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What makes JobDiva's CV search engine different from other CV search engine products?
How much behaviour modification and retraining will be necessary to fully utilise JobDiva?
How does JobDiva retrieve CVs for me?
How quickly after CVs are sent to my JobDiva account can they be searched and accessed?
Can JobDiva retrieve CVs from any job board?
What about the privacy and confidentiality of the information and CVs saved to my JobDiva account?
JobDiva is a solution for recruitment organisations. Targeted to recruitment organisations, JobDiva is a comprehensive solution that encompasses an extensive applicant tracking system, a client CRM system, a job management workflow fulfillment system and process, a candidate careers/jobs web site portal, an electronic job board CV harvester, an electronic VMS job spidering tool, and a time-keeping and billing system as well as a VMS/MSP system and solution. All these components, have been developed by JobDiva as an integral part of the single JobDiva solution. All JobDiva's business software has been developed by JobDiva for JobDiva only. The JobDiva software, process and solution is the proprietary property of JobDiva.
JobDiva's CV search engine technology has the capability to produce a short list of the best-suited candidates for the job requirement. The short list of CVs has a high precision ratio. That is, most of the retrieved CVs, if not all, have the required skills and the required duration of experience. The short list of CVs has also a high recall ratio. That is, most of the CVs, which are a match to the requirements in terms of skill and duration of experience, are located by the search.
Faster Fills. The electronic pile of CVs, which are received in response to advertising and to subscriptions to public web sites, is rapidly reduced to the short list of candidates who have the required background. Suitable candidates can be located and qualified within seconds or minutes, beating the competition to the hunt. The rapid delivery of almost all the properly-matching candidates enables the recruiter to select the best available candidates. The alternative is to leaf through a considerably larger pile of electronic CVs and settle for the first few that match. When put against other recruitment companies in competing for jobs, and when the sales representative does not have a solid relationship with the hiring manager, the success ratio of a company using JobDiva in a one-on-one competitive situation is approximately seven to one. When the sales representative does have a close relationship to the hiring manager, the fill ratio is almost 100%.
JobDiva greatly improves the recruiter's productivity. The recruiter's work-hours will be spent qualifying candidates who match the requirements rather than manually inspecting CVs for the possible matching candidates. The recruiter will no longer have to examine the CVs to identify matching skills and length of experiences. JobDiva will have done that for the recruiter. The recruiter will focus his/her time on phone and personal interviews, on salary and benefits negotiation and on other facets of the hiring process.
JobDiva supports your brand by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of your delivery. Your brand, products and services get delivered more efficiently and effectively to your clients while JobDiva inconspicuously works in the background. JobDiva does not replace or interfere with any of your sales or marketing processes. Instead, it enhances their competencies. JobDiva utilises your advertising and subscription capabilities with no additional effort on your part. Electronically, JobDiva can read your CVs from incoming e-mail, from your database, and/or from the public web sites that you subscribe to, and make them immediately available in your search results.
JobDiva downloads CVs from the public jobs boards to which you are subscribed, using your account logins and passwords, by way of the IE Internet browser. Part of JobDiva's offering is this download program and its source code which runs on a single PC at your site. The tool runs at a speed which emulates the time it takes for a human end-user to search and retrieve CVs and pauses for some time between clicks to not burden the job board provider's hardware. Therefore, because it might take longer to download a hundred CVs from a single web site, the download program creates multiple instances for each different public job board to which you subscribe. The tool utilises either your entered list of skills in the search or the criteria you have stored in JobDiva to download pertinent CVs from the public sites into your private account at JobDiva. Regardless of whether the CVs were downloaded by you, the JobDiva tool, or were sent in response to your job postings, they will be stored with your company's private CVs within JobDiva.
Almost immediately. You can either have applicants email their CVs directly to your private JobDiva account at yourcompanyname@jobdiva.com or you can auto-forward emails you receive to yourcompanyname@jobdiva.com. If there is a job site that you control, we will provide you with a simple interface, user ID, and password to FTP the files to JobDiva. Any one of these of the options takes only a few minutes to configure. Most importantly, when the leads are e-mailed or FTP'd, they become searchable in less than five minutes. It takes JobDiva from one to five minutes to extrapolate the attributes and auto-populate the database.
JobDiva offers tools to retrieve CVs from most of the national job boards but, if there is any web site to which you subscribe that the download programs do not cover, we will develop a program specifically for that site and have it for you within just a few hours.
JobDiva's search engine can be utilised in parallel with your in-house workflow systems and processes. Again, your in-house data base and workflow processes can only benefit from JobDiva and no modification to them is required when JobDiva is used.
What are JobDiva's metrics, results, and benchmarks?
When using JobDiva, you will witness a drop in the cost per hire (placement), placement per recruiter, candidate submittal per recruiter, and candidate submittal per opening. You will also realise greater customer satisfaction and repeat business. You probably account for these metrics monthly or quarterly. The tracking of such activities, if not available to you otherwise, is available in JobDiva. Our research shows that an individual recruiter using JobDiva is two to three times more productive than a recruiter utilising other search engines. This is based on in-the-field experience against competition. We've calculated the minimum savings to be the cost of two recruiter's annual compensation and overhead for each employed recruiter (you will need one recruiter to handle the workload of three with JobDiva) and, therefore, you can expect the productivity of your recruiters to triple.
CVs received by JobDiva from you, and through your subscriptions to public and private web sites, are yours and are held in strict confidence. Different subscribers of JobDiva might also be subscribers to the same public web site and may retrieve the same CVs; however, in JobDiva, your obtained CVs will remain private to you. Additionally, any notes or comments made by you will remain proprietarily owned by you. JobDiva will obtain, on your behalf for your private use, any CV that you might need from your subscribed private or public web sites. You will privately own these CVs.
JobDiva requires no new hardware or software installation. Setting up IDs and passwords are the only system requirements to utilise JobDiva.


text: Research on sustainability science has been concerned with pointing the way towards a sustainable society. On a global scale, sustainability is seen as depending on three systems: the global system, the human system and the social system. In the social system, the need to address issues of social sustainability, including literacy, education, malnutrition, child mortality, and gender empowerment, as well as its connections with human and global sustainability, has given rise to the eight Millennium Development Goals, which break down into twenty one quantifiable targets that are measured by sixty indicators. Therefore, it is clear that the problems and issues associated with the achievement of these goals are very complex to be addressed by a single discipline and that community informatics (CI) may have an important role to play in interdisciplinary efforts to address these goals. Against this backdrop, one of the first challenges is to put the notion of a social inclusion system (a system to promote social sustainability) in more precise terms. In this direction, the purpose of this paper is to discuss and present an initial ontology to describe social inclusion systems. While ontological development in sustainability science has emphasized a problem-solution approach, we believe that the issues of social inclusion will be more naturally addressed by a situation-transformation approach, which is the focus of our ontology.

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By the time we become adults our dental regime should be firmly set in place-a simple twice a day brushing and flossing combined with regular dental visits. However, a busy work, social and family life can mean that we all too often neglect to apply daily dental care and our teeth may suffer as a consequence. All it takes for plaque to build up is a one missed cleaning of the teeth. A forgotten dental appointment could mean the difference between healthy teeth and an appointment with the dentist’s drill.
As we grow older our gums and teeth go through many changes, the older we get the mores likely our immune system will have trouble fighting infection. Good dental care for adults is vital towards preventing gum infection and tooth decay. A few minutes brushing and flossing each day are all that is required to keep plaque and infection at bay.
Cavities do not just occur to sweet munching children; adults are also very susceptible to them. A few missed cleanings is more than enough to allow the bacteria in plaque to build up, this will in turn produce harmful acids that will create holes, or cavities, in the teeth. You will usually not notice tooth decay at this stage, but if left untreated the dentist’s drill will be needed, and then a filing. If the cavity is not filled then decay will begin to burrow through the dentine and the pulp, this is when the pain becomes noticeable.
The rules to preventing tooth decay are simple; brush twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, floss between teeth and keep sugary snacks to a minimum. A healthy diet also plays an important part towards good dental care for adults; the less sugary snacks and fizzy drinks the better. But even fruit, fruit juices, milk and many of the foods we eat contain sugar that will attack the teeth. Coffee, tea, cigarettes and wine will all contribute towards staining and darkening teeth. The only way to stop decay and keep a bright smile is to brush twice a day.
Gum disease is one of the most common factors in loss of teeth and many adults will suffer from gum disease and infection at some point in their lives. Gingivitis is a common form of early gum disease caused by plaque building up on the teeth. Gingivitis can cause bad breath and bleeding gums, if left untreated the disease will turn into the more serious infection, periodontitis. Periodontitis can destroy the bone and tissue that supports the teeth, and pockets will appear between the gums and teeth, the end result may well be loss of teeth and bone damage. Again, these infections are easily prevented by a good, daily dental regime.
Adults who are taking some form of medication may find that they suffer from a condition known as dry mouth. This condition occurs due to a reduction in saliva flow and can also be caused by illness. Many painkillers, diuretics and antihistamines will cause dry mouth, and if left untreated the condition can damage the teeth. Oral cancer is another condition that can affect adults. Regular dental visits and check-ups are vital in order to detect oral cancer in its early, precancerous stage.
Good dental care for adults need only take a small amount of time each day. Three minutes of brushing in the morning and at night, along with one flossing of the teeth per day is an adequate amount to prevent many of the conditions mentioned above. For extra protection you can use a fluoride based mouthwash that may also help reduce plaque. Combining your daily dental routine with regular dental check-ups means that you are well on your way to keeping a healthy set of teeth and a winning smile for the rest of your life.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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A buyer for mayapple in southern middle Tennessee?
TOPIC:	A buyer for mayapple in southern middle Tennessee?
Does anyone here know of any buyers in southern middle Tennessee that buys mayapple?

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Lipstick And Foundation: La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Review!
Hello ladies! Right now, I am having a bit of a La Roche-Posay moment, I just seem to love everything from this French brand! Last week, I bought La Roche-Posay Cicaplast and it has been standing on my nightstand since then. I'll tell you why!
First of all, Cicaplast is described as an ''Epidermal Recovery Accelerator'', it has a gel-cream texture and is for irritated, distressed and post-procedure skin. It forms a protective shield on your skin and has an ''anti bacterial-adhesion texture''. It contains a mineral complex of copper, zinc and magnanese to promote epidermal barrier recovery and they say on the bottle that this hydrating and soothing fluid instantly relieves tightness. It is fragrance free and paraben free and I got this at my local drugstore for around 18$ CAD.
-Burns, scratches, bruises. It will help to heal them much more quickly.
-If you have really bad dry patches on your face or body.
-Scars, acne scars for example, it will fade them overtime.
To be honest, you can do anything with this product.
-First of all, I suffer from psoriasis, which basically are dry patches of skin that flake, burn and are super irritated, it can even sometimes bleed (yuck). I don't usually get a lot of psoriasis patches but right now because of stress and lack of sleep, I have one on my leg. I use Cicaplast on it and it instantly does relieve the burn and makes a great barrier to protect it against rubbing on my pants all day. It feels so soothing and my dry patch feels less dryer than before.
-I use this all over my face as a night cream, I wake up the next morning with baby smooth skin and I swear I have skin as dry as sandpaper!
-I use it as a lip balm aswell at night, it protects and hydrates my lips for hours without feeling the need to reapply lip balm over and over again.
-The most amazing thing about Cicaplast is that it's an amazing foundation primer! Yes, you heard that right. There is a video where the amazing Lisa Eldrige uses this on a model and it does really make an gorgeous base for makeup!
This is probably my favorite discovery since the beggining of 2013. I won't hesitate to buy this when I run out! The fact that it is not overpriced at all makes it even more appealing, it is great for sensitive skin like mine and does what it's supposed to do and beyond! I keep it next to my bed because it is great for any little skin problem, such a great multitasking product! The texture is lovely aswell and doesn't have sny fragrance to it, which is a nice plus. I definetly recommend it if you can get it where you live, for the price and the quality, you can't really go wrong!
Mmmhhh... This sounds like something that would be nice to have in my makeup bag!
La Roche-Posay is a great brand, I know I can always rely on their products.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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(London): Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., (1960). Octavo, measuring 9 x 6 inches: . Original green paper boards lettered in black and white dots. Text printed in black, orange, and blue. Illustrated with photolithographed annotations and vignettes, full-page drawings, diagrams, photographs of Duchamp’s work (including one folding plate), and musical notation. Appendices at rear. Inscribed presentation card from dedicatees Bill and Noma Copley laid in. Top two inches of front board sunned, lightest edgewear.
First edition of this English translation and typographical interpretation of Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box, a collection of ninety-three notes related to his ambitious sculpture The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), assembled between 1915 and 1923. A decade after the sculpture’s completion, Duchamp oversaw the first printed edition of Green Box, with each of his original notes meticulously reproduced in collotype, hand-torn to size, and issued loose. In 1960, pop artist Richard Hamilton produced this English translation of Green Box, using typography and graphic design to communicate the variety of the original collection of ephemera in a new format. Duchamp praised the result: “We are crazy about the book. Your labour of love has given birth to a monster of veracity and a crystalline [transubstantiation] of the French Green Box . . . The Bride must be blossoming ever more.” Laid into this copy is a presentation card from the edition’s dedicatees Bill and Noma Copley, printed with their Montlhéry address outside Paris, and inscribed in ink: “Greetings from Bill & Noma.” A longtime friend of Duchamp, Bill Copley was a noted American painter, art dealer and collector, whose circle also included Man Ray, Max Ernst, and René Magritte. A near-fine copy, with an excellent Surrealist association.

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AECOM is leading the Capri consortium that is trialling driverless pods at Filton Airfield, as part of a pilot scheme that will pave the way for the use of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to move people around airports, hospitals, business parks and shopping and tourist centers.
The closed tests at the disused airfield in north Bristol in the southwest of the UK is the first of four trials under the pilot, which is being delivered by Capri (Connected & Autonomous Pod on-Road Implementation), an AECOM-led 19-partner consortium that was awarded funding last year from Innovate UK and the UK’s Center for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV).
During the two-week trial, the pods’ safety critical features are being assessed along with participant comfort testing. The trial will inform the pods’ first public appearance later this year when they will transport members of the public around The Mall at South Gloucestershire’s Cribbs Causeway retail park. The project will culminate in an on-road public trial at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a diverse estate that includes retail, recreation, residential and business centers.
Focusing on trips of up to 5 miles (8km) to connect people to places, Capri is developing the next generation of autonomous pods, as well as the systems and technologies that will allow the vehicles to navigate safely and seamlessly in both pedestrian and on-road environments, known as ‘dual-mode’.
The consortium is looking at how the network can harness data to enable location, positioning and mobility-on-demand (MOD) services to help support a wider roll-out of dual-mode autonomous pods. The 1.5 mile-long (2.5km) runway at Filton Airfield provides an excellent opportunity for the consortium to set up and test the autonomous pods in a safe and controlled environment. Capri consortium member YTL Developments owns the airfield and is developing the site.
The Capri consortium was awarded the funding as part of a CCAV and Innovate UK competition to invest £35m (US$45.3m) in industry-led research and development projects that would deliver technical solutions for CAVs that provide real-world benefits to users and where the commercial benefit is clear.
The Capri consortium consists of a team of experts with multidisciplinary expertise, including: AECOM, Aimsun, AXA UK, Conigital, Dynniq, ESP Group, Fusion Processing, Heathrow, London Legacy Development Corporation, Nexor, South Gloucestershire Council, Thingful, T&VS, Westfield Technology Group, YTL Developments, and the universities of Bristol, Warwick, Loughborough and the West of England.
“Connected and autonomous vehicles are predicted to make a huge impact on society, but require significant research and development to support their future commercial use,” noted George Lunt, technical director at AECOM.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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In this podcast, Todd Cipperman offers an alternative to enforcement actions to ensure that securities markets gatekeepers to police the industry.
The SEC has sued a lawyer for aiding and abetting securities fraud by preparing a registration statement that failed to disclose that the principal was a convicted felon that controlled the issuer. According to the SEC, the principal instructed the lawyer that he should not be named as an officer or director of the issuer because of his prior conviction. Nevertheless, according to the SEC, the lawyer knew that the principal fully controlled the issuer and failed to include such disclosure in the Form S-1. The SEC also charges that the lawyer knew or was severely reckless in not knowing that the three persons listed as officers and directors had not agreed to serve.
OUR TAKE: The SEC will hold gatekeepers, including lawyers, accountable for their bad clients. This case goes further than prior enforcement cases by prosecuting a lawyer for reckless conduct rather than knowingly furthering a specific fraud.
The SEC fined and censured a fund administrator for causing a money market fund’s violations of the Investment Company Act. The SEC asserts that the administrator used a flawed valuation methodology that resulted in violations of Rule 2a-7. The fund was used as a vehicle to invest securities lending collateral for the benefit of affiliated mutual funds. Because the fund failed Rule 2a-7, the investments by the registered funds violated the affiliated transaction rules.
OUR TAKE: As was the case with another recent case against a fund administrator, the SEC will broadly interpret the securities laws to hold non-registrant service providers accountable as gatekeepers of the securities markets.
The SEC barred from the industry a purported lawyer that failed to investigate red flags arising in municipal bond offerings for which he served as underwriter’s counsel. The sponsor of the offerings previously settled an SEC enforcement action pursuant to which he agreed to repay over $86 Million to investors because of misleading disclosures about compliance with municipal disclosure requirements. The SEC faults the lawyer for engaging in a weak due diligence that failed to investigate disclosure red flags that were raised by several parties involved in the transaction. Additionally, the respondent claimed to be a lawyer even though he was not actively admitted to the bar in any jurisdiction. The SEC charges the respondent with fraud in the offer and sale of securities as well as causing the issuer’s legal violations.
OUR TAKE: The SEC will hold gatekeepers such as lawyers accountable for the bad acts of their clients. This case expands gatekeeper liability by charging securities fraud even though the lawyer is not a registrant.
OUR TAKE: Lawyers and other securities markets gatekeepers cannot plead ignorance when red flags indicate that they knew or should have known about their clients’ wrongdoing. Firms must conduct significant due diligence both before accepting a client and during representation. It is also noteworthy that the SEC charged the lawyers with securities fraud and not just aiding/abetting.
The SEC fined and barred an attorney from practicing before the Commission for failing to conduct proper due diligence as underwriter’s counsel for misleading municipal bond offerings. According to the SEC, the lawyer prepared disclosure documents that contained erroneous statements that the issuer would comply, and had complied, with certain continuing disclosure obligations. The SEC faults the lawyer for failing to conduct proper due diligence and relying solely on statements from the issuer. The SEC also alleges that the lawyer ignored red flags that the disclosure was inaccurate. The SEC separately prosecuted the issuer and the underwriter.
OUR TAKE: We have previously predicted that the SEC would target lawyers as a class of gatekeepers responsible for policing securities markets. Counsel cannot ignore wrongdoing by claiming to have relied solely on client representations.

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Yup, you read that right, ITV4 – this seems like quite the commission for it.
Dolph Lundgren off of films challenges teams to ascend his tower in order to win a holiday and cash. On each floor a challenge based on classic action movie scenes. Fail and get thrown out of the window and fall a la Alan Rickman in Die Hard, succeed and they’ll get to face off against Dolph in his penthouse for all the prizes.
It’s the gritty Incredible Games reboot the nation has been crying out for, and seems to be being played with it’s tongue very firmly in its cheek. Hopefully the budget stretches to decent challenges and tasks, as this appears to be Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like.
Watched it? Let us know what you think in the comments.
What’s the explanation for this being on ITV4? It really doesn’t seem to fit the usual type of thing on there at all. Like most people, I assume it was made for ITV2 but someone decided it wasn’t good enough.
ITV4’s a channel aimed at men (young men traditionally the hardest to advertise to) and was commissioned especially for it to reflect that. It’s being followed by Football Genius.
I have no idea what would be considered a good number for it.
Well that was rather fun. Initially I thought it was a little bit OTT (the intro especially) and that less is sometimes more, but it didn’t take me long to get into it.
There’s nothing hugely original with the challenges but there’s a certain amount of production chutzpah that made them entertaining. This is absolutely helped with the casting of the contestants which was giving me low-key Wild Things vibes throughout, that you understood exactly what the relationships are by the offhand comments that are expressed during gameplay, and absolutely reinforces my belief that relatively normal people in extraordinary situations are capable of being much funnier than the extra sorts who tend to just shout at things.
Loved Dolph who seemed to ‘get’ it pretty quickly. Especially loved his scriptwriter.
For me it’s a shame the trivia was mainly action film related, as much as I love the genre, there’s no real reason it couldn’t have been general knowledge but it is what it is. Would now love to see what the same production team would do with something like Dero.
It’s also a pity that the amount of players who got through to the final doesn’t seem to effect the final, presumably the idea is success = more brains for the questions, but I still suspect winning tasks should be worth… more. And we’re talking a maximum of £980, so no great shakes really.
So not a perfect format but one that manages to cover its faults by being fun to watch regardless. Good stuff.
I enjoyed it, felt very Boyard lite in a lot of places but to be expected given the source material.
Did anyone gather why they needed everyone up at the roof for the final game? Is it for each surviving member gets a ticket for the holiday or is it purely for the money trivia games? Because it felt rather pointless having surviving members at the end game like that. Nice sort of council challenge at the end which could go in Boyard with a bit of modification.
Starting from the ground floor: The pre-show description is horrible. Once we get to Dolph “Oddly Decent Host” Lundgren’s better-than-expected monologue, things do look up.
Team of 4 (one “hero” and three lackeys) enter the tower and then the lift. At stops, two get out and complete a movie-themed challenge (the harness scene from Mission Impossible, things involving vents, and a “it’s gonna blow” boiler… scene?) with both physical and (admittedly action film knowledge-based) mental elements.
In each case, the Hero and a lackey takes part, with the lackey potentially “thrown out the window” by Dolph “Well Scripted” Lundgren if they screw up.
Between games, there’s a quizzy interlude to win holiday money, if they win the entire show. Which is a nice change.
Weirdly, because of the setup of the game, keeping the lackeys “alive” only really serves a purpose for the interlude, as preserving the brains trust will help earn more trip money.
At the end, the hero takes on Dolph “Blimey, He’s Tall!” Lundgren in a quick-draw contest where they must hit targets using a mini paintball gun faster and more accurately than Dolph “Seriously Tall” Lundgren to win the holiday and cash.
It is unclear the purpose of the lackey’s presence in the end-game, as they play no part except as an on-screen viewer. Since it appears winner-take-all as an endgame, it may be that the lackeys get sacrificed each time the hero fails the best-of-three, as if they’re extra lives, but it is unclear at this point if there is such a mechanic in play here.
It could do with a tiny bit of extra polish as, while it has the vibe of being a cheap homage to the genre, it seems a little too Poundland when it could be Aldi. Maybe it’s a constrained budget due to hiring a star we’ve heard of, coupled with it being (and I still cannot believe it) on ITV4.
Overall, it seems like it’d be a car crash, but it turns out to be an enjoyable shout-at-the-TV-at-the-team show. Give more consequences to failure than partaking in a cheesy half-arsed effect where they lie on green carpet, a smidge more money (If you’re already flying four people to South Africa to film this thing, a bit more in the prize budget than another holiday and up to £1000 between four people would be nice…) and it would be worthy of at least a second series.
See, I got the weird impression that anyone “thrown off” was excluded from winning a ticket? Maybe I’m wrong, who knows.
The overwhelming feeling I got from it is, well, it’s an adult CITV gameshow. And rest assured, I don’t mean that as a negative in the slightest! It’s the whole aesthetic of how it’s sincerely true to the theme, albeit with a tongue very firmly in cheek. I guess that ties into the various discussions of Richard Ayoade on the Maze compared to the previous hosts: Lundgren plays it true to the *fantasy* of the conceit in a way that O’Brien did and Ayoade doesn’t, and that made his hosting way more enjoyable than I was expecting.
I guess another thing that made me make kids’ telly associations is how it was quite happy to relocate to different sets as the games require, and have the editing preserve the narrative of the storyline, with the central lift-and-lobby set being repurposed as required.
Of course, there’s always going to be a question hanging over the game variety; I certainly recall one noticeable game in the intro that didn’t show up today, so there’s at least one more to play with, but I hope there’s more beyond that!
How long’s this run for?
Do we have any framework for understanding what ‘good’ ratings would be for this? I’m not sure what ballpark ITV4 would generally fall into.
Having a quick look on BARB, 300k would suggest a pretty good hit, so anything above 150k probably OK, especially if the demo is right.
39k for this, followed by 29k for Football Genius.
Even more interesting are the figures for males between 16-35, who are clearly the target audience. Take The Tower was watched by 2k people in that category and Football Genius was, according to BARB, watched by zero!
Ooof. That’s the problem when you’re starting from such a low base – people aren’t going to know ITV4 as a place for new entertainment; it’s for repeats of old drama. You could put the world’s best new format on there and it would still take a few weeks for people to find it.
Maybe it’ll trend upwards, but in truth ITV4 need a long-term investment plan if they’re going to reposition the channel as a rival for Dave.
Oh wooooow. Well I’ll bang the drum for it, which might add around ten viewers.
At least it outran football genuis…. that is at least a postive.
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All the blurb says that it is a physical gameshow and will be hosted by Dermot O Leary.
The idea is that the contestants are “miniaturised” or they’ve set up mini-versions of famous places in studio to set high-pressure tasks in, with a possible top prize of £250,000. Something like that anyway, like a mixture of The Cube and Endemol’s XXL.
I also watched Football Genius afterwards. Remember how people mocked David Vine’s late-’60s Quiz Ball for being complicated, despite it getting half a dozen series, and not actually being all that tricky in practice? This was cut from similar cloth but yet more rule-heavy still – and, you know what, it wasn’t at all difficult to follow. Perhaps people have got better at explaining rules, or explaining only the rules that need to be explained rather than induced, or perhaps people have got better at following sets of rules, or maybe it will turn out to have been a mess that lost most viewers. Tim Vine got quite shouty at some points as a way of displaying excitement, which didn’t really work.
Episode two was still great fun, although the challenge of unlocking the padlocks in 40 seconds was a bit rum. Amused to see the water jug puzzle from Die Hard make an appearance, even if the puzzle itself is a bit old hat. The film colour anti-venom game was actually decent Crystal Maze stuff, helped in no doubt by the contestants being a bit thick.
I wonder if Dolph is paid a bonus for winning the endgame or if the prod company just don’t mind/care about giving away holidays. His reactions seemed a bit slow tonight, as you’d probably expect someone in his sixties to be.
I didn’t get the film reference that the first challenge was referring to (if, indeed, there was one).
In the Line of Fire?
Admittedly the title more than the film.
I was hoping that Little Lion Entertainment’s big announcement was that they were going to be launching a Take The Tower experience, but a new Crystal Maze will have to do. There being 32 games instead of 24 is nice, at least. I wouldn’t be surprised if the original one weren’t long for this world after the West End one opens.
Next time you take the coach to London, why not turn right out of the coach station and walk through Belgravia down Pimlico Road for the live Four Rooms experience? Sixty minutes, £5,000.
I could be wrong but I think their original location for the crystal maze was going to be in this sort of area but negotiations failed and had to resort to angel location instead and adapted it as best they could (was their opening night and loved it).
If they need a tester I’m right here!
30k for the second ep – versus 39k last week.
Such a shame, deserves ten-times that. Thanks Tom.
I’m still enjoying this, although it’s a shame there are only six scenarios.
Also I suspect I think I got the unlocking padlocks thing wrong, it seemed last night they only had to do one in the time (possible) whereas in my head it was four (clearly not happening).


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The webinar link will be circulated closer to the event date.
Fragomen invites you to a breakfast briefing on the Tier 5 Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa with the aim to provide insight into the process for sponsoring foreign national interns in the UK.
We encourage businesses that are interested in understanding more about sponsoring foreign national interns in the UK.
Fragomen looks forward to meeting you both familiar and new faces on the day. If you have any burning immigration questions that you would like us to cover, please email them in advance to events@fragomen.com.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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After a Major Upgrade, you have two entries in Add/Remove Programs control panel.
Error message "1: ALLUSERS property is not 1 - this MSM cannot be used for a per-user or fallback-to-per-user install" during installation, although ALLUERS had been set to 1.
"This action is only valid for products that are installed".
As it turns out, this can be caused by a problem in InstallShield 2008. If a Basic MSI setup includes a custom action written in InstallScript, the script engine changes the value of the ALLUSERS property.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Give dull skin an exfoliating boost, for a soft touch and radiant glow with MOR’s Body Scrub. As well as revitalizing your skin you’ll be left with a deliciously sweet aroma of White Carnation, Jasmine Flower, and Rose Petals coupled with Vanilla Musk and Cotton Candy.
To prepare skin, wet body before use. Massage in circular motions concentrating on dry areas of the body. Rinse thoroughly with water. For best results, follow up with an all over body application of MOR Marshmallow Body Cream.
Sugar crystals, drenched in Peach, Soybean and Avocado Oils with Vitamin E, work to exfoliate and smooth the skin, while Apricot & Mango Extracts soothe and softly nourish. As a Sulphate and Paraben free product, this scrub is suitable for all skin types.

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45+ Low Budget Small Bedroom Decorations – No one of us wants to stick with the same small bedroom decoration forever. In some points, we absolutely want to make over the dressing of our personal place. But, no one also wants to dress up with the pricy budget. If you want to make over the bedroom on a budget, you need to stick with this post from start to the end.
Okay, the first idea of re-decorating the small bedroom is doing some DIY. Youth today are so creative in dressing up their small bedrooms. Many of them share in their social media. The only thing that makes them possible to renewing their small bedroom is, doing some DIY. Not all over the room decorations are by doing DIY, but just some. In short, you need to believe that we can make DIY bedroom decorations.
The second idea of re-decorating is, stay in a cozy small bedroom. So, you need to consider if your imagined idea would be comfortable or not. It is important that even though you are going to make some breakthroughs, you need to consider the arrangement. Especially for the storage like cupboard and shelves, where will you put them?
There are simple ideas for the small bedroom. The first is having the hanging shoe storage behind the door. Then, you can have some shelves above the bed or beside the bed. The area above the door is also very beneficial for keeping things and people rarely have an idea about them. You also need to benefit the room under the bed. That is a nice place for keeping things.
In social media, we are easier to find the DIY bedroom for teens. Indeed their decorations are very possible to make. The small bedroom for teens often apply the creative things to beautify the room. For example is the Tumblr lighting. This kind of lighting is often dangling from a side of a shelf to its end. It also often decorates the area above the bed.
Another example of creative DIY decoration is the cloth wall decoration. For this one, they randomly choose the design just according to what they like. The cloth is cut according to the size they up to and pinned it on the wall. The boho style nowadays is also very popular among the youth. They like to freshen their small bedroom with various plants. So, their small bedroom stays fresh even though their bedroom is small.
The most creative DIY things are shown by the small bedroom for girls. Sometimes they use tulle for beautifying the bed like aristocrat bed. And sometimes they attach one or two photographs on the wall. These days the vintage wall decoration like one or two pages of an old book is also popular.
The most important thing for a small bedroom is using a single bed. Don’t forget to utilize the area under the bed, behind the door, and above the door. And the last, the live plants will help to freshen your small bedroom.

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Incorporating dripping paint within repetitive strokes and pattern-like forms, Steven Cushner creates works both gestural and concrete. Playing with abstraction and representation, he presents various imagery inspired by everyday sights. Fan-like, bulbous, or open-ended shapes vibrate with intensity as their thickly painted bands emerge from watery backgrounds. Deep, earth-toned color intersects with fluid lines to shape meditative, sinuous patterns. The dynamic compositions further this organic energy, almost mimicking nature with their cyclical, ordered quality. Loosely rendered forms and splashy backgrounds allow for open interpretation of Cushner’s imagery. Whether the viewer correlates branches, signs, birds, or incomprehensible abstractions, the paintings all emanate an electric energy, a quirkiness separate from living things…perhaps conveying the root of Cushner’s passions and spontaneity.
Cushner was born in Cleveland, and later moved to receive his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (1980, 1976). He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he teaches at George Mason University and previously taught at the Corcoran School of Art. He is the recipient of two Visual Artist Fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Distinguished Alumni award from University of Maryland.


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The Hammer Prop should only be used on motors that will rev to at least 4400 RPM's in the water.
The proprietary process we use to build the Tiger Propeller is the same formula used to build high performance bass boat propellers. Every blade and every section of each blade is held to strict tolerances; and is so precise, that they require no balancing or polishing. Picture perfect every time. You won't find better quality and price anywhere.
Check out these features. A real value for today's hunter.
Stainless steel, Rockwell hardness of 39-41. All other mud motor blades are Rockwell 31 to 34. Harder blades last longer, perform better in all conditions, and deform less under load.
Sizes from 3 to 120 horse.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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With the largest online selection of Rixson Floor Closers you can be sure to find the exact Rixson product you are looking for.
Rixson heavy duty floor closers provide the best mechanical means to support and control a door. They are designed to work with laws of physics to provide long-lasting performance and reliability. The bottom arm, which is directly connected to the floor closer spindle, supports the entire weight of the door, providing trouble free operation and long life, as a door supported in this manner relies on the strength of the floor to carry the weight, not the frame. This allows extremely heavy doors to be hung in an opening and lets any weight door swing with more efficient geometry.
Additionally, Rixson floor closers are fully concealed to maintain aesthetic design of the opening and to prevent vandalism or tampering.
Click here for full line of Rixson Door Hardware.

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MidSouth Bancorp (MSL) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.66 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.20. This compares to loss of $0.15 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -230%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this bank holding company would post a loss of $0.16 per share when it actually produced a loss of $0.08, delivering a surprise of 50%.
MidSouth, which belongs to the Zacks Banks - Southeast industry, posted revenues of $21.99 million for the quarter ended December 2018, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5.02%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $25.50 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates two times over the last four quarters.
MidSouth shares have added about 5.9% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 5.3%.
While MidSouth has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for MidSouth was favorable. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to outperform the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.03 on $20.19 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $0.31 on $82.01 million in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Banks - Southeast is currently in the top 35% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.


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If you are looking for an outdoor speaker for this summer then you want something proven to withstand the elements. iHome is a premier maker of such devices and is now announcing a new line that it claims is perfect for outdoor use.
The Weather Tough line is being called "military grade" portable Bluetooth speakers. They were announced back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, but are just hitting the market now.
The company claims "Each iHome Weather Tough speaker will let users take their music where no other portable Bluetooth speakers dare go. Featuring a completely waterproof design (IP67-rated), and tough military-spec rubberized shock-proof casing, all Weather Tough speakers can withstand drops, shock, dust, storms and even being submerged in water".
There is the budget model IBT37, a speaker with an internal rechargeable battery that claims eight hours of battery life. It even has a tripod mount on the bottom. It retails for $39.99.
The IBT82 claims 12 hours of battery life and costs $49.99. The IBT35 is $69.99 with eight hours of battery life, but it comes with an aux jack, carabiner clip and LED indicators.
At the top-end is the IBT9, which is still reasonable at $99.99. It has a USB port to charge your devices, 2 full-range drivers and passive radiators for deep bass and claims 12 hours of playing time.
All of these are available as of today at iHome.


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Every day for more than 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt, according to a study by UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, published Oct. 28.
Today an area the size of France is affected -- about 62 million hectares (20%) of the world's irrigated lands, up from 45 million hectares in the early 1990s.
Salt-degradation occurs in arid and semi-arid regions where rainfall is too low to maintain regular percolation of rainwater through the soil and where irrigation is practiced without a natural or artificial drainage system.
Irrigation practices without drainage management trigger the accumulation of salts in the root zone, affecting several soil properties and reducing productivity.
"To feed the world's anticipated nine billion people by 2050, and with little new productive land available, it's a case of all lands needed on deck," says principal author Manzoor Qadir, Assistant Director, Water and Human Development, at UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health. "We can't afford not to restore the productivity of salt-affected lands."
Zafar Adeel, Director of UNU-INWEH, notes the UN Food and Agriculture Organization projects a need to produce 70% more food by 2050, including a 50% rise in annual cereal production to about 3 billion tonnes.
"Each week the world loses an area larger than Manhattan to salt-degradation. A large portion of the affected areas in developing countries have seen investments made in irrigation and drainage but the infrastructure is not properly maintained or managed. Efforts to restore those lands to full productivity are essential as world population and food needs grow, especially in the developing world."
The paper, authored by eight experts based in Canada, Jordan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, details crop productivity losses at farm, regional, and global scales, the cost of doing nothing, and the net economic benefit of preventing and/or reversing land degradation.
The estimated cost of crop losses was drawn from a review of more than 20 studies over the last 20 years in Australia, India, Pakistan, Spain, Central Asia and the USA.
Globally, irrigated lands cover some 310 million ha, an estimated 20% of it salt-affected (62 million ha). The inflation-adjusted cost of salt-induced land degradation in 2013 was estimated at $441 per hectare, yielding an estimate of global economic losses at $27.3 billion per year.
In India's Indo-Gangetic Basin, crop yield losses on salt-affected lands for wheat, rice, sugarcane and cotton grown on salt-affected lands could be 40%, 45%, 48%, and 63%, respectively. Employment losses could be 50-80 man-days per hectare, with an estimate 20-40% increase in human health problems and 15-50% increase in animal health problems.
In the Indus Basin in Pakistan, wheat grain yield losses from salt-affected lands ranged 20-43% with an overall average loss of 32%. For rice, the crop yield losses from salt-affected lands ranged 36-69% with an overall average loss of 48%.
Even in the USA's Colorado River Basin, studies show the annual economic impact of salt-induced land degradation in irrigated areas at US $750 million.
"It is important to note that the above numbers on global cost of salt-induced land degradation refer to economic losses based on crop yield losses only," the paper says.
"However, the crop yields from irrigated areas not affected by salinization have increased since 1990 due to factors such as improved crop varieties, efficient on-farm practices, better fertilizer use, and efficient water management practices. Consequently, there may be larger gaps in crop yields harvested from salt-affected and non-affected areas under similar agro-ecosystems, suggesting an underestimation of the economic cost of salt-induced land degradation."
"These costs are expected to be even higher when other cost components such as infrastructure deterioration (including roads, railways, and buildings), losses in property values of farms with degraded land, and the social cost of farm businesses are taken into consideration. In addition, there could be additional environmental costs associated with salt-affected degraded lands as these lands emit more greenhouse gases, thus contributing to global warming."
Among methods successfully used to facilitate drainage and reverse soil degradation: Tree planting, deep plowing, cultivation of salt-tolerant varieties of crops, mixing harvested plant residues into topsoil, and digging a drain or deep ditch around the salt-affected land.
Reversing land degradation and bringing salt-affected lands back into highly productive state are expected to result in favorable environmental benefits in addition to economic gains, although functional markets for many of the ecosystem services are currently embryonic or nonexistent.
Although there is a cost of investing in preventing land degradation, reversing land degradation, or restoring degraded land into productive land, these costs of action are much less than the costs of letting land degradation continue and intensify.
Pertinent policies, well-designed salinity management plans, supportive institutions, skilled human resources, provision of facilities and infrastructure for disposal of salts, capacity development of farmers, and utilization of locally available resources and indigenous knowledge of communities are crucial in combating salt-induced land degradation.
Salt-induced land degradation may also affect the business sector negatively either directly or indirectly, targeting their inputs, outputs, or processes. The businesses in close connection with natural resources may be affected, such as those dealing with basic resources (forestry, wood, pulp, and paper), food and beverage, construction and materials, industrial goods and services (transportation and packaging), utilities (water and electricity), personal and household goods (clothing, footwear, and furniture), leisure and travel (hotels and restaurants), and real estate. Therefore, reversing salt-induced land degradation would help these sectors achieve potential economic gains by providing needed levels of materials and services.
Richard Thomas, CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems, c/o International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Amman, Jordan.
The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, a member of the UNU family of organizations, is the UN Think Tank on Water, created in 1996. The institute's mission: to contribute to efforts to resolve pressing regional and global water challenges of concern to the UN, its Member States, and their people, through targeted research, capacity development, knowledge enhancement and transfer, and public outreach. UNU-INWEH is hosted by the Government of Canada and McMaster University.


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(Reuters) – French company Bouygues and Swiss group Movenpick will team up with Ivorian firm Saprim to invest 55 million euros ($61.56 million) on a luxury hotel in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, the firms said on Monday.
Work on the new five-star hotel will begin in the next six months and is expected to be ready within 30 months, or by the end of 2018, according to a statement by the three companies.
“The cost of the hotel is around 55 million euros of which most will be financed by Saprim and Bouygues,” said Jean-Gabriel Peres, chief executive officer of Movenpick hotels and resorts.
Four years after the end of a civil war, economic powerhouse Ivory Coast’s coastal city of Abidjan is booming and its hotels are often fully-booked.
The hotel and tourism sector currently accounts for 4.8 percent of Ivorian GDP versus 0.6 percent in 2011.


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hola, the video of the day is diana gameros’s NPR Weekend feature.
have a nice week ahead — m.
hi all, just wanted to do a linkie linx to the ovarian psychos piece recently posted in the atlantic. there had been a few fundraiser screens and talks, at least in the bay area, and i’m sure actively in southern california for their documentary, so it is very cool seeing them in larger platforms for everyone to learn about it.
the full film will air on march 27, 2017, on pbs’s Independent Lens.
^ video from the recently march 22nd posted link from The Atlantic’s: Ovarian Psycos: The L.A. Bicycle Crew for Women of Color.
have a nice weekend — m.
paper, imagine, write, talk, meditate.
paper. computer. pixels pixels pixels.
i just can barely carry.
and quite tighter in the dark.
youth is so difficult, yet so beautiful. mostly.
to discover, devour the world.
resist, read, recharge, rest, organize, repeat.
highway mural: human condition, in crisis + tijuana.
bugambilias in colonia castillo + tijuana.

industry_corpus2: Media & Journalism


text: Another Alpina, N° 3119, which will be for sale shortly. I receive the machine in sorry condition, because someone dropped it. Usually the crank is the first victim, but in this case the plastic cover of the clearing wheel on the right hand side cracked and three teeth were knocked of the clearing gear. This, if you know Alpina's, you know will manifest itself as a problem. You can do three clearings for every rotation of the clearing thumbwheel, but unfortunately the serrations on the wheel are not just for grip - they are actual gear teeth, and three of them missing means that every third clearing the small clearing gear on the inside is not rotated all the way around. The result is that the clearing interlock will keep a deadly grip on the insides of the Alpina, and the main crank can no longer be rotated. So something needed to be done. Luckily there are two identical specimens of these plastic castings in every Alpina, so I had a good gear to copy in a silicone mould, and then cast a new one with all its teeth. A few more comma indicators were fashioned in the same way, and the clearing cover was glued with superglue. Now, the machine is as good as new, and functions reliably.


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While being stuck in a wheelchair, permanently or temporarily, is not a walk in the park, things don’t need to stop for the individual in question. It’s still possible to live a relatively normal life, and we must admit that a wheelchair gives you a component of your independence back. It might have been worse when there were not wheelchairs whatsoever. But lucky for many people, they exist, and they have the potential of making your life more bearable. Additionally, as technology advanced, wheelchairs are becoming better and better in providing freedom and support, so let us take a minute and be grateful for that.
Surely there are enough locations in Surprise, AZ from where you are able to lease a wheelchair. However, I don’t believe that is the best thought. It’s best to buy a wheelchair for a lot of factors. If you don’t know what I am referring to, here are a couple explanations for why wheelchair rental is poor to buying one.
It’s money from the window — paying rent for a chair in Surprise, AZ might not be much, but whenever the figures add up, you will see that buying one is a good deal better. Wheelchair rental companies will charge you an amount of money at the start of your contract, and you will need to pay a commission for each day or week of usage, based on the business. Delivery and pick-up will be billed extra, so do not forget about that. The complete amount will depend on how much you use the chair. As a result, at the conclusion of your contract, then you are likely to get a massive bill which will make you regret that you didn’t get a wheelchair in the first place. And should you buy a wheelchair and you also just take great care of this, you may sell it back at a affordable price. That is if you do not need it anymore. If you are permanently disabled, automobile leasing shouldn’t even be an alternative.
What you need might not be available — as you can imagine, there are several types of wheelchairs, and your requirement may demand a specific kind. However, the wheelchair rental company might not have everything you need in stock, and so you will end up in a seat which isn’t recommended for you. Your only option is to accept what it is given, and that might be bad for you. But if you get a new wheelchair, you can select precisely what you need, and everyone is happy. Bear in mind that your comfort and stability are the number one priority. It may end up being inconvenient to settle for something that you do not need. For instance, let us say that you need a wheelchair with fixed armrests, however the leasing company does not have one in stock. What do you do? Nothing, because you have no options.
You may get somebody else’s busted wheelchair — Would you think that wheelchair rental businesses have new wheelchairs in inventory? No, some of them are damaged. Not severely, but they may have a twisted wheel or a rickety armrest. You might not want that? Isn’t it best if you purchase a new seat and what is as it needs to be? I believe it really is, and taking a person’s leftovers is not pleasant, to say the least.
You might lose your deposit — when you choose wheelchair rental, you might lose your deposit at the smallest scratch. Accidents happen, and should they do having a rented chair, you will have to pay for it one way or the other. Who needs that anxiety?
These are only a few reasons why I believe that wheelchair rental is inferior to buy, but definitely if you think about it, it is possible to come back with more.
Budgeting is a part of everyone’s life, and also wheelchair price is a very important aspect when you buy one. I do not know what would be the wheelchair prices in Surprise, AZ, but they can begin from 80$ (low-end) and reach as large as 12.000percent, meaning very top of the line and also have all sorts of features. While cost is important, remember to add quality in the equation. I understand that you might live in a budget, however, relaxation is more significant in this instance.
Most people, not just the ones in Surprise, AZ, don’t like to devote considerable amounts of money to get a wheelchair. Yes, there are people who can afford to get a very expensive wheelchair, but this is beyond the point. Even so, you can discover some affordable products which are of top quality. And by cheap I mean a few hundreds of dollars. On the other hand, a wheelchair over 1000$ could have amazing attributes like elevating footrests and whatnot. At that cost, even electric wheelchairs are an option. The major idea is not to think just of wheelchair cost, but your comfort and freedom as well. Keep in mind that a wheelchair is meant to give back your liberty. It is not the opportunity to really go in market mode.
Wheelchair weight is more significant than you believe. It will influence your freedom considerably. The objective of a wheelchair is to move around with ease. If you go for a heavy wheelchair, that isn’t going to happen, can it be? When you have a job, or you like to maneuver around the neighborhood a great deal, you need a wheelchair that’s lightweight, particularly in the event you’ve got no one to push you.
The wheelchair weight is determined by the materials from which the seat is built. Naturally, you want a sturdy metal that makes the chair durable, but at the exact same time, you need a lightweight metal, such as aluminum. It’s possible to go for hybrids as well, but they are inclined to be pricier than alloys. At the conclusion of the afternoon, it’s you who makes the budget. But, keep in mind that wheelchair weight is among those factors you want to take into account before making a purchase. Otherwise, you are able to experience muscular strain and fatigue, which you don’t require.
Wheelchair accessories have been created for the comfort and ease. There are a couple things that you can buy together with your own wheelchair, and this are the most frequently utilized.
Foam cushions — they are the most frequently bought since they’re the least expensive. While regular foam is relatively comfortable, my advice is to proceed with memory foam if you’re looking for a reasonable solution. High-density foams will continue to keep their shape for longer, they will take the shape of your body, and as much as comfort goes, you will enjoy lots. However, the disadvantage with foam wheelchair cushions is that they wear pretty quickly, and you’ll need to buy a new one pretty soon.
Gel cushions — Just as the name suggests, a gel pillow consists of a foam base and a gel bladder in the middle. Individuals who have used foam and gel state that gel cushions are far better for pressure sores, and it is something which each wheelchair user wants. Moreover, gel is intended to help you with maintaining a wholesome posture, and you will be pain-free in your lower back and tailbone. On the flip side, exactly like anything else, there’s a drawback to this kind of cushions too. Gel bottoms-out, but kneading the cushion once per day may prevent that from occurring anytime soon.
Air flotation pillow — In case you do not understand what’s, let me inform you. An air flotation cushion consists of a definite number of balloons that match to keep you in a comfortable and healthful posture. You’ve got the prospect of adjusting the stress points by attaching a couple of balloons to stop them from inflating. The only drawback of this sort of cushions is maintenance. In the end, we’re referring to balloons. They could escape air, and you need to fix that when and if it occurs.
Urethane honeycomb — this is the best that you can buy, however, urethane honeycomb futon cushions are very pricey. The pillow is made of many individual cells which can offer exceptional support. The air circulates inside the pillow without difficulty, which heightens the chance of heat retention. So far as glider cushions move, urethane honeycomb will be the best money can buy.
Access points are critical for someone who is bound to a wheelchair. You need one to get outside and in the house, you require one in the office, and everywhere you go. Lucky for handicapped folks, it’s the law to put in a wheelchair ramp into every public space. On the other hand, the one that you need at home needs to be installed by you.
Surely you may find ramps in Surprise, AZ, and truth be told, they are not too expensive. However, you require someone to put in it to you because I don’t think you can manage it yourself. 1 aspect which you need to be cautious about is your wheelchair ramp incline. You would like it to be comfortable that you use. If the angle is too large, that could be difficult for you to go up, and an extremely low angle requires quite the space for the ramp, which again, it isn’t suitable. Establishing a wheelchair ramp incline is simple, and you should purchase a ramp so.
Storing your wheelchair correctly is one of the matters you ought to be conscious of. The greater you keep the seat, the longer long-lasting it will be. If you don’t use it, make sure that the wheelchair is stored in a dry and clean place. However, you may always get a wheelchair cover to assist with this. It is not expensive, and it’ll continue to keep your chair clean.
Transport is just another significant aspect if you’re in a wheelchair. After all, you can’t live at a one-mile radius for the remainder of your life. Luckily, you’ve got loads of choices. First of all, you can use a bus. The car has a lifting system which can help you enter and exit your vehicle. It’s quite convenient, and while this kind of car is custom made (most of the instances) and perhaps somewhat expensive, it will improve your mobility. And then let’s not forget on your own sanity. If you remain isolated, then you are able to go through melancholy. A wheelchair van will make possible for you to escape your comfort zone and then interact more.
furthermore, if you prefer to travel regardless of your disability, you can use a wheelchair RV. It’s pretty much the same as the wheelchair van, but rather than a car, you receive an RV. You may travel anywhere you want, and you receive the help you want to have in and out of the car. A wheelchair RV is definitely the best method of travel for a disabled individual.
While I am aware that it’s a challenge to reside in a wheelchair that does not mean that your life is finished. You can do plenty of other items to keep yourself entertained, and you can still be a successful part of society. It is possible to always have hobbies and whatnot. For example, you can play wheelchair football, which is very popular today. It’s pretty much like regular football, but rather than running after the fall, you pursue it on wheels. Wheelchair soccer is definitely something you need to think about.
If futon soccer is not your cup of java, you can join a wheelchair soccer team. Surely you will find a few roughly Surprise, AZ. Their sports events are fun, and you can enjoy yourself a wonderful thing. Not to mention that you get to work out. What you will need to remember is that you’re able to keep yourself amused. All you have to do is find several actions for handicapped people in Surprise, AZ and combine.
Wheelchairs aren’t complicated, and after getting the hang of your seat, it is going to become like an extension of your body. However, bear in mind these things: prevent automobile leasing, compare the costs, and mind the wheelchair weight. At exactly the exact same time, do not forget about the glider accessories, and end up a great means of transport. As always, don’t forget to enjoy each and every day of your life. If you cannot change anything, then you need to be wise enough to accept it and take advantage of this. You’ll be happier for it. That I can guarantee.


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Misrule. A tale of fae and feudalism.
Our great nation of England lies in peril. My King, Henry Plantagenet, is dead. His Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine is absent waging her holy crusade in the holy lands, taking much of our armed might with her. A rebellion is stirring in the North. Thieves and cut-throats plague the roads, and dark beasts continue to emerge from the wilds.
In the absence of an anointed ruler, and in the face of the many threats to the realm, I, Rosamund Clifford, declare myself regent.
If you are receiving this letter, I offer you an opportunity to serve your Country. Or if that does not motivate you, an opportunity to better yourself whilst serving the realm. Attend me at Godstow Abbey near Oxford on the final evening of summer if you wish to learn more.
Since the death of Henry II three months ago, England has reverted to a lawless and savage society not seen since the struggles following the death of Arthur. Whilst he was alive, Henry II, with his vassal knights, travelling courts, justices and habit of turning up unexpectedly, kept the system working. However with his death, and Queen Eleanor away with most of the nobility and their retainers on crusade, the country is leaderless and in a weak military position. Those who remain are largely peasants: farmers, minor traders and crafters, or outlaws, inquisitors, pagan worshippers of the Old Gods, and other assorted villeins.
The feudal system had provided structure: from Henry the nobles held their land, and from the nobles the freemen held theirs. With the throne of England vacant an argument can be made that nobody has the right to hold any title over any area of land. Were the nobility here this argument would be soon quashed and the rumourmongers tortured and executed, but few people are left able to enforce their rights with violence, and the concept that property belongs to those who can grab it is spreading. English law has a lot to say about property rights and little about personal rights: the only protection a peasant or freeman knows is that of his lord and his lord’s paid knights, and they are away fighting across Europe.
There may be no recognisable country left when they return.
Into this void, rumours spread that the King’s mistress Rosamund Clifford has declared herself Regent, and - against all good conscience - formed a pact with the Faerie to 'help' the realm.
Misrule is the Oxford University RPG Society's Society Game for Michaelmas 2015/Hilary 2016. Players play a members of the lower classes who have been recruited to act as agents of the regent to stabilise the country. This has put you in a position to dramatically improve your own position, and to reforge England anew - perhaps even working against the Regent's wishes.
If you are new to roleplaying, welcome! We recommend you start at the Introduction page. Or if you'd rather dive into the details, explore the setting using the menu, then send us a character using the rules given in Character Creation.
The first session on Tuesday 13th October will be dedicated to character generation, with assistance on hand for new members.
Sessions run Tuesdays 7.30pm-11pm at the Cooper Dean Room in St Hugh's College.

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text: A power to lay and collect taxes at discretion, is, in itself, of very great importance. By means of taxes, the government may command the whole or any part of the subject's property. Taxes may be of various kinds; but there I a strong distinction between external and internal taxes. External taxes are import duties, which are laid on imported goods; they may usually be collected in a few seaport towns, and of a few individuals, though ultimately paid by the consumer; a few officers can collect them, and they can be carried no higher than trade will bear, or smuggling permit -- that in the very nature of commerce, bounds are set to them. But internal taxes, as poll and land taxes, excises, duties on all written instruments, etc., may fix themselves on every person and species of property in the community; they may be carried to any lengths, and in proportion as they are extended, numerous officers must be employed to assess them, and to enforce the collection of them. In the United Netherlands the general government has complete powers, as to external taxation; but as to internal taxes, it makes requisitions on the provinces. Internal taxation in this country is more important, as the country is so very extensive As many assessors and collectors of federal taxes will be above three hundred miles from the seat of the federal government, as will be less. Besides, to lay and collect taxes, in this extensive country, must require a great number of congressional ordinances, immediately operating upon the body of the people; these must continually interfere with the state laws, and thereby produce disorder and general dissatisfaction, till the one system of laws or the other, operating on the same subjects, shall be abolished. These ordinances alone, to say nothing of those respecting the militia, coin, commerce, federal judiciary, etc., will probably soon defeat the operations of the state laws and governments.


text: Beautiful third acre lot, with extremely fine landscape, pond & stream, fire pit, pergola and amazing entertain space inside and outside. Oversized triple car garage, five comfortable bedrooms plus an office. Huge Master Suite on the main floor, soaring vaults everywhere exceptionally appointed kitchen and features throughout. Private section of town with a great feeling of separation and independence. The bonus room/gaming rm includes projector media and drop down big screen, vaulted ceiling and Cascade Mountain view!


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Children Creative Workshop with Indian and Scandinavian Artists at Botkyrka Schools, Sweden.
How do we raise children's thoughts on global warming through art?
An exciting creative workshop related to the arts and environment. Twenty-known artists from India and the Nordic countries, teachers and pupils from all primary and secondary schools in Botkyrka gathering together to think about climate change, nature and environment through the creative arts! Special guest, Dr. Mike Pandey, noted filmaker and conservationist from India.


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My friend has a golf treble where 2 legs have come in and 3rd leg is Brooks Koepka who is leading by 2. He would win £82,000 if he wins but given his odds are 6/5 he'd rather lock in a £35,000 profit. Skybet have refused to make any offer to close the bet which is bizarre but to fully lay the bet off on Betfair he needs to find £55,000 in the next few hours. Anyone had a similar issue and found a solution?
If anyone is interested, due to Skybet not confirming they would pay out, my friend never laid it off! Hopefully they will pay out.
They have banned him from golf betting now though, bastards.
I'd be withdrawing that ASAP. I hope he already has.
Yeah, he has although takes 2-5 days to arrive in the account.


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Thank you all for spreading the word and raising your voices regarding The Roundabout Theatre's use of brownface in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" as well as the lack of actors of color being cast in their shows. We are happy to announce that The Roundabout has accepted our offer to meet and discuss these issues. If you haven't yet expressed your opinion on these matters, feel free to do so via the Roundabout FB page: www.facebook.com/RoundaboutTheatreCompany. We will keep you abreast of any further developments.
However, we would assert that if these characters came from the British colonies of Jamaica or Cameroon, and not the British colony of Ceylon (now present day Sri Lanka), blackface would never have been utilized in the same casual way. Today, you would never see a white actor in blackface playing the title role in "Othello" with the excuse of, “oh, well, that’s what was done in Shakespeare’s day.” We wonder why minstrelsy is acceptable when it comes to Asians?
Until there is conscious attention given to these issues throughout the industry, opportunities for American actors of Asian descent--and all actors of color-- will never be truly equal.


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Although handles for the Lyman Devastator Hollow Point Pistol Bullet Mould are sold separately, this is still an excellent bargain for reloading and casting. This 9mm, 0.356 diameter, and 124 grain mould is constructed from solid leaded steel, machined for a smooth surface.
The mould is heat treated and, for years of casting service, features alignment pins made from hardened steel. The solid steel sprue plate has been ground flat and tightened using spring washers and screws of tempered steel. As a bonus, it takes half the time to break in the mould compared to those made from iron.


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Brighton boss Chris Hughton says that his side will need to be wary of Huddersfield Town’s versatile attacking style in their Premier League clash this weekend.
West Yorkshire is not a happy hunting ground for Hughton’s men, and the south coast outfit have tasted defeat on their previous two visits to the John Smith’s Stadium.
The away side are in relatively poor form having picked up only one point in their last three games, and Hughton was disappointed to allow 10-men Leicester City an equaliser last weekend after Glenn Murray had put the home team in front with an early goal.
Hughton is aware the Terriers can mix it with a direct style, as well as being capable of fluid counter-attacking performances like the superb win at Molineux last weekend, when Aaron Mooy's double proved decisive.
He sent a message to his side they will need to raise the bar to take the three points back to Sussex.
“We need to be good in possession and we need to be a threat going there.” he said.
“They have changed some aspects of their game. They are capable at times of going a little bit longer to the front than perhaps before and they can adapt their game.
Town boss David Wagner is hoping to continue the turnaround in results, with the Terriers unbeaten in three and looking for their third win in four games.
He has Mathias Zanka Jorgensen ready to return to the starting line-up after suspension, but will make late decisions on both Terence Kongolo, who was injured in the Wolves game, and striker Laurent Depoitre, who has a groin niggle.
The only player definitely ruled out is left-back Chris Lowe, who has a shoulder ligament injury.


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Those who read a great deal whether for pleasure, work or study have experienced the unpleasant side effects that long hours of reading can cause to many different parts of the body. We may put our bodies in the most stressful positions and circumstances and tend to ignore the physical signs until the discomfort becomes intolerable.
The common effects are burning of the eyes, neck pain and pain in the upper back or between the shoulder blades. There are probably no other activities that engage us in such prolonged motionless postures as reading and watching television. The result can create havoc on the eyes and musculoskeletal system.
Lengthy reading should therefore be avoided under circumstances where one has little control over lighting conditions and seating arrangements.
The best means of illumination for reading are narrow beam adjustable lights with a metal head. Halogen lamps are a fire hazard due to their high operating temperatures and therefore are not recommended. Ideally, the bulb should not be visible from the sides. Overhead ceiling or ambient lights are inappropriate for reading and only cause eyestrain due to insufficient concentration of the beam.
All reading material should be positioned as close as possible to eye level as this maintains the cervical spine or neck in its correct neutral posture.
Probably the worst postural habit we have while reading is looking downward for extended periods of time. This is sure to bring on intense upper back and neck pain. The solution is to prop the book on a tilted reading stand or a bookstand that sits on the desktop. The platform of the stand should have an adjustable tilt and the height of the stand should be adjustable.
In libraries where we have little control over what is available it is usually more practical to use a portable bookstand. Holding a book with the hands totally supported by arms and shoulders will also quickly bring on fatigue and discomfort in the arms and shoulders. If the reading material is held upright with the hands then the arms and shoulders should be supported.
The chair that you use depends on your reading environment. Aside from your bed your personal chair should be the most important piece of furniture in the house. It should be versatile enough to serve as a place to relax, watch television or read for hours in comfort. It should support the entire spine and include a footrest that is separate from the chair itself. An ideal chair does not force the spine to conform to the chair but contours to the spine as you adjust or change sitting position.
The average person probably spends half of his day sitting at their workplace. In our information based economy more and more people sit for the greater part of the day. For this reason home and office chairs are being realized as playing a major role in our overall health. Throughout the day we are continually shifting our postures to redistribute the gravitational loads on our spines. This causes the recruitment of different muscle groups and ligaments that support the spine to share the load.
A good reading chair would allow us to shift in and out of different positions and recline while having our arms supported by well-padded arm rests. We know that as we recline in our chair there is a dynamic change in the shape of the upper and lower spine and the seat back needs to be flexible enough to change it's shape with the spine and provide sufficient support at the same time.
Implementing the ergonomic principles stated above and increasing our level of comfort afford us with longer hours of productive reading with less stress on our bodies. Reading should be a rewarding experience and not a painful one.


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The trailer for the tenth episode of Season 4 of The CW show, The Originals, has been released. The episode is titled “Phantomesque” and will air on June 2, 2017.
Inside Look at Disneyland’s “Frozen – Live at the Hyperion”!
Previous story Jared Padalecki Relaunches ‘Always Keep Fighting’ Campaign – Part 2!


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Re-calculating is a one-man show that offers a rare glimpse into the lived experience of disability. Featuring Dave Symington, an actor who lives with quadriplegia, Re-calculating candidly explores the maturation of a middle aged drummer. Dave’s amazing live drumming is a catalyst for memory, an emotional outlet, and is used to negotiate the central question of identity.
Re-calculating offers an intimate conversation that challenges our biases around disability. Co-written by Lucas Foss and Liesl Lafferty, and directed by Jeffrey Renn, this show is a rare opportunity to experience a stage character played by a person who has lived with disability for over thirty years.
Genuine, revelatory, and sometimes hilarious, Re-calculating will have you leaving the theatre doing some ‘re-calculating’ of your own.
Re-calculating premiered in Vancouver at CBC Studio 700 in January 2015.
Please contact rena@realwheels.ca or call 604.322.7325 to book touring shows.
Visit our Media Page to download the Re-calculating Electronic Press Kit.


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Traveling is one of the best activities in the world and the reasons for this are numerous. Apart from it being one of the easiest way to get to meet New people from around the world and learn about their culture, traveling also has a lot of health benefits. It opens your mind and broadens your horizon.
When you travel you discover so many exciting places to see and so many fun activities to try out. Who wouldn’t want that?
The challenge most people face with travelling is finding affordable and cheap travel agencies and cheap travel agency websites where they can book cheap flights and still have great service. The good news is that there are a lot of good travel agency websites that provide great service on a budget.
Let’s face it, some people are newbies in the whole world of traveling and have no idea what a travel agency is, that’s why I’m here to help you out.
A travel agency is simply a service or an agency that makes the necessary travel arrangements for travelers. Planning a trip can be a Time consuming and complicated process that’s why travel agencies exist to take the strain off you.
1: BOOK FLIGHTS: a good travel agency can help you book flights, car rentals, hotel reservations etc. When you are planning a trip you can find a Travel Agency Website near you. This agencies can help you book a flight and make all the necessary documentation required for you to travel to your dream destination.
2: THEY OFFER SERVICES TAILORED TO MEET YOUR NEEDS: are you planning a casual Trip a business trip or leisure holiday? A good travel agency website would offer packages that cover all or most of the things you need to do in other to have a successful fun-filled vacation.
3: THEY MAKE SUGGESTIONS ON TRAVEL DESTINATIONS: travel agencies have worked over the years with tons of travelers from different parts of the world and encountered various personality types as a result they are able to make suggestions on the best travel plans a client should opt for, best destinations to see based on a client’s budget, accommodation suggestion, car rentals and even tips on how to survive under various weather conditions. They inform the client on the necessary documents they would be needing for a particular destination.
Travelstart: this is Africa’s leading travel agency which is based in cape Town and has offices spread across Africa and the middle East. Travelstart offers a lot of amazing services on a budget, they give information on latest flight specials, offer low airfares on international and domestic flights vehicle hire options from top car rental companies and hotel reservations bookable for properties on every continent.
TripAdvisor: looking for a travel agency website that gives detailed reviews on the best attraction sites, hotel bookings, and travel information? Then TripAdvisor is worth a look! This website gives detailed reviews on travel related issues.
Google flights: Google never fails to come in handy all the time! Google flight is also one great option you can try out when looking for cheap flights, best Travel destinations and any other detailed information about travel that you may be looking for.
smarTours: an amazing travel agency website that takes the burden of preparing for a trip to any one of your favorite destinations off your back. They have a team of experts who have detailed information on the best places to visit, best hotel prices, where to stay and the special offers available that a budget traveler can take advantage of when planning a trip. They also have a great website that is easy to access and navigate.
How has your experience been with travel agency websites? What’s your favorite travel agency?


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4G smartphones are set to beat 1 Billion shipments this year, IDC says it’s because emerging markets are playing catch up.
However, the latest forecast from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that while growth remains positive, it is down significantly from the 10.4% growth in 2015.
IDC has also found that 4G smartphones are still expected to show double-digit growth at 21.3% year-over-year globally for 2016, reaching 1.17 billion units, up from 967 million in 2015.
Much of this growth is coming from emerging markets like Asia Pacific (APAC) where only 61% of 2015 smartphone shipments were 4G-enabled.
"It's been a long slog for 4G uptake in many emerging markets as 4G data tariffs have long been very expensive compared to 3G, while 4G handsets themselves have also been relatively pricey across the board," says Melissa Chau, associate research director with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Device Trackers.
"We are quickly seeing this change in key growth markets like India where new operator Reliance Jio is aggressively trying to shake up the market by handing out free 4G SIM cards and launching own-branded low-cost 4G-enabled smartphones."
The push to 4G is not only limited to smartphones, but IDC says it will also provide a temporary boost to the shrinking feature phone market.
In IDC's short-term forecast, 4G feature phones will feature in emerging markets like APAC, as well as in mature markets like the U.S.
"As we approach the holiday quarter smartphone marketing has picked up significantly across almost all regions as expected," says Ryan Reith, program vice president with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Device Trackers.
"In North America and Western Europe, Google has been putting a significant amount of marketing dollars behind the new Pixel and Pixel XL, although early supply chain indications are that volumes are not at the point where Samsung or Apple should see a significant impact for Q4,” he explains.
“Of course, as we head into 2017 this can change, but many eyes will be on Google to see how serious they are about pursuing the hardware play."


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Stanton Andrews Architects appeared at Homebuilding & Renovating Show NEC from Stanton Andrews on Vimeo.
Stanton Andrews appeared at the NEC over the weekend at the Homebuilding & Renovating Show.
It is the first time we have taken a stand at a show and therefore it was a jump into the unknown for us. We have returned to the office feeling very positive about the experience. We were able to talk to many people. Many visitors to our stand came already supplied with information and plans for us to discuss with them. Some were making initial forays into their development and just needed some general advice.


text: We put a lot of love into our chocolate boxes. So much so, that it can take up to 100 people to make just one of them. It’s a lot of work, but when you give them a try – we think you’ll agree it’s worth it.


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Cyanotype is an antique photo process invented in the 1840s. It was popularized by Biologist Anna Atkins as a beautiful and practical way to make images of plant specimens in the field. Cyanotype was widely used to make blueprints until digital processing became commonplace.
Naomi Friend uses Cyanotype combined with digital photography to create a meld of old and new images and methods. She takes digital pictures and uses Photoshop to create digital negatives, or a reverse tone image printed on transparency. The negative is layered on paper, fabric, or wood sensitized with the chemistry and exposed under UV light or the sun. The result is washed in water and the print is finished.


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Through our partnership with SaveRxCanada.to, we are committed to providing affordable medications to all of our customers, and we do so by sourcing our medicines from around the world, where pricing regulations often keep the cost of medicines lower than at your local pharmacy. By providing customers worldwide with quality brand and generic medications for the past many years, we have built a strong reputation based on trust, reliability, and affordability. Orders can be placed directly on our website using our secure shopping cart system, or you can also order your medications by telephone or fax. Save on Salvent and other prescription drugs like Abilify, Celexa, Crestor, Lipitor, Lunesta, Prevacid, Provigil, Lunesta, Tamoxifen, Zyprexa.
Many towns, cities and states are encouraging their citizens to consider buying Salvent and other prescription medications outside USA.


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I'm using a mathematic gradient algorithm for calculations of stuff. This algorithm has to run every couple of milliseconds. At the moment, I'm creating a thread and use the Thread.Sleep() command like this.
As far as I've seen, Thread.Sleep() is called a beginner's tactic and "one should do it better", but I have evaluated and tested the common alternatives, and they're not suitable for a delay of around 1 ms. Basically, my question is: Is there a proper or better way to have a sharp 1 ms delay between function calls, at best including the algorithm calculation time, on multiple platform?
5 ms would also be suitable and are actually used by now. But I would have it dependent on the system and its power. I has to be way faster than FixedUpdate() and should not be calculated here, as I don't want to mess with all physics due to that.
We intend to use this on these platforms: Windows, Mac, Android, iOs.

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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Whether you want a simple light show, a full-blown lighting extravaganza or anything else in-between, we can help create the atmosphere you want for your event.
DHE Productions are here to create your show and deliver a custom spec package throughout the entire process. Matching your theme or aesthetic whether it is a festival, fashion show or a corporate event.
Contact us to discuss your requirements and ideas for your event.
High quality aluminium PAR 56 Can, available in a black or polished finish. A filter frame is provided for holding coloured gels, cans are designed to be used with sealed beam lamps. The PAR Can comes complete with silicon cable, GX16d ceramic lamp holder, lamp retaining ring and IEC plug.
High quality aluminium PAR 64 Can, available in a black or polished finish. A filter frame is provided for holding coloured gels. These cans are designed to be used with sealed beam lamps or Raylight reflectors. The Par Can comes complete with silicon cable, GX16d ceramic lamp holder and lamp retaining ring. Barn Doors are also available for long nose Par Cans.
LED Slim Par, The Visage range is a state of the art family of LED lighting fixtures offering endless colour changing possibilities to enhance your environment. Infinate colour mixing ranging from subtle pastels to deep intense hues makes these products ideal for instalation and live performances. Transform, highlight or create an atmosphere.
LED Sweeper creates exciting lighting effects with its quick sweeping beams and its 8-Zone RGBW LED chasing, pulsing and strobing LEDs. This unique fixture features 8x 8-Watt bright, Quad RGBW LEDs with a narrow 3.4 degrees beam angle, 4 DMX Channel modes and a 4-Channel LED DMX menu. May be controlled via it’s own built-in programs, a DMX Controller or the easy-to-use UC3 Controller.
The LED RGB high power 4 pixel 4-way and 8-way blinder. The unit has 16 channel DMX and has 12 built in programs (color change, strobe, variable strobe and intensity). The unit can be controlled by auto mode, sound activation, DMX or master/slave.
Stage Blinder 2 DMX is an active version of the already popular Stage Blinder 2. It has a built-in 1 channel dimmer so that the Stage Blinder can be controlled and dimmed by DMX.
Spot/Beam/Wash Moving Head fixtures features Prism Morphing, motorized zoom, motorized focus and PowerCon In/Out for daisy chaining the power. Other professional features include: Frost filter to turn the hard edge beam to a wash, 6 & 8-facet rotating prisms, stepper motors for quick, precise movement.


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February | 2019 | Good News Tree Service, Inc.
Well chosen and properly maintained street trees add much value, livability to a neighborhood and to our planet.
The following list of recommended columnar or semi-columnar street trees for the western valleys of the Pacific Northwest is the convergence of several efforts on the author’s part.
This list is the distillation—the crème de la crème—of the analysis of numerous varieties of street trees from various lists compiled by numerous people, organizations and local municipalities. The best choices, in the author’s opinion, have been carefully selected. (More suitable street trees are being added to the list as they come to the author’s attention. So what makes the author’s opinion worth anything? Glad you asked.
Nathan Lawrence, ISA Certified Arborist and a second-generation Pacific Northwest arborist and horticulturist who has been earning a living caring for trees in Northwest Oregon since 1972, has put this list together based on long experience dealing with countless varieties of trees and learning how they react in numerous situations including wind, rain, ice, snow, blights, drought, attacks from pests, construction trauma, lightening, poor growth habits, structural failures, human neglect and more.
This entry was posted in Trees and tagged Street Trees on 2019-02-21 by Nathan Lawrence.


text: Rationale: Cross & Joftus / UPD Consulting is conducting individual interviews and focus groups of district staff, school administrators, teachers, and students during the week of October 7-10 to assess district strengths and weaknesses in order to identify areas of focus for a 5 year strategic plan. The Board's feedback is important in this process, so C&J/UPD will conduct a Strategic Priorities Interview with the entire Board as a group on October 7 from 4:30 to 6:00pm. The purpose of this meeting is to gain a clearer understanding of the board's vision and strategic priorities for the school district. This information, along with all of the other information collected during this week, will be used by C&J / UPD to write a needs assessment report for the district followed by a strategic plan.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: You are about to download the S6312XXAML1_S6312ODDAML1_NPL.zip file on your computer. The file comes as a zip package and the file size is approximately 603 MB only. It was uploaded on 29/06/2017, from Myanmar. It was uploaded by the registered moderator Zaw Myo Naing, for firmwarefile.com.