Resource-starving small firms in this era of cut throat competition follow an aggressive attitude towards internationalization. One of the most important challenges faced by the manager's in small firm in developing economies is to find new ways to successful internationalization through suitable entry modes. In particular when the small firms expand their international operations from emerging to developed economies. The role of cognitive perception remains inconclusive in SME internationalization and this is an area which is relatively under-researched. Based on the integration of cognitive psychology and Dunning eclectic framework, this paper develops a rigorous model and tests a logical hypothesis for entry mode selection. By introducing the new resource value generation taxonomies, this study explores the impact of ownership, location and cognitive dimensions on small firm entry mode choices. The data was collected from a sample of three major provinces of Pakistan through postal and drop-off survey (questionnaire). As the dependent variable was dichotomous, logistic regression was used to analyze the data set. Integration of Dunning framework with cognition(dynamic capabilities) supports new value generation taxonomies of entry mode selection. The findings support the central role of ownership, location and cognitive advantages in the choice and selection of high value generation modes. The new value generation dependent taxonomies (high and low value generation modes)introduced in this research, and complexities associates with IB research highlights the need for further empirical, cross-cultural and longitudinal studies. This research through careful deliberation presents useful implication that will enhance the SME international activity of small firms from developing economies.


So which data plan should I choose?
Making sense of data plans since all of the carriers took away unlimited plans has been difficult for many. Data, unlike texts and talk minutes is hard to measure. With texting you can measure them by how many texts you send. With minutes you can measure by how many minutes you talk. Over the last few years carriers have made unlimited plans available to us. However they have came to realize that the channel in which people have came to communicate over the last year or so is through data. We use our mobile device to connect on Facebook and Twitter far more often than we place a call. It was only a matter of time before they did away with unlimited plans. There is just no money to be made in unlimited plans. So how do you make the right choice between plans and how can you check to make sure you are not exceeding the limits of the plan you chose?
If you are like me then you spend most of your day communicating through your phone. Even while behind the computer I am using my mobile device to connect through apps on my iPhone. The introduction of apps on the phone has made my life much more productive. I do small tasks such as check email and more advanced tasks like restarting my servers after I make a change to one of them. It really is amazing what you can do from a mobile device these days.
However, some use their mobile devices for very little. They love the apps and have a few but rarely use apps that connect to the internet for much more than submitting a new high score. They may check email and maybe even update Facebook once or twice a day, but that is it.
Data plans are currently measured in Megabytes (MB) and Gigabytes (GB). There are 1024 Megabytes in a Gigabyte. Most carriers at the time of writing this have two plans, a small plan and a large plan. The smaller plans are usually around 200 Megabytes and the larger plans currently at 5 Gigabytes. I will give you an idea of what kind of data usage you can get out of each of the two plans. Keep in mind that on the iPhone using iTunes to download Music, Videos or Apps you are only allowed to download files up to 20 Megabytes in size over the network. You can download files of any size when connected to a Wifi. Some see this as a limitation but on these new data plans I see it as a savior.
Like I mentioned before, on the iPhone you can not download files over 20MB with out using a Wifi connection. That does not stop you from downloading multiple files that are under 20MB in size. On my Android phone I have yet to see such a message. So I am let to believe that there are no file size limitations on the Android phone. There could be limitations on other phones that I am unaware of.
I use Audible.Com's app for my iPhone and Android Phone. You can download audiobooks that you have recently purchased to your device. There is no file limit with in that app so I can download a 200MB audiobook using a 3G connection. This may take some time but I have done it while driving. Once the audiobook has downloaded approximately 1-2% you can start listening to it. The file continues to download in the background. If I had the small data plan currently available I would get one audiobook download and I would be done.
How are these plans billed?
The new trend in data plan billing is different than cell minutes. With cell phone minutes, if you go over you are charged a price per minute you exceed your plan. With data, you get charged for a new plan and your data resets. For example, if you have a 200MB plan which has a cost of $20 per month and you exceed it. You will be billed another $20 and you will receive an additional 200MB for that month. There is no roll over with data, so your unused data at the end of the month is gone. Some carriers are still charging per megabyte for overages. Make sure you look into this before getting locked into a contract.
From what I have seen with the major US carriers, you can upgrade to a larger data plan at any time, even mid billing cycle and downgrade as well. With voice plans you usually have to wait until the next billing cycle for the plan to take effect, sometimes changing your voice plan will even restart your contract.
Always ask your carrier if the change you want to make will restart your contract with them. Wireless carriers are sneaky evil companies who would lock your baby into a contract if they could.
How do I know how much data I have used?
On the Android Phone this is very easy. They have an app that records that information and even displays it in your notification bar. There is a free app for Android called PhoneUsage. I recommend you download it.
On the iPhone we are currently not so lucky. There is a section in Settings that will show us our phone usage but it includes Wifi data as well. Wifi data use does not count toward your data package. You can download myWireless from AT&T and manage your account from your iPhone. You can also look and see how much data you have consumed. However I do not know how often that updates. I doubt it updates on the fly.
I was lucky enough to get the unlimited plan on the iPad before it was retired. However I never get close to using enough data to really warrant having an unlimited plan. I hold onto it because as more apps become available I have began to use it more and more. I also find myself using my iPad with a Wifi connection far more often than I use it with a 3G connection. This means that most of the data my iPad uses does not even use any of the data from my plan.
It is almost a joke that they would offer a 200MB wireless plan for laptops. Windows 7 probably uses up 200MB just checking to see if there are any new updates. On a PC you want to be vary careful about your data usage. If your computer is infected with spyware, the spyware could be using data in the background. Leaving other applications open could also run down your data if they are using an internet connection for anything. On my Mac I am often listening to Pandora Radio while working on a website. At the same time I have a Twitter client running, I am updating Facebook, my Email Client is checking for new messages, MobileMe is syncing my contacts and calendars, Dropbox is syncing new data… The list goes on. All of these things use data. Using your Wifi connection at home or in your office you do not notice this data usage, but on a limited data plan you will learn really fast how much data you really pull into your computer.
On a Mac you can download an app called SurplusMeter. On the PC there is an open source application called FreeMeter. Both of these applications will allow you to track data usage. As you use data, the applications will record it. You just want to make sure you turn off the tracking while you are connected to something other than your laptop card or you will assume you have used much more data then you really have.
Ultimately you can also log into your carriers website and look at your data consumption. However this will take time and I am all about productivity.
Understanding new technologies and the way we can be charged for them is difficult. I hope that this helps you understand it a bit better so you can take control of your data usage. Now you definitely know enough to be dangerous. 😉 If you have any questions, thoughts or suggestions, please feel free to add them in the comment section below. I will do my best to respond to them.
Are there settings that can be changed on iPhone that would help to minimize data use?
Hey, just want to thank you. This was helpful. I use Verizon and, as you say, they are wicked – they would charge by the word if they could.


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Springfield College student, tired of clumpy shakes, invents Blendi — portable cordless blender
Updated Mar 1, 2019 ; Posted Feb 26, 2019
Springfield College senior Jonathan Katz developed a portable blender in his dorm room
Gallery: Springfield College senior Jonathan Katz developed a portable blender in his dorm room
By Jim Kinney | jkinney@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD — Go online and order a BLENDi portable blender and rest assured that order has been flashed to the company's fulfillment center — an operation occupying a corner of a Springfield College dorm room.
It's also where company founder, BLENDi blender inventor and senior marketing major Jonathan Katz does product development, accounting and finance and public relations.
"I'm sold out now," Katz, 22, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, said. "But I had boxes and boxes of BLENDis in there. I had all these big envelopes and when orders came in, I'd send them out by U.S. Postal Service. The post office would come here to the campus and pick them up."
That was until he had sold out the first shipment of 300 BLENDi blenders just six months after getting his first shipment last year. Another 400 are due to arrive soon from a manufacturer in China.
"I'm taking pre-orders now to fill when the shipment comes in," Katz said. "It's crazy."
The BLENDi sells online for $49.95 but he's running a pre-order sale for $39.95 each.
The BLENDi is a portable blender powered by a lithium ion battery and charged with a common micro-USB charger like some phones use. Powerful enough to crush ice, it weighs just less than four pounds and holds 13 ounces of liquid.
"The perfect single serving of a protein shake," he said.
A bodybuilder, Katz habitually drinks a protein shake after a workout.
Back during his freshman year, he kept getting frustrated because the shakes he blended with protein powder and brought with him to the gym were getting clumpy in his bottle.
"It was disgusting," Katz said. "You ended up having to chew and eat your protean. You should drink your protean. I wanted the blending experience I had at home."
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The BLENDi has a strainer all the better to keep the blueberry seeds out of your blueberry smoothie.
He started looking for cordless portable blenders and couldn't find any. He started drawing one on Microsoft Paint, the graphics editing software, and he found an engineer online who'd help him.
That stated a process of developing prototypes — the first one worked off a disassembled cordless drill — being dissatisfied and starting another prototype.
In his sophomore year, Katz attended the 3-Day Startup weekend seminar Western New England University and Valley Venture Mentors hosts for entrepreneurs attending local colleges. From there he got involved with Valley Venture Mentors and its accelerator program where was able to bounce ideas off other people — many of them college students like himself.
Grinspoon and VVM helped him find student engineers at UMass who further helped him refine BLENDi.
Katz participated in the Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative and its conferences. It was at one of the Grinspoon conferences that BLENDi got its name.
He'd been calling it s SteelBlade, after the steel blades in the blender.
"But the name was too aggressive," Katz said. "Women didn't like it."
A woman in the audience just shouted out Blendi, picking it from a list of possible new names.
Eighty percent of BLENDi customers are women, part of a target audience that includes folks who like health drinks like shakes and smoothies on the go, campers and picnickers and those looking for a convenient cordless way to enjoy a margarita.
Half the new order of 400 Blendis will be pink, Katz said.
"Customer feedback says women would like it in pink," he said.
He has BLENDi manufactured in China due to cost.
"It's super expensive in the United states, especially the steel blades," he said.
He is worried that the concept will get stolen. There is a patent pending on one novel feature of BLENDi. And that novel feature is that the blender comes with a bottom that screws on the drinking vessel, turning it into a water bottle with a sold base.
"It's interchangeable," he said.
Katz markets BLENDi in person at new product shows and online using the social network site Instagram.
More information may be found online at https://www.blendiblender.com/

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Jake Fairley aka Fairmont is an electronic music producer, live performer and DJ from Toronto, Canada. He began his career in the early 2000s making punk-rock-infused techno and electro under his own name for labels such as Kompakt, Sender and Dumb- Unit. However, it was his 2005 smash-hit Gazebo under his Fairmont pseudonym that solidified him as a heavyweight in the global underground scene. Released on James Holden's Border Community label, Gazebo sold 20,000 vinyl copies, made Fairmont a household name and remains a club standard to this day. His partnership with Border Community would continue for several years.
After years of focusing on slower and more contemplative tracks, Jake is back to making prime-time club bangers. Meanwhile he has revamped his all-hardware live rig, focusing on a bigger techno sound as well ready to techno Lethargy 2017.


2.5 - How Much Does the Customer Pay?
for the organization of the funding of the SPV itself.
between the borrower on one side and the mandated leader ranger on the other side.
to pay to the whole group of banks that are assembled in the to be syndicate.
This total amount of fees goes under the name of arranging fee.
syndicate will provide to the special purpose vehicle itself.
in total the amount to the MLA.
in the syndicate, will receive for that participation.
will try to extract as much value as possible from the MLA.
order to retain the most part of the fees for himself.
amount of fees that the MLA has received from the borrower.
use a sort of an example that we can use in order to drive our discussion.
to analyze a 200 million Euro finance project.
the compensation to the MLA for the organization of the syndicate group.
So, you can understand that the first step of our calculation will be to calculate.
that will join the MLA at a later stage of the process.
propose to other banks the following terms and conditions.
First of all, for banks who will join as a co-mandated lead arranger.
as pure participant, I can propose a fee of 0.2%.
This fee goes under different names.
Typically, it is called up-front management fee.
Sometimes you will find it defined as closing fees or participation fees.
Suppose now that our syndicate is formed in this way.
Here we have our Mandated Lead Arranger.
co-mandated lead arranger, and so, we have one bank.
lead arranger, and you invite another bank, Bank C.
That is playing the role of underwriter or co-mandated lead arranger.
underwriter, the Co-Mandated Lead Arranger, start inviting other banks.
D, Bank E, and Bank F, are invited with the simple role as a lead manager.
can tell you which is the situation of the syndicate, once the syndicate is formed.
columns that indicate the underwritten amount and the financed amount.
Let us comment on the different information together.
different banks that belong to the syndicate.
So you have Bank B, Bank C, Bank D, E, and F.
Next column indicates the role that every bank perform in the syndicate.
As you can appreciate, Bank B plays the role of Mandated Lead Arranger.
Bank C plays the role of underwriter, or also it is known as a Co-Lead Arranger.
Then you have the three other banks.
that simply provide money without underwriting any amount.
They are defined as Lead Managers.
The next column indicates the underwritten amount by the different tiers of banks.
And as you can appreciate.
first tier of banks, the group of underwriters, underwrite the loan.
the MLA on one side, and the other Co-Lead Arranger, Bank C, on the other side.
The two banks underwrite exactly one-half of the loan.
100 million, Bank B, 100 million Bank C.
Then, as you can appreciate in the last column.
MLA and the other Co-Lead Arranger, sell down portions of the loan in the market.
Bank B has fallen from 100 million to 25 million Euros.
sell down 75 million Euros loans to other banks.
Bank D, Bank E, or Bank F.
The same holds true for Bank C.
Bank C had an original underwriting commitment of 100 million.
lent by Bank C, has fallen from 100 million to 25 million.
the market to either Bank D, Bank E, or Bank F.
Bank D takes responsibility for lending the amount of 40 million.
Bank E for an amount of 50 million or Bank F.
But a final amount of 60 million.
amounts starting from the bottom going to the top.
which is exactly the amount that Bank B and Bank C have placed in the market.
amounts and which is the underwriting commitment for the first tiers of banks.
We are now ready to start the calculation of the fee distribution.
In order to understand how much every bank will get from this syndicate.
think about the field distribution as a waterfall of payment.
And the waterfall is very easy to understand.
MLA then disperses money to all the other banks.
then flows down to the other members of the syndicate.
The borrower pays 1% overall fees to the MLA.
1% of 200 million returns an amount of two million Euros.
This amount is received by the MLA.
The MLA now pays 0.8 a co-arranging fee to Bank C.
As you remember, Bank C committed an underwriting amount of 100 million Euros.
So the first payment amounts to 0.8% times 100 million.
the MLA, 2 million, minus the amount paid as co-arranging fee, 800,000.
What is left for the MLA at this stage is 1,200,000.
money that every bank lends materially to the borrower itself.
So we can start paying management fees, or closing fees.
would provide to the borrower that you can read in the final column of our table.
So, take for example, Bank C.
Bank C has committed to lend in the final stage of the syndication, 25 million Euro.
point, Bank C is entitled to receive 50,000 Euros.
If we move to Bank D, Bank D has committed to lend a final amount of 40 million.
get the total amount of fees of 80,000 Euros.
you can get exactly all the amounts that all the different banks will receive.
So, Bank E will receive 0.20% times 50 million, so in this case 100,000 Euros.
And Bank F, will receive 0.20% times 60 million.
to Bank C, D, E, and F for their participation in the syndicate.
Which is the sum of all the closing fees, which amounts to 350,000 Euros.
800,000 for Co-Arranging Fee and then you paid 350,000.
For closing fees to all the members of the syndicate.
The bottom line that is retained by the MLA is the residual 850,000.
total amount of fees of 850,000 out of total bulk of fees of two million.
are received for a final commitment to lend.
Which is only 25 million.
divided by the final amount really lent to the borrower.
You get a final return on investment capital.
much almost compared to the original nominal value.
Which is the bottom line of this reasoning?
you get the fees lending a much smaller amount to the borrower itself.
This is leveraging your return on invested capital three times as much.
This is typical of the syndication process.
There is a old saying in the syndication market.
and not originate the deal to keep the deal on it's own books.
for providing the organization of the syndicate.
for the final ending in this particular deal.


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When Jane Kilcullen and her husband, Kevin, bought a home built in the 1970s next to the Jupiter Hills golf course, they planned to remodel it. But when none of the plans were to their liking, they decided to tear down the existing home and pool house and start from scratch. "We loved the location on the corner of the golf course," Kilcullen says.
The new home needed to accommodate the couple's three adult children and grandchildren during family visits, and also provide space for entertaining friends. Her husband, a tax attorney, needed an office where he could meet with clients, and Kilcullen, who loves to cook, wanted a spacious kitchen. The finished product by Edgewater Homes meets all of the couple's criteria.
The covered entry has a metal roof, while the rest of the roof is made of tiles that mimic the look of cedar shakes.
A covered breezeway connects the two-story main house and single-story pool house. The home has five bedrooms, each with an ensuite bath, as well as a sixth full bath and two laundry rooms. "When I have a houseful, having two laundry rooms is great," Kilcullen says. She worked closely with interior designer Joy Ross Dabill to decorate the home. "Her tastes and mine really fell into line together," Kilcullen says.
A metal roof on the covered entry adds texture, while the remainder of the roof is tile that mimics the look of cedar shakes. The wide driveway is made with authentic Old Chicago brick. "Nothing else approaches that look, and it was my extravagance," Kilcullen says.
Inside, white walls and wide-planked dark wood flooring throughout much of the home are a backdrop for a color palette featuring dramatic blacks, deep greens and rich corals. "There is no beige in my house," Kilcullen says firmly.
The entry opens to a long hallway with black and white marble flooring that extends through the house to a dramatic staircase at the back. A bronze chandelier and three large square lanterns hang from the ceiling.
Kevin Kilcullen's office is located at the front of the house so clients don't have to walk through other areas of the home. "We didn't want it to be a heavy, chairman-of-the-board style office," Kilcullen says. Instead, the room features a vintage chandelier of white wood whimsically accented with black chintz draperies with a pattern of green parrots and tropical foliage, a green rug and a glass-topped desk.
The kitchen workspace has white cabinetry and white marble countertops. The island has ample storage. Dark wood in the breakfast nook in the background contrasts with the pristine white.
Countertops are white marble with a soft gray pattern. Wood-backed stools with bright coral cushions line one of the counters, which acts as a divider between the kitchen and living room. Fish scale pendant lights suspended above the island, topped with the same marble, are edged with gleaming mother-of-pearl.
In contrast to the pristine white workspace, the breakfast area has dark wood cabinetry and a dark wood table that seats six. Chairs with bamboo frames have cushions covered with a coral and white print, and linen draperies are coral with white applique.
In the living room, glass doors fold back completely to make the interior and outdoor lanai one space. Green and white draperies with a coral berry pattern add color.
In the living room, glass doors slide open completely so the interior and the lanai become one space. A coffered ceiling adds architectural interest, and a fireplace provides a focal point. Green and white draperies with coral berry accents brighten the space. Vintage plantation chairs are upholstered in green, and vintage brass lamps cast a warm glow.
Wallpaper with a green and off-white diamond pattern adds visual interest to the dining room, and a rectangular dark wood table seats eight. Tiny crystal birds perch on the brass chandelier.
Black and white marble tile flooring lines a hall that goes from the front to the back of the house.
Three sets of French doors in the second-story master bedroom open to a balcony. White wainscoting and gray grasscloth add texture to the walls, and whimsical draperies in primary colors have floral and dragon patterns. The four-poster bed has a white coverlet accented with black and white palm print pillows, a pattern that is repeated on an ottoman and two club chairs.
While many master baths in Florida luxury homes have large tubs, this one has none at all. Instead, it has an open circular shower. "I didn't think we'd use a tub," Kilcullen says. The countertop is black marble.
A guest suite features two bedrooms; one with a king-size bed for the Kilcullen's son, Paul, and his wife, Stephanie, and the other with twin beds for grandchildren.
Coral accent pillows, draperies and chair upholstery add color to a bedroom in the pool house. French doors open to the patio.
The pool house has two additional bedrooms separated by a family room with a cypress coffered ceiling and a fireplace with a barn board mantle. Aluminum rattan furnishings with khaki cushions are designed to handle damp swim suits.
The home is just what the family wanted, Kilcullen says: space for family and friends, privacy when it's desired, and plenty of areas for socializing. "It's great for entertaining," she says.


Picture this: You have two sons, both in the same school district, and both excited to attend a school-sponsored summer camp with their friends. Your youngest son, a 6-year-old, will attend for the first time.
But along with the normal anxiety that accompanies a child going to camp, another looms large: This son lives with type 1 diabetes and may require extra care during the day. Then, after applying to the camp, only one son is accepted—your youngest is denied because of his diabetes. What would you do?
Angela Smith and Patrick Adam of Los Alamitos, California, faced this situation with their son, Brody, who hoped to join his older brother at their school district's summer day camp program, Camp Fun in the Sun. Unfortunately, the Los Alamitos Unified School District didn't feel that it could provide proper diabetes care for Brody, although it was familiar with Brody's needs during the school year.
"When we first applied to the camp, we didn't have any idea that Brody might be denied because of his diabetes. Particularly since he attends school in the same district that offers this summer camp—including [attending] the same after-school camp throughout the school year," Angela explains.
Brody faced discrimination because of his type 1 diabetes. Not only is it unlawful for parents to be required to be present for insulin administration, it's also illegal to deny a child entry to public summer camp programs simply because of diabetes. The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination in instances like this.
Angela and Patrick weren't satisfied with the school district's rejection. They took to the internet to find a solution, quickly discovering that the American Diabetes Association® was there to help them advocate. Our Legal Advocacy team provided Brody's parents with the backup they needed, such as information on federal protections and program obligations for public summer camp programs. We also supplied sample letters for the family to use, copies of Title II settlements and a fact sheet about the rights of children with diabetes at camp.
After the Association provided information on the rights afforded to kids like Brody, the school system arranged for a nurse (the same one who leads Brody's diabetes care at school) to train summer camp employees on how to assist with diabetes management. Finally, Brody could safely join his brother at Camp Fun in the Sun.
Thanks to Angela and Patrick's initiative and our dedicated Legal Advocates, Brody was able to enjoy a great summer camp experience—one that every child deserves.
Through our nationwide Safe at School program, the Association is dedicated to making sure that all children with diabetes are medically safe at school and have the same educational opportunities as their peers. Visit our Safe at School website for information and resources.
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Wrightwood és una concentració de població designada pel cens dels Estats Units a l'estat de Califòrnia. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 3.837 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Wrightwood tenia 3.837 habitants, 1.486 habitatges, i 1.056 famílies. La densitat de població era de 673,4 habitants/km².

Dels 1.486 habitatges en un 35,1% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 59,2% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 8,3% dones solteres, i en un 28,9% no eren unitats familiars. En el 23,6% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 6,5% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,58 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,08.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 28,6% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 5,6% entre 18 i 24, un 27,9% entre 25 i 44, un 28,1% de 45 a 60 i un 9,9% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 39 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 98,4 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 50.338 $ i la renda mediana per família de 57.197 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 51.424 $ mentre que les dones 40.045 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 22.902 $. Entorn del 5,8% de les famílies i el 6,7% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població del comtat de San Bernardino
Concentracions de població designades pel cens de Califòrnia

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"rhyme is seen as anachronistic by most poets"
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I know what I think about this statement. Anyone care to add their opinions?
NobodyNothing
Artichoke of Doom
I know. I'm not sure why. But I too tend to see spiders in rhyme. It's creepy.
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
I must write a poem about that. A rhyming one, of course.
I see spiders out of time
in anachronistic rhyme
spinning silk from upraised bum
to the meter, dum de dum
Fun one.
I don't know. Knowing not much about poetry when I began to pay attention to it (it was pretty much absent from my HS curriculum), I thought poetry was supposed to rhyme. Then I slowly started to get a bit of an historical sense of it, getting acquainted with some of the superstars, the romantics, Willy, TS, Yeats, and the like. Then I started reading poems in publications, like the New Yorker, and the like, contemporary ones. The only thing intelligible thing I could say was that they seemed so "talky", so unmusical, or un-rhythmic (though this certainly wasn't always the case with them).
I just thought that that's the way it was now, an evolutionary thing.
I had to ask myself the question: Was the contemporary absence of rhyme the result of poets not wanting their expression to be constrained in this way, or was it that it truly had become passe? I'm not sure, but it does seem more the latter to me now.
Bleh. Just babbling....
When people say "rhyme" they tend to mean "end rhyme". Like any device, it becomes passe when people keep using it in predictable ways -- but to say that something that's fallen out of favour with a noisy few from a single nation or small group of nations in the last fifty years or so after having permeated culture in myriad ways for thousands of years is just a bit arrogant, in my opinion.
Of course, it depends on your nationality and how closely you adhere to trends rather than going in your own direction. In my accent, "shit" rhymes with "hypocrite".
Quixilated
seneschal to the muse
I think it makes me feel like people are trying to take toys out of my sandbox. The sandbox is fine. I want it to have ALL the toys, and I want to be the one to choose how my sandcastle looks. But then I was born in the wrong time and adore many things that are supposedly outdated, so I'd probably build a Victorian sandcastle and all the people that want a Minimalist-Zen,-Hipster sandcastle will tell me I did it wrong. And I'll plug my ears and built another one just to do it ...
The Soufflé isn't the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara
I just don't know enough, to be honest. I did think TS did a wonderful job of mixing a modern style and sensibility with some more classic rhyme schemes, that is in the few select poems that stuck with me by him.
Sensibility, or a contemporary sensibility...there's something in that word now that strikes me. I think you definitely can creatively utilize various different rhyme schemes if you/the poem possess a sensibility that speaks to your time and place.
I don't know, best I can do with the idea now.
Empty Suit
(06-01-2016, 04:41 AM)Leanne Wrote: I know what I think about this statement. Anyone care to add their opinions?
I don't see how we could get most poets to agree on anything. 4 out of 5 poets surveyed thought LSD and lawn sprinklers had a positive impact on their writing.
Anything done well is worth doing. When rhyme, or alliteration, or imagery, or fill in the blank is done poorly then I don't like it.
I think rhyme can make a poem fun to read. I'm still thankful for the first Kyrielle you had me write, Leanne (what a blast). I'm with Quix why should we limit ourselves or speak in broad generalities.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
For anyone who was wondering what that big word was....
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=+anachronistic
Actually, that didn't really help.
Im against the statement. Rhyming is fun. I like fun things.
that is only half the statement.
"Poets are seen as anachronistic by everyone else"
Who cares, anachronisms are cool.
aschueler
I am ashamed to admit that I don't know any poets in real life, so I can't answer that question. However, I personally think that application of rhyme and the structure of that rhyme is dependant on the subject; that end rhyme or rhyme sort of nestled in there is a pretty thing; that there are rules about this sort of thing but they are written at the end of pi, phi, or the sum of the largest primes.
Look in the mirror, aschueler. You write therefore you are! As they say.
I enjoy reading and writing rhyme, especially the sneaky kind. I have limited experience with how others see it but I can say when I posted a rhymer I had worked on here on another site even the poets who didn't work in rhyme enjoyed it. Is there anyone who doesn't enjoy Leanne's? Does Mercedes not kill in rhyme or not? I will not list the more famous poets who work beautifully with rhyme.
I think it's fine for people to write however they want to, a good poem is a good poem and will find its audience if it is put out there, no more limited than poetry in general. Being rhymeless doesn't give a poem more of a chance of working, in my meager experience.
RiverNotch
But then I say please---
I do think using an old device, such as rhyme or meter, definitely makes a poem work more, as long as it's in the piece with purpose, whether to highlight its deliberately humorous/'anachronistic' nature, to give it a sense of fridge brilliance (in that the poem, if read aloud and without full consideration, sounds as if it were written in a more 'modern' diction -- see Leanne, I guess), or simply, in giving it a clear structure, to make it sound better. Lob it to a piece for the sake of itself, and it has a good chance of messing things up.
And again, old -- rhyme, meter, alliteration/assonance, etc, are obviously old things, but I think they can never be anachronistic in general, at least to any reader worth his salt: they're just too ingrained into the consciousness of the language. Think, say, cooking with fire, using salt for preservation and flavor: really old things, sure, but they'll never really go out of style -- in fact, they add a good deal of connectivity to a piece of food, tying them to tradition, to the greater continuity of English cuisine or even cuisine in general -- rather, a piece, English poetry, poetry in general. But yeah, never anachronistic -- at least until the poet means them to be, which I think only really works in humorous pieces.
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By the way Leanne, you're so effing good with form it shrinks my pee-pee to the size of ant. That poem you wrote "War Games" was a perfect example of impeccable formatic control (although I'm still trying to get a handle on exactly who the "we" and the "you" in it are (my bad) ).
Off topic...I still think the poetry put forth this year here during NPM was exceptional. In my mind, the best year I've seen here so far, by a good measure (just MO). I totally dug checking in here and reading them all, and being surprised. Really appreciated. There's a part of me that still wants to compile my faves, and say something about them (it's an ego thing).
And by the way, who's this Todd guy? How did he keep being so damn human throughout?
Anyway...just wanted to say...
rhyme like any other device works well when used well. have, don't have it does it matter if it's good, is it anachronistic...definitely not, just look ate your xmas and birthday cards, listen to almost any pop song [which could be seen as a form of poetry] and there's nearly always rhyme, our language leads us to rhyme. the sonics add something as they do wit other devices. people often see end rhyme when rhyming poetry is mentioned without noticing good internal rhymes and various other types of rhyme. i think to call rhyming poetry anachronistic is to bury one's head up one's own arse.
Achebe
The Fourth Stooge
The measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin—rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rime both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings—a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.
http://www.bartleby.com/4/400.html
My point being that end rhyme was anachronistic even at the time of the Illiad and the Mahabharata. And obviously in Milton's day as well.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe
doesn't this thread also beg the question; "is poetry anachronistic"?
Yes it does, no it isn't, people love the sound of words and to have their brains nudged. A lot of them prefer it with sound but that doesn't mean there's no room for quiet, it just isn't as common.


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MidEast Watch and Jewellery Show to boost sales during festive season
Sharjah, 20th Sept. 2010 — Robust demand for gold jewellery is set to spur sales at the upcoming MidEast Watch and Jewellery Show at Expo Centre Sharjah.The 29th edition of the show will be held at Expo Centre Sharjah from September 28 to October 2.
According to the market report published by the organizers investment demand was the strongest performing segment during the second quarter of this year, posting a rise of 118 per cent to 534.4 tonnes compared to 245.4 tonnes in Q2 2009, according to World Gold Council.
"We are expecting strong demand for gold this season with 2010 consumption looking to surpass levels to reach a five-year high as gold is the world's strongest tangible investment," said Mr Saif Mohammed Al Midfa, Director-General of Expo Centre Sharjah, ahead of the Mideast Watch and Jewellery Show.
According to World Gold Council, global jewellery demand remained robust in the second quarter of 2010 with consumption totalling 408.7 tonnes. Total gold demand in the second quarter rose by 36 per cent to 1,050 tonnes, largely reflecting strong gold investment demand compared to the second quarter of 2009.
Gold sales at the MidEast Watch and Jewellery Show will be seen as an indicator for the entire sector since the fair is held ahead of the festival season that begins with the Indian festival of Diwali, which is followed by Christmas and New Year.
"We are expecting the MidEast Watch and Jewellery Show to provide further boost to the buying season in the region. Sales have started picking up during Eid Al Fitr, and the ensuing festive season will enhance the demand further. The show is perfectly timed to benefit from this festive buying season," said Mr Midfa.
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How the DOE National Average is created and why it doesn't tell you everything about the cost of diesel for truckers
The DOE National Average is the weekly average cost of retail diesel, assessed by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). For many carriers, the price they actually pay for fuel is different than the the DOE National Average. Why is this?
What is the goal of a fuel surcharge?
The basic premise of a fuel surcharge is to have the carrier set the price of fuel to the shipper on a floating basis each week. The surcharge is based on movements in the weekly price of diesel as published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Although it comes out of the EIA, it is known in the industry as the DOE price. The primary goal of using the DOE price is to have the cost of fuel used to transport goods to be a pass-through from carrier to shipper.
How does a fuel surcharge impact gross fuel expense per mile?
Gross fuel expense per mile is the cost of fuel per mile that a fleet will pay before recouping a fuel surcharge. The formula is:
Total fuel expense divided by Total miles driven = gross fuel expense per mile
The fleet normally pays the gross fuel expense to a fuel vendor (truckstop or wholesaler) and then will recoup money from shippers in the form of a fuel surcharge. The fuel surcharge will offset a portion of the gross fuel bill. The resulting amount is known as the net fuel expense, or calculated on a per mile basis, the net fuel expense per mile.
Total fuel expense – fuel surcharge = net fuel expense
To calculate per mile:
Net fuel expense divided by Total miles driven = net fuel expense per mile
Where do we start in calculating a fuel surcharge?
Each Monday, the EIA releases a slew of average retail prices for gasoline and diesel. The EIA survey is conducted that day. It is not an average or a compilation of seven days' worth of data. (If Monday is a holiday, the process is delayed by a day). There are two retail numbers that matter to the trucking industry. The first is the average national weekly retail diesel price. The second, which is far less important, is the California diesel price. It is used to set fuel surcharges in California because its prices are so far off the national averages due to its various environmental regulations. Those numbers serve as the basis for fuel surcharges.
View a primer on how diesel prices are established, prior to the setting of the DOE weekly price.
Why would this price be chosen?
The information from the EIA has several advantages. It's completely transparent; the information is free through the EIA website. The EIA process is detailed and subject to variability only through statistical processes. Finally, it's an all-in price. Taxes, retail markup, etc. are all in the price. It does not need to be calculated further. While wholesale rack diesel prices are tracked with great detail each day (in SONAR they can be seen nationally at SONAR: ULSDR.USA) – use of the wholesale number would mean that there would need to be a mechanism to get that wholesale price to a retail value. That's a lot of work and would be the basis for significant disagreement between buyer and seller.
A concept called the the retail to wholesale ULSD spread is the difference between the average retail ULSD fuel prices paid at the pump and the wholesale ULSD prices paid at the rack. The ULSD retail to wholesale spread is useful in tracking the economic impact of fuel prices on trucking companies that buy their fuel at rack wholesale prices. Inside of SONAR, the spread ticker is: (SONAR:FUELS.USA). The fuel spread number does not include taxes or transportation costs to get the fuel from the wholesaler to retail location.
So I have the basis for the diesel price. Then what?
Some companies are transparent about their fuel surcharges and publish them on the internet. For example, truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Cheeseman has a detailed page laying out its fuel surcharge. Fuel surcharges have a range of prices when it kicks in. In the case of Cheeseman, the spread is so wide – $1.14/gallon on the low, $8.70/gallon on the high – that there will always be a surcharge barring some utterly unforeseen market development.
In the case of Cheeseman, its formula works so that when the EIA posted its price of $2.507/gallon on April 14, its fuel surcharge for an LTL delivery was 13.5% of the freight charges. If it was truckload shipment, it was $0.28 per mile.
LTL carrier YRC posts its fuel surcharges as well. On April 8, when the fuel surcharge was $2.548, the YRC fuel surcharge was 21.35% against the cost of freight. For its truckload activities, it goes with a percentage, instead of the Cheeseman example that was a straight cents per mile fee. YRC's surcharge there is 42.7%.
Charges can also fluctuate depending on the type of truck. For example, in its explanation of its fuel surcharge policies, Crete Carrier sets its fuel surcharge in part on the basis of miles per gallon. It said its trucks average 6.8 miles per gallon. That would go into the calculation of the surcharge.
Does every shipment move with a fuel surcharge?
No. According to Gregory M. Feary, a partner at Scopelitis, Garvin Light Hanson & Feary, some shippers resist them because "they don't want to be in the fuel arbitrage business," with the arbitrage here being the difference between what the carrier is paying at the pump and the number that sets the basis for the fuel surcharge. "They'll say, we will consider an overall price adjustment because we understand fuel is a variable in our freight fees," Feary explained. "But we don't want a line item." Their view, he added, is that it is the carrier's job to handle the cost of fuel. "They think that the carrier is the transport company and they need to figure out what the costs are," Feary said. "You need to figure out the variability of those costs, you charge us freight fees and we'll compare them."
But he added that it isn't always accepted. "It's counterbalanced by companies saying 'we're going to charge you a freight fee but there is only one variable in it.'" Carriers can not "deal with a market that goes dramatically up or down when you're not willing to negotiate with us in that area."
Feary conceded that from his perch at Scopelitis, he's mostly dealing with big carriers. Given that, the big carriers have a lot more market power to enforce a fuel surcharge.
How does the EIA calculate its number?
The EIA spells out its methodology in enormous detail on its website. Here are some of the key points:
About 400 retail outlets are surveyed every Monday. There are no up-to-date numbers but the survey response percentage in 2015 was close to 99%. The gathering is done by "telephone, fax, email or the internet."
– That group of 400 is constructed using a size-based probability to build what it considers a representative sample of what EIA says is a universe of about 62,000 retail outlets and 4,000 truck stops. Alaska and Hawaii are not surveyed.
– The inputs reflect prices on Monday. Even when there is a Monday holiday that delays publication until Tuesday, the price reflects Monday prices, not Tuesday.
The "primary publication cells" of the survey are the five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs), along with the three subparts of the East Coast's PADD 1 and the the subparts of the West Coasts PADD 5, which are California and the rest of the West Coast excluding California. Ironically, the number that is mostly used in the surcharge calculation is the entire U.S., which is considered a "secondary publication cell," derived from the numbers in the primary cells.
– The numbers gathered by the survey are weighted by volumes sold among the states.
– The actual math is laid out in great detail by the EIA.
– Want to ask the EIA how to put together a fuel surcharge? Don't bother. Here's what it says about them: "EIA cannot tell you how to calculate a fuel surcharge. Fuel surcharges are negotiated privately by shippers and by transportation companies."
But can a carrier make money on the fuel surcharge?
Since fuel costs that carriers are paying are subject to change every day, but the DOE price changes weekly, a rapidly falling market will inevitably have a lag that helps carriers. They will be billing a surcharge basis from a price a few days old that may not be representative of the market. That's a potential windfall for the carriers. But conversely, a rapidly rising market means that the prices carriers pay at the pump will be rising faster than changes in the DOE price. It's important to remember over time that price changes will generally average themselves out. For all of 2019, the average weekly change, up or down, was a slight decrease that wasn't even one full cent. The number is larger when you throw in 2020, but that's because of an historic market crash in the first weeks of the year.
SONAR subscribers get access to over 150,000 transportation, logistics, and diesel fuel indexes that include the DOE National Index, ULSD wholesale rack diesel prices, or the ULSD retail to wholesale spread.


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El posgrado en México es máximo nivel de estudios que ofrece una Universidad, Institución de Educación Superior (IES) o Centro de Investigación.

Historia del posgrado
La primera institución en ofrecer posgrados en México fue la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) en el periodo de 1920-1930. Sin embargo, el mayor desarrollo de posgrados en el país fue en la década de los setenta, aunque la distribución de la oferta educativa (la mayor parte se concentraba en Estado de México y Ciudad de México) fue durante los noventa y la exigencia de la calidad a partir del 2000.

El organismo evaluador nacional de posgrado es el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), que se funda en 1970. En el 2002 por medio de su Programa Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad (PNPC), reconoce los posgrados de calidad en algunos de los siguientes niveles: 1) Nueva creación, 2) En desarrollo, 3) Consolidado, y 4) Competencia Internacional.

Los posgrados son reconocidos por la Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (ANUIES) y el Consejo Mexicano de Posgrados (COMEPO), A nivel internacional los posgrados de México han sido reconocidos por la Asociación Universitaria Iberoamericana de Postgrado (AUIP).

Modalidades del posgrado
Las modalidades del posgrado son cuatro.

Presenciales
Es donde los estudiantes asisten de forma presencial a un espacio formativo.

No presenciales, A distancia o En línea
Los estudiantes llevan a cabo el aprendizaje, en Entornos Virtuales de Aprendizaje (EVA).

Mixtos o Combinados
Los estudiantes combinan sus clases de forma presencial o en EVA. El porcentaje de clases presencial o virtuales varía en cada institución.

Ejecutivos
Tuvieron su auge en las Universidades y/o Instituciones de Educación Superior, consisten en ofrecer maestrías o doctorados de forma presencial en fines de semana (viernes y sábados).

Orientaciones del posgrado
Las orientaciones del posgrado varía según la Universidad o Institución de Educación Superior.

Posgrados profesionalizantes
Los posgrados profesionalizantes "[...] tienen la finalidad de actualizar y/o especializar a los profesionales en ejercicio o estudiantes hacia la aplicación directa en un área del conocimiento frente a nuevos retos o evolución del sector de incidencia".

Posgrados a la investigación
Los posgrados a la investigación proporcionan "[...] al estudiante una formación amplia y sólida en un campo de conocimiento con una alta capacidad crítica y creativa, a través de investigaciones originales".

Posgrados con la industria
Los posgrados con la industria forman "[...] profesionales de alto nivel capaces de identificar, definir y resolver problemas, así como generar oportunidades de innovación en un vasto espectro de áreas y aplicaciones"

Posgrados interinstitucionales
Son posgrados que comparten dos o más Universidades o IES el mismo plan de estudios, en el área del conocimiento y Líneas de Investigación

Niveles del posgrado

Maestría
Son estudios después de licenciatura o ingeniería, su duración es de 2 a 2.5 años.

Doctorado
Existen dos modalidades.

Doctorado directo
Parte de licenciatura y tiene una duración de 5 años.

Doctorado tradicional
Parte de la maestría y tiene una duración de 3 a 4 años.

Posdoctorado
Parte del doctorado y por lo regular se realiza a manera de estancia, puede durar entre 1 y 2 años. Se recomienda que se haga en otra institución distinta a donde obtuvo su doctorado.

Especialidades médicas
Son posgrados para especializados para médicos, su duración puede variar según el campo de estudio que realice. En promedio la duración es de 3 a 4 años su duración.

Subespecialidades médicas
Parten de la especialidad médica y su duración va de 1 a 2 años.

Altas especialidades médicas
Parten de la subespecialidad médica y su duración es de 1 año.

Retos del posgrado
Los retos del posgrado pueden ser entendidos a nivel nacional, por región y por tipo de institución.

A nivel nacional
El posgrado actual a nivel país se enfrenta a las siguientes problemáticas: a) Inserción laboral de los egresados, b) Diversificación de la oferta educativa, c) Innovación educativa y de investigación, d) Internacionalización, e) Inter, Multi y Transdisciplinariedad, y f) Vinculación con los diversos sectores de la sociedad.

A nivel regional
El posgrado a nivel regional tiene el reto de: 1) Diversificación de la oferta educativa, 2) Integración de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación al proceso de enseñanza, 3) impacto social de las investigaciones, y 4) Divulgación de sus investigaciones.

Por tipo de institución

Universidades o IES privadas
Su reto es el impacto social, la divulgación de sus investigaciones ante la sociedad y reconocimiento de sus posgrados por organismos evaluadores nacionales o internacionales.

Centros de investigación
El principal reto al que se enfrentan al recorte de presupuesto que depende de forma directa de la Federación, la generación de patentes y la divulgación de sus investigaciones para el población en general.

Universidades o IES públicas
Se enfrentan al recorte de presupuesto que depende de forma directa de la Federación, la generación de patentes, la divulgación de sus investigaciones ante la sociedad, la transición generacional, la multidisciplinariedad, la innovación en sus métodos de enseñanza y la integración de las TIC como potencializadores del proceso de enseñanza.

Referencias


Pascal's Place is a unique piece that Eric performs completely on electric guitar. A rare performance that is worth a listen to.
As one of the world's classical guitar virtuosos, Eric Henderson was trained under Maestro Andres Segovia. Being a child prodigy, Eric was one of a few in the world that was selected to train under Segovia. Moreover, his ability to transcend genres enables him to develop arrangements that are truly unique and original.


Rehearsals will resume Monday, August 28. Rehearsals will take place at Wheeling Park High School. Both the Sinfonietta and the Philharmonic will rehearse at 7 p.m.
*The Philharmonic will rehearse with strings ONLY during the Fall semester. Winds, brass, and percussion are welcome to play in the Sinfonietta in the meantime.
Please watch your email and our Facebook page for up-to-date information regarding rehearsals.
All rehearsals, unless otherwise noted, are held at Wheeling Park High School at 7 p.m. The Sinfonietta will rehearse in the choir room, and the Philharmonic will be in the band room.
If you will be absent, notify the orchestra manager at 304.232.6191 or wsyouthorch@gmail.com.


Step Free Access Note: Services towards Manchester : Level access from the car park onto the platform. Services towards Liverpool : From entrance onto Manchester platform, turn left and down 26 steps, through an underpass (28 paces) and up 28 steps onto the platform. Or, from Liverpool Road opposite Excalibur Way along a path to the underpass, up 28 steps onto the platform.


The corner building was completed in 1938-39 and used by the Christchurch power provider in its varying guises over time. It was damaged in the earthquakes and later demolished.
Amazing to see this building again. Had forgotten it was Art Deco style.
Office building 1939. Night view of new office building, ablaze with light, 1939.
Clock into new position on new building, May 1939.
The M.E.D. Building is shown at the centre of this photo, on the corner of Armagh and Manchester Streets, Christchurch, in 1939. Looking to the right up Manchester Street the Christchurch City Council Building and the Civic Theatre can be seen. Behind the M.E.D. on Gloucester Street, the four story 3YA Building and Transmission Tower can also be seen. In the foreground is the Avon River and the Band Rotunda.
Aerial view showing block New Regent, Manchester, Armagh & Gloucester Streets. Shows old MED building, the original tepid baths to the right; CCC Car parking building; Charlie B Backpackers (formerly Latimer Dance Hall); Latimer Square top right.
Source: Entry in the 2014 Photo Hunt by Jean Sherman.


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Tutti i giorni è domenica (Tous les jours dimanche) è un film del 1994 diretto da Jean Charles Tacchella.

Trama

Collegamenti esterni

Film grotteschi
Film diretti da Jean-Charles Tacchella


The Blue Dolphin of Malta International Underwater Photographic Competition is back with a splash! Once again the Federation of Underwater Activities (F.U.A.M.) is organising this highly prestigious event in the Maltese Islands. This 10th Edition of Blue Dolphin is being held from the 12th - 17th November 2002. Competitors and their models, judges and journalists from various countries, are meeting to respectively share and exchange, the pleasures and knowledge of capturing the beauty and wonders of the Mediterranean Sea. All will once again dive into Malta's clear blue waters and shoot on film - to capture not to kill - the beauty, colour and grace of the blue!
The Blue Dolphin of Malta became, and still is a very important and renowned event throughout the international diving community. Every edition has been graced by the presence of internationally known personalities like the late Jacques Mayol, Peter Scoones, Pelizzari, Pipin and many others. This year will not be an exception.
Each competitor will compete over two days (six hours), to present a set of three slides. The slides must include one macro or close up (all subjects except fish), one fish (macro or close up) and one wide-angle (ambient).
Furthermore a Disposable Camera competition is being included for the first time to attract more divers to this speciality and encourage them to discover underwater photography.
Journalists from various countries will be attending the event. Prestigious guests will be here to judge the competitors. Various slide shows and presentations, pleasure dives and cultural excursions will also be included during the event.
The 10th Blue Dolphin of Malta International Underwater Photographic Competition is organised by FUAM in collaboration with Malta Tourism Authority (MTA), our official carrier Air Malta and the Malta Maritime Authority (MMA). Many thanks to all the other sponsors and other partners; without them there will be no Blue Dolphin of Malta.


Clinical and Scientific Affairs for Fresenius Medical Care-NA.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Medicare program is implementing a new system for caring for patients with kidney disease, particularly patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Based on the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008, this system will likely have monumental impact on care for patients with renal disease and on the practice of nephrology nationwide. This symposium will first provide an overview of crucial aspects of MIPPA, focusing on provisions most likely influence care for ESRD patients. An expert panel consisting of policymakers, chief medical officers from dialysis organizations, and world-renowned researchers will then discuss the potential impact of bundling on ESRD care, research and innovation in treating kidney disease, and the future of the practice of nephrology nationwide.
Support for this session is provided by an educational grant from Amgen.


All vehicles and RVs must have a current license tag. Vans, cab-over campers, and pop-up campers must meet age and condition guidelines.
No trash or garbage kept outside of RVs. All trash and garbage must be in plastic bags and taken to trash dumpsters immediately.
No maintenance or washing of any type vehicle is permitted.
Alcoholic beverages and/or smoking is prohibited in any camp facilities.
Sewer hose rings are required at each site.
Do not place portable grills on picnic table tops.
No more than 2 approved vehicles may be kept at any one campsite.
Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Registered campers, day visitors, and all guests may have pets on the campground property, on an approved basis only, and subject to the following provisions.
All pets must be declared and approved by management upon registration. Any pets brought onto the grounds after registration must have prior approval of management. A deposit is required and refundable upon departure, provided all provisions are observed.
No more than two approved pets. The managers reserve the right to refuse any pet.
All pets are required to be on a lead when outside and must be with an adult at all times. Leads should be no longer than six feet. Cats must be kept inside or on a lead at all times. Cats may not run free.
Pets may not be outside unless accompanied by an adult 18 years or older. If the pet is outside the owner must be with the pet at all times. If you leave your campsite, pets must be put inside the camper. Any damage incurred to camp property or to other campers' property will be the owner's responsibility.
Pets are to be walked ONLY in the pet walk area designated on the camp brochure. Owners are required to clean up after their pets at the pet walk, or when walking pets to an area outside the park. FAILURE TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR PET WILL REQUIRE THE DEPOSIT TO BE FORFEITED AND A NEW DEPOSIT TO BE MADE. Owners are required to have baggies for clean up whenever the pet is outside. Campsites are to be cleaned immediately of any pet droppings. Please do not walk pets in private yards or areas around park facilities and buildings.
No fence, pens, cages, doghouse or any other kind of enclosure may be erected at the campsite for pet containment. Pets are not to be secured to trees, picnic tables, or any property belonging to the park.
Pets are not allowed in the laundry facility, pay phone area, recreational area, playground, or any other camp facility. USI RV Park is within the city limits of Wichita and is subject to all city ordinances and laws pertaining to pets.
If, in the opinion of the park managers, there is a violation of any of these rules or that pets are interfering with the peaceful environment of the park, the pet's owner will immediately be asked to vacate the park. Deposits will be forfeited.
We appreciate the cooperation of all pet owners. Deviations from these guidelines are subject to the manager's discretion and approval.
Early check-in / Late check-out charges.
No refunds except on deposits with 72 hours notice prior to arrival.
Our commitment to handling personally identifiable information in a responsible manner is a task we at USI RV Park take very seriously. We want you to feel comfortable doing business with us, regardless of whether you're conducting that business person-to-person or using the resources available through our website(s).
When we ask for information about you and the nature of your business, you provide such information of your own free will. Requests for information are made to help us better understand and serve our customers, their needs, and to enable us to contact you. Such requests also help our website technology identify you, which allows you to participate more fully and conveniently with our web site's online services.
We do not collect extended "cookies" from our website visitors. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent from an individual browser to a web server that can be stored on a computer's hard drive. These cookies can be used to store and track information about a website visitor. We do, however, maintain session cookies that are processed during an individual interaction and are used to assist the website user in certain applications that require information to be stored for later use. No information is gathered through cookies except for that needed to run the specific application and make your online experience with us more convenient.
Steps are taken to protect the information you provide us. We employ a number of security safeguards to protect against the misuse of personally identifiable information you provide.
We do not sell, lease, rent, or otherwise provide any personally identifiable information that we collect through our website. This means that any information you provide us is not released to third parties for any use or purpose and is used only to the extent to which you have agreed.
You can contact us with questions and recommendations. We truly value the relationships we have with our customers and website visitors. Therefore, if you have any unanswered questions about how information is collected or how it is used, we encourage you to contact us.
This property is privately owned. The camper accepts camping privileges with the understanding that he does hereby release the Campground, its officers, and employees of all liability for loss or damage to property and injury to his person arising out of his use of its camping facilities, and agrees to indemnify the Campground, its officers and employees, against claims resulting from loss or damage to property or injury to the person of any member of the family or guest of the registered camper arising out of the use of this camping facilities.
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All Fabulous
Sun's Deborah James 'blown away' at support after scans show she's cancer free
SUN columnist Deborah James has thanked her supporters on BBC Breakfast - after scans show she's cancer free.
The mum-of-two was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer days before Christmas in 2016 and has been through multiple surgeries and treatments.
Deborah James appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to discuss being cancer-freeCredit: BBC
The Sun columnist was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2016Credit: Deborah James
But she revealed in her weekly column, Things Cancer Made Me Say, on Friday that her latest tests show her body is free of cancer.
Deborah, 38, appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to thank her supporters and to reveal her plans to run the London Marathon in April.
Speaking to presenter Naga Munchetty, she said: "I'm feeling good and I am going to run a marathon - I'm going to commit to it, why not?
I'm in a cancer free place officially on paper... But nobody knows what the future holds
"I'm going to do it to give back to my hospital that's keeping me alive - the Royal Marsden.
"It' s going to be challenge. I'm still on treatment - never rest on your laurels.
"I think that's one of the weird things. I'm in a cancer free place officially on paper.
Sun columnist Deborah documents her cancer journey on InstagramCredit: bowelbabe/Instagram
Deborah, who goes by Bowel Babe on Instagram, revealed her plans to run the London Marathon in AprilCredit: Deborah James
"But nobody knows what the future holds and I've still go to plough on with treatment.
"So I'm leaving here and going straight back into hospital to be hooked up to my drugs - they're keeping me alive."
Deborah says that when her oncologist told her she was cancer-free on Friday they both burst into tears.
Despite getting the news she'd longed for she is also trying to remain realistic.
She said: "It's not the end of my treatment - it's the beginning of new challenges.
"But I never ever thought that we'd be here, so we've got to celebrate that."
I never ever thought that we'd be here, so we've got to celebrate that
She added: "For me statistically on paper, I was diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer.
"Very sadly only about eight per cent of people will survive for five years.
"When it's caught early - which is one of the reasons I talk about it so much - the chances of survival are over 90 per cent.
Deborah with her Consultant Interventional Radiologist Dr Nicos Fotiadis at the Royal Marsden HospitalCredit: Deborah James
Deborah with some of her team from the Royal Marsden Hospital - who she is raising money for by running the London MarathonCredit: Deborah James
"For me I have a systematic disease and that has to be challenged and knocked down with a variety of different techniques.
"I've undergone multiple operations - I've had a bowel resection, I've had part of my lung taken out, I've had lots of ablation operations, I've had nearly three years of chemotherapy and now I'm on some targeted drugs.
"So I've been through lots of things - as I know many people with cancer go through just to keep alive."
Humbled by support
Deborah documents her cancer journey on Instagram, under the name Bowel Babe, and has been inundated with messages of support.
She said: "I'm totally and utterly blown away. I'm so humbled by it.
"When I was diagnosed all I wanted was a story of someone that was still living, a couple of years down the line, even when you're told statistically you shouldn't be here.
When I was diagnosed all I wanted was a story of someone that was still living - I hope I can be that for other people
"And I really hope that anybody that's listening to my story can say that gives me some hope too."
The former deputy head teacher said that she is hoping to take time to celebrate the happy news with her family.
But for now it's "business as usual".
She added: "The response and overwhelming support has enabled me to go 'wow this is a really big deal'.
Deborah with her husband Sebastien and their children Hugo and Eloise on a recent holiday to the MauritiusCredit: Deborah James
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"I probably do need to go and celebrate that but as I said, it's business as usual and back on treatment.
"I will take time with my family just to raise a glass at least because we all know how quickly things can change.
"I think that's the key message we can't take anything for granted, so we've just got to plough on and hope for the best."
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The nautically themed Admiral Theater in North Admiral is on the National Register of Historic Places.
North Admiral (or simply the Admiral District) is the oldest neighborhood in West Seattle, Washington. In the early 1900s, it was connected to Seattle by ferries and a cable car. These ferries included the paddle steamers City of Seattle and West Seattle.
The North Admiral district is the location of West Seattle High School, which is adjacent to Hiawatha Community Center, the oldest community center west of the Mississippi.  North Admiral is also home to Schmitz Preserve Park, 53.1 acres of old-growth forest traversed by 1.7 miles of hiking trails. The neighborhood name implies that it is at the north end of Admiral Way S.W.; however, Admiral Way runs east and west and crosses California Avenue S.W. north of the major junction at S.W. Alaska Street and California. Thus the name North Admiral combines the orientation to The Junction with the name of the main cross street.
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Women In Trucking Seeks to Accurately Count Women in Trucking
January 3, 2017 • Staff • Bookmark +
FMCSA Administrator Scott Darling and professional driver Stephanie Klang. Photo via Women in Trucking
The Women In Trucking Association has created the WIT Index in an effort to more accurately track the number of women working in the trucking industry.
WIT partnered with the National Transportation Institute to obtain more accurate data after it found issues with the way the Department of Labor was reporting the number of women in the trucking industry.
After DOL reported that the percentage of female drivers had dropped to 5.1%, WIT began to examine who the department was including and excluding from the category. It found that, in some cases, jobs that were counted as truck drivers were not accurate descriptors of a traditional, over-the-road driver, making the data less reliable.
"We know that women represent a largely underdeveloped minority group in our industry," said Leah Shaver, NTI's COO. "We also know, from recent conference discussions and media coverage, that benchmarking gender distribution in our industry is necessary to quantify progress. We're going to help trucking companies do just that."
NTI directly surveyed carriers for data regarding driver wages, benefits, and retirement plans and, in the past year, added two questions about the employment of women within fleets.
Over the course of three quarters, NTI found that the average percentage of female drivers at these carriers was 7%. NTI also found that women comprise 24% of management at the carriers surveyed as opposed to the 18.1% reported by DOL for supervisors of transportation and material moving workers.
Among carriers surveyed, Prime led respondents with women drivers making up 12% of its driver population.
WIT and NTI are still looking for more submissions to the WIT Index to show the growth of women in the trucking industry and would like all carriers to participate in sharing company statistics as the index is developed.
To participate, contact the National Transportation Institute by clicking by visiting driverwages.com and entering company information and relevant numbers.
Related: Celebrating Strong Women in Trucking
Read more about Women in Trucking Association Women in Trucking Women Drivers


Muziekhuis Da Capo specializes in accordeons. We have all major brands like Mengascini-Brandoni-Accordiola-Hohner and many many more. We aren't that far from the dutch/german border so come and enjoy around 300+ accordeons. We're sure you will find the right accordeon for you!


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Cherubin steht für:

 das Pferd der Britta Näpel, Goldmedaille Sommer-Paralympics 2008
 eine Rolle in Le nozze di Figaro

Cherubin ist der Name folgender Personen:
 ein Bischof von Posen 1172 bis 1180
 Chérubin d'Orsière, Bischof von Digne 1536–1545
 Chérubin-Louis Le Bel, Bischof von Bethleem 1701–1738

Cherubin ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Nicolò Cherubin (* 1986), italienischer Fußballspieler

Siehe auch:
 Cherubim
 Cherub (Begriffsklärung)
 Cherubini
 Cherubino


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Sarah Hillware
Accelerating change through silo-breaking solutions for health and gender equality
Girls Health Ed
Sarah Hillware is an award-winning social entrepreneur, global health strategist and advocate for girls and women.
She currently serves as Deputy Director of Women in Global Health, a 35,000+ strong women-led global movement to challenge power and privilege for gender equity in health. Sarah brings more than a decade of experience in international development and global health, most recently having worked as a senior-level consultant at the World Bank for four years, and, in 2012, founding Girls Health Ed, a grassroots non-profit focused on delivering comprehensive sexuality education in schools, community centers and health clinics to underserved adolescent girls through a proven model. Girls Health Ed has served 5,000 girls to date and has been profiled in The Washington Post, Huffington Post and Global Citizen, among others. The organization has since hired employees to manage day-to-day operations, but Sarah continues to serve as Board Chair.
Sarah also previously co-founded SheWins, a digital health application for millennial women. In 2014, Sarah and her two co-founders pitched SheWins and made it to the final round of casting for the TV show, Shark Tank. Prior to this, SheWins was a top 10 finalist in The George Washington University's Business Plan Competition.
Throughout her career, Sarah has worked at the intersection of program design, innovation, stakeholder engagement and communications strategy to drive global action and national policy reform across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), having co-led several program launches and advocacy campaigns. She has been a member of leadership teams, driving fundraising efforts and managing portfolios up to US$2 billion across multiple countries, and comes with a deep understanding of "Health in All Policies". Sarah is known to facilitate strategic inter-ministerial collaboration for greater development impact and has previously worked for World Health Organization (WHO), World Food Program (WFP), UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Foundation.
Sarah has experience on a range of issues, including universal health coverage, air pollution and climate change, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, digital health, menstrual health, HIV/AIDS, TB, and HPV. Sarah's research and experience on school- and community-based health interventions and global women's issues have led her to give talks at TEDxBerkeley as well as at the United Nations through TEDxUNPlaza. She was profiled in 2016 by Population Services International (PSI) for Leaders, Makers and Risk-Takers, alongside First Lady Michelle Obama and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for her work in public and global health innovation. In 2014, she was named to the Leadership Center for Excellence 40 Under 40 list. Sarah also serves on the Board of Directors for the Osgood Center for International Studies.
Connect with Sarah on Linkedin.
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The acquisition of Kentucky Owl Bourbon continues the trend we've been seeing in the last several months of larger spirits players adding to their portfolios well received smaller whiskey brands. Plans call for Stoli to take over the national distribution, sales and marketing, as well as the global rollout, of this bourbon, effective immediately.
Kentucky Owl's most recent owner was Dixon Dedman, great-great-grandson of the bourbon's founder Charles Mortimer Dedman. We interviewed Dixon about his family's bourbon last year, at which time he talked with us about this whiskey being a mingling of sourced, aged stock poured back into new charred barrels and aged further. One thing which also came out of our chat with him was that he didn't really see this bourbon being made for sale outside of Kentucky given that he and his partners did not want to become distillers or expand production.
I'm gonna guess Stoli waved enough money in front of Dedman and the others to change their minds on this. The exact amount paid for Kentucky Owl, as is usually the case in these kind of acquisitions, was not revealed. Dixon will remain on with the brand, acting as its brand ambassador.


It is not a secret that essays can be prepared either at home or in class. Definitely, students prefer writing essays at home, since thus they have enough time to think over everything and use additional sources to get the ideas.
This is what you do not have in class. It is the major drawback of writing essays in class. You have time limits and can use only your own ideas. It is one of the main reasons why students get lower grades and even fail their essays.
Well, it is definitely a problem, but we know how to solve it. You just need to know winning essay writing strategies, and you can get them right in this article.
Panic is one of the quickest ways to fail. "Gosh! I do not have enough time. I do not know what to write about. I will make a lot of mistakes". If you think so, even the most reliable essay writing strategies will not help you. Thus, chill out and concentrate on your work.
This is one of the most important essay writing strategies – you have to comprehend your assignment. Pay attention to so-called controlling verbs like analyze, explain, compare, etc. It is exactly what you will have to do when writing your essay.
Leave at least 10 minutes to re-read your writing and make all necessary improvements.
So, these are the essay writing strategies that will help you write essays in class successfully.
Do you need effective essay strategies to prepare a perfect essay? Do you have some doubts about evaluative essay format? Then, this blog will be helpful.


A new internet will not be built in a day, and it will not be built by any one person. From its inception, the internet was imagined as a community. A hyperfast, hyperconnected, globally accessible community with a universe's worth of tools and information at its fingertips — but a community nonetheless.
As important it is to build and foster this community digitally, we at Blockstack think it is equally important to do so the old-fashioned way: in real life, face-to-face, with handshakes, smiles, conversations, and even the awkward pauses and unavoidable misunderstandings contained therein.
To those of you who want to have a place in the new internet, and even those who are just curious or even skeptical: we invite you to the 2017 Blockstack Summit, the 2nd annual one-day event where the decentralized community can gather to imagine, learn, and create around the topic of decentralized apps, and much, much more.
Highlighting our gathering will be an impressive and still growing roster of speakers: AngelList founder and prodigious tech investor Naval Ravikant; Andreessen-Horowitz Board Partner and 21 CEO Balaji Srinivasan; blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts pioneer Nick Szabo. We also expect a few surprises and special guests to be added to this already impressive list.
Blockstack is spearheading the movement to build the new, decentralized internet — a movement of hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs from around the world deeply committed to the future of the Internet as a place of innovation, freedom, and economic inclusion. Blockstack pushes power to the edges with decentralized applications and allows users to be in control of their data, identities, and software.
However ambitious our view of the future of the new internet, we're willing to bet our attendees will blow our minds with their ideas, aspirations, and creations. Bring those ideas, problems, and questions about decentralized application development and help us all learn and benefit from the rapidly growing volume of wisdom in our burgeoning community.
Attendees will learn about the decentralized internet ecosystem enabled by Blockstack; be shown how to begin building fully decentralized applications using Blockstack, and meet some of the most talented and influential developers working with decentralized applications and blockchain technology today. You'll also probably get some cool swag out of the experience.
Most importantly, to borrow the phrase: you're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. Your imagination is what will drive what's next. We look forward to seeing you and meeting you and creating with you.
Join us July 27th in Mountain View, CA.


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How many wine coolers does it take to get drunk?
Wine coolers are indeed having a low percentage of alcohol, but that doesn't mean they can't get you drunk. As with any alcoholic beverage, consuming it results in intoxication, but this varies based on your gender, weight, alcohol tolerance, and whether or not you have food in your stomach.
How many coolers does it take to get drunk?
Most areas in the United States have a legal limit of 0.08 Blood Alcohol Content levels [1]. An alcoholic beverage with just over five percent ABV will take approximately four drinks or less to get drunk—likewise, Smirnoff Ice and beer.
Do wine coolers have a lot of alcohol?
Anne Montgomery of the Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that while coolers look like sodas and taste like sodas, most of them actually contain more alcohol than a can of beer of a glass of wine. The average alcohol content of a cooler is about 6 percent.
How much alcohol is in a wine cooler?
4 percent to 7 percent
Wine coolers have an alcohol content that ranges from 4 percent to 7 percent. Regular table wines average about 12 percent alcohol. Fortified wine, or "Cisco," comes in five flavors: red, peach, orange, berry and gold. It is bottled in two sizes: 375 and 750 milliliters.
How much alcohol is in seagrams escapes?
What is the alcohol content of Seagram's Escapes? Seagram's Escapes contain 3.2% alcohol by volume. Seagram's Escapes Spiked products contain 8.0% alcohol by volume.
Can you get drunk off 3%?
For an average sized man of 190lbs (or 89kg), it would take 6-7 beers of 3.2% ABV to get legally drunk in the US. For an average 160 pounds woman (or 72kg) it would take 4-5 beers of 3.2% ABV to get legally drunk in the US. Legally drunk means you'll have equal to or more than 0.08% of blood alcohol content.
Can you get drunk off one Smirnoff Ice?
Likewise, Smirnoff Ice also has an alcohol content of just over five percent, with some areas including only four percent alcohol in their bottles. Due to the similar alcohol contents, it's likely that one could get drunk by drinking the same number of Smirnoff Ice that they would beers.
How strong is Smirnoff Ice?
Smirnoff Ice Original has a 4. While Smirnoff Ice is made by the Smirnoff brand you know and love, the beverage isn't made with vodka. Smirnoff Ice is made like traditional beers with malt.
How much is Smirnoff Ice?
Smirnoff Ice Prices Type Size Price Smirnoff Ice Raspberry Malt 6 Pack $7.99 Smirnoff Ice Screwdriver Malt 6 Pack $7.99 Walmart Smirnoff Ice Original Malt 6 Pack $7.47 Još 8 redova.
How much alcohol is in Smirnoff Ice?
Additional Information Type Wine ABV 4% Units 2.8 Tasting Notes Smirnoff Ice combines its famous vodka with lemon-lime soda Country of Origin Italy.
Is 5 alcohol a lot?
5% alcohol by volume (ABV) is a relatively low alcohol content for beer. Most light beers are around 3.5% ABV, while most typical "premium" beers are around 5-6% ABV. Some craft or artisanal beers can have significantly higher ABVs, up to 12% or more.
Do wine coolers make you gain weight?
Home > Wine > Does Wine Coolers Make You Gain Weight? There is a risk of increased blood sugar in some wine coolers, which contain almost 40 grams of sugar. You may also gain weight if you consume this much sugar, since calories consumed when your insulin is high are more likely to be stored as fat calories.
How many drinks will get me drunk?
How Many Shots Could Get You Drunk? An average person can get drunk after four to five shots of alcohol. Two or three shots can get you tipsy, while seven or more shots will leave you extremely drunk. However, alcohol has different alcohol content, and people have different alcohol toleration.
Is Smirnoff Ice a wine cooler?
The Original Premium Flavored Malt Beverage that started it all – with a delightfully crisp, citrus taste. Not a wine cooler and not a mixed drink, Smirnoff Ice captures the essence of the world's number one premium vodka in a distinguished package. It's clean and crisp taste, it is a refreshing alternative to beer.
What kind of liquor is in wine coolers?
In addition to red or white wine, fruit juices, sugar, and seltzer water, they are also mixed with rum or brandy. It was a very popular trend in the 1980s for Seagram's and California Coolers to make wine coolers.
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Used BMW X3 (Mk2, 2010-2017) review - How practical is it?
Interior space and equipment levels are overall very good, though the extensive options list means used X3 Mk2 specs can vary considerably
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What do owners think?
The BMW X3 Mk2 is a worthwhile choice if you're after a practical premium used SUV. There are good amounts of interior space, and versatility is improved further still by the car's decent standard equipment levels and impressive boot capacity. Equipment levels across used examples can differ quite a bit between cars, though, as the BMW X3 Mk2 was available from new with a vast array of optional extras and equipment packages.
Dimensions and cabin design
The BMW X3 Mk2 measured in at 4,657mm long, 2,089mm wide and 1,678mm tall, which meant it was on par with many of its chief competitors at the time. It also took about roughly the same amount of space on the road as a BMW 3 Series saloon, though the X3 is noticeably taller due to factors like its higher ride height.
Aided by the car's fairly boxy shape, the BMW X3 Mk2 fares pretty well in the practicality stakes. There's lots of head room on offer all around, and the assortment of cubby spots like the large door bins and decent-sized glovebox give you a number of options when storing personal items. Getting in and out is made more straightforward by the large and wide-opening doors, too.
If there's a fly in the X3 Mk2's practicality ointment, it regards the rear seat leg room. While there's plenty of it on offer for passengers in the two outer seats, the broad transmission tunnel that runs down the middle of the car means the person in the central rear seat won't have as much space as the people on their flanks.
Unlike some other cars in this class, the BMW X3 Mk2 was only available as a five-seater car. As a result, if you need a bit more seating flexibility, you may be better off with something like a Land Rover Discovery Sport, or a more mainstream option such as a Skoda Kodiaq or Kia Sorento.
Like the main cabin, the boot is also pretty big on the BMW X3 Mk2. The 550-litres capacity is impressively large by class standards, and means the BMW has a bigger load area than many contemporary rivals such as the Audi Q5 and Porsche Macan. Folding down the rear seats increases the load area to 1,600 litres, which while not a class-leading figure (a Land Rover Discovery Sport has up to 1,698 litres on offer), is still plenty. Do bear in mind the 40:20:40 split-folding rear seat arrangement was only ever available as an optional extra on the BMW X3 Mk2, so keep an eye on the specs of the car you're looking at if you really need this feature.
Like many BMWs of the time, a huge amount of equipment was available on the X3 Mk2 as optional extras, though that didn't mean the standard car was devoid of kit. All models came with a 6.5-inch infotainment display, cruise control, dual-zone climate control and Bluetooth connectivity. The 2014 facelift added heated front seats and an automatic tailgate to the spec sheet, and from 2015 onwards built-in sat nav was a standard feature on the X3 Mk2 range.
Equipment levels remained consistent across all of the trim levels, with most of the changes on higher grades being cosmetic touches. For instance, the xLine trim level primarily had a sporty steering wheel design and larger 18-inch wheels over the 17-inch items on the entry-level SE grade. Range-topping M Sport models threw into the mix extra bolstering on the front seats, a new 'Sport+' driving mode, a more aggressive bodykit and larger-still 19-inch wheels.
The kit list can be expanded even further, depending on what options were specified when the car was new. If you're not the best at parking in tighter spots, it may be worth looking for a car that was fitted with the optional surround-view parking camera setup, and other handy optional features include the 40:20:40 split-folding rear seats, the head-up display unit and the adaptive damper system that can help add a bit of compliance to the car's firmer ride.
The BMW X3 Mk2 had good safety credentials, according to the Euro NCAP assessment body that tested the car in 2011. It awarded the BMW the full five-star rating overall, and the X3 Mk2 performed very well in the adult occupant (88%), child occupant (83%) and safety technology (71%) categories. The blot on the X3's safety record was for pedestrian protection, where it was awarded a middling 53%.
All BMW X3 Mk2s come as standard with a decent selection of safety features, such as a complement of six airbags, stability control, tyre-pressure monitoring, front and rear parking sensors and windscreen wipers that can automatically activate when it starts raining. A huge array of optional safety features was also offered on the BMW X3 Mk2 when it was new, and included a head-up display unit, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring and a speed-limit-warning system, to name but a few gadgets and gizmos.
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How practical is it? - currently readingInterior space and equipment levels are overall very good, though the extensive options list means used X3 Mk2 specs can vary considerably
What do owners think?The BMW X3 Mk2 has performed well in our Driver Power owner surveys, though hasn't done as well in the reliability ratings