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These beautiful kunzite specimens are partially terminated kunzite crystals with pale lavender-pink natural color. Some of these kunzite crystals have natural shades of yellow. Each piece is 100% natural - they have not been heated or treated in any way. They were mined in Afghanistan, and they make great specimens of natural gem-grade kunzite just as they are. Each piece has transparent areas inside and could be ground and polished into beautiful lightly included gemstones as well. These natural kunzite pieces are also very popular for metaphysical uses - kunzite is said to help heal "broken hearts", and to also relieve stress and anger! We sell these gem-grade kunzite pieces in bulk priced by the kilogram with a one kilogram minimum order. One kilogram of this material has approximately 60 kunzite crystals, so the average cost for each kunzite crystal is less than $10 each!
These superior grade specimens of natural beryl (variety: aquamarine) were mined in Bahia, Brazil. They are translucent to semi-transparent, and their color is a pale blue-green (100% natural color - they have not been heated or treated in any way). These untreated aquamarine pieces are great as inexpensive mineral specimens, and they are perfect for metaphysical purposes as well - aquamarine is said to release anger and negativity replacing them with mental peace and clarity, providing emotional balance. These aquamarine specimens are also said to give courage and to assist in self-expression. We sell these natural aquamarine pieces in bulk, priced by the pound with a 30 pound minimum order. The average size aquamarine piece is about one pound! These aquamarine pieces can easily be broken up into smaller size aquamarine specimens if neccessary.
These beautiful peridot specimens are partially terminated small pieces with rich green natural color. Each piece is 100% natural - they have not been heated or treated in any way. They were mined in Pakistan, and they make great specimens of natural gem-grade peridot just as they are. Each piece has transparent areas and could be ground and polished into beautiful lightly included gemstones as well. These natural peridot pieces are also very popular for metaphysical uses - peridot is said to bring healing and vitality to the whole body! We sell these natural peridot pieces in bulk quantity priced by the gram, with a 200 gram minimum order.
These natural topaz specimens are partially terminated small pieces with very pale blue natural color! Each of these pale blue topaz specimens is 100% natural and untreated - they have not been heated or treated in any way. They were mined in Minas Gerais, Brazil. They make great specimens of natural gem-grade blue topaz just as they are, although each piece has transparent areas inside and could be ground & polished into beautiful lightly included gemstones as well. They also are very popular today for metaphysical use - topaz is said to be a strong healing and rejuvenating mineral, giving good health and protection against many diseases. Blue topaz is also said to enhance one's communicative abilities, helping to more easily and clearly express oneself.
These gem-grade topaz pieces are sold by weight. A 2 gram piece measures about 1/2 inch long, and a 10 gram piece measures about one inch long. We do have larger pieces of this natural blue topaz in stock weighing up to 500 grams which can be included with your bulk order. We sell these natural color blue topaz pieces in bulk, priced by the gram with a 500 gram minimum order.
These natural color specimens of blue kyanite in quartz were found in Brazil. They are completely natural with beautiful untreated blue color. We have these natural blue kyanite in quartz matrix specimens available in small to medium sizes that are ideal for metaphysical uses - kyanite is said to be very usefull in broadening one's perspective, and in reaching a better understanding with others. Kyanite is also said to bring calm and tranquility, and to facilitate meditation.
These natural blue kyanite in quartz specimens also are perfect for mineral collections. We sell these blue kyanite in quartz matrix specimens in bulk, priced by the pound with a 50 pound minimum order.
These beautiful pieces of natural color green fuchsite mica were found in Brazil. They are completely natural with shiny brilliance and amazing bright silvery-green color. They are completely natural and have not been heated or treated in any way. These natural fuchsite mica specimens are rich in chromium which gives them their beautiful green color. These natural color green chromium mica specimens are ideal for metaphysical uses - fuchsite is said to greatly enhance the body's ability to heal itself! These natural fuchsite specimens also are perfect as inexpensive mineral specimens of natural chromium rich muscovite (known to mineralogists as the muscovite variety: fuchsite). We sell these fuchsite mica specimens in bulk, priced by the pound with a 50 pound minimum order.
One of our best sellers! These lithium-rich lepidolite mica pieces have lovely pale lavender to light purple color and a "book-like" or "plate-like" form. They are very popular for metaphysical purposes and also as mineral specimens. We sell these natural lepidolite mica pieces in bulk by the pound with a 50 pound minimum order. There is an average of approximately 10 pieces per pound.
These natural color pieces of blue aventurine quartz lapidary grade rough have a light grayish-blue matrix with intense blue lines that form very interesting and unique patterns. The beautiful colors are best seen when this material is polished, or when wet. In its natural dry state this rough has a light grayish blue color - when wet or polished the beautiful blue colors really stand out! This lapidary grade blue aventurine quartz yields beautiful spheres, slabs, carvings, and cabochon gems. These superior grade lapidary rough pieces also make great mineral specimens of natural color blue aventurine quartz just as they are. This blue aventurine quartz is very popular for metaphysical use - it is said to help release toxins from the body while increasing stamina, and it is said to help bring new opportunities while promoting a general sense of well-being with a positive attitude. Try placing a few pieces in your yard or garden!
Our natural blue aventurine quartz is spectacular when placed in a garden or when used in fountains, landscaped waterfalls, pool areas, aquariums, etc... where the beautiful natural blue color is so amazing when these rough pieces get wet!
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Assorted sizes of natural magnetite specimens containing at least 85% massive magnetite with minor accessory minerals. Each of these natural iron ore mineral specimens has such a high concentration of magnetite that a magnet will actually stick to its surface! We have these natural magnetite specimens available for large volume bulk orders in sizes weighing from 1 pound up to 20 pounds each, with a minimum order of 300 pounds. These natural magnetite pieces are ideal for metaphysical uses. They also are great as iron ore mineral specimens and as natural magnetite specimens. They can be broken up into smaller sizes for very inexpensive classroom study samples and scientific use.
We also have larger size single magnetite boulders weighing up to 500 pounds each piece! These huge decorator specimens of natural magnetetite are available by special order, simply contact us by email for details.
Be sure to contact us by email if you have any questions regarding: natural bulk magnetite iron ore.
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They also are perfect for inexpensive science classroom study for geology & mineralogy educational purposes. They make wonderful mineral specimens for personal collections as well as being ideal for metaphysical use.
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I especially enjoyed the musical rendering of Malachi 3 and reminding me about the "refiner's fire" was appropriate for me. I spent some time explaining refiner's fire to Chase and I was surprised at how easily he grasped the concept of God's purification through trials sometimes. View the video below.
View our Advent devotions for Day 3 and Day 1 with the accompanying Messiah videos.


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Back in the 1880s, one super-fan of baseball named Henry Lucas decided there should be more sporting options in St. Louis, and so he started his own team. In fact, he started his own baseball league to compete with the National League and the American Association. Thus was born the Union Association League and The...
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There was a time when, if a steamboat sank or exploded, as they often did on the Mississippi, nothing could be done to recover the wreckage. But in 1842, an industrious man named James Eads found a way to change all of that and to build his fortune in the process by inventing a diving bell. Just press play to hear the...
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The 1904 World's Fair had many wonders, and it brought over sixty countries from around the world to showcase their technologies and their cultures in Forest Park. One of the most popular exhibits was the Chinese Pavilion, a huge structure modeled after a summer palace in China. Prince Pulun, the heir apparent of China,...
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In the later part of the nineteenth century, shipping was very much a nightmare. Samuel Cupples and his business partner Robert Brookings were tired of moving their goods to far away rail yards before they could even be put on trains. In 1894, they came up with the revolutionary idea of building warehouses right above...
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Marisha Wallace
Singer and actor Marisha Wallace is a Broadway and West End sensation, best known for starring in Something Rotten, Dreamgirls, Waitress and currently taking on the role of Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray!
She's topped the music charts with her cover of Annie's Tomorrow, released at the peak of the pandemic to raise funds for performers out of work and been playlisted on Radio 2 with her singles and subsequent album Tomorrow. Releasing a brand new EP in the summer of 2021, Soul of the Stage is a four-song collection of hits from musicals, including Hairspray's I Know Where I've Been. On September 24th, Marisha will be taking her album and EP around the UK with the Tomorrow Tour.
Marking her TV debut in 2021, Marisha starred in season two of Netflix's Feel Good alongside Mae Martin, Lisa Kudrow and Eve and in CBBC's Almost Never where she played a radio executive. This added to an already incredible 12 months for Marisha where she fronted a Charlotte Tilbury campaign, performed on This Morning to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride, had Radio 2's Album of the Week, performed on Strictly Come Dancing, released her EP and sang for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show.
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No job is too big or too small, you'll be our front line support, responsible for communicating the daily status of the job, identifying problems, developing relationships with vendors, being cost conscious, and working with Project Managers to ensure the jobs are built on schedule to the One27Homes standard. Additionally, you will utilize your strong customer service skills to walk our customers through sign-off, answering any questions and ensuring an overall positive experience.
Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@theriverwildteam.com. In your cover letter paint us a picture of why you are the perfect candidate for this role. Also be sure to include why you want to work for One27Homes. Candidates who do not adhere to these instructions will not be considered.


Predictive maintenance lowers cost, while improving performance.
A global supplier of security inks and related solutions provides service contracts on its equipment at client sites around the world. They adopted robust maintenance processes, with on-site technicians and a preventive maintenance schedule to meet stringent customer Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets for production volumes.
Their schedule-based preventive maintenance program achieved SLA targets, however it was not sustainable. The cost, time and effort to support customer SLA targets eroded margins; unplanned downtime adversely impacted operational efficiencies; and protocols were not easily scalable due to the dependency on human expertise at the customer sites.
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If you are given printed prescriptions, it is most helpful if you hand in the tear off slip for a repeat prescription but if you find it necessary to telephone please quote your name, address and date of birth. Telephone requests can be taken Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 11.00am and 2.00pm and 5.00pm.
Prescriptions can also be ordered on-line. If you would like to order your prescription on-line please call into the surgery with photographic ID and ask one of the Reception team to register you for this service. Within 1 hour of registration you will be able to book appointments on line and order prescriptions on line.
Please allow 2 working days for all prescription requests.
The following chemists operate a prescription collection service:- Boots, Lloyds, Shadforths (High Street), Alliance (Queens Park) and Day Lewis (South Green). If you wish to use this service please advise when requesting your prescription.
Please note that you will need to book an appointment with your GP before your next review date expires. Please check your review dates before you place your next repeat prescription request. (Review dates can be found on the tear off slip of your last prescription).
Since 13th November 2014, the Practice has offered the Electronic Prescription Service.
If you have a regular repeat prescription you will be asked to nominate a pharmacy that we can send your prescription to. In most cases this will already be recorded on our system and our Receptionists will ask you to confirm and consent to this. Your regular pharmacy may also ask you to sign a nomination form on their behalf. You will order your repeat prescription in the normal manner but instead of us producing a paper prescription we will send your order directly and electronically to the pharmacy of your choice. You can change your dedicated pharmacy at any time and you can still request to collect a paper prescription from the surgery whenever you wish.
If you do not have regular medication and only receive a prescription now and again when you visit the Doctor you will, initially, receive the prescription in the same way. However, in the future, the Doctor will ask you to nominate a pharmacy at your consultation and they will then electronically send the prescription for you. This means that when you call at the pharmacy they will hold the prescription in electronic format and will open it and then dispense it for you.
If you are on a controlled drug, the prescription will not be sent electronically and will still be produced on a paper format. If you have both controlled drugs and usual medication please remember to tell the pharmacist that there could be two separate prescriptions waiting for you.
If you have a prescription for an appliance, i.e. stoma appliance, this will also be produced in paper format and we can still send this to your supplier of choice. They will also ask you to complete a nomination form on their behalf.
If you have any questions in regard to the new process please do not hesitate to contact one of the receptionists or the Practice Manager.


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Ebola Test Gives False Negatives
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Why It's Important to Do Multiple Tests On Suspected Ebola Victims Before Releasing Them
Newsweek notes:
On July 15, Omeonga's boss walked into his office at St. Joseph Catholic Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia full of worry. The hospital director told Omeonga he had shaken hands with a man who was later diagnosed with Ebola, and now he was feeling ill—the director had been vomiting, had a headache, and was running a high fever. But two days later, when the diagnostic test came back negative, that worry was banished, and Omeonga and his colleagues began caring for the director as they would a typhoid or malaria patient. "We wore gloves, but we were not very strict at all."
A week later, the director's symptoms got worse, and he was tested again. This time, it came back positive for Ebola—the first test was a false negative [i.e. the test erroneously showed that the person did not have Ebola, when he did]. Suddenly, everyone who had cared for him was a possible Ebola case. The hospital became a quarantine zone. The director died on August 2, the same day Omeonga began to feel sick. Of the 20 health workers who had been in contact with him during that week, 15 came down with Ebola a short while later, including Omeonga. Nine of Omeonga's colleagues died. He and five others survived.
It's not just tests done in Africa which may be problematic …
According to American authorities, the PCR test is the "gold standard". As Emory University notes:
The gold standard of testing for the Ebola virus in the United States is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) RT-PCR assay, which was used by Emory physicians in deciding when to discharge two patients from Emory University Hospital.
CDC Director Tom Friedan said last week:
Testing for Ebola is highly accurate. It's a PCR test of blood.
But the Journal of Clinical Microbiology noted in 2002 that the PCR test can yield false negatives for viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola:
A confirmation by PCR would have been missed if we had not tested a duplicate sample.
And the U.S. Department of Defense noted in August (on page 2):
The possibility of a false negative result should especially be considered if the patient's recent exposures or clinical presentation indicate that Ebola Zaire virus infection is likely, and diagnostic tests for other causes of hemorrhagic illness are negative.
It is essential that Ebola tests be run more than once before any suspected Ebola victims are released.
See this for more life-saving tips for healthcare authorities, administrators and doctors.
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Claire And Her Chair
Forbes Woman Africa
There is not much to do in the quiet village of Simon's Town, Cape Town, best known as where South Africa's naval fleet lies. It is the sort of home where you go fishing, walking on the beach, or else watching the penguins waddle onshore. It's the sort of place where a news headline is a handful of break-ins over Christmas.
That's just the way journalist Claire Robertson, 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and a South African Literary Award author of The Spiral House and The Magistrate of Gower, likes it.
"It feels like you are hiding away from life here, but then you write a book and you get dragged back into life," she says.
"It shocked me rigid with all the attention… I thought I am not selling my writing to anyone anymore. I am writing for myself. I started doing that in my journalism, instead of writing the news story.
"A news story is Nelson Mandela made his long-awaited return to Robben Island yesterday, this time surrounded by a company of international news media. The real story is we trailed him around the island, and when we got to the quarry that had damaged his eyesight, where he worked for so many years breaking stones and the reporters yelled out 'dance for us'. You saw him sigh and sink slightly and then he started his shuffle into this expected shosholoza dance. That is actually what happened. When you get old enough you start writing it."
Meeting Robertson at her home, on the slopes of Jackson Road, is a real treat. We sit under the shade of a grape vine with sunbirds flitting through the leaves to the sounds of dustbin men at work.
For the 54-year-old, standing at the edge of the gentle lapping shoreline of Waters Edge Beach, a few hundred meters downhill from here, was the defining moment that led her to abandon the stressful urban streets of Melville, Johannesburg, five years ago.
"[Melville] was getting tough to go walk around at any time of the day or night, which is what I like to do. It was getting less and less safe. You know that feeling when your freedom is being curtailed in South Africa. Certainly everyone has a bloody minded moment and you can't bear being hemmed in. I thought I wanted to find a place that I can walk at any time of the day, and it was here."
The quiet life here is a world away from the height of Robertson's career as a hard news political journalist in the 1980s.
"To be a reporter during the height of the dying days of apartheid in South Africa was the greatest privilege in my personal profession. There was nothing like it. Every story mattered," she says.
Some stories where harder to write than others, one of them being the reclassification of races which under The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Act, had denied families living together.
"Already as a young person you are trembling at the injustices of the world. Meanwhile you are working in a society where this is just being thrown at you all the time. Following that through to watching a country talk about how it is going to shape itself," she says.
"Then you are reporting something like the Dutch Reformed Church not allowing black people to join in a service. They would open the [priest's] garage for the services and shove the old tyres aside as a Christian duty."
Other stories send a chill down Robertson's spine on this hot Simon's Town morning.
"I remember meeting with the commandant in the Pretoria Central prison and hearing this unearthly singing. And he said 'oh, that it was condemned men singing on the night before they are due to be hanged'. I remember shaking."
Robertson lived the reshaping of South Africa; she cradled her firstborn daughter the day Nelson Mandela walked out of prison; she also covered the negotiations at Kempton Park which led to South Africa's Constitution.
These days, it's the calm of Simon's Town. Robertson, the novelist, has just come back from a walk on the beach with her Scottish terrier, Henry, and a family breakfast. Her mind is more focused on her third book. The Magistrate of Gower (2015) – a prisoner of war in the South African War, disgraced in an illicit affair, who is now forced to confront his past as a magistrate 30 years later – is sold out and is now in its second edition.
"It's about the rise of nationalism and what is the response when you see it rearing its head again. It's very seductive. It takes the good that people have, in this instance the noble suffering during the Boer War and heroes of the Great Trek, it takes part of that and twists it into something else, which is what happened in Afrikaner Nationalism."
It is rare to find an award-winning author who doesn't punt their novel with pride. But Robertson's pride is a small wooden chair in her lounge, finished by her own hand.
"It''s quite comfortable actually and it's made from some very cheap wood. I wanted to test out the design before I made one from oak. I am quite happy to say that no one has broken it yet either."
She points to a wall of saws and power tools, glinting in the skylight, where the chair, two book shelves and a wardrobe were crafted by her from lumps of wood; a hobby she picked up at her parents' knee.
Included in this home of self-made furniture is a portable writing board; filled with scribbles and doodles, one reading 'push towards the problem', and a sticker of a porcupine.
"It's something prickly, that's low slung who is just determinately going about on his way."
Only a journalist would feel the need to say they write their stories longhand, like it's a bad habit picked up after years of writing shorthand.
"I get lovely notebooks and sit down and write it in longhand. If you start by typing it out you are going to keep correcting yourself, you lose all your momentum and you have no record of your ideas. Things have to be aesthetically pleasing."
"What I do is start with an idea. With The Spiral House, what was it like on a South Africa slave plantation when these two ideas of science and enlightenment are clashing. It was told through a French naturalist in my head, but what it became was a young female freed slave, whose voice spoke out."
Robertson has always gone for the road less traveled. She was one of the first South Africans to go to Soviet Russia on a South African passport in 1988. The trip came after one of Robertson's stories published in The Washington Post. She asked American teenagers what they thought Russia looked like, and Russian teens, in Moscow, what they thought America looked like. The newspaper liked the story so much they nominated it for a Pulitzer.
"You could see the world was changing. You could see that the ANC was starting to talk to people in South Africa. We thought lets just try it."
"One thing that stuck, was in Leningrad, on one of the big roads, there was a department store. There in this glass case, enfolded in red satin, was a single disposible razor. It loooked like it had been carved out of a lump of Bakelite.
"it shocked me rigid with all the attention… I thought I am not selling my writing to anyone anymore. I am writing for myself"
"They could build space rockets, and amazing awful armaments, but they could not bring a milk Glut and the cereal Glut to the market at the same time. Everything was just screwed up. It was that kind of economy. People wanted consumerist stuff so badly they would spend a fortune on American jeans and sneakers."
Her journey through the Siberian tundra also foreshadowed where she would end up.
"I found recently an old diary from the late 80s. I said what do I want to do? I want to live by the sea, sub-edit and then write. I had completely forgotten about that. Having got down, unpacked my books to discover I wrote this blissful thing. Clearly I was working this through my system."
Working on her first novel, through the night at her brother's home overlooking the sea in Kalk Bay was also an existential moment.
"I remember the book going so well and being so wrapped up in the book. It was suddenly four in the morning. I was working furiously away at my laptop and I heard this guguguggugug, it was the fishing boats heading out before dawn. When you have made a big change in life, and things are uncertain, and you don't know how things go, it feels like you are getting some form of confirmation. If you are working and the fishermen are working."
It has been a long journey to a favorite chair in Simon's Town, from the raging streets of Africa, to walking with Mandela, to a razor in Leningrad.
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Online auctions are gaining popularity, but the traditionalists are still sold on the idea of live auctions that guarantee a good show, with emotions and bids running high.
In an industrialized area approximately 30 minutes from Sandton, the commercial hub of Johannesburg, is a shining fleet of trucks, parked and ready to be sold to the highest bidder.
The sun reflects off the windshields in the direction of the registered bidders as they sit under red outdoor umbrellas at the entrance of the property.
Some opt for refreshments, while others make small talk with their competition.
A man uses this time to make phone calls to a mechanic, who discourages him from making a regrettable bid on a "non-runner".
He runs towards the towering fleet of trucks, where he joins the eager buyers as they take a final peek before the auction begins.
We are at Aucor Auctioneers' popular commercial auction, at their head office in Midrand.
After spending four hours traveling to Johannesburg from Nelspruit (in South Africa's Mpumalanga Province), for the auction, Charles Malibe gets into a heated bidding war that lasts no longer than a minute but is packed with plenty of fervent action.
Charles Malibe in a heated bidding war for a truck. Picture: Gypseenia Lion
It is noon and an overjoyed Malibe has just won a R465,000 ($32,401) bid on a second-hand truck.
"I attended my first auction three years ago. Sometimes you get it wrong and sometimes you get the right stuff at the right price. It is good to be exposed to new things. I went to Durban once, but I did not get anything there. It was not a waste. It is not only about getting things, it gives you exposure," he says.
As Malibe heads back to Nelspruit, the auctioneer remains chanting until the last vehicle is sold, with the crowd getting smaller with each purchase.
Wasim Babamia, Aucor Auctioneers' multimedia consultant, manages the national marketing for the 51-year-old auctioneering company.
Digitalization has disrupted traditional norms of advertising, and has made the industry more accessible for both buyers and sellers.
"Selling any asset boils down to supply and demand. The advantage of buying in an auction is cutting out the middleman, saving that money and getting something of real top value," he says.
Wasim Babamia, Aucor Auctioneers' multimedia consultant. Picture: Gypseenia Lion
Marketing the call to action remains a vital component for the business.
"Social media has to be on point when we market a particular auction," Babamia says.
Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn are some of the biggest platforms, apart from the traditional pamphlets and website advertising strategies.
According to Babamia, online bidding has pulled in more numbers over the past four years.
He sees a rapid transformation in the auctions landscape in the foreseeable future.
According to a South African Institute of Auctioneers (SAIA) report, Gauteng is the highest province of interest with over 6,000 potential buyers (for all kinds of auctions including residential properties, retail vehicles, jewelry and collectables) on its website, while the Northern Cape is the lowest with just over 1,000 buyers.
The traditional means of auctioning have had to make way for digital platforms that have been steadily increasing over the last decade.
SAIA records close to 100,000 visitors to online auctions in 2010; the first half of 2019 is already at 400,000 visitors.
Last year's record 600,000 visitors reflect that the online market could be just as lucrative as the live auctions.
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As the state of the South African economy remains uncertain, Babamia suggests that auctioneering will always provide a cheaper option to consumers.
An industry that has been in existence for more than 2,000 years continues to grow despite its many iterations over the years.
Ancient Greek records on auctions dating as far back as 500BC show women were auctioned off to become wives.
Auctions were popular for family estates and the selling of war plunder in Rome.
As a result of the great depression in the 1900s, the United States opened auction schools to generate income as businesses and individuals needed to liquidate assets to withstand the economic crisis.
In recent times, market trends have changed dramatically to adapt to socioeconomic norms.
A shift to online auctioneering has been a great development and contributor to the fluid industry.
Orbis Research reports that the global online auction market is expected to grow during the period 2018-2022 with a 7.2% compound annual growth rate.
"Another major trend witnessed in the online auction is the immense impact of artificial intelligence (AI). AI's main role in an online auction is to perform different tasks such as processing internal operations, customer-service inquiries, delivery and product packaging. In the last years, AI has instigated a gradual shift, from conventional auction to online auction," the report states.
The increase in sales of art-based goods through online auctions is a key market driver.
Traditional live auctions, however, are still a preferred option for bargain-hunters, despite the global steer towards digitalization.
This is according to fine art specialist Luke Crossley who manages Stephan Welz & Co. in the affluent northern suburb of Johannesburg, Houghton Estate.
Fine art specialist Luke Crossley who manages Stephan Welz & Co. Picture: Gypseenia Lion
Moving to simpler models will improve the industry by providing a greater competitive edge, he says.
"There is a growing interest and understanding of auctions across a broad section of people where, maybe, a couple of decades ago it was seen as just for the very rich people doing very rich things.
"People are realizing that it is a great way of finding weird and beautiful objects, artwork and furniture at quite reasonable prices," he says.
The increase of auction houses in South Africa offers a variety to buyers and sellers, with SAIA having 80,546 members registered by April 2019. As a result, the art and design market is at an advantage.
"The South African art market on auction is always evolving and broadening. The importance to history and art history is being realized and there is a growing interest and demand for these. It is encouraging a lot of the younger artists working with galleries to look at the history and heritage of artistic practice in this country," Crossley says.
"With growing appreciation for South African and African art overseas, a couple of international houses based in England regularly do sales of more historical work. The audience overseas means a lot for the artists, the country and the future."
Selling or buying art on auction engages the audience as well as the creator.
"The gallery, thus, becomes the primary market where young artists can build their careers; whereas auctions and private individuals with a passion for art can sell work they own, re-invest in other artists, or buy.
'South Africans Love Martyrs'
The first 100 days of any presidency are often harshly scrutinized as they set the tone for what citizens expect. South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa is under the magnifying glass as all await his next tactical move.
At the end of May, South Africa's sixth democratically-elected president, Cyril Ramaphosa, took an oath of office at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria. In his speech, he touched on many issues that resonate with South Africans, including corruption, poverty, equality and youth unemployment.
These burning matters prelude what is to be expected from him in his first 100 days in office.
Ramaphosa's period at the helm of power (before the elections) has been typified by repeated calls for a 'New Dawn'. It seems the man who made it to the 2019 Time magazine list of 100 Most Influential in the world has a laundry list of issues to attend to if he is to set the tone for the rest of his presidency.
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The challenge that has deeply affected how South Africans and investors view the country is that of corruption.
"Let us forge a compact for an efficient, capable and ethical state, a state that is free of corruption, for companies that generate social value and propel human development… We must be a society that values excellence, rewards effort and rejects mediocrity," Ramaphosa said at his inauguration on May 25.
In the first 100 days, analysts say he needs to demonstrate he is a proactive leader; one who takes decisive action to address the plight of those who live in a society as unequal as South Africa. The gaping chasm between the richest and poorest has widened since the end of apartheid 25 years ago. This information is not lost on citizens whose lived experiences and disenchantment were in evidence during the elections.
A specialist in social economic development and political commentator, Kim Heller, is of the view that Ramaphosa has some way to go to address the resolutions of his party, the African National Congress (ANC).
"There are critical social maladies that need to be treated with the urgency they deserve… One of the key things people are looking for is a decisive man and decisive leadership," she says.
Political analyst, Prince Mashele, ventures: "He is yet to act on resolutions because he is navigating complex political infighting in the ANC, which is why he can't move boldly and faster…"
Economic transformation has been seen to also imply redistribution of the means of production, which currently has been reiterated in the call for land redistribution without compensation. This is among the duties citizens and investors will keep a close eye on as it is a contentious matter.
Leading up to the elections, Ramaphosa said to apprehensive farmers, "the land reform process is something we should never fear. It is going to be done in terms of the constitution".
Heller says that, "the question of land is unresolved, despite very solid ANC resolutions from branches, and despite extensive consultation".
The president will to have to choose whether he wants to be investor-friendly or whether he wants the interests of his own political party to find expression in policy.
"The investors have become the supreme branch of the ANC. So Ramaphosa certainly, is spending a lot of time on their concerns rather than ordinary people…," Heller says.
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Mashele echoes: "He has been a market-friendly president. He has railed against his comrades calling for the nationalization of the [South African] Reserve Bank".
Another matter influencing investment into the country is red tape that inhibits instead of encouraging business. South Africa dropped from 34 out of 181 countries on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business ranking in 2009 to 82 out of 192 countries last year, leaving the country trailing its African peers, including Mauritius (20), Rwanda (29) and Kenya (61).
In his address to the nation, Ramaphosa continued with the mantra thuma mina (which means 'send me') and committed to continue to build South Africa. In his rebuilding, he will have to take a closer look at the factors that infringe on those looking to conduct business while straddling the line in ensuring that (natural) resources are not further depleted while failing to trickle down to those who need it the most.
Heller is of the view that the expectations created by the president serve as a double-edged sword: "Some quarters have built him up to be the Messiah we have all been waiting for. He may have embraced that but it's actually going to damage him. Because there is no individual who can save this country without looking at doing serious things in terms of economic restructuring… Until we address structural issues in this country, shifting the economy to favor ordinary people, not markets, we actually aren't very benevolent."
Also affecting business has been the view that South Africa is amongst the most corrupt on the continent and viewed as one of the murder capitals of the world. The Zondo Commission has illustrated the stark reality of the malfeasance the president will have to address to change these perceptions and in so doing, hold high-profile individuals accountable.
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In line with building an equal society, the president made mention of the prevalence of violence against women at his inauguration.
"Let us end the dominion that men claim over women, the denial of opportunity, the abuse and the violence, the neglect, and the disregard of each person's equal rights. Let us build a truly non-racial society, one that belongs to all South Africans, and in which all South Africans belong. Let us build a society that protects and values those who are vulnerable and who for too long have been rendered marginal," Ramaphosa said.
Leading up to the resolution of the president's first 100 days in office, the public is watching with bated breath.
"I pity him. He's made big promises on housing and unemployment. Those are not going to magically change overnight. The problem with South Africa is that we love martyrs and here we have a president that we have martyred and who is actually going to fall on that. To replace one man with another, is not going to replace problematic policies, poor implementation and poor conceptualization of economic solutions. So I think in the next 100 days, I don't expect to see anything unless the fundamentals are changed," Heller says.
No doubt, it is going to take a concerted effort from all institutions, including those that have been revealed to be compromised. The first 100 days will certainly determine the rest of the president's term in office.
Lifting The Heavy Veil On Wedding Costs
Melitta Ngalonkulu
With pockets as deep as gold mines, how far are couples willing to go to have the picture-perfect luxe wedding?
The lagoons overlook the snow-white beaches with its swaying coconut trees, embraced by the turquoise waters of the sea in the island nation of Mauritius. It's a scene straight out of a movie, with a couple cavorting in the distance.
Over 100 guests from South Africa have also gathered on these sands for the weekend wedding of businessman Lebo Gunguluza and his long-term girlfriend Lebo Mokoena.
The total cost of this union: almost $300,000.
"I didn't mind exceeding the budget, because you only do this once," says new bride Mokoena.
The couple flew over 30 guests and provided them with five-star accommodation at the LUX* Grand Gaube. Part of the guest contingency included the behind-the-scenes crew for the wedding, as well as the speakers who had to spend four to seven days in Mauritius to prep up.
"We did not want to have a local wedding because we wanted our guests and family to have a different experience. We also wanted our family members who did not have passports and have never flown out of the country to experience a different country," Gunguluza says.
Snow-white beaches of Mauritius. Picture: Supplied
The weekend celebrations started on a Friday last September with a cocktail meet-and-greet party. Belly dancers who were dressed in floral red and yellow danced the evening away with guests, with a local band taking them to the all-white party on Saturday.
This was just a build-up to the romantic wedding reception with shades of blush, ivory, and gold which was to take place on Sunday at 4PM.
"Every time I think about that day, I want to do it again," the new bride says.
The couple chose not to have bridesmaids and groomsmen and the guests were encouraged to dress in black and white.
"I didn't have bridesmaids because it makes you choose between your friends. I felt that if you got an invite to our wedding, you were worthy enough. So, we wanted everyone to be bridesmaids and groomsmen. I think we made it intimate and everybody felt like they were VIPs," says Mokoena.
Everything fit perfectly as the bride's two white wedding dresses were designed by Antherline Couture.
For the ceremony, she wore a white ball gown with a diamanté top heavily embellished with beads; while the groom looked dapper in a white tuxedo jacket designed by Master Suit SA.
The color white was indeed conspicuous.
"I have always felt that white is pure and because I was signing my life away, I felt I needed to be pure, hence I said my husband needed to wear white as well," she adds.
The lavish white wedding was organized by renowned wedding planner Precious Tumisho Thamaga who ditched her seven-year career in Public Relations & Marketing to become an event planner.
Thamaga organizes events and weddings for affluent clients such as the Gunguluzas.
"They are busy people and they don't have time to do the administration and the back and forth of vetting in suppliers," Thamaga says, as she takes over the pain of wedding planning.
Lebo Mokoena and Lebo Gunguluza (middle) with wedding guests in Mauritius. Picture: Supplied
While working in the corporate world, she had attended many weddings that she felt were put together in a way that created a disconnect between the guests and the wedding couple.
"So I saw an opportunity in the fact that there were not a lot of wedding planners that were black," Thamaga says.
She decided to focus on corporate clients in order to turn her passion into a profitable business.
"A lot of people did not expect a black person to be professional and take the business seriously.
"It was not just a hobby or someone helping out a family. It was an actual business and I made sure that I got taken seriously from the onset," Thamaga says.
In order for Precious Celebrations (the name of her company) to prosper, she had to have a business strategy in place.
"I made sure that I put a lot of time and effort and strategized properly what it was that I wanted to actually focus on, and find a niche [in]. I believed that would separate me from somebody that was already in the industry," Thamaga says.
However, her job is not always alluring.
Lebo Mokoena and Lebo Gunguluza's wedding in Mauritius. Picture: Supplied
"When I started in the industry there weren't so many wedding planners and now it is a different story and everyone thinks it is easy-peasy and it is glamorous," she says.
Planning a luxurious wedding takes eight to 12 months and can cost anywhere between R300,000 ($20,813) to R4.5 million ($312,203).
The most expensive wedding Thamaga planned was for a public figure she cannot disclose the name of.
"It was a destination wedding and the experience from when the guests arrived to the wedding day was memorable. When they arrived, we had a cocktail party and we had activities like canoeing and on Sunday we had an all-white party. [This is] so that people don't depart on Sunday and may leave on Monday."
Only the affluent sign up.
"The smallest wedding that I have had to plan had 80 people and it cost R2 million ($138,000)," Thamaga says.
She has turned away some clients in the past because their budget was insufficient for the type of wedding they envisioned.
Thamaga organizes 26 weddings, on average, annually, from countries such as Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Botswana and now she plans on taking her bespoke company global.
One of the unique aspects of her business is that she has maintained a good relationship with the suppliers she has in each country, and has kept her expenses to a minimum.
"The wedding planning-event planning industry is quite lucrative if you do it right. I am not the type that would have too much inventory because I want to feel like the inventory belongs to me; that would limit my creativity," she says.
"I make sure that I don't have a lot of expenses, I have coordinators that I have worked with for years and they have full-time jobs."
Thamaga's greatest challenge so far was whether or not to outsource other wedding planners when her business was increasing.
"It can be a bit daunting to realize that your business is growing," she says.
But she opted to remain boutique.
"I had to decide that it is not about the money. I am building an empire where I want a legacy and an ongoing relationship with my clients."
She involves her clients every step of the way to bring their vision to an unforgettable reality, and believes that weddings are expensive because of the growing aspirations of the young.
"It is not just in South Africa, it is worldwide," she says.
Despite the tangible costs of conducting these dream events, the wedding industry in South Africa is largely unregistered as it is a fluid market where services and costs are difficult to track and document accurately.
Fred Elu Eboka, a Nigerian designer who dresses delegates as well as the rich and famous. Picture: Supplied
Africans, no doubt, spend millions per year on costs associated with marital ceremonies. This is the reality of the unregistered wedding industry. Despite the recession and slow economic growth, the wedding industry continues to attract many entrepreneurs to its lucrative opportunities.
As, people never stop getting married.
The Marriages and Divorces report released by Statistics South Africa last May shows an upward trend in civil marriages. Civil marriages increased by 0.6%, from 138,627 marriages registered in 2015 to 139,512 in 2016.
A wedding dress is an important part of a celebration and the bridal couture market continues to show growth.
Wise Guy Reports Database Global Wedding Dress Market Insights, forecast to 2025, states: "The wedding market demand grows continually, and the wedding garments market has notable increase every year. In this case, the competition is also very intense among companies. The involved companies should seize the opportunities to expand the gold mine."
A previous client of Thamaga's has spent R200,000 ($13,876) on two wedding dresses and this is nothing for Fred Elu Eboka, a Nigerian designer who dresses delegates as well as the rich and famous.
He moved to South Africa in 1992 at a time when African designs were not being celebrated globally.
Twenty years ago, Eboka sold wedding dresses for R15,000 ($1,041) a piece, and now sells for R250,000 ($17,344) a piece, depending on the design.
"A designer of my caliber in South Africa is undersold because there are people in the United States selling wedding gowns for $250 and I am here selling them for maybe $80, it just doesn't make sense. It shows that our economy is really bad because a designer of my caliber should be operating on the same level as them, or very close," Eboka says.
He is a luxury designer.
"When you think of luxury, it is not just the product, it is not just the textile – it is the whole experience from when you drive in, to when you sit down and have the designer talk to you and learn about your life. The whole artistic process contributes to the cost value of the gown."
He says that the reason wedding gowns are expensive is because they are meant to be timeless pieces.
"Traditionally, wedding gowns are classical couture. It is not like the normal evening dress that you wear to look beautiful on one night. A wedding dress is like training for the Olympics. You train for them for the rest of your life," he says.
Eboka also says when designing a wedding gown, you need to take time to know the client, family and their fancies in order to meet the clients' need.
The material of the wedding gown is usually expensive because he sources the textiles from across the world, and he takes two to three months to create a gown, depending on the embellishments.
"My designs have a lot of artistry," he says.
Eboka is a wealthy man but he still believes that the industry is not as lucrative as it could be.
"But we do well, without being arrogant about it… You have to be fully aware of the industry and have the intellectual capacity to understand the potential of the market," he says.
Pictures are an important element of a wedding because they capture the moment for life.
International award-winning photographer Daniel West meets his clients in a restaurant so he can get to know them better and learn the history of their relationship.
"We, as photographers, need to click with each couple, it is actually vital because we are going to be in their space from the beginning to end.
"So, when we do not gel, we are going to find ourselves in an awkward situation on the day because we, as photographers, are also problem-solvers. We don't just take pictures on the day," West says.
His packages start from R18,000 ($1,248) to R60,000 ($4,163) and he says it is because the couple is paying for the quality of the work. His packages include waterproof genuine leather-bound photo albums that he says last a lifetime, as well as 500 images that are both edited and unedited. He also arranges the location for the photoshoots.
"It is more than about taking pictures on the day, anybody can take pictures but the work that I do has more of a boutique feel," he says.
"You pay to have something like this on the table that will last you a lifetime," West says.
He does not only take pictures on the day but the photoshoots can take up to three months.
"Each couple that I take pictures of has a different story and that is where I draw my inspiration."
West says that it takes a while for the business to get to a point that is profitable because photographic equipment is expensive.
"In the beginning, it is unfortunately not lucrative because you have to look into getting the equipment that is up to standard, however, it took me about seven years where I could get to a point that I could make a business out of it," West says.
International award-winning photographer Daniel West with his clients. Picture: Supplied
His annual turnover before expenses is R800,000 ($55,502) and he has about 25 clients a year.
He believes that the industry is regarded as valuable in South Africa and it is growing because people are becoming more enlightened about the photography industry. And social media has become an important motivator driving this industry.
"It is vital to have a good photographer for your wedding, because you as a bride are not quite educated of what is out there and what is not [in terms of photography]."
A good photographer needs to have foresight.
"The quality and charisma of your photographer is really one of the most important things you pay for because if something were to go wrong on your wedding, like rain, what does your photographer do? Do they stand back or make a plan?" he says.
Other luxe services associated with weddings include limos and chauffeur services, and florists, live music bands and gourmet caterers flown from around the world. The more money you are willing to throw, the more sparkling the champagne, crystal and caviar on the beach


text:
#include "precompiled.hpp"
#include "asm/assembler.hpp"
#include "assembler_sparc.inline.hpp"
#include "code/vtableStubs.hpp"
#include "interp_masm_sparc.hpp"
#include "memory/resourceArea.hpp"
#include "oops/instanceKlass.hpp"
#include "oops/klassVtable.hpp"
#include "runtime/sharedRuntime.hpp"
#include "vmreg_sparc.inline.hpp"
#ifdef COMPILER2
#include "opto/runtime.hpp"
#endif

// machine-dependent part of VtableStubs: create vtableStub of correct size and
// initialize its code

#define __ masm->

#ifndef PRODUCT
extern "C" void bad_compiled_vtable_index(JavaThread* thread, oopDesc* receiver, int index);
#endif

// Used by compiler only; may use only caller saved, non-argument registers
// NOTE:  %%%% if any change is made to this stub make sure that the function
//             pd_code_size_limit is changed to ensure the correct size for VtableStub
VtableStub* VtableStubs::create_vtable_stub(int vtable_index) {
  const int sparc_code_length = VtableStub::pd_code_size_limit(true);
  VtableStub* s = new(sparc_code_length) VtableStub(true, vtable_index);
  ResourceMark rm;
  CodeBuffer cb(s->entry_point(), sparc_code_length);
  MacroAssembler* masm = new MacroAssembler(&cb);

#ifndef PRODUCT
  if (CountCompiledCalls) {
    __ inc_counter(SharedRuntime::nof_megamorphic_calls_addr(), G5, G3_scratch);
  }
#endif /* PRODUCT */

  assert(VtableStub::receiver_location() == O0->as_VMReg(), "receiver expected in O0");

  // get receiver klass
  address npe_addr = __ pc();
  __ load_klass(O0, G3_scratch);

  // set methodOop (in case of interpreted method), and destination address
#ifndef PRODUCT
  if (DebugVtables) {
    Label L;
    // check offset vs vtable length
    __ ld(G3_scratch, instanceKlass::vtable_length_offset()*wordSize, G5);
    __ cmp_and_br_short(G5, vtable_index*vtableEntry::size(), Assembler::greaterUnsigned, Assembler::pt, L);
    __ set(vtable_index, O2);
    __ call_VM(noreg, CAST_FROM_FN_PTR(address, bad_compiled_vtable_index), O0, O2);
    __ bind(L);
  }
#endif

  __ lookup_virtual_method(G3_scratch, vtable_index, G5_method);

#ifndef PRODUCT
  if (DebugVtables) {
    Label L;
    __ br_notnull_short(G5_method, Assembler::pt, L);
    __ stop("Vtable entry is ZERO");
    __ bind(L);
  }
#endif

  address ame_addr = __ pc();  // if the vtable entry is null, the method is abstract
                               // NOTE: for vtable dispatches, the vtable entry will never be null.

  __ ld_ptr(G5_method, in_bytes(methodOopDesc::from_compiled_offset()), G3_scratch);

  // jump to target (either compiled code or c2iadapter)
  __ JMP(G3_scratch, 0);
  // load methodOop (in case we call c2iadapter)
  __ delayed()->nop();

  masm->flush();

  if (PrintMiscellaneous && (WizardMode || Verbose)) {
    tty->print_cr("vtable #%d at "PTR_FORMAT"[%d] left over: %d",
                  vtable_index, s->entry_point(),
                  (int)(s->code_end() - s->entry_point()),
                  (int)(s->code_end() - __ pc()));
  }
  guarantee(__ pc() <= s->code_end(), "overflowed buffer");
  // shut the door on sizing bugs
  int slop = 2*BytesPerInstWord;  // 32-bit offset is this much larger than a 13-bit one
  assert(vtable_index > 10 || __ pc() + slop <= s->code_end(), "room for sethi;add");

  s->set_exception_points(npe_addr, ame_addr);
  return s;
}

// NOTE:  %%%% if any change is made to this stub make sure that the function
//             pd_code_size_limit is changed to ensure the correct size for VtableStub
VtableStub* VtableStubs::create_itable_stub(int itable_index) {
  const int sparc_code_length = VtableStub::pd_code_size_limit(false);
  VtableStub* s = new(sparc_code_length) VtableStub(false, itable_index);
  ResourceMark rm;
  CodeBuffer cb(s->entry_point(), sparc_code_length);
  MacroAssembler* masm = new MacroAssembler(&cb);

  Register G3_klassOop = G3_scratch;
  Register G5_interface = G5;  // Passed in as an argument
  Label search;

  // Entry arguments:
  //  G5_interface: Interface
  //  O0:           Receiver
  assert(VtableStub::receiver_location() == O0->as_VMReg(), "receiver expected in O0");

  // get receiver klass (also an implicit null-check)
  address npe_addr = __ pc();
  __ load_klass(O0, G3_klassOop);
  __ verify_oop(G3_klassOop);

  // Push a new window to get some temp registers.  This chops the head of all
  // my 64-bit %o registers in the LION build, but this is OK because no longs
  // are passed in the %o registers.  Instead, longs are passed in G1 and G4
  // and so those registers are not available here.
  __ save(SP,-frame::register_save_words*wordSize,SP);

#ifndef PRODUCT
  if (CountCompiledCalls) {
    __ inc_counter(SharedRuntime::nof_megamorphic_calls_addr(), L0, L1);
  }
#endif /* PRODUCT */

  Label throw_icce;

  Register L5_method = L5;
  __ lookup_interface_method(// inputs: rec. class, interface, itable index
                             G3_klassOop, G5_interface, itable_index,
                             // outputs: method, scan temp. reg
                             L5_method, L2, L3,
                             throw_icce);

#ifndef PRODUCT
  if (DebugVtables) {
    Label L01;
    __ br_notnull_short(L5_method, Assembler::pt, L01);
    __ stop("methodOop is null");
    __ bind(L01);
    __ verify_oop(L5_method);
  }
#endif

  // If the following load is through a NULL pointer, we'll take an OS
  // exception that should translate into an AbstractMethodError.  We need the
  // window count to be correct at that time.
  __ restore(L5_method, 0, G5_method);
  // Restore registers *before* the AME point.

  address ame_addr = __ pc();   // if the vtable entry is null, the method is abstract
  __ ld_ptr(G5_method, in_bytes(methodOopDesc::from_compiled_offset()), G3_scratch);

  // G5_method:  methodOop
  // O0:         Receiver
  // G3_scratch: entry point
  __ JMP(G3_scratch, 0);
  __ delayed()->nop();

  __ bind(throw_icce);
  AddressLiteral icce(StubRoutines::throw_IncompatibleClassChangeError_entry());
  __ jump_to(icce, G3_scratch);
  __ delayed()->restore();

  masm->flush();

  if (PrintMiscellaneous && (WizardMode || Verbose)) {
    tty->print_cr("itable #%d at "PTR_FORMAT"[%d] left over: %d",
                  itable_index, s->entry_point(),
                  (int)(s->code_end() - s->entry_point()),
                  (int)(s->code_end() - __ pc()));
  }
  guarantee(__ pc() <= s->code_end(), "overflowed buffer");
  // shut the door on sizing bugs
  int slop = 2*BytesPerInstWord;  // 32-bit offset is this much larger than a 13-bit one
  assert(itable_index > 10 || __ pc() + slop <= s->code_end(), "room for sethi;add");

  s->set_exception_points(npe_addr, ame_addr);
  return s;
}

int VtableStub::pd_code_size_limit(bool is_vtable_stub) {
  if (TraceJumps || DebugVtables || CountCompiledCalls || VerifyOops) return 1000;
  else {
    const int slop = 2*BytesPerInstWord; // sethi;add  (needed for long offsets)
    if (is_vtable_stub) {
      // ld;ld;ld,jmp,nop
      const int basic = 5*BytesPerInstWord +
                        // shift;add for load_klass (only shift with zero heap based)
                        (UseCompressedOops ?
                         ((Universe::narrow_oop_base() == NULL) ? BytesPerInstWord : 2*BytesPerInstWord) : 0);
      return basic + slop;
    } else {
      const int basic = (28 LP64_ONLY(+ 6)) * BytesPerInstWord +
                        // shift;add for load_klass (only shift with zero heap based)
                        (UseCompressedOops ?
                         ((Universe::narrow_oop_base() == NULL) ? BytesPerInstWord : 2*BytesPerInstWord) : 0);
      return (basic + slop);
    }
  }

  // In order to tune these parameters, run the JVM with VM options
  // +PrintMiscellaneous and +WizardMode to see information about
  // actual itable stubs.  Look for lines like this:
  //   itable #1 at 0x5551212[116] left over: 8
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  //   save  %sp, -64, %sp
  //   ld  [ %g3 + 0xe8 ], %l2
  //   sll  %l2, 2, %l2
  //   add  %l2, 0x134, %l2
  //   and  %l2, -8, %l2        ! NOT_LP64 only
  //   add  %g3, %l2, %l2
  //   add  %g3, 4, %g3
  //   ld  [ %l2 ], %l5
  //   brz,pn   %l5, throw_icce
  //   cmp  %l5, %g5
  //   be  %icc, success
  //   add  %l2, 8, %l2
  // loop:
  //   ld  [ %l2 ], %l5
  //   brz,pn   %l5, throw_icce
  //   cmp  %l5, %g5
  //   bne,pn   %icc, loop
  //   add  %l2, 8, %l2
  // success:
  //   ld  [ %l2 + -4 ], %l2
  //   ld  [ %g3 + %l2 ], %l5
  //   restore  %l5, 0, %g5
  //   ld  [ %g5 + 0x44 ], %g3
  //   jmp  %g3
  //   nop
  // throw_icce:
  //   sethi  %hi(throw_ICCE_entry), %g3
  //   ! 5 more instructions here, LP64_ONLY
  //   jmp  %g3 + %lo(throw_ICCE_entry)
  //   restore
}

int VtableStub::pd_code_alignment() {
  // UltraSPARC cache line size is 8 instructions:
  const unsigned int icache_line_size = 32;
  return icache_line_size;
}

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Could China and the United States Go to War over Taiwan?
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Yes. Both sides are preparing for that war. Both sides also have nuclear weapons. China declared it will never use them first under any circumstances, but US policy allows for the first use of nuclear weapons if victory cannot be assured by other means. China has promised to retaliate if struck first. So, a nuclear war over Taiwan, while unlikely, is possible.
Origins of the conflict
China gave Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after losing the Sino-Japanese War. In 1943 the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Republic of China agreed Japan must give Taiwan back to China at the end of World War II. That agreement was incorporated into the instrument of Japan's surrender.
A civil war in China led to the establishment of two rival Chinese governments: the People's Republic of China (PRC), which controlled the mainland, and the Republic of China (ROC), which nominally governed all of China but by 1949 was confined to a few offshore islands, including Taiwan.
The United States supported the ROC and helped it keep China's seat in the United Nations (UN). But in 1971 the UN expelled the ROC and recognized the PRC as the "only legitimate representative of China." That decision remains the legal basis for Taiwan's exclusion from the World Health Organization and all other UN-affiliated entities.
Most nations have diplomatic relations with the PRC. Few continue to recognize the ROC. The United States terminated diplomatic relations with the ROC and established diplomatic relations with the PRC in 1979.
Congressional imperatives
That same year the US Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act, which says the US-PRC relationship "rests on the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means." It also says any attempt "to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means" would be "a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States."
President Carter withdrew from the US-ROC mutual defense treaty in 1979. But the Taiwan Relations Act restored the essential provisions of the treaty by requiring the United States to "provide Taiwan with arms" and to "maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force."
The Congress also preserved all existing US legal, commercial and cultural relations with the ROC. In many ways the Taiwan Relations Act treats Taiwan as an independent country under US military protection. Many members of Congress refer to Taiwan as a US ally.
The path to war
While the PRC never renounced the right to resort to force to determine the future of Taiwan, its leaders expected to arrive at a peaceful agreement with their ROC rivals, who had always agreed Taiwan was a part of China. In November 1992 the two sides reached a consensus that Taiwanese independence was not an option.
Unfortunately, the 92 consensus was reached without consulting the people of Taiwan. For much of its history the ROC was an authoritarian regime that ruled Taiwan by fiat and ruthlessly repressed dissent. ROC leaders imposed martial law when they first arrived on the island and did not lift it until 1987.
Alternative conceptions of Taiwan not grounded in the history of the Chinese civil war emerged shortly afterwards. Lee Teng-hui, who shared some of those conceptions, won Taiwan's first democratic election for president in 1996. He implicitly rejected the 92 consensus by suggesting negotiations with the PRC should be based on "state to state relations."
Supporters of the 92 consensus won back the presidency in 2008 but lost it again in 2016 to Tsai Ing-wen, who explicitly rejected it. Her reelection by a large margin in 2020 suggests popular support for the 92 consensus is decreasing.
The PRC has an anti-secession law that says if "possibilities for a peaceful reunification should be completely exhausted, the state shall employ non-peaceful means." PRC leaders could interpret Tsai's reelection and her assertion that Taiwan is already an independent country as fulfilling that condition. Should PRC leaders decide to act upon that interpretation, US leaders may feel compelled, under the terms of the Taiwan Relations Act, to use non-peaceful means to try to stop them.
The United States and China would be at war over Taiwan.
President Eisenhower faced that same danger during the Taiwan Strait Crisis. A new study of the crisis reveals US threats to use nuclear weapons were counterproductive. Eisenhower's willingness to question military advice, exercise patience and pursue diplomacy helped avoid a nuclear war. As US leaders prepare for the next Taiwan crisis, Eisenhower's experience may help them do the same.
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How to tie the Running Bowline Knot. The Running Bowline produces a noose or sliding loop. This can be useful for retrieving objects by throwing the open loop around them and the loop will tighten down on the object, as the standing line is pulled tight. The knot does not bind against the standing line and can be easily undone.
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Mitchell Community College is a 2-year institution with two campuses in western North Carolina. MCC offers degrees and certificates in 38 fields of study as well as numerous continuing education and "just for fun" classes. Cosmetology students have a chance to hone their skills by operating a public salon at the MCC Cosmetic Arts Center. MCC also supports its artists through student exhibitions at the Louise Gilbert Art Gallery.
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Mitchell CC is truly a Community College. The people at Mitchell all have the same goal to further their dreams, because of this the people at Mitchell do not create any situations of High-school drama creating a better educational playing field foreveryone. Another great aspect of Mitchell is the fact that the teachers here are very well educated and deserve to be at a 4-year college, but they would rather teach a student they learn to love than a student they never meet.


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Written By Ben Bowen King
Glancing at Joan Baez's page on Amazon.com, you have to wonder whether she reads what fans are saying about her new CD Day After Tomorrow. In today's digital world, anyone with a computer is a critic/pundit. Amazon encourages customers to buy a CD and "review" it. pparently the release of Day After Tomorrow denotes "the best of times and the worst of times"—to borrow a phrase—for Baez fans.
The CD marks Baez's 50th anniversary as a recording artist. The interesting thing about reading the 30 or so reviews on her Amazon page is that they reveal more about the "critics" than the music on this outstanding CD. The majority are written by "gushers." They're the folks who bliss out with the album's first notes. They head their reviews with lines like: "Joan Baez—My Hero." These are the folks who "got" Baez back when she was a barefoot teenager performing for adoring throngs in crowded in Greenwich Village clubs.
But 50 years later, some fans aren't ready for the evolving Baez. And they aren't cutting the folk/pop icon any slack—especially for the sin of "getting old."
You see the CD cover for Day After Tomorrow shows Joan Baez with a short haircut and yes— gray hair. One critic rewards Baez for her candor with the header, "She's Definitely Lost Her Looks." But Baez takes the majority of negative hits for working with "alternative-country-music bad boy" Steve Earle as the producer for the new CD.
It's apparent that many Baez fans haven't been keeping up with the developments in Americana music for the past 20 years. While they were still basking in the slick/sweet production of the Baez mega-hit Diamonds & Rust they missed the movement toward "keeping it real" that's taken hold for many folk-oriented artists.
Consequently, on Day After Tomorrow there aren't many "sweetening touches," and the production comes closer to sounding like what you might hear in your living room if Baez came over to run through a few tunes. In fact, the best song on the CD, "Jericho Road," consists of just Baez's voice, handclaps and occasional back-up voices. And these voices aren't even that good—we're not talking about an African-American gospel choir here.
But this song, written by Earle, will stick with you.
It depicts a person walking to heaven and passing by relatives who've "passed" before them. This song is "timeless" in the true sense of the word. Baez's voice and the song's arrangement make "Jericho Road" sound like it could have been written in 1808, 1908 or 2008. Like they say, some things don't change in terms of dealing with death—ours and those near us.
Actually, some of Baez's critics are shocked by the spiritual turn her music has taken. One disapproving wag estimated that 30 percent of the material on this CD, which is slightly over 37 minutes, is "religious in nature."
Imagine that. You get a few years on you and it becomes clear you won't be "forever young"—to borrow another phrase. The best example is "God Is God," which was written by Earle. A lot of the lines in the song and its general tilt sound like they came out of Earle's own "12-step-experience."
The lyrics are framed by minimalist guitars and dobro as Baez ruminates about what real faith is all about. In short, the song says the world abounds with miracles and prophecies, but it all comes down to the more simple fact that "Every day is another chance to get it right."
To deliver this type of message, a song shouldn't be resplendent in "studio tricks" that dress it up for the airwaves. Baez knows this message only makes sense when you deliver it simply and directly as if you were talking to a friend.
Of course some of her Amazon pundits aren't ready for that approach. One guy laments the "poor sound production" and writes how Baez's soaring soprano is gone—50 years later, and she's lost an octave—we should all be so lucky to have as beguiling a voice as graces this CD.
But that's the dilemma Baez faces head on Day After Tomorrow. Maybe it's her folk roots, but she is not going the "Cher route"—musically or with plastic surgery. So if you're over 40 or so, you might use this CD as a "reality check" on how you're dealing with the aging process.
Here's the test. You may be having some troubles dealing with the aging process, if Day After Tomorrow causes you to think…
Baez should have hired the type of producers who process the hits for Beyoncé or Britney Spears.
Baez should have opted for different album art that would have played down her wrinkles.
Baez needs to go back to the more ethereal sound on early albums—those things that put music on something called vinyl.
If you answer "yes" to any of the above, you're probably the type of person who goes to your class reunions and thinks to yourself, "Boy 'so & so' sure has aged. I'm glad that hasn't happened to me."
But if your answers are "no," you should click on over to CD and check it out. You'll find a very talented, kindred spirit.
Copyright ©2008 Ben Bowen King
Musician and writer Ben Bowen King recently released A Laying on Of Songs in conjunction with explorefaith's Days of Grace series of podcasts.


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After a heartbreaking loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets who, let's be honest here, had no business of winning as Sergei Bobrovsky literally stole the game for his team, Claude Julien's team looked absolutely brutal two games in a row, resulting in one single point in three games this week. While the offense was present against the Arizona Coyotes, the defensive play was worth Pee-wee aged players, as did the goaltending, and it didn't get any better against Toronto on Saturday. And no folks, we're not only talking about the defensemen here. The forwards had more turnovers than the Pillsbury Doughboy in the last two games!
This past week's results saw the Canadiens slide all the way down to 14th out of 16 teams in the Eastern Conference standings, and only four teams in the NHL have a worse record that the Habs. Having allowed 23 more goals than they have scored, Julien's team can thank the Coyotes' dismal season to prevent them from being the worst in the NHL in that department. As a matter of fact, the last time that the Canadiens perform that badly, a guy by the name of Carey Price only played 12 games that season. Yet that year, those blaming the Shea Weber trade for this year's misery tend to forget that they had a guy by the name of P.K. Subban in their line-up back then.
He never addressed the centre position in spite of having plenty of cap space to do so.
Losing Markov and Radulov and not replacing them simply could not happen.
So while Drouin has performed well while getting used to a new position at centre, that simply wasn't enough to support and improve on a team already thin at that position and offensively challenged.
According to Capfriendly.com, Bergevin now has over $7 million in cap space available at the time of writing these lines. The problem that he's facing is that the demand is higher than the supply, which means that finding an immediate solution will be extremely difficult through trades… and the price is going to be very high.
The reality of the situation is that Bergevin has painted himself into a corner with no way out, unless the players he put together start performing as they were expected to perform, allowing the paint to dry. If they can stay in the race until trade deadline, then Bergevin might be able to make a big move with the cap space available. But will it be too late?
Please stop with the Spezza rumours in Montreal as that train has passed last year already. This season, he's having a horrible season and has been moved to the wing on a team struggling to meet expectations. With one more year at $7.8 million cap hit after this season, it would be shocking to see Bergevin tie his own hands when this summer's free agency looks very promising, including a guy by the name of John Tavares. But then, why would Tavares pick the Habs… unless the players in place turn things around?
Do you see a pattern here? Go Habs Go!


In this way, the lawyers wants to send a clear message of "the unity of the profession and the firm resolve that they will not acquiesce in such cases," the Bar Association said.
The two chambers also announced that they will issue a monetary reward to citizens who provide credible information to the prosecution, which would lead to an indictment against those who carried out and ordered the murder of Ognjanovic, while the amount of the award will be determined by the Steering Board of the Chamber.
Previously, the president of the AKS, Viktor Gostiljac, told Tanjug in a statement that he would seek an urgent meeting with justice and police ministers as well as to set up a special investigative team that would include representatives of the prosecution, the police and lawyers in order to quickly find the perpetrators.
This would, as he said, send a clear message to anyone who thinks he can kill a lawyer and go unpunished.
Ognjanovic, a 57-year-old, was gunned down on Saturday night in New Belgrade, while his 26-year-old son was wounded in the hand.
This type of crime does not occur if the lawyer represents a criminal and maintains a client lawyer relationship on a professional basis. It only goes bad if the lawyer becomes involved in his clients business and sometimes the temptation to make big money is too hard to say no.
It is sad that Serbia has to suffer this kind of criminality.
It is tempting to suggest that the lawyers stop representing people held in custody - that would turn a few criminals against the killers. However, the lawyers should continue to do their job of keeping the legal processes working. For the good of the people, the repute of the law must be maintained by law makers and law enforcers. The law has to be obeyed, upheld, enforced, but most of all, it has to be respected.


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Gas Networks Ireland launches Energize
Members News - Community - Oct 31, 2018
Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) are at the core of the Gas Networks Ireland business, but there's a skills gap. Industry demand for STEM graduates still outstrips supply every year.
To help promote careers in science to young people, Gas Networks Ireland, in partnership with Junior Achievement Ireland (JAI) has launched a new science education programme called Energize, to over 5,000 6th class students nationwide. The programme is now available to JAI volunteers to teach in the 2018/2019 school year.
Energize, which takes over from our previous programme Our Universe, comprises five modules spanning the fundamentals of science, from renewable energy awareness to safety in the home, including an essential module that focuses on carbon monoxide safety. It's a class-room style science education programme for 6th class primary school students based on the 'learning by doing' methodology.
An integral part of Gas Networks Ireland's Corporate Responsibility Strategy is fostering students' interest in STEM subjects. Our aim with this programme is to cultivate an interest in science amongst students at primary school level, to encourage students to continue with the subject in second-level education. The long-term objective is to encourage greater numbers of science graduates. Each year, 200 volunteers from businesses around the country will be recruited, trained and supported by JAI to facilitate the roll-out of the in-classroom programme.
Our Universe was extremely successful in the last three years, reaching 15,667 students in 22 counties. A total of 631 volunteers taught the programme from 142 organisations, proving that there is substantial interest in this STEM-focused programme nationwide.
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