The Air-Conditioned Hotel is a Newly Built Luxury Hotel With All the Modern Amenities, Managed by a Group of Tourism Professionals. Guests Are Welcomed in a Lobby With 24-Hour Reception Service. The Hotel Offers Services Such As Shuttle Vans and Micro Buses, Airline Reservations and Ticketing, Medical, Secretarial and Laundry Services and Newspapers. Conference Facilities Are Available To Business Travellers and There is a Bar On the Premises. Those Guests Who Are Arriving by Car May Park Their Vehicle in the Hotel'S Car Park.


To say I am super excited about today is an understatement, I am so pleased to announce that the pattern collaboration I've been working on with my good friend Gabriela of Chalk & Notch is finally live! We each designed a pdf sewing pattern: The Orchid Midi and the Parasol Trousers & Jumpsuit. The fun part is that they can be mix and matched to create 3 different top options, 4 bottoms, a choice of 2 waistbands and so many ways to make it your own.
We've been talking about doing something together for years now and it's finally come together. Isn't it funny how the internet works sometimes? I've know Gabriela for over three years now and had the privilege of meeting her in person when I visited San Francisco in April of 2016 (something I wish I could do with all my close "internet" friends). I've always been a huge fan of her style and her sweet and generous spirit. We always knew we wanted to work together- I am pretty sure our friend Emi had something to do with it too (she has also been an intricate part of getting these patterns together) but we just had not figured out how until early this spring. I really wanted to make some high waisted trousers inspired by the first pair of trousers ladies started wearing to go to the beach in the 20's & 30's. Then I thought how fun would it be to make a top that could go with the bottom to create a jumpsuit. That is when I asked Gabriela if she wanted to collaborate on the jumpsuit, one thing lead to the next and we ended up each designing 1 jumpsuit/ trouser and a dress. The whole process was so smooth and such a pleasant experience, we worked together on pretty much every level of the process from designing to pattern drafting to planning and trouble shooting. Don't be surprised if we work together again!
Both patterns are on sale during release week, now through Wednesday, October 10th. You can purchase the designs separately, but we are offering a larger discount when you buy the patterns as a bundle. This bundle will only be available through October 31st with even less of a discount after release week.
The Parasol Jumpsuit is a double wrap tank bodice with high waisted trousers and comes in three different lengths:  full length  cropped length, and  shorts. The pattern comes with flattering slanted pockets and no side seams, an elasticized waistline or wide belt option. There is also a separate high waisted trouser pattern which has a concealed waistband.
We strongly advise that you muslin the jumpsuit (and I would argue any pattern, not just the jumpsuit) to ensure you get the proper fit before cutting into your treasured fabric. A jumpsuit covers the length of your body, and everyone carries their length differently. Some carry it mostly in their torso and others in their extremities. Custom adjustments are covered in both patterns, and we will post more about fitting on our blogs, so don't worry, you will have help if needed. Another thing that you should know about the Orchid x Parasol jumpsuit has no closures and it does require a bit of a shimmy, both in and out. Just a heads up from a friend. Show us your #jumpsuitshimmy on Instagram!
The Orchid and Parasol Jumpsuit patterns look great when sewn with a light to medium weight woven fabric with nice drape. If you use rayon challis, rayon crepe or rayon voile, you'll have a really drapey dress or jumpsuit. If you use cotton lawn, cotton voile, cotton shirting, linen or double gauze, you will have a little more structure. The Parasol Trousers can also be made with more structured fabric like cotton twill and denim. We will have a post soon with fabric recommendations from some of our favorite indie fabric shops, so stay tuned for that!
With so many options, we are really excited to see what you come up with. If you share your makes, make sure to tag @chalkandnotch & @ensemblepatterns and use the hashtags #orchidxparasol#chalkandnotchpatterns #sewensemble so we can see your creations.
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Related Expertise: Marketing and Sales, Operations, Leadership Development
One Branding: Uniting the Employer, Corporate, and Product Experience
October 13, 2014 By Rainer Strack, Wiebke Sokolowski, Christopher Kanitz, Manfred Dederl, and Antonella Mei-Pochtler
Every day, the digital world shines a spotlight on brand inconsistencies. Employees and potential recruits might get one impression online, customers and partners might have another experience, while investors and influencers might see an altogether different picture. The result is brand confusion or worse: brand conflict.
Consumers today, led by the digitally native Millennial generation (ages 18 to 34), expect much more from brands. They increasingly require a holistic and authentic experience across all the online and offline ways they interact with a company. When we surveyed them, Millennials reported that the number one way that brands can engage them is to have an "authentic purpose." Many consumers expect to engage more actively in a two-way dialogue with brands—and the Internet gives them a megaphone to express their positive and negative opinions loudly. (See The Reciprocity Principle: How Millennials Are Changing the Face of Marketing Forever, BCG Focus, January 2014; and The Resilient Consumer: Where to Find Growth amid the Gloom in Developed Economies, BCG Focus, October 2013.)
The global business environment also demands more from brands. The service sector now makes up approximately 70 percent of most developed economies, and that share is even higher when it includes the many products that have a service component. People have become a critical resource for service-based industries: labor costs are higher than capital costs in many service companies.
Likewise, people have also become an essential component of branding, a field that was once highly product oriented. Brand experiences are now largely shaped by the people on the front lines who interact daily with customers and must meet their rising expectations. Employees have become, in effect, brand ambassadors. Brand management of the future requires, therefore, even fuller and more consistent engagement among the people inside and outside the company—both those who experience the brand and those who represent it.
The problem is that companies too often focus on only one or two aspects of their brand image. Many ignore employees as brand advocates or else narrowly relegate marketing communications for employees and recruits to the human resources department. People often assume that a strong product or corporate brand alone will attract candidates and customers. To become part of its customers' lives, however, a company's product and brands will first have to be "lived" by its employees.
To succeed, companies today must elevate employer branding to its rightful place among the other major pillars of corporate, product, and service brand management. At the same time, they must create harmony among customer experiences with the product, the company, and employees. We call this new concept of integrated, employee-powered marketing one branding. A tight linking of all the aspects of brand management ensures that brands leverage their most significant asset—employees—to create more powerful and relevant brands for today's changing world. One branding also significantly boosts performance. (See "The Rewards of One Branding.")
THE REWARDS OF ONE BRANDING
Only the harmonization of corporate, product, and employer branding ensures that everyone involved "pays into" the one-brand account, together raising the brand's value. We have found that, in many cases, behind this success lies strong employer branding.
Companies that have strong employer brands tend to outperform those that do not. To measure the strength of employer brands, we asked students in MBA programs to rate the attractiveness of prospective employers. A BCG analysis of 39 global companies over the ten-year period from 2003 through 2012 found a positive correlation between the strength of employer brands and the average growth in total shareholder return (TSR).
We found that the correlation between an employer's brand and TSR was stronger at companies with a strong employer brand than at those with average or poor ratings. Moving into the top leagues of employer branding is, therefore, worthwhile not only from an HR perspective but also for its medium- to long-term impact on company value.
Not every company must be a leader in all three brand-management disciplines. But all companies must gain a basic command of each, as they discover how to differentiate themselves in the areas important to their business. Only then will they achieve more integrated and consistent brands.
The Power of Employer Branding
Even though it has become central to how a brand is experienced, employer branding is frequently the missing ingredient in achieving the promise of one branding. Employer branding represents a company's brand promise to the people who work there, the people who want to work there, and the people the company wants to recruit. HR leaders cite employer branding as a high priority, but not even 10 percent of prospective employees during job interviews know the key elements of an employer's brand, according to one European survey.
To succeed in today's complex business environment and deliver a unified experience across all the brand dimensions that are important to future success—especially through its people—every company needs to define its unique advantages for employer branding and then work hard to cultivate these differentiating factors more effectively. (See Exhibit 1.)
To discern how companies are giving employer branding an equal place inside a unified brand, we interviewed executives in the European operations of ten global companies with leading brands. In our work with companies around the world, we have found these leaders' insights to be broadly applicable to many other regions.
Consider the success of the employer-branding campaign recently launched by the adidas Group, the world's second-largest manufacturer of sporting goods, with €14.5 billion in sales; 50,700 employees worldwide; and a brand valued at $7.5 billion by Interbrand as of 2013.
In 1998, Matthias Malessa, chief HR officer of the adidas Group, established an HR marketing department that focused on its external presentation as an employer. "Today, employer branding is a perception index of people inside the company that projects to the outside and says, 'Check this out. This is how it looks here. If you think it looks good, join us. If not, we're not for you.'"
For the first time, the features of the campaign were developed with employees on the basis of their experiences working for adidas. The company surveyed employees of all its brands worldwide. Five main branding messages resulted. (See "Employer Branding at adidas.") Each country has the flexibility to highlight the message that has priority for the employees there.
EMPLOYER BRANDING AT ADIDAS
At adidas, the company has defined the employer value proposition, which consists of five pillars that can be weighted differently to fit local needs:
Sports Lifestyle
At the adidas Group, we are united by sports and the possibility they unlock. We embrace this with a work environment centered on sports and fitness and the flexibility to actively participate. Our roles here contribute to athletic achievements on the world's biggest stages.
What we love and why we love it bring us together as partners and friends, not just coworkers. We work with people who share a common love for sports and fashion. We have fun together.
Globe-Trotting Careers
Our careers at this truly global player know no boundaries. We never stand still, and we love experiencing the world. With corporate locations in more than 170 countries and a truly global mind-set, employees get to travel, work, and live all over the world.
Life happens. We work around it. Work here is more than work. We recognize and respect that individuals work, live, and think in individual ways. What we wear and how we do our jobs are up to us. We support all stages in life, including the flexibility to parent and maintain a strong career.
True Craftsmanship
What we create changes the worlds of sports and fashion. We thrive on the challenge of constantly improving everything we do. We believe that when we push our limits, we make it possible for others to push theirs.
"More and more young employees are demanding that their voices be heard," says Malessa. "I ask my people, 'How do you perceive this company?' Then I build my employer-branding story based on what they say." For instance, one message involves social and environmental responsibility. The motto "to make the world a better place" connects this message into a unified product-, corporate-, and employer-brand strategy.
The success factor is that employees are free to share their experiences with the adidas culture online. "In the digital age, it's important to win over your employees as brand ambassadors, but for it to function, there also have to be rules," says Simone Lendzian, corporate communications manager. Social-media guidelines orient employees to their rights and responsibilities when communicating as brand ambassadors during work hours.
The company had a lot of discussions about whether each brand in the adidas family—which includes Reebok and Rockport in addition to adidas—needed its own employer branding. "We believe it all has to flow into one employer brand that is all-inclusive and covers the entire company," says Malessa.
Six Guiding Principles for One Branding
To put one branding into practice, a company must keep in mind six overarching principles about how employer branding relates to its overall brand portfolio.
Credible positioning starts with a well-defined process. At the heart of employer branding lies a convincing employer value proposition (EVP): the promise of value that employers make to their current and future employees. The emphasis should be on the uniqueness of the company. Only with a differentiated strategy can a company achieve competitive advantage.
To ensure that the EVP is relevant and differentiating, it must be based on solid data and integrated into the overall HR strategy process. First, market research compares the internal understanding of the company's current positioning with the motivations and needs of external target segments. This is translated into a credible brand position and concrete actions and then anchored in the company's organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. (See Exhibit 2.)
Employee motivations guide employer branding. To attract and retain good people, a company must appeal to both logic and emotion. Effective employer branding uses a "double perspective" of internal and external views to discover the elements of the brand experience that drive engagement among existing and prospective employees. (See Exhibit 3.) Qualitative and quantitative market research can identify motivations that fit the brand, whereas creative techniques can uncover even deeper insights. Rather than simply delegating market research to an outside organization, all internal and external stakeholders should be invited to speak their minds through an active dialogue with the marketing, HR, and strategy departments.
Take the case of the BMW Group, one of the world's largest automotive companies, with €77 billion in revenues; 110,000 employees worldwide; and a brand valued at $31.8 billion by Interbrand as of 2013. Company leaders break down its employer branding into the motivations that drive its most important target groups and skill areas. For example, engineers can be divided into profiles such as "inventors," "navigators," and "realizers," according to Michael Albrecht, head of international HR marketing and recruiting for BMW. "Job profiles can then be assigned to create a basis for a comprehensive, target-group-specific approach, whereby the messages reference the defined characteristics," says Albrecht. "In our core disciplines like development, production, logistics, vehicles, and IT, where we usually have a lot of jobs to fill, a targeted approach brings in the best-suited applicants."
Only a brand that is lived every day can be experienced. Employer branding can be only as strong as the health of the company's culture.
A true standout is the culture of Google, the world's largest Internet company by market capitalization, with $50.8 billion in revenues; 45,000 employees worldwide; and a brand valued at $93.3 billion by Interbrand as of 2013. "Our employer value proposition is the result of our company culture as we live and experience it," says Frank Kohl-Boas, Google's head of HR in northern Europe. "As our motto says, 'Do cool things that matter.' I am convinced that you can recruit and retain knowledge workers only if you give them the room they need to think freely and you offer them interesting work. If you do this, candidates and employees will say, 'I can earn money elsewhere, but where else can I be a part of things, be myself, and grow?'"
At Google, responsibility for employer branding resides in HR, because it is understood less as a marketing task than as the management of corporate culture. A core team, under the leadership of a chief culture officer, works with local culture ambassadors who support the topic voluntarily in addition to their core jobs. The goals are to find the right people to hire, to ensure the internal multiplication of knowledge, and to provide the freedom for product discovery and invention.
"We don't do any big marketing campaigns—neither for recruiting nor for Google as a brand," says Kohl-Boas. "Instead, we invest in employees who develop the brand. We trust that a lot of people will come into contact with our products and associate the company with the quality of our products. If users like our products, the customers and shareholders will come."
Employees are the best brand ambassadors. The most authentic sources of employer branding are employees who can communicate credibly about the company and make its culture tangible.
Consider eBay, well-known as a global leader in online retailing and payments,
with $16 billion in revenues; 30,000 employees worldwide; and a brand valued at $13.2 billion by Interbrand as of 2013. At eBay, employee referrals are the most important recruiting component by far. "When you shape your employer branding out of the culture and put your people at the center of it, the advantage is that you can motivate them to channel their pride by recommending the company," says Tobias Hübscher, eBay's senior manager, European employee communications.
"Referral campaigns save headhunter fees and ad campaign costs and helped us get budget for employer branding and resources for talent acquisition," he adds. "Basically, we see referrals as being a lot more effective and working better in the recruiting process."
Social media is only one tool in the toolbox. Despite all the hype about social-media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, every channel must be closely analyzed for its benefits and risks. If a company does not have confidence that it can present itself authentically and engage in open dialogue with consumers through certain mediums, it should not use them until the advantages outweigh any potential damage.
The social-media strategy is well defined at Heineken International, the world's third-largest brewing company, with €19.2 billion in revenues; 85,000 employees worldwide; and a brand valued at $4.3 billion by Interbrand as of 2013. "When it comes to social media, you have to know exactly what you want," says Dario Gargiulo, global social-media manager at Heineken International. "A lot of companies do social media only because they think it's good to have a presence everywhere. Instead, you have to use every social channel differently and with a specific aim. You must take the time to find out which channel should be used for which message."
Gargiulo recommends focusing on the brand message and consumer attitudes on social media rather than communicating all of the company's activities. "In social media, you immediately get consumer reactions about what's important and what's not," he says. "It's about the connection with real life."
To integrate brand management disciplines tightly, stay loose. The players in one branding are less like a conductor-led orchestra than a leaderless jazz band. In the latter, the optimal combination of players is more important than who leads at any point in time. Well-executed examples of one branding show that there is no universal solution: although HR is often in charge—for instance, at BMW and adidas—several companies we studied maintain an ongoing, constructive conversation among the different components of branding, including marketing, communications, strategy, and HR. The corporate brand often takes the lead when the path forward is not clear.
At eBay, employer branding is jointly managed by the HR, talent acquisition, communications, and marketing departments and covers all eBay brands. Both internal employer culture and external campaigns are steered by communications in the local country unit.
Regardless of the organization design, marketing and HR must work together as equals. Each of the functions has plenty to contribute: HR has the competencies needed for strategic personnel planning and the ongoing development of company culture. And marketing can bring its "detective skills" to the table—by feeling out and establishing a unique positioning for employees and job applicants. (See "The Grand Coalition of Marketing and HR.")
The era of one branding is dawning. Employer, corporate, and product branding will only grow more closely integrated.
Although we see no one-size-fits-all strategy that can address all the challenges ahead, we have observed this about the leaders: one branding works only if executives in charge of HR and the brand disciplines make it their common goal and have the courage and flexibility to work together.
Companies that are willing to cross organization boundaries and experiment with this new approach now will discover the proven benefits of one branding. Those that do not move in this direction risk falling behind their more integrated and nimble competitors.
The authors would like to thank the following companies for their generosity in sharing their one-branding experiences and for allowing us to learn from them: adidas Group, BMW Group, eBay, Deutsche Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom, Heineken International, Google, Otis Elevator Company, Ottobock HealthCare, and Zalando.
We are also grateful to our BCG colleagues who helped us focus on the topic of employer branding: Katrin Gruber (an alumna), Christian Hense, Maximilian Klante, Philip Specht, Stefan Wamsler, and Tanja Woutskowsky.
Rainer Strack
Christopher Kanitz
Manfred Dederl
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Most homeowners spend between $1,226 and $14,138 nationally. Get free estimates from local patios & pathways contractors.
Adding concrete or hardscaping to the exterior of your home can boost curb appeal and create more space for outdoor entertainment. There are many ways in which you can go about incorporating a hardscape into your existing layout. Adding a walkway can grant access to a beautiful garden area or make walking from the driveway to a front entrance or side door easier and more scenic. Concrete patios are an excellent addition for hosting cookouts and outdoor dinner parties. Fortunately, most homeowners can create their own hardscaped areas without incurring the cost of hiring a professional.
Get free estimates from local contractors for your patios & pathways project.
A patio can take the form of a flat, paved area that is on the same level as the surrounding ground or a raised patio deck that overlooks a lawn or garden area. DIY remodelers may take many different factors into consideration when deciding whether a basic patio or raised patio deck is the more appropriate option. Local building ordinances are generally the most important factor while others may include climate, maintenance, budget, safety and personal preference. In general, concrete decks are typically the less expensive option as concrete is a low maintenance material. Patios that are not raised often require the added expense of excavation costs to prepare the land. DIY remodelers may also opt to use pavers, which offer similar benefits to concrete in terms of upkeep; however, the use of pavers for a level patio may also require excavation.
One of the easiest and quickest ways to build a DIY garden path is to use flagstones. Sometimes referred to as stepping stones, flagstones are easier to put in place because they do not have to be perfectly level with one another. They are designed to be placed with space between each stone. Since they take up more space, flagstones are less costly than other paving materials. Suitable stones can be found at a landscape supplier or quarry. In areas in which there are natural outcroppings of rock, flagstone can be found free of charge. Because these stones are heavy, it may be necessary to pay for hauling services.
In addition to being used to build a patio, pavers can also be used to construct a driveway. Because pavers are manufactured to a high standard, they are typically more durable than poured concrete driveways, and they often carry a lifetime warranty. Driveway pavers are easy to install and usually interlock, which strengthens the surface. In the event that damage occurs, pavers can be individually removed and replaced. Available in a variety of shapes and sizes, DIY renovators who are willing to invest time in the installation process can save money by avoiding hiring a professional.
Homeowners who wish to upgrade their yard by adding a paved area can achieve their goal in a variety of ways. The wide availability of paving materials that are easy to use and readily available in home improvement and hardware stores makes adding a hardscaped area easier and more cost-effective than ever.


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Wade Hudson is an author, a publisher, and the president and CEO of Just Us Books, Inc., an independent publisher of books for children and young adults. He has published over thirty books, including the anthologies We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, which received four starred reviews; The Talk, which earned four starred reviews and was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and Recognize: Black Lives Matter. These powerful collections were co-edited with his wife, Cheryl Willis Hudson.
Defiant is Wade's homage to the Black people he knew in Mansfield as much as it is his story about growing up there. These were the people who nurtured and loved him even as they fought for their own survival under Jim Crow. It is also the story of a youngster trying to find meaning and purpose in a defining era where issues such as civil rights, women's rights, immigrant rights, and resistance against the Vietnam War played out regularly on the news. It is about finding one's voice and joining the fight for justice and equality.
Wade lives in East Orange, New Jersey, with his wife.
Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Crown Books for Young Readers
Grade 5 & Up


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A: Using a temporary variable is pretty much the way to go, I would say -- that's what I do in this kind of situation.
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A: There is no other way than to use a temporary variable. But instead of using a single last value string, try a count map:
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The HLHB System's winning streak ended with a bang! Thanks to a combo of fakeouts, ranges, and wrong signals from the previous week, this trend-catcher system is down by hundreds of pips. Yikes!
In last week's update, I talked about the HLHB's winning streak since the start of the year and how I hoped I hadn't jinxed it by talking about it.
Well, it looks like I DID jinx it. Big time.
As you can see above, ALL THREE signals that I had open coming into the week ended in the red.
Not only that, but GBP/USD and USD/JPY traded on wide ranges, enough to trigger a "trend" signal when a strong candle pops up. EUR/USD was no help either, as it trended in a slow and steady manner that it didn't trigger any new valid signal from the HLHB System.
Right now the HLHB is nursing one long trade on GBP/USD and a short setup on USD/JPY.
Will this trend-catcher regain its mojo next week? I sure hope so!


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Nick Brewer
Boardgame, Demonstration
Come and play one of the most popular Steve Jackson Games products around. Never played before, that's fine.
Max number of players: 6
At Demo Table 1
Heath Cato
Two teams face off to try to break the code!
Nathan Hynes
The Expanse Board Game
Four factions (Earth, Mars, Outer Planets Alliance, Protogen Corporation) attempt to control a settled solar system 200 years in the future. Then game uses an action point/event card system similar to Twilight Struggle.
Sean Dzafovic
Come learn to play this stratgetic farming game! And be sure not to starve your family!
Jessica Albert
Do you enjoy collectible card games? What about Munchkin? Here's your chance to check out Steve Jackson Games Munchkin collectible card game.
Tapestry is a competitive, asymmetric, medium-weight civilization-building game. In Tapestry, you start from nothing and advance on any of the four advancement tracks (science, technology, exploration, and military) to earn progressively better benefits. You can focus on a specific track or take a more balanced approach. You will also improve your income, build your capital city, leverage your asymmetric abilities, earn victory points, and gain tapestry cards that will tell the story of your civilization.
Dave Roy
Collect birds, lay eggs and gain points throughout the seasons in this visually stunning new game.
Peter Spierenburg
Merlin - Base Game
Merlin is the new strategy game by Stefan Feld set in the mystic world of Camelot. Get the most influence at the round table and manage the provinces to your advantage to be the winner of Merlin.
Brian Crocker
Brewcrafters
Do you love craft beer? Do you love worker-placement board games? Then this game was literally made for you.
Christopher Harborne
Each player is a traveler crossing the "East sea road", one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. While traveling, players will meet people, taste fine meals, collect beautiful items, discover great panoramas and visit temples and wild places. At the end of the day, when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – which means that you'll have to be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things.
Daniel St Onge
Eclipse is a standard 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) where players will research technologies and grow their empire. This game will use the Rise of the Ancients and Shadows of the Rift expansions and can accommodate up to 9 players.
You find yourself in a dystopian cityscape with a few workers at your disposal to make your mark on the world. Like most people in dystopian fiction, your workers are oblivious to their situation. This world is all they've ever known, and you may use them at your whim.
Euphoria is a worker-placement game with dice to represent your workers. As a sort of middle manager in the dystopian regime, your eyes are open to the harsh realities of your world, and your primary goal is to gain as much influence as you can as fast as you can. In order to do this, you must walk a fine line where your underlings are concerned; they must have enough knowledge to be useful, but not so much that they grow disaffected and desert your cause. Use your workers to get resources and commodities, discover artifacts for a long-gone era, and forge alliances with the various factions that populate this world. What are you willing to sacrifice to build a better dystopia?
The Partisans
The Partisans is a tabletop game based on the Extra Credits mini-series, Extra Politics. In the game, you play a political ideology attempting to move the government towards your goals. Of course, other players have different ideas about what the government should be doing.
Players take turns as the Committee Chair and work together to craft bills from amendment cards. All the players then vote on weather or not to pass the bill. VP are scored if players vote with the ideals of their faction and players gain extra power by voting with their lobbies.
When the game ends, a round of final scoring takes place based on the currant priorities of the government. The player with the most points is the winner!
Based on the private lines that have formed the Tokyo Metro system, this heavy 120+ minute economic simulator brings a lot to the table in a small box. Featuring an era deck worker placement system, with an interactive map and separate train line income track, TOKYO METRO will challenge economists and gamers alike!
Saturday October 26, 2019 10:00am - 1:00pm PDT
At Demo Tables 2 & 3
Trogdor
In Trogdor!: The Board Game, you and up to five friends — or maybe people you just paid to come over — take on the roles of these acolytes of the Burninator, each with their own unique abilities and magical items. Take turns guiding Trogdor on his destructive lost weekend around Peasantry. Help him avoid pesky knights and archers, devour peasants, burninate the countryside, and, of course, the thatched roof COTTAGES!!
Saturday October 26, 2019 12:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Have you ever thought about who's really behind some of those interesting news headlines? Now you can try and convince some others that you can come up with the conspiracy theories behind them, in this new card game from Steve Jackson Games.
Max number of players: Infinity!
Unite Japan under one rule. Play your clan, and use diplomacy or force to attain your goals over a year.
Scythe is an engine-building, asymmetric, competitive board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. It is a time of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor.
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Reserves of Heavy Oil and Concentrations of Toxicants in the Environment and Environmental Impacts
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1. Mediterranean Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (MJBAS) Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 20-23, October-December 2022 ISSN: 2581-5059 20 Reserves of Heavy Oil and Concentrations of Toxicants in the Environment and Environmental Impacts Trinh Quoc Vinh1 , Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy, MBA2 & Sergey Yakutseny3 1 Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas: Moscow, Russia, Email: vinhtq95@gmail.com 2 Banking University HCMC Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam – International University of Japan, Japan, Email: dtnhuy2010@gmail.com 3 Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas: Moscow, Russia, Email: spyakutseni@yandex.ru DOI: https://doi.org/10.46382/MJBAS.2022.6403 Copyright: © 2022 Trinh Quoc Vinh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Article Received: 06 August 2022 Article Accepted: 14 October 2022 Article Published: 14 November 2022 ░ 1. INTRODUCTION The ability to accumulate a significant mass of organic matter of various elements and its ability not only not to lose, but in some cases even to concentrate additional amounts of PTE undoubtedly plays a significant role in the formation deposits of mineral raw materials with high environmental risks during their development. The paper presents related studies and Reserves of heavy oil and concentrations of toxicants in the environment and environmental impacts. Research Questions Question 1: What are related researches and Analysis of Reserves of heavy oil and concentrations of toxicants in the environment and environmental impacts? ░ 2. METHODOLOGY Authors have used qualitative and analytical methods, descriptive method for primary model, synthesis and discussion methods in this paper. We also used historical materialism method. ░ 3. MAIN FINDINGS Analysis of Problem For example, in the Western Canadian Basin, due to the presence of reserves of bituminous giants of the zone Athabasca becomes predominant heavy and super-heavy oil. In Persian and Western Siberian NGP - light and medium. International market for commercial standard calculations take "light Arabian" oil - 0.850 g/cm3 . Heavy oil occupies a special place among the oil, differing both in properties and in composition. Heavy oil is dominated ABSTRACT The paper aims to figure out Reserves of heavy oil and concentrations of toxicants in the environment and environmental impacts. By using descriptive method for primary model, synthesis methods and process analysis and analysis of difficulties and discussion, The study of this problem point that, The Hanford plant and the results of its activities are a good illustration of the situation that even small concentrations of toxicants in the environment can be intensively accumulated living organisms permanently living in it. Keywords: Reserves, Environment, Composition, Heavy oil and gas fields.
2. Mediterranean Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (MJBAS) Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 20-23, October-December 2022 ISSN: 2581-5059 21 by tar-asphaltene compounds with heavy molecular weight, consisting of complex polycyclic molecular systems, often enriched with PTE. By the early 1990s, proven reserves of heavy oil and natural bitumen in the world exceeded the reserves of conventional oil by 1.6-1.8 times. heavy oil resources concentrated in Venezuela, Canada, Russia and the USA, shown in figure 1. Figure 1. Recoverable resources of heavy oil, billion tons World geological reserves of heavy hydrocarbons of all categories are estimated at 641 billion tons (4.7 trillion barrels) of oil equivalent. By 2019 proven reserves of heavy oil and natural bitumen in the world have grown. Only in the Orinoco Basin in Central America geological resources of heavy oil, bitumen and oil in oil sands are not predicted less than 600 billion tons, and in terms of reserves 177.9 billion tons. For comparison, high-viscosity oil reserves in the Russian Federation amount to 6.236 billion tons. These figures indicate the forthcoming volumes of development heavy oil. Figure 2. Scheme of location in the Russian Federation of the main deposits of heavy oil and bitumen accumulation zones: 1. Baltic; 2. Dnieper-Pripyat; 3. North Crimean; 4. North Caucasian; 5. Caspian; 6. Volga-Ural; 7. Timan-Pechora; 8. West Siberian; 9. Yenisei-Anabar; 10. Leno-Tunguska; 11. Okhotsk; 12. Penzhinsky
3. Mediterranean Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (MJBAS) Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 20-23, October-December 2022 ISSN: 2581-5059 22 Characterization of the metal content of oil shale is of particular interest to us, since they are the most often the main generators of hydrocarbons in the OGB. combustible Shales, like oils, contain more than 50 rare trace elements. A number of deposits oil shale is known for elevated concentrations of Mo, V, Ni, U, Cr, Cu, Re, Ge, Bi, Be and W. Some slates are industrial raw materials for metals such as Mo, V and Ni, for which technological schemes for their extraction have been developed. Trace elements, incl. and PTE contain both mineral and organic components of shale. In the mineral parts are, as a rule, impurities of epigenetic origin in the form of exchange cations and isomorphic impurities in the composition of rock-forming minerals. In organic - they predominantly have a syngenetic origin and are in a sorbed state in the form of salts of organic acids or as part of complex and intracomplex elements organic compounds. Their concentration is especially high in asphalts - high-molecular compounds with high surface activity and present in combustible shales in large quantities. It was possible to trace the direct dependence of the values of the content vanadium, nickel and molybdenum from the heat of combustion of oil shale, i.e., in fact, from enrichment with organic matter. These metals are syngenetic to shale accumulation, their degree concentration is related to kerogen. Leaks from nuclear waste tanks and releases from industrial storage facilities the Hanford plutonium production complex occur regularly, for example, in 2013, 2016, 2017. There are 177 steel underground tanks containing at least 212 thousand tons of radioactive components, consisting of more than 1800 chemical compounds to be accounted for. The total area of the accommodation zone is 26 hectares. The planned end of the decontamination and restoration work by the US government - 2052 year. That is, it is precisely until 2052 that the Columbia River and the adjacent section of the Pacific coasts pose a clear environmental and sanitary and epidemiological threat. The Hanford plant and the results of its activities are a good illustration of the situation that even small concentrations of toxicants in the environment can be intensively accumulated living organisms permanently living in it. To a similar extent, this may apply to V, Co, Ni and other biophilic elements present in oil, as in products OV transformations. Moreover, the concentrators, as can be seen from the above, are all forms of living matter - plankton, unicellular algae, bacteria, fungi, herbs, higher plants, birds, i.e. all flora and fauna, although degrees of concentration vary. The total one-time mass of living matter on Earth, according to various estimates, ranges from 2x1012 to 1013 tons. And, if we take the average content of only vanadium in the composition of living matter equal to 6x10-5%, then the one-time mass of this metal, attributed to the first - second hazard class, in living matter can be about 107-108 tons. ░ 4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION As noted above, the prevalence of primary accumulation processes biophilic elements living biomass served as the basis for the formation of a whole directions of work in prospecting geology, especially on hidden mineralization, combined under a common name for lithobiogeochemical surveys. Among them are soil metallometry and vegetation, hydrogeochemistry, etc. In the course of various biogeochemical surveys, it has already accumulated large and usually high performance material.
4. Mediterranean Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (MJBAS) Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 20-23, October-December 2022 ISSN: 2581-5059 23 Declarations Source of Funding This research did not receive any grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Competing Interests Statement The authors declare no competing financial, professional, or personal interests. Consent for publication The authors declare that they consented to the publication of this research work. Availability of data and material The authors are willing to share the data and material according to relevant needs. References Boschert, S., Rosen, R. (2016). Digital Twin-The Simulation Aspect. In Mechatronic Futures; Hehenberger, P., Bradley, D., Eds.; Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 59–74. DeFelipe and Alcalde. (2022). Towards a Digital Twin of the Earth System: Geo-Soft-CoRe, a Geoscientific Software & Code Repository, Frontiers in Earth Science, 10: 828005. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.828005. Beloglazov I et al. (2020). The concept of digital twins for tech operator training simulator design for mining and processing industry, Eurasian Mining, 3. DOI: 10.17580/em.2020.02.12. Tynkkynen (2019). The climate is changing Russia: from a hydrocarbon to an ecological culture, Social and Political Science, DOI: 10.4337/9781788978606.00012. Wang, Z., Akhavan, M., Kashkouli, MNI., Opulencia, MJC., DTN Huy. (2022). Sustainable wastewater management from shale oil production wells: emerging opportunities and barriers, Appl Water Sci 12(7), pp. 1–6. Lari, K.S et al. (2022). Towards a digital twin for characterising natural source zone depletion: A feasibility study based on the Bemidji site, Water research, 208. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117853. ░ Cite this article Trinh, Q.V., DTN Huy & Sergey, Y. Reserves of Heavy Oil and Concentrations of Toxicants in the Environment and Environmental Impacts. Mediterranean Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 6(4), 20–23 (2022). ░ Publisher's Note Nemeth Publishers will remain neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in the published maps and institutional affiliations.


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