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UPDATE! I'm happy to say that I contributed this chili, the turkey version, to a chili contest at my church on Sunday, 10/12/14, and won for most unusual ingredient entry! The second batch of this came out just was well, if not better than the 1st! If you have a salt-free Mexican Seasoning mixture, use it! And again, do use the Goya Cilantro cooking base - it makes such a wonderful "sauce" for this white chili version.
As soon as the Autumnal chill comes whipping through our house, I want to pull out the Dutch Oven and Slow Cookers. I also want to start cooking with beers and PUMPKIN - in just about everything! I was in the mood for chili, but I'm tired of my usual version, with a tomato base and tons of ingredients. It may be cooling off around here, but it's not yet time for a heavy hearty chili. Instead I made a batch of white chili, using a Goya Cilantro as my base, along with posole, two kinds of white beans, and a lot of vegetables. I made a portion of this totally vegan/vegetarian, so I could have it for work. The rest I added browned, lean ground turkey. Both versions were fantastic, and truly, the meat wasn't necessary, I just wanted it. I served this with a quick doctored batch of box corn muffin mix, to which I added pumpkin. Pumpkin really is the flavor of the season! Actually, pumpkin has very little flavor, it's the nutmeg/cinnamon/clove/ginger mixture that is the flavor we all think of as pumpkin spices.
Onward with our recipe. Use low-sodium, high quality canned beans if you are using canned beans. Drain and rinse them - to remove more of the salt. I love the Goya Recaito Cilantro base - it's super low in sodium and adds a nice base of flavor quickly. Made from a puree of onions, garlic and cilantro. A bottle of a nice pumpkin style ale if you desire. We had Sam Adams on hand, but any pumpkin ale that you enjoy drinking is what you need to use. Saute the vegetables in batches so things cook evenly and develop their flavors and caramelize. There's a reason to the order of cooking the vegetables - some cook faster than others.
I used a vegetarian version of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix (which means it had no lard in it!) and added 1/2 cup of pumpkin puree to the mixture. It made the muffins very moist and kept them tender and fresh tasting for days!
Cut the vegetables into even sizes - about the size of the beans - so that would be on the small-medium dice size. This chili doesn't need to cook all day - about 2 hours max. Note that it will taste much better the next day once it has a chance for all the flavors to marry together. Most ingredients can be found in the Mexican Foods aisle of your supermarket.
Use a stock pot, Dutch oven or other large and heavy bottomed pot. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil until it shimmers over medium-high heat.
Add in the onions and the carrots; saute and sweat them about 8 minutes, or until they begin to take on a hint of color.
Add in the garlic, stir and cook another 3 minutes.
Add the peppers, the squash and zucchini and saute for 5 to 8 minutes minutes.
Next add in all of the dry seasonings, cumin through thyme and stir to combine and toast.
Add in the beans, pozole, frozen corn, cilantro base, diced chilies, pumpkin puree and beer and water. Stir to combine.
Bring the mixture just to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer, 1 to 2 hours.
Taste and adjust seasonings, adding salt and freshly ground black pepper as needed; adjust as needed additional cumin, chili powder or oregano Stir in the lime zest and juice last, to brighten the flavors and stir in the freshly chopped cilantro.
Makes about 1 gallon of chili or enough to last several meals and freeze some. Frozen, it will last for up to 4 months. Serve hot with cheese, sour cream, tortilla chips or with brown rice, if desired.
ADDING MEATS: If making this with the ground turkey, or any ground meat of choice, brown the meat in a separate pan, and season lightly with pepper and and some of the Mexican seasonings so that the meat has a layer of flavor. Don't add any salt, there will be enough in the final dish. Drain off any fat and water, and then add to the chili pot along with the the liquid ingredients.
Notes: If you want to add bulgar wheat to this to bulk up the chili, add 1 cup of bulgar wheat it when you add in the liquid ingredients, along with an additional cup of water. As the bulgar wheat cooks, it will absorb the liquid and more than double in size. If the mixture is too dry, add in additional water, by 1/2 cup at a time. Remember to stir the mixture to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
This recipe does use a few canned products, beans, pumpkin, cilantro base, diced chilies. You can make things from scratch, but in all my years of massive cooking, it really is okay to use canned products so long as you know the salt/sugar/fat contents of each and realize how quickly it will add up in the final product. Posole, is a lime and salt soaked dried corn product. It's a very Mexican ingredient and adds a quirky and wonderful texture to the chili.


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I was introduced to the hospitality business at age 6 when my father worked as a Marketing Executives opening EPCOT The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Since then I have had the passion for hospitality. Using my experience inside hotels first as a bellman in Las Vegas to Marketing Director for a major Sea World Orlando Resort, I saw the recession of 2007 and the growth of third party meeting planning networks as the perfect time to start my own business, which I called Your Brand Voice.
When did you know you wanted to work in digital marketing?
What did you do best for YBV?
I love to bring the energy…when I played baseball I was the leadoff guy in the batting order. I would often say, if I can get on base to lead off the game, we will win. Setting the tone for Your Brand Voice and keeping the team fired up on the goals and objectives is my greatest strength.
What surprised you about working in the digital marketing industry?
How quickly things change. I have always believed that adapting to change was key to success. That change is our Friend – everything changes, We are going to continue to see a ton of that in 2018 for sure. No matter what you think is the status quo, it is in fact, going to change and increasingly rapidly. The people that can assimilate and appreciate, and perhaps even lead change, are the ones who are successful, the ones who hate change are rarely successful.
How did what you learned in the Classroom impact on your work in digital marketing?
The truth is, much of what we do every day is was not around last week or last year. Each day is a new adventure of opportunity, and the lessons I learned in the classroom and on the baseball field was that if you work hard and stay focused consistently, you can achieve so many great things.
What was the biggest thing you have learned working for YBV?
That it takes a group of people with different talents and different perspectives to make digital marketing work across a large demographic of people in your audience target.
What was your favorite part of the YBV experience?
My favorite part of the YBV experience is our work in the future of marketing. Every single day we are doing things that have never been done before. From using Facebook ads to hyper target the perfect audience, to create virtual reality videos that show off hotel meeting space. It is a constant search for the next influencing thing.
Do you think the things you do at YBV help our clients?
Every day I am convinced that what we are doing is not only helping our clients, but positively changing their business in a dramatic way.
What advice would you give someone who is interested in working in digital marketing?
The one thing I would tell any person thinking about a career in digital marketing, is what I would tell anybody getting into anything. Make sure you love it. If you don't love what you are doing, it can get old fast…but if you love what you do, you never work a day in our life.
I am Tyler Lodzinski a Videographer at Your Brand Voice. I am a University of Central Florida graduate with a degree in Film, and a minor in Mass Communication. I have been filming and editing videos for over 12 years and enjoy the process of bringing a creative vision to life. When I'm not hard at work creating videos for our clients, I can be found filming skateboarding, which is where my passion developed.
I've had an interest in filmmaking since I was young, so when I discovered its value in digital marketing I knew it was something I wanted to do.
I produce videos for YBV and do my best to have them done with quality and out efficiently.
I knew that video was big in digital marketing, but I was surprised to see just how much of an impact it can have.
I studied film in college, but I've learned the most through experimenting and working on my own videos.
Working for YBV has opened me up to working on a wide array of different projects and has provided me experience shooting with all types of different clients.
Being able to provide clients with quality content that will help them grow their businesses.
Video is such a crucial aspect of a brand's online presence, so I'm certain that my work is helping our clients.
I would advise them to focus on gaining as much experience as they can.
I am Amanda DiPrato, I am a 2017 alumna of Florida State University with a degree in Public Relations, and a minor in Hospitality Management. I have lived in Orlando since I was 4 years old and because of it, I have become extremely passionate about the hospitality and marketing industries. As a previous public relations intern and secretary of the Florida Public Relations Tallahassee Student Chapter, I have developed a love for all things writing and social media.
In college as a PR major, I did a lot of writing and had the opportunity to work on some projects that dealt with social media. When I saw what you could do between the two, I immediately knew it was for me!
I think some of the best things I've done for YBV is supporting our clients through my writing in blogs and press releases.
I think the biggest surprise about working in the digital marketing industry was seeing the analytical side of things. I remember viewing the Facebook analytics for a clients page my first week at YBV, and was shocked at how much you could draw from it.
In the classroom I was taught numerous things, but I definitely think all of the writing strategies were the most beneficial. Most people think you don't need to know how to write creatively in order to do digital marketing, but you actually do!
The biggest thing I've learned from working at YBV is that if you hustle, good things come your way.
I think my favorite thing about my experience at YBV is that I can wake up every day and get to write and do social media for awesome businesses all while working alongside creative, fun and positive co-workers!
Yes. Content is huge and if our clients didn't have any, their businesses wouldn't be nearly as successful!
If you're interested in digital media I highly suggest knowing the ins and outs of all social media platforms, writing well and being yourself. I'd also recommend taking some sort of graphic design class, that's always super beneficial to this industry!
I am Matt Trepanier, a Project Manager Trainee at Your Brand Voice. I'm a 2018 Alumna of Florida Gulf Coast University with a degree in Communications and a minor in Marketing. I have lived in Orlando my entire life and love to see the City Beautiful continue to grow. I was heavily involved in college within my fraternity Alpha Tau Omega where I served as both a founding father of the chapter, along as the founding Public Relations Chairman. I helped introduce and build my fraternity's brand on our campus. This introduced me my love of social media and its uses in marketing. In my spare time, I love to enjoy the local theme parks, work out, and play baseball.


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I feel that I owe it to you and to HISTORY to set the record straight on the events of, and leading to the Trogg invasion and subsequent irradiation of Gnomeregan.
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Conflicting reports on whether a tentative TPP deal has been reached
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A team effort of RealAgriculture's videographers and editorial staff to make sure that you have the latest in what is happening in agriculture.
Multiple media outlets, including Reuters and Inside Trade, are reporting an agreement-in-principle has been reached between the 11 remaining countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Vietnam this week.
However, Canada's trade minister denies there's a tentative deal, a day before world leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, meet in Vietnam.
The Nikkei Asian Review quotes Japan's economy minister as saying they reached a ministerial agreement on Thursday, and will look to officially approve the agreement on Friday. Reuters says Mexico's representative also indicated a deal had been reached.
Francois-Philippe Champagne, Canada's trade minister, is participating in the TPP negotiations on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Vietnam. Following the aforementioned media reports, he tweeted that there is still no agreement.
Despite reports, there is no agreement in principle on TPP.
— François-P Champagne (@FP_Champagne) November 9, 2017
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay's spokesperson also said "no agreement in principle as you might have read otherwise" in an email on Thursday.
Canadian agriculture groups representing sectors that rely on trade have been pushing the Canadian government to get the deal done as soon as possible.
TPP talks started in 2010 with Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States. Japan, Malaysia, Canada and Mexico joined later. All 12 signed a deal in October 2015, but it was contingent on U.S. participation, which ended with President Trump pulling out of the TPP earlier this year.
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50 garlands for Iheagwazi
By Tony Manuaka
At the turn of a milestone age of 50, Emmanuel Iheagwazi, founder and chief executive officer, Climax Lubricants Industries Limited, feels a great sense of modest achievements. This stems from his conviction that God has given him the uncommon grace to accomplish some of his dreams in his prime.
In recognition of his achievements, which he believes to be modest, reputable institutions and social groups have continued to honour him in different ways for different success stories. Following his emergence as winner of The Sun Industrialist of the Year in 2021, several other awards have come in quick succession, confirming and endorsing the choice that was made when he became the Industrialist of the Year.
As a result of the industrial harmony that exists at Climax Lubricants Industries Limited, he was conferred with a PhD in Industrial Peace and Human Relations by the United Nations Positive Livelihood Award Centre (UN-POLAC Foundation). The centre, according to Prof. Halo B. Eton, director-general, promotes United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and UNESCO Culture for Peace Project, particularly the maintenance of peace and security, and the restoration of human dignity.
The award is given to individuals of proven integrity who exhibit the ideals of living for the sake of others and commit themselves to promoting universal moral values, strong family life, social harmony, inter-religious and ethnic cooperation and the culture of peace. In addition to being appointed a peace advocate, the award comes with several other benefits including a flag of authority to be hoisted at the recipient's choice of place and special vehicle number plate in collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).
The Engine Lubricants Dealers group within the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has conferred on Iheagwazi the grand patron of the association, with an award for his outstanding contributions to the growth of the lubricants business in Nigeria.
In recognition of his significant contributions to the development of the society and competence in his career as an industrialist in the lubricants segment of the oil and gas sector, the International Entrepreneur University, a corporate university for members' development, based in the United States of America, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science in Petroleum Resources Management and Corporate Leadership.
As part of activities marking the World Standard Day in 2022, Climax Lubricants Industries Limited won the International Standard Excellence Award for the Best Premium Lubricant Products Company of the Year. According to Dr. Stanley Ohenhen (PhD), chairman of the award panel, the award is meant to celebrate compliance and conformance to standards by the winners of the awards.
At the 10th Pan-African International Annual Conference and Awards 2022, Iheagwazi was also conferred with the Africa's Industrialist of the Year award for 2021/2022 by the Pan African International magazine. He was also appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the organization.
In recognition of his ranking as a prominent businessman, entrepreneur of note with passion for economic, youth and societal development, he has been honoured with the Nelson Mandela Leadership Award for Excellence and Integrity.
In philanthropy, Iheagwazi has done well in giving back to society. For his unique contribution to the development of the Umuohi community in Okija, Anambra State, he has been honoured with the Great Philanthropist Award by the community. Similarly, the Okija Big Brothers Assembly, in recognition of his inspiring works, investment in human capital and infrastructure development conferred on him the Infrastructure Development Award.
These recognitions are offshoots of The Sun Industrialist of the Year award of 2021, which painstakingly identified him as an industrialist who has contributed to the economic and social development of the country.
Born December 1972 in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, Iheagwazi is a Nigerian businessman, industrialist, business development strategist and philanthropist. He is a graduate of Mass Communication from Uthman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto. Over time, he has attended lots of capacity-building conferences and training programmes in management and entrepreneurship as well as trade events in Nigeria and overseas.
Climax Lubricants Industries has a License To Operate (LTO) from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). The company has developed top range products in the automobile and industrial lubricants, such as Climax multi-grade oil, CX7, 20W/50; Climax Auto Lube, SAE 40, 50; Climax Diesel, SAE 40, 15W/40, CLIMAX Full synthetic lubricants: 5W/20; Climax Gold, 5W/30 and Climax 1, 5W/40.
Iheagwazi, whose business interest spans across sectors, is a meticulous entrepreneur who combines strong business skills with diligence. He believes in leadership by example and exudes genuine love, care and empathy for his workers and customers. He is an advocate of industrial peace and harmony.
Climax Lubricants Industries Limited is one of the companies he established to bridge the gap identified in the lubricants market in the country, which was at a time flooded with adulterated lubricants that shorten the lifespan of automobile engines and industrial machines. He is no doubt an industrialist to watch.
•Manuaka is editor, Special Projects, The Sun Publishing Limited, 0803 307 8350
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The Boyne Valley, some 20 miles northwest of Dublin in County Meath, is one of the most remarkable sites on the planet, for there stands three monuments to the early settlers of Ireland, and their civilization. At first they appear to be huge mounds or hills, but closer investigation reveals them to be man-made structures. They are, in fact, more than 5000 years old and a celestial manifestation occurs there each December.
The oldest mound, Newgrange, is about 262 feet in diameter, surrounded by a border of 97 stones, some elaborately carved with one magnificently carved stone lying in front. The front of the mound is also ringed by enormous standing boulders. Behind the front stone is the entrance to a 65-foot passage to the center of the mound and a three-cove cruciform chamber. The entire structure is formed of interlacing corbeled stones without a bit of mortar, angled in such a way that no matter how wet the covering soil becomes, seeping water is directed away and the interior remains perfectly dry. The passage is the most interesting part of the structure as it is inclined at precisely the correct angle, and horizontally aligned to allow the rays of the rising sun to shine through a small opening above the entrance and illuminate the chambers. The remarkable thing is that this only happens at one specific time of the year – the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year and the point at which the power of the sun begins its annual return. The ancients who built the mound called it Bru na Boinne.
Ancient Irish manuscripts say it was built by the Tuatha De Danann, early inhabitants of Ireland who were such an advanced civilization that the Celtic settlers, who came after them, considered them possessed of magical powers and guided by the heavens. Today, it is obvious that their`guidance' came from their advanced knowledge of astronomy – a knowledge unmatched in the known world at that time. To the Celts, Bru na Boinne was a domain of the gods, a palace of the otherworld, and a place of special offerings. Less than a mile on either side are two similar mounds: Knowth and Dowth, which are also astronomically aligned with celestial events.
Knowth, the second oldest of the three, is about 275 feet in diameter and outlined by 127 massive curbstones. There are two passages in Knowth, facing east and west. The west-facing one is curved while the east-facing one is cruciform-shaped like the one in Newgrange. These passages are reportedly aligned with the rising and setting sun on the Vernal and Autumnal equinoxes. Knowth has a huge amount of stone carvings which are said to be one quarter of all of Europe's neolithic art!
Dowth, known as the fairy mound of darkness, also has two passages and shares the Winter Solstice alignment with Newgrange, but at the setting sun. Beginning in November, the rays of the setting sun move along the left side of the western passage, then into the circular chamber, where, at the winter solstice, it lights up three stones. The convex central stone of the three then reflects that sun light in to a dark recess, lighting up the decorated stones there. Then, until February the rays slowly recede along the right side of the passage and the sun withdraws from Dowth.
Subsequent studies revealed that the structure was built around 3700 BC making it the oldest, still-standing, man-made building in the world. Since the average human lifespan at that time was only 35 years and it was estimated to have taken 70 years to build, we know that they weren't built as tombs. Finally, in 1989, the New York Times, which is ever slow to credit Irish accomplishments, noted that a British journal had announced that the astrological alignment of Newgrange appeared to be by design rather than by accident and in 1993 the megalithic monuments of the Boyne Valley were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Welcome aboard!
In spite of the amount of verified information available on this remarkable historic site, some still stand with their backs to the Boyne Valley and stare in mock amazement at Stonehenge, marveling at the antiquity of a site constructed 1,000 years later. Or they wonder at the pyramids which were only started hundreds of years after the astronomical observatories in the Boyne Valley were already operating. It's now December, and on the 21st, the mound at Bru na Boinne will again receive its annual message from the sun telling man that the days will now be getting longer and the long winter nights are over. How long will it be before the long night of ignorance is over as well and Irish intellectual significance is recognized?


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Direct oral anticoagulants for the treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with active malignancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis 2018;46:145-153. Erratum published: Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis 2019;47:166.
Benefits and harms of omalizumab in adolescent and adult patients with chronic idiopathic/spontaneous urticaria: a meta-analysis of "real-world" evidence. JAMA Dermatology 2019;155:29-38.
Economic evaluation of talimogene laherparepvec plus ipilimumab combination therapy versus ipilimumab in patients with advanced unresectable melanoma. JAMA Dermatology 2019;155:22-28.
Interprofessional Integrative Healthcare Education: What Do Primary Care Educational Programs Need? J Interprofes Educ & Pract. 2019;14:6-12. Published online ahead of print at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2018.10.006. November 2018.
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"The Embedded Librarian Services at the Arizona Health Sciences Library." Invited presentation for the Regional Meeting of the Biomedical Librarians of Japan, November 3, 2018, Tokyo, Japan.
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If you have dry, itchy skin, you know how annoying it can be. At the same time, scratching your dry itchy skin can feel incredibly good.
It is not much comfort to know that scratching makes you feel good when you see the results from your scratching.
I used to suffer from very dry skin, and it took me awhile to figure out how exactly I could get rid of it. I tried a lot of different dry skin care products, but none of them seemed to work.
That is also the time that I started really thinking about what was causing my dry itchy skin, was there an underlying cause?
When I was having my worst bout of dry skin, I was eating a very unhealthy diet consisting of fast food, candy, sodas, cookies, and all those kinds of things. It took me awhile to kick the junk food habit, but once I did that, and I started eating more fruits and vegetables, my skin improved a lot, and so did my health.
I also discovered that climate played a big role on my skin. You see, I live in a pretty cold climate up here in Sweden, and when the winter comes around, the air becomes extremely dry, and this leads to my skin losing its moisture. Believe it or not, this actually took me a year or two to realize, but when I did, I started moisturizing every single day after I took a shower. I made sure to only use the best natural skin care products, and my dry itchy skin has gone.
The last tip I can give you on eliminating dry itchy skin is to only get completely natural products, because many of today's popular dry skin care products contain a lot of bad ingredients. These ingredients can make your skin dry, irritated, and it can even cause cancer according to recent studies.
These dry skin care tips may seem simple, but I promise you that if you apply them, your dry itchy skin will be healed, just remember to use natural dry skin care products.
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The Silver Age: China's Aging Population
October 17, 2016 By Wynne Wang
China's population may be aging past the point of no return
China is the world's youngest superpower with the world's largest labor force of nearly 800 million people, but it seems like it has only suddenly realized it is getting old really fast.
In China today, there are roughly 7.6 workers for every one retiree, but by 2050, according to the United Nation's demographic forecast, each retiree will be supported by only 2.1 people in the workforce. Fears about how this future math plays out are creeping into society, particularly for younger people who are going to be on the wrong side of that equation.
Urban workers and their employers all contribute monthly sums into state-run pension funds, but many experts say the amounts will not cover payments for the huge extra numbers of people who will become eligible for them. In 2050, China's over-65 population is predicted to be around 370 million, up from about 138 million in 2014, already the world's largest pool of elderly at 10% of the population.
"I pay my pension money every month, but I don't know how much I will get after I retire," says Li Zijian, a middle-aged employee of an international company. "I hire nannies to take care of my children and do chores, but I don't think I can enjoy that when I grow old and really need help."
Li has legitimate reasons to worry. China's government is already leading a fight against slower economic growth. The country's official GDP rate fell to a reported 6.7% in the first quarter, from the double-digital rate maintained during recent decades. And in 2012, China's working population dropped for the first time in decades, as young people aged 15-59 fell by 3.45 million according to official data.The trend is already showing signs of acceleration with a decline of 4.87 million in 2015, the largest decline in China's modern history.
"China is far from being ready to serve such a big elderly population," says Jiang Baoquan, a demographer with Xi'an Jiaotong University. "The country needs to do much more to be prepared for an aged society."
China will be far from alone at the retirement home—Japan, Europe and the US are also grappling with this problem to one degree or another. But unlike its developed counterparts, China is aging while its level of prosperity is still relatively low. China's population structure is like Japan's of the 1980s, while its per-capita GDP level has only reached that of Japan in the early 1970s.
By far the biggest issue is China's low birth rate, which declined sharply in the early 1980s with the introduction of the one-child policy. Given the massive disruption in population growth it caused, and changing social attitudes toward child-rearing, many experts believe it may be too late to climb out of the demographic trap.
The Birth of a Problem
China has been an overpopulated country for many centuries, and has long suffered problems because of it, but the current demographic crisis is a 20th-century creation. During the Mao era, families were encouraged to have many children, helping the population to roughly double to one billion from 1949 to 1979. Starting in the 1970s, the birth rate began to decline naturally, from above 6 in early 1960s to 4.85 in early 1970s. But fearing a Malthusian catastrophe—a crisis caused by overpopulation and insufficient food production—the government introduced the one-child policy starting in 1978.
"Chinese leaders used very simple math while rolling out the policy," says Liang Zhongtang, a former expert member of the country's Family Planning Commission. "[They thought] the economy will grow and the people's conditions will improve if there are less people, but society has its own rules which aren't that straightforward."
Under the strictest birth control policy in world history, China's population continued to expand in the following decades, thanks to its large demographic base and improving living conditions. China's average life expectancy has also increased dramatically from 43.4-years of age in the early 1950s to 75.4 now, and medical advances are likely to push that number up further. In other words, people linger on today whereas before they would have passed on.
As a result, China today not only has the biggest population of any country in the world, but is also aging faster than any other country in history.
Globally, there is a pattern of acceleration in terms of how long it takes a society to become 'aged'—that is, when old people aged 65 or above constitute more than 14% of the population. It took France 115 years, the US 60 years, Germany 40 years and Japan 24 years, with a world average of 40 years. For China, however, it may take only 23 years. Another 11 years beyond that and it will turn into an 'ultra-aged' society, when the over-65 crowd makes up 28% of the population.
Pension Tension
China's pension system, meanwhile, barely offers a buffer. The system started too late, and it is already using the money contributed by younger people to pay current pensioners. When the baby boomers grow old, the pool will dry up, barring significant changes. Even before that, urban pensioners today receive less than half of what they used to get from the state social security system.
"According to actuarial forecasts, China's current social security system will have a financial gap of RMB 86 trillion in the future," says Hu Jiye, a professor with China University of Political Science and Law.
China's urban employees have to contribute 8% of their wages to individual retirement accounts, with employers contributing another 20%, but most of the money is 'borrowed' to pay legacy pensions of pre-1977 state workers.
China set up a national social security fund in 2000, as a supplement to the current pension system and it is now an active investor in the stock market—a move some consider to be risky—while other pension money is generally limited to Chinese government bonds and bank deposits. The fund's assets totaled $285 billion at the end of 2015, but there is still expected to be a significant shortfall. The country is also allocating more tax revenues to pay pensioners, but that is also becoming a burden on the country's finances.
"I dare say the problem will be more serious than Japan's," says Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Japan's developed nature put it in a much better position when demographic change hit. It has a social security system that covers everyone, and the universal pension and health care systems were established in 1961, well before the country started aging—from 1970 to 2015, Japan's elderly population rose from 7.1% to 26.7%, the world's highest.
But although Japan was able to maintain high pension and social-security benefits, its young people face high tax burdens, and government debt is more than double GDP. The fact that Japan can barely shoulder its burden is worrying.
Fertility Fix?
In reaction to the problem, China relaxed its family planning policy in late 2013, allowing a family to have two children if one of the parents is an only child, and the policy was further loosened in 2015, allowing every family to do so. So far the results have been lukewarm—preventing births seemed to be a whole lot easier than encouraging them.
"It was expected that the end of one-child policy may cause two million families to try for a second child," says Jiang Baoquan. "But in 2014 only 65,000 second babies were actually born. The 2013 policy relaxation did little to boost the birth rate."
The policy change may be too little too late. China's fertility rate may have inched up a bit to around 1.5 after the 2015 policy change, but it's not only well below the replacement level of 2.1, but also lower than the developed-world average of 1.7. Moreover, other low-birthrate countries have had little success in boosting fertility via policy fixes.
In Japan's case, Junko Yasuda with Nomura Research said policies were launched to help women balance children and work. But Japanese people take having children as a private decision, and seem not much affected by the government.
"The second baby-boom generation that was born 1971-1975 [have] reached the age of 45, so they cannot have many more children," Junko says. "It means the third baby rush never came."
In China, the one-child policy fundamentally changed people's idea of raising kids, making a multi-child family something that most Chinese families no longer aspire to. Raising kids is financially and psychologically burdensome on ordinary people. Simply scrapping the ban can't offer them incentives to give birth to more kids.
"I can't afford to have a second child. It will cost me my business," says Maggie Zhao, who owns an export company in Shanghai. "I will lose my clients if I have to be away for another half year. We run a small business; you need to attend to every detail."
Maggie's mother is the one taking care of her daughter, but grandma's health condition doesn't allow her to raise another infant. Chinese public kindergartens only accept children after they turn three, and grandparents are usually the caregivers after the mothers return to workplaces. Many working mothers have to choose between babies and work as there is no daycare system in China to take in babies that are only a few months old. There are also no favorable policies for families that only have one adult at work.
Yi said Japan and Korea's failed efforts to bring up fertility rates offered China more lessons instead of experiences. Encouraging more children would mean restructuring most of the country. China's high property prices, traffic jams, and lack of childcare options are all standing in the way of increased births.
No One Way Out
With the only real fix of a higher birthrate seemingly moot, China will have to resort to a combination of adjustments to ameliorate the aches and pains of becoming an elderly society.
The shrinking working population can be partly addressed by higher work participation among old people, and this is already being pursued. China's authorities wrote in the 13th Five-Year Plan that they want to gradually raise the retirement age between 2016 and 2020—in China, most retirees still have the potential to work longer since they leave their jobs before the age of 60. It may also be possible to accommodate more old people in the workplace by providing flexible arrangements.
"People will have to retire later as they are expected to live longer," says Hu. "The basic rules to keep a pension system balanced is to get back what you paid." By encouraging people to stay as contributors to the system, the pool will be more balanced with more money flowing in.
China's traditional family values may also help the society to take care of both the elders and the children, since more Chinese people are inclined to live in big families than in Western countries. But the co-residence rate has dropped sharply as more people moved into cities and grew financially independent. Still, China's 2010 census indicated that 50% of old people live with their adult children. The government could encourage this trend by relaxing the hukou registration system (which differentiates urban and rural people), or urging migrant workers to work in cities closer to their original homes.
"China is so big that migrant workers might be thousands [of] miles away from home," says Yi. "It's almost impossible for them to take care of their old parents."
China could also encourage more people to participate into corporate annuity plans and commercial pension plans, so elders will rely less on the mandatory state pension system. The country enjoys the highest savings rate in the world as individuals don't have many safe investment choices beyond banking deposits. By moving part of the savings into the pension plans, the country may restore their safety nets.
Habits of saving starting from a young age will help educated individuals to fare better than others. They could also do better if they were allowed to diversify their wealth from expensive property and bank savings.
But these measures are of little help to China's poor rural people, who of constitute around half of China's population. China's rural areas have more old people than cities as they have channeled the young working populations into the cities as migrant workers. A Shanghai University of Finance and Economics 2015 study shows 15.4% of the rural population is already old versus 13.3% at the national level. The research also shows that more than 50% rural elders are still working, many doing hard manual labor in the fields.
All this means rural old people will likely be hardest hit by the demographic changes. China's pension system has not yet covered everyone in the country, and rural people can hardly maintain their lives with the 70 yuan (about $10) offered every month by the state pension funds. Many of them have limited savings as they don't own the land they plant and they suffer from lack of health care services.
"There isn't much to do about the rural people," says Hu. "China's social security system can't provide every retiree as good a life as the North European countries do. Our fiscal system just doesn't have the ability."
Immigration has been the choice of many countries to fill the numbers gap, but it is hardly China's. China so far is still a net sender of migrants. Between 2005 and 2015, China saw an average of 400,000 people emigrate to other countries every year, mostly developed countries. China may also find it difficult to attract young workers from other countries simply because it isn't the only country growing old—most of the world is. There is some chance of migration from relatively young countries in the Middle East and Africa if China is willing to open its door to them, but it seems doubtful at best.
"Who would want to migrate to China? [Especially] if its economy slows down while the aging problem worsens," says Yi. "Africa's economic growth will pick up thanks to its young population, so their young people won't aspire to move to China."
A greatly aged population now seems inevitable and China can only hope to mitigate the impact. Efforts will no doubt be made to maintain economic growth while the working population shrinks, though an aging-related accelerated slowdown is more than likely unavoidable.
On the other hand, it is still 15 to 20 years away before China's population really starts to shrink, so the government and individuals still have the chance to move before it's too late.
"The most important thing of all is… to encourage births," says Yi. "The country will have hope only if our young people can bring more babies."
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Q: Creating Matrix of Chars and Rotate it 180 degrees I'm trying to input symbols (#, *, and .) into a matrix of N row and N column.
I've tried the code in this link and it does rotate the matrix but I do not know how to change the input from int to chars (symbols).
Here is my current code and it doesn't work.
    m=n; //row and columns value are the same
    printf("No of columns: %d\n", m);

    if (n>100 || m>100) //break if n or m values is more than 100
    return 0;

    printf("Enter the elements in the array:\n");
    for(i=0; i<n; i++){
        for(j=0; j<m; j++){
            scanf("%s",&A[i][j]);
        }
    }

    //store the elements in rotated matrix by iterating through all the elements in the marix
    for(i=0; i<n; i++){
        for(j=0; j<m; j++){
            rotatedA[i][j] = A[n-i-1][m-j-1];
        }
    }

    //print out the new matrix rotated by 180 degrees
    for(i=0; i<n; i++){
        for(j=0; j<m; j++){
            printf("%s ",rotatedA[i][j]);
        }

    }

}

Here are the Input Format, Output Format, and some Input-Output Examples from my homework Formats and Examples
It's an image but I'm not allowed to post image yet so I put it in a link.

A: You seem to be confusing characters and strings.  You have the line
scanf("%s",&A[i][j]);

which reads a whitespace delimited string from the input, and then attempts to store it in a single character.  Since the string will always have at least two characters (including the termination NUL), this will ALWAYS overrun the space for it.  Mostly this will be innocuous (just overwriting A[i][j+1] etc), but if you're using the full width, it will give undefined behavior.
What you might actually want is
scanf(" %c", &A[i][j]);

which will skip any whitespace (eg, newlines from the previous line of input) and then read a single non-whitespace character.  The 'skip whitespace' behavior comes from the explicit space at the start of the format string.
If you don't want to skip all the whitespace (want to allow space characters in your matrix, for example), you'll need to manually skip just the newlines (which you probably don't want in your matrix), but not the spaces.  This could be done with a second scanf call in the inner loop
scanf("%*[\n]");   /* discard newlines */
scanf("%c", &A[i][j]);

these two can't be combined into a single call as the first will fail (and do nothing) if there are no newlines.
You have the same character/string confusion in your print loop, so you also need to change %s to %c there as well.

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Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is on the advance. The reason for this advance is the promise of handling the increase of complexity within the software and its development process by raising the level of abstraction using models as information storage. This trend is in particular supported by availability of stable and comprehensive tools and supporting platforms in particular driven by Eclipse.
The Eclipse Integrated Development Day 2012 focuses on topics concerned with the collaboration of engineers, the integration of tools, of data (i.e. models) and processes and with the coordination of different lifecycle activities. In summary this Eclipse Day focuses on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Attendees will have a chance to hear leading experts in the ALM domain as well as practitioners using Eclipse technology creating solutions which address this problem domain.
Eclipse Integrated Development Day in Berlin is a day-long event for technical developers, architects and managers interested in tool and process integration as well as automation in development processes. Attendees will have the chance to hear speakers from leading organizations and experts from the Eclipse community.
Registration details will be provided soon.
You are invited to submit a talk, demo, experience report or case study in the area of Integrated Development based on Eclipse technology. Presentations that include demos or which are based on real-life projects are especially welcome.
Presentations will be approx. 30 minutes long, including time for questions.
There will be a projector to support your presentation. Presentation slides can be posted to the Eclipse Integrated Development Day 2012 wiki and, if you'd like to share a short paper on your topic, we would also be glad to post a pdf-file on our site.
Be a sponsor! We would like to invite Eclipse-interested companies to participate as sponsors of the Eclipse Integrated Development Day 2012.
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Cost sponsorships will be used to support event materials and catering for lunch and breaks. Sponsors are asked to contribute EUR 500 + VAT per company. The sponsor fee will solely be used for event marketing and organizing the catering. If there is sponsor money left, the money will be donated to Eclipse projects. Interested? If you would like to sponsor Eclipse Integrated Development Day 2012 or, have more questions, please email the Eclipse Integrated Development Day Team EclipseDay@fokus.fraunhofer.de. Looking forward to hearing from you! The Eclipse Integrated Development Day Team.
All attendees must register for this event. There is no participation fee for this event.
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If you have any problems with registration, please send an e-mail to Nicole at EclipseDay@fokus.fraunhofer.de.
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In 2010 and 2011 we organized Eclipse Integrated Development Days: Here you'll find some impressions and presentations.
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Commencement Commences
Commencement is just around the corner, so here's the 411 for faculty or staff members. From award ceremonies, to Honorary Degree Recipients, to dates and times, find out what you need to know.
It's almost time for this year's graduates to walk the walk, and as we bid adieu to the Class of 2013, here are a few things you need to know before the big day.
The Law School kicks off Commencement with the first ceremony of the season scheduled for Tuesday, May 14 on the White Plains Campus. New York City undergraduate and graduate level ceremonies return once again to Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, May 15. Commencement on the Pleasantville Campus is planned for Friday, May 17 at the Ann and Alfred Goldstein Health, Fitness, and Recreation Center.
This year, the University is pleased to announce Michael Clinton, Vartan Gregorian, Joel Klein, and the Honorable Malachy E. Mannion as this year's Honorary Degree Recipients.
Joel I. Klein, attorney and advocate, will be the Honorary Degree Recipient at the Graduate Level ceremony. He built a career in Washington, D.C., where he opened his own law firm, argued 11 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and served as Deputy White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. Later, he was appointed to Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. Since leaving the D.C. area, Klein served eight years as Chancellor of New York City's public school system, where he helped raise the city's graduation rates by 20 percent. He currently serves as the CEO of Amplify and the Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, for News Corp.
The Pleasantville undergraduate ceremony's Honorary Degree Recipient Michael Clinton received his MBA from the Lubin School of Business in 1983. Since then, he has scaled the impressive heights of Mount Kilimanjaro and the even more impressive heights of the publishing industry. Today, he is Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Publishing Director of Hearst Magazines, where he oversees the publishing side of 13 different Hearst titles and more than $1 billion in annual revenues.
Vartan Gregorian, the Honorary Degree Recipient for the New York City undergraduate ceremony, began his work as a professor, teaching at San Francisco State College, UCLA, and the University of Texas at Austin. He worked his way up the ladder to the position of Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Eventually, Gregorian took on the presidency at Brown University, where he was able to raise millions of dollars and create new avenues for intellectual growth. In 1981, he became the president of The New York Public Library—during his tenure there he doubled the Library's budget and raised more than $300-million. Gregorian is currently the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
On May 14, Pace Law School will honor the Honorable Malachy E. Mannion, a Pace alumnus and U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (MDPA), with a Doctor of Laws degree. Mannion was nominated by President Barack Obama and appointed to the MDPA in December 2012. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney's Office, then as an Assistant United States Attorney in the MDPA where he was chief of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces, and then as a United States Magistrate Judge, and soon-to-be Chief Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, until his present appointment.
Prior to the Commencement ceremonies, award ceremonies and receptions will be held on both campuses. Faculty are encouraged to attend the award ceremony and reception for your school/college to commemorate the Class of 2013! Please click here to view the dates and times of the ceremonies.
For more information on Commencement, volunteer compensation procedures, and more, visit http://www.pace.edu/commencement.
Author Alyssa CressottiPosted on April 26, 2013 May 7, 2013 Categories UncategorizedTags Commencement, featured1 Comment on Commencement Commences
Celebrating Commencement 2012
It's almost time for this year's graduates to walk the walk, and as we bid adieu to the Class of 2012, here are a few things you need to know before the big day. For the New York City undergraduate and graduate level ceremonies, Pace returns to Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, May 16. Commencement on the Pleasantville Campus is planned for Friday, May 11 at the Ann and Alfred Goldstein Health, Fitness, and Recreation Center and Law School Commencement will be on the White Plains Campus, Sunday, May 20.
This year, the University is pleased to announce Stephen Apkon, Danny Meyer, and Donna E. Shalala as this year's Honorary Degree Recipients.
Stephen Apkon, executive director of the Jacob Burns Film Center and Media Arts Lab, will be the Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient at the Pleasantville Undergraduate Commencement ceremony. As Founder and Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc., Apkon has combined a lifelong passion for film with his desire to revitalize his hometown of Pleasantville, NY.
The Honorary Degree Recipient at the NYC Undergraduate ceremony will be Danny Meyer, the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which includes Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, Shake Shack, The Modern, Maialino, Untitled, North End Grill, Union Square Events, and Hospitality Quotient, a learning and consulting business. Meyer, his restaurants, and chefs have earned an unprecedented 24 James Beard Awards.
Donna E. Shalala, professor of Political Science and president of the University of Miami, has been selected as the Honorary Degree Recipient at the graduate ceremony in New York City. Shalala has more than 30 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. In 1993 President Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years, becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history.
On May 20, Pace Law School will honor the Honorable Andrew Lamar Carter Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) with a Doctor of Laws degree. Carter was nominated by President Barack Obama and appointed to the SDNY in December 2011. He also served as United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York. He began his career as a public defender and worked as a staff and supervising attorney with the Federal Defenders of New York and with the Legal Aid Society in the criminal defense and federal defenders division.
Prior to the Commencement ceremonies, award ceremonies and receptions will be held on both campuses. Faculty are encouraged to attend the award ceremony and reception for your school/college to commemorate the Class of 2012! Dates and times are as follows:
For more information about this year's Commencement ceremonies and everything you need to know about participating, visit http://www.pace.edu/commencement.
Author Alyssa CressottiPosted on April 23, 2012 May 3, 2012 Categories UncategorizedTags Commencement, featured
Thank you in advance to everyone involved for making the Commencement ceremonies so meaningful. This day marks a significant achievement for all of us; for the graduating students of course, but also for the faculty who guided and shaped their intellectual growth and for the staff who advised and counseled them.
This academic year–one of the most exciting in recent years–is quickly coming to a close. I encourage all faculty and staff to attend one or more of our Commencement ceremonies–Friday, May 20 in Pleasantville and Sunday, May 22 at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, New York City. If you need a reminder about why you work as hard as you do each and every day, just look at the faces of the graduates and their families at Commencement. Our work is all about the greater good.
A tremendous amount of planning goes into our four Commencement ceremonies–the Law School, the undergraduate ceremonies in New York City and Pleasantville, and a combined graduate ceremony in New York City. Thank you in advance to everyone involved–faculty, staff, and especially volunteers–for making the ceremonies so meaningful. This day marks a significant achievement for all of us; for the graduating students of course, but also for the faculty who guided and shaped their intellectual growth and for the staff who advised and counseled them and provided the co-curricular infrastructure for their Pace experience.
Every student who graduates joins nearly 130,000 others in the great society of Pace alumni throughout the world who know firsthand the value of a Pace education. Alumni are among our best ambassadors; they influence opinions about Pace, including those of prospective students and parents. It is our job to keep alumni active, engaged and willing to give back to Pace in our time-honored tradition. A memorable send-off is an important way of keeping Pace memories alive.
Thank you to all of our faculty and staff for making this year so productive and eventful. We are poised to meet many of the goals set forth in the first year implementation plan for the Strategic Plan, and ready to embark on the second year plan. Check out my blog at https://friedman-blog.pace.edu/ for academic and administrative updates, and to sign up for the RSS feed.
Stephen J. Friedman
Author Alyssa CressottiPosted on May 10, 2011 June 13, 2011 Categories President's LetterTags Commencement, President's Letter
Next week, faculty, staff, students, and alumni come together to celebrate, and congratulate, the graduating class of 2011.
Pace is proud to present the next wave of leaders, thinkers, teachers, and innovators as we celebrate Commencement 2011 on our three campuses.
On May 8, we kicked off our Commencement season as the Law School ushered in the next generation of attorneys at the 33rd Annual Commencement. Chief State Judge Jonathan Lippman, an influential figure in the New York State judicial system for the past four decades, was awarded a Doctor of Laws. Lippman has played a central role in many far-reaching reforms including the introduction of problem-solving community courts, drug courts, and domestic violence courts throughout the state.
On May 20, Westchester undergraduates will celebrate Commencement at the Goldstein Fitness Center on the PLV Campus. And both our NYC undergraduate students and our Westchester and New York graduate students will celebrate at the iconic Avery Fisher Hall, one of Lincoln Center's most prestigious venue, located a block from Central Park, on Sunday, May 22. (See dates and times for Commencement here.)
Honorary degrees will be awarded at the three ceremonies to individuals who have had a profound impact in the fields of academia, medicine, business, and entertainment, while also contributing to society at large.
Joseph M. Pastore Jr., PhD, Professor Emeritus in Residence at Pace's Lubin School of Business, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the Westchester Undergraduate Ceremony. Pastore is not only a beloved professor, but also a sought-after expert on business management and a mediator, who was in charge of overseeing the desegregation of Yonkers' public schools in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
At our New York City Undergraduate ceremony, Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Science. An influential leader in health care, Boufford is a national authority on public health issues, including health care for minorities and underserved communities, and has been active in local, national, and global health care reform. As "NYC's doctor," she leads the charge to protect and advance the health of people through interdisciplinary approaches to policy, leadership, education, community engagement, and innovative research.
Jim Whitaker, chairman and producer of Whitaker Entertainment at Walt Disney Studios, will receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at the combined NYC and Westchester Graduate Ceremony. Whitaker, who rose from intern to president of motion picture production at Imagine Entertainment, has executive produced Changeling, American Gangster, Friday Night Lights, Cinderella Man, Curious George, 8 Mile, and various other notable films. Most recently, Whitaker founded Project Rebirth, a nonprofit that for the past nine years has used time-lapse photography to chronicle the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site. Rebirth, the powerful feature-length documentary which Whitaker directed and co-produced, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and will soon be part of a permanent exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
For more information about each of the honorary degree recipients, view the press release. To read more about each ceremony, visit the Commencement website.
Author Alyssa CressottiPosted on May 10, 2011 May 13, 2011 Categories Events, FeaturesTags Commencement, featured, graduation
Watch the Graduates
Watch the Class of 2010 celebrate their journeys at Pace with highlights of this year's Commencement.
Author Alyssa CressottiPosted on July 1, 2010 July 9, 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags Commencement, featured, video


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A complex bio-stimulus for use on seedlings, plants in the vegetative stage and plants in the early flowering/fruiting stage. Helps promote strong root and foliage growth.
Start-R contains two forms of nitrogen that, when used with Mills Basis A+B, changes the NPK ratio to promote stronger vegetative growth. Start-R also contains humic and fulvic acids, L-amino acids, and a root enhancing bio-stimulants derived from auxin- and cytokinin-rich Irish kelp.


So says Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales in an interview with a leading newspaper. Sure, the majority will respond that what we need in these trying times is new hero.
But when we say heroes, we're thinking of men frozen in time. Who would dare to say that heroes were humans too?
Klippers, pull a chair and shake your wits with these "5 Weird Tidbits about Filipino Heroes". We know that we all grew up with images of our heroes standing on pedestals. We're thinking that it's high time to realize that they were once like us — made of flesh, blood, and a lot of quirks.
Former Pres. Corazon Aquino has swept millions with her "Cory Magic", up until her death in 2009 — which also happened in August.
Needless to say, Aquino sued Beltran with libel. The journalist lost the case and was sentenced with a two-year imprisonment and a PHP 2-million payment for moral damages.
Beltran recanted his words, saying that he was just using figurative speech. In reality, Aquino was in her residence in Arlegui Street and eyewitnesses reported that she maintained her composure during the ordeal.
According to former PSG (Presidential Security Group) Commander Voltaire Gazmin, Aquino "was very calm" she even had time to fix her hair!
The verdict was overturned almost three years after Beltran died of heart attack in 1994, with the court citing that Beltran's statements were not published with malice.
While male presidents of the republic are now often seen wearing 'barong Tagalog', this was not the case in the past. It was the late Pres. Ramon Magsaysay who first wore the baro ng mga Tagalog as his official attire.
Almost 10 years before Magsaysay led the country, Manuel Quezon ruled the Philippine Commonwealth, a time of American colonial rule.
It was then that Quezon thought of combining the Filipino and American spirit.
How did he do that? Quezon wore a 'barong Tagalog' that was embroidered with intertwined Philippine and American flags.
Designers who specialize in history chose to call Quezon's 'barong Tagalog' as the Commonwealth Barong Tagalog. For some, it became a symbol of the emerging Filipino identity in the midst of colonial rule, while others see it as a proof of Philippines' longstanding dependency to America.
We lost most of our wars not because our opponents were more superior, but because we had enemies from within.
Historians agree that the Philippine history is filled with a lot of traitors. It was a Filipino, in the person of Teodoro Patiño, who exposed the Katipunan (KKK) to Spanish authorities.
Speaking of the Katipunan, the death of Andres Bonifacio is still a controversy these days, with most of the circumstantial evidences pointing to Emilio Aguinaldo as mastermind of Bonifacio's assassination.
In fact, the famous phrase "Sa'yo ang Tundo, akin ang Cavite" might have originated by the factionalism between Bonifacio's and Aguinaldo's men, who came from Tundo and Cavite respectively.
Aguinaldo himself was not exempt from back-fighting. While hiding on the mountains of Palanan, Isabela in 1901, Aguinaldo was captured by Filipinos who defected to the American side. His Filipino captors dressed up as soldiers of the Philippine revolution, while Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston pretended to be a prisoner of war.
Since we have mentioned the Philippine Revolution, it is worthwhile to delve deeper into Andres Bonifacio's past showbiz career.
Yes, Klippers, you heard it right. Bonifacio was once a theater actor before he founded the Katipunan.
In fact, he first founded a theater group before he founded a revolutionary movement.
Guess who the other actors are? Of course, fellow revolutionaries Macario Sakay and Aurelio Tolentino were part of Bonifacio's artist's troupe.
Historians are still at war whether Bonifacio's bones have really been found. When the Supremo and his brother Procopio was assassinated on May 10, 1897, their remains were hastily buried somewhere on Maragondon's mountain range.
A set of bones were found in 1918, believed to be those of Andres Bonifacio. Though many historians doubted the bones' authenticity, some bought the idea that they really belonged to the Supremo.
Upon closer examination, the skull's teeth were obviously made smooth through a file. The suspicion that the skulls really belonged to Bonifacio was strengthened with statements from his sister Espiridiona. Bonifacio's youngest sister confirmed that her brother used to smoothen his teeth with an earthenware shard.
If the skull is authentic, it can prove that Bonifacio might have lived a vain lifestyle, as he was concerned with how his teeth would affect his appearance.
Another possible proof of Andres Bonifacio's preoccupation with personal grooming was his habit of bringing an umbrella regardless of the weather. During those times, bringing an umbrella as a walking stick provided men with a fashionable look.
While it isn't easy to be a hero, we're always facing the challenge of being one these days.
These tidbits, though not "weird" in the literal sense, are often regarded as historical "rumors". "Rumors" of these kind are not intended to disparage; instead, they highlight the long-forgotten fact that heroes were humans, too.
So, if they are humans in the same way that we are, we can probably imitate them to some extent!
Don't just take everything in! If you enjoyed our list, comment your reactions or whatsoever thoughts. of course, let us know if you have quirkier tidbits to share!


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People protest Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan's plans, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, National Party (South Africa), Demonstration
People protest Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan's plans, Cape Town.
Le Cape de Bonne Esperance comme il a ete ci-devant
Africa - Cape of Good Hope
Similar to Valentijn' s map (see NOR 0215). The mountains are numbered and named in the border. 1. Le chateau. 2. Le Petit-Fort. 3. Montagne du lion. 4. Montagne de la Table. 5. Montagne du Vent. 6. Endroit ou tous les Bataeux Viennent., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Busy main road of Elsies River, Cape Town
Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Infrastructure, Street vendors
This is the busy main road of Elsies River, where hawkers and vendors sell alongside flourishing modern shops of every variety. People flock to the area for the bargains and the colourful market atmosphere.
Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
1961 Apartheid elections, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Elections, Newspapers, Technology, Broadcasting
The Argus scoreboard to-day showed the state of the parties before the first vote is counted in the 1961 general election (the first general election after South Africa became a republic). The Nationalists have 50 unopposed seats and the United Party 20.
Minister of Bantu Administration, Westbrook, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
The swearing-in of the new Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration by the State President (Mr. J. J. Fouche), Development (Mr A. J . Raubenheimer) took place today. Shown in the garden of Westbrook, the State President's official residence in Rondebosch after the ceremony are, from left, Dr. P. Koornhof, Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration, the Prime Minister (M.r. B. J. Vorster), Mr. Fouche, Mr. M. C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Mr. Raubenheimer.


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Q: Updating MySQL using a form my code is not working I am trying to do something really simple here. All I want to do is to update information in MySQL
Here is the code below for the form.
 <?php
 $host=""; // Host name
 $username=""; // Mysql username
 $password=""; // Mysql password
 $db_name=""; // Database name
 $tbl_name=""; // Table name

 // Connect to server and select database.
 mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
 mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

 // get value of id that sent from address bar
 $dj=$_GET['dj'];

 // Retrieve data from database
 $sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name WHERE dj='$dj'";
 $result=mysql_query($sql);
 $rows=mysql_fetch_array($result);
 ?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="update_ac.php">

Update The information for the Now PlayingProgram.

Name
Email
Email2

<input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="<?php echo $rows['name']; ?>">

<input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="<?php echo $rows['email']; ?>" size="15">

<input name="email2" type="text" id="email2" value="<?php echo $rows['email2']; ?>" size="15">

Twitter
Twitter2
Avatar

<input name="twitter" type="text" id="twitter" value="<?php echo $rows['twitter']; ?>">

<input name="twitter2" type="text" id="twitter2" value="<?php echo $rows['twitter2']; ?>" size="15">

<input name="avatar" type="text" id="avatar" value="<?php echo $rows['avatar']; ?>" size="15">

Facebook
Facebook2
Type

<input name="facebook" type="text" id="facebook" value="<?php echo $rows['facebook']; ?>">

<input name="facebook2" type="text" id="facebook2" value="<?php echo $rows['facebook2']; ?>" size="15">

<input name="type" type="text" id="type" value="<?php echo $rows['type']; ?>" size="15">

Alias1
Alias2
Alias3

<input name="alias1" type="text" id="alias1" value="<?php echo $rows['alias1']; ?>">

<input name="alias2" type="text" id="alias2" value="<?php echo $rows['alias2']; ?>" size="15">

<input name="alias3" type="text" id="alias3" value="<?php echo $rows['alias3']; ?>" size="15">

 Request Line

 <input name="address" type="text" id="address" value="<?php echo $rows['address']; ?>" size="65">

 <input name="dj" type="hidden" id="dj" value="<?php echo $rows['dj']; ?>">

 <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

 </form>

  <?php
 // close connection
 mysql_close();
 ?>

Now what I want to be able to do is to edit the information in the database that is currently displayed in the form. (the form is displaying the correct info from mysql)
If i wanted to change lets say the email2 i would just do so in the field and then click submit. Well my issue is that when I do that, all i get is ERROR.
So lets take a look at my update_ac.php
code is below:
<?php
$host="localhost"; // Host name
$username=""; // Mysql username
$password=""; // Mysql password
$db_name=""; // Database name
$tbl_name=""; // Table name

// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");

// update data in mysql database
$sql="UPDATE currentdj SET  name='$name',
                        email='$email',
                        email2='$email2',
                        twitter='$twitter',
                        twitter2='$twitter2',
                        avatar='$avatar',
                        facebook='$facebook',
                        facebook2='$facebook2',
                        type='$type',
                        alias1='$alias1',
                        alias2='$alias2',
                        alias3='$alias3',
                        address='$address'
                        WHERE dj='$dj'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);

// if successfully updated.
if($result){
echo "Successful";
echo "
";
echo "View result";
}

else {
echo "ERROR";
}

?>

I would like to know if I am just having a syntax or even a spelling issue here!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

A: In UPDATE query single quotes is not closed for email field email='$email,
"UPDATE currentdj SET  name='$name',
                        email='$email',    //Add THE MISSING SINGLE QUOTE HERE
                        email2='$email2',

A: Try this code, before where ,(address='$address', WHERE dj='$dj'";) should not come
$sql="UPDATE currentdj SET  name='$name',
                        email='$email',
                        email2='$email2',
                        twitter='$twitter',
                        twitter2='$twitter2',
                        avatar='$avatar',
                        facebook='$facebook',
                        facebook2='$facebook2',
                        type='$type',
                        alias1='$alias1',
                        alias2='$alias2',
                        alias3='$alias3',
                        address='$address'
                        WHERE dj='$dj'";

A: In your update_ac.php file , you haven't used $_POST[] variable to retrieve values from your form. As a result no values are being inserted in the database and hence the error.
Put this code before the update query statement where you have $sql="UPDATE.....
 $email=$_POST['email'];
 $email2=$_POST['email2'];
 $twitter=$_POST['twitter'];

and so on...


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            var segment = data.text_segments[data.current_text_segment_index];
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            return true;
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                $(document).trigger('mediaAlignedText.highlight_remove', {'text_segment_index': data.current_text_segment_index});
                //unset the current_text_segment if necessary
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                var end = data.text_segments.length;
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            for(i = start; i != end; i = i + step) {

                //set the text_segment var for convenience
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    //initialize the Jplayer
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        var data = $this.data('mediaAlignedText');

        //get the media types supplied by looking at the first media file
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        //check to see if the media file is defined
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     * @todo it is assumed the text segments are listed in time order - should be checked
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     * - title:            The media file title to include in the player
     * -
     */
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                'media_type'      : 'audio'  //the media type for the container
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\

\

\

\

play
\

pause
\

stop
\

mute
\

unmute
\

max volume
\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

\

repeat
\

repeat off
\

\

\

\

\

\

'+options.title+'
\

\

\

\
              Update Required\
              To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.\

\

\

';
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     * Set the current text segment to be the one supplied
     *
     * @param jQueryObject     $this   The obect on which the mediaAlignedText has been instantiated
     * @param text_segment_index  integer  Theindex of the textSegment to be highlighted
     */
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        //set new values for current and then highlight
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        $this.data('mediaAlignedText', data);
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    /**
     * Highlight a particular text segment
     *
     * @param jQueryObject     $this    The obect on which the mediaAlignedText has been instantiated
     * @param text_segment_index  integer  The index of the textSegment to be highlighted
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    };

    /**
     * Remove the highlight on a particular text segment
     *
     * @param jQueryObject     $this   The obect on which the mediaAlignedText has been instantiated
     * @param text_segment_index  integer  The id of the textSegment to have highlighting removed
     */
    var _textSegmentHighlightRemove = function($this, text_segment_index){
        $('[data-mat_segment='+text_segment_index+']').removeClass('mat_highlighted_text_segment');
    };

})( jQuery );