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Right now, the only thing that's certain is uncertainty. As any entrepreneur will tell you, the COVID-19 pandemic – with its lockdowns and downturns – has brought confusion and volatility to almost every aspect of doing business.
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"It is therefore important for clients to understand these risks," says Fenwick. "If I know I have an order coming in six months' time, I can wait until those goods arrive and then book my FX rates on that day. If I do that, I'm exposing myself to whatever the spot rate is going to do for the next six months – and all the political and economic noise that comes into the system. Alternatively, I could decide that I like where the rate is today, and I'm willing to bear the risk of locking into that rate. This way I know today what I'll pay in six months' time for those goods, and I can budget and prepare for that."
Take action: Don't go it alone. Contact Absa's FX sales team < InternationalBankingServices@absa.africa> for guidance on the approach that's best for you.
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"My recommendation to clients is always the same," says Fenwick. An advocate of the balanced approach, he recommends that you don't put all your eggs in one basket. "If you can only trade spots or forwards, maybe put 50% of your exposure in the forward markets and the other 50% on the spot. Then, if the market moves in your favour, you can partake in that, but if the market moves against you, then you've got some flexibility, with some of your costs already locked in."
Of course, this all depends on the type of competitor environment your business is operating and even where along the value chain you operate. "If I have a business with little competition and many clients, there's no pressure regarding the rate I'm going to book, then I could just book at the forward rate as orders come in removing all currency risk and best prepare myself and my clients for the cost of goods I am going to pass on through the value chain."
Take action: Find more on de-risking strategies here < https://www.absa.co.za/corporate-and-investment-banking/products-and-services/manage-risk/>
3. Tap into local expertise
While many small businesses tend to think "local", there are obvious benefits to thinking bigger. "When you start to engage cross-border, you diversify and open yourself up to new markets," says Trevonica Naidoo, COO, International Banking South Africa at Absa. "But with that comes the element of risk, in terms of payment. You may be sending goods to somebody in, say, Angola, but are you going to get your money?"
"Doing business in Africa has many advantages, but it's not easy," says Fenwick. "You need to understand the markets from a regulatory perspective before you jump in. If you don't, you're going to get your fingers burnt." That's why it pays to draw on regional experts with the ability to execute across all regional markets. Naidoo added that "At Absa, our team helps you consider the risks, and might say to you, "Well, perhaps a regular advanced payment via Swift could be risky or, ' Have you considered a letter of credit." We're able to assist in terms of the various pros and cons."
Take action: Speak to Absa's team of International Banking specialists <0860 151 151> for guidance on your cross border needs as an SME.
4. Reverse your priorities
"You'll find that the average entrepreneur has the following order of priorities," says Naidoo. "First they'll chase sales, then they'll consider what their operational capabilities are. Following that they'll look at logistical value-chain management, then at finance, then at trade facilitation, and lastly they'll look at the rules and regulations."
But, says Naidoo, this sequence is back to front. "They should actually do it in a reverse order, first understanding the rules and regulations of their industry as well as from a Banking and Exchange control perspective. Before even thinking about sales and operational details, first ask yourself: 'What can I do?' and 'What can't I do?' Then look at everything else."
Take action: Absa's team of International Banking specialists < InternationalBankingServices@absa.africa>
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5. Know the rules
The key for any cross-border business is to seek protection from FX fluctuations. "We find a lot of clients who make, say, a 30% or 40% margin on their goods," says Fenwick. "But we have an incredibly volatile currency, so if your hedging policy is not monitored, you could also lose 20% or 30% on that margin because of movements in the exchange rate."
This level of volatility – especially now – is the reason SMEs and entrepreneurs need to partner with FX experts who enable businesses to get business done. In addition to its FX and International Banking specialists, Absa has an award-winning research team that won the Best Research House award for the third consecutive year at the 2019 JSE Spire Awards.
Take action: Get always-on access to research that informs the best decisions. Visit this portal <hyperlink to https://www.absa.co.za/corporate-and-investment-banking/research/> for short daily notes, longer thematic pieces and model-based daily exchange rate forecasts over five years.
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During this presentation in Huesca, García has taken the opportunity to talk about animation and the path taken by the sector. "My passion is animation from the beginning of this technique", claimed the director who started his career through 2D formats, craft work, pencil sketches, brushes and watercolors. He pointed out however that despite the great technical improvements experienced in the last decades, "quality depends very much on the creativity and the story you are telling.
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The presentation of projects is one of the activities scheduled in the Huesca event with the purpose of generating synergies between professionals of the sector. This program continues on Thursday with two other works: the feature film Planeta 5,000 by Carlos Val and Armugán by Jordi Solé , a work that will be shot soon in the province of Huesca.
The Huesca International Film Festival is sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, the Government of Aragon, the Provincial Council of Huesca (Diputación), the City of Huesca, the Anselmo Pié Foundation and with the collaboration of Obra Social "la Caixa" and TUHUESCA.
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Over the past fifty years, the "special status" of education decision-making has been eroded. Once the province of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In The End of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey R. Henig traces the roots of this tectonic shift in school governance.
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The whimsical iOS music puzzler Flea Symphony, from Majesco Entertainment and The Odd Gentlemen, received a romantic new update just in time for Valentine's Day. Flea Symphony, an Apple "Editor's Choice" selection, is a musical spin on the iOS physics puzzle genre, available now for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on the App Store for $0.99. The Valentine's Day update is free to players who have already purchased Flea Symphony.
The Flea Symphony update introduces the Love Bug Music Mechanic, which will cause the fleas to attract to each other when a heart icon is pressed, adding new ways for each puzzle to be solved. Players will use harps, string launchers and tuba cannons to help Harp, the Cupid Flea, in his quest to get two lovebugs to the altar in 20 new challenging but sweet levels.
In Flea Symphony, players must attract new customers to save Mr. Benson's beloved music shop from closing its doors forever. To do this, the musically gifted fleas that inhabit Mr. Benson's music boxes must orchestrate beautiful melodies with all sorts of instruments, including tuba cannons, guitar string launchers, and even turntables. Players must create the perfect musical machines to put on the show of a lifetime and keep the music shop open. The new levels add another charming chapter to the story, with two of Maestro Piccolo's star performers heading to the wedding chapel for their happily ever after.


Edel "Violet" Kelly is the daughter of Lord Weiss and Mary Jane Kelly. She was born in Lord Weiss' mansion, but was taken from there after a short while by her mother. Taken to London, she was forced to becom a prostitute at 13 after she inherited her late mothers debt. She later became a mudlark.
Edel deeply cares for the other mudlarks, and considers them her real family. She denies ever being "Edel" now, insisting she is simply "Violet the mudlark".


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The following report that diet drinks, similar to those containing sugar, are associated with similar risks of metabolic imbalance surprised researchers. Why do both cause abdominal weight gain when diet drinks are low to zero calories? Is it the carbonation? Does soda cause weight gain and other metabolic disturbances, or is soda consumption one of several markers of dietary excess? Future research may answer these questions.
Nutritionally speaking, the regular consumption of sugared soft drinks might promote weight gain due to the fact the average sugared soda has 10 teaspoons (160 calories) per 12 oz. This might be a concern especially when taken on an empty stomach or with a low fiber carbohydrate like chips because carbohydrate calories can be absorbed more rapidly in the absence of protein or fats,. This might cause the absorption of too many calories too fast, with the excess being converted to fat and stored. The rapid clearing of blood glucose could also lead to earlier hunger leading to excess calorie consumption and corresponding weight gain.
In the case of diet sodas sweetened with aspartame (NutraSweet) or sucralose (Splenda), these products may pose a toxicity to some individuals which might include intestinal irritation, inflammation and leaky gut syndrome where nutrients can passively and rapidly enter the blood. This might also allow too many calories in the blood at once with the excess being converted to fat and stored.
Until these concerns are better understood, it might be best to decrease regular consumption of soda drinks, and choose all natural fruit drinks as a natural alternative.
TORONTO (CP) - For those who drink diet pops in the belief that sugar-free beverages are healthier than regular soft drinks, new research suggests they should think again.
A huge U.S. study of middle-aged adults has found that drinking more than one soft drink a day - even a sugar-free diet brand - may be associated with an elevated risk for metabolic syndrome, a cluster of factors that boosts the chance of having a heart attack or stroke and developing diabetes.
"We found that one or more sodas per day increases your risk of new-onset metabolic syndrome by about 45 per cent, and it did not seem to matter if it was regular or diet," Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, senior investigator for the Framingham Heart Study, said Monday from Boston.
"That for me is striking."
Metabolic syndrome is associated with five specific health indicators: excess abdominal fat; high blood sugar; high triglycerides; low levels of the good cholesterol HDL; and high blood pressure.
"And other than high blood pressure, the other four . . . all were associated with drinking one or more sodas per day," said Vasan, a professor of medicine at Boston University.
Having metabolic syndrome is known to double the risk of heart attack and stroke, as well as boosting the risk of diabetes.
The study included nearly 9,000 observations of middle-aged men and women over four years at three different times. The study looked at how many 355-millilitre cans of cola or other soft drinks a participant consumed each day.
-31 per cent greater risk of becoming obese (with a body mass index of 30 or more).
-30 per cent increased risk of adding on belly fat.
-25 per cent higher risk of developing high blood triglycerides or high blood sugar.
-32 per cent higher risk of having low HDL levels.
But Vasan and his colleagues, whose study was published Monday in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, are unsure what it is about soft drinks that ratchets up the risk of metabolic syndrome.
"We really don't know," he said. "This soda consumption may be a marker for a particular dietary pattern or lifestyle. Individuals who drink one or more sodas per day tend to be people who have greater caloric intake. They tend to have more of saturated fats and trans fats in their diet, they tend to be more sedentary, they seem to have lower consumption of fibre."
"And we tried to adjust for all of these in our analysis . . . but it's very difficult to completely adjust away lifestyle."
Dr. David Jenkins, director of the Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said previous studies have suggested that diet pops did not have the same effects on weight and health as do naturally sweetened soft drinks.
"The unusual thing that needs comment is (say study authors) that diet colas are the same as the calorically sweetened colas," said Jenkins. "So I think that is the piece that they've put into this puzzle . . . I think we need a lot more scrutiny of that."
Jenkins said he believes that high consumption of soft drinks likely goes along with eating a high-calorie diet.
The study also begs the question whether there is some ingredient in soft drinks - regular or diet - that may encourage metabolic syndrome.
But Dr. Arya Sharma, chair of cardiovascular obesity research at McMaster University, said there is nothing suggested by the authors of the study that would lead to that conclusion.
"One thing that they say and other people have said before is if you drink a lot of sweet things, then you are sort of conditioning yourself for that sweet taste," Sharma said Monday from Hamilton. "So people who drink diet pop may be eating other sweets, whether that comes in the form of dessert or other things, I don't know."
"It may be that people who are drinking diet pop - and we have this effect often with people who go on diets or when people go running or whatever - that you do a little bit of something that you think is good, and then you can do more of something that is bad."
"The idea could be because I'm drinking diet pap, I can afford to splurge on dessert."
Vasan said he cannot out-and-out recommend that people stop drinking soft drinks based on this study, because the findings are based on association, not clear cause and effect.
"The simple message is eat healthy, exercise regularly and everything should be done in moderation," he said. "If you're a regular soda drinker you should be aware that this study suggests that regular soda consumption may be associated with health consequences."
"If you're a diet soda drinker, stay tuned for additional research to confirm or refute these findings."


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Purchased this breezy canopy for my daughter. Provide excellent shade and ventilation (when extended, keeps bugs away!). She loves to play peek-a-boo with large zip up window. Made summer walk much more enjoyable!
We were going to an outdoor farm wedding in the peak of summer and were very worried about the sun and mosquitoes. The Sun Canopy is great because it can cover the whole chair (bottom has a mesh which can unzip out and wraps all the way around). There is mesh "windows" for breathability and the fabric is light and has UV protection. (The mesh windows have a lot lower UV protection as you can imagine. It protected our son from the sun and bugs. There is another window at the front which opens right up (no mesh) for you to reach in or whatever else. The only thing is that although there is a lot of mesh on a very hot day it can still be very hot and stuffy inside so you have to be careful to monitor that (just stick your hand through the front window) and if it's too warm you'll have to pull back the canopy a bit (or take the child out!!).
The Bugaboo Buffalo Breezy Sun Canopy is a multifuncional canopy which provides your child sun protection and extra ventilation on warm days. The glacier grey fabric provides sun protection of UPF 50+, is water- & oil- repellent and highly durable while the fine mesh allows cool breezes through.


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Noriko has a career as an Announcer at Tokai Television in Nagoya. She also experienced various kinds of ceremonies as MC. After going to the U.S. for a scholarship of international outreach program at University of Washington, she did an internship at the Seattle Mariners. The experience as a fixer of Discovery Channel TV program in Japan is also one of her bilingual careers. She lived in New Zealand for about 8 years and now based in Tokyo.


Youth ministry, as we have seen over the past few days is not something that is just about the youth ministry resources you use, nor is it just about what happens inside of the walls of your church. But it also must be about you getting out into the community around you and the world as a whole to do ministry and reach those who do not yet know Christ. We also have seen that it cannot just be you doing this work but it must also be your students and your leaders. And one of the biggest places where this must happen is in the schools. Now, as I right this I know that for many of you your blood begins to boil over debates about church and state or whether public school, private school, charter school, or home school is the best option. But that is not what this is about. Because while there is a time and place for those discussions, what is most important is for us to realize that there are lost students out there who need to be reached and they spend most of their time in a school. Not to mention that the school and its events are the centers of most communities. Therefore we must have a presence there and be figuring out ways to reach students where they are. So today, I do not want to have a debate but instead, give you some ideas about how you can get out their and reach the school campuses in your area.
1. Be a professional.- As you approach a school make sure you dress and act professionally. This is not the time to try and be hip, funny or cool. Because at the end of the day a school is a business, or at least they try to run themselves like one. So if you are trying to get a presence on a campus you need to respect that and act professionally. This is especially true if you are going to go to campus lunches. While this is not always the most effective form of ministry anymore, if you do choose to visit your students on campus make sure you dress appropriately, follow their guidelines, and act respectfully. Do not start a food fight, disturb the peace, or mess with people's food, regardless of how much attention you might get for it or how funny you think it is.
2. Serve the school.- This does not need to be all about you getting attention or being the center of things. If that opportunity comes take it, but the best first step, and honestly the best attitude to have in general, is to serve the school. One way to do this is to call the principal or contact the athletic or band booster clubs, and see what help is needed. Then you provide the resources and volunteers that are needed. Or maybe you come up with an idea of something that might be a huge help, like hosting extra after school tutoring and providing pizza. Then if they like your idea you run it and take advantage of an incredible new and outside the box ministry opportunity.
3. Equip and unleash your students.- There are many ways to reach a school campus, but if you want to see massive change and revival break out, you will have to equip and unleash your students to reach their campuses. Because not only will it mean more when a student reaches out to one of their lost peers, but there is also much work to be done. So how much more effective would our ministries be if we sent an army of people out to do ministry in a place where they already have relationships and influence and see those people for 8 hours a day, five days a week? I am telling you, if you want to see change in your schools and your communities send out your students. And with that, pray for them, train them, encourage them, cast the vision for them, listen to their hurts, needs and ideas along the way, partner with teachers on campuses who can support them, and equip them with the resources they need along the way. Honestly, the best resource they have is sharing their life and the truth of scripture with others. But sometimes other tools can come in handy. For example, our custom youth ministry app was designed with this specific purpose in mind. To give students a tools so they can be discipled and easily turn around and reach their campuses and disciple their friends. But whatever it is you use, just make sure that sending your students out to do ministry is a priority.
Please hear me. I understand that as I write this we all face different struggles when it comes to school. For some of you most of your deacon board and Sunday School teachers are coaches, teachers, principals, or maybe even on the school board. And for you doing ministry in a school is no problem. For others of you the school has completely shunned the church and so it is more of a battle for you and more of a risk for your students. But regardless of where you are, God has given us the same calling, to reach this generation for Him and to equip and empower our students to do this work as well. Therefore we must step up and face all challenges to make sure that this work is completed and a big part of this is reaching campuses. Hopefully these tips will help you in this process, and if you have any there ideas about how those of us in youth ministry can reach to work campuses please feel free to share.


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The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen: A Model of Sustainability?
There are so many reasons to anticipate tomorrow's release of The Hunger Games movie, which is based on the first book in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Here's what we'd like to know: Will 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen emerge as a poster child for sustainability?
There are so many reasons to anticipate tomorrow's release of The Hunger Games movie, which is based on the first book in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The heroine is 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a tomboy who lives in a post-apocalyptic dystopian society and is forced to participate in a brutal to-the-death game that's televised by the evil, superficial and wealthy Capitol.
But from a food-world perspective, the message of the story is almost as exciting as Katniss's big screen quest to make it through the deadly arena with her humanity (and head!) intact.
At home in the oppressive District 12, however, almost everyone Katniss knows battles starvation everyday, so while the feasts appear to be the only saving grace to her dismal fate, it soon becomes clear that the decadent food is just a distraction, a small part of a carefully crafted veneer that hides an inhumane and wasteful regime.
She becomes angry while demoing her survival tactics, when a group of judges seems more interested in a roast pig on a lavish buffet. "Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig." In her first outward act of dissent, she shoots an arrow through an apple in the pig's mouth, pinning it to the wall behind it.
In an already densely allegorical tale, Katniss begins to emerge as a poster child for sustainability. Even before sacrificing herself to participate in the Hunger Games, she rebelled by illegally hunting game, catching fish and foraging—selling her bounty on the black market so she could feed her mother and her little sister, Prim. During an elaborate meal in the Capitol, she imagines how hard it would be to assemble the ingredients for these dishes at home. She was clearly at her happiest as a hunter-gatherer and when eating homemade food like the fresh cheese her sister makes with milk from the family goat.
Although initially seduced by luxurious meals that come out at the push of a button, Katniss realizes that the abundance comes at a hefty price: the natural resources of the surrounding districts and, we discover, slavery. While the books are fantasy, such lessons don't go unnoticed by young and adult readers. It will be interesting to see which ones made it into the movie.


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This is an unresolved issue from 2005.
My name is Shannon and I have in my possession a very unusual book . It is binded in green velvet with a large brass or gold engraving in the middle . The pages are gold lined ( like a bible ) . There is a total of twelve handwritten entries in this book - along with one inscription page and one drawing ( unknown if its pre-printed or hand drawn ) . These twelve entries are all dated and signed - most of the entries ( about 8 ) have the words " Kral Vinohrady " next to the date and year. I have discovered this is the abbreviated name for " Kralovske Vinohrady " - Meaning Royal Vinohrady ( or Vineyards) . I suspect this book may have some connection the the Vinohrady Theatre . These twelve entries are written between the years 1893 ( the first one ) and 1909 ( the last one) . I believe these entries are written in Czech . I do have scans of all the entries if anyone would be interested in seeing them and perhaps helping me to find out what they are . I would appreciate any help.
I have been told this is a very unique book in that it combines languages (Czech /Slovakian). There are different hand writings, all with the "tone" of condolences. As if the original owner was someone who suffered great loss .
I have been offered $8000 for this book, but I do worry that translations I have been given have been wrong . I'm looking for help.


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RELEASING THEIR BRAND NEW SINGLE 'TONIGHT' TO CHATTING THEIR NEW EP, INTRODUCING ;THE TANGENTS'!
announcement, Band, Ep, music, NEWS, SINGLE
What are your names?
Tom White, Jack Boylan and Angus Bates.
It is simply Rock and Roll.
How did you come up with the band's name?
The name came about when Angus was doing his GCSE Maths, he suggested the name The Tangents and we all came to like its significance with individuality, the idea being going off on a Tangent from an 'inner circle'. We hope this comes across in our music that it's something a bit different and there's that there's something appealing about this.
Give us a little bio about you as a band and individuals.
We have Tom on Guitar and Lead Vocals, Jack on Bass Guitar and Angus on Drums ad Vocals. Tom also writes the songs and brings his ideas to rehearsals where we then all chip in ideas for the structure and arrangement of the songs. We used to label ourselves as an Indie Rock and Roll Band but this has recently changed as we decided we were maybe a little too heavy to include Indie into that title. We have supported the likes of The Sherlocks at a sold out Leadmill show (Sheffield) and Cast at The Engine Shed in Lincoln. We have played a few big headline shows at The Bodega in Nottingham and again at The Leadmill earlier this year, as well as recently finishing our UK Tour.
Are you signed?
We aren't signed, we're currently ploughing our own furrow as it were, funding all of our endeavors ourselves. We also have good friends working in the music industry who help make everything we do possible as well. We like having control of everything we do and it's working well for the level we are currently at.
You just released your new single 'Tonight', tell us more about that.
Well 'Tonight' is actually more of a Pop song compared to most of the songs we play, however still has the Rock qualities that we are using as our main direction of sound. We think this allows the song to be very accessible in the world of modern music, whilst still allowing people to see what we're all about and that we can still Rock. We released 'Tonight' at the beginning of our Tour where we proceeded to promote it at the seven cities we visited. It can be found on Spotify, iTunes and Soundcloud.
It was a pretty unconventional process compared to how most of our songs are written. Tom had written the song and melody, however didn't have lyrics for the Chorus. He played to Angus when they were driving to a gig and then together wrote the Chorus lyrics. We then took the song to rehearsal and, with Jack, decided upon the instrumental arrangement of the track.
What was the recording process like?
Recording brought about any more ideas of arrangement and what could be added to the track to make it as good as it could be. You can hear many different genre influences in this track, we have a fantastic producer who helps us achieve the final sound of the track, and really enhances our creativity when we are in the studio. We love being in the studio because of this and we hope this comes across in the recording
What is the message you are trying to give your fans?
The message of the song comes from the problems occurred when a relationship is breaking down which is expressed throughout the song. I guess the message is about trying to move on from something if it is dysfunctional, or trying to compromise which I think is a more relatable message. For this reason we think this song can be heard and understood by everyone, as it sings about what most people have experienced or have most certainly seen.
Will we see an EP or Album anytime soon?
You can expect an EP later this year, we are spending a lot of time over the next 3 or 4 months to work on this and bring something spectacular.
If so what can we expect?
It will consist of 3 or 4 songs however we are yet to establish this. We have chosen our most favourite songs to play and the best received songs at our gigs to record for this and we can't wait to release the final products of our work, keep an eye out for more announcements of this.
Do you have any gigs or festivals coming up?
We have a fairly quiet rest of the year whilst we work on the EP and new songs. However we have a headline show at The Bodega on the 21st of July, and then another big headline show again at The Bodega in December. This will be more of a celebration for the year, the new EP and for Christmas.
What made you go into music?/Who are your influences?
We all have lots of different influences however I can speak for all of us when is say it was listening to what our parents listened to that helped get us into music. The likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Jam to name a few.
5 years time I see us being a much more established band really, we have our dreams and goals for the band but we just don't how long it will take for these to become reality. We are all motivated to keep striving for this, but as long as we are in a better place than we were the ear before that we can be sure to keep improving and strive closer to our goals.
When you're not doing music what do you do?
Tom works for the Nottingham council, Jack works at his local football ground and also goes to college and Angus is salesman. We are doing band stuff with every spare minute we have whilst we are working however.
Would you be up for collaborating with bands or artists, if so how could they contact you?
I think for the foreseeable future we will be concentrating on getting our sound completely worked out and new songs recorded so we haven't really thought about any collaborations. However if anyone has any ideas they'd like to send us then they are more than welcome to contact us via Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
If you could collaborate with one UK Artist or band who would it be and why?
For me (Angus) I would love to collaborate with Led Zeppelin, I feel they are a big influence on the band's sound and is the kind of music we all love playing.
If you could collaborate with one US Artist or band who would it be?
Green Day as they are a favourite of Tom's, our new single 'Tonight' has also been compared to that style of music as well.
For me it was Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin, of course written by John Bonham. I watched and listened to it endlessly growing up and am still in awe of it today, that song is the sole reason I started drumming.
'Be nice to everyone, even if they aren't to you; there might come a day where they need something from you and they will work twice as hard for you in order to get it.'
Work hard at what you do whatever it is, have eclectic taste while doing so and try to saturate the talent and style of your musicianship by exploring what the world of music and being an artist has to offer.
'Keep your powder dry.' I guess meaning good things will come around at some point.
Earplugs.
Do you have any social media accounts so your fans can follow?
Find us on all major social media platforms searching- Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
We also have a website with all of our dates, merch and new music on. You can sign up at www.thetangents.co.uk.


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The Visible Hand: National Oil Companies, Oil Supply and the Ermergence of the Hotelling Rent
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Markus Ludwig
Using firm-level panel data, this paper exposes differences in the dynamic oil produc- tion regime between private and state-owned firms. I find that state-owned firms reduce the oil supply, ceteris paribus, by 3.5 percent each year, but private firms hold output constant. Furthermore, state-owned NEWLINE firms have not followed such stringent policy before 1997. My ex- tension of the Hotelling-model attributes the behavior of state-owned firms to a scarcity rent, whereas private firms produce at their constant capacity limit, owing to possible expropriation. The theory also indicates that state-owned firms will only switch to a Hotelling-regime after a certain lag time, attributable to NEWLINE limited capacity. The data further reveals that contractions in the supply of state-owned oil lead to oil price increases, indicating that state-owned firms do, in fact, generate a scarcity rent. My results therefore suggest that the shift from private towards state-owned oil dominance in the 1970s gave rise to a delayed increasing oil price path.
Ludwig, Markus, 2012. "The Visible Hand: National Oil Companies, Oil Supply and the Ermergence of the Hotelling Rent," Working papers 2012/11, Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Basel.
Handle: RePEc:bsl:wpaper:2012/11
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Sometimes, things don't turn out like we expect. This is the case with Chevrolet and the Chevelle. It started as a conventional car but evolved into a road warrior, carrying the muscle car torch for a new generation. The Chevelle had a body-on-frame design that, while basic, really unlocked its potential as a muscle machine.
There was a time when the LS6 Chevelle was the fastest American car ever produced.
The Chevelle was built on General Motors' A-Body platform, which endured through the company's change in the early 80s to more front-wheel drive vehicles. The Chevelle was remarkably simple, something car buyers at the time deeply desired. In fact, in 1963, the first year of production, Chevrolet sold nearly 400,000 of them.
During its run, the Chevelle earned a reputation for reliability and flexibility. There were multiple options, from sedans and coupes, to convertibles and station wagons. Later came the distinguished Laguna of NASCAR fame; even the El Camino had Chevelle flare to it.
When production ended in 1978, Chevrolet had sold over 7.2 million Chevelles.
Mike Mueller, a lifelong car enthusiast, has worked as an automotive journalist and photographer since 1991. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Mueller has held staff positions with Automobile Quarterly, Muscle Car Review, and Mustang Monthly. He has written and provided photography for dozens of automotive books, and contributed photos to Collectible Automobile, Esquire, Life, and Men's Journal.
The Chevelle is one of the most beloved in Chevy's history. Chevy Chevelle: Fifty Years chronicles this crown jewel, from its humble beginnings to its hallowed status at car shows around the country. The book was licensed by GM with never-before-seen archival photographs of the infamous car. Chevy Chevelle: Fifty Years is available through Amazon and Motorbooks.
Rolling on a 109.5-inch wheelbase, Ford's downsized Ranchero for 1960 was 19 inches shorter overall compared to its full-size 1959 forerunner. Six-cylinder power was the only choice beneath the hood. Photo: Mike Mueller.
As usual, an SS-trimmed steering wheel was standard inside the LS6 Chevelle in 1970. Photo: Mike Mueller.
Another evolutionary link between the steel-bodied FX machines and modern funny cars was Pete Seaton's "Seaton's Shaker," a 1966 Chevelle based on a stock chassis. While some fiberglass panels were used, much of this altered-wheelbase match-racer consisted of factory-supplied steel bodywork. Power came from an injected Mk IV big-block. Photo: Larry Davis.
Mike Mueller, author of Chevelle: Fifty Years.
Last weekend in the Automoblog Book Garage, we traveled down one of the world's most infamous highways.
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How Do I Keep my Live Cut Christmas Tree Looking Fresh?
Answer: Keep your live cut Christmas tree fresh and festive with these great tips from Art Knapp Surrey. If you're opting for a beautiful fresh Christmas tree this year, you'll want to select a fresh tree and keep on top of proper Christmas tree care during the holiday season.
By having a tree cut for you, or cutting one yourself you can be sure that the tree is as fresh as possible. If you don't have the option of purchasing right from the farm, ask the seller when they were cut.
Get your tree into water as soon as possible once cut. If you can't get it into a proper stand right away, let it rest in a bucket with water. It is important to never let the base of the tree dry out. Keep your tree out of direct sunlight and away from heaters or fans – these will speed up the drying process. Using a humidifier in the room with the tree may help the needles to stay fresh for longer.
Keep your Christmas tree looking fresh for the whole holiday season by following these tips and ideas. Be sure to select as fresh of a tree as possible to give yourself the best chance of having a fresh tree through Christmas – and take proper care of your tree to keep it from drying out.


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A macro view of the size–productivity challenge in Europe
David Martínez Turégano, 30 March 2020
The large differences in labour productivity across EU countries go a long way towards explaining their divergent living standards. To help explain variations in labour productivity, this column focuses on firm size and finds an overall positive relation between firm size and labour productivity. Countries with a distribution skewed to smaller firms – particularly in Southern Europe – show significantly depressed productivity performance. Improving judicial and government efficiency could help stimulate productivity growth in these member states.
The heterogeneous tax sensitivity of firm-level investments
Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt, Christian Keuschnigg, 25 February 2019
The effect of taxes on firm-level investments is very heterogeneous. This column shows that the impact of corporate taxation is up to 70% higher for entrepreneurial firms than for managerial ones, while dividend taxation negatively affects the investment of financially constrained firms but entails no significant impact on cash-rich firms. Policy should provide targeted tax relief to the most constrained firms, where taxes are most harmful, if other policies are unsuccessful in improving access to external funds.
Firm size, productivity, and pay in a service economy
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo, 19 September 2018
The evidence that bigger firms pay higher wages and have higher productivity is mainly based on manufacturing, which nowadays accounts for a small share of the economy. Drawing on a unique micro-aggregated dataset, this column reveals that while the size premia for both wages and productivity are significantly weaker in market services than in manufacturing, the link between wages and productivity is stronger – the most productive firms at the top are not necessarily the largest ones in terms of employment, but they do pay the best. This increases the likelihood of productivity and wage gains being shared with fewer workers, a further challenge to achieving inclusive growth in the new service economy.
Three questions (and answers) about finance and firms
Tatiana Didier, Ross Levine, Sergio Schmukler, 25 August 2015
It is still not clear which firms issue equity and bonds, what happens to their assets, sales, and employment, and how the performance of issuers compares to that of non-issuers. This column addresses these three questions. First, only a small number of large firms issue securities in a typical country. Second, issuers grow faster than non-issuers in terms of assets, sales, and employment. Third, smaller issuing firms grow faster than larger ones, but larger non-issuing firms grow faster than smaller ones.
No miracles in southern Eurozone without resource reallocation
Ramon Xifré, 12 September 2014
As the most acute phase of the Eurozone crisis is over, the current-account balances of France, Italy, and Spain have improved. This column warns against complacency about this improvement, pointing at some structural factors that impede growth and damage competitiveness. Resources should be relocated towards the tradeable sectors and to those firms most prepared to grow and compete. If not, these three countries are likely to aggravate the dysfunctional duality of their economies.
Understanding regional innovation disparities
Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso, Alexander Oettl, 23 December 2013
Many regions struggle to attract innovation activity. This column discusses new evidence suggesting that there is no universal 'best' policy. Policies focused exclusively on attracting 'anchor tenants' or cultivating new ventures may not be as effective as those promoting a mix of large and small firms. Regions with large firms but few young entrepreneurial firms may benefit from policies that cultivate new ventures, while those without large firms may benefit most from policies that attract some.
The incredible shrinking Portuguese firm
Serguey Braguinsky, Lee Branstetter, André Regateiro, 10 September 2011
Portugal was the third member to join the unenviable club of bailed-out Eurozone countries. This column explores one of the central weaknesses of the Portuguese economy – its low productivity. It finds that this is in part the result of the shrinking size of Portugal's companies, which is in turn caused by distortions in its labour market that need to be fixed.
The impact of the crisis on European firms
László Halpern, 01 July 2011
László Halpern of the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences talks to Viv Davies about a forthcoming report on the impact of the crisis on European business. The report finds considerable heterogeneity across countries and firms - for example, exporters contracted more than non-exporters, while importers suffered less of a decline - and highlights the policy trade-off between the benefits of export-oriented strategies versus outsourcing. The interview was recorded in Nottingham on 7 June 2011. [Also read the transcript.]
Size matters: the global operations of European firms
Gianmarco Ottaviano, 27 August 2010
Gianmarco Ottaviano of Bocconi University talks to Viv Davies about 'The Global Operations of European Firms', a report that analyses data on 15,000 firms in seven countries to show that firm size, productivity, skill intensity and the ability to innovate are associated with better export performance, foreign direct investment and outsourcing. He argues that firms can improve their competitiveness within the European single market, but competing effectively in the future will require more than just exporting to neighbouring EU countries. The interview was recorded in Rome on 19 June 2010.
The effectiveness of fiscal policy depends on the financing and monetary policy mix
Giancarlo Corsetti, Gernot Müller


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Delicato Winery Plans Annual Fine Arts Show
Updated: Dec. 23, 2015, 9:59 a.m.
Delicato Vineyards is hosting its 28th annual Fine Arts Show from Wednesday, Jan. 13 through Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. The public is encouraged to visit the judged art that will be on display beginning Jan. 13 throughout the Tasting Room. All art in this show will be available for sale on a first come first sale basis.
Artists who would like to participate in the contest are to bring their entries from Saturday, Dec. 26 through Wednesday, Dec. 30 and from Saturday, Jan. 2 through Thursday, Jan. 7 to Delicato, on Highway 99, four miles north of Manteca. An application blank may be obtained by phoning, e-mailing, or visiting the Wine Tasting Room in Manteca. It is also posted on the website: www.dfvtastingroom.com.
Up to five pieces of art per artist may be entered, with an entry fee of $9 per piece, in the competition. The contest is open to entries by the creators of original art produced within the last three years. The Manteca Tasting Room staff will be accepted entries from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mediums of acrylic, watercolor, pastel, oil, charcoal or ink will be accepted. Photographs, computer altered and regular, should be entered in the June 2016 Photography Show. Judging of the original pieces in the categories of Landscape, Wine/Grapes, Portrait, Animals, Whimsical, and Other will be held Saturday, Jan. 9. If all categories receive sufficient entries, 20 awards totaling over $1,600 will be presented at the Feb. 6 award ceremony.
Admission is free and the tasting room is open seven days a week, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Visitors are encouraged to taste the latest wine releases while viewing and/or purchasing the art.


House Bill 2528 would expand the law to allow someone to be charged with felony homicide for supplying a drug to another adult who takes the drug voluntarily and overdoses. This bill wouldn't just punish drug dealers, who are already subject to substantial penalties, but would make it a felony regardless of whether the drug is sold or given to the person who overdoses.
After more than 40 years of the failed War on Drugs, we know one thing for sure – imposing harsh punishments on drug dealers hasn't solved the problem of drug addiction. Drugs are just as available, cheap, and in demand as ever.
Programs rooted in treatment rather than incarceration have proven to be much more effective in reducing drug dependency. The Commonwealth should focus on what actually works to save lives, including safe reporting laws, better and more widely available treatment programs, and stigma-free services.
House Bill 2528 would allow someone to be charged with felony homicide for supplying a drug to another adult who takes the drug voluntarily and overdoses. This legislation would be expensive, overly harsh, and ineffective in addressing drug addiction in our communities.
Virginia doesn't need stiffer penalties for drug dealers and people who share drugs with friends. Virginia law already provides for stiff penalties for drug distributors, and the Commonwealth's resources would be better served promoting treatment programs in tackling drug dependency in our communities.
Efforts to reduce drug addiction through tougher criminal penalties have failed. This legislation takes Virginia backward to the incarceration-focused policies of the War on Drugs that have been shown to be expensive and ineffective in addressing the root causes of this public health crisis.
As a doctor and a scientist, we hope you will agree that the escalating human cost of the proliferation of opiates in our Commonwealth needs smarter, evidence-based responses than this bill offers, and, accordingly, that you will choose to veto this expensive, unnecessary and ineffective legislation.


The Fusion UI provides a graphical interface to Fusion's REST APIs. To access it, point your browser to http://localhost:8764/, or the host on which the UI Service is running.
The first time you log in to the UI, you'll be prompted to create an admin account.
Save your admin credentials. There is no password recovery system in Fusion.
The Search context provides all the tools you need to get your data into Fusion and develop a search-ready back end for your application.
The Analytics context gives you access to Fusion's dashboard application, where you can customize your view into system metrics and search activity.
Use the Devops context to administrate and monitor the Fusion system.
Since the Fusion UI is just an interface to the REST API service, you can also use the APIs to do almost anything that the UI can do.


The September SMART Lecture was presented by Wendy Sandler, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Haifa and Founding Director of the Sign Language Research Lab.
The talk was about the relation between sign language and the body that conveys it. Some take the view that sign languages are just like spoken languages, distinguished only trivially by the medium of production, while others hold that sign languages are derived directly from natural gestures. The work presented suggests that we are confronted with this puzzling dichotomy because we have often been looking in the wrong places in our quest to understand the linguistic properties of sign language and what it has to tell us about language in general. Wendy Sandler began by isolating gestures of different parts of the body that are designated to manifest grammatical structure in established sign languages. Turning to a young sign language in a Bedouin village, she showed that the body begins as a nonsegmented whole, with only the hands designated to create symbolic images. Across signers of four age groups in this preliminary study we saw not a magical and sudden appearance of grammatical structure, but instead a gradual activation of different parts of the body, to create increasingly complex grammatical form. Through this process, the designated gestures of visual language illuminate the emergence of grammar in a way that could not be observed in a newly emerging spoken language, even if it were possible to encounter one.
The October SMART Lecture was presented by Luc Steels, scientist and artist, and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The talk discussed the research on language evolution that Luc Steels has conducted with his students over the past decade. After a general introduction to our methodology and achievements, illustrated with some videoclips of language game experiments on real robots, he focused on one spin-off of this research, namely a new computational formalism for the parsing, production and learning of construction-based grammars, known as Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). FCG tries to combine the best ideas that have been around in computational linguistics for the past decades. The result is a new synthesis that allows integration of the constructional perspective, as well as great flexibility and robustness. The presentation was illustrated with a live demonstration of the FCG system in action.
The November SMART Lecture was presented by Max Louwerse, professor Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication, at the University of Tilburg.
A vast amount of literature has demonstrated that cognitive processes can be explained by a perceptual simulation account. Oftentimes such studies interpret an effect for perceptual simulation as the only explanation. This talk will discuss whether there are alternative candidates. One alternative is provided by the Symbol Interdependency Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis prelinguistic conceptual knowledge used when speakers formulate utterances gets translated into linguistic conceptualizations so that as a function of language use perceptual relations are encoded in language. This talk provided evidence of language encoding conceptual information, geographical information and social information, and argued that language users utilize these language regularities in their cognitive processes.
The March 2014 SMART Lecture was presented by Andrew Nevins, Professor of Linguistics at University College London.
Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix's Kiss the Sky is often heard as Kiss This Guy. Why does this happen? The answer lies in understanding the phenomenon of 'mondegreens'. 'Slips of the ear' of this sort occur in everyday spoken conversation on a regular basis, even in Dutch. The party game Chinese Whispers plays on our tendency to transform the intended speech wave into a different perceptual experience and can be seen as the instantaneous mutations that lead to large-scale language change. While slips of the tongue are well-known from Freud's analysis of speaker's 'accidental' revelations, slips of the ear have received far less attention. We've developed a database of 4000 naturally collected English examples where the hearer is the source of miscommunication — whether in the noisy pub, over the mobile phone, or in the clash of dialects heard when an Australian visiting Arizona asks 'Where's a basin?', and a local replies 'Bison? They're rare around here these days'. Looking into recurrent slips reveals that our expectations can indeed bias what we mis-hear, but within limits: the intended utterance and the misheard message must be just phonetically close enough to allow our ears to deceive us, such that speaker-dependent bottom-up perceptual ambiguity proposes, and listener-dependent top-down processing disposes.
The May 2014 SMART Lecture was presented by Roel Willems, senior researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
A debated issue in language understanding is whether language is understood via sensori-motor simulation of its semantic content. The available evidence is mixed, and it is fair to say that we have little understanding of how and when simulation plays a role in language understanding. Roel Willems presented the results of some recent neuroimaging studies in which we studied mental simulation in the context of narratives. Issues of interest were individual differences in mental simulation during story comprehension, and how mental simulation is driven by literary techniques such as narrative perspective.
The neuroimaging work using narratives is in contrast to earlier work in which single, isolated verbs to probe simulation were used, and Roel Willems argued that the study of language will benefit from complementing what we know from experiments with de-contextualized stimuli, with findings obtained with richer stimuli such as narratives.
"Linguistic creativity is made possible by a division of labor between an inventory of stored, reusable units and a set of computational processes which compose those units into an unbounded number of new expressions—allowing us to produce and comprehend previously unthought concepts and ideas with an ease that we usually take for granted. This book has addressed the deceptively simple-sounding questions: What are the stored units and which computational processes can give rise to new expressions? […] In this book, we have proposed a precise, mathematical theory of productivity and reuse, and studied a specific instantiation of that theory: the Fragment Grammars model. The model is based on the idea that the correct pattern of storage and computation in a language can be determined (at least partially) as the result of a probabilistic inference based on the distribution of forms in the input data. We have shown that this idea, combined with standard assumptions from linguistics and psychology, leads to a model under which the productivity of a word-formation process is evidenced by the productive use of that process. Put another way, the model, like the linguist—and, by hypothesis, the child learner—concludes that a word-formation process is productive by observing it used to generate new forms." – Tim O'Donnell, Productivity and Reuse in Language: A Theory of Linguistic Computation and Storage, MIT Press (2014, in production).


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Q: I am using QGIS 2.6.1 but I don't know how to split a state into two states I have a shapefile file of the states but my file is older one and after that one state in India converted into two different states so how can I separately show both the states on the map using QGIS. I also have the shapefiles files of districts within the states.

A: Assuming your districts outer borders match EXACTLY the border of the state, and the new state border is equal to district borders:

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*Make sure you have backups from the original shapefiles, in case something goes wrong.

*Edit the state layer and delete the former state.

*Change to the district layer, select and copy all districts of the two states.

*Copy and paste the features from the district to the state layer.

*Select all districts for one state and use "Merge Selected Features". In the following dialog you can get the new feature's attributes right. Do the same for the other state.


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Royal Wellington Tennis et Hockey Club is een Belgische tennis- en hockeyclub uit Ukkel.

Geschiedenis
Wellington werd in 1928 opgericht en is bij de KBHB aangesloten met het stamnummer 127. De clubkleuren zijn geel-grijs met blauwe sokken.

Het damesteam werd in 2011 voor het eerst landskampioen.

Accommodatie
De club beschikt over een kunstgrasveld met veldverlichting.

Palmares
 Dames
 2x Landskampioen (veld): 2011 en 2014
 1x Winnaar Beker van België (veld): 2005

Bekende (ex-)spelers

Externe link
 Officiële website

hockeyclub in Brussel
Sport in Ukkel


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Place Manor
St. Anthony, Portscatho, TR2 5EZ
Ancient Cornish Manor House
The Spry family have resided for many centuries at Place Manor in the Cornish parish of St. Anthony-in-Roseland. The Place Estate with its church and manor house has been in the family for over 400 years. The site of the former priory which demolished to make way for the house which was built in 1840 in front of the church, is set in the lovely Roseland peninsular, is almost entirely surrounded by sea and has been designated an area of outstanding natural beauty and a heritage coastline. There are a number of memorials in the parish church of St. Anthony's. The Spry family settled in Cornwall in the early 16th century. With a long distinguished history of military service and of agricultural land ownership members of the Spry family are particularly numerous in Cornwall.
Spry Family Members
Sir Henry Spry (died 1627).
Arthur Spry (1612–1685), MP for St. Mawes.
William Spry (born ca. 1663), barrister of Middle Temple.
Sir Richard Spry (1715–1775), Spry was knighted at Portsmouth, 24th June 1773 on board HMS 'Barfleur' by King George III. Promoted Rear Admiral of the Red on 31st March 1775.
Thomas Spry, Admiral (1753-1828), Captain in the Royal Navy, and nephew of Sir Richard takes surname and arms of Spry 13th April 1779.
Sir Samuel Thomas Spry (1804–1868), MP for Bodmin, High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1849.
Today the house is privately owned and run as a wedding venue and not open to the public.
Portscatho St. Anthony Head Lighthouse St. Mawes Castle The Roseland Peninsula
Notable Cornish Families St. Anthony Head The Coastal Footpath


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