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I'm a single 20-something woman with £30 in my back pocket. What should I do with it? Drinks with friends? A new pair of jeans? A 'take out' and a film? Or could I do a couple of the above?
I can go into most high-street stores and get a new pair of trousers for £30. That's £30 on one item, my entire month's clothing budget gone. One pair of trousers but no fun!
So to try and make my money go further I've been looking around for some ways that I can get good clothing at a price that suits my budget.
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I've got my new tops, new jeans, pizza on the way and a bottle of wine in the fridge (and something new to sit on). Do I still think my £30 pair of trousers was a bargain? Not a chance!


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Direct-To-Consumer Cookware Promises Luxury Quality For Less. We Tried It
We tested the top DTC pots, pans and sets available in Canada: here's what we thought.
By Chantal Braganza Updated June 30, 2020
Photo illustration by Aimee Nishitoba.
Depending on when and where you grew up, the term "direct-to-consumer retail" can bring up memories of Tupperware parties or some more contemporary success stories in home furnishings, fashion and beauty. (Think Casper or Glossier.) For decades, the concept has remained relatively the same: offering high-quality products at a relatively lower price by marketing, selling and shipping to buyers rather than through a store.
In the last couple of years, though, one category of the DTC retail market has positively burgeoned: cookware. And not just sauce pots and sauté pans. From dutch ovens to silicon skillets, premium-quality chef knives to sheet pans, new startups in the kitchen gear game are popping up, promising All Clad and Le Creuset-like quality for a (relatively) more accessible price. By my count right now, there's almost a dozen operating in North America. About seven of those ship to Canada, with new ones offering service here regularly.
I've been cooking with gear from some of these startups to see if they deliver on the DTC promise. Made In Kitchen, Material Kitchen, Misen and Abbio provided samples of their offerings for me to test out over the past eight weeks.
When it comes to pricing, the offerings vary. Let's take a standard five-piece cookware set: All-Clad's d3 stainless steel bundle of a sauté pan, fry pan (with lid) and sauce pan (with lid) runs from $550 (on sale) to $650 (regular price) in Canadian retail. The same version by Misen is $307, Material Kitchen's is $341, and Made In's, which includes a stock pot as well, is $660. Abbio's only set, meanwhile, is eight pieces for $391. While tax, shipping and duties for each of these sets varies depending on where you live—adding up to roughly $100 to $125—the entire cost of a DTC set, including shipping, is still less than one purchased through traditional retail.
When it comes to performance, my current kitchen set-up—a hodgepodge collection of $20 specials from Canadian Tire and a single prized All-Clad skillet—offers a pretty good range of comparison. And so, from fried eggs to risotto, seared vegetables to one-pot pasta dishes, I put these DTC products through their paces. They've been on the stove, they've been in the oven, they've even gone in the dishwasher. After about two months, here's what I've learned.
Made In Cookware
Every piece from our stainless clad collection is made from one single circle of 5-ply of metal, which makes for exceptional heat retention and control, even cooking, and long lasting durability.
A post shared by Made In (@madein) on Mar 31, 2020 at 3:21pm PDT
What we tested: The Starter Kit ($585), 8-Inch Chef Knife ($145), Butcher Block ($160), 10-Inch Blue Carbon Steel Frying Pan, ($112) (All prices in CAD)
What we thought: Launched in 2017 by two childhood friends in Austin, Texas, Made In cookware offers one of the widest product ranges of the DTC cookware brands out there: stainless steel, non-stick, and carbon steel cookware (a lightweight alternative to cast iron and stainless steel); knives; sheet pans; butcher blocks and utensils. Shortly after it first launched, the brand was praised for its quality of construction, but a Wired test found its pans had a tendency to "dome up" and pool cooking oil at the sides of the pan, a problem that seems to have since been fixed. In the six weeks I spent cooking with both the stainless steel and non-stick fry pans, I didn't experience this problem at all. Through searing, quick-frying—and in the case of the non-stick, dry-frying a cracked egg—the pans held up very well.
Both Made In and Abbio's (more on that later) stainless steel pots and pans bloomed a rainbow-like staining after washing them thoroughly in hot water—especially so if run through the dishwasher. A quick swipe of vinegar and baking soda fixed that quickly in both cases, but if you're cooking with these pans most days of the week, a pristine metal sheen isn't something you should be too worried about. Among all the pots and saucepans I tried, Made In's brought water to the boil the fastest. Its pans were also the lightest of the bunch.
Standout item: 10 Inch Blue Carbon Steel Frying Pan, ($112)
While carbon steel cookware has been around for some time, it's starting to see a resurgence in Western home kitchens as it's lighter and more affordable than cast iron pans and conducts heat just as well. Made In's frying pan version came naked, meaning it required a thorough coating of the seasoning wax provided and an hour-long roast in a hot oven before it was ready to go. But once it was? With the heat cranked up, this pan got hot. Blisteringly hot. Like, perfectly charred tomatoes and peppers you'd otherwise need a gas stove flame for hot. The deep walls also help it function as a kind of stubby wok—though Made In makes a carbon steel wok, too—which worked well for small stir fries. No wonder it keeps selling out.
Material Kitchen
Bet you could've used these yesterday. The 29 Collection—the copper core holiday heroes you'll use for years to come.
A post shared by Material (@materialkitchen) on Dec 26, 2019 at 2:26pm PST
What we tested: The Fundamentals Kit ($238) Includes: 8-inch knife, 3.5-inch knife, tongs, wooden spoon, metal spoon, slotted spatula and a wooden base. 29, Your Way Kit ($341) Includes: choice of three pieces from a list of stainless steel and non-stick skillets, sauce pots and sauté pans.
What we thought: Straight up: Material's sauté pan and non-stick skillet performed the best out of almost every piece of equipment I tested for this series—largely thanks to their smart design. The non-stick skillet fried eggs with the least resistance; the curved edge of the sauté pan makes pouring much easier (pots and sauté pans also have spouts for the same reason). There are interior markings at four- and eight-cup levels to let you know how much volume your pan is holding, and the interior of its non-stick skillet is a beautiful forest green—a completely aesthetic detail that has nothing to do with its performance, but makes cooking with it fun.
Unlike its classmates, which are made with aluminum cores wrapped in stainless steel, Material Kitchen's cookware is copper-cored, which is generally more expensive. But when bought as a three-piece bundle, it's still comparable in price to its counterparts.
Some of the accessories from the Fundamentals Kit, a starter bundle of utensils and knives, didn't fare so well. While I loved the tongs' clever locking device, the lack of rubber coated tips make them unsuited for gripping softer things like fish or cooked pasta. The spoon, meanwhile, needed consistent conditioning with food-grade oil or beeswax or else it dried out completely and risked cracking—by week four, the bowl of the spoon ended up splitting in two.
Standout item: The 8-Inch Knife ($102)
Right out of the sheath, the paring version of the knife ($68) could easily skim off the trickiest of peels—grapes, cucumber, ginger—and the handle's weight and shape felt not unlike many fancier Japanese brands which can cost upwards of three to four times the price. It's hard to describe the kind of muscle-memory confusion my hands felt at being able to dice an onion in half the time it normally takes. Apparently I've been cooking with duller knives than I thought for most of my life.
Abbio
This is the full cookware upgrade. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
A post shared by Abbio (@abbiokitchen) on May 21, 2019 at 2:09pm PDT
What we tested: The Set ($391) Includes: a small non-stick skillet, large non-stick skillet, saucepan, sauté pan, and stock pot.
What we thought: Abbio is one of the latest entries to the DTC cookware genre; its name a diminutive version of abbiocco, the Italian word for being so full you feel like you need to take a nap. Best English translation? Food coma.
Just like the rest of the group, Abbio's stainless steel cookware heated up quickly and evenly, and washed well. One feature Abbio bests its competition in is handle design: The side handles on the sauté pan and stock pot curve further out from the body to make holding the whole thing easier, while helping to avoid burning your hands. (For pots and pans meant to transition from stove to oven, this is no small detail.) I also found myself cooking from the set's saucier pan the most: It's higher-walled than Material's, making it great for stove-to-oven casseroles and one-pot pastas.
There is, however, one caveat: the standard size of Abbio's stainless steel offerings aren't huge. The saucepan held about one litre of water, the sauté pan roughly one and a half, and the stock pot just over three. While this makes the set a great option for small kitchens and households, it isn't ideal for anyone who regularly cooks for three or more people and expects leftovers.
Standout item: Abbio's messaging has consistently been about kitchen minimalism, and this holds true of its product line, too: aside from offering every piece of The Set separately, the company doesn't sell anything else. "The cookware industry has trained consumers to think that more = more; a 21-piece set is better than a 15-piece set, which is better than an 11-piece set. But the reality is most of that cookware goes unused and takes up precious cabinet space," co-founder Jonathan Wahl wrote to me. I think, for this reason, it's fair to call The Set Abbio's best offering. For an overall performance comparable to the others at a far lower price, it's a great deal—one that arrives with a nice added extra: Each pan, whether bought separately or as a set, comes with a foldable silicon trivet.
Misen Kitchen
In case you haven't heard… Say hello to the new and improved Misen Chef's Knife, Stainless Skillet & Nonstick Pan 👋🏻 Now live on @kickstarter 🔪🍳 Link in our bio to shop #misenmade
A post shared by Misen (@misenkitchen) on Sep 18, 2019 at 9:33am PDT
What we tried: Essentials Bundle ($587) Includes: saucier pan, sauté pan, 10- and 12-inch skillets, 8-quart stockpot, chef's knife, paring knife, and a serrated knife.
What we thought: Another DTC cookware company with a culinary namesake (Misen is derived from mise en place, the French term for having everything at a cooking station in its place), Misen first jumped on the scene in 2015 with a Kickstarter fundraiser for a $65 USD chef's knife that promised a Japanese-style 15-degree blade angle with a handle more suited to Western-style pinch grip cutting motion. Since then, the company has expanded to cookware and bundled sets.
The knife Misen originally launched with is not the one I tested out, as the company has since changed its design. While the chef's knife I tested was a truly sharp, quality blade, it wasn't always comfortable to use: the cut of the steel that adjoins to the handle was more sharply curved than the Material knife or my well-worn Henckels, meaning that in order to grip it properly I had to keep my forefinger further up the blade and not on the handle itself. For a lot of people this may not be a problem. But for small-handed home cooks like me, it's something to keep in mind if you're used to powering through produce with an eight-inch knife.
As for the stainless steel cookware: From saucier to skillet, they were a dream to cook with. Like Abbio, all handles extended further from the body of the pots and pans. But, unlike any of the other brands I tried, a lid came with each piece of cookware—even the 12-inch skillet. Of all the cookware I've tried, the Misen set also stayed the most stain-free.
Standout item: 12-inch stainless steel skillet, $102
One of my favourite things to do on a weekend is making a full breakfast in a single pan. Eggs, bacon, maybe potatoes, and definitely a mountain of greens thrown in at the end to cook in the drippings. The way this skillet's walls are curved helps it fit more food on the pan than I've been able to with my regular pan, and it heats up just as evenly as my All-Clad. While it's a little on the heavy side, my arms don't mind the workout.
Feeling cute. Won't delete later 😉
A post shared by Milo (@cookwithmilo) on Jan 28, 2020 at 2:50pm PST
What we tried: Classic 5.5 qt Dutch Oven ($164)
What we thought: Shortly after we published a roundup of the best Dutch ovens available for under $100, this DTC startup started shipping its cast iron wares to Canada. Similar to those options, Milo suggests that you don't need to pay Creuset or Staub prices for similar quality in enameled cast iron cookware or cast iron pans.
The 5.5 quart dutch oven Milo sent me ended up being very good proof of this claim. In the time I've been cooking with it, it's baked bread in a 500-degree oven, made countless tomato-based sauces and stews, roasted a few chickens, and has also proven a great option for deep(ish)-frying things in oil. The version Milo sent for testing is white; after two months, there still isn't a scratch or stain on the interior of the enamel, despite having metal spoons and whisks and a host of other things my three-year-old likes to throw in it while playing chef.
There is one functional thing about its design, though, that set it apart from the Creuset standard: Its handles are small and hug a little too close to the body. This makes taking it out of the oven slightly awkward—but more importantly, it means they get untouchably hot with prolonged stovetop use, meaning I need to use potholders or towels while handling it for a stovetop braise. At less than half the price of Creuset's same model (and for, if you'll excuse the vain confession, a far prettier look), I'm OK with the tradeoff.
Overall?
I don't think it's a cop-out to choose to say all of these brands ended up being great quality; the best one will truly depend on the gear you already have and how you tend to cook. For me, that's meant three things: the Abbio set had me cooking with sauté pans more than I ever might have, while Material's finally convinced me to spend more time working on my knife skills. If you're looking for a full kitchen set without worrying too much about shopping around for add-ins, Misen and Made In offer the most versatile packages; Material Kitchen's individual pans and knives, to me, were the best performance for the price; Abbio, meanwhile, offers the best deal in a quality, compact package.
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You probably don't need us to tell you how cool a U.S. National Parks Pass is. Valued at $80, these passes open up the beauty and wonder of our National Parks, covering entrance, standard amenity fees and day use fees for any personal vehicle (up to four people). In an effort to encourage people to get out — and to bring people to their stores — Fjällräven will give away park passes at all of its 21 brand centers across the country.
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Hello RD Blog followers! My name is Samantha Reynolds and I am thrilled to be the 2017-2018 Exhibitions Fellow. Over the past year, I have worked as the Exhibitions Intern at Root Division, so it is a real privilege to continue to work with RD's amazing team and Studio Artists in a new capacity.
Outside of my role at Root Division, I work as the Gallery Manager at Pro Arts in Oakland. At Pro Arts, I manage our Arts Integration program, organize exhibitions with Bay Area curators, facilitate the Studio Lab Residency program and help with the day-to-day operations of the space.
As the Exhibition Fellow, I will be checking in each month to highlight current and upcoming projects by Root Division's Studio Artists.
This past weekend "New Growth" opened with a bang at RD. The opening reception was a fantastic event to celebrate the student artwork made as a result of Root Division's Youth Education Program. The afternoon event featured live performances by Youth Art Exchange, San Francisco Rock Project, SF Jazz, Youth Speaks, and Destiny Arts. In addition, visitors participated in a range of art-making activities, including a mobile printmaking station, t-shirt tie-dying and flower crown creating.
In connection to New Growth, Root Division is currently exhibiting the work of four Teaching Artists Fellows in the Frank Ratchye Project Space – Kimberly Acebo Arteche (Blau-Gold Teaching Artist Fellow), Rea Lynn de Guzman (Filipina Teaching Artist Fellow), Sofia Sinibaldi (Latina Teaching Artist Fellow) and Indira Urrutia (Latina Teaching Artist Fellow).
Diverse in their approaches, each of the Teaching Artist Fellows have applied aspects of their teaching practice and areas of interest to their individual studio practice. Collectively, their exhibited work considers how objects and physical materials connect to identity, place and culture.
Throughout the duration of the Blau-Gold Teaching Artist Fellowship, Acebo Arteche has continued to develop The Duster Project. Dusters are 'pambahay' – colorful dresses typically worn around the home. By placing the patterned, multi-color materials on both the ground and wall, Acebo Arteche expresses the ability of the diasporic Filipina to thrive in new environments and their continued resilience. As part of the Blau-Gold Teaching Artist Fellowship, Acebo Arteche was the Resident Teaching Artist at Bessie Carmichael Elementary School, a K-5 school and Filipino Education Center in San Francisco.
Rea Lynn de Guzman also acted as the Resident Teaching Artist at Bessie Carmichael Elementary as the Filipina Teaching Artist Fellow in a bi-lingual arts curriculum. Within the Frank-Ratchye Project Space, she has installed three panels of varying sizes. In her latest body of work, de Guzman navigates through the colonial history of the pineapple in the Philippines, the native's appropriation of the piña fiber, and its relationship with the idea of "Maria Clara" (a mestiza character from Jose Rizal's novel, Noli me Tangere). Through the process of repetitive layering and using a color palette that evokes skin tones, de Guzman experiments with the tactility of materials through screen printing and image transfer. de Guzman's work challenges the displacement of native ideals by the colonizer, specially in the Philippines.
Directly across from de Guzman's and Acebo Arteche's pieces is new work by the Latina Teaching Artist Fellows, Indira Urrutia and Sofia Sinibaldi. As Resident Teaching Artists at Mission Education Center, both Sinibaldi and Urrutia adapted an existing curriculum and project called My Two Homes, in which students participate in discussions and art-making around their transition to a new home in the U.S.
Image: Indira Urrutia, Tapete, 2017, wire knotting, 60 x 60 in.
Over the course of the past year, Urrutia has experimented with various wire knitting techniques. In her new body of work, Everything Starts from the Center, Urrutia has crocheted various pieces of wire to create a large form that is simultaneously structural and seemingly weightless. Tilted "Tapete", the sculpture's form was inspired by the work of Bay Area artist, Ruth Asawa.
Image: Sofia Sinibaldi, Blind Spots, 2017, polyurethane, rubber, silicone, screw, switchable film, 9 x 6 in.
Although contrasting in size to Urrutia's sculpture, Sinibaldi's piece also examines how repurposing materials has the capacity to shift meaning and create new forms. Sinibaldi questions how information is first translated and then traduced into something else. What is the new (mis)information that has been created? Her combination of seemingly disparate objects creates a new morphed form that ultimately become functionless.
As the 2016 -2017 academic year comes to a close, Root Division is currently accepting applications for the next round of Teaching Artist Fellows. In addition to acting as the Resident Teaching Artist at one of Root Division's partners schools, each Teaching Artist Fellow receives a free studio space for 12 months as part of Root Division's Studio Program, in addition to a teaching and artist stipend.
Looking forward, we have an exciting selection of artists coming up in the summer months ahead at Root Division. The next featured artist in June will be Studio Artist, Leigh Ann Coleman.


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This article looks at private 5G (known as P5G) and how it supports advanced and emerging technologies, including AI cameras, enabling manufacturers to drive more functionality closer to the edge.
Private 5G Connectivity and AI Technologies Accelerate the Transformation From Automation to Autonomy
Chia-Wei Yang, Director, Edge Vision Business Center, IoT Solution and Technology Business Unit | ADLINK
02/02/22, 05:37 AM | Automation & IIoT, Engineering | 5G, ai, networking
Since the first mention of IoT and Industry 4.0, advances in technologies such as machine vision, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and wireless sensors are continuing to forge a progressive path from automation toward autonomy. However, up until recently, connectivity has come in the form of wired Industrial Ethernet, which has a huge installation cost and negates the possibility for flexible manufacturing. Wireless solutions, such as WiFi and 4G, offer that flexibility but not the speed and bandwidth, and though 4G LTE meets these criteria, its latency is lacking.
This article looks at private 5G (known as P5G) and how it supports advanced and emerging technologies, including AI cameras, enabling manufacturers to drive more functionality closer to the edge. Private 5G's low latency is a game-changer and, together with its high bandwidth, can capture near-real-time insight into manufacturing operations. The switch from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) with swarm intelligence, for example, is just the beginning. The article covers a few use cases where 5G connected AI-enabled devices can sense their environments and interoperate with each other, making decentralized decisions. Finally, the article looks towards the near and mid-term future.
The 4 stages of IoT Development
Connectivity, storage and computing power are the foundations for enabling IoT. The first hurdle to overcome on the road to transfer legacy operations into a smart factory is that different installed machines may use different controllers such as PLC, PC and MCU, as well as a variety of machine protocols, such as Modbus, DeviceNet, CAN bus and even proprietary protocols. Many older machines even lack any communication. The second hurdle is that the machine builders may have developed proprietary source code, making it difficult for engineers to change or upgrade to maximize operations for a specific factory's requirements. Finally, some factory managers were reluctant to allow system integrators to add, delete or modify applications for currently installed machines.
For these types of applications, companies such as ADLINK developed solutions to effectively connect the unconnected legacy machines. For example, ADLINK's data extraction series is capable of remotely controlling and retrieving data from non-connected installations, converting essential data from devices with no output to networks. Initial IoT deployments were passive in nature, having limited computing power with embedded controllers for simple tasks. The collected data from sensors and other devices was stored in a centralized location, such as a data lake, and processed and analyzed based on Big Data architectures. Insights from the analysis were used to visualize field-side data to understand the patterns and any correlation. Many of these insights were used by machine operators for predictive maintenance to maximize machine uptime, thereby improving productivity and saving cost.
The second stage brought the factory into a more active environment with Edge devices and connectivity to share results with other Edge devices among the Industrial IoT (IIoT) network. By adding artificial intelligence (AI) into the mix, IIoT implementations moved away from presenting just the facts on what had happened, albeit in the recent past, and could automatically take action.
With the introduction of swarm intelligence, simple Edge devices can interact with each other locally. A concept found in colonies of insects, such as ants and bees, swarm intelligence is the collective interaction amongst entities. To adapt to the manufacturing environment's dynamic evolution, the swarm of entities are self-organized, manoeuvring quickly in a coordinated fashion. Although the swarm group is limited in terms of capability and size, this low-level autonomy builds on the use of cognitive AI and ML technologies.
For IoT technology to become truly pervasive – stage 4 - latency levels need to drop to allow real-time decision making, and IoT deployments need to operate more autonomously. Private 5G is perceived as the connectivity answer, pushing more intelligence to the edge of data networks and reducing latency. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology is gradually reducing the role of human decision-making in many IoT ecosystems.
Connectivity technologies of the near past
The majority of IoT implementations are currently at stage 2, using a combination of wired Industrial Ethernet with WiFi, 4G, and more recently, 4G LTE technologies as the backbone for connectivity to field-side devices. There are limitations with these wireless connectivity technologies in terms of speed and bandwidth. More importantly, latency, which is the time required for data to travel between two points, is becoming a key focus. Consider even the super-fast 4G LTE; its latency is 200ms, which is 'real-time' enough for some decision-making actions, but not fast enough for safety-critical decisions, such as shutting down a piece of equipment to avoid an accident.
The promise of 5G
Although public 5G roll-out raises concern in data security and might not offer consistent latency, the roll-out of enterprise-wide Private 5G (P5G) is accelerating. Private 5G boasts low latency, demonstrated by 4G's latency of 200ms to P5G's 1ms. P5G's high speed and bandwidth, together with AI/ML technologies for the intelligence, enables factory operators to capture near-real-time insight into manufacturing operations - being proactive instead of reactive to events.
This applies to robots, cameras, vehicles and all edge AI applications requiring reliable, secure real-time networking to share information. Good examples of how these technologies are combined are autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and machine vision for productivity and worker safety.
From AGVs to AMRs
The switch from AGVs to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) with swarm intelligence, for example, is just the beginning. But what does that mean? AGVs follow a mapping track and require expensive infrastructure and additional personal safety measures. A swarm of AMRs, on the other hand, can carry out their jobs with little to no oversight by human operators. They can sense their environments and interoperate with each other, making decentralized decisions.
One of the enabling technologies for swarm autonomy, in addition to AIoT, is the second-generation Robotic Operating System (ROS 2). The open-source framework for robot software development integrates Distributed Data Service (DDS) to provide a uniform data exchange environment to share data collectively like a data river. It permits multi-robot collaboration and reliable, fault-tolerant real-time communication.
Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn has set up a joint venture with ADLINK, called FARobot (Foxconn ADLINK Robot), to develop ARMs. In this partnership, ADLINK provides the Eclipse Cyclone DDS software – a platform used for navigation. The AMRs use the software to share data between edge devices in real time, avoiding the cost and delay of sending data to the cloud.
Using a swarm of AMRs to carry semi-finished products to the next workstation is a typical scenario. If the total payroll needs to go to different destinations, one AMR can carry half the batch to production cell 'A,' another carries 30% to production cell 'B' and the last one takes the rest to production cell 'C'. As the AMRs operate collaboratively and visualize field-side data using AI-enabled cameras, they know how to prioritize what percentage of the payroll goes where. The swarm has the intelligence to design and decide the queue automatically. Only combining all these technologies makes a smart factory possible, enhancing worker safety, efficiency and throughput.
SOP Compliance Monitoring
Another scenario utilizing AI machine vision is standard operating procedure (SOP) monitoring. SOPs are developed to optimize product quality and cycle time, as well as protect workers from dangers. However, human error is the primary failure factor.
Traditionally, industrial manufacturers audit SOP compliance by manual monitoring. Manual monitoring can vary among different production managers and is usually only for limited periods. Keeping track of every step performed by each operator is too time-consuming to implement through all the production lines. The workflow data is therefore incomplete, and it takes time to consolidate and then conduct analysis. This delayed response to amend incorrect procedures may lead to quality issues, lower productivity or even workplace accidents.
Taiwanese LCD panel maker, AUO, is now using AI smart cameras and behavior analysis deep learning algorithms to take care of these requirements. The solution is based on the NEON AI smart camera from ADLINK, which integrates Intel Movidius or NVIDIA Jetson AI vision processing cores with a wide range of image sensors. It comes pre-installed with an optimized operating system and software. The Edge Vision Analytics (EVA) software development kit (SDK) supports Intel OpenVINO AI and NVIDIA TensorRT, as well as field-ready application plugins, for streamlining AI vision project development time. In addition, EVA is a no-code, low-code software platform, which requires minimum programming for engineers to retrieve their AI vision analysis. In the times when everyone wants to benefit from AI but is not equipped with qualified knowledge and skills, EVA comes in handy for either manufacturers' in-house system integrators or AI project owners to quickly conduct the proof of concept (PoC) for the AI vision applications.
These technologies enable consistent and continuously optimized SOP monitoring and assessment, enabling production managers to shift their valuable time to perform more productive tasks. Real-time analysis of AI vision also enables them to respond to incorrect procedures immediately, saving rework costs and material losses. It can also prevent operators from dangers when operating with the incorrect procedure. Comprehensive monitoring can also help identify operators who may need further training to improve cycle time. Production managers can now shift their valuable time to do more productive tasks.
The Future of Smart Manufacturing
Manufacturers are eager to make a move to a smart factory that is capable of handling mass customization. To achieve this, the conventional concept of production needs to change completely. Digital transformation will enable the smart factory to manufacture a wide variety of products without changing the production line, layout or worker allocation. Where AMRs pick up the parts and tools that are required for production and deliver them to the workstation. At the workstation, autonomous robots build the products and, once completed, are picked up and sent directly to the customer via the autonomous logistics channel. Workstyle will also likely change. For instance, workers will no longer need to enter hazardous locations and can instead use augmented reality (AR) and digital twins to visualize and monitor the operational status in real-time from the office.
While P5G-enabled IoT connectivity is the digital backbone to smart manufacturing, AI is the brain, making decisions that control the overall system. The combination of AI and IoT brings us AIoT, delivering intelligent and connected systems that are capable of self-correcting and even self-healing themselves. ADLINK's AIoT ecosystem of alliances and partners will continue to help accelerate the deployment of AI-at-the-edge solutions for smart manufacturing – moving from automation to autonomy.
About Chia-Wei Yang
As director of ADLINK's IoT solution and technology business unit, Mr. Chia-Wei is in charge of the company's smart manufacturing market and business. Chia-Wei Yang has 15+ years' experience in developing machine vision and automation innovation as well as creating value with ecosystem partners. With sophisticated knowledge in smart manufacturing as well as AI AOI applications, he ensures customers and partners have the best journey possible when increasing the efficiency of manufacturing with the architectural offerings and services. Mr. Chia-Wei Yang is in charge of ecosystem partner engagement and strategic vertical market development.
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Are Christians allowed to get rich? An interview with Hobby lobby CEO David green
U.S., April 26, 2017: About a decade ago I did a short stint as an afternoon drive host on a large Christian radio station. Entrepreneurs are perhaps the most underserved people group in Christendom and so we made a point of trying to talk about their issues from time to time.
One afternoon, a young woman called the show to say that she and her husband had recently started a business. She explained that they had wanted to start a couple of years ago, but they didn't know if they were allowed to. Why? Because of so much religious preachment against business. They didn't know if they were allowed to make money.
My conclusion: that at least in their case (and I don't think they're the exception) being seriously Christian meant a two-year handicap in start-up agility. What a tragedy!
When I read Hobby Lobby founder David Green's new short memoir, Giving it All Away … and Getting it All Back Again, I was reminded of that incident with the caller. David Green himself had gone through something similar. The son of a pastor, and the brother of a large cohort of pastors, pastor's wives and missionaries, David felt that there was something not fully Christian about his passion for running a successful store.
He loved God and he also loved the retail business, but there was a voice in his head which told him that those two loves were in conflict. The memoir makes it clear that this was to some degree the voice of his beloved and saintly mother who, when David would talk excitedly about his business, would ask him, "Yes, but what are you doing for the Lord?" It wasn't her fault: this is the way most seriously committed Christian clergy thought. And it made David wonder whether he was being truly faithful to God when he was being truly diligent in his business.
Like so many Christian business leaders I've met over the years, David found at least a partial vindication in philanthropy. Yes, missionaries might be better than entrepreneurs, but at least entrepreneurs can cut big checks to missionaries. Business becomes spiritually acceptable via the collection plate. I've seen and heard many executives who believe that the portion of profit which you gave to holy callings rendered the rest of the 'secular' business enterprise, if not fully holy, at least acceptable.
It was not until later that Green saw that when we're at business, we can already be "about my father's business" … even before any of the earnings were given away. He was already engaging in the great commission (to disciple the nations) when he treated workers well and taught workers to treat customers well. He was preaching Jesus, even at the times when he wasn't using words. And those good deeds gave the words greater weight.
I recently interviewed David Green about this and other topics, and you can find a transcript of that portion below (and the entire interview on audio here). Both are edited for clarity.
MR. BOWYER: We're talking about the book, "Giving It All Away … And Getting It All Back Again". This book is written by David Green. David is the founder of Hobby Lobby and one of the litigants in the very well-known Burwell v. Hobby Lobby lawsuit, which went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Green, his wife Barbara, and Hobby Lobby were victorious in that lawsuit and also entered the history books as advocates for religious liberty against some of the mandates, especially abortifacient mandates, in the ObamaCare legislation. Mr. Green, thank you so much for talking to us today.
MR. GREEN: You're welcome. It's good to be with you.
MR. BOWYER: As I read your book — I read it cover-to-cover, I enjoyed it a lot, I found it inspiring, I saw things in my life that need to change by reading this book.
There was one part that felt kind of tragic to me, which was the amount of time that you spent wondering if it's okay for you to do what you've done. Your father was a minister, your mother was a minister's wife, your brothers and sisters went into ministry, missionary work, et cetera, and you grew up in a culture where to be ordained clergy was to be a Godly calling, but entrepreneurship wasn't seen that way. And it seems to me that you went through a lot of your life before coming to peace with the idea that being an entrepreneur is also a holy calling.
Can you talk more about that, please?
MR. GREEN: Yes, I think it was a positive thing in one respect with my mother and father that — I believe they wanted all of their children to be pastors' wives, missionaries, pastors. I really think it was a positive thing because they saw so much not as temporal or eternal. And I'm not real sure that they understood that we can also be involved in eternal things in the secular world.
And I don't like to use the word "secular" because your job — or if you own your business — it doesn't have to be called "secular". But I think that I never really knew, until I got later into my business, and finally there was different things that came along that I said, you know, I'm just as called to do what I do as my brothers and sisters that are pastors or pastors' wives.
So I believe I have a calling on my life; I think we all can, no matter where we are, be anointed. I sense God's anointing on my life as a businessman.
MR. BOWYER: What was the trigger that helped you make that transition, to shift that paradigm from wondering whether business is a second-class calling to understanding that it is, in fact, a holy calling?
MR. GREEN: You know, I address that in my book when there was an event — I went to a large meeting, and missionaries from all over the world were there. And they were taking offerings for the missionaries for literature to hand out about salvation.
And on the plane coming back home I just felt the Lord was asking me to give 30,000 dollars and I didn't have it. And so I talk in the book about that I said that — we prayed as a family, and we said, I think we can send 7,500, four months apart, post-dated checks. And I did that, and I was called by the individual that was responsible for raising these monies, and said that there were four missionaries from Africa that stayed over. We prayed about this. And the day we prayed was the day that you post-marked those checks. And that was the first black-and-white picture that God can use a merchant just as well as He can a pastor.
MR. BOWYER: So let me dig a little more deeply on that. In business, you're able to make money, and you're able to support pastors and missionaries. Did you move on from realization that to the view that business as a calling is holy, not just because you can give to the church, but that serving people by helping them with picture frames, or helping them pursue their hobby, their source of recreation is holy in and of itself?
MR. GREEN: I think that it became wider than just the dollars and cents that we can give, as you said. I think it has to do with how you serve your customers, how you serve your employees, and that's something that we're very, very key on. One of the key words around here when we have our meetings with our managers is "serve": we're here to serve. We tell our managers you're not there serving us; we're here to serve you, so that you can serve the customers.
So it's broader than the monies that we can make; it's what can we do to influence people for Christ. And we do this to the best of our knowledge as to try to live our lives in such a way that others are influenced by our lives.
MR. BOWYER: Does a company run better on love and service than it does on greed and on acquisition?
MR. GREEN: Well, we certainly think so. We think any company works best on the basis of God's word: following God's word and seeing what it does. There's so much in God's word that we can stand on in our lives; be it in our marriage, our family, or even our business. And we think there's not a better way to run your business than serving one another.


Now days everyone is struggling with weight loss. From child to old man/woman. Doing dieting doesn't helps people in reducing weight. Exercising, running & jogging. Trying many ways to keep themselves fit.
Crash dieting leads them to reduce weight but they gain weight after dieting. So what's the way to keep your weight maintained forever.
Of course you have to stop hogging & munching on fast food, oily & sweets.
1. Lemon with warm water.
Drinking warm water with lemon every morning is great for body. It helps not in only reducing weight but also keeps our digestion great.
Take a glass of warm water and squeeze a lemon in it. Drink every morning and don't eat anything after an half an hour. Keep away from sweets, oily food. You will see results soon.
widely traded outside its native area.
Ajwain is not used specifically as a weight-loss drug. In fact, ajwain may have appetite-stimulating properties. This is the opposite of what most dieters need. It does, however, have a laxative component that may stimulate bowel movements. If you've been constipated, this could result in the loss of a pound or two, but the weight lost would be water weight and would likely return very quickly.
Mix black pepper powder in warm water with lemon and honey. Drink it every morning after waking up. You will see results in a month.
Drinking warm water is very useful in reducing weight. Drink warm water when you wake up. Drink it for whole day. Half an hour before eating food and after half an hour eating food. Have warm water before sleeping. Make this as your habit. You will notice results in a month. Avoid oily, sweet & fast food.
Exercising regularly and eating a balanced diet in quantities appropriate for your size is the healthiest way to lose weight. Consume 500 calories fewer than you burn every day to lose a pound of fat per week, and get at least 30 minutes of aerobic activity on most days of the week.
can keep you from gaining the weight back. Weight loss is about changing your lifestyle and your relationship with food, not buying the trendiest herb.


The city's 87 neighbourhoods and parishes are administratively divided into 19 districts.
The city of Valencia is administratively divided into 19 districts, which are in turn made up of 87 neighbourhoods and parishes. Each one of the districts has an associated origin story. The name of each district gives a good indication of the story.
Ciutat Vella of Valencia , for example, owes its title to the region around which the city was born and from which point it was expanded. It has six neighbourhoods: La Seu, La Xerea, El Carmen, El Pilar, El Mercat and Sant Francesc.
LEixample of Valencia is the new zone, which spread out to the south of the city like an extension at the end of the nineteenth century. It has three neighbourhoods: Ruzafa, el Pla del Remei and Gran Vía.
Extramurs Valencia district is called as it is in order to comprise the whole zone that was found outside of the old walls of Valencia. It is made up of four neighbourhoods: El Botánico, La Roqueta, La Petxina and Arrancapins.
The city's fourth district is Campanar Valencia, which was a settlement that was formerly known by this name, and which has an urban centre that maintains its same appearance from the past. It has four neighbourhoods: Campanar, Les Tendetes, El Calvari and Sant Pau.
The city's seventh district is the Olivereta, an undoubtedly ancient name that is perhaps owed to the fact that in ancient times, there was some kind of old hamlet with an old olive grove. Its five neighbourhoods are: Nou Moles, Soternes, Tres Forques, La Fuensanta and La Luz.
The origin of the Patraix district's name comes from the word 'Petrair' or 'Petraher,' the name of the old village. It consists of five neighbourhoods: Patraix, San Isidro, Vara de Quart, Zafranar and Favara.
The Jesús district owes its name to the convent of Jesus, which was found near the city's old insane asylum. Its five neighbourhoods are: La Raiosa, L'Hort de Senabre, la Cruz Cubierta, San Marcelino and Camino Real.
The tenth city district is Quatre Carreres, which owes its name to the clefts and paths that entered through that side of the city. It has seven neighbourhoods: Monteolivete, En Corts, Malilla, Fuente de San Luis, Na Rovella, La Punta and la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
The Poblats Marítims also has its own district. Until the nineteenth century, there were independent towns on the waterfront. Finally, they were annexed to the city. Its five neighbourhoods are: El Grau, Cabanyal-Canyamelar, Malvarrosa, Beteró and Nazaret.
The Camins al Grau district owes its name to the paths that led from the city to the sea. It consists of five neighbourhoods: Ayora, Albors, La Cruz del Grau, Camí Fondo and Peñarroja.
The Algirós Valencia district is called this in honour of the dyke that ran through this whole area, together with the Mestalla area. Its neighbourhoods are: Isla Perdida, Ciudad Jardín, Amistad, La Carrasca and La Vega Baja.
Another symbolic city district is Benimaclet, which was the name of the old Muslim village, which permitted its title to go to an agricultural settlement that was ultimately annexed to Valencia. The district includes its own neighbourhood called Benimaclet, as well as Camino de Vera.
The fifteenth district is Rascanya, which also owes its name to the old dyke that irrigated that area. It has three neighbourhoods: Orriols, Torrefiel and San Lorenzo.
Next to that district appears Benicalap Valencia , the former town centre that owes its title to an Arab village that was found in that place. Along with the neighbourhood that shares its name, there is also the neighbourhood of Ciudad Fallera.
Lastly, the parishes that are found in the city's metropolitan area and which are administratively a part of the Council of Valencia have their own districts.
Pobles del Nord consists of Benifaraig, Poble Nou, Carpesa, Casas de Bárcena, Mahuella, Borbotó and Massarrojos. Els Pobles de l'Oest have Benimàmet and Beniferri. And Poblados del Sur includes Horno de Alcedo, Castellar-Oliveral, Pinedo, El Saler, El Palmar, El Perellonet, La Torre and Faitanar.
Together with the Valencian historian Rafael Solez, we have toured four of the most emblematic districts and neighbourhoods, such as El Carmen, El Cabanyal, Ruzafa and Benimaclet.


We have completed our 402 page epic book that will help you take your belly dance performance technique to the next level. Sara Shrapnell came up with a simple concept – that she wanted to be that teacher in absence. The trusted advisor there to mentor you though the process of evolving to the next level. Everyone is at a different place in their dance journey, so this book is filled with tips, techniques, and tools for dancers at every level. For the student preparing for performance, chapters 1 & 2 help you find quality instruction, overcome nerves and stage fright, and advise for choosing a style, honing in a persona, and mentally preparing for making that transition from student to stage.
But if you've already been performing for a while, chapters 3 & 4 will provide you with loads of advise on costuming, makeup, wardrobing and more. These are my two favorite chapters, and though I worked on the whole book, these two, along with chapter 10, are like having a 128costuming book inside of this text. Between Poppy and I, we put together more than 40 different costumes for this book, and in chapter 10, we offer a bunch of no-sew and low-sew tutorials for quick and easy "make it in a weekend" designs.
Becoming a Belly Dancer also has chapters on Music, Venues, Ethics and Etiquette, Sharing it With the World, and Going Pro. We all put our heads together and brainstormed all of our best strategies for planning for progress, surviving, and thriving in this world of dance. Sara is an experienced teacher, who writes with a warm, chatty, and very supportive voice. Poppy Maya brought the perspective from the current generation of professional touring dancer who really understands the current dance scene. Best of all, we had our team couldn't be complete with out our photographer, Alisha Westerfeld. As a dancer she really understands Middle Eastern and Western music, so she's able to effectively anticipate dramatic poses and capture all those most important moments of a performance. She patiently took more than 10,000 photos from which we edited down to the nearly 800 images for the book.
Right now, we're offering the book alone, or bundled with other fun premiums over on the Kickstarter website. From bundles of books alone, in various combinations of titles, or paired with dress accessories like jean jinglers, earrings, and assiut hair flowers, there's many fun things to choose from. Poppy Maya and I are even offering a limited number of "Treasure Chest" bedlah sets and a few custom "Assiut Embellished Bras" too! Check out the campaign page for details about the available backer premiums.
Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage will be available for sale here, on Sara Shrapnell's website, select specialty belly dance dealers, and on Amazon.com. We anticipate a mid November release date and our final price is TBA but will be somewhere in the $42-$48 range.
Be sure you are signed up for my newsletter to receive a notice when the book is complete and ready for purchase – but why wait? At $35 the Kickstarter is an amazing deal!
Below are some of the details from our Kickstarter campaign page.
"Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage" Is a stagecraft handbook for belly dancers. It provides valuable information, learned-in-the-trenches tips, and guidance for belly dancers who are ready to take the step from student to performer.
Sara Shrapnell, author of "Teaching Belly Dance" and Dawn Devine, author of "Cloth of Egypt" and 13 other belly dance and costuming books, including the bestselling "Embellished Bras" and the now classic "Costuming from the Hip", are teaming up to bring out a new book in the Fall of 2016. Between them, they have more than 50 years of combined experience as performers, teachers, dancers and costume designers.
Alisha Westerfeld is exploring the established and upcoming talent of the Bay Area to bring her beautiful photography to the project. International belly dance celebrity and costume designer Poppy Maya brings her own special brand of "Additional Awesomeness" to the book, and the input of a young dancer, currently making her living through belly dance.
The authors hope to bring the warmth, support, and humor of a teacher in absence, a true friend, and a trusted adviser who has only one main goal: you, the belly dancer.
The book covers everything a performing belly dancer needs to know, from improving dance skills, good practice habits, preparing physically and emotionally, critiquing, picking your music and venues and dancer etiquette. In addition the book will include extensive sections on costume design and selection, sewing and no sewing costumes, accessorizing, hair and makeup and presenting to the world the very best belly dancer that you can be.
"Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage" is an 8×10 book with 402 pages packed full of nearly 800 stunning black and white photos. Alisha Westerfeld has done a magnificent job of photographing belly dancers of all ages and styles. We have also included photographs by Micheal Baxter and Kelle McAbee.
We've put together a collection of fun and useful things crafted by our team of authors for you to consider. All the descriptions are in the bar at right. Everyone who pledges at $35 and above will receive a copy of the book signed by all four authors. Not only is this a great price – as our MSRP will be higher – but it's one of the rare opportunities to get the book signed by all four authors.
If you're interest in supporting our project, but not keen on having a book, we've got three ways that you could help us achieve our aims. You can pledge $3 which will buy one of our tireless authors, costumers, photographers, or dancers, a cup of coffee or tea. You can also contribute $10 and choose a digital copy of Dawn Devine's 48 page illustrated booklet, "Style File: A Visual Vocabulary of Middle Eastern Belly Dance." Or, you could select to receive our Digital Resource Guide which includes a bibliography, glossary, and research guide for pursuing your own studies in belly dance.
For a pledge of $35, you will receive a copy of our book signed by all four authors.
There are three options for folks interested in getting one of our handcrafted premiums. For a pledge of $55, will get a signed copy of the book and one of these wonderful costuming accessories.
If you're building your book collection, we've created some special pairings for contributions in the $60 – $90 range.
For $150 – We are offering a 5 book bundle of "Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage" a great value for teachers who are buying for their students, or troupes who are teaming up to make a bulk purchase.
Our two designers, Poppy Maya and Dawn Devine are also offering two custom costume options as shown below which includes a signed book. and costume pieces made just for you!
"Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage" is the stagecraft handbook the belly dance world has been waiting for. With your help, our completed manuscript will become a full realized book in November. We hope that you will take a moment to look at our premiums at right and join us in our mission. Thank you for your support of our project.


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How Is the Stockholders' Equity Section of a Balance ...
Does a Partnership Retain Profits?
What Is the Difference in Unappropriated Retained Earnings & Restricted Retained Earnings?
by Neil Kokemuller
How Is the Stockholders' Equity Section of a Balance Sheet Different From a Single-Owner Business?
Examples of Equity Capital
How to Empty the Trash on an iPad AOL Account
The Three Types of Business Entities in Accounting
What Is the Effect Dividend Payments Have on a Corporation's Balance Sheet?
Retained earnings is a financial account in which companies record accumulated net income. Each period, when a company prepares financial statements, the net income or loss impacts the value of retained earnings. Companies typically use retained earnings for various types of investment in the business or to distribute dividends to shareholders.
Restricted Earnings Basics
Restricted or appropriated retained earnings are amounts company leaders set aside for a particular purpose. When a decision is made to use available money, an entry is recorded on the company's balance sheet that debits or pulls funds from the retained earnings account and credits or moves them to a designated appropriation account. The basic purpose of this entry is to convey to owners, analysts, creditors and managers what the company intends to do with the funds.
Appropriation Examples
Unlike unappropriated retained earnings, which have one basic use, appropriated earnings can go toward multiple things. Common examples of investments made with appropriated earnings are new company or asset acquisitions, debt payoffs, marketing, research and development and stock repurchases. Essentially, a company uses accumulated earnings to reinvest in the growth and development of the business. A high level of restricted earnings is usually a sign that a company is aggressively growing or trying to pay down debt.
Unappropriated Earnings Basics
Unappropriated retained earnings is the amount that remains in this account after all restrictions are set aside. Typically, remaining amounts are either paid to owners as dividends or held as a reserve fund for future use. According to accountant and consultant Harold Averkamp on his AccountingCoach website, a company can only legally declare dividends when it has a credit balance in the retained earnings account.
The primary reason a company restricts retained earnings is to avoid confusion or frustration on the part of owners when they don't receive dividends from appropriated earnings. Practically speaking, all balances in retained earnings accounts belong to owners until they're paid out for other purposes. In the event of a company liquidation or bankruptcy, both unappropriated and restricted earnings would be used to pay off creditors, with any remaining amounts distributed to owners.
AccountingCoach: Stockholders' Equity -- Part 8
AccountingTools: What Are Appropriated Retained Earnings?
Neil Kokemuller has been an active business, finance and education writer and content media website developer since 2007. He has been a college marketing professor since 2004. Kokemuller has additional professional experience in marketing, retail and small business. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Iowa State University.
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Raising Money for a Privately Held Company
What Happens if a Company Doesn't Pay Dividends to Stockholders?
What Is the Difference Between an LLC & Owner/Proprietor?
Disadvantages of a Company Financing in Preferred Stock


Why Can't Our Interracial Relationship Be No Big Deal?
I'm engaged to a non-Jewish black man and my parents have given us their blessings, but are nevertheless insisting that we go for pre-marital counseling to deal with our interfaith issues. (I'm sure interracial issues too, but they haven't said that out loud.) Here's the thing they don't understand: we're fine! I know that in their generation this was a really big deal and they can't imagine feeling prepared for such a life. But they raised me well, as did my fiance's parent's raise him well, and as such we've got the confidence and communication skills to deal with this.
Seesaw, I feel like I am bound to offend somewhere here. Don't do the counseling and offend my parents. Do it, or at least suggest it, and offend my man. What should I do?
If instead of an interfaith relationship, you were marrying a Jewish man you'd known your entire life who had grown up next door, my advice would be the same: get counseling.
As anyone who has actually been married will attest, no matter how in love you are, no matter how fantastic your confidence or communication skills, no matter how well your parents raised you, a good marriage is hard work. And yes, there are additional issues in an interfaith marriage that will sometimes make that work harder, regardless of the generation in which you were born.
Frankly, had you said that you and your fiancée could envision at least the possibility of pre-marital counseling, I'd be less concerned. When a couple says they are completely prepared, have all the skills they'll ever need to address whatever comes their way, and can't imagine any difficult interfaith challenges, I question if they know what they're getting into.
Let's be honest, no matter how well-equipped you think you are, you've never been married before. You can't really say you know what it's going to be like. You don't have any experience with the inevitable changes that will take place over time — your own changes, and your fiancée's. You don't really know what it will feel like once kids come along. Whatever your confidence level, you've never been down this road before.
Never mind your parents. Try talking to anyone even a bit older than you who's been married at least five years and see if, in hindsight, they felt fully prepared. With a competent counselor, you and your fiancée can benefit from the experience of someone who has seen hundreds, possibly thousands of couples. And if your fiancée still feels offended by the mere mention of pre-marital counseling, that should be a red flag.
Try it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.


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With 30 June looming it's time to remember the difference you can make to young LGBTIQ lives with a tax deductible donation to The Pinnacle Foundation.
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Thorin is named over two hundred times in The Hobbit, in every chapter but 5 and 19. A note on the naming of dwarves.
01.052 And for me,' said Thorin.
01.062 Of course!' said Thorin.
01.068 straight through each one of Thorin's.
01.069 Now for some music!' said Thorin.
01.070 in with you!' said Thorin.
01.089 and this is how Thorin began.
01.092 This was Thorin's style.
01.103 said Thorin disappointedly after a glance.
01.112 Quite right,' said Thorin.
01.122 O very well,' said Thorin.
01.129 True, true,' said Thorin.
01.130 Here it is,' said he handing the map to Thorin.
01.141 I suppose you mean,' said Thorin.
02.009 "Thorin and Company to Burglar Bilbo greeting!
02.023 and off we go!" said Thorin.
02.041 said Thorin to the hobbit.
02.094 whose eye had been damaged by Thorin.
02.118 said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
02.127 "Thank you!" said Thorin.
03.038 Thorin pondered these words.
03.045 "Durin, Durin!" said Thorin.
04.006 "This won't do at all!" said Thorin.
04.028 said the Great Goblin turning to Thorin.
04.042 handing his sword back to Thorin with a bow.
04.047 and Thorin with him.
07.147 said Gandalf to Thorin.
08.040 to this accursed forest?' said Thorin.
08.128 Where is Thorin?' he asked.
08.129 Where indeed was Thorin?
08.130 Thorin had been caught much faster than they had.
08.134 But Thorin would only say that he was starving.
09.007 but he got little more news out of them than out of Thorin.
09.010 But he did not tell them that Thorin was also a prisoner with him.
09.015 nor before Thorin gave the word.
10.004 in search of Thorin's company.
10.036 and to pretend to believe that Thorin was what he said.
10.042 Thorin began to think of departure.
11.024 said Thorin one day.
12.033 as Thorin had pointed out.
13.006 and Thorin was the first to go forward by Bilbo's side.
13.025 Thorin! Balin! Oin! Gloin!
13.040 Thorin!' he cried aloud.
13.064 soon sobered even Thorin again.
15.013 and bobbed towards Thorin.
16.006 But Thorin was not moved.
16.016 and all the others were busy with Thorin.
16.037 and it is also the heart of Thorin.
16.040 But I wonder if Thorin Oakenshield will see it so.
17.002 said Thorin when he heard.
17.017 said Thorin dropping Bilbo on the top of the wall.
17.026 except the armour which Thorin had given him already.
17.034 for Thorin had many relatives.
17.055 They had forgotten Thorin!
17.058 and Thorin drove right against the bodyguard of Bolg.


Some clients in our day program had never touched a paintbrush before coming to Pilgrims, but with some instruction and encouragement, they are finding joy, confidence and increased self-esteem through artistic expression.
Many initially assume they can't participate because they're in a wheelchair, have weakness in the limbs, arthritis, or lack of experience. By adapting the activity, tools and/or environment to individual needs, our Recreation Therapist, Gillian, helps people to participate regardless of limitations – adding to their success.
We think the artwork being produced is absolutely beautiful.


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Public caning unconstitutional, can ruin lives, cautions PH leader
Voon Shiak Ni
KUCHING, Sept 5: Pakatan Harapan (PH) National Women chief for Sarawak Affairs Voon Shiak Ni strongly condemns the recent public caning of two women who were convicted of being lesbians.
"I strongly condemn the execution of public caning on the two women on their conviction of having a lesbian relationship by the Syariah court in Terengganu," she said in a statement today.
Voon was commenting on the country's first case where the two women aged 32 and 22 were canned in a courtroom in front of more than 100 attendees on August 30.
"It was shocking. It is not something to be lauded about being the first state to carry out public caning as this is an act that not only inflicts pain on the skin but also a lifetime scar of public humiliation that may lead to long-term adverse pyschological impact," she said.
She also pointed out that such a punishment was "unconstitutional under the Federal Constitution".
"One may think that public caning and humiliation can be an effective deterrence, but you can be ruining one's life forever," she cautioned.
She said the court had meted out the punishment with the hope the women could repent and turn over a new leaf.
"But the aggravated effects of public humiliation may run down all the spirits and the strength to live a normal life again.
"I strongly support all concerted efforts of the rights groups to call for a ban on public caning in Malaysia."
Voon also pointed out that the public were now fearful that the execution of public caning in Terengganu would become a precedence.
"I also wish to highlight on the inconsistency of Malaysia's laws and the Syariah laws on the issue of prohibition of corporal punishment on women convicts.
"Section 289 of the Criminal Procedure Code prohibits corporal punishment against women convicts, but the same punishment is allowed under Syariah law.
"We are hopeful that the issue on the said inconsistencies can be addressed accordingly to ensure that there is no infringement on human rights," she said. — DayakDaily
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