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Our PDF books come in two formats.
Format 1: it takes about a minute to make each book.
(tip: fold all pages together once entire book is printed).
Remove cover page and put to the side.
Separate all other pages (keeping them folded with fold on the right side and page ends on left side) and put these folded pages in proper order, starting with the first sheet of folded paper (inside cover page on front, page 1 on back) and ending with the last sheet of paper (last book page on front, vocabulary list on back).
Once stack of folded pages are in order, place them all together inside book cover page (folded sides out and page ends inside).
Staple through book cover into page ends (3 or 4 staples).
If you laminate the book covers these books will last a long time!
Here is a quick video demonstration showing a book being assembled.
Format 2: this format is for copier machines that have a booklet function enabled. These are 8.5″ x 5.5″ pages and machines will print, fold and staple books. If your school machine doesn't do this, you board's printing department likely does. This format was made in consultation with several school board printing departments. These books are not as sturdy as they are printed double sided. However you can produce a class set in minutes.
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Module T262
Computer aided design systems
This programme is not directly coupled to any one unit, but rather spans several areas of study. CAD is taken as an example of technological change, and the programme is as much concerned with the... capabilities and implications of the systems, as with how they work. After a shot film sequence to display the wide applications of computers in Design, Nigel Cross analyses the design process and compares the relative merits of man and machines at three stages. Taking architecture as his particular example he introduces Jack Platt, Senior Development Architect at the South East Architects' Consortium, whose role in the programme is to expound the manual design process. Tom Maver, Director of the Architecture and Building Aids Computer Unit at Strathclyde, and John Chalmers, Project leader for CEDAR at the Department of the Environment present the computer programmes which they believe can complement or even replace some aspects of this manual process. They examine room layout and structural frome design. The arguments are illustrated with an actual architects drawings and notes for a junior school project, and playbacks of real computer activity based on the same information.
T262, Man-made futures: design and technology
T262; 06
Nigel Cross; Jack Platt
Architecture; Implications; School design; Technological change
Film shots alternate between a driver's view of the motorway and a computer simulation of the same view. Commentary by Nigel Cross explains how computer simulations aid in designing motorways. Shots of a computer display screen. A complex simulation is built up. Commentary by Nigel Cross briefly explains how visual displays are programmed into the computer. Shots of a designer using a light pen to manipulate components of a design on the display screen. Shots of final design being drawn on paper by the computer. Nigel Cross compares the design capabilites of men and computers. He discusses possible optimal combinations of the two in design. Nigel Cross introduces Jack Platt, an architect, and Tom Maver, a computer specialist. They will discuss the application of computer technology to building design. Jack Platt, with the aid of several architectural drawings, discusses the way an architect would go about designing a school in the traditional way. Tom Maver explains and demonstrates how the computer can be used to design the same school. He goes through all the steps an architect would take. Each step of the design is displayed on the computer display screen. Jack Platt discusses ways in which this type of computer designing can aid the architect. Tom Maver discusses the effect of computers on the architect's professional standing. Jack Platt with a series of architectural drawings, explains how the architect works out the detailed structural components of a building (in this case the steel frame). John Chalmers explains and demonstrates how a computer handles structural frame design for a school building. The computer displays the frame design and works out cost and specifications for the components. All the contributors now discuss the impact of the computer on architectural design, (job redundancies, flexibility, time savings etc.).
Design failures: probe
The programme is in three equal parts. The first two form an introduction to two of... the several design exercises that students will work on during units 32 - 33. Nigel Cross explains what he means by Design Failures. Robin Roy analyses the types of design, artefact design, environmental design, and systems design. In the third part Pip Youngman talks to some T100 students at the 1972 Bath Summer School about his attitude to practical design, referring in particular to the development of the Bob
Ways of seeing the future
The programme sets out to help the student answer the question "What connections ar...e there between design, technology and man made futures?", and to illustrate how different individuals and groups of people see this interaction. Students should then have a grasp of the difference between exploratory and normative forecasting, and their relationship. In the studio Nigel Cross and Robin Roy establish their interpretation of the word 'design', the idea that design is future-creating, and the two k
Some of the ways in which designers see and forecast the future as part of their wo...rk are examined.
An architect at work : Fletcher's Well Ponteland
In this programme, Dr. Geoffrey Baker, a qualified architect and also a lecturer in... Art History at the Open University, describes the process of designing his own house in a village near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. As he himself says, although his house "was completed thirty years after our period, it does, I think, show how architects' ideas have been completely revolutionised by developments in design techniques which took place between 1890 and 1939". Dr. Baker starts by describing the various elem

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Steven Mackintosh Movies
Kick-Ass 2 HD
Following Kick-Ass' heroics, other citizens are inspired to become masked crusaders. But Red Mist leads his own group of evil supervillains to get revenge, ki..
Country: USA, UK
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Actor: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Clark Duke, Jim Carrey, Lindy Booth, Donald Faison, Steven Mackintosh, Monica Dolan, Morris Chestnut
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels HD
A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a seri..
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Actor: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Sting, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Rowe, Lenny McLean, P.H. Moriarty
Modern Life Is Rubbish HD
Brought together by their shared love of music, ten years on Liam and Natalie are at breaking point. In their case opposites attract but don't necessarily wor..
Director: Daniel Gill
Actor: Freya Mavor, Josh Whitehouse, Ian Hart, Tom Riley, Jessie Cave, Will Merrick, Steven Mackintosh, Sorcha Cusack, Matt Milne, Daisy Bevan
Underworld: Evolution HD
Picking up directly from the previous film, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the w..
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Len Wiseman
Actor: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Shane Brolly, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh, Zita Görög, Brian Steele, Scott McElroy
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans HD
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Actor: Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Rhona Mitra, Shane Brolly, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Geraldine Brophy, Leighton Cardno, Alexander Carroll


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Have a general question about WordPress? Ask it here. Or help to answer someone else's question!
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There are a few advanced tutorials. The tutorials' degree of difficulty is determined by the amount of skill and experience you need with HTML, CSS and in some cases PHP code. If you don't have experience with these, don't worry! That's the beauty of WordPress.
On this site, you will learn about WordPress, Blogging and Online Marketing, including Search Engine Optimization. Ask questions, comment and connect with other WordPress users.
You can use the video player control bar buttons to watch in HD and to watch in full screen mode.
You can become a fan of Business Blogging 101 on Facebook. And follow Mark McLaren and McBuzz on Twitter.
Results are in from my survey regarding what free easy WordPress tutorials you would like to see next on Business Blogging 101, and they are strongly in favor of an Introduction to WordPress 3.0.
While I'm working on a WordPress 3.0 tutorial, I want to bring to your attention another really outstanding resource for WordPress Tutorials: the "WordPress 101" site created and maintained by Shawn Hesketh.
I just signed up for WordPress 101 myself to see what's covered. I was familiar with these tutorials already. Now they have been updated to cover WordPress version 3.0. And you can "Pay What You Wish", meaning you pay what you feel is appropriate / what you can afford.
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On Tuesday, May 11 in Bellevue (Seattle), Washington, you can hear me (Mark McLaren) and two other WordPress experts talk about 1) WordPress for Business Websites, 2) the latest version of WordPress (3.0), and 3) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for WordPress. It's an evening event at Bellevue College, with plenty of time for Q & A and networking.
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Hindu temple & cultural center in Carbondale
Puja in progress
CHICAGO: The Indian community in Southern Illinois has planned setting up a Hindu temple along with a cultural center in Carbondale at a gross investment of $500,000 in the course of next eight months.
The move for the temple and cultural center got a jump start when one Dr Pradeep Reddy of Herrin announced donation of 3.3 acres of land at 1209 E. Walnut St across from the University Mall. Dr Reddy is a front ranking community activist also heading a no-profit organization – the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of Southern Illinois (HTCS). Members of the Society sought help of other members of the community and collected close to $150,000 for the project.
The real crystallization came last Sunday April 17 when HTCS organized a groundbreaking ceremony with a priest from the St. Louis Hindu temple, Vedantha Sharma, and his son, Teja, coming in to perform the ceremony for invoking blessings of the deities. Close to 150 community members from Carbondale and surrounding areas gathered to be part of the nearly four hours ceremony and the celebrations thereafter.
Dr Reddy in a talk to this paper said, "The event in a way turned out to be a mini fundraiser and we raised close to $20,000 cash and $80,000 in pledges. With nearly $150,000 already collected, this will help HTCS to start construction in June and finish the job by early 2012. "We plan to set up the temple first. Although the establishment of cultural center too would start but wholesome attention would be to complete the temple first and then speed up the cultural center," he said. The approximate built up area would be of 5000 sq feet, he said.
The temple, he added, would house 10 deities starting with Lord Ganesha. There would be idols of Lord Shiva, Lord Balaji, Lord Ram, Lord Krishna and Lord Subramanium. The idols of Goddesses Saraswati and Laxmi would also be installed. The temple would initially house a library and office till the cultural center gets completed. The cultural center would conduct many cultural activities, including sessions for bhajans, religious discourses and the like.
For decades, the hundreds of Hindu worshippers in the region have been either worshipping in their homes, or travel to St. Louis or Nashville, Tenn., the nearest communities with temples, for rituals. "There is always a ritual," said Dr G.V. Naidu, a board member of the St. Louis Temple who attended the groundbreaking, "when a child is born, when it eats solid food for the first time, when a family enters a house for the first time" and countless other occasions. The rituals, he said, are "seeking the blessings of the Lord."
Vice president of the HTCS, Naresh Patel of Harrisburg and his wife supported the groundbreaking ceremony. Other board members, all from Carbondale, are Padma Chandrasekar, secretary; Vardendra Panchamukhi, cultural secretary; Arjun Sadahalli, a Ph.D. student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, student representative; Subhash Sharma, treasurer; and Dr. Sushil Tibrewala, member at-large.
Tibrewala said having a Hindu temple in Carbondale "should help with the recruitment of students to SIUC and professionals to the area." He and board treasurer Sharma said at present, 10 to 15 families gather in someone's home to mark religious days because there is no temple nearby.
Having such a religious and cultural center in Carbondale, they said, would be an inducement for Hindus to make Southern Illinois their home. The site will be convenient for SIUC students, Tibrewala said, because Saluki Express buses stop at University Mall, just across Walnut Street. Reddy said that about 250 to 300 students from India are expected to use the site.
Carbondale in Jackson County was founded in 1852 and is known as "Capital of Southern Illinois." Brad Cole and Allen D. Gill are Mayor and City Manager respectively and they have been very supportive, added Dr Reddy.
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Learn about the history and unique design of the McCormick House (1952) by Mies van der Rohe on this docent-led tour. Over the summer, new restorations revealed the facade and carport entrance for the first time in over 25 years. The newest exhibition in the Children's Wing offers a full domestic interior inspired by the original residents (1952-59) for the first time the museum acquired the building.


I will add new files at the top of the page until I get organized.
FYI, My web account just got updated to 200Gb of storage for the same price.
Way back in 2001, I sat to close to an exploding pumpkin. 3Mb When the shock wave got to me it sort of hurt my ears.
In 1999, Nick was ripping Flaming pages out of a phone book 20Mb and tossed them into the night while the Murphys ran around and aggressivly stompped out the flames.
I have put a new video file of the June 2003 lawnmower death here -> 18Mb.
2003 Fireworks hits Ed's Truck Hi Res 3.5Mb. You will need to slow the frame rate down to see the strike. Or go Frame by frame.


Over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, we had a family outing to Hampshire for Carfest South. The festival is organised for BBC's Children In Need and as part of the weekend, there was a 5km sponsored fun run (The Festival Dash!) starting at 10:10 on Saturday 27 August 2016. This was surprising hilly and mostly on footpaths around the edge of the festival site. The focus was on fun with lots of people in fancy dress. Given the terrain I was quite pleased with my 26:37 for (almost) 5km and I managed to have my photo taken with Rainbow's Zippy who gave me my medal! There was also a 2.5km option, ideal for those with more adventurous fancy dress, such as the two families in a bus! You had to register for the dash (which was full in advance). The event was superbly organised by a local running club, Overton Harriers & AC (http://www.overtonharriers.org.uk).
Whilst Saturday's 5km dash was well advertised there was an added bonus; the folks at Overton Harriers organised a gentle 10km training run for early on the Sunday which wasn't advertised by Carfest in advance. Around 20 people met early at 08:00 on the Sunday morning, mostly from running clubs around the country for a hilly 10km which was on very quiet country lanes and footpaths. There was a faster group of 5 or 6 who went a bit further but I joined the main bunch as we trotted along and chatted about our respective running clubs and various park runs! We arrived back at the site around 09:00, via a steep hill from Overton Village to the festival site, set for another day of entertainment. A tip for anyone going next year, take two sets of running kit as nearly everyone on the Sunday was running in the kit they'd had hanging in their tents to 'air' following Saturday's 5km!


Answer: To love Him and serve Him.
Society and culture has changed but the truth remains that we are created by God, body, and soul. No one else can create a human person; science tries but it uses the basic tools of fertilization of a human egg and but it cannot even pretend to know how to truly create a person.
"Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. So God made man, in the image of God He made him, male and female He made them." (Genesis 1:26,27).
The Orthodox Study Bible gives us this commentary on the passage, "God formed Adam's body out of dust from the ground. The breath of life is the grace of the Holy Spirit, the Giver of Life (Nicene Creed). God breathed the breath of life into man's body, and he became a living soul. Therefore, Adam was a living soul because he possessed a body, a soul, and the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Conception: The sperm and the egg cell, which has been released from one of the female's two ovaries, unite in one of the two fallopian tubes.
Implantation: The fertilized egg, known as a zygote, then moves toward the uterus, a journey that can take up to a week to complete, at that point it is implanted in the uterus (womb).
One can easily understand why a Christian believes that a human person is created at conception, rather than implantation. Otherwise all of our scriptural references, troparia, and hymnography would be erroneous regarding the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Theotokos (September 8) and belief in the two natures of Christ. We would be schizophrenic to try to separate our deep Faith from secular and political beliefs.
Human life is a sacred reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of responsibility and brought to perfection in love and in the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters.
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Beta 2 Feedback
It's beta 2 madness with both Vista and Office betas just launched. It's been a busy month.I see and hear a lot of feedback around the web on what people think of Vista beta 2. When installing, you may have noticed a fairly clean desktop ... a recycle bin, and a feedback icon. If you have any opinions on it at all -- what you like, what you don't like, please leave feedback. Let me say that again: please leave feedback. Double click the icon, and jot down some words.If yo... [More]
By Brian Hitney on May 26, 2006 at 2:34 PM
Small Steps to More Robust Code
Most of us have seen code that takes a value from a user-entered field and uses it internally, and hopefully, it does some checking on this data first. For web apps, this is especially true of Querystring and Post data. By not doing some simple checks, we open up the application to a large number of security vulnerabilities, as well as just simple points of failure.A certain number of security concerns arise out of malicious data, such as SQL injection or cross site scripting. I'm not going to go into... [More]
By Brian Hitney on May 2, 2006 at 3:49 PM
20/20 ... It Has Begun
I don't think anyone else has done this yet, so I thought I would start a series of entries as I go through the 20/20 LifeStyles program. Microsofties are familiar with this program (and usually know of someone who's been through it), so I thought I'd start a series on entries to go along with my journey through the program.So what is 20/20? It's a Wellness program, essentially (the official site is here). But beyond anything else I've seen, 20/20 is about discovering yourself, and underst... [More]
By Brian Hitney on April 27, 2006 at 5:16 PM
XP-N ...
*Disclaimer* I work for Microsoft, and this article (click here), though written by the AP, is on MSNBC. This is all just my own opinion and not that of Microsoft, etc.This comment isn't about whether or not Windows abused its monopoly or any other claims ... specifically, I'm reading and commenting about the colossal failure that is Windows XP-N. We haven't had the joy of seeing XP-N here in the States, but it's a version of Windows XP that ships without Windows Media Player (WMP). The Eu... [More]
By Brian Hitney on April 25, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Thanks Apple, But Still Pricey
It looks like Apple is winning its battle against the labels to keep music at $0.99/song through the iPod music service. I think having a flat rate is the way to go, and kudos to Jobs for not caving under the pressure to raise prices.But, am I the only one who thinks that $0.99/song is still too expensive? Unless you're paying a mall-based retail shop a bloated $20 or so for a new CD, the fact is, it's still cheaper to purchase the CD than it is to download the tracks. (And, I realize some... [More]
Star Trek 11 in 2008
I saw an article this morning mentioning that Star Trek 11 is under way, with a tentative release date scheduled for 2008. Cool! I'm a fan, but not an insane one. In an interview with one fan, the reporter asked how big of a Star Trek fan she was on scale from 1 to 10. She replied:"I'm probably more toward the extreme side, but I don't speak Klingon. And unless it is a convention or Halloween, I would be embarrassed to wear my uniforms in public, but I do have them. I would say 8.5."... [More]
By Brian Hitney on April 22, 2006 at 10:36 AM
More Copyright Issues
I'm a big fan of Google's special holiday logos. As most people are aware, every so often, Google replaces its logo with a jazzed up version celebrating an event or holiday. (Clicking the logo, of course, does a search on the internet for the given event.) Yesterday, I briefly noticed some work of Joan Miro making up the logo -- but, I admit, I didn't know who Miro was until I looked into his work a bit. The family of Miro, however, got a bit upset about this usage (violating c... [More]
Looking at the Data
A short while ago I posted about being slammed by googlebot (in this post). In looking at the Search Engine report for March, it's real interesting to see how search engine's respond to subtle site layout changes. All three major engines had a huge increase in the amount of traffic over the month, but Yahoo "reacted" with the least increase in traffic. Interestingly, Google and MSN were neck and neck for the month, but Google did edge out MSN slightly -- and that's not easy to do (nor is i... [More]
It's Not That Interesting, Folks
With 1 year of service behind me at Microsoft, I've been trying to figure out how to sum up some thoughts. I've been psyched for my 1 year anniversary to pass, though for different reasons than my former northern-Idaho colleagues understand. :) (Sorry, that's an insider joke.)So what's with the title? Microsoft not interesting? Well, let me drop a bombshell, folks: it's not Area 51, it's a company. In many ways, a great company ... cool campus, good benefits, lots of smar... [More]
By Brian Hitney on March 24, 2006 at 4:06 PM
Increasing Website Performance
As developers, we often spend most of our time planning a database strategy, optimizing algorithms, etc., when it comes to tweaking performance of an application. It makes sense, because that's where the true architectural decisions are made. HTML and Javacript (not counting AJAX) seldom fall on the developer's plate for performance tuning (usually, that's fine by them). Let's face it: there's nothing glorified about tweaking HTML tags and finding that perfect balance of image qualit... [More]
By Brian Hitney on March 19, 2006 at 1:05 AM
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BIRN Kosovo has published a monitoring report entitled 'Carving up the Pie', produced as a part of the Monitoring of Recruitment Processes of Senior Managing Positions project that BIRN is implementing in cooperation with the British Embassy in Kosovo.
BIRN Kosovo and Democracy Plus, D+, with the support of the British Embassy, organised a roundtable discussion on March 11 to talk about their newly-published Monitoring Report on the Integrity of Kosovo's Tax Administration, TAK.
Out of 46 applications by non-governmental and media organisations and individuals, 15 of the submitted proposals have been selected for BIRN's Medium and Small Grant Scheme, funded by the European Union.
BIRN Kosovo's Friday Forums, organised each month since 2015, are events to which public officials and diplomats are invited to have an open, off-the-record conversations with all BIRN's staff based in municipalities across Kosovo.
BIRN Kosovo, with the support of USAID, published a report on Thursday about procurement procedures in Kosovo's municipalities from October 2017 to October 2018.
The International Fact-Checking Network, IFCN, has granted BIRN's Krypometer an extended license to operate after a careful assessment of the work of this product.
The Kosovo Judicial Council, KJC, has issued a decision regulating access by parties to courts, which prohibits lawyers from approaching judges without prior arrangement and without the other parties being present and has sent a letter demanding equal measures for prosecutors to be implemented as well.
Three journalistic pieces produced by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, were awarded with prizes in a competition by the NGO Coalition for the Protection of Children, KOMF.
Democracy Plus (D+) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Kosovo held a round table in Pristina on December 18 entitled 'Legal challenges on protecting integrity and combating conflict of interest in the Tax Administration of Kosovo (TAK)'.
GIZ, BIRN Kosovo and other non-governmental organisations took part in an event organised by the Ombudsperson to mark International Human Rights Day under the slogan "Stand up for human rights".
Call for Proposals for the EU Funded Project.
A roundtable discussion entitled 'Equality on Paper' was held by BIRN Kosovo at the ORION Conference Center in Pristina on December 4 to mark 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls.
BIRN Kosovo held its third debate on November 26 to present findings from its analysis of Auditor General's reports, this time for the Gjilan/Gnjilane municipality.
BIRN Kosovo held its second debate to present findings from its analysis of municipality audit reports, this time for the municipality of Prizren, on November 23.
"The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Internews Kosova, for 12 years, have monitored the Kosovo judicial system at all levels in order to assess its performance in respecting legality, work ethics and judicial proceedings. The monitoring also included cases targeted for visa liberalization in all court instances where the judicial procedure takes place. In order to have a situation analysis on the fulfillment of the second criterion for visa liberalization, BIRN and Internews Kosova drafted a report with detailed data on the status of the targeted cases.".
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Kosovo and Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS) published the report on privatisation.
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Q: PHP - How can I insert multiple items from a shopping cart into the database? I'd like to apologize in advance if this question has been asked before. I've been surfing this website for a couple of hours trying to find the answer I'm looking for but no luck.
Here's my problem:
I've created this online shopping cart based on a tutorial from a book by Larry Ullman (PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Websites Edition 1). Everything worked well until i realized that the writer stopped at the checkout.php
I need help coding the checkout page. My biggest problem is inserting multiple products from the shopping cart into the database as individual rows.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Here's what i have so far:
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session_start();

if (is_numeric ($_GET['pid'])) {

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if (isset ($_SESSION['cart'][$pid])) {
    $qty = $_SESSION['cart'][$pid] + 1;
} else {
    $qty = 1;
}

  $_SESSION['cart'][$pid] = $qty;

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The item has been added to your shopping cart.
';
}

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    if ( ($value == 0) AND (is_numeric ($value)) ) {
        unset ($_SESSION['cart'][$key]);
    } elseif ( is_numeric ($value) AND ($value > 0) ) {
        $_SESSION['cart'][$key] = $value;
    }
}

}

$empty = TRUE;
if (isset ($_SESSION['cart'])) {
foreach ($_SESSION['cart'] as $key => $value) {
    if (isset($value)) {
        $empty = FALSE;
    }
}
}

if (!$empty) {

include("config.php");

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foreach ($_SESSION['cart'] as $key => $value) {
    $query .= $key . ',';
}
$query = substr ($query, 0, -1) . ') ORDER BY buds_customer.last ASC';
$result = mysql_query ($query);

echo '

    Seller
    Product
    Price
    Qty
    Total Price

<form action="view_cart.php" method="post">
';

$total = 0; // Total cost of the order.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {

    $subtotal = $_SESSION['cart'][$row['print_id']] * $row['price'];
    $total += $subtotal;

    echo "

    <input type=\"text\" name=\"seller\" value=\"    {$row['first']}  {$row['last']}\">
    <input type=\"text\" name=\"product\" value=\"  {$row['product']}\">
    <input type=\"text\" name=\"price\" value=\"  {$row['price']}\">
    <input type=\"text\" size=\"3\"   name=\"qty[{$row['print_id']}]\" value=\"{$_SESSION['cart'][$row['print_id']]}\" />
    <input type=\"text\" name=\"subtotal\" value=\"" .     number_format ($subtotal, 2) . "\">

\n";

}

echo '

    Total:
    <input type="text" size="3" name="total" value="' .    number_format ($total, 2) . '">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update My  Cart" /></form>

Checkout

';

} else {

echo mysql_error();
}

?>

A: Your example doesn't show any insert statements at all... You should lookup and learn INSERT INTO (http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_insert.asp).  Then you will end up have a foreach loop... the basic code will end up looking something like this:
foreach ($items as $item) {
    $sql = 'INSERT INTO `order_history` (`productid`, `productqty`)'
        . ' VALUES ($item['product_id'], $item['product_qty']);
    mysql_query($sql);
}

Of course I'm leaving out error checking and all kinds of extra fields you will want to populate... but you get the idea.  Good luck!

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It is a great honour for me to present Professor Cynthia Hardy to you as the Honorary Member 2014 of EGOS!
Cynthia has developed a world-wide reputation for her research and continues to be one of the most productive and highly cited scholars in the broad field of organization studies. She has also made a significant contribution to both EGOS and to the journal Organization Studies.
I first became aware of Cynthia's work when I moved to the University of Warwick in the UK, although I had met her earlier in 1979 at a meeting in Bradford UK with David Hickson. Cynthia chose to go to Warwick University to study for her PhD. She became a PhD student examining the exercise of power in organizations (a theme which has persisted throughout her later research). She later moved to McGill University in Montréal where she spent a number of years working alongside Henry Mintzberg amongst others, moving to the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1998 where she has remained ever since.
I suspect if you asked most EGOSians to describe Cynthia Hardy in a few words, they would certainly mention the University of Melbourne and discourse research. Both are accurate, of course, but I'd like to spend a few minutes to describe in more depth her outstanding achievements at the University of Melbourne, the importance and significance of her work as a discourse researcher and her immense contribution to EGOS.
In 1998, she took up the headship of the newly formed Department of Management. She oversaw the successful merger of two very different disciplines (Economic History and Industrial Relations) into a single department, and led the establishment of a fully-fledged Department of Management and Marketing (a process which doubtless required all the knowledge she had gained as a researcher of power in and around organizations). She became its first Head of Department.
Cynthia is recognized world-wide as one of a handful of academics who have helped to transform the study of organizational discourse into a central approach to understanding social processes in organizations. She has published a number of key theoretical papers on organizational discourse, including two in the Academy of Management Review. These papers have helped to set the theoretical basis for the study of organizational discourse by other scholars in Management.
However, her empirical work should not be overlooked. She has concentrated on qualitative, empirical research and carried out important work in "socially relevant" field settings (for example on refugees, HIV/AIDs, NGOs in Palestine).
More recently, she has applied the study of discourse to the social and institutional processes whereby chemicals are found to be toxic, with the publication of two papers on the pesticide DDT in Academy of Management Journal in 2009 and 2010.
This work has not gone unrecognized. Cynthia has become a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and her work was awarded the "Greif Research Award" in Canada and the "Woodward Medal" by the University of Melbourne for significant contributions to the social sciences. On top of that, she is a fellow of the Academy of Social Science in Australia.
The 2004 paper is the Academy of Management Review's most highly cited paper for that year. She has co-edited important collections of work on organizational discourse, such as the "Handbook of Organizational Discourse", and authored a 2002 methods book aimed at doctoral students and newcomers to organizational discourse, which explains how to go about conducting empirical research using this methodology.
In 2001, Cynthia Hardy co-founded the innovative research network – the International Centre for Research on Organizational Discourse, Strategy & Change (ICRODSC) – which has been responsible for a wide range of international collaborative research projects and exchanges. Originally founded with four institutional members, ICRODSC now links 12 leading universities in Australia, Canada, the USA, the UK, Sweden and Japan, and has provided an organizing model for other international research centres. ICRODSC was recently reviewed by an international panel, which concluded that the Centre had made very significant contribution to the profile of organizational discourse research in an international arena.
Cynthia has played a leadership role in the journal Organization Studies being a valued co-editor (2003–2008). She has also co-edited three special issues of Organization Studies.
When she was a co-editor of Organization Studies, she was exemplary: her editorial letters were first-class. Cynthia has a sharp editorial eye, but always one that was constructively critical. And – as many Editors-in-Chief will know – Cynthia has been an editorial board member of Organization Studies seemingly forever.
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How could I achieve something like that in XAML?

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HomeNovelWhat novelist Cai Emmons taught us about dying
What novelist Cai Emmons taught us about dying
Cai Emmons, a writer and playwright, was furiously busy in the months leading up to her death on Monday at the age of 71. But she may be best remembered for a blog she maintained after she was diagnosed with bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on Feb. 4. , 2021.
In a series of posts, she candidly discussed the changes in her physical self, while also celebrating moments of joy. She wrote of his willingness to hold back nothing, to mend the fractures of the past, to focus on the moments of beauty and to notice the sublimity of a life well lived. As she wrote in his latest post on Dec. 28, "I wanted to devour the world, do it all, even with the end in sight."
In late November, Cai went on a guided psychedelic mushroom trip meant to get her comfortable with the physical process of dying. "When the mushrooms took hold," she wrote, "I imagined breaking free of my body, wriggling like a worm discharging a thick skin, then hovering above it as I watched myself be carried away." Shortly thereafter, she asserted her right to die under Oregon's Death With Dignity law and obtained clearance from her doctors.
A drug trip to explore what death might be like was in the nature of a woman with boundless curiosity. Whether she was recounting her love of the skinny dip, playing practical jokes, or diving into a new writing project, her sense of play and humor have endeared her to friends and readers.
Emmons, whose novels have explored topics including women's anger, motherly love and grief over a planet in crisis and whose most recent novels, "Livid" and "Unleashed," were both released in September, has died surrounded by family and friends in her home in Eugenio.
"Cai Emmons ended his remarkable life today," reads a statement released on Twitter Monday from his family. "He faced his last days with clarity, untold amounts of courage and entirely on his terms. She died while she lived, surrounded by love.
Eventually, Emmons was making some new friends, and I consider myself extremely lucky to have become one of them. I first met Cai about her and her husband, playwright Paul Calandrino, in August when I interviewed her for a profile in The Times. We sat on a patio surrounded by flowers and hummed by hummingbirds, communicating with the help of Emmons speech synthesizer. Several hours passed as we discussed her writing career, her political passions, and her more than 20-year partnership with Calandrino, whom she married shortly after her diagnosis. One of my best memories of that afternoon is the sound of Cai's frequent laughter.
Emmons was born on January 15, 1951 in Boston and raised in Lincoln, Mass. She graduated from Yale before earning an MFA in film from New York University and another in fiction from the University of Oregon. She taught at USC before joining the faculty at the University of Oregon, teaching fiction and screenwriting from 2002 to 2018. A documentary about her by director Sandra Luckow is in production.
Cai Emmons, in the bedroom workspace he called the "cockpit." He finished his last novel shortly before his death.
(Todd Cooper / For the Times)
Initially a playwright, Emmons wrote the plays Mergatroid and When Petulia Comes, both staged in New York. In addition to a collection of short stories, he has published six novels. "His Mother's Son" (2003) received the Oregon Book Award for fiction. Her 2018 eco-feminist novel, "Weather Woman," was praised by KLCC-FM, the NPR affiliate in Eugene, for its "evocative writing and resonant themes" and balancing "a thoughtful concern for the world" with "individual human concerns and passions that make for a compelling story."
Even though "Unleashed," which intertwines a mother's grief over her only son's departure for college with the ravages of a Northern California wildfire, was written before her ALS diagnosis, Emmons felt it reflected the his body's awareness of the disease. "The novel was written during the year I was losing my voice," she noted. "It seemed to run out, and it was so weird, but I didn't care… That book felt like something that was a roar from my body."
When we first spoke, he was working on a new novel, which he completed shortly before his death. His most recent work is an exploration of anger at the rise of fascism and nationalism in 21st century America. Cai lamented the setbacks in the movements towards gender rights and racial and social justice. She recognized that her growing sense of peace with death had to be balanced with her passionate anger at the injustices that would befall her.
He has also explored these themes on his blog. In response to a friend's question about whether Cai was "a Pollyanna," she said she was genuinely optimistic, as the presence of her friends and family encouraged her. But she, she observed, "I live in a state of cognitive dissonance, floating in my hammock of love as I watch humanity fall apart."
Shortly after interviewing Cai, I received an email inviting my husband and I to dinner. More meals soon followed. One of these occurred on the night of the midterm elections; we toasted as Cai was reassured that, at least for now, American democracy had been preserved. His parents' civil rights activism inspired his first literary work, a poem about racism. On this November night, he shook his fist in triumph as various contests were called.
During my last visit with her in mid-December, it was obvious she had lost most of her physical strength. But as we spoke in her "cockpit," the full workspace she'd created in her bed, she still radiated exuberance as she recounted the richness of Thanksgiving moments she spent with those who now survive her: Paul and their son, Ben ; her sisters and their families. The smallest custody interactions between Paul and Cai showed what you can only call true love. In a blog post by her, she wrote about Paul brushing her hair every day: "I close my eyes as he strokes and strokes and tousles. I'd be happy to sit there all day under his gentle care. The ritual has become almost sacred.
I feel honored that chance has brought Cai into my life; watching his journey has changed me in ways that I am only now beginning to process. Shortly after 4pm Monday at my home in Eugene, I observed wild cloud formations from my window and figured it was loose and riding the wind. She died at 4:12pm
In "Unleashed," Cai penned a passage that's hard not to read as her reckoning with those she would leave behind. "We would become a memory for them, or a dream that they could make sense of and think over and over again, trying to understand… We imagined them wishing that one day they too could experience the satisfactions of a bare and simple life.
"No greed, no greed, no ambition, no malice.
Enough. Left. Point.
Smell the glorious world.
Berry writes for a variety of publications and tweets @BerryFLW.
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Ancient gear? vs Vintage gear?
One would assume "ancient gear" to be very very old rare no longer made or used museum quality equipment such as the Aerophore by Rouquayrol & Denayrouse, a Riichi or perhaps a LePrieu-Fernez, maybe a Commeinhes?
One would think a double hose regulator, be it one of the many imported or produced in the period between 1950s- 1970s would be considered "vintage gear."
To define true and correct vintage one must identify the era of the double hose regulator which would be the driving factor in the selection of the accessary equipment. Some equipment has been around almost since the introduction of the double hose regulator.
Or even the Personal Flotation vest (PFV) been around a long time.


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Originally from Columbia, Mo., Jackie Lordo has performed throughout the United States and Europe, as well as on professional recordings with the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and King's Brass. Dr. Lordo is an educator and clinician, having worked with students of all ages throughout the Midwest and South. In 2016, Dr. Lordo presented research at Missouri Music Educators Association and the NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference.
Dr. Lordo earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University, a Master's of Performance from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum (Music Education) at the University of Missouri. Her teachers include Dr. Angelo Manzo, Dr. Tim Howe, Steven Bryant, R. Winston Morris, and Dean Somerville. In addition to directing the Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble, Dr. Lordo teaches brass and music theory courses at Cottey College.


Willie Nelson was arrested for pot possession over the holiday weekend. That's the second time this year, plus he's been busted for moonshine and shrooms in the past. Moonshine. I honestly didn't even know that was a real thing. And shrooms! How "senior year of high school" of you, Willie!
Now I'm not a big pot head. I mean, I have a prescription for it and everything, but I live in California. Having a medical marijuana card is like having a drivers license (only, when you get pulled over make sure you pull out the license, not the pot card).
I think Willie needs to park his tour bus in sunny CA and let his fans come to him. First of all, pot is legal here; and secondly, he's 77! When I'm closing in on 80, if I happen to be an iconic pot head country singer-songwriter with legions of dedicated fans, mark my words, I'll find a nice plot of land near the beach, sit back with my guitar and a joint and let my fans flock to me!


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using namespace foundation;
using namespace std;

namespace
{
    struct SamplingContextFixture
    {
        typedef MersenneTwister RNG;

        RNG         m_rng;
        Vector2d    m_v;

        SamplingContextFixture()
          : m_v(0.0)
        {
        }
    };
}

BENCHMARK_SUITE(Foundation_Math_Sampling_RNGSamplingContext)
{
    BENCHMARK_CASE_F(BenchmarkTrajectory, SamplingContextFixture)
    {
        const size_t InitialInstance = 1234567;
        RNGSamplingContext<RNG> context(
            m_rng,
            1,
            InitialInstance,
            InitialInstance);

        for (size_t i = 0; i < 32; ++i)
        {
            context.split_in_place(2, 1);
            m_v += context.next2<Vector2d>();
        }
    }
}

BENCHMARK_SUITE(Foundation_Math_Sampling_QMCSamplingContext)
{
    BENCHMARK_CASE_F(BenchmarkTrajectory_RNGMode, SamplingContextFixture)
    {
        const size_t InitialInstance = 1234567;
        QMCSamplingContext<RNG> context(
            m_rng,
            QMCSamplingContext<RNG>::RNGMode,
            1,
            InitialInstance,
            InitialInstance);

        for (size_t i = 0; i < 32; ++i)
        {
            context.split_in_place(2, 1);
            m_v += context.next2<Vector2d>();
        }
    }

    BENCHMARK_CASE_F(BenchmarkTrajectory_QMCMode, SamplingContextFixture)
    {
        const size_t InitialInstance = 1234567;
        QMCSamplingContext<RNG> context(
            m_rng,
            QMCSamplingContext<RNG>::QMCMode,
            1,
            InitialInstance,
            InitialInstance);

        for (size_t i = 0; i < 32; ++i)
        {
            context.split_in_place(2, 1);
            m_v += context.next2<Vector2d>();
        }
    }
}

BENCHMARK_SUITE(Foundation_Math_Sampling_Mappings)
{
    const size_t SampleCount = 16;

    struct Fixture
    {
        Vector2d    m_samples[SampleCount];
        Vector2d    m_dummy;

        Fixture()
          : m_dummy(0.0)
        {
            MersenneTwister rng;

            for (size_t i = 0; i < SampleCount; ++i)
            {
                m_samples[i].x = rand_double2(rng);
                m_samples[i].y = rand_double2(rng);
            }
        }
    };

    BENCHMARK_CASE_F(Benchmark_SampleDiskUniform, Fixture)
    {
        for (size_t i = 0; i < SampleCount; ++i)
            m_dummy += sample_disk_uniform(m_samples[i]);
    }

    BENCHMARK_CASE_F(Benchmark_SampleDiskUniformAlt, Fixture)
    {
        for (size_t i = 0; i < SampleCount; ++i)
            m_dummy += sample_disk_uniform_alt(m_samples[i]);
    }
}

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SERBIAN ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF RASKA-PRIZREN AND
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
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URGENT APPEAL OF THE RAŠKA-PRIZREN DIOCESE – Assistance needed for the vulnerable people in North Kosovo
RAŠKA-PRIZREN DIOCESE APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE TO VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN THE NORTH OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
The Bishop of Raska-Prizren Teodosije served today holy liturgy at St. Demetrious in Kosovska Mitrovica thus providing spiritual support to the faithful people in this area. In a conversation with the clergy and the believers, the Bishop was briefed on the latest humanitarian situation, which, according to the testimony of the faithful, is the worse since the 1999 war. On the basis of a direct conversation with the faithful people, the Bishop published the following appeal, which we transmit:
Due to the severe humanitarian situation in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, caused by the decision of Kosovo institutions to impose 100% tariffs on all goods coming from central Serbia, as well as other restrictive measures of Priština, the Raška-Prizren Diocese addresses an urgent appeal to all Dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church and humanitarian organizations to organize collection of humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable population.
By imposing 100% tariffs on all goods from central Serbia, contrary to all the rules of the CEFTA organization, which guarantee free and fair trade in accordance with international and especially European standards, a burden was imposed, particularly on Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija, as it has so far was largely been supplied with goods imported from central Serbia, which is more affordable than goods currently available in stores in the south (Kosovo).
Discrimination based on the origin of the goods, which reminds us of the darkest times in the European history, is the most serious violation of human rights. Coupled with action of demonstrative ignition and destruction of Serbian goods from few months ago, to what Pristina authorities did not react, there has been a multifaceted deterioration of interethnic relations and security throughout the territory of Kosovo and Metohija with unpredictable consequences.
At the moment, the situation in northern Kosovo is seriously threatening to become alarming, especially for the poorest and socially vulnerable population, which has no way to supply either with more expensive goods from the south of Kosovo, or to travel outside the Province and bring goods in smaller quantities to homes. If this unsustainable situation continues, it will influence gradual displacement of remaining Serbian population, which is obviously the goal of Pristina authorities who hypocritically represent this humanitarian problem as a political one, and use Serbian people in Kosovo as hostages. Even yesterday's famous sending of ridiculously small quantities of goods by Pristina institutions to the Bosniak street in northern Mitrovica was primarily a theater performance, which the independent media could verify.
Hence, the Raška-Prizren Diocese, which has always stood firm with its people in the most difficult times, and now, with an appeal for help, informs the public that two humanitarian church points will be shortly opened: at the church of St. Demetrious in North Mitrovica and in Banjska Monastery in Zvečan municipality. The existing quantities of food and other goods will be urgently transferred from the reserves of Diocese's soup kitchens, which daily feed about 2,000 vulnerable persons, primarily in Kosovo Pomoravlje (Eastern part of Kosovo). With this, our Church will try to help as much as possible by delivering humanitarian packages. The aid will be shared to all vulnerable regardless of religion and ethnic origin, as we have been doing for years.
We expect that humanitarian organizations, particularly the Red Cross, both in the country and abroad, will respond to our humanitarian appeal quickly, and that humanitarian goods will be delivered to Kosovo and Metohija in the coming days and weeks.
Please note that this appeal does not constitute any interference in politics, but is above all a reaction of the Church to unprecedented abuses committed against innocent people, especially our faithful people in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, who are deprived of their basic freedoms and rights by restrictive measures. We also expect international institutions to respond more urgently to this situation and to help find solutions that would protect citizens' rights, and allow a normal life that is now not possible.
Bishop of Raška-Prizren
TEODOSIJE
Kosovska Mitrovica, July 2, 2019
RASKO-PRIZREN DIOCESE APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE TO VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN THE NORTH OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
The Bishop of Raska-Prizren Teodosije served today holy liturgy at St. Demetrious in Kosovska Mitrovica thus providing spiritual support to the faithful people in this area. In a conversation with the clergy and the believers, the Bishop was briefed on the latest humanitarian situation, which, according to the testimony of the faithful, is the worse since the war. On the basis of a direct conversation with the faithful people, the Bishop published the following appeal, which we transmit:
Due to the severe humanitarian situation in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, caused by the decision of Kosovo institutions to impose 100% tariffs on all goods coming from central Serbia, as well as other restrictive measures of Pristina, the Raska-Prizren Diocese addresses an urgent appeal to all Dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church and humanitarian organizations to organize collection of humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable population.
By imposing 100% tariffs on all goods from central Serbia, contrary to all the rules of the CEFTA organization, which guarantee free and fair trade in accordance with international and especially European standards, a burden was imposed, particularly on Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija, as it has so far was largely supplied with goods imported from central Serbia, which is more affordable than goods currently available in stores in the south.
Discrimination based on the origin of the goods, which reminds us of the darkest times in the European history, is the most serious violation of human rights. Coupled with action of demonstrative ignition and destruction of Serbian goods from few months ago, to what Pristina authorities did not react, there was a multifaceted deterioration of interethnic relations and security throughout the territory of Kosovo and Metohija with incalculable consequences.
At the moment, the situation in northern Kosovo is seriously threatened to become alarming, especially for the poorest and socially vulnerable population, which has no way to supply either with more expensive goods from the south of Kosovo, or to travel outside the province and bring goods in smaller quantities to homes. If this unsustainable situation continues, it will influence gradual displacement of remaining Serbian population, which is obviously the goal of Pristina authorities who hypocritically represent this humanitarian problem as a political one, and use Serbian people in Kosovo as hostages. Even yesterday's famous sending of ridiculously small quantities of goods by Pristina institutions to the Bosniak street in northern Mitrovica was primarily a theater performance, which the independent media could verify.
Hence, the Raska-Prizren Diocese, which has always been with its people in the most difficult times, and now, with an appeal for help, informs the public that at two points – at the church of St. Demetrious in North Mitrovica and in Banjska Monastery in Zvecan municipality – humanitarian church points will be shortly opened, where the existing quantities of food and other goods from the reserves of Diocese's soup kitchen will be urgently transferred, which daily feeds about 2,000 vulnerable persons, primarily in Kosovo Pomoravlje. With this, our Church will try to help as much as possible by delivering humanitarian packages. The aid will be shared to all vulnerable regardless of religion and ethnic origin, as we have been doing for years.
Bishop of Raska-Prizren
ПОНУДА ЕПАРХИЈСКЕ РАДИОНИЦЕ (ускоро)
Prethodni Sledeći
A Crescent and a star appeared on the gate of St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox church in Novi Pazar, Serbia
A series of vandal attacks by Kosovo Albanian extremists throughout Kosovo - 5 cemeteries desecrated, a chapel torched
A WW2 Anti-fascist Memorial destroyed in the center of Vitina
Abbess of Gorioč Monastery dismissed for arbitrary abandonment of the Diocese of Raška and Prizren
СЛУЧАЈ РАШЧИЊЕНОГ ВЛАДИКЕ АРТЕМИЈА РАДОСАВЉЕВИЋА
Помозите нашој браћи и сестрама на Косову и Метохији
још једна информација која иде мања
Подели чланак
Пријавите се на нашу мејл листу
SERBIAN ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF RASKA-PRIZREN AND KOSOVO-METOHIJA
sekretar@eparhija-prizren.com
Манастир Грачаница, 38 205 Грачаница
+381/38 65 510


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Home » How to attract evolving shoppers with artisan cheeses
How to attract evolving shoppers with artisan cheeses
By Stephanie DeCamp
Artisan cheese is one of those products that's riding the foodie wave of today's more curious and adventuresome grocery shoppers, and expanding your cheese offerings to include it can not only bring more people through your doors, but draw the kind of consumer who tends to spend more money for the quality foods they enjoy.
"Supermarkets should carry artisan cheese to attract the ever-evolving shopper," agrees Nicki Peterson, marketing manager of Burnett Dairy Cooperative, whose line of artisan cheese goes by the name of Wood River Creamery. "Cheese isn't just an added ingredient anymore; it's the hero of the recipe. There is an increasing demand as consumers palates become more sophisticated, and consumers also have an increasing interest in knowing where their food comes from."
Of course, deciding to create a specialty cheese section for your supermarket is a big decision, but it's one that can really pay off.
"According to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board's Specialty Cheese Path to Purchase report, shoppers purchasing specialty cheese are likely to spend more than $30 per month, whereas consumers spend $18 per month on non-specialty cheese," Peterson says. "Therefore, while these consumers purchase less often, they are spending more money in the specialty cheese case, which is full of flavorful artisan cheeses."
But what exactly does "artisan" even mean? Definitions vary from cheesemaker to cheesemaker, but most agree that it includes hand-making their cheeses with milk from their own (or local) cows or goats, and then not standardizing the milk before it's crafted into their cheese.
Janet Smith, the third-generation owner of Borgman's Dairy and goat farm, says there's a further distinction between artisanal and farmstead cheeses, too. "We're a sustainable farmstead dairy," she says of the 200-goat operation she runs with her husband Randy outside of Kansas City. "None of us cheesemakers can really define the word artisanal yet, but we're definitely working on it.
"I'll tell you the difference between that and farmstead though — farmstead means that we make all of our own products with our own milk; we do not use the milk of other farmers. Artisanal will often mean that they do use the milk of other farmers."
And those distinctions aren't just for cheeses in the US either, but for many imported ones as well. John Hempenstall is the owner of Wicklow Farmhouse Cheese in Ireland, which is imported by Abbey Specialty Foods, and he shares more than just those product qualities with Smith. Both inherited their dairies from their family, and both were given a dairy farm that produced only fluid cow's milk and turned it into one that makes cheese as well, all through their own entrepreneurship.
"We know our cheese, you know?" Hempenstall says. "We say, 'Grass yesterday, milk today, and cheese tomorrow.' That's my philosophy. And that's what we do here — we grow the grass, we produce the milk and we make the cheese. It's all a natural flow, from farm to fork, as some people refer to it. We have the cows, we have the parlor, we have all the farmyard smells that you associate with a dairy farm; it's quite unique in that respect. And we have the range — there's no other cheesemakers in Ireland that make a range of cheeses like we make, so that's what sets us apart."
Goat or cow, it's what the animals eat throughout the year that gives different flavors and accents to their milk, which is in turn subtly impressed upon the cheese when it's made, according to what time of year it is and what the animals have been eating. This is the advantage of using unstandardized milk — but what exactly does that term mean?
"In the US today, you'll find that what happens is that (dairies) come in and strip all the fat out of the milk," Smith explains. "And then based on government regulations, they'll put a certain amount of fat back in, like with skim, 1 percent milk, 2 percent milk and so on. So pretty much, standardization means that if you were to get a gallon of milk in California it would taste like a gallon of milk in New York, because that standardization process is the same throughout the US."
Another essential factor to understanding exactly what artisanal cheese is: like many other trending foodie products, most contain no artificial preservatives, additives, colors or flavors. For these cheesemakers, it's all about the short, organic ingredients list.
"People are becoming more and more concerned with what they're putting in their bodies," Smith says of her goat's milk and cheese, which both the tastemakers and the lactose-intolerant can consume. "If that's a concern for a shopper, then we're an alternative for them."
Hempenstall agrees. "We don't use any colorings, additives or artificial flavors or anything like that, it's all very natural, and it's all vegetarian," he says. "The cheese is all cultures, salt, milk, and rennet — those are the four ingredients used in our cheeses."
Smith's products are now in Hen House Markets, a couple of Hy-Vee supermarkets, and select Kansas City and St. Louis Whole Foods chains as well. While Hempenstall refrained from mentioning his big-name carrier for purposes of rebranding, he did spend much of this summer touring the US and hopes to keep growing Wicklow's presence here."The milk we have here," he says, "because it's produced from grass and it's a different environment, is different in flavor, and that comes through in our cheese. That's why our cheese is distinctly different in taste compared to the American cheese, and there's a place for small amounts of that in the US."
Hempenstall also adheres to an all-natural policy with his cheeses. "We don't use any colorings, additives or artificial flavors or anything like that, it's all very natural, and it's all vegetarian. The cheese is all cultures, salt, milk, and rennet — those are the four ingredients used in our cheeses, so they're of a very good standard and good quality. "
Not every artisan cheesemaker strictly adheres to the qualities that have been put forth so far though — as noted, the cheese-making community at large is still working to define the parameters of the term. For example, Burnett Dairy is a cooperative of farmers in Wisconsin that use local standardized milk, have no artificial ingredients or preservatives, and offer cheeses that come in different (all-natural) flavors. They're a big operation — but no less artisanal for it. Wicklow also has a large variety of cheeses, and as Burnett's range sets them apart from the competition here, so does Wicklow's in Ireland. "The first cheese we started making was a bleu brie, Wicklow Bleu it's called," Hempenstall says. Wicklow Bleu is still their most successful product, and won the British Cheese Award this year, as well as numerous others, both national and international (75 can be found on their website, though it only lists those awards they've received up until 2014).
But Hempenstall also produces a double-cream brie, and a number of cheddars: plain white cheddar, Beachwood smoked, a cheddar with nettle and chive, one with basil and garlic, and another with sundried tomato and Italian herbs. And all those awards his cheeses have won have led to his partnering up with other local cheesemakers to establish an LTD company, which allows for all of its member-owners to pool their resources for things like distribution.
Distribution is actually one of the biggest hurdles an artisan cheesemaker will face while establishing their business, Smith says. While Burnett is a cooperative and Wicklow an LTD company, for most artisanal and farmstead cheesemakers, their operations are just small enough that they can't afford to bring in a distributor. In many cases, it's actually easier for a retailer interested in carrying artisan cheeses to simply come directly to them instead of relying on distribution partners to find and bring their wares to you.
"I would love to have a distributor," Smith says, "but here's the bane of all small farmers: distribution will take all of your profit.
"For example, I sell my jars of goat milk caramel sauce for $14, but in order for me to sell that at a manufacturer's resale price, I have to sell it to the distributor for $2, and everyone down the line is going to be making more money than me. And I can't survive on $2 a jar when somebody else is going to be making $7 or $8, and the jar itself is $1. So I wouldn't end up making any money on it."
And that may be the crux right there: to bring in the best artisan cheeses that will garner the most cult following among your shoppers (not to mention the most profits), you're going to have to be as curious and adventuresome as your consumers now are, and really take the time to seek the multitudinous varieties of artisanal cheese out. After all, the whole point of artisan cheese is that it's unique and handcrafted with care — and its selection by retailers should be no different.
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Wróblów (prononciation : ) est un village polonais de la gmina de Sława dans le powiat de Wschowa de la voïvodie de Lubusz dans l'ouest de la Pologne.

Le village compte approximativement une population de .

Histoire
Le nom allemand du village était Sperlingswinkel.

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, avec la mise en œuvre de la ligne Oder-Neisse, le village est intégré à la République populaire de Pologne. La population d'origine allemande est expulsée et remplacée par des polonais.

De 1975 à 1998, le village appartenait administrativement à la voïvodie de Zielona Góra.
Depuis 1999, il appartient administrativement à la voïvodie de Lubusz

Références

Village dans la voïvodie de Lubusz
Powiat de Wschowa


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Department of Cardiology /
Chinese Journal of International Politics /
A.F.L. Schinkel (Arend), C.G. Krueger (Chris), A. Tellez (Armando), J.F. Granada (Juan), J.D. Reed (Jess), A. Hall (Anne), W. Zang (William), C. Owens (Cindy), G.L. Kaluza (Grzegorz), D. Staub (Daniel), et al. B. Coll (Blai), F.J. ten Cate (Folkert) and S.B. Feinstein (Steven)
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for imaging vasa vasorum: Comparison with histopathology in a swine model of atherosclerosis
Chinese Journal of International Politics , Volume 11 - Issue 8 p. 659- 664
Aim: To evaluate the agreement between contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging and histopathology in an animal model of atherosclerosis. Methods and results: Atherosclerosis was studied in both femoral arteries of four Rapacz familial hypercholesterolaemia (RFH) swine. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging of the eight femoral arteries was performed at baseline and at 5, 12, 26, and 43 weeks follow-up after percutaneous transluminal stimulation of atherosclerosis to assess the progression of intima-media thickness (IMT) and the density and extent of the vasa vasorum network. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging allowed an early detection of atherosclerosis and showed a significant gradual progression of atherosclerosis over time. IMT increased from 0.22 ± 0.05 mm at baseline to 0.45 ± 0.06 mm (P < 0.001) at follow-up. The density of the vasa vasorum network increased during follow-up and was significantly higher in advanced than in early atherosclerosis. The findings with contrast-enhanced ultrasound were confirmed by histopathological specimens of the arterial wall. Conclusion: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound is effective for in vivo detection of vasa vasorum in atherosclerotic plaques in the RFH swine model. After stimulation of atherosclerosis, contrast-enhanced ultrasound demonstrated a significantly increased IMT and significantly increased density of the vasa vasorum network in the developing atherosclerotic plaque, which was validated by histology.
Keywords Atherosclerosis, Contrast-enhanced ultrasound, Vasa vasorum, Vulnerable plaque
Persistent URL hdl.handle.net/1765/85376
Journal Chinese Journal of International Politics
Organisation Department of Cardiology
Schinkel, A.F.L, Krueger, C.G, Tellez, A, Granada, J.F, Reed, J.D, Hall, A, … Feinstein, S.B. (2010). Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for imaging vasa vasorum: Comparison with histopathology in a swine model of atherosclerosis. Chinese Journal of International Politics, 11(8), 659–664. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/85376