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A 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special will be displayed along with other luxury vehicles from the 1950s and 1960s during EyesOn Design.
Photo provided by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology
EyesOn Design to take attendees on international vehicle design journey
By: K. Michelle Moran | Grosse Pointe Times | Published June 11, 2019
GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Before it became a famous men's magazine, did you know that Playboy was actually Playboy Motor Corp.?
Cars from the failed automaker — which was in existence from 1947 to 1949 — are among the unique vehicles that will be on view during EyesOn Design, a car show that takes place on Father's Day — June 16 — from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores. Although the Playboy vehicle — designed to be a family's second car — never took off, a company employee suggested the name to a young Hugh Hefner, and the rest, as they say, is history. Three Playboy cars will be shown for the first time in metro Detroit.
The 32nd annual EyesOn Design is a fundraiser for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, a Grosse Pointe Park-based nonprofit. Organizers say attendees will see an estimated 200 to 300 vehicles that reflect the theme of design around the world, a theme also captured in artist Jim Dietz's 2019 poster.
Vehicles will include luxury models from the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1959 Jaguar Mark IX and the 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special, and exotic international sports cars from the 1970s and 1980s, such as the 1974 Lamborghini Espada and the 1979 Lotus Esprit S2.
And the vehicles aren't limited to cars. EyesOn Design Chair Kathy Lightbody said there will also be "Gentleman's Racers, these beautiful wooden boats."
There will even be a vintage ice cream truck that was discovered abandoned in a field and was restored, Lightbody said. She said the truck's owner now travels to events and hands out ice cream. While supplies last, Lightbody said EyesOn Design attendees will be able to get complimentary ice cream from the truck.
"(EyesOn Design) is uniquely wrapped around the design of vehicles rather than the provenance or who owned the vehicle before or how well it's been restored," said Dr. Philip C. Hessburg, medical director of the DIO and senior staff ophthalmologist in the Henry Ford Health System Department of Ophthalmology.
The emphasis on design, and the fact that all of the judges are vehicle designers, make this car show different from others, he said. It has also "become one of the most important car shows in the United States," said Hessburg, noting that USA Today has ranked it in the top five car shows in the country and the top car show in Michigan.
"I think most people in Grosse Pointe don't really realize how important it's become," he said. "It's much better known internationally than it's known (locally)."
Lightbody said this year's show will demonstrate the "universality of design and how one country's design influences another," with vehicles from different countries from a single model year displayed opposite one another "so people can see the similarities and differences."
Attendees can get close to the vehicles — which aren't roped off, unlike many other car shows — and hear stories from the owners.
An optional brunch during EyesOn Design will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 16, at a cost of $85 per adult and $25 per child younger than 12. Brunch tickets include admission to EyesOn Design. Hessburg said tickets were still available at press time.
There will be activities for children — including a chance to create a travel journal in a booth set up by the Detroit Institute of Arts. Attendees will receive a free color program with photos of most of the vehicles on display.
Prior to EyesOn Design, former Ferrari designer Leonardo Fioravanti will be honored with the 2019 Lifetime Design Achievement Award during a black-tie dinner from 6:30 to 11 p.m. June 14 in the ballroom of the MGM Grand Detroit, 777 Third Street. This event is open to the public, and at press time, tickets — at $195 per person — were still available.
EyesOn Design supports worthy endeavors. The DIO — the research arm of Henry Ford Health System's Department of Ophthalmology — provides assistance, devices and programs to the blind and visually impaired in southeast Michigan, and conducts international research congresses. The research congresses, which have brought leading scientists from around the world together to brainstorm and collaborate, have made strides in recent years in the area of artificial vision, which could one day restore sight to the blind.
The DIO runs "the largest support groups in the United States for people who are blind or going blind," Hessburg said. "Just like support groups for people with breast cancer, these are very important."
Conducted over the last 20 years, the annual research congresses — The Eye and The Chip, about artificial vision, and The Eye, The Brain and The Auto — take place on alternate years. The rise of autonomous vehicles in recent years can be traced, at least in part, to the latter congress.
"It's the most important congress in the Henry Ford Health System, and the car show plays a very important role in supporting that," Hessburg said.
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is located at 1100 Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Shores, between Vernier and Nine Mile roads. For tickets to the brunch or the black-tie dinner, call the DIO at (313) 824-4710 or email JDARA1@hfhs.org. Admission to the car show is available at the door and costs $25 for adults and is free for children ages 12 and younger when accompanied by an adult; active-duty military members with identification will be admitted for free.
For more information, visit www.eyesondesign.org.
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Andanallur  is a village in the Srirangam taluk of Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu, India.

Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Andanallur had a population of 4,540 with 2,230 males and 2,310 females. The sex ratio was 1036.

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Villages in Tiruchirappalli district

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Xperia X10 clears FCC; Coming to T-Mobile
December 19, 2009 by Gaurav Shukla
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, device which tech-lovers have been waiting for quiet long, just passed through FCC's courtyard with T-Mobile frequencies on board. There are no details available on when it might land in the US, yet the phone was known to come stateside, and now it seems that it has just taken another step down that road.
Xperia X10 was spotted around FCC's hallways with support for T-Mobile's network, namely with EDGE 850 / 1900 MHz and WCDMA Band IV on board. It also shows that WIND Mobile in Canada could get it at a certain point.
Early 2010 is said to be the release time frame for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, with some suggesting that February is the lucky month, while other state that January 18 might see the phone launched on the market.
Handy Backup for Android now supports scheduled backups
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Wisconsin faces deadline on health care exchanges
Governor meeting with cabinet members
Posted: November 8, 2012 11:49 PM
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker has a week to decide whether to move ahead with part of the federal health care law or let the federal government do it for him.
Walker was in La Crosse on Thursday for a small-business summit, but he also addressed some of the decisions he'll have to make following the re-election of President Barack Obama this week.
"Our decision point goes beyond my philosophical belief that I thought the Affordable Care Act was a bad idea for people in Wisconsin, but it is the law," Walker said.
Walker had put on hold all efforts to implement state-run health care exchanges required by the president's health care law in hopes Obama would lose and the law would be overturned. But Obama won and Democrats kept control of the Senate, meaning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will continue to go into effect.
Wisconsin faces a Nov. 16 deadline to inform the Obama administration about whether the state will implement a health care marketplace, or exchange, or let the federal government do it.
"At some point, this is going to happen, and the governor has to go from political opposition of this issue to leadership and governing, and the time to act is now," said Bobby Peterson, executive director for ABC for Health.
Peterson said state residents would be better-served by an exchange that is developed by Wisconsin stakeholders.
"We have a lot of folks that have thought about this issue and worked on this issue that have ideas to put on the table," Peterson said. "To let this be developed by federal policymakers, I think, is a mistake."
"There's a part of me that looks at a state-run (exchange) and says, 'I don't want to give up anything I don't have to (give up) to the federal government,' just instinctively," Walker said.
But Walker explained that he's torn on the issue.
"It might be a better argument to let it be run by the federal government because the risk you run is if a state runs it and eventually money goes away from the federal government, you might expose state taxpayers to picking up more of that cost," Walker said.
Walker says meetings with his cabinet will continue until next week.


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Previous / Unser to receive 'Baby Borg' celebrating 1970 Indy 500 win Next / Dixon unhappy with stipulated tire stint length in Texas
IndyCar Special feature
Race of my Life: Roger Penske on the 1994 Indy 500
The latest episode in Autosport's Race of My Life podcast series is legendary team boss Roger Penske on the day his team and Mercedes-Benz shocked the world with its 'secret' pushrod engine.
Race: 1994 Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Driver: Al Unser Jr
Car: Penske-Mercedes PC23
I don't really go back and think about my own personal races as a driver. Those were back in the early days. More recently, we've had a few memorable ones as a team. The win at Sebring with the LMP2 Porsche against the Audis (in 2008) was a good one. Then there was the NASCAR title with Brad Keselowski after however many years.
Al Unser Jr., Penske PC23-Mercedes-Benz
Photo by: Bill Murenbeeld / Motorsport Images
But I guess the one that was really key for us was the 1994 Indy 500, when we came in with the pushrod Mercedes engine. We kept it a secret until a week or two before the month of May opened, came in, sat on pole and led almost every lap. That was a tremendous experience.
We'd watched the Buicks come in for 1992, sit on pole and lead, but not have reliability. So to think Mario Illien was able to design, build and test that engine in less than a year…
We didn't have transient dynos in those days. We had Paul Tracy in a toboggan suit driving round Nazareth doing a reliability run. During the May we ran it at Michigan, trying to get 500 miles on it a week before the race. It was down to the wire.
Keeping it secret actually wasn't all that hard. We had a separate group of guys working on it. I talked to our people in Reading, Pennsylvania and I just said, 'If you talk about this, I'm cutting off your paycheck'.
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We had the development guys in a separate building; Ilmor was obviously developing the engine in the UK. It was one of those things that we just kept under our hat. It was pretty exciting when we announced it. I'd gone to Stuttgart and told Mercedes that we were ready to go, and we wanted to do it that year – for a long time, we weren't sure we'd be ready. And the only commitment they asked for was that we'd run it in all three cars. So we did, and it obviously paid off.
One of the most exciting things was when the top Mercedes people came into the garage in their suits and I told them, 'You've got to put a Penske-Mercedes shirt on'. So that was a big day in my life, having these guys strip down and put Penske-Mercedes shirts on. And then winning was probably one of the biggest days of our racing history.
Winning any race at Indianapolis is meaningful, but when you make a commitment to a company like Mercedes, it was a victory for our relationship, our brand. We lived up to a commitment we'd made and that's been key to our relationship over a long-term basis. And we built the F1 relationship with them that they have now – it's the same group doing the F1 engines. A lot of those Ilmor people are at Mercedes.
We certainly were planning to keep the engine beyond Indy, but they outlawed it a couple of weeks after the race. Typical.
Interview by Mark Glendenning, first published in Autosport, 10 July 2014
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"No one quite like Bobby Unser," says Roger Penske


Psalm 119 is an acrostic psalm which means that each line in each section begins with a letter of the alphabet in order from aleph (the first Hebrew letter) to tav (the last Hebrew letter). Psalm 119 divides each section according to letter. For example, 119:1-8 is the aleph section and each line begins with aleph. There are 22 sections corresponding to the 22 letters (sin and shin count as the same letter, so 22 sections, not 23) of the Hebrew alphabet. This alphabetizing aids in memory. The acrostic psalms are (9-10 taken together), 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119, and 145.
Yahweh is God's personal name. It is translated LORD in contrast to adonay which is translated Lord. It is used 5321 times in the Hebrew Bible. Yahweh is the word most often used in this Psalm to refer to God. Yahweh's word is the same as God's word or the word of God.
The unknown psalmist finds himself alone, persecuted, and discouraged. He prays to Yahweh and meditates on Yahweh's word which is unerring, dependable, wise, preventative, reviving, and corrective. It is the source of delight, and the light that guides us on the path of life. Our response to this Psalm should also be prayer, meditation on Yahweh's word, and love for Yahweh. These will foster love for His word, meditation on His word, memorizing His word, delighting in His word, obeying His word, and allowing His word to shape, order, and determine our thinking, speaking, and acting. The psalmist refers to Scripture in every verse except 84, 121, and 122. He calls Yahweh's word law, testimony, precepts, statutes, commandments, judgments, word, sayings, and ordinances. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible—176 verses.
Word (saying), Strong 565—imrah; utterance speech, word, 19x.
Aleph, 119:1-8. The blessed (אָשָׁר ashar) or spiritually happy person is one who walks (lives) according to, observes, keeps, looks at, and learns Yahweh's law, testimonies, ways, precepts, statutes, commandments, and judgments.
Beth, 119:9-16. Yahweh's word—learned, meditated upon, talked about, and rejoiced in keeps one from sin, and the psalmist wants more of His word.
Gimel, 119:17-24. The psalmist pleads that Yahweh will explain his word to him and comfort and counsel him with his word.
Daleth, 119:25-32. Yahweh's word revives, strengthens, encourages, and corrects one who pays close attention to it.
He, 119:33-40. The psalmist asks Yahweh to teach him His word, to revive him by it, and to motivate him by it so he will reverence Yahweh and live righteously.
Vav. 119:41-48. The psalmist asks that he may experience Yahweh's lovingkindness and deliverance and knows that Yahweh's word provides security, answers, a way of life, delight, and the message to tell to others.
Zayin, 119:49-56. Yahweh's word gives hope, comfort, renewed life, and reminds the psalmist about Yahweh.
Heth, 119:57-64. The psalmist wanted Yahweh's favor and knew that His word spoke of favor, and he determined to follow Yahweh's word and to give Him thanks.
Teth, 119:65-72. Yahweh disciplined the psalmist to bring him back to Yahweh's word, and he responded with thanks and renewed desire to follow Yahweh's word.
Yodh, 119:73-80. Even though Creator Yahweh disciplined the psalmist, the psalmist knew the discipline was righteous and according to Yahweh's word and he determined to meditate on and live according to Yahweh's word.
Kaph, 119:81-88. Though ungodly people are persecuting the psalmist, he trusts Yahweh's word and lovingkindness, and he does not stop following Yahweh's word.
Lamed, 119:89-96. Yahweh's word is settled (permanent) in heaven and it gives order to all things; and because of this the psalmist makes Yahweh's words his delight and authority.
Mem, 119:97-104. The psalmist loves and meditates on Yahweh's word and this word makes him wise, gives him understanding and pleasure, and keeps him from evil.
Nun, 119:105-112. Yahweh's word guides one's life, revives one when afflicted, and gives inner joy and the psalmist determines to obey and apply it always.
Samekh, 119:113-120. Yahweh is the psalmist's hiding place and shield from evildoers and he asks Yahweh to sustain and uphold him so he can continue to follow Yahweh's word, commands, statutes, and judgments.
Ayin, 119:121-128. The psalmist, who is oppressed by arrogant law breakers, wants Yahweh's deliverance and asks Him to show lovingkindness and teach him Yahweh's word, statutes, testimonies, law, commandments, and precepts.
Pe, 119:129-136. Yahweh's testimonies are wonderful and his word gives light and understanding and the psalmist longs to be established in all of Yahweh's words.
Tsadhe, 119:137-144. Yahweh is righteous and all his judgments are right, and the psalmist loves all of Yahweh's words and his enemies have forgotten them.
Qoph, 119:145-152. Enemies follow the psalmist and while he cries to Yahweh for help and waits for Yahweh's words he resolves to meditate on and obey Yahweh's words.
Resh, 119:153-160. The psalmist, persecuted by those who do not keep Yahweh's word, pleads for Yahweh to revive him in keeping with Yahweh's word, ordinances, and lovingkindness because His words are truth and righteous and he loves them.
Shin, 119:161-168. Though princes persecute the psalmist, he is in awe of Yahweh's words; he loves them, rejoices because of them, praises Yahweh for them, resolves to keep them, and knows they give peace and stability.
Tav, 119:169-176. The straying psalmist cries out to Yahweh to give him understanding and deliverance that fits Yahweh's word, and he wants to praise Yahweh and sing about His word because Yahweh and His word are his delight and only deliverance.
The LORD God's word centers our lives on Yahweh God. His word rightly established in our lives honors Him and directs our lives.
The LORD God's word, Scripture, is central to knowing God; to learning his will and his provisions for believers; to loving God; to keeping our thoughts, words, and actions right; to keep us from sin; to revive or encourage us, and to provide spiritual happiness.
We secure the LORD God's word in our lives by listening, reading, studying, meditating, memorizing it, and applying it. We accept its authority over us.
Therefore, we clearly see that the LORD God's word is vital for living the Christian life, for pleasing God, for our own stability, and for inner blessing.


..a little report about the first dig to be done at the Clumps - and hold on, it's not all about the Romans..
Skeletons of a young woman and a new-born baby dating back to the Roman period have been unearthed by archaeologists at Wittenham Clumps. While they could be the remains of a mother and her child, Tom Allen of Oxford Archaeology said it was unlikely. The skeletons had originally been buried several yards apart on Castle Hill, at Little Wittenham, near Didcot.
Mr Allen described the discovery as "significant but not totally unexpected", at the start of the first archaeological dig to be undertaken at the Clumps, including the Iron Age hill fort of Castle Hill.
Iron Age, Roman and Saxon activity has previously been found inside the hill fort -- and late Roman burials discovered outside -- but the site has never been excavated.
The twin beech-capped hills form part of an 800-acre estate owned by the Northmoor Trust charity, which was awarded a £1.7m Heritage Lottery grant "to explore the evolution and future of England's landscape".
A further £1.3m has been raised in sponsorship.
At the heart of the £3m project will be a hi-tech visitors' centre situated inside converted farm buildings at Hill Farm, Little Wittenham. Called a Landscape Evolution Centre, visitors will be able investigate how predicted climatic and economic factors could change the area's landscape in the future.
An extensive archaeology programme, which is being funded with the help of the Lottery grant, will also be undertaken.
Mr Allen said a geophysical survey of the Clumps by English Heritage had revealed a buried ditch, probably from an earlier Bronze Age enclosure, on Castle Hill.
The skeletons are among the first of many finds archaeologists expect to unearth from a period spanning nearly 4,000 years.
Following careful examination, the skeletons were removed for investigative tests.The archaeologists were able to establish that the skeletons were of Roman origin because of pottery remains with the bodies.
Ian Rowland-Hill, chief executive of the Northmoor Trust, said: "This is a unique landscape and we want to explore why humans chose to live on Castle Hill."


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The following extract from an article by Iben Thranholm, is one of the most important journalistic writings of the twenty-first century published in the West.
Russians are returning to Christianity in a "modern and contemporary context"
"They are familiar with the bitter fruit of atheism and have no appetite for the bleak and barren wasteland it produced"
"In Russia, Christianity is associated with being modern and progressive"
"The young, the hip, the wise and the wealthy, express their Christianity as a completely natural and straightforward thing"
"Today, the spirit of communism shows itself in western worship of human rights, freedom of speech and the elite's utopian notions of so-called open societies. We are headed for the very wasteland that the Russians were relieved to leave behind."
"Russians perceive activists like Pussy Riot as latter-day Bolsheviks"
The subject of this interview is a Danish journalist and theologian who hosted a series of five programmes, entitled "From Russia with Love" on Danish national public service radio, Radio24syv, with the sub-heading "An Unbiased Look at Putin's Russia."
Inspired by Emperor Constantine, she believes Christianity in the West can be rejuvenated by looking to the East. Iben is aware of the sheer enormity of this task. "Such, alas, is the depth to which Western hatred for Christianity has sunk," says the theologian, who does not hesitate to defend President Putin, on whom the Western media delights in heaping derision and scorn.
"The Pussy Riot case opened the door to Russia for me," she explains.
"I understood that Russia is a country that refuses to compromise on Christian values. Russia is not just a country or a nation, Russia is a spiritual concept, a state of mind. Criticism of President Putin was not the crime for which the activists were tried and convicted. Their crime was the invasion of the Christ-The-Saviour Cathedral, the holiest of places, and engaging in a blasphemous act in front of the iconostases.
In the West, freedom of speech is widely deployed for the purpose of desecrating religion, but Russia does not permit crossing the line into blasphemy. That really fascinated me, and so I travelled to Moscow to learn more and this eventually resulted in a series of radio programmes trying to help Danes move beyond the tedious and unhelpful caricature-like clichés and provide them with a nuanced view of Russia."
"I experienced a fantastic energy, a moral energy similar to America in the '50s with the old moral values. I met helpful, poetic and cultured people with a spirit of self-sacrifice I have not seen before. The atmosphere in Moscow is completely different from that of any capital in Europe, and unlike here in the West, I feel much more spiritually free in the East.
While the West is deriding and disowning Christianity and Europe revels in self-loathing, Russians are returning to Christianity in a modern and contemporary context. Bear in mind that Christianity was suppressed under Communism, which was atheistic. Russians are familiar with the bitter fruit of atheism and have no appetite for the bleak and barren wasteland it produced.
The interesting thing is, that in Russia, Christianity is associated with being modern and progressive. It is the spirit of the young, the hip, the wise and the wealthy, who express their Christianity as a completely natural and straightforward way of life. Christianity is simply fashionable, but not in the superficial Western pop manner. Christianity's roots grow deep in the soil of Russian life, and they look with amazement at how we guard, or rather, disregard, our spiritual heritage.
Not only that: They discern in our obsession with political correctness, and the social liberal opinion policing of the general media and academia, a new manifestation of the terror of totalitarianism they counted themselves blessed to escape after 75 terrible years.After the Cold War, East and West swapped roles spiritually, culturally and morally. Cultural Marxism now holds unrestrained sway in the West.
But Communism and Social Democracy are probably not the same?
"Let me put it a different way. During the rule of Communism, Russia found itself in the grip of a culture of death, but she is returning to life, in the sense of Christian culture with a strong awareness of the historical roots and continuity." The situation in the West is the complete opposite. We celebrate death and have surrendered to the satanic view of man in a self-righteous rage and rant against God. We can divorce with ease on-line. We prioritise work and career above family responsibilities especially raising children. We favour euthanasia, abortion on demand, homosexual rights and same-sex marriage while our cities are submerged in Islam and growing segregation.
Russia has chosen a completely different direction, and it is one of the reasons that many Russians perceive activists like Pussy Riot as latter-day Bolsheviks. They invade and desecrate the sanctity of the church, a holy place. The West celebrates this as progress and prosperity. Russians are reminded that the spirit of communism is still alive. It merely assumes new forms and takes up residence in the West, where liberals and progressives love and adore Pussy Riot.
Today, the spirit of communism shows itself in western worship of human rights, freedom of speech and the elite's utopian notions of so-called open societies. We are headed for the very wasteland that the Russians were relieved to leave behind. Patriarch Kirill has warned the West: "Do not take the path we took. We tried it and it leads to destruction!"
Recently the Russian military held an exercise based on the scenario of an attack on northern Norway, Aaland, Gotland and Bornholm. Do we just turn the other cheek?
"Well, that's not the true way to look at it. The Russians hold such an exercise because of the geopolitical pressure that NATO creates by deploying hostile military forces along the Ukrainian border and in the old Warsaw Pact countries. Russian foreign policy has long been demonized. Russia is compelled to respond to a situation it did not create, which is not the same as aggression. Why should Russia accept being cut off from access to the sea, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok? Such a thing is unthinkable. With bald-faced hypocrisy, the West makes it look like Russia is our new enemy. The truth is exactly the opposite. The West is its own worst enemy."
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Shift Hybrid is a watch based on automotive engineering featuring elements like disc brakes, speedometers, seat belts, and gear shifts. The materials used are also found in cars. Parts like aluminium, carbon fibre, stainless steel, rubber, and glass. Take a look after the jump and see if you can spot all the automotive influences.
The design utilizes both analog and digital parts. All the gears, rotors and needles are analog but they are controlled digitally to precisely keep time right down to the millisecond. Quite impressive.
Cool design. I would wear that.
But I feel the need to point out that the "materials found in cars" are pretty much the same materials found in most watches already.
Aluminum, steel, glass, leather, carbon fiber and rubber are already used quite extensively in the manufacture of watches.
I love my watches, thats a really nice design!
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You know you can exhibit your work at low cost and no environmental impact at the next international exhibition of design in Milan?
Purchased with a click of your project the 3D hologram projected in the heart of Zona Tortona.
for an exhibition of sustainable say IES.
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thats very cool. please make it!!!!!
I can get a Rolex, Omega, Tag Heuer, Tudor or other high end watches for less.
MAKE THIS! This should be pursued, it would be a great seller assuming it's not too expensive, but it looks like it will get up there in price though.


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If you want to help Uighur Muslims, seek them out and get to know them. Visit their masjid, their restaurants, invite them to your masjid events, and ask them to speak at your events. Validate them.
After the threat of the Muslim Travel Ban in February 2017, I was invited to a World Hijab Day event organized by non-Muslim women in Southern California. These open-minded women tried on hijabs to increase understanding and solidarity. They didn't invite me to pity me or hear my sob story; they wanted to get to know me because they identified with me. We bonded on fashion and shared discrimination stories.
Shockingly, the organizer Kim told me, "You're the first Muslim I've met. I have Hindu and Jewish friends, but no Muslim friends." As a California native, I see Muslims and have plenty of non-Muslim friends, so I had assumed that everyone knows Muslims.
But the biggest thing I learned from that event is that when you want to help someone, you should get to know them. The interest shown in my faith, lifestyle, and safety empowered and motivated me to continue to believe in myself in this uncertain climate. Unfortunately since then, attacks on Western Muslims have increased. Muslims repeatedly echo this sentiment: Get to know your non-Muslim neighbors and community. If we want them to support us we have to open up to them.
Ironically, I see the same isolation and disenfranchisement among different ethnic groups within the Western Muslim community as well. I try hard to raise awareness for the issues indigenous, Latino, Black, and now Asian Muslims face, but it is met without much response (in my undergraduate MSA, I remember a suggestion to highlight issues in different regions like Darfur, Sudan being vetoed because 'we only have time for Palestine Awareness Week,' with one student actually saying aloud, 'I only care about Palestine.') This year, it finally occurred to me: there are ethnic minority groups within the Muslim community. Although a part of the disenfranchised minority in larger Western society, South Asians and Arabs play the majority and are therefore the power players in the Muslim sphere. The South Asians and Arabs are the most vocal, have the biggest masjids, and have their concerns met the most. Therefore, serious issues of certain groups of ethnic-minority Muslims are tragically overlooked constantly. Even though equally appalling atrocities happen in other communities, they are only addressed after years and decades of suffering.
It is the exact same phenomena as with the non-Muslim community – if Muslims don't know a Muslim person from a specific minority group, they will overlook their issue. They will be sympathetic but from a distance. However, if they personally know someone from that group, they will actively try to help and support them.
I've been hearing about the religious oppression of Uighur Muslims by China for several years. I was confused as to why larger Muslim communities were not stepping in to help them practice their faith, and why I didn't hear about fundraisers for the Uighur Muslims as I did for Palestine, Syria, and more recently Myanmar. Shouldn't any Muslim suffering anywhere be a cause for alarm? Or do they have to look like the members of the masjid to cause alarm?
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We know from CNN that (at least) one million Uighur Muslims are in forced concentration camps in East Turkestan (called Xinjiang by China), an oil-rich occupied territory. What we don't know is that Uighur Muslims live among us. There are Uighur Muslims in Canada, the US, and the UK to name a few.
I shed tears of gratitude when I actually met Uighur Muslims at a relief table at the ICNA Canada Convention in October. Finally, I could talk to people about this tragic event rather than hear about it on the news. I could put names to faces, hear firsthand accounts, and express my regret and eagerness to help. I could see the relief on their faces and hear the gratitude in their voices that another Muslim cared about them. I could hear their regret and fear about missing family members and the lack of coverage at Islamic events.
Even the simple act of sharing stories and listening to the people who are suffering helps their cause. Sometimes it is more valuable than donating from afar. It gives them hope and motivation to continue on their crusade because they know it is making a difference.
Alhamdulillah, I got to know the Uighur Muslim sisters while I visited Toronto. I attended their masjid, joked with their children, and ate some of their delicious food (noodles made from scratch). This group of 30-40 year old strong and educated wives and mothers work tirelessly to raise money and awareness for their oppressed family and friends back in East Turkestan. Together, they support 300+ Uighur children who have fled to Turkey (orphans whose fathers are incarcerated in China's internment camps) and 20 female students who escaped the Chinese government while studying Islam in Egypt. Despite threats to their family and being followed by Chinese government officials, they attend protests. I got to know one sister well, who we will call Amina*. She is in her 30s, has five children, and studied law in China. Amina even traveled to the UN headquarters in Switzerland to demonstrate against China during the Universal Periodic Review of China by the Human Rights Council on November 6.
They have not spoken to their incarcerated family members in 2-3 years, they don't even know if they are still alive. They are not allowed to have any contact with them. Amina's uncles did not take advantage of their US visa like her dad did, and are now trapped in East Turkestan. Hanna*, a tall and well-spoken mother of two with a Masters degree, travels monthly from London to Ontario to attend the sisters' halaqa/debriefing meetings. She has not spoken to her mother in two years.
"It used to be a few days before I realized I had not called my mom until she texted me to remind me. Now I would give anything to talk to her."
This is why I ask Muslims from 'minority' groups to come into the light, step out of their community's masjid and visit the bigger masjids with the bigger community groups. They need to see you, hear you, get to know you. One conversation can make all the difference. We've heard the facts, now we need to get to know the people. Once you become friends with them, they are your partner for life. They will stick by you no matter what your situation is.
Mainstream masjids in the West are finally addressing this issue. Sheikh Mustafa Umar, the director of California Islamic University, informed the packed audience at the Islamic Institute of Orange County that the UN said they "haven't seen anything like (the internment of the Uighur Muslims) since the time of the Nazis." His valuable piece of advice was for Western Muslims to appeal to large, established Muslim charity organizations (like Helping Hand USA) to expand their resources to help the Uighur Muslims in China.
So if you want to help Uighur Muslims, seek them out and get to know them. Visit their masjid, their restaurants, invite them to your masjid events, and ask them to speak at your events. Validate them.
You can donate to Uighur Relief Canada efforts here.
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From there to here, from here to there, researchers find that Dr. Seuss is — in political, social, psychological and even business terms — everywhere.
Of all the places he'd go in his wildly fertile imagination, Theodor S. Geisel — better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss — probably never dreamed he'd be referenced in the journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting. But the man who wrote a classic work of children's literature using a vocabulary of only 51 words (Green Eggs and Ham) would be amused to discover how many densely packed pages of academic prose are devoted to his work. Today, on the beloved author and illustrator's 107th birthday (which, as always, will be celebrated by the National Education Association as Read Across America Day), we look at some of the ways researchers have mined his nearly two dozen books for political, social and psychological implications.
A radical departure from the Dick-and-Jane reading primers of their day, The Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Seuss classics remain remarkably fresh reads. So what is it that gives these whimsically illustrated tales their multigenerational appeal? Kerry Mallan of Australia's Queensland University of Technology points to the poetic meter Dr. Seuss usually utilized, the name of which — anapaestic tetrameter — sounds like one of his imaginary creatures. This meter, also used by Lord Byron, "has the accented syllable following two unaccented ones," Mallan noted. "This creates a wonderful galloping rhythm, which is perfect for humor."
But however enticing the rhymes or evocative the droopy-faced drawings, the key to Dr. Seuss' longevity is the way his tales resonate with their intended audience. In an insightful 1995 analysis in the journal Children's Literature, Tim Wolf of Middle Tennessee State University points out a recurring theme in his books: the desperate need "to win the approval of a rejecting parent." On the first page of Dr. Seuss' first children's book, 1937's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, a father sternly tells his son: "Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales."
"Visually, this large passage of verse looms over a small boy in the lower right corner, almost pushing him off the page," Wolf notes. "We might say that the parent wants to push the imagination out of (the boy's) head." He fails to do so, but parent and child remain estranged at the end; in essence, they live in two different worlds. It isn't until later books, beginning with The King's Stilts, that Dr. Seuss finds a way to bring them together.
Consider the 1960 classic Green Eggs and Ham. In Wolf's interpretation, the unconventionally colored breakfast symbolizes a precious gift the child is trying to give his grumpy parent — a reminder of the importance of creativity and play. When the beaten-down adult finally submits to his child's wishes and eats the oddly hued food, he experiences "a return to lost bliss." There are fewer lines around his eyes and mouth, so he looks younger, more energetic — and more emotionally available. The child saves the parent from despair and reclaims him as a loving caregiver. That's a hero myth most every youngster can relate to — or at least fantasize about.
There was never any question about Dr. Seuss' politics. Geisel drew editorial cartoons for a left-leaning newspaper during World War II, and several of his children's books are allegories, tackling such social issues as prejudice (Horton Hears a Who), environmental degradation (The Lorax) and the Cold War nuclear arms race (The Butter Battle Book). Nevertheless, some conservative thinkers have claimed him as one of their own, at least to a degree.
Writing in the Political Research Quarterly in 1983, Timothy Cook contends that many of Dr. Seuss' stories, like those of Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum, "present a distinctly negative aspect of government and authority." In such tales as Yertle the Turtle and The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, "Seuss shows political authority as potentially selfish and exploitative, thirsting for more power, heedless of the best interests of the community," Cook asserts. "Both Baum and Seuss, by the conclusions of their stories, appear to argue that government should be limited in its scope."
But the real political message of the books concerns family dynamics. Writing in 2002, Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, asserts that Seuss "reflects a larger current in American progressivism during this period, which saw the home and family as the birthplace of a more democratic culture." In the 1950s, the patriarchal, because-I-said-so approach to child rearing was being replaced (at least among the educated) with a different style of interaction, in which parents set boundaries for their kids, but also let them explore and experiment. Dr. Spock explained the theories; Dr. Seuss brought them to life.
"Seuss felt that the best children's stories acknowledged and worked through children's anger toward parental rules and that, in doing so, they respected children's innate sense of justice," Jenkins notes. "Seuss seems to be getting at the absurdity of adult demands which run counter to children's natures, parental expectations which transform innocent behavior into misconduct."
To conservatives, this let-children-be-children mindset led to an overly permissive culture, lacking appropriate respect for authority. But Jenkins points out that Seuss' view of family life was hardly business-unfriendly: "One can't help but note how this cultural re-valuing of play paved the way for the leisure- and consumption-oriented culture demanded by the postwar economy."
Capitalism's dark side is the theme of his 1971 book The Lorax, which grew out of the ecology movement of the previous decade. It focuses on the Once-ler, an enterprising but morally blind businessman who chops down a forest of Truffula Trees in order to make Thneeds, a vaguely defined but highly desirable consumer product. The story was adopted by environmental activists as a way to teach children about the link between mindless consumption and ecological damage. But writing in the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education in 2006, Kathleen Pleasants of Australia's La Trobe University argues it has outlived its usefulness.
In Pleasants' view, the title character, who claims to speak for the trees, is far too negative and strident to appeal to children. No one, least of all youngsters, likes a scold. Furthermore, she argues, the story's theme of idyllic nature despoiled by greedy humans is, at best, oversimplified. By framing life as a contest between man and nature, she writes, "Seuss seemingly ignores the necessity for humans to live and labor in nature."
Even if its ecological assumptions are shaky, The Lorax "can be used in management education to highlight particular ethical issues," according to a 2000 article in journal Business Ethics: A European Review. Michelle Greenwood argues that "a number of core ethical issues are addressed with great clarity in both the text and illustrations of this story." For example, she notes disapprovingly that the Once-ler "did not attempt to establish any relationships or contract with the local inhabitants in any of the potential roles they could have held (e.g., employees, customers or suppliers)." If only he had earned an MBA, he might still be manufacturing Thneeds today.
Similarly, in a 2005 essay in the Journal of Management Education, Debra Comer and Robert Holbrook argue that many Dr. Seuss books "contain wonderful illustrations of management and organizational behavior concepts that transcend the basic message of the text." These books "emphasize universal principles of individual, interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup behavior, thereby collectively providing an excellent repository of illustrations of management concepts." With all that knowledge, it's a good bet Sam-I-Am grew up to become a CEO.
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The last decade and half across Africa has witnessed various processes of transition from single party and military rule to multiparty forms of politics. This development has, however, tended to prevent scholars from addressing critical questions about the elites that exercise and wield political power on the continent beyond banal generalisations about (neo-) patrimonialism and the post-colony. The challenge of systematically studying the African power elite and the mode by which it governs has become urgent not only because of the conceptual/theoretical dead-ends to which much of current received wisdom leads, but also because a better understanding of the nature, composition and renewal of the elite is critical to our understanding of the governance of the public sphere. Furthermore, the unfulfilled promises of the on-going democratisation processes across the continent and the continuing susceptibility of the political system to violent conflicts point to a problematique of power - the way in which it is appropriated, accumulated, structured, used, legitimated, and reproduced – which needs to be carefully studied.
In focusing on the theme of the African power elite, participants in the 2003 Governance Institute will be invited to discuss the huge asymmetrical gap between the elites who exercise the power of governing public affairs and the masses that they govern. In order to go beyond mere denigrations and/or self-seeking hagiographies, it is proposed to tackle three essential dimensions of the role of elites in African political systems both theoretically and empirically. The three dimensions are: the social identity and cohesion of the ruling groups, the forms of political coercion that they use, and the ways they control scarce resources. Together, these three dimensions serve, among others, to define the dynamics of political relations, the nature of a political system, the mode of elite constitution, the social basis of decision-making, the symbolic points of reference on which elite identities are grounded, the mode of domination in a political system, the apparatuses of legitimation that are mobilised, the structuring of the relations between the elite and other sectors of society, the scope that is available for the generation of elite consensus, the role of external powers in supporting or opposing the consolidation of elite groups, and, ultimately, the relative stability of a political order.
The 2003 Governance Institute strived to demonstrate how the constitution of the elite in Africa relates to trends in the social and historical dynamics that help to structure local public spheres. The current relevance of a return to an analytical interrogation of the elite is justified by the importance ascribed to their modes of composition, as well as their ability to present themselves as legitimate representatives of the larger society as a whole. Participants will be asked to highlight the role of the elite in the process of nation-state building in Africa and connect questions around it to a radical critique of democracy, which is contradictory, in principle, to the concentration of power in the hands of a dominant and restricted group existing to protect its privileges.


Organizational structure determines the number of layers of management and how departments interact with one another.
Delays create unreliability and will alienate customers from the organization. Recognizing early signs and symptoms of not having coordination in an organization can help it prevent further damage. Lost Data Organizations Symptoms of an inadequate organizational structure effectively utilize information to function at an optimal level.
Consequently, workers who come up with new ideas may keep them to themselves or take them to a new employer.
Video of the Day Brought to you by Techwalla Brought to you by Techwalla Territorialism A lack of collaboration between departments or organizational sections can lead to paralyzing territorialism in a company. Too Many Bosses Some organizations use a reporting structure where an employee has to answer to several bosses.
Video of the Day Brought to you by Techwalla Brought to you by Techwalla Poor Customer Service Organizations with poor organizational structure may not be able to provide efficient customer service, which can eventually lead to a loss of business. This can occur frequently in larger companies where there is little interaction between departments.
With redundancy, an organization will spend double the effort, material and time to produce the same item twice. By controlling and properly managing work in progress, the organization can work to prevent delays and resulting coordination problems.
This can make the organization obsolete and unable to compete against other organizations in the same industry that have adopted a coordinated effort to adapting new methods of producing and managing the organization. Lack of Teamwork Bad organizational structure does little to foster the concept of teamwork.
A pipeline for new ideas may not exist, and even if it does, poor communication may mean that the idea never reaches the right source for development and implementation.
For example, a company with too many layers of management may experience misinterpretation of a directive as it is passed down from layer to layer.
Unequal Workload Poor organizational structure can cause an unequal distribution of work between departments or divisions. By implementing an accountability system for the information, the organization can improve coordination and minimize lost information. Poor Communication Bad organizational structure can lead to poor communication.
Employees may play one boss against the other, which can ultimately lead to friction between the bosses. Lack of Innovation Companies with bad organizational structure are often slow to innovate. Lack of coordination creates gaps in the acquisition and distribution of information.
By implementing control measures to reduce redundancies, an organization can work toward improving overall coordination within the organization.
A survey and an approach and the common symptoms of inadequate organizational structure. When there is a lack of coordination between management, labor, production and sales, delays will result causing the organization to become ineffective. Going beyond organizational structure, organizational theory has produced a variety of ways to view organizations.
For instance, if you chose a from pagehow does motivationleadership, etc. Inflexibility also freezes many protocols that could have potentially become productive.
In some cases, these signs can be early indicators of significant problems that need to be addressed before causing financial disruption in the company.
Redundancy typically results from a lack of coordination between various departments within the organization. Inflexibility When an organization does not support coordinated efforts, innovation and progress can become stagnant within it.
In an organization with a poor structure, employees may feel the need to go directly to a department head, vice president or even the president to express concerns or recommendations. The assignment above requires that student to select two of the common problems associated with organizational structure and assess the problem in terms of motivation and leadership.
Implications of a Bad Organizational Structure by Chris Joseph - Updated September 26, An important component to the success of any organization is the type of structure it implements.
Delay One of the signs that an organization lacks coordination is delay. Slow Decision Making Slow decisions can hamper sales opportunities and innovation. See the attached file.
When business problems emerge, signs often exist within the design or components of the organizational structure.
If order to successfully achieve goals and for the organization business to remain viable, organizational structure must be align with goals. Hax and Majluf further discuss type of organizational design and how organizations should be designed based on their strategy.
Lines of Communication Unclear Employees routinely bypassing the standard chain of command in a company could be a sign of poor organizational design. A leaner or departmental decision-making process may be needed to foster an innovative spirit in the company.
Workers may focus on their individual tasks and not offer assistance to others unless directed to do so by a supervisor. Implementing this type of process allows interdepartmental coordination throughout the organization between employees.Business Models & Organizational Structure Recognizing early signs and symptoms of not having coordination in an organization can help it prevent further damage.
Delay. The organizational structure of a business is the framework that facilitates communications and efficient work processes. When business problems emerge, signs often exist within the design or components of the organizational structure.
Inadequate Organizational Structure, Symptoms and Effects Leah Peters Grand Canyon University MGT Leadership and Organizations 8/22/ Inadequate Organizational Structure And Effects The organizational structure of a business is its foundation and is used to facilitate communication and efficient work processes.
When problems arise within. Poor Communication. Bad organizational structure can lead to poor communication.
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The Fire and Ice facial from iS clinical is not all that new--it has been around for a few years--but it is still one of the top choices for celebrities like Halle Berry, Gwyneth Paltrow and Evangeline Lilly that want to get their faces red carpet ready. The facial is formulated by iS Clinical, which is known for their effective [but expensive!] anti- and reverse-aging serums.
What makes the Fire and Ice facial different than other facials is that it has the effects of a subtle chemical peel (so don't expect to look like Samantha at Carrie's book party).
After a quick facial cleanse, the "Fire" part is applied. This is a mild peel using 18% glycolic acid and retinol, which removes the very top layer of the epidermis. This has a harsh burn to it so it only stays on for three-to-five minutes. After this layer is washed off, the "Ice" layer is applied, a rejuvenating masque that smells minty fresh. This has skin-plumping hyaluronic acid, herbal antioxidants and soothing aloe vera.
I tried the procedure out at Vitalia Medspa in McLean, 7506 Leesburg Pike. My face was pink for about an hour but noticeably tight and radiant.
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ESPN's Greatest Athlete of All Time reinvents himself.
When you've been named ESPN's Greatest Athlete of All Time, and you decide to put your name on a product, you want to ensure that it is of a caliber worthy of that name. How do you do that? Bo knows.
Just as in sports, when a player fumbles the football or strikes out in baseball, it's primarily the player, rather than the team, who takes the flak. In the same way, "If someone buys Bo Jackson's 34 Reserve and has a complaint, it is Bo Jackson's name that they will remember. I have spent countless hours developing products under my label, and that's the last thing I would want to see," he said.
In February, QA Editor Lisa Lupo visited the Two Rivers plant for an exclusive interview with Bo Jackson and a tour of the production facility to discover why the legendary athlete decided to transition into food, how he chose the products that would bear his name, and what, exactly, Bo knows about beef.
Bo conducts regular quality checks of products that bear his name. "In the end, if the end user gets a bad product, my name gets mud on it. I've had to drop companies because of that," he said.
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"It's not always good to have someone else be in charge of your name and likeness, so I started my own company," Bo said.
What Two Rivers has going on is not only a quality product, but also a "young, hungry sales force"; an exceptional focus on cleanliness and food safety; a solid supply chain; plans for expansion; and a culture of involvement.
"Everyone here, from the owner down, is hands on," Bo said. It is a facet that especially resonates with him because of his own personal involvement. "I try to be hands on with the companies I'm selling my product to." He joins in on sales calls and cuttings, telling the purchasers, "If you have a problem with quality, taste, or supply, call me first – so I know who to call; who to chew out," he said.
But even with all his involvement, Bo knows well enough to keep the production in the hands of the experts, particularly in this case, because 34 Reserve is an enhanced product.
Bo was given a variety of tastings and options on specifications for the line of meat that would become Bo's 34 Reserve.
Meat arrives at Two Rivers in boxes in which individual slabs of beef are Cryovac wrapped. Before being allowed in the production room, the bagged meat is run through a rinsing system built into the conveyor line.
Once in the production room, the meat is removed from the bag then run through a high pH, antimicrobial surface treatment. Because the meat is to be marble enriched by injection, translocation is a potential risk. So this treatment ensures there is no bacteria on the surface that could be carried into the meat.
Based on product specifications, beef tallow is injected into the meat to enhance marbling. This is one area in which Two Rivers' innovation is evident. When the injector needles penetrate the meat, the meat must expand; when the needles are retracted, meat may want to stick in them, causing waste, inconsistency and a loss of quality, explained Director of Quality Assurance Craig Letch. To prevent this, Two Rivers developed innovative "hold downs" which dynamically adjust to individual cuts keeping the enriched meat from sticking to the needles.
The product is then vacuum-bagged, weighed, and labeled. Throughout the process, the temperature is controlled to within two to three degrees – until it is run through the spiral chiller which adds crust on the packaging so it stays thoroughly chilled as it is boxed.
A SYSTEM OF CONSISTENCY. The brine solution and marbling are specific to each cut of meat and each product. Once specifications for a product are decided, consistency is maintained through the company's iFix based electronic operating system, through which it can monitor every point in the process. The system provides a visual rendering of the plant's floor plan, with flow activity represented in real time through a "green means go" image, Letch said. If the process flow around the floor plan is green, it means it is in operation and flowing correctly.
Bo's selection of Two Rivers to produce his steak was a fairly easy one once he toured the plant and saw its technology, innovation, and sanitation practices first hand.
In addition to Two Rivers' projection of the visual on a large screen in its conference room, the system can be remotely accessed, monitored and controlled by authorized personnel at the company's corporate offices.
As a result of Two Rivers' innovative techniques, "Our competition is not the other enhanced meats, it is the higher-end meat," Carlson said. In fact, one of the challenges the company faces is "getting people past the stigma of enhanced product," he said, adding, a lot of processors have tried to make a good enhanced meat, but a lot have failed.
Because of that, it is the face-to-face cuttings and tastings that sell foodservice providers on the steaks. "We cook side-by-side with other enhanced products, then typically compare against a grade or two higher," Carlson said. In foodservice, where costs are continually escalating, this provides an attractive alternative, enabling the restaurants to reduce costs without reducing quality.
It was also just such a tasting that helped to sell Bo on Two Rivers. "I thought I was eating a filet," Bo said, "But it was actually sirloin." From that tasting, he then was given various tastings and options on specifications for the line that would become Bo's 34 Reserve.
"I don't understand it all, but they do," Bo said. "They are knowledgeable about what's going on and how the process works, so the end user gets a top-notch product." A top-notch product at a good price, that is. "That's important to me because I don't want just the upper middle class and higher to be able to afford my product. I want the couple with three kids to be able to go out and enjoy a steak dinner," Bo said.
"I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth," he said. In fact, there were days that he and his nine siblings, who were raised by his single mother in a three-bedroom house in Bessemer, Ala., had little food to even put on a spoon. It wasn't that the family never had steak. They did, but, Bo said, only if it was on sale at the local store, and a day or two until – or past – its expiration date.
One of the key aspects that enables this sanitation is Two Rivers' design standards, including having "set offs" for all equipment and anything mounted to walls, so that all surfaces are capable of being reached and cleaned.
Bo Jackson attended Auburn University, where he lettered in track, baseball and football – for which he was awarded the 1985 Heisman Trophy, and became the #1 NFL draft pick.
Bo played professional baseball for the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox and football for the Los Angeles Raiders.
He was the first athlete to be named an All Star in two major sports.
In 1991, a hip-injuring tackle, that required a hip-replacement surgery, put an abrupt end to his illustrious sports career.
Although he went on to professional ball before graduating college, Bo eventually returned to complete his Bachelor of Science degree in Family and Child Development at Auburn in 1995.
He founded Bo Bikes Bama in 2012, embarking on a five-day bike journey across Alabama to visit many of the towns ravaged by the tornadoes that had ripped through the state the previous year. In 2013, it became an annual event which raised money to support the Governor's Emergency Relief Fund.
Beyond his sports career, Bo is best known for the "Bo Knows" Nike shoe campaign.
Additionally, some areas of the plant were built with stainless steel walls and surfaces; not only is stainless steel easily cleaned, but being able to weld mount equipment without penetrating the surface and creating holes in the wall has definite sanitation benefits.
Bo works closely with Two Rivers Director of Quality Assurance Craig Letch (center) and Assistant Director of Sales and Marketing Jeff Carlson (right) to ensure the product that bears his name reflects his commitment to quality and value.
Throughout the manufacturing area, all pipes and other internal structural elements are mounted away from the walls with spacers, which, again, reduces potential harborage points and provides for thorough cleaning. Additionally, much of the equipment, as well as the plant itself, is Two Rivers' own design.
The Two Rivers plant also has its own a machine shop, machinists, and engineering department onsite. But such innovation and internal design is not without investment, resources, and management buy-in. "It doesn't just pencil out, you have to believe in it," Letch said.
"The thing that impresses me most is that nothing is flush against the wall," Bo said. "They developed spacers to hold everything away from the wall. That's neat. They didn't have to do it, but because they did it, that spoke to me about their seriousness.
CUSTOMER VALUE. Currently 34 Reserve is available only to foodservice operations, but Bo and Two Rivers are working on a retail focus, with a goal of having a consumer product available by the fourth quarter of 2016 or early 2017. "We want to kick off the retail side in the southeast where I'm from – where people know me best," Bo said.
Two Rivers' electronic operating system can monitor every point in the process, providing a visual rendering of the plant's floor plan, with flow activity represented in real time.
The plan is to launch small, in grocery chains that extend midway up the East Coast, and see how the public reacts. But even once launched, Bo expects that retail would only be 20% of the business, with the majority remaining in foodservice.
But before he takes any of his products direct to the consumer, Bo wants to build a solid foundation in the foodservice business. As such, he'd like to grow his line of products over the next two to three years, expanding in protein and in areas such as Halal lamb and goat. He'd also like to expand beyond meats.
"I have a big interest in getting into the baking aspect of foodservice," he said. Why baking? Bo knows baking as well as he does cooking.
Just before Mrs. Smith's Pies was sold to Schwan Food Company in 2003, Mrs. Smith's had made a deal with Bo to replace its sweet potato pie with his recipe. When the Schwan's purchase put all new products on the back shelf, Bo took back his recipe, and now wants to eventually produce it under his own name, along with such products as dressing, mac and cheese, and other homemade goods.
CELEBRATED ATHLETE TO QUALITY FOOD. "I know that it is because of my sports career that I am where I'm at, but I don't want to be looked at as one-dimensional," Bo said, adding that he has been offered various coaching jobs through the years, but he wanted to get into something different.
His sports career has been documented in numerous publications, including the 1990 autobiography, "Bo Knows Bo," and the 2012 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, "You Don't Know Bo." In these, Bo said that when he dies, he would like his tombstone to read: "Here lies a ball player ... that gave as much as he received." Given all he has accomplished since his ball-playing days, what would Bo want it to say today? "Treat your fellow man as you want to be treated," he said.


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Types of Child Custody in Family Law
The Different Genres of Custody
When it comes to your child, it is understandable that your feelings as a parent can escalate any situation. In the case of divorces, separations, and general custody battles, children can amplify any situation. Mostly, the parents make these sort of situations worse, as a former couple can sometimes battle out for full-custody.
It is important that before attempting a custody battle, you need to know what child custody means and what offenses could take away custody rights. In its definition child custody is when:
"A custodial parent is a parent who is given physical or legal custody of a child by court order."
Ultimately, a child-custody determination is decreed by a judge to the parent who will determine the upbringing of the child. There are multiple types of custody a judge can grant to a family. There are seven different types of custody a judge can rule in a case.
Alternating Custody
Shared Custody
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Sole Custody
Split Custody
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Alternating Custody is when a child lives for an extended period of time with one parent, and another period of time with another parent. This type of custody is also called Divided Custody, and is usually applied to couples from different states, or even countries. The main difference between alternating custody and joint custody, is that in alternating custody, the parent who has the child retains sole authority over the child while they are in that parents care. Only when the child leaves to the other parent, is custody shifted. Again, this type of custody is typically utilized when the parents of a child live long distances away from each other, such as states or countries.
Shared custody of a child means that the child will live with one parent for an extended period of time. After that period of time, the child will be allowed to stay with the other parent. In this type of custody, both parents retain custodial authority over their child, however, only when the child is in their care or residence.
Divorce or separation can be difficult for a child. Because of this stress, some parents choose to apply a bird's nest custody arrangement. In this scenario, the child remains in a permanent location, and the parents move from place to place. In this case, one parent will leave to a separate location, while the other parent stays to care for the child. Of course, this style of custody can be more difficult for the parents, but is much more stable for the child. A drawback of this type of custody is that both parents will need to still find a separate place to stay while the other parent is watching their child. Because this is a less economical version of custody, it is the rarest form that couples choose for their custody case.
Joint custody is one of the most common forms of child custody. In this version, both parents have rights to their child, this is called joint legal custody. Both parents also shared joint physical custody, which means the child's legal place of residence is recognized as the homes of the separated parents. For instance, a mother and father can have two separate home, and both homes are considered the home of the child. And, because both parents still have legal custody, under their individual homes, the parent has a say in their upbringing. The only way in which this version of custody differs from bird's nest custody, is that the residence of the child is determined by the home of each parent.
Sole custody was once the most popular form of custody until the 1980s. In the past, when a couple divorced, sole custody was given to the mother and fathers will granted visitation. Today, however, joint custody is not the more common approach to divorce, as courts are attempting to make separations more equalized in terms of responsibilities and time with the child.
Sole custody is when one parent is granted sole legal and physical custody of the child. In this case, one parent is responsible for the upbringing of a child and ultimately can determine the visitation rights of the opposite parent. In most situations, sole custody is granted to a parent that is able to provide for the child. If one of the parents have been accused of any abuse, neglect, unemployment, and even addictive habits, their rights for custody and child visitation could be terminated. In this case, one parent would be granted complete guardianship of their child and file for child support from the opposite parent.
It is important to note, however, that if one parent makes a false allegation of abusing their parental rights or neglecting their child, the other parent could suffer severe consequences. Making a false allegation in court could mean a termination of parental rights.
According to the Oklahoma Bar Association, if a parent is found to have made an intentional false allegation against another parent for sexual abuse of their child, " the court shall proceed with any or all of the following: . . . Award the obligation to pay all court costs and legal expenses encumbered (sic) by both parties arising from the allegations of the accusing party." These "legal expenses" include the expenses for all court meetings, as well as paying for all the family law attorney fees for both themselves and the parent they have accused.
In a split custody case, children are separated with some living with one parent, and the other living with the other parent. Split custody is generally chosen because it allows the children to live in one permanent place, without having to trade living spaces. Though this type of custody allows for a clear separation between parents, it allows means there is a separation among siblings. Because of this, split custody is generally criticized as being too separatist in family situations.
If both parents are not capable to properly care for their child, a third-party custody can be granted. In this type of custody, guardianship can be given to a relative, such as an aunt, uncle, or a grandparent. Unfit parenting would be determined by a court by acknowledging if both parents are physically, mentally, or emotionally able to care for their child. Also, if both parents have demonstrated an inability to provide for their child, they could be denied parental rights.
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General Motors has always had a reputation of diluted products. They had many vehicle lines with many differend brands. This idea was to offer a product that appealed to many different target markets. They have since simplified their product lines by selling off certain brands. Oldsmobile, Saturn, Saab, Hummer, and Pontiac have been disbanded and the new General Motors is a tighter more organized business as a result. Cadillac and Buick have seen steady growth within their sector and have been marketed very well to date. Cadillac is seen as prestigue symbol and has a larger pricetag than any of the other models.
Buick is showing phenominal growth with an introduction of new products that is taking the focus of the old Buick car as a retirement ride and putting it on styling, design and quality. We feel that if General Motors takes a further step to segmenting Chevrolet and re-marketing GMC, that they could see a big percentage of customer winback. People in North America have a particular taste for domestic products. General Motors has more plants in North and south America than all other car manufacturer's combined ( I need a source for this one).
The main focus for us is to re-introduce the Chevrolet line and market it towards our chosen target markets, as well to take the GMC logo and create a new perception of it in terms of how it seen in the market. The GMC nameplate will be geared more towards the domestic competition and the chevrolet will be more towards imports but neither market is to be ignored with either nameplate. Chevrolet will offer eleven vehicles that are to be marketed in a similar fashion to each other, but geared towards different buyers.
The Aveo, Cobalt and HHR will make up our small car division and the Malibu and Impala will be our midsized car division. The Camaro and Corvette will be our sports cars with our final group of cross-overs and trucks being comprised of the Colorodo, Silverado, Traverse and Equinox. The GMC division is to be made up into one segment and that is; Suburban, Yukon, Tahoe, Avelanche, Sierra, Canyon, Acadia, Terrain and the Express/Savanna cargo vans. There is a vertain level of repetition in these models and General Motors has left these vehicle in their production for a reason.
The equinox and Terrain are essentially the same vehicle but have seen a growth of 194% and 245%( need that source) respectively year to date. The Acadia and Traverse as well are essentially the same vehicle but in 2010 to date, sales of all cross-overs are up 100% (need that source). This means that even though there is repetion in our lines, there is a desire for the different designs in each brand that we offer. General Motors as a company has shown total growth of 36% currently in comparison to last year at the same time. Pricing Strategy Pricing is a big part of our plan to increase General Motors market share.
The reason for this is because the industry itself is price volatile. If a proper price to the proper market is not promoted reasonably, then the whole company is in jeopardy of losing customers to their competitors. The Pricing strategy that we have is to bring back some of General Motors past practices. They employ a variety of pricing strategies that we believe we can utilize when segmenting the Chevrolet line. Not all buyers will respond to the same type of pricing strategy and that is why this section needs to be carfully calculated and coordinated with our promotional strategy.
Because the auto industry is so highly competitive with a variety of prices for similar products, we have to be careful that our prices do not appear to be higher than the competition. When referring to the appearance of pricing, we mean that all advertisements can be drastically different to reflect the same selling figure when it comes to cars. This is because there is a high number of different additional costs on top of just the purchase price of a vehicle (freight, air tax, gas tax, administration), as well as the numerous discounts offered by manufacturers.
General Motors employs a competitive pricing strategy out of necessity in the current marketplace and they always work from a list price. The list price is located in the window of every single vehicle on a car lot. There is a stigma in the auto industry with consumers believing that nobody ever pays sticker price. This theory is being tested with the new Terrain and Equinox models, as they do not offer any cash discounts and the only discount available to the consumer comes from the dealerships themselves.
A variety of different pricing strategies exist in the market for vehicles and they include cash discounts, rebates, quantity discounts for businesses (aka fleet), trade-ins, loss-leaders or rebates. The customer always feels the best when they can employ all of these strategies, as implausible as that seems. The current 2010 buyer is more educated than ever before and because of this the pricing strategy needs to be clear and concise throughout all promotional mediums. We are going to change the avenue that General Motors is using for price by reintroducing 0% financing and bringing back leasing.
Because of the current economic conditions, the general population has become very price sensitive and as a result General Motors has created large cash discounts on most vehicles. These large discounts are in response to low interest rates offered by banks on lines of credit and the surprisingly high level of availability. We are not suggesting the removal of these discounts in whole but a reduction in part and in some certain cases entirely. The addition of the leasing section is so important to General Motors in terms of creating more frequent buyers because a lease term is shorter than a finance term.
By gaining finance control over the customer you are able to guide them in a way you are not able to do if they finance externally or pay cash for their vehicle. Finance control keeps the company in constant contact with the customer and also keeps them informed of any upcoming incentives and rebates available to them. This is important because if General Motors comes out with programs that reward current owners with a cash rebate, or offer cash rebates for current lease customers, they are then able to turn prospective shoppers into prospective buyers.
The advantage for this is the customer remains a General Motors customer. More than ever before it is direly important to retain our current customers so we can capture market share by bringing in new customers. If our current customers are not re-buying our product, it is hard to imagine a new customer buying it and being satisfied. With a reintroduction of 0% financing we can appeal to a larger group of people who are in the market to finance a vehicle.
Most of the people in the market right now who have access to lines of credit and unsecured loans that beat current car loan rates through the dealership are established in life and of an older demographic. These cash incentives appeal to them, but with 0% we can try to compete with import manufacturers and at the same time try to lure in younger buyers. Promotional Strategy Because of the size of General Motors, we have to be so careful that all of our marketing efforts are coordinated and integrated for one unified message in each of our Chevrolet segments and in the new GMC logo.


A non-culture approach was used to study the archaeal diversity in Lake Elmenteita, Kenya. Five different sampling points were selected randomly within the lake. Wet sediments and water samples were collected from each sampling point. In addition, dry mud cake was collected from three points where the lake had dried. DNA was extracted from these samples and the 16S rRNA genes were amplified using primers described to be Domain-specific for Archaea. Eleven clone libraries were constructed using PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes. A total of 1,399 clones were picked and analysed via ARDRA. 170 ARDRA patterns were unique and the respective clones were selected for sequencing. 149 clones gave analysable sequences. BLAST analysis showed that 49 belong to the Domain Archaea while the others were either chimera or affiliated to eukaryotic taxa. Comparative sequence analysis of archaeal clones affiliated them to a wide range of genera. The order Halobacteriales was represented by members of the genera Natronococcus, Halovivax, Halobiforma, Halorubrum, and Halalkalicoccus. The highest percentage (46%) of the clones, however, belonged to uncultured members of the Domain Archaea in the order Halobacteriales. The results show that the archaeal diversity in the lake could be higher than previously reported.