It's easy to take your existing customers for granted and focus on offering good deals to recruit new customers. This was how companies like Maxis and Astro operated until recently when consumers got smarter and started finding other companies to save them more money or offer them better packages. It's more difficult to get back a lost customer.
More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers. A cornerstone of marketing is customer follow-up. Without it, all that you've invested into getting those customers is like dust in the wind.
If your business already has customers, you have fuel to help make your engine run. If you're a small business owner, your ability to be up close and personal with your customers, is one of your biggest advantages over your competitors, especially your larger competitors.
Your larger competitors are likely using software to "get to know" their customers. They are compiling their customers into groups, giving them labels, assigning value scores and then blasting them with messages they deem to be likely to generate more revenue and customer retention. The large competitor often focuses the most attention on their customers when the customer announces they are leaving. At that point that competitor uses their "software knowledge" of the customer to attempt to "save" them. Their "customers" quickly become data, statistics and probabilities.
positioning the business in their marketing so the customers/prospects clearly understand what the business stands for..
The end game is to help your prospects and customers succeed. They want to succeed at earning more money, building their company, creating happy times with their family and friends, losing weight, attracting a mate, becoming more fit, or quitting smoking. You can help. You can show them how to achieve their goal. Marketing is not about you. It's about them.
All you need to do get insight on your customers is to ask questions and listen to the customer.
The more questions and the more answers, the more you can see the world through your customers eyes. A good marketer uses this knowledge to continually improve their business and ultimately to delight their customers. Those delighted customers return to make additional purchases, they tell their friends about your business, and they introduce you to opportunities to grow your business that are outside of anything you may have considered on your own.


Jordan took a little piece of my heart last week.
If you've been a reader for a long time, you know that Tanzania ranks at the very top of my list of places to see. But Jordan—and the way I saw it last week through humanitarian photographer Joe Sindorf's eyes—might just beat it.
On one particular day, I struck up a conversation with a camel owner in front of the famous Petra Treasury, and he invited me and our group back to his cave.
He could live in an apartment in a nearby village, he explained. "But why?" In the caves he can wake up to breathtaking landscapes every day. His life can be simple. And in the caves, he's encouraged to get outside and meet tourists to practice his English. "In an apartment, I'll just watch TV," he said.
In that moment I wondered if I, too, could live this way. Could I live in a cave if it meant waking up to breathtaking beauty every day? Could I raise my kids here and teach them English and math through life experiences rather than through worksheets handed out at traditional school? Could we live off very simple meals like bread and tea with cooked meat and fish?
And the answer is no. At least not for me. But how great is it that I get to visit these places and contemplate these things?
If you haven't taken the time to re-evaluate your year yet, please do.
Was it everything you wanted? Did you accomplish what you set out to create?
If life is a book, my friend used to say, why did you put this chapter here? And what will you put next?
I hope your next chapter includes a way to get out more. See more. Do more.
You can afford more and have more unique experiences when you combine it with travel writing and photography. And, at our upcoming workshop in St. Louis this spring, you can delve in deep to both along with video and see how it's done.
It's for beginners who need to know where to start. And for pros who are looking for new ideas.
We have a new roster of instructors coming. And fun new ways our members are making an income with their pictures and stories.


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Man Like Mobeen
There's great chemistry between the three mates in Man Like Mobeen, which hilariously parodies being Muslim in Britain.
Dúaa Karim, Guz Khan, Tez Ilyas
At first glance, those who enjoyed Hulu's Ramy might be tempted to view this as the UK version of it. However, Man like Mobeen is a bit more street than Ramy and a lot more British. It's also not so much about being a good Muslim. Mobeen (Guz Khan), Eight (Tez Ilyas), and Nate (Tolu Ogunmefun) are three mates from Birmingham. Two of them happen to be Muslim but it's not a big deal. Except it is because of the way Western society sees them. Mobeen, the head of the group, takes care of his sister, Aks (Dúaa Karim), in the absence of his parents, trying to be a good guy, while also trying to escape his past as a drug dealer. In the first episode, a transaction to buy a laptop results in three SWAT teams closing in on them for no reason. (When Nate runs off, the police officer asks the others why he ran, and Mobeen says: "If I had to guess, I'd say it's because he's black.") Much of Man like Mobeen is laugh-out-loud comedy, but there's a healthy dose of wokeness to be found here, too. Teenage knife crime (in the second season), the rise of right-wing sentiment, and the police's history of violence towards immigrants are effortlessly woven into gags. Very funny!
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Designs that bring your brand to light
Branding is the foundation for who you are as an organization, and an invitation to the world for how to relate to you. When developing logos, branding, and graphics standards (also known as style guides or brand books) our team ensures designs are beautiful, modern, and communicate the essence of your organization.
Once branding is complete there are a whole host of new materials, both digital and print, that can be created to help you put your best foot forward. Whether you need to be fully prepared for a donor, congregation, or leadership team meeting, or want to make a memorable splash online, our design team is sure to wow you every time.
Renaming & Branding
CSM (originally Center for Student Missions) provides an effective urban ministry experience that transforms lives, influences churches and communities, and honors Christ. Wanting to embody their mission into their logo, the simplified CSM name and mark embodies the calling to serve the city.
Relove Church
Relove Church, originally Westminster, stands to welcome the the community into the love of God by offering a place of rest and refreshing in their spiritual life. Thus, the logo symbolizes the renewal of the individual from the love of Christ.
Branding & Graphic Standards
New Hope Church is called glorify God by producing maturing followers (disciples) of Jesus Christ through the four scriptural principles of Learning, Loving, Worship and Prayer. By growing followers of Christ, the church sought to join as one (the "N" and "H") and use green to symbolize growth.
The goal of MPower is to empower each single mom to walk in God's best for herself, her family, and her future. This startup nonprofit's vision is to see single moms thrive and follow God's best for her life in all areas through fellowship, spiritual mentorship, and personal empowerment.
Trinity Church is a community in Michigan dedicated to awakening people to a full life with Christ. Trinity believes everyone has a story, and everyone's story connects uniquely to God's. They sought a logo that was an icon and depicted the "t" of Trinity (and the cross) in a current and relevant way.
CLCBC
Strategy & Branding
Chain of Lakes Community Bible Church is a community on the north side of Chicagoland that is passionate about helping people find a church home where they can make a difference for all eternity. This logo depicted the four major lakes in their area, and allowed the white space to create a cross.
Branding & Annual Report
Caris is a faith-based nonprofit which serves young women facing an unplanned pregnancy. It was important for this brand to be designed in such a way that it would appeal to both clients and donors. Separate materials across print and digital were designed for each of the two audiences specifically in mind.
Belmont Assembly
Logo & Tagline
Belmont Assembly of God is a church in Chicago, dedicated to helping people find direction for life through faith in Jesus Christ. The Leadership Team was confident in their calling and mission, but not in the consistency and presentation of their message to both congregation and community.
Life on Life
Logo & Materials
Life on Life is a startup nonprofit, created to impact the lives of at-risk youth. This organization daily pushes back the influence of violence, drugs and gang involvement, with one-on-one mentoring, found through athletics and acrobatics. This brand was designed with a fresh, urban twist and is active in its youthful motion.
Hope for the Children
Logo & Brochure
Hope for the Children is an organization serving orphans across India, Bolivia, and Nepal. Our team traveled to India, visiting several orphanages on-site, and found the organization was genuine but unable to present themselves to donors in a professional way. Until now!
Pro-Grace
Co-Branding & Pallet
The Pro-Grace Movement was founded with a desire to extend grace to people in desperate situations, specifically young women met with unplanned pregnancy. This project was unique because all logo and branding standards needed to be co-branded with the parent nonprofit.
SOURCE is a nonprofit organization in Canada, passionate about being the source of love, resources, and clean water for children and families in developing countries. Launched and led by a friend of ours, this project was especially refreshing to work on!
YECA
Logo & Social Media
YECA, or Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, is a group of young Christians across the United States with a passion to address the climate crisis of our world today. When we met the founding team this idea was still a seed; no logo or website, just a vision. This brand launched them to a new level.
Logo & Web Standards
St. John's Catholic Church in Indianapolis has a thriving Young Adult community, and needed a logo and branding to reflect the vibrancy and life of this ministry. Although it is a part of the larger Catholic Church, creative innovations were taken to ensure it also had a strong standalone identity.
FFAF
FFAF is a nonprofit organization in Canada, passionate about making productive citizens of children who are at risk of not realizing their full potential. It was an honor to create this "freedom" brand, which in itself carries limitless potential.
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Successfully complete all missions in Underground mode to unlock all visual upgrades.
Simply stay behind a car and watch the points rack up. Also, turn off the stability control by going into options and selecting 'Car'. This will make the car drift easier. Additionally, as you progress through the levels, the score required to win the drift competitions get higher, especially when you have upgraded your car's handling. Before you enter the drift competitions, go into 'Customize Car' and 'Setup'. For example, go to the engine upgrade section and refit stock tires to your chosen wheels. This will make drifting much easier. As you approach a bend with a bit of speed, back off the throttle, turn into it, and return to full throttle. With practice you can earn 50,000 style points on the figure of eight style track. Note: Do not forget to refit the better tires before entering a street race.
After you unlock the oval drift track, go into 'Quick Race' and choose that track. Then, race around it using the handbrake to powerslide into the corners. Depending on how good you are, you will unlock rewards every time you fill your meter, which does not take too long.
Unlock the Toyota Celica in split screen/quick race mode and successfully complete the first tournament in Underground mode. Go to 'Customize Ride' at the main menu and select the Toyota Celica. Select the 'Performance' option and equip your new engine, tires and drivetrain. It does not matter what brand package you choose for them. Return to the menu where you choose from 'Visual', 'Performance', etc. Choose 'Visual', then equip your vehicle with parts from all of these options (though putting decals, painting, and placing vinyl on the vehicle is not necessary). Do not use any default parts. If your vehicle does not have a two star reputation rating or more, then you may have forgotten an option. Note: In the body section, the last option may be locked; it is not necessary for this trick. Return to the main menu and select 'Quick Race', then 'Drift Race'. Select your Celica. Select the square track (should already be highlighted), and set the difficulty to medium and lap number to 10. You should be able to e asily get 'Great Drifts', and if you are good enough, you can get 'Superb Drift' and 'Colossal Drift' ratings occasionally. You will get a lot of style points for doing these drifts. This is an easy way to get style points early in the game. Also try to do drifts around corners in the bonus zone areas rather then doing drifts throughout the track.
Go to quick race, then select 'Drift' and use the little square track. Keep doing this to win vinyls, cars like Eddie's Skyline, the Mystikal car, and more.
Keep winning style points to unlock Eddie's car in the end. Note: It is faster to win them in drift. When your style meter maxes out, a message stating that you have won Eddie's Nissan Skyline will appear.
To get junkman's car, just simply go, like all other races, into underground mode, or quick race mode, into drift mode. Earn style points and eventually it will be unlocked. It's really like samatha's car, but junkman messed it up with mean car detailing. A sucky car to me. Nothing special.
Go to underground mode, or quick race mode, and do some drift racing. Earn points as usual, and eventually her car will be unlock. Her car is okay, but not the best on the streets.
You can either earn style points in underground mode or quick race mode. I prefer quick race mode, in drift mode. You earn a lot of points there. Just keeping earning points on the stlye meter until the car is finally unlocked. It has nice looks, but is pathetic on the road.
You can either go to underground mode or quick race mode. In quick race mode I would say do it in drift race mode. Just earn points until the car is unlocked. The car really looks tight, and its not as bad as the Petey Pablo car, but it's not the fastest either.
Unbelievably easy. Go the vinyls, highlight the layer that you have your vinyl on, and press X. Choose you favorite colors from there.


If you're like most small business owners, professional service providers or even most consultants, you probably focus most of your time and attention on what you do best, since that's where your interests, passions and experience lie.
You may have little or no training in business management, leadership, sales, marketing, planning or financing, and you may have never worked with a business consultant. When left to our own devices, it's natural to gravitate towards things that are easier / more comfortable, avoid the ones that aren't, and then have to drop everything when big problems arise.
But by doing that, you are likely to get caught in the cycle of crisis management, which invariably takes your focus away from business development, business management and business leadership, which keeps you from getting ahead.
Pinpoint where you want your business to go.
Map out a concrete, realistic and effective plan to get you there.
Set and achieve business goals.
Develop effective, low cost marketing strategies.
Hire and retain the right employees.
Attract more of your ideal clients and projects.
And, put more money in your pocket.
We start with an Organizational Assessment. We work with you to establish and prioritize quantifiable improvement objectives. This includes a holistic review of your entire organization through a comprehensive and disciplined review process. We then assemble our findings into a road map of key strategic initiatives designed to implement improvements, execute quantifiable action plans, remove operational barriers and ensure delivery of your critical improvement priorities.
How the organization leadership conveys vision and direction.
How appropriate information is gathered and used to manage current operations and plan for the future.
How your people resources are developed and harnessed.
How the organization determines exactly what its customer's need — and sets out to meet these needs.
How the workflow is organized to eliminate waste and error and hence improve service delivery.
How the organization is performing, from various perspectives: customer/marketplace, employee morale and involvement, productivity, efficiency, and financial performance.
What are the main benefits of an organizational assessment?
It builds a commitment to change among the company key contributors.
It provides a reliable, repeatable method of identifying the 'vital few' areas for improvement – those issues, which have the most, leverage in improving performance.
It provides the essential starting point for developing a detailed (project-by-project) improvement plan.
It provides a way of driving continuous improvement year after year – by building an assessment step into the annual planning cycle.
Experience with this process has demonstrated time after time that..
Given the same information, any group of rational people will come to the same conclusions regarding what needs to be done! And this is indeed what happens. The external consultants, the internal management team, the senior executives – all come to similar conclusions about what needs to be done. This also means that people who have been involved in the process are likely to become committed to support the resulting actions – to buy-in and to take ownership.
The consensus that develops is usually focused on a fairly small number of high-leverage issues – say 3 to 6 at most. These are the 'vital few' actions that will have the most impact on performance. It is now relatively straightforward to translate these into detailed action plans, to integrate these into the business plan, and to assign executive responsibility for implementing these over the next year or so.
How do assessments help sustain improvement?
Upon completion of the assessment process and an improvement plan, it is usually obvious to everyone involved that this should not be just a 'one-off' exercise. It makes sense to repeat the process at some time in the future in order to measure the progress, and to identify a new 'vital few'. Some high-performing organizations take this a step farther and build self-assessment right into the annual planning cycle. Used in this way, the process becomes a robust mechanism for driving continuous improvement year after year, as the company navigates its growth process.
We take a strategy-based approach to developing solutions. Operational infrastructure is the foundation of how your company operates. We therefore take a ground-up approach by looking at how your systems and processes operate. We look at how processes flow and systems operate. Based on problems identified or suggested paths of improvement, we work with you to build-on, develop or on- board the appropriate technology platform to streamline workflow processes to decrease internal bottlenecks, increase productivity and ultimately increase profitability.
We don't just give you the solutions; we help develop the solutions based on the root-cause of the problem. This is a 'team' approach.
Goal – Figure out what you want to achieve.
Strategy – How and what are you going to do to achieve it?
Plan – What are the steps that are going to get you there?
Tactics – What tools will you use to help you get to your goal?
Take Action – Start, and more importantly, follow through by finishing.
Your tactics will not matter if you cannot get your strategy in place.
Monitor and modify as needed to meet required metrics.
Our goal is to 'partner' with our clients – If you are successful; we have done our job well.


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2020 TIDE AND BITE TIMES ALMANAC NEW SOUTH WALES
Tim Smith has been predicting the best 'Bite Times' and 'Tides' around Australia for over 30 years. These guides are perfect for the tackle box, boat, pocket and gives a quick and easy reference to all tides around the state. There are plenty of tide adjustments for all ports in the state and the graphs are easy to read. Also included are solar and lunar details plus the 'Best Bite' times – These tables are unique to Tim Smith and give the angler the best bite times each and every day of the year, plus the best fishing days of the year. The booklet also includes: Fish ID • Knots • Rigs • Dangerous and poisonous fish.
2020 TIDE AND BITE TIMES ALMANAC QUEENSLAND
2020 TIDE AND BITE TIMES ALMANAC SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Tim Smith has been predicting the best 'Bite Times' and 'Tides' around Australia for over 30 years. These guides are perfect for the tackle box, boat, pocket and gives a quick and easy reference to all tides around the state. There are plenty of tide adjustments for all ports in the state and the graphs are easy to read. Also included are solar and lunar details plus the 'Best Bite' times – These tables are unique to Tim Smith and give the angler the best bite times each and every day of the year, plus the best fishing days of the year. The booklet also includes: Fish ID • Knots • Rigs • Dangerous and poisonous fish.
2020 TIDE AND BITE TIMES ALMANAC WESTERN AUSTRALIA
FISHING & CAMPING NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT)
Fishing & Camping Northern Territory will help you find out where and when to fish in the Northern Territory. Both freshwater and saltwater locations are covered including Arnhem Land, Kakadu, The Gulf, Darwin Harbour, Bynoe Harbour coastal and offshore spots such as the Daly, Roper and Victoria river systems. Many essential details for anglers, including fish species, camping areas, boat ramps, tackle shops, bait and emergency services.
The Murray River is home to the largest freshwater fish in Australia - the mighty Murray cod. In this book Brian Hinson and Bill Classon each draw on over 40 years experience to reveal the best methods to catch one of these legendary fish. There is also information on other fish species found in the Murray River, including trout cod, redfin, golden perch, silver perch and catfish. Detailed maps of the Murray River are included, with notes on the best fishing spots, techniques and more.
FISHING AND CAMPING QUEENSLAND DAMS
The surge in popularity in Queensland's dams amongst the masses of people visiting—both locally and from the southern States—has created a dilemma for many of the visitors. Where do we go? What's there? What do we need? In Fishing and Camping Queensland Dams nearly fifty dams are featured in detail with maps showing the access roads and facilities available to the visitor. Rod Harrison makes each dam come alive in his individual and informative style as he details the opportunities available to visitors and the best way to catch the fish on offer.
Fishing Around Bendigo opens up a world of opportunity to anglers. Roger Dark's book offers a wealth of hints, tips and advice on the area and will be a welcome addition to your angling library. More importantly, your next fishing trip should be more successful as a result of reading this informative and helpful publication.
FISHING ATLAS FOR CANBERRA
Fishing Atlas for Canberra contains detailed maps and information about all the waters around Canberra. There's listings of specific fishing locations and fish species, tackle information, tide guides, boat ramps, lure selection and more!
The Fishing Atlas for Canberra will be of use to every angler visiting the region.
New for 2017 - Available in March Fishing Atlas for Port Phillip Bay is a complete guide to fishing the bay and its estuaries, including GPS marks to get you amongst the fish!
FISHING ATLAS FOR SE QUEENSLAND
Fishing Atlas for SE Queensland - New Edition
Our southern Queensland waters envelop the city of Brisbane and the surrounding regions of the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast. The area provides a wealth of water and fishing opportunities. A feature of this lovely part of the world is that it forms the mixing zone for southern and northern species. How many major Australian cities offer a backdrop that provides top-class fishing for the likes of Spanish mackerel, longtail tuna, snapper, threadfin salmon and bass? There really is much to love about this part of our coastline!
FISHING ATLAS FOR SOUTH COAST NEW SOUTH WALES (NSW)
Fishing Atlas for South Coast New South Wales contains Andrew McGovern's accumulated knowledge and experience of over thirty years of living in and visiting this area during which he has caught just about every fish species available like whiting, snapper and flathead to prizes like mulloway and yellowtail kingfish to the much sought after game species like yellowfin tuna and the highly prized marlin.
Fishing Atlas for Victoria's Coastline
Fully Revised & Updated - Available March 2017 Fishing Atlas for Victoria's Coastline is a complete guide to fishing Victoria's bays, inlets, offshore and estuarine waters, including GPS marks to get you amongst the fish. Where and when to fish and how to catch various species is covered with detailed maps identifying specific fishing areas from Mallacoota in the east to Portland in the west and everywhere in-between.
The inland waters of Victoria offer a diverse array of freshwater fishing over an equally diverse geographical landscape. From vast dry plains to the west, where there are few rivers and lakes to some of the countries highest peaks to the east. Freshwater fishing in Victoria is extremely popular with an ever-increasing band of anglers heading out on weekends to tackle some of our best native sportfish such as Murray cod or yellowbelly, game fish such as trout or Chinook salmon or simply after a good feed of tasty redfin. For the most part, many of the waters listed in this book are within a relatively easy short drive from Melbourne, Victoria's capital city.
FISHING ATLAS TO SYDNEY – HAWKESBURY
Using Fishing Guide to Sydney - Hawkesbury anglers will be able to achieve positive results time and time again. Find out where and when to fish in and around Sydney's waterways. Both freshwater and saltwater locations are covered including Port Hacking, Botany Bay, Sydney Harbour, Broken Bay, coastal and offshore spots as well as the Hawkesbury, Parramatta and Georges river systems.


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Home > Pet Prescription Medication > ThyroKare (levothyroxine) Tablets > ThyroKare (levothyroxine) Tablets 0.3mg (180 tablets)
Home > Shop By Category > Pet Prescription Medication > ThyroKare (levothyroxine) Tablets > ThyroKare (levothyroxine) Tablets 0.3mg (180 tablets)
ThyroKare (levothyroxine) Tablets 0.3mg (180 tablets)
ThyroKare are an oral prescription tablet that provides hormone replacement therapy in dogs to treat the symptoms of hypothyroidism when thyroid production is lower than normal. Having a balanced amount of thyroid hormone is important in sustaining normal mental health and physical activity for your pets.
This medication contains an ingredient called T4, or synthetic tetraiodothyronine sodium salt, an exact replica of the hormone produced naturally by a dog's thyroid gland. This ingredient makes ThyroKare Canine a beneficial replacement therapy solution for dogs diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
Provides thyroid replacement therapy in all conditions of inadequate production of thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism is the generalized metabolic disease resulting from deficiency of the thyroid hormones levothyroxine (T4) and liothyronine (T3). Levothyroxine sodium will provide levothyroxine (T4) as a substrate for the physiologic deiodination to liothyronine (T3). Administration of levothyroxine sodium alone will result in complete physiologic thyroid replacement.
Canine hypothyroidism is usually primary, i.e., due to atrophy of the thyroid gland. In the majority of cases the atrophy is associated with lymphocytic thyroiditis and in the remainder it is non-inflammatory and as of yet unknown etiology. Less than 10 percent of cases of hypothyroidism are secondary, i.e., due to deficiency of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH deficiency may occur as a component of congenital hypopituitarism or as an acquired disorder in adult dogs, in which case it is invariably due to the growth of a pituitary tumor.
Hypothyroidism in the Dog:
Hypothyroidism usually occurs in middle-aged and older dogs although the condition will sometimes be seen in younger dogs of the larger breeds. Neutered animals of either sex are also frequently affected, regardless of age.
The initial recommended dose in 0.1 mg/10 lb (4.5 kg) body weight, twice daily. Dosage is then adjusted according to patient's response by monitoring T4 blood levels at time intervals of four weeks. The usual maintenance dose is 0.1 mg/10 lb (4.5 kg) once daily.
L-thyroxine tablets may be administered orally or placed in the food.
Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
Levothyroxine sodium therapy is contraindicated in thyrotoxicosis, acute myocardial infarction and uncorrected adrenal insufficiency. Use in pregnant bitches has not been evaluated.
The effects of levothyroxine sodium therapy are slow in being manifested. Overdosage of any thyroid drug may produce signs and symptoms of thyrotoxicosis including but not limited to polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia, reduced heat tolerance and hyperactivity or personality changes. Administer with caution to animals with clinically significant heart disease, hypertension or other complications for which a sharply increased metabolic rate might prove hazardous.
There are no particular adverse reactions associated with L-thyroxine therapy at the recommended dosage levels. Overdosage will result in the signs of thyrotoxicosis listed above under precautions.
Store at 20°-25°C (68°-77°F) with excursions between 15°-30°C (59°-86°F) and protect from light.


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Goubat är en udde i Antarktis. Den ligger i Västantarktis. Argentina, Chile och Storbritannien gör anspråk på området.

Terrängen inåt land är platt norrut, men söderut är den kuperad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  kilometer söder om Goubat. Trakten är obefolkad. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten.

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Republicans Just Killed Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Ease Americans' Crushing Student Loan Debt
The Senate voted Wednesday on the Massachusetts senator's bill to lower interest rates for student loans.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) can't catch a break. Senate Republicans voted Wednesday morning to block her latest piece of liberal reform. The Senate voted 56-38 in favor of Warren's bill to help ease the burden of student loan debt. Despite a majority of senators approving the measure, it failed to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome Republicans' filibuster of the measure.
Warren's bill is a simple concept. Current students can take out government loans at 3.86 percent interest, a cheaper rate than many of the loans held by past generations of students. The bill would also allow borrowers to refinance their current loans down to that lower rate.
Student loans have become a major drag on the economic fortunes of young Americans, hampering their ability to take risks in seeking jobs and delaying their ability to make the sort of purchases (cars, homes, etc.) that have typically defined a middle-class American life. More than 40 million people still owe money for their higher education. The total pool of loans still owed currently hovers over $1.2 trillion, more than the country's outstanding credit card debt. About 15 percent of student loans go into default within three years.
The main reason Republicans objected to the measure has less to do with the idea of easing student loan debt, and more with the mechanism Warren used to offset the cost of refinancing those loans. It would cost the government $51 billion over the next decade to allow borrowers to refinance. But Warren's bill would have actually reduced the deficit, bringing in $72 billion in new revenues by implementing the so-called Buffet Rule, an added surcharge tax on millionaires to ensure that they pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. "It's a basic question on our values," Warren told the Boston Globe this week. "Does this country protect millionaires' and billionaires' tax loopholes? Or does it try to help young people who are just starting their economic lives?"
But when even conservative fire-breathers in Republican leadership are tossed aside as RINOs, anything with the whiff of a tax increase is off the table for Republicans. Instead, it's easier to ignore the troubles of young Americans wallowing in debt.
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18 Sep 1912 Donald McLaran passed away at Victoria Park
The Dalby Herald issues covering this period have been destroyed so there is no obituary available for Donald McLaran.
The 1912 Dalby Herald obituary may have been written along these lines:
Donald McLaran's headstone at Dalby Monumental Cemetery. His age was 79 (not 77) and according to the death certificate below, the date of death was 18 Sep 12. Right to his end, his birth year was uncertain.
1912 Part Donald's death certificate, containing several mis-spellings and inaccuracies.
19 Sep 1912 Dalby Herald - possible obituary
DEATH OF ANOTHER DALBY PIONEER.
A very old and respected long-time resident of this town, Mr. Donald McLaran of Victoria Park, Daandine, passed away yesterday.
One of the earliest settlers in Dalby, Mr. McLaran was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, some 77 (incorrect) years ago. He emigrated to Australia aboard The America in 1853 with his father and step-mother, 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Sadly, only his elder sister, Catherine Milford of this town, survives today.
Mr. McLaran spent almost all of his time in Queensland in and around Dalby. A resourceful man, he engaged in many pursuits. He selected at Wabba Ridge in 1870, at Oakey Creek in 1874 and purchased Haran Station on the Moonie in 1878. In 1879 he married Clara Eversden of Tartha. Together they raised a family of 5 sons and 4 daughters.
Mr. McLaran commenced his Cordial Factory in Patrick Street in the 1890's. Today the relocated factory is run by Mr Elijah Starling, the nephew of a fellow passenger aboard the America and the property in Patrick Street is tenanted by Hodgson-Hunters Ltd.
At the turn of the Century, Mr. McLaran and his family successfully returned to farming at Daandine. He passed away peacefully at his property after a short illness.
Mr. McLaran is survived by his widow, Mrs. C.S. McLaran, his sons Duncan, Donald, Malcolm, Lewis and James, and his daughters Sophia McLennan, Laura Annie, Jean and Margaret, 8 grandchildren, and his sister, Catherine Milford of Dalby.
The interment took place at the Dalby cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. A.H. Tolhurst of the Presbyterian Church conducting the service at the graveside.
Donald McLaran c. 1899.
1891 McLaran family outside their home and cordial factory cnr Cunningham and Patrick Streets, Dalby.
Left to right: Clara with Lewis, Malcolm, Donald Jnr, Donald (braces), Sophia, Laura and Duncan.
Note the fence palings on the right - Donald and Duncan were securing the front verandah of the house.
1898 The complete McLaran Family, just prior to the cordial factory crisis.
Rear row: Duncan and Sophia
Middle row: Donald Jnr, Clara, Malcolm, Donald, Laura
Front row: Margaret, James, Lewis, Jean
2016 A view of a corner of Victoria Park.
c. 1930 Auld Lang Syne - Robbie Burns Toby whiskey jug.
My obituary, 106 years after Donald's death:
On the 18th September 1912, at Victoria Park, Daandine, one of Dalby's earliest settlers, Mr. Donald McLaran, 79, passed away after a short illness.
Born in Southend, Argyle, Scotland, Donald arrived in Australia aboard the America in 1853 with his father and step-mother, 2 of his brothers and his 2 sisters. He married Clara Sophia Eversden, the only daughter of Mr. L.J. Eversden, the station storeman at Tartha, in 1879. Donald was survived by his wife, their 5 sons, 4 daughters, 8 grandchildren and his sister, Catherine Milford.
Donald spent almost all of his 59 years in Queensland in the Dalby district, engaged in a variety of pursuits. He initially worked as a carrier and as a shepherd, often employing and organising others. He selected land in 1870 (Frogmore, Wabba Ridges) and 1874 (Kilkevan, St Ruth) and purchased Haran Station on the Moonie in 1878. Mr. Eversden managed Haran Station on his behalf.
An intrepid and canny investor and gambler throughout his life, Donald rarely hesitated to take a profit or to dispose of underperforming assets. When Haran Station was sold in 1887 to his wife's uncle, William Dockrill, the sale realized the property's potential and permitted Mr Eversden to retire to Southport and become the proprietor of Cambridge House. Soon thereafter, Donald disposed of his remaining grazing interest, Kilkevan, prior to the financial crisis of the early 1890's.
In the early 1890's, Donald purchased land on the corner of Patrick and Cunningham Streets and constructed there the family home and the McLaran cordial and aerated water factory.
Donald's gambling led the family to the brink of financial ruin in 1900. To clear his debts he was forced to transfer ownership of his Cunningham Street property to his son-in-law of 9 months, William McLennan. Displaying great resilience and determination, he and his wife Clara moved the family to Victoria Park, a property which was a collection of lots they selected at Daandine. The lots were owned chiefly by their children - Sophia, Donald Junior, Lewis and Malcolm, Donald himself owned 1 - and managed by Clara. Donald appears to have taken a secondary role in the running of Victoria Park.
Donald was a very resourceful and multi-skilled man, well-versed in sheep, cattle, horses (particularly draught horses and their breeding), carpentry and timber structures, well construction, droving and ox teams. To his children and grandchildren, Donald passed down a combination of business acumen, determination, confidence to construct any manner of timber and steel devices and structures, generally conservative investing habits (as a reaction to his own efforts?), musical talent (violin, saxophone, clarinet, bag pipe and piano players), sense of humour, story-telling and card playing skills. But he failed to imbue a lasting love for agricultural pursuits in any of his children, despite eldest son Duncan's stirling efforts at the pear-infested Victoria Park over 25 years. (Perhaps Donald's 4th son, Lewis, who was tragically killed in a well accident in 1918, may have been the son who could have succeeded at Victoria Park.)
Donald's Scottish ancestry became a point of pride for his family. His sons were active members of the Dalby Caledonian Society for many years and today grandchildren and great grand children are members of Clan McLaren. After the family moved to Victoria Park, Presbyterian Church Sunday services were regularly held at their homestead.
Between 1860 and 1880, Donald made numerous appearances in the Dalby Court of Petty Sessions, often as a plaintiff in the pursuit of justice for what we may perceive today to be minor matters. Perhaps it was here he met another regular court attendee, William Dockrill of Tartha, his future wife's uncle.
Donald frequented the hotels of Dalby, in and out of drinking hours. A favourite possession of his son Malcolm was a 1930 toby whiskey jug. Today, it still plays the tune "Auld Lang Syne". It reminded Malcolm of his father and the good old days.
Donald never aspired to civic duty but contributed to the development of Dalby via his rural properties (7 square miles in all, including Victoria Park and excluding Haran), construction of the cordial factory and participation in local events such as horse racing and agricultural shows. He also donated a fleece to the Queensland Museum.
He is buried at the Dalby Monumental Cemetery, beside Clara who died 44 years later (1956), their children who tragically died soon after him, Laura Annie (1916) and Lewis (1918), and Duncan who passed away in 1965. In the same cemetery avenue lie the leading Dalby Scottish families of the early 20th Century, including the McLennans, Peter Garrow and John Nicholson and family. They seem to be waiting for a Scottish piper to bring them back to life.


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Yet another telecom complex opens in Saudi Arabia
Ministry official claims that the new complex employs 160 Saudi nationals
Tags: Saudi Arabia
Ibrahim Al-Shafi, the ministry's undersecretary for special programmes launched the new complex in the Eastern part of Riyadh (ITP Images)
By Soumya Smita Prajna Published February 6, 2017
The Saudi Ministry of labour and social development has opened a new telecom complex in the Eastern part of Riyadh, in an attempt to promote Saudisation, as reported by Arab News.
Ibrahim Al-Shafi, the ministry's undersecretary for special programmes launched the new complex.
Al-Shafi said that the new complex has provided employment opportunities to around 160 youths, which will see Saudi nationals selling mobile phones and accessories.
He further added that these Saudi nationals have access to the suite of training programmes in selling, repair and customer experience. The most recent development on that front has been the introduction of digital training with the Doroob project, whereby interested trainees can access the courses via an electronic portal.
The government initiated the Saudisation drive in mid-2016 whereby it was directed that only Saudi nationals would be allowed to be engaged in the business of selling of mobile phones and accessories in the Kingdom.
The ministry had opened a telecom complex last year, and that was dedicated exclusively to women employees. The move is being touted as a part of the government to create more jobs for Saudi youths.
Various training as well as financing programmes have also been initiated since last year to promote the concept, and drive more and more Saudi youths to be employed in the sector.


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Barabudur (Sketch of a History of Buddhism Based on Archaeological Criticism of the Texts)
Item Code: NAH854
Author: Alexander W. Macdonald
Publisher: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
The reader will find in these pages a profound and far-reaching analysis of the ideas, religious aspirations and building- techniques which contributed to the creation of one of the largest Buddhist edifices in the world. This book is not a history of the famous Javanese monument nor is it a history of Buddhism. It is the English translation of the foreword to a work- loosely focussed on the Barabudur-which was published at Hanoi in French in 1935. Its author, Paul Mus, was then a young member of the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient. Later he was to have a distinguished academic career in France, where he taught at the College de France, and in America where he was for several years Professor at Yale University. His influence in the field of Buddhist studies has been considerable: and young European and American scholars, in their writings, continue to acknowledge their debt to him. The difficulties involved in coping with the author's very complex French style have tended to discourage translators. IGNCA has taken the initiative to make available to a large Indian public some of the work of an exceptional French scholar and visionary. To travel with Mus is an extraordinary, intellectual experience.
Alexander W. Macdonald, the translator, was born in Scotland in 1923. He went straight from school into the (British) Indian army and fought in Burma as an officer in the 10th Gurkha Rifles, serving later in 'V' Force, Force 136 and Allied Land Forces Para-Military operations in Southeast Asia. In 1946 he resumed his studies at Oxford University. After his B.A., he went to France and acquired a Licence-es-Lettres at the Sorbonne. In 1951 he became a research worker at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, remaining with this institution until his retirement as Directeur de Recherche in 1989. In 1965 he inaugurated the teaching of Nepali at the Institut National de Langues et Civilisations orientales. On loan from Paris, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at Tribhuvan University (Nepal) from 1973 to 1975 and later taught Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as General Secretary of the International Association of Buddhist Studies from 1991 to 1995. As a student in' Paris in the 1950's, he attended the lectures of Paul Mus and knew him personally.
Located amid Kedu plains of Java (Indonesia) on an eminence, Barabudur, sometimes spelt as Borobudur, is famous for its grand Buddhist stupa, unique in South and South-East Asia on account of its architectural features and form. On paleographic and stylistic grounds, the period of its construction is dated about late eighth and early ninth century A.D. It is believed to have been raised under the patronage of Sailendra kings, who were zealous Buddhists and overlords of Srivijaya kingdom in central Sumatra, governing an extensive area comprising Sumatra, Java and Malayan Peninsula between eighth and tenth centuries. They also had cultural relations with India. A copper plate inscription found in excavation at the site of the great Buddhist university of Nalanda (Bihar) records that at the request of king Balaputra of Sumatra, emperor Devapala (815-854) of eastern India made a donation of five villages for the upkeep of a monastery (at Nalanda). Similarly, Cola ruler Rajaraja of south India is stated to have made some gifts to Chudamani Vihara in Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu) which was originally built by Maravijayottungavarman, a Sailendra king. Accounts such as these, testify to the close connection of Indian and Indonesian art including that of the monument under reference.
The Barabudur stupa has been built perhaps around a sacred hill in the form of an unusual pyramid of nine distinct levels. Architecturally, it represents a terraced pile of dressed and sculpted stones carefully arranged to form an imposing structure characterised by shapely offsets, surmounting stupas and conspicuous massiveness. The impressive body of this pyramidal monument comprises nine tiers of diminishing elevational proportions with a semi-truncated top. Of the nine tiers, the six lower ones are of square form while the top three have a circular design. The uppermost terrace is surmounted by a central stupa containing a Buddha figure inside with seventy-two surrounding stupas of smaller dimensions arranged in three concentric circles on the top terraces. Each of these stupas has a hollow interior enshrined with an image of Buddha visible through its perforated exterior. Thematically, the presence of multiple Buddha figures installed in the stupas is further aided by scores of Buddhist reliefs distributed throughout the walls of each perambulation gallery represented in lower terraces. Remarkable for their rich variety of themes, artistic skill and aesthetic quality, the Barabudur reliefs are unique in several respects. The sculpted scenes depict the life of Buddha, largely according to Lalitavistara, an early Mahayanic text; narrations from the Avadanas and Jatakas drawn most probably from the well-known Sanskrit works, Divyavadana, Jatakamala and other Buddhist texts, besides Gandavyuha, Mahavastu, etc.
An important aspect associated with several sculpted slabs is the occurrence of short epigraphs recording expressions like Virupa (deformed or ugly), Mahesakhyah (eminent person), mahojaskasamavadhana (gathering of powerful persons), Suvarnavarna (name of a character of an Avadanay); caitya-vandana (worship of a sanctuary), chatradana (gift of umbrella), cakravarti (ruler of the world), svarga (heaven), Kuladharma-bhajana (virtuous persons), adhya-bhogi (rich-enjoyer), etc. These scarcely legible inscriptions were deciphered with considerable labour of Prof. Kern, Dr. Van Erp and others who tried to understand the purpose of these records in the context of carved scenes. After a careful examination of the extant epigraphs and reliefs, scholars felt that these were not intended to be labels for the depictions, but were, most probably, engraved to serve as directions to the sculptors to carve out a particular scene on a particular slab.
The Buddha image in the central stupa functioning as the apex of the monument has been identified in the terms of Mahayana as Adibuddha or Primeval-Buddha symbolising universality, completeness, timelessness and eternal source of pure and perfect knowledge, which were brought to the world of mortals by Sakyamuni, and which would be revealed and communicated to people in subsequent ages by Maitreya, the future Buddha. The same idea is also expressed through the multiple Buddha icons within the stupas as preachers of the Dharma in their respective Buddhaksetras. The cycle of life, outcome of good and bad deeds, illustrated through the scenes of the world of mortals, depictions of heavens and hells and representation of the tales from Avadanas, Jatakas and other texts are based on the concept of reward and punishment dependant on the Buddhist laws of karman. The sculptural presentations of Barabudur were thus intended to convey the message to the onlooker to follow a noble way of life with a commitment to good deeds leading to the perfect knowledge transmitted by the Master.
The reliefs of Barabudur have no doubt a textual base but the artists have also used their imagination, knowledge and skill in carving them out. They also reflect aspects of ancient Javanese (Indonesian) society and ethos. Echoes of the cultural traditions of ancient India are also discernible. The great monument itself and its accessory sculptures are well intended and meaningful within the contextual framework of Mahayana Buddhism in the form that was accepted by the patrons and the builders of Barabudur. The sole objective of the artistic edifice was to drive an upasaka to the highest Buddhist goal of achieving final liberation.
Architecturally, the stupa at Barabudur presents a balanced combination of horizontal and vertical elements represented by bold outlines of tiers and those of the segmented projections and recessed passages leading to the top. No doubt, structurally the monument is different from early Indian stupas like those at Bharhut or Sanchi (Madhya Pradesh) and Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh), yet, generically, it is not unrelated to India's architectural tradition. The basic structural format of Barabudur can be found in a variety of Indian temples modelled as terraced pyramids resembling very broadly as a West Asian ziggurat. This structural form is regarded as a representation of a sacred mountain, Meru or Kailasa. Earliest shrines of terraced type have been located in India at Pawaya (near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh) and Ahicchatra (District Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh), which have been dated around fifth century A.D. (fig. 1). The Ahicchatra terraced structure was originally a Siva temple with excellent terracotta reliefs and it was exposed by K.N. Dikshit of Archeological Survey of India during 1940-44. In the context of Buddhist architecture, a shrine of terraced-variety dating about the sixth century A.D. can be noticed at Sarnath in the monument popularly known as the Chaukhandi stupa. This seems to be the oldest surviving Mahayanic pyramidal structure with tiers. Possibly this architectural model, which was already held as sacred by Brahmins and Buddhists, was transmitted to South-East Asia and ultimately reached its culmination in Barabudur.
The stupa of Barabudur architecturally represents the mountain Meru presided over by the central Buddha figure. Perhaps, it illustrates the cosmic form of Adi-Buddha, embodying within himself several universes, hells and heavens, human beings, demons, demi-gods, gods, sages, Bodhisattva and Buddhas, time and timelessness and dharma, i.e., the righteous order.
Lama Anagarika Govinda has attempted to identify in the stupa of Barabudur sixty elements of Buddhist philosophy constituting a continuous way ascending through the three worlds and its different states of existence in the form of a spiral, spiritual circumambulatory path. The general plan (fig. 2) and elevation of Barabudur has a resemblence with a tantrika yantra (sacred and mystic diagram) of Meruprstha type characterised by a bindu (central point of the stupa in the centre), vrttas (circles), and bhupuras (external square frames), although it may not be possible for us to place it in the Buddhist context precisely.
Paul Mus was born at Bourges, in the central part of northern France, in 1902; and he died in the south, at Murs, in the Vaucluse, in 1969. At the age of five, he went with his parents to Vietnam; his father was a school-teacher there and his childhood and his early youth were spent entirely in that country. In his teens he returned to Paris to complete his education. There he was a pupil at the Lycee Henri-IV, and a student of Alain (Emile Auguste Chartier, 1868-1951) for whom all his life he retained deep respect. Alain could, I suppose, be called a philosopher. However, Mus also followed the lectures of the sociologist Marcel Mauss and the Sanskritist Sylvain Levi. In Paris he studied Chinese, Siamese and, Cambodian. Since childhood he spoke Vietnamese and later, for his fieldwork, he learnt Cham. His English was very good; his German too. He was gifted with a prodigious memory which he exercised every day of his life.
In 1927, Mus was appointed a Member of the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient at Hanoi. In 1937, in France, he became Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes in the Section of Religious Sciences located in the old Sorbonne building. In 1939 his doctoral dissertation was published by the Institut d'Ethnologie, which was located in the Musee de I'Homme. The sub-title of the book alone indicates the extraordinary range of his learning : La lumiere sur les Six Voies, tableau de la transmigration bouddhique d'apres les sources sanscrites, pali, tibetaines et chinoises en majeure partie inedites, I, Introduction et critique des textes. It was Sylvain Levi who had given Mus this subject to work on and the volume also contains the complementary thesis : Les Sadgatikarika de Dharmika Subhuti the manuscript of which had been found, or rather rediscovered by Sylvain Levi himself in Nepal: University professors usually consider this volume to be the meisterwerk of Mus. In it, his passion for parenthesis was kept on a tight rein: and the result is an impressive example of textual editing, explanation and criticism, illuminated by the author's firsthand knowledge of Buddhism in South Asia. At the time of its publication, the book was accorded little attention in learned journals.
When the 1939-45 war broke out, Mus was at first called up for military service in Europe. Some time later, he was sent to French West Africa as Director of Teaching in that area. After this African interlude, Mus decided to join that "handful of adventurers" who had opted for de Gaulle rather than Petain: and, in 1943 he was sent by Rene Pleven to India to join the Allied services preparing the defeat of Japan and the re-occupation of Southeast Asia. So it was in India that Paul Mus, the gentle scholar, experienced the pleasures and the pains of the British-organised jungle-warfare schools, and was trained as a parachutist. In 1944, at the age of forty-two, he was parachuted to Tonkin, sent to make contact, as representative of de Gaulle, with the local anti-Japanese resistance. After the Japanese coup d'etat on March 9, 1945, Mus managed to avoid being caught by the Japanese and; thanks to his knowledge of the country and the language, and the help he received from local villagers, was able to rejoin the troops of general Alessandri who were retreating, on foot, across the mountains of Haut Tonkin, to Kunming, in Chiang Kai-shek's China. He spoke of this experience later in Le Viet-nam chez lui, the text of a conference given on June 26, 1946 at the Centre d'etude de politique etrangere, published in 1946 by Hartmann in Paris.
For a short while, Mus was to be political advisor to the French authorities preparing to set foot once more in Indochina: General Leclerc, Admiral d'Argenlieu and Bollaert, the High Commissioner. Mus used to tell the story of how one of his reports on the political situation in Indochina was read by a British general who pencilled in the margin: "Of no importance: only ideas." It was at this period that he crossed the Viet-minh lines on foot, carrying terms which he himself thought were unacceptable, for a 'last chance' meeting with Ho Chi Minh, in an ultimate effort to avoid war between the Viet-minh and France, a war which now seemed inevitable. Mus has told the tale of his meetings with 'uncle' Ho in his books Vietnam, Sociologie d'une guerre, Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 1952, and Ho Chi Minh, Le Vietnam, L'Asie, Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 1971.
In 1946, after his return to Paris and a short spell as Director of the France-Overseas School (Ecole d'Outre-mer) he was appointed Professor at the College de France, the title of his chair being "Civilisations of the Far East." A few years later, I do not know the exact date; he was also appointed annual Visiting Professor at Yale University, in the United States. The rest of his life was to be shared between France and America.
In France, Mus quickly became known to the man in the street through a series of articles he published in 1949 and 1950 in Temoignage chretien and in which he denounced the warlike propaganda of certain colonialist elements in French governmental circles and struggled to explain the Viet-minh viewpoint to a largely indifferent French public opinion. Throughout his life, while pursuing and deepening his scholarly research, Mus was involved in public discussion of current political problems. I must mention that his son who was initially a conscientious objector ended up as a paratroop officer and was killed during the war in Algeria. This personal tragedy affected Mus profoundly.
During his lifetime, Paul Mus wrote only a few articles directly in English. Among these, attention might be drawn here to 'Has Brahma four faces?' in Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta, 1937, Vol. V, pp. 60-73; Angkor in the time of Jayavarman VII', in Indian Art and Letters, London, 1937, Vol. XI, no. 2, pp. 65-75; 'The Problematic of the Self West and East and the Mandala Pattern' in Philosophy and Culture East and West, Third International Conference of Western and Eastern Philosophers (July 1959), edited by L.A. Moore at Honolulu, 1962, pp. 594-61O; 'Buddhism in Vietnamese History and Society' in the Jahrbuch des Sudasien-Instituts der Universitat Heidelberg, 1967-68, Wiesbaden, 1968, pp. 95-115, and 'Thousand-armed Kannon: A Mystery or a Problem?' in Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu, 12, I, 1964, pp. 438-470.
After his death in 1969, an article which he had originally published in French at Hanoi in 1934, 'L'Inde vue de l'est,' was translated into English by I.W. Mabbett under the title 'India seen from the East: Indian and indigenous cults in Champa', in Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No.3, Monash University, 1975, Victoria (Australia). The introduction to this translation, which is by David P. Chandler and I.W. Mabbett, provides a good summary of the life and work of Mus. More recently, Martine Karnouh-Vertalier has translated into English the fifth chapter, "Sequence de l'art bouddhique: symboles, visions, images," of an unpublished work by Mus entitled Les Masques d'Angkor, prepared for publication by Serge Thion. This English translation appeared in Res, 14, Autumn 1987, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 5-26, under the title 'The iconography of 'an aniconic art.'
The reader of French will gain access to further aspects of the work of Mus by consulting the obituary notice 'Paul Mus' written by the anthropologist Guy Morechand in the Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (henceforth BEFEO), t. LVII. 1970, pp. 24-42; by perusing a volume of articles published after the death of Mus and edited by Serge Thion L'angle de l'Asie, Paris, Hartmann, 1977 -which contains the most complete bibliography published to date; and by working through all article by Georges Condominas, 'Paul Mus, Sociologue', published in the Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, Vol. 49, 1970, pp. 53-68. This article is noteworthy for its exploitation of the summaries of the annual lectures of Mus, at the College de France,' printed in the Annuaires du College de France, a publication which I know, from experience, is not easy to locate outside Parisian libraries.
At the period of his life when he was based at Hanoi, and working on Angkor Wat in Cambodia and on the Barabudur 'in Java, Paul Mus published between 1932 and 1934, in the Bulletin of the School, three articles in French: 'Barabudur, les origines du stupa et la transmigration, essai d'archeologie religieuse comparee, I,' in BEFEO XXXII, no. 1, pp. 269-439; 'Barabudur, la valeur cosmique du stupa, cosmogrammes et geomancie dans la croyance commune de l' Asie, II,' in BEFEO XXXIII, no. 2, pp. 577-981; and 'Barabudur, les origines du stupa et la transmigration ... , III, in BEFEO, XXXIV, no.1, pp. 175-400. These articles contained, for the time when they were written, many new views and hypotheses concerning the evolution of Buddhism throughout Asia and were concerned with much else besides the Barabudur. George Coedes, who was, in those days, the Director of EFEO, felt that the work of Mus should be made more widely known and that the articles should be grouped together in a separate publication. So he suggested to Mus that the latter write a few pages introducing his own work to the learned public and summarising the views expressed in these articles. When I was a student in Paris in the 1950s, Coedes himself told me of his astonishment when, a few weeks after he had made this suggestion, Mus brought to him the French text of the Foreword (avant-propos) which I translate into English in the pages below. The articles in the BEFEO had begun as a critical review of a work in Dutch written in 1927 by W.F. Stutterheim and published in 1929 at Weltevreden under the title Tjandi Bara-Boedoer, Naam-Vorm-Beteekenis. By 1935, the date at which Barabudur, Esquisse d'une histoire du Bouddhisme fondee sur la critique archeologique des textes was published, unfinished, in two volumes, at Hanoi, the work filled 1,100 printed pages of which 302 were in very small type.
The book was not received with widespread enthusiasm by contemporary learned opinion when it came out. P. Masson-Oursel was full of praise and Coomaraswamy was enthusiastic; but Louis de la Vallee Poussin, the great Belgian scholar of Buddhism, noted somewhat sourly: "The Buddhism of Paul Mus is not that of the Theras of the Theragathas, of the Bhiksus of the Vinaya... it is, in reality a nirmitakaya where the markers are not easy to discern" (Melanges chinois et bouddhiques, Vol. V, 1936-37, Bruxelles, 1937, pp. 252-53). A French reprint of the same text but iI1 one volume, was published in New York by Arno Press, in 1978: and, in Paris, in 1990, Arma Artis reprinted the same French text, again in one volume, with the permission of Madame Suzanne Mus. To the best of my knowledge no part of the body of the Barabudur nor of its foreword (which is, in reality, a postface) has ever been published in English translation. Few copies of the book were printed originally in French at Hanoi: some doubtless went astray during the fighting; and even in Paris in the 50s the 900k was hard to come by and very expensive indeed for impecunious students. I recall that I acquired my own copy from Georges Condominas to whom I gave in exchange Tylor's two-volume Primitive Culture. I still think I got the better part of the bargain.
My own path first crossed that of Paul Mus in the rest-and-transit centre of Force 136 in Calcutta sometime in late 1945. We were both in "The Firm" as it used to be called by its members. But he was in Indochina Country Section; and I was in Burma Country Section. On September 2, 1945, a major on Leclerc's staff, he had stood on the deck of the American battleship Missouri, a few feet away from. the table, when Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the document confirming the surrender of Japan, in the presence of General MacArthur and delegations from the other Allied Forces. However, at that time, I was not particularly interested in the doings of Mr. Quail, the name under which Paul Mus had been dropped to Tonkin. I was tired and much preoccupied with my own immediate future. Let me try to explain why because knowledge of some facts is essential for understanding what ensued.
Acknowledgement for Illustrations viii
Foreword ix
Translator's Preface xvii
SECTION-1
The Indian Sources of Buddhism : The Methods of Buddhology 1
The Nirvana and the Survival of the Buddha : Workship, Dogma and Legend 49
Rpyal Workship, the Cakravartin Buddha and tha Dharmakaya 91
Sketch of a History of Buddhism 143
Index 345
Buddhist Art in India, Ceylon and Java
By J. Ph. Vogel
Buddhist Literature and Art
By Dr. Mahendra and P. Mittal
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"Lion and Crocodile" by Christophe Fratin
A very powerful 19th Century French bronze study of lion domimating a crocodile that lays beneath it . The surface with excellent mid to dark green patina and very fine hand chased surface detail, raised on an integral base & signed Fratin
Materials: Bronze
Book reference: Les Animaliers by Jane Horswell
Page no. 199
Christopher Fratin, French 1801 ~ 1864
also known as Christophe Fratin, was a noted French sculptor in the animalier style, and one of the earliest French sculptors to portray animals in bronze. Fratin was born in Metz, Moselle, France the son of a taxidermist. He first studied drawing under Pioche in Metz and later worked in Paris at the studio of Théodore Géricault.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831–1842 and 1850–1862, as well as at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Fratin never signed his bronzes but instead used a stamp showing his last name in straight block letters. One of the stamps he used (pictured) showed the "n" reversed, not by design but due to an error on the part of the maker of the stamp. Bronzes bearing this stamp have the appearance of not seeming to be genuine when in reality this foible is actually an indicator of authenticity.
Fratin received monumental commissions in France and elsewhere, including the Deux Aigles Gardant Leur Proie (Eagles and Prey, created 1850) displayed since 1863 in New York City's Central Park. Many of his small bronzes—including his miniature bronzes which were more affordable due to their smaller size—were sold commercially to the general public during his lifetime. Today, Fratin's sculpture is on permanent display in the Louvre, the city museums of Metz, Lyon, Strasbourg, Nîmes and at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The Georg Eisler archive in Vienna also has on display works by Fratin.
A number of Fratin's pieces portray horses, especially portraits of famous horses such as Fermer, cheval anglais pur-sang, a wax of which he debuted at the Salon of 1831, the same exhibition in which Barye's Tigre dévorant un gavial was featured.
At Montrouge Square in Paris appears a colossal bronze group standing 2 meters high entitled Cheval attaqué par un lion, executed in 1852. Fratin received many commissions from the State including groups designed for the botanical garden and the esplanade of his hometown; amongst the groups were two dogs, a deer at bay, a purebred horse, and some eagles. He also produced a number of whimsical bear sculptures, including Le Père Odry and Ours jouant de la cornemuse which shows a bear holding a musical instrument.
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Is Phenoxyethanol in Cosmetics Safe?
By Cammy Pedroja, PhD on November 27, 2018
How's it used?
How does it appear on the label?
Where will you find it?
Why is it added to cosmetics?
Is phenoxyethanol safe?
Possible health concerns
What is phenoxyethanol?
Phenoxyethanol is a preservative used in many cosmetics and personal care products. You may have a cabinet full of products containing this ingredient in your home, whether you know it or not.
Chemically, phenoxyethanol is known as a glycol ether, or in other words, a solvent. CosmeticsInfo.org describes phenoxyethanol as "an oily, slightly sticky liquid with a faint rose-like scent."
You likely come into contact with this chemical on a regular basis. But is it safe? The evidence is mixed.
We'll review the most relevant scientific research about this common cosmetics ingredient. You can decide whether you'd like to keep or banish it from your personal care products arsenal.
Many mainstream and boutique cosmetics products contain phenoxyethanol. It's often used as a preservative or stabilizer for other ingredients that might otherwise deteriorate, spoil, or become less effective too quickly.
Phenoxyethanol is also used in other industries, including in vaccines and textiles. This article focuses on its role in topical cosmetics.
You might see this ingredient listed in a few ways:
ethylene glycol monophenyl ether
dowanol
arosol
phenoxetol
rose ether
phenoxyethyl alcohol
beta-hydroxyethyl phenyl ether
euxyl K® 400, a mixture of Phenoxyethanol and 1,2-dibromo-2,4-dicyanobutane
What cosmetics is it found in?
You can find phenoxyethanol as an ingredient in a wide variety of cosmetics and hygiene products, including:
ultrasound gel, and more
Perhaps most famously in the public consciousness, it was used in Mommy Bliss brand nipple cream. In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled it as unsafe for breastfeeding infants, due to concerns about how it affects their central nervous system.
In perfumes, fragrances, soaps, and cleansers, phenoxyethanol works as a stabilizer. In other cosmetics, it's used as an antibacterial and/or a preservative to prevent products from losing their potency or spoiling.
When combined with another chemical, some evidence indicates that it's effective at reducing acne. One 2008 study on 30 human subjects with inflammatory acne showed that after six weeks of twice-daily applications, more than half of the subjects saw a 50 percent improvement in their number of pimples.
Manufacturers who want to avoid using parabens, which have recently lost favor among health-conscious consumers, might use phenoxyethanol in their products as a substitute.
But is phenoxyethanol safer than parabens for topical use in humans?
Deciding whether or not you want to use products with this chemical is a complicated decision. There's conflicting data about its safety. Most of the concern stems from recorded incidents of bad skin reactions and nervous system interaction in infants.
The FDA currently allows the use of this ingredient in cosmetics, and as an indirect food additive.
An expert panel from The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) first reviewed all available data on this chemical in 1990. They deemed it safe when applied topically in concentrations of 1 percent or lower.
In 2007, the panel reviewed newly available data, then confirmed their former decision that it's safe for adults to use topically in very low concentrations.
The European Commission on Health and Food Safety also gives this chemical a "safe" rating when used in cosmetics at a 1-percent or less concentration. However, this report notes that using several products all containing a low dose could result in overexposure.
Japan also restricts use in cosmetics to a 1-percent concentration.
Allergies and skin irritation
In humans
Phenoxyethanol is known to cause allergic-type reactions on the skin in some people. Some argue that these bad reactions are the result of allergies in the test subjects. Others argue that it's simply a skin irritant that affects different people at different levels.
Several studies have shown both humans and animals can experience:
skin irritation
In one study on a human subject, this chemical caused hives and anaphylaxis (a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction) in a patient who used topical skin products with the ingredient. Though, anaphylaxis from this chemical is very rare.
In another case report, ultrasound gel that contained this chemical caused contact dermatitis in a human subject.
Both of these cases are just examples of many similar incidences of this chemical causing irritation and rashes in humans. But the frequency of these symptoms is very low when compared to how often people are exposed with no notable side effects. And they're generally thought to be caused by allergies.
In infants
Phenoxyethanol is thought to cause central nervous system damage in exposed infants. However, there's no known significant risk to the mother, or other healthy adults without allergies.
In animals
The European Commission on Health and Food Safety cites multiple studies where rabbits and rats exposed to the chemical had skin irritation, even at low levels. It should be noted, however, that the lower levels used in these studies were still higher than the concentration allowed in cosmetics (below 1%).
You should avoid this chemical if you're:
allergic to it
considering using on a child under 3-years old
The risks outweigh the possible benefits in those cases.
However, if you're a healthy adult with no history of skin allergy, you likely don't need to worry about exposure through cosmetics under a 1-percent concentration. You should, however, be aware of layering too many products containing this ingredient at one time, since it can accumulate.
9 Final report on the safety assessment of phenoxyethanol. (1990). DOI:
3109/10915819009078737
Birnie AJ, et al. (2010). 2-Phenoxyethanol-induced contact urticaria. DOI:
1111/j.0105-1873.2006.0645g.x
Chasset F, et al. (2015). Contact dermatitis due to ultrasound gel: A case report and published work review. DOI:
1111/1346-8138.13066
Code of federal regulations — Title 21 food and drugs: Sec. 175.105 adhesives. (2018).
accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=175.105&SearchTerm=ethylene%20glycol%20monophenyl%20etherhttp://www.cosmeticsinfo.org/glossary/letter_e
Mayr-Kanhäuser S. et al. (2008). Efficacy of octenidine dihydrochloride and 2-phenoxyethanol in the topical treatment of inflammatory acne.
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Opinion on phenoxyethanol. (2016).
ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/consumer_safety/docs/sccs_o_195.pdf
Phenoxyethanol. (n.d.).
safecosmetics.org/get-the-facts/chemicals-of-concern/phenoxyethanol/
Phenoxyethanol: What is it? (n.d.).
cosmeticsinfo.org/ingredient/phenoxyethanol
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Q: python 3.6 pynput NameError: name 'keyboard' is not defined I wanted to detect keyboard with pynput, so I copied and pasted a demo from their site.
Here it is:
from pynput import keyboard

def on_press(key):
    try:
        print('alphanumeric key {0} pressed'.format(
            key.char))
    except AttributeError:
        print('special key {0} pressed'.format(
            key))

def on_release(key):
    print('{0} released'.format(
        key))
    if key == keyboard.Key.esc:
        # Stop listener
        return False

# Collect events until released
with keyboard.Listener(
        on_press=on_press,
        on_release=on_release) as listener:
    listener.join()

But I get this error, the file is named differently than the module:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Andrey\Documents\Python\123.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pynput import keyboardFile
  "C:\Users\Andrey\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\pynput.py", line 10, in <module>
    with keyboard.Listener(NameError: name 'keyboard' is not defined

A: You're importing a different pynput, file C:\Users\Andrey\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\pynput.py, probably your own. And that's where your error is.
Move this file out of your Python path.

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Yeah, they had the chops then, too.
Rumble has assembled what it claims to be clips of big-time comedians performing stand-up for the first time. Check out a young Patton Oswalt, Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman ― plus the departed Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Jerry Seinfeld and Eddie Murphy are in there, too, along with others.
Note that we can't confirm that these were the maiden gigs for all these comics. And at least one snippet, Lenny Bruce's, appears to be late in his career.
But the whole supercut is still like watching comedy history without the two-drink minimum.


Chennai, 4 JANUARY, 2019: The Department of Pharmaceuticals will prepare its annual action plan which may re-visit the current policies based on inputs received from CEOs and international agencies, including the WHO, at the 4th edition of INDIA PHARMA 2019 and INDIA MEDICAL DEVICE 2019, to be held on 18-19 February 2019, in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
This was stated here today by Mr. D V Sadananda Gowda, Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India, while addressing the media at curtain raiser for the two-day event.
The event will see the participation of some of the biggest names in the Indian pharmaceutical and medical devices industry who will come together on a common B2G platform to deliberate with the Government, drug regulatory agencies, pricing regulators and WHO on key policy changes required for the growth of the pharma and medical devices Industry.
Drug regulators from US, European Union, United Kingdom, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are expected to take part in the event.
Mr. Gowda said that affordability of medicines and medical devices and implants has been the subject of discussions between industry and government. He assured industry that the government will work with it to ensure the accessibility of medicines to all.
He said that the government was striving to make processes in the sector as relevant and simple as possible. He cited the example of single window clearance in the pharma sector, which he described as a huge step as "We are dealing with medicines and the nature of the sector demands several checks and scrutiny at various levels. At present, our focus is on stabilising policies in terms of pricing and enabling a conducive environment for manufacturing in India".
Mr. Mansukh L. Mandaviya, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers, said that event will have brainstorming sessions on various aspects of pharmaceuticals and medical device sectors and hoped that the 2019 edition would help in resolving the issues impacting the growth of the sectors.


Almire C. Dunlap, 82, of Pittsburgh, formerly of Rochester, died January 13, 2010, in the Pennwood Nursing Home, Wilkinsburg.
Born January 24, 1927, in Mars, PA, a daughter of the late Elder and Bessie Parker Landis, she was a home health care provider and a former school bus driver with Rhodes Transit. She was a life member of the Dulith Hill Methodist Church, Cranberry Township.
Surviving are a daughter, Cindy K. Dunlap, Damascus, MD, and a son, Joe S. Dunlap, Baden, PA, and two grandchildren, Tyler and Ashley Dunlap.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Cora Stewart.
As per Almire's request, cremation took place. A memorial service will be held at a later date.


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The novel opens with a triple whammy: the body of a recently murdered young woman named Tanja is found at a rock formation called King's Cleft in rural Sweden. As the police poke around, they discover skeletons nearby — the remains of two young women who disappeared in the region 20 years earlier. What this array of murders past and present signifies is a question that Lackberg's regular protagonist, police detective Patrik Hedstrom, must answer to solve the case.
As the book's title suggests, that case has something to do with The Preacher, the late Ephraim Hult, a charismatic man of God whose fame rested on his faith-healing powers, which he passed on to his two adorable sons — at least for a while.
Patrik's detective work is complicated by the summer heat, his wife's pregnancy (it will be their first child) and the tendency of relatives and friends to sponge off the family, whose house sits conveniently close to the seacoast. He also has to negotiate office politics, including a chief who likes to hog the credit for solving cases he had almost nothing to do with; a resentful veteran cop who can't see that he's been kept back by his own laziness and ineptitude; and an otherwise competent colleague who defers to that veteran because of his seniority.
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Läckberg is a young (born 1974), very talented Swedish crime writer. She was voted Swedish Writer of the Year for 2005. Her books have so far sold in millions in Europe, where she was the 6th bestselling author last year, ahead of among others John Grisham. Her books – including The Ice Princess – feature an interesting couple – the police detective Patrik Hedstrom of the Tanumshede police and his wife, author Erica Falck.
Camilla Läckberg became a writer after her husband and parents enrolled her in a writing course as a Christmas present. She was Sweden's best-selling author in 2006. The same year she also won the People's Literature Prize. And The Ice Princess, very well translated by Steven T. Murray, was the winner of France's 2008 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Best International Crime Novel. Even so, it is not her best book – Camilla Läckberg has developed a lot both as a plotter and as a writer over time, and her later books are even better than this.
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