Most of us want a healthy, long life. That's a given. But, we might not always understand what we need to do to achieve that. Eat fat, don't eat fat. Carbs, no carbs. Go vegan. Drink water! Take vitamins. And, for the love of God, stay away from processed food! But, as I've learned, there's much more to a long, healthy life than that. Last week, when presenting my Social Emotional Learning workshop at Maplewood Gordon Alternative School in North Vancouver I broached this hot topic. How can we help ourselves and the young people we influence live healthier, happier lives?
The answer is fairly simple: community!
In his book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell reports on the Roseto Effect – secrets of longevity from a town of 1300 in Italy. In 1882, a group of men left Roseto Valfortore, Italy to set sail for New York. After arriving in New York, the men eventually found grueling work in the slate mines of Bangor Pennsylvania, but somehow it didn't feel like such a dream. In fact, they were tolerating substandard conditions and confronted with prejudices as immigrants. Finally, in 1887, Nicola Rosato, purchased land and built the first house. He had founded the town of Roseto Pennsylvania, naming it after his beloved Italian village. Roseto became the first 100% Italian borough in the USA. By 1894, 1200 Rosetans had applied for passports to America, leaving entire streets of their native village abandoned.
According to Gladwell, Roseto Pennsylvania came to life.
Rosatons built closely clustered houses, a church, schools, parks, family shops, bakeries, restaurants and more. They set up spiritual societies and organized festivals. In every yard they planted gardens, raised pigs and grew grapes for homemade wine. Roseto had become its own self-sufficient world.
Stewart Wolf, a physician and medical school professor who spent summers on a farm not far from Roseto heard from the local doctor about an interesting phenomenon: Rarely, did anyone from Roseto under the age of 65 have heart disease – meanwhile, heart disease was an epidemic in the United States.
The study concluded it was not diet related. The Rosetans cooked with lard, smoked heavily, and many struggled with obesity. It wasn't genetics, nor the specific location in Pennsylvania where Roseto was situated. It was Roseto itself.
Rosetans visited each other on a daily basis stopping to chat or cooking for each other in the backyard. Extended family clans were the norm, with three generations commonly living under the same roof. There was an enormous respect commanded by the grandparents who were part of the clan. They went to mass and saw the calming and unifying effect of the church. There were 22 civic associations in a town of less than 2000 people! The Rosetans had created a social structure which insulated them from the pressures of the modern world. They were healthy because of where they were from and the world they had created for themselves.
The medical study's findings talked about the mysterious and magical benefits of people talking to each other on the street and having multi-generational living. Conventional wisdom explained a long life by looking at what people ate, how much they exercised, and how effectively they were treated by the medical system. Wolf's findings required that he convince the medical establishment to think in an entirely new way. You had to look beyond the individual. You had to appreciate their idea of community, their values, and the people with whom they surrounded themselves.
We can all learn something profound from the Rosatans. First things first: Stop and smell the roses! Notice one another by lifting your head up from your phone. Welcome neighbours into your home. Make community building a focus and passion, and watch how everyone's health improves. Loneliness kills. So, in our schools and neighborhoods we must improve our quality of life by fostering community with after school clubs, neighborhood 'giving' initiatives, and ongoing events for people of all ages. This will be the most impactful thing we can do to improve our students' lives, and the lives of the people in our neighborhoods and families.
Our workshop concluded with teachers brainstorming ways to bring their community closer together – to give the students a reason, other than grades, to come to school. As an alternative school, many of them were facing unstable and even traumatic home lives. Isolated and silenced, they needed more than just lessons to get them to value their own lives. They need community.
I can't wait to see and support what happens in this vibrant school community.


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The last player the Braves faced in an arbitration hearing was John Rocker in 2001, and the next could be another left-hander: Mike Minor.
The Braves and Minor failed to reach a contract agreement before Friday's deadline for teams to do so or swap salary figures with unsigned arbitration-eligible players in preparation for hearings next month. The Braves filed at $5.1 million and Minor at $5.6 million.
After the Braves and lefty James Russell agreed to a one-year, 2.425 million contract Thursday, Minor was the only unsigned arb-eligible Brave.
Minor, 27, made $3.85 million in 2014 in his first year of arbitration and was a career-worst 6-12 with a 4.77 ERA in 25 starts after missing most of spring training with shoulder tendinitis. The shoulder became inflamed in the opening week of camp, after he was unable to throw in January following Dec. 31 urinary-tract surgery.
The Braves haven't had an arbitration hearing since winning against Rocker 14 years ago. Last year, they didn't reach agreements with three arbitration-eligibles — Freddie Freeman, Jason Heyward, Craig Kimbrel — but signed all of them to multiyear contracts in February without any hearings.
At a hearing, a three-person panel chooses the salary proposed by the player or the team, nothing in-between. The Braves were scheduled for an arbitration hearing in 2013 with Martin Prado before trading him to Arizona on Jan. 24.
In 2009, they came to terms with Jeff Francoeur the night before a scheduled arbitration hearing. Soon after, the Braves adopted a policy of not negotiating a one-year contract with any player between salary-swap day and a hearing, a policy that continues under new president of baseball operations John Hart.
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Hurricane Festival has a twin counterpart in the south, Southside Festival, which takes place in Neuhausen ob Eck on the same weekend and features the same lineup.
Hurricane Festival started in 1997 and Southside followed in 1999.
This three-day festival features more than 100 bands from big international names, to well-known local talent and talented newcomers.
Scheessel is a village located in the north of Germany about 45 km east of Bremen and 70 km southwest of Hamburg.
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Take the train to Scheessel Railway Station and from there you can easily walk 1.5 km to the Hurricane Festival site.
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An electromagnetic pump is a pump that moves liquid metal, molten salt, brine, or other electrically conductive liquid using electromagnetism.

A magnetic field is set at right angles to the direction the liquid moves in, and a current is passed through it. This causes an electromagnetic force that moves the liquid.

Applications include pumping molten solder in many wave soldering machines, pumping liquid-metal coolant, and magnetohydrodynamic drive.

Working principle

A magnetic field (brc) always exists around the current (I)-carrying conductor. When this current-carrying conductor is subjected to an external magnetic field (Bap), the conductor experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of I and Bap. This is because the magnetic field produced by the conductor and the applied magnetic field attempt to align with each other. A similar effect can seen between two ordinary magnets.

This principle is used in an electromagnetic pump. The current is fed through a conducting liquid. Two permanent magnets are arranged to produce a magnetic field Bap as shown in the figure. The supplied current has a current density (J) and the magnetic field associated with this current can be called "Reaction magnetic Field (brc)". The two magnetic fields Bap and brc attempt to align with each other. This causes mechanical motion of the fluid.

Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic pump
Designed for the Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic refrigerator (not the pumpless Einstein refrigerator), it uses electromagnetic induction to move conductive liquid metal without electrodes, to compress a working gas, pentane. It is a liquid linear induction motor.

See also
Magnetic flow meter
Magnetohydrodynamic drive

References

Bibliography
Baker, Richard S., Tessier, Manuel J. Handbook of Electromagnetic pump technology. 1987. osti 5041159. oclc 246618050.

External links
 The Electromagnetic Pump, Lecture Demonstration Manual, University of Melbourne (archived)
 Analysis and Design of Electromagnetic Pump, 2010
 Electromagnetic pumps, Carli Precimeter GmbH (archived)

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SKU: 9788124608357 Categories: Ever Green Shelf Life, Performing Arts & Aesthetics
Raga-ness of Ragas
Ragas Beyond the Grammar	by:	Deepak S. Raja
This book is a systematic and contemporary exploration of the uniquely Indian phenomenon of raga, which forms the foundation of the musical culture of India. It attempts to extend the scope of the enquiry to cover several facets of ragas examining the manner in which they participate in the cultural process.
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Pages : xlvi, 414p.
Bibliographic Details : Bibliography; Index
This book is a systematic and contemporary exploration of the uniquely Indian phenomenon of raga, which forms the foundation of the musical culture of India.
Maestros speak with total conviction of a raga as having a personality. A raga must therefore be viewed not only as the governing authority of musical performance, but also as an archetype pregnant with cultural meaning. The exploration of raga-ness, therefore, can begin with the grammatical coordinates of ragas, but cannot stop there. This book attempts to extend the scope of the enquiry to cover several other facets of ragas examining the manner in which they participate in the cultural process. As such, this book provides valuable insights to scholars, researchers, connoisseurs, as well as performing musicians.
Written by an author of established credentials as a musician, researcher and writer with three acclaimed works to his credit, this book explores the subject through conceptual essays in Part I, and case studies of fifty-one ragas in Part II. The case studies of ragas are supported with references to authoritative texts and reviews of recordings by recent and contemporary maestros.
Written in the author's lucid and masterly style, this book makes complex musicological concepts accessible to non-academic readers, and contributes significantly to widening the understanding of the role of ragas in the musical culture.
— Ashwini Bhide–Deshpande
Guest Essay: The Indian Concept of Rasa and the Western System of Keys
— Alessandro Dozio
— Lyle Wachovsky
Part I: Perspectives on Raga-ness
1.1. The Raga-ness of Ragas
1.2. Ragas: Right and Wrong
1.3. Raga Chemistry and Beyond
1.4. Kedar at Sunrise?
1.5. Raga, Rasa, Meaning
1.6. The Raga-ness of Compositions
1.7. The Raga-ness of Compositions II
1.8. The Raga-ness of Compositions III
1.9. The Raga-ness of Alap
1.10. The Raga-ness of Tans
1.11. The Raga-ness of Musicians
Part II: The World of Ragas
2.1. Adana Kanada: A Raga of Valour and Heroism
2.2. Adi Basant: Fading Colours of Spring
2.3. Ahiri: Not Ahiri Todi, not Ahir Bhairav, Simply Ahiri
2.4. Ahir Bhairav: Issues in Raga Grammar
2.5. Ahir Lalit: Ravi Shankar's Creation
2.6. Bahar: Spring in the Air
2.7. Basant Mukhari: Persian Origins, Carnatic Inspiration
2.8. Bhairavi: The Raga and the Eternal Feminine
2.9. Bhimpalas: Everyone Knows It; Only Maestros Perform It
2.10. Bihag: Straddling Two Worlds
2.11. Bihagda: A Popular Bihag Variant
2.12. Bilaskhani Todi: A Requiem for Miya Tansen
2.13. Chandni Kedar: Much Ado About Nothing
2.14. Darbari Kanada: Elephantine Gait and Tonal Geometry
2.15. Desha: Romanticism Rules
2.16. Durga: Raga of the Warrior Goddess
2.17. Enayet Khani Kanada: Ustad Vilayat Khan's Melodic Experiment
2.18. Gara: Tonal Geometry and Amorphous Grammar
2.19. Gorakh Kalyan: Evolving as a Bageshri Variant
2.20. Gunji-Kauns: A Raga Is Born
2.21. Hemant: An Old New Raga?
2.22. Jaitashri: An Independent Raga or a Compound?
2.23. Janasammohini: Carnatic, Hindustani, or Pakistani?
2.24. Jog: A Versatile Raga
2.25. Kedar: Abandoning the Austere Form
2.26. Khambavati: A Boutique Raga
2.27. Kshem (Khem) Kalyan: The Precious Kalyan
2.28. Lalit: Tonal Geometry and Melodic Mischief
2.29. Lalita-Sohani: Interesting Concept, Fragile Raga-ness
2.30. Madhuvanti: A Grammatical Orphan?
2.31. Malti Basant: A Rare Fragrance of Spring
2.32. Marwa, Puriya and Sohani: The Tricky Triplets
2.33. Megh Malhar: A Sombre Response to Nature's Bounty
2.34. Miya-ki Todi: A Case of Reluctant Differentiation
2.35. Multani: Debilitating and Oppressive
2.36. Nat Kamod: Solitary Bandisha, Limited Raga-ness
2.37. Patadipak: Can It Be Called a Raga?
2.38. Pilu: Easy Identification, Meaningless Codification
2.39. Puriya Kalyan: Or Is It Purva? What's the Difference?
2.40. Rageshri: Bageshri's Cousin
2.41. Sampurna Malkauns: The Concept and Its Manifestations
2.42. Sanjh Saravali: Ustad Vilayat Khan's Magnum Opus
2.43. Shahana: The Most Popular Kanada Variant
2.44. Shankara: Mellowing of the Daunting Deity
2.45. Shri: Supplicant, Spooky or Belligerent?
2.46. Shuddha Chhaya: Elusive Component of a Popular Compound
2.47. Shuddha Kalyan: How and Why It Is Changing
2.48. Tilang: A Sibling of Jog or Parent?
2.49. Vacaspati: Rechristened for Acceptance
Glossary and Explanatory Notes
Appendix 1 : Landmark Dates of Personages
Table 1: Hindustani Svaras: Pitch Ratios and Notation Symbols
Table 2: Hindustani Svaras and Corresponding Carnatic Svaras.
Index 1: Ragas and Parent Scales
Index 2: Musicians
Index 3: Gharanas/Stylistic Lineages
Index 4: Authors and Authorities
Deepak S. Raja
Deepak S. Raja (b. 1948-) is amongst the most respected writers on Hindustani music today. He works as repertoire analyst for India Archive Music Ltd. (IAM), New York, the most influential producer of Hindustani music outside India. He has been associated with the academic and publishing activities of the SHRUTI magazine (Chennai), ITC-Sangeet Research Academy (Calcutta), Sangeet Natak Akademi (Delhi), and the Indian Musicological Society (Baroda/ Mumbai). In 1999, he co-edited the Indian Musicological Society's publication titled Perspectives on Dhrupad. His first book: Hindustani Music -- A Tradition in Transition, was published in 2005. His second book, Khayal Vocalism -- Continuity Within Change, was published in 2009. In 2009, he was granted a Senior Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He also runs a respected blog on Hindustani music: http://swaratala.blogspot.com. Deepak Raja is a sitar and surbahar player of the Etawah Gharana, trained by Shri Pulin Deb Burman, and Pandit Arvind Parikh. He studies Khayal under Vidushi Dhondutai Kulkarni of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. The author took an honours degree in Humanities from Delhi University, a master's degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Advertising Administration from the Watford College of Technology in the UK. He has occupied important positions in the media industry, including Editor of Business India, and Secretary General of the Indian Newspaper Society.
Books of Deepak S. Raja
The Musician and His Art 2019
Raga-ness of Ragas 2015
Khayal Vocalism 2009
Hindustani Music 2015
Hindustani Music Today 2012
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Elegant in white, Asin's airport style gets a thumbs up!
Shutterbugs caught up with Bollywood actress Asin at the Mumbai International Airport on October 16, 2014. The 'Ghajini' actress sported a white maxi dress and a pink scarf to match with it.
Asin is all set for her upcoming movie 'All Is Well' opposite Abhishek Bachchan. The actress made her Bollywood debut with the movie 'Ghajini' opposite actor Aamir Khan.
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I just wanted to share my journey of how I started out as an actress and where I am today. One of the real exciting things about being an actor is meeting amazing people like directors, producers, casting directors, crew members and fellow actors. You make these connections with industry minded people and you just feel the energy that resonates from everyone around you whether it's onset, in a workshop or at an audition. It's a great opportunity to learn what other actors are doing to further their careers. You would be interested to know I have found that a majority of actors don't know how to further their careers and in some cases even know where to start.
When I decided I wanted to be an actress I thought to myself, 'How the hell am I going to do this?' It was obvious that I needed training but as a mother of five – yes that's right FIVE – and working fulltime there was no way I could leave my job and attend a drama school fulltime for 2 years. My two youngest babies were under the age of 4 and day care costs were a killer. Over a number of years I would search for workshops after hours or on weekends (which was scarce). I applied for roles on Star Now – now that was god send – this was where I got my first extra role and it was my first time on a film set. I loved it and all I wanted to do was get in front of the camera more except I didn't know how.
It wouldn't be for another few years that I would attend a 6 week course with an amazing actress, director and coach, Miranda Harcourt. There I met an actress and for the life of me I can't remember her name but as we got to chatting she told me she was auditioning for roles on Shortland Street (NZ Soap) and the movie Avatar. So I asked her how did she get these auditions, she told me through her agent. The thought never entered my mind. I needed a blinking agent 'dur!' She gave the name and number of her agent and they invited me into their little boutique agency. I got auditions for TV Commercial's and landed one of them and I got to be on my very first international mega buster movie set, Avatar. My experience on Avatar really cemented my passion and desire for acting.
My journey has been a long and testing one for me but it wasn't until I moved to Australia where I found an opportunity to work my day job as an IT Professional and study acting at Screenwise after-hours. Until doing this course I hadn't realised how much I didn't know about acting and the business of acting. Like Acting is a Business? You bet your cotton little socks it is and guess what or should I say who the business is. YOU. Yes as an Actor you are your business and it's up to you to build your business, market yourself and keep yourself well trained. To get to this point in my life circumstances dedicated I had to take the long way around but I guess everyone's journey's are different.
If I could impart one thing to new actors it would be; if you are seriously passionate about acting than your journey must start with not just training to be an actor but by understanding the industry and how it works. Knowing what's required to get an agent, what casting directors are looking for and finding other avenues to get work. Do short films, create actor cell groups and meet every week, work on scenes and do self-tests. Why not write your own feature film or short. With technology these days and the quality of cameras being produced makes it easy. If you are at a point where you feel you need help find a mentor - I have and I'm really excited that I have. I really encourage you all to do the same. It's all part of the journey.
If you have a story you would like to share please feel free to share it with us. If you have any questions regarding where you are in your Actors Journey I'm more than happy to answer any if I can.


Love to read books? Wish there were a Black Friday just for books? There is! Read Tuesday, December 9, 2014.
There are some incredible deals in there—like the romance omnibus shown above, reg. $9.99, now 99 cents (90% off), available for preorder, currently 495 Paid in the Kindle store. I really like this year's selection; there are many very good books. I'm looking forward to shopping myself.
I thought that my new self-publishing boxed set was a good deal (I lowered it to $2.99 today—get 4 books, 628 pages, for less than the price of 1; sold separately, it costs $17), but that romance collection knocks the socks off of my deal.
There are many other great books at great prices. Check them out.
Plus, these are just the preliminary catalogs. More books will be added soon.
Note the start and end dates for each offer. Some of the books are already on sale; many will go on sale prior to Dec. 9.
We're still working on perfecting the catalogs. The Smashwords page currently doesn't have images. A few of the images on the Kindle page are tiny. And we're still putting together more catalogs. We're working it.
You can still sign up (this post was written on December 2), but time is running out.
That was speedy! 🙂 Thank you.
It looks like you added yours shortly after I downloaded the file for the catalog. I'll try to update it later today. Thank you for participating.


Today's blog is out early as we may not have WiFi.
Today is a travel day. Or night, we guess!
We're going to spend the afternoon doing all Touristy things, such as the crypts, bell tower, treasury, cathedral and more!
Once we've done all of these, we'll be off to our next location, on a bus at 23:00 tonight! We then need to change our bus at 4am, wait for 2 hours, then continue onto our next location, arriving at 12pm tomorrow!
The plan for today wasn't decided until about 1pm when we finally decided to leave the house!
Kim had wanted to go to Froggyland today, which is a museum of 507 stuffed frogs doing everyday activities. Yes, weird, but it's the only one of its kind in the world, so we had to go!
Unfortunately, we were unable to take photos, but photos can be seen online. It was interesting and strange at the same time.
This didn't last as long as we expected, so after we decided to get changed and head to the beach as it was very hot today!
We got to where we climbed the wall yesterday and 2 Croatian guys told us it is a private beach, so we went to another beach instead, which was also nice but more people!
After some wading, sunbathing and jumping into the water, we headed back home for a shower and now we're making burgers and potato wedges for dinner and then an evening walk we think!
Place 8 – Day 5: Split – Beach Day!
The plan for today was an entire day of beach!
We left around 12:30 and it was actually cloudy out, but not too cold, so we continued onto the beach anyway!
We got to a spot where Josh said he wanted to jump in, but we had to wait for a while until Kim jumped in to get the jumping started! Kim and Josh jumped in and then we all moved on to our usual cove that we chill at.
We sat around for a bit, waded in the water, and then we hopped over a wall that we've been wanting to get to the other side of. What a great idea it was, too!
On the other side was what looked like an abandoned beach or something similar, which was awesome!
There was a another little cove area, with an awesome archway where Kim and Josh swam under.
We all went under the arch, which turned out to be a lot colder and deeper than we thought, but it was good fun!
All in all, it was an awesome day of just relaxing and swimming!


Function, design meet on this street; Facility: Millennium Inorganic Chemicals has opened an Anne Arundel County research center that is three times larger than its previous site.
Researchers at Millennium Inorganic Chemicals are celebrating the fact that they now have acres of space to study products so small that 12 million of them could fit on a pinhead.
The company is the world's second-largest maker -- behind DuPont -- of titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in items such as paint, plastics, toothpaste, non-dairy creamer and the white writing on M&M; candy. Millennium recently opened an $18-million, 120,000-square- foot research center in northern Anne Arundel County that is three times larger than its old facility five miles away in Baltimore. A ribbon-cutting ceremony with company officials and researchers from around the world was held yesterday.
The center is set up like an indoor town. Visitors enter through a typical reception area, go through a set of double doors, turn a corner and are faced with an indoor main street, complete with real trees, picnic tables, streetlight-style lamps and a huge clock in the Bromo Seltzer style. The walls are dark mauve, selected for its soothing quality, and the floor tiles are color coordinated.
The key feature is the large laboratories that line the main street corridor, where researchers look for better production methods and study the way titanium dioxide, a byproduct of sand, works in finished products.
"This is like a dream come true for most of us," said senior technician Michael Busch, who's worked at the company 12 years. "We have more space to work and things aren't as cramped."
The former site was adjacent to Millennium Inorganic's manufacturing plant at Hawkins Point in southern Baltimore and was only about 40,000 square feet. "Our corporate research strategy is to look at investing in the future, and we're committed to growth, and that means head count, projects and people," said Lawrence R. Valencourt, the center's manager of research and development administration. "We want to attract world-quality scientists and engineers, and we can not do that with a functional but unattractive facility."
There are 123 people working at the Baymeadow Industrial Park facility -- 20 of whom were hired within the past year, and plans are to bring on another 40. The average salary, including support staff, is $75,000.
Millennium Inorganic has 400 workers at its manufacturing plant and 250 at its corporate headquarters in Hunt Valley.
No public grants or loans were received for the site, save for a $14,000 employee training grant from the state Department of Business and Economic Development.
"We need the new facility because we're globalizing the company and going from a regional company to a globally run organization," said Bob Lee, president and chief executive of Millennium Inorganic.
Until recently, the company had major research facilities and marketing divisions in Australia, Brazil, France and Britain. It plans to consolidate functions, many of which will move to Hunt Valley or the research facility.
The company sells about 1.3 billion pounds of titanium dioxide a year at about $1 per pound. It brings in about 75 percent of the revenue of its parent company, Millennium Chemicals Inc. in Red Bank, N.J. The parent company reported a 178 percent increase in profit last week, to $25 million, for the first quarter on sales of $423 million, up 10 percent from the corresponding quarter of 1999.
Sales volume at Millennium Inorganic hit a record at 157,000 metric tons in the first quarter, up 10 percent fromlast year. Revenue was $323 million for the quarter, up from $300 million.
Neil Gussman, a spokesman for Millennium Inorganic, said the company's fortunes are closely tied to existing-home sales, which hit a record of 5.2 million last year.
"Sellers paint their homes to make them look better, then the buyers don't like the color and they repaint," he said. The company is also starting to focus more on selling the byproducts created during the phase in which titanium dioxide is extracted from the sand. One such product is used in dry wall.
Builders began construction on 1.66 million homes in 1999 -- the highest level since 1986 -- and that means a demand for dry wall.
Still, sales of byproducts make up less than 5 percent of the company's revenue. But the ubiquitous nature of titanium dioxide means demand will likely stay strong for the company's product.
The inert element adds opacity to items that would otherwise be clear or grayish in color. Without it, white garbage bags would be clear and vending machines couldn't scan the print on dollar bills.
"If you just sort of think about it," said Valencourt, "you say, 'My God, it's everywhere.'"


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The march of time (and time and time again): 7 things to know for December 9
December 10th, 2019 Jesus Christ ✝
1. Call it, doc: Israeli media is awash, as of this writing, in reports that Likud and Blue and White have finally agreed… on a date for new elections: March 2.
The reports seemingly marks the slightly untimely but all-too-expected death of coalition talks and of the 21st Knesset, which has spent the last several weeks on life support.
According to Channel 12, moving it more than a week away from March 10 will require a super rare four-reading vote in the Knesset.
The Kan broadcaster reports that lawmakers will get to work right away Monday on drafting and pushing through the legislation to set the election date at the earlier date.
But Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein later sends out a statement saying that nobody is working on any legislation until Wednesday, holding out hope for a miracle.
2. Grave concerns: Most elections in Israel are on a Tuesday, but it seems March is just too chock full of important dates on Tuesdays.
March 10 was automatically out the window because it is the Jewish holiday of Purim, marked by feasting, drunkenness, masquerades and all sorts of other shenanigans, which one would think is actually the most fitting for the bizzaro display of democracy that is a third election in a row.
Ynet reports that moving it to the Tuesday of the week after March 10 is no good for United Torah Judaism, because March 17 coincides with the anniversary of the 1786 death of Elimelech of Lizhensk, who is apparently controlling Israeli elections from the beyond. "Some of the party's voters will be off marking the date at his tomb in Poland," the site notes.
What about moving it up to March 3? Channel 13 news reports that the Yad Lebanim organization for families of soldiers killed during their service asked not to hold the vote then, since it is the official date determined by the state to mark the death of soldiers whose burial place is not known.
"It's not right that people should go out shopping and voting while bereaved families are uniting in memory of those killed. The sky will not fall if the election is moved to another day," Yad Lebanim head Eli Ben Shem tells Channel 13.
March 2 isn't exactly clear either. According to a website called Daysoftheyear.com March 2 is Fun Facts About Names Day, Banana Cream Pie Day, Old Stuff Day and Dr. Suess Day.
March 16 could be an option, but according to reports, Blue and White wants it earlier rather than later. Plus it's No Selfies Day.
3. The nail is not in the coffin yet, though: The March 2 date is just in case no coalition deal can be reached by Wednesday night and parties say they are still holding out hope.
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"We cannot let down our guard since we can get a call at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday that there is a unity government," Ynet quotes Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon saying.
Kan reports that Likud is still working on getting Yisrael Beytenu's Avigdor Liberman to come over to their side. According to the station, New Right's Ayelet Shaked is speaking to Liberman about what kind of flexibility the sides can show.
4. Don't fear the reaper: Others, though, are ready to pull the plug and move on.
In Israel Hayom, columnist Eitan Orkabi says people shouldn't be afraid of new elections, and seems to look forward to more deadlock, which has allowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue to push his agenda even without having the confidence of the electorate.
"Look what's happened thanks to the stalemate: Slowly we've seen a build-up of unprecedented opportunities, and the real issues emerge: Jordan Valley Annexation, renewing the state-religion relationship and more than anything, separating powers and a sharp reform of the justice system," he writes, listing three pet projects of the right-wing and Liberman (depending on what he means by renewing the state-religion relationship)
Haaretz's lead editorial accuses Netanyahu of "bombarding Israelis with ridiculous proposals, accusations in every direction and fables about security emergencies and one-time diplomatic opportunities," rather than doing everyone a favor and resigning.
Right-wing columnist Shlomo Pyoterofsky is also excited: "2019 brought us a record of two elections in a single year. The question is whether 2020 will break the record with three Knesset elections in one year? (In theory, it may be hard but it is possible)," he tweets.
5. Sa'ardonic reception: Gideon Sa'ar, who is challenging Netanyahu for the leadership of the Likud, tells Army Radio that there was something not kosher about the group of hecklers who booed and jeered him at a Likud summit Sunday night.
"My aides were left outside, because they were told that only central committee members could enter — but that didn't happen. There needs to be a probe to see who let in this organized group that disturbed the summit," he says.
In Zman Yisrael, Shlomo Yerushalm notes that Netanyahu was also heckled by supporters of Sa'ar, calling the display a taste of what's to come in an expected leadership battle.
"If there are primaries, Netanyahu will almost certainly win. But such a blatant show inside his home, in the heart of the Likud central committee, he has not seen," he writes. "People yelled with all their might, and Netanyahu had a hard time starting their speech. He waved his hands, asked them to be quiet, but it took several minutes to calm down," he writes.
Sa'ar is not the only potential challenger, with former Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat also seen as a likely candidate, though for now Barkat is saving his attacks for Sa'ar. Barkat tells Israel Hayom that Sa'ar "stabbed Netanyahu in the back" and accuses him of coordinating with Liberman and Blue and White.
That may not be provable, but a poll published by Kan shows a whopping 17 percent of Blue and White voters prefer Sa'ar as prime minister of Blue and White head Benny Gantz.
6. A song of Donald: One would have no idea that elections are on the horizon or Israel is even an independent country from looking at most of the front page of Israel Hayom on Monday. The paper goes whole hog for US President Donald Trump after he spoke to the Israeli American Council (which happens to be funded by the paper's owners, the Adelsons).
The paper gushes over the "historic speech," and "unforgettable night," as "thousands of Israelis and Jews could not stop clapping for the president, who proved that he is a real friend."
"I'm your best friend," reads the paper's top headline, above pictures of the Adelsons with Trump, and of the president hugging a member of the Shalva band, which performed for him.
Almost as large is a picture of the paper's editor Boaz Bismuth, who pens a column about the "miracles" Trump is creating for "us."
"Aside from converting to Judaism, he gave us everything we wanted in one evening, and it's okay to pinch ourselves and ask, 'were we like dreamers?" he writes, borrowing some language from a biblical Psalm of Godly salvation and a return to Zion (or south Florida).
And that's all just on the front page.
7. Our mouths were full of money, our tongue a sufficient amount of loyalty: In Haaretz, Chemi Shalev agrees that in the annals of relations between Israel and the United States, there's probably been nothing like Trump's speech. But he differs on whether that's a good thing.
"For right-wing Israelis and American Jews who believe Adelson's adulating depiction of Trump as 'the greatest president,' it was a joyous celebration of his unyielding, one-sided support for Israel, which he reiterated from the podium. For everyone else, including the vast majority of U.S. Jews, Trump's speech must have been excruciating – and his rousing reception by the Israeli-American audience more than slightly nauseating."
Credit to Trump for a truly innovative idea.
After centuries of antisemites accusing Jews of being more loyal to each other across borders than to their own countries, Trump came along and pioneered a new approach by accusing Jews of being insufficiently loyal to each other. https://t.co/IghzK804ya
— Alex (@JewishWonk) December 8, 2019
Halie Soifer, head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, tells Salon that Trump "has repeatedly made references to what has been a very negative stereotype of Jews and money and power."
"Clearly he's speaking from his heart. It's clear that there's quite a bit of hatred in it," she says.
But while some Democrats called out Trump for his uses of anti-Semitic tropes in trying to lavish praise on the Jews, the outcry among others was mostly muted, and nonexistent among Republicans, as compared to other instances, writes Dean Obeidallah in CNN.
"The words of American Presidents can inspire the good, the bad and the ugly," he writes. "That's why in the case of Trump, his inflammatory and irresponsible words about Jews — as well as Muslims and other minorities — must be challenged every time, making clear that we as a society will not allow them to become the new normal."
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Ok so as you know, I've not done so well with the paperback summer reading challenge. I like having it there to try and guide my book choices, and I really would have loved to have read more paperbacks this summer, I planned to, I carried loads in the boot of my car for the four weeks I was away, I bought more! But nope, I didn't do so well with reading them.
And I'm currently reading this one so that's four whole(ish) paperbacks!!!
Audiobooks (I spent a lot of time in the car again this month so audiobooks were really my only choice as I can't drive and read as it's illegal!
And I just finished listening to this which I also have in paperback so does it count???
So overall during the whole of summer paperback month I read a pretty dismal 8/9 paperbacks since I am currently reading a couple. This hasn't been the best summer of reading for me, a lot of things have got in the way and I have relied upon audiobooks on long car journeys and novellas to get me reading in the short amount of free time I have had. I've had a great summer though so I'm not going to complain and I know this will all seem like loads of reading as soon as the new term starts (today) and I am back to having little time on my hands again.
I hope you all had a great summer and got lots of reading done too!


"Retrenchment or Resignation is not a Dirty word. It is an opportune time you take a breather to consolidate your thoughts and do a reality check on the job that you have been putting your heart and soul into it. Have you ever wondered that you have been doing something that does not even align with your passion and talent? So, where does your talent lie? What career or business should you consider so that you can unleash your great potentials? What skillset should you have to embark on your Unique Success Path? Successful people know what they want. So, I want you to know what destiny has for you in your BaZi 八字 to be successful too…".
On another hand I was reading 180 pages book by a young author, entitled Being Happy and Successful – Managing Yourself and Others, hardly costs USD10.00 and I must confessed that this simple book has so much information that easily knocked out any BaZi 八字 course in the market today, that just teach you how to do Personality Profiling, the BaZi 八字 way, almost as the course advert that I received through my email as mentioned earlier.
WHAT IS A BAZI 八字?
First, is to attempt to understand yourself better – Who am I? Why am I born like this? How come I have such an ego? Where can I proceed to be a better person? These questions are reflected in everyone's BaZi 八字.
BaZi 八字 – a set of system to enable a person to know his own Fate 命 and Destiny 运. Collectively known as the 4 pillars eight characters 四柱八字, it uses the 10 Heavenly stems 天干 and 12 Earthly branches 地支, such GanZhi 干支 system existed since the Xia Dynasty, to construct a matrix of 4 pillars comprising of the Hour, Day, Month and Year, in 8 characters. A GanZhi 干支 is also called a JiaZi 甲子. There are 60 JiaZi in a complete cycle. That is where it is called - 4 pillars 8 characters 四柱八字.
The set of 8 characters are the static chart, known as the natal chart. You are born with it – fated 命. Deriving from the month where one is born, another chart is derived. This is called the dynamic chart of Luck Cycle. It comprises of another 8 permutations, each lasting 10 years. They are collectively known as the 10 years luck cycle – destiny 运.
The BaZi chart is rather universal in appearance, but the way and the manner of reading the chart differ from one school to another. The earliest school is known to be the ShenSha 神煞, known to have been credited to Lee ChunFeng 李淳风. The drawback of this system is the lack of a consistent manner of reading a chart. Such resulted in a creation of a system called the ZiPing 子平 method, credited to a person called Xu ZiPing 徐子平. Some schools believed that the ZiPing 子平 method comes from a lineage rather than a person with such a name as ZiPing 子平. It is a secret method that would guarantee every generation to be peaceful ZiSun PingAnn 子孙平安. ZiPing 子平 places the emphasis on the Day Stem日主 to be the point of reference instead of the other pillars to derived the auspicious or inauspicious Gods 吉凶神 in the spectrum of the 10 gods 十神.
BaZi Personality Profiling (BPP) is to merge the tools of modern Profiling techniques such as DISC that stands for Dominance (D), Inducement (I), Submission (S), and Compliance (C) and DOPE which stands for Dove (D), Owl (O), Peacock (P) and Eagle (E) with the aged old traditional BaZi Ten Gods 十神 structure comprising Friend 比, Wealth 财, Officer 官, Resource 印 and Produce 子, with its corresponding YinYang that produce the 10 profiles.
Taking the essence of the modern DOPE profiling tool interpretation, we have the proprietary bird's profile of phoenix (正财), dodo (偏财), dove (正官), vulture (七杀), sparrow (比肩), eagle (劫财), peacock (食神), parrot (伤官), ostrich (正印) and owl (偏印). 4 out of 10 are the original DOPE birds. This is an attempt of moving away from the BaZi 八字 personality profiling system developed by other schools. In short, there is nothing new – just the same 10 gods 十神 system that you so frequently acquainted in BaZi 八字 and now called it by another name.
This idea of determining the strength of chart becomes important because a perfect and ideal chart should have all the 5 elements 五行 BALANCED. One element is good enough, TWO is plenty. In reality such chart DOES NOT EXIST.
In a larger picture, when your Day Stem 日主 is WEAK, you prefer to see Resource 印 to make you stronger and Friends 比 to make you better. So, technically, Resource 印 and Friends 比 are your favourable god 吉神 known also as Positive Stars. That make Wealth 财 and Produce子 your unfavourable god 凶神 also known as Negative Stars, because both stars will weaken the Day Stem 日主 further.
Likewise, when your Day Stem 日主 is STRONG, you prefer to see Wealth 财 to enrich you and Produce 子 to weaken you. So, technically, Wealth 财 and Produce 子 are your favourable god 吉神 known also as Positive Stars. That make Resource 印 and Friends 比 your unfavourable god 凶神 also known as Negative Stars, because both stars will overly strengthen the Day Stem 日主.
The Positive Stars are your Positive Attributes while the Negative Stars are your Negative Attributes. Your Positive Attributes are your Strength while the Negative Attributes are your Weakness. These Strength and Weakness can only be distilled from the natal chart by first knowing if the Natal Chart is a weak or a strong chart.
This technique is called – BALANCING THE CHART 扶抑. It is the most fundamental way in attempting to read a BaZi chart. The true art is not only to know how to differentiate between a weak and a strong chart but the secret technique of using the Officer star 官 as a Nobleman 贵人 instead of a Petty People 小人 as your Useful God 用神.
The SEASON you are born at determine the Main Qi that will have deep impact on you particularly your behavior. If the season that you are born same as you, the structure you are born in is called Friend Structure. If the season that you are born produce you, the structure you are born in is called Resource Structure. If the season that you are born controls you, the structure you are born in is called Officer Structure. If the season that you are born is the element produced by you, the structure you are born in is called Produce Structure. If the season that you are born is the element you control, the structure you are born in is called Wealth Structure. Structure will determine your PRIMARY PROFILE. Taking into considerations of your Day Stem polarity, you will be drawn to take up these 10 Primary profiles – phoenix (正财), dodo (偏财), dove (正官), vulture (七杀), sparrow (比肩), eagle (劫财), peacock (食神), parrot (伤官), ostrich (正印) and owl (偏印).
To locate the Useful God for Bazi.
Should focused on the Month Commander.
Determine from the Day Stem matching the Month Earthly Branch.
It means to say, the Useful God is found in the Month's Pillar Earthly Branches in relation to the Day Stem. Therefore, the STRUCTURE that determine your Primary Profile is your Useful God!
The Strength of the Day Stem tells you your natural behavioral weakness and strength.
Used these to your advantages.
Everybody is born with a main behaviour and many secondary behaviours. Life is complicated. Sometimes we are like an eagle, while other time a parrot or a peacock. These 10 characteristic stereotypes knowing their strength and weaknesses enable us to use them effectively at our disposal. This art is called – USING THE 10 GODS.
Let just assume you are the executioner type Vulture. Your positive set of value is this… and your weaknesses is this… You must altered your ego to be Resource and take the personality profile as an Owl to weaken your primary profile vulture. What installed as the positive attribute of the Owl will offset the negative value of the vulture. Resource grows you and weakened the Officer. This is the use of the SECONDARY PROFILE within you in the 10 Gods interplay.
Recap, in BaZi Personality Profiling, the main reference point is You. Therefore, you have this profile called, BORN TO BE PROFILE. It sticks with you forever and ever. It also shows your Personality Strength and Weaknesses. In BaZi jargon it is called Favorable and Unfavorable Gods.
When you grew up, you will tend to take upon another set of Behavioral Patterns. This is your PRIMARY PROFILE. It tells you 2 things namely, your most prominent character and your most obvious inclination. They are your natural self - your Ego. In BaZi jargon it is called your Structure. It is where your Useful God is to be found.
Useful God may be so useful but how do you use it to counter your dislikes and weaknesses? This is where you need to alter your Ego and use your SECONDARY PROFILE. In another words, use also your Unfavorable Gods by taking up other profiles. This is called mitigation. In BaZi jargon, you use the 10 Gods to your advantages through the art of WuXin ShengKe 五行生克法.
When the goings gets tough, the tough gets going. We have not seen the light at the end of the tunnel yet. While some of the academy is proclaiming yet another investment scheme via their money making courses, we seek to look for alternative manners to provide lights to those who are in need of them. We seek to provide a FREE profiler, allowing the right person to get the right job or the right boss to hire the right staff. Crooked nose is not the criteria neither are a crooked eye.
We have seen how behavioral sciences are used to profile the potential candidates for the available vacancies. Yet, it is through a series of questionnaires, interviews and assumptions that the profiles are assigned to each and every candidate. The known psychological based profilers among others are DISC, Temperament, Personality Plus and others. We seek to rely on BaZi instead as a mechanism of profiling. Just the date of birth with the time of birth is sufficient to know the temperament as Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic or even some may consider Supine, being the fifth temperament. More of the classifications can be derived from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Temperaments .
It is not going to be an easy task in looking at the ZiPing 10 gods to understand their intricate characteristic. It is worth the effort especially in times liked these; as it is to be provided FREE. As a non-profit endeavors modeled similar to a "wiki", we seek support from all those who are learned, interested and generous to contribute to such cause, by dropping an email to me to register your interest. I believe this effort may not rock the world but it will provide a pathway for our generation to come to look at BaZi not as an art of superstition but a code of life, proudly preserved for the future generations as intended as ZiPing, ZiSun PingAnn 子孙平安 .


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Gallery	 November 30, 2015 November 30, 2015
Should Hong Kong Redefine its Retail Market?
By Jonathan Chan and Kate Lin
(Photo by Apple Daily 蘋果日報)
The main source of income for Hong Kong's retail business comes from mainland tourists, but with their numbers dwindling, retailers that expanded to cater their shopping needs have taken a huge blow.
Continue reading "Should Hong Kong Redefine its Retail Market?" →
Gallery	 November 30, 2015 December 13, 2015
Why don't Hongkongers support CY Leung?
By Choi Ho Yee (Elise), Yang Shutong (Emma) and Tsoi Ki Lik (Alex)
Back in 2012, Leung Chun-ying took office as chief executive of Hong Kong under controversy over unauthorized building work in his home that brought discredit to him. After more than three years, Hongkongers' discontent to him and the government only grow.
During the annual July 1 rally and other protests, people demand CY to step down and call him a "big liar" and ''689" which means he only has 689 votes in the CE election. These signs show that CY doesn't fulfill what he had promised when he ran the office. The data from public opinion programme by University of Hong Kong shows CY's popularity slumped 10 percent during his tenure til now. The rating kept going down from 51.5 percent in 2012 to the most recent at 41.3 percent.
Link: https://magic.piktochart.com/output/9718228-facts-about-cy-leungs-popularity
Continue reading "Why don't Hongkongers support CY Leung?" →
Gallery	 November 30, 2015 December 2, 2015
No longer attractive for its spots? – The change of Hong Kong Tourist Consumption
Reported by Vegas Tang, Ian Mak
According to the latest statistics from PartnerNet, a website developed by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, total Chinese visitors who stayed overnight has been dropped from 14,355,800 to 13,562,600, 5.5% in other words. This is far more than the decrease of the total number of overnight visitors, who dropped from to 19,706,500, 4.8%. The proportion of mainland visitors to overall attendance also dropped to 40 percent, from 50 percent. Comparing the first nine months of number of visitors came from different region, most regions had recorded a decrease, and the drop of visitors from Mainland is the most significant among the regions.
Continue reading "No longer attractive for its spots? – The change of Hong Kong Tourist Consumption" →
Who are the Nobel Prize winners?
By Arisa Wing Yiu Lai, Candice Ka Wai Tang & Tanya McGovern
The Nobel Prize is synonymous with influential leaders, thinkers and innovators. Since 1901, the annual international awards receives thousands of nominations for the contributions of individuals and organisations to academia, culture and the sciences.
Continue reading "Who are the Nobel Prize winners?" →
A "Line" over Troubled Water – Something you don't know about poverty in hk
By Catherine Xu, Pamela Lin & Fred LAI
Poor population reaches the lowest in six years while the city is still confronted with the problem of ageing population and more alleviation measures are in need.
Continue reading "A "Line" over Troubled Water – Something you don't know about poverty in hk" →
Abortion in China: policy and data
By Viola Zhou
More than 300 million foetuses were aborted in China since the one-child policy was implemented 35 years ago. Over 10 million abortion operations were performed in the most years in 1980s, when the family-planning policy was strictly enforced. Continue reading "Abortion in China: policy and data" →
General	 November 27, 2015 November 30, 2015
The Blossoming World of Data Visualisation
When "Data" and "News" get married, they have a lot of babies who have different characteristics, which means "Data Journalism Family" inevitably involves many fields about "Data Science".
Yesterday I came to a meetup held in WanChai about data visualisation (one of the family's child in data journalism). The speaker is Mart, and here is his Bio from Trello: Continue reading "The Blossoming World of Data Visualisation" →
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Announcements	 November 27, 2015 November 30, 2015
A Visit to CityU Apps Lab
Hi all. There will be a visit to CityU Apps Lab organised by Open Innovation Lab@CUHK. Please see if you have interest. Data journalism could be presented in various forms like webpages, apps and etc. News apps are also a trend in data journalism.
"Those two are tech communities. CAL finds a lot of practical applications with impact to society. They even got some public startup funding from HK gov last year. I think it is a good opportunity for people with a inter-disciplinary interest to mingle with each other," says Hu Pili, Director of Initium Lab.
Here is the visit info:
https://trello.com/c/wD1iucin/198-tour-visiting-cityu-apps-lab
Gallery	 November 20, 2015 October 8, 2017
When Numbers Meet Words…
Enjoy data news stories produced by our students and members in the Gallery!
General	 November 20, 2015 December 2, 2015
The Setup of D&N Society
The D&N Society was established in 2015 based in Hong Kong: https://dnnsociety.org/about/


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Cafi and Santa Chiara, the Murano Glass Gallery
Published by Claudia Bettiol on January 16, 2017 January 16, 2017
The artistic history of Santa Chiara, the famous Murano Glass Gallery, is closely linked to 'Cafi' (Ion Cafadaru) who spent four years designing and executing its fine reconstruction.
The former church of Santa Chiara has just been restored and already has become a meeting place of famous glass artisans and an important gallery of Murano glass where tourists and travellers can understand the art and technology of glass and buy some of the best examples of creators' art.
Four years ago, when the Belluardo family has purchased the church, its reconstruction to create this Murano glass gallery seemed an impossible task. The roof had collapsed in a fire and the site being near the center of the island of Murano made it almost impossible to organise the restoration work.
The large trusses of Santa Chiara had to be replaced and there was no equipment (such as cranes) that could help in their installation. As always, the difference is made by man and his love, and Cafi was able to coordinate a group and personally carry out the work using a daring system of pulleys.
The story of Cafi is of a man destined to become an artist. He says he is not so yet but we can see his achievements and judge for ourselves.
In Romania, I studied at technical schools and and then took finance at University. The policies of the communist regime meant that I had no trouble having to look for work: 'the regime took care of our future'.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall he found himself free but with the commitment of having to 'invent' a future. Fate had led him to work in stained glass and he opened a company in Bucharest with his friend. The economic boom and the life in the city give him some splendid years and then he met and married his Italian wife and the question arose of where to live. Women always win and they arrived in Venice.
The Italian style is new to him, the architects have other styles and demands than Cafi's experience so he resumed his studies and this time, at last, he attended an art school: the course for "Restoring the cultural heritage" in Padova.
When the project to create this Murano glass gallery in Santa Chiara arrived, Cafi was ready with sufficient professional experience and artistic preparation for what is a challenge for which all artists would compete. To work in a historic setting respecting the past but meeting modern requirements. To live in the past and the future, to penetrate the stratified signs of aging over the centuries, to create a unique and unmistakable style.
Cafi immediately started to collect photographs and material for his blog on the work and for a future book that will tell the story of the reconstruction of the former church and the technical and artistic challenges that his group had to overcome.
To enter the Murano glass gallery in Santa Chiara today is to be in a unique environment, with its own unmistakable personality, recalling Venice and its history but having a modern discourse with visitors. Where beautiful classic chandeliers are in contraposition with modern furnishings and where today's artists create works of tomorrow. Santa Chiara was founded around 1200 as a church, then transformed into a glass factory and now completely restored into a glass art gallery.
A modern 'Temple of Glass', a gallery where you can see different craftsmen at at their benches working on different techniques: from blown glass to the candlelight techniques, from engraving to guilding. Each visitor can then come into direct contact with those who create the glass master works, and learn to recognize the quality of the glass works of Murano.
It is a place to meet the protagonists of the art of glass and a chat in a comfortable environment in spaces designed for educational entertainment. A place to meet Cafi and wonder at the story of the rebuilding of Santa Chiara and creation of this Murano glass gallery.
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Claudia Bettiol
Ingegnere, futurista e fondatrice di Discoverplaces. Blogger specializzato nella sostenibilità e nella promozione culturale dei piccoli territori e delle piccole imprese. Ama i cavalli
Engineeer, futurist, joint founder of Energitismo and founder of Discoverplaces. Blogger specialising in sustainability and in cultural promotion of small places and small enterprises. She loves horses


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Bailey Webb | Aug 01, 1999
San Diego County draws Midwest interest A partnership between Newport Beach, Calif.-based Master Development Corp. and St. Louis-based Conning Asset Management Co., has sold North County Corporate Center, a 26-acre, 493,000 sq. ft. industrial complex in north San Diego County, Calif. The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio purchased the business park for $27.5 million.
Completed in early June, the development consists of five buildings ranging from 70,000 sq. ft. to 125,000 sq. ft.
Amazon.com leases First Industrial building in Atlanta Chicago-based First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. has agreed to build an 800,000 sq. ft. food warehousing and distribution center for Seattle-based Amazon.com in McDonough, Ga. Amazon.com has signed a 10-year lease and will occupy the new facility upon its October completion.
First Industrial began spec construction in October 1998. The building was originally slated for 400,000 sq. ft., but First Industrial began adding an additional 400,000 sq. ft. in May.
Amazon.com's analysis pointed to an Atlanta-area distribution hub, and upon finding such a large development already under construction, the company knew it had a perfect match for its logistics strategy, says Amazon.com spokesperson Emily Glassman.
Binswanger arranges pair of Ohio deals Philadelphia-based Binswanger has arranged the sale of two Ohio manufacturing and distribution centers. First, Binswanger brokered the sale of an 850,000 sq. ft. facility on 60 acres in Celina, Ohio, on behalf of Miamisburg, Ohio-based Huffy Corp. New Bremen, Ohio-based Crown Equipment Corp. acquired the industrial building for an undisclosed amount.
Binswanger also arranged the sale of a 510,000 sq. ft. building in Urbana, Ohio. Racine, Wis.-based S.C. Johnson Wax sold the development to Rittal, a German manufacturer whose U.S. headquarters is in Springfield, Ohio.
Panattoni*Hillwood inks two Dallas-area leases Fort Worth, Texas-based Panattoni*Hillwood has leased more than 237,000 sq. ft. of a 400,000 sq. ft. spec building at Waters Ridge II Business Park in Lewisville, Texas. USCO Logistics will take 135,302 sq. ft., while LDBrinkman, one of the largest floorcovering distributors in the nation, will lease 102,000 sq. ft. USCO is a full-service logistics provider that manages more than 10 million sq. ft. of shared and dedicated distribution space for international corporations.
Since January, Panattoni*Hillwood - a joint venture formed in August 1998 between Sacramento, Calif.-based Panattoni Development Co. and Ft. Worth-based Hillwood - has combined to lease more than 1.6 million sq. ft. in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
Brandywine switches gears Newtown Square, Pa.-based Brandywine Realty Trust has sold a 1.95 million sq. ft. industrial portfolio to a newly formed partnership headed by Foster City, Calif.-based Bailard, Biehl & Kaiser Real Estate Investment Trust Inc. (BB&K REIT). The transaction includes 17 properties with 21 industrial buildings located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. Brandywine will receive $82.9 million with the potential to earn an additional $600,000 based on additional leasing.
Once BB&K REIT reaches a pre-specified rate of return, Brandywine is entitled to a profit participation of 35% interest in incremental cash flow and a 40% to 60% interest in the proceeds from future sales of the properties. Brandywine will continue to operate as the portfolio's leasing, property management and construction agent.
The sale, along with a $105 million convertible preferred stock offering, help to de-leverage the company and improve Brandywine's financial flexibility, according to Gerard H. Sweeney, Brandywine president and CEO.
Brandywine has also formed a joint venture with Dallas-based Invesco Realty Advisors Inc. to fund additional industrial development and acquisitions. Invesco will contribute $25 million in equity to expand the venture's presence in Delaware, southern New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Brandywine will have the ability, but not the obligation, to match the equity contribution and receive an equivalent rate of return or promoted interest in new developments and acquisitions. Brandywine will act as the venture's leasing agent, development manager and property manager. Brandywine has also granted the joint venture an option on certain Pennsylvania and New Jersey industrial land holdings that can accommodate 400,000 sq. ft. of industrial development.
Completed in early June, North County Corporate Center consists of five buildings ranging in size from 70,000 sq. ft. to 125,000 sq. ft.
GES Exhibition Services inks SoCal lease Las Vegas-based GES Exhibition Services has leased 311,237 sq. ft. of industrial space in Garden Grove, Calif. Bryon Ward in the Newport Beach, Calif., office of Northbrook, Ill.-based Grubb & Ellis represented GES and the landlord, New Jersey-based the Sudler Cos. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
GES Exhibition Services expects to occupy the building at 7300 Chapman Ave. in September. The facility, which will serve as the company's regional headquarters, was formerly a warehouse for Montgomery Ward. GES will relocate from Santa Fe Springs, Calif.


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Attractions, Norther Historical
Harar is a walled city which stands on the eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley and is the
provincial capital of Ethiopia's largest administrative region, Hararge. The city's location gives
wonderful views of the surrounding country – the vast Danakil desert to the north, the fertile
Harar Mountains to the west, and the cattle rich Ogaden plains to the south.
Harar is considered as a holy city by the Muslims, and within its walls are no less than 90
mosques. It was founded in the 12th century and in 1520 was captured by Ahmed Gragn (the
left-handed) who from Harar invaded large parts of Ethiopia. In 1875 Harar was captured by
the Egyptians and in 1887 by Menelik II who appointed Ras Makonnen, whose army defeated
the Italians at Adwa and father of Haile Selassie, as its governor.
All around the walled city we find bigger and smaller markets famous for basket, spices and
chat.
The Hyena man is considered as one of the tourist attractions of Harar, Here one can see men
feeding the hyenas in the evening.
The major beauties of Harar are its colorful people and its unique atmosphere. It's a pleasure to
walk around the city, look at the people and bargain at the markets. As a centre of commerce
which it used to be, Harar feels like a place where people live and let live, a laizez faire
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Samsung released a software solution for Note 7 users who haven't yet returned or exchanged their phone after a voluntary product recall. The update will cap the battery's recharge capacity at 60 percent.
An issue that causes the anode and cathode to touch and erupt in flames has caused physical- and property damage. Although customers are urged to exchange or return the phone, the remotely-administered software update is seen as a quick fix to prevent future problems.
Samsung released information about the software update in a South Korean newspaper advertisement, according to the Associated Press. The update will start September 20th for South Korean customers. It is unknown at the time whether the US or other parts of the world will receive the update.
What does it mean to artificially limit battery charging to 60 percent? The update will shorten the Note 7's battery life by a considerable chunk, requiring more frequent charging throughout the day. Coupled with the fact that the Galaxy Note 7 is a phone with a premium price, this may upset existing Samsung users.
If Samsung does cap battery life, we expect it to be temporary until the new Note 7 crop passes future inspection. If you have the phone, we strongly recommend that you return or exchange your Note 7.


Reading the back of a soda or artificial juice label brings up many unfamiliar words. Ingredients such as dyes, additives, preservatives, and other artificial substances all make appearances on said label. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is another staple in these drinks – one that's so popular it has even landed its own line of promotional commercials. But absentmindedly glancing over these words is one thing, ingesting them – especially on a regular basis – is a new act altogether. Without realizing what these items can do to one's body they are often consumed without worry.
However, despite the U.S.'s attitude toward sugar and other artificial ingredients, these items are actually a great source of concern.
Artificial food colorings are one such cause, providing beverages and foods alike with a more rich or "appealing" color. They are aesthetics that come at a heavy price. Food colorings, including Red 3, Red 40, Yellows 5 and 6, Green 3, Blues 1 and 2, and more, have all been linked to potential cancer causing chemicals. These hues, some of the post popularly used dyes, may also cause allergic reactions to those of all ages.
Back before food health laws or the FDA, food manufacturers used various items to make their products look more appealing. Bakers used chalk to provide their breads with a rich, white look, and candy was mixed with read and white leads, blue vitriol, vermillion (both contain mercury), and Scheele's green (a carrier of copper and arsenic) to increase the intensity of colors.
Soon industries saw a market in food colors and dyes, and began to create products specified for manufacturers. Coal tar – made from combining coke and coal gas – was made into food colorings; this method is often still used today. At the time, while coal tar colors were safer than adding metals, as previous companies had done, the food and beverage dye practice was yet to be regulated by the government.
It wasn't until 1938 that the FDA was given regulation rights for coloring materials. During this initial approval process, 15 combinations of synthetic colorings met approval, of which six are still in use.
Since recent testing methods have come into play, many artificial colors have been banned from use, with disease or health risk being cited as the cause. This includes Red 2, which was shown to cause cancer, being banned in 1972, and Red 32, Orange 1 and 2 for being toxic. These dyes were a source of controversy in the mid 50s when multiple children became sick post Halloween.While many of these dyes have been banned, it's important to remember that they come from the same premise of the other dyes. Many of the same ingredients are used, and similar dying processes are practiced.
Artificial dyes have also been shown to increase hyperactivity rates, and increase the risk for disease, including several types of cancer, tumors, bladder issues, hypersensitivity, and even mutations. The more artificial colors a person ingests, the higher risk they are for these ghastly side effects. The best way to avoid these health risks is to eat a healthy and balanced diet free from artificial colors or dyes.
To find out more about the health risks of natural ingredients, check out the ZingAnything blog.


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Q: session variables in case of url redirections I have a application running on tomcat server , which is redirected to another website for password authentication ( and store some data) , and then redirected back to my tomcat server
EX
1 to A
A to B
B to 2
Where 1 and 2 are pages on my application
A and B are pages on other applications
I am setting a session variable on my page 1 using
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
session.setAttribute("loginUser", "loginUser");

and using it on page 2 using
String loginUser= session.getAttribute("loginUser");

but getting a null pointer exception on 2

A: If you're doing a redirect in the same context (Application), rather use RequestDispatcher to do a forward (passing your request and response). That way, you pass your session through.
Otherwise, my suggestion is to not store the loginUser on the session but pass user id variable as some intelligent (and confused) string to the other application, write a mechanism to retrieve the user logged in session state and carry on from there. This is called, Single-Sign On.

A: it may be happening because of
'A session is transient, and its lifetime ends when one of the following occurs:
A user leaves your site and the user's browser does not accept cookies.

A user quits the browser.

The session is timed out due to inactivity.

The session is completed and invalidated by the servlet.

The user logs out and is invalidated by the servlet.'

refer http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15523_01/web.1111/e13712/sessions.htm

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We recently had the pleasure of sharing time with Marlo, a 2017 Castro Valley high school graduate, during her personalized photo shoot. When Marlo came to us she was seeking a session with Kyd, a beautiful full blood Arabian that belongs to her trainer, mentor and friend, Cynthia Eldridge. Marlo and Kyd were amazing in front of the camera and we all had a ball. Together, we created some fun shots in the arena, at the barn and in her cowgirl attire!
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Join a team of inspirational and enthusiastic volunteers at ShelterBox Disaster Relief Visitor Centre in Truro, Cornwall.
As a ShelterBox Visitor Centre volunteer, you'll be a part of a team telling our story and raising awareness about ShelterBox's work in disaster relief around the world.
You'll be confident with the public, welcoming, friendly and able to ask visitors to support us through making a donation or regular giving.
You'll have access to regular updates on our deployments and you'll receive induction and training to ensure you feel confident in all aspects of the work of the charity.
Welcoming visitors at the main information desk.
Leading guided tours to groups, clubs and business partners.
Guardianship of exhibitions and displays.
Delivering our education programme to school groups.
Supporting key calendar events with ShelterBox.
Involvement in a wide range of additional fundraising events.
In early 2006, David Crook was travelling in Sri Lanka when he met a man who had been devastated by the Boxing Day Tsunami. He had lost his wife, a child and his tuk-tuk business and been left to raise his one year old daughter on his own.
David said: 'He had just been re-housed and proudly showed me his new home. He was one of many who had been helped by ShelterBox and he was still using his groundsheets, blankets and enamel cooking pots.
'His story inspired me and although I was already a supporter, I was determined to become a volunteer.
'In 2007 I gave my first talk as a ShelterBox Speaker and haven't stopped since. I have just done my 600th public event for ShelterBox, and have completed 150 tours around ShelterBox locations.
'I have spoken to groups throughout England (and even to one in Australia!) and supported large events. I've packed boxes, stuffed envelopes, made box handles and helped at training events.
'I am looking forward to the exciting challenges and opportunities that the new Visitor Centre will give me to engage further with the public and share the vision that is ShelterBox.
'I am passionate about ShelterBox and its work, believing in a world where no family should be without shelter.
His story inspired me, and made me determined to become a ShelterBox volunteer.
Unfortunately, we are not currently recruiting for Visitor Centre Volunteers.
If you would like to register your interest in volunteering with us in a different role, please complete this form and you will be notified as soon as opportunities are available.
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Ihlathi Secondary School is a high school that is located in the suburb of Tshabalala, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It also educates students from the neighbouring suburbs including Sizinda and Nkulumane.

The school was established in 1968 as a junior secondary school under the F2 group of schools which had a curriculum oriented in the technical subjects. The name Ihlathi means a dense forest. In 1980, the new government did away with the F1 and F2 education systems for secondary schools nationwide, Ihlathi Secondary School started offering Cambridge G.C.E. "O"Level curriculum. The first class of students wrote their exaninations in November 1983.

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Education in Bulawayo
High schools in Zimbabwe
Educational institutions established in 1968
1968 establishments in Rhodesia