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Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams was born in the USA to parents from Arpino, Italy.
She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics, from the University of Akron and worked as a computer programmer for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Valentina has been published in journals such as Akitsu Quarterly, Blithe Spirit, cattails, chrysanthemum, failed haiku, Frogpond, Presence, Ribbons, Wales Haiku Journal, and FemkuMag.
Vandana Parashar
Vandana Parashar is a microbiologist, a teacher and a haiku enthusiast. Her love for brevity made her fall in love with haiku and related Japanese forms of poetry. Her work has been published in cattails, A Hundred Gourds, Creatrix, Naad Anunaad, Sonic Boom, Prune Juice, Asahi Haikuist Network, Failed Haiku, Atoms of Haiku, Frameless Sky, Femku magazine and Human/Kind Journal, Ribbons, Haibun Today, to name a few.
She has a Grand Prix in 8th Setouchi Matsuyama Photo Haiku Contest to her credit and prizes and honourable mentions in some other contests including Kukai.
She lives in Panchkula with her husband and two daughters.
She has written a Chapbook, I am.
Veronica Eisert
Veronica Eisert is a life long author of children's stories, published poetry, and various works. She believes in the creative tomes of great literature and has a voracious appetite for reading as much as she writes. Veronica, from an early age, has been fascinated with the written art form of Haiku. A newly published book: " Prairie Enlightenment" is a collection of Veronica's Haikus and Wakas.
Veronika Zora Novak
Veronika Zora Novak resides in Toronto, Canada. She studied at George Brown College and graduated with honours in Medical Office Administration in 1999 with honours. She has been writing haiku, tanka and creating haiga since 2012. Her work has been published in acclaimed journals such as Under the Basho, Sonic Boom, Weird Laburnum, Chrysanthemum, Failed Haiku, Bones, Hedgerow, Prune Juice, Bleached Butterfly, Femku, The Plum Tree Tavern, Stardust, Luca's Lily Pad, Atlas Poetica, Moonbathing - A Journal of Women's Tanka, The Bamboo Hut and many others.
Wayne Kingston
Wayne Kingston is retired and lives in the USA. His interests are cooking, faith, family and walking.
Wayne's third volume of poetry, Pillow Talk Soliloquy, is currently listed on Amazon. Previous volumes (Eclectic Discernment, Listen Small) are also available, as well as Barnes and Noble.
Wayne's 4th volume of Poetry Sound the Depth is now available at Amazon.
wendy c bialek
Wendy is an internationally published/award-winning painter, photographer, sculptor and poet.
Wendy Toth Notarnicola
Wendy Toth Notarnicola is a freelance editor living in Long Valley, New Jersey with her husband, three children, and a menagerie. She enjoys reading, nature walks, playing flute in a community orchestra, and writing haiku. Her work has been accepted for publication in several haiku journals, including Poetry Pea, Presence, Frogpond, Wales Haiku Journal, Hedgerow, and the Haiku Society of America's 2020 Anthology. She received an honorable mention from the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom/Sakura Festival Haiku Contest and is a finalist in the 31st Ito En Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest, Japan.
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Willie R Bongcaron
Born 1958 in Manila, Philippines, Mr. Willie Bongcaron, or Bongky to his friends, is an adherent of short Japanese poetry forms. He has self-published two haiku books at lulu.com, namely: Missing You, A Collection of Short Poems (2017) and Haiku Nuggets, A Collection of Short Poems (2018). He has collaborated with other haiku poets in anthologies like Yanty's Butterfly (2016) and Half A Rainbow (2020). He is a contributing poet at Living Haiku Anthology, Living Senryu Anthology , Under the Basho and others. Currently, he is the owner/administrator of two Facebook Groups: Haiku Nuggets and Haiku: Then & Now.
Zahra Mughis
Spellbound by the magic of words, Zahra Mughis is an aspiring writer and poet from Lahore, Pakistan. A student of economics and social sciences, she enjoys juggling between numbers and words.
A course activity in college introduced her to haiku as a Japanese poetry form , and she has been fascinated by it ever since. Stringing together words and verses to capture moments and tell stories of life, wonder, and joy, she started her own tanshi (micropoetry) journey in 2019.
A scribbler, she also writes prose and essays. Her other interests include history, culture, cityscape, and cricket.


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Twistesee is een vrij klein stuwmeer in de Duitse deelstaat Hessen. Het meer ligt in het district Waldeck-Frankenberg, iets ten oosten van de plaats Bad Arolsen. Het werd in 1977 in gebruik genomen. De plaats Wetterburg ligt aan het meer.

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Stuwmeer in Duitsland
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March 2016 Article Archives
The Expanding View of Expense Management
With its origins in paper trails and manual processes, travel and entertainment expense reporting historically has been more of a black box for accounting professionals than a source of financial insight.
But by changing the expense management process, companies today are able to gain valuable insight into spend management trends and leverage their data in ways they didn't necessarily anticipate. The benefits of which can reach beyond traditional expense reporting functions and result in an overall better experience, including increased employee satisfaction, greater compliance, and reduced spending.
Financial Execs Concerned about Internal Controls
Nearly a third of financial reporting executives in a new poll said internal control over financial reporting was their highest concern beyond their financial reporting responsibilities.
KPMG surveyed nearly 400 financial executives during the firm's 25th Annual Accounting & Financial Reporting Symposium and 31 percent cited internal controls as their biggest concern. Approximately 26 percent of the respondents said they were most worried about data infiltration and IT security, a sharp contrast from a similar survey that KPMG conducted at last year's symposium, when those concerns ranked at the bottom of the list.
Financial Performance Reporting Among Priorities as FASB Sets Agenda
FASB decided to perform research on six topics for consideration of possible accounting standard setting, according to a news release from the board.
Four issues will be added to its research agenda and included in an agenda discussion paper that will be issued to the public in the first half of this year:
Financial performance reporting.
Pensions and other post-retirement employee benefit plans.
Intangible assets.
Distinguishing liabilities from equity.
The board also will place two additional projects on its research agenda on consolidations and on inventory and cost of sales.
FASB Proposes Amendments on Classification of Certain Cash Flows
The FASB issued a proposal that aims to reduce diversity in practice in reporting on the following types of cash flows:
Cash payments for debt prepayment or extinguishment costs would be classified as financing cash outflows.
Cash payments made to settle a zero-coupon bond attributable to accreted interest would be classified as an operating outflow, and the portion attributable to principal would be classified as a financing outflow.
Contingent consideration payments made after a business combination would be classified as financing outflows if they don't exceed the acquisition-date fair value of the contingent consideration liability, and any payments that exceed the liability would be classified as operating outflows.
FASB Proposes Changes in Pension and Post-retirement Reporting
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued two proposed accounting standards updates to improve financial reporting by employers related to defined benefit pension and other postretirement benefit plans.
One of the proposed updates, Compensation—Retirement Benefits—Defined Benefit Plans—General (Subtopic 715-20): Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans, is part of the FASB's broader disclosure framework project to improve the effectiveness of disclosures in the notes to financial statements by focusing on the information considered to be most relevant to users of financial statements.
Companies Expected to See Biggest Impact from New Leasing Standard
The lease accounting standard that the Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to release this quarter is expected to have a major impact on many companies, requiring current off-balance sheet leasing activities to be reflected on balance sheets for the first time.
Earlier this month the International Accounting Standards Board released its version of the standard, which differs in some key respects from FASB's (see IASB Releases Lease Accounting Standard). A new study from LeaseAccelerator, a developer of equipment lease management software, examines the impact of the new leasing standards on major U.S. corporations, listing the off-balance sheet lease obligations of the 500 largest U.S. public companies. The report, "Who is Most Impacted by the New Lease Accounting Standards?" aims to provide greater awareness of the potential impact of the new lease accounting standards.
Companies Getting Ready for FASB's Leasing Standard
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to release its long-awaited lease accounting standard this quarter, and companies are bracing for the impact on their balance sheets.
The changes will require companies to gather significantly more information and require more management judgments each reporting period, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The changing model might affect financial ratios and metrics, "lease vs. buy" decisions, accounting processes and controls, along with technology.
Revenue recognition, lease standards challenge preparers
Important new standards for revenue recognition and leases are causing difficulty for corporate financial statement preparers, a new survey shows.
Just 29% of corporate preparers said their companies have a clear plan to implement the new revenue recognition standard, according to a KPMG LLP survey of nearly 400 financial executives at the firm's annual Accounting & Financial Reporting Symposium.
The revenue recognition standard was issued in May 2014 by FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in an international convergence project but is undergoing clarifying changes as a result of questions raised with the boards' joint transition resource group. The standard was designed to create comparability across industries and jurisdictions, with a more principles-based approach than previously existed for U.S. GAAP reporting entities.
FASB plans to issue new leases standard on February 25, 2016
The FASB said it plans to issue its new leases standard on February 25, 2016. The standard will require lessees to recognize most leases on their balance sheets and could have significant financial reporting and business implications.
Internal Audit Increasingly Proves Its Value
The internal audit function is increasingly providing significant value, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC surveyed more than 1,600 chief audit executives, senior management and board members. Fifty-four percent of the respondents indicated internal audit is contributing significant value, up six points from a similar PwC survey last year. In addition, 62 percent of the respondents said they expect more value from internal audit, with 55 percent anticipating internal audit will be a more proactive trusted advisor within the next five years.

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The Motorsports and Fishing Industries as Drivers for Cleaner Boats
Certainly, no part of the market had as much impact on the development of cleaner marine engines in America as the watersports towboat sector. The sector has such high demand for engines that shipbuilders like Malibu and Collectcraft could afford to produce their own motors in house. The engine is the most expensive and important part of the boat, so when these shipbuilders started growing through acquisitions, the best use they saw to make use of their vertical integration was to improve the engine, the most important starting point. By increasing in size these companies were able to dedicate more resources into the production of their own in-house motors to ensure the quality that the customers desired. Technology is one of the reasons for the increase in towboat sales, and customers appreciate this. Customers are constantly on the lookout for high quality engines, and the added benefit of the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your engine is also green is indispensable.
In recent years high power, low emission engines have been popping up all over boat shows and getting significant attention. A well engineered engine with low emissions and a green footprint also helps sell the products as the customer sees the special attention put into the product and elevates it above the competitors. CorrectCraft's Pleasurecraft Engine Group, for example, is driving the new PCM228 engine, a direct injection, supercharged and %100 closed cooling system powerhouse Built on General Motors' LYV8 platform, which was featured in the Miami 2020 Boat Show. The cooling protects the engine in heavy use, even in the hottest climates. CorrectCraft's new engines produce 600 hp and up to 608 ft / lbs of torque, making it the company's strongest product to date. The entire Z-series participated in the Miami Boat Show and won the 2020 Innovation Award, making this huge win for the industry.
The expansion of the water sports section also provided an opportunity for Volvo Penta, which in turn helped develop the sector with its unique forward drive design. Volvo Penta has ridden the wave created by wake surfers to provide inboard solutions to a wider audience. Wake boarders have high demands from engines as they are directly behind the boat as they participate in their sport, and thus are the most exposed to the harmful emissions of the old generations of engines. Volvo Penta's Forward Drive has changed everything and continues to do so by introducing Avalon's new Waketon Surf Pontoon Boat Series to Minneapolis Boat Show. At Minneapolis, they brought Volvo's level of excellence to new market segments and a whole new cultural landscape. The new pontoon setup allows users to compete, swim, socialize, and sail directly from the platform.
The tow boat sector also allowed for new diesel engines with the ability to produce high power at low revs. The 2020 model CraftCraft is available from Yanmar with a 370 hp 8Lt diesel with maximum torque of 595 ft and an added option for their G-Series. The low rpms also mean that these engines burn far less fuel than their higher rpm counterparts, allowing for reliability and sustainability at the same time. The tow boat market is very strong and thus is able to come up with innovative solutions to keep their environmental impact low. For customers, if an engine can both provide both the power they need to enjoy themselves to the fullest, and the sustainability to keep their enjoyment free of guilt then there is nothing else to ask for.
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My son likes Chunk the best.
Have you heard? There is a new movie in town and it's leaving behind laughs and smiles! It's the wonderful little fellows your children probably already love but in an animated new movie titled Quest for Zhu. I cannot tell you how many times my girls have watched it but they can say the words along with the movie and they love the dance and songs. Did I mention they LOVE the music? My four year old will say, "Ahhh...I just can't help myself! I have to sing!"
They really couldn't get enough of the movie and the complimentary review pack thanks to my participation with BSM Media arrived with two limited edition Zhu figurines, a great snack compliments of Hershey and a cute movie poster with activities on the back. You can check out the trailer and other videos by going to the Quest for Zhu website.
I wanted to film their faces watching the movie to capture their delight but my youngest one prefers to only wear undergarments so I opted to not film them. My little one loves the Pipsqueak and Mr. Squiggles figurines so much, she even had them next to her to sleep. As I was writing this review, every time I opened the Zhu website, they ran over to watch the trailer again and had huge smiles on their faces in between laughter.
Pipsqueak, Mr. Squiggles, NumNum and Chunk are on this delightful tale that is full of adventure, a villain and fun throughout. The kids will love following Pipsqueak as she catches a star and travels to the Land of Zhu to find the Great Zhu Fu. The animation is perfect, the story teaches of friendship and the music gets them up and moving. The villain was a bit scary at times for the girls but it wasn't anything over the top to keep me from allowing them to watch it.
Overall, it really is a cute movie and for those that already love the Zhu Zhu Pets, they will have to have this movie!
One lucky reader will win their own Quest for Zhu prize pack!
Follow my blog and tell me which character is your child's favorite if they are a Zhu Zhu Pet fan.
Tweet this giveaway - can be done daily for two entries (example: Zhu Zhu Pets: Quest for Zhu DVD is ZHU-RIFFIC Review & Giveaway 9/28 ~ @stayingyoung2 http://bit.ly/oekxYw).
*Disclosure: I received a complimentary pack including DVD, snack, poster and two limited edition figurines for the purpose of this review and giveaway from my participation with BSM Media.
We are new to Zhu Zhu, but I took the "What Zhu are You" quiz on their site and tested as Kingston. LOL!
We are new to Zhu Zhu's, but I took the "Which Zhu Are You?" quiz and tested as Kingston. lol.
I'm following by gfc. We like pipsqueek.
I like quest for the zhu on facebook.
I like the Zhu Zhu Pets Movie on Facebook.
They don't have a favorite.
My daughter is a HUGE Zhu Zhu pet fan. Her favorite is Zhu Zhu pet is Pipsqueak.
I'm a GFC follower :) We like Chunk a lot!
I follow you blog via GFC.
My daughters favorite one is NumNum and Jilly.
NumNum is our household favorite. We have a NumNum!


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22 October 2021 • STEM Nature's Remedy
A labyrinth will offer the HWS community a new site for spiritual restoration.
As envisioned by the Hobart and William Smith Colleges' Office of Spiritual Engagement, a labyrinth on campus will bring visitors into closer contact with nature and with their own spirituality, whatever form it takes.
Professor of Geoscience Nan Crystal Arens, who is also Junior Warden of St. John's Chapel, says the project developed in conversation with students who are affiliated with the campus chapel, though the labyrinth is not tied to a particular faith.
"Although walking meditation, and the labyrinth in particular, is part of many traditions," she explains, "it is also a spiritual or meditative practice outside of any religious tradition."
Unlike a maze, a labyrinth is composed of a single, winding path, "symbolic of winding paths of our lives," as the project's organizers note. Located on the grounds of the Colleges' Richard S. Perkin Observatory, the planned labyrinth is 36 feet in diameter with boundaries made of local fieldstone and paths composed of crushed stone, complementing the site's natural setting. The design is based on medieval Christian labyrinths in France, featuring a single entry/exit point and a space in the center suitable for individual seating and as a focal point. The surrounding landscape will be planted with pollinator-friendly species.
As well as a peaceful location for individual meditative practice, the labyrinth is intended to be a site for memorial rituals reflecting a diversity of spiritual practices, public and private.
The project, which was planned in consultation with numerous HWS departments, offices and organizations, has been approved for construction. Fundraising toward the $6,000 goal is underway.
To learn more or to make a gift in support of the labyrinth, click here.
After the site is prepared, students plan to complete most of the construction by hand. Through the HWS Days of Service and various campus clubs, student volunteers would also be responsible for maintaining the labyrinth.
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12 year old Adam Morrissey vanished two years ago on his way home from school.
Three months later, Jimmy Bennett went missing as well. This happened 75 miles away.
Clothes were found at a prison mail room belonging to both of the boys. Both sets of clothing had blood stains on them. The clothing was being sent to convicted serial killer Antonia Slade.
Antonia was convicted of killing children fifteen years ago. She and her boyfriend lived together. He shot himself when police caught up with them. Nine bodies of children - five girls and four boys - were found encased behind the drywall in their basement. All were shot in the head.
Hotch and JJ interrogate Antonia in prison. She already knows about the bloody clothing, and knows that's why they're coming to interview her.
Antonia agrees only to talk with one agent. Every time she does, she asks each one something about themselves.
Hotch asks her a couple of questions. She says nothing, but instead writes something on a piece of paper, rolls it up and throws it at him.
The note says "all work and no play makes Agent Hotchner a dull boy." It's written three times.
Antonia tells JJ the clothing was sent by a zealous fan. She offers to give her more if she gets a transfer to a prison near her home. JJ tells her that's not possible.
The lab examines the note she gave Hotch, and finds some imprints of other things Antonia has written. Reid believes it's a cypher, a secret message.
Reid asks Antonia for the cypher key. She spits out her food on Reid's palm and writes the initials C++ in it, telling him it's the key. She tells him the boys are still alive.
Garcia tells the team that Orel Wilbur - one of Antonia's guards - has been picking up extra shifts so he can be near her.
Reid interviews Wilbur, who tells him Antonia has a lot of influence in prison. Reid theorizes that there's someone else in prison who Antonia has agreed to protect, as long as he keeps the mail communication going for her.
Reid breaks the cypher code, and determines the letter says the two boys will be killed tonight, in five hours' time.
The Unsub grabs the two boys and takes them somewhere.
The BAU agrees to transfer Antonia to a prison near her home.
Reid believes Antonia wants to go to where the Unsub (her cohort) is, so she can witness the murders of the two boys.
Antonia tells Lewis the Unsub's bringing the boys to Kentucky.
Garcia identifies the Unsub as Claude Barlow.
Antonia agrees to take the team to Barlow, but not unless they undo her cuffs. Hotch authorizes it.
The team pulls into the location to which Antonia lead them. They rescue one of the boys. The other one is missing - the Unsub has him.
Antonia directs them down a path. They encounter Barlow, who is holding a gun to the boy's head. He says he won't let him go unless he sees Antonia.
Antonia walks up to him, and whisper's something in his head. The boy goes free.
Barlow shoots himself in the head.
The team returns Antonia to her original prison.
Hotch visits her one more time, and asks why she set the whole thing up. She agrees to tell him if he proves himself.
Hotch tells her about a time when she was 14 years old, and got pregnant by the son of a neighbor. Her authoritarian father made her have the child at home. He then murdered her boyfriend.
Hotch says when she was killing teenagers, she was killing herself or her boyfriend for not being disciplined.
In return, Antonia tells Hotch there's a storm coming, and he's about to be swept away.
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Hotch: You sent the events of the last few days in motion for a reason.
Antonia: And you want me to tell you what it is. Well...you're going to have prove you've got a little bit more going on than a fancy title and nice suits to deserve an answer.
Hotch: When you were 14, you missed almost a year of school, due to an unspecified illness. During the same year, a 15 year old boy on a neighbouring farm was killed in a hunting accident. I think these two events were related. You weren't ill, you were pregnant. And the neighbor boy was the father of your child. Your father, the German minister, the authoritarian, punished you for breaking the rules. He made you have the baby at home, and he murdered your boyfriend.
Antonia: Go on.
Hotch: At first we profiled you as an extreme narcissist, but that's just a cover up. You're actually full of self-loathing, and every time you killed a runaway teen, you were killing yourself or your boyfriend for lacking discipline.
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Since the emergence of modern financial markets, financial analysts have played a critical role in producing visions of "the economy" and its future development. As experts, they analyze market developments and predict future scenarios that enable other financial market participants to speculate on the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of particular investment products, and the growth or decline of entire national economies. The substance of the analysts' valuation and forecasting practices is, however, heavily disputed among economists. In neoclassical economic theory, the assumption that markets are informationally efficient has challenged the legitimacy of the work of financial analysts since the establishment of the efficient market hypothesis as a central paradigm in the mid 1960s. Alternative schools of thoughts – such as new institutional or behavioral economics – have criticized this paradigm. However, they have also argued that the degree of uncertainty, which is inherent to financial markets, makes prediction impossible.
Empirically, this critique has been around even longer. In 1933, economist Alfred Cowles published an article that tested the attempt to forecast stock market prices. After having analyzed thousands of stock market predictions from 16 financial service agencies, Cowles came to the conclusion that "[s]tatistical tests of the best individual records failed to demonstrate that they exhibited skill, and indicated that they more probably were results of chance." Such results have been confirmed repeatedly. In the UK in 2012, for example, Orlando, a ginger cat that tapped over the pages of the Financial Times to select stocks, outperformed a group of financial professionals.
The lack of justification of the forecasting practices financial analysts deploy brings up an important question: Why do financial analysts exist at all? How do they manage to maintain their role as experts in the market? And how they cope with the uncertainty and lack of theoretical and empirical foundations of their practices?
I spend two years in the financial analysis department of an internationally operating bank, where I was given research permission to follow the financial analysts' work practices on a daily basis. In my book Stories of Capitalism: Inside the Role of Financial Analysts (University of Chicago Press, 2018), I illustrate how, in the absence of theoretical and empirical justifications, analysts base their work on what they refer to as "market feeling" – a technique that builds of affect, tacit knowledge, and experience – to make sense of market developments.
Combining such market feeling with calculative practices allows financial analysts to create persuasive narratives of the future of the market. These narratives become visible in the way analysts explain future market developments. Moreover, they are inscribed into the aesthetics of charts, tables, and figures analysts produce to visualize past, current and potential future market developments. Once these narratives are created, they are circulated among the banks' stakeholders and clients. Sometimes, the narratives also become part of broader public discourse – often through the help of newspapers and TV stations that give financial analysts a platform to share their opinions on economic developments.
The establishment of such narratives is critical to modern financial markets, as they construct a sense of meaning in an environment that is governed by coincidence and characterized by a lack of regularity. Financial analysts thus produce images of the market as an institution that is not speculative and randomly developing, but accessible and understandable though the analysts' expertise.
What does this tell us about the nature of capitalism in general? In "Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming," Jean and John Comaroff argue that the production of visions of the future – which are sometimes reminiscent of techniques of divination as observed by anthropologists – are a characteristic feature of how capitalism in its neoliberal form materializes in everyday ethics and practices.
Speculating on possible future developments, they state, is a new form of enchantment: It feeds on imaginaries of the future and on the notion that through the anticipation of the future, wealth can be created without effort. With this in mind, the forecasting practices deployed by analysts can be understood as a particular form of enchantment fostered by neoliberal capitalism. Rather than representing a disputable practice, the work of financial analysts is thus at the heart of today's financial market economy and a characterizing feature of capitalism in its neoliberal form.
Stefan Leins is a senior lecturer of social anthropology and cultural studies at the University of Zurich and a member of the research program Anthropology of the Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His book Stories of Capitalism was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018.


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Check Out an Abandoned Missile Silo in Colorado
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Oddly enough, the first missile silo ever built in the United States was built in Colorado about 60 miles east of Denver in an area called Deer Creek.
Built in the 1960s
It's unclear exactly what prompted the construction of the missile silo back in the 1960s, but the government put a pretty penny into the underground structure only to put it to little use.
A Sight to Be Seen
I would certainly not recommend visiting the abandoned missile silo nowadays as ever since it has been abandoned it has become extremely dangerous. Much of the structures have lost their integrity, it is said to be full of asbestos, and a mysterious, thick, red goop can be found on the floors.
People Still Have Been There
Despite the danger, it is quite apparent that many people have visited the abandoned missile silo, as it is littered with graffiti.
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The first missile silo built in the United States was in Colorado and is now abandoned.
Colorado Also Has an Abandoned Speedway
Colorado Springs International Speedway is far beyond its glory days.
MORE COLORADO ABANDONED: How about an abandoned Masonic Temple?
The town of Victor, Colorado has a rich history and is still home to an abandoned Masonic Temple, gold mine, and more.
There is also an abandoned hospital and power plant in Colorado:
These buildings that once served as both a hospital and power plant have all been totally abandoned.
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Cindy O'Callaghan (born 18 October 1956) is an Irish-born British former actress. Her acting career began in her adolescence, when she was chosen to play the part of Carrie Rawlins in the Disney feature film Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971. She has appeared in a wide range of television programmes and films since, including BBC's EastEnders, where she played Andrea Price for several stints in the 1990s. Her last credited role was in 2001, and she has since given up acting to become a child psychologist.
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Classic Disney [2006 Box Set] [1997]
Substitutiary Locomotion [From Bedknobs and Broomsticks] 1:44
Classic Disney, Vol. 4 [1997]
Classic Disney, Vol. 4 [Australia] [1997]
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Which of the following songs has won the Academy Award for 'Best Original Song'?
A. Memories - Maroon 5
B. Happy - Pharrell Williams
C. Skyfall - Adele
D. Everything Is Awesome - Shawn Patterson


OSCAR has been encouraging its customers to take a chance on the thousands of older dogs across the UK who need to find a home.
OSCAR Pet Foods has been talking about the benefits of adopting a senior pet and wants to encourage its customers to consider older dogs when looking for a new pet.
Although many of us dream of having a tiny, fluffy puppy to cuddle, the pet franchise says that older pets may be more suited to many of our homes. It points out that young dogs often come with sleepless nights, tiresome toilet training and chewed shoes and furniture and need lots of time and attention. Older dogs have probably already been trained and will have already developed a distinct personality, so you�ll know their temperament and if they�re suitable for a home with children or other pets.
OSCAR says that dogs are generally classed as senior from the age of seven but given that many pups live to the age of 15 and beyond, adopting an older dog will still give you plenty of time together. It also says that often the reasons why a dog needs to be rehomed later in its life are not its fault, with allergies, deaths, the owner not being able to look after it due to increased work commitments or a new baby often causing them to lose their homes, rather than their personality.
The pet franchise does point out that older dogs will often have additional needs in regard to their diet. However, with its wide range of expertly formulated pet foods, including its recommended OSCAR Adult Care Complete Pinnacle Plus, the pet nutrition experts behind the company offer the right food for each dog�s unique requirements. By feeding your senior dog the right food, OSCAR says that you will minimise the risk of them developing unnecessary health problems.


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Holiday Money 2007 Full coverage
Malls stalking dollar-rich tourists
Weak dollar spurs malls to go all out for shoppers from overseas - offering discounted hotel fares and free limo rides with Champagne.
By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com senior writer
November 2 2007: 5:33 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Shopping malls are rolling out the red carpet for dollar-rich holiday tourists from the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and elsewhere by offering them VIP treatments, such as limo rides with Champagne and in-store refreshments.
The dollar's value is languishing, and cash-strapped Americans are expected to spend less on holiday merchandise this year. Those two factors are spurring several mall operating companies to aggressively court lucrative international customers in a bid to pump up crucial holiday sales.
Japanese shoppers embark on a package shopping trip to the Desert Hills Premium Outlets in California.
Macerich is offering overseas shoppers a "VIP experience" shopping trip, complete with a limo ride and Champagne.
According to industry estimates, 2007 holiday sales are expected to rise to $474.5 billion or 4 percent, softer than last year's 4.6 percent increase.
"Our Canadian business has clearly been significant this year. We do love the loonie," said Michelle Rothstein, senior vice president with upscale mall operator Chelsea Property Group, a division of No. 1 mall operator Simon Property Group (Charts).
Rothstein said Chelsea outlet centers in upstate New York, Minnesota and Seattle have seen an influx of Canadians indulging in heavyduty shopping sprees.
Declining dollar: Who wins, who loses
The dollar's weakness against the Canadian dollar, euro and pound has made shopping in America a bargain for tourists, while Americans are having to dig deeper to travel and shop overseas.
"This holiday season, we have stepped up our efforts in marketing overseas and we've increased the number of shopping packages being introduced with tour operators," Rothstein said.
Foreign travel agents have been busy arranging shopping trips to U.S. malls for Black Friday and over the holiday season, Rothstein said.
"Tour operators, especially in the U.K. and Ireland, have told us that pre-purchase excursion tickets for holiday shopping to centers like our Woodbury Common premium outlets are selling well," she said.
For its part, Rothstein's company is providing the international shoppers with buses and special coupon books, Rothstein said. "Some of the shoppers don't speak English. So we also provide them with translators," she said.
Rosemary McCormick, a consultant with trade association Shop America Alliance, said she expects a big spike in tourists shoppers to the United States.
"The Canadian dollar is at par with the U.S. dollar and the pound is about twice as strong as the dollar. This mean that America is a 2-for-1 sale for tourists," McCormick said.
She said the United Kingdom is the top source for tourist shoppers to the United States.
Forecasting firm Global Insight expects total tourist traffic from the United Kingdom to surge 6.5 percent in the second half of 2007, compared to the same period last year, while visitors from Ireland will increase by 10 percent.
"You've got to believe that this momentum is [in part] driven by exchange rates," said Ken McGill, Global Insight analyst of travel and tourism.
"Shopping tour operators in London are actually telling people to bring empty suitcases and do all their shopping once they get here," said McCormick.
That's certainly not a problem for Kate Cavaliere, senior manager of tourism for the Macerich Company (Charts), which operates 73 shopping centers nationwide.
"We're ready for a jump in international shoppers this year because of the favorable exchange rate," Cavaliere said, adding that United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada are likely to lead the charge. In some Macerich malls, tourist traffic has accounted for 30 percent of total shopper traffic so far this year.
"We're collaborating with hotels and resorts to offer these tour groups shopping and dining incentives in our stores and restaurants," she said.
Macerich's other red carpet programs for its overseas customers include the "VIP experience" and the "Euro chic tour."
"U.K. and European visitors like high-end brands, and they are buying more of them here because they are less expensive," Cavaliere said. For this clientele, the company is offering free limo rides, complete with Champagne.
"We take them to specific luxury retailers in our malls." said Cavaliere. "Some of these retailers give them special shopping hours with refreshments."
Lucia Plazas, tourism specialist with Taubman Centers's Dolphin Mall in Miami, said the mall is getting e-mails every day from visitors coming from Europe and Latin America asking how to get to the mall from Miami Beach.
"Brand names like Polo, Nautica and Coach are a big attraction for tourists," she said.
To maximize the number of international visitors, Dolphin Mall has increased the frequency of shuttle buses from Miami International Airport to and from the mall during the weekends, Plazas said.
"We're also adding more advertising about our mall to shoppers coming from Argentina, Colombia and Chile," she said, adding that the special incentives will be valid until Dec. 31.
The influx will add to the usual holiday crowds in popular shopping cities. "The reason you won't get a hotel in New York or any of the major cities over the holidays is because of all these tourists coming here to shop," said McCormick of the Shop America Alliance.
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How do you account for and address unconscious or prevent conscious biases?
Often 'best candidate for the job' ends up being 'someone who looks similar to others who do the job now' - which ends up being similar schooling, background, and unfortunately gender, race, etc. When I took Engineering at school there were only 3-5 women in my classes, so selecting for background ends up with a very biased sample set on one criteria.
I look back now and early in my career as a hiring manager my teams looked a lot like me - male, white, 25-35, etc. I can't honestly say whether I had unconscious biases playing - we had very few female applicants, non-white applicants. Biases could have been exaggerated because other team members also got involved in hiring, which means a single member's bias could have influenced decision making.
Later, my teams were more diverse - partly because I was hiring in more diverse job roles and so ended up with a more diverse set of candidates. But maybe because I tried to think about my unconscious biases. I honestly don't know. It's something I struggle with.
How do you account for the value of diversity on a team?
When hiring for a specific role, we like to use the word 'meritocracy' or 'superior ability to do the job' - but in reality nobody exists in a vacuum. Diversity in perspective, background and skill on a team has a value independent of the necessities of the specific role. If you aren't accounting for that, and hiring with a myopic view of just the specific role, often you can be cutting yourself off of critical benefits from broader perspectives. It requires thought, but it is thought worth undertaking.
A great example here is Tristan Walker's perspective and starting his company based on the Bevel Razor. If everyone has the same background then everyone's working from within the same box - same perspective, set of tools. I often refer to the 'echo chamber' that inevitably builds inside any organization - it's why you need to reach outside, bring in fresh blood, ideas, diverse opinions. Hiring is one way to do that which is more persistent, culturally.
How do you know you're not measuring 'superior ability to do the job' based on an unequal metric?
Just because someone has achieved certain outcomes in the past, doesn't mean they have more or less ability - it could mean they had an unfair handicap.
How often do you handicap a candidate because of written language skills, verbal communication skills? Does this become a heavier weighting than it should, leading towards structural biases? What about the woman who has taken maternity leave for a couple of years - do you hold the 2-3 years less experience against her compared to another candidate?
These choices and biases aren't always obvious, but often I find that we tend to fall back on language like 'meritocracy' and 'superior ability to do the job' without really understanding the whole picture of what that means, how we measure it, and if we've truly accounted for personal and structural biases.
Hiring the best candidates - value diversity, offset biases, deal with structural issues.
To close, here are some ideas to help reduce biases in hiring.
1. Remove names, gender references, possibly even specific higher educational institutions from resumes before sending them on to HR or hiring managers for screening.
2. Consider your screening requirements and consider whether they have inherent biases. 'Years of experience' translates to ageist screening. Written/spoken language skills will screen out candidates from other language backgrounds.
3. Watch for 'culture fit'. Culture fit can be a bundle of biases that will screen out diversity simply because it can be inflexible to different people's working needs, backgrounds, desire to party (or not).
4. Check out the structural biases within your organization. Your HR policies are probably geared towards people of specific ages, demographics, work styles or genders. Examples - you might offer extended benefits - great for families, less interesting to young single people. Parental top-up for women but not men sends a message about who should be taking parental leave and creates all sorts of downstream structural biases. So - consider how your HR policies, benefits packages, vacation, bonus pay, stock options, leave policies, etc - how all these attract or push away candidates of different backgrounds.


The London FolkFest is back for a third year in the renowned South London music venue, The Bedford.
2013: Ryan Keen, Matthew and The Atlas, The Hummingbirds, Skinny Lister, Laurence Fox, Leddra Chapman, Snow Apple, Autumn Red, Blair Dunlop, Frank Hamilton, Keston Cobbler's Club, Patch and The Giant, Kathryn Williams, Josh Record, Richard Walters, Luke Jackson, Hanna Beth and more to be announced.
An indoor city festival with some of the best artists in traditional and contemporary acoustic, folk and roots music.
Shows will take place over three stages within The Bedford. 1 room will transform each night into Walk The Walls stage, Vin's Night In! and the Cafe Nero stage.
Sun: Free but make sure you register for one!
There is access to the main room (Theatre) but the other 2 rooms are upstairs.
The festival is indoors so there's no need to worry about macs and wellies.
The Bedford is one of London's most prominent acoustic music venues on the circuit.
There is no camping as The London FolkFest is an indoor festival.
The Bedford is based in the heart of Balham, South London.
As the festival will be hosted by The Bedford pub there will be plenty of food and drink available.
The Bedford and The London FolkFest operate a strict no drugs policy. Anyone found to be invovled with the purchasing or carrying of illegal substances will be escorted off the premises and not be allowed to return.
2012: Brother & Bones, Fossil Collective, Luke Concannon, Alessi's Ark, Megan Henwood, Emily and The Woods and more. To view more of the line-up, click here.


Christmas and holiday cookies are one of my favorite things to make during the holidays. Not to mention, cookie swap parties have become so popular that every holiday season I get requests for healthy cookies recipes, which means I have lots of skinny cookie recipes to choose from. These parties are a great way to touch base with pals at the holidays, and swap cookies.
Here's how it works: You and all your friends get together, you bring your empty cookie tins and a set amount of cookies (usually 3-5 dozen)… then the fun begins. You get to swap your favorite homemade cookies with your friends, filling up your cookie tins with everyone's cookies. You get lots of variety and you don't have to do all the work of making several different kinds. These tins make great gifts, and make your holiday dessert table look extra impressive, so be sure to keep a tin for yourself.
Since I am a clean eating advocate, I wanted to share my own healthy Christmas cookie recipes and holiday cookie recipes with you. Recipes like: Lemon Oatmeal Biscotti, Frosted Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans, White Chocolate Chip Cherry Oatmeal Cookies, Peaches and Cream Oatmeal Cookies, and Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies.
All of these cookie recipes are full of heart healthy, metabolism boosting oatmeal. I love oatmeal, this super food helps increase weight loss by making you feel more full without the sugar crash of traditional flour based cookies, it raises your metabolism, lowers your cholesterol along with other great health benefits. Talk about spreading love with your food, you will be helping strengthen your loved one's hearts with these recipes.
As you can see in the video, there are lots of ways to make cookies healthier by using substitutions like smashed bananas in place of butter, unsweetened apple sauce for sugar, or baby food for extra flavor. So let's put these tips to work in some of my tried and true, delicious healthy cookies.
Cookies and Christmas go together like cake and ice cream. Holiday parties are often filled with festive foods like cookies, pastries, and other treats. And leaving cookies for Santa is a cherished tradition that goes back for many generations.
These healthy Christmas cookies taste wonderful, and won't pack the pounds on you… or Santa!
Biscotti is so easy to make, yet so impressive. These Lemon Oatmeal Biscotti Cookies make great gifts, are a wonderful addition to any cookie swap party and Santa really loves to dunk them in coffee, milk or eggnog… whatever you choose to set out for him.
In this recipe you grind the oatmeal up into a flour, making it great for picky eaters. You can use this trick in all of the recipes that follow, simply toast (350 degrees for 5 minutes), grind and go about your baking business, no one will be able to tell there is oatmeal in these cookies!
Spread out the oatmeal on a lined baking sheet and toast for 5 minutes in the oven then move to a food processor and grind down until as fine as flour. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a medium bowl combine ground oatmeal, flour, baking powder, salt and lemon zest, set aside.
In a standing mixer or large bowl with a handheld mixer whisk the egg and sugar on medium until thick and pale about 5 minutes. Reduce to low and add in vanilla and lemon juice. Then add in the flour mixture slowly until all incorporated.
Move the dough to the prepared cookie sheet, with wet hands mold the dough into a one foot rectangle.
Bake until slightly browned around the edges, about 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on baking tray for 10 minutes, but leave the oven on.
Move the large cookie to a cutting board, remove parchment carefully from bottom. Slice into 1/2 inch cookies and place back on tray cut sides up. Bake for 5 minutes, flip over and bake for another 5 minutes, they will crisp more as the cool.
Let the biscotti cool while you melt the white chocolate in a double boiler or in a heat safe bowl, microwaved in 10 second increments, stir constantly to avoid burning. Once the chocolate is melted, mix in oil (this will keep it from hardening while you work), then dip 1/3 of each biscotti cookie in the chocolate before placing on a sheet of wax paper, continue working on all the cookies, then move to the refrigerator for 30 minutes or until the chocolate hardens.
I made these Healthy Peaches and Cream Oatmeal Cookies using peach baby food which helps cut down the sugar and butter and reduces the calories. These are so rich you will only want one, but so low in calories that you won't feel guilty of you have two.
If you love this recipe you'll really love my Strawberries and Cream Cookies in my new cookbook Lose Weight by Eating!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover 2-3 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt, set aside.
In a large bowl or standing mixer whip butter and sugar, add in egg and vanilla. Add in baby food and ⅓ cup of water and mix, add the flour mixture until just combined. Add in the oats, white chocolate and peaches mix until just combined. Place in fridge for 15 minutes to firm up.
Using a spoon, scoop ping-pong ball sized dollops of cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, give enough room for a little spreading. Bake for 10- 15 minutes until golden brown.
I'm always looking for new ways to use up leftovers, it's a great way to save money while eating healthy. This recipe came about from a massive quantity of leftover cranberry sauce the day after Thanksgiving, and what was created is an almost red velvet colored cookie studded with red and white jewels. It's both beautiful and delicious, you can make it with leftover cranberry sauce, or a can of organic whole-cranberry sauce.
These are so perfect for holiday gatherings, next time you are asked to bring dessert to a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, bring these. They are perfectly themed for a holiday table, and are a healthy option that will keep you away from all the cake, pie and candy.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, cover 2-3 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a small bowl combine the flour, baking soda and salt, set aside.
In a large bowl or standing mixer whip butter and sugar, add in egg and vanilla. Add in cranberry sauce and mix, add in the flour mixture and mix until just combined. Add in the oats, chocolate and dried cranberries and mix until just combined, over-mixing will make tough cookies. Place in fridge for 15 minutes to firm up.
Use a spoon to scoop golf ball sized dollops of cookie dough, give enough room for a little spreading. Bake for 10- 15 minutes until golden brown.
In the fall, I love to make delicious holiday cookies. Pumpkin is one of my favorite ingredients to use especially for healthy Thanksgiving treats. I also included a couple a couple sinfully delicious Valentines cookie recipes just for fun, but you can make these holiday cookies any time of the year.
Looking for a healthy fall treat your family will love? Try these Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies and you'll be in pumpkin heaven! Not only are these holiday cookies really yummy, but they're good for you, too!
I have often called myself "the human equivalent to the Cookie Monster." I'm obsessed with cookies. So when I embarked in my remarkable weight loss journey, I knew I had to find a way to enjoy my favorite treat without ruining all the progress I was making. I used skinny cookie tricks to create these amazing, rich, Pumpkin Pie flavored cookies for under 100 calories.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 2-3 baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl combine flour, salt and baking soda, set aside.
In a standing mixer or a large bowl whip the butter and sugar, add pumpkin puree, vanilla, and egg and whisk together.
Add in the flour mixture and mix together until just combined. Slowly add in oatmeal and mixing until just combined so you don't get tough cookies.
Place dough in the fridge for about 15 minutes to firm up. Spoon out tablespoon sized cookies and bake for 15 minutes. Let cookies cool on a wire rack before adding frosting.
Whisk together powdered sugar, pumpkin puree, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice until desired constancy, add warm water a teaspoon at a time if needed to thin it out. Dip the top 1/3 of the cookies into the frosting, place back on the parchment paper lined cookie sheets (for easy clean up) and let set for 10 minutes, place in refrigerator for 30 minutes to allow the frosting to set.
Each serving (1 cookie) has: 93 calories, 1 g fat, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein, 19 g carbs.
This healthy cookie recipe is the result of a craving for pecan pie, chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin pie all at the same time. I came up with these sinfully delicious, yet low calorie, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans a couple years ago, and they instantly became a family favorite. So if you ever wondered what would happen if you mashed the three together, try these!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, line 2-3 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Combine flour, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl, set aside.
In a small bowl whisk butter and sugar together, add in vanilla, egg and pumpkin purée. Add in the flour mixture and whisk together until just combined. Slowly add in oatmeal, chocolate chips and pecans and mix until just combined, don't over-mix or you'll get tough cookies.
Spoon out tablespoon sized cookies onto a cookie sheet and place in oven for 15 minutes.
Move the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely before adding the frosting.
To make the frosting, whisk together powdered sugar, pumpkin purée, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice until desired constancy, add warm water one teaspoon at a time if needed to thin it out. Dip or drizzle onto cookies, top with pecans and let set for 10 minutes, place in refrigerator for 30 minutes to allow the frosting to set.
The "holidays" don't always have to be just about Thanksgiving to New Years, we can't forget Valentines Day! Make these Valentine Cookies for your sweethearts any time of the year. I replace most of the butter with applesauce cutting hundreds of calories. I recommend getting the little snack cups of applesauce they are ½ a cup and will make measuring easy, you'll be ready to bake anytime.
Cover 2-3 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt cinnamon and cocoa powder.
In a large bowl or standing mixer whip butter and sugar, add in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl combine applesauce and ⅓ cup of water, then add to large bowl/mixer and mix, add the flour mixture until just combined. Add in the oats, chocolate and cherries and mix until just combined.
Place the cookie dough in fridge for 15 minutes to firm up and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Scoop ping-pong ball sized dollops of cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, give enough room for a little spreading. Bake for 10- 15 minutes until golden brown. Place cookies on a baking rack to cool.
Each serving (1 cookie) has: 92 calories, 2 g fat, 1 g fiber, 1.5 g protein, 17 g carbs.
Chocolate and cherries, need I say more? These are easy and delicious, perfect for your Valentine too! I cut the calories by replacing some of the butter with pear baby food. Both baby food and apple sauce are excellent swaps to cut a whole lotta' calories and fat without cutting flavor.
These have been a long time favorite on my blog, originally called Cherry Garcia Oatmeal Cookies (for you long time readers) for their chocolate, cherry and rich vanilla flavor. Just like the timeless classic ice cream flavor these cookies are good year round, but unlike the ice cream you can enjoy them year round without gaining weight.
In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt, set aside. In a large bowl or standing mixer whip butter and sugar, add in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl combine baby food and ⅓ cup of water, add to large bowl/mixer and mix together. Add in the flour mixture and whisk until just combined.
Add in the oats, dark chocolate and chopped cherries and mix until just combined, over mixing will result in tough cookies.
Scoop ping-pong ball sized dollops of cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, give enough room for a little spreading. Bake for 10- 15 minutes until golden brown.
Let the cookies cool while you melt the white chocolate in a double boiler or in a heat safe bowl, microwaved in 10 second increments, stir constantly to avoid burning. Once the chocolate is melted, mix in oil (this will keep it from hardening while you work). Summon your inner Jackson Pollock to drizzle and drip the white chocolate all over your cookies. Let the chocolate cool and harden before serving.
Each serving (1 cookie) has: 103 calories, 2 g fat, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein, 21 g carbs.
Conclusion: Holiday cookies can taste great and be healthy, too!
Holiday baking can be fun and healthy with these yummy cookie recipes. You can feel good about giving them away as gifts, or just for making them for your loved ones, because you know they are as healthy as they are delicious. These tried and true recipes will impress even the most discriminating palates (AKA picky eaters) while sneaking in some heart healthy, metabolism boosting ingredients you can feel good about serving.
Bake some yourself and share the love of the seasons, from thankful harvest Fall, to joyous Winter with families and clean slates of New Year, followed by love and freshness of Spring, all resulting in a healthy sun filled Summer, these recipes fit in all seasons and help bring out the joy and excitement of the one you are celebrating.


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Титулование — в сословно-феодальном обществе форма обращения к лицам дворянского происхождения, духовным и государственным служащим для подчёркивания их особого, привилегированного положения в соответствии с присвоенным им титулом, саном, чином.

История
Слово «государь» в России в старину употребляли безразлично, вместо «господин», «барин», «помещик», «вельможа». В XIX веке к императору обращались «Всемилостивейший Государь», к великим князьям — «Милостивейший Государь», ко всем частным лицам — «милостивый государь» (при обращении к высшему), «милостивый государь мой» (к равному), «государь мой» (к низшему). Слова «сударь» (также с ударением на второй слог), «сударик» (дружественное) употреблялись преимущественно в устной речи.

В допетровской России титулы имели только цари и наследники удельных князей, являвшихся, по сути, монархами в удельных княжествах. Первым начал титуловаться Великим Князем всея Руси Симеон Иванович Гордый; Иван III установил большой и малый титулы. В 1547 году Иван IV принял титул царя; в 1721 Сенат и Синод поднесли Петру I титул императора. Пётр I начал жаловать титулы графа и барона, вместе с ними появились соответствующие титулования: «сиятельство» и «светлость». Последнее позже сохранилось лишь в некоторых княжеских родах (светлейшие князья). С появлением Табели о рангах сложилась система титулования лиц, имеющих чины. После Октябрьской революции 1917 года все титулы были упразднены вместе с сословиями, а правила титулования — отменены.

В современном мире понятие «титулование» получило второе значение в рамках этики межличностных отношений в деловых, научных и профессиональных кругах. В этом случае титулование используется в соответствии с занимаемой должностью либо учёной степенью лица, к которому обращаются. В то же время титулование используется в своём первоначальном понятии в ряде стран, в которых сохранилась монархия в целом либо дворянско-сословные общества в частности (к примеру, Великобритания или дворянское общество России).

Виды титулования в России

При обращении к лицам императорской семьи или дворянского происхождения
В России существовали титулы, употреблявшиеся при обращении к членам императорского дома Романовых и лицам дворянского происхождения:

 «Ваше Императорское Величество» — к императору, императрице и вдовствующей императрице;

 «Ваше Императорское Высочество» — к великим князьям, великим княгиням и великим княжнам (детям и внукам императора, а в 1797—1886 годах и правнукам и праправнукам императора);
 «Ваше Высочество» — к князьям, княгиням и княжнам императорской крови после 1886 года;
 «Ваша Светлость» — к герцогам; младшим детям правнуков императора и их мужским потомкам, а также к светлейшим князьям по пожалованию;
 «Ваше Сиятельство» — к князьям, графам;
 «Ваше Благородие» — к баронам и всем остальным дворянам.

При обращении к лицам, имеющим чины в соответствии с «Табелью о рангах»
При обращении к лицам, имевшим те или иные чины, в соответствии с «Табелью о рангах» лица равные по чину или нижестоящие были обязаны употреблять следующие титулы (в зависимости от класса):

 «Ваше высокопревосходительство» — к лицам в чинах 1-го и 2-го классов;
 «Ваше превосходство» — к лицам в чинах 3-го и 4-го классов;
 «Ваше высокородие» — к лицам в чинах 5-го класса;
 «Ваше высокоблагородие» — к лицам в чинах 6—8-го классов;
 «Ваше благородие» — к лицам в чинах 9—14-го классов.

При обращении к лицам, имеющим духовный сан
При обращении к лицам, имеющим духовный сан, в России употребляются и поныне следующие титулования:

 «Ваше Святейшество» — к патриарху (до 1721 и после 1917 года);
 «Ваше Высокопреосвященство» — к митрополитам и архиепископам;
 «Ваше Преосвященство» — к епископам;
 «Ваше Высокопреподобие» — к архимандритам, игуменам монастырей и протоиереям;
 «Ваше Преподобие» — к иеромонахам и иереям;
 «Ваше Благовестие» — к протодиаконам и архидиаконам, диаконам и иеродиаконам.
 «Ваше Боголюбие» — между прихожанами.

Титулование лиц, имеющих одновременно титул, сан, чин
В Российской империи распространённой была практика, когда лица дворянского происхождения состояли на царской службе. В данном случае они имели и титул, и чин. С другой стороны, нередкими были случаи, когда дворяне шли на духовную службу и получали сан. В этих случаях имело место доминирование одного вида титулования над другим. Высшим видом титулования являлось титулование по сану, потом по титулу и уже потом по чину. К примеру, если дворянин занимал государственную должность, имел чин IX класса, но титул графа, то в соответствии с правилами титулования обращаться к нему необходимо было «ваше сиятельство» (но никак не «ваше благородие»). С другой стороны, если князь получал духовный сан, то и обращение к нему должно было быть по духовному сану, но не по титулу.

См. также
 Духовный сан
 Табель о рангах
 Титул
 Чин

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 Царская власть в XVII веке: титулование и положение Предисловие, подготовка текстов, комментарии Г. В. Талиной
 Табель о рангах

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The Millions Interview
Plot Horses and Narrative Helmets: A Morning with David Mitchell
Emily Pullen | 4
Although many readers at The Millions are likely to have at least one David Mitchell book under their belt (Cloud Atlas was admitted into The Millions Hall of Fame earlier this year, after all), I'm sure most of you remember what it's like for the uninitiated. Everyone tells you that you must read Cloud Atlas, and you buy it and it sits on your shelf for three years. You assume that his work is intellectual, serious, complicated, experimental; a multi-voiced beast that is said to be amazing, but that has to be heavily grappled with in order to appreciate. However, spending even a couple of minutes with David Mitchell — the man — made me realize that neither he nor his work should be approached with the kind of hesitation or trepidation that some readers have.
Just before his reading at Skylight Books, Mitchell tiptoed down the stairs from the mezzanine office. He sat on the third step clutching his cup of tea, hidden from the adoring masses by a waist-high wall that serves as a railing. From my chair at the back desk, I had the perfect angle for a photo opportunity: the big author mentally preparing for his last reading before heading home. Instead, when he noticed me with the camera, he started making faces at me and mock-scowling. During his reading, he paused mid-sentence to tell anecdotes, he told us that he likes to create onomatopoetic verbs to mess with his translators, and he occasionally provided sound effects to go with his metaphors. This was not the brooding intellectual one might have expected. This was not the "serious author" whose books are to be spoken about with mountainous respect in hushed tones. This man was playful, and instantly open, and remarkably nimble.
Although David Mitchell is almost universally hailed as a creator of literary fiction, it is the lens of games and child-like amusement that often sharpens his work into focus. Michael Chabon described Cloud Atlas as "the novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book." Mitchell has been called a ventriloquist for the way that he inhabits voices and "does" other genres so well. Even his naysayers use this lens: in the LA Times, reviewer Eric Banks described the second section of Mitchell's new book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, as a foray into "comic-book Japonica."
I asked Mitchell what his favorite game was growing up, hoping it might tell us something about his writing as a whole. He described a loose kind of game that most of us probably played in some form or another: an improvised war-type game with two opposing sides and rules and goals that you kind of made up as you went along. You would advance into each other's territory, set ambushes, and try to spring your own men who'd been captured. Guns were made up of two fingers and a thumb, and there was a sort of honor system when a confrontation occurred. It may be a bit of a stretch, but I think that it can describe what Mitchell has done in his books – he makes up a new set of rules each time, and he treads into territory that you might not expect in terms of genre, voice, and style. There are usually opposing forces at play, though who is playing for which side can be ambiguous and shifting.
From the micro-view of his own memory, Mitchell quickly waxed analytical. He suggested that games allow us a small view into how the mind works:
We don't have an effective vocabulary of the mind, because we don't really know what it is. And we need a couple of Newtons or Darwins or Einsteins–in neurology–before, I think, we'll begin to "get it"… We know much more about [the mind's] pathology than we do about its anatomy. But it becomes visible in games. Games gives us a vocabulary of mind that we otherwise lack… Patterns can be made manifest in one form.
Fiction can also "do the mind" — it picks up on patterns like games do. Towards the end of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Jacob fleshes out the story of Phoebus in Greek mythology and then says: "The truth of a myth, Your Honor, is not its words, but its patterns."
Several of Mitchell's novels use games to show macro tendencies: he uses a rugby match to ruminate on chance and fate in Ghostwritten, in Black Swan Green it's something called British Bulldogs that sheds light on growing up in Thatcher's England, and in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, the Japanese game Go provides the ripples and layers. In the final section, after we've gotten some sense of the relative equilibrium between the Dutch and the Japanese on Dejima (the Dutch East India Company's outpost off the coast of Japan in 1799), in comes the English ship, bringing with it global machinations and the need for shifting alliances and multilayered strategies. It is immediately followed by an actual Go match, also full of machinations and strategies, which has taken on all sorts of significance of its own. Not only does it illustrate the power play happening between the Magistrate and Lord Abbot, it foreshadows the waning strength of Japan's isolationist policies in the face of global advances.
In the present day, interestingly, Go has the opposite role to play in the global advance of technology — Mitchell told me that an algorithm is no match for a master Go player, and the game is "one of humanity's last strongholds against the computer."
Perhaps Mitchell is aware of these tendencies, for even he uses toys and games of childhood to describe his writing process. On the recent challenge of writing a libretto for an opera, David wrote that "packing so much human luggage into so few syllables" was similar to sudoku.
When I asked him whether one needs to live in a place in order to write about it, he said it's hard to make it smack of authenticity if you haven't. You need more tricks and sleight-of-hand to mask the fact that you haven't been there. For example, Mitchell had never been to New York when he was working on Ghostwritten. One of the sections is takes place there, so he set it in winter, when windows are hard to see through and details are muted by snow. And then he made the bulk of the action occur on a radio show. How's that for literary prestidigitation! Historical fiction, however, tends to thrive on rich detail, and after reading his latest novel, no one would doubt that Mitchell spent nearly a decade living in Japan.
Finally, I asked him how, after observing a place in the present, do you access its past or imagine its future? I'm sure that there is some element of Faulkner's famous quote at work, that "the past isn't dead. It's not even past." David also suggested that first you gather the bits. Then, essentially, you're playing dress up with dolls:
You just think about the story first. And… the people. But they are, as it were, naked. Temporally naked. So you just think about the story and the relationships and… what their hearts want. And how these wants bounce off each other. Then when you've got those, then you clothe them. Literally clothe them in appropriate period costumes, but also sort of… attitudinally clothe them.
While answering questions after his reading at Skylight Books, Mitchell got into a groove and offered, in rapid succession, three extended metaphors for his writing process. The best one, the one that can help both writers and readers, came to him just a few weeks ago. He said that writing a novel is like an amusement arcade horse race game with five horses – character, plot, theme/ideas, structure, style – and the goal is for them all to finish at once. For example, you develop the character horse, his history and his personality, and then you ask "What would he do in this situation?" Then the plot horse catches up. I found this metaphor to be useful to me as a reader as well, in terms of describing what does and doesn't work in a novel. I asked Mitchell whether one of his horses needed more training, or whether one came more naturally than the rest.
It varies from book to book. I would say that generally, my themes/idea horse probably hasn't much rider. I don't really think "This book is going to be about this," ahead of time. Or perhaps, specifically, it sort of leaves on its own sweet time, late and last. And at some point, after the others have streaked ahead, the rider sort of hops over the barrier from the crowd and then sort of jumps on …[here Mitchell made leaping gesture with his hand];. And then, "Okay, this is what you're about. Now I see, now I see…"
The other metaphor that Mitchell threw out there was one that helped him finally master writing in the third person: that of the "narrative helmet." One character wears it at a time, and it's got a "camera filming the action but with a spike going into the brain so you can get that character's thoughts but no one else's." He then told us that the plot of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet is perhaps more complex than it seems: in the first act, only Jacob wears the helmet. In the second act, the helmet alternates between Orito and Ogawa. In the final act, Jacob, the Magistrate, and the English sea captain wear the helmet. By doing it this way, the momentum increases as you progress in the book.
With building blocks, some children build simple walls and steps, and others build castles with moats and turrets using the exact same materials. Mitchell must have been one of the latter — he recently described his books as "Lego-novels," made up of component pieces. After spending a few hours in his presence, it is clear that he thinks of language and literature in degrees of magnitude. "A word is a musical note, with its own timbre and attack and fade," he said at the reading. "And a sentence is therefore a musical phrase, and a paragraph, therefore, is something like a song." He's written several novels of interconnected stories and his latest is really more like three successive novellas.
But we've all built towers that collapsed, and even David Mitchell can attempt too much. He told me that Cloud Atlas was originally going to have nine parts, not six, but it got unwieldy. One of the narratives was to be from a Korean rock star who was watching a video cassette that (of course) broke in the middle. But when Mitchell sensed it wobbling, he realized that he already had a young musical prodigy in Frobisher. He couldn't bear to waste the time and money spent on researching Korea, so he set "An Orison of Sonmi-451" there instead.
Mitchell brings to his work the fine balance of playfulness and complexity. I think what turns some people off from "postmodern" writing in general, and something that Mitchell manages to avoid, is a feeling of being toyed with, a feeling that the writer knows something that the reader doesn't. When you finish, you want to feel as though your mind has been engaged, not as though you've been had. Mitchell teased out the distinction a bit:
Maybe it's the difference between, in the former case, being obliged to be the victim of a practical joke, where it's not fair because you don't know what the terms are, and it'll happen to you and you just have to sit there and take it. Which is really annoying. As opposed to sort of being taught the rules of the game, and sort of being given an invitation, "Would you like to play, too?
Mitchell invites us to play with him, to enjoy the stories he writes, and to have fun trying to figure things out. He also invites us to think hard, and to grapple with the challenges of civilization. As a culture, we could use a bit more of that playfulness and complexity.
Bonus Link: A podcast of the Mitchell event at Skylight Books in Los Angeles


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Advancing the financial services industry
New Fiduciary News and Developments
DOL Fiduciary News: April 6, 2017
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DOL Fiduciary Rule Foes Say Delay Falls Short of Trump Order
ThinkAdvisor; April 5, 2017
While opponents of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule welcomed the final rule issued Wednesday delaying by 60 days the rule's effective date, they're up in arms over what they says is the failure of the rule to comply with President Donald Trump's directive to review the rule in its entirety.
At first blush, Labor's 60-day delay that's to be released in the Federal Register on Friday "appeared to be a very good first step in the review" ordered by Trump on Feb. 3, said Kent Bentson, a partner at Davis & Harman in Washington. "But the problem is that in yesterday's announcement, DOL indicates very clearly that it does not plan to revisit the June 9 date in the context of the review" ordered by Trump.
(http://www.thinkadvisor.com)
Fiduciary rule delay offers industry substantial short-term relief
BenefitsPro.com; April 5, 2017
The Labor Department's decision to delay the fiduciary rule's original April 10 implementation date by 60 days gives the financial services industry considerable short-term relief, according to industry insiders.
Beginning June 9, 2017, industry will have to comply with the rule's impartial conduct standards, which requires that advice must be in retirement investors' best interest, compensation must be reasonable, and prohibits institutions and advisors from giving misleading statements to investors.
But beyond delaying the impartial conduct standards by 60 days, Labor's rule also delays the requirement that financial institutions and advisors provide written acknowledgment of their fiduciary status. That requirement was also scheduled for April 10 implementation, but is now pushed off until January 1, 2018.
(http://www.benefitspro.com)
New Orleans appeals court denies emergency injunction to stop DOL fiduciary rule
InvestmentNews; Apr 5, 2017 @ 7:04 pm
Financial industry opponents of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule lost again in federal court on Wednesday.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans denied a request for a preliminary injunction against the regulation that was filed by several industry interest groups. The three-judge panel also denied the plaintiffs' motion for an expedited appeal of the case.
The plaintiffs lost twice recently at the district level in a Dallas federal court, when Chief Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn granted summary judgment in favor of the DOL and then denied the plaintiffs' emergency injunction, which was filed after she decided the case on its merits.
The plaintiffs include the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Financial Services Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of the organization were not immediately available for comment.
(http://www.investmentnews.com)
RIAs say DOL rule delay doesn't matter because industry is moving toward fiduciary anyway
Independent financial advisers are generally shrugging off the Department of Labor's 60-day delay of its fiduciary duty regulation, suggesting that the proverbial horse is already out of the barn.
"The delay is just delaying the inevitable," said Shawn Blau, managing member at ATR Advisors.
"Irrespective of the DOL, the industry is moving toward requiring a fiduciary standard," he added. "Long term, the trend is toward more fiduciary requirements."
$532 A Second: Trump Administration Delay Of Fiduciary Rule Protecting Retirement Savers Will Scramble Nest Eggs Of Tens Of Thousands Of Americans
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new "Retirement Ripoff Counter" unveiled today at an event headlined by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, along with Americans for Financial Reform and the Consumer Federation of America, shows in graphic terms how important it is for Americans' retirement security that the fiduciary rule be fully implemented. Every day that conflicted advice continues costs them $46 million a day, $1.9 million per hour, and $532 a second.
Yesterday, the Department of Labor finalized a decision to delay the rule by 60 days, and a review targeting the rule for changes continues.
During today's one-hour news conference, the cost of delaying the rule rose $1.9 million. To underscore the huge toll of conflicted advice, and the need for the rule to be implemented in full and without delay, the Retirement Ripoff Counter will be projected tonight onto the sides of two Washington, D.C. buildings: the Department of Labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
(http://www.prnewswire.com)
Fiduciary Delay Doesn't Faze Morgan Stanley
The Wall Street Journal; Apr 6, 2017 5:30 am ET
Morgan Stanley is moving ahead with changes related to the now-delayed fiduciary rule, such as lowering commissions and reducing the number of mutual funds it offers, according to a memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Beginning in May, the bank will introduce a new commissions structure for stocks, exchange-traded funds, annuities and unit investment trusts that will "substantially" reduce some investors' costs, the memo says, Morgan Stanley opted to proceed with its new cost structure as planned instead of abandoning it after the Labor Department said it would delay its fiduciary rule requiring brokers to put the interests of retirement savers ahead of their own by 90 days.
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Q: OncheckChanged not Firing I have a working page but now I recreated it and it doesn't work. I need some help to figure out why.
The way it should work is when I check the checkbox and click a button it should fire the checkbox function and then the button function
Working code
asp.net
<asp:CheckBox ID="Checkbox" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("QuoteLine") %>' OnCheckedChanged="QuoteLine_CheckedChanged" ForeColor="Transparent" Font-Size="0.1" />

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<asp:CheckBox ID="Checkbox" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("OrderLine")%>' OnCheckedChanged="OrderLine_CheckedChanged" ForeColor="Transparent" Font-Size="0.1" />

Code Behind
Private SelectLines As New List(Of String)

  Protected Sub OrderLine_CheckedChanged(sender As CheckBox, e As EventArgs)
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            'selectedLines = SelectLines
        End If
    End Sub

 Protected Sub BPrehang_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles BPrehang.Click
        Session.Remove("Type")
        Session.Remove("Location")
        Session.Remove("Order")
        Session.Add("Prehang", "True")

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Police Killed the Bikers?
Over the past few days, numerous news sources have been covering the story of the biker shootout in Waco, Texas, where nine bikers were killed and numerous were injured. It has been said that police were aware of the growing animosity between the groups. Well, now, one source reports that the dead were actually killed by the police.
According to CNN, the police anticipated trouble and already had officers on location when the fighting erupted. The bikers are said to have fired at each other AND the officers, who returned fire. A total of 18 people were taken to the hospital, although The Last Refuge reports that a total of 27 people were shot by police. It is not known if the number of those taken to the hospital includes any of those killed . However, what IS known is that no officers were injured.
It can be argued that the presence of the officers resulted in fewer people being killed, but were those killed the ones that fired at police, resulting in returned fire that killed them? If so, would the lack of police presence have prevented the fatalities? If the groups were already shooting at each other, the likelihood of there being fewer fatalities without police presence is slim because the groups might have been a bit less reserved when shooting at each other.
While this incident can hardly be properly compared to other situations where unarmed men have been killed by police, it goes to show that people no longer fear or respect the uniform as a means of order and authority. Not fearing the position is less of a concern than the lack of respect. Every living being should be given a certain amount of respect, and some positions require not MORE respect but more of an obligation to stay within the boundaries of respect.
Considering the rivalries between the motorcycle gangs, it is understandable for police presence to be elevated. Other restaurant patrons probably considered themselves fortunate. But some in other communities see the police more so as authorized terrorists. This thought undoubtedly stems from a number of irrational actions by- and interactions with law enforcement. SOMETHING needs to change quickly before we find ourselves in a lawless society.