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Honestbee ropes in Ong Lay Ann as its CEO, announces departure of CTO
Ong Lay Ann, CEO of Honestbee.
By Kristie Neo
Honestbee has roped in a new CEO from July 15.
Ong Lay Ann officially took over as the CEO of the Singapore-based grocery and food delivery startup from Brian Koo earlier this month. The firm's CTO and co-founder Jonathan Low resigned on 11 July 2019, per an announcement.
Koo had taken over as Honestbee's interim CEO in May since its previous CEO and co-founder was sacked due to financial and management troubles. Koo continues to remain a chairman at Honestbee's board. He is also the general partner and founder of Formation 8, and one of its investors.
Ong brings with him close to two decades of leadership experience in IT, commodities, real estate and infrastructure. Before this, Ong successfully turned around Perth Precast, an Australian precast concrete manufacturer, which was suffering from judicial mismanagement.
He acquired the assets of Perth Precast via Precast Australia to eventually list Precast Australia on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) via a reverse takeover into Weststar Industrial Limited.
Ong currently holds directorship positions at ASX-listed Weststar and ISDN Investments, the investment and trading arm of SGX-listed ISDN Holdings Limited.
Low, on the other hand, co-founded Honestbee in July 2015 with Joel Sng and Isaac Tay, and led its engineering team in Singapore and Taiwan, supporting the development of its products.
"It is my privilege to have worked with some of the best talent during my time here. The decision to leave Honestbee was made before Lay Ann had come on board. However, I have full confidence that Lay Ann will help Honestbee enter its next phase and recover from its recent setbacks," said Low.
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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Un Poyo Rojo at Dance Base
Until 27 August 2017
The UK debut of Poyo Rojo presents a different version of 'locker room talk'.
Rosemary Waugh
Un Poyo Rojo at Dance Base, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017.
Donald Trump famously labelled his 'grab them by the pussy' remarks 'locker room talk'. Argentinian dance project Un Poyo Rojo, however, suggests that south of the border (or 'wall' as the President would have it), men are capable of conducting themselves rather differently in changing rooms. Whether gently kicking off proceedings with a downward-facing dog or recreating the elegant collapse of a Swan Lake lead, Alfonso Barón and Luciano Rosso categorically prove that deconstructing gender norms can actually be, you know, fun (no offence Gender Studies departments, but there are more laughs in the first 10 minutes of this show than in three years of academic slog).
Along with the yoga stretches and the classic ballet choreography, we also get vintage vogueing, a few hip-hop moves and a skit with a mouthful of cigarettes that has Barón looking like a lip-syncing Dr Zoidberg. At one point, the dancers swoop across the space like giant birds of prey, but with a gentle playfulness that recalls the moment in H is for Hawk when Helen Macdonald discovers Mabel the goshawk is capable of playing games with a tiny ball of paper. This beast of the animal world is, she discovers, able to be cute and mischievous once a strong enough connection is formed with another creature. Behaviour, even for hawks, isn't entirely pre-determined by biology and nature.
It's this combination of silliness and lovingness that underlines Un Poyo Rojo. For every childish "anything you can do I can do better' piece of mimicry, there's another where every touch shared by the characters (I use 'characters' because the work is not, as Rosso later explains, autobiographical) vibrates with sexual tension. Un Poyo Rojo is a hugely enjoyable and, at times, hilarious work, but it's also one that still foregrounds the beauty and precision of the dancers' technique and movements.
The other thing worth knowing about Un Poyo Rojo – and this isn't a spoiler, it's just highlighting possibly the most impressive part of all – is that a large chunk of it is performed to live radio. In practice, this means that significant sections of the show are, to a degree, improvised according to what the analogue signal picks up whilst being tuned and un-tuned. On the night where I watched it, this basic concept was impossible to detect (I had assumed the whole thing was extremely neatly mimed to a pre-recording). Despite its joyful and flirtatious exterior, the expertise involved in performing it is considerable. Because, of course, when you've really got the skills you don't need to boast.
Un Poyo Rojo is on until 27 August 2017 at Dance Base, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017. Click here for more details.
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Q: How to check if a range contains a word? I have 3 Excel files that have in the column B the comments: ok or check. Column C contains the product numbers of the products that are either ok or need to be checked. I want to create a list (an overview) in another Excel file (4) of all the products that have the word "check" in column B in the other three Excel files (1,2,3).
I cannot use a pivot table in the three excels because it has to be refreshed manually.
Filter is also not an option. I would like to use VBA/Macros in Excel.

Excel 1

Status  Product number
check   1254968
ok      5541485
check   2153654
ok      4588999
ok      8954668
ok      6945665
check   7469968
check   6665448

Excel 2

Status  Product number
ok      7455561
ok      5145684
ok      4589666
check   4896471
check   1117347
check   5656478
ok      5256488

Excel 3

Status  Product number
ok      3389741
check   6754889
check   1489798
ok      6489646

Excel 4

Products to check
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I expect to have a list with all the product numbers that need to be checked in my 4th. Excel.

A: Create a new workbook in the same folder as the other files are located. Please consider to move away any other .xlsx files before running this macro :) If you need to run it in a specific folder and you are not able to move the files, please include a condition based on the name of the files that you do want to use. Otherwise, the below should be sufficient. Please read all comments in the code.
Sub test()

Dim wb1, wb2 As Workbook
Dim HeadSet As Boolean

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FolderName = "your/path/" 'full path name to folder where xlsx is located
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HeadSet = False 'for fun

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            For i = .Range("B1").End(xlDown).Row To .Range("B20000").End(xlUp).Row 'change .sheets(1) 1 = index to > your index, or "sheetname"
                If LCase(Trim(.Range("B" & i).Value)) = "check" Then 'checks lowercase, so condition should be lower
                    'create headers in output sheet
                    If HeadSet = False Then
                        wb1.Sheets(1).Range("A1").Value = "Products"
                        wb1.Sheets(1).Range("A1").Value = "Result of check"
                        HeadSet = True
                    End If
                    'change wb1.sheets(index) to your index, or the sheet name between ""
                    wb1.Sheets(1).Range("A" & wb1.Sheets(1).Range("A20000").End(xlUp).Row + 1).Value = .Range("C" & i).Value
                    wb1.Sheets(1).Range("B" & wb1.Sheets(1).Range("A20000").End(xlUp).Row + 1).Value = .Range("B" & i).Value
                End If
            Next i 'next iteration
        End With
    wb2.Close False 'close workbook

    file_name = Dir 'go to next file
Loop

End Sub

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Not much anyone can or will do about the 1st link, but the second one shows that young people especially, should be made very aware of.
I was surprised to read about the 25 pound a day pensioners. My income is actually a tad less than that and I've had to learn to cope.
I started working for a living back in 1964 and up until I retired 12 yrs ago, had never been employed in all that time. Worked hard, payed taxes and saved what I could. I was always led to believe that I would qualify for and receive a reasonable pension when I retired. Then the OZ Govt changed the rules and moved the goalposts!!! I qualify for the pension as I believed....but only while I am resident in the country!! Can't and don't get a penny from them now.
I can't afford to move back there...and even if I could, my family couldn't come with me.
PS. Out of idle curiosity, I just checked the exchange rate and my daily income is actually a bit under 17 pounds per day.
Sadly, there are retired Ozzies living overseas in a much worse situation than me.
Our Australian friends have move back to Australia but are finding it very very expensive they live the life here in Bulgaria so now they are paying a high price plus they will have to go back to work to survive.
I know what you mean Berni...I can't claim for anything at all as I don't reside in the country anymore and Bulgaria has nothing for me because I'm not a citizen...a real Catch 22 situation.
What really gets up my nose...if you arrive in a boat with no ID, no way of proving where you came from etc...you will be paid many hundreds of $$$$s per week, given a house, food and all sorts of help, but an Australian born citizen who served 22yrs of his life in a uniform, serving under the national flag, paid taxes all of his working life and now lives overseas....is entitled to absolutely nothing!!
If, on the other hand, you spent just 12 months as a politician...even at the lowest level of Govt...you are entitled to a minimum pension of some 240,000 dollars per year and a lot of perks to go with it. The higher up you served, the higher the pension will be...and there are no contributions deducted from their salary...it's all free!!
Something is very, very smelly with that system.


Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) has appointed respected insolvency sector figure Mike Norris to its Advisory Board. Norris joins AiB as a non-executive board member to offer independent challenge and professional expertise to the Executive Agency of the Scottish Government.
Since 2008, Norris has headed up the UK, Canadian and Dutch operations for Max Recovery, the leading purchaser of consumer receivables where customers have been sequestrated or have signed a protected trust deed. Max Recovery has around 11,000 open insolvency claims in Scotland. He commenced his career in the insolvency sector in 1984 when he joined the UK Insolvency Service. Over the course of a 23 year career there, he moved through operations, human resources and investigations teams before becoming director of policy, where he led the team that developed, took through Parliament and implemented the personal insolvency provisions of The Enterprise Act 2002. He also chaired the process to review the operation of the IVA market which led to the establishment of the IVA Protocol and the IVA Standing Committee.
Norris has represented the UK government on a number of insolvency working groups at the European Commission and on the insolvency working group at the UN Commission on International Trade Law. He retains a strong focus and interest on Scottish insolvency matters and has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament on a number of occasions during the passage of various pieces of legislation.
The appointment of Norris to the AiB Advisory Board comes in the wake of fellow insolvency experts Bryan Jackson and Laurie Manson, who joined the board last year. All new members join AiB at a time when the Agency is seeking to update the regulations governing corporate insolvency in Scotland and will work alongside the Agency's existing non-executive board members Yvonne MacDermid, chief executive of Money Advice Scotland and former director of long term savings at Abbey National, Kate Dunlop.
Accountant in Bankruptcy chief executive Richard Dennis said: "Following Mike's appointment, our Advisory Board is as strong as it has ever been, with representation from across our stakeholder base. His background in the creditors' sphere compliments our other members' knowledge of the debt advice, legal, corporate insolvency and restructuring sectors, ensuring we have a real depth of skills and experience to draw upon.
AiB is Scotland's insolvency service and is responsible for administering the process of personal bankruptcy, the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) and recording corporate insolvencies in Scotland.


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This Disney World Resort Is Getting a 'Moana' Inspired Makeover
The resort's reopening has been delayed but for good reason.
By Kelly Corbett
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In July, Disney World reopened its doors to visitors after having been closed for nearly three months. The majority of Disney resorts immediately followed the theme park's lead; however, four have still yet to open.
According to the Walt Disney World website, Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, and Disney's Art of Animation Resort will all reopen before the end of 2020. That leaves one resort left—Disney's Polynesian Village Resort— which will not reopen until summer 2021.
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The delay in reopening is due to far more than just putting necessary safety protocols into place. A Disney spokesperson confirmed to Travel+ Leisure that the resort will actually undergo a special renovation project while closed. What type of renovation project, exactly? Well, if you're a big Moana fan, you may want to look into booking a Disney vacation next summer.
The spokesperson told the outlet that the resort will receive a Moana-style upgrade. While details are limited, the rooms will be refreshed to incorporate patterns, colors, and textures that nod to the Pacific Ocean and its islands. It was not disclosed whether all rooms will receive this treatment, or just a select few. We'll keep you updated as we learn more.
For now, the Polynesian Villas and Bungalows will remain open as the resort undergoes this facelift. As for the other Disney resorts, the reopening dates are as follows:
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa will reopen on September 21, 2020.
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort will reopen on October 14, 2020.
Disney's Art of Animation Resort will reopen on November 1, 2020.
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We know it's taken a while, but we think you will agree it was worth the wait. The road from Nylstroom to Vaalwater is now not just free of potholes – it's a brand new extra-wide sheet of glistening asphalt, complete with cool duel carriageway bits up the hills. The Road to the Waterberg is now Open. ….. Come and check it out for yourself.
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Continue on this road for about 24.5km, then turn right, signed to Sterkstroom. This is now a gravel road. Continue on this road for about 3km until you see a triangular "beware of cattle" sign on your left. On your right just after this is a yellow sign saying "Charles Baber", with a picture of a bull on it. Turn right here onto the farm road. The road runs straight for about 3km. At this point you will see a game fence and gate in front of you. Don't go through this game gate, instead follow the road you are on as is bends to the left. It splits into two, keep to the right hand road. You basically now follow this road until you come to the cottages. It takes a 90 degree right hand turn after about 500m, then is straight for another 500m. The road then forks. Don't turn left here, instead veer right over a cattle grid and into the game fenced area. Follow the road and you cross another cattle grid and arrive at Waterberg Cottages, near the tennis court. Turn right around the tennis court and follow the signs to reception.
Turn right after 10km onto a gravel road signed to Vier-en-Twintig-Rivier. After 8.5km turn left signed to Naauwpoort. After 7.5km turn left at a large yellow sign saying 'Charles Baber' with a picture of a Bosmara bull on it. Travel a further 2km along a farm road, keeping left at a fork. You will arrive at the homestead, and we will direct you then to you accommodation.
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The Evolution Of Our Beer Design And Packaging Process
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Those of you who have followed the dark hop journey since its early days will know that while our distinctive logo remains our signature identity, the design of our cans and cartons has undergone a natural evolution.
This is because we locked down our core product line, brought our beers to venues and retail stores, and expanded our brewing repertoire into the diverse world of collaborations, limited release beers, and recon series beers.
In this post, we'll revisit our original packaging and labeling before discussing our current approach and the design process behind the look and feel of our cans and cartons.
It's been a fun campaign that dates back to our packaging and label design until we first opened our doors to our Burley brewery (HQ) in June 2016.
In fact, if you want to get old school, take a look at the bottles of our first batch of Gypsy Brewed Eggnog in 2014. At the time, opening our own brewery was still a flashpoint in the eyes of myself, Eddie and Goffs.
We had three weeks before brewing the beer and naming the brewery brand and label. The founders agreed that "Black Hops" was the best of a bunch of really bad names, and I Googled "military font", downloaded the first free font, and created our first "logo ".
After experimenting with the military helicopter on the label, we landed on a simple black label with a military-inspired FREE logo and a subtle speckled texture. The logo remained in place until 2015,
when we decided to get serious about our business and planned to open our own brewery and restaurant, at which time we underwent a complete redesign, including the logo today.
One of them is the new branding of the first bottled beers we produced, as shown below. Note that these are physical models and not photos, in those days we couldn't afford a professional photographer to take pictures of our product!
April 2017 was a watershed moment in the development of Black Hops with the launch of our signature beer, Pale Ale, which coincided with our shift of all beer from bottles to cans for many reasons, which we talk about here on the blog.
The original design of our pale ale cans, and the 12 cartons they came out in, were designed by me and talented designer Matt Vergotis, who was instrumental in many of the early concepts related to the dark hops logo and package design.
I found Matt on the Dribbble site, not really expecting to find a local designer, but one of the best I've found on the Gold Coast!
Related: Branding Case Study: Dark Hops Pale Ale
We invented a universal printed can with a label of the beer itself. The can is a simple, eye-catching (almost) black design with a military-inspired mesh band at the bottom, our logo prominently displayed, and an enlarged individual flower bet.
We also added the slogan "The least concealed operation in the brewing process" to the top of the can.
We designed the stickers to be very thin, perhaps 20% of the can's height, so they didn't overwhelm the aesthetics of the can and, more importantly, they were inexpensive for us to print.
As the information needed on the cans increased, we lengthened the labels to accommodate the new inclusions (but never widened them).
This is a beer can next to a wine glass designed by one of our earliest professional photographers.
Speaking of cartons, we were looking for a more suitable price point to enter the market, so we decided to go for 12 packs instead of the traditional 24 packs. We were also looking at the cost of sending online, and for the Sendle system we were using at the time,
12 packs was less than 5kg and reasonably priced. Printing full-color cartons was both expensive and inflexible, so we printed a generic carton, as well as a beer-specific label.
From a design perspective, it was a great start to our journey and we received industry recognition at the 2017 Eibar Beer Awards, where we won the gold medal for light beer packaging.


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1 million Europeans call for GMO labelling on milk, meat and eggs
Press release - 5 February, 2007
Greenpeace today delivered to Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health, a petition containing 1,000,000 citizens' signatures calling for the labelling of milk, meat, eggs and other animal products where the animals have been fed with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
One million signatures wind their way to the European Commission in Brussels.
Greenpeace collected the signatures in 21 EU member states between May 2005 and December 2006, with the help of consumer groups and other environmental organisations. >From Ireland to Poland and Finland to Greece, ordinary people have demanded the right to know whether the food they buy is produced using GMOs.
Public participation in decision-making was a cornerstone of the EU Constitution proposal, which the German EU Presidency is seeking to revive. It grants civil society the right to call for Community legislation on key principles enshrined in the Constitution: these include citizens' right to information and freedom of expression.(1)
The statement on the petition says: "We demand mandatory labelling of animal products based on GMOs because of citizens' right to information, a fundamental right in the European Union." According to a number of surveys, most consumers would choose not to eat GM-fed animal products.
A vast loophole in EU law exempts animal products from labelling requirements: foods like cooking oil, ketchup and cake mix have to be labelled if the ingredients include 0.9% GMOs or more, and animal feed packets must be similarly labelled. But food products derived from animals fed with GMOs - meat, milk, eggs - do not need to be labelled at all.
"This petition is a call for the EU to stop letting GMOs in through the back door of Europe and onto our plates through a loophole in the law," said Marco Contiero of Greenpeace European Unit. "We will be asking Commissioner Kyprianou today, when we deliver the million signatures, to grant citizens the right to choose for themselves whether to eat food from animals fed with GMOs."
Over 90% of GM crops imported into the EU are soya and maize destined for animal feed. The diet of farm animals in Europe is typically composed of up to 30% GMOs. This amounts to 20 million tonnes of GMOs entering the EU food chain each year without consumers being told.
"Under the present law, consumers have no option but to eat food produced using GMOs," said Marco Contiero. "Taking GMOs out of the animal food chain in Europe will help protect the environment from the uncontrolled release of GM crops, which threaten health and biodiversity."
Other contacts: Marco Contiero, Greenpeace European Unit policy adviser on genetic engineering, tel +32 (0)2 274 1906 (desk) or +32 (0)477 777034 (mobile), Katharine Mill, Greenpeace European Unit media officer, tel +32 (0)2 274 1903 (desk) or +32 (0)496 156 229 (mobile),
Notes: Greenpeace will deliver the petition to Mr Kyprianou this morning at 11.45 in the VIP corner of the Commission press room. Activity outside the Berlaymont from 11.30. Photo + interview opportunity. The petition is online at http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering 1. According to Article I-47(4) of the proposed EU Constitution: "not less than one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the initiative of inviting the Commission […] to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Constitution".
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Those who prize freedom must welcome pledge of unity by 19 parties, says Chidambaram
Remark a day after Opposition leaders announced a joint protests across the country from September 20 to 30
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Our Bureau, PTI | New Delhi | Published 21.08.21, 03:21 PM
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said those who prize freedom above every other right must welcome the pledge of unity made by 19 political parties and supported by the Samajwadi Party.
Chidambaram's remarks came a day after leaders of 19 Opposition parties announced that they would organise joint protests across the country from September 20 to 30, and urged people to save India for a better tomorrow.
After a virtual meeting of the Opposition parties, where they stressed unitedly moving forward to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the leaders also put out an 11-point charter of demands before the government.
Referring to the development, Chidambaram said those who prize freedom above every other right must welcome the pledge of unity.
"Bhakts and trolls will ridicule the show of unity, but they should remember the famous words of the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller. Cynics will scoff at the effort, but they will realize one day that we are fighting for the liberty of all people, including the cynics," the former Union minister tweeted.
On Friday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged the top Opposition leaders to rise above political compulsions to take on the BJP in the interest of the nation and start planning "systematically" to realise the "ultimate goal" of winning the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to provide a government that believes in the values of the freedom movement and provisions of the Constitution.
Gandhi gave the clarion call at a virtual meeting of leaders of 19 Opposition parties including NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and four non-Congress chief ministers -- TMC's Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), DMK's M K Stalin (Tamil Nadu), Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray (Maharashtra) and JMM's Hemant Soren (Jharkhand) -- hosted by her.
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav wrote a letter to the Congress president, expressing his inability to join the meeting.
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Lunar Rover Walk: Mayor Battle to escort Lunar Rover Replica from VBC to Courthouse Square July 19
Fifty years ago, Huntsvillians gathered on the steps of the Madison County Courthouse to celebrate an American achievement unlike any other. America landed men on the moon safely, and Huntsville played a leading role in the historic journey.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission, Mayor Battle will join U.S. Space & Rocket Center CEO Deborah Barnhart, representatives from Polaris, Huntsville businesses and members of the public on the Lunar Rover Walk, happening Friday, July 19, at 5 p.m.
The walk will begin on the patio at the Von Braun Center arena and conclude at the Madison County Courthouse, paying homage to lunar celebrations of Huntsville's past.
In preparation for the Lunar Rover Walk, Polaris, an all-terrain vehicle manufacturer located in Huntsville, built a replica of the 1960s era Lunar Rover that will be escorted on the walk by Mayor Battle. The one-mile Lunar Rover Walk will be live-streamed as participants make their way to the courthouse.
WATCH LIVE: The walk will be live-streamed from the City of Huntsville and Office of the Mayor Facebook pages.
"Huntsville has always been a city on the cutting edge," Mayor Battle said. "It was NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville that developed the Lunar Rover and the propulsion systems that carried Americans to the moon. Our community continues to develop the technology of the future, and we look forward to paying tribute to humankind's historic journey to the heavens at the Lunar Rover Walk this Friday."
After arriving at the Courthouse Square, festivities will continue with "Dancing in the Streets," a Downtown Huntsville, Inc. event, which includes a digital lightshow depicting Huntsville's role in the race to the moon, food trucks, exhibits from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, music and more.
Decades ago, Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who led Huntsville's NASA team, spoke of the indelible Huntsville spirit in recognizing these significant milestones of human accomplishment, "My friends, there was dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth, and there was dancing again when the first Americans landed on the moon."
Von Braun left Huntsville with a challenge, of sorts, saying: "I'd like to ask you don't hang up your dancing slippers."
"I think it's safe to say Huntsville has never taken off its dancing slippers," Battle said. "And, when it comes to space exploration and pushing the boundaries of innovation, we're not leaving the dance floor any time soon."
To register a company for the Lunar Rover Walk, e-mail Beverly Lowe, Special Events Coordinator for the City of Huntsville, at Beverly.Lowe@HuntsvilleAL.gov. Members of the public do not need to register to participate in the walk and are encouraged to join the festivities.
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It can also be found in Asia: Russian Federation and it is also found in Africa.

Subspecies
Erythromma lindenii has three subspecies. The following are the subspecies.
Erythromma lindenii lacustre (Beutler, 1985)
Erythromma lindenii lindenii (Selys, 1840)
Erythromma lindenii zernyi (Schmidt, 1938)

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PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition is a 1999 golf video game developed by Headgate Studios and published by Sierra Sports for Microsoft Windows. The game includes eight golf courses and a golf swing method known as TrueSwing, which uses the movement of the computer mouse to simulate a golf swing in real-time as the player makes the shot. Also included is the ReadyPlay feature, allowing golfers in a multiplayer group to play at their own pace without waiting for others to finish their turn. The game was praised for its variety, including its TrueSwing and ReadyPlay features, although its golf commentary was criticized. The game was followed by a sequel, PGA Championship Golf 2000.

Gameplay
PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition includes seven real-life courses: Black Diamond Ranch, Coeur d'Alene Resort, Pasatiempo, Pete Dye Golf Club, Prince Course, Royal Birkdale, and Sahalee Country Club. A fictional eighth course, Jocassee Shoals, is also featured. The real courses each start with a short film which serves as an overview of the course. The Course Architect is a feature which allows the player to create custom golf courses, with options that include hills, valleys, trees, and sound effects.

PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition features 12 game modes, including four-ball, match, scramble, and skins. A practice mode is also featured. The game includes professional golfer Tom Lehman and several default golfers as playable characters. Additional golfers can be custom-made by the player, with selectable options such as gender, skin tone, hair, and hats. Computer-controlled golfers can be set to gradually learn from the actual player's golfing and thus become more challenging for the player. The player can choose to let a caddie select the golf clubs, and candies can also track the statistics of the player's shots to gradually learn which clubs work best in certain scenarios. Rather than using an aim mechanism, the player must rotate the golfer's position to aim for the hole. The game includes a traditional three-click golf swing method, as well as the TrueSwing method, which uses the movement of the computer mouse to simulate the golf swing in real-time as the player makes the shot. On the green, the player can use a ground-based grid to aid with putting. The player can also make use of mulligans and gimmes, and can select post-shot animations, such as falling to the ground in frustration at a poor shot. The game features golf commentary by Mark Lye and Grant Boone. Various camera angles are featured as well.

Multiplayer options include modem and LAN, and WON.net was also an option at the time of release. The ReadyPlay feature allows each golfer in a multiplayer group to play at their own pace, rather than waiting for each golfer to finish their turn.

Development and release
In July 1998, Sierra Sports announced an agreement with PGA Interactive to create PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition, scheduled for release that October. The game was developed by Headgate Studios. The game's director was Vance Cook, who also served as a designer and software engineer. Cook, who founded Headgate Studios, had previously worked on the Links golf games and Sierra's Front Page Sports: Golf.

To replicate the courses, Cook and his team would survey each real course, then they would fly an airplane 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the course and take aerial photographs. The survey data and photographs were then put through the process of photogrammetry. Following that, a photographer would visit the courses to take pictures of trees, bushes, ground textures, and the clubhouses. The pictures were then taken to Headgate's office in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the courses were then created. Each course took three to four months to complete, with a team of three or four people. The Jocassee Shoals course was created using the Course Architect. The golfers consist of 400 animated motions and are made of up to 20,000 polygons. The game's TrueSwing was previously featured in Front Page Sports: Golf, and was enhanced for PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition.

On May 20, 1999, Sierra Sports announced the completion of the game. In North America, copies of PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition began shipping in late May 1999, and were expected to be on sale by June 1. The game was released for Microsoft Windows. The Sierra Sports Golf Association, a sports league created by WON.net, hosted various online golf events for players of the game. In addition, players using the Course Architect would post their custom-made courses online to share with others. As of July 1999, more than 35 custom courses had been posted on WON.net. By September 1999, the game had been released in the United Kingdom. By August 2000, the game had been re-released in the U.K as part of the Sierra Originals budget label.

Reception

The game received favorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.

Some critics considered the gameplay inferior to the Links, Jack Nicklaus, and PGA Tour series, although Ewan MacDonald of Eurogamer preferred it over the Links series and considered it one of the better golf games available. Mike Snider of USA Today called the game "intriguing, but not of championship stature." William Abner of Computer Games Strategy Plus called the game "an enigma," writing, "It has the best swing method in the industry, a powerful course designer, addictive gameplay, and yet it feels unfinished." Brett Todd of Computer Gaming World considered it a forgettable game.

The graphics received some praise, although they were also considered inferior to the Links and Jack Nicklaus games. Macdonald called the game a "strange hybrid" of 3D and 2D graphics. Gordon Goble of CNET Gamecenter considered the graphics realistic but stated that they had a "dull, almost drab look" that was lacking in color. Todd considered the courses to be "nicely drawn, but plain," and criticized their similarities to each other, as did Paul Rosano of Hartford Courant. Martin Korda of PC Zone called the graphics "smooth, if not spectacular, although it's a shame that the crowd are so static; they can also stand right in front of your golfer when he takes a shot, which is a little sloppy." Chris Buxton of PC Gamer (U.K.) criticized the stagnant and "awful-looking" spectators, while Abner wrote that they "are never watching the action. Instead, they are staring off into oblivion, apparently trying to get a good look at the blimp overhead." Steve Butts of IGN stated that although the spectators are rendered in 2D, they "look very, very real."

Todd criticized the cartoonish golfers, calling them "little more than animated mannequins, devoid of any facial features." Rosano stated that the golfers were "just about the goofiest around," calling them "awkward and cartoonish." Butts noted that most of the golfers' facial designs looked alike and that "the women are a little weird looking." Snider wrote that the Tom Lehman character "falls short of his likeness". Buxton noted an issue in which "the player animation stutters, especially when there's more than one golfer on screen." Goble noted that golfers were "capable of warping from one location to another--a phenomenon that may save time but looks totally bizarre." Marc Saltzman of GamePro criticized the game's "exaggerated" post-shot player animations, stating that in one instance, the golfer "looked like he was having a heart attack". Stephen Poole of GameSpot wrote "what little the game lacks in visual appeal it more than makes up for with an excellent interface, lifelike golfer animations, and very good ball physics." Other critics were mixed on whether the game physics were superior to the Links series.

Some praised the sound, although the commentary was generally criticized. Todd referred to the commentators as "Nostradamus and Jeane Dixon" because of their "uncanny knack for predicting where your ball is going to drop." Goble wrote that "much of the shot-making drama is negated by announcers who broadcast your ball's final resting spot almost immediately after you've swung your club." Rob Smolka of PC Gamer (U.S.) criticized the commentators for being "extremely repetitive" and "omniscient", and stated that their ability to essentially predict where the ball will land "really removes any drama from those close-call shots." Smolka further stated that the commentators "become babbling idiots around the green, congratulating you on poorly played chips and pitches, and at times misleading you on which direction your ball will break on putts." Abner disliked the commentary and its inaccuracies, writing that the commentators "have a peculiar notion as to what constitutes a good shot." Abner also criticized the commentators' "enhanced future seeing ability," which "kills any tension that watching your shot skirt with trouble can provide."

House considered the commentary to be "without doubt, the weakest and most annoying part of the game," writing that the commentators often repeated each other's comments and that they had limited vocabulary which quickly became tedious. PC Accelerator also stated that the commentary quickly becomes annoying. Macdonald called the commentary "commendable", accurate, and often informative, while Buxton wrote that the commentators occasionally gave poor advice. Chris Capell of Sports Gaming Network criticized the commentary for being repetitive and incorrect, but otherwise stated that it was of "high quality, and very authentic." Saltzman wrote that the commentary and crowd reaction "is often inconsistent with what's happening on the course," noting one instance in which the crowd "cheered wildly when I hit the ball into the trees." Goble stated that although the spectators' "cheers and groans sound very authentic, it is very strange that you don't hear a peep until your ball has come to a full stop."

Critics praised the ReadyPlay feature. House called it an "enormous innovation" and wrote, "No longer do you have to sit idly by while the other three golfers in your foursome hack away." Abner called it "both a blessing and a curse," stating that it speeds up the gameplay but that other players occasionally "stand in the way of a shot making it impossible to see where you are hitting; this is especially frustrating when on the green." Smolka also acknowledged that it speeds up the gameplay, but that it "can be a bit disconcerting - especially when you're the first to reach the green and, while you're lining up your putt, a stray golf ball comes flying right at you!"

The game's variety was praised, as well as the TrueSwing method. Abner called the TrueSwing "the biggest selling point", while stating that the three-click method was "far too easy to use and simply feels tacked on." Praising the TrueSwing method, House wrote that the game "achieves what I had begun to think of as the unattainable Holy Grail of golf simulation". Rosano wrote, "The feel of the mouse swing is truly incredible, way ahead of the competition." Capell stated that the TrueSwing was "a surprisingly natural and easy method to pick up, and has depth you wouldn't believe."

The Course Architect was considered easy to use, although Butts considered its interface to be overwhelmed by options. While some critics praised the course designer, others expressed disappointment that it does not allow the creation of holes in which the ball has to travel across water. Others noted that the program would freeze or crash. In his September 1999 review of the game, Rosano wrote that following the recent release of a patch, "the architect has repeatedly crashed at the beginning of a new session, something Sierra must address immediately." In addition, some critics noted issues in which the game would crash or freeze when playing on WON.net, although Goble noted that the website's support of the game "is still in its early stages and should improve in the future." The issue was ongoing as of November 1999.

The game sold 48,105 copies in the U.S. by April 2000.

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Department for Interethnic Relations, at Gaudeamus Book Fair: Three art albums to be launched
Three art albums, made under the projects and partnerships of the Department for Interethnic Relations (DRI) and printed by the "Official Journal," which celebrates 190 years of existence, will be launched, on Saturday, at the Gaudeamus Book Fair, told Agerpres.
The launches will take place from 1.00 pm, at stand 71 in the Romexpo Exhibition Centre (pavilion B2), the department states in a post on Facebook.
* "Empathy along the Danube" presents the works of 10 contemporary artists belonging to national minorities in Romania and the neighboring countries - Austria, Serbia, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovenia - in a single album, part of a larger project, initiated by DRI under the auspices of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (SUERD), a project that also includes a virtual exhibition.
* The album "The illustration of Turks and Tatars in modern Romanian art" will be presented in Bucharest, after the releases in Sighisoara and Constanta. It is a bilingual publication, part of a project carried out by the Department for Interethnic Relations, together with the Institute for the Study of Minority Issues, the Bucharest Municipality Museum, the National Museum of Art of Romania, the Constanta Art Museum and the Tulcea Art Museum within the "Gavrila Simion" Eco-Museum Research Institute.
* The most recent editorial appearance is the album "Images of diversity", materialized within the framework of a several-year partnership of the Department with the "Inter-Art" Foundation Aiud, a project through which visual artists belonging to national minorities and the majority create together, year after year, in creative camps, and later on the result of these workshops is presented in exhibitions and art publications.
The works were printed in a limited edition and are distributed free of charge at various events in which the Department for Interethnic Relations participates.
The launch events of the fair will be attended by the Secretary of State of the Department for Interethnic Relations Lacziko Katalin, the Secretary od State in the Ministry of Culture, Demeter Andras Istvan, presidential adviser Sergiu Nistor, the DRI adviser Oana Ionel, the deputy director of the Bucharest Municipality Museum, Elena Olariu and the president of the "Inter-Art" Foundation Aiud, Stefan Balog.
The Department for Interethnic Relations has organized an ethnic diversity stand at Gaudeamus, dedicated to national minority organizations: the Association of Italians in Romania RO.AS.IT.; Association of Macedonians in Romania; the Community of the Lipovan Russians in Romania; the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania; the Union of Armenians of Romania; the Bulgarian Union of Banat - Romania; the Union of Croats of Romania; the Cultural Union of Ruthenians of Romania; the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania; the Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars of Romania; the Hellenic Union of Romania; the Pro-Europe Roma Party; the Union of Poles of Romania; the Union of Serbs of Romania and the Union of Ukrainians of Romania.
Literature books, various press publications and works dedicated to the traditions of national minorities, photos and CDs can be purchased from the Diversity Stand.


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Once you have selected all the items you wish to order simply go to checkout and here you will see the three leaf symbol for MiRewards to the right of each product that you have enough available Mirewards points for. For products that you can redeem this symbol will be displayed and you will simply click on this symbol. You will then see the product value go to zero as well as the PV.
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A) Yes. You may rejoin MiRewards once you cancel. To rejoin MiRewards, you will need to sign up for AutoShip. If you rejoin after 30 days you will not retain the points that you had previously earned and will start over.
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A) Yes. Once you cancel MiRewards, your unused accumulated point are locked. If you rejoin MiRewards within 30 days, your points are unlocked. If you do not rejoin MiRewards within 30 days, your points expire.
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A) AutoShip is perfect for Customers who enjoy regularly receiving Miessence products to the value of 75 Points (PV*)or more.
AutoShip can be set up to run monthly or bi-monthly (every other month).
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A) AutoShip is designed to protect a Representative against missing out on bonuses.
Active Miessence Independent Representatives are required to place a minimum monthly 75 PV* order to claim bonuses.
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Representatives on a 75 Point AutoShip can bypass AutoShip by placing an order 75PV or greater during the calendar month, prior to when their AutoShip is set to run.
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2 Timothy's End Time Warning.
3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
Video: Prophecy in the News - The Hidden Faith of Our Forefathers
Uploaded on Nov 8, 2010
Gary and Chris Pinto discuss Chris's book "The Hidden Faith of our Forefathers."
How Radical Muslims are Recruiting Americans
Original Article: Religion TodayJim Denison, Denison Forum on Truth and Culture
"If you guys only knew how much fun we have over here; this is the real Disneyland. You need to come here and join us, and take pleasure in this fun." So said Muhammad Al-Amriki in a video titled "Minnesota's Martyrs: The Path to Paradise."
Al-Amriki was born Troy Kastigar and lived in Minneapolis. He apparently died several years ago while fighting in Somalia. The video is part of a larger strategy by al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda proxy group in Somalia that staged the Kenya massacre last month. They're in the news again after the aborted U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 attempt to capture one of their leaders.
Bill O'Reilly Wants To Destroy Your Faith In Jesus And The Bible.
"But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time…" Jude 1
Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly does not believe that the bible is true or trustworthy, and in his new book "Killing Jesus", he explains why. O'Reilly also says that, after casting doubt on the entire New Testament and mocking the words of Jesus, that the "Holy Spirit inspired him to write it".
"This is best available evidence according to Bill," O'Reilly responded.
From NewsMax: Bill O'Reilly didn't become the most popular personality in cable television news by being noncontroversial. And he told CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he wasn't afraid to spark controversy in his new historical thriller, "Killing Jesus."
Though he used the New Testament's four Gospels as source material, he left out parts he doesn't believe happened as written. For instance, Jesus didn't say, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do" from the cross, the Catholic O'Reilly maintains. It wouldn't have been physically possible, he said.
"You die on a cross from being suffocated," he said. "You can hardly breathe. We believe Jesus said that, but we don't believe he said it on the cross because nobody could have heard it."
People have a right to take the Bible literally, he said, but in the case of "Killing Jesus," he was trying to be historically accurate. He never says in the book that Jesus was the Son of God because his book is not intended to be religious.
"So is this the Gospel according to Bill?" asked "60 Minutes" correspondent Norah O'Donnell.
The most important thing he learned while writing the book was that Jesus of Nazareth became the most famous human being who ever lived, yet he had no infrastructure. He had no government, no public relations expert, no money and no structure, O'Reilly said.
"It's never been done."
"Killing Jesus," follows two other best-sellers by the former high school history teacher, "Killing Lincoln" and "Killing Kennedy," about two U.S. presidents assassinated a century apart. He writes the books with a co-author who does extensive historical research. O'Reilly uses the material to rewrite a fast-moving, compelling story.
He admits the titles are sensational, but explains that's the only way to be heard in the marketplace. "I just want to write about important things in a very entertaining way," he said. "That's the formula."
While the book isn't religious, O'Reilly is. He says he was inspired to write "Killing Jesus" by the Holy Spirit. He says he just woke up in the middle of the night and thought, "Killing Jesus."
Asked by O'Donnell why the Holy Spirit would mark him as "the chosen one," O'Reilly denied any such title. Instead, he said, he is "just one of many who have been given the gift. I can write and I can bloviate on TV."
O'Reilly now makes more than $20 million a year through Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," a syndicated column and a live tour he does with comedian Dennis Miller. Two of O'Reilly's third-grade classmates told O'Donnell he used to get the whole class in trouble by arguing with the nun who taught the class.
"Ain't America great?" O'Reilly responded. "I was a little thug, and now I'm getting paid millions of dollars for being a big thug." source – NewsMax
Pope: Church Will Fail if Mired In Rules for gays,Abortion.
Well it hasn't taken long for this pope to show his true colors. Watering down the gospel and straying from Biblical Christianity. I am sure we will see much more apostacy to come from this wolf.
20 hr ago Nicole Winfield and Rachel Zoll of Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is warning that the Catholic Church's moral edifice might "fall like a house of cards" if it doesn't balance its divisive rules about abortion, gays and contraception with the greater need to make the church a merciful, more welcoming place for all.
Six months into his papacy, Francis set out his vision for the church and his priorities as pope in a remarkably candid and lengthy interview with La Civilta Cattolica, the Italian Jesuit magazine. It was published simultaneously Thursday in other Jesuit journals, including America magazine in the U.S.
In the 12,000-word article, Francis expands on his ground-breaking comments over the summer about gays and acknowledges some of his own faults. He sheds light on his favorite composers, artists, authors and films — Mozart, Caravaggio, Dostoevsky and Fellini's "La Strada" — and says he prays even while at the dentist's office.
But his vision of what the church should be stands out, primarily because it contrasts so sharply with many of the priorities of his immediate predecessors John Paul II and Benedict XVI. They were both intellectuals for whom doctrine was paramount, an orientation that guided the selection of generations of bishops and cardinals around the globe.
Francis said the dogmatic and the moral teachings of the church were not all equivalent.
"The church's pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently," Francis said. "We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."
Rather, he said, the Catholic Church must be like a "field hospital after battle," healing the wounds of its faithful and going out to find those who have been hurt, excluded or have fallen away.
"It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars!" Francis said. "You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else."
"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules," he lamented. "The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. And the ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all."
The admonition is likely to have sharp reverberations in the United States, where some bishops have already publicly voiced dismay that Francis hasn't hammered home church teaching on abortion, contraception and homosexuality — areas of the culture wars where U.S. bishops often put themselves on the front lines. U.S. bishops were also behind Benedict's crackdown on American nuns, who were accused of letting doctrine take a backseat to their social justice work caring for the poor — precisely the priority that Francis is endorsing.
Just last week, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote in his diocesan newspaper that he was "a little bit disappointed" that Francis hadn't addressed abortion since being elected.
Francis acknowledged that he had been "reprimanded" for not speaking out on such issues. But he said he didn't need to.
"We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible," he said. "The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time."
Francis, the first Jesuit to become pope, was interviewed by Civilta Cattolica's editor, the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, over three days in August at the Vatican hotel where Francis chose to live rather than the papal apartments. The Vatican vets all content of the journal, and the pope approved the Italian version of the article.
Nothing Francis said in this or other interviews indicate any change in church teaching. But he has set a different tone and signaled new priorities compared to Benedict and John Paul — priorities that have already been visible in his simple style, his outreach to the most marginalized and his insistence that priests be pastors, not bureaucrats.
Two months ago, Francis caused a sensation during an inflight news conference when he was asked about gay priests. "Who am I to judge?" about the sexual orientation of priests, as long as they are searching for God and have good will, he responded.
Francis noted in the latest interview that he had merely repeated church teaching (though he again neglected to repeat church teaching that says while homosexuals should be treated with dignity and respect, homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered.")
But he continued: "A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?'
"We must always consider the person. In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy. When that happens, the Holy Spirit inspires the priest to say the right thing."
The key, he said, is for the church to welcome, not exclude and show mercy, not condemnation.
"This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity," he said.
Religion Writer Rachel Zoll reported from New York.
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The TerrAfrica partnership is a US$4 billion, 12-year campaign supported by the African Union, World Bank, United Nations, European Commission, and regional sub-Saharan African governments, and aimed at fighting current, and preventing future desertification and other land degradation in Africa through sustainable land management.

It began October 2005.

See also
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

External links
Terrafrica
NEPAD page on TerrAfrica

African Union
Non-profit organisations based in South Africa
Environmental organisations based in South Africa
Environment of Africa


Periodic Cleaning Solutions was founded in Worcestershire with the intention of servicing the ever growing market requirements for specialist commercial cleaning. We are a midlands based National Company, with a dedicated division "Unique Support Services" operating in London in recognition that certain clients within the Capital will expect a London orientated service delivery model. Our in house Operatives are fully trained and DBS checked, and our CSCS Accredited Managed Site Services teams incorporate both IPAF and PASMA trained Operatives. Our fleet is new, unbranded and tracked 24hrs a day by our Helpdesk, our vehicles always arrive clean and on time.
We have a proven track record for Periodic and Specialist cleaning for a variety of clients. Working within an agreed supplier partnership we will manage the whole Periodic Process from Initial site visit and quote through to satifactory delivery at point of service. Our dedicated Helpdesk will create site specific Schedules, RAMS, Contacts and Costs; then when due issue Access Requests containing Operatives Names, Vehicle Registrations, Working Times and Job Descriptions, allowing you to concentrate on your Core Business.
Today, Periodic Cleaning Solutions is recognised as a national specialist in the commercial cleaning sector which includes all aspects of Periodic, Specialist & Industrial cleaning. We specialise in commercial cleaning contracts that have been tailored to suit your specific requirements.
A team of experienced managers and tradesmen work to the highest specifications, supplying and applying all types of methods and techniques relevant to every type of wall and floor surface, internal and external.
These standards have earned Periodic Cleaning Solutions high praise and full recommendations throughout the industry for excellent workmanship – reflected in many prestigious customers and projects throughout the United Kingdom.
Periodic Cleaning Solutions demonstrates these qualities within strict completion times and quality demands, particularly in busy commercial and pedestrian areas where interference must be at a minimum.
Our office and operations centre is based in Bromsgrove, south of Birmingham and is well positioned to service the country with easy access to the main motorway network. Our fleet of vehicles is maintained by a third party supplier and can be easily expanded or reduced where contracts demand.


Playing With Preferred Lies: Can I Post My Score?
We have all been in a situation similar to this: it's springtime, active handicap season is finally here, and we are anxious to play. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has a different idea. Leftover puddles from yesterday's rainstorm are scattered throughout the golf course and saturated fairways lead to golf balls plugging and retaining mud.
These unwelcome conditions may cause the handicap committee to implement a Local Rule allowing preferred lies (also known as "winter rules"). Can these scores still be posted? Many golfers believe that scores cannot be posted to their scoring record under these circumstances, especially when a player takes the liberty of implementing preferred lies without the Committee's consent. Let's clear up some myths about posting with preferred lies.
The simple answer is yes, the score is to be posted, as long as it is made during the active (posting) season. An individual can choose to apply preferred lies, without consultation, and still have an acceptable score for posting purposes. The player should try to consult with the club's handicap committee for guidance; however, sometimes that's not feasible and the player may have to make the call.
There are also some circumstances where score posting is suspended. If conditions such as flooding, mud, heavy snow, etc., are widespread throughout the course, the Committee should consider suspending score posting. The handicap committee is responsible for observing course conditions on a daily basis and in the event that posting is temporarily suspended, it is that committee's duty to inform players not to post.
There are drawbacks to adopting preferred lies: First and foremost, implementing this Local Rule conflicts with the fundamental principle of playing the ball as it lies. It also generally tends to lower scores and a player's Handicap Index®. Although a player and handicap committee may not see an issue with this, it can be penalizing in a competition when the player cannot play preferred lies.
The truth is that scores made using preferred lies are acceptable for handicap posting purposes, but players and handicap committees alike should be judicious in implementing them. Consulting the club's handicap committee for guidance and exercising good judgment when applying the Local Rule independently is the best course of action to ensure the accuracy of a Handicap Index.
Please see Section 7 of "The USGA Handicap System" for more information on preferred lies.