within the midmarket segment.
Currently being refreshed as a young, dynamic and colourful brand Park Inn by Radisson targets the growing clientele of Gen X and Gen Y.
Based on the three strong pillars Choice – Connectivity – Control Park Inn by Radisson hotels and residences offer a warm welcome, a personalised and hassle free stay, and innovative services for business and leisure travellers alike.


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ভারতের শীর্ষস্থানীয় হাসপাতাল এবং শীর্ষ সার্জনদের সঙ্গে নাক সার্জারির খরচ কত?
আমি কিভাবে জানি না যে আমি নাস সার্জারি পদ্ধতির জন্য ভাল প্রার্থী?
কেন নাক সার্জারি অপ্টিমাইজ করা প্রয়োজন?
কেন আপনার নাক সার্জারি জন্য একটি ভারতীয় হাসপাতাল চয়ন করুন?
গত 5 বছরে কতজন রোগীর ভারতে নাস সার্জারি হয়েছে?
“Rhinoplasty” comes from Greek words that mean Nose and Shaping. (Think of rhinoceros and plastic.) It’s a type of facial plastic surgery that can remove the hump on a nose or a bulb from the end of it, change the overall shape, increase or reduce the size, correct an injury or a birth defect, narrow the width of the nostrils, and sometimes open the breathing passages to increase ease of breathing.
The procedure takes anywhere from 1 to 3 hours, depending on what exactly is being done. It’s usually an outpatient procedure done under general anesthesia.
If you decide you want rhinoplasty nose surgery done, be sure and talk to your plastic surgeon in detail about what you expect or hope for, and listen to his advice as to what he thinks is possible. Your doctor will assess your whole face, your skin and bone structure, and factoring in your age and hopes, will explain what he can do. Be sure you understand what the plan is, the risks of this surgery, and how you can optimize your recovery time. Your plastic surgeon will tell you how to get ready and will advise you as to food, smoking, medications and vitamins, and cleaning your face.
How Is A Rhinoplasty Nose Surgery Done?
Your doctor will choose either a closed procedure or an open one, depending on what needs to be done. Those terms refer to where he makes the incision. In a closed procedure, the incisions will be inside the nostrils and in an open one an additional incision will be made across the columella (the little strip of flesh between the nostrils). Discuss with your doctor about the different approaches and you and he will decide which one is best for you.
Most patients are able to return to work after a week. You will have nasal stuffiness for several weeks, but most of the pain will be gone after several days. Most of the bruising and swelling will subside after 2-3 weeks. It takes a full year for all of the swelling to resolve and for you to see the final result, but you should see a significant change in your nasal appearance after one week.
Will There Be A Scar After A Rhinoplasty?
The only visible scar is the additional one used with the open approach; however, it is usually hardly visible after a short period of healing.
What Complications Could Arise With A Rhinoplasty Nose Surgery?
The complications associated with rhinoplasty are similar to those associated with any surgery: infection, bleeding and abnormal scarring. In addition, specific risks include numbness of the nasal skin, development of small blood vessels around the nose and a nasal contour that you may not be totally happy with.
When will the cast be taken off and does this hurt?
The cast is removed approximately 7 days post-operatively. You may feel a slight stiffness in the upper lift as the swelling “moves downward”. This will subside in a matter of hours. you must be very careful not to bump it as it is vulnerable to breakage. It isn’t a bone china figurine but it isn’t as strong as your nose was before the rhinoplasty either. Don’t worry, the bones will completely mend within 2 months. If you had a rhinoplasty where the nostrils were narrowed (in the case of flared nostrils) your sutures will get absorbed.
The nose will be very sensitive for approximately a month and a half. The patient will start to see a difference immediately but it will still be swollen. The swelling starts to generally disappear about a week after the cast is removed. Approximately 80% of the swelling and 100% of the discoloration are usually gone by 2 weeks after surgery. 90% of the swelling is gone by two months after surgery and the rest slowly disappears over the next year. Although the nose is still swollen after the first month, most people would not recognize this fact. The patient will not notice this swelling. Instead the patient will notice that the nose becomes more refined with better definition over the first year. The inside of the nose may be swollen for approximately three weeks after the surgery. Nasal breathing may be difficult during this time. If surgery is performed to straighten the nasal septum, an improvement in breathing will be appreciated at about 3 weeks.
I have to get my cast off soon and wanted to know if it is going to hurt? Is there anything I can do beforehand?
Most patients report a little tenderness when the cast is removed, but if your surgeon uses a cotton swab saturated with alcohol to help remove the adhesive from the tape and glue you should be okay. Although it really shouldn’t cause you great discomfort. The sutures that may be removed may hurt when someone else removes it due to them not actually being able to tell when they are hurting you. They also may snip your flesh slightly when the scissors are used to cut the actual suture. This isn’t as rare as it as it should be and solely depends upon the surgeon’s meticulous nature.

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After having to look this up a couple of times now, I figured I’d share my approach. While you currently can’t technically style previous sibling elements, I’ve figured out a pretty handy workaround.
Suppose you have a progress bar with steps that you want to style. You want the active step to be highlighted and all the steps before it as well (to denote that those steps are completed). Prettying up the active step is easy, but how do you handle the previous steps? You actually style the previous steps by styling the following steps.
Let me show you what I mean….
First, let’s get our step navigation built and styled.
The HTML is simply an unordered list with five list items – the first of which has an “active” class. The line between them is actually one solid line that goes behind all of the steps, added using the CSS “:before” pseudo-element and positioning it in place.
Now that the HTML and basic CSS are in place, we can think about how to style the active and completed steps.
You could change the active class of these steps in many different ways, but I’m going to keep it simple for this example.
When you click on one of the steps, the “active” class is removed from all of them and then re-added to the one that was clicked.
Again, you could change this class position in many, many different ways, but I’m trying to keep it simple.
Here’s the real secret to this whole process: you actually need to style the steps following the “active” step, not the previous ones.
Using the “~” sibling selector, we can style all the elements after the “active” element. All we need to do is style ALL of the elements as though they’re active, and then go back and style all the elements after the “active” one as though they are the normal state.
This is exactly what I did (although a bit more complex) with my CSS-only star rating pen.


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Omonyono is located in Bukedea in the North Eastern part of Uganda; this community has over 112 households that have had to walk up to 3km to a borehole in the neighboring community to fetch water. This resulted in many of the community members having to abandon their other duties to go and line up for water.
This well has been very timely for the Omonyono community, and will bring clean drinking water to over 1,000 people.
Thank you to the Sahara Warriors for funding the Omonyono Well.

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Have you heard of AMP? It stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, and in this post, I’m going to show you how you can add this feature to your WordPress blog using a simple plugin and a few tweaks of some settings.
Now I’m writing this post for three reasons.
One, to help out a very good friend of mine who recently asked for some advice about this.
Two, for anyone else who is looking for clear-cut plain English instructions on doing this without losing their marbles.
Before I start, here’s a quick rant about what AMP actually is, and why it’s important for bloggers and especially owners of news blogs to have this set up properly.
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, and it’s a concept that Google has been pushing out for some time now in their continued efforts to make mobile friendly search top priority.
To make it very simple for anyone to understand AMP, it was designed to make web pages load almost instantly when searched for and viewed on mobile devices.
What visitors will actually see is a completely deconstructed version of a web page, without styling or much in the way of design.
This is, of course, to allow for fast loading, where just the content and featured image is visible.
If you run a news blog, or if you have a blog full stop, it’s imperative that you have AMP set up correctly, especially if you want to play by Google’s rules in the future and ensure your content has priority in mobile search.
Now from what I’ve read elsewhere online through various forums, and from what I already know, AMP isn’t enabled in every country as of yet.
Whether that’s true or not, I can’t tell you. Personally, though, I haven’t noticed anything here in the UK using mobile search… Yet.
In any case, if it isn’t available yet in all countries, there’s no doubt in my mind that Google will be making this the case in the coming months when they roll out their latest updates.
You can learn more about AMP here.
OK so enough chatter from me, here’s how to ensure AMP is correctly setup on your WordPress blog, the easiest way possible, step-by-step.
Quick note: I just want to quickly remind you that for this to work, I’ll assume you have the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin already installed. If you don’t, then the Glue for Yoast plugin obviously won’t work.
Log into your WordPress dashboard and head over to plugins.
Do a search for “amp”. When you see the AMP plugin by Automattic, hit the install button, then activate the plugin.
Now go back to plugins and hit add new again, then do a search for “Yoast amp”.
When you see the Glue for Yoast SEO and AMP plugin, hit the install button, then activate button.
Head over to Yoast > AMP and first select what post types you’d like to apply AMP to.
By default, you’ll notice that “posts” is automatically enabled. This is all you need for your blog, unless you’d like other post types enabled, such as your pages.
Once you’re done, hit save changes.
Click on the design tab to style how your AMP pages will appear on mobile devices.
Here you can upload an icon that’s 32 x 32 px in size.
You’re able to add a default image of 696 px wide for posts that don’t have a featured image.
You’re also able to change the header color, content text colors, link colors, apply custom CSS and more.
Play around with the customizer until you find a perfect match to your blog’s identity.
To find the hex color codes of your website, use something like Photoscape. Or, if you’re on a Mac computer, the Colour Picker app is very useful.
Once you’re done customizing, hit save changes and you’re done. You’ve set up AMP in your WordPress blog!
Now go and visit one of your blog posts, then add /amp/ at the end of the URL string to see what your post will look like.
For example, if you were to add /amp/ at the end of the URL for this exact post, you should see something that looks like the screen shot below.
This is what your visitors will see when they click on an AMP supported page on your site, via mobile search.
You don’t need to add Analytics tracking code if you already use the Monster Insights Plugin, tracking will automatically take place (apparently).
Ensure you have Yoast SEO installed.
Install and activate AMP plugin by Automattic.
Install and activate Glue for Yoast plugin.
Configure types of posts you’d like to apply Amp to on your site.
Add some style to your Amp pages using the built in design tool in Glue for Yoast plugin.
If you want to stay on the safe side of Google’s rule book, do this immediately before the updates occur.
There’s been plenty of warnings from Google, and from people talking about this on various Webmaster forums that this is coming, so be prepared, get your site AMPed up.
Don’t forget to log into your Google webmaster console in few days time to check your Accelerated Mobile Pages index and errors reports.
If you get any errors perhaps you can refer to the AMP website for documentation.
As you can see from the image below, when I originally set up AMP for this site, I had a few errors which I had to take care of. Some errors are a lot more complex than others though.
Well, I hope this short tutorial has helped you out in some way. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask me in the comment section below, or send me an email if the comment section is closed.
I’m glad you wrote this post and I want to be sure and personally thank you.
As you know from my recent conversation, I want to stay on top of the changes that Google continues to make and whether or not I use my mobile device to search for content, I know that SO many people do. I don’t think my nieces or nephews have ever gotten on a computer to search for anything, their phones are all they have. Some have tablets now but for the most part it’s just their cells. So I have to step up my game and do what I know is best for me moving forward and that’s making sure that my content will be found on their mobile device and of course load quickly.
Thank you for explaining what this is and how to set it up on our blogs. I was on a webinar last night and they were claiming to have the only plugin available for this which I had a feeling just wasn’t true. Thank you for proving me right.
Enjoy the rest of your week and thanks for all your help.
Hi Adrienne, you’re most welcome, always happy to be as helpful as I can be.
I’m in total agreement with you Adrienne, I much prefer to play by Google’s rules, even though I don’t necessarily cater for them when it comes to my blog writing at times, but search traffic is important for business, no one can deny that.
I hope many more folks get themselves and their blogs prepared in time. All the best Adrienne, and have a great weekend. I know I’m in for a fun filled one with the family.
Great post and simple easy-to-follow tutorial!
I am trying to install this to my blog now but I do have some questions in mind.
1) Will adding so many plugins increase load time on my main blog?
2) Will ads be there in the amp pages?
Hi Swadhin, no worries at all my friend, happy to help. OK so the AMP plugin itself is extremely light weight, almost non existent, it has no settings at all on its own, just a simple plug and play plugin.
The Glue plugin by yoast simply adds a light weight extension to the Yoast SEO plugin which also extends the AMP plugin, i.e. adds customisations option. There should be very minimal difference if any in page loading.
To answer your question two, no there won’t be any ads shown in amp pages, unless they’re placed inside the content pages I suppose. If you’re promoting a product or service and add banner ads inside the content, these will be shown. But any ads in your sidebar, header etc wont be shown.
Looks super simple to do.
In an era of mobile obsession you better speed up your site for phone and tablet consumption.
My developer did the https thingee a month ago. Night day difference on speed for mobile and laptop users, as increased security seemed to keep spammy gremlins out. May have also did something else; I’ve no clue in hell LOL.
Signing off from not so sunny NJ.
Thanks Ryan, glad you found the tutorial super easy. That’s always been my ultimate quest when it comes to the technical side of blogging and stuff, make it darn well simple for folks to follow.
Glad to hear you’re all set up for this too, and as for those spammy Gremlins, well I hope they can sleep at night is all I can say ha ha.
Ain’t much sun here in Cornwall, England either, but I’m sure Summer will make up for that when it eventually arrives ha ha.
I’ve heard bits and pieces about AMP but not looked into it properly. Now, I don’t need to with this easy-to-follow tutorial – thanks!
You’re right, I’m sure Google will start rolling it out worldwide over time so we may as well get rolling with it ourselves now. If the guys at Automattic have developed the AMP plugin then there must be some credibility in the idea.
Have you looked into Facebook Instant Articles yet? I’ve read a little on that, but haven’t installed the necessary plugins yet.
Hey David, absolutely correct, better be safe right?
Thanks for bringing up the Facebook Insights Articles, must look into that one as I’ve not heard much about this. Interesting, will do some research this weekend into it.
Have a good one, Fabrizio.
It was a complete tutorial about AMP, I did’t know about the Icon 32*32, but thanks to you.
Hey Robin, yeah the 32 x 32 icon I guess could be used to give some identity to your site on mobile search. The design tool in Glue for Yoast plugin is a great little feature, even if very basic and light weight.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard of AMP and it sounds promising.
Google already made having a mobile friendly site an indicator of how they your site. I can’t see why not they would add something like this into their future algorithm.
Since I already have half of this set up I’m going ahead to install it.
Thanks Fabrizio for this quick tutorial! Have a good one!
My point being: if you publish new content regularly and have several ways to collect email addresses from your visitors, then go all-in with AMP. If you don’t fall into this category, like if you run an e-commerce with no blog for example, Google AMP pages aren’t something worth trying (at least for now).
Hi Matteo, thank you for your input, very good point made, and thanks for the link.
I have a bunch of static pages on my blog where I have various forms and items for sale through an ecommerce setup. But you’re right, I can’t imagine that every online business will benefit from setting up AMP on their sites, but for bloggers and and news website owners for sure.
We may even see a reverse effect actually, where online businesses and ecommerce websites haven’t considered setting up a blog before, actually making the move to place a blog on their sites. I mean blogging is essential to many businesses right? Mobile search is also important, so I guess some businesses will feel they have no choice but to go with the flow. Who knows huh?
Thanks for stopping by Matteo.
Thanks a lot for this easy-to-foliow AMP setup post. Great job, Fabrizio!


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You will save significantly by buying a set of log furniture versus individual pieces. We have assembled this matching aspen log furniture bedroom set, which will properly furnish any rustic log cabin home with character and distinction.
From Wasatch Silver Creek Series, this Aspen bedroom set includes the traditional Silver Creek log bed, one log nightstand and a choice of a log chest or dresser. In addition to the savings when you purchase this log bedroom set, add extra nightstands, chests, dressers and save even more!
This rustic furniture is made with precision and care and whenever possible Wasatch Designs incorporates the unique history of the wood into the design process.
The vertical pickets give a simple and yet sturdy look to the log bed while the Aspen logs provide character and give the Silver Creek bed a rustic appearance.
Each piece of rustic log furniture in the Silver Creek line has fully captured drawer bottoms, English dove tail front and back drawers and full extension ball bearing glides that are rated to 100 lbs per drawer. Another distinctive feature of the Silver Creek line is the facing of the drawer front which matches the contour of the side logs.
As with most of our rustic furniture, this item has free curbside delivery to the lower 48 states, and generally ships in 4-6 weeks.
When buying rustic furniture, here's a rule of thumb: the more massive the room, the more massive the rustic log furniture!