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RAND Study: Marijuana Use Rises While Consumption Of Cocaine, Methamphetamine Falls
by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
A rise in the self-reported consumption of cannabis during the years 2006 to 2010 corresponds with a significant decline in Americans' use of cocaine and methamphetamine during this same time period, according to a new RAND study commissioned by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
Researchers estimate that Americans increased their consumption of cannabis by approximately 30 percent during the years 2006 to 2010. During this same time, authors estimated that the public's use of cocaine and methamphetamine declined, with Americans' use of cocaine falling by half.
Americans' consumption of heroin remained largely stable throughout the decade, the study reported. According to statistics compiled by the US Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration, an estimated 4.5 million Americans have tried heroin in their lifetimes. By comparison, an estimated 12 million Americans have tried methamphetamine, 37.5 million have tried cocaine, and 111 million have consumed cannabis.
Authors estimated that Americans spent approximately one trillion dollars on the purchase of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine between 2000 and 2010.
Commenting on the report, NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said, "These figures belie that notion that marijuana exposure is an alleged 'gateway' to the use of other illicit substances and instead suggest that for some people, cannabis may be a substitute for other so-called 'hard drugs' or even an exit drug."
Survey data published in 2013 in the journal Addiction Research & Theory reported that among a cohort of medical marijuana consumers, 75 percent of subjects acknowledged that they used cannabis it as a substitute for prescription drugs, alcohol, or some other illicit substance.
A 2010 study published in the Harm Reduction Journal reported that cannabis-using adults enrolled in substance abuse treatment programs fared equally or better than nonusers in various outcome categories, including treatment completion.
Full text of the study, ""What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2000-2010," is available online from the Office of National Drug Control Policy here.
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Nicholas Rockefeller (who wants to RFID Chip the entire world and is a scary ass nut-job who was part of orchestrating the invasion of many countries for oil, money and power) is on the advisory board of the RAND Corp. and the majority of the studies that RAND produces are anti-marijuana. These studies are denoted in the latest "WEED" documentaries on CNN as indicated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta – The government produced a huge volume of studies related to marijuana – but less than 6% of these studies focused on the therapeutic effects of the plant, while the other 94% focused on the "harm" that the plant causes. Fucking ridiculous, you say? I think so too. This study is kind of cannabis neutral, though RAND hardly portrays cannabis in a positive light. I suppose it can be difficult for them to portray cannabis in a positive manor when donors for the cause are either anti cannabis or have serious vested interests in other industries that profit tremendously from the plant's legal status. Am I way off here? RAND is evil, their cause is less than noble, and their sole purpose is to make suggestions to law makers in the White House. Although the study may offer some compelling data, this is still produced by RAND. and fuck RAND.
Voice of the Resistance says:
Yeah, and in my book of life the only stupid people I know are those stupid enough to call others stupid.
Galileo Galilei says:
This 'exit drug' stuff really amazes me. I can imagine a future where the once so-called 'gateway drug' is medically indicated in treating drug abuse problems.
The War On Drugs Is Worse Than Drugs says:
This has historical precedent as well. Starting in 1991, the rates of marijuana use started to rise, at the same time as rates of cocaine use began to fall. At the time, drug warriors decried the rise in pot use as a dangerous trend. In fact, it was a healthy trend.
In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration?, as part of the alleged 'trend back toward Conservatism,' escalated the campaign against pot, and did have some "success" in reducing the availability of pot. At the time, most of the pot consumed in America had come from outside the country. Stepped-up interdiction efforts meant less pot coming into the country, and increases in the penalties for smuggling, bringing the punishments for trafficking pot more into line with the punishments for trafficking cocaine, resulted in traffickers abandoning pot in favor of much more lucrative and easy-to-smuggle cocaine.
These were major factors in the intensity of the crack explosion. For several years, pot was very hard to find, and crack was very easy to find. Finally, by the end of the 80s, 1.) People had had five, ten years of seeing what crack was, and what crack did, and saw that crack was, in fact, wack. 2.) By this time, the pot networks had had time to regrow, and pot was becoming both more available and more in demand again.
So, when the 90s dawned, and people had the safer, better alternative again, the rates of pot use began to rise, and the rates of cocaine use were falling. This was, even then, proof that the "gateway theory" had it completely backwards. Drug warriors of the time predicted that this development would mean MORE cocaine use, when it was already resulting in less.
And now, it's happening again. People are turning toward cannabis, and away from cocaine, and pot-haters are wringing their hands again about this 'dangerous' trend.
All of this underscores the fact that the War On Drugs comes from the Bizarro Planet, operating on the inverse of reality.
(p.s. — That question mark after "the Reagan Administration" just appeared for some reason, and was not meant to be there. It was definitely the Reagan Administration.)
mexweed says:
"75 percent of subjects acknowledged that they used cannabis it as a substitute for prescription drugs, alcohol, or some other illicit substance."
Clearly it is now important to emphasize this SUBSTITUTION issue, and challenge funding sources and the government to ENCOURAGE RESEARCH into it. If there are any testimonies or indications that overt deliberate SUBSTITUTION of cannabis for tobacco (or cannabis-inspired equipment such as VAPORIZERS for the H-ot B-urning O-verdose $igarette format) can save lives (443,000 deaths yearly, USA, from $igarettes), then hindering research into the WHY and HOW is unforgiveable.
i started on pot and moved to harder drugs but not because i wanted to try something new but because pot had such a strong smell it was easily detectable which would make me more likely to be caught it is the current system that pushed me to move meth and cocaine that is far easier to get away with
bongstar420 says:
This is horrible! More people are smoking Cannabis due to incremental legalization. If more people smoke pot, it will harm society.
I do not see how trippling the amount of Cannabis consumers while reducing the amount of Ethanol, Acetylmorphine, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine users is a bad deal. In economics there is a thing called substitution..Cannabis is much more likely to be substituted for a lot of other drugs in a legal climate. This is evidence for that.
Mark I says:
Cannabis consumption will increase when legalized because smoking is just one method of dosing. With edibles, medibles, and oils, there will be less obvious consumers about. Cannabis usage as a medication should be left to the patients and their doctors, not legislators and law enforcement organizations that have been pilfering people without due processes.
larryg30 says:
Marijuana, a gateway drug? I've been toking for over 45 years.And in states where it was illegal.The so-called gateway drug ,In purchasing medical and/or Maryjane for use in those states, led you to be a criminal and go through the underground (black market)where these dealers would always have other drugs also.So, the would always try to sell them to their customers.In states that have legalized pot,there is no need to be around other drugs,or (black market).So,there will be less use of drugs like herion,cocaine,and other illegal substances.The prisons are overcrowded with people with non-violent possession of maryjane,most for small amounts.Prohibition of marijuana will never work ! They want (the GOV.)to keep spending billions of taxpayer money every year to fight the war on pot and drugs that will NEVER WORK! Regulate and tax MJ and use the money for people that might need help getting off of dangerous drugs, and use money for schools to educate kids on drug abuse, and other good things.ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ! LEGALIZE IT !AT LEAST FOR MEDICAL USE, and RESEARCH.I'm a chronically ill person that does not have too long to live,unless I take treatment that might help,But the dangerous side effects could kill you.I could be helped a lot by medical MJ, for pain,and appitite,nausea,and a lot of complications of my illness. I hope this year it will be on November ballot and be voted into law.Tell the government,or your representative to quit locking up people for possession of small amounts of pot,legalize medical MJ,or legalize it totally and states that do will have millions in surplus tax money for all kind of things.
How is it
That we can spend money to dream about going to mars and we send millions of dollars worth of machines there, but whenever I research who is in charge of getting cannabis removed from the C.S.A. , all I can find is a bucnh of people including our president , pointing fingers and saying its not up to me, or us, so NO.
This isnt as hard as it seems anymore…..I say if the haters are worried about what cannabis consumers are putting into their bodies , then its time for cannabis consumers to worry about the rest of the USA consumers…….
I say we should have coffee put on the C.S.A. it doesnt have to be a schedual 1
it just needs to be put where you should have test ran to see if you can have it , you know for medical reasons of health…then obtain a recomindation for you java…..
I know its a long shot and I know coffee will still be shipped in to the U.S.in a new market but maybe we should start worring about crap that means nothing but make it sound like it does….kinda like the consumption of cannabis has been labeled……
People are more likly to be in danger of consuming coffee then cannabis……
how do I know this?
because its legal to run test on coffee…..
SO I say lets start talking about changing stuff that people take for granit…….
Even reading this sounds stupid to me,,,, and it will to the haters as well…..
If you cant put on the shoes and walk a mile in them , it makes you a one sided story…..
Cannabis isnt the cure for the world, or the right answer for everyone……it is however The safest choice that a responible adult should have in his or her life without consequences…..other then the obvious……
So sick of it all
Dave Evans says:
The material known as marijuana does not need to be reschedules, that should not be a goal of ours. It should not even be on the schedule. Placing it there is what is called, "Activist Legislation". The lawmakers are trying to turn marijuana into a damaging, dangerous material with Activist Legislation. They want marijuana to be connected to cocaine and other drugs and this is exactly how they structure society so people have this false association between marijuana usage and the usage of illegal drugs.
I'm not sure why judges haven't knocked these scam laws down. All I cdan think of is, they are on the take, they don't care, or they are just too stupid to understand the difference between marijuana and cocaine. So are there any judges that can answer why you allow police and prosecutors to lie in your courtrooms over and over and over again???
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The Left Is In a Panic As Parents Take Back Control of Their Children's Education
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Today's parents are facing an uphill battle – the erosion of values within our society and an attack on parental rights as progressives work to groom our children to suit their agenda.
This is perhaps most evident in the education system, as children face the threat of indoctrination, insufficient academic attention, and the lack of choices for parents.
But the tide may be turning as parents get fed up, and news from our neighbor to the north may offer a ray of hope.
Both in the U.S. and Canada, socialist policies have been rearing their ugly head.
Private Christian schools are under attack as they fight to preserve traditional values.
Many are being taken to court for refusing to incorporate LGBT+ curricula or set up classes and clubs focusing on this agenda under "anti-bullying" regulations.
While many parents here in the U.S. continue to choose private education or homeschooling to maintain their rights and preserve their values, these forms of education have always come under fire at the hands of progressives…
…even as millions of children continue to be homeschooled with success due to a global pandemic.
In Alberta, Canada, 93 percent of children are enrolled in the public education system that has been further and further encroached upon by radical, progressive legislation.
Alberta parents have had enough, and Christian families and organizations rallied together to mobilize support for a new Premier in the fight to stop the NDP's (New Democratic Party) influence in the department of education.
Jason Kenney of the UCP (United Conservative Party) won election over NDP candidate Rachel Notley, and worked with colleagues and Minister of Education Adriana LaGrange to introduce Bill 15 for "Choice in Education."
Jonathan Van Meren reported on the progress for LifeSite News, wherein Kenny stated the bill intends to preserve and protect parental rights in education choices, "Because we believe that parents know better than politicians or bureaucrats about what's in the best interests of their kids."
Under previous leadership by the NDP's Education Minister, religious schools were being threatened with closure for not supporting LGBT+ and radical sexual education curricula.
More than twenty religious-based schools had been on the chopping block.
Bill 15, however, would give more broad rights to homeschooling families and protect religious charter schools.
The bill would also add language to education statutes to legally state that parents – not the government – are the authority in making education decisions for their children.
This language is taken from Canada's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and would form another layer of protection for Alberta's parents by stating it is a parent's "human right" to decide what is best for their child.
It would also allow for more parental choice and input within public schools and offer resources for religious education organizations and schools, early childhood education programs, and home education.
The UCP's fulfillment of these election promises was welcome news to Alberta's families, but in typical fashion, others are already on the warpath.
One NDP official, Gil McGowan, took to Twitter in a violent rant against conservatives and faith-based education.
He said, in part, that Bill 15, "paves the way for nutbar religious charter schools & homeschooling that doesn't follow the curriculum. They're trying to create an army of brainwashed right-wing warriors," according to Van Meren.
He went further to declare his opposition to "nutbar religious" schools and homeschoolers by warning taxpayers that their tax dollars would support the "crazy, right-wing" religious schools.
Both in the U.S. and Canada, the Left cannot tolerate it when anyone fights back against their agenda of destroying faith and traditional values in society.
Parents in Alberta are taking back control, and the progressives don't like it at all.
But it's a move whose time has come, and a shining example of just how many families all over the world have had enough of the brainwashing, indoctrination, and eradication of what's most important to us – our children and our faith.
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Datepicker / Daterange element values can be set the way minDate / maxDate options is set. If you want to set tomorrow's date to a datepicker, you can simply enter the value +1d. For Daterange elements, use two semicolons as a separator, e.g. +1d;;+2d – this will set the "from" date to tomorrow and the "to" date to the day after tomorrow.


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Q: Javascript - GPS DMS format to Decimal format function I have searched around for a javascript function that can parse GPS data which is in DMS format to Decimal format. I have come up with little help, which mostly is due to the fact that the GPS data that I have is in a weird format.
My Data;
3550.192270N, 01432.026391E
Format;
ddmm.mmmmmmN, ddmm.mmmmmmE

I want to convert these values into latitude and longitude decimal format.
Thanks in advance,
Jean

A: SOLVED
Found a function online that is similar to my needs and converted it into accepting days and minutes only.
function ConvertDMSToDD(days, minutes) {
   var dd = days + minutes / 60;
   return dd;
}

I'm using this function to convert data that I fetch from an Arduino shield with a GPS module.

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Javascript - DMS string to Decimal format function

var dmsStr = "40° 19′ 22.81″ N 49° 19′ 15.61″ E";
var dmsToLonLatRegex= /[-]{0,1}[\d.]*[\d]|([NSEW])+/g;
var dmsParsed = dmsStr.match(dmsToLonLatRegex);
>Result => ["40", "19", "22.81", "N", "49", "19", "15.61", "E"];

    var dmsParsedObj = {
        latitude: {
            degree: dmsParsed[0],
            minute: dmsParsed[1],
            second: dmsParsed[2],
            direction: dmsParsed[3]
        },
        longitude: {
            degree: dmsParsed[4],
            minute: dmsParsed[5],
            second: dmsParsed[6],
            direction: dmsParsed[7]
        }
    }

    var dmsToLonLat = function (o) {
        var n = NaN;
        if (o) {
            var t = Number(o.degree),
                d = "undefined" != typeof o.minute ? Number(o.minute) / 60 : 0,
                l = "undefined" != typeof o.second ? Number(o.second) / 3600 : 0,
                r = o.direction || null;
            null !== r && /[SW]/i.test(r) && (t = -1 * Math.abs(t)), n = 0 > t ? t - d - l : t + d + l
        }
        return n
    }

var lonLat = [dmsToLonLat(dmsParsedObj.latitude), dmsToLonLat(dmsParsedObj.longitude)];
> Result => [49.321, 40.323]

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My wife Angie and I started farming in Mid-Sussex in 1977 with 20 heifers. We built up the numbers to 140 cows by 1998 at which point we either had to increase numbers to 250 or sell the cows. We made the decision to sell the cows as our children had other interests, the future of dairy farmers did not look brilliant and my wife had 5 years earlier started an outdoor toy business which had quickly become successful and which I was becoming more involved with. Alongside the toy business we started contract-rearing heifers for another dairy farmer and we now rear between 160 and 180 heifers from 3 months to 23 months each year. Being on the Weald, this is definitely a grass farm.
As a director I am often told that the greatest strength of the group is the relationship built up with the staff in the office.
As a smaller member I recognise the strength of the buying power of purchasing through the group compared to trying to buy individually.
I am an enthusiastic member of Southern Farmers and recognise the importance of the group's ability to buy at a good price and yet still enable you to purchase from your local supplier, and in the current economic climate it is probably more important than ever to have strong local buying groups.


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Mf Global Holdings Ltd.
By Associated Press - Monday, October 31, 2011
The European debt crisis has claimed its first big casualty on Wall Street, a securities firm run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
MF Global Holdings Ltd., which Mr. Corzine has headed since early last year, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday. Concerns about the company's holdings of European debt caused business partners to pull back last week, leading to a severe cash crunch, the company said in papers filed in federal bankruptcy court.
Mr. Corzine, the former head of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc., oversaw MF Global as it amassed $6 billion in debt issued by financially strapped European countries such as Italy, Spain and Portugal. Their bonds paid bigger returns than U.S. Treasury debt because bond investors thought they were more likely to default.
The bet eventually doomed the company. Its regulator complained recently that it was overvaluing European debt, forcing it to raise more money, according to papers filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Last week, MF Global reported its biggest ever quarterly loss.
Credit-rating agencies downgraded MF Global last week. Its stock plunged 66 percent. Spooked business partners required it to post more money to guarantee its trades. Before long, the company was short of cash.
MF Global looked for outside investors or buyers, but no alternative emerged before the regulators' deadline, the court papers said. Trading in shares of MF Global Holdings Ltd. was halted early Monday.
In a statement, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said that they and other regulators had been closely monitoring MF Global's situation for several days "in anticipation of a transaction that would include the transfer of customer accounts to another firm."
The two agencies said they have determined that a bankruptcy proceeding overseen by the industry-funded Securities Investor Protection Corp. "would be the safest and most prudent course of action to protect customer accounts and assets." SIPC, which can provide up to $500,000 for each customer of a failed brokerage, announced separately Monday that it is beginning the liquidation of MF Global under its customary procedures.
MF Global's bankruptcy shows the danger of investing when the outcome will be determined by government action, said Daniel Alpert, managing partner at the New York investment bank Westwood Capital Partners LLC.
"I don't think it's a canary in the coal mine, but it does show you that it's still a very volatile market," he said. "The nature of this crisis is that events can lead in any number of ways, and markets are trading on news, not numbers."
MF Global's big bet on Europe might not have happened before Mr. Corzine's tenure. Until he joined, the company was known mainly as a dealer in derivatives, investments based on the value of some underlying asset.
Mr. Corzine, who wanted to build it into a major investment bank, is also a top fundraiser for President Obama, having helped raise at least $500,000 for Mr. Obama's re-election campaign since April, according to records released by the campaign.
One method in Mr. Corzine's transformation plan for MF Global was to trade for the bank's own profit, a practice known as proprietary trading. Mr. Corzine made his career at Goldman as a trader, and the company became a trading powerhouse on his watch. Proprietary trading was responsible for much of MF Global's quarterly loss, it said in court papers.
Bank shares fell sharply on Wall Street after the bankruptcy filing. JPMorgan Chase & Co. fell 5.3 percent, Bank of America Corp. 7.1 percent and Citigroup Inc. 7.5 percent by the end of trading Monday.
Including its subsidiaries, MF Global has assets as $41.05 billion and liabilities of $39.68 billion, according to its bankruptcy petition. It likely ranks as the eighth-biggest U.S. corporate bankruptcies, according to the research firm BankruptcyData.com.


"The icing on the cake" is how Beto, the Sevilla FC goalkeeper, describes his team's UEFA Super Cup showdown with Real Madrid CF.
The all-Spanish contest in Cardiff is Sevilla's reward for winning the UEFA Europa League in May and the Andalusians already know what it takes to beat a compatriot club in this competition, having defeated FC Barcelona 3-0 in the 2006 edition. Beto and captain Federico Fazio reflected on what it would take to produce another upset against Madrid in the Welsh capital on Tuesday night.
• Beto was the hero of May's final shoot-out win against SL Benfica, saving two penalties.
• Fazio was in Sevilla's squad in 2007/08 when they lost the UEFA Super Cup to AC Milan.
• Sevilla played 19 matches en route to winning the UEFA Europa League last term.
We have to enjoy it to the full. It cost a lot of effort to get here and [winning] would be the culmination of the job done last year. For us this is something unique. It is the icing on the cake of last season.
Real Madrid are a huge club, one of the best in the world, but there is nothing nicer than the successes that we can achieve with Sevilla.
Cristiano is the best player in the world, he doesn't need two months of pre-season work. But we have our own collective weapons to stop not just him but Madrid.
We have to produce a complete game, we have to win every action, every tackle, we have to be strong defensively and in attack too. We have to produce a near-perfect game.
Madrid will always be favourites and the odds are with them but as we've already beaten them before [2-1 in Seville last season], we believe that we can do it again.


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The Glittering Harvest of the Past.
BY WENDY NAZAR
Blue Tunny, or Tuna, have been caught off the Algarve coast for over 6 centuries. A fully-grown Thunnus thynnus can be up to 3m in length, and occasionally a specimen of up to 5m has been caught.
These fish travel in schools in open surface waters, and are seldom found at a depth greater than 100m.
The Tuna head in from the open Atlantic to spawn in the Mediterranean during May and June. In July and August, they make the reverse journey. As they travel the same routes in and out at the same time every year, just off the southern shores of Europe, their capture became a special feature.
As early as the end of the 13th century Tuna fishing was declared a crown monopoly, and by the end of the 15th century was overtaking that of Whaling as the chief income of the fishermen of the Algarve. In 1485, the great quantity of Tuna caught caused many towns, such as Lagos, to arrange the salting of the profusion, so that the surplus could be exported.
It was one of the chief tasks of visiting crown ministers and officials to check that all was well with the great Tuna Net stations of the South. There were 6 working nets off Lagos alone in 1586, when Sir Francis Drake descended on the Algarve and destroyed as many of these Tuna stations as possible, in order to hinder the provisioning of the Armada.
The late 1960's saw only five nets still working, and the one off the Cape of Santa Maria, Faro, was only allowed to take the fish on the eastward journey. The rest, further east, off Livromento, Luz de Tavira, Medo das Cascas and Abóbora could also take the inferior tuna, heading west, that had already spawned.
The fish were caught in a special way, in immense funnel nets. The schools were guided into these nets, called "Almadrava", then easily transferred into small boats and taken ashore.
Drawing of "Harvesting the Tuna"
copied from an old Woodcut print. Such an elaborate apparatus for taking the Tuna consisted of over 6 miles of netting, occupying over two and a half square miles of water surface, and using over 40 miles of cable. Hundreds of great bower anchors fixed it to the sea floor, about 4 to 5 miles offshore. Thousands of cork floats supported the upper edge, near the surface.
The expense of building and maintaining such a net was enormous, especially as they used to suffer as much as a 50% depreciation during the five-month season. The other seven months of the year, they required a large storehouse, called an "Armação".
The enormous fixed net had two arms, which arched away from each other, one seaward, and the other toward the shore. Each arm was between 3 to 10 Km in length, and reached down into the water for about 35m.
Swimming in, between them, the tuna entered a chamber, divided into three compartments. Two men were stationed in a small boat, outside the first chamber, to close it off with a net once a school of tuna had entered the trap. Another two men waited outside the second compartment to close that off, after the fish had passed them. This was then sealed with a double net, the outer layer blocking the way out, and the inner one now lying beneath the school. The inner one was then lifted, bringing the fish to the surface in a panic. On a platform, just above water level, groups of men were waiting to gaff them and the fish were hooked out of the trap into small boats waiting round the edge to take the catch ashore.
The remnants of this once important way of life of the "Royal Company of the Fishermen of the Kingdom of the Algarve" are now only found in place names such as Armação de Pêra, and in the ruins of the storage buildings similar to those still apparent at Boca do Rio.
The 17th/18th century Armação at Boca do Rio
Article and illustrations by kind permission of the author.
First published in Insight, June 1999, Volume 2, Issue 2 - the quarterly magazine of A.F.P.O.P. the Association of the Foreign Property Owners of Portugal.
Copyright © 1999 Vale Grifo


For some people art and precious metals are nothing more than items they can admire and be glad they own. Be it diamond earrings, gold rings or abstract art, owners of such materials can simply take pleasure in the fact that they own them and then think nothing else of them. That's one way to look at it when you own precious metals or pieces of artworks but there is also another viewpoint you can take.
Even though not everybody is going to share the sentiment we're about to go over it doesn't make it any less valid. What we want to say is that not only do particular precious metals like white gold engagement rings or hand drawings your children created in your home have sentimental value but they can also have monetary value and should be viewed at as investments. There are many items that can be considered investments that not everybody looks at them in those terms.
Precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum will also be in demand and even though their values fluctuate over the course of time they will still be of some worth. That's something to keep in mind if you're ever in need of some extra cash and have jewelry you're no longer in need of. You've probably seen those cheesy commercials on TV that urge you to trade in your old gold jewelry for cash and if you look at jewelry as an investment you might be able to get a return on your investment down the line.
At B.E.S.T Painting, they are not creating fine art masterpieces to hang in museums, but they are bringing new colour by painting industrial and commercial buildings.
You should also consider signed artwork or signed records you own that have the real signature of the artists as something you can one day trade in for something of more value or sell for a tidy sum of cash. Art and music collectors are always on the lookout for collector's items and there are very few items more in demand in the collection world than signed pieces of art or records. If you have anything of value like that stored away in your property make sure to keep it in good condition because one day it might be worth a whole lot of money.
If we've changed the way you look at certain art pieces or precious metals that you have laying around your home, it might be in your best long-term interests to round them up and keep them in a safe hiding place so you don't do anything to alter their potential value. Who knows, any artwork your children brought home from an art for kids club they made could be worth something in the future if they end up becoming a world famous artist.


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Column: NBA puts a stop to the flop
Ammons Smith
courtesy of MCT
The VP of Basketball Operations for the NBA, Stu Jackson, announced recently that the league will adopt an anti-flopping rule beginning in the 2012-13 season. Flopping, which is a relatively new trend spanning over the past decade, has negatively impacted the NBA because it has wiped away the tone of toughness set by players in the 1980s and 90s.
Flopping is an excuse for not being able to handle one's opponent on the court. Some viewers have confused it with taking a charge, which is when a defensive player has established his position and gets bowled over by the forward-moving offensive player. Flopping is when a player, either offensive or defensive, intentionally falls after barely making contact with an opposing player.
This is certainly the wrong way to play the game.
It is childish to fall down intentionally without actual physical contact and to look for the referees to make a call. Referees are just as much at fault for this trend because they choose to blow the whistle instead of ignoring it.
Old school players would be offended by a rule like this in the modern era.
It is time players are held accountable for flopping and not playing the game properly. Receiving a fine will make floppers think twice about taking a risk that could hurt their income. Some players will continue to do it but the numbers will drop considerably from previous seasons.
Some fans say flopping is a part of the game but if that is true, it is a glaring problem in the structure of basketball today. It's hard to see how anyone could appreciate flopping because it has absolutely no way of increasing fan support.
A great defensive player doesn't need to flop to handle his opponent. Take a look at the Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s. They were known as "The Bad Boys" because they played aggressive, physical basketball and were relentless at stopping their opponents from scoring points. They caused Hall of Famers like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan problems on the court
and frustration.
Players such as San Antonio Spurs' shooting guard Manu Ginobili and Los Angeles Clippers' power forward Blake Griffin will not be able to perform any more Oscar-worthy flops to help their team win. Griffin should be ashamed of himself for flopping because he is a power forward and there shouldn't be any big men flopping in the NBA. Former center Vlade Divac is one of the most prolific floppers in the history of basketball. Unfortunately, his success in flopping influenced big men to perform actions like this.
If players like Los Angeles Lakers' center Dwight Howard or Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant were known as floppers instead of great players, it would hurt the league's reputation. Upcoming players should want to have a reputation as a solid all around player rather than a flopper.
This new rule can bring back some of the toughness players used to show in the NBA. New rules have changed the game of basketball giving a view of softness instead of tough, intense play. It cannot necessarily bring back the essence of the 80s or 90s but it can influence upcoming players and fans to think differently about how the game should be played.
The NBA is a professional league full of grown men and it's time the players play like grown men once again.
Ammons Smith, Author
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How would you improve old Bionicle sets (G1)?
As a Bionicle fan, I loved many of the old sets. However, there were some things that I wish they did better.
One of the things IMO, are the Metru Nui Matoran builds. The problem they had for me was that they had no back.
And I would make the builds for the toa Mata a little more complex. Don't get me wrong... I love them, but they could have had a little more complex design.
If they were more complex they wouldn't have originally sold well imo as a new theme targeted towards children.
Give Kongu Mahri more guns.
Also, give Hordika at least symmetrical arms, and don't heat lime joints wrong!
Definitly add something to make the inika/mahri/ piraka torsos a bit more interesting to look at. Whether that's adding some parts to it or a custom torso those sets needed something.
Also becuase I'm sure someone will say it eventually; make 2007+ ball sockets way less cheap. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has a seperate bag of all broken parts most of which being 2007+ sockets.
I don't know... Those are just some of the worst Bionicle sets, which could have been improved.
Still you have to consider the time they came out too.
I would have used more variable designs for the Toa each year, similar to their variance in shape and size from G2. This was something the later villains for each year usually did very well, the Baraki and Makuta especially.
Maintained gear functions in later sets. Imagine if we had something like the G2 gear-box in G1? That would have been amazing!
Keep the aesthetics more tribal. Don't get me wrong, Bionicle really grew into its own with the more sci-fi designs later on, but if the relative popularity of the Golden Years and the Bara Magna saga are anything to go by, it's that bright colors and elemental designs work very well.
You won't touch my precious Metru-Nui.
Change the shade of white on all of the Piraka, especially Thok.
I think we, as MOCists, can all agree that Thok would have been a better parts pack if he was in just a regular white. Sure I get that his light grayish white is made to contrast from the regular white teeth and possibly being an attempt at evolving the white characters, seeing as they all have been the same regular white since 2001. Also it is worth pointing out that Thok looks REALLY good with that different white, but the fact that he was the only Bionicle set to have that color (save for minifig Thok) just makes his pieces hard to use for MOCing. The same also applies to Avak in a way, I wouldn´t mind seeing more pieces in that darker brown, it just looks so good, but hard to use aswell.
So in conclusion I would have wanted the piraka skull piece to be colored in light grayish white, and Thok in regular white.
I'd give Solek (maybe Tanma and Photok too, but at least Solek) White and light grey instead of white and dark grey. It still wouldn't have been a particularly flashy colour scheme, but it would've given us more light grey body pieces, which were fairly uncommon, and would harken back to 01 Kopaka's colors, which Solek supposedly based his own colours on.
Change Mahri Hewkii's mask, that mask is ugly.
Give Sarda and Idris Metru feet, the Inika feet are way too big for them.
Either give Sidorak a gear function or friction on his shoulder.
Make one of the Hordika legs different, to further convey asymmetricality.
How would you go about doing that from a technical standpoint?
I love heartlights (and use them a lot on my own MOCs) but when did we ever see them in G1 canon?
Oooh, I like that idea a lot. But didn't sets like Pohatu Phantoka and Matoro Mahri try to do this?
bright colors and elemental designs work very well.
I'm not sure how well that would have worked with 06's dark grungy style, 07's techy underwater theme and 08's sleek flight-based aesthetics.
Great insight. I had never thought about that before.
I'd give Solek (maybe Tanma and Photok too, but at least Solek) White and light grey instead of white and dark grey.
If you did that, then you'd have to change all of the Phatoka Toa's secondary colors light grey as well (which wouldn't contrast very well with Lewa's lime and Pohatu's orange).
I would also add some sort of blocking function to the rhotuka disks. They keep falling so easily and it's sooo annoying.
Also the Piraka Zamor lunchers could use this as well.


Whether struggling to keep your company above water, or looking for ways to increase an already profitable operation, strategic sourcing offers a reliable platform for companies to increase or attain profitability. Commonly, strategic sourcing is mainly associated with cutting supplier costs and re-negotiating contracts. This definition and common school of thought ignores the other, oftentimes more critical, components of strategic sourcing; that being process optimization. In order to execute an effective strategic sourcing initiative, strategic sourcing itself must be thought of in a broader sense in terms of evaluating alternative cost savings methodologies attained through process improvements and corresponding soft cost savings. When traditional cost reduction methodologies such as executing RFP's, RFQ's, or conducting direct negotiations with suppliers are combined with a thorough evaluation of process optimization opportunities, results oftentimes exceed expectations.
In current news, this comprehensive approach is being utilized by a company who has been the subject of an unfortunate series of events and ongoing financial woes-- that being Malaysian Airlines (MAR). MAR has had their fair share of setbacks within the past fiscal year. First came the disappearance of flight MH370 in March, and then the crash of flight MH370 over Ukraine in July. Both of these tragedies compounded the financial troubles that MAS had been experiencing over the past few years. In fact, the company posted losses of £770 million in 2013 after three years of consecutive losses prior. With the brand name as of late at an all-time low, and the company at risk of bankruptcy, MAR has set their focus towards recouping losses by cutting costs and improving current processes.
One of the first steps MAR has taken to cut costs has been to eliminate 6,000 jobs across the company, which represents approximately 30% of the total workforce. This immediate cost savings approach for struggling companies is something that a thriving company would generally want to avoid, but in this case, the move made sense for MAR. Leading up to the job cuts, MAR had approximately 183 employees per aircraft (a common unit of measure in the airline industry). Considering Singapore Airlines, who is one of MAR's top competitors, has a rate of 138 employees per aircraft; this metric reveals that MAR is less efficient than their direct competitors to begin with.
In addition, historically MAR has been known to pay a higher price than that of their competitors for equipment and services. This condition represents the opportunity to cut costs by leveraging benchmark pricing and volumes to attain more competitive prices via direct negotiations and leveraging volumes in RFX events for both indirect and direct materials. For example, Air Asia is a well-known player in the international airline market and is notorious for their low air-fare prices. It is no secret that part of the reason they are able to offer lower prices is because their operating costs are lower, and supplier contracts more competitive. MAR is leveraging this knowledge in one of their main cost cutting initiatives by re-negotiate existing supplier contracts to bring them in line with industry utilizing benchmark pricing.
The actions listed thus far are typical of a traditional sourcing effort and focus on reducing supplier costs, re-organizing their supplier base, and cutting operating expenses. However, as previously mentioned, by taking an all-encompassing approach to true strategic sourcing, one must consider process improvements and alternative areas of soft cost savings that oftentimes go overlooked by procurement departments, sourcing professionals, and category buyers. As an example of this practice, MAR has evaluated the opportunity to invest, despite the company's instinct in such times to do the opposite. MAR has begun to switch out Boeing 737-400 aircraft and is investing in 737-800 models that have higher fuel efficiency and lower maintenance costs. In addition, the re-engineering of existing and new aircraft has begun to include more business class seats in order to increase utilization and general population capacity. This tactic is being complemented by route rationalization and cutting infrequent travel lanes. MAR is instead turning focus to flying within the regions with the highest current utilization, including routes to Japan and Australia.
This recent example displays at a high level the type of approach necessary to achieve greater cost savings through multiple different channels. By not only focusing on cost cutting, and by improving their processes and operational strategy, MAR has positioned themselves to possibly avoid bankruptcy.


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La escala de Mohs es el primer libro de la rapera y poetisa Ana Isabel García Llorente, más conocida como Gata Cattana o Ana Sforza. La primera edición fue publicada en noviembre de 2016 a través de su propia autoedición con la editorial independiente Homo Stultus, que se encargó de la maquetación y el diseño del libro, disponible en internet para el uso de todos. En junio de 2017 fue reeditado por Arcesis, tras la trágica muerte de la poeta en marzo de ese mismo año. La editorial, puso en venta esta segunda edición a través de varios puntos y incluyendo la compra online, y los beneficios íntegros obtenidos se han destinado a la fundación Gata Cattana. El libro consta de 23 poemas propios y cuatro pequeños relatos en sus últimas páginas, así como varias ilustraciones de Chico Iwana y un prólogo, realizado por Antonio Díez Fernández.

En febrero de 2019, Aguilar volvió a publicar el libro en una nueva edición ampliada con composiciones inéditas. Además del material nuevo original, esta reedición incluye los manuscritos de uno de los poemas inéditos que la agencia literaria Dispara entregó a la editorial. Ana Llorente, madre de Gata Cattana, ha sido la responsable de la tercera publicación de los escritos de su hija. El libro también contiene dos ilustraciones nuevas de Don Iwana y un prólogo dedicado por la poeta Irene X. La nueva edición de intención sumaria, posa su valor en dar difusión a la cantante tras su pérdida.

A la saga de reediciones y homenajes, se incluye, "No vine a ser carne", el nuevo libro de la poeta cordobesa que sigue la senda de La escala de Mohs. Su publicación corre a cargo de Verso & Cuento, la colección del sello Aguilar de Penguin Random House, y se puso a la venta este 5 de noviembre de 2020.

Contenido y estilo
El contenido de La escala de Mohs pasa del feminismo o la mitología, hasta la crítica política y social, mezclando constantemente referentes clásicos con una realidad actual y cotidiana. Si bien la temática del libro es similar a la que trataba en sus canciones, su estilo es diferente. En el rap buscaba la musicalidad y la rima, mientras que en la poesía los versos son libres y fluyen sin límites. En la poesía Ana se deja ser más ella misma. En los últimos relatos del libro la artista habla en primera persona para contar al lector (o a sí misma) aspectos y reflexiones de su vida, centrándose sobre todo en la cultura andaluza, a la que ella se sentía muy arraigada. Sus estudios como politóloga y sus intereses artísticos marcan las letras de la artista, que no se encasilla como poeta o cantante. El título de la obra, muestra el baremo en el que se miden la dureza de los minerales, como metáfora de la calidad de los principios de las personas y la sociedad. Su lenguaje cuidado y las referencias a la filosofía, la historia y la geopolítica se entremezclan con los sentimientos más personales de la poeta, sin obviar su activismo y militancia que le ha llevado a convertirse en un icono de la lucha feminista y una figura de culto, que cierra su producción literaria con el último libro publicado póstumamente  "no vine a ser carne". En este último tomo, se sigue una continuación de La escala de mohs, con producciones de su adolescencia y nuevos inéditos posteriores a 2010.

Repercusión
Tras la publicación de la última reedición, se han celebrado homenajes y lecturas del poemario en la capital madrileña y en el pueblo de nacimiento de Ana, Adamuz, Córdoba y Granada, así como distintos actos de conmemoración.

Poemas

 A Madrid
 Leviatán
 La escala de Mohs
 Hojita de menta
 Génesis
 La profecía
 Tu oficio, poeta
 Con las manos
 Desapariciones
 La Satine
 Teogonía
 El par de dos
 Diagnóstico
 Diagnóstico II
 El ciprés y la espiga
 Rebeca de Winter
 Cospedales
 Caso empírico
 Vendrán
 A ti, no
 Culpables
 N18
 Acuoso

Relatos

 Barrabás
 Rudimentos
 El cumpleaños
 Jazmines

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Fundación Gata Cattana
La Escala de Mohs (2019)
 Chico Iwana
 Antonio Díez Fernández

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Libros de poesía de España

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The 150th anniversary of the foundation of Nestlé was a major theme of the company's shareholder meeting on 7 April 2016. Baby Milk Action/IBFAN-UK and IBFAN-GIFA attended to raise concerns about baby food marketing practices. There were 2853 shareholders present, representing over 75% of votes.
Chief Executive Officer, Paul Bulcke, told shareholders they should be proud of Nestlé's history. Baby Milk Action spoke to ask shareholders to also remember the babies that had died due to aggressive baby food marketing practices that undermined breastfeeding. However, a call for a minute's silence for remembrance and to signal to the board that practices should change in future was immediately interrupted by Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathé. While a few shareholders stood, others booed and whistled.
Mr Brabeck defended past practices, such as marketing sweetened condensed milk for infant feeding, as appropriate to the time and ignored the call for Nestlé to stop promoting infant formula today with the claims it "protects" babies and is the "gentle start".
Once again, Mr Brabeck ignored Baby Milk Action's proposed four-point plan for saving infant lives and ultimately ending the long-running Nestlé boycott.
Mr Brabeck misled shareholders by claiming Nestlé had itself proposed and immediately abided by the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981. In reality Nestlé opposed it and called it "unacceptable… irrelevant and unworkable" (Right: the 1981 letter sent by Nestlé Vice-President Ernest Saunders on behalf of the industry body opposing the Code). Its policies and practices are still not in line with the Code and subsequent, relevant Assembly Resolutions.
At the start of the shareholder meeting, Nestlé showed shareholders a special presentation about the new Nest museum at the site where Henri Nestlé began manufacturing Farine Lactée in 1987. This milk, sugar and flour product was soon being exported around the world in bulk, with claims it prevents diarrhoea and vomiting, so beginning the assault on breastfeeding cultures.
[Above: Nestlé's history of undermining breastfeeding: "the oldest and most trusted substitute for mother's milk", "prevents diarrhoea and vomiting"].
This was followed by sweetened condensed milk, promoted as "ideal for delicate" infants, despite lacking essential vitamins and putting babies at risk of rickets, blindness and death. This was raised with Nestlé in the famous talk by Dr Cicely Williams in 1939 in Singapore called "Milk and Murder". Although formulations have improved, babies fed on infant formula continue to be at more risk of becoming sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die.
According to the latest Lancet Breastfeeding Series published in January 2016, an estimated 823,000 infant lives could be saved every year though improved breastfeeding.
[Below: Nestlé's presentation to investors in September 2013 describing the "gentle start" marketing campaign as a "growth engine" for sales – click here for a selection of Nestlé labels from around the world].
Mr Brabeck said it was unfair to judge Henri Nestlé's 1867 product by scientific knowledge of today and that it had saved millions of lives. Mr Brady repeated his point that Baby Milk Action's criticism was about the way products were promoted, which applied to strategies used from Henri Nestlé to Mr Brabeck himself.
Rebecca Norton of IBFAN-GIFA, welcomed that fact that Nestlé has finally acknowledged in the latest Creating Shared Value report that WHO recommends breastfeeding after six months, into the second year of life and beyond. IBFAN had told Nestlé repeatedly and over many years that it was incorrect to refer only to breastfeeding in the first 6 months. She asked when labels, advertising and product information around the world would be changed to reflect this change.
WHO has confirmed that follow-on milks and so-called growing-up milks are breastmilk substitutes and so should be marketed in accordance with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly. Now that Nestlé has finally acknowledged breastfeeding is recommended into the second year of life and beyond it can no longer claim the formulas it promotes during this period are not breastmilk substitutes. Nestlé products on sale in Switzerland on the day of the shareholder meeting say they are not breastmilk substitutes, despite Nestlé's change in policy and the fact they are fed in a bottle, which is a surrogate breast.
The World Health Assembly said as long ago as 1986 that follow-on milks are unnecessary products (WHA Resolution 39.28).
Nestlé also highlighted its inclusion in the FTSE4Good ethical investment index, failing to mention that this does not require companies to abide by the World Health Assembly marketing requirements. Nestlé weakened its own formula advertising policy prior to joining the index, knowing it would be monitored against its own policy – click here for details).
Click here for the text of Mike Brady's intervention and Mr Brabeck's response.
Click here for the text of Rebecca Norton's intervention and Mr Brabeck's response.
A selection of the messages posted by the public to Nestlé 150th anniversary hashtag were displayed where the shareholder buses arrived (image above and left).


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Army Training Tells Soldiers Not to Gossip About Transgender Troops
Soldiers engage in 'real life experience' by 'wearing make-up, wigs, and female clothing' off-duty
Elizabeth Harrington - July 11, 2017 5:00 AM
The United States Army's training for how to handle transgender issues instructs troops not to gossip about male soldiers who identify as female.
The hour-long mandatory training is being issued in response to the Obama administration's directive to integrate transgender soldiers into the military. Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis delayed the Obama policy by six months.
The Army is still moving forward with its transgender training, which is conducted in the morning in place of physical training, the Federalist reported.
The guidelines reveal that soldiers only need to get a diagnosis from a medical doctor and change their gender in a database before showering with the opposite sex.
The Army's tips for an "inclusive environment" include no gossip.
"Social interactions and developing friendships with peers are what contribute to a positive work environment," the training states. "Maintain an inclusive environment and do not gossip. In accordance with good order and discipline, do not ask a colleague or subordinate for their personal information unless it is mission related."
"This includes information about a Soldier's gender identity, sexuality, medical challenges, and/or gender transition," the guidance states.
The military encourages service members to engage in "real life experience" activities during their transition process.
Real life experience, or RLE, is defined by the Army as the "phase in the gender transition process when the individual commences living socially in the gender role consistent with their preferred gender." RLE will "generally occur in an off-duty status and away from the Soldier's place of duty prior to the change of the gender marker in [the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System] DEERS."
The Pentagon uses the example of a male soldier, who has not yet had a sex change, wearing wigs and dressing in female clothes off-duty to complete their RLE.
The scenario was included in the transgender handbook issued by the Department of Defense under the Obama administration last fall.
"A Service member has been undergoing transition for the last three months, from male to female, and has not yet changed his gender marker in the Service's personnel database system," the handbook states. "The unit is aware of his transition. He is preparing to begin his RLE after duty hours (i.e., wearing make-up, wigs, and female clothing) and would like to do so in his barracks room, unit day room, and on the military installation."
"He is still using the male facilities," the handbook adds.
The Pentagon's advice is for commanders to "consider authorizing extended leave," or transfer to the reserves to "allow the Service member to live in their preferred gender and conduct RLE."
The transgender handbook also discusses a soldier who wants to transition from "Eric" to "Erica." Another scenario addresses how "Tony" might receive a waiver from the male physical readiness standards while he is becoming "Tanya" and perform the less rigorous female standards at a later date.
The Pentagon also suggests commanders could require all male soldiers to wear shirts during a swim test if a woman, who identifies as a man and has not had breast reduction surgery, wishes to wear a male bathing suit.
Another scenario discusses the pregnancy of "Lieutenant Marty."
"Lieutenant Marty changed his gender marker in the Service personnel data system from female to male after completing an approved transition plan. Lieutenant Marty has not had sex reassignment surgery as part of the transition plan and is working with his [military medical provider] MMP on a plan to start a family. Lieutenant Marty approached his commanding officer a few weeks ago and mentioned he was pregnant."
"Be aware that colleagues may find this situation confusing," the handbook states.
The new Army training largely follows the Pentagon's handbook and includes a PowerPoint and accompanying lesson plan, shared by James Hasson, a former Army captain and veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
The Army gives definitions for gender identity, "preferred gender," and the "Transgender Soldier."
The training discusses allowing a male soldier to shower with females because he has changed his gender in the military database. "Because she did not undergo a surgical change, the Soldier still has male genitalia," the Army training states.
All soldiers are to use the "billeting, bathroom, and shower facilities associated with their gender marker" in the DEERS database.
Secretary Mattis's decision to delay the Obama administration transgender policy does not affect transgender individuals who are already serving in the military. Military chiefs will now have until Dec. 1 to conduct a review to determine whether new transgender enlistments will be taken.
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Elizabeth Harrington is a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. Elizabeth graduated from Temple University. Prior to joining the Free Beacon, she worked as a staff writer for CNSNews.com. Her email address is elizabeth@freebeacon.com. Her Twitter handle is @LizWFB.


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This is the most expensive Airbnb in the UK
Go hard or go (to someone else's) home
By Dave Fawbert
It's no exaggeration to say that Airbnb has revolutionised the way we holiday. Gone are the days of being restricted to a choice of hotels, motels and hol-i-day inns - now we have the choice of staying wherever the hell we want (as long as the place we are staying is on Airbnb not, y'know, just some random house you've decided to rock up to before announcing to the startled inhabitants who've never met you before: "Well, I'm hitting the hay, see you cats in the morning!").
And, suddenly, a host of places that were never previously available to us mere mortals are now on the market - and before you know it, you find yourself pushing the price bracket up to £500+ and thinking: 'yes, let's spend two nights on a luxury yacht and finally film that hip hop video we've been planning all these years'.
But what's the most expensive place on the entire damn site?
Well, in the US, currently it's an entire house in Austin, listed as an 'SXSW Exclusive', an 8-bedroom, 16-guest luxury pad within walking distance of downtown Austin - perfect for checking out all the acts playing at the festival this year - and yours for a mere £7,534 per night.
But given most of us aren't planning to fly to Texas to live it up this March, what about splashing the cash closer to home? What's the most expensive place in good old Blighty?
Well, if that seems like quite a straightforward question, it's not, because you've got things like including catering and things like places being artificially expensive as they're trying to rip people off who want to go to either the Champions League Final or the Royal Wedding, two events which we'd imagine would have a very similar audience.
So, in my quest, I have arbitrarily decided to ignore the artificially high ones, but keep in the catering-inflated ones. After all, what's the point in opulent luxury when you have to peel your own spuds?
And the winner?
Yes, it's a medieval manor in Somerset which, for the princely sum of £3,750 per night, you and 15 other guests can live like lords - and even arrive by helicopter. And there's even two massive dogs - Coco and Zorro - that you get to hang out with.
Dating from 1235, the property is set in a private manor estate, located at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Facilities include the use of gardens, grounds, tennis court, sauna, games room and outdoor heated pool. And the dogs, don't forget the dogs.
But what else did we find on our quest? Well, we found some great stuff.
How about this ACTUAL CASTLE in Cumbria? Just £3,500 a night to - literally - live like a king.
With 10 bedrooms housing 16 guests, it's on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, has 15 acres of grounds and has 'gothic windows, battlements, turrets, stained glass, oak panelling'. Did you read that? TURRETS? Imagine just standing atop your turret and shouting down instructions to the serfs (the rest of your family/friends) below. Amazing.
In third place is the stunning Somerleyton Hall which, by name alone sounds like a cross between Somerset and Leyton aka two of the best places in the world, so it's no surprise that this is excellent.
Your £2,692 per night gets you access to the Hall, situated in 5000 acres of prime English land, complete with crackling log fires, country walks around Fritton Lake and an ACTUAL MAZE. That's right, it's literally a-maze-ing.
Fancy something a bit different? How about Llancayo Windmill in Monmouthshire, just £734 a night. It fits twelve guests and - extremely wisely - there are no stag or hen parties allowed.
A gothic church conversion in East Horrington? You're in luck! It sleeps 17 and is a snip at £1,114 per night.
Or just pretend you're a Russian oligarch and rent yourself a six bedroom pad in Chelsea, complete with underground swimming pool. Just £1,650 a night to you guvnor.
Here's a few other top tier selections that caught our eye - get booking!
(All prices per day)
Polhawn Fort: £1,500
Reforge Retreat: £2,500
Most beautiful house in Suffolk: £2,271
Luxury yacht: £995
Crayke Manor: £750
The Priory, Cosgrove: £943
Victorian Mansion: £1,451
Georgian Townhouse, Bath: £1,071
The Dairy at Burghley: £1400
Devizes Castle: £1500
Cotswolds farmhouse with own golf course: £1249
Country mansion in Ascot: £2,100
Partridge Lodge: £1,574
Hockwold Hall: £1,749
Belle Isle Castle: £1,302
Rafters at Lulworth Cove: £1,986
Contemporary Baronial Castle: £2,000
Boconnoc House: £2,058
Orroland Lodge: £1,940
Ullswater Lakeside house: £1,512
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Welcome to the Resources section of our site. Here you will find examples of ground-breaking studies that prompted the formation of IPFH; results of surveys documenting the scope of foot problems in the United States; IPFH white papers and links to other reliable websites that provide information on foot conditions and treatment.
We also include a gallery of preventive foot health-related videos, a preventive foot-health glossary, information on choosing a foot-health professional, and links to information related to preventive foot health and wellness.


The WBR-6003 is a wireless router with a single 10/100Base-T WAN port and four 10/100Base-T LAN ports. It supports DDNS, DMZ and UPnP.
The integrated access point complies with the IEEE 802.11n (draft 2.0) standard, providing wireless transmission speeds of up to 150Mbps. It supports WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption and uses WMM (QoS) to prioritize the traffic over the network. A WPS button allows for worry-free wireless security configuration.
Hello, I need help, I want to install and configure this router as an access point and repeater my network wi fi to my home, I have another router on one end, at the other end I have my computer, and in the middle of the road I need place this router level 1 WBR-6003, and wireless is the final idea. Thank you very much! Greetings!


Bifocal glasses are used to correct vision at two distances—a prescription on top for far away and a different prescription on the bottom for near. Most people think of bifocals as reading glasses for people over forty who lose their ability to focus up close as they age. But children can also need reading glasses.
Many children have not developed sufficient control over their focusing systems, the natural lens inside the eye that keeps images clear, especially up close. Some children lack the ability to sustain sufficient focusing over an extended time period, so after a while print begins to blur. Others can't make fast focusing shifts from one distance to another, like from the board to their desks, so any time they look away, everything is blurry. Some children have a tendency to over focus, and the additional stress causes eyestrain and headaches. If they over focus too much, the additional tension on the visual system can make the eyes to turn too far inward, causing double vision. Finally, near work at school places much more stress on the visual system than distance viewing, and some young children respond by translating the visual stress into physical and emotional symptoms—back and neck tension, headaches, constriction of their perceptual fields and a reduction in their visual space, a tendency to develop nearsightedness, and avoidance of the reading tasks that are causing the physical and visual discomfort.
Reading glasses that use a bifocal are a good option for school-aged children who only need the additional correction up close. The bifocal gives them the lens support they need for deskwork but doesn't change their distance vision. Sometimes vision therapy is also prescribed when the focusing problem is severe enough that additional interventions are also required.
New advances in lenses allow children flexibility in the type of bifocal they choose. Many children still prefer the flat-top bifocal because the line separating the two powers helps them tell exactly where their distance prescription ends and their near prescription starts. However, some children or parents don't like the look of the "line", so for them progressive no-line bifocals are a good option. The lens is made so that the change between prescriptions is so gradual no line appears. Another very popular option is the "half-moon" bifocal. It has the advantage of a clear delineation between powers liked lined bifocals but when the glasses are on the child's face, the bifocal is invisible like progressive lenses.
When bifocals or reading glasses are prescribed, it is important that children wear them for all close work, especially at school and during homework. Sometimes children will only need the bifocals for a few years as they develop control of their focusing system. Others may need the additional near-point support for as long as they are in school and spending a lot of time reading.
Bifocals are an important tool for optometrists when working with children who spend up to eight hours a day using their eyes for reading and school work. By adding an additional lens power for up close, optometrists are able to adjust children's focusing system to give them better control and eliminate eyestrain, blurred vision, headaches, and fatigue.


Volunteers of the Federal Government N-power programme in Ebonyi state at the weekend appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to consider them for federal Civil service job.
They made the appeal in Abakaliki Local Government Headquarters during sensitization meeting organized by the state N-power Ambassador, Nwori Valentine Chibuzor for the Volunteers.
The N-power Volunteers scheme and one of the Federal Government's Social Investment Programmes which began in December 2016 was billed to last for two years according to government.
But the Volunteers in Ebonyi state said the country would not claim to have made progress if the 200,000 youths absorbed by the programmes were pushed back to the society after two years. Addressing the Volunteers, Ambassador Nwori thanked President Buhari for initiating and implementing the programme, adding that there had never been any empowerment or employment process in the history of Nigeria as transparent, direct and merit-oriented as being witnessed during the selection of N-power beneficiaries across the country.
He called on government at all levels to adopt N-power method of recruitment in their empowerment and employment exercises, saying that the programme had on lives, reduced poverty, improved livelihood and human capital development of the citizenry within few months of the programme.


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Is season 4 of Once Upon A Time off to a chilly start? Maybe it's just me, but after being left less than impressed with the season four premiere, I can't say I thoroughly enjoyed this second episode. An episode that was 98% Regina and Rumple free. Now, normally, those viewers that are tired of them would probably enjoy this…but are the Frozen subplots enough? Hang in there, Joan.
So, Anna is off to the Enchanted Forest. She goes to visit a family friend for help with her "secret mission". Friend happens to be Charming, lookin' like Hagrid, during his Shepherd and farming days. Anna has come at a bad time. Charming and his mother are being threatened by a new villain…Bo Peep. Homegirl doesn't need her sheep when she's makin' slaves, taking names, and all their money.
Anna is disappointed by Charming's cowardice and teaches him how to fight with a sword and stand up for himself. So basically, we all have Anna to thank for the Charming of today. Thanks, Anna. Have fun on your new quest to see Rumplestiltskin.
Grumpy and Granny let Snow know that she should be in charge now and fix things. She has had no sleep, she's breastfeeding, and she is just not here for that. She lets out an epic rant.
Snap. Speaking of Regina, early in the episode she sends Henry a note that she doesn't want to see him right now. She's one of us. But Henry, who has nothing else to do in this story, let's be real, demands to be let back in the house because he misses his room. Not Regina or anything. His room.
Disco inferno! Okay. So, Elsa really can't conceal or control her feels. She ends up trapping both her and Emma inside the ice fortress. Now it's a race against the clock to get Emma out of there before she freezes to death or Hook hacks off his hook. Anyone finding his panic a bit forced this week?
Anna is able to control herself and melt a small hole for them to escape but she can't get rid of the whole thing. Why not? Who else has these ice powers?
The Snow Queen. AKA guest star Elizabeth Mitchell. I'm curious what she'll be up to next week, besides unsanitary ice cream practices.
There were quite a number of not-so-inside-jokes to Frozen this week. And not just Anna's alias of "Joan".
Emma: You put on quite a show.
Elsa: The cold's never bothered me.
What did you guys think of Once Upon A Time 4×02? Are you here for Emma and Hook? Are you excited for the Snow Queen?


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Our Future is Shared: Sheila Watt-Cloutier Presents "Everything is Connected"
Valerie Leow, J.D. Candidate, University of Alberta
The sixth Big Thinking session at Congress, "Everything is Connected: Environment, Economy, Foreign Policy, Sustainability, Human Rights, and Leadership in the 21st Century," was proud to feature Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a globally renown environmental, cultural, and human rights advocate. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee (2007) for her advocacy work in demonstrating the impact of global climate change, especially in the Arctic, on human rights, Watt-Cloutier is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, and the recipient of the 2004 Aboriginal Achievement Award for Environment, the 2005 United Nations Champion of the Earth Award, the 2005 Norwegian-based Sophie Prize, the 2015 Right Livelihood Award, and the 2020 Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue. In this Big Thinking lecture, Watt-Cloutier asserted that all of the pressing issues of today – matters surrounding the environment, economy, foreign policy, and global health – are deeply interconnected.
Watt-Cloutier named histories of colonial trauma – including the destruction and minimization of Indigenous culture, ways of life, and spiritual practices by the dominant Western ones; the forced removal of Indigenous children from their homes and placement in residential schools; the forced relocations of Indigenous peoples to the Arctic "in the name of sovereignty"; the deliberate killing of Indigenous sled and hunting dogs; and the Canadian bans on seal hunts – as being responsible for fostering dependencies in what had previously been independent communities. To combat the poverty, poor health, food insecurity, addiction, violence, and high rates of suicide that plague Indigenous communities as a result of said colonial trauma, control has to be given back to "a people who have been trapped in the freedom of their ability to think and act for themselves." She prescribed culture as 'medicine' in her statement: "the Indigenous wisdom and knowledge is the medicine that the world seeks to create a sustainable world. Ice is our life force. It is our food system." Country food is medicine that grounds your emotions, and the ceremony and rituals "build up the confidence of the first hunt of our young men, the first garment that is sown by our young women." "It is a bond with one another," said Watt-Cloutier, who cited as an example the communal bond that results from eating from the same animal, which connects one to the hunter and also to one's ancestry.
According to Watt-Cloutier, the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown reduced pollution and cleared up the skies and air were indicative of the planet's lesson to us that we need to return to Indigenous ways, to "realign economic values with those of the Indigenous world, rather than simply adopting the values of Western society." In her view, acting unsustainably and causing irreparable damage to the atmosphere forces the planet to react with violent storms and erratic events: "we're seeing perfectly normal reactions to abnormal circumstances." Following this line of thought, Watt-Cloutier stated that "human trauma and planet trauma are one and the same," as she related the imagery of the planet reacting negatively in response to the environmental harm that we have caused to Indigenous children turning to negative coping mechanisms and self-destructive behaviours in response to the colonial trauma they have suffered.
There is a current lack of imagination in the world, in Watt-Cloutier's opinion. Yet, we desperately need the re-imagination of a different way of developing more sustainable businesses, the re-imagination of new ways to do business with one another, and the re-imagination of new ways of treating one another. The concepts of empathy, trust, and reconciliation are foundational to "re-imagin[ing] and re-engineer[ing] a way forward that really does things very differently." The current pandemic is a grim reminder of the importance of approaching society's issues, not as separate concerns, but as a deeply interconnected whole. In her opinion, the younger generation is currently moving in the direction of 'heart-centered leadership,' bringing "the human face, and the human dimension and heartbeat" to the pressing issues of today, which will help them tackle these interconnected complexities and incite real change in the world. To conclude, she urged people to learn more about the strength, culture, and resiliency of the Indigenous peoples, rather than seeing them merely as victims to colonial trauma and globalization. "We are not just 'the trauma.' We are a people who really know what sustainability is about."
Read Watt-Cloutier's book, The Right to Be Cold, a memoir on the global threat of climate change from the perspective of her own Arctic childhood that was shortlisted for Canada Reads 2017 here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417373/the-right-to-be-cold-by-sheila-watt-cloutier/9780143187646/excerpt
Special thanks to the Canada Foundation for Innovation for sponsoring this Big Thinking session and to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Universities Canada, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation for sponsoring the Big Thinking series.


Comprehensive list of Topeka, Kansas based companies, consultants and engineers offering web & application software development, design, testing & analysis services.
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Our goal is to accomplish yours. Let 21 Concepts assist you with your software requirements. Custom Windows Applications including AutoCad plug-ins, Quickbooks integration and more! Install applications meant for MSSQL on about any popular database platform. 21 Concepts is established on the belief that delivering best quality services and products at a good price is the only way to do business.
A-Tech International supplies a comprehensive Internet and software solutions for businesses. By combining our creative talents and computer programming skills, we're able to supply an effective solution that makes sense. We are an Information Technology consulting and Web page design firm.
Sara Software Systems is an IT consulting company that delivers business-driven solutions. Sara Systems positions itself as a comprehensive Enterprise Solutions supplier and strives to be the preferred business driven IT consultant that delivers quality solution to the clients that meets their business challenges in the new economy.
EZGOES has developed an order and estimating system for glass retailers, creating a sales invoice with appropriate pricing levels for a given client, as well as purchase orders for buying material from one or more suppliers. These have been integrated into an online database-driven software system.


Transmission: Automatic Color:Gray Interior Color: Gray Average Vehicle Review: (4.8 reviews) My Lexus RX350 has been a dream come true. I have wanted one since my 40's and thought it would be a great car when I became older like in my 60's. Now that I am there, it has been a great choice. I haul in it, shop at Costco in bulk, take it to Bass Lake every weekend and use it locally to run around. I love the seats, they are super comfortable and the technology that gives me stream music online.
Transmission: Automatic Color:Gray Interior Color: Average Vehicle Review: (4.8 reviews) I love my 2009 Lexus RX 350!! It's a great car to drive, and I feel great driving it. I'm still learning all the gadgets, but love everything I have learned about it, both through its manual and from driving. It feels like a brand new car to me, and had only 23,000 miles on it at purchase. I feel it was a really good investment.


Get whisked away on a gondola for a romantic ride around Indianapolis. See the sights as you relax and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience on the water.
Make tonight memorable with a gondola ride through the heart of Indianapolis. Bring aboard your favorite cocktails for something refreshing to sip on as you glide away.


Recycle. Go Green. Save the planet. These are but a few of the buzz words trending on our news channels and social media platforms today. What do they really mean? Is the state of our planet really that severe or are these words simply trendy?
A simple Google search reveals that we are, in fact, in trouble. Scary statistics – including the fact that we lose approximately 18 million acres of forest every year, or the fact that the carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere are the highest they have been in 800 000 years – paint a fairly grim picture of our future here on planet earth. Cause for alarm? Indeed.
So how do we respond to this looming disaster? What does this Going Green movement involve? According to the interweb, Going Green refers to the decisions we make on a daily basis to help save the environment. Simply put, living a lifestyle that contributes to saving the world. Keen to give it a try? We have sourced a few simple and sassy ways you can make a difference.
Slow down. We could all do with a slightly slower pace in life. Driving at a slower speed uses less fuel.
Bought a gift? Wrap your gifts in newspaper or fabric. Tie it all together with a ribbon – resuable and prettier than paper.
Join a local library or book club instead of buying new books.
Clean the back of your fridge. Dusty coils can increase energy consumption by 30%.
Start a compost heap to reduce the waste you send to landfill sites.
Get moving. Walking or cycling instead of driving not only reduces the amount of fuel used but gets you into great shape too!
Local is 'lekker' – buy local food so that energy is not wasted on transportation.
Give your garden a good breakfast; coffee grounds and eggshells are ideal for composting.
Fill your garden with gorgeous home-grown blooms to give your friends freshly cut flowers rather than buying flowers from your local store.
Switch to showering. Have a quick shower instead of a long bath to help save water.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Make use of your local recycling facilities who will handle reusable waste responsibly.
Never discount the impact that your simple decisions make. Every one of us can make a difference. Give it a go – what have we got to lose?


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Q: Generic Autofac Container Register for All Types Is there any way to register generic types without registering type by type on Autofac?
Now :
builder.RegisterType<Repository<Authorization>>().As<IRepository<Authorization>>().InstancePerLifetimeScope();
builder.RegisterType<Repository<Branch>>().As<IRepository<Branch>>().InstancePerLifetimeScope();
builder.RegisterType<Repository<Customer>>().As<IRepository<Customer>>().InstancePerLifetimeScope();
builder.RegisterType<Repository<Foo>>().As<IRepository<Foo>>().InstancePerLifetimeScope();
....

Register all off them with like:
builder.RegisterType<Repository<T>>().As<IRepository<T>>().InstancePerLifetimeScope();

A: This is what i looking for.
builder.RegisterGeneric(typeof(Repository<>)).As(typeof(IRepository<>)).InstancePerLifetimeScope();

builder.RegisterAssemblyTypes(typeof(BranchService).Assembly)
.Where(t => t.Name.EndsWith("Repository")).AsImplementedInterfaces().AsSelf().InstancePerLifetimeScope();