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Everything you need to know about dark academia
Thanks to Tumblr and TikTok, there's a new aesthetic on the scene. 'Dark Academia' is a dream come true for any book nerd. If you've ever wished you could transport yourself away to a Defence Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts, then it's likely this aesthetic is right up your street. It's a blend of classic fashion staples with a neutral-colour palette and mysterious aura. The term 'Dark Academia' refers to the aesthetic overall, which includes gothic architecture and classical music.
Even though it's a relatively new trends, there's over 700k posts on the #darkacademia on Instagram alone. You can take a peek inside to get a feel for what the trend is all about. If you're someone who spends their free time getting lost in a bookstore, this trend is your new paradise.
If you're thinking of changing up your aesthetic or look, dark academia might be just the one for you. We're covering everything you need to know about the style and how you can incorporate it into your closet.
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What is Dark Academia?
Dark academia is an aesthetic that takes its inspiration from architecture, Greek art, and classical writing. The aesthetic often touches on Gothic elements, with the concept of death featuring heavily within other aspects of the style outside of fashion. Dark academia was built from the sub-culture within popular social media apps like Tumblr that emphasis education above all else, with a focus on reading and learning. This sub-culture is where the 'academia' portion of the name comes from.
What makes dark academia different than what you might see an everyday college student wearing is its darker colour palette and gothic influence.
Your classic dark academia outfit is a crisp white shirt, dainty necklace, classic watch, tailored pants, and oxford loafers. Don't forget to carry a book with you wherever you go! Anyone who falls into the dark academia aesthetic owns at least one pair of tweed trousers.
Most people who follow this trend shop for their clothing second-hand to fully embrace the academic look. Most of the key pieces that make up the look are inspired by the fashion of the 1960s. In fact, most of the outfits are a more contemporary take on what was worn at Ivy League schools during the 19th century.
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Where the Aesthetic Comes From?
If you've ever watched a Harry Potter film and imagined what Hogwarts would be like in real life, that's pretty much what the dark academia aesthetic is. In fact, most people take their inspiration directly from the Harry Potter books and films. You'll often see social media users pointing to characters like Hermione Granger as their style inspiration.
Most of the key fashion pieces from the series are a common sight within the dark academia aesthetic. You'll see plenty of wool sweaters, oversized cardigans, and brown pants.
You can consider the dark academia aesthetic to be the more muted sister of the preppy trend. Another way of looking at it is to think of preppy as a spring look, and dark academia as the autumn equivalent. It has the same love for argyle and crewneck sweaters. While preppy fashion focuses more on lighter colours and nautical themes, dark academia has a darker colour palette. Most people who subscribe to the dark academia look have experimented with the preppy aesthetic before.
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Why Is Dark Academia Popular?
Dark Academia is a product of the pandemic. While the style had been slowly growing in popularity, it was largely considered as a niche within social media. It's now found its way into the mainstream of fashion to become a full-blown aesthetic.
You could argue that the events of the pandemic have given society a more gothic vibe, which is tapped into by the dark academia aesthetic.
While anyone can experiment with the dark academia, there are three groups who have a particular love for the aesthetic. The trend has been driven by high school and college students who found themselves studying from home and yearning for the comforts of the library.
It's also popular amongst people who prefer a genderless fashion aesthetic. It's popular amongst members of the LGBTQ+ community as it blurs gender lines and focuses on pieces that anyone can wear. Most of the inspiration for the fashion of the aesthetic comes from the menswear of 1940s, the same era when women were starting to wear trousers and experiment with more 'masculine' clothing for the first time.
Although dark academia has a 'look' to it, it doesn't have the same stereotypes as other fashion aesthetic. If you subscribe to dark academia, you can still show off your personality and uniqueness in the process.
Another group who are at the heart of dark academia is the plus-size community. Arguably, dark academia is a conservative way of dressing, which often suits plus size individuals more than low-cuts and miniskirts. As the aesthetic focuses around elevated basics, you can pick up pieces from almost any store – from H&M to Amazon or online thrift stores.
What to Wear During Summer?
It's easy to assume that the dark academia aesthetic is one you can only wear in the autumn and winter. After all, it focuses primarily on a darker colour palette. While it's easier to wear year-round in colder climates, there are still ways of making it summer appropriate.
During the summer, you want to put away your thicker fabrics like wool and cashmere. Choose all-natural fabrics like cotton that are more breathable and naturally absorb moisture to keep you comfortable as the temperatures start to rise.
There are three fabrics that you want to add to your summer closet to stay within the dark academia aesthetic.
Linen will keep you ventilated all summer long, and it's a material that is minimally harm to the environment. While cotton is a popular choice, you want to search for the organic alternative as it has a lower carbon footprint and is a better choice for the environment. If you want a more elevated look, keep an eye out for vintage silk pieces. If you're buying your silk brand-new, make an effort to find cruelty-free silk.
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The Essential Dark Academia Pieces
If you're thinking of experimenting with this aesthetic, there's a few pieces that you'll need for your closet. You might have some of these already, or you may need to go out and refresh your closet. If you want a 'true' dark academia look, it's best to purchase your clothes vintage or pre-loved from thrift stores or online sites like Etsy or Depop. You can usually save a little money by purchasing your items second-hand.
Unlike other styles, dark academia is an all-encompassing aesthetic. It's about more than just the clothes you wear. You want to have a leather-bound book, round glasses, and handwritten letters in your bag. Your makeup looks so be more minimalistic and classic, avoiding dramatic eye makeup and instead focusing on a flawless base and a subtle lipstick colour.
The best way of thinking about dark academia clothing is to view it as elevated basics and classic vintage pieces.
Blouses and button-up shirts as a focal point of the look and are easy to mix and match with other pieces. They should be top of your shopping list. If you want a more formal look, don't forget to look for blouses that have a cuffed sleeve. If you prefer a slightly more feminine twist, keep an eye out for blouses that have a peter pan colour or small intricate detailing. Silk is a go-to fabric choice for blouses and shirts.
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If you're someone who prefers skirts over trousers, you want to stick to a longer silhouette. Mini skirts aren't considered part of the dark academia look. Instead, you want your skirts to be at least knee length – if not longer.
For trousers, woold-blend and corduroy materials are a classic choice. It's a good idea to buy a few tailored trousers that you can use as staples for your dark academia closet. If you fall in love with a vintage pair that doesn't fit, you can take them to a seamstress to have the hem lifted and the waistband brought in for a custom fit.
One staple of the aesthetic that you should have no trouble finding is a tweed blazer. When you're taking your dark academia Instagram photos, you want to throw your blazer over your shoulders, leaving your sleeves loose and your arms out to carry your books and breakfast tea.
For footwear, you want to stick to the classics. Again, you can take inspiration directly from the Harry Potter films. Consider the sort of shoes you would imagine a Hogwarts professor wearing. Boots are a classic choice and will work with anything from long skirts to cigarette trousers. If you're a fan of wearing heels, choose a still with a block heel instead of stilettoes. While you may get away with a pair of white sneakers, you want to avoid wearing anything 'modern' like slides or flip flops.
What do you think of the dark academia aesthetic? Is it one that you're interested in trying? Let us know in the comments below!
TikTok Fashion Trends Everyone's Obsessed With
TikTok is an app most of us swore to stay away from before the pandemic. A lot can change in a year. It's now an app we look at before even checking out Instagram or Twitter. The app, which is dominated by Generation Z and Millennials, has come to dominate the fashion trends. Who would have thought the app would have the power to cancel skinny jeans? We're rounding up a few of our favorite fashion trends from TikTok that everyone is obsessed with.
The TikTok Subcultures Defining Fashion Trends
Before the pandemic hit, TikTok was app that few of us took seriously. In fact, most of us swore to never download it. Then the pandemic hit, and everything changed. With endless hours in the days that we needed to fill, TikTok became the leading social media platform by the end of 2020. While we often associate Instagram with fashion trends, TikTok is rivalling the app for its fashion crown. With its viral videos, TikTok has become a breeding ground for every type of subculture. The algorithm allows you to curate your 'for you page' to reflect your fashion and personality.
How Can I Dress Y2K?
The first time you hear the phrase 'Y2K' it might stop you in your tracks. The name simply refers to the year 2000, focusing on the trends of the early 2000s up until 2010. Why are the trends back so soon? Usually, most fashion trends work on a twenty-year cycle as one generation grows up and sees the clothing style of the previous one. The Y2K trend has been made popular by Generation Z, who have come to love the trends they were too young to appreciate as children. There are Instagram accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, dedicated to posting y2k fashion inspiration.
7 People You Need to Follow on TikTok ASAP
TikTok is our new favorite social media app. There is something on there for everyone, whatever your interests are. It's replaced our morning and evening Instagram scrolling session. TikTok has become our daily source of inspiration for everything from weight-loss to managing money to learning about the latest trends. We're rounding up seven TikTok stars that you need to hit 'follow' for.
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History of Ayurveda
by shubhjeevan
History of medicine is a fascinating subject as it is a saga of man's struggle against disease. As the civilization advances and as the disease pattern changes, the medical science also changes. Ayurveda is the system of medicine that evolved in India with a rationale logical foundation. Ayurveda was etched in the Indian history around 5000 years back. Ayurveda is conjugation of two Sanskrit words- 'ayur' meaning life and 'veda' meaning knowledge.
The earliest concept of Ayurveda was put into writing by Veda Vyasa, the famous sage and avatar of Vishnu, Dhanvantari in Atharvaveda, which is one of the four most ancient books of Indian knowledge, wisdom and culture.
There are three main Ayurvedic texts Charak Samhita, Sushrut Samhita and the Ashtangha Hridaya Samhita. Sushrut Samhita, the most authentic compilation of Sushruta's teachings contains 184 chapters and description of 1,120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from mineral sources and 57 preparations based on animal sources. Charaka Samhita, written by Charaka is arguably the principal classic reference. It focuses on care, mental regulation, and spiritual/consciousness refinement
Ayurveda is not a "one-size-fits-all" system. Instead, its regimens are tailored to each person's unique prakruti (Ayurvedic constitution), taking into account his or her needs for nutrition, exercise, personal hygiene, social interaction, and other lifestyle elements.
Daily routines, called dincharya, and seasonal regimens, called ritucharya, are recommended. Following these individualized plans help users of Ayurveda attain robust physical health, as well as mental and spiritual harmony.
Ayurveda therefore is not simply a health care system but a form of lifestyle adopted to maintain perfect balance and harmony within the human existence, from the most abstract transcendental values to the most concrete physiological expressions. Based on the premise that life represents an intelligent co-ordination of the Atma(Soul), Mana (Mind), Indriya (Senses) and Sharira (Body).
The philosophy of Ayurveda teaches a series of conceptual systems characterized by balance and disorder, health and disease. Disease/health results from the interconnectedness between the self, personality, and everything that occurs in the mental, emotional, and spiritual being. To be healthy, harmony must exist between the purpose for healing, thoughts, feelings and physical action.
That revolves around the five dense elements that go into the making of the constitution of each individual, called Prakriti.
This in turn is determined by the vital balance of the three physical energies – Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
Ayurveda thus offers a unique blend of science and philosophy that balances the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual components necessary for holistic health.
Ayurveda, Indian system of Medicines. Ayur=Life, Veda=Knowledge
Two Sanskrit words "Ayur" means life & "Veda" means knowledge comprises the science of Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicines evolved around 5000 years back in India.
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Футбольний клуб «Алтинкуль» або просто «Алтинкуль» — узбецький професіональний футбольний клуб з міста Алтинкуль Андижанської області.

Історія
Футбольний клуб «Алтинкуль» було засновано в 1993 році в місті Алтинкуль Андижанської області. З 1994 по 1996 роки команда виступала у Першій лізі чемпіонату Узбекистану. Найкращим досягненням клубу в національних чемпіонатах стало 6-те місце, яке команда здобула в Першій лізі чемпіонату Узбекистану сезону 1994 року.

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2 Days to 2018 – Who Is Your Number One?
You are the consequence of the health of your soul, your integrity, your relationships and your vision.
All of these things are profoundly important, but so often they get subsumed by how we assert ourselves instead of how we live out loud.
I love saying it, even though it can sound greeting card sometimes, but we ARE human beings, not human doings.
Our capacity is constructed by how we choose to live, and those around us.
Who is your Number One? The person who has your back and helps make it all make sense on foggy days.
It is likely NOT the person who builds you up and rolls in your podium or tells you that you're number one. It's the person who helps define our identity.
Then I read this piece in the Times the other day, about how self-compassion is more important than self-confidence. Fake it until you make it works sometimes, often maybe. But in the end, the bedrock we build our lives upon comes from those who lift us up as human beings, not human doers. Those who remind us of self-compassion BECAUSE they model it for us, to us.
There are only 2 days left until 2018. Who is your Number One? Who is the person who helps remind you of who you actually are? And are you doing all you can to nurture this relationship, not for the sake of your confidence and your success, but for the reason why you do it all anyway: for your integrity and your relationships and your principles of what you want to make of this world.
Spend these last 2 days mapping out how you can enrich that relationship with your Number One. Don't let it get lost on Monday, then Tuesday, then January, then it's February and too late to keep from missing out on December 30 and December 31.
These last 2 days are precious. Embrace them!
The last few days of 2017 is a good time to consolidate all the things you do into WHAT you are for people. Your brand is your identity, values, passion, and posture…all braided into the what of what you do. Let 2018 be a year where you work your brand through the things you do.
Why? Well, when I talk with people and their organizations about their often dreaded mission, vision and values, we get caught up in the muskeg of actions over existence. They want to do things and make things, not live on abstract clouds of organizational design jargon. But we are human beings, not human doings. And while many in the world are overwhelmed with or outright offended by brand ubiquity, we fail if we cannot communicate our existence to others. Beyond the things we make and do.
So, I often use the word posture. Our posture is how we stand, boldly and resolutely, to assert who we are. Our brand, our posture is The Thing that makes us do what we do. We cannot accomplish anything if our stance isn't credible, strong, confident and facing the right way to do and say the right things.
Along with posture is intentionality. Too often we are caught up generating revenue, meaning, Likes, followers, and various other KPIs that we forget that the theme of it all is who we are and what we want to accomplish in the world, for the world.
It doesn't matter if you're a teacher, volunteer, employee, SMB, social enterprise, person who comes up with more ideas in a year than you could possibly pursue, student, in career transition–we all want to make meaning. If we get lost in the things we do instead of investing in self-awareness and converting that into an intentional posture, or brand, we'll be more scattered than we should be. And more scattered than others are. And they will defeat us.
Emma Watson has moved from Hermione Potter to incredibly deep and meaningful films like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, to helping launch the UN's He for She program [frankly, if you're a man and haven't signed on to this, why are you still reading this?]. And she picked up a university degree somewhere too. And she runs an online feminist book club with over 200,000 members.
She's got a pretty clear sense of herself, her intentionality and her posture. Her brand is pretty coherent. It's also pretty reflective of her public values.
Everyone has role models we respect and sometimes try to emulate. Consolidating our understanding of the values and coherent intentionality in our role models helps us define for ourselves what we stand for and what we want the world to look like when we're finished with it.
Path Consulting is all about optimizing [not maximizing anything] our work-life-vocation-volunteering balance. There is no room to optimize if we are not consolidated, not intentional, not self-aware, and not firm in our posture. Basically: if we have a scattered brand.
Your products and services are supposed to manifest your mission and vision and values. And if you're lucky they always will. But if your brand and posture are shaky and scattered, you won't be aligned well enough to really succeed and making the world richer because of your existence.
We have 4 days left to 2018. Many of the pieces I've posted in my 18 day countdown to 2018 start with the premise that if we wait 4 more days to start new things, we'll get hip-checked by the minutia and intensity of the day to day to day of 2018.
Spend some time in these last few days having a hot chocolate [with or without Baileys] with someone who knows you, either really well, or just well enough to see at least a little bit of WHO you are.
And get all self-indulgent and have a chat about your brand or posture. We aren't all Emma Watson or Nelson Mandala or Malala Yousafzai or Terry Fox. But if you give yourself some time to dig into what you really want to change in the world through your vocations, you will certainly have devotions and passions as significant as theirs.
And I will not say you can't be as significant as those 4 people. Why would I. We all can. And 2018 is the year to start accelerating that.
But don't wait 4 more days to get into it.
Book time with yourself and your people and create your posture for January 1.
The fragility of white people is massive, and under a microscope. This is good. It's not persecution, racism or reverse racism, which doesn't actually exist.
All the work I do in my keynote speaking areas, Path Consulting, organizational design and stakeholder engagement consulting, intriguing new green energy projects, and Health and Wellness for Teachers–all of these encounter this underlying theme of white entitlement being challenged and white people digging in to protect themselves.
Not only is the Good Men Project an inspiring, grounding group of wise folks, but calling out racial privilege is essential for any kind of social, political, economic or environmental progress.
From a perspective of a white person, the world looks a certain way. And it's easy to assume everyone else sees the world like us. But they don't. It is impossible for us to fully understand how others see it. But it's our job to do all the work we can to truly hear how others see the world, and the place of white folks in it.
For many people, Eddy Murphy helped start defining white privilege on Saturday Night Live when he dressed up as a white man in 1984, just to see the other side. It was hilarious, partly because it was not exactly so factually accurate [in my experience], but it was profoundly true.
White folks who reject the idea of white privilege/fragility, or minimize it, or try to exempt themselves personally from it all, undermine our overall mission to create a society of equality and justice. Without that shared frame, we cannot accomplish any kind of social, political, economic or environmental progress. We have no common understanding of the issue.
In all of our social, economic, political, environmental activities we need to seek out understanding of how our actions and inactions contribute to injustice. We are seeing this in a clunky fashion in #MeToo versus #NotAllMen and #BlackLivesMatter versus #AllLivesMatter.
Refusing to engage in conversations about privilege and entitlement makes US the impediment, even if we're nice guys and nice white people. Because in the end, we have no idea the extent of how white or male entitlement got us to where we are, or surrounds all of our actions, inactions and work.
The onus is on us to open up and listen and to encourage our fellow white/male folks to do the work too. It pays off, in ways impossible to predict, but in necessary ways for real change to happen.
6 Days to 2018 – What Could Boxing Day Mean?
I recently saw Give Back Box's website. It's not available in Canada, unlike Boxing Day being a stat for many people, along with many other Commonwealth countries.
While Boxing Day/Week sales seem to be precursor to Black Friday blowout sales, the origins of Boxing Day were about some kind of charity from the 1% to the servant class. Not necessarily as simplistic as taking the boxes left over from Christmas presents and packaging things for the help, I think about the box invasion of Christmas.
Give Back Box isn't tied to Christmas, but refers to using various boxes that come from online retailers, then filling them with items of value for donating to charity, then getting free shipping to send them off.
But here's a mission for you, if you choose to accept it as we wind down 2017 and set up for 2018.
If you have a box, fill it with things others could use: clothes you don't wear much, household items you aren't using, things you like but could also be called clutter by a dispassionate observer. Step 2: send to charity.
Decluttering your home has profound mental health benefits, and ensures that on your way to a more minimalist lifestyle, you share what you don't need with those who simply need.
Without using Give Back Box's model necessarily, all of us could be inspired by any box that enters our home with a mission to pay them forward with what we can fill them. And as a social enterprise, Give Back Box provides IT and logistics services to charities, using box re-purposing as a social good. Sorry for the groan, but you can also think outside of the box by appending a social purpose/activity to your organization, regardless of what you do.
Meanwhile, spend some time in days remaining in 2017 to do a purge. And next year, whenever you flip over your calendar month [if you still have those paper calendar things we hang on walls], look around for the lonely boxes in your life, to re-purpose them.
Make 2018 a year of more intentionality with your "stuff," as George Carlin puts it.
Solar roadways: started in Idaho, but should cover all currently paved surfaces exposed to the sun. Shouldn't every driveway, sidewalk, and road generate electricity for us, just because? Platio has a solar paving system as well.
Kinetic energy: when people walk on sidewalks or floors in shopping malls [like mall-walkers], shouldn't we not waste the energy created by the actual walking? Pavegen makes one. Here are some more.
How about making energy from another thing that happens every day, water moving downhill in city pipes.
Let's make 2018 a year where we smash open our infrastructure to make it generate electricity for us, just because.
8 Days to 2018 – We Wish You A…What?
The Character Therapist: Merry Christmas vs. Merry Winter Solstice?
This guy was always my favourite reindeer. Regardless of the politics of what to say to whom and when, and how not to be unintentionally ironic, we need to reflect on intention a bit here.
Seinfeld suggested "you are so good looking" as a way more socially productive thing to say when someone sneezes.
With 8 days left in 2017 and with Christmas tomorrow [or now if you're over there], we want to express our hopes for people to be happy. I get that.
But growing up I was always saddened by how easy it is for our society to switch back to poor bashing, selfishness and social decay just days after Christmas. Then Boxing Day sales turned into Boxing Week mayhem. Then Black Friday and Cyber Monday degradations bookended the season. No wonder Buy Nothing Day won't go away.
Why can't people keep the Christmas spirit for 52 weeks of the year. As an innocent kid I really thought I'd figure out the answer to that when I grew up. I don't like the answer, it turns out. Then I picked up a couple political science degrees and I like all of the extra-grueling answers even less.
Meta Christmas means the process of seeking and sharing meaning at this time of year may be most important in all of it.
Intent matters and we shouldn't waste time trying to see if we should feel offended.
The 52-week dignity thing where we hope people's lives are better: that, THAT, is the elusive thing we should spend time on. Then we act on manifesting that hope.
In 2018, [as I'm remembering back to what I wrote yesterday] tip your servers more, but in 2018, tip them another Christmastime big tip. "Why?" they will ask. Like most others, they have Christmas/whatever debt to pay off.
Plus, it will remind you that we need to put in that kind of work to recognize and enhance dignity for 52 weeks.
Every hour of work I do in 2018 is all about organizational development, stakeholder engagement, green energy, Path Consulting, Health and Wellness for Teachers, Modern Labour Activism…all the things, all the ways of ensuring I hit all 3 of those home run ideas above.
Frankly, my time is worth too much to do anything that doesn't meet those goals.
How about you? Dig in and join me.
It's not a cage match. It's way more subtle. And it's the core focus of my work in 2018, and it shoudl be yours too.
Some workplaces close down between Christmas and New Year's. This year, the idiocies of the calendar lead to that being just a 3 day shutdown [because Boxing Day is a thing in Canada].
Far more offices merely have skeleton staffs working because those with more seniority and sufficient vacation days just take late December off.
Now that about only 50% of Canadians work full-time, the previous 2 paragraphs are increasingly meaningless to an increasing number of people. They'll be working a lot over the next 2 weeks. And generally we're still assuming they get time off, or something. And here I am, writing 18 reflections leading into 2018 because I DON'T have the have 3 jobs to get more than 1 present under the tree for each kid.
We need to be thinking that more and more people are becoming the precariat, the precarious proletariat. The underemployed, the sub-minimum wage workers. The struggling, those with too many jobs. Those who can't afford to live in the cities they work in, so they waste an extra 350-700 hours a year commuting because they don't earn enough to have just one job and walk to work. What couldn't YOU do if someone too just 300 hours a year from you for extra commuting time?
They're not teens looking for spending money. They're increasingly not just Millennials but Echos, and Gen Xers and yes, Boomers. And I'll add this, yes they're older than the Boomers, often called the Traditionalists, but the poorest group of them: the people who have no workplace pension and they'll work until the illness or decay that will eventually end their life, initially prevents them from going to work one day. Then it's all downhill from there.
Social enterprises, including B corps and co-ops, are a secret revolutionary device. Some neoliberal 1% folk are already targeting these do-gooders as undermining free market, deregulated capitalism. They're not wrong. But we need to pick a side. But which side!
Capitalism started with Adam Smith when he published the Wealth of Nations in 1776, a year you likely remember for another kind of revolution, a political one.
But economics, trade, commerce…Smith didn't invent these. He helped usher in an era of deep economic greed, exploitation and maximizing shareholder wealth. Period. He's largely why Karl Marx is famous.
We can't reform capitalism. Why? Maximizing shareholder wealth. Period.
Co-ops dream, through their Principle 6, to create a new global economy among co-operative enterprises, where workplace democracy is the starting point.
When your entire economic model is entrenched in a bunch of things, none of which is maximizing shareholder wealth, then we can create a new economic not based on Adam Smith and the economic tyrants whose 1% ways led to them having as much wealth as the poorest 50% of all humans.
Income inequality. The Occupy Wall Street movement was all over that, including the term, the 1%. A massive international hegemonic action quashed Occupy, but we're left with everyone talking about the 1%, including deep, committed city-states of neoliberal capitalism: the WTO, the OECD and the IMF. They're not stupid. They know that increased income inequality leads to global revolution. Then it's Dr. Zhivago. They don't want that, so now their playing with valves and optics to try to release some pressure before the volcano blows.
Be suspicious when the hyper-wealthy, and their think tanks and international economic organizations start to champion the plight of the poor and precarious. They can't maximize shareholder wealth inside a global political, social and economic revolution.
But social enterprises are different. Sure, some of them have as much integrity as a lima bean. But they're usually easy to spot. They're all about the optics and promoting their massive CSR.
The rest of them know that everything they're doing accomplishes one or more social goods relating to economic, social, environmental or political justice.
To celebrate the start of 2018 I'll be receiving a starter pack of goodies from Capuli Club, a Seattle social enterprise that ticks quite a few boxes of awesome. And when I go see my Ottawa people next month, I'm sharing another Capuli Club pack. Along with some ChopValue coasters, the ones with the Vancouver skyline on them. ChopValue is awesome in so many ways, but beyond actually being carbon neutral, they are a negative carbon solution.
Once upon a time, we started recycling paper. Then we started separating paper from recyclable plastics, compost and [sadly] landfill trash. Then we embraced taking our own hot beverage mug to coffee shops, which themselves never used to exist. And we started going with fair trade and organic coffee. And we took cloth bags to grocery stores when civil society astonishingly forced the stores to charge a nickel for every plastic bag we used. Then came Nada, where we level up again. And we're all skipping drinking straws for 2018, right? Including in the remain days of 2017.
You see this trend. It's the do-gooder thing on small scales. Being more intentional and aware of our impact. Now, we need to embrace the co-ops' Principle 6 by stopping having economic relationships with companies that aren't social enterprises.
You can't accomplish it all in 2018, but there are SOOOOO many low hanging fruit. One a month is probably easy to do. That means pick 12 social enterprises and use them to replace less constructive relationships. And when you switch, do it forever. And drag your friends along. I'm not yet know as the " no more drinking straws" guy, but I'm close I think.
And while Whole Foods wasn't perfect, Amazon gobbled it up. They're no social enterprise. And we'll see traditional capitalist companies confronting their own shame buy undermining social enterprises.
Just think about organic food companies. Who owns them now? Are any still independent, or did a non-organic [or even anti-organic] company buy them. Sure, maybe we can reform capitalists by injecting righteousness into them because it's profitable. But leopards, spots and maximizing shareholder wealth may endure longer than reform efforts. We'll see.
But here's what I think we need to see.
We need to remember who's working their asses off over the next 9 days to finish off this year. We need to tip them more, smile at them more, be patient with their workload more, we need to wish them a better 2018. We need to ask them if they have any hope that 2018 will be better.
Beyond switching our personal and corporate supply chains from capitalist to social enterprises, we need to do more than just give people a higher tip at Christmastime. We need to start 2018 tipping not 10-15%, but a flat 20%. And if your jurisdiction has embraced a $15 minimum wage, keep tipping 20%. And if you aren't at $15, phone your political leaders and shame them.
Then figure out how to convert your company into a worker co-op, or a B corp, or a living wage employer. And if that just can't happen, maybe you and a few folks should quit and do that yourselves. You're pretty talented. Remember how everyone is talking about a side hustle; make yours spectacular!
Find all the social enterprises around you, particularly in sectors that aren't yours and ask them for mentorship and support. And build your Principle 6 bridges early.
But really, I'm mostly joking. Capitalists busy exploiting your labour to maximize shareholder wealth will not, WILL NOT, find ways of helping you undermine their profitability by spawning a social enterprise and converting themselves into that. It starts on the ground with people who care.
And you care. You're here.
So make 2018 a year where your economic activity cultivates justice, opportunity and hope for others. It used to be harder, but it's pretty easy today. And it's only going to get easier, so get in on it.
Most of what I'm doing in 2018 will be about enhancing the potential of social enterprises to wedge out the 1% for the sake of the 99% and the planet.
I don't need you to start one, but I want you to spend the last 10 days of 2017 exploring all the social enterprises among you, so you can spend next year supporting the movement better.
There are lots of ways to be/become a social enterprise. I went into some pretty serious detail in this month's Renfrew-Collingwood Community News, which is itself a social enterprise of the Renfrew-Collingwood Neighbourhood House in East Vancouver.
I also write about them on my blog quite a bit.
Many people are justifiably cynical about corporations that claim to be awesome because they support various charities, yet destroy the world or people. Social entrepreneurs are sick of that too.
So the criteria matters. See my link above.
And YOUR job, if you're not already a social enterprise, is to first support those around you. Increasingly, and again in 2019.
And along the way you'll find ways that your organization isn't a social enterprise, but could be. From transforming your mission, to becoming a B corp, to your hiring/promotion practices to altering your legal structure.
But you don't need to do that all before the end of January or anything. But if you aren't thinking about radical changes to improve your credibility as an entity, you'll soon start being wedged out by those who do.
And then there are the millennials. They care about caring, vision, values, social consequences of action. That kind of thing. Not that previous generations didn't, but we didn't…at least compared to them.
Millennials are already the largest workforce cohort today and soon they'll be over 50% of the working world. If we aren't thinking about how to exist in a world they'll soon transform, that's on us. And I'll tell you right now, I'm looking forward to a 2018 with far more of a focus on the social side of enterprise.


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Perhaps the Dems doth protest too much
featuring Hadley Heath
Enrollment for 2018 begins next week (on November 1) and ends December 15. This means people who want or need health insurance for next year can sign up at Healthcare.gov or partnering websites such as ehealthinsurance.org. Regardless, Democrats have been vocal about the enrollment period, saying it's a shorter time frame than consumers had during the Obama administration.
"They're trying to sabotage the markets," Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) said earlier this month. "It's now all them, it is all them – one hundred percent."
In September, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) questioned reported plans by the Trump administration to do maintenance on Healthcare.gov five out of six Sundays during the 2018 enrollment period.
"It is unclear why the Trump administration needs so many more outages to maintain the site this year – after the enrollment period was shortened – and why the administration designated the first day of open enrollment season to conduct purportedly regular, non-urgent maintenance," Mr. Cummings wrote to then HHS Secretary Tom Price.
The "s" word (sabotage) has also been used in remarks about the Trump administration's budget cuts to "navigators" (people who helped enrollees find insurance plans and financial assistance). For the 2018 enrollment period, agents and brokers will be made available by Healthcare.gov.
"I think Democrats are really making a mistake politically because when you cry 'sabotage' you're sort of making a tacit admission that things aren't going well, and of course Democrats still deserve most of the credit for the Affordable Care Act being the law, becoming the law, and of course they stand against any changes to the law," says Hadley Heath Manning, director of policy at the Independent Women's Forum. "So I think they're making a mistake in sort of ceding the debate to Republicans that the Affordable Care Act isn't working well."
Meanwhile, Ed Haislmaier, senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation doesn't think the Trump administration is trying to sabotage enrollment.
"What the Trump administration is really doing is recognizing a reality that maybe some of the supporters of the ACA don't want to recognize," he explains. "The reality is that even under President Obama, the enrollment had kind of plateaued; the program had reached about as far as it was going to go. This was not some kind of big solution to healthcare – rather it's really just another niche program for lower-income, sicker people."
Haislmaier adds that the Obama administration wasn't able to persuade young, healthy people to sign up. He doubts the Trump administration is going to suddenly get them to sign up down the road.
"So it's not that the program is being sabotaged – it's just the reality is the program doesn't get much better than this, even if you're trying."


More taxes are NOT the answer. Ending corruption and job creation would be a better avenue. Illinois needs new leadership, or business owners like myself will take their businesses elsewhere. We are being taxed to death already.
The state of IL does not need more money, we need leaders that practice financial responsibility.
Use the money we already give you guys and be smart about it. You waste entirely too much money keeping friends happy and not the good citizens of this state. You'll be chasing more out of Illinois, if you don't shape up the spending.


Is the game-used uniform swatch in your sports memorabilia trading card real? Recent court cases put the authenticity of these swatches in doubt.
Yet another in a series of stunning legal cases related to fraud within the sports collectibles market made mainstream news outlets across the country last week. A sports memorabilia dealer was sentenced for selling off-the-rack replica jerseys to sports card companies that he claimed were actually game-worn jerseys. These jerseys were then allegedly cut up and embedded in sports collectible cards. Now, sports card collectors who are left wondering which cards contain real jersey swatches and which ones are fake.
The latest revelation comes as the culmination of several-year investigation. In 2009, Brad Wells, one of the owners of the Florida-based companies Authentic Sports, Inc., and Historic Auctions admitted to investigators that he had acquired off-the-rack, replica jerseys, doctored them to make them appear game-used and then sold them to collectors, other dealers and, most importantly, trading card companies.
According to memorandums filed by Wells' defense attorney, Wells told investigators that buyers from Donruss/Playoff, Upper Deck and Topps knew they were purchasing phony jerseys and either knew or should have known that they were passing along fake jersey swatches to collectors. But other than the word of Wells, who was convicted of fraud and sentenced to six-months in prison, it appeared that no other evidence existed to support the claim that the trading card companies were in anyway complicit in the alleged wrong-doing.
The Panini America Company, which purchased Donruss/Playoff in 2009, including the entire company's "game-used" inventory, is claiming that as a result of Mr. Wells crimes, it lost $2.7 million in future sales, having spent $125,000 acquiring alleged game-used jerseys as part of the acquisition of Donruss/Playoff. This issue came to light when the company submitted at least one Victim Impact Statement as part of its request for restitution. To date, both of the other major trading card companies operating at that time (2004-09) has, as of yet, hasn't filed any similar documents.
However, the story doesn't end with Brad Wells. His cooperation with the government—which led to a reduced sentence—helped procure the arrest of similar sports memorabilia dealers. At the National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Ill., in 2011, Steve Jensen, owner of Minnesota-based Vintage Authentics, was led off the convention floor in handcuffs, escorted by police. Accused and eventually convicted of selling bogus player-worn and game-used jerseys to unsuspecting collectors, Jensen was sentenced last week to three years of probation and four months of electronically monitored house arrest. His cooperation is said to have led to the indictment of three additional dealers—Brad Horne, Jarrod Oldridge and Bernard Gernay—who all pled guilty to similar crimes and will be sentenced at the end of this month.
Interesting to note is that at least one of these men, Gernay, was on Major League Baseball's approved vendor list. As related to the impact on trading card collectors, Oldridge's defense memorandum seemed to lend at least some bit of credibility to the earlier statements made by Wells, as they related to the trading card manufactures' complacency at the least and complicity at the worst.
Meanwhile, Panini America is claiming an additional $7.7 million in damages as a result of having obtained $328,000 of unusable inventory, which is known to have come directly from Oldridge.
While the sports collectibles world awaits the sentencing of the additional individuals cited in this article, collectors are left with virtually no recourse of compensation or knowledge of whether the memorabilia cards they have in their collection from those years are real or not. In talking to a former product development manager from one of the aforementioned trading card companies, he said that it would be impossible to determine which jersey swatches went into what products. After the jersey is inventoried and receives a serial number, the jersey is cut into hundreds of pieces. These pieces are then put into a bag which may or may not at the time contain other pieces of existing game-used jersey swatches of that particular player mixed in.
We'll provide updates to this story as additional details become available.
Rob Bertrand has been an active collector of sports cards and memorabilia for more than 20 years. His involvement in the hobby community is well documented, having been the content manager for the Card Corner Club website before the company's merger with CardboardConnection in 2011, where he is now a staff writer and multimedia content producer. Rob is also the co-host of the sports collectibles hobby's only live and nationally broadcast radio show, Cardboard Connection Radio. He is the author of the highly respected and trafficked blog, Voice of the Collector and you can follow him on Twitter @VOTC. A dealer himself, Rob runs an online business through eBay, and is frequently asked to consign collections.


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Electromechanical switches for use in electrical and electronic equipment - Part 1: Generic specification
Organization: IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
Publication Date: 16 January 2019
ICS Code (Switches): 31.220.20
IEC 61020-1:2019 specifies the terminology, symbols, test methods and other necessary information to provide consistency in detail specifications for electromechanical switches.
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This document relates to electromechanical switches intended for use in electrical and electronic appliances. Switches covered by this document:
a) are devices which open, close, or change the connection of a circuit by the mechanical motion of conducting parts (contacts);
b) have a maximum rated voltage of 480 V;
c) have a maximum rated current of 63 A.
This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2009.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) In accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2:2016, Clause 2 General has been replaced by two new clauses: Clause 2 Normative references and Clause 3 Terms, definitions, units and symbols.
2.4 Preferred values and 2.5 Marking have been moved to Clauses 5 and 6. In addition, 6.2 Markings on packaging has been added.
b) Clause 3 Quality assurance procedures and Annex A have been deleted.
c) 4.3.6.3 Returning force has been added.
d) 4.3.6.4 Travel (movement of the actuator) has been added.
e) 4.12 Environmental testing:
4.12.1.3 and 4.12.1.5 have been renumbered 4.12.2 and 4.12.3, respectively. 4.12.1.4 and 4.12.1.7 have been integrated in 4.12.5. 4.12.10 Salt mist has been added.
f) Following publication of IEC 61058-1-1:2016, some cross-references to IEC 61058-1 have been updated.
g) The following items have been updated with respect to the second edition.
- Tables and figures:
Tables 1 and 3 have been deleted, Table 4 has been renumbered to Table 10. New Tables 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 have been added.
Figure 1 has been renumbered to Figure 3, Figure 2 renumbered to Figure 4, Figure 3 renumbered to Figure 9 and Figure 4 renumbered to Figure 12. Added new Figures 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11 have been added.
- Specific words and common names have been unified.
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IEC 61020-1:2019 specifies the terminology, symbols, test methods and other necessary information to provide consistency in detail specifications for electromechanical switches. This document relates...
IEC 61020-1:2009 provides consistency in detail specifications for electromechanical switches by specifying the terminology, symbols, test methods and other necessary information. Switches covered by...
Electromechanical switches for use in electronic equipment - Part 1: Generic specification


Dr.Sıtkı Egeli, one of our lecturers, was a guest of Artı TV, the Program "Dünya ve Biz" on February 20, 2019 to talk about patriots, S-400, F-35 and Turkish Foreign Policy. Please click for the program.
Dr. Sıtkı Egeli was on Mediascope live broadcast on 4 February 2019. He talked about the U.S.'s and Russia's withdrawal decision from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Students of the Political Science and International Relations department visited NATO LANDCOM - Allied Land Command headquarters located at Şirinyer-İzmir. During the visit which took place on November 26th, the students were first presented with briefings on NATO and given a tour of the headquarters, which was followed by briefings on NATO and LANDCOM. This was followed by a Q&A session attended by several NATO officials. Accompanying the students during the visit was Assistant Professor Dr. Sitki Egeli of IEU.
Dr. Sıtkı Egeli was one of the participants in the international workshop titled "Exploring New Approaches to Arms Control in the 21st Century".
One of our lecturers, Assoc.Prof.Dr.Alexander Buergin attended 3rd International Conference on Urban Studies in Strasbourg, France. He discussed the impact of digitalization and technological innovations on the implementation of the European Unions' environmental law.
Itır Bağdadi attended contact meetings of UN Women Friendly Cities United Nations Joint Programme.
Dr. Sıtkı Egeli of IEU presented a paper at Mülkiye International Relations Congress organized and hosted by Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science.
Itır Bağdadi was a keynote speaker at Conference of International Perspectives in Education, University of Derby.
One of our lecturers, Itır Bağdadi was a keynote speaker at Conference of International Perspectives in Education, University of Derby (12-13 October 2018).
Asst.Prof. Sıtkı Egeli of our university made a presentation in the workshop titled "Turkish defense industry in the 21st century".
Prof.Dr.Çiğdem Kentmen Çin attended Turkish-German Frontiers of Social Science Symposium last week.
New article on the "Natural Resources Curse"
Sıtkı Egeli appeared in Artı TV, analyzing advanced weapon systems used in Syrian conflict.


You should be careful whenever you employ a remodel contractor if you choose to renovate your home beautifully. You have to make sure that your contractor can present all of the services that you need. At any rate, just think about these things before deciding for a contractor to employ.
First off, consider the types of services the contractor are presenting. Some remodeling contractors only specializes a single area of the home. This just indicates they're not the perfect contractor you must hire if you take into account to renovate each corner of your home.
Checking for the prices of their services is the next step you need to do. This is pretty useful specifically for individuals who have limited funds. Knowing just how much you are about to spend for your houseís remodeling project is really important. Through this, you can already anticipate the amount of money necessary for the materials along with for the job as a whole.
If you already have chosen a contractor, meet them personally. You may arrange meetings to conveniently tackle every detail about the project. To help you even more, you can always share your wanted outcomes to your contractor so you will be contented when the undertaking is done. By doing this, you will get to see if the two of you share the same ideas you have in mind.
So as to know more regarding the remodel contractor, you should collect more information about them. Try to look for the providerís website and discover more about them by checking their website. It is as well wise to learn more about the evaluations from their previous customers to find out if they are truly capable of giving the right services for your home needs.
Today, clients will need to select from a lot of contractors. That's why one must be careful in selecting a reliable company. In the long run, you will be pleased with the final result.
It cannot be denied that a house can never be complete without the kitchen place. There are even situations that you need to boost its functionality by remodeling it. In that case, there are a number of stuff that you must know regarding kitchen remodels just before you carry on with the task.
Creating a plan on exactly how you'll remodel your kitchen is the first thing that you must do. Next, discuss it with a professional remodeler. Don't forget to inquire the remodeler concerning the project cost of course. This will greatly assist you in preparing the needed amount of cash.
If you have not done any home improvement before, ensure that the contractor you will hire is trustworthy. Companies who are giving kitchen remodels are flooding in the market, therefore it is vital to search for the most dependable one. Personally express your anticipations and plans for the project with your hired contractor. This will present you an opportunity to evaluate precisely how professional they are.
To get a glance with regards to their ability and expertise, make sure to read their work portfolio and learn about their past works. Don't settle with the first contractor that impresses you. It is smart to take into account each and every contractor with good reputation and evaluate the quality of their output as well as their price as well. Pick three to six dependable contractors, and learn a lot more about them.
Once you have potential contractors on the list, it will be perfect to make contact with some of their previous clients to know a lot more with regards to the nature of their work. They can present you a review concerning the company in which you will know whether they deserve to be employed. Know the details including the time period of the work as well as the given amount. For this reason, you should consider all the factors before picking the right contractor for the job.
In every house, it is essential to have a living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. Taking a morning shower in the bathroom is commonly the first thing we do every day. Having a goodnight or afternoon sleep is possible if you take a hot bath. That is why we should make our bathrooms appealing and functional.
But, bathroom remodels do not come in cheap; definitely, most homeowners know this simple fact. If you have plans of transforming your bathroom, there are items that you have to consider before choosing to do it. Primarily, you should have sufficient funds. It is vital to assess the money required for the project so as to know which portions of the bathroom may require redesigning.
After the financial plan has been fixed, it is time to choose the project theme. You may opt for themes such as classical, modern, or outdoor-like. You can select the color that you prefer after that.
The colors for the walls and tiles of the bathroom with classical design should be neutral or earth-toned. Bathroom designs that are inspired by contemporary touch tend to opt for valiant and strong colors that completely suits with the other bathroom accessories. If you opt to have a beach-themed bathroom, you can resort to various shades of blue like azure, cyan, and many more.
You should also think about the size of your bathroom. If it is just a small bathroom, then avoid putting other adornments on it. Moreover, you as well have to evaluate if you want to do the bathroom remodeling project on your own or have someone with appropriate expertise to do the project. If you can afford to hire an expert, then the task will be done instantly and efficiently.
Bathroom remodels need a lot of effort and resources. However, if you followed the tips mentioned previously, your preferred bathroom appearance will be achieved in the end. Prepare all the things you need today to get the job done in no time.


A group of children accidentally drop some of their biscuits on their way to a forest picnic. This causes a bunch of playful nursery rhyme characters to appear from the undergrowth, scrambling to get their share of the delicious biscuits.
This spot presented us with the opportunity to explore new techniques and combine live action with CG. We found a perfect location in a forest just outside Cape Town to shoot it. The forest was rather barren and brown so we covered it in homemade moss, roots and various lush plants. A large number of miniature, hand-crafted props were added to the set, such as Polly's kettle as well as Humpty Dumpty's house. All the characters and VFX were computer-generated and crafted in such a way that they would blend stoically with our sets. We were extremely proud of the end result. This campaign also became an extensive print campaign.
Check out the 'making of' to see how the project was put together.


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Contactless Payment in the NYC Subway is About to Launch Replacing the MetroCard (Eventually)
Michelle Young 05/03/2019 Architecture, New York, News, Transit
The MTA is about to launch the test phase of a contactless payment system in the New York City subway and bus system, with New York being one of first cities in the United States to implement this technology. We found the test units, a sleeker upgrade from an earlier scanner we saw being tested at Wall Street, at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall subway station that services the 4/5/6 and J/Z lines. The units, which currently display "TEST PHASE COMING SOON" with the contactless symbol, are made by Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., which was behind a similar technology for the London Tube. Cubic also designed the MetroCard system in 1992. When ready, transit-goers can use either a contactless credit or debit card, or a mobile wallet like Apple Pay, and eventually, a contactless transit card that will replace the MetroCard.
The new contactless system will be phased in, with the first testing along the Lexington Avenue 4/5/6 line and the Staten Island bus system this month. This year, it is planned that 500 subway turnstiles and 600 buses will get the contactless technology upgrade but the MetroCard will be in use until 2023. The MTA says that "The MetroCard will not be retired until the new system is fully tested and operational.
Contactless payment will speed up boarding of the SBS bus system, long criticized for not having enough of the elements of a true bus rapid transit system, and will integrate with Long Island Railroad and Metro-North. Customers will also be able to manage their account through web and mobile.
You will be able to see these units on the route of our upcoming Underground Tour of the NYC Subway, which will reveal many hidden histories and locations along the 4/5/6 line:
Underground Tour of the NYC Subway
Next, check out the Top 20 Secrets of the NYC Subway.
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This handy nut milk bag allows you to prepare a delicious range of nut milks and juices, as well as sprout seeds, at home. Made from durable nylon and incredibly easy to clean.
Making nut milk or juices using a nut milk bag is extremely easy. Simply place some nuts or vegetables and / or fruit into a blender, pour in a little water and blend until fine. Next, place the nut milk bag into a large bowl and pour the mixture into the bag. Seal the bag using the chord provided and squeeze the liquid into a cup.
To sprout seeds, place 8 teaspoons of seeds into the milk bag, immerse in water and leave overnight. Remove the bag of seeds from the water and rinse thoroughly under running water. Now hang the bag of seeds above the sink and rinse every 8 to 12 hours. After approx. 3 to 5 days (depending on the seeds used) you'll have some delicious sprouts that are ready for immediate consumption.
After every use, turn the nut milk bag inside out, remove the remains and rinse thoroughly with warm water. Hang to dry.
Nut milks and hemp milk are lactose free, making them ideal alternatives to standard milk. Sprouts are the germinated seeds of young plants – they are delicious in a variety of dishes, snacks and drinks, including salads, smoothies, breakfast cereals, lunch dishes, or as a garnish for meat and fish.
One nut milk bag is sufficient for the preparation of one or two glasses of nut milk or juice, or to prepare two servings of sprouts.
Almost all edible seeds and legumes can be sprouted, only the germination time and flavour differs per seed. Allow your taste buds determine which sprouts you like best!
If you are allergic to certain seeds or vegetables it is possible that you are also allergic to the milk, juice or sprouts of these same seeds or vegetables.


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Ranked as one of the top 10 maternity units in the country — the Women's Center at North Florida Regional Medical Center is where we deliver all of our babies.
Comprehensive Women's Health is here to skillfully guide you through every step of your pregnancy. Your health, and that of your baby, is our highest priority.
We specialize in high-risk obstetric care. Visits include state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment procedures, recommendations for maintaining wellness for you and your baby, and plenty of time for open discussion. Phone calls are answered personally and daily, as early as 7:30am – as well as during lunch hours.
"Meet The Team" sessions give families an opportunity to meet each physician and midwife personally in a relaxed and informal setting. You can discuss any concerns you may have about labor, and chat with other expectant couples while you enjoy a light meal.


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Self-efficacy, causal attribution and learning strategy in AN academic achievement situation
Takamichi Ito
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among self-efficacy, causal attributions and learning strategy in an academic achievement situation. The Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, self-efficacy and intrinsic value scales developed by Pintrich and De Groot (1990) were translated into Japanese and administered to 251 junior high school students. On the basis of the results of the factor analysis, five learning strategies subscales were constructed : general cognitive, review-summarizing, rehearsal, giving attention and connecting. These subscales were positively correlated, and there were gender differences in three subscales, self-efficacy and intrinsic value. All these subscales were strongly related to self-efficacy and intrinsic value. The relationships among self-efficacy, causal attributions and learning strategy were analyzed, and the findings suggested that learning strategies had a greater influence on self-efficacy than effort attribution for their failure.
Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology
https://doi.org/10.5926/jjep1953.44.3_340
Self Efficacy
Statistical Factor Analysis
gender-specific factors
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Ito, T. (1996). Self-efficacy, causal attribution and learning strategy in AN academic achievement situation. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 44(3), 340-349. https://doi.org/10.5926/jjep1953.44.3_340
Self-efficacy, causal attribution and learning strategy in AN academic achievement situation. / Ito, Takamichi.
In: Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 44, No. 3, 01.01.1996, p. 340-349.
Ito, T 1996, 'Self-efficacy, causal attribution and learning strategy in AN academic achievement situation', Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 340-349. https://doi.org/10.5926/jjep1953.44.3_340
Ito T. Self-efficacy, causal attribution and learning strategy in AN academic achievement situation. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. 1996 Jan 1;44(3):340-349. https://doi.org/10.5926/jjep1953.44.3_340
Ito, Takamichi. / Self-efficacy, causal attribution and learning strategy in AN academic achievement situation. In: Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. 1996 ; Vol. 44, No. 3. pp. 340-349.
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Shaved Cauliflower Salad with spring peas, radishes, cucumber, mint and a delicious Yogurt Dressing. The thinly sliced cauliflower is raw and marinates in the flavorful dressing.
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This may sound like a dumb question since I've been cooking for years, but on this I never was quite sure. When a recipe says, "Diced", what would be the proper size? I'm thinking a 1/2" square. What size would be the proper size? I'm doing conch chowder which calls for diced potatoes and tomatoes. Tomatoes are easy, they're canned and diced already. I've used the French fryer in the past. Run the potatoes thru and then run them thru crosswise. But, they seem small. You're the expert, that's why I'm asking you. When you dice, what's the average size?
In the Pillsbury cookbook, "diced" is defined as cutting into uniform pieces, smaller than 1/2" across, but my professional cookbook "Food for Fifty" defines "diced" as cutting into 1/4" cubes. So, you can either choose the "home-cook" version as defined by Pillsbury, or the "chef" version of 1/4-inch cubes.


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New year brings fresh opportunity for property bankers
Nick LenaghanProperty editor
With the latest omicron variant of COVID-19 spreading rapidly, disruption has become a constant across the economy, not least the property sector.
Australia's listed property players have been more than willing over the past year to roll up their sleeves and pluck opportunity from the mayhem. Typifying that thematic, just three days before Christmas, expanding property fund manager Charter Hall signed off on a deal to buy 50 per cent of Paradice Investment Management.
Disruption spells opportunity for commercial real estate. Wolter Peeters
It was a big year for everyone in the sector. More than $4 billion was raised in equity on the public market, along with nearly $23 billion in M&A activity. Add to that close to $44 billion, a record amount, in deals struck for commercial real estate.
That's quite a recovery for a sector which has been on the front line of upheaval. Even without the vicissitudes of the virus, the listed owners of Australia's shopping malls, warehouses, office towers, hospitals and childcare centres can look forward to fresh disruptions – rising rates, the growing power of super funds and supply chain squeezes, to mention a few.
Four leading investment bankers in the property sector set out their expectations for the year ahead in an exclusive roundtable with The Australian Financial Review.
How will a rate rise affect the property sector?
Valli Arunachalam, executive director for real estate investment banking at JP Morgan: Despite quite a significant increase in interest rates during the course of 2021 (which saw the 10-year bond yield spike from just under 1 per cent at the start of the year to higher than 2 per cent by the end of October) cap rates across commercial property continued to grind lower and valuations continued to increase across almost all property sectors. Real estate investors have effectively looked through the near-term increase in rates and been buoyed by the prospects of a strong recovery in the economy as we come out of the pandemic.
The reality is that many investors had already factored in an eventual increase in rates from the ultra-low levels we had seen in the last 2-3 years and this is why the yield spread to bonds had been steadily increasing up until this year. Notwithstanding the normalisation in rates we are seeing at the moment, the relative returns generated from real estate are attractive by historical standards and should support valuations.
Tim Church, chairman of investment banking, Morgan Stanley Australia. Peter Braig
Tim Church, managing director and chairman of investment banking in Australia at Morgan Stanley: The Australian REIT (real estate investment trust) sector was the best performing sector on the ASX with a return of in excess of 27 per cent. With the REIT sector being an interest rate-sensitive sector, we should not be surprised by this outperformance given that the RBA cut rates three times in 2020 to a record low official cash rate of 0.1 per cent, and it maintained this level for the entirety of 2021.
Despite the cash rate remaining firmly planted at what can best be described as emergency setting levels at 0.1 per cent, the 10-year bond rate rose steadily from its beginning of the year level of 0.971 per cent, more than doubling to 2.079 per cent in October 2021 to finish the year just under 1.6 per cent.
So, does the old adage of "What goes up must come down" apply here and now to the REIT and broader property sector? Well, eventually yes – but in the medium term I don't think this will be the case and the reversal could well take some time. Our Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has been consistent in saying that the official cash rate can remain very accommodating until 2024, albeit recent commentary has suggested late 2023 should inflation begin to accelerate above their preferred levels.
Additionally, when you consider the indebtedness of the federal government and the Australian household then rate movements are likely to be relatively subdued, so as not to cause too many adverse economic shocks to the consumer and households. I suspect, given the meteoric rise of residential property prices in 2021, we may see these prices correcting quicker in time than the commercial property sectors.
However, I remain incredibly optimistic as to the long-term suitability of securely leased real estate as a core investment given the ability of this asset class to produce long-term stable income returns and ultimately capital growth over a period of time. Even despite the significant yield compression we have seen, particularly over the last 12 months from when the RBA cut the official cash rate to an all-time low of 0.1 per cent, on a relative sense securely leased commercial real estate screens attractively.
When you consider the number of tech stocks that trade on significantly higher net earning multiples (some may say even stratospheric multiples), one of the redeeming features of real estate is its ability to produce predictable and relatively stable income returns and this will prove to be a good store of value creation, both from a significant income perspective and ultimately capital gain perspective.
Rahul Bharara, managing director and head of real estate Australia, Credit Suisse: Short-term volatility aside, orderly rate rises by themselves are not determinants of what happens to the REIT sector and there is plenty of evidence of REITs performing well in the face of hawkish monetary policy. My focus is on the real economy and the bounce we have been witnessing – a strong economy will invariably support rental growth and consequently outlook for real estate assets.
Rahul Bharara, managing director and head of real estate Australia, Credit Suisse.
Andrew Scade, managing director co-head of real estate Australasia for UBS: From the listed A-REITs perspective, we have seen a general trend towards reduced hedging levels over recent years as the REITs have sought to take advantage of historically low floating rates. As a result, a rate rise would increase debt costs for a number of the A-REITs. However, this ignores the other factors that would precipitate a rate increase, principally rising inflation. Data supports the conventional wisdom that real estate performs well in an inflationary environment and inflation-linked rent escalations should provide some offset against rising debt costs.
Given the considerable upheaval across the sector from COVID-19 already, and now with new variants emerging, can we expect further adjustment to disruption in real estate?
Church: The so called "reopening trade" has yet to materialise due to the continued impact of new variants, most recently and again disruptively the omicron variant. So, this will again hurt those sectors that are reliant on open borders both domestically and internationally particularly the tourism and education sectors that are dependent on both.
The longer the disruption, the greater build-up of a desire to return to normal and I suspect travel (international in particular) will be the biggest beneficiary here with accommodation hotels being the biggest winner. Other outperformers will continue to be the healthcare and logistics sectors and sentiment towards office will remain subdued as the necessity to work from home during periods of significant community transmissions persist. However, when sentiment overrides reality some great buying opportunities could arise from oversold positions.
Arunachalam: There is a general feeling that we are closer to the end of the pandemic now due to high vaccination rates and with the use of rolling lockdowns largely phased out. We could see real estate sectors that were heavily impacted by the pandemic begin to come back into focus as investors position themselves for life after the pandemic.
Valli Arunachalam, executive director, real estate investment banking at JPMorgan.
A prime example was the rebound in shopping mall investment activity in the second half of 2021. Looking forward, as Australia reopens to the rest of the world, we could see investment in sectors that are exposed to overseas migration and tourism such as build-to-rent, student accommodation and hotels increase.
Scade: While further lockdowns appear off the cards for Australia (at least for now), tenant and consumer behaviours will continue to evolve as the situation with further variants develops. Hybrid working is likely here to stay and the continued ascendancy of e-commerce will continue to impact on both retail and logistics real estate.
Offshore investors have been and will continue to be influenced by their lived experiences, and the latest round of restrictions across Europe as well as increasing returns to remote working in parts of the US and the UK will no doubt impact on perceptions of the outlook for office and retail property.
Bharara: I think it's more a case of evolution than disruption in real estate. Real estate constantly adapts to the needs of tenants and end users. You only have to look back a few decades and see how office and retail space have evolved significantly since the 1990s – the pandemic has accelerated some of these trends, but there is plenty of evidence about the importance of physical space, which is being evidenced by leasing activity across all formats. Most recently on the retail side (omicron aside) we were witnessing mall visitation numbers in the US returning to pre-pandemic levels.
How much more scope is there for capital accumulation, through funds or floats, in the alternates sector and what are the prospects for REIT IPOs more broadly?
Scade: There remains considerable capacity for further funds or floats in the alternative real estate sector – the ASX remains dominated by "traditional" real estate asset classes and the US listed market presents an indication of where our market could evolve to in the future, with more than 50 per cent alternatives in the REIT index. Investor demand for alternatives is underpinned by strong and growing mega-trends, which are not expected to wane in the near term, and we would expect any IPOs in the alternates sector would be well-supported.
Andrew Scade, managing director co-head of real estate Australasia for UBS.
Arunachalam: The prospects for IPOs and new unlisted funds in the alternatives sector is high. Ultimately, there are large amounts of capital on the sidelines from investors seeking increased diversification chasing relatively few existing funds/REITs with alternates exposure.
REITs with an alternate investment mandate often offer the opportunity to roll-up a fragmented sector and a first mover advantage, which is attractive to a growth-minded investor. This year, we saw many existing REITs announce a funds management strategy which could naturally see new externally managed REITs listed on the ASX as part of that strategy.
Bharara: The prospects for 2022 look good – significant capital is available for the right assets and good management teams from institutional, ultra-high net worths and traditional retail channels. Investors are actively seeking to diversify their real estate portfolios. Therefore, there continues to be strong demand for alternative asset classes that are under-represented in Australia. The key issue is achieving scale in emerging asset classes like self-storage, data centres, build-to-rent, student accommodation, healthcare, life sciences and childcare, among others
Church: Now more than ever, the market is keen to participate in the evolution of differentiated asset classes. This was clearly evidenced by the success of the REIT sector's first listed healthcare REIT, being the HealthCo Healthcare and Wellness REIT. This REIT was the largest REIT offering in 2021 and was brought to market with zero gearing and a distribution yield of 4.5 per cent and has performed very well in the aftermarket.
Given Australia's significant rural production credentials you could expect to see further participation from this diverse and vibrant area of the property sector. For alternate property sectors to be viable for major funds (both listed and unlisted) they need to have critical mass and scale.
Has the logistics boom peaked?
Bharara: Not from what we are hearing on the ground. The first part of the boom was led by declining cap rates, and now we are seeing rental growth coming through a number of portfolios. Logistic properties benefit from the demand for space from e-commerce and third-party logistics providers, which continues unabated. We remain positive on the sector and see continued demand from institutional investors who are underweight in this asset class.
Arunachalam: No, I don't think so. Industrial and logistics real estate will continue to be highly sought after due to its critical role in the increasingly omni-channel supply chain. 2021 was the year that Australia caught up to other geographies such as the US and Europe in terms of a cap rate re-rating for logistics. However, it's worth noting that e-commerce penetration in Australia is still below many other developed economies.
Supply-demand fundamentals are strong and that is translating to significant rental growth, which should underpin continued investment. We think there will be growing interest in last mile logistics facilities in urban locations based on the investor demand seen for these types of centres in the US and UK.
Church: Whilst we have seen some significant yield compression in this sector over the last 24 months I believe the sector has plenty of tailwinds to keep it as one of the best-performing asset classes over the next few years. Landmark transactions such as the Blackstone Milestone transaction (the largest-ever logistics portfolio trade at $3.8 billion); Qube Logistics' sale of Moorebank Logistics facility in Sydney and the record-setting Qantas industrial portfolio all point to continued interest and support for the sector.
Whilst yield compression has been the big driver of value creation I believe rental growth will be the next phase of value creation for the logistics sector in Australia. We are fortunate to have a number of sector-leading industrial logistics players in Australia, including the globally significant Goodman Group, which has significantly outperformed globally across its vast portfolio to be now the largest listed real estate vehicle in Australia dedicated solely to logistics.
Scade: Whilst industrial and logistics cap rates have compressed to extremely low levels, we think it's too early to call the peak, particularly as we're seeing record low vacancies in logistics properties nationally. Tenant demand and ongoing institutional investor demand resulting from e-commerce and supply chain tailwinds should be supportive for both rental growth and cap rates, driving ongoing strength in logistics real estate valuations.
What are the prospects for M&A in 2022? How likely are we to see privatisations?
Arunachalam: Several large-cap REITs are currently trading below appraised book values, which creates a take-private opportunity for an acquirer. Privatising a REIT has the added benefit of stamp duty savings and being able to inherit an entire operating platform with management expertise.
The amount of capital pushing into superannuation funds and various alternative fund managers means they have the resources to consider elephant-sized deals of a scale that were previously not possible. In the infrastructure space we have seen large cash proposals to acquire Sydney Airport and AusNet Services, and something similar in the real estate space is possible given the amount of capital available to be deployed for defensive assets.
Listed A-REITs currently have very healthy balance sheets and are actively looking for growth opportunities coming out of the pandemic (especially in the real estate funds management space). Outside of a few large-cap REITs, most other REITs now have strong currencies to use in strategic mergers and to undertake equity raisings to acquire assets or businesses.
Church: M&A has been a dominant thematic globally in 2021 and not just in real estate. Globally M&A deal volumes totalled approximately $US5 trillion – nearly double the average over the last 15 years. In Australia, M&A volumes were twice the 10-year average at approximately $270 billion. In real estate M&A in 2021 it has been the largest year by number of transactions announced for over 10 years and the largest year by value over the last five years, only eclipsed by the Westfield /Unibail transaction in 2017.
With an abundance of capital ready to invest from cashed-up private equity, global pension and sovereign wealth funds, large domestic industry and super funds, and large property funds management businesses, the landscape for large-scale M&A is as conducive to elevated activity as it has ever been.
Coupled with the low cost of both equity and debt capital and the benefits that securely leased income from prime real estate provides, such real assets will be keenly sought after. Privatisations will form part of this allocation of these competitive funds seeking a home.
Bharara: Whilst there is a lot more capital than what we have seen in the past, there is also a great degree of discipline and strategic emphasis around any potential transaction. A lot will be dictated by where REITs trade over the course of the year, as discount to direct property markets will always present opportunities. Institutional capital from superannuation, pension, sovereign wealth funds and insurance funds will be increasingly important buyers of real estate.
Scade: 2021 saw the return of public M&A in the real estate sector and, should these conditions continue, the prospects are good for ongoing activity in 2022. The underlying thematics of the abundance of private capital and the sector trading at discounts to NTA (net tangible assets) have been much discussed – the question remains whether potential buyers will have conviction in the underlying asset classes that continue to face near-term uncertainty and challenges.
Market dislocations may create opportunities. However, ultimately, as we've seen across the infrastructure and real estate sectors in 2021, major shareholders will be determinative in the success of any privatisations.
Nick Lenaghan edits the property section, which covers all aspects, from residential real estate and housing and construction to commercial property – office, retail, industrial – and major ASX-listed developers and real estate investment trusts. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nlenaghan@afr.com
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Global Environment Centre (GEC) and Wetlands International operated a joint exhibition booth to highlight peatlands and climate change including climate change actions by ASEAN member states. The achievements of the ASEAN Peatland Forests Project (APFP) and SEApeat projects were highlighted to visitors.
On 2nd December, a side event entitled "Towards a Low Carbon and Climate-Resilient ASEAN Community Post-2015 with a Focus on Sustainable Solutions for Peatland Fires and Haze" was held at UNFCCC Conference Center in Paris. The side event was jointly organised by the ASEAN Secretariat and Global Environment Centre (GEC), the event attracted around 80 participants.
Another side event was held on 5th December, entitled "ASEAN Cooperation on Climate Change and Post-2015 Vision" at Viet Nam Pavilion in the COP21 conference center. It discussed ASEAN's regional strategies, action plan, and targets for contributing to the UNFCCC objectives and outlined potential coordinated strategies and policies for low carbon and climate resilient development at regional level in view of the ASEAN Community's Post-2015 Vision.
Lessons learned from the implementation of the APFP-SEApeat projects were also shared at the Global Landscape Forum held on 5-6 December, at Palais de Congress in Paris.


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Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture
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King Yeongjo's calligraphy bestowed on Lee Sam
Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
Ink and colors on wood
h. 53.5 x w. 84 cm (overall).
Asian Art Museum, on loan from the Hampyeong Lee Family Collection in Daejeon, Korea.
Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Upon his appointment as one of the second-rank Bunmu meritorious officials in 1728, Lee Sam (Yi Sam, 1677–1735) was bestowed various rewards by King Yeongjo (reigned 1724–1776), including his portrait. The king's recognition and rewards continued throughout Lee Sam's career. This plaque is a copy of the calligraphy King Yeongjo wrote when appointing Lee as the mayor of Hanseong (part of today's Seoul) in 1731.
This kind of copied royal calligraphy was often displayed in a man's living quarters or outside of a scholar's study. Except for royal palaces and Buddhist temples, Joseon-dynasty buildings and components like plaques were not decorated with colors. Here the borders of the plaque, although it was in an official's house, are decorated with colors because it contains the king's calligraphy.