It would seem that everything in the world is trying to prevent me from getting this blog post out into the world of cyber space and into the hearts and minds of you, our friends. I began this post three times this morning, and all three times my post was deleted as an unexpected "refresh" occurred. After a few minutes chatting with the help desk of SquareSpace, I ended up downloading Google Chrome, abandoning Safari, and beginning again only to be called away a few minutes later by a barking dog. Because of this, you're welcome to use the words "morning" and "night" interchangeably in the next few paragraphs, as I am finally sitting down to write at 11:27pm, with clothes in the wash and a timer set to switch them over in half an hour. Oh, and my alarm clock is set for 5:00am. I will surely be jacked up on coffee this weekend!
Last year quiet mornings like this one were stolen little gifts that I could barely hold onto. Working 80+ overtime hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas gave me a run for my money...literally. But now, quiet mornings working from my laptop next to the twinkling tree and coffee vigorously brewing in the next room have become more of my norm if I take the time to stop and enjoy them.
Tomorrow we will wake up early, early and head to a farm. If you know me at all, you know that I have not spent much time on/at (?) farms in my life. But this farm is special, and this beautiful piece of land has come to play a special role in our adoption story.
Most of you know that this weekend we are raising adoption funds through the second annual Santa Charity, and so many of you have been gracious enough to participate. I am confident that God will work in some pretty extraordinary ways this weekend, but I also want to share the backstory of how He's been weaving together His story and providing for our family over the last few months.
When I arrived to work at Grace House on Friday, September 4th, exactly three months ago, it felt like a normal day. Around lunchtime, I received a call from a friend who works for our adoption agency, Lifeline. She asked if we were still fundraising and I said yes, a little hesitantly. Working in nonprofit development, I try to be really careful about what kind of adoption fundraisers we get into because I'm terrified of friends running from me when they see me coming because I'm forever asking for them to donate to my cause. Our friend at Lifeline said she knew of a fundraiser that was looking for another family to get involved and we should apply. I listened as she said it would be worth our while and she'd email the the details if we were interested. I wearily said that I'd like to at least see the details, and went about the rest of my day. I texted Jason about it a few minutes later, but I had no idea the significance it would have on our life in the next few hours.
When I got home from work on September 4th, I was excited to do a little research into this fundraiser. It was Labor Day weekend and I'd actually have some time! Jason and I were talking through our plans for the night when I got a text from my supervisor at Grace House. She asked if I was home, I said yes. She asked if we had dinner plans, I said yes - but maybe we could hang out on Saturday night. She said she was headed to my house. I called her.
When she answered the phone, she said she wanted to talk to me in person. I may be many things, but a patient woman is not one of them. I said, "Please, tell me what is wrong, I can hear in your voice something has happened." She said it would ruin my weekend. I said, "I don't care, tell me." The words that came out next hit me like a ton of bricks. She proceeded to tell me that my beloved job at Grace House had been cut. She was just informed by the executive director minutes before and headed straight to my house to tell me in person. I fought hard to keep my composure and asked what in the world was going on. She didn't know. She said that I would be offered a part-time position to stay on in another capacity that I'd been managing to do alongside my full time job for the past year, but it was not the direction in which I wanted my career to go. It wasn't development. It wasn't marketing. It wasn't creative. It wasn't the job that I'd prayed for since I was a 20-year-old intern when I felt God calling me to work in orphan care.
I was devastated. I starred at my husband sitting on the couch across from me and choked back tears. I mouthed "part-time" to him and his face remained the same. He mouthed back "What?" and I covered the phone to tell him what was happening. He mouthed back, "It'll be okay." And it was. I lost a lot that day - what I thought was my dream job, health insurance, paid time off, a lot of accrued sick days that I was saving for Ethiopia, and so much more. But all I could think about was the words forever penned on my wrist - God who provides. This news was a shock to me, but it was no surprise to Him.
That night we talked to the Dial family for the first time. We were in shock about my job, but we trusted in the Lord's provision and were hopeful as we talked to this sweet family about a possible fundraiser. The biggest worry for me was that I would no longer have a job that would allow us to save 50% of my salary, thus we'd have to stop saving for our adoption in that capacity. Then, we found out on Sunday, September 6th that we were chosen to be one of the two families who would be part of this year's Santa Charity at the Dial's farm - praise our God who provides!
Fast forward to November 18th - the day we found out that Dove would be closing their doors. I'd been working for another organization for a little over one month and loving it - hello amazing dream job! God provided a job for me that was perfect for bringing home Judah and we thought that He was surely preparing us to bring him home SOON. Then we get the news that it will be a longer wait. And oh yeah, we have a transfer fee to pay by the end of this year because of the closure. And oh yeah, we also have to pay another dossier fee because of the agency transfer. But God keeps on providing and it's no accident that we are literally just hours away from the biggest adoption fundraiser we've ever done.
I want you all to know our story because it's important. It's important to see God working and weaving in the details of every day. It's important for me to see every face that comes by tomorrow and look you in the eye and thank you for helping us. Jason and I aren't very good at asking for help, and God knew that we probably wouldn't.
But God provides abundantly more than we could ever imagine, and this time is no exception. He is providing 150+ families to walk through the doors of a beautiful barn to get pictures made and fund our adoption. He's provided through a photography team with the biggest hearts and a Santa Claus that will bring more joy and cheer than any other man in a red suit this season. He's led us to meet another amazing couple walking through a similar journey - we have laughed and cried together over the ups and downs that we've experienced in this short time we'e known them. He's brought us into a new community with an adoptive family who have been where we are, and they have given their time, their land, and their hearts to help ensure that there are two less orphans in the world.
So, if we'll see you this weekend at Santa Charity, please say hello and accept our sincerest appreciation for being part of God's perfect provision for the Moraleses. And for those of you who will not be there, we would appreciate your prayers for this weekend. A TON of work has gone into it and it's all been by the photography team, Santa Claus, the Dials, amazing sponsors, and a great team of volunteers. And last, if you would like to give to our adoption fund and cannot make it, please follow this link to give. We appreciate each and ever dollar - by receiving one dollar at a time we will be able to bring Judah home.
Thank you for your time, support, and prayers. We love you, friends.
Posted on December 4, 2015 by Jessica Morales and tagged Santa Charity fundraising adoption international adoption waiting.


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Hepatitis C elimination
Global progress towards hepatitis C elimination still blocked by cost of treatment, lack of diagnosis
Keith Alcorn
Low awareness and barriers to care in the United States
Nine countries – Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands and Qatar – are on course to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030, according to data released at the World Hepatitis Summit in São Paulo, Brazil, this week.
The World Health Organization's elimination target challenges countries to aim for a 90% reduction of new hepatitis B and C infections and a 65% reduction in hepatitis B and C related mortality by 2030.
Estimates presented by the Polaris Observatory, developed from all available national data, show a stark contrast in progress towards hepatitis C virus elimination in two of the world's wealthiest countries, Australia and the United States.
According to the Polaris Observatory estimates just over half of people with hepatitis C in the United States are aware of their infection. Although rates of diagnosis are high in New York state (81%) and California (71%), other states are doing less well, and the United States is also experiencing a sharp increase in new hepatitis C infections in young adults and adolescents as a result of sharing of injecting equipment.
In 2015, the US treated around 256,000 people and some 230,000 in 2016. Polaris's latest projections suggest that without new initiatives to boost treatment and diagnosis rates the annual number treated across the US will fall to just 130,000 per year by 2020. To reach the World Health Organization 2030 elimination target, treatment levels must be sustained at 250,000 per year leading up to 2030. The US is also unlikely to meet the targets set out in its own national plan, some of which are even more ambitious – such as a 60% fall in both hepatitis B and hepatitis C new infections by 2020.
In two thirds of states, treatment on Medicaid programmes has been restricted to people with advanced disease, preventing treatment access for those without private insurance. However, the outlook is not entirely bleak – recent developments have meant the approval of new and cheaper hepatitis C drugs, which can be used to treat all types of the virus (genotypes 1-6), requiring just 8 weeks of treatment to achieve cure.
These lower prices are allowing states such as Delaware, which previously restricted treatment to the sickest people, to open up Medicaid coverage to all people with hepatitis C from January 2018. Delaware joins 16 other states (including Alaska and Georgia) that will open up restrictions (or never had them).
At the recent Liver Meeting in Washington, DC all states and Puerto Rico were graded on how easy it is to obtain Medicaid treatment for hepatitis C. States receiving the best grade of "A" were Alaska, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Washington. States that received an "F", the worst grade, were Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oregon, and South Dakota.
The Australian government responded to the call for universal access to the hepatitis C direct-acting antivirals with an AUS $1billion dollar investment over 5 years. This risk-sharing agreement with pharmaceutical companies provides government-funded treatment to all adults without restriction and has paved the way for the elimination of hepatitis C by 2030. More than 30,000 people with hepatitis C were treated and cured in 2016.
Following this agreement, huge numbers of people came forward for treatment immediately (some 5000 in March 2016 alone). However, the number treated each month has steadily declined, from over 5000 in March 2016 to less than 2500 in March 2017, with signs the number will decrease further still. The Polaris estimate shows that Australia must treat around 20,000 people with hepatitis C per year to reach the World Health Organization elimination target it endorsed (a reduction of new hepatitis B and C infections by 90% and mortality by 65% by 2030). Polaris predicts annual treatment numbers for hepatitis C virus could fall to 14,000 by 2018.
"Australia set off at a cracking pace on the journey to elimination of hepatitis C due to our unrestricted and easy access to treatment," says Helen Tyrell, Chief Executive Officer, Hepatitis Australia. "From March 2016, when the cures became available, to December of that year around 14% of all people living with hepatitis C commenced treatment. However, the pace has slowed dramatically over time."
She adds: "Worryingly, the latest estimates from the Polaris Observatory should be taken as a clear warning that the elimination of hepatitis C is unlikely to be achieved by 2030 if we continue 'business as usual'. What we need now is a rapid scale up of a suite of programs to help connect all people with hepatitis C to the new cures while also continuing to prioritise evidence-based prevention. Provided Australia invests in this work and maintains a strong partnership approach across government, the community, clinicians and researchers, we can reach the goal of elimination of hepatitis C by 2030."
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Desperate Iraqi Yazidis flee into Syria after Kurdish forces secure escape route
Yazidis cross into Iraqi Kurdistan from Syria
After being stranded on the parched Mount Sinjar for almost a week and then walking 12 miles to seek refuge in Syria, some of the persecuted civilians were able to safely return to the Kurdish region of Iraq with the help of Syrian Kurdish forces.
Aug. 12, 2014 Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather for food at the Nowruz camp in Derike, Syria. Khalid Mohammed/AP
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BAGHDAD — Thousands of desperate Iraqi Yazidis who have been trapped by Islamist extremists on a parched mountaintop for almost a week trekked Friday into Syrian territory, seeking refuge in another war-ravaged country.
Some managed to collect water and food that had been dropped overnight by U.S. planes before heading northwest on a 12-mile walk across mountains and desert to the Syrian border. There, Syrian Kurdish forces waited to transport them to refugee camps or to safe crossings back into the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Mount Sinjar had become a prison for as many as 40,000 civilians who fled to its barren peaks to escape Islamic State fighters who seized the surrounding area last weekend. The Yazidis' plight — and warnings that children and the elderly were dying — caused international outrage and prompted Washington to conduct humanitarian airdrops for the stranded Yazidis and airstrikes against the militants, to prevent what President Obama described as an attempted genocide.
The followers of the ancient Yazidi religion are particularly vulnerable to the Islamic State extremists, who consider the sect's members apostates and have vowed to exterminate them.
Kurdish forces from Iraq, Syria and Turkey organized the evacuations and were positioned along the escape route to protect refugees from the extremists. The organizers said Friday that around 20,000 people had been rescued from the area but most from hideouts in the vicinity of Mount Sinjar, rather than on the mountain.
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Trapped on Sinjar Mountain
As few as 10 percent of those on the mountain have managed to leave, said Serbast Babili, the commander with Iraqi Kurdish forces overseeing the operation. He spoke from the battlefield near the Sinjar village of Sinoon, where, he said, his troops were fending off Islamic State attempts to disrupt the evacuation.
Saleh Mehdi Abbas, 31, said his family was one of around 300 trekking toward the Syrian border Friday. He had left his area of the mountain at 3 a.m., he said, then walked for about an hour to pick up food and water in an area where U.S. planes made food drops overnight, before moving on.
"We are all marching," he said in a telephone interview. "Now we are in the desert and near the Syrian border. We just hope that there are vehicles there to pick us up. We can't go much longer."
The isolated terrain, and the fact that the only possible escape route traverses Syrian territory, has limited the involvement of international humanitarian organizations in the rescue effort. A United Nations spokesman said he could not confirm that an evacuation was taking place, although he said the agency had reports of "movement."
However, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said Friday that it was providing emergency medical care for up to 4,000 dehydrated Yazidis who had arrived in a refugee camp in Syria's Hasakah province a day earlier. The Kurdish area of Syria is relatively secure, though Kurdish forces have been battling off Islamic State attacks in the area for more than a year.
The refugees were suffering from dehydration, sunstroke and diarrhea, and some were in need of urgent treatment for war injuries, the aid organization said.
Iraqi Kurdish forces are repelling Islamic State advances on the southern side of the mountain, while the evacuation route on the mountain's northern side is being organized by the fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party and its Syrian spinoff, the Popular Protection Units, or YPG. The workers' party is better known by its Kurdish acronym PKK, and it is designated a terrorist group by the United States.
As fighting intensifies in north Iraq, the country's minorities, including Christians, have been forced to flee their homes and move into the Kurdish-controlled regions of the country. Displaced Christians spoke to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Thursday -- the same day that President Obama authorized targeted airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic State militants. (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR))
"Most of them walk on foot to the border," said Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the YPG. "We are still trying to reach many people in the mountain. It's a large area."
There were conflicting reports about whether the Kurdish forces coordinating the evacuation were allowing men of fighting age to leave the mountain. Ziad Qasim, 27, whose family was about a mile from the start of the evacuation route, said he had been told by a militiaman that whoever could carry weapons had to stay to fight.
"My wife and my father say they won't leave without me," he said by telephone. "What are we going to do?"
The IRC said most of those it was treating were women and children.
Majid Shingali, a Sinjar parliamentarian involved in the evacuations, said that one man was being allowed to escort every family out of the mountains but that any other male relatives should stay to fight. Local Yazidis have set up their own armed group that is coordinating with the Kurdish forces.
Shingali and Babili said the Iraqi air force had airlifted at least 60 of those too sick to walk off the mountainside Thursday night. The Iraqi government did not respond to requests for comment.
"It looks like in the next 24 hours we may have the whole north side of the mountain cleared," Shingali said, adding that the Kurdish forces were opening a route to Syria that is accessible by vehicle.
But those stranded on the south side of the mountain — who would have to traverse its peak to escape and where the terrain is less conducive to airdrops — remained desperate for supplies.
When contacted by phone Friday morning, Shihab Balki, 23, had left the mountain to sneak into a nearby village to search for water. The village has been deserted since Islamic State forces swept through Sunday.
"I had to take a risk," he said. "We received nothing today. I heard the sounds of planes in the night, but we couldn't see anything."
Mustafa Salim in Baghdad contributed to this report.
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The joy of curling up with a good travel book is damn hard to beat. Part fiction, part memoir, the best travel books tell weird and wonderful stories and describe the intricate things that make a journey, or place, memorable. The initial excitement of a vessel leaving port or the joy of waking up to a brand-new city, they celebrate the act of exploration itself: poking around, asking questions, getting lost and into scrapes, making all the mistakes of a newcomer.
The best travel books should ignite a travel spark to pack your suitcase and stumble forward into some world experiences of your own. 12 years ago I picked up copies of Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari and Alex Garland's The Beach and have been a restless wanderer ever since.
During the periods of vexing inertia when I'm not traveling, one of my most treasured activities is reading a travel book and pretending I'm right there with the narrator. I'll transform into their best mate on a round-the-world road trip, a stowaway on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a (not-so handy) handy-woman helping to restore a Tuscan Villa or a Monastery volunteer in Nepal.
Over the years, some of the best travel books published in the last decade — like the ones below — have inspired me to travel far and wide and have almost always left me with an insatiable starvation for new cultures and experiences.
Their innate ability to fill the gaps in my knowledge of places that aren't exactly on most government's "Safe List" — like the Congo or Afghanistan — is a curiosity quencher that I'm continuously thankful for.
Disclaimer: What follows is a very subjective list of 10 of the best travel books of the last 20 years (in no particular order). I'm sure I'm missing a few, but I could only choose 10 so feel free to fight me in the comments section. And no, Eat Pray Love is not on this list.
I Wouldn't Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong – Andrew Mueller (2008)
I Wouldn't Start From Here is a curious tale of one man's attempt to comically demystify the horrors and cultural complexities that plague our young world. Recounting his many crazy and death-defying experiences as a freelance correspondent for The Guardian and The Independent, Andrew Mueller's fearless circumnavigation of some of the world's most violent and politically shady places including Kosovo, Palestine, Libya, Sarajevo, Afghanistan and Iraq — as he grapples with "possibly the most maddening mystery of our time" — could have easily become a non-PC, jaded, samey "trouble tourism" recount.
Thankfully, the book is much more than that. With his self-effacing, good-humored cynicism extending beyond the war zones, he is able to reach deep inside each area to the people locked inside them. He slips easily between meetings with Hezbollah in Beirut, a Loyalist hitman-turned-surrealist painter in Belfast and Al Gore in Edinburgh. He is shot at in Gaza. He is imprisoned in Cameroon and he worries about the discomfort of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who look "as perplexed as people who'd togged up for a fancy dress party and gone to the wrong address."
Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes (1996)
The "I just moved to [insert new city here] and this is why it's so good" genre is completely and utterly saturated — this I know. We roll our eyes at the "unique" anecdotes and earth-shattering realizations of these authors — that is if they even get published these days.
We are just no longer interested in this sort of thing. We couldn't be more bored of this genre if we tried. But, for some reason, I will never lose my childish enthusiasm for Frances Mayes's memoir of an almost dream-like Tuscany. It's my "go-to" book for when I want to feel all sunshine, lollypops and . . . Italian rainbows, and the aforementioned "been-there, done-that" mentality just doesn't apply for me here. I think it's partly because of it's shameless la dolce vita attitude, but also because of its intelligent, engaging and empowering feminist tale (without being too pretentious). And besides, who wouldn't want to randomly purchase a villa in Tuscany?
Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux (2002)
Most 60-something travel writers are looking for gigs in Provence and Tuscany, but Theroux, the grandfather of travel writing, trekked overland from Cairo to Cape Town for this modern classic. Why? Because he's awesome and he could. The wittily observant and endearingly irascible author takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries and tourists. What results is an insightful mediation on the history, politics and beauty of Africa and its people.
The Beach – Alex Garland (1996)
If only gap years in Thailand were really like this one. Well, up until the point where food poisoning and deadly violence on an otherwise "utopic community" ensue. Alex Garland's story of a young traveler who finds "the perfect beach" by going off the tourist trail is inspiring for any would-be modern explorer, even if things do take a sinister turn by the end.
Despite his distrust of the younger Goa and Phuket-set with their technology obsession and general detachment from society, few writers have Garland's eloquence when it comes to describing the simplest and purest of worldly pleasures — the beauty of a Thai sunset, the serene turquoise water of an uninhabited island — it's impossible to not to want to book a trip to paradise after reading this book.
In A Sunburned Country – Bill Bryson (2000)
This is 100% Australiana told from one of the most revered travel authors of our time. In A Sunburnt Country is set Down Under — a place that doubles as a continent with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet.
Bryson takes his readers on a rollicking fun ride far beyond the beaten tourist path. His deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous prose describing the clean, safe cities, cold beer and constant sunshine Down Under makes me proud to call Australia home. And let's not forget, Bryson's account of a uniquely sporting people (read: sports mad), who excel at games ranging from cricket to Australian Rules football: "It is a wonder in such a vigorous and active society that there is anyone left to form an audience."
The Sex Lives of Cannibals – J. Maarten Troost (2004)
Fed up with being a directionless procrastinator and perpetual degree-swindler, Troost decides to follow his girlfriend to the vastly remote Island of Tarawa after she landed a job there. The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of.
Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas and toxic fish — all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is "La Macarena." He and his stalwart girlfriend spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis). Troost's hilarious travelogue will leave you thankful for the staples of Western civilization such as coffee, regular showers and tabloid news.
Into the Wild – John Krakauer (1996)
In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.
Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Krakauer is sympathetic to the spirit that led McCandless to set out for life off the grid.
Much like Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man, this is a story that draws sharp lines between adventure and madness, shedding light on McCandless unflinching romanticism for being free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experience of nature, which ironically cost him his life. It is for this reason that I enjoyed this story as much as it frustrated me. A great read.
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge – John Gimlette (2011)
Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark. Shunned by the conquistadors, it was left to others to carve into colonies. Guyana, Suriname and Guyane Française are what remain of their contest, and the 400 years of struggle that followed.
The 2012 Dolman Award-winning book by John Gimlette sets off along the coast, gathering up its astonishing story. His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a "Little Paris" and a space port. He meets rebels, outlaws and sorcerers; follows the trail of a vicious Georgian revolt; and ponders a love affair that changed the face of slavery. Here too is Jonestown where, in 1978, over 900 Americans committed suicide. The last traces are almost gone now as the forest closes in. Beautiful, bizarre and occasionally brutal, this is one of the great forgotten corners of the earth: the Wild Coast.
Wrong About Japan – Peter Carey (2005)
The novelist Carey and his 12-year-old son travel to Japan in search of manga and anime culture, which the son adores and the father can't quite understand. What follows is a nuanced and enchanting tour of Japanese culture (not dissimilar to Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation), as entered through its garish, brightly lit back door.
Guided, and at times judged, by an ineffably strange boy named Takashi, the Careys meet manga artists and anime directors, the meticulous impersonators called "visualists" and solitary, nerdish otaku. Throughout, the Booker Prize-winning novelist makes observations that are intriguing even when — as his hosts keep politely reminding him — they turn out to be wrong.
The trip doesn't bring Carey (or indeed the reader) much enlightenment about the country (in fact, the book only serves as a reminder of the generational gaps and East/West divide), but that's most of the fun, for even in a global age, it shows we can still find meaning in impenetrable and bewildering things when they are presented to us in an engaging way.
Headhunters on My Doorstep – J. Maarten Troost (2013)
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm a bit of a J. Maarten Troost groupie. He is the David Sedaris of travel writing and I want to have his babies. So you can imagine my delight when he came out with a new novel — a memoir no less — last year. And it didn't disappoint.
Part recount of "the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel" of his alcohol addiction and part adventure story, Troost, upon completing a stint in rehab, decides to retrace the beaten path traveled by the author of Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) through the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Gilberts and Samoa. Bringing his signature wit and penchant for misadventure, Troost confronts his newfound sobriety in the only way he knows how: getting lost in the real world.
The Prince of Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards Of Iraq – Rory Stewart (2006)
In August 2003, at the age of 30, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next 11 months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war.
The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart's year. As a participant, he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. Darting between funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, this book amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.
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By Stefanie Acworth /
Call her a nomad, but travel keeps Stefanie Acworth sane. After living and working in London and New York (and everywhere in between), she still calls Australia home (or so the QANTAS commercial says). When she's not gallivanting around the globe and penning her adventures, you can find her making dreamcatchers in Byron Bay, copywriting for some top Australian brands or hosting the next pub trivia night at her local. Follow her travels on her blog, AModernWayfarer.com.
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Арт Лафлёр (; 9 сентября 1943 — 17 ноября 2021) — американский актёр. Наиболее известен по ролям в фильмах «Поле его мечты», «Площадка».

Биография
Родился в Гэри, штат Индиана. В начале 1960-х годов играл в американский футбол в Университете Кентукки. До того как Лафлёр переехал в Голливуд, он работал продавцом.

Карьера
Первой ролью Лафлёра стала роль в телевизионном фильме «Спасение с острова Гиллигана». Затем он снялся в эпизоде сериала «Ангелы Чарли». Лафлёр снялся в большом количестве сериалов и телевизионных фильмов, среди которых «Доктор Хаус», «Скорая помощь», «Блюз Хилл-стрит», «Команда "А"», «Невероятный Халк», «Малкольм в центре внимания».

Наиболее известной ролью актёра является роль Бэйба Рута в фильме «Площадка». В фильме Рут в исполнении актера появляется во сне главного персонажа Бенни и советует ему вернуть потерянный бейсбольный мяч. Сайт Screen Rant назвал игру Лафлёра вдохновляющей и сильной. Сам актер сказал, что его узнают благодаря этому фильму чаще, чем благодаря какому-либо другому.

Будучи спортивным фанатом, Лафлёр также сыграл в другом классическом фильме о бейсболе «Поле его мечты», где исполнил роль Чика Гэндила, сыграл тренера в фильме «Мистер бейсбол» и появился в комедии об американском футболе «Дублеры».

Лафлёр также сыграл роли второго плана в фильмах «Капля», «Кобра», «Мэверик». В фильмах «Санта-Клаус 2» и «Санта-Клаус 3» исполнил роль Зубной феи.

Часто играл полицейских и тренеров.

Примечания

Киноактёры США
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Ready for the jazz? These electric orange and purple detailing loafers is giving us all the teenage goals. It features pointed ballerina design and belt buckle strap detailing on the top which gives it a sanity to dress right for an eventful evening.


Within the past two weeks we have had a new rainbird system installed. The system has 12 zones, every time the system gets to Zone 7 it shuts down the water in our home and the valve trinkles out water. We can turn the system completely off and the water in the house returns back on. I have had the company that installed come back out several times and they recommended drilling a new well, we also installed a new pump and pressure switch to the existing system. Thousands of dollars later the new well is installed and the system still does the same thing when it hits Zone 7. I called rainbow and they were no help to us. ANY IDEAS??? Our brand new sod is slowly burning away.
Do you know for sure that your well has the capacity to support a 12 zone irrigation system? This should have been determined BEFORE the irrigation system was installed. You may be drawing water faster then it can be replenished in the well. Your well driller should have been able to provide you with that info. At this point, I would first determine if it is , indeed, a well/pump problem or is it something mechanical within the sprinkler system. Either way, this does not sound good.
What happens if you turn on valve number 7 first?


Premier League outfits Everton have submitted a £66 million bid for wantaway Chelsea striker Diego Costa who has finally complete a switch to his former club Atletico Madrid this week, according to the British sources.
The Spanish international centre-forward will make a return to his former club following after a bust-up with Antonio Conte.
And now it has been revealed that Everton have tried to secure the services of 28-year-old forward.
After failing in their attempts to sign Arsenal centre-forward Olivier Giroud, the Toffees were looking to sign a proven goalscorer to replace Romelu Lukaku, and Diego Costa thought to be on Roland Koeman\s wishlist.
Everton had a busy summer transfer window bringing in the likes of Swansea City midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson. Sunderland goalie Jordan Pickford, Man Utd's Wayne Rooney, Burnley's Michael Keane and Davy Klaassen after they failed to sign a world-class centre-forward Diego Costa.
The Merseyside Blues may have brought in Sandro Ramirez from Malaga. However, Spaniard is struggling to adapt to the Premier League.
Diego Costa has finally sealed his dream move to Atletico Madrid, however, he will be unable to play for them until January due to Spanish club's transfer ban.


Control says: I want things to turn out exactly like this… I'll decide how things should go.
Power says: I'll show up as best I can. Whatever happens, I have the power to be okay, from within.
When we're in a state of wanting to control things (or people, or situations), we lose our power.
We put our power in the external world, and we lose the ability to make conscious choices because we're so focused on controlling an outcome that so often, we can't control at all.
When we remember that we always have the power to choose how we act (and not react) in a situation, we call our power back.
When we realise we have the power to uplift our thoughts, to not buy into our inner critic's chatter, to align our energy, and to stay directed towards our bigger picture, we give power to our most powerful self.
When we stay in our power, we can make the changes (and say the words, and do the things), that'll make all the differences.
When we shift out of our power and go back to trying to control, we often feel further away from what we're trying to create, or receive.
So next time, or rather, every time, come back to being in your power, versus being in control.
Work (and be, and play) within your power.
Control is an illusion; your power is what matters.


Fiat concentrated on more popular cars after ending the production of its 527 model, but shortly thereafter, returned to the luxury field with the 2800. "Luxury" is certainly exaggerated somehow, the 2800 being smaller in size and equipped with a lesser engine than most of its European and American rivals at the time. The last real attempt from the Italian company in the upper range of the market was then, and still is to this very day, the "Superfiat" of the early Twenties. Fitted with the only V12 of its time, the Superfiat simply didn't sell and was quickly cancelled – this probably explains Fiat's cautiousness since then.
The 2800 was, as its name implies, a 2.8-litre car, though 2.9-litre would be actually even closer. This overhead valve straight six was rated at a modest 85 bhp, bringing the heavy car at 130 kph – more than the average car of the late Thirties, but in no way impressive. Styling was up to date, taking cues from American cars of the time (pointed grille, headlights fairings) rather than from the aerodynamic bodies of the smaller Fiats.
Launched in 1938, the Fiat 2800 sold well to the elite of its native Italy, all the way to the very top as both King Vittorio Emanuele III and Pope Pius XII sat in these large automobiles, quickly imitated by a crowd of government officials and wealthy industrialists. Production continued during most of the war, supplemented by a special short-wheelbase variant aimed at the military establishment rather than the civilian one. Production stopped at the fall of Mussolini's fascist regime in September 1943, though some sources indicate that a few more 2800s could have been built until the following year. In any case, production was very limited: around 400 civilian cars and 200 military ones.
The Fiat 2800 is neither the most impressive nor the most memorable limousine of the era, but it still makes a nice model after being reproduced by Ixo, which chose the Italian monarch's official convertible limousine as its base. My rating is 13/20.
I love 'em vintages and specially those convertibles, wish I could collect them all, but my pocket says stick to rally cars! wack!! hehe!
Thanks a lot JD! As of myself I just collected anything until last year, when my wallet entered in open rebellion. That's one of the reasons I put up this blog: to keep active in scale model collecting while not buying anything anymore.
This is true that it's another way to share our passion, and I enjoy this quite a lot since I've started.


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Sondheim Interviews: Tommy Bobo
This is the seventh in a series of interviews with each of the Sondheim Award Semifinalists. Finalists will be announced in mid-April, and will be on exhibit at the Walters Art Museum June 21 to August 17; those not selcected as finalists with be exhibited at the Decker, Meyerhoff and Pinkard Galleries at MICA July 17 to August 3, 2014.
Name: Tommy Bobo
Website: iamtommybobo.com
Current Location: Bolton Hill, Baltimore
Hometown: North Augusta, SC
School: MICA and University of Kansas
Current favorite artists or artwork: Liz Magic Laser's Absolute Event and Rutherford Chang's 100 White Albums
What is your day job? How do you manage balancing work with studio time with your life?Currently, I am a full time student with two on campus jobs. I am big believer in taking at a minimum one day off a week. Keeps my head clear and my wife happy. Also I make an effort to stay on a 9-5 schedule. Sometimes it is just better to leave something to be done the next morning. It keeps my momentum up.
How would you describe your work, and your studio practice? My work is an examination of the different qualities of projected light in between the bulb and the screen. I use lots of projectors, lenses, and diffusion materials. My studio practice is based on experimentation and trial-and-error. I burn through a lot of ideas pretty quickly.
What part of artmaking to you like or enjoy the most? The least? I love that first burst of an idea and those midway through epiphanies . It's like falling in love. When you just can't wait to get to the studio everyday. I loathe editing documentation of the work. It feels like a postmortem. Also I have to spend a lot of time in the dark, which during winter gets quite hard.
What research do you do for your art practice? Right now I am reading specs on different types of plexiglass. I really like new materials, but it requires a lot of reading and experimentation. Amazon reviews are my lifeline to a certain degree. I also read a lot: art history, theory, film history, and novels. When I am working with film as a source material I end up watching a lot of movies looking for particular little details.
What books have you read lately you would recommend? Movies? Television? Music? Book= Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem – It's about the lengths we will go to in order to save endangered species. It is a beautiful and heartbreaking book. BBC Made for TV Movies based on true stories= Holy Flying Circus- Which is about the release of Life of Brian in the UK. The Challenger- which is about Richard Feynman's investigation into the Challenger explosion. Music= Lambchop's 'Mr. M' and the remix version 'Mr. N' Television= Community, Broad City, and Bob's Burgers
Looking at your work (especially the balloon pieces, and the Sound of Music supercut) how important is a sense of humor in your work? How do you see it working with the main themes in your work, especially considering how some of your recommendations approach this? (especially Bob's Burgers. SO GOOD.) I have to admit that contemporary art is pretty absurd. The fact that I like to express my innermost thoughts with slide projectors and balloons is funny in of itself. That balloons in question also look like 3 foot long phalli which just makes the point clearer. With all that said I don't I set out to make humorous work. When I have tried to make funny work, it has usually been painfully unsuccessful. The humor that is in the work is more a reflection of my personality and playfulness in my studio practice.
About eight years ago there was a William Wegman show at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. It was of mostly non-dog art, self portraiture, paintings and video mostly. It was a revelation for me to see such earnest work that was funny. Here I was a goofy kid right out of undergrad trying to make overly serious work about all the darkest parts of my life. I went to see that show 10-15 times. It took a while, but eventually I felt freed from having to be so serious all the time.
Do you ever get in creative dry spells, and if so, how do you get out of them? Dry spells are inevitable. I try not to let it get me down. Usually I try to bring something new into the studio, a book or material. Often I find myself rereading a book I've read a dozen times before, and find something new in it that triggers something. It is just about being open and letting connections happen.
How do you challenge yourself in your work? By bringing in new materials and technologies. If I am learning I am working. Also by not being 100% satisfied.
What is your dream project? Big dream: To reinstate the artist-in-residency program at NASA. They have all the best toys. I am not sure what I would make but It would likely involve radio telescopes and weightlessness. Medium dream: To do an installation piece at the Uptown Movie Theater in DC. It's where 2001:A Space Odyssey premiered and played for a complete year. Every movie is made better by being seen there.
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RLS-CMC, Inc. acted as Construction Manager for the IDAS/ODAS installation at the Downtown Summerlin shopping mall, which hosts over 125 shops throughout the 1.8 million square feet of property. RLS-CMC, Inc. provided pre-construction, installation, engineering, and management services to provide coverage to this Howard Hughes property.
The expansive property required more than 25,000 feet of fiber optic cable and 7,500 feet of conduit to facilitate the pathways to the central equipment room via 5 fiber aggregation points. With a combination of indoor and outdoor antennas, the property is covered with 45 strategically placed antennas and fed from 44 remote units.


It was adopted in 1952 as the official song of the Army and retitled, "The Army Goes Rolling Along." The current lyrics tell the story of our past, our present, and our future.
The "Army Goes Rolling Along" is played at the conclusion of every U.S. Army ceremony and all soldiers are expected to stand and sing.
Refrain: Then it's Hi! Hi! Hey!


Elizabeth "Betty" Elaine Anderson of Greeley died April 14, 2017, at the in-patient unit of Tru Hospice of Northern Colorado. She was born on May 11, 1927, in Ryder, N.D., to Rudolph and Anna (Hauge) Vangsness.
She grew up in North Dakota and later moved to Colorado in the 1950s. She married Clarence Anderson and together they had seven children. She was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking, baking, crocheting and taking care of her home. She was famous for her "buns," and her family would often fight for the last roll.
Betty is survived by daughters, Jerilyn Everitt of Fort Collins, Joyann Swanson of Greeley and Kim (Alan) Cross of Tucson, Ariz.; sons, Kensley Anderson of Ault, Kevin Lee (Linda) Anderson of Eaton and Robert Anderson of Ault; brother, Darwin (Alice) Vangsness of Ryder, N.D.; sisters, Sharon Erickson of Minot, N.D., and Laurie (Gerald) Schmidt of Solen, N.D.; also survived by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Jean Lammers and Audrey Lafferty; son, Dean Anderson; and son-in-law, Albert Swanson.
The family would like to send a special thank you to the nursing staff and CNAs on the fourth floor of North Colorado Medical Center as well as the nursing staff, CNAs and chaplain at Tru Hospice of Northern Colorado for their compassion and excellent care they provided.
Friends may visit from 1-3 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at Moser Funeral & Cremation, 3501 11th Ave., Evans.
Graveside services, 10 a.m. Thursday, April 20, 2017, at Evans Cemetery, U.S. 34 and 11th Avenue, Evans.
Memorial contributions may be made to Tru Hospice of Northern Colorado, 2726 11th St. Road, Greeley, Colo., 80634 or The Alzheimer's Association at alz.org.
Adam Benjamin Richardson, 18, of Milliken passed away April 15, 2017, as the result of a motorcycle accident. He was born April 29, 1998, in Johnson City, N.Y., to Daniel Richardson and Amanda Mae Johnson.
In 2003, Adam, along with his mom and brother, moved to Fort Collins with his dad, Scott Nix, and then to the Johnstown/Milliken area, where they owned and operated Rubbin' Buttz BBQ for several years.
Adam was attending Roosevelt High School and would have graduated in May. He loved BMX, motocross, singing, snowboarding, country music, playing Call of Duty online, camping, shooting, cooking, had a great sense of humor, was the best hugger and was often referred to as a gentle giant. He had a great love for his grandparents in addition to the rest of his family. He wrestled with the Rough Rider metro program and Milliken Mustangs. He most enjoyed time on two wheels with the wind blowing in his face.
Survivors include his parents, Amanda (Scott) Nix of Milliken; brothers, Cody Richardson, Dallas Nix, Randy Nix, Jr., and Raymond Windedahl, all of Milliken; grandparents, David (Sharon) Johnson of Binghamton, N.Y., Raymond (Deborah) Nix of Fort Collins and David Richardson of Newark Valley, N.Y.; father, Daniel Richardson of Nicholson, Pa.; as well as numerous cousins, aunts and uncles.
He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Marie Richardson.
A viewing will be held from 10-11 a.m. with service to follow at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the Milliken Middle School, 266 Irene, Milliken. A reception will follow the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to Adam's "GoFundMe" at http://www.gofundme.com/tnzzz-adams-funeral-expenses.
Lisa Marie Welch, 33, of Greeley passed away April 12, 2017, at North Colorado Medical Center. Lisa was born to Robert Dale Welch and Susan Ruth Plaster on July 16, 1983, in Stockton, Calif.
Lisa and her family moved to Greeley from California in 1989, where she graduated from Greeley West High School in May 2000. She was a retail sales associate for nine years.
Lisa was a believer in Jesus Christ, and a follower of him.
She loved basketball, music, riding her bike, drawing and writing, and she loved to give to others. She loved her "Mama Kitty," who she had for eight years. Lisa was always smiling and loved teaching basketball to her nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her mother, Susan Ruth Mathely; brothers, Dale Plaster, Robby-Dale Welch Jr. and Gilbert Welch; sisters, Sara Warner and Samantha Welch; and two nieces and three nephews.
She is preceded in death by her father, Robert Dale Welch.
Memorial Contributions may be made to the Community Outreach Center of Greeley in care of Allnutt Funeral Service. 702 13th St., Greeley, Colo. 80631. Friends may view the online obituary and send condolences at http://www.allnutt.com.
Lane George Williams, 58, of Greeley passed away March 20, 2017. He was born Nov. 1, 1958, and raised in the New Raymer community.
Lane was employed at the city of Greeley for 38 years. He was a gunsmith, blacksmith and had many other interests.
Please join his family and friends in a celebration of life, 3 p.m. Friday, April 21, 2017, at the 4-H building, Island Grove Regional Park, 501 14th Ave., Greeley, Colo.
Memorial contributions may be made to the city of Greeley Museum or the Wounded Warrior Project in care of Stoddard Funeral Home, 3205 W. 28th St., Greeley, Colorado 80634.
Rhonda Wiseman, 57, passed April 1, 2017, in hospice surrounded by close family and joined her parents that day. She was the daughter of Don and Sharon (Kunz) Wiseman. She was born in Goodland, Kan., and grew up in LaSalle, later moving to Greeley. Rhonda went to school in LaSalle and graduated from Valley High School in Gilcrest in 1978. Through the years, she was involved with 4-H as a young child and was active in FHA in high school and many other things. She was always the social butterfly. She received a degree in early childhood education, which she loved, and a secretarial degree. She worked for years and retired from the customer service industry. She then became a makeup beauty consultant. Playing with and being around kids was her passion. As she became an aunt, she loved babysitting Brandon. What she hated was when he was about 12 he towered over her. But she always had a smile on her face. As she gracefully aged, she had some health issues with diabetes, which she got at a young age. But nothing stopped the "social butterfly" from traveling and meeting friends. She started collected dolls at a young age. When she moved into Birchwood Apartments, she became more than the social butterfly. She got into crafts of all sorts — needle work, cross-stitching, coloring, playing cards with the girls and having coffee with everyone. It was as much the camaraderie as the sharing her abilities and learning new skills that she loved. She is survived by her brother, Randy Wiseman; daughter, Rebecca "Becky" (Wiseman) Schneider-Seiler Todd Seiler; Renee (Wiseman) Schreiner, Kirk, John, Brandon Valenciano, Mandi, Avery, Audri, Allie; many aunts, nieces, nephews and friends. Celebration of life will be from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 2017, at Birchwood Apt. 2830 27th St. Ln., Greeley.


Aleksander Schjerpen got his 2016 season off to the best possible start at the 24 Hours of Dubai, winning the SP3 class with Century Motorsport teammates Anna Walewska, Tom Oliphant and Nathan Freke. With his confidence at an all time high, Schjerpen has signed for his third season with Century Motorsport to contest the British GT4 Championship, firmly intent on being a title contender from the start of the season.
Over the past two seasons, Aleksander has been a regular towards the front of the British GT4 field, but bad luck has never been far away from the Norwegian. Acting as the lead driver this year due to his Silver categorisation, Schjerpen is hoping to utilise his considerable experience in the series to mount a serious assault on taking the overall championship spoils.
Joining Aleksander will be British GT newcomer Sean Byrne. Having spent the past six seasons racing various specifications of Caterham sportscars to good effect, Byrne has decided to move to endurance racing for a fresh new challenge. A regular at the sharp end of the highly competitive Caterham R300 Superlight field and narrowly missing out on finishing inside the top three in the championship in 2015, Byrne has already impressed both Aleksander and the Century Motorsport team with his initial pace at a recent Portimao test.


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Second jobs: Need another income?
Need more cash? Here's the best way to manage two jobs in London.
When British athlete Roger Skedd has revealed that he moonlighted as a naked butler in 2011, there were gasps all round. An athlete? With a second job? But why?
His predicament will have resonated with almost 100,000 people in the UK who have also sought a second income. Whether for the money, or just the love of it, here are some things to consider when taking on a second job.
If you plan on working two jobs at the same time, you need to have an end goal in mind to see you through the tough times when you're shattered and want to go home and put your feet up.
Laura Iorfino, 33, had a career as an executive assistant at Barclays. However, she needed to earn extra pennies to travel around Europe.
So, most nights of the week, Laura would head to the Shepherd's Bush Walkabout where she worked as a bartender. "I would literally schedule myself just enough time between jobs to get changed and run to the next job," she says, who has since returned to her native Australia.
"Once you're on the go, it's easy. It's when you slow down that everything catches up with you.
The hard work paid off. Laura saved enough to pay off a car loan, travel around Europe for two months and to fly back to Australia a few times.
For many of us, our day job takes up enough of our waking hours, but if a second income has become a necessity – whether to maintain a standard of living or to achieve a particular goal - check your employment contract first as many firms have clauses that set out rules for extra work.
For example, it may outline the hours and locations you have to be available to work, which could limit your ability to take on other roles. There is also an implied duty of 'mutual trust and confidence' which could scupper your attempts.
Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel, says: "You can't take up a second job that might bring your employer into disrepute, or put you in a position where you would be breaching confidentiality of company information," he explains.
"Working for a competitor, for example, might do that. So if there's any ambiguity you should check with your employers." Once you've cleared any potential conflicts, make sure you are up to the physical challenge.
"There is no question working two jobs will take a toll on you, so monitor your work-life balance, because if you overstretch, then you're not useful to anyone," Willmott says.
It's also wise to set goals. When you meet them, the grind will feel more worthwhile. And your motivation doesn't need to be cash-related. Often second-jobbers want to learn new skills to broaden their horizons.
Keep in mind that after the taxman has had his share of your extra cash, you might go home with less money than you'd hoped.
Pay as you earn (PAYE) is designed around you holding down one job, so your tax-free allowance (£7,475 a year) won't apply to your second job. See visit hmrc.gov.uk.
Medical transcriber: Transcribe doctors' audio recordings into readable reports.
Social care work: Help out some vulnerable people on weekends.
Virtual assistant: Do research for a project or organise someone's diary from the comfort of home.
Retail: With Christmas almost upon us, shops are advertising now for seasonsal staff.


ABILITY-TO-PAY PRINCIPLE: A principle of taxation in which taxes are based on the income or resource-ownership ability of people to pay the tax. The income tax collected by our friends at the Internal Revenue Service is one of the most common taxes that seeks to abide by the ability-to-pay principle. In theory, the income tax system is set up such that people with greater incomes pay more taxes. Proportional and progressive taxes follow this ability-to-pay principle, while regressive taxes, such as sales taxes and Social Security taxes, don't.
The total expenditures on gross domestic product undertaken in a given time period by the four sectors--household, business, government, and foreign. Expenditures made by each of these sectors are commonly termed consumption expenditures, investment expenditures, government purchases, and net exports. Aggregate expenditures (AE) are a cornerstone in the study of macroeconomics, playing critical roles in Keynesian economics, aggregate market analysis, and to a lesser degree, monetarism. In particular, aggregate expenditures are combined with the price level as aggregate demand.
Aggregate expenditures are related to, but different from, aggregate demand. The difference between aggregate expenditures and aggregate demand is much like the difference between quantity demanded and market demand. Like quantity demanded, aggregate expenditures are expenditures at a given price level. And like market demand, aggregate demand is the whole range of expenditures at a range of price levels.
The notation used here is relatively straight forward. AE is aggregate expenditures; C is consumption expenditures by the household sector; I is investment expenditures on capital goods by the business sector; G is government purchases; and (X - M) is net exports, with X being exports and M being imports.
Aggregate expenditures play a prominent role in macroeconomic analyses and theories. They achieve this status because they are critical to the performance and stability of the macroeconomy. In particular, most business-cycle instability is directly attributable to changes in aggregate expenditures. Business-cycle contractions are invariably the result of decreases in the four expenditures. And business-cycle expansions can be largely traced to increases in the four expenditures.
Because aggregate expenditures are an important source of macroeconomic instability, they are also seen as a prime target for government stabilization policies designed to correct instability problems. Fiscal and monetary policy, the two most widely use stabilization policies, both act on macroeconomic instability through aggregate expenditures. Fiscal policy works on aggregate expenditures directly through changes in government purchases and indirectly through tax-induced changes in consumption expenditures and investment expenditures. Monetary policy affects aggregate expenditures directly by providing the four sectors with spendable money and indirectly through interest-rate-induced changes in consumption expenditures and investment expenditures.
The four categories of aggregate expenditures, corresponding with the four basic macroeconomic sectors are: consumption expenditures (household sector), investment expenditures (business sector), government purchases (government sector), and net exports (foreign sector).
Consumption Expenditures: Consumption expenditures are the expenditures by the household sector on final goods and services undertaken in a given time period. Consumption expenditures are a rather large part of aggregate expenditures, about two-thirds, that are used by households to purchase commodities such as food, clothing, and kitchen appliances.
The three specific categories of consumption expenditures--nondurable goods, durable goods, and services. Nondurable goods include food, clothing, and facial tissue--and other things that seldom have a useful life of more than a year. Durable goods can be found among cars, furniture, and kitchen appliances. These are goods that should be around for more than a year. Services include health care, entertainment, education, legal advice, and other intangible activities that do not involve a physical product.
Each of these three categories of consumption expenditures plays a different role in the macroeconomy. For example, households tend to cut back expenditures for durable goods more than nondurable goods when the economy is heading into a business-cycle contraction. Additionally, expenditures on services tend to rise with the economy's long run march toward prosperity.
Investment Expenditures: The business sector is responsible for investment expenditures for capital goods like factories and equipment. Investment expenditures tend to be volatile, but are usually in the range of 10 to 15 percent of aggregate expenditures.
Investment expenditures are commonly divided into three categories--structures, equipment, and change in inventories. Structures are assorted buildings, including factories, office buildings, shopping malls, apartment complexes, and even residential houses. Equipment is the vast array of machinery and tools used for production, including delivery vehicles, computers, air compressors, forklifts, electric drills, pencil sharpeners, and a whole bunch of other tools that enter into every facet of production by a myriad of different businesses. Changes in inventories include increases or decreases in raw materials, intermediate goods, semi-processed products, and finished, but unsold goods, all of which are designed to smooth the flow of inputs and outputs to match production with sales orders.
The decision to undertake investment expenditures can be a tricky business endeavor. The slightest change in the economy can trigger a big boost in investment or an equally large drop. This makes investment the most volatile of the four expenditures. It also makes investment expenditures a prime cause of business-cycle instability.
Government Purchases: The government sector, like the household and business sectors, buys a portion of the final goods and services produced by the economy. The purchases by the government sector of this production is aptly termed government purchases. Government purchases also fall in the range of 10 to 15 percent of total expenditures.
While a great deal of theoretical and policy-maker attention is understandably focused on the federal level in the study of macroeconomics, all three levels of government are important--federal, state, and local. Federal government purchases are only about one-third of the total. State and local governments account for the remaining two-thirds. Government purchases do not include ALL government spending, only those expenditures used to purchase final goods and services, that is, gross domestic product. Government spending on transfer payments, like Social Security and welfare, are not included as government purchases.
Net Exports: The foreign sector, which includes everyone who is not a citizen of the domestic economy, also purchases domestic production. Net exports are considered the expenditures by the foreign sector on gross domestic product. Net exports, which are usually under 5 percent of total expenditures, are comprised of two parts--exports and imports. Exports are the purchase of domestic production by the foreign sector. Imports are the purchase of foreign production by the three domestic sectors (household, business, and government). Net exports are then exports minus imports.
While it might seem as though exports is the correct measure to include as part of aggregate demand, net exports are used because the three expenditures on aggregate demand--consumption expenditures, investment expenditures, and government purchases--include a significant amount of imported goods produced by foreign economies. By subtracting imports from exports, and calculating net exports, it is possible, in one fell swoop, to eliminate this foreign production from aggregate expenditures, and end up only with aggregate expenditures on domestic production.
AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES, AmosWEB Encyclonomic WEB*pedia, http://www.AmosWEB.com, AmosWEB LLC, 2000-2019. [Accessed: April 26, 2019].


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Newest On Biden Classified Documents – New Update From Secret Service
Gwen Stokes January 19, 2023 News No Comments
2023-01-19 – Newest in on Biden classified documents – the U.S. Secret Service is prepared to offer the names of people who visited Biden's Delaware home with one caveat. That being they will provide the names – if they are requested by Congress. This comes after the White House insisted there were no visitor logs. So how would Secret Serviced be able to provide visitor logs that do not exist? One thing after another, lie after lie, this whole situation is getting further out of hand.
According to Fox News:
While the White House has not kept a formal list, the Secret Service does collect information on guests with regular access to the home.
Retention of the names of those vetted by the Secret Service depends on a variety of factors, including proximity to the president and the nature of the background check.
"The Secret Service does not maintain visitor logs at the private residences of protectees," said U.S. Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi. "While the Secret Service does generate law enforcement and criminal justice information records for various individuals who may come into contact with Secret Service protected sites, we are not able to comment further as this speaks to the means and methods of our protective operations."
Biden's Reaction: Biden recently addressed this matter a couple times, as things came out. While at the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City, according to Fox News, he stated "let me get rid of the easy one first … People know I take classified documents and classified information seriously. They [his personal attorneys] did what they should have done. They immediately called the [National Archives] … turned them over to the Archives, and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office … but I don't know what's in the documents. My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were." Though regarding the documents that had been found at his home, Biden told Fox's Peter Doocy that his "Corvette's in a locked garage so it's not like it's sitting on the street." Watch that clip below.
DOOCY: "Classified materials next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?!"
BIDEN: "My Corvette's in a locked garage so it's not like it's sitting on the street."
DOOCY: "So the material was in a locked garage?"
BIDEN: "Yes as well as my Corvette." pic.twitter.com/3bbCPNembL
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) January 12, 2023
What were these Documents? The documents, which were from Biden's time as Vice President, were discovered on November 2nd and now January 10th at the Penn Biden Center in an office Biden occupied during his time, between 2017-2019, as the Universities Benjamin Franklin Presidential Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. The documents have been reported by CNN to be "Obama-Biden administration records," with some of them being marked as top-secret with sensitive compartmented information. Then on Thursday January 12th, news broke more documents, of an unknown subject, were found at Biden's Delaware home.
In addition: According to Fox, at least 10 senior Biden administration officials were hired to their positions, either current or former, after they had worked at the Penn Biden Center. And a few higher-up officials had ties to the center. "Spencer Boyer, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO policy, was a senior fellow; Jeffrey Prescott, the deputy to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was a strategic consultant; Ariana Berengaut, a senior adviser to the national security adviser, was a director; Michael Carpenter, the U.S. representative to the organization for security and cooperation in Europe, was a managing director; Juan Gonzalez, a special assistant to the president, was a senior fellow; and Carlyn Reichel, a special assistant to Biden and senior director for speech writing and strategic initiatives, was the director of communications at the Penn Biden Center. Brian McKeon was a senior director at the think tank and was the deputy secretary of state for management and resources until last month."
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How could I haven't gotten that one?
I like posting my paint pictures whenever and making fun of stupidity.
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Provencia est une société franchisée indépendante du groupe Carrefour, implantée en région Rhône-Alpes. Son siège social est à Annecy en Haute-Savoie.

Histoire
La création de Provencia remonte à 1955 avec l'inauguration du premier supermarché libre-service à  à Annecy, le 27 juillet, à cette enseigne créée par Fernand GHIGOU, à l'angle des rues Vaugelas et Président Favre. Fernand GHIGOU inaugure un second Provencia en 1960, à l'angle des rues des Glières et Saint-François de Sales près de la nouvelle poste. En 1962, sont dessinés les plans d'une troisième unité dans le quartier de Novel. Malheureusement, Fernand GHIGOU atteint de graves problèmes de santé se voit contraint de vendre la société Provencia à Gustave Rosnoblet en 1963. Gustave Rosnoblet et son fils Roger vont contribuer à développer le groupe à partir de cette troisième surface inaugurée en 1965.

Dans les années 1970, l'entreprise fonde sa différence sur des partenariats avec des producteurs régionaux et adopte sa communication sur le slogan « Être du pays fait notre différence ». Le groupe ouvre huit supermarchés et ses deux premiers hypermarchés (Cluses et Margencel), et en 1975, il s'adosse avec ses dix magasins à la centrale de distribution du Groupe Promodès.

Après une décennie de consolidation, le groupe va connaître une nouvelle expansion dans les années 1990, avec de nouveaux magasins et des agrandissements (Tullins, Groisy, Belley, Crémieu et Ferney-Voltaire). Après celui de Voiron, les hypers de Cluses et Margencel passent sous l'enseigne Continent. En 1995, le groupe acquiert cinq autres magasins dans le Pays de Gex.

À partir de 1999, il engage un programme de rénovation et à la suite de la fusion Carrefour-Promodès, tous les magasins passent à l'enseigne « Champion » ou « Carrefour ».

Le groupe ouvre deux nouveaux supermarchés en 2002, et en achète un à Ugine en 2004. En 2006, Provencia possède trois magasins (Rumilly (Haute-Savoie) - Annecy Novel (Haute-Savoie) - Morestel (Isère)) sous l'enseigne Ed.

En avril 2006, le groupe lance un cybermarché, Provencia shop, avec un service de livraison à domicile sur trente communes de la région d'Annecy.

L'année suivante, il ouvre un Champion à Cruseilles et un autre magasin à La Rochette, et agrandit le Champion de Douvaine. Un nouveau magasin Ed et acquis à Bonneville, premier de cette enseigne à être équipé d'une station pour le carburant. L'ouverture en  d'un magasin Ed à Aime marque le quarantième magasin du groupe.

L'agrandissement et le réaménagement de ses magasins se poursuivent en 2008 : Agrandissement du magasin Carrefour de Cluses (Haute-Savoie) et du magasin Carrefour de Voiron (Isère), remodeling du magasin Champion de Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie) et du magasin Champion de Gex (Ain), cession du magasin Champion d'Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) au groupe Carrefour. Déménagement du Provencia shop de Douvaine (Haute-Savoie) à Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie). Le cybermarché Provencia-shop.com livre maintenant les produits surgelés (flux froid négatif) complétant la gamme.

À partir de , les supermarchés Champion passent à l'enseigne Carrefour Market (Douvaine (Haute-Savoie), Tullins (38) et Saint-Jeoire-Prieuré (Savoie), tandis que l'Hyper Champion de Ferney-Voltaire (Ain) devient Carrefour en . Désormais l'ensemble des magasins du groupe sont à l'enseigne Carrefour ou Carrefour Market.

En mars 2010, Provencia ouvre un point retrait "Drive" de marchandise sur une aire d'autoroute (l'aire des ponts de la caille sur A41 Nord) en collaboration avec la société Adelac concessionnaire du tronçon autoroutier.

En 2011, Provencia achète le magasin Carrefour Market d'Amancy (Haute-Savoie) et ouvre un nouveau magasin à Chamonix, premier magasin d'altitude du Groupe et  du groupe.

En 2012, Provencia ouvre un Drive accolé au magasin de Voiron, c'est le premier Drive Carrefour du Groupe. Fin 2012, le groupe emploie près de 3000 salariés et travaille avec 240 producteurs locaux et régionaux.

En 2013, transfert du magasin Carrefour Market de Divonne-les-Bains (Ain).

En 2014, Le groupe arrête en février le service "Provencia Shop".

En juin 2015, ouverture d'un troisième Drive au Carrefour Market de La Rochette (Savoie), c'est le premier au format Carrefour Market.
Achat d'un  magasin en octobre, le Carrefour Market de Samoëns en Haute-Savoie.

En 2016, achat d'un  magasin en avril, le Carrefour Market des Rousses (Jura), c'est le premier magasin dans le Jura, achat d'un  magasin en novembre, le Carrefour Market de Bons-en-Chablais (Haute-Savoie). Le Groupe a entamé un vaste programme de remodeling intérieur et extérieur de ces magasins Carrefour Market : Groisy (Haute-Savoie), Albertville (Savoie), Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour (Isère), Annecy-le-Vieux (Haute-Savoie).

En 2017, le magasin de Belley dans l'Ain devient un hyper à l'enseigne Carrefour, il possède maintenant un Drive. Achat du  magasin en mai, le Carrefour de Bellegarde-sur-Valserine dans l'Ain. Construction du  magasin du Groupe, ouverture du Carrefour Market d'Évian-les-Bains en Haute-Savoie.

En 2018, création du  magasin du Groupe, ouverture du Carrefour Market de Crolles en Isère (département).

En 2019, création de deux sites de commerce en ligne https://provencia.shop et : le premier propose le retrait en magasin dans l'ensemble des magasins du groupe ou de la livraison à domicile pour des produits volumineux. Provencia.SHOP et le deuxième est une boucherie en ligne l'Atelier de Gustave. Provencia propose un concept de panier bio dont l'origine est 100 % française et ce toute l'année.

En 2020, le magasin de Culoz est cédé au Groupe Carrefour. 40 magasins.

Chiffres
 Établissements (2020) :
 34 supermarchés Carrefour Market
 6 hypermarchés Carrefour
 5 Drives Carrefour : Belley, Crémieu, La Rochette, Margencel et Voiron
 2 sites de commerce en ligne : Provencia.SHOP et l'Atelier de Gustave :
 Effectif (ensemble du groupe) :  ;
 Actionnaires (2006) : Groupe Carrefour (50 %) ; famille Rosnoblet.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Promodès
 Groupe Carrefour
 Liste d'enseignes de la grande distribution
 Grande distribution

Liens externes
  Groupe Provencia

Notes et références

Entreprise de la distribution ayant son siège en France
Économie en Haute-Savoie
Groupe Carrefour
Entreprise ayant son siège en Haute-Savoie


Launched in India in October 2017.
Gusto RS is a limited edition scooter from the Mahindra two-wheelers. This particular model was launched to catch the attention of buyers in this segment, which is being overruled by the Honda Activa. Gusto RS is a revived form of original Gusto for those who are looking for a scooter which demands more than the day to day commuting. Moreover, it can be also called as highly advanced scooter with many utility features. The first thing you notice about RS is the new skin which consists of stripes and graphics all over the body. Apart from this cosmetic change, everything inside the RS is same as that of the original Gusto.
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Palestinians suffer as Native Americans suffered
I, like many others, have watched the horror unfold in the Middle East, and it leads me to a singular conclusion: The Palestinians are the Middle East's version of Native American Indians.
Palestinians suffer as Native Americans suffered I, like many others, have watched the horror unfold in the Middle East, and it leads me to a singular conclusion: The Palestinians are the Middle East's version of Native American Indians. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1rQapOG
IndyStar Published 3:31 p.m. ET July 30, 2014
Injured Palestinians lay on the ground following an Israeli Strike in Shijaiyah neighborhood, eastern Gaza City, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (Photo: AP )
Just as with Native Americans, Palestinians were thrown off their lands, and their homes, farms and businesses were taken from them and given to the "settlers." As happened to the Native Americans, the "settlers" took control of the lives of the Palestinians, regulating where they could live, controlling their food, water and other supplies, and even moving into their reservations as they pleased.
The only good thing that came out of the creation of Israel in 1947 is that the United Nations has not undertaken anything that foolish since. I do believe they learned from that terrible mistake, that when you partition a country, and move people in on another people's land, you have created a monster, and this monster may prove hard to reconcile.
Curtis Berndt
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National Petroleum Council Report
Meeting the Dual Challenge
A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of
Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage
Report Events
About NPC
NPC Homepage
Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage (CCUS) Report
Volume I - Report Summary
Transmittal letter to the Secretary of Energy
Executive Summary – Key Findings and Recommendations
Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment
Appendix A — Request Letter and Description of the NPC
Appendix B: Study Group Rosters
Description of Web-Only Materials – Topic Papers and Cost Curve Model
Volume II - Analysis of CCUS Deployment At-Scale
Chapter 1. The Role of CCUS in the Future Energy Mix
Lowering emissions will require energy efficiency and increased use of renewable sources of energy (renewables), and a shift to less carbon-intensive fuels. Carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is a critical component of the portfolio of solutions needed to satisfy the dual challenge.
Chapter 2. CCUS Supply Chain and Economics
The CCUS supply chain involves the capture—separation and purification—of carbon dioxide (CO2) from stationary sources so it can be transported to a suitable location where it is used to create products or injected deep underground for safe, secure, and permanent storage.
Chapter 3. Policy, Regulatory, and Legal Enablers
Existing policy and regulatory framework in the United States for CCUS, along with current challenges for CCUS development and deployment are examined. Three proposed phases of implementation are identified and the changes that will be needed to enable CCUS deployment at scale within the next 25 years.
Chapter 4. Building Stakeholder Confidence
CCUS project-specific stakeholder engagement is well established in the United States. However, building widespread commitment and support through individual CCUS projects continues to be challenging. Although CCUS engagement on its own cannot guarantee success, when it is done well, it can be a significant enabler
Appendix C: CCUS Project Summaries
Details on the case studies examined in the development of this report.
Appendix D: ERM Memo - Economic Impacts of CCUS Deployment
An economic analysis of deploying CCUS at-scale.
Volume III - Analysis of CCUS Technologies
Technology Introduction
CCUS can be delivered via a proven, safe, and well-understood suite of technologies. CCUS has been deployed on large stationary source CO2 emissions in several industries across the United States and globally,
Chapter 5. CO2 Capture
CO2 capture technologies are a key component of (CCUS), including transport. The separation of CO2 can be accomplished through the application of four main CO2 capture technologies: absorption, adsorption, membranes, and cryogenic processes
Chapter 6. CO2 Transport
Wide-scale deployment of CCUS will require expansion of the existing and new CO2 pipeline infrastructure CO2Rail, truck, ship, and barge are unlikely to be able to support the large volumes of CO2 associated with wide-scale deployment of CCUS. Rail and truck may be viable for shorter distances domestically, and tanker shipping may meet international CO2 transport needs.
Chapter 7. CO2 Geologic Storage
Safe, secure, and permanent geologic storage of CO2 requires the presence of a sufficiently permeable rock formation, typically sandstone or carbonate, which is sealed by rocks on top that have a very low permeability.
Chapter 8. CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
CO2 EOR is a mature and regulated technology. EOR benefits the environment when CO2 from industrial sources is captured, injected, and trapped underground, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions by providing large-scale CO2 storage.
Chapter 9. CO2 Use
Carbon is used to produce fuels, polymers, industrial chemicals, carbon nanotubes, and building products such as carbonates and cement. It is also used in the production of steel, electronics, and consumable goods. Some CO2-derived products, such as construction materials, could significantly expand their use of CO2.
Appendix E: Mature CO2 Capture Technologies
This appendix describes the absorption carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology known as amine scrubbing.
Appendix F: Emerging CO2 Capture Technologies
Results of a canvas of emerging capture technologies.
Appendix G: CO2 EOR Case Studies
Case studies of enhanced oil recovery.
Appendix H: CO2 EOR Economic Factors and Considerations
How does CCUS impact the economic equation of enhanced oil recovery.
Explanation of the acronyms and abbreviations of this volume
Topic Papers
1. Supply and Demand Analysis for Capture and Storage of Anthropogenic CO2 in the Central United States
Jeffrey D. Brown, Stanford University / University of Wyoming Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute; Poh Boon Ung, BP Group Technology
2. An open-technology and open-access post-combustion capture initiative for power plants in USA
Jon Gibbins, Professor, UK CCS Research Centre, University of Sheffield; William R. Elliott, Operations Manager, Infrastructure and Power, Bechtel Global Corporation
3. Driving Sustainable Future via an Electro-Molecular Economy
Bill Brown, Chief Executive Officer, NET Power/8 Rivers Capital; Damian Beauchamp, Chief of Staff and Head of Business Development, 8 Rivers Capital
4. The Layered Approach to Liability for Geologic Sequestration of CO2, a paper on pore space and liability
A. Scott Anderson, Senior Policy Director, Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund; Frederick R. Eames, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Cost Curve Model
Gaffney, Cline & Associates model used to generate the cost curves in this NPC report
A differential feature was to assess the costs to capture, transport and store CO2 from all sectors and fuel types, covering the largest facilities and a total of approximately 80% of all U.S. stationary sources. Using "reference cases" and standard economic assumptions was essential to developing the cost curve, formulating recommendations, and assessing the potential impact of those recommendations on CCUS deployment at a national level. Costs for individual projects will vary based on location factors and the economic assumptions specific to each project.
In order to provide a useful public resource and ensure transparency of the work of the NPC CCUS study, this cost assessment tool will be hosted by Gaffney, Cline & Associates, allowing stakeholders to change the cost and financial assumptions to generate their own view of costs. We expect this tool will be available in late-January 2020, so please use the following link to access the Gaffney-Cline site to sign-up to receive an update on the model's availability.
Copyright © 2019 · National Petroleum Council


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Q: Angular2 JSONP request and callback I have to request a third-party WS to get a JSON, and need to use JSONP to prevent the cross-domain error.
The problem is, i got this error in my console :

Uncaught ReferenceError: callback is not defined at 'myURL...'

The response of my request is this format :

callback({"mywellformatted": "JSON"});

My code seems good, and i don't understand this error :
import { JsonpModule, Jsonp, URLSearchParams, Response } from '@angular/http';

export class MyService {

    constructor(private _jsonp: Jsonp) { }

    search() {
    let myURL: string = "https://my.url/search?someParams....&callback=callback
    return this._jsonp
        .request(myURL)
        .map(response => {
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        })
}

Can anyone help me ?

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Bodum, Inc. is a Danish-Swiss kitchenware manufacturer headquartered in Triengen, Switzerland. Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1944 by Peter Bodum, the company was moved to Switzerland in 1978 by his son, Jørgen, who continued to run the company as chief executive.

Among the products Bodum markets are French presses, vacuum coffee brewers (the "Santos"), and double-walled beverage glasses made in China of borosilicate glass. Their products are advertised as BPA free. The company has tried to register "French Press" as a trademark in several territories, but failed in the U.S., and had the trademark expunged in Canada in December 2012. Bodum entered into a partnership agreement with American coffee company Starbucks in November 2016 to sell their French presses. In January 2019, the partnership agreement concluded.

Their kitchenware featured on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation, most notably a glass mug with black handle from of which Captain Picard drinks his signature Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

See also

 List of kitchenware brands
 History of Starbucks

References

External links

Glassmaking companies of Denmark
Glassmaking companies of Switzerland
Manufacturing companies of Switzerland
Danish design
Kitchenware brands
Danish companies established in 1944


Hvorfor er Bose QuietComfort 15 bedre end Bose QuietComfort 35 II & Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2 & Sony MDR-100ABN?
Hvorfor er Bose QuietComfort 35 II bedre end Bose QuietComfort 15 & Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2 & Sony MDR-100ABN?
Hvorfor er Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2 bedre end Bose QuietComfort 15 & Bose QuietComfort 35 II & Sony MDR-100ABN?
Hvorfor er Sony MDR-100ABN bedre end Bose QuietComfort 15 & Bose QuietComfort 35 II & Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2?


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Q: Hibernate Criteria sort 2 params Java Spring I'm stucking on Hibernate when create query to sort by 2 params in 1 table.
My table is:
Name (Integer) | Index (Integer) | ClassId (Integer) | Enable (Boolean)

I want to create SQL to sort data after get from DB by 2 fields: Enable and Index. I think it will same with:
SELECT * FROM TABLE ORDER BY Enable DESC AND Index ASC.

But seem Hibernate Criteria only support to sort 1 params. Because I already add it 2 fields to criteria but the result only sort for Index.
Please give me advice about it ;)
Regards,

A: You can order the results using org.hibernate.criterion.Order.
Check the example below.
List cats = session.createCriteria(TABLE.class)
    .addOrder( Order.desc("Enable"))
    .addOrder( Order.asc("Index"))
    .setMaxResults(50)
    .list();


When Kristin Dugger (28 and an independent consultant) first met Nikola Cuculovski (24 and a performance analyst) at a party in college, he was talking about pineapples. She was hooked from the start and the pair dated for four years before getting engaged and spent the next six months planning their Tennessee nuptials. Kristin and Nikola searched for a small venue with character and decided on the Market Street Emporium in Nashville, Tennessee. "They have two venues that were perfect, and the Market Street Emporium was the perfect location for our vision," Kristin says. The couple achieved their Asian-inspired affair with cherry blossom decor, Asian cuisine and takeout box favors. The plum bridesmaid dresses enhanced the deep purple and cherry blossom pink color palette, and the soft florals included peonies, calla lilies, cabbage roses and lilies. Lush cherry blossom branches popped against the rustic exposed brick walls, and the submerged flower and candle centerpieces added a contemporary vibe. After a night of dancing, guests left with Asian-inspired fans and goodies from a candy station complete with takeout boxes. "Since we were married on a Friday, we also decided to also have a cookout on Saturday afternoon for guests who were still in town!" Kristin says.


Jan. 6 3:00 PM PT4:00 PM MT5:00 PM CT6:00 PM ET23:00 GMT7:00 AM 北京时间4:00 PM MST6:00 PM EST5:00 PM CT3:00 UAE (+1)18:00 ET21:00 - Seattle has signed Terrell off its practice squad.
Analysis: Terrell takes the injured Jordan Hill's spot on the team's 53-man roster.
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Analysis: Terrell also has spent time on practice squads with Jacksonville and Houston.


Are software development tools affecting your choice of 8-bit vs. 32-bit processors?
I have always proposed that the market for 8-bit processors would not fade away – in fact there are still a number of market niches that rely on 4-bit processors (such as clock movements and razor blades that sport a vibrating handle for men when shaving their faces). The smaller processor architectures can support the lowest cost price points and the lowest energy consumption years before the larger 32-bit architectures can begin to offer anything close to parity with the smaller processors. In other words, I believe there are very small application niches that even 8-bit processors are currently too expensive or energy hungry to support just yet.
Many marketing reports have identified that the available software development tool chains play a significant role in whether a given processor architecture is chosen for a design. It seems that the vast majority of resources spent evolving software development tools are focused on the 32-bit architectures. Is this difference in how software development tools for 8- and 32-bit processors are evolving affecting your choice of processor architectures?
I believe the answer is not as straight forward as some processor and development tool providers would want to make it out to be. First, 32-bit processors are generally much more complex to configure than 8-bit processors, so the development environments, which often include drivers and configuration wizards, are nearly a necessity for 32-bit processors and almost a non-issue for 8-bit processors. Second, the type of software that 8-bit processors are used for are generally smaller and contend with less system-level complexity. Additionally, as embedded processors continue to find their way into smaller tasks, the complexity of the software may need to be simpler than current 8-bit software to meet the energy requirements of the smallest subsystems.
Do you feel there is a significant maturity difference between software development tools targeting 8- and 32-bit architectures? Do you think there is/will be a widening gap in the capabilities of software development tools targeting different size processors? Are software development tools affecting your choice of using an 8-bit versus a 32-bit processor or are other considerations, such as the need for additional performance headroom for future proofing, driving your decisions?


Prison Mob Tank -Number:9527 - He came to the players after killing many prison guards. Can you beat him?
He came to the players after killing many prison guards. Can you beat him?
[Tank music] Two Steps From Hell - Jump!
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