And sometimes it's comedy improv, especially when an errant breeze blows all the carefully arranged bits off my design wall.
What am I cobbling together this time? On our 4,700 mile car trip to Montana and back, I did big stitch embroidery on a wide variety of fabric pieces I had fused to interfacing. My notion was to sew them all together, unite them with connecting hand stitching, and turn out lovely small quilts. I was inspired by Linda McLaughlin's weekly leaf series.
That didn't happen. I found to my dismay that trying to achieve any sort of serendipitous harmony among wildly disparate fabrics is impossible. Linda's leaves have a common theme and colors and her embroidery is way better than mine.
So I grouped my embroidered bits according to how well they seemed to play together. So far I've come up with three possibilities. Two are well underway.
In Arcs I'm trying to echo and extend the curves I embroidered on four small pieces. I couched on decorative yarns, and may add more. I'm also considering beading this one, and/or adding more color with paint or paintstiks. In person this piece doesn't have as much value contrast as the photo shows.
In Grasses, made with the same fabric set, I couched on rat tail cord, and I plan to add more embroidery to give the impression of tall grasses. That line of French knots will be extended as well.
The last group with any promise is made up of pieces of silk screened and stamped fabric I quartered and embroidered. I started playing with strips of that Radiant fabric I love. I may try for a jagged edge and either stencil or embroider larger snowflakes across the pieces.
Mind you, none of this is fixed in stone. As always I reserve the right to change my mind. And that's what I love about improv work.
I think they will all be great – I really love how unpredictable they are. That makes them so visually rewarding. I know I would find something new to notice every time I looked at them, if they were hanging on my wall.
Grasses is the one that really speaks to me but they all look like fun exercises.
I love getting different perspectives on my work, so thanks for your input.
I like the top one best, perhaps only because it's more complete-looking than the other two.
Question: I'm considering adding big stitching/embroidery to my Branching Out quilt, to fill in more lines. Do you think it would be okay to do that NOT going through the back?
The first two have already changed as I added more hand stitching. I have no idea if they'll turn into something worthwhile. As to adding hand stitching without penetrating the quilt back, I assume you've already machine quilted or plan to and want decorative handwork. The only caveat I can think of is you'll need to decide whether to just go through the top layer of fabric or also catch some of the batting. The look will be different so you'll need to be consistent. If you go through just the top layer the stitches will be more on the surface. If you catch the batting the stitches will sink in more.


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As wild and natural medicine is becoming more mainstream, we're hearing more about this superfoods called chaga, also known as Inonotus obliquus and it's apparent health benefits. Chaga is sometimes referred to as "Black Gold" or "The King of Herbs." Chaga is a type of fungus and grows on the outside of birch trees in very cold climates. The purest and highest quality forms of Chaga mushroom can be found in Nordic countries such as Estonia, Latvia and Scandinavia. Did you know that chaga on birch trees can take 5-7 years to grow, making it hard to find high quality, certified organic chaga for sale.
History of Chaga's health benefits?
The Khanty people of Siberia commonly used the fungus back in the 16th century to cure ulcers and gastrointestinal pain. Chaga tea was also popular among hunters and gatherers in the region as it improved energy levels and alleviated hunger. In Japan, the Ainu people of Hokkaido have been drinking chaga tea to treat upset stomach and inflammation. Infusions were also used for the treatment of skin conditions such as eczema, dermatitis, and psoriasis.
What Does a Chaga Mushroom Look Like?
Chaga on birch trees its original form is lumpy with an exterior that looks similar to burnt charcoal, with a glowing orange coloured inside packed full of nutrients. Chaga benefits from it's rich and potent antioxidant content, making it a great superfoods addition to a detox cleanse or body cleanse. Chaga mushroom is low in calories, high in fiber and free of fat, carbohydrates and sugar, perfect if you were wondering does chaga lower blood sugar? Chaga mushroom can be eaten as a food on its own or made into an enjoyable chaga tea using chaga powder.
1) Can Chaga mushroom cure cancer?
2) Does Chaga help you sleep?
Chaga tea has been used for generations by local nordic people for its anxiety and stress reducing properties. Most individuals who suffer from stressful activities and anxiety have noticed a benefit to supplementing with chaga mushroom and find getting an easier nights sleep and staying asleep is not a problem anymore.
3) Does Chaga help with weight loss?
Chaga benefits have become mainstream, particularly with traditional new year body cleanse and detox cleanse programs. Chaga is a great appetite suppressant due to its high fiber content and nutrient packed centre making you feel fuller for longer. Combine this with a training program and your weight loss drinks and you have a recipe for getting toned quicker.
4) Does Chaga lower blood sugar?
Chaga ethanol extract has been shown in studies to reduce blood glucose levels in diabetic mice, and could be also true for humans. chaga benefits not only from reducing blood glucose levels but also free fatty acids, total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol. Chaga extract helps to reduce oxidative stress thanks to antioxidant properties, oxidative stress contributes to insulin resistance.
5) Is Chaga anti inflammatory?
Chaga has been used for centuries in reducing inflammation, boosting the immune system, enhancing liver health and fighting viruses. Studies have shown that supplementing with chaga decreases NF-kB, a molecule that activates an inflammatory response. In animal studies there has been a noticeable difference in cytokine response and its response to pain. Chaga may be a solution for those with joint pains.
Does Chaga Have Side Effects?
As most of the studies have been done in human cell culture or animals, there are a few pre cautions you need to consider when using chaga supplements. Chaga should be avoided with blood thinning medications, such as aspirin and warfarin as it can increase the risk of bleeding due to chaga mushroom stopping platelet aggregation and blood clots forming. Chaga should not be taken with diabetic medicines due to the blood sugar lowering effects of the chaga extract. Your natural immune system may become more active and people with autoimmune diseases should avoid using Chaga.
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Enrico 'Chuck' Miranda
Of Everett
Enrico "Chuck" Miranda of Everett died on September 25.
Enrico was a World War II veteran serving as a Sargeant in the U.S. Army.
The beloved husband of the late Phyllis M. (Rocco), he was the loving father of Maryann Hayes and her late husband, Frank, Gerri Miranda, Charles Miranda and his wife, Donna and Michael Miranda and his wife, Kathy; loving brother of James Miranda and the late Charles. He is also survived by five beloved grandchildren, five loving great grandchildren and one great great grandson.
Funeral arrangements were by the Salvatore Rocco and Sons Funeral Home, Everett.Interment was at Glenwood Cemetery in Everett. In lieu of flowers, donations in Enrico's memory may be made to woundedwarriorsproject.org.
Warren Murray
Retired Everett Fire Captain
Warren Murray retired Everett Fire Department Captain, of Saugus, formerly of Everett, died on October 1.
Warren was a decorated nine year US Navy veteran Seaman 1st Class who survived during World War II. He followed his Navy service with 32 years on the Everett Fire Department retiring as a Captain.
The beloved husband of Mary (McLaughlin), he was the father of Alberto, Ken, Jim, Virginia, Kathleen, Brian, Maria and the late Ellen and brother of the late Howard, Jr. He is also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
His Funeral will be from the Salvatore Rocco & Sons Funeral Home, 331 Main St., Everett on Thursday, October 5 at 9 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass in the Immaculate Conception Church, Everett at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Visiting hours will be today, Wednesday, from 5 to 8 p.m. Complimentary valet parking will be available during Wednesday's visiting hours. In lieu of flowers, donations in Warren's memory may be to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 220 N. Main St., Suite 104, Natick, MA 01760. Interment will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. For more information, please call 1-877-71ROCCO or www.roccofuneralhomes.com.
Alfieri 'Al' Moro
Alfieri "Al" Moro of Everett died on September 25.
The loving father of Frank Moro and his wife, Jean of Saugus and Guido "Gino" Moro of Quincy, he was the loving brother of Gloria Forgione. He is also survived by five beloved grandchildren: Nicole, Jennifer, Christopher, Stephanie and Michael and one great granddaughter, Teagan.
Funeral arrangements were by the Salvatore Rocco and Sons Funeral Home, Everett. Interment was at the Bourne National Veteran's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to thewoundedwarriorsproject.org.
Marie Milioto
Of Peabody
Marie (Osterlund) Milioto of Peabody, formerly of York, Maine and Somerville, died on September 30.
She was the beloved wife of the late Joseph, sister of the late Henrik and Elsa and is survived by one niece, Teresa Catalano of Malden, two nephews, Domenic Martucci of Saugus and Christopher Osterlund of Malden and two great-nieces Nicole and Lauren, both of Belmont.
Her Funeral will be from the Salvatore Rocco & Sons Funeral Home, 331 Main St., Everett on Friday, October 6 at 9:30 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass in the Brooksby Village Chapel at 11 a.m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Interment will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. For more information, please call 1-877-71ROCCO.orwww.roccofuneralhomes.com
Robert "Bob" Carreiro
Educator and long time Everett community activist
After a courageous battle with cancer, Robert "Bob" Carreiro, age 66, a lifelong resident of Everett, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family on October 1.
Born in Everett on September 12, 1951, he was the son of the late Manuel Carreiro and Mary (Ragucci) Carreiro. Bob graduated from Everett High School in 1969 and Salem State College in 1973. After graduation, he realized his dream of becoming an educator when he became a special education teacher in the Everett public school system. He taught for 17 years and served as the president of the Everett Teachers Association during his tenure. In the early 1990s, Bob began a successful career in the restaurant business, running the Il Panino restaurants in Cambridge and Malden and serving as the comptroller for DePasquale Ventures. He then turned his attention back to public service where he spent several years working for the Massachusetts Department of Housing before returning to the community of Everett he loved so much. Until his retirement in 2016, Bob served as the Director of the Everett Housing Authority. For the past 13 years, he was also a member of the Everett School Committee, holding the positions of both chairman and vice-chairman at different times through the years.
When he wasn't working, Bob enjoyed spending time with his friends and family; he looked forward to his family vacation in North Conway every summer. A devoted Crimson Tide football fan, Bob rarely missed a game, and he looked forward to Everett's homecoming events every year. He will be remembered for his humor and wit, his love of Oldies music (which he would sing loudly and proudly at social gatherings) and of course, his trademark cigars.
Bob was the loving brother of Elizabeth Wiley and her husband, Robert Wiley of Tewksbury. He was cherished as "Uncle Bobby" by Robert Wiley II and his wife, Shelby and Jennifer Malley, her husband Christopher and their children Alexandra and Jonathan, all of Wilmington. He is also survived by his loving fiancé, Toni Algiere, his former wife and dear friend, Laura (DePasquale) Carreiro and by many loving cousins, aunts, uncle and friends.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend Bob's visiting hours in the Cafasso & Sons Funeral Home, 65 Clark St. (Corner of Main St.) Everett on Thursday, October 5 from 4 to 8 p.m. His funeral will be from the funeral home on Friday at 9 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass in the Immaculate Conception Church, 487 Broadway, Everett, at 10 a.m. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. In lieu of flowers, contributions made in Robert's memory to the Robert Carreiro Scholarship Fund, c/o Gina Gennette, 121 Vine St., Everett, MA 02149 would be sincerely appreciated. Parking with attendants on duty.
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One of the county towns of Middlesex county. Incorporated, 1668. This town lies on both sides of Connecticut river. Haddam Society, on the W. side, is the largest part of the town, and the seat of justice. That part of Haddam on the E. side is called Haddam Neck. There is but little alluvial land in Haddam. The principal part of the township is hilly and stony, with considerable forests. There are valuable quarries of granite on both sides of the river. About 150 men are annually employed in quarrying it, and about $70,000 worth of stone is annually exported. There are many vessels built in Haddam. The timber in this quarter of the county is well adapted for that purpose. The village of Haddam is pleasant, and has a good prospect of the river. It lies 23 miles S. from Hartford and 8 S.E. from Middletown. Population, 1830, 2,830.
David Brainerd, the devoted missionary among the Indians, first drew his breath in Haddam.
"If the greatness of a character is to be estimated by the object it pursues, the danger it braves, the difficulties it encounters, and the purity and energy of its motives, David Brainerd is one of the greatest characters that ever appeared in the world. Compared with this standard of greatness, what little things are the Alexanders, the Cæsars, the conquerors of the whole earth. A nobler object no human or angelic mind could ever propose to itself than to promote the glory of the great Governor of the Universe, in studying and laboring to diffuse purity and happiness among his unholy and miserable creatures.
"'His life and diary among the Indians,' says a celebrated English divine, 'exhibits a perfect pattern of the qualities which should distinguish the instructor of rude and barbarous tribes; the most invincible patience and self denial, the profoundest humility, exquisite prudence, indefatigable industry, and such a devotedness to God, or rather such an absorption of the whole soul in zeal for the divine glory and the salvation of men, as is scarcely paralleled since the age of the apostles.'"
This faithful servant of Christ died at the house of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, at Northampton, Mass., October 10, 1747, aged 30.


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The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1934–35 NHL season. It lists which team each player has been traded to and for which player(s) or other consideration(s), if applicable.

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Notes
 Trade completed on October 22, 1934.
 Trade completed on October 22, 1934.

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Since I still use 3.01 on three machines, I, for one, am grateful.
Posted: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 20:12 Post subject: I was unfamiliar with this until I noticed the thread.
Would you recommend this for PUPs 5.1+?
Is there a PET on Ibiblio?
I agree with Dingo, that commandline is best, but for some gui is preferred.
I don't know whether this Flimp pet will work with the Imagemagick version above...might be worth a try.
Converseen is a QT4 frontend, to Imagemagick, that provides image conversion & resizing.
when that file actually does exist. I tried many versions that compiled on previous Puppies, always with the same problem. One or two people have posted the same problem on the web, but with no solution as far as I can find.
So I turned to trying pre-compiled versions. These failed too. At first I got the same error no matter what I installed, but I eventually realised that they were installing in different places and the old problematic versions were not being replaced by the newer ones. So I tracked down all the files and deleted them by hand to get a clean slate.
That ImageMagick now works fine on Puppy 5.0.2 Lucid. Yay!
I can finally get some work done!
Thank you Dingo, for providing them.
First, I rename the pet, adding ".tgz" to the end of the name, because they are actually tar.gzip files.
Then I click to open in Puppy's archive extraction program (Xarchive in Puppy 5).
Next I select all and extract to the current location. It will give an error because of the way pets are wrapped (with checksum?). Ignore it.
Now you have a folder with all the files in it arranged in the layout they are intended to install on your computer and you can check to see if they are what you want or you can pick and choose from them.
Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 15:54 Post subject: Imagemagick for Lucid 5.20/5.25?
Imagemagick has been a long-time favorite of mine. I'd love to see a PET for the newest versions of Lucid.
Posted: Fri 12 Jan 2018, 15:15 Post subject: Does ImageMagick-continuous-x86_64.AppImage work?
I stumbled on ImageMagick-continuous-x86_64.AppImage here: https://github.com/KurtPfeifle/ImageMagick/releases/tag/continuous.
Recalled reading good things about ImageMagick, but also that it was somewhat difficult to create a functional application: many dependencies.
ImageMagick is the umbrella name for several command-line tools used in image manipulation, one of which being the creation of animated gifs. But, I'm not a 'command-line guy', and currently don't have a project in mind which requires any of the tools offered. Moreover, as it employs python, I can't use ldd (list dynamic dependencies) to test whether all dependencies under Xenialpup64 have been met.
ImageMagick.AppImage should work in Xenialpup64, maybe Tahrpup64; other 64-bits less likely but possible. So, if you have an interest and a current project, please post back and let us know if this package will work OOTB, or its dependencies are easily satisfied.
I have Imagemagick working in RUXerus64. I'll be happy to link the packages I used, if needed. Not sure which Puppies or Quirkies it will work in. Don't recall the version, though.
Please do. It was your prior post which started me looking. The concern expressed in my prior post was about python which, looking at imagemagick in ppm, appeared to be a dependency. And I don't understand python at all.
But with a working version under RUXerus64, my best guess is that whatever python modules required having been satisfied, any binary changes, adjustments --if at all necessary-- to get it functional under Xenialpup64 should be manageable even by someone at my level of incompetence.
Thanks mikeslr. I use ImageMagick quite a lot (though not as much as Gimp). The commandline can make a lot of things much easier.
I haven't noticed ImageMagick use python, though the first thing I always install on Puppy is its devx package, which includes python, so maybe it uses it without me seeing it. It certainly doesn't require you to know any python.
For instance, a while ago I downloaded an old ebook from the Internet Archive (http://archive.org) which had been scanned as page images. I wanted to use OCR (optical character recognition -- get the computer to convert the images of text into plain text) on the whole thing, but the images needed to be cropped to remove the edges of the pages and needed to be enlarged to get the best results from the brilliant, opensource OCR program I was using -- tesseract. The simplest way to do this was to work out the best crop size and rescaling size interactively with Gimp then use ImageMagick to crop all the hundred or so images using a single command, and another ImageMagick command to enlarge all the images. This left me with results that converted using tesseract almost flawlessly.
I know this looks kinda complicated, but it's actually made up of just a few very simple parts all mashed together.
Another nice thing you can do with ImageMagick that I haven't seen anything else able to do (though it might be possible with netpbm) is that it can ripple through all the fonts on your system and create images of them.
convert -size 600x150 -gravity center -background white -font "$1" -fill black label:"$1" "$1.jpg"
echo "----> skipping $fontname !"
But as you might imagine ImageMagick can be used for hundreds of things. It is most useful when working on many files, to remove repetitive actions, but has some surprisingly powerful commands that can be a great help even in single-instance use.
Ok. Well, just in case, maybe I'll upload the Python modules, as well.
BTW, I have a script (not GUI, yet) that I call PDFchuck (never really meant to share) which basically does certain imagemagick functions such as brighten contrast, enlarge, change file type. I tied in a file converter using the backend of ABI Word (I think). It's definitely a messy little script but I'll share if you're interested.
Eventually, I may take that script and make it user friendly by putting YAD on the front end.
I'll post a link here, this evening. Working on a new RU Xerus so the packages will be in my reach tonight.
slavvo67, I'm very interested in that script.


Kamal Mohamed stands with rebel fighters atop a sand dune, trying to spot Libyan government forces in the distance. His toes curl over his flip-flops into the sand, he has no weapons.
As Mohamed peers south, towards the outskirts of the key town of Ajdabiya, where forces loyal to Moamer Gathafi are arrayed, a small group of rebel fighters set out into the desert, planning an "ambush" of government troops.
He smiles apologetically when asked about the wisdom of launching an "ambush" in the middle of the day, with such a lightly-armed force.
"We don't know what we're doing," he admits. "They don't know about military strategy, they are just trying to help."
Instead, when Gathafi forces open fire with tanks and heavy artillery, the young men flee in pick-up trucks and ordinary cars. In one retreat, at least five are seriously wounded. Two appear to be dead.
Khaled al-Sayeh, the outgoing spokesman for the rebel's military council, says the opposition forces are trying to "minimise casualties" to their side, but that the young rebels are difficult to control.
They are there "against the better judgement of a lot of people," he said.
"They are mostly from the area of Ajdabiya and are very anxious to get to their loved ones and the control over them has been quite difficult."
But on the frontline, Mohamed says he is eager for leadership and wants to know why military officers who have defected to the opposition are nowhere to be seen.
"We're angry, we don't understand. We don't have any communications with them," he said, after a second mad dash away from a volley of tank fire.
"We want commanders, we want advice, we don't know what we're doing. There's no one responsible here, there's no one in charge."
Among some rebel fighters, Zelitny included, there is faith that opposition military forces are carrying out their own "secret operations."
But incoming military council spokesman, Air Force colonel Ahmed Bani, denies that the professional military opposition are acting independently.
"We are absolutely not working separately," he said. "We are preparing ourselves now for the big battle, in terms of weapons, in terms of strategy," he said, declining to give any specifics on preparations or attack plans.
He also refuses to comment on the location of captured heavy military materiel, insisting only that it will be used when appropriate.
But Bani admits that there is no communication with the young men heading to the front each day, where enthusiasm for the fight remains high despite the impossible odds.
"It's difficult," Zelitny says. "But I'll keep coming here until Gathafi's gone."


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'Noisy' Churches, Mosques Shuts Down In Lagos
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Lagos (Nigeria) – Authorities in Lagos state, south-west Nigeria has shut down 70 churches, 20 mosques, as well as 10 hotels, pubs and club houses due to high noise levels in the environment.
The state, which had a population of about 20 million, constantly had a background of noise ranging from the blaring of car horns to the Muslim call to prayer and the loud singing in churches.
The state government pledged to make the city, Nigeria's economic and entertainment hub, noise-free by 2020.
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LEPA) said that it would no longer allow people to pray in makeshift buildings and tents.
General Manager of LEPA, Bola Shabi, said that noise levels had been reduced by 35% but that this was still not an acceptable figure.
Shabi said, "Enforcement is a continuous exercise and we have set a target for ourselves. We want to ensure that Lagos is noise-free by 2020."
Shabi added that mosques had been more compliant to the new regulations than churches. He said mosques had adhered to requests to limit their noise output immediately, according to reports by Vanguard.
The high noise levels were a result of Nigeria being a very religious country with a high number of evangelical churches operating in Lagos. Christian Evangelist, TB Joshua enjoyed a huge following in Lagos.
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Using a traditional Scandinavian method, and rag strips, make a lovely scatter rug. No loom required. Rags will be supplied.
This method is not difficult but is somewhat time consuming and can be a little hard on one's back as you are bending over a table. We have table risers which raise the table to a comfortable standing height.
In class you will learn the technique and start your rug. You will then take it home to finish at your own pace.
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The Centre's director, Richard Garside, was quoted in the New York Times last week.
The article explores the effects of austerity on policing in the UK, where police are increasingly being used to deal with the rising numbers of non-crime-related emergency calls in the context of fewer officers and sustained budget cuts since 2010. Additionally, social services have suffered from cuts at the same time.
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Criminal justice in times of austerity
This an abridged summary of a paper presented to the 'Policing the crisis' conference organised by Defend the Right to Protest
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Spending review: Prepare for the worst?
In advance of today's spending review, David Walker writing in The Guardian is critical of the Treasury for its focus on the short- term. He says that even Conservatives who support cuts to government spending have been critical of the 'ramshackle way the review has been carried out'.
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Police cuts 'perfectly achievable'
The Centre's Director, Richard Garside, has appeared on Sunday Politics South West in a feature about cuts to Devon and Cornwall police.
'Against the background of what have been very generous budget increases to the police all through to 2010 and the decade leading up to the 2010 General Election, the cuts are actually not that significant and I think are perfectly achievable.'
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Halve prison numbers to cut spending?
The Ministry of Justice should halve the prison population if it wants to meet the target cuts in departmental spending set out by the Chancellor, says the Howard League for Penal Reform. The proposal, announced today, formed the basis of the Howard League's submission to the government's Spending Review 2015, which asked departments without ring-fenced budgets to submit plans to reduce spending by 25-40 per cent.
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Too good an opportunity to miss?
Richard Garside discusses the implications of post general election spending cuts
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The cost of crime
Richard Garside wrote the following article for a New Statesman special policy report on crime. The full report can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
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The EY report concludes that based on the individual working capital cycle management, the efficiency levels of companies, they could have freed up between `2.7 trillion and `5.3 trillion of cash, or between 6% and 12% of their aggregate sales. Photo: Mint
Indian firms bad in working capital cycle management: EY report
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The EY report analyses the latest published annual reports for the top 500 Indian firms by revenue across sectors
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Mumbai: Top Indian firms could have had ₹ 5.3 trillion in cash at their disposal in the last fiscal year if they had efficiently managed their working capital cycle, a study by consulting firm EY has found.
The EY report, titled All Tied up India—Working Capital Management report 2014, analyses the latest published annual reports (for fiscal year 2012-13) for the top 500 Indian companies by revenue across sectors, including chemicals and fertilizers, food producers, information technology, oil and gas, steel, auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and machinery makers.
The report concludes that based on the individual working capital cycle management, the efficiency levels of companies, they could have freed up between ₹ 2.7 trillion and ₹ 5.3 trillion of cash, or between 6% and 12% of their aggregate sales. This could have then been used for capital expansion or even repaying debt, a problem that many companies are grappling with now.
A working capital cycle can be defined as the period in which there is a flow of liquid resources (the majority of which is in cash) into and out of a business. This period usually begins with investment in raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods, and is followed by the monetisation of the assets that are created.
The longer this cycle takes, the lower the return on the capital employed.
The report states that compared with their global counterparts, Indian companies appear to be worse-off in working capital cycle management. Excluding oil and gas and metals and mining companies, the cash-to-cash cycle (a gauge of how long cash is tied up in the working capital cycle of the company, expressed in days of sales) for Indian companies lasts 67 days, compared with 42 days in the US, 41 in Europe, 57 in Japan, and 39 days in the rest of Asia.
Apart from the regional peculiarities in business environment, elements like supply chain infrastructure (logistics and distribution of goods) and "marked differences in the degree of management's focus on cash and processes related to efficiency" are some of the reasons why the cash-to-cash cycle varied so widely between regions. One of the reasons cash is stuck longer in this cycle in India is evident from the World Bank ranking of the country in terms of performance of logistics. While countries like the US and Japan are among the top 10, India ranks 46 out of 155 countries.
"Not treating working capital as an operational issue, poor system data management, insufficient focus on continuously adapting business policies and processes to a rapidly changing environment appear to be the primary reason for the divergence in working capital trends between India and the US and Europe," the report states.
It is not just the smaller and relatively less organized companies that suffer from working capital management issues. Even larger entities like engineering conglomerate Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) have been suffering from a similar problem of late.
A Barclays report dated 23 January says that L&T's net working capital was 21% of total sales in the third quarter of the current fiscal year compared with 18% in the preceding quarter, "due to less customer advances and tighter vendor credit". The report was issued after L&T's management met with analysts after declaring their October-December quarter results.
"Going forward, the execution part, cost reduction and working capital management are going to be our focus areas," K. Venkataramanan, chief executive officer at L&T, told reporters during the third quarter earnings press briefing. "However, we are still going to have a difficult period as far as the economy's growth is concerned."
As a result of the long working capital cycle, the return on capital employed by companies has also suffered. It stood at 10.8% at the end of fiscal 2013, the lowest in five years.
To be sure, the working capital performance of India companies has shown a marginal improvement in 2012-13 over 2011-12, with the cash-to-cash cycle being shorter by 2%. But the report contends that this marginal improvement is hardly enough to offset the deterioration in the working capital management abilities of Indian companies from fiscal 2009 to fiscal 2013, during which the cash-to-cash cycle grew 21% longer.
Ankur Bhandari, partner (working capital advisory) at EY India, says that other factors like poorly defined contracts, inadequate due diligence of the credit worthiness of customers, and a more adversarial rather than collaborative relationship with suppliers are also some of the factors that lead to a longer duration between payables and receivables.
"At a time when banks are struggling with high levels of NPAs (non-performing assets) and their ability to fund is limited, companies are sitting on a huge potential resource of cash in their backyard, which they aren't being able to utilize," Bhandari says.
Subba Rao Amarthaluru, chief financial officer of RPG Enterprises, says that what Indian companies need in a situation like this is a strong government that will "reignite the investments leading to higher GDP (gross domestic product), higher purchasing power and higher demand".
"Indian companies can and will certainly come out of this current challenge. Till the macroeconomic situation changes, companies have to keep their costs low and keep investing in processes and talent to take on the good times when they return shortly," he said.
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Riley Docker was a born fighter.
His arrival was cause for celebration for his parents and two older brothers, but it soon became clear that Riley's little body was very sick.
From day one he battled. Riley suffered a seizure and serious brain haemorrhaging, with his body thrown out of balance as it reacted to the bleed.
A team of specialists in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit worked tireless to help treat Riley and, with the insertion of a temporary shunt to drain fluids from his brain, the Dockers were able to take their little fighter home just four weeks later.
"Throughout the whole experience the wonderful RCH team didn't just care for Riley, they cared for us".
Riley's family wanted to do something to give back, and, after reaching out to the RCH, choosing to sponsor a bed so they could directly support the teams that helped Riley the most.
Eight months on, Riley's had a permanent shunt inserted, and the little fighter is successfully achieving all of his developmental milestones under the watchful eye of his two adoring brothers.


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INEC delegation visits family of late ad hoc staff in Rivers
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said its delegation had paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Miss Ibisaki Amachree.
Amachree, an INEC ad hoc staff was shot and killed during the Feb. 23 Presidential Election in Rivers.
The Commission in a notice on its official facebook page on Saturday, said that the delegation was led by the Electoral Officer, Degema LGA , Mr Patrick Uzoka .
The visit took place a few days after the unfortunate incident.
It noted that Uzoka commiserated with and presented a token to her family on behalf of the Commission.
It disclosed that Uzoka was accompanied by the Head, Servicom, Mr Augustine Okogbule.
Amachree, was reported to have been hit by a bullet while returning from election duty in Degema.
She was buried on Saturday, March 30 at the Port Harcourt cemetery.
INEC staff	2019-04-13


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Taye Diggs Reveals His Son, 9½, with Ex Idina Menzel Still Doesn't Want Him to Date
Taye Diggs tells PEOPLE that his 9½-year-old son with ex-wife Idina Menzel, Walker, is "No. 1 in my life right now"
By Carmen DiPippo
Taye Diggs may be ready to enter the dating scene, but Walker Nathaniel is certainly not a fan of the idea.
The two have a very close father-son bond, and the 9½-year-old is worried that it will take away from their precious time together — but Diggs, 48, confirms to PEOPLE that his child is still "No. 1 in my life right now."
The actor says that while he understands his son's feelings and has been following through, changes may be coming down the pipeline sooner rather than later.
"I've been respecting that up to now, but I feel like I need to have a discussion with him pretty soon," Diggs told PEOPLE at an event with the New York City Department of Education.
The department is receiving funding from a partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington to provide necessary school supplies — in particular, those for fine-arts education.
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Burlington is making their largest-ever one-time donation of $100,000 for school supplies, which will be distributed to teachers across all six school districts in Manhattan.
And for Diggs, this event is near and dear to his heart and "means so much," as the former Private Practice star comes from a long line of educators and now has a child in school himself.
"I'm a teacher myself, so obviously the importance of getting teachers more money so that they can supply their students with the proper school supplies is very important. I'm very passionate," he tells PEOPLE.
Idina Menzel (L) and Taye Diggs in 2009
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Diggs has been navigating the world of co-parenting since 2013, when he and Walker's mom Idina Menzel announced their split after a decade of marriage, finalizing their divorce the following year.
And while co-parenting can be challenging, Diggs says now that putting a child first can make it "much easier to avoid all of the personal potholes."
"We were friends to start out with, but especially when you have a kid in the mix, there's no time for any negativity," Diggs said of himself and Mendel, 48, in a previous interview with PEOPLE.
The actor reveals that he has several upcoming projects, including a new podcast about parenting. While details are still to come, he hopes to share what he has learned as a parent through this new platform.


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Mario Fulmer is Alaska Native Voice's Visitor Programs Manager. He started as college intern for HTC in 2011 and he came back as a 2nd year college intern in 2012. Mario was as a permanent employee at the turn of 2013.
Mario was born in Seattle, WA and studied at Bellevue College where he earned a business degree as well as a degree in science. Mario's Tlingit name is Kha L'ee named after Jim Austin Sr., he is Takdeintaan from the Raven Nest House and is an active participant in the Yees Ku Oo Dance Group from Juneau, performing locally as well as throughout Alaska. He is a Huna Totem Corporation descendant.


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The highly entertaining Nancy Glass (Tanked, Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History), stops by for a lively career-spanning conversation. The former on-camera news anchor and host discusses how she began her transition to producing and why basing her company in Philadelphia allows for a unique corporate culture. Also, Nancy's President & General Manager, J.C. Mills, makes an (impromptu) appearance to mixed results.


Eleanor Mokula, a resident of a local skilled nursing facility in Girard, PA recently had her wish granted by our Erie, PA chapter. Eleanor, 85, spent time thinking about what she would wish for and after many ideas, decided upon a gift card to Barnes and Noble. She is an avid reader and wanted to purchase a book about Tiger Woods or the movie directed by Jon Stewart. Eleanor used to bake cookies for residents at local nursing homes. She was also worked as a volunteer knitting hats for local community shelters.


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"The Wanderers at 43 m is Sydney's deepest reef dive"
Anemone Bay - North Solitary Island
Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - Anemone Bay, North Solitary Island The North Coast of New South Wales has some fantastic diving, none of which is better than the hundreds of dive sites on the Solitary Islands. On 15 May 1770, Lieutenant James Cook in HM Bark Endeavour passed a small group of islands off what is now Coffs Harbour and named them the Solitary Islands. Unfortunately the sun was setting as he approached the southern-most islands and he passed by them during the night. A pity as he may have examined them closer and found the delights that today attract divers from all over Australia.
The northern-most of the islands is North Solitary Island. From Mullaway it takes about 45 minutes (to travel the 23 kilometres) and from Wooli it takes about 20 minutes to travel the 14 kilometres (bigger, faster boat). There are a dozen or so dive locations around the island. The most famous of these is Anemone Bay on the northern side of the island. This bay is perhaps 200 metres wide by 75 metres long, but the dive location runs out another 75 metres or so. The GPS Reading is latitude of 29� 55' 31" S and longitude of 153� 23' 10" E. Note that all the GPS Readings on my Web Site are taken using AUS66 as the map datum. If you use another datum you may be about 220 metres off the site. See my GPS Page for more details and how to convert readings.
As can be imagined from the name, Anemone Bay gets its name from the fact that there are lots, and I mean lots, of anemones in the shallower parts of the bay. Various reports place the concentration and number of anemones here as being the highest in the World. However, I have also heard it said that it is the fourth highest. My view is that the southern side of the north-western point of North Solitary Island has even more than Anemone Bay! In any case, it suffices to say that there are many, certainly in the tens of thousands.
The bay consists of a shallow part closer to the island with a depth ranging from five metres to about 12 metres at the head of the bay to just ofver 15 metres on the eastern side. This reef drops a few metres (at the head of the bay) or over five metres further out to a bottom that is various composed of sand with some small isolated coral bommies. The bay has at least three moorings that enable different starting and finishing locations on dives. My favourite way of diving here is to start at the Shark Gutters mooring which is in the north-east of the bay. This is located right on the edge of the reef and attached to a huge boulder. From here you do a one way drift (without current), to the mooring at the head of the bay.
Once you descend you will see the huge boulder that holds the mooring in place. The depth at the bottom of the boulder is almost 23 meters and this is the edge of a sort of small wall. In this area you can see turtles, eagle rays, manta rays and sometimes Queensland gropers. To the north-east is the Shark Gutters where the depth is about 25 to 27 metres, depending on where you go. In Winter there are normally grey nurse sharks here and during the rest of the year you may still see them (I have seen them at all times of the year).
If you only doing the dive out and back to this same mooring, you can swim to the south-east from the gutters. The depth drops to almost 30 metres and there are nomrally some Queensland gropers and estuary cod in this area. If you go out further the depth can get to 40 metres. Turning south and then west and depth comes up to 23 metres. There are hundreds of species of tropical fish as well as large numbers of bream, surgeonfish and wobbegongs. Since you have gone deep, you will probably not have the longest of dives so it may be time to return to the mooring.
Hammerhead sharks at Anemone Bay A black whaler at Anemone Bay
If you are doing the drift dive, head out from the Shark Gutters to the north and you may have some fantastic encounters. One one dive here in 2005 I saw a white-spotted shovelnosed ray, a black whaler and five hammerhead sharks in less than five minutes. Once you have seen these (I hope!), swim back to the south till you are in the area of the reef wall.
You will be back in about 20 to 22 metres. Follow this wall to the west (keeping it on your left). The depth will gradually come up. On the bottom here there are isolated rocks and off the wall some larger boulders. As you go you will see that the number of anemones increases. You will also see a number of cleaning stations where fish of all sizes line up to be attended to by cleanerfish. They dart in and out of the fishes' mouth and gills and pick at all parts of their bodies, taking away any dead skin and remains of food. The stations are quite popular, not only with the divers but the fish, with up to three or four fish in line at some spots. If you are a photographer (and even if you are not) pick out a clear spot (hard to find now but much easier in the early 1990s) and lie on the bottom watching a cleaner station for a few minutes. Fascinating!
The wall turns towards the south and the depth comes up to 18 and then 14 metres or so. As you go you will see large schools of bream, diagonal-banded sweetlips, kingfish and even some clown triggerfish. You will go past a mooring and then another old mooring that does not reach the surface. Finally you will see the mooring where the dive boat should be waiting.
On you left now is a sort of plateau that has thousands of more anemones. Each one has three or four clownfish of many species. At times you can be "attacked" by some clownfish. They can be extremely protective, biting your fingers continually. Thank God they are only little things, if they were a metre or so in length, they would be more dangerous than great white sharks!
There are also some turtles in this area and if you keep going east you will come across a gutter that runs to the south. This goes all the way to the island and even into it, forming a small cave. You can go and examine this now or leave it for a later dive.
Orangefin anemonefish at Anemone Bay A turtle in the shallows at Anemone Bay
Return to the west and cross the wall and head west till you hit the reef which is the eastern side of the point that runs out to the north-west of the island. There is always some excellent fishlife here. Go to the north-west, just to the corner (do not go around as there can be strong currents). Come back along the reef, exploring all the small inlets.
From here head south up into the shallows. There are some normally lots of small cuttlefish and many wobbegongs as well as a few firefish here. By now you should have done a dive of about 60 minutes at least. Head back to the mooring if you are short of air (it is unlikely you will be short of bottom time).
On my 20 dives here I have averaged 70 minutes a dive. Visibility here is normally very good, in the order of 20 to 30 metres. Water temperature ranges from 19°C in late Winter to 25°C in late Summer.
I can recommend the services of Dive Quest at Mullaway (02 6654 1930) or Wooli Dive Centre.


The Saskatoon real estate market continued to see stable and impressive sales numbers for a third consecutive week during a time of year when we normally expect to see declines. Local agents reported 103 firm sales of single-family homes and condos, the highest number for any week since early August for an increase of one when compared against last week, to finish with 27 more sales than we saw during the same week last year.
On the heels of a couple of unusually strong weeks for listing activity, at least for the fall season, the number of new MLS® listings added to the multiple listing service® fell lower to 172, down 43 from the previous week but still finishing higher that last year's number when just 162 properties entered the system.
After pushing higher for two consecutive weeks the number of active MLS® listings on the Saskatoon multiple listing service® took a small drop falling from its new annual high of 1613 to finish the week at 1597, up about 200 homes when compared against levels recorded at the close of the same week last year.
I think it was back in mid-June when I said I thought we had probably reached our peak in inventory numbers for the year. As it turned out, we saw listings numbers stubbornly rise to new highs on three separate weeks since then. As we approach the close of September, I think it's likely safe to say that the listing party is nearly over. Over the next few days 82 active MLS® listings are set to expire from the system. Some will renew or extend but I expect a good chunk of those sellers will assume that opportunity has passed them by for this year, even though sales numbers are amazingly strong. Clearly, a new strategy is likely key to finding success late this year but if it were me, I'd hang in while others leave the market. I think we likely have six weeks of strong sales ahead of us. If you've reached the end of your listing contract frustrated, call me, please. I'll show you what needs to be done to finish the job this year.
For the record, the total number of available single-family homes sits at 1017, sharply higher than the 874 available at the same time last year. Condo inventory is showing 460 listings, up from 409 a year ago.
A little more activity in the entry level market (14 sales under 200K) helped bring the median price of a Saskatoon home lower this week to $339,000 while a handful of high priced sales (three above $700K) brought the weekly average higher to $365,280. The six-week average price of a local home grew just a bit to $354,401and finished the week about thirteen thousand dollars higher than it was a year ago. Meanwhile, the four-week median price inched lower to close down two thousand dollars in a week. At $345,000 the four-week median claims an annual increase of eighteen thousand dollars.
Overbid sales remained stable at just three. Those lucky sellers picked up all they were asking, plus an average bonus of $1,100. On the flip side, 977 buyers ground out a deal that resulted in a discount averaging $11,575 leaving eight others that traded at the asking price.
Other notable real estate activity this past week included 82 cancelled and withdrawn listings (74 and 8 respectively), 19 expired listings and 69 price changes.
Saskatoon home sales reached their highest point since early August as local real estate agents reported 102 house and condo sales to the multiple listing service® for a weekly increase of four, topping numbers for the same period last year by 18.
New listings were fairly stable on a weekly basis with 215 being added to the system, down just three from last week and up a whopping 54 homes compared against last year's numbers.
The total inventory of active listings on the Saskatoon MLS® made sizeable gains for the second week in a row to crack the 1600 mark and reach a new high for 2014. Today's searches show 1614 Saskatoon homes being available to buyers, 20 ahead of last week's close and up on levels recorded on the same date last year by 235 homes. The number of single-family homes found on the MLS® system has increased from 850 to 1002 from a year ago. Condo inventory has grown from 418 to 474 over the same period.
Upper end activity ramped up a bit and pushed the weekly median price of a Saskatoon home higher to $348,700. With a single sale approaching $1.3 million in the mix the average price took a similar bump and closed the week at $355,633. The longer term price measures both moved higher this week. The four-week median took the larger gain of almost 10K for the week to reach $347,000 and claim a twenty thousand dollar year-over-year increase. Meanwhile, the six-week average price of a Saskatoon home inched ahead to $352,859 for annual growth of ten thousand dollars.
Overbid sales fell flat to just one deal. That one went over the seller's listed price by $2,100. Another seven homes sold at full price while the remaining 94 went for less than the asking price by an average of $10,062.
Other notable real estate activity this past week included 88 cancelled and withdrawn listings (84 and 4 respectively), 21 expired listings and 74 price changes.
Saskatoon real estate agents had a busy week with a seasonally appropriate number of sales and an insanely brisk flow of new listings being added to the MLS® system. A total of 98 house and condo sales were processed over the course of the week, up 30 from last week and ahead of the same period last year by eight sales.
New MLS® listings numbers spiked higher than the previous week by 52 homes as local agents brought a total of 218 house and condo listings to the system for an increase of 40 when compared against the same week last year.
Given the disparity between the number of sales and new listings that came onto the system it should come as no surprise that the inventory of MLS® listings available to Saskatoon home buyers spiked again and reached 1593 to come very close to hitting a new peak for 2014. Currently, there are 994 single-family homes for sale in Saskatoon, up from 815 a year ago. Condo inventory sits at 472, ahead of where it was at this time last year when it sat at 415 units.
With 13 sales below 200K in the mix both the average price and the median price of a Saskatoon home both slipped lower to $346,354 and $340,950 respectively. The six-week average price followed in the same direction as it shed a little more than five thousand dollars when compared against last week to finish at $352,078. That amounts to a year-over-year increase of nearly nine thousand dollars. The four-week median price remained steady on a weekly basis at $337,500 to finish the week just marginally higher than it did a year ago when it was $333,000. Note that both the six-week average and the four-week median are back to about where they were in the middle of May before the typical spring run up began.
Overbid activity grew to three homes with an average bonus of $3,434 being paid to the seller. Another 12 deals closed at the full asking price while 83 buyers made off with a discount averaging $8,077.
Other notable real estate activity this past week included 77 cancelled and withdrawn listings (73 and 4 respectively), 22 expired listings and 65 price changes.
Following three consecutive weeks of sales increases the Saskatoon residential real estate market took a slide as the number of houses and condominiums changing hands hit their lowest levels since mid-March of this year. Local agents reported a total of 68 firm deals to the Saskatoon multiple listing service®, down 32 from the previous week, and just one more than had been reported during the same week of last year.
The number of new MLS® listings added this week grew by 13 when compared against the previous week. Saskatoon real estate agents processed listings on 166 houses and condos, about a dozen more than we saw come on over the same period a year ago. As is typical most months, the final week usually sees a fairly high number of listings expire as they come to the end of their term without a sale. A pretty good handful of those get re-listed and push the new listing numbers higher.
There were enough listings that expired and didn't come back on the market, at least not yet, to bring the total number of residential properties available for sale lower this week. Inventory fell by 30 homes from last week's close to settle at 1553 to finish higher than it was at this time last year by 211 homes. Single-family inventory slipped back below the 1000 mark after reaching new annual highs over the past couple of weeks. Today, there are 984 houses showing an active status within the city of Saskatoon, up from 840 a year ago. Condo selection sits at 442 for an annual increase of 30 homes.
Strong activity at the upper end of the Saskatoon real estate market kept the week's price measures high. The average price, supported by a good handful of sales above $500K and one deal that wrapped up at close to a million dollars, came in about where it was last week at $360,226. Meanwhile, the median price paid for a Saskatoon home rose about fourteen thousand dollars to $356,450. Looking to the longer term measures, we see the six-week average price of a Saskatoon home edging lower, down just a few hundred from last week to $357,612 for an annual gain of about 22K. The four-week median price increased by fifty-five hundred over last week and closed at $337,500 to claim a slight increase (two thousand dollars) over where it sat a year ago.
Overbid activity continued to cool but those that were into it came on strong. Just two sales closed higher than the seller's asking price, one of those at $26,000 above, to produce an average overbid of $15,550. On the flip side, 61 buyers managed to grind out a deal that provided a discount averaging $10,485. Another five buyers offered to pay full price.
Other notable real estate activity this past week included 67 cancelled and withdrawn listings (62 and 5 respectively), 73 expired listings and 62 price changes.
The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors® (SRAR) released the MLS® residential real estate statistics for August of 2014 recently accompanied by the following release.
At the end of August there were 1,595 properties available in the Saskatoon real estate market. This represents an increase of 16 percent year-over-year in inventory levels and is nearly 11 percent higher than the five year average. The number of homes that have been listed for sale in the Saskatoon area in 2014 reached 9,734 for a 13 percent increase over 2013.
Click the images for a larger version of the chart.
Strong sales, which were up eight percent for the same period, helped keep the sales-to-listing ratio at just over 50 percent to produce a balanced market. "Depending on what price range a property is in the sales to listing ratio will vary. Currently the west side of Saskatoon enjoys a slightly stronger seller's market than the east side and north end," comments Jason Yochim, Executive Officer with the Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS®. The months of inventory, which reflects the time needed to liquidate the current inventory of listed homes, is up slightly to just over 4 months as the increase in properties for sale continues to outpace the increase in sales across Saskatoon.
The activity in homes priced between $500,000 and $750,000 continues to do well with 332 unit sales, an increase of 35 percent over last year. Not surprisingly, the price range with the most unit sales year-to-date is between $350,000 and 400,000 with 551 units sold, a 16 percent increase from 2013. Saskatoon's transaction volume for 2014 sits at just under $1.5 billion, an increase of 11 percent over last year and is on track to reach $2 billion by year's end. "It is encouraging to see strong activity across the board in the Saskatoon market, especially over the summer months when real estate activity typically slows," comments Yochim. "In spite of our strong market we continue see a modest three percent increase in the average sale price." The average price of a home in Saskatoon currently sits at $353,000.
Currently there are just over 330 newly constructed homes available on the Multiple Listing Service® in Saskatoon. According to reporting by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, single-family detached housing starts are on pace with last year while multi-family unit starts are almost double those of 2013 halfway through the year. Competitive pricing and continued low interest rates are resulting in more absorption in the new home market.


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StartupsGlobalSpain
How destination content ramps up sales
By Kristin Mariano	 On Feb 13, 2019
Storytelling is a must for destination marketing. Knowing the story of a place is one thing, but communicating it to an audience is another – a major thing for travel companies.
The content for branding and campaigns is different from the content that engages readers to know the more about the stories and experiences on the place. Smartvel is a specialist in destination content technology, providing live destination guides for travel companies including airlines, hotels and destination marketing companies.
Iñigo Valenzuela, founder and CEO of Smartvel, said: "Destination content is key in the industry and I realised that it was not professionally managed through a complete digital solution for travel companies and smart cities."
Smartvel came into fruition while Valenzuela was still working at CWT. He saw that there is a gap in the market where travellers were sold products without complete information.
Iñigo Valenzuela, founder and CEO, Smartvel
"We were sending millions of travellers every year all over the world and I thought that we were not giving them valuable information. We only advised them about travel disruptions, but never about what to do when they were at their destination," he said.
Smartvel offers various solutions for a company's digital transformation by covering all the touchpoints throughout the customer journey with relevant destination content for travellers.
He said: "We offer different solutions within their digital channels providing everything that is going on at any destination in the world (must see, what to do, where to stay, up-to-date events, tours, etc.), together with specific content for each customer (e.g: their products, their ancillaries, hotels, tours, etc). Besides, our travel guides include up-to-date content based on the travel dates and traveller's preferences."
"With our solutions, our customers engage more with their users, sell more ancillaries, and become a supplier that enhances the experiential traveller with content that would be very difficult to get," he added.
What sets Smartvel apart from other companies is its unique technology. Smartvel won the first prize in Spain for the best project in Big Data & Tourism. Smartvel's technology gathers and geocodes — from hundreds of sources of information — all the live agenda of any destination: concerts, cultural events, trade fairs, exhibitions etc. It is also able to gather all the non-dynamic content such as sights and attractions, restaurants, tours and activities.
"Behind our product, there is a very complex IT solution that automatically generates the content, which has been possible thanks to more than 80.000 hours of programming. In order to do that, we use AI, Machine Learning and Big Data software architecture, not because the amount of content is huge (millions of events do not count for Big Data), but because we transform unstructured data from thousands of sources into a clean and organised database. We connect our services with other open data structures, websites, paid, non-paid, social networks, etc. and we enrich the content with precise localization, categories, pictures, relevance, translation, etc. It would not be possible without AI," Valenzuela told me in our interview.
Covering more pain points
Last October, Smartvel has announced funding of just over USD 1 million. Investors in the round for the Spain-based company included Caixa Capital Risc and Alsa. They are joined by Fides Capital and Faraday Venture Partners.
The company says the funding will help it expand further as well as develop its technology, which provides live destination guides for travel companies such as airlines, hotels and destination marketing companies.
"Every year we increase the number of features of our solutions. This year we are launching a brand new version at the end of January, with the aim of covering more touchpoints during the traveller's journey. For example, we will also launch within the first quarter a solution for TVs at hotels, which is another touchpoint where we will integrate all of our powerful data," he said.
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Samsung Galaxy Gear: Will it succeed like it's Galaxy phones?
Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear at IFA 2013 in Berlin and it's features are beyond a smartwatch. We should actually call it a 'smartphone on a wrist', reason being it has a camera, microphone and you are able to make phone calls from it! This is finally a dream coming true for those who would want to answer phone calls on their watch like Power Rangers.
The Galaxy Gear will be a serious contender to smartwatch OEMs such as Pebble and Sony, especially when it already has some software built-in on the watch itself while others require app downloads separately, most importantly, Samsung came out with features that smartwatch OEMS has never thought of it before, such as integrating a Camera and microphone for phone calls. There is actually one product that is very similar to the Galaxy Gear a few years back. And guess what is it?
Behold, the LG Watch Phone
Many of you readers may not have known this product, because it was a failure, simply because it doesn't run on any smartphone operating system but running on LG's own proprietary software, while it also doesn't add any value other than using it like a feature phone, people don't really buy the concept of using a watch as a phone that time, Android wasn't even widely known then.
LG is the first official smartphone OEM that integrates phone call function into a wearable gadget. This wearable device wasn't available in Malaysia when it was released, of course you may be able to get one at some forums at around RM1.6k, which is quite a huge price to pay for.
Will the Samsung Galaxy Gear succeed?
Now that you can have Android installed into so many devices, it will not come as a surprise that it may land on your wearable wrist watch one day. The Galaxy Gear is sold at the price of USD$339, which is around RM1000 after conversion, with that price alone, you could get a proper Android smartphone that gives you a bigger screen, more practical usage as a communications device. We have our fingers crossed over here, Samsung has made the Galaxy Note a success when a big screen smartphone wasn't accepted by people that time, do you think Samsung will do it again? Share us your thoughts in the comments.
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Announcing the Winners of The Scientist's Top 10 Innovations of 2021
From Resolve BiosciencesDec 6 2021
Each year The Scientist seeks to highlight the latest and greatest tools, technologies, and techniques to hit the life science landscape. For more than a decade, we've been employing the assistance of expert panels of independent judges who weigh submissions of innovative products speeding work in laboratories and facilitating biological discovery.
This year's crop of entries to The Scientist's Top 10 Innovations contest reflected the fact that the scientific community, like the whole of society, has been adjusting to a new reality marked by the second year of an extremely challenging and taxing global pandemic. At the same time, work in other areas of the life sciences has preserved. "In a way, it's heartening that scientific advances have continued to occur in spaces outside of the crucial coronavirus focus," says Editor-in-Chief Bob Grant. "It suggests that the global biomedical apparatus is robust enough to address a pressing and pointed concern while not losing ground in fields not directly related to that crisis."
The winners of The Scientist's Top 10 Innovations of 2021 contest are:
nVueTM System (Inscopix) – This "miniaturized microscope" enables dual color imaging of two distinct brain signals in freely-behaving animals, such as two neuronal populations or neural activity in conjunction with brain blood flow.
PhysioMimixTM Multi-Organ System (CN Bio) – The microfluidic platform allows scientists to connect individual organ-on-a-chip models for disease research and drug development.
MERSCOPETM (Vizgen) – This single-cell spatial genomics instrument, the only one currently available for purchase, detects RNA transcripts from hundreds of genes across intact tissue and returns imaging and expression data at subcellular resolution.
Brain-Chip (Emulate) – This organ-on-a-chip model consists of two channels embedded in flexible rubber polymer—one channel represents blood vessel walls and the other represents the brain—and midway along the chip, the two channels come into contact, allowing scientists to study the blood-brain barrier.
Gemini and Mark I (Q Bio) – The Mark I prototype scans the entire body using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and the imaging results are uploaded to the Gemini platform, along with medical records, genetics data, and traditionally acquired tests of blood, urine, saliva, and vital signs, to create a "digital twin" of the patient.
Chromium X (10X Genomics) – Loading cells, reagents, and a partitioning oil into a microfluidic chip, researchers can use this benchtop instrument to create droplets, or Gel Bead-In-Emulsions (GEMs), that each contain a single cell, a single barcoded Gel Bead, and a reagent, and are ready to be sequenced and used in assays offered by 10x Genomics.
SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Assay Development Kits (The Native Antigen Company) – This coronavirus neutralization assay uses synthetic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein's receptor binding domain and its target, the mammalian ACE-2 receptor, to quantify a serum sample's level of antibodies that bind, and therefore neutralize, the virus, as evidenced by a color change.
Tapestri Single-cell Multi-omics Solution (Mission Bio) – This process for single-cell analysis allows users to consider DNA sequence and proteomic information simultaneously, and therefore correlated at the single-cell level.
CRISPR-SNP-Chip (Cardea Bio) – Equipped with a CRISPR-Cas system tethered to a graphene transistor, this device is the first of its kind that can detect single base differences in DNA without generating millions of copies of the DNA first.
Molecular CartographyTM Single-Cell Spatial Analysis Service (Resolve Biosciences) – This mail-in service offers fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to create high-resolution images of individual RNA transcripts inside intact tissues—down to the subcellular level.
Congratulations to this year's winners. Be sure to visit https://www.the-scientist.com/features/2021-top-10-innovations-69438 where you can read more about the products that earned top spots and see comments from our expert judges.
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My anti-vax mother-in-law from hell
A youngster gets his vaccinations at North Shore General Practice. (Pic: News Corp)
by Jane Hansen
25th Oct 2017 8:30 AM
SHE unwittingly married into a family of anti-vaxxers who not only denied her children vaccination against childhood diseases, but also refused them conventional medicine when they were sick.
Her husband even placed her under surveillance to ensure she did not follow a legitimate doctor's orders and her mother-in-law, an alternative medicine practitioner, administered a known poison to her children in the delusional belief that it was a natural remedy.
"Holistic medicine" destroyed this Queensland mother's marriage, and her ability to safe guard her children is a constant struggle.
Kelly, not her real name, has gone to authorities, but they have let her down because the alternative health field is badly, if at all, regulated. It operates in a grey zone despite a growing body of evidence of the harms that have come from naturopaths, homeopaths and other alternative practitioners.
That body of evidence includes the near death of a baby who nearly starved to death after Sydney naturopath Marilyn Bodnard advised the mother to go on a raw food and water only diet. Bodnar pleaded guilty earlier this year to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the mother to fail to provide the necessities of life.
Homeopaths dish out magic water claiming it can vaccinate against killer diseases, and despite health authorities putting them on notice, they continue to do it. In other words, someone has to die before something is done.
When Kelly married her husband 12 years ago, she thought they shared the same values and beliefs. They even had pre-marriage counselling that explored their expectations, but the one thing that was not explored was the topic of vaccination.
"We married believing we were basically on the same page. I got pregnant on the honeymoon and soon after I was forced to confront the reality of the family I had married into," the mother in her 40s says.
Kelly's mother-in-law is an alternative practitioner who offers an array of unproven therapies and concoctions, including banned products like black salve, an indiscriminate corrosive product that burns flesh, and colloidal silver, a toxin when taken orally.
People rally in Melbourne's Flagstaff Gardens for the return of deadly, preventable diseases.
Early in the piece, Kelly accepted a treatment with her new mother-in-law and was a little alarmed. There was talk of AIDS being a man-made virus and vaccination used to spread the AIDS virus.
Things got worse after the children came along. Kelly had wanted to vaccinate her children, but her husband, and mother-in-law would not hear of it. Kelly went along with their wishes to keep the peace.
"I wasn't proud of my choices and I was upset I had succumbed to family pressure and failed to advocate for my children. I felt like a fraud," Kelly said.
But both her children had medical issues. Her first born son, had serious behavioural problems identified as ADHD.
"When he started childcare, kindergarten and then school the truth became undeniable. Grade One was a disaster. My son was suspended back-to-back seven times for violence towards his classmates, teacher and destroying the classroom.
"I knew when our son was diagnosed with ADHD I could no longer avoid the fundamental ideological differences between my husband and I."
On a pediatrician's recommendation, stimulant medication was prescribed as a trial and it turned her son around. The violence stopped and the learning began.
"He could finally focus long enough to begin reading and he could control his impulses in class. He was paying attention, raising his hand and receiving positive feedback for the first time in his young life. I was so relieved. And yet, my husband refused to allow me to continue with the medication.
"He told me if I was a better parent our son wouldn't have these problems. He accused me of causing (Tom's) ADHD because I played high energy games with him when he was a toddler."
Kelly continued to secretly give her son the medication for another year before her husband found out.
"I simply could not bear to watch my son struggle and suffer at school so I continued to give the medication secretly. When my husband found out he made my life a living hell. He put me under constant surveillance. I was crucified and my marriage broke up," she said, adding in hindsight, it has been for the best.
"I realised I could not walk the slippery tightrope of trying to please everyone any longer. My children deserved a strong mother who would advocate for their best interests."
Secretly, on a week when she had custody, she vaccinated the children.
"I went ahead and vaccinated. I've and the children have got rights. I told him after the fact."
Their daughter also became a battle ground. Born with, a developmental condition which required surgery to correct their daughter suffers from recurrent infections that usually require treatment with antibiotics. Kelly's now ex-husband refuses to administer them whenever she has an infection and because they share care week on week off, course of medication is never finished in her father's care.
"He believes I should be able to prevent her infections with natural remedies at home rather than treating her with prescription medication. In his eyes I am a failure because she continues to experience infections."
Kelly knew her mother-in-law was a fan of colloidal silver and she was treating the children with her go- to 'magic potion'.
Before he died from poisoning himself with colloidal silver, Paul Karason's skin turned blue. "Kelly's" mother-in-law was feeding it to Kelly's children.
Colloidal silver is a natural antibiotic and healing agent when applied topically. Oral ingestion can literally turn your skin blue. Paul Karoson from Washington, died in 2013: he was called the blue man after self-medicating colloidal silver.
It can be toxic and harm kidney and liver function. There are no oral products licensed for sale in Australia and the Therapeutic Goods Administration has recorded several cases of poisoning from oral ingestion.
Kelly's mother-in-law recommended her clients drink it. And she administered it to her grandchildren without Kelly's consent.
"When my ten-year-old son told me she was giving it to him behind my back I knew I had to do something. My children needed me and I had to speak up."
Kelly went to Queensland's Health Ombudsman who contacted the mother-in-law.
"She denied everything and they said they did not have enough evidence to proceed," Kelly said.
Kelly had her son's blood tested. The normal level of silver in the blood should be less than 0.02 molar units per litre. Her son's was 6.43 - 320 times the normal level.
The public health unit investigated and again the mother-in-law denied all. No further action was taken.
Kelly's mother-in-law, on the other hand attempted to take out an apprehended violence order.
"She sought retribution. Twice she has tried to obtain domestic violence protection orders against me - claiming I was harassing her, and that I was a malicious and unfit mother. The purpose of domestic violence protection orders are to protect genuine victims. My MIL has abused and misused the legal process in an attempt to bully and silence me. Speaking out to protect your children is not domestic violence! Thankfully the magistrate threw her applications out," she says.
Kelly is now a single mother and only works part-time. She is applying to legal aid so she can take the issue further, but she is still stuck with having to let her children, who are both in primary school, return down the rabbit hole every second week.
"She believes I am poisoning my children because I chose to treat them with legal, prescription medications. She lives in a topsy-turvy, upside down, opposite world. Sunscreen is toxic, vaccines are deadly, and fluoride is being used to dumb us down," Kelly says.
What is becoming apparent is that the alternative medicine field is very adept at reinforcing conspiracies about western medicine.
"Kelly's" son's silver readings were alarmingly high, 320 times the normal level. (Pic: Supplied)
"Fifteen year old Alex Radita died when his parents refused to treat his diabetes with Insulin. An autopsy revealed he died from bacterial sepsis from complications of neglect and starvation, due to the Type 1 diabetes.
"My mother in law has her own clinic and presents herself to the public as a "Health Professional" and "Learning & Behavioural Specialist". In this trusted role as a self-proclaimed "expert" she advises parents not to immunise their children, diagnoses children's behavioural problems as vaccine injuries and sells various unproven, unregulated and illegal goods and services."
Naturopaths and kinesiologists and the like are not registered medical professionals. Anyone can hang out a shingle and practice and therein lies the root of the problem.
"The bottom line is it is unprofessional and unethical for unqualified people to "play doctor" and endanger people's lives and they need to be held accountable," Kelly says.
"I am one voice trying to protect my children from a family member who has been duped by pseudoscience. It should not be this hard to stop charlatans and quacks. I should not be dealing with this alone. It shouldn't be my responsibility to discipline my mother-in-law as an altmed practitioner and compel her to practice ethically. I am waiting for the day someone other than me will tell her what she is doing is wrong and illegal.
"I am sharing my story hoping I can make a difference. Please don't let another mother go through the hell I have been through. If you have concerns about an unethical alternative practitioner contact the Health Commissioner in your state and report them," Kelly urges.
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Q: Insert command failing So, I'm having trouble getting data into this table. I have a similar table setup for memberships. If I change the insert into query to membership from join everything works perfectly, but as soon as I change the table to join it stops working. The table seems to be properly setup since it's basically the same as my membership table, but for some reason data will not insert. I can't think of what could be causing my problem so I'm coming to the experts.
Note that this code all works perfectly when going into a different table. Thanks in advance.
if ( isset($_POST['btn-join']) ) {

    // clean user inputs to prevent sql injections
    $groupID = trim($_POST['groupID']);
    $groupID = strip_tags($groupID);
    $groupID = htmlspecialchars($groupID);

    $teamname = trim($_POST['teamname']);
    $teamname = strip_tags($teamname);
    $teamname = htmlspecialchars($teamname);

    // Query groups to set group name
    $query2 = "SELECT groupName FROM groups WHERE groupID='$groupID'";
    $result2 = mysqli_query($con,$query2);
    $groupquery = mysqli_fetch_array($result2,MYSQLI_ASSOC);
    $groupname = $groupquery['groupName'];

    // groupID validation
    if (empty($groupID)) {
        $error = true;
        $groupIDError = "Please enter valid Group ID.";
    } else {
        // check email exist or not
        $query3 = "SELECT groupID FROM groups WHERE groupID='$groupID'";
        $result3 = mysqli_query($con,$query3);
        $count = mysqli_num_rows($result3);
        if($count!=1){
            $error = true;
            $groupIDError = "Provided Group does not exist.";
        }
    }

    // basic teamname validation
    if (empty($teamname)) {
        $error = true;
        $nameError = "Please enter your Team Name.";
    } else if (strlen($teamname) < 3) {
        $error = true;
        $nameError = "Team Name must have at least 3 characters.";
    }

    // if there's no error, continue to signup
    if( !$error ) {

        $query = "INSERT INTO join(groupID,userID,groupName,teamName) VALUES('$groupID','$userID','$groupname','$teamname')";
        $membership = mysqli_query($con,$query);

        if ($membership) {
            $errTyp = "success";
            $errMSG = "Account successfully updated";
            header("Location: dashboard.php");

        } else {
            $errTyp = "danger";
            $errMSG = "Something went wrong, try again later...";
        }
    }
}

SQL:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `join` (
  `jID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `groupID` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
  `userID` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
  `groupName` varchar(35) NOT NULL,
  `teamName` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
  `joinDate` datetime DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`jID`),
  UNIQUE KEY `groupID` (`groupID`,`userID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

A: join is a reserved word in SQL. To avoid these sorts of issues, use backticks around table and column names:
$query = "INSERT INTO `join`(`groupID`,`userID`,`groupName`,`teamName`) VALUES('$groupID','$userID','$groupname','$teamname')";
$membership = mysqli_query($con,$query);

As a side note, you should really rewrite this query to use a prepared statement and then bind the variables to it. This is a SQL injection waiting to happen.

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