A great product alone is not enough to succeed. Marketing your startup in today's competitive economy is undoubtedly difficult long-term process. Slicker team share the knowledge developed in the startup journey to help you choose the best tactics. So, read on below for ten different tips for marketing your startup.
When you first start marketing your business, it is tempting to get too ambitious and want to reach out to everyone at once all the time. However, it is essential to stay focused on catering your target customer. Why? Well, these are the people who are mostly likely to help grow your business.
Reaching out to local media, startup-related newspapers or online publications is always really helpful. Getting featured in some news outlets is a great way to get the word out there.
Reaching out to local media, startup related newspapers or online publications is always really helpful. Getting featured in some news outlets is a great way to get the word out there.
6- Make your content approachable.
If you can make your point in five words rather than 10, do that. The simpler you explain the idea, the faster someone will relate.
Sometimes things don't work. It happens all the time. Realizing when the moment for change has come is very important. Spot the flaws and try again. Saving time, money and effort, that's it!
There is nothing bad in getting inspiration from other successful examples. However, the big win is when you are able to create your very own content that relates completely to your brand and product and people are able to recognize it.
9- Surround yourself with talented people.
At the beginning you might not be able to hire, but as soon as you can, choose the best. Marketing is a core aspect of your business. As for yourself: learn, study, watch, meet, travel.
If a campaign doesn't seems that fruitful, it is fine. Build a new concept, more perfected and refined – more targeted and unique. Keep on trying and put 150% efforts on it.
Slickr is partnering up with RiseUp Summit in this third edition. We believe they are promoting entrepreneurship in such a great way that we invested time and effort to ride their wave, so we are going to be curating the fashion part of the summit this year. How so? Through workshops, panel discussions and activities revolving around fashion – online and offline. Riseup is a hub for new projects and ideas and because fashion is a flourishing industry in Egypt, both parts are giving it a larger space than the previous editions.


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Nikolai Iwanowitsch Saltykow, seit 1790 Graf, seit 1814 Fürst, (; *  in St. Petersburg; † ) war ein russischer Staatsmann und Feldmarschall.

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Herkunft und Familie
Nikolai war ein Sohn des russischen General en chef Iwan Alexejewitsch Saltykow († 1773) und Anastasia Petrowna, geborene Tolstoi. Er vermählte sich 1762 mit Natalia Wladimirowna Dolgorukowa (1737–1812), einer Tochter von Wladimir Petrowitsch Dolgorukow († 1761). Aus der Ehe sind drei Söhne, der Kammerherr Dmitri (1767–1826) sowie die Geheimräte Alexander (1775–1837) und Sergei (1777–1828) hervorgegangen.

Werdegang
Saltykow trat 1747 als Gemeiner in das Semjonowski-Leibgarderegiment der Kaiserlich Russischen Armee ein und nahm 1748 mit diesem an der Rheinkampagne teil. Im Siebenjährigen Krieg avancierte er nach Kunersdorf zum Oberstleutnant, war 1761 an der Einnahme von Kolberg beteiligt und wurde 1762 zum Generalmajor ernannt. Zwischen 1763 und 1768 operierte er in Polen. Im Türkenkrieg nahm er an der Eroberung Chotyns teil. Nach etwa vierjähriger gesundheitsbedingter Abwesenheit wurde er 1773 zum General en chef sowie zum Vizepräsidenten des Kriegskollegiums ernannt. Gleichzeitig ersetzte er Panin als Gouverneur beim Großfürsten Paul Petrowitsch und begleitete diesen nach Berlin zu dessen Vermählung. 1783 wurde er zum Prinzenerzieher der Großfürsten Alexander und Konstantin ernannt. 1788 übertrug man ihm die Oberverwaltung des Kriegsdepartements. Anlässlich des Friedens von Värälä wurde Saltykow in den Grafenstand erhoben. Paul I. ernannte ihn am zweiten Tag seiner Regierung zum Feldmarschall und Präsidenten des Kriegskollegiums. Alexander I. wiederum machte Saltykow 1812 zum Präsidenten des Reichsrates und des Ministerkomitees, erhob ihn zudem 1814 mit seinen Deszendenzen in den Fürstenstand.

Saltykow war Träger des Ordens des Heiligen Andreas des Erstberufenen, Alexander-Newski-Ordens, des Wladimirordens I. Klasse, des St.-Annen-Ordens, des Ordens des Heiligen Johannes von Jerusalem, des  Weißen Adlerordens sowie Großmeister des Malteserordens.

Literatur
 Николай Иванович Салтыков. In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, Band 28a, 1900, S. 156–157 (Wikisource; russisch)
 Friedrich von Smitt: Suworow und Polens Untergang. Band 2: Polens letzte Wirren. Leipzig und Heidelberg 1858, S. 64–65, FN 26.

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 Saltykov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich) 1736–1816 auf WorldCat

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Träger des Ordens des Heiligen Wladimir
Träger des Ordens der Heiligen Anna
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This weekend, legends were created in South Korea, the birthplace of esports. Watched by tens of millions of people each year, the world championship finals of League of Legends this year featured two squads battling it out at a 50,000-seat stadium in the South Korean city of Incheon.
Chinese squad Invictus Gaming beat out European team Fnatic in the final, the first time a Chinese team has won the League of Legends championship.
Fondly called LoL in short by fans, the PC game has grown into the darling of the $13 billion global gaming industry since being released by Riot Games Inc. almost a decade ago. LoL mixes the elements of strategy-based and role-playing games and features monsters, mages and warriors that feel like they've been pulled out of medieval folklore. It's no surprise the game has spawned new businesses from books and clothes to toys and accessories.
E-sports fans liken the LoL championship to the World Cup, pointing out it holds the record for the longest and largest viewership among game tournaments. Last year, 60 million people tuned in to watch the finals in Beijing, where team Samsung Galaxy defeated three-time champion SK Telecom T1, another team from South Korea.
This year marked the first time that no South Korean squad had reached the finals since 2011, even though it was played in the Asian country. Instead, Fnatic, a European team that had won the first championship held in Sweden, duked it out with Invictus Gaming, a Chinese organization also famous for its exploits in Dota 2 and StarCraft.
The opening ceremony drew world stars like The Glitch Mob, Mako and Madison Beer while some fans celebrated their affection for the game with cosplay outside the Munhak stadium. The event has served as an outlet for creative expressions by fans as they show off costumes made with inspirations from the game.
While no South Korean team played in the finals, enthusiasm for e-sports is hotter than ever in this nation of 50 million where it's common to see a gaming cafe on almost every major street in a city. That's boosting profits at local game developers while manufacturers like Hyundai Motor Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. struggle to regain their old glory. For instance, Netmarble, which specializes in mobile-phone games, has market capitalization that rivals that of LG Electronics Co.
Some gamers achieve celebrity status in South Korea. Lee Sang-heyok, "Faker" of T1, reportedly earns millions of dollars each year and commands a following that most baseball and soccer players would be jealous of, while StarCraft legend Lim Yo-hwan is married to an actress and frequently appears on television shows.
More and more of the nation's skilled players enjoy successful careers that often take them on globe-trotting journeys while a growing number of teenagers aspire to follow in their footsteps by attending cram schools for e-sports.


Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1970 to André & Joan (and older brothers Henri-Jacques and Francois), Paul André Blom grew up with a love of movies and music. This led to him developing a drive to not only absorb as much of it as possible, but also to create it himself.
After graduating with a B.A. Degree from Stellenbosch University in the early '90s, Paul attended film school. From there he has been on the independent route ever since.
> and created Flamedrop Productions in 2000 to encompass all of these and forthcoming activities.
Paul lives in Cape Town with his wife and collaborator Sonja Ruppersberg, their cat Ming and dogs Zoltan & Khaleesi.


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The Abu Dhabi Investment Office has launched a new $145.6 million Ghadan Ventures Fund as it seeks to accelerate the startups ecosystem across the emirate.
The new fund comes as startups are already continuing to witness a leap across the Arab region. The year-2018 was fruitful for both startups and investors, with 31% increase in total funding and a 13% increase in the number of deals made in 2018, compared with the year before, according to the head of Hub71, Mahmoud Adi.
The UAE is home for around 20% of Arab world's 100 most promising startups as it has 19 promising startups based in the country, according to a latest report by the World Economic Forum.
The newly named Ghadan Ventures Fund includes two key programs the start-up matching fund and new managers fund, which have been designed to increase the availability of capital for Abu Dhabi based start-ups, as well as serve as a catalyst for new fund managers seeking to establish themselves in the capital.
The Start-up Matching Fund will work to stimulate Abu Dhabi's entrepreneurial landscape by increasing the amount of capital available for seed and early stage companies.
Through the program, ADIO will match a start-up's lead VC investment dirham for dirham, up to AED 10M for seed rounds, and AED 50M for Series 'A', per round.
The second program is set to help grow the number of VC funds operating in the emirate. ADIO will commit to new Abu Dhabi VCs under the program. Moving forward, newly formed Abu Dhabi based VCs can apply for fund matching, based on the amount they raise in the private market.

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Writer Jac P. Thijsse said the once deserted Boschplaat was a "naked part of the Netherlands". De Bosch, later called Boschplaat, received the status of a European nature reserve in 1972. It was a close call, as there had been initiatives with the goal to develop the land for agricultural purposes, following the example of Texel. Another attractive option was to use the Boschplaat as a training area for fighter planes. In the end the cultural role fulfilled by the Boschplaat is that of 'nature'. The Boschplaat hadn't been untouched for years, as ditches had been dug, a sand dike built, various structures erected, and a field station equipped. Since the 1920's birdwatchers had been keeping an eye out, and the Boschplaat was visited by various scientists. A new status followed in 1979, that of Natura-2000 area. In 2015 another title was added to the list, that of Dark Sky Park, a place where we can learn to see in the dark. We look up. Because light doesn't block our view here, the wandering eye almost automatically starts to navigate with the stars. Spend the night thinking about the newest machinery that serves us: photometers, binoculars, periscopes, GPS, LOFAR… Listen in on the 'Large Ear' of Burum (a satellite ground station), that not only listens to the beginning of the universe, but also provides solid data about soil movement and possible earthquakes. We wonder what a map of the darkest places in the world looks like.
Guide: Marcel Minnaert (1893-1970)
Minnaert was born in the Belgium city of Ghent; he started out as a biologist before switching to astrophysics, but was always a teacher. Minnaert was a passionate advocate of Flemish independence, Esperanto, pacifism and Marxism, but most of all an engaged scientist. He is celebrated as an astronomer , specifically as cartographer of the dark side of the moon, for which he is honored with a crater bearing his name. But perhaps his best known work is De natuurkunde van 't vrije veld (3 volumes, 1937-1942), a guidebook to phenomena of physics that can be observed in the field. This lexicon provides joyful insight to the inquisitive mind in the open air.
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More to say about Maud Lewis but today I have been busy busy making pies to sell at the auction to raise some money for our little library in the cove . . .Blueberrie pies went for $75 and PEACH for $65!!!!
Having computer problems hope to post tomorrow if all goes well. . .


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It is not easy to impress in Paris. To create a restaurant, bar, hotel or retail establishment that stands out, surprises the locals and the jetsetting international visitors, and creates positive buzz that lasts more than a night, is a serious challenge. The collective talents and star power of the team behind Le Restaurant Matignon are significant enough to suggest that a new, permanent player has arrived on the scene.
At 3 Avenue Matignon, just a few steps off Champs‐Elysées, Matignon promotes itself as "restaurant and playground" but in plain terms it is a restaurant, bar and nightclub that has already hosted several lavish private parties for high-end brands and media. Matignon was founded by Paris-born international promoter and artistic director Cyril Péret (Paglinghi) and Gilbert Costes, one of the Parisian Costes hospitality triumvirate (brothers Jean-Louis and Gilbert and Gilbert's son, Thierry).
Péret has entertained and cooperated with celebrities throughout his career in Miami and Paris, while the Costes brothers are no strangers either to working with celebrities and top-level designers and architects. At Matignon, Garcia has created a luxurious mix of eclectic and opulent, subdued and bold, elegant and funky.


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Al Sila Tower,ADGM Square,Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
Choose from 3000+ locations as your own business address
Handling & signing for posts/parcels
Post pick up access (during business hours)
Ability to use this service for business registration
10% disc. on all office/meeting rooms/video conferencing bookings
Access to concierge and administration services - pay per 15 minutes
Access to printing with scanning and fax services on a pay as you use basis
Located in the heart of Abu Dhabi's central business district, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre in Abu Dhabi on Al Maryah Island occupies a spectacular mixed-use waterfront development. Accessed from landscaped public areas and a promenade, the flag building is sure to impress, from its spacious and bright marble-lined lobby to the views from the light-filled column-Afree workspace.
Businesses in and around this high-quality building include the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and a mix of global companies including many in the financial services, law, property, and oil and gas sectors. As well as plentiful amenities, the development has its own complimentary shuttle bus (running Sunday to Thursday) and over 5,000 car parking spaces. Abu Dhabi International Airport is just 30 minutes from the centre. It is highly accessible by road to the rest of the country and all parts of the emirates.
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Jeannie Mai is feeling fabulous and living her best single life after divorcing her husband Freddy Harteis. Now that she's dating, rumors are swirling that she might been entertaining the rapper Young Jeezy. Of course these are just rumors and it's possible that Jeannie is only friends with Jeezy but it did raise some speculation.


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Time has stopped !!!
August 30, 2016 – 12:49 pm
My clock has stopped !! 😦 😦 😦
My only time piece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend whose watch is always correct, stayed awhile, and returned home. There I made a simple calculation and set the clock right.
How did I do this when I had no watch on me to tell how long it took me to return from my friend's home?
-Nalin Pithwa
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Tea break please !!
Mathematics is a fantastic escape from the humdrum and mundane monotonous affairs of life !!
Express 100 with five 1's. Express 100 three ways with five 5's. You can use brackets, parentheses, and these signs: +, -, x and .
Have fun !
A Russian Duel !!
August 27, 2016 – 10:33 am
(From a translated Russian literature)
The Mathematics Circle in our school had this custom: Each applicant was given a simple problem to solve — a little mathematical nut to crack, so to speak. You became a full member only if you solved the problem.
An applicant named Vitia was given this array:
He was asked to replace 12 digits with zeros so that the sum would be 20. Vitia thought a little, then wrote rapidly:
He smiled and said, "If you substitute just ten zeros for digits, the sum will be 1111. Try it!"
The Circle's president was taken aback briefly. But, he not only solved Vitia's problem, but improved upon it:
"Why not replace only nine digits with 0's —- and still get 1111?"
As the debate continued, ways of getting 1111 by replacing 8, 7, 6, and 5 digits with zeros were found.
Solve the six forms of this problem.
More duels for you to prove your mettle are coming !!
From Russia with love of numbers !!
There are three ways to add four odd numbers and get 10:
Changes in the order of numbers do not count as new solutions.
Now add eight odd numbers to get 20. To find all eleven solutions, you will need to be systematic.
PS: I found this gem in a Russian book (translated).
Applications of mathematics in sports — careers in mathematics
In India, as is well-known, the most popular out-door sport is cricket. There are various statistics associated with cricket, as with any other sport. Especially, in cricket, we find the following parameters discussed about in every match:
General statistics (matches, catches, stumpings)
Batting statistics (innings, Not Outs, runs, highest score, batting average, centuries, half-centuries, balls faced, strike rate, run rate, Net run rate).
Bowling Statistics: Overs. Bowls, Maiden Overs, Runs, Bowling Analysis, Wickets, No balls, Wides, Bowling Averages, Strike Rate, Economy Rate, Best Bowling In Innings, Best Bowling in Match, Five Wickets in an Inning, Ten Wickets in a match,
Dynamic and graphical statistics: The advent of saturation television coverage of professional cricket has provided an impetus to develop new and interesting forms of presenting statistical data to viewers. Television networks have thus invented several new ways of presenting statistics.
The T-20's and ODI's might have different statistics because their purposes are different. The county matches have a yet different purpose.
There are numerous books that deal with the applications of mathematics in sports. Three very good ones are:
de Mestre, N (1990): The Mathematics of Projectiles in Sport. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Hart, D. and T. Croft (1988). Modelling with Projectiles, Chicester, UK: Ellis Horwood.
Townend, M. S (1984), Mathematics in Sport, Chicester, UK: Ellis Horwood.
More later,
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Apples from Moscow !!
Here is a puzzle, which I found in a Russian book of puzzles!!
Five Apples
Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket?
Well, an apple a day keeps the doctor away; a puzzle a day keeps the brain fresh !!
Please share your solutions!
Applications of sinc function
The occurrence of the function in calculus is an isolated event. The function arises in diverse fields such as quantum physics (where it appears in solutions of the wave equation) and electrical engineering(in signal analysis and DSP filter design) as well as in the mathematical fields of differential equations and probability theory.
-Nalin Pithwa.
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Sunday Coffee Time Puzzles !
A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident which detains it an hour, after which it proceeds at three-fifths of its former rate and arrives 3 hours after time; but, had the accident happened 50 miles further on the line, it would have arrived 1.5 hours sooner: find the length of the journey.
A body of men were formed into a hollow square, three deep, when it was observed, that with the addition of 25 to their number a solid square might be formed, of which the number of men in each side would be greater by 22 than the square root of the number of men in each aide of the hollow square: required the number of men.
A set out to walk at the rate of 4 miles an hour; after he had been walking , B set out to overtake him and went miles the first hour, miles the second, 5 the third, and so gaining a quarter of a mile every hour. In how many hours would he overtake A?
A man wishing his two daughters to receive equal portions when they came of age bequeathed to the elder the accumulated interest of a certain sum of money invested at the time of his death in 4 per cent stock at 88; and to the younger he bequeathed the accumulated interest of a sum less than the former by invested at the same time in the 3 per cents, at 63. Supposing their ages at the time of their father's death to have been 17 and 14, what was the sum invested in each case, and what was each daughter's fortune?
A and B travelled on the same road and at the same rate from Huntington to London. At the milestone from London, A overtook a drove of geese which were proceeding at the rate of 3 miles in 2 hours; and two hours afterwards met a waggon, which was moving at the milestone, and met the waggon exactly 40 minutes before he came to the milestone. Where was B when A reached London?
To complete a certain work, a workman A alone would take m times as many days as B and C working together; B alone would take a times as many days as A and C together; C alone would take p times as many days as A and B together; show that the numbers of days in which each would do it alone are as .
A traveller set out from a certain place, and went 1 mile the first day, 3 the second, 5 the next, and so on, going every day 2 miles more than he had gone the preceding day. After he had been gone three days, a second sets out, and travels 12 miles the first day, 13 the second and so on. In how many days, will the second overtake the first? Explain the double answer.
A number of persons were engaged to do a piece of work which would have occupied them 24 hours if they had commenced at the same time; but instead of doing so, they commenced at equal intervals and then continued to work till the whole was finished, the payment being proportional to the work done by each: the first comer received eleven times as much as the last; find the time occupied.
There are three towns A, B and C; a person by walking from A to B, driving from B to C, and riding from C to A makes the journey in 15.5 hours; by driving from A to B, riding from B to C, and walking from C to A, he could make the journey in 12 hours. On foot he could make the journey in 22 hours, oh horseback in 8.25 hours, and driving in 11 hours. To walk a mile, ride a mile, and drive a mile he takes altogether half an hour; find the rates at which he travels, and the distance between the towns.
In a mixed company consisting of Poles, Turks, Greeks, Germans and Italians, the Poles are one less than the one-third of the number of Germans, and three less than half the number of Italians. The Turks and Germans outnumber the Greeks and Italians by 3; the Greeks and Germans form one less than the half the company; while the Italians and Greeks form seven-sixteenths of the company; determine the number of each nation.
More fun later,
Some Applications of Derivatives — Part II
Derivatives in Economics.
Engineers use the terms velocity and acceleration to refer to the derivatives of functions describing motion. Economists, too, have a specialized vocabulary for rates of change and derivatives. They call them marginals.
In a manufacturing operation, the cost of production c(x) is a function of x, the number of units produced. The marginal cost of production is the rate of change of cost (c) with respect to a level of production (x), so it is .
For example, let c(x) represent the dollars needed needed to produce x tons of steel in one week. It costs more to produce x+h units, and the cost difference, divided by h, is the average increase in cost per ton per week:
average increase in cost/ton/wk to produce the next h tons of steel
The limit of this ratio as is the marginal cost of producing more steel when the current production level is x tons.
marginal cost of production
Sometimes, the marginal cost of production is loosely defined to be the extra cost of producing one unit:
which is approximately the value of at x. To see why this is an acceptable approximation, observe that if the slope of c does not change quickly near x, then the difference quotient will be close to its limit, the derivative , even if . In practice, the approximation works best for large values of x.
Example: Marginal Cost
Suppose it costs dollars to produce x radiators when 8 to 30 radiators are produced. Your shop currently produces 10 radiators a day. About how much extra cost will it cost to produce one more radiator a day?
Example : Marginal tax rate
To get some feel for the language of marginal rates, consider marginal tax rates. If your marginal income tax rate is 28% and your income increases by USD 1000, you can expect to have to pay an extra USD 280 in income taxes. This does not mean that you pay percent of your entire income in taxes. It just means that at your current income level I, the rate of increase of taxes I with respect to income is . You will pay USD 0.28 out of every extra dollar you earn in taxes. Of course, if you earn a lot more, you may land in a higher tax bracket and your marginal rate will increase.
Example: Marginal revenue:
If gives the dollar revenue from selling x thousand candy bars, , the marginal revenue when x thousand are sold is
As with marginal cost, the marginal revenue function estimates the increase in revenue that will result from selling one additional unit. If you currently sell 10 thousand candy bars a week, you can expect your revenue to increase by about USD, if you increase sales to 11 thousand bars a week.
Choosing functions to illustrate economics.
In case, you are wondering why economists use polynomials of low degree to illustrate complicated phenomena like cost and revenue, here is the rationale: while formulae for real phenomena are rarely available in any given instance, the theory of economics can still provide valuable guidance. the functions about which theory speaks can often be illustrated with low degree polynomials on relevant intervals. Cubic polynomials provide a good balance between being easy to work with and being complicated enough to illustrate important points.
Ref: Calculus and Analytic Geometry by G B Thomas.
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Some Applications of Derivatives — Part I
Sensitivity to Change.
When a small change in x produces a large change in the value of a function , we say that the function is relatively sensitive to changes in x. The derivative is a measure of the senstivity to change at x.
The Austrian monk Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), working with garden peas and other plants, provided the first scientific explanation of hybridization. His careful records show that if p (a number between 0 and 1) is the frequency of the gene for smooth skin in peas (dominant) and is the frequency of the gene for wrinkled skin in peas, then the proportion of smooth-skinned peas in the population at large is
The graph of y versus p is an inverted parabola. If you plot and see, it suggests that the value of y is more sensitive to a change in p, when p is small than when p is large. Instead, this is borne out by the derivative graph which shows that ( ) is close to 2, when p is near zero, and close to zero, when p is near 1.
PS: why peas wrinkle
British geneticists had discovered that the wrinkling trail comes from an extra piece of DNA that prevents the gene that directs starch synthesis from functioning properly. With the plant's starch conversion impaired, sucrose and water build up in the young seeds. As the seeds mature, they lose much of this water, and the shrinkage leaves them wrinkled.


Continuing on in my printable Build An Animal series, I'd like to introduce to you Popcorn the Pig! A free printable paper pig template that can be cut and stuck together.
The build-a-pig printable helps children with their cutting and sticking skills, as well as the opportunity to get creative with other materials too – like sticking on pieces of fabric, or buttons for eyes for example.
I'm just going to gloss over the fact that it's been about two years since I started this series, with promises of more animals throughout the year… let's hope this year is the year of lots more build-an-animal printables!
It all started with Rudy the Rooster, and continued with Digby the Dog. Now finally Popcorn the Pig joins the family!
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I've created two sizes for Popcorn the Pig: Regular size, which is what you see above, with all of the pieces on one sheet of paper, and Large size with the pieces spread over several sheets.
Download your chosen printable from the list further down the page (they're surrounded by a box!), and print onto thick paper or thin card. Cut the pieces out, then build a pig!
You could stick pieces together with a glue stick, or sticky tape.
You could mount it onto a larger piece of paper and use other craft materials to embellish it – furry material, glitter, googly eyes, sequins, buttons, tissue paper, for example.
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Surayya is a Pakistani melodrama film directed by Shabab Kiranvi, who also wrote the screenplay and dialogues. The films stars Nayyar Sultana in the titular role along with Habib-ur-Rehman, who played the male lead, and both played the young to old roles in the film. The film was released in January 1961 and was a box office hit. At annual Nigar Awards, Rehman won Best Actor award for his performance in the film.

Plot

Surayya and Yousuf love each other since childhood however, get separate when Surayya's brother Toufik decides to marry her with Dilshad. Yousuf sends her mother to Surayya's house with his proposal but Toufik denies her insultingly due to past conflict between the two families.

Surayya goes to Lahore after marrying Dilshad. On the other hand, Yousuf's mother gets him married to Yaseem. He gets a job of manager in Dilshad's office in Lahore. After an year, Yasmeen dies after giving birth to a child. On the other hand, Surayya gives birth to still child. Due to Surayya and Dilshad's sorrow, Buland Iqbal (son-in-law of Dilshad's aunt) advises Dilshad to adapt Yousuf's son which will be beneficial for both of them, as his own wife has died and it will be difficult to brought him up with mother. In this way, Dilshad brings Yousuf's child to his house but on repenting of his decision of separating of a father from his son, he allows Yousuf to visit his house to meet his child. There, he encounters Surayya.

Cast

 Nayyar Sultana ... Surayya
 Habib-ur-Rehman ... Yousuf
 Azad ... Toufik
 Asad Bokhari ... Dilshad
 Salma Mumtaz ... Toufik's wife
 Bibbo ... Yousuf's mother
 Zeenat ... Dilshad's aunt
 Ali Baba ... Buland Iqbal
 Shehzad ... Mushtaq
 Yasmin ... Yasmeen
 Nasira ... Razia
 Rukhsana ... Najmi, Toufik's daughter
 Aslam Pervaiz .... Saleem

Release

The film released on 13 January 1961.

Music

Awards
 Nigar Award for Best Actor - Habib-ur-Rehman

References

External links

1960s Urdu-language films
Urdu-language Pakistani films


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New infections in 5,000s for 2nd day amid omicron concerns
South Korea's new coronavirus cases stayed above 5,000 for the second straight day Sunday after hitting an all-time high a day earlier amid concerns over the spread of the omicron variant. The country added 5,128 new COVID-19 infections, including 5,104 local infections, raising the total caseload to 473,034, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Daily infections soared to a record h...
People wait to take a coronavirus test at Chung Goo Sung Sim hospital in northern Seoul amid fears over the spread of the omicron variant last Saturday. (Yonhap)
South Korea's new coronavirus cases stayed above 5,000 for the second straight day Sunday after hitting an all-time high a day earlier amid concerns over the spread of the omicron variant.
The country added 5,128 new COVID-19 infections, including 5,104 local infections, raising the total caseload to 473,034, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
Daily infections soared to a record high of 5,352 cases on Saturday, one day after health authorities announced strict social distancing rules will take effect Monday for four weeks to contain the omicron variant.
As of 12:00 a.m. Sunday, the KDCA had confirmed 12 omicron cases, up three from a day earlier.
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Restaurants, cafes, cram schools, movie theaters, public study rooms, libraries and museums are among the newly included places.
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    if (names && count) {
        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
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vk::SurfaceKHR Window::createWindowSurface(GLFWwindow* window, const vk::Instance& instance, const vk::AllocationCallbacks* pAllocator) {
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void Window::MouseButtonHandler(GLFWwindow* window, int button, int action, int mods) {
    Window* example = (Window*)glfwGetWindowUserPointer(window);
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void Window::MouseMoveHandler(GLFWwindow* window, double posx, double posy) {
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void Window::MouseScrollHandler(GLFWwindow* window, double xoffset, double yoffset) {
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void Window::CloseHandler(GLFWwindow* window) {
    Window* example = (Window*)glfwGetWindowUserPointer(window);
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void Window::FramebufferSizeHandler(GLFWwindow* window, int width, int height) {
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require "lowdown"

cert_file, environment, device_token = ARGV.first(3)
unless cert_file && environment && device_token
  puts "Usage: #{$PROGRAM_NAME} path/to/cert.pem [production|development] device-token"
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end

production = environment == "production"

# $CELLULOID_DEBUG = true
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Celluloid.logger.level = Logger::INFO
# Celluloid.logger.level = Logger::ERROR

client = Lowdown::Client.production(production, certificate: File.read(cert_file), pool_size: 2)

# The block form of Client#connect flushes and closes the connection at the end of the block.
loop do
  begin
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        notification.payload = { :alert => "Hello HTTP/2! ID=#{notification.id}" }
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            puts "Sent notification with ID: #{notification.id}"
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            puts "[!] (##{response.id}): #{response}"
          end
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      end
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£1.4billion 30-year North East devolution deal becomes a reality as Government and councils put pen to paper
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A look at King Charles' family ties to the North East, where the name of his ancestors is all around
As the nation continues to mourn the loss of the Queen and the new King begins his reign, we take a look at the Royal Family's roots in the North East.
By Ross Robertson
15th Sep 2022, 1:24pm - 3 min read
At the time of the royal wedding in 2011, much was made of Sunderland's connection to the new King's daughter-in-law, whose whose great-grandfather, Thomas Harrison, was the son of a miner from Hetton.
As the then Kate Middleton walked through Westminster Abbey to marry Prince William, her distant cousins in Wearside were full of pride as they joined millions of others watching the ceremony at home.
But the new King's family ties to the North East run centuries deeper.
King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, visiting Durham in February 2018.
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His grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the wife of King George VI, was from the Bowes-Lyon family.
The Bowes were one of the most ancient families of County Durham, with their ancestral home at Streatlam Castle, near Barnard Castle – where the Bowes Museum, founded by John Bowes, the son of the 10th Earl, was visited a number of times by the Queen Mother.
Through marriage, the family inherited the Gibside estate in 1722 – now a popular National Trust property on the border of Gateshead and County Durham – which included some of the area's richest coal seams, bringing immense wealth and spreading the Bowes' influence across the region.
In 1932, the Pontop and Jarrow railway was re-named the Bowes Railway, in honour of the Bowes-Lyon family, who were major shareholders.
The Orangery at Gibside. Picture c/o Pixabay.
The railway, created by George Stephenson, carried coal from Mount Moor pit in Black Fell via Springwell to the River Tyne at Jarrow staithes, where it was loaded onto ships for transportation.
The Bowes Railway museum remains a popular heritage attraction.
The King, when Prince of Wales, made an emotional visit to the memorial stone of his ancestor Dame Elizabeth Bowes (1651-1736) on his visit to Durham in February 2018.
The stone is housed in the Church of St Mary the Less, the chapel of St John's College, Durham University.
Picture from 2000 of Queen Elizabeth II (left) and the Queen Mother. Picture by Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire.
He also unveiled a commemorative plaque in honour of Dame Elizabeth at Bowes House, her former family home, which is now part of St John's College.
How the Bowes-Lyons became ancestors to the King
In 1767 Mary Eleanor Bowes, the family heiress married John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, of Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland.
An Act of Parliament was arranged so the family could use the name Bowes.
Jarrow Staithes, pictured in 2015, was the end point of the Bowes Railway.
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The couple eventually married the day before the 10th Earl's death, and a court ruled the young John Bowes could inherit only the family estates in England as his father had not resided in Scotland.
The Scottish estates and title passed to the 10th Earl's brother, who became the 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and direct ancestor of Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, daughter of the 14th Earl and future wife of King George VI.
Elizabeth and Prince Albert, the Duke of York, as he was then, were married in 1920, and named their first child Elizabeth after her mother.
As second son, Albert was not expected to become King, but did so on the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, celebrating her 100th birthday in 4 August 2000. Picture c/o IAN WALDI/AFP via Getty Images.
On her father's death, Princess Elizabeth became Queen, her eldest son Charles destined to become King.
The Bowes-Lyon family continue to live in County Durham at the Holwick estate near Middleton-in-Teesdale.
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It is impossible to assess the effectiveness of many recent initiatives aiming to improve outcomes for vulnerable young people according to a research review.
Asked, by the current government, to review 10 Labour initiatives in a bid to help inform future policy, Professor Janet Walker of Newcastle University and Professor Cam Donaldson of Glasgow Caledonian University, said: "The most depressing conclusion from our review is that despite substantial social resources having been spent on pilots, pathfinders, evaluations and the roll-out of programmes, there is no hard evidence as to their effectiveness."
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Violent Woman Breaks Deputy's Orbital Bone, Judge Releases Her
Sandy MaloneJune 10, 2021
Pontiac, MI – A Pontiac woman has been charged with a felony after she punched an Oakland County sheriff's deputy so hard on Sunday that she broke his orbital bone and the sheriff is furious that a judge released her for free.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the incident occurred at about 7 a.m. on June 6 after the deputy responded to a call about a woman who was walking in traffic near East Pike and Woodward Avenue, waving her arms and talking to herself, WJBK reported.
Sheriff Bouchard said that when the deputy arrived in the area, he found 32-year-old Andrea Ariel-Jones Sheppard standing in the middle of Pike Street, so he got out of his vehicle and asked the woman if she needed help.
The sheriff said that Sheppard became belligerent and refused to identify herself to the deputy, WJBK reported.
He said she also yelled obscenities at the law enforcement officer.
When another deputy arrived on the scene, Sheppard approached his car, WJBK reported.
Sheriff Bouchard said Sheppard attacked the deputy before he even got out of his vehicle, punching him several times in the face and head.
The sheriff said she punched the deputy in the eye so hard that she broke his orbital bone, WJBK reported.
The deputy that she had just attacked pushed Sheppard back but she started to go after him again.
The other deputy on the scene deployed a Taser at Sheppard and she was taken into custody, WJBK reported.
The deputy Sheppard struck was transported to the hospital for treatment.
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said the injured deputy is a 58-year-old, 29-year law enforcement veteran, the Royal Oak Tribune reported.
The deputy will be out of work for several weeks to recover from the injuries he sustained at the hands of Sheppard.
Sheppard was arraigned on Tuesday on one felony count of assaulting a police officer.
If convicted, she is facing up to four years in prison, the Royal Oak Tribune reported.
50th District Judge Ronda Gross ordered Sheppard released on a $1,000 personal bond, which means that the defendant didn't have to put up any money.
Sheriff Bouchard was furious the deputy's attacker had been released so easily, the Royal Oak Tribune reported.
"I am angry at how regularly people assault police officers today and how little attention or care they have in Washington for this," the sheriff said in a statement. "In 2019, the FBI reported more than 56,000 police officers were assaulted."
Sheppard's next court hearing is scheduled for June 17, the Royal Oak Tribune reported.
It's not the first time that Sheppard has been in the news for being in trouble with the law, WXYZ reported.
In 2016, she opened fire on a home that she had bought from the city at auction for $1,000.
Sheppard filmed herself firing a gun into the home as she held a baby in her arms, with her nine-year-old son standing next to her looking terrified, and streamed it on Facebook Live, WXYZ reported.
The video went wildly viral and Sheppard was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and reckless use of a firearm.
She told WXYZ at the time that she regretted making the video, but didn't say she regretted shooting up the house with her children in her arms
"Deeply regret it, it was very irrational of me. In that time I felt like I was losing my livelihood, my children are my everything, I'm a wonderful mother, but the world has painted me to be this horrible monster mom and that's not me," Sheppard said.
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Powered by a Restituted Franz Marc, Christie's Inaugural Shanghai to London Sale Brings in a Sterling $334 Million
The five-hour production spanned three sales, two continents, and many, many time zones.
Vivienne Chow, March 1, 2022
Staff members hold The Foxes(1913) by Franz Marc, during a photo call to present the centrepiece of the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale taking place on 1st March at Christie's auction house on January 31, 2022 in London, England. Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images.
While much of the world was consumed by news of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the spring auction season kicked off in London on Tuesday. Christie's nearly five-hour marathon evening sale—which stitched together an auction in Shanghai, another in London, and a Surrealism offering as a coda—brought in just over £249 million ($334 million).
It was the auction house's highest total for an evening event staged out of London and, despite pre-sale jitters over the geopolitical situation, fell within the presale estimate of £208.5 million to £298.8 million ($277.8 million to $398 million). The sell-through rate was 90 percent. Final prices include auction-house fees; presale estimates do not.
The top lot of the evening was Franz Marc's The Foxes (1913), which was recently restituted from a German museum to the heirs of the Jewish collectors who sold it to escape the Nazis. A phone bidder in London won the work for a record £42.7 million ($57 million), exceeding its estimate of £35 million ($46.8 million) and more than doubling the artist's previous high-water mark.
Staff members hold Girl with Closed Eyes (1986-7) by Lucian Freud. Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images.
Other top lots included Lucian Freud's Girl With Closed Eyes (1986–87), which fetched £15.2 million ($20.2 million), just grazing past its high estimate. Francis Bacon's Triptych 1986–7, which Artnet News previously reported was consigned by architect Norman Foster, sold for £38.5 million ($51.3 million), on the low end of its £35 million-to-£55 million estimate.
"It has been a very difficult week…working on this sale with a heavy heart," Giovanna Bertazzoni, vice-chair of Christie's 20th/21st century department, told Artnet News after the auction. The traumatic events in Ukraine have brought complex emotions to the team, she said, "but at the same time we are all lucky to have a job and be in a place that is safe."
All told, 110 works were offered: 20 in Shanghai, 68 in London's main sale, and 22 in its Surrealist offering. Five lots were withdrawn ahead of the auction. Eighteen works were guaranteed, four of which were backed by the auction house.
Christie's first 20/21 Shanghai to London sale. Courtesy of Christie's.
Despite the challenge and uncertainty, Bertazzoni, who has been instrumental in building Christie's presence in Shanghai, said the sale successfully integrated the Chinese city into a global "dialogue." The makeup of the evening—front-loaded in Asia with works by young artists that were nearly fresh from the studio—reflected the market's current balance of power. Around a third of bidders came from the Asia-Pacific region; 28 percent of buyers were millennials.
The action began in Shanghai at Christie's new office and gallery space at Bund One on East Zhongshan Road. The slow-paced chapter hosted by auctioneer Caroline Liang, dressed in a red cheongsam, featured a total of 20 lots, primarily by Western artists.
Most of the energy surrounded ultra-contemporary names. The Ghanaian market star Emmanuel Taku's Ripped (2021) sold for £194,672 ($262,025), more than eight times its estimate, to the Hong Kong salesroom. Colors (2020) by Edgar Plans sold to London for £524,142 ($705,453), more than double the artist's previous record, according to the Artnet Price Database. Joel Mesler's Untitled (You Deserve Great Things) (2020), which will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at Shanghai's Long Museum in July, also more than doubled his previous record, selling for £680,526 ($907,011) to Shanghai.
Amoako Boafo (b. 1984) Orange Shirt. CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD.
One of the most successful flips of the evening was Amoako Boafo's Orange Shirt (2019), which fetched more than £876,000 ($1.4 million), far exceeding its high estimate of £594,265. The same painting sold for $212,500 at Christie's less than two years ago.
Christie's likely took a loss on Jean-Michel Basquiat's Il Duce (1982), which sold for £11.2 million ($15 million) to a phone bidder from the Hong Kong salesroom. The company has held onto the work since 2017, when it carried a guarantee from the house and failed to sell at an estimate of $25 million to $35 million.
A Christie's employee with Jean-Michel Basquiat's Il Duce (1982). Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd.
A handful of Asian names performed solidly. Zao Wou-Ki's painting Le soir à l'Hôtel du Palais (Palace Hotel by night) (2014) fetched nearly £2.9 million ($3.9 million), selling to a phone bidder with the Hong Kong office. Mandala Reality (2016–18), a painting by emerging Chinese star Huang Yuxing, who achieved a surprising result during Christie's Hong Kong sale in December, delivered an above-estimate £614,072 ($826,387).
The pace began to pick up when the London chapter began. While bidding from the Shanghai and Hong Kong salesrooms appeared to be less active, Bertazzoni said some of Christie's London staff were also bidding on behalf of Asian clients.
Certain works saw active bidding from the Shanghai and Hong Kong salesrooms, such as Peter Doig's Some Houses on Iron Hill (1992), which carried an estimate of £600,000 to £800,000. (It eventually went to New York for £2.4 million/$3.3 million.) A phone bidder with the Shanghai office won Wassily Kandinsky's Dumpfes Rot (1927) for £2.2 million ($2.9 million).
René Magritte, La lumière du pôle (1926-1927). Courtesy of Christie's.
In a sign of the new market order, work by Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Marc Chagall, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir came in below or on the lower end of expectations. Meanwhile, work by work by Victor Man, Angel Otero, and Flora Yuknovich sold for multiples of their estimates. The latter's painting, a twist on Fragonard, fetched £1.9 million ($2.5 million), more than five times its upper expectation.
All 22 works featured in the Surrealist segment sold. René Magritte's La lumière du pôle (1926–27) sold for £6.2 million ($8 million), within expectations. Pablo Picasso's La fenêtre ouverte (1929) led the pack, with a final price of £16.3 million ($21.8 million).
But Picasso's appeal wasn't universal. Two works by the artist failed to find buyers: Dormeuse (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (1937) featured in the Shanghai sale and Buste d'homme (1969) in London.
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Daily NAV REIT Market Benefitting from Shift Away from Traditional Non-Listed Products
JLL's Allan Swaringen sees "significant upside" in daily NAV segment.
Allan Swaringen, president & CEO of JLL Income Property Trust, was a guest on the latest edition of the Nareit REIT Report podcast.
JLL Income Property Trust is a perpetual life, daily NAV REIT that is advised by LaSalle Investment Management and sponsored by JLL.
Swaringen described the landscape of the non-listed REIT sector today. He pointed to three substantive changes that have occurred in the last five to six years. They include: a move to perpetual offerings; increased regulation and the adoption of an institutional valuation methodology; and a movement toward programs diversified by property type.
JLL launched its own daily NAV platform in early 2012. "We like to refer to it as the 2.0 version of the non-listed REIT because it's really provided an evolutional change," Swaringen said.
Swaringen stressed that while the liquidity features of the new products have been significantly enhanced from the legacy versions, "these are not liquid products, and this is more in the realm of private equity real estate than public real estate." He added that if investors really need liquidity, they should be investing in public REITs.
"We think there's a good case for owning real estate in a non-tradeable fashion," Swaringen said. However, investors should have a longer-term investment horizon of at least five to seven years, he added. He emphasized that investors shouldn't confuse daily valuation with daily liquidity.
Looking ahead, Swaringen said the outlook for the daily NAV market is positive.
While overall sales in the non-listed sector have been down the last couple of years, there has been a big shift in sales away from the 1.0 version toward the new NAV offerings. "We think there's very significant upside," Swaringen said.
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