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OPEN HOUSE: How to expand in uncertainty
on: August 19, 2019 In: Featured News, News
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ROCKLAND — Worried about the future of the dairy industry?
So was the Meloche family who four years ago wanted to build a new barn. But uncertainty about supply management was on everyone's mind thanks to two trade deals that gave away slices of Canada's dairy market. Some farmers were asking if this was the beginning of the end of Canada's dairy system.
"We weren't sure what would happen long-term with the barn and the business," said Luc Meloche, 33, who runs Mellohills Farm at Rockland, east of Ottawa, with his brother Stephane, 31, and their father Gaetan, along with Gaetan's brother Alain and his 22-year-old son Maxime (cousin to Luc and Stephane). Gaetan and Alain own the farm while the younger generation are employees who will one day take over. "You don't want to invest $3 to $4 million in the barn and you lose everything."
The family, which crops 1,400 acres, decided that the safer bet was to retrofit their freestall barn, starting with the milking system. Housed in a barn that was built in 1997, the farmers were milking twice a day with a 20-cow rotary parlour. Each milking took two people about three hours. The family considered a switch to three times a day milking for their 175 milking cows but were worried about having to bring in outside employees. Many dairy farmers say the toughest part of milking three times a day is unreliable employees, as it is too difficult to find and retain quality employees.
In late 2015, they began looking into robots. Four months later, four new Lely A4 Astronauts were installed.
While it took a couple of weeks for the cows to get used to the robots, production almost immediately shot up, going from 30 kg per cow per day to 36. It now sits at 34.5 kg as ongoing construction has led to a small dip.
While some farmers have heard horror stories of robot alarms going off every night, Meloche said it shouldn't be an issue if farmers take care of the robots. His farm averages one alarm per month.
"You need to adapt to the robot. The robot can't adapt to you," he said. "A lot of people (install robots) and say 'Oh, we won't have any more work.' That's not true."
Since then, they have been looking for new labour-saving ideas. In the past year, they built an addition to the barn to give it a T shape instead of long rectangle. In that addition, they moved the robots back further to give the milking cows more room, created a new dry cow area, a new calf room and a space to house the new feeding system.
Gaetan, who is in his mid-50s, would spend about seven-to-eight hours a day feeding the 400 head housed in the barn. The feed was delivered from the silos to a feed mixer via a conveyor belt, but nothing was automatic. Hatches in the silos needed to be opened and closed by hand, and after mixing, everything was delivered by a feed cart.
"It was a good place to save time," said Meloche, adding that everyone wanted a new feeding system, except for the guy doing the feeding. Gaetan had fed the cows for 40 years. It took about two months for the rest of the family to convince Gaetan to come into the 21st century.
"For him, it was like losing his job," said Meloche. His father needed to be assured he wouldn't be unemployed. "It's a big investment, so we convinced him that no matter what, he'll be working more in the field and less in the barn."
Last December, the new automatic Lely Vector robotic feeder was installed. Every hour, the Vector uses a laser to measure how much feed is in the feed bunk while gliding along and pushing the feed closer to the animals. If there is not enough feed, the Vector will go back to its home base where the conveyor belt brings quantities of different types of feed — corn silage, haylage and straw — to the Vector. The feed is mixed and then automatically delivered to the cows. Two new silos were constructed to hold the feed.
The Meloches' Vector keeps track of seven different feed rations and runs a total of 25 times a day to keep giving the cows fresh feed at all hours.
Gaetan later joked that at first, he wanted to remove the new feeding robot and go back to the old feed cart system. It took him two weeks to get used to the Vector and not miss going out into the barn every day to feed.
However, despite all the labour savings, Luc Meloche joked that there isn't a lot of extra time. Any time savings are being put to other use. Meloche, for example, has taken over the breeding. "We have less time in the barn but more time somewhere else," he said.
They installed a new sprinkler system two months ago to keep the cows cool during hot summer months. The sprinklers cost $10,000 plus installation. When the temperature in the barn reaches 26 C, the sprinklers spray a mist over the feeding bunk for one minute every 10 minutes. They are hoping they won't see a dip in summer production.
"At first, the cows were wondering what the hell was happening," he said. Now, as soon as the water turns on they head for the shower.
More fans were also added this year to keep the cows cool. There are 20 smaller fans along the sides of the barn to go with five Big Ass fans down the centre of the barn. Automatic curtains have been a fixture in the barn for a couple of decades. The curtains have bags that fill with air to cover the windows when it rains or wind blows.
The Meloches kept the same bedding of rubber mattresses topped with wood shavings. The family didn't want the extra expense of ripping out the mattresses to replace them with another bedding type. As well, wood shavings are easy to work with, Meloche said. With shavings, you don't have to worry about keeping the equipment clean.
There are also nine video cameras located throughout and outside the barn, with a live feed available on the phone at any time. The video is saved for two weeks so the partners can go back and watch if they think something suspicious occurred.
While the farmers don't worry about activists, it's nice to have the security of knowing who is around the barn at any time, Meloche said.
They also recently changed the manure management system. The barn used to be equipped with a large air tank compressor that would push the alley scraper but the compressor was noisy. The barn is now equipped with a scraper that is pulled by a cable.
Meloche still doesn't have faith in the future of supply management while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in office, and while they are happy with the barn improvements ("I wouldn't change a single thing," Meloche said), if they had their time back, the family would have built a new barn instead of retrofitting the old one.
In the end, they paid the same to retrofit as they would have if they had built a new barn with robots and all the accessories, and had more disruptions to the milking cows.
"We probably wouldn't do it again," said Meloche.
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Few announcements for those who are following the blogging through the bible plan. We will be on Spring break from April 9th until Monday, April 20th.
On Monday, April 20th we begin the Book of Leviticus one chapter a day until May 26th.
This made me ponder how often we doubt as well. God gives us a promise but it's like we don't fully believe He can do what He promised because in our own eyes it looks impossible but we must always remember that with God all things are possible (Luke 1:37).
Be encouraged, there is a dawning of a new day for you. Keep believing and trusting him knowing He is able to do what He has said he would do.
Good Evening y'all. Today we are looking at Matthew 27.
This chapter details Jesus crucifixion but one bit that struck me was the Judas part in verses 3-5.
In yesterday's chapter, Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, but in today's chapter, he was full of remorse for what he had done and He went back to the religious leaders to return their money. I'm not sure what exactly he was expecting from the leaders but i'm sure their reaction wasn't what he wanted. Perhaps he wanted something to relief him of the guilt, something to soothe his aching soul.
How often we find ourselves in that position, where we know we have done something wrong but rather than ask for forgiveness, we look for things or people to ease our guilt.
The devil will entice, then sets up a trap and once we fall into it, he leaves us to pick up the pieces by ourself. That was exactly what happened to Judas. It was interesting to see that the religious leader were quick to help him betray Jesus, but after he had done what they needed him to do, they didn't care about how he felt or the remorse he was feeling. Basically he was used and dumped. The guilt was so much that he hung himself. He felt that was the only way out of the mess he found himself in.
I wonder if he had repented and cried out to God for forgiveness, I'm sure God would have forgiven him and given him a new start. But the enemy led him to believe their was no hope for him and he hung himself.
I don't know where you are right now, maybe you feel you have done so much that God can't forgive you. That's a lie. Scripture tells us that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all our unrighteousness (1John 1:9). God is ready and willing to forgive us, he is waiting for us to call on him and ask for mercy.
I will make them as white as wool".
Jesus loves us so much and that's why He went to the cross for us. Let's turn to him with a sincere heart and cry for mercy and forgiveness today and He will forgive us.
Thank you for joining today.


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I find that people are often confused about what I do as an advisor at a mergers and acquisitions firm. If you search for an answer about what people within the industry do, you'll likely be inundated with posts about dog-eat-dog competition and long hours. Well, turns out, it's possible to care about other people and get home to your family for dinner as an M&A advisor.
I took a demo call with a salesman for a new valuation software. We don't currently use a software for our valuations. I think we do it better with our proprietary system. And, unfortunately for the salesman, I still think that.
The firm has a family office as a client. We have been sourcing deals for them for the past nine months or so. We recently connected them with an interesting branded product that they are acquiring. They are hoping to find other product lines that fit the same brand identity to build a platform of brands. We had a phone conversation centered around that new direction for their search and how our deal flow could bring them brands that fit the thesis.
The entire DVS team meets once a week to go over current deal work, prospective clients, and internal decisions. We enjoy the time together to get on the same page and delegate tasks for the week. This week was particularly productive as we work to integrate a new CRM software in the office.
Our nonprofit buyside client is in the due diligence phase of their deal. We had a check-in phone call with both the buyer and seller to be sure they were on track to close on time. Things were moving along relatively smoothly so the phone call was brief and painless.
The firm needs to hire someone to take a couple admin tasks off of our project manager's plate. I met with a candidate for that role and talked through the possibility of working together.
A business owner called our office in response to a letter we sent on behalf of one of our buyside clients. Although this business owner's company wasn't the best fit for our client it's a great company and a relationship we want to maintain. I spoke with the business owner to better explain what our firm does and listen to his hopes for selling. The conversation reminded me of a local company looking to acquire that I will connect with this business owner.
There is so much to know when working with small to mid-sized businesses — unique complexities and tricky rules and regulations. I met a local real estate attorney for lunch — one way I hope to keep learning all that I can about each aspect of a deal. Plus, he was a nice guy!
Travel time. As I drove to north Kansas City, I used my windshield time to return phone calls.
This hour and a half was spent with a potential client. These types of meetings are a favorite part of my job. I get to learn about a business owner and his/her business. My curiosity comes alive as I ask detailed questions about the owner's story and the company. The business owner often has many questions about the process so I also get to hear the sound of my own voice as I explain and educate.
This particular meeting was with a father and son. The son is hoping to buy the father out of the business. We talked through the steps necessary to get that done and I answered questions they had about the process.
I drove back down to the office.
This was the first chunk of my day where I got to sit at my desk and catch up. I had plenty of emails to respond to and the support team in the office had some questions they needed answered. I took the final hour or so of the day to get these things done.
That's a day in my life as an advisor for business owners looking to buy or sell their companies. I'm not overwhelmed with constant competition and, thank goodness, I'm not sleeping in the conference room. My work is rewarding. Every day is different and because of that I learn something new every day.
This article was originally published on The DVS Group Blog.


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Night and the City is a live album by the bassist Charlie Haden and the pianist Kenny Barron, recorded at the Iridium Jazz Club in 1996 and released on the Verve label.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell called the album "a thoughtful, intensely musical, sometimes haunting set of performances".

Track listing
 "Twilight Song" (Kenny Barron) - 12:47
 "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer) - 10:46
 "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 10:20
 "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 10:25
 "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 6:59
 "Waltz for Ruth" (Charlie Haden) - 8:27
 "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) - 11:01
Recorded at the Iridium in New York City on September 20, 21 & 22, 1996

Personnel
Kenny Barron — piano
Charlie Haden — bass

References

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Charlie Haden live albums
Kenny Barron live albums
Instrumental duet albums
1998 live albums

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Lloyds Bank boss Horta-Osório to step down after a decade at the helm
By Iain Withers
(Reuters) - Lloyds Bank LLOY.L Chief Executive António Horta-Osório said on Monday he would step down next year after a decade at the helm, leaving Britain's biggest domestic bank to find a successor to steer it through the coronavirus fallout.
FILE PHOTO: Antonio Horta-Osorio CEO of Lloyds Banking Group leaves Downing Street in London, Britain, September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
While his departure had been expected, it comes at a critical time as banks brace for a wave of bad debts as customers struggle in an economy heading into a deep recession.
Horta-Osório's successor will need to push Lloyds further into wealth management and online services while finding a way to increase profits in an era of almost zero interest rates, analysts said.
His departure could also lead to some musical chairs at top banks with analysts speculating about both where Horta-Osório might go next and who will replace him at Lloyds.
A Lloyds spokesman said a search for a successor that would include both internal and external candidates would begin imminently, adding that Horta-Osório, 56, had given the company no indication of what he planned to do next.
Goodbody analyst John Cronin said Horta-Osório could take the top job at Spain's Santander SAN.MC or Unicredit CRDI.MI, especially if the Italian bank's boss Jean-Pierre Mustier were to switch to Lloyds.
Alison Brittain, head of hospitality company Whitbread WTB.L and a former head of retail banking at Lloyds, is also likely to be linked to the role, as will RSA Insurance CEO Stephen Hester and former HSBC chief John Flint, Cronin said.
"While (Horta-Osório) will be sorely missed, it is not surprising that he is planning to move on after what will be 10 years at the helm come 2021," he added.
JP Morgan analysts said Lloyds had a solid range of potential internal candidates including head of commercial banking David Oldfield, head of retail banking Vim Maru, and finance director William Chalmers, who joined last year.
'MIXED EMOTIONS'
Lloyds shares have halved since Horta-Osorio took over in 2011, though they were higher for much of his tenure before slumping along with other bank stocks due to the coronavirus.
The bank's shares were up 2% on Monday following the announcement, lagging rival lenders in the FTSE 100 stock index amid a broad market rally.
Horta-Osório led a turnaround at Lloyds in the aftermath of its government rescue in the 2007-09 financial crisis and the bank returned fully to private hands in 2017.
During his time at Lloyds the Portuguese banker won plaudits for championing mental health issues at companies after he was signed off work for two months in 2011 for stress-induced insomnia and exhaustion.
But he faced strident criticism from lawmakers over his high pay package and for the bank's handling of a major fraud at its HBOS Reading branch that led to six people being jailed in 2017.
Horta-Osório said he would leave by June next year and was going with mixed emotions. He told staff in a memo seen by Reuters that leading Lloyds had been the job of a lifetime.
Lloyds said on Monday it had appointed industry veteran Robin Budenberg as chairman. He will join the board in October before taking over from Norman Blackwell early next year.
Budenberg built his career in investment banking at SG Warburg and UBS. He advised the British government on its bailout of banks, including Lloyds, during the financial crisis.
He later led the UK Financial Investments company managing the state's holdings in banks following the bailouts and is currently chairman of The Crown Estate, which manages Queen Elizabeth's property holdings.
Reporting by Iain Withers in London; Additional reporting by Muvija M in Bengaluru and Lawrence White in London; Editing by Patrick Graham, Louise Heavens and David Clarke

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Things are going great at the 30th street community garden! If you remember (and read the previous post if you don't) I was holding the sheetmulch bed building workshop on May 4. Except that it got really cold and snowed and practically no one came. So I held it on May 11 and everyone came!
It was excellent and 2 big 5 x 20 foot beds were built out of maybe 3 cubic yards of pure goat poop (no bedding), a huge amount of cardboard including two rocket box cartopper boxes from REI, and 17 2-string bales of spoiled hay.
Two of my tenants divied up one bed, and a neighbor immediately planted potatoes in the other. Sometime later I put together another, slightly less beefy bed (not as thick but just as big in plan view) using cardboard, the entire winter's worth of chicken bedding (as the 'green' or nitrogen-rich layers), old bagged grass clippings from last year, dried leaves, and straw found by my lovely tenant in an Anchorage yard with a sign labeled 'free browns' next to the bags. Another neighbor planted flowers and seeds into the thin layer of capping garden soil.
Today, my tenant who works for AYEA (Alaska Youth for Environmental Action) procured more manure from the valley and invited some of the AYEA youth over for a sheet mulch workshop and bed building party, including a bee-keeping demonstration by my beekeeping tenant! It was wonderful!
Four 5×20 beds in the community garden!
In related news, I am reading Farm City by Novella Carpenter and it is, honestly, a little spooky – all the parallels. Oh, there are the big differences – she rents/squats her space, I own. We only have the occasional shooting on my street, though apparently pretty much the same amounts of crazy (ours and our neighbors), diversity, poverty, drugs, illegal activity. It's no Oakland here, but Spenard tries its best. My next door neighbor who lives in his car is named Jesus, not Bobby. I live on 30th, not 28th. I have so far only contemplated pigs and rabbits. I ate all of my dog-killed birds, never being sentimental enough to bury any (remind me to tell you about the two delicious ducks that died of cold-related injury this winter and the two delicious hens that were killed by a dog early this spring). So we are totally different. Totally. Really. Except that both of our houses are a total mess. That I will admit is the same.


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Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 – Comics Recap
Published by Alexander Case on May 3, 2020 May 3, 2020
We now start getting into the Knightfall Saga proper with the introduction of Bane.
Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1
Written by Chuck Dixon
Pencils by Graham Nolan
Inks by Eduardo Barret
Colors by Adrienne Roy
Letters by Bill Oakley
Edited by Scott Peterson & Denny O'Neil
We open in Santa Prisca, several years prior, with an attempted coup inspired by the uprising in Cuba – but one that failed. We're introduced to our point of view character – "Zombie" – who was sentenced to Pena Duro for 30 years, and is working in the prison infirmary. Because he's assigned to the infirmary, he gets to see Bane and his mother as Bane is a child. Bane's mother was sentenced as an accessory to her husband's actions in the uprising, and Bane as a male child, is convicted for the crimes of his father, who he never knew.
Zombie watches over them until Bane's mother dies and Bain, now 6 years old, is moved to the general population – where Zombie, for reasons that are unexplained, can't help them. In the general population he's protected by a prisoner named Trogg, as not well, as Bane falls from a high level of the prison – and while in a coma half-hallucinates and half-dreams his future self.
After recovering from his coma, Bane kills an inmate who tormented him on his first night in the prison and taunts the Warden, causing him to be put in Solitary for 10 years. When Bane emerges, he is something of a hero to the rest of the prisoners.
I think I might have understated the severity of Solitary in Santa Prisca.
Bane then meets another inmate, Bird. Bird is originally from Gotham and has a sympathetic, possibly slightly supernatural, relationship with birds. Bird teaches Bane how to read, and teaches him about Gotham. With the ability to read, Bane becomes a polyglot and polymath. Through all of this, Bane also learns of Batman.
It's around this time Junta who runs Santa Prisca starts experimenting on prisoners with Venom. Bane survives the early doses of the drug, along with surgical implants to put it directly into his brain. During this, at Bane's behest, Zombie learns how to reproduce the drug.
Bane then escapes by suppressing his vitals so he's mistaken for dead, so he gets tossed out for the sharks. Bane then kills the sharks, brakes into the prison and holds the warden hostage for a helicopter that he, Trogg, Bird, and Zombie can use to go to the US and Gotham.
At this point Bane and his companions prepare his mask and injector, and now Bane, as we know him, is complete. We could probably stop here, but the story goes on a little longer to see the start of Bane's plan.
They begin by visiting Jimmy "The Nose" – a gangster who sold out Bird. They kill him, and as we learn after the fact from Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya, with particular brutality. This brings out Gordon – and Batman.
Bane and his colleagues see Batman approach, the followers want to take Batman down now, but Bane wants to wait.
Batman meets Gordon, who suspects the Manklin brothers, as does Batman. Batman goes to shake them down, and Bane follows. Batman realizes that he is being followed, but not by who, and can't get a glimpse of Bane.
Batman ultimately finds the Manklins, and takes them down while Bane takes down others – and while Batman refrains from using deadly force like normal (even saving one from being knocked off a ledge to his death), Bane does kill, even murdering some who Batman spared. Finally, Bane makes himself known to Batman. They don't fight, just talk, and Bane tells Batman that he will make him scream his name, but doesn't tell him his name.
A fateful meeting.
The GCPD bursts in, but Batman and Bane are both gone, leaving the unconscious but living (Batman's handiwork), and the dead (Bane's). Montoya suspects Batman is responsible for the deaths – and has finally crossed that line, but Bullock isn't so sure.
Bane's followers ask him why he let Batman get away – but that is not Bane's goal. Not yet. Bane must understand Gotham to rule it. Once he groks (my words, not Bane's) Batman, he will then know Gotham and finally, Gotham will be his.
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Silent Mobius Vol. 1-5: Manga Review
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Robin #5 Recap
When we last left off, Robin was in a grave predicament.
We're continuing with the hunt for the Blackgate escapees.


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Call for Papers: Seventh Applied Legal Storytelling Conference | Calling All Papers!
The Applied Legal Storytelling Conference brings together academics, judges, and practitioners. The conference has previously convened in 2007 (London), 2009 (Portland), 2011 (Denver), 2013 (London), Seattle (2015), and Washington D.C. (2017). We are very excited to bring it back to the Mountain West (Boulder) in July 2019.
Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS) examines the use of stories—and of storytelling or narrative elements—in law practice, legal education, and the law.
This definition is intentionally broad in order to allow people creativity in the way they think and present on the topic. Such topics may include: the ways in which fiction-writing techniques or narrative theory can inform legal storytelling; stories in the law, or law as stories; legal storytelling and metaphor; client story advocacy; legal storytelling and cognitive science; and ethical considerations in legal storytelling.
In an effort to continue the storytelling conversation for this seventh conference, and to welcome new attendees, we are providing resources for those interested in submitting a proposal and who wish to generate ideas or respond to others'. The first is a list of topics from past conferences, available at https://www.lwionline.org/sites/default/files/TopicsfrompastAppLSconfere.... The second is a link to a bibliography on AppLS, including articles that have emerged from previous storytelling conferences, available at http://www.alwd.org/wp-contentuploads20151108-rideout_article2015-pdf/. We are also happy to answer questions and offer you suggestions—if you are a newcomer and interested in becoming involved, please reach out.
The conference will include 60-minute and 30-minute time slots. For the 60-minute time slots, we welcome interactive, panel or roundtable presentation proposals, as well as other format types. For the 30-minute time slots, we envision presenters adopting something like the 14–18 minute ted-style format of rehearsed presentations that center on one idea conveyed through narrative, with reserved time for audience questions. On the proposal form, please indicate either a preference for a particular format or your willingness that we accept your proposal in any of the formats and time constraints.
Complete the Proposal Form found here: https://goo.gl/forms/PzommIqzYDoF3wJV2).
• The Priority Deadline for submissions is January 21, 2019. The Program Committee will review all proposals received by this date by the third week of February.
• The Committee will also consider proposals submitted by the Extended Deadline, March 11, 2019, and will review these proposals by the first week of April.
Please use the format provided at the end of this proposal. We ask for a short summary of fewer than 60 words for use in the conference app, as well as a narrative description of your proposal for selection purposes (500 words, maximum).
The Program Committee will review the proposals and respond according to the submission date. Those who submitted proposals by the Priority Deadline (Jan. 21) will be notified by the end of February if their proposal has been accepted. Those who submitted their proposal by the Extended Deadline (Mar. 11), will be notified by mid- April.
The conference will take place from July 9 to July 11, 2019, at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado. Like previous AppLS conferences, this conference will be collegial, inclusive, and supportive of your work.
The 2019 conference will begin with registration and a reception early in the evening of July 9 at the law school. The next two days, July 10 and 11 will be devoted to a plenary session and presentations given in concurrent sessions. The conference will close with a dinner at the end of the day on July 11. The dinner is part of the conference itself—designed to be a signature event that facilitates ongoing conversations.


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Love this recipe! Is a favorite with all my kids! I did notice my mix is green and my soup is slightly green as well, from the chili but recipe pictures look on the red side. Might have to do with the chili? But either way this recipe is amazing! I made it twice in one week! Thanks so much for sharing!
We would go to Acapulco yearly and stay at the Grand Mayan resort. They made the best tortilla soup. Is there any way you could get that recipe for me.


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Lara Alqasem
Photo: Motti Kimchi
Court: US student in BDS case allowed to stay in Israel
Supreme Court rules American student Lara Alqasem can stay and study in Israel, despite past BDS ties; ruling overturns lower court decision backing government; Lawyers: Free speech victory; Deri: a disgrace.
Reuters, Ynet|Published: 10.18.18 , 19:43
A US student who was initially barred entry into Israel under a law against foreign pro-Palestinian activists who call for boycotts of Israel will be allowed to stay in the country, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
Lara Alqasem, 22, flew to Israel on Oct. 2 on a student visa to pursue her graduate studies at Hebrew University but was refused entry by security officials who cited her role as president of a small local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Florida.
Alqassem in court (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
The Supreme Court in its ruling, seen by Reuters, overturned a lower court decision that initially backed the decision by Israeli authorities.
"The call for participation in a boycott against the state is likely to be considered as encouragement to participate in illegal activity .... There is no dispute that between 2014 and 2017, Alqasem was a member of a student organization and for two years served as its president," Justice Erez Yekuel explained then in his ruling.
Supreme Court Judge Neil Hendel wrote that the state is correct in its intentions but not in its implementation, explaining that combating BDS is admirable and defending a democracy is part and parcel of democracy. However, Hendel asserted, preventing Alqasem's entry does not serve the purpose of the anti BDS law passed by the Knesset.
However one justice wrote that if Alqasem "returns to her old ways" and promoted a boycott while she was in Israel her stay could be cancelled and she could be expelled.
"The Supreme Court's decision is a victory for free speech, academic freedom, and the rule of law," Alqasem's lawyers said in a statement.
The Hebrew University, which supported Alqasem in her struggle to enter the country released a short statement: "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem looks forward to welcoming our newest student, Lara Alqasem, as she begins her M.A. in Human Rights & Transitional Justice at our law school next week."
Hebrew University protest supporting Alqassem (Photo: "Standing Together" student movement)
On Monday, students at the University protested the detention of Alqasem by placing signs on seats throughout the university's Mt Scopus campus reading "Reserved (for) Lara Alqasem." Their efforts were met with a response by activists from the right-wing "Im Tirtzu" movement who erased Alqasem's name from several posters and replaced it with the names of recent terror victims Ari Fuld, Kim Yehezkel Lebengrond and Ziv Hagbi.
Many students also criticized the university's stance on the matter. "The Hebrew University's attitude towards the State of Israel, and even towards BDS, is simply pathetic," said one student.
Alqasem's case has touched off debate in Israel over whether democratic values have been compromised by a 2017 law that bars the entry of foreigners who publicly support boycotts over Israel's policies towards the Palestinians.
Minister of Interior Aryeh Deri responded to the ruling calling it a disgrace. "Where is our national pride? Would she have dared act against the United States while seeking to study there? I intend to examine how to prevent this incident from setting a precedent," he said.
Minister of Internal security Gilad Erdan declared that the court handed a "huge victory to BDS and emptied the law, barring boycott activists from entering the country, of any meaning." He stated that he intends to close the "loophole" in the law so that those who seek to harm the State of Israel and its citizens cannot enter the country.
Tourism Minister Yariv Levin called the court's decision "shameful" and said that the justices "were continuing to act against Israeli democracy and the clear lawmaking of the Knesset."
It was not immediately clear whether the Israeli authorities would appeal the ruling.


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Jean Crenn, né le  à Lopérec (Finistère) et mort le  dans cette même commune, est un agriculteur, dirigeant d'organisations agricoles et homme politique français. Il est député UDR puis RPR du Finistère de 1973 à 1981.

Biographie
Agriculteur, il est administrateur d'organisations agricoles dont des assurances et syndicats et de la coopérative de Landerneau. Il est conseiller municipal de Lopérec de 1953 à 1971 puis adjoint au maire de Pont-de-Buis et conseiller général du canton du Faou de 1976 à 1981.

Lors des élections législatives de mars 1973, il est suppléant de Suzanne Ploux, réélue député de la  du Finistère (Châteaulin) sous l'étiquette de l'UDR. Il la remplace à l'Assemblée nationale début avril de cette même année, lorsque celle-ci rentre au gouvernement de Pierre Messmer comme secrétaire d'État auprès du ministre de l'Éducation nationale. Jean Crenn est réélu lors des élections de 1978 sous l'étiquette RPR (parti créé en 1976 à la suite de  l'UDR).

Il est signataire de l'« appel des 43 » en faveur d'une candidature de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing à l'élection présidentielle de 1974.

Il est père de quatre enfants dont Jean-Yves Crenn, maire de Lopérec depuis 1983.

Détail des fonctions et des mandats

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Jane Austen's Choice of Surnames
I'm sure I'm not just speaking for myself when I say that novelists choose the surnames of their characters with great care. I certainly agonise over mine. I was reminded of this when reading Maggie Lane's brilliant Jane Austen and Food. In it, she makes the perceptive point that Mrs Norris in Mansfield Park is ironically named – from the French nourrice, a nurse. She behaves in the most un-nurturing way towards Fanny Price and seems to take every opportunity to put her down.
'My dear Sir Thomas, Fanny can walk.' says Mrs Norris. Illustration by Hugh Thomson for Mansfield Park
I found myself thinking about other Mansfield Park surnames which might be significant. Fanny Price's own surname, for example, could also be viewed as ironic. For much of the novel, she is seen to have little value. Her own mother is happy to give her away to her rich relations, surely a traumatic experience for a timid ten-year-old girl. And Henry Crawford values her only as a plaything when he aims 'to make a small hole in Fanny Price's heart'.
Fanny is not taken in. Underneath her shy and retiring exterior, she is spot on in her judgement of the Crawfords and, when Henry proposes, she courageously refuses him, in spite of her uncle's strong disapproval of such wilfulness. She is, as Sir Thomas, Edmund and even Henry Crawford himself eventually realise, priceless, with a moral worth beyond value.
When Fanny arrives at Mansfield Park, Sir Thomas fully expects to find: 'gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner' but, he adds, condescendingly, 'these are not incurable faults.'
By the end of the book, Fanny alone has seen through the Crawfords. 'Sick of ambitious and mercenary connections, prizing more and more the sterling good of principle and temper…' Sir Thomas eventually gives Fanny her due. Note the use of the word 'prizing'. He's thrilled when Edmund and Fanny announce their engagement and gives his 'joyful consent' coupled with 'the high sense in having acquired a great acquisition in the promise of Fanny as a daughter.'
Young Lovers fron the Ladies' Pocketbook
Even the cloddish Mr Rushworth's name carries a hint of irony. Maria rushes into her engagement with him, unable to bear the humiliation of Henry leaving without declaring himself. And worth is not a quality we associate with Mr Rushworth – or, indeed, Maria. There is also another definition of rush which Jane would have known from Dr Johnson, whose prose style she much admired. His Dictionary of the English Language includes: 'RUSHLIKE: ressembling a rush; weak, impotent.' It suits Mr Rushworth to a T.
We might note, too, Mary Crawford's letter to Fanny concerning Tom Bertram's illness: 'I put it to your conscience, whether "Sir Edmund" would not do more good with all the Bertram property than any other possible "Sir".' A future 'Sir Edmund Bertram' would sound very well. Fanny is disgusted by Mary's 'cold-hearted ambition.'
Frank Churchill in charming and informal mode, illustration by Hugh Thomson for 'Emma'
In Emma, there is surely more than a touch of irony in Frank Churchill's name. Frank – that is, honest and open – he is not. And Churchill carries associations of good Christian behaviour, which, again, is wide of the mark. By contrast, Mr Knightley's name suits his character; we see him taking the time and trouble to be kind to Miss Bates and Harriet Smith, both persons of little social consequence.
In Sense and Sensibility, the name Dashwood might be interpreted as an oxymoron. Marianne certainly has the dash which leaves Elinor with too much of the phlegmatic, though steadfast, wood. Elinor needs more dash and Marianne needs to be more grounded (wood), which is exactly what happens over the course of the book.
Lucy Steele confides in Elinor. Illustration by Hugh Thomson for 'Sense & Sensibility'
And what about the double-dealing Lucy Steele? Jane Austen says of her, 'Lucy was naturally clever, her remarks were often just and amusing,' and so far so good. Elinor finds her an agreeable companion for about half an hour. But, as she soon discovers, Lucy is also two-faced. Jane Austen mentions 'her little sharp eyes full of meaning' and elsewhere we note that Lucy is always eyeing Elinor to see how she takes her confidences about her secret engagement to Edward Ferrars, the man Elinor herself loves. Lucy may have a superficial stylishness but she is also deceitful and has a core of steel. She wants a husband with money, and, now she's got her talons into Edward Ferrars, she's going to make sure she keeps hold of him.
And is it too far-fetched to wonder if the duplicitous John Willoughby's surname has a touch of wavering about it? One might add another adjective, 'wily'. He certainly pulls the wool over Marianne's eyes as he sets about finding a rich wife.
Sir Walter Elliot kow-tows before the aristocratic Lady Dalrymple. Illustration for 'Persuasion' by Hugh Thomson
Persuasion is, perhaps, the novel with the most interesting surnames. We know that Sir Walter Elliot is very aware of the value of a good name. He is scathing of Anne visiting an old school friend Mrs Smith: 'A mere Mrs Smith – and everyday Mrs Smith, of all people and all names in the world to be the chosen friend of Miss Anne Elliot…' Anne makes no reply, though she is well aware that her sister's friend, Mrs Clay, a woman with no fortune, and 'no surname of dignity' is covertly making up to her father.
Mrs Clay's surname sounds suitably cloddish and sticky but she has enough guile to elope with William Elliot, Sir Walter's heir, at the end of the book. And her first name, Penelope, the epitome of the faithful wife in the Odyssey, carries more than a touch of irony.
Sir Walter himself is overly concerned with appearances. At the end of the book, when he learns that Anne is going to marry her former love, Captain Wentworth (a match which had gravely displeased him ten years earlier), he decides that, (Captain Wentworth's) superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank; and all this, assisted by his well-sounding name, (a name of 'worth') allows him to give them his blessing.
Lady Catherine confronts Miss Elizabeth Bennet. Illustration by Charles E. Brock for 'Pride & Prejudice'
The surnames in Pride and Prejudice make a different point. Both Darcy and Lady Catherine de Bourgh have surnames of Norman-French origin, thus demonstrating their aristocratic credentials. However, and this could be an example of Jane Austen's ironic sense of humour, the maiden name of both Darcy's mother and Lady Catherine was Fitzwilliam, a surname which indicates illegitimacy as fils (French: son) was used for the illegitimate children of kings or princes. Fitzwilliam might be an aristocratic name, but there's a definite whiff of irregular behaviour about it.
The one book which doesn't appear to use surnames to indicate anything about their owners is Northanger Abbey. It was an early novel, first mentioned in 1798, and we know she worked on it over the next five years though it wasn't published until 1818, two years after her death.
Ruined castle.
It could be that, in a novel debunking the excesses of the Gothic novel, as in Mrs Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, where the heroine is called Emily de St. Aubert and the hero is the Chevalier de Valancourt, Jane Austen, by contrast, wanted ordinary surnames for her Northanger Abbey characters.
Jane Austen's use of surnames is subtle – no Trollopean Mr Quiverfuls or Dickensian Mr Pecksniffs for her. Nevertheless, the alert reader will find her choice of surnames enlightening, from Penelope Clay to Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Posted on May 26, 2019 March 4, 2020 Author ElizabethCategories Creative Writing, Jane Austen's Novels, LiteratureTags Elizabeth Hawksley, Emma, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Surnames in Jane Austen's novels
4 thoughts on "Jane Austen's Choice of Surnames"
I had not noticed these clever and subtle hints. Thanks for bringing them out.
I too agonize over names. I can't start a book until I have the names at least of the principals sorted out.
Thank you for your comment, Elizabeth. I do so agree. And then there's the problem of inadvertently getting fixated on as single letter. One of my early novels has far too many characters whose surnames begin with H – and neither I nor my editor noticed it!
Susanna Bavin says:
I will read Jane Austen with fresh eyes in future. I certainly never noticed these little hints before. I agree with what you said in your reply to Elizabeth Bailey – what is it about certain initial letters? With me, it's J.
Thank you for your comment, Susanna, particularly the bit about tending to use names beginning with J in your novels, which made me smile. I've just read a book by a best-selling author where most of the male names began with W. (Walter, Wallace, William) or else the characters' first names – or surnames – began with M: Mortimer, Mostyn, Maurice, Montague, Matcham. Surely, I thought, she'd have noticed, but she obviously didn't.
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Pinouts (Wiring Schemes)
Categories: Ethernet, Serial, DIN, 3.5mm, VGA, DVI, XLR, telephone, Pinouts
Tags: xlr, vga, telephone, serial, pinout, ethernet, dvi, din, 3.5mm
Author: Nicholas Watkins
"Pinout" is a term describing how an electrical cable is wired. Some cables do not have pinouts because they only contain a single internal wire, like coax cables. But if a cable has multiple pins on the end of the cable, it will have a pinout.
Each type of multi-pin cable has a standard pinout or two, but these layouts are not set in stone. Some machines will require non-standard pinouts; this will require users to use a custom cable.
Pinouts also come into play when using a cable with two different ends. For example, going from DB9 (9 pins) to DB25 (25 pins) will mean the DB25 side has 16 unused, "dead" pins.
If you need to know what pinout a cable needs, ideally there will be a spec sheet handy showing it. The next best option is contacting the manufacturer of the equipment the cable will be used with to see if they have a spec sheet available. If you have a cable tester available, that can be used to see how the pins line up. As a last resort, a cable can also be cut open to verify the pinout.
In the guide below, we will be highlighting the standard pinout configuration for common types of multi-pin cables.
Ethernet Pinouts
Ethernet uses two main pinouts, straight and crossover. Straight cables are used to connect computers to other devices, like modems and routers. Crossover cables are used to connect two computers directly. The wires inside ethernet cables are color-coded to industry standards, making it easy to follow the standard pinout options.
Straight pinouts are divided into two different options, T-568A and T-568B. The "B" option is the standard today, although finding the "A" cables still in use in older buildings is not uncommon. The two options are incompatible so make sure to verify what any existing cables use before adding on new ones.
A crossover cable uses two different pinouts on either end of the cable. Typically, this is done by using T-568A on one side and T-568B on the other. This allows two computers to talk to each other directly via ethernet. If you try to use a straight pinout cable the same way both computers will be trying to "talk" and "listen" to each other at the same time, so nothing will happen.
Telephone Pinouts
Telephone pinouts are similar to ethernet, with RJ11 and RJ12 phone connectors looking like downsized versions of the RJ45 connectors used for ethernet. RJ11 and RJ12 are the same size; the difference is that RJ11 can only use four wires while RJ12 can use six. Cables today are typically made as RJ12 but plenty of older cables made with RJ11 are still in place in older buildings.
Phone pinouts come in two varieties, straight and reverse. Straight cables are used to send data, like a fax machine, while reverse cables are used for voice, like a telephone. On a straight cable, the wires will connect to the same metal pins on either side of the cable. Pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, etc. On a reverse cable, the opposite is true. For RJ12, a reverse cable would go pin 1 to pin 6, pin 2 to pin 5, etc.
Serial (DB) Pinouts
Serial cables, also called DB or D-Sub (D-Subminiature), are a dying breed. For the most part, they have been replaced by USB, but older machinery still uses them. There are a few main types of serial cables: DB9, DB15, and DB25.
DB9 is the old standard for monitors and was later replaced by VGA. The nine pins are in two rows with five on top and four on the bottom. The pins are counted from left to right, starting with the top row. For a straight-through cable, pin 1 connects to pin 1, then 2 to 2, 3 to 3, etc.
There is also a version of DB9 called null modem, which is an older version of crossover ethernet. Null modem cables allow computers and other machines to speak to each other directly.
DB15 is divided into two rows with eight pins on top and seven on the bottom, as opposed to the three rows seen on VGA cables. These connections used to be used on sound cards as well as old Mac monitors.
DB25, also called a parallel port, was standard on older printers before being replaced by USB B as the new industry standard.
VGA Pinouts
VGA cables are the previous standard for monitors and were the last dedicated analog connection. Newer equipment uses digital connections like HDMI, DisplayPort, and DVI instead. Plenty of monitors and other equipment built with VGA are still around, it is just not put onto new machines anymore.
A VGA pinout contains 15 pins, broken into three rows of 5. There are some VGA ports where Pin 14 is not used. Likewise, there are some VGA cables where the 14th pin is a "dead pin"; a pin not actually connected to anything or left out entirely. If your equipment needs the full 15-pin set-up or you want to keep your bases covered, make sure to purchase a True 15-Pin cable.
DVI Pinouts
There are three main versions of DVI cables: DVI-A (Analog), DVI-D (Digital), and DVI-I (Integrated; Analog + Digital). DVI-D and DVI-I also come in single-link and dual-link variants. The pin layout on each type is a bit different, which is the easiest way to tell different DVI cables apart.
DVI-A is analog only, making it compatible with older devices that only have VGA.
DVI-D is digital only. The single-link version can support resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 while the dual-link version can handle up to 2048 x 1536 resolution.
DVI-I combines the other two to support both analog and digital. It also comes in single-link and dual-link, both of which support 1600 x 1200 (single-link) and 2048 x 1536 (dual-link) resolutions.
3.5mm Pinouts
3.5mm, also called headphone or ⅛", is a common audio cable. This is the go-to audio connection found on computers, cell phones, televisions, and more. 3.5mm is built the same way as 2.5mm (which is smaller) and ¼" (which is bigger). Pinouts for 3.5mm can be applied to those two as well.
There are a few different versions of 3.5mm: TS, TRS, and TRRS. TS cables will have one ring, dividing the metal sections into two conductors and are most often used for mono connections like microphones. TRS has two rings to give it three conductors, allowing them to be used for stereo connections such as speakers. TRRS has three rings for four conductors to support stereo audio and a mono microphone at the same time.
Mono (left), Stereo (middle), and Headset (right; microphone+stereo) are all industry standards
XLR Pinouts
XLR is a type of professional audio cable with a few different variants, the most common being 3-pin XLR. The pins in this are used for left audio, right audio, and a ground. If additional connections need to be made, using other versions of XLR with more pins can compensate.
There is also a version of XLR used for lightning called DMX. These are not interchangeable with the standard audio version, so be sure to select the correct ones.
DIN Pinouts
DIN cables come in multiple configurations. They are referred to by their number of pins (3-pin DIN, 4-pin DIN, etc.). Some pin numbers will also have various configurations, which are in turn referred to by the degree angle of the pin layout. For example, 8-pin DIN comes in 262° and 270° versions. There are also Mini versions of some DIN connectors, but these are generally developed for specific uses and referred to by other names. For example, an S-video connection is actually a 4-pin Mini DIN but is generally just called S-video.
Regardless of which DIN connector is being used, there is no standard industry configuration for DIN. Anytime a DIN connector is used, you must get a spec sheet and check the pinout before anything else.
Note: This image does not display all available DINs, but these are the most common types.
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'IT'S DISGUSTING!'
Rebekah Vardy and Nicola McLean slam Kim Kardashian for dressing North, 4, in 'lingerie' after she denies letting her wear a corset
Celebrity mums join forces to slag off Kim's new 'lingerie' for children featuring a 'satin negligee' and 'corset' on Twitter
Updated: 13 Jul 2017, 23:19
REBEKAH Vardy and Nicola McLean have laid into Kim Kardashian for the "disgusting" dress she's just bought for her four-year-old daughter North.
The outspoken wife of footballer Jamie Vardy posted two angry tweets about the internet icon's "lingerie" item, with "corset" detailing — and ex-CBB contestant Nicola soon joined in with her ire.
Kim Kardashian's controversial new dress for her daughter North has left Rebekah and Nicola in despair
Rebekah was not impressed with the garmentCredit: Rex Features
Rebekah - who's a mum-of-three - reposted an image of the bizarre item, which Kim bought from a designer.
She wrote: "I'm never usually one to judge other people's parenting choices but..... wtf?"
Further explaining her revulsion, the 35-year-old added: "This is lingerie!
"It's a satin negligee with a fake corset. Why would anyone dress their four-year-old daughter in this?
"It's bewildering."
Seeing Rebekah's tweet, 35-year-old glamour model Nicola commented: "It's disgusting!!!!"
Agreeing with the mum-of-two, Rebekah added: "It's just so grown up, I can't understand the thinking behind this even being designed or made for a child of any age."
Kim hit back at critics on Snapchat
But 36-year-old Kim - who has her own equally controversial line of children's wear - has hit out against claims that she dressed her daughter in a corset.
Defending the item, she wrote on Twitter: "I would never put my daughter in a corset!
"It's a dress I bought that is a cotton fabric that laces up & looks like a corset! Just decoration."
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Love Island's Maura admits she isn't sure Curtis' head won't be turned again
Nicola McLean joined in with the online Kim-bashingCredit: Fame Flynet
Kim isn't the only big star to be slammed for her parenting skills this week as Katie Price's new show My Crazy Life left many mums and dads despairing for her five children.
The designer dress storm comes in the same week Kim's new swimwear line for kids was compared to Victoria's Secret lingerie.
Rebekah, who was enjoying a family holiday in Dubai recently, is known for her strong views on being a mum - though some of her fans were disgusted that she had an umbilical cord framed in her home.
Kim with her children North and Saint earlier this yearCredit: Fame Flynet
Meanwhile Rebekah's ally Nicola - who's eyeing up a spot on Dancing On Ice after her recent BB appearance - is also a big fan of being a mum.
She is planning to adopt more chidren after risking infertility in her battle with polycystic ovary syndrome.
Nicola McLean
Rebekah Vardy


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Here are ten to consider, along with advice on what the business can do to avert disaster before it strikes. This is especially important when under strict time constraints. Learning opportunities are everywhereObviously, the more you learn, the more valuable you are to your employer. But, all in all, social media marketing is just a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing and advertising.
Your Logo is Who You Are Take the time to think about what you want to project to the general public.
More than 8, businesses around the world have signed the UN Global Compact pledging to show good global citizenship in the areas of human rights, labor standards and environmental protection. If you can really do this—if you really know what it is that doesn't add value to the customer—then you can start asking 'How can we get rid of that?
You could not have this easily in the offline world. Self-discipline is valuableWhen you practice good time management, you leave no room for procrastination. Try as she might, she was never able to build a customer base strong enough to keep her doors open.
More than two-thirds of Generation Y workers those born after say that they want their employers to be environmentally friendly. An examination of the details of the budget calculations and assumptions reveals that management expects operations to produce the required amount of units within a certain cost range.
According to the U. Poor Management and Leadership Effective management and leadership skills are essential to business-building success, and a lack of either can lead to confusion and conflict within the ranks, poor morale and reduced productivity.
The use of responsibility centers allows management to design control reports and pinpoint accountability. Future Growth Small businesses do not always stay small.
Because you can add to your top line through innovation. It has to hire talented new people again. The fact of the matter is — if someone has something negative to say they can say it.
Profit centers accept responsibility for both revenues and expenses. Clothing and adornment choices can also be a form of nonverbal communication. Responsibility centers represent applicable organizational units, functions, departments, and divisions. Now, with Google Search, everything appears on the same page.
The better you get at it, the more self-discipline you learn. In addition, they require prospective vendors to provide product-specific information such as data about the chemicals included in the product and the percentage of recycled content that goes into the packaging.
This includes any printed materials, web presence, social media, physical presence and most importantly your actual product or service.May 16, · 6 Reasons Your Small Business Will Fail (And How to Avoid Them) by: Six Reasons Businesses Fail: You may be far better than your competitors but that won't make any difference if your prospects don't even know you're in the game.
Use social media, word of mouth, cold calling, direct mail, and other tried-and-true /5(46). Like it or not, your company has an image or "brand". It's what people visualize when they think of your business.
Your image. Why is my company image so important? If you don't stand out and project an image of success potential clients might skip by you and head over to your competition.
94% of small businesses, 93% of B2Bs, and 77% of B2Cs use content marketing. Basically, that's everyone. Don't rely on a content marketing company to make your strategy for you. There are plenty of content marketing companies out there, but they don't usually get involved in strategy.
Let me point out a few of the reasons why. Nonverbal communication encompasses numerous modes of expression. Physical examples include posture, gestures, eye contact, touch, physiological responses.
But if you want your business to succeed, you need to know, and avoid, these 7 common reasons why businesses fail. Image source: Attard Communications, Inc. According to statistics published in by the Small Business Administration (SBA), about one-fifth of business startups fail in the first year and about half of all employer.
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What's in a profiling report?
The module associated with the cost-centre; important mostly if you have identically-named cost-centres in different modules.
What part of the time was spent in this cost-centre (see also "ticks," below).
What part of the memory allocation was done in this cost-centre (see also "bytes," below).
How many CAFs this cost centre evaluated.
How many dictionaries this cost centre evaluated.
The raw number of time "ticks" which were attributed to this cost-centre; from this, we get the %time figure mentioned above.
Number of bytes allocated in the heap while in this cost-centre; again, this is the raw number from which we get the %alloc figure mentioned above.
How many times we entered (evaluated) a thunk—an unevaluated object in the heap—while we were in this cost-centre.
How many times we entered (evaluated) a partial application (PAP), i.e., a function applied to fewer arguments than it needs. For example, Int addition applied to one argument would be a PAP. A PAP is really just a particular form for a function.


The $12.63 million 2012-2013 budget proposal submitted by Rappahannock County Superintendent Dr. Aldridge Boone proposes increased spending of $936,802. Almost 80 percent of this new spending is consumed by salary and benefit increases for school employees. If approved, the taxpayers of our county will be footing the bill for a staggering salary and benefit increase of almost 12 percent for school employees. The fact that much of this increase is beyond Dr. Boone's direct control does not absolve him and the school board of addressing this issue more responsibly.
This budget issue will not go away. Salary increases are a part of life and huge increases in both health insurance costs and retirement funding are projected for years to come. As a consequence, Richmond has already begun to shift the burden of Virginia Retirement System ("VRS") funding down to the local level and there is pending legislation to continue this trend.
The recent school board work session demonstrated that most school board members have no intention of addressing these important concerns.
I urge each member of our county board of supervisors to weigh the fiscal impact of these structural realities as they consider the superintendent's budget proposal.


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"My boyfriend raped me, but wasn't arrested until he raped a stranger"
The father of Sam's child raped her just five weeks after giving birth.
As told to Catriona Harvey-Jenner
"I was in a relationship with the man who attacked me for two and a half years.
At first things were ok; sometimes I noticed he was different but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. He was brought up in care and I assumed he might have some issues from that.
After a year of being with him I fell pregnant, and everything changed. He became really controlling. He would say I was his. I wasn't allowed my own house key, or my own bank card, and he always kept hold of my purse and my mobile.
One day he came home with a big wad of money, and it was wet. I asked him where he'd got it and he said he'd found it in a puddle, but when I looked at my bank account I realised he'd taken it from there without asking me.
After a while, everything escalated, and he started raping me when I was eight weeks pregnant. He would use things like a handcuff to restrain me, or he'd get knives and put them up against me, telling me where the stabbing points were.
When I asked why he had knives in the bedroom, he told me they were to cut apples.
I just kept thinking 'I have to protect the baby'. I thought it would stop when the baby was born, I thought everything would change.
When the baby was born; everything was ok for five weeks. I thought it was back to normal. But then he raped me again. After he finished he said: 'Same again, tomorrow'.
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I used to ask him why he was doing this, but he'd tell me I had antenatal depression and that it was all in my head. So I started thinking that maybe it was.
It carried on, and often the baby would be crying in the Moses basket. I would say I needed to put him to bed.
'No, not until I'm finished,' my boyfriend would say. Sometimes he'd even put the baby on the bed to make him watch while he did it, and I wasn't allowed to stop him crying. I remember thinking: 'How it is going to end?'
When my son was five months old, my partner stayed out one night. He said he was going to work and while he was out, I found the strength to plan that I was going to ask him to move out. When he got back, he agreed to it, which I thought was a bit odd. But he left, and went to stay at his dad's up north.
The next day, the police knocked at the door saying they needed to ask me some questions because they had arrested him. At the police station I thought: 'This is my time. I'm safe. I'm going to let them know everything.'
I didn't know why he was being arrested, but when I found out it didn't shock me. What he did to her was exactly what he did to me. He handcuffed her, and put a knife up against her as he raped her.
Thankfully, the police managed to trace him because the handcuffs broke and he had fixed them using cable ties, which had his DNA all over them.
Although he continued to plead 'not guilty' right up until trial, on the first day he changed his plea to guilty. I was so relieved.
His prison sentence will never be enough
I gave evidence of my experience in court and he was sentenced to ten years in prison for what he did to the other girl, and it gave me a sense of justice even though he didn't get charged for what he did to me. I had been terrified that he'd walk free and be able to find me. And although I'm happy with the work the police did to get that result, it will never be enough.
He's got ten years in prison versus my lifetime of my memories. But I've been able to rebuild my life, and I'm thankful I'm here.
I'll always be angry, but after hearing other people's accounts where no sentences come out, I feel very lucky that he got a ten-year sentence. He will always be on the sex offenders register and he has a five-year extended sentence as well, which means he would go straight back to prison if he reoffends when he is released.
Before it happened, I believed rape could only happen between strangers. I didn't know it could happen in a relationship.
I also thought domestic violence was when someone got punched or hurt; but I never had any bruises, so I didn't actually know that rape was an account of domestic violence as well.
That's why I think better knowledge for women is so important. I remember I kept thinking, 'I need to help him, I need to help him', but sometimes you can't help people like that. They're too damaged. It will get worse. After rape it could be death.
If you are going through it, you need to seek help instead of changing that person. If they rape someone once, they might do it again.
Before I met him I was such a confident person; I used to sing on stage, used to do everything, and then over the two and a half years he took every little thing from me. You lose everything about yourself.
But I've got that back now, thanks to support from charities like Dorset Rape Crisis. I had counselling for 18 months and I remember thinking 'When will it get better?'
My ISVA (independent sexual violence advisor) said 'one day you'll realise you haven't thought about it in a few days, and then it'll be a couple of weeks' - and she's right, you do start to forget.
Now I volunteer for Dorset Police, which has boosted my confidence so much. I want to help other women and men as well, to stop what's happening to other people like me. I want to make people understand what rape actually is, and how it can happen to anyone of any age in any place.
It's the little things I appreciate these days. I appreciate getting dressed every day without him pulling at me. Knowing how much change I've got in my purse, knowing nothing is going to be taken off my cards. Being able to go out where I want without having to ask permission. Even having my own house keys – those are the things I appreciate now."
The Borough of Poole and Dorset Police are hosting 'Tackling Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls' on March 5th at Poole Lighthouse. Guest speakers include the inspirational Charlie Webster and feminist researcher and activist, Professor Liz Kelly; the conference aims to open up discussion, remind young women that any form of sexual violence is not okay, and to encourage those who have suffered to feel confident enough to speak up.
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/**
 * Acts as a Scala type companion object for {@link Option}/{@link Some}/{@link None}.

 * The primary purpose is to get the Scala feel of instantiating classes.

 * In Scala you can define a companion object for a class, acting as a static reference/singleton
 * for that class allowing you do define factory methods.

 * One use case is to define methods with the same name as the class and let these methods invoke
 * the constructor thus creating a nice way to create instances without using the word "new".

 * This can be achieved in java by statically importing a method and then using it.

 * The limitation is that classes may not have method with the same name as the class itself hence
 * new companion classes have to be created.

 * To be able to use it in a neat concise way one needs to statically import the method.
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 *
 *

 * import static javascalautils.OptionCompanion.Option;
 * import static javascalautils.OptionCompanion.Some;
 * import static javascalautils.OptionCompanion.None;
 *
 * Option<String> option = Option("Life is full of options");
 * Option<String> some = Some("Some is never None");
 * Option<String> none = None();
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 *
 *

 *
 * @author Peter Nerg
 * @since 1.3
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public final class OptionCompanion {

  private OptionCompanion() {}

  /**
   * Creates an instance of Option.

   * If a null value is provided then {@link None} is returned, else {@link Some}
   * containing the provided value.

   * Best used in conjunction with statically importing this method.
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   *
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   * import static javascalautils.OptionCompanion.Option;
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   * Option<String> option = Option("Life is full of options");
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   *
   * @param <T> The type for the value this {@link Option} represents
   * @param value The value this Option shall represent
   * @return The Option representing the provided value
   * @see Option#apply(Object)
   * @since 1.3
   */
  public static <T> Option<T> Option(T value) {
    return Option.apply(value);
  }

  /**
   * Creates an instance of {@link Some}.

   * Best used in conjunction with statically importing this method.
   *
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   *
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   * import static javascalautils.OptionCompanion.Some;
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   * @param <T> The type for the value this {@link Some} represents
   * @param value The value represented by this Some
   * @return The Some representing the value
   * @see Some#Some(Object)
   * @since 1.3
   */
  public static <T> Some<T> Some(T value) {
    return new Some<>(value);
  }

  /**
   * Returns an instance of {@link None}.

   * In practice returns the singleton instance for {@link None}, never creates new instances.

   * Best used in conjunction with statically importing this method.
   *
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   *
   *

   * import static javascalautils.OptionCompanion.None;
   *
   * Option<String> none = None();
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   *
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   *
   * @param <T> The type for the value this {@link None} represents
   * @return The singleton instance for {@link None}
   * @see Option#None()
   * @see Option#empty()
   * @see Option#DEFAULT_NONE
   * @since 1.3
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <T> None<T> None() {
    return Option.DEFAULT_NONE;
  }
}

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