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Top 6 UK Fashion Brands to watch for in 2018
The United Kingdom is a gold mine in terms of fashion talents. From the prestigious Saint Martin School to the street pop creativity, the UK reveals each year several new fashion talents, some of them will definitely shape the future of the fashion business. Here is our top 6 UK fashion brands to watch in 2018.
Martine Rose, from experimental to men's elegance
Founded in 2007, Martine Rose background comes from Men's shirts. Her artistic exploration drives us towards exploration of individualism and yet belonging to a cultural group (for the reference). Martine Rose will choose amazing icons from the past in order to provide them with a contemporary context. Obviously the work of the fashion artist is to take those icons and offer them a new context that might be a quite subversive approach, questioning the former functionality or past popularity of certain aesthetics through their re-appropriation today.
Have a look into the brand website and explore more about Martine Rose. You will be surprised:
https://martine-rose.com
Self-Portrait, in the heritage of an Alexander McQueen
Malaysian born Fashion Designer Hon Chang, is a former student at Central Saint Martins. After being in the fashion industry for over a decade, he founded Self-Portrait. We tend to consider this brand as an affordable red carpet style. The name Self-Portrait came from Hon Chang art studies as being one of the main pieces in art. Celebrities like Kristen Stewart or Reese Whitherspoon have brought the brand to the spotlights which helped its popularity. When you look to the style, Self-Portrait inherits from Alexander McQueen design. Hon Chang declared that the deceased British couturier is a strong inspiration for him.
You can visit the brand official website here and discover more about the collections and accessories. http://www.self-portrait-studio.com
RIXO London, the very best of the 70's… in the years 2000.
Two people are behind RIXO London: Henrietta Rix and Orlagh McCloskey. They both share one common passion about vintage clothes. Their preferred period: The 70's in the UK. With a lot of passion and talent they re-work all vintage designs with a modern edge. The entire collection present important details such as high-quality fabrics and even original hand-painted prints. RIXO offers refreshing and beautiful pieces that work independently and in combination, surpassing trends, in favour of creating current but timeless garments. RIXO clothing has that one off feel about it, with nothing mass-produced.
To see more from RIXO, please connect to the official website here:
https://www.rixo.co.uk
Justine Tabak, inspired and 200% British.
Justine Tabak has dress making in her blood. Her grand-father was already a East-End Tailor. After a solid start in Italy, it was a natural path for this talented designer to get back to home-land. By manufacturing everything in the UK, Justine Tabac get inspired by what is happening in the UK in everyday's life. After sourcing the best UK fabrics, she produces in small local manufacturers with whom she develops long-term relationships. From Lancashire Mill Girls to Cockney Pearly Queens, she will be exploring the length and breadth of the British Isles for inspiration.
You can visit Justine Tabak website for more information:
https://www.justinetabak.co.uk
Temperley London, Notting Hill style.
Temperley London is the fashion brand launched in 2000 by Alice Temperley and her companion Lars von Bennigsen. She studied fashion and art at Central Saint Martin as well as at Royal College of Art. She has a strong sense of quality and design. Celebrities like Emma Watson, Jessica Alba, The Duchess of Cambridge and her sister as well as Penelope Cruz and Eva Mendes, made the fashion brand famous. We tend to consider Temperley London as the British Ralph Lauren with nice and comfortable designs aligned with a certain tradition.
To discover more about Alice Temperley and Temperley London, please visit the official website here:
https://www.temperleylondon.com
Pringle of Scotland, 202 years of fashion style.
Pringle of Scotland is a fashion brand renowned for luxury cashmere knitwear and holds the royal warrant as manufacturers of knitted garments. It is one of the world's oldest continually operating fashion companies. The company has its flagship stores in London's Mount Street, Glasgow and Shanghai and is sold by retailers in 15 countries. Massimo Nicosia is the company's Menswear Design Director since 2012 and Fran Stringer was announced as the Womenswear Director in 2016.
In order to dive into the world of Pringle of Scotland, do not hesitate to visit the official website.
https://pringlescotland.com
So as you can see, the UK is an amazing place for fashion. Between the Central Saint Martin School and the Royal College of Arts, there is a considerable number of new fashion designers who arrives into the market. Such a powerful creativity has been in place in London for decades and even beyond.
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Kansas is not full of idiots
(idea) by echoes_1971 Tue Jun 12 2001 at 6:27:34
The predominant notion I have noticed in many forms of mass media seems to hint that the state of Kansas is home to a majority of backwoods, inept, and terrifically unaware denizens who are quite possibly incapable of operating a flush toilet much less grasping the concept of an internet connection.
For the record, I feel it should be known that the inhabitants of Kansas do, in fact, have electricity, phones, running water, computers, and indoor toilets. Chances are, we also have a great deal of the multitudinous other amenities possessed by other enlightened areas of the United States of America.
The impression that Kansas does not possess any of these things seems to be fostered by an unending stream of media attention which always wants to point towards the contrary. The fact is that most representations of Kansas are created by people who have never been here and who, in turn, base their presumptions upon out of date source material like The Wizard of Oz to form their opinions.
I cite, as an example, the film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, directed by John Hughes in which this situation first made itself readily apparent to me. Upon finding the destination airport of Chicago shut down by a blizzard, the plane bearing Steve Martin lands at Wichita Mid-Continental Airport as an alternative. The choice of Wichita's airport as an alternative is certainly logical and realistic, but the resulting events are certainly not.
One of the most immediate things many Kansans may notice is that the airport is not Wichita Mid-Continental. It is some generic smallish structure inhabited by hayseeds--except for the taxi that Martin and John Candy pick up. Of course, a place like Wichita--as of 1987, at least--did not contain the significant population of cabs that one would find in places such as New York or Los Angeles.
From a simple critical point of view, though, it can at least be explained that one should expect a film to not contain a voluminous amount of real location work--especially with a travel oriented film such as Hughes' piece. After all, how many other cinematic and television pieces have wanted us to believe that Vancouver, British Columbia, is Washington D.C., New York, Minneapolis, or any other large American Metropolitan area? How many exotic locations are merely replicated on a Hollywood soundstage for the issues of cost and budget?
Yes, certainly, this minor faux pas is certainly not a primary issue. However, one needs take into consideration another facet for this section of the film: Hughes took his entire film crew out to the state of Missouri to film the scenes written for Kansas. His justification went something along the lines of, "Missouri looks more like Kansas than Kansas."
So, now Hughes has written an inaccurate portrayal of the state, and filmed it in the adjacent state because just because the state in question doesn't look right in accordance to the image of Kansas he has.
Further knocks against the state involve the only "Kansan" Candy and Martin come into contact with being an inarticulate, borderline illiterate hayseed with a rusted heap of a circa 1930's pick-up truck. The truck bed contains a plethora of poultry and birddogs, and the driver speaks with a twang more reminiscent of Alabama or Georgia. Upon being questioned as to where the nearest Amtrak station to Wichita is, the hayseed responds with a locale called "Possum Holler," or some similar piece of inconsiderate nonsense.
Again for the record, the nearest Amtrak station to Wichita is Wichita. That's pretty simple, I think. Plus, that route will take you straight to Chicago, so you have even less to worry about.
However, what my explanation of this seemingly trivial portion of a larger film attempts to illustrate is a common mentality held by just about anyone who doesn't come from this part of the country. As an example of this attitude's proliferation I suggest actually reading the Kansas node and taking note of what you can find there.
Of those write-ups dealing exclusively with the state of Kansas, the highest one features a glaring mis-spelling of "Topeka" while the second highest wu, written by vorlon, indulges itself in the same denegrating, semi-insulting, and completely non-informative trite slander that only serves to further promulgate the idea that Kansas is the origin of all idiocy in the world, and that Kansans, on average, possess an I.Q. that disqualifies them from holding a decent discussion with the gunk that accumulates around the base of your toilet.
Meanwhile, user Pano offers an informative and useful wu concerning the state. This writeup concerns several facts and statistics regarding that state which are not based mainly on heresay and popular opinion. It is voted at seven out of nine.
Many individuals feel they can cite some basic and well promoted stereotypes of Kansas (it's flat as a pancake, we have no trees, we live in sod huts, we still use outhouses, we all herd cattle or farm in one way or another) throw the state into some category just short of the perceived sterotype of Arkansas--most likely because the names are similar--and get on with their happy, city-folk existences; "Thank god we're not Kansans," they think, "they don't even have phones!"
Well, it's important to clarify a few things. The Kansas State Board of Education's decision to shoot the teaching of evolution out of the classrooms (or at least refrain from making it a required area of instruction, as it had previously been) was certainly no help to our cause. The idea that a large group of investors has been trying to build a "Wizard of Oz" theme park on the site of an abandoned munitions factory doesn't help. Sometimes I admit that certain factions and decision makers in Kansas don't do much to help the situation out. I mean, the state motto even used to be, "The Land of 'Ahhhs' . . ., " but it is also generally a fact that most people promulgate this idea based on inaccurate facts and misrepresentations from fictional sources.
Some important Kansas industries, besides agriculture and ranching, which are here or have been here include: aerospace, oil refining, rail freight, engineering, and information technologies, to name a few. Wichita is the home to Boeing, Beechcraft, and Cessna. The Sprint World Headquarters are located in Overland Park. This is just an example of some of the things in this state that seem to be grievously overlooked--or in some instances, ignored--by people who refer to Kansas. For a great many, it seems that it is just best to knock them sily country-boys (and girls) out there in the wheat-fields. The reasoning behind this I don't quite understand.
This state has been home to folks like Danny Carey, William S. Burroughs, John Brown, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Luci Tapahanso, Kirstie Alley, Joe Walsh, and scores of others no one has ever imagined could come from such a (percieved) backwater as this state.
Of course, you get one Fred Phelps, and it all goes out the window. "Now that," your average non-midwesterner thinks, "That is something that sounds totally like it should be coming out of Kansas." No one stops to think that most Kansans hate Fred Phelps just as much as you do.
At any rate, no, Kansas is not full of idiots. We have advanced into the 21st century along with everyone else, and we have our plusses and minuses just like everyone else. To assume and propogate any stereotype against someone based on his/her state of origin is just as bad as stereotyping someone because he/she is Black/Gay/Jewish/German/American/Vietnamese/Muslim/whatever. For you to automatically assume something about my friends and family--and myself--based on the fact that I am a Kansan (for instance: that I am some kind of redneck iliterate who can barely speak above my own Confederate twang) is within the same realm of my assuming that, in order to be from New York, you must be either: a) a murderer b) a crack dealer c) a member of the mafia d) an unintelligible cab driver.
In short, it doesn't seem to be right in any situation, so please stop doing it to us.
Note: so as to avoid any potential for smart-assed replies, I should mention that my three dogs are named: Siegfried, August, and Lucky respectively--and that I have never met anyone named Dorothy in the total time I have lived here.
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How was everyone's long weekend? I hope everyone had time for some fun in the sun, but more importantly took a moment to thank or remember the brave men and women who have fought, or fight today, for our freedom.
Besides a little day trip to Raleigh, I spent the weekend relaxing, lounging at the beach enjoying the beautiful weather with my best friend Magen, and kicking off the season with some scrumptious summer food.
I always up my seafood game in the summer - maybe because I spend so much time near the ocean. Sunday night, I thought I'd whip up some Fried Shrimp and not only was it simple, but these crispy shrimp are super crunchy and flavorful. The tender shrimp are first soaked in buttermilk, hot sauce, and brightened up with lemon zest, then dredged in a combination of seasoned flour and cornmeal. The cornmeal creates a surprising, extra crisp texture.
For frying, I broke out the Fry Daddy I got as a wedding gift, but you could easily use a big pot of peanut oil to fry these. I would recommend monitoring the temperature because you'll notice when you add the shrimp the oil cools down significantly. I fried in batches and allowed the oil to return to 375 before adding more shrimp.
In a large bowl, combine buttermilk, lemon zest, and hot sauce. Add the shrimp and stir so they are all coated. Refrigerate for 5 minutes.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, cornmeal, paprika, salt, and pepper, and mix well.
Preheat peanut oil to 375. Line a plate with paper towels and set aside. Remove shrimp individually, let the excess buttermilk drain off, then dredge in the flour mixture. Shake off any excess, then fry in batches (don't overcrowd the oil) for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, or until golden brown. Place on the paper towel lined plate to drain and cool. Repeat with remaining shrimp.
Serve with lemon wedges, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauce. Enjoy!


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Japanese EFL teachers' perceptions of communicative, audiolingual and yakudoku activities: The plan versus the reality
Greta Gorsuch
In recent years, the learning of English as a Foreign Language in Japanese high schools has become the focus of new educational policies applied at the national level. One of these is The Course of Study issue by the Ministry of Education, in which teachers are, for the first time in a long series of curriculum guidelines, adjured to develop students' "positive attitudes towards communicating in English." Another is the JET program, which has put thousands of native English speaking assistant language teachers (ALTs) into Japanese secondary classrooms for the purpose of team teaching with Japanese teachers. Data resulting from a survey project of 876 Japanese high school English teachers was used to provide empirical evidence of teachers' levels of approval of communicative, audiolingual and traditional (yakudoku) activities. Teachers were also asked to rate the strengths of a variety of influences on their instruction, including university entrance exams, and pre- and in-service teacher education programs. Teachers' perceptions of both activities and instructional influences were examined in light of teachers' length of career, type of school (private versus public, academic versus vocational), and level of contact with an ALT. The data revealed the complexities of imposing broad, national educational policies on a diverse group of teachers, and in an educational culture which likely precludes teachers' use of communicative activities.
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March 2012 | Issue 2543
Bahrain Rises
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US activist K. Flo Razowsky reports on Bahrain Witness, US complicity and her deportation from the Gulf kingdom
One of the nightly mass rallies in Freedom Square, Manama, Bahrain,
February 2012. PHOTO: K. Flo Razowsky
I have just arrived back in the US after being arrested and deported from the Kingdom of Bahrain. I was forced into an unmarked car by uniformed officers as I photographed a small, nonviolent protest march and the police's violent response.
The march at which I was arrested was headed for LuLu Square, or Pearl Roundabout as it is known, the birthplace of this most recent Bahraini revolutionary movement for democracy.
On 14 February 2011, tens of thousands of Bahrainis began an encampment at Pearl Roundabout as a part of the Arab Spring. The Bahraini regime, backed by over 1,000 Saudi troops, and using weaponry supplied by the US and Europe, brutally cracked down on this encampment, killing some, wounding and jailing scores.
Since that time, the peaceful movement in Bahrain has remained steadfast, holding protests and demonstrations every day, facing repression that has left over 65 dead, hundreds wounded and scores more jailed, most reporting having been tortured.
Witness Bahrain
Leading up to 14 February 2012, I was part of a group, Witness Bahrain, invited to Bahrain by human rights activists there. Although it is hard to gauge the effectiveness of such a thing, those who invited us do feel that our presence there mitigated the violence with which the police responded to protests.
In the short time I was able to be in Bahrain, I heard stories of people jailed and tortured, fired from their jobs, unable to get work. I heard stories of censorship and surveillance. I saw riot police on a nightly basis massed around the country, entering villages to suppress demonstrations and shooting massive amounts of tear gas, birdshot, rubber bullets and sound grenades into these villages and demonstrations.
I met families of people killed at the hands of the riot police. And I was teargassed along with thousands of others, saw a funeral procession attacked by riot police, marched in a demonstration that was tens of thousands strong.
At the first police station I was taken to on the day I was 'arrested', I saw what I assume was a young boy, bound and hooded, being dragged somewhere deep into the station.
I met people with cigarette burn scars still showing, people who told stories of being forced to stand for days at a time, beaten whenever they would collapse. Stories of being forced to lie naked on a cold, wet cell floor with the air conditioning on full blast; stories of being threatened with the rape of your mother, sister, wife if you did not say what the regime wanted you to say.
On 11 February, the first two Witness Bahrain activists were arrested, beginning a targeted campaign to pick us off one by one and get us out of the country, seemingly to continue the government's agenda of having no outside witnesses to their behaviour.
President Obama's administration, friendly with and fully supporting the Bahraini regime, toed the kingdom's line and accused us of incitement.
In the days leading up to 14 February, the news was full of president Obama's attempt to circumvent a US congressional veto of his proposed arms package to Bahrain, by breaking the package down into increments small enough not to need congressional approval.
President Obama has certainly not used the US's special relationship (Bahrain is home to the US navy's fifth fleet) to pressure the kingdom to respond less violently to its people. He has given Bahrain the green light.
A longer version of this article can be found on mondoweiss: www.witnessbahrain.org and www.mondoweiss.net
K Flo Razowsky is a co-founder of Witness Bahrain. She was one of six Witness Bahrain activists deported on 14 February; four others had also been deported as PN went to press.
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HomeBlogWhat Is Gingivitis? What Causes Gingivitis?
Gingivitis is the inflammation of the gums (gingiva). It commonly occurs as a result of films of bacteria that accumulate on the teeth – this is known as plaque. Gingivitis initially is a non-destructive type of periodontal disease, however if left untreated, gingivitis can progress to periodontitis, which is much more serious and can lead to tooth loss.
The symptoms of gingivitis will be displayed as red and puffy gums, the gums may be bleeding especially when the individual brushes their teeth. In order to stop gingivitis occurring good oral hygiene is important such as longer and more frequent brushing, as well as flossing and the use of a mouthwash.
The signs and symptoms of gingivitis?
In more mild cases of gingivitis you may not expereince discomfort or noticeable symptoms.
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When the plaque is not removed adequately, it causes an accumulation of calculus (tartar – a yellow color) at the base of the teeth, near the gums. Calculus is harder to remove, and can only be removed professionally.
If gingivitis is diagnosed early enough it can be easily treated by removing the plaque and tartar. This is known as scaling. Some patients may find scaling uncomfortable, especially if tartar build-up is extensive, or the gums are very sensitive.
One the scaling has been done it is important that you undertand properly how to brush your teeth. Your dentist may have to fix some dental problems, such as crooked teeth, badly fitted crowns or bridges to be able to properly remove the plaque and ensure you can clean your teeth more easily. The steps you can take to ensure you help keep the plaque to a minimum are to brush your teeth at least twice a day, it is important to bear in mind that electric toothbrushes do a better job than manual brushing can achieve. You should also be flossing your teeth at least once a day and regularly rinse your mouth with a mouthwash.
What are the complications from untreated gingivitis?
In the vast majority of cases, if gingivitis is treated and you keep up a regular oral hygiene regime there should be no complications. However, if the condition is left untreated, gum disease can spread and affect tissue, teeth and bones, leading to periodontitis.
It is important that you brush regularly and floss daily to reduce the chance of developing gingivitis, if you do develop any of the symptoms we sited contact your dentist immediately as the sooner you start to combat it the better.


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EAC Research brief Mapping of Health Services along Transport Corridors
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Researchers Develop LR-PCR, NGS Combination Method to Detect PMS2 Gene Mutations
Aug 27, 2015 | staff reporter
NEW YORK(GenomeWeb) — Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Baylor Miraca Genetic Laboratories have created a more accurate method to detect mutations in the PMS2 gene, they reported today in the online version of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
Mutations in this gene are associated with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome) and Turcot syndrome, and are a cause of supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors.
Aiming to improve the detection accuracy for PMS2 gene mutations, the researchers performed multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA), target capture next-generation sequencing, and long-range PCR (LR-PCR). They performed their method on 32 clinical samples and 14 control samples (eight positive samples with known mutations and six negative samples).
Of the 140,000 cases of colorectal cancer that are diagnosed each year in the US, only three to five percent are caused by Lynch syndrome, according to the National Institutes of Health. However, the researchers involved in this study thought the PMS2 gene's role in developing Lynch syndrome had been underestimated based on the high frequency of negative staining in PMS2 immunohistochemistry in colorectal cancer without identifiable PMS2 mutations. They also said they believe that accurate molecular analysis of this gene has been hindered by highly homologous sequences in the genomic region and frequent sequence exchange between active and pseudogenes.
Previously, PMS2 mutations have been detected using Sanger sequencing and the analysis of the coding exons and flanking intron regions individually, which did not provide copy-number variation information. The researcher's new approach incorporated LR-PCR and NGS, which allowed them to detect sequence variants and CNVs, as well as distinguish the mutations in PMS2 from its pseudogene PMS2CL. They were also able to generate long-range, contiguous uniform coverage of the gene specific LR-PCR fragments containing multiple exons and introns, which is important for CNV differentiation among highly homologous regions such as the ones surrounding PMS2 gene regions.
"The combination of LR-PCR/NGS and target capture NGS resolves both allele dropout and homology problems," the researchers wrote in the JMD paper. "Thus, this approach would be particularly advantageous in testing patients with early-onset cancers with suspicion of PMS2 mutations."
The researchers analyzed each sample by running the three processes — MLPA, NGS, and LR-PCR — in parallel. The MLPA was performed using an MRC-Holland SALSA MLPA kit P008-C1, which included probes specific for PMS2 exons 1 to 11, exons 11 to 15, and paralogous sequence variants in exons 11 to 15 targeting both PMS2 and PMS2CL. For target capture NGS, the researchers used a Roche NimbleGen SeqCap probe library, which targeted all coding exons and 50 bp of flanking intronic regions of 197 hereditary cancer genes.
Then for LR-PCR, they used previously published primers to amplify three fragments — E1 to E5, E6 to E10, and E11 to E15 — for both the PMS2 gene and the PMS2CL pseudogene. The LR-PCR was performed using Clontech Laboratories' TaKaRa LA Taq DNA polymerase Hot-Start Version, and LR-PCR products of PMS2 were fragmented and indexed for the subsequent analysis by high-throughput sequencing on Illumina's HiSeq2000 platform.
"The results from the three methods serve as cross validation for enhanced accuracy and reduced turnaround time," they said.
Having a more accurate method of PMS2 gene mutation would allow for better preventative methods, diagnosis, and treatment options for people at risk for colorectal cancer. In addition, the researchers believe that it can be applied to the molecular analysis of other genes containing multiple copies of highly homologous sequences.
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At Writers Hill Nahan guest comfort and ease is a top priority. The wonderfully furnished cottages of the Writershill are laced with all vital facilities making your stay relaxed and enjoyable. It has calm, imaginative rooms with the spectacular beauty of Himachal. Your morning meal within a canopy of trees with the gurgling sounds of River Jalal.
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Peaceful, exotic, lovely place to stay. If you love to be with nature far away from the noise, this is the place for you. Food is excellent. Staff is very friendly. You will feel at home here. The only difficulty would be for old aged people as the place is uphill and they will find it difficult to climb.
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According to a new market report published by Lucintel, the future of the smart home market looks attractive with opportunities in the home safety and security, appliance, entertainment, lighting, HVAC, healthcare, and kitchen applications. The global smart home market is expected to reach an estimated $107.4 billion by 2023 with a CAGR of 9.5% from 2018 to 2023. The major growth drivers for this market are increasing awareness related to safety and security, increasing consumer need for simplicity and personalized experience, and the growing adoption of cloud-based technologies.
In this market, safety and security, home appliance, kitchen appliance, entertainment control, lighting control, HVAC control, and smart healthcare are the major applications. Lucintel forecasts that the safety and security market is expected to remain the largest segment due to the increasing need for continuous monitoring services to reduce the risk of crime, burglary, and theft. The entertainment segment is expected to experience the highest growth rate during the forecast period, supported by the increasing need of advanced technology that can provide a single platform for high level of control, flexibility, and deliver the best entertainment experience.
Emerging trends, which have a direct impact on the dynamics of the industry, include development of voice assistant technology for high-end automated households, emergence of air quality sensor devices that measure volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and growing adoption of video enabled drones. Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson ADT Corporation, Control4 Corporation, United Technologies Corporation, Siemens AG, Philips, Acuity Brands, and Vivint Inc. are among the major smart home providers.


For decades, economic and business theory on pricing has centered around the concept of 'price elasticity*'. Yet according to James Walker, a partner with consulting firm Strategy& in London, the concept can be considered as useless in the real world of business. He presents four reasons why in his view it's time to leave price elasticity behind.
1. It obscures the precise sales impact of price changes.
An e-commerce marketing leader I know recently talked about her frustration with the price elasticity model she was using. It had been programmed with a price elasticity ratio of -5. In other words, a 10 percent cut in overall prices would increase sales volume by 50 percent. But the model said nothing about how this sales increase was going to actually happen. Why should we believe it?
Most businesses, these days, need pricing models that do more than predict sales volume. They need to break down the impact of any given sale into its component parts. When prices go down, for example, how many new customers are acquired? How many trial buyers switch to becoming repeat purchasers? What happens to the frequency of purchases? Are customers likely to spend the money they save elsewhere, perhaps on categories they haven't bought before? Does a price decrease make them less likely to buy from competitors, and do different customer segments (based on age, gender, or socioeconomic brackets, for instance) respond in different ways?
2. Relative prices matter, not just changes in price.
Price elasticity models tell you only how price changes affect behavior. In many categories, this is irrelevant. For example, in the United Kingdom, where I live, we are currently in the midst of a price war on milk. This is, in effect, a race to the bottom of the supermarket cooler. Price elasticity calculations are useless here, because sales accrue only to the brand with the lowest price. Similarly, having the lowest-priced cigarette pack in a retail store can drive huge increases in sales, regardless of how much the price has changed since last week. These effects are also common when people are purchasing auto insurance, airline tickets, and hotels—indeed, in any milieu where buyers can easily compare prices.
3. Retailers often control the outcome.
When a CPG manufacturer decreases its prices, retail chains often have the clout to demand that their cash margin remain untouched. The manufacturer covers the entire burden. And when the manufacturer raises its prices, the same retailers take a percentage of the increase. In both cases, regardless of whether a pricing move is up or down, the CPG company is worse off. A price increase that produces only a theoretical profit gain for the CPG company may lead to a backlash from retailers; they can demand promotions that push the price back down, making the manufacturer pay both a margin compensation and a subsidy of the promotion. The aggregation of discounts, compensations, and margins, known as the "pricing waterfall," can dramatically reduce profitability for manufacturers.
4. There is no such thing as a pure 'price'.
The price of a product reflects many factors, depending on the context. In e-commerce, for example, the price incorporates such things as the minimum order value required for free delivery, the mix of products offered by the manufacturer, and the use of promotions and loyalty incentives (reward points). Sometimes a company undermines its own pricing effectiveness.
Recently, at a big data conference, a soft drink company marketing leader quipped that his company's greatest competitor was in the next cubicle, launching another product. In other words, his biggest concern was cannibalization of his stock keeping unit (SKU) from others in the same company. The price is also affected by consumer perceptions, emotions, and confusion—for example, when consumers have to sort out comparable products from different companies that are offered with varying sizes and weights.
In short, price is neither a simple input variable for a model, nor is the outcome as simplistic as just aggregate sales. Price can no longer be managed by a price elasticity model. The elastic has snapped.
What then do we replace it with? The details will vary from one company to the next, depending on industry, scale, and whether it's a consumer or a B-to-B enterprise, but the basic principle is the same. To improve overall revenues and profitability, you need to design a holistic analytic model that takes into account not just price changes and absolute price, but other considerations. The factors you consider should meet the following criteria: You have some control over them, they are relevant to the price, and changes in them have a clear impact (that you understand) on new customer acquisition, the size of purchases, the likelihood of repeat purchases, and so on. Examples of specific factors include the promotion schedule, the mix of SKUs, and other aspects of pricing such as the minimum order value required for free delivery and rewards programs.
These factors have their own complexities that should also go into the models. For instance, to create the optimal rank order of SKUs, you need to be aware of margins, sales levels, market basket analysis (which products are often purchased together), and the potential for other products to cannibalize this one. You need to avoid the kind of promotional price cuts that increase sales on one product, while decreasing sales on the other SKUs you didn't promote.
In short, for a pricing model to be useful, both the input "price" and the output "sales" need to be dramatically more sophisticated than they are in most price elasticity models today. Think of all these factors coming together in an ecosystem of pricing. Add a gift for baskets above a certain value (such as a set of steak knives for anyone who spends more than US$120), or initiate a rewards or loyalty card, and you affect the components of a sale (customer acquisition, repeat purchase, and advantage against competitors' offerings). Fortunately, the analytics tools exist to model all these factors, and to track what happens when you make specific changes. But you can only use those models if you're willing to graduate from simple metrics like price elasticity; the comfort they provide is illusory.
* The basic principle of price elasticity is as follows: an x-percent increase in price leads to a y-percent decrease in sales volume. If the ratio between x and y for a given product is known, then the concept provides an approach for calculating an optimal price.


In today's blog we take a look at South Africa's favourite car brands. We base this in the number of vehicles sold by dealerships throughout South Africa. We will also take a look at the most exported vehicles in South Africa. Since South Africa has a large vehicle manufacturing sector (think BMW plant in Rosslyn, Pretoria), and VW plant and GM plants in the Eastern Cape.
Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the most popular car brand of them all?
The graphic below shows the number of vehicles sold per car brand in 2016, in descending order. Starting with total vehicle sales in South Africa for 2016, which amounted to 276 904 vehicles being sold in 2016.
The horizontal bar chart above clearly shows the battle at the very top is extremely close between Volkswagen (VW) and Toyota. Volkswagen sold 46 433 vehicles (16.8% of market share), with Toyota coming in in 2nd place with 42 746 vehicles (15.4% of market share) and Ford coming in a distant third place with 30 092 vehicles (10.9% of market share) sold. Together the top three car brands in SA sold 43.1% of all cars in South Africa. Showing just how skewed South Africa's car market is towards the top three sellers in the country.
Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Renault, Mazda, Kia and Audi round up the rest of the top 10 vehicle brands (based on sales in South Africa. The top 10 selling car brands in South Africa sold 80.5% of the new vehicles in South Africa in 2016. Leaving 34 other brands that reported sales fighting for less than 20% market share.
Readers will notice super car builder, Ferrari also reports vehicle sales. And they sold 95 cars in South Africa in 2016. That is almost 8 Ferrari's a month in South Africa. Sister company Maserati sold 107 cars (an average of 9 cars) a month. While sports and super car manufacturer (and part of the VW stable) Porsche sold a whopping 1 409 cars in SA during 2016 (an average of 117 cars per month). Clearly there is no shortage of cash if South African can afford to buy so many high end vehicles.
Now the next question is, which cars do government buy? Cheap little run arounds for their respective government departs, or expensive luxury vehicles for the overpaid ministers and director generals? The chart below takes a look at the number of vehicles per car brand sold to government.
South Africa's government seem to like VW just as much as its citizens. With 51% of cars sold to government belonging to VW, 25% to Toyota and 6.8% to FORD. The same top 3 car brands we saw in sales to citizens. What is surprising is the low number of Mercedes-Benz's sold to government, compared to arch rival German manufacture BMW. We suspect Merc did not fully disclose sales figures to government. As there are far too many S-class Mercs driving around in blue light brigades to make the figure of 2 Merc's sold to government believable.
Next up we will take at vehicle exports. South Africa is well known for its vehicle building capacity and plants and builds cars for Mercedes-Benz, VW, BMW, Opel and the likes (and the majority of this takes place in the Eastern Cape).
The bar chart below shows the main car brands being manufactured in South Africa and then exported to the rest of the world.
As can be seen from the bar chart above, the majority of vehicles exported out of South Africa are Mercedes-Benz. With Volkswagen and BMW coming in at a distant 2nd and 3rd place in terms of vehicle exported out of South Africa. Merc made up 465 of vehicles exported out of South Africa in 2016, with VW making up 28.9% and BMW 23.8% of exported vehicles.


The two of the most impressive teams in the English Premier League this season are crossing paths in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup (English League Cup) on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 at Emirates Stadium in London.
After nine matches played in the EPL, Arsenal are in first place with 22 points and Chelsea are in second place with 20 points. Both teams are also doing well in their respective groups in the UEFA Champions League. It will be really interesting to see these two London teams go at it in the league cup, while probably resting some of the players that played on the weekend.
The odds are very close. A 100 € bet on Arsenal could return 150 € in profit, while the same bet on Chelsea could return 162 € in profit.
The most likely outcome, according to the odds is a 1-1 draw, offered at 11/2.
Olivier Giroud is the favourite to score for Arsenal at 7/4, while Demba Ba and Samuel Eto'o are the favourites to score for Chelsea at 21/10 each.
After a tough home loss to Borussia Dortmund in the UCL, Arsenal last played on Saturday in the EPL and grinded out a 2-0 win vs. Crystal Palace.
Chelsea destroyed Schalke with the score of 0-3 in the UCL and they followed that performance with a big last minute EPL win vs. Manchester City on Sunday.
Arsenal are playing at home and will have one more day of rest compared to Chelsea FC, who arguably have a deeper bench and a stronger momentum.


This is the first post detailing the gear we will be taking on the Grand Tour (the "GT"). Starting at the bottom, physically, here I discuss the all-important shoe selection (or as Jesse calls them, Shoe-balls*). As is my custom I ordered and had delivered a half a dozen pairs of shoes for a deliberate and extensive, indoor, try-on session.
Anyway, I have always been a great fan of Merrell brand footwear. Sturdy, great soles, wide toe-box for my fat toe-balls and always rugged looking, you could regularly find me wearing my "hiking shoes" in somewhat inappropriate places: the gym, kickball games, fancy restaurant, even rehearsal dinners (Sorry Nair!).
So it is with great apprehension that I have chosen to go with the Vasque Juxt | 7004s. But since I can only have one pair of shoes I've (read Jesse) has decided these (somewhat) decent looking shoes will compliment all of the leg-wear I plan to bring on this trip - regular shorts, work-out shorts, jeans, and convertible pants (more on each of these items to come) better than the chunky leatherish Merrells. Plus those clever Vasque marketers really hit all my buttons with their advertising copy.
Understated style [me], excellent durability [me] and solid support for enlightened souls [me, maybe] who appreciate functional utility [wow, I am really close on this one]. Being comfortable enough to live in every day, this shoe's secure lacing and tenacious sticky rubber sole inspires plans into the unknown [sounds a lot like the GT!].
Plus, the Juxts have the "Arc Tempo, which creates an athletic fit that promotes quickness and agility over technical ground." I am happy to engage any technology that promotes quickness and agility. Apparently it does this by "plac[ing my] foot in a more powerful position during toe off [and provides an] aggressive toe spring [that] facilitates rapid obstacle clearance." With my new-found quickness and agility, I will most certainly need rapid obstacle clearance.
* This terminology arose after a cleaning woman broke a light in our house and left us a note, writing with "I so sorry, I break lightball." Now any item can be appended with "ball" and it is instantly fun and cute - to us at least.
This post is premature. Dave will be agonizing over his decision at least until the return period expires.


Anchored by a Coles and a Woolworths, and within a larger retail precinct, Hawaiian's Noranda offers essential retail services to an established population. The property covers 3.8 hectares and is bounded by sporting and community complexes.
The centre includes a food forecourt and popular mid mall cafe, plus additional services including a medical centre within its 30+ stores.


Psoriasis is a serious issue for many men Danielle Hunter Jersey , and unfortunately, those men will often find that the condition spreads to the male organ and surrounding area. Though there are great treatments available and special attention to quality male organ care might help relieve the symptoms, a man who suffers from the manhood pain, itching and redness that comes along with the dry skin patches might always dread the next flare-up. Understanding what psoriasis is and what treatments to explore can help a man deal with the condition.
1. Topical medications. Some medications target the inflammation and other issues that accompany a red member, while others seek to remove the thin layer of skin that is causing the problem. Each of these medications can be easily applied at home. These are good for those who have psoriasis in very defined areas, such as only on the knees or the male organ.
2. Injectable medications. These medications target the psoriasis from the 'inside out.' They do this by using biologic tablets that assist the immune system in performing correctly, thus helping to ease the autoimmune disease. These are often recommended for those who suffer from psoriasis on large areas of the body.
3. Ultraviolet treatment. Light therapy with UV rays is a traditional treatment for psoriasis that has proven effective for many years. This usually involves going to the physician's office and simply placing the affected area under a special light that attacks certain cells, thus easing the appearance and pain of the condition.
4. Careful moisturizing and bath regimen. Skin health is vitally important when dealing with psoriasis, whether it's on the male organ or elsewhere. Some physicians recommend a daily ritual of bathing in Epsom or Dead Sea salts, as well as the use of special moisturizers to keep the affected areas as smooth and supple as possible. This is often combined with other treatments to keep the problem under control.
SHANGHAI, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Meagan DuhamelEric Radford of Canada outshone three Chinese pairs to win the pairs title at the 2015 ISU Figure Skating World Championships here on Thursday.
Performing to Muse Medley, the reigning ISU Grand Prix Final Champions hit a triple twist lift and a triple lutz, and completed a flawless throw quad salchow. They finished first in 144.55 points, and collected 221.53 to win the pairs title.
"It means a lot for us" said Redford.
China's Sui WenjingHan Cong took second in 214.12, while veteran Pang QingTong Jian came third in 212.77. Peng ChengZhang Hao finished fourth in 206.63.
"We started our career at the same time with Sui and Han," said Redford. "So we know their improvement and happy to see them win the silver."
"Pang and Tong are our idols," he added. "It's our honor to compete with them."
Sui and Han, 2014 and 2012 Four Continents champions, danced passionately to Francesca da Rimina, Fantasy of Orchestra Op.32 by P. Tchaikovksi. Sui bursted into tears after her performance.
Pang and Tong, competing in their 16th World Championships, skated to Io Ci Saro by D. Foster, W. Afanasieff. They came out of retirement to compete on home ice.
"I want to say thank you to my partner," Tong said. "I can't make a come back without her. It's her idea to take part in the worlds."
In the ladies short program earlier Thursday, Russia's 2015 European champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva landed a triple Axel to take a commanding lead.
Tuktamysheva, 18, skated flawlessly to Bolero by Maurice Ravel, ranked first in a season best 77.62 points, followed by her teammate Elena Radionova with 69.51 and Japan's Satoko Miyahara with 67.02.


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Lengthy journey allows Purdue long snapper to fulfill dream
Nick Zecchino transferred to Purdue before the 2019 season and was set to play 10 months following his third surgery for ulcerative colitis.
Mike Carmin
Lafayette Journal & Courier
WEST LAFAYETTE – Sitting inside the visiting team locker room at Mackay Stadium, goosebumps were starting to form on Nick Zecchino's arms.
It's Aug. 30, 2019, and Purdue was moments away from starting its third season under Jeff Brohm against Nevada. Zecchino is the Boilermakers' starting long snapper – a spot he maintained through last season and during the recently completed 2020 campaign.
Nerves were not the reason for the goosebumps.
Zecchino's parents - Nick and Maria - were in attendance that night, sitting in the 30,000-seat facility more than 2,600 miles away from their New Jersey home and Nick's Salugo Bistro, which the family opened in 2018.
As Nick came out of the locker room and ran into the field, emotions overwhelmed his parents.
"It was sheer tears, happiness and everything," Maria said. "Very proud."
Their son was about to play in a college football game 10 months following his third surgery for ulcerative colitis, which ravaged his body and sliced his weight 55 pounds to 145 in a span of about 90 days at the end of the 2016 season while at Connecticut.
"I'm out there playing football against Nevada in the first game, which was fantastic. It was awesome," Nick said. "I know it was Nevada and everything – it wasn't a huge grand stage – but it was one where I was getting goosebumps in the locker room. I couldn't even believe it."
Although Zecchino earned a scholarship to play for the Huskies from then-head coach Bob Diaco – who was recently fired as Purdue's defensive coordinator after one season - his dream was to follow his dad's footsteps and play in one of the nation's top conferences. His father was the long snapper at Tennessee from 1986-88. His son would soon be looking for his opportunity.
Two years after he played his last game at UConn and nearly 14 months removed from watching the annual Fourth of July fireworks show on the Hudson River from his New York City hospital bed, Nick suited up for the Boilermakers.
"He got through all of this because that's where he wanted to be. He wanted to be on the football field again," the elder Nick said. "That's the reason why he went through what he went through. He never gave up.
"Yeah, I'm an emotional guy. It was an emotional time to see him out there. To be honest, I never had any doubts."
"I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE"
Nicholas Zecchino IV, who is named after his father Nicholas Zecchino III, was more than just a long snapper at Cedar Ridge High School. He was a multi-sport athlete and played linebacker, defensive back and quarterback, earning all-state honors. He also played baseball.
His father taught him the ins and outs of long snapping. His dad walked on at Tennessee as an offensive lineman but saw a pathway to a scholarship by learning how to become a long snapper.
"He was the long snapper on every team in youth football and high school," the elder Nick said. "He won a couple of showcases and did well at a couple of camps."
Diaco and the Zecchino family are from the same hometown in New Jersey, creating a strong connection between the two. When Diaco was hired as UConn's head coach prior to the 2014 season, he started recruiting Nick.
"This guy didn't come off the field," Diaco said. "We probably could've recruited him as an outside linebacker, but he was a no-brainer as a long snapper."
Nick signed with UConn in February 2016. However, during his senior baseball season later that spring, symptoms started to surface. There was blood in his stool. Was it cancer? His condition didn't improve. He started losing weight and it worsened. He was diagnosed with mild ulcerative colitis.
It didn't stop Nick from attending UConn's summer workouts. He was on medication, but it wasn't working effectively. He would experience flare-ups but believed he had the situation under control.
He ended up playing in all 12 games in 2016, a remarkable accomplishment given how his health was deteriorating. Nick started the season weighing 200 pounds. After the last game, he had dropped to 145.
"It was going right through me," he said. "Nothing was working. We tried different medications. We changed my diet. I was going to the bathroom 20-25 times a day. Really bad blood in all my stools. I'm really sick.
"When I started and then how I looked at the end of the season, I looked like a captured person that was deprived of everything."
The family sought more medical help. They were sent to New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital and Dr. Asher Kornbluth, whose specialty is gastroenterology. Nick was put on medication and instantly felt better, started gaining weight but didn't feel comfortable returning to UConn for the second semester.
He waited until the summer - and after dealing with appendicitis where he was rushed to the hospital - to start offseason workouts on campus. He played the first game of the 2017 season against Holy Cross but that was it. Nick was diagnosed with a C. difficile infection, which can cause life-threatening inflammation of the colon.
It was time for Nick to come home.
"It was best he stayed out of school until we get this under control," Nick's dad said. "He suffered a lot."
The younger Zecchino returned to his New Jersey home and was regulated to sitting on the couch during the rest of UConn's 2017 season. His condition wasn't improving. He tried several medications – he counted 10, including those still going through clinical trials.
In the spring of 2018, Kornbluth presented options. Stay on the medications and deal with the issues and the numerous side effects or undergo surgery. As Nick and his parent sat in Kornbluth's office, the decision became an easy one.
"I can't do this anymore," Nick said. "This is the only way that I could get cured, in a sense, and I can't live my life wondering where the next bathroom is. I can't go out. I can't go out and hang out with my friends. I can't leave the house. I was miserable. I was sitting on the couch almost just withering away. There were times where I was so sick that I could have died."
Three surgeries over six months, the first one July 2, 2018, to remove Zecchino's colon and attach a colostomy bag to his stomach. Dr. Alexander Greenstein, who also works at Mount Sinai Hospital, performed the procedure.
"My colon was filled with ulcers and was so raw inside,' Nick said. "He said it was one of the worst colons he's ever seen, and there was no medication in the world that would have fixed it."
A second surgery followed in September where doctors created a J-Pouch, which became Zecchino's new colon. The third surgery took place in November when doctors removed the colostomy bag and reconnected everything and "put me back together in a sense," but it was also the hardest to endure.
"I had to retrain my body to go to the bathroom," he said. "I also couldn't get out of bed because my core – my abs and stomach and insides are all cut up and cut through. I was so weak that I couldn't hold myself up."
NOTES FROM DIACO
Diaco is an important piece to Zecchino's story and his journey back to playing football again.
After his dismissal from UConn, Diaco spent one season at Nebraska as the defensive coordinator but was fired along with head coach Mike Riley following the 2017 season. He joined Oklahoma's program as a defensive analyst in March 2018 and was promoted to outside linebackers coach after Lincoln Riley fired Mike Stoops in October.
Although Diaco was in Norman, Oklahoma, he stayed in contact with the Zecchino family. He knew about Nick's condition and his upcoming surgeries. Nearly every morning, Diaco penned a hand-written note – on Oklahoma football stationery – and sent it to Nick.
Numerous letters came in the mail over the next six months.
"It seems like light work for me to take some time in the morning to send an encouraging note or just a note that might take their mind off whatever they're going through," Diaco said. "Sometimes, you've been exiled and totally isolated and feeling alone and estranged from the thing that you love – whether it's art, football, music or accounting – whatever it is that you love.
"It was an opportunity for me just to be there and provide some support or on a particular day provide some distraction from that trouble."
While Diaco has strong ties to the family, from growing up in the same hometown, it bothered him that a young, strong athlete was stricken down with this disease. It was unfair, Diaco thought, to watch Nick suffer and wanted to provide as much support as possible.
"I remember watching him and trying to figure out how to stop it," Diaco said. "I remember my wife, who hasn't seen him for a few months and if you're watching it every day it's different than not seeing him for a few months. I can remember her being so taken back. She was distraught. He was on his death bed for real. It was really bad. It's incredible what he did."
Fate brought Diaco and the Zecchino family together again. Diaco was hired as Purdue's defensive coordinator in January but was dismissed on Dec. 17, two days after the Boilermakers' season was officially over following the cancellation of the Old Oaken Bucket game against Indiana for the second time in two weeks.
Still, Diaco took great pleasure in seeing how Zecchino leaned on his persistence and persevered through the most challenging time in his life.
"I feel joy for him," Diaco said. "He's the kind of kid that makes you better. He's been the underdog at every turn. He always comes out on top. He's always making an impact on the people around him in a positive way. He's been like that in my life."
LANDING AT PURDUE
While at UConn, former Purdue assistant coach Kevin Wolthausen was part of Diaco's staff, along with current co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Anthony Poindexter. They were let go when Diaco was fired after three years and an 11-26 record and both joined Brohm's staff before the 2017 season.
Nick had already decided to transfer before his first surgery and knew Purdue would be looking for a long snapper after the 2018 season. Nick contacted Wolthausen, explained the situation and circled back a year later and was given an opportunity to walk-on.
Nick arrived at Purdue in the summer of 2019. He had a lot of work to do.
"That was only seven, eight months removed from my last surgery," he said. "I felt good, but I was nowhere near ready to play. That summer was big for me because when I came here I was around 180 (pounds). I worked my tail off and I got up to about 190, 192 (pounds) to play last season."
He made it through the 2019 season, despite moments where he felt weak but battled through the 12-game schedule.
"My body felt good after the season," he said. "I didn't feel like I just went through a whole year. Honestly, I took care of my body throughout the season. I ate pretty well and because of this whole process, I've learned so much about my body and how to handle things. What works for my body and what doesn't. I know how to get the best out of my body than ever before."
About six weeks after his third surgery, Nick went to the gym. He needed to start regaining his strength and improve his conditioning if he was going to play football again. He was determined to play football again.
It's Jan. 2, 2019. He started by lifting five-pound dumbbells.
"I was on my road back," he said. "I was starting at ground zero."
He and his dad went to the gym daily to begin the long journey back, which wasn't a surprise since his parents have been by his side every step of this difficult and challenging period of his life. In fact, Maria chronicled her son's road back with pictures and video, saving every moment.
She recorded him "sitting in the basement during his dark time" and building back his strength by lifting two-pound weights while on the couch. She kept all the letters from Diaco.
"I have everything," Maria said. "He would sit there, and I would record it."
Nick changed his diet – eliminating salads, certain vegetables, seeds, nuts and spicy foods. Now at Purdue, Nick cooks meals at his apartment, up to five times a week during the offseason.
"I really enjoy cooking," he said. "I think I made some stuff that tastes pretty good."
His journey isn't over. He was told that it could take up to three or four years after the final surgery for his body to fully accept the changes. When surgeons removed the colostomy bag, it left a hole - the size of a tennis ball - but his body healed the spot.
He doesn't regret moving ahead with the procedure knowing it saved his life and allowed him an opportunity to live out his dream of playing football in the Big Ten, which came to fruition on that August night in Nevada more than a year ago.
"I was sitting on my couch for two years, got surgery and went through a whole long hard process," said Nick, who return to the program in 2021 and will seek a waiver to play in the 2022 season. "It's hard on the body. It's really tough - physically, mentally and the surgery was the toughest thing I ever did and the hardest thing I ever did but the best decision I've ever made."
Mike Carmin covers Purdue sports for the Journal & Courier. Email mcarmin@gannett.com and follow on Twitter @carmin_jc


What makes a watch Swiss? All over the world, Swiss watches are revered for their beauty, their quality and their timelessness. No one knows watchmaking like the Swiss.
Sometimes, a watch design epitomises the essence of Swiss watchmaking heritage in a way others can't. One such design is Oris's Classic Date, a pure expression of Swiss design and manufacturing savoir-faire. This year, Oris has updated the Classic Date for a new generation of consumers.
The new Classic Date has a more elegant profile. Oris's designers have slimmed down both the case and the bracelet, in keeping with the tastes of today's watch buyers. Both men and women in search of a classic watch that can slip easily between daywear and dress wear want slender watch designs that give them confidence and make a subtle, but powerful statement about who they are.
But what really stands the Classic Date apart is its attention to detail. The guilloche pattern in the hour chapter ring around the dial is inspired by the glazed canopy of the Great Court at The British Museum, an iconic glass structure designed by Lord Norman Foster, one of the world's greatest living architects. The knurled ring below the bezel takes its cues from the Roman columns in the same building. And the watch's Roman numerals and hour markers are double-edged, a considered touch that means the watch catches the light regardless of the angle.
The Classic Date is available as a 42mm men's watch and a 28.5mm ladies watch. Both are powered by automatic mechanical movements visible through a transparent case back, and come with a choice of case materials, dial colours and strap and bracelet combinations. In each case, the Classic Date communicates style and elegance, giving the wearer a timeless, hugely versatile watch. The Oris Classic Date's new design has an elegant, fluid profile.


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Teaching computers to see like we do
The IU Computer Vision Lab investigates and develops advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze, understand, and organize visual information. Applications of the lab's work include recognizing objects in consumer images, analyzing human activity in video, discovering patterns in large scientific datasets, reconstructing 3-D models of world landmarks, and even studying visual attention in toddlers.
The goal of computer vision is for computers to be able to understand the visual world the way people do. Computers have been able to take and store pictures for decades, but they haven't been able to know what is in a photo—what objects and people are in it, what is going on, and what is about to happen. People do this automatically, almost instantly, thinking nothing of it, but that process is difficult for a computer.
David Crandall's research with computer vision and machine learning is improving the way computers and robots think. Crandall, an associate professor of informatics and computing at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, is also director of the Computer Vision Lab, a hub of AI work at the university.
Computers are really good at fast, precise calculations, and they are really good at storing huge amounts of data. What they aren't good at is making subjective comparisons between things.
David Crandall - IU Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at the School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering; Director, IU Computer Vision Lab
Computer vision is changing that, and the field has made huge progress in the last few years. The Computer Vision Lab and its researchers are developing algorithms to help computers see patterns and permutations in complex datasets.
"The challenge of the computer vision work we're doing—and with a lot of real-world problems—is that it requires very fine-grain analysis," said Crandall. "We're not trying to distinguish cats from dogs or cars from pedestrians; we're trying to find very subtle differences in integrated circuits that might signal a problem. That's really the challenge: to bring techniques that have been successful in the last few years in consumer photography to this new field that has unique challenges."
Likewise, on the IUPUI campus, researchers are addressing unique AI challenges associated with autonomous vehicles (AVs). AVs are one of the most exciting and impactful areas of AI research. IU's Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) focuses on the research and development of sensing technologies for autonomous driving vehicles. They are applying computer vision, artificial intelligence, and data mining approaches in their work on recognition of vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, road environments, traffic flow, dangerous events, and potential accidents.
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Hunt ready for final meeting with Thurston
NRL.com
Thu 19 Jul 2018, 06:01 AM
St George Illawarra Dragons halfback Ben Hunt said the disappointing farewell season that Johnathan Thurston is enduring shouldn't take any of the sheen of his spectacular career.
Hunt, who will line up against the Thurston for the final time when the Dragons tackle the Cowboys at 1300Smiles Stadium on Saturday night, has nothing but admiration for what Thurston has achieved.
But that doesn't mean he isn't determined to add to that pain.
"Sadly for 'JT', 2018 hasn't gone to script. North Queensland won't make the finals, and he won't receive the fitting farewell he deserves," Hunt told this week's edition of Big League magazine.
"It's disappointing for him because he's such a champion of the game, and you want champions to go out on a high. At the same time, everyone knows how great of a player he is and what he's accomplished in his career.
"This season isn't going to have an impact on what people think of him as a player, and it certainly won't define his legacy.
"He's definitely in the top-three guys I've played with or against. He and Cameron Smith have been the best, while it was an amazing experience to say I played alongside Darren Lockyer at the Broncos.
"Sentiment aside, I've got to worry about the Dragons. We can't ignore the fact we've lost two games on the trot."
Hunt and the Dragons suffered a painful 20-16 loss to the Wests Tigers last weekend, a performance the Maroons and Test representative said was partly due to the fatigue and disruption caused by State of Origin football.
"We didn't play our best footy against the Tigers on Sunday, and we've got to fix our season up now. That starts against JT up in Townsville," he said.
"I don't want to use it as an excuse, but you've got to put our recent losses down to Origin.
"We've only had two sessions in the past month-and-a-bit where we've had everyone on deck.
"It changes the way we play games because you can't prepare as well as you should every week, you don't have as many sessions as you should, and as a result, everything hasn't been as crisp as it was earlier in the year."
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If you serve lots of (small) files with Lighttpd you might notice you're not getting the throughput you would expect. Other factors (such as latencies because of the random read patterns ) aside, a real show stopper is the stat() system call, which is a blocking system call ( no parallelism ). Some clever guys thought of a way to solve this : a fastcgi program that does a stat(), so when it returns Lighty doesn't have to wait because the stat information will be in the Linux cache. And in the meanwhile your Lighty thread can do other stuff.
This is explained on the HowtoSpeedUpStatWithFastcgi page on the Lighty wiki.
Now, for Netlog we needed to add some http headers ( Cache-Control: max-age, ETag, Expires and Last-Modified ) so we patched up the code a bit to do that, and a bit of other stuff.
Edited by darix to support controlling thread count at runtime.
Edited by poison and Dieter_be to support some http headers derived from the files.
Please do not remove any of the above.
fcgi-stat-accel will use the PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN environment variable to set the thread count.
The default value, if spawned from lighttpd, is 20.


Tip: You can purchase sliced almonds and toast them in a 250° oven until browned and toasted (takes about 10 minutes) or you can use salted almonds, coarsely chopped. Cashews are also very tasty!
In heavy sauce pan, melt butter. Add sugar, water, and syrup. Stir continuously over medium heat until the candy reaches 300° F. If you don't get the candy hot enough, it turns out more like fudge than almond roca. Also good, but not quite the same.
TIP: If you don't have a candy thermometer, heat the candy until it turns a dark toffee color, gets an oily sheen, and all starts to move as one in the pan.
TIP: Keep a couple of spoons handy and switch one out for the other while stirring. I have burned a few spoons making this!
Remove from heat. Add the almonds and pour onto a buttered cookie sheet. If you want to top with chocolate, sprinkle the chips over top while the candy is still hot.
Once cooled, break into pieces and store in an airtight container in a cool place (but not in the fridge).
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Looks delicious. I like to make candy for the holidays instead of cookies.
I do too. It's the only time of year I do it so it just seems a bit more special.
Thanks! It is hard to keep around!
Glad we could help – you and your gym!
Whenever I watch shows like Top Chef, I always think about how I can't actually judge the food by any of its important qualities besides appearance, and am just taking the judges' word for it (unlike in other silly competition shows like, say, Project Runway or American Idol, where viewers can judge for themselves). Always seemed a bit odd. But I'm happy to take your word for it on the crunch and the smell, and by appearance alone this candy looks delish! I think it's a winner.
Thanks! And that's so true.


Euisoptera was named by Engel et al. (2009). It is extant.
It was assigned to Isoptera by Engel et al. (2009); and to Isoptera by Krishna et al. (2013).
Termes (Eutermes) was named by Heer (1849).
It was reranked as Eutermes by Scudder (1890), Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Engel and Krishna (2005); it was considered a nomen dubium by Krishna et al. (2013).
It was assigned to Termes by Heer (1849); to Termitinae by Nel and Paicheler (1993); and to Termitidae by Scudder (1890) and Engel and Krishna (2005).
Termes (Eutermes) debilis was named by Heer (1849). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is East Africa Copal (Zurich Univ. coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.
It was recombined as Microcerotermes debilis by Snyder (1949); it was recombined as Eutermes debilis by Engel and Krishna (2005); it was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Krishna et al. (2013).
Termes rutoti was named by Meunier (1900). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Léau amber, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in Belgium.
2009 Euisoptera Engel et al.
2013 Euisoptera Krishna et al.


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Bayern Munich seal record fourth consecutive Bundesliga title
By FourFourTwo Staff 07 May 2016
Victory over Ingolstadt saw Bayern Munich crowned Bundesliga champions for a fourth-straight season.
Bayern Munich have become the first team to win four Bundesliga titles in a row following Saturday's victory over Ingolstadt.
Pep Guardiola's team only required a draw to all-but seal the title at Audi-Sportpark, but Robert Lewandowski scored a first-half brace to hand them a 2-1 success - their 27th win in 33 league outings this season.
Bayern started the season with a 5-0 hammering of Hamburg and went on to win their opening 10 games, dropping points for the first time with a draw at Eintracht Frankfurt in late October.
The champions have lost just twice all season in the league - Borussia Monchengladbach and Mainz pulling off shocks in December and March.
However, despite Borussia Dortmund putting up a valiant fight, Bayern were never in any real danger of relinquishing their crown.
Guardiola's final Bundesliga game in charge before his departure to Manchester City sees Hannover visit the Allianz Arena next weekend, before Bayern look to wrap up the domestic double with a DFB-Pokal final win over Dortmund on May 21.