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Germans spent more money on foreign trips than tourists from any other nation last year, the national tourism body DRV said on Tuesday.
BERLIN: Germans spent more money on foreign trips than tourists from any other nation last year, the national tourism body DRV said on Tuesday.
Germans shelled out "nearly 85 billion dollars" (67 billion euros) on trips in 2008, DRV president Klaus Laepple said in a speech introducing the world's largest travel fair which opens in Berlin on Wednesday.
This total - seven billion dollars more than in 2007 - combines the amount spent on transport as well as money spent at the holiday destination, Laepple added.
The most popular destination for Germans was Spain, with around 10 million tourists travelling there last year, followed by Italy and Austria.
Laepple said the tourism industry was beginning to feel the "first effects" of the global economic downturn, but added it was too soon to draw general conclusions.
"Germans are in general not giving up their holidays," he said.
Tour operators are nevertheless beginning to reduce capacity, anticipating weaker demand.
However, the sector in general "remains optimistic," Laepple said.


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Last year I decided to try something new and grew red potatoes in a garbage can. Yes, I know it sounds crazy. It was a fun experiment to see if I could do it and I did get some potatoes from it–maybe not as many as I would have liked but still I got about 10 pounds of potatoes.
Since then I have experimented with what I like to refer to as Grocery Store Gardening where I can make the most of what I already bought and create more produce for free. You can’t beat free! Being able to regrow food from scraps has made a difference in my grocery budget and could make a difference in yours, too! Remember it’s always best start out with out with local organic produce when you regrow food from scraps.
Here are 7 Ways you can Regrow Food from Scraps.
1. Onions – Green and Regular – For green onions cut the last inch off of each onion which will give you the bulb and roots. Put them in a container with a small amount of water in it so the roots are wet. Place your container near a sunny window sill. Within 3-5 days you will begin to see the onion start to grow. Cut off what you need and leave the roots in the water so you can continue to harvest your kitchen scraps. Change your water about every 5 days to keep the plant healthy.
You can also plant these in a flower pot or in your garden. Be sure to cover the bulbs completely and leave the stem sticking out above the soil. Water regularly and your green onions will continue to grow back.
For onions leave 1/2″ of the root end so you can plant these directly in a sunny place in your garden and cover them with soil. Keep the soil moist. Replant the new ends each time and you will never need to buy onions again!
2. Potatoes – Red, Regular and Sweet – Once your potatoes start sprouting, cut them into 2-inch pieces making sure each piece has a couple of eyes on them. Lay them out for 2-3 days so they can dry out and then plant them about 8 inches in composted soil with the eyes of the potato facing up. Water them and soon you will be harvesting your own potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are similar to regular potatoes except once your shoot reaches about 4 inches high, pull the shoots up and spread them out about 1 inch to give the sweet potatoes room to grow.
I have already harvested red potatoes in a garbage can and you can also use the same process for regular potatoes and sweet potatoes.
3. Ginger – Plant a cut piece of ginger in potting soil with the smallest buds or bumps facing upwards in a warm environment. Keep the soil moist by watering regularly. Before long it will start to grow new shoots and roots. To harvest the ginger dig up it up, cut off what you need and replant another piece in the soil. You’ll never run out of ginger again!
4. Garlic – You can regrow garlic from just a leftover clove or two. Plant them in a sunny spot in the soil with the root-end down. Once the garlic bulb has produced shoots, trim them off so the garlic will concentrate on the bulb. Once it’s ready to harvest, you can repeat the process with your new bulb to create an endless cycle of garlic!
Another option if you remember is to plant your garlic cloves directly in your garden while getting it ready for winter.
5. Celery – Cut the base of the celery off and place it in a shallow bowl of water near a sunny window sill. In about a week you will have sprouts and will be able to transfer the celery to soil covering everything but the leaves. Wait for the stalks to grow back and then cut off what is needed. As long as you keep the root in the ground, the celery will keep growing.
6. Herbs – cilantro, basil, lemongrass and mint. Most herbs can be regrown and used indefinitely. It helps if the roots still attached but if you aren’t able to get the roots, cut a 4-inch stem of the herb and put it in a glass of water and place in a sunny windowsill. Once the roots are about 2 inches, replant them into pots or into your garden. You can even use a recycled can planter to decorate your kitchen with your herb garden.
7. Lettuce – Take the bottom heart of the lettuce and place it in a container with enough water to cover your roots – about 1/2 inch. Put the container in a sunny window sill and replace the water every couple days. In a few days you will have roots and new leaves appear. You can start eating them when enough leaves appear. Or after about a week you could move it to your garden making sure the leaves stay above the soil. It will continue to grow and within a few weeks it will sprout a whole new head of leaves.
If you already have lettuce growing in your garden, pick the outer leaves and leave the inner leaves untouched. As long as the crown of the lettuce remains undamaged the lettuce will replenish itself and produce new leaves all season long.
Do you regrow any other food from your grocery store scraps?
Hi, I have a cooking onion that is sprouting. Can I regrow that so it can produce more cooking onions? And if so how do I go about doing that, pls. ?
Can I put a whole white sweet onion that’s started to sprout green sprouts from the top of it in a container with a little water ?…And can you use the green sprouts growing out the top in food dishes ?….
i live in michigan, would all of these things work in doors during the winter, so that i had one continuous growing cycle, do you think?
yes I have grown bok choy, coriander, spring onions and spinach from the roots. However, the replanted plant usually does not survive. There is the issue of small mosquitoes breeding in the water with vegetables.
I love being able to regrow vegetables. I have celery, green onions and right now I am trying regrowing carrot greens from a carrot root.
I just did this a month ago with potatoes. Now I’m doing banana peppers and cucumbers. How would I grow mint?
You can regrow mint the same way as the other herbs. Take about 4-inch of stem and clean off the leaves from it. Put it in some water until the roots come (about a week or two) and then replant it in soil. When I did mint before it took longer than my other herbs but be patient and it will grow to a great plant!
I plant my scallions from the scraps, I really love your blog and cant wait to try the potatoes,celery ,and lettuce! I cook ALL the time and love re-using any an all scraps;) Thank you for such wonderful tips!!
Be careful with mint. Is will absolutely take over! Keep it contained in some way.

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Holiday travellers making use of SANRAL’s i-Traffic system now have access to new features that will enable them to better plan their journeys and avoid congestion on the country’s freeways.
“Realtime information on road conditions, congestion and estimated travel times contributes greatly to road safety at a time when the national road network is at its busiest,” says Vusi Mona, the spokesperson of the South African National Roads Agency SOC (Ltd). “People are now able to plan and tailor their journeys according to off-peak periods and be aware about crashes or congestion on the road ahead.
Prospective new users can log into the i-Traffic network through the website https://www.i-traffic.co.za.
* A single adaptive display that will automatically align itself with the device being used. I-Traffic users will no longer need to log on to separate mobile sites when using computers, tablets or smart phones.
* An updated tool for trip planning and congestion alerts. The system now provides estimated door-to-door travel times and incident alerts based upon the user’s unique profile.
* A new “My Cameras” feature which enables users to add their most frequently viewed cameras to the i-traffic.co.za homepage.
* A better user experience and improved usability when accessing the website.
Mona says i-Traffic is South Africa’s most advanced traffic information system covering the primary roads in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. Users are able to see road conditions, incidents and congestion prior to the start of their journeys and receive real time alerts when conditions change.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) was introduced by SANRAL to meet the growing need among road users to have access to accurate, real-time information about road conditions. The system is also linked to SANRAL’s emergency response units and On-road services, further contributing to road safety.
At the core of the system is a number of closed-circuit television cameras placed at strategic positions along the highways. The collected images and data are then relayed to traffic management centres where the information is disseminated and analysed.
When road conditions change, or incidents occur the information is posted on overhead electronic signposts, known as variable message signs and posted on the website while registered users receive alerts on their devices.
Mona says the new changes are also contributing to the gathering of additional traffic and incident data that will be used for future planning. Decision-makers will be able to use this data to gain insights into critical traffic hot spots and the impact of variables such as weather conditions, time of day, network flow and speeds.
There are already live CCTV feeds of the system to the Cape Town International Airport Management Centre and the Public Emergency Communication Centre (107) in Cape Town.
SANRAL will also provide live feeds to other transport management professionals in other entities such as the Road Traffic Management Corporation, and provincial and local governments over time.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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This flawless, immaculate log home is situated on a level bald at the pinnacle of Pond Mountain at 4,900' elevations with drop-dead views in all directions! The home, with a rock fireplace uses wood throughout to accent the rustic location of the home. Features and amenities in the home far exceed the expectations of most, and include a temperature/humidity monitoring security system, a 10kw propane backup generator with automated switching, 1,000 gallon propane underground storage, and many other fine details. A 30'X40' metal storage building makes storage of your tractor/ATV handy. Buyer to verify square footage, livable area, zoning & Conservation Easement restrictions based on intended property use.
This property is a listing of Mountain Land Company.

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Northgate take data privacy seriously and will only use your information in accordance with the policy below. This means we will adhere to the relevant legislations whilst doing our best to provide you with the best level of service and security.
This policy sets out how and why we store, process and delete your data and gives you information on how to contact us to view, correct or delete that data.
Northgate Vehicle Sales Limited, Northgate Centre, Lingfield Way, Darlington, DL1 4PZ (company number 02337128).
We take our obligations under privacy and data protection law very seriously. This policy sets out how we will use and process the personal information that you, or third parties, provide to us or we collect from you.
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4) where we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information. We have a legitimate interest where we may wish to contact you about products or services, market to you, or collaborate with others to improve our services.
to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others.
You have the right to ask us to restrict processing of your personal data and a right to object to our processing of your personal data in this way. If you exercise either of these rights you may not be able to make full use of our Site and/or we may not be able to provide you with information that you have requested us to provide to you.
We will take a copy of your driving licence if you are the person hiring a vehicle from us (either in your own right or on behalf of an organisation) when the vehicle hire commences. We will also need a copy of the driving licence of all other named drivers. We retain a copy of the driving licence for some of the purposes set out above.
We and other companies within our group may also use your personal information to contact you by e-mail, telephone, post, SMS and other electronic means (including social media), with information about services (including improvements we have made to our services), industry news, industry relevant legislation changes, promotions and offers that may be of interest to you. We may use your personal information in order to establish the services, promotions and offers that are likely to be of interest to you. We will do this marketing in accordance with any preferences you have indicated to us.
Please see the Rights in Relation to Personal Information section for information as to how to change your marketing preferences. You can also choose to stop receiving marketing e-mails or SMS messages from us by clicking on the opt out link in the SMS or e-mail and following the relevant instructions. Any changes you make to your communication preferences will be processed by us within two working days of our receipt of your instruction; however, you may still receive non-essential communications in the intervening time between the submission of your change and when we process that change.
we may aggregate user information so that it is impossible from the aggregated set of data to identify anyone individually, which is valuable to us for the purposes of analysing market trends. You confirm that you consent to us viewing, monitoring, collecting and recording information input by you into our Site, and to our dealing with it on an aggregated basis, in a manner that does not identify you or attribute any particular information to you. You also agree to us collating, compiling, reformatting, reproducing, adapting, translating, arranging, publishing, selling, distributing, dealing with or otherwise commercially exploiting any part of such information or otherwise making it available to any third party on such terms as we deem appropriate. Please rest assured that this will not include personal data.
We have in place appropriate technical and security measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful access to or use of, or accidental loss of or destruction or damage to your information. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You are responsible for protecting against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer and we ask you not to share a password with anyone. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data including by taking the security measures we are required to by Data Protection Legislation, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
To obtain further details and a copy of the appropriate safeguards please contact the DPO.
credit reference agencies (for further information see the Credit Reference Check Policy below).
As stated above, we may commercially exploit any anonymised or aggregated information on the basis that no individuals are identified or identifiable.
We may install devices in your vehicles which track the whereabouts of the vehicle and provide other information about the vehicle (including for example the way it is driven). These devices are either supplied directly by us (“Northgate Telematics Devices”) or by a third party where requested by an account customer (“Third Party Tracking Devices”). If you are unclear as to the basis on which tracking devices are supplied please contact us using the details below or contact the relevant account customer.
We may disclose tracking information collected by these devices to our group companies, the relevant hire or fleet management customer and to law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies and other third parties.
information about the way the vehicle is driven if an incident occurs in relation to that vehicle (for example if an accident occurs) to assist with our internal investigations and to assist our insurers in relation to the incident (if applicable).
Our fleet management customers and hire customers may have direct access to any telematics information from devices in vehicles leased to those customers and use it for their own purposes which may include identifying training requirements for drivers and improving the efficiency of their fleet of vehicles. Please ask the business on whose behalf you are driving our vehicle directly for further information about the purposes for which they use the information.
Third Party Tracking Devices are installed on request from the relevant account customer. Our use of the information collected by the Third Party Tracking Devices is on behalf of the relevant account customer who will dictate what information is collected. This may include, for example, mileage and location information and other information about the vehicle (including the way it is driven). The provider of the Third Party Tracking Devices will disclose tracking information collected by these devices directly to the relevant account customer. We do not use this tracking information for our own purposes and the data controller in relation to this information is the relevant account customer. To the extent that we access and use any of this information we do so on behalf of the account customer as a data processor. The relevant account customer is responsible for making you aware that a device is included in any vehicle that you drive which is hired from us and the purposes for which the account customer will use the information from the Third Party Tracking Devices. For further detail about how this information will be used please contact the relevant account customer directly.
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms on which we may participate on are subject to the terms, conditions and privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively. We will never ask for personal information through social media platforms and we encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact us through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email. Our site may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. You are advised before using such social sharing buttons that you do so at your own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and/or save your request to share a web page through your social media platform account.
vi) a right to lodge a complaint about how we treat your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you want to exercise any of the above rights you should contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details in the Introduction section above.
If you agree to be added to our mailing list, we will keep your personal information for that purpose unless and until you tell us that you want to unsubscribe or be removed from the list. If you advise that you do not want to be added to our mailing list or you ask to be removed, we will delete your personal data (aside from keeping a record that you have asked us not to send you marketing information).
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our site in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our site.
Where you have given us consent to use your personal information in any way, you have a right to withdraw that consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, this does not affect the lawfulness of our processing activities carried out prior to such withdrawal. If you would like to withdraw your consent either follow the unsubscribe links in emails we send you or contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details in the Introduction section above.
This policy applies if you are hiring a vehicle under an established account or an account is being set up in order to permit you to hire vehicles and in each case if you are not paying in advance for the vehicle hire. In this section “Customer” means the business hiring a vehicle from us or you, if you are hiring the vehicle for yourself.
We will search credit reference agencies for information on Customers which may include carrying out a search on you personally. In so doing we will provide current and previous names, addresses and dates of birth, of all relevant parties, so if you are providing information about third parties, you must be sure that you have the agreement of those third parties. If false or inaccurate information is given and we identify fraud, details may be passed to credit reference and fraud prevention agencies.
We will use the information provided to us by credit reference agencies to help make decisions about whether to open an account, to verify identity, for the prevention and detection of fraud and/or money laundering, and to manage accounts (including for debt recovery and cash collection purposes). We may use scoring methods to do this.
When credit reference agencies receive a search from us they will place a search “footprint” on the credit file of the Customer whether or not we decide to open an account. This “footprint” may be seen by other organisations when the Customer applies for credit in the future and may affect the Customer’s ability to obtain credit elsewhere in the near future.
Credit reference agencies will supply us with public information such as County Court Judgements (CCJs) and bankruptcies, electoral register information and fraud prevention information on applicants’ (and their known financial associates), current and previous names, addresses and dates of birth.
we will check relevant financial associates' personal accounts as well.
Links between financial associates will remain on your file and the file of your financial associates until such time as you or the relevant financial associate files for a disassociation with the credit reference agencies.
How data will be used by credit reference agencies?
undertake statistical analysis and system testing.
Credit reference agencies can also be fraud prevention agencies.
CreditSafe, Customer Help Desk, Bryn House, Caerphilly Business Park, Van Road, Caerphilly CF83 3GR, or call 02920886500.
Experian, Consumer Help Service, PO Box 8000 Nottingham NG80 7WF or call 0844 4818000 or log on to www.experian.co.uk.
If you have any queries about the way we handle personal information please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details in the Introduction section above.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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Document management for nonprofits has to focus on record keeping. When money is changing hands, you have to be transparent in your processes. Document management for nonprofits should include document retention policies, adequate storage space, a virtual paper trail, and many ways to find documents in your system.
It’s not realistic to expect that a nonprofit will keep every document that is ever generated during its life. There’s simply too much data, even when you’re primarily using virtual space and not actual filing cabinets. However, as a nonprofit you will be expected to hold on to records a lot longer than many businesses. Additionally, wrongful deletion of a document is going to look a lot more suspicious for a nonprofit. One staff member accidentally letting a document go too early may be innocent, but in a special investigation, it could look like fraud.
Write your document retention policy in a formal document. Make sure that everyone who needs it has a copy. Keep everyone in your organization abreast, and make sure that it stays updated enough to fit your needs. In the event that anything is accidentally deleted or lost, having your documentation handy can help you show that it is not standard procedure in your nonprofit.
Finding room for all the paper documents you can’t throw away (yet) is tricky enough. You shouldn’t have to worry about having enough space to store all of your digital files. Many people who have upgraded to document management software appreciate the ability to integrate their information with cloud based technology. This typically means that you don’t run into a hard data cap. You don’t have to buy a new server or upgrade yours with extra space; you can just talk to the cloud storage provider and buy more room for your documentation.
You should always have at least two ways of finding each document in your document management software. Document management for nonprofits works best when you can account for errors. If any of your staff members misses a tag when they’re entering data into the system, multiple tags should allow you to find it. Even if the donation isn’t tagged with the event where the check was cut, you should be able to find it under the donor name or the date it was received. Avoid letting documents slip through the cracks.
When money is involved, you should track every interaction. Set up your document management software so you can create a paper trail. Every time the donation information is viewed, it should be logged. This will prevent anyone from catching peeks at things they shouldn’t see. In the event that confidentiality is accidentally breached, you’ll be able to respond right away—again, not during an audit, for example.
Document management for nonprofits focuses on organization and security. Establish your document retention policy early on, so that you have something to measure your performance against. Then add multiple ways to find every document, and a virtual paper trail to see who has had access to it. Finally, storage space should be adequate to your needs.

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The ruling marks the first time that a Russian court has acknowledged workplace discrimination against a transgender person.
In a landmark ruling, a Russian court has found that a transgender woman who lost her job at a printing press after changing the gender marker on her official ID from male to female was fired illegally.
Anna Grigoryeva had been working in her job for ten years identifying as a man, but was fired in July 2017 when she changed her official ID to acknowledge her gender transition. Her employer cited a Russian law which bars women from entering jobs in over 35 different industries deemed to be too “dangerous” or “arduous” for female involvement.
Grigoryeva sued her employer for discrimination, beginning a case that has taken two years to win. This Tuesday, the Frunze District Court in Saint Petersburg ruled that she was unlawfully fired.
As well as ordering the printing company to give her back her job, the court awarded her 10,000 rubles (€137) in damages and 1.85 million rubles (€25,425) for the two years of wages she lost.
The law on work roles prohibited for women in Russia, which lists over 450 specific jobs, was introduced in 2000 under President Vladimir Putin. It has been criticised as a throwback to Soviet-era regulations that sought to restrict women to what the Communist Party called their “traditional” role as child-bearers – and according to a lawyer with the LGBT+ rights group Vykhod (Coming Out), Ksenia Mikhailova, its main purpose is indeed to preserve women’s ability to reproduce.
Mikhailova has praised the Russian court that ruled in favour of Grigoryeva, calling its decision that the law on women at work should not have been applied to her a step forward for Russia’s trans community. The decision, she says, will help other transgender people to gain recognition in society, defend their rights, and overcome workplace discrimination.

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The Rub' al Khali or Empty Quarter is a desert in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest sand deserts in the world. It covers an area of about 650,000 square kilometres, more than all of Holland, Belgium and France together. Some of the sand dunes are more than 250 metres high.
↑ Peter Vincent (2008). Saudi Arabia: an environmental overview. Taylor & Francis. p. 141. ISBN 978-0415413879. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
This page was last changed on 31 August 2017, at 11:09.


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Antique China and Collectibles @ Lady of the Lake.
Our selection of vintage and antique china and collectibles, collected from around the world, includes demitasse and tea cups and saucers and other pretty items that make charming gifts, and lovely accents for your Victorian, Shabby Chic, or Country style decor. These pages will be updated as we find more treasures, so do check back!
Please note: We carry only the items you see on these pages, which we restock after we go on our treasure hunts. If you are looking for additional pieces to complete your sets of china, or want to sell your china, please try Replacements, Ltd., a wonderful company that specializes in finding and selling pieces of discontinued china and silver patterns.
Sorry, we will not appraise or value your china by email. The value of any item, particularly antique and vintage items, is dependent on numerous factors such as condition, age, style, the market at the time and the motivation of the buyer and seller, little of which can be determined by email. There are many books that attempt to estimate value, and we definitely recommend checking the library or the online bookstores for a general idea of the value of your pieces.
However, you should note that by definition, "fair market value" is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy. This varies greatly when dealing with vintage collectibles. So, Aunt Martha's antique teacup with the pretty handpainted cherries could have no value to someone who is not a collector, or it could have a value of $50.00 for a general collector, or it could have a value of $75.00 for someone who is trying to replace one just like it, or it could have a value of $100.00 or more to someone who collects antique china with cherries on it and just has to have it, or it could be priceless for a seller who really loved his or her Aunt Martha and would never part with it. See what we mean?
We have vintage teacups and saucers for sale listed on Vintage Teacups Page One. They sell out very quickly. We like to keep some of the teacups and saucers we have sold up on our pages, so that we can discuss them with fellow collectors. We like talking about antique china, especially Occupied Japan teacups, which we collect. To see the teacups and china that have been sold, visit Vintage Teacups Page Two.
We sometimes sell items on eBay under the seller name lady*of*the*lake. Why not have a look to see if we have any currently listed! And, in case you would like assurance before making a purchase from our website, you can check our wonderful eBay feedback!
� Copyright 1999-2009, Lee A. Archer and Lady of the Lake Enterprises � All Rights Reserved. Jewelry designs, photographs and images on this page are protected under United States and international copyright laws, and may not be duplicated, reproduced or copied by any means without express permission from Lee A. Archer.


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2016 - 2018: VVOB, The Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance: Built the capacity of staff at the South African Council of Educators (SACE) to develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation framework to measure organization-wide performance and to track the rollout of the Continuous Professional Teacher Development system.
2016 - 2017: Sumbandila Trust: Developed an M&E framework to track the implementation of an ICT initiative in Limpopo, and then supported the organization with the implementation of it.
2013 - 2014: EvalPartners: Development and maintenance of an online toolkit to support Voluntary Organizations for Evaluation (VOPE’s) aimed at assisting with increasing their governance and activity levels.
2013: DG Murray Trust: Technical support for the development of a web-based M&E knowledge resource for community-based organizations.
2013: DPME: Co-Author of a DPME (South Africa’s Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation) guidance document on Diagnostic Evaluation for use by government officials.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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There's no layer angle expression yet.
The trick is to set a variable that will contain the angle of the layer and that the layer angle can be set to.
By default the angle is 0, so just create a global variable and use it.

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> I checked my Mac dictionary, and it says that kibitzing refers to someone who is not playing giving advice. That's what I recall from my childhood, too.
Right, a kibitzer (in chess too) is looking over your shoulder, not telling you how he's going to move or bet or what he has in his hand.  I suppose you can coffeehouse in chess as well, if you're playing; seems like something Bobby Fischer would have done.


text: This book is one of a series that use a "search n shade" technique to create a fun way to learn and reinforce mathematical concepts. Students use a shading code to shade a grid on which answers to exercises are found. If the excercise answers are correct, a symmetrical design develops. Contains 40 activity pages ranging in content from the use of metric and imperial or customary units of measure to right triangle trigonometry. For use between years 7 and 11.


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A Portarlington man has had to be airlifted to Tallaght Hospital following a workplace accident.
It is understood that the man, who is aged in his 40s, was injured after being trapped under a truck he had been working on in an engineering works on the Canal Road on Thursday morning, August 27.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in the Laois town and as soon as he was safely freed he was transferred to Tallaght.
While the nature or extent of his injuries are not known at this time, Tallaght is a regional orthopaedic trauma centre.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Session Date: Friday 26 June 2015. Continued from previous session.
After dispatching the giants guarding the road to Xin-Shalast, the heroes followed the road until they entered a valley containing the most amazing sight they had ever seen: a city of massive proportions filled the valley, all the way up to the stern face of Ruenlord Karzoug looking down from the mountainside. Part of the city was destroyed by some volcanic activity, but most of the city was more-or-less intact.
To enter the city, the heroes had to get through an ancient black fortress that must have once acted as the gates to the city. While the gates themselves stood open, the fortress was not unguarded. Despite Ciaran’s attempts at diplomacy, the twitchy lamia-kin guards decided it would be better to slay the intruders than risk the wrath of their superiors. They started the fight by scaring their herd of aurochs into a stampede. Radha responded by trying to reroute the stampede. Unfortunately the panicking animals crashed into one another, causing a rather gruesome and pitiful pile-up in the midst of the battle with the guards.
Between the guards and the stampeding aurochs, the battle was a chaotic one, but the heroes eventually managed to finish off the guards. Most of the aurochs managed to escape, and the heroes were free to enter the city. Up close, it was clear that the city was not quite as magnificent as it had appeared from a distance. Many of the buildings were in poor repair, though many had held up rather well over the past 10,000 years.
A little way into the city, the party came upon some frost giants who appeared to be hunting something. Their wolves were frantically trying to get into an abandoned basement, but were too large to fit. The heroes offered their help, and found a terrified skulk – a humanoid creature with some camouflaging abilities – named Morgiv. In exchange for saving him from the giants, Morgiv offered the heroes refuge and as much information as he and his people could offer.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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With the social world evolving, it’s becoming harder and harder to reach everyone on social media. Gone are the days when it was a straight battle between two, massive networks. Now, social networks are becoming increasingly segmented in terms of age and gender.
Enter Snapchat. The first social network for some time to overtake Facebook as the most popular social network among 12-24 year olds. It’s no wonder Facebook-owned Instagram wanted a piece of the action, recently introducing a Snapchat inspired ‘Story’ feature. But what is it that made Snapchat the next big thing?
By making all the content on Snapchat perishable, they’ve made the content must see. It requires a different kind of engagement than something like Twitter, as everything you’re seeing on Snapchat is temporary. Unless, what you’re snapping is so interesting that it deserves to go on your story, in which case it’s available to view for 24 hours with anything else you decide. Snapchat users crave this kind of creative freedom in order to sell their own personal story as best they possibly can, leading to a competitive culture within stories. Snapchatters are keen to show off who has the best stories, as well as one up on their friends stories.
So where does Instagram come into this? Whilst similar to Snapchat in the sense it’s a photo sharing platform, all photos on Instagram stay on there and Instagram culture differs in that the photos are often put through filters to make the photo look more professional where as Snapchat is quite the opposite, with its fun, childish (even animal) like filters and basic design tools.
How do stories fit in with Instagram then, the home of the glamour shot? It’s important to recognise that stories are in a secondary feed away from the main timeline (unless they’re shared). The moments on the story are for, perhaps, everyday moments that may not meet the traditional criteria for an Instagram post. It’s a smart way of getting users engaged with instagram, where the average number of photos shared per user has dropped.
Whilst Snapchat is still miles ahead in terms of app features, Instagram’s stripped back, simple approach may be a better option for more casual users. Avid Snapchat users will check the different filters available daily to stay ahead of the game, and will be eager to be first movers on the apps new features, which are updated regularly. Probably not something Instagram users who take pride in the aesthetical value of their photos will be too keen on.
However, Josh Constine of Tech Crunch sees a crossover for the two platforms, stating that Snapchatters won’t be able to pass up on the ‘screen real estate’ that Instagram’s stories function offers. The subtle differences between user culture may provide a new digital playground for avid Snapchatters.
There are other differences too, such as the drawing tools being slightly different. With Snapchat you have an entire spectrum of colours with a slider device, Instagram offers its colours side by side.
Is this Facebook’s attempt to stunt Snapchat’s growth, or should we be looking closer to home? Specifically, at Facebook Live? Obviously, as the biggest social network, (by some distance) Facebook should be looking to give users a reason to stay on the platform, especially as they’ve been losing their grip on millenials giving reason to cast a shadow of doubt over the future.
The Live function acts as a way of sharing video on the spot, and being able to broadcast whatever users want to show. The clever thing about Facebook Live which differentiates it from other similar platforms like Periscope is the ‘engagement graph’ which allows users who view the video to see where the broadcast had the highest engagement. This is overcoming the obstacle that many may have with live streams which is that they don’t know how long they’ll have to wait until something good happens. Facebook’s head of video, Fidji Somo noted how around two thirds of Facebook Live content that is consumed is consumed on playback, not actually live in the broadcast. This shows that there is intrigue in the platform beyond the small window of live broadcasts.
It’s interesting to see all these different platforms doing essentially the same thing, but with small nuances that can segment them to an entirely different market entirely. Instagram and Snapchat’s story functions are painfully similar (Instagram even admitted this) but the more educated social media user will see how Instagram Stories is definitely made for an older, audience, and Facebook Live could be a useful feature to engage Facebook’s dwindling younger audience. How will this segmentation continue? Will we soon start to see age gaps emerge through social media platforms? Time will tell, but until then, we’ll probably see it all unfold on Snapchat and Instagram.
James is a recent Business Marketing University Graduate. He’s been immersed within our agencies Digital Marketing team to work with exisiting clients and support the development of AB’s profile through social and content marketing. Look out for more blogs from James in the near future.


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text: Bucharest hosts some terrific – if occasionally chaotic – markets. The daddy of them all is the recently modernized Piaţa Obor (Metro Obor), which offers all sorts, from fresh produce and clothing to communist-era memorabilia; you can grab some superb mittitei here too. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings, there’s a terrific farmer’s market (Targul Ţaranului) at the intersection of B-dul Unirii and Str. Nerva Traian (tram #32 from Piaţa Unirii), where you can pick up all manner of fresh foodstuffs. Otherwise, the best of the daily food markets are Piaţa Amzei, near Piaţa Romană, and Piaţa Matache, near the Gara de Nord, the latter useful for stocking up for before a long journey. The vast Sunday-morning flea market (Târgul Vitan) on Şos. Vitan-Bârzeşti, fifteen minutes’ walk south of the Dristor I metro station (or bus #123 from Piaţa Unirii), alongside the Dâmboviţa embankment, is something to behold. Beware of pickpockets here.

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This apartment is located in the heart of the small fishing port of Cassis, in the heart of the National Park of the Calanques. shops are less than 400 meters away and you will enjoy a free private parking.
Rich with its exceptional heritage, Cassis awaits you with impatience, whether to live very beautiful holidays or on the occasion of a tourist stay.
We are at your disposal for any request, any question you may have. Also do not hesitate to contact us by phone or email, and we will answer you within 24 hours.
In Cassis we enjoy the famous Mediterranean climate which is characterized by hot, dry summers and mild, humid winters.
All seasons are pleasant, but what is beautiful in Cassis is the light that dominates throughout the seasons. The bright blue sky puts you in a good mood in advance.


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Ladle stew into bowls and top with caramelized lemon, sesame seeds, and mint. Serve with flatbread.
Stew (without mint) can be made 3 days ahead. Let cool; cover and chill. Add mint just before serving.
i love this recipe -- i will eat practically anything made to be served with that tart fruit. the way it's prepared here is lovely, and i'm excited to try it! if it works for me, i'll probably branch out to other fruit peels, as well.
I didn't love this recipe as it was written. I found that it was really watery and I had to cook it down a lot. Plus it was super awkward to eat what was basically a soup with on the bone chicken. I ended up taking all the chicken out and shredding it. I also didn't care for the lemon and I didn't think it added anything to the dish. The flavors of the dish itself were quite nice.
This was great! The caramelized lemon is almost like candy, but the lemony flavor is really nice with the stew. Love the warm flavors.

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Har Har Modi - What's the fuss?
Over a tea-discussion today, few faculty members along with me were discussing on the ‘controversy’ of chanting “Har-Har Modi, Ghar-Ghar Modi” by supporters of Modi. Few argued that Har-Har symbolises God, hence a person cannot be equated to a God. Few others argued that its individual’s choice, if someone wants to worship a person or equate his/her qualities with a God, no harm. Har-Har Modi symbolises one’s love and affection towards Modi and his supporters want to see Modi as their next PM, nothing else. It was argued. That’s fine. Unless otherwise there is a deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings (IPC 295A), it is absolutely fine. In this case it cannot be construed that there is a deliberate attempt to harm religious feelings. Equating a person's qualities with God exists since ages. Even Atal Bihari Vajpayee once equated Indira Gandhi with goddess Durga. Was there any controversy? It only symbolizes a quality of a woman. That's it. We keep the name of our children as Hari, Krishna, Ram, Mahadev etc in the name of Hindu God. Is this an insult to our God?
"Its painful if you are surrounded by people who ‘criticise’ you all the time for whatever you say or do. But remember, if you want to become a Super Achiever, you need to pass through the Agini-Pariksha at some point of your life… Jai ho!"
In some religion, a human being is worshiped as God. Absolutely fine. It was argued that worshiping a human being is against Hindu religion. This is also absolutely fine. Nonetheless, are not we told in schools/colleges/text books to worship our parents/elders...(a human being)? But who is worshiping Modi? Har-Har Modi should be seen as a symbolic love and affection of Modi supporters as they see some qualities in Modi. It should not be dragged into controversy. The word "Har-Har" is not copyrighted anyway. If tomorrow, someone chants or says Modi as “Mahatama” or a great soul, controversy will erupt and probably the poor fellow will be booked under National Security Act (NSA) and put behind bars. Rebirth theories will not hold in Modi's case. What else, it is a matter of documented proof that if someone even praises Modi, that becomes a matter of ‘hot discussion’. Recall what happened when Amitabh Bachchan agreed to advertise about Gujarat tourism? Or recall what happened when Anna Hazare praised Modi during his fast at Delhi? The entire conglomerate of 'intellectuals' and specifically Media pounded on Hazare as how he can praise Modi. Or recall when Darul Uloom vice-chancellor, Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, said that all communities are prospering in Narendra Modi's Gujarat and there was no discrimination against the minorities in the state as far as development was concerned. The certificate holder of secularism went berserk and Media provided fuel to it.
As it seems, you are on wrong side if you praise Modi, in whatever form. I recall George Bush’s (America president) statement when he said after twin-tower attack, “You are either with us or with the terrorist” and this exactly has been the life of Modi. You will become communal by default if your dare praise Modi. However, on the other side which is equally baffling, if someone defames Modi by comparing him with Hitler, frog, ghost, impotent, Bhasmasur, and what not, it is absolutely fine with our Media and to our so called ‘intellectual people’. It has come to an extent that one's secular credentials are being judged on whether he/she has criticized Modi or not. If you want to prove yourself as secular, start your words as, "In 2002 riot in which..."; If you have to talk on India's growing population problem, start with, "see, after 2002 riots, these communities felt that their population is less..."; and if you want to talk on India's economic problem, say, "had the 2002 riots not happened...". Somehow try to drag in 2002 riots and Eureka! You proved yourself a 'true secular'. If this is the yardstick, then many leading English media (and their affiliated Hindi media) will fall into the category of 'hard-core secular'.
Its painful if you are surrounded by people who ‘criticise’ you all the time for whatever you say or do. But remember, if you want to become a Super Achiever, you need to pass through the Agini-Pariksha at some point of your life… Jai ho!
It is fine that for super achievers Agni-Pariksha is needed. Both are extreme views that either you are equating someone to God or great supporters of so called god fuming when some one attempts to scrutinize the credentials of the god.
Both these approaches are not conducive for a healthy democracy. Victimization of someone is unjustified in the name of Agni-Pariksha but also providing immunity to someone from simple scrutiny also because he cleared the Agni-Pariksha is dangerous.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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O seu trabalho é MARAVILHOSO!!! Parabéns!!!


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I’m torn. Or, I’m of two minds. On the one hand, tradition is a great thing, offering stability in these troubled times (a bit of angsty saga there, eh?). On the other hand, some might consider baking the same cake (yes, we're talking about cake here) as THE birthday cake month after month, year after year is akin to being in a rut.
As a youngster quite often my birthday cake was a spice cake with Seven Minute Frosting (cooked egg white frosting = food of the gods). So when I think of that cake, spice cake with the meringue frosting, I’m transported back to the halcyon days of my childhood. And that’s a good thing. That’s what tradition means. Comfort and stability and damn good cake.
So which cake will I bake for the birthday this weekend? I’m torn.


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“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul” Psalm 94:19 (New International Version of the Holy Bible). We can live joyful every day because our happiness is not based on circumstances, but rather it is predicated on God Himself. Joy dwells with God which means wherever God is there is joy! If we make room for Him in our lives, we can experience a deep and abiding joy regardless of external conditions. The joy of the Lord knew the poverty of a lowly manger birth and the agony of the cross. Joy triumphed over the grave – it is irrefutable and undefeatable! This joy does not deny the distress or minimize the pain in our life, but finds God in the midst of it.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for joy that transcends my present circumstance. I pause today to rejoice in the God of my salvation. Though I may face sorrow, or urgent needs, or anxiety, or illness, I face it with my soul secure in You. Amen.


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I am looking to upgrade my lights and I'm doubting of what is the best choice. Someone suggested me using HID lights is better than the others. He also gave me a source for me to buy. Has someone have other suggestions which you think is better?
First off, what car do you have? Last time I ordered a really good set of HID lights from Xenonhids.com. Great quality, amazing customer service, and a fast delivery.
What source did he give you?
I'm more a fan of LED lights because Xenon illumination falls short of LED. but to each their own and I hope the new cuda comes with LEDs.


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By allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug makers, Medicare and its beneficiaries could save an estimated $2.8 billion in a single year for the top 20 most commonly prescribed medicines, according to a new analysis by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
In crunching the numbers, the committee staff found that other government agencies that are permitted to negotiate with drug companies — such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense — were able to secure pricing that rose at “significantly lower rates” than wholesale prices for the most widely prescribed brand-name drugs in Medicare Part D.
It’s time for the Federal Government to negotiate with drug makers. Get Medicare coasts down Save Medicare!
1) The mechanism by which Medicare would bring down prices is monopsony power, which inefficiently / artificially reduces prices (given its’s one concentrated buyer, rather than many) relative to the value of the treatment. That has serious incentive effects, not for the drugs already on the market today, but for the next treatment to reach the market. As other countries engage in this practice already, it’s important to understand that they do so because they can piggyback off of a really large, wealthy nation (the U.S.) who to date has been willing to pay a market price. Turn off that spigot, and in equilibrium less risk capital will flow towards innovation in health care (and instead will go towards other industries).
2) This tangibly results in real, definable, winners and losers. Winners in that taxpayers save money on drugs available today. Losers in that underserved patient populations (e.g., Hep C before Solvadi showed up) continue to suffer. The greatest privilege, after all, is being free from a fatal / unmet health condition.
Both points you discussed are what you typically hear out there but they are simply untenable.
First of all, yes, other (OECD) countries pay significantly less for the same drug compared to what the US is paying. Price negotiations, often even based on cost-effectiveness outcomes, and re-importation of drugs are instruments to increase price pressures on manufacturers in (for them) economically interesting markets. Guess what, both does not happen in the US, since PhRMA lobbied themselves out of it for years.
And what tells you that other countries are “piggybacking” off of the US? There is no reason to believe that, if prices in the US decrease, prices in other countries would increase (and vice versa). Your claim is completely without merit. The pharmaceutical industry currently spends between 3% and 20% (depending on who reports it) on R&D. At least twice as much is put into marketing and ads. The US is one of two or three countries in the world, where direct-to-consumer ads are allowed. Maybe this should be changed first, so that less money is wasted? Not even talking about the dubiousness of direct-to-consumer ads..
Secondly, to refute your second point I will come back to my first point. Take a look at the fractions spent on R&D versus marketing/advertising and tell me again there is no money available for research.
Your line of arguments are completely based on emotions (“the US is the piggybank of the world”, “underserved patient populations continue to suffer”, etc.), but either you don’t know better or if you know better it’s completely bogus.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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The car returned from the paint shop with the damaged panels repaired and resprayed. We also opted to paint the bonnet, roof and boot white. Inverse blue stripes were added too, giving the car a overall more professional look for this year.
The final pre-race checks have been done, refitting the fire extinguisher, checking the operation of cut-of switches, lights and adjusting safety belts.
The ride height was re-checked and adjusted (using the adjustable spring perches on the dampers) giving us a couple of mm over the regulation minimum at the front, with around 10mm higher at the rear. Some height had been lost due to wear on the tyres and one spring perch coming loose and dropping slightly. We also rechecked the wheel alignment and are going stick with dead straight at the rear and 1mm of tow-out at the front.
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Fred Staloff was born in New Jersey in 1924. Mathematics and science were his major interests as a high school student. He was attending the Newark College of Engineering when World War II changed his plans. He joined the army in 1943.
Initially, he was assigned to continue studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, but before long found himself participating in the invasion of the Philippine Islands and Okinawa.
Although the atomic bomb dramatically brought a termination to the war, the moral implications for science were deeply troubling to a young idealistic mind. Discharged from the army in 1946, Staloff found it difficult, if not impossible, to reintegrate himself in previous plans and activities. As the outlines of a second major historical event, the Holocaust, emerged from the war, his cynicism became acute. He would resolve this dilemma by pursuing a career in the arts.
In 1946, with aid from the G.I. Bill, he enrolled as a student in the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Art. There he studied sculpture with Reuben Nakian and painting with Hans Weingaertner. After graduating in 1949, he went to Paris, where he studied in the Atelier of Ossip Zadkine and then at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
It was at this time that he fortuitously met the young woman, Janette Gannat, who would become his wife and be so supportive of his artistic ambitions.
Back in the United States in 1951, Staloff continued to paint while holding various part-time jobs. His work in the early part of the decade showed various influences as he searched for a more personal expression. In 1956, he resigned from all other activites to commit himself entirely to painting.
Toward the end of this period, Staloff first demonstrated the concept of viewing the still life form as a landscape. No longer were the elements of the still life represented solely for their architectural function. The forms of nature are returned to nature. A poetry in which the elements of the Still-Life-Landscape reflect a universal whole starts to emerge.
The painting Blue Landscape with Hill1-a dates from this period. It contains the poetic impulses not only for many works of this epoch, but also for other paintings of subsequent years. These impulses would transform reality into a poetry of color and light. It is what the French call évasion, an escape from the troubles and problems of human existence into a dream.
The other poetic sentiment, in essence the opposite of Blue Landscape with Hill1-a, finds an early expression in Interior with Armoire2-a, painted from 1958 to 1961 and inspired by a visit to France in 1955, where armoire, or large wardrobe, powerfully dominates the space in many French homes. The result is a work of introspective poetry with a mysterious and dense atmosphere. Staloff considers the two aforementioned paintings to be key works in understanding the dual development of his subsequent ideas. Time and again, we see a polarity in Staloff's work, switching back and forth from lyrical optimism to an introverted and troubling pessimism.
It was with the Interior with Armoire2-a that he began what turned into an extended analysis of the psychological significance of the rectangular form. While the armoire is a positive dark form, his research logically evolved into the negative version that surrounds us in its architectural manifestations. The rectangle, he reflected, was a form unique to man, not to be found in nature.
In 1963, with these ideas percolating in his mind, Staloff returned to Paris with his wife, planning to spend a year. A series of works based on demolitions were painted in France in the 1960s. These facades, with their crumbling plaster, paint and wallpaper, would become the vehicle and the atmosphere for Staloff's meditation on the meaning of the black rectangle. The final painting in this series is a metaphor for the atomic bomb as well as the Holocaust. It is The Hole—a simple work of a nearly silent rectangle of brownish black set in a highly textured field of burnt cast-iron-like grey. The only redeeming feature in this somber landscape is a weak horizontal band of green, hinting at life.
A group of psychological portraits commenting on the human condition were painted during the same years. The poetic world that Staloff was inhabiting had become oppressive and austere. It was time to escape, to escape to the dream of the lyrical landscape.
While in France, Staloff participated in exhibitions at the Salon des Independants and the City of Chatillon Annuals. He had numerous one-man exhibitions; at the Galerie des Jeunes, Galerie Mouffetard, and at the Atelier Decima. The art critic Christine Gleiny commented at the time; "These paintings are an invitation to poetic contemplation. We have here an artist engaged in large perspectives." Staloff also had an affiliation with the Galerie Petrides.
Additionally, in 1965 Staloff was invited to exhibit his work in a one-man show at the Polder Gallery in The Hague.
Sustained by collectors' purchases, the planned one-year sojourn in Paris was extended to six years. In 1969, unanticipated events precipitated the Staloffs' return to America.
A one-man exhibition of Staloff's paintings took place at The Caldwell College in 1978. Additionally, he participated in juried exhibitions at the Newark Museum, The Montclair Museum, The New Jersey State Museum, The Painters & Sculptors Society of New Jersey, The Summit Art Center, The Somerset Art Association (first prize), The Jersey City Museum Bicentennial (Phelps Award), The 1990 New Jersey Annual Exhibition, as well as several juried exhibitions at the National Academy of Design.
As a member and officer of Audubon Artists, Staloff has participated in many of its annual exhibits. In 1991, he won the William Myerowitz Award; in 1994, the Elaine & James Hewitt Award; and in 1995, the Michael M. Engel Memorial Award. Staloff was presented with the Joe & Emily Lowe Award in 1994 at the Annual of the Allied Artists of America, and was elected to the board of directors.
Staloff's Bay of Fundy series shows a true understanding of form and color, simplifying nature to the point of abstraction. The boldness of his compositions based on color relationships has elevated these landscapes to universal poetry.
These paintings are modern in every respect, clearly defined, and asthetically pleasing. As forms dissolve in color and light, aspects of earlier works are recalled. Staloff has come full circle.

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Euripides' "Medea," as reinterpreted by Irish poet Brendan Kennelly, will be produced by the theater department of the University of Maryland Baltimore County at 8 p.m. Thursday to rTC Saturday and again March 19-23 in the UMBC Theatre.
Directed by Sam McCready, the production is mounted in and around a large pool in the center of the stage. Tickets are $6, with a $2 preview at 8 p.m. Wednesday. For more information call 455-2476.
@ Marta Renzi and the Project Company will perform Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and next Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Dance on the Edge series presented by the Downtown Dance Company.
Ms. Renzi's dances often examine the complications of male-female relationships. Two of her dance videos will be broadcast tonight at midnight on Channels 22 and 67.
Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for BMA members and $9 for full-time students, senior citizens and children. A reception, following the Saturday performance, is an additional $7. For information, call 547-2486.
Sonus, a Maryland-based chamber ensemble, will present the world premiere of "Dear Youth," a work for soprano, flute and piano by American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, Charles Street and Mount Vernon Place.
"Dear Youth" draws its text from the Civil War diaries of nurse Hannah Ropes and personal letters from her female contemporaries. Several hundred free tickets are available to families of the troops in the Persian Gulf; call 685-0525. General admission is $5, $3 for students and senior citizens. Call 243-8793.


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Help us celebrate the holiday season on December 4th and light up the Ronald McDonald House of Temple (RMHC of Temple)! By “sponsoring” a light for $10 each you will be helping the house provide guests with warmth, food, comfort and many other things they may be missing during their stay while their child is receiving medical treatment.
You can honor a friend, teacher, co-worker or family member by purchasing a light now through January 1st. We will send an acknowledgement card to the person you wish to honor.
Thanks to Christmas Décor and lots of volunteers, the House will be decorated inside and out. Share the magic of the holiday season with your friends and family and join us for food, entertainment, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and more!
Kick off the Christmas season by lighting the House lights hung by Christmas Décor. We’ll have refreshments and entertainment. Brady Taylor, KWTX Meteorologist, will host the event along with Santa Claus. Lights will be lit during the 6 o’clock newscast on KWTX-TV.
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There are plenty of firsts that parents look forward to: first smile, first laugh, first steps. But first cavity? Not so much. Luckily, there are many actions parents can take to prevent that from happening, and if it does happen, there are ways to make it an easy and quick experience.
Dr. Peske says kids should start seeing a dentist when their first tooth arrives — which is typically around seven months of age — or before their first birthday. After that, kids should get a checkup and cleaning every six months, or more frequently if your dental professional advises.
In addition to biannual dental visits, the best way to keep cavities away is with regular brushing (just make sure you talk to your dentist first about the appropriate time to start your child on a fluoride toothpaste). Kids should brush for two minutes, twice a day, before bed and in the morning after breakfast. At night, make sure kids don’t eat or drink anything after brushing their teeth before going to bed.
Another factor in getting the most out of brushing is using a toothpaste with fluoride, such as Aquafresh Kids. Aquafresh products taste great, strengthen teeth, and leave them feeling clean and fresh.
If your child has been practicing good oral hygiene and still gets a cavity — hey, it happens! — there are steps you can take to make that visit to the dentist easier for everyone.
When Mom and Dad stay calm and collected, that makes it a lot easier for their little one to do the same when dealing with his first — and hopefully last — cavity!


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Gentoo Forums :: View topic - What does thunar uses to mount devices?
What does thunar uses to mount devices?
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:56 am Post subject: What does thunar uses to mount devices?
I am with the same problem as before but now with i3 window manager. I have the exact same setup and I am using thunar as my file manager, however the devices don't show up.
I have udev and thunar-volman installed, I can still mount it on XFCE. What service does XFCE starts? What should I change?
thunar uses gvfs.... pay attention to gvfs use flags as that will determine much.
But I have gvfs running, why isn't it working?
it probably needs to be rebuilt with the use flags changed... it probably has the use turned off for what you're trying to support, or file system is not compiled into your kernel. usb dev might be fat32 / ntfs, cd rom is like iso something in the kernel you'll need to enable them for sure. much past having that in order, and everything else from previous thread in order idk.... seems like plugdev group is for anything with a plug besides power.
where you change auth_admin into yes.
But if it works just right in XFce, maybe you just have to put exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session i3 in your .xinitrc?
I tried putting that into my .xinitrc and the drivers show up but I can't mount them (it says I am not authorized). Maybe your solution works.
You could as well emerge xfce with USE="-thunar -udev -udisks -consolekit -policykit", and then emerge spacefm instead of thunar, and manage your disks using udevil and/or pmount.
If that alternative appeals you and you need some pointers just ask.


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If you were hoping for a chance to stay in an open-air luxury suite on the Great Wall of China, don’t book your plane ticket quite yet. Airbnb has cancelled their stay on the world heritage site.
The home stay company’s Night At program has invited guests to stay in unexpected locations like Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania, a Canadian Taco Bell, and the top of an Olympic ski jump outside Oslo. However after announcing their plans for a Night At the Great Wall where contest winners would win a one night stay in a customized guard tower on the Wall, a multi-course gourmet dinner, and traditional Chinese entertainment, plans have been shelved.
In a statement on their site, Airbnb wrote that while “there was an agreement in place” that lead them to announce the contest, it appears to have been insufficient. The South China Morning Post reports that the governing body, the Beijing Yanqing Cultural Commission, did not support the project as it “is not in line with the Great Wall’s heritage conservation values”.


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You are drunk on wind. My friend.
You need a song for all of that enthusiasm. I'll work a power ballad called "I Want to Hug the Wind."
Awesome, I also have a original Skurfer. Its hanging in my garage.


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He told a well-attendedMadaraka Day rally in Wajir town that time had come for residents in affected northern Kenya Counties where education and health services had been crippled by the diabolical activities of Al Shabaab to "confront the terror organization with our hearts, hands, minds and wealth and defeat their evil machinations that have seen teachers and health workers from other parts of the country flee for their lives".
"It is a pity that as of today, schools are being closed, others are merged and students are forced to drop subjects because Al Shabaab has succeeded in instilling fear," he lamented.
The Governor lauded security forces deployed to the region for doing a commendable job but called for vigilance and urged the public to continue sharing intelligence that has greatly contributed to the relative calm.
Mr Abdullahi stressed the importance of professionalism and adherence to the rule of law on the part of security forces and decried claims of extra judicial killings as disturbing where atrocities such as the Wagalla massacre committed by security agents in 1984 are still fresh in the people's minds."We do not wantsituations that will make our people cringe at security personnel as perpetuators of terror," he cautioned.
Mr Abdullahi reiterated that the region's leaders had agreed on a raft of measures that would change the management of security in the area once put in place. He said the measures included the deployment of more police officers andreservists and the purchase of vehicles for efficient and fast movement of the forces.
Commenting on the prevailing curfew, Governor Abdullahi asked residents to be patient about inconveniences caused, bearing in mind that the measure was for general good. He condemned in the same vein security officers extortingand harassing innocent people going about their normal lives.
The Governor said efforts at de-radicalization were ongoing on at different sub-counties andadvised the youth not to be impressionable to the point of falling into the traps of the insurgents. "Closely monitor your children in these bad times," Governor Abdullahi told parents.
To have as many disadvantaged children in school as possible, Governor Abdullahi said his government had increased the bursary fund allocated this financial year by more than half to the tune of KSh 70 million. "Our objective is to ensure over 2,300 students in secondary schools, colleges and universities benefit from the fund," he said adding that the program to train at least 500 teachers in the next three years to mitigate teacher shortage was alive and on course.


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What a beautiful girl!!!! I cannot get over the fact that she is here! I am praying she continues to do well and get stronger and you get to take her home soon!
I can't blame her for wanting to show that cute face earlier!
And all the best wishes for little Charlotte!
I keep my fingers crossed for her being home for Christmas!
Glad that things went as smoothly as they could! My close friends had their son 10 weeks early last year and he is now a healthy and thriving one year old! Praying that you are able to have the family together for Christmas this year and that your son handles this transition well!
Congrats! She's beautiful! Hope she continues to grow and come home soon.
Congrats! Glad to hear both of you are ok!


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Help wanted” signs have become almost as ubiquitous as pickup trucks and oil rigs in booming Dickinson, with everyone from Menards to McDonald’s looking to hire. But while the demand is there, supply has yet to catch up.
An April 1 report from Job Service North Dakota’s Labor Market Information Center found that there are roughly 2,041 job openings listed online in Stark County, and just 417 active resumes posted online by job-seekers — and that’s not even including unlisted jobs in the service and retail industries. With more than 98 percent of Dickinson’s eligible workforce either employed or actively looking for employment, many companies have been hard-pressed to fill new job openings.
While much of the rest of the country struggles under a recession and a 6.7 percent unemployment rate, North Dakota’s unemployment rate has remained steady at 3.3 percent; unemployment in Dickinson in March was 1.8 percent.
The hiring crunch has put companies in competition to attract workers.
McDonald’s offers a $300 signing bonus in addition to a $11 an hour starting salary for its food prep and crew team, according to their website. The Taco Bell off of Highway 22 boasts “top wages” on its billboard.
Urlacher said her organization has worked one-on-one with companies across the city, arranging job fairs like last month’s multi-industry event at Dickinson State University that drew in more than 400 job-seekers, and working with employers to re-word job postings “to be more specific, to be more enticing,” she said. Job Service North Dakota began tweeting job postings last year to reach potential employees.
“Recruitment of individuals is crucial, and (companies) are doing that,” Urlacher said.
But despite businesses’ best efforts to attract and recruit new workers, there are external factors contributing to the sluggish supply.
Cooper Whitman, executive director of the Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce, said staffing is the “No. 1 difficulty” facing employers in the booming economy, both in terms of recruiting new hires and retaining workers. The overpriced housing market is a primary cause.
He said that companies can offer higher wages and benefits, but until the housing market stabilizes, there’s “little we can do that we’ve figured out so far.
With the Roers Development park set to expand later this year and with dirt being moved on the Dickinson Hills Shopping Center — both retail centers are off of Interstate 94 Exit 59 — employees will be in even higher demand.
For now, not all businesses are feeling the hiring pinch. Taronda Johns, general manager of the Hardee’s on Villard, started her job just a month and a half ago with around 12 employees, and staff was stretched thin. Today, she said, there are 32 on staff, including herself.
Johns said many of her part-time employees are shared with nearby Dairy Barn, Sanfords and Bonanza. Without any advertising, she’s been able to fill positions simply by word-of-mouth and retain most of her workers.
Whitman said businesses will be pressed to adapt to the current labor market.


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Home › News › Ladies First on Netflix now!
The Deepika Kumari documentary has finally been released on Netflix, so you can watch in the comfort of your own home!
A major documentary about Indian recurve archer Deepika Kumari titled ‘Ladies First’ was released to Netflix worldwide on 8 March 2018. Made by Uraaz Bahl and Shaana Levy-Bahl, who started filming just a few weeks before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, it gives the most detailed insight yet into Deepika’s career.
Just 40 minutes long, it uses the Rio Games as a frame to take the audience through Deepika’s career so far, after being born into poverty in rural Jharkand in central India. Kumari grew up in a mud house with no running water, and often had to steal vegetables from the local fields for food.
It turns out that her first visit in 2006 to the Seraikella archery academy that developed her talent as a junior was motivated more by wanting to lessen the burden on her parents rather than an interest in archery. “I thought if I left home, there would be more money… At first, I didn’t even know it was a sport,” she says.
It also graphically shows the remarkable discrepancies within Indian Olympic sport, with the women’s archery team making the 32-hour journey to Rio in economy, while some officials travelled business class.
Despite a distinct lack of resources compared to many other nations, there is a constant demand for medals, not helped by the astonishing pressure heaped upon sportspeople by the Indian media.
The film includes a notorious incident in 2013 with Kumari and her teammates, fresh from an Archery World Cup victory, being harassed to the point of tears by TV crews at Delhi airport.
But the film’s real focus is the incredible difficulties that young women face especially in developing countries.
It closes on Kumari’s increasing role model status, especially among young Indian athletes. Her archery career may still have surprises yet to come, but as the film shows, she has become an icon of what is possible.
You can watch Ladies First from anywhere in the world with a Netflix subscription.

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Update, January 23: Civil War Talk user Thomas Aagaard challenged what I wrote about the Danish Jylland‘s armament being all rifled guns, saying that most of them, like those of the Austrian ships, were relatively small smoothbores. And he’s right — Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 gives Jylland‘s original armament as forty-four 30-pounder smoothbores, with the all-rifle armament coming at some later date. The ship’s data in the game simply appears to be incorrect for 1864, giving Jylland a much longer-range, harder punch than she actually had..
The Danish squadron (upper left) turns to intercept the Austrians (lower right).
Sunday afternoon the group I game with fought out a scenario based on the Battle of Heligoland in May 1864. The action was fought between the Danes and a squadron of Austrian ships, acting on behalf of their Prussian allies, with three ships to a side. The real battle essentially ended in a draw, with both sides (of course) later claiming victory. The battle is famous for allegedly being the last major action that did not involve armored warships. It’s interesting from the perspective of the American Civil War because it’s a good example of what could happen when traditional wooden ships faced modern, heavy rifled artillery and exploding shells.
For this scenario we used the old Yaquinto game Ironclads (1979), along with its expansion set that brings in non-US ships and scenarios. Ironclads leans heavily toward the simulation end of the spectrum; it’s definitely not a beer-and-pretzels game. on Sunday there were six of us playing, with our host acting as game master, navigating the myriad charts and tables required in keeping track of the detailed bookkeeping. In Ironclads, every single shot is tracked and damage accounted for; the six of us would all be considered novice players, so we were slow, but even so it took us four hours or more to get to the middle of turn seven. Ironclads is a good example of tactical game design as it was in the late 1970s, when there was no end to the amount of fine-grained detail that designers tried to shoehorn into their games, even if the final product was damn near unplayable (e.g., Air War).
Every turn included a vigorous discussion about firing arcs. Every. Single. Turn.
My ship, the screw frigate Radetsky (center), dead in the water and ablaze. This will not end well.
While this recreation of the Battle of Heligoland was not particularly fun for those of us playing the Austrian side, it did provide some insight into how devastating naval artillery had become over the preceding few decades, and in particular the deadly combination of rifled artillery and explosive shells when used against unarmored, traditional wooden warships. if this had been a real fight, it would have been a bloodbath, with both of the larger Austrian ships destroyed in short order and the third, a small paddle steamer, having to make a run for it.
Ironclads is a solid game, but it’s also a high-friction design that wears out the players pretty quickly, given the necessity of cross-referencing eleventy-four different tables every time a ship fires a gun. It would be hard to imagine fighting out a big action like the Battle of Mobile Bay using this game, although I know it has been done many times. On the plus side, for the naval buff it includes all sorts of granular detail that is appealing. I think we may do this again soon, although someone else can play the Austrians next time.
Sounds challenging. And then if it is like any other gaming group you spend the entire time until you get together again DISSECTING what happened in the last game. LOL.
I loved that game! My copy is so used-up it needs to be put in baggies!
A friend and I would play the “cruisers” scenario endlessly—take 10 ocean-going US ships, and 10 similar CS ships, draw one each, randomly, and start on opposite sides of the 2 x 2 open-ocean map. We even rated the ships, so once the opponent was identified, the weaker ship could “win” just by getting off the map. Lots of fun.

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The book ‘Soulful Warriors’ was published in 2017 to coincide with George’s one-man show in Norway.
Compiled and written by Tom Hovinbøle.
Printed in full colour. 110 pages.
It’s an insight to George’s life and work from his childhood up to the present day.


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Our local library has this genius system that I am completely in love with. I get online, go the the library website, hit the card catalog button, and type something into the “keyword” bar, hit search, then refine my search to the “Juvenile” location. I “place a hold” on all the books that look interesting. In a few days, I get an email saying that I have items available “on hold” at my local library branch. When I’m out running errands, I swing by the library and pick up my books waiting for me on the “hold” shelf. My 5-year-old scans my library card and all of our “new” books at the self-check out station. He loves it, and I love it even more! It’s a book-obsessed-stay-at-home-mom lifesaver of a system and I am so grateful for whoever came up with the amazing-genius idea!
Here is an example of how I recently used this system.
We were reading the book “Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?” for our home school program, Five In A Row. Check out this great system at http://www.fiveinarow.com.
I wanted some books to compliment the book “Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?”, which is about a little bear getting ready in the morning, doing activities throughout the day and then getting ready for bed. I typed “Good Morning” in the keyword search of the library card catalog, then refined the search to the juvenile section. Then I checked out everything that looked interesting.
and “Good Morning Sweetie Pie” by Cynthia Rylant.
We also liked the book “Good Morning, Good Night!” by Teresa Imperato as complimentary reading material. We received this as a hand-me-down from our friends M. & J. several years ago. Thanks guys!
Check out my post on “Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?” for more fun stuff we did with the book. Check out Five In A Row for the really good stuff. Jane Claire Lambert has a wealth of creative, enriching, educational, easy and fun ideas for lots and lots of great children’s literature.