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Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town Review
by Dani Maddox on 08 July, 2020
Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is the newest game in the Story of Seasons franchise (previously known as Harvest Moon in the US) and a remake of arguably one of the more popular games from the series. It's been over 20 years since the original Harvest Moon game was released and 17 since Friends of Mineral Town first made its way to the Game Boy Advance. With all the time that has taken place between now and then, it's valid to wonder if in 2020, can Friends of Mineral Town hold its own amongst a large variety of farming simulation games in the modern landscape? In some ways it does, but in others, it really does not.
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The main story of Friends of Mineral town begins with a flashback to your time as a child, visiting your grandfather's farm one summer and befriending another child who lived in town. With a promise to return, many years pass and it becomes your responsibility to take your grandfather's farm and to restore it to its former glory. The storyline doesn't really evolve from there. I've personally never gone to Story of Seasons games for an incredibly strong narrative, so this wasn't surprising, but it was the first indication where I felt a remake in 2020 could have been a great opportunity to expand on that. You pick from four characters (two men, two women) and three skin tones (the range is negligible) and off you go.
Friends of Mineral town functions like most any farming sim. You start with an overgrown plot of land, a single animal. and a house that has the barest of minimums. Time passes quickly and simple chores chip away at the amount of stamina you begin each day with. Each tool starts at level 1 and has to be used enough to then be upgraded with money and materials. Getting money quick in an attempt to min-max the leveling system in Friends of Mineral Town won't' work. You have to work the land and forage in order to get better tools. It's a small piece of immersion that both slows down the game and makes a simplistic mechanic feel meaningful.
Those are the parts of the game that I love and have always loved. Going to the library to figure out which seeds I should plant in the Spring versus the Winter or walking around and picking up stray logs to craft with are slow moments but feel comfortable and familiar. The day to night cycles are smooth with daylight gradually fading away as the sound of distant wolves howling begins. Friends of Mineral Town handles the basics incredibly well.
The game continues to excel with the world-building that's done through character relationships. It isn't impossible to get through this game without being friendly, but it will limit you. Visiting Zack at his home gave me a fishing rod, other villagers' gift recipes as you get to know them more. It's rewarding and they all have their own personalities and special cutscenes that allow you to explore the narrative behind the world in a way that the basic story doesn't. Character cutscenes are detailed and full of life regardless of how you approach them. Seeing relationships develop between two characters was always a small and sweet break between farming and trying to make money or running around to find materials. So, beyond using friendships as a tool to advance the game, I was eager to get closer to neighbors simply because Friends of Mineral Town makes these relationships incredibly rewarding.
The most important change for me in this remake is the fact that I can play as a woman who marries another woman. As much as I love a farm sim, I'm an even bigger fan of games with multiple romance lines. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time in other RPGs simply dipping my toes in every romance route, specifically the queer ones.
As a child Harvest Moon was the only role-playing game that mattered to me and being limited to a male protagonist and women partners sent a very specific message. I won't say that Friends of Mineral Town has a robust queer narrative or that romancing a man versus a woman (regardless of your character's gender) feels too different, but it exists and that's important. You don't have to continue forming "friendship marriages" as a slick way to circumvent any notion of queerness and that alone is at least a step in the right direction.
Despite enjoying the character relationships and solid farming fundamentals, I wanted a bit more from Friends of Mineral Town. As a remake, I knew much of the game would remain the same. However, after the announcement of the tweaked marriage system and seeing the new art style, I had hoped for and expected more. Character interactions were one of the strongest parts of the game, but gift-giving was often received with a simple "Oh, thank you" and special cutscenes felt rare. While festivals happen often, their intractability still feels low and the moments are fleeting. For old fans of the series, this is still a fine remake, and the quality of life changes make the transition from GBA to the Switch worth it. I'd say even new fans of the series will have a good time while playing. The game is still fun to be in, and I'll continue to play it as I progress through the years in-game, but it just misses the opportunity to be spectacular in any way.
For fans looking for impressions of the PC port, James also had the opportunity to check it out and leave his thoughts.
Versions tested: Nintendo Switch, PC
Disclaimer: A copy of this game was provided to RPG Site by the publisher.
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This project offers newcomers (recent immigrants & refugees) to lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories in the Capital Regional District opportunities to learn about local Indigenous protocols, histories, and initiatives. Through the month of September, 2021, the Being Here & Being Together roundtable series provided space to reflect on the responsibilities resettlement and community-building comes with on unceded territories. Through guided conversations with local Indigenous and BIPOC community leaders, this series of roundtables explored land acknowledgements, reconciliation, and community building. Recordings of these discussions have been made available here for continued learning.
This project builds on the conversations that emerged from two local dialogues. First, the Canadian Council for Refugees 2019 Spring Consultation, Roots: Reconciling the Global with the Local. Second, the city of Victoria's third Reconciliation Dialogue, "Newcomers to Canada and Reconciliation," facilitated by Sharmarke Dubow and Carey Newman. Members of UVic WUSC provided additional insights and directions for the development of a Participatory Budgeting proposal submitted to the City of Victoria and residents in the Summer of 2020.
The organizing committee is grateful for the support of Victoria's residents who voted to fund this small project alongside six other incredible initiatives to support newcomers.
The full project report, as submitted to the city, is available by clicking here.
Julianna Nielsen:
Julianna is an MA Student in the Department of Political Science at UVic with research interests in humanitarian migration, border policy, and the politics of memory. Before coming to live and study on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ lands, she grew up in the village of Gold River on Mowachaht/Muchalaht territories. Inspired by the City of Victoria's reconciliation dialogues, she is excited to be involved with the Being Here & Being Together project and comes to this work with mixed settler, Métis, Cree and Ojibwe ancestry, acknowledging disconnection from her mother's birth family and communities.
Tuqa Al-Musawi:
Hello, I am Tuqa Al-Musawi, I am originally from Iraq, I came to UVic through WUSC in 2018, I am in my third year as a student of Chemistry for Medical Science. I am also the general coordinator for the UVic WUSC club at the University of Victoria.
Tabarek Al-Musawi
Tabarek is a second year Mathematics student and the University of Victoria.
Jonathan Nash:
Jonathan is a PhD candidate of English at the University of Victoria, whose research investigates how refugees utilize a multitude of storytelling mediums to express their experiences and to tell their stories. He is humbled and grateful to learn and teach in this place of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WS'ANEC' speaking peoples. As a settler of European background who is not invited to this beautiful and vital place, he believes it is necessary to share in and support opportunities for truth telling and affirming Indigenous resurgence here in this place and globally. You can learn more about his work here.
Rob Black:
Rob is currently working towards a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria, with a focus on environmental education. He was involved with WUSC during his undergraduate degree, and as a result of the strong friendships that formed through WUSC there, joined the UVic team to continue supporting an inclusive community and helping newcomers to Canada feel welcomed.
We are grateful to our our speakers who have graciously shared their knowledges about this place and their time to make this project happen. (Click to learn more about our speakers)
We are grateful to receive funding for 'Being Here & Being Together' through the City of Victoria and the Participatory Budgeting to support our program. We are incredibly thrilled that the community members of the capital regional district selected this project to receive this funding our of 26 outstanding applications. (Click to read more about this program here).
Thank you to the members of the UVic WUSC community for initiating this project, your continued feedback, and your energy. (Click to learn more about UVic WUSC)
Thank you to the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria for your generous feedback and encouragement of this project. (Click to learn more about ICA)
Special thanks to the following members of our community for their mentorship, contributions, feedback, and inspiration at every step of the way: Liz Bean, Clint Kuzio, Tanya Clarmont, Steven Baileys, Myung Lee, Dr. Moussa Magassa, Gerry Ambers, Florence Dick, Shazia, Rebecca Hass, Diane Sam, Jennifer Komorowski, Wil Patrick, and our extended relations.

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Weibel-Palade body exocytosis as a therapeutic target to improve hemodynamics in Gram-positive sepsis
JY Lee1,
HM Linge2,
K Ochani2,
YZ Zhang2 &
EJ Miller3
Gram-positive bacterial lung infection is commonly associated with sepsis, and particularly important in older individuals. Systemic vascular dysfunction associated with sepsis is characterized by vascular permeability that can lead to tissue hypoxia. Our studies focus on angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), whose increased plasma concentration is associated with severity of lung injury and with mortality. Ang-2 is stored in the Weibel-Palade body (WPB), an endothelial-specific secretory organelle. Here, we examine the release of Ang-2 from primary human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (HPMECs) in vitro stimulated with Gram-positive bacterial cell wall components. We then used our model of pulmonary infection to investigate the use of an inhibitor of WPB exocytosis to prevent systemic inflammation and hemodynamic instability.
HPMECs were treated with lipoteichoic acid (LTA; 50 to 100 μg/ml) and peptidoglycan (PGN; 167 to 333 μg/ml) in the presence or absence of TAT-NSF700 fusion peptide (10 μM) to inhibit WPB exocytosis. Ang-2 in culture medium was measured by ELISA, and WPB exocytosis assessed using immunofluorescent (IF) staining of Ang-2. HPMEC monolayer permeability was measured using FITC-dextran. Male C57/Bl6 mice, 8 to 10 weeks old (n = 6/group), were pretreated with TAT-NSF700 (0.5 mg/kg) or saline intraperitoneally. Thirty minutes later, LTA (150 μg) and PGN (500 μg) or saline alone were instilled intratracheally. Pulse oximetry was assessed in awake mice prior to and 6 hours post instillation. The mice were then euthanized by exsanguination under anesthesia and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was performed. BAL fluid total and differential counts were evaluated and protein and cytokine concentrations in plasma and BAL were assessed using commercial assays.
LTA-PGN increased Ang-2 levels dose dependently (up to ninefold, P = 0.003) in HPMEC culture medium within 30 minutes, which was blocked by TAT-NSF700 pretreatment. IF staining showed aggregation and localization of Ang-2 in the cytoplasm suggesting WPB exocytosis within 30 minutes. LTA-PGN also induced HPMEC permeability. LTA-PGN induced both local and systemic inflammation resulting in decreased heart and breath rates and oxygen saturation (94% vs. 97%, P = 0.038) at 6 hours. These physiological changes were prevented in mice pretreated with TAT-NSF700.
LTA-PGN induced rapid Ang-2 secretion via WPB exocytosis and this release is associated with significant changes in permeability. In vivo, LTA-PGN induces significant changes in heart and breath rates and oxygen saturation that was prevented by inhibition of WPB exocytosis. Thus, we have defined WPB, a storage organelle for multiple proinflammatory mediators, as a potential target to control overwhelming inflammation in Gram-positive sepsis and improve tissue oxygenation and hemodynamics.
The Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, Manhasset, NY, USA
JY Lee
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Heart and Lung Research Center, Manhasset, NY, USA
HM Linge, K Ochani & YZ Zhang
Hofstra University School of Medicine, Heart and Lung Research Center, Manhasset, NY, USA
EJ Miller
HM Linge
K Ochani
YZ Zhang
Lee, J., Linge, H., Ochani, K. et al. Weibel-Palade body exocytosis as a therapeutic target to improve hemodynamics in Gram-positive sepsis. Crit Care 16 (Suppl 3), P31 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11718
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A total of 35 films from around the world will be screened during the 29th annual Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival which takes place from Jan. 20-Feb. 12.
The films will be screened at four different cinemas in Palm Beach County – AMC CityPlace 20 in West Palm Beach, Cinemark 14 in Boynton Beach, Cinepolis in Jupiter and Cobb Theatres in Palm Beach Gardens – throughout the film festival, which is presented by the Mandel Jewish Community Center of the Palm Beaches. Festival director Ellen Wedner noted that the international films chosen to be part of the festival represent a variety of different genres showcasing history, culture and traditions.
Wedner also noted, "Our hope as always is that people have a unique experience and learn something new about the Jewish culture, tradition or history, and naturally we want them to enjoy good international films that they might not have the opportunity to see otherwise."
"Not all films come to streaming services or movie theaters, especially smaller independent or foreign films.
The festival opens with the United States Southeast premiere of "Papa," which is about an adopted son searching for his biological parents and features an all-star cast that includes David Proval, Ann-Margret, Frankie Avalon, Mischa Barton, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Vincent Pastore, Eric Roberts and Paul Sorvino. Proval has been invited to attend the screening, along with film director and writer Dan Israely.
Provol hopes the audience can take away a true sense of what family is about from viewing the film.
"We're moving so fast as a society, and I think the family unit right now is struggling to stay alive and becoming fragmented as people are living all over the country and all over the world right now, so I think people can enjoy this celebration of family, which is what this movie is about."
The film festival will close with the Southeast U.S. premiere of "Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz" and awards presentation. The film is a documentary on Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trials prosecutor, whose fight for justice for victims of atrocity crimes continues today.
Barry Avrich, the film's director, said, "My goal for the film is to reach as many people as possible with Ben Ferencz' messages of law over war, and tolerance in the world."
Another film screening in this festival is the world premiere of "Golda's Balcony, The Film," which will include a special appearance by the movie's star, the award-winning stage-screen-TV actress Tovah Feldshuh. The film presents a rare, multi-camera shoot of the original run of the play, "Golda's Balcony," which follows the trajectory of the life of Golda Meir, who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel. The play, written by William Gibson, mostly focuses on the period surrounding the 1973 Yom Kippur Was when Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria.
Feldshuh, who plays Meir, explained what she hopes the audience can take a way from watching the film.
"I think they can take away the desire to really chose country above your own self interests. Golda Meir really took the state of Israel and the love of her country into account long before she took her own self interests into account."
Another screening is the Florida premiere of "Henri Dauman: Looking Up," a documentary about Dauman, an orphaned Holocaust survivor who created a new life for himself in New York City and became one of the preeminent photographers of the 20th century whose images included the Kennedys and Buddhist monks in Vietnam.
"It's really a story of survival and of a phoenix coming out of the ashes of war and succeeding in rebuilding a family and a career," Dauman said regarding his life story.
Visit palmbeachjewishfilm.org or call 877-318-0071 to purchase tickets or for more information, including the full lineup of films and schedule for the festival. According to the festival, advance purchase helps guarantee a seat. Call 561-712-5235 to join the Film Society.


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Novi Energy opens Mich. community digester
By Anna Simet | October 15, 2012
Energy infrastructure development and project consulting company Novi Energy has officially opened a large-scale community digester project in southeastern Michigan, an event attended by U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; state Rep. John Bumstead; state Sen. Geoff Hansen; Michigan's USDA State Director James Turner and several other company officials.
Construction of the $22 million Fremont Community Digester plant in Fremont, Mich., began in 2010, and is slated for completion in the last quarter of 2012. It utilizes a complete-mix anaerobic digestion technology and is capable of taking in 100,000 tons of food waste each year.
Feedstock material for the digester will be collected by truck; the project has signed feedstock supply contracts with Fremont-based Gerber Products Co. and several other major regional food processors and agricultural operations. Once delivered to the site, feedstock material will be unloaded inside a closed facility, stored in tanks and then transferred to digester tanks. Collected biogas will be combusted in two reciprocating internal combustion engines, and the 3 MW of electricity is being sold to Consumers Energy under a long-term contract approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Debt financing of the project, from Comerica Bank, was supported by a $12.8 million USDA Biorefinery 9003 loan guarantee, according to Novi Energy. The project's majority owner is INDUS Energy LLC, an investment group located in Bingham Farms, Mich. North Central Cooperative of Wabash, Ind., is a minority owner and will market the plant's fertilizer and compost. DeMaria Building Co. is its engineering, procurement and construction contractor.
Novi Energy believes the plant is the first large-scale anaerobic digester in the U.S. that will take organic waste from multiple streams, including food processing wastes as well as agricultural waste. Company President Anand Gangadharan said it is the first in what Novi Energy expects will be a series of similar digesters to be developed in the U.S. and other countries.


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Syrian regime wants YPG to evacuate the north, Aleppo neighborhood
by daily sabah
ISTANBUL Dec 27, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Members of the YPG celebrate their victory in Kobani, Syria, Jan. 26, 2015. (EPA Photo)
by daily sabah Dec 27, 2016 12:00 am
As the Assad regime gains the upper hand in the five-year-long civil war in Syria with the Russian intervention in September 2015, culminating in the recent defeat of the opposition in Aleppo, they now want the PKK-linked Kurdish militia to give up control of areas bordering Turkey.
"The government had entrusted the PYD with these areas and now the government wants them back. Their [PYD's] work in confronting the terrorists has been completed," General Haitham Hassoun of the regime army told the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) based Rudaw news agency, although he refrained from giving an exact time frame.
Regime forces had withdrawn from Syria's predominantly-Kurdish northeastern parts in 2011, leaving control to the PYD, the Syrian wing of PKK terrorist organization, while its armed forces inherited a large cache of weapons, ammunition and facilities that were left behind by regime forces.
Hassoun claimed that he personally followed up the military aid sent by the regime to YPG, the armed wing of the PYD.
Despite clashes between the regime forces and YPG for limited periods in 2012 and 2016, the two parties largely avoided confronting each other. Previous reports suggested that some regime institutions continue to operate in PYD-controlled areas, whereas regime forces continue to control enclaves in Hasakah and Qamishli, the largest cities in Syria's northeast.
This uneasy alliance was primarily due to the fact that the regime needed its troops elsewhere in the country. In addition, the PKK had long been an enemy of its northern neighbor Turkey, which is among the active supporters of opposition against Assad's rule.
Earlier in March, the PYD declared autonomy in three "cantons" in northern Syria, namely Afrin in the west, Kobani in the center and Jazira in the east, while these three regions were brought together under an entity titled "Federation of Northern Syria-Rojava." Kobani and Jazira cantons were linked in 2015 after Daesh's defeat in Kobani and subsequent retreat from the predominantly-Arabic town of Tal Abyad, amid protests from Turkey and international rights groups of ethnic cleansing against local Arabs and Turkmens.
A possible move to link Kobani with Afrin - which would give the control in Turkey's nearly entire border with Syria to a hostile force - was stalled by Turkey as it launched Operation Euphrates Shield with Free Syrian Army (FSA) elements on Aug. 24, following the capture of the town of Manbij by YPG-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in mid-August. Turkey has repeatedly warned the SDF to not to cross to the west of Euphrates, and targeted SDF when it moved further into the territory evacuated by Daesh after Turkish-led advance.
Rudaw previously reported that the regime wants PYD to return the control of Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood and its surrounding area to regime forces and institutions by the end of 2016, citing Ali Maqsud, a military analyst close to the regime. Maqsud also denounced PYD's autonomy plans in northern Syria.
Although the regime's demand was a largely predicted outcome in Syrian civil war, Hassoun's statement also pointed to the growing cooperation between the PYD and the U.S.
"Ever since the PYD became a US servant and is being used to protect American interests, the government realized the unfaithfulness of the PYD, which is trying to undermine the government and increase its dominance at our cost," Hassoun said.
The Assad regime – backed by Russia and Iran – is not the only party that is disturbed by the PYD-US cooperation. Turkey, a NATO ally of the U.S, considers the PYD as interchangeable with the PKK, which has been resuming an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. Instead of arming the YPG, Turkey proposed establishing local forces with clear distinction from terrorist groups, an idea that couldn't have been materialized so far.
Amid a reconciliation period with the PKK between 2012 and 2015, Turkish government sought to establish links with the PYD. However, these efforts proved unfruitful as the PKK, with increased weapons, manpower and legitimacy, relaunched its armed insurgency against the Turkish state in the summer of 2015. Weapons provided by the West to the PYD were often used in attacks against Turkish security forces, while militants trained in Syria targeted Turkish civilians in suicide attacks.
Despite the Baathist regime's repression of Kurds - some 10 percent of Syria's 30 million population - which included stripping them of their citizenship in early 1960's, the Assad regime had been one of the leading supporters of the PKK, providing the terrorist group with bases and training centers while its leadership were provided with safe havens. This support ended in 1998, when Turkey threatened Syria with invasion if it continues to support the PKK, and its leader Abdullah Öcalan had to flee Damascus, only to be captured by Turkish agents a few months later.
After that period, the Assad regime returned to its original policy of repressing the Kurds, and the PYD, who were underground at the time, was the only organized force among Syria's Kurds when the civil war exploded in 2011. With the help of PKK's already established armed force, the PYD eliminated its potential political rivals among Kurds and became the sole authority in regions it controlled.
When the regime was on the brink of collapse after opposition's advance in Damascus and Aleppo provinces, it sought to cooperate with an old ally.
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15th Terascale Detector Workshop 2023
February 27, 2023 to March 3, 2023
petra.pfeifer@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
The 15th Terascale Detector Workshop will take place at the Kirchhoff-Institut for Physics (KIP) at Heidelberg University; it takes place from March 1, 14:00 to March 3, 2023, 13:00.
In addition, starting on February 28, 9:00, a 1.5-day hands-on school dedicated to master and PhD students will be held at KIP preceeding the detector workshop.
Starts Feb 27, 2023, 8:30 AM
Ends Mar 3, 2023, 2:00 PM
Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik Lecture Hall (HS1, ground floor) Im Neuenheimer Feld 227 69120 Heidelberg
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We all know that coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world. No matter your nationality, you certainly (or know someone) drink coffee on a regular basis. Wherever you go, you can offer people a cup of coffee and they would understand it as a kind gesture even if you don't speak the same language. That is because coffee is a great beverage. It invigorates you, powers you up and makes you get ready for a new day or recharge after an arduous day.
In addition to that, coffee is one of the healthiest beverages in the world. It has tons of health benefits. You'll have increased mental and physical performance and it helps keep your body healthy in the long run, ultimately leading you to have longer and better life.
Now, here's the biggest question: is instant coffee better or worse than regular coffee? Well, for starters, you might immediately think that since it is instant, it's worse and is full of artificial additives, kinda like junk foods and fast foods. But is it?
Instant coffee is essentially liquid coffee turned into powder. But you're probably wondering, how can that happen? Liquid turning into a powder? Let's explore.
There are two methods of making instant coffee. One of the methods is called spray drying. This method is used for liquid coffee. Liquid coffee is sprayed through extremely hot and dry air. The liquid coffee particles will turn into powder, which is now an instant coffee.
The other method is called freeze-drying. This is a process which forces frozen coffee to undergo chemical sublimation, a process which forces ice to vaporize without undergoing liquid stage. This process, like the spray drying process, leaves behind instant coffee powder.
These methods, however, affects the aroma, flavor and caffeine content of the coffee. Out of the two methods, however, freeze-drying leaves more aroma intact, so you can say that it does a good job of freeze locking the aroma (just kidding).
In order to make up for it, instant coffee manufacturers add additional flavor and aroma compound to make it taste and smell as close to brewed coffee as possible.
Now we know that the process involved in making an instant coffee affects its flavor and aroma. Now, does that mean its health benefits are also affected? The answer is a resounding yes.
However, the difference isn't dramatic. That means you can get almost all of the health benefits of a regular coffee in an instant coffee. The difference in terms of vitamins, antioxidants, minerals and caffeine content isn't that huge.
Where instant coffee loses, however, is in potassium levels. Regular ground coffee has around twice the amount of potassium content compared to instant coffee. But is it that groundbreaking? If you look at it in a big picture, it's really not because potassium and other antioxidants, minerals, and nutrients can also be obtained from other food sources. It's not like coffee is the only source of nutrients we have!
If there's one advantage instant coffee has over regular ground coffee, it's the caffeine content. Instant coffee generally has a lower amount of caffeine compared to regular brewed coffee. A cup of instant coffee has around 30-90mg of caffeine while a cup of regular brewed coffee has around 60-140mg.
In the end, regular coffee and instant coffee is almost identical when it comes to health benefits. What's important to consider here is the amount of coffee you drink every day. It's obvious that you can drink more instant coffee than regular coffee on a daily basis because of the caffeine difference, but it's always important to remember to control your intake to a reasonable amount.
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Ludność Świdnika
 1955 – 6724
 1960 – 12 745 (spis powszechny)
 1961 – 13 700
 1962 – 14 200
 1963 – 14 800
 1964 – 15 600
 1965 – 16 735
 1966 – 17 900
 1967 – 19 800
 1968 – 21 200
 1969 – 22 500
 1970 – 22 236 (spis powszechny)
 1971 – 23 100
 1972 – 24 100
 1973 – 25 300
 1974 – 26 277
 1975 – 26 809
 1976 – 27 700
 1977 – 28 500
 1978 – 29 700 (spis powszechny)
 1979 – 30 800
 1980 – 31 972
 1981 – 33 192
 1982 – 34 077
 1983 – 35 627
 1984 – 36 890
 1985 – 37 620
 1986 – 38 449
 1987 – 38 835
 1988 – 39 152 (spis powszechny)
 1989 – 39 701
 1990 – 40 167
 1991 – 40 574
 1992 – 40 072
 1993 – 40 230
 1994 – 40 244
 1995 – 40 389
 1996 – 40 589
 1997 – 40 649
 1998 – 40 797
 1999 – 40 173
 2000 – 40 253
 2001 – 40 191
 2002 – 40 113 (spis powszechny)
 2003 – 40 208
 2004 – 40 048
 2005 – 40 041
 2006 – 40 082
 2007 – 40 092
 2008 – 40 050

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Powierzchnia Świdnika
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 1980-1994 Roczniki demograficzne GUS
 1995-2008 Bank danych regionalnych GUS

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Neco Industrial Management Company is specialized in planning and establishing the management systems designed for the project based companies. The company is also involved in managing the mega projects in oil, gas, petrochemical and also construction industry. Developing the project, portfolio and program management systems and offering practical solutions for the related organizations could be mentioned as the core advantages of this company.


Fashion Mingle Networking Party at ROW NYC 2018: A Sizzling Success!
Fashion Mingle Networking Party at ROW NYC Feb 11th 2018: A Sizzling Success!
Fashion Mingle hosted its second Networking Party during New York Fashion Week on February 11, 2018 at ROW NYC. The event was designed to provide networking opportunities for either fashion industry professionals who come to attend the runway shows or work behind-the-scenes at NYFW. It was a sold-out event!
The networking event was attended by makeup artists, hair stylists, fashion photographers, models, fashion designers, PR professionals, editors and bloggers from across the United States and around the world at ROW NYC, one of New York's most stylish lifestyle hotels, at 700 8th Ave in the fashion district.
The night opened with a VIP experience featuring red carpet interviews with hostess Dora Spectacular, the exclusive Mingle Martini cocktail and hors-d'oeuvres served by District M. Over 300 fashion professionals attended and exchanged business cards and planned collaborations.
Attendees enjoyed exclusive vendors Neveen Dominic Cosmetics and Marco Polo and giveaways featuring a custom jewelry design fromMichelle Pajak Reynolds Jewelry and custom moto jacket from Jessica Faith Marshall. Attendees received Fashion Pro On The Go swag bags featuring makeup from Paint Cosmetics, Rae Cosmetics, Neveen Dominic Cosmetics, hair products by CURLS, and earrings by Soul by Tapti Tapa, lipstick pens from ROW NYC, and Redd Energy Bars. Guests thoroughly enjoyed capturing the excitement of the evening with a photobooth from My Event Is The Bomb.
VIPs spotted on the red carpet and throughout the event included Diandra Barnwell (E! So Cosmo), Jeremy Carver (CW Supernatural), Christopher Collie (Senior Editor at Large at Fashion Week Online & GQ Insider), Francesca Baker (Conde Nast Executive), Caribbean Rising Star Arita (Singer at Tempo Networks), Ray Diaz (Actor & Model), and CBS host Deborah Gordon.
Fueled by the success of their September 2017 and February 2018 NYFW networking parties, Fashion Mingle will host a NYFW Networking Week September 5-11 that will feature panel discussions, mentor meetings, in addition to their third networking cocktail party.
Those interested in sponsoring the September NYFW Networking Week are encouraged to contact Beth Smith. Previous sponsors include Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, CURLS, Glam&Go, Human B, Linger Magazine, Marco Polo Style, Michelle Pajak Reynolds Jewelry, Mood Fabrics, Nolcha, Paint Cosmetics, Queen of Raw, Rae Cosmetics, Redd Energy Bars, ROW NYC, Runway the Real Way, Soul by Tapti Tapan, and TheSalonGuy.


It has produced two new guides as part of its 'how to' series; How to Let, and How to Lease, while making important updates to existing guides; How to Rent and How to Rent a Safe Home.
Below we outline the changes with everything you need to know.
Who it's for: Current and prospective landlords in England who let to tenants on an assured shorthold tenancy (AST), the main type of tenancy arrangement between landlords and tenants.
What it contains: Information and advice about your responsibilities as a landlord, which will help to create a positive relationship with your tenants.
What action landlords need to take: we recommend you read the guide in full to help you understand your responsibilities as a landlord.
Who it's for: Current and prospective leaseholders in England.
What it contains: Information and advice to help leaseholders understand their rights, responsibilities, and how to get help if things go wrong.
What action landlords need to take: None, although we recommend you read this guide for a re-cap about your rights and responsibilities as a leaseholder.
Who it's for: Current and prospective tenants renting a house or flat on an assured shorthold tenancy (AST). It is not for lodgers (who live with their landlord) or people with licences – nor tenants where the property is not their main or only home.
What action landlords need to take: It is a legal requirement for you to give your tenants a copy of this guide when creating a new assured shorthold tenancy in England. If you fail to provide this guide to your tenants, a Section 21 Possession Notice will be invalid, and any application for a Possession Order will be thrown out if it gets to Court.
Who it's for: Current and prospective tenants renting a house or flat on an assured shorthold tenancy (AST).
What it contains: Information and details about the main hazards you can find in a rental property which may suggest it is not safe to live in, including what to do if you have concerns or need to make a complaint.
What action landlords need to take: None. Legally you do not need to provide your tenants with a copy of this guide. However, there's nothing to stop you from doing so. It could be a great way to provide peace of mind to tenants that you're aware of your responsibilities to provide a safe home.


Shouldn't We Evaluate Our Bosses?
In my university professors give students grades at the end of the semester. No surprise there, right? Students also give mid-semester feedback and end-of-the-semester feedback scores and comments to their professors. These scores impact our career as they can be used to justify whether we are offered a new contract or not. Department heads use student feedback scores and other quantitative measurements such as how many students register for our classes and average class GPA to determine whether or not we should keep our jobs.
Let's add this up. Teachers evaluate students (grades), students evaluate teachers (student feedback surveys), management evaluates teachers (stats), but when do teachers evaluate their bosses? I'm still waiting for someone to ask what I think about the job my bosses are doing. I'm not sure if no one simply cares or they are afraid of the answers and what they might mean.
1. What has your boss/director/department head done in the past year to help you do your job better/more effectively including training, access to resources, or professional development opportunities?
2. How has your boss/director/department head motivated you to do more than the minimum requirements in your department?
3. How does your boss/director/department head congratulate you or show appreciation when you do a good job?
4. How does your boss/director/department head handle disagreements with faculty members?
5. How well does your boss/director/department head communicate with faculty members regarding departmental issues? Is your input asked for? If so, do you feel is it valued?
6. How satisfied are you with the level of communication with your boss/director/department head?
What do you think? Should questions only be asked that can be answered with Likert scale responses? Do you trust the policy makers in your school to read your written-out responses? Do you think a boss/director/department head would actually lose their position if they received poor feedback? Is it all just a waste of time?
This semester more than others, I have been stressing to my students the importance of building professional networks in addition to social networks while in university. Websites like Facebook allow us to expand our social networks and stay in contact with people we might not otherwise communicate with due to distance or we simply lack a connection that limits us to being just "Facebook friends" and not close friends. Professional networks can be similar to "Facebook friends" in this sense but the key is that if you contact them out of the blue, they know who you are and are willing to help you out.
This week we discussed the CO2 Management Center at KAIST on the Around the Carillon podcast and, honestly, I had nothing to contribute due to my lack of knowledge in that field. I do, however, know a foreign professor at KAIST who works in the EEWS (Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability) Department. He and I aren't close. We don't meet for lunch or connect on any of the social networks but we always say hello when we bump into each other on campus and sometimes stop for a minute to chat. I called him first to ask for advice on who to talk to. He seemed to know who I was when I identified myself on the phone and gave some good suggestions including speaking to another professor who I had met one or twice. I then called the second professor and he took fifteen minutes out of his busy schedule to give me a short introduction to his research at the center. It was very educational and much appreciated. I have to assume he was so open and helpful because we had met before and he remembered me, but maybe he's just a super-friendly guy. I hope I can be this useful to others in the future.
This is yet another example of advice that I give my students that rings true in my own life. I'm grateful to have a network of English teaching professionals that I can go to for advice but also a network inside my school of people who I can call and ask a favor of. It's never too late to expand our own professional networks but as teachers I believe it is essential to start our students down the path to good habits as early as possible. It's not always what you know but who you know that can help you become successful. Great advice to share as well as heed.
The other day I sent a message to a former student who I had heard had recently gotten married. We ended up chatting online for a few minutes and he mentioned that he uses something I said (four years ago) when he conducts training sessions. I asked what it was and when he told me I had no memory of every saying it. It wasn't one of my main teaching points that gets repeated every semester but an offhand comment that stuck in his head and became something he used in his own professional life. I wonder how often this happens.
In the last several years I have started asking students what they learned in my class and how they might use the skills we practice in the future as a final exam question. Sometimes students repeat verbatim things that I said during classes. While it is flattering to hear that entire phrases were stored away in my students' heads it is the random nuggets that I didn't really assign much value to that reappear and startle me, like running in an old acquaintance out of the blue.
Whether I'm teaching a presentation skills course, a business course, or a writing course, I hope that my students take away the skills associated with that class's topic. I also hope that they learn how to manage their time, take responsibility for their projects and assignments, and learn to behave like professionals. If they learn how to be more successful and nothing else in my course I still consider it a success. There are courses I took in university that I gleaned life lessons from but remember zero content from. That still qualifies as time well spent in my book.
I want to be an educator that helps my students learn, whether they have any interest in my course or not. I often use this line when conducting teacher training workshops: "Our job title might be 'English teacher' but we are teachers first and foremost." What will students remember about you and your course years later?
I watched Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows last night. Holmes deduced that Professor Moriarty was creating demand for the supply of war-related products that he had amassed and I was struck with the idea that language teachers need ways to create the same urgency for what we have to offer our students. Three ways to do this are to create a secondary demand for academic reference letters, remind students that university is a competition, and demonstrate practical uses for the language we are teaching.
It is important to remind our students that they may need us to write reference letters in the future. After all, who better to write an eloquent reference letter in English to an American graduate school or business on Baker Street than their university English professor? What do they think that letter will say? "Jeong Bum did the bare minimum to pass my course." "Mycroft tried hard when he could be bothered to attend class." If students want me to write that they exceeded my expectations and were a pleasure to know and to teach, they had bloody well better earn it.
Teaching job interview skills is a great way to show the competitive aspect of our students' time in university. Have several students answer the same question one after another and ask the other students to choose who gave the best answer and why. Skill-based questions such as "How any languages can you speak?" and "What can you offer that other candidates cannot?" highlight one student's strength against their rivals' weaknesses. If you can highlight where a student needs to improve before he or she is a senior, that student has a chance to increase his/her skill set. If you wait until their last semester, it may be too late and they will have to work with what they have. Hopefully your students won't have to disguise the fact that they aren't as prepared to enter the workforce as they should be.
Consider teaching some of the skills that can benefit students in a job interview and during their career in your English classes. Teamwork, leadership, working with technology, time management, creativity, and presentation skills can all be taught in English-based courses through project work. This will be a greater challenge with lower-level students but not impossible if you keep things elementary. Your students may not understand why making a boring podcast episode is helping their English ability and in the long run it may not. However, many of the skills listed above do go into creating a podcast episode and students then have something tangible to show for it at the end.
In order to sell a product at a high price a salesperson must first build the product's value. Explain to your students why you drive them so hard and remind them of what's at stake. They may not be able to deduce it on their own. When they see that they are not only working for you and a grade but also for their personal development and their future career they should clamor to buy what we are selling. It's not a mystery, after all, that we are here to help our students succeed and proceed. Perhaps they will even become doctors one day.
Note: You can use this with your students as a sample five-paragraph essay.
If you are a newer teacher in the ELT industry and are looking for career advancement advice, look no further. Find a niche and specialize in it. It's great that you can come into a new job and handle classes teaching the four skills. That makes you employable. But what helps you become "in demand" or, at the very least, harder to let go? I believe it is specializing inside our industry and working to create a positive reputation for yourself in that area.
Some teachers get into technology and become Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) specialists. Other take it a step further and learn how to program and become e-learning content developers. This niche is always developing and there is a lot of potential here for people just starting their careers.
Writing (especially technical writing) is another popular niche. Professors at my university who teach scientific writing to graduate students are always in demand and can parlay that experience into a qualification for technical editing. Teachers with these skills can advance in their field or shift to another one (teaching to editing).
Presentation and interview skills are what I have chosen to focus on. I have a BBA in Marketing and Management and my first experience with content courses was a business projects course that I taught eight years ago. I brought that course to KAIST and proposed that I teach it here as well. I taught in intersession camps and asked for presentation classes. I included presentation elements in many of my courses and taught undergraduate presentation courses for several years. In 2012, I cited demand from graduate students to join the undergraduate presentation courses and proposed a graduate-level presentation skills course. The experiences I had proposing the new business course, teaching successful camp and regular-semester courses in the subject, and citing student demand helped the administration make a positive decision to open the new graduate course.
Credibility is important in the ELT industry. Too many newspaper articles focus on "backpacker teachers" or foreign teachers who get in trouble with the law. We need to show our students and administrators that we are serious about our field and very good at what we do. One way to accomplish this is to highlight the practical experiences that we have in our specific niches. If you work in CALL, create a new website or e-learning program. If you are a writing instructor, join the editing team of a journal and point to that experience when a student challenges the grade they received on an essay. If you teach presentation skills, go speak at conferences and observe other sessions' speaker so you can give an up-to-date assessment on what speakers are doing well and doing poorly. The best educators teach their students using real-world experiences, not merely textbooks.


As an eCommerce store owner, you want to maximize your revenues and get the maximum out of it. You have been making heroic efforts to improve your conversion rate, you have been bleeding money to rank higher on Google, you have used every paid service to drive more traffic to your store but all these efforts gave very negligible or not expected returns, we know it, most of the eCommerce store owners have faced it. What if I tell you that there is a way supplementing the efforts you are making to boost your revenue and improve your conversion rate. Most of us know it, have used it but are still unaware of how powerful it can be. It is increasing your Average Order value (AOV). According to 2015 eCommerce growth benchmarks by RJMetrics top performing eCommerce retailers have 36% higher AOV than that of others.
Before we go deeper on how to increase Average Order Value (AOV), let us understand what does AOV mean.
It is the amount of money each customer ends up spending per order. It can be calculated with the help of a simple formula.
We have used these tactics to grow our revenue and boost the AOV but there is a limit to which these tactics work. We want to get on the top and start competing with the top performing sites. So, we have compiled 7.2 creative ways to boost AOV for your store.
This is one of the parts of startup strategies where a customer gets a discount on their first purchase. This helps in giving a boost to AOV from the start. As the customer gets more benefit from their first order, they will try to purchase maximum they can to get the maximum benefit. Crafera does a great job by hitting first time customers with 20% Off. It is also helpful in creating a positive image in the minds of customers.
Everyone is looking for a deal or sale to save money, having a deals page on your store will stimulate a customer to purchase more and more. It also makes customers coming back to your looking for deals and grabs them. For example, Modern Contempo - an online furniture store has clearly highlighted its deals section to catch the attention of its visitors.
At the end of the day, customer gets the benefit by saving money and the store owner gets the benefit by an increase in AOV.
Showing personalized product recommendations can be an effective way to increase AOV. Customers love personal touch, be it a name on the email or the ability to personalize website according to their wish. By providing personalized product recommendations, you can show the most relevant products to the customers on multiple touch points in the purchase cycle. A personalized product recommendation isn't based on guess or assumption; it is based on the historical data of the user. When talking about personalized product recommendations one can never miss Amazon, Amazon is doing a great job personalizing their product recommendations.
If you sell consumable products which a customer needs to repurchase, you can set up a loyalty program by giving in store credits. It depends on you, how well you design your loyalty programs, you can give your customers credit points of your shop if they buy something above a specified quantity. You can give free credit points to your customers in such a way that it induces them to purchase additional products with those credit points. You can also give them free credit points if they add products above a specific amount in their cart. For example, If a customer adds products worth 100$ in their cart. Free credit points worth 10$ is added in their cart which can be used to buy more products. Credit Points will be applied only when they check out and not if they abandon their cart. In the same way, sign up discount coupons can be given to customers which can also help in increasing AOV. Pepperfry gives Rs. 10,000 coupons divided between different categories when a customer shops above a specific limit.
We are humans and we don't trust easily. So how can you expect a customer to buy anything from you when they know nothing about your store? This lack of trust can be substituted by other customers who have provided a review. For example, GiveandStyle has used Testimonials from their reputed partners to gain the trust of their customers which is a clever move.
90% of customers say reviews from other customers have impacted their buying decision. The influence of others will eventually make your customer spend more. Bazaarvoice notes that the AOV of customers who read reviews is 6% higher than of those who don't. You need to have a working and user-friendly review system for your website. Ask for the reviews from your customers, send them a mail and use all other marketing tactics to get reviews from your customers because it's your old customers who your new customers will trust.
You probably might have heard of the word Gamification by now and have participated knowingly or unknowingly in it. Gamification is the application of the concepts of game thinking and game mechanics in the form of credit points, badges or similar incentives. This technique not only helps in retaining the customer but also in increasing the AOV.
For Example, As an eCommerce Store, you can set up a rewarding system based on total amount of purchase: "a customer will be allowed to participate in a particular game (say, spin the wheel) or will get a lucky draw coupon which assures a minimum prize and can also lead to a 100% discount" or something like this. A customer will be able to take benefit of this offer on the checkout page after spending a minimum amount say 100$. This way a customer will spend more in order to get more benefits. Gamification can be clubbed with other tactics to use it effectively.
One of the latest and the coolest example of Gamification is by Indian eCommerce giant Flipkart. Flipkart announced a Big Billion Day game in which they rewarded Rs. 100 vouchers to 3000 lucky winners. They even had a game on Instagram, yes you read it right on INSTAGRAM. Flipkart created a dozen of accounts, made some high-quality pictures and turned it into a game. They led users from one picture to other by tapping on the accounts tagged and at last to the final destination. This really gave a boost to the engagement rate and obviously to the AOV.
Scarcity creates time pressure and time pressure creates a sense of urgency and it stimulates customers to buy more in one order. We often come across 'limited time offer' in the malls and yes we do shop more. Why not apply this on your store ?
I will try not sounding like my Economics Professor; the demand of a product is high when the supply is short. Yes, the product is always in high demand when it is scarce. Scarcity works because it forces action.
Amazon is also an early adopter of scarcity concepts with its Deals of the Day.
Do A/B test all these strategies to find out which one works for you the best.
Use a combination of these strategies to take the most out of it.
Do the math before you implement any of these strategies by striking out a balance between discounts and profits.
Don't go away without leaving a comment below and also share if you have implemented any new creative strategy other than these.
At Emipro, we have eCommerce experts having a great industry experience to help you with all your technical and non-technical worries related to eCommerce. Contact us if you want to implement these strategies or if you need any kind of advice on eCommerce. We would love to hear from you.


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Foreign portfolio investments in Russian assets are on the rise for a second week in a row, Russia's business magazine Expert cited Emerging Portfolio Fund Research.
According to the magazine, Russian assets are a leading investment even among other developing economies. In the week ending March 9, Russia's equity funds have attracted $177.5 million in foreign investment.
Last time Russia saw such an influx was a year ago at the conclusion of the Minsk agreements [Ukraine ceasefire deal –Ed.], Expert wrote, citing Sberbank CIB.
"It seems that foreign investors believe in further growth of oil prices or at least that they will not fall again, despite the fact that prices have risen nearly 50 percent from their January lows," said the business magazine.
On Friday Goldman Sachs Group said the crude market may be starting to rebalance soon with a projected oil price at $45 per barrel this year.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the economy and financial sector were stable despite falling oil prices, a weaker ruble and sanction's pressure.
The country is maintaining investor interest, with the volume of direct investment into the economy from the Asia-Pacific region at about $10 billion.
"The weakening of the ruble allows foreign investors to buy Russian assets at lower prices, and many take advantage of this," according to Medvedev.
The ruble-traded MICEX is currently at its highest level in seven years at 1867 points. The index has gained more than 40 percent since January 2015.
According to Expert magazine, the European Central Bank's stimulus package adopted last week is the most significant incentive to invest in overly cheap Russian assets.
"Zero interest rates are literally forcing the Europeans to make investments, and the BRICS markets may thus turn out to be extremely attractive," the magazine wrote.
Last week emerging market funds attracted $1.7 billion which is the largest inflow since the summer, it added.


Jack's vessel streaked into the troposphere, the material of its hull easily absorbing the heat generated by the friction of reentry.
Jack loved his wife very much, but he couldn't risk interstellar Armageddon, even for her. Fortunately, he wouldn't have to. The escape artist turned bounty hunter was about perform his greatest feat.
He had arrived on Earth a full day before he was expected and was operating the craft remotely. He had kept his word and purloined the Amaryllis device from the Negative on Desitrophe just as he promised, but he would never turn it over to the Beast. Having killed all of the minions guarding his dear Roz, and assuring she was safely hidden halfway around the planet, he would use the crystal for only one purpose. In less than a quarter of an hour, his nemesis would indeed see his prize, but only a split second before it turned him into a slowly cooling corpse.
I wrote this for Wordle #197 hosted at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie. The idea is to use at least 10 of the 12 words listed in a poem, short story or other creative work. I used all 12 and bolded them in the body of my tale so they could be picked out more easily by the reader.
When I saw the word "Escapist," I thought it would make a cool title or alter ego, so I gave it to my protagonist Jack. Naturally, I had to name his enemy "Beast," and then create the science fiction setting for their final interaction.
Oh, the Escapist is very, very loosely based on Scott Free, otherwise known as Mister Miracle, a creation of the late, great comic book artist Jack (the King) Kirby. In the comic books, Free is married to Big Barda. Kirby based their relationship on the one he had with his own wife Roz, so naturally in my wee fiction, Jack is married to Roz.
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I loved your exciting story and I used Mellow Yellow also.
I enjoyed the context in which you used the words James, well done.


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Samsung Galaxy Core Prime With Android 4.4 KitKat Launched at Rs. 9,700
By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 10 December 2014 12:06 IST
Samsung has quietly listed its new budget Galaxy Core Prime smartphone on the company's India e-store, at a price of Rs. 9,700. Notably, the listing currently notes that the handset is 'Not in Stock', with no word on availability.
The Samsung Galaxy Core Prime earlier this month was claimed to launch soon in India by an established Mumbai-based smartphone retailer, Mahesh Telecom, claiming the smartphone would be priced at Rs. 9,599 in India. Notably, the handset was also seen listed on Flipkart, an e-commerce website, in October at Rs. 8,499.
The Android 4.4 KitKat-based Samsung Galaxy Core Prime is said to feature dual-SIM support, a 4.5-inch WVGA (480x800 pixels) PLS (plane-to-line switching) TFT display, and a 1.2GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM.
It comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage, and supports expandable storage via microSD card (up to 64GB). The Galaxy Core Prime is said to include a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera, and a 2-megapixel front camera. There is a 2000mAh battery onboard. The connectivity options on the handset include Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, and 3G.
The Galaxy Core Prime includes an accelerometer and proximity sensor, apart from measuring 130.8x67.9x8.8mm and sporting a matte body finish with metal sides. It is currently listed in three colour variants - Charcoal Grey, White, and Silver.
Last month, Samsung's dual-SIM variant of the metal-clad Galaxy A5 was listed on company's China website. Listed on Samsung's China website as the Galaxy A5 (SM-A5000), the smartphone came with dual Nano-SIM support, and packs the same specifications as the single-SIM Galaxy A5.
Display4.50-inch
Processor1.3GHz quad-core
Front Camera2-megapixel
Rear Camera5-megapixel
RAM1GB
Storage8GB
Battery Capacity2000mAh
OSAndroid 4.4
Resolution480x800 pixels
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Promising Practice: Reaching Out to Rural New Jersey
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Although most folks don't think of New Jersey as "rural," the New Jersey Office of Primary Care and Rural Health (NJ SORH) is working hard to reach out to the more than 700,000 residents who live in what the state defines as its non-metro areas.
Christine King, a health educator with the Atlantic County Health Dept., shares information on rural health
As part of that ongoing effort, in September the NJ SORH launched a statewide celebration, New Jersey Rural Health Weeks. The celebration and related events took place September 17th through 30th, timed to coincide with New Jersey's harvest time, according to Roslyn Council, Rural Health Coordinator at the NJ SORH. "NJ Rural Health Weeks is an opportunity for small towns and farming communities to work together to celebrate their rural and unique characteristics," Council said. (NJ SORH also participates in National Rural Health Week in November).
The theme of the celebration was New Jersey Celebrates Rural: Touching Lives, Transforming Communities and Renewing Spirits. "Rural communities explored opportunities to innovate, collaborate, educate, and communicate and took the pledge to become involved with the Rural Health Movement," Council said. Over 1,500 individuals participated in educational events in rural areas throughout the state that targeted prevention and treatment of chronic disease, and promoted good nutrition and physical fitness. The event also honored local health departments, federally qualified health centers (FQHC's), hospitals, and other health care providers "who reached above and beyond to deliver quality care services to rural communities, and who work together to ensure access, quality, and equity in rural health services," Council said. The activities were "funded through partnership with other rural stakeholders," she said. In addition, pre/post evaluations were conducted at the sites.
Megan Sheppard (l), Health Officer of Cumberland County Health Dept., and Charlotta Birdsall, Chairperson for Cumberland County Board of Health, attend a 5K Run and Walk in Bridgeton, part of NJ Rural Health Weeks in October
The celebration was publicized via banners displayed in 15 towns, live website telecasting of events, and local TV and radio broadcasting. Events also were showcased in the NJ Department of Health's Health Matters newsletter, local newspapers including the Pine Barrens Tribute and Cumberland County News, and on the websites of rural FQHCs, which shared the unique stories of rural communities, Council said. In addition, Council attended celebrations and presented a proclamation signed by Governor Chris Christie to show support in the six counties that have rural residents. "The success of these events showed that resources, collaboration, and partnership provided access to health services for rural New Jerseyans," Council said.
NJ SORH is continuing its outreach to farming communities throughout the year with special attention to farmworkers. Through its cross-sector partnerships with New Jersey's Maternal Child Health, Office of Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, and the Office of Cancer Control and Prevention, it is participating in activities that include assessing migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families for case management services; conducting on-site health screenings at rural auctions and feed stores; training farmworkers as Lay Health Promoters that live in the migrant farms; and, offering drive-through clinics at local fair grounds.
Eva Turbiner, President/CEO of Zufall Health Center (ZHC), Roslyn Council. NJ SORH, Esperanzo Gonzalez, ZHC outreach worker, and Michelle Blanchfield, ZHC Director of Special Populations, at a NJ Rural health Weeks event. ZHC dental and medical vans provided free health care services at Brookside Terrace in Newton
Rural partners, including local health departments, FQHCs, and community-based organizations, are offering mobile health and dental vans at migrant farms and other community settings like libraries and food banks, and providing transportation to FQHCs for rural patients who require follow-up or specialist services. "The New Jersey Rural Health Advisory Committee has identified and implemented solutions that make it easier for migrant and immigrant farm workers to be healthy in places they live, learn, work, and play," Council said.
As it continues its outreach, NJ SORH faces an ongoing challenge of trying to provide services in areas of a state that the federal government does not necessarily define as rural, Council said. Even the state's smallest boroughs and villages are contained within Metropolitan Statistical Areas and the townships with the lowest population density revert to the Rural Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) code of their county, she said. In order to serve their rural residents, NJ SORH defines rural counties and rural communities as those having a population density of fewer than 500 people per square mile. "We must focus on a system change to promote optimal healthcare services to these at-risk rural populations," Council stated. "At the NJ SORH, we are exploring ways of building a population of health."
Does your SORH have a "Promising Practice"? We're interested in the innovative, effective and valuable work that SORHs are doing. Contact Ashley Muninger at to set up a short email or phone interview in which you can tell your story.
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20222 96 Avenue is in the city of Langley, British Columbia and found in the neighbourhood of Walnut Grove in Langley. Other neighbourhoods close by are Willoughby Heights, Fort Langley and Brookswood Langley. 96 Avenue has 14 homes presently on the market, while the district of Walnut Grove has 131 postings on the market. That's just 10.69% of the 1,226 total listings for sale in the city of Langley. To live in Walnut Grove an estimated monthly mortgage of $3,191 is normal.* Properties list for an average of $874,301. That is 1.3x the average asking price of $666,032 in Langley. Homes listed in Walnut Grove are an average of 2,001 sq ft, with 3 beds and 3 baths. The neighbourhood around 20222 96 Avenue has more houses for sale than apartments. The 3 bed, 3 bath townhouse for sale at 32-20222 96 Avenue, Langley is comparable and listed at $639,900. Another similar home is the 3 bed, 3 bath townhouse located at 15-20222 96 Avenue, Langley and priced for sale at $589,800.
Want to know what other units are listed now that this home is off the market? There are currently 2 other 20222 96 Avenue condos for sale. While this home is no longer active, there are still 47 Walnut Grove townhouses on the market. If Walnut Grove doesn't quite have the home you're looking for, there are still 258 townhouses for sale in Langley. The list price of $678,000 is 0% lower than the average list price of $875,641 for Walnut Grove real estate and 1.8% higher than the average list price of $666,032 for Langley real estate.
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Milwaukee's LGBT History
by Our Lives | Nov 30, 2016 | 0 comments
Growing up in a time of great downtown reinvention, Michail Takach became fascinated with Milwaukee's urban culture, landmarks, and neighborhoods at a young age. He's been chasing ghosts ever since.
A lifelong Milwaukeean, Michail dreams of the day when time travel will be possible, as he's always felt born too late. Fearlessly exploring forbidden spaces and obsessively recording shameless stories, Michail brings local color to the often colorless topic of local history.
As an author, archivist, and communications professional, Michail works with community organizations, including Milwaukee Pride, OnMilwaukee.com, and Historic Milwaukee to broaden the scope of historical appreciation beyond the "same old, same old" textbook stories.
Why did you decide to tackle this particular project? Why do you feel it's important to catalogue LGBTQ history, especially in the Milwaukee area?
Hidden history fascinates me, and LGBTQ history especially so. I moved to Milwaukee's historic Fifth Ward neighborhood just as the nightlife strip at 2nd and Pittsburgh started to disappear. For 10 years, I watched as longtime landmarks—and the elders who enjoyed them—started to disappear from the landscape. Gentrification and renewal often come with the cost of lost heritage. I realized the time was now to capture this history before we no longer knew it. In partnership with the Wisconsin LGBT History Project, I dove deeper into our untraced cultural ancestry than ever before, and I still haven't stopped. In fact, we had to remove an entire chapter from the book, because there was more content than anyone expected.
What ideas did you already have about the history of the area, and what changed/what did you learn during the process?
Growing up in the '80s and '90s, I always understood LGBTQ nightlife to be concentrated in Walker's Point, with a handful of outliers here and there. I'm increasingly fascinated by how far and wide "gay bars" were actually scattered throughout Milwaukee, and how only in recent decades did they become concentrated in a "gayborhood." It's amazing to see how many longtime landmarks were operating in plain sight, integrated into city blocks at places like 19th and North, 27th and Michigan, 12th and Vine, 18th and Vliet—places that few Milwaukeeans would consider nightlife destinations today, and may have never actually visited in their lifetimes. In fact, Milwaukee's scene was so developed by the 1960s that over 30 known "gay bars" had already opened by the 1969 Stonewall Riots. I don't know that I would have ever expected that.
Any particularly stand-out facts or events that you can share?
What stood out most to me, throughout my research, was the incredible spirit, courage, and resilience of LGBTQ elders. In today's world of hookup apps, genderfluid celebrities, and same-sex marriage, we can barely even understand what it was like to live proud in a time when gays and lesbians were told every single day that they had nothing to be proud of.
The media wasn't just openly hostile and hateful, it was also demonizing and dehumanizing. Local newspapers didn't start using the word "homosexual" until the 1960s. Prior to that, gays and lesbians were referred to as "sexual deviates," along with rapists, child molesters, and sex workers.
In the mid-1960s, a local judge actually declared war on Milwaukee's "deviate" community and vowed to take back Juneau Park for "normal" people. One of the casualties of this war was Elroy Schulz, a local brewery worker who was arrested for propositioning a police officer. Although the officer claimed to have only hit Elroy once in the process of apprehension, he died the next morning after being released from police custody. The officer, who just happened to be a boxing champion, was cleared of all charges and applauded for making Milwaukee safer for "normal" people. There were no protests, vigils, parades or memorials for Elroy. He died without even having a chance to tell his side of the story. Fifty years later, we cannot forget that this is where we came from, and could find ourselves again if we don't learn from history. The book is a tribute to Elroy, and all of the nameless men and women of Milwaukee who endured injustice, violence, and murder just trying to be who they really were.
Elroy's death, and similar acts of violence, sparked a social awakening in Milwaukee that led to gay liberation and LGBTQ pride. "If we were already going to hell," said one contributor, "then we were going to hell in high heels. Let nothing stand between us and our fun!" Without that spirit, courage, and resilience, we wouldn't be here today.
When and where can people find the book?
LGBT Milwaukee was released on August 22, and is available at the Arcadia Publishing website as well as Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com and other retailers. All purchases benefit Milwaukee Pride, Inc., as the author is donating commissions to the 501c3 to establish local LGBTQ history programs.
Start your purchases at Milwaukee Pride's Amazon Smile page and an additional .5% will be donated directly to the organization: http://bit.ly/mkepride16.
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An antique store owner in #Norwood, #Massachusetts, gave a young man a huge surp…
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An antique store owner in #Norwood, #Massachusetts, gave a young man a huge surprise recently after he wowed everyone with his musical talent.
When 23-year-old John Thomas Archer walked into the ReMARKable Cleanouts shop and asked if he could play the piano on display, employees captured his performance on video, according to Good Morning America.
They showed the footage to owner Mark Waters, who said the young man's rendition of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" was "fantastic."
"He just lit up and drew a crowd," he recalled.
The store later posted the video to its Facebook page and it immediately went viral.
Viewers were so inspired by the young man's talent that they offered to pool their money and buy the piano for him, according to WHAM.
"Any way that this story can be shared and maybe we can do some crowd funding and all pitch in $5 or whatever people can to help bring joy to others?" one Facebook user wrote.
Although Waters did not know the musician's name, he finally located Archer and said he would like to give him the Steinway model piano.
"Are you serious?" the Northeastern University graphic design student asked the shop owner when he heard the news.
Thanks to Waters' generosity, the self-taught musician will be able to play the piano any time he wants.
"As long as like, people still feel joy out of my music, I'm just happy," Archer told reporters.
Waters described himself as a giver and said when he gives to others and they smile, it makes him feel good.
"You know, if you can make somebody else happy, bring a little joy in their heart, that's what life's about, brother. Peace be with ya," he told the young man as they shared a hug.
Later, Waters said he was arranging for the piano to be delivered to Archer's residence. #binspirednews
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Alodiks are mentioned several times in And She Was by Cindy Dyson, as being a type of Russian fry bread. Brandy is first introduced to them by Carl who makes them for the party at his bus home. They are also served at the tsunami party, and mentioned in one of the flashback scenes with Liz and Miss Busy Mouth Holton.
When I went searching for information, however, I found a Russian fry bread called pishky, and langos, a Hungarian version (or versions, since this site gives instructions for deep frying and for baking). There were numerous versions called Navaho or Indian fry bread (the picture at the top of the page!), as well, but nothing called alodiks and nothing that referred to Alaska.
Finally, after searching for Alaskan and Aleutian fry bread, I found this recipe for the fry bread that I think might be correct. I never did find the word "alodiks" in connection with any kind of fry bread, and the post with the recipe refers to it as Alaskan fry bread, not Russian. However, it makes sense to me that it's something the Russians would have introduced, not a traditional food of the region.
It is different from the pishky and the Navaho fry breads, in that it is a yeast bread not a "quick" bread made with baking soda. The langos uses yeast, but also potatoes, and the baked langos is a lot like a foccacia.
In And She Was, Brandy notes that the bread was really good, but also that she could taste that Carl's oil was a bit rancid–yuck!
I went back and searched Aleutian Sparrow for alodiks or fried bread, and found a nice little passage about the food at the camp compared to the food they were used to.
Pari says, "Chum salmon, tea, and bread, over and over, each day like the day before.
In the Author's Note, Karen Hesse notes the word "alaadik–fried bread eaten with sugar or jam." This made me realize that Hesse spelled it differently than Dyson, but a further googling with the alternate spelling did not yield anything new.
I did, however, notice another food tidbit in Aleutian Sparrow. "We bake Easter bread, kuliich, and ice it with sweet white glaze." I found that kulich is a traditional Russian Orthodox Easter bread and AllRecipes had a recipe for kulich.
I love how the more I read, the more I keep going back and rereading and picking up on things I hadn't really noticed before–the more inter-connected the books seem to be. Aleutian Sparrow is written in such vague (though beautiful) language, that I really didn't pick up on a lot of things that are starting to appear and be explained more fully in some of the other books–like the fried bread. I'll keep sharing what I find.


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Rick Ross has written a Narcos-inspired screenplay "too...
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Rick Ross has written a Narcos-inspired screenplay "too big to be one film"
Writing a movie is "easy", says the rapper.
t has penned his first script, an underdog gangster story inspired by his personal life and hip hop's favourite Netflix series, Narcos.
Ross' script, titled GABOS – which stands for 'Game Ain't Based on Sympathy' – was originally intended to be a single movie, but it sounds like Ross got a bit carried away.
"I feel it's too big to be one film," he told Rolling Stone. "I feel we should film it, break it down and make it a series, if we can." Hinting at the film's plot, he said: "The only thing better than a double-cross is a triple-cross."
He also described the writing process as "easy", having grown up watching Miami Vice. "Writing a film, you can bring it all to life, whether it's for yourself or another character in a film," he says.
There's no sign that the screenplay will actually get filmed any time soon, but as someone who's released three albums in two years, he can definitely get shit done.
Ross was arrested for assault, battery and kidnapping in June this year. His latest album, Black Dollar, dropped in September.
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