text:
The Turkey Votes for Thanksgiving
by TRNN November 10, 2010 September 23, 2020
Banks to Cash-In Again on New Fed Plan Pt.2 with Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay. We're at the PERI institute in Amherst, Massachusetts, and joining us again is Yves Smith. Yves is the creator of the financial blog Naked Capitalism and author of ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism. Thanks for joining us again.
YVES SMITH, BLOGGER AND AUTHOR: Thanks, Paul.
JAY: Okay. So, in episode one, the train is more or less half off the cliff, but there's a lot of people figuring how to make money on it as it's going over. And they're going to—one would think people in the know would—and you need a lot of money to play this game, because they don't even—have I have a friend who inherited some money and wants to get in on this game, and he was told you can't even get in without $15 million. They won't let you play. They won't let you at the table. It's like playing poker. You need the right level of stakes. They wouldn't even let him in. He wants to get on some new type of derivatives and into this game, and he has a lot of money, but he doesn't have $50 million. At any rate, you make money off the bubble. And they're also playing the precious metals game, so when the bubble crashes, they're going to make money on the precious metals. They're making money getting zero percent money out of the Fed and loaning it back to government or loaning it now more to foreign governments. Okay. So the Fed plan we don't think is going to work. What should government be doing now?
SMITH: Well, one thing is we actually do need to have more stimulus. There's unfortunately a notion that's become very popular that's a bit dangerous, which is that it's a good idea to have government austerity at the same time consumers are trying to get their debt levels down. If you're going to have consumers lowering their debt levels, that's a real big economic contractionary force, and therefore you need government to act as a counterweight. The one time when government deficit spending is unambiguously warranted is when consumers are deleveraging and businesses altogether aren't spending either, that they are actually net saving. You know, the normal idea is that consumers normally like to save and that the—then business uses the money in investments. That's the sort of standard story for why—.
JAY: Yeah, money goes into the bank, businesses borrow from the banks, they make investments, and—.
SMITH: Right. But if businesses aren't making investments—and not only are they not making investments enough to [inaudible] savings now, businesses in America have been net saving since basically 2002. Even in our last expansion they were net saving.
JAY: Because consumer demand is either not there or artificial on credit cards.
SMITH: That's correct. That's why.
JAY: 'Cause people aren't getting paid enough.
SMITH: That's correct. Exactly. So what happens in that scenario is that government spending is actually warranted. We are in one of those times where government deficits are warranted. The difficulty is that people look at the sort of debt-to-GDP ratio and they get freaked out. You know, it looks nervous-making. The problem is they look at the debt side, and that is a static number. They forget that the GDP number is dynamic and that, for example, we've now got 10 percent headline unemployment. It's really closer to 20 percent if you really counted discouraged workers properly. You know, if we had 10,000 more jobs at $25,000, you know, average salary, you would have another $2.5 trillion of GDP. That would roughly be another fifth of the economy. You know, that would change the ratios in a very significant degree, and that's before you get what they call multiplier effects, that those people, if you had 10 million people more employed and they were spending, it wouldn't just be that one shot; it would actually increase the GDP even more.
JAY: Okay. Let me ask you a question that's kind of bothering me. I assume that most of the people at the leadership of the Republican Party and in the business community—and it's not the whole business community that's pro-austerity, but the section that is—they're not dummies. They've got to know that this works or doesn't work. And the logic and evidence seems to lead that it doesn't work, austerity plan. So why do they want it? What's in it for them to have a big austerity plan and no stimulus?
SMITH: Well, unfortunately, they're very driven by their tax bills. There are two things. There's the free market ideology and this idea that government is bad, and anything to make government smaller is therefore good. And that's—and we have actually bred for 20 or 30 years of less competent government. So we've managed—you know, the fact that government does occasionally shoot itself in the foot, it's not as if this is an accident. I mean, there's been an effort to—you know, the negative rhetoric around government has led to the caliber of people who think about public service being not the same that it used to be. You know, now people who are mainly attracted to government service, it's they want to get their tickets punched so then they can go get a lobbyist job or get on the board of a big public company.
JAY: Senior levels of government service.
SMITH: Senior levels. Exactly. Exactly.
JAY: Because if you are handing out the mail door to door, you're not—.
SMITH: No, exactly. Exactly. Or just a mid-level bureaucrat. You know. And those roles are actually very important, because they're the people who, you know, give the advice to the more senior people, at least in theory. We've got a system where, you know, frankly, I think they're blinded by ideology. And I actually disagree with the sort of thoughtfulness of most senior business people. I mean, they tend to operate in a very close circle of people who are like-minded. They tend not to get outside influences. And if you talk about—with a lot of them, if you talk about having more, you know, spending to help ordinary people or you talk about more spending, you know, they go, oh, that's big government, oh, that's corporatist. I mean, they have, like, a whole—they put up blinders and they won't listen to the argument. I mean, it's really a matter of—for many of them it really is a matter of ideology; it is not a matter of reasonable belief.
JAY: But they also take advantage of a moment when people, workers are particularly weak because of such high unemployment. So the moment is let's beat up the unions, let's beat up workers and have lower wages. Let's not—let's use this situation and the ideology to make sure we're not paying any higher taxes, because we can say that's—you know, it's anti-stimulus. Of course, they play both sides of the stimulus game. But is there also another piece of this that if you're sitting on a lot of cash right now, the more things burn, the cheaper it's going to be to buy back in? Isn't that there a certain point where it's actually advantageous to you, if you are of that mindset, to let it melt and maybe even give it a push?
SMITH: Well, that happened with the subprime shorts, the people who shorted subprime market. Even with—some of them I'm not quite sure there was a design element to it. People are very complicated in how they can rationalize their behavior. So I would suspect that even the people who are engaging in behavior, you know, that they're torching the neighborhood so that they can then buy it on the cheap, I doubt that many of them would be able to admit to themselves that that was the behavior they were engaging in. People are very adept at rationalizing what they're doing.
JAY: Talk a little bit about the psychology of people who have been persuaded by Tea Party Republican arguments. Like, one of the things I find kind of odd is that a lot of retired people who lost their income because interest rates are so low—and it's understandable they're very concerned about that—are voting for policies that are all supposed to be about stopping inflation. But if you had higher inflation, they'd be earning more money. The interest rates would go up and they'd earn more on their savings, would they not?
SMITH: Well, I actually think that the vote for the Tea Party is—you know, both the Republican numbers and the Democratic numbers are awful. I mean, they're just—so the idea that people are voting for something, I think, is a big misinterpretation of what happened in this election. People are very angry about the economy. And Obama made a huge mistake in not making a break, both policy-wise and just in his stance, from the Bush policies. I mean, this really has been in many respects a continuation of Bush policies, unfortunately, with him trying to put liberal rhetoric around it and a few liberal gestures to try to appeal to the traditional Democratic base. So he's basically succeeded in not making a lot of traditional Democrats—I mean, there is some loyalty to Obama, just because there are still loyal Democrats, but, you know, the progressive wing is certainly very unhappy with Obama, and yet he's delivered right-wing policies, but with enough left-wing rhetoric that the Republicans can shoot at him. They can sort of take advantage of his confused positioning versus what he's actually been up to. So I think it's just been a very bad policy [inaudible]
JAY: But what I'm getting at is that if from the point of view of small business and retired people, who, if we understand the demographics of who voted Republican, and especially Tea Party movement, that's a very high percentage of who makes up that movement, retired people and small business, and it's not only, but they're a big piece, aren't they going to be some of the first people to get creamed by austerity measures and—?
SMITH: Yes, absolutely. Well, this is—this goes back to what Thomas Frank was saying, that there's large segments of the population who have been persuaded for social reasons to vote against their economic interests. Unfortunately, this has become a well-established pattern with large groups within the public. And I think that part of this is that there is a big racist element in the vote against Obama. Like, you know, I have family in Alabama, and 80 percent of the white people voted against Obama. The second—and there is a feeling among older white people of being sort of beleaguered and that they're sort of losing out, that all the things that the sort of traditional middle class—you know, if you saved, if you did the right thing, you'd have a decent retirement, that's all being pulled out from under them. And yet they've been steered to blame the wrong people for why they're—.
JAY: But am I right that if you have no more government stimulus and you have smaller government, what's likely to happen is deeper depression, low interest rates? So people who want more interest on their retirement savings are not going to get higher interest rates. Small business are going to have no market to sell to because there's going to be higher unemployment. So two of the pillars of this movement are going to be ones that get creamed. I mean, is the logic right?
SMITH: No, your logic is absolutely correct. But I'm just saying that they've been sold, yes, they've been sold a bill of goods.
JAY: 'Cause they're being sold that there's going to be some economic revival out of smaller government.
SMITH: I don't even know that they've really—well, that's—you know, yes, this whole government, it's the whole—.
JAY: Get regulation and government out of the way and business will be free to invest.
SMITH: And I just—and there's—it's just not going to happen.
JAY: Okay. So I don't get this. They're going to be—retired people and small business are going to be the first one killed by what's coming.
SMITH: Exactly. Well, what happened turns out was basically like the turkey decided to vote for Thanksgiving.
JAY: So people better stop taking economics on faith and try to get a handle on what's really happening to them.
SMITH: Exactly.
JAY: Okay. Just so everybody knows at home, Yves Smith is not only a writer and doesn't only have a blog, but you manage money on Wall Street, so you know from the inside some of these dynamics, 'cause I know that we keep hearing this sort of critique, oh, they never ran a business, they don't really know.
SMITH: No, I have. I run a business.
JAY: Thanks for joining us.
SMITH: Take care. Thank you.
JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
End of Transcript
William Robinson: Global revolts in the age of COVID capitalism
A call to the people: If capitalism is to be fought, it has to be fought in the DRC
Big Tech has rigged the game against artists. Here's how we can fight back.


text:
Sứ mệnh của chúng tôi
Chiến lược bảo tồn của chúng tôi
buôn bán động, thực vật hoang dã hợp pháp
Buôn bán bất hợp pháp
tổ chức của chúng tôi
một số thành tựu gần đây
Các văn phòng và hoạt động ưu tiên»
Các dự án và phương pháp tiếp cận»
Conservation Technology
Governments and Conventions
Private Sector Guidance
Promoting Sustainable Trade
Supporting Law Enforcement
Trade Monitoring
The Ivory Trade
Trade in Rhino Horn
Sustainable Fisheries
Species we work with
African Rhinos
Asian Songbirds
Helmeted Hornbills
Other Aquatic species
Pangolins
Wildlife Trade Specialists
Wild at Home the global harvest and trade of wild plant ingredients
Aloe Aloe ferox, widely used throughout cosmetics and health products much of which is collected from the wild
báo cáo »
Reports »
Wild at Home: An overview of the harvest and trade in wild plant ingredients
Published 25 Tháng sáu 2018
New report highlights global trade in wild plant ingredients
Cambridge, UK, 25th June 2018—a new TRAFFIC study has drawn attention to the wild plant ingredients used in everyday products and the need for their traceable, sustainable and ethical sourcing and trade.
Report author(s):
Martin Jenkins, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Marcus Cornthwaite
Download report (15 MB pdf)
Wild at Home: An overview of the harvest and trade in wild plant ingredients, released to coincide with the beginning of FairWild Week 2018, demonstrates how sustainable wild plant harvesting can contribute to wider wildlife conservation goals and why global industry must adapt.[1]
People are utterly reliant on plants for their survival, yet few appreciate that many of the consumer products in common use—ranging from herbal remedies, food, and drink to cosmetics, health supplements, and even furniture—derive from wild harvested plants.
The report highlights a dozen wild plant products consumers and business should look out for in products they use, including liquorice, frankincense, gum arabic, juniper, pygeum, goldenseal, and shea butter.
Of the roughly 30,000 plant species with documented medicinal or aromatic uses, approximately 3,000 are found in international trade, an estimated 60–90% of them harvested from the wild—often with little consideration given to ensure the sustainability of supplies.
Millions of people rely on wild plant collection both for their healthcare and for their livelihoods—from rural rosehip harvesters in Serbia to baobab fruit collectors in Zimbabwe, and the wide benefits of this harvesting are reaped by consumers across the world
Anastasiya Timoshyna from TRAFFIC, a co-author of the report
"But the industry utilising wild plant ingredients and consumers are paying far too little attention to ensuring plants are being traded responsibly."
In 2015, the global reported trade for medicinal plants alone was valued at over US$3 billion, a threefold growth since 1999, although the figure is likely to be a significant underestimate, as the customs code used for the analysis does not include all relevant plants. The top exporters were China, India, Canada, Germany and USA, while the top importers were Hong Kong SAR, USA, Germany, Japan and China.
An IUCN Red ListTM analysis by the IUCN Medicinal Plant Specialist Group in 2018 found that only 7% of the known medicinal and aromatic plant species have been assessed against extinction threat criteria—and one in five of them was found to be threatened with extinction.
The link between sustainable wild plant harvesting and wider conservation benefits has already been demonstrated across various global ecosystems
Overharvest and resource mismanagement are two major contributors to species declines. Growing and changing demand for wild plant ingredients often means that traditional sustainable harvesting practices are being replaced by more intensive and destructive alternatives. Examples of this include the use of heavy machinery in the harvesting of wild licorice root Glycyrrhiza spp., or the destructive collection of American Ginseng Panax quinquefolius.
If managed well, however, sustainable wild-harvesting and trade in plant ingredients could provide holistic management for other species and ecosystems, as well as multiple benefits to wild-harvesters and supply chains overall.
A combination of full traceability, compliance with existing regulations (for example for species listed in the CITES appendices [2]), increasing the value to producers, and credible certification schemes are important elements of creating conditions for an all-encompassing "win-win" situation.
Throughout FairWild Week 2018, TRAFFIC and partners will be sharing conservation success stories, demonstrating how implementation of the FairWild Standard ensures sustainable harvesting and trade in wild plants with social, economic and conservation benefits.[3]
"It's in everyone's interests to ensure that their use of wild plants is responsible in terms of ecological and social sustainability, so we all need to learn about the origin of the products we are using," said Timoshyna.
"That's why FairWild week was first conceived—the time has come for consumers to recognise the value of the wild plants in the products they buy," says Timoshyna.
The week also aims to promote uptake of the FairWild Standard by industry supply chains. Suppliers following the FairWild Standard adhere to strict rules regarding the sustainability of harvesting operations and ensuring the harvesters work in safe conditions and receive a fair and equitable payment for their produce. Products meeting the requirements are FairWild certified, and products containing them can bear the FairWild logo.
"Companies often market their products as being 'naturally sourced' or 'wild' with little interpretation of what that actually entails: it's time for consumer pressure to ensure it really means they have been sustainably and ethically traded—if in doubt, look for the FairWild logo on the packaging or ask why it doesn't appear," said Timoshyna.
medicinal and aromatic plants are in global trade
of these are thought t be wild collected
US$3 billion
the value in trade in medicinal plants alone in 2015
Marcus Cornthwaite TRAFFIC Communications Support Manager
Anastasiya Timoshyna Senior Programme Co-ordinator – Sustainable Trade
[1] About FairWild Week
FairWild Week is an annual online initiative which celebrates the power of wild plants in our daily lives. We'll be telling success stories of how FairWild is helping protect wildlife, ecosystems and harvester communities and explaining how you as a consumer or business can be part of the solution to the threats facing wild plants. This year, FairWild Week runs from 25th June to 1st July.
Follow the action at fairwild.org/fairwild-week or @FairWild #FairWildWeek
For editors: media and content package.
[2] Trade in CITES-listed plants
The trade in some of the plant ingredients used widely in everyday products is regulated under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). The top traded wild-collected medicinal and aromatic plant species over the past decade include candelilla Euphorbia antisyphilitica (used in cosmetics), pygeum Prunus africana (an important ingredient of herbal remedies), cosmetic Aloe ferox, and agarwood (derived from Aquilaria and Gyrinops species) used in fragrances and incenses, as well as various orchids, particularly Dendrobium spp. harvested for use in traditional Asian medicine.
[3] The Wild Dozen – key plants to look out for in your products
This list provides examples of species important in trade, wild-harvested, susceptible to harvesting pressure (e.g. overcollected, vulnerable to unsustainable trade), and/or that are in supply chains problematic for social inequality of trading practices. Explore the species to look out for here: WILD DOZEN
Wild at Home is also available in German.
Die Wildnis zu Hause
About FairWild
The increasing demand for wild plants—as ingredients for food, cosmetics, well-being and medicinal products—poses major ecological and social challenges. The pressure on potentially vulnerable plant species can endanger local ecosystems and the livelihoods of collectors, who often belong to the poorest social groups in the countries of origin.
As a response to these concerns, the FairWild Foundation is working with partners worldwide to improve the conservation, management and sustainable use of wild plants in trade, as well as the livelihoods of rural harvesters involved in wild collection. TRAFFIC has supported the development of the FairWild Standard, and now hosts the organization's Secretariat under a partnership agreement.
Related News and Reports
featured in: Africa Americas Asia & Middle East Europe Oceania Flora Sustainability & Development Outreach & Behaviour Change
Timber Island: The Rosewood and Ebony Trade of Madagascar
Success of traditional Chinese medicine environmental governance project celebrated in China
New guidelines for verifying timber legality at the border
Keep up with what we do
TRAFFIC là một tổ chức phi chính phủ hoạt động toàn cầu với mục tiêu thúc đẩy bảo tồn đa dạng sinh học và phát triển bền vững.
Tìm hiểu thêm về chúng tôi >
TRAFFIC Bulletin
Conservation Strategy
TRAFFIC is a registered UK charity, Number 1076722. Company Number 3785518.
Our headquarters are located at TRAFFIC, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ
Registered with the Fundraising Regulator
©2020 TRAFFIC INTERNATIONAL. All rights reserved.
Developed by Ian Kimber at Rochdale Online, designed by Marcus Cornthwaite.
We use cookies to enhance the functionality of this website. To learn more about the types of cookies this website uses, see our Cookie Statement. You can accept cookies by clicking the "I accept" button or by cancelling this cookie notice; or you can manage your cookie preferences via "Manage Cookies".
You can opt out of certain types of cookies (e.g. those used in social media sharing) by choosing "I do not accept". The website will still largely function well, but with slightly less functionality in places. To manage your cookie preferences in future, visit the "Cookie Statement" link at the bottom of any page.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The process of making vodka is pretty much a standardized thing. You start with grains, potatoes, sugar or fruit. Whatever the base, it's cooked, fermented and then distilled and bottled. (Yes, we are skipping a ton of steps and some additional ingredients like enzymes here. And yes, how everything is treated along the way makes a difference in the final result.) We tried three Georgia vodkas, two distilled from grains and one from sugar cane, to bring you our report. It's tough work, but someone had to do it so you could stock your holiday bar.
Americus is becoming quite a food hub. One of the small batch producers there is Thirteenth Colony Distilleries, producing rye whiskey, gin, bourbon and corn whiskey, as well as two varieties of vodka. We tried Southern Vodka, distilled from corn and other grains. You may not think of vodka as a sipping drink, like bourbon or an aged rye, but Southern Vodka is smooth enough to enjoy on its own. We thought it was great in a cocktail recipe from their website, Front Porch Punch, where it's mixed with muscadine syrup (our favorite fall fruit), orange juice and cranberry juice. Absolutely perfect for a holiday party. The Thirteenth Colony in the name, of course, is reference to Georgia as the thirteenth colony in what was to become the United States.
Paul Allen and Betsey Dahlberg are making a wide range of spirits in Lilburn at Hope Springs Distillery, named for Hope Springs Farm, Betsey's family farm in Stone Mountain. They make Garner Creek gin (soon to hit store shelves), Jetty Absinthe (the first absinthe produced in Georgia) and Top Hat Vodka, distilled from wheat. We love the label with its photo of top-hatted Lilburn Trigg Meyers (the town of Lilburn is named for him), and we really like the vodka itself. The whole project is a labor of love for the retired engineer and retired lawyer who turned a passion for brewing beer, wine and mead into an exciting business venture. The distillery is in downtown Lilburn and their tasting room is open Friday and Saturday afternoons.
I still find it hard to believe there's delicious vodka (and gin) (and a lemon-ginger liqueur called Lawn Dart) (and now bourbon) being made just inches from downtown Atlanta. A tour of Old Fourth Distillery's original location on Edgewood Avenue nets you a taste of their products but also a glimpse into Atlanta's distilling history with artifacts from the pre-Prohibition era distillery of Rufus M. Rose and his Old Georgia Corn Whiskey. Old Fourth's vodka is distilled from sugar cane which gives it a sweeter profile and rich aroma. We love the bottle, too, with its pale blue glass and the image of the old Fulton Cotton Mill in Cabbagetown. The tasting room and cocktail bar is open for varying hours Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. You can even volunteer to help out with the bottling.
$28 per 750-ml bottle. Available at Ansley Wine Merchants, Buckhead's Best Wine & Spirits, Capital City Package Store, DeKalb Bottle Store, Doraville Liquor Store, East Cobb Liquor, Green's Discount Beverages, Roswell Beverage Depot, Toco Giant Package, Total Wine & More and Tower Beer & Wine. http://o4d.com/.


text:
Namibia to issue visa on arrival for certain countries
17. June 2019, inke - Tourism
Namibia will soon start issuing visas to visitors on arrival as a pilot phase. The Minister of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) Stanley Simataa announced this on Thursday, 13 June 2019. "The Cabinet has approved a submission of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration", Simataa told reporters at a press conference. The exact date of commencement will be disclosed at a later stage. The pilot phase will start at the Hosea Kutako International Airport.
Land Art honours the Wild Horses at Klein-Aus Vista
17. June 2019, inke - Gondwana Collection, Culture
A 100x150m galloping horse has been set in stone on the plains of Klein-Aus Vista Lodge in south-western Namibia in honour of Namibia's century-old population of wild horses whose future hangs in the balance. The Wild Horse is the third 'earth drawing' or 'geoglyph' that siblings Anni Snyman and PC Janse van Rensburg have created with their group of volunteers as part of the Site Specific Collective, a land art project that brings nature and art together in large scale.


There is no part that gives a more social touch to a look than the feminine suit. Despite always being associated with the work visual, the female suit can help you assemble productions for the day to day and even for parties where the dress code is fine sports.
Unlike the men's suit, the women's suit is a less heavy piece being shorter and acinturado, in addition to being fairer on the sleeves.
Investing in a good play, you can assemble amazing productions just adding your feminine suit. Check out tips on how to use and set aside a place in your closet for this project that will become your new favorite.
Definitely there is no way to talk about the female suit without talking about productions for the job. The women's suit is a great option for women who want practicality in time to get ready for work, since it works in all environments, needing only a watch with the other pieces that will be used.
A great option for those who work in companies with a more serious conduct are the pantsuits, where you will buy a suit and a pair of tailoring of the same fabric and color you'll find the feminine suit in EwenZhou such as linen, silk and satin. For a work choose a more full-bodied look and structured fabric, but avoid the models which have shoulder pads, as they may leave their shoulders square. Ideally, you invest in at least two models in order to use them throughout the week. Opt for colors such as black, grey, navy blue, white, cream or pinstripe.
For being a key piece, you can repeat it all week without having to worry about, just alternating sweaters underneath. Invest in silk blouses, t-shirts and social shirts, making the color of the pieces point of your visual, but always opting for less showy colors.
Another option for those who work in companies where the dress code allows the use of skirts is to bet on the suit and skirt, which must have the length below the knee. As well as in layette, choose pieces of the same color, creating a harmony in your look. Invest in the skirts of model or tube.
You can choose bland and skirts in black, grey, blue, pink, beige or white. If you choose the printed models, prefer the prints always in neutral tones and lines or geometric shapes. Bet on silk blouses, shirts, shirts and blouses with social applications of stones.
The suit can be used in their production for the day to day, as for an important lunch, for example. You can bet on color choices and even stamped parts.
The colorful suit, besides giving a more tidy touch, can be the color of his point production. Use it with nobler fabric shorts like linen or lace, betting on a white blouse. Also use with skirts more streamed and t-shirts stamped with dark jeans and blouse with short and fun or skirt and pantyhose. When choosing the color of the additional parts, choose colors in nuance next or not fight each other.
You can bet on the printed suit to create more romantic visual, as there are several options for sale as with floral print. Bet on lighter parts with more fluid fabrics as skirts, shorts and dresses. Choose lighter colors and that have to do with the colors present in the pattern of the suit.
You can also use your suit with jeans and to do this simply, choose models like the wide, high waist or justinhas. Bet on blouses and t-shirts. You can also use your feminine suit with short jeans and blouses, powerful high heels.
The female suit can also be used in nightly events such as parties, cocktail parties and weddings in which the suit is fine sports. Bet on bland with fabrics such as silk or linen and dark colors, with the same as the pants. The pants, inclusive, must be the length above the feet, leaving the instep. Invest in accessories like a maxi necklace of stones. You can create a black and white visual using suit and black pants with white silk social blouse.
For the bolder the suit can be worn with nothing underneath. Bet on adhesives to pin the fabric of your suit in the breasts to prevent incidents.
Bet on the female suit and have a versatile piece that will make your looks much more interesting.
Is it Proper to Wear a Pant Suit to a Wedding?
Traditional X Slim Fit Suit: Which Is Better?


No longer are boots only meant to be worn with just jeans. These super versatile - Mixx Sarah booties will look amazing with skirts, leggings, dresses, shorts, and of course jeans. You'll get the best of both worlds, of boot & heel. A totally contemporary & chic pair at a wallet-friendly price of only $39. Now that's hot! In black or gray.


BLTa is providing full architectural and interior design services for the renovation of 1600 Callowhill from its current use as an office building into a rental apartment building with 95 units, parking and first floor retail.
The existing building is a six-story, brick-faced, concrete frame structure with a steel frame mezzanine addition above the ground floor for parking. Residential amenities will include a fitness center, bicycle maintenance and storage area, package concierge, and roof top lounge and outdoor deck with panoramic center city views to the south. The existing structure, built in 1908, is on both the national and Philadelphia historic registers, and the project is pursuing historic tax credits as well as LEEDv4 certification.


Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Best Of Golden State Warriors Championships Banner Wall Decal Of Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Awesome Ideas Golden State Warriors Wall Decor is just one of the many collections of Sample Home Decorating Ideas Reference that we have on this website. We have a lot of Home Decorating Ideas or interior decorating ideas and any other things concerning in this website. We're not just providing info about , but , you can get a lot more reference to create your dream home as well. So , don't forget to keep visiting Interactifideas.net to get the latest update about Home Decorating Ideas and more.
Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Best Of Golden State Warriors Championships Banner Wall Decal Of Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Awesome Ideas Golden State Warriors Wall Decor was posted in July 25, 2018 at 7:01 pm. Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Best Of Golden State Warriors Championships Banner Wall Decal Of Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Awesome Ideas Golden State Warriors Wall Decor has viewed by 35 users. Click it and download the Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Best Of Golden State Warriors Championships Banner Wall Decal Of Golden State Warriors Wall Decor Awesome Ideas Golden State Warriors Wall Decor.
Wall Decorating, Golden State Warriors Wall Decor was posted February 18, 2018 at 8:08 am by Interactifideas.net . More over Golden State Warriors Wall Decor has viewed by 460 visitor.


text:
AMD CEO Lisa Su: We are right where we want to be on our long-term strategic plan
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, at the company's press and analyst day.
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said in an analyst call that her company's good third-quarter results and other progress shows "We are right where we want to be on our long-term strategic plan."
AMD reported earnings for the most recent quarter (which ended September 30) that roughly matched Wall Street's expectations.
The big chip maker announced earnings per share of 18 cents on revenue of $1.8 billion, not quite meeting analysts' expected EPS of 18 cents on revenue of $1.81 billion. In after-hours trading, AMD's stock price is down 2.4% to $32.36 a share.
In the analyst call, Su said higher processor sales were offset in part by lower graphics channel sales for Radeon graphics processing units (GPUs).
"We delivered our highest quarterly revenue since 2005, our highest quarterly gross margin since 2012, and increased net income significantly … all driven by our first full quarter of 7 nanometer Ryzen, Radeon, and Epyc processor sales," Su said.
She added that demand for Ryzen desktop and notebook processors drove a significant increase in unit shipments and average selling prices (ASP), resulting in the highest client processor quarterly revenue since 2011. She also said the company gained client processor unit share for the eighth straight quarter against rival Intel, thanks to the architectural advantage AMD has with the Zen and Zen 2 chip designs.
AMD has made gains with Ryzen in the consumer sector, and it is also expanding its presence with commercial, financial, retail, education, and healthcare customers. The company's alliance with Samsung, which is beginning to use Radeon graphics technology in its smartphones, is starting to generate revenue for AMD.
"We are on track to expand our desktop product offerings in November with the launches of the industry's first 16 core mainstream desktop processor, as well our third-generation Ryzen Threadripper processor family," Su said. "These products will offer unmatched combinations of core counts [and] performance energy efficiency for the most demanding high-end desktop and content creation applications."
Above: AMD's Ryzen 3000 Series
Image Credit: AMD
Su said the number of AMD-powered laptops from major computer makers has increased by 50% this year, including multiple premium notebooks, like the first-ever AMD-powered Microsoft Surface laptop.
For mainstream gamers, AMD began shipping the Radeon RX 5500 GPU in the third quarter. Acer, HP, Lenovo, and MSI announced plans to offer the new GPU in their upcoming PCs, and multiple add-in board partners plan to launch RX 5500 cards during the fourth quarter.
Datacenter GPU sales were down sequentially and roughly flat year-over-year, but Su said AMD added multiple cloud and HPC wins in the quarter. AMD also faced a headwind from the looming threat of tariffs against China and, as a result, was not able to ship as many chips as expected.
AMD supplies chips to both Microsoft and Sony for their game consoles, and Su cited softness in the market as those companies wind down sales of the previous generation and prepare to launch new consoles in late 2020.
As for the datacenter, AMD's second-generation Epyc processors are the highest-performance server CPUs in the industry and have set more than 100 world records, Su said.
The newest Epyc processors feature up to 64 cores and deliver a 25% to 50% total cost of ownership advantage versus competitive offerings, Su said.
In cloud, Amazon AWS, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OVHcloud, Twitter, and Tencent all announced plans to deploy Epyc processors in their datacenters.
"We are right where we want to be on our long-term strategic plan," Su said. "We have the strongest product portfolio in our history. We executed our product launches and production ramps very well in the third quarter as our new products drove higher revenue, margin expansion, and increased profitability."


text:
Cultural awareness: to stereotype or not?
Emotion & innovation
Group vs individual
Tradition & change
Cults of multiculturalism
Warden & Convicts
Failed revolutionaries
Thinkers and Drinkers
Immigration and emmigration
Colonial masters
Convicts and Maharajas
Samurai & Convicts
Convicts vs Do gooders
Chiefs and Elites
East or west?
Kaffirs and Convicts
Coolies and Convicts
The middle-powers
"Australians appear very naive to the newly-arrived Japanese. They speak the same way with everyone."
Hiro Mukai - Japanese
"Australians risked becoming 'the poor white trash of Asia."
Lee Kuan Yew - Singaporean
"I can personally affirm that to stand before an audience of beaming Australians and make even the mildest quip about a convict past is to feel the feel the air conditioning immediately elevated."Bill Bryson - American
"You have no need to feel iffy about a country where "relaxation is the aim". There's nothing to be worried about if "no worries" is your mantra. People have killed for less."
Soumya Bhattacharya - Indian
" What sort or peculiar capitalist country is this in which the workers' representatives predominate in the upper house....and yet the capitalist system is in no danger?"
Vladimir Lenin- Russian
"You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The skies open above you and the areas open around you"
D.H Lawrence - English
" The Australian, who are the men our troops have had opposite them so far, are extraordinarily tough fighters. The German is more active in the attack, but the enemy stakes his life in the defence and fights to the last with extreme cunning."
Major Ballerstedt - German
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
Robert Muldoon - New Zealander
Australia and France Cultural Comparison
In pursuit of the laissez-faire
Both Australia and France share a criminal history that has shaped the identity of their respective countries. In France, the criminals stormed the Bastille (prison) and had their revolution. Subsequent generations glorified them in art and in national holidays.
While criminals were having their revolution in France, criminals in England were being rounded up and sent to Australia. These criminals included people who championed the French ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. They also included trade unionists, Irish rebels, orphans and the poor.
England's export of criminals acted like a circuit breaker that ensured troublemakers were not martyred and population pressures were reduced. The people who might have become revolutionary heroes in England, or might have held the heroes on their shoulders, instead found themselves flogged in Australia, and ignored by subsequent generations.
France's criminal rebellions were followed by right-wing rule with a militaristic application of cultural prescriptions to counteract the laissez-faire attitudes of the rebels. It was these firm social rules that gave France its image of high culture but constrained the individual freedom that has become so common in Australia.
Population 64,057,790 20,600,856 (July 2008 est.)
GDP per capita ($US) $33,200 (2007 est.) $36,300 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.2%
services: 76.7% (2007 est.) agriculture: 3%
Public debt 64% of GDP (2007 est.) 15.4% of GDP
Racial groups Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian White 92%, Asian 7%, Aboriginal and other 1%
Export partners Germany 15.6%, Spain 9.6%, Italy 8.9%, UK 8.3%, Belgium 7.3%, US 6.6%, Netherlands 4% (2006) Japan 19.6%, China 12.3%, South Korea 7.5%, US 6.2%, India 5.5%, NZ 5.5%, UK 5% (2006)
From CIA World Fact Book
Both Australia and France make very good wine, but their respective wine making cultures are at opposite extremes. In Australia, winemakers must go to university and learn the science of winemaking. After graduation, they are expected to make wine in a foreign country in order to further develop their abilities. Once acquiring a vast body of knowledge, they return to Australia and further contribute to the local knowledge pool. The winemaker's knowledge is then tested in a variety of national wine shows where blind tastings are used to assess quality and award prizes.
Whereas Australian winemaking culture emphasises science and allows the freedom to use it, French winemaking culture revolves around inflexible classification systems that define wineries as inferior and superior. In 1855, Bordeaux wineries were ranked in classes titled First Growth, Second Growth, Third Growth, Fourth Growth and Fifth growth. In 150 years, only Mouton Rothschild has been able to change its rank. In 1973, it was promoted from Second to First growth.
The Appellation label is another classification system designed to protect established brands. The Appellation label was created in 1935 and has strict rules about permitted grape varieties, yields, alcohol content, cultivation, maturation practices, and labelling procedures. If a winemaker follows the rules of their respective Appellation, then they are allowed to use the Appellation label. If they don't follow the rules then they can't use the label.
By forcing all winemakers in a specific region to make wine in the same way, it becomes much easier for the region to become famous for a specific style. If the region is famous, then all the winemakers in the region also benefit. Furthermore, if each region is famous for a particular style, then different regions of France have no need to compete with each other. It is very much a group-first philosophy that allows all individuals in the group to benefit from the group's success.
Although the Appellation system helps marketing, the side effect is that it reduces quality. The system is incredibly harsh on innovation, and leaves no scope for the winemaker to adapt techniques to deal with microclimatic variances from year to year. Basically, the French winemaker is nothing more than a robot following inflexible rules. There is no need for them to be educated. There is no need to learn new theories. No need to experiment. No need to worry about competition. In fact, there isn't even a need for French winemakers to clean their vats. The lack of cleanliness is reflected in many French wines, which taste of an extremely dirty winery.
Due to obvious problems with the Appellation label, in 1979 the French created the less restrictive Vin De Pays label. Although the VDP label allows scope for winemaking expertise, in the eyes of the French consumer, a Vin De Pay wine signals that the wine is of inferior quality. (Entrenched interests in the French industry work hard to maintain that perception.) Consequently, the Vin De Pay wine sells for a low price and so further reinforces negative perceptions about the label - to the delight of those who use the Appellation label.
Unlike Australia, France does not have a culture of national wine shows that allow new wineries to gain recognition. As a result, French wine bottles never display awards as do Australian wine bottles. Plain and simply, French wineries have no way of going up in status.
Australians appreciate the marketing benefits of the Appellation system and have worked to create regional promotions. They have not; however, agreed to follow a uniform set of rules or regulations and probably never would.
France's history and culture are glorious and naturally the French want to protect it. This poses a problem when it comes to migrants who are not particularly interested in French history or culture, or can't feel part of it. The French have tried to reconcile the problem by seeing all migrants as French. In effect, instant assimilation. In practice, it is not so easy to convince the French born that a migrant can somehow be equal with them. Friction has led to the rise of right-wing movements. The left-wingers attitude to these right-wing movements is somewhat paradoxical. On one hand, the left is ashamed, but in substance their national pride means that they are nationalistic themselves, and part of the problem. As for the migrants, the expectation to be French is perhaps an ideal that is too much to live up to so quickly. Failure to achieve breeds alienation, and this alienation has been seen with riots and ghettos.
Almost a quarter of Australians were born in foreign countries. 1 in 2 have a parent born outside of Australia. Despite such a diverse range of people in Australia, there is very little social conflict. Although a significant number of Australians want migrants to assimilate, the assimilation is more of a request for loyalty to Australia rather than firm stipulations about how people should behave.
France was the birthplace of Modernism. This was an art movement in the earth 20th century that was defined by artists from different cultures taking from and contributing to a collection of ideas and styles. Modernism produced great French artists like Paul Cezanne, who is seen as the father of Modernism. Other influential artists included Marcel Duchamp, who pioneered Pop Art and Conceptual Art, Paul Gauguin, who pioneered Synthetism, George Braque, who pioneered Cubism, Henri Matisse, who pioneered Fauvism, and Georges Seurat, who pioneered Pointilism.
The French creation and proliferation of styles can perhaps be explained as stemming from French assimilationalist culture that demands conformity but inevitably produces black sheep who want to be a little bit different. The black sheep create the new modes of seeing, which are soon assimilated by others.
Modernism also reached Australia but with the exception of Dot Painting, styles were not created. Australian artists like Pro Hart, Sidney Nolan, Brett Whiteley, and Albert Tucker created their own visual languages that were not assimilated by other artists.
With its blend of left and right-wing ideology, France has some produced some interesting novels concerning the operation of social rules.
Albert Camus' The Outsider (The Stranger) is an exploration of conformity to the expectations of others. The book's main character is too honest to follow social practices during his mother's funeral. For example, he takes milk in his coffee instead of having it black in accordance with the mourning tradition. Later, he accidentally kills an Arab. Rather than focus on the events surrounding the killing of the Arab, his trial focuses on the man's apparent indifference to custom during his mother's death.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserable is probably France's best known novel. It follows the lives of an ex-Convict who seeks to redeem himself after being showed compassion by a priest.
Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life could be called an Australian version of Les Miserable. It follows the experiences of a wrongfully convicted gentleman. In Tasmania, the gentleman and his fellow Convicts are subjected to extreme suffering and inhumane treatment. Whereas Les Miserable is chiefly concerned with experiences after prison, For the Term of His Natural Life is concerned with experiences within it.
Liberty, equality and fraternity
The ideals of the French revolution were liberty, equality and fraternity. Even though the revolutionaries won power, the people didn't get their ideals. France is not a free society. It is governed by extremely rigid social rules and regulations that stifle innovation. France is not an equal society. It is very class conscious and has entrenched social systems that preserve the power of those who have it. In some regards, it is fraternal. It has a very strong welfare system designed to look after the French brotherhood.
In Australia, there were some attempts at revolution. Irish Convicts had an uprising in 1804, but they were crushed and severely punished. Miners tried to spark a revolution in 1854. Again, they were crushed. In 1880, the bushranger Ned Kelly tried to spark a revolution, but found himself hanging from the end of a rope instead.
Despite never winning a battle against their masters, Australians slowly gained liberty, equality and fraternity. Repressive laws and customs were slowly dismantled over the centuries to give Australians liberty. Egalitarianism was enshrined in language and customs. Fraternity was found in the form of the mateship ethic and the welfare state.
Left wing and culture
Left wing means different things in France and Australia. The left wing of France generally sees cultural heritage in a positive way. It views culture in a similar way to family values. Each individual in the culture looks out for the other members. Although not everyone is equal, those lower in the social hierarchy benefit from the wealth, image, and expertise of those higher in the hierarchy. The mentality is most clearly expressed in the French wine industry which uses classification systems that protect flagship brands, but in turn allow other wineries to share the positive image of those brands. It is also expressed in France's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which combines subsidies and price support mechanisms to preserve rural heritage and enable France's farmers to get a fair price for their produce.
Much like the Chinese Communist party during the Cultural Revolution, the left wing in Australia sees cultural heritage as an instrument of oppression. It sees culture as an instrument that maintains power inequalities in society and needs to be deconstructed on such grounds.
French feminism is chiefly concerned with the assertion of femineity. It sees the world as being dominated by the man's perspective and argues that a woman's perspective is needed to provide some balance. The movie Romance X (1999) provides an interesting insight into French feminism. Written and directed feminist Catherine Breillat, the plot concerns a woman who is in love with a man who wants to be alone. Because the woman doesn't handle the apparent rejection well, she has sexual encounters with a variety of men. In the end, she kills her boyfriend. The movie isn't about fighting for political rights or defining ideal models of behaviour for men or women. It simply uses extreme behaviour to open a window upon female emotions in many different circumstances.
Australian feminism comes from the Anglo tradition that devalues femineity in the aim of making women more masculine. The Anglo tradition was heavily influenced by the likes of 19th century British woman Mary Wollstonecraft, who believed that men were the model, and women could be more like them if they gained an equal education.
A similar tradition of devaluing the feminine could be seen in the writings of Australian feminist Germaine Greer:
"The ignorance and isolation of most women mean that they are incapable of making conversation: most of their communication with their spouses is a continuation of the power struggle. The result is that when wives come along to dinner parties they pervert civilized conversation about real issues into personal quarrels. The number of hostesses who wish they did not have to invite wives is legion."
While British and American feminists have been able to see the men of their countries as admirable role models, Australian women have had more trouble aspiring to be like the pig shooting, sports loving, beer drinking Australian male that has traditionally being elevated. Consequently, instead of trying to become more masculine, Australian feminists have evolved their theories so that they attack any culture that exerts social sanction on women's choices. For example, in 2005, it emerged that the male players in Australia's professional rugby league teams had little respect for the women they were having gang bangs with. Feminists, such Catherine Lumby from Sydney University, were reluctant to make any criticism of the women partaking in the gang bangs. Instead, Lumby worked through the media and with the rugby league administration to change how the men thought of the women they were sharing with their mates. Furthermore, Lumby argued the community should not think negatively of the women who enjoyed gang bangs.
Even though the intention of Australian feminism has been to deconstruct a feminine identity and give women choices, the opposite seems to have occurred. Australian English is the only English dialect with a significant difference between male and female pronunciation. If Australian women speak or act like Australian men, they are stereotyped as unsophisticated and ill mannered. It is a negative stereotype typically associated with the likes of ex-politician Pauline Hanson. Such views can also be seen in television show Kath & Kim, which have become very popular by mocking women lacking in feminine mastery. As a result of these attacks, Australian women are not as free as Australian men. Although women have freedom to have gang bangs, they don't have the freedom of the Australian male to reject sophistication and retain respect.
One of the world's intriguing paradoxes is why the French aren't among the world's fattest people despite loving cheese, desserts and wine. Another paradox is why Australia can be such a great nation at sport, but still hold the title as the most obese nation. The answer to both paradoxes is vanity. The French are very vain and make an effort to look good. Australia, on the other hand, has quite a long history of celebrating fatties. In Australian cricket's golden era in the 1980s, Australia was represented by the likes of Merv Hughes, Greg Ritchie, and David Boon who could have quite easily been pin up boys for Jenny Craig. Likewise, on Australian reality TV shows, fat women have often done very well with viewers.
Australians find it relatively easy to free themselves from vainity because Australia has relatively less pressures to conform to a common style. In such an environment, individuals can wear what they want, eat as many Big Macs as they want and still not feel too bad about growing into the shape of a baloon. Admittedly, some people still worry about their weight, but if they worried to the same degree as the French, they would eat less.
Officially, France is a pluralistic society but in culture it is an assimilationalist society. France's culture is very assertive in regards to its social rules, styles and etiquettes. The French are happy with diversity as long as diversity shows a willingness to come around to the French way.
Although being assertive with social rules has allowed France to develop a refined culture, it has caused some religious conflict. Both French Christians and French Muslims have been assertive with their respective cultures and uncomfortable with the expression of alternative religious cultures. This has brought them into conflict with each other.
In 2004, the French government officially banned Muslim headscarfs in French schools with a vote of 276 in favour to 20 against. For some non-Muslims, the headscarf represented the oppression of women, or an embodiment of a world view that rejects secularism. Seeing children cover their hair was simply too offensive for them to put up with.
Officially, Australia is a pluralistic society and in substance it is a pluralistic society. Aside from buying rounds at the pub, there are few etiquettes that are taken seriously in Australia. This perhaps explains why Australia has almost no religious conflict by world standards. Muslims are free to wear headscarfs in Australia's state schools and there is no move to ban them. Headscarfs may be banned in private schools when they contravene the school's uniform requirements that all students must adhere to.
Moulin Rouge - Australian movie set in Paris
"Australia's culture has always been characterised by someone trying to make rules to live by, and someone else trying to break them."


1- Department. Of Preventive Dentistry Research Center, Research Institute for Dental Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: The present study was a qualitative, cross-sectional, and comparative research that took place in 2012. Oral health care systems in some developed countries were reviewed to propose a framework for Iran. This framework was discussed and reviewed by an expert panel using Delphi method.
Results: A table presenting type of service provider, type of centers and personnel, and methods for reimbursement in oral health care delivery system was discussed by an expert panel. The experts, with an average of 75% agreement rate, agreed on the need for a basic oral health care package free of charge for under 18-year-olds, compulsory periodical check-up examinations, and guarantee for payment of the services by the national insurance funds. Simplicity, comprehensiveness and focus on prevention and high risk age groups facilitate the adaptability of the model to various populations.
Conclusion: An appropriate model for oral healthcare delivery system needs universal health insurance coverage, a basic service package focusing on preventive care with mandatory regular dental check-ups and participation of private practitioners and financing services through government revenues, premium, and health tax.


A jacket that is applicable for every season of the year. The 3-in-1 Classic Jacket of the brand B&C is multi functional and can be worn in varius situations. The jacket has a concealed hood in the collar and is equiped with a ·zip-in fleece change system. In this way the jacket is adaptable to every type of climate. The sleeves of the jacket are ergonomic designed with adaptable cuffs. A nice accessory is thath the jackets are wind and waterrepellent. Choose between 6 polular neutral colours and personalise your B&C classic jacket with embroidery or screen printing, for a long-term use. Take a look at the FAQ for more productspecifications.
What are the properties of this product?
What are 3-in-1 Classic Jacket B&C ?
3-in-1 Classic Jacket B&C are jackets that can be personalised with your coolest print. Jackets are the perfect way to stand out and to have a professional appearance.
For the delivery of your 3-in-1 classic jacket b&c we use multiple carriers. Because of the highest reliability, in most cases we use UPS or DPD.
Can 3-in-1 Classic Jacket B&C with a print be washed?
Of course it is possible to wash the 3-in-1 Classic Jacket B&C . Take a careful look at the washing instructions on the care label, however.


text:
Shop Small Week in St. Bernard Parish Begins on Saturday
Photo from Getty Images
NEW ORLEANS – The St. Bernard Chamber of Commerce and St. Bernard Tourist Commission will kick off their 2nd annual Shop Small Week in St. Bernard Parish on Saturday, Nov. 24, at Café Aquarius (2101 Paris Road, Chalmette.)
St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation (SBEDF) has also announced the return of the St. Bernard Shop Small Passport, a shopper incentive program that encourages shoppers to keep it local this holiday season.
"This year we are anticipating hundreds of shoppers will be participating in the St. Bernard Shop Small Passport program," said Danielle Martin, brand management and community relations associate at SBEDF. "Shop Small Week provides quite a significant bump in holiday traffic for our small businesses. The business owners love having new customers in their stores, and the shoppers are excited to get their passport stamped."
In an effort to support local shops that make our communities strong, in 2010, American Express launched Small Business Saturday on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to encourage people to Shop Small and bring more holiday shopping to small businesses. Since Small Business Saturday started, U.S. customers have reported spending an estimated total of $85 billion at independent retailers and restaurants —that's $85 billion over 8 days alone.
More than 30 St. Bernard Parish-based businesses will participate.
"We are excited to be participating in Shop Small Week once again this year," said Wendy Haines, the owner of The Cottage Store in Arabi (6707 St. Claude Ave.). "The holiday season can get off to a slow start with many shoppers going to big box stores or shopping online. Shop Small Week reminds shoppers to think about our local businesses before they've purchased all of their holiday gifts."
"Our customers make the holiday season so rewarding," Hained added. "You can tell they've put a lot of thought into who they are shopping for; they want to give their loved one something special that they can't get anywhere else. It's a unique shopping experience that can only be found at a local shop."
To participate, pick up your St. Bernard Shop Small Passport at any of the participating locations, or during the Small Business Saturday Kickoff at Café Aquarius; get your passport stamped by making a purchase at five or more locations; and return your completed passport to Brewster's Restaurant & Lounge (8751 West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette), no later than Saturday, Dec. 1, to be entered into the drawing for prize winners. Limit one stamp per location.
Winners will be announced and contacted on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
"The holiday season is a critical time for small businesses, especially retailers," said Martin. "Shop Small Week in St. Bernard Parish reminds our citizens that when they shop locally, they are not only getting a unique gift, but they are also helping small business owners and their employees support their families."
Participating businesses are listed in the flier below.
By Suzanne Pfefferle Tafur, Biz New Orleans associate news editor
Categories: Around Town, Today's Business News


So there we were, lying in bed, discussing the plural of "octopus," as one does.
"You pronounced that wrong. It's 'oc-to-po-des'."
"No it isn't. It's English, not Latin."
[side-eye] "I'm not taking THAT stinky bait."
This entry was originally posted at http://firecat.dreamwidth.org/883296.html, where there are comments.


text:
Invite Jesse to Speak
Meet with Jesse
College Success Habits
From Sobriety to Recovery
Life's Blueprint program
Life's Blueprint Home
Listen Below
Want To See More Great Things?
JESSE MOGLE
Jesse Mogle spent 12 years attending college, and is not a doctor! He is, however, an internationally published journalist who has worked in Singapore, the Bahamas, and Western Europe. He has been a radio DJ, a copy editor for multiple publications, and the lead news anchor for a television station in Los Angeles.
He has worked with companies like Universal Studios, Livenation, and Disney. Plus working with schools like University of Florida, University of Southern California, and the University of California Los Angeles.
He is an avid motorcycle rider, once traveling from coast to coast over 12,000 miles in a summer, spreading his mother's ashes in over 100 locations in 29 states.
In his free time he hikes mountains, adds to his 700 and counting concerts attended, takes pictures of street art around the world, and drives hundreds of miles for sunrises and eggs benedict.
Jesse was raised on the family farm in Indiana, on the beaches of Florida, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
All the Way Up Life 2020


Many people wonder if Transitions lenses are right for them. One benefit of these lenses is that you can go from inside to outside and not have to look for your prescription sunglasses in your car, purse, briefcase, etc. Its a seamless transition from inside to outside.
A few of the downfalls of these lenses is that it takes awhile for the dark lens to change back to clear once you have stepped inside from outdoors. Also a transitions lens will not transition when you are in the car because you have UV protection in your car windshield glass. Another thing to keep in mind is that you may not want your lenses to be dark for a family picture outdoors or for a wedding picture. Just some things to keep in mind when deciding whats best for you based on your needs. Click here to watch a video of Chantel explaining Transitions Lenses.


I wrote "Chidori". It means "One Thousand Birds" in NARUTO. Exactly, "Chidori" means plover, many birds or zigzag.
"Chidori" is Sasuke Uchiha's Ninjutsu. It's one method of Raiton.
What is your favorite Ninjutsu in "NARUTO"? Please let me know your favorite word.


What type of memory has J.D. lost?
The press calls J.D. "The Girl without a ___________".
What does the newspaper say about J.D.?
Who/what do the police suspect started the fire?
How many days has J.D. been at the institute when the book begins?
What does Dr. Sykes say J.D.s last name is?
Who is Dr. Mersenne really?


Lovely solid Beachwood cupboards and granite tops, large walk in pantry and separate laundry.
Inside and outside beams, trelidors throughout, electric fencing and a very active neighbourhood watch ensure safe and secure living. Trelidors throughout.
Please send me more information about web reference P24-105986193 in Ballito Central, Ballito.
Thank you for your enquiry. A message has been sent to Property.CoZa - Ballito and an agent will be in contact with you shortly.


text:
Q: System Registry Error VB6 running as User Windows 10 I just recently upgraded to Windows 10 and ever since I have upgraded I can't get into VB6. I keep getting the System Registry error. I have googled and tried about everything and nothing seems to work. Running VB6 as Administrator is not an option, don't ask but we can't have admin to our computers we have to be logged in as users. The way we use to fix it was to trick Windows 7 log on as Admin run VB6 as Admin then switch me back to user and it worked, but this no longer works. Does anyone have any suggestions that currently have VB6 working as a user and not admin? I really don't want to resort to have to run it out of my virtual machine :( Thanks in advance!

A: Amanda,
I know it is 3 years later and I wonder what you did. and my solution may be late.
I moved VB6 Enterprise to a Windows10 machine, I did not upgrade the machine to Win10 with the IDE. However to make it work for some of my clients with Win10 machines I:

*

*Back up all the VB6 files, folder and directories.

*Using control panel in Win10, uninstall VB6 app. That's right, uninstall!

*Using the original install disk, running it as an Administrator, install the program.

*If the program has been updated to a later version, you need to get a copy of the latest version and copy over the one that was installed.

*Or, Sweet Talk your IT guy into making you a new install disk with the latest version you are supposed to be running.

*Go to the folder where the exe file is installed, Right Click on it and open the Properties, and go to the Compatibility tab.

*Choose run as an administrator, and also click the Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack3, or if it shows Latest version of Windows XP try that. You may need to check with your IT department.

*Warning: if the VB6 program  uses any non-Microsoft tools you may need to register them by hand.

*I suspect this has already been worked out for you, but I put it here for anyone that may stumble across it, needing it.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


slow lane life: Jump! We're off.
I'll nip across to Wordpress as soon as I've made coffee (been wrestling with computers!) and have a look.
On the whole, I am happier over there, but one thing I have learned is that having a "dummy" blog is very good for trying "stuff." I never publish it;it's just for trials.
Heaven forfend Wordpress should introduce that damned anti-robot gobbledegook!
Have a well-earned retirement, Blog I. You've served us well!
I shall miss this blog, but wish you good luck for the new one. I'll just pop over for a look.


text:
Patent system "stifling science"
1.Patent system 'stifling science'
2.The great GM miracle?
NOTE: You may have thought that the release of "golden rice" has taken so long because they couldn't get it to deliver enough beta-carotene to be useful.
And its inventor Ingo Potrykus and others in the pro-GM lobby have claimed that the delay is down to opposition by "activists", with Dick Taverne even claiming the resulting delays constituted a "crime against humanity".
But, according to a new report, the real reason golden rice still hasn't been released is down to the patent quagmire created by all the "companies holding patents for technologies used to engineer the rice".
Don't hold your breath while waiting for Taverne & Co's thunderous denunciations.
EXTRACTS: "It has taken years just to figure out how many patents there actually are and who owns them. We must address this lack of transparency." (item 1)
Lord Taverne proffered Golden Rice and banged on about crimes against humanity. Happily, I got the chance to respond and to point out that when it comes to helping deal with Vitamin A deficiency, not only is Golden Rice not all it's cracked up to be but there are a range of other, often more viable, solutions out there which we never hear anything about. Golden Rice, I pointed out, has everything to do with PR for the industry, but that's very different from seriously addressing the issues that drive malnutrition. (item 2)
Science reporter
BBC News, 24 September 2008
Life-saving scientific research is being stifled by a "broken" patent system, according to a new report.
"Blocking patents" are delaying advances in cancer medicine and food crops, says the Canada-based Innovation Partnership, a non-profit consultancy.
The full benefits of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will not be realised without urgent reforms to encourage sharing of information, they say.
Their findings will be reported next week to UK policymakers and NGOs.
The report is compiled by the Innovation Partnership's International Expert Group on Biotechnology, Innovation and Intellectual Property.
It cites examples of medical advances which have been delayed from reaching people in need - in both the developed and developing world.
These include HIV/Aids drugs, cancer screening tests, and rice engineered to contain vitamin A.
The authors offer guidelines for a transition from "Old IP" to "New IP", in which companies, researchers and governments recognise that sharing information is mutually beneficial.
"If we are to turn the atoms of publicly funded discovery into molecules of innovation... we have to make sure research avenues stay open," said the report's lead author, Professor Richard Gold.
"That doesn't mean there will be no patents. It simply means that patents don't become a barrier to early stage research.
"We do not want to end up in the same situation with nanotechnology that we are in with genetics."
Fortress IP
The traditional view is that strong patent protection stimulates innovation, reassuring companies that it is safe to invest in research without fear of being stung by rivals.
Under this "old" model of intellectual property (IP), biotech firms raced to file a "fortress" of patents around newly discovered genes, closing off avenues of research for their competitors.
But this strategy is ultimately counter-productive for both industry and consumers, argues the report, not least because it deters grass roots research in universities.
Work on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that can cause breast cancer has been held up by legal disputes over patents held on the genes by Myriad Genetics, a biotech firm based in Utah, US.
Meanwhile, patients in European countries were denied access to the cancer screening kits, because national health services were unwilling to meet the cost.
The Myriad case is "an anatomy of old IP gone wrong", said Dr Gold, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at McGill University in Montreal.
"Myriad is not the exception - it is the rule. Others are following and will continue to follow, unless we drastically change things."
Another casualty is the "golden rice" strain, genetically engineered to contain vitamin A.
The rice was intended to be freely distributed to farmers in the developing world, where vitamin A deficiency is responsible for more than 1 million deaths and 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness each year.
But even though the strain was created in 2005, farmers have still not reaped the benefits.
Distribution has been held up while its inventors negotiate agreements with dozens of companies holding patents for technologies used to engineer the rice.
"It has taken years just to figure out how many patents there actually are and who owns them. We must address this lack of transparency," said Professor Gold.
To facilitate sharing of information, he believes companies should be encouraged to form "patent pools", allowing them to cross-license their technologies without losing out on royalties.
An example is the pool established by the international partnership Unitaid to provide HIV patients in developing countries with access to affordable anti-retroviral drugs.
Governments should develop public-private partnerships to conduct early stage research, and seek other ways to encourage innovation - via tax credits, for instance.
Meanwhile, patent offices must standardise their information gathering and do more to help firms in developing countries gain access to accurate patent information, the report recommends.
Reform now would ensure that society feels the full benefit of new fields such as synthetic biology, a discipline that could lead to cells with novel genomes which perform useful functions, such as making biofuels or absorbing greenhouse gases.
Dr Craig Venter, the man who led the private sector effort to sequence the human genome, has already raised eyebrows by applying to patent the method he plans to use to create a "synthetic organism".
Fears that these patents may be too broad have been raised by the ETC Group, which campaigns for the reform of biotech patenting.
"The patenting system is not functioning. It is more of a barrier than an incentive," said Pat Mooney, the organisation's executive director.
"In pharmacy, we no longer see much discovery - we see firms playing safe and holding onto their turf.
"Meanwhile, in nanotechnology, we have seen some dangerously broad patents, which cut off whole areas of research.
"Patent offices must get up to speed with new areas of science, so they know exactly how much they are giving away."
Jonathan Matthews
The Ecologist, 23 January 2008
http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1157
The man on the phone said he was from the BBC. They were interested in interviewing me about my alleged involvement in crimes against humanity.
You what?
Possibly the deaths of millions.
I stood accused, it emerged, of holding back the fight against poverty, disease, and hunger.
No laughing matter.
Who was my accuser?
The person lining me up for the Pol Pot Award, apparently, was Lord Dick Taverne - the head of the lobby group Sense About Science.
By opposing GM, Taverne had told the programme makers, people like me blocked the products of this life-saving technology from reaching the starving millions. And others the BBC had spoken to had assured them that opposition to GM crops had even resulted in famine relief ships being turned back at sea by a southern African nation in the grip of terrible famine.
Radio 4's Costing the Earth team, I was told, were coming to investigate.
The resulting programme went out last Thursday and it's to the credit of the programme makers that they managed to cut through the hyperbole, peel back the rhetoric, and examine the actual factual basis of the claims being made by GM's promoters.
And once they focused on the facts Lord Taverne and his pals came seriously unstuck. Take for instance, the Government's recently retiring Chief Scientist, Prof. Sir David King, who in the demob-happy period before he finally quit at the end of last year launched a volley of dodgy promotionals for GM, nukes and badger-killing.
Costing the Earth re-ran part of King's interview with Today - Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme - the part where King told the listening millions that given the world's burgeoning population and the impact of climate change, "We're going to need to get even cleverer. More crop per drop. And we need the technology that can deliver that, and in my view we have the technology, it's GM." And Prof. King had the killer application to prove it.
Unfortunately, the high yielding GM product for Africa, which King described in such loving detail to listeners as an example of how GM was transforming agriculture around Lake Victoria, turned out on subsequent examination to be, errr"¦ non-GM! Developed by conventional plant breeding and involving companion planting it had absolutely nothing to do with genetic engineering.
"Can the biotech industry themselves do any better?", presenter Tom Heap wondered. They asked the industry's PR guy in the UK, Julian Little to give his killer application for transforming the lives of the poor. He came up with hybrid rice, which he readily admitted wasn't GM either, but non-GM biotechnology had had something to do with its development he claimed.
Lord Taverne proffered Golden Rice and banged on about crimes against humanity. Happily, I got the chance to respond and to point out that when it comes to helping deal with Vitamin A deficiency, not only is Golden Rice not all it's cracked up to be but there are a range of other, often more viable, solutions out there which we never hear anything about. Golden Rice, I pointed out, has everything to do with PR for the industry, but that's very different from seriously addressing the issues that drive malnutrition. I also got the chance to puncture the GM promoters' urban myths about what happened when Zambia turned down GM food aid.
It was left to the final contributor to the programme, James Wilsdon from the think tank Demos to spell out why GM's promoters need to cut out the demonizing and other negative rhetoric: "There's a real need to be more open to the very sensible social, political, economic questions that many critics of GM have been arguing about the place that that technology could have within global agriculture and not simply to dismiss these out of hand or to pretend that any objection to the technology is a sign of some luddite anti-scientific ignorance. It's not ignorance that's prompting these questions, it's very sensible concern about who will benefit from this technology, who will control it, who will take responsibility if and when it goes wrong. And it's those questions that remain unanswered."
If you;d like to find out more about the programme, there's a complete transcript available here
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8690
Jonathan Matthews is an editor at GM Watch www.gmwatch.org and LobbyWatch www.lobbywatch.org


While everyone agrees this is fantastic news, no one, least of all researchers and experts, can agree on exactly why it happened. Below are 10 popular theories for the decline, from abortion to lead to technology to the broken windows theory, with unvarnished views from three leading researchers—Zimring; Richard Rosenfeld, chairman of a National Academy of Sciences roundtable on crime trends; and John Roman of The Urban Institute—on which are the most plausible.
In 1999 and again in 2005, economists Steven Levitt and John Donohue triggered a sensation with their theory that the legalization of abortion was responsible for as much as half of the crime decline. The idea was that a drop in unwanted children led to better parenting and fewer delinquent young men. It's easy to see why the media loved this hypothesis, which seemed to piss off everyone else: Conservatives hated the notion that abortion might have led to a major social good, while liberals pushed back against the assumption that bad parenting had been the cause of crime in the first place.
Today, the abortion hypothesis holds less water. "Generally speaking, it has been discredited," Rosenfeld says. Violent crime continued to rise into the early years of the 1990s, when the first generation of boys who went through the "abortion filter" were already in their late teens to early 20s, older than the age—13—at which criminal behavior typically emerges. Evidence from other nations showed little relationship between the legalization of abortion and the crime rate. If abortion does account for a fraction of the American crime decline, it is likely a small one.
This is perhaps the trendiest crime decline hypothesis in 2014, and it was the subject of an entire session of the National Academy roundtable's work. The effect of lead on children's brains has been well documented: Exposure to the chemical causes aggressive behavior and cognitive delays. In the wake of the 1970 Clean Air Act, lead was removed from gasoline and, increasingly, from paint.
Economist Jessica Reyes estimates that phasing out lead was responsible for 56 percent of the reduction in violent crime (although she could find no relationship between lead and property crime). Experts still disagree about how plausible it is that lead alone could have been responsible for such a massive portion of the crime drop. "It's fair to say that our assessment of this hypothesis is 'case not proved'—or at least 'not yet proved,' " Rosenfeld said.
Air conditioning and television brought people from the streets into their homes, a safer environment. Cars are now much more difficult to steal, because of sophisticated ignition and locking systems. The introduction of debit cards, including for the distribution of welfare benefits, means people carry less cash, which makes them less likely to become victims.
Until recently, there was little doubt that the strong economy of the 1990s and 2000s played a major role. Unemployment was low, so young men were less likely to turn to the drug trade or other criminal activity for work. Consumers felt confident in their spending power, so they did not seek out cheap, stolen goods on the black market, which decreased the demand for property crime. And though this may be difficult to remember today, Americans generally felt optimistic about their public institutions during the Clinton years.
Then came the Great Recession of 2008, from which we are still recovering. Unemployment spiked, consumer confidence plummeted, trust in political elites sank to record lows ... yet crime did not increase.
Does this mean there is no connection between the economy, trust in public institutions, and crime? Maybe not. Criminologists went back to the drawing board to consider what they might have overlooked in their previous research. It turned out that one economic indicator—high inflation—has been correlated throughout history with high crime, Rosenfeld says. Yet inflation remained low throughout the recent recession. Does this mean crime will spike when and if inflation rises? Only time will tell. Zimring, however, is skeptical about the inflation explanation, noting that in Europe, changes in inflation have not been associated with changes in the crime rate. "There's no consistent there there," he says.
Because of increased drug-related arrests and mandatory minimum sentences, the American incarceration rate has more than quadrupled since 1970. Long prison sentences were supposed to incapacitate career criminals. Yet because criminals "age out" of law breaking whether or not they are in jail, incarceration itself could not have been the only driver of the crime decline.
There are two theories of how policing prevented crime. The first is that Clinton administration funding for police departments allowed cities to put more cops on the beat, and that their increased presence prevented crime, regardless of what those officers were doing. The second is that particular policing tactics, like the broken windows approach or hot spot policing, were effective.
Hot spot, or place-based policing, in which departments use real-time crime data to flood dangerous micro-neighborhoods with officers, was effective in reducing crime, according to the work of David Weisburd, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University. "In virtually every city in which it has been studied, the growth of hot spot policing tends to reduce crime without, fortunately, displacing it to other areas," Rosenfeld explains.
Hot spot policing is often implemented in conjunction with the much heralded and critiqued broken windows strategy, in which police focus on making arrests for low-level misdemeanors—so-called "quality of life" crimes, such as public display of marijuana or selling single, untaxed cigarettes on the street. One of the best recent studies of policing tactics was conducted in Lowell, Mass., by Anthony Braga of Harvard and Brenda Bond of Suffolk University. It found that place-based strategies—such as increasing police presence around an abandoned building—were successful, but that broken windows-type arrests had the disadvantage of seeding distrust between communities and police.


Uncompromising Accuracy: What Are the Most Important 3 Advantages of Using a Laser Measuring Tape?
Lasers are shaping our lives. From skin treatment, surgery, and dental work to DIY projects, laser applications treat you to convenience and accuracy.
Lasers survey uneven ground. They align pulleys, beams, and pipeline. Lasers mark plumb lines, align crosshairs, and level surfaces.
But, contractors, carpenters, handymen, and DIY projects use laser tape measures. They give you a single-handed control. They offer accurate calculations, and they measure lengths and points a usual tape measure won't do.
Convenience: A laser measuring tape is typically a comfortably handheld tool. They sport easy-to-read digital measurement displays in terms you don't have to interpret. And, they let you measure high ceilings, long distances, and difficult-to-reach distances.
The Bosch GLM 80 + R 60 265 Foot Laser Measure works independently or attaches to its companion 24-inch digital level. It has a 265-foot rangefinder, digital inclinometer, charger, and carrying case.
Calculations: Users usually know their math, but when converting odd measurements to inches, feet, and yard or something in the metric system, reading and grasping the calculations It takes time and risks inaccuracy.
At 8 ounces, the DMiotech Laser Distance Measure reaches 262 feet (80 meters). One button controls measurement of distance, area, and volume. The device adds and subtracts and switches between imperial and metric systems.
Mounted on its own tripod, it reduces jitters, poses horizontally, vertically, or angled. Its large LCD display is brightly backlit, and you can save and store measurements. And, it comes with two AAA-batteries and a carrying pouch.
Accuracy: Measurement is all about accuracy. Projects don't want approximations; they require as much accuracy as a device can muster. The best metal or ribbon tapes still work on assumptions and can only measure in analog segments.
The DeWALT DW03050 has a 165-foot range with an accuracy of +/- 1/16-inch. Its measures corner-to-corner with true results. It measures area and volume and helps offer accurate estimates. And, it uses Pythagorean math to complete indirect height measurements.
The memory stores the most recent five measurements, and the backlit display shows them in even dim conditions. Sturdy and durable in a water and debris resistant case, it also comes in a 350-foot range version with larger memory bank at twice the price.
Traditional metal and fabric tapes are less reliable. The accuracy declines to 0.50-inches at 33-feet. But, the best laser measuring tapes are accurate to 1/16-inches. If it is accuracy you want and need, it's worth the investment.


text:
Home / Collections / Vinyl / John Prine - Fair & Square LP - Black Vinyl
John Prine - Fair & Square LP - Black Vinyl
* If you didn't snag our limited "Irish Edition" head to your local record store for a 180 g green vinyl only available in independent record shops. *
John Prine's Grammy Award-winning album Fair & Square available as a double LP for the first time on vinyl in sixteen years. This is a new pressing (with a new lacquer that sounds amazing) made in Detroit at Third Man Record Pressing.
"Glory of True Love" (Prine, Roger Cook) – 4:12
"Crazy as a Loon" (Prine, Pat McLaughlin) – 5:03
"Long Monday" (Prine, Keith Sykes) – 3:22
"Taking a Walk" (Prine, McLaughlin) – 6:09
"Some Humans Ain't Human" – 7:03
"My Darlin' Hometown" (Prine, Roger Cook) – 3:14
"Morning Train" (Prine, McLaughlin) – 4:02
"The Moon Is Down" – 3:47
"Clay Pigeons" (Blaze Foley) – 4:27
"She Is My Everything" – 4:25
"I Hate It When That Happens to Me" (Prine, Donnie Fritts) – 2:49
"Bear Creek Blues" (A.P. Carter) – 4:45
"Other Side of Town" (Live recording) – 4:53
"Safety Joe" – 3:58
Includes the four bonus tracks from the Fair & Square EP and the original vinyl release.
Carousel of Love
That's Alright By Me
That's How Every Empire Falls
Duel Custody