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UNHCR, IOM, aid partners call for urgent support to refugees and migrants from Venezuela and their hosts
Joint UNHCR-IOM Press Release
15 June 2021 | Español | Français | عربي
Over 5.6 million Venezuelans have left their country, most of them for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. © UNHCR/Ilaria Rapido Ragozzino
Ahead of the International Donors' Conference on 17 June, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) call for renewed international support to address the urgent needs of refugees and migrants from Venezuela and to assist their host countries.
"As the exodus of Venezuelans is prolonged over time, it risks becoming a forgotten crisis," said the Joint UNHCR-IOM Special Representative for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants, Eduardo Stein.
"The COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate the region, and the future of millions of refugees and migrants and their hosts is at stake. Solidarity and commitment are needed more than ever to ensure the continued delivery of assistance."
Prolonged lockdowns, loss of livelihoods and increased poverty are forcing many Venezuelan refugees and migrants to depend on emergency humanitarian assistance to survive. The needs are dire in the areas of health, food security, water and basic sanitation, as well as access to education and opportunities to earn an income. The pandemic has also resulted in rising rates of evictions and homelessness, as well as a dramatic increase in reported cases of gender-based violence and mental health needs.
The continued departure of refugees and migrants from Venezuela is one of the largest external displacement crises in the world. To date, over 5.6 million people have left their country. In this context, the 2021 Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) brings together 159 organizations to respond to their urgent needs and to establish longer-term resilience and integration solutions targeting close to 3.3 million Venezuelans and host community members. Yet, the US$ 1.44 billion plan remains critically underfunded.
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean host 80 per cent of refugees and migrants from Venezuela. They have continued to show their solidarity during the global health emergency, notably through the establishment of large-scale regularization programmes. However, national capacities have been dangerously strained by the pandemic.
"The burden should not fall on countries in the region alone. The international community has the responsibility to support these efforts favouring regional stability," said Stein. "A shortfall in funding would leave hundreds of thousands unprotected, with few options to rebuild a life in dignity."
Canada will host the next International Donors' Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants on 17 June 2021, in collaboration with UNHCR and IOM, who are co-leading the Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V). The event will bring together host and donor governments and key actors involved in the response, including the private sector, development banks and civil society.
The International Donors' Conference is scheduled to run from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. CEST Geneva (9:00 a.m to 12:30 p.m. in Canada; 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. GMT+5 in Panama) on 17 June. The event will be live streamed here.
Media representatives who wish to participate in the closing press conference must register in advance here.
More information on the R4V Platform the 2021 response plan is available on: R4V.info.
Last year, the RMRP appealed for US$ 1.41 billion to meet the needs of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants and their host communities in 17 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. At the end of 2020, this appeal was just 47.1% funded.
The commitments made by donors during the 2020 International Donors Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean, convened by the European Union (EU) and Spain, amounted to US$2.79 billion, including US$653 million in grants.
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William Spindler, UNHCR, [email protected]
Olga Sarrado, UNHCR, [email protected]
Daniela Rovina, IOM, [email protected]
Bryan Brennan, IOM, [email protected]
In Canada,
Melanie Gallant, UNHCR, [email protected]
In Geneva,
Aikaterini Kitidi, UNHCR, [email protected]
Angela Wells, IOM, [email protected]
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Located on a hill, near the village of Old Juchy, the hotel Siedlisko Morena offers guests stunning views, quiet and full contact with nature. You can drive to the cultural heritage: the Holy Lipka, Camaldolese monastery in Wigry, overpasses in Stańczyki or famous Wolf's Lair.
Siedlisko Morena is a luxury resort, decorated in a traditional style of Mazury, located on a picturesque, hilly promontory on Lake Ułówki. The hotel is a great place for guests seeking peace and quiet and wanting beauty treatments and spa.
At the restaurant, guests can enjoy delicious cuisine and dishes and wines from the extensive wine cellar.
The hotel offers comfortable standard rooms, deluxe rooms and suites. All rooms have TV, telephone, private bathroom, mini bar, safe.
Guests will enjoy a cozy, unpretentious interiors, comfortable bed.
De Luxe + Rooms are spacious, comfortable and can accommodate up to 4 people.
In the hotel guests can enjoy the relaxing and therapeutic massages, facial and body to regenerate vitality.
Morena hotel is child-friendly and offers care for children, animation program with a lot of games, contests and games, swimming lessons for children. At the hotel's eco-friendly playground children can safely play.
The resort has two swimming pools open all year round indoor and an outdoor pool open during the summer. In addition, guests will find recreational opportunities such as saunarium, tennis courts, a billiard room, a marina, water bikes and acres of greenery, where you can relax in the sun.
Restaurant serves dishes of Polish and international cuisine. The meals are prepared according to the old tried and tested recipes with fresh, local ingredients. In addition to the meal menu will be extremely rich wine card.
The Siedlisko Morena hotel is located on the picturesque hill close to the Stare Juchy village.


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A hemispheric dust storm affecting the A...
A hemispheric dust storm affecting the Atlantic and Mediterranean in April 1994: Analyses, modeling, ground-based measurements and satellite observations
Ozsoy E., Kubilay N., Nickovic S., Moulin C.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, cilt.106, ss.18439-18460, 2001 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Doi Numarası: 10.1029/2000jd900796
Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.18439-18460
One of the largest recorded dust tranpsort events originating from the great Sahara desert during April 1994 affected the entire region extending from the Caribbean to the Eurasian continent. This hemispherical transport of airborne dust took place during a series of storms that developed during the first three weeks of April in a background of low-index circulation. These repeated events are studied through the combined analyses and interpretation of atmospheric data, ground-based aerosol measurements, visibility observations, AVHRR and Meteosat visible band satellite data, and the results of Eta model simulations, including an aerosol transport component. The observations produce a consistent picture of the temporal and spatial development of the dust events, whose main features are used in parts to verify the model results. The rate of dust suspension from some areas of the western Sahara desert exceeded 1.5 mg m(-2) h(-1) and the maximum column integrated dust load reached 2 g m(-2) during April 3-5 1994, when the first major suspension event produced two simultaneous pulses of dust moving in opposite directions across the subtropical Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean Sea. These dust suspensions were created by surface winds resulting from subsidence on the northeastern side of a blocking anticyclone in the Atlantic region and subsequent winds of an intense developing cyclone in the Mediterranean-African region. In the following period, maximum dust loads of 4.5 and 2.5 g m(-2) occurred on April 12 and 17, respectively, when new cyclones transported dust across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. The generation of the two dust pulses during the first even and the recurrent cyclone transport in the following period is shown to be the result of a large-scale, anomalous atmospheric circulation connected with blocking in the Atlantic Ocean and the interactions of tipper air jets downstream of the blocking. The particular state of the hemispheric circulation during the studied period corresponded to the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). While previous statistical evidence has consistently linked dust transport in the region with the NAO signatures, we show the same connection on the basis of this case study.

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ALL TIME LOW IS BACK AND BANGING
After an unofficial hiatus that saw lead singer Alex Gaskarth and lead guitarist Jack Barakat branch out into solo projects of a completely different tune, All Time Low is making a comeback with Wake Up, Sunshine.
With the band's last solid album, Don't Panic, hailing from 2012, I had reservedly held high hopes for their newly released eighth album since the band hasn't really been living up to their potential for the last eight years. Of course, in hindsight 2015's Future Hearts was not all that bad, and Last Young Renegades in 2017 had a few hits despite being overly electronic, but these albums had lost the signature pop-punk style that still dominates the band's live setlists.
In an unexpected pleasure, Wake Up, Sunshine does not disappoint – really, I'd expect no less from a band that has been cranking it up for almost two decades.
As the title and bright yellow album cover suggest, this is a very sunny, summery work, that evokes a sense of lazy days and party nights. On balance, I'm pleased with this summer soundtrack that you could imagine blasting while driving to the beach with the top rolled down (or at least with the windows open for those of us who can only dream of convertibles).
Of the 15 tracks - which makes this their longest album to date - the first six songs (all released ahead of the album) are definitely some of the best. Coming off the back of re-recording a 10###sup/sup### anniversary version of their best album, Nothing Personal, "Some Kind of Disaster" (with Green Day vibes that made this song an early stand out, showing that All Time Low was back!), "Sleeping In" (with Blink-182 vibes that make a good song for about the first twelve listens, but gets a little stale after that), and "Getaway Green" (a classic All Time Low party anthem and by far my personal favourite off this record, that proved itself way back when it was first played live at Slam Dunk festival over a year ago), are reminiscent of the band's earlier music.
"Melancholy Kaleidoscope" is kind of nostalgic but not my jam, and "Trouble Is" grows on you, but the overwhelming feeling with both is boredom after about the first minute. Similarly, the monotony of "Safe" makes me unable to decide if I love or hate the song. The titular "Wake Up, Sunshine" is a hit that places an emphasis on the alternative part of alt-rock, with some Daughtry vibes which are also heard in "Glitter & Crimson" (a summery version of Last Young Renegades) and "January Gloom", although that mixes in some Owl City similarities in the softer chorus. "Clumsy" brings a similar vibe to "January Gloom", although it has more of an All Time Low spin on it with some cool '80s guitar licks thrown in.
The biggest downside of the album is that pretty much every song is repetitive – perhaps a reflection of the band's long-time goal of breaking into the mainstream industry of radio-play music. Alex Gaskarth's vocals swing between some of the best work he's ever done and too autotuned, and Zack Merrick's bass gets a little lost in the mix. But Rian Dawson drums a strong backbone to every song, and Jack Barakat has impeccable guitar work with some nicely done melodies throughout. The pop-rock element is definitely heard in "Monsters ft blackbear" which features upbeat angst and a bit of atypical rapping that is very on-the-beat, and "Pretty Venom" that has a nice picked guitar melody but the vocal melody is a bit of a let down on this one. "Favourite Place ft The Band CAMINO" opens with a drum beat that gives The Pretty Reckless vibes, and the vocals are reminiscent of some of the slower songs on Dirty Work.
As stated in the lyrics of "Basement Noise" (which as a song itself can mostly be tuned out and isn't the best note to close on), the album in general really echoes the way it was written, with the band holed up in a house out in Palm Desert, California – endless sunny days that bleed into one another as you wile away your time with friends. And living and writing together under one roof as per the So Wrong It's Right days, shows itself in the pop-punk lyrics and finesse of the well-put-together songs. The summer vibe is also well highlighted in "Summer Daze", which would make a good pool party tune (and is really where the album should have ended).
Overall, I'd give Wake Up, Sunshine about 7.5/10 because it still delivers songs that are solid independently, and the whole album does tie together fairly well. The fact that this plays out as a satisfying album from the band, really just reflects how badly starved the last eight years have been from their usual bangers. For All Time Low, this is some of their best work in the last decade and definitely an album that brings back their original style in a new way, making it both a good album for long-time fans and new listeners.
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There's space for you in the abyss beneath the madness.
After so much feedback on my scripts that my work is good, but too literary, I decided to write a novel. I'm almost done with a second draft and it feels better than writing a script. I must admit that I am a mild narcissist and writing a novel feeds that demon.
Two people very close to me read that first fragile draft and their criticism didn't kill my confidence. I think this is a good sign. Another good sign as I close on the second draft is that I'm feeling much better about the story I want to tell, I feel more comfortable in these pages than I did in the last draft. It's like getting used to a new home.
What isn't comfortable is trying to decide how to market the book. I went to school for writing, not business, and now I realize I went about it all wrong. I've always been a writer, so I should have studied banal market reach, consumer bases, and branding. At the same time if I could do it all over again I would still go all in for that screenwriting degree. To this day I still want to punch those business majors in the face. I have nightmares that I will never get exposure because I have no idea how to seduce an audience. Those business majors with copies of their resumes at the ready and smug attitude knew this was coming to every art student to cross their path.
Half Hollow by Gabriel J DiDomenico is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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Truth about happiness at work
The truth about happiness at work
Doing meaningful work is the most important factor that affects an employee's happiness at work, according to new research.
Wrike has surveyed 1,000 workers each in the UK, US, France and Germany on issues related to work culture, compensation and collaboration. The findings show that work happiness is not all about money, with 54% of those polled saying they have taken a pay cut to take a job that made them happier.
Globally, more men (50%) than women (37%) have taken a pay cut to accept a job that made them happier. When it comes to general job happiness, 71% of Americans are mostly happy, compared to 70% of Germans, 65% of Brits and 54% of the French.
The happiest employees report that diversity is above average in their workplace and say "doing meaningful work" is the most critical factor in their happiness, ranking higher than compensation. In the UK, the happiest employees rank office location as the second most crucial factor in their happiness at work, after "doing meaningful work".
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The report has also found that happiness and productivity are heavily linked, with 91% of elated employees saying they are "very productive" at work.
"The nature of work is changing and with it, employers must also evolve their strategies for building happy and engaged workforces," said Megan Barbier, Wrike vice president of people operations.
"It's time to update our assumptions on what drives happiness so that businesses can truly invest in what matters most to their employees. That requires building an environment where teams can collaborate effectively, regardless of location, to complete work that has meaning and resonates with their values."
Portia Hickey, chartered business psychologist, said: "One especially striking finding from Wrike's Happiness Index is that over half of UK full-time employees have taken a pay cut to accept a job that made them happier. This should serve as a wake-up call for employers - if your staff aren't happy, they will consider going elsewhere, no matter how much you pay them."
The full results of the survey have been published in a report, From Positivity to Productivity: Exposing the Truth Behind Workplace Happiness.
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University researchers ask if you can help identify 'lost men at sea'
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Can you help identify the men who died in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval engagement of World War One?
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have published a naval casualty database, the most comprehensive record of men who died in the 36 hour battle that took over 6,000 British lives.
The researchers have found 6,102 records, but some information is still missing and now they're asking for the public to help.
The database includes information on the names, ranks, service numbers, dates and places of birth, and names and addresses of next of kin.
History researcher Dr Melanie Bassett said: "We have traced every Royal Naval sailor killed at the battle, which has allowed us to understand how the naval war affected society, where sailor families lived and the long-term effects of the war. We're reaching out to the public to ask for help because there is still missing data and we want to ensure all the men who lost their lives are represented.
"The aim of the project is to provide a new perspective on the battle by mapping the human cost of Jutland and its impact on the communities of the 6,102 men lost. It has been easier to find information about the next of kin for those in ordinary ranks, but not for mid-shipmen, who were usually only 15-16 years old, or for commissioned officers. We'd like further insight into the lives of those sailors who were lost at sea and then lost in history too."
The battle, which took place on May 31, 1916, changed the course of the First World War because it diminished the German naval fleet's capabilities to such an extent that they couldn't fight at sea again while the war lasted.
It was between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet and took place off Denmark's Jutland peninsula. More than 8,000 British and German servicemen were killed and 25 ships sunk.
Dr Bassett said: "It has been traditionally assumed that most naval sailors were enlisted from seafaring communities since the navy recruited sailors directly from their base ports rather than establish recruiting centres in the UK's major cities like the Royal Marines.
"This isn't the case though; families nationwide were affected as many people weren't living in port towns – they were from all over the UK. There were also a number of Maltese and Japanese sailors on board.
"This project maps the sailors killed in Jutland and assesses whether certain communities suffered disproportionally from others. The research also uncovers the streets, neighbourhoods and communities which were hardest hit."
The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Gateways to the First World War research centre. Dr Bassett and Professor Brad Beaven, also from the University of Portsmouth, worked with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsdown University of the Third Age and several undergraduate student volunteers.
35 Year Old Crisp Packet Found During Beach Clean on Hayling Island
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London-listed Ophir Energy has completed drill stem testing (DST) of the Paus Biru-1 exploration well in the Sampang PSC offshore Indonesia.
The Sampang PSC is operated by Ophir Energy's subsidiary Santos Sampang Pty Ltd with a 45% interest. The partners are Singapore Petroleum Sampang Ltd with 40% and Cue Energy's subsidiary Cue Sampang Pty Ltd with 15%.
Cue Energy said on Tuesday that three Drill Stem Tests (DSTs) were completed on the Paus Biru-1 well. The three DSTs were undertaken within the primary objective Mundu Formation.
The company added that preliminary results were received and that Cue was seeking confirmation and approval from the operator and the Indonesian government for release.
According to the company, the well is currently being plugged and abandoned as planned.
To remind, the work on the Paus Biru-1 well began on Thursday, October 18, with the installation of a 30-inch conductor.
In early November, Ophir Energy noticed elevated gas readings on the well and during drilling operations the company increased its confidence in hydrocarbon presence in several zones within the formation.
The primary objective of the well was to test the Early Pliocene Mundu Globigerina limestone reservoirs in the Paus Biru structure which was defined by 3D seismic data as a four-way dip closure with direct hydrocarbon indications.
The Mundu Formation is a proven producing reservoir in Oyong and Wortel fields to the west and Maleo and Peluang fields to the east.
The secondary objective were the overlying siltstones within the Paciran Formation which have proven productivity in the equivalent section in the Oyong field.
Posted on December 4, 2018 with tags Cue Energy, Indonesia, Ophir Energy, Paus Biru.


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Conventional short-term reversal strategies exhibit dynamic exposures to the Fama and French (1993) factors. We develop a novel reversal strategy based on residual stock returns that does not exhibit these exposures and consequently earns risk-adjusted returns that are twice as large as those of a conventional reversal strategy.
Residual reversal strategies generate statistically and economically significant profits net of trading costs, even when we restrict our sample to large-cap stocks over the post-1990 period.
Our results are inconsistent with the notion that reversal effects are attributable to trading frictions, liquidity, or non-synchronous trading of stocks and pose a serious challenge to rational asset pricing models.


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Risk Analysis 101: What's Your Tolerance for Investing in Collectibles?
by Brandon Holder January 08, 2019
Life is a long series of decisions, made one after the other, having ramifications; costs; gains. Knowing what decision to make - and more so which decision is best - can be tricky, cumbersome, and crippling. A fantastic but oft-overlooked tool in decision making, especially regarding business, is risk analysis.
Risk analysis is something that comes naturally. We use our brains to weigh the outcomes of a decision, eventually arriving at a level of risk that's palatable to us. However, what comes less naturally is making this process systemic and putting pen to paper. Taking these two steps can push risk analysis from being a somewhat haphazard practice occurring entirely in the mind towards standardization, allowing for more consistent decision making in full consideration of what is at stake.
Condensed to its essence, risk analysis is a three-part process: risk assessment, management, and communication. The first part, risk assessment, is something the average person encounters every day but generally spends little time pondering. The second part - risk management - occurs more over time and in the wake of a decision. The final part, risk communication, is typically only necessary when stakeholders are involved. In other words, when a decision may affect more than one person, risk communication is key. A famous example of this process in action (read: at least in the world of sports) was dramatized in the 2011 film Moneyball. The new general manager (GM) of the Oakland A's, with the help of a statistician, builds a winning baseball team by bucking the trend of relying almost exclusively on scouts' picks and reports, in favor of seeing which players were top performers and affordably priced. To bring it back to risk analysis, the new GM:
assessed his risk using a statistical approach to find bargains
managed his risk by committing fully to the new system, and
communicated it to his stakeholders in a manner that would probably rub most people wrong!
From a business perspective, no single person should be solely responsible for all three parts of risk analysis. A lot of fantastic reasons exist for this, but putting it simply hammers it home best: enshrining this process with a single person places a company at tremendous risk, and it's damn stressful for the person responsible! Much like investing, diversification is king. Therefore, in a perfect world, each part of risk analysis occurs in a vacuum. In other words, the risk assessors, managers, and communicators are able to complete their responsibility without influence or input from one another. In reality, this is rarely the case. As stated before, risk analysis comes naturally, so it can be difficult to insulate outside bias. For example, a risk assessor may complete his part of the process and submit it to a risk manager to review. But, risk managers are people, too. Thus, the risk manager may review the risk assessment and decide it wasn't done correctly and do an assessment of his own, disrupting the desired separation of processes.
I could spend a lot of time talking about risk management and communication; however, the most "bang for your buck" change any company can make is building a habit of doing high-quality risk assessments. A risk assessment's chief value is going to be when trying to make decisions about whether an investible asset is worth the potential risk (i.e., is the juice worth the squeeze). The risk a company takes on when deciding on investible assets is multifaceted. For example, assume that your business - Happy Hobby Shops - has $500 of capital to invest in assets. You can buy two investable assets - Asset A and Asset B. Your risk can be neatly chunked into a few categories, bearing in mind that this is an example and the following is not exhaustive:
Opportunity cost (i.e., if we buy Asset A rather than Asset B, what will we miss out on if we didn't pick Asset A)
Failure to appreciate (i.e., if we buy Asset A and its value never increases - or it loses value - then we're out $500 of capital)
Decision freeze (i.e., if we make no choice, your money isn't working for you - or perhaps neither Asset A nor B is available when you finally reach a decision)
By conducting a risk assessment, a company can install a process to attempt to quantify these risks and make a logical decision. A lot of methods exist for doing so, but for most companies, it's probably best to start simple.
A simple risk assessment method would be to assign a numerical value to potential risk and then define it. For instance, assigning a value of "1" to low risk and a value of "3" to high risk allows you to make this process mathematical. Next, you can define some categories on which you want to assess your risk. Let's go back to our example of Assets A and B. Since this article is appearing on a website focused on fantasy/science fiction art and memorabilia, some potential risk categories might be:
Popularity (i.e., is the asset from a popular and well-known franchise or intellectual property, or is it from a more subculturally popular realm?)
Timeliness (i.e., is now a good time to buy the asset? Has some external circumstance driven costs up, such as the recent death of an artist?)
Opportunity (i.e., will we have another opportunity to purchase this asset in the future? Is it one of a kind?)
By setting up a handful of categories like this, you can start to assign risk values to your options. The easiest way to envisage this is to show an example of how we approach this problem at Vault of Alexandria.
DISCLAIMER: this is a hypothetical example for educational purposes only. Additionally, the below example is a bit like assessing whether to buy a Honda or a Maserati. In reality, both have their place but drastically different purposes.
Putting your risk assessment into a spreadsheet is advisable. Walking through the example above, we've presented two investible assets; an original art piece and a graded copy of a video game - vastly different price points. Using the categories we defined earlier, it's time to further define them. This will help us make the process more objective as well as opening the potential to be quantitative about our decision-making process.
It's important to spend enough time to clearly define risk assessment values. Ideally, in each category, risk assessment values should be mutually exclusive; in other words, you shouldn't be compelled to assign a 1 or a 2 in any given category and instead should know exactly which one to assign, based on the definitions.
So, let's walk through the example from before. Goldeneye 007 is a video game for the Nintendo 64 console, released in 1997. Some cursory Internet research tells us that the game sold over 8 million copies. This was over 20 years ago; however, that's still a large volume. The game is fairly old at this point, meaning inevitably some of these cartridges were simply lost to time. A VGA (i.e., Video Game Authority) graded copy is decidedly rarer because collectors aren't looking to pay money for grading service unless the item to be graded is in fantastic condition. That pushes this from a 1 to a 2 in Opportunity. In Popularity, additional research shows that this was one of the top-selling games for the Nintendo 64, a decidedly popular console in its day and continuing to the present. This was a licensed video game adaptation of a "James Bond" film; while James Bond is a popular franchise, in the context of the item itself, James Bond video games are decidedly more of a niche interest. As such, Goldeneye 007 scores a 3 for Popularity. Moving on to Timeliness, it's important to do some market research when evaluating a category like this. A lot of platforms exist for doing this type of research, but generally, it's advisable to conduct the search within the marketplace you're hoping to sell the item. In this case, eBay is the most likely place we try to sell. Again, a quick search reveals a single sale in the last month for a similar item. As such, this isn't a fast mover when considering the other categories we've already assessed. Initially, assigning this a score of 3 is tempting, but re-reading our definitions pushes it closer to a 2 (which is what it was assigned in the final review).
The above example gives a picture of the potential thought process behind assessing the risk of a given investible asset. In the final column, Target Value is simply the product of the other categories. We'll use this aggregate to ballpark the urgency or value we should place on the asset.
Without going through a long-winded explanation of my valuation of the "Azban Battle-Priest" by the incredible Chris Rahn, the example assessment above shows that it came out on top in Target Value. Applying a critical light to this, it tracks with what is generally reasonable investment advice: dollar for dollar, paying for quality pays dividends. In the case of this piece, it's a one of a kind original artwork from a popular card game. When compared with a mass produced (albeit, high quality) video game, it's generally going to be a better investment vehicle. Chris Rahn simply isn't making more "Azban Battle-Priest" paintings at this time, and there's only one original.
Concluding, risk analysis is a powerful tool in our decision-making toolbox. When thoughtfully applied, it can help us make more objective and data-driven decisions. In a world where a business owner is confronted with tons of tough choices on a regular basis, we need all the tools we can get to make our lives easier - and more importantly, stave off decision freeze! Happy risk analyzing, y'all.


Have you heard? U.S. News & World Report has been compiling a list of the best colleges in the United States in their latest guidebook, Best Colleges 2014. That's not all that's in the book either! I had the opportunity to get my hands on a copy and read through it so that I could provide you all with a quality review of the book. So, that's exactly what we're going to do today.
When I first started reading the book, I have to say, I was a bit confused. Granted, I'm not a real eBook type of guy. Although the book is available on paper as well as in several other platforms, I chose the eBook route for research so I could get my hands on it quickly. Nonetheless, once I figured out how to find my way from one section of the book to the next, I quickly realized something. Although the book is titled Best Colleges 2014, it provides much more than that. Let's face it; if it was just a list of the best colleges in the U.S. it would be less of a book and more of a….well, a list. So, I was excited to find that the book was far more than a list.
OOPS! These Goofs May Ruin Your Chances! – This has got to be my favorite section of the book. The reality is, if you're planning on going to college, chances are, it's going to be your first time. You don't have much experience filling out applications or following any of the processes. That's OK, in the "OOPS Application Goofs To Avoid!" section of the book, you'll learn everything you need to know to make sure that you submit flawless apps.
11 Hot Majors That Can Lead To A Great Job – You know, I had a pretty good idea of what I thought the best majors were. Well, I was right when it came to a few, but the vast majority of those on my list weren't on this list. Before you choose your major, take a look at this section to make sure that you choose a major that will help you land a job!
A+ Schools For B Students – Although there is nothing wrong with going to a community college, many students dream of going to an A+ rated school and getting an education that will be recognized in their industry. The only problem is, not everyone is an A+ student. In this section, you'll learn tips that will help you get your foot in the door of some A+ colleges, even if you are a B's and better student.
A Blended Education – Finally, when we make it out of high school, we generally have a certain vision in mind when it comes to what college will be like. However, as with anything else, education and how we receive education is evolving. This section of the book prepares you for the blended experience you can expect with a mix of in campus and online learning.
First off, I'd like to say that I would have loved to have a resource like this when I was picking colleges. Beyond just a list of schools that are indeed great schools, this book pulls together well authored personal stories, experiences, and advice. For a price tag under ten bucks, you can't go wrong!
I think I've mentioned before that our son, who is only in the 7th grade, has stated many times that he wants to go to Stanford. A book with an "Oops" section on what to watch out for when applying might be helpful. The biggest thing for someplace like Stanford will be how to get the cost within our reach. I doubt we will qualify for anything in the way of need, so that leaves merit. Our son currently get straight "A"s, but like I said, he's only in the 7th grade. He does put in a lot of time at a local charity, as well. If he can keep that up through high school, he may have a chance of getting some merit scholarships.
When I went to college, all we had was the huge Peterson's book that didn't really help much. My only caution would be to think about the school being "pushed" in this magazine. I'm sure it's all good intentions, but I know from working at a financial advisor that a lot of the awards and mentions that are received in these things are actually bought by the company who wants to be listed.


Use of opioid analgesics in treatment of chronic pain has recently gained acceptance as a concept, but its effective implementation is often thwarted by lingering, unwarranted concerns about addiction. The accuracy of the use of certain behaviors as a test for diagnosing addiction hasn't been validated, and won't be, because they consist merely of a series of anecdotal observations concerning a diverse group of individuals who, for a variety of reasons, attempt to obtain opioids from medical sources. Uncritical acceptance of these behaviors as diagnostic of opioid abuse casts the net too wide, ensnaring in the process pain victims motivated to engage in these behaviors only by the desire to live their lives more fully.
In order to understand why these supposedly aberrant drug-related behaviors are commonly mistaken as indicators of addiction, it is necessary to consider the social context in which this approach is implemented. The ongoing "War on Drugs" sponsors an atmosphere of fear and panic that permeates the discussion of opioids. In this environment, pain sufferers are readily stigmatized as opioid addicted, although they usually are not, regardless of the legitimacy of their need for treatment. Physicians, eager not to overlook any behavior that could later be pointed to as evidence of their failure to recognize opioid addiction often rush to judgment, to their patients' detriment.
Over the past 25 years a body of scientific research has developed that reveals that the prevalence of opioid addiction among patients treated for chronic pain is far lower than previously believed. A multitude of studies indicate that the rate of opioid addiction in populations of chronic pain sufferers is similar to the rate of opioid addiction within the general population, falling in the range of one to two percent or less.2-12 Other studies indicate that a history of previous substance abuse isn't predictive of treatment failure in chronic pain sufferers treated with opioids.13,14 An understanding of the neurobiology of opioids makes sense of the information these studies offer. A rational approach to categorizing and interpreting drug-related behaviors follows.
If these behaviors do indicate a substance abuse problem, this should be recognized. It is important to determine whether the abused substance is opioids or something else. Often this doesn't occur because of a socially ordained predisposition on the part of physicians to automatically attribute the drug-related behaviors to opioid abuse. However, this is not a rational assumption because other substance-abuse problems have a much higher prevalence in society than opioid abuse. Correctly diagnosing substance abuse when it is present is important because a mistaken diagnosis of opioid addiction when another substance is actually to blame may result in the patient being denied pain treatment as well as treatment for the real substance-abuse problem.
When the aberrant-drug-related-behaviors approach to diagnosis of opioid addiction originated, it was the only tool available to the discipline of pain management with which to address the potential problem of opioid abuse in pain sufferers treated with these substances. The problems that resulted from use of this approach were not anticipated, but probably should have been. Whenever medical interventions are based on assumptions rather than on science, unforeseen and often adverse consequences are almost guaranteed.
By observing behavior alone, it is impossible to distinguish between undertreated pain sufferers and people exhibiting suspect behaviors for other reasons, such as substance abuse or financial gain. This uncertainty invalidates the conclusions of studies relying on purportedly aberrant drug-related behaviors as indicative of opioid abuse, which have reported rates as high as 34 percent13 and 45 percent15 in populations of chronic pain sufferers. Estimated opioid abuse rates are wildly inflated in these studies by the presence of victims of undertreatment of pain, as well as by the inclusion of patients in whom the behaviors stem from the abuse of substances other than opioids.
Undertreated pain predictably triggers suspect drug-related behaviors, which include unsanctioned dosage escalation. Countless pain victims have been accused of drug addiction, and their treatment terminated, simply because they were bold or naive enough to admit that they used up their medication sooner than they were instructed. As a result, patients who have suffered from chronic pain for any extended period of time have generally learned from bitter experience not to reveal to their doctor that they have engaged in unsanctioned dosage escalations, although it is often necessary for them to do so in order to function. Patients often continue to engage in this behavior surreptitiously after learning that revealing it will be held against them. This has serious implications for the quality of the patient-physician relationship.
Legitimate patients are frequently suspected of drug addiction when they exhibit problematic behaviors, such as requesting treatment with a specific opioid, which they already know, from experience, will help them. This eliminates honest communication in the patient-physician relationship and substitutes a don't-ask/don't-tell charade. It is a tragedy when such behaviors come to the attention of a physician who mistakenly diagnoses addiction, and ends treatment as a result.
The academically recommended response to possibly aberrant drug-related behaviors is imposition of a structured program of opioid prescribing.16 This is based on the concern that patients who display these behaviors are at risk for abusing their medications, and consequently must be tightly controlled in order to prevent their descent into addiction. This response itself needs to be restructured, because undertreatment of pain is common, and the risk of opioid addiction low. When the described drug-related behaviors show up, doctors should think first about the "horses" of undertreatment, not the "zebras" of addiction.
The current definition of addiction is based on function. Central to this definition is that addicts engage in continued substance abuse, in spite of harm.17 In contrast, pain sufferers treated with opioids function better, and their lives improve.18 This dichotomy, based on functioning, should marginalize the observation of certain drug-related behaviors as a diagnostic tool for addiction in pain sufferers, because it allows physicians to objectively discern whether a patient is benefiting from treatment with opioids, or may be engaging in substance abuse with detrimental consequences.
A paradigm shift must occur before drug-related behaviors can be interpreted correctly. The physician finding these behaviors in a clinical setting, before making any assumptions about substance abuse or addiction, must first determine whether the principle of titration to optimal functioning has been correctly applied. In this manner, diagnosis of undertreated pain will be facilitated, as it should be. Substance abuse issues can then be considered in an appropriate secondary manner, if the suspect behaviors continue following effective titration.
Titration of medications to desired effect is a central principle in clinical practice. Treatment of chronic pain with opioids resembles the treatment of Type I diabetes with insulin, because in both disease states a deficiency of naturally occurring substances is corrected through the process of titration of medications.
Similarities between the conditions include the facts that patients suffering from diabetes and those suffering from chronic pain are monitoring their own symptoms; a sliding scale is used; and patients are instructed to self-adjust their dosages according to their fluctuating requirements.
The major difference between the treatments is that insulin is a potentially dangerous drug, whereas opioids are comparatively safe, when used by well-informed, opioid-tolerant, chronic pain sufferers. If the principle of titration is to be implemented in chronic pain treatment, review and clarification of titration issues is needed.
Opioid titration in the treatment of chronic pain has two end-points.19 If one or the other is not reached, the patient has not received a fair opportunity to experience titration's potential benefits. The endpoints are (1) optimal patient functioning or (2) intolerable side effects that preclude further titration. The second is more often a problem when using medications with relatively unfavorable side effect profiles, such as morphine or methadone.
The concept of unsanctioned dosage escalation should be replaced with the principle of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). Just as patients are educated about the use of rescue doses in the treatment of their pain, they should also be given limits within which to titrate opioids toward the goal of optimal functioning. This will eliminate the unfortunate practice of requiring patients to suffer from undertreated pain while waiting for their next appointment, when the possibility of an increment in titration may finally be discussed.
When treatment with one opioid fails to achieve therapeutic goals, a trial with a different opioid should be initiated, a concept recognized as rotation.20 If the first medication has been of any benefit to the patient, it should be continued during the trial of the second. Otherwise, if the second agent proves ineffective, the patient is left with no pain relief. Patients perceive this as an unacceptable risk to their well-being, and understandably become fearful of suggesting any sort of change in their treatment regimens.
The fact that combination treatment with opioids is not widely accepted is a socially driven aberration from this otherwise generally accepted medical principle. If treatment were for hypertension rather than pain, and the first medication produced a less than optimal response, it would typically be continued within the therapeutic regimen while another agent was added.
Titration is, of necessity, a fluid and continuing process. As patients recover from long periods of debilitation, caused by years or even decades of undertreated chronic pain, gradually increasing activity levels provoke increasing pain levels along with a corresponding requirement for further titration. This phenomenon must not be considered abuse or addiction. The dosage curve in the treatment of severely debilitated patients recovering from long-term undertreated chronic pain is often bell-shaped, because as the patient achieves full physical activity, the nervous system can begin to recover, and opioid dosages may be expected to diminish while gains in functioning persist.
Many fear that an aggressive implementation of the principle of titration, in combination with the principle of PCA, will result in dangerous programs of self-medication. These misgivings are based on superstitions about opioids, and are contradicted by science.
Basic physiology effectively precludes occurrence of opioid addiction in patients treated with these substances because chronic pain compels its victims to take their medications regularly, and the result is the development of tolerance. Tolerance dictates that when constant blood levels of opioids are maintained, the reward pathways in the brain aren't activated by these medications.
This phenomenon also dictates that in order to get high on opioids, the abuser must space his doses far enough apart in order to partially lose his tolerance, so that he can achieve a psychological reward from the next dose. When pain sufferers have sufficient access to opioids, they use them continuously. Abusers who desire the psychological effects partake sporadically.
Beyond a relatively low dosage ceiling, tolerance to the reward-producing effects of opioids is complete. The existence of this ceiling effect has been established by experience in methadone maintenance programs.22 This physiologically determined reality should negate lingering concerns that chronic pain sufferers are likely to abuse their medications, or are even capable of doing so.
The knowledge that psychological reward and respiratory depression do not ordinarily occur in opioid-tolerant subjects assures that the principle of titration can be safely applied, along with the principle of PCA, in the treatment of this population.
Continuing misinterpretation of behaviors resulting from undertreatment of pain, despite long-term awareness of the pseudoaddiction phenomenon, can reasonably be characterized as aberrant drug-related behavior on the part of the medical profession. Misunderstandings about the significance of drug-related behaviors disrupt the therapeutic relationship between patient and physician, contribute to the widespread undertreatment of chronic pain, and place legitimate practitioners at risk for unwarranted administrative and criminal prosecutions. It is therefore important not to jump to mistaken conclusions when potentially aberrant drug-related behaviors are observed.
The solution to this problem depends on recognizing the problem of undertreatment of pain when it occurs, and placing it at the top of the differential diagnosis, when suspect drug-related behaviors are observed. The diagnosis of opioid addiction should be based on observation of deteriorating function, which can be directly attributed to opioid abuse, rather than inferred from an anecdotal set of behavioral criteria derived from medical folklore.
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Can you believe Easter is this Sunday?!! It has completely sneaked up on me this year. If you are still looking for a cute project do to, this in-the-hoop Easter Egg Holder may be just the thing you are looking for!
You can get the design here. It's a digital download so you can sew these cuties today!
Happy Easter and Happy Sewing!
Just in Time for Easter: Bunny Bags and more!
Love this project – it's seriously so cute *and* practical. Perfect combo!


Baptist Family Day at Six Flags Magic Mountain allows church groups and families to enjoy the excitement of the theme park at a reduced rate, as well as an afternoon rally emphasizing the student sexual abstinence program True Love Waits.
Focused on teens, the program includes a worship band and speaker, and focuses on sexual purity until marriage.
Six Flags has hosted Baptist Family Day since the 1980s, and thousands of California Southern Baptists have enjoyed the park while also getting fed spiritually.
Join us February 16 for this year's Baptist Family Day! Dave Holmgren, student pastor at Grace Bible Church in Bakersfield, will be the speaker at the rally.
COST: $42 per person (regular price $89.99), includes all rides and attractions!
IT'S NOT TOO LATE to pre-purchase tickets; please do so by February 14 (credit card payments may be processed over the phone by calling Amaris @ 559-256-0843). Tickets will also be available for purchase onsite.


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Pregnancy/birth acupunture Research
BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
June 2002, Vol. 109, pp. 637–644
Acupuncture treatment during labour—a randomised controlled trial
Agneta Ramnero¨a,b,*, Ulf Hansona,c, Mona Kihlgrenb
Objective To investigate acupuncture treatment during labour with regard to pain intensity, degree of relaxation and outcome of the delivery.
Design Randomised controlled trial.
Setting Delivery ward at a tertiary care centre hospital in Sweden.
Population Ninety parturients who delivered during the period April 12, 1999 and June 4, 2000.
Methods Forty-six parturients were randomised to receive acupuncture treatment during labour as a compliment, or an alternative, to conventional analgesia.
Main outcome measures Assessments of pain intensity and degree of relaxation during labour, together with
evaluation of delivery outcome.
Results Acupuncture treatment during labour significantly reduced the need of epidural analgesia (12% vs 22%, relative risk [RR] 0.52, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.30 to 0.92). Parturients who received acupuncture assessed a significantly better degree of relaxation compared with the control group (mean difference 0.93, 95% CI 1.66 to 0.20). No negative effects of acupuncture given during labour were found in relation to delivery outcome.
Conclusions The results suggest that acupuncture could be a good alternative or complement to those parturients who seek an alternative to pharmacological analgesia in childbirth. Further trials with a larger number of patients are required to clarify if the main effect of acupuncture during labour is analgesic or relaxing.
Influence of Acupuncture on the Duration of Labour
o https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9692336
A Cochrane review of 13 trials involving 1986 women, reported that acupuncture or acupressure may help relieve labour pain.
o http://www.cochrane.org/CD009232/PREG_acupunture-or-acupressure-for-relieving-pain-in-labour
Effects of acupuncture and stabilizing exercises as adjunct to standard treatment in pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain: randomized single blind controlled trial
o https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC555879/
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/pelvic-pain – Debra Betts
Acupuncture for pelvic and back pain in pregnancy: a systematic review
o Ee. 2008. Acupuncture for pelvic and back pain in pregnancy. A systematic review
Treating Pain in Pregnancy with Acupuncture: Observational Study Results from a Free Clinic in New Zealand
o https://www.jams-kpi.com/article/S2005-2901(17)30108-5/fulltext
Acupuncture treatment: multidimensional assessment of low back pain in pregnant women
o http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-62342018000100418&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
Does acupuncture have a role in the treatment of threatened miscarriage? Findings from a feasibility randomized trial and semi-structured participant interview
o https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-016-1092-8
Acupuncture to Treat Nausea and Vomiting in Early Pregnancy: A randomized controlled trial
o https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843784
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/morning-sickness/ – Debra Betts
Pregnancy outcome following women's participation in a randomized controlled trial of acupuncture to treat nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy
Meta-analysis of acu-stimulation effects on nausea and vomiting in pregnant women
Interventions on BL 67 for women with a breech fetus at 33 weeks gestation
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/moxabustion-breech/ – Debra Betts
Moxibustion usage for Breech Presentation
Depression in Pregnancy
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/depression-pregnancy/ – Debra Betts
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/prebirth/ – Debra Betts
Acupuncture and acupressure for pain management in labour and birth: A critical narrative review of current systematic review evidence
Acupuncture for cervical ripening and induction of labor at term–a randomized controlled trial
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/cervical-ripening/ – Debra Betts
Cochrane Review: Acupuncture or acupressure for induction of labour
o http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002962.pub4/abstract
Acupuncture and Heart Rate Variability: A Systems Level Approach to Understanding Mechanism
o Anderson 2012. Acupuncture and HR variability. A systems level approach to understanding mechanism
Childbirth acupressure Research
Impact of Acupressure on Onset of Labour and Labour Duration.
o https://acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupuncture/research/reducing-labour-pain/ – Debra Betts
Acupressure to Reduce Labour Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Cricket Bat Sizes - Blades, Handles and Varieties Explained.
A knowledge of cricket bat sizes is extremely important when it comes to selecting the right bat for yourself as the size of the bat seriously affects the way you play, how freely you can move and your ability to play shots, including defensive strokes. In this cricket bat sizes guide, I will explain in detail the various sizes of bat used by seniors, juniors, women and smaller adults.
In order to understand cricket bat sizes fully, it would be useful first to consider the elements that make up a cricket bat and a brief mention of how they are manufactured.
The blade of a cricket bat is, generally speaking, a block of wood made from English Willow. English Willow comes in a range of grades and grain qualities ranging from grade 1+ (professional) to grade 4 (amateur/beginner). The face of the blade is flat, although some have rounded edges, and the back or 'spine' has a ridge, which provides mass and confers power to the hitting zone – or 'sweet spot' – in the middle of the face.
MCC law states the maximum permissible length of a bat may be no more than 38 inches (96.5 cm) and the width no more than 4.25 inches (10.8 cm).
Typically, cricket bats are preserved with linseed oil, which also protects the hitting surface. The grade of the Willow and the grain structure determine the properties of the bat. The durability, toughness and hitting power, as well as the bat's 'pickup', are determined by this.
The blade of a cricket bat is fixed to a handle, made from cane, by means of a splice. The handles are bound with a rubber grip and come in various lengths.
Short Handle (SH) is the most common size of cricket bat found at senior level in both club and international cricket.
The length of an SH cricket bat handle is approx. 33 inches (85 cm). All adult cricket bats are available in this size and it is the preferred option for men of average height (5 ft 9 in – 6 ft).
You can search here for a selection of the best SH cricket bats available on Amazon.co.uk.
There are also options available for taller and shorter batsmen.
Long blade cricket bats are available that have a regular short handle and are especially favoured by taller players. Clearly, the overall length of the bat is increased as is the playing area of the blade. Long blade bats usually have an extra inch to an inch and a half of blade, which does not seriously affect pick-up as much as long handle cricket bats do.
Long blade bats enable the batsman to stand more upright when taking guard and so are favoured by taller players and players with back problems. I would however only recommend a long blade bat if you are over 6 feet tall, have serious back problems or find short handle bats difficult to wield.
Junior players who are just about to enter adult cricket should also use a short handle bat first, even if they are over 6 feet tall. If they are 6 feet tall and are still growing then obviously long blade is an option, as is long handle.
There are also long blade cricket bats that come with a super short handle. These are for players at 5 feet 11 inches or over who prefer an increased playing surface. However, I would still recommend selecting a short handle bat unless you are prone to back problems or experience discomfort.
Long handle cricket bats are another great option for those over 6 feet tall. The blade of a long handle bat is the same length as a short handle bat but with a longer handle. This makes the total length of the bat about 87.5 inches.
Picking the right long handle bat is crucial as the longer handle can often affect the pick-up and balance of the bat. I would only advise you to consider a long handle bat if you are 6 feet 3 or over or have failed to find a comfortable way to use a short handle bat.
Ideal for adult males of smaller stature or teenagers whose size and strength are not yet fully sufficient to use a short handle bat effectively. If you are transitioning from junior to senior cricket or you find a short handle too cumbersome to wield, you should try the academy size bat.
The academy cricket bat is sized between a full adult short handle and Harrow junior (the largest sized junior cricket bat). They have the same length blade as a full-sized cricket bat but the blade width and handle length of a Harrow bat.
Women's cricket bats are, unfortunately, made by only a few select manufacturers. They have a Harrow handle lengt5h, full-size blade width and full blade length less half an inch. Bespoke women's bats are also becoming more widely available and this is testimony to the increasing popularity of women's cricket.
The cricket bat size guide below shows the various sizes of bats available for junior players from small infants, right the way through to the Harrow teenager's size and the full adult short handle.
This size chart is only a guide and the age groups are approximate figures. If you are buying for a junior cricket who is still growing it is essential to pick the correct size. Too big a bat early in the player's career can hinder their movement and impair the development of skills. However, a slightly too large bat will enable the player to grow into it and you will get more mileage out of the bat.
I hope you enjoyed this cricket bat size guide and found it useful in selecting the right size bat. If you would like to know more about cricket bat sizes, cricket bats in general or just anything cricket related, just get in touch in the comments below and I will be glad to help.


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Can you Hub with StarHub the way you want to? - You Can!
StarHub's new brand campaign salutes individuals who wish to do things in their own unique ways
Singapore, 14 June, 2004 - Ever felt like breaking the monotony of a regular desk-bound job by sitting on the edge? Have you ever wished you could achieve a birdie by playing the game by your rules? Can you express yourself through your own personal style?
With StarHub, You Can!
A new tagline entitled "StarHub - You Can" was introduced on 6 June, 2004 in its first burst of television commercials across local television channels such as MediaCorp Channels 5 and 8, ChannelNews Asia, as well as StarHub CableTV channels. With this new tagline, StarHub acknowledges all individuals and celebrates the unique things they do. This tagline replaces its well-known predecessor - "What's Next?" which was used widely across all StarHub's advertisements since 2001. The latter was launched in November 2001 to create an exciting, challenger, "can do, will do" personality for the StarHub brand. It built on the major innovations that StarHub has brought to Singapore and created an energy of anticipation about the StarHub brand.
"StarHub's new theme "You Can" is a natural evolution from the energy and "can-do" attitude expressed in our earlier tagline "What's Next". However, "You Can" shifts the emphasis more to our customers. It celebrates their individuality and recognizes their desire and right to do things their own way, even if it is not the most conventional way," said Ms Tham Loke Kheng, Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing at StarHub. "StarHub is a brand of choice for these confident individuals because we respect them and are undeterred about challenging the norms to meet their needs!" added Ms Tham.
The television commercials feature six vignette illustrations. One of them comprises a female work executive who is exercising on a pilates ball as she works, rather than just sitting on the usual chair. Another shows a golfer using his golf club like a billiard cue to shoot his golf ball into the hole on the golf course. These commercials clearly depict the unusual ways which individuals do things and more importantly, they salute people who dare to be different.
Filmed by local film director Royston Tan, who was responsible for the award winning movie "Fifteen", some of scenes in the 60-second television commercials were executed with a technique called "flutter cut". This technique was employed to make rapid changes in the protagonist's clothes to reflect him in different times of their lives, for example, the father in the vignette is also a busy executive, a sports fan who practices taekwondo and also a guy who likes to kick back and enjoy a casual weekend.
The music chosen for these television commercials is "I'm Free" by the Rolling Stones. As the title suggests, its lyrics are about one being uninhibited doing things the way he or she wants to.
Print and outdoor media for this campaign had started on 13 June, 2004.
Stay tuned and look out for our other print advertisements! At StarHub, we salute all individuals who are not afraid to do things the way they want to!


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Stek assisted Rabobank in the sale of payments service provider MyOrder to Ease2pay. Ease2pay N.V. (via its subsidiary Ease2pay B.V.) combines forces to accelerate the mobile payment & loyalty market. Ease2pay and MyOrder are currently active with a mobile tank and parking solution and after a period of intensive consultation with Rabobank it has been decided to join the forces of MyOrder and Ease2pay. The merger creates one network of more than 600 filling stations and 116 cities where one. can pay with one app for both fuel and parking. The purchase price of the activities is maximized at 80.8% of the last published balance sheet total of Ease2pay N.V, being the year 2016. The transaction still has to be approved by the shareholders of Ease2pay N.V. For more information click here.


We're having trouble with a couple of blocks on our site. we have a very large site with lots of blocks/folders and many times blocks are created in 'for this page' and end up getting moved to another folder or another block type. For instance, we have a 'tabs block' that exists to contain 'rich text blocks' and display each rich text block as tabs. In this case, you would create the tabs block, then create the rich text blocks inside of it, which would put them in 'for this block'.
We have 2 blocks that must have gotten cut out of a 'for this block' and pasted somewhere else and now they're kind of floating in limbo. In fact, if we edit any block, they will show up in the 'for this block' section. Very odd!
The block that they existed in has been moved to the trash but I'm afraid to empy the trash in case it may make the site error. The scheduled 'remove unrelated content blocks' has already run as well and that didn't help.
Firist, I go to the page that had the tabs block and I edit the tabs. I can see in the 'For this block' of the tabs that there are two blocks. University owned and Personally owned. However, if I click on their options menu I can only Edit them. Move to trash is greyed out.
Even weirder yet, if I edit ANY block on the website now, I see both of those blocks in limbo in the for this block. In the following exmple, I'm on a different page and a completely different block, but the 'For this block' has both of the limbo blocks in it... weird huh??
We can't figure out how those blocks got there, why they're showing up in every 'for this block' and we can't delete them. What can we do? Thanks for any help!
The fix for this requires some breaking changes, so it'll be in a future breaking change release. Probably CMS UI 11. The bug id is CMS-6995.
I've been bitten by this bug in two different environments.
I created a scheduled job (that I only ran once) that deleted those blocks. I hard-coded the content id of the blocks that should be deleted. I made sure that the block's name had to start with "DELETE ME" before it was deleted, just in case the job was started on another environment by accident.


So I sat myself down with a cup of tea and a biscuit, as you do when you are a good and geeky bloke. My Apple TV is new since the previous WWDC event last year and so I had to go searching for the Apple events application. It didn't take too long to have that installed and I was ready to go. The event was late starting so we were treated to pictures of attendees moving around the hall and getting into their seats ready for the start. Apple usually starts on time so I can only assume there were last-minute hiccups. It was a long keynote speech and it started slowly, gradually building up to a really good set of announcements from Apple. To save us all from guessing, Tim Cook told us there were going to be six announcements. With such a long keynote it saved us all from getting fidgety and wondering when the "One more thing!" Was going to come. All in all, a good and geeky way to spend my evening.
All of the operating systems got some sort of upgrade. Some more than others. Not so much for the Mac, not a lot for the Apple TV, some changes for Watch OS, a fair old bit for the iPhone iOS and all the best changes which are coming to the iPad version of iOS. It was the iOS for iPad I was most interested in. I had to endure quite a wait before seeing all the goodies in store. Was worth the wait though.
This year I'm in the market for a new iMac and I didn't really expect an update in this keynote. So I was delighted to see that the iMac range has been updated. I can definitely see a new iMac in my near future. The iMac I have now is still performing extremely well. I had the hard disk replaced at the end of last year and it still does most of what I want it to do. Mostly I need a graphics card with more memory to run a couple of apps for working with photos. I'd really like to have the latest version of Bluetooth so I could enjoy the larger Magic Trackpad. It's always good to have extra speed with a faster processor and the 5K display would be very nice indeed.
The other big news at the keynote was the introduction of the 10.5 inch iPad Pro. I'm still happy with my large 12 inch iPad Pro and I'm not tempted by the faster processor in the new version. I'm really looking forward to seeing iOS 11 on the devices I have now.
I will have to admit to a couple of wow moments watching the augmented reality and virtual reality. It looked really cool seeing all those bits and pieces that were not really there appear as if they were on the table. You can see all of this stuff looking through your iOS device, but wouldn't it be great if we had augmented reality glasses. Maybe we'll get that one day.
The virtual reality demonstration also looked impressive. I have yet to try out one of those VR Headsets. I have been tempted a couple of times when seeing them at less than €20 on Amazon. The amazing part of the virtual reality demonstration was where the person within the virtual reality was creating the world which she saw in front of her. It was like using laser pointers to position where objects were going to start, move and finish up in the world design. To really get into this sort of work you would need to have the iMac Pro. This was the iMac of the Keynote which starts in price at $5000. It is a complete beast of a machine and if money was no object then I would most certainly buy one. I don't really have a need for one, but just to say I have one would be kind of sweet.
This is a competitor to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi speakers such as Sonos more than to challenge Google Home or the Amazon Echo. There are Siri capabilities within the device so I'd be able to control my home automation devices using the Home Pod. There isn't the diversity of ability in the device because there isn't a developer kit for creating extra applications as you can so do with Amazon Skills. This is probably why Apple positioned this as a music device rather than as a home assistant. I could only be tempted to get one of these if I was more interested in listening to music. The price of it is more in the realm of a high-end speaker system like Sonos and that's another reason why I would have to think long and hard about whether I was going to get one. After some thinking about it I can say I will not be getting one because I'm happy with what the Amazon Echo can do for me.
For me this was the best part of the WWDC Keynote. Fantastic changes to the way the system works. There's a dock available at the bottom of the screen, drag-and-drop between applications and saveable spaces with pairs of applications are going to be huge productivity boosts for iPad users. Another huge advance will be the Files application, something we've been looking for, for a long time. It has already been possible with applications like Documents by Readdle. This company also just recently gave its users drag-and-drop between their set of apps. They must have seen the writing on the wall. There are new ways to use the Apple pencil better. They've made it easy to take a screenshot and to use instant markup with the Apple Pencil. It seems we'll be able to tap the Apple Pencil on the lock screen and start taking notes immediately. Another addition to the notes application is the scan & sign ability. The document scanner can automatically sense and scan the document. It will crop the edges and to remove any tilt, parallax view or glare. All you have to do then, is to fill in the blanks with the Apple Pencil and share it wherever it needs to go to.
A quick drag down on a key on the keyboard gives access to the secondary character on that key. That will save time having to swap from one keyboard to another for getting numbers and other characters. That won't make much difference to us iPad Pro 12.9 inch users. We have an extended keyboard already in most apps. There seems to be a lot of sweet little extras that will all come together to give us a much more productive working experience on the iPad. It's quite likely I'll be tempted by the beta version of iOS before it is fully prepared for public use. I've already wondered if I could get away with it.
Even though it was a little bit slow to get started, the overall impact of the keynote from this year was top notch. The best parts were the advances with the iOS operating system for the iPad. iPad owners around the world will be happy with all the new stuff we can do with iOS 11. The new iPad 10.5 and the updated 12.9 iPad also being an extra dollop of icing on the cake. Mac users will be happy enough, due to the hardware improvements on the MacBook Pro, the iMac. Then there is the iMac Pro for the rich few. It's a shame we're going to have to wait for so many of the new good things until the autumn or even until December for some items. The HomePod is a welcome addition to the line-up even though it's got a high price tag. The HomePod will still be useful along with the improvements slated for the Siri interface, even though in some areas it might not be as capable as Google Home or the Amazon Echo in terms of home assistant. Siri is getting a more human sounding voice too. Not sure if that is in all languages though.
For me personally, the improvement to the iMac was something I'd been waiting for. As soon as I have the money ready I'll be buying one. The other areas of the keynote I found particularly pleasing were the changes to the way iOS works on the iPad. It'll be cool to create notes on the iPad simply by touching the Apple Pencil onto the lock screen. That's a great way of jumping quickly to create a new note. It goes without saying that drag-and-drop and the better multitasking are fantastic features I can't wait to get using.
It was application I'd been waiting for for some time anyway. I'm a user of Affinity Photo on my Mac and loving it. I knew there was an iPad version coming at some point in time. As soon as the keynote presentation was finished I was in the App Store buying the Affinity Photo for iPad. The demonstration by the employee from Serif, the company who make the Affinity products was probably the best demo of the day. I can't wait to create more photo art using Affinity Photo on my iPad Pro using my Apple Pencil.
What is your favourite part of the massive WWDC 2017 the keynote?
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