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Textiles: quarterly sales volume index in Great Britain 2015-2019
Sales volume of textiles in Great Britain from 1st quarter 2015 to 1st quarter 2019 (as index number of sales per week)
by Tugba Sabanoglu, last edited Jun 13, 2019
This statistic shows the quarterly trend in the retail sales volume of textiles (quantity bought) in Great Britain from 1st quarter 2015 to 1st quarter 2019. The figures are seasonally adjusted estimates, measured using the Retail Sales Index (RSI) and published in index form with a reference year of 2016 equal to 100. Over the time period observed, textile sales reached their highest point during the first quarter of 2017, at 105.3 index points. The sales index fell slightly in the quarters following this.
Index number of sales per week
Q1 2019 95.3
Q4 2018 102
Q3 2018 100.8
Q2 2017 98
Q1 2015 to Q1 2019
Figures are seasonally adjusted, chained volume of retail sales in predominantly non-food stores.
Index 2016 = 100.
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Annual retail sales (excluding automotive fuel) in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Total monthly sales value of all retailing including automotive fuel in Great Britain from January 2015 to January 2019 (in billion GBP)
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Retail sales in textile, clothing and footwear stores in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Retail sales in non-specialized stores in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Retail sales in household goods stores in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Annual sales through non-store retailing in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Retail sales of automotive fuel in Great Britain from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
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Internet retail sales as a percentage of total retail sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from January 2016 to May 2019*
Average weekly value of internet retail sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from January 2013 to May 2019* (in million GBP)
Highest ranking multichannel retailers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019*
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Leading general retailer brands ranked by BrandIndex Index score in the United Kingdom (UK) from July 2017 to June 2018
Leading 10 UK retailers in 2017, based on worldwide retail sales (in billion U.S. dollars)
Leading 30 retailers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016/17, based on international sales value (in million GBP)
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Revenue from the retail sale of textiles in specialized stores in Czechia from 2010 to 2016 (in million Czech Koruna)
Sales value of textiles in Great Britain from 1st quarter 2015 to 1st quarter 2019, based on index number of sales per week*
Sales volume (exc. fuel) of large and small retail businesses in Great Britain from 2008 to 2017, as index number of sales per week*
Sales value of floor coverings in Great Britain from 1st quarter 2015 to 2nd quarter 2018, based on index number of sales per week*
Sales value of large and small retail businesses in Great Britain from 2008 to 2017, as index number of sales per week*
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Does little alone, but absolutely necessary in conjunction with piracetam. (Bought from Smart Powders.) When turning my 3kg of piracetam into pills, I decided to avoid the fishy-smelling choline and go with 500g of DMAE (Examine.com); it seemed to work well when I used it before with oxiracetam & piracetam, since I had no piracetam headaches, and be considerably less bulky.
The question of how much nonmedical use of stimulants occurs on college campuses is only partly answered by the proportion of students using the drugs in this way. The other part of the answer is how frequently they are used by those students. Three studies addressed this issue. Low and Gendaszek (2002) found a high past-year rate of 35.3%, but only 10% and 8% of this population used monthly and weekly, respectively. White et al. (2006) found a larger percentage used frequently: 15.5% using two to three times per week and 33.9% using two to three times per month. Teter et al. (2006) found that most nonmedical users take prescription stimulants sporadically, with well over half using five or fewer times and nearly 40% using only once or twice in their lives. DeSantis et al. (2008) offered qualitative evidence on the issue, reporting that students often turned to stimulants at exam time only, particularly when under pressure to study for multiple exams at the same time. Thus, there appears to be wide variation in the regularity of stimulant use, with the most common pattern appearing to be infrequent use.
It's been widely reported that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and college students turn to Adderall (without a prescription) to work late through the night. In fact, a 2012 study published in the Journal of American College Health, showed that roughly two-thirds of undergraduate students were offered prescription stimulants for non-medical purposes by senior year.
Regardless, while in the absence of piracetam, I did notice some stimulant effects (somewhat negative - more aggressive than usual while driving) and similar effects to piracetam, I did not notice any mental performance beyond piracetam when using them both. The most I can say is that on some nights, I seemed to be less easily tired when writing or editing or n-backing (and I felt less tired than ICON 2011 than ICON 2010), but those were also often nights I was also trying out all the other things I had gotten in that order from Smart Powders, and I am still dis-entangling what was responsible. (Probably the l-theanine or sulbutiamine.)
Smart drugs, formally known as nootropics, are medications, supplements, and other substances that improve some aspect of mental function. In the broadest sense, smart drugs can include common stimulants such as caffeine, herbal supplements like ginseng, and prescription medications for conditions such as ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, and narcolepsy. These substances can enhance concentration, memory, and learning.
My first time was relatively short: 10 minutes around the F3/F4 points, with another 5 minutes to the forehead. Awkward holding it up against one's head, and I see why people talk of LED helmets, it's boring waiting. No initial impressions except maybe feeling a bit mentally cloudy, but that goes away within 20 minutes of finishing when I took a nap outside in the sunlight. Lostfalco says Expectations: You will be tired after the first time for 2 to 24 hours. It's perfectly normal., but I'm not sure - my dog woke me up very early and disturbed my sleep, so maybe that's why I felt suddenly tired. On the second day, I escalated to 30 minutes on the forehead, and tried an hour on my finger joints. No particular observations except less tiredness than before and perhaps less joint ache. Third day: skipped forehead stimulation, exclusively knee & ankle. Fourth day: forehead at various spots for 30 minutes; tiredness 5/6/7/8th day (11/12/13/4): skipped. Ninth: forehead, 20 minutes. No noticeable effects.
Furthermore, there is no certain way to know whether you'll have an adverse reaction to a particular substance, even if it's natural. This risk is heightened when stacking multiple substances because substances can have synergistic effects, meaning one substance can heighten the effects of another. However, using nootropic stacks that are known to have been frequently used can reduce the chances of any negative side effects.
These are the most popular nootropics available at the moment. Most of them are the tried-and-tested and the benefits you derive from them are notable (e.g. Guarana). Others are still being researched and there haven't been many human studies on these components (e.g. Piracetam). As always, it's about what works for you and everyone has a unique way of responding to different nootropics.
As with other nootropics, the way it works is still partially a mystery, but most research points to it acting as a weak dopamine reuptake inhibitor. Put simply, it increases your dopamine levels the same way cocaine does, but in a much less extreme fashion. The enhanced reward system it creates in the brain, however, makes it what Patel considers to be the most potent cognitive enhancer available; and he notes that some people go from sloth to superman within an hour or two of taking it.
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I took the first pill at 12:48 pm. 1:18, still nothing really - head is a little foggy if anything. later noticed a steady sort of mental energy lasting for hours (got a good deal of reading and programming done) until my midnight walk, when I still felt alert, and had trouble sleeping. (Zeo reported a ZQ of 100, but a full 18 minutes awake, 2 or 3 times the usual amount.)
The leadership position in the market is held by the Americas. The region has favorable reimbursement policies and a high rate of incidence for chronic and lifestyle diseases which has impacted the market significantly. Moreover, the region's developed economies have a strong affinity toward the adoption of highly advanced technology. This falls in line with these countries well-develop healthcare sectors.
The surveys just reviewed indicate that many healthy, normal students use prescription stimulants to enhance their cognitive performance, based in part on the belief that stimulants enhance cognitive abilities such as attention and memorization. Of course, it is possible that these users are mistaken. One possibility is that the perceived cognitive benefits are placebo effects. Another is that the drugs alter students' perceptions of the amount or quality of work accomplished, rather than affecting the work itself (Hurst, Weidner, & Radlow, 1967). A third possibility is that stimulants enhance energy, wakefulness, or motivation, which improves the quality and quantity of work that students can produce with a given, unchanged, level of cognitive ability. To determine whether these drugs enhance cognition in normal individuals, their effects on cognitive task performance must be assessed in relation to placebo in a masked study design.
Critics will often highlight ethical issues and the lack of scientific evidence for these drugs. Ethical arguments typically take the form of "tampering with nature." Alena Buyx discusses this argument in a neuroethics project called Smart Drugs: Ethical Issues. She says that critics typically ask if it is ethically superior to accept what is "given" instead of striving for what is "made". My response to this is simple. Just because it is natural does not mean it is superior.
Two variants of the Towers of London task were used by Elliott et al. (1997) to study the effects of MPH on planning. The object of this task is for subjects to move game pieces from one position to another while adhering to rules that constrain the ways in which they can move the pieces, thus requiring subjects to plan their moves several steps ahead. Neither version of the task revealed overall effects of the drug, but one version showed impairment for the group that received the drug first, and the other version showed enhancement for the group that received the placebo first.
Known widely as 'Brahmi,' the Bacopa Monnieri or Water Hyssop, is a small herb native to India that finds mention in various Ayurvedic texts for being the best natural cognitive enhancer. It has been used traditionally for memory enhancement, asthma, epilepsy and improving mood and attention of people over 65. It is known to be one of the best brain supplement in the world.
So, I have started a randomized experiment; should take 2 months, given the size of the correlation. If that turns out to be successful too, I'll have to look into methods of blinding - for example, some sort of electronic doohickey which turns on randomly half the time and which records whether it's on somewhere one can't see. (Then for the experiment, one hooks up the LED, turns the doohickey on, and applies directly to forehead, checking the next morning to see whether it was really on or off).
Organizations, and even entire countries, are struggling with "always working" cultures. Germany and France have adopted rules to stop employees from reading and responding to email after work hours. Several companies have explored banning after-hours email; when one Italian company banned all email for one week, stress levels dropped among employees. This is not a great surprise: A Gallup study found that among those who frequently check email after working hours, about half report having a lot of stress.
So I eventually got around to ordering another thing of nicotine gum, Habitrol Nicotine Gum, 4mg MINT flavor COATED gum. 96 pieces per box. Gum should be easier to double-blind myself with than nicotine patches - just buy some mint gum. If 4mg is too much, cut the gum in half or whatever. When it arrived, my hopes were borne out: the gum was rectangular and soft, which made it easy to cut into fourths.
Scientists found that the drug can disrupt the way memories are stored. This ability could be invaluable in treating trauma victims to prevent associated stress disorders. The research has also triggered suggestions that licensing these memory-blocking drugs may lead to healthy people using them to erase memories of awkward conversations, embarrassing blunders and any feelings for that devious ex-girlfriend.
It may also be necessary to ask not just whether a drug enhances cognition, but in whom. Researchers at the University of Sussex have found that nicotine improved performance on memory tests in young adults who carried one variant of a particular gene but not in those with a different version. In addition, there are already hints that the smarter you are, the less smart drugs will do for you. One study found that modafinil improved performance in a group of students whose mean IQ was 106, but not in a group with an average of 115.
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It arrived as described, a little bottle around the volume of a soda can. I had handy a plastic syringe with milliliter units which I used to measure out the nicotine-water into my tea. I began with half a ml the first day, 1ml the second day, and 2ml the third day. (My Zeo sleep scores were 85/103/86 (▁▇▁), and the latter had a feline explanation; these values are within normal variation for me, so if nicotine affects my sleep, it does so to a lesser extent than Adderall.) Subjectively, it's hard to describe. At half a ml, I didn't really notice anything; at 1 and 2ml, I thought I began to notice it - sort of a cleaner caffeine. It's nice so far. It's not as strong as I expected. I looked into whether the boiling water might be breaking it down, but the answer seems to be no - boiling tobacco is a standard way to extract nicotine, actually, and nicotine's own boiling point is much higher than water; nor do I notice a drastic difference when I take it in ordinary water. And according to various e-cigarette sources, the liquid should be good for at least a year.
The difference in standard deviations is not, from a theoretical perspective, all that strange a phenomenon: at the very beginning of this page, I covered some basic principles of nootropics and mentioned how many stimulants or supplements follow a inverted U-curve where too much or too little lead to poorer performance (ironically, one of the examples in Kruschke 2012 was a smart drug which did not affect means but increased standard deviations).
Phenotropil is an over-the-counter supplement similar in structure to Piracetam (and Noopept). This synthetic smart drug has been used to treat stroke, epilepsy and trauma recovery. A 2005 research paper also demonstrated that patients diagnosed with natural lesions or brain tumours see improvements in cognition. Phenylpiracetam intake can also result in minimised feelings of anxiety and depression. This is one of the more powerful unscheduled Nootropics available.
That it is somewhat valuable is clear if we consider it under another guise. Imagine you received the same salary you do, but paid every day. Accounting systems would incur considerable costs handling daily payments, since they would be making so many more and so much smaller payments, and they would have to know instantly whether you showed up to work that day and all sorts of other details, and the recipients themselves would waste time dealing with all these checks or looking through all the deposits to their account, and any errors would be that much harder to track down. (And conversely, expensive payday loans are strong evidence that for poor people, a bi-weekly payment is much too infrequent.) One might draw a comparison to batching or buffers in computers: by letting data pile up in buffers, the computer can then deal with them in one batch, amortizing overhead over many items rather than incurring the overhead again and again. The downside, of course, is that latency will suffer and performance may drop based on that or the items becoming outdated & useless. The right trade-off will depend on the specifics; one would not expect random buffer-sizes to be optimal, but one would have to test and see what works best.
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Some people aren't satisfied with a single supplement—the most devoted self-improvers buy a variety of different compounds online and create their own custom regimens, which they call "stacks." According to Kaleigh Rogers, writing in Vice last year, companies will now take their customers' genetic data from 23andMe or another source and use it to recommend the right combinations of smart drugs to optimize each individual's abilities. The problem with this practice is that there's no evidence the practice works. (And remember, the FDA doesn't regulate supplements.) Find out the 9 best foods to boost your brain health.
Past noon, I began to feel better, but since I would be driving to errands around 4 PM, I decided to not risk it and take an hour-long nap, which went well, as did the driving. The evening was normal enough that I forgot I had stayed up the previous night, and indeed, I didn't much feel like going to bed until past midnight. I then slept well, the Zeo giving me a 108 ZQ (not an all-time record, but still unusual).
L-Alpha glycerylphosphorylcholine or choline alfoscerate, also known as Alpha GPC is a natural nootropic which works both on its own and also in combination with other nootropics. It can be found in the human body naturally in small amounts. It's also present in some dairy products, wheat germ, and in organic meats. However, these dietary sources contain small quantities of GPC, which is why people prefer taking it through supplements.
Tyrosine (Examine.com) is an amino acid; people on the Imminst.org forums (as well as Wikipedia) suggest that it helps with energy and coping with stress. I ordered 4oz (bought from Smart Powders) to try it out, and I began taking 1g with my usual caffeine+piracetam+choline mix. It does not dissolve easily in hot water, and is very chalky and not especially tasty. I have not noticed any particular effects from it.
Omega-3 fatty acids: DHA and EPA – two Cochrane Collaboration reviews on the use of supplemental omega-3 fatty acids for ADHD and learning disorders conclude that there is limited evidence of treatment benefits for either disorder.[42][43] Two other systematic reviews noted no cognition-enhancing effects in the general population or middle-aged and older adults.[44][45]

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The fast-casual pizza chain 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza will open its first restaurant in Michigan on Thursday near Macomb Mall in Roseville.
"We saw Detroit as a relatively untapped market for authentic Neapolitan-style pizza," says Rudy Sawa, a franchise partner at Capital Pizza Ventures who will operate the restaurant.
The new restaurant, to be located at 32427 Gratiot Ave., serves personalized, made-to-order pizzas created with Neapolitan pizza dough, which consists of wheat flour. The pizzas are available in both a personal 10-inch slice and sharable 14-inch sizes.
Sawa says 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza offers a combination of 50 cheeses, sauces, meats, and vegetables at one flat price. The restaurant also has 12 varieties of specialty pizzas, including a barbeque bourbon chicken pizza and a cheese steak pizza topped with sliced rib-eye and caramelized onions.
Sawa says Capital Pizza Ventures plans to develop up to three additional restaurants in Michigan, and an additional three in Arizona over the next year.
1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza has 80 restaurants across the United States, and will open its first international restaurant in Malaysia by the end of next year.


The Dead Hamlets are alive!
It's alive! My new Cross novel, The Dead Hamlets, is shipping. ChiZine wasn't just pranking me when they said they'd publish it!
I'll have more details about launches, blog tours, reviews and so forth soon. But right now I'm just going to crack these open and breathe deep of that new book smell.
And then get back to working on the third Cross book.
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Discipleship, at its very core, is an act of reproduction. And just like parents have little control over the color of their newborn baby's eyes or the lightness or darkness of that child's skin, so it is with discipleship. So much of what results in our discipleship programs has very little to do with what we teach. In all honesty, for Wimber, the quality of your church's discipleship program will have more to do with the character and nature of you, the disciple maker, than anything else.
As Wimber states above, we "reproduce in kind." So, if I am one who cuts corners, looks for loopholes in every situation and never trusts anyone further than I can spit, guess what? Most of the folks who hang around my church will end up looking a lot like that. If I'm a man or woman who gives high regard to others, living a selfless, otherly life, chances are really good that most of those who stay around my church for any length of time will have big hearts for others as well. Make sense?
Quite honestly, it's a scary thing. After thirty years of doing pastoral ministry, I'm both proud to report and also just a bit embarrassed that a lot of the folks who have hung around me for any length of time do actually start looking and acting a lot like me! Now, I truly enjoy that fact when I see a quality in me that I love, but feel a bit sheepish when the opposite happens! Let me give you an example or two.
Sandy and I are worshippers at heart. We're long-time musicians and have always been suckers for a great worship song. In the earliest days of attending Vineyard conferences, I'd always get stuck in the midst of intimate worship and quite often, find myself crying in God's presence. I remember at one big national conference, I found myself so overcome by God's presence in the midst of a Brian Doerksen worship song; I simply had to sit down in my chair and cry my eyes out to God. After some time went by, and the conference had moved on to the announcements or something else, one nice lady sitting near me whispered in my ear, asking if she could pray for me. She obviously thought I was in great pain. I looked up with a big smile and said, "Thanks, but I always do this when God is around!" She gave me a puzzled look and quickly went back to listening to the announcements!
But just as Wimber says here, the opposite occurs in me and my church as well. You see, I'm also a wee bit shy (or should I say overwhelmingly introverted?) when it comes to outward, expressive evangelism. So there you have it. Over the years, most of the folks who gather around me tend to be the same way. I'm not proud of it, but I do realize that it's true that most of the folks that I disciple over the years will tend to look and act a lot like me! So, good, bad, and ugly, that's the facts, and I have to face that truth and do my best to broaden my own discipleship skills if I want others to do the same!
So, excuse me folks. Gotta go. As I see it, if I want more people in my church with passionate, obedient hearts for Jesus, I guess I better go practice a bit more on mine!
Father, the mystery of quality discipleship is not all that complicated. If I want more of Jesus in others, I need to get more of Jesus in me. If I want others to have a heart for the poor, I need to work that into my own life. Holy Spirit, come. Work into me, first and foremost, the all magnificent presence of Christ, so that any disciple I work with will receive you as well. For your name's sake. Amen!
So let's be honest. What negative qualities and mannerisms are evident in those around me?
Once I can identify those issues, am I bold enough to stop accusing others and look inside my own heart to see if many people are actually catching these things from me?
On the opposite side of the coin, what positive aspects of Christ-likeness can I develop within me so that others can actually catch it from me?


Will the condom break? It's a worry for anyone who has ever used one, including a few Saskatchewan fashion designers.
"I feel like some are going to snap or rip when you stitch through them; I don't trust them," Janis Procyk said last week, early in her process of making a dress out of condoms.
The two Regina-based designers are partaking in Condoms on the Catwalk, a fashion show and fundraiser event for Planned Parenthood Regina, being held Saturday at the University of Regina.
Also involved are Saskatoon designers Laurie Brown and Sherri Hrycay, Becki Bitternose of George Gordon First Nation, and Dean Renwick and Mathieu Berthiaume of Regina.
It's a deviation from her usual style of more casual clothing for her company, Prahsik. The colour is a shift, too.
"I was kind of hoping they were going to be beige," Procyk said, looking at hundreds of colourful contraceptives spilling from a plastic bag onto the carpet of her home-based studio.
While her designs usually tend toward neutral (or at least solid) hues, some of the condoms faded from orange to brown, or popped in green or yellow.
It was a "safe place to start," since he once used a shower curtain for a past design.
However, in terms of adventurous projects, "I would say that this actually kind of tops it," said Donnelly, who used rubber cement to attach condoms to a sheer pinkish-red curtain.
"I made a dress out of a rainbow flag and anchored it onto a hula hoop, which was pretty fun. I've gotten to work in different costumes with other weird latexes or furs or random things. But definitely this poses quite a big challenge," added Donnelly.
Condoms on the Catwalk is a fundraiser to support Planned Parenthood Regina, which offers sexual health services including PAP smears, pregnancy tests and various birth control options.
"I think Planned Parenthood is a really good organization. I fully support it. I think it (fulfils) a need in the community," she said.
"Sexual health and sexual health education and personal health is so important, and the fact that Planned Parenthood enables people to access those resources and basic needs is so good, so I'm happy to support it," Donnelly agreed.
Fashion aside, the event is a way to encourage conversation, said Kathrine Pahl-Yeo, Planned Parenthood Regina's office manager.
"I think the whole idea of the event is to help break down the taboo of the topic of sexual health," said Pahl-Yeo.
Condoms on the Catwalk starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the U of R Riddell Centre ShuBox Theatre. Tickets are $55 and available at picatic.com/condomscatwalkpp.


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How Two Riots Made Providence a City
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2017 2:13 pm
This mark at Roger Williams National Memorial park commemorates the Snowtown Riot of 1831
Tony Pacitti
By Sophie Hagen
Providence's population, both enslaved and free, was growing quickly in the early 1800s as more and more trade came to the port. But small towns controlled the legislature and prevented Providence from assuming the status (and legislative clout) of an official city. Free blacks lived in the places they could afford – neighborhoods where real estate, much of it owned by white absentee landlords, was cheap, and where bars, dance halls and brothels that catered to sailors who worked at the port. Two of these neighborhoods were Hardscrabble and Snowtown, the sites of violent riots in 1824 and 1831 in which white mobs torched houses where blacks were living. After several days of mass property destruction in Snowtown by whites, the governor and the sheriff eventually ordered in the militia. Dismayed by the scale of public disorder, the Town Council passed a charter that created the office of mayor and made Providence, finally, a city.
Joanne Pope Melish, who has a Ph.D in American Civilization from Brown University and is associate professor emerita at the University of Kentucky, argues that a central problem undergirding the riots and other forms of racial conflict today is one of distance: prejudice grew as black and white people moved further away from each other. Rich and poor people had lived in close quarters in colonial times, but at the end of the 18th century, poor people were pushed to the margins, forming "sites of racial mixing" that began to be seen as "disorderly and a problem." The participants in the riots were not, contrary to some reports, the poorest whites, who lived with blacks and formed families with them. It was white former artisans who had recently been forced into factory work by industrialization and resented it. They "latched onto racism," says Melish, "as an engine of respectability."
Black communities began to be associated automatically with dens of vice, prime targets for the urban renewal movement that swept destructively through the United States in the mid-twentieth century. In Providence, the next wave of displacement was restoration: the repair of historical housing on Benefit Street and the East Side which pushed out black renters. Section 8 housing stayed below demand. Predatory lenders expelled black owners from their homes. Poor communities shrank and grew more distant.
Today, Hardscrabble has become University Heights. A Marriott stands where Snowtown used to be, near Charles and Gaspee Streets. Two plaques near Roger Williams National Park commemorate the riots. Scholar and activist Ray Rickman, former State Representative and former president of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, helped put the plaques there and wants the Hardscrabble one mounted on a pedestal, with a light. "No one knows it's there," he says. At only six inches above the ground, he says, it's "like a bad headstone."
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Carl Heinrich Bloch, Sermon on the Mount, 19th c.
Calling for a Moratorium on Stoning?
Such is the contradiction that is Ramadan, the contradiction between an intelligent, even intellectual man of perhaps humane, independent views and a pious Muslim man subjected to a fate over which he has no control, the fate of being Mr. Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Hassan al-Banna, son of Said Ramadan, brother of Hani Ramadan.
All three of these close relatives have favored, for example, stoning women to death for adultery. Tariq's brother Hani has explicitly supported stoning. What is Tariq Ramadan's position? We already know. He has called for a moratorium. Or perhaps "called for" is a bit too strong. In a debate with Sarkozy, he found himself forced into the uncomfortable distinguishing his views from his brother Hani and felt constrained to offer words in favor of that already mentioned moratorium.
SARKOZY: A moratorium.... Mr. Ramadan, are you serious?
RAMADAN: Wait, let me finish.
SARKOZY: A moratorium, that is to say, we should, for a while, hold back from stoning women?
SARKOZY: Just one point. I understand you, but Muslims are human beings who live in 2003 in France, since we are speaking about the French community, and you have just said something particularly incredible, which is that the stoning of women, yes, the stoning is a bit shocking, but we should simply declare a moratorium, and then we are going to think about it in order to decide if it is good.... But that's monstrous -- to stone a woman because she is an adulterer! It's necessary to condemn it!
RAMADAN: Mr. Sarkozy, listen well to what I am saying. What I say, my own position, is that the law is not applicable -- that's clear. But today, I speak to Muslims around the world and I take part, even in the United States, in the Muslim world.... You should have a pedagogical posture that makes people discuss things. You can decide all by yourself to be a progressive in the communities. That's too easy. Today my position is, that is to say, "We should stop."
Such is Berman's view, but let us here recall that Ramadan is a tragic figure, which is to say, he is a man constrained by fate, his fate of being Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Hassan al-Banna, son of Said Ramadan, and, yes, brother of Hani Ramadan. What more could he do than suggest a moratorium? He could not simply state outright that stoning is wrong. That would contradict his salafi principles. The Qur'an itself may say nothing about stoning, but the hadith assuredly do and shariah mandates it. About stoning, Sarkozy may insist, "It's necessary to condemn it!" but Ramadan has no such luxury.
That seems simple enough. Stoning is wrong, for Jesus said so. But things are not so simple. Aside from the somewhat troubling point that this passage in John 8 does not always appear in the ancient manuscripts of John 8 but sometimes elsewhere in John and in some Johannine texts not at all, Jesus himself does not in this passage speak out explicitly against stoning. Confronted by the Pharisees, who insist upon a religious opinion concerning the Mosaic law's penalty of stoning for adultery, Jesus evades answering directly. Rather than confirm or reject the Mosaic law upon this point, Jesus turns the issue upon those confronting him with the question by confronting them with a question, in effect asking them, "Which of you is worthy to judge?"
One might say that Jesus was calling for a moratorium while we determine the answer to that question, somewhat as Ramadan could be doing, namely, calling for a moratorium while Muslims determine whether the Ummah is pure enough to enact the laws of Allah. And what of Sarkozy himself? He considers himself Catholic. The Church is, of course, against stoning ... but why? Is it wrong? Well, it didn't use to be wrong, back when Moses revealed the divine will, but it's 'wrong' now, though only because God instituted a new covenant. Well, thank God for that!
Unfortunately for Muslims, Allah returned them to an older covenant, an even harsher one with its strict, punitive laws of huddud. Ramadan, despite his moderation, cannot simply condemn these laws outright. At best, he can only ask for their suspension. Such is my tentative, generous view of Ramadan, but what does this bode for a European Islam if its outspoken spokesman cannot offer more than a moratorium?
What it bodes is not good.
Suppose such a moratorium were declared. How might pious Muslims see this? A moratorium could be either temporary or permanent. If the former, then we would soon be returned to the current, unbearable circumstances in which Muslims cannot openly oppose stoning. If the latter, then the entire apparatus of shariah would be called into question, for why shouldn't all of Muslim law be under a permanent moratorium, and in that case, with no Muslim submitting to Allah's laws, what could "Islam" -- the religion of submission to Allah -- possibly mean?
The best that the tragic Ramadan can offer would mean either nothing at all . . . or the death of Islam.
I read the book and came away with the same feeling regarding Ramadan. Sarkozy was asking him to reject the teachings of his faith on a television show. By the same token i wish he had somehow showed more courage. I dont know how, but i wish he had found a way.
I think Ramadan's way was the moratorium . . . which satisfies no one.


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Mini Cooper S Mk1, Tartan Red & Black
The Cooper S modelled appears on the cover of the book, 'Original Mini Cooper and Cooper S. The Restorer's Guide.' by John Parnell; a volume regarded as essential by both professional restorers and enthusiasts alike. It was restored to a very high standard in 1988/89 by Mini expert Nick Rogers, proprietor of well known Sheffield-based specialist Minibitz (now renamed Min-e-Bitz) who used as many new-old-stock BMC parts as he could find including a super-rare Mk1 heated-rear-window, as he intended to keep the car. When Nick purchased the car it had been dismantled, somewhat unsympathetically, and damaged as a result, but he was careful to restore to as original a specification as he could.
The BMC Mini gradually evolved throughout its 41 year production life as the mechanical specification was changed to make it easier to produce and more reliable. However, the Mk2 facelift of October 1967 was the first really big change and featured a new eight-slat alloy radiator grille, larger rear-window, bigger (thus safer) rear light clusters, different interior trim, redesigned instrumentation and new badges. Many of these changes lasted until the Mini ceased production. Collectors often regard the late Mk1 Cooper as the ultimate expression of the original line and that's one of the reasons the Mk1 modelled is so collectable. It was registered in September 1967, making it one of the last Mk1 Cooper S production cars, and one of very few left.
Engine: 1275cc 4-IL OHV
Max speed: 97mph
0-60mph: 10.9secs
Weight: 1440lbs
The MINI logo and the MINI wordmark are trademarks of BMW AG and are used under license.
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The 90th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II – Commemorative Die-Cast Souvenir Classic Mini
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Sometimes, it turns out that the person you would take a bullet for is the person behind the gun.
1. Failures are awful, but living a life without any failures are even worst.
3. As much as it is hard, sometimes in order to move on, you have to learn to let go.
4. It's better to be hurt by a truth than to be comforted by a lie.
5. If you don't push yourself forward in life, then no one will.
6. When I said that never forget the past, I meant the lessons.
8. Never let anyone to value your worth, only you know your worth.
9. Time has the speciality in showing the things that matter.
10. Not everyone care about your life, some are just curious, whilst the rest are passing their time.
11. Telling people about your dreams is good, but showing them is the best.
12. If you are scared, it is a good thing, because it means that you are attempting something that is really brave.
13. A big portion of life is the changes, you have to change to live the life.
14. When you get up from a great fall, you become stronger than before.
16. You got to fight for the things you want in life.
17. In whatever situation that you are in, remember that life could be even worse.
18. There is nothing easy in life, you have to work for it.
19. Love conquers just about anything in life.
20. The problem with you is that you always think that there is enough time in life.


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By Richard North Patterson
Read by Julia Whelan
Richard North Patterson Blackstone Publishing 9781623650926
From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard—life could not be safer nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the all-American Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic figure, he is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted family tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.
From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.
America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard—life could not be safer nor the future more certain.
Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the all-American Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be.
But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic figure, he is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for.
As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted family tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.
"Richard North Patterson has created a richly textured romance, deftly set amid the seismic social shifts of 1968." —Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Caleb's Crossing
"Loss of Innocence is a stunning tour de force…Richard North Patterson, always brilliant, is better than ever." —Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Deadhouse
"A snapshot of America at a pivotal moment in history, and a beautifully written coming-of-age novel." —Antonia Fraser, New York Times bestselling author of Mary Queen of Scots
"Richard North Patterson actually looks at the world through a woman's eyes. He tells us the story of a girl born into a derived identity, and her path toward who she is and what she wants. In one life of the 1960s, he symbolizes a movement that keeps changing all our lives." —Gloria Steinem, New York Times bestselling author of Revolution from Within
"Loss of Innocence is an extraordinary novel—profound, emotionally involving, and totally addictive." —Stephen Fry, author of The Fry Chronicles
"Patterson's latest novel is a coming-of-age story set amongst the privileged classes of Martha's Vineyard in the shadow of the turbulent political summer of 1968. A title that is dripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions, and familial disruptions makes for wonderful reading whatever the season." —Library Journal (starred review)
"Unlike his previous novels, which usually fall into the thriller category, this latest is a bildungsroman set in the summer and fall of a pivotal year in American history, 1968…The second in a planned trilogy, Patterson's latest offers up an appealing family drama set against the backdrop of a radically tumultuous and influential time." —Booklist
"Patterson's second effort in a planned trilogy continues his foray into personal drama and away from geopolitical intrigue and suspense. In this prequel to the first novel…the narrative dives into the angst and anger of one-percenters, focusing on the family Dane…A family saga of class and money, power and pretense, love and loyalty. Think The Thorn Birds or Rich Man, Poor Man among the Martha's Vineyard moneyed set." —Kirkus Reviews
"The book moves at high velocity [and] is grandly plotted with a crescendo of an ending. This is Richard North Patterson at the top of his game." —Ward Just, author of An Unfinished Season and Rodin's Debutante
Author Bio: Richard North Patterson
Richard North Patterson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Light, In the Name of Honor, The Spire, and a number of other bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. Formerly a trial lawyer, he was the SEC's liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor and has served on the boards of several Washington advocacy groups. Patterson has appeared on such programs as the Today show, Good Morning America, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Buchanan and Press.
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ISBN: 9781482931167 ISBN: 9781482160802 ISBN: 9781482926279 ISBN: 9781624601606


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Paddy Power AKA Flutter, The Stars Group, Merge
The European gambling scene continues to merge into itself in preparation for the expansion of the US sports betting market. Paddy Power, which only recently merged with Betfair and changed its name from Paddy Power Beftair to Flutter (OTCMKTS:PDYPY), and The Stars Group (NASDAQ:TSG), formerly Amaya, which acquired a whole bunch of companies over the past few years including Poker Stars, will be merging, creating the largest online gambling company in the world. Both companies' stocks shot up yesterday on the news, indicating that market participants agree that the merger is a good idea. It is unclear what the name of the new firm will be. Stellar Flutter, or Fluttery Stars are possibilities. No cash will be transferred in the deal, as it is 100% share-based. Flutter shareholders will own about 55% of the combined entity, with TSG shareholders owning 45% and change.
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The Trade War in Spain Stays Mainly On the Wine and Cheese Plain, With Olives
The Trump Administration is moving the Trade War to Spain. According to Reuters, United States tariffs on the European Union would affect about $1.1 billion of Spanish exports consisting mostly of agricultural products, every year. The US is the biggest export market for Spain outside of other EU countries, and wine, oil, cheese and olives are the products likely to be affected the most. So if you want to avoid the tariffs, conduct all your wine and cheese parties now, or buy wine and cheese in bulk and build your own cellars. Complaining about the wine and cheese problem, paraphrasing every 5-year old with a very sophisticated palette and high acquired tastes, Spanish Agricultural Association head Miguel Blanco called this "totally unfair".
"It is totally unfair and disproportionate that the rural community has to pay for a trade war with the European Union that has nothing to do with the Spanish countryside." Trade wars aren't exactly fair, true, but they are what they are.
Tesla Meets Delivery Expectations By Falling Short of 6-Figure Goal
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) missed its Elon Musk-imposed delivery goals for the quarter once again, though not by too much. The company delivered 97,000 cars last quarter, just 500 short of Wall Street expectations, though 3,000 short of Musk expectations. The deliveries were still the most the company has made in a quarter, just edging out the 95,200 it delivered last quarter. Musk said that the challenge is having the right cars in the right places. "The challenge is making sure that we have the right car variants in the right locations and rallying as much as our company resources as possible to help with the end of the quarter deliveries," he said. In terms of profitability, Wall Street analysts are still expecting a third quarter loss despite the record deliveries. Shares are down to $230 in the premarket, though still $50 above long term support at around $180. Earnings are scheduled for later this month.
Bed Bath & Beyond Goes Beyond In Store Closures
Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) is collapsing in premarket trading as the company has announced that it will increase the number of stores it will close this fiscal year. The expected number is now 60, 33% more than the 40 it originally estimated it would close. The closings will take place after the holiday shopping season. 40 of the stores will be branded Bed Bath & Beyond stores and 20 will be other concepts owned by the company. There are currently 993 Bed Bath & Beyond stores in the US, and 541 other concept stores. The closures are not unique to BB&B, but have come across the retail sector with 8,600 closures this year up from 5,900 in 2018.
Nabis Enters California Cannabis Market
Nabis Holdings (OTCMKTS:NABIF) has gotten a foothold in the California cannabis market with its acquisition of Desert's Finest dispensary near Palm Springs for $5.6 million. The dispensary had annual sales above that purchase price at $5.7 million in 2018 with a gross profit margin of 47%. The company has also appointed a new Chief Financial Officer and has made two other acquisitions this year, one in Arizona and another in Washington State. "We are pleased to report a strong balance sheet with a cash balance that will fund us through our previously announced acquisitions. As we focus on driving our business forward, yesterday we announced a strategic new hire to strengthen our management team," said the firm's CEO, Shay Shnet, in an update to shareholders.
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Infundibulicybe gibba (Christian Hendrik Persoon, 1801 ex Harmaja, 2003) sin. Clitocybe gibba (Christian Hendrik Persoon, 1801 ex Paul Kummer, 1871), este o specie saprofită de ciuperci comestibile din încrengătura Basidiomycota în familia Tricholomataceae și de genul Infundibulicybe, denumită în popor pâlnioară cocoșată, pălăria  popii sau tolceraș care crește printre frunzele adunate de sub gardurile vii rareori solitar, de obicei în grupuri precum în tufe mai mici și se poate găsi în România, Basarabia și Bucovina de Nord prin păduri de foioase și la marginea lor, preferat pe lângă fagi, mai rar și sub carpeni sau stejari, dar ocazional de asemenea în cele de conifere. Apar de la câmpie până la deal, mai rar în regiuni montane, din iunie până în septembrie (octombrie).

Epitetul se trage din cuvântul latin (=cocoș, rotunjire, tumor).

Taxonomie

Fapt acceptat de majoritatea micologilor este prim-descrierea speciei prin renumitul micolog sudafrican Christian Hendrik Persoon ca Agaricus gibbus în volumul 2 al lucrării sale Synopsis methodica Fungorum din 1801 și mai departe orânduirea speciei în genul Clitocybe, determinat de micologul german Paul Kummer nou, de verificat în marea sa operă Der Führer in die Pilzkunde: Anleitung zum methodischen, leichten und sicheren Bestimmen der in Deutschland vorkommenden Pilze mit Ausnahme der Schimmel- und allzu winzigen Schleim- und Kern-Pilzchen ("Ghid pentru știința micologiei, fără ciupercuțe de mucegai și prea mici mucoase și nucleici") din 1871.<ref>Paul Kummer: "Der Führer in die Pilzkunde: Anleitung zum methodischen, leichten und sicheren Bestimmen der in Deutschland vorkommenden Pilze mit Ausnahme der Schimmel- und allzu winzigen Schleim- und Kern-Pilzchen, cu 80 de ilustrații litografice, Editura E. Luppe, Zerbst 1871, p. 123</ref>

Dar acum încep difuziile: Unii autori se referă la Agaricus infundibuliformis (referitor la Jacob Christian Schäffer, 1774), transferat de micologul francez Lucien Quélet ca Clitocybe infundibuliformis în 1872, în timp ce alții l-au considerat chiar sinonim cu Lepista flaccida a lui Narcisse Théophile Patouillard. Dar aceste încercări de redenumire sunt neglijabile. Lepista flaccida (Sowerby, 1799 ex Pat., 1887) este astăzi o specie din genul Lepista.

Studii recente au arătat că genul Clitocybe se împarte în mai multe linii. Prin urmare, micologul finlandez Harri Harmaja a definit genul Infundibulicybe cu Infundibulicybe gibba ca tip de specie, ce este între timp acceptat și de Index Fungorum, și de Mycobank (2019).

După ce în România ciuperca este cunoscută până în prezent aproape mereu numai sub taxonul lui Kummer (2019), și, de asemenea, denumirea Clitocybe gibba se poate găsi exclusiv în cele mai multe cărți micologice cu renume până astăzi, taxonul rămâne accesibil pentru acest articol.

 Descriere

 Pălăria: are o mărime de 3-9 cm, este destul de moale, inițial convexă cu marginea răsfrântă în jos, apoi plată, repede adâncită în mijloc și la sfârșitul perioadei de maturizare în formă de pâlnie, câteodată cu un gurgui central nu prea signifiant, marginea fiind atunci canelată, ondulată, pe alocuri cu rupturi. Cuticula netedă, uscată și catifelată este de culoare crem-maronie, adesea cu tentă de roz, decolorându-se la bătrânețe.
 Lamelele: sunt foarte dese, subțiri, lung decurente la picior, parțial bifurcate și de culoare mai deschisă ca pălăria, tinere chiar albicioase.
 Piciorul: are o înălțime de  4–8 cm și o lățime de 0,5-1 cm, este neted, albicios, subțire și cilindric, fibros și rezistent, în partea inferioară puțin îngroșat, nu rar ca o măciucă, la început plin până împăiat, apoi complet gol în interior. Coloritul este albicios, în orișice caz mai deschis ca pălăria, prezentând un fetru micelian gros și alb la bază. Tija nu are inel.
 Carnea: este subțire, higrofilă, moale în pălărie, dar destul de consistentă și fibroasă în picior, coloritul fiind palid ocru. Mirosul dulceag amintește ceva de migdale amare și gustul este plăcut și aromat.
 Caracteristici microscopice: au spori elipsoidali, ușor în formă de picătură, netezi, hialini (translucizi), neamiloizi (nu intră în reacție cu iod), având o mărime de 5,5-7,5 x 3,5-4,5 microni. Pulberea lor este albă. Basidiile clavate cu patru sterigme fiecare măsoară 28-35 x 5-7 microni. Cistidele (elemente sterile situate în stratul himenal sau printre celulele din pielița pălăriei și a piciorului, probabil cu rol de excreție) cu un aspect asemănător sunt ceva mai scurte și rotunjite în vârf.
 Reacții chimice: cuticula se colorează cu tinctură de Guaiacum gri-verzui.

Mai există o formă uriașă a acestei specii, denumită Clitocybe maxima (vezi imaginea mai jos).

 Confuzii
Tolcerașul poate fi confundat cu mai multe alte soiuri comestibile până letale, de exemplu cu: Calocybe gambosa (comestibil, mai puternic, miros de făină),  Clitocybe amoenolens – fără imagine (letal, cuticula de colorit mai brun-roz, lamelele foarte asemănătoare, miros puternic de iasomie, pere coapte sau viorele, nu de migdale), Clitocybe clavipes sin. Ampulloclitocybe clavipes (comestibil, dar otrăvitor cu alcool, miros de ciuperci, slab fructuos), Clitocybe geotropa (comestibil, mai mare, miroase asemănător), Clitocybe odora (comestibil, miros de anason),Bruno Cetto: "I funghi dal vero", vol. 6, Editura Arte Grafiche Saturnia, Trento 1989, p. 354-355, ISBN 88-85013-46-5 Clitocybe phyllophila sin. Clitocybe cerussata (letal, miros ceva rășinos la maturitate, niciodată de migdale amare), Clitocybe sinopica (comestibil), Clitocybe squamulosa (comestibil), Clitopilus prunulus (comestibil), Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca (comestibil), Lepista flaccida sin. Clitocybe flaccida (comestibil) sau Lepista gilva (comestibil, mai mare, cu pete apoase pe pălărie).

 Specii asemănătoare în imagini

 Valorificare
Pâlnioară cocoșată se consumă cel mai bine proaspătă, la fel ca Calocybe gambosa''. Astfel ea poate fi preparată ca ciulama de ciuperci cu smântâna sau într-o salată cu cașcaval și iaurt, mai departe ca sos la un fileu de pește (de exemplu cod), într-un gratinat cu roșii, ceapă și brânză, într-un sos cu carne tocată și usturoi la macaroane sau ca partea unui pateu de ciuperci.

Note

Bibliografie
 Marcel Bon: "Pareys Buch der Pilze", Editura Kosmos, Halberstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-13447-4
 Giacomo Bresadola: "Iconographia Mycologica, vol. IV, Editura Società Botanica Italiana, Milano 1928
 Bruno Cetto: "Der große Pilzführer", vol. 1-3, 5 vezi sub "Note"
 Rose Marie Dähncke: "1200 Pilze in Farbfotos", Editura AT Verlag, Aarau 2004, ISBN 3-8289-1619-8
 Ewald Gerhard: "Der große BLV Pilzführer" (cu 1200 de specii descrise și 1000 fotografii), Editura BLV Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG, ediția a 9-a, München 2018, ISBN 978-3-8354-1839-4
 Fred Kränzlin: "Pilze der Schweiz", vol. 6 – Russulaceae, Editura "Verlag Mykologia", Lucerna 2005, ISBN 3-85604-060-9
 Jean-Louis Lamaison & Jean-Marie Polese: "Der große Pilzatlas", Editura Tandem Verlag GmbH, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-8427-0483-1
 Hans E. Laux: "Der große Pilzführer, Editura Kosmos, Halberstadt 2001, ISBN 978-3-440-14530-2
 Meinhard Michael Moser: "Röhrlinge und Blätterpilze - Kleine Kryptogamenflora Mitteleuropas" ediția a 5-ea, vol. 2, Editura Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart 1983
 Linus Zeitlmayr: "Knaurs Pilzbuch", Editura Droemer Knaur, München-Zürich 1976, ISBN 3-426-00312-0

Legături externe

 Clitocybe gibba mai deschisă, film în limba italiană
 Clitocybe gibba mai închisă, film în limba spaniolă

Tricholomataceae
Clitocybe
Ciuperci comestibile
Ciuperci saprofite
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Deem buys VC-backed Whisk
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Deem, a technology provider for ground transportation operators, acquired Whisk, a New York-based car service app and developer of software for ground transportation operators. Whisk backers include Correlation Ventures, ff Venture Capital and others.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – February 23, 2016) – Deem, the leading technology provider for ground transportation operators, announced today it has acquired Whisk, the company behind Ridgeback, the next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) back-office solution for ground transportation operators. The acquisition of Whisk will help strengthen Deem's industry-leading line of car service applications, a now complete technology solution for operators and corporations alike. The Deem Car Service applications include a SaaS back-office, auto-dispatch capabilities for advanced-schedule and real-time reservations, mobile and online applications, and more. Operators on the Deem Car Service network are also able to offer their customers access to Deem's full range of travel and expense management applications.
Whisk's SaaS back-office and its passenger and driver-facing mobile applications are designed to provide the ground transportation industry with the technology and tools to retain and grow their customer base while streamlining operations in order to remain competitive in today's transportation economy. Operators using Whisk have not only reduced costs, but they have significantly increased operational efficiency, loyalty from their drivers, and overall customer satisfaction. The simple, clean, intuitive experiences of the Whisk solutions are best-in-class. Their integration will advance the features and capabilities of the applications in the Deem suite, rapidly accelerating Deem's roadmap.
"Deem is a recognized pioneer in SaaS technology, and our bar for SaaS platforms and applications is extremely high. When we met the team at Whisk, we had an instant mind-meld on the industry's needs and were struck by the depth and quality of their SaaS stack. Their core Caltech-educated developers are among the best we've worked with," said Patrick Grady, founder and CEO of Deem. "Whisk's one-of-a-kind, SaaS back-office will augment and accelerate our suite, making it more powerful for both chauffeured and black car operators, and Whisk's mobile technologies will help Deem deliver next generation applications that will delight passengers and increase driver loyalty. We are thrilled to welcome the Whisk team to the Deem family."
"The ground transportation market is the last industry we have found that hasn't benefited from the global shift from software to SaaS. The power of SaaS technology is overwhelmingly clear — rapid deployment, reduced IT and business process costs, access to continuous innovation, business process agility, and more. It is essential that we get our customers on a modern platform," added Grady. "This industry can finally be on equal footing with the TNCs by participating fully in the Deem network, the 'OpenTable of the ground transportation market.'"
"The original mission of Whisk was to offer innovative services for ground transportation operators and riders while upholding the letter and spirit of public safety regulations," said Ram Trichur, co-founder of Whisk. "Deem's relationships with hundreds of leading chauffeured operators, including more than 70 of the top 100 already committed to Deem's next-generation offerings, commitment to delivering duty-of-care, and proven track record of working with industry partners and operators alike to build the best technology solutions for every party involved mirrored our own and made it an easy conversation when we sat down with Patrick and his team."
Amongst ground transportation operators who use Whisk to expand their operations and improve their service is Big Apple Car, operator of one of the largest networks of independently-owned black cars in New York City.
"Whisk has completely transformed the call-taking and dispatching for Big Apple Car since we implemented their technology a year and a half ago," said Diana Clemente, President of Big Apple Car. "We have reduced costs and increased the accuracy of our reservations. Our customers benefit from the customizability of their accounts and rider profiles, and we no longer live in fear of trying to onboard a new employee on our legacy software — Whisk's cloud solution is so simple and intuitive to use that most employees get it right on the first try."
Chauffeured transportation operators looking for back-office software or a single end-to-end technology solution for reservation and back-office management can get more information about the Car Service for Operators Suite and sign up for Deem Car Service here.
About Deem
Deem provides cloud and mobile applications that help businesses to lower expenses, improve operational efficiencies, and increase employee productivity. Deem's applications for travel and expense management enable thousands of companies to save money on every purchase by combining an employee's preferences, the company's policies and negotiated rates with their preferred providers to execute the perfect transaction for all stakeholders. Deem's cloud and mobile applications for chauffeured car service operators help them to automate business processes, lower costs and increase revenue. Deem is backed by leading mutual fund and private equity investors. Deem's headquarters are located in San Francisco, CA.


Age 31, died suddenly in Garden Grove Medical Center, Garden Grove, CA. Cody was born May 22, 1987 in Canton. He was a 2006 graduate of Canton South High School and was a 4-year letterman in wrestling and a 3-year letterman in cross-country. He is survived by his parents, Edward and Jill Dickerhoof; grandparents, Glenn and Elaine Dickerhoof; brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews who all love him very much. A memorial service will be Friday August 31, 2018 at 11:00am in St. Paul's Community Christian Church, 306 W. Church St., East Canton, OH 44730. Friends and family will be received Thursday 6-8pm and one hour before services on Friday (10-11am) all at the church. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the family to help defray final expenses. Condolences or fond memories may be shared online at www.sandersfuneralhomes.com.


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Fianna Fáil TD for Donegal Charlie McConalogue says the mental health budget must be increased so that services can be improved and developed.
Fianna Fáil raised the issue during Private Members Business in the Dáil this week.
Deputy McConalogue explained, "There has been significant under investment in mental health services over the past five years, which has led to serious backlogs in waiting lists and problems accessing services. The current system of allocating funding year on year has to be changed and multi-annual budgeting introduced. This would allow for the proper provision and development of mental health services.
"Improving mental health services is a key priority for Fianna Fáil and we negotiated a commitment in the Confidence & Supply agreement with Fine Gael that "A Vision for Change" would be fully implemented. However, in order to do this, funding will have to be increased.
"The future of mental health services cannot be allowed to fall off the government agenda. If there is just €15m in new funding available it will not be enough and could jeopardise current service levels.
"We urgently need to address staff shortages within the health sector. Posts are being left vacant for months, and in some cases, years and this is having a major impact on waiting lists and assessment programmes.
"Fianna Fáil is calling on the Government to set out how exactly it intends on achieving full implementation of the country's mental health strategy. We have made it clear that mental health spending can't be put on the backburner, so it's time for Fine Gael and their Independent colleagues to spell out their plan for mental health services".


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I am beyond astonished to have recieved this review!
Thanks to Stanton and Adam at www.bassplayersunited.com
As a bass player I must admit, I have secret passion for solo albums consisting entirely of just the bass guitar. No drums, no guitars, just bass. Throw in a vocal track here and there and you just may strike gold. To most the bass is considered a supporting instrument, so it gives me a great sense of satisfaction to hear a piece of music composed entirely on bass.
With his latest EP, Jared Lees proves he is one of those bass players who has the gift of composing interesting, moving music, entirely on bass. Jared's unique and dynamic style effortlessly combines elements of jazz, indie, and finger-style guitar, pushing the limits of what it means to be a bassist in the modern world of music.
Beacon Journal writer Malcolm Abram describes Jared as having "the technique and a love for harmonics as melody a la Jaco Pastorius". Equally adept at fretted and fretless bass, his creative use of effect pedals allows him to seamlessly slip into any musical setting. Jared has released two solo albums to date and is set to release his third, 'Sonic Sketchbook', on April 22nd. 'Sonic Sketchbook' is just 5 masterfully crafted tracks, but these five tracks speak volumes to Jared's sense of melody, composition and sheer talent. From his splendid use of harmonics on the opening track 'Child's Play', to his haunting fretless work on 'Dispatch Master' Jared showcases his impressive skill as a solo bassist. The EP also contains two beautifully composed vocal tracks, 'Don't Tell' and 'Ezra's Song' (both with Jared's wife on vocals no less) that faithfully demonstrated his ability to play to the song as opposed to being the main feature.
Jared says "This new EP is all bass, vocals, and percussion. I tried to make it as simple as possible without sacrificing musicality so that I could put out a project as close to the initial inspiration as possible. That's where the title comes from… it's like my sketchbook" Featuring hauntingly gorgeous compositions, beautiful vocal tracks, and a strong sense of groove and melody, Jared's new EP 'Sonic Sketchbook' will be available for free (or more if you choose) 4-22-14 on bandcamp.com. It will also be available through CD Baby and iTunes.
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Diplomats: UN Inspectors Returning to Iran
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VIENNA, Austria, AP – Iran has granted U.N. nuclear inspectors new access to a high-security nuclear site as part of efforts to avoid referral to the Security Council, diplomats said Wednesday.
The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media about the sensitive U.N. investigation of Iran"s nuclear program, said experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency were allowed to revisit Parchin. Iran had for nearly a year refused IAEA requests for a renewed inspection of Parchin, a site of alleged experiments linked to nuclear arms.
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50th Anniversary of The Ugliest Girl in Town
Short-lived sitcom The Ugliest Girl in Town celebrates its 50th anniversary today. It debuted on ABC on September 26th, 1968.
Check out my in-depth article about The Ugliest Girl in Town.
Peter Kastner stars as Timothy Blair, a young man who falls in love with a beautiful British actress named Julie Renfield (played by Patricia Brake). Thanks to a bizarre set of circumstances, Timothy is offered a modeling contract in London–but the modeling agency thinks he's a woman. So, Timothy romps through London wearing a wig and false eyelashes as "Timmy" with Julie by his side. Unfortunately, through another bizarre set of circumstances, Timothy is forced to stay in London and continue pretending to be Timmy.
Other members of the cast include Gary Marshal as Timothy's brother Gene; Nicholas Parsons as David Courtney, owner of the Courtney Talent Agency; and Jenny Till as David's assistant Sandra Wolston.
Although 20 episodes were filmed, the network only aired 17 of them. The remaining three did air in other countries, including the United Kingdom.
Popular Library published a tie-in novel based on The Ugliest Girl in Town in 1968, written by Burt Hirschfeld. I haven't read it.
Did you watch The Ugliest Girl in Town when it premiered 50 years ago? Hit the comments with your memories of the show.
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This series was pitched as an updated "Charley's Aunt" in swinging London. I can see how that would have gotten the attention of the networks. I liked Peter Kastner. It is a shame he did not have a bigger career.
Mark Tomovox says:
January 5, 2019 at 11:27PM
Unfairly dogged by critics. Maybe it just wasn't the time for this show, but it's a heck of a lot funnier than some of the same-ol, same-ol domestic sticoms of any time. I think the show would have done well had it not gone against established hits on the competing networks. Even then, think of The Dick Van Dyke Show. The network wanted to cancel it after the first season, but given a chance to find its audience, well, the rest is history. The Ugliest Girl In Town may not have become as huge a classic, but I think it still could have found it's audience.
Watching it, I'm struck with just how unique it is in every regard. The recurring use of freeze frame to highlight a particularly crazy bit of business like when Timmy is walking right into a situation where he's being exposed as actually being Tim. Or when Tim/Timmy has gotten himself/herself into a bit of hot water (those facial expressions and the howling music cue honestly make be laugh WAY out loud.)
The use of music, songs and vignettes showing Tim and Julie romping through Paris or doing fashion shots on various locations. The show was incredibly well-filmed. Many times, it reminds me of those montage scenes on That Girl, showing another couple in love romping through New York or other locations.
Really wish this show had been given a better shot. May have gone over better in the late 70s or 80s , but then we wouldn't have gotten the great Screen Gems look of their classic 60's shows.
P.S. Great article, Robert! I read your first in-depth article on this and really enjoyed it. You gave a lot more context to the show than the few other things I found online. You actually were the basis of my seeking out the videos on YouTube.
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